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Have You Ever Felt
as a Woman?
Like Everyone's Expectation of You Was More Important Than Your Own...
Cat Cantrill
Calling All Women
Have you ever felt handcuffed as a woman?
You know what I'm talking about.
You do everything for everyone else but nothing for yourself...
You do the shopping...
You go to work...
You do the cleaning!
And you thought if you got married, or got the good job...
that everything would change...
And then...
...You're Stuck
You found yourself...
Not knowing what to do next.
You don't know how become what you wanted.
you're being held hostage by the ideals you used to make fun of in high school...
AND the money-trap of having to sit in a cubicle to become something
you never wanted to be
And yet, somehow,
things that you think should be SO simple...
things that should come along with this life...
Somehow become
, and then
and then
With each passing day, your excitement for your big idea gets dimmer and dimmer until one day it's gone...
Money wasted... time wasted... with little or nothing to show for it.
is Where Most Women's Dreams Die
Somewhere between the idea... and your reality...
What Happened to the Days Where:
a woman
who was confident...
excited to be herself...
Could just stand in front of people and
be herself...
Well, I'm here to tell you that
those days are officially back!
I want to introduce you to
Studio Vitality...
An Empowerment Studio that will....
...Take the power back...
Yes, Vitality Was Created So That Women Like You...
...who have lost themselves along the way
...who don't know how to move forward
...Can Easily Empower Themselves and Build Confidence and Fitness Which is Proven To Create Change!
Let Me Show You How It Works...
Step #1: Come to the
Vitality Teaser
First, you decide to come by the studio and take our free Teaser Class... so you can get an overview of what the studio has to offer.
The Teaser is a FREE one hour intro lesson held at the studio.
We will do a short sample routine, which will give you a good idea of what Vitality is all about!
No dance experience required.
No men.
Nothing weird...
I promise.
AND...if you attend our Vitality Teaser class, you can pick any membership and get
30% off!
Free Teaser Class
Step #2: Grab Our App or Book Your Class Online
We have a free app that allows you to book all your classes (even the Teaser) online.
24/7 Access to Browse and Book Classes (like the Vitality Teaser)
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We have a bunch of sassy dance classes
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Step #3: Decide How You Want To Move Your Body
Last, after you come to the Teaser, pick some fun classes that fit your needs....
You can bring a friend to Vintage Burlesque, Lap Class, Vixen/Vamp Dance Fitness, and more! You can handle that... can't you?
Come to the Teaser, Get Our Free App, Pick Some Classes
Just Takes a Second to Change Your Life
You can then change the rules of your own life, change your own image, put in yourself in a new video about yourself...
And if you REALLY want to save time in your transformation, we have a ton of spicy classes designed to help you fall in love with yourself again...
It's up to you...
Just come to the Teaser, find out about our awesome transformational classes...
…then join our family and move your body till your hearts content...
and then just sit back and watch your transformation!
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Meet Your Guide: Cat Cantrill
"I've helped thousands of
women who are frustrated resolve their problems through my fitness, dance, and confidence programs AND experience amazing lives." -Cat
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Want to Know What Classes We Offer?
Ok... Ok... I am REALLY Pushing you to come our Teaser First... But WHY?
We hear from a lot of women that they have been following Vitality for a long time... But they don't know what class to take...
They show up to take our High Cardio Vixen Dance Fitness, get overwhelmed and don't come back...
I don't want that for you... SO... I came up with the Teaser to be an ambassador to all our new women...
You can come in, relax, take your shoes off... and see if we are good fit... (and leave with a discount on classes and a kick ass FREE t-shirt for signing up on the spot...!)
They want to know the price before finding out the value... We have learned that
will spend money on things they value... You won't find prices on our site... We want you to come to the studio and experience it first hand... Then make a choice..
If you are just looking for the best price to get a workout... Try a commercial gym...
We are looking for a certain kind of woman, just like you are looking for a special place to change your life...
"OK Cat... I get it... I'll Come to the Teaser Class... But I still want to see what classes I can take at Vitality (give a girl a break... I like to shop, lol)"
A great way to browse our classes is on our free app...
Experience Studio Vitality...
We have two basic groups of classes... Dance and Fitness
Our Dance Classes:
Vintage Burlesque
We offer 2 different skill levels of Vintage: Beginning and Experienced.
Pull on your high heels and strut your stuff in our interpretation of 'classic burlesque', featuring a four week session where you learn a complete choreographed routine.
Studio provides props like boas, hats, and gloves, and more. In Beginning Vintage, there is no dance experience required.
For Experienced, we ask for you either to have some experience on stage or have already taken Beginning Vintage. In Experienced, since you have mastered the method of choreography, we work on your stage presence and personality on stage.
Next Session Starts week of Jan 13th!
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Click Play to See An Example of Experienced Vintage
Cabaret Burlesque
We offer 3 different skill levels of Cabaret: Beginning, Experienced & Elite.
All classes you learn a choreographed cabaret style routine to modern music over the course of four weeks.
These classes included chair or high heel dancing. You will get a great workout and feel sassy at the same time!
If you are new to cabaret, Beginning is a great start! Experienced Cabaret is for those students who have been dancing at Vitality for awhile or new students who have had dance experience.
Elite is invite only and must have had taken Experienced Cabaret.
Next Session Starts week of Jan 13th!
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Click Play to See An Example of Experienced Cabaret
Lap Dance
This class is taught in a four week session where you learn a sensual, slow lap dance routine.
It is designed to EMPOWER WOMEN to feel sexy, step out of their comfort zone, and connect with someone.
It is NOT designed to be 'stripper-y' or to titillate men. This dance is designed with you in mind.
No dance experience required.
Next Session Starts week of Jan 13th!
Click Play to See An Example of Lap Dance Class
Our Fitness Classes:
Vamp Beginner Dance Fitness
Are you looking for a low impact cardio class but are tired of the boring stuff at the gym?
Vamp Dance Fitness is an introductory class to our Vixen Dance Fitness.
This class is for those who want to get a workout without the push-ups, burpees and planks.
This class will get you warmed up leave you feeling accomplished, sassy and sweaty!
Vixen Dance Fitness & Velocity Vixen Fitness
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Go a little wild with choreographed routines to music you actually listen to in your car... And oh, yeah, we have students who burn 800 calories in a class.
Features burpees, push ups, squats, planks, and cardio. You can join this class at ANY TIME. No dance experience required. Modifications are available.
Velocity Vixen: Velocity Vixen incorporates all your favorite Vixen moves, but uses routines that are more focused strength training. We use the weight of your own body, infuse it with high cardio, put some sass and hip-hop into it and you have Velocity Vixen!
This class is the hardest fitness class we have to offer - please know your own limitations. We ask you to have fitness experience in the past before you join.
Please come to the Vitality Teaser before enrolling in this class unless you have a high level of fitness and/or dance experience.
How to Pick Your Fitness Class
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Vamp Dance Fitness... You haven't worked out in a bit... Or you don't have dance experience...
(Don't worry, MOST OF OUR STUDENTS START HERE)
Vamp Dance Fitness and Vixen Dance Fitness... You work out or dance 1-3 times per week. You can exercise for 30 minutes without too much trouble...
Vixen Dance Fitness and/or Velocity Vixen Fitness.. You work out all the time or you trained as a dancer
"I Don't Even Know Where to Start..."
Do you ever get overwhelmed and don't even sure where to start?
If so, don't worry, all you need to do is model what already works! There's no need to reinvent the wheel.
Vitality has tons proven classes that have already helped thousands of women that you can start today, so you can immediately begin your transformation, plug into a proven class and start changing today!
Whether you want to move your body to increase your fitness or get back into dancing… no matter how you want to empower yourself… Vitality will work for you!
"I Don't Have Enough Money To Start…"
No money for Dancing or Fitness? No problem!
Teaser is always FREE so you can start dancing… and then you can choose your subscription. That means you have our Teaser Class (FREE) to get you started!
