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Blog Tour: Kids From the River by Mark G Cosman
Young Adult / New Adult Dystopian
Date Published: July 2014
As the current age thunders to a close, five kids are playing together in a river that runs through a forest to the sea. All the while, the society they are soon to inherit is disintegrating. The story follows the diverse predispositions of the kids from the river into adulthood as they define their evolving personalities, amidst the chaos of their decaying world.
Marauding insurgents continually sweep down upon a teetering world government from autonomous northern frontiers, causing human suffering and misery.
As adults, the kids from the river take separate paths to finding love and losing it, to ascending on meteoric careers and plunging into the depths of self-destruction.
The desperate times open the way for Senator Aaron Mire, a charismatic charlatan, whose campaign is awash in conspiracies which polarize the kids from the river.
Amy Ramsey, a kid from the river, becomes the beautiful standard bearer for the Senator's Genesis Party. Her position clashes with her father, John Ramsey, renowned as the "last great man." Chairman of the world's most successful company and the inventor of the mysterious Moon Glow project, John Ramsey is Mire's most feared adversary.
Ramsey's personal life is haunted by the memory of a fire-fight while on active duty patrol in the northern frontier, when he discovers his estranged son, born of an affair more than twenty years before, is among the insurgents he has killed.
James, a cheat and a liar when he was a kid in the river, maintains a twisted erotic passion for Amy, but her love since childhood has always been Max Morgan. With his powerful position in Mire's New Order, James has Max imprisoned, using criminal connections and manufactured evidence to falsely link Max to terrorist activities.
Max's claustrophobic isolation in prison is made painfully real by the prison experiences I witnessed as a prison corrections officer, while working my way through college, and years later, through interaction with my daughter's murderer. While sequestered in isolation, Max battles ever encroaching madness to find liberation in a state of mind.
With Max locked away, James uses Amy to exact his erotic victory. Soon thereafter, his company is involved in an air traffic tragedy in which hundreds of lives are lost. James is indicted and is facing a lengthy prison term. At the same time, evidence surfaces to exonerate Max, resulting in his release.
As Senator Mire's mystique grows, John Ramsey becomes infected with the dreaded Tezca virus, a pandemic plaguing the world's population. Ramsey is able to self-analyze his dying experience during intermittent bolts of awareness that rifle through the black night of his coma. When next the kids from the river reconvene, it is at John Ramsey's funeral.
James is already a withered, broken man facing years of incarceration. Max and Amy are, at long last, reunited. Together, they set the past is adrift downriver, around the bend and out of sight forever.
In these desperate times to come, the duration of life and memory diminish.
Solstice Publishing
Max sat next to his father at the table and watched him admiringly as his mother filled
his plate with potatoes, her hair freshly curled. She winked at Max and cast a nervous glance at her husband. When she did, Max noticed her smile fall away.
"Ah-Ah-Ah-Ah-Ah- How w-w-w-w-w-was your d-d-d-d-day?" she asked.
"Cold," Max's father responded gruffly.
I think Dad's angry because he has to work so hard. He's mad because Mom stutters and he's furious at the psycho dark ghosts. It's their fault he has to serve in the SS, away from his business. He's upset most of the time.
"Wh-Wh-Wh-Wh-Where d-d-d-d-d-did you wa-wa-wa-wa-wa-work t-t-t-t-t…"
Max cringed. Don't Mom. Don't try to say anything, he silently pleaded.
"For God's sake, talk will ya? Just talk." Max's father slammed his fist against the table, toppling Max's plate onto the floor. Max lurched, dropping a fork-load of mashed potatoes on his father's sleeve.
"Damn you." Max's father backhanded him across the chest, knocking the wind from his lungs. Max sucked in hard to bring the air back. His face wrinkled into a frown and he was about to cry, but with a mouthful of potatoes, he knew he would choke. So, he just sat rigid as a post, afraid to move, afraid to swallow, afraid to do anything at all.
Mark Cosman's writing began when his daughter, Berlyn, was murdered following her high school prom. It was when he left the rubble of his beliefs and assumptions to go in search of answers to the most profound questions we humans ask ourselves. His first book, "A Flower in the Snow" and later, "The Kids from the River" are the result of that odyssey.
Facebook: mark cosman.
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Labels: Blog Tour, Dystopian, Excerpt, New Adult, Young Adult
PROMO: Found, Near Water
Crime / Thriller / Mystery
Rena Sutherland wakes from a coma into a mother's nightmare. Her daughter is missing – lost for four days – but no one has noticed; no one has complained; no one has been searching.
As the victim support officer assigned to her case, Christine Emmett puts aside her own problems as she tries to guide Rena through the maelstrom of her daughter's disappearance.
A task made harder by an ex-husband desperate for control; a paedophile on early-release in the community; and a psychic who knows more than seems possible.
And intertwined throughout, the stories of six women; six daughters lost.
Katherine Hayton is a 41 year old woman who works in insurance, doesn't have children or pets, can't drive, has lived in Christchurch her entire life, and currently resides a two minute walk from where she was born. For some reason she's developed a rich fantasy life.
Labels: Mystery, PROMO, Thriller
Blog Tour: Lies a River Deep by @verajanecook #excerpt
General Fiction / Women's Fiction
In the summer of 1962, at a high school graduation party, Bessie Day Hardy is victim to a brutal crime. Fifty years later, the consequences of that horrific night will transition into unforeseen events that will shatter her serene and uncomplicated life.
It was a day like any other. Days have a sameness, even new, they offer little beyond weather changes and sudden deaths.
"And how are you today?" Bessie asked, showing a smile that age had not yet dulled. She'd always been cute because of it. Sixty years ago, or more, she was the little girl whose cheeks you pinched, and though she was old now, she still wore her hair in curls; silver grey undulations that framed her face and brought out a blithe desire in others to pinch where her dimples dipped, even to kiss her there unabashedly.
Grey looked up and nodded. "Same," he said.
The air was damp with April moisture as Bessie Day Hardy wrapped her scarf closer to her neck and shivered. Air that hung heavy like wet clothes caught flapping in the rain made it hard to breathe. The scarf had been a gift in a white torn box, under red Santa Claus wrapping, from the Episcopal Church of Saint John the Apostle Christmas party, just last year. The lime green and
caramel colored wool that she loved to feel against her lips, an anonymous kindness from someone who had written: Bless you and have a very Merry Christmas. Someone, she imagined with fresh white skin, pearl teeth and eyes that sparkled blue in daylight, light as the sea, but darkened with the night, turning cenereal behind the shadows of dusk.
"We ever going to see the sun again?" She sighed. A wind kicked around the corner and her body felt the chill, enemy winds that carried the threat of sodden attacks to bones too brittle to fight. Later, she would feel the ache and she would rub her muscles more for the distraction than the release of pain.
"If we live long enough," Grey said.
Bessie chuckled. Living long wasn't the blessing it used to be. Aging was in the way. Couldn't leave a person alone, had to show up and make her breath short, expose every damn vein in her body and give her the unsightly imprint of impending death. Nobody wants to look at mortality too closely and aging people carry its threat, vulnerably apparent; the weight of its nearness is a
monster in the wings where heaven is a nebulous and cracked mirror; don't look into it, the young whisper: don't look yet.
But the old were once young. Bessie Day Hardy still carried the traces of adolescent giddiness in the creases of her lips and her middle-aged ardor for Chauncey Hardy still glinted in her eyes at the memory of his smooth hands in hers, and his fine soft hair against her breast. His step was lively. She could hear it, sometimes, when the house was quiet. Chauncey's step on the stairs, in the kitchen, on the bedroom floor.
Damn house was quiet now, even her cat walked too softly to hear.
Pharaoh's Star is Vera Jane Cook's most recent release. The Story of Sassy Sweetwater was Vera Jane's second southern fiction novel and was a finalist in the ForeWord book of the Year Awards for 2012 and received a five star ForeWord Clarion review, as well as an Eric Hoffer honorable mention award for ebook fiction in 2013. Dancing Backward in Paradise also received a 5 Star Clarion ForeWord review and an Eric Hoffer notable new fiction award in 2006, as well as the Indie Excellence Award in 2006. Also by Vera Jane Cook: Lies a River Deep, Where the Wildflowers Grow, Marybeth, Hollister & Jane and Annabel Horton, Lost Witch of Salem. Her next novel, Pleasant Day will be published in 2015 by Moonshine Cove Press.
Labels: Blog Tour, Excerpt, Giveaway, Literary Fiction, Women's Fiction
Blog Tour: Swing Set
Date Published: August 2014
When sex in their marriage grows stale, Steve and Shelly try Internet porn and take sex education classes, and then venture into the choppy waters of swinging. The rollercoaster highs and lows of Shelly and Steve's experiment in sex, love, and money leads to a woman's sexual awakening, a couple's search for greater intimacy, and a re-evalutation of the boundaries that couples must set to find happiness.
Labels: Blog Tour, Contemporary, Erotica
PROMO: For the Eye Sees Not Itself
Urban Fantasy / Erotica / Menage / MMF
Date Published: November 12, 2014
The SIS team has dealt with all sorts of things that go bump in the night--vampires, zombies, even demons. But not everything odd or occult walks or breathes. The CIA calls on SIS leader John Benchley to alert him to a strange set of occurrences around an abandoned house in Baltimore. Investigating, the SIS team stumbles on to something unprecedented and deadly. And not every SIS member gets away from their encounters unscathed.
Life continues to go on--even around vampires, mad scientists and demons. SIS FBI liaison Gabrielle Dichenz, who is the lover of both John Benchley and Evan Garrett, John's boyfriend, is coming to terms with her new life. Recovering from her past with an abusive ex means looking closely at her present. Evan's waiting patiently to integrate both of his lovers into his wider life. John, on the other hand, isn't the sort of personality who takes well to waiting. There's something really good growing between the three of them. Gabrielle just has to decide whether to truly grab for the brass ring or let her past dictate the shape of her future.
