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8 In the same region there were some shepherds staying out in the fields and keeping watch over their flock by night.9 And an angel of the Lord suddenly stood before them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them; and they were terribly frightened. 10 But the angel said to them, "Do not be afraid; for behold, I bring you good news of great joy which will be for all the people; 11 for today in the city of David there has been born for you a Savior, who is [e]Christ the Lord.12 This will be a sign for you: you will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a [f]manger." 13 And suddenly there appeared with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying,
14 "Glory to God in the highest,
And on earth peace among men [g]with whom He is pleased."
Merry Christmas and God bless you all.
"The Journey of St. Laurent" Now Available!
Ladies and Gentlemen, it is with great pleasure I announce the unveiling of Bryce Beattie's long-awaited, much anticipated sequel to Oasis, entitled The Journey of St. Laurent – now available on Amazon's Kindle platform, Barnes and Noble's NOOK platform, and in many additional formats and platforms from Smashwords!
From the description:
ER nurse Corbin St. Laurent has had a bad couple of weeks. His hometown was overrun by zombies and then bombed to the ground. Now he finds out aliens are not only real, but hostile. To make matters worse, the government's response it to tell the everyone to calm down. With washington strangely reluctant to fight back, Corbin searches for a weapon that could give the people cause to rise up – the same zombie virus that destroyed Oasis.
The Journey of St. Laurent is a pulp action adventure sequel to Bryce Beattie's debut novel Oasis. If you like zombies, aliens, fiery redheads, loud mouth radio hosts or non-stop action, you'll probably like this book.
Check it out at the links below!
Guest Post: Irene Helenowski
Note from JDT: Ladies and Gentlemen, I promised this author a guest post some time ago and I've neglected to fulfill my promise! Irene, I'm so sorry it took me this long to get to it. Things in The Real World have been dreadfully busy and tough, and I haven't forgotten so many things as I have these past couple of months. I apologize, everyone. But, without further ado, I present: Irene Helenowski!
Order of The Dimensions
About The Author:
Irene Helenowski, the author of Order of the Dimensions, is a statistical analyst at an academic medical center in Chicago and recently received her doctorate in biostatistics. She also enjoys going to movies and concerts in her spare time.
About the Book:
When Jane Kremowski first began her graduate studies in physics at Madison State University in Wisconsin, little did she know where her work would take her. Now, she is embroiled in a multitude of dimensions all leading to different outcomes. She and her colleagues therefore must act wisely in order to take and keep away the Order of Dimension from falling into the wrong hands for the sake of her loved ones.
From The Author:
Have you ever thought about what you may be doing in another world? Maybe you're a painter in Paris, or a rock climber in Colorado? I have had many such thoughts. Wouldn't it be interesting if the multiverse theory as advocated by theoretical physicists Michio Kaky, Brian Green, and Lisa Randall is correct and we could be living such lives in different dimensions within our universe simultaneously? Such ideas led me to the premise of Order of The Dimensions, where we see the different paths that heroine, physics student, Jane Kremowski takes in different realms. Adventure ensues with the introduction of villain, Anton Zelov, who schemes to get his hands on her and on the Multiverser, the technology allowing for inter-dimensional travel.
With this work, I not only hope to entice the reader with romance, adventure, and a world of what-ifs, but also encourage young adults, particularly young girls, to look into the wonderful world of science. I recently read an NPR article about how there is still a major discrepancy between boys and girls in the sciences, especially in physics. As someone working in an academic medical center, I hope that we can change the attitudes of our youngsters, leading to a new generation of scientists. Will my book be a vehicle for such an objective, at least in one dimension? I don't know, LOL, but it's been fun so far, thinking about it and trying.
From the Blog Owner
Helen, thanks so much for this post today! And all the best of luck with your ventures in publishing – may you sell a million!
Guest Post: Craig Andrews
Today, I'm happy to introduce guest blogger and author Craig Andrews! Craig is the author of a thriller novel called The Ninth Martini, now available on Amazon's Kindle platform! So I'll let him tell you about himself and his book.
Take it away, Craig!
About the Author
Craig L. Andrews is eclectic when it comes to writing genre, connecting creative wires to whatever sparks a great story that could take the reader somewhere memorable. He tries to develop characters and stories driven by logic and plausibility. He is the author of Broken Toy, A Man's Dream, A Company's Mystery, a biography of a man whose small company patented a toy mouse, Micky, two years before Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse. The book was a major reference used for the PBS History Detectives program. He is the author of two works in the horror genre, The Godmanchester Stone and The Bed and Breakfast. He's a member of the National Writers Association and the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators. He holds a B. S. and an M.S. degree in physics, was nominated to the Sigma Pi Sigma National Physics Honor Society, holds a patent in design, and has authored physics and automotive engineering papers. When he's not writing he dabbles in photography and video animation.
About the Book
The Ninth Martini, is a Clancy-type thriller with the best of heroes and worst of the villains.
When hard-nosed Navy intelligence officer and former SEAL, Zack Hawkshaw, reluctantly agrees to use skills from an extinct CIA program for a mission, he has no idea he'll be plunged into a race to save the world. Zack agrees to one more field assignment and goes head-to-head with a man from an old secret KGB program who has Middle East connections, as well as the same skills Zack developed in the CIA Gondola program. Zack must discover if ex-KGB agent now Shiite, has warheads from a Russian SS-19 missile, and if so, the number and destination. Zack confronts the ex-KGB agent on the mental battlefield trying to stop the nuclear destruction of cities around the globe. You won't know if he succeeds until the last tick of the clock!
