Mike and I have been working like crazy trying to get all of our products in downloadable form. Eventhough we sell
most of our software to schools through the School Specialty Catalog and AdCo Hearing Catalog, homeschoolers and parents have
been wanting our software as a quick download. We're almost done, so I better stop blogging and start finishing!
Happy New Year! Here's to you.
Can't wait to get "Lucky, the Left-Pawed Puppy to the Ipad. It takes conversion of PDF to epub format. We
just have to figure out how to attach the narration in MP3 files.
Ooooh, ooooh, and we just received the Spanish
Translation of Lucky. We still have to tweak a few things. Lucky in Spanish we decided will be "Buene Suerte"
and we're looking for one of my actress daughter's friends to do the Spanish translation.
We're trying to get
orders out AND advertise "Black Cats and Witches' Hats and "Johnny Rock's Christmas" for deaf and hard of hearing
little learners.
Still waiting to see the game we customized for a museum kiosk to be displayed on their website
so EVERYONE can see it! We hope to get orders to customize more games for more museum kiosk. Our trip to the Aquarium
of the Pacific for fun, make us realize that every outdoor kiosks could use our matching games for an interactive museum experience
for kids.
Cheers to everyone. Happy pumpkin patching! We'd LOVE to hear from you. Sign in to
our guestbook and let us know what's up in your area.
Whew! We spent the summer getting the Lucky story illustrated, narrated, and made into a page- turning ebook.
The format we used for the ebook works fantastically for PC users and newer MAC users, but we have to figure a way to get
this sweet little ebook into a format for our Apple customers who are using older MACs. We're also working as fast as
we can to publishing an ipad version.
We're also looking for a way to publish the tangible book. Costs
are very high, but we want to go with a company with a reputation for treating its workers fairly. We'll keep looking
for affordable publishing. If you've happened by and happen to have a resource for us, we'd love to hear from you.
Museum Kiosk: Reports from the Texas Preservation Museum regarding the game we designed for them are great!
"Kids love playing it." "Whoo, hoo. We want to continue to design custom games for kiosks and websites.
The games we have on our site, bring a great deal of traffic, so we're hoping to make more for an increased number of websites
and museum kiosks.
Hope your weather is a bit cooler today than here in southern California. It was
h-o-t here in the OC today. Makes advertising our Halloween vocabulary software seem a bit premature!
It's work, work, work at Windmill Works, but we did have time over the weekend for a family birthday party.
My daughter, Bethany, the actress who doesn't cook, baked a hamburger cake. The secret is to make the top of the "bun"
in a bowl! The "hamburger" is simply a chocolate cake baked in a regular round tin and the bottom of the "bun" is
a yellow cake mix baked in a round tin. Color frosting red and yellow for "ketchup" and "mustard"
and voila,' you've got a hamburger cake. Beth's oven is a bit high, so the bun had more of a whole-wheat look,
but of course, as we all know, that's so much healthier!
So how is this related to Windmill Works? It's not - just us playin'
around!
"Inception" - Review
The reception of “Inception,”
whose conception is not based on deception but on the perception that the dream state can be shared, is an exception to the
norm and a reflection of appreciation by moviegoers for the creativity of writers and directors who draw us into their
perceptions of a concept and create a suspension of disbelief though a story line that is actually based on a misperception
of that conception, but is nevertheless intriguing. So hang on and enjoy the ride.
So excited! Lucky is our newest publication - a chldren's picture book, delightfully
illustrated by Julie Parker in the UK - now available as a Kindle book at Amazon.com. (If you don't have a Kindle, you can simply download the software for your PC or Mac and read Kindle books online!
I wrote this little story for all my little brothers and sisters in handed-ness. Power to us Molly Dookers! Hope
you love the e-book! Watch for contests and little Lucky activities at www.leftpawedpuppy.com Send us an email if you purchase Lucky and we'll send you the narrated version for free when published next week!
