Chardham Yatra: How To Travel If You Are A Patient?

If you are a patient of some disease and are planning a trip to chardham, then you will need to be doubly cautious. This yatra is already very challenging even for the youths & the disease-free people. The geography is unfriendly, the weather is not salubrious and the dhams are difficult to access. So, if you have some disease, then your difficulty increases multifold times. But life is not about hardships! It is about how you overcome the hardships and come out triumphant. There are many tour agents who offer budget chardham yatra packages and also essential assistance to pilgrims of all kinds. Therefore, you can be assured that you will always get help when you are in need.

Nevertheless, you must not make the journey without taking a look at some of these precautionary measures:

i. Get a full health checkup: Before you begin your yatra, you must get a full health checkup. It is a precautionary move which would tell you your exact physical condition. If the checkup shows that you are not in a good shape, then you must not risk taking the journey. It is advisable that you ask your doctor about it. If he gives you the green signal to make the yatra, only then should you start to pack. In case, he doesnt give you a certificate of clearance, then you must try to get healthier for the next year.

ii. Get your fitness levels up: While going to the chardham yatra, you are also required to get fitter than you are presently. Even if your health is alright, your fitness may not be up to the mark. You can easily check this on your own. Try climbing the staircase of a high-storey building and see if you manage it easily or whether you begin to lose your breath! In case you get wearied and breathless, then you must start some sort of an exercise regimen to improve upon your fitness. During the yatra, you would need to do a lot of climbing. So, if your fitness is not high, then you would begin to get tired and out-of-breath very easily.

iii. Carry all the medicines: Even if you have got a fitness clearance from your doctor, you must not get complacent. The pills or capsules which you consume on a daily basis must be brought in adequate amounts till the entire journey gets completed. Do not come with the mindset that you would buy the medicines from the local place. These areas are not very well-developed and medical shops are few & far! Plus, you may not get the exact medicine you need. So, you must carry your medicine kit without fail.

iv. Get escorted by someone: It goes without saying that patients (whether young or old) must not travel alone. In the high altitudes, due to fluctuating temperatures & air pressure, you may turn dizzy or develop some other problems. It would be necessary that you are escorted by someone or your entire family during the chardham yatra.

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The Steps to Publishing your Book ? - Writing Career Coach

By Tiffany Colter

Last week, we talked about the steps to writing your book. You can read that blog here. Once you?ve completed your manuscript, or at least are near the end, you need to start to think about how you?re going to publish this book. This is actually a new step in the writing process because even as recently as ten years ago there was really only one option?traditional press. YES, subsidy presses did exist a decade ago, but their price tag made it virtually impossible for many would-be writers.

With the rise of eBooks, print-on-demand, and easy to record audio, there are a number of options available to people now. That makes this step necessary.

This decision really comes down to the goals for your book. For example, if you teach seminars and workshops or do lots of speaking, you may be writing a book to reinforce what you do in those workshops. In that case, self-publishing with a POD printer may be the best option. That offers you the flexibility of ordering small quantities for a single event while having something more professional than photocopies in a binder.

If you are going to go this option I have one caution?don?t skimp on quality! That means make sure you do a decent job on the cover [or hire someone who can]. Also, hire someone to first do a content edit [for readability and craft] and THEN a proofread [for grammar, punctuation and syntax]. The reason many people criticize self-publishing is that people who write their books and then publish them themselves turn out lower quality. The reality is for a penny per word my company can do a content edit or a proofread. On a 30,000 word book you?re looking at $300 for one or $600 for both! That is truly a small price to pay to have a professional image on your book. Other editors may charge more or less. If you are good at proofreading, still get a content edit. I am a professional content editor and have been for almost seven years, but I have my books read by another professional editor. This isn?t an attempt to get you to hire me, just to get you to hire SOMEONE so you put out good quality work.

Okay, what if you want to do royalty publishing. You need to do the same thing with a couple of exceptions.

Some things to do when you are trying to be traditionally published:

1. Create a Query letter.
2. Put together a proposal that includes a 1 page summary [single spaced] or 3 page summary [based on the publisher?s/agent?s guidelines] as well as your marketing plan, current platform/reach, and what makes you the right person to write this book.
3. Yes, I said agent. I?d strongly urge you to secure a LEGITIMATE agent with strong ties in the industry.
4. To get an agent you?ll need to meet agents at writers? conferences. While some do accept unsolicited manuscripts, most will want to see if your personalities are compatible.
5. Make sure your first 30-40 pages are WONDERFUL. If they read your query letter and are interested the next thing they?ll do is ask to see a partial. A partial is generally 30-40 pages.
6. Write an elevator speech. That is a quick 30 second blurb that talks about your story [if you?re trying to sell your book] or about you [if you?re trying to sell multiple books]. You need to have an elevator speech for each book and about you. Here is mine, ?I?m Tiffany Colter, the Writing Career Coach. I teach individual, authors, businesses and speakers how to use written communication to reach their target demographic.? It gives information but also invites follow-up questions.
7. Recognize this is a S-L-O-W process and accept it is okay. It takes time to get a book edited, formatted, revised, a marketing plan in place, materials printed and other things. ?Determine if your goals for the book-this will determine how you?ll publish. This will take YEARS. Understand that at the beginning.

