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“Selling Yourself: The Art of Personal Branding.” Last week’s “Under the Influence” (about advertising) was about personal branding, and how to use those principles when job hunting. Very interesting. http://www.cbc.ca/radio/u... (Note: even though the audio is going away in a week, the blog page has the complete script, plus illustrative images and video.) (NOTE: the first video auto-starts.)

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(I cross-posted this to LSW because personal branding could be seen as part of professional presentation.) - bentley - -

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I just started listening to the Writing Excuses podcast (“Fifteen minutes long, because you're in a hurry, and we're not that smart”). This season, they’re running the podcast as a writing workshop, so I backtracked to the beginning of the season. Based on just one episode, I’m recommending it. Mary Robinette Kowal, Brandon Sanderson, Howard Tayler, and Dan Wells. http://www.writingexcuses... https://en.wikipedia.org/...

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Wikipedia's description: "the four hosts discuss different topics involved in the creation and production of genre writing and webcomics." - bentley - -

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I gotta remember this next time I get invited to another baby shower: "My girls are now 18 and 21, and both have exceptional vocabularies and are eager readers. Our standard gift for baby showers is a large stack of children's classics, individually wrapped and tied together with a veritable Reading Rainbow of ribbons, because we believe every kid needs a personal library." http://parenting.blogs.ny...

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Charleston Library Manager Killed in Shooting at Church http://lisnews.org/charle... http://www.pressomatic.co...

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"Crafton Hills College student, parents protest material in graphic novels English course" http://www.redlandsdailyf... (via http://news.nationalpost.... ) https://nationalpostcom.f...

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"A Crafton Hills College student [Tara Shultz, 20, of Yucaipa] and her parents have complained to college administrators that graphic novels taught in an English course are pornographic and violent. [...] Four of the graphic novels discussed in the course depict nudity, sex, violence and torture. They also contain obscenities. “It was shocking,” Shultz said. “I didn’t expect to open the book and see that graphic material within. I expected Batman and Robin, not pornography." [...] - bentley - -

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It feels like a huge portion of her objection is that reality doesn't conform to her profound misunderstanding of the medium. I have no patience for that. - Jennifer D. - [ 2 ] -

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Six scientists spent 8 months in a Mars simulation dome, run by Hawai'i Space Exploration Analog and Simulation (HI-SEAS). http://www.cnn.com/2015/0... Tour of the dome: http://hi-seas.org/?p=354... Isolation, close quarters, yadda yadda. But back to the important stuff. What did they eat? http://hi-seas.org/wp-con...

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In 2013, HI-SEAS held a recipe contest for their 4-month mission. http://hi-seas.org/?p=219 "I asked our audience to submit recipes we could make during our mission that used shelf-stable ingredients from our pantry list http://hi-seas.org/?p=226 . The response was overwhelming. We received a large number of submissions and decided to make 25 of them, five in each of the following categories: breakfast, main meal, soup or stew, side dish, and desserts." - bentley - -

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tangent: I'm really excited to see The Martian, but I guess not yet excited enough to read the book first. - Andrew C - -

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"He was called the King of Easy Listening and the Emperor of Elevator Music. James Last, often called the world's most commercially successful bandleader, who recorded more than 200 albums and sold 100 million-plus discs in his decades-long career, died this week at the age of 86. [...] http://www.billboard.com/... https://www.youtube.com/w...

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"Last was as much heralded as he was despised, but there is no questioning his success or his influence. Anyone who has spent time in a hotel lobby (or elevator) knows the Last sound: smooth, jaunty tunes that mix jazz and pop into a seamless, inoffensive whole. [...] - bentley - -

"His 1965 album, Non Stop Dancing, established the Last sound. It included seamless transitions between songs -- it can be argued Last invented, or at least perfected, the idea of the music medley -- and captured the jaunty, party atmosphere that became his trademark. While the sound never really changed, Last was adept at always including new, modern elements and incorporating pop music tunes -- from the Beatles to hip hop -- into his non-stop formula." - bentley - -

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"How the heck could a word spelled 'Toews' possibly be pronounced 'Tayvz?' I’m here to explain. Sort of." http://blogs.canoe.com/pa...

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Taking reader's advisory up a notch? "Can Reading Make You Happier?" http://www.newyorker.com/...

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"Several years ago, I was given as a gift a remote session with a bibliotherapist at the London headquarters of the School of Life, which offers innovative courses to help people deal with the daily emotional challenges of existence. I have to admit that at first I didn’t really like the idea of being given a reading “prescription.”[...] But the session was a gift, and I found myself unexpectedly enjoying the initial questionnaire about my reading habits that the bibliotherapist, Ella Berthoud, sent me. Nobody had ever asked me these questions before, even though reading fiction is and always has been essential to my life. [...] - bentley - -

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"Berthoud and Elderkin are also the authors of “The Novel Cure: An A-Z of Literary Remedies,” which is written in the style of a medical dictionary and matches ailments (“failure, feeling like a”) with suggested reading cures (“The History of Mr. Polly,” by H. G. Wells). First released in the U.K. in 2013, it is now being published in eighteen countries, and, in an interesting twist, the contract allows for a local editor and reading specialist to adapt up to twenty-five per cent of the ailments and reading recommendations to fit each particular country’s readership and include more native writers. The new, adapted ailments are culturally revealing." - bentley - -

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Which one is the starter, which one is the desert? http://popbitch.com/home/... http://i.guim.co.uk/stati... (via http://www.theguardian.co... )

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"I love the Virgin brand, I really which is why I continue to use it despite a series of unfortunate incidents over the last few years. This latest incident takes the biscuit. Ironically, by the end of the flight I would have gladly paid over a thousand rupees for a single biscuit following the culinary journey of hell I was subjected to at the hands of your corporation. Look at this Richard. Just look at it: - bentley - -

" I imagine the same questions are racing through your brilliant mind as were racing through mine on that fateful day. What is this? Why have I been given it? What have I done to deserve this? And, Which one is the starter, which one is the desert?" - bentley - -

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From "I Work At A Public Library" http://iworkatapubliclibr... http://40.media.tumblr.co...

