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Par yogaapp4 le 3 Juin 2016 à 12:42
meditation app
We live in dramatic times and that's pretty much a fact. Whether we see it or not our planet is slowly decaying. There is a wide range of factors due to which this is happening, but rapid population growth and a significant decrease of resources are definitely amongst the top of the charts. However, there is a solution to this – sharing economy is something which might as well provide us the helping hand that we need. This is a strategy or a philosophy, more like it, that encourages people to start sharing as means of increasing their wealth by decreasing resource usage. The examples are already here, and they are spreading like wild fire.
Take Airbnb, for instance – a world leader in travel services, this website encourages people to rent out their vacant property to others and become hosts on their platform – airbnb.com. By doing so, they reduce the need for building huge hotels and increase their personal income at the same time.
Uber - this is another perfect representation of the embodiment of sharing economy. Instead of generating thousands of cabs which are used for the sole purpose of chauffeuring people around town, Uber allows you to use your own personal vehicle at the convenience of others.
TaskRabbit, on the other hand, allows you to "outsource" daily chores to people from your community thus freeing you some free time and providing your neighbor with an additional source of income.
Yoga App – A Solution for Sharing Meditation Activities
Following in the footsteps of those visionaries, Appum Studios decided to develop a special application for people who are into yoga and meditation called " Medidate ". This Meditation App allows you to conveniently arrange practice groups with other people who share the same passion and practice them at the local park. The applications are numerous. It takes into consideration the increased attention of people towards activities such as this understands a lot of them now prefer to meditate as a solution to fighting the ever-present stress surrounding us. The application allows people to come together, share their meditation experience and learn new yoga techniques.
It could be used by both people who are enthusiastic about learning how to meditate and by those who teach a yoga course, for instance. The Meditation App offers a chance of people to combine their potential in order to generate mutual and team benefits for all those who are involved. It also allows people to stop searching for available yoga courses and to quickly assemble a group of enthusiast for a session in the park.
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If You Name Your Clothing Store 'Hitler,' Don't Act All Surprised When It Pisses People Off
The Jewish community in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad is less than enthused about a clothing store named "Hitler" that recently opened in the posh neighborhood of Vastrapur.
"In the city of Mahatma Gandhi and non-violence, how can anyone celebrate a person like Hitler who is known to have murdered millions of unarmed ordinary civilians?" said Friends of Israel member Nikitin Contractor.
But co-owner Rajesh Shah says he was caught off-guard by the backlash, particularly since no one complained when they put up a banner announcing "Hitler opening shortly" and kept it up for over a month.
As for the name, Shah again pleads ignorance, telling the Times of India the store was named after his business partner's grandfather who was nicknamed Hitler "because of his strict nature."
He continued: "Frankly, till the time we applied for the trademark permission, I had only heard that Hitler was a strict man. It was only recently that we read about Hitler on the internet."
A Jewish patron, however, alleges that Shah and his partner know who Hitler is and what he did, and are exploiting his infamy for profit.
Shah told the Times he is willing to change the store's name, but only if he is compensated for the sign.
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As a performer, Mr. Curtis drew first and foremost on his startlingly good looks. With his dark, curly hair, worn in a sculptural style later imitated by Elvis Presley, and plucked eyebrows framing pale blue eyes and wide, full lips, Mr. Curtis embodied a new kind of feminized male beauty that came into vogue in the early 1950s. A vigorous heterosexual in his widely publicized (not least by himself) private life, he was often cast in roles that drew on a perceived ambiguity: his full-drag impersonation of a female jazz musician in "Some Like It Hot," a slave who attracts the interest of a Roman senator (Laurence Olivier) in Stanley Kubrick's "Spartacus" (1960), a man attracted to a mysterious blond (Debbie Reynolds) who turns out to be the reincarnation of his male best friend in Vincente Minnelli's "Goodbye Charlie" (1964).
Tony Curtis was great. I recently watched the second-rate movie "Sex and the Single Girl" and noticed how funny Curtis made lines that were really not very good. But "Some Like It Hot" is as good as a movie can be and Tony Curtis is part of what makes it fabulous. Here's one of my favorites scenes, where Tony sets up an encounter with Marilyn in which he's not dressed in women's clothes, he's pretending to be a millionaire:


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All About Tracfone Data CardsWelcome to the http://stephaniefulke.blogspot.com /">TracfoneReviewer blog! This post will share specifics on how data works on smartphones with Tracfone. Be sure to also take a look at some of our other posts while you're here.
|Data Cards for Tracfone
Tracfone is a prepaid cell phone service provider that offers both phones and airtime cards. On their newer smartphone devices, you also get data when adding an airtime card which you can use to surf the web when not connected to free WiFi.
Data is very useful on smartphones, but how does the data work on Tracfone smartphones, how can you get more, and what can you do with the data you have?
We are going to cover these questions and more in this post sharing all the details about how Tracfone Data works on smartphones.
Some of the popular smartphones that Tracfone offers include the http://stephaniefulke.blogspot.com /2015/06/lg-power-l22c-tracfone-android-review.html">LG Power, the http://stephaniefulke.blogspot.com /2014/10/lg-ultimate-2-l41c-tracfone.html">LG Ultimate 2, and the recently released http://stephaniefulke.blogspot.com /2015/07/lg-sunset-review-tracfone-gsm-4g-lte.html">LG Sunset which uses 4G LTE service on GSM networks.
Or you might be interested in the http://stephaniefulke.blogspot.com /p/tracfone-byop-phone-list.html">Tracfone BYOP program, which allows users to bring their own smartphone. Follow the link to learn more, and see a list of the possibilities.
Both the smartphones offered by Tracfone, and the BYOP devices, use data in the same way. So let's get started looking at how data works on these phones.
What is Data on Tracfone Smartphones?Data is the term generally used to describe the amount (usually in megabytes) you can download or upload on your smartphone via the cell phone network. So data is basically information you download or upload from the internet. This can include many different activities, like checking email, posting photos on Facebook, reading webpages, or watching videos.
Data is used based on the amount of megabytes you download or upload. So if you download a 20 MB image, that will use 20 MB of your data. If you visit a webpage that takes 1 MB to load, you will use 1 MB of data. (further down we will share more on estimating how much different online activities will use up your data.)
On older, non-smartphone devices, data was used at a rate determined by the amount of time you were on a website, but this is not the case for smartphones which is a nice improvement.
As you can see, data works similarly to your calling minutes, in that you are charged based on how much you use. But calling minutes are based on time, rather than megabytes. (EX: if you make a 20 minute call, you will be deducted (about) 20 minutes of talk time.)
How Can you Get More Data for your Tracfone Device?There are two ways to get more data for your smartphone:
Airtime Cards - You get an equal number of Texts, Data and Talking minutes in various amounts from 60 to 450.
Data Cards - You get only Data, in various amounts from 300 MB to 4 GB (4000 MB)
For most situations you will probably want to add an Airtime card to your phone to increase all your 'buckets' of talk/text/data.
But sometimes you may only want to add data, in which case the data only cards are useful. Let's take a closer look at Data cards to better understand how to use them.
What Are Data Only Cards?As mentioned above, Data cards increase the amount of data for your smartphone, without adding any additional texts or talking minutes.
This is similar to the http://stephaniefulke.blogspot.com /2015/04/how-to-buy-only-texts-for-your-tracfone.html">Text only cards we recently discussed.
There are some important things to be aware of the make the Data cards unique.
First, they can only be used with smartphones, including the Android devices offered by Tracfone, and all phones offered through the BYOP program.
Second, in our testing, Airtime cards will triple for all smartphone devices, while the Data cards do not, so be aware of that when choosing one or the other. This doesn't necessarily make the regular Airtime cards a better deal, but we will compare the costs for each card next.
Data Card Amounts and the Cost Per MB Compared to Airtime CardsTracfone Data cards come in several different amounts, and are at this time, as follows:
300 MB for $10
750 MB for $15
2000 MB for $30
4000 MB for $50
You have several options to choose from, but which one is the best value, and how do they compare to the regular Airtime cards? Take a look at this chart:
Cost per MB for Tracfone Data cards and Airtime cards:
|Cost per MB for Data and Airtime Cards
If we look at the regular airtime cards and run the same calculation we see they are not nearly as good a deal for data. However, we are totally not incorporating the additional Text/Talk time you get with the regular Airtime cards from Tracfone. We are only looking at which card is a better deal for purchasing Data. It is interesting to note that the 450 Minute Card is the best value for the Airtime Cards.
