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Atlanta, GA (October 1, 2015) – Logicblock Inc., a provider of robust eCommerce solutions for the Office Products industry has completed an integration with Item411, a leading OP data provider.
Logicblock customers can now create sophisticated custom matrix pricing plans in Item411, based on current market pricing, and then schedule this pricing to automatically update their storefronts. Logicblock customers can also show current market pricing from an unprecedented selection of competitors directly on their 7cart storefront.
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A Democrat has filed to run against Port Orange Republican Sen. Dorthy Hukill in SD 14, which covers parts of Brevard and Volusia counties.
Melissa "Mel" Martin opened her campaign account on Aug. 23 and is so far the only candidate challenging Hukill, who has held the seat since 2012.
Martin is a former member of the Marine Corps, where she worked as a judge advocate. She is an alumna of of both the U.S. Naval Academy and Barry University, where she earned her law degree.
"I hope to bring a practical mind and my leadership experience to bear in service to the folks who live in Senate District 14. My door will always be open to facts, science, logic, and personal accounts regarding what needs to change in Tallahassee. And, to put all potential lobbyists on notice, money does not talk for me," she wrote on her campaign website.
She said her priorities if elected would be to end "campaign bribery" by prohibiting campaign contributions by lobbyists, boost Florida Forever funds, and expand home rule for local governments.
Despite her platform, Martin could likely use some of those lobbying dollars as she faces an uphill battle against Hukill, who is both well funded and has the advantage of running in a GOP-friendly district.
Through the end of July, Hukill had raised about $55,000 for her campaign account and had about $40,000 of that money on hand.
SD 14 has about 16,000 more registered Republicans than Democrats, and was carried by Mitt Romney 54-46 in 2012 and by Donald Trump 57-38 last year.


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YouTuber, author, activist and MSU alumnus Tyler Oakley returned to campus as the 2017 Homecoming grand marshal and he couldn't be more excited to be back.
Oakley graduated from MSU six years ago and since then he has become one of the most influential LGBTQ+ vloggers and an A-lister in the digital age with almost eight million subscribers on YouTube.
Oakley began creating content on YouTube as a freshman at MSU to keep in contact with high school friends, who had all gone their separate ways for college.
"It was just my way of sharing my life and then I kept making videos," he said.
Oakley said his first video to his friends was an introduction to his dormitory life and from then that's what most of his content contained.
"It kind of was a perfect storm of a life that I found interesting to share, a platform to share it on and the skillset that I was learning here," he said.
The alumnus attributes his interpersonal communication degree, marketing classes and teacher assistant position at MSU to his passion that he has today.
"So much of my work ethic I think I got from MSU, so much of what I studied goes into what I do every day," Oakley said. "All of these things I think shaped my passions, then the fact that I had such a fun time at MSU gave me the stuff to talk about in my YouTube videos."
Oakley recalls having the best experiences while on campus and said when he hears his friends talking about their bad encounters in high school or college, he just can't relate.
"I would go back in a heartbeat," he said.
The worst experience Oakley can recall in college is having to wake up at 9 a.m. for class, but he says his favorite experiences were: starting his YouTube channel, finding his platform to comfortably create content and becoming a resident assistant in East Wilson Hall.
"Everything about my time at MSU, I loved. It's more hard to find something that was difficult," he said.
Oakley was an RA for more than three years and said he met people in college, such as his RA friends, that he still remains close with. They go on vacations with each other every year and they'll also be attending the homecoming game with him.
MSU graduate Roberta Schimmel said in a tweet, Oakley was her RA when she was a freshmen and he was an always a supportive person.
Oakley said he attributes his success to the privileges he has, that other people do not and his parents that gave support but influenced him be independent since the age of 14.
"I've always had a job and paid for my college stuff … I did not have any scholarships or anything, I just was not that student so it took a lot of hard work," he said. "I think I'm really stubborn in a good way sometimes, where once I want to do something or once I want something to happen I won't give up until it does, for better or for worse."
Oakley said there was never a time where he questioned whether or not he should finish school and just create content for YouTube full time because the experiences weren't worth throwing away.
"My advice to every YouTuber who is young is like, do not quit school," he said. "There's like life experiences that you can't get anywhere else and if I were to have skipped my experiences at MSU, I wouldn't have had the content to talk about in a video."
Oakley said he wants to be able to help MSU students who desire to have his same platform one day.
"The coolest thing is the people in this building have so much potential and they're going to become so many great things, if there is ever any way I could help of course I want to," he said.
Oakley said MSU has given him so much inside and outside of the classroom over the years and he agrees that it's changed his life forever.
"I couldn't have been where I am today without all my MSU stuff," he explained.
Oakley said he could have never predicted the success this last year has brought him but he's along for the ride and hopes for more accomplishments in the years to come.
"I want to create more as long as I love it, I want to write more as long as I still love it. At the end of the day I just want to be able to connect with people in a meaningful way," he said.


