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20 Things That Helped Me Finish the (Current Draft of the) MANCHILD Screenplay
A few months ago I finished the screenplay for my feature MANCHILD (for now, at least). I'll have more updates on the project soon, but suffice to say there's been a long rewriting process since I ran my Kickstarter campaign over a year ago. And while this wasn't the first screenplay I've written, it's certainly the best, and the one on which I've worked the longest and hardest. Over the past two years, here are the things that have helped my screenwriting process.
1. Freehanding the first draft
Despite a preponderance of available writing software, I wrote the first draft of MANCHILD by hand in an old-fashioned lined notebook. Why? Because using pen and paper is a great way to force yourself forward. Screenwriting can be a battle of constantly revising the pages you wrote on previous days, rather than pushing onto the next scene; knowing the first draft is going to be imperfect, I just want to get to the end. Turning a page after it's full of ink is a great way to get through the first draft with momentum intact. You feel a sense of accomplishment, you can look at your story as a whole, and then typing it up is a great way to start your "second first draft."
2. Pinboard
Pinboard is a great research tool for screenwriters (and well, just about anyone else). It's a bookmarking solution similar to Delicious, allowing you to save, tag, categorize, and search web pages of interest. Pinboard has a few important differences, however: you can set your bookmarks to private by default (I use bookmarks for my own reference, not to socialize or share), and if you pay $25/year, Pinboard will crawl every webpage you send it and archive it permanently in case the article is later moved or removed. This way you'll never lose an article. Pinboard has a one-time sign-up fee of $10, but it also allows you to import all of your Delicious bookmarks at once; I did so and have never looked back.
3. Earplugs/headphones
I've found sound to be far more distracting for me personally than anything visual. I can sit in a coffee shop window with people walking by constantly and focus completely on the laptop screen when I need to. But if someone's having a conversation next to me and I can hear every word, there's just no way. If I'm in a house and the refrigerator is making some irregular kind of buzzing noise, the same applies. So most of the time when I'm writing I'm either listening to a playlist (per the next point), or I've got earplugs in. Finding your writing environment too distracting? Maybe it's not the visuals, it's the sound.
4. Consistent music playlists
One of the biggest challenges with screenwriting is you really have to live in the world of your screenplay, and very often that world is not the same as your writing environment. So when putting together a project I'm always thinking about music appropriate for the film, either for a soundtrack or music that the characters would listen to themselves. Once I have a solid playlist together, I'll listen to it often enough that the songs bring me back to the world. I've been doing this in iTunes for years, although I'm not entirely convinced iTunes 11 is moving in the right direction; obviously, just about any music program can suffice.
5. Amazon Kindle highlighting
eBooks are wonderful research tools because you can search, highlight, and notate them in ways you never could on paper. I don't know how iBooks, Nook, and other platforms work, but with the Kindle you're given your own web site where you can later access all of your highlights and notes, and I find it to be an indispensable research aid. I'm still referencing the highlights I took a year or two ago, and they're always at your fingertips thanks to living in the cloud.
6. Topical RSS subscriptions
Stay current on your topic. Find the little RSS icons on relevant news feeds/sites and use something like Google Reader to stay up-to-date on the world in which your story takes place (less possible if it's an imaginary world, ancient history, etc). For example, here's our NFS RSS feed. Browsing these subscriptions (hint: put them all in a folder and then browse the folder's feed) can be a good way to start the day in that it can reorient you to the world of your story.
7. Ease into it
I wrote this note when I found myself struggling to engage at the beginning of every screenwriting session. I would be fine after 30-60 minutes of focusing, but during that initial period I would be distracted, irritable, and generally unsatisfied with my thought process and level of focus. So I wrote myself a note:
Realize that it's going to take you time to get into it, every time. Don't expect it to come to you right away. Ease into it. Here's a good way: take a step back and just sketch out the scene/sequence/script. Hand-write an outline or a diagram. It's not something for posterity, it's not something you're going to refer to next week or next month, it's just an exercise to get you oriented.
8. Split view(s)
Somehow I got through high school and college and never really understood split views in word processing (and now screenwriting). I can view two different sections of the document at once? And then I can turn one view into a scene view (or index card view) and persistently display my outline? Wow, that makes way too much sense. (This section is only here for the 0.1% of people who also somehow missed out on this common function in the "Window" or "View" menu).
9. "But" or "therefore" but not "and then"
South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone might not be the first guys you would turn to for pithy screenwriting tips, but you'd be hard pressed to find a handier two-minute video on screenwriting:
There's a slightly longer version here (not to mention they mention the same approach in the much more thorough documentary The Making of South Park: 6 Days to Air), but this video contains the meat and potatoes. "But" or "therefore" gives you causation between each beat, and that's a story. Not "and then." Over the course of dozens or hundreds of drafts it's easy to forget what you know. A simple rule of thumb like this can go a long way.
