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Fly Fishing for Sales to be released on May 15, 2014

            Salt Lake City, March 17, 2014—FLY FISHING FOR SALES, 33 Axioms for Making Big Money in Sales, will be released on May 15, 2014, by Gardner and Grace Publishers, Salt Lake City.

Preview copies in Microsoft word are available in advance to interested media.  Send inquries to  For a sample go to

The book was compiled and written by Jim Ure, author of the LAUGHING TROUT, with input from dozens of successful sales and marketing representatives.

Ure is a long-time fly fisher whose years in sales and marketing come to life in this lively telling of how to apply fly fishing techniques and philosophy to the art of making high-ticket sales.

Each of the 33 Axioms begins with the author’s lyrical summary of the analogy, followed by a quote illustrating the axiom, who has been a fly fisherman and sales and marketing executive for more than half a century.  His work included marketing and sales for Procter and Gamble, and clients such as Ski Utah, American Air Lines, the National YMCA, Continental Bank, Snowbird, Mount Olympus Waters and Hi-Land Dairy.

A case history demonstrating the comparison between fly fishing and a particular sales situation is presented by the author, often with humor and always with a clear message.

“I want to thank the many fly fishers, both men and women, who helped with this work.  It is the culmination of more than a dozen years of inquiry and thoughtful suggestion,” said Ure from his base in Salt Lake City.

“My feedback from sales reps and marketing people has been very positive.  I see this as a book that can be useful marketing managers and CEOs, as well as sales reps “on the ground.”

“If you fly fish, you’ll get plenty of ‘ah-hah moments,” said Ure.  “If you don’t fish, you’ll still get it.”

Chapter headings include:

  • Observe with Detachment
  • Risk It
  • Expect to Succeed
  • Set No Time
  • Let the River Talk to You
  • Select Your Trout
  • Competition Muddies the River
  • Always Cast to the Biggest Fish
  • Calmness Endures
  • Step into Changing Water
  • Slow is Real
  • Deliver Naturally, Execute Simply
  • Never Set the Hook Too Hard
  • Play with Patience and Caution
  • Never Eat Your Customer

The book will be available from in both printed and kindle versions. It will also be available from the author at $15 a copy plus shipping.  Bulk orders for sales staff will be discounted 10% if ordered directly from the author.

Orders can be taken at or by phone, 801-201-4405.

The author extends special thanks to Cory Ure, Joe Ure, Maryann Townsend, Aaron Carpenter, Christian Dives, Todd Floyd, Dries de Bruyn, Bert Vosters, Alan Burrows, Ed Sauriol, Steve Schmidt and Alastair Gowans.

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On now: THE LAUGHING TROUT, Jim Ure’s new novel about Fly Fishing in a Mad, Mad World of Love and Pandemonium

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New Book For Fly Fishers: The Laughing Trout,

 A Novel of Fly Fishing in a Mad, Mad World of Love and Pandemonium,

by Jim Ure

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Gardner and Grace Publishing announces release of THE LAUGHING TROUT  by Jim Ure.  It is available from Amazon in both softbound ($14.99, 204 pages) and for Kindle readers ($2.99, 178 pages).

Subtitled “A Novel of Fly Fishing In a Mad, Mad World of Love and Pandemonium,” THE LAUGHING TROUT will find an appreciative audience among fly fishers.

It’s a laugh-out-loud kind of book about a fishing guide who plays a practical joke on a zealous wildlife officer (who happens to be his dislikeable cousin).  The blowback is more than he bargained for, especially when a beautiful television reporter falls for our guide and announces to the world a large reward awaits the first person to catch the elusive “Lago Poopo Trout.”

A cast of bizarre and colorful characters descends on the guide’s beloved river.  Mayhem ensues as each tries to outdo the other in pursuit of this odd species.

The endorsements in the book’s first pages are mostly complementary—from writing luminary Carolyn Howard-Johnson; Bob Springmeyer, editor of the North Country Fishing Report; Dave Hall, artist and fly fisher, and Franz Grimly, Scottish river guide and Scottish River National Fly Fishing Champion.

And then Ure’s mother has her say.  You can see the endorsements and sample pages at

Ure dedicates the book to his childhood friend and fellow-fly fisher, the late Sheridan M. Anderson, author of the CURTIS CREEK MANIFESTO.

Jim Ure, who also writes under the name James W. Ure,  is the author of four other books: BAIT FOR TROUT, Being the Confessions of An Unorthodox Angler (Regnery); HAWKS AND ROSES (Peregrine Smith), and LEAVING THE FOLD: CANDID CONVERSATIONS WITH INACTIVE MORMONS (Signature), as well as THE LAUGHING TROUT.

Sample chapters of Ure’s next book, FLY FISHING FOR SALES, are found at the end of THE LAUGHING TROUT.

FLY FISHING FOR SALES will be available from Amazon about May 1, 2014.  This is a book is directed to men and women in sales and management who also fly fish.  “Learn the Axioms of Selling Sharp Steel Hooks to Fish and You Can Make Big Money In Sales.” Ure offers 33 analogies between fly fishing and selling.

Jim Ure lives in Salt Lake City and fishes about 75 days a year, both in the Mountain West and internationally.  He is available for interviews and speaking engagements.  See his website,

Jim Ure’s literary representative in Sheree Bykofsky.

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Last Battle of World War II for International Travel News

As a result of last year’s trip to the Netherlands, I’m submitting this to a magazine that’s published my work before–International Travel News.

Visiting The Dutch Island of Texel: Europe’s Last WWII Battlefield

By Jim Ure

I traveled to the Dutch Island of Texel (pronounced Tessel) in September, 2012, to do some research for book I am writing.

Texel is the site of an unusual battle in which troops fighting under Hitler turned on one-another and continued a vicious battle even after Germany’s unconditional surrender ended World War II in Europe.

Today, Texel’s summer beaches are busy with European sun-seekers who take the short ferry ride from Den Helder to swim, sun, kite-board and surf on the 15-mile long island. It has a large wildlife refuge, wonderful bicycle paths and is home to the famous Texel sheep, about which we shall hear more.

My trip began with a direct coach flight to Paris from Salt Lake City on Delta (I used 125,000 Sky Miles plus $90 each way for a comfort upgrade) and stopped a few days at one of my favorite Left Bank Hotels (Trianon Rive Gauche Best Western (€188 a night, approximately $258).

Once mental my time clock adjusted, I trained to Brussels for a stop at the Royal Military Museum (Parc du Cinquantenaire 3, 1000 Brussels, admission free,  This is a must for any war history buff, with everything from ancient pikes and armor to modern tanks and jet fighters. It is the best military museum I have ever experienced.

Using a Rail Europe pass, I moved on to Amsterdam, then changed trains (in the nick of time, with the conductor holding the door open for me) and rode for 90 minutes until reaching Den Helder and the ferry to Texel.

During the brief ferry trip I made the acquaintance of Else Koorn, who teaches kindergarten in the island town of De Koog, my destination.   In a wonderful gesture, Else and her husband Tyman (he’s a police detective) invited me to dinner.

When I told Else and Tyman I was on Texel to research the so-called Georgian Uprising of WWII, they knew just the man I should turn to for my research:  Gelein Jansen.

Gelein is a native of Texel and has studied this fascinating slice of war history for many years.

He picked me up early the next day from my hotel in De Koog and we began an eerie trip back in time. He filled me on the background.

In 1943 Hitler formed the 882nd Queen Tamara Infantry Battalion, consisting of about 400 German and 800 Georgians, some of latter being turncoats from the Russian Army.  They were initially ordered to fight anti-German partisans in Poland, but were shifted to Texel on Feb. 6, 1945, where Hitler believed the Allies might make another landing.  The Georgians were put to work building bunkers and gun emplacements.

We first drove into a thick forest where Gelein stopped the car and asked me to look for a bunker. I slowly made out the concrete walls and curved sides of what had once been a storage site for ammunition.  It was mossy and overgrown with vines and brush.  A chill went up my spine.  This 2,000 acre wood held 50 such bunkers, Gelein told me.  Soon, he was pointing them out at regular intervals.  Most were made of rough concrete, but a few were brick. Some had been converted to use by the farmers of the island.

By early April, 1945, the Georgians on Texel could sense how the winds of war were blowing: The Allies were closing in on Berlin and the war would soon end. Canadian troops were already advancing toward Texel, and German surrender was at hand.  The Georgians believed that a landing by Allied troops in Holland was imminent.