We can conclude then, that if you are only in need of extra data, the 4 GB Data card is the best value.
Where to Buy Tracfone Data CardsTracfone Data cards are available form a variety of sources, as is the case for Tracfone Airtime cards. You can find Data cards on the Tracfone website under Airtime.
You can also find the Tracfone Data cards in many retail stores, and even online through other retailers. We have found Data cards on eBay in various amounts.
Now let's cover one more question that we see asked quite often.
How Much Can you Do Online with 300 MB of Data?A common question we see is, what can you do online with a certain amount of data? This is a very good question, because many people tend to estimate how many airtime minutes they will need, and then buy the airtime card that suits their needs best. But if you're unfamiliar with how much data is used by smartphones, it makes it hard to estimate.
It is a little hard to give a straight answer to this question, it all depends on what you do online Take a look at this image (provided by Tracfone) to help give you a better idea:
|Estimated usage for 300 MB of data with Tracfone
If you notice, doing certain things online, like streaming music, or even more so, streaming video, will use your data quickly, while visiting webpages or sending emails, especially those with few images, will use less of your data.
Another good resource for estimating your data usage is the Data Calculator on Verizon's website. Enter your estimated activities, and it will tell you about how much data you will use in a month.
Remember, that if you want to stop using data, you can usually go into the settings on your device, select data, and turn it off. Using WiFi networks, like at your home or work, does not deduct from your data.
Here is a helpful article on what online activities use data, and some other basic details about data usage from an AT&T Forum.
We hope you found this information helpful, and please leave a comment with any questions, or if you have something to add!
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Take a look at one of our other popular posts, the http://stephaniefulke.blogspot.com /2014/12/best-apps-for-tracfone-android-users.html">Over 30 Great Android Apps to use with your Smartphone.
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The 2010 Holiday Ale Festival begins in just 32 days! I just counted the list and 46 breweries will be pouring their finest holiday brews. The ales at the HAF are very unique. They're not the "regular" holiday / winter seasonals that you'll find at your grocery store. Most are limited run, or special editions that are produced exclusively for the fest.
This year's festival runs from December 1 -5, so try to find some time to ride the MAX down to Pioneer Courthouse Square and enjoy some holiday cheer! If you'd like to volunteer, you'll get a free t-shirt, mug, and 12 beer tokens. If you're interested, you need to sign up quickly. As of today, the only shifts available are on Sunday. For more details, check out the HAF website.
The current brewer and beer list (subject to change) is listed below. Which ales look the most interesting to you? I can't wait to try Block 15's Figgy Pudding, Fifty Fifty Brewing's Concentrated Evil, and Oakshire Brewing's Very Ill Tempered Gnome (don't know much about the beer, but I love the name). Which ales are you looking forward to tasting?
2010 Brewery List
- 10 Barrel Brewing Co
Pray For Snow • Strong Ale
- Alameda Brewing Co
Papa Noels Moonlight Reseve • Strong Ale (Olde Ale)
- Alaskan Brewing Co
Alaskan Barley Wine ~ Vintage 2008 • Strong Ale (Barley Wine)
- Bear Republic Brewing Co
Ebeweesner Scrooge • Sour Ale
- Beer Valley Brewing
Ho Ho Ho Slapper • Strong Ale
- Block 15 Restaurant & Brewery
Figgy Pudding, Olde Stock • Specialty Beer (Brandy Barrel Aged Strong Ale with Figs, Spices & Brettanomyces)
- Boneyard Beer Company
Femme Fatale • Sour Ale ( sour red brown with raspberries and cranberries)
- Breakside Brewery
Breakside Belge d'Hiver • Strong Ale (Belgian-style Barley wine/Super saison)
- BridgePort Brewing Co
Old Knucklehead • Strong Ale (Barley Wine)
- Buckbean Brewing Co
Very Noddy Lager • Dark Lager (Imperial Schwarzbier)
- Buckman Village Brewery
TA • Specialty Beer
- Cascade Brewing
Sang Noir • Sour Ale (Bourbon Fruit Sour Red)
- Coalition Brewing
Lost Glove • Strong Ale
- Collaborator
Aegir's Cauldron • Smoke-Flavored or Wood-Aged Beer (Barrel aged porter)
- Columbia River Brewing Co.
Paddlers Porter • Porter ( Chocolate - Vanilla Bean Baltic Porter )
- Deschutes Brewery
TBA • Belgian Strong Ale
- Double Mountain Brewery & Taproom
tbd • Dark Lager
- Eel River Brewing Co
2009 climax noel • Specialty Beer (strong belgian hybrid)
- Fifty Fifty Brewing Co
Concentrated Evil • Belgian Strong Ale (Strong Dark Belgian brewed with raisins, exotic sugars)
- Firestone Walker Brewing Co
Special Barrel Blend • Strong Ale
- Fort George Brewery and Public House
North the Fourth • Strong Ale
- Gilgamesh Brewing
Cranberry Saison • Belgian and French Ale
- Hazel Dell Brewpub
Steins Chrismas Ale • Specialty Beer (Dark Chrismas Ale)
- Holiday Ale
JIM 2010 • Strong Ale (Strong Ale Blend)
- Holiday Ale
Moore Holiday Ale • Specialty Beer (Imperial Pilsner)
- Hop Valley Brewing Co
Festeroo • Strong Ale (Old Ale)
- Hopworks Urban Brewery
TBD • Strong Ale
- Lagunitas Brewing Co
Bourbon-Barrel Aged Russian Imperial Stout • Stout (Russian Imperial Stout)
- Laht Neppur Brewing Co
To Be Determined • Stout
- Laurelwood Brewing Co
Black Pepper Belgian Pale Ale • Belgian Strong Ale
- Lompoc Brewing Co
Franc'ly Brewdolph • Belgian Strong Ale (Belgian Red)
- Lucky Labrador Brewing
Pavlov's Russian Imperial Strout • Stout
- McMenamins
Parson Brown • English Brown Ale (American Brown / Winter Warmer Hybrid)
- Migration Brewery
Nor'Easter • Belgian Strong Ale (Belgian Winter Speciality)
- Natian Brewery
Winter IPA • India Pale Ale (IPA)
- New Belgium Brewing Co
Lips Of Faith mix of kegs • Strong Ale (Various beers)
- Ninkasi Brewing Co
Unconventional • Stout (Imperial Stout with Lavendar , Taragon, and Heather)
- Oakshire Brewing
Very Ill Tempered Gnome • Strong Ale
- Rock Bottom Brewery
Blitzen • Belgian Strong Ale (Belgian Style Tripple)
- Seven Brides Brewing
Weezin-ator • Specialty Beer (Doppelbock)
- Shmaltz Brewing Co.
Jewbelation Blend • Strong Ale
- Southern Oregon Brewing Co
Mrs. Claws • Strong Ale
- Stone Brewing Co
Stone Smoked Porter W/ Vanilla Beans • Porter (Spiced )
- Three Creeks Brewing Co
Rudolph's Imperial Red • Strong Ale (Imperial Red)
- Vertigo Brewing
Special Chocolate Porter • Porter (Chocolate Porter)
- Widmer Brothers Brewing Company
Black Dynamite • Specialty Beer (Lemon, Chocolate, Peppercorn, Baltic Porter)
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Should you swim with the dolphins or the seals in Kaikoura?
The joys of swiming with New Zealand Fur Seals and Dusky Dolphins in the coastal waters of the beautiful South Island town of Kaikoura.
Hmmmm...Should I swim with the dolpins or the seals?
Upon arrival in the stunning little seaside town of Kaikoura, this is the most common question that the traveler is faced with. After hearing anecdotal accounts of the joys of both experiences from fellow travelers, many a traveler has found the decision desperately difficult.
Having done both myself the answer is simple – DO BOTH!!! Don't even hesitate!!! Both experiences frequently become the highlight of travelers New Zealand holiday.
To view any marine mammal in its own environment even from the surface is in itself a memorable experience, however getting in and getting eye to eye with these creatures takes the experience to the next level. It simply doesn't compare.
