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Use Your Words: A Writing Guide for Mothers is a guide to the art of creative nonfiction for women who want to give written expression to their lives as mothers. The book includes excerpts of quality writing about motherhood and teaches readers how to find the heart of their writing, learn to use motherhood as a lens through which to write the world, and turn their motherhood stories into art. Use Your Words is a book for both beginning mother writers and more advanced writers who want to improve their writing ability as they process the gritty, mundane, often-funny, and sometimes heartbreaking nature of parenthood.

Kate Hopper has an MFA in creative writing from the University of Minnesota, where I taught literature and creative writing. I currently teach a variety of classes at The Loft Literary Centerin Minneapolis, including Motherhood & Words?, a class for women interested in writing about motherhood. I also teach an online version of Motherhood & .

Her writings have appeared in Brevity, Literary Mama, mamazine, Minnesota Parent, MotherVerse, Preemie Magazine, nytimes.com, and the Minneapolis StarTribune. My first book, Use Your Words: A Writing Guide for Mothers, has just been published by Viva Editions.

[link to www.katehopper.com]

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The Queen Of Mean / VENOMmennonn
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Thoughts have great power, they?re the seeds you plant in your mind.
By holding onto a particular thought, you invest power in it.
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Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing
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The universe responds NOT to what you want.....it responds to what you are being.......are you being what you want?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
*The Net is becoming a background of terrorism formed by TPTB
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After (M)onday and (T)uesday even the week says WTF !!
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i dont think ms hopper could translate to english from "box-whine"

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The Queen Of Mean / VENOMmennonn
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Thoughts have great power, they?re the seeds you plant in your mind.
By holding onto a particular thought, you invest power in it.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The universe responds NOT to what you want.....it responds to what you are being.......are you being what you want?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
*The Net is becoming a background of terrorism formed by TPTB
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
After (M)onday and (T)uesday even the week says WTF !!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

** Problem with Voice Chat? Email me/VC-Mod** glp.phennommennonn@gmail.com & include your IP address from [link to showmyip.com]

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Report Copyright ViolationRe: GLPVC Presents - Kate Hopper *Use Your Own Words 11/5/2012 11pm est *ON AIR LIVE NOW**Not trying to be a smart ass. Honest question.

By reading her bio, she seems well outside the realm of typical GLP Fare. What prompted bringing her in as a guest?

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Report Copyright ViolationRe: GLPVC Presents - Kate Hopper *Use Your Own Words 11/5/2012 11pm est *ON AIR LIVE NOW**Not trying to be a smart ass. Honest question.

By reading her bio, she seems well outside the realm of typical GLP Fare. What prompted bringing her in as a guest?

?Quoting: Floobarb the Argnorf

fun with words - re children.

thought it would be a break from doom.

we can have fun with this.

its about education. not whoz popular, who is the latest trend.....whoz the media "it" for the moment..... we're here to learn dude.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The Queen Of Mean / VENOMmennonn
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Thoughts have great power, they?re the seeds you plant in your mind.
By holding onto a particular thought, you invest power in it.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The universe responds NOT to what you want.....it responds to what you are being.......are you being what you want?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
*The Net is becoming a background of terrorism formed by TPTB
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
After (M)onday and (T)uesday even the week says WTF !!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

** Problem with Voice Chat? Email me/VC-Mod** glp.phennommennonn@gmail.com & include your IP address from [link to showmyip.com]

Visit the GLPVC Podcast
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Report Copyright ViolationRe: GLPVC Presents - Kate Hopper *Use Your Own Words 11/5/2012 11pm est *ON AIR LIVE NOW**Not trying to be a smart ass. Honest question.

By reading her bio, she seems well outside the realm of typical GLP Fare. What prompted bringing her in as a guest?

?Quoting: Floobarb the Argnorf

fun with words - re children.

thought it would be a break from doom.

we can have fun with this.

its about education. not whoz popular, who is the latest trend.....whoz the media "it" for the moment..... we're here to learn dude.

?Quoting: Phennommennonn

Question answered. Thanks Phenn.

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Report Copyright ViolationRe: GLPVC Presents - Kate Hopper *Use Your Own Words 11/5/2012 11pm est *ON AIR LIVE NOW**Use Your Words: A Writing Guide for Mothers

Use Your Words: A Writing Guide for Mothers is a guide to the art of creative nonfiction for women who want to give written expression to their lives as mothers. The book includes excerpts of quality writing about motherhood and teaches readers how to find the heart of their writing, learn to use motherhood as a lens through which to write the world, and turn their motherhood stories into art. Use Your Words is a book for both beginning mother writers and more advanced writers who want to improve their writing ability as they process the gritty, mundane, often-funny, and sometimes heartbreaking nature of parenthood.