John placed a hand on the doorknob. He already had a slightly creepy feeling about this place and he wondered if it had to with the reputed ley lines that Fiona had indicated might be beneath the house. The knob twisted with moderate ease and he pushed the door open. "No need to break out the lock picks."
There were signs of scuffed footprints through the dust and dirt in the foyer and he stood motionless for a moment just looking inside.
"Are we going in or what?" asked Todd.
"Yeah, yeah. Todd, you and Cecelia check upstairs. Rich, circle around back and see if there's a door there. Evan and I will start on this floor.
There was a murmur of assent from the team members, and they began to head in separate directions. Evan was left standing a few feet behind John.
"Is it just me or does this place kind of make your skin crawl?" asked Evan.
John glanced back at him. "No, it's not just you. Any thoughts as to why?"
Evan stepped in the direction of the front room and stood studying the decorative molding above the door. "Take a look at the corners," he said pointing to the square blocks topping the corners. "Those look like Thelemic stars to me." He pointed to the two overlapping chevron's carved into the wood. It was all stained the same color and the symbols were not immediately apparent.
"Thelemic… that ritual magic stuff right?"
"Not just ritual, more along the lines of ceremonial, and more specifically utilized heavily by the Crowley crowd. I think theremight be more than one version of the stars, but I don't know offhand what the differences might indicate."
"Okay this definitely leans in the direction of supporting some of last few things that Fiona found. You take the right hand rooms as we move toward the back of the house and I'll take the left. It should only take us a few minutes to go through," said John.
Evan walked into the dimly lit room near the back of the house. It had one window, much smudged and cobwebbed that let some daylight in. Along the wall was a dusty broken chair, a fabric duffle bag and a pair of beer cans. He turned around to glance at the walls behind him, near the door. On the right hand side of the door hung a long narrow mirror in a heavy, dark, carved frame. He was standing at a sharp angle to it and couldn't see his own reflection. Heading toward the duffle bag, he glanced at the mirror again. His image was wavy, distorted and he idly wondered how old the glass was. Something drew his eye.
In the reflection Evan saw a man behind him, and he whirled around to face the stranger. Gabrielle's body was sprawled limply on the floor. Tom Garner, Brie's psycho ex-boyfriend, was kneeling beside her, a knife in his hand, stabbing her again and again. Evan screamed, "NO!" He tackled the man and knocked him backward to the floor.
As John reached the back door and met Rich in the narrow kitchen, he wondered if Evan had found anything. "Go check upstairs and see if Todd and Cecelia need any help. I wonder of this place has a basement or just a crawl space. Look for a door that goes down," he said to Rich.
John backtracked and veered into the very abbreviated hallway that separated two of the rear rooms. He glanced into the left hand one, empty, unless you counted dust and a squashed soda can.
"Yo, Evan. Find anything?" he called out. He looked into the right hand one. Evan was standing motionless, staring into an empty corner, his hand outstretched. John started toward him. "Ev'?"
Suddenly Evan lunged at him, screaming. They went down in a tangle. Evan's hands wrapped around John's throat, and he began banging John's head on the edge of the door frame. The first blow stunned John and he flailed helplessly against the floor. The second was a bolt of agony through the back of his head. He could barely breathe, Evan's hands were wrapped so tightly around his throat. The blows continued and consciousness was fading into blackness. Evan was still screaming at him, "No! NO! You killed her! Oh God you killed her!"
A.R. Moler is a chemistry professor at a community college, a homeschooling mom and an avid science fiction fan. She is a devotee of first hand research for her writing whenever possible and to this end has - learned to fire a handgun, been rappelling, ridden with both EMS and the police, flown a helicopter, bought a motorcycle and learned to ride it. She has traveled to nearly all the places where her stories are set and taken hundreds of photos for documentation. She has been writing since her high school years, but only recently has become published. She recently launched a website for her writing http://armoler.com
Her blog is www.playdohstoichiometry.blogspot.com and is entitled Playdoh, Legos and Stoichiometry. When asked why such a name for her blog, she commented that it reflects 3 of the many phases of her life. Her daughter has been an avid playdoh artist, her son owns enough Legos is fill a 55-gallon drum and the stoichiometry--one of the most challenging topics to many chemistry students. Her husband's only contribution to chemistry is brewing beer.
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Labels: Erotica, Fantasy, Menage, PROMO
PROMO: Pest Control
Environmental Satire / Thriller
Joseph Vogorev hates spiders and loves money. As the president and CEO of chemical giant Pest No More, he develops a neurotoxin pesticide specially formulated to target only arachnid species. When outspoken environmentalist Gale Pacalis realizes the potential for planet-wide devastation, he wants more than anything to bring Vogorev down. With a host of quirky friends, he collects data to prove Arach-No-More's lethality. Teenaged Amelia joins his group because she's personally invested; her pink kneed tarantula, Pinky, died. It's a race to save the world, but as Gale and his friends go head-to-head with Vogorev, the many obstacles they face makes it seem impossible to win. Mainly because Vogorev has unlimited money and a limited conscience.
Vogorev waved the aerosol can in the air. "The specialized and patented nozzle on this can disperses the contents at five hundred feet per second. Not exactly the speed of light, but still pretty damn quick." He chuckled.
There was a strained silence and then a lone high-pitched voice called out, "Those are spiders up there!"
Gale looked up at a tank right above his head. The lady was right. The outline of spiders pressed against the plastic was unmistakable; all of those little legs writhing and clawing to get out. There had to be thousands of them in the tanks, throwing themselves against the side as if they were crazy. Before anyone else had the chance to react, a scraping sound echoed off the walls as the bottom of the containers slid open and hairy tarantulas rained down over the audience amid screams and shrieks. Gale stared at Vogorev and saw how he calmly depressed the spray nozzle for several seconds, then smiled and took a few steps backward.
The audience was frenzied, jumping up and down, brushing eight-legged bodies off their pin-striped suits and designer dresses. Gale shook a spider off his head and stepped over a couple of carcasses as the investors exchanged horrified glances with one another. They were trembling and shuddering and holding onto each other. The spiders, however, did nothing.
When Vogorev spoke, the people paid attention as if he was a messiah, "I told you to trust me. Look around. The spiders are all dead. They were dead long before they even hit the ground."
Gale picked up a carcass at his feet. True to Vogorev's word, the spider was dead. They were all dead. Thousands of tarantulas lay on the floor as if a mass arachnid suicide had just occurred.
Sofia Diana Gabel started life in Sydney, Australia, but her family moved to the United States when she was very young. Home wasn't settled for a long time and included living in Toronto, Canada; Henrietta and Buffalo, New York; Northridge, Southern California; a short stint back in Sydney, Australia; Reno, Nevada; Dallas, Texas; Daytona Beach, Florida, with an eventual semi-settled life in Ojai and Ventura, Southern California as a single parent to her three daughters.
Perhaps the unsettled partial nomadic lifestyle is the reason she loves to travel and is never fully satisfied with where she's living. Moving around and travelling to different countries are adventures which serve as potential settings and plots for stories. A multi-genre fiction writer, with degrees in environmental science and archaeology, and coursework in creative writing and criminal justice, she enjoys being out in nature, keeping up on archaeological discoveries and learning about the law, criminal behavior and police procedures (all with, once again, potential for stories!)
When she's not glued to her desk writing or researching, she loves to spend time with her family and hairless Sphynx cats. Writing is a true passion, born from a love of the written word and how those words can transport the reader to different places or worlds and deliver them back to reality, safe and sound.
Twitter: @sofiadianagabel
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Labels: Excerpt, Giveaway, PROMO, Thriller
PROMO: Undead Obsessed
Non Fiction / Pop Culture
Date Published: October 31, 2014
Jessica Robinson is an editor by day and a zombie-killer by night (at least in her books). Since the first time she watched Night of the Living Dead, she has been obsessed with zombies and often thinks of ways to survive the uprising. In addition to her nonfiction book, under the pen name Pembroke Sinclair, she has written YA novels about zombies and the tough teens who survive the apocalyptic world. She has also written nonfiction stories for Serial Killer Magazine and published a book about slasher films called Life Lessons from Slasher Films. You can learn more about Jessica by visiting her at http://pembrokesinclair.blogspot.com/
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Release: Razel Dazzle
Fairytale Retelling / Erotica
Date Published: December 9, 2014
A modern twist on a long haired tale....
Will she let down her hair for the man of her fantasies?
Famous for her long, golden hair and beaming smile, Razel D'Punz is the hottest model in the industry. But although most women would kill to get ahead in this profession, Razel lives an isolated life; one she has learnt to accept...until she meets Matthew Prince, a new photographer in the business.
Refusing to let her mother/agent's strict rules stop her from spending time with the man of her fantasies, Razel quickly discovers that one night with Matthew isn't enough.... And neither is the life she is chained to. Something will have to change if she is ever to get her very own Happily Ever After.
Warning: This title contains explicit language and graphic sex.
They were two beautiful people. Both strong and healthy, exactly what she was looking for.
The male was at least six foot, slender, but his body was firm. His light brown hair was slicked back, making his jaw-line and chiseled cheekbones more defined. His eyes were firmly fixed on his partner as they attempted the triple spin.
The female—such a petite thing with snow-white skin and a dazzling set of white teeth. Her blueeyes shone as she gazed up at him from a slanted dip. Her golden hair was tied up with stray curls hanging around her face.
Such a beautiful couple. They will do perfectly. She waited for the show to end.
