tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1426981633509760972024-03-13T03:31:25.980-05:00An Irish PatelKathleen Patel is a happily married, peace loving author, motivational speaker and anti-bullying crusader. She's traveled internationally spreading her message.
"With ignorance comes fear- from fear comes bigotry. Education is the key to acceptance."Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12772691861129046578noreply@blogger.comBlogger80125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-142698163350976097.post-37760551766685828062018-01-30T12:43:00.001-06:002018-01-30T12:43:08.932-06:00The Black and White of Racism-MUST read!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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in a predominately white middle-class neighborhood, I have never been racist.
When the first black families started moving into the neighborhood I was more
curious than anything else. It’s still a family joke about how they could always
find me sitting at the table whenever our African-American neighbors had big
family barbecues. (I’m so fair skinned I stick out like a sore thumb- even with
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I have always
empathized with the struggle that African Americans have endured. As an Irish
American, we share many common threads. The Irish were sold into slavery, along
with Africans. The Irish slave trade began when James VI sold 30,000 Irish
prisoners as slaves to the New World. His Proclamation of 1625 required Irish
political prisoners be sent overseas and sold to English settlers in the West
Indies. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">By
the mid-1600s, the Irish were the main slaves sold to Antigua and Montserrat.
At that time, 70% of the total population of Montserrat were Irish slaves.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the biggest source of human livestock for English merchants. The majority of
the early slaves to the New World were actually white. After emancipation, the
Irish and Africans both faced prejudice and abuse for years. It’s been a tough
road. I get it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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understand is how this country has come to a state of extreme white hatred. It’s
not just people of color, its other white people spewing white hatred. It’s
time to stop ALL the hate.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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a book by Waylon Allen, called ‘The Black and White of Racism’. I was drawn to
the book initially because of the back story that motivated the author to start
writing. It was actually a conversation with his (white) teenage granddaughter.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She told her grandfather that she did
not like white people. She believed that most white people are racist. She also
had strong feeling about police officers being racists and “bad cops”. Mr. Allen
was shocked and understandably confused. He felt strongly that he had to
address this and set things right. He sat down and he began to write…from a
place of love.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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cover to cover, in one sitting…with a raging migraine. This should illustrate
the compelling nature of this enlightening information. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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mandatory for students. Mr. Allen illustrates how a slanted version of history
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author uncovers is a game changer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The practice of
slavery is disgusting and barbaric, but the blame goes much further than the
cruel slave-owners. (Some of which were actually black)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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trafficking is alive and well. Thriving, actually. Like many other atrocities,
it is a global money maker...a multimillion dollar business. For thousands of
years greedy, heartless people have become rich through this horrific practice.
Everyone involved has blood on their hands. The blame must be shared. It
was actually black African men that rounded up the slaves that were sent to the
New World. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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unbelievable revelations in this book it will change your whole way of
thinking. For example, the way that politics and the media manipulate race
relations, and how it’s beneficial to keep the climate of hatred alive. You will
start to see how we are all pawns in this emotional manipulation of
misunderstanding and half-truths. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Read this book. Tell
your friends and family about it. It’s time to unite as a people. Now more than
ever.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12772691861129046578noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-142698163350976097.post-48857202349782650132016-12-01T14:18:00.001-06:002016-12-01T14:18:04.989-06:00Why walk when we can fly- book review<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The book takes you on a journey where you will meet well-developed characters in scenes that are so detailed you can see them clearly in your mind. You will also be educated on the various aspects of storms and how they can cause an avalanche.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12772691861129046578noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-142698163350976097.post-26265553760103731952015-05-26T08:00:00.000-05:002015-05-26T07:53:35.594-05:00Your Pet Can Save Your Life<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I think we can all agree that nothing warms your heart more than the unconditional love a pet provides. I can't help but smile when I come home and my little dog jumps and spins with happiness while he tries to shower me with kisses. There's been a lot of information recently on the health benefits one can reap just by spending time with a furry companion. <br />
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First of all, there are all the studies that have shown that spending time with a pet can improve your health. There have been several long term scientific studies to prove that pets can dramatically loweryour blood pressure. Way back in 1980, the State University of New York at Buffalo conducted a large study on pets and individuals who had high blood pressure. <a href="http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache:snARDschMw8J:nursing.msu.edu/habi/Allen_talk.doc+State+University+of+New+York+at+Buffalo+conducted+a+large+study+on+pets+and+individuals+who+had+high+blood+pressure.&cd=4&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a" target="_blank">The results were impressive.</a></div>
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Even the<a href="http://www.cdc.gov/HEALTHYPETS/health_benefits.htm" target="_blank"> Center for Disease Control </a>recommends pets! According to their research, pets can decrease your:<br />
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<li> <i> Blood pressure<br />
Cholesterol levels<br />
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In addition to this, pets can play a pivotal role in the recovery of a serious illness. There are now many organizations that provide pet visits to hospitals and nursing homes. Sometimes the love of a pet is enough to keep a patient strong and can energize their fight for life. Sometimes the inability to care for that pet, and ultimate loss of the pet can have the opposite effect. <img align="left" alt="" src="http://www.examiner.com/images/blog/wysiwyg/image/paula%27s_cat.jpg" height="113" hspace="10" vspace="10" width="150" />Many people are forced to give up their pets when they become ill or are going through a health crisis.<br />
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I recently met an extraordinary woman by the name of Ann Marie Schrage-Glaviano. She went through a horrendous experience fighting Lupus. Ann Marie was lucky because she had a large support system. She had great friends that volunteered to help her through this battle. Not many people are as fortunate. This journey included months of chemotherapy and two strokes. Ann Marie fought hard and won. <br />
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Then Ann Marie had a vision. "Autoimmune mediated and other serious illnesses rob us of the only thing we truly possess, <img align="right" alt="" src="http://www.examiner.com/images/blog/wysiwyg/image/annmariemedici.jpg" height="230" hspace="10" vspace="10" width="150" />that being, time together. Pets are family, love as family, live as family. None should ever be left behind in any disaster. Disability is not a choice!" exclaims Ann Marie. Having a life long passion for pets combined with her personal experience in a life threatening illness inspired her to create <a href="http://www.petsnpatients.com/Founder.shtml" target="_blank">PetsNPatients. </a> Ann Marie has organized a national network of volunteers that can assist in caring for a pet when the owner is going through a health crisis. I don't have any scientific statistics but I can say from my heart that Ann Marie has probably saved many lives- human as well as pets.<br />
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If you're interested in getting your pet involved in a pet therapy program, here is a <a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&hs=Dpd&q=pet+therapy+chicago&btnG=Search" target="_blank">list of local organizations.</a><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12772691861129046578noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-142698163350976097.post-41992548869162088462014-08-13T14:37:00.001-05:002016-12-01T14:16:29.681-06:00Why walk when we can fly- excellent suspense thriller- amazing writer @akoribird<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Buy the book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Why-Walk-When-Can-Fly-ebook/dp/B008VVV49G/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1407956732&sr=1-1" target="_blank">here </a></span></span></i></div>
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Drako. The path that led them to Drako was full of heartbreak and happiness.