Buy now on Amazon.
From the Writer
I was thinking the other day how literature mirrors reality, tries to explain what is happening, and many times provides a forewarning. A case in point, the latest NSA revelations. I started writing concepts for my book, The Ninth Martini, in 1996.
A year earlier a CIA Technical Adviser went on the Nightline television program and spilled the beans. Yes, the CIA had been engaged in spying, but he wasn't referring to the usual cloak and dagger routine with men meeting in dark backstreets. He was referring to something that the government started before the 1970s and was so enigmatic that most people would just grin at its description. The Russians had been working on this methodology as far back as 1950s at the Odessa Institute under Dr. A. N. Leontyev. The CIA came to the dance late but soon began pouring money into programs, one of which was called Project Grill Flame. The methodology that psychologists and scientists labored to research and perfect was psychic spying or remote viewing.
This CIA research was said to have been abandoned in the 1990s but why would the agency walk away from something that didn't rely on wires or electromagnetic waves zipping through the atmosphere? Maybe it's still alive. What a remarkable premise for a battle between two opposing theologies, societies, and men of conviction. Think of it, two soldiers who can see each other and possibly hear each other's conversation separated by thousands of miles. There really was an incident in which a Soviet submarine was located by an American psychic spy. Just think what would happen if Jack Bauer of 24 Hours had the same tool.
Thanks for stopping by today and sharing a bit about you and your story today, Craig! Look for his work on Amazon today!
My lungs burn as I round the corner, the damnable soles of my expensive shoes skidding on the concrete, driving me to my knees. The raking breaths burning in my lungs matches the burn on my palms when I stop my fall with my hands, a hot white bolt shooting up my arms.
I shoot a backward glance, down the dark stairs, suck in my breath and hold it against my pounding heart. Silence and night.
My vision smears the lights in their neat, white globes as I fight back to my feet. No time. No time!
I shoot back to my feet and pound forward, coattails flapping in my slipstream. The station isn't bright enough, but it's not dark either. I've been in Podunk towns where a single bare bulb swung from an exposed wire wearing a flattened stainless steel funnel hat. The fluorescent bars here offered some illumination at least.
It just doesn't feel bright enough.
I glance back again, confronted now by the turnstiles and pay booths. They're unmanned. I check the rest of the area.
No guard. My heart sinks.
I spring over the turnstiles and yank my straining body up the concrete stairs by the cold iron handrail beside me. It stings my scraped hands as I launch myself faster up the flight to a landing, a break in the climb before another set of steps taunts me.
I freeze for a split second.
Did I hear something? Something coming, from behind me?
My adrenalin jumps another notch and scorches my veins. My heart flutters and I dart up the second flight, trying to keep up the pace, but slowing. The platform is at the top, but the loading area is far from where passengers vomit out of the stairwell. Dimly, something far in the recesses of my mind realizes this isn't ADA compliant as I push with my arms while racing with my leaden legs up the stairs.
Then I do hear it. Clear, definitive, something banging and grinding behind me.
My feet skid on the corner of the stair riser and bark my shins. I scream out, no longer caring what hears me, and I push through the pain. I feel the warm trickle of blood down my shin, and know I'll leave a trail behind me.
I can't care.
The sound grows to a din now, and then there's a scream, a wailing howl like metal dragging over metal, and I can smell the thing now. I can't look back, I have to press on, move, move, dammit, move!
It's on me, I can see it as I round the corner of the platform, my damn shoes betraying me again, and I hit one knee on the ground while my feet still scrabble for purchase. I launch myself up, but my equilibrium's gone and I fall into the brick wall just under the schedule.
Too late! Too, too late!
The shriek sounds again, and the klaxon bangs a tattoo of hopelessness against my ears. In huff it's moving, foul air rushing into my face and blowing back my hair. It gains speed in an instant, and I fall, helpless, to the cold floor of the platform as it rushes to me, and then past me.
I watch the train's lights vanish into the night, down the dark tracks, and groan when I see the schedule above me.
Next one's not due for an hour.
I misread the prompt, too. It said, "plane," not "train." *Sigh* Oh well.
Why Most Movie Sequels Aren't As Good — The Final Battle
Well, if you've made it this far, you're doing pretty good. I've prattled on and on about how movie sequels generally don't measure up, and used the Terminator franchise as an illustration of why they don't.
I chose them deliberately. For one thing, the movies got larger budgets, improved special effects, and grander scopes as they went along. I chose them in part because I wanted to demonstrate none of those things are what make a movie (or story) resonate with an audience.
I'm picking on movies specifically because book sequels are generally planned. They're typically written as a part of a greater whole, and aren't thrown together in response to the success of the original work. Sometimes that's true, I suppose; but that brings me to what helps make a sequel successful.
The Terminator succeeded because of an interesting premise, a sympathetic central character, a good story, and one of the most basic of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs being met. Terminator 2: Judgment Day equaled or surpassed the original because the Maslow tier had not been traversed, the acting and writing were superior, the special effects were innovative and ground-breaking, the antagonist was new and different, and there was the twist of the former antagonist become a protagonistic force. (Yes, it was a twist at that point.)
But Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines was a dismal failure because the Maslow need had been met in T2, the guardian robot was a rehashed idea, and the girl robot's only new twist was being female. And sexy. So…meh. Throw in weak writing and mediocre acting, and you have a formula for the dust bin of movie history.
