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Here’s wonderful sandwich for lunch, a picnic, or to pair with soup for a light dinner. It’s rich in protein and laden with other nutrients because of the avocado, cucumber, sprouts, and whole-grain bread.
Servings: 8 sandwiches
2 8-ounce packages Lightlife tempeh, original flavor
4 cloves garlic
2 tablespoons Pickapeppa Sauce, original flavor
3 tablespoons Bragg Liquid Aminos
Salt and pepper to taste
5 tablespoons olive oil
1 large cucumber, peeled and sliced
1 small red onion, skinned and sliced
1 cup Hampton Creek Just Mayo or other vegan mayonnaise
2 tablespoons Sriracha Hot Sauce
Juice of ½ lemon
2 large tomatoes, sliced
1 avocado, pitted, scooped from skin and sliced
Fresh sprouts of your choice
16 slices of your favorite whole-grain bread (gluten-free if you like)
- Cut thin slices of tempeh on an angle.
- For the tempeh marinade, mix Pickapeppa Sauce, Bragg Liquid Aminos, garlic, and salt and pepper together. Marinate the tempeh slices for a few minutes, then sauté the tempeh in 3 tablespoons of the olive oil in a skillet until brown on both sides. Set aside.
- Sauté the onion in the remaining 2 tablespoons olive oil for 5-8 minutes until slightly browned. Set aside.
- For the chipotle mayonnaise, mix the vegan mayo, Sriracha, lemon juice and salt and pepper to taste. Set aside.
- To assemble each sandwich, spread the chipotle mayonnaise on two slices of bread. Next place a large slice of tomato on one piece of bread. Add sautéed tempeh, a few cucumber slices, some sautéed onion, and an avocado slice, and sprouts. Top with the second piece of bread and slice the sandwich in half. Repeat with remaining ingredients.


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The Billboard Hot 100 Music Festival 2017 is making a return to Northwell Health at Jones Beach Theater on August 19 & 20. Set to headline this year’s Billboard Hot 100 Music Fest are Big Sean, Major Lazer, Zedd, Marshmello, Demi Lovato, Bebe Rexha, Camila Cabello, DJ Khaled, Echosmith, and Gucci Mane.
More than 50 acts are slated to take part in the annual summer festival, across four stages within the Jones Beach Theater and its grounds. Additional acts included on the festival bill are 3LAU, Cash Cash, Le Youth, T-Pain, Party Favor, Rick Ross, and Billboard Electronic’s own, Matt Medved, among others.
Culminating electronic dance music (EDM), pop, hip-hop, rap, rock, and more, the diverse Billboard Hot 100 Music Festival intertwines a concert feel with a festival atmosphere. The crossover event, which combines top 40 to internationally famed DJs, offers a great opportunity to step out of your comfort zone to experience different types of music.
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Chevy Camaro got a big facelift in 1978. Gone were the awkward bumpers from the 1974-1977 models, replaced with much sleeker urethane plastic units that blended in much better with the almost ten-year-old body style. Over at sister division Pontiac, the 1977 Firebird was revamped with new-fangled quad, rectangular headlamps, but the Camaro stayed with single round units for the Camaro in a tasteful twist.
The car was a big hit, to say the least. The new rubber-bumpered Camaro sold a blistering 272,631 in 1978 units and followed that up with another 282,571 units in 1979. That’s over half a million sold in two years alone. For perspective, 35,000 units a year would be considered a good year for Camaro in 2022.
As we all know, this era of Camaro was saddled with emissions-strangled V8s that didn’t even break the 200-horsepower mark. Not only that, but rubber-bumper Camaros have traditionally held up the bottom end of the collector market for Chevy’s F-body. They are hardly considered the pick of the litter.
Today, with the prospect of electric cars looming, these late-era second-gen Camaros look pretty darn good, and as previously mentioned, they are abundant and easy to mod. An added bonus is, if you go the restomod route, you don’t have to worry about cutting up a rare or valuable chrome-bumper model.
Greatness for these malaise-era Camaros is achieved by a big hit of horsepower, and Roadster Shop just created the new benchmark for modding a rubber-bumper, second-gen Camaro.
The restraint shown here is commendable. The guys at Roadster Shop elaborate, “We recently completed the ’79 Z28 ‘Survivor Series’ build that packs a 755-horsepower LT5 punch combined with all new handling prowess and ride quality courtesy of a new, 100-percent bolt-in SPEC second-gen F-body chassis
“Subtle mods throughout retain the late-’70s roots, with a newly fabbed hood scoop and graphics to accommodate the taller LT5 motor. A newly upholstered interior by Miranda Built houses Recaro seats with custom graphic gradient inserts, a modified center console, and a machined bezel for the digital touch encoder. Our full-width custom electronic gauge setup sits within a 3D-printed dash surround complementing a lower 7-inch screen for controlling audio, AC, and other vehicle systems. White Forgeline JO3C wheels complete the look perfectly in 18×9.5-inch front (265/40r18) and 19×12 rear (345/30r19) with big 13-inch Baer Brakes.”
Our favorite part of the build, aside from the mega horsepower and chassis additions, is the interior. Historically, this era of Camaro had a crappy interior. Subpar fit and finish and cheap materials have always made a second-gen Camaro feel like you’re in a penalty box.
Well, no more. The design wasn’t an issue; it has kind of a cool Space 1999 feel to it, but the execution never tied it all together until now. Roadster Shop has corrected every debit of the interior. The new custom console really anchors the dash, and everything else is swathed in yards of baby blue leather. The seats are knitted out in early third-generation fabric that looks like it rolled off the line with the car in 1979. Some feel the off-the-shelf steering wheel is a misstep here, but that’s the only fly in the ointment.
Rubber-bumper Camaros and Firebirds have gained steam with collectors over the last few years, but we think this 1979 Z28 from Roadster Shop will accelerate interest in these once-derided ponies from General Motors.

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Your Name Alone Can Disqualify You From Winning An Award – Captain Smart Jabs Patapaa
Radio presenter, Captain Smart has been making headlines for his commentaries on arts and entertainment related issues of late,abrantepa.com has taken notice.
From jumping to the defense of Moesha over her statement that she sleeps with a married man for her subsistence to hailing gospel musician, Bro Sammy for releasing the ‘Nnipafoo’ song, the Adom FM morning show host this time around says Patapaa’s name can disqualify him from winning an award.
“This Patapaa guy, when did he become Patapaa? Your name alone can disqualify you from winning an award. Why do you call yourself ‘Patapaa’? Patapaa means someone who refuses to regard sensible thoughts,” he said on Daybreak Hitz.
Captain Smart’s comment was on the heels of the controversy surrounding Fancy Gadam’s victory over Patapaa at this year’s Vodafone Ghana Music Awards (VGMAs).
A furious Patapaa in an interview alleged that Charterhouse, organisers of the award scheme took “stupid money” from Fancy Gadam in exchange for the Song of the Year award, the reason ‘Total Cheat’ won over his ‘One Corner’ song.
In a sharp rebuttal, Fancy Gadam said he won because of the solid and loyal fan base he has. He labeled Patapaa as a joke, adding that he [Fancy] will never collaborate with the Swedru singer because he is not talented.
While a section of the public has jabbed Fancy Gadam for his comment, Captain Smart says the award-winning artiste did not err.
“When you level a serious allegation against a nominee who eventually won an award that he paid stupid money, what do you expect him to do or say?” he queried.
“There are some politicians I will never invite on my show [because] they are empty. When the producers invite them, I will leave and go home,” he said in defense to Fancy Gadam’s statement that he will never feature Patapaa on a song.
Patapaa’s ‘One Corner’ was adjudged Viral Song of the Year at the maiden edition of the 3 Music Awards held on March 24, 2018.


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Higher bandwidth, more pixels
Most displays on the market currently support the HDMI 2.0 standard with a bandwidth limit of 18 Gbit / s. This is sufficient to transmit an uncompressed 4K signal at 60 frames per second and up to eight bits of color. This is sufficient for the vast majority of uses, including watching UHD Blu-rays or playing games on an Xbox One X.