When are you next likely to have the opportunity to slip into the sheltered, pristine bays of the beautiful Kaikoura Peninsula and come face to face with a New Zealand fur seal that has approached you purely from his/her own free will? As he/she looks you right in the eye and playfully circles you, you will be forced to wonder about exactly what it is they're thinking!
Their puppy dog like curiosity and playful natures will captivate you. You'll fall in love and you'll want to take one home! I tell you now it's an experience that you will never forget, not in a million years!
And where else will you get a chance to have a wild dolphin and three of his mates circle you in the open ocean? Before raising your head out of the water to take in the sight of hundreds of dolphins jumping and flipping with the stunning image of the Kaikoura coastline and mountains as a back drop. Hmmm?
Whether you are on a budget or not, don't compromise on either of these experiences.
Both Seal Swim Kaikoura and Encounter Kaikoura are award winning, world renowned operations that have over 20 years experience each. Both activities are locally owned and operated by local people and families who really care and both are licensed by the New Zealand Department of Conservation.
When your time in Kaikoura is over and you are heading back down the beautiful coastal highway with the memories of both experiences fresh in your mind you will have absolutely no regrets!!!


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Patricia Smith
is coming to Omaha November 16th !! see two posts down the page for details!
thanks to the Nebraska Writers Collective !!
Paul Dickey of Omaha has a new book release, out of Pinyon Publishing:
WIRES OVER THE HOMEPLACEfor more info on Paul, or on his publication, go to:
SMASHTEETH Poetry Slam is on hiatus -- watch for future announcements! REALLY! they are coming back in another venue - negotiations are under way --
and some fine words from David Martin, of Fine Lines , Omaha:
Support Creative Writers: "Good writing is clear thinking made visible." -Bill Wheeler
Fine Lines –
the Backwaters Press in Omaha -- seeks an editor!!
Wednesday Words:
2nd Wed. of the Month, noon, @ Kaneko Art, Omaha
Nov. 13: Renee San Souci
Dec. 11: Marvel Maring: Book Arts
the Lincoln UNDERground Literary Magazine holds a Writers Workshop every third Sunday at 6pm, at Crescent Moon Coffee, 8th & P sts - BE THERE!!
Gratitude Bakery and Cafe', Lincoln, is starting writers' open mikes, and readings, and such - check out their FB page!, and this event page: https://www.facebook.com/GratitudeCafeBakery/events
other book announcements AND
at the bottom of this page !!!
The Lincoln Underground Magazine
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for the latest info on Music and Poetry at
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8th & P sts, LINCOLN!!!!
Crescent Moon Coffee's Facebook page:
Poetry at the Moon's Facebook page:
Pictures, Pictures: Go to this address for many, many Readings pictures --
check out more info at:
Prairie Moon Reading & Music News:
Matt Mason's Poetry Menu:
The Nebraska Poetry Menu at
Brett Spencer's Nebraska Center for Writers:
YouTube page at Creighton:
Nebraska Center for the Book:
Greg Kosmicki's fine small press,
Backwaters Press - Omaha:
thanks so much to Matt Mason, and the www.poetrymenu.com site, for all the news we need to know, and committ to memory ....
Wednesday, November 6, 2013
Lunch at the Library
Vicki Wood, Youth Services Librarian, Lincoln City Libraries
Good Books for Sharing:
Vicki's intelligent presentation about recently published children's books – from board books to young adult selections – offers readers insights into the best books being published this season.
Bring your lunch and enjoy coffee provided by The Mill!
Programs begin at 12:10pm in the 4th Floor Auditorium
Bennett Martin Public Library
14th & N Streets, Lincoln, NE
the support group for the Jane Pope Geske Heritage Room of Nebraska Authors
For more information, call 402-441-8516,
email email@example.com
November 6 : E.N. Thompson Forum on World Issues "Who Stole the American Dream?" 7 pm. Lincoln, NE.
Wednesday, November 6th -- 7:30pm, the Writer's Workshop Reading Series at UNO presents poet and novelist Janet McAdams in the CPACS Building Room 101 (UNO campus, Omaha). McAdams is author of Red Weather, Feral, and The Island of Lost Luggage. This reading is free and open to the public.
Wednesday, November 6th -- 8pm, Travis Davis invites you to "Poet Show It" at 1122 D St. (Lincoln). Local writers come and read. Local people come and drink. Coffee, Booze, Poetry, Fiction. Discovery. Discovery. Discovery. Check with Travis for exact details week to week:
Wednesday, November 6th -- 8pm-12am, Acoustic Open Mic for musicians and poets at Meadowlark Coffee & Espresso (1624 South St, Lincoln). Hosted by Spencer. For more information call 402-477-2007.
Saturday, November 9th -- 1-3pm, Omaha Public Library and the Nebraska Writers Collective team up for the 2nd Saturday Poetry Workshop, this month led by Chicago poet Robbie Q at the South Branch Library (2808 Q St, Omaha). Robbie is a touring performance poet, having been a featured performer/reader in hundreds of venues across North America and Germany. This monthly workshop is open to all ages and will work in crafting spoken word poetry.
Saturday, November 9th -- 7:30pm, the OM Center Poetry Slam and open mic (1216 Howard, Omaha). It's the longest-running slam in Omaha, often featuring some of the best performance poets in the nation. Open mic starts at 7:30 followed by the slam; sign up BEFORE 7:30 as signup is limited. Hosted by Matt Mason. $7 suggested donation.
Monday, November 11th -- 7pm,
Poetry at the Moon,
at Crescent Moon Coffee (140 N 8th St #10 Lower Level, Lincoln).
Sara McNeilly Ammon's amalgamated home/work-life includes parenting two phenomenal children, writing, painting and working as a Stylist for Jockey Person2Person clothing. She occasionally appears quite grown up. She types freakishly fast. She can be found attempting to communicate at motivatica.blogspot.com and waxpaperpark.blogspot.com. She is stubbornly grateful and happy to be here.
Poetry/Prose Open Mic to Follow featured reader.
Event page at: https://www.facebook.com/events/622824584435220/
For more information, contact firstname.lastname@example.com and checkwww.crescentmooncoffee.com/.
Wednesday, November 13th -- 8pm-12am, Acoustic Open Mic for musicians and poets at Meadowlark Coffee & Espresso (1624 South St, Lincoln). Hosted by Spencer. For more information call 402-477-2007.
Wednesday, November 13th -- 11:45am-1pm, "Wednesday Words," at The KANEKO's KANEKO-UNO Library (1111 Jones St., Omaha) featuring award-winning NE poets and fiction writers as well as the winners of the Individual Artist's Fellowship Awards from the The Nebraska Arts Council, as part of our "Braided River" series. Bring your lunch and enjoy the show. Today features Renee San Souci.
Saturday, November 16th -- 1-3pm, poetry slam legend and award-winning poet Patricia Smith leads a poetry writing workshop at Love's Jazz and Arts Center (2510 N 24th St, Omaha). Smith is the author of six critically-acknowledged volumes of poetry, including Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah, winner of the 2013 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize from the Academy American Poets; Blood Dazzler ( a National Book Award finalist), and Teahouse of the Almighty (a National Poetry Series winner), all from Coffee House Press; Close to Death and Big Towns, Big Talk, both from Zoland Books, and Life According to Motown, just released by Tia Chucha Press in a special 20th anniversary edition. Patricia comes to Omaha thanks to theNebraska Writers Collective. $5 suggested donation.
Saturday, November 16th -- 7pm, National Book Award finalist Patricia Smith reads at the Joslyn Art Museum (Witherspoon Concert Hall, 2200 Dodge St, Omaha). Recognized as one of the world's most formidable performers, Patricia has read her work at venues round the world, including the Poets Stage in Stockholm, Urban Voices in South Africa, Rotterdam's Poetry International Festival, the Aran Islands International Poetry and Prose Festival and on tour in Germany, Austria and Holland. In the U.S., she's performed at the National Book Festival, Carnegie Hall, the Dodge Poetry Festival, Bumbershoot, the Folger Shakespeare Library and St. Mark's Poetry Project, sharing the stage with noted writers such as Adrienne Rich, Sharon Olds, Rita Dove, Joyce Carol Oates, Allen Ginsberg, Walter Mosley, Gwendolyn Brooks, Billy Collins, Galway Kinnell and Lord of the Rings star Viggo Morgensen. Patricia is a four-time national individual champion of the notorious and wildly popular Poetry Slam, the most successful competitor in slam history. She was featured in the nationally-released film Slamnation, and appeared on the award-winning HBO series Def Poetry Jam. Patricia comes to Omaha thanks to the Nebraska Writers Collective. $5 suggested donation.
the Lincoln UNDERground Literary Magazine holds a Writers Workshop every third Sunday at 6pm, at Crescent Moon Coffee, 8th & P sts - BE THERE!!
