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The procrastinator's and accident-prone's guide to Thanksgiving
Date: November 20, 2013
by: Mallory Gnaegy | A&E Editor
Thanksgiving is nigh! If that statement has you already planning your recipes, then this article probably isn't for you.
Although, if you're the accident-prone type of person capable of roasting your turkey and your entire kitchen, too — then you should probably keep reading.
And if the only planning you've done for hosting your holiday party is that you're planning on hosting one — then here's your guide to getting your act together.
One thing, however, isn't belated this year — Hanukkah. The Observer wishes you and yours a Happy Thanksgiving and Happy Hanukah!
Tips on preparing ahead of time
Purchase approximately 1.5 pounds of bird per person. If you're hosting a large party, it's easier to accommodate two smaller birds than one large one.
Don't forget to defrost the turkey! It takes 24 hours per every five pounds of bird. If you're out of time, consider purchasing a fresh turkey.
Plan time accordingly. It takes 20 minutes per pound at 325 degrees to roast. It should cool for a half-hour before you carve it.
If you're stuffing your bird, cook it until the center of the stuffing and thigh reach 165 degrees.
Do all your prep work the night before — chop the vegetables and pre-measure ingredients. If you can, prepare any bread, pie and cranberry sauce the night before. Mashed potatoes can be prepared the day before and warmed beginning the morning of in a slow cooker.
Always have extra aluminum foil and chicken or vegetable stock on hand.
What if your turkey is …
Still frozen — thaw it in a cold-water bath, replacing the water every 30 minutes, or roast it in pieces.
Late going in the oven — cut into the legs and wings and remove the breast meat from the bone and roast it on a baking sheet.
Not cooking — wrap the bird in aluminum foil and turn the temperature up to 450 degrees and cook for three minutes per pound of bird.
Done too early — keep it in a warm place under a tent of aluminum foil.
Starts to burn — flip the turkey on its back and continue cooking. Remove any burned skin prior to carving.
*For all other turkey emergencies, call Butterball's expert help line: 1-800-Butterball (available 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Thanksgiving Day).
If your gravy is greasy — stick it in the freezer until the fat solidifies, then scoop it off.
If your gravy is lumpy — strain it or puree it in the blender.
If your gravy is too thin — make an equal part soft butter and flower paste and add it little by little into the saucepan, bringing it to a boil after each addition.
Learning from past mistakes
Thankfully, some of our readers shared their own Thanksgiving disaster stories to keep you from doing the same thing. If you are the type to learn the hard way, please submit this year's stories to email@example.com.
"I was a new bride hosting my first Thanksgiving dinner. I cooked a lovely bird on the outside and then started to slice. I found a plastic bag with the neck and giblets inside! It spoiled everyone's appetite, and I was totally embarrassed." Sandra Hanan
"I forgot to remove the wax paper dividers out of the frozen pie crust. I realized when we cut into the pumpkin pie, that there was wax paper lining between our filling and crust." Diane Ragsdale
"My first Thanksgiving in a new home I cut veggies, added stock, made cornbread for stuffing, stuffed the turkey and put it in the oven. Then I pushed over the oven lock button to clean oven and couldn't open it for four hours. But the turkey came out fine!" Jackie Salvino
"The first time I made Thanksgiving dinner for me and my former boyfriend, I got his grandmother's mac 'n' cheese recipe — his all-time favorite. I spent all afternoon whipping up all of the yummy dishes, including this mac 'n' cheese dish. To my joy, he loved the mac 'n' cheese. Well, that is, until he began coughing, turning red and breaking out in hives. Who knew he was allergic to Colby Jack cheese?" Sarah Wilson
"I don't have any Thanksgiving disaster stories; I always had it catered. I did bring my live pet turkey Tom as a guest to Thanksgiving dinner at our house in 2009." Nanci Rand
"I had never made a turkey and didn't realize that it takes so long to cook, so I was just starting to take it out of the refrigerator about one hour before people were to arrive. Thankfully, my visiting cousin did miracle things to that turkey — oven, microwave, oven, microwave — and it was only an hour late being ready. There were lots of hors d'oeuvres that Thanksgiving!" Carolyn Michel
"My cousin Joe Lowenstein made the most gorgeous dinner one Thanksgiving: roast goose with all the trimmings roasted to a crisp. He took it out of the oven to cool and enjoyed cocktails and hors d'oeuvres with the guests … Upon returning to the kitchen to serve up the bird, he was startled to find a pile of bones. In their stead, was Princess, the cat, purring quite contentedly." Ellen Berman
"I tripped over the dog's dish while carrying the sweet potato casserole to the table. That was one of my kids' favorite dishes and it went all over the carpet!" Candy Wood
"Our turkey came out looking really bad, so we scrapped it and just ate sides. The next morning, we took it back to the store and they pointed out that it was fine, we had just cooked it upside down." Crystal Rothhaar
"I went to Thanksgiving at a friend's aunt's home once who was smoking a ham with the plastic wrap still on it. She had also forgotten to defrost the turkey so she just doubled the heat of her oven. The sweet potato casserole was good, the rest, not so much!" Peter Acker
"My first turkey exploded in the oven. No kidding, it looked like shag carpeting all over in the oven. My second turkey burst into flames. The first time I made gravy, my guests thought it was sweet potatoes. Now, I provide the cocktails — and they are perfect." Laura Coyle
Everywhere is not closed!
The dreaded "Everything is closed on Thanksgiving Day" woe is turned on its head. Here are a few places to pick up ingredients in case you mess up a side dish or forget to pick up that important ingredient.
Winn Dixie locations are open from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Sweetbay locations are open from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Whole Foods is open from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Not-so-homemade Thanksgiving
So you burned your turkey, dropped the side dish or are ready to throw in the towel. Don't sweat it! Here are some restaurants that are open or offer Thanksgiving dinner to-go and other services. All you have to remember is to call ahead or make a reservation!
-15 South Ristorante, 15 South Blvd. of the Presidents, Sarasota, 388-1555
Turkey special, 4:30 to 10:30 p.m., $17.95 per person
-Bijou Café, 1287 First St., Sarasota, 266-8111
Pommes gratin dauphinois service — bring your casserole dish and Bijou Café will fill for you to finish in your oven at home.
-Blu Que Island Grill, 149 Avenida Messina, Siesta Key, 346-0738
11 a.m. to 10 p.m., all you can eat lobster, $45; and smoked-turkey special, $25
-Café Gabbiano, 5104 Ocean Blvd., Siesta Key, 349-1423
Traditional menu in addition to a holiday dinner, open 5 to 10 p.m.
-Café L'Europe, 431 St. Armands Circle, Sarasota, 388-4415
Thanksgiving dinner, $36.95 per person, open noon to 8 p.m.