Gabriella stood in front of the dressing room door. The small copper star resting against the worn wood had lost its gleam; the scratched metal had seen better days. She moved her attention to the two sheets of paper pinned below it, one reading: Robert Burton; the other: Nina Hewson. The dancing couple from Arizona. A couple whose lives were about to change.
She knocked sharply upon the door, which opened immediately, bringing her eye to eye with the polite, green-blue gaze of Robert.
"You may indeed." She walked past him into the small room.
The dressing room, like the rest of the broken-down theater, wasn't anything special. The general necessities were there; a mirror, vanity table, railing for costumes, and two chairs that looked like they had been stolen from a high school classroom. And from what she could guess, the hideous, moth-eaten red fabric hanging from the wall toward the end of the small space was the door to the restroom. The faded floral wallpaper peeled in many places, and the room stank of sweat and cheap perfume. Her nose wriggled almost uncontrollably as the rancid smell swamped her. At the soundof the door shutting, she turned and focused her attention on Nina, who was standing and pulling her faded, pink silk robe shut.
She drank their beauty in almost hungrily, reminding herself why she was in the hellhole of a theatre in the first place. Robert moved and stood beside Nina, who had folded her arms across her chest.
Happy with her choice, Gabriella dusted one of the chairs and sat, making herself as comfortable as possible. This was the last place in the world she would ever choose to be, but for her plan to work, she would need working class people. Individuals hungry enough for fame and fortune that they would sell their souls to the devil himself just for a taste. Who could be more famished than a struggling performer; or in this case, a couple of performers?
So she'd had to drag herself downtown, forced to sit for two hours in the dump that somebody had a nerve to call a theater. No one in their right mind who cared about their career or their bodies would even consider what she was about to propose, but the information she had found on these two loved-up dreamers was enough to assure her that her money would be welcomed, even if it took quite a bit of persuading. And she was, after all, very good at persuading.
She placed her red purse on her knee and folded her hands. "May I just begin by saying that you are both simply marvelous dancers?" Her fake and flattering smile slid into place, and satisfaction stirred inside her as the compliment sank in.
Nina blushed as Robert nodded.
"Why, thank you." His broad smile fluttered across his lips. "What can we do for you, miss?"
"I was wondering if you would like to make some extra money."They glanced at each other.
"I was thinking along the lines of ten thousand. How does that suit you?"
Excitement sparked in their eyes. She could see the slight twitches running through their bodies at the offer, and she imagined they either wanted to embrace each other in sheer delight or fall at her feet and kiss her Prada shoes.
Nina beamed. "We would be very interested."
"Yes," Robert agreed, although hesitation quivered in his words. "But firstly, who are you?"
"My name is Gabriella D'Punz. I am—"
"Gabriella D'Punz, the founder of Ivory Tower Modeling Agency?" Nina dropped her arms to her side and took a step forward.
Gabriella cleared her throat and purged the surge of irritation that pulsed through her at the girl's interruption. "That is right, my dear."
"We accept."
She fought the slight urge to smile at Nina's conclusion. "You do not even know what I am proposing."
Naturally, the girl would presume they were being offered a contract for modeling; why else would a modeling agent come to see them?
"But surely there is only one reason you would want to see us—"
"I'm afraid you have mistaken me, my dear." Nina's brow creased under her words. "Or should I say you jumped to conclusions. I am Gabriella D'Punz, founder and agent of Ivory Tower, but I have not come here to offer either of you a modeling contract."
"Although you are both beautiful—I openly admit it—and you are at a reasonable modeling quality, well, you are such wonderful dancers. That is where your hearts are, and I wouldn't dare drag you away from that passion."
"Then what do you want?" Nina asked, slumping down in the chair facing Gabriella.
"I want a child." She paused as their eyebrows dipped in uncertainty to where this conversation was heading. "You see, my husband is growing old, and I am unable to have children…."
"I…I'm sorry to hear that, but what has this got to do with us?" Robert asked.
"Well, I was wondering if you could help me."
Nina lifted her shoulders, her eyes widened a fraction. "How exactly?"
Gabriella's focus shifted to Robert; a small smile curled her lips as realization blossomed over his face.
"Haven't you heard of adoption?"
"Yes. But I want a surrogate mother and in all honesty, I have had my eyes on you,"—she rested her gaze on Nina—"my dear, for quite some time."
Nina shifted in her seat. "What do you mean?"
"I want you to be my surrogate.""What? No." She shook her head. "No, I won't do that."
Robert stepped forward. "Why her? What do you mean; you've had your eyes on her?""I saw a show of yours a year ago. I became interested in you. You're both beautiful and in good health. From what I have learned of your education, you are both decently smart. All the qualities I need in a child. I have considered adoption for years, but I never found a child I liked."
Nina's eyes grew bigger. "What, you…you've been spying on us?"
"No, not spying. I just have an interest. I also have an interest in your career. You're not making very much money. You have no home. You're living out of Motels, travelling up and down the country—"
"How dare you!" Robert thundered. "How dare you come in here and…and poke your nose in to our business, to ask—"
"There's no need to get hysterical."
"No need? I...I...Get out! I want you out!"
Gabriella sighed. "I see you are going to make this difficult. So, let's just get down to it, shall we? How much money do you want?"
"What? This isn't about money," Robert snapped.
"Nonsense, everything is about money." She reached into her purse and pulled out her silver cigarette pouch. "Everyone has a price. So name it."
"No. This isn't about money. This is about a complete stranger waltzing into our dressing room demanding a baby from us!"
"I have not demanded anything from you. Please keep calm." She placed a cigarette in her mouth and put the pouch back in her purse."I will not! You have no right! No right to ask this! No right to go digging around in our private business!"
"I was not digging, and more to the point, I am offering you fifteen thousand dollars to have a child for me; for a woman who is unable to have children." Gabriella pulled her lighter from her purse and lit the end of her cigarette.
"And that's our problem?"
"I do not see what the problem is."
"You wouldn't, would you? You strut in here with your expensive clothes thinking you can buy people. Thinking you can buy a baby?" Robert's face grew redder with each word.
"Why did you choose us?" Nina's voice was soft, tentative.
Removing the cigarette from between her lips, she blew out a cloud of smoke. "Because with your looks,—" Gabriella's lips twisted into a smile "—you would give birth to a supermodel."
"You're disgusting," Robert replied through clenched teeth. "Get out!"
"You're making a big deal out of nothing. I get a child, and you get money." She slipped the lighter back into her purse. "Money that you are both in need of."
"Get out." Nina stood up. Her hands balled into the material of her robe. "Please, get out."
"Are you sure you want to turn this offer down?" She kept her attention on Nina as she stood. "Twenty thousand can really come in useful."
Robert walked to the door and opened it. "Your money isn't welcome here."
She laughed, and glanced in his direction. "My money is welcome everywhere."
"Get out."
"Why are you so insulted?" She tucked her purse under her arm. "I am offering you twenty thousand dollars to have sex and get pregnant. Once you are pregnant, you will stay in my home as guests. My doctor will see you, take care of you, and then when it is time, he will deliver the baby. As soon as you are well, you may leave. You may leave twenty thousand dollars richer than you are at this very moment. You can get on with your lives, fulfill your dreams. Tell me what is so disagreeable?"
"You want me to get pregnant and sell my baby to you for twenty thousand dollars?" Lines creased Nina's forehead.
"No! It's wrong."
Gabriella shrugged. "Who said it is wrong?"
Nina shook her head. "I won't do that."
"Not even for twenty-five thousand dollars?" Gabriella quirked her right eyebrow. "How much do you want?"
"Get out!" Robert demanded once more.
"Fine." She reached into her coat pocket and pulled out a small ivory card, which she placed on the vanity table beside Nina. "Call me when you realize this is the best offer you will receive in your lifetime." She walked past Robert and out the door, turning right toward the fire exit.
Gabriella heard the door slam shut as she took another drag of her cigarette. Then the shouting began. She pushed the fire exit open as her smile spread to her ears.
Elizabeth Morgan is a multi-published author of urban fantasy, paranormal, erotic horror, f/f, and contemporary; all with a degree of romance, a dose of action and a hit of sarcasm, sizzle or blood, but you can be sure that no matter what the genre, Elizabeth always manages to give a unique and often humorous spin to her stories.
Like her tagline says; A pick 'n' mix genre author. "I'm not greedy. I just like variety."And that she does, author of erotic ménage horror, Creak, paranormal erotic horror and UK, US & Australian Amazon best seller (Gay/Lesbian, Fiction, Lesbian), On the Rocks, erotic romance, US, UK & Spanish Amazon bestseller (Erotica Short Story) Truth or Dare? And sweet contemporary romance, UK & US Amazon bestseller (British/Drama & Plays) Stepping Stones.
She also has her hand in self-publishing. Look out for more information on her upcoming releases at her website: www.e-morgan.com
Away from the computer, Elizabeth can be found in the garden trying hard not to kill her plants, dancing around her little cottage with the radio on while she cleans, watching movies or good television programmes – Dr Who? Atlantis? The Musketeers? Heck, yes! – Or curled up with her two cats reading a book.
Twitter: @EMorgan2010
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Professor of psychiatric nursing Stephanie Chin, left, and ICU nurse Kayla Hall act during a mock disaster drill at the Maine College of Health Professions in Lewiston on Friday. Chin was drunk when she drove her car into a crowd watching a parade during the scenario that was intended to teach students how to work as part of a team with other professionals within the health care field. Students in health care learn in what Dr. Ann Curtis called "silos." "And then we send them out into the workforce," said Curtis. Friday's Interprofessional Education (IPE) exercise is intended to bring health care employees together and teach them to work together as part of a team, said Curtis, the IPE Director at the college. With this particular scenario, an intoxicated Chin and her "daughter" were used to teach students how one gives compassionate care to a perpetrator who just caused mass casualties. Chin is wearing makeup to simulate an injury.