We've got thousands of REAL people (like you) who have transformed their lives and it all started with our FREE Teaser class.
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"Nobody Changed Their Lives That Didn't Believe They Could!"
(A.K.A. The Women Who Got In Her Own Way...)
"I Don't Have The Skills… I Don't Think I Can Do It"
Think you're not talented or can't make this work?
We've got nurses, educators, admins, managers, vet techs... ANYBODY woman can think of…who are doing it.
With our community of like-minded women, you'll instantly be surrounded by a community of women who "get you" that'll be there to support and help you along the way.
"I Don't Need This Right Now... The Timing Is Wrong"
Waiting for the "right time" to get started changing your life?
Well, if your parents had waited for the "right time" to have kids, you wouldn't be here... The faster you get started, the faster you'll have success.
We've got everything you need, and getting setup is quick and easy.
Here's some tough love: waiting around for the right moment is the fastest way to fail... start your Teaser and see for yourself just how much this WILL help you in your life, right now.
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"Nobody Was Born The Woman They Want to Be...
The Best Women Figure Out How!"
(A.K.A. The Woman Who Thought She Was Different...)
"My Problems are Different, IDK How Vitality Can Work For Me…"
I know what you're thinking…Vitality is great for certain women…but how can it work for me and my needs?
Just like you weren't sure if you should try that one food, and then ended up loving it, you definitely need to try Vitality and as soon as you see what this does for you…you'll wonder how you ever made it without Vitality!
No matter where you are in your life, we've got classes and tools just for you!
Check out these stories from Vitality users from different walks of life and how they and are having massive success:
"I Owe Cat My Life…"
"This Could Be the Best Thing You Do For Yourself…"
"I'm Me Again. I'm Finally Me again…"
"The Women are Empowering, Sexy, and So Friendly…"
"I Can't Wait to Do It Every Week…"
"Check This Woman Out…"
"Women Who Change Their Live are the Ones Who Never Give Up"
(A.K.A. I've Tried Everything and Nothing Works For Me)
"My Husband Won't Let Me..."
There is a major misconception about Studio Vitality...
Vitality Has NOTHING to Do With Men...
We don't learn sensual lap dances to please men. We are not strippers....We don't do things to stimulate men... We don't allow men in the studio... And We CERTAINLY don't allow men to tell us what we can and CAN NOT DO....
If you're husband tells you that you can't come to Vitality because it's for strippers, a waste of money, lewd, crude, against the church, or any other crazy nonsense... Well, sister, you might be in the right place...
You are not a Slave to a man, a religion, or any other damn person, place or thing!
"I've Been Stalking You for Years..."
I hear it all the time... "It's really hard to walk in here... You don't even know."
Now, I love ya, but here is a bit of tough love...
That's just an excuse... Let's see it for what it is... Women look for any reason to keep from changing their lives. Change is scary, but the Studio, Studio Vitality, is just the vehicle for change. There is nothing scary about it.
Change can be Scary... But it can also be glorious, which is why you want it so bad...
Cat Walks You From the Street to the Studio
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"Most Women Lose Their Way By Spending Too Much On Things That Don't Work!"
(A.K.A. The Woman Who Tried Everything...)
"I Need To Be In Shape Or Have Dance Experience To Come to Vitality..."
Not in shape, or grow up a ballerina? Vitality takes care of almost all of that for you… so you just show up and dance!
All you need to do is attend the Teaser…and you're good to go. Our easy Teaser Class gives you a wide range of options at the studio for you to pick from... you don't mind having someone guide you through your transformation, do you?
"Words Can't Express How Greateful I am…"
"Cat is an Amazing Teacher and encouraged us to try new things…"
"I Had No Idea How Much You Would Change My Life…"
"I Feel So Much Better…"
"I Can't Wait to Start Reading..."
"She Has Changed the Lives of So Many Women…"
"Those Who Found What They Wanted Didn't Let The Money Stop Them!"
(A.K.A. The Woman Who Ran Out Of Money...)
It's Too Easy to Let Life Get in the Way...
There comes a time when we need to make a leap of faith, to put ourselves at the front of the line. Where we have to trust in our intuition that something different is what you need.
It's too easy to wake up at 55 and wonder where your kids went, what you did with your life... Come join us...
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"Have Any Of The Above Stopped YOU From Becoming Who You Want to Be?
Are You Ready To Finally Succeed…
Without Spending A Fortune?"
Vitality Gives You EVERYTHING You Need Empower Yourself Using Fitness and Dance!
Now, I know that you've seen some cool stuff, and there are literally DOZENS of other awesome things I could show about Vitality that will help you change your life...
But my goal isn't to 'SELL' you Vitality, because today I wanted to make you a very special offer where you can try Vitality on me... for FREE!
Yes, that means you can take your Vitality Teaser today for free...
If we don't completely simplify your life, increase your confidence and help you to FINALLY have what you want, we will get you a refund.
So, are you excited about Vitality yet? :) If so, then NOW is the time to take action...
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What Do I Wear to Class?
: No need to wear high-heals or anything fancy... Show up wearing something comfortable. If you want to show up wearing stilettos and a racy outfit, you are welcome to! But when you join us for the Teaser, just show up in whatever makes you feel nice...
Is there nudity?
Absolutely NOT. Your comfort level is our concern and we strive to make sure that you are having fun while building your confidence! There is no nudity in class... ever. As racy as it ever gets? Pasties over nipples... (This is reserved for the members of our burlesque troupe, The Va Va Voom! only)
How much can I lose?:
That depends... We aren't a weight loss studio... Some students have dropped weight fast by going to our high cardio classes a few times a week. And really what you lose is your old sense of self...and gain incredible confidence!
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NOTE: While you may see some 'before and after' images...
Vitality is NOT a weight loss studio...
These things happen as a result of loving yourself and self investment. We do not advocate weight loss or teach it in ANY fashion. If you love yourself, great things can happen. That might include weight loss or a new job or a new relationship...
Losing weight, for the sake of losing weight, is NOT our mission. (There are plenty of places to do that...)
We teach self-love and embracing the woman you are meant to be... period.
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I need to delete specific sheets in a workbook and run the rest of the code even if the sheets don't exist
Are you asking for help or just telling us what you need?
If you are asking for help you need to do 2 things:
1 - Actually ask a question.
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'Thank You, I have a macro(see below) that i'm running to delete 3 sheets in a workbook. The 3 sheets contain examples and instructions and are in a Template and once the template has been filled out are no longer needed I want to delete the sheets and if the sheets have already been deleted to ignore this step and run the rest of the macro.
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First, a posting tip:
Before posting any more VBA code in this forum, please click on the blue line at the end of this post and read the instructions on how to post code and data in this forum.
As for your question, one way to accomplish your goal is to loop through the sheets and delete the ones with the names you are looking for.
You'll note that we loop through the sheets in reverse order because deleting sheets while counting forward messes up the For-Next loop. e.g. If Sheets.Count = 6 at the start of a forward counting loop and then a sheet gets deleted, there will only be 5 sheets left. The code would then fail when it tries to access Sheet(6). By counting in reverse order, we eliminate that issue.Sub DelSheets() For sht = Sheets.Count To 1 Step -1 If _ Sheets(sht).Name = "Instructions" Or _ Sheets(sht).Name = "Example DEF" Or _ Sheets(sht).Name = "Assembly status" Then Application.DisplayAlerts = False Sheets(sht).Delete Application.DisplayAlerts = True End If Next End Sub
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In my last blog I spoke about the fact that there will be specification reductions in Oak, and continued price increases. I also sowed the seed of thought that we should give timber a greater respect.
I recently visited Carrefour du Bois in Nantes. One of the largest timber exhibitions in Western Europe, and a great opportunity to speak to a wide variety of suppliers. The comments of my previous post were ratified with many, if not all the sawmillers and timber merchants that we spoke to saying that they are experiencing difficulties in sourcing good Oak logs.
