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This square planters rim set decorative planter by Nearly Natural is part of the Accessory collection.
If your philosophy is "more is better", then this is the vase collection for you. This set of four square vases with rim is sure to provide a great deal of creative freedom. Place them together for a Russian Doll effect or separately to enhance any room's decor. Decorated with a deep burgundy finish, pressed floral decoration and accented by a bamboo style rim.
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HP Discover is the premier event in the US for bringing together HP experts with their partners and customers. While I don't get together to these sort of events often, they are always great way of getting to know where technology is happening as well as opportunity to meet those using it. Unfortunately living on the wrong side of "the pond" (in Australia) means I can't get to Las Vegas all that easily.
There seem to be a lot of topics, particular around the converging of infrastructure components. Lorenzo Gonzales is speaking at a few sessions - "Network infrastructure optimization: a new and holistic approach" and "Network reference architectures to address virtualization, cloud and other IT trends". Having a structured approach to mapping business requirements through to the new infrastructure possibilities with the trend towards the cloud and virtualization is important to avoid heading down a dead-end path. I know Lorenzo has a lot of experience at understanding and addressing this, so I'm sure he will present something of interest.
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Lorene Hankins Lorene Hankins passed peacefully April 17, 2013, surrounded by her children. Lorene was born April 26, 1927, in Hominy, Oklahoma, twenty minutes before her twin sister Irene Sutton Rush. She lived her childhood in various parts of Oklahoma as her father worked in the oil fields. She moved to California at the age of 18 with her parents and settled in the Upper Lake area. Lorene worked as a waitress when she met Earl Hankins and, after a whirlwind of courtship, married October 18, 1947. They spent all of their married life in the Lakeport area and raised three children. Lorene was known for her fun loving nature. She was an avid bowler and huge baseball fan and was so thrilled to finally see the S.F. Giants win the World Series. After retirement she spent many hours with her grandchildren and working in her flower garden. Lorene is survived by her children, Jim (Kathy) Hankins, Perry (Darlene) Hankins and Earlene (David) Taylor; seven grandchildren, Kevin, Haley, Michael, Kendy, James, Roy, and Heather; four great-grandchildren, Logan, Morgan, Rylie, and Liam; and her youngest brother, J. P. Sutton of Upper Lake. She is preceded in death by her husband of 31 years, Earl Hankins; sisters, Hazel Pounds and Irene Rush; and brothers, Jack and Clifford Sutton. The Hankins family would like to express deep appreciation to all the staff of Rocky Point Care Center who cared for her in her final 18 months of life. She was treated with so much love and dignity by all of them. Also the family would like to acknowledge Hospice of Lake County for guiding them through these past few months. Services will be held at 1 p.m., Monday, April 29, 2013, at Chapel of the Lakes Mortuary with a celebration of Lorene's life afterwards. The family prefers donations be made in Lorene's memory to , Northern California Chapter, 2065 West El Camino Real, Suite C, Mountain View, CA 94040 or Hospice of Lake County, 1717 S. Main St., Lakeport, CA 95453. For further information call Chapel of the Lakes at 263-0357 or 994-5611. Please share your memories by signing the guest book at
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Maloney and Tomblin also faced off in a special election last year, and the RGA used the same strategy then: Tying Tomblin to Obama and to Obama's health care plan. While Tomblin won, his victory was extremely narrow and he didn't have Obama at the top of the ballot.
Still, this year the race isn't considered one of the cycle's most competitive gubernatorial contests, and this is the first we've seen of the national committees engaging there. Without a lack of polls so far in the race, it's hard to gauge how close it is this year. Maloney, a self-funding businessman, was a first-time candidate last year and exceeded expectations.
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SALEM, Oregon: Yesterday, Gov. Ted Kulongoski signed three new tax bills that will raise the state's corporate minimum tax, raise taxes on the state's wealthiest individuals and raise income taxes on businesses. Gov. Kulongoski said, "Because of the national recession, Oregon is facing an economic crisis that is threatening education, public safety and health care, all critical services that Oregonians rely upon every day. These modest and targeted tax increases are a major step toward a more fair tax system for middle-class and working families in Oregon and will help meet the needs of families in crisis, stabilize local communities and preserve jobs."[1] In reaction to the Monday news, opponents and supporters of the Oregon Tax Hike Referendum (2010) have scheduled for 40 to 50 paid signature gatherers, as well as volunteers, to start collecting signatures this week to place the ballot measure on the January 2010 ballot. Jon Chandler, a lobbyist for Oregon homebuilders and an opponent of the tax bills said, "Our message will be that you don't raise taxes in a bad economy, when people already are nervous about their jobs."[2]
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- The business tax is scheduled to last two years then the tax will drop to 7.6%, then return to the current 6.6% for most businesses.