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FERREIRA, Glauco B.. At the Margins of a Globalized Artivism: On the Borders of Mujeres Al Borde. Rev. Estud. Fem. [online]. 2015, vol.23, n.1, pp.207-218. ISSN 0104-026X. https://doi.org/10.1590/0104-026X2015v23n1p207.
The present article analyzes the interactions between two collectives of activists/artists, the Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project (QWOCMAP), situated in the United States, and Mujeres Al Borde, situated in Colombia. By focusing on their interaction and addressing the audiovisual productions of the latter group, I discuss how they seek to create relationships between art, activism, audiovisual production, gender, sexualities, race/ethnicities, aiming to create transnational feminist coalitions. The article touches on the following topics: the creating process to developed a cinematic training program in partnership; reflects on the possibilities of thinking about activism and queer theories in Latin American context; and finally examines some of audiovisual productions of Mujeres Al Borde, trying to address what they call as their artivism, neologism that articulates art and activism. The focus here is on the ways in which these collectives are producing networks of transnational collaboration in global geopolitical dissidents' arenas, promoting social change and means of visual expression for LGBTQ communities, cultivating queer feminist social movements in the global north and global south.
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Construction work at Sub Base Platypus, North Sydney is scheduled to cease on Saturday, 22 December and resume on Friday, 7 January.
The work, which commenced on Wednesday, 19 September, is currently in the demolition phase. The Harbour Trust anticipates the heavy jack hammering (demolition with an excavator) will be finished by Christmas, pending weather conditions and contractor progress.
General construction noise, including demolition works, will occur throughout the project, which is anticipated to conclude in August 2019.
The hours of work for the project are as follows:
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Please note: Sub Base Platypus will be closed to the public at 12 noon on 31 December and will re-open at 7 am on 1 January.
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The Spanish language song Despacito has become the most streamed song of all time.
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A Spanish language song called Despacito has become the most streamed song of all time.
The single by Louise Fonsi is currently number one in the U.K. and has been played 4.6 billion times worldwide, overtaking Justin Bieber's Sorry. Our reporter is Mark Savage.
It was a hit all around Latin America at the start of the year. It was number one in 12 countries. It's sung in Spanish. It's a very unique mix of the kind of Latin balladry and reggaeton, which is a kind of Latin American rap style. So it caught on hugely over there but did nothing in Europe in the English speaking world until Justin Bieber heard it in a nightclub and said, "I'd like to be part of this song" recorded a verse. And suddenly three weeks after that, it's number one in the US, it's starting to come to number one in the U.K., and now it's number one in 35 countries around the world.
How long might we expect it to stay in the top spot then?
Well I mean I think in the U.K., it's been 10 weeks at number one, the same in the U.S. I think it could be there for quite a long time to come because I don't see any big releases on the horizon. There's One Direction solo acts who may give a bit of a challenge for a week, but then they'll drop away. It's summer pretty much everywhere now. So the song is even better when you're outside. It feels like it's got a bit of longevity. The question for Louis Fonsi, who recorded it, is what does he do next. How do you beat this? And we spoke to him yesterday. He said, "To be honest, I don't think I ever will.
Now as you say it was already a pretty successful song. And then Mr. Bieber got involved. How would you say streaming is changing music?
Well I think the interesting thing here is that this song probably wouldn't have been playlisted by radio stations in the English speaking world. Particularly, you know, Spanish songs do not do well in America and the U.K. The last time there was a Spanish language number one in America was the Macarena in 1996. In the U.K., there was a song called Las Ketchup in 2002. That was the Spanish language number one. So streaming has kind of democratized music as a whole. If people find a song that they like and they latch on to it, they will play it repeatedly and repeatedly. And then that will influence the people who are programming radio. So it is changing the way that people discover and listen to music.
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US Military Preparing For "Options" In Syria
And now America's top general has confirmed the Pentagon is drawing up military options to attack Syria and is in currently in close discussion with the White House over the plans. Marine General Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff told reporters on Saturday during a trip to India, according to Reuters:
…he was involved in "routine dialogue" with the White House about military options should Syria ignore U.S. warnings against using chemical weapons in an expected assault on the enclave of Idlib.
However, Gen. Dunford noted that no decision has been made to intervene militarily in response to Idlib.
"But we are in a dialogue, a routine dialogue, with the president to make sure he knows where we are with regard to planning in the event that chemical weapons are used," he told a group of reporters.
Dunford added in reference to his talks with President Trump: "He expects us to have military options and we have provided updates to him on the development of those military options."
Trump had previously bombed Syria twice after allegations that Assad ordered a chemical weapons attack — in April 2017 and April 2018 — the former was in response to a claimed sarin attack on Idlib.
White House officials have vowed to hold Assad responsible for any chemical attack allegations that emerge.
France also indicated last week that it too would respond with military force should chemical weapons be deployed.
When pressed by reporters over whether the US actually has intelligence to back its claims, Gen. Dunford responded, "I wouldn't comment on intelligence at all, in terms of what we have, what we don't have."
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An Emirates superjumbo in New York has been met by ambulances, police and disease control experts after passengers became unwell.
Dozens of vehicles surrounded the aircraft at JFK airport, with people on board reportedly coughing and feverish.
Experts from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) were called to the scene.
The plane - a double-decker Airbus A380 - arrived in New York from Dubai shortly after 9am and was kept away from the terminal.
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Despite a bunch of mentors, there is still someone who I consider THE authority on beer. That's quite a feat, considering he passed away in 2007.
Michael Jackson, aka The Beer Hunter, was arguably the best at putting pen to paper when it came to beer.
Over the past year or so, I've been reading his articles in the archive of The Beer Hunter website. His writing skill and the shear quantity that he wrote (don't forget the books) blows me away. The site serves as a testament to MJ, and Stan from Appellation Beer does a great job of maintaining it.
In the wake of the first ever beer bloggers conference, I thought it fitting to post a few excerpts from the master beer writer himself.
I could made this post "50 Michael Jackson Quotes", but I saw that as cheap. Quotes are a quick fix. You read a few insightful words, think about how you'll apply them to your life, and then forget them 5 minutes later.
No quick fix here. Instead, I want to use these passages to draw you in and convince you to read more of his archives. These examples show his wit, writing skill, and pure passion for beer. No need to lock yourself in a bunker and read through all of them, but read at least one today. I recommend starting with the article linked to in #1.
- Another reason why in the U.S. I can occasionally find a suitable beer to accompany my dinner is that the business ethic there accommodates the possibility of becoming profitable by pleasing the consumer. From Wine snobbery…and brewers who won't learn or fight back
- By far the most popular wheat beers in Southern Germany are the cloudy type, and that might offer a further clue to their new success. I suspect that the cloudiness, far from rendering these beers unattractive (or unsophisticated and rustic), gives them the appeal of "bread with nowt taken out. They are the beer world's answer to whole food. From Would Minnie like wheat ale?
- "In your view, just how should a Saison taste?" I would demand. "It must be a good, honest beer. It should have character. It is essential that it has soul," he would reply, with Gallic imprecision. "Here … try this one." In their house character, Dupont's beers are full of life. with a rocky, creamy, head; a sharp, refreshing, attack; a restrained fruitiness; and a long, very dry. From A seasonal search for the phantom of brewing
- My tasting notes made the beers sound like foods, and Father Antoine reminded me that they once were. The Trappist still do not eat meat, but once also ruled out fish and cheese. "Without the nutrients in our beer, we would have died." Today, the dietary laws are less strict (some Trappist abbeys even make cheese, though Rochefort does not. Nor does it have its own brewery tap like some). From A Saintly glass with the brothers of barley
- Malty beers, perhaps slightly syrupy, and with a hint of alcohol in the finish, make ideal winter warmers, of course. No doubt they also drove away the fear of endless nights, and ghosts, in the depths of pagan midwinters. From Supping at Santa's Knee
- I began to think I was in a frightening dream. Or had I died? Then I noticed that a beer was being poured for me. It was not Lucifer, Satan, or Duvel. It was Delirium Tremens. I was not dead, though possibly suffering from a lifetime of alcoholic over-indulgence. I was beckoned to the sternest of the robed men, asked to drink the beer down in one and to pledge my support to it above all others. Delirium Tremens is a sippin' beer, and I am a taster, not a chugger, so I made a poor job of that. Nor could I pledge to promote one beer above all others (my turn to mumble). I was nonetheless "knighted", with a mashing fork, and a ribbon bearing a medallion decorated with a pink elephant was placed round my neck. From Pink Elephants: Now I'm seeing two of them
- In its bouquet and palate, it is smokey enough to satisfy the natives of the German malting town of Bamberg, but full of complexity, with a mellow woodiness, a faint hint of fruit, a dash of chocolate, a slightly chewy maltiness, and an oily finish that sticks to the ribs in the cold of Alaska. From It's up, up and away to drink smoked porter out on the ice
- "Premium Lager' is often the code on the labels. There is much more to be enjoyed than just the dubious refreshment of the bland, sweetish, international brand of lager, the behaving-badly of a headbanger or a cosily. anorakish bout of beer-boring. There is a world of arousing aroma and flavour out there. But those of us who enjoy it feel sometimes that we are members of an evangelical cult. From Go with the grain
- If you train drinkers to believe that the less the flavour, the better the beer, how long before they prefer mineral water or soda-pop? If you keep making beer more like sweetened water, what happens when no one can tell the difference? If the drink looks and tastes like soda but contains 4 or 5 per cent alcohol, does it not mislead in a way that plays into the hands of those who would deem beer, wine or spirits socially unacceptable? From It's time to turn out the lites
- One of life's great but simple pleasures, widely recognised, is the aroma, taste, and satisfaction offered by truly fresh bread. Another, less well acknowledged, is the same sequence of sensuous experiences brought forth by really fresh beer. From Best Drunk When Fresh
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Dr. Gentry is originally from Alabama and attended undergrad there, graduating Summa Cum Laude with Special Honors in Biology in 2001. She was then accepted into the University of Alabama School of Dentistry, graduating in 2005 with honors.
With over 20 years of experience in the field, Dr. Gentry has a comprehensive background in dentistry. She has held almost every position in the industry- from receptionist, assistant, associate dentist, and now, as the owner of her practice. It's this experience that has led her to develop her own practice philosophy, which is to provide the highest quality care along with compassion and understanding for her patients.
Dr. Gentry and her team strive to provide the best dental experience possible. They pride themselves on getting to know their patients on a personal level, and they take all the time necessary to explain treatment procedures and to answer any questions so that their patients feel both comfortable and informed. This is how she's built her reputation over the years for providing the exceptional dental care, and it's also why she was voted "Best Dentist in Charlotte" and "Nextdoor Neighborhood Favorite".
You'll also notice that Dr. Gentry strives to provide the most current procedures available, and for this reason, she has invested in state-of-the-art dental technology. She also continues to take hundreds of hours of continuing education, in and out of the country, in order to best serve her patients.
Dr. Gentry moved to Charlotte in 2008 and considers the Queen City her home. She and her fiancee purchased a house just minutes from the practice in Barclay Downs, and reside there with their ever-changing number of rescue dogs. Besides her passion for dentistry, her main interests are dog rescue, interior decorating, and yoga.