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You mean? I can leave in the colored sticky things when I return books back to the pl? - Joe - [ 1 ] -

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Elsevier clashes with researchers over open access publishing for academic texts http://www.abc.net.au/rad... (via Library Link of the Day http://www.tk421.net/libr... )

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'“You cannot remain blameless if a student is concussed by a swinging cow,” the form noted.' http://www.theatlantic.co...

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... that is a sentence I can confidently aver I never expected to read. - Ondatra iSkoolicus - [ 6 ] -

That article was a fun read. - John B. - -

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"Much of what Dwike Mitchell taught me about playing the piano has nothing to do with music. It has to do with conduct and character. When I sometimes feel a twinge of disappointment if the crowd at one of my gigs is smaller than I expected, I hear Mitchell saying, 'It's a privilege to play for one other person.' ...

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"That credo has helped me though many thin situations, both as a public pianist and as a public speaker. I've stopped worrying about conditions that I can't control or change. I just do what I came to do, as well as I can." --William Zinsser, "Writing About Your Life." - bentley - -

(btw, this is a great book. It's half memoir and half how-to write a memoir. I had to slow down reading it because I wanted it to last longer.) - bentley - -

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Make your own Lego gummy candy bricks (or gummy candy of any shape you want) http://boingboing.net/201... https://www.youtube.com/w...

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John Scalzi, Science Fiction Writer, Signs $3.4 Million Deal for 13 Books http://www.nytimes.com/20... "... Scalzi, a best-selling author of science fiction, has signed a $3.4 million, 10-year deal with the publisher Tor Books that will cover his next 13 books, [10 adult novels and three young adult novels over 10 years]."

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Not bad. - Joe - -

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Unshelved. May 25, 2015. http://www.unshelved.com/... http://get.unshelved.com/...

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Falling behind in your GoodReads goal because of all those 700-900-page books? Catch up with a “short read” (up to 200 pages) http://files.meetup.com/5... (via http://www.meetup.com/100... )

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I've been reading a lot of kids' picture books. :D - Marianne - -

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Metafilter had a related post today (May 25): Best Books You Can Read In Under An Hour Each http://www.metafilter.com... which links to other lists of good, yet short, books. (See also the related links and in the comments.) - bentley - -

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Marshmallows. https://www.flickr.com/ph... https://farm6.staticflick... I like the way these turned out. I used a smaller dish, so they came out thicker.

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From the 1998 New York Times obituary, "Nicole Maxwell, a Bold Seeker of Medical Herbs, Dies at 92." http://www.nytimes.com/19...

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"While her work [collecting medicinal plants] was shunned by drug companies, Mrs. Maxwell, who made her home in Iquitos, Peru, became a heroine to a coterie of enthusiasts who would make pilgrimages to the compound where she held court to pay tribute, sometimes with unsettling results. Once when an avid photographer of exotic birds gushingly exclaimed that she must be very familiar with the birds of South America, Mrs. Maxwell acknowledged that she was, 'mainly by taste.'" - bentley - -

(I *almost* tagged John B.) :-) - bentley - -

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from "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie," by Muriel Spark:

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"... who made no evasions about their belief that God had planned for practically everybody before they were born a nasty surprise when they died. Later, when Sandy read John Calvin, she found that although popular conceptions of Calvinism were sometimes mistaken, in this particular there was no mistake, indeed it was but a mild understanding of the case, he having made it God's pleasure to implant in certain people an erroneous sense of joy and salvation, so that their surprise at the end might be the nastier." - bentley - -

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(Does anyone else have to refresh the page before your post turns up? It's been happening for the past three days or so.)

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+1 - Francesco Pelagi - -

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Yes! - ♕Dr. Eynollah ♕ - -

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FYI, the Invitations on the sidebar in the English version have reverted to Italian. It says, "2 Inviti."

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Problem with Hide. I clicked on "Hide" for a foaf post. When I refreshed the page an hour later, the post was back. EDIT: I just clicked on "Hide" again, it went away. But when I refreshed the page right away, it was back.

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I haven't removed them. Thank you for reporting. - senape - -

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In the meantime, you may disable the FoaF option, simply by going to preferences (up), preferences again, preferences tab. Or you may simply click here: http://www.frenf.it/early... Once the FoaF option is deselected, you may save. - Haukr - -

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School launches 'Go Fund Me' to save librarian's job http://www.azcentral.com/... "After years of absorbing funding cuts from the state, teachers and parents at one West Valley elementary school are taking an extraordinary step to save their librarian's job — a crowdsourcing campaign [...] to raise $20,000 to save the librarian's job." (via http://library-mofo.livej... )

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"A common expression of bucket-list chasers is 'Live every day like it's your last.' But when you do that, you're trying to stop time, lock it in like a snow globe. I much prefer the idea of living every day like you're alive. Then, you're in the river of time; you're a story instead of a list." --"Kill Your Bucket List," by Edward Readicker-Henderson. Saturday Evening Post, May/June 2015.http://www.saturdayevenin...

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