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cblj_backupGood morning everyone, and welcome to Radio Free Monday!
Before we start, Candice wanted me to thank everyone for their votes in her Dark SKy Astronomy Festival video contest -- she and her friend won the trip to the festival in Jasper, Alberta!
Ways To Give:
Australia is dealing with some fairly severe fires at the moment, and several people reminded me to post links. One of the most reliable places to donate to help at this point is the Australian Red Cross, buthighlyeccentric linked to Wildlife Information Rescue's bushfire appeal and National Animal Rescue Groups, which is co-ordinating animal evacuation and rehousing. If you can offer help and wish to, you can fill out the form here.
iamshadow linked to an updating map of the fires on the RFS website and regular updates on ABC News.
Amanda's family is suffering a flea infestation without a lot of cash to fix it. They have a gofundme open to raise money for flea fogging, as well as for medication and treatment for their cats, who are having severe reactions to the fleas.
Pip linked to an indiegogo campaign to raise money for Ph.D research into fantasy languages: how they work, and how an author can create a good one without years of linguistics study. Unfortunately without the funding, Pip can't engage in the study at all.
Stillpoint Cards and Comics in Fall River, MA got in touch with me to link to a gofundme they're holding to help get over a rough patch from an unexpectedly high electricity bill. They're an awesome looking book/comic/gaming store, and they're offering some nifty rewards for donation, especially above the $20 level, such as a custom made "softee" like this Christmas Cthulu.
Just For Fun:
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derien linked to an article about street artist Banksy, who set up a street stall in New York a week ago and sold original works (worth about $40K each) for $60.
And this has been Radio Free Monday! Thank you for your time. You can always post items for my attention in comments here (or on any post) or email me at copperbadge at gmail dot com. If you're not sure how to proceed, here is a little more about what I do and how you can help (or ask for help!).
Before we start, Candice wanted me to thank everyone for their votes in her Dark SKy Astronomy Festival video contest -- she and her friend won the trip to the festival in Jasper, Alberta!
Ways To Give:
Australia is dealing with some fairly severe fires at the moment, and several people reminded me to post links. One of the most reliable places to donate to help at this point is the Australian Red Cross, but
highlyeccentric linked to Wildlife Information Rescue's bushfire appeal and National Animal Rescue Groups, which is co-ordinating animal evacuation and rehousing. If you can offer help and wish to, you can fill out the form here. iamshadow linked to an updating map of the fires on the RFS website and regular updates on ABC News.Amanda's family is suffering a flea infestation without a lot of cash to fix it. They have a gofundme open to raise money for flea fogging, as well as for medication and treatment for their cats, who are having severe reactions to the fleas.
Pip linked to an indiegogo campaign to raise money for Ph.D research into fantasy languages: how they work, and how an author can create a good one without years of linguistics study. Unfortunately without the funding, Pip can't engage in the study at all.
Stillpoint Cards and Comics in Fall River, MA got in touch with me to link to a gofundme they're holding to help get over a rough patch from an unexpectedly high electricity bill. They're an awesome looking book/comic/gaming store, and they're offering some nifty rewards for donation, especially above the $20 level, such as a custom made "softee" like this Christmas Cthulu.
Just For Fun:
derien linked to an article about street artist Banksy, who set up a street stall in New York a week ago and sold original works (worth about $40K each) for $60. And this has been Radio Free Monday! Thank you for your time. You can always post items for my attention in comments here (or on any post) or email me at copperbadge at gmail dot com. If you're not sure how to proceed, here is a little more about what I do and how you can help (or ask for help!).
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Date: 2013-10-21 03:03 pm (UTC)You'll still need to treat your house, but that may be better for the kitties and cheaper. For my cat I've just used a flea comb and bowl of water/Dawn mixture, but if its really bad, you may want to go the bath route any way. Kitties may hate you at the time, but they'll be happy for no more fleas.
Here's a link to help with the steps: http://m.wikihow.com/Kill-Fleas-With-Dawn-Dishsoap (http://m.wikihow.com/Kill-Fleas-With-Dawn-Dishsoap) The cat/comb treatment is listed after the dog/bath one.
Hope you can get rid of the fleas!
Oh! Also, if you didn't know, fleas survive being sucked up in the vacuum! So when you vacuum, make sure to empty the vacuum OUTSIDE.
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Date: 2013-10-21 04:32 pm (UTC)You can almost certainly get them from the vet, but when my mom had an infestation about a year ago after bringing in a new kitten, she found it online so she could avoid paying for the vet fee. None of our cats had any side effects other than relief from fleas.
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Date: 2013-10-26 02:42 am (UTC)Julia Rios and Alisa Krasnostein are running a pozible campaign (http://pozible.com/kaleidoscopetpp) to fund a short story anthology of contemporary YA fantasy and science fiction with diverse teen protagonists. They already have stories from Sofia Samatar, Ken Liu, Vylar Kaftan, Jim Hines, and Sean Williams, and have recently opened submissions to everyone (the submission deadline is Dec 31st 2013; full guidelines are at http://kaleidoscope.twelfthplanetpress.com/?page_id=42). Money raised goes towards paying the authors the professional market rate and editing/producing the anthology. The campaign finishes 12pm Oct 31st.
"The main characters in Kaleidoscope stories will be part of the QUILTBAG, neuro-diverse, disabled, from non-Western cultures, people of color, or in some other way not the typical straight, white, cis-gendered, able-bodied characters we see all over the place. That said, these aren't going to be issue stories. The focus here is contemporary fantasy, and while the characters' backgrounds will necessarily affect how they engage with the world, we're not going to have a collection of "Very Special Episode" stories about kids coming to terms with their sexuality/disability/mental illness/cultural identity, etc. We want to see protagonists from all sorts of backgrounds being the heroes of their own journeys."
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Date: 2013-10-26 10:32 am (UTC)no subject
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