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Day 1 Arrival Budapest
Welcome to Budapest! You will be met and transferred from the airport to your Emerald Waterways luxury river cruise ship. After boarding, enjoy some time at your leisure to explore Budapest. This evening, enjoy a traditional Hungarian dinner, then a Hungarian folk dancing and music performance on board. (Dinner)
EmeraldPLUS: Traditional Hungarian Folklore Show
Day 2 Budapest
Budapest is Eastern Europe's liveliest and most cosmopolitan city. Enjoy a guided tour of the city sights including the Hungarian Parliament Building, the Buda Castle and the Chain Bridge linking Buda and Pest or an exciting hike on the Buda Hill. On your free time, stroll the Christmas market on Budapest's main square near Váci Utca Street. This afternoon you will depart for Bratislava. (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner)
EmeraldACTIVE: A guided active walk to Buda Hill
Day 3 Bratislava
This morning we arrive at the city of Bratislava, capital of the Republic of Slovakia. Enjoy a sightseeing tour including the enchanting Old City with its Town Hall, Mirbach Palace and the Gothic Cathedral of St Martin. Alternatively, join an active guided hike to Bratislava Castle. Bratislava also charming Christmas markets throughout the city, which you can enjoy. (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner)
EmeraldACTIVE: A guided hike to Bratislava Castle
EmeraldPLUS: Home Hosted Coffee and Cake with Slovakians
Day 4 Vienna
Today, explore Austria's capital beginning with a drive along the Ringstrasse, where we will see some of Vienna's world–famous sights such as the Opera House, Burgtheater, Town Hall, St. Stephen's Cathedral and the Hofburg Imperial Palace. Then, you will have free time to sample the wonderful tastes of the Christmas markets of Vienna which are set up in 15 different squares in the city. (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner)
DiscoverMORE: Visit to Schönbrunn Palace (extra expense)
DiscoverMORE: Exclusive Viennese concert with music from Mozart and Strauss (extra expense)
Day 5 Dürnstein - Melk
In the morning we arrive in Dürnstein, one of the most enchanting villages of the Wachau wine region. This is the site of the castle where Richard the Lionheart was imprisoned after returning from the crusades in the 12th century. Thereafter, you will drive through the picturesque landscape of this district to the 900–year old Benedictine Abbey of Melk, which features Austria's finest Italian baroque architecture. (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner)
EmeraldACTIVE: Guided hike to Dürnstein Castle
EmeraldACTIVE: A guided biking tour along the Danube River from Dürnstein to Melk
Day 6 Passau
Cruise along the Danube this morning, in the afternoon we reach Passau. Cobblestone streets and graceful arcades welcome you in this beautiful city. On this afternoon's walking tour, stroll through the ancient centre's narrow alleys and see the hilltop Oberhaus Fortress from the town below. Visit St. Stephen's Cathedral, a wonderful example of Baroque architecture and home to Europe's largest church organ with more than 17,000 pipes. Passau's annual Christmas market, or Christkindlmarkt, takes place in front of the St. Stephan Cathedral. Around 70 gingerbread-like stalls selling festive souvenirs, handmade gifts and delicious treats are illuminated by strings of twinkling fairylights, as the smell of Glühwein and fresh baking fills the cool air. Indulge on gingerbread as music groups and choirs take to the stage as the perfect accompaniment. (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner)
DiscoverMORE: Tour to Salzburg (extra expense)
*** Please note, you can only choose either included tour of Passau or the DiscoverMORE option, as both tours run at the same time.
Day 7 Regensburg - Kelheim
After breakfast we arrive in magnificent UNESCO World Heritage-listed city of Regensburg. On our guided walking tour, you'll have the chance to see one of the oldest bridges crossing the Danube and see the city's architectural highlights including the Old Town Hall. Regensburg is also home to one of the loveliest' Christmas market of the German-speaking countries. With its many quaint wooden stalls, the market is located around the Neupfarr Church and the city Guard House, adorned by row-upon-row of twinkling lights. Taste your way through the narrow streets and hidden passageways, picking up a mug of delicious Glühwein and treating yourself to homemade gingerbread and cookies. (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner)
EmeraldPLUS: Traditional Bavarian Band on board
EmeraldPLUS: Visit to Thurn & Taxis Christmas Market
DiscoverMORE: Excursion to Kuchlbauer Brewery (extra expense)
Day 8 Nuremberg
Today, you will have a sightseeing coach tour of the historic city of Nuremberg. Your coach tour would pass by some of the historical parts of Nuremberg, such as the 900-year-old ramparts, the Nazi party rally grounds, where rallies were held from 1933 until 1938 among other sights. (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner)
DiscoverMORE: Gingerbread Cooking Class (extra expense)
Day 9 Bamberg
This morning we arrive at Bamberg, a UNESCO World Heritage city. Boasting one of Europe's largest intact medieval town centres, Bamberg is bursting with original character and charm. At the centre of the town is the largest preserved old quarter in Europe. (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner)
Day 10 Würzburg
Known as the "Pearl of the Romantic Road", Würzburg is surrounded by sloping hills covered with vineyards. Join our guide for a walking tour of Würzburg followed by a visit to the Bishops' Residenz, one of Germany's largest and most ornate baroque palaces and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Your tour highlights the palace's unique staircase, elaborate 18th century frescoes and the amazing 3–dimensional stuccowork. (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner)
DiscoverMORE: Tour to Rothenburg (extra expense)
*** Please note, you can only choose either included visit to Bishop's Residenz or the DiscoverMORE option, as both tours run at the same time.
Day 11 Wertheim - Miltenberg
Today we start from the stunning medieval glass-blowing town of Wertheim, where you have the opportunity to explore on your own. Then, travel by coach to the picturesque village of Miltenberg on the Main River. The village creates an imitable feeling of Bavarian life in the middle ages and the Old Town is lined with well–preserved half–timbered buildings. The gothic Merchant Hall is an impressive symbol of past affluence created by trade from river traffic. (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner)
EmeraldACTIVE: Guided hike around Miltenberg area
Day 12 Rüdesheim- Koblenz
After breakfast arrive in Rüdesheim, one of Germany's most popular towns. You will visit the Siegfried's Mechanical Musical Instrument Museum. After the included visit, continue exploring and perhaps taste the famous "Rüdesheimer Coffee", made with Germany's most famous brandy Asbach Uralt. (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner)
Day 13 Cologne
The ship sails from Koblenz in the early morning, cruising along the Rhine we arrive in Cologne. Seven markets transform picturesque Cologne into a winter wonderland over the Christmas period. Be sure to pay a visit to the stalls around the Alter Markt, Neumarkt, Rudolfplatz and the cathedral, beneath which you'll locate the Christmas tree. Decorated mugs hold steaming hot Glühwein, and local vendors sell handmade sweets and local delicacies. Be sure not to miss the mesmerising 'Stars at Night' theme adopted around the Neumarkt, where looking up unveils a beautiful light display above your head. This evening, the captain will be delighted to welcome you to the Captain's Farewell Gala Dinner. (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner)
DiscoverMORE: Tour to Drachenburg (extra expense)
DiscoverMORE: Football Stadium Tour (extra expense)
*** Please note, you can only choose either the Drachenburg Castle or the Football Stadium Tour as both DiscoverMORE options run at the same time.
