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| | Money Magazine Author | | 2008-05-09 15:51:22 | | I am a Money Magazine Author now.
You can read articles written by me with fortunateway user name such as Brics Fund and Day Job Killer. | | By: Fortunate Way | | |
| | Change Post Formatting According to Author. | | 2008-04-30 06:11:47 | | If you have a Team Blog made up of two authors you can change the formatting of the posts written by one author to differentiate them from the other author's posts. In a Team Blog the About Me Profile widget is replaced by a Contributors List widget. This lists the name of the authors linked to their profiles.
Note down the names since we will use one of them in implementing this hack......... | | By: Dummies Guide to Google Blogger (Beta). | | |
| | The Demise of the Dollar by Addison Wiggin (Author) | | 2008-04-30 01:04:11 | |
The Demise of the Dollar...And Why It's Even Better for Your Investments (Agora Series)by Addison Wiggin (Author)Buy new: $19.95 $11.9725 used & new from $11.14
Product DetailsPublished on: 2008-04-04Number of items: 1Binding: Paperback197 pages
Book Description : As the dollar continues to weaken throughout the world, it has become clear that the impact is going to be significant as well as far reaching. This book explores the number of reasons for the dollar's current state, including the prior structural flaws of the dollar, the growing trade deficit, the Euro and other international factors. It also discusses the results of the dollar's fall and how it will impact economies worldwide. Continuing where The Demise of the Dollar left off, it explores the dollar's increasingly sharp decline over the past few years and provides readers with updated suggestions for protecting their portfolios... | | By: Store Books Cheap | | |
| | An Evening with Author Jennifer Weiner | | 2008-04-23 00:23:00 | | I don't usually talk about things to do outside of family events but I figure that every mom needs a good night out every once in a while. My perfect night out usually involves dinner and a stop at a bookstore. Next Thursday, May 1st, best- selling author Jennifer Weiner will be in Santa Monica to promote her new novel Certain Girls, a continuation of her debut best-selling novel Good in Bed. She will be speaking, answering questions, and signing books at Barnes & Noble on the 3rd Street Promenade at 7pm. It sounds like a perfect night to me. Dinner on the Promenade and a great night with Jennifer Weiner. Mark you calendars as this sounds like a great night. See you all there!! | | By: Daytrippingmom | | |
| | TIME Magazine Author Bryan Walsh Is Going To Hell For Sacrilege | | 2008-04-19 12:55:00 | | It's not a matter of IF?, But WHEN! And just depends on which Veteran gets his hands on him first as to what happens to him. I know TIME has it's standard liberal bent like the majority of the media outlets do. But a mortal sin like this, isn't covered by the same "ART" excuse that Andres Serrano got away with on "Piss Christ." This doesn't qualify as art.Walsh is doomed. And heaven forbid I be the one to find him first, as I'll most likely bury a Ka-Bar in his A$$ for this travesty. It would be a fitting end to the bastard.If your wondering what's got me so riled up, TIME Magazine has made what can only be described as the poorest choice in history for a magazine cover to promote global warming. And at the same time, ridicule one of the bloodiest yet Nation-wide morale boosting images of all time. They have chosen to swap the American flag out of the Iwo Jima Memorial for a TREE!An actual Iwo Jima veteran, Donald Mates was quoted as saying, "It's an absolute disgrace! Whoever, did it | | By: Hoopy Frood Dude | | |
| | Author back in Fez. | | 2008-04-18 10:07:00 | | The well known Australian author, Suzanna Clarke, is back in Morocco for a short visit. She was seen at the opening of the Sufi Festival last evening and (so rumour has it) at Cafe Clock, sampling the "eggs Florentine!Suzanna Clarke - back in Fez.Suzanna is well known around Fez for the renovation work on Riad Zany and her runaway best seller - A House in Fez. In Australia the hardback collectors' edition sold out in a matter of weeks. According to several local guest-house owners the book has resulted in an increase in visitors from Australia and New Zealand. They can expect a lot more visitors from among Ms Clarke's readers as the book is being released in the UK and Ireland next week and in the USA in November. At around the same time other translations of the work will be released - including an edition in Korean. It is hoped that French, German and Spanish publishers will also bring out editions in those languages.Sold out!Recently, a number of visitors staying at the Hotel Batha | | By: THE VIEW FROM FEZ | | |
| | Iraqi Author 'Aref 'Alwan: The Jews Have an Historic Right to Palestine | | 2008-04-16 13:16:00 | | 'Alwan called on the Arab world to acknowledge the Jews' right to Palestine, because justice demanded it and also because doing so would end the violence and the killing of Arabs, as well as intra-Arab strife. He added that such a move would also open up new avenues for the Arab world that would be more consistent with the values and needs of modern society.'Alwan writes that the Arab League is to blame for the refusal to recognize the 1947 U.N. partition plan, for starting a war to prevent its implementation, and for the results of that war, which the Arabs call the Nakba (disaster). He points an accusing finger at the Arab regimes, the Arab League, and the educated circles in the Arab world, saying that they had all used the term "nakba" to direct popular consciousness toward a cultural tradition that neither accepts the other side nor recognizes its rights - thereby promoting bigotry, violence and extremism. He also claims that there have been attempts to rewrite Palestinian history | | By: THE NEW BABYLON TIMES | | |
| | Gridiron Gabbin w/ Author Scott Huler “On Being Brown” | | 2008-04-10 10:28:51 | | The Cleveland Browns have one of if not the most dedicated fan base in the NFL, and author Scott Huler takes you inside the Browns with his book - “On Being Brown: What it Means to be a Cleveland Browns Fan.” The book is full of great stories of the past, as well as [...] | | By: NFL GridIron Gab | | |
| | ~Chetan Bhagat-Highest Selling Indian Author~ | | 2008-04-07 08:33:01 | | Until about four years ago, Chetan Bhagat was an investment banker who was distinguished from the suited phalanx of his colleagues in this city's crowded financial district only by his secret hobby. While others planned weekend excursions on the golf course, Bhagat, then employed by Goldman Sachs, indulged a passion for writing, laboring in his private time on a racy and comedic little novel about life on the campus of an elite college in his native India. In the early morning before going to the office he would work on draft after draft of the book, trying to get it right. He did 15 drafts in all. He almost gave up when publishers kept turning him down. Today, Bhagat is still an investment banker, now with Deutsche Bank. But he has also become the biggest-selling English-language novelist ever in India.The Terrific TwoHis first book, Five Point Someone - What not to do at IIT (May 2004) is a novel about three boys who join IIT Delhi and try to cope with the notoriously heavy worklo | | By: YOUNGISTAN-Land of Youth | | |
| | Your 'Kooky' Author | | 2008-04-03 19:51:49 | | I guess it was about time I introduced myself. Apart from the little you already know!I am an attached gay boy, guy, stud, hunk, fool OK I give up - Man! I have modest values in my relationship and those values are held with high regard. My partner thinks I am a little nutty, which is quite OK with me as long as he doesn't have me committed without my consent!I came out accepted who I am roughly 5 years ago, but it seems like only yesterday. I still have vivid memories of the trauma we all go through. Yet at that time in my life it was simply 'the right time' Only you & I know when that is, so for all those yet to accept who they are, don't rubbish yourself too much. It will happen when it is meant to.The LGBT Community means a lot to me & this is my way of showing just that. Hence- Why I am creating this blog. I have scoured through so many of the directories and found the ranking & rating system to be inconsistent and somewhat displeasing. I personally don't think anyone | | By: LGBT Bloggers List | | |
| | Author Donates Royalties, Protesting Dam Building | | 2008-04-03 10:46:41 | | India has undergone many dam projects as have many other developing countries. Foreign investment, flood control, irrigation canals, and energy production are the cited reasons for dam construction but critics claim that the devastation to the human population living in the flood zones and the ecological damage, as well as statistics stating historical dam projects provide significantly less energy output as expected, encourage extreme resistance to dam construction.In India, massive protests in the form of hunger strikes, and donations of book royalties from famous Indian writer Arundhati Roy* keep this debate in the news. Book Review: "Power Politics", 2001, author Arundhati Roy, Indian female writer This book is a series of essays exploring water dam building and energy production in India, political response to September 11, 2001 in expectation of a U.S. war with Afghanistan, and free speech.One essay from the book is called "The Reincarnation of Rumpelstiltskin." Roy provides stat | | By: Safe Green Living | | |
| | The Shack by William P. Young (Author) | | 2008-04-03 03:07:48 | |
The Shack by William P. Young (Author) Buy new: $14.99 $8.24 92 used & new from $7.95
Book DetailsPublished on: 2007-05-01Number of items: 1Binding: Paperback256 pages