Kate Hopper has an MFA in creative writing from the University of Minnesota, where I taught literature and creative writing. I currently teach a variety of classes at The Loft Literary Centerin Minneapolis, including Motherhood & Words?, a class for women interested in writing about motherhood. I also teach an online version of Motherhood & .

Her writings have appeared in Brevity, Literary Mama, mamazine, Minnesota Parent, MotherVerse, Preemie Magazine, nytimes.com, and the Minneapolis StarTribune. My first book, Use Your Words: A Writing Guide for Mothers, has just been published by Viva Editions.

[link to www.katehopper.com]

****************************


join us at 11pm eastern, with featured guest Kate Hopper

participate live in our web based auditorium (below)
[link to chat.godlikeproductions.com]

listenLIVE2

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use the raw feed live url to listen live - the glp lives get overloaded and dump users.

?Quoting: Phennommennonn

How about Grand mother hood moshpit

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Report Copyright ViolationRe: GLPVC Presents - Kate Hopper *Use Your Own Words 11/5/2012 11pm est *ON AIR LIVE NOW**theres no show tuesday night bc of our election coverage

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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The Queen Of Mean / VENOMmennonn
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Thoughts have great power, they?re the seeds you plant in your mind.
By holding onto a particular thought, you invest power in it.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The universe responds NOT to what you want.....it responds to what you are being.......are you being what you want?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
*The Net is becoming a background of terrorism formed by TPTB
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
After (M)onday and (T)uesday even the week says WTF !!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

** Problem with Voice Chat? Email me/VC-Mod** glp.phennommennonn@gmail.com & include your IP address from [link to showmyip.com]

Visit the GLPVC Podcast
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Report Copyright ViolationRe: GLPVC Presents - Kate Hopper *Use Your Own Words 11/5/2012 11pm est *ON AIR LIVE NOW**Use Your Words: A Writing Guide for Mothers

Use Your Words: A Writing Guide for Mothers is a guide to the art of creative nonfiction for women who want to give written expression to their lives as mothers. The book includes excerpts of quality writing about motherhood and teaches readers how to find the heart of their writing, learn to use motherhood as a lens through which to write the world, and turn their motherhood stories into art. Use Your Words is a book for both beginning mother writers and more advanced writers who want to improve their writing ability as they process the gritty, mundane, often-funny, and sometimes heartbreaking nature of parenthood.

Kate Hopper has an MFA in creative writing from the University of Minnesota, where I taught literature and creative writing. I currently teach a variety of classes at The Loft Literary Centerin Minneapolis, including Motherhood & Words?, a class for women interested in writing about motherhood. I also teach an online version of Motherhood & .

Her writings have appeared in Brevity, Literary Mama, mamazine, Minnesota Parent, MotherVerse, Preemie Magazine, nytimes.com, and the Minneapolis StarTribune. My first book, Use Your Words: A Writing Guide for Mothers, has just been published by Viva Editions.

[link to www.katehopper.com]

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join us at 11pm eastern, with featured guest Kate Hopper

participate live in our web based auditorium (below)
[link to chat.godlikeproductions.com]

listenLIVE2

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use the raw feed live url to listen live - the glp lives get overloaded and dump users.

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Do you teach to write in favour of Romney and diss Obama?

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Love to be there, I am banned from voice chat

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reva you cant be - vc & forum are integrated. ill check on it but if youre posting on forum youre not banned. brb.

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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The Queen Of Mean / VENOMmennonn
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Thoughts have great power, they?re the seeds you plant in your mind.
By holding onto a particular thought, you invest power in it.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The universe responds NOT to what you want.....it responds to what you are being.......are you being what you want?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
*The Net is becoming a background of terrorism formed by TPTB
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
After (M)onday and (T)uesday even the week says WTF !!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

** Problem with Voice Chat? Email me/VC-Mod** glp.phennommennonn@gmail.com & include your IP address from [link to showmyip.com]

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The Queen Of Mean / VENOMmennonn
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Thoughts have great power, they?re the seeds you plant in your mind.
By holding onto a particular thought, you invest power in it.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The universe responds NOT to what you want.....it responds to what you are being.......are you being what you want?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
*The Net is becoming a background of terrorism formed by TPTB
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
After (M)onday and (T)uesday even the week says WTF !!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

** Problem with Voice Chat? Email me/VC-Mod** glp.phennommennonn@gmail.com & include your IP address from [link to showmyip.com]

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Switched On: Missed app-ortunity

Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about consumer technology.

