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Price Chopper expanded its online ordering system, Shops4U, to its store at Westgate Plaza in Albany, New York.
The supermarket at 911 Central Ave. is the second in the 128-store chain to give people the option of ordering online and then picking up their groceries in the store parking lot or having the items delivered home for an extra charge.
Price Chopper charges $10 to order online, plus $5.99 for home deliveries. The $10 fee will be waived for a limited time.
Price Chopper, owned by The Golub Corp. in Schenectady, is also temporarily waiving the $10 fee at the Mohawk Commons store in Niskayuna where Shops4U debuted last fall.
"The offer was well-received and continues to grow for us in Schenectady, so we decided to incorporate Shops4U into our newly remodeled Westgate store, enabling us to offer this service to Albany customers," said Jerry Golub, president and CEO.
Price Chopper rolled out the service shortly before competitor ShopRite opened a new store three miles away at the corner of Balltown Road and Nott Street East in Niskayuna.
It's a similar situation in Albany, where the Price Chopper at Westgate Plaza is a half-mile away from a new ShopRite opening April 26 at 709 Central Ave.
ShopRite, owned by New Jersey-based Wakefern Food Corp., has a delivery service called ShopRite from Home.
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The Red Sox played host to a team they should be very familiar with in the Baltimore Orioles. They played the O's during the most recent road trip (taking two out of three) and again find themselves facing the division foe. The bullpen, however, played like they've never seen the Orioles, blowing a 6-4 Red Sox lead in a 10-6 Orioles win.
Hideki Okajima (1-2) allowed three runs while recording only one out, taking the loss after Josh Beckett's six-inning, four-run performance. We all thought the biggest weakness on the Sox would be the offense without David Ortiz, but the bullpen has remained shaky and proved it Tuesday night.
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Who else but J.D. Drew? I mean really…this is getting ridiculous. Is he actually going to start earning his paycheck? Well, it would take an all-star caliber season to earn that much money, and Drew is not that far off. He went 1-2 with two walks and yet another home run (his 9th), two RBIs, and two runs scored. By the way, he's now hitting .320.
Diamond Dud of the Game:
Hideki Okajima may have good numbers, but this year he has allowed many inherited runners to score, which doesn't affect his ERA numbers. As mentioned before, Okie allowed three runs in just 1/3 of an inning, raising his ERA to 2.89. He may be a good option, but not as good as he was last year. I'll certainly be dropping him in one of my fantasy leagues!
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A 79-year-old man died in a crash Sunday night in New Orleans.
Police said the driver was traveling lake-bound on Gallier Street just after 11 p.m. when he ran a stop sign at Clairborne Avenue and collided with an oncoming white Dodge, which was traveling uptown on North Clairbourne Avenue.
The driver was ejected from his vehicle and was pronounced dead at the scene. The driver of the Dodge suffered minor injuries, police said.
The investigation is ongoing, and a toxicology test will be performed. No charges have been filed.
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Family claims rogue batch of fat-burning supplement killed super-fit 34-year-old
- Todd Battuello was taking pill to help lose weight
- He had a heart attack and died just weeks after starting to take the tablets
- Family lawyer claims no clear warnings were given by the website that sold the supplements
- Earlier this year entire stock of OxyElite Pro was ordered destroyed by the FDA
A 34-year-old Pennsylvania man who was a fitness fanatic and was taking dietary supplements, died from a massive heart attack.
Todd Battuello appeared to be in great shape, yet just weeks after using the 'fat-burning' diet pill OxyElitePro, he collapsed after dining with his wife.
His family are now suing the makers of the drug that Mr Battuello was taking after learning the Food & Drug Administration had ordered a batch of the pills to be 'destroyed' earlier this year.
Todd Battuello: He was described as a 'fun and hardworking barn manager' - despite his healthy appearance, Todd suffered a heart attack a weeks after starting to take dietary supplements
Mr Battuello died on May 15th last year, just a week after he and his wife Lauren celebrated their first wedding anniversary.
The couple had just finished dinner when he began to feel sick and began convulsing before collapsing.
He was pronounced dead a short time later at Chester County Hospital.
Todd Battuello (left) and his wife Lauren (right) set up their horse training business together having been childhood sweethearts and dating for nine years before tying the knot
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OxyElite Pro is a fat-burning supplement that Todd had been using in the weeks leading up to his death.
Miracle cure? OxyElite Pro claims to target the 'stubborn' belly fat that is difficult to shift. Yet even in early 2012 there were cases of users suffering heart attacks after taking the product
OxyElite Pro was the fat-burning supplement that Mr Battuello had been using in the weeks leading up to his death.
The pill claims to remove 'stubborn' belly fat around the belly in particular.
The family told Philly.com they have filed a lawsuit earlier this month against USPlabs, the Dallas-based company that produced OxyElite Pro, and Bodybuilding.com, an Idaho-based company that sold the product on its website.