Mackenzie Allen Philips' youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Four years later in the midst of his Great Sadness, Mack receives a suspicious note, apparently from God, inviting him back to that shack for a weekend. Against his better judgment he arrives at the shack on a wintry afternoon and walks back into his darkest nightmare. What he finds there will change Mack's world forever. In a world where religion seems to grow increasingly irrelevant "The Shack" wrestles with the timeless question, "Where is God in a world so filled with unspeakable pain?" The answers Mack gets will astound you and perhaps transform you as much as it did him. You'll want everyone you know t | | By: Store Books Cheap | | |
| | Author Earl Ofari Hutchinson Says African-Americans Face Greater Challenges | | 2008-04-02 11:03:00 | | On Friday, while my husband and I going to Detroit, Michigan we were listening on the radio about race here in America and also about the politics and that was a good topics since the election is coming. I was just searching online about the blog on race and Politics in America and I end up this one blog site http://earlofarihutchinson.blogspot.com which is about the commetary blog race and politics in America. It is an interesting blog and it is authored by Earl Ofari Hutchinson is a nationally acclaimed author and political analyst. He has authored ten books; his articles are published in newspapers and magazines nationally in the United States. I found also the press release in prbuzz.com, which you can read below. If you are interested to read this http://earlofarihutchinson.blogspot.com blog just check it now!Author Says African-Americans Face Greater Challenges Forty Years after Martin Luther King Jr's... Written by Earl Ofari Hutchinson Forty years after King was gunned down on | | By: My Trails In Life | | |
| | Article Marketing 101: The Perfect Author Resource Box | | 2008-03-31 08:46:52 | | If you want to really make your article "SELL" then you've got to craft the perfect RESOURCE BOX. This is the "author bio" that is below your article body and it's also known as your "SIG" (short for SIGnature).Here are the essential items that should be in your RESOURCE BOX:Your Name: You'd be amazed at how many folks forget to include their name in the RESOURCE BOX. Your name and optional title should be the first thing in your resource box.Your Website Address: in valid URL form. Example: http://Your-Company-Name.com/Your Elevator Pitch: This is 1 to 3 sentences that encapsulates the essence of what makes you and your offering unique. Also known as your USP (Unique Selling Proposition).Your Call To Action: You've got them warmed up and now it's time to lead them to BUY from you or visit your website. This is where you "Ask For The Sale." Best to only give (1) specific call to action.Here are some optional items you could include in your RESOURCE BOX:Your Ezine Subscription Address: | | By: Internet Marketing - SEO Online Marketing, Interne | | |
| | WoW Bot Author Earned $2.8M Claims Blizzard | | 2008-03-30 19:11:56 | | GamePolitics reports that Blizzard is claiming that World of Warcraft bot author Michael Donnelly has made a cool $2.8 million by selling his Glider software. This comes from recent motions filed in court. Glider is a downloadable software that automatically plays the game for the user, letting players go up to level 70 without much personal effort. Donnelly, its author, was sued by Blizzard in February 2007 and both sides have been locked in a legal battle since then. “Blizzard’s designs expectations are frustrated, and resources are allocated unevenly, when bots are introduced into the WoW universe, because bots spend far more time in-game than an ordinary player would and consume resources the entire time,” said the company in a legal statement. Interestingly, Donnelly claims that his program does not violate Blizzard’s copyright because it never makes a true copy of the game client. The software currently sells for $25, with an optional $5 subscription offering additional | | By: Online Games | | |
| | My Grandson The Prizewinning Author | | 2008-03-19 17:20:00 | | י'ב באדר ב' תשס"חRaven 13I just received good news! My 8-year old eldest grandson Tyler won first place in our city's Young Authors contest, which included contestants from all area schools. His prizewinning story is titled Harry And Sam.American novelist, film screenwriter and poet William Faulkner, winner of the 1949 Nobel Prize for literature and two Pulitzer Prizes, is Tyler's kin through my mother's mother's father's ancestral line.Mazel tov to my grandson Tyler! | | By: Walking On Fire | | |
| | Gridiron Gabbin with Author of “The GM” Tom Callahan | | 2008-02-29 21:10:57 | | Site Editor Matt Loede talks with with former Time magazine sportswriter and author Tom Callahan. Tom’s latest project is “The GM - The Inside Story of a Dream Job and the Nightmares that Go with It.” The book takes you through the 2006 season of the New York Giants, as Callahan shadowed Giants GM [...] | | By: NFL GridIron Gab | | |
| | | | An Interview With Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalist and Author Fred Kaplan | | 2008-02-18 18:34:29 | | The topic below was originally posted on my blog, the Intrepid Liberal Journal as well as The Wild Wild Left, the Independent Bloggers Alliance, The Peace Tree and Worldwide Sawdust.Most Americans are eager to turn the page on the Bush years. Yet even as we elect a new president we’re still coming to terms with an era that has both tarnished America’s reputation and diminished its influence.Fred Kaplan chronicles the folly of the Bush years in his new book, Daydream Believers: How a Few Grand Ideas Wrecked American Power (John Wiley & Sons).Kaplan writes that, “Nearly all of America’s blunders in war and peace these past few years stem from a single grand misconception: that the world changed after 9/11, when in fact it didn’t.Certainly, things about the world changed, not least Americans’ sudden awareness that they were vulnerable. But the way the world works – the nature of power, warfare, and politics among nations – remained essentially the same.â€Kaplan also | | By: The Peace Tree | | |
| | | “Author House” - helping writers in self publishing | | 2008-01-18 12:51:10 | | AuthorHouse” aims to helps authors achieve success. It has become world’s largest self publishing company providing premier book publishing and marketing services for authors.
Based in Bloomington, Indiana, Author House” was founded in 1997. It has helped more than 30,000 authors in publishing their books and self publish more than 40,000 books.
If you are a christian [...] | | By: Reviews and ramblings around the blogsphere! | | |
| | Englewood Author’s Novel Inspired by Colorado Castle Owner | | 2008-01-15 19:45:30 | | A Scottish castle brimming with European antiques is not what you would expect to see in Northern Douglas County. Nor would you expect to run into over 3,000 acres of pristine undeveloped land just east of Castle Pines Village. Even odder, this castle and the land was owned and governed by a Southern belle who raised cattle.Colorado's beauty and sunny days attract all sorts of people with interesting pasts and Tweet Kimble brought her life steeped in European culture to our Rocky Mountain State.Englewood author Corinne Joy Brown was one of the last writers to interview Tweet before she died in 1999. Tweet's character was so strong and so fascinating to Corinne that Tweet served as the inspiration for her historic novel "MacGregor's Lantern." The castle Tweet owned was modeled after Scottish castles. During the research for Corinne's book, Corinne discovered that the Scots dominated in the ranching industry in Colorado and Wyoming. It may have been this influence that encouraged the castle design at Cherokee Ranch.Maggie Dowling is the main character in MacGregor's Lantern. Her determination is reminiscent of the stories people still tell about Tweet Kimble. Maggie moved out West, accepting an engagement proposal from one of her father's clients. She expected adventure, which she certainly encountered but it wasn’t packaged the way she expected.Many women during the late 1800’s also traveled west with their husbands or to meet up with their fiancés and many found the western frontier too difficult to bear so they returned home. Returning home was never an option in Maggie's mind. She committed to the decision and for better or worse, she was going to see that decision through. This story combines independence and determination with usual western flair.I love reading stories about strong, determined women, so I gladly encourage you to MacGregor's Lantern by Corinne Joy Brown.If you live in Colorado or when you plan a visit, make sure you take a tour of Ch | | By: Famiss - Women's Success Literature & History | | |
| | Biker Author Edward Winterhalder Interviewed On Bravo TV's "The Word" Show | | 2008-01-14 11:26:00 | | Click on the following link to view a four minute television clip showing celebrity biker author and television Producer Edward Winterhalder's December 2007 interview on Bravo TV's "The Word", which is a television show that features interviews and news about prominent and interesting authors. The TV segment about Winterhalder and his first book, "Out In Bad Standings: Inside The Bandidos Motorcycle Club - The Making Of A Worldwide Dynasty" appears right after a short piece about famed Harry Potter author JK Rowling.Winterhalder's Interview on Bravo TV's "The Word" | | By: The Life and Times of Edward Winterhalder | | |
| | LUCIO DALLA, Caruso's author (15 videos) | | 2008-01-04 11:55:00 | | music videos Dalla free italy
LUCIO DALLA borns in 4 march 1943. That date will be very important : it's the title of his first big success: "3 Marzo 1943" presented in Festival of Italian Music, Sanremo ('66). He borns in Bologna, a town famous for: the "cooking", considered, for many persons, as me, the best one in Italy; the University , one of oldest in Europe; the hight spirit of peoples;...
