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Australia is caught in a bizarre warp at the moment. We have a national election in September and the incumbent Labor Party is heading for obliteration with the Party conducting an internal power struggle that defies description. The Prime Minister is deeply unpopular and is being poorly advised (as evidenced by the sequence of strategic disasters). The politician she deposed as PM is popular with the people but hated internally and he also proved to be a policy disaster. The current PM should step down to limit the electoral damage that will be wrought on the Party in September (that is, save some seats) but she won't and the other character won't challenge because he is behaving as the wrecking ball – bitter, revengeful and, most significantly without sufficient support (just). Its a tragic comedy of epic proportions. The Opposition is gliding into power without coherent policies and will reinstate the agenda it pursued when last in power (1996-2007), which means attacks on welfare and unions and handouts to the rich. Anticipating the change are the employer groups which are increasingly claiming they are being disadvantaged by excessive wage outcomes in Australia. Same old. It doesn't help when the media produce headlines such as "Labour cost growth hits business hard", which are not sustained by any coherent analysis that follows. It is a bizarre time.
That headline appeared in the Melbourne Age article this morning (June 24, 2013) – Labour cost growth hits business hard – courtesy of the economic editor Tim Colebatch.
The reader is immediately told to focus on labour costs hitting business hard and that mindset conditions the way the rest of the story is comprehended.
The opening paragraph reinforces the message:
Labour costs in Australia have grown at twice the pace of other OECD countries over the past decade, adding weight to claims by Holden boss Mike Devereux that Australian wages are out of line with the rest of the world.
Which is followed by this paragraph:
But the OECD figures show that the difference in growth in labour costs between Australia and its peers is less significant than the dramatic rise in the dollar's value over the same period.
And this fact is the most important part of the story if you analysis the data correctly and the headline should not have mentioned labour costs or if it did it should have read – "Real Labour Cost reductions in Australia provides a boon for business".
And if that had have been the headline the readers would not have been given the full story but would have a totally different mindset in other discussions.
Further, it would choke off the nonsensical oxygen that the business lobby groups are using to further entrench their attacks on labour at a time when workers are becoming increasingly vulnerable because of deteriorating labour market conditions and the prospects of a hostile government coming into power in September.
I should qualify that last comment. It could have easily read – the prospects of an even more hostile government towards workers than we have in place at the moment.
The Age article notes that:
Over the decade to 2012, on average, labour costs per unit of output rose 3.25 per cent a year in Australia. That is more than twice the 1.4 per cent annual growth in the decade to 2001. It tells us that wages were rising much faster than labour productivity.
The gap between wage growth and productivity growth in Australia was easily the highest among the 10 largest Western economies.
The article produced this graphic which I will refer to presently.
The conclusions reached in the quotation above are true but as we shall see only part of the story.
Here is how the relationships mentioned fit together. Regular readers will have seen this before (so skip if you are confident with it).
Economists differentiate between nominal GDP ($GDP), which is total output produced at market prices and real GDP (GDP), which is the actual physical equivalent of the nominal GDP. GDP (real or nominal) is a flow of income.
Employment (L) is a stock and is measured in persons (averaged over some period like a month or a quarter or a year).
Nominal wage costs are a flow and is the product of total employment (L) and the average nominal wage (W) prevailing at any point in time.
So the total nominal wage costs = W.L (note the dot signifies multiplication, so the previous expression W x L).
Labour productivity (LP) is the units of real GDP per person employed per period. Using the symbols already defined this can be written as:
so it tells us how much real output (GDP) we get on average for each labour unit that is added to production.
Nominal unit labour costs (ULC), the object of the Age article are calculated as total nominal labour costs divided by nominal GDP or:
They tell you what each unit of nominal output is costing in labour outlays. So if nominal unit labour costs are rising, and with a positive inflation rate, you can conclude that nominal wages are rising faster than labour productivity.
Is that an interesting thing to focus on. The Age article thinks it is and ties it in with statements made recently by one of the remaining car manufacturers about international competitiveness.
We read:
When costs rise faster here than in other countries, it weakens Australia's competitiveness. But the difference between Australia and the rest in labour cost growth, while significant, had far less impact than the rise in value of the Australian dollar, which also adds directly to producers' costs in the global market.
The first sentence is not entirely accurate. International competitiveness depends not only on nominal cost movements in economies but relative price levels and as is hinted in the second sentence – nominal exchange rate movements.
The first point to note is that real unit labour costs (RULC) matter for determining whether business costs are rising in real terms and whether a nation is losing competitiveness relative to other nations.
Nominal ULC can rise but capital can still secure a higher share of national income depending on domestic price movements. In that sense, it is difficult to conclude that businesses are being hit hard if RULC are falling.
Then we know one more thing – that the real wage, which is the draw on real production that workers get when they receive the nominal wage, is growing at a slower rate than productivity growth (or falling more quickly).
Take the expression for nominal unit labour costs ULC = W.(L/GDP$). We know that nominal GDP is equal to real GDP inflated by some measure of prices (the GDP implicit price deflator). We might call that deflator P. If we deflate nominal GDP by P then we get real GDP. The alternative is if we multiply real GDP by P we get nominal GDP.
So GDP$ = P.GDP
The real wage is defined as the purchasing power equivalent on the nominal wage that workers get paid each period. To compute the real wage we need to consider two variables: (a) the nominal wage (W) and the aggregate price level (P).
The real wage (w) tells us what volume of real goods and services the nominal wage (W) will be able to command and is obviously influenced by the level of W and the price level. For a given W, the lower is P the greater the purchasing power of the nominal wage and so the higher is the real wage (w).
So the real wage is:
w = W/P
Consider this expression:
RULC = (W.L)/GDP$ or (W.L)/P.GDP
Compare that to the expression for ULC. The difference is that real unit labour costs are equal to ULC deflated by the price level.
In English, it is a real measure of what each unit of output is costing. If real unit labour costs are rising, it means that total wages are rising relative to total nominal output.
If we decompose the last expression (in economics, we often look for alternative way to write expressions which maintains the equivalence (that is, obeys all the rules of algebra) but presents the expression from a different perspective).
So an alternative (but equivalent) expression for RULC is:
Note that (L/GDP) is the inverse (reciprocal) of the labour productivity term (GDP/L).
We can use another rule of algebra (reversing the invert and multiply rule) to rewrite this expression again in a more interpretable fashion.
So an equivalent but more convenient measure of RULC is:
RULC = (W/P)/(GDP/L) – that is, the real wage (W/P) divided by labour productivity (GDP/L).
This expression is also equivalent to the wage share in national income.
That journey might have seemed difficult to non-economists (or those not well-versed in algebra) but it produces a very easy to understand formula for the wage share.
It should be obvious to you that if nominal wage (W) and the price level (P) are growing at the same pace the real wage is constant. And if the real wage is growing at the same rate as labour productivity, then both terms in the wage share ratio are equal and so the wage share is constant as are RULC.
