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Interview with Pat Cadigan, May 1993
This interview first appeared in The Hardcore, 1993, and parts of it appeared online at Cyber Noodle SoupIt's way out of date now - I don't think she's in Kansas any more, Toto - but may be of historical interest ..
Pat Cadigan's got a cool taste in T-shirts from Kansas, where she now lives, and from her appearance I'd guess that she has made occasional guest appearances in her own work. It doesn't seem to have affected her, though. I spoke to her at Mexicon, a May Bank Holiday event in rainy Scarborough.
TB: Your last novel Fools started life as a novelette, 'Fool to Believe' in Asimov's, February 1990. What was it about 'Fool to Believe' that suggested there was a novel in there?
PC: Basically, although Gardner (the editor of Asimov's) was pushing for it to be finished, I just didn't want to stop when I'd started. I wanted to see it through to its conclusion because I knew it wasn't done.
TB: Fools explored a darker side to the Mindplayers world, the underside. Was this something that you felt had to be done?
PC: Well, in a way, yeah. I guess I appreciate balance. Mindplayers didn't really address a lot about the criminal element of this particular world. Everybody in the Mindplayers world couldn't possibly live like the few people that you saw. A lot of times, a culture almost seems to float on top of its own black market, and things from that filter up through the culture. I get the feeling that this law-abiding peaceful thing that I live in now is almost never-never land - to a certain extent it's not even really real. I spent a decade working for Hallmark cards, which is supposed to epitomise sweetness and light and good living and ethics and morals. But Hallmark, like many American manufacturers, has a lot of things like toys and ornaments manufactured in the Far East, by people in sweat-shops. These are children, old people, poor people, people who don't have enough to eat; we get these things so cheaply because we simply use these people and throw them away. This is what I mean about our culture, our never-never land, floating on top of our underworld.
TB: So you're examining the underworld of that Mindplayers world?
PC: I wanted to look at it - it's fantastic material, and I wanted to try to look at it in a realistic way - realistic meaning from the basis of real human behaviour and real human motivations, and at the same time I was screwing round a little with that too, because there isn't a reliable narrator in the book anywhere
TB: Relationships are important in your novels. In Fools you describe how Sovay found Brain Cop in Marva's head while he was looking for a 'certain Marva' and how his looking created her. Do we create the people we love?
PC: Absolutely. To a certain extent when we are attracted to someone - whether it's someone who's going to be a friend, or a lover, or a spouse or whatever - we tend to imbue them with a lot of characteristics and virtues that they may or may not have. The other thing that I had come across was, we tend to choose our friends based on our similarities and our lovers based on our differences. Consequently we end up hanging out with out friends talking about how our lovers don't understand us. We tend to load people with certain expectations - we don't permit them to be who they actually are, or what they actually are. Women do it to men, women do it to each other, men do it to women, men do it to each other; we do it to our friends, and our lovers. Parents do it to kids. We're all trying to find people to populate the world that we want to live in; if we can't find them, we'll make them.
TB: What's the relationship between the world of Fools and that of Synners? Synners and Mindplayers do not seem that similar but Fools has something of Synners''grittiness, and there is a passage that describes how wannabee parlours have gone out of fashion. Is the world of Mindplayers/Fools the future of Synners or are they parallel?
PC: When I wrote them I wasn't saying this is what's going to happen. What I was really thinking was, this is what might happen, this could happen. I think that the world of the future may have certain echoes or elements of things that I've described. There's a woman - I saw this story on one of these tabloid TV shows - who is having herself made over in the image of a Barbie doll. She's had surgery and hair dye and she's had her face totally reconstructed and her body has been taken care of, and she wants to look exactly like Barbie; that is her ideal. How long does she think she's going to look like a Barbie doll? How long is she going to maintain this? Is she actually going to try to maintain it past the point when anybody should? You think about the complete hard-core narcissism of such an act. It's almost like eating $55,000 - where did it go? It went into her body. Does that make 'Fools' so far-fetched? Franchised personalities and everything? Now granted, she didn't ask for Barbie's personality - but what is Barbie's personality? I'd say Barbie's personality is the type that is so narcissistic it would do anything to preserve its look.
TB: So I guess she's half way there already.
PC: Well no, I think she may be all the way there. I think she's been made over as Barbie inside herself. I've simply stated the same situation in a completely different way in Fools and to some extent in Mindplayers with the idea that, if you don't like who you are, be somebody else.
TB: You balance things like character and story quality with real science fictional ideas. Is this conscious or natural?
PC: To me there's no story unless the people in it are real people, because what I'm usually writing about are people like me, people that I have experience with. And it has been my experience that people are pretty much people. Whether you're on the underside of society or whether you're in the penthouse, there's a lot of things in common. You can't make a connection with some kind of fantastic science fictional idea unless there are people in the story to do it for you, to connect with. What makes an idea really attractive is the person who's talking about it. I feel that ideas by themselves are kind of bloodless; they need people to give them life. Electricity for example is like (yawns). I don't want to go read an electrical handbook, but the idea of the effect of electrical things on society - that's pretty interesting.
TB: In Synners there are all varieties of porn available; food porn, disaster porn etc ... many writers find this incomprehensible, but I've recently conceptualised porn as decontextualised ritually repeated information. Do you agree? and where does information or documentary shade off into porn or voyeurism?
PC: First of all, porn isn't necessarily a derogatory term. We have porn because people need it and quite often porn had been misidentified. Porn has been simply my objection to your sexuality. There are things that we wallow in for the purposes of our own gratification. The porn channels in Synners are basically pandering. There's a Time-Life book series about the supernatural. Time-Life has always been to me facts and reporting and suchlike, and this is really far from it. Rather than it being an examination of many beliefs about the supernatural, it's an espousal of a certain brand of supernatural. To me this is pandering. There's a porn angle to it. The thing I don't like about the Time-Life books is that they're dishonest in that way. There's a video series, I believe its from TIME-LIFE too, and it's ostensibly about animals in the wild - see them raising their young and so on. What you are actually going to see in these tapes are animals killing each other. It's extremely unpleasant but these things do happen. They've put all this information together on the tape and it's for people who like to watch animals killing each other. I don't personally see what's so great about this, for me its not material that I'm interested in and I find it extremely unpleasant. It makes me queasy. For someone out there its porn. The only way I can object to it is if it's forced on me, and it's not. I don't know what you'd call that - animal porn or violence porn or whatever.
TB: Do violent films have that same effect on you - films where there is realistic, gratuitous violence? Not comic book stuff like Terminator 2 ... Robocop is more unpleasant.
PC: The thing about Terminator 2 is that someone, somewhere is probably calling it porn right now. I got a big kick out of it - like, let's blow up a lot of very expensive machines. I think that what's so upsetting about Robocop is that RoboCop is so much a cyborg; the Terminator is ostensibly a cyborg, he's presented as cyborg, but he's really a robot with some organic material on him. Robocop is an altered person.
TB: So maybe that distinction between information and porn is just how you respond or react to it.
PC: Porn is really such a complex thing, and you can't say porn is good or bad because I don't believe in imbuing inanimate objects with virtues or vices. Ultimately that's what porn is - an inanimate object. I guess it is detextualised.
