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100 words that lead to a book deal?

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Curtis Brown has launched a short-story competition, to be judged by author Jeffrey Archer and sponsored by Kobo. Writers are invited to join The Jeffrey Archer Short Story Challenge by sending their mini-stories (of no more than 100 words), to Kobo. The Kobo team will select the best 20 stories for publication in a free digital anthology available from the Kobo website.

Jeffrey Archer will announce the three winners at the London Book Fair on 15 April 2013. Each of the three will win a written critique from Curtis Brown on the opening 3,000 words (plus one-page synopsis) of their novel-in-progress. An overall winner will be selected by agents from Curtis Brown, and will be awarded the grand prize of a free place on a Curtis Brown Creative online novel-writing course.

The competition is open to any writer at work on a novel (not including those who currently have a book deal with a publisher), and able to provide the opening 3,000 words and a synopsis if selected as a winner. The mini-stories can be in any genre but must have a full narrative arc – ie, they should tell a story; and have a beginning, a middle and an end. They should be no more than 100 words in length (excluding the title).

Jeffrey Archer has topped the bestseller lists around the world, with sales of over 250 million copies in 97 countries and more than 37 languages of his 15 novels, six collections of short stories, three plays, three children’s books, three volumes of prison diaries and a Gospel. He is a regular visiting speaker for student groups on the Curtis Brown Creative three-month novel-writing courses, and is due to visit the agency’s new six-month novel-writing course in April. Jeffrey is represented by Curtis Brown’s chairman, Jonathan Lloyd.

Anna Davis, director of the Curtis Brown Creative writing school, says: ‘We’re very excited that Jeffrey Archer is to judge this story challenge. He has been a brilliant supporter of our writing school and gives inspirational talks to our students. We’re delighted to be teaming up with Kobo on this competition, and are grateful for its generosity in sponsoring a place for the overall winner on one of our creative-writing courses.’

Please note that the Jeffrey Archer Short Story Challenge is only open to those in the UK, USA and Canada (excluding Quebec).

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Daisuke Asakura

His childhood consisted of piano lessons and the expectations to follow the family trade of plumbing.
Asakura began his career with landing a job at Yamaha right after high school. While under Yamaha, Asakura worked on the EOS synthesizer; he was also featured in the home-instructional video for the machine. His talent was discovered by Tetsuya Komuro of TM Network and Daisuke was pulled from Yamaha to work under Komuro as his protégé. Daisuke played Bass Synthesizer during TM Network’s 1990-91 Rhythm Red tour. Then Asakura met Hiroyuki Takami in 1990 following Rhythm Red and eventually in 1992 broke away from TM Network and formed access (or AXS) with Takami on vocals and lyric.
The break-up left Asakura to pursue new ideas that included producing and composing songs for new artists; one of the most successful acts he created was with J-pop idol Takanori Nishikawa under the title of T.M.Revolution. In mid-1996 Asakura started a three-man unit titled Iceman which brought Kenichi Ito(guitar) and Michihiro Kuroda(vocal) to the spotlight. After several years Iceman ended activity due to conflict between Michihiro Kuroda and Asakura, however. During and after his years with Iceman Asakura built his wealth and reputation as a composer taking after his idol and teacher, Tetsuya Komuro. He produced singles and albums for jpop vocalists. Examples of Asakura’s past projects includes vocalists such as Sakanoue Yosuke, Kinya Kotani, Daichi Kuroda, Akiko Hinagata, Yuki Kimura, FayRay, Takashi Fujii and groups such as, Onapetz, Pool Bit Boys, Lazy Knack, Run&Gun and The Seeker. He also composed a few songs for visual kei J-rock band, Shazna. Most of the above listed, as well as a group of school boys under the name D.A.N.K., were included in a project called Cherry Garden.
In 2001, he produced his first solo album in seven years as well as working with Iceman guitarist Kenichi Ito in Mad Soldiers; a sort of comedic spin-off from Iceman in which both men’s ‘sinister’ alter egos ‘Scorpion’ [Asakura] and ‘Snake’ [Ito] produced music for Kotani Kinya and performed officially unrecorded cover versions of famous songs such as ‘Lemon Tea’ by Sheena & The Rokkets and ‘Hungry Like the Wolf’ by Duran Duran. In 2002 he reunited with Hiroyuki Takami and reformed access. With the reuniting of Daisuke’s favoured vocalist, Takami, T.M.Revolution was dropped from Asakura’s projects.
Asakura also went off on a solo project in 2004 titled “Quantum Mechanics Rainbow”. In which he released multiple CDs for a year, and each CD title name had to do with a color and math property.
In 2006–2007, Asakura produced two singles for new jpop idol Kimeru, hit the road with TM Network for 2007’s TMN TRIBUTE tour and created new songs for the popular dance-step game, Dance Dance Revolution’s newest version.
In November 2007, access released a memory/ discography book, alongside access plushies, to commemorate their 15 years together.
In 2008, he has revealed a new musical project, entitled “DA METAVERSE ~100 songs for 1000 DAYS,” where he will release 100 new songs over 1000 days exclusively through iTunes. The project was launched on June 25, 2008.
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Between July 15 – 17, 2016 and under the auspices of His Eminence Mor Dionysius John Kawak, Patriarchal Vicar of the Eastern United States, Mor Aphrem Center hosted the Summer Youth Retreat 2016 in New Jersey. The participants were 34 syriac youth from all the parishes in New Jersey area.

On Saturday evening July 16, Very. Rev. Father Andrew Bahhi, spiritual guide of the retreat, accompanied by syriac youth deacons, celebrated the Holy Liturgy at Mor Aphrem Chapel at Mor Aphrem Center.

The retreat’s program which is set up and administrated by several syriac youth volunteers includes spiritual education, bible studies, workshops and sports activities.

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19:29 Karen 16 Comments

Well, hello and welcome to my lovely home. Come right through to my kitchen, my favourite room in the house, sit yourself down and I will make you a cup of tea - would you like a piece of cake to go with that?

My kitchen and dining room are a real labour of love, hand crafted by David (know as 'The Perfectionist'). See these cupboards, the ones with the piles of ironing on that is waiting to be ironed, he made those - not just from planks of wood but from Canadian Redwood Trees that be bought from a local estate. They were ones that had blown down in the big storm of 1987. He had them made into planks and then he made the cupboards from them - aren't they a gorgeous colour.

All the beams in the new part of the cottage are made from Oak trees that also blew down in the same storm.

I see you're looking at my Aga (ops sorry I still have the underwear hanging up waiting to dry)! That has a story to tell too. We bought it second hand from a local manor house when they bought a new oil fired one. It is coal powered and keeps the kitchen, and our bedroom above, toasty warm in the winter. See that beam above the Aga - well, David found that in a skip, pulled it out, cleaned it up and had it put in above the fire place when we had the chimney for the new part of the house built.

I am glad you noticed my kitchen floor - another thing about the kitchen I love. When we first ordered the flooring we had two Golden Retrievers and so the obvious choice for the main colour was 'muddy paw print brown'. We designed the pattern and had it made to measure - the lino is just so easy to mop clean.

The wall tiles are 8 different colours and handmade - they have such a gorgeous sheen to them. David painted the walls the exact orange of the orange tiles and this makes the kitchen always look bright and sunny.

Have you noticed the lights? They are in fact Victorian gas lights that have been converted to electricity. So in keeping with the rest of the house.

This is perhaps one of my favourite pieces of art in our whole house and has hung in the dining room for the last 8 years. It was made by Gracia when she went to a nature reserve craft day with her now best friend, it was one of the first times they had been out together. I love it and she insists that it depicts a rabbit jumping from one hole to another - I am sure you can see what she means.