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Ann Swann</div>
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Liz Grace Davis</div>
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Calinda B</div>
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CJ Ellisson</div>
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Ann Swann</div>
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Linzé Brandon</div>
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Liz Grace Davis</div>
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Linzé Brandon</div>
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Diane Rapp</div>
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Tami Kidd</div>
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lifetime of abuse. The pattern of history repeating itself while Ms.
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from low self-esteem and lack of self-confidence, she was drawn to the bad boys.
They always seem to start out as the answer to her dreams but ended up being
nightmares. Kerri was always able to pull herself together and gather up the
strength to leave these monsters. That was until she met "The
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bad boys; he was a high ranking, “full patch” member of the Hells Angels
Motorcycle Gang. He dazzled her with his power, money & sexual prowess.
People were afraid of him and gave him VIP treatment and soon she found that she
was also receiving VIP treatment. But there was a very high price to pay...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">MURDER
FOR GLACIER BLUE is the third in this series and I had been waiting patiently
for its arrival. I love anything Diane Rapp writes, but this series has a
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Alaskan cruise with their cruise line friends, so they mix a bit of business
and pleasure.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With Kayla’s knack for
sniffing out and solving mysteries, and Steve’s background in the undercover
world of intelligence, they are the perfect lead to a team formed to provide
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the original paintings and then they will be auctioned.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The stakes are high and the crooks are
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us on this cruise with breathtaking scenes that are described in such detail;
you can feel the cool sea breeze on your face. You’ll enjoy the whale watching
and the wildlife, but you will never forget your first view of the glacier.</span></div>
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Jamaica, but you will follow these personalities with fervor. </span></div>
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Israel government. He survived the atrocities of the holocaust, due to the
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<i>hate</i> <i>him</i>)</span></div>
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emerge. There are murders, bombings and
constant danger as the race begins to retrieve the treasure. But even amongst the mayhem and violence, a
pure love is able to bloom.</span></div>
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My childhood was shattered when I was seven years old. My family moved to a
new city. I was starting my second grade in a new school. Being a bit on the
shy side, I was nervous, but excited. I hoped that I would make nice
friends.<br />
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On the first day of school my world came crashing down. That was the day
that the bully decided to make me his target.<br />
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No one would defy him to be my friend. They were afraid.
This could result in the bully focusing his abuse on them. Even the
teachers ignored the abuse. I was completely alone. It was an
unbelievably painful experience, with scars that run deep<br />
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Although there were daily incidences of cruelty, there is one particular
event that left me so traumatized; I was inflicted with a life-long phobia. The
bully was very good at football. He played with his followers every day at
recess. As always, I stood alone, by a wall, wishing I were invisible,
counting down the minutes until the dreaded recess was over. This day, the
bully wanted to have some additional fun. While I was looking away, never
wanted to make eye contact with him, he aimed the football at my face and threw
it with all his might. The ball hit me with such an impact that it broke
my glasses. When the glasses broke, one of the lenses cut into my eyebrow,
while the frames cracked, with a jagged piece piercing the bridge of my nose.
The pain was unbearable and I began to cry. This delighted the bully and
he began to laugh. Soon the nervous laughter of his followers joined him in an
evil chorus. This attack required several stitches, leaving scars, both
physical and emotional.<br />
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It had a profound and damaging effect on my life. I never participated
in any sports that involved catching a ball. I was afraid of any flying
objects.<br />
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Because of the bullying, I suffered from anxiety, depression and
insecurity. I spent sleepless nights with stomach pains caused by the terror of
what new brutality the next day might bring.<br />
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I was a sad and lonely child.<br />
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One day I found my escape.<br />
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I discovered books…reading.<br />
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These books opened new worlds for me. Thanks to Rudyard Kipling and his
‘Jungle Book’, I could travel to India. I was dazzled by Mowgli and his
family of wolves. I could see the jungle and became acquainted with all
the characters- lovable or not. I was enchanted.<br />
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I discovered Nancy Drew. Everyone wanted to be Nancy Drew. She
was smart, fearless and cool. She was wealthy. I also fell in love
with Trixie Belden and her friends. I felt like I knew these characters; as
though they were my friends.<br />
I read quite a variety of books; whatever I could get my hands on. We didn’t
have much money, so my books were gems discovered at garage sales. <br />
One day I found the book that changed my life forever. The Power of Positive
Thinking, by Norman Vincent Peale. His guides to life were simple:<br />
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<i>If God is for us, who can be against us? Romans 8:31</i><br />
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<i>If thou can believe, all things are possible to him that believeth. Mark
9:23</i><br />
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One of his most powerful quotes says, “The way to happiness: Keep your heart
free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, and give
much. Scatter sunshine, forget self, think of others. Try this for a week and
you will be surprised.” <br />
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By putting into practice what I learned from Norman Vincent Peale, I slowly
started to heal and become strong.<br />
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I went on to have a very successful career as a sales and marketing
executive in the software industry. I worked this way for many years and made a
nice living, but something was missing. I felt empty inside. I
wanted to do something meaningful.<br />
<br />
I started writing.<br />
<br />
I wanted to write books that were fun and easy to read, but I wanted them to
deliver a message of love and acceptance. I wrote four fiction books with one
of them geared towards young adults/tweens called Hiren’s Magical Adventure.
This mystery was loosely based on my own husband, Hiren’s, childhood
experiences, growing up in India.<br />
<br />
I also wrote a book on anti-bullying called The Bullying Epidemic- the guide
to arm you for the fight. I offered the book free of charge, as a public
service at first, but Amazon would no longer allow free books, so I started
charging and putting the proceeds back in to the Bullying Epidemic Foundation. <br />
But it was not enough.<br />
<br />
Teen suicide was on the rise, along with other horror stories that were the
result of the escalating bullying epidemic. Through my own research, I
discovered that people were in desperate need of education on bullying.
Teachers were frustrated; not being able to recognize the different types of
bullying and not being equipped to deal with the behavior. Parents still held
on to the old adage of “Kids will be kids…” All the while, innocent spirits
were being crushed.<br />
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I knew I had to do more. That was when I decided I had to start
speaking. I started to speak, on a small scale, at libraries and small venues.
The word spread and people started calling me…and calling me. I found
that the bullying epidemic was more wide spread than I had imagined. Parents,
teachers, coaches, camp counselors & students called me for help. I
was even invited to speak in Ireland, India and the Philippines. I offered
these seminars as a public service and did not charge a fee.<br />
<br />
There is so much more work to do. I want to help the educators,
parents and students. I know that we can put an end to this blight on society.