TB: You are comfortable with writing SF, horror and dark fantasy. Do you have to get yourself into different moods to work on different genres?
PC: Not really. The story tends to dictate, because I tend to think of the situation of the story, the idea, and then I know which it is. I like switching round just for variety. But at the same time, I tend to think like a genre writer, and I tend to always want to throw in the fantastic element. I don't want to write a simple account of an incident that happened.
TB: In your story 'It Was The Heat' you have the line 'she never lost her head and never gave it'. This is a reference to Lou Reed, isn't it? How influential is music in your writing?
PC: I was trying to make a joke about giving head in a very subtle way, and I ... it was not a deliberate reference to 'Walk on the Wild Side' but now, of course, I see it. I remember vividly the first time I ever heard that song. I was in college, and I'd gone to the hippest beauty parlour in town to get my hair cut. I went into this place and the song was on the radio and I was positively blown out by it, that I was hearing this incredible song sung by this incredible voice. It was basically just one more incredible song in my life - I'm not making it unimportant, but I had always been playing music in my head. My family was too poor to be able to afford a lot of records, so I would listen to the radio a lot, and whatever I could get off the radio, I would just really get into it. The Beatles were a big force in my life and then when I was in high school there was the counterculture and the really weird music that grew out of that - that squeaky-clean nice rock'n'roll just didn't say it, it wasn't enough.
TB: The dark underside again.
PC: Yes, the dark underside not just to our society but to all of us. We do not all go surfing in the sunshine all of the time. Even the people who go surfing in the sunshine every day don't do it all the time. Everything is not all right all the time, and even when it's all right out there sometimes it's not all right in here, inside you. So I found the stranger music saying the more objectionable things to be the more satisfying. I run on music a lot. I always have music on when I'm working. Music's really important - it has the same weight of influence as the things that I've read and the things that I've seen. It's a multimedia world out there and you've got to use all your senses.
TB: Tell us about your project 'Woman in Red' that you're doing with Mark Zeising.
PC: There's going to be a short delay on 'Woman in Red' while I finish my novel for Tor. I don't want to say too much about that because I'm still working on the rewrite for that, too. It's a horror novel, that's all I'll say about it, and it's quite old. I'm glad it didn't come out when I wrote about it because it has to be updated quite a bit because an awful lot has happened in the past 10 years - much more than happened in the previous 12 years. An awful lot about the society and other things have to be updated. It's a contemporary horror novel and it's progressing.
TB: I love the heightened language in Synners. You have the facility of coding up brilliant memes like 'if you can't fuck it and it doesn't dance, eat it or throw it away', 'change for the machines', 'the age of fast information'. When you're working with high-intensity ideas and hot prose can it get out of control?
PC: I hope not. Coming up with those ideas - well, 'if you can't fuck it and it doesn't dance eat it or throw it away' was something that a friend and I came up with years ago. We were talking to another friend and she was trying to describe the behaviour of some guys that she knew. Their whole lives were lived on the basis that everything was disposable, and if something didn't do what you wanted it to do, then you got rid of it. This extended to their relationships with women as well, and Cathy said, 'well, if you can't fuck it and it doesn't dance...' Somehow we both came up with 'eat it or throw it away'. We all laughed, and I thought, there's an awful lot to this, because a lot of people have reduced how they relate to the people in their lives down to very simple set of rules. Because we're all pressed for time, the people and the things tend to get used in the same way. They follow the same rules whether they're dealing with a person or a TV set or whatever. 'Are you gonna gratify me? No? Outa here'. It's just another way of saying something as crude as 'shit or get off the pot'. It was a surprise to me when I came up with some of the other things. I was as pleased as anybody, but I was trying to find ways to really give the feel of the culture. I could have picked a simpler way out; I could have just written about a rock band that gets high all the time, and throws up, and then eventually one of them disappears into the TV, The End. Instead I got involved with all these people and I had to come at their culture from several different angles. I was trying to convey the milieu they lived in and their reactions to it.
TB: How easy was that, to get the slang and the verbal tags that keep cropping up - like 'change for the machines'?
PC: Actually, 'change for the machines' was inspired by a cartoon I saw in a magazine, where this guy comes along and he's holding a dollar bill, he says 'change for a dollar?' meaning, 'do you have change for a dollar?' and the guy says 'yeah'. So, he changes into all these fantastic things and then he changes back, and leaves with the dollar. Is that cool, or what? Then, I was at work and going out to get a cup of coffee or something, and someone came up to me and said 'change for the machines?' I was thinking, 'Never! let the machines change for me!'. It was one of those things that you think off the top of your head, and I just made a mental note about it ... things just occur to me.
TB: The voices of the characters Marva and Marceline are so distinctive. Do they have real counterparts, are they composed of people you know, or are they pure constructs of imagination?
PC: If they are, it's so subliminal that I don't recognise it. I was trying to make them as different as possible. It was the product of many many rewrites - I just kept going back and trying to make sure that they were differentiated as people so that people would know, as soon as they started reading one after reading the other, they were reading someone different. I knew that to read a book with so many narrators in it would be very confusing. I figured that we were going to use the typeface solution, just to differentiate them by typeface, but I wanted it to be more than that, to be a real senses of 'you're with somebody else now' that you get when you stop talking to one person and talk to somebody else. I'm sure that they must have their basis in people that I know, or I've seen, but I didn't consciously base them on somebody. When you put somebody into a story, suddenly you are sucking the life out of them and turning them to stone - or trying to cut out a picture of someone, and saying 'there's the real person'. People cannot be quantified in that way. I don't think I could know so much in such great detail about someone that they would turn up in a story as identifiable. I would just rather invent them out of whole cloth and cannibalise various qualities to make up a regular person.
TB: 'Despatches From the Revolution' is breathtaking. Tell us about the research that went into it. What was going on politically for yourself during the period it extrapolates, the '60s?