Happy St. Patrick's Day. Here's to corn beef and cabbage. My 91 year old Aunt
Marion in Milwaukee who has groceries delivered from the fabulous Sendik's Market told me she phoned here to
California to tell me she was glad she remembered to order cabbage and brisket for today. (And our family
isn't even Irish).
As for me, I spent half the day sending emails through Constant Contact to our customers with a link to our Irish Facts and Fun Game and the rest of the day trying to be disciplined enough to dodge corn beef and cabbage. The green beer?
Not so much.
We can hear the crackling of our neighbor's campfire and music from our other neighbor's CD. Ooh, just heard
that unique metalic sound of an aluminum can opening outside my window. In a way I wish we could be "playing outside"
with our friends, but in another way, it feels good to be excited about our projects.
Mike is tweeking
the download for our Computer Game Maker-Lite sale. He created a pop-up window so we could offer a
free deck of Obama Solitaire with every purchase of Game Maker-Lite. I hope a lot of teachers will hurry and buy a copy
so they'll have it to make one last hurrah before the school year is ended.
I think Mike understood, for the
first time tonight, what Computer Game Maker Lite means to me. We stopped at McDonald's and for
some reason I started going on about how, if I were still in the classroom, I would be so happy to download this software.
I told him if I were teaching 2nd grade deaf kids again, and if, for example we were going for a year end trip at the Milwaukee zoo,
I'd go to that website and capture every picture of every animal we were going to see. I'd import those pictures
into Computer Game Maker Lite and type names like: rhinoceros, king penguin, Chinese alligator, Pacific Giant
Octopus (or better yet, have the kids type the names and import the pictures) and voila', they'd have a memory
game to play so that by the time they got to the zoo, they'd know all the names of the animals! Or I'd call
the parents of the deaf kids in my class (deaf ed. classes are small enough to do that) and have them send pictures
of items (or relatives far away) whose names they wanted the kids to learn with fingerspelling and word recognition.
I oculd go on, but it's late and you've got the idea. I love what our software program can do. That's
why we created it.
No April Fool's Joke Here - We Are Actually Adding a Blog Entry Today
It's been a mighty long time since we blogged at Windmill Works, and, as any "Good Business Practices"
manual will tell you (if there were one), procrastinating on blog writing is not a good thing.
But it's not because we're lazy. We've been really, really busy - once again.
1.
For starters, we finally completed our update of our company's unique, exclusive deck of cards,
Presidential Solitaire. Originally produced in the '90's, yikes, the deck included Presidents
Coolidge to Clinton. In order to update the 300 some decks we kept in storage after President Clinton left office,
we needed to add cards for President George W. Bush and President Barack Obama. Since Solitaire is played
with 13 cards, we eliminated President Coolidge and President Coolidge. The new game now starts with President Franklin
D. Roosevelt through President Obama. We thought this would be a nice supplement to our online game of "Obama Solitaire"
and a tangible product that people could keep. Perhaps one day it might even be collectible since only about 350
of these decks of cards are in circulation. If you have a website or a retail store and are interested in carrying this
product, we offer wholesale pricing per dozen ordered. Just email us at comments@windmillworks.com
2. We have decided to offer our customers products other than our own creation and therefore, set up an affiliate
site with amazon.com. That means if you see a product that you like from Amazon, click and end up purchasing it, we
receive a small commission. It's been fun to find a myriad of offerings at Amazon that complement some of our
games and CD's. It was especially fun picking out products to feature on our "Irish Facts and Fun Page." We added Irish T-shirts, Irish mugs, and even some little Irish ducks! We don't know why either!
Those are only two of the activities that have kept us from the blog. We'll write more news soon about
our other renovations and changes. I promise.