The Georgians’ great fear was that once in Allied hands, they would be turned over to the Russians.  Stalin’s treatment of these once-Soviet subjects who had fought for Germany consisted of a bullet in the back of the neck.  Even Russians who were German prisoners were sometimes executed or certainly sent to the gulags.

The Georgians decided to revolt against the Germans who commanded them.

Gelein took me to the barracks where the revolt began, now a dairy farm.

It was here, shortly after midnight on April 6, 1945, that the Georgians turned on the Germans and while they were sleeping quietly killed several hundred of their German masters using bayonets and knives. The Dutch underground quickly moved to help the Georgians and many islanders took up arms.

Sporadic shots could be heard throughout the night and for the next few days as the Georgians and the Dutch resistance found German holdouts.

Meanwhile, some of the surviving Germans fled the island but soon returned with about 2,000 German riflemen.

Gelein explained that the revolt staggered to a halt when the Georgians failed to capture artillery batteries at either end of the Texel.  These batteries fired on Georgian positions while the fresh German troops combed the island foot-by-foot in dragnet style, flushing and killing the Georgians like hunted pheasants.

Any captured mutineers were ordered to dig their own graves, remove their German uniforms, and be executed. This continued for weeks as more Georgians were captured or killed.

Germany’s unconditional surrender in World War II came on May 8, 1945, yet not until May 20, 1945, did newly-arrived Canadian troops pacify “Europe’s last battlefield.”

We visited the Georgian Cemetery near Oudeschild, where I picked a fresh rose from the well-kept burial ground.  Fifty dead Georgians lay under each row of roses.  There were perhaps a dozen rows, as well as a monument in Dutch and Georgian.

The German dead were initially buried on Texel, but in 1949 were moved to their final resting place at Ysselsteyn Military Cemetery in the Netherlands.

Gelein also showed me the marsh where the bodies of Dutch resistance fighters were thrown after being executed by the Germans.  Additionally, I interviewed a woman who had vivid memories of a wounded Georgian hiding in the hay on her farm.

The 228 Georgians who survived by hiding from the German troops in coastal minefields, or who were concealed by Texel farmers, were eventually turned over to Soviet authorities under an agreement with the Allies.

Almost all the Georgians went into Soviet gulags.  In an odd turn of fate, perhaps because of Stalin’s death in 1953, those Texel Georgians still alive were “rehabilitated” in the mid-1950s and allowed to return home.

As we drove the roads of the island, Gelein pointed out detritus left over from the war—the bent propeller of an American P-38 fighter and the engine of a British Beaufort torpedo bomber pulled up in fishing nets.

After a wrenching day of viewing bunkers and gun emplacements and fields where the battles had taken place, and after reliving those moments of 67 years before, I was ready for an early evening.

However, Else and Tyman had other plans for me.  There was a chef competition taking place in De Koog that evening, a sort of street fair with samplings of all the food offerings available on the island.  My favorite were the succulent Texel lamb chops, famous the world over, said to be flavored by the salty grass of the island.

Another chef was quite unsuccessful in his attempt to create an American hamburger.  He overdid everything, from cooking to condiments.

It was time to go.  My 3 night stay at the Hotel Tesselhoff in De Koog came to €259.90 ($365.95).  For more on this very pleasant facility go to Meals were about another $100 for my stay on the island.  I tipped Gelein $150 and I highly recommend him.

The population of the island swells on summer weekends, and my suggestion is to visit in May, June or September.

To learn more about the Texel Uprising of 1945 I suggest you start at www._Uprising_of_Texel.

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The Mystery of Professor Djobadze

Researching in preparation for writing a book can be as interesting as writing the book itself.  Maybe more interesting.  I have a writer friend who says she gets “research rapture” as she works on the background that will eventually form her stories.

What happened to my professor?

Wachtang Djobadze (or Djhobadze), my professor of art history at the University of Utah from 1960-62 (I was taking graduate level seminars with him while working on my BS), was a very interesting man.  He had mentioned fighting for “both sides” in World War II, but where did that put him?

My interest in the uprising on the Dutch Island of Texel (see previous post) was certainly sparked by my memory of his words, but never did I dream he was actually part of the so-called “Texel Uprising” in which the members of the Georgian Legion murdered their German officers and NCOs in the sleep, and in return were murdered by the German Wehrmacht even after Germany had signed a truce on May 7, 1945.

After all, some 20 million Russian soldiers fought in World War II, and he could have been anywhere in Europe or Russia.  I had always thought he had joined partisans or German-formed nationalist organizations in the Ukraine or the Caucasus.

Gelein Jansen, Texel’s local history expert, did some sleuthing after I had spent the day with him.  Here is the first cryptic email I got from him  (please note that I have seen his first named spelled with both a W and a V):

Hello Mr. Ure: we found out that the real name is Vachtang Tsjtsisjvili, his mother was Djobadze so he took her name as family name. Greetings from Texel

And here was the next email I got from Gelein:

Hello Jim, there’s a rumour that the Canadians on Texel gave the Georgians who didn’t like or dare to go back to their home land, the possibility to come over to Canada with them. Gr. Gelein. PS. He is with his original name on a list from my “spokesman” in Den Helder.

So amazingly, Wachtang was indeed fighting on Texel, this time for the German-formed 822nd Queen Tamara Battalion, and then just as suddenly, against the Germans while wearing a German uniform.

The 1st Canadian Army arrived on Texel and finally quelled the fighting on May 20, 1945.

How he escaped is another question that lingers in my mind:  did the Canadians help him?  The 228 surviving Georgians were sent by the Canadians to the Dutch mainland on June 16, 1945.   Or was he part of a small group who went by lifeboat to England a few days after the uprising?   I remember him saying he worked for a U.S. government agency, either the U.S. Information Agency or Radio Free Europe, so somehow he found his way to the U.S. zone and became useful as some kind of propagandist (just guessing at this).  He frequently talked about being at Dumbarton Oaks near Washington, D.C., an important research museum which (among other things) specializes in Byzantine art.  Its research arm is part of Harvard University.  After that he somehow found his way to Utah.  He loved the mountains here and a number of his students went with him on picnics in (as I recall), Millcreek Canyon.

A correction to my earlier blog post:  The 882nd was a battalion, not a regiment.

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Sheree Bykofsky now represents Jim Ure as literary agent

I’m pleased to announce that Sheree Bykofsky is now representing my writing. Sheree has placed and had published more than 1,000 different books and I’ve never had anyone work so hard for me. Together we have shaped my novel, SULA EATS THE SEA, and it will be offered to publishers in March. Sheree will also represent my other work, including THE EDITOR’S WOMAN (fiction) and POLIO BOYS (memoir).

This is my thank you to her for being at my side as well as for watching my back!

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This article discusses ways that you can improve your CV and get noticed by academic employers.

Academic CVs are very different from CVs for commercial jobs so much of the advice you see on generic job sites will not be relevant. Here’s how to sell yourself in the best way possible.

What should I include?

Make sure the structure is simple and well organised.

Each section should be clearly distinct.

For an academic CV you should include as much of the following as possible:

  • Contact details
  • Qualifications
  • Teaching Experience
  • Research/publications
  • Research/project management
  • Administrative posts held
  • Professional bodies/posts
  • Grants/prizes awarded
  • Referees names/contact details

What should my CV look like?

Your CV needs to be attractive to look at but professional and not gimmicky.

It needs to be easy to skim read; remember the selection panel might only spend a couple of minutes looking at each CV. Make clever use of italics and underlining to draw the eye around the page but don’t overdo it!

Use bullet points not large chunks of text. Write in short sentences, don’t use ‘I’ or ‘we’ too much

Use a single column in standard format with left justification rather than deliberately trying to make the layout unusual

Print it out on white, good quality paper.

Improving the Effectiveness: the contents

  • Do not include everything! In each category list only the most recent or relevant activities. For example, if you have a PhD, a potential employer probably won’t want to know about your GCSEs.
  • Relevance: make sure that each CV you produce is tailored to a particular job; do not just send out a standard CV. You need to emphasise the skills and experience that employer is looking for.
  • Language: use active words that will convey your qualities in a more immediate way. For example, do not say that you ‘worked on’ or were ‘responsible for’ a particular project but instead think about how you showed leadership. Use verbs like: ‘achieved’, ‘increased’, ‘improved’, ‘proposed’, ‘established’.
  • Avoid including too much personal information on your CV. There is no need to include hobbies or outside interests, marital status or religious affiliation unless any of these has a specific relevance for the job (they almost certainly won’t!). Your CV should focus on your career only.