PC: I wrote that story because Mike Resnick asked me to write an alternate president story, for an anthology called 'alternate presidents'. Brian Aldiss has pointed out the actual term should be alternative, not alternate. That's a period that's always fascinated me. I wasn't in on any of the late 60s stuff, but when I was in college in 1971 I went off with a bunch of my friends to Washington to demonstrate against the Vietnam war. We went down there the night before May Day which was when we were going to demonstrate. It was very crowded and very dirty and very uncomfortable. There was an all-night rock concert on and you couldn't find a spot to lay down, we were all so packed in there. We got up the next day and went over to the edge of the park. And down that road, as far as the eye could see, there were police in riot gear. We all got really scared; we were just a bunch of kids, 17 years old. They told us, 'You will all now leave the park or you will be arrested'. There was a group of people there from my college who, early on in the media revolution, had had video camera equipment. I don't know how they got it, because in 1971 it was almost impossible to get, but they were this loosely organised outfit that called themselves Roadart, collectively. They took all their video tape to Washington with them and later on we saw what had happened in the park. The cops waded in and teargassed everyone. So we went off, and the next day we went out to demonstrate against the war. We were completely disorganised. Nobody really knew what to do and at that point I was beginning to feel like my period of political activism was over now. A bunch of us were feeling the same way. We were standing on this corner, saying, 'You wanna go and see the Library of Congress or the Lincoln memorial or something?' While we were standing there, this busload of police in riot gear pulled up. They launched themselves out of the bus, and they just came at us. It was really frightening; we all panicked and started running. I staggered across this parking lot, and the rest of the cops had gone around and cut us off. They were coming through the parking lot, and it was one of the times in my life when I have been really terrified. I slowed up and I was trying to decide what to do and a cop behind me hit me on the head with his billy-club and knocked me down. My eyes crossed, but I didn't pass out. I thought, that's it, I'm just going to get arrested and just go home. I got up and cops had kids everywhere all over this parking lot and they were beating them, they had their clubs and they were just beating them into submission. I walked up to the nearest cop and said, 'Ok, I'll stop now, I just give up'. I didn't know I had blood pouring out of the back of my head because they'd split my scalp open. A head or face wound is very bloody because you have a lot of capillaries. So I was trying to get arrested, but I couldn't get arrested. The cops dragged everyone away and they threw them in the back of a big van and they wouldn't take me. So I went off and found my friends across the street and said, well, a cop hit me, I'm done. They sat me down and then I found out I was bleeding a lot, and this little old lady schoolteacher came along and said she'd take me to the hospital. Halfway to the hospital we had to get out and walk because demonstrators had blocked the streets and stopped traffic. It finally sunk into my 17-year-old mind, OK, the Vietnam war is very bad, but should we stop the entire city of Washington? What if people do have medical emergencies and can't get to the hospital? That's when I began to think things through a little better. But I stored all the experience up, I thought I'm going to use this some day, somehow.
Then Mike Resnick asked me to write the alternate president story, and he gave me election years to choose from, so I choose 1968. I had seen the riots on TV and I knew what had happened, but I used my own experience from some years later to colour it. I ended up having to do an awful lot of research because I wanted to make the changes, the alternative universe very subtle, because that's what it is a lot of times - there are a whole bunch of little things that happened or didn't happen - an event is or is not. When I was reading about the Chicago Democratic Convention it was like every radical in the world planned to go there, and somehow they started a rumour that Bob Dylan was going to show up and people were just convinced that he was going to show up. Well, Bob Dylan didn't show up and an awful lot of people didn't show up; they got maybe half the turnout they were expecting, if that. In my story Dylan doesn't show up but they get double the turnout they're expecting. Certain demonstrations that I described with Martin Luther King - one happened, but one didn't. I amped up the violence that had been occurring throughout the 60s on the Berkeley Campus and the Free Speech Movement. I made that a little more violent than it was - the cops didn't go in and shut down the campuses and teargas the students, but if Ronald Reagan was governor it could have happened that way. The stuff about Bobby Kennedy and George Wallace being head-to-head - that isn't made up, that's true. There was a fair amount of crossover because the bluecollar voter tended to perceive them in somewhat the same way at the time, someone who would speak for them. The name Kennedy in the US has always stood for human rights; at least in appearance, not always in fact.
People have told me that the future this is told from is pretty far-fetched, but at the time, from 1968-72, a lot of us didn't think that was so very far-fetched. We could see very easily where the totalitarian regime could come in. Whether this was a realistic perception or not is something else.
TB: That was the way things were going.
PC: It appeared that way to a lot of people. I just decided to go with that.
TB: OK, lets talk about the C word. A lot of the original writers are distancing themselves. Shirley doesn't seem to write SF any more, Lewis Shiner has become an apostate and Gibson can't say the word. You've never been one of the Austin writers proper but you don't seem to be bothered that you're identified with Cyberpunk. Is that so?
PC: A lot of other people are more bothered by this than I am. I think when you label yourself you freeze yourself. You suck all the life out of something, and it's in the nature of a living thing to grow and change. I don't necessarily want to be pigeonholed, in that when Cyberpunk is passe I don't want to be perceived as passe. When you're technical about it, I'm not a cyberpunk. I write about cyberpunk things but I don't write about them because they're cyberpunk. I write about the things that are interesting to me. I have absolutely no control over what other people call it.
Lew Shiner has his feelings and I'm extremely sympathetic to them. Certainly he should be the kind of writer that he wants to be. I don't know if it's really true that Bill Gibson cannot say the word. In some ways Bill has probably been almost as much a victim as a proponent of cyberpunk - it's almost like he can't move without someone saying, look, there's Cyberpunk Bill Gibson. When he and Bruce wrote The Difference Engine together, they got a blurb from Ridley Scott on the front, and he calls it 'heavy metal artificial reality'; he makes it sound like it's a hi-tech punk book, and it's not. If it didn't have Gibson and Sterling on the by-line, it would be 'The Difference Engine - a historical romance'. That's the only thing that bothers me about labels.
A lot of people who don't like cyberpunk, don't like it for really stupid reasons. They don't like it because, for example, they read something and didn't like it, so they don't like cyberpunk. If you presented them with the same book, with 'hard science adventure' on it, which is what it is, they'd take to it. People attach a lot of emotional baggage to labels that doesn't belong there and it's always in terms of themselves. I've taken a neutral view - I don't care - to the cyberpunk label, because everyone seems to want to put it on me for reasons that don't always have very much to do with me and what I write. So basically I don't care any more, you can call it what it is, or you can call it what it isn't, but basically it isn't going to change what it really is.
TB: How far would you say that female characters in cyberpunk are enabled, or invaded, by technology?
PC: Women have been invaded by technology for ever, like birth control, and it's up to us. Sterilisation, who do you sterilise? We get spayed! We've always been the ultimate end users of technology. There weren't always a lot of very believable women characters in Science fiction who were doing stuff. Originally there were plucky scientists' daughters and love interests. Of course I was glad to see this change. This is one of the things I really loved about the first two Aliens movies; there were plot holes you could drive trucks through, but there's one virtue that those movies have that almost no other movie has, which is that men and women actually behave like they are true peers. Women don't get rescued all the time, men don't do all the rescuing all the time. The condescension isn't there that women often experience, or the deference or whatever. It took me a long time to understand why I liked these characters and movies so much; I should be picking the science apart, what's wrong with me? You can pick the science apart, but often the errors in science are not as grievous as the errors in human behaviour. Men writers who can't write women characters, women characters who can't write men characters - or what's really pathetic, women writers who can't write women, men who can't write men. Maybe they've created too many and not met enough.
Women characters in fiction and women writers are two totally different subjects, and yet many times when I've been at conventions and been on a panel where people want to talk about women in science fiction, I find it amazing that they mean the women characters in the stories. Usually someone will mention Molly right away, in Neuromancer, and Molly is a very rich character and there's a lot to her and what's the problem?
TB: I've heard people say that she's been invaded by the technology.
PC: But so have the men. It'd be an interesting society where the women were all invaded by technology and the men were completely untouched. That would be an extremely complex, stylized world to live in, because the division between the sexes would be so sharp. I don't think that's true in any of the cyberpunk science fiction - everyone has been invaded by technology, we're all overrun with it. Technology, unless it is specifically engineered to be so, is not dependant on sex. When we all get invaded by technology, we will probably all have our different needs, but that is almost as much a reflection of us as individuals as it is of our gender differences. I don't like to jump at shadows. I can think of plenty of sexist things that I've experienced, in the field and out of it, every day, but that isn't it.