USPlabs has come under fire from the FDA, which earlier this month ordered the company to destroy its entire inventory of OxyElite Pro.
In April, the FDA warned consumers on its website that both supplements contained a stimulant called dimethylamylamine (DMAA), which 'can elevate blood pressure and could lead to cardiovascular problems, including heart attack, shortness of breath and tightening of the chest . . . and may be particularly dangerous when used with caffeine.'
According to the lawsuit, a warning label on the OxyElite Pro bottle indicated that the supplement did contain caffeine.
The family's lawyer Tom Kline said a toxicology test showed that Mr Battuello had DMAA in his system when he died.
Lawsuit: Todds' wife, Lauren, is now suing ths website that sold the dietary supplements claiming there should have been more explicit warnings over the dangers of using the drug
Although a warning not to mix DMAA and caffeine is posted on the website now, the lawsuit alleges that USPlabs is to blame for Mr Battuello's death because the product did not give a warning to customers of the potential dangers or risks to health.
USPlabs claim the supplement is 'pharmacist formulated' and 'university studied,' stating the product must be used with 'extreme caution, only by healthy adults capable of handling its true power.'
The family are seeking more than $75,000 in damages.
Jacob Geissler, USPlabs CEO, has not responded to MailOnline's request for a comment.
Muscular: Here, Todd Battuello is shown grinning while sitting behind the wheel of a small tractor in a white tank top. He was described as a 'fun and hardworking barn manager' who 'maintains the vast property'
This is not the first time that the stimulant DMAA has come under the spotlight.
In February 2012, two U.S. Army soldiers had fatal heart attacks during training exercises.
At the time, USPlabs told the New York Times: 'there have been over 1 billion doses of DMAA-containing products taken without a single corroborated serious health problem.'
Mr Kline says the OxyElite Pro from Bodybuilding.com was ordered by Mr Battuello who was into physical fitness: 'but he had no idea how dangerous this product was.'
On the website of the Pennsylvania horse-training company the couple ran, Evolution Training Center, Mr Battuello is described as the 'hardworking barn manager who fell in love with farm life.'
His role involved maintaining the property and taking care of the horses each day.
Mr Battuello and wife Lauren were high-school sweethearts who had been together for nine years before getting married.
Mr Battuello's lawyer paid tribute to his client saying: 'He was a wonderful, loving young man who had his whole life ahead of him. He was an exceptionally warm, generous human being, and his life was destroyed by a drug that ended up being destroyed on an order from the FDA.'
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The race between Oscar favorites"Avatar" and "The Hurt Locker" is getting ugly. "Hurt Locker" producer Nicholas Chartier has caused an uproar by imploring Academy members, via email, to vote for his underdog film and not the "$500m movie ['Avatar']." Oscar rules forbid such shenanigans and, although Chartier quickly apologized for his move, claiming "naivete, ignorance of the rules and plain stupidity as a first-time nominee," some observers feel the damage is done. Will his mess-up hurt "The Hurt Locker"'s Oscar chances?
"The Hurt Locker" team just blew it: This was a mistake "on so many levels," says Sasha Stone at Awards Daily. Doesn't Chartier realize there's a system when it comes to "Oscar strategy"? Begging for votes never works. Voters want you to "play games and seduce them." This "ham-handed" gaffe has played right into James Cameron's hands, tipping the balance "in Avatar's direction."
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The little-movie-that-could still could: Though Chartier's e-mail smacks of "desperation or panic," says Pete Hammond at the LA Times, it's hard to blame him for trying to start a "grass-roots campaign" in the face of the publicity blizzard that's been mounted to guarantee "Avatar" the Oscar. Whatever happens, "The Hurt Locker"'s "antiwar credentials" have already given it a "publicity-op" money can't buy.
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Reality check — everyone in Hollywood engages in such tactics: Chartier's only crime is he getting caught, says Nikki Finke at Deadline Hollywood. This year's "Oscar campaign for media manipulation" has been the worst in living memory; everyone from "flacks and insiders" to "studios and filmmakers" has been busily badmouthing rival nominees for months. It's a dirty system that the Academy "hath wrought and doth [habitually] condone."
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While Jesse Ryder would be a fair guess, the answer is actually little-known Central Districts No 3 Carl Cachopa.
The South Africa-born 26-year-old had done little to catch the eye before 2012 but his personal best 179 not out against Auckland yesterday continued a stellar calendar year.
Cachopa has now scored Plunket Shield centuries in five of his last six first-class matches, with a wash-out at Karori Park in March the only miss, as he didn't get to bat.
Either side of that he's hit 108, 151, 111 and 105 before yesterday leading CD to a dominant 430-9 declared at Napier's Nelson Park.
"He's found the recipe to success, that's for sure," CD coach Alan Hunt said.
"He works hard at it, keeps it pretty simple and he's in a rich vein of form. He's found a way to forget about what's happened in the past. He just starts again and if he plays a false shot he puts it behind him, signs that ball off and waits for the next one. So he's got a process and it works for him."