My dining room is the room which has many of my favourite things in - photographs on the Welsh Dresser,

Pre-Raphalite prints

and my shelf of red and gold nic-naks.

That curved door to the pantry was another of David's finds. He bought the door and then made a curved cupboard to fit it.

I love looking out of my french windows at the garden outside and

I'm glad I had the chance to show you some of David's hard work. We have lived here for 16 years and he has spent almost every weekend building the new half of the cottage and renovating the old part. He is such a good man.
Oh, you've finished your tea - would you like another? Ok if you have to get on but thanks for dropping by and I hope to see you again soon. I will just see you out and then I had better make a start on the ironing.

Reasons to be cheerful:-

1. This blog post has made me appreciate how lucky I am, both with my man and my house.

2. Gracia got 93% in her Chemistry test this week.

3. A whole weeks ASDA shop done and put away this evening - what a relief that I don't have that to do at the weekend.

Amy said...

Karen, could you please send your hubby over to Australia as we are about to embark on a big renovation and I really want those cabinets! WOW - what fabulous craftmanship. I think your tiles or something similar may also make it to my kitchen ....thanks for sharing these photos.

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Denise said...

Sorry, made mistake on my first post..Hello from class, lovely posts,I love the way you have written them - you made me very welcome!:-)

Your kitchen is gorgeous!! Thanks for sharing photos of your lovely home, you have a very alented hubby!! Love how you told your story

Anonymous said...

Thank you for inviting me into your home! It is a real labour of love!

Anonymous said...

When David is done in Australia you can send him over to Norway!
The cabinets and your kitchen is beautiful. Thank you so much for sharing. Almost felt I was having tea with you.

Tammy said...

Beautiful home!

DragonsLady said...

Absolutely gorgeous. Your DH is quite a talented man and you're very lucky.

Anonymous said...

your home looks so loevley and well homely thanks for sharing:)

Anonymous said...

Thank you for the tea and cake, and for the invitation into your lovely home.

I loved being shown round your favourite parts of your kitchen and dining room. Everything is beautiful, and I love your style of writing :-)

scrpbkr said...

Thanks for making me feel so welcome to your blog. You have a beautiful cottage and what a talented husband. Love your style of writing.

Christy said...

I agree with all the other comments. You have a beautiful home - thanks for sharing!
Stopping by from Shimelle's.
Have a great day!

Tracy said...

I just love that kitchen gorgeous!

Tammy said...

Karen, thank you for the invitation and refreshments. I had a lovely visit and love your beautiful cottage that was literally built with love. You are so sweet and your husband is so talented I'm sure that you make a great team. I loved the tour and will visit again.

Mel said...

Gorgeous Karen, beautiful and cosy. I could settle down in your kitchen for a very long time!

What a lovely home. Thank you for the tour! My parents built a log cabin that I grew up in, and your house reminds me so much of it! Thank you for the compliments on my blog, too.


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This little-known Japanese wire-action platformer, with a very well-made rubber wire physics simulating engine, sports a schoolgirl setting out to rid the world of giant mutant fish.

The game is very easy to win, but very difficult to play (try it). This video demonstrates one of the fastest paths to the ending, including quite a few almost impossible maneuvers ― whether playing tool-assisted or not.

This video is a 6 seconds improvement to the previous version.

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Monday, December 31, 2007

Deals on New QuickBooks Software

As I’ve often said, it is possible to save quite a bit of money on the more expensive software, such as QuickBooks and Microsoft Office, by buying them from eBay sellers.  I have saved substantial amounts of money that way over the past several years, including some times where I bought an earlier version of a program in order to be able to buy the newest version from the manufacturer at their much lower upgrade price.

The most expensive version of QuickBooks is their heavy duty Enterprise Solutions (ES), which used to come only in a 10 user version that cost $3,500.  I have been using ES for our books here since it first came out, but only because I received a free copy as part of my ProAdvisor membership. For accountants who are not ProAdvisors and who have clients using ES, it could get expensive being able to support them.  Luckily, Intuit recently started expanding the flavors of ES, offering versions for 5, 10, 15 and 20 simultaneous users, costing as much as $9,000 plus another $2,000 per year for their service plan.

The best aspect to this product line expansion, from a purely selfish sense, has been the introduction of a special single user version for professional accountants that allows us to work with client files from any of the other larger programs.  It retails for only $849.

I am discussing this now for an even more selfish reason.  As a beta tester for the 2008 program, Intuit sent me a free copy of this special accountant version of the newest Enterprise Solutions program.  Since I already had a copy as part of my ProAdvisor update, this redundant copy has been put up for sale on eBay by Sherry at a huge discount off of the retail price.  The auction expires next Sunday, January 6, 2008.

Saturday, December 15, 2007

Sending smaller data files

From a client:

Kerry, I have completed my books on last year, 2007 for our corporation. I purchased a winzip file to send compressed messages but I am having a difficult time useing it. I have someone coming to help me in the morning if that does not work I will copy to a disk and drive it up to Harrison tomorrow myself. I will let you know.

My reply:

There is no need to use WinZip for QuickBooks files.  We used to use that for Quicken files because that program had a terrible backup function.  QuickBooks has its own built in compression tool when you make Portable Company Files (QBM) or Accountant's Review (QBX) copies.

Go into the "File" menu, then to "Accountant's Copy", then "Client Activities", then "Create Accountant's Copy"

Save the QBX copy to a folder on your computer where you can remember its location.  Then either attach it to an email to me or upload it to my online service.

To send the file to me, or upload it to my online server, check out the instructions on my website

Good luck.

From the client:

Kerry, I think I did what your inst. told me to do. If this is not correct please have Sherry let me know when we can get together on a phone call, and she can waik me through this process. At any rate thank you very much for all your help and info. Look forward to heraing from you.

I wrote back:

You sent the 15.3 mb full size QBW file.

I will look it over.

Next time, please make either a Portable Company File (ending in QBM) or an Accountant's Review copy (ending in QBX).  Both of those are only about one tenth the size of the QBW, making for much faster uploading and downloading.

Thanks for your help with this.

Intuit Secuity Alert

Subject: verification

 I haven't downloaded this yet as it didn't come directly to me from intuit.

Can you verify it's for real?  I am thinking it is...

Surprisingly, I didn't receive that message myself.  I went to the Intuit website and it does look legit.

However, even though I have more Intuit programs installed on my computer than anyone I can think of, I am not planing to run this special patch from Intuit.  I do frequently run the Update function inside QuickBooks, as well as the Tuesday Microsoft patches via Windows Update; so I will let those patches take care of this issue.

If you're not experiencing any of those special problems with your QuickBooks, you should be able to bring everything the more natural way, as I am doing.

Thanks for checking with me before you accepted that Intuit patch.

UPDATE:  I was just going through my incoming email backlog and found that I had actually received this security alert directly from Intuit on 12/11/07.

Accepting Faxed Checks

We have faxed a check to you guys for our tax prep fee for several years now.  I would like to be able to receive faxed checks from my out of state clients, but we, and our bank, don't know how to get set up to do that.  Is that something that our Quick Books Program can do for us?  We would really appreciate any help or direction you could give us about doing that.

Thank you,

The ability to accept faxed checks to create new check drafts is just one of the various features that make the VersaCheck program a very handy tool.  I haven't had to buy any preprinted checks for any of our accounts for the last ten or so years.  I buy blank check stock from the same company that makes VersaCheck and use it to print up blank checks to hand prepare, as well as the check drafts.  It also comes with a driver that allows checks to be printed from QuickBooks right onto blank check stock.