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| | Author Donates Royalties to Stop Dam Building | | 2008-01-03 06:27:15 | | India has undergone many dam projects as have many other developing countries. Foreign investment, flood control, irrigation canals, and energy production are the cited reasons for dam construction but critics claim that the devastation to the human population living in the flood zones and the ecological damage, as well as statistics stating historical dam projects provide significantly less energy output as expected, encourage extreme resistance to dam construction.In India, massive protests in the form of hunger strikes, and donations of book royalties from famous Indian writer Arundhati Roy* keep this debate in the news.Book Review: "Power Politics", 2001, author Arundhati Roy, Indian female writer (also author of famous novel "The God of Small Things"This book is a series of essays exploring water dam building and energy production in India, political response to September 11, 2001 in expectation of a U.S. war with Afghanistan, and free speech.One essay from the book is called "The Reincarnation of Rumpelstiltskin." Roy provides statistics and arguments against the displacement of hundreds of thousands of Indian citizens who lived and farmed on lands where the Indian government wanted to flood in the construction of dams. Resistance against dams, the overall ecological damage being the primary grounds of argument, is a common one in the United States; however, in most cases, a dam displaces few people.Roy opens our eyes to the plight of thousands and thousands of people living in India, most of them already poor and with little political influence who are forced to leave their homes and try to find a new way to support themselves. I am not in a position to assure you of the accuracy of her statistics and statistics can always be manipulated, but her image of the conditions of the displaced is well worth being aware of.The Sardar Sarovar dam in India was fiercely debated. One website described one of the resettlement villages for the people who were displaced by | | By: Famiss - Women's Success Literature & History | | |
| | U.S. author fights back against Saudi billionaire | | 2007-11-30 08:38:05 | | The Moving Picture Institute has set up an entire website and short movie, devoted to the legal woes of terrorism expert and author Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld and the libel action commenced against her in the UK, by Saudi billionaire Sheikh Khalid bin Mahfouz .Apparently Erhenfeld’s book wasn’t even published in Britain or available for sale in bookstores there. Yet, English libel laws allow such actions to be commenced there.The Sheikh is well-known to challenge anyone who suggests, no matter how slightly, that he may be involved with terrorism, in British courts — making him one of Britain’s largest so-called libel tourists. Among other things, he also compiles all the apologies and retractions from his many libel suits on his website.Last week, Ehrenfeld challenged the ability of a British court to have authority over an American author in the U.S. Federal Court of Appeals and is currently waiting their decision.
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| | Saudi Billionaire Sues 'Funding Evil' Author | | 2007-11-28 13:17:56 | | Two years ago our guest,Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld, told us how she was ordered to destroy all copies of her book, "Funding Evil - How Terrorism is Financed and How to Stop It," after a Saudi billionaire Sheikh sued her for including him in the book.She forwarded the following to me, about appearing in a short-form documentary film, "The Libel Tourist," which documents the true story of how she, an American-Israeli author, was ordered to destroy all copies of her book in a country where it had never been published -- England -- after the notoriously litigious Saudi billionaire sued her in a British court. Ehrenfeld's book accuses the Saudi billionaire of funding of terrorism.We aired segments from the film and an earlier interview with her on Monday, in light of Saudi Arabia calling the shots at Tuesday's 'peace' conference in Annapolis this week.The new film tells of how Dr. Ehrenfeld is fighting back, countersuing the billionaire, Sheikh Khalid bin Mahfouz, in the New York courts to defend her and our First Amendment rights.The Sheikh filed more than thirty-six lawsuits in London against various media and publishers, many of them American. Mahfouz couldn't sue Ehrenfeld in the United States, where libel cases hinge upon the truth of the allegations. Instead, he arranged for twenty-three copies of her book to be bought online and shipped to the U.K., where he used the plaintiff-friendly libel laws to sue her.Ehrenfeld, an American-Israeli who holds a Ph.D. in criminology, lives and works in New York.She refused to acknowledge the authority of a British court over her freedom of speech. When she lost the case by default, she was ordered to pay a substantial fine, as well as Mahfouz's legal fees. She was also ordered to destroy all copies of her books in the U.K. and to publish an apology to bin Mahfouz in major newspapers.She refused. Instead, she countersued bin Mahfouz in a U.S. federal court. She hopes to set a precedent that would prohibit any foreign court from | | By: Billionaires Blog | Learn how to be a Billionaire | | |
| | Travel in 10 - Travel Podcast Episode 12 - Africa Safari Travel with guidebook author Julian Harrison | | 2007-11-18 18:00:00 | | This week's travel podcast takes you to Africa with African Safari expert Julian Harrison. Julian is the author of Fodor's African Safari: from Budget to Big Spending and is a founding member of the United Nations Environment Program's Sustainable Tourism Intiative.
He will be giving travel tips for those planning a first trip to Africa including information on South Africa, Kenya, Botswana and destinations like Kruger National Park and Singia Game Lodge.
You can look for more information on the trips Julian arranges at http://www.premiertours.com/
We hope you enjoy today's travel podcast and our travel blog. Please send any questions, comments or suggestions to travelin10@gmail.com
Past shows have included visits to other Tokyo attractions such as Ginza, Tokyo Sea Life Park, Ninja Restaurant, and Shibuya and other destinations around the world such as Luang Prabang, Hip Hotels in Thailand, Bali Indonesia, Portugal and other great destinations for Adventure Travel and luxury travel.
Look for upcoming travel podcasts on Cuba, Vietnam, Singapore, Vancouver and more great destinations around the world.
The Travel in 10 Travel Podcast is one of the most subscribed shows on both itunes and the zune marketplace. Listen on your ipod or zune or watch on the new ipod touch or apple TV.
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| | marketing guru and national best selling author, William R. Patterson | | 2007-11-12 11:58:00 | | www.blogtalkradio.com/aprilsimsTONIGHT, marketing guru and national best selling author, William R. Patterson will be a guest on April Sims A & E Radio.Staying true to "WE are GREATER than i", we are bringing back marketing guru and national best selling author, William R. Patterson to answer all of your marketing questions.TONIGHT is the night to call in and get all your questions answered about effective marketing for your business for FREE.FREE does not come often and without strings, so take advantage of TONIGHT. I know I will.WHO: William R. Patterson, marketing guru and national best selling authorWHEN: TONIGHT, November 12, 2007WHERE: www.blogtalkradio.com/aprilsimsTIME: 7p - 8p ESTCALL IN NUMBER: 718-508-9921 | | By: April Sims A & E | | |
| | Interview with Laurent Murawiec, author of "Pandora’s Boxes, The Mind of Jihad" | | 2007-10-14 21:45:00 | | There’s one thing that uniquely differentiates the modern jihadi movement from all others: it is the bloodlust.The al-Qaida training manual speaks of killing enemies like of a “slaughter” an animal sacrifice to Allah: it is human sacrifice. That’s what Mohammad Atta says in his last text. The jihadi practice is a return of human sacrifice in the 21st century.We find an idolization of blood, of savagery, a cult of killing, of death. Gruesome murder is lionized and proffered as model, as pleasing to Allah, as opening the gates of Paradise for the “martyrs.” The highest religious authorities sanction it, governments condone it, approve of it, the media enthusiastically endorse it. Think of the notorious “Waiting Room of Paradise” at the Martyrs’ Cemetery of Tehran where a 14-feet high fountain of blood-like red liquid symbolizes the essence of Islam’s message, the guide says!More... | | By: THE NEW BABYLON TIMES | | |
| | On the Author's Mind | | 2007-10-13 02:16:17 | | Candy Tothill ponders the "law of three" applied to authors and speculates whether this makes it easier to love writers. She inspired me (and I will wonder if I should not have dared to use this word once this text is complete) to add a few thoughts on the transfer of the story from the writer to the reader.As a strict atheist, I would have preferred a less religious approach than that of the "law of three," yet I have no choice but to apply mystical words such
as "soul" or "spirit" and similar symbology because inspiration, creativity, emotion,
and feeling cannot be described by Aristotelian logic. I could perhaps refer to Antonio Damasio's somatic marker model, but since this model is also ontologically incomplete (as Damasio himself recognizes), this detour would eventually be wasted effort. So please bear with me on the mystical language, and try not to imagine metaphysical entities as I use mystical expressions.