TB: Media is an occasional fascination of yours; 'Pretty Boy Crossover', Synners, etc. Are you influenced by McLuhan at all?
PC: I read him while I was in college, but ... no. I'm fascinated by the media because it is so all-pervasive, and it is so much of an influence on us that we don't even realise when we're being influenced by it. It's not McLuhan, it's the media itself.
TB: Another of your fascinations is vampirism of various kinds. 'Dirty Work', 'The Power and the Passion' ... are relationships inherently vampiric?
PC: Certainly the bad ones are. If you understand the nature of relationships really well, you have to understand that there are times when it's an uneven relationship. There's always someone who is giving more than the other person. Sometimes you carry the other person, sometimes the other person carries you. There are a lot of people out there who use other people, and use them happily, dispassionately, and throw them away. It's very easy to get used up by other people; it's very easy to get used up by your society. Society makes such demands on us, we have so many demands for bills - so you have to get a job to support that. Depending on how dedicated you are to your job, your job can use you up. Sometimes it seems to me like the nature of life is just to be fighting off vampires all the time - the vampire of the job, the vampire of the necessity of making a living, the vampire of the Power Department wanting you to pay for the electricity. And then of course the story of the vampire is simply the story of us working out our anxieties about our sexuality, and that's a subject matter that will never ever run dry, if you'll pardon the expression. We will always be able to write stories working out our anxieties about our sexuality; there will always be things to be anxious about.
TB: Can you see yourself returning to the worlds of Synners or Mindplayers, or their themes?
PC: Not in the foreseeable future, and that's because I don't want to get stuck writing the same stories over and over again. I like to write as many different kinds of things as possible, and unless there's some kind of groundswell demand for more books set in the Mindplayers universe, I think I'm probably done there. The Synners story is over with; I destroyed the culture and it's being rebuilt. I don't think the story is in the rebuilding; I shouldn't say that it wouldn't be interesting to rebuild it, but I told the story that I wanted to tell.
The book that I'm writing now is also set in the near future, but it's something completely different. The main concentration of this one is not the media, or commerce in personalities or anything like that. This time around I'm writing a book about aliens.
TB: What hopes have you got for the Clinton presidency?
PC: My hopes are tempered; plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose. When they were looking for an Attorney General, and they were questioning different people, they wanted a woman for Attorney general and they found out that their prize candidate had hired help that was an illegal alien to care for her kids. Now I'm sure that if every man was questioned about their hired help - 'Did you ever hire an illegal alien to babysit your kids, Mr. So-and-so ?'
TB: 'I don't know, ask my wife'
PC: Exactly. So I tend to view that with a jaded eye - Billy, you're trying, but we ain't there yet. If you're going to ask the women, ask the men. The women took the heat - here we go again, we've got kids, we've got to raise them, we've got to be out there in the world, and you've got to have someone to watch the kids. If she had an illegal alien she probably didn't have that much choice. I voted for Bill Clinton and I believed that he could make a big difference. I was certainly ready for something other than four more years of George Bush and that whole Reagan mindset. On the other hand, Bill Clinton is a politician. He's much more in touch, not just with people, but with what it's like to live in the world these days. The classic example of that is that Clinton used TV to win the election. Clinton is my generation. He grew up with TV, he understands it completely, understands how to use it, understands that MTV is not just something to throw off and laugh at. But like I said, he's a politician, and no matter how much he understands about what it's like to live in 1993, he doesn't have to do it my way. Politicians are, by nature, wealthy. That's a completely different life from the life that I live, and that most people live. I'm hoping that because he understands how the world's changed and what it's like, that he will be able to do better kinds of things.
TB: Working in Hallmark must have been great training for a memetic engineer.
PC: The memes in Hallmark are all on computer now, and they have been coded with 4 digit numbers. What the point is, is economy - get your point across in as few words as possible, make it as non-threatening and harmless as possible. You cannot get intimate in a greeting card. You cannot write an intimate message that's going to appear on 5 million pieces of paper.
TB: Tell me, what do people in Kansas say when things get weird? They can't say 'I guess this isn't Kansas any more'?
PC: I don't know exactly what people say; 'Shit, I thought this was Kansas!' Things don't really get weird in Kansas, much. Well, maybe sometimes...
TB: Thank you for the interview. Have a good time in England.


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On January 28, 2013, Colorado State Senator Jesse Ulaberri — a Democrat — tells the Colorado Senate Judiciary Committee there are alternatives to guns for self defense, like ballpoint pens. I kid you not.
I don't know what Senator Ulaberri was smoking. Here's Wikipedia's account of how Tucson mass murder Jared Loughner finally was restrained. Note that no ballpoint pen was used:
"Loughner stopped to reload, but dropped the loaded magazine from his pocket to the sidewalk, from where bystander Patricia Maisch grabbed it.[24] Another bystander clubbed the back of the assailant's head with a folding chair….[25] Loughner was tackled to the ground by 74-year-old retired United States Army Colonel Bill Badger,[26] who had been shot himself, and was further subdued by Maisch and bystanders Roger Sulzgeber and Joseph Zamudio. Zamudio was a CCW holder and had a weapon on his person, but arrived after the shooting had stopped and did not use the firearm to engage or threaten Loughner."
Ulaberri is among the Demonats in Colorado's state legislature who are pushing through a raft of gun control legislation. Go here for those bills.

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August 1st, 2014 | By QGODFEAR
Chem-trails (Aluminum & Barium Salts)
Fluoridated Water
Planned Parent Hood
Abortion – Since 1973 legal abortion has killed more African Americans than Aids, cancer, diabetes, heart disease and violent crime combined. Every week more blacks die in American abortion clinics than were killed in the entire Vietnam War.
Child Sacrifice
Martial Law
No Healthcare
Minimal Healthcare
Certain food
Fast Food
The above are some tools used to decrease human population. As the "powers that be" continue this massive "purge" of human life by decreasing our life span, may we each steadily increase the GOD within ourselves.
While "they" create laws, pass them, then instill them, most of us are at work with our focus on completing tasks, grinding as "worker bee's" for the companies we work for and not aware of the bills and laws being voted on by congress and passing. Many of us have no interest in what "they" are doing OR we're on a block or trap house mentally consumed on getting fast money. Massive deception takes place, 24/7 through mass media channels, the White House and all the way to the pulpit.
We have no control over what "they" do, as their New World Disorder agenda is rapidly advancing in such a calculated, stealth like way, that only Satan could be the root of it all. Satan and his army have orchestrated the destruction of mankind through population control tactics which will eventually end our current way of life as we know it. The chaff is truly being separated from the wheat, and every ounce of faith and hope in God will be needed.
I pray on today that you reading this whether an agent of Love or an agent of Hate, take a deep long look at the eternal ramifications of your actions. For what you do, once done, cannot be undone whether good or bad. The words I'm sorry, will not pry the eternal flames of hell off of your body once your inside that eternal place. Gods will be done.
