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Deborah Emin of Sullivan Street Press discusses the challenges of selling ebooks from her own web site and why she moved to using an ebook distributor.
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Bistri Wins "Easiest to Apply" Award at WebRTC Conference & Expo in Atlanta.
At the WebRTC Conference & Expo, Bistri showcased its new multi-party video conferencing service and a simple API for embedding that capability into any web site. Going one step further in simplicity, Bistri provides a Click to Video Conferencing …
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Weemo closes on million in funding to provide cloud video collaboration …
Weemo announces its latest round of funding and introduces an innovative embedded real-time video collaboration API solution targeted at the enterprise application market. Weemo is extending WebRTC"s capabilities by delivering a B2B multi-platform …
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Biotech Stock Mailbag: Small-Cap Rebound, Avanir, Ohr, CytoSorbents
In the only randomized clinical trial I can find (poster available on the company"s Web site), the 28-day and 60-day mortality was the same for sepsis patients undergoing cytokine removal with Cytosorb compared to control sepsis patients. The mortality …
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Williamson Girl Scouts honored for achievements
She designed and made an educational brochure and 100 cat scratchers for the local shelters to give away with adopted cats. Sheona Gozmao of Troop 2365 not … Troop 1360: Wendy Keiser, Briana O"Neil and Ashley Page. Project name: Stretch Classes for …
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The Guide to Sustainable Philanthropy 2014
The Guide to Sustainable Philanthropy 2014 looks at the current state of charitable giving – and delves into where the future of philanthropy lies. At Blue & Green Tomorrow, we spend most of our time writing about sustainable investment, which is about …
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Summer 2014 Issue of Xcell Journal Examines How Zynq All Programmable …
SAN JOSE, Calif., July 17, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) today announced immediate availability of the summer 2014 edition of its award-winning user magazine, Xcell Journal. Issue 88"s cover story takes a look at silicon finances, …
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Sweeping global survey registers progress, and declines, on environment
(My favorite place for reading the whole thing online is over at the magazines-on-the-Web site Issuu; and if you register, you can download the PDF. If you"d rather just sort and crunch numbers to dig deeper into topics or places of particular interest …
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How to Restore Old Versions of Word Documents
Go to the More menu at the top of the page and select Export. In the box, click the button next to “All contacts” and pick an export format for the file; you can also export the data as a vCard file, which works nicely with the OS X Contacts program …
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Researchers Uncover Government Spy Tool Used to Hack Telecoms and …
The Regin platform made its first public appearance in 2009 when someone uploaded components of the tool to the VirusTotal web site. VirusTotal is a free web site that aggregates dozens of anti-virus scanners. Researchers, and anyone else who finds a …
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NYC"s New Pay Phones Will Provide Super-Fast Wi-Fi—And Super-Smart Ads
They won"t have to dig into their pockets for spare change or put up with still more taxes. Instead, they must endure advertisements. It"s the same deal we tacitly accept when we use great free apps like Gmail, but IRL: a first-rate service in exchange …
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Helena, MT (PRWEB) November 7, 2005
Writers Talk–First Stage came online in March, and twice a month features a different comment by Writers West authors. These aren’t reviews or publisher’s blurbs. The authors give interesting and sometimes witty details about how their book idea came about. The articles are archived, so readers can easily find previous author comments. Writers Talk–First Stage gives background to fiction and nonfiction books, Old West sagas and romance stories.
The pages are a continuation of the Writers West mission — to connect readers to authors. Writers West books are not obtained from distributors; the authors provide the books and set the online price (often discounted from other stores), and the books they send are autographed. This personal touch is great for gift giving.
“As a writer, I’m always interested in what prompts other writers to their stories,” says bookstore owner, K Cheatham. “I’ve learned a lot about the authors who have their books at Writers West by reading the back stories they send.”
At Writers West all the books offered for sale are about some facet of the American West. Often a small segment of history spawns a story, but when the history is so vast and complex, it’s interesting to learn what drew an author to one particular aspect of it. Some fiction authors have a character in mind, while others are drawn first to the land, or a certain era of history.
Read First Stage comments by
Nancy M. Peterson, who wrote the acclaimed People Of The Old Missury, People Of The Moonshell, and People Of Troubled Water
Sandra M. McGee, co-author of Divorce Seekers: A Photo Memoir Of A Nevada Dude Wrangler
K Follis Cheatham, has two comments about her fiction–Kansas Dreamer: Fury In Sumner County, and her popular children’s book Spotted Flower And The Ponokomita
Philip Swatek, on controversial early 20th Century Oklahoma–The Pontotoc Conspiracy
Elizabeth Butler, tells what prompted her first book– The Colonel’s Wife
popular children’s author, Eugene Gagliano on Secrets Of The Black Widow
Ellen Gray Massy, on the unique photo collection The Bittersweet Ozarks At A Glance, and on two other of her books,–The Burnt District (fiction) and –A Candle Within Her Soul (biography)
Richard S. Wheeler, on his popular Skye’s West series
Eugene C. Vories, on –Pinon Mesa
Writers Talk makes authors more accessible to their readers. Each article contains contact information with the authors through links to an official Web site as well as to the Writers West bookshelf that has the referenced autographed book.