10. Beat sheet with multiple indent levels / color-coding
The screenplay is a very sparse format. The page is predominantly empty, but that doesn't mean that you don't have a lot of thoughts on what's going on — for yourself, for future drafts, for others, etc. Final Draft's "ScriptNote" feature is ostensibly the way to make such notes within the screenplay doc itself, but in my humble opinion, ScriptNotes suck. They feel like something from the 1990s: there are a bunch of little icons scattered all over your document and if you want to print them out, they all show up in a separate printout detached from the actual script. If Celtx has a better way of making annotations on the script, feel free to share that in the comments.
Instead, I found myself creating and maintaing a separate beat sheet. A beat sheet is a form of outline, and making it color-coded helped me to track different plotlines. I tried a few different text editors, including Evernote, but found that I needed an editor with the bulleted-list features of, say, Microsoft Word, so I could do several different indentation levels: one each for act, sequence, scene, beat. I used Google Docs Drive for persistent online backup and cloud storage, but if you're an offline writer, Word may be a better choice. Here's an example of what my beat sheet would look like:
In Google Docs, you can speed the color/formatting process by using Command-Option-C to copy and Command-Option-V to paste formatting only (that's on a Mac; on a PC, it's Control-Alt-C to copy and Control-Alt-V to paste just the formatting).
I also found that in the progression of moving from draft to draft, it helped me to highlight changes that I needed to get into the current draft with one color, and potential changes for a future draft with another color. This helped me iterate and actually finish drafts I was comfortable sending to producers, while still keeping track of changes I might want to make at a later date with more time and more readthroughs.
While this approach definitely helped me keep track of my structure and plot lines, the drawback is whenever you make changes in the screenplay itself, the outline becomes out of date… and vice versa. In an ideal world this kind of structuring ability would be tied to the screenplay doc itself, and while I used Scene Cards in Final Draft for a rough approximation of this, going forward I'll be looking for a way to integrate this kind of outline. I've mentioned Movie Draft previously but it doesn't seem to be updated as often as I'd like.
11. Elevate the conflict within the scene
Two characters each want something different. Does the script escalate these opposing desires over the course of the scene? If the scene seems to be lacking something, this basic configuration can help give the beats a definite structure.
12. Paper printouts
After writing the first draft on paper and doing the next several drafts in the digital domain, I found a few tricky sections that I just couldn't wrap my head around inside of a screenwriting program. To the printout!
If there's one thing computers and tablets are still missing, it's the freedom to quickly draw diagrams and arrows, add notes at odd angles, and cross things out. The iPad is not ideal for styli and most of us don't have touch screen computers. Even if we did, we wouldn't be able to look at a dozens pages side by side.
Multiple pen co…lors, that is. I still don't really understand instagram (but you should follow me here anyway?).
13. Different writing locations for different drafts
I don't know how many drafts I've written of MANCHILD simply because, who's to say what constitutes a "draft?" Every time you make a pass from start to finish? Not every pass covers the entire script. Every time you save a new version? There's no science to that, some people save a new version several times a day. Every time you send it out for someone to read? You might do dozens of drafts in between those times. However, regardless of your definition of a "draft," there's no doubt that there are major milestones in a long writing process. If you don't have the ability to take some time off between drafts, at least you can set yourself up in a new location (even within your house) so you feel like you're, quite literally, coming at it from a new angle. It's a gimmick, but it helped me.
14. Big changes first
This might seem obvious, but as I'm also writing this post for my own benefit — the next time I sit down to write a feature may be a year or more, given making this one's going to keep me occupied for a bit — I want to remind my future self of this: "the biggest changes are going to have the most significant ripple effects and the highest likelihood of changing/destroying what you've already written, so make the big changes first and then worry about the smaller ones… they may already have been nullified or otherwise changed by the time you get to them."
15. iPad
The perfect screenplay reading device thanks to its paper-sized form factor, the iPad (and theoretically other tablets, though no one has the software/app support yet to really compete) also makes for a surprisingly enjoyable screenplay writing device. The iPad's form factor makes it, in my opinion, the perfect revision tool. You're not going to write very quickly on it, and therefore I wouldn't pen something from scratch on a tablet, but once you've got a draft in hand and you want to review it, it's just much, much nicer to be able to sit in a nice chair or lie on a couch/bed and peruse the script as if it's a published piece of work… as opposed to scrolling down a laptop screen while sitting a desk. Revising on the iPad (I use Final Draft Writer though there are several alternatives, including Celtx Mobile) feels like a hybrid of reading and writing, and while it wasn't an option for most of the MANCHILD writing process (the iPad writer app only came out about a month before my last draft was finished), it's definitely something I'll be using consistently going forward.