For those of us inside the body of GOD….We must work harder at building our RELATIONSHIP with GOD through his son Jesus everyday by opening our hearts unto his abounding Love and diligently seeking him through his Holy Word. Not just reading his word but living it!
Religion has played a massive part in our spiritual deception, but Relationship with God will allow our wings of hope and faith to expand as his Holy Spirit becomes the wind beneath our wings. Remember to discern when your pastor speaks (Nothing Personal) for men fall short of the glory every day and no man will ever be sinless as Jesus was. Your Pastor should be doing his best to equip you with spiritual tools for you to take spiritual flight. May the Lord keep you, make his face shine upon you, and give you grace..Peace.
1 John 1:8 If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us.
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The headline shows up in my internet reader:
"Newt Gingrich endorsed by The Union
One wonders, of course, why we care what they choose—
Their record, of recent, predicts he'll now lose.
Two money quotes. First, they damn with faint praise:
The New Hampshire Union Leader's Sunday editorial says the former House speaker "is by no means the perfect candidate" but calls him "the best candidate who is actually running."
And then, the kicker:
The conservative Union Leader editorial page has a history of passing over the front-runner in its selections. The paper endorsed Ronald Reagan in 1976 and 1980, Deleware Gov. Pete DuPont in 1988, Reagan aide Pat Buchanan in 1992 and 1996, businessman Steve Forbes in 2000, and Arizona Sen. John McCain in 2008.


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Adult Books:
Pulitzer Prize Winner for Novel/Fiction
Pulitzer Prize Winner for General Non-Fiction
Hugo – Science Fiction
Nebula – Science Fiction & Fantasy
PEN/Faulkner – Fiction
Bram-Stoker – Horror
Edgar – Mystery
Gold Dagger – Crime
RITA – Romance
Young Adult Books:
Printz – Literary excellence in young adult literature.
Alex Awards – Books written for adults with special appeal to young adults.
Volunteer State Book Awards – Tennessee Teen selected Best Books
YALSA's Teens' Top Ten – Selected by Teens for Teens
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YALSA's Excellence in Young Adult Nonfiction – Nonfiction
YALSA's Great Graphic Novels for Teens – Graphic Novels
Odyssey Award – Audiobook
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Caldecott – Picture Books
Geisel – Easy Readers
Pura Belpré – Latino/Latina Literature for Children and Young Adults
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Schneider Family – Children and Young Adult literature accurately representing the disabled experience
Newbery – Most distinguished contribution to American literature for children
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This modern twist on the traditional Charoset recipe for your Passover Seder,was created by my new friend Jennifer Abadi, author of a wonderful new cookbook, A Fistful of Lentils . Jennifer's passion for carrying on her family's Syrian Jewish tradition is evident within the 125 recipes that she shares with us.
Upon reading that Jennifer's recipes were inspired by her grandmother Fritzie Abadi A'H I realized that Jennifer and I have a connection. Five years ago, I set out to produce a coffee table book documenting the artwork of 200 of our communities artists of which all of the proceeds were donated to Magen David Yeshivah in Brooklyn.
"Our Art"- A collection of the Artists of the Syrian Jewish Community.
Guess which artist's work is on the first page? None other than Fritzie Abadi A'H' herself!
The quote on the page, as told to me 5 years ago by Mrs. Luna Sutton (who recently passed away in her late 90's and who bought the painting from Fritzie 50 years ago), is,
"When Fritzie Abadi painted these in the 1920's, it was said that she was inspired by the strong features of the typical Syrian woman that immigrated to America at the time."
So, you can see that in her own way, Jennifer's grandma Fritzi was also trying to preserve memories of her heritage!
You should also know that Fritzi's father Chacham Matloub Abadi was a great Rabbi of the Syrian community in the early 1900's, but that is another story…..
Hope you enjoyed that little tidbit of info!
Moroccan Charoset "Truffles" with Dates, Raisins, and Walnuts, Rolled in Cinnamon
photograph by April Selditch
"Here they are!! I rolled the Moroccan Charroset Truffles in three flavors: cinnamon, crushed almond and coconut.
They are so delicious! Yep, I tasted one. April. "
- ½ cup walnuts
- 1/4 cup slivered almonds
- 6 large Medjool dates or 10 regular-size dates, pitted and coarsely chopped
- 1/4 cup golden raisins
- 1/4 cup dark raisins
- 1 to 2 tablespoons sweet Passover wine, such as Manischewitz
For Serving:
1 box of matzah sheets or tea size matzahs
Cinnamon (for dusting the outside)
1. Place the walnuts and almonds in the food processor and pulse until coarsely ground, but not into a meal-like consistency (about 30 seconds).
2. Add the dates and raisins and combine in the food processor until a thick paste is formed.
3. Add one tablespoon of the wine at a time until the paste is smooth but not so sticky that you cannot roll it into small balls.
4. Taking approximately one tablespoon at a time, roll the thick paste into 1-inch balls* (if the paste is sticking too much to your hands, try dipping your hands in cold water and then rolling them) and sprinkle the outsides lightly with cinnamon. Store balls in a tightly covered plastic container in refrigerator for up to one week.
5. Dust the outsides of the balls with ground cinnamon. Serve charoset balls at room temperature on a platter, alongside tea matzahs (can also be served as a paste in one or two small dessert bowls, placed at either end of the seder table.)
Yield: Serves 6 to 8 (approximately 1 ½ cups or 24 one-inch balls)
*Note: If you wish to serve the mixture in the more common way of a paste in a bowl, then add a little more wine and warm water to make a bit smoother and softer for spreading.
