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Archive: March 25 – April 5, 2012
- Nephrology On-Demand will be blogging from the 2012 NKF Spring Clinical Meetings
It's that time again! Nephrology On-Demand will bring you blog highlights from the 2012 National Kidney Foundation's Spring Clinical Meetings. This will be our 3rd consecutive blog from this scientific meeting. Catch up on the 2010 and 2011 blogs while we await the start of 2012 SCMs.
- Nephrology On-Demand has a new URL
In keeping with our mission of bringing you quality teaching material, free of charge/advertisements/sponsorships/funding, we announce our new URL
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- Lupus Nephritis and ANCA-associated vasculitides: New Therapies
An in-depth analysis of two common and overlapping conditions, with special emphasis on new therapies.
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- Mycophenolate versus Azathioprine for maintenance in Lupus Nephritis: The ALMS Maintenance Trial
A look at MMF versus AZA for the maintenance of lupus nephritis; the follow-up study to the ALMS I Trial
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- Role of non-Nephrology physicians in the care of patients with advanced renal failure
An excellent review of the role of the non-nephrologist in preparing patients for dialysis and transplantation, with special attention to the measurement of renal function impairment, methods to delay progression of renal failure, a review of the stages of chronic kidney disease, and stage-specific challenges for the physician.
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- Diabetic Nephropathy for the non-nephrologist (The Highlights)
A review of the key points regarding diabetic nephropathy for non-nephrology healthcare providers.
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- CRRT and the risk of chronic dialysis
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- International CRRT Meeting
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A Rainbow Round-Up of Nightstands for Kids
What better way to add a great pop of color to a kid's room than through a nightstand? Here are 15 fabulous options—some stools, some storage, some starting at just $13—that could be the new, bright burst of color your child's room is waiting for.
1. Red Componibili Storage Module at Hive Modern: $140.00
2. Red Assembly Home Modern Table from Urban Outfitters: $49.99 (on sale)
3. Neon Pink City Slicker Table from CB2: $179.00 (on sale)
4. Hot Pink Neon Nightstand from Land of Nod: $179.00
5. Blu Dot Strut Side Table in Watermelon at Design Public: $299.00
6. Coral Floral Garden Side Table from Urban Outfitters: $89.00
7. Yellow Dipped Side Table from Urban Outfitters: $89.00
8. Yellow Wire Side Table from CB2: $129.00
9. Lime Wire Nightstand from Land of Nod: $99.o0
10. Green Roxo Stool from IKEA: $12.99
11. Aqua Go-Cart 3 Tier Shelf from CB2: $129.00
12. Jenni Lind Aqua Nightstand from Land of Nod: $199.00
13. Light Blue Wire Burst Stool from Urban Outfitters: $98.00
14. Purple Ghost Buster Side Table from YLiving: $480.00
15. Paint your own Bekvam step stool from IKEA in whatever color you would like: $14.99
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Eric Dane appears to be maintaining a low profile in the wake of his nudie-tape leak involving his wife, Rebecca Gayheart and former beauty queen, Kari Anne Peniche, stepping out for breakfast with some friends at King's Road cafe in West Hollywood.
However, Kari Ann is no shrinking violet. Embracing the limelight of the scandal, the ousted Miss Teen USA, seems to be sniffing around Christian Audigier in the hopes of capitalizing on her infamy. In reference to his Ed Hardy clothing line, Peniche recently told paparazzi, "I'm gonna be working on a bikini line. I start on Friday." Well, we'll believe it when we see it.
Meanwhile, the tape has reportedly sparked a LAPD investigation. The DVD was given anonymously to the department, according to Us Weekly. "According to the source, the DVD contained images that could link celebrities engaging in illegal activity," the LAPD reveals in a statement.
The statement continues by saying the department is "in the process of reviewing the voluminous files contained on the DVD when the story was leaked to the media."
Gallery Info: Eric Dane returns to his car after breakfast with friends at King's Road cafe in West Hollywood.


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REDWOOD SHORES, Calif. -- April 27, 2004 -- Oracle announced it has joined other industry leaders -- HP, EMC, Fujitsu-Siemens, NEC, Network Appliance and Sun Microsystems -- in founding the Enterprise Grid Alliance (EGA), a consortium created to develop enterprise grid solutions and accelerate the deployment of grid computing.
Enterprise grid computing is capable of delivering a number of benefits, including resource sharing, incremental scaling and reduction in information technology (IT) requirements. A combination of complementary products, rather than a single offering, is necessary for grid computing. For example, Oracle Database 10g enables clusters of machines to operate as a single entity, while blade servers and storage area networks provide a crucial piece of a grid environment. Through its involvement with the EGA, Oracle will help develop interoperable systems, bringing together the many pieces of the enterprise grid computing puzzle.
The EGA is an open, independent and vendor-neutral community addressing the near-term requirements for deploying commercial applications in a grid environment. Initial focus areas include reference models, provisioning, security and accounting. The alliance will address obstacles that organizations face in using enterprise grids through open, interoperable solutions and best practices. By focusing exclusively on the needs of enterprise users, the EGA will enable businesses to realize the many benefits of grid computing such as faster response to changing business needs, better utilization and service-level performance and lower IT operating costs.
"Although grid computing is already well established in the academic, research and technical sectors, it has yet to gain significant traction throughout the enterprise," said Donald Deutsch, president of the Enterprise Grid Alliance and vice president of standards strategy and architecture at Oracle Corp. "In close coordination, the members of the EGA will create open, interoperable enterprise grid computing solutions and increase the adoption of enterprise grid computing."
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Obama and McCain Agree to Keep It Civil
Amy Chozick reports from New York on the presidential race.
Barack Obama and John McCain spoke on the phone Wednesday night and agreed to engage in a "civil discussion in the campaign moving forward," according to an Obama aide.
McCain initiated the call at 7:00pm EDT to congratulate Obama on securing the nomination after a hard-fought primary against Hillary Clinton.
This is the first time the opponents have spoken since Obama clinched the number of delegates needed to capture the nomination on Tuesday.
As of now, Obama and McCain have exchanged rhetoric that by most counts would not be characterized as "civil." Obama has come down on his Republican rival over a gaffe he made about troop levels and has accused him of not understanding the economy. McCain, meanwhile, has attacked the Democratic nominee over his lack of foreign policy experience and his willingness to meet with leaders of rogue nations.
During his victory rally in St. Paul, Minn., on Tuesday, Obama praised McCain for his military service and said he is "a genuine American hero." But criticized him for offering "four more years of the failed Bush policies."
McCain has called for a series of ten joint town hall style meetings with Obama. The Illinois senator is also open to the proposal of joint appearances, and the two campaigns are in talks.
"The American people deserve a debate worthy of their concerns and hopes for the future. Everyone can celebrate today's step toward that goal with an agreement, in spirit, between the McCain and Obama campaigns to participate in joint town hall appearances," McCain spokeswoman Jill Hazelbaker said in a statement.