Holiday dinner to-go specials must be ordered Friday, Nov. 22 (call Mara Routh in catering, 388-4415, Ext. 4).
-Darwin's on 4th, 1525 Fourth St., Sarasota, 343-2165
Open 5 to 10 p.m. with special turkey, pumpkin and fall-inspired menu items
-Duval's New World Café, 1435 Main St., Sarasota, 312-4001
Thanksgiving buffet, $34.95 adults, $15.95 children, noon to 6:30 p.m.
-Euphemia Haye, 5540 Gulf of Mexico Drive, Longboat Key, 383-3633
Roast goose special $43.25; roast duck special $37.50; and sliced turkey special $36.50. Restaurant open noon to 9 p.m., and the Loft Lounge open 2 to 10 p.m.
Thanksgiving to-go menu, must order by Monday, Nov. 25
-Harry's Continental Kitchens, 525 St. Judes Drive, Longboat Key, 383-0777
Thanksgiving to-go menu available if ordered by Sunday, Nov. 24, with pickup Wednesday, Nov. 27; visit HarrysKitchen.com.
Three-course dinner, $31.95 per person, open 2 to 8 p.m.
-Kacey's Seafood & More, 4904 Fruitville Road, Sarasota, 378-3644
Traditional Thanksgiving dinner $13.99 per person, open noon to 7:30 p.m.
-Lazy Lobster of Longboat Key, 5350 Gulf of Mexico Drive, Longboat Key, 383-0040
-Lazy Lobster of Sarasota, 7602 N. Lockwood Ridge Road, Sarasota
Traditional turkey dinner, $18.99 per person, open 1 to 8:30 p.m. (offered at both locations)
-Libby's Café + Bar, 1917 S. Osprey Ave., Sarasta, 487-7300
Thanksgiving menu, 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., $32 adult; $12 children age 10 and under
Offers doggie bags, so guests can have next-day leftovers
-Louies Modern, 1289 N. Palm Ave., Sarasota, 552-9688
Thanksgiving Farm to Table to Fork, noon to 9 p.m., $30 per person
-Mar Vista Dockside Restaurant & Pub, 760 Broadway St., Longboat Key, 383-2391
Traditional turkey and ham dinner, $14.99 adults, $6.99 children, open 11:30 a.m. to 9 p.m.
-Mattison's City Grille, 1 N. Lemon Ave., Sarasota, 330-0440
Dine-in Thanksgiving feast, $28 adults, $14 children, 11 a.m. to close
-Mattison's Forty-One and Catering, 7275 S. Tamiami Trail, Sarasota 921-3400
Thanksgiving feast to-go, orders must be placed by Sunday, Nov. 24
-Michael's On East, 1212 S. East Ave., Sarasota, 366-0007
Traditional Thanksgiving Day dinner, 2 to 8 p.m., $28.95 per person
-Polo Grill & Bar, 10670 Boardwalk Loop, Lakewood Ranch, 782-0899
Thanksgiving Day buffet, noon to 5 p.m.
-Roessler's, 2033 Vamo Way, Sarasota, 966-5688
Regular menu with holiday specials, open 1 to 7:30 p.m.
-Ruth's Chris Steak House, 6700 S. Tamiami Trail, Sarasota, 924-9442
Traditional three-course turkey dinner, $36.95, open noon to 8:30 p.m
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Shh don't tell that to crazy people. Only world map I could stand was FF12's because it was to scale and there were no random battles. Oh and there was actually tons of side stuff to explore that was completely irrelevant to the main story, and not just meaningless crap either - there was towns and camps with side quests, dungeons with treasure or optional bosses, and probably my favorite part, the totema chilling around waiting for you to stumble upon them so they could destroy you (if you were underleveled). Good times.
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But yeah as others have said, I don't really agree with Brad's review at all but it is his opinion so w/e. I still wish the site had a dedicated RPG guy that actually played loads and loads of modern RPGs (of all origins) that really knew what they were talking about. I spend half my time head in hands when they talk about RPGs in general on the bombcast.


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Enterprises are quickly realizing that their future success is dependent on their ability to adapt their business to the Cloud. That realization however comes with more questions and concerns about executing an effective cloud-based strategy. The explosion of the OpenStack community has made it possible for hosting providers and businesses to create or utilize Amazon-like public and private clouds, but it's clear that the Cloud is not a one-size-fits-all solution. One prime factor that dictates the success of a cloud computing strategy is the particular workload an enterprise is tackling. From DevOps, to rapidly deploying dynamic and scalable websites, enterprises' workload needs should dictate their cloud architecture.
The specific workloads have an impact on many elements of the cloud, particularly the architecture of the infrastructure. It becomes clear how integral infrastructure architecture is to meeting workload requirements as we examine specific workload use cases.
The first element to consider in the architecture of cloud infrastructure is computing power. The number and speed of compute nodes within a cloud configuration will dictate how quickly processes can be executed. This comes into play prominently when assessing a workload, as the computing power required to develop a web app pales in comparison to the compute power required to execute Big Data analysis. Large-scale data analysis projects require powerful compute capabilities. While this kind of project is completely within the purview of well-constructed cloud architectures, that architecture must be designed as such.
The next integral ingredient to a cloud's architecture is the storage architecture. There are several different types of storage that vary in availability, resiliency and transactional performance. Amazon's Simple Storage Service (S3) provides a multi-tenant object storage environment, while block storage, like Amazon EBS, provides a persistent storage target. Typically an enterprise architecture would require a multi-level SAN architecture that provided enough IOPS (input/outputs) for the storage of the VMs as well as the transactional block storage. As flash storage has matured, it has become possible to collapse the typical storage architecture, running virtual machine operating systems and persistent transactional data on the same tier.
Another variable that's worth pointing out is that of data access speeds. While one might have a large element of storage space, the ability to quickly access the data stored within is a factor in developing infrastructure for particular workloads.
The last vector for consideration is that of density. In many datacenters, space is readily available. However, that may not always be the case. Compact and energy-efficient datacenter hardware systems take up less space in a datacenter, thereby saving space and presumably cost. However, dense hardware tends to be more expensive - making the proposition contingent upon cost per square foot versus the cost of denser hardware. One must also consider the power density per square foot as this varies widely depending on the data center. This kind of determination must be made based on ad hoc criteria and circumstances. Less dense solutions tend to also be less power-efficient, bringing an additional cost point of analysis into the picture.
Dissecting DevOps
DevOps is a term that has gained quite a bit of notoriety in recent years, as enterprises acknowledge the interdependence of IT operations and software development teams. DevOps aficionados are looking to cloud technology as a means to more closely align the two groups' respective goals, which tend to be fundamentally at odds.