They also sell printers and toner with magnetic ink, but I have never used any of those.  I have always printed the checks and drafts on the same laser printer with regular toner that I use for all of my other printing and they clear the banks just fine.

I actually had my first rejected check draft just a few weeks ago for a check a client had faxed in on an insurance company account.  All of the other check drafts drawn on banks all around the country have been accepted with no problem; so that was a fluke.

You can see more info and buy the programs via the company's website

While they have a growing number of versions of their program, I have been using their Gold one for the past six or seven years and it has been working perfectly.

Just like QuickBooks, there is a new version of VersaCheck released each year.  Also like QuickBooks, you don't need to buy the new ones and can make do with an older version for several years if you don't want the newest features.

Good luck.  I hope this helps.

Thank you so much for the information.  The only program I had found info about was from a company called CheckWriter.  It looks like the VersaCheck program does substantially more than CheckWriter, and even costs less.  This looks like the product we've been needing.

Thanks again for your help and the information.

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Tuesday, December 4, 2007

Multiple Years In QB Files

Subject: Quick Books

I seen your page on QB and I was wondering if you know how many years I can use my QB Pro 2007?

Simply Accounting stated on the box that it can save up to 7 years.  Is there any limits in QB2007?

Kindest Regards,

None of the regular QuickBooks programs has ever had any limits on how many years' data you could keep in a single company file.  It's just a matter of your hard disk space.  I actually prefer to keep as many years as possible in the same file for easier reporting and comparisons of multiple year data.  I currently have the entire history of our first corporation, covering from 1994 to the present, in a single QBW company file and have every intention of letting it accumulate forever.

I encourage all of our clients to do likewise.  I frequently need to look up older data.  This has especially been useful while preparing 2006 tax returns and locating the 2003 through 2006 phone bill charges for the special long distance tax credit.  Clients who didn't have those back years in their QB files had to accept the measly standard $30 to $40 credit, while those whose data extended back often received credits of over $1,000.

I have no idea of the space limitations present in the two crappy versions of QuickBooks that I advise against using, Simple Start and QuickBooks Online; but wouldn't be the least bit surprised to see limitations in both of them, especially the online version, where your files are stored on the Intuit servers and you have no control over how many years they choose to hold onto.

All of the desktop versions of QuickBooks, from the first one to the current 2008 versions, allow you to accumulate an unlimited number of years of data in a single company file.

I hope this helps.

Good luck.

Kerry Kerstetter

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Friday, November 16, 2007

Saving a QBX File

Subject: QBX File 06

Kerry I created a QBX file as requested but at the end it asks you to save it and I did but I don't know were it is now to send it to you. So were does it go after it is saved? Sorry.

You should set up a folder on your hard drive with a name such as c:\QBBackup or SendtoCPA.  When the program asks where to save the QBX file, browse to that folder.

When e-mailing that QBX file, browse to the folder while in your email program to locate  it.

Or you can upload the file to my online service per the instructions on my website

Good luck.  I hope this helps.

Thursday, November 15, 2007

New free QB 2008 guides

Courtesy of the latest Intuit Pro Connection newsletter, we can download the following free PDF files:

Sharing Data in QuickBooks 2008

Described here

PDF File  (36 pages)

Official Guides for:

Enterprise Solutions 8.0  (593 pages)

Premier 2008  (593 pages)

Thursday, November 8, 2007

Posting Stock Sales In QB

Subject: stock sales on quickbooks

I read what you wrote regarding tracking stock investments in Quickbooks.  You make it sound very easy to record a stock sale and purchase for that matter.  And I am sure it is.  However, for the weak at heart or maybe the mind, I don’t get it.

For example,  say I buy 100 shares of IBM for $50 in June 2000.  I should have recorded that under Stock Account:  IBM  Other Asset          Correct?

Then I sell it in June 2007 for $100.  I should record it under Stock Account:  IBM  Income account  ?  and then I don’t understand how I transfer the cost of the stock, the $5000 to a Cost of assets Sold contra-income account.  Is that a journal entry?  Don’t get any of that.

If you could make it even easier for someone like me, I would be very appreciative.

Thank you,

You are on the right track; and I'd be glad to elaborate in more detail.

First, you need to understand that there is no one perfect way to do this and any game-plan you use should be reviewed with your personal professional tax advisor to ensure that you are in synch with what works best for his/her needs in regard to tax planning and tax return preparation work.  My comments represent how I prefer to see these transactions entered to make it easier for me to have the critical data I need to prepare my clients' tax returns as efficiently as possible.

You should have an Other Asset account called something like "Stocks."  While some people do set up a sub-account for each stock they buy, I find that to be overkill that ends up making the chart of accounts and balance sheet too large and unwieldy.  One main account will work fine as long as you are thorough in the info you enter for each transaction.  For purchases, be sure the proper date is used for the QB entry and the Memo section is filled in with the name of the stock and the number of shares.

What many people overlook is reinvested dividends when keeping track of their stock investments.  To properly do this, you need to use the General Journal to enter the dividends as a credit to Dividend Income and a debit to the Stocks asset account.  Be sure to fill in the memo sections of both sides of the entry to record the relevant details, including name of the stock and number of shares purchased.  With most DRiPs (dividend reinvestment plans), the new purchases are fractional shares; so you need to be careful when entering this.

For the sale of stocks, you do use the General Journal to transfer the cost of the shares sold from the Stocks asset account to the  AssetCost contra-income account.  Again, be sure the date of the entry matches the sale date and that you fill in the memo section with all of the relevant data, including name of stock and number of shares.  If the number of shares sold is different than any single purchase, you will need to make an entry for each lot sold so you can keep track of which sales are long term (over 12 months holding) and short term (under 12 months).

I hope this helps you better understand how to record stocks in QuickBooks.  These comments are by necessity general in nature.  Your personal professional tax advisor should be able to give you more specific tips for your unique circumstances.

Good luck.

Kerry Kerstetter

Reconciliations in QB 2008

From a client using QB 2007:

Hi Kerry,

Any insight on the reconciliation changes in the 2008 version yet?

Thank you, sir!

My Reply:

I haven't had a chance to experiment with the 2008 QB program's reconciliation capabilities yet.  After I get some more tax returns finished, I'm hoping to be able to do more testing on it.  From the release notes from Intuit, I'm not really expecting much change from your perspective because they seem to have focused more attention on making it easier for us to perform reconciliations on the Accountant's Review copies of files that we receive from clients rather than the other way around.

I'll let you know how it looks.

Wednesday, November 7, 2007

From a client's bookkeeper:

The clients need their Personal first, We are still working on the other two accounts. They use Quick Books 2007 and we are still in the learning curve for it. Do you want a QBX File or QBM?  I am not clear on how to import changes from a edited QBM back into the master QBW or even if you can.  I really don't want to have another mess on my hands.

My Reply:

I'm not aware of any way to import changes from a QBM or other kind of file; so if you plan to continue working on their stuff while I have their data, you will need to send me a QBX copy of the file.

If you won't be working on their personal stuff while I am, you can send me a QBM file that will make it easier and faster for me to make a lot more kinds of changes.  You will then have to use the revised QBM file that I will be sending back to you.

Thanks for your help with this.

Tuesday, November 6, 2007

Monday, November 5, 2007

Customizing Quicken

Subject: Quicken Home and Business 2007

I am trying to use Quicken Home and Business edition 2007.  I have a consulting business, which comprise of two business I invoice and get paid from, my wife has a small beauty shop and my personal accounts are in the same data file.  I doing a good job in inputting the data and keepping my account correct.  I doing a really bad job on the reports and making sense of the data.  I think I have my account set up wrong but they balance.  Do you hirer out to help people like me?  or know of someone that helps?  Let me know.