HDMI 2.1 is the next step forward for the standard and supports an uncompressed 8K signal at 60 frames per second in 12-bit color. This is achieved with a bandwidth throughput of 48 Gbit / s. With Display Stream Compression (DSC), HDMI 2.1 can transmit a 10K signal at 120 frames per second in 12 bits.
Some implementations of HDMI 2.1 use ports that only reach around 40 Gbps. This is enough to process a 4K signal at 120 frames per second in 10-bit color. This is also enough to take full advantage of the 10-bit panels of consumer television sets.
High-end PC gamers tempted by NVIDIA’s new 30-series cards will be pleased to learn that the company has confirmed future 10-bit support. This means it doesn’t matter if your TV lacks the full 48Gbps specification.
Currently, HDMI 2.1 is primarily aimed at gamers who are stepping onto the next-generation console or graphics card train. Both the Xbox Series X and the PlayStation 5 support a 4K resolution of 120 frames per second. This requires the implementation of the HDMI 2.1 standard.
If your television does not support HDMI 2.1, you will have to make do with a 4K signal that only runs at (!) 60 frames per second. The majority of titles in the latest generation of consoles ran at 30 frames per second, so it remains to be seen how much deal-breaker this will be.
HDMI 2.1 is so new that NVIDIA only has three new Series 30 cards in the pipeline that support the standard. The earlier RTX 2000 and GTX 1000 series cards are not HDMI 2.1 compatible. Many TV manufacturers, including Sony, haven’t included HDMI 2.1 in their top-tier displays yet.
We assume that the HDMI 2.1 standard will really catch on in 2021. However, it will be a few years before we see widespread adoption in budget displays.
Dynamic HDR support
With so much available bandwidth, there is also more space in the pipes for raw data. HDR stands for High Dynamic Range and enables a wider range of colors in content such as films and games. Older HDR standards like HDR10 only support static metadata. However, the newer formats HDR10 + and Dolby Vision allow dynamic metadata per scene or frame.
Dynamic HDR gives a television more information about what to do with the received signal. Instead of just reading a guide for an entire movie, the TV’s dynamic metadata is constantly updated to optimize the image on the screen so that it looks its best.
While every HDR-capable TV supports HDR10 with its static metadata, dynamic HDR is another beast. The most widely used format is Dolby Vision. It is preferred by hardware manufacturers like LG, Sony, Panasonic, and Philips. Samsung is going all-in on the less popular HDR10 +, which is also an open format (Dolby Vision, as the name suggests, is proprietary).
It’s important to note that you don’t need an HDMI 2.1 device to display HDR10 + and Dolby Vision – at least not at current 4K resolutions. If your TV supports it, Dolby Vision content will be streamed from Netflix without any problems.
In the future, however, the HDMI 2.1 standard will ensure that sufficient bandwidth will be available for both metadata and high-resolution signals with high frame rates.
We don’t yet know how the PlayStation 5 or Xbox Series X will implement HDR, but they will likely be the main field of evidence for dynamic HDR over HDMI for the next several years.
Variable update rate (VRR)
The refresh rate of a television is the number of times the control panel is updated per second. This is measured in Hertz and is closely tied to the frame rate. If the two are out of sync, you get an effect called “screen crack”. This is caused by the display trying to show more than one picture at a time when the console or PC is not ready.
By adjusting the refresh rate of the display to match the frame rate of your console or PC, you can effectively avoid screen tearing without sacrificing performance. Companies like NVIDIA and AMD have their own methods of dealing with screen tears known as G-Sync and FreeSync, respectively.
However, the HDMI 2.1 standard also has its own standalone solution called the HDMI Variable Refresh Rate (VRR). Microsoft has confirmed that the Xbox Series X will support this feature, and the PlayStation 5 is expected to do so too, as HDMI 2.1 needs to deliver 4K at 120Hz.
For the best possible next-generation console experience, HDMI VRR is a must. If you’re a PC gamer, NVIDIA and AMD are unlikely to ditch their existing technologies in favor of HDMI VRR. This means that you will still need to pair your graphics card with your monitor.
Auto Low Latency Mode (ALLM)
Another benefit for next-generation console gamers is the Auto Low Latency Mode (ALLM). Most televisions now have all sorts of additional processing to smooth motion, improve picture quality, and even improve audio quality. While some of this is appreciated when watching TV and movies, it introduces latency (lag) for gamers.
The game mode is intended for this. You can switch to it anytime you want the fastest possible response time from your TV. This is especially useful for games that require quick and precise reflexes. The only problem is that many TVs require that you toggle game mode on and off manually.
ALLM makes this superfluous. When your HDMI 2.1 Compatible TV detects that you are using a supported console, ALLM will disable any additional processing that may cause delays. You don’t have to do anything to activate it – it’s built into the HDMI standard.
Microsoft has confirmed ALLM support for the Xbox Series X, but not a word from Sony yet.
Fast frame transport (QFT)
Quick Frame Transport is another feature for gamers that, in conjunction with ALLM, offers a more responsive gaming experience. The function prioritizes video images in order to keep latency as low as possible.
If you want to use this function, make sure that intermediate devices such as a surround sound receiver are also compatible. This ensures that all of your devices work together to ensure a smooth and responsive experience. If you route your console through a receiver designed for HDMI 2.0 only, you won’t benefit from QFT even if your TV and console support it.
Quick Media Switching (QMS)
Have you ever noticed your screen go black right before watching a video or trailer? This is because the display adjusts its refresh rate based on the content you are about to watch. Since different content uses different frame rates, your display must be synchronized with this, hence the short blackout.
Sometimes this can cause you to miss the first few seconds of a video. However, some content providers are delaying playback to accommodate the change. Assuming the resolution of whatever you’re watching stays the same, Quick Media Switching (QMS) eliminates the power outage caused by changes in the refresh rate.
This allows you to view content with different frame rates one after the other without blackout. The feature uses HDMI VRR to smoothly switch from one refresh rate to the next.
Enhanced Audio Return Channel (eARC)
ARC stands for Audio Return Channel. You can send audio to your soundbar or surround receiver via HDMI without an additional optical audio cable. Whether you’re watching Netflix, playing a game on a console, or watching a Blu-ray, ARC makes sure that the audio is delivered to the correct output.
The Enhanced Audio Return Channel (eARC) is part of the HDMI 2.1 standard. With the additional bandwidth available in HDMI 2.1, eARC can transmit uncompressed 5.1, 7.1 and object-based audio at high bit rates and up to 192 kHz in 24-bit resolution. It does this with an audio bandwidth of 37 Mbit / s, compared to less than 1 Mbit / s over regular ARC.
If you want to transmit a Dolby Atmos signal over HDMI, you need eARC. There are some other improvements as well, like the correct correct lip sync correction, better device detection and a dedicated eARC data channel.
Do HDMI 2.1 devices require special cables?
Because HDMI 2.1 has higher bandwidth throughput, you need HDMI 2.1-compatible cables to take advantage of the new features. The HDMI license administrator has approved a new “Ultra High Speed” label for these cables.
Any device that uses HDMI 2.1, such as a game console or Blu-ray player, should have a cable in the box. Plus, buying an HDMI cable can help you avoid the overpriced premium sort.
HDMI 2.1 is mostly for gamers (for now)
Most people don’t need HDMI 2.1 right now. The improved standard will primarily benefit gamers who buy consoles or next-generation graphics cards and want functions such as HDMI VRR and ALLM. Outside of eARC, the new standard offers home theater enthusiasts few benefits.
Microsoft has announced the multiplayer part of Halo Infinite will ruin in native 4K at 120 frames per second, but the game has been delayed until 2021. We’ll have to wait and see if console titles achieve this lofty goal.


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Should Bangladesh fight the Covid-19 pandemic in line with the UK system?
Since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, there has been massive disruptions of economic, physical, psychological, and social wellbeing worldwide, consequent to the coronavirus’s disastrous effect on human health and fatality.