Day 14 Amsterdam
The ship sails along the Amsterdam Rijnkanaal and into Amsterdam. This morning you will enjoy a glass top canal boat tour through Amsterdam's canal. After the canal tour, enjoy free time to visit some of Amsterdam's other famous attractions, such as the Rijks or Van Gogh Museums, or simply enjoy the lively atmosphere and watch the world go by. (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner)
DiscoverMORE: Tour to Haarlem (extra expense)
Day 15 Amsterdam Disembarkation
After breakfast, your tour concludes and you will be transferred to the airport for your ongoing flight. (Breakfast)
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Mental illness: Medication alone isn't the answer
Posted on June 3, 2012 in Health Debates
Source: Toronto Star — Authors: Jennifer Pagliaro
TheStar.com – living
Published On Wed May 30 2012. Jennifer Pagliaro, Staff Reporter
He was their sweet boy with the impish grin, tousled bangs and piercing blue eyes.
As a child, Kit Skelly identified strongly with Peter Pan. During trips to Georgian Bay, he would climb up rocks then leap off, giving his parents a fright as he tried to fly.
Funny, artistic, happy. That's how Lesley and David Skelly would have described Kit even four years ago.
Certainly not sad, scared and paranoid, never mind schizophrenic.
But before their world unravelled, before Peter Pan was made to grow up, they were just Mom and Dad.
Now the couple are primary caregivers to the 23-year-old, whose mind is overwhelmed by the voices and delusions that cloud his grip on reality. Burdened with administering Kit's medications, the Skellys struggle to hold their family together and find support from the health-care system.
THEQUIET middle child of three, Kit spent his adolescence in the family's red-brick Leaside home, sleeping in a top-floor room his parents have left mostly untouched — a bed, bare walls, with stacks of biology texts under a skylight.
(Kit declined requests to be interviewed, but allowed his parents to tell this story.)
Kit always knew he wanted to be a doctor, his ambition spurred by the death of a close friend.
"He just wanted to make sure no one else got sick," says Lesley, a longtime Girl Guides leader and the family's storyteller.
As a second-year biology student at Guelph University, Kit had his first documented psychotic episode in November 2008. He ended up in a Toronto emergency room, arms and legs in restraints after assaulting a security guard during an attempt to escape.
In the year after his diagnosis, as long as Kit took an antidepressant pill every morning and an antipsychotic every evening, he had no more episodes and the voices that still tell him he is worthless were at bay.
"He was very compliant in the beginning," Lesley says.
He went back to school part-time, commuting to Guelph once a week before transferring to Ryerson as he sought a new normal.
Though doctors had diagnosed Kit immediately with a mental illness under the schizophrenia umbrella, they now believe he may actually have schizoaffective disorder, which includes the loss of reality associated with schizophrenia and mood disturbances typical of bipolar disorder.
Four years after his first psychotic break, Kit is on his sixth antipsychotic drug.
He believes he is living in a virtual world, a video game over which he has no control. He still hears voices, although they can be quieter at times.
The Skellys have watched as each medication failed to stop the delusions skewing their son's reality.
This is the typical cycle for many families: there's no quick-fix medical solution for mental illnesses. They require trial and error, experimenting with different drugs and dosages to see what will halt a person's delusions without significantly affecting quality of life.
Still, medication is widely considered a cornerstone to coping with mental illness. For people like Kit who have a serious chronic illness, finding prescriptions tailored to their needs can be like shooting in the dark.
For the estimated 3 per cent of the world's population who will experience severe mental illness, research indicates the path to recovery is different for each person, often requiring day-to-day management.
In the year after his first episode, it became a daily struggle to convince Kit to take his medications. He was adamant the drugs were making him worse or — since he didn't think they were real — that he didn't need them.
"The stress for us at the time was being the pill police," says David. He's tall, and his hair curls like Kit's does.
"He became honestly like a magician," David says.
The Skellys would tell Kit to open his mouth so they could make sure he wasn't hiding his pills under his tongue. But Kit could slip them into the crevices of his mouth, or into his pocket only to stash them in his bed.
Sometimes when he did swallow his pills, he'd force himself to vomit.
David also became fixated on trying to correct his son's delusions. One day, while sitting in the living room, Kit pointed out the picture window and described the dinosaurs floating out behind the trees — David soon realized there were some arguments not worth having.
Some of Kit's concerns about his medications were valid. He faced severe weight gain, drowsiness, tremors, restlessness and loss of motivation.
Since starting treatment, Kit has lost his motivation, doing little more than more than eating McDonalds meals and playing computer games.
"He just sits in his room," Lesley says.
KIT'S difficulty with medication is no surprise to most experts.
"Evidence and scientific understanding allows us to narrow in on the types of medication that we think are going to work," says Dr. Ian Dawe, physician-in-chief at Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences, whose 20 years working in an emergency room gave him a front-row seat to the revolving door of the mental-health system.
But he says health-care workers are just scratching the surface of caring for patients with these kinds of unique brain chemistry and genetics.
But medication is widely believed to fight only half the battle, with community support and psychosocial interventions playing a key role in recovery.
"The more you build in those supports, the more you're likely to see better medication compliance," says Steve Lurie, executive director of the Canadian Mental Health Association's Toronto branch.
A new generation of psychiatric drugs, produced over the past four decades, is better than the previous class at treating illness while preventing relapse.
Yet some studies suggest there's little improvement in compliance with schizophrenics taking the new drugs.
In some regions of Ontario, as many as 30 per cent of people with complex mental illness are living with their parents or relatives, according to a 2006/2007 study of Assertive Community Treatment teams, which provide comprehensive case management.