LIncoln UNDERground Magazine FB page: https://www.facebook.com/TheLincolnUnderground
Monday, November 18th -- 7pm, BE at the Moon,
at Crescent Moon Coffee (140 N 8th St #10 Lower Level, Lincoln).
National Novel Writing Month
NaNoWriMo Meetup & Reading
Since November is NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), where writers endeavor to pen an entire novel in 30 days, we're reserving tonight for those in the process of writing their novels. Are you a NaNoWriMo participant? Come share an excerpt of what you've written, and tell us about your NaNoWriMo experience. It'll be an open mic format for novelists from 7-8 pm, followed by poetry/prose open mic. Find out more about National Novel Writing Month at www.nanowrimo.org.
For more information, contact firstname.lastname@example.com and checkwww.crescentmooncoffee.com/.
Wednesday, November 20th -- 8pm-12am, Acoustic Open Mic for musicians and poets at Meadowlark Coffee & Espresso (1624 South St, Lincoln). Hosted by Spencer. For more information call 402-477-2007.
Wednesday, November 20, 2013 – Bonus!
Library Staff, One Book – One Lincoln Discussion
@ the Bennett Martin Library, 14th & N, Lincoln
Join the group over lunch to discuss the newest One Book – One Lincoln title, Rachel Joyce's The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry.
Thursday, November 21st -- 2pm, Plains Writers Series featuring Matt Mason, Don Welch, Brian Finn, and Maureen Kingston in the Second Floor Humanities Lounge at Wayne State College (1111 Main St., Wayne).The Plains Writers Series is held several times a year in an attempt to bring attention to the prose and poetry of local Great Plains writers through reading and interacting with area audiences. For more information and author bio's, visit the Facebook Page.
Monday, November 25th -- 7pm, Open Mic at the Moon, at Crescent Moon Coffee (140 N 8th St #10 Lower Level, Lincoln). For more information, contact firstname.lastname@example.com and checkwww.crescentmooncoffee.com/.
Monday, December 2nd -- 7pm, Open Mic at the Moon, at Crescent Moon Coffee (140 N 8th St #10 Lower Level, Lincoln). For more information, contact firstname.lastname@example.com and checkwww.crescentmooncoffee.com/.
Tuesday, December 3rd, 7pm -
Tuesdays with Writers
at the South Mill, 48th and Prescott, Lincoln.
the annual December reading bash - YOU send in a request to be on the list!! YOU read your work, or someone elses'....
for more info, email Deborah at firstname.lastname@example.com
Andrew Jewell, Cather Scholar
The Selected Letters of Willa Cather:
Andy, co-editor of this recent book with Janis Stout, will discuss the making of the first-ever publication of Cather's personal correspondence and read selections from the book.
Bring your lunch and enjoy coffee provided by The Mill!
Programs begin at 12:10pm in the 4th Floor Auditorium
Bennett Martin Public Library
14th & N Streets, Lincoln, NE
the support group for the Jane Pope Geske Heritage Room of Nebraska Authors
For more information, call 402-441-8516,
email firstname.lastname@example.com
Wednesday, December 4th -- 7:30pm, the Writer's Workshop Reading Series at UNO presents poet Matt Mason in the Art Gallery (Weber Fine Arts Building, UNO campus, Omaha). Mason has won a Pushcart Prize and 2 Nebraska Book Awards as well as several city poetry slam championships. His latest book is The Baby That Ate Cincinnati. This reading is free and open to the public.
Wednesday, December 11th -- 11:45am-1pm, "Wednesday Words," at The KANEKO's KANEKO-UNO Library (1111 Jones St., Omaha) featuring award-winning NE poets and fiction writers as well as the winners of the Individual Artist's Fellowship Awards from the The Nebraska Arts Council, as part of our "Braided River" series. Bring your lunch and enjoy the show. Today features Marvel Maring: Book Arts.
Saturday, December 14th -- 1-4pm, Omaha Public Library and the Nebraska Writers Collective team up for the Poetry Bash For Teens at OPL's Main Branch Library (215 S 15th St, Omaha). Cash prizes for youth poets in grades 7-12. More details TBA.
Paul Dickey of Omaha has a new book release, out of Pinyon Publishing:
by Paul Dickey
for more info on Paul, or on his publication, go to:
The Memoir DOING TIME IN HELL by J. Bodie ( edited by Toni), was released by Class Act Books September 15, 2013. These are the recollections of J. Bodie McIlvane who was a Nebraska State Penitentiary guard for 12 years.Bodie never intended to be a prison guard. He was a wildcat oil rigger from Louisiana who simply applied to make his father-in-law happy. Yet for a dozen years, he looked over 4400 incarcerated men. As he listened to their stories, he realized both the guards and the inmates were doing time, but the guards were doing it on the installment plan.
Link: http://classactbooks.com/index.php/general-fiction/memoir/doing-time-in-hell-detail
Toni Sweeney's latest novel, IN THIS KINGDOM BY THE SEA, was released by Class Act Books on August 15, 2013. This is the 3rd entry in the Three Moon books, a futuristic romance series, written under Toni's pseudonym, Icy Snow Blackstone. Arcanis was a world set in its ways, until nine-year-old Darien-Marcus san Gene became margrave. Raised by the advising council made up of his father's best friends, he's given a mistress at age twelve, a wife when he's thirteen, and develops a tremendous desire to rebel all on his own. When His Majesty reaches nineteen, the orphaned prince declares his independence... and there's nothing those stuffy, old-fashioned advisors can do about it.
LINK: http://classactbooks.com/index.php/cat-romance/in-this-kingdom-by-the-sea-365-detail Under her own name, Toni wrote a Fantasy novel THE MAN FROM CYMENE , which was recently released by Double Dragon Publishing. This is Books 5 in the THE CHRONICLES OF RIVEN THE HERETIC series.
Trygare kan Ingan was a boy of sixteen, a blacksmith's son, when the Drune priest told his parents the gods decree he's to be the father of kings. Within a day, he's sent into the world on a short-legged hill pony, his father's sword by his side…to seek his destiny and fulfill it.
Nothing goes as Trygare expects, however…the woman he wants doesn't want him, the man to be his best friend laughs at him, everyone ridicules his youth. Slaying a dragon, feeling the Bloodsong coursing through his veins, and nearly getting killed in a war changes their minds, however…
Link: http://www.double-dragon-ebooks.com/single.php?ISBN=1-77115-109-9
and some fine words from David Martin, of Fine Lines , Omaha:
Support Creative Writers: "Good writing is clear thinking made visible." -Bill Wheeler
Fine Lines –
Since 1991, Fine Lines has provided a place where creative writers share their written ideas with others. Our quarterly journal is dedicated to the writing development of all its members. What started out as a classroom project is now a fifty-state network of authors who love the written word and has developed into a 501©(3) nonprofit organization.
The first issue was only four pages long, and it allowed students an opportunity to show others outside their classrooms the results of "clear thinking made visible." Now, four times a year, Fine Lines is three hundred pages of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry written by students, teachers, and community members of all ages.
We receive prose articles, reflective essays on widely diverse topics including authors' life experiences, what individuals learn through the writing process, and poetry in all forms from writers across this nation. We have published writers from as far away as the Alsatian Islands, Azerbaijan, Australia, Barbados, Canada, China, Denmark, Dubai, England, Germany, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Hawaii, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Jordan, Poland, Russia, Scotland, Sicily, Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Togo, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, and a US Navy aircraft carrier in the South Pacific.
Writers of all ages and occupations are encouraged to submit to Fine Lines. We have printed poetry by an eight-year-old third grader and several pieces by a ninety-four-year-old great, great grandmother. We have printed the work of students, teachers, professors, janitors, doctors, lawyers, ministers, truck drivers, nurses, and scientists.
If you want to read interesting and controversial ideas, Fine Lines is for you. Send us a submission of your writing in the near future. You might become a published writer, too.