The DevOps operation means creating a cloud environment that allows developers to quickly self-service launch the necessary build and test virtual machines required to create the artifacts used in a continuous delivery pipeline. This kind of pipeline requires that the main code base (often referred to as the trunk or mainline) be constantly in the "green" state and execute with no fatal errors. One of the fundamental keys to creating that pipeline is rapidly rebuilding and unit testing any changed code. Some development shops rebuild on every code check-in by every developer, while others take a less extreme approach and build every ten minutes or on the hour.
The success that can be achieved by a continuous build environment is largely dependent on a fast, well-orchestrated infrastructure. In this use-case, an IT manager will seek out a cloud architecture that launches and kills virtual machines (VMs) quickly, and includes highly accessible storage. Depending on the specifics, this could result in a cloud that combines a large amount of IOPS to quickly launch the VMs and perform the workload.
Deploying Dynamic and Scalable Websites
There's arguably no greater beneficiary of cloud computing than a company that repeatedly launches similar websites. Let's take a media company as an example that delivers entertainment content across its platform. Critical to this company's success is delivering existing and new content through rapidly changing websites. Powering this are innovative applications that provide interactive experiences that engage and create a loyal user base. For this particular type of workload, developers require automated provisioning and flexible storage and compute options, as different launches require different demands, such as a UGC contest demanding greater storage and an MMORPG video game that requires a compute-intensive environment.
These requirements often vary in their scope but are consistent in their frequency, so it is vital to eliminate the need for repetitive, time-consuming tasks such as installing and configuring commonly used website software like databases and web servers. Well-made templates can be re-used and when consistency is maintained automatically, system administrators can focus on higher-value tasks rather than performing repairs. Where other workloads may have a narrow scope, elasticity and flexibility within compute, storage and data access elements is required to effectively and efficiently deploy dynamic and scalable websites.
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One interesting HPC application of cloud technologies is that of animation rendering. Over the years the animation industry has used various computer hardware and software technologies to automate the steps in the production process. Because many of these steps require high-performance computing systems with significant CPU and IOPs capabilities, animation shops have often relied on purpose-built hardware and software systems for their peak capacity. With the advent of server virtualization, high-speed solid state drives (SSDs) and standards-based cloud platforms, animators are taking a closer look at the benefits of cloud technology. In order for these workloads to be efficient and effective in the cloud, high power computing must be coupled with high IOPs, as virtual machines must be launched and deprovisioned as short lived but CPU-intensive tasks.
Designing an infrastructure around a particular workload is a process that requires comprehensive understanding of the basic functions of the workload in question, and while optimizing an infrastructure for a particular workload can present some front-end hurdles, the efficiency and potential cost savings in the long run are significant, as managers can focus resources on a particularly impactful element of their architecture.
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How do APIs and IoT relate? The answer is not as simple as merely adding an API on top of a dumb device, but rather about understanding the architectural patterns for implementing an IoT fabric. There are typically two or three trends: Exposing the device to a management framework Exposing that management framework to a business centric logic Exposing that business layer and data to end users. This last trend is the IoT stack, which involves a new shift in the separation of what stuff happens, where data lives and where the interface lies. For instance, it's a mix of architectural styles ...
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The Internet of Things is tied together with a thin strand that is known as time. Coincidentally, at the core of nearly all data analytics is a timestamp. When working with time series data there are a few core principles that everyone should consider, especially across datasets where time is the common boundary. In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, Jim Scott, Director of Enterprise Strategy & Architecture at MapR Technologies, discussed single-value, geo-spatial, and log time series data. By focusing on enterprise applications and the data center, he will use OpenTSDB as an example t...
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An entirely new security model is needed for the Internet of Things, or is it? Can we save some old and tested controls for this new and different environment? In his session at @ThingsExpo, New York's at the Javits Center, Davi Ottenheimer, EMC Senior Director of Trust, reviewed hands-on lessons with IoT devices and reveal a new risk balance you might not expect. Davi Ottenheimer, EMC Senior Director of Trust, has more than nineteen years' experience managing global security operations and assessments, including a decade of leading incident response and digital forensics. He is co-author of t...
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The Internet of Things will greatly expand the opportunities for data collection and new business models driven off of that data. In her session at @ThingsExpo, Esmeralda Swartz, CMO of MetraTech, discussed how for this to be effective you not only need to have infrastructure and operational models capable of utilizing this new phenomenon, but increasingly service providers will need to convince a skeptical public to participate. Get ready to show them the money!
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The Internet of Things will put IT to its ultimate test by creating infinite new opportunities to digitize products and services, generate and analyze new data to improve customer satisfaction, and discover new ways to gain a competitive advantage across nearly every industry. In order to help corporate business units to capitalize on the rapidly evolving IoT opportunities, IT must stand up to a new set of challenges. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Jeff Kaplan, Managing Director of THINKstrategies, will examine why IT must finally fulfill its role in support of its SBUs or face a new round of...
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One of the biggest challenges when developing connected devices is identifying user value and delivering it through successful user experiences. In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, Mike Kuniavsky, Principal Scientist, Innovation Services at PARC, described an IoT-specific approach to user experience design that combines approaches from interaction design, industrial design and service design to create experiences that go beyond simple connected gadgets to create lasting, multi-device experiences grounded in people's real needs and desires.
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Enthusiasm for the Internet of Things has reached an all-time high. In 2013 alone, venture capitalists spent more than $1 billion dollars investing in the IoT space. With "smart" appliances and devices, IoT covers wearable smart devices, cloud services to hardware companies. Nest, a Google company, detects temperatures inside homes and automatically adjusts it by tracking its user's habit. These technologies are quickly developing and with it come challenges such as bridging infrastructure gaps, abiding by privacy concerns and making the concept a reality. These challenges can't be addressed w...
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The Domain Name Service (DNS) is one of the most important components in networking infrastructure, enabling users and services to access applications by translating URLs (names) into IP addresses (numbers). Because every icon and URL and all embedded content on a website requires a DNS lookup loading complex sites necessitates hundreds of DNS queries. In addition, as more internet-enabled 'Things' get connected, people will rely on DNS to name and find their fridges, toasters and toilets. According to a recent IDG Research Services Survey this rate of traffic will only grow. What's driving t...
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Connected devices and the Internet of Things are getting significant momentum in 2014. In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, Jim Hunter, Chief Scientist & Technology Evangelist at Greenwave Systems, examined three key elements that together will drive mass adoption of the IoT before the end of 2015. The first element is the recent advent of robust open source protocols (like AllJoyn and WebRTC) that facilitate M2M communication. The second is broad availability of flexible, cost-effective storage designed to handle the massive surge in back-end data in a world where timely analytics is e...
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Scott Jenson leads a project called The Physical Web within the Chrome team at Google. Project members are working to take the scalability and openness of the web and use it to talk to the exponentially exploding range of smart devices. Nearly every company today working on the IoT comes up with the same basic solution: use my server and you'll be fine. But if we really believe there will be trillions of these devices, that just can't scale. We need a system that is open a scalable and by using the URL as a basic building block, we open this up and get the same resilience that the web enjoys.