For various reasons, I no longer support the use of Quicken and haven't actually used it in a number of years; so I can't give you any specific tips on your 2007 program.  When the few clients who do use it send me their data in Quicken format, I just convert it into the more reliable QuickBooks format and work with it in that much more useful program.

You can see more details on my experiences with both Quicken and QuickBooks on my website

Good luck.

Kerry Kerstetter

Thursday, November 1, 2007

Which kind of file to send to tax preparer...

From a client who uses QB 2007:

Hi Kerry,
I found that I did input the data for the corporate tax yr ended 03/31/06 into Quickbooks.
Would you like me to send an "Accountant's Copy"?
Faxing a check ?   Can you receive color ?   Do I make a copy, then fax it to you, then mail the original?

My reply:

If you plan to be entering new data into your copy of the data file while I am working on the one you send me, you need to send me a QBX copy of your file.

If you won't be dig anything to your copy while I am working on my copy, please send me a QBM copy.

For several years, I have been using a program called VersaCheck that takes the bank info and produces substitute check drafts that I then deposit just like the originals.  It will go through your bank account just like a normal check.  There is no need to also mail the original check and any color is irrelevant.  I just need to be able to read the info on the check.

Thanks for your help with this.

Sunday, October 28, 2007

Line of Credit

Subject: Line Of Credit vers Proprietors Investment

Money to pay the business bills that is obtained from an equity line of credit, should they be entered in to the books as proprietors investment ? Or as a line of credit ? Which is the most beneficial? Is there any difference?

There is only one way to properly do this.  Running line of credit activity through the owner's equity account makes no sense whatsoever.

Each loan, whether it's a regular type or a line of credit, should have its own liability account set up in your QB.  The payments you make need to be split between the principal portion, which is posted to that loan's liability account, and the interest portion, which is posted to the Interest Expense account.  Use guesstimates of the breakdown when you make the payments and then correct them when you receive the bank's details on how they were applied.

On a periodic basis, the loan balance should be reconciled to the statement from the bank by using the Reconcile feature that is built into QB.

The same thing applies to credit cards.  Each one should be set up with its own account in QB and each charge and payment should be posted into it.  Each monthly statement from the credit card company needs to be reconciled with your QB to make sure everything is properly picked up.

I have discussed this in the QuickBooks tips I have posted on my website.

Good luck.  I hope this helps.

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Monday, October 22, 2007

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Thursday, October 11, 2007

More QB 2008 News

What's New in QuickBooks 2008 From Intuit

Accountant's Copy Rules for QuickBooks 2008 – PDF documents that can be downloaded from CPA911. Includes the following info on the most annoying feature of the QuickBooks 2007, the inability of clients to reconcile accounts while an accountant’s copy is in existence.

Bank Reconciliation QuickBooks permits clients to reconcile accounts (bank and credit card) while an Accountant's Copy exists, but when the reconciliation process starts, you see this message.

The reconciliation is undone when you import the accountant's changes whether or not the accountant reconciles the accounts in the Accountant's Copy. For clients who do not ask accountants to perform reconciliation tasks, this can be annoying (especially if the accountant doesn't return the Accountant's Copy in a timely fashion). We expect QuickBooks to change this paradigm during an update to QuickBooks 2008.

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Wednesday, September 5, 2007

Critical bugs plague QuickBooks' online service, warns US-CERT – I have frequently discussed why using the online QB service is not advisable.  Here’s one more reason.

Sunday, August 12, 2007

Setting up Chart of Accounts

I have than small business for septic company what chart of accounts I would need to enter into QuickBooks Pro.  If you would be so kind to help me out with this it would really help me to setup this company.

Thank you, for your time and cooperation with this matter

There is no such thing as a one size fits all chart of accounts that accommodates every business, even in the same industry.

The QB program comes with several pre-configured charts of accounts.  The best thing is to just start with the one that is closest to your industry and then modify it as you go.

You should be working along with your professional tax preparer to make sure that the Classes and Accounts in your QB data file dove-tail with your tax returns; so having him/her look it over and fine tune them will make everything go much more smoothly in regard to tax planning and preparation.

Good luck.

Kerry Kerstetter

Wednesday, August 8, 2007

QB Update Notification

Subject: Running multiple versions of QuickBooks

Dear Mr. Kerstetter,

Your very helpful web page came up when I searched Google for my multiple versions question.  I have 2003, 2005, 2006 and 2007 installed.  A few years ago, I ran into a problem when I allowed one version to update.  Whenever QuickBooks starts, it asks if I want to update the file.  I respond with "Later" now, because when I updated before the computer decided the version I updated was the only version installed and wouldn't run other updates.

Have you had a similar issue?  If so, how did you resolve it?  If not, would you recommend I continue to decline the updates?  Finally, if you recommend I decline to update, do you know of a way to stop the programs from asking to update every time?

Thank you for your time and information.

Best regards,

Unfortunately, such pop-up update notices are part of the experience of running multiple versions of QB.  Until a few years ago, when that happened, I would uninstall and the reinstall that version of QB and that annoyance would go away.

However, I am running so many versions of QB on my main computer that I stopped doing the uninstall & reinstall thing because it was taking up far too much of my time.  I just hit the "Later" button and the programs seem to work fine.  I'm not aware of any way to turn off that pop-up message, so I just live with it and still consider it less time consuming than having to frequently uninstall and reinstall the programs.

I'm sorry I couldn't be more help.

Kerry Kerstetter

Thank you for your reply.  It is helpful to know that I'm not alone, nor am I doing something wrong by clicking that "Later" button.

Best regards,

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Friday, July 20, 2007

New Blog

As I have mentioned on several occasions, the key to good tax and financial planning is good records. We in the tax profession can only do so much with what we are given by our clients. GIGO - Garbage In, Garbage Out. We have long required our business clients to keep their books using the QuickBooks programs, either on their own or with the assistance of outside bookkeeping professionals.

One of the most time consuming aspects for working on tax returns is cleaning up the QB data so that it provides what we need. This is the case with many professional bookkeepers, as well as people who do their own entry work. I am planning to post copies of many of the tips I send to other QB users on this new blog. I am also hoping to be able to post short mini videos that show how certain tasks are done.

I have to admit that one of the reasons I decided to set up a new separate blog for this topic was so that I could have a chance to play with the new features that the Blogger service has developed which are not available on my old style blog, such as the poll on the right side.

Saturday, July 7, 2007

QB Data Conversion

I recently took a survey for QuickBooks on their new Client Solution Center as part of their Certified ProAdvisor program.  While I like their new data conversion tool that allows people to import data from Peachtree, Microsoft Small Business Accounting and Microsoft Office Accounting, it does have a serious limitation, which I explained as follows in the request for additional feedback.

Your conversion tool should include the ability to convert from the QB Online format to the QB desktop format.  I have always advised against using your online service because of the inability to do this, and will continue to advise against your online service until it is possible to easily move data from the online program to the desktop one.

Saturday, June 23, 2007

Working On QB With Multiple Computers

Subject: transferring data

I use Quickbooks Pro 2005 and just got dsl at home. I have it on my work computer also and want to transfer data to my home computer via the internet. Can I transfer the data on the internet, I have been using pcAnywhere to transfer via phone line, but it takes forever. Thanks for any information.

I assume you are wanting to access your QB data from both your home and work computers. Trying to do that over the internet is going to be a slow and messy process. Even the official online QB service, which is designed for this kind of direct access, is much too slow for my tastes; one of my many complaints about the online service.

What you need to do is work with the QBW file directly on each computer. This will require that after each time you work in the file, from either computer, you backup the data into a compressed QBB file. There are several ways for you to do this and have access to the QBB file from both of your computers.