Rich Wyatt, Omaha writer, won the First Annual Loraine Williams Poetry Prize, for a single poem, from The Georgia Review. $1,000 and publication of the poem, "Winter's Glory", in The Georgia Review next spring.
see more here!! http://garev.uga.edu/blog/LWPP2013Winner.html
one of Nebraska writing's dearest friends, Beef Torrey, passed away July 3rd -
I knew Beef from our many crossing and looping paths at many of the Nebraska Book and Literary events - he was always upbeat, effervescent, smiling, and so kind! He DID look a lot like David Crosby (who?) , and
here is an affectionate article from Jeff Korbelik of the Lincoln Journal Star:
Korbelik: Beef Torrey was one of a kind
True story, which, now as I think about it, seems appropriate.
Interesting, quirky, humble, unique, learned, jovial, David Crosby-lookalike -- there weren't enough adjectives to describe the man, who, sadly, passed away July 3 at age 55 after falling ill with complications from a defective aortic valve.
So standing over hot grease and swapping stories with Beef, well, that's the way I want to remember him.
This was about three years ago at a semiregular, big-game feed hosted by my close friend and former co-worker Joe Duggan, who was a hunting buddy of Beef's.
I had met Beef -- aka Gregory Kent Torrey -- for the first time at another feed years earlier. Afterward, Joe suggested I should write a story about him. He wanted to do so, but felt his friendship with him would make it inappropriate.
At the time, Beef worked as a psychologist associate at the Beatrice State Developmental Center.
But that wasn't the hook.
No, it was Beef's passion for literature and art, and the unusual, yet wonderful, connections he made because of it.
Richard Brautigan. Jim Harrison. Thomas McGuane. Tom Robbins. Ralph Steadman. Hunter S. Thompson. Russell Chatham. Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Roger Welsch. Jim Fergus. William Hjortsberg.
They all were Beef's friends.
No kidding.
These friendships resulted in many stories -- hunting with Harrison in Mexico, attending parties in Montana with Brautigan and, once, taking Vonnegut to a downtown Lincoln strip club.
I sat in Beef's home on an acreage outside Crete and listened in disbelief. How does a fellow from Nebraska run in such circles?
But every story was true. I confirmed all of them, including the hunting trip to Mexico, with Harrison -- famous for his novel "Legends of the Fall" -- telling me of Torrey's uncanny knack for picking off doves in the dark.
"This is a handy ability in our time," Harrison joked.
In my feature story, which ran in May 2007, Torrey's friend, Doane College English professor Liam Purdon, told me Beef was "one of those rare individuals who was at the right place at the right time."
"Because Beef is the gregarious type of person he is and because he embodies many of the principles those writers strove to define, many of those writers gravitated to him and maintained their friendships with him," Purdon said.
Those friendships led Beef to editing or co-editing collections of interviews with some those well-known artists. He also co-edited a comprehensive bibliography of Harrison's work. I have a signed copy of Beef's "Conversations With Thomas McGuane," a book published by the University Press of Mississippi, featuring several interviews with the author, including one with Beef.
I was on vacation last week when Joe called and left me a message about Beef's passing. Beef had left the State Developmental Center, where he worked for more than 10 years, and was a mental health practitioner at the Veteran Affairs clinic in Lincoln.
I texted back, thanking Joe for the message and noting Beef was quite a character. Joe responded with these words: World got less interesting today.
Indeed, it did.
Services for Beef will be at 10 a.m. Saturday in Heckman Auditorium at Doane College in Crete.
Reach Jeff Korbelik at 402-473-7213 or firstname.lastname@example.com, of follow him @LJSjeffkorbelik.
sse article at: http://journalstar.com/entertainment/books/korbelik-beef-torrey-was-one-of-a-kind/article_b078b9f9-2592-50ca-a2e9-3c4d8ef8e8ad.html
and a 2007 article : http://journalstar.com/entertainment/books-and-literature/article_0b0f7720-2df4-56f6-a8b7-e2fec03d1901.html
Petition to the Nebraska Television Network to issue audio tracks of Bill Kloefkorn's NET poetry programs!!!!!
our buddy, Dr John Walker, musician/poet/philosopher - writes to us:
Bon jour, all y'all
A couple of years ago a grass roots effort to get a new school in Lincoln named after Bill Kloefkorn took off with emails and phone calls and letters and, voila, today there is a new school in Lincoln named after Bill Kloefkorn.
check out the new writing blog from Becky Breed and Lucy Adkins:
WRITING IN COMMUNITY: say GOODBYE to writer's block and transform your life
Lighting a Spark on the High Plains
By MARY PIPHER
Katharen Hedges
2nd: Marian HS: Haley Minnick
Lincoln High Slam TEAM WON the Team competition!
Friday night in Omaha, here come the Links!
First: Lincoln High!
second: Duchesne Academy!
third: Lincoln North Star!
fourth: Omaha Central!
congrats to all the fine work, immense effort, and superb sportsmanship shown by all teams!
congrats to our Lincoln teams: North Star, with coach Stacey Waite & friends, who brought a first-year team into state!!
congrats to Lincoln High, with coaches Andrew Ek & Katie F S, and creative writing teacher Deborah, and a so-fine group of team-members and big-time supporters from all over Lincoln High!
see FB page Louder than a Bomb Omaha
and the Lincoln Journal Star's fine article (Journal Star reporter Margaret Reist was at the Finals, sitting in front of us, typing/editing/cheering madly to write this article! Way to go, Margaret! )
the Winter 2013 edition of The MacGuffin is finally out--now that it's spring! Local writer Shoshana Sumrall Frerking's story, "This is How I Know You," appears in it.
click here for info on MacGuffin
ocal writer and activist Mary Pipher has an article in the Local View area of the March 27 Journal Star that bears repeating --
Here it is, and CLIK HERE for the full commentary -- way to go, Mary!!
Pipeline concerns haven't diminished
By MARY PIPHER, Lincoln author, speaker.
"I am writing in response to the Journal Star editorial March 11 ("Last call on the pipeline"). I am a lifelong Nebraskan, a grandmother and the author of a book coming out in June that required me to study climate change. I also write as one who has closely followed the Keystone XL pipeline story for over two years.
I was dismayed by the aforementioned editorial. The first line compliments President Barack Obama for holding a hearing in Nebraska. Of course, I am grateful to him and urge our citizens to participate in that State Department hearing. But make no mistake, we Nebraskans are responsible for the hearing. We have been the people who protested TransCanada's assault on our natural resources and on the livelihoods of farmers and ranchers. Because of concerned Nebraskans' sustained attention to the problems with TransCanada, we have sparked a national discussion about this pipeline.
Unfortunately, the concerns of many Nebraskans have not been allayed in the slightest.Landowners are frightened of losing their property rights. Nebraskans from Spencer, to Fullerton, to Omaha are concerned about the contamination of the Ogallala Aquifer, rivers and wells. Water, soil and wildlife experts, not tied to the oil industry, have many worries and they were not consulted during the recent Department of Environmental Quality review.
Many safety issues have not been addressed. The public does not know what kinds of chemicals are in the tar sands sludge. We know it contains some highly toxic and carcinogenic substances, including benzene, but TransCanada will not reveal what is in their "proprietary" toxic goop. This means, among other things, that we cannot plan in advance to protect ourselves in case of a leak or spill. First responders cannot prepare for emergencies or respond quickly afterward. Furthermore, how can we say a situation is safe and under control when we don't even know what we are dealing with?
The recent impact report cited by the Department of Environmental Quality was a green wash. It says the new route avoids the Sandhills, but TransCanada did not change the route as much as it changed the map. According to TransCanada's own 2008 map that was submitted to the State Department, the area it is planning to traverse still is in the Sandhills. Meanwhile, the word ?aquifer? has dropped out of the discussion entirely.
I also take exception to the editorial's phrase "dwindling but vocal minority of Nebraskans who oppose the pipeline." The issues are technical and complicated, and many Nebraskans don't quite understand the exact nature of our current situation. Yet, according to a recent University of Nebraska poll, 78 percent of rural citizens want the pipeline route to avoid the Sandhills and the Ogallala Aquifer. The new route does neither.
