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Marketing Concepts to Promote Your Business!
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Niche Marketing has gained lots of popularity for people who are just starting their online marketing career. Finding the right niche product can become a difficult process without having a broad based knowledge of what?s hot and what?s not in the business world today. Everyday someone finds that needle in the haystack product or services that literally explodes with popularity among a certain generation of our society. A good example is the cell phone with the ability to text message and all the other good things it does. This is a prime example of a product that is in high demand with a substantial profit mark up which would generate some high profits. One problem here is cell phones are changing almost daily to include other new features that appeal to the multi tasking individual and immediately the customers want to upgrade. You could get stuck with a ton of inventory because a new style of phone is introduced today and overnight your inventory has become obsolete. This is when you become the great giver at Christmas time by giving all your family, friends and their friends a cell phone for Christmas just to get rid of an outdated, no demand product. Another type of marketing is called Network Marketing or multilevel marketing where you try to sign up all your friends, relatives and anyone else who will listen to your pitch on how great your new marketing program is supposed to be. This is an excellent way to lose friends and relative because of the hype most of these programs promote. Don?t get me wrong here, not all network marketing programs are bad. When you?re looking at any program that you have to build 20 levels deep and you?ve been promised that you?re going to make a lot of money?.you might want to take a second look before you make the big plunge. Informed online marketers try to generate multiple streams of income which is always a sure bet. It wouldn?t be fair for me to tell you that anyone of these marketing venues will make you rich. However, having a good working arsenal of marketing tools you can generate multiple streams of income so if one segment of our economy is weak and falling the other aspects of your marketing efforts will carry you through these difficult economic times. Affiliate marketing is often misunderstood and if you?re in an affiliate program already you need to do some research and see exactly what your promoting, who your promoting it for an whether the search engines are even looking at or seeing your site when the search engine robots are crawling the web and ?spidering? websites gathering information to place your website opportunity with some type of page ranking. We?ve talked about in some of our marketing information articles about the shortcomings of affiliate marketing as most people understand the term. However, most people still feels that an affiliate program is the only way to go. The search engines can and will find the main site on a popular online offering and will index that site with a reasonably good page rank. By adding your affiliate number to the site doesn?t trigger anything with the spiders so the product site gets the good results and you get nothing because the spiders didn?t understand what a series of numbers meant. There are ways around this problem but no one ever tells you how to make an affiliate site you?re involved with can become popular online. Contact your marketing consultant and question the shortcomings of most affiliate programs. If he or she doesn?t understand what you?re talking about, then you might want to consider a different professional who can share with you why most affiliate programs don?t make you and your down line the commissions you were told you should expect when you enrolled. Many of the MLM and affiliate programs will require that you invest in some product for your inventory and you?ll make a small percentage of profit on the each sale. The more you sell the higher your commission schedule will increase. If you don?t sell your inventory and you want to bail out of their system most of the time your up line sponsor will purchase the product back from you at a substantial loss of your original investment. Each of the marketing venues we discussed earlier must be totally understood and must be pursued with vigor for anyone who chooses this method for promoting their product or services. Don?t get caught in the trap that most new people who are entering an online business get caught up in. Seek the advice of a marketing consultant that can help point you in the right direction from the very start of your marketing journey. It has been said that ?Hiring the services of an Optimization Specialist could well be the best money you will ever spend in your internet experience.? The eBiz Solutions Team is standing by to assist you in your marketing challenges. Call today for your free 30 minute ?No Obligation? consultation. ?Let?s Build Your Business Together? Larry L Miller SEM/SEO Consulting
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Lure of the Dragon (Aloha Shifters: Jewels of the Heart Book 1) by Anna Lowe
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Nothing is forbidden to this elite corps of shifter bodyguards and private investigators…except falling in love.
Good dragons? Bad dragons? Twenty-four hours ago, private chef Tessa Byrne didn't know about the terrifying world of shifters. Now she knows too much, like the fact that a ruthless dragon lord is determined to claim her — forever. Tessa flees to Maui, where sunny skies, swaying palms, and a handsome stranger conspire to play tricks with her heart. Can she truly trust Kai Llewellyn and his band of battle-hardened shapeshifters to save her from a gruesome fate?
Don't trust a human, and never, ever fall in love with one. Those are lessons Kai learned the hard way. But Tessa is different. Her emerald eyes mirror the mysterious pendant she wears, and her flaming red hair makes his heart race. Is his inner dragon just greedy for a new kind of treasure, or is Tessa his destined mate?
ALOHA SHIFTERS: JEWELS of the HEART is a thrilling new series set on the tropical shores of Maui. Each story is a page-turner packed with action, emotion, and romance! If you like Magnum, PI and smoldering hot, alpha shapeshifters, you'll love these books!
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Chapter 1
Tessa took two shaky steps toward the ornate gate of the private driveway and stopped. Was she really going to do this?
You can trust them, Ella had said. Ella, the neighbor who'd come along at exactly the right moment and saved her life.
Tessa bit her lip. The fabric at the shoulder of her shirt was ripped, and her throat ached from the attack. Her fingers were still shaking, and her mind was haunted by visions of a terrifying beast. How could she trust anyone after what had happened less than twenty-four hours before?
You have to trust them. No one else can protect you from that monster.
Crickets chirped from the lush foliage, and a bat flew overhead, a splotch of black against the dark night. Palms swayed in the tropical breeze, echoing Ella's words. No one else. There's no one else.
Tessa shivered in spite of the balmy night, unwilling to trust her own senses. Sure, the sea was whispering over the shore in a reassuring way. And yes, the moon's rippling reflection over the Pacific should be soothing, like the sweet scent of hibiscus. But even the island paradise of Maui could try to deceive her. Nightmares could break the deepest peace — real-life nightmares she couldn't block out of her memory no matter how hard she tried. She could still see the glowing eyes of the creature that had attacked her.
Mine. You will be mine, his voice boomed in her mind.
She drew a deep breath and looked over her shoulder, wishing she hadn't sent the taxi away. The past twenty-four hours had been a whirlwind. She'd barely slept, and fear pulsed through her veins like poison. How could she possibly judge whom to trust?
She tipped her head back at the stars and gulped. She was alone at night in a remote corner of Maui, far off the beaten track, about to knock on the door of a complete stranger for help.
A very rich stranger, she decided, inspecting the gate. There was an elaborate design in the middle, but she couldn't quite make it out. Something swirly. Toothy. Wait — was that a tail? Shit, was it a dragon, or was she seeing things?