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Grab your binoculars
And then let us know what you think lies ahead
Here's a quick quiz to sharpen your mid-springtime self-awareness. Into which of these three general categories would you put yourself?
(1) You think things are pretty bad overall in the world, but when you look ahead you expect that over the next three to five years, they'll probably get a little better.
(2) You think things are pretty bad, but when you look ahead three to five years, you think they're most likely to keep getting a little bit worse.
(3) You think things are pretty bad, but when you look ahead, your view of what's coming borders more on the catastrophic and the apocalyptic. They're going to get much, much worse.
You've been alert to notice, I'm sure, that my little exercise is not quite symmetrical. I didn't include a choice allowing you to indicate your expectation that over the next three to five years, things around the world are going to be getting much, much better. That's because, in my informal beta testing of the quiz before giving it broader exposure in this column, I couldn't find a single person who wanted to put a check mark in that category. If that omission offends you, let me know.
What's startled me in bouncing this off a number of folks, both individually and in groups, is the relatively even split I've discovered among the three categories. Responding to pretty much the same outside data-including everything from elections to scandals to subprime mortgages to earthquakes to volcanoes to biblical eschatology-about a third of all the folks I talk to turn out to be mild optimists, about a third are mild pessimists, and a final third are end-of-the-earth-phobes.
How is it that we see and hear the same evidence and yet come up with such starkly different conclusions and expectations? How is it that even the people of God-people who agree on the long-term picture and who say they have confidence that the King of the universe even now has things securely in His sovereign hand-how is it that even those people have so little agreement about what lies immediately ahead?
All this would be fascinating, but not terribly significant, if it affected no more than our personal decisions. If I decide to invest my modest retirement accounts based on a modestly pessimistic outlook, while you do your investing based on a your quietly optimistic perspective, the ultimate outcome will simply make for good conversation and a little good-natured joshing.
But imagine for a few minutes that you are one of nine (or 18 or 27 or 33 or any other number easily divisible by three!) members on the board of a Christian college, a Christian school, a Christian retirement center, a crisis pregnancy center-or maybe even a Christian magazine or publishing outfit. At this month's imaginary board meeting, you make the startling discovery that a third of you are setting important organizational policy based on quietly optimistic expectations, a third based on a modestly gloomy outlook, and a third of you based on the assumption that the world may soon be coming to an end.
Now your individual presuppositions begin to matter-and the results carry weight that goes well beyond lunchtime chatter. If your imaginary organization has an endowment fund, or if you have a building fund stashed away somewhere, how will the three disparate parties come to terms about how to invest the money?
How will you structure next year's budget-a little hopefully, a little cautiously, or with an all-out defensive mindset? What will your posture communicate to the newcomers and especially the young people in your orbit? What kind of leadership qualities will you exhibit?
In fact, the scenario I've sketched is anything but imaginary. WORLD readers tend very much to be leaders in a wide variety of Christian communities-and I have no doubt that many of them have already faced the tensions suggested here. If that includes you, or if you've been watching such leadership at work, take a minute and email me (email@example.com) to tell me simply which of the three groups you're in-and maybe, in just a sentence or two, why.
I won't tell you quite yet which group I favor. I will tell you I had lunch in New York last week with my 4-year-old granddaughter, Hope-whose mom and dad, I recall often with a thankful heart, had the courage to give her that name even in a fearful and uncertain time.
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Column: Arsenal's van Persie rivals Messi
PARIS Robin van Persie was a better soccer player than Lionel Messi in 2011. Or are statistics which suggest that misleading? Either way, this is official: It is plain absurd that the captain of Arsenal isn't a nominee with Messi for FIFA's Golden Ball award.
Seems Van Persie and injustice are bedfellows. Remember his sending off against Messi's Barcelona in the Champions League in March? Van Persie claimed he did not hear Massimo Busacca blow his whistle. Seemed plausible given the din from the 95,000-plus Nou Camp crowd. The Swiss referee didn't want to know and he ordered Van Persie off. Whether Arsenal might have won that match if Van Persie's hearing had been better and if the Dutchman had stayed on the field remains one of soccer's unanswerables.
In fact, "What if?" follows Van Persie around. That the question is posed in relation to Van Persie shows his importance to Arsenal and the London club's ambitions and future.
If the strong, reliable and intelligent scorer had not hurt his knee volleying home his strike in the League Cup final in February, forcing Arsene Wenger to replace him in the second half with Nicklas Bendtner, might Arsenal have won the trophy, instead of losing 2-1 to Birmingham?
If Van Persie hadn't torn ligaments in his right ankle playing for the Netherlands, forcing Wenger to muddle on without him for five months (he even resorted to the bottom-of-a-barrel measure of playing the ill-suited Andrei Arshavin as a central striker), might Arsenal have won the Premier League title in 2010, instead of Chelsea?
If Van Persie picks up another long-term injury now, will Arsenal finish out of the English league's top four places this season and not qualify for Champions League soccer and its financial riches next season?
Quite likely.
Will Arsenal be sorry if Wenger cannot get Van Persie to commit to a new contract before his current one expires in 2013?
The departure of Cesc Fabregas this summer for guaranteed trophies with his boyhood club, Barcelona, and Samir Nasri's swoon for the petrobillions of Manchester City left Van Persie, a 2010 World Cup runner-up with the Netherlands, as Arsenal's only remaining, verified world-class player. Jack Wilshere and Theo Walcott are still proving themselves.
Arsenal is without a trophy since 2005. Wenger's Catch-22 is he needs players of Van Persie's caliber to change that, but he also needs trophies, or at least a realistic hope of winning them, to keep attract stars.
The reported $5.7 million Arsenal paid in 2004 for the Netherlands international looks like a bargain now. Healthy, the 28-year-old has proven as reliable as English rain. As Arsenal fans say: "We don't need Batman, we've got Robin." A basic rule shown to be true in 24 Premier League games is that the club doesn't lose when Van Persie scores the first goal.
So far in 2011, he has scored 31 goals in 29 league games. He is only the fifth Premier League player to score 30 in a calendar year. He is the English league's leading scorer this season, putting away 13 of Arsenal's 25 goals as it has awoken from a lumbering start that included a horrific 8-2 mauling at Manchester United in August.
Van Persie's success rate in the league is outstripping even Messi's in La Liga. The world's best player has scored 29 in 31 Spanish games for Barcelona in 2011.
Van Persie's strength, quick feet and polished technique so prized in the Netherlands are often cited as reasons for his goals. But the intelligent way he spots, creates and sprints into gaps in defenses is exceptional, too.


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I was living darkness until Jesus came by and rescued me.
His touch held so much power, He opened my eyes and now I can see.
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As a fan of pokemon I could say that you made a great innovation from the concepts which were already present in the franchise. These swords artwork really brings out a sense of fantasy and at the same time beauty from the styles and techniques used in making this art.
The method used is somewhat unknown to me yet I could say that whether it be simple or not still, it's usage on the artwork complements that of the concept being presented giving viewers an sort of realistic impression.
Great Job to the artist! You are blessed which amazing skills and talent at your disposal


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Leading Us In Songs of Praise
Gary Mattin, chancel Choir Director
Gary Mattin, a retired public school music educator in Sycamore and Hinckley/Big Rock, has led the Chancel Choir since 1987. He is a part-time instructor at Kishwaukee Community College, a member of the Kishwaukee Symphony Orchestra and provides musical support to the Stagecoach Theater and Sycamore High School productions. Gary has a B.M.E. from North Central College, Naperville, and a M.S. in Vocal Choral Music Ed. from the University of Illinois C-U. He has directed choirs at Naperville Congregational Church, English Congregational Church in Big Rock and Westminster Presbyterian Church in DeKalb.
Marilyn Montzka, Handbell choir Director
Marilyn Montzka teaches piano at her home studio in Sycamore and at Northern Illinois University. She received her Bachelor of Music Degree at Oberlin Conservatory of Music with further pedagogy study under Yasuko Joichi.
Mrs. Montzka has taught general and Instrumental music in New York and New Jersey. She has given private and group lessons and workshops in the Suzuki Piano Method in Utah, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. Currently she plays viola in the Kishwaukee Symphony. Her four children are all musicians, performing and teaching in the Sycamore-DeKalb area and in Chicago and St. Louis.
ryan Krause, Pianist/Organist
Ryan Krause is a student at Northern Illinois University, studying Piano Performance and Composition. He has over 3 years experience playing organ for church services. Ryan started playing piano when he was 5 years old and has played piano in several orchestras through High School: Rockford youth symphony, Elgin youth symphony, Chicago concert orchestra and youth symphony, Rock Valley College student orchestra, as well as many chamber ensembles through these organizations.


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Rated 5 out of 5 by susieque Beautiful shells We never imagined that we would receive so many different shells, from small to large and from conchs to sea snails to nautilus to cowries . There is not just a wide variety of shells, but they are also beautiful. We are most pleased. July 24, 2013
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WHO supports the Ministry of Health in responding to floods across Myanmar
In July and August 2015 heavy monsoonal rainfall and heavy rains brought by Cyclone Komen caused widespread flooding across 12 of the 14 states and regions of Myanmar. More than 1.6 million people have been affected to date by the disaster. On 31st July, the President's Office declared four states and regions of the country – Chin and Rakhine states, Magway and Sagaing regions – disaster zones.


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Soft and huggable, Coral, an 18"long mermaid is created with cotton yarn. Her multicolored braids are as bright as the coral reef and her tail has scalloped embroidery. An unusual huggable, she has no nose, but they did not forget her bellybutton. Like other dolls in the line it is also available in a 12-inch size.
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A loving couple, a few lost monsters and a sweet transvestite from transsexual Transylvania sing and dance through a campy, sloppy salute to horror movies and sexual liberation. Bring your sense of humor. And some toast.
Genre: Adaptation,Comedy,Horror,Musical
Director: Jim Sharman
Release Date: September 25, 1975
Producers: Michael White
Actors: Tim Curry,Susan Sarandon,Barry Bostwick,Richard O'Brien,Patricia Quinn,Nell Campbell,Jonathan Adams,Peter Hinwood,Meat Loaf,Charles Gray,Jeremy Newson,Hilary Labow,Perry Bedden,Christopher Biggins,Gaye Brown,Ishaq Bux,Stephen Calcutt,Hugh Cecil
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I have worked for several companies, but none of them had documentation high on the priority list. So most software lacked documentation, or it was not complete, or it was outdated.
So i'm asking you, do you create and maintain (technical) documentation for each project, even if time is an issue.