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Oregon is the first state in the nation that allows dentists to administer any vaccine available at a primary care office. This includes flu shots and MMR and HPV vaccines.
Seventy percent of oropharyngeal cancers in the US are caused by HPV. Beginning in 2020, dentists' scope will expand to provide vaccines as an integrated effort to decrease the incidence of these, as well as other preventable diseases.
The Oregon Board of Dentistry is working with the Oregon Health Authority, Oregon Health Sciences University, and Oregon Dental Association to develop protocols and training rules. Dentists will be held to requirements for prescribing, administering and reporting vaccines in alignment with rules established for pharmacists and primary care providers.
We look forward to supporting our dental network with this ground-breaking integration initiative, and will provide updates on new policies and OHP rules regarding this expanded scope of practice as they develop.
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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2660089177097719300.post7427782651415727882..comments2020-08-13T18:17:23.269-07:00Comments on Writing About Writing (And Occasionally Some Writing): It's Really Okay Not to Write. Really. Part 1Chris Brecheenhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2660089177097719300.post-86189226974858613662017-03-24T12:24:05.728-07:002017-03-24T12:24:05.728-07:00Sometimes you're so relevant, it's scary.Sometimes you're so relevant, it's scary. Hannahhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2660089177097719300.post-19191194432437347582013-05-23T16:52:15.556-07:002013-05-23T16:52:15.556-07:00I'm sorry that my metaphorical taco doesn'...I'm sorry that my metaphorical taco doesn't meet your standards. I am ashamed.Chris Brecheenhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2660089177097719300.post-15351157731664291022013-05-23T16:45:29.041-07:002013-05-23T16:45:29.041-07:00I cannot eat this taco. This taco does not meet my...I cannot eat this taco. This taco does not meet my taco concerns. I must go write my pain now.

Wishing for tacos for days now has so far worked just as well for me as for would-be writers who wish more than they write.

I still want tacos, though.Anonymoushttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2660089177097719300.post-81975329737090432252013-04-11T10:50:35.888-07:002013-04-11T10:50:35.888-07:00There's nothing wrong with balance. In fact, ...There's nothing wrong with balance. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that a lot of people who we might define as "successful" in the arts and entertainment are obsessively focused in a way that, were they not successful, we would call pretty unhealthy. Chris Brecheenhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2660089177097719300.post-49239644354554934692013-02-12T12:07:24.336-08:002013-02-12T12:07:24.336-08:00Well, perhaps this explains why I write occasional...Well, perhaps this explains why I write occasionally, despite having 26 years worth of material in my head and decent skill... I'm a dabbler. I knit occasionally, bake occasionally, play cello more occasionally than I really should (I'd like to build the necessary callouses and hand strength), sculpt occasionally, draw occasionally. At any given time I may be spending all my spare minutes doing that one thing, but after a couple of days or a couple of weeks I move on to one of the other regulars in my Bag O' Hobbies. I guess the only thing I do constantly is plant science, which is my career.

This perspective helps me in my long process of accepting that I am basically a jack of all trades. I'm damned good at some of those trades, but I'll never be a real master. And that's okay. :)Samhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2660089177097719300.post-45040972837168744752013-01-15T11:21:18.198-08:002013-01-15T11:21:18.198-08:00~sees what you did there~~sees what you did there~Chris Brecheenhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2660089177097719300.post-68699395000020093112013-01-15T11:19:56.564-08:002013-01-15T11:19:56.564-08:00Oh THANK you! I feel so much better now.Oh THANK you! I feel so much better email@example.com