Cachopa - one of three brothers playing first-class cricket in New Zealand along with Brad (Canterbury) and Craig (Auckland) - hit 23 fours and one six in a 297-ball stay while no other Stags batsman reached 50.
His hard graft allowed CD to set attacking fields and former Wellington fast bowler Andrew Lamb, on debut for the Stags, seized his opportunity.
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Lamb ended day two with 3-33 as Gareth Hopkins (27 not out) and Tim McIntosh (17 not out) began the rebuilding job with Auckland 80-4 at stumps.
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CD opened the season with a five-wicket loss to Wellington but Hunt said they had tossed that result away as virtually irrelevant.
"In a lot of ways we were beaten by one man [Ryder, who scored twin tons]. We did a lot right in that game and were ahead 80 per cent of the time and ended up losing. So we didn't dwell on having lost because there were a lot of positives to come out of it."
Meanwhile, Northern Districts and Otago are locked in a tight tussle after two days at Hamilton's Seddon Park.
James Marshall and Daniel Flynn will resume today with ND 120-2 in their second innings and holding an overall lead of 26.
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I'm settling into my new home in Western Pennsylvania, where we have people with a diversity of preferences (both Presbyterian and Catholic, Winchester and Remington, checked flannel and solid), and people watch Fox News for a fair and balanced viewpoint. Folks don't ask me if I go to church; they ask what church I go to. So I am a little hyper-vigilant lately about cultural homogeneity. And it occurs to me that maybe what this idyllic setting needs is children's books written by Bad Horse.
Not just like that. First I accidentally wrote a children's book. (Though after I thought about it I realized it was a children's book for old people, and more specifically a children's book for me.) Then I thought, "What do I do with this? Can I sell it?"
So I browsed the web to find how one sells children's books. The first mistake most people make is getting illustrations for their book before trying to sell it. That is the mark of an amateur. Text, fortunately for writers, doesn't go out of style as quickly as illustrations do. Choosing a book's illustrations is like choosing a cover: It's marketing and fashion, not artistic sense. That's why you can always tell a self-published book by its cover. It may be a fine picture, but there's something not quite Madison Avenue about it that makes the sophisticated book-buyer shrink back from it in horror.
The second mistake is writing too many words, and fitting them onto the wrong number of pages. A book is made by combining sheaves of 4 sheets folded over, each sheaf making 16 pages. A standard children's picture book has 32 pages. 2 of these are glued to the front and back cover, and the 4 pages on inside of the covers and next to them are traditionally left empty, I expect as offerings to the tree spirits. 2 pages hold copyright, publisher info, and title. That leaves 24 pages for the story. You can add one or two more sheaves, for 32 or 40 pages of story. Your story should fit one of these numbers exactly; there are no blank pages at the end of a children's book. We adults have learned to pass over small mysteries such as blank pages without noticing them, whereas a child can be stopped and frozen in place by such enigmas, possibly all through naptime.
(The third mistake is telling the artist what to draw, but I'm totally doing that.)
I went to my little sister's house and stole an armful of picture books, to see how many pages they each had, and get a feel for how they read. The first one I read is "Die Sterntaler" (The Star Coin) by die Brueder Grimm. This is a charming story about a little girl who has nobody and nothing in the world except the clothes on her back. She goes on a journey (since she has nothing else to do and nowhere to be, really), and gives away all those clothes, one by one, to people less poor than her, because they ask for them. Finally she stands alone and naked in the snow. Then on the last page, we have:
Und wie Mathilda so dastand in der kalten Nacht, fielen unzaehlige Sterne vom Himmel, die sich sogleich in glaenzende Silbermuenzen verwandelten. Und obgleich Mathilda erst gerade ihr letztes Hemd weggegeben hatte, trug sie jetzt ein neues Kleid aus feinstem Gewebe. Glucklich sammelte Mathilda die Silbermuenzen ein und steckte sie in die Taschen ihres Kleides. Von dieser Nacht an musste Mathilde nie mehr Not leiden.
And as Mathilda stood there in the cold night, countless stars fell from the sky, which immediately turned into gleaming silver coins. And although Mathilda had only just given away her last shirt, she now wore a new dress made from the finest fabric. Mathilda happily gathered the silver coins and put them in the pockets of her dress. From that night on, Mathilde never again suffered poverty.
Translation of the translation:
Bitch died and went to heaven. It was ballin'.
And this is from the Brueders Grimm, who are on the short short list of folktale-tellers with the balls to tell disturbing stories.
Yeah, "...and so she froze to death in the snow and went to heaven" is not exactly Disney. But this shit is still too idealistic, and BAD for kids.
First, it's lying about what happens. It would be more honest if they said "and then she died and went to heaven"; but then the kid might have objections: If God could take her up to heaven, why didn't he just give her another coat? Because she was too stupid to live and would have just given it away again? No; tell the kid something nice happened, and then, later on in life when people tell her about heaven, she might think, "Wait, that really doesn't make sense," but some part of her mind will think "It makes perfect sense; it's like that nice story Die Sterntaler!" The story tricks kids into believing in heaven.