16. Freedom
I wrote about the Mac app Freedom three years ago, and I've been using it ever since whenever I need to shut out the outside world and get work done. Basically the app shuts off your internet, and while you might find it ridiculous to pay $10 for such a simple function, plenty of writers swear by it — and if it helps you get work done, the ends more than justify the means. Since then the same developer has launched an app called Anti-Social, which works in a similar manner but keeps your internet connection alive while blocking social networking time wasters like Facebook and Twitter (and any other site you add to the list).
17. Windows management software
The ability to arrange multiple windows simultaneously with a single keystroke (or click of the mouse) is built into the latest versions of Windows (or so I'm told). I'm on a Mac, and the ability to tile/split/arrange multiple applications isn't built-in, but there are a lot of applications that enable this kind of customization. Oftentimes I'll want my outline (or research materials) on one half and the script on the other. A good free option to do this on the Mac is Spectacle. I'm not opposed to paying for software by any means, but… this one's free and it works great. The main reason I could see buying an alternative is if you're more of a visual drag-and-drop kind of person as opposed to learning a few new keystrokes.
18. David Mamet's Memo to his writers on 'The Unit'
There were a few scenes in my script that were bothering me every time I read through them, and I wasn't sure why. I had a sense — they felt too expository — but no one was giving me any notes on them. Still, something about them was bothering me. I reread this David Mamet memo, and realized it was exactly this: "ANY TIME TWO CHARACTERS ARE TALKING ABOUT A THIRD, THE SCENE IS A CROCK OF SHIT."
Pretty much any movie or TV show is going to have two characters talking about a third in some way, in passing at least. But I took Mamet's point to mean "if the entire scene is only about these two people talking about another thing [person, event, issue], it needs to change."
19. Character-specific passes
Do entire drafts wherein you only pay attention to one character — their motivations, their complexities, their arc. Create a beat sheet just for them. Turn off ScriptNotes, ignore the rest of the scenes, and pretend the rest of the script doesn't exist. Don't worry if you're messing up things holistically — you're going to do plenty more passes start-to-finish. This pass is strictly about making one character — and not just your lead — as nuanced, complex, and three-dimensional as possible. Everyone is the protagonist of their world, and their motivations and decisions all need to make sense to them.
20. Use your Good Hours
It's the beginning of your day. Your to-do list has dozens of items on it, several of which you want to get to today. Plus you have bills to pay and a lot other bullshit to deal with. Which of these things do you tackle first?
I used to try to get the small things done first. Many people think this way — "I'll just get this out of the way" — but time and time again I found myself tired by the time I got around to what should have been the most important item — in this case, the screenplay. My energy was already depleted. So it wasn't a stroke of genius to say, "I'll use my good hours — when I have the most energy and am the freshest — to work on the most important thing first, and then when I'm tired I'll handle the bullshit." This seems like a no-brainer, but it took me a while to come around to this approach. It didn't help that, from years of doing school work late at night, I believed my most creative hours were naturally at night — not (always) true.
No matter how hard-working we are, no matter how motivated, all of us only have a certain number of Good Hours in a day. Use them to work on what matters most!
And now that this post is finished, damn — there went my good hours for today! For more screenwriting "things," see Chris's recent post on 6 more — or add your own in the comments. And more on MANCHILD very soon.
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Great update; I was dying for a Manchild Update. Metabones update + Manchild update= A Good monday
Daniel on 01.14.13 @ 11:05AM
What an inspiring read. I really enjoy reading these rare updates on Manchild.
Thanks! They'll be less rare going forward — writing updates on the screenwriting process has been hard (what's there to say other than "new draft!"), but I'll be posting about it more frequently going forward.
israel Perez on 01.14.13 @ 11:25AM
Very nice and informative post. It is very helpful to see what worked and what didn't work for you so that we don't commit the same errors. Again thanks for sharing Ryan.
DIYFilmSchool.net on 01.14.13 @ 11:25AM
This is all good stuff, but the most relevant points to myself as a creative person (and especially when writing) are points 3, 9 and 19.
maghoxfre on 01.14.13 @ 11:53AM
Thanks for this post Koo, these are the posts I enjoy the most. I'm not into gear THAT much and I'm here mainly for the learning aspect of filmmaking. This post was awesome and I loved the Stone&Parker video. Mamet's quote was great.
Christopher Boone on 01.14.13 @ 11:54AM
Great post, Koo. So many great tips and tools for screenwriters. One of my biggest takeaways from this post is the overarching point that screenplays take a hell of lot of work to get them right, yet, to many, look deceptively simple to write. Looking forward to future updates on MANCHILD.
Agreed, sometimes I think, "it took HOW many drafts to get to this point?" But whether it's a dozen or a hundred, the end product is worth it!