The Jura X8 coffee machine is an automatic coffee machine that offers the ability to do both a single and two cup options of every primary preparation method available via the Jura offering. You could say this machine replaces the Xs9 or Xj9 for almost the same price as the old Xs9.
The X8 is part of the Jura professional range, so this means it is suited to office and small canteen offerings. The chunky buttons make it is user-friendly to use. Add to that the option of being connected to a water system assists in a canteen setting.
Just a note the marketing material claims the machine makes a flat white. Jura makes a distinction between flat white and cappuccino by determining when the milk is added. Particularly a cappuccino for them is defined as milk first. While a flat white is described as a milk first beverage. We at Quaffee feel this is extending the definition a little too far.
2×6 programmable coffee varieties – all support double cup.
TFT Display for easier use.
Able to brew a pot of coffee.
Bean hopper and water tank are lockable.
10 Height-adjustable spout 65 – 153 mm.
Water and beans filled from the front.
Intelligent filter system uses RFID.
Especially for those that like stats and numbers, dimensions and technical details, read more X8 Specifications here.
We compared their specifications, read the comparison here….


Attending early classical music specialist Jordi Savall's annual coming to the Boston Early Music Festival has become a ritual for many. Once every year, Savall touches down on Boston's snowy streets accompanied by a new combination of musicians and armed with a fresh program which combines both spectacle and substance. Savall's music-making never fails to impress, and his performances are always informed by historical context and practice. His appearance last year with the Boston Early Music Festival was a lively and nostalgic celebration of Celtic music old and new.
This year, Savall returned to a soundtrack he recorded in 1991 for Alain Corneau's film Tous les matins du monde (All the mornings of the world). The program, like the movie soundtrack, was comprised of works by French Baroque composers, including Jean-Baptiste Lully, François Couperin, and Jean-Marie Leclair. Before the concert began, Sanders Theatre buzzed with excitement as audience members crowded the front of the stage to catch a glimpse of the Baroque theorbo and viols that lay there, rarely seen on classical music stages today, glistening under the spotlight and waiting to be played.
What I have always enjoyed most about Savall's ensembles is the intimacy of their music-making. In this concert, the players of Savall's period ensemble Les Concerts des Nations truly acted as a single organism, demonstrated not only by the unbreakable eye contact between the players, but also by the way in which the entire ensemble always phrased and articulated together. Now, that is not to say they are always perfectly together as an ensemble; they're not. But somehow, their ever-slight rhythmic informality only lends authenticity, and not unprofessionalism, to their interpretations.
If there was any blemish on an otherwise enchanting evening, it was the misbalance between Savall and the other bass viol player Philippe Pierlot. Although playing the same type of instrument, Pierlot played with a full, heavy tone, while Savall's tone was far lighter and almost airy at times, especially in quick, ornamented passages. Additionally, there were some inaccuracies in Savall's playing, particularly towards the end of the program, as the tempo of the pieces increased building up to an exciting finale.
Savall's performance was also "une romance" – a romance between the past and the present, as the performers breathed new life into these old works. Moreover, the night was a resounding celebration of legendary viol players Marais, Saint-Colombe, and Savall, whose lifetimes of musical study, teaching, and performance have continued the legacy of the viol into the present day.
Ryan Zhang is a guest contributor to WHRB Classical.