I stood chatting to a UK friend in the industry about how we in the UK view timber, and the direction of our conversation led us to the conclusion that timber has become a commodity, an item on the shelf to be selected on a whim. In many ways disrespectful to a material that has been growing for decades if not centuries. As an analagy, we in the timber industry are being asked for 'Caviar' timber for 'Burger' prices. There seems to be no consideration for the whole process that goes into the production of the end product. Cheap seems to be the way in the UK. We saw a great example of this a few years ago when we tried to market some superb hardwood fence panels constructed with stainless steel fixings, where the British public spend hundreds of pounds on plants, they want cheap fence panels.
We regularly hear – No knots, no splits, no pin holes, no colour change. Why? Those features add character to the end product, they are natural, and environmentally, if we include them we can use more of the timber thus being more respectful to the original tree. We should be using more of the tree and creating less waste or by-product. Is it that we have lost the knowledge of how to utilise the whole tree? Have those skills really disappeared?
I think in the UK we possibly have the worst attitude to hardwoods in that we want the holy grail. Attitudes to a more varied quality really do need to change. A better understanding of timber from those designing and specifying need to be achieved and we in the industry need to encourage that to happen if we truly, as a country, want to be environmentally conscientious. Our company tries very hard to ensure we utilise as much of the timber we buy as possible, this is not only an economic decision, its an environmental one as well, shavings recycled to animal bedding, slabwood to biomass and small offcuts to firewood.
So, moving forward, we need to think a little more about what we are using the timber for, do we really need clear, no knots timber? Could you use a different grade? Could we fill any knots and make feature? Have you really discussed this with your end client? Are they aware of the amount of waste that can occur from restricting specifications?
Come on UK, we can do better – Use Timber Wisely!!
Don't forget, for all of your hardwood and joinery softwood requirements…………………
Call our Sales Team on 01798 861611 or email: [email protected]


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Monday, February 14, 2011
I'm not really sure how to start this blog. A few emotions are going on.... frustration, I'm ticked off, confused... and perhaps a hint of relief (Ha!).
I haven't posted about Insanity further, because I haven't been able to continue it. Because the Day 1 workout was pretty tough, I decided to wait a day to do Day 2 - my muscles were killing me. Until yesterday, one of my calf muscles was still not right, I guess a bit of damage was done to it - I couldn't walk on it really well. So Day 2 never showed up. And then today, I went back to the chiropractor to start acupuncture treatments again. When I told her what I had been doing, trying to figure out what aggravated the issue again, including some snow shovelling, yoga, and the Insanity workout. She asked what that was, so I told her. She flat out said not to do it anymore. And that ticks me off because I really wanted to give it a good try - and hopefully succeed in completing the cycle. Because there ain't no way that my buddy Nicholas is going to finish it and NOT ME!!! LOL
(And for the record, she advised that I NOT do abdominal crunches anymore either - whew! dodged that bullet! haha)
So I'm pretty frustrated. Just wishing that this back/disc situation clears up so I can really return to a regular workout routine. I won't be running this week after all as I'll be still taking treatments, but the weather is warming up so I'll try to get out walking.
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I was so sorry to read about your limitations and the frustration you are feeling. Is swimming and option? Or water aerobics? I'm just trying to brainstorm with you. Keep at it. You will find something that works for your body.I'm keeping you in my prayers here...
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deep breath...
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hey Carla, I share your frustration. I have prolapsed discs at l4l5,l5s1, spinal stenosis at l4 and three nerve roots are impacted by the prolapses -l4, l5, s1.
I am trying to find something that works so that I can return to running. I was training for a half when I injured my back again last year (originally had injuries in 1998. I had a fall recently and have notice additional pain on my right side (to date it was all on my left)...
I am still looking for something that works for me... Keep the faith, and keep looking! |I may try wall crunches and see how that goes...
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There's something out there for everyone. You just need to find the right program for you!
When one door closes, another opens. Here's to you continuing and NOT GIVING UP! Perhaps day one was a good indicator and thankfully you stopped before doing any further damage to your precious body.
In the meantime, until you find that program that you can work at which will work for you, keep moving! You can burn up to 350 calories a day by keeping your body in motion! Step in place while you're brushing your teeth, take loads of laundry up in multiple trips, do leg lifts while waiting for the micro wave's buzzer, stand instead of sitting when you can. Just keep moving yourself - keep your body in motion!
Hope you're feelting better and that you sanely (hehehe... the name of that program is enuf for me not to want to check it out) find something that works! Take good care of you and your machine!
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Good point on the core strengthening. All the more modern people take inspiration from the work of Dr. Stuart McGill ( http://www.backfitpro.com/ ) who evidently now thinks your lower back has a limited number of flexures available in your lifetime (I may not have this concept exactly correct), so you shouldn't waste them on crunches. So all the newer core progressions use exercises that involve low to no risk of lower back flexure.
I've seen Mike Boyle's ab progression recommended, which you can find here: http://www.t-nation.com/free_online
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I can definitely sympathize with you on the back issues. I've been dealing with them for almost 10 years, now. Tore a disc in my lower back and I've never been the same. Causes me pain in my right leg and joints which can be eased by staying active and healthy and keeping my weight down.
Anyway, I never do crunches because they make it worse. However, there are plenty of other core exercises you can do to strengthen your core. Stretch your back and strengthen your abs, is what the docs will say. There are core exercises (like crunches) that you should stay away from with your disc problems, but there are others that you CAN do. I had PT for my back and they gave me a print-out with certain exercises to do specifically for my back and they definitely worked. "Superman," "modified superman" (lifting 1 opposite leg and arm instead of all of them), isolated bent-knee leg lifts, "pelvic rocks" and a few others. Ask your chiro for these types of exercises that you CAN do. They will help you a lot! Promise. :)
Hang in there. It will get better!
"Don't tell me what I can't do!" ~ John Locke from Lost
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We only get one body to go through life. Take good care of yourself. You are young and strong and you will recover. Healing takes time. Praying for you!
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@MCSNYDER! Hey! she is my second opinion. My other chiropractor has been treating me for a year, and no results whatsoever. And this is a guy who's treated professional sports teams and players! And least with her I was pain free for just over a month. I trust what she says over the other guy. He just wants me to get out there and run run run! Never mind that I'm still in pain.
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Carla, get a second opinion! Can you "tone down" the insanity? that may sound stupid because I've never tried it. Hang in there girl! Let us know how this all turns out.
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"Remember Ricardo Montalban? There was a specific type of exercise he could not do, he took isometrics to such an extraordinary level that he made it about legendary."
Yes, that and Corinthian leather. Whatever that is.
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awwwww, sweetie! that IS frustrating, I know... BUT (yep, you knew I was going to throw my but into the conversation LOL!) being able to WALK COMFORTABLY isn't negotiable! You have so much vibrancy and life in you, I would hate to see it dampened by a permanent/chronic injury. I know you can find good challenging exercise programs that don't involve possible injury to your back.
(Oh, and hey, if you're looking for a REAL challenge, here's a formal invitation for you to come help me clean my house! LMAO!!!! )
Stay well, hun! Keep us posted!!!
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My wife has some Serious(TM) back/neck issues. The kind were surgeons are ready to perform surgery to replace a disk or two. I keep telling my wife to be very careful with her back and to err on the side of caution.
We saw our primary care doc and when he initially saw my wife, he would not provide a physical therapy consult. I went back with her and mentioned that her surgeon said she could postpone the surgery and he (the surgeon) even recommended physical therapy. That doc capitulated and my wife gets the physical therapy (that helped 2 years ago when she got this initial news).
Now more rounds of MRIs soon. It pains me to see my wife not able to exercise as she wishes. We really want to exercise more together. I bought an exercise bike partly so I could be here at home - and she's at least nearby when i exercise.