Again, I wish I had never seen that "Mad About You" episode where Paul went looking for a couch with Jamie and stated
that "Everything takes four hours". Really, that's how it has seemed lately, except three months
would be more like it. We made a huge decision to NOT feature highlighter tape anymore. Instead, we decided to
focus our attention in two areas, well, actually three or four. All of this has taken a great deal of time.
Our new focus:
1. We decided to update our Presidential Solitaire DECK of CARDS
to include President George W. Bush and President Barack Obama. These will actually become collector decks of cards
because they are part of the decks we had in storage since about 1996. "Presidential Solitaire" had sold at
Games by James in the Mall of America and at various political conventions several years ago. Because we are such
a small company, when we started to work on our software to a greater extent, we stopped selling the deck of cards after
President Clinton (the last of our series) had left office. We now have the updated the deck to an Obama edition
available on our website and through Amazon.com. This is a game solely designed by our little company and we're proud
of it. The idea came to me out of the blue one day years ago, and I sincerely believe that it aids in memory and
cognitive skills. So we're proud to offer this game once again.
2. We also will be focusing on
adding more free online games on our website. Of course, all of this takes time and effort; hence, we need to add google
ads, affiliate ads, and hopefully some cute video ads my actress daughter will produce.
3. We're
still trying to get our lovely, slick, easy-to-use software game-making program, Computer Game Maker-Lite into the
hands of more teachers of the deaf, speech/language pathologists, special ed. teachers, and home-schoolers. It's
really another program we're so proud of. The user can easily input his or her own information in the classic memory
game and create a meaningful learning experience for students. This program allows the user to input voice as well
as pictures and text. If you're a speech/language person please send your colleagues to our site.
Gotta
go. We just created an Academy Award - Best Picture online game and we have to make the page look pretty.
Ok...Where do I go to cure an Avatar Addiction? After the election of Barack Obama, I really wanted to place some kind
of commentary on Windmill Works' web site. So the avatar on the home page reciting exerpts from Martin Luther King's
"I Have a Dream Speech" was what we decided on. And thus was the beginning of an addiction! Not to worry,
we'll be back to normal after the first of the year!
This is how we're feeling at Windmill Works! If ONLY it were just vacuuming and mopping the floor, then we'd be just physically
exhausted. But for the past month or so, it's been a complete web site revamping and all I can say
is that our exhaustion is under some kind of comprehensive plan: we're physically, mentally, and any-other-way exhausted!
We did an entire remodeling of our Kids' Page, adding new learning activities for deaf and hard of hearing students, English As a Second Language learners, and
mainstream students as well - a lot of syntax, i.e., sentence structure stuff, subject-verb agreement grammar exercises, and
a whole bunch of other things I'm frankly just too exhausted to list! Please take a look and see what you think.
Mainstream teachers, speech pathologists, special education teachers, and parents, we would love to know if these
activities are as meaningful as we're thinking they will be. Just sign in at our brand new guestbook and your comments will be posted.
Next we've added more high school and college activities which are accessible from the kids' page. In our soul searching of ethical practices,
we decided to continue to keep the page for the young kids totally free of advertising or any other links except those to
the Martin Luther King, "I Have a Dream Speech," and the "Gettysburg Address," (We've judged those
links as very safe). For the high school and college kids, we have decided to put some links to educational products
at Amazon.com and to add pertinent google ads. The reality is, to keep a website afloat, there does need to be
some revenue from clicks - just so we can buy some fruit and vegetables at Trader Joes to keep body and soul together
until our ship comes in - which reminds me of a sign I saw somewhere around Surf City (Huntington Beach) last year.
It's one that all of us probably can embrace in these economic times:
"I hope my
ship comes in before the dock rots!"
Back to the site: We've also tried to make our navigation
easier to help visitors locate our software products. So we've repeated a list of our educational software
games on several pages (For example, on our home page, our biz blog page, our Scooter's dog blog page and so on.)
But through all the exhaustion, we've learned a lot - especially
me (Billie). I'm getting pretty comfortable with cutting and pasting html code and recording mp3 files and putting
up cute little avatars like the costumed girl from oddcast.com on our home page.