Worse, here's the moral: "Being generous is always good, no matter what. If somebody asks you for something, give it to them. If you meet a family that has inexplicably brought their child out into a snowstorm without so much as a blanket, and they ask you for your undershirt, which is the only thing in the world you have left, because they're too selfish to give the child one of the scarves or hats or jackets they have on, don't ask questions. Give them your shirt. That is being generous, and being generous is being Good, and God will reward the good. (That's why we do good, kids: To get rewarded for it.) Doing anything less, ever, is failing."
The idea here is that if you teach kids to be really, extremely, over-the-top good, maybe sometimes they'll be just a little bit good in real life.
Only, wait, that isn't the idea. It isn't "extremely good". Telling someone who has nothing but a shirt to give it away because God wants her to is evil. Teaching kids that being good is impossibly hard, and they can never ever attain it, at least not if they want to live, is evil. Teaching that "good" means "never thinking about the consequences" is evil. That's nearly the opposite of good. The whole thing is a mindfuck worthy of Screwtape.
Old-country children's stories didn't shy away from disturbing stuff. They had horrible things happen to kids who disobeyed their parents or violated social taboos. Or, like Die Sterntaler, they explained why their simple folk-deontology was just perfect, thank you very much, and didn't need any fancy logic or thinkin', just the Hand of God every now and then.
Sometimes I play a game called "people are smart": Pretend, for a minute, that people understand what they're doing. None of these old stories are really about how to be a good person, so what are they about?
They're about how to be normal, do what you're told, and not ask questions.
A lot of contemporary children's stories and movies shy away from sad or disturbing things, at least things that aren't fixed in the course of 24 pages. Gotta protect the kids from sad thoughts, or they'll grow up twisted and write stories about ponies getting killed by asteroids.
(They may have a point. I read the Bible when I was 6. Fortunately my parents took it away because I was taking it literally.)
Yet it's okay to tell kids about the crucifixion. Or to tell them stories from the old testament about, oh, committing genocide against people with different beliefs, or sacrificing your kid on an altar to prove your devotion to God. I was at my kid sister's house for dinner a while ago, and her kids started talking about their dreams. Turns out they all dream frequently about getting martyred. Burned alive, boiled alive, shot with arrows, and more variations on that theme. It's fine to tell little kids hundreds of stories about innocent people being tortured to death if it's what you believe in.
Let's play "people are smart" again. Why would we (a) tell kids gruesome stories about what happens to kids who disobey, (b) tell them gruesome stories that are part of our religion, (c) tell them about kids freezing to death in the cold to teach them not to think about morality, and yet (d) be afraid of anything violent or sad in any other kind of story?
Because what parents are afraid of isn't violence or sadness. They're afraid of open questions. They're afraid of stories that pose questions and don't have the answers immediately at hand. [1]
The old stories were explicitly meant to teach kids how to think. Now we know it's safer just to stop children from thinking. To pen their little minds in, whether with thorny walls of Teutonic threats, or soft downy cottonballs of fluff, any time they're in danger of thinking. So that they can grow up just like their parents, whether they want to or not.
But do nice-nice children's stories even work at that?
Die Sterntaler does at least one thing that not many children's stories do: It makes kids feel sorry for the little girl. Parents today, and corporations even more so, are terrified of telling their kids sad stories like Hans Christian Andersen's "The Little Mermaid". I'm no psychologist [2], but I've got a theory: Sad stories teach kids how to feel sympathy.
So what do you get when you raise kids and never let them hear any sad stories?
Selfish kids, I'd bet.
Likewise, it takes stories that are disturbing in other ways, or just weird, to make kids ask questions and think. Maybe like this odd 24-page Beatrix Potter book, "The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse," in which everybody is selfish, neurotic, deceptive, and/or larcenous, and Jackson Toad is in the habit of eating uninvited guests. It's oddly heart-warming that they more-or-less get along (the ones who weren't eaten, anyway) in the end. Or maybe this nicely-grisly one by Aldous Huxley, of all people, "The Crows of Pearblossom", in which birds conspire to kill a snake who eats their eggs, and in the end use his corpse to hang their laundry on.
I hated "The Giving Tree", but even its creepiness is a breath of fresh air in the nursery when it's shelved between "Make Way for Ducklings!" and "The Berenstain Bears Forget Their Manners". The book doesn't actually say "This is a healthy relationship." It's in-your-face with its weirdness and unanswered questions.
I don't know what age is appropriate for what kind of stories. And nice stories are nice. But when we give kids nothing but nice, inoffensive, non-problematic stories, it isn't for their sakes. It's for ours. We're unconsciously hoping to stop them from asking themselves questions, in the deluded hope that they'll grow up like us. [3]
I don't think that's what will happen. But one thing is clear: As a clever Austrian once said, he who controls the youth, controls the future.