The responsibility of administering a drug falls on those families.
Until recently, that would have included the Skellys, but they are no longer Kit's pill police.
If Kit stays on his newest medication, an injection administered once a month, they may never have to be again.
Kit has received the $500 shot — paliperidone palmitate, better known by trade name Invega Sustenna — for the past six months at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre.
After difficulties with the same medication taken in the backside, a friend of the Skellys told them the needles could be administered in the arm — something professionals at the hospital didn't know about. Kit was the first patient to receive that treatment at Sunnybrook.
DANNY Ciarafoni reaches for the photos of his smiling grandchildren propped up on his kitchen table. Their cherubic faces keep him going.
His wife, Cindy, who the Star wrote about in January, tragically died at 48 after being hit by a car in the middle of Hwy. 7.
She had been diagnosed with schizophrenia 25 years ago.
Ciarafoni said they'd tried all the newest medications, which he organized for his wife in a pillbox — eventually amounting to more than $1,000 a month. His insurance covered only $2,500 per year.
In the last three years, Cindy's health deteriorated. She refused to take her medications regularly, and she was hospitalized about once a month during six-month stretch.
Ciarafoni worked hard to support his family, and his adult children assisted when they could. But there was no one to help ensure Cindy took her medications consistently.
As he recalls the people who told him his wife was too sick, beyond help, Ciarafoni clenches his fists. On his flexed forearm, a newly inked praying angel outline becomes visible, the word "Cindy" emblazoned beside it.
"The whole system's broken. It doesn't work," Ciarafoni says during an interview in his Woodbridge home. Behind him is the garden he built for Cindy, a nurse.
When Cindy was taken to hospital in distress in January, hospital records show she was never assessed by attending physicians, and her family believes she walked away without being noticed.
Three months later, her own family doctor had no idea she had died.
"They'd always tell me there's no real solution," Ciarafoni says. "There's no answers. There's no help."
IN LATE 2009, more than a year after Kit's diagnosis, the Skellys realized he hadn't been taking his medication consistently.
Kit had become agitated again and quick to anger.
His psychiatrist told the Skellys to set rules and stick to them. If Kit refused to take his medications, he couldn't live at home, where they were also raising his teenaged sister.
The two siblings were always close but, over time, they realized Kit wasn't the only child they had to protect.
When the Skellys set the rules, Kit still refused to take his medications. When they asked him to leave, he wouldn't.
So they made the painful decision to call the police, who brought Kit to the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health.
When he was discharged days later, the Skellys arrived with a bag they'd packed for him and gave him another choice: come home and take his medications or be dropped off at a shelter.
Kit chose the shelter.
Since then he's been in and out of hospital, between shelters and home, taking his prescribed drugs sporadically as well as illegal substances.
Kit now lives in the basement apartment of his 25-year-old brother's home not far from his parents north of Toronto. The Skellys visit him throughout the week to take him to visit his psychiatrist or for medications, often bribing him with lunch. Sushi is his favourite treat, one of the few he still enjoys.
They're lucky now if they can even convince him to go for a walk. The dreams they had for their son are gone.
"He will never be a doctor," Lesley says.
He's forgotten how to fly.
"We lost our son," Lesley says. "He died."
ELGIN Barrett, 42, who lives with bipolar mood disorder, struggled to stick with his medication regimen while supporting his wife and young daughter.
Misdiagnosed with schizophrenia at 21, he was embarrassed by his illness, preventing him from taking his medications, he says.
"I didn't want my peers to look at me as someone that was a whacko," Elgin says. "I said to myself, 'I'm not sick.'"
His wife, Pamela, has been his main support for the past 10 years.
"To be that support system for him is very stressful," she says. "This unseen elephant in the room is so consuming in my life."
But Elgin said after hitting a crisis point he's come to realize in the past couple of years the medications helps him be the man and father he wants to be.
He now lives by his psychiatrist's instructions: "just swallow the pill."
"It was a journey," he says. He's quick to smile and joke when the story allows.
The illness has no grip on him anymore. "If you're not compliant, it's a revolving door," Elgin says of the mental-health system.
Elgin recently went back to school to become an advocate for the mental-health community.
"We're still making plans," Pamela says. "We're still very optimistic."
CANADA'S first mental-health strategy, released May 8 by the Mental Health Commission of Canada, recognizes the burden on families and the role they play in recovery from illness.
"To us, they are the experts," says Irina Sytcheva, manager of policy and community relations for the Schizophrenia Society of Ontario. "They live it every day. They know what works, they know what doesn't work."
But when families do seek help, they are wholly unprepared for the task of monitoring and managing care, almost completely on their own.
"They're told, you know, your job is basically to make sure your relative takes their meds and attends their appointments," says Karyn Baker, executive director of the Family Outreach and Response Program in Toronto, one of the few support agencies for families of people with mental illness. "If you have somebody in the home who is adamant about not taking medication, it's really complicated to know how to manage that situation without becoming sort of the enemy."
Baker says treatment needs to be more of a conversation, which includes the person with the illness, family members and mental-health professionals where everyone's expertise contributes to mental health.
"The journey to recovery is uncertain," she says. "So for us, it's really working with families to learn how to tolerate the uncertainty and to manage their own, what we call, dark emotions."
GUILT, GRIEF and loss haunt families like the Skellys.
They put it simply: people have forgotten it takes a village to raise a child.
When seven police cruisers swarmed the Skelly's home in broad daylight last year — it was the second time Kit was removed from the home in an agitated state — Lesley says she was floored that only one person in their tight-knit community called to make sure the family was OK.
"They're all afraid," Lesley says. "Everybody wants to help when it's something they understand."
Kit's own family and friends were reluctant to visit him in hospital, Lesley says.
If Kit had had a heart attack or cancer, she's sure the community would have rallied. "There would have been 20 casseroles at my door that night."
She says there's no use resorting to common condolences when speaking to someone who has a loved one with mental illness.
"You can't tell them it's going to be OK because you don't know if it's going to be OK," she says.
After his most recent shot this May, Kit told his parents he no longer wants to take his medication, leaving them once again uncertain about the future of his treatment.
Kit needs a medicine that works — one that quiets all his demons and prevents him from losing interest in day-to-day activities. And he needs support from a community who can overcome their fear of mental illness and work with him on a plan towards recovery.
If he stops taking his medication again, Kit may be back on the street, suffering from untreated psychosis. It's his choice to make.