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"Matrix is an ambitious open standard and implementation that's set up to break down the fragmentation problems that exist in IP messaging and VoIP communication," explained John Woolf, Technical Evangelist at Matrix, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at @ThingsExpo, held Nov 4–6, 2014, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
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We are reaching the end of the beginning with WebRTC, and real systems using this technology have begun to appear. One challenge that faces every WebRTC deployment (in some form or another) is identity management. For example, if you have an existing service – possibly built on a variety of different PaaS/SaaS offerings – and you want to add real-time communications you are faced with a challenge relating to user management, authentication, authorization, and validation. Service providers will want to use their existing identities, but these will have credentials already that are (hopefully) i...
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P2P RTC will impact the landscape of communications, shifting from traditional telephony style communications models to OTT (Over-The-Top) cloud assisted & PaaS (Platform as a Service) communication services. The P2P shift will impact many areas of our lives, from mobile communication, human interactive web services, RTC and telephony infrastructure, user federation, security and privacy implications, business costs, and scalability. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Robin Raymond, Chief Architect at Hookflash, will walk through the shifting landscape of traditional telephone and voice services ...
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Explosive growth in connected devices. Enormous amounts of data for collection and analysis. Critical use of data for split-second decision making and actionable information. All three are factors in making the Internet of Things a reality. Yet, any one factor would have an IT organization pondering its infrastructure strategy. How should your organization enhance its IT framework to enable an Internet of Things implementation? In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, James Kirkland, Chief Architect for the Internet of Things and Intelligent Systems at Red Hat, described how to revolutioniz...
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Bit6 today issued a challenge to the technology community implementing Web Real Time Communication (WebRTC). To leap beyond WebRTC's significant limitations and fully leverage its underlying value to accelerate innovation, application developers need to consider the entire communications ecosystem.
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The definition of IoT is not new, in fact it's been around for over a decade. What has changed is the public's awareness that the technology we use on a daily basis has caught up on the vision of an always on, always connected world. If you look into the details of what comprises the IoT, you'll see that it includes everything from cloud computing, Big Data analytics, "Things," Web communication, applications, network, storage, etc. It is essentially including everything connected online from hardware to software, or as we like to say, it's an Internet of many different things. The difference ...
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Cloud Expo 2014 TV commercials will feature @ThingsExpo, which was launched in June, 2014 at New York City's Javits Center as the largest 'Internet of Things' event in the world.
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This is where all the information about WalesLab will be posted. If you have a question get in contact with Simon Coates, Creative Associate.
For more info on the projects we've supported you can see the links on the right hand side. You'll also FAQ's there too.
Join the group to be kept up to date about projects and future opportunities.
Website: http://nationaltheatrewales.org/waleslab
Location: Wales
Members: 404
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Over the next four years, thanks to significant investment from the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, WalesLab will use the nation as a landscape for developing new theatre ideas. The project is open for submissions all year round - to do so you will need to join this group, complete a profile for yourself and use the ideas submission form on the NTW website. You can find that here.
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The initiative is split into three strands:
A summer camp for up to twenty theatre makers and artists of varied experience to share ideas, learn form each other and stimulate new collaborations and projects (watch the video below to find out more).
WalesLab projects -
Fertilise: For around a week small groups will work on the development of a project they have proposed. There will be up to eight Fertilise projects a year, some of which may have an international element.
Germinate: Three times a year small groups of artists will be offered the opportunity to spend around two weeks somewhere in Wales developing an idea or project which they have already begun working on, and will share their work with a local audience. There will be three Germinate projects a year, one of which will have an international element.
For more information on WalesLab can be found in this group.
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We are looking for 1 male and 1 female performer for a new project that's been developed through WalesLab, National Theatre Wales ,directed by Matt Ball and inspired by the short story 'Light is Like Water' by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
Writers and Technologists...
The Writing Platform has two bursaries on offer for writers and technologists to embark on a writing - or writing-related - collaboration over a period of three months.
More info here: http://www.thewritingplatform.com/bursary2015/
HEALTH & SAFETY and RISK ASSESSMENT TRAINING
David, our Head of Production, will be giving a talk/workshop on health and safety and how to write risk assessments this Friday between 10am - 1pm.
If you are interested in taking part, turn up at the NTW Offices for a 10am start.
Bring gluten free biscuits.
People of the WalesLab group - info on our first Artist Huddle is here. Take a look and sign up (only 40 places available)
In case you are wondering what a Huddle is, its our new initiative designed to support the development of skills contributing towards the professional lives of artists, beyond the rehearsal room.
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Outdoor arts specialists Walk the Plank are looking to fill 3 Freelance, fixed-term posts for Wales Millennium Centre's 10th Anniversary Event.
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Walk the Plank is a leading outdoor arts organisation renowned for its pioneering creative approach and commitment to engagement and participation. We have been commissioned to deliver a high-profile 'moment' for Wales Millennium Centre's anniversary programme in September 2015.
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"Gateway to the Stars" Nov 3 – The Andromeda Galaxy
Now that we're well into Fall, the constellation of Pegasus the Winged Horse is high in the sky.
On Saturday, Nov. 5, 2011 our next "Gateway to the Stars" presentation will feature the central region of the Autumn skies; the constellations of Pegasus (The Winged Horse) and Andromeda (The Chained Maiden). You might remember those names from the…
The next showing of "Gateway to the Stars" will be October 1, 2011 in the Hansen Dome Theatre, featuring Clark Planetarium's new Digistar 4 system. It will be a crisper, more colorful starfield, with a host of new visual effects. As we move into autumn, stars like the "Summer Triangle" will appear further to the western side of the sky as new stars like the "Great Square of Pegasus" climb up into the eastern sky.