Your case may not be the kind of case my wife has. Perhaps you can get a second opinion from a separate doctor. Perhaps not, perhaps that is the finality. Hopefully not. I hope perhaps you can take some of the challenge, perhaps work up to it? I get the impression from what you wrote, there is a possibility that this is out of the question.
Remember Ricardo Montalban? There was a specific type of exercise he could not do, he took isometrics to such an extraordinary level that he made it about legendary.
I see now why you wrote in your status that you're contemplating your next move. Sorry for the hard card you were dealt today, perhaps there are other cards in the deck and your hand (to to speak) that at first glance do not seem probable, but can be useful if done differently.
Apologies/Sorry if this is too much.. what I wrote, praying for you
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@KARENZIO - Nope, she said not to do it ever. Nor the crunches. Because my future career goal requires a strong body, I need to keep everything intact. Once I have the current back pain treated, I'll have to do regular preventative treatments once a month, even when its "healthy". So I think from now on, my workout will have to consist of running (yes, it does have impact, but there isn't a lot of lateral or angular movements, I guess), yoga and strength training. I have to start loving ST again, because if that's all that I can really do, I have no choice! haha!
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Did she say you could never do it, or just that you should wait until the back/disc situation clears up? Maybe you can get a second opinion from your primary physician too, see what he/she says. I hope things work out soon so you can get back into a routine you like -- with or without abdominal crunches!
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Yes, we both know that Insanity is well....insane! Your body does take a beating and I often wonder how some people's body can take that punishment. You know you have to listen to your body and in your case also, your chiropractor. There is no way I'm going to allow you to not be able to do anything! I need you to rest your body. I know you will not run from working out, so when you are able to it is back to your regular workout routine.
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Today, Jane Dmochowski, Ph.D., Managing Director of the Vagelos Integrated Program in Energy Research (VIPER), discusses the VIPER essay. Continue reading for insight and information.
2013-14 essay: "Describe your interests in energy science and technology and your previous experiences (academic, research, and extracurricular activities) that have helped you to appreciate the scientific or engineering challenges related to energy and sustainability. If you have previous experience with research, consider describing your research project at a level appropriate for an educated non-expert, outlining the goals, hypotheses, approach, results, and conclusions. Describe how your experiences have shaped your research and interests, and how the VIPER program will help you achieve your goals."
"The intention of the VIPER program is to educate undergraduate students on the science and technology of alternative and efficient methods of production, conversion and use of energy through a program that takes advantage of existing expertise and resources within SAS and SEAS, combining coursework, research, and group activities to create an ideal environment for learning. (If you are curious about the types of energy science and technology research conducted at Penn, you should check out The Penn Center for Energy Innovation: Pennergy.)
Most importantly in VIPER, we're looking for the right fit. Your essay should demonstrate not only why you are ready for such a program, but also what you want to learn and why you think VIPER is the program for you. The essay should detail why you want to research energy science and technology and in which ways you are prepared to do so. Make sure to tell us why you want to do a dual degree between the College of Arts and Sciences and the School of Engineering and Applied Science and why the focus on energy science and technology appeals to you. What do you love about science and engineering? What is your experience with research? Research experiences described in the essay do not need to be energy-specific, nor do they need to detail an extraordinary scientific finding, but if you have previous experience with research, your description should include how this experience was meaningful and what you learned from it. Tell us how your experiences, in research and otherwise, have shaped your plans for future research, career goals, and interests, and how these experiences make you a good fit for the VIPER program."
Take time to review Page 217's series on Penn's interdisciplinary programs as you move forward in the application process. Note essay tips from the the Rajendra and Neera Singh Program in Networked & Social Systems Engineering (NETS), the Huntsman Program in International Studies & Business, the Jerome Fisher Program in Management and Technology (M&T), the Nursing and Health Care Management Coordinated Dual-Degree program (NHCM), and the Roy and Diana Vagelos Program in Life Sciences & Management (LSM).


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Companies should begin planning from the moment they introduce a new product for when the product's underlying technology will be too outdated to be supported, the report urges. Data shows that the number of hackable vulnerabilities in any product's software increases over time, but as products get older and fewer people use them, companies are less likely to actively monitor those vulnerabilities or to force customers to patch them.
As a result, the Internet ecosystem abounds with legacy technology that's ripe for hacking. The WannaCry malware campaign, which wreaked global havoc in 2017, for example, was launched using a vulnerability in a decades-old tech protocol Microsoft had already released a patch for.
Currently, however, there's no incentive for consumers and organizations to stop using outdated tech that companies aren't supporting anymore. The strategy speculates about several ways to shift incentives so consumers don't keep using old and insecure technology.
For example, companies that sell products that have Internet connections but aren't fundamentally tech products — such as cars with fancy entertainment and navigation systems — could figure out ways to decouple the software components from the non-software components. That way, a car owner could replace the Internet-connected bells and whistles without having to replace the product itself.
We've seen this movie before
Most of the report's major priorities have been pointed out before in reports by industry, academics or federal agencies.
A Commerce Department report from May, for example, which focused on combating armies of zombie computers known as botnets also stressed the importance of securing technology for its entire life cycle.
The Energy and Commerce report also stresses the importance of the public and private sector working together on cybersecurity. That was a main takeaway from an all-star commission established by the Obama administration after the Office of Personnel Management breach, which reported its findings shortly after the 2016 election.
The common elements show that Congress, the executive branch and cybersecurity experts are on the same page about a lot of what needs to be done. They also underscore, however, that the past few years have seen many recommendations on cybersecurity, but much less implementation.
No regulation in sight
One thing the report doesn't advocate or even mention is any effort to mandate cybersecurity protections through regulation. That puts it in good company with government and industry reports, which have typically warned that broad cyber regulations would backfire by limiting companies' flexibility to adapt quickly and to secure themselves in the smartest ways.
The Obama-era cybersecurity commission warned that broad regulation may be necessary in the future, but said it's not clearly necessary yet. Some consumer groups and Democratic lawmakers have been much more open to the idea of cyber regulations and other mandates.
The government is vital to cybersecurity
The private sector owns the vast majority of the Internet, but the government must play a leading role in cybersecurity, the report warns.
In particular, the report heaps praise on a government-financed effort to collect, organize and rate the severity of all known computer bugs, known as the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures database, or CVE.
The committee criticized the Department of Homeland Security, which funds the CVE database, and MITRE, the federally funded research center that manages it, in August, citing reports that researchers were waiting weeks or months for new computer bugs to be catalogued. Despite that mismanagement, the report describes the database as "the cornerstone on top of which modern cybersecurity is constructed."


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Visit historic downtown Kennett Square and enjoy a festive Saturday shopping, dining, and strolling. Then catch the shuttle and revel in A Longwood Christmas at Longwood Gardens.
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1. Buy your Christmas in Kennett tickets online, which includes the free shuttle.
2. Come early, maybe a few hours before your shuttle time to shop, dine, and stroll in Kennett Square. Park for free in the Kennett Square Parking Garage, with the entrance off of E. Linden Street (100 East Linden Street), Kennett Square, PA.
3. Catch the shuttle and enjoy A Longwood Christmas. You must have a special Christmas in Kennett ticket to use the shuttle.
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All of life is a series of ups, downs, ins, and outs – and one of the major truths of existence is the fact that "there is no permanence". With that being said, one of the unfortunate trials we must face during our journey on this planet is loss. Whether it be losing someone we are close to, losing at a career attempt, losing a relationship with someone you love…loss is never really the fun part of the adventure that is life – however, sometimes you must lose in order to find.
When we lose, we have no choice but to step back and evaluate what lead up to the loss and why it happened. There are always variables, because when it comes to losing in situations that involve other people – you can't control someone else's reality, you can only control yours. However, everyone serves as a mirror to an aspect of yourself that you may not have actualized, so when someone disappoints you – you must look within yourself, instead of placing the blame on the other person. What was it within you that caused the situation to occur? What have you not identified about you that needed fixing?