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Things to see and do - Anseremme
Leaving for Belgium
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Anseremme Travel guide
Anseremme : Michelin's recommendations
This well-situated holiday resort at the confluence of the Lesse and Meuse rivers, stretches along the right bank to join Dinant. Note the 16C St Jean Bridge, spanning the Lesse, and a 15C riverside priory to the south, in the old town, with its church surrounded by a graveyard.


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I've been using tail. calls in my recent IL project and today I came across this post. If you go through it, you can see the performance differencies between call vs. tail. call instructions and the proof that the tail calls are barely optimized by .NET JITer. What a shame! Not only that the tail. calls are slow under .NET, but VS disassembly view lies you about the actual jitted code! Hope they'll improve the performance in .NET v4.0 (still dislike that v3.0 mess )
One may wonder what other things VS lies about...
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29 Nov 2012 11:53 AM #1
TreePanel Drag & Drop with server side CRUD
I've been working on this for weeks and still having issues.
Are there any example projects for Sencha Architect that use Drag and Drop Trees with server side CRUD?
E.g. something like the list in: http://dev.sencha.com/deploy/ext-4.1...sks/index.html
I already have working CRUD .php files, yet I'm still going around in circles having this work.


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MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. � A North Carolina teenager is dead after a late-night crash in Myrtle Beach.
The Sun News of Myrtle Beach reported Saturday that Horry County Chief Deputy Coroner Tamara Willard said the young man killed was 19-year-old Braydon Harding of Kannapolis, N.C.
The fatal accident occurred late Friday night when a vehicle ran a red light at U.S.17 Business and Farrow Parkway. Willard said Harding was a passenger in the back seat of the vehicle that was hit.
No further details were immediately available, including whether any criminal charges will be filed.
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"A URL is like a big "YOU ARE HERE" sign for each page of your site. It should allow people to get a sense of where they are in your site, even if they decide not to use that information for navigation."
URL Quote #1: A URL is like a big "YOU ARE HERE" sign
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- Submitted by: BioRegional Development Group
- Primary SD area: Sustainable Consumption and Production
- Keywords: One planet living, education, training, framework, principles, knowledge sharing, SCP, sustainable consumption and production, Cities, aspirational, BioRegional, partnership, collaboration, communities
- Location: Global, including London, Brighton, Middlesbrough, Bicester in the UK, across Europe, China, USA,
- Date of completion: 1 Jan 2000
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One Planet Living –a framework to deliver an aspirational lifestyle for nine billion people within the carrying capacity of the planet.
Organization(s) making commitmentBioRegional and partners are working together to implement One Planet Living. Partners include: Kingfisher Plc
China Merchants Property Development Ltd
London Borough of Sutton
Middlesbrough City Council
City of Brighton and Hove
Codding Enterprises
Achievement of CommitmentOne Planet Living in various communities across the globe. One planet living is a practical implementation framework of holistic environmental and societal principles based on sustainable consumption and sustainable development.
How this will be achievedCommitment 1. We commit to work with five countries and stakeholders to pilot the one planet living approaches at a national level to draw out lessons for the proposed Sustainable Development Goals and the post 2015 Sustainable Development framework. We have been discussing this idea with governments including, but of course governments have to wait to see the outcomes. We do not have the resources for this, but will fund raise for it.
Commitment 2. To work with the local community in Rio to enable an aspirational one planet lifestyle in poorer communities by 2015
Commitment 3 BioRegional and our partners commit to enable the One Planet Living approach and framework to be more widely used and available through communications, e-learning, and training 10,000 people by 2015. OPL has been put forward for the 10YFP on SCP.
|Fully establish e-learning and training package open source wiki by June 2013
|Five countries have piloted national One Planet Plans
|One Planet LIving plan implemented in low income community in Rio
|10,000 people trained to use the One Planet Living approach and framework by 2015.
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I want to crate a tuple, that holds an arrow and a string that describes the arrow. If i do so with functions (instead of arrows), the following works like expected:
funTimes10 = (*10)
describe10 = "times 10"
tuple10 :: (Num b) => ((b -> b), String)
tuple10 = (,) funTimes10 describe10
I can access the function with
fst, and with
snd i get the description string of the function.
However, if i exchange the function with an arrow, like in the following:
aTuple10 :: (Arrow a, Num b) => (a b b, String)
aTuple10 = (,) (arr funTimes10) describe10
fststill works and returns my arrow, but
- i don't get any description string with
I only got this error-message:
Ambiguous type variable `a0' in the constraint:
(Arrow a0) arising from a use of `aTuple10'
Probable fix: add a type signature that fixes these type variable(s)
In the first argument of `snd', namely `aTuple10'
In the expression: (snd aTuple10)
In an equation for `it': it = (snd aTuple10)
Why do i get this error, and what should i do, to avoid it?


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Decisions, Decisions
I have been called indecisive, and I can't deny it. I've been known to hem and haw when it's my turn to order at a restaurant, spend more than a reasonable amount of time deciding whether to buy a Groupon, and you can imagine the size of my suitcase when I travel. Instead of deciding now, let's bring all the options to (wherever) and decide there (good luck!).
I've been reflecting on how challenging choosing just one thing out of way too many options is for me (and maybe some of you?). Ice cream flavors, colors of a top or sweater, or how about deciding between two equally beautiful pairs of shoes? This may sound strange, but if there are more than a handful of options that peak my fancy, I am immobilized. I usually decide that if I can't have both the boots and the heels (or speculoos and praline amaretto), I'd rather have neither. Yes, you heard right. Instead of just choosing one, I go for none. The term spoiled brat comes to mind, or maybe distraught or (my favorite) wretched.
It's All About Fear
In deepening my self-analysis and probing my wretched mind, I'm finding that this struggle isn't really about being spoiled or wanting it all. It's about fear of regret. The fear of making the "wrong choice" keeps me from choosing at all. What if I order the curry and then realize too late that I really want the stir-fry? What if I vote for Thai food and figure out I'm really in the mood for Indian? What if I buy the pumps and, after wearing them, wish that I had chosen its competitor. What if every little decision is a big deal and I have to deal with the remorse and disappointment of my choice?
Being OK with Being Imperfect
I totally understand if you don't relate to this. As I said, this is the "wretched" part of my mind that is sometimes amusing, but more often frustrating. Even for me, It's easy to see that these are not life-changers, that I will be able to enjoy my curry even if that wasn't my number one pick, that I can be grateful for any pair of new shoes, and that a little disappointment never hurt anyone. At the same time, it comes down to how I'm able to deal with negative emotions, the potential for mistakes, and my own imperfections.
I don't want to let fear keep my from living. I refuse to let the "could be's" scare me frozen. I will not let my quirks and humanness stifle my curiosity.
Today, I laugh in the face of fear! I will choose. I will decide.
Do you struggle with decisions, whether little or big? How do you deal with regret?