In order to slow down the spread of infection, widespread lockdowns were adopted, resulting in seriously depressed economic activity and sharp reduction in individual and family income, unprecedented unemployment, and, ultimately, to substantial decline in the GDP of nations.
A substitute for a lockdown
After complete lockdowns with untold devastation, governments and the scientific community have been zealously searching for an effective substitute for a complete lockdown.
Zone-based social distancing, dividing the population into areas, and when a cluster of individuals become infected, the area is locked down -- completely isolating the infected area from other areas may be effective in preventing or at least reducing the transmission. There has also been phase-wise lifting of lockdowns with gradual opening of activities.
With the start of lifting of the lockdown, there has been the re-emergence and growth of the Covid-19 pandemic observed in two cities in the UK recently; Leicester in England, where a large population of the people from the Indian sub-continent live, and in the southern Wales town of Myrther Tydfil.
In the city of Leicester, the rate of coronavirus cases jumped to 141 per 100,000 of the population and to 179 in Merthyr Tydfil compared to all other cities, towns, and localities in the British Isles, reporting a declining trend. Initial reports of the increase in the new cases, particularly in the city of Leicester, caused a bit of panic as initial precautionary measures taken by the authority failed to stop the tide for a few days, forcing them to lock down the city of Leicester from the rest of the country.
However, with the system in place, the root cause of the surge in both places was discovered quickly -- failure to abide by the guidelines issued for gradual lifting of lockdown by businesses in clothes and food industries.
Those businesses decided to ignore the instruction of maintaining safe distances between employees and, in some cases, forced the sick employees to come and work. Punitive measures are being handed out to the offending businesses.
Thanks to the NHS
In fact, it appears that the Covid situation in the UK is well under control, and the lockdown is being gradually lifted, thanks to the health care delivery system of the National Health Service (NHS), regarded by many as the most efficient health care system in the world.
It was announced on July 7 that no death from coronavirus infection has been reported in Scotland in the previous three days, and no death was reported from Wales on the same date of July 7.
The total number of diagnosed cases of coronavirus infection amounted to 290,000, with a daily number diagnosed on July 12 all across UK being 650 with a continuously declining trend. The total deaths declared from the coronavirus pandemic in the UK was nearly 45,000; around 40,000 in England, roughly 2,500 in Scotland, 1,500 in Wales, and 550 deaths in Northern Ireland. The figure declared for the total number of deaths in the UK on July 12 was 21.
At the peak of the coronavirus infection, death rate in the UK was the highest in Europe, greater than any of the 11 countries in the European continent. Its death rate was higher than Spain, Sweden, France, and Germany. Next to the UK, Spain had the highest death rate, and the UK being 109% higher compared to the country with the lowest death rate, more than double.
A question has been asked about the cause of such high death rates in the UK. The major cause of such rate was the late introduction of lockdown in the UK. The first case of diagnosed coronavirus infection was detected on January 31, the same date as the first case in Italy.
However, Italy introduced lockdown on March 9 in contrast to the UK, which introduced lockdown on March 23, almost two months after detection of their first coronavirus infection. The second-most important cause of the high death rate was due to authority’s failure to introduce test, trace, and isolate strategy early.
The full blame cannot be thrown on the shoulders of the government, as major reason behind their misfortune was the sub-standard quality of the rapid testing kit they imported from China, with substantial payment that turned out to be of low quality by the scientists at the University of Oxford, and had to be discarded.
Eradication without a vaccine
The question is also being asked if it is possible to eradicate coronavirus infection without the benefit of the development of the vaccine against this lethal virus. Scientists and academics from a number of universities in the UK agree that such an option of near eradication or substantial control of the virus is feasible, but would require a determined effort by the government and the people of a country, infrastructure support, and availability of resources both human and financial.
Public trust in their authorities leading the fight against the coronavirus is of paramount importance -- the people must be readily willing to collaborate with the authority in implementing the instructions and guidance handed out. The public trust in authority would require the honest and sincere delivery of the package of strategies leading to the success of the authority in combating the deadly disease.
Causes for worry
My major concern is the unplanned lifting of the lockdown, and the failure of the general population to adhere to social distancing, handwashing, wearing masks in public, and other public health measures advocated in combating the coronavirus pandemic with a structured gradual lifting of lockdown strategy.
Without the benefit of control on the transmission of the disease, and non-adherence to the recommended public health measures, it may lead to the more dangerous second wave of the pandemic with much greater catastrophic devastation as observed in the similar resurgence of the Spanish Flu in the second half of 1918, wiping out more than 50 million human lives in the short span of a few weeks.
Countries are failing to fulfil the pre-conditions recommended by WHO prior to lifting of lockdown; disease transmission to be under control; health systems are to be able to detect, test, isolate, and treat every case and trace every contact; hot spot risks are minimized in vulnerable places, such as nursing homes; schools, workplaces, and other essential places have established preventive measures. The risk of importing new cases can be managed and communities are fully educated, engaged, and empowered to live under a new normal.
Nowhere near fulfilment
These WHO pre-conditions are nowhere near fulfilment in our country, and I do understand the importance of lifting stepwise the lockdown to allow a minimum of economic activities with a gradual increase to full or near full activities over time.
We may explore how the authority in the UK have followed lockdowns and their gradual and stepwise lifting in response to transmission of this potentially fatal viral infection. Let us consider management of school activities from the start of the pandemic in the UK. Schools in the UK initially started to open only to a small number of children with the aim of reducing transmission of coronavirus infection to protect the National Health Service (NHS) and save lives.
With improved situation, the authorities started to consider bringing more and more of children and young people back into schools. From June 2020, education in schools began in small bubbles, students spending a short time in school in small groups, with public health risk reduction measures in place with flexibility to bring back more pupils where schools have space to do so.
As the prevalence of coronavirus decreased, and with the NHS Test and Trace system up and running, the government asked the schools to prepare for receiving pupils and opening fully from autumn.
The other important component in effectively combating coronavirus pandemic is the management structure strategy. In the UK, Gold-Silver-Bronze command structures and Programme Management Office (PMO) were introduced in combating the coronavirus pandemic.
The gold, silver, and bronze command structure is a command hierarchy used for major operations by the emergency services of the UK. It is not unusual to use the terms strategic, tactical, and operational command structure instead.
In some cases, the UK government acts as the Platinum level, and assumes ultimate control in the cabinet office briefing rooms. My advice for Bangladesh in the battle against coronavirus that the country should endeavour to establish command structure for the management of the coronavirus pandemic in line with the UK system, modified to its unique requirements and to its existing situation, imposing graded and area-based lockdowns in response to transmission scenarios of sporadic, clusters, and community transmission, make every effort and utilize every opportunity in controlling transmission of this potentially fatal disease, develop capacity to detect, test, isolate, and treat every case and trace every contact as soon as possible, establish preventive measures in workplaces, schools and other essential places, and educate, engage, and empower its population with the effective ways to live in the era of the potentially fatal Covid-19 disease.
Dr Raqibul Mohammad Anwar is Specialist Surgeon and Global Health Policy and Planning Expert, and Retired Colonel, Royal Army Medical Corps, UK Armed Forces.

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Welcome to Fashion Bar in Tashkent. Here you will find information, view photos and read tourist reviews of Fashion Bar in Tashkent.
In Central Asia, Fashion trendy bars exist in two cities: Tashkent and Almaty. Fashion Bar takes the name from the brand of fashion channel Fashion TV. Fashion bars are open in Baku, Kiev, Minsk and Moscow, and in 20 countries in the world.
The first floor is for those who want to spend the evening in a noisy company, a great bar,comfortable fit, and live music sets from top DJs.
Second floor - a zone for the romantics with cozy sofas, dim lights and a large screen on which the clock is broadcast Fashion TV.