Improving the Effectiveness: reviewing your CV

  • Ask someone else (friend, family member, colleague who’s not in competition with you or member of the careers service) to read your CV and comment on it. If they understood it, liked the layout and couldn’t find any mistakes, then it’s ready to go.
  • Do not just write a CV, print it off and put it in the envelope! Produce your CV and then leave it for a while. Come back to it with fresh eyes, you’ll be able to spot your mistakes and correct poor layout more easily.
  • Don’t lie or try to artificially enhance your qualifications, skills or experience. You will get caught out.

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Alchemically Yours

Ars, Scientia, Magia (2007) by Jesse Bransford. Another art exhibition, and another group show at Observatory in Brooklyn, NYC, where some of my Lovecraft drawings were shown last year. Alchemically Yours is an alchemy-themed contemporary art show curated by Phantasmaphile‘s Pam Grossman, and she has this to say about the exhibition: Like dreams, alchemy speaks […]

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Everything is getting faster!

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Today I carry around a phone in my pocket that is more powerful, faster, and more convenient than the first computer I built for myself. Sure this baby doesn’t have a mouse and keyboard but its touting a piece of technology that is truly revolutionary, the touch screen. My fist computer and my current all have been able to use the same standard keyboard and mouse configuration for as long as I’ve been around. These key elements of the computer have been essentials for its success. They allow the individual to use the computer to the its greatest potential and create a truly unique experience for everyone. For a multitude of users they are being used every day for whatever they serve their purpose.

The touch screen on the iPhone and iDevices are all due to the huge milestones we as human beings have made with modern technology. I’ve watched how these devices slowly crept into our lives and became the norm for so many people. I ask what will be the next revolutionary device? Will Microsoft and Windows keep us afloat in the Pc world or will Apple or perhaps Google take the power seat in the operating system arena that we have unfolding.
Whatever the case, you can bet I’ll know what’s best for my clients now and I the future, thanks to those who have put their trust in John English Technical Services!

Don’t Jailbreak Your iPhone Or The World Ends

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Apple fights EFF attempt to open up device…

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has been busy petitioning The Copyright Office to legalize the act of iPhone jailbreaking, which gives users complete control over what applications they can run and what other networks the device runs on (assuming there are any). But in a filing, Apple lawyers are arguing that the act of jailbreaking constitutes a national security threat, and that by allowing users to alter the iPhone’s BBP (baseband processor software), all manner of nefarious activities can take root:

By tinkering with this code, “a local or international hacker could potentially initiate commands (such as a denial of service attack) that could crash the tower software, rendering the tower entirely inoperable to process calls or transmit data,” Apple wrote the government. “Taking control of the BBP software would be much the equivalent of getting inside the firewall of a corporate computer — to potentially catastrophic result.

EFF Fred von Lohmann calls Apple’s claims “preposterous,” noting there’s an estimated one million jailbroken iPhones already in the wild, none of which have triggered wireless Armageddon. He also notes that were Apple’s claims true, the open-source Android phone from Google on T-Mobile networks would be a complete menace to society.

2009: The FCC Finally Makes A Broadband Plan

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According to an FCC announcement, the FCC will finally start developing a national broadband strategy this week, after more than a decade of assuming we didn’t need one. That assumption resulted in the United States’ mediocre global showing when it comes to speed, penetration, competition and price, with Americans paying more, for less — than more than a dozen developed countries.

Since any useful plan would increase competition and therefore reduce revenues, carriers are lobbying against substantive changes or tough rules of any kind. The FCC’s new broadband plan is expected to take about a year to complete, and will explore all options — including a government subsidized broadband network, network neutrality protections, improved broadband mapping, and a higher standard (than 768kbps) for what we consider broadband.

Developing a working, useful plan may be the easy part. After (and while) it’s being cooked up it will run through a gauntlet of K-Street telecom lobbyists — some of the best in any business. That’s where the real test occurs.

As we’ve noted, the problem with getting a real broadband plan in place certainly hasn’t been a shortage of ideas — we’ve seen an endless flood of industry round tables at which a myriad of techno-celebrities and Ivy League pundits offer their insight into the best possible course of action. The problem has been that telecom lobbyists have such a tight grip on DC, truly consumer-friendly policy never survives the incubation period.

It’s not clear the “new” FCC will be any less beholden to carrier lobbyists. One thing you can be sure of, if lobbyists are running this show, you’ll see the FCC very quickly throw their wholesale support behind a program called Connected Nation, which consumer advocates argue is little more than a sophisticated con cooked up by the nation’s largest carriers, and dressed up as a real national broadband policy


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Well, I almost got rid of my Acura. I had a girl on myspace message me about it. She acted like she was really interested. Everything seemed good until she didn't get her credit approved. So she needed to get a cosigner. Now I'm messaging back and forth this this girl whose telling me she sent in her credit app with cosigner and they told her they can't accept it. Then I have the lease company going "we are still waiting to receive a credit app from her". The people at the lease company seem pretty retarded, so I gave the girl the benefit of the doubt, but then she messages me and tells me forget it, shes so fed up she went somewhere else and already signed for another car. Riiiiiight that was fast, which means she must have signed for the other car a day or two ago, which means the lease company really never did get the credit app and this girl was just fucking with me. What a pain in the ass. But I guess thats what I get for treating a MySpace Classifieds as reply like it is a real lead. I also moved my TL pics to this domain. Please buy my car.

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If you are a parent and can't relate to this then you're kids must
have been angels.  Whenever your kids are out of control, you can
take comfort from the thought that even God's omnipotence did not
extend to God's kids.  After creating heaven and earth, God created
Adam and Eve. And the first thing He said to them was: "Don't."

"Don't what?" Adam replied.

"Don't eat the forbidden fruit." God said.

"Forbidden fruit? We got forbidden fruit? Hey, Eve...we got Forbidden

"No way!"

"Yes WAY!"

"Don't eat that fruit!" said God.

"Because I'm your Father and I said so!" said God, wondering why he hadn't
stopped after making the elephants. A few minutes later God saw the kids
having an apple break and was angry.

"Didn't I tell you not to eat that fruit?" the First Parent asked.

"Uh huh," Adam replied.

"Then why did you?"

"I dunno," Eve answered.

"She started it!" Adam said.

"Did Not!"

"DID so!"

Having had it with the two of them, God's punishment was that Adam and
Eve should have children of their own. Thus the pattern was set and it
has never changed. But there is a reassurance in this story. If you
have persistently  and lovingly tried to give them wisdom and they
haven't taken it, don't  be hard on yourself. If God had trouble
handling children, what makes you  think it would be a piece of
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Episode 5 – Judge Harvey Brownstone (Canada) & Dallas Voice

Judge Harvey Brownstone, the first openly gay judge in Canada, share an update on same-sex marriages in Canada. “Dallas Voice” publisher, Robert Moore, and editor, Tammye Nash, discuss what it takes to produce the Dallas/Fort Worth LGBT weekly newspaper. This episode’s commentary is titled, “Gay and Lesbian Newspapers – The Heartbeat of Our Community.”

Our Wedding

Our Wedding. From left to right: me, my new husband Rodolfo, and Judge Harvey Brownstone.

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    WOW! I listened to your show this morning! So well produced and professional sounding already! Great work!

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    Thanks so much for the kind words Michael!

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Jonah was a prophet who really didn't like the people of Nineveh. He did everything he could to watch the city burn, but ultimately God's grace won out and saved the city.

When I read this story, I am amazed at how God worked in such a messed up circumstance. If the people had been angry or stubborn, closed their ears and turned their backs, they would have missed God's gift of grace and been utterly destroyed. And Jonah didn't help matters, he rejected God's authority, rejected his neighbor, and rejected his responsibility, and yet God still found a way to reconcile a whole city and teach a lesson to Jonah about grace and justice.

Often Christians pick on Jonah for being such a miserable prophet, but he teaches us a good lesson, and we can often see ourselves in his actions. We should notice that God does not want us to hold on to grudges. Jesus commanded us to live in harmony with each other and to love our enemies.

Maybe each of us have a little Jonah in us. Have you ever been angry with, or turned your back on someone in need? Maybe you secretly hoped that something would befall them? Or maybe you felt a twinge of happiness at someones pain? Unfortunately I think this is a horrible syndrome of humanity. We somehow adopt the rule, “an eye for and eye” rather than humbly praying for, supporting, and standing beside others.