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Dr. Oz Promotes Life Line Screening's 6 For Life Disease Risk Assessment
Today on The Dr. Oz Show unsuspecting viewers receive surprise "health ambushes" from the Doc. Dr. Oz surprises people all over the country and assesses them by screening them with products from Life Line Screening. Life Line Screening has developed a fantastic screening test called "6 For Life." This test may be able to save lives of the guests on the show and the lives of the viewers at home.
Throughout the show Dr. Oz discusses some of the biggest health issues many Americans face. He even refers to some as "silent killers," as they have no strong warning signs.
Life Line Screening has a company mission to make people aware of unrecognized health problems and encourage personal physician follow-up care. To screen individuals, advanced ultrasound equipment is used by trained healthcare professionals. The results are reviewed by board-certified physicians to guarantee high standards. Life Line Screening has been active since 1993. In that time they have screened over 6 million people and have helped saved thousands of lives.
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· Notify your doctor immediately if you experience nausea, vomiting, headache, or visual changes, especially during the first 8 weeks of treatment. These symptoms could indicate that you need a dosage adjustment or that you need to stop using Humatrope.
· Contact your doctor immediately if you have Prader-Willi syndrome and develop signs of lung or breathing problems such as shortness of breath, coughing, or new or increased snoring. Rare cases of serious breathing problems have been reported in patients with Prader-Willi syndrome taking Humatrope.
· Humatrope is a form of the naturally occurring human growth hormone. Human growth hormone is important in the body for the growth of bones and muscles.
· Humatrope is used to treat children and adults with growth failure because of a deficiency of growth hormone, chronic kidney failure, Turner syndrome, and in some cases when the cause of short stature is not known. The Serostim brand of Humatrope is used to prevent severe weight loss that can occur with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). The Zorbtive brand of Humatrope is used in the treatment of short bowel syndrome.
· Humatrope may also be used for purposes other than those listed in this medication guide.
· Humatrope should not be used if ·the growth areas of the bones has closed and cannot grow longer; ·there is evidence of cancer or a tumor; ·the patient has an illness due to complications following open heart or abdominal surgery, multiple accidental trauma, or acute respiratory failure; or ·the patient has Prader-Willi syndrome and is severely obese or has severe respiratory (lung) problems.
· Humatrope will not be effective in, or may worsen, the conditions listed above.
· Before using this medication, tell your doctor if you have ·diabetes; ·hypothyroidism; ·a history of intracranial lesion; ·scoliosis; or ·Prader-Willi syndrome and sleep apnea or snoring.
· You may not be able to use Humatrope, or you may require a dosage adjustment or special monitoring during treatment if you have any of the conditions listed above.
· Some forms of Humatrope require mixing with a diluent: some of these diluents contain preservatives (such as benzyl alcohol, metacresol and glycerin). Notify your doctor if you are allergic to benzyl alcohol, metacresol,or glycerin because you may not be able to use certain diluents. Mixing the powder with Sterile Water for Injection, instead of the diluents above, may be possible. Solutions mixed with Sterile Water for Injection must be used immediately after mixing, or within 24 hours if stored under refrigeration as directed, and not saved for later use.
· Serostim, Saizen, Genotropin, and Zorbtive are in the FDA pregnancy category B. This means that they are not expected to be harmful to an unborn baby. Humatrope, Norditropin, and Nutropin are in the FDA pregnancy category C. This means that it is not known whether they will be harmful to an unborn baby. Do not use Humatrope without first talking to your doctor if you are pregnant or could become pregnant during treatment.
· It is not known whether Humatrope passes into breast milk. Do not use Humatrope without first talking to your doctor if you are breast-feeding a baby.
· Use Humatrope exactly as directed by your doctor. If you do not understand these directions, ask your doctor, nurse, or pharmacist to explain them to you.
· Humatrope can be injected subcutaneously (under the skin). Humatrope and Saizen can also be injected intramuscularly (into the muscle). If you are administering this medication at home, your doctor will give you detailed instructions on how to mix the solution and give an injection. Rotate injection sites as directed by your doctor. Do not inject this medication if you are unsure how.
· Vials of Humatrope may require mixing before injection. Gently swirl the bottle after adding the diluent. Do not shake. Because Humatrope is a protein, shaking the vial of solution may result in a cloudy solution that should not be used. Do not inject any Humatrope product that is not completely dissolved, or that is discolored or cloudy immediately after mixing or after removal from the refrigerator. Occasionally, mixed solution that has been refrigerated may contain small, colorless particles. This is not harmful. Allow the solution to come to room temperature and gently swirl the vial. If the solution is cloudy, the medication must not be injected.
· Consult your doctor, pharmacist, or the package insert regarding storage conditions and how long the medication may be stored after mixing.
· The Nutropin Depot form of Humatrope is only injected once or twice monthly. Follow your doctor's instructions.
· Never reuse a needle or syringe. Dispose of all needles and syringes in an appropriate, puncture resistant disposal container.
· Your doctor may want you to have blood tests or other medical evaluations during treatment with Humatrope to monitor progress and side effects.
· Notify your doctor immediately if you experience nausea, vomiting, headache, or visual changes, especially during the first 8 weeks of treatment. These symptoms could indicate that you need a dosage adjustment or that you need to stop using Humatrope.
· Use the Norditropin cartridges only with the corresponding color-coded NordiPen. The color-coding system is designed to deliver the appropriate dose of medication.
· Many Humatrope products are available as cartridges for pen delivery systems. The pen delivery systems may not be interchangeable. Use only the pen delivery system provided with your particular product. Ask your doctor or pharmacist if you are unsure if the system is compatible.
· Do not allow any medication kept in the refrigerator to freeze. If the medicine does freeze, do not use it.
· Read the information that comes with the product for specific storage instructions, before and after mixing. Or ask your pharmacist about proper storage.
· Use the missed dose as soon as you remember. However, if it is almost time for the next dose, skip the dose you missed and use only the next regularly scheduled dose. Do not use a double dose of this medication.
· Seek emergency medical attention if an overdose is suspected.
· Symptoms of a Humatrope overdose include shaking (tremor), cold sweats, increased hunger, headache, drowsiness, weakness, dizziness, fast heartbeat, and nausea.
· There are no restrictions on food, beverages, or activity during treatment with Humatrope unless otherwise directed by your doctor.
· Contact your doctor immediately if you have Prader-Willi syndrome and develop signs of lung or breathing problems such as shortness of breath, coughing, or new or increased snoring. Rare cases of serious breathing problems have been reported in patients with Prader-Willi syndrome taking Humatrope.
· If you experience any of the following uncommon but serious side effects, stop using Humatrope and seek emergency medical attention or notify your doctor immediately: ·an allergic reaction (difficulty breathing; closing of the throat; swelling of the lips, tongue, or face; or hives); or ·nausea, vomiting, headache, or visual changes.
· Other side effects may also occur, although they are not common. Notify your doctor if you experience ·headache; ·muscle pain or weakness; or ·mild symptoms of hyperglycemia such as increased thirst, increased urination, or sugar in the urine.
· Side effects other than those listed here may also occur. Talk to your doctor about any side effect that seems unusual or that is especially bothersome.
· Humatrope may affect blood sugar levels. It may be necessary to adjust the dosage of diabetes medications such as insulin, glipizide (Glucotrol), glyburide (Diabeta, Micronase), tolbutamide (Orinase), and others.
· Steroids such as cortisone (Cortef, others), methylprednisolone (Medrol, others), prednisone (Deltasone, Orasone), prednisolone (Prelone, Pediapred, others), and dexamethasone (Decadron) may decrease the effects of Humatrope. Steroid doses may need to be adjusted.
· Drugs other than those listed here may also interact with Humatrope. Talk to your doctor and pharmacist before taking any prescription or over-the-counter medicines, including vitamins, minerals, and herbal products
· Your pharmacist has additional information about Humatrope written for health professionals that you may read.