So even though nominal ULC might rise, RULC can fall if the nominal wages growth is being deflated away by a larger rise in the price level for a given productivity growth rate (note I have note put these formulae into growth terms – that is a further step which is unnecessary at this stage).
What does the data actually tell us then?
The Bank of International Settlements publish monthly Effective exchange rate indices – for 61 countries from January 1994.
You can learn about this data from their publication – The new BIS effective exchange rate indices – which appeared in the BIS Quarterly Review, March 2006.
There was an earlier publication – Measuring international price and cost competitiveness – which appeared in the BIS Economic Papers, No 39, November 1993.
Real effective exchange rates provide a measure on international competitiveness and are based on information pertaining movements in relative prices and costs, expressed in a common currency. Economists started computing effective exchange rates after the Bretton Woods system collapsed in the early 1970s because that ended the "simple bilateral dollar rate" (Source).
The BIS say that:
An effective exchange rate (EER) provides a better indicator of the macroeconomic effects of exchange rates than any single bilateral rate. A nominal effective exchange rate (NEER) is an index of some weighted average of bilateral exchange rates. A real effective exchange rate (REER) is the NEER adjusted by some measure of relative prices or costs; changes in the REER thus take into account both nominal exchange rate developments and the inflation differential vis-à-vis trading partners. In both policy and market analysis, EERs serve various purposes: as a measure of international competitiveness, as components of monetary/financial conditions indices, as a gauge of the transmission of external shocks, as an intermediate target for monetary policy or as an operational target.2 Therefore, accurate measures of EERs are essential for both policymakers and market participants.
If the REER rises, then we conclude that the nation is less internationally competitive and vice-versa.
The next graph shows the REER for Australia (left-hand axis) and the nominal AUD/USD exchange rate (right-hand axis) from March 1994 to May 2013. The correspondence between the two in terms of trends and turning points is replicated if I use other parities (include yen, TWI).
The conclusion? Most of our movements in international competitiveness over this period appear to be driven by nominal exchange rate movements.
To claim that labour costs are the major reason for changes in international competitiveness one would have to argue that they also drive the exchange rate.
That is one argument no-one would be prepared to make for obvious reasons.
To see this more clearly, I indexed the two raw series to 100 at March 1994 to produce the following graph.
That tells us that the headline of the article in question erroneously focuses the readers' attention on labour costs and only really adds as a secondary matter the exchange rate effect.
But we can go further than that. I put together the OECD ULC figures and took IMF GDP deflator data for most OECD nations to produce the following set of tables.
I was largely able to reproduce the information in the opening graphic that appeared in the Melbourne Age article but I added more nations and decomposed the average growth in nominal unit labour costs into two periods – 2002-2007 and the crisis and beyond period 2008-2012.
I ranked the average annual change in nominal unit labour costs largest to smallest for the period 2008-12. The average of that column is 2.1 per cent per annum.
So Australia is in the upper group but its most recent performance is below the performance for the whole 2002-2012 period. Once you include other nations you get the view that Australia is actually in a central cluster of nations.
Now what about the situation when we take into account movements in prices (represented by annual movements in the GDP implicit price deflator). In this context, the percentage change in the price deflator provides a better price inflation variable than, for example, the consumer price index. The results, though, would not have been greatly different had I use the CPI-based inflation measure.
Real unit labour costs are equal to the rate of growth in nominal unit labour costs minus the growth in the price deflator. The next Table shows what happens when we take into account these price movements.
I ranked the data on the 2008-2012 column (largest to smallest) but the results do not depend on that ranking.
Australia may have experienced average annual nominal unit labour cost growth of 3.2 per cent per annumn over the period 2002-2012 but the price deflator grew on average by 3.5 per cent per annum. That means that real unit labour costs fell on average by 0.3 per cent per year.
A bonus to business! It means the wage share was falling each year on average. It means that real wages growth failed to keep up with labour productivity growth and there was a redistribution to profits.
The headline might have reported that. But then I suppose that wouldn't achieve the aim. Whatever the motivation was for producing that headline I consider it to be an example of misinformation and designed to distort the public debate.
When foreign-owned car companies start screaming that labour costs are too high you know they are angling for yet another massive government handout which they typically repatriate back to their northern hemisphere head office.
When they start arguing that money wages are too high what they really want is to further redistribute real income away from workers. That is, to further drive a wedge between productivity growth and real wages growth.
One of the reasons the global financial crisis occurred in the first place was that workers were forced to rely on credit to maintain consumption growth because neo-liberal attacks on the capacity of workers to achieve real wages growth commensurate with labour productivity growth were successful.
If we are talking about balance – which is all the rage these days – then one of the stark changes that are needed is that real wages growth has to be stronger and match productivity growth over time. That might spur some innovation which will lift productivity growth and make everyone better off.
That is enough for today!
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PREP ROUNDUP: Tournaments come to close
Foul trouble forced Maxwell High center Zach Troughton to the bench after a dominant 10-point first quarter, but George Barajas — and the Panthers' deep bench — held off a tenacious Pierce team in a 40-36 victory on the final day of the four-team Love of the Game Tournament at East Nicolaus High on Saturday.
Maxwell (7-5) took the lead early in the first quarter and held it the rest of the game. The Panthers led by 10 early in the fourth quarter before the Bears pulled within three points with 11 seconds remaining. Barajas hit a free throw to seal the victory.
Troughton made his presence felt in the fourth quarter and finished with 12 points, tied with Barajas and Pierce's Oscar Dorantes for the game high.
Blake Vierra added seven points for Maxwell and Isaias Martinez scored five.
Andy Corona scored 11 points for Pierce (9-4), and Joel Hernandez and Hayden Kalfsbeek added five apiece.
Both teams finished the tournament with a 2-1 record.
East Nicolaus 52, Biggs 35
In Nicolaus — Drew Orr hit three 3-pointers to finish with 16 points and Adam Driver added 14 points of his own to lift the host Spartans past the Wolverines on the final day of tournament play.
Francisco Silvas finished with 11 points for East Nicolaus (3-8), which went 1-2 at the tourney. Andrew Perez scored 10 points to lead the way for Biggs (8-6).
Gridley 55, Paradise 53
In Oroville — Tyler Abrego scored 20 points to lead the Bulldogs past the Bobcats in the seventh-place game of the Oroville Tournament.
Leo Espinoza added 12 points and Emery Haddy finished with 10 as Gridley improved its record to 10-7 on the season.
New Life 44, American Chr. 39
In Anderson — Kobe Bancroft scored 15 points to help lead the Crusaders to a second-place finish.
Bancroft also added three assists and three steals and was named all-tournament, while Thomas Marquette and Sullivan Guy each finished with seven points. Guy also had five rebounds and three steals.