She shook the thought away and told herself to think. A gate that massive must protect a hell of an estate — a seaside estate in Maui that had made the taxi driver whistle when she gave the address back at the airport.
"Koa Point Estate," he'd said. "You've got the right friends, miss."
Tessa gnawed on her lip. These weren't friends. They were complete strangers. And anyway, the man who'd attacked her in Phoenix was rich, too. Rich didn't mean trustworthy — or even human.
A tremor went through her at the memory of her attacker's fingernails turning into claws and reaching out for her.
Mine. You will be mine.
Tessa shook her head and turned back for the road. Who knew what secrets lay behind that gate? It would be safer to head back to Lahaina and find a hotel for the night. After a good night's sleep, she could—
The beams of twin headlights blinded her, and a powerful engine purred into the driveway. Tessa froze as a vintage Jaguar approached then stopped. For a moment, nothing happened, and Tessa considered whether to run, but her legs stayed rooted to the spot.
The driver's door opened, and a tall man climbed out. Tessa squinted against the lights, trying to make out his face as he stood silently inspecting her for a full minute.
"Have you decided yet?" His deep voice boomed, making her jump.
Tessa clutched her bag to her chest. "Who are you?"
He stepped forward, and a tiny grin formed at one corner of his mouth. "Who are you?"
Tessa tried to form an answer, but her lips were shaking, as was the rest of her body. Was this man a potential ally or a deadly foe?
His dark hair and bright blue eyes contrasted with the pure white of his dress shirt, open at the neck. Sharp, angled features cast their own sub-shadows over his face. Tall and imposing, he seemed perfectly at home in the night.
Vampire, her subconscious screamed. He must be a vampire.
Tessa discarded the idea a second later. Surely a vampire would give her creepy vibes. Despite the fine cut of his clothes, this man exuded an untamed, animal feel, like a lion or a wolf. A predator just as capable of ripping an enemy limb from limb as he was of protecting the one he loved.
A little shiver went down her spine.
Tessa tried to shake the feeling off and collected her thoughts. She doubted he was a vampire. Ella had sent her to a band of shapeshifters, right?
"I'm Tessa. Tessa Byrne."
She hadn't intended to give her full name, but damn. There was something fiercely commanding about the man — that, and he was so blindingly handsome, even in the dimness of night — that her brain had short-circuited.
"So, Tessa," he murmured like a man savoring a new brandy. "Have you decided yet?"
"Decided what?" she asked, taking another step back.
"Whether you're coming or going."
Coming, part of her brain said. The part that couldn't help noticing the ripple of muscles under the thin fabric of his shirt.
Going, the terrified part of her soul screeched. Go, quick.
But she didn't move. She couldn't. Or maybe she didn't want to, because that might mean losing sight of him — and being alone when instinct screamed at her to stay.
"I'm…I'm not sure." God, she hated being indecisive. Her whole life she had been confident, capable, and strong. But ever since she'd been attacked by something not-quite-human, she didn't know where she stood anymore.
He stood studying her for a full minute before speaking again. A minute in which his eyes grazed over her body and his nostrils flared. A lot like her attacker had, and yet in a totally different way. For some mystifying reason, this stranger put her at ease, whereas she'd been wary of her attacker long before he'd shown his true self.
When the man locked eyes with her, her heart thumped hard and heavy, and an achy sensation set in under her ribs. An inexplicable yearning sensation, as if she'd been missing something terribly important all her life and only realized it now.
"What are you doing here?" he asked.
She shook her mind back into focus and asked herself the same thing. A gentle sea breeze kissed her cheeks, reminding her where here was. Maui. A speck of an island in the middle of the Pacific. Would she be safe here?
"Ella sent me. She said to come to Koa Point and ask for help. She said to explain what happened."
"And what might that be?"
"I was attacked by Damien Morgan. Last night, in Phoenix."
The words came tumbling out, and when the man didn't react, Tessa panicked. Had she said the wrong thing?
Then she realized he had gone stiff all over, and his eyes were no longer on her, but sweeping the darkness behind.
"Come with me," he said curtly, tapping a keypad beside the gate.
Fear nipped at her heels, and she hurried toward the car. His voice was that urgent, that convincing.
"Get in," he said, motioning her to the passenger seat.
His arms were so long and sculpted, she did a double take before obeying. The man was built like an Olympic swimmer — the big guys who swam butterfly, with incredibly broad shoulders and lumps of muscle along both arms. Even when he slid into the car beside her, he was pure, coiled power.
He hit a remote control, murmured something Tessa couldn't hear into a speaker, then drove in.
Tessa clutched at her leather seat, wondering if running away would have been the safer bet. But it was too late now.
The driveway was full of twists and turns, hiding the view ahead. The moon peeked from between the palms, giving her short glimpses of a varied landscape: patches of perfectly trimmed lawn between thick bamboo stands and huge, leafy bushes that whispered and swayed. One sweeping curve later, the driveway ended at a long, arched garage. It looked like a stable, making Tessa wonder how many thoroughbred engines lay slumbering inside. The man parked and stepped out of the car in one smooth motion.
"Follow me."
He motioned her down a flagstone path between lush bougainvillea and palms, following closely enough that it ought to make her nervous, yet she felt comforted instead of crowded. As if he was protecting her back, making sure she was safe.
But when they came out into a clearing lit by tiki torches, Tessa halted in her tracks. She'd been expecting a breezy mansion, perhaps with a uniformed servant or two, but what she saw was an open-sided shack with a thatched roof bristling with guards. Well, the four men there looked like guards. They were big — really big, not to mention intent and focused as she approached. They held their arms away from their sides, ready for imminent action. Like this was a war zone and not Hawaii.
Then she remembered what Ella had said. They're Special Forces. Well, they were. Men with rough backgrounds and tough starts. But don't let them scare you. They're puppies inside.
Tessa balked, because Rottweiler was a more apt description of the men before her now.
The tallest of the four stepped forward and shooed her into the building with a gravelly, "Come in."
When she hesitated, the man who'd met her at the gate nodded her forward with a gesture that said, Don't worry. I will keep you safe.
She might have snorted at the idea, but then she saw him glare the other men down in a distinct, touch-her-and-you-die stance. So she stepped forward, wondering why she trusted him already. Why she trusted any of them.
"Sit down," the tall man said. "Talk. Explain."
