An unexpected outcome of my MFA experience is that it’s deepened my appreciation for voice and style in fiction writing. Not that my literary tastes were all that refined to begin with. Before joining the program, I liked stories if they were funny. Or if their story arcs featured gripping action. Or if they built vivid, captivating worlds. And that was pretty much it. Over time, however—and through a lot of reading and writing—I’ve grown to enjoy stories of all genres and forms because I’ve begun paying greater attention to voice and language, because I now recognize the weighty role these “quieter” aspects of the work play in shaping powerful stories. Not only do they make line-level reading more pleasant, I’ve learned, they form the very bedrock of the other aspects of writing. The setting falls flat without lifelike descriptions of it. Just as the plot doesn’t move without clear, captivating passages that seem to effortlessly transport the reader from Point A to Point B.
And this realization has prompted me to work on the quality of my own prose. See, I came to creative writing from the world of business blogging, so my writing style tends toward the prosaic. And I think many fiction writers would say the same thing (about the prosaic writing, not the business blogging). In many emerging authors (myself included), I see a desire to move away from a more functional writing style and towards a more poetic one, an eternal quest for the line that truly sings. But that isn’t to say that poetic is always better (spoken like a true fiction writer, am I right?). Poetic is beautiful, but it’s also, by definition, less clear. More associative. And so, the opposite problem of dry, dull prose is that of the story that’s too disparate and blurry, where it’s difficult to piece the individual, beautiful lines into a coherent narrative.
Between these two extremes is a vast middle ground containing countless ways to shape your prose, with no right answer and a lot of it depending on personal style. And, hell, it isn’t even a true spectrum because occasionally you’ll stumble on that killer line that’s both a perfect encapsulation of what you wanted to say and the most beautiful way of saying it. Writers like Karen Russell and William Gibson seem to have a preternatural gift for these constructions. But for the rest of us, finding the right balance between imagery and clarity can be a recurring struggle.
While there’s certainly no formula for achieving that balance, there are several techniques that can help a writer negotiate it. Below are five tips designed to help fiction writers improve both the beauty and clarity of their prose: surefire ways to hone the voice of your writing as you draft or revise your next piece.
Five Tips for Balancing Imagery and Clarity in Your Prose
1. Vary your sentence length and style
Remember that there’s beauty in the simple sentence. Too often, we confuse the concept of stunning, poetic language with flowery prose, but leaning too far this way can make a story seem overwrought or overwritten, especially if your paragraphs are a parade of long, flowy sentences. It’s important to remember that the term “monotonous prose” (that scourge of a label) can apply to any form of syntactical repetition (not just an overreliance on short, boring sentences). So switch it up. Punctuate a long, descriptive sentence with a short, active one. Not only do readers find this varied writing pleasing and engaging; it also presents many opportunities to heighten your clarity. Long sentences offer the chance to get precise in your descriptions, while the short ones are an opportunity to be direct in your meaning. Not that either of those constructions is necessarily limited to those roles, but it’s helpful to keep those strengths in mind as you’re constructing a story from those building blocks.
Bonus tip: Reading your work aloud is a great way to check how you’re doing on this technique. If it sounds good to you (varied, striking, etc.), it’ll read well to someone else. And if your sentences trip you up anywhere (due to ambiguous or unwieldy writing), chances are your reader will stumble over the same line you did.
2. Sometimes less is more with vivid prose
This rule goes hand in hand with the previous one, shedding a slightly different light on why, sometimes, the right move is to scale back the imagery or poeticism of a given story, scene, or paragraph.
I understand the desire to paint scenes as if they’re stunning murals, moving the reader from one arresting detail to the next, but there’s a point at which it becomes simply too much. It’s important not to describe scenes/characters/et cetera in Dickensian detail (But tell me, Charles, what about the lone candlestick sitting atop the aforementioned table in the back corner of the room? How did that look?) because you end up subverting your own prose in two crucial ways. First, you crowd out the truly beautiful lines by giving their neighbors the same weight. Second, you deprive the reader of the chance to create their own mental image of the setting/person in question by stuffing their head full of minutiae. Better to identify the best lines or most crucial details and pare back the sentences around them, letting the stunners do most of the work and letting the reader fill in the gaps as they please.
3. Beware metaphors at the beginning of stories (and in speculative worlds)
Metaphors are amazing tools for any writer. They can be succinct, beautiful, evocative… and horribly unclear if misused. One mistake I’ve made several times is to drop a careless metaphor at the beginning of a story, before the reader has found their footing in the world and therefore can’t even know if I’m speaking metaphorically or not.
As an example, let’s imagine I start a story by saying, “I’m a monster.” That’s the very first line. As a reader, you’re probably thinking, Does he mean that literally (a terrifying non-human creature) or figuratively (a loathsome human being)? And if the story doesn’t include enough grounding language around this metaphor, that single ambiguity can derail the reader’s journey into the rest of the story. To avoid that, it’s usually a good move to focus on grounding the reader at the beginning of the story and swapping out unclear metaphors for similes or good old-fashioned descriptive language. Then, once the reader’s found their feet, you can blow the barn doors off and get as metaphorical as you like.
It’s worth mentioning that the same rule applies to many speculative stories, regardless of where you are in the plot arc. Depending on what kind of speculative fiction you’re working with (fantasy? sci-fi? surrealism?), it helps to be mindful of the metaphors you’re using in order to make sure they don’t bleed into the speculative elements of your world. For instance, let’s say you’re working in a surreal world where the divide between the real and the magical is blurry. In that case, using a line such as “her face turned to stone” could be dangerous, as the reader might not be sure if that should mean “her face turned to a stoic/somber expression” or “her face literally turned into stone.” It’s especially worth searching through speculative work for lines like this and figuring out how to tighten them to avoid confusion.
4. When in doubt, write what you mean first, beautify second
Sometimes writer’s block comes from trying to do too much all at once. I’ve realized I tend to hit roadblocks when I reach a sentence that’s carrying a lot of weight, because not only am I trying to get many ideas across in a short space, but I’m also trying to write it beautifully on the first go. In situations like that, I’ve found it helpful to separate the drafting process into steps. First, I write what I’d like to communicate in the most plain, boring language possible. Once I have that down, I can focus on rewriting that sentence in a vivid, poetic, or striking way. Not only does this staged approach conserve mental resources, making both halves of the process much easier to accomplish, but it also gives me a “blueprint” of sorts to evaluate my final product against. It’s helpful to compare the beautified version to the original, plain one to make sure they’re communicating the same set of meanings. If not, I may need to tinker with my supposed “final product” to ensure it’s saying everything I intend it to say (and nothing more).
5. Read (and practice) poetry
If you’re looking to make your prose more poetic, why not dabble in actual poetry? In a recent talk, novelist Tope Folarin was asked about his interest in poetry, and in his response, he admitted that his multi-year journey reading and writing the form started as a means to an end. “I noticed a lot of my favorite writers were also poets,” he said. “I was reading Jesus’ Son by Denis Johnson, and I was just struck by the language in that… and I was like ‘I love the imagery in here. How do they do this?’ ” What started as a small foray into the form eventually resulted in Folarin falling “completely into the poetry hole,” as he described it.
And while there may be a risk of making your voice too poetic (as mentioned above), this sort of cross-genre study can help fiction writers find or develop more balance in their voice. Folarin, for example, noted that his practice with poetry didn’t just make his prose better; it allowed him to completely renegotiate his relationship with language. “Before, language had been something that I simply used,” he said. “But after that deep engagement with poetry… I began to inhabit language in a way that I hadn’t before.” Moving to that level of familiarity with language, where it no longer feels like a tool but more like part of your own body, does wonders for your ability to express complex ideas in ways that are simultaneously beautiful, clear, and concise.
I’ll be the first to admit that this list is hardly exhaustive, but to this point in my career as both an editor and a writer myself, these are the tips I’ve found to be most helpful. What techniques do you follow when trying to balance imagery and clarity in your writing? Share with us @PhoebeJournal. We’d love to hear your thoughts!
is phoebe’s fiction editor and a third-year fiction candidate in George Mason University’s creative writing MFA program. He typically writes satire and dystopian works, but his mind’s also been known to jump to places far beyond those genres. His work is published in McSweeney’s, Liquid Imagination, Blue Lake Review, Defenestration, and Slackjaw. When he’s not writing, Kevin is usually guilt-tripping himself for browsing social media instead of writing.


