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Gayle Plato (born August 2, 1964) is an American columnist/blogger, who writes political analysis featured at Townhall.com. Plato may also be found at www.sonoranalliance.com, www.politicomafioso.com, www.Arizona.newsplatoon.com with contributions at parcbench.com, BlogNetnews.com, the Arizona Republic, The Sonoran News, AzNet News, and the Foothills Focus. Plato holds a Masters in Education - Counseling from Northern Arizona University. She is a certified social studies teacher, and counselor with over 20 years experience working with children and families. Her experience includes work as a school counselor in Arizona and Washington school districts, private practice, and a secondary level teacher of U.S. Government, Economics, and History.

May, 2009Ms. Plato develops a point of view using a prose style to offer opinion and analysis citing pop culture and classic literature. Reference to The Simpsons or South Park are highlighted in turn with political newsmakers of the Middle East like Benjamin Netanyahu or Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Recent controversy over her editorial regarding U.S. Presidential candidate Barack Obama crystallized as the media covered Hillary Clinton’s reference to Robert Kennedy being assassinated on the campaign trail: {{quote| “Do any remember Le Morte d’Arthur? Sir Thomas Malory did not pull punches. Arthur’s reign goes down in defeat, death–to Avalon, legend taking back the boy-king to live another day. Everyone betrays Arthur. I wince when I see the John F. Kennedy comparisons for Barack Obama. Running for President can be inherently dangerous; just ask Bobby Kennedy’s kids..” [1]

KKNT960 [2] consistently ranks Ms. Plato’s political blog, The Right Woman, in the Top Ten Blogs of Arizona[3]. Recent articles noted as in the Townhall.com national rankings of What’s Hot.

Arizona Political Heat editorial staff recently wrote about the author:

“Gayle Plato, who blogs for both Sonoran Alliance and townhall.com, has a great article refuting the Catholic Sun’s recent piece which implied that Catholics are opposed to laws against illegal immigration. The Catholic Sun refused to print her letter to the editor responding to its article. Probably because Gayle Plato made some compelling points.” [4]

Plato instrumentally placed Senator John McCain’s Vice Presidential running mate, Sarah Palin into the Internet blogging dialogue as a potential choice, months prior to the selection. Plato coined the phrase, ‘Sarah Palin is the Elizabeth Cady Stanton of the 21st century’, referring to the original feminist and suffrage leader[2]

The noted Top Conservatives on Twitter report has listed Plato and her writing as part of the #TCOT- a national shortlist of the top conservative activists in the nation. See top TCOTReport blogs: [5] [6] Referenced article at WSJ.COM:[7]

Smart Girl Politics [3]also included Plato as one of its Southwestern original 100 members: [8]
Gayle Plato is NOT the designer of the game Scenarios; another person with same name.

[edit] External links
[4]Smart Girl Politics Page
[5] Wall Street Journal Online Linking #1
[6] Wall Street Journal Online Linking #2
[7] Conservative Feminism Website
The Right Woman, Gayle Plato’s blog
The Sonoran News
The Foothills Focus
KKNT
The Catholic Sun
[8] Contributor at Sonoranalliance.com
[9]Contributor at Arizona News Platoon
[10]CCUSD watch comments
[11] #TCOTReport Top Conservatives on Twitter List and Newsfeed
[12]

Born April 16, 1962 (1962-04-16) (age 47)
Bloomington, Indiana
Occupation editor
Nationality United States
Genres Science fiction, Fantasy, Horror, Hypertext fiction
Literary movement Hard science fiction

Official website

Kathryn Elizabeth Cramer (April 16, 1962) is an American science fiction author, editor, and literary critic.

Contents [hide]
1 Life
2 Work
3 Bibliography
4 See also
5 References
6 External links

[edit] Life
Cramer grew up in Seattle, and currently lives in Pleasantville, New York with her husband David G. Hartwell and their two children. She is the daughter of physicist John G. Cramer.[1] She is a graduate of Columbia University, with degrees in mathematics and American studies.[2]

[edit] Work
Cramer has worked for five literary agencies, most notably the Virginia Kidd Agency, and for several software companies,[3] including consulting with Wolfram Research in the Scientific Information Group.[4] She co-founded The New York Review of Science Fiction in 1988 and was its co-editor until 1991 and again since 1996. It has been nominated (as of 2007) for the Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine every year of its existence, fifteen times under her co-editorship.[5]