New Life 57, Champion Chr. 17
Simeon Joiner had nine points and five steals, while Bancroft and Lovedeep Singh had eight points apiece.
Tyler Treat, who was named all-tournament, scored eight points and pulled down 12 rebounds for New Life (6-4).
Davis 83, Yuba City 31
In Davis — Alisha Aery scored 13 points, and Nicole Piper recorded five points and seven rebounds in the Honkers' nonleague loss to the Blue Devils on the road.
Yuba City (3-11) will play its home opener against Rio Linda at 7 p.m. on Tuesday before starting Tri-County Conference play at Inderkum on Friday night.
Willits 62, Colusa 35
In Colusa — Paige Townzen recorded nine points and five rebounds, and Emily Mobley finished with six points and pulled down 14 rebounds, but it wasn't enough for the RedHawks in a nonleague loss to the Wolverines.
Teale Stacey and Mattie Myers scored eight points each for Colusa (7-6).
Pierce 32, Maxwell 31
In Nicolaus — Natalie Corona gave Pierce the lead with a short jumper with less than 4 minutes remaining and neither team scored the rest of the way in the Bears' victory over the Panthers.
Kendra Kent scored six points in the third quarter and led Pierce (5-6) with 11 points. Marina Ambriz scored seven points, Macey Cox scored five and Corona added five.
Jenna Powell led Maxwell (6-3) with 10 points, Ashley Azevedo had nine and Kailey McKinley added six.
New Life 55, American Chr. 35
In Anderson — Elicia Villafranco scored 18 points, Hannah Hruska tallied 15 points and 10 rebounds, and Haley Moody finished with 13 points as the Crusaders topped the host Eagles in their first game of the day.
Mercy 49, New Life 33
Villafranco put in another solid performance in the second game of the afternoon by scoring a team-high 28 points, but the Crusaders (9-2) fell to the Warriors to take second place at the tournament.
Both Villafranco and Moody were named to the all-tournament team.
Sutter takes invite
In Middletown — Alex Ingram placed first in the 154-pound division while being named the tournament's Most Outstanding Wrestler and the Huskies went on to win the 28-team Middletown Mustang Invitational Wrestling Tournament.
Also placing first for Sutter were Gage Kim (106), Julian Kim (120), Alex Lopez (126), Hunter Minton (132), Jacob Gildea (160) and Reid Melani (285).
Zach Bell-Mathews (138) placed second, while Micah Cervantes (138), Chase Miles (145) and Mike Thompson (195) each took third.
Jayce Heryford (113), Riley Vickner (170), Aiden Lang (182) and Josh Maier (220) finished fourth in their respective divisions, and Tanney Baroni (160) was fifth in his.
Lindhurst girls take 3rd
In Pittsburg — Kylie Taylor went 3-0 with two pins and a technical fall to finish first in the 103-pound division and Lindhurst finished third out of 33 teams at the Queen of the Mat Tournament.
Teasia Lizama (132) went 3-1 with two pins to take third, 138- Shakira Rivera (138) went 3-2 with three pins to place fourth and Christy Lor (122) finished 3-2 with three pins while placing fifth.
Davis 66, Yuba City 50
In Davis — Mackenzie Lockhard scored 12 points and Megan Lockhart added 11 more, but the Honkers fell to the Blue Devils in a nonleague contest.
Bahav Kaur had 10 points for Yuba City (5-6).
Willits 30, Colusa 26
In Colusa — Mollie Townzen scored 13 points and Sally Loeza chipped in with eight in a nonleague loss for the RedHawks (8-3).
Biggs 42, East Nicolaus 40
In Nicolaus — Morgan Roles scored a game-high 18 points and Miranda Felkins added 11 of her own to lead the Wolverines past the host Spartans on the final day of the Love of the Game Tournament.
River Valley 54, Rio Linda 32
In Rio Linda — Rohin Basi scored 15 points and grabbed 12 rebounds to help lead the Falcons to a win over the Knights on Friday.
Robert Quintero chipped in 10 points and seven steals and Sam Van Dusen finished with nine points and 10 rebounds.
Davis 69, Yuba City 59
In El Dorado Hills — The Honkers (9-10) came up short in the consolation game of the Oak Ridge Tournament despite Ryan Besso's 19 points and 15 rebounds.
He was named all-tournament, while Cameron Eden and Matt Lara each scored 10 points.

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This column is a follow-up to last month's Middle-Class Fantasies. Now that the basics are out of the way, I'll continue to talk more about democracy and do a little fine-tuning about orcs and zombies.
First I'll have to clarify the term political roleplaying. I use this expression to mean games which are political in nature, not games in which politics are the primary content. Thus, I would consider a game about heroic American soldiers fighting to save the Iraqi people from themselves a political game, while a game about vampire politics would not be a political game. It might be a game about politics.
Democracy is not an ideal commonly found in art or entertainment. The American soldier in a cheesy Hollywood propaganda movie may shout that he's fighting for freedom and democracy, but those are just words. They're easy to find, but if you want to find a positive example of democratic decision-making or democratic institutions in a movie or a novel, you'll find them much more scarce. Indeed, it often seems that monarchy gets more positive write-ups than democracy, which is supposed to be our ideal.
Rachel Talalay's movie Tank Girl is one of the few films I've ever seen that presents democratic decision-making as useful. The kangaroo people have captured our heroines, and vote on what should be done with them. One of them aggressively puts forth the idea that they should be killed. The matter is put to vote and they decide not to. Doesn't seem very special, but think about it.
There was another example recently on Buffy, where the gang voted Buffy out of her leadership position. Although she later returned, the warlord attitude had left her.
It's generally harder to prove that something is there than that something isn't there. Still, basically all fantasy ever written seems to yearn for fatherly patriarchs to look over the little people, from Eddings to Lord of the Rings. In the new Star Wars movies, a democratic union of planets proves to be a breeding ground for fascism. Later, the Emperor is beaten by knights and a princess, which generally doesn't bode well for the people's right to rule.
In the Phantom Menace, Amidala is a Queen, but apparently she's also an elected official. One gets the impression that at the last minute, they remembered that they were not supposed to glorify monarchies and did some cosmetic retouching, even though in the film, Amidala's environment is decidedly autocratic. The film begs you to ask, what kind of a society would elect aristocratic teenaged beauty queens to positions of power.
Curiously, anarchistic genre literature doesn't tend to be any more democratic. It just replaces monarchies with apathy and individualism, possibly even a might-makes-right mentality. Cyberpunk is definitely anti-establishment, but it also promotes the idea that everybody's got to fight for herself. The novels of China Mieville often tell tales of individual triumphs against conceptual evil.