We will continue to attract people into our lives that serve as teachers to "peel back the layers of the onion" until we reach our core, and have realized the deepest level of who we are. Look at each bit of adversity as an extra "feather" being placed into your "wings" that will eventually give you the ability to soar past the "static" and have crystal clear reception on the "frequency" you are meant to be on.
When you have nothing left to lose, what you're truly left with is YOU. Loss is merely a tool for evaluation, organization, determination and actualization towards being the best you that you can possibly be.


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Google Glass real estate app enables house hunting on the go
Trulia for Glass alerts users when they're near an open house that matches search criteria
A U.S. real estate listings website has developed an app for Google Glass eyewear to help its clients find properties more easily and conveniently while they are on the go.
The Trulia for Glass app was developed by the San Francisco-based company Trulia, which operates listings in several major U.S. cities.
The app does more than just display property listings right before the eyes of someone who is wearing Google's augmented-reality glasses. It also alerts home seekers when they are close to an open house that matches their search criteria, gives them directions to a property, enables them to call or email an agent directly through the application and can read out a property description.
The company hopes to launch the app in July.
Google Glass technology enhances the wearer's visual experience by displaying information about what they are seeing on the viewing surface of the glasses or in audio form. The eyewear is equipped with a camera and responds to verbal commands and taps and swipes of the finger on the side of the frame.
In a blog post earlier this month, the software engineer who developed the app, Jeff McConathy, said the technology is perfectly suited to the real estate business because "real estate shopping is such an inherently mobile experience."
"What makes the technology incredibly powerful is that it allows users to either continue what they are doing or engage with new information being provided to them," wrote McConathy, who is Trulia's vice-president of engineering & consumer services.
"The idea is to provide just enough fresh information that is personalized for me and relevant to my location. It's a very different experience than having your head buried in your phone while the world passes by."
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McConathy said it only took him about a week to build the app, which is significantly less time than it takes most developers to create apps for smartphones and tablets.
Technology news website CNet said aspects of Trulia's app could be a model for other developers looking to find practical applications for Google Glass technology.
McConathy's emphasis on curating the information that users see instead of just bombarding them with any and all available data off the internet "could become a key determinant in what makes one Glassware app successful while other competitors fail," CNet said.


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The Hong Kong Society of Uro-oncology (HKSUO) was founded four years ago as a platform for multi-speciality discussion and collaboration on urological cancers. During this time the society has played an important role locally in advancing understanding of the latests advances in the man-agement and treatment of the disease, and in the promotion of cutting edge applications and treatments.
This year at the HKSUO Fourth Annual Scientific Meeting we continue this thread but at a regional level. We are very pleased to welcome several world class guest speakers from across the globe to share with us their research and experiences. The speakers will be covering advances in the management of urological cancers, with a focus on the continuing evolution and developments in immuno-therapy and other forms of target therapy.
The meeting will also look at the future direction of research in new and explorative combination therapies in new clinical settings, and in particular advances in the use of bio-markers to predict the response of immune-agents. The potential to push for earlier clinical intervention, achieve precision medicine and highly personalised treatments remains an exciting prospect.
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Really, if you're applying to become a Navy Chaplain for the money… well, think again… and again… and again.
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I would assume that most people that were interested in Mortal Kombat for PC have bought it by now, but if you haven't, here is your chance to buy it for a pretty amazing price. The Komplete Edition of Mortal Kombat can be bought for only $5 if you buy on Amazon. Note that by buying the game, you will be given a code for a digital download and is currently only available to people in the United States with a US billing address.
That a steal in my opinion because it is an amazing fighting game. Mortal Kombat is my favorite video game series of all time and is the reason I am the gamer I am today. After the disappointment that was Mortal Kombat Armageddon and the disgrace that was Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe, the wait for Mortal Kombat 9 was hard but well worth it in the end.
Now we are a week away from Ed Boon's countdown ending on Twitter and I can only hope that Mortal Kombat 10 is announced next week. Fingers crossed!


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Kim Kardashian is sending flowers to the women who supported her on Twitter
Kim K kares about her supporters.
After her nude selfie inspired varied reactions across the Internet last week, Kardashian reportedly sent bouquets of white roses to fellow celebrities who supported her — including Emily Ratajkowski and Modern Family star Ariel Winter. (And, hopefully, Amber Rose.)
Winter, a longtime champion of body positivity, compared the vicious backlash against Kardashian's selfie to the relative chillness with which the Internet accepted nude photos of Justin Bieber.
No one was body shaming @justinbieber when he posted his nude guitar photo so why @KimKardashian? #herbodyherchoice #InternationalWomensDay
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I think everyone, men and women, should have the right to choose what they do with their bodies— and not be criticized.
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And it looks like Kim K appreciated the gesture. Winter Instagrammed a photo of the bouquet Kardashian sent her — along with a kind handwritten note — on Thursday.
"Hey I wanted you to know I saw your tweets last week and I really appreciate your support," the note reads. "Women supporting other women is so powerful!"
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2:30 PM -- Invocation
It is a scorching and bright July afternoon in St. Louis, and I've been released for the afternoon to attend a convention called Penned Con, which is being held nearby at the St. Louis City Center Hotel (which I'm going to call the Sheraton for economy's sake). I am very familiar with this ten-minute walk because the hotel is right by the Metrolink station. To our right is the Scottrade Center which hosts St. Louis Blues hockey games; in the winter it features a large curbside grate that expels warm air, and there are usually two or three people sleeping or warming themselves on it.
There is no one on the grate today. It would be much nicer to lie down on the frozen hockey rink. There are no trees anywhere and there is something harsh and inquisitorial about the sunlight.
I am out here because the library received four complimentary tickets to Penned Con. Central Library's director forwarded them to me with the typically witty quip that it sounded like "a convention for prison writers." No one's quite sure what Penned Con is at the library. This may be why I'm the only one going. Romance is what I'm thinking, because Penned Con culminates with a masquerade ball, and because of this program description:
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Panel: Husbands of Authors 101 Find out what REALLY happens behind the scenes with the men who know your favorite authors best.
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By the way, I am a writer of literary fiction. My latest and only novel is ranked #769,114 in Amazon's Kindle Store.
2:40 PM -- Lobby
The Sheraton is a pretty cool place. It was originally built as a J.C. Penney warehouse circa 1929. There's a trompe l'oeil facade on the building with pointed obelisks and a depiction of Justice and some decorative arches that makes it look like there's a hotel painted on the hotel.
There are no exterior signs of the convention but I see a group of women in badges getting on the elevator and figure I'm probably on the right track. There's a concierge in the lobby whose face lights up when I tell him what I'm looking for. "The book convention?" he asks, and he's either very happy that I'm attending Penned Con, or finds it secretly hilarious, I can't tell. "Thirteenth floor," he says. Tridecaphobes beware: not only does the Sheraton have a thirteenth floor, but they host conventions on it.
2:42 PM -- On the Red ... Coat
I approach the registration desk with trepidation. Having only recently submitted my request for a free librarian ticket, I am not very confident that they will have my name on file. Also, I did not get the chance to shower this morning, which is beginning to seem like a bad decision given the heat. In my scraggly, sweaty state, I'm probably looking indistinguishable from a rando off the street who attacked a librarian and stole his badge.
Somehow I also forgot to bring my new Adult Services Provider business cards. There's a kind of small guild joke among A.S.P.s about how sleazy our job title sounds. These beauties have been literally months in the making and somehow I left my desk without grabbing some to take to the romance writers' convention.
They do not have my name on file, but not only does the Penned Con staff quickly furnish me with a conference badge and a tote bag containing the official program, free swag, and a flash drive of free sample e-book downloads; I am quickly taken to meet Rick of Red Coat PR who brings me to meet his wife Amy, a mythological and fantasy romance novelist (Kindle rank #32,429). They are the organizers of this event. We talk briefly but enthusiastically about putting together a librarian panel for next year's Con.