This much I know is true.<br />
<br />
“With ignorance comes fear- from fear comes bigotry. Education is the key to
acceptance.” ~<br />
<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5411975.Kathleen_Patel" target="_blank">Kathleen Patel</a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Bullying-Epidemic-guide-fight-ebook/dp/B006YBF64E/ref=cm_rdp_product_img" target="_blank"><i>The Bullying Epidemic-the guide to armyou for the fight</i></a><br />
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<i>For more information on The Anti-Bullying Crusader, please visit my other blog <a href="http://thebullyingepidemictheguide.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">here</a>. </i><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12772691861129046578noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-142698163350976097.post-73949036497078986662013-05-06T12:32:00.004-05:002013-06-11T11:50:07.749-05:00Bullying scars run deep<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhC0LBsta4qimVKK9pXuvl9AC1cE9i28IKC6bPxQISkjUHoFW9xh6AngWBpSyynY60GVSszi_oCuLGmq7-e6Ll-t6fMqJo05x5ncwvEz6H5OsqbLrseapEgMbLAfqusows73WXSpcE_Gj25/s1600/bullybloghead+shot-serious+journalist1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhC0LBsta4qimVKK9pXuvl9AC1cE9i28IKC6bPxQISkjUHoFW9xh6AngWBpSyynY60GVSszi_oCuLGmq7-e6Ll-t6fMqJo05x5ncwvEz6H5OsqbLrseapEgMbLAfqusows73WXSpcE_Gj25/s320/bullybloghead+shot-serious+journalist1.jpg" width="240" /></a> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">There
are memories in my childhood that are still so painful I try not to
think about it. When those memories do come rushing back, the tears
begin to flow. It's hard to believe that after all these years; I can
feel the sadness as though it were yesterday.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">You
see, when I was a little girl, I was the victim of bullying. I had
just moved to a new city with my parents and I was starting at a new
school. I missed my old friends, but I hoped I would make some nice new
friends. I was kind of shy and quiet so I was nervous. But it was
exciting. I didn't know what to expect- but I never expected what
happened. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">On
my first day of school, the bully in my class decided to single me
out. Looking back- it seems so absurd that someone can randomly pick an
innocent child and then terrorize them based on something like their
name or the fact that they wear glasses. It's also hard to believe that
this boy had so much power over the rest of the children- no one dared
to confront him. He could make other children join in with the taunting
and teasing.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">No
one would defy him to be my friend. They were afraid. This could
result in the bully focusing his abuse on them. Even the teachers
ignored the abuse.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Then there were the school rituals that fed right into the bully culture.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">When
it came to gym class there was a dreaded process that the teachers used
to build the teams. The teachers picked a couple of children to be the
"Team Captains", and then those children would pick their teams. It
was so humiliating. I knew I would be the last one chosen. I didn't
even want to play because the bully and his friends always welcomed the
opportunity to hit me with the ball or just run into me and knock me to
the ground. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">He
made my life a sad and lonely hell. It wasn't just the taunting and
name calling. At recess he and his friends just tortured me. Between
the taunting and being hurt physically, it was terrorism. He once hit
me in the face with a football and I still remember how badly that
hurt. I cried but no one came to my rescue.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">My
mother told me to ignore him. I did. It didn't change anything. I
had a very ignorant relative that asked me, what was wrong with <b><i>me</i></b>? There must be something <b><i>wrong with me</i></b> or the kid would not pick on me. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I didn't know. At this point I was confused. I was only seven years old. Maybe something <b><i>was </i></b>wrong with me. But what changed? I had a lot of friends at my old school. We all got along really well. I didn't understand.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I
had a hard time falling asleep at night because I had a pain in my
stomach. I was afraid of what would happen the next day at school. I
loved Fridays, I cherished my weekend reprieve from the suffering, but I
started feeling sick on Sunday morning, knowing it was only a matter of
hours...</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I
prayed and prayed to God to make the bully leave me alone, but the
bullying never stopped. Thankfully after a couple of years the school
closed. I went to a new school. The bully went to a different school.
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Everything changed. I was back to being a normal kid with friends. Thank God.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">That
happened to me many, many years ago and yet when I think about it or
talk about it, I start to cry. I cry for that helpless little girl so
many years back and I cry for my young nieces and nephews- I never want
them to go through anything like that. And I cry for the children that
were bullied so badly they felt there was no way out and they killed
themselves. Now their parents and brothers and sisters will always wish
they had done something. No innocent child deserves to be bullied. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I
believe the solution is education. Everyone needs to be aware of the
signs of bullying and what to do when you spot a situation. That is why
I wrote a short handbook with some great resources. You
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Do you know that there are different types of bullying?</span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Physical Bullies</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";"><br />
This includes hitting or kicking the victim. Also taking or damaging the
victim's property. This is the most obvious type of bullying because it is so
easy to spot. Physical bullies are usually known to the entire population in
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Verbal Bullies</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";"><br />
Verbal bullies use words to hurt or humiliate another person. This would
include name-calling, insulting, making racist comments and teasing. This type
of bullying is the easiest to inflict on other children. It can be done quickly
and on the sly. Its effects can be more devastating than physical
bullying, because these scars stay with you forever.</span><br />
<br />
<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Relational Bullies</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Relational bullies use the fact
that all kids want to be accepted by their peer group, and they use it as a
weapon. These bullies manipulate and damage the relationships of their victims.
They do this by spreading rumors, exclusion, gossip and ending friendships –
and the hurt they create can be enormous. A relational bully often has the
sophistication needed to fracture another student's relationships and turn
them, over time, into a social outcast.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";"><br />
<b>Cyber Bullies</b> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">This is the deadliest and most
cowardly form of bullying. It includes tormenting, threatening, harassing
and embarrassing a student using the Internet, cell phones and other
technology. This allows the bully a cowardly level of anonymity. These bullying
targets are nine times more likely to consider suicide. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Read more: <a href="http://www.choosehelp.com/topics/bullying/relational-bullying-2013-the-power-and-pain-of-social-bullying#ixzz2SX5HlSbl" style="color: #003399;">Relational Bullying – The Power and Pain of Social Bullying</a></span></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">For more on <a href="http://www.bullybeware.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">types of bullying click here.</span></a> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>This could be a great opportunity to open the dialog with the children in your life:</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Can you identify the type of bullying in the scenarios below?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This
is a situation where Ally and Bella are playing and then Jenny asks
them if she can play too. Ally and Bella roll their eyes and tell Jenny
that she can not play with them </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This is hurtful and Jenny will feel that she is being left out or ostracized. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">This is relational bullying.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Here's
another situation where Bobby and Nick think it's really funny to hide
Jimmy's coat. Jimmy asks them if they know where it is, but they will
not tell him. Jimmy is upset. He has to go to recess, in the cold,
with no coat. Plus, he will get in trouble at home when he must tell
his parents that he lost his coat. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This is cruel and humiliating. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">This is physical bullying.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In
this situation Jenny walks in the bathroom and finds Ally and Bella
combing their hair. Jenny says, "Hi." and Ally and Bella ignore her and
then Ally says, "Why are your sleeves rolled up Jenny- it's winter!"
and then Ally and Bella laugh at Jenny. Jenny leaves the bathroom in
tears. She will be upset all day and have a hard time sleeping that
night. She is humiliated and hurt. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This is hurtful and humiliating. It is very mean to make fun of someone and laugh at them. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">This is verbal bullying.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Another
situation could be where Bobby and Nick are playing on the basketball
team and they never pass the ball to Jimmy-even when Jimmy is in the
perfect position and he's open to catch the ball. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This is wrong. It is hurtful and mean to exclude Jimmy. Everyone deserves their turn. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">This is relational bullying.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In
life- not just sports- we must realize that we only win when we are
team players. When we work together as a team we always succeed. We
all need to treat each other with kindness and love. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">God
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something mean or thoughtless to someone- think of how you would feel
if they did the same to you?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Here are some random facts about bullies:</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Even
though a bully will insult their victim and try to ridicule the way the
victim looks, the fact is- most bullies are unattractive.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
purpose of bullying is to hide the fact that they are not very smart.