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The Best Amphitheaters in America
10: Ravinia, Chicago
Every year, Chicagoans flock to this North Shore green space and spread out blankets for a concert series that stretches all summer long. You can't beat the location – "smack dab in the middle of some of the highest per-cap-income earners on the planet," in the words of Andy Cirzan, vice president of concerts for Chicago's Jam Productions. Over the years, it's welcomed a wide range of big-name acts including Bob Dylan, Rufus Wainwright, Crosby, Stills and Nash, Joni Mitchell, the Beach Boys and many more.
Fun Fact: Janis Joplin's summer 1970 Ravinia performance drew a security force of 200 police officers due to paranoia after fans rioted before a Sly and the Family Stone concert in Chicago the previous month.
9: Greek Theatre, Berkeley, California
The gem of Berkeley went up almost 110 years ago and slowly evolved from Teddy Roosevelt speeches to shows by acts like the Pixies, Arcade Fire, Tom Petty and the Postal Service. Its classical columns and off-white coloring date from the late nineteenth century, when a University of California president judged the Olympic Games in Athens and came home inspired. Most fans notice the views more than the architecture, however: "Great to go to the top, looking out over the Bay and San Francisco skyline while the band plays below," says Fall Out Boy manager Bob McLynn.


HITTERDAL, Minn. — SpaceX, a private company that is in the process of establishing the Starlink satellite network to provide low-cost internet service to remote locations around the globe, recently touted the Hitterdal, Minn., area as one of the test sites for the network's ground station technology.
During the Nov. 24 launch of a rocket to place satellites into low Earth orbit, SpaceX streamed a video that included a shoutout to the Hitterdal area, which is one of six new ground stations SpaceX has been using to test the satellite signal reception of Starlink's nascent broadband service.
In the video, the reference to the small town about 32 miles east of Fargo comes at about the 10-minute point.
In addition to Hitterdal, other new Starlink ground station testing sites include:
- Tionesta, Calif.
- Basley, Ga.
- Butte, Mont.
- Colburn, Idaho
- Robertsdale, Ala.
Eventually, SpaceX could have as many as 1 million ground stations worldwide as part of project Starlink.
So far, more than 800 satellites have been put into orbit as part of Starlink's network, and documents SpaceX filed with regulators reveal plans for thousands more.
The company has indicated it may ultimately have about 30,000 satellites in orbit, an ambitious plan given fewer than 3,000 artificial satellites now orbit the Earth and less than 10,000 have ever been launched.
SpaceX sent its first 60 Starlink satellites into orbit in May 2019.
Starlink's satellites operate about 340 miles above Earth, low enough that when they eventually succumb to atmospheric drag within a few years they won't become space junk.
The relatively low orbits also mean Starlink satellites can transmit large amounts of information rapidly to any point on the globe.
According to the video of the recent SpaceX launch, the Starlink service available in the Hitterdal area is limited. Communities such as Hitterdal and Hawley are covered by Starlink's service "cell," but other nearby towns, such as Lake Park, are outside the cell's service area.
SpaceX was given authority by the federal government to do early beta testing of its ground station in the Hitterdal area for 60 days starting in August and ending in late September. The company has since asked for an extension of that authority.
At this early stage of the network's development, to qualify for service customers have to live in the northern U.S. or southern Canada between 45 and 53 degrees latitude.
According to CNBC.com, participating households are charged $99 a month for internet service and a one-time fee of $499 for a satellite dish and router.
A SpaceX ground station in the town of Hitterdal is comprised of eight antennas, each of which is about 5 feet in diameter and located about 11 feet above the ground, according to filings with the Federal Communications Commission.
Matt Jacobson, Clay County planning director, said county officials have not been approached by SpaceX.
Lynn Anderson, clerk/treasurer at Hitterdal, said no one from SpaceX has approached the city, either, regarding a ground station.
Jacobson said a new antenna array would normally require a permit, unless it was attached to an existing structure, such as a cell phone tower.


Living smarter with sensor technology
WSU professors study ways to help seniors remain independentSeptember 22nd, 2016
For many people approaching retirement, finding ways they can continue to live at home safely as they age is an issue, one for which two Washington State University professors at the university’s campus in Pullman have been seeking a solution.
For almost 10 years now, professors Diane Cook and Maureen Schmitter-Edgecombe have been researching what’s called smart-home technology, a kind of sensor monitoring system that might help seniors stay independent longer. A study that’s part of that long-term effort currently is underway and is scheduled to wrap up next summer.
Cook, a professor of electrical engineering and computer science, says she first became interested in smart-home technology in 2007.
“My in-laws are in the real estate market and told me about homes with appliances that could talk to each other,” she says.
A smart appliance is any device that is able to connect to a smartphone, a tablet, or a computer, and pass along information to the user. A smart clothes washing machine, for example, could send out an alert via text message when a load of laundry is finished.
Cook’s work focused on artificial intelligence, machine learning, and smart environments, but she was interested in finding ways of using technology for health monitoring and intervention. She shared some of her ideas with Schmitter-Edgecombe, a professor of clinical neuropsychology, who had been studying memory intervention and the relationship between memory deficits and the capacity to perform complex daily tasks.
The two saw that a research partnership could combine their two fields of expertise and put them on the path to creating a smart-home for seniors.
“I had done clinical work with older adults, working to develop ways for them to stay independent, and studying how cognitive decline affects everyday living,” says Schmitter-Edgecombe. “Diane had a similar goal, in finding a way for technology to help keep people independent in their homes.”
Schmitter-Edgecombe and Cook wanted to start by working with people who had cognitive disabilities. To keep things simple, they also wanted the sensor technology to be part of the test environment, rather than a wearable device.
“It was hard to find ways to incorporate hardware into a home, because when we started, there weren’t really any wireless sensors,” says Cook. “Luckily, over time, wireless sensors have developed that are much lighter and simpler, easier to hide amongst a home environment.”
To begin testing sensor hardware that could monitor activities, as well as the software that could read the data, the professors turned a student apartment on WSU’s Pullman campus into their test lab.
“The lab is an actual apartment, with students who live there during the year,” says Cook. “While the students are out during the day, we conduct studies.”
Cook says the three-bedroom apartment is roughly 1,100 square feet, and is outfitted with sensors that use infrared technology to track motion and temperature, among other things. Data from the sensors is then collected and analyzed at WSU’s Center for Advanced Studies in Adaptive Systems, also called CASAS.
“We were primarily interested in tracking movement throughout the home. That—combined with the day, time, and patterns—is sufficient to understand what’s being done,” Cook says.
While there are no video or listening devices included, the sensors are able to track the motions involved in daily activities, such as bathing, sleeping, cooking, and eating, as well as social interactions, such as making a phone call.
“Once we put the hardware in place, we moved on to gathering data and recognizing activities from the readings given through the motion sensors,” she says. “We could then use that data to identify what people are doing and understand it. From there, we started to use it to access their health. Are they healthy and functioning independently? If not, the next step is thinking of ways to automate things, to control the home and help them.”
Schmitter-Edgecombe says the study began by using undergraduate students and trying to recognize activities based on their movements within the home.
“We then looked at more complex activities, and other factors like adding more than one person in the environment,” she says. “From there, we moved on to using older adults with mild cognitive impairments so we could see the quality of their performance of tasks, identify the difficulties, and begin looking at how to assist.”
The duo’s work with the pilot project set the stage for further funding through a $800,000 Washington state Life Sciences Discovery Fund in 2009.
Since that time, their research has received funding from individual companies, and grants from the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health.
Following the pilot project, which concluded in 2009, Schmitter-Edgecombe says the two began to focus their research on how technology could be used to support individuals in completing tasks.
“We started to look at whether a verbal or visual prompt could help cue people, or remind them when they get stuck completing a task,” she says.
Further research into this area was funded by a $900,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to design an easy-to-install “smart home in a box.”
“The funding allowed us to design a kit that could be mailed to people who wanted to help us collect data,” says Cook.
The project has a website, casas.wsu.edu, where interested individuals can request to participate.
Cook says the kits take about an hour to set up and include 20 to 25 sensors that monitor and learn residents’ daily activities, note any changes, and prompt them if they forget to do something. The study will continue until next summer.