I'm tryling to get a screenplay for a short together in the next months. This will help a lot. Thanks so much, Koo. Good luck going forward with MANCHILD!
john jeffreys on 01.14.13 @ 2:51PM
There are free alternatives to #16, including self control, and like 1000 browser plugins just google something like "firefox blacklist" or "firefox facebook blocker" etc
Thank you Ryan. That was very insightful and practically helpful. Now I just have to figure out how to get my good hours away from the damn day job. All the best with it.
David on 01.14.13 @ 3:14PM
Thank you kind sir!
I'm, at the moment, just planning out my feature film which has taken me months to get to this stage, I guess it's a matter of what you said about "good hours" but I'm also scared to write it, but you've really given me a kick in the face with motivation (in a good way!) so thank you.
I hope to hear more about manchild soon!
Thank you again for a sincerely fantastic article.
Xiong on 01.14.13 @ 3:14PM
Thanks for the article Ryan, will be bookmarking this for future references.
sammy on 01.14.13 @ 4:42PM
So much stuff…books/internet on screenwriting out there..
but this manages to compile some good stuff.Writing in longhand and use of cards does seem to help.
Anything to get the script from the theoretical into an
actual physical object of existence helps the process. -
VinceGortho on 01.14.13 @ 4:51PM
These seem to help a lot. Robert Mckee's Ten Commandments of story writing.
1. Thou shalt not take the crisis/climax out of the protagonist's hands. The anti-deus ex machina commandment.
2. Thou shalt not make life easy for the protagonist. Nothing progresses in a story except through conflict.
3. Thou shalt not give exposition for exposition's sake. Dramatize it. Convert exposition to ammunition.
4. Thou shalt not use false mystery or cheap surprise.
5. Thou shalt respect your audience. The anti-hack commandment.
6. Thou shalt know your world as God knows this one. The pro-research commandment.
7. Thou shalt not complicate when complexity is better. Don't multiply the complications on one level. Use all three: Intra-personal, Inter-personal, Extra-personal.
8. Thou shalt seek the end of the line, taking characters to the farthest reaches and depth of conflict imaginable within the story's own realm of probability.
9. Thou shalt not write on the nose. Put a subtext under every text.
10. Thou shalt rewrite
NFS is now officially the most interesting place on the internet! Thanks a lot guys… hell of a job!
Thanks Ryan! Inspiring
NFS is my primary Safari-hangout now days. Great work -
Hey Ryan, such an inspiring and generous post. Seems like you have already learned so much from the Man Child project. Thanks for taking the time and best of luck going forward.
Thanks for a great post Ryan. Took a short break (ahem) from writing and reading the hefty notes on my latest pass… draft… number… ermmm??? So your timing is terrific.
BUMMED I can't watch the PArker and STone link though. Searched for 45 minutes trying to find it elsewhere without success. Anyone with a link that will play outside US, be much appreciated.
Damn, didn't realize it was georestricted. Everywhere else I can find the video is using the same source (the MTVU player), sorry!
Always love the screenwriting posts as everyone has their own techniques and there is no one way to "find your muse"
Very interesting to see all the different tips writers give and how they compare, many of which you have here definitely go hand in hand with my style and others. Love #1, I do this too and recommend it to everyone as when you go to transfer the draft to digital it forces a solid rewrite out of you.
4, 9, 12, 13, & 19 are also on point.
Thanks for continuing to share personal writing posts from your experiences and others, you don't find that too often out there. Lots of strict "do's and don'ts"
Yes, I do think it's taking longer than I'd like, but I'd rather spend more time to make it better than rush it out.
This project was part of the Sundance labs in 2005:
Things take time. They also very often fall apart and get delayed. I'll have more on why, how, what for, etc. soon.
Peter Gell on 01.17.13 @ 5:40PM
Used a chunk of today's 'good hours' reading this post, but feeling no guilt whatsoever. Great post. :)
Great post! Regarding your troubles keeping your outline and screenplay in synch next time you should give Scrivener a try. It's the best software I know for that and it exports smoothly to Final Draft when you need it.
I actually used Scrivener for a bit but really thought it an ideal tool for writing novels and manuscripts, not screenplays (it does have some basic screenplay formatting functionality and the newer versions may be even better, so maybe I'll give it another shot.
Bryan Krauss on 01.18.13 @ 2:38AM
Great tips. I sometimes have a tiger eye focus on writing, but not of late. These listed elements where inspiring. A way back to my focus Thank you.
Darren Wolff on 01.23.13 @ 7:37AM
Thanks for the tips Ryan. All very interesting and valid. I shall take onboard and no doubt go back to review this post many times.
Thank you so much for this post! It provided me with very useful information!
I use my iPad to go over my script and use the good notes app (Free) to take notes on it. I bought a stylus ($5 at the pharmacy) so I can write on it, and you also have the option to type notes. The coolest thing for me is that I can change the colors of the pen you write with. I use one color for my notes, another for my mentor's, and red to mark scenes that I know are not there yet or could eventually be cut. Then I prop the script up like a stand and apply the edits from my notes into my screenplay via my computer. I love it.