But David and Lesley still hope that one day Kit will be able to come to terms with his illness.
"I think there's a part of him that knows," David says. "When he gets there, I know he's going to be OK forever."
< http://www.thestar.com/living/article/1202460–mental-illness-medication-alone-isn-t-the-answer >
Medication and mental illness: by the numbers
People with schizophrenia who do not take their medication as prescribed are 3.7 times more likely to relapse than patients who take their medication.
Percentage of Canadians with schizophrenia who feel side effects from medication limit their quality of life.
$1.16 billion
Amount spent on antidepressants in Canada in 2007.
$629 million
Amount spent on antipsychotics in Canada in 2007.
$247 million
Amount spent on antianxiety medications in Canada in 2007.
Discharges from Canadian hospitals in 2002 and 2003 attributed to mental illness.
Sources: Psychiatric Times, Psychiatric Services, American Journal of Psychiatry and Mood Disorders Society of Canada
< http://www.thestar.com/living/article/1202793–medication-and-mental-illness-by-the-numbers >
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"Noor woke with her feet pedalling the bicycle she had ridden in her sleep. For some time she was happy just to lie still remembering the dream. What colour had the bicycle been? She switched through colours in her mind, riding a blue one, even a yellow. But this was an exercise in delay. She knew which colour she would want her cycle to be –green – if she only owned a cycle, a green cycle.
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Thanks to Vicky's brilliant idea of adding the state abbreviations in the front of all ads, you may now sort all ads by state!
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Restaurant refuses to seat ex-Marine with service dog
- Truman in training as certified service animal
- Brown diagnosed with post traumatic stress disorder
- Truman helps Brown cope with nightmares%2C social anxieties
A Marine Corps veteran says he was told to leave a Texas restaurant because he brought his dog-in-training to be certified as his service animal.
"I take my dog a lot of places, so I don't really look for permission anymore because I've never had any problems," Don Brown of Spring, Texas, told Marine Corps Times on Thursday. "I've had one or two people make a comment, but I tell them it's a service dog and that's the end of it."
But on Wednesday when Brown took his Doberman, Truman, to the River Side Inn Marina in Channelview, Texas, a waitress said she needed to check to see if she could seat him because dogs are not allowed in the restaurant.
After several minutes, according to Brown, a man emerged from a back office and yelled from across the bar, "Can you see?" Taken aback, Brown said, "Excuse me?" and the man asked again if Brown had the sense of sight.
"So I asked him what his name was, and he told me his name, and told me that I was catching an attitude and that I needed to leave," Brown said. "I'm a pretty non-confrontational kind of guy. At that point, I said, 'Really because of your attitude, we are going to leave. This is wrong.'"
One of Brown's friends called a local TV news station about what happened, and KPRC-TV in Houston reported on the incident Wednesday.
"I honestly didn't want it to go this far," Brown said. "My whole reason for even talking to the news was so that somebody else didn't have to go through this. You run into ignorance every once in a while."
Marine Corps Times called the River Side Inn Marina on Thursday. A man answering the phone said, "We have no comment."
Brown provided Marine Corps Times with records saying he served in the Marine Corps from 1986 to 1994. He received an honorable discharge and left the service as a sergeant.
After the leaving the Marine Corps, Brown was diagnosed with post traumatic stress disorder stemming from his experiences in the Gulf War, he said.
He has had Truman for about eight months. The dog's training includes taking him out in public. On Wednesday, the man at the restaurant got right up in Brown's face, so Truman did his job by getting between Brown and the danger.
"He wakes me up from my nightmares, which is how he helps me at home," Brown said. "I generally didn't go out very much anymore. I haven't worked in 24 months because I've just seem to have developed a lot of social anxieties, and so Truman helps me go out and not be always on high alert. I can relax and kind of enjoy life a little bit."


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In October of 2008, I spent a week at the Family History Library (FHL) at Salt Lake City. It took me several months to prepare for that 3rd visit. Had a great time, and it was in the 70s every day, a very unusual heat wave, which I loved.
But now, I am complaining because I still haven't completed entering sources on what I found. While that trip was far more organized than the others, and I made copies of far less material, it is taking me way too long to go through it and enter into the genealogy software that I use. I am afraid, that if I don't complete this task soon, I will be looking up the same stuff next year when I go to Salt Lake City for the National Genealogical Society's (NGS) annual conference in May. See: http://18.104.22.168/search?q=cache:J2yADIxY4B4J:www.ngsgenealogy.org/cs/conference_info+national+genealogical+society+2010&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us One thing I don't want to do, is double research! Would you?
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SmartBear Software has this week released its PeerReview Complete tool. The product is designed to act as a peer review bridging mechanism between software and hardware engineers focused on digital content.
Rather than yet another tool focused on connecting the business function to the IT function, or a new method for linking the application design team with the application programming unit, this tool sits in comparatively new territory as it aims to unite the interests of software and hardware engineers focused on the need to share, review, and annotate schematics, 2D drawings, diagrams, images, HTML, and other digital data.
SmartBear says this is the first time hardware and software design teams will have been able to share and review both technical documents and programming code, keeping both teams in sync when issues are found and changes are made.
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1200 years of tradition and openness characterise the Hanseatic city of Bremen on the Weser river. Its most famous landmarks – the splendid Weser Renaissance town hall and the venerable Roland statue – form a joint UNESCO World Heritage site on the historical market square. Bremen's world-famous mascots are the Town Musicians from the Brothers Grimm fairytale.
Exciting interactive exhibitions and science centres, insights into the technologies of tomorrow – Bremen's is home to numerous projects that prove that science is anything but dry and boring. The botanika, Universum Bremen and the Ethnological Museum put the focus on learning by doing. And at EADS Astrium you can find out how astronauts eat, sleep and shower in zero gravity.
Not a month goes by without some exciting event taking place in Bremen – from the Freimarkt, Germany's oldest funfair, to concerts and plays, art exhibitions and the traditional Christmas market, whose Schlachte Magic stalls extend along the Weser river.
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Only eight months after giving birth, Hilary Duff is back in her skinny jeans.
"Yaaaa bitches! Gabe johns your kickin my ass and its paying off! Skinny jeans! LETS GO!" Duff tweeted, along with a photo of her size 26 jeans.
Check out celebrities' dramatic weight lossDuff has been hard at work since welcoming son Luca in March. In October, the actress teamed up with personal trainer Johns to help get a rockin' post-baby bod."Hilary and Gabe have been doing everything from boxing to two-a-day workouts incorporating wind springs and jump roping in an effort to finally shed the baby weight," a rep for Johns told Us Weekly. "Hilary's been steadily dropping pounds each week."