According to Cook, through that project and others, more than 100 smart home test sites have been set up in 11 countries to date.
“Some of the data is used to design computer science programs to better see patterns in data or look at differences in behavior across various demographics,” Cook says.
“Humans have really varied, complex behaviors. The more data we have, the more we can come to understand the impact those behaviors have on health.”
While a cost for the smart-home system is difficult to estimate due to constantly changing technology, Cook says there has already been significant interest among both researchers and private companies in how a smart home package designed for use by seniors and people with disabilities could be marketed to the public.
“It’s still pretty challenging to educate people on the program’s usefulness, but it is gaining in popularity,” she says. “We get visits from companies who want to talk about it at least once a month.”
Cook says that this smart home system differs from others already on the market in that it is more accurate, and is designed to actively learn about new tasks based on the user’s history.
In addition to their work on the smart-home-in-a-box project, this year the two professors also were awarded a $720,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Defense, targeted toward providing aid to people with cognitive impairment.
The grant enabled them to design a digital memory notebook, the first prototype of which was created this year.
Cook says the tool was based on Schmitter-Edgecomb’s years of work with paper-based memory notebooks.
“It works together with the smart home to inform individuals of the activities they already performed that day and to remind them of upcoming activities at the times they normally perform them,” says Cook. “This information is based on sensed activities so the users do not have to program the aid.”
Although there is already some technology out there that can help seniors to live more independently at home, Cook says it still isn’t as robust as she would like to see.
“I suppose as researchers, we’re never satisfied, we’re always looking at the next step,” she says.
Looking ahead, she says she and Schmitter-Edgecombe want to continue to pursue ways in which the smart-home technology can be used for preventive health care interventions.
“This has the potential to detect health events like falls and heart attacks, and inform caregivers,” she says. “It also could detect slower changes that may indicate cognitive decline, or mobility issues.”
Similarly, Schmitter-Edgecombe says, “For preventive care, prompting could be used to help people begin to integrate new healthy behaviors into their everyday lives.”
People interested in being part of smart-home technology studies can contact WSU’s Aging and Memory Laboratory at 509-335-4033.


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Update 1/22/2019, 2:57PM EST: We’ve received an update from Hulu, stating that the launch date for Record of Grancrest War‘s English dub is not confirmed.
In the interest of accuracy, we are issuing this retraction on the piece. We apologize for the inconvenience.
On January 17, Hulu announced that the English dub for Record of Grancrest War will join the publisher’s lineup. The first season will kick of on February 1.
Aniplex of America will start shipping the series on Blu-Ray in April. Two sets are planned, which will be priced at $149.98.
The English dub cast includes:
- Theo Cornaro: Brandon Winckler
- Siluca Meletes: Jeannie Tirado
- Lassic David: Imari Williams
- Villar Constance: Greg Chun
- Moreno Dortous: Lucien Dodge
- Milza Kuces: Kaiji Tang
- Irvin: Alan Lee
- Aishela: Allegra Clark
- Margaret Odeus: Lauren Landa
- Marrine Kreische: Erika Harlacher
- Alexis Doucet: Aleks Le
- Priscilla Farnese: Kayli Mills
Chris Cason is directing the dub.
Record of Grancrest War aired in the Winter 2018 broadcast season.
The series is based on a light novel series by Record of Lodoss War creator Ryo Mizuno and illustrator Miyuu. Mamoru Hatakeyama (Sankarea: Undying Love, Hakkenden: Eight Dogs of the East) was tapped to direct the project at A-1 Pictures, with Hiroshi Yakou providing character designs. The team of Ryo Mizuno (Record of Lodoss War) and Shunsaku Yano took charge of series composition.
Aniplex describes Record of Grancrest War as:
A lone mage named Siluca and a vagrant knight named Theo make an oath as master and retainer, with hopes of bringing reform to a land riddled with war and chaos.
Atlatan, a land ruled by chaos. Siluca, a lone mage, and Theo, a vagrant knight continue his journey of training to someday liberate his homeland from tyrannical rule.
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Objective: To determine the scale of acute neurosurgery for severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) in childhood, and whether surgical evacuation for haematoma is achieved within four hours of presentation to an emergency department. Methods: A 12 month audit of emergency access to all specialist neurosurgical and intensive care services in the UK. Severe TBI in a child was defined as that necessitating admission to intensive care. Results: Of 448 children with severe head injuries, 91 (20.3%) underwent emergency neurosurgery, and 37% of these surgical patients had at least one non-reactive and dilated pupil. An acute subdural or epidural haematoma was present in 143/448 (31.9%) children, of whom 66 (46.2%) underwent surgery. Children needing surgical evacuation of haematoma were at a median distance of 29 km (interquartile range (IQR) 11.8-45.7) from their neurosurgical centre. One in four children took longer than one hour to reach hospital after injury. Once in an accident and emergency department, 41% took longer than fours hours to arrive at the regional centre. The median interval between time of accident and arrival at the surgical centre was 4.5 hours ( IQR 2.23-7.73), and 79% of inter-hospital transfers were undertaken by the referring hospital rather than the regional centre. In cases where the regional centre undertook the transfer, none were completed within four hours of presentation-the median interval was 6.3 hours (IQR 5.1-8.12). Conclusions: The system of care for severely head injured children in the UK does not achieve surgical evacuation of a significant haematoma within four hours. The recommendation to use specialist regional paediatric transfer teams delays rather than expedites the emergency service.
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This is tough to announce. I'm going to miss my promised pre-Christmas pub date with Anticipation. Being sick for over a week with a hideous head cold has knocked my schedule so far out that I have now lost my windows with the various people who make the manuscript into a book. Confronting that reality has made me face up to another one - the concern that in rushing to get this book to readers who have been so patiently waiting, I am not going to be able to give this book the polish I very much want to before I release it. If I was writing for a traditional publisher still, I would be begging my editor for more time to take another pass. I'm not, though - I'm writing for you and me now, and that means I have to make the tough call to sit tight on this manuscript until it feels as good as it can be. I love Eddie and Blue so much (particularly Blue, she's so feisty!) and I want their story to be as good on the page as it feels in my head. If that makes sense.
So, here's what I am going to do: no promises on delivery for this book. It will be early next year, but I'm not promising anything specific because I want to get this RIGHT. That is always my first priority with anything I put out there with my name on it. I want to give readers my best. I'm going to post some excerpts and other material I've been looking at and listening to here and on my blog over at my website in the meantime, to hopefully tide you over and get you in the mood.
I'm so sorry if this announcement disappoints anyone. I have been so thrilled that I've had so many messages from readers asking for Blue and Eddie's story. It's kept me toiling at the keyboard even when parts of this story have had me absolutely pulling my hair out. I love that you love these two as much as I do. Please just bear with me for a few more weeks and I promise you'll have it in your hot little hands!
I'm a little late with this announcement, but I'm going to blame it on the fact that I'm still pretty stunned that both of the books that were finalists in the Romance Writers of Australia Romantic Book of the Year and Ella Award (for romantic novella of the year) WON!!! There I was, sitting in the ballroom at the Romance Writer's conference in Sydney, and they called my name out not once, but twice. It still feels surreal, three weeks on.
The two stories nominated were Her Favourite Rival, and Worth The Risk. Her Favourite Rival is a Super Romance, and you can find an excerpt and some background information on the book here. Worth The Risk started life as a free on-line read for Harlequin, and Mills and Boon Australia released it as a bonus. The good news is that it's still available as a free on-line read here. All ten chapters are there - you simply need to click through to each new instalment to keep reading.
I can't tell you how chuffed, excited, honoured, humbled and delighted I am that these two stories struck such a chord with readers. As I often tell people, writing can be a lonely profession sometimes, which makes letters and other contacts from readers incredibly precious and rewarding, and awards like this so encouraging and wonderful. It is AWESOME that people enjoy my stories, and I have the BEST job in the world, hands down.