I left this morning by Peter Bland
Waking up from sleep to write this. Heavy-lidded, head full of fog still. Writing with my eyes almost closed, thinking this is a half-remembered dream. Thinking of maybe going back to bed to find you there.
I left this morning
I left this morning saying ‘I love you’
as if setting out for some unknown country
instead of the corner shop. I wanted
you to be sure, in case
this time – out of, say, 10,000 departures
I never made it back: although
after 50 years together, 2 countries,
3 children, and several former journeys
that would put this one to shame
you’d think there’d be no need to pause
on my own doorstep, suddenly afraid
of the distance between us, of your absolute beauty,
of the growing aloneness when I clicked the latch.


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- China’s Conquest of Taiwan in the Seventeenth Century
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Olive M. Cline 1932-2013
NILES – Olive Mae Cline, 80, passed away peacefully at 9:10 a.m. Friday, June 14, 2013, at the Trumbull Memorial Hospital following complications of a stroke suffered in January 2013.
She was born Nov. 9, 1932, in Elliott County, Ky., the daughter of Harrison and Amy G. Wagoner Creech.
She worked for 20 years in the housekeeping department at Shepherd of the Valley Nursing Home in Niles and retired in 1992. She enjoyed quilting, scrapbooking, flower gardening, traveling with her sisters and especially family activities.
Olive is survived by a son, William E. Cline of Niles; daughter, Darlene Callow of Niles; three grandchildren, Jennifer Cline Latell of Boardman, Jeff (Christine) Callow of Girard and Brian (Johna) Callow of McDonald; four great-granddaughters; two brothers, Glen (Goldie) Creech of McDonald and Jackie (Kathleen) Creech of Pennsylvania; and three sisters, Lucille (Louie) Oakley of McDonald, JoAnn (Glen) Gregory of Niles and Carolyn (Robert) Smith of Warren.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Marvin J. Cline, whom she married July 14, 1951, and who died May 26, 2005; son, Eugene Cline, who died March 23, 1982; two sisters, Bonnie Wilson and Aline Tackett; and two brothers, John Creech and Dennie Creech.
Calling hours will be 4 to 7 p.m. Monday and 10:30 to 11 a.m. Tuesday at the Holeton-Yuhasz Funeral Home. The funeral will be 11 a.m. Tuesday at the funeral home. The Rev. Garey McCartney will officiate.
Burial will be in Kerr Cemetery.


Day light savings time is always an interesting day for me. In the fall I happily welcome it to get that extra hour of sleep, and every spring I curse that Sunday morning in my half awaken state. Of course in the evening, usually as I'm loading my groceries into the car, it hits me; it's still light out. Suddenly it feels like the day goes on forever. Getting out of work doesn't feel like a race to catch the last glimpse of sun after sitting in a windowless office all day pining for an excuse to run to the car just to breathe in fresh air. Evening plans have quickly turned into activities that involve being outdoors; a walk at green lakes, sitting outside a coffee shop, or washing the car. I know there are many people who feel the same way since Onondaga Lake parkway was full of people last evening walking their dogs, rollerblading, and strolling along as the sun began to set farther west on the lake.
Though not much of a dramatic sky last evening, the warmth in the air along with the blended colors in the sky and the twinkling of Syracuse's city lights as the sun set was a nod that spring is indeed coming.


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6th July 2013
After a busy first week, the campers appreciated an extra hour in bed before a 9am breakfast. However, along with the sleep in came with a much needed room tidy hour and a quick lesson in how to make beds (fun when you stick your head in the duvet cases and pretend to be ghosts and scare your group leaders, thanks for that Fadi!!!). After the room inspection it was off to languages and sports for the rest of the morning.
After lunch, the reds, blues, greens and yellows all gathered in the patinoire before heading off for a small hike. The campers made their way across the new wobbly Torgon bridge, around the scenic lagoon, passed the picnic area and ending in the football pitch. Most enjoyed the walk although others felt like their group leaders weren’t working enough and decided to ride on their shoulders, like Tatjana did to poor Freddie!
Once at the football pitch the fun really begun after afternoon tea with groups of footballers going down one end of the pitch to play where a staff vs kids game formed with the campers showing us group leaders how it’s done!
At the other end those not so keen played parachute games, Frisbee and some classics like duck duck goose.
The campers made it back in time for shower hour for a quick chill out before a yummy pasta dinner and peach upside down cake. Then the reds and blues took part in a new exciting evening, hip hop dance off and the greens and yellows enjoyed a much needed chilled out hot chocolate and DVD night.


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A U.K. based dating affiliate network that operates a number of mainstream and niche dating sites, including Cupid.com, Flirt.com, BoomerDating.com and PlanetSappho.com. You can promote any of these sites based upon the needs of your audience, and with so many sites to choose from, it’s pretty easy for most affiliates to find at least one or two that are a good fit. Commission rates at Cupid plc can be impressive, too, with $15 paid just for free sign ups, and up to 90 percent commission paid on paid memberships.
For example, if I talk about how cool a product is, and then you find out that I’m an affiliate for them, wouldn’t you as a conscientious observer become skeptical as to whether my information is biased, if perhaps I’m only saying how cool something is because I can get paid for it? Wouldn’t that make you question my integrity with other things I say as well?
Follow Program Rules – Each affiliate advertiser will have their own set of program rules. They may place limitation on the language that you use and the ways that you promote their product or service. Actually take the time to read the rules set out by each advertiser to avoid having your relationship terminated because you inadvertently broke one of their program rules.
Third, successful affiliate marketers measure beyond just money. How will you know that you’ve become a successful affiliate marketer? The number cruncher in you may raise your hand and say, “When I make X dollars per month every month for a number of years.” Hard to argue with that, since making money online is a strong motivator. However, why not measure success by the number of lives you touch in a positive fashion by introducing them to your affiliate products? Chances are that the money will follow…


General Information =================== Title: Gone by Midnight Author: Candice Fox Read By: Euan Morton Series: Crimson Lake, Book 3 Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense: Mystery Copyright: 2019 Audiobook Copyright: 2020 Publisher: Macmillan Audio Release date: 2020-03-10 Duration: 11 hrs and 9 mins Media Information ================= Encoded Codec: MP3 / LAME 3.100 Encoded Sample Rate: 44100 Hz Encoded Channels: 2 Encoded Bitrate: 64 kbits Book Description ================ Number one New York Times and Globe and Mail best-selling author Candice Fox delivers a compulsive new crime thriller with Gone by Midnight. Crimson Lake is where people with dark pasts come to disappear - and where others vanish into thin air.... Four young boys are left alone in a hotel room while their parents dine downstairs. When Sara Farrow checks on the children at midnight, her son is missing. Distrustful of the police, Sara turns to Crimson LakeΓÇÖs unlikeliest private investigators - disgraced cop Ted Conkaffey and convicted killer Amanda Pharrell. For Ted, the case couldnΓÇÖt have come at a worse time. Two years ago, a false accusation robbed him of his career, his reputation, and most importantly, his family. But now, Lillian, the daughter he barely knows, is coming to stay in his ramshackle cottage by the lake. Ted must dredge up the areaΓÇÖs worst characters to find the missing boy. The clock is ticking, and the danger he uncovers could well put his own child in deadly peril.