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Life Through My Lens: My Photo Walk (Not) — Week 7, The Mishap
On Friday, February 14, I walked on a dark wet street at night, and unable to see the black ice, I went down hard. The result is a broken ankle, which has effectively put an end to photo walking, for at least a little while. I am so happy that I did not choose 2014 for doing my big daily photo walk project!
Having a broken ankle has really opened my eyes to the challenges that disabled seniors living alone can face. Luckily, my break did not require surgery, and I am sporting a bright purple cast, but I have had to make quite a few adjustments. Learning to walk on crutches is challenging, and much to my surprise, extremely tiring. Of course, it means keeping your balance, not putting the crutch tip down on a slippery throw rug, and figuring out the daunting steps on the front stoop. (So far, I am sitting down to go down stairs — I have no dignity whatsoever.) Luckily, I already live in a house that has all first floor living, so I don't have to do stairs inside.
Having limited mobility also means planning ahead. The first night on crutches, I finally maneuvered myself and my aching arms into bed, when I realized I had forgotten to lock the front door. So, I crutched it all the way back to the front door, vowing never to make that mistake again. When I am at the refrigerator planning a meal, I try to think of everything I will possibly need, so that once I have transported it via the tote bag hanging off my crutches, I won't have to make a trip back across the kitchen to the fridge again. There are so many little things I have taken for granted that now cause me to think twice, plan ahead, and take it slowly.
In searching for products to make life with disability a little easier, there are lots of creative ideas and helpful solutions. My sister had foot surgery a couple of years ago, and she used a "knee wheeler," enabling her to forgo the crutches. Mine came today. I am now learning to use that safely. I'll take it for a spin around the neighborhood after (if) they ever get the sidewalks shoveled.
I am grateful that this is only going to be a six week inconvenience. It could have been much worse, and there are certainly so many people who are in pain and who are suffering and who have much more trauma than I do. I have good friends, family nearby, and the means to meet the challenges that I will face in the next few weeks. So many others don't, and I will be more aware of their plight and try to help out those that I can, when I can. Special thanks to Norma Levett, who rescued me from the dark road and took me the next morning to UNI Urgent Care on 7th Street, and to Dr. Robert Fisher, of Orthopaedic Specialists of Frederick, who met me on a Sunday afternoon to review my films and put on my cast.
In the meantime, life though my lens will probably be a little different. The inside of my house and the doctor's office and an occasional trip to the grocery store won't make for exciting reading or photos. But I'll put my creativity to work and rise to this challenge, too. I'll be healing on the couch, waiting for spring.
"Life Through My Lens" is a travel/photography blog written by Cam Miller, copyright 2014
Email: cam.miller@comcast. net
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Priscilla and David 10: Pecan Number Five (Peter) Has Arrived
GreyhoundFan posted a topic in Quiver Full of SnarkContinued from here: I love this picture from their website. Phillip and Destiny are so expressive:
Priscilla and David 9: Starting Their Own Flipping Business?
Coconut Flan posted a topic in Waller FamilyContinued from here: David and Priscilla are still running even with four children. They've bought another house to remodel. Possibly starting their own flipping enterprise?
Waller Courting Rumors
scarlettphoenix posted a topic in Waller FamilyI heard that David was reluctant to court Priscilla, but I don't know where the rumor comes from. Does anyone know the details? So much snark is appreciated. Obviously. 😝
Priscilla and David 8: Destiny Faith is here
Coconut Flan posted a topic in Waller FamilyContinued from here:
Pris & David 7: Wall to Wall Wallers
Jellybean posted a topic in Waller FamilyCarry on from here: Priscilla hasn't announced another pregnancy, but that's not enough to derail the speculation train. The three current children, Paul, Davia and Philip, look just like their parents, who look just like each other.
Pris & TFDW 6: The Lookalike Family
Coconut Flan posted a topic in Waller FamilyContinued from here: Pris and David look alike and Davia and Philip are so very similar. Will the next kid look like Paul?
Pecans in the Big Blue House - Priss & TFDW Part 5
choralcrusader8613 posted a topic in Waller FamilyPrevious thread here: Thread title is a shameless mangling of the name of one of my favorite childhood shows. David and Priscilla are almost done with their house, and it is very blue! They have said that they're going to put a railing on the deck, which is somewhat reassuring, given their in-laws' track record with child safety. They also have apparently only been apart for 25 hours of their marriage, and are a #family. Gotta have that godly hashtag, y'all!
Priss & Pecan, Pt 4: Dump Truck Baby
samurai_sarah posted a topic in Waller FamilyCarry on from here:
Priss & Pecan, Pt. 3: Glory Days Dwindling Away
FundieFarmer posted a topic in Waller FamilyName inspiration credit to @Palimpsest! Carrying on from here:
Pecan and Priss moving to Texas
WonderingInWA posted a topic in Waller FamilyThis is the first I've heard of it! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50vLRWOHzIs
Rigid Gender Roles
N The Prayer Closet posted a topic in Quiver Full of Duggarshttp://morningafter.gawker.com/even-fet ... 1660661062 The author of this article is hilarious. I especially love how she notes that Anna has nothing else to be excited for in life other than pregnancy (which of course isn't true but it is the way the women in this family are portrayed) and the comments are great. One commenter lamented gender reveal parties by saying "I saw a guy on the 2/3 train last week having a "gender reveal party" all by himself. Michelle would lose her marbles if she had to witness that.
Davilla Waller baby watch
SPHASH posted a topic in Quiver Full of DuggarsOk they are due this month, not sure which day.
David & Priscilla
AniLand posted a topic in Quiver Full of DuggarsI was just reading some stuff on the Family Summaries forum. It looks like David & Priscilla only knew each other as acquaintances, and then went straight into a courtship, with her dad being the go-between?? That's so weird. Edited to say: I was just reading about Mirantha & Matthew Chapman. I really don't know what to say. I've never heard of them before. This is really bothering me, very much.
Oy vey, looks like Jinger really needs freeing.
antwan posted a topic in Quiver Full of DuggarsShe looks almost gaunt in the recent photos on David Waller's blog. Btw, does anyone always hear her name as rhyming with "ringer" because of how J'chelle-Bob chose to spell it? And while we're at it, anyone creeped out by how much David and Priscilla look like they're from the same branch of the family tree? (they look like brother and sister). files.davidlovespriscilla.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/29/files/2014/07/davidlovespriscilla0622142053a.jpg
Not Gay David Mentions Gothard
ljohnson2006 posted a topic in Waller Familydavidlovespriscilla.com/2013/09/07/vacation/ If only the Duggars could be as open about their following of him as David is. At least he's honest.
Recovering grace cards left at ATI and John Duggar
fundiefun posted a topic in Quiver Full of DuggarsFor those on the recovering grace facebook a user posted about being caught leaving recovering grace cards at ATI and discussed it with John Duggar and another guy so now at least one Duggar knows there is a way out. The question though is if they will ever take the chance now that they know. So... Someone must have seen me drop a card somewhere this afternoon.. Why you ask? Well because they ratted me out and I got the chance to meet John Duggar and another guy and they proceeded to ask me about what and why I was doing leaving RG cards around the conference. At first I played a little dumb about it.. But then I thought.. What the heck. I'll just engage them a bit. So I talked to these guys and then David Waller? came up and I talked to him.. I told them some of my reasons for the cards. Then I shifted the convo a bit. Then David took me over to talk to Mr Mattix.. Talked to him a while about Russia and all that.. Things were actually going quite well. I should have known better. One of the minions ran and got BG. So he comes over and we sit down at a table and continue our friendly talk about Russia and my job and other non threatening subjects. Then BG says.. So how was your childhood? And I'm thinking... Huh? So I say.. Oh it was good. Pretty normal. Ups and downs. About like any other. Then he started asking about the RG cards. Ha! I have to say when all this started I was quite nervous. But when I was talking to BG I was as clear minded and confident as I could be! It was great! I avoided getting into a war of scripture.. Cause I knew he would win that seeing I was Ill prepared. But I was very frank with him. I kept it to general things. I talked about extreme parents and how his teaching is used against children in damaging ways. That he needs to STRESS that what may be for him may not be for everyone. I gave him examples of several things we discussed so he would know EXACTLY what I was saying. Our talk encompassed many other topics.. Nothing super deep. But I didn't give in to him. I looked him in the eye the whole time. Ha! All that rock music must have been so visible to him. ANYWAYS.. There was a moment when he tried to kinda guilt me a bit.. He talked about when he gave me money as a gift for serving at the mtc. And his point was kinda.. I did this and you come here and do this to me? I acknowledged that I remembered his gifts. But I just let his comment go and I moved on. Well he said that he felt like he owed me more for all the service I had done for the ministry.. I was hoping he'd give me more money. I totally would have taken it too! but he said why don't we go over to the book tables and I'll give you a few books. Oh goodie. More useless paper. So we walk over and he kept talking about things going on in ati.. I think he was going to offer me a job with some new thing he has going. But he got distracted. Lol! He ended up giving me 3 personally inscribed copies of his books. I'm pretty sure two of them are very recent.. So... RG people.. I have things for you if you want them. In all we talked for about an hour and a half or so. I also gave Mr Mattix my thoughts on other things.. All in all it turned out to be a productive day. I did see two rebel looking guys with RG cards.. Maybe they'll find something there. Despite all going as well as it did.. It was 1 on 3. So needless to say.. I'm slightly worn out.
Duggar daughters doing prison ministry?
GatoRojo posted a topic in Quiver Full of DuggarsNot that I'm avoiding A level revision, but...I'd swear Jessa and Jinger Duggar are in the picture of Davilla Waller's latest prison ministry? Actually now I look again I think I can see Jana as well, in the back row! I can't figure out how to upload the picture - I think the image is too big. There's a kinda half report on the David/Priscilla blog, but the picture's on the ATI website with some lengthy report. iblp.org/news/god-does-impossible-prison (Does this count as breaking the link? Also please can someone else try and sort the photo ) I should get on with some maths now
Another website w/More Duggar & Duggar-related Snark
0 kids n not countin posted a topic in Quiver Full of DuggarsDon't know if this website has been mentioned here, but it has a few good "Duggar/Duggar-Related Snark" articles: http://crushable.com/entertainment/anna-duggar-priscilla-waller-pregnant-david-waller-birth-announcement-pro-life-237/