Anyone is an author these days; write an incoherent article that
includes a few of your darling phrases and you're an author. Change a few
fonts to the worse in a premanufactured template and you're a web
designer. Submit some video footage of yourself to YouTube and you're an
actor and a producer. There are plenty of options for you to earn your 15 bytes of
fame.Aim higher, and you may become one of those authors that have learned the handicraft of
writing, applying strong language skills, mastering composition and powerful statements, who
can state some profundities and maybe even have stories to tell, yet
somehow leave the reader with a feeling that he or she has just read a
user's manual.Alternatively, become a no-style writer whose specialty is simplicity in every sense of the word. It probably helps if you're a religious person or a conservative, because their views invariably tend toward the simplicity of bifurcations.But some authors charm their readers. Their readers have experienced the captivating feeling that made it impossible to put | | By: What's This? | | |
| | The Industrial Revolution Unplugged: An Interview With Author Gregory Clark | | 2007-10-12 21:44:28 | | The topic below was originally posted in my blog the Intrepid Liberal Journal as well as the Independent Bloggers Alliance, The Peace Tree and Worldwide Sawdust.Our current world of globalization, technological advancement and the widening schism between rich and poor stems from the Industrial Revolution. Indeed, the Industrial Revolution is arguably the most important historical watershed in human history. So why did it happen in eighteenth-century England? Furthermore, how come the unprecedented economic growth it produced only served to make parts of the world even poorer?Conventional wisdom is that the Industrial Revolution resulted from the development of stable, political, legal and economic institutions in seventeenth-century Europe. Many assume factors such as geography, natural resources or exploitation were behind the Industrial Revolution. A decade ago, Jared Diamond postulated in his best selling and Pulitzer prize winning book, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, that natural endowments such as geography were largely responsible for differences in the wealth of nations.Gregory Clark, a professor of economics at the University of California, Davis as well as department Chair, is posing a direct challenge to Diamond and our longstanding belief of why the Industrial Revolution happened. In his recently published book, A Farewell To Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World (Princeton University Press), Clark contends that culture not imperialism or geography explains the wealth and poverty of nations.His provocative book has garnered much attention and provoked considerable debate. Tyler Cowen of the New York Times wrote late last year that,“Professor Clark’s idea-rich book may just prove to be the next blockbuster in economics. He offers us a daring story of the economic foundations of good institutions and the climb out of recurring poverty. We may not have cracked the mystery of human progress, but ‘A Farewell to Alms' brings us closer than before."Still others take issue with Clark’s suggestion that culture is far more influential than institutions in generating economic growth. In a New York Times review in August, Robert P. Brenner, a historian at the University of California, Los Angeles is quoted as referring to Clark’s idea of genes for capitalist behavior as a “speculative leap.” Prior to even reading Clark’s book, conservative Andrew Sullivan wrote the following for his blog in August, “Conservatism has long posited that human nature has no history. But what if it does? What if genetic adaptation occurs more swiftly among humans than we once believed? This implies that human nature is actually more plastic than we have long thought - but generationally, not individually. It suggests that different populations may have not just different cultural but different genetic inclinations. It means that some populations may therefore have different skill-sets than others, and even different aptitudes with respect to complex systems like, liberal democracy, that require specific habits of mind and custom. It means that these facts about human societies across the globe may be somewhat stubborn things in the short term, if not in the long.If these ideas undermine parts of conservatism (its belief in unchanging human nature in history), they also entrench others (that societies cannot be abstracted from their moment in time or culture). These ideas also suggest, of course, that a place like, say, Iraq, will not soon muster anything like the skills and practices for a Western European democracy. These are my wild-eyed inferences from a book I have not yet read.“ Yet Clark’s book also a difficult pill to swallow for liberals idealists like me who believe in activism to promote peace, justice and prosperity on a global scale. Personally, I believe factors beyond culture such as natural resources, geography and hostile neighbors are largely responsible for defining cultures. Hence, I further believe that activism is required to help influence those factors that shape cultures and hopefully facilitate worldwide prosperity and social justice.Putting my own misgivings about some of his conclusions aside, Clark’s book is compelling, scrupulously sourced and contains an abundance of remarkable facts. Clark graciously agreed to a telephone interview with me about his book. Below is a transcript of our conversation.******************************************************************************ILJ: Professor before we delve into the substance of your book let’s talk about why you embarked on this project in the first place. Why is it so important to establish why the Industrial Revolution happened?Clark: Well, the industrial revolution is actually one of those amazing puzzles of world history. And it’s something that’s up there with things like String Theory in physics and quasars in astronomy. It’s how we got here. It’s how we have the modern world. And the puzzle is why did it occur only 200 years ago when people were around for at least a hundred thousand years before that? One of the reasons it was fun to write this book is that you could actually explain this puzzle in terms that any intelligent person can understand and let them see why it is such an amazing puzzle about why history would take that particular form. Whereas with things like quantum mechanics I certainly know I’m never going to understand that stuff (laughs)!ILJ: I’m curious as to how you compiled the impressive historical data you utilized. Whether one agrees with your arguments or not, and I’m skeptical about some of your conclusions, the information you accumulated whether it’s last wills and testaments from men in the 1600s or pre-industrial fertility rates is quite astounding. I found myself transfixed by all the data presented in your charts and graphs. How did you obtain access to this data as well as economic surveys from hundreds of years ago?Clark: Well, I’m a specialist in English economic history. And that’s actually one of the countries that is the best documented, going way back to the middle ages. I’ve been working on this book for twelve years. I’ve been in this field for twenty-five years. And then the other thing is I actually love to read anthropology and that provided this whole other source of data. And then I’ve been teaching for the last fifteen years effectively world history courses. So the great thing is you gradually get exposed to more and more evidence and more and more materials. And what’s nice about this particular history is this is a very obscure corner of the academic realm.People are just not aware of how useful and interesting various bits of information we have from the past are. How we can estimate how literate the upper Roman classes were, or what was the speed of travel for information in the ancient world. We actually do know all these things so part of the fun of the book was to reveal to people that there is this amazing body of information about the past. So it’s partly my own research and partly just drawing on this huge body of knowledge that scholars in economic history and anthropology have assembled.ILJ: So you really were combining two disciplines: economics and anthropology?Clark: Yeah, I’ve always had an interest in anthropology and also particularly in socio-biology. When I was in graduate school at Harvard I listened to all sorts of lectures from evolutionary anthropologists. So for me it was fun just to try and bring different types of evidence and arguments together in this book and expand people’s idea of what economic history is about. It’s more than just boring stuff about prices and wages.ILJ: Professor, a reoccurring theme in your book, especially the first part of your book covering the pre-Industrial Revolution is what you term the Malthusian trap, named after Thomas Malthus who in 1798 wrote “An Essay On the Principle of Population.” For the benefit of those who haven’t read your book or the work of Thomas Malthus for that matter, what is the Malthusian trap?Clark: Well here is an interesting piece of intellectual history. Malthus was writing just as the world he was describing was coming to an end. It’s interesting that just as that world was ending he finally figured out its true nature. The problem with all societies prior to 1800 was that technological advance was very slow.In a world with slow technological advances and unrestricted fertility (or at least very modestly restricted fertility), when technological advances occur living standards are increased in the short run. But those increased living standards result simply in fewer people dying and more people being born, and that drives up the population. With a fixed land endowment that just drives wages down back to some kind of subsistence level.So in all of the world before 1800, technological advancements were absorbed into population growth. None of it got translated into any long-term increase of living standards. That’s the Malthusian trap that existed before 1800. And that produced a topsy-turvy world in which all our intuitions about what is good for society turn out to be wrong.ILJ: That leads to my next question. In Chapter five about life expectancy you note that the cultures in China and Japan respectively practiced superior hygiene then their European counterparts during the pre-industrial era. Did the Europeans, England especially, perversely benefit from inferior hygiene because their populations were kept down from plagues while the standard of living for those who survived, were enhanced?Clark: Yes, this is one of the paradoxes of history and an example of why this book