I also take notes during this read through that are more general. Things that are bothering me about the script. A scene I should add. What's missing. I do this in the notes app so I can easily email it to myself or other readers to show them my concerns.
The best part about this vs. printing the script out, is that you can do these edits on the train on your way to work or outside. Having the luxury of reading and taking notes on my script during times when I'd otherwise just be doing nothing is such a huge plus for the iPad.
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Funny too that promiscuity in the homosexual community is so rampant that even noted socialite Paris Hilton recently remarked that gay men are "disgusting" and "probably have AIDS," while inadvertently being recorded with two friends in a taxicab.
Of course, the liberal media. which coagulates to promote the false narrative that homosexuality is a normal, behavioral choice, banded together to back Hilton into a corner and not only forced her to apologize, but come out and stand with the rest of UnGodly, liberal Hollywood and become a "friend to the gays".
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Daily Links for the LA Angels including reactions to the Angels beating Weaver in arbitration, Reagins denies interest in Michael Young, Trout won't debut in the majors until 2012 and much more...
Daily Links for the LA Angels including reactions to the Angels beating Weaver in arbitration, Reagins denies interest in Michael Young, Trout won't debut in the majors until 2012 and much more...
Our player preview series rolls on with one of the biggest and most pleasant surprises of the 201 Angel season, Mr. Dan "Don't Call Me Danny" Haren. The Angels like to say their mid-season trade last year for Haren was really their big free agent splash in advance, but can Haren live up his ace billing or will he once again struggle to find consistency?
2010 Stats: 235 IP, 12-12, 3.91 ERA, 1.27 WHIP, 216 K (combined for his time with Arizona and Angels)
2011 ZiPS Projections: 224.1 IP, 15-9, 3.57 ERA, 1.16 WHIP, 213 K
2011 Bill James Projections: 238 IP, 15-12, 3.52 ERA, 1.18 WHIP, 216 K
2011 Marcel Projections: 200 IP, 12-10, 3.76 ERA, 1.19 WHIP, 209 K
2011 MWaH Projections*: 225 IP, 15-10, 3.40 ERA, 1.17 WHIP, 190 K
*The MWaH projections are simply my best guess based off my own personal opinion and research
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no commentsWhat If Wednesday is back and I think this week's topic all too obvious. As the baseball world waits for Spring Training to begin, there is nothing better to do than focus on the idle speculation of where Michael Young might land once the divorce between he and the Rangers is finalized. Since the Halos are at the center of the trade rumors, it seems like a worthwhile exercise to imagine what it would be like if Michael Young did actually get traded to the Angels.
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2010 Stats: 573 AB, .281 AVG, .354 OBP, .465 SLG, 76 R, 23 HR, 90 RBI, 9 SB
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2011 Bill James Projections: 569 AB, .272 AVG, .340 OBP, .457 SLG, 81 R, 23 HR, 92 RBI, 11 SB
2011 Marcel Projections: 515 AB, .272 AVG, .340 OBP, .450 SLG, 81 R, 22 HR, 98 RBI, 11 SB
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No! Where is it? I've never heard of it!
picture of Walt hidden in the Carousel pf Progress?
No! Where is it? I've never heard of it!
Por favor mantanganse alijado de las puertas.
It is in the thrid sequence (1940's) in the daughter's room. It is on the left wall of her room, top left hand side....
There is also a real Mickey Hidden in CoP too....
It is a nutcracker on the mantle in the Christmas scene
That's so cool Bonny! and I like the way you made it so you highlight the text to read the answers, for those who want to look for themselves for these items...what text color do you use to make it blend into the background like that?
I think she used white...if you look very hard at the place where the text is and don't highlight it, you can begin to read portions of it, but not for long. My eyes started to hurt after that!
Por favor mantanganse alijado de las puertas.
Yup, white! I am loving being at the parks so often and being able to share all the cool things I am learning, I am going to get a book to write stuff down in and categorize it by park and area....I hope I get to meet you all soon! It is awesome because I can work my schedule around anyones!
HA! I saw that just yesterday, but because of the screen, I couldn't tell if it was Walt, or just a celebrity from that period of time.
(the hidden walt picture that is)
All the people will look up and shout: "Save us!" and I'll whisper...'no'.
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Nike Challenge Court Mid Vintage
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Nike Skateboarding has been very deliberate, only releasing three colorways since their Gino Iannucci-cosigned Challenge Court debuted last summer. The Sportswear division has been similarly restrained, offering only a couple of releases while the suede and ripstop trio slated for November 2012 remains AWOL. We're interested to find how this impacts the Nike Challenge Court Mid Vintage in three new all-suede editions tagged as 'UK LTD'. Stick with Sneaker News to see if more retailers get these (they were spotted first at a Japanese NSW distributor) and check out more photos of all three after the jump.