I gotta get me a piece of that action.
[1] I'm not talking about my sister specifically, who is pretty chill about these things.
[2] Okay, I minored in psychology, neuroscience, and linguistics. But I still claim non-expertise.
[3] Or maybe we just don't want to be around a 6-year-old with a lot of questions. It can be exhausting.
1w, 15hWriter attrition: 1/3 per year28 comments · 216 views
Convert dates to Unix time:
$ perl -e 'use Time::Local; $x = timelocal(0,0,0,1,0,2013); print "$x\n"'
1357016400 [Jan 1 2013, in seconds since 1970]
$ perl -e 'use Time::Local; $x = timelocal(0,0,0,1,0,2014); print "$x\n"'
1388552400 [Jan 1 2014]
Number of people who've written since Jan. 1 2013:
sqlite> select count(distinct(uid)) from story where date_modified > 1357016400;
Number of people who've written since Jan 1 2013 and wrote more than one story:
sqlite> select count(distinct(u)) from (select uid as u, id as id1 from story where date_modified > 1357016400 and exists (select id as id2 from story where uid = u and id2 <> id1));
Number of people who wrote since Jan. 1 2014:
sqlite> select count(distinct(uid)) from story where date_modified > 1388552400;
Number of people who've written since Jan 1 2014 and wrote more than one story:
sqlite> select count(distinct(u)) from (select uid as u, id as id1 from story where date_modified > 1388552400 and exists (select id as id2 from story where uid = u and id2 <> id1));
("date_modified" is the date the last chapter was created, or maybe submitted or approved. It doesn't change when you edit a chapter.)
Fraction of writers who've written more than one story for fimfiction who wrote in 2013 but not 2014:
(8823 - 5947) / 8823 = .326
Also: Will you please agree that SQL is a stupid, stupid language?
1w, 1dIf you're in Pittsburgh today...1 comments · 67 views
From http://parsec-sff.org/lecture-series:
Location: Jared L. Cohon University Center, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, 412-268-2107. Free parking.
11:00 am – 1:00 pm, YA Writing Workshop: Caroline Carlson will run a writing workshop called "Blueprints for Enchantment: Constructing a magical world for your fantasy novel" [advance registration required; $10 suggested donation] in the Danforth Lounge. [Online registration appears to still be open.]
2:00 pm – 3:00 pm, YA Author Lecture "Keeping it (Un)Real" with Nalo Hopkinson: Free lecture; McConomy Auditorium.3:00 pm – 5:00 pm, Book Signing in the Conan Room of the University Center. Books for the signing can be purchased in the CMU bookstore or brought from home. No reservation is needed for the main lecture by Nalo Hopkinson or the book signing. They are free and open to the public.
Caroline Carlson is the author of The Very Nearly Honorable League of Pirates, a funny and fantastical series of novels for young readers. Her first book, Magic Marks the Spot, was a New York Times Editor's Choice, an American Booksellers Association Best Book for Children, and a Junior Library Guild selection. The Terror of the Southlands was published in 2014, and a third book in the series is forthcoming, all from HarperCollins. Caroline holds an MFA in Writing for Children from Vermont College of Fine Arts. She grew up in Massachusetts and now lives in Pittsburgh with her husband.
Nalo Hopkinson, born in Jamaica, has lived in Jamaica, Trinidad and Guyana and for the past 35 years in Canada. She is currently a professor of creative writing at the University of California, Riverside, USA. She is the author of six novels, a short story collection, and a chapbook. (Novels: Brown Girl in the Ring,Midnight Robber, The Salt Roads, The New Moon's Arms, The Chaos, Sister Mine. Short story collection: Skin Folk. Chapbook: Report From Planet Midnight). She is the editor of fiction anthologies Whispers From the Cotton Tree Root: Caribbean Fabulist Fiction, and Mojo: Conjure Stories. She is the co-editor of fiction anthologies So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction(with Uppinder Mehan) and Tesseracts Nine (with Geoff Ryman). Hopkinson's work has received Honourable Mention in Cuba's "Casa de las Americas" literary prize. She is a recipient of the Warner Aspect First Novel Award, the Ontario Arts Council Foundation Award for emerging writers, the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, the Locus Award for Best New Writer, the World Fantasy Award, the Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic (twice), the Aurora Award, the Gaylactic Spectrum Award, and the Norton Award. A new short story collection, Falling in Love With Hominids, will be a 2015 release from Tachyon Publications.
1w, 2dWhich story should I ask Karen Joy Fowler to read?24 comments · 245 views
Thanks to you folks' contributions during the Clarion write-a-thon, I won a critique from a professional writer. My choices were Karen Joy Fowler and Delia Sherman, and I chose Karen. She has the opposite of Kurt Vonnegut syndrome: She continues to identify as a fantasy & science fiction author despite not writing much fantasy or science fiction. Also, she's a sweetie.