©Jennifer Felicia Abadi
(Author of: A Fistful of Lentils: Syrian-Jewish Recipes From Grandma Fritzie's Kitchen)
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A lot of times its because percentages (shooting, save, on-ice shooting) are finding their way back to more normal levels, but sometimes players get opportunities that just werent easy to see before the season started. Leaving out injuries, because I dont pretend to hold that psychic power, here are some of the seasons biggest surprises for each team. I did not expect... ...C Nick Bonino to be the third-leading scorer on the Ducks, behind Ryan Getzlaf and Corey Perry. I projected Teemu Selanne to be third, but he was way back and I still had virtually every other secondary Ducks forward pegged ahead of Bonino, who had 33 points in 112 career games coming into the season. ...RW Reilly Smith to be the Bruins leading goal-scorer, with 15, through 48 games (passed by Brad Marchand Monday afternoon). Smith had decent underlying numbers as a rookie, but he scored three goals in 37 games last year, so I figured that he might be an okay third-liner for the Bruins if everything broke right. Turns out hes been a much more valuable contributor. ...the Sabres to open the season with a pair of 18-year-olds on defence. A team that didnt have much reason to expect a winning season (I ranked them 29th in the preseason), thought that their best course of action would be to have 2013 first-round picks Rasmus Ristolainen and Nikita Zadorov taking regular turns on the blueline. That experiment was eventually abandoned, as the Sabres made organizational changes, but that decision -- no matter how promising those defencemen could be in the future -- was a puzzler. ...D Kris Russell, who had spent his career as a protected, third-pair defenceman, to be so solid while playing more than 23 minutes per game for the Calgary Flames. 26-year-old Russell will be an unrestricted free agent at seasons end, but looks like one that the Flames should keep. ...the complete collapse of LW Jiri Tlusty. Sure, he wasnt going to keep scoring on 19.7% of his shots, like he did while scoring 23 goals in 48 games last season, but Tlusty opened the year with Eric Staal and Alexander Semin on the top line and hes since plummeted down the depth chart since and has six goals and 11 points in 40 games. ...this years offensive surge (45 points in 51 games) from Blackhawks D Duncan Keith, who may be having the best year of a great career. Could have gone with Antti Raantas solid play in goal when he was pressed into action, but Im trying avoid the injury thing, and while I expected better from Bryan Bickell, its not a huge surprise that he couldnt hold his spot on Jonathan Toews wing. ...that D Andre Benoit would be playing top-four minutes on the Colorado Avalanche blueline. A 30-year-old who had played 41 career NHL games before he was signed as a free agent to a one-year, $900,000 contract, Benoit has logged 20:41 per game and ranks second among Avs defencemen with 18 points in 47 games. ...this kind of breakout from Blue Jackets C Ryan Johansen. Oh, it was always a possibility, because hes a fourth overall pick that has shown flashes, but he struggled last year and was a healthy scratch in the AHL playoffs, so I did not foresee his sudden emergence as a bona fide No. 1 centre. ...Stars LW Ryan Garbutt to be tied for fourth on the team in goals, with 10 in 41 games. Garbutt, 28, had five goals in 56 NHL games prior to this season, but hes become an effective, workmanlike player who generates shots on goal at a rate similar to some of the top goal-scoring wingers in the league. ...Red Wings C Stephen Weiss to be such a disaster. His 2013 season was a mess, but he cut his season short for wrist surgery, so it was easy enough to write off four points and a minus-13 in 17 games as something that would be corrected once Weiss was healthy. With four points in 26 games this year, Weiss has obliterated that theory and now leaves the Red Wings in a tough spot, staring at $20.5-million over the next four years for a once-productive player who has eight points in 43 games since the start of last season. ...the defence and goaltending for the Edmonton Oilers to be so terrible. Since Devan Dubnyk has moved on, lets focus the attention on a team-wide defensive issue. The Oilers have a shot deficit with virtually anyone on the ice (save rookie D Martin Marincin, who has played 13 games) which, combined with subpar goaltending, leads to another lottery pick. ...stalled progress for second-year Panthers LW Jonathan Huberdeau, who had a promising rookie season, but has seen his shots per game collapse from 2.33 to 1.53 in Year Two, and hes sitting with 20 points through 47 games after tallying 31 points in 48 games last season. ...Kings rookie RW Tyler Toffoli to have such difficulty sticking in a regular role. After scoring 11 points in 22 late-season and playoff games last season, Toffoli seemed a good fit for a Kings team that could use more production from their forwards. For whatever reason, and it cant be entirely based on point production, Toffoli has been returned to the AHL, where he has 10 goals and 16 points in 13 games. ...anything significant from Wild G Josh Harding. No, I did not expect the goaltender who has been a solid career backup, but played just five games last season because of MS, to deliver what was probably the best goaltending performance over the first half of the season. Health remains an issue for Harding, but his spectacular play this year (1.65 GAA, .933 SV%) exceeds all possible expectations. ...that the Montreal Canadiens, who could certainly use an offenssive boost, would choose to keep LW Alex Galchenyuks minutes under wraps.dddddddddddd The sophomore winger ranks third on the Habs in 5-on-5 points-per-minute, yet he ranks eighth among Montreal forwards in ice time per game. ...G Marek Mazanec, a 22-year-old who had played 41 Czech League games over the past three seasons, to lead the Predators in goaltender games played. I know Ive tried to avoid injury situations, but none of the Predators scoring (good or bad) counts as shocking and even if Pekka Rinne was going to miss time with injury, Carter Hutton or Magnus Hellberg would have been my picks to play more minutes. ...that, as of the third week of January, G Martin Brodeur would still have more games played than Cory Schneider. Its not altogether shocking, given Brodeurs importance to the franchise, but rare is the team (especially one on the playoff bubble) that would have the goaltender with a .905 save percentage playing more games than the goaltender with a .924 save percentage, especially when the goalie with the .924 save percentage had such a vastly superior save percentage in the previous three seasons. ...LW Josh Bailey to fall back the way he has, from 11 goals in 38 games last season to four in 46 games this year, but the bigger surprise for me is how RW Pierre-Marc Bouchard was so quickly ejected from the lineup after a slow start that was due, in part to his own 7.8% shooting percentage, as well as a low on-ice shooting percentage that would have been bound to bounce back. ...Rangers rookie LW Chris Kreider to be so productive after he stumbled as a rookie pro (23 points in 48 AHL games, three points in 23 NHL games) last season. This year, Kreider has earned a regular turn on a scoring line and is delivering strong underlying stats too. ...that Kyle Turris would be the highest-scoring Senators centre, even with a relatively-healthy Jason Spezza on board. Of course, the expectation was that RW Bobby Ryan was going to play alongside Spezza, but it has turned out that the line of Clarke MacArthur, Turris and Ryan has really been the Sens No. 1 unit. ...G Steve Mason to have an above-average save percentage. After four subpar years in Columbus, it was difficult to put too much stock in Masons seven games (and .944 SV%) with the Flyers late last season. Now, Mason has been in steady decline since the beginning of December, but hes still fared better than expected overall. I suppose honourable mention here could go to C Vincent Lecavaliers decline -- his points per game (0.51) is his lowest since his rookie season, 1998-1999. ...the offensive breakthrough of Coyotes C Martin Hanzal, who has 34 points in 45 games, one off his career-high, set as a rookie in 2007-2008. They say it takes big forwards some time to reach their potential, but Hanzal is scoring at a much better rate than in any of his previous six NHL seasons. ...the season that Penguins D Matt Niskanen is having. While it would also be fair enough to point to LW Chris Kunitz, who I didnt peg for a point-per-game scorer, a healthy Sidney Crosby opens up the number of reasonable possibilities. For Niskanen, he has 26 points and is a league-leading plus-25, a great showing in a contract year. ...Sharks RW Joe Pavelski to be second in the league with 27 goals. Pavelskis been a terrific two-way player pretty much since coming into the league in 2006-2007, but when the Sharks started losing bodies up front, its been Pavelski who has carried the day, scoring 18 goals in the past 20 games. He needs five in the remaining 32 games to set a new career high. ...24 goals in 37 games from Blues LW Alexander Steen. Like Pavelski, a strong two-way player, Steen got off to a ridiculous start with linemates David Backes and T. J. Oshie. It was slowed down by Steens concussion, but hes back and his next goal will be a career best. ...Lightning G Ben Bishop to be Vezina contender. Sure, it was reasonable enough to think that Bishop could beat out Anders Lindback for the starting job, but what kind of expectations can you put on a 27-yar-old that has played 45 career NHL games. 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32.3 net average.