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Good prog music, nice voices, interesting mixture of styles on the album... and profesional instrument sounds using free software...2012/4/17 Ken Restivo <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx>On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 07:37:26PM -0400, Al Thompson wrote:I'll pass along your kind words to Bob. He's been working on this record for pretty much his entire adult life. Perhaps nobody is more thrilled than me to see it FINALLY out in the open (I recorded the first demos of it for him on a 4-track in 1993).
> On 04/16/2012 02:01 AM, Ken Restivo wrote:
> > I am very happy to report that my old friend Bob has finally released a record that he's been working on for 21 years.
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> > And... it's prog-rock! Not my style of music, but one that I know is near and dear to the hearts of Linux Audio enthusiasts.
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> > So here it is at last:
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> > http://pronstar2.bandcamp.com/album/in-your-mind
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> > I played Linux keyboards on quite a few of the tracks. It's been a year or two since the sessions so I don't remember exactly what I played on what.
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> > I do recall doing some Beatrix, including a few heavily overdriven to get a Deep Purple kind of sound, some Specimen with Mellotron samples (it's prog rock, you GOTTA have Mellotron!), and also Fluidsynth with clav samples through a hellacious jack-rack of plugins.
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> > I can say with certainty that I think that many, if not most, people on this list will enjoy many, if not all, of the tracks.
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> > Enjoy the Linux keyboard lovin' too.
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> I hear shades of Gentle Giant and Atomic Rooster in the first track.
Also, you're like the third person who mentioned Gentle Giant. I'll pass that along too.
By the way, the track "Menager I" has Beatrix all over it. I didn't originally realize how prominent the organ was going to be mixed, in both the slow part and the heavy metal part (distorted Beatrix), but it's definitely evident. The clav stuff I did on one of the other tracks appears not to have made it into the final mix, but a lot of Mellotron (using Specimen and JackRack with Fons' 4-band parametric EQ) did.
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Retinal artery occlusion is a blockage in one of the small arteries that carry blood to the retina. The retina is a layer of tissue in the back of the eye that is able to sense light.
Central retinal artery occlusion; Branch retinal artery occlusion; CRAO; BRAO
Retinal arteries may become blocked by a blood clot or fat deposits that get stuck in the arteries. These blockages are more likely if there is hardening of the arteries (atherosclerosis) in the eye.
Clots may travel from other parts of the body and block an artery in the retina. The most common sources of clots are the heart and carotid artery in the neck.
Most blockages occur in people with conditions such as:
If a branch of the retinal artery is blocked, part of the retina will not receive enough blood and oxygen. If this happens, you may lose part of your vision.
Sudden blurring or loss of vision may occur in:
The retinal artery occlusion may last for only a few seconds or minutes, or it may be permanent.
A blood clot in the eye may be a warning sign of clots elsewhere. A clot in the brain may cause a stroke.
Tests to evaluate the retina may include:
General tests should include:
Tests to identify the source of a clot from another part of the body:
There is no proven treatment for vision loss that involves the whole eye, unless it is caused by another illness that can be treated.
Several treatments may be tried. These treatments must be given within 2 - 4 hours after symptoms begin to be helpful. However, the benefit of these treatments has never been proven, and they are rarely used.
The health care provider should look for the cause of the blockage. Blockages may be signs of a life-threatening medical problem.
People with blockages of the retinal artery may not get their vision back.
Call your health care provider if you have sudden blurring or vision loss.
Measures used to prevent other blood vessel (vascular) diseases, such as coronary artery disease, may decrease the risk of retinal artery occlusion. These include:
Sometimes blood thinners may be used to prevent the artery from becoming blocked again. Aspirin or other anti-clotting drugs are used if the problem is in the carotid arteries. Warfarin or other more potent blood thinners are used if the problem is in the heart.
Duker JS. Retinal arterial occlusion. In: Yanoff M, Duker JS, eds. Ophthalmology. 3rd ed. Maryland Heights, Mo: Mosby Elsevier;2008:chap 6.16.
Yanoff M, Cameron D. Diseases of the visual system. In: Goldman L, Schafer AI, eds. Cecil Medicine. 24th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2011:chap 431.
Crouch ER, Crouch ER, Grant TR. Ophthalmology. In: Rakel RE, ed. Textbook of Family Medicine. 8th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2011:chap 41.
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Saudi Arabia - Good Idea or Not
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- 111 Published Jan 20, '08As seen by a Registered Nurse from the United States, who is now on assignment, it can be hard to adjust to hospital nursing in Saudi Arabia. That is particularly true in the hospital complex that serves the Saudi Royal Family. The very size of this facility is daunting. It is a 1 km straight walk from the front door to the back entrance. To an American nurse, it seems like an upside-down system of Policies and Procedures that fails to fall within any framework of prior hospital experiences. This is a place where the patients tell you when it is time for an assessment or for treatments or for meds. When a member of the Royal Family is admitted to a unit he/she is accompanied by a minimum of 3 and up to 14 servants. This includes a private nurse. You will get to know this nurse well because you do not administer the meds, but rather give them to the private nurse who gives them to the patient.