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Bearers of the Burden (Third Revised Edition)
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"When we know how we are living and what we are living for – that we are slaves to the five aggregates – we will feel ashamed of our lives.
It is impossible to completely make an end of suffering without having made the breakthrough to the Four Noble Truths.
With liberation comes profound contentment. Liberation is void of craving. The person who 'wants this' and 'wants that' is no more.
'Contentment is the greatest wealth.' The one who knows the value of contentment and practices it has peace of mind.
Blind is this world because of ignorance, because of not knowing the truth. People are wandering around without any clear direction.
Our desire for existence is so strong that even existence in one of the woeful realms is deemed better than not existing again at all."
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- 究竟那是什么样的负担,
- 是谁在承受着那负担,
- 如何减轻那负担,以及
- 如何放下它以便获得完全的解脱。
A Journey of Self-Discovery
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"The Buddha never compelled anybody to have blind faith in Him. He just exhorted us to depend on our own wisdom.
It is not because we are born as humans that we become wise or foolish. It is because we can bring our defilements under control that we become wise, and it is because we can't bring our defilements under control that we become foolish.
We all have both good and bad qualities.
Snakes, chickens, and pigs are not created for you to eat. It is in such existences that you yourself have been born before. We can't harm anybody without harming ourselves.
We can't disturb others without disturbing ourselves.
Patience means accepting. Very beautiful! Accepting both the desirable and the undesirable is the perfection of patience.
You make friends with the defilements all the time, but the defilements never treat you as a friend in return. They treat you as an enemy.
The Buddha never says, 'Come and believe'. He says, 'Come and see; the wise can know, the wise can see'. 'One who sees the Dhamma, sees me. One who sees me, sees the Dhamma'."
Expectation Derived from One's Point of View
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"A person's expectations about a certain society, about a certain group, and about another person will be different according to that person's point of view.
How people have been educated since they were young, and the many ways they have been inculcated with the knowledge handed down from one generation to another, all create very different perceptions in people's minds and strongly influence them in different ways.
When the perceptions are different, the point of view will be different. Which is greater in this world, the number of people who hold wrong perceptions, or the number of people who hold right perceptions?
The more bad perceptions we have, the more we suffer. People are changeable. A person can poison you. Dhamma is unchanging; it is true at all times, and never poisons you."
The Truth Taught by All the Buddhas
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"The Buddha of this era and the Buddhas of past eras have all taught only two kinds of truths, and nothing more than these.
'I have taught the Dhamma that I myself have directly penetrated. All the Dhamma I taught between the day I became enlightened and the day I took final Nibbāna – all the Dhamma I have taught are true. There is nothing I have taught which is untrue.'
'I have not taught a Dhamma which you cannot practise.
Sañjaya Belatthiputta replied, 'All the wise will go to the Buddha. The fools will come to me. Do not worry.'
A person can poison others, but the Dhamma will never poison anyone. Depend on the Dhamma, then, and not on the person.
Mentality does not originate in the brain. In fact, there is not the slightest trace of mentality in the brain."


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"Bengali or Bangla (বাংলা) is the language native to the region of Bengal, which comprises of the present-day nation of Bangladesh and of the Indian states West Bengal, Tripura and southern Assam. With about 220 million native and about 250 million total speakers, Bengali is one of the most spoken languages, ranked seventh in the world. The National Anthem of Bangladesh, National Anthem of India, National Anthem of Sri Lanka and the national song of India were first composed in the Bengali language." ( source : http://www.wikipedia.org )
Surprisingly you will not find any mention of Bengali speaking population of Jharkhnad whereas there are vast Bengali speaking population in Jharkhand. As an evidence of this fact we can quote the Jharkhand Government (Arjun Munda Govt.) order of the year 2002, declaring Bengali (Bangla) and Santhali as second official language of Jharkhand.
Therefore, whenever there is a talk of Bangla Bhasa (Bengali Language), the Jharkhand should be taken into account for its vast Bengali population.
Bengali speaking population of Jharkhand are settled in the area of East and West Singhbhum District, Saraikela, Kharsawan, Silli Tamar Bundu area of Ranchi, Chas, Chandankyari of Bokaro dist, Dhanbad District, Jamtara District, Dumka and Pakur district.
Still no mention of facts of this vast population of Bengali speaking people in Jharkhand because Govt. always wants to suppress the fact and since 1956, they forcefully imposed Hindi on these Bengali speaking Population Manbhum (now in Jharkhand). That being the one of the reasons the next Govt. again changed the status of the Bengali Language and made Urdu as second official language of Jharkhand for vote Bank politics.
As you know Manbhum was always part of Bengal. Till 1912 it was part of Bengal presidency. Letter it was part of Bihar but official language was Bengali till 1956.
Hindi came to Manbhum area only 100 years ago. Even 50 years back no body in Manbhum area could speak Hindi. Post 1956, Hindi has been forcefully imposed on the vast Bengalis speaking population of erstwhile Manbhum District (now Jharkhand).
The Original Bengalis in Jharkhand of the above areas, are the moolnibashi Bangla Bhashi people and they are not the Migrants or Settlers from anywhere else. They are the son of the soil, original dwellers of that land for more than 300 years. It is unfortunate that Bengal was never interested to protect the Bangla language and and the culture of that part of Manbhum areas by placing strong demand for inclusion with West Bengal (with Purulia District) in the year 1956. Had it been done so, today West Bengal's geography would have been different and it would have become a reachest state of India with the "Black Diamond" Coal belts and mineral reach areas.


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The 2017's flagship phablet from Samsung is selling at a discount of Rs 24,000 during the Amazon Great Indian Festival. Priced at Rs 74,690, it is now selling at Rs 30,700.
The Bluetooth earphones from Jabra Elite 25E come in Silver and Black colour options. It retails at Rs 4,299 but is selling at Rs 2,999.
The P20 Lite smartphone from Huawei has got a discount of Rs 7,000 and is selling at Rs 15,999. It offers 4GB RAM, 64GB internal storage and company's own Kirin 659 octa-core processor.
This pair of sports Bluetooth wireless earphones are selling at Rs 999 after a discount of Rs 1,991. They come in three color options -- Active Black, Neon and Raging Red.
After getting a discount of 46%, this Bluetooth speaker from Sony is available at Rs 6,999 during the Amazon Great Indian Festival. It can be purchased in Blue, Black and Red colour options.
The wireless and compact Bose SoundLink Mini II wireless Bluetooth speaker packs a built-in speakerphone and lithium-ion battery that is said to last up to 10 hours. It is up for grabs at Rs 12,959 after receiving a discount of Rs 3,241.
Available in Black and White colour options, the wireless loudspeaker from Harman Kardon has got a discount of 55% from Amazon. Priced at Rs 21,990, it is selling at the lowest price of Rs 9,999.
This Samsung FHD TV offers a 43-inch screen and a sound output of 14 Watts. It is available at a discounted price of Rs 29,990 after a discount of 14,910.