Terminator: Salvation has the same thing happening over again. An anti-hero central character cyborg (more advanced than the others, frankly, which is dichotomous to the story line), a John Connor who didn't fulfill his future (for no apparent reason), and a departure from the story line firmly established for the last twenty years. Throw in the Christian Bale factor and even through there was the threat of death late in the movie, we knew it simply wouldn't happen. So again…meh. Injecting a child character from the original movie didn't help. Nothing could. It was simply too failed from the get-go.
What's the Secret?
Okay, so how do you make a good sequel then?
A unique premise?
That certainly helps. But the fact it's a sequel sort of indicates the premise is at least similar, if not the same. You need to be sure the premise can be continued. But continuing it ad nauseum isn't a good idea either. The Terminator series shows us how, even though time travel appears to be a limitless-possibilities endeavor, you can run it into the ground. How many terminators can travel back through the lifetime of John Connor, or Sarah Connor, or any of the other characters, until at last they succeed in eliminating their target? It never ends, and we as an audience know that.
Why didn't you send a robot back to a time when Sarah Connor was a child instead of trying to kill her as an adult? Once the failure of the plan became apparent (and how would you ever know in the future if the past has been altered?), would the logical thing be to move ahead, closer to when it's too late, or move back, to when there's still distance between the key events?
But the paradoxes of time travel become problematic too. So we have to be careful and not ask "Why?" too often, lest our premise unravel.
So, how do you make a good sequel?
A new premise might be one way. Or a new take on the same premise, such as with T2. Still a killer robot traveling back in time to kill someone, but this time it's a new robot with cool new abilities, and there's a new twist: The OLD robot is now the protector, not the terminator.
So if that worked once, it should work again, right? Wrong. See T3 for details. Same premise, and nearly the same execution, and the twist? Yeah, not so much. Didn't help.
Setting a Good Example
So you say, because you're all really good at this, "What about not dwelling so hard on the premise of the series and having each movie have a new focus, within the same premise?"
Good idea! You know…like the Toy Story series, for instance. Wood, Buzz, and the gang all face the same premise in every movie: They're toys, trying to be loved and love the only way they know how (by being fun for their owner), trying not to become lost or cast offs or to move down the hierarchy (hey, there's that word again!) of their universe. (Yes, the toys are moving along Maslow's hierarchy, like any good characters should.)
But in the first movie, there's a personal tension between Woody (the number one toy and sort of defacto leader) and Buzz Lightyear (the newest member of the group, a very cool toy who threatens to be the favorite and displace Woody on the hierarchy, knocking him back down the scale). They have to work together when they become lost toys and they have the time-sensitive moving day deadline and a psychotic toy killer neighbor to deal with along the way. The basic need to meet lies in the middle on Maslow's hierarchy: Status and position. See my first post in this series for the illustration, or Google "Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs".
In the second installment, Woody is the victim of a kidnapping, and the newfound friendship between Woody and Buzz is front and center rather than the competition between them. In this take, the toys have to work to recover Woody, and still face the world as toys. The premise – living toys in a human world doing things the best way they can – remains the same. But this movie doesn't operate the same way as the first. The toys have moved up the hierarchy, so in this movie, a new basic need has to be met: Safety.
The third movie is more emotional, but with another unique premise. They're still toys; they still have the desire to be played with and bring joy to their owner. But their owner is on his way to college now, and the toys need to find a new home. They want to belong, they want to continue doing what toys do, but they can't do that if they stay loyal to their current owner. The need? Self-actualization. Pretty high on the list, but also very noble. And thus the audience can root for them.
Now, toss in good acting and writing, CGI of legend, and clever use of the overall premise of the universe established by the original (are you listening, Terminator franchise?!), and you have a formula for successful sequels. And these were.
Want More Proof?
Okay, if you're not convinced yet, I'll give you another example. The universe and story arc remain the same across all the movies (and the books upon which they're based), but the audience couldn't wait for the sequels.
It's Sorcery!
Harry Potter comes readily to mind here. That series of books and movies followed a single character with a single premise across a long, long arc which concluded, and within each of the installments the story was slightly different. The premise didn't change, but what had to happen to fulfill the premise did (are you listening, Terminator franchise?!).
JK Rowling might be many things, but she knew how to hook and retain an audience, and when those books were optioned into movies, retaining as much adherence to the stories as possible ensured fan support, and therefore financial success. But the stories don't get boring or tired because each one fit into the over-arching story of Harry's time at Hogwarts and his growth into a powerful wizard. Or whatever.
It Rings True
Another way to handle the sequel dilemma is to have a really good story to start with, break it into parts and market each one as a sequel to the last. The Lord of the Rings, anyone?
Tolkien masterfully told a story over a long discourse and each one had a different focus while preserving the same premise. The premise, therefore, unfolds over the course of the series, just like with Harry Potter, but instead of telling a single story in each episode which contributes to the whole, the whole is chopped into individual episodes to play out over time. (Hey, Terminator franchise…)
A similar idea, but executed differently. And the audience loved it.
In The End
I might add here the above examples may not technically qualify as sequels. The same could be said about any series, I suppose. But to make a good sequel, you need to import and utilize Maslow's hierarchy within the premise of the story line, or the audience will not care for long.
With successful sequels, Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs shows the characters operating to either move up the hierarchy, or meet one of the base level needs, or not be pushed back down the tiers. In all cases, the audience embraces the story only to the degree the need being met is common to them. You're not likely to see someone care whether Bill Gates retains his position as world's richest man (he didn't). But in the movie Arthur, the audience does care whether a man retains his money. Not because of the money (losing it moves Arthur down the hierarchy, remember), but because Arthur has fallen in love with someone (ah, a more base-level need!).