One way would be to backup the QBB file onto a portable storage medium, such as a CD-RW disc or thumb flash drive, which you can carry with you back and forth between home and work. You would then restore the data onto the computer you are using.

Another way, and the one we use with most of our clients, is to store the QBB file on an online storage service, such as XDrive or MyDocsOnline. You download a copy of the latest QBB file to the computer you are working on and restore it into your QB program and then work on it all you want. When you're done, you make a new QBB copy that you upload to your online storage. This gives you the speed of working on the file locally, with access to the data backup file from anywhere in the world.

These obviously aren't the only ways to work with a data file on multiple computers, but they are the ones that we have been using for several years.

Good luck. I hope this helps.

Kerry Kerstetter


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Road Warrior: Nine Races in Nine Nights for Taylor Ferns during Ohio Speedweek
Posted: June 18, 2015

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.—June 18, 2015-- The dream of every sprint car driver is to race every single night of the week. For Taylor Ferns, that dream becomes a reality over the next week and a half, as she is set to embark on the 2015 edition of Ohio Sprint Speedweek presented by Cometic Gasket, which is slated for nine races in nine nights at eight tracks in the Buckeye State for the University of Northwestern Ohio (UNOH) All Star Circuit of Champions.

The 33rd Annual Ohio Speedweek presented by Cometic Gasket kicks off on Friday, June 19 at Attica Raceway Park. The nine-race mini-series then heads to the famed Eldora Speedway on Saturday, June 20, followed by stops at Waynesfield Raceway Park on Sunday, June 21, Wayne County Speedway on Monday, June 22, Sharon Speedway on Tuesday, June 23, Atomic Speedway on Wednesday, June 24, Fremont Speedway on Thursday, June 25 and Limaland Motorsports Park on Friday, June 26. Ohio Speedweek comes to a close on Saturday, June 27 at Fremont Speedway.

“I’m really looking forward to Ohio Speedweek,” said Ferns, who drives the Eco-Mend/Jimmy’s Towing Maxim. “I feel like I haven’t been in a car for a while, although it was only a couple weeks ago. Watching YouTube videos and GoPro videos help keep me mentally prepared.”

Ferns raced in three rounds of Ohio Speedweek last year, including at Atomic Speedway, where she qualified sixth-fastest of the stout 62-car field that was in attendance. She raced her way into the dash that night and finished 16th in the main event. Ferns also raced at Waynesfield Raceway Park and Limaland Motorsports Park last year during Ohio Speedway. Wayne County Speedway and Sharon Speedway will be venues she is visiting for the first time next week.

“I’m excited to head to some new tracks that I haven’t been to before,” she shared. “I hope to lose that black cloud we’ve had looming over our heads this season and to have strong runs and get back to what we know. This season has been all sorts of ups and downs, mainly downs, but I feel like that’s bound to be turned around.”

Ferns most recently competed on June 5 at Attica Raceway Park in Ohio and the following night she was in action at Fremont Speedway. Prior to that, she raced with the World of Outlaws Sprint Car Series at Kokomo Speedway in Indiana on June 3, where her car sustained some damage after a heat race flip.

“The crew has been working so hard day in and day out and I’m determined to get them some strong finishes,” Ferns said. “I know, Speedweek of all weeks especially, that’s going to be tough to do, but I know what we’re capable of accomplishing and I’m going to do everything in my power to make that happen.”

Ferns has made 15 starts this season. She has raced with the UNOH All Star Circuit of Champions five times. She finished eighth in the season opener with the series in Florida back in February, and followed that up with a pair of 11th-place finishes. She also has raced with the World of Outlaws, Neal Tire MOWA Series, Ohio Valley Sprint Car Association and F.A.S.T. Series in Ohio, as she continues to run a “True Outlaw” schedule in 2015.

Taylor Ferns and Ferns Racing would like to thank their valued partners: Eco-Mend, Jimmy’s Towing Recovery & Transport, Indy Race Parts, Motor City Auto Transport Inc., National Auto Placement, Project Podium, Women’s Sports Foundation, Lyn St. James Women in the Winner's Circle Foundation, FK Rod Ends, Lucas Oil, K&N Filters, Lansing Sanitary Supply (LSS), Simpson Race Products, ButlerBuilt, Allstar Performance, Stanton Racing Engines, Hoosier Tire Midwest, Race4Girls and Racing2Cure.

Keep up to date

For the latest news, results and information on Taylor Ferns and Ferns Racing and to view a full 2015 schedule, visit Follow Taylor on Twitter at @TaylorFerns and like her on Facebook.

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The Gaddankeri Higher Primary School (HPS) is situated in the city area of Gaddankeri. Around Gaddankeri, there were a number of brick kilns. According to sources, between 2008 to 2014, when there were fewer brick kilns (bhattis, in local language), some children used to work in these. It was at that time that Sukanya Gangal started meeting the kiln owners and parents of the children working there to motivate them to send the children to school. This had its impact and children began to attend school from November to February, every year.

In early April this year, newspapers and online websites were agog with the news that astronomers had obtained the first image of a black hole known to reside in a distant galaxy called M87. Why did this image cause such a stir?
Beena D B works as a Resource Person at the School of Arts and Sciences, Azim Premji University, Bengaluru. In this interview, she shares her experiences and insights on a life in science.

Children aren’t empty vessels. They come to class with amusing, surprising and deep-rooted ideas, inconsistent with contemporary science. It is imperative for a teacher to recognise this and initiate a process of change as such ideas could hamper learning.

Urban areas are often viewed as a source of ecological ‘problems’ rather than solutions. This article presents the rationale, pedagogical implications, and student responses to a school project aimed at raising and sustaining an urban terrace farm. Through this example, it explores some themes that educators could engage with in urban areas.

How do we know the distance of the sun from the earth? Or that of the nearest galaxy to our own? This article introduces four methods that astronomers use to measure distances in space.

Trees live close to us — in our backyards, gardens, fields, and road-sides. Their lives are intimately connected to the environment they grow in, an environment we know is changing. How are trees coping with the changing climate and weather patterns?

This article explores embodied learning in the science classroom. The authors use research in science education to illustrate, practically, how teachers can create immersive, full-body thinking and knowing experiences for their students.

This article presents a few simple activities, with handmade toys and optical illusions, that explore ways in which our brain and eyes work together to perceive the world.

Human skin type varies from person to person. However, there are some facts that apply to all skin types.

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Wednesday, March 22, 2017

Call for Papers: Happiness

This is a call for papers from Writing from Below:

Emergent research into happiness is still largely situated in fields such as sociology, psychology, and neuroscience. Traditionally the uncontested domain of the Humanities, the question of “How should we live?” is too rarely approached in contemporary literary and cultural studies. Indeed, even in a thriving field such as affect studies, research still largely focuses on negative emotions, ugly feelings (Ngai), shame (Probyn), paranoia (Sedgwick), failure (Halberstam), and the cruelty of optimism (Berlant). But perhaps the critical tide is turning. Scholars are beginning to theorise the end of our well-rehearsed “hermeneutics of suspicion,” and conjecturing what comes after (Felski). They are mapping the potential path for a “eudaimonic criticism” (Pawelski & Moore) and an “ethics of hope” (Braidotti), looking towards a more positive future (Muñoz). Critical and historical studies on empathy (Meghan; Keen), joy (Potkay) and happiness itself (Ahmed) are also emerging.
Inspired by the growing body of scholarship on optimistic representations or gender, sexuality, and queerness, Writing from Below enters the fray with this invitation to explore and interrogate positive, successful, fulfilling, life-affirming expressions of gender and sexuality in contemporary or historical literature, culture, and society.
Papers could engage with (but are not limited to):
  • Pleasure, joy, jouissance, delight, splendour, enchantment, empathy, and kindness
  • Love, passion, and amour fou
  • Middlebrow pleasure
  • Living the queer life, and queer(ing) happiness
  • Eudaimonia, mindfulness, and wellbeing
  • Eudaimonic reading, and the eudaimonic turn in cultural and literary studies
  • The hermeneutics of suspicion, paranoid and reparative reading, and their aftermath
  • Ethical criticism, the ethics of hope, and hopelessness
  • The body as site of happiness, joy, pleasure, etc.
  • Affect, the theories and/or histories of positive emotions
  • Celebration, and celebration as protest
  • Burlesque, clowning, circus, carnivals, and the carnivalesque
  • Kitsch, camp, and drag
  • Sex and play, sex lives, fun
  • Vitality, verve, vigour, and liveliness
  • Biological life, bios, zoe, survival, sur-vivre [living-on], affirmation
  • The utopian tendencies of gender studies and queer theory
  • The (queer) future, queer futurity, and happy endings
Gender studies and queer theory are located across and between disciplines, and so we welcome submissions from across (and outside of, against and up against) the full cross-/inter/-trans-disciplinary spectrum, and from inside and outside of conventional academia.
Do not be limited. Be brave. Play with form, style, and genre. Invent, demolish, reimagine.

The deadline for submissions is 29 May 2017.
To submit, visit our website:
Written submissions, whether critical or creative, should be between 3,000 and 6,000 words in length, and should adhere strictly to the 16th edition of the Chicago Manual of Style.
All submissions—critical, creative, and those falling in between; no matter the format or medium—will be subject to a process of double-blind peer review.
For editorial enquiries, or queries about unusual submissions (we adore the unusual, the unexpected and unfamiliar!), please contact our guest editor, Dr Juliane Roemhild:

The call for papers can also be found here.

Saturday, March 11, 2017

New to the Wiki: J D Robb, Katherine V. Forrest and Feminism

A short list of what's new to the Romance Wiki Bibliography:

Ali, Kecia, 2017.
Human in Death: Morality and Mortality in J. D. Robb's Novels. Waco, Texas: Baylor UP. [I've written a response to this book on my personal blog.]
Betz, Phyllis M. 2017.
Katherine V. Forrest: A Critical Appreciation. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co. [See Chapter 2, "Diana and Lane: From Pulp to Passion" excerpt here. ]
Matthews, Amy T., 2016.
'The Hopeful Romantic', Kill Your Darlings 27: 44-56. ["Is it possible to be both a romance writer and a feminist? And if so, how might the romance genre contribute to the advancement of women's rights?" (from here)]


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Industry Insight - Digital Transformation: 2020 and Beyond

By Industry Contributor 17 December 2019

F5 Network's Lori MacVittie explores what digital transformation entails in the year ahead and in the decade to come. FULL STORY >

Industry Insight - Four steps to nurturing an AI-ready workforce

By Industry Contributor 21 November 2019

Business leaders should take a page from companies further along the AI curve to access the skills needed for business transformation, says Lillian Barnard, the Managing Director at Microsoft South Africa. FULL STORY >

Nearly 80% of employers aren’t worried about unethical use of AI

By Press Release 9 September 2019

A new workplace survey has revealed that almost 80% of employers aren’t worried about the unethical use of AI — and suggests that they should be. FULL STORY >

Wits launches new African Artificial Intelligence initiative

By Staff Writer 5 September 2019

The Molecular Sciences Institute (MSI) at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) in Johannesburg, South Africa, in partnership with the Cirrus Initiative, have announced plans for a new artificial intelligence (AI) research... FULL STORY >

Blue Prism set to showcase AI Digital Exchange this week

By Press Release 4 September 2019

Blue Prism will showcase its comprehensive artificial intelligence Digital Exchange (DX) at AI Expo Africa this week, setting in place the foundation for South African businesses to begin their journey into the era of AI. FULL STORY >

Gartner believes AI Augmentation to create $2.9 trillion of business value in 2021

By Staff Writer 5 August 2019

If you haven’t heard of augmented intelligence yet, prepare to do so a lot more going forward. FULL STORY >

Will the robot revolution deepen our humanity?

By Ryan Noik 22 July 2019

It’s not every day that you meet the world’s first humanoid robotic citizen, but standing next to Sophia the Robot, one can’t help but feel like humanity is at the very beginning of a future that was once only the domain of science fiction FULL STORY >

Microsoft, Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation and National Geographic offering $100 000 to save the planet

By Ryan Noik 15 July 2019

There is up to $100 000 (approx. R1.4 million) support being offered to those working on an artificial intelligence solution that is aimed to facilitating a sustainable future this month. FULL STORY >

Jaguar Land Rover tech helps reduce stress via AI

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The Glen Maye River in it's higher reaches flows through Glen Rushen and the old mine working area. This has to be one of the best Tenkara waters on the Island. Unfortunately Rushen Road is not fairing too well. I hope they do something about it or access to this stunning water will become very hard indeed and it will end up lost to the scramble bikes.

Pools pockets and runs. Lots of places for fish to hide under the rocks. Some have told me this is a difficult water to fish and I can understand that. It certainly offers a technical challenge. Fly placement has to be precise. The fish, if touched my the hook and not held are gone. I wanted to come back up here to test my new Strooan 2 prototype rod. I had factory issues and production set backs that have nearly driven me demented. They should have been with me in January, but they made the wrong rod!

The first prototype was an exact match of the original Strooan and I could have put it into production there and then. Instead I wanted more. I wanted a better balance and a lighter rod. The factory said they could deliver and we worked on the new rod. This prototype is the end result of that process. It's lighter, better balanced, smoother in the cast. I needed technical water to really put it through it's paces.

The trout in here have huge shovels, relative to size, for tails. Probably as a result of this being a fast flowing water when in spate. There are very few deep pools. This was just a little chap. It darted out from under a rock to grab the fly passing by in 6 inches of water. You have to change your concept of where trout are on this water. Yes, they are in the usual places but if you spot a dark shadow beneath a rock, even in shallow water, it's worth pitching a fly.

The new Strooan delivered accurate casts, fly first, at these dark little homes. Golden darts from beneath the rock strike outward. I love a big fish, but these wild little beauties bring me a special joy.

There are slabs of hard volcanic rock in places on the river bed. Covered in a brown algae they can be treacherous under foot. I slipped a couple of times. I've Rock Treads, aluminium grip disks for wading boots, on the way. I'm fascinated to know if they'll work on these testing rocks. I'll have to come back and try them. The pool above yielded 4 fish. the first two came from the tail just before it swept over the slab. Staying low in the water below the pool I cast upwards giving me the cover I needed to ambush these spooky fish.

This fine example came from a little higher in the same pool. The fly is dry'ish. A Cochy-bondhu hackle is trimmed beneath so the tapered black thread body with copper rib sits in the water. The tail of the fly is deer hair held in place by the wire and laid over the flies back. The profile remains slim not like a "humpy" back. The fish either wanted it riding high in the fast current, or gently pulsed beneath the surface of the deeper, slow water. Imitating a rising nymph. This versatile fly lets me fish both ways without changing.

The above picture is a perfect example of where multiple fish can be found. I took one from behind the big boulder in the deep water. I missed one that shot out from under the slabs in front of the smaller boulder. Caught the fish in front of the boulder and had a beauty from the deep channel where the water comes in. Stuffed with fish this water is, but I didn't see one of them to cast at. They are so well hidden.