In reality, they are weak and incompetent. They want to take all
attention away from their inadequacy.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Even
though the bully puts on a big show, with the ability to attract and
intimidate many followers, bullies have low self-confidence and low
self-esteem, and thus feel insecure. Low self-esteem is a factor proven
in all studies of bullying. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Bullies
operate on resentment, bitterness, hatred and anger, and often have
wide-ranging prejudices against anyone who is different. Bullies are
driven by jealousy and envy. Rejection is another powerful motivator of
bullying.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Today,
bullying behaviors at school are recognized as dangerous and harmful
acts that victimize the targeted student and bystanders. Bullying can no
longer be dismissed as harmless teasing. Bullying is a pattern of
deliberate, negative, hurtful, aggressive acts that works to shift the
balance of physical, emotional, or social power. This is a hate crime.
Yes a crime. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">They
are currently working on legislature to pass laws that will ensure if
someone if convicted of bullying, as a child, they will go to a juvenile
detention facility or if they are a teenager or adult, they will most
likely be tried as an adult and go to prison.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">If you are or have been a victim of a bully, you are in good company. Some famous people who have been bullied include:</span></span></div>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Lady Gaga</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Robert Patterson- yes, Edward from Twilight</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Kristen Stewart- Bella from Twilight</span></span></li>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Kate Middleton</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Michael Phelps</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Christine Aguilara</span></span></li>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Pierce Brosnan- that's James Bond</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Bill Clinton- a former president of the United States</span></span></li>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Demi Lovato</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Rhianna</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Taylor Swift</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Justin Timberlake</span></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">So,
please keep your eyes open. Whether you are a student or a parent or a
teacher, you must watch out for your fellow "team members". As a
decent human being, it is every one's responsibility to keep our children
safe. Remember, "It takes a village to raise a child". If you see any
bullying behavior- be brave and do the right thing. Your action could
save a life.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">As
I mentioned earlier, I have written a short handbook to help you spot
the signs and know what to do when you recognize bullying behavior. It's called, The<b> Bullying Epidemic-the guide to arm you for the fight' </b>and you can <a href="http://amzn.to/HPQ1H5" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">get your copy here:</span></a></span></span></div>
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the weather by physical changes in their bodies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Have
you ever heard of the grandmother who knew when it was going to storm because
her hip was aching? Or the coworker who always got headaches when there was a
dramatic change in the temperature?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As someone who experiences
migraines, I have always been curious about this connection.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>According to the <a href="http://www.mayoclinic.com/" target="_blank">Mayo Clinic,</a> people who have
migraines appear to be more sensitive to changes in the weather.
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Weather parameters known to affect
health include humidity, barometric pressure and temperature. They can trigger migraine,
asthma, arthritis or heart disease. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Linking weather to your health is
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It wasn’t until 1986 that </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Dr. John Bart, a medical practitioner in Toronto, took it a
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He noticed that
patients were having similar complaints on the same days. Wondering if weather
could be the common factor, he asked one of his patients, meteorologist Denis Bourque,
if evidence for such a link existed. Mr. Bourque was intrigued by the
possibility.<br />
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After much research the two found that, in fact, much European literature
supported the weather health theory. From this, Bart and Bourque set out to
develop an index that would map specific weather conditions known to trigger
health. The results of their work are 14 distinct categories of weather known
to affect health. MediClim.com was born. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">MediClim can warn people when they
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disease. You can check it out <a href="http://www.mediclim.com/research#sthash.rttW5qgG.dpuf" target="_blank">here</a>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">So what can we do? We obviously
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specific weather triggers.</span></li>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12772691861129046578noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-142698163350976097.post-66084063847106248152013-02-07T13:23:00.003-06:002013-06-27T08:02:48.553-05:00Review~The Schliemann Legacy~ @DAGraysone never disappoints!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ever since I read Two Graves, D.A. Graystone has been one of
my favorite authors. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mr. Graystone sweeps you off your feet and on to an
adventure that is so dramatic you feel as though you know the characters
personally.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Schliemann Legacy is an international thriller that takes
you across the globe. Danger lurks in Munich, Bogotá, Israel, Turkey and
Jamaica, but you will follow these personalities with fervor. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The story begins at an archaeological dig in Turkey in 1873. The
Schliemann Legacy, a collection of artifacts that proved the existence of Troy,
is unearthed. Unfortunately the collection disappears during World War II.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As you meet the characters you will feel a wide range of
emotion. You may cry when you learn of
the horrific childhood that shaped David Morritt, a special agent for the
Israel government. He survived the atrocities of the holocaust, due to the
kindness of a man that took him under his wing. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You will probably dislike Duman, a former KGB agent, is a brutal
terrorist, but you will have find yourself in awe of his skills. He chose this
Turkish name that means mist or smoke. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Katrina Kontoravdis will capture your curiosity. An
undercover Greek agent, she had been taken out of the field after a tragic
death in which she was unfairly blamed. She is given this assignment as a test.
If she can get through it with her life, then maybe she can resume her career.
The odds are against her.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">International agents, assassins and terrorists, they are but
puppets when the gluttonous Henri Mardinaud starts his twisted game. (You will definitely
<i>hate</i> <i>him</i>)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The story moves quickly and more interesting characters
emerge. There are murders, bombings and
constant danger as the race begins to retrieve the treasure. But even amongst the mayhem and violence, a
pure love is able to bloom.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Find the book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Schliemann-Legacy-D-A-Graystone/dp/0986934100/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top" target="_blank">here</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">D.A. Graystone website <a href="http://www.dagraystone.com/" target="_blank">here</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Follow D.A, Graystone on <a href="https://twitter.com/dagraystone" target="_blank">Twitter</a></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12772691861129046578noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-142698163350976097.post-20310268809004692492012-12-31T12:07:00.001-06:002012-12-31T12:07:06.710-06:00New Year's Resolution<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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As an expert at New Year’s resolutions, I have tried them all.