Kernels of something unique start a story budding in a writer’s mind. Writers West authors share those first stages at Writers Talk.
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The top five most read stories on the BBC News web site’s political pages in 2014 are revealed in a countdown.
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(PRWEB) September 30, 2013
Every Costa Rican travel guide, web site, and blog has a list of ‘What to Bring’ when visiting. But what about what not to bring? In effect, this question is secondary only to its predecessor, and important when visiting places such as Dominical.
Getting There and Away
Getting to Dominical is much easier than it used to be, but still slightly off the beaten path. The simplest way is to fly into San Jose, and catch a 25-minute Sansa flight to Quepos. From the Quepos airport, the drive in your rented car or private transportation is just 30 minutes—and one of the most gorgeous stretches or road in Costa Rica.
Of course, there is a weight limit on the domestic flight—30 pounds, in the case of Sansa. Which brings up a very pertinent question—if one wants to avoid paying $ 1 per pound excess baggage fee—what not to bring?
The question is very much in the spirit of travel in Costa Rica. Whether one is backpacking across the country, or staying in luxurious Villa de Agua, Costa Rica eludes a sense of simplicity, detachment and oneness with nature. Pack heavy when you go to New York. Pack light when you visit Costa Rica.
To each their own; however, here is a list of the most commonly un-needed items when traveling to Costa Rica:
1. High heels or fine shoes. The streets and sidewalks are uneven, and the beach doesn’t lend itself to high heels. (Makes for good entertainment, though…)
2. Finery. While the city is a different story, on the coast you can visit even the finest restaurant in shorts, a t-shirt and flip-flops if you want. It’s very casual.
3. Warm clothes. On the coast, during the coolest time of year, at most you’ll need a long-sleeve shirt and pants. Take caution with what you bring ‘just in case.’
4. Jewelry and nice watches. Again—it’s very casual, you won’t need them. Also, while violent crime is very low in Costa Rica, don’t create an unnecessary temptation.
5. Snorkeling gear. Unless you’re a real snorkel enthusiast, you can get passable snorkeling gear just about anywhere—and it’s included in some tours, such as the catamaran tour.
6. Game boxes, iPads and other entertainment devices. The more time spent playing games and watching movies, the less time experiencing Costa Rica. The kids will have a great time regardless—and it will do them some good to disconnect for a few days.
7. Traveler’s Checks. Come’ on—traveler’s checks went out of style in the 90s. Many places won’t even accept them, and it’s not easy at the bank, either. Bring some cash, and your ATM card and credit cards, instead.
8. Water purifiers, anti-malarial medication, snake-bite kits, or other such nonsense. The water here is potable AND there’s bottled water everywhere. There’s no malaria. As for snake bite kits—chances are you won’t get bitten by a snake. Might as well bring an Alien Abduction Kit, for all the good it will do you.
9. Travel Guides. Why bring an excessively heavy book with you when you travel? These days, with an iPad or laptop you’ll have all the information of the internet at your fingertips. Also—talking to people is the best way to get an honest scoop about local tours, restaurants or places.
10. Stress. Costa Rica’s veritable slogan is ‘Pura Vida’—ie ‘Pure Life’. It’s used in innumerable ways: ‘How’s it going?’ ‘Pure Life!’ ‘See you tomorrow?’ ‘Pure Life!’ ‘Thanks!’ ‘Pure Life!’ Life here is laid-back, and stress-free. Leave your stress at home! (Or better yet, drive it out to the woods and leave it on the side of the road before you come.)
Remember—Costa Rica is about being barefoot, whether you’ve got sand in your toes, or are treading travertine marble. Pack light, and live lightly.
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Turning Goals into Results: The Power of Catalytic Mechanisms
One dreams of making his brand more popular than Coke; another aspires to create the most lucrative Web site in cyberspace; yet another longs to see her organization act with the guts necessary to depose its arch rival. So, too, most executives …
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Free powerful e-book reader for your computer
Icecream Reader keeps track of your progress through your e-books, offers bookmarks, page turning and search functions just like a more mobile e-reader. There"s also the classic e-reader day and night modes to make your reading easy on the eyes. Plus …
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Celtics Turning Heads Amidst Brutal Nov. Schedule
CHICAGO – Don"t look now, but the Boston Celtics are beginning to turn some heads. Six games into a brutally competitive November schedule, the Celtics stand at an even 3-3. One could argue that they could easily be 5-1. A missed free throw cost the …
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Christmas season is a most wonderful time of year for just about everyone, children and adults as well. Sometimes we hate to see it end. The parties, family time, gifts, seeing a few people that you may only see at Christmas, it’s a time of year that most of us really look forward to. And of course, there are always lots of pictures taken.