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MJPRU Improvement Result 2018 UG PG: As we know the MJPRU had conducted the annual exams for the UG PG Courses. The UG PG courses had attended the exam in the month of May/ June 2018 and MJPRU Results 2018 had declared. Aspirants who failed in the annual exam had applied for the supply exams through online. The students had attended the MJPRU UG / PG Supply Exams 2018 in the month of September/ October 2018. Now the aspirants are waiting for the releasing of MJPRU UG Part 1 Improvement Result 2018 officially. Contenders will get the MJPRU PG Prev Supply Exam Result 2018 in the month of December 2018 on the official website.
For candidates, we will intimate the MJPRU UG Part 2 Improvement Result 2018 Date on our web page. Contenders appeared for the exam will get a link below to find out the PG Final Supply Result 2019 of MJPRU can use the link provided below. Students to know more updates of the exam result can go through the below article.
MJPRU Improvement Result 2018
Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Rohilkhand University (MJPRU) is one of the popular university in Bareilly to provide UG PG Courses with streams. The University provides the BA B.Sc B.Com BBA BCA MA M.SC M.Com MBA MCA etc various streams are provided for the admissions. Every year the university conducts the annual exam for the UG PG courses in various exam centers. Even university had announced the MJPRU UG Exam Result 2018 on the official web page. After checking result the students disappointed with marks or scored low marks had applied for the supply exam. The improvement exam is a chance for the students to clear the backlogs. In supply exam, the students need to reappear for the exam in the failed subjects. Contenders to know more updates of the supply exam can visit the official web page.
Release Date of MJPRU Improvement Result 2018
|Name of the University||Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Rohilkhand University (MJPRU)|
|Examination Name||MJPRU UG PG Improvement Examination|
|Conducted For||UG PG Courses|
|Exam Dates||September/ October 2018|
|MJPRU UG/PG Improvement Result Status||November/ December 2018|
|Article Category||MJPRU UG/PG Improvement Result 2018|
|Official Web Page||www.mjpru.ac.in|
MJPRU Improvement Exam Result 2018 ~ BA B.Sc B.Com MA M.Sc M.Com
Aspirants appeared for the improvement exam will be eagerly searching for the result status on various sites. The backlog students had appeared for the supply exam and looking for the result status. The officials of the university will take one or two months to announce the exam result on the official web page. Contenders going to check the result need to have hall ticket to find out the MJPRU UG Part III Supply Result 2018 on the official web page. Aspirants need to visit the official site regularly to know the available dates of supply exam result. Once the result is announced the students by using below link can find out the exam result officially. Even students can follow the below step by step process and check the exam result officially.
- Candidate needs to open the official web page.
- Go to the News & Events tab on the home page.
- Click on Result link in the page.
- Search for the MJPRU Improvement Exam Result 2018 link.
- Click on it.
- Enter the roll number, name etc and click on submit.
- The improvement exam result will display on the screen.
MJPRU UG/ PG Supply Exam Mark Sheet 2018
Every year after the announcement of the result the students will get the mark sheet from the university. Contenders need to collect the mark sheet from the university for the further education process. The university will issue the mark sheet in the month of December 2018. Candidates will get the mark sheet by mentioning details like name of the candidate, exam dates, timings etc. Contenders to know more updates of the exam mark sheet visit the official web page.
Revaluation for MJPRU UG PG Supply Exams 2018
Once the exam results are announced the students those who scored low marks or having doubt in the correction had applied MJPRU Supply Revaluation 2018 Notification. The university conducted the rechecking process one or two weeks after the announcement of the result. The revaluation is a process of recorrecting the answer sheet by the officials of the university. By this, the students will have a chance for the students to increase marks in the exam. Contenders want to know any details regarding revaluation exam can visit the official site. A large number of students had applied for the revaluation and waiting for the releasing of Rohilkhand Univ PG Revaluation Result 2018. The contenders can visit the official site to know the result updates. Most probably the association will release the revaluation exam result in the month of December 2018.
The declaring date of MJPRU UG Rechecking Result 2018 will intimate on our web page. Contenders have any doubts regarding rechecking result visit our web page regularly. Even aspirants are not satisfied with supply/ revaluation exam marks are need to wait for next year March Exams. Students need to follow our web page regularly to know the updates of the above notification.


Fairly certain I am going to look back and regret the time I have wasted in this life of doing and stressing once all the time has disappeared. The insane complexity of modern life and the fractured sense of peace and equanimity rob me of the gentle breeze that blows across my face, but only if I allow it.
Only if I separate it out. This neurotic drive to get it all done makes me laugh my own naivety. It strikes me hard, often, that I am going to look back when I don’t have mobility anymore and regret that I didn’t take myself off to natural surrounds even more often.
A week ago, during a long paddle, I saw two huge eagles making a nest on the corner of a local river. I was kinda dumbstruck by the enormity of it. Wow, it hit me like a ton of bricks, there is life that is truly living.
These are my teachers. Today I am lost in paperwork, taxes, bills, invoices, like thousands of tiny needles piercing my brain and I long for that bloody river and those teachers. But I have to remind myself that yes, even this is an experience that I will wish I could have again one day.
If only I could be back in that vital body again, the old man would wish. Here I am, right now though, taking the advice of the elderly man that I am not yet. Still in this precious, temporary body brimming with vitality and strength. How fortunate.
It downloads in my brain that we are whipping each other into a type of chaotic trance. Is, busy the measure of the success of life, I wonder? My conditioned brain thinks so but my heart knows differently.
Be alive now, it whispers, be awake here and be present. Yes, even if your body trembles with fear and anxiety.
Yes, be anxious, be frightened, be chaotic, rush and do, but know, watch and observe yourself. Equanimity is around the next corner, only as far away as the awareness that you are stressed is.
There’s something to loving it all and giving up preferences.
As I sit here at this table I can close my eyes and those eagles are dancing in front of me calling me back. Calling me to come out of my thoughts and back to this life. The texture of time changes as you get older, your perception grows, and if you allow it, the reflection brings the golden challis of wisdom rising in your own experience.
The wisdom of the disappearing years and the changing texture brings a message. This will also disappear.So, if not now, when?
Going to wait for retirement, the so-called golden years? They are all golden!
All precocious, perhaps even more precious are the most difficult years. Spill your heart, you might as well.
This is the moment we should cry tears of sadness and joy, this is the moment our presence should crack like thunder and our kindness should wisely hold.
Be not afraid of the silence and the vulnerability, be who you came here to be. One day soon, it will all evaporate like steam.