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Like "Captain America," it seems like it's been a long wait since we got a significant trailer for the upcoming DC Comics adaptation "Green Lantern." Apparently, they were just waiting for WonderCon.
A significant chunk of footage was screened for fans, and now what looks to be a more substantial trailer has hit the web. Lots of footage, lots of aliens, and lots of jade-colored CGI.
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It still leaves a lot of intriguing questions hanging in the air - Will giant green fists wow in 3D? Does Blake Lively actually have a part? Is an entire planet full of Green Lanterns really caught by surprise when a guy named "Sinestro" turns out to be bad? We'll just have to wait and see.
"Green Lantern" opens June 17th.


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Hey Phil!
I've been trying to hook up with an active Atheist group in SA, unfortunately I haven't found any. I'm currently located in JHB were I thought there were a few Atheists groups but had a shock of my life when I met Christian Marxists group at a Communist Convention since I presumed that maybe among the Communists I might encounter people of reason.
As a serious black South African Atheist with reasonable understanding of science and Darwinism in particular. My world outlook is fundamentally based on science and reason. But as you would expect this has by default alienated me from many fellow South Africans-especially my black brothers and sisters. With my limited understanding of evolution I have tried to win over a few of them but have failed dismally and often been labeled the 'Anti-Christ' or 'Satanist'(I also end up being a label of their insecurities and fears).These people have been programmed to respond in a certain fixed way to any idea that my threaten their ludicrous beliefs-mainly by vilifying the opponent.
As a lecturer in one of the private colleges in SA I always use my position to plant the seed of doubt to my students but I always feel like I'm 'sowing the seed of doubt on a solidified gravel plantation', the extent of religious indoctrination in South Africa makes me wanna believe those Skeptics who consider Africa as 'the dark continent' and that it will continue to be a victim of rape and plunder by the Western colonialists and neo-colonialists.
The end of Apartheid was the 'removal of the economic chains from our necks' and 'putting them back on our feet'. No politician has lamented about the other chain,the worse of the chains-the mental chain-religious dogma being the fundamental construct of that chain.
Hope to have more correspondence with you.
Kind regards
(I checked out your site too-I will definitely join, seems like there's interesting stuff there)
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After months of teasers, Rihanna has released the video for "Where Have You Been."
The island beauty is doing the damn thing in the Dave Meyers directed clip. Rihanna and company get their dance choreography on throughout and its the best we've seen her dance ever. The visual is as equally addictive as the song, which was produced by "We Found Love" producer Calvin Harris.
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Olivia Newton-John feared she would never sing another note after her sister died last year because she didn't even want to listen to music following her passing.
The "Grease" star had to postpone a planned residency in Las Vegas when her elder sister Rona lost her battle with brain cancer in May, and she admits she thought she would have to scrap the Sin City shows altogether.
Announcing the official dates for her run at the Flamingo hotel and casino on Tuesday, the Australian superstar said, "I lost my sister and I couldn't sing after that. … There was a time where I didn't think I'd sing again, but time is a wonderful healer (and) singing for me is my way of healing. … I'm gonna bring her (sister) to Vegas."


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Finally...Alabama has exposed the crew of Peanuts for what they are...illegal immigrants. We say round up Linus, Lucy, Charlie Brown, Schroeder, and Pig Pen and deport them. These are clearly a bunch of illegals brought to the US by Charles Schultz. They never seem to age either which suggests an alien like quality!
Actually, the get tough Alabama law requires that all companies doing business with the state provide documentation that no illegals work for them. The company in NYC that holds the rights to the play was reluctant to provide the required paperwork to Pelham High School, holding up production. The show must go on! This will be the most important theatrical performance ever in the state of Alabama! We also think that the use of a football requires approval by Crimson Tide coach Nick Sayban.
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Kickstarter seems to be all about the watches lately.
The newest one to enter the fray is the CST-01, billing itself as the "world's thinnest watch."
And at only 0.8 millimeters thick, that's a feature we'd believe. And the weight? Twelve grams, which is less than the five pennies in your pocket right now.
It's pretty minimalist, standing in stark contrast to the other feature-packed Kickstarter watch called Pebble, just displaying the time on an e-Ink screen (which is all a watch has to do, right?).
The battery can be recharged 10,000 times and each charge will last about 30 days.
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ROCHESTER, Minn.—Custom Alarm, based here, started out 43 years ago in the basement of the home of the company's president and CEO Leigh Johnson, whose background was in sound.
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No-show attorney hit with default judgment
A Stamford judge on Tuesday granted a motion finding former White House attorney John Michael Farren culpable for the horrifying injuries his wife suffered when Farren attacked her in their New Canaan mansion nearly four years ago after he failed to show up for his civil damages trial two days in a row.
A video of Farren's battered wife was shown in court Tuesday. Taken at Norwalk Hospital after the attack, the video showed close-ups of a sutured gash to the scalp, hair matted with blood, two black eyes, bruising all over the face and the right side of her throat cut. Other photos taken at the New Canaan police station on the night of the assault and displayed to the jury showed Farren's hands bloodied, with cuts and bruises.
Farren, 60, who is representing himself and appeared in court for four days last week in jeans and a red sweater to pick nine jurors, says he is in a Hartford area hospital and unable to come to court.
Judge Robert Genuario told the court Monday that Farren sent an email to the courthouse saying that he was being treated at a Hartford hospital and he had no chance of making it to court.
Genuario said emails were sent back to Farren in hopes of trying to figure out what was going on, but there were no replies.
Farren's former wife, Mary Margaret Farren, is suing him for millions as a result of the injuries she suffered on the night of January 6, 2010, in their 9,500-square-foot Wahackme Road home. After the attack, Farren, a former White House attorney under George W. Bush and a general counsel for Xerox, has been criminally charged with attempted murder, two counts of first-degree assault and risk of injury to a child. He was released months later after posting $750,000 bond.
Calls made to Farren's phone seeking comment were not immediately returned.
According to Mary Farren's court documents, she told Farren she wanted a divorce on Jan. 4, 2010. Two days later, Farren asked her to drop the divorce action. She refused and he went berserk.
Although Genuario granted the default motion filed by Mary Farren's attorneys, Ernie Teitell and Paul Slager, Genuario said if Farren returned to court he could file a motion to vacate the order that the judge would consider.
