Reuters – With his hit “Midnight in Paris,” Woody Allen wrote a humorous piece of fiction in which the protagonist hung out with the likes of Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, Pablo Picasso, Man Ray, F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald and Salvador Dali.
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12-Dec-2011

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Get out Your Kindle, iPad, iPhone, Mac or PC, and Download This Coming-of-age Story Straight From the Sand Dunes of Cape Cod
(PRWEB) March 30, 2011
Searching for Hawaii: A Cape Cod Story, is set in 1976 on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Fifteen-year-old Gail Wilson finds friendship, love, and tragedy during the course of one summer. Over those ten weeks, Gail matures as she falls in love, experiences the death of a great friend, and comes to terms with who she is in her family and in the world. Gail’s relationships with her parents, siblings, and friends are sarcastic, funny, and touching. A novel for older teens and baby boomers, as well as anyone who wants to relive teenage years in the 1970s!
Can find this at amazon.com for $ 2.99
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Excerpt from, Searching for Hawaii; A Cape Cod Story –
Chapter 9 OC Gail
I have been an organized, obsessive compulsive person my entire life. I know I need to let go a little and relax. For instance, at home in my room there is a final resting place for everything. Many items like my tennis racquet, my hairbrush, and my photo album hang on my wall with a marker outline around them. Sort of like a crime scene for my everyday objects. When a newcomer enters my room, it never fails that they look at me for signs of a mental breakdown. I can see them thinking, âShould I remain here, with this weirdo?â
My friend Susan thinks I am destined to become the next Columbo or Mannix, a detective drawing lines around dead bodies. âGail,â she said once, âthey even let detectives make lists!â
I make lists in my notebook of what I need to accomplish each day. I make a weekly list on Sunday, then break it down each night before I go to bed for the next day. If I donât do this, I will not sleep well at all. I am so obsessed with this list that if I do something that is not on it, I actually go back, write in the new task, and then cross it off! How neurotic can I get? I wonder if I am heading for the 12-step program for the unendingly organized.
Mom and Dad say that these are quality traits for leading a successful life. What they are really thinking is, âWhere the hell did she come from?â My dadâs workshop looks like a scene from Earthquake and he is Charlton Heston trying to rescue his one useful tool, his crowbar, from the grips of disorder and decay. Mom, whose idea of organizing is to decipher which pile of crap this or that item belongs to by categories only a mystic could unravel, is constantly misplacing thingsâ¦go figure.
Maybe I am a product of a contrary life. I probably have ancestors who were in the military or butlers or plumbers! I am a work in progress and being on the Cape definitely helps. Here, I only make the daily list and the Sunday list is history. Also, having to share a room certainly makes me think twice before organizing everything in the Columbo fashion.
Diane would never put up with my obsessive nonsense in our room, but I am discovering my brother is more like me than I thought. It feels great to have something in common with someone in this family. Putting some laundry away in Markâs room, I am surprised at his organizational skills when it comes to his license plate project. He is lying on his bed reading a comic. âHey squirt, howâs the license plate business?â
Popping up like a jack-in-the-box, Mark lands right in front of his wall map. âLook Gail, 23 already!â
âWhen did you get New Mexico?â
Tapping his foot and folding his arms across his chest he spouts, âToo easy, day three.â
âDay three? Are you keeping track of which plates you get on which days?â
âYup.â Mark pulls out a calendar and on several squares I notice the names of states. Cool.
Messing up his hair, I pronounce, âGood job buddy, keep up the good work.â At that, my little brother prances back to his comic.
About Sally
Sally is a New Englander. She writes from her home in New Hampshire where she publishes a weekly blog, musings really, on connections from her life to her writing life. She is a novelist and freelancer as well, but prefers the world of fiction to anything she may discover in the real world.
Sally worked with her critique group to publish an anthology, an eclectic mix of forms titled, Writing with Class. Of this she says, âItâs a collection of stories that will have you laughing out loud, reminiscing, and wiping away tears. Itâs entertaining and inspiring.â
Having grown up in Massachusetts, she has lived in Vermont, Arizona, New Hampshire, and soon, Maine. Please visit and respond to Sally at her blog site http://www.sallylucywrites.com
Writing with Class, Sally L. Wright, Helen P. Bridge, Jenny Menning, Susan joy Bellevance, Trudy Cohen, Roberta Baldwin Stoneman, Joan Chandler, with Deb McKew, Editor
To find out more about the author: http://www.sallylucywrites.com
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31-Oct-2011

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Habbo Hotel Turns 10 Years Old and the Success Story Continues
Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) June 14, 2010
Habbo Hotel, the world’s largest teen virtual community and social game, is celebrating its 10th Anniversary and the success continues. More than three million new Habbo characters are created each month to participate in the virtual hotel.