Farmers, ranchers, urbanites, Republicans and Democrats, students and senior citizens as well as Native peoples oppose this pipeline. More than 880 people attended the DEQ hearing in Albion on a Tuesday evening in December. More than 125 Nebraskans traveled to Washington, D.C., to stand in the wind and the cold Feb. 17 because they cared about stopping the pipeline. We Nebraskans have united around this issue in great numbers. No other cause in my 65-year-old memory has sparked so much passion.
This pipeline will not help the United States with energy independence or security. Instead, the oil TransCanada transports will be sold on the international market to the highest bidder. We Americans could shoulder the risks of this pipeline and yet experience almost none of its suggested benefits.
Finally, I would like to speak up for environmentalists, the people who want to give all the grandchildren of the world a good future. The Journal Star editorial suggests that either people want to protect Nebraska or they want to stop this pipeline and slow down our use of fossil fuels by converting to cleaner energies. I would humbly suggest this is not an either/or situation, but rather a both/and situation.
As a long-term opponent of the Keystone XL pipeline, I both care deeply for our state and I want to work for a cleaner world. The two goals are not antagonistic, but deeply related. "
more books and workshop news:
Fred Zydek, writer living here in NE, writes about a new book of his, a memoir, "The Songs of Angels" ... ( see also http://fredrickzydek.com/ for this other titles by Fred ) :
When my goddaughter was born, her parents weren't Roman Catholics anymore, but her paternal grandmother was. And Grandma really wanted the infant baptized. Her parents didn't want a real priest to do it but agreed to have a ceremony at their home if I could do it. I accepted. Not many people know that it doesn't take a priest to baptize someone. Any baptized person can do it. Who knows - maybe anyone can do it.
And I promised the baby girl's grandma that I would do my best to get her to mass. I managed a mid-night Christmas mass or two - but that's about it. Come to think of it, I believe Grandma was with us on a few occasions - and after Grandma passed, I think my goddaughter was only willing to go one last time - but as a tribute to her grandmother, not as a participant in the liturgy of the season.
Humanists exist at all points on the Bell Curve of life. Some of us occupy positions at the "persons of faith" end of the curve, and others occupy positions of Atheism and often as latent (and sometimes blatant) Agnostics. But before I understood and accepted the fact that my goddaughter would not be listed among those who celebrate and feel gratitude for a Divine Animating Principle (usually called "God.") - I wrote a spiritual fantasy for her about the Archangels. I got the idea from a commentary in an ancient Midrash note that insisted the Archangels were commissioned by God to write and perform music (with the help of cherubims and saraphims, of course) for each phase of creation and each thing created. An enormous task when one understands that there are only four archangels. (I'll bet you can name three of them right now - but will struggle for the name of the fourth.)
Of course the Archs (as they're called by those who know them well) won't have names until Adam comes along. It is, after all, his job to name things. (Think of it! Man had to create his own language!)
And there will be problems for the Archs. After all, how do you understand the concept of matter, or the difference between soft things and hard things, or sharp things and dull things, or hot things and cold things - when you haven't a clue what things are because you haven't a clue or ever experience anything made of atoms - because they are matter and you are not. But it may also be true that both matter and Angles are created from the same thing. Light.
And just wait until one of those Archs finds out that while they have been told that human kind will be created "a little lower than the angels" . . .humans can do something not even Archs (the highest form of consciousness in the celestial realm) can do - reproduce after its own kind. And what's worse - it turns out that even something as lowly as a blade of grass can do it - but not Archangels. That's going to make one of the archs pretty mad. His music is going to become much more like Stravinsky and Mahler than the music of the other archs.
I never gave the story to my goddaughter, although she was already an avid reader by the time I finished writing the story. By that time she was pretty much of the opinion that Jesus and the tooth fairy had a lot in common and she really didn't want to be evangelized in any way. I felt like giving her the story could appear as an attempt to convert her to her Grandmother's faith. It was clear that the fruit had not fallen very far away from the tree, and her that her parents appreciated that while she embraced sound and generous feelings about social justice and the human condition, like they did, she also embraced their distain for organized religion.
And I forgot about the story for a while. Then one day, while looking for a copy of my first novel (The City Camp Adventure) so I could revise it ONE MORE TIME - I found The Songs of Angels. I read through it. Did a minor revision here and there - and sent it off to my publisher for consideration.
Well - it's ready. You can find out more about it at my web site (go to Fredrickzydek.com ) or click on the link below. It will take you there. You'll find links to Amazon.com or one that will take you directly to my publisher's manufacturer in case you don't have an account with Amazon or don't like shopping there. You can also order it from you local bookstore - but that takes a couple of weeks. Me? I love Amazon. I even shop for coffee there. I did all my Christmas shopping right here at my PC. And there was frosting! They wrap the gifts!
But I warn you. These aren't your grandmother's angels. They can be very funny. One of them can be rude as hell. They're going to make you laugh and sometimes wish you could actually hear the music I write about. And you may cry.
I know most of you are going to be hit with a massive email blast from my publisher in a week or two. (I gave them every email I had) but I'm so excited about this book, I wanted to let you know about it right away.
I love this story. It's a novella . . . about half the length of Old Pinhead. Let me know what you think about the story. I think this is the kind of book you're going to like enough to purchase copies for birthday and Christmas gifts.
I dedicated the story to Nora Borgstrom. Some of you may know her. She's Pat Borgstrom's daughter. A Buckley kid. Nora is one of the angels in my life. I think of her as a kid sister.
Click here: Books | Fredrick Zydek
SP CE is a writing room on the 2nd floor of the 14th & O building, downtown Lincoln:::: go up the stairs next to Novel Idea Bookstore on N 14th, veer right at the top, look for SP CE on the DOOR::::
every Saturday at 2pm, come up to talk writing -- see the FB page at:
How SP CE Writer's Group Works:
People who are interested in discussing writing come to SP CE every Saturday at 2 p.m.People who want their writing discussed bring copies of their writing.
All forms of writing are welcomed, but new or actively in-progress works are especially encouraged.
Everyone's writing is discussed for 10-15 minutes.
Those who want a bit of a challenge are encouraged to write for the prompt.
The prompt is: hair
Good times!
For those who wish to be further involved:
Prior to Writer's Group, there will be an Open Meeting where anyone can come and join in on a discussion of plans, goals, and ideas for SP CE as a collective entity. The Open Meeting will begin at 1:30 p.m. and will be held before every Writer's Group.
After Writer's Group, anyone who is interested in continuing a dialog in a more casual setting is invited to reconvene at Yia Yia's* to partake in food and drink and further conversation.
*reconvening location subject to change
ConStellation IV - A New Hope
Lincoln's own national Science Fiction Convention
is coming April 19-21!!
( http://www.constellationne.net/ for more info)
We are proud to announce the 2013
Rex Walton has left the helm at Crescent Moon Coffee's 10-year reading Series, Poetry at the Moon. NOW, Crescent Moon Coffee is continuing the series as a weekly Open Mike, with occasional themes and guests, but THE OPEN MIKE CONTINUES!!!!!
1. continue to drop in, listen, read, and spread the word about a place to congregate as writers -
2. VOLUNTEER to be a once-in-a-while MC for the event - contact Melinda at Crescent Moon to be put on a list: email@example.com
3. GET OUT IN THE community, and use your writing skills to promote active movements in intellectual circles, social needs, political moves, ...
4. Keep Writing, talking, thinking as an aspiring ACTIVE citizen of our city, county, state, country - Democracy works when WE work to keep it active - if you can read and write with a thinking, critical eye, YOU can make a difference - I cite the current wave of activists such as (but certainly NOT limited to) Mary Pipher, Ben Gotschall, Mike Flood, Jane Kleeb, Dave Kramer, Chuck Hagel, Kate Witek, Kim Robak, ... and, you add to this list
We are saddened to announce that Ed & Diane Stevens, owners of Book Ends bookstore in downtown Kearney, are closing up shop this month -- we'd like to thank Ed and Diane for their many years of friendly, expert service in not only the bookselling world, but the fine monthly reading series, Poetry on the Bricks. Ed's bushy moustache and energetic smile, and Diane's patience and professionalism, will be missed in the Nebraska literary community!
( Ed is trying to find a downtown Kearney venue to host a continuance of their reading series - if you know of one, please send him a note at: firstname.lastname@example.com )
newest book out by Barbara Schmitz!