He was definitely military, she decided, even if the surroundings were anything but. The open-air structure resembled some luxury apartments she'd seen — the kind of place with a big, open layout, except without walls. There was a living area with four couches set in a square. A wide dining table surrounded by heavy chairs stood to one side. A designer kitchen occupied the left side of the structure, complete with an island and a rack of hanging copper pots — the kind of kitchen she would have loved to explore if she wasn't completely on edge. A huge grill took up one corner, and an oversized stainless-steel refrigerator stood beside a deep sink. The sea breeze wafted through the space since there were no walls, just posts supporting the broad roof that extended a good yard over each side.
It was a beautiful space. Simplistic yet elegant in a purely masculine way — like the ground floor of a very fancy fraternity with a tropical theme.
Tessa followed the man's gesture and sank into a deep couch — so deep, she'd never escape if they jumped her, but she barely cared any more. The second she touched the soft cushions, part of her sighed as if she'd come home. Which was stupid, plain stupid for a woman on the run.
"Get her a drink," the man from the gate growled at one of the others.
One moved to obey, which left four big, hulking men crowded around her, making her tremble. Her eyes darted from one to another, wondering whom she could trust.
Shapeshifters, Ella had told her. Human, but not quite human.
Tessa would have laughed the woman off if she hadn't had terrifying proof that such things were possible — like the sight of Damien Morgan morphing into a dragon.
"All right, guys," one with sandy brown hair said in a decidedly more laid-back voice. "Give her some space, already." He grinned. "Don't worry. We don't bite."
Boone, the wolf shifter, Ella's voice echoed in her mind. He's the most outgoing one.
Tessa pursed her lips. Outgoing was a relative term, because she could picture Boone snarling down an enemy just as easily as she could imagine him wagging his tail. Then she caught herself because, whoa — she really could imagine him in wolf form. There was something about the way his tousled hair fell over his eyes that made it easy to picture. Not that she'd ever seen a werewolf before. Christ, she'd never seen any shapeshifter until the previous day. She'd never believed in them, either. But now…
She glanced around. Any of the five men clustered around her could have featured in a calendar of Hawaiian Hunks or Muscled Marines. But now that the world of shapeshifters had been revealed to her, she could see their second sides, too. She craned her neck, curious about the dark-haired man from the gate. But he was standing behind her — protecting her from the others, or cutting off any chance of escape?
"You going to introduce us, Kai?" Boone asked with a wolfish grin.
Kai. His name was Kai. Tessa's heart beat faster, as if she'd stumbled across some great secret and not just a name.
Kai. Kai. Kai. She cemented the lyrical sound into her mind while trying desperately to remember what Ella had said about him. But the man had such an effect on her, her brain couldn't quite kick into gear.
"Tessa Byrne," his deep voice resonated from behind her.
Tessa always thought of herself as forgettable, but this man had remembered her name after one brief mention in the dark. He remembered, she told herself, feeling a tiny glimmer of hope despite her desperate situation.
Hope that shattered the moment a third man grunted and spoke.
"Where did you find her, Kai?" he barked, still looming above her.
She wished she could see Kai, but no. And this new man — the leader, for sure — was staring at her so fiercely, she held her breath. His eyes sparked, and when she looked more closely, she could make out individual flames. Red, yellow, and orange, licking this way and that.
Silas. The head of the group. He had to be. Which meant he was a dragon like the man who'd attacked her.
Watch out for him, Ella had said. He's a good man, but he's been through a lot, and he's testy.
Testy? The guy was terrifying.
He doesn't trust humans, Ella had added. Few dragons do.
Tessa shrank back in the cushions. Shouldn't it be the other way around?
When a deep thrum sounded behind her, Silas tore his glare away from Tessa and aimed it at the man behind her.
That was Kai, she realized. Kai, growling in warning. Protecting her again.
"I didn't find her. She found us. And I think she can speak for herself," he rumbled.
If Tessa hadn't been so tense, she might have hugged him right there. But who was Kai, really? He'd stared at her all the way over from the garage — she'd felt his eyes on her back the whole time — and his nostrils had flared when he took in her scent. What kind of shifter did that? Ella had mentioned a tiger…
Tessa decided the man hanging back in the shadows, pacing back and forth at the perimeter of the open-walled space was the tiger.
Cruz. Stay out of his way if he's had a bad day, Ella had warned.
At the time, Tessa had wanted to say, I'm the one having a bad day. But now, she kept her lips sealed. Just in case.
So Kai wasn't the tiger. Tessa peered around. The big, burly guy standing two steps behind Silas was all ears and didn't say much. He could go from ferocious to friendly with the slightest twitch of his heavy eyebrows, and he tilted his head when the others spoke.
Hunter, the bear. All muscle. All loyalty. But a lot of pain.
Tessa let her gaze linger on Hunter just long enough to wonder where the pain came from. But then Kai stepped back into view, and all she could look at was him.
Kai wasn't bigger, taller, or more handsome than the others, but he took her breath away. Her pulse skipped, and she found herself leaning forward. What kind of shifter was he?
A not-to-be-fucked-with one, for sure. He bounded right up to Silas and put a hand on the man's broad chest in warning. Every man in the room tensed, and Tessa did, too. The two glared at each other with the force of two hurricanes about to collide.
Boone, the wolf shifter, murmured something too low for her to catch, trying to calm the two down. The bear lifted his boulder-sized shoulders and stepped closer, ready to break up a fight. The tiger's whiskers — er, two-day beard — twitched, and Tessa swore the air crackled with sheer power.
"Uh, guys," she said without thinking.
Every face whipped around in surprise, and the tension went back down a notch. But when she met Kai's eyes, her own inner storm field whirled into high gear. Her face flushed. Her blood pounded in her veins, and visions of thunderclouds raced through her mind along with the sound of whipping wind. Why did she have such a reaction to him?
Then his eyes sparked the way Silas's had, and Tessa froze.
Kai, another dragon, Ella's voice sounded in her mind. Related to Silas. Every bit as dangerous but slightly more sane.
She stared. Dragons. Holy shit. She'd been attacked by a dragon less than twenty-four hours ago. Why on earth had Ella said she would be safe here? Maybe Ella was part of some conspiracy. Maybe Ella wasn't to be trusted. Maybe—
"Who sent you here?" Silas demanded. "How did you find this place?"
"Ella sent me," Tessa said, feeling sick.
The tiger stopped pacing abruptly, and every man fell silent. Silas's eyebrows shot up. Kai nodded at her to go on.