After all my research, I am here to tell
you there is only one New Year’s resolution that can really change your life
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<b>You must learn to love yourself like a precious child. </b>The
lack of self- love is the root cause of all of our problems. We neglect ourselves, sometimes to the point
of abuse. We work hard, skip meals or eat junk, don’t have time for exercise, fun…the
list goes on. The fact is that many times we put ourselves last. We ultimately end up treating ourselves pretty badly. We would never treat a precious child this
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So let’s describe this as though you are now the parent of a
precious child (which is you). This child is going to have to rely on you and
your knowledge for everything. You are
going to embrace this child for the precious soul that it is, and teach the
child how to live a happy, healthy life, rich with all the good things the
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<b>Forgiveness- not Judgment</b>: This is very important. You will need to be
gentle and kind with your precious child (PC). Be forgiving of mistakes. We all make them and hopefully learn from
them. The key is to move on and do
better! You must also make sure that other people do not mistreat the PC. There
may be negative people who don’t add anything positive to your life. In fact,
these people might even make you feel bad about yourself. They can suck the joy out of living. Don’t
expose your PC to these types. Sometimes
you have to just let go of those toxic relationships. Even though it might be
painful-it’s sometimes necessary. Surround yourself with positive, happy people
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<b>Social Interaction</b>:
You want your PC to have a happy, balanced life and you know that the social
aspect is very important. Studies have shown that this is one of the keys to
staving off dementia, as well as living to a ripe old age. Interaction with others is another important
part of a healthy and happy life. It could be meeting a friend for lunch once a
week, joining a book club, doing a wine tasting, taking a class, getting involved with your
church, temple or mosque. It’s important to have something fun to look forward
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<b>Making a Contribution</b>: The key to feeding your soul is to do
something that you believe makes a difference. I’ve always believed that the
best way to make you feel better is to help someone else to feel better. Make sure that you help your PC find their
passion. Maybe it’s visiting a pet
shelter to show some love to lonely dogs and cats. You can touch many lives.
Maybe it’s volunteering at a nursing home and spending some time with some
elderly folks who feel as though they have been abandoned by the world. You can
bring great joy. Maybe helping to build
a house for humanity is more your style.
Or perhaps you can find satisfaction in writing some letters to find
justice for a cause that you feel strongly about. </div>
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<b>Nurture</b>: You must
make sure that your PC gets enough sleep. Sometimes they will need a nice warm
bath and a cup of tea to relax. Maybe
even a fragrant candle. Sometimes treating PC to a matinee is just the cure. PC
might really enjoy a dinner date at a favorite restaurant. A nice massage is always a treat. Dear little
PC deserves only the best.</div>
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<b>Nutrition:</b> You
know that good nutrition is important, so you will be sure that your PC get’s
healthy food, full of fresh fruits, veggies, grains and lean protein. Maybe it would be fun to join a group like
Weight Watchers, so you can learn about a healthy diet and also have that group
support. You want your PC to be at a healthy weight so that they never have to
suffer from weight related health issues like Diabetes, heart disease and so
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<b>Exercise:</b> To keep little PC healthy, you will also make
sure that exercise plays an important role.
We all know that exercise is imperative to a healthy body and life. You
can cut your risk of heart disease, stroke, dementia and even cancer! It doesn’t matter where you start. Even if you
have to start with 5 minutes of walking a day, that’s a start. You can slowly work your way up to 20 minutes
a day. You can actually choose whatever
you and your PC enjoy. Maybe swimming or
dancing would be more fun. Or perhaps a zumba
or yoga class might appeal to you. How about a weekend of Ski Lessons? The sky
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12772691861129046578noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-142698163350976097.post-9289652607803519042012-12-06T14:15:00.004-06:002012-12-08T10:19:27.265-06:00What’s the Next Best Thing to being tagged in the Next Big Thing?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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1)What is the working title of your next book? <span style="color: #548dd4;">I have not made a final decision, but I’m thinking of, <b>The Bullying Epidemic: eradicate this and save lives. </b>I’d love any feedback or opinions on that.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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2) Where did the idea come from for the book? <span style="color: #548dd4;">I wrote a book called, <b>The Bullying Epidemic- the guide to arm you for the fight</b>. It is a short handbook on the growing bullying epidemic. There is information on the various types of bullying and tips on how to recognize the signs and act on it. Additionally, there is a list of resources to get help quickly. After writing the book, word got around and I started getting invitations to speak at different schools and churches. I realized the only answer to this dilemma is to create awareness and to educate all involved. This new book goes deeper into psychology behind it and dealing with the bullying as an environmental issue. There are specific does and don’t that are vital to the outcome. The proceeds of the first book go to <b>'The Bullying Epidemic Foundation'</b> to create and implement educational programs on bullying awareness for teachers, parents & students. I will do the same with this new book.</span></div>
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4) What actors would you choose to play the part of your characters in a movie rendition? <span style="color: #548dd4;">Funny you should ask that. There are skits in the book, meant to be interactive in illustrating different bullying scenarios. I would want to choose regular kids to play the roles.</span><o:p></o:p><br />
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6) Will your book be self-published or represented by an agency? <span style="color: #548dd4;">I will self-publish. I’m an indie at heart : ))</span><o:p></o:p><br />
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9) Who or what inspired you to write this book? <span style="color: #548dd4;">I wrote the first book because I feel strongly about this problem. I was bullied as a child and I know those scars run deep. I have young nieces and nephews and I would never want them to go through such torture. No child deserves that.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #181818; font-size: 12pt;">I can’t believe I was lucky enough to have been tagged by </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">two incredible authors for <b>The Next Big Thing</b></span><b><span style="color: #181818; font-size: 12pt;">.</span></b><span style="color: #181818; font-size: 12pt;"> I’m so honored and grateful. Here are their links:</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #181818; font-size: 12pt;"><br /><b>Diane Rapp :</b> </span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 12pt;">http://www.quicksilvernovels.com/</span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><b><span style="color: #181818; font-size: 12pt;">Charles Dougherty:</span></b><span style="color: #181818; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://www.clrdougherty.com/" style="color: #436590; text-decoration: initial;"><span style="color: #0070c0;">www.clrdougherty.com</span></a></span><span style="color: #333333;"><br /></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">I can’t believe it! I’ve been tagged by </span><strong style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">four people</strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;"> for this blog. It’s lots of fun and here are the links to the four great authors who tagged me.</span><br />
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<strong style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">Jaq Hawkins:</strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><a href="http://indiewritenet.com/jaqdhawkins/" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: white; color: #666600; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;" target="_blank">http://indiewritenet.com/jaqdhawkins/</a><br />
<strong style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">Allison Bruce:</strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><a href="http://alisonebruce.blogspot.ca/2012/11/the-next-big-thing.html" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: white; color: #666600; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;" target="_blank">http://alisonebruce.blogspot.ca/2012/...</a><br />
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<strong style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">Charles Dougherty:</strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><a href="http://www.clrdougherty.com/" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: white; color: #666600; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;" target="_blank">www.clrdougherty.com</a><br />
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<strong style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">Regina Puckett:</strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><a href="http://reginapuckettsbooks.weebly.com/1/post/2012/10/the-next-big-thing.html" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: white; color: #666600; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;" target="_blank">http://reginapuckettsbooks.weebly.com...</a><br />