Teitell declined comment on the default judgment.
With the judgment made and the proceedings able to go on without Farren, Teitell and Slager began presenting witnesses Tuesday to determine damages in the case.
As well as hearing testimony from some Weed Street neighbors who told the jury how Mary Farren unexpectedly arrived at their home bloody and bruised with her two small children on Jan. 6, 2010, a medic also took the stand to describe her injuries.
New Canaan Volunteer Ambulance Corps Emergency Medical Technician Amy Kennedy, said that when she got to the Weed Street home she saw Mary Farren lying in a pool of blood.
Kennedy said she was bleeding profusely just inside the front door of the home, as if someone had poured a 12-ounce can of blood under her head. She said a shivering, crying and very frightened Mary Farren had a gash that ran from her hairline on her forehead to the back of her head, and "angry red" strangle marks on her throat. Kennedy said the gash looked like a cracked watermelon and she could see the wound was deep. Kennedy said they later found clumps of hair in the bathrobe she was wearing and she could see tufts of hair that had been pulled out was still sticking to her head.
Mary Farren also had a cut and large bruise on her right cheek and when Kennedy asked if her teeth felt correctly aligned, Mary Farren said no, which indicated to Kennedy that her face had been fractured.
When Kennedy asked what happened, Mary Farren told her that her husband tried to kill her. Kennedy said Mary Farren told her that her husband pulled "gobs" of her hair out and pummeled her with his fists.
"My husband is trying to kill me," Kennedy said Farren told her. Kennedy also said that Farren told her, "I always knew he was dangerous," but Genuario cut her off and told the jury to disregard Kennedy's comments about what Farren said about her husband.
Outside the courtroom Kennedy said that Mary Farren told her that her husband was a very powerful man and that she feared he would get to her and kill her.


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Campaigning It
Writer's Platform Building Campaign for the second time. I met so many nice people the last time I did it, I just had to participate again. Here's the deal from Rachael's site:
If you're an author/blogger, who wants to make some new like-minded friends, I highly recommend going over to her site and signing up. The deadline to register is February 15 and the Campaign runs through March 17. Do it!"Basically, the Campaign is a way to link those of us in the writing community together with the aim of helping to build our online platforms. The Campaigners are all bloggers in a similar position, who genuinely want to pay it forward, make connections and friends within the writing community, and help build each others' online platforms while at the same time building theirs."


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This is the final post in a four-part series on unity. Previous entries, in order, may be found here:
- Sola Scriptura and the Proliferation of Protestant Denominations
- Sectarianism and Separation
- The Wrong Kind of Unity
ere's a fact many miss: To a very large degree, the unity Christ prayed for does exist among genuine believers, and it is a unity that transcends denominational lines.
All Christians are "in Christ"; therefore they are all one with the Father, and one with each other as well. Notice carefully what Christ says in verses 22-23: "[I pray] that they may be one, just as We are one; I in them and You in Me, that they may be perfected in unity." The basis of that unity is not a denominational affiliation; it is our position in Christ.
Faithful evangelical Protestants believe God is answering that prayer of Christ even now. We enjoy an amazing degree of unity with one another, despite our denominational distinctions. In other words, the kind of spiritual unity Christ prayed for does exist in the true body of Christ worldwide despite denominational barriers. Our Lord's prayer for His church has not gone unanswered.
Christ's true church is not confined to a single congregation, denomination, or earthly organization. The church is composed of all true believers in Christ, regardless of denominational affiliation or membership in any earthly assembly. In the words of the Westminster Confession of Faith, "The catholic or universal church, which is invisible, consists of the whole number of the elect, that have been, are, or shall be gathered into one, under Christ the Head thereof; and is the spouse, the body, the fullness of him that filleth all in all" (25.1). When the Confession speaks of the church as "invisible," it does not mean the church is inconspicuous or utterly hidden from view. It means that its precise boundaries cannot be detected through human perception. There are people who claim to be, and appear to be, part of the body, but they are not. Others, perhaps unknown to us, are true believers and members of the body. The exact boundaries of the true church are not always easy to discern. But nonetheless genuine believers are "all one in Christ Jesus" (Gal. 3:28)united with Him, and therefore united with one another. "For even as the body is one and yet has many members, and all the members of the body, though they are many, are one body, so also is Christ. For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body" (1 Cor. 12:12-13).
During His earthly ministry, Christ told the disciples: "I have other sheep, which are not of this fold; I must bring them also, and they will hear My voice; and they will become one flock with one shepherd" (Jn. 10:16). The "one shepherd" is Christ himself, not an earthly vicar. And the "one flock" is also a spiritual reality even now, with believing Jews and Gentiles united in one new body, and the middle wall of partition between Jew and Gentile having been broken down (Eph. 2:14-16). The perfect manifestation of that unity awaits fulfillment in a future time, when "we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man, to the measure of the stature which belongs to the fullness of Christ" (Eph. 4:13). In the meantime, to settle for the superficial unity imposed by a monstrous worldwide ecclesiastical hierarchy would be a serious mistake.
The unity Christ prayed for has always existed in the true body of Christ. It is an organic, not an organizational unity. It is a spiritual, not a corporeal unity. And it is not a unity without diversity. (If He had wanted unity with no diversity, He would not have gifted us with different spiritual gifts.) But the kind of unity Christ prays for is a unity in spite of our great diversity.
The truth is that on the vital issues there is far more agreement among Protestants than Catholic and Eastern Orthodox church leaders would like to admit. All evangelical Protestants are in agreement on the doctrine of justification by faith (sola fide) and the authority of Scripture (sola Scriptura).
Proof that unity is the rule among believers despite their denominational differences can be seen in a survey of the denominational backgrounds of the men who have contributed to this book. We may not always agree on every point and every particular of secondary doctrinal questions. But on the essential gospel truths we are in full agreement. And our unity in Christ is unbroken by denominational lines between us. We embrace one another with sincere love as members of the one body of Christ. We are one in Christ.
The evangelical school where I studied is an interdenominational Bible institute. My professors were Presbyterians, Baptists, Congregationalists, and Independents. Students came from an incredibly diverse array of Protestant denominations. We prayed together, studied together, and did evangelistic work together. Our denominational differences were no barrier to our unity in Christ.