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The drycleaning industry is under siege with the spread of casual clothing from just Friday to now every day of the week. I've been on a rant for years about the huge reduction of professional dress in the work place and the acceptance of 'just good enough' potato chip grease stained t-shirts and pressed by floor or still wrinkled from the dryer blue jeans that now passes as acceptable office wear. The sloppy look is responsible for the massive reduction of drycleaning needing clothing which has resulted in the dramatic downturn of piece counts in your plants.
Worse is the response by the drycleaning industry itself. There has been a dramatic wasp waisting of the entire industry with plant owners responding to the change in fashion and reduction in drycleaning pieces by moving to a discount or one price business model, or move upscale with a couture high price per piece business model. The middle of the road moderate priced cleaner has disappeared or become scarce.
Change happens, whether you want it to, or not. Some have change thrust upon them and simply don't know how to respond to the changes our industry is facing and gone out of business, or dropped dead at their press trying to keep on keeping on doing the only thing they know…..or even worse.
So many cleaners find it easy to forgo price increases in an attempt to keep competitive (and viable) in the hopes that they will be able to outlast their competitors and end up being the last cleaner standing in their market. As time goes by, the profit margins get squeezed tighter, and tighter, and it gets harder and harder to make the monthly minimum; keep staff, rent and suppliers paid. Eventually, it simply becomes impossible to keep all those balls you are juggling in the air, and BOOOOOM, it all comes crashing down, and another drycleaner goes broke leaving a dark store and customers clothing locked inside.
HOPE is not a very good business strategy. HOPE does not pay the bills. HOPE only goes so far. What one really needs is CHANGE.
Choosing CHANGE can be exhilarating, liberating, fun, exciting, but it's not easy. The biggest obstacle one must overcome is usually oneself. It takes a lot of courage to move yourself outside your comfort zone.
Let me give you a little advice on how you can start the process of embracing or starting the process of change in your business. Set aside one hour out of your work week where you will remove yourself from your business (yes, get out of your store) and go someplace where you can be alone and undisturbed by your customers and employees. Bring along a note pad and a pen. When you get to your place you have chosen to get out of your shop, I want you to write down your most pressing problems you have in your business on your note pad, one problem per page. If it takes the whole hour to write them down, that's just fine. If you do it in five minutes, that's just fine too. If your hour is up, go back to work and save your note pad for next week's one hour session with yourself. If you have time left in your hour, I want you to start writing down ideas you have to solve the problem you wrote down until your hour is up, then go back to your plant.
After a couple of weeks of taking yourself out of your plant, and going someplace to problem solve on paper, it's now time to act. Take the solutions you've come up with back to your plant, and share them with your staff, whether the solution is a policy, a practice, buying some software or product, whatever your solution is, put it in place. Then, wait and watch what happens. Does the problem go away, stay the same, or get worse? If there is no change, or the result is not what you wanted, revisit the issue during your next one hour session. Repeat until you have a solution.
If you can't handle being out if your shop working ON your business for just one hour a week, I have to tell you, that you have some serious problems! I know some folks who spend almost all of their time out of their shops doing nothing but innovating processes and new ways of business. These folks have built businesses that are disrupting their dry cleaning markets. The business models and processes they have created are extremely radical, so radical many conventional cleaners say it's impossible to do what they do. Wouldn't you like to own a business that is doing the impossible?
The entire drycleaning industry needs this kind of disruption. The largest taxi service in the world doesn't own a single car (Uber), the largest hotel service doesn't own a single square foot of property (AirBNB). I started out doing what many said was impossible: running a mini-plant without a central vacuum and boiler (self-contained tensioning presses) and a 20-lb. all electric dry-to-dry drycleaning machine in a 660 square foot space. The cleaner across the street had 2,500 square foot conventional plant. When my competitor went broke, a 60 year old company with 65 employees and a central plant of 8,000 square feet replaced him, until they too went broke.
Not that it was all wine and roses for me. The business model I used to disrupt my market worked well for me and others, for a time. Change caught up to me, and change was forced upon me. Like many of you, I resisted change until it became too difficult to resist it any longer. I paid a terrible price for resisting, and almost lost it all. When I embraced change, and began to force change on myself and my business, life turned around.
What is going to be your contribution to disrupting this industry? How are you going to innovate your way to better markets, better sales, a better business and a better life? Simply going to work and doing the same thing every day is simply going through the motions and leads to vulnerable to boredom, or worse, vulnerable to a competitor who just might out-innovate you.
My last article (Your Drycleaning Business Sucks) struck a nerve with phone calls, emails, and sharing of the article on social media, and I'm humbled by your reactions, comments, calls, messages and emails. I was very touched by some of the folks who reached, and I'd like to remind each and every one of you reading what I write: you are never alone. Please, feel free to reach out to me, and I'll do my best to connect you to people and resources that can help you.


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Trilogy announces successful drilling at third Ambler prospect
The company with two copper prospects in a remote, mineral-rich region of Alaska is adding another.
Trilogy Metals Inc. announced on Nov. 7 that it hit copper, zinc, silver and small amounts of gold and lead during summer drilling at its Sunshine prospect in the Ambler mining district northwest of Fairbanks.
The Vancouver-based junior mining firm hit zones of at least 0.87 percent copper in each of the six boreholes tested; all but one of the holes contained copper zones with mineralization excess of 2.08 percent, according to the exploration report.
For comparison, a 2016 research article published in the scientific journal Resources concluded that the average ore grade at currently producing copper mines worldwide is approximately 0.62 percent. However, the high costs associated with developing isolated prospects in Alaska often require much better-than-average resources to justify turning a prospect in the state into a producing mine.
Zinc occurrences in the same zones were largely in excess of 2 percent, with silver densities reaching 74 grams per metric ton of ore.
The results are from 1,356 meters of drilling over the six boreholes. Trilogy targeted the specific drilling sites following a $2 million electromagnetic geophysical survey the company conducted last spring over much of the Ambler prospect belt.
Interim Trilogy CEO James Gowans said in a formal statement that Sunshine is just one in a host of prospects across the large Ambler mining region, "which has the potential to be one of the most prolific mining districts in the world."
"The grades and widths of mineralization found at the Sunshine prospect are very similar to what we see at the Arctic project and I expect that with more drilling we can delineate more mineralization at Sunshine," Gowans said.
Other companies are exploring other prospects in the Ambler region, which stretches for roughly 75 miles along the southern flank of the western Brooks Range in the upper reaches of the Kobuk River drainage. Trilogy is also working in other parts of the area, including its aforementioned and advanced Arctic prospect, about eight miles east of Sunshine.
Former CEO Rick Van Nieuwenhuyse said last spring that Trilogy leaders hope to complete a feasibility study of Arctic early next year. Environmental permitting for Arctic should start once the environmental impact statement for the controversial, state-sponsored 211-mile Ambler Mining District Industrial Access Project is closer to complete as well, he said.
The high-grade Arctic prospect covers approximately 36 million metric tons of ore with 3.07 percent copper, 4.23 percent zinc, 0.73 percent lead and 47 grams per ton of silver.
Generally referred to as the Ambler road, the up to $350 million access project is a state-led plan for an unimproved industrial road off of the Dalton Highway to reach the large Ambler mining district.
Under the plan, the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority would build the road via revenue bonds once it secures commitments from mining companies that would ultimately fund the project through tolls and use agreements.
The road project has drawn opposition from local Alaska Native organizations, residents of the area and environmental groups who are worried the project will disrupt caribou migrations important for subsistence harvests.
The proposed mines have also drawn scrutiny for potential impacts to salmon and whitefish runs in the Kobuk River drainage.
In addition to the young Sunshine and mature Arctic prospects, Trilogy is also working on the mid-stage, copper-based multi-metal Bornite prospect to the south of the other two. The company completed more than 7,600 meters of drilling this year from 10 boreholes in and around the known resource.
The $9.2 million drilling program at Bornite was funded by Australia-based South 32 through an agreement the companies signed in 2017.
According to a company report issued prior to this year's drilling, Bornite contains indicated resources of more than 40 million metric tons of ore holding an average of 1.02 percent copper for 913 million pounds of the metal.
Elwood Brehmer can be reached at [email protected].