Makara sankaranthi Festivals
Makara Sankaranthi is a four days festival grandly celebrated in the South Indian State of Andhra Pradesh. Celebrating Makara Sankaranthi and following the rituals and ceremonies is considered to be very auspicious by the people of Andhra Pradesh. There will be festive mood everywhere well before the actual dates. Scientifically, Makars Sankaranthi represents the end of winter and the beginning of the summer seasons. Religiously, Sun starts travelling towards the Equinox and it is referred to as Utharayanam.
Makara Sankaranthi is celebrated for four days with different varieties of rituals. The day before the Makara Sankaranthi is called as Boghi. The significance of this festival is to throw out the old and welcome the new. People lit a bonfire and throw all the unwanted things from their houses into the fire. The religious aspect of this ritual is that mankind has to surrender all his ego, anger , jealous and all unwanted qualities to the fire and rejuvenate as a perfect human being. You can very commonly see the children and women are showered with the jujube fruit to get protected from the evil spirits in life.
The second day is the actual celebration called the Makara Sankaranthi.People enjoy putting Rangoli in front of their houses and decorate them with different flowers. Despite of the age group, people wear new dresses and share the delicious items with their families and friends. Chakinalu, Ariselu, Appalu and Dappalam are some of the famous food items prepared during Makara Sankarathi.
Kanuma is the third day of the festivals. This day is meant for the farmers who show their gratitude to their cattle which is very essential for their lives. The farmers decorate their cattle which symbolizes prosperity.The cows which have the religious importance are also given due respect and weightage during this function and farmers celebrate this day as a thanks giving function.
The last day of the celebrations is called Mukkannumma , when farmers offer prayers to all the five cosmic elements of Earth. it is a tradition that people abstain from consuming non-vegetarian during the first three days. The fourth day is meant for non-vegetarians along with celebrations like cock fighting, ox race bullock race and kite flying. Yet another feature of Mukkannumma is that a person called Haridasu, servant of Lord Vishnu, roams around the streets along with colorfully dressed cow. He keeps on singing the glory of Lord Vishnu. People greet him and donate him cloths, money and food.
Thus, Makara Sankaranthi is a very colorful festival celebrated in a very grand manner in every nook and corner of Andhra Pradesh!. this is actually the rejuvenation of friends and families who have lost their precious time due to their busy lives.


Oh noes, this is like the worst thing that could happen to us!
Dude, kittens in trashcans are like, clinically proven to be cuter.
You know whut, we’ve reinvented the box!
Hey I wonder why this hasn’t caught on before.
Momo, Chimi, are right, boxes are just too …square, Casey.


New years resolutions......
Every week of every year I take lots & lots of family photos & I always come up against Mums & Dads saying they don't want to be in any photos themselves. They don't like how they look or they hate having their photo taken! I too am much more in my comfort zone behind the camera rather than standing in front of it. But every week I convince parents that their children will love these images in years to come and hopefully they too will love looking back at how little their little munchkins were in their hands or sitting on their lap - that time goes by so fast they won't remember how little they were.
I am forever saying they are only little for a little while & we should capture & freeze these memories as much as we can . But I rarely have my photo taken with my children, the last ones I did do were summer time 2017, so my promise to myself this year is to have more images with my two little ones (& to make their Dad jump in a few too!). They are growing at an alarming rate and getting more and more independent each day. So while they are still small enough to laugh at my silly jokes and snuggle up on my lap I am going to make a big effort to capture some of it.
Newborn & Baby photographer Cardiff, South Wales


Travel Blogs from Tonghua
... and control the flooding as well as generate power for China. People in the sunken cities have had to be relocated so new cities are visible all along the river. Some people are also living dangerously close to the edge but they are told the water won't rise any more.
We have also provided much entertainment for the locals on board as many of them have never travelled outside China and so have never seen westerners up ...
... so maybe a bit of weeding and a bit of care would be a good thing. I’m not sure if it is the right thing to think, but I am thinking some Korean style BBQ stalls set up in the city proper parts would be a huge added attraction to the city.
... and roadside eateries.
It's a hard job to live my life my friends.
Someone has to do it and thankfully it might as well be me!
The Koguryo Kingdom and History
The Koguryo Kingdom (37 BC - AD 668.) is believed to be the longest regime founded by an ethnic minority people in northeast China and it played a big role in ...
... by myself, I had a new master. He was very egocentric and I didn't like his way of organizing the training. However, he made me discover some wing chun and a style called gou quan (dog fist,狗拳) which I really appreciate. But five months later, again, he as well has left the school!
It was interesting to train under different masters as they all have different approach, exercises and specialities. Nevertheless, jumping from master to master, I ...
Upon leaving Dandong, my mission was to somehow get to Changbaishan. While there seemed to be many ways of possibly making it there, the most likely looking one seemed to be to catch a bus to Tonghua and spend a night there, while figuring out the next step in my quest. So I did. Booking the ticket was easy enough. Catching the bus was also easy enough. Pity I had absolutely no idea where it was going. I had never heard of Tonghua before I arrived in ...
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A well rested employee is 50% more productive
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Lack of sleep lowers your immune system
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I got pulled to Peds yesterday evening, and had a six month old baby (was a preemie; born at 34 weeks, so adjusted is about five months) as part of my assignment. The baby had a pretty low heart rate (remember, I'm used to preemies!) that hovered around 100-110. When he was sleeping, though, it dipped down to around 98 or so. I reported it to the oncoming nurse and she said that that was normal for the older babies (our preemies tend to run, more often than not, fairly high...mid 150's, you know...) and nothing to be concerned about. Well, tonight, when I got to work, the night nurse on Peds called up here to ask me if he'd been any lower than that the previous night, because another nurse had reported to HER (another nurse who had been pulled, like I had) that the baby's resting heart rate had been dipping into the low 80's. I told her no, that didn't happen to me, but it got me wondering. Is 80 considered bradycardia in a 5-6 month old infant? I'm working now, and tried googling it, but couldn't find an official word online (just a bunch of links to calculate your ideal resting heart rate, etc.). Anyone?