Cramer was the hypertext fiction editor at Eastgate Systems in the early 1990s.[6] She was part of the Global Connection Project, a joint project of Carnegie Mellon University, NASA, Google, and National Geographic using Google Earth and other tools following the 2005 Pakistan earthquake.[7]

[edit] Bibliography
Anthologies
The Architecture of Fear[8] (1987) with Peter D. Pautz – winner of the World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology
Spirits of Christmas (1989) with David G. Hartwell, Tor Fantasy, ISBN 0-81255-159-1
Walls of Fear (1990), Avon Books, ISBN 0-38070-789-6 – a World Fantasy Award nominee
The Ascent of Wonder: The Evolution of Hard SF (1994) with David G. Hartwell, ISBN 0-312-85509-5
The Hard SF Renaissance (2002) with David G. Hartwell, Orb books, ISBN 0-31287-636-X
The Space Opera Renaissance (2006) with David G. Hartwell, Tor Books, ISBN 0-76530-617-4
Masterpieces of Fantasy and Enchantment (1988) with David G. Hartwell
Masterpieces of Fantasy and Wonder (1994) with David G. Hartwell
Anthology Series
Year’s Best Fantasy 1 through 7 (2001–2007) with David G. Hartwell (HarperCollins 2001–2005, Tachyon Publications 2006–2007)
Year’s Best SF 7, Year’s Best SF 8, Year’s Best SF 9, Year’s Best SF 10, Year’s Best SF 11, Year’s Best SF 12, Year’s Best SF 13, Year’s Best SF 14 (2002–2009) with David G. Hartwell (HarperCollins)
Short Fiction
“Forbidden Knowledge” in Mathenauts,[9] ed. Rudy Rucker (1987)
“The End of Everything” in Asimov’s Science Fiction October 1990
In Small & Large Pieces by Kathryn Cramer, in The Eastgate Quarterly Review of Hypertext, Volume 1, No. 3, Eastgate Systems (1994). (a work of hypertext dark fantasy)
“Disextinction” in Nature Magazine (2001)
“Sandcastles: a Dystopia” in Nature Magazine (2005)
Essays
How Shit Became Shinola: Definition and Redefinition of Space Opera with David G. Hartwell, SFRevu August 2003
Cramer has also written a number of essays published in the New York Review of Science Fiction. She is a contributor to the Encarta article on science fiction and wrote the chapter on hard science fiction for the Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction ed. Farah Mendlesohn & Edward James.[10] Several of her essays have been reprinted, for example “Science Fiction and the Adventures of the Spherical Cow” (NYRSF August 1988) in Visions of Wonder, ed. Milton T. Wolf & David G. Hartwell (Tor 1996).

I’m often more quiet living in a desert “island” community. I rant with a few friends and talk to many customers. We are protected from the ravages of the urban centers and a larger world at large. Yes the computers and TV’s flare on occassion but sunsets calm the fires within.

However, the meek bookish writers might take a few notes from the antics of Sandra sing Loh. Her boldness and fire has created her a fast track career and noterity that allows her the freedom to excel and profit from her words. She speaks and her blogs create tons of traffic. Hmmm, does she Twitter?

How many aspiring writers long for the income she commands? SHe also keeps in the public’s face. Make a list of 5 aspects of her adventure that might feel comfortable for you to try to promote your work and earn some bucks at the same time. Please let me know what works for you!

Ah wouldn’t we all love millions of comments?
Tell me your secets to lots of blog traffic.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandra_Tsing_Loh
Biography
Loh is the daughter of a Chinese father[1] and a German mother. She was raised in Southern California.[2] Growing up in Malibu during the era when it did not have its own high school, she commuted along Pacific Coast Highway south to Santa Monica High School (located near that town’s “Dogtown” surf/skating area) in a yellow schoolbus with people like Christophe Pettus (founder of Blowfish) and actor Sean Penn. At “Samohi,” Loh was active in the school’s orchestra, where she played viola—and occasionally keyboard instruments as needed (most notably piano in “Petrushka,” and celesta in “Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy”).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvzlQAjbcT0

Marianne Moore (November 15, 1887 – February 5, 1972) was a Modernist American poet and writer.