It seems as if
it's a time when we all are working a bit harder just to get by, but if I think if we all pull together and try to
help each other out, if we continue to feel a greater commitment to each other and to our fragile little planet - we
will not only get by, but we'll thrive once again! Yes, we can.
I never liked the term "blog" that was originated from the "b" in web and log. (I understand
that combining the "w" with "log" would have been impossible to pronounce: wlog, but still
"blog" is so clunky, heavy, un-pretty.) (I wonder if "web" and "log" combine better
in Russian or other languages. But I digress). Since I barely get to write once a month, I should actually call this
a mlog (That's almost pronounceable). Nothing really works well, let's just get on with it.
I do have my reasons for not writing this time, and they're good. You see, we packed up our highlighter
tape, software, laptop, and Scooter and took to the open road for the last week of August. (It's hard to close up an online business on vacation, so we took the business along. Our main goal was to visit our long ime
friends, Chuck and Georgianne Beaudet in Eugene, Oregon. Chuck has been designing exquisite jewelry since he was a pup and Georgie has been his amazing partner in "Beaudet Jewelry" Chuck recently won two first place awards for his breath-taking creations, "Moon Glow," and "Through the Waterfall". If you're in Eugene, just stop into one of the most beautiful jewelry stores you'll ever find or if you
need a lovely piece of jewelry designed especially for you, just visit the Beaudet online store.
Note: 2009 - We have given up our highlighter line to focus on our software and writing
projects! Check our link page for distributors. Thanks to all our highlighter tape friends!
Highlighter News
Now that it's back to school, it's
back to shipping out highlighter tape. We've been busy trying to make the web site simplified by displaying
the individual rolls of 1/2" highlighter tape in one picture with a drop down menu. Thus we have the 1/2" x 393" highlighter tape in standard colors with a drop down menu to choose been the
yellow, orange, green, blue, pink, and purple. We have done the same with the 1/2" x 720" economy rolls of highlighter tape in florescent colors and the economy rolls in standard colors. We're hoping that it's easy to differentiate between the individual rolls and the 6 pack choices of highlighter
tape. We are able to acquire any of the products
I've never had a hard time walking and chewing gum, but lately it feels as if I'm walking, chewing
gum, playing tennis, and baking a cake at the same time. We're trying to figure out how to market our Presidential
Solitaire in a more effective way. We just bought the domain name XtremeSolitaire.com with the hope that that title might
be more interesting to customers. It's always a process of setting up a new page and re-directing efforts that's
an effort.
Most importantly this week, I'm trying to focus on writing an article I've been asked to submit
for the My Peace City magazine. My former colleague who teaches at St. Cloud State University in the areas of peace
and social justice has kindly included me in the list of authors of mypeacecity.com's first print magazine. This
is actually one of the greatest honors of my life, to be asked to write for an organization whose goals are relective
of the 60's movement in America. But it's a little frightening as well. This week is being spent reading
"Moral Politics" by George Lakoff and I'm trying to digest his ideas to incorporate in a meaningful, interesting,
fun-to-read essay. So in essence, I'm walking, chewing gum, shipping highlighter tape and software, and wishing
and hoping I can create a piece worthy of the task before me. Wish me luck!
Is this the right direction? All I know is we're doing a lot of work for
what is not a sure thing, but for something we believe in - the Solitaire series.
Right now, I'm taking a
break from burning CD's and printing packaging to write this blog. The CD's will be sent to our colleagues in
Minneapolis to take to the Republican Convention. One of my former co-workers from the fantansic TRIO Student Support
Services Program at Hennepin Community College in Minneapolis is taking our "Obama Solitaire" to the Republican
Convention, but not for the reasons you might think. He is the co-creator of mypeacecity.com which offers an amazing
collection of peace, social justice, and environmental topics and events for the Twin Cities area where I lived
before moving out here to my lovely California. (I feel I own it now.) Anyway, Michael's group will be
demonstrating in front of the Republican Convention and we're donating our software for them to sell throughout the Twin
Cities where the protest groups will be gathering.