As I did on the night, I want to acknowledge again that I wouldn't be writing any of this and there would be no books for readers to enjoy if it wasn't for my wonderful editor, Wanda Ottewell. I have been incredibly fortunate to have Wanda as my editor through every book I wrote for Super Romance and Blaze, a run of 30 odd books. I know from talking to other Harlequin authors - and just authors in general - that it's rare to have the one editor for so many books, but what makes me extra, super-duper lucky is that not only did I have that continuity, the person I told all those stories with is Wanda.
Wanda is amazing with story. She remembers my characters from past books better than I do sometimes. She knows when to push me, when to pull me back. She says all the right things when I ring to tell her my hard drive has failed and that I haven't backed up for 50,000 words. She is the best coach, friend, counsellor, co-conspirator a writer ever had, and I absolutely acknowledge the powerful contribution she has made to my work and my career.
The other person I need to acknowledge is my husband, Chris. We have been together for more than 20 years now, and he has kept me laughing, kept challenging me, kept supporting me and loving me and feeding me and being kind to me through thick and thin. He is a brilliant writer and storyteller in his own right, and some of my best story ideas and scenes have been inspired by his words or advice. He is my secret weapon, and I would not be the writer I am today without him by my side. I love you so much, Chris, and your support means the world to me. Thank you for being as excited about these awards as I am.
Right. I will get off my podium now, but before I go I'd liked to acknowledge all the lovely readers out there who have taken the time to write to me or send me things via my publisher or make contact in some other way to let me know that my books have touched them. Your kind words are a gift beyond measure, and your demand for more keeps me at my keyboard. Thank you!
I wrote a novella! More specifically, I wrote a fun, heartfelt, sexy little story of 40,000 words for Montana Born Books, and it's out (officially) on Kindle on the 14th of April. For those of you who are quick off the mark, Almost a Bride will be at the special introductory preview price of 0.99 cents for two days only - that's the 13th and 14th of April, US time, I've been told. After that, it will revert to its normal price of $2.99. I'll post buy links here they moment I have them, so keep checking back if they're not here yet. *** Okay, the deal is up, and here's the link. I hope you enjoy!!
Here's the book blurb so you know what I'm rambling on about:
Tara Buck has always been the good sister, level-headed by comparison to Scarlett, her flaky, impulsive twin. But when Tara learns her fiancé has been cheating on her with one of his school students, the orderly world she’s created for herself suddenly feels as if it’s falling apart. For years she chose the safe option, but from now on she’s going to live a little, stretch her wings…be a little daring. And if that means acting on the long-suppressed feelings she’s always had for Reid Dalton, then so be it!
Reid has wanted Tara from the moment he met her, but she’s always been out of bounds. Not only is she his patrol partner at the Bozeman PD, she’s also engaged. But then her relationship blows up, and Reid finds himself battling his own instinct to stake his claim with the finest, hottest woman he’s ever known.
Even if anything did happen between them, it would only ever be temporary – Reid’s a born wanderer, while Tara’s roots run deep in Marietta. So even if things are good between them, it seems their romance is destined to be short and sweet…
This book is set in Marietta, Montana, the fictional town in which all the Montana Born books are located. Surrounded by ranches, mountains, lakes, this is a small town of 10,000 souls, and over the coming months, many, many stories will be told about its residents. Tara and Reid, the heroine and hero of my book, were both born and bred in Marietta, and while Reid has always had a severe case of wanderlust, Tara is deeply attached to her home.
Once they get past the other things keeping them apart, this fundamental difference in how they see the world causes some issues for their burgeoning relationship. I'm not going to blab more in case I ruin the read for you, but I hope you get a kick out of these two people - I loved finding their happy ever after.
Her Kind of Trouble, my last Super Romance for a while, also came out at the beginning of April. This book was a dream to write. I had such a clear image of Vivian and Seth in my head, and I loved writing their provocative banter so much... Viv and Seth's story has some sadness in it, as well as some seriously hot steamy bits. I've been getting some truly lovely and touching feedback from readers about this one, and am over the moon that people are loving it so much.
Finally we come to Satisfaction. I have been so, so excited that so many people have had good - no, great! - things to say about this book, and that so many people are excited about the sequel, Anticipation, which I am hoping to have out by August. I can't wait to stretch my wings some more in the world of self publishing. Please keep writing to me and making contact via Facebook andTwitter - I love hearing from you, love hearing what you're excited about and what you want more of.
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Okay. Off to write some words for the day. Happy reading, everyone.
Thank you so much for your patience! Satisfaction is finally here. Yahooooooo.
After a busy week of sending files back and forth to formatters and copy editors and finalising the cover, I finally got Satisfaction uploaded to Smashwords, NOOK, and Amazon this weekend. For those of you who read in epub via Kobo or iBookstore, please bear with me a little longer as it always takes longer for those retailers to upload books with saucy content. And Satisfaction has got the saucy going on, I promise!
If you can't wait, Smashwords provides epub files that you should be able to read in both ibooks and on your Kobo reader. I promise I will post the moment I know that the book is live at Kobo and iBookstore.
Now, without further ado, please find the blurb, cover and buy links for Satisfaction:
Maggie Hendricks loves her life. Great job, amazing friends. Everything just how she likes it. There's just one small problem. When it comes to sex, Maggie can’t quite get there. No fireworks, no screaming orgasms. And while she tells herself she’s fine with that, she can’t help wanting more.
When her friend shares the intimate details of a one night only fling with an extremely talented lover, Maggie makes a desperate pact with herself. She will seduce this man and if he can’t get her there...well, then she’ll hand herself over to medical science. A simple enough plan. What could possibly go wrong?
Within minutes of meeting Rafel Oliveira, Maggie knows the answer to that one: plenty. Rafel turns out to be far more than simply talented in the bedroom. As he takes her on a journey toward the ultimate pleasure, Maggie finds herself craving a lot more than his beautiful body. But can she win the one thing that will leave her truly satisfied...his heart?
Please note, you can sample up to 30% of the book at both sites if you'd like to try before you buy.
Dear Reader, this blog post is to apologise to you and humbly request your patience. You see, I was so sure that I would have my next self published book, Satisfaction, locked and loaded and ready to go in January that I came on here and talked about it. So cocky, Ms Mayberry, so cocky. The book was but a bee's dick away from being completed, and I was confident that that cockiness was not unwarranted.
As any writer will tell you, sometimes when you take a break from the work (Christmas, I'm looking at you) and come back to it, you can see things that you couldn't see before. And what I saw was a bunch of stuff I didn't like. Somehow, I had lost my way in telling Rafel and Georgie's story, and it has taken me the best part of a week to woman up and face the fact that I am going to have to do some serious pruning and rewriting to make this little puppy fly. I have a plan, and I am currently rewriting as fast as I can, but this means that there is no chance that I will have the book out this month. I'm aiming for late February, the stars being aligned.
I'm so sorry if I got anyone excited or expectant (and also extremely flattered if you were in either state), but I simply couldn't keep writing forward when my gut was screaming at me that I had gone wrong. My promise to you is that when this book does come out, it will be the best version of this story that I know how to tell. So if you'll just bear with me a little longer, Satisfaction will be with shortly. Ish.
It's not all bad news, though.
I got the cover for my April release today, and I'm going to share it with you now because it's rather gorgeous. I know it's winter in large parts of the world, but doesn't that water just make you want to swim ?(I'm writing this on a 40 degree + day in Melbourne, so go with me on this!) I had an enormous amount of fun writing about Vivian and Seth, and I cannot wait to share them with everyone. Roll on April, I say.
