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His pilots and screenplays have been finalists in Script Pipeline, Book Pipeline, Stage 32, We Screenplay, the New York Screenplay, Screen craft and the Hollywood Screenplay contests. After graduating with an MFA from the New School, his writing has also appeared in the anthology DIRTY BOULEVARD, The Millions, Cagibi, The Montreal Review, The Adirondack Review, The New PlainsReview, Underwood Press, Monologing and others. He is the co-curator of The Guerrilla Lit Reading Series and lives in New York City. Follow him at leematthewgoldberg.com

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Julia Mossbridge, PhD, is a Visiting Scholar in the Psychology Department at Northwestern and a Fellow at the Institute of Noetic Sciences. Her research interests: unconditional love, time & the unconscious mind, intuition, dreaming, soundscape influence on mood, & models of transformation & transcendence.
Mitchell Rabin, M.A., L.AC., holistic psychotherapist, life-coach, stress management consultant with a background in traditional Chinese acupuncture, host of A Better World Radio & TV, environmentalist & social entrepreneur and international speaker, workshop leader, student of Wisdom Traditions East & West and parapsychology.
This evening will be an engaging, fun public conversation about the farther reaches of human potential, specifically into the domains of parapsychology, dimensionality, precognition, dream states, intuition, telepathy and time.

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Measuring blood pressure is one of the most common procedures performed at a medical office. Yet, studies have shown that numerous mistakes are made when taking readings.

For example, if you’ve ever had a conversation while getting checked you may have added an additional 10-15 mm Hg to a measurement. Having a full bladder can tack on 10-15 mm Hg, while putting the cuff over clothing, rather than a bare arm, can add 10-40 mm Hg. These errors may lead to higher readings, which may lead to a misdiagnosis.

In this interview Dr. Michael Hochman, Spokesperson for the American Heart Association, shares the most common mistakes (whether taken at home or at your doctor’s office) and 7 simple tips to ensure an accurate blood pressure reading. Dr. Hochman will also talks about the updated high blood pressure guidelines and what to do if your numbers are now borderline. In addition, Marcus Whitehead, a police officer and high blood pressure patient shares how not knowing his numbers almost lead to serious health complications, and what he now does to stay in a healthy range.

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Do you forget things easily?

Do you get derailed from a task easily or distracted by sounds and noises?

What about your IQ?

When my now 24-year-old son was just 9, a doctor thought he had ADHD, and I came this close to putting him on a stimulant. Even though I declined the medicine, I used natural fish oils high in DHA. He turned out to be naturally brilliant without any of those prescribed stimulants.

I’m not trying to alarm you about medications, but you should be informed so you can choose the best option for your loved ones. DHA fish oils are known to support a healthy brain and attention span in all people, young and old.

Studies have involved children and teenagers who had low levels of DHA and they, not surprisingly, had poor reading scores as well as behavioral problems. Could these children benefit from omega 3 supplementation? Low DHA in children aged 7 through 9 were associated with reading and comprehension that was below average, as well as behavioral issues. Why aren’t physicians considering DHA supplementation as a first-line treatment? Probably because the pharmaceutical sales people aren’t hyping those up.

Some studies point to DHA supplementation as a method of increasing overall intelligence as you get older. Can you imagine?! They based this finding on kids between the ages of 3 and 5 years old who had received omega 3 fat supplements as infants. Those kids outscored children who were in the placebo group who did not get the omega fats. By “outscored” I mean they had better results across the board on bot vocabulary and intelligence tests.

Omega-3 fatty acids seem to boost and balance your brain function. Basically, I’m saying we’re all fatheads and need good fats for our brain which consists of lipophilic cells.

About 60 percent or slightly more brain material is comprised of fat. Of the total fat, DHA makes up approximately 20 percent of your brain’s cerebral cortex. That’s the part of your brain that helps you think, learn a language, correctly perceive things, reason and comprehend. It is involved in voluntary movement so when you think I need to pick up that pen, your arm automatically does that for you, compliments of your cerebral cortex.

DHA plays an undeniable role for your cerebral cortex and your nerves. It’s found in unusually high levels in your neurons (the cells of your brain and spinal cord). That’s why patients with a TBI (traumatic brain injury) are told to take omega 3 fatty acids that are high in DHA content.

When you combine DHA fish oil with vitamin D or the calming mineral magnesium, the result can be even more astonishing, especially if you have other signs of cognitive decline such as memory loss, senior moments and problems making decisions.