My other colleague, a former student, wants to sell our "McCain
Solitaire" outside the convention. This will be very, very interesting.
So our job right now
is to prepare the software for distribution in Minneapolis.
I would love to get our programs to the Democratic
Denver Convention, and if any of you know how I might do that (short of going myself) please let me know!
The concept
of Presidential Solitaire (whether it's Obama Solitaire or McCain Solitaire) has yet to take off as we'd like, but
we continue to believe that students and those interested in Politics will enjoy it and feel more stimulated than playing
just an ordinary game of solitaire. I personally love playing the game and sometimes have to force myself
at midnight (when I finish working on our business) to not go to our game page and play before going to bed.
(I never can stop at one game, so that's why I have to discipline myself to not start.) I really can't be the
ONLY person who loves this game. Or maybe I can. I love being able to know the Presidents in order for some reason.
It puts history in a timeframe I can handle. Where are my people who like the same thing? But onward we go with
this project until we find them.
So here's to the project YOU believe in- may all of our beliefs in our creative
endeavors find validation!
It's not another whole month again since my last entry, is it? Cheez... Well, enough of wallowing in regret - onward.
The List: 1. Quick Topic Message Board Convince you, my readers to add to our message
boards! How? Think I'm going to try to get a newsletter out the week to my highlighter tape customers
of which there are many of you (THANK YOU, THANK YOU!) I might offer a contest with a $50 award for the most exciting
use of highlighter tape. Think that will get people to comment? We're going to add individual message boards
to our special pages.
2. Our CDs at Minneapolis Political Convention Our company's
goal. This week we have to get a bunch of "Obama Solitaire" and "McCain Solitaire" CD's
burned and packaging ready for our friends in Minneapolis. My former colleague from mypeacecity.com will use the
"Obama Solitaire" as a found raiser as their group assembles outside of the convention. (Maybe we'll see
them on TV.) My former student and entrepeneur in Minneapolis will get a vendor's license to sell the McCain
Solitaire at the convention. The ethical issue is this: Should a company sell to the party with whom it isn't
affiliated?" My daughter's response: "This is a democracy, Mom and everyone has a right
to both products." So there we go. Besides, these CD's will be donated items to our friends
for their own discretionary use. We're all about the friends and supporting each other in our endeavors!
3. Searching for a Publisher
Submit my new children's story to as many publishers as
I can this week. It's cute, it's helpful. I love it, so hopefully someone else will. If we don't get
a publisher by December, we'll search for an artist and publish it ourselves. The title will give the surprise away,
so we'll hold that in abeyance for now.
4. Find an artist for our phenomenal new idea
Problem? Financial resources. We need to find a fantastic illustrator to create a pitch of a product for us at
a minimal cost with the assurance that if this project is as successful as we believe, we'd all share in the
profits.
5. Wish you a Happy "After-4th" May the fun
of the fireworks continue to brighten your summer
About 10 days ago, we launched our Obama, Hillary, and McCain Solitaire as free games on our webiste. We've had over 300 hits in just the last few days - people playing our games. We
placed some Google Adwords and added Google Adsense ads to the game pages and a few people have been clicking those as
well.
The most gratifying part of this is the fact that Mike and I had put in a great deal of work on developing
this game. Years ago, I created US President Solitaire, the deck of cards, but neither that or our CD was doing as well
as anticipated, largely because of our inability to advertise in an effective way.
Converting our game to
an online version, however, means that all the work in developing this concept was not in vain because now people are playing
it! If you happen to be one of those people, please write and tell us how you like the game. We'd love to
know. Just email billie@windmillworks.com. I also plan on putting a message board up on that page, so check that our as well.