DNP Switched On Missed apportunity

It's difficult to remember as jam-packed a week in terms of industry announcements from major OS providers as the recent seven-day stretch that included a bevy of hardware announcements from Apple, a new tablet and OS upgrade from Google, and two major operating system releases as well as an unprecedented hardware release from Microsoft. Of course, as would be expected from these dominant digital ecosystem stewards, all of the new products included elements of hardware, software and services, even if they were sometimes implicit. But each company could have done significantly more to highlight new third-party apps that were really taking advantage of that combination.

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Obama, Romney to make their final case on last day of race

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney make a frenetic dash to a series of crucial swing states on Monday, delivering their final arguments to voters on the last day of an extraordinarily close race for the White House.

After a long, bitter and expensive campaign, national polls show Obama and Romney are essentially deadlocked ahead of Tuesday's election, although Obama has a slight advantage in the eight or nine battleground states that will decide the winner.

Obama plans to visit three of those swing states on Monday and Romney will travel to four to plead for support in a fierce White House campaign that focused primarily on the lagging economy but at times turned intensely personal.

The election's outcome will impact a variety of domestic and foreign policy issues, from the looming "fiscal cliff" of spending cuts and tax increases that could kick in at the end of the year to questions about how to handle illegal immigration or the thorny challenge of Iran's nuclear ambitions.

The balance of power in Congress also will be at stake on Tuesday, with Obama's Democrats now expected to narrowly hold their Senate majority and Romney's Republicans favored to retain control of the House of Representatives.

In a race where the two candidates and their party allies raised a combined $2 billion, the most in U.S. history, both sides have pounded the heavily contested battleground states with an unprecedented barrage of ads.

The close margins in state and national polls suggested the possibility of a cliffhanger that could be decided by which side has the best turnout operation and gets its voters to the polls.

In the final days, both Obama and Romney focused on firing up core supporters and wooing the last few undecided voters in battleground states.

Romney reached out to dissatisfied Obama supporters from 2008, calling himself the candidate of change and ridiculing Obama's failure to live up to his campaign promises. "He promised to do so very much but frankly he fell so very short," Romney said at a rally in Cleveland, Ohio, on Sunday.

Obama, citing improving economic reports on the pace of hiring, argued in the final stretch that he has made progress in turning around the economy but needed a second White House term to finish the job. "This is a choice between two different versions of America," Obama said in Cincinnati, Ohio.

FINAL SWING-STATE BLITZES

Obama will close his campaign on Monday with a final blitz across Wisconsin, Ohio and Iowa - three Midwestern states that, barring surprises elsewhere, would be enough to get him more than the 270 electoral votes needed for victory.

Polls show Obama has slim leads in all three. His final stop on Monday night will be in Iowa, the state that propelled him on the path to the White House in 2008 with a victory in its first-in-the nation caucus.

Romney will visit his must-win states of Florida and Virginia - where polls show he is slightly ahead or tied - along with Ohio before concluding in New Hampshire, where he launched his presidential run last year.

The only state scheduled to get a last-day visit from both candidates is Ohio, the most critical of the remaining battlegrounds - particularly for Romney.

The former Massachusetts governor has few paths to victory if he cannot win in Ohio, where Obama has kept a small but steady lead in polls for months.

Obama has been buoyed in Ohio by his support for a federal bailout of the auto industry, where one in every eight jobs is tied to car manufacturing, and by a strong state economy with an unemployment rate lower than the 7.9 percent national rate.

That has undercut Romney's frequent criticism of Obama's economic leadership, which has focused on the persistently high jobless rate and what Romney calls Obama's big spending efforts to expand government power.

Romney, who would be the first Mormon president, has centered his campaign pitch on his own experience as a business leader at a private equity fund and said it made him uniquely suited to create jobs.

Obama's campaign fired back with ads criticizing Romney's experience and portraying the multimillionaire as out of touch with everyday Americans.

Obama and allies said Romney's firm, Bain Capital, plundered companies and eliminated jobs to maximize profits. They also made an issue of Romney's refusal to release more than two years of personal tax returns.

(Editing by Alistair Bell and Christopher Wilson)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/obama-romney-sprint-unpredictable-campaign-finish-021401657.html

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