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Talk to Cash Nickerson, one of the Unique CFOs You’ll Ever Meet, about his Newest Book: LISTENING AS A MARTIAL ART

Simple listening is a skill that may be lost in the age of social media.  But whether you’re looking to solve specific communication problems at work or at home, or you want to make all-around improvements in your communication style, Listening as a Martial Art is an essential read.   Practice every day and you’ll be a black belt listener before you know it! The most admired people in business, academic, political, and social settings all have one thing in common: they’re great listeners. Through conversational essays and real-world experience, entrepreneur, attorney, and author Cash Nickerson teaches us the art and science of intelligent listening. By combining his business acumen with 30 years of study and training in the martial arts, Cash provides simple but profound insights into what it takes to be a great listener.

NICKERSON’S SECRETS FOR SUCCESSFUL LISTENING INCLUDE:
•    Avoiding the most common – and easily overlooked – conversation stoppers
•    How to Improve your listening skills by “reading” the speaker
•    How to harness the incredible power of silence
•    Sell more by saying less
•    Getting your ego out of the communication loop
•    Handle emotional outbursts from bosses, colleagues, friends, and family members

Nickerson is currently President and CFO of PDS Tech, a large engineering and IT staffing firm.  He is also an attorney licensed to practice in five states.  Cash received the Global Philanthropy Award from Washington University for his support of the Crimes Against Humanity Initiative.

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Discover fall’s best page-turners as recommended by the Amazon Books Editorial Team

Amazon.com announced its annual Big Fall Books Preview that features the best new books readers will want to curl up with as the weather cools and the leaves change color. The Amazon Books Editors read hundreds of titles to handpick their annual list of the hottest blockbusters of the season. The Amazon Big Fall Books Preview also highlights the season’s most anticipated releases in genres including: biographies & memoirs, sports & outdoors, science fiction & fantasy, mysteries & thrillers, literature & fiction, humor & entertainment, hobbies & home, food & wine, comics & graphic novels, business & leadership, cookbooks, romance, nonfiction, history, and crafts—along with upcoming releases for kids and young adults.

“As editors, we look forward to fall every year because it’s the biggest season for new books,” said Sara Nelson, Editorial Director of Books and Kindle, Amazon.com. “My team and I read oceans of books to curate a list that includes titles from perennial favorites like Nicholas Sparks, John Irving, and Stephen King as well as authors we’re excited to celebrate like Mary Karr, William Boyd, and Lauren Groff.”

Below are the Big Fall Books, in order of release date:

• Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter: More than twenty years ago, Claire and Lydia’s teenaged sister Julia vanished without a trace. The two women have not spoken since, and now their lives could not be more different.
• The Survivor: A Mitch Rapp Novel by Kyle Mills: A blistering novel that picks up where The Last Man left off, The Survivor is a no-holds-barred race to save America…and Mitch Rapp’s finest battle.
• M Train by Patti Smith: From the National Book Award–winning author of Just Kids: an unforgettable odyssey of a legendary artist.
• Humans of New York: Stories by Brandon Stanton: Based on the blog with more than four million loyal fans, a beautiful, heartfelt, funny, and inspiring collection of photographs and stories capturing the spirit of a city.
• Foreign Affairs by Stuart Woods: When he’s apprised at the last minute of a mandatory meeting abroad, Stone Barrington rushes off to Europe for a whirlwind tour of business and, of course, pleasure.
• Hell’s Foundations Quiver by David Weber: The latest novel in Weber’s New York Times best-selling Safehold series.
• See Me by Nicholas Sparks: Colin Hancock is giving his second chance his best shot. At 28, he’s focused on avoiding all the places and people that proved so destructive in his earlier life.
• Career of Evil by Robert Galbraith: A fiendishly clever mystery with unexpected twists around every corner, it is also a gripping story of a man and a woman at a crossroads in their personal and professional lives.
• Corrupted: A Rosato & DiNunzio Novel by Lisa Scottoline: Bennie Rosato is faced with a case from her past that shows her how differently things might have turned out.
• Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Old School by Jeff Kinney: With tension building inside and outside the Heffley home, will Greg find a way to survive? Or is going “old school” just too hard for a kid like Greg?
• The Bazaar of Bad Dreams by Stephen King: A master storyteller at his best—the O. Henry Prize winner delivers a generous collection of stories, several of them brand-new, featuring revelatory autobiographical comments.
• The Crossing by Michael Connelly: Detective Harry Bosch has retired from the LAPD, but his half-brother, defense attorney Mickey Haller, needs his help.
• Avenue of Mysteries by John Irving: Irving returns to the themes that established him as one of our most admired and beloved authors in this absorbing novel of fate and memory.
• Crimson Shore by Douglas Preston: Agent Pendergast Series: A seemingly straightforward private case turns out to be much more complicated and sinister than Special Agent A.X.L. Pendergast ever could have anticipated.
• The Promise: An Elvis Cole and Joe Pike Novel by Robert Crais: Elvis Cole and Joe Pike are joined by Suspect heroes Scott James and his K-9 partner, Maggie, in the new masterpiece of suspense from the #1 New York Times best-selling author.
• Tricky Twenty-Two: A Stephanie Plum Novel by Janet Evanovich: Stephanie Plum faces her toughest case yet in the newest release from the #1 New York Times best-selling author’s blockbuster series.
• The Guilty by David Baldacci: Will Robbie infiltrates the most hostile countries in the world, defeats our enemies’ advanced security measures, and eliminates threats before they ever reach our shores.
• Cross Justice by James Patterson: When his cousin is accused of a heinous crime, Alex Cross returns to his North Carolina hometown for the first time in over three decades.
• Precious Gifts by Danielle Steel: Paul Parker ultimately shrugs off the demands of marriage and parenting to pursue life as an international bon vivant.
• Ashley Bell by Dean Koontz: Bibi Blair is a fierce, funny, dauntless young woman—whose doctor says she has one year to live.