There is a high degree of racial prejudice against persons of color, South Africans, Hindus, and Filipinos, in this hospital. They are not allowed to work in the Complex of the Royal Family. A nurse with an American passport is considered white and is highly sought after. Co-workers will go to the American nurse and take her along with them when they want to communicate a plan of treatment to a family member of a patient. She is introduced as an American nurse and does the speaking for the co-worker.
The lifestyles of the Royal Family have contributed to staggering poor health. By the time they are 40-50 years old, you will find patients in this unit, male and female, have osteoporosis from lack of activity. By the time they reach 50 most of these patients have often given up on life because they have nothing to do except indulge themselves. It is sad to see them on heparin because they choose to stay in bed. They can be observed sleeping all day and eating all night. Since they are royal, you cannot tell them what to do or how to do it, even if it is for their own good. A patient may be on an insulin drip for a week while gorging on food the whole time. These patients have an inordinate amount of cancer and genetic disorders, and one in three are diabetic. It is not unusual to see a handsome prince, dressed in pristine white, clean and sweet smelling, with a body wasted by muscle atrophy.
An order for DNR does not exist, except on paper. There are upwards of 6,000 members of the Saudi Royal Family. Each one is eligible to receive a share of the Family fortune, as it is doled out. Therefore, the aged and/or infirm are kept alive by all means possible. This hospital houses an entire wing of patients who are in persistent vegetative states or are on vents or other means of artificial life support. As long as they live, their family members have a closer link to the crown and they are eligible for stipends that will be managed by their guardians.
Advantages of working in this outpost are notable. American nurses command the highest rate of pay. Transportation, to and from Saudi for each assignment, is paid. A one year contract can include a 2 week paid vacation. A Re-up bonus for a second year is often offered. There is no Saudi tax to pay and very few living expenses, since housing is provided. There may be favorable tax treatment by the IRS as well. Uniforms are provided and will be worn, without covering, only while on duty. At all other times, when in public, a nurse must be covered head to toe with the burka. Segregated swimming pools, tennis courts, and fitness centers, etc. are provided and offer diversion. Taxis or buses are available to provide transportation to leave the complex to go shopping or site-seeing. Everything in the shopping center seems to be made in China. But, the Super Markets are great. There, you will find food from all over the world. You can spend hours just tasting special imports of the best honey , or 28 different kinds of olives on the olive counters. Hint: You might find the sweet olives are horrible. However, you may never have seen such dates. They are to die for.
Disadvantages of going to this outpost need to be pointed out. American nurses are sometimes vulnerable because they can be naive. They have enjoyed the Constitutional protection of a democratic government. They do not always carefully consider that they do not have that same protection when they leave the borders of their homeland. A study of the customs and culture of the country to which they are going is a must. Most important is an understanding of the system of government and laws.
According to the U.S. Department Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2000-2001, this Islamic country is ruled by Sharia Law, and Women's Rights are virtually non-existent. Although a state of world-wide unrest exists with the Radical Islamic countries, because of oil reserves, a policy of appeasement has been adopted by the United States. Americans in Saudi Arabia must depend on this fragile relationship to continue in order to have a semblance of safety while they are in that country. It is important to know the facts and not live in the romantic fantasy of The Arabian Nights.
In Saudi Arabia, the government seems to be made up of a system of checks and balances. The Royal Family controls the money. Money is "Power". The Islamic Radicals are the Rulers because they interpret the Law of Sharia; a system of national laws derived from the Koran and the traditions of Mohammed. The Mutawwa'in are the religious police who are the enforcers of the Law. Religious Law is Civil Law in this country. Because it is interpreted literally, it is enforced without mercy. Sharia Law identifies anyone who is not a Muslim as an Infidel and an enemy. Muslims are specifically ordered to not befriend unbelievers. Mateen Elass explains the implications of this in her book, Understanding the Koran. According to standard Islamic jurisprudence, Sharia Law today, interprets the Koran as obligating Muslims to be under the rule of expansionist jihad (holy war). This is understood as armed struggle against unbelievers, whether or not the Muslim community had been attacked. This is a country that has a history of 1,600 years of revolutions, political assassinations, and massacres, and has ruled it's populace by subjection or death. Today, Arab media often incite Arabs to street rage and violence by feeding misinformation. You will remember that the world witnessed Muslims dancing in the streets, celebrating the destruction of the World Trade Center 9/11.