They are good men, Ella had assured her. Honorable men, if a little rough around the edges. They've been through so much, survived terrible things. You can trust them.
Tessa blanched. How could she trust any of these men, least of all Kai? Dragons were the enemy, for goodness' sake!
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We have all been enjoying the warm weather across the country but the low rainfall coupled with increased demand for water has resulted in some wholesalers introducing hosepipe bans (Northern Ireland has a ban in place and United Utilities will be introducing a ban from 5th August in North East England). Hosepipe bans primarily affect domestic customers but there are also restrictions on some non-essential use by business customers.
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Rafael Nadal assures media and fans that he's ready for the season ending Grand Slam.
He will begin his US Open campaign against childhood friend Richard Gasquet on Day 3.
Q. How tough has it been psychologically for you to deal with what you've dealt with the last couple of months?
NADAL: Psychologically for me now, I am perfect. After important stop, came back with more energy than ever, no. Probably I need few time to be ready, to get the rhythm, to play your best tennis, but the energy and the illusion is 100%.
Q. Can you say you are 100% well, feeling well, for this tournament?
NADAL: I am 100% well to play this tournament, yeah. (laughter.) I don't know if I am playing at my best level, but I am 100%. You want me 100%? Me too.
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By Matt Popchock
Recently CBS Sports recruiting guru Tom Lemming released his list of the top 100 recruits for the Class of 2012 on brother website MaxPreps.com. Three WPIAL players who just completed their junior seasons made the cut, and it should come as little surprise who led that pack.
Hopewell tailback Rushel Shell has been regarded as one of the best players at his position in America since his freshman campaign, when he won MaxPreps' National Freshman of the Year award and seemed to draw scholarship offers from across the country in the blink of an eye. He sits at No. 11 on the list after finishing second in the WPIAL with 2,102 regular season rushing yards and finishing third in the district with 25 total touchdowns, 23 of them on the ground. His seemingly indomitable pursuit of Mike Vernillo's WPIAL career rushing record shouldn't be ignored either.
Making the list at No. 82 was versatile tailback Greg Garmon of Erie McDowell, who finished fifth in Class AAAA with 1,110 rushing yards, running for 11 touchdowns and catching two TD passes. Sto-Rox linebacker Deaysean Rippy made the Vikings' defense formidable, which helped them earn one of the top playoff spots in Class A, and he was picked No. 96.
It's nice to see three 2012 graduates singled out like this after what was widely considered a down year for recruiting in western PA. But we all know the pantry is never bare around here when it comes to players who are NCAA material. Besides Shell, Garmon, and Rippy, here are some of the other noteworthy 2012 recruits from the WPIAL:
Dillon Buechel – QB – Montour
6'4″, 175 lbs.
In 2010, just his second year as starter, Buechel finished eighth in the WPIAL and fourth in Class AAA in passing yards during the regular season. By the time he had led the Spartans to a perfect regular campaign and second Heinz Field appearance in four years, he was the second-leading passer in the district with 2,221 yards, 24 touchdowns, and just six picks. He could be the top QB in the WPIAL this approaching season. Though he has not received any verbal offers yet, he has drawn interest from Pitt, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, NC State, and Maryland.
Wayne Capers – QB – Chartiers Valley
6'1″, 175 lbs.
He might be the best kept secret in the WPIAL. Why? Injuries. Several of the top players in the area suffered ailments last season, but perhaps no one in western PA feels more snake-bitten than Capers. He missed half his sophomore season with a broken foot, and while throwing for 338 yards and running for a 69-yard touchdown in a Week 1 loss to Montour, tore his ACL and lost the rest of his junior season. Amazingly, he recovered in time to play for Chartiers Valley in the basketball playoffs, and if he can finally stay healthy, he'll undoubtedly be an elite player. He has drawn interest from Pitt, Penn State, Maryland, Ohio State, Vanderbilt, and West Virginia, and may be recruited as a receiver.
Adam Bisnowaty – OL/DL – Fox Chapel
6'6″, 275 lbs.
We've got to give some love to the hogs, and we've definitely got to give some to this iron man. He's evolved into one of the more rock-steady two-way linemen in the WPIAL despite playing on some unsuccessful teams, and he did a solid job protecting tailback Montay Green last season. His versatility doesn't just go as far as playing on both sides of the ball; sources say he'd be amenable to playing positions other tackle, the spot for which he is primarily being recruited. Bisnowaty has received offers from Pitt, Penn State, West Virginia, UConn, Michigan State, Purdue, Virginia, and most recently, Florida.
Shakim Alonzo – WR – Woodland Hills
6'4″, 190 lbs.
There's an impressive-looking crop of receivers in WPIAL representing the Class of 2012, so it's tough to say where he'll end up statistically, but Alonzo may have just begun to show his brilliance in the Class AAAA Final against North Allegheny. He ended the 2010 campaign with 586 yards on 24 catches and five touchdowns, including a long one in the championship contest that helped Woody High rally its way back into the game. Alonzo definitely has the physique and ability of a Division I wide-out, and a number of schools have taken notice. Pitt, Penn State, WVU, Rutgers, Syracuse, Maryland, Michigan State, and Notre Dame are courting him.
Luke Hagy – RB/DB – Mount Lebanon
5'11", 185 lbs.
This kid has been such a workhorse when given the rock that we can easily forget how effective he can be shadowing the other team's best receiver. The chances are very good he'll play safety, though hopefully his offensive numbers, at the very least, will not be ignored. In 2010, he was one of the WPIAL's top five regular season rushers, finishing No. 2 in Class AAAA in both yards and overall scoring. Upon helping the Blue Devils reach the quarterfinal round, he ended with 1,981 yards and 29 rushing touchdowns. The three-sport star has yet to receive his first real serious football offer, but with another season like his last, it'll be just a matter of time.
Anthony Nixon – WR/DB – Pgh. Central Catholic
6'1″, 190 lbs.
It's hard being the focal point of Terry Totten's offense, especially when he has tailback Damion Jones-Moore, another top recruit from the Class of 2012, at his disposal. However, Nixon still found ways to contribute last season. Central didn't lean on Jones-Moore as much last year, and Nixon took full advantage of the added spotlight, leading the Vikings with 699 yards on 33 catches, with three touchdowns. As a DB he registered a team-best three interceptions, and with Nixon doing the majority of his damage on defense, Pitt extended him an offer to play that position. He is also getting looks from Penn State, West Virginia, Cincinnati, Iowa, Michigan State, and Northwestern.