During the month of May Johnston River of Life will be diving deeper into the life and story of this prophet. Consider joining us as we look for ways that God is calling each of us into ministry and service in our community. In the mean time consider wrestling with these questions:

  • Is there anyone you are angry with? Pray about it, seek peace and reconciliation.

  • Who are you being called to serve? Ask for courage to do so even if it is someone you dislike.

  • Who have you wished ill upon? Ask for forgiveness and instead pray for grace.

  • What trait of Jonah do you need to break in your life in order to dive deeper into the depths of God's grace and mission?

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Wednesday, January 21, 2015

Amazingtown - Free Comedy & Free Pizza 1/27

8:00 PM, Tuesday, January 27th
at Bunga's Den, 137 West 14th Street, NYC

Lukas Kaiser (Spike TV), Sue Smith (Best Week Ever), John Szeluga (Super Live Adventure Podcast) and J.F. Harris present Amazingtown, an evening of free comedy and free pizza at Bunga's Den in NYC.

On the show this week: Alison Zeidman, Andrea Ilene Shapiro, Neal Stastny, Ryan Beck, and Carly Ann Filbin! Stop by before the show for happy hour drink specials and an open mic!

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A maternity shoot from the weekend

If there is one type of shooting that I am continuously stymied by, it has got to be doing a maternity shoot.  You would think that this would be a simple task, especially considering that there is a central focal point of the entire shoot.  For myself however, this is not the case.  Over the years of reading about photography, I have seen so many bad or overly cliche pictures that I don’t want to misstep into one myself.

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The weekend in pictures

Once again, it is late Sunday night and I am watching a football game and updating my blog.  The weekend was great, just too short as always.  Below are some examples of what we saw followed by a few portraits I did for friends.

Now for the portraits.  We ventured out to West Overton village and found some nice spots for pictures.  This was my first time doing portraits here and I was pleasantly surprised.  I hope to go back.

That’s it for now.  Until next time.

Some autumn portraits

This is one of my favorite times of the year to take outdoor portraits.  The color from the leaves is so vibrant and can add so much to a picture.  I did a few portrait sessions over the past few days and below are some of my favorite shots to come out of them.

I much prefer outdoor on location shooting rather than being stuck inside with a plain backdrop.  The kids seem to enjoy it more too.

Working outdoors can be a bit tricky, especially when the sun is bright.  Working in shade is a must.  Even then, you have to be very careful about any stray shards of light streaming down through the foliage or reflecting off of water and windows.  Once you find a nice area though, setting up a light or two and manually dialing in power isn’t difficult.

Of course, when children are involved, getting their attention is often the most difficult part of the shoot.  The above shot is a composite of two pictures and Photoshopped together.  I normally do everything I can to get the shot framed and correct in camera, but sometimes there is no other way.

I’ve been trying to simplify my process when working with children, as their patience level isn’t very high.  This has lead me to use only a single light on a small lightstand with a small softbox on it.  The flash is fired with a radio trigger set (low cost Cactus v4 set) and output is set manually.  Once the flash is dialed in, just keep firing.

My new favorite combo for single subject shooting is my Olympus OMD E-M5 with the Olympus 45mm f/1.8 lens on the front.  This kit is lightweight, easy to set up and shoots fast.  The face detect autofocus actually works wonders in situations like this since it’ll track the face first, and if it can’t find it (unusual) it defaults to a focus point of your choice.  It works great so you can compose and take a shot, then recompose for another without messing with focus points.

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All iPhone models (One, 3G, 3GS, 4, 4GS, 5, 5c, 5s, 6Plus, 6)

* Scroll down for all iPhone models on one picture *

iPhone 1st (iPhone original)

iPhone 2nd (iPhone 3G)

iPhone 3rd (iPhone 3GS)

iPhone 4th (iPhone 4)

iPhone 5th (iPhone 4S)

iPhone 6th (iPhone 5)

iPhone 7th (iPhone 5c)

iphone 5c

iPhone 8th (iPhone 5s)

iphone 5s

iPhone 9th (iPhone 6 Plus)

iphone 6 plus

iPhone 10th (iPhone 6)

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All iPhones together (iPhone, iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, iPhone 5c, iPhone 5s, iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus)

* The reason for this post is that I just watched a video starring Steve Jobs, where he says that actually they had a prototype of iPad before the iPhone and upon that they decided to put the iPad idea to the shelf and use the multitouch screen in the iPhone project. Not a bad decision and we are many, who are grateful. And a good link for you here:

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Angelina Jolie has confirmed that a scene in her new film "Maleficent" is a metaphor for rape.

Talking to BBC Radio's Women's Hour on June 10, Jolie addressed a scene that has been interpreted by some as a metaphor for sexual assault. In the scene, Maleficent is drugged by a man she loves and trusts, who then takes her wings and robs her of the ability to fly.

"We were very conscious, the writer and I, that (the scene in question) was a metaphor for rape," Jolie said. "The core of ("Maleficent") is abuse, and how the abused have a choice of abusing others or overcoming and remaining loving, open people."

In the retelling of "Sleeping Beauty," Maleficent takes revenge against the man's daughter, Aurora, by putting a curse on her as an infant.

Maleficent (Angelina Jolie) in ’Maleficent.’
Maleficent (Angelina Jolie) in 'Maleficent.' (Disney Enterprises)

Jolie told the BBC her character's betrayal and assault catalyzed Maleficent's vengeful behavior, which transformed her character from being a benevolent fairy into a villain. "The question was asked, 'What could make a woman become so dark? To lose all sense of her maternity, her womanhood, and her softness?'"

The film's writer, Linda Woolverton, told The Hollywood Reporter the scene is critical to the audience's ability to understand Maleficent's motives.

"The biggest challenge (making the film) was how to make a villain into a protagonist," Woolverton said. "How on earth was I going to justify that this woman would curse a baby?"

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Xamarin for everyone

On March 18th, 2016, Microsoft’s acquisition of Xamarin officially closed.

We love C# and we want every developer to be able to take advantage of the power of .NET in every app, on every device. Being part of Microsoft makes it possible for us to do some incredible things, and today we are announcing several big changes to the way we ship our products.

Visual Studio now includes Xamarin
As of today, we are including Xamarin in Visual Studio at no extra cost.

Xamarin will be in every edition of Visual Studio, including the widely-available Visual Studio Community Edition, which is free for individual developers, open source projects, academic research, education, and small professional teams. Develop and publish native apps for iOS and Android with C# or F# from directly within Visual Studio with no limits on app size.

For developers on the Mac, Xamarin Studio is now available as a benefit of your Visual Studio Professional or Enterprise subscription. Developers can use the newly-created Xamarin Studio Community Edition for free.

To begin developing iOS and Android apps with the full power of Xamarin and C#, download Xamarin Studio or Xamarin for Visual Studio today.

We love open source
And we know you do too.

So we are announcing today that we have contributed the Mono Project to the .NET Foundation, including some previously-proprietary mobile-specific improvements to the Mono runtime. Mono will also be re-released under the MIT License, to enable an even broader set of uses for everyone. In addition, to help clarify users’ rights to Mono under Microsoft patents, Microsoft has issued a broad patent promise for Mono. Miguel has posted more details to the Mono Project blog.

These changes to Mono remove all barriers to adopting a modern, performant .NET runtime in any software product, embedded device, or game engine, and open the door to easily integrate C# with apps and games on iOS, Android, Mac, and Windows, as well as PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and any emerging platforms developers want to target in the future

But wait, there’s more!

In addition to these important steps, we are announcing today our commitment to open source the Xamarin SDKs for Android, iOS, and Mac under the MIT license in the coming months. This includes native API bindings and the basic command-line tools necessary to develop mobile apps. It also includes our popular cross-platform native UI toolkit, Xamarin.Forms.

With these changes, .NET is now open source and native on every single device, from mobile to desktop to cloud. This is a proud moment for all of us who have invested years into making .NET the best platform, and we know that this change will make it even easier for developers to invest their own time into building great software in C#.

We look forward to building a true open source community around Xamarin, and eagerly await the first pull requests.

Xamarin Insights is joining HockeyApp
Xamarin Insights delivers incredible value to mobile .NET developers by helping find and debug issues in your apps. Now we are ready to bring that experience to an even wider audience.