We'll be
sending out a newsletter as well to our customers announcing this game, so come back and see if the numbers jump in a few
days.
Adios for now. I'm off to write the newsletter and help Scooter with his blog. He's
so upset that we've neglected that for so long
(Ok...so I spent 10 minutes trying to find where the above lyrics are from! I can't find that particular phrase,
so if you know, email me at billie@windmillworks.com) Eiiii, no wonder time is so fleeting, I get distracted - what can I say?
So here it is May, another iiiiiii.
(How is one supposed to spell "i" as an exclamation anyway?) Again my excuse for not blogging: busy, busy,
busy.
Pygmalion or Falling In Love With Your Own Creation The
part that kept us busiest this time is getting my beloved IQ Presidents Solitaire to be a functioning FREE ONLINE
game. I really LOVE this game I created. I mean, I really, really like to play it myself. After
playing it several times, I was able to master the order of the last 13 Presidents without looking. I did this just
by playing my own game. So watch, I'm going to type them now without looking: Coolidge, Hoover, Roosevelt,
Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Reagan, Carter, George Herbert Walker Bush, Clinton, and George W.
Bush! See? Seriously (as they say on Grey's Anatomy) I didn't look! Not that memorizing Presidents in
order is high on Bloom's Taxonomy of intellectual skills (teachers, you know what I'm talking about), but still...
This is a perfect game for college kids and also for baby boomers who want to improve their neurological
skills and increase the dendrites that can make new synaptic connections. (I learned that when interpreting for a deaf
student in an AWESOME study skills class at St. Cloud State University.)
Converting
to Free Online Games
Anyway, since no one seems to want to BUY my great and wonderful IQ Solitaire
creations, we're just going to let people play it free online! So if the traffic comes, then we can advertise and
hopefully our work will at least be enjoyed and hopefully generate advertising income. However, it took Mike (our
top and only ace programmer) a bit of research and tweaking to convert this to an online game. So I had Mike create
one game with each candidate as the last President - a kind of "visualize your favorite candidate in the White House"
thing. So we have Obama Solitaire, Hillary Solitaire, and . I discussed with my daughter, Bethany (bethanytherese.com) whether I was selling out by listing all
three candidates and not only just my choice. But she reminded me that, after all, this is a democracy and it's
only right to have all three. I think I should put a counter on each page though and try to find out how many Democrats
vs Republicans we have visiting our site. We will still be selling the COMPLETE IQ Solitaire Presidents CD which has 4 volumes that include all the Presidents from Washington to GW Bush with a free update after the election.
Send Your Friends - They'll Love It, They'll Love
You for Sending them, We'll Love You Sending Them...You'll Love Us for Loving that You Sent them....You Get the Picture
- It's a Win-Win Situation
So, let's hope this is all worth it. It will be if people
come and play it. This solitaire really is challenging (but there's a help list) and fun and after playing
it, you feel like you've done yourself a favor in exercising your brain.
Announcement: To our highlighter tape customers. We just purchased the domain name: www.MyHighlighterTape.com (no need for capital letters when you type). This address will get you directly to the highlighter tape page and we
hope will make shopping more efficient.
- one of my favorite movies "Pushing Tin" - which has absolutely no relevance
whatsoever to today's topic, other than the "pushing" part.
Sometimes when you have multiple products on your web site, it's hard to know where to put your
focus. If we had a large staff, or even a staff at all, I'd have one person putting up google ads for our Obama, Hillary,
McCain IQ solitaire, maybe I'd direct that person to put some of the IQ Solitaire software up on ebay and write
an ad for craig's list as well. I'd have another staff member searching for educational toy stores, especially in Minneapolis
and Denver where the Republican and Democratic conventions, respectively will be held in August. But
being a small company, I had to focus my attention elsewhere.