Keeping the characters moving up on the hierarchy gives them something to strive for. Obtaining or retaining their new positions gives the audience something to care about with them. If the audience can relate to that goal, they'll embrace the story.
And it's that simple.
Have a good weekend y'all.
While I love taking credit for great achievements, I can't take full credit for the information you'll find here. Most of it comes from reading the works of David Baboulene, a great thinker of story theory and a clever guy. You can find him here.
Why Most Movie Sequels Aren't as Good — Part Deux
So, where was I?
Oh, that's right. I was about to address your concerns regarding why sometimes a movie sequel can be equal to, or in rare cases, better than, the original movie upon which it's based.
I used for my example The Terminator and its sequel Terminator 2: Judgment Day as a prime example of how a sequel can surpass the original (with a bigger budget and the right premise).
But you pointed out, helpfully, that the follow-ups on the success of T2 were horrid failures. And you're right, they were. At least, from the standpoint of viewer satisfaction they were.
To their defense, both Terminator: Rise of the Machines and Terminator: Salvation seemed to succeed on some level. T3 made enough money to buy them time to produce T4, and with the bigger budget, special effects and yes, bigger stars, what could go wrong?
And yet, they did go wrong, didn't they? They weren't as good. Why?
Let's check and make sure we have the ingredients the same as in T2:
- A hero who has to survive to lead the resistance – check.
- A set of characters we're somewhat familiar with – check.
- Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs base-level goal – check.
- A terrifying, seemingly unstoppable cyborg from the future bent on humanity's annihilation – check.
Um…okay, so whuhapp'n'd?
Missing Ingredient
Before we say "check" to everything, we'd better go back and see what's what with the ingredient list.
It's number three on the list which is the culprit here.
You blink at me. "But…we have exactly the same premise as in the first two movies. How can it not be the same here?"
I'll tell you why – the producers and directors of the second movie didn't do something new with that premise. They did the exact same thing as T2 did – a robot has been sent into the past to destroy John Connor before he can become the leader of the resistance.
So? What's the problem?
In The Terminator, remember what I said – the ending was left open. The audience sees Sarah Connor riding off into the coming storm, uncertain where the future will go, how it will unfold, what will happen.
In T2, we see something much different. We have much better answers to the question "What will happen in the future?" Because the running theme is, "The future is not set," nothing is definitive. Anything can happen. But let's face it, and be very honest about facing it – that loop was basically closed off in T2 and inadequately reopened in subsequent movies.
This is the problem. The characters moved up the hierarchy in the first two movies. In the next two movies we see them trying to stay put on the hierarchy rather than trying to move up. (Getting up the hierarchy is what our lives are about, remember, at least in Maslow's theory.)
So when Sarah and the gang moved up a rung on the hierarchy, that storyline is closed, fini, done. Time to move on. Time to leave well enough alone.
Ah, but Hollywood can't do that, can they?
So T3's approach was to reprise the role of the hero robot. You know, the one who killed John Connor in the future. Dun-dun-duuuuuuunnnn!
Doesn't that put enough spin, enough uncertainty, enough newness into the plot? Huh? Doesn't it? Huh? Huh?!
Suspension of Suspense
Nope, sorry. For one thing, we see that John Connor's right here, right in front of us, going through the movie. We can see he's okay, doing his thing, and he's both the central character and the protagonist, so we know nothing's likely to happen to him through the course of at least most of the film. Suspense killer number one: Check.
We also know his wife, the love interest in the movie, is the one who captures and reprograms the assassin robot to be a guardian, just like John Connor did in T2's future. So we know the love interest will survive the film. Suspense killer number two: Check.
Because both of the suspense killers above are in place, we know the odds of success for the new girl robot (see here for the joke which NEVER ceases making my wife and me laugh) aren't good. Suspense killer number three: Check.
So, why do we care about this movie? Oh, that's right…we don't.
We aren't worried about our group of protagonists at all. We know the killer-turned-hero robot won't survive the film – it's basically the same movie as T2 after all, and he didn't survive that one – so we don't worry about him. The humor and nods to the earlier films didn't work well. And there was no Sarah Connor to inject psychotic randomness into the movie, so we have a subplot with the love interest's father, a computer virus destroying the Internet (*snicker*), and because things in the world really changed between 1991 and 2003 (when T2 and T3 were made, respectively), the shift had to be made from a hardware-based monster to a software-based one. Skynet, the evil, self-aware antagonist producing the killer robots, isn't a robot after all. It's a computer program.
Niiice. (No.)
We simply don't have anything to care about. The special effects and the smokin' hot blond "Terminatrix" are all we want to see. (She is running around in red leather, after all.) After that, the movie had nothin'.
But what about Terminator: Salvation? Didn't it have The Dark Knight, Christian Bale, one of the hottest names in Hollywood, starring? Didn't it have the biggest budget for special effects, the impact of Transformers driving the CGI, and a new premise?
Well, sure. Those things are all true, at least to some degree, for the franchise's fourth, and God willing, final installment.
So, why didn't it succeed?
Well, primarily because we violate the Maslow thing yet again, and we have a number of suspense killers in it. Again.
Killing the suspense is key to making a movie a failure. One of the reasons we go see a movie series, or read a book series, is because we like the characters, or we worry about the characters. Since we never really get to love John Connor in the long-term the way fans love Harry Potter and his friends or James Bond, there isn't a continuity across the stories to endear the hero(es) to the audience in the Terminator series.