Markus Frind: The man ‘behind a million babies’
Founded in , POF previously known as Plenty of Fish or PlentyofFish is one of the pioneer dating sites that is still popular today. It claims to be the world’s largest dating site, with over 90 million registered users globally. Among these, 3. It boasts that over one million relationships are created every year. It is a mix of a dating site and a matchmaker service. You can browse freely and search for others that match criteria that you nominate, or you can utilize the dating platform’s matchmaking capabilities such as “Ultra Match,” which lists the top 50 most compatible with you. The platform combines all the features of various dating sites and apps on the market today.
Plenty of Fish doubles down on conversations with new features
How do I find a relationship if I have doubts about the person on the dating site? Online dating is a wonderful tool, but there are always going to be some malicious actors who use it as a weapon. Fortunately, you can take steps to protect yourself. First, do your research.
Does this dating site really have Plenty Of Fish worth meeting? in the produce aisle, but you’re going to have to wade through a sea of notties to get there.
Match Group, which houses a large portfolio of dating app brands — including most notably, Tinder, Match, and OKCupid — is prepping a notable upgrade to one of its older brands: Plenty of Fish. But it has since remained fairly quiet, in terms of the state of its business, and has been slow to roll out upgrades even as Tinder soared.
For starters, POF is gearing up to launch a collection of new features designed to bring its app into the more modern age of dating. In the near future, it will also include the ability to share GIFs in your conversations and add illustrations to photos, like doodles and stickers. Beyond simply updating the functionality and user experience to stay current and on-trend, the new additions are also meant to offer POF users ways to better personalize their interactions and connect. But not everyone wants to share their phone number with a stranger, which is where the voice calling option comes in.
Instead of dialing a phone number, matches can call each other in the app. Or for a middle-of-the-road approach between texting and calls, they could use the voice messaging feature instead.
L.A. Affairs: 40something reluctantly joins Plenty of Fish dating site, enters ‘Big Bang’ territory
God irrespective of fish dating sites founded in the largest dating site really are plenty online, click one destination for online dating or fame. Where to adjust your own and share your own tips, plenty of fish in vancouver. Match a sea for a site. Online dating site with the world. Hidden sashimi mountain in what customers have touted about dating services combined.
Does this one is an online dating website.
“There are other fish in the sea” are possibly the seven words I hate and there are now all these ways (social media, dating apps) to expedite.
Many Americans are turning to the internet in order to search for love. Online dating and dating apps are the new wave of the future for both younger generations and older generations alike. And sadly the surge in online dating has also created a potential for scammers to target people looking for love.
When using dating apps, it is extremely easy to create fake identities using stolen images that a scammer can hide behind. This scam can affect men and women of all ages because the scammer attempts to connect with their victims in a more personal way. Common scams these thieves use to exploit victims include asking for money for a family member with medical bills, claiming to be the victim of a robbery, or needing funds in order to meet or visit their significant other.
Because these scammers have worked hard to fake an emotional attachment to their victim, it is obvious how someone could fall for the scam thinking that they are helping the person that they love. So what can you do to help protect yourself from such scams? Sharing financial information is an absolute no-no. For example, if you have a Facebook post of you going to a concert, and your online S.
The scammers needs to be the only love in your life, so early in your conversations he or she may suggest switching communications off the dating site so that you can be exclusive. You can be skeptical about it! A scammer might also confess intense feelings or love to you extremely quickly to help move things along.
There are plenty of fish in the sea: Online dating vs. traditional dating
For men and women. Or certainly not quality fish. I write about the good, the bad, and the weird of online dating. The reality is that online dating favors the artificial over the deep.
You all know the popular saying “there are plenty of fish in the sea” right? Well, it turns out that it is actually true. Dating and meeting people has.
A conversation is where it all starts. Singles have more conversations on Plenty of Fish than any other dating app. We also have the most FREE features to help you start dating! It’s your turn! Sort by last online, newest users and more! Unlike smaller dating apps, Plenty of Fish has the most users and thus, the highest chance for you to find your relationship!
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From winking to smooching emoticons, flirting has taken a whole new face. Then scrolling through faces and composing checklists are the next step to finding new love. The situation is a common one, according to Suzie A. Public acceptance towards online dating has also risen with the development of social media, the study said. With so many users signed up onto relationship websites, the pool of potential candidates is a large one, Suzie said.
The company, based in Vancouver , British Columbia  generates revenue through advertising and premium memberships. In , Plenty of Fish became a full-time money making business for Markus. Many of these appearances are undisclosed paid product placements   which have been met with highly negative reviews. In , Plenty of Fish launched mobile apps for iPhone and Android. A few years later, it was made available for both the iPad and Windows phone.
On January 21, , it was discovered that the Plenty of Fish website had been hacked which exposed the personal and password information on nearly 30 million user accounts. At the time this received global media exposure and security experts blamed Plenty of Fish for the security and privacy lapse specifically for keeping users’ passwords unsecured.
The parents’ lawsuit alleges photos of their son, who was killed in Iraq in , were used without permission. The parents were seeking compensatory and punitive damages. Paul Bloudoff, the firm’s legal affairs manager responded by saying “Lt.
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And one website they might use to find love is Plenty of Fish, which is specifically designed for those unlucky in dating to find their significant other. Here’s all you.
You can edit or remove any testimonial you have written, and can remove any testimonial written about you. The POF events forum is a community where event hosts can post information about events and POF members can sign up for the event. The forums are based on location allowing you to view events from your own country United States, Canada, United Kingdom, etc. Each event post contains the event free, location, the cost if any , and a description of plenty the event is about.
The event also lists all the POF members with a photo and a link to their profile who have signed up site go. Event attendees can also post a reply to the event and ask site additional questions. A free membership allows for full access site the site, including searching, testimonials, favorites, and communication with other sea, but paying has its perks. Members who upgrade sites highlighted profiles in search results, access to users who have said yes to you in Meet Me, the ability to see if sent messages dating read online deleted, virtual gifts, the ability to see who viewed your profile and when, online ad removal.
They have succeeded in becoming a dating service for all singles by not only offering many search features but a detailed matching system as well. Note: See this page for a full list of past awards. POF is one of the few dating services who do not ask if you want to connect your account online a social networking service like Facebook. Plenty also ask for all of your profile information up front sites free up most is mandatory. A lot of services tend to only ask the basic profile information and then dating the user to start using the the meaning a lot of the profiles on these services lack substance.
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Affairs is our weekly column about the current dating scene in and around Los Angeles — and finding romance in a wired world. Past columns and submission guidelines are at latimes. Throwing a line into the cyber-fishing pond for a date on a Friday night is as scary as it is too easy. I signed up on the dating site Plenty of Fish last year, and while I had my doubts, I was still optimistic about finding my soul mate — otherwise, why do it at all? Each of them started out optimistically but fizzled when it became apparent that they wanted something different, i.
A few weeks later, I signed up. I casually checked the site for several months, replying to some, ignoring others and trying not to be devastated by unanswered messages. Lives: Carson. Write me! Are you a veteran of the L.


UCSC PhD alums Vera Lee-Schoenfeld (University of Georgia) and Anya Lunden (College of William and Mary) recently published a paper in The Linguistic Review. The paper, entitled “The syntax, information structure, and prosody of German ‘VP’-fronting” can be found along with an abstract here. Congratulations, Vera and Anya!
Congratulations to Kelsey Kraus (PhD ’18), who recently started a job at Google. She reports:
Just a few days after my defense, I started a contract position on the Speech and Data Ops Team at Google. The position is your standard Linguistics Project Manager Position on the Text To Speech Team, where I join three other former UCSC linguists. This makes it feel more like home (but with an upgraded StevCaf).
Congratulations to current faculty member Amanda Rysling and former slug Shayne Sloggett (BA ’10), who walked in the UMass graduate commencement on May 13th, since both defended and filed dissertations last year after the ceremony.
Both also presented at LynSchrift18, the workshop celebrating Lyn Frazier, who is retiring this year. Amanda presented a joint talk with John Kingston titled “Regressive spectral assimilation bias in ambiguous speech sound perception.” Shayne presented a talk titled “Logophlexivity: When reflexives behave like logophoric pronouns.” The program can be found here.
Also, a photograph from the graduation ceremony:
Pictured (left to right): Shayne Sloggett, Caroline Andrews (another former slug), Amanda Rysling


Leaves were compressed against the curb in small mounds, like discarded wet shoes in every shade of leather, though it wasn’t raining now. Sasha pulled down her hood to show me. I pushed it back on. Across the road, a streetlight came on then another. Sasha did a little dance each time, tugged at my arm for me to praise her.
‘We’re going to see Mummy’s friend,’ she said again, parroting what I’d told her on the way into the city.
‘Dominique’s not really my friend,’ I said, ‘just someone who is on the same course as me.’
‘Does she go to University, Mummy?’
‘Will I go to University?’
‘Yes love, when you’re a big girl, you will.’
‘Are you a big girl, Mummy?’
I looked at the cars making the most of Saturday, short-cutting through the narrow street. On weekdays, pedestrians can’t cross the road for students’ cars parked like the last tins on supermarket shelves.
‘Look, Mummy, I can see my breath.’ She chuffed.
I said, ‘You’re like the steam train we saw in the station when we arrived.’
She made pistons with her arms.
A car indicated. I took a step towards the edge but couldn’t make out who was driving.
Sasha said, ‘Look, Mummy, when I do this, I can smell my bum.’ She was touching her toes. I pulled her back from the curb as the car pulled in.
‘Don’t go near the edge, Sash. You don’t want to end up like these.’ I pointed to the leaves.
A man got out of the car. He had a bottle of wine in his hand and was holding a bunch of dahlias that appeared black. He seemed lost until another, younger man came out of one of the old houses converted to student flats opposite the University library and embraced him before ushering him inside, cutting off the glowing hall with a carefree slam of the door. The gloss gave the impression of melting ice.
‘C’mon, love, let’s go home, I don’t think Dominique’s coming.’
‘Mummy’s friend isn’t coming.’
‘We’re going home now.’
‘Mummy, can we ride the steam train?’
‘Steam train? Like the olden days? I dunno. We don’t want to live in the olden days, do we? Here. Hold my hand to cross this road.’ She slipped her silky little fingers into the curve of my palm. I heard her feet sinking into the leaves then scuffing the tarmac.
I picked her up and shifted her onto my back. Her heels dug into my thighs, made bloody marks on my jeans with each sinking step.