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OK, we confess, the delicate cutouts on the leather upper of the Dankso Women's Sapphire Sandal weren't carefully crafted by little elves in a secluded workshop. They were precisely etched by lasers in a factory, and while that's perhaps a little less romantic, the sandal is just as beautiful. What is magical is the incredible comfort and support these platform slip-ons offer you feet through a long day.
- Buckle adjustment at the instep gets the fit just right
- Dri-Lex wrapped footbed wicks moisture
- Shock-absorbing foam midsole with EVA forefoot insert cushions your feet
- Coring holes in polyurethane sole reduce weight
- Beveled heel adds stability on impact
- Two-inch heel makes the Sapphire a comfortable alternative to a high-heel dress sandal
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I'm not into women's shoes all that much (maybe that's a good thing), but my wife says she has received numerous compliments about these shoes. I got her the black ones, and I think they look great too. I'll upload a picture so you can see for yourself.
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7769 Vitamin D,1,25-Dihydroxy,LC/MS/MS
Specimen Type
Specimen Stability
Reference Range
28 Days, Ambient
28 Days, Refrigerated
Frozen-28 Days
28 Days, Refrigerated
Frozen-28 Days
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Specimen Requirements
Specimen Type: Serum
Container: 1 Red Top Tube
Temperature: Refrigerated
Preferred Vol: 2.00 mL
Min Vol: 1.10 mL
Container: 1 Red Top Tube
Temperature: Refrigerated
Preferred Vol: 2.00 mL
Min Vol: 1.10 mL
Liquid Chromatography/Tandem Mass Spectrometry (LC/MS/MS)
Sunday - Saturday
Turn-Around Time
SST not Acceptable.
Clinical Utility
This test measures the bioactive form of vitamin D. It is used in the differential diagnosis of hypocalcemia and to monitor patients with renal osteodystrophy or chronic renal failure. This test is not suitable for diagnosis of vitamin D deficiency and monitoring monitoring supplementation in most patients. The 25-hydroxyvitamin D test is the recommended test for those purposes (N Engl J Med. 2007;357:266-281).
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Moto-X Team Report 07-13-04
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Jul 13 2004 / Tuesday
Brian Deegan and Twitch are practicing for the Summer X Games at the compound.
There was no National last weekend. Most riders are finalizing deals for next year. Along with Tim Ferry, Chad Reed is staying at Yamaha for the 2005 season. Grant Langston is leaving KTM and has decided to sit out the rest of the 2004 National Series due to a wrist injury that is not healing.
Roger Lee Hayden won his second Supersport race at Mazda Raceway in Monterey this weekend. Tommy Hayden finished 3rd and is in the points lead for the championship with Roger Lee in 2nd.
Jake Zemke finished 7th in the Superbike race and is in 3rd in the points race with three races left. Jake finished 3rd in the formula Xtreme race and is 2nd in points in that series, seventeen points out of 1st.
Tommy Hayden won the Superstock race, with Roger Lee coming in 2nd. Tommy is five points out of the points lead in the series.
AMA has announced the 2005 Supercross schedule. The dates for the two world races to start the season have not been released yet.
December 4 THQ World Supercross GP TBA
December 11 THQ World Supercross GP TBA
January 8 Anaheim, California - Angel Stadium of Anaheim
January 15 Phoenix, Arizona - Bank One Ballpark
January 22 Anaheim, California - Angel Stadium of Anaheim
January 29 San Francisco, California - SBC Park
February 5 Anaheim, California - Angel Stadium of Anaheim
February 12 Indianapolis, Indiana - RCA Dome
February 19 San Diego, California - Qualcomm Stadium
February 26 Atlanta, Georgia - Georgia Dome
March 5 St. Louis, Missouri - Edward Jones Dome
March 12 Daytona Beach, Florida - Daytona International Speedway*
March 19 Orlando, Florida - Citrus Bowl
April 2 Irving, Texas - Texas Stadium
April 9 Pontiac, Michigan - Silverdome
April 23 Seattle, Washington - Qwest Field
April 30 Houston, Texas - Reliant Stadium
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Price point (150.00-400.00 USD)
Bit-rate (16Mbps or higher)
Codec (must be non-proprietary)
Nod for 'professional' features
GoPro 3+ ($399.00)
GoPro 3 Black (349.00)
Sony AS100 ($399.00)
Sony AS30 ($299.00)
JVC Adixxion ($299.00)
Midland XTC400 ($249.00)
Polaroid XS100 (169.00)
ReplayXD Mini ($179.00)
Liquid Ego ($179.00)
Drift Innovation Ghost S ($399.00)
Garmin VIRB
ReplayXD Mini 1080.
At slightly larger diameter than a nickel this camera is rock-solid, doesn't need stabilization, and blew my mind when i found I could drive a car over it. So small to present less of a snag hazard for skydivers, this tiny marvel is also perfect for UAV/Drones, hiding on cars (ReplayXD is the camera most used in professional auto-racing) and so small it can even be placed upright under a skateboard. It's tiny and weighs virtually nothing.
The camera also offers a threaded head so that lens adapters may be used for either lenses or filters for better image. This is tremendously valuable for outside photography, where an ND filter will immediately remove the heavy contrast and juddered playback, while reducing jello-cam (rolling shutter) issues. JVC, Polaroid, and Garmin all have the ability to come in fairly high in this conversation except their mounting systems are not only flimsy, they're high profile and a snag hazard. Using these cameras without their manufacturer-issued mounts will provide a very low platform and a much more stable image.
Although durability wasn't a measured factor in this shootout, ReplayXD would easily win the durability category (comparing cameras out of their waterproof box). There simply isn't a tougher camera on the market. Other features I like; the camera offers up timecode for professionals, external audio inputs and user-controllable image quality (Saturation, Exposure, Audio Gain, Sharpness, etc).
In the above test, one of the cameras failed due to (I believe) card error. The high motion, high contrast, light and dark areas for exposure testing provides for a terrific challenge. Even in the still framegrabs, the torture is evident in blur, color, and compression artifacting. Lens FOV is of course, obvious.
The complexity of the ground coupled with the high motion makes for a good test of contrasts and detail management in moving platforms. Note that the majority of the cameras are set to an FOV of 120 degrees, as that's how they come out of the box. A couple cameras are 170 degrees. Cameras are labeled in the screen cap seen below.
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Hi all,
Like the subject says, THE GARLICKS campaign on Indiegogo ends at 11:59 Pacific time tonight. I hope if you pledged at Kickstarter, you'll support me at Indiegogo! Signed copies of THE GARLICKS with a print start at just $25.
The original art for the Kurt Busiek Eats a Bug print is up as a perk now. $350 gets you the art, plus four copies of THE GARLICKS and other goodies OR your choice of two of three other perks. Details are on THE GARLICKS main page, below the video.
$100. of the Kurt Busiek Eats a Bug original art support goes to kittybungalow.org, an L.A. non-profit that catches, fixes and releases feral cats and fosters feral kittens for adoption.
First: THANK YOU for your support of THE GARLICKS on Kickstarter! It meant a lot!
You may recall the last time I was here that I was one week from finishing my Kickstarter, with $30,000. to go. I gave it my best until the last hour, called it, made a thank-you video, and started planning my next campaign: which was to re-launch THE GARLICKS on Indiegogo!
With the help of Astro City creator Kurt Busiek, I retooled the book (from one 160-page book to 4 60-page books) and campaign so my goal would be $19,000 instead of $40,000. Since I raised just under $17,000 with Kickstarter, this is an achievable goal. Yay achievable goals!
There are all the best incentives: signed books, prints, magnets, custom sketched books featuring Kurt Busiek eating a bug of your choice, a library of all my graphic novels, and so on.
THE GARLICKS still needs you! With the money raised, I will be able to pay for production and printing of the first volume and get my new book out into the world!
If you can't support financially right now, you can still help a LOT by going to THE GARLICKS campaign page and using the Like, Tweet, G+, Share, Email and Favorite buttons. These not only get my project in front of more people, they keep me on the front page of Indiegogo's Comics Page, and move me up in their Popular section--all of which lead to more pledges!
In case you missed it, THE GARLICKS promo art:
That URL one more time:
Kurt Busiek (The Astro City and Marvels guy!) is eating bugs for THE GARLICKS! When you pledge, he will eat a bug! (Maybe metaphorically, but HE'S EATING THEM!)
I'm about to enter the last 7 days for this Kickstarter with a large (but doable) amount to go. It's a full-time job, the care and feeding of this project, and I want so much to cross the finish line a success!
Please help! Pledge, share, upgrade your pledge to a hardcover. Share THE GARLICKS across all your social networks, among friends and family and mailing lists.
Help me make this happen!
I've got a Kickstarter campaign to raise money for my newest graphic novel, THE GARLICKS: Pandora Orange, Fail Vampire, which will be a 140-page digitally painted, full-color, all-ages comic, my first new graphic novel in SEVEN YEARS. I want to work on THE GARLICKS full time, then print it as a graphic novel.
And I need your help in funding an ambitious amount: $40,000. ($25. or so at a time. A LOT of $25.'s, that is.)
I'll explain why I need that much, then tell you how awesome THE GARLICKS is and what it's about, then ask you to pledge at least $25. (but you can pledge less guilt-free) for REWARDS and GOODIES like signed and sketched copies of the finished book, customized pencil cases and art.
Then I'll say "pretty please tell all your friends," because without this campaign catching fire, going viral, reaching critical mass, it's not going to fund and that would SUCK LEMONS.
(BTW, if this Kickstarter doesn't fund, you are charged NOTHING. Your money doesn't get paid to me unless I succeed.)
But first, an exciting video of me making ART!
That's how THE GARLICKS is going to look. A pretty new style for me!
You can read the first THE GARLICKS story HERE: http://thegarlicks.net.
Holy cow, $40,000?!
$40,000. sounds like a lot until you know that if THE GARLICKS meets its goal, Kickstarter, Amazon, and the IRS take $10,000 right off the top. The remaining $30,000. is split 50/50 between me earning a page rate to draw it so I can deliver 3 pages a week as a webcomic to fans and followers, and then printing trades of the comic, having rewards made and mailing the whole lot out. (I expect postage alone to run $2,000., never mind addressing and stuffing hundreds of envelopes!)
I want THE GARLICKS to be a full-time job because I want to bring my readers a new book after a seven-year hiatus. And eat, roof over the head, take care of burly teenage son. The wee things.
What's it About, Lea?
THE GARLICKS is told from the point of view of Pandora, a vampire with zero vampire abilities and the big sister of baby Pamila (who's usually called Ham), who seems to have gotten everything Pandora didn't, like being able to shapeshift into an adorable flying fish and eat meat.
Pandora turns to her passion, making comics, and chooses her family as her muses: the exhausting Ham, her father Vourdain, (a flower-eating barista), her mother Olive (who is butcher), and their house/business, Orange Espresso and Meats.
Pandora thinks her problems begin when she puts a suffocating Ham (in her fishbat form) in a toilet to save her life, but things really get crazy when the catch the attention of Maxim, a boy who can see monsters, and three rock-stupid but very dangerous demon hunters.
Pan quickly finds out that the only thing worse than having no time to draw stories is having entirely too much material to draw from.
I need your help to make THE GARLICKS a job for me and a book for YOU, my LiveJournal ninja followers. if just HALF of you pledge $25. for a signed and sketched trade of THE GARLICKS, I'm $5,000. closer to my goal, and I'd be at 25% funded.
And if you tell five pals and one decides to listen to you because you are ALWAYS right, I'll have about another $5,000., and ALL of you have books to read and share and talk to each other about, and I eat Skittles and drink coffee and make comics.
Thank you SO MUCH. Please back me and spread the word! If you can't back, talk THE GARLICKS Kickstarter up, tell your journalist friends, etc. It all helps!
That Kickstarter for THE GARLICKS link again: THE GARLICKS, Pandora Orange, Fail Vampire.
And that first THE GARLICKS story at http://thegarlicks.net.
Been awake for a while. The crushing reality that I have two weeks to find two special needs kids medical coverage is back upon me.
I found out yesterday my kids no longer qualify for Medicaid because of my income. Their benefits are over in two weeks. In two weeks, I have to find them a new provider, no mean feat as I have cartoonist's income (meaning very low). However, I still make too much money, even for CHIP (Children's Health Insurance Program). (Not CHiPs, by the way. There's no Erik Estrada in this. I want to scream when people call CHIP "Chips.")
Summer and Fox can't teeter along without benefits since they both have mental health issues (and Fox a disability) that require medication and therapy. Not to put too fine a point on it, their care is life-saving. It's horrifying to me to contemplate Summer's depression when she doesn't have her medication, or Fox negotiating a school day without anxiety.
So today begins another disheartening search for care for them. So many roads lead straight back to where we don't qualify: Medicaid and CHIP. I'm hoping to draw on resources I've already been able to use.
Fox is going to lose speech therapy, which has helped him learn to negotiate social settings with less disasters and more confidence. He's also going to lose the twice-weekly companionship of his therapist Maxine. He's not going to understand why.
Which leads to the purge:
I remember sniggering and righteous loftiness on Twitter about a mom who barricaded herself into a Health and Human Services building here in Texas and posted to Facebook from her phone before killing herself and trying to kill her children. "Why did she have a phone? Why not buy food?"
Let's tackle that phone thing, first:
Try living without a phone when you're waiting for news about a job, help, your kids. I've lived w/o a phone, any phone. It sucks.More importantly, the barrier to having a smart phone is real damn low.
Now the food:
The barriers to insurance and food assistance, Medicaid and SNAP, are very high: hours in waiting rooms, paperwork, having a place to live already, child care (or not). There's a price extracted in worry, too: crushing worry that comes from an unrelentingly unsettled state of finance and mind.
Bless you if you never had insurance that your kids required for their mental health yanked out from under you. I've had it happen twice now. My kids are resilient, but resilience doesn't keeps them in medicine or therapy that, in turn, gives them quality of life.
You're not going to find me barricaded in a government building posting to Facebook and waving a gun, but I understand that anger and helplessness. Bless you again if you don't have that rage and fear and have the glib luxury to tell someone to just sell their phone and go buy groceries or get a job.
Bless you, and until you turn in your phones, insurance, stability, and dignity, shut up.
I also want to be at least 1/10 as generous to aspiring comickers as pros were to me when I started out. (They were pretty damn generous, 1/10 of that is a really lofty goal.) Not be be discounted is the time-saving aspect of being able to grunt, "There," and point to a URL when I'm asked for a starting place.
The best place to start, based on recommendations I got when I polled my Twitter stream is http://penciljack.com. Lots of resources, places to get critiques, and to hook up with an artist.
Some resources on how to get a handle on that pesky creature that is "What should my script look like?":
Lots of script and proposal samples from veteran writer Dwayne McDuffie:
A good and short article by Tim Stout about script format:
(There's lots more at Tim's site on writing GNs.)
Get that script written first, before ANYTHING else, then follow with letting people read it and critique it, certainly before submitting it.
Try hanging out on Twitter and following comics people and see what they're talking about, read their books and talk to them about their work, and so on. Socialize. Network. Enjoy meeting them without the crush of a convention happening around you both. Post links to your work. (But not too much, says the person who's on it too much.)
At last, 99 words on failing:
My best advice: if you're going to fail, FAIL BIG. Don't be afraid to. If the wheels come off the bus (and they probably will at least once, it's the lot of comickers and other storytellers and creatives), be a splashy (yet gracious and good-natured) disaster.
I promise you, no matter how awful you think something is, at least one other person (besides you) is going to love it. And you'll learn from it.
After that, as my good friend David Seidman (and editor and writer himself) says, "It's not how you fall, but how you get back up."
I first met Dave Stevens at a con in Houston, Texas, in 1984. Dave was that hot new guy in comics, because Rocketeer had come out of nowhere and gotten comics fans, good girl art fans, and Bettie Page fans excited. I was still cosplaying, and I stopped and talked to him at least once when I was dressed as a Plexus Ranger from Howard Chaykin's American Flagg!. (This cosplaying will be important in about three or four paragraphs.)
(I don't have any pictures of myself in that costume, but here's one of me as Doris from "Vampire Hunter 'D'", taken at a friend's place on Halloween 1987.)
Sometimes people say Dave was born a little too late, I think he was born just in time to make sure pulp had a chance to be new. (When I visited him in Santa Monica in 1988, and was looking at all the things he had crammed in his teeny apartment, I found a badge a friend had made for him; it said, "Dave Stevens: the answer to the question where are all the new old hacks coming from.") Pulp and pinups were sure new to me, and Dave's work didn't look like anything I'd ever seen. His girls were pretty, his colors were gorgeous (he colored his comics art on photostats using markers, Q-Tips, and, well, spit (he said)), and Dave was absolutely the best artist working in comics in the 80s, hands down.
I loved Dave's art, and was a frustrated model (I'd done a little work in high school), and I wanted to be in one of Dave's pinups. So, I did what I've done a lot in my comics career, I just asked for what I wanted. Maybe I asked Dave if I could model for him in 1987, when I saw him again at the first San Diego Comic-Con I went to, or later when we were corresponding. (With letters sent with stamps. Only people who didn't want to be able to pay their rent used email in 1987, Compuserve was often spelled "Compu$erve" for a reason.)
On June 24 or 25, 1988 (twenty-two years and eleven months ago), Dave sent me this letter with the Space Vixens in 3-D layout:
(A "Jackson" was old-fashioned slang for a $20 bill. Dave also used the vintage slang "pins" to complement my legs, "Great pins!" The lettering jobs were how I planned to make money in comics and network at the same time. It was working for Usagi Yojimbo creator Stan Sakai, Stan was lettering the Spider-Man daily newspaper strips and drawing Usagi. This plan worked out okay for me, even though I was never even remotely as good as Stan.)
Here's the layout Dave sent with the letter and the Jackson:
(Dave Stevens, graphite and ballpoint pen on vellum. Right-click and open in a new tab to see a larger image.)
The reason my cosplaying ability was important was because I had to cobble together approximations of the costumes in the layout for the photographs so Dave had a better idea of how what he drew would drape and fit over an actual body. I made them from pieces of costumes I still had around (I quit cosplaying at conventions in 1985 because I wanted to be taken seriously as an aspiring comics professional) and my own clothes. My now-ex shot the photographs; we took them on the balcony of our first apartment, and yes there was about as much to my costumes as in Dave's layouts. We were careful and fast shooting those pictures!
I had huge hang-ups about how I looked in then (thanks to my ex and my ex-family, sad but true), so I only looked at the photos long enough to make sure they were in focus and sent them on to Dave.
Eventually, Dave mailed me a copy or two of Space Vixens in 3-D:
(photo by Robert G)
I modeled for Dave a couple more times after that, but nothing we shot was ever used in finished art, and I never saw the pictures. I did, at Dave's urging, take self-portraits and have myself photographed and preserved the pictures. He bought me a nice album when I saw him in Long Beach in 1990, just before he went to shoot The Rocketeer movie, to make sure I did. He said I would be glad I took and saved the pictures, and I didn't believe him, but I did it anyway, and he was absolutely right.
To this day, it's peculiar to look at this art and see myself looking back. In fact, it's more peculiar now than then, maybe because Dave has passed on and his chapter in comics and pinup art is closed. It's also kind of amazing and wonderful to realize I had the privilege and luck and chutzpah to model for and be the friend of one of the greatest pinup artists that has ever lived.
Across time and space, thanks, Dave, for letting me be part of your life and work. Mwah!
I haven't updated since February, and when I decide to start properly blogging again, what happens? LANDLORD!DRAMA!
Two notices of lease violations came in yesterday. One's legit: we had cats. One's bullshit: my flat is "unsanitary." In the first conversation with the manager, they wanted me to pick up, run bleach through my dishwasher, and bleach the caulk in my tub.
Okay. Pick up. Sorry, are you my mom? No, they want me to keep "clear walkways" because I might "hit my head" or something. They want me "to be safe". FuckWHAT? If I only HAD enough to trip over! I have ten pieces of furniture, seven pieces of furniture for LIVING if you take away my two desks and office chair, but include a patio chair.
As I very reasonably pointed out, if I slip in my tub, it's not going to be because my daughter didn't make her bed!
In the second conversation, the cats were brought up as the unsanitary issue, even though that's not on the lease violation paper. Yeah, I'm not letting that go. Then the whole picking up was reiterated.
Luckily, the law is on my side as far as picking up goes. They can't ding me for unsanitary conditions if I don't pick up. There's a thing called privacy, and Texas tenants, gasp, are actually guaranteed it.
So, I'm going to clean out the stupid dishwasher (which has no more than the usual amount of schma you'd find in ANY dishwasher after a year) and re-caulk the tub.
Oh, the tub. Yeah. The caulk was done improperly, so it comes up when I try to scrub it. It won't bleach out, and the mold laughs at caustic cleaners. They want me to bleach it white, then they're going to PUT CAULK OVER THE CAULK. That's like installing another toilet on top of one that doesn't work. It doesn't fix ANYTHING.
I suspect, since my lease was up at the end of March, and I don't have a new one yet because paperwork hasn't been processed, and I have Fox here evenings and two weekends a month, that something else very different is at play here, that has nothing to do with having unmade beds when the manager came in with the handyman.
I cried for about four hours, but now I'm just mad. I don't like being treated like a bum, and I don't like dealing with discrimination.
Anyway, I'm moving the fuck out. I'm not going to subject myself to the stress of wondering what piddling thing will get me a third lease violation, and an eviction notice on my record. Even if I beat the notice, it's on my record when I try to rent again.
I remember vividly now why I hate renting so much. Because I have yet to meet a landlord or property manager that wasn't a total asshole. Because I loathe the feeling of being at the mercy of someone who can intimidate me, fuck me over, and take away my home just like that.
Updates as they happen. It's not all bad news, it's just that this is foremost. This sucks, but I promise everything else is reasonably good.
But DAMMIT!
It's rent time again! This time, Bunny Prints are on sale! My goal is to sell 20 sets this weekend!
The Seasons Bunnies were a set of paintings commissioned for a nursery. The client wanted bunnies representing the four seasons, each with a whimsical element (or three). Why are there five paintings? Because the first Spring Bunny came out decidedly pinker/redder than I meant for it to! I redid Spring to lighten the overall color scheme, the Pink Spring Bunny painting found a new home.
The prints are on 8" x 11" acid free matte photo paper, the image size is 5"x 8", this allows for a lot of options in matting and framing. All prints will be signed!
Prints are $10. each, or $35. for a set of the four seasons (specify which Spring Bunny you want), or $45. for all five. Postage for up to five prints to US addresses is $2. (Foreign post will be determined by country.)
I take PayPal at divalea @ gmail. com.
If you can't buy right now, it'd be great if you could pass on a link to this post!
My first piece of advice is to completely give up on the idea of "totally new." Really. Let it go. Nothing is totally new. (A good thing to remember when people say "Kids these days!")
I wanted that totally new, too. It'll make your brain hurt. Instead, go for a fresh take on something that's already been done. (EVERYTHING'S already been done!) Take a story that didn't work for you because the idea was good but the execution was bosh, or had an unsatisfying ending. Take a page from your own life, take MANY pages. We've all had amazing days, and amazingly crap days. A favorite teacher, or not a single one. A friend who moved away or died, or was true to the end.
Only ONE time has a story just come to me BAM! and been all there. Every other one has been a lot of work. Fun, sometimes nail-biting work. But work. Hard work. Enjoy it while you're doing it, because you will almost inevitably look back on the time you spent writing your GN and feel a little wistful. Only once in my career did I loathe a job from beginning to bitter end. One year out of twenty-three.
Don't pull things out of your butt. Don't try to be mysteeeeerious. Remember that your story is a closed world. Put in nothing that is not essential. You CAN have interesting characters that you don't have to explain them. They are texture. That's fun. But somehow, they have to fit. A good way to close your world is to have a prologue (which you can toss later) which encapsulates the theme(s) of the whole story. I did that in both Cathedral Child and Clockwork Angels and Rumble Girls.
A wonderful piece of advice is start as late in the story as you can and end it as soon as you can.
Read things beside comics. Please. For your own good. Fiction, non-fiction, it's all good. If you want to avoid reading things in the genre you're writing in, do. I do. But that's me. I'm chicken that I'll see someone do exactly what I wated to do, and better, and pffft my energy is gone.
Have people read what you've written, and ask where they got lost, if they did. DON'T ask how they liked it. That/those answers will make you crazy. Just ask if they got it. If they didn't, DON'T defend it, FIX it. LISTEN to what they say.
GIVE UP PERFECTION. There will always be plot holes, awkward turn of phrase, characters who would sound like jackholes if a real person said their dialogue. The beauty of your readers if they have NO IDEA how it looked/read in your head. NO IDEA what you threw out, or how art and dialogue turned to hash. Remember that YOU know everything about your story and at the start your audience knows nothing about your story.Relax!
My good friend Jim Salicrup (he's the co-publisher at the graphic novel publisher Papercutz, and was also and editor at Marvel and Topps) says, "Do the best you can in the time you have." That is the most excellent advice.
NEVER EVER put your work down. "It's not my best work..." Then why are you showing it? If you're not ready, don't share. If it is ready and you're saying that, you're trying to deflect criticism. True story: *I* did it. It's obnoxious. If you need fresh readers tell them, "I need readers." Full stop. When you're pitching that minty-fresh gn, say "Thanks for looking." That's ALL.
(On the other hand, NEVER say, "I'm better than..." Law of horrible awkward. genital-shriveling, stomach in the basement coincidence says you just insulted their best friend and/or favorite artist. ASK ME HOW I KNOW. Oh god do I know.)
Finally, finish it, and do another. And another. And another.
I wish you nothing but good luck. It is delightful to see people succeed, and I hope you are one of them.