Trenton Coles – WR – Clairton
6'3″, 170 lbs.
With Desimon Green and so many other talented seniors gone, Coles might become the most watched player on the Bears' roster this approaching season. How do we know? He's already being watched by schools from the Big East, Big Ten, and ACC, including Pitt. The new regime has maintained his offer, and understandably so, after all the drama surrounding Green. Penn State, WVU, Michigan State, Maryland, Illinois, Notre Dame, Purdue, and Tennessee have shown interested in Coles, who was Clairton's second-leading receiver with over 300 yards and seven touchdowns through the WPIAL Playoffs. He was the Bears' best defensive player behind Green; he covers the field magnificently, and his future is likely in some team's secondary.
*Another player to keep an eye on that we neglected to mention is lineman Josh Stepoli, a 6'6″, 260-lb. prospect who is also getting a handful of Division I looks. We didn't include Stepoli because, unless the PIAA overturns a recent decision by District 7 officials, he will be forced by the WPIAL to miss the upcoming season for transferring back to Monessen with his brother Terrence (a quarterback) after spending last year at Greensburg Central Catholic. The WPIAL recently ruled that the switch was made purely out of athletic intent, which is against its rules.
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Tay-Sachs Disease (TSD) is a fatal degenerative disease of the nervous system that is found primarily (but not exclusively) among Ashkenazi Jews - those of East European ancestry.
Tay Sachs disease is named for Warren Tay (1843-1927), a British ophthalmologist who in 1881 first described the cherry-red spot on the retina of the eye (one of the characteristic symptoms of this disorder) and for Bernard Sachs (1858-1944), a New York neurologist, who described the cellular changes of Tay-Sachs and noted an increased prevalence in the Eastern European Jewish population of 1887.
TSD is one of the most tragic inherited conditions. The symptoms first appear at about the age of six months when an apparently healthy, happy baby stops smiling, crawling or tuning over, loses the ability to grasp or reach out, and gradually becomes blind, paralyzed and unaware of the surrounding world.
Death usually occurs by three or four years of age. Babies with TSD are born without a blood chemical that is necessary for breaking down certain fatty deposits in brain and nerve cells. The cells soon become clogged, causing the entire nervous system to stop working.
Tay-Sachs Disease is now known to be caused by the absence of a gene called hex A. The absence of the gene results in absence of the metabolic pathway necessary to prevent the deposition of damaging fatty deposits in nerve cells. Carriers of the gene (see below) make about 50% less of the enzyme required, but that is sufficient to protect them from nerve damage.
TSD affects about one in every 2,500 Ashkenazic Jews(Eastern and Central European origin), and it is estimated that approximately one in every 25 Jews in the United States is a carrier of the TSD gene. Two other populations of French descent also show an increased risk - French Canadians, particularly from Quebec Provence, and those of Cajun ancestry in Louisiana.
TSD is transmitted through heredity. It cannot be caught from another child and cannot develop in later life. The carrier state cannot turn into the illness. The Tay-Sachs carrier has one normal gene and one Tay-Sachs gene. The carrier does not have the illness and can lead a normal, healthy life.
However, when two carriers become parents, there is a 1 in 4 chance that any child will inherit a Tay-Sachs gene from each parent and have the fatal disease. There is a 1 in 4 chance that any child will inherit the normal gene from each parent and be completely free of the disease and the Tay-Sachs gene. However, there is a 2 in 4 chance that the child will inherit one of each kind of gene and become a carrier, the same as the parents.
If only one parent is a carrier, none of their children can have the disease, but each child has a 50/50 chance of inheriting the Tay-Sachs gene and becoming a carrier. All of these odds or chances hold true for each child of the same parents. In some families, the disease will occur more than once. In others, all the children may be normal and their parents never know they are carriers.
Diagnosis Before Birth
Tay-Sachs and many other defects can be diagnosed before birth by amniocentesis and chorionic villus sampling (CVS).
In amniocentesis, a needle is inserted into the mother's abdomen between weeks 16 and 18 of pregnancy to take a sample of fluid which surrounds the fetus. The fluid contains sloughed-off fetal cells which can be examined for the presence of the gene called hex A which is absent in Tay-Sachs. If the chemical is present, the baby will not have TSD. If it is missing, he or she will be affected.
In CVS, the doctor retrieves a sample of cells through a tube inserted through the vagina and cervix to the placenta. The placenta contains cells of fetal origin. These are examined for the presence of the chemical. CVS is usually done around week 10 of pregnancy. Since this procedure can be done safely earlier in pregnancy, it is preferred.
There is no cure or treatment to date that will prevent the disease from running its fatal course. Affected children can only be made as comfortable as possible.
Screening for Carriers of the Disease
Members of the high risk groups mentioned above may wish to know if they are at risk for transmitting the disease because they are carriers. This is particularly important if two prospective parents are both from a high-risk ethnic origin group. A list of centers throughout the U.S. that can perform the needed blood screening tests is available from the National Tay-Sachs and Allied Diseases Association. If you have questions about your risks for this disorder, ask your primary care physician about a consultation with a medical genetics specialist.
While pregnant, what tests will you be performing? Which is most accurate? What are the risks?
For the child, what testing is needed to diagnose this disease?
What course can we expect of the disease?
Are there any special facilities in the area to take care of the child?
How do you care for the child at home?
Is there psychological counseling available?


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An Interesting Opportunity in My Traveller Game
Two weeks ago, we played our first session of Mongoose Traveller. We did chargen two weeks prior to that, and I spent the time in between preparing the adventure and developing contacts, allies and such to bring the skeleton of a back story from chargen to life.
In the first adventure, the party received a job (my initial adventure seed), which they dutifully accepted. The mission was to go to a parsec of empty space, where they would receive a cargo crate and fuel to continue their journey. They were then to go to a planet outside the Imperium and deliver it.
When they arrived in empty space, they discovered the other ships in the rendezvous were a Zhodani cargo vessel and a massive Zhodani refueling ship — easily large enough to refuel an entire subsector fleet.
They received the package without incident and made their way to Forine. Once there, things went sideways. They were supposed to exchange security phrases with some academics at an outlying research facility. The inhabitants of the facility failed to give the right answer.
It eventually became clear that the facility had been waylaid by bad guys (who knows what kind of bad guys yet). So they turned tail and ran back to their planet of origin, hoping to return the package and get the rest of their substantial payment.