is meant to be bold and controversial. It’s previously been known that England and the Netherlands had very high living standards compared to most pre-industrial societies in the eighteenth century. People have identified that with an idea of greater economic progress in those societies. What my book argues instead is that living standards were good there not because of any sophistication of their economies, but because of the nature of hygiene practices across different societies in the pre-industrial world.For a country like Japan living standards were only 1/3 or ½ of those in Western Europe. But that was because in Japan people bathed every day, and they carefully separated human waste products from people. When they used human waste in agriculture they carefully treated it to eliminate bacteria. They swept the floors of their houses. They swept the streets. Japan was a very orderly, hygienic society. But that has the perverse effect in a Malthusian world that you can live, you can sustain the population, at a much lower subsistence level. Material consumption can be much less, yet people still survive, and enough children can be born that the population can be replenished in each generation.Whereas if you look at pre-industrial Western Europe, these people lived truly filthy (laughs). Before 1800 in England, no one seems to have bathed! It was just a relatively rare activity. For example Samuel Pepys, who was a high English civil servant in the 1660s, kept a famously detailed diary for almost ten years. And he records every minutia of his life. That’s why it’s so fascinating for historians. In that entire time he records his wife having a bath once!ILJ: Yes, it was like a big event! (laughs)Clark: Yes, it’s a notable event! And he actually notes that she “pretends to becoming clean (laughs). But we’ll see how long that lasts!” And apparently she never again took another bath in this decade.ILJ: (laughs)Clark: And she wouldn’t let him come to bed with her that night because he was filthy. People didn’t bathe. Another thing is that in cities like London, what did people do with human waste? They stored it in their basement until it was emptied every few months by the night soil men. So they’re living on piles of shit in the richest areas of pre-industrial England. And Pepys again in his diary records going down into his basement when his neighbor’s waste storage has overflowed, and he’s stepping on turds!It’s just very interesting how little attention Europeans paid to hygiene and the book argues that everything in a Malthusian world that kills off the population – plagues, war, disease - actually ends up making the population richer because fewer people have to die because of the misery of every day life and material existence. We can actually see that English living standards in 1450 where double those of the 18th century even though there was much less technological advance. The reason for that is because the “Black Death” was raging across Europe in that period.ILJ: Just to follow up on that, if I interpret the data you present correctly, those who survived, and you coined the phrase “survival of the richest” in your book, enjoyed a superior standard of living because there were less people to divide the wealth among and they passed that wealth onto their descendants. Your contending that passing on wealth to offspring facilitated a culture of patience because for them survival wasn’t contingent upon immediate consumption. Do I have that right?Clark: Yes. Pretty much. One of the implications of this Malthusian existence, and this is deeply embedded in this Malthusian picture of the world, is better economic conditions allow people to be more successful reproductively. Within any of these societies there is a huge range of living standards. There are very poor people and very rich people. Those rich people, because they enjoy so much better material consumption, should be able to produce many more surviving children. The way this happens is you have more living space, you have more food, more changes in clothing. You have cleaner water. So we would expect in this society we would have a Darwinian element. Only two children will survive to adulthood in any period of the pre-industrial world because the population can only change slowly. But amongst the rich you’ll have many more than two children surviving. Among the poor, many fewer. And we can observe this process when reviewing 16th and 17th century England. It’s a very strong process.So the rich are taking over this society biologically. That leads to the question, does this get transmitted from one generation to the next? If you have the rich in one generation, are their children also likely to be rich? Are their children also likely to be successful economically and reproductively? It turns out we can show in England that’s the case.This raises the intriguing possibility that if the rich are different from the poor, either culturally or genetically, then this process may be gradually transforming society because the rich and their descendants are taking over all the positions in society. So if it was a genetic advantage the rich had, there may actually be genetic changes in this long Malthusian interval between the arrival of settled agriculture and the Industrial Revolution.It turns out we have very clear evidence of changes in peoples preferences over this long pre-industrial interval. The example the book gives is that people were becoming more patient as the Industrial Revolution approached. The measure of patience in these pre-industrial societies is the interest rates? Because the interest rate tells you much you have to reward people to own land or own houses. How much do you have to pay them not to consume immediately, but instead own that asset and wait for future consumption? If you go back to ancient Babylon they had mortgage markets but the interest rates were typically twenty to twenty-five percent. If you go to medieval Europe their interest rates were ten to twelve percent for things like land. By the eve of the Industrial Revolution the return on land in England dropped to about four percent. So in the pre-industrial world interest rates seem to indicate the amount of patience people are exhibiting.ILJ: One element of your book I found ironic is your challenge to Adam Smith, considered the founding father of capitalism, who in 1776 published The Real Wealth of Nations. Smith postulated that the rule of tyrants and their institutions undermined incentive for productivity because the ruling class ultimately confiscated any wealth that was produced. You contend that pre-industrial England had plenty of incentive for producers, such as limited government and low taxes, yet prosperity still wasn’t generated. Hence, Smith who is identified with the ethos of limited government actually postulated that the ruling class can positively or negatively influence economic policy with activist government. Why do you believe Adam Smith was wrong about that?Clark: Well, since I’ve published the book I’ve come under criticism from intellectual historians. So, I think what I should be careful to identify it’s the modern image we have of what Smith was about, rather than Smith himself. I’m not a historian of economic thought, so what I mainly want to emphasize is the message we’ve taken from Smith, the Smith we’ve constructed.Smith is regarded as arguing that growth results from getting the correct economic incentives, which results from getting the right set of economic institutions. That’s really an incredibly strong founding principal of modern economics, the idea that people really are at base the same everywhere. If you can only get the incentives correct, then economic growth will result. So, the book strongly takes issue with that.I’m saying that economists have had to construct a false history of the world. They’ve had to imagine a pre-industrial past that is, you know, a cross of Brave Heart and Monty Python’s Holy Grail and all the bad movies about medieval England. An image of rape, and pillage, disorder and violence, and serfs groaning under the weight of the lords emerged about medieval England.My knowledge of medieval history, and this is one of the areas I’ve studied in detail, shows that picture is just unsustainable. If the World Bank was to now score medieval England against modern economies in any objective way, in terms of what are the incentives for production and for innovation, medieval England would score much more highly than somewhere like modern Sweden – which is a very rich and successful society. One way that shows up is, for example, in the average government tax rate for medieval England? It’s one percent. In low tax America we’re closer to forty percent, and in places like Sweden they’re even close to sixty percent in terms of how they’re taking from any extra earnings of the average wage earner.Medieval England had absolute price stability. It had almost no government debt. It had very strong security of property. People who invested in land in local villages, who needed a ten percent return in order to make that investment, had absolute property security. We can see through the course of 500 years that lots of these land plots were transferred properly from one legal owner to another. They had a free market. And they had huge incentives. If you produced you ate, if you didn’t produce you starved. For example we can see from the records that in 1316-17, in the last great famine that England experienced, poor people died and the rich lived (laughs).ILJ: (Laughs)Clark: You had every incentive to acquire assets in this world. Assets could be the difference between life and death. And yet this was still a world with very, very slow economic growth. Almost none. So one of the things the book is saying is look, modern economics in some sense is a cult. It’s like pre-modern medicine, where you keep repeating these same ineffective treatments. They keep failing. In the book I provide lots of other instances where good economic institutions are not associated with economic growth. That’s why I’m saying there has to be some other thing required, and what the book is arguing is that there really are important cultural processes that take place before you get modern economic growth. If we neglect that we’re never going to understand the true nature of economic growth. And so we really need to move away from incentive explanations, and what the book is saying is that history is illuminating about this and we really need to know more about that history.ILJ: Now if I interpret your book correctly, it’s your provocative contention that the industrial revolution happened in England ahead of Japan, China, India or her European rivals because of a cultural evolution instead of institutions established by the