Contents [hide]
1 Life
2 Poetic career
3 Later years
4 Selected works
5 References
6 External links

[edit] Life
Moore was born in Kirkwood, Missouri, in the manse of the Presbyterian church where her maternal grandfather, John Riddle Warner, served as pastor. She was the daughter of construction engineer and inventor John Milton Moore and his wife, Mary Warner. She grew up in her grandfather’s household; her father having been committed to a mental hospital before her birth. In 1905, Moore entered Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania and graduated four years later. She taught at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, until 1915, when Moore began to publish poetry professionally.

[edit] Poetic career
In part because of her extensive European travels before the First World War, Moore came to the attention of poets as diverse as Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, H.D., T. S. Eliot, and Ezra Pound. From 1925 until 1929, Moore served as editor of the literary and cultural journal The Dial. This continued her role, similar to that of Pound, as a patron of poetry, encouraging promising young poets, including Elizabeth Bishop, Allen Ginsberg, John Ashbery and James Merrill, and publishing early work, as well as refining poetic technique.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kf85YP4FOpo
Photograph by George Platt Lynes (1935)In 1933, Moore was awarded the Helen Haire Levinson Prize from Poetry. Her Collected Poems of 1951 is perhaps her most rewarded work; it earned the poet the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the Bollingen Prize. Moore became a minor celebrity, in New York literary circles, serving as unofficial hostess for the Mayor. She attended boxing matches, baseball games and other public events, dressed in what became her signature garb, a tricorn hat and a black cape. She particularly liked athletics and athletes, and was a great admirer of Muhammad Ali, for whose spoken-word album, I Am the Greatest!, she wrote liner notes. Moore continued to publish poems in various journals, including The Nation, The New Republic, and Partisan Review, as well as publishing various books and collections of her poetry and criticism. Moore corresponded for a time with W. H. Auden and Ezra Pound during the latter’s incarceration.

Her most famous poem is perhaps the one entitled, appropriately, “Poetry”, in which she hopes for poets who can produce “imaginary gardens with real toads in them.” It also expressed her idea that meter, or anything else that claims the exclusive title, “poetry,” is not as important as delight in language and precise, heartfelt expression in any form. She often composed her own poetry in syllabics. These syllabic lines from “Poetry” illustrate her position: poetry is a matter of skill and honesty in any form whatsoever, while anything written poorly, although in perfect form, cannot be poetry:

nor is it valid
to discriminate against “business documents and
school-books”: all these phenomena are important. One must make a distinction
however: when dragged into prominence by half poets, the result is not poetry

Hi Mary,
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I have been reading Doug’s work for a long time. He gives generously and sells a lot too. I felt like sharing this lesson with you to both introduce you to Doug and because of the multiple links to help you explore article writing further. Enjoy.

To your success with PLR…

Doug Champigny,
PLR Master.
http://Becoming-A-PLR-Pro.com PS - For ongoing sources of great PLR at low rates, check
out http://EasyArticlesPro.com and http://NichePLR.com

See you next lesson! DC.

Hi, Mary!

Welcome to Lesson Two of your PLR Masters E-Course.
Today we’ll take a quick look at the types of PLR available
online, before starting to delve into using each type of
resource.

PLR Articles: By far the most common form of PLR products
online right now are articles with PLR. They’re easy for
writers to knock off, and they can provide the same articles
to a number of people in very short order. Sites like our
http://www.EasyArticlesPro.com make it even easier, by
providing 25 articles per niche and including the PLR
headers to match that niche…

PLR E-Books: Almost as common are e-books with PLR. But
you have to be careful - some have been around a long time
and thousands of people already have PLR to them. On the
other side of the coin, if you’re doing substantial
rewriting of your PLR products, the age of the original
material doesn’t matter if the content is still relevant.

PLR Audios: Less common but increasingly offered are
audios with PLR - usually audio formats of articles or
e-books. When accompanying a written product, audio
versions are a great way to provide added value. On their
own they make a great product too, as long as you know
how to process them correctly (covered in Lessons 14-18).

PLR Videos: This is a fairly new area, and will evolve
into the most powerful form of PLR once IMers learn how
to handle them effectively. Don’t scrimp here - take the
time to try different programs til you know how to edit
these into great products and powerful tools for your
biz - again, we’ll cover these in depth in future lessons.

PLR Websites: While fairly rare, sites like our own
http://www.NichePLR.com provide you with sites already
laid out, optimized for Adsense, ClickBank & Amazon, and
ready for you to use as-is or with easy changes. PLR
sites are an easy way to boost your online profile, and
build more one-way links back to your main site/blog.