What an embarrassment.
The criticism is no longer directed at Frost. He sucks. There's not much he can do about sucking.
The criticism at this point is directed at Ted Thompson, Mike McCarthy and Mike Stock. If they don't understand the problem, it raises real questions about their ability to guide the team in the future.
What an embarrassment.


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Two women attacked a teenager in a Victoria's Secret store in Maryland early Black Friday, according to Anne Arundel County police.
An Arnold, Md., teenager reported early Friday morning that she had been attacked inside a Victoria's Secret store at the Westfield Annapolis mall about 12:40 a.m., police spokesman Justin Mulcahy said.
The 17-year-old told police one of the women approached her and accused her of having assaulted her. The teenager told police she had never seen either of the women, but one punched her in the head several times and pushed her to the ground and a second jumped on top of her and also threw punches.
A video posted to YouTube appears to show two women fighting with another woman, while people in the crowd try to separate them.
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It's December 1, 1982, and I've just met detective sergeant Roger Caleb Rogerson at Darlinghurst.
Rogerson has agreed to be interviewed for the first time about the day he shot dead Warren Lanfranchi, a drug dealer among other things, in an inner-city lane.
In the photo, we're on our way to a coffee shop in Oxford Street.
Roger, who had previously served with the NSW Police Armed Hold-Up Squad, came armed in the latest fashion, a safari suit. I'm armed with the latest technology, a pager.
As Rogerson talks, I take shorthand notes. My story for The Sydney Morning Herald the next day starts with some quotes.
"I regret it, of course I do. I regret being put in a situation where a man's life is taken. I believe I acted in good faith, and that if I had not shot him, he would have shot me."
Twelve months before our meeting, a jury at the coronial inquest found the detective shot Lanfranchi while trying to arrest him in Dangar Place, Chippendale, but declined to find he acted in self-defence.
Rogerson testified that shortly after the two met by arrangement in Beaumont Street, Chippendale, and walked into the laneway, Lanfranchi realised Rogerson was not alone and that he was about to be arrested.
Lanfranchi pulled a gun on the policeman. Rogerson drew his service revolver and fired two shots.
Rogerson and the other detectives who were in the laneway were cleared, but the controversy lingered and just days before our meeting concerns about the case were raised in the NSW Parliament.
I ask Rogerson about the allegations swirling around - that he's involved in corruption, heroin dealing and skimming the proceeds of armed robberies, and how he owns three blocks of flats.
"The allegations are completely untrue," he says.
The interview lasts 70 minutes. Throughout, he sits directly opposite, clear, calm, composed and still. His gaze never shifts, his piercing blue eyes staring directly at me. If he blinked, I missed it.
It was the first of a number of newspaper and television interviews between us over the decades.
In late 2009 and early 2010, I interviewed Rogerson for hours for a documentary, The Life and Times of Roger Rogerson. He spoke about his career, his pride in the arrest of heavy crims, the allegations of corruption, being cleared of the 1984 attempted murder and bribery of fellow police officer Michael Drury. He talked of the humiliation of doing jail time for perverting the course of justice, the Lanfranchi shooting and the two other men he killed in the line of duty, ''Butchy'' Burns and Philip Weston - both armed robbers.
And how he had never, never been known by anyone as "The Dodger".
When it came to the allegations of wrongdoing, Rogerson maintained his innocence.
He joined the police as a cadet in 1958 and later worked in Glebe in the inner city. In the early 1960s he was sent to Bankstown, first in uniform then in plain clothes.
But he was marked for bigger things, particularly after he impressed "the bull ring", the panel of grizzled officers who grilled young cops wanting to become detectives.
A World War II veteran, Noel Morey, became his senior work partner. Soon Rogerson was investigating - and solving - homicides and gang killings and earning a reputation as one of the best and brightest.
Last week, I asked an experienced and respected former NSW detective about Rogerson's reputation, before his fall from grace.
He replied: "Roger, at his peak, from a police perspective, was academically sound, intellectually sound, an excellent leader of detectives and physically courageous.
"He was in my view the most outstanding detective of his era. In his long period on homicide investigations, I would say he and his then partner, the late detective superintendent Noel Morey, were the most successful investigators of their day, with an incredibly high clear-up rate."
And that was from a man, one of many, who fell out with Rogerson after the 1984 attempted murder of Drury, who was shot and almost killed as he stood in the kitchen of his home. Rogerson was cleared in court, but for decades he was ostracised by many of his workmates.
The former officer described the events of recent days as "very sad and perplexing".
Others say they are "dumbfounded" and "gobsmacked."
In the interview just over four years ago, Rogerson says that as a young detective he quickly learned informers were crucial. "You were successful if you had informers who told you what was happening. I know the whole system has changed today and they use bugging devices and all that sort of thing.''
One informer who became close to Rogerson was the notorious Sydney heroin dealer Ned Smith, who is now serving a life sentence for murder.
It was Smith who drove Lanfranchi to his fateful 1981 meeting with Rogerson in Chippendale. Lanfranchi was led to believe he was going to have a chat.
''Ned played a very prominent role in his demise, the lead-up to his demise," Rogerson recalled.
"He was the one who contacted me saying he [Lanfranchi] wanted to talk to me about doing some deal.
"And I said there was no deal because he was a bloke wanted for [the attempted murder] of a policeman for sure, and bank robberies."
Some former senior detectives believe the heroin dealer, with his huge cashflow, played a crucial role in Rogerson's move to "The Dark Side" - as he called his 2009 memoir.
"When the slide came it was rapid, and I think you can trace it to the time he links up with Smith,'' another retired detective said last week.
According to Rogerson, he first came across Smith after he and another career criminal, Bobby Chapman, attempted a payroll robbery at Fielder's Bakery in Granville about 1976.
"Bobby Chapman and Neddy Smith had been in boys' homes together and they'd both also served fairly long sentences for rape."
Chapman was convicted, but Smith beat the robbery charges. He later contacted Rogerson and became one of his key informants.
Rogerson's last active service was in 1984. But the allegations and charges continued. Some he beat, but in the 1990s he was jailed for perverting the course of justice in relation to $110,000 in false bank accounts.
In May, 1993, he sent me a five-page handwritten letter from Berrima Jail about a number of matters.
The tone was upbeat.
"There are about 16 ex-coppers here, including former deputy commissioner Bill Allen, who is almost 71 years of age and a nice old bloke, so I have plenty of mates to talk to …
"I have been sitting here writing this letter as well as watching the first State of Origin match at Lang Park. Thank God the Blues won. I bet a chocolate bar on them winning. Believe me - that's a big bet down here."
The Blues won at Lang Park again last week, but for 73-year-old Rogerson there's a lot more than a chocolate bar riding on the much bigger game that now looms ahead of him.


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PgCon 2012 Developer Meeting
A meeting of the most active PostgreSQL developers is being planned for Wednesday 16th May, 2012 near the University of Ottawa, prior to pgCon 2012. In order to keep the numbers manageable, this meeting is by invitation only. Unfortunately it is quite possible that we've overlooked important code developers during the planning of the event - if you feel you fall into this category and would like to attend, please contact Dave Page (email@example.com).