And the Amazon Books Editors’ personal under-the-radar picks, in their own words:

• The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante: The fourth and final of the “Neapolitan novels” by a pseudonymous Italian author, The Story of the Lost Child is the finale to a fascinating bunch of books about life, love, friendship, motherhood and, oh yes, politics. Is it exaggeration to say that Elena Ferrante is our Tolstoy? Maybe she’s more like Trollope, with a bit of Knausgaard and Peyton Place thrown in. – Sara Nelson
• The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood: This dystopian fantasy is about a social experiment gone horribly awry. In order to keep the unemployment rate in check, participants volunteer to go to prison. And no one need fret if penitentiary orange is not their color—it’ll be for six alternating months of the year, and the rest of the time they will resume their civilian lives. What could possibly go wrong? With echoes of The Handmaid’s Tale, this is Atwood at her chilling best. – Erin Kodicek
• Submission by Michel Houllebecq: This is a very personal pick, as I’ve been reading Michel Houellebecq since The Elemental Practices was published in 2000. Houellebecq is not for everyone—unless you live in France, where he is a big best seller. I don’t consider myself to be a card-carrying Francophile, but he’s so atypical to the authors I normally read that I find myself looking forward to his books. – Chris Schluep
• Star Wars: Aftermath by Chuck Wendig: Given Wendig’s electrifying writing and the setting of this book between Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens, I’m eager to see if there are any hints revealed about the upcoming film. – Adrian Liang
• Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words by Randall Munroe: On the heels of his best-selling What If?, Randall Munroe’s Thing Explainer describes how complex things work—using only the 1,000 most common words in the English language. The book will be fun. – Jon Foro
• The Thing About Jellyfish by Ali Benjamin: Ali Benjamin’s debut is one of the best books (for readers age 9 and up) that I’ve read all year. Benjamin’s character, Suzy, is trying to make sense of a loss by researching an obscure but not impossible explanation. Suzy is endearing in her awkward innocence and her steadfast convictions. It’s a rich, multilayered novel beautifully told. – Seira Wilson

To see the complete Big Fall Books Preview, and to purchase in Kindle or print, visit: www.amazon.com/fallreadingpreview.

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*BKBF Dates: Children’s Day: 9/19 / Gala & BOBI Award Event: 9/19
Evening / Festival: 9/20*

Lethem to participate in two programs at Sunday 9/20 festival, discussing storytelling and New York City with John Leguizamo; and exploring literary inspiration with Edwidge Danticat & Pete Hamill.

Brooklyn, NY—Friday, September 18, 2015—This weekend marks the 10th anniversary of the Brooklyn Book Festival. The Festival brings together acclaimed and best-selling authors for New York City’s largest free literary festival, which welcomes back AT&T as its major sponsor. This hip and diverse festival draws tens of thousands each year to the global creative capital of Brooklyn, NYC. This year the festival will honor Jonathan Lethem as the winner of the Festival’s Best of Brooklyn (BoBi) award.

Begun as a start-up festival in 2006, the Brooklyn Book Festival has grown to an international affair, drawing writers and attendees from around the word. In 2007, the Festival launched its BoBi award, an award designed to celebrate authors with a close connection to the city, whose work exemplifies literary excellence. Past honorees demonstrate the breadth of that talent, from bestselling YA author Lois Lowry to National Book Award winner James McBride, Pulitzer-winner Jhumpa Lahiri, and award-winning luminaries Paul Auster, Walter Mosley, John Ashbery, Pete Hamill, and Edwidge Danticat.