I think Karen's first famous story was "The Faithful Companion at Forty," in Asimov's 1987, in which Tonto has a mid-life crisis about his role supporting the Lone Ranger. She followed this with a slew of best-selling novels (summarized by Wikipedia):
Sarah Canary (1991) - A mysterious nonsense-speaking woman in 1873 Pacific Northwest.
The War of the Roses (1991)
The Sweetheart Season (1996) - A novel about a female baseball team from 1947 Minnesota.
Sister Noon (2001) - 1890s San Francisco.
The Jane Austen Book Club (2004)
Wit's End (Putnam, 2008) - A young woman visits her godmother, one of America's most successful mystery writers.
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves (2013)
Earlier, I said,
If I win, I think I'll make him or her read a pony story.
So... which story should I ask Karen to critique? It should:
- be one of my longer stories, 'cuz they're all really short
- be understandable by someone with no pone pone pone
- not be a simple comedy, because there's not much to say about those
- not be terrible
I'm thinking of:
The Magician and the Detective
Mortality Report
Moving On
Burning Man Brony
Twenty Minutes
Pony Play
The question I keep asking myself are:
- Should I give her one that I think has serious problems (the slipshod pacing of chapters 2 thru 5 of Moments, the boring chapters 2 & 3 of Moving On, the hammer-the-reader-over-the-head-with-lessons in the second half of Burning Man Brony, the flaky POV in Fluttershy's Night Out), to get her opinion on how to fix it?
- Should I give her one that I think has no serious problems, to maximize my chance of getting some extra-pony validation that I've written at least one thing that doesn't suck?
- Should I give her one that I think has some artsy writing, like Moments, Burning Man Brony, or Pony Play?
- Dare I give her Pony Play or Twenty Minutes?
What do you think?
1w, 4dWe are the two-and-a-half percent35 comments · 297 views
CORRECTED NOV. 13 AS PER HeirOfNorton's OBSERVATION THAT BOOKSTATS FIGURES INCLUDE JOURNALS, AND INSTEAD USING NIELSEN BOOKSCAN FIGURES:
Total books sold in America in 2013: 2.6 billion.
Total print books sold in America in 2013 and reported to Nielsen's Bookscan Retail & Club Channel: 501.6 million
Fraction of Bookscan sales included in its Retail & Club Channel: 0.8
Fraction of books sold in America reported to Bookscan: 0.75
Total print books sold in America in 2013: 501.6 million / 0.8 / 0.75 = 836 million
Fraction of books sold in 2013 that were e-books: 0.3
Number of e-books sold in 2013: E / (E + 836 million) = 0.3, 0.3E + 0.3*836 million = 1E, E = 250.8 million / 0.7 = 358 million
Total books sold in America in 2013: 836 million + 358 million = 1.19 billion
Fraction of books that are fiction: Something like 0.6. 0.454., though this is an underestimate because a higher fraction of e-books are fiction
Length of a typical novel: Under 100,000 words (literaryrejections.com, writersdigest.com).
Total words of fiction sold per year in America: 2.6 billion * 0.6 * 80,000 = 125 trillion words 1.19 billion * 0.454 * 80,000 = 43.2 trillion words
(Most of these figures were surprisingly hard to find. Everybody reports on trends, percent change, and dollars. Nobody cares about number of books sold.)
Total words of fiction read on fimfiction since its beginning:
sqlite> select sum(views * words) from story;
2682702309872 (2.68 trillion)
(This is "story views" times words per story. It's an over-estimate, because about half of readers quit a story on fimfiction after the first chapter. But it's the same kind of overestimate you get from counting books sold instead of books read.)
Words read on fimfiction in the past year: Probably about half of that = 1.34 trillion words
Fraction of those words read in America: 0.8? I'm making that up based on when people read stories, and the fraction of English-language brony conventions that are in America.
Words read on fimfiction in America in the past year: 1.34 trillion * 0.8 = about 1.07 trillion words
1.07 / 66.9 = .025
fimfiction accounts for 2-3% as much reading as do all of the new books sold in America.
That makes ponyfiction more popular than Westerns, and nearly as popular as horror.
All that doesn't take into account people who read old books, though. I understand some people still do that.
Oh, and it doesn't count Mature stories, because my code to read the "Latest Story" pages doesn't see them. (It's a cookie problem.) I hear there are some of those on fimfiction.
(Caveat: Listing all the stories with over 100,000 views, I found Merlos the Mad has a 47,000-word story called "Thunderstruck" that has 8725 views, except for chapter 7, which claims to have 262,000 views. That's an extra 12 billion words reported right there. Hopefully there aren't many database errors like that.)
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100 deviantart points per story to the first reader who identifies the two stories that large parts of the first two paragraphs are stolen from, and 200 points to the first reader who identifies the one-sentence theft in chapter 3 (not from Doyle).
And 200 points to the first reader who finds all 4 secret messages!
Updates will be every day starting Monday at 9 or 10pm.