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I'm not going to bore you with a lot of detail as I'll be sharing a tutorial as how I made this mini accordion album. What's so nice about is, is that it stands up like a card so you can enjoy your pictures all year round. I first made the London one in 2009 and recently ones for my cousin and sister.
I told you that my mum dumped all her unwanted stuff on me when she downscaled recently and amongst other things, I inherited a stack of pictures of my cousin. Rather than trow it away I converted it into a mini album which my cousin enjoys immensely.
Once again, I forgot to take pictures of the one I gave to my sister and only took cellphone pic's of my cousin's. I know I say that all the time, but I'm sorry about the poor picture quality.
I'll post the London Pictures today and tomorrow you can see what the other one looked like. First up, the front. Nice tabs on the side and tied with a ribbon.
On the inside, I cut out half circles and inserted tags to include more pictures and journaling.
And this is what the tags look like.
Hope you loved this as much as I did making it. Have a wonderful Thursday and I'll be expecting you back to play with my cousin's accordion mini.


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Two big things have happened of late for the great Jill Sobule.
"Last week I started getting hate mail again from Katy Perry fans wanting to kill me!" she told a doting City Winery crowd at the end of her Thursday night show. "So I'm bringing back 'I Kissed a Girl.'"
Turning to her Dinah Shore Junior band guitarist Alex Nolan, she asked how old she was when she heard the 1995 hit, which preceded Perry's same-titled but different hit by 13 years.
"I would have been 11," said young Nolan, innocently.
"Fuck you!" responded Sobule, innocently. "Did you know what it was about?"
"Yeah," said young Nolan.
The other big thing for Sobule is a new album, Dottie's Charms, and the big interest it's already generating. A concept album, Dottie's Charms takes its name from an old charm bracelet given Sobule as a birthday present—that she never wore.
"I'm generally fine with wearing dead people's things: vintage clothes, shoes, but there is something odd and slightly ghoulish about having a stranger's life story dangling from one's wrist," Sobule explains on her website. "And that's what a charm bracelet is–an archive of places, things, people, and events in another human being's life. It's kind of personal."
So she put it in her "drawer of forgotten and misfit gifts," then checked it out again last year after the cowboy hat charm caught her eye and encouraged a closer examination. Discovering from a round charm with the name "Dorothy" and a birthdate etched in the back, she began putting Dottie's life together out of other charms including a jet plane, Statue of Liberty, Mackinac Island, Kentucky, a swiveling office chair, horses, piano, ballet slippers, and a tiny Jewish mezuzah.
She mentioned the bracelet to cultural historian David Hajdu, whom she had once suggested a music collaboration with, along with other favorite authors. Hajdu took home a photo of the Mackinac Island cham and a few days later gave her a "wonderfully heartbreaking and funny lyric," which became the album track "I Swear I Saw Christopher Reeve." She then approached the likes of Rick Moody, Jonathan Lethem, Mary Jo Salter, Luc Sante, and Sam Lipsyte, each with a different charm from which to flesh out the story of Dorothy/Dottie.
The City Winery gig, then, celebrated the release of Dottie's Charms. With Nolan, keyboardist Joe McGinty, bassist Amanda Ruzza and drummer Ben Perowsky, Sobule and Dinah Shore Junior played songs from the album and crowd faves, most notably including encore "When They Say 'We Want Our America Back,' What The F#@k Do They Mean?"–a perfect concert companion to the previously played "Statue of Liberty" from Dottie's Charms.
Lyrics by novelist/essayist Lethem, "Statue of Liberty" is a melancholy piano tune transposing a sighting of the Statue of Liberty into a failed relationship. "They Say They Want Our America Back" references the Statue in its topical lyrics involving the complaints of those who want to go back to when "life had a paler shade of white…before there was Ellis Island and that statue we got from the French":
"When they say, 'We want our America back'
Our America back
Our America back
When they say, 'We want our America back'
Well, what the fuck do they mean?"
Two other big things from the show: Sobule's mom was in from Denver ("She made the mistake of eating a whole pot Gummy Bear when I told her to eat one-quarter!"), and rapped her rebuttal to her daughter's "Big Shoes" song-complaint about being born severely pigeon-toed and having to wear "really really ugly big corrective shoes" through sixth grade.
"If not for me she'd have crinkly toes, and still be wearing Dr. Scholl's," Ma Sobule inserted.
And in addition to her little signature Vagabond Travel Guitar–affectionately known as "The Jillster"—Sobule rocked out intermittently on a big electric, and on her apocalyptic final encore "A Good Life," banjo.
"All I ever really wanted was to play guitar!" she said after the show. "George was my favorite Beatle. What more can I say?"
Jill Sobule's "When They Say 'We Want Our America Back', What The F#@k Do They Mean?"
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Disney will launch its Netflix rival in late 2019, the company has confirmed today, with ominous implications for the movies you might currently be enjoying on Netflix. The service has been in the pipeline for more than a year now, and will launch with Star Wars content among other things.
Today, speaking on an investor call following the release of Disney's Q4 2018 financial results, company executives confirmed more details about the streaming service. Set to be called Disney+, or Disney Plus, it will begin service late next year.
Unfortunately that means bad news if you've been watching Disney content through Netflix. All of its movies will be pulled from the service in 2019. To try to salve the disappointment, Disney is promising a host of new content.
There'll be both original Marvel and Star Wars series released on Disney+, while Disney's new series of "Star Wars: The Clone Wars" will also be released there. Disney is working on a new original animated Monsters Inc. series too, and there'll be a new High School Musical reboot. One of the Marvel shows will be focused on Loki, with Tom Hiddleston starring.
Update: It's also been confirmed that one of the Disney+ exclusive series will be a new Star Wars series following rebel spy Cassian Andor, Diego Luna reprising the role. It will be set prior to Rogue One: A Star Wars Story in the formative year of the Rebellion.
There's not all bad news for Netflix subscribers. If it's primarily Disney content you're looking for, the company has previously said that it intends to undercut Netflix when its service launches. Currently, Netflix's most affordable tier is $7.99 per month.
"I can say that our plan on the Disney side is to price this substantially below where Netflix is," Bob Iger, Walt Disney Chairman and CEO, said last year. "That is in part reflective of the fact that it will have substantially less volume."
Nonetheless, Disney has high hopes for Disney+. Its sports-focused streaming service, ESPN+, has already reached one million paid subscribers, despite having only launched around five months ago.
Even with Disney+ starting, meanwhile, Disney doesn't plan to reduce its efforts with Hulu. Indeed it will invest more into content available on the service it co-wns. "We intend to fuel Hulu with a lot more original Hulu programing," Iger said on the call. "It will focus on what I'll call general entertainment programming, and we'll leave more family oriented programming to the Disney+ service."
Despite not being successful in acquiring Sky in Europe, Iger said, Disney does plan to launch Disney+ in the region. The company also plans to push Hulu in Europe, too, though "we will be selective in terms of the markets we choose initially," the exec says.