There's a curious fluke in the field of roleplaying games, a game that features a system of representative democracy. That game is Vampire: the Masquerade. This phenomenon is almost universal in Vampire larps, but the basics are in the game itself. The system is simple. The Clans have an internal hierarchy usually based on seniority and/or merit. The Clan heads form the Primogen, who in turn choose the Prince. If an individual vampire has something on his heart, he contacts the Primogen of his Clan, who takes up the cause.
Although the vampires don't vote, popular support is generally the key to remaining in power. Personal power helps, of course, but in Vampire there's always somebody stronger. There are even officials who's primary purpose is to deal in popularity, the Harpies. One could argue that they're the voting officials of vampiredom.
In many Vampire larps I've been in, the essence of the game has been playing this democratic process. Indeed, often the real problem has been that once the establishment is stable, they have no real issues to argue about. Vampire doesn't represent a good ideal democracy, but instead a surprisingly good laboratory of realistic representative democracy in action.
Democracy is a feature unique to larps. In tabletop fantasy games, the players rarely start setting up village councils and systems of representatives, but in fantasy larps, this kind of behavior crops up all the time. I think it's a question of equality. In larps, when everybody is a player, the democratic urge manifests in a very natural way since everybody wants some say in the way things are run. For many, it might even seem like the logical way for the character to act on his own self-interest, despite the medieval fantasy milieu.
I've seen a lot more political live-action games than political traditional games. These examples will probably be familiar to you from my earlier columns.
Ground Zero, a Finnish bomb shelter game. We sat in a shelter for 26 hours straight, in mortal fear of a nuclear war. The Bomb fell eight hours into the game, at which point the radio went dead and all communications with the outside world was lost. War is bad. The point of the game might not have been very original, but it was political.
Europa, a refugee camp game that lasted for a week. Life in the crisis zone. This is another war is bad -game, although it also dealt with ethnic animosities. Both of these games are about the life of civilians in times of crisis. Larp is the ideal medium for this.
One example of the absence of the democratic ideal that has always annoyed me to an excess is the Shi'ar of the X-Men. I'm assuming that among other things, the X-Men stand for democracy, although they never make that the focus of a story. They are heroes, and in our culture, heroes are supposed to be pro-democracy. Still, they don't protest at the patently fascist regime that's running the Shi'ar empire, even though they do have ample opportunity to make a difference. Instead they concentrate their energies into bedding the Empress, as was the case with Xavier.
One of my favorite superheroes is Captain America. This may come as a bit of a surprise to some of you. Although he may often be a cheap propaganda vehicle, there are some stories which pit him against the corrupt establishment, because that establishment doesn't support the American ideals anymore, as in Frank Miller's Daredevil. In Jim Krueger and Alex Ross's Earth X, he no longer has anything to do with the government, because the government is not worth fighting for. The Captain continues to fight the good fight on his own.
There are all sorts of ideals in Earth X. Freedom and the need to oppose fascism whenever it arises, the evils of non-interference, the power of the individual to change the world. Democracy, however, is absent. Indeed, at the conclusion Reed Richards and the other world leaders, Colossus, Sunfire and King Britain who all seem very undemocratic collectively decide the future of humanity. The idea that the people might have an opinion is not a factor.
Heroes are inherently anti-democratic. The hero generally knows better, is more able and is morally superior than the faceless masses. The hero is a larger than life character the average Joe can look up to and trust to act in his interest, so that he himself doesn't have to. I think a pinnacle of sorts on the heroing business is the idea that the "People can't know the awful truth." This kind of attitude is common in horror, military and spy stuff, and is very, very anti-democratic.
I think this is a central reason why democracy is generally not an ideal in our media. Equality is a great ideal, as is tolerance. Protagonists can fight for these goals. But democracy? You can be equal and tolerant by including a token black homosexual who's okay by our hero, but being democratic is a lot harder.
In many fantasy games, the evil races have their nations in roughly the same space as the good people. In Forgotten Realms, there are immense forest areas which house elves and orcs in equal measure. Both are organized, and probably war with each other, but don't have real borders. In my previous column I compared the Orcish Kingdoms to Third World countries, but I don't think that's very true.
A better comparison would be the Black Nation. They're among us, but different. They're organized, and possibly hostile. They live next door. The Western World relies on the exploitation of Third World countries, but Cormyr doesn't exploit any orcs. Instead, it looks like both sides are doing their best to provoke things into a war for a common space.
The undead have many possible readings and meanings. The undead may be mindless consumers in the style of Dawn of the Dead. They may be commies. They might be the poor. The mindless consumer undead are rarely found in rpgs, but the communist model seems very valid. It covers the whole hierarchy.
The Undead Communist Utopia is built on the backs of the little people, as all utopias are. The skeletons and zombies have no minds of their own, they are completely subordinated to the will of the totality. Above them, in D&D, are the shadows and ghouls, the middle-men, who have some small autonomy, but in reality the whole thing is led by a single necromancer. The leader is not one of them, as I don't think anti-communists thought that Stalin believed his own propaganda.
The undead are the poor seems like a better modern reading, since the commies are not the enemy anymore. They are stinking, ragged creatures that look like heavily decayed real people. Just like the homeless guy you're trying to avoid on the sidewalk.
But a bigger question remains: Who are the Arabs? Sadly, it seems that all these symbols were invented decades ago, and are a bit slow in adapting to modern propaganda prejudices. Our heroic knights are still out there killing the zombie communists while the real threat is elsewhere.
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Thursday, ESPN's Brett McMurphy became the latest person to raise questions about Sports Illustrated's Oklahoma State story series.
This is bad for Sports Illustrated. McMurphy is one of the last people in college football media you want raising questions about you. He is right about things. To say his reputation as a journalist surpasses SI reporter Thayer Evans' would be an understatement.
After several days of former Oklahoma State players recanting and denying their roles in the story, including repeated attacks on Evans' interview methods, McMurphy reports school records show holes in the stories involving former safety Fath' Carter, running back Tatum Bell, and running back Dexter Pratt.
The reported issues are not foundational. McMurphy finds via university records that SI's description of transcript matters weren't correct. By themselves, these differences could be written off as minor.
But added to the swelling chorus of criticism from elsewhere, they're concerning. The amount of time poured into this story (which SI says took 10 months to create), the amount of promotional work (the series is being published in five parts, with a press release the week prior), and the reputation-staking going on (multiple SI staffers have described the story as impeccably edited) should've demanded examining the records ESPN reportedly discovered within two days.
And McMurphy isn't just fact-checking SI's report. He's fact-checking SI's response to the criticism raised against its report, including portions of author George Dohrmann's defense:
In Tuesday's SI report, Carter said he graduated from OSU with a degree in education. George Dorhmann, one of two SI reporters who reported the stories, also said on The Doug Gottlieb Show Tuesday that "Fath' (Carter) has two degrees from Oklahoma State, spoke on the record, recorded. I have no reason to believe he lied. And he's certainly not disgruntled."