Habbo Hotel by the Numbers (June 2010):
172 million characters / avatars created
40 million monthly user hours, average session length 42 minutes
15 million monthly unique visitors
120 million active user-created rooms
Users from over 150 countries
11 language versions
Go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DLWLMQxHUY to watch a Habbo 10-year anniversary video interview with co-founder Sampo Karjalainen and CEO Timo Soininen.
From a Hobby to an International Phenomenon
The Habbo Hotel story began in 1999 when founders Sampo Karjalainen and Aapo Kyrölä, both in their 20s, created an online application called “Mobile Disco.” It was purely a hobby, a kind of graphical chat site for a friend’s band, and it quickly gained lots of fans in Finland and around the world. Karjalainen and Kyrölä decided to develop the idea further and used it in an advertising campaign for a Finnish mobile operator in February 2000. It was a simple snowball fight game, but it became the beginning of Habbo Hotel.
At this time, Karjalainen and Kyrölä were also thinking about virtual payments, and created the Habbo Hotel micropayments business model. The company, Sulake, was founded in May 2000, and “Hotelli Kultakala,” the original Finnish Habbo Hotel, opened a couple of months later.
The first international Habbo Hotel opened in the UK in early 2001, and over the next couple of years the company founded most of the current Habbo Hotel sites and language versions. Over the past few years, Sulake has further expanded its reach by making the virtual hotel service and local payment methods available in new countries, which now total 32.
The Secret isâ¦Continual Development!
Habbo Hotel is one of the oldest active teen online services in the world and it is still growing. Habbo’s success factor has been its continuous development and commitment to make the user experience better. The goal has always been to keep the service fresh and relevant by frequently introducing new features and gaming elements, arranging engaging campaigns, enriching the virtual economy and payment models and nurturing the community.
The site’s persistent efforts to stay current have always been strongly influenced by user feedback and deep insight into teenagers’ lives, whether it’s about their values and attitudes, purchasing behavior or brand preferences. Updated on a yearly basis, the Global Habbo Youth Survey (http://webstore.sulake.com/) examines the interests and online habits of Habbo Hotel’s vast audience and provides an enormous amount of information on the world’s teens.
Habbo Hotel also regularly surveys and polls its users, asking about various hot topics. To celebrate its 10-year anniversary, Habbo asked its users about the future of social online services and internet usage in general. The findings reveal an array of interesting predictions from nearly 50,000 teens globally.
Future Outlook is Upbeat
Sulake, the company behind Habbo Hotel, recently announced the best quarterly financial results (http://www.prweb.com/releases/2010/05/prweb4027784.htm) in its history. With Q1/2010 sales up 25% compared to the same time last year, Sulake expects revenue growth to continue at the current rate and to maintain healthy profitability. A decade of continual development and rigorous work combined with favorable market growth is now paying off for the company.
All Habbo Hotel 10-year anniversary press materials can be found at: http://www.sulake.com/press/image_bank#category2.
About Habbo Hotel (http://www.habbo.com)
Habbo Hotel is the world’s largest virtual community and social game for teens. Users join by creating a fully customized online character called a Habbo. From there, they can explore a wide variety of spaces and millions of rooms created by other users in the virtual community, play a variety of games, connect with friends, decorate their own rooms, and have fun through creativity and self-expression. Currently Habbo Hotel has users from over 150 countries and the service is available in 11 language versions. To date, more than 172 million characters have been created and over 15 million unique browsers worldwide visit Habbo Hotel each month, spending a total of 45 million hours in the service.
About Sulake (http://www.sulake.com)
Sulake is a social entertainment company focused on online social places and games. The company’s goal is to inspire playful interaction and self-expression in people by creating easy to use social online services. Sulake’s main product is Habbo Hotel, the world’s largest virtual community and social game for teenagers.
Sulake has offices in 12 countries. Headquarters is situated in Helsinki, Finland. Currently the company has more than 270 employees worldwide.