ruling class. Specifically this cultural evolution encompassed what we would term middle class or bourgeoisie values of thrift, hard work, nonviolence, negotiation and patience. Couldn’t one argue however that what really gave the English a leg up on their rivals was their superiority at imperialism, colonization and subjugation of other peoples for their material benefit?Clark: Well, it is absolutely the case that the English were very successful colonists in this area. But the book is at pains to stress that the Industrial Revolution was home grown. It is the result of people in England innovating, introducing new processes in a way that they did not do earlier, as a result of changes in the culture. Not as a result of better incentives. And the book does acknowledge that events outside England, particularly England’s great access to food supplies from the Americas, its access to cotton from colonies, helped magnify that process. But the book strongly stresses that the break, the move toward higher productivity growth rates, is really a homegrown feature of England.Further I go on to look at the relationship between England and India in the nineteenth century. India was England’s great colony in this period. Everything the English did, they didn’t mean it this way, but everything they did should have led to the industrialization of India. They were not systematically exploiting India. They were in fact offering India the enormous possibility of becoming the second great industrial power in the world. That didn’t happen, but it wasn’t because of anything the British did. It was because of what happened internally in India. Because of India’s weak responses to the new incentives the British Empire offered. And so the book says look, it’s not that the imperialists had any kind of good motives, it’s not that we should admire them in anyway, but in the case of something like British imperialism, it was actually, if you believe modern economics, it was actually a force for rapid world economic development and that Britain gained very little directly from its colonies. Most of Britain’s gains actually came from Britain’s internal processes of economic change.ILJ: It seems to me you have adroitly combined elements of the classic nature/nurture divide. You’re contending that the intrinsic human characteristics of a growing economy were nurtured in England and became part of that society’s DNA – that so called middle class values were passed on almost genetically. And then around eighteen hundred, after years of this cultural development, a critical mass was achieved and the industrial revolution happened. But wasn’t pre-industrial Japan a civil society with laws and customs that resembled England’s? Couldn’t it be argued that England had advantages transcending culture over the Japanese such as a more powerful imperial empire? I know you’re saying it’s home grown and you do acknowledge in your book some of the outside cultural advantages England had. But couldn’t one argue that those outside forces were even more powerful than what was homegrown since there was many parallels between Japanese and English society?Clark: Oh yes. The interesting thing is that there were actually surprising parallels between England and Japan in this period. But what the book says, I want to emphasize, is that the Industrial Revolution was going to occur somewhere. There were a bunch of societies that all seemed to be moving in the same direction. One of them was going to achieve the breakthrough into modern industrial society. And there were element also of luck and accidents in that. But England on most of these dimensions was the society that had moved furthest along.So if you compare England and Japan you can see similar kind of processes in England and Japan. But that Japan looks like England three hundred to four hundred years earlier. The book is contending that if England never had an Industrial Revolution, then likely somewhere like Japan within three hundred or four hundred years would’ve actually made that breakthrough towards a modern world. There were just accidents of British history that gave the English the lead, and one of them was that the demographic system in pre-industrial England really created an enormous reproductive advantage for the upper classes. In Japan, their demographic system only created a modest advantage for the Samurai class. Consequently, there wasn’t the same kind of cascade downward into the merchants and mechanics ranks of the excess children of the upper classes that you get in someone like England. And so the book is still sympathetic to accident and contingency, but it’s saying you can still see a pattern. Another feature of England is the incredible stability of the English economy. It’s actually internally very boring from the Middle Ages on.ILJ: (Laughs)Clark: And that’s one of the reasons England is so incredibly well documented is because nothing ever gets destroyed! (laughs)ILJ: (Laughs)Clark: Even the Civil War results in almost no destruction for the economy … the Civil War of 1642. So one of the things this allows is for these basic demographic processes that are changing the composition of the English population to be much more rapid than in other societies where there is more disruption, invasion, chaos which disrupts these demographic processes. But the basic thing the book emphasizes is that this was a common trend across long settled agrarian pre-industrial societies. That China, Japan and England are not that different by the time you get to 1800 but England is further along in this process.ILJ: Your postulating that only long established stable societies develop the necessary cultural characteristics for economic growth. It seems to me that a society’s economic development is influenced by so many variables, such as geography, access to fresh water, whether or not a society has been conquered or how long they’ve been subjugated, profoundly influences whether or not that society develops the cultural characteristics needed for economic growth. For all the impressive data your presenting - and it should be noted that your peers do not dispute your data, they’re very impressed by what you’ve done - isn’t it a leap of logic to say that culture is the cause of economic growth instead of those variables determined by fate which influence culture? How can we really know if it’s the chicken or the egg?Clark: Oh yeah. This is always a problem. Again, to be clear the book is saying when we look at the modern world it’s beginning to resemble again the world pre- 1800. The great actors of economic life are beginning to look like those of 1800. It’s Europe and European offsprings. East Asia and East Asian offsprings that are becoming the world’s great economic powers again, and that looks exactly like the world before 1800.But the argument of the book is that was because the long histories of these societies gave them an enduring cultural advantage in terms of modern economic competition. The puzzle then that comes up is why did these societies have such long histories of agrarian settlement. That’s when you might say that maybe Jared Diamond could be right in terms of saying geographical advantages these places had in the beginning gave them much longer access to settled agrarian society. And so when you come down to it, the book seems to be posing a mechanism by which these societies have an advantage that is completely different from the one that Jared Diamond suggests. But in the end, I will admit, you can still think geography played a role. But not current geography. Now it turns out we’re in a world where most societies have equal access in terms of geography and the possibilities of economic growth. Maybe some landlocked African economies don’t. But most, a huge number do have equal access now. But I am not denying there maybe geographical advantages in the distant past that may have moved groups from hunter gatherers to agrarian societies in Europe and in China much earlier than in other parts of the world.ILJ: Fair enough. Professor Clark you’ve been very generous with your time. A final question if I may sir. Assuming all your conclusions about the importance of culture in facilitating the industrial revolution are correct, what lessons can we draw from history as we try to influence economic growth in the underdeveloped world in the 21st century?Clark: Well, the lesson is unfortunately a little pessimistic. But I think one thing that is important is that for fifty years institutions like the World Bank have been applying the same kind of medicine. And it’s like pre-industrial doctors, you try bloodletting, and when it doesn’t work, you conclude let’s do more bloodletting.ILJ: (Laughs)Clark: And there is this emphasis now, it seems, a very strong emphasis, on achieving good government in a bunch of African societies which really have a hard time maintaining Western style governments. But yet when you look you see someone like China growing very rapidly with a very corrupt government, terrible social institutions, and the rule of law really evaded on a massive scale (laughs).ILJ: (Laughs)Clark: And so when you see this you think maybe to focus all your energies on institutions is not the way to go. What the very clear problem, say, within these African societies, is that even inside production enterprises it’s very hard to get people to cooperate in production in a way that makes workers have high value. And the shocking thing that’s occurred recently is that in Zambia and Malawi, where Chinese entrepreneurs have moved into these very poor African countries, wages are much lower now then they are in most of China. But they’ve actually been importing Chinese workers in factories in sub-Saharan Africa.ILJ: That’s ironic.Clark: And encountering a lot of local opposition. The puzzle then is it seems just very hard to get people to cooperate effectively in production in these societies. I think that says this is an area where we really must examine what is going on here. One interesting idea is that the nature of modern technology is very demanding in terms of how careful workers have to be, how exactly they have to follow rules. So one thing to think of is there any way to develop other technologies more forgiving of the cultural histories of these societies? Another thing to look at is if we expose workers more to the kind of Western high income economic life and send them back would that actually help in changing workers attitudes and changing the economic life of those societies? But I don’t have any simple recipe for economic growth, and anyone who does is someone you should avoid.ILJ: (Laughs)Clark: I do think that we’re looking in the wrong place, and have been systematically. And it’s the ideology of economics that pushes us there but it’s very clear that it is the wrong place. So it’s at least worth considering, given the true constraints, what can we do? How can we operate? What are the processes we can set in place? And if we are going to solve the problem of poverty in sub-Saharan Africa, the solution is going to come in a very different form then the followers of Adam Smith are going to accept.http://www.relaywave.com/pingRelayWave.php