Once above the bridges the nature of the river changes. For a while the steep heather banks give way to swathes of bluebells and grass. this is a product of the mining in the area. Here was where there were wash floors, and various other mineral processing operations. I am sure the river has been artificially channelled in this area. There are deeper pools and straighter glides.

I got stuck at this pool taking fish after fish. They were so very obliging. With all the casting  and playing fish my hand wasn't at all tired with the new Strooan. The re-balancing had worked really well. I wasn't thinking about the rod at all. I was focused on where I wanted the fly to land, and it did. It's magic! Well, no, but I'm not putting it all down to technique. The rod certainly played it's part.

Seeing the image above you'd be forgiven for thinking it was a different river. A couple of times I had to collapse one segment of the Strooan to accommodate tight casting around the foliage. A few feeder streams join the river through this stretch. The fish are still here and obliging. Holding the fly in the still water beside a small fall usually brought the desired result.

I haven't changed my fly yet. There's been no point. fishing it as a dry or as a sub surface wet fly it's bringing the fish. A quick twang on the rubber band drier and an application of Bob-it, she was floating as high as when she first came out of the box. I'm not sure how many fish I've had at this point. I know it's not a numbers game, or a size thing but some people like to keep tabs that way. My catch rate was still steady. I missed quite a few of the fastest feeders but in these waters, that's not unusual. Glad to know the fish was there and I fooled it into showing itself.

Eventually you get to the old weir that directed water to the mining operations. This weir is totally impassable for fish. Below it are a couple of pools with fish in. In the slower water I could even make out some of them sitting tight to the bottom. The question is always, are there fish above? I had time today to go and have a look.

For a short way above the weir the water is like a mill pond and clear. Only a few inches deep the trout are there, but skittish in the extreme. An old tree stump provided a little deeper water and cover. I saw several fish take cover in the roots. They were not to be tempted out. Certainly less water to work with up here. Fewer fish as well. My catch rate had dropped dramatically. There weren't the fish under the rocks or in the glides. I disturbed a couple but couldn't make anything stick.

Out of the trees and you're in classic Manx upland water. Pools and pockets and very few fish. There are other waters of similar nature that hold far more fish. Perhaps I'll head out to Druidale next time and see if they are still there. I had heard from a friend that he had struggled last season. There are fish, I kept repeating that mantra. I would see a splash in a higher pool, but by the time I'd worked up to it there was nothing coming for my fly. Eventually I got to one of the larger pools.

Instant action! I had fish fighting for the fly! I got 2 to the net, almost. I'm putting it down to being tired at this point. Both times I fumbled the camera and they got away. There are pools above this point but time was pressing on and I had a long walk back down river to get back to the car. I'm at an age now I have to consider the trip back to the car. Too tired, and up in these remote locations it could be dangerous. I collapse the new Strooan with a smile. The performance had been exceptional. My previous testing outing with it wasn't as technical and had impressed enough that it was going into production. The new Strooan should be available in a month or so, hopefully.

One the way back I spot some wood sorrel. It's a white flower with clover like leaves. An interesting little flower, it was once used to treat scurvy because of it's high vitamin C content. Also good for cramp, fever, nausea and soreness. I picked a little and ate it. It's quite sharp and a little sour but not in an unpleasant way. Notes of citrus and apple in the flavour. The texts are quite right, it is rather refreshing.

There are many such plants to be found by the river and in the woods. Perhaps I'll try a few others and report back. Tight lines till then!

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Tuesday, March 1, 2011

46. Brachydiplax chalybea chalybea (Brauer, 1868)

Number: 46
Family: Libellulidae
Genus: Brachydiplax
Species: Brachydiplax chalybea chalybea
Common name(s): Greater Grey Skimmer, Yellow Patch Lieutenant,
Blue Dasher, Rufous-backed Marsh Hawk
Thai name(s): แมลงปอบ้านสีตะกั่วทุ่งนา
Habitat: Exposed ditches, drains, ponds and lakes (uplands & lowlands)
Province(s) sighted: Widespread (Khon Kaen); Nam Nao NP/environs (Petchabun);  Phu Rua environs (Loei); Widespread (Chiang Mai); Khao Yai (Nakhorn Ratchasima); Khao Soi Dao (Chantaburi); Kabin Buri;
large lagoon (Prachaub Khiri Khan); Undon Thani
Sightings (by me): Extremely common
In flight: March-December (probably all year)

Another handsome dragonfly that is part of the Brachydiplax genus is the common Brachydiplax chalybea chalybea. This species is widespread and can be seen at most ponds, pools and lakes that have tall reeds at the edge. They are also very small in terms of dragonflies, but the colours are amazing.

The male
The male has a striking blue and orange thorax, backed by a blue abdomen with black segments towards the end. It is a truly magnificent dragonfly and one you can see almost anywhere in the lowlands and many upland places too. Be aware though, as they are easily frightened and fly away at the slightest thing. This one is obelisking (doing a kind of handstand), in order to minimize the amount of sun on its body.

The young male ...

Not commonly seen at this stage.  He is very orange indeed!

The female
Oddly enough, even though the male is very common, the female is not so. Or, at least, it is seldom seen. I have spotted the female only on a few occasions, often hiding away in the trees and away from the frisky males and only come down to the water's edge briefly. As far as I am aware, they stay well away from the water and only become visible when they are ready to copulate.

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The contest, which closed to new entries on April 20, 2016, invited participants to submit a simple video of approximately 30 seconds featuring a left ventricular assist device (LVAD) recipient and - if the recipient chose - a friend or loved one discussing what they believe is the best thing about the recipient having received an LVAD.

Each eligible video submission from the contest generated a $100 donation from St. Jude Medical to Mended Hearts. In just two months, the contest reached its goal of raising $25,000 in donations and grants to Mended Hearts to help raise awareness of heart failure and potential therapy options like LVADs, as well as provide support services to heart failure patients.

Millie Henn (Temple, TX) is the Executive Vice President of Mended Hearts' National Board of Directors. Actively involved with Mended Hearts since joining the organization in 2000 following her coronary artery bypass surgery, Millie is also a Mended Hearts accredited visitor, visiting each week with heart patients and their families at her local hospital, Baylor Scott & White. The visiting program has enabled her to meet many LVAD patients and hear their stories of how an LVAD has given them "a second chance at life."
Laura Huber, PT (Aberdeen, SD) has lived with an LVAD since 2007, when she was diagnosed with post-partum cardiomyopathy after the birth of her first baby. Laura received an emergency LVAD implant when her daughter was only 3 weeks old, and she recently celebrated her nine-year LVAD anniversary. Laura says that she's not only alive but "truly living," having been given her "second chance" to spend time and make memories with family and friends. She's also been able to continue her career as a physical therapist in cardiac rehabilitation, both helping and giving hope to the patients she treats.
Susan Joseph, MD (Dallas, TX) is an advanced heart failure cardiologist and the medical director of a hospital LVAD program. Dr. Joseph is passionate about improving patient education and awareness of heart failure options so that more late-stage heart failure patients can experience improved longevity and quality of life.
Deborah Smalis, RN (Tampa, FL) has served as a critical care and cardiothoracic nurse for more than 35 years. Since 2011, she has been a mechanical circulatory support coordinator at Tampa General Hospital. Her role there includes management of ventricular assist devices (VADS), total artificial hearts (TAHs), and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) patients. ECMO is often used as temporary support for the heart and/or lungs. The program at Tampa General is actively involved in supporting patients, families, healthcare teams and the local community in treating and managing heart failure patients.
Bill Van Wagner (Apollo Beach, FL) has lived with an LVAD since May 2015. Bill serves as a board member of the Beat After Beat Foundation, a support group for the VAD community.  As his LVAD is indicated as a bridge while Bill awaits heart transplant, he is also the author of the blog, "On A Mission To Transplant."