The game ran almost five hours and not once did anyone peek in the box to see what the mysterious cargo, picked up from the Zhodani, was.
One of the characters did scan it a bit and found out something, but nothing too specific.
At this point, the party sees the box as a bargaining chip. They know someone was willing to pay a lot of money for it. They also know that many people went to great lengths to keep it secret.
For the near future at least, the box went from a simple object to a classic MacGuffin. It doesn't matter what's in the box. The only thing that matters is that someone wants it and someone else has it.
Since this all stems from my initial plot hook, I have a good idea as to what's in the box. I currently know EXACTLY what's in the box. But within the constraints of the information I gave the one nosy player, I could change what's in the box to damn near anything.
I'm not inclined to change what's in it, but I do think it's an important and valuable opportunity to have if I needed it. The vagueness of the MacGuffin gives me a lot of flexibility with future story.
If they were to open it, I could use it to drive the party is one of several different directions.
- Perhaps it's a powerful and very illegal weapon, so the party might try to get rid of it or sell it.
- It could be money, so the party would want to keep it.
- It could be a very valuable, identifiable and difficult-to-fence work of art, so the party would probably try to deliver it.
- It could be a slave, implicating the party in slave trade.
Filed under: Adventure Design · Tags: advice, GMing, MacGuffin, Mongoose Traveller, Traveller
One Response to "An Interesting Opportunity in My Traveller Game"
Gotta love it when response to one plot hook generates more hooks. Personally, I'd be inclined to have several unsavory factions interested in getting the box, and have the original patrons more than a little disappointed by the PCs failure.
One alternative, given that the Zhos are involved, would be for it to be a 'smoke test' by Imperial Intelligence. Whatever was supposed to be in the box has been replaced by something harmless while the Imps try to keep tabs on every Zho agent, crime boss and noble who tries to get their hands on it.
An Imperial agent might even pull aside a PC and tell them to 'run and be convincing' if they don't want to wind up on a prison planet…


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I did miss my Rura to death though and kissing him when I got back was nothing short of amazing and god how I didn't realize just how badly I missed him until I kissed him. (Yea it rhymes.)


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- For the use of structuralism in biology, see Structuralism (biology)
- For structuralism in architecture, see Structuralism (architecture)
Structuralism is an approach to the human sciences that attempts to analyze a specific field (for instance, mythology) as a complex system of interrelated parts. It began in linguistics with the work of Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913). But many French intellectuals perceived it to have a wider application, and the model was soon modified and applied to other fields, such as anthropology, psychoanalysis, literary theory and architecture. This ushered in the dawn of structuralism as not just a method, but also an intellectual movement that came to take existentialism's pedestal in 1960s France.[1]
Structuralism enjoyed little popularity, and its general stance of antihumanism was in sheer opposition to the Sartrean existentialism that preceded it. But in the 1970s, it came under internal fire from critics who accused it of being too rigid and ahistorical. However, many of structuralism's theorists, from Michel Foucault to Jacques Lacan, continue to assert an influence on continental philosophy, and many of the fundamental assumptions of its critics, that is, of adherents of poststructuralism, are but a continuation of structuralism.[1]
Structuralism isn't only applied within literary theory. There are also structuralist theories that exist within philosophy of science, anthropology and in sociology. According to Alison Assiter, there are four common ideas regarding structuralism that form an 'intellectual trend'. Firstly, the structure is what determines the position of each element of a whole. Secondly, structuralists believe that every system has a structure. Thirdly, structuralists are interested in 'structural' laws that deal with coexistence rather than changes. And finally structures are the 'real things' that lie beneath the surface or the appearance of meaning.[2]
[edit] History
Structuralism appeared in academia in the second half of the 20th century, and grew to become one of the most popular approaches in academic fields concerned with the analysis of language, culture, and society. The work of Ferdinand de Saussure concerning linguistics is generally considered to be a starting point of structuralism. The term "structuralism" itself appeared in the works of French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, and gave rise, in France, to the "structuralist movement," which spurred the work of such thinkers as Louis Althusser, the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, as well as the structural Marxism of Nicos Poulantzas. Almost all members of this so-called movement denied that they were part of it[citation needed]. Structuralism is closely related to semiotics. Post-structuralism attempted to distinguish itself from the simple use of the structural method. Deconstruction was an attempt to break with structuralistic thought. Some intellectuals like Julia Kristeva, for example, took structuralism (and Russian formalism) for a starting point to later become prominent post-structuralists. Structuralism has had varying degrees of influence in the social sciences: a great deal in the field of sociology.
[edit] Structuralism in linguistics
Structuralism states that human culture is to be understood as a system of signs. Robert Scholes defined structuralism as a reaction to modernist alienation and despair. Structuralists attempted to develop a semiology (system of signs). Ferdinand de Saussure was the originator of the 20th century structuralism, and evidence of this can be found in Course in General Linguistics, written by Saussure's colleagues after his death and based on student notes, where he focused not on the use of language (parole, or speech), but rather on the underlying system of language (langue) and called his theory semiology. However, the discovery of the underlying system had to be done via examination of the parole (speech). As such, Structural Linguistics are actually an early form of corpus linguistics (quantification). This approach focused on examining how the elements of language related to each other in the present, that is, 'synchronically' rather than 'diachronically'. Finally, he argued that linguistic signs were composed of two parts, a signifier (the sound pattern of a word, either in mental projection — as when we silently recite lines from a poem to ourselves — or in actual, physical realization as part of a speech act) and a signified (the concept or meaning of the word). This was quite different from previous approaches which focused on the relationship between words and things in the world that they designate (Roy Harris and Talbot Taylor, Landmarks in Linguistic Thought, 1st ed. [1989], pp. 178-179).
Key notions in Structural Linguistics are the notions of paradigm, syntagm and value, though these notions were not yet fully developed in Saussure's thought. A structural paradigm is actually a class of linguistic units (lexemes, morphemes or even constructions) which are possible in a certain position in a given linguistic environment (like a given sentence), which is the syntagm. The different functional role of each of these members of the paradigm is called value (valeur in French). Structuralist criticism relates the literary text to a larger overarching structure which may be a particular genre, a range of intertextual connections, a model of a universal narrative structure or a notion of the narrative being a system of recurrent patterns or motifs. [3]
Saussure's Course influenced many linguists between World War I and WWII. In America, for instance, Leonard Bloomfield developed his own version of structural linguistics, as did Louis Hjelmslev in Denmark and Alf Sommerfelt in Norway. In France Antoine Meillet and Émile Benveniste would continue Saussure's program. Most importantly, however, members of the Prague School of linguistics such as Roman Jakobson and Nikolai Trubetzkoy conducted research that would be greatly influential.