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| | | Book Signing by Local Author | | 2007-09-18 16:57:00 | | Greater Vision Christian Store in Canton will be hosting local author Shelley Hendrix this coming Saturday, Sept. 22 from 1-4pm. Shelley Hendrix is the founder of “Mary’s Vineyard Ministries, Inc.” and the co-creator and main-stage speaker for “The Get Real Conferences” for women. She will be sharing a bit about her life (which is really interesting, I can tell you from first-hand experience) and signing her new book "On Purpose For a Purpose". Greater Vision is located just off of I-575 at the Holly Springs exit. If you would like to be encouraged, you will not want to miss this event! | | By: Cherokee County GA Real Estate | | |
| | Belated Birthday Wish to Janet Frame, A New Zealand Author | | 2007-09-16 16:08:57 | | Celebrating the Birthday of Janet FrameAugust 28, 1924 – January 29, 2004Poet, Novelist – New ZealandOne of the exciting benefits about film is that you encounter people you may never otherwise encounter. I rented a film, An Angel at My Table, by director Jane Campion. You may recognize Jane’s name as the director of The Piano starring Holly Hunter and Sam Neill. As a film, An Angel at My Table was unusual. It isn't a film that I see would have wide appeal, nor would I recommend it universally but there are people who would find it very interesting. The characters are strongly portrayed but the pace is a little slow. It did; however, give me an introduction to a woman in history of whom I hadn't yet encountered. It features the life of Janet Frame, a poet and novelist from New Zealand. Janet grew up with three sisters and a brother but it seems that she was a very shy person and had a lot of trouble connecting with people. Her social struggles led to her admitting herself into an insane asylum for treatment. It wasn't until she gained popularity with writing and made friends with other writers and artists that she seemed to "fit in". Do you ever feel that your creative activities practically save you? It is almost as if their voice, their manifestation buoys you in life? According to the criticism published about Janet's life, Janet felt as if her writing saved her life, literally. Looking for more?Listen to Janet Frame read her poem "Friends Far Away Die"Read three recently published poems by Janet Frame. "The End", "The Happy Prince", and "Eater of Crayfish".Women's Success History
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| | Poet, Spoken Word Artist and Author, MARC LACY | | 2007-08-22 06:08:00 | | April Sims A & E’s podcast“WE are GREATER than iâ€Poet, Spoken Word Artist and Author, MARC LACY(click the above link to listen to the show)Enjoy! — April SimsYou can find out more about Marcy Lacy by visiting http://www.marclacy.com/ -----------------------APRIL SIMS A & E RADIO is dedicated to shining a positive spotlight on the arts and entertainment industry by showcasing artists from across the globe, coupled with inspiring, motivating and educating our audience.Find out more about APRIL SIMS A & E RADIO at http://www.aprilsimsartsandentertainment.com/radio.html | | By: April Sims A & E | | |
| | William R. Patterson, co-author of Best-selling business and personal finance book, "The Baron Son" | | 2007-08-14 22:01:00 | | WHO: William R. Patterson, co-author of "The Baron Son"WHERE: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/aprilsims WHEN: Wednesday, August 16, 2007TIME: 7p - 8p ESTCALL IN #: 718-508-9921April Sims (www.AprilSims.com) and Christopher 'Poetry Man' Fields (www.ThePoetryManDC.com) will interview William R. Patterson, co-author of Best-selling business and personal finance book, "The Baron Son", Wednesday August 16, 2007 from 7P - 8P EST.Excerpt from William R. Patterson's bio"WILLIAM R. PATTERSON is an award-winning lecturer and co-author of the National Bestselling business and personal finance book, The Baron Son. He is Chairman and CEO of The Warcoffer Capital Group, LLC. His ethical guidebook to wealth, power, and success, The Baron Son, has been translated around the world and featured in the Forbes Book Club and Black Enterprise magazine. William is the business and financial expert on We Ourselves with Ambrose I. Lane on XM Satellite Radio 169 - The Power. He has been a featured guest o | | By: April Sims A & E | | |
| | Replacing the Empire Culture: A Podcast Interview With Author David Korten | | 2007-08-13 04:46:55 | | The topic below was originally posted in my blog the Intrepid Liberal Journal as well as Worldwide Sawdust and Independent Bloggers Alliance.“There is a culture war in America, but it is not between liberals and conservatives, who in fact share a great many core values – including a commitment to children, family, community, personal responsibility and democracy. It is between the lower and higher orders of our human nature. It is between an imperial politics of individual greed and power and a democratic politics based on principle and the common good. It is between Power Seekers at the extreme political fringes who remain imprisoned in an Imperial Consciousness and the realists of the political mainstream who truly want to solve the problems that beset us all.”David Korten wrote those provocative words in his book, The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community published last year by Berrett-Kohler.Korten worked for more than thirty-five years in preeminent business, academi | | By: The Peace Tree | | |
| | Harry Potter author working on two new books | | 2007-07-29 00:43:00 | | British author J.K. Rowling, who published the final Harry Potter book a week ago, is already back at work.She says she's sad the series is over, but will not stop writing."I'm writing two things at the moment," she told USA Today."One is for children, the other is not."This is how I started. I was writing two things simultaneously for a year before Harry took over."Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows sold an estimated 8.3 million copies within 24 hours of release, its publisher says.
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| | Mohnish Pabrai, Author of Dhandho Investor | | 2007-07-28 19:01:57 | | This year, Mohnish Pabrai, author of The Dhandho Investor: The Low - Risk Value Method to High Returns, won the eBay bid for a lunch with Warren Buffett.
Mohnish Pabrai was recently interviewed by Justin Fuller, Stock Analyst of Morningstar. During this interview, Mohnish talks about:
His Dhandho investment philosophy;
How coming from an entrepreneur background helped his [...] | | By: Intelligent Investor Club | | |
| | Comment Author menjadi HighLight | | 2007-07-25 06:19:47 | | Ketika Blog Ini saya Buat, Saya yakin Akan Ada Komentar yang di Tujukan Kepada Saya. Karena Itu Saya Menghapus ChatBox Pada Blog Saya agar saya lebih bisa Beriteraksi dengan pembaca. Seperti Blog lainnya, Saya akan sedikit kesulitan mengetahui siapa yg sedang berkomentar. jika saja komentar author diberi background warna lain dari pemberi komentar atau warna halaman page. maka saya akan sangat | | By: Adbrite Indonesia | | |
| | Awakening Warrior: An Interview With Author Timothy Challans | | 2007-07-24 02:17:00 | | The topic below was originally posted yesterday, on my blog the Intrepid Liberal Journal, as well as the Independent Bloggers Alliance and Worldwide Sawdust.Remember the pride Americans felt in its military following the first Gulf War in 1991? Prior to that conflict we had the “Vietnam Syndrome” tainting our military with the stench of defeat and shameful atrocities such as the My Lai massacre. Supposedly, a reformed military culture debunked the legacy of Vietnam, liberated Kuwait with honor while safeguarding America’s interests in Saudi Arabia.Among those who initially embraced that myth is Timothy Challans, who served in the Army as a career infantry officer and retired in 2002 as a lieutenant colonel. Challans writes in his new book, Awakening Warrior: A Revolution In the Ethics of Warfare (State University of New York Press) that,“For years after Desert Storm I wanted to believe, like many Americans, that the U.S. military had completed a moral transformation. Those of | | By: The Peace Tree | | |
| | Be your own.....Author | | 2007-07-23 22:01:00 | | When I was a kid, I wrote a lot. I like to write books. And one day I gave one to my Mom to read. And she was impressed.
She even went so far as to answer one of those "WRITE FOR CHILDREN" ads in the paper. Only what we discovered was they wanted to teach you to write and then maybe help you get a book published.
I was disappointed. Majorly disappointed.
So after I finished my first NaNoWriMo, | | By: Organized Chaos | | |
| | Author-athletes score big with books geared to children | | 2007-07-23 01:29:00 | | Kids scream his name at the ballpark, and kids beg for his autograph after batting practice. But the kids who make Alex Rodriguez feel like a rock star, the ones who give the Yankee slugger the warm fuzzies, are the kids who know he's an author."The biggest thrill I get is when a kid comes up to me and says, 'I love your book,' " the third baseman -- and, yes, writer -- says. "I never thought I could write children's books."Kind of how parents probably never thought that sitting on their bookshelves, next to Dr. Seuss, would be a Yankee. Or a Giant. Or Terrell Owens.
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| | Author sees Islam’s 20-year plan for U.S. | | 2007-07-05 21:07:15 | | I have got to send out a big TexasFred hat tip to The Ranando Report for sending this to me, the man does some fantastic ‘deep research’ on the ‘net and finds some tremendous articles, this is an OLD article and it is well worth re-posting, thank you Ranando!
Posted: August 4, 2003 - 1:00 a.m. Eastern
Editor’s note: Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin is an online, subscription intelligence news service from the creator of WorldNetDaily.com – a journalist who has been developing sources around the world for the last 25 years.
© 2003 WorldNetDaily.com
A refugee from the Muslim Middle East thinks he has discovered Islam’s 20-point plan for conquering the United States by 2020 – a plan revealed in the latest issue of Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin.
Anis Shorrosh, author of ‘’Islam Revealed'’ and ‘’The True Furqan,'’ is a Christian Arab-American who emigrated from Arab-controlled Jerusalem in January 1967.