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We're reintroduced to some old friends and Rogues, as we begin our analysis of THE NEW BATMAN ADVENTURES--a series that premiered two years after the final episode of BATMAN: THE ANIMATED SERIES and THE ADVENTURES OF BATMAN & ROBIN. In this anthology of holiday-themed adventures, Bruce Wayne goes on a shopping spree with Harley and Ivy, Batman and a new Robin take on the Joker and Batgirl takes on a mysteriously revived Clayface. Harvey Bullock's showing a much softer side. And Gordon orders some food he never gets. Is it Batman's fault? Find out in "Holiday Knights!"

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Netflix Documentaries That Have Changed My Outlook On Food

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I usually use Netflix to binge-watch old Disney films or American TV shows. Lately, however, there have been loads of amazing new documentaries added to Netflix’s ever expanding list of things to watch. One genre of documentaries that I can’t get enough of is their huge selection based around food. I seem to have watched quite a few lately and they’ve really changed my outlook on food, both in terms of its production and how it affects not only local communities, but the environment as a whole. It’s also interested to learn how food has affected health epidemics over the years.

I’ve handpicked some brilliant food-related Netflix documentaries that are definitely worth your time. I’m not saying in any way that I’m now the healthiest person in the world, but these documentaries have definitely opened my eyes in regard to the food industry. They’ve changed my shopping habits and changed the way I think in terms of where my food comes from and how it’s made.

Hungry for Change

This documentary explores the idea that diets have been created to make money and, in reality, they don’t actually work. Lots of nutritionists argue that the food industry creates diets to guilt-trip people into feeling bad about themselves and their bodies. It highlights how food companies market their food as having ‘reduced fat’, but in order to make it taste nice they add lots of sugar, which is actually worse for your body. It made me realise that there aren’t any quick fixes to having the perfect body – being healthy is a way of life, not a fad diet.

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Fed Up

Fed Up looks at childhood obesity in America. It explains that it is cheaper for families to buy sugary, processed food and suggests that governmental issues are behind the epidemic. It talks heavily about sugar in the food industry and explains the science behind its effects on the human body. It really changed my outlook on sugar and even though I knew it wasn’t good for you, I didn’t realise how bad it really is for you.

Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead

An Australian man has been diagnosed with a critical illness but, after years of being overweight, not exercising and not paying attention to what’s best for his body, he decides that something needs to change. He travels to America and he takes the viewer on a juicing journey that really opened my eyes as to how important eating healthily is for the body. After months of eating pure, natural food, his illness was greatly improved. It really made me think about how food doesn’t only affect how you look on the outside, but also how it keeps you healthy on the inside.

Food, Inc.

This documentary focuses on the treatment of animals in the process of our food chain. This isn’t a documentary for the faint-hearted as there are some pretty graphic scenes involving the treatment of some animals. It seriously opened my eyes in terms of thinking about where my food comes from and has changed my shopping habits when I’m doing the weekly shop. It really does make a difference buying organic and free range meats, as the animals’ lives are so much better.

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I didn't get a whole bunch of money: Jennifer Lopez

Singer-actor Jennifer Lopez revealed that she did not charge money for playing the role of a stripper in her last release 'Hustler'.
"I didn't get paid a whole bunch of money for 'Hustlers,'" the 50-year-old star told for their 2019 'Men of the Year' issue released on Monday.
"I did it for free and produced it," the star continued.
"I bank on myself, you know? That was like Jenny from the block. I do what I want, I do what I love."
The film, based on the 2015 article titled 'The Hustlers At Scores', follows a group of Manhattan strippers as they discover they can make serious money by turning the tables on their wealthy Wall Street clientele.
The story has been compared to that of a 'Robin Hood' tale in which the ladies would argue they were stealing from the rich and giving to the poor.


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ARC Review + Giveaway: Internet Famous

June 9, 2017

Release Date: June 6, 2017
Links: Goodreads | Amazon | Barnes & Noble | iBooks

High school senior and internet sensation Madison Nakama seems to have it all: a happy family, good grades, and a massive online following for her pop-culture blog. But when her mother suddenly abandons the family, Madi finds herself struggling to keep up with all of her commitments.

Fandom to the rescue! As her online fans band together to help, an online/offline flirtation sparks with Laurent, a French exchange student. Their internet romance—played out in the comments section of her MadLibs blog—attracts the attention of an internet troll who threatens the separation of Madi’s real and online personas. With her carefully constructed life unraveling, Madi must uncover the hacker’s identity before he can do any more damage, or risk losing the people she loves the most… Laurent included.

Internet Famous is Danika Stone’s second book with the Swoon Reads line. I haven’t actually read her first novel with them, All the Feels, yet, but I still was excited to get a hold of a copy of Internet Famous!

Madi is Internet Famous thanks to her Madlibs blog, which has massive following. She loves the escape her online world provides from the problems in her real life, such as dealing with the fallout of her absent mother and helping out her sister. However, her blog has attracted a troll who just won’t leave her alone. At first his comments just seem to be cruel, but things get serious when he starts hacking her website, reporting her to her school for plagiarism, and doxing her.

One bright side to all of this drama is Laurent, who has been a calming force for Madi. Laurent is right there for Madi as she tries to get everything under control. An exchange student from France, Laurent is such a sweetheart. He is a geek just like Madi, and they really are perfect together.

Each chapter includes text message bubbles, tumblr posts, or snapchat photos. These were such a fun and fitting additions, and I loved whenever I would come across the next set of messages.

Overall, Internet Famous is a fun read while still tackling more serious subjects such as online bullying and doxing. I recommend this for younger teens looking for a cute contemporary read, especially if they love online fandoms.

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*This ARC was provided to me by the publisher through Xpresso Book Tours and NetGalley in exchange for a honest review.*

About Danika

Danika Stone is an author, artist, and educator who discovered a passion for writing fiction while in the throes of her Masters thesis. A self-declared bibliophile, Danika now writes novels for both teens (All the Feels and Internet Famous) and adults (Edge of Wild and Intaglio). When not writing, Danika can be found hiking in the Rockies, planning grand adventures, and spending far too much time online. She lives with her husband, three sons, and a houseful of imaginary characters in a windy corner of Alberta, Canada.

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  • Reply Giselle June 9, 2017 at 1:22 PM

    Great review! This sounds like a super cute and fun read! 🙂

    • Reply Jordan June 9, 2017 at 1:31 PM

      Thanks, Giselle! 🙂

  • Reply YA Wednesdays June 11, 2017 at 9:52 AM

    What a great review!! It seems like it’ll be a great summer read

    • Reply Jordan June 23, 2017 at 5:13 PM

      Thanks! I hope you enjoy it if you decide to read it!

  • Reply Breeny's Books June 13, 2017 at 7:07 AM

    I’m excited to read this books, especially since I’ve heard overall pretty great things about it. Thanks for a great review!

    I’m new to blogging and book reviewing, and I was wondering if you had any tips for newbie bloggers and book reviewers.

    If you have the time, please check out my blog @breenysbooks. I’d love any feedback. Have a wonderful day.

    • Reply Jordan June 23, 2017 at 5:17 PM

      I just checked out your blog! It looks great! Keep doing what you’re doing 😀

  • Reply Evelina July 2, 2017 at 9:16 AM

    This sounds like a very fun read 🙂 I’ve seen it around the blogs lately. And relevant to the likes of us as well 😀

    • Reply Jordan July 3, 2017 at 3:59 PM

      The inclusion of the tumblr posts & snapchats really did make it a fun read!

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