Red Coat PR is called such because Rick is British -- not because Rick is my enemy or that he's going to betray me, as I think for a paranoid split second. He is in fact very nice and his accent ... well it's mellifluous, everyone agrees. He gives me at least three of his excellent, rounded, pleasingly textured Red Coat PR business cards, and I scribble down my email on a piece of torn notebook paper.
Thus concludes the only conversation I will have in my two hours at Penned Con.
2:55 PM -- Against the Grain
I step into a panel called "Against the Grain Open Q & A." The program describes it as being about "what readers feel about killing favorite characters, happy endings, cliffhangers, bucking trends, smexy* scenes, writing for shock value and more."
At the moment I walk in the panelists are agreeing that cliffhangers should make readers want to buy the next book in the series. Not an idea that will seriously trouble the Grain, but still a solid insight, and one that illuminates a key fact about Penned Con: pretty much every author here seems to have at least one series going. (One author with both a mystery series and a paranormal romance series is not unusual: it's actually quite unfair to call Penned Con a romance convention, but romance does seem to be the most common element across the many sub-genres.)
As a marketing/PR novice, this strikes me to be as the closest thing to rock-solid beginner advice in the genre: get started on your series. Even in the literary realm, the multi-volume opuses of Elena Ferrante and Karl Ove Knausgaard have been moving units in translation, a symptom of what has been dubbed the "box set effect."
There's a slim Asian woman on the end of the panel (paid Kindle rank unknown, but probably pretty high, I missed the introductions and her name isn't listed in the program). She has done both romantic series and steamier erotic series. She says that "there's a market for the more romantic stuff, but not like the steamier ones." She also has this endearing quality of being unable to swear out loud, even though there seems to be plenty of swearing and much, much else in her books, which I hope are on the flash drive.
(N.B.: this woman is one of two people of color I see at the Con. On the whole there is a really pleasing democratic feel to the proceedings here, but Red Coat PR could work on bringing more diversity to the table and expanding their reach into urban fiction and romance. We move a ton of this stuff at the library: e.g. Joy Deja King's Female Hustler: All I See is The Money ... (#105,353)).
The final question of the "Against the Grain" panel asks about the hardest authorial choices the panelists have made. They all give pretty interesting answers. These authors have a very vital, intimate, complicated bond with their readerships, I realize, so that these choices are not just artistic risks but personal ones -- with each new plot twist and character development they're gambling, in a sense, with their readers' love. That is a lot to put on the line.
Meanwhile, and I'm not quite sure how this happens, but one of the panelists (name, Kindle rank unknown) launches into a long and tearful monologue about her late grandmother and a lost high school friend. The pain is undoubtedly real but there's also something treacly and fabricated about the monologue. It's like trompe l'oeil emotion, laid on too thick. The moderator even looks a bit nonplussed as she leads us in one of those weak rounds of forced applause, because everyone feels awkward and needs to do something with their hands. The lone male panelist, Eric Asher (#5,762), passes his colleague a big stuffed frog that may be raffled off later, and this confirms the overall impression that Asher is a cool guy, a sport. It is undoubtedly a classy move by Asher, who has a trilogy going.
I leave still feeling testy and manipulated. Maybe I am just a dick.
"I didn't expect it to get so emotional in there," the woman behind me says. I feel a surge of gratitude toward her. I wonder if she has an escort to tomorrow night's masquerade ball.
Confessional Interlude -- Outside Author Signing Room
There is no way to finesse the fact that I am a book snob. In my younger, even snobbier days, I once said to my brother: "This might sound pretentious, but I don't like to read bestsellers. I will read a bestseller, but only years after everyone has stopped reading it. When it comes to books, I just don't want to have the same experience everyone else is having."
"Um, that definitely sounds pretentious," my brother replied.
Many, I am tempted to say most, of the featured authors at Penned Con are USA Today and New York Times bestsellers. I expected to see some but not so many. It's an open secret that the robust sales of romance and other genre fiction titles subsidize other genres, such as literary fiction, that sell far fewer copies. In some sense, I owe my career, such as it is, to writers I've never heard of or read, such as A.M. Hargrove (#68,573) and Denise Grover Swank (#170 and Penned Con's keynote speaker). Actually I should probably read them if they are included on the free flash drive, because they're clearly onto something.
People love these books. Okay, mostly women love these books, but something like 70-80% of all fiction readers are women, across all genres. Penned Con authors often have like 400-500 customer reviews on Amazon, and very high average star ratings. (I don't even have the energy to check Goodreads.) This level of reader engagement and support is almost inconceivable to me -- I think I would find it almost paralyzing. There is a tangible sense of the closeness of readers and writers at Penned Con, but also the sense that being in this room together is only the physical culmination of an ongoing closeness through books and online. This is, in other words, a real community.
3:30 PM - Author Signing Room
This does not really explain or justify my failure to negotiate the Author Signing Room. This is pretty much just garden-variety social anxiety taking over. The Signing Room is dense and intense. Picking up the trompe l'oeil theme from outside, the wallpaper in this room is covered in very three-dimensional looking arched white ribbons. The overall effect is like being packed inside a towering wedding cake with fifty romance novelists.
I take a quick look around but, aside from admiring the booth designs -- I mean there are jewels and little rock quarries and synthetic strewn rose petals among other things, a real step up from your typical booth at AWP -- I realize I'm just not going to make it very long in here. I am a little dizzy, and the books all look like they're underwater somehow, so although I intend to linger and speak to an actual romance novelist about the convention hustle, and get some speculation going about tomorrow night's masquerade ball, I'm more or less viscerally compelled to get out of there. This is what I do.
I feel like I have failed all four readers of Scribbler, especially my mom.
3:45 PM -- The Lesson of Wallbanger
The day's last session and things are getting a little loopy and impromptu by this point. However, this panel features three of Penned Con's marquee authors, Alice Clayton (#2,984), Denise Grover Swank (probably #100 by now), and Aleatha Romig (#2,628), so they have it set up in a big ballroom on the thirteenth floor of the Sheraton.
The ballroom is about 1/4 full with the audience clustered close to the raised platform where the three panelists sit at a draped table. Looking to keep a low profile myself, I find a chair about fifteen rows back in the deserted middle-back of the room, only to find that I have inexplicably seated myself in the same row as one of the few other dudes at this conference. He wears a Cardinals cap and a light beard and pokes irritably at his phone. I like to think he is perhaps a stray husband from the earlier panel "Husbands of Authors 101." What kind of guy attends Penned Con? Including legit authors like Eric Asher, there seem to be about ten men total. There was another older man in a gray blazer lurking around the Author Signing Room -- maybe a publisher or an editor. I haven't seen many publishers at the Con, which seems to be mostly free of middle-men.
The answer to this question would seem to be: "You. You are the kind of guy who attends Penned Con." And possibly my friend here. We've set up at a wary distance from the panelists, but my friend and I have made a miscalculation. Up close to the stage, it is dim and anonymous, but the row where we are sitting, while further back, seems to be directly illuminated. It occurs to me that, from the panelists' vantage, there are about one hundred obscured female heads and then two male ones, caught like perverts in searchlight. Oh, never mind: when I turn to look for my companion, he has retreated into the shadows.
Alone under the spotlight, I have a stray egotistical fantasy. Someone gets out of their chair and says: "He's not just a librarian, he is the author of a critically acclaimed literary novel."
Just then, Red Coat PR Rick takes the stage. He is filling in for the scheduled moderator, he explains. The authors all seem to know Rick quite well (possibly from the UK Author Tour Red Coat PR has also organized) and they make mildly flirtatious jokes about his British accent. Rick proceeds to read a list of questions, the source is unclear, but I assume they come from the public, from readers.
Rick's one substantial aside as moderator is about how busy authors are: they must be "their own CEO, their own CFO," he says. He basically seems to view writing as a small business venture and this doesn't seem to raise any hackles among the panelists or the audience. When I think about the fact that this is all taking place in an old J.C. Penney warehouse, it seems kind of appropriate, actually.