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JOAN CARSON | Peeking at life in a robin's nest
It all began with a note in the journal. "Robin babies have hatched!" Almost everything else went on hold as four tiny creatures took center stage. The living room resembled a hunter's blind. Camouflage material covered the windows. Lamps were moved to the dining room as books, chairs and small tables were pushed aside. We needed room for the ladder that allowed us to squint through the camouflage and position photos without disturbing the birds.
The nest was only five feet from the window and we watched it being built. Later, we monitored the female as she brooded her eggs. We could see them being turned and sometimes it even looked like she was listening to them. Then one day she wasn't on the nest. When she returned it was to feed these tiny, tiny creatures and "change their diapers." That was the routine throughout the raising of the young. Both parents were fastidious about keeping the nest clean.
For the first few hours, the female did the feeding while the male stayed nearby. Later the same day, he also began feeding. He was actually the better provider and always had a mouthful of worms. He also was careful to see that more than one baby was fed. Both parents never failed to see that one or more of the babies produced a fecal sac which they would then carry away or swallow. This feeding ritual went on almost nonstop throughout the day. Every afternoon, however, four well fed babies couldn't keep their heads up or their eyes open. They slept most of the time. Only when a special sixth sense told them food was on the way, did they stretch those scrawny necks and get ready to demand for their share.
For the first three or four days the parents brooded the young during inclement weather and at night. Then the nest became too crowded and the rate of growth almost seemed to take place as we watched. Every morning we checked to see how they had changed overnight. Once their eyes opened at about three days, they started runching around and getting restless.
One youngster, probably the oldest, fell or was pushed from the nest. We didn't see it happen but while working in the yard heard we chirping coming from where it shouldn't.
"Get the ladder. You have to put one of the babies back in the nest." My long-suffering spouse set a rescue record and the parents didn't catch us handling one of their offspring. The little fellow was young enough to be content to stay in the nest on this first excursion but I knew that wouldn't last.
The day came — and it came at least three days before we thought it would. That afternoon, the first baby disappeared. The next day, one by one and over a period of several hours, the other three left. Whoever was contemplating escaping would climb farther and farther out on a nearby branch. Turn your back for a moment and it was gone. Finally, it came down to the last baby. It was the youngest and still had its natal-down ears. I watched as the male came in and fed it and shortly after the female also flew up to the branch. Her beak was full of worms but she only showed them to the baby and then flew to the Beauty Bush a few feet away. She wanted this one out of the nest before it got dark. Fifteen minutes after the last feeding they were all gone.
That wasn't the end of the story. For the next few days, robin alarm calls as well as calls from hunting crows and Steller's jays, kept us checking for mischief. Working in the garden has its rewards. It's easy to monitor who is flying where.
The parents are still gathering worms and bugs nonstop but the babies are tucked away in two different corners of the yard where the protective cover is dense blackberries and wild roses. Now, we are waiting to see some handsome young robins still wearing their spots learn to do their own worm-gathering.
I've always admired hardworking robin parents, and that admiration has only grown during this intimate look at life inside the nest.
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This rock is listed in both Rock �n Road and Boston Rocks. IMHO, this is not worth the effort of finding this chunk of rock. Toula describes it as �Unbelievable. Horizontal pile. Feeble.� It is included for completion and perhaps to save you the gas or effort. It seemed only 6-10 feet tall. Funny, there is even a separate listing at the New England bouldering website for this rock! Apparently, the rock is owned by the town.
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Some Lufkin students are going to
school with a little more tech savvy, after a lesson with a popular app device.
Students across the district recently participated in the Digital Learning Day.
"A QR Code without
the devices, it just looks like black dots, but the devices can scan and all
the little dots are like words for the device." Dunbar student Jaren
Charvos said.
The students scanned codes
to unlock clues on a recycling scavenger hunt.
"I thought it would
be a great way to integrate what they are doing with recycling and something
they could easily use with the devices they were bringing," LISD Technology
Specialist Summer Garcia said.
Once the students got the
first clue they were off to the playground for their first of five stops.
Later on, the students
then get to show adults what they learned.
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second grade, but we could have done it sooner because they already know what
they are doing with the devices," Garcia said.
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and teach their parents a thing or two.
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11/26 Shantae Hentai!
Originally I had intended to do something for yesterday, but when I returned from Thanksgiving dinner, I discovered that my "so great Internet connection" wasn't really so great. In fact, it stopped working… again. So after screwing with it all day today, and a trip to Best Buy on "Black Friday" which I don't recommend by the way… I'm once again up and running. It's funny, I figured moving to the big city would grant me a better connection. Not a worse one. *shrugs* Who knew?
Anyway as long as this silly connection is working, I'm hoping to do the same. So let's talk about the update quickly, just in case my connection gets any funny ideas.
The Vote Tally:
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Monster Hunter Doujinshi
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Incest Doujinshi 4
Shantae Hentai 6
Asobi Ni Iku Yo! Hentai
Thanksgiving (N/A 1, Doujinshi 1)
Tales of Vesperia Hentai
Elements Hentai
Dirty Pair Hentai
Escaflowne Doujinshi
I'll admit, I've never even heard of Shantae, so at the very least it should be an interesting thing to look for. I'll be right back, though feel free to vote while I'm gone as the next vote begins right now.
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Rule of Thumb | SEO is not a dirty word… or is it?
SEO or Search Engine Optimization is a term that has been in the vocabulary of internet marketers almost since the inception of the World Wide Web. In my opinion it is emphasized much too often for local websites.
Lately internet marketers are contacting "Brick and Mortar" businesses promising to get them on the first page of Google. Why should you care if you are on page 1? All you really want is more customers right?
Authors Note: SEO plays only a small part in your overall marketing campaign.
Here's why you should care.
- Right now your customers are looking for what you have to offer online.
- Many Yellow Page books are being used as door-stops or for height on a child's chair.
- The first listing on a Search Engine Results Page [SERP] gets the lion's share of the number of clicks. Depending on the source this is as high as 60%. The second listing gets only 10–15% of the clicks and the remaining listings diminishing greatly.
- Probably 98% of searchers will not go to the next page of listings.
- Your profits depend on your Google ranking.
- nternet Marketing is testable. You can see the results of experiments quickly. In the old days of Direct Mail each piece of mail could be coded. Sometimes with a PO box number on the return envelope or codes that a prospect would give to the call center when calling an 800-number.
- This way the marketer could gauge the responsiveness of the marketing piece. He could send out pieces that had different headlines or price points. These were called split tests and were the most effective way to test a market and with that information roll out the most effective campaigns.
- Direct Marketing on the internet adds the power of instant feedback. No longer must the pre-campaign testing take weeks or months. Now that work can be done in a matter of hours if you know what you're doing.