Over the next few months, Xamarin Insights will merge with HockeyApp bringing experiences that made Xamarin Insights so great into HockeyApp.

During this transition, current Xamarin Insights customers will be supported through existing contracts and Xamarin developers can still freely integrate Xamarin Insights into their apps. For more information, please see the FAQ.

Xamarin Test Cloud
This morning at the BUILD conference Scott Guthrie showed how Slack and Pinterest are using Xamarin Test Cloud and our 2,300-device test lab to make sure their apps work everywhere. We will continue to provide Xamarin Test Cloud as a standalone product, and we will be investing heavily in its future.

Xamarin University
On the Xamarin University front, we’re working with other teams within Microsoft to expand our content to cover mobile development with more Microsoft products. We’ve also launched a free self-guided class designed to get you up to speed on Xamarin quickly, and it even counts toward Xamarin Developer Certification! Start learning today.

To our customers
Our commitment to your success in mobile is stronger than ever. We want to continue to be your trusted partner, and you should hold us to the highest standards in the quality of our products and support.

If you have additional questions, visit our FAQ or reach out at We would love to hear from you.

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Saving Data – Myth Buster

A data usage myth exists about “saving data”, this concept far beyond defeats logic, we can rather term it as a comforter of thoughts if at all anything.

There’s an increase in the number of people who believe that once you turn off ? the mobile data on your device that there is immediate saving benefit of using data. Now I have tried to understand this from various sides (1) of the consumer, (2) my own, (3) the truth (or rather logic).

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Introducing Windows 10 Editions

Windows 10 is coming this summer in 190 countries and 111 languages. Today, we are excited to share more details on the Windows 10 Editions.

We designed Windows 10 to deliver a more personal computing experience across a range of devices. An experience optimized for each device type, but familiar to all. Windows 10 will power an incredibly broad range of devices – everything from PCs, tablets, phones, Xbox One, Microsoft HoloLens and Surface Hub. It will also power the world around us, core to devices making up the Internet of Things, everything from elevators to ATMs to heart rate monitors to wearables. No matter which Windows 10 device our customers use, the experience will feel comfortable, and there will be a single, universal Windows Store where they can find, try and buy Universal Windows apps.

Introducing Windows 10 Editions
As in the past, we will offer different Windows editions that are tailored for various device families and uses. These different editions address specific needs of our various customers, from consumers to small businesses to the largest enterprises.

Windows 10 Home is the consumer-focused desktop edition. It offers a familiar and personal experience for PCs, tablets and 2-in-1s. Windows 10 Home will help people do great things, both big and small. With it, they will be more productive and have more fun thanks to a long list of new innovations: Cortana, the world’s most personal digital assistant; the new Microsoft Edge web browser; Continuum tablet mode for touch-capable devices; Windows Hello face-recognition, iris and fingerprint login; and right out of the box, a broad range of universal Windows apps like Photos, Maps, Mail, Calendar, Music and Video*.

We are also bringing the Xbox gaming experience to Windows 10, giving games and gamers access to the Xbox Live gaming community, enabling the capture and share of gameplay and giving Xbox One owners the ability to play their Xbox One games from any Windows 10 PC in their home.

Windows 10 Mobile is designed to deliver the best user experience on smaller, mobile, touch-centric devices like smartphones and small tablets. It boasts the same, new universal Windows apps that are included in Windows 10 Home, as well as the new touch-optimized version of Office. Windows 10 Mobile offers great productivity, security and management capabilities for customers who use their personal devices at work. In addition, Windows 10 Mobile will enable some new devices to take advantage of Continuum for phone, so people can use their phone like a PC when connected to a larger screen.

Windows 10 Pro is a desktop edition for PCs, tablets and 2-in-1s. Building upon both the familiar and innovative features of Windows 10 Home, it has many extra features to meet the diverse needs of small businesses. Windows 10 Pro helps to effectively and efficiently manage their devices and apps, protect their sensitive business data, support remote and mobile productivity scenarios and take advantage of cloud technologies. Windows 10 Pro devices are a great choice for organizations supporting Choose Your Own Device (CYOD) programs and prosumer customers. Windows 10 Pro also lets customers take advantage of the new Windows Update for Business, which will reduce management costs, provide controls over update deployment, offer quicker access to security updates and provide access to the latest innovation from Microsoft on an ongoing basis.

As we announced earlier this year, for the first time ever, we are offering the full versions of Windows 10 Home, Windows 10 Mobile and Windows 10 Pro as a free and easy upgrade for qualifying Windows 7, Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone 8.1 devices that upgrade in the first year after launch.** Once you upgrade, you have Windows 10 for free on that device.

Windows 10 Enterprise builds on Windows 10 Pro, adding advanced features designed to meet the demands of medium and large sized organizations. It provides advanced capabilities to help protect against the ever-growing range of modern security threats targeted at devices, identities, applications and sensitive company information. Windows 10 Enterprise also supports the broadest range of options for operating system deployment and comprehensive device and app management. It will be available to our Volume Licensing customers, so they can take advantage of the latest innovation and security updates on an ongoing basis. At the same time, they will be able to choose the pace at which they adopt new technology, including the option to use the new Windows Update for Business. With Windows 10, Enterprise customers will also have access to the Long Term Servicing Branch as a deployment option for their mission critical devices and environments. And as with prior versions of Windows, Active Software Assurance customers in Volume Licensing can upgrade to Windows 10 Enterprise as part of their existing Software Assurance benefits.

Windows 10 Education builds on Windows 10 Enterprise, and is designed to meet the needs of schools – staff, administrators, teachers and students. This edition will be available through academic Volume Licensing, and there will be paths for schools and students using Windows 10 Home and Windows 10 Pro devices to upgrade to Windows 10 Education.

Windows 10 Mobile Enterprise is designed to deliver the best customer experience to business customers on smartphones and small tablets. It will be available to our Volume Licensing customers. It offers the great productivity, security and mobile device management capabilities that Windows 10 Mobile provides, and adds flexible ways for businesses to manage updates. In addition, Windows 10 Mobile Enterprise will incorporate the latest security and innovation features as soon as they are available.

There will also be versions of Windows 10 Enterprise and Windows 10 Mobile Enterprise for industry devices like ATMs, retail point of sale, handheld terminals and industrial robotics and Windows 10 IoT Core for small footprint, low cost devices like gateways.

Moving forward
We are making strong progress with Windows 10, and we are on track to make it available this summer. And because we have built Windows 10 to be delivered as a service, this milestone is just the beginning of the new generation of Windows. Starting this fall, customers can expect ongoing innovation and security updates for their Windows 10 devices, including more advanced security and management capabilities for businesses.

Customers will continue to help us create Windows 10 even after this summer’s initial release, thanks to the 3.9 million and growing Windows Insiders who are helping us build and test Windows 10. We are grateful for this invaluable feedback that is helping us offer the best Windows ever – for businesses and consumers – across all devices. You, too, can join the Windows Insider Program today and begin experiencing Windows 10.

We are incredibly excited about the innovation in Windows 10 that will be delivered through these editions. Please watch for more information at as we move even closer to launch.

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* Cortana will be available on Windows 10 at launch in select markets. Windows Hello requires a specialized, illuminated infrared camera for facial recognition or iris detection or a finger print reader which supports the Windows Biometric Framework. Apps and services may vary by market.

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Samsung’s second Galaxy Gear may arrive running the company’s own Tizen OS

It is being widely reported that, in addition to announcing a new flagship smartphone, Samsung will also be taking the wraps off of a second-generation smartwatch based around the original Galaxy Gear.

By themselves the reports are not unusual. Samsung has promised to do better with regards to their smartwatch product, saying that they will be working to correct the problems that plagued the original device. What is strange is that the report that started all of this speculation has said that Samsung will be avoiding Android is favour of something a bit more in-house – the company’s Tizen operating system.

Samsung is reportedly concerned that the Android OS isn’t quite as flexible as it needs to be in order to make the smartwatch work as intended and they are also looking to have more control over what the second Galaxy Gear is capable of doing. We’d assume this means that they want to make updating the device a simpler affair, in addition to other reasons.

The Galaxy Gear announcement is expected to take place at MWC next week, we’ll probably be able to put these rumours to rest then.

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Work together with Office Online

Office Online makes it easy to work with other people on the same document, at the same time. You can see changes being made to your document as they happen, right on your screen. This keeps everybody in sync as ideas develop.