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FAC construction update
Go inside the fences to get an update on the renovation of the Covenant Fine Arts Center.
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History of the King James Bible
"King James was very interested in theological disputes ..." English professor Susan Felch, in an interview with WGVU radio, puts the King James Bible within the context of the events happening in the early 1600's when it was written.
March 31, 2011 | Matt Kucinski
Hitting the streets
When six students from Calvin's Center for Social Research (CSR) hit the streets of Kent County, they're mistaken for everything from tax collectors to door-to-door salespeople.
July 17, 2009 | Allison Graff
Huizenga Tennis and Track Center becomes more energy efficient
The Calvin Energy Recovery Fund's latest project expects to save the college at least $20,000 a year.
April 17, 2014 | Connor Sterchi
In her own backyard
Mary Abma created a sculptural herbarium of every invasive species in her lawn.
January 12, 2012 | Myrna Anderson
Inaugural exhibition: 90 Years of Collecting
The exhibition created for President Le Roy's inauguration tells the history of collecting at Calvin.
October 17, 2012 | Myrna Anderson
Meeter Center hosts institute for high school teachers
In 16th-century France, Protestants and Catholics living in the same village wrestled with questions like the following: what if your Protestant grandson wants to marry a Catholic girl? High school teachers will have the opportunity to wrestle with these and other related questions via "Making Sense of the Reformation."
September 01, 2008 | Myrna Anderson
Menlo Innovations CEO keynotes Calvin's Business Partners Awards Luncheon
The event honors business and individuals that have partnered with the college's business program to create outstanding learning opportunities for students.
October 07, 2014 | Matt Kucinski
More prodigal
Betty Sanderson discovered 18th-century prints on a Prodigal Son theme in Calvin's permanent collection.
March 21, 2012 | Myrna Anderson
Naked Trees and Winter Twigs
Families and students learn how trees survive the winter at the Bunker Interpretive Center.
January 28, 2011 | Andrew Steiner
New series offers music over lunch
"Notes at Noon" features musical samplings from Calvin faculty and professional musicians from Grand Rapids.
November 04, 2014 | Katie Salyer
Open for business!
"We determined that if we were going to become what we wanted to become — that is, the best Christian college to study business at, anywhere — we would have to raise the bar on a couple things."
February 15, 2011 | Matt Kucinski
Paintings along the way
Speyers has learned all about the pitfalls and the pleasures of painting en plein air or "in the open air" at sites along the California coastline.
November 13, 2009 | Myrna Anderson
Professor dives deep into history of rare manuscript
Meeter Center houses medieval document that is worth $70,000.
October 12, 2015 | Rachel Watson
Q&A: Randy Wolthuis
After 10 years as director of the Broene Counseling Center, Randy Wolthuis is leaving Calvin to re-enter private practice as a specialist in marital issues.
May 10, 2010 | Myrna Anderson
Real basketball at Summer Slam 2011
A buzzer sounded, and Calvin's third-annual Summer Slam was underway.
June 30, 2011 | Andrew Steiner
Remote sites carry the January Series
"Remote sites are not just listening to the speakers, but they are talking about the ideas being presented."
December 12, 2012 | Matt Kucinski
Return of the native plants
Earlier this week at Calvin's Lake Drive greenhouse, Jane Warners took a moment to talk about the plant she was re-potting: "This is bergamot. It's part of the mint family, and it reproduces like crazy."
May 01, 2009 | Myrna Anderson
Service-Learning Center celebrates 50 years
The students who planted roots of service-learning at Calvin back in the 1960's, joined with a half-century worth of volunteers to celebrate the milestone anniversary.
June 18, 2014 | Grace Ruiter
Sins, virtues and big fish at gallery debut
Sins and virtues hang side-by-side at the opening exhibition of the New Center Art Gallery.
October 19, 2010 | Myrna Anderson