I cannot believe we are staring down the barrel of Christmas yet again. The days have flown by this year, which is why I have been tardy with updating my site. My humble apologies. For those of you who are still talking to me, I have a novella out at the moment in The Christmas Wedding Quilt anthology. Emilie Richards and Janice Kay Johnson (I know, I really lucked out there) wrote the first two stories, and I wrapped things up in this great set of stories centred around a quilt that a dying mother didn't quite finish and four cousins who have lost contact over the years. My story, Nine Ladies Dancing, is about Rachel, a librarian in the small bayside town of Sorrento, and Leo, a fire fighter who is recovering from an injury and mourning the death of a close friend and colleague. I loved writing this story, especially researching quilting techniques, and I adored working with Emilie and Janice. If you're wondering, my novella sits at the sweet end of the steamy spectrum, but there's plenty of romance and tension (well, I hope there is, anyway!) and the anthology is getting strong reviews from readers.
My other news for you is that I am almost ready to hit the "go" button for my next self-published digital book. Satisfaction has a cover, but I am holding off on sharing it because I want to make a splash. I will say, however, that my cover designer has thanked me several times for giving her such good material to work with! In case you hadn't worked it out from the title, Satisfaction is a very steamy read. Very. Steamy. The story follows Georgie, a small independent bookstore owner, and her quest to resolve an intimate problem that has cast a shadow over her personal life for years. In short, Georgie can't get there, not with a man, not by herself, and she's pretty much at the end of her tether and ready to seek the help of modern medicine when she learns about the incredibly sexy Brazilian-Australian tattooist working just up the road. According to reliable word, he is The Business in the bedroom, and in a moment of slightly drunken desperation Georgie forms the plan to seduce him and let him work his magic on her. If he can't make the earth move, she will hand herself over to people in white coats and a raft of tests. As we all know, women plan and God laughs, and of course Georgie's not-very-well-thought-out plan goes astray - but in a very delicious way. What follows is a frustrating, compelling seduction that becomes the centre of Georgie's world. It's not until she's knee deep in the best sex of her life that Georgie realises that the man responsible for her satisfaction has become far more than a cure for her frustration. But she's not convinced that Rafele has ever seen her as more than a challenge, or that their lives will mesh outside of the bedroom. Plus there's the very real chance that he's still in love with his ex-girlfriend...
I don't want to ruin all the surprises, so I will stop typing now, but I am hoping to get this out to readers in mid January. In the meantime, any book bloggers or readers who would like to receive early copies for review, please contact me via the contact me button on my website and I will pop your name down and hook you up when the manuscript is ready to rock and roll.
I am thrilled to announce that my e-only novella Her Favorite Temptation is FREE right now on Kindle, Kobo, Barnes and Noble, ibookstore, Harlequin, etc, etc. It's available to Australian and New Zealand readers, as well as Canadian and US readers. I'm not sure about UK and Europe, but my best guess until I hear from readers up that way is that Harlequin might be the best source for the freebie as they tend to sell e-books to anyone from anywhere. Fingers crossed, and if you know any differently, I'd love to hear from you.
So, here are the buy links for Australia. Unfortunately, I cannot get the buy links for the US from Down Under - ah, technology, isn't it awesome? - but there is a list of them over at Dear Author, so here's a link to that post.
It's worth noting that the Australian and New Zealand version of the title reflects Australian spelling, and therefore "Favorite" has become "Favourite". If, for whatever reason my links don't work, Australian and New Zealand readers need to search for "Her Favourite Temptation", while US and Canadian readers should search for "Her Favorite Temptation". Make sense? I hope so.
Now, onto the links for Australian and New Zealand readers:
I hope everyone enjoys this book. It's a long novella - 65000 words, about the length of one of my Blazes - and it's a prequel/parallel story to my September Super Romance, Her Favorite Rival. To find out more books, scroll down to my previous blog post, where I posted quite a bit of info about each book.
First up, I have a digital-only short coming out in August that will be FREE on Kindle, Kobo, ibookstore, etc, etc. Called Her Favorite Temptation, this 65000 word not-really-a-novella links to my September Super Romance, Her Favorite Rival. I am very excited about both these stories. They were emotional books to write, and I found myself getting very invested in finding a happy-every-after for Leah and Audrey and their men, Will and Zach.
A little about each of the books:
Her Favorite Temptation is Leah's story. She's the younger sister, and the golden-haired child of the family. She can do no wrong - as long as what she wants to do coincides with what her domineering mother wants her to do. When the book opens, Leah is making a stand for the first time in her life and not particularly enjoying the resulting heat she gets from her parents. Their conflict makes her question many things about her life, including her distant relationship with her older sister, Audrey. As she grapples with these family issues, she also battles a growing attraction to the sexy, scruffy musician who has moved in next door. Will Jones is one half of the Grammy-award winning duo Galahad Jones, and he finds it both amusing and refreshing that Leah has no idea who he is. He's in town because he's been diagnosed with a potentially devastating condition, something he withholds from Leah until the last possible moment. Their journey toward love and recovery challenges Will's pride and Leah's sense of worth, but it's worth it (I think!).
Her Favorite Rival is Audrey's story. Unlike her younger sister, Audrey was never smart enough or good enough, and after acting out in her teen years she's been labelled the black sheep of the family and treated accordingly. She is extremely tough on herself, holding herself to a high standard, and part of that is excelling - exceeding - at work. She's determined to nail the next promotion that comes up, but she's painfully aware that her greatest rival for the position, Zach Black, is charming, qualified and a real contender. He's also very hot, and even though she tells herself she hates him, it's a position that dissolves pretty quickly when they're forced to work with one another on a project. A new cut-throat CEO, intense work pressure and undeniable desire combine to put both Audrey and Zach through the wringer. The question is, will their burgeoning feelings survive the test?
As a Super Romance, Her Favorite Rival will be available in both print and e-book, while Temptation will only be available in e-book. My apologies to those of you who are still reading paper-only. If it helps lure you to the "darkside" at all, I was once adamantly anti-e-book, but I am now a passionate e-book convert because I ADORE having all my books with me at once. Getting stuck on the train or being forced to wait for an appointment is a joy when I have so many books to choose from - I may even be guilty of arriving early sometimes just so I have an excuse to squeeze in some more reading time.
Anyway, I hope you enjoy these books if you get a chance to read them. It was a joy writing them - not every second, you understand, because every book has its dark, pesky, crazy moments - but I am very attached to Audrey and Leah after going on their journeys with them, and I hope the same will happen to you!
One of the most common questions we writers get is "where do you get your ideas from?" I know some writers roll their eyes at this question, but I find it very flattering! It reminds me that while having my brain teeming with fictional people, places and conflicts seems extraordinarily normal and dullsville to me, it's not the typical experience of most people. In the same way that I am absolutely crap at numbers, some people couldn't come up with a sustained narrative to save their lives. And that is totally cool, because the world needs accountants AND writers, right? At least I hope they do!
I wanted to offer some insight into the inspiration behind my most recent Super Romance, The Other Side of Us. Which, incidentally, is FREE right now at Amazon, Apple i-store, and Barnes and Noble Nook, I believe. Get your free copy while you can, I say! And I hope you enjoy.
The narrative backbone for The Other Side of Us formed out of a couple of different inspirations. One was a conversation I had with my awesome writing buddy, Joan Kilby. She's a fellow Super Romance author (you should check her books out, she writes the most adorable, sexy, down to earth real men - men who make mistakes and have holes in their socks but who have huge, huge hearts) and I am lucky enough to live in the same part of Melbourne as her. We catch up for walks and talks and lunches, and one day when we were having lunch she told me how her dog, Toby, used to be an escape artist at their former property, always weaseling his way through the fence so he could go next door and play with the dog there. Immediately I thought "wow, what a cute meet. Imagine two people who are forced to interact because their dogs have the hots for each other." I went home, stewed on it a little, than rang Joan and asked if she would mind me using her anecdote as a story starter. She very generously gifted it to me, and I had the first part of my story.