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Terming the BCCI's Emergent Working Committee meeting in Chennai a sham, former spin legend Erapalli Prasanna on Monday (June 3) said that money is ruling the sport now and it is no more a gentleman's game. "The entire controversy is not going to affect the popularity of cricket in India as we have seen packed stadiums in the Indian T20 League. There is an immense following for the game here but I can see the gentleman's approach in the game is zero now," Prasanna told PTI. "Money is ruling the game now and it hurts as cricket has been a glorious game of uncertainties. During our times if a batsman was out but the umpire was in dilemma, the batsman himself used to walk out. That was called the gentleman's game but now nobody is bothered. "Cricketers think that umpires are paid well and it is their duty to judge. The whole approach has changed," the former off-spinner, who has taken 189 wickets in 49 Tests between 1967 to 1978, said. Prasanna insisted that the BCCI's working committee meeting on Sunday was nothing more than a sham. "It is a simple step of manoeuvring and sham. It was expected that Board chief N Srinivasan would resign but it did not happen. He has 'stepped aside' and I don't know what will be his powers now," he said. "If this was the case then why did they deliberate for so long. They could have done it before. I guess (Jagmohan) Dalmiya has only three months time and I don't think that despite being a former president he can set things right in such a short span of time," said Prasanna. Stating that it was not a workable solution, Prasanna said, "I don't think that this is going to work. Nothing is clear and it will further enhance complications." He felt that legalising betting in cricket was a possibility, which could be explored. "I am not endorsing the suggestion to legalise betting but I feel that it is a possibility which can be explored like in horse racing. Betting is a gamble where no player, no franchise and no official is involved. They can talk to horse racing officials in this regard," he said. Asked about his views on the Indian T20 League, Prasanna supported the cash-rich T20 league, saying, "I don't think that IPL is not giving anything to Indian cricket. Fielding standards of our players have gone higher. This league provides a platform for youngsters to showcase their skills. It is good for cricket."
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FORT MYERS BEACH, Fla.- Shrimp, shrimp, and more shrimp! That's the story this weekend on Fort Myers Beach for the 54th Annual Shrimp Fest. The Fort Myers Beach Lions Club has hosted the festival since its beginning. The club serves up about 2000 shrimp dinners over the weekend for $10 apiece. But in addition to all that shrimp, you'll plenty more entertainment on Estero Island.
The festival gets going Saturday morning with the parade at 10:00 and that wraps up in Times Square around noon. The Matanzas Pass bridge will be shut down starting at 9:00 am and remained closed until noon. If you want to make it over for the parade, you need to be in line early. Following the parade, the 2012 Shrimp Queen will be crowned at the beach pavillion. More than 100 vendors fill the parking lot by the pier and you'll find all types of crafts and even more food. You'll also find official Shrimp Festival T-shirts sold by the Lions Club as well. All the proceeds to the Lions Clubs go back local charity causes. Every year, the Lions club raises between $50,000 to $60,000.


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with a strange,
silver glow,
and deposits a burning desire
to absorb it all.
The DoctorWhen I was seven, I was diagnosed with emotions.
"Poor girl." I heard them say. "She'll never survive this one."
I laid with my face towards the ceiling on the cold examination table, listening to them discuss my fate. I felt something breaking in my chest and something burning inside my throat. A small tear slipped down my cheek.
"Doctor! Look at this!" Shrieked my mother, "Something is coming out of her eye."
The doctor rushed over to me and wiped the tear from my cheek. He touched the top of my head as he whispered, "I am so sorry." And then he turned to my mother. "It's a tear. It means that she is sad."
"Sad?" My mother asked inquisitively.
"It's one of her emotions. This doesn't attack the same way that normal diseases do, there are all sorts of different symptoms. Right now, she is sad and the only way that I know how to explain it is that she is feeling down."
"What do you mean by down?"
"Her emotions can best be described as ones that are upwhen she is feeling good, and
ImpressionableYou left impressions in her skin and they sank straight down to her heart. You always told her that she was impressionable, but she never took it quite so literally.
She was holding memories so tightly that her hands started to burn. Each day a layer of skin would char and crumble. She swept the ash off and carried on.
Sometimes when she felt lonely, she would take old blankets and wrap herself in them. They smelled like the people who used them before her. They have absorbed their dreams, their feelings, their hearts. She liked to hear other peoples' dreams because she never had one herself.
She never felt quite at home. She worried about getting caught in a gust of wind and tossed down in a field somewhere, but secretly, she hoped for it.
She missed you. She wouldn't admit it, but I could see it in her face and hear it in her words.
She lost her right shoe one night. She walked a half mile in the rain without it and arrived at the front door with a big smile on her face. Sometimes I
The BalloonShe hated him so much that she wanted to love him. She wanted to love him more than anything in her life. She wanted to wrap him up in her arms and promise to keep him forever.
But they tell her to leave him. "We know his type," they say. "The minute you begin to care about him, he leaves you forever and you'll be left to pick up the pieces."
She knows that they're right. She holds him by a string while he's miles above her. She loathes him, but her heart races every time she thinks of letting go of the string. She closes her eyes and the minute she opens them, she has to frantically reach for him.
Purple shadows grow beneath her eyes and blisters form where she has him tied at her wrist.
"Let him go," they whisper as they try to loosen him from her arm.
She shuffles, sleepy-eyed through the park, dragging him along behind her. A woman runs up behind her and points to the string.
"He is absolutely lovely. You're very lucky to have him miss," the woman says.
She begins to remove him fro
FFM VI (The Astronaut)I've always liked astronauts. There is a strange romanticism attached to someone who finds the entire world so mundane that they feel compelled to leave it behind. (I hear that the word mundane means "earthly." Figures.) They need more. They need the universe. They need everything that ever was and ever will be.
My husband is an astronaut, and as a child, I wanted to become one too. I could leave my little world behind. But as I grew, my little world also grew, and I realized that there was more than enough to explore and discover on this planet. I had my love, the astronaut and we lived in a tiny, little house where I played wife and he played husband. My world was little again, but it was perfect.
But of course, he had to suit up and take off. And I got left behind.
Most nights, I sit in
ourmy garden, and look up at the night sky. I watch the stars and know that he is up there, flying among them and I wish for them to bring him back.
And I know that this
FFM XXIShe's always written down her dreams, except sometimes she can't remember them. She leaves a blank space in her journal, a blank hole in her memory.
It kills her to forget her dreams. It feels like she is slowly losing her memories, ones tucked away on the highest shelf in her mind, and it scares her that she can no longer reach it.
She's lost herself in the caverns of her mind, spaces created for the lost dreams. Caverns that will always remain empty.
But she isn't losing her memory. She isn't even growing old yet.
She creates caverns and journals for her dreams. But soon, there are more empty spaces than
filled ones, her memory falters and her imagination slows.
And then they are all empty. Her dreams, her journal, her mind.
Teacup FriendsWe brew cups of tea and remember them thirty minutes later. The water is still warm when we pull out the teabag, but the liquid is thick and smells bitter. We drink it anyway;the syrupy liquid coats our throats and stains our stomachs. We drink it anyway, since we took the time to make it.
We figure they are like that; bitter, forgotten cups of tea that we invested so much time in making. (We even give them names: Earl Grey, Peppermint, Breakfast Blend, and Chamomile.)
Chamomile was the first to go, clipping the hair above his ears, buttoning himself up inside a black pea coat, tying it all up with a noose-like scarf around his neck.
Inside we mourned, but outside we laughed about how silly this all was. As if the way he wore his hair determined his newfound spite. As if the pea coat was a rite of passage, a ticket to better things.