So, each film requires its own character building arc, making the character sympathetic to the audience. Somehow.
Did that happen in T4? What do you think?
Checklist? Again? Yep.
The suspense killers started with casting one of Hollywood's biggest draws as the lead in the film. Think Christian Bale is going to be killed off, now that he's firmly established as Batman, and one of the biggest action heroes in the biz? Suspense killer number one: Check.
What about the unset future thing? Isn't that the premise the film takes on? Because the future's not set, John Connor isn't the leader of the resistance, isn't saving humanity, and is facing a new set of machines and challenges he didn't anticipate. "This is not the future my mother told me about," the movie's trailer says. So, why didn't it work?
Because in addition to SK1 (Bale won't die), we have an unsympathetic protagonist in John Connor. He's already part of the resistance when the movie opens. We're supposed to be disoriented by this because it shows it's not the same future Sarah Connor prepared him for. But we also know the machines have already taken over by 2018 and are hard at work producing machines to eliminate their enemies. And because we're not familiar with this universe, we have to have time to get into it. After all, we had three movies with something like the same universe before this one. So this is more like a reboot in a way.
Lack of story development. Suspense killer number two: Check.
Too much of a good thing is bad for you. And so, with a dystopian future getting more dystopian by the moment, we have a situation in which John Connor must find a way to kill Skynet. Sounds familiar. But he's going to need help. And usually, that help comes from a robot turned good. So you know that convention is going to continue in this film, and sure enough, we have it. It's Sam Worthington's character in this movie.
Predictable. They didn't even try to hide it. And that, my lovelies, is suspense killer number three: Check.
Three suspense killers, plus rehashing the same ol' movement on the hierarchy? Yeah, a formula for failure despite big name actors, big special effects, and a sound byte of Christian Bale being one of the biggest a$$holes alive going viral.
Then What's the Answer?
How do you fix it then? How do you write a movie sequel, or even a book sequel, and make it work?
Next time, m'pretties. Next time.
While I love taking credit for great achievements, I can't take full credit for the information you'll find here. Most of it comes from reading the works of David Baboulene, a great thinker of story theory and a clever guy. You can find him here.
Why Most Movie Sequels Aren't as Good
You know it, I know it, we all know it – as soon as a "Part II" is appended to the title of your favorite movie and it hits theaters as the summer's next blockbuster, the results will be disastrous. A movie which simply isn't as good as the original and may even sully your view of that original no matter how you enjoyed it the first time.
You'll forever say, "Yeah, it was a good one, but the sequel(s) sucked." The sequels, even if the only thing they had in common was the title and some of the characters, simply won't measure up to the experience the first movie gave, and you won't be able to divorce them from each other.
There are times when the sequel does rival or surpass the original, of course. Examples include Terminator 2: Judgment Day and Die Hard with a Vengeance (and with the latter I don't know how you couldn't surpass the original). And, of course, when the series is long running, there are opportunities to have one or two of them equal or surpass the originals (think: Star Trek motion pictures, Friday the 13th, Final Destination, Harry Potter, etc.).
Just Google "movie sequels better than the original" and you'll get a list (many of them sharing the same titles if not the order) of movies most would agree are equal to or better than the originals.
But in all, the sequels generally don't measure up to the standards the original set, and leave us with a bad taste in our mouths.
What Matters to Us
First of all, to fully realize why stories resonate with us, we have to understand how we relate to protagonists or antagonists.
I give you – Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs.
There are some pretty basic things we as humans need to happy, and as we achieve things along the lower levels of the hierarchy shown above, we get to shoot for the higher levels. How well we relate to characters in stories has to do with how well we can identify with the character's movement up the hierarchy.
For example, we can all side with a protagonist who's trying to survive. That's pretty low-level. Staying alive is a pretty basic need, wouldn't you say? And we can see pretty easily why movies where someone's trying to win the affections of another fits well and is popular with the masses. That one sits right smack in the middle of the hierarchy.
There's a lot more to Maslow's theory than this simple drawing can portray, and I'm not an expert in psychology, so I won't expound on it. But you can do the work yourself, if you'd like. Find your favorite movie(s), and track what the overall goal of the protagonist is against the diagram above (or one of your own choosing – the 'Net's full of 'em). I'm confident what you'll find is the person in the film or book you're rooting for is shooting for one of the basic needs on this list. The lower the need, the more we can relate to the character, and the better the adoption into the heart of the audience.
Get it? We want those same things too. No one wants to move back down the hierarchy. So, things which threaten to prevent us from moving up or threaten to move us down the hierarchy are things to which we can relate as a species, not just as a culture or a nation or whatever.
Well, let's look at Terminator 2: Judgment Day.
In The Terminator, a terrible robot from the future has come to the (then-)present to kill an innocent, naïve young woman who's not having a great day. She's unlucky in love, she's got a lousy job which isn't paying her enough, she has a roommate who loves her but seems to have it all, and she has a sweet personality and nature.
And we come to find out she's the future mother of the leader of a rebellion which prevents the annihilation of the human race in the not-distant-enough future, when machines have arisen to eradicate mankind.
So, where does that fall on the list? Oh yeah…right along the bottom there. Survival. And not just her survival – the survival of humanity. (Whether we deserve to survive is another matter.)
So we can all relate to her pretty well. And we can all relate to the hero of the story – who is not the central character but what Dramatica theory calls the impact character – who is doing everything he can to ensure the survival of his species in his time and protect the woman he loves, all at the same time.