Hello! Today’s release is a super (?) R-18 T&B doujinshi also a doujinshi that is been release with me almost passing out and can’t stop yawing XD. Anyway it’s been some time we do not release a doujinshi, specially from this fandom, right? This doujinshi doesn’t have too much story… it goes right to action…hehehe.
Oh! This doujinshi as well is the first of our new staff member, Na-ruu, she’s both English Proofreader and Editor. Welcome to the staff team and yaoi room….*cough*.
Enjoy today’s release!
Tags: a: aquarium, f: Tiger&Bunny, p: barnabyxkotetsu, t: interlude


Today we did a bit of bait training in the backyard. I have found that the RedBarn Beef Roll does WONDERS in keeping their attention and making them want more. Here I was using it as a topper put on weight! I didn’t realize I had such a Goldmine!
Georgie and TIno did fabulous with their training, each remaining focused on me for the majoring of their training. Now when it was time to do the girls everything changed – and I couldn’t help but laugh!
I wanted to work with Stella one-on-one but she was not going to have it. She just wanted the food – Eating my entire stash! I sent my husband into the house to bring me back out some bait and that is when Blue snuck out into the backyard with him. Apparently having competition helped Stella focus on me and what we were trying to train her on. But that also meant when we decided it was time to treat the girls Blue was working her way into finding a chance to get more food! Pawing at the sandwich bag filled with bait was all it took. Bait went EVERYWHERE! We scrambled to pick it up so the girls didn’t eat at all. Clearly there were remnants because they decided to roll in them! Now we have two girls this smell like beef!


There doesn’t seem to be a place where students can see their progress vs. the weighted Exercises. The Progress bars indicate, say, 90% in the Introduction to Programming (Karel) Module, and, yet, the heaviest assignments are still in front of them (Challenges, Project). When I use the Gradebook, then, they are shocked by the low grades if they haven’t done these Exercises. Also, the Progress % doesn’t help them pace very well. They think they are at the end, but they still have, say, 6 tough tasks ahead of them. I really need help on this right away! I would like to see the Progress % eliminated entirely vs. having something so misleading. In the meantime, I guess I’ll be printing the Gradebook.


Every year, we welcome 45 volunteer judges to assess nominations for the Diana Award. To keep the award fair and transparent, the external panel members are tasked with the tough decision to read, score and agree on who will receive a Diana Award.
The judging panels are experts in their fields, comprised of a range of business and education professionals and young people, some of which are Diana Award recipients themselves. What they all have in common is their belief that young people deserve to be valued, celebrated and recognised for their outstanding contributions.
We want to say a huge thank you to all of our dedicated judges for your commitment and passion – we simply couldn’t do any of this without you.
‘Recognising young change makers can empower them, and those around them, to continue the good work – to let them know that the world has noticed and wants to say thank you. They may not be doing the task for recognition, but that certainly doesn’t mean that they don’t deserve it.’
Luke Tester, Young Judge
“I think celebrating and recognising young people puts the often-invisible social change work on the spotlight and acts as a boost to young people that their work in communities’ matters.”
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Saturday was amazing. I got up at some ungodly hour, packed up the kids, drove up to my parents’ house, and my mom and I suited up… in Santa suits… to join 1500 Santas in a 5K run through the town where I grew up. And we did it in a blizzard, mofos! A BLIZZARD! And the rest of the day was up up up from there. Shopping, parties, pizza. It rocked.
Sunday was amazing, too… but for all different reasons.
My morning started with a coffee while checking FB to see who’s got good snark and who’s gotÂ stupid cartoon profile pictures. Instead of snark and snorks, I got an email from Kim Wombles informing me that Age of Autism has started their attack against me.
I wasn’t surprised. After the AMC awesomeness just before Thanksgiving and the Grant Park rally last MayÂ I knew I was on their radar. And Orac’s been warning me for months, and called their shot Thanksgiving Day. I was waiting for them. I was prepared… I thought.
Unfortunately, I’m naive. I expected them to come at me with information. I expected them to be angry. I expected them to call me names. I expected them to take my words out of context. I expected them to paint me as a bad mother. I expected them to use my son’s developmental delays against me. I expected them to show up here and on their own blogs.
But they play dirty.
They’ve taken my FB profile pic and posted it on their FB page with the caption:
This is the woman who fought to pull the SafeMinds PSA’s from the theatres. It’s her FB profile page photo. She is anti-choice and wants to tell you that mercury is safe and that Thimeosal is good – according to her blog. She trolls AofA regularly. As do all the pro-vaccine-injury bloggers.
It’s sly. A thinly veiled call to arms against me. They’ve called me ugly. They’ve called me negligent. They’ve threatened to call child protective services on me. They’ve vaguely threatenedÂ violence. They’ve threatened my face. They’ve threatened to rape me with broken thermometers. They’ve posted my full name and my face… and worse…the pic is not just me; it’s me and Delaney, my infant daughter. They dragged my daughter into this. They’re attacking my baby. She’s 6 months old. And she’s being threatened.
I’m sickened and saddened and disturbed by this.
What kind of stand up organization does this? Kim Stagliano, managing editor of AoA,Â is out promoting her book… a “hilarious book” about raising children with autism. She’s painting herself as a loving and human mom… while having her FB fans threaten to sodomize me with broken glass and heavy metals and mocking my baby.
We’ve reported the photo. Lots of people have reported the photo. So far, FB has not taken it down. Perhaps it’s too vague to be considered a threat. (We’re not saying you should hurt her… but here’s what she looks like and here’s her baby and here’s why you should hate her… hate her in the way that satisfies you the most. We won’t judge.)
AoA has responded Â to several of the comments on the page (conversationally, not to condemn), but has not deleted any. Though, they did mention that they don’t wish autism on me and my children…. which, I guess is nice. Maybe they could also not wish thermometer murder rape on me? Or at least mention that it’s rude to shove broken glass and heavy metals into other people’s orifices unless it’s something that they specifically listed on their FetLife profile?
Fortunately, I have you people. You people are wonderful. Your love and support… your emails, Facebook messages, Twitter messages, comments at Orac’s blog and others… You people sure do know how to make a girl feel appreciated. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
A few people have asked if this changes anything for me. The answer is no. Not at all. In fact, while the story of AoA’s attack spreadÂ acrossÂ Facebook and Twitter, I was in a board meeting discussing the future of the Hug Me I’m Vaccinated project… the future as we’ve always seen it. I’m not about to be bullied out of saving lives.
Now I’m confident that we are the good guys. And we are fighting the bad guys.
And my children? They are beautiful and they are amazing. I hope one day they are proud to have me as a mother. I hope they understand that doing the right thing is not easy, that saving the world is hard work, that we don’t back down because the bad guys tried to hurt us, that I love them and that they inspire me. I will make the world a better place because of that. Because I can.
Also? Seriously? My profile pic is the greatest profile pic in the history of Facebook:
Since we’re talking about it anyway, you know you can buy Hug Me! I’m Vaccinated T-shirts now? You can. So you should… unless you’re an XL… then you can’t because we’re out. But we’ll get more.