  • Office Online is free – there is nothing to install, buy, or download.
  • Everyone can work together on the same document, whether they’re working on a PC or Mac or even a compatible tablet, as long as they have Internet access.
  • Your document is automatically saved to OneDrive while people edit.

Just click Share in the toolbar above your document to invite others to work along with you.

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Get 15GB Cloud Storage Free from Microsoft; 1TB for Office 365

Microsoft is drastically expanding the amount of cloud storage available to both its OneDrive users (formerly SkyDrive), and Office 365 software suite: from 7GB to 15GB, and from 25GB to 1TB respectively.

The changes are likely made to increase awareness of Office 365, and slated to take effect some time next month (today 5 August). If you want to synchronize data across multiple devices for free, this is a great opportunity to experiment with cloud-based storage. Typical usage includes data backup and sharing documents or pictures.

Microsoft OneDrive is available to the general public (for free), so long as you have a Microsoft Live account. On the other hand, Office 365 is a subscription-based software package, which is essentially a mobile version of Microsoft Office.

Office 365 1TB Storage Increase to Compete with Google

The increase in storage for Office 365 could have a dramatic impact on the number of people subscribing to Office 365, a web-based software package that adds cloud integration to Microsoft’s traditional Office suite. Like the standard Office package, Office 365 offers users access to business programs like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. One major difference is that files created using Office 365 are automatically backed up to Microsoft’s cloud storage service, OneDrive.

Now, Office 365 Home users who typically pay $9.99 per month for their subscription will get 1TB per person, with up to five people being able to create their own accounts. The deal is also available to Office 365 University subscribers, who pay just $79.99 for a four-year subscription. Microsoft says current and new Office 365 users won’t need to make any changes; they’ll see their storage ceiling increase by next month.

To put the new deal into perspective, consider that users of Google’s cloud service (Google Drive) must pay just under $120 for a one-year subscription equipped with 1TB of online storage. Comparatively speaking, Office 365 subscribers are getting Office applications like Word, PowerPoint, and Excel for free at the same price point. (Source:

15GB OneDrive Storage Increase Available to General Public

Microsoft isn’t just cutting costs for Office 365 users. The Redmond, Washington-based firm is also offering OneDrive users who don’t have an Office 365 subscription 15GB of storage at no charge. The current storage limit is set at 7GB, but will increase some time in July. (Source:

Microsoft Office 365 Login / OneDrive Login – How To

To access OneDrive, you first need to have a Microsoft Live account (free).

Users can then access the OneDrive free cloud storage by either visiting the OneDrive website directly or by installing the OneDrive app on their PC or mobile devices (supported are: iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Xbox, and Windows Tablet).

The benefit of installing the app (even on a PC) is that it allows for seamless operation. For example: you can access OneDrive services like it was a folder on your desktop, rather than having to login to the OneDrive website in order to upload a file. You can then share the same file across multiple devices simultaneously as it will be accessible on cloud storage. You can download OneDrive for Windows Vista, 7 and 8 Microsoft’s site, and there’s also separate instructions for OneDrive for Windows 8.1.

Analysts Impressed with Microsoft’s Move

Most industry analysts say the move should increase the popularity of Office 365, leading more people to purchase subscriptions.

“Clearly, Microsoft has been pushing hard on Office 365, and if it can incentivize customers based on value, it can raise subscriptions over time,” noted Reticle Research analyst Ross Rubin. Directions on Microsoft analyst Wes Miller agrees, calling the move a “big win” for Office 365 users and people interesting in purchasing Office 365 subscriptions. (

Still, experts say the move is less likely to hurt Google, one of Microsoft’s most significant competitors, than smaller cloud storage companies like Dropbox and Box. These firms simply don’t have the capital or market presence to compete with Microsoft if it’s going to offer users such a large amount of storage at little to no cost.

What’s Your Opinion?

Does this deal make the Office 365 software package more attractive to you, or are you just as happy using an older version of Microsoft Office (or perhaps an alternative office suite)? Do you currently use Office 365, and if so, how do you think it compares to previous versions of Microsoft Office? Do you think cloud storage is an imperative feature for office suites in today’s market, or do you think Microsoft is simply following Google’s lead? Have you tried using Microsoft OneDrive to synchronize data across multiple devices? If so, what was your experience?

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OFFICE Tip: Stream Office anywhere

Use your Microsoft ID to stream copies of your Office apps to other PCs (Windows 7 or Windows 8). Log into the Office website to use Office on Demand.

Having the ability to install and use Office 365 ProPlus on multiple devices, in browser capabilities with Office Web Apps and mobile features with Office Mobile are all great. However, you may need the full Office experience when you don’t have your devices with you. With Office On Demand, you can stream Office applications to any internet connected Windows 7 or Windows 8 device. No installation is required and you don’t even need the admin rights on the device.

Using Office On Demand is as easy as 1-2-3. Here how it works;

1. First, you need to open up a browser, go to and log in with your Office 365 credentials

2. On the top of the page click on SkyDrive and on the left of the screen you will see “Use Office On Demand” link

3 . Once you click on the link, you will see list of Office applications that can be streamed down to the device. Click on your desired application and in matter of minutes, you will have full featured Office client running on the device

Since the application is not installed on that device, it can run side-by-side with an older version of Office and when closed, it will leave no trace behind.

With Office 365, regardless of the device, you will always have the best experience and you can be productive anytime anywhere. Keep in mind, you can purchase your Office 365 plan subscriptions via OPEN licensing, like other Microsoft licenses. Please connect with Joxicraft your local Microsoft Partner to see your purchasing options, try Office 365 and start enjoying the benefits.

Sources: technet blog, TechRadar

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Handy Microsoft Office 2013 tips, tricks and hints

A good morning to all our Joxicraft followers, this week and the coming up one we will dedicate to exploring the new features found in the new Microsoft Office 2013 compliments of TechRadar website.

Whether you’ve bought the apps as one-offs, the whole Office 2013 suite or signed up for Microsoft’s new Office 365 subscription package, there’s lots to like about the new versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook.

If you’ve taken the plunge with the new-look touch-friendly apps, these tips and tricks can help you go further with the software – from tailoring the interface to embedding online clips, there’s plenty to explore.

We will focus on the new features in Office 2013 (though you will find some tricks that work across the board), while providing a mix of quick hints and more in-depth tips to suit every level of user.


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jQuery - Convert string to integer

Find code to convert String to Integer using jQuery. To convert, use JavaScript parseInt() function which parses a string and returns an integer.
var sVal = '234';
var iNum = parseInt(sVal); //Output will be 234.
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The syntax of parseInt() function is,
parseInt(string, radix)
It takes 2 parameters. First parameter is value which needs to be converted. And second parameter "radix" is used to specify which numeral system to be used, for example, a radix of 16 (hexadecimal) indicates that the number in the string should be parsed from a hexadecimal number to a integer number.

If the radix parameter is omitted, JavaScript assumes the following:
  • If the string begins with "0x", the radix is 16 (hexadecimal)
  • If the string begins with any other value, the radix is 10 (decimal)

If you string contains spaces then only first number will be returned.
var sVal = '23 45 68';
var iNum = parseInt(sVal); //Output will be 23.
This function will only return "NaN", if the first character cannot be converted to a number.

Feel free to contact me for any help related to jQuery, I will gladly help you.

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As Residents of Arab Village Hide, Global ‘human Shields’ Move Right in
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As Residents of Arab Village Hide, Global ‘human Shields’ Move Right in

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The rattle of gunfire floats on the warm summer night air over the ravine separating the West Bank village of Beit Jalla from its Jewish neighbor, the Jerusalem neighborhood of Gilo.

Anisse Hadoli lives with her husband and two of their five children in the heart of Beit Jalla, right in the front, facing Gilo.

When the almost-nightly counterpoint of Palestinian gunfire and Israeli retaliatory shelling begins, the Hadolis seek shelter on the ground floor of their old house.

They pray that the Palestinian snipers will keep their distance. They hope the Israeli soldiers won’t target their house.

“We don’t even know whom to complain to,” Anisse told JTA over the weekend. “We don’t know whom to blame.”

On both sides of the ravine, sleepless nights have become the norm. The shrieking noise of the bullets and the thunder of shells have magnified the horror of simple people who don’t care much for the intricacies of the conflict. All they know is the horror of this war of attrition — and the feeling of helplessness that no one really cares.

In recent weeks, however, the Hadolis have company from abroad. It’s not the international intervention the Palestinians want to force on the Israelis — at least not yet.