The clearest and most important example of Prague School structuralism lies in phonemics. Rather than simply compiling a list of which sounds occur in a language, the Prague School sought to examine how they were related. They determined that the inventory of sounds in a language could be analyzed in terms of a series of contrasts. Thus in English the sounds /p/ and /b/ represent distinct phonemes because there are cases (minimal pairs) where the contrast between the two is the only difference between two distinct words (e.g. 'pat' and 'bat'). Analyzing sounds in terms of contrastive features also opens up comparative scope — it makes clear, for instance, that the difficulty Japanese speakers have differentiating /r/ and /l/ in English is because these sounds are not contrastive in Japanese. While this approach is now standard in linguistics, it was revolutionary at the time. Phonology would become the paradigmatic basis for structuralism in a number of different fields.
[edit] Structuralism in anthropology and sociology
According to structural theory in anthropology and social anthropology, meaning is produced and reproduced within a culture through various practices, phenomena and activities which serve as systems of signification. A structuralist studies activities as diverse as food preparation and serving rituals, religious rites, games, literary and non-literary texts, and other forms of entertainment to discover the deep structures by which meaning is produced and reproduced within a culture. For example, an early and prominent practitioner of structuralism, anthropologist and ethnographer Claude Lévi-Strauss in the 1950s, analyzed cultural phenomena including mythology, kinship (the Alliance theory and the incest taboo), and food preparation (see also structural anthropology). In addition to these studies, he produced more linguistically-focused writings where he applied Saussure's distinction between langue and parole in his search for the fundamental mental structures of the human mind, arguing that the structures that form the "deep grammar" of society originate in the mind and operate in us unconsciously. Levi-Strauss was inspired by information theory[citation needed] and mathematics[citation needed].
Another concept was borrowed from the Prague school of linguistics, where Roman Jakobson and others analysed sounds based on the presence or absence of certain features (such as voiceless vs. voiced). Levi-Strauss included this in his conceptualization of the universal structures of the mind, which he held to operate based on pairs of binary oppositions such as hot-cold, male-female, culture-nature, cooked-raw, or marriageable vs. tabooed women. A third influence came from Marcel Mauss, who had written on gift exchange systems. Based on Mauss, for instance, Lévi-Strauss argued that kinship systems are based on the exchange of women between groups (a position known as 'alliance theory') as opposed to the 'descent' based theory described by Edward Evans-Pritchard and Meyer Fortes.
While replacing Marcel Mauss at his Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes chair, Lévi-Strauss' writing became widely popular in the 1960s and 1970s and gave rise to the term "structuralism" itself. In Britain authors such as Rodney Needham and Edmund Leach were highly influenced by structuralism. Authors such as Maurice Godelier and Emmanuel Terray combined Marxism with structural anthropology in France. In the United States, authors such as Marshall Sahlins and James Boon built on structuralism to provide their own analysis of human society. Structural anthropology fell out of favour in the early 1980s for a number of reasons. D'Andrade (1995) suggests that structuralism in anthropology was eventually abandoned because it made unverifiable assumptions about the universal structures of the human mind. Authors such as Eric Wolf argued that political economy and colonialism should be more at the forefront of anthropology. More generally, criticisms of structuralism by Pierre Bourdieu led to a concern with how cultural and social structures were changed by human agency and practice, a trend which Sherry Ortner has referred to as 'practice theory'.
Some anthropological theorists, however, while finding considerable fault with Lévi-Strauss's version of structuralism, did not turn away from a fundamental structural basis for human culture. The Biogenetic Structuralism group for instance argued that some kind of structural foundation for culture must exist because all humans inherit the same system of brain structures. They proposed a kind of Neuroanthropology which would lay the foundations for a more complete scientific account of cultural similarity and variation by requiring an integration of cultural anthropology and neuroscience–a program also embraced by such theorists as Victor Turner.
[edit] Structuralism in literary theory and literary criticism
In literary theory, structuralism is an approach to analyzing the narrative material by examining the underlying invariant structure, which is based on the linguistic sign system of Ferdinand de Saussure. The structuralists claim that there must be a structure in every text, which explains why it is easier for experienced readers than for non-experienced readers to interpret a text. Hence, they say that everything that is written seems to be governed by specific rules, a "grammar of literature"[4], that one learns in educational institutions and that are to be unmasked. A potential problem of structuralist interpretation is that it can be highly reductive, as scholar Catherine Belsey puts it, "the structuralist danger of collapsing all difference"[5]. An example of such a reading might be if a student concludes the authors of West Side Story did not write anything "really" new, because their work has the same structure as Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. In both texts a girl and a boy fall in love (a "formula" with a symbolic operator between them would be "Boy + Girl") despite the fact that they belong to two groups that hate each other ("Boy's Group – Girl's Group" or "Opposing forces") and conflict is resolved by their death. Structuralist readings best focus on how the structures of the single text resolve inherent narrative tensions. If a structuralist reading focuses on multiple texts, there must be some way in which those texts unify themselves into a coherent system. The versatility of structuralism is such that a literary critic could make the same claim about a story of two friendly families ("Boy's Family + Girl's Family") that arrange a marriage between their children despite the fact that the children hate each other ("Boy – Girl") and then the children commit suicide to escape the arranged marriage; the justification is that the second story's structure is an 'inversion' of the first story's structure: the relationship between the values of love and the two pairs of parties involved have been reversed.
Structuralistic literary criticism argues that the "novelty value of a literary text" can lie only in new structure, rather than in the specifics of character development and voice in which that structure is expressed. One branch of literary structuralism, like Freudianism, Marxism, and transformational grammar, posits both a deep and a surface structure. In Freudianism and Marxism the deep structure is a story, in Freud's case the battle, ultimately, between the life and death instincts, and in Marx, the conflicts between classes that are rooted in the economic "base."
Literary structuralism often follows the lead of Vladimir Propp and Claude Levi-Strauss in seeking out basic deep elements in stories and myths, which are combined in various ways to produce the many versions of the ur-story or ur-myth. As in Freud and Marx, but in contrast to transformational grammar, these basic elements are meaning-bearing.