Two of the panelists, Alice Clayton and Aleatha Romig, trace the origins of their writing back to the recession. Clayton speaks about how her income was cut in half every year for several years until she had to sell her house. Romig began writing during a period when her husband lost his job; she wrote in the late hours after working full-time as a dental hygienist. "It was the one aspect of my life I could control," she says. Denise Grover Swank's ad in the Penned Con program strikes a similar theme: "I keep my sanity by creating characters to talk to and worlds to live in," it reads.
The day's best writing advice definitely comes from Alice Clayton, who talks about showing her first book -- originating as a Twilight fan fiction called Edward Wallbanger -- to a prominent, unnamed romance novelist. The writer told Clayton that she had to introduce the hero in the first chapter; in Clayton's book, the hero did not even appear until Chapter 4. "But that's the whole thing that makes my book unique!" she says. "My heroine spends the first three chapters of the book hearing him bang some other chick through the wall!"
Trust your instincts, in other words, and don't let yourself be penned in by convention. The point has never been so vividly illustrated. There's a nice payoff too: Wallbanger's success has allowed Clayton to buy a new house. When she says this, the whole crowd applauds, no prompting necessary this time.
Denise Grover Swank (surely approaching #50) casually offers a virtuoso dissection of Amazon and Kindle and Kindle Unlimited, the ways she uses them, and the limitations of the site ("Amazon is not your friend, they are doing what's good for them") while also being kind and nonjudgmental toward the many Kindle users in the crowd. She is an almost industrial-level producer of series, and casually refers to her free Kindle titles as "loss leaders," but somehow she doesn't sound smarmy while saying this, just like a smart woman who makes sound business decisions.
Aleatha Romig adds, at one point: "I'm a writer now. I used to write orthodontic prescriptions. That's what I wrote." There is a defiance about her: she tenses up when recounting the slighting remarks of relatives and friends, and you can tell that she's still fighting these battles in her head, despite all of her success. There is an air of total determination about her. "I just want to become a better writer," she says. "I want to get better with every book."
I truly believe that she will.
There are some raffle prizes being given away, including a Kindle Fire, but a Kindle Fire holds no interest for me. The words have always reminded me too much of Fahrenheit 451. I'm half-tempted to enter the raffle for the big stuffed frog that Eric Asher deployed for comforting purposes at Against the Grain, but my wife says our stuffed-animal menagerie has reached its limits.
I don't even get a picture, unfortunately. Sorry, mom.
On the way down the elevator with four or five other Con-goers, the doors open to admit a new passenger, and get stuck, continuing to open and re-open. Someone says: "Getting to know you guys way too well." Everyone is relieved when the doors finally close, and we are once again enclosed.
As we descend, I pretend, for a moment, that I am Denise Grover Swank, watching my Amazon ranking rise toward #1. Then I take heart in the lesson of Wallbanger: just do what you do. Be yourself. There is an inevitable discomfort when your dream is turned into a product: it's okay. I still don't know what "smexy"* means, but I'm not sure that I need to know. I head back out into the heat, the sultry heat.
* - These Kindle rankings are highly unscientific and shoddily researched, based on highest easily available ranking of a recent title. They are here to illustrate a larger point. My Kindle rank was #769,114 at the time of this writing, and has begun a steady descent toward #800,000. Literally every single person mentioned in this article is outselling me, often exponentially.
* - Not a typo. "Smexy," according to the Urban Dictionary, can mean "smart and sexy," or just "super sexy," and can be used in a sentence in the following way: Chris is a smexy guy -- he's got straight As and he's ripped! I am still not 100% clear on what would constitute a "smexy scene," though. We may have to wait for the editors of the OED to sort this out, or at least until next year's Penned Con.
For actual, legit, quality reporting from St. Louis Penned Con 2015, and pictures of the real masquerade ball, please visit Eva Pohler and For the Love of Books & Alcohol.
The very kind Rick and Amy Miles of Red Coat PR generously donate part of their earnings from Penned Con to Action for Autism, a St. Louis-based nonprofit which is dedicated to helping children on the autism spectrum find resources to improve their lives.


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Information and entry requirements for students from Thailand
Interested in studying at Nottingham Trent University (NTU)? On this page, we've included everything you'll need to know – meet NTU's Representative for Thailand, learn about our entry requirements, and sign up to keep in touch with us.
Welcome to NTU
Hello, my name's Katy and I'm the NTU Representative for Thailand. I'm delighted you're considering studying with us and if you have any questions I'll be happy to help. I visit Thailand a lot and love meeting new students and families personally to give advice and guidance.
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If you'd like us to keep in touch with you please register with us and we'll send you updates on what's happening at the University. We'll also let you know if I'm visiting Thailand so we can arrange to meet if you wish – or you can contact me directly.
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Meet our students
Meet our Thai students
NTU has great facilities, such as the library, and also gave good support to international students. Supreeya Tachatanawat, Thailand, MA Branding and Identity.
"When I first arrived I noticed how multicultural the course is; we have people from all over Asia, the USA and Europe. Nottingham is a friendly city, and I feel really comfortable here; I know I can get good Asian food and people help you out if you ask them."
Pragkaew Tantichativat studies International Fashion Management (MA).
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Matayom Five
Grade point average of 3.0
|Foundation courses at Nottingham Trent International College (NTIC)
Matayom Six
Grade point average of 2.5
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Year One Bachelors degree.
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Year One Bachelors degree.
Grades vary – please see our information on the UCAS Tariff points.
Bachelors degree (four years)
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Exact point requirement will depend on the subject studied and the NTU course.
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The English Department offers courses in literature, theater, and film that empower you to write, speak, and think critically.
An English degree is excellent preparation for many professions and occupations, including law, medicine, teaching, journalism, communications, business, government and military service. Many of our English students pursue post-graduate study. Norwich also offers an English minor that will enhance any course of study.
A broad range of electives is open to every student, and provides period and thematic emphases across the literary canon. Specialty classes, from Military Literature to Third World Literature, broaden perspectives and allow students to study what interests them. Writers and artists will also have an outlet to express themselves in the Chameleon, our literary journal. A writing laboratory and computer clusters enable technology-assisted writing instruction.
Program Details
Courses are offered in literature, theater, and film, which provide a broad humanistic background, and in writing and speech, which provide practical skills. The composition and literature sequence emphasizes writing, reading, and critical thinking skills; students also receive instruction in the forms of discourse and literary genres. The world literature sequence, required of all Bachelor of Arts students, examines world texts in their historical and cultural contexts. A broad range of elective offerings, open to students of all academic disciplines, provides examination of traditional periods and authors as well as emerging literary forms. Specialty courses also include literature of the developing world, of leadership, of American culture and ethnicity, and of the military. A variety of writing courses, both technical and creative, introduces and strengthens rhetorical skill.
Through developing a critical understanding of English and American literature in relationship to aesthetic, cultural, and intellectual contexts, we are committed to fostering opportunities that cultivate freedom of expression, personal and professional fulfillment, intellectual development, collaboration, and social growth.
English Minor
An English minor complements any major. Students who major in disciplines other than English, but share a love and respect for language and literature, often pursue a minor degree. This versatile and popular program encourages students to draw from a broad range of courses in writing, literature, film and theater, tailoring a program to their desires. Students interested in developing their writing skills, for example, might choose a minor consisting of courses in advanced composition, professional and technical writing, creative writing and a class in critical analysis of literature.
English minors must complete six courses with a 'C' average or better: EN201, EN202, EN282 and four additional courses numbered above EN202. To view current course offerings and requirements for this minor, please see Norwich's academic course catalog:
Writing Minor
Develop the communication skills to succeed. The writing minor offers students the opportunity to study persuasive writing, creative writing, journalism, environmental writing, and writing in digital environments.