But then Breakfast Blend, Peppermint, and Earl Grey followed, sweeping locks of hair beneath the rug and buttoning four years inside their pea coats. (It
LiminalI woke after thirteen hours of sleep
and when I looked in the mirror,
there were still bruise-purple
crescent moons beneath my eyes.
tired no longer comes from a
lack of sleep—it has reached a state
of permanence, engraving itself
into my bones. When you ask
how I am, I will now answer:
cold and tired.
It was later that night when I
tasted the liquor cabinet
to see what all the fuss was about.
Whiskey burns as it goes down
and settles in the cavity of the heart,
encompassing it with a hug
that a lover will never reach.
I now want to know if I will
ever be able to melt.
I used to close my eyes beneath
the night sky, as everything in the
universe was staring me down,
and beg that one of the
billions of beings out there
would make me smaller.
If that tiny girl
in a big open field,
beneath the big open sky,
who hadn't ever seen the big open sea,
got her wish,
would she even be able to see
herself in the mirror?
I took offMy day off.
I stand in sunlight
without asking.
I can watch it being day.
The mud is soft and cool at home.
I'd bury well without a casket,
I'll be a naked pill for earth.
I build a garden box from wood,
smash my thumb.
Red bell
too late for lettuce.
I had a premonition
I would live like this.
No one will remember me.
I'll forget by Tuesday.
RestlessI've been living in the same breathy dream
for too many days now; I'm bed-ridden and
stale and I reek of those moments that come
full throttle like a car crash on a winter night
this is evolution where weak hearts
are afraid of the shadows and where
everything changes,
an apologetic wind births no remorse;
he will move on—anchored ship
set sail, I am the sunken wreckage
that never learned how to swim.
he will move on, Darwin says
I never had a chance
I wish I were the textbook sadness,
symptom and solution and endurance
but I've spent too long sleeping on the
thoughts of shooting stars and gravity
and reasons, scientific calculations with
thrice-checked proofs for the skeptics
that don't believe in the sleight of hand magic
reality wants to imply
I am not the insomniac writer with
better things to do than sleep; I am
the heavy bones afraid of what
lies in the darkness beneath
the skeletons of childhood monsters
and p
i don't believe in jesusno one celebrates losing virginity like they celebrate losing teeth.
i don't get a dollar under my pillow for having sex with my boyfriend.
there are no doctors smiling at me when i tell them my cherry has been popped.
i am a whore for having premarital sex.
i am a tramp for loving someone enough to open my body to them.
no one celebrates losing virginity like they celebrate losing teeth -
but i slip mine under my pillow anyway, and in the morning when i wake,
there is a quarter and a tiny folded note:
"you are not a slut."
beauty is a state of mindforgiveness is the
scent the violet leaves
on the foot that stomped it;
I am beautiful in remembrance:
I am beautiful
in a body two sizes too
large, in eyes dilated
with questions (eyes
you cannot name; gray
like the ocean, blue
like the heart, green like
the fever dream I cannot
wake from) I am the
hair of a lion, a wild
thing, ignition upon
tempted glance. I am the skin
you cannot name, always fleeting;
the chameleon
you always see
but never truly take in.
and I know a boy
carved of ivory silence,
a ribcage drenched in dusti have your ribcage, you said.
what should i put in it?
i told you i'd always wanted a fire,
the kind that would fill my eyes with starlight
and pump my blood full of passion, but
you're made of wildflowers, you said.
a fire would burn you to ash.
you wanted to fill my chest with
the sound of a train, whistling
far away in the night;
with the sound of rain smacking leaves;
with the sound the wind makes
when it seems like it's trying to speak
and you wanted to throw in the
smell of midnight in august
and the feeling of sand being
sucked out from under your feet
when the ocean inhales,
and the strange little moment of
bittersweet joy you get when
someone else puts your soul into words
and you realize you're not as alone as you thought.
i told you that if i had all that inside me,
i'd ache all the time
and you smiled a sad little smile,
because you already knew that ache.
because you were a writer, and you ached all the time.
i've got it, i said.
seabonesyou told me to walk on water
but all i did was sink to the sandy bottoms
of the salty sea.
the brackish water stung at my eyes
and filled my lungs,
seeking refuge in the spaces between my ribs.
i remember barely breathing
wet inhales and slow exhales of the briny sea
through slightly parted lips.
my heart was lost in a century-old shipwreck
found through the haze of floating sand
granules that looked like dust in sunlight,
fingers wrapping around wood and forgotten memories.
i wondered if this was death,
ocean water pressing down on the hollows in my chest
world moving in slow motion through teal colored lenses.
you told me to walk on water
but all i did was drown.
scar-crossed(my fingers are colder than the solemn blue
buried in her eyes. so much dead beauty,
like an ocean without waves).
she is fading and i cling to her,
and in this tiny little moment
between breaths
we barely even exist.
Humanityi. Creator
Flicking through yellowed pages,
The crinkles smelling of dust and tears.
A human-induced God complex - authorial authority.
ii. Photographer
At parties, she hides behind her camera, just so
Someone gives her a smile once in a while.
Too bad she only sneaks candid photos.
iii. Conspirator
Vindictive whispers cloy behind closed
Hands and hardened hearts. They vent.
An immunity to gossip; a cathartic release.
iv. Voyeur
Peeping toms on laptop screens and
DVDs - it's only natural, apparently.
What is normal anyway?
admittance is defeatthey called you beautiful
with porcelain eyes about to crack
and cigarette skin crumbling
away, a knotted spine and
jagged smile:
you were never gracious.
you're slipping underneath, this
virulent smog masks a paper sky that
never allowed a dream and
you're afraid because it's soaking in
your pores again, unattainable and unoriginal;
the meaning of life never meant enough-
you were never hopeful.
there's a getaway map on the underside
of your pillow, and a lifetime of secrets
on the underside of your bones
you're a walking travesty:
your chest ticks, dull
your wrist beats, dying
time is keeping you but
you were never patient.
you lie large enough to make us believe you
don't entertain nightmares, but what if
no one could hear you scream?
remarkable, it seems
caged birds really know how
to sing out
(you were always beautiful)
aphroditeclambering lips tumble over each other like
little deer stumbling into the headlights, where
blushing cupid's bows snap shut at the slightest
whisper of a touch; as summer's broken blossom
whistles into moss, suicidal and free-falling at a
twist of the wind, dripping through honeyed-hands and
trickling down wrists. words nuzzle breath, the air
staved of acoustics that choreograph faces closer; watching as
quivering eyes thrust new-born hope, where
restless hearts knock beneath a web of ribs,
screaming silently as bodies are poured into the
stitches of aphrodite's venomo(us) fly-trap.
The Jailori.
the room smelled of paint and chocolate;
a stain that won't wash out no matter how vigorously you grate,
no matter how deeply you peel.