- I know internet marketers who make $1,000,000 a year. But I met someone who makes $1,000,000 per month. What does he do, you ask? He teaches internet marketers how to optimize their split testing and they gladly pay him what he's worth.
As a corollary to the last point SEO is trackable.
- You can track where your customers are coming from or where they go after visiting your site.
- You can track how long they are on your site and which pages they visited.
- This means you can see where there are log jams where visitors are not interested or are confused. You can do something about it right away.
- You can track which visitors are new and which are returning customers. This is done with cookies.
- You can track how many people open your email messages.
- You can track just about anything… and in real time.
Compare all this to traditional marketing.
- Newspapers are dying and so are their advertising revenues.
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- Interesting tidbit… Niche magazines are proliferating.
- With the advent of DVR people can watch TV without commercials.
- The Yellow Pages used to be the place where people searched for a particular product or service. No longer.
- Will Yellow Pages even be relevant in the next decade?
- Direct Mail is getting more and more expensive.
So when you hear the term SEO don't run and hide. Use it to get more customers, more Return on Investment, more profits…
Even though the internet changes very quickly… the principles of SEO don't. Don't expect to get to the first page of Google overnight. Don't expect to stay there without continued work and maintenance.
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In addition to any consideration that might arise from his connection with one of the fine old pioneer families of North Carolina, Hiram Baggett, of Lillington, has erected around him a solid wall of professional, and general confidence, and as a practicing attorney has acquired a large and lucrative clientage. His career in his profession has ex- tended over a period of twenty years, during which time he has gained high rank and reputation, having displayed all of the qualities necessary for the fulfillment of an honorable and successful professional life.
Mr. Baggett was born July 15, 1877, on a farm in Sampson County, North Carolina, and is a son of Silas E. and Winifred (Wilson) Baggett, natives of the same county. His father was reared in the rural districts of Sampson County, where he received a public school education, and was still a youth when he enlisted in the Con- federate army for service during the War Between the States. He passed safely through a number of hard-fought engagements, and at the close of the great civil struggle returned to the peaceful pursuits of farming, in which he continued to be engaged during the remainder of his life. He died May 10. 1904, and his widow only survived him until February 1905. They were honorable and God-fearing people who lived in amity with their neighbors and who were esteemed and respected for their many sterling qualities of mind and heart.
Hiram Baggett acquired his early education in the public schools of Sampson County, and spent his boyhood and youth on the home farm, remaining with his parents until he became of age. It was not his intention to follow an agricultural career, and instead he secured a position to teach in the public schools. For about three years he held positions in the rural districts of Sampson, Wilson and Harnett counties, but at the end of that time gave up his endeavor to mold the plastic mind of youth and accepted position as a traveling salesman, a vocation which he followed with some measure of success for four years. In the meantime Mr. Baggett had been preparing himself during his leisure hours for entrance at the University of North Carolina, where he became a student of the law department in 1906. The study that had gone before made it possible for him to be graduated in the same year, and in 1907 he was admitted to the bar and commenced the practice of his profession at Lillington, where he is now senior partner of the law firm of Baggett & McDonald, with Arthur A. McDonald, their offices being in the Baggett Building. Mr. Baggett is one of the able and reliable members of the Harnett County bar, and has the full confidence of a large and representative clientage.
He is a member of the Harnett County Bar Association and the North Carolina Bar Association, and belongs also to the Masonic fraternity and the Lions Club. Politically he is a democrat with independent tendencies and has not cared for public honors. In addition to his large practice Mr. Baggett has realty interests of an important nature. He has made a practice in-the part of purchasing farming lands at a modest figure, placing them under a high state of improvement and cultivation, and then selling them, and by using this method of procedure has been a factor in securing new and responsible people to settle at Lillington and elsewhere in Harnett County.
In February 1916, Mr. Baggett was united in marriage with Miss Dollie Moore, a daughter of A. S. Moore, natives of Guilford County, this state. Mr. Moore was brought up to farming, which he followed until the outbreak of the War Between the States, during which he fought in a volunteer infantry regiment in the Confederate States army. At the close of the war he re- turned to Guilford County, where he continued carrying on his agricultural operations until his death in 1922. He was survived by Mrs. Moore until January 1926. Mr. and Mrs. Baggett have no children. They make their home at the Killeygrey Hotel at Lillington.


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This hike begins behind camp 4 and the trail head is clearly marked.
The trail begins as a moderate uphill through a wooded area. The trail then comes to Colombia Rock where there are beautiful views of Half Dome and the entire valley.
After leaving the Colombia Rock the trail gets steeper and also gets rocky, which is what makes this trail strenuous is the combination of rocky footing and steep trails. There are many beautiful views of the valley and Half Dome along the way.
Once at the top the view is spectacular. The view of the falls is terrific, unless you take the hike in September like I did, when the falls are dry! Very sad.
The trail is clearly marked the entire trip. GPS waypoints on the map mark every turn.


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Epic: Legends of Fantasy, edited by John Joseph Adams
published November 2012
where I got it: Received ARC from the publisher
Epic Fantasy requires the story to be bigger, the dragons be faster, the warriors be stronger, and everything generally be more. And Epic: Legends of Fantasy offers up just that – more mythos, higher stakes, more of simply everything.
Many of the entries are part of the author's larger work, taking place in an epic fantasy world that the author has already written hundreds and sometimes thousands of pages about. Randomly, the stories I read first happened to be part of larger works, and at first, the lack of stand alone works bothered me, but I quickly came to appreciate it, and to learn the collection had plenty of stand alone stories as well. An anthology like this is a brilliant method of introducing readers to these larger fantasy worlds created by famous authors such as Robin Hobb, George R R Martin, Michael Moorcock, Melanie Rawn, Tad Williams, and many others, and serves as an excellent introduction to the writings of newer authors as well.
Some works were fairly new, but others were older than I am. the Moorcock for example was originally written in 1961. A pure classic sword and sorcery, complete with sexualized and helpless female, it might be offensive to today's readers, but I'm happy Adams included it, as what's the point of talking about Epic Fantasy if we're not going to touch on the journey the genre has taken?
Clocking in at over 600 pages, Epic: Legends of Fantasy is itself a bit of a doorstopper. We eat clunksters like this for breakfast, so I was surprised at how long it took me to plow through it. ahh, but spending 600+ pages in one fantasy world is one thing. Try spending that quantity of pages in over a dozen fantasy worlds. More often than not, my brain needed a little break in between. This isn't the kind of anthology to gorge on, this is the kind you savor, over many winter evenings.
Here's my thoughts a handful of the entries:
2012 Locus Awards
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The recently announced Locus Awards are awarded every year by a readers poll done by Locus Magazine. These have been going since 1971, and are often an influencial precursor to the Hugo awards, which will be awarded later this summer.