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A deal like this would not only help strengthen Cisco's enterprise and cloud position. It would also be a good defensive play to keep Brocade out of the hands of other possible buyers, such as EMC, Hewlett-Packard and even Dell.
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United Nations Reports Its 2013 Greenhouse Gas Emissions 26-2-2015 00:00:00
Speech by UNEP Executive Director at the Opening of the 41st Session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 24-2-2015 00:00:00
2011 has proven to be a defining year for the environmental pillar of sustainable development as the world heads towards Rio+20 in June 2012.
Here are some highlights of UNEP's activities for the first half of the year.
World Environment Day, the forestry chapter of the Green Economy report and the Sasakawa prize also carried forward the forest theme throughout the year.
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Over 2 million people in 144 countries worldwide participated in World Environment Day (WED) celebrations. Activities ranged from cleaning up 6.8 tonnes of garbage off Mount Everest to removing litter from neighbourhood streets and the making of kites carrying environmental messages.
The WED challenge featured two UNEP's Goodwill Ambassadors - Gisele Bündchen and Don Cheadle , who competed with each other to win the most World Environment Day followers and get them to register their environment activities for either 'Team Gisele' or 'Team Don'. This challenge was also replicated in India and China with Priyanka Chopra versus Raul Bose and Li Bing Bing versus Wang Shi.


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Tom Monaghan, founder of Domino's and famous Catholic-cause philanthropist, has decided to get back into the delivered food business with a military-themed burger restaurant called "Gyrene Burger."
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Lattimore earns Zaharias Award
From LU Athletics: Leigh Lattimore, Lamar's top women's distance performer in both cross country and outdoor track, put a remarkable cap on her first school year in Beaumont on Tuesday as she received the Babe Didrikson Zaharias Award, which honors LU's top senior-to-be women's athlete. "When you look back at the previous winners of this […]
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Tickets for Lamar/Texas A&M to go on sale Monday
Tickets for Lamar's game against SEC opponent Texas A&M will go on sale Monday morning, the Lamar athletic department announced on Thursday. Cardinal fans wishing to purchase tickets for the game must be Lamar season ticket holders. Season tickets start out at $45 and reserve tickets for the Texas A&M game will be $60 plus […]
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How does Lamar's revenue stack up?
Today, USA Today released its annual list of NCAA schools, ranked by athletic department revenue (the University of Texas was No.1). Here is how the rest of the Southland Conference -and Lamar- ranked: 137. Lamar ($15,414,996) Notes: In 2011 and 2012, Lamar raised more revenue from ticket sales than any other source. In 2013 […]
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Lamar APR scores released
Today the NCAA released its annual Academic Progress Rate scores, which reflect the previous academic year's four-year window. So today, the multi-year scores for 2012-13 were released, which represent an average for the past four years (2009-10 to 2012-13). The single-year report for 2012-13 can be found here: https://web1.ncaa.org/app_data/apr2013/346_2013_apr.pdf This year, new requirements were put on […]
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Scholarship table *updated*
The most recent development in "As the Roster Turns" is the signing of 6-9, 225-pound forward Zack Hollis from Antelope Valley College, a D-III school in California, and the departure of two existing Lamar players in redshirt sophomore Rhon Mitchell (10.1 ppg) and junior forward Octavius Green (3.9 ppg). The two departing transfers are […]
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Lamar APR trouble and transfers
It started with a tweet from Jacksonville College men's basketball coach Jody Bailey: Because of the APR Probation handed down to Lamar University, @NimrodHilliard4 is now transferring and will be eligible to play next season — Jody Bailey (@CoachJodyBailey) April 14, 2014 There are two pieces of news here; Lamar men's basketball going on probation […]
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Price to be next Lamar head coach
Tic Price will be named the next head men's basketball coach at Lamar, according to several sources close to the situation. Price's hiring will be made public at a press conference at 3 p.m. Tuesday. Price, 58, has had the title of interim coach since Pat Knight was fired on Feb. 16 with five games […]
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Lamar vs. NSU: (Barely) Runnin on Empty + video
Injuries Anthony Holliday has a bruised collarbone after falling on his back hard against SFA Thursday.He was doubtful for the NSU game and it wouldn't surprise me if he is also out for next week's Sam Houston game. It's especially bad timing considering Holliday was just coming into his own as a starter. Freshman […]
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National Signing Day leftovers
Lamar signed four players of significance from the Golden Triangle on National Signing Day. Those four players are Jasper linebacker Shawn Jones, Silsbee lineman Seth Adams, Port Arthur Memorial linebacker Melbrodrick Matthews and former Central defensive end and BlinnJunior College star Kyle Holmes. Jones earned first-team all-district honors all four seasons playing linebacker and running back for […]
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Did Lamar pay students to watch basketball?