This year’s winner Jonathan Lethem is the author of The Fortress of Solitude, Dissident Gardens, and seven other novels. His hometown, Brooklyn, was the setting for several of his works, including his fifth, Motherless Brooklyn, which won the National Book Critic’s Circle Award. Lethem culls from influences as varied as comic books, detective novels, and pop music. His latest work, Lucky Alan and Other Stories, is a collection of short stories. Lethem’s writing has been translated into over thirty languages.

Brooklyn Literary Council Chair Johnny Temple: “It’s a great pleasure to present this year’s BoBi Award to Jonathan Lethem. He is one of the few authors whose own work connects the “old” Brooklyn literature of folks like Thomas Wolfe and Pete Hamill with the “new” writers like Colson Whitehead, Jennifer Egan, and Jhumpa Lahiri. His best-selling novel Fortress of Solitude is unparalleled in its depiction of Brooklyn’s changing landscape in the early twenty-first century. Plus, Jonathan has been a stalwart supporter of the festival since our very first year and has helped us to become New York City’s biggest annual public book event.”

The Festival will present the BoBi award to Jonathan Lethem at a star-studded gala mingle on Saturday, September 19th. At the Festival, Lethem will appear at two events: the Best of Brooklyn, in conversation with Edwidge Danticat and Pete Hamill, moderated by Johnny Temple; and at “Where Dreams are Made,” a conversation with John Leguizamo on how the city has shaped them as storytellers.

Best of Brooklyn
St. Ann & The Holy Trinity Church, 157 Montague St
September 20, 2015, 3:30pm
Best of Brooklyn. The Brooklyn Book Festival pays homage to the Festival’s literary heritage each year by presenting the BoBi Award to an author who exemplifies the spirit and character of Brooklyn. Join 2015 BoBi Honoree Jonathan Lethem (Lucky Alan: And Other Stories), in conversation with past BoBi honorees Edwidge Danticat (Claire of the Sea Light) and Pete Hamill (Snow in August) as they talk about a writer’s life and being part of, and influenced by, Brooklyn’s literary lineage. Moderated by Johnny Temple, Brooklyn Literary Council Chair.

Concrete Jungle—Where Dreams are Made
St. Francis College Auditorium, 180 Remsen St
September 20, 2015, 12:00pm
Concrete Jungle—Where Dreams are Made. John Leguizamo (Ghetto Klown) and Jonathan Lethem (Lucky Alan and Other Stories) come together to discuss how the city shaped them as storytellers—and how their stories have been adapted on stage, screen, across comics or books, and ever reinvented. Screen Projection. Moderated by Steph Opitz, Literary Director, Texas Book Festival.

About the Brooklyn Book Festival – 9/14-9/21: Children’s Day, Saturday 9/19 / Festival Day, Sunday, 9/20
The Brooklyn Book Festival is presented by the non-profit Brooklyn Book Festival, Inc., and the Brooklyn Book Festival Literary Council. AT&T is the major partner with additional support from the Amazon Literary Partnership, Brooklyn Borough President’s Office, Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce, Con Edison, Downtown Brooklyn Partnership, Forest City Ratner Companies, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, NYC Department of Parks & Recreation, NYU, and TD Bank. Media sponsors are ABC7NY, WNYC and Observer.

The Festival’s cultural and programming partners include BAM, Congregation Mt. Sinai, Brooklyn Historical Society, Brooklyn Law School, Brooklyn Public Library, Cave Canem, Center for Fiction, National Book Foundation, New York Review of Books, PEN American Center, Poetry Society of America, St. Ann & the Holy Trinity Church, St. Francis College, The Nation, and the Whiting Foundation.

This year – in celebration of its 10th Anniversary – BKBF will present a dedicated Children’s Day for young readers, on September 19th, from 10AM-4PM. The BKBF Children’s Day (for children ages 2 to 11) will showcase invited writers and illustrators at the centrally-located, beautiful MetroTech Commons in Downtown Brooklyn, on two tented stages and in the auditorium of NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering.

Bookend events (here) – Monday, 9/14 through Monday, 9/21
Children’s Day events (here) – Saturday, 9/19
This year – in celebration of its 10th Anniversary – BKBF will present a dedicated Children’s Day for young readers, on September 19th, from 10AM-4PM. The BKBF Children’s Day (for children ages 2 to 11) will showcase invited writers and illustrators at the centrally-located, beautiful MetroTech Commons in Downtown Brooklyn, on two tented stages and in the auditorium of NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering.
Brooklyn Book Festival Day events (here) – Sunday, 9/20
Be sure to visit http://www.brooklynbookfestival.org or check out the official Facebook page, follow the Festival on Instagram (@bkbookfest), on Twitter (@BKBF), and on Tumblr.

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