EBooks?wow, we could talk a very long time about. EBooks would be the same as self-publishing except I urge you to make sure that you have hired someone who knows how to convert the file to the proper eBooks format [whether Kindle, Nook or another eReader].

The key to all of this is remember, this IS publication. No matter what you do, be sure you have EXCELLENT craft, a topic that has a market, and you know how to reach that market [more on that next week].

I hope you are enjoying this series. Email me your questions at Tiffany@WritingCareerCoach.com and make sure you sign up to get the blogs emailed directly to you by using the sign up box to the right.

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Your Coach for the Journey, Tiffany Colter, The Writing Career Coach

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Source: http://writingcareercoach.com/2013/03/the-steps-to-publishing-your-book/

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Show at London's V&A museum celebrates David Bowie

LONDON (AP) ? When did the modern era begin? With the Renaissance? With Elvis Presley?

For a generation of music-loving Britons, it started on July 6, 1972, when David Bowie performed the song "Starman" on the TV show "Top of the Pops."

Viewers had never seen anything like the androgynous orange-haired figure in a jumpsuit, singing about aliens while draping his arm teasingly around guitarist Mick Ronson and offering a lyrical benediction ? "let all the children boogie."

Lonely teenagers in suburban bedrooms across the land were entranced, and, in many cases, inspired.

The ripples from that moment help explain why a major new multimedia exhibition about Bowie at London's Victoria and Albert Museum is the fastest seller in the institution's history, with 50,000 advance tickets sold ? and why Bowie is topping music charts once again at the age of 66.

The "David Bowie Is" exhibition, which opens Saturday, marks the first time Britain's leading museum of decorative arts and design has devoted a show to a pop star.

"Bowie is no ordinary pop star," co-curator Victoria Broackes said Wednesday. "He has seeped into every area of our culture" ? music, fashion, performance and design.

"In the last couple of years, the fashion references have been non-stop," Broackes said. "Jonathan Saunders, Miu Miu, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Gucci ? all reference him. It seems that the creative directors of those companies often are of a certain age, and perhaps they first came across David Bowie in the '70s and have reached these positions of authority now."

Bowie is arguably music's greatest chameleon, a performer who has adopted and discarded personas with abandon as he moved through musical styles from folk-rock to glam to soul to electronica.

As a teenager, he transformed himself from plain old David Jones ? born in 1947 and raised in the drab south London suburbs ? to exotic David Bowie. Then he went on to create a series of larger-than-life stage characters ? astronaut Major Tom, alien rock star Ziggy Stardust, troubled Aladdin Sane, the enigmatic Thin White Duke.

It's that eclecticism, the show argues, that makes Bowie uniquely influential ? he has mixed up sounds and styles, genres and genders, to come up with something all his own.

The show includes glimpses at Bowie's wide range of influences, from British musical theater to Berlin cabaret; from German Expressionism to Japanese Kabuki; from surrealism to Andy Warhol.

Bowie gave curators access to his personal archive, although he was not directly involved in planning the show. The 300 items on display include film clips, photographs, handwritten lyrics, storyboards for videos and drawings of costumes and sets.

There is plenty to thrill Bowie fans, from his first single ("Liza Jane," by Davie Jones and the King Bees, released in 1964) to film footage of the only meeting between Bowie and Andy Warhol ? an awkward 1971 encounter ? to a painting by Bowie of Iggy Pop in a wintry 1970s Berlin.

In contrast to the hushed halls throughout the rest of the museum, there is plenty of sound and vision, including performance footage from Bowie's large-scale tours and inventive videos for songs like "Ashes to Ashes."

Above all, there are extravagant costumes, including the multicolored quilted jumpsuit from that pivotal "Starman" appearance, designed by Freddie Burretti. Bowie wore it with red patent leather boots, calling the look "ultraviolence in Liberty fabrics."

Fashion always played a major part in creating the Bowie mystique, and he chose designers carefully, from the late Alexander McQueen ? whose Union Jack coat adorned Bowie's "Earthling" album cover ? to Kansai Yamamoto, a key 1970s collaborator.

The show includes several flamboyant Yamamoto outfits, including a knitted cat suit that Bowie wore as Aladdin Sane. The exhibition reveals, endearingly, that a knitting pattern was published so fans could make their own versions.

The David Bowie who emerges through the exhibition is a canny businessman and hard-working innovator as well as eclectic artist.

Bowie has released 27 studio albums, and performed 1,000 gigs in 12 tours between 1972 and 2004. Along the way, he sold shares in himself with the issue of "Bowie Bonds" and set up the website and online community Bowienet.

And then he stopped, seemingly retiring for good in 2004 after suffering a heart attack.