"Path of Lightning"
Author and poet Barbara Schmitz offers a heartful, funny, and deeply moving "spiritual autobiography" that brings the reader along on each stage of her fervent inner quest for mystical experience. Beginning with a Catholic girlhood in Nebraska, she graduates to an unlikely apprenticeship with Allen Ginsberg at the Naropa Institute; a dedicated transcendental meditation practice; and finally to thirty years of joys and struggles with a Sufi teacher (Shahabuddin Less) with whom she travels to Bali, Turkey, India, Kashmir, and the Holy Land. Incisive as lightning-the meaning of her Sufi name, Vajra-her questions and yearning are our own, and she doesn't let God, her teacher, or herself off the hook.
GO HERE to order the book...
Lincoln professor Joy Castro's book, "Hell or High Water" has been optioned for a movie by Zoe Saldana and friends ... READ HERE
"Hell Or High Water follows New Orleans reporter Nola Céspedes as she is dragged into the city's post-Katrina underworld on the trail of what she thinks will be her big scoop. The novel was released July 17 by Thomas Dunne Books and was called one of the best books of 2012 by The Kirkus Review."
Nebraska author news!! emily m. danforth is one of five nominees for the 2013 Morris Award, given for a first-time young adults' book author! emily graduated from UNL last year with an MFA in fiction ....
The Miseducation of Cameron Post, written by emily m. danforth, published by Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
On the same day that 12-year-old Cameron kisses her best friend, Irene, her parents are killed in a car accident. Nearly crushed with guilt, Cameron spends the next several years in self-imposed gay-movie therapy with her VCR or drinking and smoking pot with her track and swim team friends, gradually coming to terms with her sexuality. It's not easy being gay in rural 1990s Montana, and it's harder still when your aunt drags you to an Evangelical church every weekend — where you meet the girl of your dreams.CLIK HERE for more ---
Doug Smith of the Lincoln Arts Council sends us this:
How can I make a living with my art?
Where is the most colorful art for giving this season? What are they going to do with Canopy Street?
How can First Friday get more attention?
What's up with Union Plaza on Antelope Creek?
Why don't ducks wear shoes?
If these questions matter to you, and they should (mostly), we suggest that you seek the answers with the ever-changing group of people who join our Creative Conversations at the Mill in the Haymarket on Fridays from 8:30am to 10:00am.
Nebraska Book Awards, 2012:
2012 (13th annual) for books published in 2011
Ted Kooser's Poem Inspires a Film!
Melissa Homestead Receives Honorable Mention by the Society for the Study of American Women Writers for its first Edition Award
from the Bookguide at Lincoln city Libraries:
..... and, the Selection for the
2012 One Book - One Lincoln
Destiny of the Republic
Readers in Lincoln cast their votes in June and July, and by an overwhelming majority, the tome you all selected for this year's One Book - One Lincoln title was Millard's engrossing look at the assassination of President James A. Garfield.
You can visit this year's official One Book - One Lincoln website for resources related to this year's selected title. The special programs for this year are still being finalized, and we'll announce those on the libraries' website, on Facebook, and via the One Book - One Lincoln e-mail list and Blog as soon as possible.
Thanks for your continued support for One Book - One Lincoln -- we look forward to another Fall of engaging discussions and informative programming related to the selected book!
The readers' services page of the Lincoln City Libraries
Lincoln, Nebraska
The fellowship will support his work on the poem cycle, "August: A Quintet," which is based on the work of August Wilson, an American playwright and Pulitzer Prize winner whose work illustrated the African-American experience in the 20th century.
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Soldiers and Marines have had the most deployments, seen the toughest fighting and suffered the greatest number of U.S. casualties in recent wars. And as with most post-war periods, ground forces also will see their career opportunities tighten faster than for other service branches.
Soldiers and Marines have had the most deployments, seen the toughest fighting and suffered the greatest number of U.S. casualties in recent wars. And as with most post-war periods, ground forces also will see their career opportunities tighten faster than for other service branches.
The Army plans to shed 60,000 troops, or 11 percent of its active force, to reach 490,000 by fiscal 2017. The Marine Corps will cut 20,000 � 5000 a year over the next four years � to reach an end-strength of 182,100.
Both services say they are determined through the drawdown to sustain force quality and to keep a proper mix of job skills and leadership experience to meet future requirements.
�Everything we do through the next five years is going to be about making the Army a quality force,� said Al Eggerton, deputy chief of the officer division for the directorate of military personnel management.
�We�ve gotten an awful lot of experience in the last 10 years of war, and we�re going to make selections to keep the very best of that that we can. And we�re going to make sure we level our force across the optimum grades and skills and that we don�t have any hollow points.�
This time �we won�t just be opening the door and allowing everyone to walk,� he said. �We want to use precision, care and compassion.�
Army leaders haven�t reached final decisions yet on grade structure or skill mix for the post-drawdown force. So Eggerton can�t say yet how force cuts will impact specific groups of officers or enlisted.
�That�s a point of contention for field officers who would love to know exactly how we�re going to do this. But at this point we�ve got the framework but not the decisions,� Eggerton said.
When final decisions are made, perhaps soon after the election Eggerton said, �we will begin to look at each year group of the drawdown period and, by grades and skills, analyze our populations to determine where we need to pare and where there are shortages or gaps we have to fill.�
In the post-Cold War drawdown of the 1990s, to meet force targets, Army cut recruiting too deeply, creating hollow areas that later impacted the career force. Recruiting this time is falling more modestly.
From 2004 to 2010, the Army was expanding and officer promotion selection rates �were allowed to go fairly high because we needed to keep all the fully-qualified people we had,� Eggerton said. In the last two years, rates moved �back toward what was the norm prior to our large expansion.�
So competition for promotion is rising. Some officers in overmanned skills, if not selected for promotion on a first pass, are being invited to leave service early through waivers of remaining service obligations.
Other officers are being offered �affiliation bonuses� to leave active duty for reserve components. To sharpen this incentive, the Army has asked Congress to double the maximum affiliation bonus to $20,000.
The Army also has asked for authority to separate some officers involuntarily, anticipating that voluntary enticements and the usual promotion board process of separating officers who twice fail selection to the next highest rank, won�t get the Army to its drawdown targets fast enough.
�Some year groups and grades won�t get a chance to be seen by the promotion process and separate through that, which would be more natural,� Eggerton said. He can�t say yet how many officers might be forced out if Congress grants that authority.
For the enlisted force, the goal is �precision retention� of careerists. Commanders will be able to deny even �enlisted members who are fully qualified the opportunity to re-up their contracts� based on service needs.
But the key force-shaping tool is the enlisted Qualitative Service Program, introduced earlier this year, to identify non-commissioned officers for involuntary early separation from active duty. A series of �centralized enlisted selection board processes,� the QSP will allow tailoring of the force based on how well leaders have developed, and imbalances across skills.
The first QSP board in June denied continued service to 138 active duty and 40 Active Guard Reserve senior NCOs. Eight more boards are planned for 2013, all of them targeting grades and skills projected to be over strength or to lack viable career progression without QSP board action.
To be considered for QSP, soldiers who are E-9�s must have three years time in grade. Those in E-8 and below must have four years in grade.
Gen. James Amos, Marine Corps commandant, said the Corps plans no involuntary �reductions in force� that would cut service contracts short. That would not be �keeping faith� with Marines �who are bred on loyalty and faithfulness� and who have put their lives on the line again and again.
That said, competition to reenlist, or for officers to extend service obligations, �will be a little more fierce� as the size of the Corps falls. This will incentivize Marines �to be the very best they can. So that is how I keep faith,� Amos recently told a group of news reporters.
Like the Army, the Marine Corps has slowed recruiting. During the Iraq war, its accession target some years hit 35,000, Amos said, up from the normal 30,000. In fiscal 2012, the Corps signed only 28,500 recruits.
Meanwhile, first-term reenlistments have become �much more competitive,� Amos said. Combat experience alone is no guarantee a Marine will be retained because 70 percent of current Marines have seen combat.
And top-performing Marines who haven�t seen combat shouldn�t feel discouraged about their career prospects. First of all, the world �isn�t getting any nicer out there,� Amos said, so Afghanistan likely won�t be the last chance this generation of Marines has to fight for their country.