"Mothers never cry when their boys run towards large army tanks, and fishermen never weep when they return home with nothing." These were my forced whispers in her ear.
ticking antiques and wooden furnishing,
a land flowing with silk and money.
it was no consolation.
pain still trickled through.
I told her that I don't kiss women on the mouth, and by day I left her to her own thoughts. That's when she finally listened and stopped her crying.
i have sorely learned
that when love bleeds out of his emancipating violence,
the man becomes god.
She substituted her sobbing with writing. I planned to toss her diary into the crackling fire when she wasn't looking.
i longed to run away on raw hands and feet
in dark blue jeans.
but instead i watched him
acousticyour soul is an acoustic
black and white picture
movie reel
captive sunlight
never yielding to release
giving shadows a new taste
of elegance, quiescent
the tranquil luminescence
that can trap a heart
in the photographic emulsion
or celluloid undertow
of slow motion
just as flammable
as a subtle combustion
kindling a rustic tongue
to move a languid expulsion
ladened with sorrows
carried like crystal shards
in a humble sun catcher
hung above a familiar window
prizing inconsequential matter
into flecks of golden dust
reminiscent of
beauty and
vices.there's hell in your eyes, painting them black cesspits that could eat away the stars.
you tell me you need out of your head. the moon pulls higher in the sky, quietly marking the hour. our feet hang over empty air, the tracks below an open casket. you inhale nicotine and exhale burning buildings. smoke curls like fingers into the body of the night.
we're breaking like an ocean. eggshells on pavement.
i can't hold you together,
so you down handfuls of little white pills like peppermint candies.
like if you just keep swallowing, they'll whitewash the walls of your ribcage and purge your dirty heart.
you drink like you're always thirsty,
like you've found the antidote to forgetting.
instead, i hold matches to the dry tinder of my parchment skin to see if it catches fire
to burn down the gosttown of all the things i can't forget.
i dig trenches in my skin to leak out poison pulsing in my veins and the dirty swingset in my bones.
we both have memories we can't kill.
the black in our
"Louie," they called her. Not Louise. "Louie, Louie," her father would sing, nonsense syllables bebopping in his mouth, his voice making her nose wiggle like it does when he smokes cigarettes, "Louie, Louie, Louizze. Louie, Louie, Louieooi."
Louie pushes her boat further into the wild blue yonder of the parking lot. She fashioned it out of a torn piece of cardboard, a toothpick crowned with mustard yellow confetti sprung from a Denny's sandwich. It sails brave and bold on a puddle of diet Coke.
Her brother shoots rubber tipped arrows, Comanche Chief specials, at the cars in the lot. One of the arrows hit a wood panel station wagon with a dull ping. "You die. You die," he yells, a David trouncing Goliath.
Louie blows on the newspaper sail. Her mother washes herself in the bathroom sink with rough paper towels and pink liquid soap. She rubs at the shadows beneath her eyes, hoping the shadows are road grit instead of exhaustion and endless Highway 88 talk radio.
They're traveling to
forest firesmy signature scrawled across all
of your sentences like a stain of apologies:
i'm sorry for anchoring you to my hip
like a one-sided promise, like a flood of insincerity.
i'm sorry for collecting you like a well of wishes,
for whispering you into every crack in these walls.
i do not have the depth to tether our limbs
with the tautness of our smiles, but i will
balance you on the edges of my knees until
you slip away.
i have been kneeling with my arms outstretched
but the divinity of your touch
never graced my expectant stance.
our bones built forest fires together,
but it was always my tears putting them out.
fast-forward through the goodbyesthis is the beginning of the end
"i know you," he says.
and he looks defeated, he looks sad, he looks like
he's a boy who may one day realize how much
he cares for you, so you cut him off and say,
"minus all the secrets i don't tell anyone."
"well, yeah, minus those."
"then you don't know me at all."
and then you tell him,
i love you. but you don't use those words
because those are taboo. are jinxed.
are knock on wood three times fast.
instead you press him in a hug and say,
i'm sorry, knowing he won't understand
that this is the first time you ever cared for something
enough to try and fix it after you hurt it.
you hope he doesn't ever realize what you're saying
and his response will always be 'what for?' because
if he figures out he loves you nothing changes.
he's just going to be in love with a corpse, a memory,
a pair of trigger happy hands,
Andromeda Callingsome dull scrape
over a pretty face
give or take
to put me in my place
naked, beautiful
swallowed by the sea
isn't it a pity?
I'll break my chains and then
(queen of queens, ruler of men)
I'll stake my claim over whole galaxies
foolish to think that you could offer me
(wasn't it?)
Andromeda calling
a mouthful of stars
and a handful of batteries
by fits and starts
we'll conquer their batteries
flying powerful
over messes of artillery
see their scales gleam
I'll break my chains and then
(queen of queens, ruler of men)
I'll stake my claim over whole galaxies
foolish to think that you could offer me
Andromeda calling
listen close
I won't be your scapegoat
I don't care
whether you sink or float
I'm not interested
in playing the maiden
I'll rescue myself
I'll break my chains and then
(queen of queens, ruler of men)
I'll stake my claim over whole galaxies
foolish to think that you could offer me
(to anyon
Atlanticyou were the ghost
who made the apple fall.
and no,
it's not you,
sometimes the seeds
turn into trees
or flowers, strange
incarnations of
the strangest force,
and, at other times,
the wind lifts them away
so they never
touch the ground.
there's nothing left but course.
of course you are, but i must know;
do you go door to door,
knocking on the stars?
reality: just
an architect's answer
to a philosopher's question.
over the atlantic you sing
like the end who just learned
he was a beginning.
over the atlantic you sing:
"god is an ocean,
and you can only pray
by kneeling on the ground."
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Jack London Claims to Have Written 1,000 Words a DaySubmitted by Molusk on Tue, 01/28/2014 - 00:48
Should that be encouraging or discouraging?
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Were they good words?
Were they good words?
Author of Shades of Thomas Paine, a common sense blog with a Libertarian slant.
Also author of Stick it to the Man!
the important part
is the discipline, to do something everyday, even 500 words. it's the stick-to-it-ness that's really important. and then of course editing. writing is rewriting. somebody said that. i forget who.
Somebody else said it, too
even better
"If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it." — Elmore Leonard, Newsweek, 1985
"The best writing is rewriting"
-- E.B.White
It doesn't matter Bill
How much do you write everyday? That's all that matters. Hemingway wrote a bunch everyday also. Then he cut tons and tons and tons out of every story before it was published.
But it doesn't matter what he did either.
You're not Jack London, you're not Hemingway.
Write what you write, how you write it, when you write it.
The thing is, the amount of words does not matter. It's the quality. The quality is what matters.
It's also not the amount of originals you have up there in that little box at the same time. Again, it's the quality of them. You can fill that box with originals, but if they are just words simply to put words on a screen, and simply to get them up there then that's all they are; words. Make the words mean something profound and amazing.