<strong style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">Kathleen Patel:</strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><a href="http://anirishpatel.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: white; color: #666600; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;" target="_blank">http://anirishpatel.blogspot.com/</a><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">Here are my answers about my next book. I’ve started writing, and it’s coming along (I’m on chapter 4 so far.)</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">I recently published Dragon Defense, the third book in my Heirs to the Throne sci-fi/fantasy trilogy. Now I’ve shifted focus back to my High Seas Mystery series, working on Murder For Glacier Blue.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">I always planned to take my characters cruising up the Alaska Inside Passage. A wedding is planned for the main characters and I hope events don’t mess with their plans too much.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">The book is a “cozy” mystery with a female sleuth (but it’s also a romance).</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">I’d like Piper Parabo to play Kayla and Matt Bomer to play Steven. (What a sexy combo.) Of course Matt would need to learn a saucy British accent (be still my heart). </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">Kayla and Steven encounter rough seas as an art heist, murder, and an ex-wife generate "wedding turbulence" in the icy waters along Alaska’s coastline.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">I will self-publish. I’ve been down the agency route and have greater success on my own.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">I’m in the planning stages right now, working on an outline and doing research on landscape artists of the Northwest. I never look at the “how long” just concentrate on the “get it finished.”</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">I read other authors who write cruise ship mysteries but we’re all different. My books are light and romantic, like </span><strong style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;"><em>Romancing the Stone</em> </strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">combined with </span><strong style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;"><em>The Love Boat.</em> </strong><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">My daughter Laura gave me the idea for the first book in the series. After we wrote a guidebook to the Caribbean together, Laura started to write a mystery novel. She hated writing fiction so she gave the idea to me. Now I've completed two books and have plenty of places to send my characters. I recently cruised Alaska for "research"—it's the part of the job that I love!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">I live in a small subdivision in East Texas where retirees play golf every day. I decided to add a crazy bunch of golfers decide to take the Alaska cruise so they can play golf at midnight in Denali National Park. There really is a golf course where people can do just that. I expect my golfers to have lots of fun on the ship—maybe a rich Texan will be one of the murder suspects? When I took my recent cruise, various people volunteered to be the victim in the book--one offered to be the womanizer playboy but my husband steered me clear of that one.</span></div>
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The Next Big Thing is that I’ve been tagged by the talented Elizabeth Amisu, the author of the young adult series, <b>The Sacerdos Mysteries</b>. Thanks, Eliza! If you haven’t encountered her before, be sure to visit her at <a href="http://elizabethamisu.com/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: initial;">http://elizabethamisu.com/</a>.<br /></div>
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How does <b>The Next Big Thing </b>work? Remember chain letters? For those who don’t remember, letters were words written on paper, enclosed in an envelope, and delivered by government employees. People used them to communicate before email came into being. A chain letter was a way to get lots of visibility for a project – perhaps raising money for a new bicycle. That was before iPads had been invented. If you were the lucky recipient of a chain letter, you sent money to the person who sent it to you (tagged you, in effect) and copied out the letter and sent it on to several friends, who would then send you money. Everybody got rich without doing anything further, unless someone broke the chain. Dire things would happen to someone who broke the chain. This is the cyber equivalent of a chain letter. Notice, I’ve sent the equivalent of money to Eliza, by including a plug for her blog in the first paragraph.<br /></div>
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In this post, I’ll answer a few questions about my current work in progress and tag 5 more authors. Then, on Wednesday, December 5, those 5 authors will make posts on their blogs thanking me, answer the same questions on their own blogs, and tag 5 more authors to keep the chain going as long as possible. If no one breaks the chain we’ll all have a shot at the number one spot on the Big Best Seller list. If any writer breaks the chain, all of the electrons in that person’s eBooks will lose their charge. Paperbacks probably won’t be affected, but who reads them anymore? They’re like letters – an artifact of life before the web.<br /><br /></div>
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I have two that I’m working on now. The one which I expect to finish first is titled <b>Life’s a Ditch.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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The idea came from readers’ reactions to my nonfiction book, <b>Dungda de Islan’</b>. The blog post immediately before this one goes into more detail. Just click <a href="http://www.clrdougherty.com/2012/11/lifes-ditch-how-one-review-inspired-new.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: initial;">Life's a Ditch: How one review inspired a new book</a> for more details.<br /><span style="font-size: 7pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><br /></span><div>
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That’s always a tough question for me. I suppose that it belongs under nonfiction/travel/sailing, like <b>Dungda de Islan’</b>.<o:p></o:p></div>
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My wife and I are the main characters. Who could be better suited to play us than ourselves?<br /><i style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><br /></i><div>
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<b>Life’s a Ditch</b> tells the tale of the changes that my wife and I coped with when we abandoned our comfortable, upper middle-class existence in favor of exploring life from the deck of our sailboat twelve years ago.<o:p></o:p></div>
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It took a lifetime to do the research and about 4 weeks to produce the first draft.<o:p></o:p><br /></div>
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The ready comparison is to my own best-selling <b>Dungda de Islan’</b>, which although I wrote it first, describes the phase of our evolution to seagoing vagabonds that came after we learned that <b>Life’s a Ditch</b>.<br /><i style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><br /></i><div>
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A large share of the credit belongs to fellow writer Kathleen Patel, whose recent review of<b>Dungda de Islan’</b> opened my eyes to what a number of the other reviewers were seeing in that book. Again, my recent blog post <a href="http://www.clrdougherty.com/2012/11/lifes-ditch-how-one-review-inspired-new.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: initial;">Life's a Ditch: How one review inspired a new book</a> covers that in more detail.<o:p></o:p></div>
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At its core, the book tells the story of how one couple coped with abandoning their life of comfort and privilege to pursue a shared dream; we were married for a long time before, and we’ve been married for a long time since, even though our life today bears little semblance to our early years together.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Kathleen is the author of several fascinating books, and she wrote the review that inspired my current work. She has a broad range of interests, and I encourage you to visit her blog at <a href="http://anirishpatel.blogspot.com/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: initial;">http://anirishpatel.blogspot.com/</a> to learn more about her and her books.<o:p></o:p><br /></div>
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Diane has written nonfiction, a series of mystery / thrillers set on cruise ships, and a science fiction series that I’ve enjoyed reading over the last few months. Take a look at Diane and her work at<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/208001.Diane_Rapp/blog" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: initial;">http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/208001.Diane_Rapp/blog</a>.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Alethea writes fiction that also portrays the interesting history of the western United States. You’ll find more information on her and her work at<a href="http://www.actuallyalethea.blogspot.com/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: initial;">http://www.actuallyalethea.blogspot.com</a>.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Joan, an engineer by education and inclination, writes time travel books featuring Richard III. Visit with her at <a href="http://rtoaaa.blogspot.com/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: initial;">Random Thoughts of an Accidental Author</a>.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Ann is a West Texas-based writer with several books and short stories to her credit. You’ll find more information about Ann and her work at<a href="http://annswann.blogspot.com/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: initial;">http://annswann.blogspot.com/</a>.<o:p></o:p></div>
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So, that’s the <b>Next Big Thing</b>. Please take a few minutes to visit Eliza and the 5 authors I’ve tagged; you might just find your next favorite book. There are some good ones in this collection – I’ve read some of them, and my wife has read others. Thanks for visiting.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">With the holiday season
upon us, I felt it was the perfect time to share some vital information. </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">This is not my opinion, this is a universal
truth. No matter where I have traveled in the world I have found that there are
certain traits, needs, desires and demands that women share universally.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">There is one trait that
stands out among all women. It's something we feel strongly about and yet men
continue to be oblivious. I'm talking about food containers. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">There is an unwritten
set of rules when it comes to food containers. The first time you share food
with someone you generally use a very nice container, perhaps Tupperware or
Pyrex. You are giving the recipient the benefit of the doubt that it will be
returned…promptly. If the container is not returned in a timely fashion, or at
all, it may be unlikely that you ever share food with this individual again. If
for some reason you decide to give them another chance, they will be demoted
and the container that you use this time
will be of a much lower quality. This is not to say that you do not expect them
to return it. If this foolish individual does not return your container once
again, stricter action is enforced. They are either being blacklisted,
meaning you may never share with them again, or they will be demoted to the
lowest level. In these cases the next time you share and every time after that, the food will be given in recycled spaghetti jars, or perhaps yogurt containers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Now that I have explained the basic rules, you can understand the importance of keeping track of these
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">In celebrating a recent
holiday, Diwali, it is traditional to make treats and share distribute them to your
friends and family. One evening last week, my husband brought home at least a dozen
containers of goodies. What started out as delight as I perused the treats,
slowly turned to terror when I said to my husband, “Everything looks delicious!