Graber, who reports directly to CHC Helicopter president and CEO, Bill Amelio, replaces interim president Scott Pinfield.
“In John Graber we have a leader who brings a wealth of experience tackling the challenges we will face as CHC Helicopter grows,” said Amelio. “Not only is Mr. Graber an experienced pilot, but he’s got an accomplished resume of business success in both operational and strategic roles.”
Over his career, Graber has led successful turnarounds for three major US-based companies. As the general manager and senior vice president of operations at ATA Airlines from 2004 – 2006, he was part of the senior team that led ATA Airlines through emergence from Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
The next year, as president of large aircraft MRO AAR Aircraft Services Indianapolis, he undertook a successful turnaround of the business by focusing on revenue growth and lean initiatives.
Most recently, as president of ABX Air, Mr. Graber’s team completely restructured the company into a profitable, $500 million enterprise when it faced an unprecedented drop in customer demand.
“Mr. Graber has a long history in the airline industry and that experience plays well into the challenges and opportunities CHC Helicopter faces,” said Amelio. “As an experienced helicopter pilot and army aviator, Mr. Graber is also very knowledgeable about helicopter operations and shares CHC’s commitment to safety, which makes him a well-rounded choice for this position.”
Graber, who currently resides in Loveland, Ohio, has an MBA Cum Laude from the University of Notre Dame and has extensive military experience. He was decorated for his service as a medevac Flight Section Leader in Iraq during Operation Desert Storm.
“CHC has the world’s best reputation for providing safe, excellent customer service in demanding global operations. The company has much to be proud of in its history,” said Graber. “I want to help the team grow the business, positioning CHC so our team has much to be proud of long into the future.”


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For all who wish to sing and can gather to rehearse on a weekday morning!
Augustana Singers is open to anyone wishing to sing in the Bless the Years worship service on Thursday, December 15 at 11 a.m. This choir will rehearse on the first Wednesday of the next three months (October 5, November 2, December 7) from 11 a.m. to noon in the Choir Room. This group will be directed by Andrew Peters and accompanied by Christelle Menth.
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459 F2d 475 Steed v. D Salisbury
459 F.2d 475
Chester T. STEED, Petitioner-Appellant,
William D. SALISBURY, Superintendent, Chillicothe
Correctional Institute, Respondent-Appellee.
United States Court of Appeals,
April 13, 1972.
J. Jeffrey McNealey (Court appointed), Columbus, Ohio, for petitioner-appellant; Porter, Stanley, Treffinger & Platt, Columbus, Ohio, on brief.
Jeffrey L. McClelland, Columbus, Ohio, for respondent-appellee; William J. Brown, Atty. Gen. of Ohio, Leo J. Conway, Asst. Atty. Gen., Columbus, Ohio, on brief.
Before EDWARDS and PECK, Circuit Judges, and McALLISTER, Senior Circuit Judge.
This case arises from the denial of the appellant's petition for a writ of habeas corpus in which he alleged that he had been denied due process by the failure of his court-appointed counsel to appeal his conviction. The appellant was convicted in the Common Pleas Court of Muskingum County, Ohio, of rape and sodomy, and was sentenced to the Ohio Penitentiary. No appeal as of right was taken from this conviction. The appellant's petition to vacate his sentence and judgment of conviction in the trial court was denied, as was his subsequent motion for a delayed appeal. No appeals were taken from the denials of these motions.
The appellant then filed his petition for a writ of habeas corpus in the District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, in which he alleged for the first time that he had been denied the effective assistance of counsel and that he had been denied his right to an appeal by the uncommunicated withdrawal of his appointed counsel from the case immediately after trial. The District Court held an evidentiary hearing, and found, among other things, that the appellant had exhausted his state court remedies, as required by 28 U.S.C. Sec. 2254(b), and that the failure of his appointed counsel to notify the appellant of his intention to withdraw from the case did not deny him the effective assistance of counsel. The appellant's petition was denied, and this appeal perfected.
Although we recognize that the appellant's contention raises a serious federal Constitutional question1, we are unable to reach the issue because we find that the appellant has failed to exhaust his available state court remedies on this question. Armstrong v. Haskins, 363 F. 2d 429 (6th Cir. 1966). The District Court found that "[t]he issues presented to this Court have not been raised in the state courts," but determined that resort to the state courts would be futile and therefore unnecessary under the rule of Woodards v. Cardwell, 430 F.2d 978 (6th Cir. 1970). We do not think that Woodards is applicable to this case.
In Woodwards, after an appeal on the original issues had been exhausted in all state appellate courts and the Supreme Court of the United States, the issue of Witherspoon v. Illinois, 391 U.S. 510, 88 S.Ct. 1770, 20 L.Ed.2d 776 (1968), was raised for the first time. This Court held that an appeal to the Supreme Court of Ohio would have been ineffective to protect the rights of the prisoner in light of the decision of that court in State v. Duling, 21 Ohio St.2d 13, 254 N.E.2d 670 (1970), wherein the court had held that the failure to raise the Witherspoon issue constituted a waiver thereof.
Unlike the Witherspoon issue, the Ohio courts do not construe a failure to raise the issue of the ineffective assistance of counsel as a waiver, and this issue is cognizable under the Ohio Post Conviction Act, Section 2953.21 et seq. O.R.C. Dayton v. Hill, 21 Ohio St.2d 125, 256 N.E.2d 194 (1970), State v. Juliano, 24 Ohio St.2d 117, 265 N.E.2d 290 (1970). The Ohio statute provides that these questions may be presented to the court which imposed sentence "at any time."
The appellant had and has the right to raise the issue concerning his counsel's failure to appeal his case under the provisions of Section 2953.21 et seq. O.R.C. Since the Ohio courts have not been given an opportunity to pass upon this issue, we decline to do so. The remedies available to the appellant under Ohio law must be exhausted before resorting to the Federal Courts. Kimbro v. Bomar, 333 F.2d 755, 758 (6th Cir. 1964).
We therefore affirm the judgment of the District Court denying the petition, without prejudice to the filing of a new petition after state remedies have been exhausted as to the newly raised issues.
Several Supreme Court cases indicate that the facts alleged in this case may well represent a denial of equal protection to an indigent defendant by depriving him of counsel on appeal. Anders v. California, 386 U.S. 738, 87 S.Ct. 1396, 18 L.Ed. 2d 493 (1967); Douglas v. California, 372 U.S. 353, 83 S.Ct. 814, 9 L.Ed.2d 811 (1963). See also Benoit v. Wingo, 423 F.2d 880 (6th Cir. 1970); Goodwin v. Cardwell, 432 F.2d 521 (6th Cir. 1970), and Woodall v. Neil, 444 F.2d 92 (6th Cir. 1971). In this last case, this Court strongly implied that the abandonment of an appeal without the client's consent and without warning "so as effectively to deprive him of his right to appeal" can represent a Constitutional violation