The guests are young people from around the world who have come to live in this powder keg on behalf of the International Solidarity Movement, an umbrella organization of groups vowing to perform “nonviolent” resistance to “Israeli occupation.”

The volunteers — 15 of them spent the weekend in Beit Jalla — have moved in with Palestinian families to act as “human shields” against Israel Defense Force shelling.

They believe that their presence — and the international uproar that might ensue if Westerners were injured — will make the IDF less “trigger-happy,” as they see it.

Two volunteers have spent the last few days with the Hadolis. Among them is an Israeli — Netta Golan, 30, from Tel Aviv.

Until the Palestinian uprising began last September, Golan was a full-time physiotherapist. Now she describes herself as a “full-time peace activist.”

“I came to Beit Jalla and I saw a Palestinian doing ‘protest shooting’ at a military outpost,” Golan said. “In retaliation, Beit Jalla was heavily shelled. There was no proportion between the shooting and the shelling. As a result of the shelling, a 5-year-old boy got his arm blown off. I decided to stay there, with the people.”

“Frankly,” Hadoli said of the human shields, “I don’t understand them myself, why they endanger themselves. They don’t want to see anyone suffering.”

Some might suggest that the “human shields” give cover to Palestinian snipers, who may feel they enjoy a kind of immunity from their attacks on Gilo.

Golan rejects the idea.

“We are here only to provide cover for civilians hit by Israeli fire,” she said.

Would she stop a Palestinian sniper if she saw one? Golan is asked. She doesn’t answer directly.

“We don’t justify the shooting of anyone, and that includes the Israeli civilians in Gilo,” she said.

A few minutes later, she clarifies her perspective.

“The settlement of Gilo” — a neighborhood built on land Israel won in the 1967 Six-Day War, and now an integral part of Jerusalem — “is part of the occupation. People under occupation have the right to put an end to occupation, even by armed struggle.”

She feels sorry for Gilo residents, Golan said, claiming that “they are abused by the government.”

Many Israelis, who say there would be no shelling of Beit Jalla if the Palestinians didn’t fire first on Gilo, reject Golan’s logic.

“The Palestinians are the ones who abuse those volunteers,” said Ra’anan Gissin, media adviser to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. “Why don’t those human shields go to Gilo,” whose residents “pass from one night to another in fear of shooting from the other side?”

Most of the volunteers are American. Later this week, reinforcements are expected from France. They will be followed by groups from the United Kingdom, Italy, and more Americans.

Although no one says so explicitly, it is believed that the volunteers are attracted to Beit Jalla and the adjacent city of Bethlehem because of their Christian nature.

Damage to historic Christian sites in Beit Jalla or Bethlehem likely would be magnified tenfold in the international media compared with similar damage elsewhere.

That, Israeli analysts suggest, is precisely what Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat wants, hoping to provoke a tragedy that will trigger international intervention in the conflict.

According to that analysis, it is no accident that of all the places from which Palestinian gunmen might have targeted Israeli neighborhoods, they chose Beit Jalla.

In fact, a Beit Jalla nun was wounded over the weekend by Israeli fire, an indication that Arafat’s alleged plan may not be too far from reality.

Ironically, if the Israeli analysis is correct, the supposed concern for Beit Jalla’s Christians masks a deep cynicism.

The years since the Palestinian Authority took over Bethlehem and environs have seen a wholesale exodus of Christians. A Bethlehem merchant who asked to remain anonymous told JTA that the Christian community feels trapped between the Israelis, who treat them like all other Palestinians, and the Muslim majority, which distrusts them.

Only 170,000 Christians live in Israel and the Palestinian Authority, about 2 percent of the population. According to the Bethlehem merchant, those who can leave, do.

“We are considering leaving as well, but we really don’t want to,” he said. “This is our home, where shall we go?”

Many have gone to Peru, which has a large Christian Palestinian population.

Father Raed Abu-Suheila of the Catholic Church in Jerusalem said that although violence encourages Jewish and Muslim emigration as well, the Christians are hardest hit because of the small size of their community.

Golan rejects allegations that the Palestinians deliberately heated up the Beit Jalla-Bethlehem region, noting that “they are also shooting from Ramallah at the settlement of Psagot,” in the West Bank north of Jerusalem.

Last week, Golan and her friends at the Solidarity Movement convened a press conference in which they demanded that the international community intervene against “Israeli aggression.”

This week the group will initiate a two-day campaign to show the delegations from abroad how Palestinians are suffering.

“The ultimate goal is to get the international committee to send observers to change the situation,” she said.

Although Israel rejects Arafat’s initiative for an international team of observers — feeling they could not monitor Palestinian terror as well as they could the IDF response — Golan and her friends intend to keep the pressure on.

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Gluten-free Thai beef salad

This super-tasty recipe is by Bodypass co-founder and nutritionist, Carla McMillan.

“Thai beef salad is one of my ultimate summer meals. The winning combination of a good quality steak, with a colourful salad and authentic Thai flavours, means that this dish is as healthy as it is delicious!” said Carla.

Make sure you ask your butcher for lean, grass fed rump steak.

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Serves 2

300g of rump beef steak
6 cherry tomatoes
1 small red onion
4 baby corn
100g of beans
6 kale leaves
3 sprigs of coriander
1 long red chili
1 lime
1tbsp of fish sauce
1tbsp of soy sauce
1/2 tbsp of maple syrup

  1. Remove the kale stalks and slice into 1cm strips.
  2. Cut corn into 1cm pieces on an angle.
  3. Place the kale stalks and corn pieces into a heatproof bowl and cover with boiling hot water and a pinch of salt.
  4. Drain after one minute, then rinse under cold water and set aside to dry.
  5. Trim the ends of the beans and cut into bite sized lengths on an angle.
  6. Quarter the cherry tomatoes, pick the leaves off the coriander and finely slice a quarter of a red onion. Combine in a bowl.
  7. Whisk together the fish sauce, soy sauce and maple syrup with the juice of the lime, a drizzle of olive oil and finely diced chili. Then set aside.
  8. Salt and pepper both sides of the steak and then brush with olive oil.
  9. Heat a heavy based grill or fry pan to hot (not smoking hot). Cook for three minutes each side (medium).
  10. Remove the rump from the pan when it is cooked and cover loosely with foil for 2-3 minutes on a plate.
  11. Slice beef into thin strips and toss back through the juices on the plate.
  12. Add beef and the dressing to the salad and toss until well combined.

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To accommodate its larger crowd of 14,000, the California Women’s Conference in Long Beach added an exhibitor-driven night-before program known as Night at the Village and expanded the reach of its live Webcast programming.

How do you accommodate a record crowd of 14,000 women for a fast-growing, sold-out conference at the Long Beach Convention Center? For one thing, open access to the men’s bathrooms. But organizers behind Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and First Lady Maria Shriver’s annual Women’s Conference had plenty of bigger ideas than that for this year’s event, which drew the biggest crowd in its history with tickets selling out immediately after going on sale.

In addition to the full day of conference programming which included a varied list of more than 70 speakers, including hosts Schwarzenegger and Shriver, plus Warren Buffett, Condoleezza Rice, Madeleine Albright, Jennifer Lopez, and Gloria Steinemâ€”organizers added an evening-before event called Night at the Village. On Tuesday night, attendees could browse the vendors on the exhibit floor and stay for book signings, entertainment, food, and a conversation with Rachael Ray. (The show floor was also open throughout the day of the conference.) In addition, the conference extended the outreach for its extensive live Webcasting offerings, with the goal to reach 1 million additional viewers in the U.S. and internationally online.

California First Lady Maria Shriver gave interviews to the press in a dedicated area outside the venue. Photo: BizBash

With so many moving parts including a web of greenrooms, makeup and dressing areas, and a holding area for the Secret Service not visible to ordinary attendees the conference used four executive producers. Conference executive director Erin Mulcahy Stein worked with Alexandra Gleysteen (for the TV production element), Julia Paige (for the Night at the Village), Karen Skelton at Dewey Square (for speaker coordination), and Carl Bendix at Ambrosia, who handled the overall production and coordination, and who has worked on events for the Schwarzenegger-Shriver family for 25 years. The Women’s Conference is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization led by Shriver.

“This year there was a much higher level of production,” said Bendix. “We expanded the exhibit hall enormously with theatrical lighting and video.”