Exhibition co-curator Geoffrey Marsh argues that retiring from public view was yet another example of Bowie's genius.

"He's been famous for 10 years by doing nothing," Marsh said.

Then, earlier this year, Bowie startled the world by announcing he was releasing a new album. "The Next Day," with its melancholy backward glances at Bowie's time in divided Berlin in the 1970s, has received largely positive reviews. Fans are even starting to dream there could be some new live shows.

And there is little sign of Bowie's influence waning.

"When we started this exhibition, we thought we were reaching 'peak Bowie,'" Broackes said. "But we're opening in a week when he has an album that is No. 1 in 40 countries."

"David Bowie Is" runs at London's Victoria and Albert Museum until Aug. 11, and at the Museum of Image and Sound in Sao Paulo, Brazil, from January to April 2014.

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Online: www.vam.ac.uk

Jill Lawless can be reached at http://Twitter.com/JillLawless

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/show-londons-v-museum-celebrates-david-bowie-143952512.html

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Retail investors have missed out on the record rally in U.S equity markets because they don't want to risk losing their money again as financial institutions are seen as "too big to jail," James Bianco, president of Bianco Research, told CNBC on Wednesday.

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Google Fiber Finally Reaches Outside of Kansas City

Google has announced the first expansion of its new Fiber service. Its internet provision will now spill out of Kansas City, Kan., and Kansas City, Mo., into the city of Olathe, Kan.—a Kansas City suburb with 125,000 residents. More »

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Indianapolis campus searched after gunman reported

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) ? Police were searching a university campus in Indianapolis on Tuesday after a student reported seeing a man carrying a rifle or shotgun near its medical school.

The search began at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis after a student told police she was walking to her car around 12:30 p.m. when she saw a man wearing a long brown coat and carrying a long gun, IUPUI police Capt. Bill Abston said. Investigators said the woman lost sight of him, so they didn't know whether he left on foot or in a car. Police later received two additional reports of sightings.

The downtown campus, which has about 30,000 students, issued an alert for students and staff to seek shelter, and buildings were being searched by campus police and Indianapolis Metro police. Two hospitals affiliated with the medical school, University Hospital and Riley Hospital for Children, were locked down, as were a nearby high school and the NCAA headquarters.

"It's very challenging when we get something like this. There are a lot of main streets in and out and a lot of people," Abston said.

Abston said officers would keep searching until they had checked all the buildings and parking lots.

Kamakshi Sishtla, a lab technician at the Indiana University School of Medicine, said she initially hid in a small, windowless equipment room in the building where she works, which is across the street from where the man first was spotted. "I thought, 'Better to be safe than sorry," Sishtla said.

Cory Olson, a 43-year-old nursing student, said he was in the nursing building when police came in and evacuated the building.

"The police officers sent everybody out. Someone said, 'Where do we go?' and he said, 'Anywhere but here.'"

About an hour into the search, some students were wandering around outside campus buildings and watching police cars lined up in the distance. Dan Engling, a 23-year-old public health student, said he and other students weren't overly concerned.

"It's kind of breaking up the monotony, people think it's interesting," he said.

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Associated Press writers Tom LoBianco and Ken Kusmer in Indianapolis contributed to this report.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/indianapolis-campus-searched-gunman-reported-183713625.html

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Thief returns $800 from 1980s Michigan burglary

HASTINGS, Mich. (AP) ? A burglar expressing guilt about stealing $800 from a western Michigan store three decades ago has repaid the money, plus some interest.

The anonymous thief sent a note and $1,200 in $100 bills to the Barry County sheriff's department in Hastings, and they arrived Monday, WOOD-TV reported (http://bit.ly/WzFNjS ).

The writer admitted breaking into the Middle Mart on Michigan 37 in Thornapple Township north of Middleville about 30 years ago.

In a letter packed with emotion and spelling errors, the writer asks for "help in locating a man" to whom the writer owes the money.

"Anyways, I did a very bad thing that I am shamed of and have lived with this guilt," the writer said. "I can't begin to say how sorry iam but have lived with this guilt too long," the letter went on to say. "If you do find him, please tell him that I was afoolish stupid man when I did that and iam sorrie."

The letter was unsigned and had no return address.

The $1,200, while it includes some interest, falls short of making up for the loss in the dollar's purchasing power over the intervening years. The stolen $800 would be worth about $1,800 today, based on changes in the consumer price index.

WOOD-TV said the former owner of the store, now called Greg's Get-N-Go, confirmed it was broken into in the 1980s. The store was sold in 1988.

Undersheriff Bob Baker said the letter and cash came as quite a surprise.

"This doesn't happen every day," Baker said. He said the department isn't interested in reopening the case because of the time that has passed.

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Information from: WOOD-TV, http://www.woodtv.com

Source: http://hosted2.ap.org/APDEFAULT/aa9398e6757a46fa93ed5dea7bd3729e/Article_2013-03-18-Burglar's%20Conscience/id-a205e7f75a8346b6bef766cb5339e88e

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