For more information please contact:
Susan C. Mills
Edelman PR for Habbo Hotel
323-202-1050
susan.mills(at)edelman(dot)com
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27-Oct-2011

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Value of Truth Weighed Against Virtue of Compassion in Dynamic Love Story
Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) June 11, 2007
Maintaining a balance between truth and compassion in relationships, whether with friends, family or lovers, can be instrumental in the success of said relationships. At age 14, precocious Christie O’Kelly hasn’t quite grasped this balance, and tends to tip the scales in favor of the raw, unvarnished truth when it comes to her relationships with her mother and sisters. Christie’s journey toward understanding the precious balance between truth and compassion is the heart of Lynda Fitzgerald’s debut novel, “If Truth Be Told” (ISBN 978-1594145681, Five Star/Thomson Gale, 2007).
Set in Florida’s picturesque Melbourne Beach, “If Truth Be Told” begins with teenage Christie gaining a second mother. Though she has nothing in common with her own society-conscious mother and sisters, Christie finds love and kindness in her uncle’s new wife, a benevolent woman named Carly. Thanks to Carly’s wisdom and influence, Christie is set on a journey of emotional growth, where she learns about the importance of compassion and forgiveness.
Christie’s transformation from a gawky 14-year-old to a remarkable newspaper reporter of 28 is filled with typical growing pains, including finding and losing her first love. Early on in the novel, Christie falls head over heels for Carly’s handsome college-bound son, Todd, but their relationship comes to a dramatically painful halt, and it’s not until tragedy befalls their family that Christie and Todd reconnect.
As the novel progresses, “If Truth Be Told” becomes a suspenseful mystery story as well. The emotional plot thickens when Christie’s uncle falls ill, then suddenly dies after being in a stable condition for weeks. When Christie begins to suspect foul play from within the family, her truth-seeking instincts kick in. Though she knows that she must find the truth about her uncle’s death, Christie realizes it may cost everything that matters to her. What she finds challenges her beliefs about life and those she loves and requires the most difficult evaluation of truth, compassion and forgiveness that Christie has ever faced.
About the Author
Lynda Fitzgerald resides in Atlanta, Georgia. She studied creative writing at Georgia Perimeter College, where she received a creative writing scholarship, and Emory University. She is currently working on a new, witty, fast-paced mystery series.
“If Truth Be Told” (ISBN 978-1594145681, Five Star/Thomson Gale, 2007) can be purchased through local and online bookstores. For more information, visit http://www.fitzgeraldwrites.com. Publicity contact: http://www.readerviews.com. Review copies available upon request.
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27-Sep-2011
sims 2- teenage pregnancy- Jenna’s Story
Category : Teen
* I removed the other movie that is exactly like this one. you could not read the subtitles so i just adjusted the color and stuff to make it readable in this one. This is a movie i made using sims 2 and movie maker. basically it is about a girl (Jenna) and her boyfriend (Paul). Jenna gets pregnant but Paul is there for her unlike her mom. I personally think this was better than my movie sims 2 love but i want to know wat u think. plz comment and give suggestions to make my movies better. thank you ****plz do not ask how do u get teens preg. i have answered that alot on my other vid where my teen has quads. anyone who asks will have their comment removed. if i get tons of those questions then comments will be blocked. this is a warning. i am done answering that question. Thank you! 
Catherine get’s pregnant part 1
Video Rating: 4 / 5
22-Sep-2011
Follow young alcoholic Phil through his journey. An oppurtunity of going to a young persons Rehab in Kent, will Phil turn his life around?
Video Rating: 5 / 5
20-Sep-2011
It Happened to Nancy: By an Anonymous Teenager, A True Story from Her Diary
The editor of the classic GO ASK ALICE has compiled the poignant journals of a 14-year-old date-rape victim who contracted AIDS and died.
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29-Oct-2011
Posted by : Teen Newspaper – Teen Magazine – Student Newspaper
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Runescape – Story time – Gross Gore’s Youtube and the Clan Argument – With Funny Commentary!
Category : Cool Videos
Tags: argument, Clan, Commentary, funny, Gore's, Gross, Runescape, story, Time, youtube
Are you sitting comfortably? Then let me begin. Today I tell the tale of how I think I was the reason Gross Gore turned his Channel comments and stuff to hidden, and How this New clan update may have caused slight problems in the LevelOneVlogger’s Kingdom… Thanks for watching guys, new “attempt” video will be out soon SUBSCRIBE -Ben-
Video Rating: 4 / 5
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