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"World events continue to reveal the importance of understanding how women live across continents and cultures. Using maps, text, and other graphics in this new revision of her eye-opening book, Joni Seager employs up-to-the-minute research and data to show what shifts have occurred since the first edition was published over twenty years ago - the strides made by women and the distance still to be traveled. She explores the current status of women in relation to key issues." "Filled with a wealth of information creatively displayed, The Penguin Atlas of Women in the World is an indispensable resource for understanding the world we live in."--BOOK JACKET.
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|The State of Women
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|In Their Place
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|Marriage and Divorce
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|Lesbian Rights
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|Domestic Violence
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|Maternal Mortality
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|Son Preference
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|Body Politics
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|Breast Cancer
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|Under the Knife
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|Global Sex Trafficking
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|Feminist Organizing
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|World Tables
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|Demography and Health
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A Look at Hyrule Historia
The 25th Anniversary of the Legend of Zelda occurred on February 21, 2011. And here Nintendo is still celebrating it some 2 years later. Hyrule Historia was originally published in Japan over the summer last year.Read More
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5 Things Parents Should Know: Adventure Time: Hey Ice King! Why'd You Steal Our Garbage?!!
Vivid Gamer is proud to continue the new recurring feature: 5 Things Parents Should Know. In our second feature we'll be covering Adventure Time: Hey Ice King! Why'd you steal our garbage?!!. We'll be going beyond the ESRB ratings so parents can make a more informed judgement about whether or not to allow your child to play Adventure Time: Hey Ice King! Why'd you steal our garbage?!!.Read More
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Learning To Listen To Our Hearts At Global Game Jam 13
Did you know that during the last weekend of January, over 3,000 video games were created? Did you know that these games were being built in over 60 countries? And did you know that over 13,000 individuals designed, wrote, programmed, and finished these games in a measly 48 hours?
From Friday to Sunday, these feats of game-making were accomplished as part of Global Game Jam 2013.
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5 Games for the Lonely Valentine
Perhaps you have no one to call your Valentine this year and you're feeling a little down. Pick your head up and smile because you get the opportunity to spend some alone time with some great video games. Hit the break for my list of five perfect games for lonely gamers.Read More
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5 Co-op Titles For Gaming Couples
With Valentine's Day close at hand, we at Vivid Gamer want to share five titles worth playing for all the gaming couples out there. Hit the break to see which games offer a great co-op experience for you and that special second player.Read More
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Dead Space 3 Artifacts Location Guide
If you're having trouble finding the numerous Artifacts scattered across Dead Space 3, we've gone some video guides to help you find every single one of them.Read More
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5 Things Parents Should Know: The Cave
Vivid Gamer is proud to introduce a new recurring feature: 5 Things Parents Should Know. In our first feature we'll be covering The Cave. We'll be going beyond the ESRB ratings so parents can make a more informed judgement about whether or not to allow your child to play The Cave.Read More
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Xbox Marketplace Update: January 30, 2013
After a nearly three month hiatus, the Xbox Marketplace Update has finally returned! This week we've got a highly anticipated arcade title finally releasing, four new Games on Demand, publisher deals from EA and Capcom and much much more. What are you waiting for? Hit the break for the details.Read More
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The Cave: Walkthrough Videos
The Cave, from Ron Gilbert and Double Fine, was released this week and many gamers are jumping into the cave and experiencing this unique adventure/puzzle game. As you work your way to the bottom of the cave you'll come across several puzzles and some might have you stuck, so we're here to help you out with our walkthrough videos.Read More
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Video: Dead Space 3 Co-Op Demo Impressions
James and I sat down last week to play through the Dead Space 3 Co-Op demo and while we were pleased with the demo we did have some concerns for the upcoming title. Hit the break to check out our video impressions of the demo along with some co-op gameplay footage.Read More