Before you know it, the first virtual crop of the year will be upon us. While we want to make it fun for you, our main goal is to make it a productive weekend. We want to help you make progress on your projects so you are that much closer to having a completed project in your hands. To help you prepare for crop weekend, we are giving you our crop agenda early. This will make it easier for you to plan your own in-person events with fellow p2P members and friends, and will help you set aside time to participate in some or all of the crop. Click the image below to download the printable handout.
Please be reminded that pixels2Pages is a GLOBAL COMMUNITY. You will notice that the time some of our offerings publish really early. We don't intend for you to wake up at 4:00 am to create a page using a Blueprint. Our release times are scheduled so that p2P members and friends all over the world will have the opportunity to participate in crop offering during their waking hours. Our crop is self-paced and you can create using an offering at any time after it publishes. We will have extended hours to play games and win raffles so every time is a good time to participate.
During our most recent crops, we have raffled off an exclusive Blueprint Collection to a winning team. We want to give everyone even more chances to win. So starting this crop, individuals will have an opportunity to win the exclusive Blueprint Collection and one lucky individual will win the Blueprint Collection for their entire team. So get your teams together and get ready to crop. Every page posted to pixels2Pages or in our FOREVER Collaborative Album is another entry to win. You will want to prepare as much as possible to get lots of pages done.
We are always looking for ways to increase your productivity during our virtual crops. While all of our offerings are pretty flexible and work with just about any photos, we have had requests for a little more disclosure about the offerings so that you can gather the photos and content you need in advance of the crop. We have prepared a checklist for Pixie Power Minute Videos, Challenges, and Blueprints that we hope will make it easier for you to plan ahead. If an offering requires something specific, we will tell you (though most often it is flexible); we give you an idea if photos are in portrait or landscape orientation; and we give you notes that we think will help you select the photos and content that you will need.
This is a trial run and we look forward to hearing from you after you have had the opportunity to prepare for and participate in the crop. Then we can determine if this is something that will continue to be a part of our quarterly crops.
If you have not done so, please read our Workflow Tip: Planning For A Virtual Crop.
Do we need to sign up to be in the crop or just log into P2P or is there a web site we need to log in to?
Thanks, looking forward to being there.
You don't have to sign up for the crop – it is made available to all active p2P members. All crop happenings will be under "Recent" on the website. We also post those offerings to the pixels2Pages FB page. When you make a page for the crop, post the page to the pixels2Pages FB Community group.
This is my first virtual crop, or indeed a P2P crop. Question: when the prep sheet says Photo style: Flexible, does that mean I can choose either vertical or horizontal, or that I should be ready to use one or the other, when the challenge is announced. I am trying to prep for the weekend and I want to have my photo selection ready.
If photos should be in a specific orientation, it will be listed in the description. Most of our offerings allow you to use photos of any aspect ratio, so you won't see a specific orientation listed.
When we say it has a flexible photo style, we are saying that they can be travel, panorama, vintage, etc.
Thanks, Tameka! Looking forward to the weekend!
I have NEVER attended a P2P crop, as the dates don't usually work for me. For this one I'm totally free, so plan on doing as much as I can on those two days. I hope I can get a feel for how to do one so I can do more!
The checklist is a game changer for me…thank you!!!!! I always get frozen when it's a virtual crop. This really helped me to get my photos ready and decide what pages will work for each challenge, video, etc. Thank you!!!
Any idea why I cannot copy and paste these pdfs? For example, for the bright ideas I open the pdf, then copy and paste it into an Artisan project so I can read the directions while I create my page. It also stays there so I know later on how I did what I did! I wanted to do the same thing with these agendas, so I can have them easily on-hand when we do the crop. But I am unable to click on it and copy. I know I can print them out, but it's less mess for me if I can keep it all on the computer. By the way – great idea!! Love having these ahead of time to prepare.
When the crop time comes you will want to use the interactive agenda. These PDFs are archival PDFs generated from Word, so that may be why it is not recognized as an image. You can use the snipping tool to get a screen shot that you can paste as an image.
Oh, the snipping tool – of course!! I feel silly. What do you mean by interactive? Are we supposed to be able to use the checkboxes? I tried opening it with various programs (Adobe Reader, Firefox, Chrome, MS Edge, but none allowed me to check the boxes. Or do you mean "use it while we're cropping". Which I am excited for! This is and will be a fantastic tool! Thanks for making them!
The interactive agenda is online and has direct links to all offerings listed on one page.
Question on the Crop Collaborative album- So we are to post pages there instead of on the P2P Community page, or both? Gets a bit confusing for me as I also post to my own page for family and friends. I am getting excited!
Post where it is easier for you. We create the collaborative albums so non-Facebook users can participate. Many members put their images in both FB and the Collaborative Album. We see most prefer the interaction of the p2P Community, so they post exclusively on Facebook and then the p2P Team picks a few layouts and adds them to the collaborative album.
thanks for posting this well in advance! I have it printed and am planning!
I will be in Disneyland during this crop but I will have photos and stories to tell when I return. Looking forward to doing some of what you offer when we return.
Thanks so much for this info, Tameka. I am going to try to be organized instead of all over the place as I usually seem to be during these crops.
Me too Janice! I'm so excited to be prepared in advance.
Ann Marie, the best part about the crop is that everything will stay on the site. You can participate at any time, and will still have the opportunity to earn bonuses within the week after the crop is complete.
I was thinking the same thing. But it is good that we now have all week to try everything.