Since we have received several inquiries about highlighter tape this week, I decided that it
would be best to "push" that product. So I printed up some address labels for are really down-town brochures
from Lee Products, some order forms I had created some weeks ago, and put them in a cute transparent, polka dot
Chinese take-out box that I got at Michaels along with some highlighter tape samples. I put on a cute turqouise outfit,
got in the car with Scooter and trapsed out to some of the schools around Newport Beach. Being from Minnesota
originally, it's amusing to see California schools whose doors open up to the outside (like in "Karate Kid") and that have
lockers that you can see from the street. They have cute names around here too, being close to the ocean and all.
My favorite is Mariner's High School. They must call themselves the "Sea Bees" because it's painted on the side of the
building somewhere. Cute.
Well, since the printing the labels for the brochures along with the order forms had
taken so long, it was close to the end of the school day, and I never did get to give my free samples to the Sea Bees.
But I did drop off samples in two other schools. The secretary at the Catholic school seemed a bit leary of my samples and
added that she couldn't promise anything. (She must be used to people asking for big favors when they approach her desk.)
The student receptionist at the other school was ready to have me walk to the teacher's lounge to place my samples there before
an asute mentor beside him said it would be fine to leave the samples at the desk. (I'll let you know if I get any response
either school.)
At least it was great to get out of the office and get on the PCH (Pacific Coast Highway) and
watch the sailboats in Balboa Harbor on my way to dropping off the samples. It's all a great experiment anyway, isn't
it, as to what works and doesn't, but it was a lovely California day in which to experiment while I passed blooming bouganvilla
and a myriad of other spring flowers and bushes that we just never had in Minnesota.
That
cute animated girl on our home page? - an avatar from SitePal. We talked about her in a previous blog (see January
14). Annie Avatar, as I call her, was fun to choose (kind of an alter-ego, wanna-look-like-her dream come
true.) The only problem with the avatars that I see is that they all could use a speech clinician/pathologist for
their "s" problems. Apparently, the technology has trouble perfecting the "s" of avatars such as
Annie.
However, these avatars have just acquired a whole new career path - one other than marketing products. According
to an email I received from the SitePal.com, Dr. Brian McFarlin of the University of Houston has examined using
SitePal avatars for use in his online class. So now we have avatar teachers and they seem to be doing well!
"During the 2006-7 school year, Dr. McFarlin implemented a SitePal speaking avatar as an informational element within
the curriculum for two of his classes.
Dr. McFarlin reported that grades were 21% higher in those classes in which
he employed various technologies, including SitePal. He also received praise from his students, who said that the SitePal
character was a welcome addition to the program and helped to improve their learning experience."
The complete
study is available by clicking here. Dr. McFarlins's study was also published on Scientific Daily on March 25th, 2008. To see the release, go here.
As a result of this study, the email I received also announced a 30% discount package that is being
offered for a limited time. The contact information listed was: sales@SitePal.com or 877-300-6030 to learn about the special package.
So, if you are teaching an online course or need to instruct
your customers on using your products, check into getting a cute avatar for yourself. (You can even design one to look
like YOU!) Just don't be disappointed with the "th" for "s" subsitution.
Happy Trails
to Until We Meet Again
(and if you recognize those words, you might check for a few gray hairs)
The "hamburger" is simply a chocolate cake baked in a regular round tin and the bottom of the "bun" is
a yellow cake mix baked in a round tin. Color frosting red and yellow for "ketchup" and "mustard"
and voila,' you've got a hamburger cake. Beth's oven is a bit high, so the bun had more of a whole-wheat look,
but of course, as we all know, that's so much healthier!
ard to close up an online business on vacation, so we took the business along. Our main goal was to visit our long ime
friends, Chuck and Georgianne Beaudet in Eugene, Oregon. Chuck has been designing exquisite jewelry since he wa
If you're in Eugene, just stop into one of the most beautiful jewelry stores you'll ever find or if you
need a lovely piece of jewelry designed especially for you, just visit the