"Okay, okay," you say and roll your eyes, "I get it. Survival, basic need, yada yada. What the heck does this have to do with why sequels suck?"
Okay, keep your shirt on (unless you're a hot chick, then go 'head and take it off, no objections here). I'm getting there.
In T2, the audience gets another dose of the same thing. But…how? Shouldn't we be yawning our way through this when we already saw the machines be defeated, and we know the child of Sarah Connor does become the leader of the resistance?
Well, here's where the open ending of The Terminator plays in. At the end of the first movie, we have a very pregnant Sarah Connor wondering about the future, but feeling positive overall as she heads for Mexico to leave the grid and raise her son.
T2 picks up much later. John, Sarah's son, is a young boy with problems and no mother to raise him, because she's locked up. His foster parents aren't helping much, and he's basically Johnny the Troubled Teen. Okay, fair enough – raised by a lunatic who now resides in an asylum will do that to a kid, I'd suppose. But we also have the return of a familiar and frightening figure – the Terminator cyborg.
Two of 'em, matter of fact.
So the future, which isn't set (something the original movie rammed home as part of its theme), hasn't been changed enough yet. The cyborg antagonists, bent on victory, have attacked in a few places in history to achieve their goal – killing John Connor and preventing him from leading the resistance in the future.
Because the original movie didn't close the loop, this basic need still hasn't been met. And because we have a new protagonist to root for and a new impact character – the formerly "evil" cyborg turned good and guardian – there's a whole new level of tension. We have the exact same scenario presented with a new twist. Add in the superior writing and acting, the bits of humor and good tension and sympathy, and voila! A sequel which surpasses the original.
Then What About T3/4?
"Okay, tough guy, you think you're so smart," you sneer, "what about the incredible flops of Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines and Terminator: Salvation? Huh? What about those? Same basic need to meet, same characters to some degree, but both movies sucked rotten donkey–"
Okay, okay, stop, I get it. Let me address that.
…Next time. See ya then.
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Huntington and Bolsa Chica are the Bonneville Salt Flats of beaches: Wide. Long. With more fire pits than Fiji. The state beaches (with Huntington City Beach sandwiched in the middle) extend some 9 miles along northern Orange County's coast, from the Santa Ana River to just-short of the San Gabriel River.
In many ways, Huntington/Bolsa Chica has always been a kind of blue-collar beach. Until Bolsa Chica beach came under state control in 1961, nobody did much to keep the beach clean—hence its once-popular name of Tin Can Beach. Despite a couple of boutiqued blocks where Main Street meets the shore, and some upscale subdivisions more in keeping with O.C. inland 'burbs, Huntington Beach still has rough edges, including bad-boy surfers and shoulder-to-shoulder oil wells.
Before Huntington Beach received its present name, the long shoreline was a popular camping spot. Millions of small clams were washed up on its sands and old timers called it Shell Beach. In 1901, a town was laid out with the name of Pacific City, in hopes it would rival Atlantic City. In 1902, Henry E. Huntington, owner of the Pacific Electric Railroad, bought a controlling interest and renamed the city after himself.
This hike takes you north along wide sandy Huntington State Beach to Bolsa Chica State Beach and adjacent Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve. You can also make this a one-way jaunt by taking advantage of OCTD Bus #1 which makes several stops along Pacific Coast Highway.
This is an ideal beach trail to bike and hike. A bike path extends the length of Bolsa Chica Beach to the Santa Ana River south of Huntington Beach. You can leave your bike at Bolsa Chica State Beach and hike up to it from Huntington Beach.
Directions to trailhead: From the San Diego Freeway (405) in Huntington Beach, exit on Beach Boulevard and travel 5.5 miles south to the boulevard's end at Huntington State Beach.
The hike: Walk north along the northernmost mile of the three mile-long sandy state beach.The state beach blends into Huntington City Beach just before the pier. The beach is best known as the site of international surfing competition. Eighteen-hundred foot Huntington Pier was built in 1914.
Beyond the pier is Bolsa Chica State Beach, The southern end has steep cliffs rising between Pacific Coast Highway and the beach. Huntington Beach Mesa or "The Cliffs" is popular with surfers and oil well drillers.
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Appearing Thursday in London to promote the documentary's upcoming U.K. release, the guitarist admitted that when the Eagles disbanded, he "didn't have a life" and "ended up an alcoholic and dependent on substances," according to The Hollywood Reporter . It got so bad, Walsh added, where "those things gradually convince you that you can't do anything without them."
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Researchers have found a possible inherited component for lung cancer, a disease normally associated with external causes, such as cigarette smoking. An interdisciplinary consortium consisting of 12 research institutions and universities, including the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), identified a major lung cancer susceptibility region on a segment of chromosome 6. The findings appear in the online edition of American Journal of Human Genetics and will appear in print in the September 2004 issue.
The Genetic Epidemiology of Lung Cancer Consortium examined 52 families who had at least 3 first-degree family members affected by lung, throat, or laryngeal cancer. Of these 52 families, 23 had 5 or more affected members in at least 2 generations. Using 392 known genetic markers, which are DNA sequences that are known to be common sites of genetic variation, the researchers generated and then compared the alleles of all affected and nonaffected family members who were willing to participate in the study.