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Common Mistakes Songwriters Make When Seeking a Publishing Deal - By Cassandra Kubinski
If you're seeking publishing, you must first fully understand that a publisher, whether a company or individual, is a BUSINESS. Pubs make money by dealing with products (i.e. music) that have the most income-generating potential. Publishers are people, the same as others in the world; trying to do something they (hopefully) enjoy, wanting to keep their jobs and probably advance, dealing with all the same life pressures (family, friends, fitness/health, etc) that you do, and just looking for a little love, peace, and happiness. Considering these facts will help you immensely in approaching publishers.
So what exactly are you supposed to do to get a deal? Too many songwriters have tried, unsuccessfully, to secure a deal with a music publisher and have found themselves wondering "What am I doing wrong?" Here are a few of the most common mistakes songwriters make when contacting publishers about deals.
1. NOT HAVING MARKETABLE COMMERCIAL MATERIAL Are your songs potential hits? Can they compete with what's in the marketplace now? Are they BETTER than what's out there? Have you discovered your unique voice? And most importantly, how do you know? Your material needs to compete with the BEST in the market. You should be able to say confidently that it does, not just because your friends and fans say so, but because industry people like those who work at songwriter organizations, owners/bookers of popular clubs, producers, PRO reps, all tell you your songs are commercially viable. You need to be thoroughly versed in song structures, lyrics, and melody. You need not just one, but a catalog of hooky, moving songs. If you don't have incredible songs (yet), work on your craft by co-writing "up", reading and studying any of the terrific books on songwriting (one quick trip to the bookstore will get you dozens), finding a successful songwriter to mentor you, taking workshops and classes through songwriter organizations, and seeking continual feedback. You DO NOT want to waste a publisher's time by presenting songs that don't "measure up." Do not send or bring material in a genre you just started writing in. Present songs that fans and industry people alike love. Carol Spencer of Famous Music Publishing claims that the biggest mistake she hears is songwriters mimicking what's already out there on the market, instead of bringing strong, unique material. As hit songwriter Alex Forbes ("Don't Rush Me", performed by Taylor Dane) says, "The publisher's first priority is generally to Keep Their Job by generating a string of hits and lucrative song placements." Bring hit songs.
2. SENDING UNSOLICITED MATERIAL We all think we deserve to be heard. Put yourself in the publisher's shoes! If you're a busy person looking for the next hit, you trust your industry allies to provide leads and introductions. So network your way in…find people who know those publishers, make friends, and get recommendations. THEN you can call, introduce yourself, and ask permission to meet to pitch material or send material. In the best case scenario, you have gone in thru a reputable industry source (attorney, PRO, songwriting organization). In the worst case scenario, you've called, introduced yourself and your situation, and asked permission to send songs.
3. CONTACTING THE WRONG PERSON, OR THE WRONG WAY Know the exact person to whom to send songs. Call and ask who handles your genre, if you need to. And what about follow up? John Redmond, a previous VP/General Manager of Polygram Music Publishing, Canada, has this to say: "Send your material, then wait two weeks to follow up. A simple call to find out if the package arrived may be enough to entice the publisher to listen to it next time he goes through new music." Other tips of his include "Clearly label EVERYTHING in your package (CD case, CD, insert, bio, lyrics) with your name and contact info, ALWAYS include lyrics, address your package to a SPECIFIC person, and send MAXIMUM three songs (all your strongest hits, obviously)."
4. NOT RESPECTING PEOPLE AND THEIR TIME Define exactly what you want, then ask for it. Work on your phone etiquette before you call. "Um," "like," and stammering all make you sound unprofessional and unintelligent. Ask for what you want, whether it's permission to send material, or for a rep's name, clearly and confidently. Respect the response. If it's no, wait a little while and call again (preferably once your songs are stronger). Be polite to the receptionists, who are most likely the people you'll speak to first when you call. If they sound busy, offer to call tomorrow. Both receptionist and publisher will remember and appreciate you for valuing their time.
5. NOT BEING PERSISTENT. So what? The first time you called, the receptionist had to go quickly to answer another call. The second time, they put you into the publisher's voicemail and you never heard back. The third time, you got permission to send and haven't heard a thing back. Persist until you get a specific response. Most publishers are too busy to respond to everything that comes in. Politely persisting in getting a response (perhaps a call or email once every 10 days) will help you appear professional, driven, and confident…all desirable traits in a songwriter or artist. Don't drop the ball until you have a qualified "pass" or "No thanks" response from the publisher who has listened to your music. In my experience, if you have strong material, eventually you can get a meeting or at least a hearing with that publisher. But you must persist confidently.
6. NOT THANKING PEOPLE Yes, you are making a huge mistake if you don't. A written thank you serves to remind someone of you and also positions you in their mind as a grateful, caring, professional individual who takes the time to treat THEM as an individual. Don't you like those people best?
7. JUMPING ON BOARD WITH THE FIRST OFFER TO COME ALONG As published writer Jennifer Marks (Bartic Records) says, "I have seen people take the first thing that comes up even if it isn't the right place for them to be just so they have something. Really check out the company and make sure they are people you will be able to stomach. Also, know that a publisher is often just a bank...you are still going to do most of the work." Once you are offered any type of deal, take the time to really weigh the pros and cons with your team. It might not be a bad idea to alert any other companies who have shown interest that you've been offered something to see if someone else wants to make a counter offer. What you DON'T want is to sign on, only to find that the publisher is too busy with A-List Rockstar to bother promoting/plugging your material or helping you develop as a writer. You want to be sure you feel comfortable in your gut with this publisher, especially your individual rep. Remember that your professionalism must jump to a whole new level once you get that deal.
May your songwriting bring you happiness, wealth, and satisfaction!
CASSANDRA KUBINSKI is a singer/songwriter, goal coach, and song coach in NYC. Visit www.ckubinski.com to snag HIDING UNDERNEATH, her latest EP, or to drop her a line! For more info on song critiques, songwriter goal coaching, and demo singing, contact email@example.com
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