About 200 exhibitors filled the floor, which was open during the conference day as well as the night before for the new Night at the Village program.
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Stein added, “We went international with the speakers in years past, we were really at the California level, and now our message is global. A few years ago, we said we were trying to break through the walls of the convention center, and we think we’ve delivered on the promise to continue our work beyond this [building and] this day.”

Among the conference’s other production feats was a luncheon session in which CNN anchor Campell Brown moderated a discussion between Secretary of State Rice and PepsiCo chairman and C.E.O. Indra Nooyi, which packed the arena; 3,500 guests sat at a sea of round tables on the venue floor for boxed lunches with menus designed by the La Brea Bakery’s Nancy Silverton, and thousands of others filled the arena seats above.

The Minerva Awards named for the Roman goddess of wisdom on the California state seal closed the evening, with Shriver presenting, remarks from Bono, and a performance by Bonnie Raitt.

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Please do not be discouraged about the fact that at some level you do not understand why you are attracted to its use.

Some of the most successful and creative people in history struggled with alcohol's pull. Some were genetically influenced. Some were depressed; some were both. But those who did well asked what you did here...why am I struggling?...and then they took action as described below.

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This type of issue does best when it is supported by others who care about you and can help you keep this influence at bay. A great first step would be to talk openly and honestly with your family physician about getting support and assistance. Doing so is a sign of great personal strength and the results of this support can take the form of individual counseling, informal support groups and similar. This is best practice and I would recommend the same to my own family if asked a similar question. Family doctors know the best local resources for support and I would encourage you greatly to do this as a first step.

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So ultimately, given I'm in the UK, what you're sayiing is I should have a chat with my GP?

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Arsenal keeper stars to hand Colombia a Copa America semi-final

The Arsenal and Colombian international keeper David Ospina did his reputation no harm whatsoever today, with his heroics in goal playing a huge part in putting his country into the semi-finals of the Copa America for the first time since 2004 and setting up a possible meeting with his Arsenal team mate Alexis Sanchez, whose Chile side face Mexico in the early hours of tomorrow morning.

If that does happen then Sanchez will have to be at his best to get the better of the in form Ospina, who is having a great tournament so far. The Arsenal man was on it again in the quarter-final against Peru and he needed to be, as Colombia struggled to produce much on the attacking side of things.

In fact it was a pretty lacklustre game which ended without a goal and was settled on penalties, with Ospina producing a fine save from Peru’s third which proved crucial. It nearly didn’t go to penalties, though, as Peru had a great chance to win it in the dying minutes and would have done so if not for superb work from our Gunner.

With Arsene Wenger facing the decision about whether Ospina or Wojciech Szczesny should be the back up to Petr Cech for Arsenal, the Colombian’s performances in America must surely have him leading the race, but can Szczesny hit back with Poland at Euro 2016?

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  1. SoOpa AeoN

    This LiL Looking Colombian shot stopper is too good to Let go!

    [I would think thrice before considering doing business on his behalf!]

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  2. kev

    He’s good but he should be let go.He deserves better than this.He and Szczesny should be sold.They are almost world class if not world class.They deserve better and deserve a team where they will be loved better and can do better.I wish them all the best.

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    But to be very honest with you in terms of goalkeeping abilities i think Szczesny is better but what Ospina has over Szczesny is a calm and composed figure.If only Szczesny were to change would be far better.But i think they are both near to world class but we should not write off one of them because remember the one who is chosen if is willing to stay will be our future while the other one will be thought of us not having any future here.But remember this if you are destined for real greatness and you believe in it and you really work towards it you will be a star.Do not rule out any player for that matter cause where there is a will there is a way.

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    Ospina was awesome for us in the 2014/15 season. He is far too good to sit on the bench. If he wants to go we should let him.

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Bleeding Gold Records. Released July 28th.

The duo of Kim and Jarod Weldin released their debut album Let You Go in July via the excellent Bleeding Gold Records and it serves as the finest collection of summer-tinged indie pop gems of 2014.

Opener “Slow Days” lets you know what to expect from the album from the outset, a soft, tranquil combination of lulling drum-machine rhythms, sun-kissed melodies and even prettier vocals. It serves more than that however, the circling guitar rhythm is one of the most hypnotising on the album and the breathy sighs that accompany the track to its conclusion can only fill you with a warming glow.

“All I Can See” is one of the highlights, armed with a faster melody than we’ve previously heard from Tape Waves. it sees chiming guitars race around Kim’s drifting vocal with the next track, the title track equally impressive. Here layers of jangle guitars riffs circle around a precise beat and some wonderfully nostalgic lyrics with the repeated final words of “how can I let you go” sure to embed themselves in your head.

Two tracks re-appear from last years wonderful debut EP, "Ready Now" is utterly beautiful, a breezy melody twinkles with soft percussion and calming vocals and "Wherever I Go", where a surf-pop guitar riff echoes around rat-a-tat percussion and the airy, whispered vocals which blissfully calm and soothe. whilst last track “I Can Tell” is more spacious instrumentally with some luscious, cooed backing vocals.

I don’t live near the beach, I doubt I ever will live near the beach, but if I did (or if I was just visiting) then Let You Go is the perfect soundtrack for a laid-back cruise around the seafront, wistfully passing your days with the most sweet, charming collection of pop tracks that never once out stay their welcome. Though, fear not fellow landlocked friends, the album is just as perfect to listen to as you gaze into space lost in pleasant/sad thoughts.


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KADDISH was commissioned by the Cohen Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Keene State College, NH, in honor of its 25th anniversary. It was debuted there in May 2008 with Lawrence Siegel conducting and soloists Peggo Hodes, Pamela Stevens, Ryan Turner and David Ripley.

World Premiere. VocalEssence Chorus and Ensemble Singers, Minneapolis, November 2008. Conductor: Philip Brunelle. Soloists: Maria Jette, Krista J. Palmquist, Jason Collins and James Bohn..

Houston Symphony Orchestra and Chorus (2010), in partnership with the Holocaust Museum Houston, Hans Graf conducting. Soloists: Jessica Rivera, Margaret Lattimore, Chad Shelton and James Maddalena.

International premiere by the Jerusalem Symphony, September 2011 at Yad Vashem, Gil Shohat conductor. Soloists Maria Jette, Adriana Zabala, Thomas Cooley, James Bohn.

Syracuse Oratorio Society and Symphoria under John Warren (2013); Rochester Philharmonic (2015) under Eugene Tzigane; Florida Atlantic University (2010); Keene State College and University of NH, /Durham (2010); and Houston Grand Opera (2014).

KADDISH was broadcast nationally on NPR's SymphonyCast and Performance Today.

The World Premiere Performance, recorded live with the 130-voice VocalEssence Chorus and Orchestra, conducted by Philip Brunelle, is available on the Navona label.

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Gil Shohat conducting the Jerusalem Symphony in Kaddish, at Yad Vashem.

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Holocaust survivors tell their stories in their own words in composer Lawrence Siegel's KADDISH. An important new work for soloists, chorus and orchestra, KADDISH has already won the attention of orchestras, choral ensembles and audiences in the U.S. and abroad. Like the ancient Jewish Mourner's Kaddish, it is at once a hymn of lamentation in the face of death and a celebration of life, a call for peace. Extending beyond the Jewish experience, it speaks to the persecutions and genocides of our own time.

KADDISH is a masterpiece - a work of both personal memory and universal resonance. Drawing on musical styles from folk and klezmer to Sondheim, from Mozart and Handel to contemporary classical, it is an accessible piece of new music that stirs the heart. Its libretto, fashioned from the verbatim testimony of Survivors, gives KADDISH a passion and authenticity that is uniquely powerful.

kaddish performance, conductor gil shohat with soloists at yad vashim It was sweet, shocking, melancholy, uplifting, horrific, and finally, powerfully triumpant.
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The fifteen songs of KADDISH are grouped in three sections. The World Before sings of love, family, the fabric of Jewish life in the shtetl. The Holocaust is harrowing, stories of the ghettos, the trains, the camps, in music of searing intensity. The final section, Tikkun Olam (Repair of the World), mourns the dead and celebrates the survival of individuals and culture: "Nothing is as Whole as a Heart which has been Broken."

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After what has gone before, the impact of the conclusion is thrilling.

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KADDISH has been performed more than a dozen times in the U.S. and abroad, by ensembles including the Houston Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, VocalEssence, the Rochester Philharmonic, and the Jerusalem Symphony at Yad Vashem, on Israel's Mount of Remembrance.

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