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Members of the Coalition shall consist of members with expertise in one or more of the following areas: real estate, nonprofit development (CDC), for-profit development (developer), social services, public health, transportation, finance, economic development, urban and regional planning, public housing, philanthropy, county government representative, and faith-based service providers. Included in this membership will be one resident who is not required to possess any of the expertise noted above. Members shall be residents of the City of Winston-Salem but cannot be employees of the City of Winston-Salem. Members shall be recommended by the mayor and appointed by city council.
Voting members shall serve no more than two terms. Initial appointees may serve their initial term plus one additional three-year term. Members shall hold office until their successors are appointed. Any vacancy resulting from a cause other than the expiration of a term shall be filled only for the unexpired portion of the term. Appointees to such partial terms may serve for the partial term plus one additional three-year term. Service of less than 50% of a normal term shall not be deemed a term, and service for more than 50% shall be deemed a term. Members shall serve without compensation.
Ryan Ammann White Male 1 February 2021
Joseph Crocker Black Male 1 February 2022
Jon Lowder White Male 1 February 2023
Paula McCoy Black Female 1 February 2022
Nakida McDaniel Black Female 1 February 2021
Derwin Montgomery Black Male 1 February 2023
Paul Norby White Male 1 February 2023
George Redd Black Male 1 February 2021
Lisa Sari White Female 1 February 2022
Tom Williams White Male 1 February 2023
Donna Woodson Black Female 1 February 2022
An Ordinance was adopted by the City Council on October 15, 2018 to create a citizen advisory commission on affordable housing in Winston-Salem to be know as the Winston-Salem Affordable Housing Coalition.
The purpose of the Affordable Housing Coalition shall be to identify and recommend strategies that:
Expand affordable opportunities
Engage supporters of and advocates for affordable housing
Coordinate and secure sustainable resources for affordable housing
Advise the Winston-Salem City Council on the use of City funds to support affordable housing development