And make them sound good Bill....
A best selling author I know writes 3,000 words a day.
It doesn't all get published, but he does it to hone his craft.
that's like 3-4 pages
That's nothing. Easily doable. You can do it.
"Although it was the middle of winter, I finally realized that, within me, summer was inextinguishable." — Albert Camus
For you are not Jack London.
But 1000 words isn't that much. 4 double spaced pages. You can bang that out in an hour.
It's not the writing that's hard, it's the editing! At least that is the hard part for me.
It isn't much, is it? It's
It isn't much, is it? It's really not. But the ceiling keeps moving, while not moving!
Love, Bill
are you working on a novel?
If so, then I am looking forward to reading it.
"Although it was the middle of winter, I finally realized that, within me, summer was inextinguishable." — Albert Camus
Me too
How about you, Ed? Working on a novel?
It's fun!
Isn't it? And frustrating, too.
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2012 Top 111 Free Agents: Best of the rest
Jun 19, 2011, 2:37 PM EST
Starting Monday, I'll be spending the week counting down next winter's top 111 free agents. First, though, here are some notable names failing to make the cut.
(All ages as of April 1, 2012)
Vicente Padilla (33 – Dodgers): No. 112 on the list. Pitching out of the pen for the first time since 2001, Padilla was briefly the Dodgers' closer this year and picked up three saves and five holds in nine appearances. Unfortunately, his season is already over due to neck surgery.
Tim Wakefield (45 – Red Sox): If he decides he wants to continue his career, then he'll be in the top 111 come November. Filling in for Daisuke Matsuzaka, Wakefield has gotten the chance recently to show that he's still a perfectly viable bottom-of-the-rotation guy, even at age 44. He's 3-2 with a 4.39 ERA.
Chris Young (32 – Mets): Had a 1.88 ERA in four starts before his latest shoulder injury knocked him out for the season. He'll be signing another incentive-laden deal this winter.
Bill Hall (32 – Giants): The Astros gave him $3 million to play second base, but he flopped, hitting .224/.272/.340 in 147 at-bats. Now he's with the Giants trying to rebuild his value.
Mike Cameron (39 – Red Sox): Boston hoped a healthy Cameron would be one of the game's best fourth outfielders, but he's hitting just .157 in 83 at-bats. He could opt for retirement after the season.
Mike Gonzalez (33 – Orioles): Gonzalez fanned 90 batters out of the pen for the Braves in 2009, causing the Orioles to sign him as a closer. In the year-plus since, he's recorded just one save and amassed a 5.29 ERA in 47 2/3 innings.
Brandon Webb (32 – Rangers): After missing more than two years due to shoulder problems, Webb has progressed to the point at which he's now making rehab starts for the Rangers' Double-A club. If he's able to contribute in the second half, he'll shoot up the list quickly.
Eric Hinske (34 – Braves): Hinske is slumping in an extended role of late, but he's a rock solid bench player. He's hit 19 homers in 430 at-bats for the Braves the last two years.
Jerry Hairston Jr. (35 – Nationals): A useful spare part who has received too much playing time the last two years, Hairston can start at any of six positions without hurting a team. He's hitting .249/.321/.350 in 177 at-bats for the Nationals this season.
Casey Kotchman (29 – Rays): Kotchman has quietly hit .339/.400/.468 in 171 at-bats since getting a chance to overtake Dan Johnson as the Rays' first baseman.
Joel Zumaya (27 – Tigers): Zumaya had a 2.58 ERA in 38 1/3 innings before suffering a broken elbow on the mound last year. He is questionable to return this season after a follow-up surgery in May. If he misses the entire season, then he'll probably have to settle for a minor league deal this winter.
Omar Vizquel (44 – White Sox): Still doing a nice job as a utilityman for the White Sox, Vizquel is hitting .279/.312/.360 in 86 at-bats this season. Maybe this will finally be it for him, but he hasn't given any indication that he's done.
Jack Wilson (34 – Mariners): Injuries have robbed Wilson of some of his defensive abilities, and it's not like he can make up for it with his bat. Now buried on the Seattle bench by the Dustin Ackley callup, he badly needs a trade.
Jack Cust (33 – Mariners): Cust doesn't seem long for Seattle with his playing time starting to go to Mike Carp. He's still getting on base, but he's gone from hitting 33 homers in 2008 to just two in 182 at-bats so far this season.
Yuniesky Betancourt (30 – Brewers)*: The Brewers won't be picking up Betancourt's $6 million option, and it's possible that no one will want him as a starting shortstop next year. He's hitting just .227/.251/.330 at the moment.
Carlos Guillen (36 – Tigers): Guillen, who has yet to play this season, is now hoping to return from knee surgery after the All-Star break. With his four-year, $48 million contract coming to an end, he could possibly have a nice run as a role player in the right situation. He just needs to stay healthy.
- nfieldr - Jun 19, 2011 at 3:02 PM
Gawd NO, Please! Free agency is for the hot stove league. Not when it's 100 degrees outside!
- proudlycanadian - Jun 19, 2011 at 6:06 PM
100 degrees? Where in Hades are you? Still I agree with your sentiment.
- nfieldr - Jun 19, 2011 at 9:27 PM
New Mexico
- royhobbs39 - Jun 19, 2011 at 9:27 PM
Wakefield is now 4-2 with a 4.26 ERA. It has not impact on the article. I just wanted to point that out.
- missthemexpos - Jun 19, 2011 at 9:30 PM
I like the real time updates
- chomsky66 - Jun 20, 2011 at 9:31 AM
What is this, Brian Sabean's shopping list?
- sportsdrenched - Jun 20, 2011 at 10:04 AM
Nope, Dayton Moore's
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So simple, not sure if this is a recipe or just an idea. This is a very quick,easy, tasty and healthy breakfast or lunch/snack. Packed with protein and a nice change from yogurt. Skyr has a taste similar to yogurt but there is a difference as it is more of a cheese product. I prefer using all organic ingredients and I find the skyr at Wholefoods market. Obvoiusly the toppings for parfait are whatever your preferences are. If adding granola i find that if you use a heavily flavored granola it distracts a bit from the other ingredients...best to keep it simple. This is just a suggestion...
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Serving Size: 1 (129 g)
Servings Per Recipe: 2
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vanilla skyr
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In 1948, false accusations of child molestation all but erased the reputation and career Zora Neale Hurston had worked for decades to build. Sensationalized in the profit-seeking press and relentlessly pursued by a prosecution more interested in a personal crusade than justice, the morals charge brought against her nearly drove her to suicide.
But she lived on. She lived on past her accuser's admission that he had fabricated his whole story. She lived on for another… (more)
Publisher: University Press of Florida (September 15, 2012)
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Page count: 208 pages
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Language: English


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