Who made all this?” He responded, “Some of it is from Uncle Kishore, some is
from Parita and Nehal, some from Amit…” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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little nervous when I cautiously asked him, “So which dishes are from who? I
have to know who to return them to…” I looked at him hopefully as he poured a
glass of wine. He took a sip and said, “Who knows?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">I felt the blood drain
from my face. How would I be able to return these to the right people in a
timely fashion? I would be downgraded to the list of yogurt container
recipients. I tried to question him further but he brushed it off as he opened one of the nicer containers and helped himself to a snack.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">As the panic began to
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“I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.” I’ve always enjoyed that quote, attributed to Robert McCloskey, a spokesman for the U.S. State Department during the era of the Vietnam War. It came to mind most recently in the context of one of my books. Most of us who have written for publication have received reviews that surprised us. I’m not alone there, but a recent review by fellow-writer Kathleen Patel of my non-fiction book,<b> </b><i><b>Dungda de Islan’</b></i>made me see my own book in a completely different light.</div>
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I wrote the book with the intention of sharing some of the experiences that my wife and I enjoyed (or endured, in a few cases) when we sailed off into the Atlantic from North Carolina headed for the Caribbean several years ago. The book I wrote was a true-to-life sailing adventure story. The book that Kathleen read and reviewed was something different. I don’t mean that she misunderstood what I had written; she just saw beneath the surface, and read the story on a level that was meaningful to her. I’m thankful for her review, because she said just enough in it to make me go back and look at some of the other reviews I’ve received for <i><b>Dungda de Islan’</b>.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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There has been a lot of digital ink spilled on the topic of reviews recently, and I’m not going to weigh in on any of the questions that have been raised. Reviews are useful to folks shopping for books and a source of pain or pleasure to writers, but to me, every review I’ve received has been interesting from the perspective that it gave me a clue as to what the reviewer saw in my book. Often, there’s useful information to be gleaned from an unemotional reading of your own reviews. In this case, I got a bolt of inspiration that sent me back to the other reviews for <i><b>Dungda de Islan’</b></i>, and I realized that Kathleen’s reaction was mirrored by others. I began to understand why the book was appealing to a non-sailing audience.</div>
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When I wrote <i><b>Dungda de Islan’</b>,</i> I wrote it as a promotional giveaway; I wanted to make myself visible to readers in the hope that they would enjoy my writing and buy some of my other books. I chose the topic because it was an easy one for me, and because I was planning to write a series of thrillers set in the yachting world of the Caribbean. I hoped that I could give away enough copies of the ebook version of <i><b>Dungda de Islan’</b></i> to establish a base of readers in the sailing community. This was before the day of free promotions in the Kindle store; I published the book everywhere I could for free, and for 99 cents in the Kindle store. In the first month, I managed to move a couple of hundred copies without any real marketing effort, so I raised the price to 99 cents everywhere and managed to stop the momentum. That’s a digression from the topic at hand, but it illustrates my intentions for the book when I wrote it.</div>
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That was 18 months ago, and the book has become a consistent seller at $3.99. Usually, it’s on the Amazon best seller list in two or three relevant categories, and that, while gratifying, has puzzled me. Now, after reading Kathleen’s review and rereading some of the others, I’m beginning to see that there’s a hidden story in the book; a story that appeals to a broader audience, and a story that has only an incidental relationship to sailing. In telling the story of our adventure, I shared our experiences as a couple coping with a dramatic change in our lives; a change that a lot of people contemplate, but that few of us actually make. It’s the story of tossing aside the accumulations of a lifetime to pursue a shared dream.</div>
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Thanks again, Kathleen, for the review, and thanks to all of you who have read the book and reviewed it or written to me about it. My next non-fiction book is for you all. My working title is <i><b>Life’s a Ditch</b>. </i> It tells the tale of our experiences exploring the East Coast via the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway, or “the Ditch,” as it’s known to sailors who have traversed it. This book takes a similar approach to that of <i><b>Dungda de Islan’</b> </i>in describing our life in “the Ditch.” It’s not so much about where we went and what we saw during our time in the Ditch, but about how we reacted to it and how our lives were changed by our experiences. The personal choices are as endless in this arena as they are elsewhere, and trying to enumerate them is fruitless, but you might enjoy sharing the choices that we made as we discovered what we got ourselves into when we abandoned our comfortable life ashore to become seagoing wanderers. <i><b>Life’s a Ditch</b></i> will be coming out in the next few months.</div>
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<a href="http://anirishpatel.blogspot.com/2012/10/review-dungda-de-islan-by-charles.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: initial;" target="_blank">Click here to read Kathleen Patel's review of Dungda de Islan'</a><br />
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I would like to share a heartwarming story and the opportunity to do something nice for the soldiers who are risking their lives to protect our country. Here's how it all came together:<br />
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Smashwords author <a href="http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/EdwardCPatterson"><span style="color: #1f6cb3; text-decoration: initial;">Ed Patterson</span></a> met a U.S. soldier stationed in Iraq who wanted to download ebooks for his Kindle, but his wireless download service didn't work in Iraq. So, Ed offered to email the soldier all 13 of his ebooks, for free. The soldier gratefully accepted. And this got Ed thinking...<br />
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Everthing happens for a reason. This was no chance encounter with the soldier & Ed, who was himself an Army veteran. This was the inspiration and the conception of "Operation Ebook Drop". </div>
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Ed got to work contacting other indie authors on the <a href="http://www.kindleboards.com/index.php/topic,13352.msg256428.html#msg256428"><span style="color: #1f6cb3; text-decoration: initial;">Kindleboards</span></a> message boards, asking if they too would be willing to offer their ebooks for free to troops deployed overseas. Soon he had a couple dozen authors who volunteered their books. Simultaneously, Ed began receiving additional requests for ebooks from soldiers and their families.<br />
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Ed and some of the authors started using Smashwords as the platform for distributing the ebooks to soldiers. Using the Smashwords Coupon Generator feature, authors are emailing 100%-off coupons to the soldiers. As luck would have it, he got the attention of Mark Coker, the founder of Smashwords. When Mark learned about Ed's project, he wanted to do more to help.<br />
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And so the humble "Operation Kindle Ebook Drop"started in 2009, has now morphed into something much bigger - "Operation Ebook Drop," and as of 1/22/2012. there are <i><span style="background-color: #dde9f7; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">1,235 participating authors.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b>Authors and Publishers</b> - If you're an author or publisher, email Ed and tell him if you'd like to offer free ebooks to participating troops. His email is ed#w#pat# @ #att#. #net (remove the #s and spaces). To create a 100%-off coupon, log in to your Smashwords account and click on the <a href="http://www.smashwords.com/dashboard/coupons"><span style="color: #1f6cb3; text-decoration: initial;">Coupon Manager</span></a> link. Ed will email you book requests, and then you simply email the soldier a hyperlink to your book page, and the corresponding coupon code. From your Dashboard, coupon redemptions will show up in your <a href="http://www.smashwords.com/dashboard/salesReport"><span style="color: #1f6cb3; text-decoration: initial;">Sales & Payment History Report</span></a>, and you'll also receive instant email notification. If you're not yet a publisher with Smashwords (why not?), you can learn how publish with us by visiting our <a href="http://www.smashwords.com/about/how_to_publish_on_smashwords"><span style="color: #1f6cb3; text-decoration: initial;">How to Publish with Smashwords</span></a> page.<br />