There is a difference, between being a judgmental person and being a person of rational judgment, that is worth remembering. If you choose to go Saudi Arabia, be careful about how you conduct yourself. Right now, the long arm of the U.S. Embassy gives a sense of safety. However, there are things that you must do to protect yourself from embarrassment, from derision, from humiliation, from attack, and from arrest. Be prepared for unwelcome gazes and advances from the Saudi men while you are working in your uniform. They have been brought up to believe that a woman who does not cover herself is available for sex or is a prostitute. Never accept an invitation to accompany a Saudi man anywhere for the same reason. He has an expectation that you can be bought and because of his wealth may offer very expensive jewels and gifts. Outside of your unit, you will always be covered with a Burka. You will ride in the back of a bus, by Law. You will not get into a Taxi unaccompanied because you cannot be alone with a man. Men and women are separated even in the Marketplace. If you want to buy a cup of coffee in Starbucks, you will go to a segregated area for women. Is Saudi Arabia a good idea for you? Only you can decide.Last edit by 43RN20 on Jan 23, '08 : Reason: changed formatting, bold, font etc... easier to readRead more articles from 43RN20
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4Jan 22, '08 by newtressVery informative information regarding the drastic differences between a Saudi facility and American. Along with most of the differences, one can't help but wonder what the pay scale is for an American nurse working in Saudi Arabia. I was surprised to hear that working along side of Saudi nurses was so accepted by them. As you stated, a totally different code of ethics and royal patients summoning for treatments and meds themselves is quite royal indeed. Is there a high need or demand for American nurses there? This is facinating, and I think my nursing student classmates would be interested in hearing about these cultural differences as that topic is incorporated into our course work quite often. Thanks for the insightful write!2Jan 23, '08 by perez33Your article is true.I've worked there for four years as hemodialysis nurse without experienced from the Phils.but I had my training before I handled patient.I just want to share my experience is that most saudi nurse are lazy.They will come to the unit to continue their sleep from their house,often seating and eating without any motivation to learn that's why they are obviously fat.Knowing they have high salaries!That for us is nothing to do because were just foreigner.Salary deduction or bad mouthing from the wacher or director if something happen to the patient.But if the the native who had fault 'malise'for arabic sorry!nursingisok and 43RN20 like this.7Jan 23, '08 by oramar GuideNo thanks, not going to Arabia anytime soon. Very interesting article, gave me an education. Some day the oil economy will cease to exist, what it will be replaced by is anyone's guess. Then these little kingdoms will sink back into the sand. This country will look completely different also.Last edit by oramar on Jan 23, '085Jan 23, '08 by 43RN20For anyone wanting to know more about travel dangers, it would pay to go online to the U.S. Dept. of State. www.travel.state.gov or place a phone call to that dept. @
1-888-407-4747. They have posted several warnings for Saudi Arabia. The U.S Embassy & Consulates also have the Warden System, that issues messages to keep U.S. citizens apprised of travel restrictions issuing Travel Alerts. The Riyadh Embassy website is www.riyadh.usembassy.gov.17Jan 24, '08 by shah:angryfire Dear 43RN20,
Though your comments and experience about Saudi culture are valid, you have demonstrated cultural insensitivity by interpreting Islamic laws and commenting on what Muslim behavior as related to 911. I would be just like defining all Americans by KKK behavior.
Remember that there are 7 million Muslim Americans and many died in 911.


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A recent worldwide survey of global environmental issues found global warming is no longer the issue of greatest concern around the world. Nielsen's 2011 Global Online Environment and Sustainability Survey polled more than 25,000 Internet respondents in 51 countries, finding that issues including air and water pollution had now trumped the global warming debate. The [...]


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Mayfair Games will be at Origins in full force. Whether it is running demos in the Mayfair Booth in Hall C, or providing demos and product through the Mayfair Booth in Hall D. This year we bring Mammoth Games - Giant Games and regular game events to the Mayfair Room, while still sponsoring the Kids Room during the day. Play in the Catan North American Qualifier for a semifinal seat in the Catan North American Championship (win a free trip to the Catan North American Championship held this year at Gen Con Indy), Mayfair is dedicated to making sure your Origins is overflowing with fun! So come visit us our three locations! CNAC events are open to persons age 18 and older. |
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Strategicon's Orccon 2012 is honored to once again host a Pre-Pre-Qualifier for the Catan North American Championship 2013. Players will compete to win a trip to Origins 2013 to play for a seat in the CNAC. The trip includes hotel, 4 day badge to Origins (both sponsored by Mayfair) and air transportation (sponsored by Strategicon). Orccon 2013 will provide attendees with two chances on Saturday and Sunday afternoon to qualify for a seat in the Semi-Finals on Sunday night. Full details are available at the convention website. Come learn other Mayfair games and play many additional ones in our 1,200 game-strong Library! Strategicon will also be hosting a CNAC Pre-Qualifier at Gamex 2013 in May to send a winner to the GenCon Indy 2013 event. Stay tuned for more details! |
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