If anybody can think of a catchier name and/or description for the story, please suggest it in the comments. A name change is likely, because this is a boring title. A cover picture change is also likely later on, because I haven't got anyplace in the story to put the original cover art. I'll avoid changing both at the same time.
Thanks to Ickhart, GhostOfHeraclitus, and Vimbert the Unimpressive for pre-reading and pointing out many problems!
Luna's Starry Night is by RK-d. atryl designed French Rarity and the gallery setting; BB-Kenobi put them together and re-illustrated them. Brianna Wainwright (DracosDerpyHooves on deviantart.com) did the EqD cover image, and two other drawings that you'll find within the story. Other credits are given with the pictures.
The fact that this has gone unnoticed is a travesty.
Thanks! But I haven't submitted it yet. Still revising. How did you find it?
Oh, derp. Wow. I'm an idiot.
Yeah, I liked it a lot. Guess I've tipped my hand now by doing such a stupid thing, but oh well.
The first paragraph is from a Scandal in Bohemia. I recognize the second paragraph, but I don't have the time to go through the stories and find it.
I don't remember where I saw van Gogh's Starry Night, but the description in the story was how I felt about it.
Correct! PM me with your deviantart account, if you have one, & I'll send you
... Well, no. But you will get
(This is evil on a budget.)
>>953321 Holy crap, really? I feel validated now. I actually read your first comment as 100 internet points.
I always feel considerably less intelligent after reading stories as well thought out and executed as this one is for some reason. I don't know if it's the fact that so many words that I've never used are used in them or what, but yes.
There was only one minuscule error. A Mr. F. When. (that gets me too).
I would read more but I hear coffee calling.
This is relevant to my interest, keep up the good work.
[strike]Comments from a week ago. Front page today.
Not sure what's going on, but I'll refrain from pointing fingers due to the possibility of me being wrong.[/strike]
Nevermind; I just read the comments. I'm a retard.
I'm rapidly running out of reasons to not read the source material.
BRB, googling "Arthur Conan Doyle"
I've had the exceptional pleasure of helping pre-read this lovely thing. I can't recommend it enough. Also, since I know how the rest of the story goes allow me to share a not-really-spoiler: It gets even better. Seriously. The story goes to a very interesting place that took me by surprise. Read it. You won't be sorry.
The name is "Mr. F." This is a Victorian way of writing - the premise was that the viewpoint narrator is telling a true story, and making real-life characters semi-anonymous by using only their initials. Unfortunately the F came at the end of a sentence. I think that's the correct way to write it. It is jarring, though, so correctness is a poor excuse, and I changed it.
A work of art this is, I only hope that the latter pieces are as good as this one
Wow This story is SOOOOOOO good! Cant wait to read more!
OK, I'm baffled. Why isn't this story called "A Scandal In Equestria"?
Hmm. On one hand, it doesn't involve anything I'd describe as a scandal. On the other hand, that title would give readers familiar with A Scandal in Bohemia an idea where the story is going.
Plus, I could lure in readers hoping for some Twilestia... How would this do for the cover art?
UH Oh! A clash of egos the size of Holmes and Trixi might cause a sigularity to form. I suprised they do not knock heads together when the both enter a room :)
the beginning sounds like the intro of a scandal in Bohemia from the adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
Loving this so far.
Mystery that not only doesn't shy away from magic but brings it to the forefront, and well-written Trixie, and earth pony/unicorn tension? Instant follow.
"It is the dregs, the leavings, the last resort. It is, in a word, ours, Watson."
Just wonderful. Cannot wait to see where this goes.
I liked this the first time I read it and I still enjoyed reading it a second time! Congratulations on the excellent story and the feature on EqD!
Makes sense, but I couldn't help thinking of the Arrested Development connection.
Anyway, Fetlock seems to have an issue distinguishing bluster from actual ability, kinda odd when it seems that he deals with lies and half truths on a day to day basis, but maybe he sees something I don't.
I'm committing the oft-committed sin of making Trixie more competent than she is in canon. Let's say she's had time to improve. She's more generally useful as a character this way. But you're right - I assumed by default that Holmes had done his homework, but Doyle would have stated that explicitly.
No, no. That's,
Is this the real life?
Is this just fantasy?
Caught in a landslide,
no escape from reality...
>>956919 Had the same feeling. I was reading it 2 weeks ago and I thought Bad Horse was rewriting the whole thing.
A marvelous distraction if I do say so myself.
the second paragraph is also familiar but i can't put my finger on it...
I'll give Trixie that she has massive pony stones, for walking in there, breaking the painting out, and putting it right back in it's hole. Almost would be worth the hours of interrogation.
for the update! And no, I am not claiming... (someone else can get in trouble for that )
I checked the view count when I posted the chapter update: 475 readers. I checked again one hour later, after the story had scrolled off the "Latest Updates" page: 477. Ouch. I had 700 referrals from EqD in the story's first day. About 500 of them followed the link here to fimfiction, then left without clicking on the first chapter.