The church I'm a member of now is a non-denominational church. Our members come from backgrounds as varied as Baptist, Brethren, and Presbyterian congregations. Our pastor is regularly asked to speak in all kinds of denominational settings. In recent years he has spoken in Anglican churches, Baptist conventions, Presbyterian conferences, and charismatic congregations. We do enjoy a tremendous unity with all those who truly love Christ and are faithful to his wordregardless of our denominational differences.
The limits on this trans-denominational unity are set by Scripture itself. We cannot welcome into our circle of fellowship people who deny truths that are essential to the gospel (2 John 7-11); and we cannot embrace people who affirm a gospel Scripture condemns (Gal. 1:18-19). The gospel and all truths essential to it are therefore nonnegotiable points of doctrine, and unity on these matters is a prerequisite to any other kind of unity.
But there's nothing inherently sinful with holding denominational convictions on secondary issues. Denominations in and of themselves are not necessarily an obstacle to true Christian unity, and Protestants should not be bullied into conceding otherwise.
Of course, when differences on secondary issues are magnified and used to promote strife and hostility between brothers and sisters in Christ, that is sectarianism. It's the very attitude Paul condemned in Corinth when some of the believers there were dividing in groups loyal to Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, and refusing fellowship to members of the competing groups. Such sectarianism is certainly sinfully divisive. But that is not a necessary result of denominationalism. And those of us with broad denominational associations and close friendships in Christ across denominational boundaries are living proof of that.
There is room for brethren to disagree within the bonds of unity, and sometimes those disagreements can be sharp (cf. Acts 15:36-39). In fact, it is unlikely that there are any two Christians anywhere who will agree completely on the meaning of every passage of Scripture. Unity does not mean that we must agree up front on every point of truth. On the other hand, unity certainly does not mean that we should ignore the issue of truth altogether and settle for a superficial organizational unity.
As far as we are concerned, both the ecumenical idealogues and the Roman Catholic Church can keep the phony substitutes for true unity they are peddling. The unity we already enjoy with all people of God who submit to the authority of Scripture and who truly love Christ is far superior to the appearance of unity brought by a hierarchy of priests or a ministerial association that deliberately masks essential differences.
It is a fearful reality that when "we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ" (Ephesians 4:13), those who merely profess love for Christ but have no true regard for His truth (including, we fear, many of the same people who do the most talking about "unity" nowadays) will find themselves sent away with the goats rather than united with the sheep.


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Joshua Glenn has been rescuing classic science fiction and fantasy books from dusty vaults for years. Now he's getting excited about the "adventure" subgenre — he shared a list of great science fiction adventure yesterday, and today he's got a list of fantasy adventures.
Over at Hilobrow, Glenn lists 65 of his personal favorite fantasy adventure novels. This is not a definitive list – it's just a list made out of love, by somebody who has read a lot of books in the genre. He's an expert in the old and obscure, so you're likely to find forgotten gems here that you'll be glad Glenn has rediscovered. It's a chronological list from 1860 to 1983, so head over to Hilobrow to get your dose of classic fantasy adventure recommendations!


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Welcome, Readers!
This week I have the pleasure of introducing you to author Carol Moncado, who writes contemporary Christian romances (often with royals :-), otherwise known as Romantic Dramedy in the Ozarks—and beyond.
Carol Moncado's a hoot, so this should be fun! Don't forget to comment below for a chance to win one of Carol's books in digital format via Amazon's gift option.
Congratulations to Paula Shreckhise, winner of this week's drawing!
Life as Carol Moncado
Hey all! I'm so happy Linda asked me to be here today! YAY! I love Linda and her sense of humor!
I write romantic dramedy and originally set it all in the Ozarks because that's where I live. I've been here almost 25 years and plan to die here (a very long time from now :).
I moved from Phoenix when I was 17 to attend college in Springfield, MO. One of the first people I met was this cute supervisor at the local Chick-fil-A where I'd be working. One thing led to another and we've been married over 20 years now!
Carol Moncado's Family Circus
We claim four kids and two dogs who weigh less than many hardback books (okay – not quite, but they weigh a combined 12 lbs.).
Our sixteen-year-old daughter works for our old boss at one of the local Chick-fil-As. She plays tenor saxophone quite well and took her solo to state last year. She also plays clarinet and alto saxophone and wants to learn to play keyboard. Bandmomming is my life in the fall!
Our fourteen-year-old daughter plays flute and does color guard.
Our almost-thirteen-year-old kiddo plays trumpet and does color guard. She wants to play French horn but not yet – and got a keyboard for Christmas!
Our youngest is our only boy. He's ten and still in elementary so we're not sure what he's going to play just yet :).
I'll be a band mom until 2025. Or longer. The oldest plans to direct her high school band when she grows up and her director retires. Then I get to be band godmother!! With hubby's acquisition of a triangle at Christmas (he's planning to rock the triangle solo), we have 22 instruments in the house (23 if we can find his tambourine from his childhood).
Me? I play the radio. On a really good day, I can get Pandora to cooperate… 🙂
We also have a Shorkie (shih tzu/yorkie mix) named Mr. Benny who weighs 5 lbs and a Yorkie named Jett who clocks in at a whopping 7 lbs.
A Job in Another Time
I spent fifteen years teaching at a local community college, the best of both worlds. I got paid to talk to grownups but my kids were rarely in daycare more than 15 hours a week and often less than that. God also managed to orchestrate it so that when I needed the option of staying home, I was making enough from my writing that I could afford to.
Carol Moncado's Debut Experience
The first book I ever wrote (for real anyway) has a working title of Unbreak Her Heart. I adore the story and the characters, but it needs a major overhaul before I release it.
A whole bunch of books later …
I realized it was time to "fish or cut bait" as it were, and I made the decision to "go indie" and publish books myself. I created my own publishing company, CANDID Publications, bought stock photos, edited the best I could, and went for it.
Book 1 for Carol Moncado
My first release was Finding Mr. Write, Book 1 in the CANDID Romance series. Two authors who travel together to a writer's conference (much like ACFW's) find themselves accidentally married. It was so much fun to write and incorporate nods to some of my friends and favorite authors as I did.
I'd pitched it and several others over the years. I signed with ACFW's 2017 Agent of the Year Tamela Hancock Murray with Grace to Save. We pitched it around, but no takers.
The indie thing hasn't been easy, but it's been totally worth it. Tamela has been incredibly supportive over the years and is still my agent even though she doesn't really have anything to do on my behalf while I'm an indie. Perhaps if I sign a traditional contract some day and become "hybrid"…
Many of those other books have since been published. But four still languish (along with a whole bunch of half-written ones).