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Thomas Seely interviews Doug Young on Break Through Radio.
Working Together
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Kymia Nawabi
Further out in Brooklyn, in Bushwick, is Sugar, a gallery housed in Gwendolyn Skaggs apartment. The artist explains how she set up a gallery in the hallway outside his bread job and took it home when she lost the job. The new corner is painted white but thought otherwise as "an alternative to alternative." An irritating but attractive intimacy develops when an unusual dedication offered / demanded. First, to set up that tour, then to the somewhat rough neighborhood find the anonymous bell and rallied for a private conversation about the oncoming art. This strange mix of exclusivity and generosity creates a tense situation, where the issue is free and responses are often uncomfortable.
Now, these two painters in the tense relationship - David B. Fryes folklore naive deal with bigotry and Kymi Nawabis dimmed sharpened depiction of gray area between the extremes of pleasure and pain. Two disparate expressions selected for their drive to make an issue about the double standard policy, race and sexuality. Exhibition thesis that the dialogue becomes more efficient of friction is deliberately provocative, but - yes, it works.
In New York's maelstrom of sensory abundance is the ability to drive wedges of focused calm, with a critical approach can take shape. On the establishment's street too often seen a bloated economy expand the arts in size over the tank. A man who instead must generate their own room are taking a risk by giving more back. These sites form an infrastructure that weaves together the viewer, works and city in ways that create new and deeper meaning.
Five Hot Galleries to check out this Spring
Brooklyn Exposed 2011
Charles Schultz, The Brooklyn Rail
Ace of Spades
"...The ace of spades, which had previously been the least valuable card, became the highest card in the deck."
Enrico Gomez, Wag Mag
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DIMOW- I'm not against Chelsea
I just don't understand why "Against Chelsea" had to be stated. And I loathe it when all of the Bushwick art spaces are placed under the rivalry umbrella. I don't care for that language, or, to be a part of any "community" that chooses to "capitalize" on it.
The New Criterion
James Panero writes on the Bushwick art scene.
Council Bluff
JJ Sulin
David B. Frye
Fifteen blocks up the road and embedded in the depths of 449 Troutman is Sugar, the friendliest little art space on the block.
Jimmy Miracle interview
International Arts movement
Bushwick Yearbook
A visual diary of the places and faces in Bushwick. A documentation of an ever changing and growing artists hub.
Art exhibition fuels US-Cuba thaw The exhibition aims to help bring the two countries closer together, amid signs of a new era in relations.
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Apartment blaze causes $1M in damage | News
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KTHV) -- A Little Rock firefighter was hurt while responding to an apartment fire that displaced 15 people, including children.
The Terrace Green Apartments on Scott Hamilton Drive caught fire Wednesday night. Captain Jason Weaver said crews actually noticed smoke coming from the building while filling up with gas.
He said when they went to investigate, they found an fully-involved fire at an apartment on the second floor.
"It's pretty severe. There are 8 units and all of them will be affected," said Weaver. "One heavily by the fire, and the others with smoke and water damage."
As for the firefighter who was hurt, falling sheetrock is to blame. He is expected to be okay.
Eight adults and seven children have been displaced, but Captain Weaver said they're all staying with relatives.
Investigators are working to determine why the fire started, and they said the the fire caused about $1 million in damage.