The research consortium is led by Dr. Marshall Anderson of the University of Cincinnati and includes Dr. Jonathan Wiest of NCI and Dr. Joan Bailey-Wilson of NHGRI, as well as many other researchers from eight other institutions around the country. They found strong evidence that a lung cancer susceptibility gene or genes are co-inherited with a genetic marker on chromosome 6. Markers on chromosomes 12, 14, and 20 also indicated possible linkage to lung cancer susceptibility, although the results were not as strong. Identifying the location was a critical first step, but more work needs to be done.
"The genetic markers are like the mileage markers you see on the side of the highway," explained Dr. Wiest. "They can be very useful for broad navigational purposes, but they don't give you precise information about all the interesting things that may lie along the highway."
Another discovery the team made involved the effects of smoking on cancer risk for carriers and noncarriers of the gene. They found that in noncarriers, the more they smoked, the greater their risk of cancer. In carriers, however, any amount of smoking increased lung cancer risk. These findings suggest that smoking even a small amount can lead to cancer for individuals with inherited susceptibility.
"Smoking remains the most critical risk factor for lung cancer," said Dr. Wiest. "Identification of the gene may one day enable us to screen for individuals at high risk for lung cancer, but this does not mean that smoking is safe or that individuals without this gene are protected in any way, particularly if they smoke."
"The discovery of genes for other types of cancer has led to better understanding of those diseases, which in turn can lead to better treatment and prevention. We hope that uncovering a gene or genes responsible for lung cancer will do the same for this devastating disease," said Dr. Bailey-Wilson.
The next goal for these researchers is to pinpoint the exact gene or genes within the region responsible for the susceptibility. They also plan to continue screening additional families that could have familial lung cancer, both to confirm their findings and find additional susceptibility regions.


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Price, Jammie Ezra Age: 97Passed Away: 2011-02-14 Funeral Home: Mr. Jammie Ezra Price, 97, of McDonough, passed away Feb. 14, 2011. He was born in Henry County, the son of the late James Robert and Emma Orie Johnson Price. He was a truck driver for REA Express for 49 years. He enjoyed spending time with his family and friends, visiting old friends, and gardening. He was preceded in death by his wife, Edna Earle Price, and a son, Billy Price, and several siblings. Survivors are his children, Bobby and Betty Jo Price, of Stockbridge, Sam and Maureen Price, of Orange Beach, Ala., Michael and Cecelia Price, of McDonough, Ga., and Rusty Price, of Oklahoma; daughter-in-law, Donna Price, of Locust Grove, Ga.; 13 grandchildren, 22, great-grandchildren, and one great-great grandchild; sister, Kathryn Gorman, of McDonough; brother, P.W. Price, of Stockbridge; and numerous nieces and nephews. Funeral services will be Wednesday, Feb. 16,, at 11 a.m., in the chapel of Haisten Funeral Home, with the Rev. Dan Wilson officiating. Interment will follow in the Locust Grove Cemetery. The family will receive friends at the funeral home on Tuesday evening, from 6 to 8 p.m. In lieu of flowers, those who wish, may make donations to Sacred Journey Hospice Foundation, 138 Peach Dr., McDonough, Ga. 30253. Haisten Funeral Home McDonough, (770) 914-8833, haistenfunerals.com.
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The first practical adding-calculating machine ever made.
His hope: a machine that would calculate accurately without limitations of memory or physical strength. His idea was not new. Unsuccessful attempts had been made as early as the tenth century, but never had a successful machine been developed.
Bravely he started to translate his ideas into a model, using a jack-knife as his principal tool. By January of 1885 the wooden model was completed which embodied Mr. Felt's basic ideas. (This first wooden model is now in the Smithsonian Institution at Washington, D.C.) After another year of improving and refining, he produced in 1886 a workable model in metal. He called it the Comptometer.
Thus was born the first practical adding-calculating machine ever made, herald of a new era in accounting and figure work of all kinds. Mr. Felt, who was then only 24 years old, lived to see thousands of leading business and industrial organizations the world over handle their figure work on the Comptometer adding-calculating machine.
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Simple Retailers' Sales and Margin Template
The attached Excel spreadsheet is a simple way to track sales and gross margins by dollars and percentages for each brand and product category. Hopefully, your point of sales system lets you produce a report that can give you this data without having to transfer data to this spreadsheet. There's no magic in this particular format. The magic comes from having the discipline to collect and analyze the information regularly.
You might go to the Market Watch part of this web site and check out "Conversations with a Skate Retailer," "Business by the Numbers" and "Minding Your Own Business. They address the issue of collecting and using financial information.
This tool is a couple of years old. In our current and foreseeable economic circumstances, I don't think it's enough to focus on gross margin percentage. Gross margin dollars and inventory turnover deserve a big chunk of your attention. Seek out the article "Gross Margin Return on Inventory Investment- A Tool for our Times" in the Market Watch Section. The discussion of inventory risk in "Inventory Risk and Inventory Management" may also interest you.
Monthly Cash Flow Template
A cash flow is the most important management tool a business can have, especially when the cash isn't flowing the way you'd like. This template is typical of those I have used. It's kind of generic, and can be modified for use by either a retailer or brand. There's no magic to the line items I've chosen to use. You have to figure out what works for your business and style of management.
The more you use it, the more valuable and easier to use it gets. You learn to internalize it and develop almost a sixth sense for changes. As your business grows, it becomes ever more important because you're ability to keep everything in your head declines.
I've written about cash flow several times. Go to the article archive and check out, for example, the article called "A Living Breathing Thing."
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Vision Worksheet
In the simplest things in our lives, we decide what we want to accomplish before we start doing. We do this unconsciously and instinctively because it's the approach that works best.