I then started to think about why two people would need to be forced together by their dogs. Obviously, they would have to be neighbors, and they would have to be new neighbors, because otherwise there was no reason for the story to start NOW. I wondered if maybe one of them was a bit of a recluse, a younger version of a curmudgeon. At that point, I was thinking of the hero. And I wondered if the woman who moved in next door might have been burned, badly, by her marriage. I'm not sure why, but I couldn't stop thinking about Charles and Diana and Camilla. I don't know the real details about what went on between them, but one of the popular versions is that Charles never really got over the relationship he had with Camilla prior to marrying Diana, and that he never really gave it up once he was married, either. The idea of a long-standing affair that almost pre-dates the marriage took a hold in my mind. It's such a betrayal, one of those revelations that would really shake the world for a person. The trick, of course, was to make my heroine not look like an idiot for not realising what was going on.
So, I was all ready to go with this scenario, my outline was approved by my editor, all lights were green. Then I finished Suddenly You, the Super Romance I wrote prior to The Other Side of Us, and as I wrote the final chapters it occurred to me that I'd created two commitment-shy, once-burned heroines in a row. I did not want to get to the end of The Other Side of Us and find myself flailing around looking for ways to make Mackenzie's inner conflict different from Pippa's. And then it occurred to me that that would not be a problem at all if I made Mackenzie the curmudgeonly loner, and Oliver the once-burned-twice-shy betrayed person. Instantly my brain lit up like Guy Fawkes night and I knew I was on to something.
Then the rain came. Bucket loads of it, along with dire warnings from the weather bureau to clear out our gutters and drains because even more rain was on the way. They called it a catastrophic weather event, actually, and it was enough to get me up on the ladder cleaning the gunk out of our gutters. A pleasant task, not! That night, the catastrophe darkened our skies, but my husband and I were smugly confident that our drains and gutters were clear and clean. My brother called just before dusk, as the first flood of water streaked down from the sky. "Good luck," he said cheerfully."I'm looking at the weather radar at work and it's showing black above your place. Nice knowing you." I was talking on the cordless handset, and I walked to the front window as I assured my brother that we were fine, thank you very much, and the weather bureau had got us all panicking for nothing. Then I opened the blind and glanced out at the front driveway and realised that there was a RIVER of water pouring down it toward our house. "%&*$#!!! I gotta go!" I said to him. My husband was in his boxers and a tank top. I was in knickers and a tank top. We were both barefoot. I pulled on some pajama pants, shoved my feet into gumboots and went out to see if we could save our house from being flooded. We worked out quickly that the gravel from our slightly-sloping driveway had been washed down by the enormous flow of water and was blocking the grates on the drain across the foot of the driveway. Because the grate was blocked, water was simply flowing over it and pooling around our house. Creeping higher every second. We both tried to scoop gravel away from the grate but it was impossible to keep up with the amount being washed down by the river in our driveway. We settled for grabbing brooms and trying to channel the water either side of our house so it wouldn't creep any higher.
We worked like wet dogs for half an hour before lightning forced us to take shelter. It was scary and cold, but somehow my husband and I wound up laughing each time we looked at each other, soaked in our underwear and gumboots. I think we must have known at that point that we were going to be okay. Just. And sure enough, we were. The rain subsided, the flow from the street lessened. I walked up through the river-that-had-become-a-creek and saw that the road was completely flooded, the gutters in the street completely blocked or simply overwhelmed by the sheer quantity of the water.
The picture above is the aftermath of our exciting night - all the gravel in the middle ground used to be on our driveway. It doesn't look like much spread out like that, but it took me a whole day of shoveling and moving stuff in the wheelbarrow to clean it up. Fun and games.
It was a scary, crazy night, but the craziest thing of all is that as I was pushing water down the side of my house with a broom, I was thinking "Hey, this would be a great way for Mackenzie and Oliver to get past their initial bad impressions of each other and start to become friends. If her place was flooding and Oliver came over in the middle of the night to help and they were both wet and it was dark... Yeah. That could definitely work."
I'm not sure what it says about me that one of the first things I think about when something happens in my life is "how can I turn this into story?" Probably not something healthy, anyway! But this real-life event became a fictionalised flood in The Other Side of Us, just as Joan's dog story did. Next time someone asks me where I get my ideas from, I'm going to direct them to this blog post. Or maybe I won't, because the other place I get stories from is from listening to the people around me.... and I wouldn't want them to bite their tongues on my account!
PS. I have upgraded the security on my blog and comments are once again enabled. I would LOVE to hear from you, so don't hold back. Unless, of course, you're a spam bot, selling something horrible.
Merry Christmas! Happy New Year!And if you celebrate your festive occasions in another way at another time of the year, happy holiday season!
It was a big day down here in Australia - there was much cooking and baking in the lead up since the pudding had to be boiled (6 hours!) in advance and I needed a dessert to take to my sister's in the evening. Plus I helped my MIL out by roasting the veggies etc and taking them to her place for the midday meal. As usual, by the time the evening wore around Iwas looking less than pristine, with various food stains from helping out in the kitchen, no shoes, smeary make-up and a too-full stomach. Ah, Christmas, you've done it again! But it was a lovely day, and especially fun was watching our dog play with my husband's brother's dog, who was visiting from Sydney. They are both poodle crosses, and they seemed to "get" each other every nicely, indeed.
Today I am resisting the primal urge to visit the local shopping centre to see what the post-Christmas sales have to offer. I have more than enough of everything, lucky girl that I am. But I do love a bargain, too! I'm not sure how long I can hold out....
I hope that you and yours are happy and healthy, and that you have exciting plans for the new year ahead.

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A man has died following a collision between two vehicles in Peterborough yesterday (September 26).
The incident occurred just before 8pm on London Road and involved a red Mercedes CLA220 and a silver Volkswagen Polo.
The driver of the Mercedes, a man in his 30s from Peterborough, was pronounced dead at the scene.
The driver of the Volkswagen was uninjured and remained at the scene.
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February 21, 2019
For years, Philadelphia Eagles fans have clamored for a return to the team's signature Kelly green uniforms, even if it's an alternate look, à la the much-hyped "black out" games.
The Eagles officially switched to midnight green in 1996, two years after owner Jeffrey Lurie purchased the team.
Those jerseys have come to signify the Eagles most successful era as a franchise, so it's hard to make an argument that they're not a driver of team pride. (The creamsicle orange-era Buccaneers, whose demise in 1997 led to a Super Bowl five years later, are a different story).
On Wednesday, former Eagles quarterback Ron Jaworski tweeted a picture of himself in Kelly green. Wide receiver Alshon Jeffery couldn't help but throw his support behind a return to the retro classics.
The issue here is that Jeffery is asking the wrong entity to make the decision. The Eagles could, in theory, return exclusively to Kelly green jerseys and ditch the midnight green altogether, by following the league's regular protocol for a uniform change. That option seems unlikely. The darker green is a stamp of Jeffrey Lurie's ownership.
While other teams wear alternate uniforms with some regularity, the key difference in their cases is that they still use the same helmets. Lurie addressed this issue at last year's NFL Owners Meetings after lobbying the league to reconsider its one helmet rule:
I don't know what entity of the league (is disallowing a second helmet), but in the end it's probably the commissioner. They have to decide if they want to go with a plan to be a two-helmet plan for the NFL, and that's not what we do now. It's a one-helmet league, so there's ramifications in that, I suppose. But they know with the Eagles, it's important to us. We really want to be able to have Kelly green jerseys at times, and to make it look really right, you should have matching helmets.
It appears the NFL's primary concern with two helmets is maintaining player safety, which they believe is best ensured by one custom-fitted helmet. It's not clear why two custom-fitted helmets would be considered infeasible.
While it's doubtful Alshon Jeffery is going to tilt this possibility in one direction or another, having a prominent player vocally support a reform that would give teams flexibility is a positive step.
At the end of the day, unlike the horrendous "Thursday Night Football" Color Rush uniforms that flamed out last year, this is something fans would actually enjoy seeing and appreciate.

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A map of the second section of that part of Georgia now known as the Cherokee Territory in which are delineated all the districts & lots which by an act of the ...
Covers Marietta region (Ga.) including portions of the present-day Cobb, Fulton, and Cherokee Counties. Original in Surveyor General Department, Office of Secretary of State, Atlanta, Ga. Available also through the Library of ...
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- Date: 1830

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