But also a �superstar� Marine who hasn�t seen combat will still compete favorably for promotion with a combat-experienced Marine who �is something less than a superstar player,� Amos said. �Our system is designed, promotion-wise, actually to (find) the best Marine.�
�Combat is a pretty good filter for the performance of a Marine under stress. But over time we have gone through periods of peace. And our bright young Marines have always floated to the surface in preparation for future combat,� Amos said.
Tom Philpott is a former editor of The Navy Times. Readers� comments and questions welcome: write Military Update, P.O. Box 231111, Centreville, VA; or send email to email@example.com.


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Industrial firms remain cautiously optimistic.
As expected, the first quarter of 2001 saw the pace of economic growth continue to slacken. The slowdown has filtered through to Swiss industry, which expects its rate of expansion to ease in the first half of the year. The UBS survey of business sectors shows, however, that the underlying mood among companies remains upbeat.
After expanding at a near-dizzying pace in 2000, Swiss industry is likely to shift into a lower gear in the first half of 2001. Nevertheless, the UBS March survey shows the economy is still on a solid upward path. The results of the survey, which has been conducted on a quarterly basis since 1975 among 300 industrial companies, have proved to be a reliable indicator of short-term trends in the Swiss economy. The UBS business cycle indicator, which serves as a useful gauge of GDP, indicates a slowdown in the growth rate for the first quarter of 2001 to 2.2% over the prior-year period, with a further easing to 2% in the second quarter.
Momentum slackens
The industrial sector saw a significant continued slowdown in the January to March period. Nevertheless, the business cycle indicators examined in the survey point to an overall upbeat economic situation. Survey repsondents have reported many more increases than decreases across all criteria. Although the forecasts for exports were not fully met, foreign demand provided a bigger spark in the first quarter than domestic demand did. Half of the survey respondents reported an increase in sales, while only one in six reported a decrease. With order backlogs high, production compared to last year has once again been expanded and staff has been added. Headcounts were higher at the end of March in all sectors except for textiles, clothes, and timber & furniture. On balance, price increases were reported by 27% of the industrial firms in the survey. Profits, however, were up at only at a net 16% of the firms surveyed, as higher costs due to increased staff, rising purchasing prices, an unfavourable exchange rate for exports, and the new Federal levy on road hauliers cut into earnings.
Industry stabilizes at a respectable level
Swiss industry is forecasting a solid second quarter. Reports of increases are well ahead of decreases across all the major criteria, and are more or less at last quarter's respectable level. Thus the GDP growth rate should stabilize at about 2%. A strong spark is still expected to come from export orders. But forecasts for domestic demand are also positive. The industrial companies surveyed are planning once again to expand their production. The employment picture remains intact. The only sectors that said there would be a reduction in headcount in the April to June period were the textile and food industries. In contrast, chemicals and watchmaking are reporting the biggest need for additional labour.
Not all sectors experienced a slowdown
The rate of expansion did not drop off in all industrial sectors in the first months of 2001. In the chemical and food industries in particular the upward momentum continued unabated, giving these two sectors the best business results of all Swiss industry in the first quarter. In contrast, the machinery, electronics, metals and textiles industries lost some momentum due to weaker demand from abroad. Growth in the domestic-oriented timber & furniture industry was also considerably slower, with orders down on a cross-sector comparison, and the sector is therefore also less confident about the second quarter. Timber & furniture is in last place among Swiss industrial sectors, behind textiles. The capital goods industries of electronics and machinery are also expecting a below-average trend for orders received, production and sales. The most optimistic sectors are chemicals, food and watchmaking.
UBS Switzerland
Private and Corporate Clients Division
Zurich / Basel, 04 April 2001
UBS business cycle indicator and Swiss GDP
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Sources: seco (GDP); UBS (survey and calculations) *preliminary official data


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LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles County candidates running for public office may be required to disclose campaign finances electronically under a proposal floated today by a supervisor.
Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky previewed the proposal at today's Board of Supervisors and said he would formally propose it next week.
By then, "my hope is that we will have an ordinance presented to us as well," he told an attorney with the Office of County Counsel.
The county established an electronic campaign finance program in 2007, based on a system developed by the city government.
Still, filing campaign forms electronically is voluntary. Some candidates still file paper documents, which cost the county more money to process and slow public disclosure, Yaroslavsky said.
"We could have this in force by July 1," he told his board colleagues. If so, the ordinance would apply to candidates fundraising for the November general election.


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Renovations on the Bank of the Arts on Middle Street are continuing, with an addition that will �light up the arts.�
Renovations on the Bank of the Arts on Middle Street are continuing, with an addition that will �light up the arts.�
The $186,000 renovations to the Craven Arts Council�s exhibit hall now include a 16-foot-by-16-foot skylight that will illuminate the city�s most prominent gallery.
The current campaign is for $60,000 to complete the skylight work, with installation expected in the next few weeks.
The Arts Council has a target date of reopening the gallery in September. In the meantime, the council has had its exhibits in the Duffy Gallery at the North Carolina History Center on South Front Street.
The temporary ticket offices are at 308 George St.
The Craven Community Arts Council merged with the New Bern Art Gallery in 1982 to become the Craven Arts Council and Gallery. The new art space at 317 Middle St. was a donated former bank building owned by First Citizens Bank. It is a 1914 Classical Revival structure.
Since 1982, the Craven Arts Council has benefited from the gift of the building. Recently, the Arts Council has undertaken the renovation project that will greatly enhance this space. It includes: restoration of the upstairs boardroom and new offices on that level; new bathrooms and kitchenette; a redesigned shop that will enable the council to represent additional artists; and much-needed repairs to the entrance.
All of this restoration is being funded by gifts received from foundations, trusts and grants.
The council�s effort to install a skylight in the gallery area is called �Light up the Arts.� There are several levels of donations available.
For information or to contribute, call the Craven Arts Council at 638-2577.


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Orioles Lose to Boston to Open Three Game Set, Smoltz & Wondering About Wieters
Red Sox Nation descended upon Baltimore once again, and for the umpteenth time, downtown Baltimore was transformed into a sea of red and blue. As well, the Red Sox once again beat the Orioles, 4-0, in front of 36,458 at Camden Yards on Monday. The victory for Boston was their EIGHTH straight win over the Orioles.
Jon Lester, who started the night at .500 at 6-6, was nothing short of amazing as he went seven shutout innings, allowed only five hits, struck out eight, and earned the victory. Jonathan Papelon averted a potential rally for the Orioles by pitching 1/3 of an inning for his 19th save. Baltimore had two runners on bases in the bottom of the ninth with two outs, and it looked like Melvin Mora was going to get a hit to perhaps avoid the team being shutout; however, Jason Bay made a diving catch to not only prevent runs from scoring, but close out the game.
Meanwhile, for Baltimore, Jason Berken pitched valiantly, but sort of went through the school of hard knocks facing a veteran Boston lineup. Berken went five innings, gave up four runs and took the loss for the Orioles, as he gave up a run in the opening frame, and then three more in the fourth inning.>>> Read More


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ERP Implementing Agencies
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Related Agencies & Programs
- Department of Water Resources
- Fish Passage Improvement Program
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ERP Reports & Documents
ERP Foundational Documents
ERP foundational documents guide program implementation and overall direction of the 30-year program.
- CALFED Programmatic Record of Decision - August 2000
- CALFED Final Programmatic EIR/EIS - July 2000
- Ecosystem Restoration Program Plan - July 2000
- Multi-Species Conservation Strategy - July 2000 (PDF)
ERP Stage 1 Reports and Documents
ERP Stage 1 encompasses the first seven years of program implementation (2000-2007), which focused on building the foundation for long-term program actions.
- Draft Stage 1 Implementation Plan (PDF)
- ERP Project Evaluation - Phase 2 (PDF)
- Reinitiation of Consultation - 2004
- End of Stage 1 Report - April 2010
ERP Stage 2 Reports and Documents
ERP Stage 2 is the final phase that ends with program completion of the 30-year program. Stage 2 builds on the knowledge and results of the Stage 1 projects, in combination with ERP goals and species recovery plans, to determine ecological focus.
- ERP Conservation Strategy (PDF) - May 2014
ERP Annual Reports
On an annual basis, ERP reports on the progress made toward achieving the six strategic goals during the previous State fiscal year and identifies priority activities for the current fiscal year, including activities completed by ERP staff.