With larger issues, like building a business, we often don't take this approach. We start to work without deciding specifically what we want to have accomplished. The business draws us in. There's so much to do that there's no time to think.
How can you decide what to do if you don't know where you want to be after you've done it? Begin with the end in mind.
A company's owners need to share a common vision that will meet their goals. They need to specify what they want out of the company. All owners' visions need not be combined into one statement, but it is important that they not conflict significantly.
The process of writing the vision forces you to think rigorously about your goals. In the process, you can expect some surprises, and to learn about yourself. Its hard work, but it will expand your perspective and help identify what is really important.
Writing a vision is a very individual activity. It can't be rushed or done by a strict schedule. Come back to it as your thoughts evolve. Both your emotions and your intellect are important to the process.
The vision is the first step in the strategic planning process. It is the basis for establishing the company's mission statement and goals. This clarifies how the company operates for the management team and is critical to developing a flexible, responsive organization.
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HILLSDALE Ś On any random Friday night on the majority of college campuses across the country, you can count on college students partying and drinking until theyÆre sick.
Binge drinking has long been associated with hard partying frat boys who prove just how tough they are by the amount of alcohol they can consume in a short time.
But a recent study conducted by the U.S Centers for Disease Control suggests that binge drinking is no longer just a problem for men. The study says thatĀone in eight women ages 18-34 binge drink regularly andĀone inĀfive high school girlsĀdo so. Of those who binge drink, it is estimated that they consume six drinks per binge and go on roughly three binges a month.
Students at Hillsdale College, however, donÆt agree with that idea and say that while there are always going to be hard partiers at any college, that sort of reckless behavior isnÆt normal at HC.
ōIÆve never done it. The idea of getting wasted isnÆt appealing to me at all,ö said Amanda Gehrke, an 18-year-old English and music major at HC. ōAlcohol is to be enjoyed in small amounts.ö
Another HC student said she has never gotten involved with the drinking crowd because she has seen the effect it had on school work and personal relationships.
ōI feel like thereÆs too much risk in it,ö said Jesse Losli, a 19-year-old political economy major. Losli went on to say that she didnÆt feel like there was pressure on campus to drink when she would go out.
Binge drinking is defined as consuming four or more alcoholic drinks in the span of two to three hours. While that may not seem like a lot, one serving of beer is just 12 ounces and 80-proof liquor is 1.5 ounces.
Another way to think of it is, if you watch a football game and have one beer per quarter, youÆre on the border of binge drinking.
ōWhen I look at CDC reports and that sort of thing, weÆre not anywhere in the ballpark of those numbers,ö said Dr. Brock Lutz, Director of Health and Wellness for Hillsdale College. ōIÆm sure that there are people that binge drink at times and I would hope that if that happens those people would say æthat wasnÆt good.Æö
Still, some students say that while Hillsdale College isnÆt a big party school, binge drinking happens regularly.
ōOn weekends thereÆs a good amount of drinking going on,ö said history major Dan Vandegriff, who added that he has seen plenty of female students have too much to drink. ōThey just donÆt handle it as well. Plus, they donÆt drink beer which you can spread out; they usually go right for a vodka drink."
Page 2 of 2 - Vandegriff admitted that he has had too much to drink on occasion, but says that itÆs something that he rarely does.
With the lack of nightlife in Hillsdale, the majority of drinking by students at HC typically happens at fraternity or sorority houses because the dorms are very strict about allowing alcohol in the rooms.
ōI donÆt think IÆve seen one person drink in the female dorms,ö said Elizabeth Bara, 19, noting that her house mother would mete out punishments for drinking violations.
Lutz said the school makes sure that they explain to students during freshmen orientation the dangers of drinking and how to avoid problems that come from it.
ōFor the students who do drink and are of age, we want to show them, this is how you drink responsibly,ö Lutz said.
So while drinking and drinking heavily are part of the ōtraditionalö college experience, for students at Hillsdale College, that doesnÆt appear to be the case.
ōI donÆt feel like IÆm missing out,ö Gehrke said.


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The first thing I happily noticed about this fleece was the colour. No shocking yellow, no putrid green - this was a good, solid, charcoal grey. A colour for those not wishing to be seen for five hundred miles across a small country. No, this was a colour for those wishing to blend in a little more with Gods Own Countryside. And with Gods Own Countryside in mind, the components of this fleece, along with the rest of the El Alto clothing line, are all ethically sourced. The majority of the local staff live in one of the poorer districts outside of La Paz, Bolivia and receive a fair and decent wage for their work. You can read more about El Alto's approach to their products and market at elalto.co.uk.
But more of the product I hear you cry! Well, the fleece is very well made for a start. Its stylish without being faffy, it is slim fitting and the shaping is, overall, very good. The sleeves are long and there are thumb loops at the end of each arm which came in useful whilst dry tooling on the home wall last week and stopped them rolling up my arm as normal. I wore it over a thin thermal baselayer and was comfortable enough not to have to don any form of wind protection even though it was a bracing november day in Scotland. The stiff collar helps cut down draughts too. I also wore it on a stormy day in the Cairngorms last weekend and found it to be an excellent, and now permanent, part of my trusted layering system.
My only criticism of this product is the body length. I think some, including myself, might find it a little on the short side - it did tend to ride up slightly too far when my arms were over my head.
Other than that, I would be happy to recommend this to anyone looking for a decent, well made and fairly traded base/mid layer.
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