The atmosphere inside the Montagne Center for Lamar basketball's double-header against Houston Baptist Thursday was the best it has been all season. A decent amount of students came to the games, all of whom were part of a campus organization it seemed, and were loud and proud. They wore creative costumes, made clever signs and […]
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On the Public Understanding of – and Public Engagement With – Statistics: Reflections on the OU Statistics Group Conference on "Visualisation and Presentation in Statistics"
Last week I attended the OU Statistics conference on Visualisation and Presentation in Statistics (VIPS) (notes: here and here)
One of the things that struck me from conversations and some of the presentations was that statistics – and in particular public engagement around statistics – appears to be lagging science efforts in this area.
When I first moved to the OU as a lecturer a dozen or so years ago, I got involved with various activities that, at the time, were classed as "public understanding of science and technology", though at the time the whole sci-comm area was in a state of flux and ideas were moving towards a focus on public engagement with science. As a member of the NESTA Crucible one year, I saw how there was also concern around engagement with science and technology policy, and how it could be moved "upstream", to a point where dialogue with various publics could actually contribute to, and even influence, policy development.
(The NESTA Crucible experience significantly influenced my world view and was one of the most rewarding schemes I have ever been involved with…)
Since then, it seems to me that the school science curriculum has witnessed a similar change, with a move away from a focus purely on the basic science (and perhaps industrial applications?) to one that includes a consideration of socio-technical considerations (one might say, policy implications…)
At the VIPS event, one of the phrases that jumped out at me in at least one presentation (aside from repeated mentions to RSS…;-) talked about difficulties in promoting the public understanding of statistics. Ally this with the fact that the school maths curriculum seems not to have evolved so much, ("averages", means and histogram still seem to be the focus?!) and I wonder: is statistics today where science was a decade or so ago?
The recent rhetoric around – and actual release of – "open public data" suggests that, as citizens and journalists, there is an increasing number of opportunities to hold governments and public bodies to account using evidentiary data and maybe also engage in data-driven (or at least data informed) policy formulation. With so much data out there, and so many possible ways of combining and interrogating it – so many possible different questions to ask and places to ask them – there are increasingly opportunities for informed amateurs to make a very real contribution (in the same way that amateur astronomers can make a real contribution to the recording and analysis of astronomical observations).
The growing instrumentation of our world also means that there is increasing amounts of data about ourselves that we can have access to in the form of personal data dashboards (for example, think of various social media/reputation tools, but also expect to see various tools appearing that allow you to mine your health/fitness, financial or shopping transaction data, for example). These dashboards will be visually rich, and designed to give at-a-glance overviews of the state of this, or that quantity or metric. But to get most from them, we will need to include more complex and powerful visualisation types, and find a way of helping people learn how to "see" them, "read" them and interpret them/
So to what extent do we need to engage with the "public understanding of statistics" as compared to the development of skills in the public appreciation of statistics and improvements in the way the public can engage with each other and with policy makers in discussions where statistics play a role? (Public engagement in statistics? Public engagement with statistics?)
Over the last few weeks, I've started trying to immerse myself in the world of statistical graphics, on the basis that our perceptual apparatus is pretty good at pattern detection and can help us get to grip with visually meaningful properties of distributions of data without us necessarily having to understand much in the way of formal statistics. (Of course, the visual apparatus can also be conned by misleading graphs and charts, which is where some semblance of critical understanding and, dare I say it, statistical literacy, comes in.)
My intuition is that it will be easier to develop a visual literacy in the reading and interpretation of charts (i.e. building on "folk statistical graphics/visual statistics") than a widespread mathematical understanding of statistics. (I suspect that for most people, pie charts – and more recently 'donut' charts – as well as line graphs and simple bar charts are about the limit of what they are comfortable with, along with thematic maps (in particular, choropleth maps) and (in recent years again?) proportional symbol maps. I also know from asking even well informed audiences that awareness of more recently developed techniques, such as treemaps, are not widespread.)