When you think about it, the whole season could be turned into Christmas holiday photo books. With a little thoughtful planning, you could include pictures of everyone decorating the Christmas tree, dad putting up the lights, Christmas Eve family time together, opening gifts, a few pictures at some of the adult parties you may attend, a couple taking down the tree and lights, and the list goes on.
Lots of good photo books have been made with Christmas holiday pictures in them, and they’re most always made up of a collection of pictures that were taken with no real plan whatsoever. It’s fine, and it’s the way that most of them will continue to be made. But if you want to make superb Christmas holiday photo books (not just good), you must plan them.
It isn’t complicated, but it must be fairly detailed because superb ones are going to require four basic ingredients; 1) theme, 2) good pictures, 3) captions and text, and 4) good online web site.
1) Theme- Even though you know you’re theme is going to be Christmas, you need to break that down and decide what all it’s going to include. Is it going to be of a single family event, or would you like it to include everything mentioned above, decorating the tree, etc. Once you decide what you want to include, write it down.
2) Good pictures- You also need to write down the number of candid shots you want to take of every subject, and at every event, as well as some particular posed shots. For example, if you want at least one or two good pictures of everyone decorating the tree, plan on taking 4-6 so that you have a better chance of being able to pick out a good one. If the main subject or event is going to be the family Christmas party, and you want to include at least 20 good pictures from the party, then plan on taking 30-40. If you want a picture of all the grandkids grouped together, write it down.
It’s also a good idea to have others help you. You can make it a family fun type project, and ask your sister, or brother, or maybe your dad to be sure to have their digital cameras out (with extra batteries available), and take a certain number as well. Come up with a total, and divide it by the number of helpers you have.
3) Captions and text- Note who is in the various pictures for entering captions in your book. Also be sure to note anything interesting that may have happened. There will be places in your photo book where you can enter text, and that sometimes helps tell the story behind a picture, or further details the fun time that your book is all about.
4) Good online web site- You must create your Christmas holiday photo books on a web site that has the following; book designs you really like, wide array of photo book features and options, an easy step-by-step process, and the latest technology.
Following these simple, yet proven suggestions, will always result in you making superb photo books, regardless of the theme. In fact, yours will turn out so good that all of your family will want one. It’s a good thing they aren’t expensive.
Modern Greetings has everything you need to create superb Christmas holiday photo books. Take a minute now to visit their web site and you’ll see stunning examples of other holiday photo books you can make with Modern Greetings.
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Statistics has it that one woman in eight women will develop breast cancer in her lifetime and one out of thirty three women will definitely die from it. This hence makes mobile mammography an effective solution to bring breast examination and screening services closer to women above the age of 40 and hence reducing the risks of deaths emanating from breast cancer.
Large populations of women who are over the age of 40 around the world live in the countryside and this makes it rather difficult for them to visit health institutions for mammograms. These units therefore take breast health care to underserved populations, working women in industrial sites, community and even church groups. These mammograms are henceforth key to lifesaving early detection of breast cancer. These on-site mammograms are as confidential and safe just as going to a fixed health center.
A mobile mammography unit will mostly consist of a specialized trailer towed by a truck . The trailer house specialized machines like the x-ray machines and the necessary computer hardware. The unit will consist of almost every aspect from articles, machines to cabins used for undressing and dressing. The unit temperature is modified and kept as room temperature. The staff consisting of radiologists who read the photo images and technologists are mostly of female gender and are effectively trained. This improves the confidentiality factor.
Another option of erecting a mobile examination and screening unit is by hiring buildings for a short period. Necessary mammogram equipments are towed into the building and a temporary examination center established. These specialized x-ray machines are rather expensive and not all rural medical facilities have them hence a mobile unit could be hired and erected with the existing infrastructure.
Mobile mammography is since a cost effective and an inexpensive exercise for it reduces the cost of transport to travelling to medical centers. Women will be screened for a few minutes and then go back to attend to their other duties hence saving time. Developments have been made towards making the units even more portable hence cost effective.
Modern mobile screening units have features which make it even more convenient. The digital image data transfer through low bandwidth networks and citrix software solutions, information systems are made available to other health centers via the network. The mammogram data is hence made available to a cancer centre in real-time and the image data sent securely. This screening information is transferred within minutes and the system automatically links the report to an existing patient database.
The mammogram results can be directly communicated to the examinee or to the examinees physician in form of a typed report. This takes just a few days and should the results be abnormal, the patient is contacted and follow up care is then conveniently advised.
Women above the age of 40 need to undertake mammograms at least once in a year. This is to facilitate early detection of breast cancer which is effectively treated at its early stages of development. Statistics estimate that one third of breast cancer in America annually could be prevented by early detection. It is for this reason that makes mobile mammography which brings these services closer to many underserved women in the world a great initiative and success.
Lifeline Mobile, Inc. (http://lifelinemobile.com/) specialized mobile mammography unit web site for mobile medical units is designed to give you some extra information about our LifeLine Mobile dental, medical, lab, and blood collection units.