Lorna Coleen Archer, 77, last residing in Las Vegas, formerly of San Bruno, CA and Honolulu, HI passed away Easter Sunday, April 16, 2017. She was a retired bookkeeper survived by daughters Renee Archer Nakashima of Honolulu, HI and Stacey Colleen Archer Little, of Las Vegas and formerly of Honolulu, HI; five grandchildren, Rico and Tiare Nakashima, Trey and Travis Little and Haley Jo Yap. She is reunited in heaven with husband, George Marcel Archer, Jr.
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Dear fellow coach:
I’m about to do the scariest thing I’ve ever done in my career. I’ve decided to forego the most reliable source of our revenue, which has been to train coaches on how to 100X their impact utilizing our publicly available tools. Instead, we’ll be offering coaches a multi-million dollar grant in 2020 to participate in this training without having to pay.
I’ve been strongly advised against this. Why give up our most reliable source of revenue? Could this be the dumbest risk I’ve ever taken? I can’t be sure, but in this week when we’re celebrating Martin Luther King’s legacy, I am more clear than ever that I need my fellow coaches in order to leave the legacy I want to leave. I want to dramatically accelerate the pace of working with coaches by removing the current financial barriers of $1K for the training.
You see, King was a key part of a whisper in my head that saved my life. From the beginning, the whisper was about my legacy.
Growing up in desperate poverty amidst family violence, I sought refuge in a cocoon of depression and isolation. But for as long as I can remember, there was a whisper in my head guiding me. It told me my path was to play on the world stage one day and change millions of lives, as my heroes Gandhi and Martin Luther King had done.
I never questioned where the whisper came from. I never doubted its truth. It has guided me ever since.
That whisper has led me through a fascinating journey of continual discovery — through psychology, neuroscience, engineering, and business. These culminated in me running the largest coach training organization in the world, which trained thousands of extraordinary coaches who changed lives.
The thing is, the whisper was always about “millions” of lives. It was always about massive scale. I didn’t know why, as I never felt a competitive ego attachment to any number.
The quest for massive scale led me to my Positive Intelligence research to get to the core, root-level mechanics of both happiness and performance. When my book hit a chord and was translated into 20 different languages, I thought the whisper had come true. After all, I was getting a ton of emails every day from people around the world saying I had changed their lives.
But when I checked with those people six months later, I often realized that many had reverted back to the old habits. Change was hard.
Looking deeper, I discovered that true transformation is only 20% about insight, 80% about mental muscle building. Insight alone wasn’t sustained.
So then I embarked on creating a virtual, app-guided PQ program to help people convert their inspiration into daily practice, to form new mental muscles and habits.
I was delighted to see that the PQ program had a life-changing impact that was now sustained. I had finally created the vehicle for honoring the promise of that whisper. But was I reaching millions?
And that’s where coaches came in. In many populations, only 20% of the group has 80% of the impact. That’s what I started to notice about the coaches who were participating in the PQ program. When I changed a coach’s life through my work, it ended up changing hundreds, sometimes thousands of others’. Coaches were 100Xing their own impact. Through them, I was 100Xing mine.
It became clear to me that to manifest the promise of that whisper, I needed to have thousands of coaches as my partners in changing lives.
This week we’re celebrating Martin Luther King’s birthday. The whisper is back. And this time with more clarity and urgency than ever before. This time around, I understand why the whisper has always been about “millions” of lives.
You see, our world is at a critical fork in the road. The increasingly emboldened darker side of us threatens not only democratic institutions but also the health and even survival of our mother earth. The stakes have never been higher.
As coaches, we hold a key. Together we can awaken and unleash the vastly untapped good in the world to affect the outcome. And we need to do it with millions of people, so we can reach a tipping point. Scale matters.
So, on this special day, inspired by King’s dream, and burning with the urgency of our time, I have decided to do something bold which is more than a little scary. I’ve decided to forfeit millions of dollars in revenue from coaches participating in our six-week program, and instead grant the program to coaches, waving the $1,000/participant fee.
In my recent article, How to 100X Your Coaching Impact, I showed coaches how they could dramatically increase both the number of clients they could attract, and the impact on each client, using the PQ tools. By removing all financial barriers to participating, I want to greatly accelerate coaches learning these tools and massively increasing their impact on others.
We live in an age of cynicism when we’re suspicious of claims of such gifts. Is there a catch, a string attached, a hidden agenda?
There’s no catch, but there’s an important requirement that you actually do the rigorous work required of you throughout the six-week program. This is a “mental fitness” training that dramatically boosts your “inner Jedi” and weakens your inner “Darth Vaders,” to use a Star Wars metaphor. It’s mostly about mental muscle building, watching a weekly video and using an app to guide your daily practices for 15 minutes per day, for six weeks.
Until now, since the coaches had paid the $1,000 fee, that “skin in the game” helped motivate them to get their investment’s worth by doing the daily practices. That’s how they created massive value for themselves. Since that financial “skin in the game” will no longer be at play, I’m looking for only those coaches who are serious and ready to invest in themselves.
We’ll have a limit of 500 people for the first program that starts in a few weeks, and we want those slots to be filled by people who are fully committed.
(**UPDATE: we received an overwhelming response to this offer and this first cohort was quickly over-subscribed. We’re now accepting applications for the next cohort.**)
If this sounds like you, I’ll be hosting two live webinars next week that’ll go into more detail. During these sessions, I’ll show you how you can 100X your impact as a coach using our publicly-available, research-based tools, and how you get to practice these tools. I’ll also do a live Q&A toward the end to answer any other questions you still have. Then, for those who are ready to 100x their coaching impact,, I’ll give you the link for an online form where you can apply to be in the first group of 500, or put on the waitlist for the future groups.
As successful as you might be already, I invite you to consider how many more lives you could change. First, by growing yourself as a human being and coach. Then, by growing your reach and impact on others.
There is a reason you became a coach. Let’s make it count, at a time when our world is counting on you.
See you in the video webinar. (**UPDATE: The first cohort was quickly over-subscribed. We’re now accepting applications for the next cohort. Click here for details.**)


These Chewy Ginger Molasses Cookies are easy to make, super-soft and chewy, and irresistibly delicious.
It seems a bold move to declare an all-time favorite cookie. But after having been on Team Molasses for going on over three decades now, and already whipped up my third batch of molasses dough in a month, I’ve gotta say that I don’t foresee any allegiance shifts happening soon. So with that said, allow me to introduce you to my all-time favorite cookies…
…the most delicious, soft, chewy, gingery, life-changing molasses cookies. ♡♡♡
My love for these molasses cookies is entirely thanks to my mom, who baked fresh batches of cookies for our family pretty much every week when we were growing up. Granted, she was always a bit mystified that her oldest daughter (hi, Mom) never inherited her obsession with all kinds of chocolate cookies, which will forever and always be her all-time faves. But molasses cookies were always a compromise we could both agree on. We both love these cookies.
This time of year, they are still the first recipe to which I always turn for holiday cookie baking. And this year in particular, they’ve been extra fun to share with all of our European friends who — as it turns out — maybe love them even more than we do! Ha, every time that we have served them to our friends, and our Spanish class, our neighbors, everyone goes crazy for them. Which means that we never come home with leftovers. Which just means that we have to keep baking more, naturally. Which requires exactly zero twisting of my arm. More molasses cookies for all!
Anyway, these cookies are clearly a hit. So as part of our week of cookies here on the blog, I thought I would bump this recipe back up to the top of the pile today for some non-chocolate cookie inspiration. I initially shared this recipe on the blog nine years ago. But that said, a number of you have reported over the years that your cookies have spread a bit more than you like. So I’ve been tinkering around with our family recipe this fall, and have made a few small adjustments to the recipe below that should help them to stay nice and thick and chewy, without compromising the flavor of the cookies at all. (Although if your cookies do ever flatten out, I promise they’ll still be delicious.)
So I hope that you enjoy them as much as we do, and if you decide to bake up a batch, I’d love to hear how they go! Enjoy, everyone!


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