At the moment, the infographics designers appear to be leading the charge into public consciousness of data-driven graphics, but as I'm finding out, the stats community has a wealth of visual techniques already to hand that are maybe "sounder" in terms of deriving visual representations that reflect statistical properties and concerns than the tricks the infographics crowd are using. (This is all just my anecdotal opinion, and not based in any formal research!)
Many infographics build on a common visual grammar (in the West, line charts up to the right increase over time; for area based charts, the bigger the area the more of something is being represented). But many infographics are also limited by the chart types we are all familiar with (line charts, bar charts, coloured maps…) Maybe the place to start is the stats community finding ways of introducing new-to-the-majority statistical graphs into the mainstream media along with a strong narrative to explain what is going on in those charts (and not necessarily so much discussion about the actual maths and stats…)?
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The online community around R is both the best place to pose these questions and probably the best placed to reply. Suggest you post this to http://www.r-bloggers.com
Your final sentence wished for a new-to-the-majority statistical graphs with a strong narrative rather than maths and stats. Is OECD's new Better Life Index http://oe.cd/bli the sort of thing you are wishing for?
@toby I hadn't seen that OECD site – thanks for the link:-)
The current breakdowns are interesting (e.g. http://www.oecdbetterlifeindex.org/countries/greece/ ) in the way that text is used to explain and contextualise the vbar charts and each country's position within a chart (which also invite the use to hover over different bars to see the neighbouring countries or extreme countries on each metric).
The Better Life index is very shiny, but I wonder: do users get much more out of it than blindly and wildly changing the values in the right hand panel?
In his presentation at the OU stats conference ( http://blog.ouseful.info/2011/05/18/quick-summary-of-opening-session-of-visualisation-and-presentation-in-statistics/ ), Michael Blastland gave a very open account about some of the interactive visualisations published by the BBC (links in the above report), admitting that in many cases they just didn't work. For sure they were shiny and offered open ended exploration possibilities, but in many cases the user arrived with no context that allowed them to play meaningfully, or in a directed fashion?
Part of the point of these interactives is surely related to trying to help users develop or understand the model the interactive represents, and then test their understanding/appreciation of the model against the interactive?
(I think I need to start reading philosophy of science books again!)
I think the overall point about engagement (as opposed to understanding) is a good one, and we statisticians should think in those terms, but the situation in statistics is different from in science. Putting it far too crudely (and arguing against some things I said at VIPS!), statistics largely consists of methodologies for exploring questions that aren't themselves really part of statistics, and so it's even more important than in science to persuade people that engaging with statistics is a way of getting to things that they really want to know or do, and which might well not look very statistical at all. This links to what Michael Blastland was saying; one way of looking at that is that the shiny tools are no use without having got people interested in the questions you can answer with them. The distance between what the statistics can at face value tell you, and the things you actually want to know, can be pretty great — bridgeable, but it's a long bridge often. (And here I'm talking about /any/ sort of statistical information or tools, really, including the new kinds of visualisations.) Other issues are that people already /do/ engage with statistics in some areas (e.g. sport) on a major scale, so there's important stuff to build on in further engagement — that's good, but brings its own challenges. And that the nature of "citizen statistics" looks (so far anyway) very different from "citizen science". The science tends to be stuff that's led and directed by professional scientists, and the citizens help with collecting data and making comments and looking for patterns in a directed way, and that sort of thing. "Citizen statistics" in the sense of using (and understanding) public data and public tools is different, in that, in principle (and sometimes in practice too) it really is done by individual "citizens" or groups of them, to deal with their own concerns and answer their own questions, and the input from the professional statistician or data scientist (or whatever one wants to call them) can be limited to help them use, appreciate, engage with the tolls and data sources rather than setting the agenda.
@kevin I think making the distinction between engagement with science vs engagement with statistics is an interesting one and is something I will ponder. I'm also considering replacing the word "statistics" with "tool" or "technology" when developing my ideas/arguments in this area, and then as a sideline consider what it would take for "the public" to see stats in the same way. (As I think you hint at too, there may be a mismatch between how different audiences think of statistics and what statisticians do, which just adds clutter and confusion to the engagement exercise.)
I never thought it would be stats that would rekindle my interest in the practice of science and technology engagement/communication!
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Thomas Francis McGuane III (born December 11, 1939) is an American author. His work includes ten novels, short fiction and screenplays, as well as three collections of essays devoted to his life in the outdoors. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, The National Cutting Horse Association Hall of Fame and the Flyfishing Hall of Fame.