The sustained focus of the writing minor on skills that employers value in college graduates–skills like collaboration, creativity, problem solving, innovation, and new media literacy–prepare NU graduates for the tasks expected from today's employers. As we move deeper into a world where fluency in writing is vital, and the connections between writing, technology, and creativity are integral to so many aspects of life, a writing minor at Norwich University greatly benefits students in their future personal and professional lives.
For the writing minor, students must complete, with a grade of 'C' or better, six courses: EN203 Advanced Composition, EN274 Intro to Creative Writing, either EN 362 Rhetorical Criticism or EN 364 Intermediate Creative Writing, and three additional writing electives listed in the course catalog.
Teacher Licensure
English majors may choose to take education courses and a semester of student teaching to qualify as a teacher in Vermont. Students should begin planning during freshman year to fit licensure requirements into their major.
Faculty Spotlight
Sean Prentiss, Award-Winning Author and Associate Professor of English
I stumbled into teaching by accident. I meant to get a job digging trails in wilderness. Instead I got a job digging trails in the wilderness and leading at-risk youth. I soon discovered that I loved teaching and leading as much as being in wildness. The things I love about teaching are watching students take risks, grow, explore, and become passionate about some new idea. Literally every day is better after I teach because students bring so much energy to class. They repeatedly inspire me.
I grew up with a deep love for the environment. I am drawn to the quiet and remote places, which is one of the reasons I chose to teach at Norwich University. I am drawn to the places on the edges. And much like how I accidentally fell into teaching, I also accidentally fell into creative writing. But once I began writing, I realized that it allowed me to be creative, to take risks, to explore myself, and to explore ideas. It allowed me to grow and change and question who I am and why I am that way.
And there's that famous quote, "If you love what you do, you'll never work a day in your life." So I decided to do just that, to be a creative and environmental writer who also teaches. Now, whether I am at home writing a poem or at campus teaching, every day is a joy because I get to live my passions.
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Aerial view of the concept site plan for the Halifax Infirmary Expansion showing new construction and existing infrastructure.
Northeast side view of the concept site plan for the Halifax Infirmary Expansion showing new construction and existing infrastructure.
West side view of the concept site plan for the Halifax Infirmary Expansion showing new construction and existing infrastructure.
As part of QEII New Generation, the redevelopment of the QEII Health Sciences Centre, services are being moved out of the aging Victoria, Centennial and Dickson Buildings on the VG site of the QEII Health Sciences Centre. Those buildings will eventually come down. Care and services will be delivered at other hospitals or new health care facilities being built or renovated including the Halifax Infirmary (HI). Many of the specialized surgeries and services will move to the HI site as a result.
Expansion project which includes:
- Construction of Inpatient Centre (hospital beds and operating rooms)
- Construction of an Innovation and Learning Centre
- Construction of a new Outpatient Centre
- Construction of the new QEII Cancer Centre (moving all cancer care from the VG site)
Critical Care
- 33 Intensive Care (ICU) beds - increase of 9
- 15 Intermediate Care (IMCU) beds – increase of 3
Operating Rooms
- 28 ORs - increase of 12 (9 relocated from VG site, 3 new)
Inpatient Beds
- 626 beds - increase of 180 (144 relocated from VG site, 36 new)
Innovation and Learning Centre
- Will bring three training labs under one roof
- Will include conference and education rooms with advanced technology to support long distance education
3rd and 5th Floor – In Progress
- One Hybrid Operating Room (equipped with advanced technology) - Atlantic Canada's first
- Two Interventional Suites (rooms where surgical procedures are performed with state-of-the-art imaging equipment)
The expanded Halifax Infirmary site, the heart of the redevelopment of the QEII, will have modern facilities and advanced technologies equipped to handle the most complex care in Atlantic Canada. The expansion means:
- Reducing wait times
- Improving access to care
- Performing less invasive procedures resulting in quicker recovery for patients (ie. Atlantic Canada's first hybrid operating room)
- Eliminating the need to transfer patients between two sites
- Increasing the use of technology to provide care closer to home
- Leading the way for innovation and research-driven cancer treatment
- Providing advanced technology to support long-distance learning
- Providing modern facilities for health professionals to work in and care for their patients
- Improving research and teaching opportunities to help recruit and retain doctors, researchers and other health professionals
Quick facts about the QEII Health Sciences Centre (VG and HI sites):
- 3,898 outpatient/clinic visits a day
- 273 cancer treatments a day
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Goose Creek Correctional Center, in cooperation with contractors and instructors of the Neeser Construction Company, recently completed an intense two-week training course designed to prepare future uniformed and maintenance staff to operate and maintain the institution's state of the art security electronics systems.
Staff members engaged in classes related to the institution's surveillance and computer-aided dispatch and communications systems. Staff completing the classes and the final two-day "Stress Test" included:
- from Goose Creek: Cory Pianko, Assistant Superintendent, and John Yost, Maintenance Superintendent;
- from Anvil Mountain CC: Lieutenant Lucy Dittmar of A.M.C.C;
- from Palmer Correctional Centers and Point Mackenzie Correctional Farm: Sergeant Scott Glover, Sergeant John Conant, and Correctional Officer II Greg Steele, Correctional Officer II Jared Pyle, Correctional Officer II Mark Sehl, Correctional Officer II Thomas Leonard, Correctional Officer II Thomas Leonard and Correctional Officer II Freeman Howes.
- From Anchorage Correctional Complex: Correctional Officer II Lee Pritchett and Correctional Officer II Michael Lovelace.
- From Spring Creek Correctional Center: Correctional Officer II Brandon Fischer, Correctional Officer II Justin Harrell.
- from Hiland Mountain Correctional Center: Correctional Officer II Suzie Pyle.
- Maintenance Specialist Michael Harbaugh and Maintenance Lead Michael Erb
Mr. Pianko and Mr. Yost sincerely thank the Superintendents of the above listed institutions for allowing their staff to attend this vital training and testing of all facets of Goose Creek's security electronics and future security operations; without the dedication, professionalism and commitment of the above listed staff this crucial mission could not have been completed.


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- An email address is invalid.
- If the addresses are not unique (i.e. address line 1,2,3, town, postcode are the same). This includes N/A.
- If you have properties in the CSV that already exist in Commusoft, they will be updated. The address line 1 and surname need to be identical in order for records to be updated, rather than added.
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- If you do not have a value in the title column Commusoft will automatically use the first title in your list (located in system settings).
- The date needs to be in the yyyy-mm-dd format, e.g 2016-04-21. If the format is incorrect or if you do not provide a date, Commusoft will put the current date in the field.
- You will need to edit your data and remove any commas. You can do this by using find and replace with a blank. This will ensure the correct alignment of your information and ensure your data conforms to CSV standard.
- It does not matter which order the information is provided in. When you import your data it will ask you to specify what each column is.
- It does not matter if you have any information missing we will just import what you give us.
- It is important to check that the information you've uploaded has been correctly imported. Commusoft will not take any responsibility for the content and quality of any imported data.
- The import may take a few minutes depending on the size of your file.
- If you have more than 1 property with the same address line 1 the import will take 1 of these records. e.g if you had row 2 and 65 with 15 Demo road, then only row 65 would import.
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Brown to green - what a difference a fortnight makes!
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It's amazing what a little rain will do.
From brown to green, Diss Park looks remarkably different all in the space of a fortnight.
At the end of last month finding blades of green grass on the town's popular park was a tricky task with weeks of heatwave temperatures and no rainfall having left it looking parched and barren. The only patches of greenery were on the edges of Diss Mere.
Two weeks on and the green has returned thanks to the return of more unsettled weather and some heavy showers. Last week Diss saw 5mm of rain fall in a single night.
More heavy rain is forecast for later this week.
The hot spell came on top of two record breaking months. May was the warmest since records began more than 100 years ago, the Met Office said, while June was "the driest on record" – with East Anglia seeing just 10% of its normal rainfall.