There is considerable similarity between structural literary theory and Northrop Frye's archetypal criticism, which is also indebted to the anthropological study of myths. Some critics have also tried to apply the theory to individual works, but the effort to find unique structures in individual literary works runs counter to the structuralist program and has an affinity with New Criticism.
The other branch of literary structuralism is semiotics, and it is based on the work of Ferdinand de Saussure.
[edit] Structuralism after World War II
Throughout the 1940s and 1950s, existentialism like that propounded by Jean-Paul Sartre was the dominant mood. Structuralism surged to prominence in France after WWII and particularly in the 1960s. The initial popularity of structuralism in France led it to spread across the globe. The social sciences were particularly influenced.
Structuralism rejected the concept of human freedom and choice and focused instead on the way that human behavior is determined by various structures. The most important initial work on this score was Claude Lévi-Strauss's 1949 volume Elementary Structures of Kinship. Lévi-Strauss had known Jakobson during their time together in New York during WWII and was influenced by both Jakobson's structuralism as well as the American anthropological tradition. In Elementary Structures he examined kinship systems from a structural point of view and demonstrated how apparently different social organizations were in fact different permutations of a few basic kinship structures. In the late 1950s he published Structural Anthropology, a collection of essays outlining his program for structuralism.
By the early 1960s structuralism as a movement was coming into its own and some believed that it offered a single unified approach to human life that would embrace all disciplines. Roland Barthes and Jacques Derrida focused on how structuralism could be applied to literature.
Blending Freud and De Saussure, the French (post)structuralist Jacques Lacan applied structuralism to psychoanalysis and, in a different way, Jean Piaget applied structuralism to the study of psychology. But Jean Piaget, who would better define himself as constructivist, considers structuralism as "a method and not a doctrine" because for him "there exists no structure without a construction, abstract or genetic"[6]
Michel Foucault's book The Order of Things examined the history of science to study how structures of epistemology, or episteme, shaped the way in which people imagined knowledge and knowing (though Foucault would later explicitly deny affiliation with the structuralist movement).
In much the same way, American historian of science Thomas Kuhn addressed the structural formations of science in his seminal work The Structure of Scientific Revolutions – its title alone evincing a stringent structuralist approach. Though less concerned with "episteme," Kuhn nonetheless remarked at how coteries of scientists operated under and applied a standard praxis of 'normal science,' deviating from a standard 'paradigm' only in instances of irreconcilable anomalies that question a significant body of their work.
Blending Marx and structuralism another French theorist Louis Althusser introduced his own brand of structural social analysis, giving rise to "structural Marxism". Other authors in France and abroad have since extended structural analysis to practically every discipline.
The definition of 'structuralism' also shifted as a result of its popularity. As its popularity as a movement waxed and waned, some authors considered themselves 'structuralists' only to later eschew the label.
The term has slightly different meanings in French and English. In the US, for instance, Derrida is considered the paradigm of post-structuralism while in France he is labeled a structuralist.[citation needed] Finally, some authors wrote in several different styles. Barthes, for instance, wrote some books which are clearly structuralist and others which clearly are not.
[edit] Reactions to structuralism
Today structuralism is less popular than approaches such as post-structuralism and deconstruction. There are many reasons for this. Structuralism has often been criticized for being ahistorical and for favoring deterministic structural forces over the ability of individual people to act. As the political turbulence of the 1960s and 1970s (and particularly the student uprisings of May 1968) began affecting academia, issues of power and political struggle moved to the center of people's attention. The ethnologist Robert Jaulin defined another ethnological method which clearly pitted itself against structuralism.
In the 1980s, deconstruction and its emphasis on the fundamental ambiguity of language–rather than its crystalline logical structure–became popular. By the end of the century structuralism was seen as a historically important school of thought, but it was the movements it spawned, rather than structuralism itself, which commanded attention.
[edit] Notes
- ^ a b John Sturrock, Structuralism and Since, Introduction.
- ^ Assiter, A 1984, 'Althusser and structuralism', The British journal of sociology, vol. 35, no. 2, Blackwell Publishing, pp.272-296.
- ^ Barry, P 2002, 'Structuralism', Beginning theory: an introduction to literary and cultural theory, Manchester University Press, Manchester, pp. 39-60.
- ^ Selden, Raman / Widdowson, Peter / Brooker, Peter: A Reader's Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory Fifth Edition. Harlow: 2005. Page 76
- ^ Belsey, Catherine. "Literature, History, Politics." Literature and History 9 (1983): 17-27.
- ^ Jean Piaget, Le structuralisme, ed. PUF, 1968
[edit] Further reading
- Chandler, Daniel (2002/2007) Semiotics: The Basics, Routledge, London, UK, 1st edn 2002. ISBN 0-415-36375-6; 2nd edn 2007 ISBN 978-0-415-36375-4


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Last month, a neighbor's dog tore through 3 of my pens, killing 8 chickens and wounding 3 more. Two of the young pullets that he got were the only two "keeper" daughters of Hawkeye from last year's hatch – one died and the other spent a couple of weeks in chick icu. She was a survivor, though. In spite of all her injuries and the trauma, she pulled through and today, she presented me with her first egg! That's why I named her Gloria Gaynor, of "I will Survive" fame.


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I saw this Bulbophyllum hybrid in the Mayaguez Orchid Festival of September 2013. It is a hybrid of Bulb. fascinator and Bulb. rothschildianum. It produces pretty red flower that look intermediate between the parents. Both species are relatively easy to grow in Puerto Rico although they are not often seen outside the collections of specialists growers.
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Bulbophyllum Doris Dukes (Bulb. fascinator x Bulb. rothschildianum)
Labels: botanical, Bulbophyllum, Doris, Dukes, fascinator, green, hybrid, orchid, orchidee, orquidea, red, rothschildianum
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Maravilhoso, com esta bela fotografia conseguimos ver todos os detalhes. Obrigada.
- October 21, 2013 at 5:39 PM
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What beautiful details the blooms have. Absolutely gorgeous colors. Muchas gracias por compartid su fotos y informacion
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Colette wrote lyrical vignettes that describe her unconventional country childhood and her beloved mother, the Sido of the title of My Mother's House & Sido. It is a collection rich in sensuous detail, mirroring the delight in nature and the keen observance Colette inherited from her mother. She writes of endless flowers in a much-cultivated garden and of Sido's reluctance to cut them as ornaments for a neighbor's funeral. She recounts meals, tastes and textures so faithfully a reader longs for the simple, natural breads, creams and country dishes of a past era.
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