and I have no idea where to find the various Best Short films. Does Netflix carry them? They should. Stick a few on a DVD or something.

What’s Your Favorite Christmas Memory?

Everyone has a favorite Christmas memory or story to share. Choice Publishing Group (CPG) is collecting these stories and memories about weddings for their new book Patchwork Path: Christmas Stocking.

Choice is looking for original stories and essays from 250 to 2000 words about Christmas. Each submission will be reviewed and considered based on creativity, originality, concept, and style. Reading will be continuous and submissions will be considered as they arrive. Not all works will be accepted. There is NO Entry or Reading Fee. The deadline for submissions is December 31, 2009. Choice pays $50.00 per story.

Submissions will be selected for publication in Patchwork Path: Christmas Stocking by Choice Publishing Group president Tena Beth Thompson and bestselling author Gregory A. Kompes.

The Patchwork Path story collection titles are all based on quilt blocks and the book covers have quilt and quilter themes. In addition to Christmas Stocking (to be published in the fall of 2009) other titles include Grandma’s Choice (November 2008), Dad’s Bowtie (June 2009), Friendship Star (2009), Treasure Box (2010), and Wedding Bouquet (2010). Additional titles are added each year.

Miss Thompson writes about her life experiences with humor. “If I can put a smile on one person’s face for a second, easing their pain, I will consider my book a huge success,” she says with conviction. Thompson’s book, Separation Survival Guide: When Your Marriage Catapults into Limbo, will be available soon.

Mr. Kompes holds a degree in English literature from Columbia University, New York, and is the author of the bestselling 50 Fabulous Gay-Friendly Places to Live (Career Press). He is editor of The Fabulist Flash, a newsletter for writers; creator of Eighteen Questions, a Writer’s Digest “101 Best Website for Writers” 2007 &2008 2009; and, the Patchwork Path Production Director.

Choice Publishing Group (CPG) publishes books that touch people’s lives and offer a respite from everyday pressures. CPG books inspire readers to view life with a positive attitude, count their blessing or make them laugh.

For more information, including complete submission guidelines, visit Patchwork Path: Piecing Together Our Lives visit http://www.PatchworkPath.com.

I need a phone number to contact someone in regard to scheduling a free mammogram. The phone number that is listed about is not enough digits. I am unemployed, no health insurance and need a memmagram. It has been two years since I had one, and I am over the age of 50, so it is very important that I find the correct information out. Cancer does run in my family.

Thank you, Leslie Hamm-O’Nwere 702-596-2812
lesliehamm@hotmail.com

Then I also reminded myself that in my garage–until I sold it at auction– I had a comprehension series of conference papers written by top engineers in the field about the manned space colony we’d definitely have fully established and operational on Mars by 2008–written in the 1960s.

That is to say, the best laid plans and projections of mice (digital and otherwise) and men don’t always proceed as projected….All sorts of unexpected things get in the way. And are, even as we speak.

The site looks the same so who’s the host now? Hopefully they’re more professional? Competent? Dumping your site might have been for “political” reasons, but if BlueHost was “cheap,” they likely are “incompetent” and that’s what caused the problem.

Well, wherever/whoever is the host now, I hope all goes well (and is there a way to safely cache copies of everything posted? As I said, I’m a Luddite).

Welcome back!!!

Thank you so much for your support. I am sending this to the owner. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Genevieve

It looked like they may have literally opened the doors days before we went, so things were still pretty much in shambles. There were only three screens up and running, it looked like the previous owners did some damage to the interior in their rush to leave.

We will probably check the theatre out again in a week or so. Hopefully things will be in better shape when we return. I am all for supporting an independent theatre, as long as they strive to provide a pleasant experience.

Anybody else been recently? What was your experience like?

Apparently down in the Desert Breeze park where the soccer fields are, it was a little bit chaotic with fireworks being set everywhere.

How can this be “too expensive” yet every year the strip puts on a rather mediocre New Years fireworks show trying to make Vegas look like a big player in the “celebration scene”.

If you recall, originally, this show was free, then a few years ago they tossed up gates, some crappy live bands, and started charging to get in. Now, they just abandon it? That’s great. Spend lots of money to promote Vegas, but screwem’ when they get here.

Yet another reason this will always be a second-rate city.

http://www.knpr.org/son/archive/detail.cfm?ProgramID=1086

Sincerely,

Denise Miller
A Company, Inc
denise@acoinc.com
702-647-4000

If you are serious about discovering who you really are, and ultimately everyone is learning about who they are, we just tend to do it back to front (i.e. we accept what people say we are instead of being still and seeing it for ourselves).

No doubt at the time of creation, the Emerald Tablet was written by a Human that did not have the hardship of an over-powering, thinking mind and therefore with a stiller mind, had greater clarity to see the inevitable outcome of a dominated species losing touch to that which it belongs – the Earth.

To those of you in the arts, this protest will eventually provide less funding to your programs. Philanthropists, such as oil companies in Las Vegas, provide on occasion, thousands of dollars to organizations. Sometimes, that amount is in the neighborhood of $50,000 – $75,000 to ONE organization. Why? Because they like to give back to the community.

As a staunch supporter of the arts and economic well-being, I cannot control the price of gas. The marketplace determines this based on trading of stocks.

Though it is a good idea to protest prices, our robust marketplace is what has contributed to the upward hike in prices.

Needless to say, that same hike is part of a cyclical pattern in which every peak is followed for a short period by a valley.

The person who originated the circulating letter on not pumping gas on May 15 could be a stock trader, hoping that we will ALL not pump gas, which would lower demand and temporarily drop the price.

At that time, any day trader can buy stock and know that the price will rise again, creating a favorable situation for this person and eventually driving the price higher.

As an educated person with a business background in finance, this creates a winning situation for that stock person. It also contributes to wealth for those people calling options before June, rather than having a put. Yes, these are all technical stock terms, but for those of you savvy in finance, you will understand.

The effect on our volatile marketplace is short-term. Inevitably, the prices will rise.

Many corporate fiscal years end in June. Showing a loss is easy to carry forward to the new year. In addition, knowing that the marketplace is volatile, many companies will incorporate hedge funds to offset the temporary, downward stock movement.

Thus, the option comes into play. Downward movement on a straddled option creates an income for the option if it has a call date near that time. ANY movement on an option that is straddled will override the protest. If a loss is held, then less philanthropy occurs if the company did not hedge the fund.

Feel free to circulate this letter.

Sincerely,

Renato