PLR Source Code: This is the most limited, and usually
toughest to process, of all the types of PLR. While most
programmers creating programs with PLR make it fairly
easy to change the header or opening screen, it’s still
going to look like the same program unless you can find
a good programmer who can make alterations to the actual
source code for you. Unless you’re a programmer, this is
the one type of PLR where it’s usually best to get the
transferable rights, so you can simply pass the product
along with the PLR rights intact.

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Suggested Resources:
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For general information on the various types PLR, the
same two resources I mentioned last time are still the
ones you want to check out:

E-Book: Becoming A PLR Pro
http://www.becomingaplrpro.com

Videos: PLR For Newbies
http://training4newbies.com/videos/plr-for-newbies.htm

Mary, we’re approaching the end of the wisdom series, here’s ‘Walking’

http://www.mymillionairebuddy.com/ebooks/wk77-walking/wk-77-thoreau.zip

Crnr Greville & Perth
Prahran
Victoria 3181
Australia
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PD9Gl8IxlQM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_David_ThoreauJust a bit more background:
Henry David Thoreau (born David Henry Thoreau; July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862)[1] was an American author, poet, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, philosopher, and leading transcendentalist. He is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay, Civil Disobedience, an argument for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state.

Thoreau’s books, articles, essays, journals, and poetry total over 20 volumes. Among his lasting contributions were his writings on natural history and philosophy, where he anticipated the methods and findings of ecology and environmental history, two sources of modern day environmentalism. His literary style interweaves close natural observation, personal experience, pointed rhetoric, symbolic meanings, and historical lore; while displaying a poetic sensibility, philosophical austerity, and “Yankee” love of practical detail.[2] He was also deeply interested in the idea of survival in the face of hostile elements, historical change, and natural decay; at the same time imploring one to abandon waste and illusion in order to discover life’s true essential needs.[3]

He was a lifelong abolitionist, delivering lectures that attacked the Fugitive Slave Law while praising the writings of Wendell Phillips and defending abolitionist John Brown. Thoreau’s philosophy of civil disobedience influenced the political thoughts and actions of such later figures as Leo Tolstoy, Mahatma Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, Jr.

Thoreau is sometimes cited as an individualist anarchist.[4] Though Civil Disobedience calls for improving rather than abolishing government – “I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government”[5] – the direction of this improvement aims at anarchism: “‘That government is best which governs not at all;’ and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have.”[5]

Contents [hide]
1 Early life and education
2 Return to Concord: 1837-1841
3 Civil disobedience and the Walden years: 1845–1849
4 Later years: 1851-1862
5 Death
6 Beliefs
7 Influence
8 Critique
9 Works
10 References
11 Further reading
12 External links

[edit] Early life and education
He was born David Henry Thoreau[6] in Concord, Massachusetts, to John Thoreau (a pencil maker) and Cynthia Dunbar. His paternal grandfather was of French origin and was born in Jersey.[7] His maternal grandfather, Asa Dunbar, was known for leading Harvard’s 1766 student “Butter Rebellion”,[8] the first recorded student protest in the United States.[9] David Henry was named after a recently deceased paternal uncle, David Thoreau. He did not become “Henry David” until after college, although he never petitioned to make a legal name change.[10] He had two older siblings, Helen and John Jr., and a younger sister, Sophia.[11] Thoreau’s birthplace still exists on Virginia Road in Concord and is currently the focus of preservation efforts. The house is original, but it now stands about 100 yards away from its first site.

Portrait of Thoreau from 1854.Amos Bronson Alcott and Thoreau’s aunt both wrote that “Thoreau” is pronounced like the word “thorough”, whose standard American pronunciation rhymes with “furrow”.[12] In appearance he was homely, with a nose that he called “my most prominent feature.”[13] Of his face, Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote: “[Thoreau] is as ugly as sin, long-nosed, queer-mouthed, and with uncouth and rustic, though courteous manners, corresponding very well with such an exterior. But his ugliness is of an honest and agreeable fashion, and becomes him much better than beauty.”[14] Thoreau also wore a neck-beard for many years, which he insisted many women found attractive. However, Louisa May Alcott reportedly mentioned to Ralph Waldo Emerson that Thoreau’s facial hair “will most assuredly deflect amorous advances and preserve the man’s virtue in perpetuity.”[15]