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The PlayerCloseContainer Event is fired whenever a player closes a container.

## Event-Klasse
You will need to cast the event in the function header as this class:
`crafttweaker.event.PlayerCloseContainerEvent`
You can, of course, also [import](/AdvancedFunctions/Import/) the class before and use that name then.

## Erweiterte Event-Schnittellen
PlayerCloseContainer Events implement the following interfaces and are able to call all of their methods/getters/setters as well:

- [IPlayerEvent](/Vanilla/Events/Events/IPlayerEvent/)

## ZenGetter
Die folgenden Informationen lassen sich von diesem Event (Ereignis) abrufen:

| ZenGetter   | Rückgabetyp                                  |
| ----------- | -------------------------------------------- |
| `container` | [IContainer](/Vanilla/Container/IContainer/) |

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Q: RallyRestToolkitForRuby - project_scope_up & project_scope_down don't seem to be working I am trying to query all stories within a project and its children using RallyRestToolkitForRuby. I am trying to use the code snippet below, the project_scope_up and project_scope_down don't seem to have a bearing on the results, results from projects outside the tree specified are included.  What is incorrect here ?
config = {:base_url => "https://rally1.rallydev.com/slm"}
config[:username]   = "xxxxxxxxxx"
config[:password]   = "xxxxxxxxx"
config[:workspace]  = "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
config[:project]    = "xxxxxxxxx"
config[:headers]    = headers
RallyAPI::RallyRestJson.new(config)
startdate = DateTime.parse "2013-02-20T00:00:00.000"
enddate = DateTime.parse "2013-02-23T00:00:00.000"
query = RallyAPI::RallyQuery.new()
query.type = "hierarchicalrequirement"
query.fetch = "Iteration,Capitalizeable,CapBucket,FormattedID,DirectChildrenCount,RevisionHistory,Revisions"
query.page_size = 20       #optional - default is 200
query.limit = 20          #optional - default is 99999
query.project_scope_up = false
query.project_scope_down= true
query.query_string = "((LastUpdateDate > \"#{startdate.to_s}\") AND (LastUpdateDate < \"#{enddate.to_s}\"))"
results = @rally.find(query)

Thanks in Advance.

A: In the example you have above, you don't appear to have a project set for the scoping - make sure you have a line setting query.project = something like:
query.project = {"_ref" => "https://rally1.rallydev.com/slm/webservice/1.25/project/12345.js" }
or if you had a project object stored in a variable:
myproject = @rally.find_project(workspace, "Project Name")
query.project = myproject
Hope that helps.

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As the analyst's report and the postmortem report on the death of ruggeritie Wasim Thajudeen who died mysteriously inside a car appeared to be contradictory, there was suspicion regarding these reports, the CID informed Colombo additional Magistrate Nishantha Peiris.
The CID added that it had asked the Attorney General.for instructions on how to proceed.
The additional Magistrate ordered the four JMOs who had visited the scene where Thajudeen's body was found and conducted the postmortem to submit their reports to court.
LAW SHOULD BE ENFORCED, CULPRITS SHOULD BE BROUGHT TO BOOK OTHERWISE WHERE IS SRI LANKACOUNTRY HEADING TO. .
News about the request by the magistrate for information on the telephone calls of the victim should not have been published. This kind of information should be treated confidential.
Slowly but surely MARA and his gangs of thieves will be brought to justice!
This is insulting the departed. The family clearly stated not to entangle their departed member in the Rajapakse which hunt. It is time up for this government.
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Learn about How to start your nail Polish business with Anna, the most celebrated beauty entrepreneurs of Poland.
Piercing the heart of the wintry night, the radio blared roguishly, crooning with the exhilarating number sung by Akon, as I entered the dormitory, tufting away the pair of snow-covered moccasins from my cold, weary feet that had been rambling the sunken roads of the Warsaw City, Poland. It had been one of the coldest nights and I was crumbling like a bitter leaf due to icy hug that cloaked me as I reached my bed. I'm Anna, a thirty-year-old Polish dweller, and I am one of the most celebrated beauty entrepreneurs in my country.
The dream to become one of the most successful names in the cosmetic industry had caused a heavy toll on my life, uprooting my topsy-turvy emotional relationships and the way I approached life. However, as there is a light to the end of every dark journey, very soon, I realized that nature has a way of rewarding you in its own scrutinizing manner and whenever I glance back, the nostalgic journey of the unswerving labor still mesmerizes me.
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Let's tread onto this roadmap to a road which presented a lot of trials and tribulations of practical life and indeed, it is never easy to transform the most titillating dreams into an impeccable reality. I worked at my home day and night diligently, opening a small sized nail spa in my garret and offered the cheapest nail and spa services to my family, neighbors, and friends, in order to master the art of becoming a nail polish entrepreneur. For months, I experimented with sundry nail colors and applied them on different pairs of hands, till I caught hold of the knack to crack up the most beautiful shades subtly, funkily and rosily on different folks, depending upon their penchant to adorn nail colors on their hands in the most gorgeous manner.
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Q: Postgres metadata: get a list of all MATERIALIZED VIEW columns, with data type, INCLUDING array columns I need to get metadata about all MATERIALIZED VIEW columns, including their data type.  I can do this with this query:
SELECT

trim(leading '_' from pg_type.typname) as data_type,
pg_namespace.nspname as schema_name,
pg_namespace.nspname as udt_name,
attnum AS ordinal_position,
pg_attribute.attname as column_name,
pg_class.relname as matview_name,
'-------' AS spacer,
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from pg_catalog.pg_attribute
join pg_catalog.pg_class ON pg_class.oid = pg_attribute.attrelid
join pg_catalog.pg_namespace ON pg_namespace.oid = pg_class.relnamespace
join pg_catalog.pg_type ON pg_type.typelem = pg_attribute.atttypid
where
    pg_class.relkind = 'm' AND
    not pg_attribute.attisdropped and
    cast(pg_type.typanalyze as text) = 'array_typanalyze' and
    pg_attribute.attnum > 0
order by
    pg_attribute.attnum

However it doesn't list any array columns, due to them not existing in the pg_catalog.pg_type table (which is the table I'm getting the data types from).
How can I also get metadata (including type) for array columns too?
I'm using postgres 13.3.

A: You can make your life easier using the format_type() function:
SELECT format_type(att.atttypid, att.atttypmod) as data_type,
       nsp.nspname as schema_name,
       att.attnum AS ordinal_position,
       att.attname as column_name,
       mv.relname as matview_name
from pg_catalog.pg_attribute att
  join pg_catalog.pg_class mv ON mv.oid = att.attrelid
  join pg_catalog.pg_namespace nsp ON nsp.oid = mv.relnamespace
where mv.relkind = 'm'
  AND not att.attisdropped
  and att.attnum > 0
order by att.attnum


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Mitchell 1, ASE Present 2021 Technician of Future Award
KEYWORDS ASE Mitchell 1
Christopher Funk of Monticello, Iowa, was named the 2021 Mitchell 1 / National Institute for Automotive Service Excellence (ASE) Technician of the Future.
Christopher Funk of Monticello, Iowa, was named the 2021 Mitchell 1 / National Institute for Automotive Service Excellence (ASE) Technician of the Future during the ASE Board of Governors Meeting and Annual Technician Awards held recently in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Funk received a $1,000 cash prize, as well as airfare and hotel accommodations to attend the event to receive his award.
"We congratulate Christopher on being named the 2021 Technician of Future," says Nick DiVerde, senior marketing director, Mitchell 1. "His accomplishments thus far have demonstrated his commitment to excelling as an automotive technician and we know he will continue to be successful as he journeys down his career path."
For more information about Mitchell 1, visit www.mitchell1.com.
Mitchell 1 and ASE Present 2019 Technician of the Future Award
Mitchell 1 and ASE Name 2017 Technician of the Future
Chicago-area student named Technician of the Future