It's only these last couple years that I've been blogging that I've paid much attention to awards. Honestly, for the most part, a list of award nominees more often than not elicits a mostly "eh" response from me. Maybe I've heard of the authors, maybe I haven't, and there's a decent chance I haven't even read any of the books or short stories that are up for an award.
Good thing I have a scifi/fantasy blog, and have pretty much been reading nothing but scifi and fantasy for the last little while! For the first time, ever, I've actually read a small chunk of these. Ok, maybe not a respectable amount, but way more than in previous years. For the first time, ever, my mind is responding with a "sweet! I've read that!" or at least a "I've heard of that, and I really want to read it!" instead of "meh".
Here are this years Locus Award winners (bolded) and nominees. If I reviewed the piece, I've linked to it. A few questions for you to contemplate as you peruse the list: how many of these author, works, editors, authors and publishers have you heard of? How many of them have you read, or are interested in reading?
The 2012 Locus Awards, as announced in Seattle Washington, June 15-17th 2012:
Science Fiction Novel
Embassytown, China Miéville (Del Rey; Macmillan)
Leviathan Wakes, James S. A. Corey (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
11/22/63, Stephen King (Scribner; Hodder & Stoughton as 11.22.63)
Rule 34, Charles Stross (Ace; Orbit UK)
The Children of the Sky, Vernor Vinge (Tor)
Fantasy Novel
A Dance with Dragons, George R.R. Martin (Bantam; Harper Voyager UK)
Snuff, Terry Pratchett (Harper; Doubleday UK)
The Wise Man's Fear, Patrick Rothfuss (DAW; Gollancz)
Deathless, Catherynne M. Valente (Tor)
Among Others, Jo Walton (Tor)
First Novel
The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern (Doubleday)
Ready Player One, Ernest Cline (Crown; Century)
God's War, Kameron Hurley (Night Shade)
Soft Apocalypse, Will McIntosh (Night Shade)
Mechanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti, Genevieve Valentine (Prime)
Fevre Dream, by George R R Martin
Published in 1982
where I got it: borrowed from a friend
why I read it: been on a GRRMartin kick lately
I've been on a George R R Martin kick lately, along with most of the epic fantasy blogosphere. While everyone else is reading a nearly infamous fifth book, I've been hitting the backlist. When a friend offered to lend me his autographed copy of Fevre Dream along with the recently released graphic novel (which I haven't read yet), I jumped at the chance. George R R Martin writing vampire horror on an antebellum Mississippi River? Sign me up!
beware – spoilers ahead.
Fevre Dream opens with a very depressed steamboat owner. Abner Marsh has had nothing but bad luck. Steamboats crushed in ice, or destroyed by the river. Few want to work with him, some believe he's cursed. One day he's approached by a wealthy gentleman named Joshua York who makes Marsh an offer he can't refuse. Their partnership agreed upon, York supplies massive sums of money, and Marsh hires the best riverboat builders, engineers, and pilots money can buy. Soon, the Fevre Dream is born. She's over 300 feet long, trimmed in silver, and nearly covered in mirrors. Once you've laid eyes on the Fevre Dream, you can never forget her.
It's not long before Marsh and his crew suspect something strange is going on. York is never seen in the day time, and seems to only drink a homebrew wine. Betraying York's trust to never enter his room or ask detailed questions, Marsh breaks into his room in an attempt to discover his secret.
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I'm a very lucky girl.
I'm very lucky because I'm friends with J.W., who is friends with A.R..
And A.R. is a director at our local university public radio affiliate. Next thing I know, J.W. and I are recording a segment of a local radio show called "Arts & More".
not exactly a pod cast, but as I like to say it's pretty damn cool.
J.W. and I have a Nice Little Chat (<– click that) about George R R Martin, specifically Nightflyers and Fevre Dream, two lovely non-epic-fantasy books he wrote "before he was famous". (btw, you can read my longer article on Martin's Nightflyers here)
with any luck, we'll get to do this again. . . and hopefully be a little better rehearsed! that four minute segment took about 90 minutes and most of A.R.'s patience to get just right.
it was buckets of fun, and I am a very lucky girl.
Nightflyers and the first song
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Nightflyers (short story collection) by George R R Martin
published in 1985 (stories written from 1973-1980)
why I read it: cuz I lurves me some Martin
where I got it: have no idea, it's been on the bookshelf for a while.
Thanks to HBO and a rather infamous 5th book, just about everyone knows who George R R Martin is. I'm not ashamed to admit it, Game of Thrones was my first Martin, and before I read it (this was maybe 5 years ago?), I'd never heard of him. Many people know him as "that epic fantasy guy".
what if I told you he wrote tons and tons of stuff before Game of Thrones was ever a twinkle in his eye? That he'd been writing short stories since the early 70's? Dreamsongs volumes one and two were released a few years back, and are known as the Martin short story collections. Containing everything from essays to short stories and novellas, to tv scripts to his thoughts on different parts of his life, when it comes to page count they are just as epic as his fantasies. However, if you're looking for a smaller dose of early Martin, allow me to recommend a skinny little short story collection called Nightflyers. It's unfortunate this little gem is out of print, it's well worth the search on Amazon or ABE or e-bay, or you favorite local used bookstore. Along with the novella Nightflyers, written in 1980, it includes 5 more short stories written during the 70s. no dice? no worries, all the stories in Nightflyers are also in the Dreamsongs collection.
Another thing I'm not ashamed to admit is that I don't read a lot of short story collections or anthologies. Just personal preference, I typically want something novella length or longer. Well, Martin and his Dreamsongs turned me into a short story fan, or at least a fan of his short stories. And you know what? I like his earlier science fiction based short works better than A Song of Ice and Fire, and Nightflyers is part of the reason why.
Because I just can't help myself, you know? Nature abhors a vacuum like my credit at my favorite local bookstore abhors not being spent. Who cares that I just got a half dozen books from the library? Bookstores are my kryptonite! Even more so after one of the employees let slip they'd just gotten in a ton of vintage SF.
teh new goodies:
from bottom to top, we've got:
A Feast for Crows, by George R R Martin. I got this out of the library a few years ago, I wish I'd thought to buy it before they changes the cover art to the "new" style. now my Martin covers don't match! :( I can't decide if I'm going to buy into the hype and purchase Dance with Dragons in hardback, or just get it from the library and wait to purchase until it's in paperback.
Doomsday Book by Connie Willis. I've never read any Willis, but I keep hearing really good things about her.
Lord Valentine's Castle by Robert Silverberg. Another one I'd gotten from the library a few years ago, it was my first Silverberg. After I finished it, I remember my husband asking me what I thought of it as this is one of his favorites too, and I expressly remember saying that not only did I want to learn how to juggle, but if we ever had a son, I wanted to name him Valentine.
Moon over Soho by Ben Aaronovitch. I really enjoyed the first book in this series, Midnight Riot, and I've been hearing this 2nd one is just as fun too.