Please note that this year the attendee numbers have been cut to try to keep the meeting more productive. Invitations have been sent only to developers that have been highly active on the database server over the 9.2 release cycle. We have not invited any contributors based on their contributions to related projects, or seniority in regional user groups or sponsoring companies, unlike in previous years.
This is a PostgreSQL Community event. Room and refreshments/food sponsored by EnterpriseDB. Other companies sponsored attendance for their developers.
Time & Location
The meeting will be from 9AM to 5PM, and will be in the "Red Experience" room at:
Novotel Ottawa 33 Nicholas Street Ottawa Ontario K1N 9M7
Food and drink will be provided throughout the day, including breakfast from 8AM.
The following people have RSVPed to the meeting (in alphabetical order, by surname):
- Oleg Bartunov
- Josh Berkus (Secretary)
- Jeff Davis
- Andrew Dunstan
- Dimitri Fontaine
- Stephen Frost
- Peter Geoghegan
- Kevin Grittner
- Robert Haas
- Magnus Hagander
- Shigeru Hanada
- Hitoshi Harada
- KaiGai Kohei
- Tom Lane
- Noah Misch
- Bruce Momjian
- Dave Page (Chair)
- Simon Riggs
- Teodor Sigaev
- Greg Smith
Proposed Agenda Items
Please list proposed agenda items here:
- Agree CommitFest schedule for 9.3 (Strawman from Simon)
- CF1 June 15, 2012 - 1 month
- CF2 Sep 15, 2012 - 1 month
- CF3 Nov 15, 2012 - 1 month
- CF4 Jan 15, 2013 - 2 months
- Queuing [Dimitri, Kevin]
- Description: efficient and transactional queuing is a very common need for application using databases, and could help implementing some internal features
- Goals: get an agreement that core is the right place where to solve that problem, and what parts of it we want in core exactly
- Materialized views [Kevin]
- Description: Declarative materialized views are a frequently requested feature, but means many things to many people. It's not likely that an initial implementation will address everything. We need a base set of functionality on which to build.
- Goals: Reach consensus on what a minimum feature set for commit would be.
- Partitioning and Segment Exclusion [Dimitri]
- Description: to solve partitioning, we need to agree on a global approach
- Goals: agreeing on SE as a basis for better partitioning, having a "GO" on working on SE
- MERGE: Challenges and priorities [Peter G]
- Description: Implementing the MERGE statement for 9.3. It is envisaged specifically as an atomic "upsert" operation.
- Goals: To get buy-in on various aspects of the feature's development, and, ideally, to secure reviewer resources or other support. Because of the complexity of the feature, early interest from reviewers is preferable.
- Row-level Access Control and SELinux [KaiGai]
- Security label on user tables
- Dynamic expandable enum data types
- Enforcement of triggers by extension
- Enhancement of FDW at v9.3 [KaiGai]
- Writable foreign tables
- Stuffs to be pushed down (Join, Aggregate, Sort, ...)
- Inheritance of foreign/regular tables
- Constraint (PK/FK) & Trigger support.
- Type registry [Andrew]
- Provide for known OIDs for non-builtin types, and possibly for their IO functions too
- Would make it possible to write code in core or in extension X that handles a type defined in extension Y.
- Ending CommitFests in a timely fashion, especially the last one. Avoiding a crush of massive feature patches at the end of the cycle. Handling big patches that aren't quite ready yet. Getting more people to help with patch review. [Robert]
- What Developers Want [Josh]
- Description: a top-5 list of features and obstacles to developer adoption of PostgreSQL (with slides)
- Goal: to set priorities for some features aimed at application users
- In-Place Upgrades & Checksums [Greg Smith, Simon]
- Description: Revisit in-place upgrades of the page format, now that pg_upgrade is available and multiple checksum implementations needing it have been proposed.
- Goal: Nail down some incremental milestones for 9.3 development to aim at.
- Autonomous Transactions [Simon]
- Overview of idea, relationship to stored procedures
- Feedback, buy-in and/or alternatives
- Parallel Query [Bruce Momjian]
- Hope to get buy-in for what parallel operations we are hoping to add in upcoming releases
- Report from Clustering Meeting [Josh] (10 min)
- Description: to summarize the discussions of the cluster-hackers meeting from the previous day
- Goal: inter-team synchronization. Possibly, decisions requested on specific in-core features.
- Double Write Buffers [Simon]
- Is anyone committing to do that for 9.3?
- Goals, priorities, and resources for 9.3 [All]
- For roadmap and planning purposes, set expectations and coordinate work schedules for 9.3. Confirm who is doing what, identify interested reviewers at start, and check for gaps.
|08:30 - 08:45
|Welcome and introductions
|Dave Page
|08:45 - 09:15
|Autonomous transactions
|Simon Riggs
|09:15 - 09:40
|Dimitri Fontaine/Kevin Grittner
|09:40 - 09:50
|Report from the Clustering Meeting
|Josh Berkus
|09:50 - 10:10
|Type registry
|Andrew Dunstan
|10:10 - 10:30
|Access control and SELinux
|KaiGai Kohei
|10:30 - 10:45
|Coffee break
|10:45 - 11:15
|Enhancement of FDWs in 9.3
|KaiGai Kohei
|11:15 - 11:30
|What developers want
|Josh Berkus
|11:30 - 12:00
|Parallel Query
|Bruce Momjian
|12:00 - 12:30
|MERGE: Challenges and priorities
|Peter Geoghegan
|12:30 - 13:30
|13:30 - 14:00
|Materialised views
|Kevin Grittner
|14:00 - 14:20
|In place upgrades and checksums
|Simon Riggs/Greg Smith
|14:20 - 14:45
|Partitioning and segment exclusion
|Dimitri Fontaine
|14:45 - 15:00
|Commitfest Schedule
|15:00 - 15:15
|Tea break
|15:15 - 15:40
|Commitfest management
|Robert Haas
|15:40 - 16:45
|Goals, priorities, and resources for 9.3
|16:45 - 17:00
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First of all, I have been an undergraduate, studying linguistics at the Faculty of Arts at the university of khartoum in Sudan.. that was in 1994! I have been so sorry to quit studying and travelled to Egypt for some seven years then came back again to complete my studies once more!
The four lines of Shakespear's sonnet are still a part of a course I'm really struggling with so far! To be frank, the meaning of those lines hits me so badly that i couldn't even go any further with them, though the question about them runs as :-
Demostrate with examples from Shakespear's sonnet X1 the various linguistics changes in the aspect of sounds, forms, syntax and meaning??
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Are you now clear about the meaning of the quatrain, or are there parts that are still puzzling?
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Oh, well! It goes perfectly well in my head right now thanks to God!
Still 4 days to come 4 the sonnet's exam! the main problem isn't in the course but in the lecturer who uses a god-given language insisting that no student is allowed to EVEN paraphrase his OLD style of grammar! The lecturer is getting old, 71 years old so far and can't positively cope with new change in the field of linguistics!
I always get A's in other courses but in his i hardly credited with C, blieve it or not ?? Thanks 4 listening Mrp!
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