Today excess amounts of data are overwhelming; raw data becomes useful only when we apply methods of deriving insight from it. Interpreting bar graphs and charts have become old and particularly 3D bar graphs have several flaws (according to Dr. Alvaro Munoz PhD, a professor of epidemiology at the School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins). First, the variables, which equally contribute to an outcome, are not equally represented in the diagram. This gives the impression that one variable is more important than another. Second, it is sometimes difficult, if not impossible, to distinguish the true value of the bars, because of the problems of representing a three-dimensional image on a two-dimensional page. Because of perspective, some bars appear to be of greater or lesser value when they are actually of equal value. The third drawback of the 3-D graph is that it cannot be used to present overlapping data. In some cases, parallel bars with higher values may obscure those with lower values making the graph useless. He proposed a better way to represent graphs called Diamond Graph, for more read here.
Data visualization is a powerful exercise. Visualizing data is the fastest way to communicate it to others. Of course, visualizations, like words, can be used to lie, mislead, or distort the truth. But when practiced honestly and with care, the process of visualization can help us see the world in a new way, revealing unexpected patterns and trends in the otherwise hidden information around us.
Visual.ly has a huge collection of visual content. How one can visually represent data depends on many parameters. There may not necessarily be only one way one can visualize the content anyways.
Here is an example of how visually one can view the Oscan Nominees along with their related data such as Movies, Budget, and Box Office.
Our analysts predicted in October 2013 that Seattle Seahawks and Denver Broncos are going to be in the finals and that Seattle Seahawks are going to win the SuperBowl. Although we desired Peyton Manning to win, we predicted that Seahawks will win,and therefore we collected data on these two teams (which is only partially displayed here).
Tweet counts on "Big Data", "Analytics" and "Visualization"
Tweet counts on "Seattle Seahawks", and "Denver Broncos"
Tweet counts on "Tom Brady", and "Peyton Manning"


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Goodbye Pareto Principle, Hello Long Tail: The Effect of Search Costs on the Concentration of Product Sales
Management Science, Forthcoming
32 Pages Posted: 26 Dec 2006 Last revised: 19 Jun 2014
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Erik Brynjolfsson
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER); Stanford
Yu Jeffrey Hu
Georgia Institute of Technology - Scheller College of Business
Duncan Simester
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
Many markets have historically been dominated by a small number of best-selling products. The Pareto Principle, also known as the 80/20 rule, describes this common pattern of sales concentration. However, information technology in general and Internet markets in particular have the potential to substantially increase the collective share of niche products, thereby creating a longer tail in the distribution of sales.
This paper investigates the Internet's "Long Tail" phenomenon. By analyzing data collected from a multi-channel retailer, it provides empirical evidence that the Internet channel exhibits a significantly less concentrated sales distribution when compared with traditional channels. Previous explanations for this result have focused on differences in product availability between channels. However, we demonstrate that the result survives even when the Internet and traditional channels share exactly the same product availability and prices. Instead, we find consumers' usage of Internet search and discovery tools, such as recommendation engines, are associated with an increase the share of niche products. We conclude that the Internet's Long Tail is not solely due to the increase in product selection but may also partly reflect lower search costs on the Internet. If the relationships we uncover persist, the underlying trends in technology portend an ongoing shift in the distribution of product sales.
Keywords: search cost, product variety, concentration, long tail, Internet, electronic commerce
Brynjolfsson, Erik and Hu, Yu Jeffrey and Simester, Duncan, Goodbye Pareto Principle, Hello Long Tail: The Effect of Search Costs on the Concentration of Product Sales (January 1, 2011). Management Science, Forthcoming, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=953587
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The language of HEX-programs under the answer-set semantics is designed for interoperating with heterogeneous sources via external atoms and for meta-reasoning via higher-order literals in the context of the semantic Web. As an important technique in managing knowledge bases, the notion of forgetting has received increasing interest in the knowledge-representation area. In this paper, we introduce a semantics-based theory of forgetting for HEX-programs and, in turn, for a class of OWL/RDF(S) ontologies which allows to fully employ semantic information in managing ontologies like editing, merging, aligning, and redundancy removal.The language of HEX-programs under the answer-set semantics is designed for interoperating with heterogeneous sources via external atoms and for meta-reasoning via higher-order literals in the context of the semantic Web. As an important technique in managing knowledge bases, the notion of forgetting has received increasing interest in the knowledge-representation area. In this paper, we introduce a semantics-based theory of forgetting for HEX-programs and, in turn, for a class of OWL/RDF(S) ontologies which allows to fully employ semantic information in managing ontologies like editing, merging, aligning, and redundancy removal.


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Observations of flat-spectrum radio sources at λ850 μm from the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope II. April 2000 to June 2005
dc.contributor.author Jenness, T.
dc.contributor.author Robson, E.I.
dc.contributor.author Stevens, J. A.
dc.identifier.citation Jenness , T , Robson , E I & Stevens , J A 2010 , ' Observations of flat-spectrum radio sources at λ850 μm from the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope II. April 2000 to June 2005 ' , Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , vol. 401 , no. 2 , pp. 1240-1254 . https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2009.15716.x
dc.identifier.other PURE: 178599
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dc.description 'The definitive version is available at www3.interscience.wiley.com '. Copyright Royal Astronomical Society.
dc.description.abstract Calibrated data for 143 flat-spectrum extragalactic radio sources are presented at a wavelength of 850 μm covering a 5-yr period from 2000 April. The data, obtained at the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope using the Submillimetre Common-User Bolometer Array (SCUBA) camera in pointing mode, were analysed using an automated pipeline process based on the Observatory Reduction and Acquisition Control - Data Reduction (ORAC-DR) system. This paper describes the techniques used to analyse and calibrate the data, and presents the data base of results along with a representative sample of the better-sampled light curves. A re-analysis of previously published data from 1997 to 2000 is also presented. The combined catalogue, comprising 10 493 flux density measurements, provides a unique and valuable resource for studies of extragalactic radio sources. en
dc.title Observations of flat-spectrum radio sources at λ850 μm from the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope II. April 2000 to June 2005 en
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Chadwick Boseman just pulled a biopic hat trick — booking his third role as a real-life figure for "Marshall," about the first African-American Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall.
Reggie Hudlin, producer of this year's Oscar telecast, will direct the film from a script by Jacob Koskoff (The Weinstein Company's "Macbeth") and his father, trial lawyer Michael Koskoff. The film will follow one of Marshall's earlier landmark cases before he ascended to the bench.
China's Super Hero Films has fully financed the project, tapping prolific producer Paula Wagner ("Mission Impossible," "The Last Samurai") and her Chestnut Ridge Productions. Additional producers include Hudlin, Jonathan Sanger ("The Elephant Man") and Super Hero Films' Jun Dong.
Boseman is repped by Michael Greene of Greene & Associates and Management 360. Hudlin and the film are represented by CAA.