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<b>Deployed troops</b> - All coalition military personnel deployed overseas who need multi-format ebooks are eligible. According to Ed, "If you're overseas and away from your home and loved ones, your dependence on reading might increase - and so we a gifting you ebooks for Kindle, Sony, iPhone, Blackberry etc." For free ebooks, please email Ed at the address above. Please note that the ebooks you receive may be shared with fellow deployed service members, but may not be distributed or shared elsewhere. Please also consider the coupon codes you receive as privileged information, not to be shared elsewhere. The participating authors are pleased to offer you their books.<br />
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The unofficial staging area for Operation Ebook Drop campaign is over at the <a href="http://www.kindleboards.com/index.php/topic,13352.msg256428.html#msg256428"><span style="color: #1f6cb3; text-decoration: initial;">Kindleboards</span></a> message boards. Check it out, help out, and support the young men and women in uniform with some great reads! Operation Ebook Drop also has its own web site, <a href="http://www.operationebookdrop.com/"><span style="color: #1f6cb3; text-decoration: initial;">here</span></a>.<br />
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over my shoulder as I write this. This
whirlwind experience has left me a bit shaken. I have taken a trip with Mr.
Sewell to some of the most dangerous, war torn parts of the world and have been
privy to some incredibly frightening government secrets. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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intelligence experience behind-enemy-lines. Many of these scenarios are real,
along with all the government agencies, military staff and mind blowing
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thrill-a-minute book takes you on the roller coaster journey of a lifetime. You’ll
infiltrate and exfiltrate in and out of Islamabad, Iran, Shanghai, Kazakhstan, Afghanistan
and Langley. The story is quick moving
and danger lurks around every corner. The
incredible detail and vivid descriptions of these locations and circumstances make
everything seem a little too real. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">K: Thank you so much for joining us, Bill. I
absolutely loved ‘Nonofficial Asset’. As
I had mentioned to you, Nonofficial Asset was such a thriller, I could feel the tension
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The book was very intriguing and scary. I wonder if I am going to be tagged on some
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">B: You probably won’t be on a watch list. I’ve read your dossier from the headquarters
files…just kidding!! Over my many years
in this environment, I’ve learned what can be revealed and what can’t. I’m always, above everything, careful to
protect people and technology from compromise.
I also want to make it as real as possible and maybe push the edge just
a little bit so there’s a balance. At
the same time, this is a work of fiction and I always want to make it clear
that the characters may do bad things but it’s no reflection on real people’s
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">My inspiration came from my wife who was also in
intelligence for a time and when we swapped stories of our work she said, “You
know, most people don’t do those kinds of things. You should write them down.” So I began figuring out how to tell a story
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I think your own life story would probably make an
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It reminds me of the movie, Mr. and Mrs. Smith. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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called Critical Asset and has to do with cyber security and what can happen
when the right people and technology come together to attack our country’s critical
assets. It will of course be the same
Peyton Stone characters and they’ll move quickly to try and stop the bad
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Harry is a little harder to cast but John Goodman might be a starting
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Pierce Brosnan as Peyton. Maybe it’s
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“writing exercise” I give you a scene and you rewrite it in your own fabulous
style. Are up for it?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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sat quietly in the dark room, staring down into the amber liquid in the glass
he held in his hand. He quickly swallowed the whiskey, in one gulp. Then he
screamed out filthy obscenities, while he hurled the glass to the floor. He
grimaced as a large glass shard bounced up and lodged in his bare ankle. He
reached down and grabbed the glass shard, and pushed it deeply in to his skin,
and then pulled the shard through his leg, all the way up to his knee. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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screamed out in pain and then grabbed the glass shard and threw it back on the
floor. He didn't notice the blood gushing down his leg and pooling on the
floor. He felt a little better now. He had discovered that cutting himself
seemed to calm him down. Sometimes he became so irate and agitated it took more
than just a few cuts. It was starting to escalate. Like a drug, he needed more
and more. The month before he was not able to soothe himself until he had
sliced off his pinky finger<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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vowed & took revenge in my book, ‘Hiren’s Magical Adventure’. )<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">B: Anil stared at the floor. The slow burn of the whiskey warmed his
stomach and spread to his chest. At
least there was warmth in the drink. Warmth
against the cold that blew in from his beloved’s betrayal. <i>Alone, alone!! Always alone</i>. The voice in his head screamed and the
scream slowly made its way from the bottom of his gut to his lungs, to his
throat, and into the room, “Arrrrrgh!” <i>How could she be so cold</i>?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">He felt the glass in his hand, felt his hand tighten
around it, felt his arm move and suddenly the glass was in pieces on the
floor. One shard lodged in his
ankle. The physical pain replaced some
of the mental pain. It started
again. That same thirst for pain that
took his pinkie finger a month ago. It
was a drug. He needed more. He pushed the shard through his ankle and sat
back, breaths coming in short gasps. He knew what he had to do. She had to feel his pain and he knew he was the
only one who could gauge that for her.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">B: Now that’s one twisted bad guy. I think <i>I</i>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">K: Whew! Me
too…darn, it’s only noon! That was deliciously sick. You’re an incredibly talented writer. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Once again, thank you so much, Bill, it was great
having you here. I hope that you’ll come
back when you release Critical Asset. Where can your fans find you on the web?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">B: Thank you for your wonderful review and this fun
chat. Here's my <a href="http://www.william%20sewell.com/" target="_blank">website,</a> , <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Nonofficial-Asset-ebook/dp/B0093PF8UA" target="_blank">Amazon</a> , <a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/nonofficial-asset-william-sewell/1112796200?ean=2940015701777" target="_blank">Barnes & Noble,</a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15927649-nonofficial-asset" target="_blank">Goodreads</a>, and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/bill.sewell.79?fref=ts" target="_blank">Facebook</a>.
Just search for Nonofficial Asset.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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rocked Madison Westin’s world. After
finally divorcing her controlling husband, she gets the devastating news that
her beloved aunt has died. <o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;">There’s humor,
mystery, danger & romance. That’s
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