My second book released a week after the first and was set mostly in Serenity Landing with an honest-to-goodness Crown Princess as the heroine. Good Enough for a Princess took off so I've been writing mostly royalty books ever since. I revamped the covers a bit because the Montevaro Monarchy series and the Brides of Belles Montagnes series kind of went together. They became the 6 novel + 1 novella series The Monarchies of Belles Montagnes.
The Serenity Landing Second Chances series of three books tells the stories of the last of the royal siblings from the three countries that make up the Commonwealth of Belles Montagnes).
Carol Moncado's Books, Books, Books
Starting with Finding Mr. Write, I've published a total of 23 books, with the 24th up for preorder. In that number are two more novels in the CANDID Romance series.
My summer series, Serenity Landing Lifeguards, has two novellas.
The Christmas series, Serenity Landing Teachers, includes three novellas (though one is currently only available in a boxed set). They're all set in Serenity Landing, MO, a fictional town near Springfield.
My one single novella is set in a bakery in Minnesota.
But one thing I love about my books is that they're all set in the same "universe." Characters cross over or pop up in unexpected places. I didn't set out to write royal romance, but that's what's happened!
What's Up With Carol Moncado Now?
I'm currently writing in a new series – Crowns & Courtships – involving the royal families of two fictional countries in the Atlantic Ocean/ Sargasso Sea, with two other countries on tap.
A prequel novella (Dare You) and Book 1 (Heart of a Prince) start eighteen months before the end of Book 3 in Serenity Landing Second Chances. Then there's a sort of inbetweenie novella out as part of the super fun Out of the Blue Bouquet set.
Book 3 (The Inadvertent Princess, the second full novel in the series), is due to release January 31.
Book 5 (mostly written) picks up immediately following Book 3 of the Serenity Landing Second Chances series, merging the two different timelines.
My very favorite book isn't officially part of a series just yet, though Book 2 should release next year. Grace to Save opens on 9/11 then skips ahead to 2017. (Click to Tweet!) It's a story of prodigals, redemption, forgiveness, and the incredible grace found in Christ. (Plus the teenager on the cover is my oldest daughter :). If you've lost track, that's 14 novels and 9 novellas, with novel #15 releasing next month.
Clear as mud? Yeah. I have a hard time keeping up with all of it, too, which is why I'm building (with the help of a couple of dedicated friends) my own wiki site. It's found at www.hea-tv.com (that's the fictional version of Hallmark) and has book summaries, timelines, and a glossary of characters, etc. It's definitely a work in progress but we'll get there – and I'm trying to keep up with new books as they release.
Final Thoughts from Carol Moncado
I have been so incredibly blessed with readers and readers who've become friends and friends who've become my readers. I quit my (admittedly quite part time) day job to write full time and wouldn't trade it for the world. God's managed it so that I could. A number of other commitments eased just in time for the band mom thing to really take off. It's allowed me to commit to being there for my band kids (and, hey, they're all my band kids :-). I get to be a part of that in a way many parents are unable to. That has been such a huge blessing.
How to Find Carol and Her Books
My main social media is Facebook. You can "follow" my profile at www.facebook.com/AuthorCarolMoncado and like my Books page at www.facebook.com/CarolMoncadoBooks. You can join my Reader's group at bit.ly/MoncadoReaderGroup which is great fun and has teasers and cover reveals, etc.
All of my books appear on Amazon and are in Kindle Unlimited, except Finding Mr. Write and Good Enough for a Princess which are free :).
I blog occasionally at my website www.carolmoncado.com. Check out "Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Carol Moncado's Fictional Universe – and more" at www.hea-tv.com (though it's still in progress)!
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Lord, we're so grateful You created the gift of story. Thank You for equipping writers like Carol Moncado, who thrills us with romance, delights us with comedy, holds us spellbound with drama, and inspires us with faith—in each story she writes. Be with Carol as she directs her Family Circus. Bring their dreams to reality. And bless every single word Carol writes for You.
~ For Jesus' sake ~
12 thoughts on "Let's Chat! Author Carol Moncado"
I just love your (Carol's) books. So far, I've only read the CANDID and Belle's of Montagnes series. I have plans to aquire the rest in short order. Is there a master list of the order of books (since they intertwine)? Also, I find myself curious about Prince William. Are you going to write a book about him too? 😀
Hi Becka!!! I'm so glad to hear that!!!
Yes!!! William's story is RECLAIMING HEARTS, book 3 in Serenity Landing Secknd Chances (1 is Jonathan Langley-Cranston; 2 is Christopher Bayfield, Alexander's twin brother).
There's a list on my website (that needs updated – note to self – but should be good through last summer or so). There's also the HEA TV site that has lots of stuff on it (or in progress) including a sort of "master timeline" (that also needs updated but should also be good through last summer or so).
You can find them at:
Message me on Facebook if you can't get those to work.
(Actually, I've JUST discovered there's an issue with my website. That first one should work… once I figure out what the issue is…)
AH! Not sure what happened, but think I figured out how to fix it. More time than I've got right now so the links on this page may not work, but this link itself should…
😀 Thanks! I did try to access the info earlier on your site. The links worked great. Guess I'll be buying the second chances books very soon. I want to read stories of all those characters!
I enjoyed this interview with Carol. We have had 2 of our children go to college in Springfield, and we live not far from there – in Kansas City, Missouri. And we have a son who lives in the Ozark region. I actually bought 8 books (I just checked on Amazon) of Carol's, but haven't had time to read them yet. But I do look forward to reading them.
Hi Becky! I moved here to go to college, too! Met a cute boy and stayed ;).
Most of the stories have a connection to the Ozarks in one way or another, though not quite all do. (Okay, so one of the books in the current series is tied strictly by yarn sent from the Ozarks to Eyjania, a fictional country near Iceland.)
I hope you enjoy them when you get a chance to read them!!! I understand a TBR pile that's way too big!!!!
Wow! What a busy life you lead. We retired to Lebanon, Just 45 minutes upthe interstate from Springfield. We have travelled up to Hermitage for my husband to preach a few times( small church with no permanent pastor) . The scenery is very pretty down here. I have three of Carol's books. Unfortunately I have yet to read them. My bookshelves are too full! I need to get to her books! Thanks for the glimpse into Carol's life!
Hey! I have some friends (writing friends even!) in Lebanon! In fact, I have a fictional town set in the area – Spring Meadow I think I called it that's basically Lebanon :). I hope you enjoy the books when you get to them!