Stalking the Unicorn, by Mike Resnick – it just looked fun. and the acknowledgement pages makes some reference to a friend of Resnick's who is the "God emperor" of something, which made me chuckle. and that brings us to . . .
The Heaven Makers, by Frank Herbert. You wouldn't know it by skimming the review index, but I am a HUGE Frank Herbert fan. I think I've read maybe a dozen books by him, and I know most of his discography by sight. But this is one I have never even heard of! Anyone know anything about this title?
HBO's Game of Thrones
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Looking through my readers, feeds and tagsurfers, I suddenly feel just plain obligated to post about GAME OF THRONES, HBO's new epic fantasy series.
For those of you who have been living under a rock, Game of Thrones is the first book in George R R Martin's epic fantasy series called A Song of Ice and Fire. Frantic and obsessive fans are eagerly awaiting book five, which is scheduled to hit bookstores this summer. In this series, noble families fight for the throne, younger siblings come to understand they are nothing more than bargaining chips and wedding fodder, old magics are brewing in the frozen north, and good men and women take empire destroying secrets to their graves. Oh, and there is tons and tons of sex. And after the sex, there is tons and tons of violence, kidnapping, brutal murder, betrayal, more sex, and more betrayal.
(And just for kicks, these are all images from the board-game, cuz I totally dig the game. It looks all complicated, but you can learn the rules in about 2 minutes, and it's a ball to play.)
And now, on to HBO's version.
First, the good.
Peter Dinklage, Sean Bean, Harry Lloyd, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau. They were excellent. Harry Lloyd absolutely made Viserys, and I knew I recognized that wonderfully crooked smile from Doctor Who! Peter Dinklage and Sean Bean are always a pleasure to watch, and Coster-Waldau had Jaime down.
I really liked the credits/intro as well. Great way to cram a lot of important geographical info into a small amount of time, especially for viewers who aren't familiar with the books. They immediately know we've got two (for now) important cities on one continent, and across a narrow sea there is another city where some action will be taking place. Animation came off as a little cartoony and higher tech than this world warrants, but I can forgive it.
And it was an epic quest. . . .
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Just so you know, this is a super long post with a funny at the end. Not unlike an epic quest. . . .
I describe this website as offering Science Fiction & Fantasy reviews. But going through my list of reviews, I'm seeing far more fantasy than science. Maybe I should just describe it as a fantasy review site? Or a gateway to fantasy review site?
When I was a kid, I was an adamant SF fan. Much of my youth was spent building spaceships out of legos and watching PBS shows about astronomy. I craved scientific explanations for everything. I wanted to know how everything worked.
While my friends were reading Lloyd Alexander, I was reading Interstellar Pig. As they moved onto Tolkien and Raymond Feist and Katherine Kurtz, I moved onto David Brin and Robert Heinlein and Frank Herbert.
To me, Fantasy was wizards with long beards, royals who went on quests where their soldiers and magical armor protected them, and elves and dwarves who spent the first half of the conversation telling you their lineages, and embarassingly rediculous cover art. really nothing else. I had no understanding that "high fantasy" was only the tip of the iceberg of the genre. My limited experiences with high fantasy let me know quickly that I didn't care for it.
And then I started reading manga, a form famous for mixing genres. Cyborg mechas using laser guns against a castle and fighting flesh and blood dragons that guarded hoards of treasure? no problem. Kids who get wisked away from their regular life to fight demons and spirits and collect magical shards? piece of cake. Vampires, martians, aliens, dragons, time travel, often in the same series. And it worked, like magic.
Wait, wasn't this, um, fantasy? It sure was fantastical, and it sure wasn't hard scifi. Read the rest of this entry »
Anxiously awaiting. . .
Posted December 13, 2010on:
Although my New Years resolution is to read what I've got, that's not to say there aren't some 2011 releases that I am eagerly and anxiously awaiting.
Scott Lynch's The Republic of Thieves. I pride myself of my active web stalking of Mr. Lynch, via his livejournal, facebook, twitter, anything. I'm not embarrassed to admit this man turns me into a blabbering, blubbering, squeeing fangirl. And is that not some stunning cover art for the third title in his Gentlemen Bastard series? Amazon offers a March release date, but I am quite sure the release date has been set back to summer or fall of 2011. Sad news, but that gives me the chance to read the first two books in the series again, and maybe again after that.
Probably the most awaited title of 2011 for fantasy fans is Patrick Rothfuss's The Wise Man's Fear, book two of his Kingkiller Chronicles. When it comes to epic fantasy, Rothfuss's The Name of the Wind was a game changer for me, even more so than George R R Martin. Excitement for this title is so crazy that rumor has it the ARC's were numbered, signed for, and are being tracked via RFID to ensure zero spoilage before the release date. Any confirmation on that? AND there are T-shirts! Squeeee!!!
The City and The City didn't really do it for me, and I probably shouldn't admit that I haven't even looked at Kraken yet, but I gotta say, I am eagerly awaiting China Mieville's Embassytown. From the approximately 6 sentences that have been released about this title, it sounds deliciously weird. Not Bas-Lag by any means, but a little closer to that addictive Mieville brand of strangeness that seems to have been lacking in his more recent novels.
And speaking of the infamous George R R Martin, I am still holding out hope that A Dance With Dragons (fifth book in his Song of Ice and Fire series) will actually be published in 2011. And if no 2011 then I'm sure it'll come out eventually, right? I mean, I've only waited five years for this book, what's another five? I am not going to even attempt to find cover art. Yes, I am eagerly awaiting this title, but that doesn't mean I'm not just a teensy bit bitter.
Wow, three out of the four are the next books in series! I really wasn't expecting that!
How about you? what are your most eagerly awaited titles for 2011?


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The Cardinals went on to win 38-10 behind some hideous mistakes by the Lions.
Fantasy Impact: I've been calling for fantasy owners to bench Fitz all week, and this is why. He is just completely handcuffed by Arizona's awful QB play.
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The University of Wisconsin and Brigham Young University announced Thursday that the two schools will play a home-and-home series, starting in 2017. The Badgers will visit Provo, Utah to kick off the series. BYU will visit Madison in 2018.
Wisconsin has never visited LaVell Edwards Field. The two schools had already agreed, this past July, to play in November of 2013 at Camp Randall Stadium. Wisconsin and BYU have only met on the gridiron once before. Jim McMahon and the Cougars visited Camp Randall on Sept. 20, 1980 and came home with a 28-3 win.
Dates for the games in 2017 and 2018 have not yet been set. BYU athletic director Tom Holmoe told the press that "we're always looking for opportunities to schedule storied football programs like Wisconsin."
Since Brett Bielema took over as Wisconsin's head coach in 2006, the Badgers are 64-21, the 11th best winning percentage in the nation. During that span, BYU is 64-19, the 10th best mark in the country.