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| | Oklahoma Author Invited To The 23rd Annual Love Ride In California As A Celebrity Guest | | 2007-06-16 12:14:11 | | A Press Release from November 18, 2006:Oklahoma based Edward Winterhalder, author of a best selling book on motorcycle gangs titled “Out In Bad Standings: Inside The Bandidos Motorcycle Club – The Making Of A Worldwide Dynasty”, has just returned from California where he was an invited celebrity guest for the 23rd annual Love Ride. The Love Ride is the largest one day event for motorcyclists in North America, this year attracting more than 20,000 registered motorcycle riders for a thirty-five mile motorcycle procession from Glendale Harley Davidson to Castaic Lake Park on November 12, 2006. Along with such major stars like Robert Patrick (star of the current CBS show “TheUnit” and the Clint Eastwood movie “Flags Of Our Fathers”), Mickey Jones (“Home Improvement” star), Peter Fonda and late night talk show host Jay Leno, Winterhalder donated his name, presence, signature and copies of his book as a celebrity to encourage attendees to participate in the event. Although final figures were not available at the end of the event, the 23rd annual Love Ride reportedly raised more than $1,000,000 for the benefit of multiple charities that included Muscular Dystrophy Association, Cure Society of America and Operation Hope.Winterhalder’s book, published by Blockhead City Press (ISBN 0977174700), details the establishment and recent growth of the Bandidos Motorcycle Club in Canada, Europe and Oklahoma, and is one of the best selling, self-published hardcover books of 2006. This historical expose of the Bandidos organization gives the reader a rare look into the secret world of today’s 1%er motorcycle gangs, and is a must read for every Harley rider. | | By: The Life and Times of Edward Winterhalder | | |
| | Author/TV Biker Celebrity Available For Personal Appearances | | 2007-06-16 12:13:27 | | A Press Release from May 15, 2007:Edward Winterhalder, author of the current best selling biker book "Out In Bad Standings" (distributed by American Publisher Seven Locks Press and published by Blockhead City Press) and co-executive producer of a new nonfiction TV reality series about motorcycle clubs called "Living On The Edge," is now represented by APA, which is one of the largest and oldest talent agencies in the country.During your event, Winterhalder is available to mingle with your guests, take part in organized rides, do book signings, hang out at evening socials, do event hosting or whatever else you may have in mind. Steve Lassiter (known for his association with other high profile Harley loving celebrities like Travis Tritt & Billy Ray Cyrus, and an avid Harley rider himself) will be the agent to contact concerning Winterhalder's personal appearances; Steve can be reached at 615-297-0100 or slassiter@apanashville.com.Winterhalder, who was a Bandidos Motorcycle Club high-ranking world leader until his departure from the club in late 2003, is now a leading authority on motorcycle clubs. The patchover of Canada's Rock Machine into the Bandidos Motorcycle Club, which was overseen by Winterhalder, is a critical part of a new book that will be released this fall by London book publisher Constable & Robinson, titled "The Mammoth Book of Bikers", which is edited by famed Australian motorcycle club authority Dr. Arthur Veno.Winterhalder is also the co-author of a new book on motorcycle clubs titled "The Assimilation," which is scheduled for release by Canadian Publisher ECW Press in the spring of 2008, and the co-author of an academic book about the psychology, criminology and sociology aspects of motorcycle gang members for students and faculty of the college world, which is expected to be released in the summer of 2008.You can see more about Winterhalder, by going to any of the following links:Living On The Edge TV ShowThe Mammoth Book of Bikers - Wal-Mart Wor | | By: The Life and Times of Edward Winterhalder | | |
| | Lucio Battisti the Best Italian Author of Ever (14 videos) | | 2007-05-31 17:14:00 | | videos music "music+videos" playlist italian singer song Best+Italian+musician" Battisti "Lucio+Battisti" "Battisti+playlist"
I'm preparing something to LUCIO BATTISTI. I'm in difficult I love too much this ICON of Italian Music. He borns near Rome, in 1943. A self-taught guitarist made his debut in 1960 in some local bands. The first song is "Per una lira", . Another one is "29 settembre",...
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| | | I’ve Been Granted The Title Of Co-Author For Blog About Your Blog | | 2007-05-25 06:47:02 | | I’ve been blogging for over two years, but I don’t think I’ve ever written as much as I have in such a short amount of time as I have in these past 90 days. But then, I haven’t gotten this excited about it since I created MeAndMyDrum, which has really opened up some doors for me.
After contributing a few articles to Blog About Your Blog, I was invited to become an official co-author for them on their MyBlogLog community. In case this is the first time you’ve heard of BAYB, it’s a blog with multiple contributors and a great way to gain readers and exposure for your blog.
It’s quite a lively community. I’ve already received some feedback to several of my posts. They also have a regular theme called “Comment Friday”, which receives a lot of feedback. Visitors can comment on just about anything.
Get new ideas, make new friends, click on over to Blog About Your Blog.
Technorati Tags: blog, blogging, blogosphere, exposure, commun | | By: MeAndMyDrum | | |
| | About author! | | 2007-05-24 13:30:54 | | I love cigarettes and gadget.
In this blog I will write about cigarettes and gadget.
For more detail, email me at: bianca@infocig.com | | By: cigarettes and gadget | | |
| | | Caitlin Esch interviews Bolivian author Juan de Re... | | 2007-05-11 12:51:00 | | Caitlin Esch interviews Bolivian author Juan de Recacoechea, on his recently published "American Visa".
Rail: What kinds of opportunities exist in Bolivia today for writers, journalists and novelists, as compared to 20 years ago?
Recacoechea: Well, now it’s easy to publish. There are many people publishing, but the writers have to pay to publish their own novels. You write a novel, you pay for | | By: SPLALit - Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American | | |
| | About Author | | 2007-05-06 21:14:00 | | Hello readers, This is Venky from Bangalore.
I'm Computer Science graduate from Andhra; I started my career in S/W industry in 1997. I have worked on desktop and web applications using Microsoft and...
For more info on latest job openings and other career related information visit my site http://venky-itjobs.blogspot.com
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| | | Anthony Ellis - E-Book Author Review | | 2007-04-02 01:12:08 | | Anthony Ellis a very popular name in the internet bodybuilding circles. He is the webmaster of MuscleGainTips.com and Fat LossTips.com. Often he is one of the first sites a bodybuilder noob will come across when he is first learning about bodybuilding on the internet.
His overnight sucess all began in 1997 when he [...] | | By: Bodybuilding Blog | | |
| | Best Single-Author Travel Blog | | 2007-02-18 15:35:00 | | Best Single-Author Travel BlogThis award celebrates the best travel blog writing by a single blogger. Again, the topic is open, as long as there is only one regular poster.With some 70 nominations, and a few coming in after the nominations had closed, this is a popular section and will take some serious reviewing to make the deadline I've set.Posted in order of nomination.View From The Wing: Plenty of useful information for jet travellers looking for a little 'flyer talk', along with some use of images but not really a contender.The Cranky Flier: Brett, the airline dork, has worked in aviation and the travel business. The second nomination in line edges up the runway ahead of the first.Killing Batteries: 'Leif Pettersen’s battery-powered rise to the zenith of travel writing rapture' is a nice enough read but as far as awards go, it's just a little flat. There's plenty of substance to the posts, so worth going along with your jump-leads to help spark the blogger-reader interaction that the writing deserves.Tim Leffel’s Cheapest Destinations: 'Bargain destinations, travel values, and cheap places to vacation'. Rich enough to deserve its nomination.Andy HoboTraveller: The Hobo has been around for ages, both travelling and blogging, so will not seem like a tramp off the street to most of you; even Forbes and The Guardian have mentioned him before.AviationDaily on Airports: Probably in the wrong terminal here and might take-off better in the 'Best Informative/Practical' category; depending on the competition.AviationViews: Spicing up airline news is not the easiest of things to do. Grounded due to fog.The World, My Playground: Adventuregirl puts on a good display in the playground. Sharp photographs blend in well with the soothing colour scheme, making it a pleasure to read the writing.Learning Cantonese: My thoughts are that the guest blogger's entries invalidate Daisann McLane for this nomination.Vagablogging: Again, invalid due to the number of posters | | By: Travel Notes Blog | | |
| | How Math Can Save Your Marriage - An Interview With The Author Of Geek Logik | | 2006-11-03 00:48:00 | | How Math Can Save Your Marriage - An Interview With The Author Of Geek Logik
Ever have someone tell you a certain pesky question can't be answered scientifically? Garth Sundem is here to help. He's the author of Geek Logik and it's his business to help you mathematically solve life's most pressing problems.
Garth has created plug-in numerical solutions that help you make decisions while | | By: Science And Supermodels | | |
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