Here's a question for all of you. Why did you decide to read the story? Did anything almost make you not read it?
I just thought this looked interesting, i am not sure why so many people didnt read this.
gotta give you credit, you've got me interested. Bring in the worlds greatest detective, Trixie, and an original adventure, and suddenly you have me hooked on this story, Hope to see more soon, keep goin and stay golden^^
This is one of the best fics I've read across all the fandom. You capture the Victorian writing style, as well as the personalities of Holmes and Watson, with excellent accuracy and precision, and combine it with an intriguing plot that has a high dose of realism. It is truly a delight to read.
>>967721 Honestly the length of your individual chapters may be what's turning people away. I usually don't read a story unless it averages at least a thousand words a chapter. The only reason I decided to actually read your story (no offence intended) was because I followed the Equestria Daily link.
Do you prefer longer stories and avoid short stories? I break stories up into 1000-word chapters because I look at the view counts on each chapter to find out where people stopped reading. This is usually somewhere within the first 2000 words, so the first 2 chapters can be at most 1000 words each to learn where people stopped reading.
>>971515 I avoid shorter stories for many reasons that probably only make sense in my head. The foremost reason is because I find longer chapters give the author a chance to do a better job of both world building and characterization. I also prefer longer stories because I enjoy stories that take more than three minutes for me to read. I think my total words read on fimfiction at this time is over 22 million [22,904,897(I had to check...)] I read quite quickly and I prefer a fully thought out single chapter that is several thousand words long to several snippets of story that leave me unsatisfied.
I could never publish the first chapter to a story before having written the ending - I always have to go back and change things to make the pieces fit together right. The reason I release chapters one per day, instead of all at once, is so that the story will appear on the "Latest updates" page and attract new readers.
However, this isn't happening. From the rate at which first-chapter views increase, it appears I've gotten approximately zero new readers from the "Latest Updates" page. But I've lost about 160 readers who read the first 4 chapters, which were all posted at once, and haven't returned.
Is it better to release chapters on a regular basis, or put an entire story out there all at once? Would you appreciate a story more, or less, if you didn't have to wait for the updates?
I have another story that's been troubling me for a long time, a tricky story with touchy subject matter. It's a Fallout: Equestria one-shot, darker than this one. I don't know if I should release it, re-write it, or obliterate it like a device heretic blog post. The secret unpublished link is here. It's not violent, but it is sad, sweet, and terrible. I'd appreciate your opinions.
I haven't read a detective story in quite a while.
Honestly, I've been reading this for a while- just never bothered to log in. xD
I'm rather a fan of this story so far, and I am keeping a steady eye out for it. I'd love it if you posted the rest of the story so I could just scarf it all down, but if that's not your style, then okay. I'd think a lot of other folks would feel similar. (That they'd like to be able to read the whole thing from word go, so to speak.)
Actually I prefer a somewhat longer wait. Sort of like French cuisine. Anticipation makes it all the more enjoyable.
I would suppose that it depends on the length of the chapters.
With shorter chapters it would be better to post them all at once. This allows the readers to read at their leisure.
With longer chapters spreading them out might work towards your advantage, seeing that the story has a large word count might stop them from beginning it in the first place.
EDIT: I know that when I post new chapters I pick up about ten new readers. How far they make it is a different issue...


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Mastro jewels bring in $350K at auction
Among the nearly 300 pieces of jewelry seized from fugitive real-estate developer Michael Mastro and his wife, one attracted 262 bids.
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The Mastro case
The auction for nearly 300 pieces of jewelry seized in France in 2012 from fugitive Seattle real-estate developer Michael Mastro and his wife Linda is now over, and the initial tally shows it brought in $350,165.
The jewelry had been listed online with the Texas-based auctioneer Gaston & Sheehan for the last two weeks on behalf of the U.S. Marshals Service.
The most sought-after item, which attracted 262 bids, was a 14-carat white gold ring set with eight marquise-cut emeralds and eight round diamonds around a cabochon apple-green jade. It went for $3,650.
The most expensive items sold were the Rolex watches — the men's alligator banded one fetched $32,300 after 10 bids, while the women's diamond-encrusted watch went for $24,650 with only one bid.
Twelve items drew no bids — including a $11,900 ladies diamond Concord La Scala watch and a $3,345 double-strand pearl necklace coupled with a hinged bracelet with cat heads with ruby eyes.
Michael Mastro was a Seattle real-estate developer and lender for 40 years until the 2008 crash unraveled his heavily leveraged business.
In 2011, he and his wife ignored a bankruptcy judge's order to turn over the two giant diamond rings, and the couple fled to France. A federal grand jury in Seattle indicted the Mastros on charges of bankruptcy fraud and money laundering after they disappeared.
Most of the auction's proceeds will go to the bankruptcy trustee James Rigby, who is in charge of recovering as much as possible of the $250 million the Mastros owed creditors.
To date, Rigby said, he has , but has spent more than $10 million in legal fees and other costs to recover Mastro assets.
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