McGuane was born in Wyandotte, Michigan, the son of upwardly mobile Irish Catholic parents who moved to the Midwest from Massachusetts. His primary education included boarding school at Cranbrook School in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, from which he graduated in 1958, but also included work on a ranch in Wyoming, ubiquitous fishing and hunting, and a difficult relationship with his alcoholic father that would later shadow much of his fiction. McGuane prefers to consider his roots matrilineal, on which side he is descended from a rich storytelling clan.[1]
He envisioned himself as a writer from a very young age, admiring what he perceived as the adventurous life of a writer as much as the prospect of writing. When he was ten years old, he got into a physical altercation with a friend over differing descriptions of a sunset. He began a serious devotion to writing by the age of 16.[2]
He attended Michigan State University (B.A., 1962, English), where he met his lifelong friend Jim Harrison. At Yale University (M.F.A., 1965), he studied playwriting and dramatic literature, and a Wallace Stegner Fellowship to Stanford University (1966–67) provided him the time and resources to finish his first published novel, The Sporting Club (published in 1969 with the assistance of Harrison). The Sporting Club is an anarchic portrayal of aristocratic decline and eventual ruin at an elite Michigan outdoor club.[3] McGuane wrote the novel in a frenetic six weeks after his initial hopes for a published novel in The Dial were dashed by its editor at the time, E. L. Doctorow.
Upon completing his Stegner Fellowship, McGuane and his wife, Rebecca Portia Crockett, moved to Livingston, Montana, and when the screen rights to The Sporting Club were purchased, he invested the funds (wisely) in ranch property in Montana's Paradise Valley. His second novel, The Bushwhacked Piano, a picaresque comedy chronicling the romantic, sporting, and entrepreneurial hijinks of Nicholas Payne, traipsing from Michigan to Montana to Florida and sprinkled with wry commentary on the current state of America throughout, appeared in 1971 to rave reviews. Jonathan Yardley in the New York Times hailed the 31-year-old McGuane as "a talent of Faulknerian potential," and Saul Bellow described McGuane as "a language star." The novel won the Rosenthal Award of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.[4]
McGuane's third novel, Ninety-Two in the Shade (1973), was received as continued confirmation of his potential and is perhaps his best known, or at least his most widely acclaimed in literary circles. Shoving off with the ominous invocation, "Nobody knows, from sea to shining sea, why we are having all this trouble with our republic," the novel utilizes young Thomas Skelton's desire to be a Key West fishing guide as a foil for numerous expressions of word-drunk cultural, familial, and macho angst, culminating in the death of Skelton at the business end of rival guide Nichol Dance's pistol.
Ninety-Two in the Shade was nominated for a National Book Award, and it represents the close of the first chapter in McGuane's public literary life, a closing that may have also coincided with a transforming crash of his Porsche on an icy Texas highway. The crash left him without serious injury but speechless for several days, and he resolved to shed his monastic obsession with writing novels and to assume a new lease on life, a resolution substantially assisted by Hollywood's offering of lucrative screenwriting opportunities.
Thus began the interlude in McGuane's career when he became known as "Captain Berserko" and authored screenplays for Rancho Deluxe (1973), shot in Livingston, Montana; The Missouri Breaks (1976), starring Jack Nicholson and Marlon Brando; and McGuane's foray into directing with the film version of 92 in the Shade (1975).
The excesses of those years are reflected – though hardly in full – by McGuane's tumultuous affair with actress Elizabeth Ashley (captured in voyeuristic detail in her memoir, Actress), his divorce from his first wife Becky Crockett, (who went on to marry Peter Fonda) his marriage to actress Margot Kidder, the birth of their daughter, Maggie (herself an author), and by his second divorce, all in the span of less than a year.
McGuane published his most autobiographical novel, Panama, in 1978. His first and, until Driving on the Rim (2010), only novel written in the first person, it is the story of a flash-in-the-pan rock star named Chet Pomeroy who suffers delusion after delusion and can only imagine salvation in the character of Catherine, a literary embodiment of McGuane's feelings toward his third wife, Laurie Buffett, sister of Jimmy Buffett, one of McGuane's Key West comrades. With the exception of positive reviews in The New Yorker and the Village Voice, the novel was mercilessly panned by critics as self-absorbed and a testament to wasted literary talent – notwithstanding McGuane's protests that he considered it his best novel and that he was intentionally creating a lugubrious character who was not entitled, in the common view, to his feelings of loss and depression.
An ongoing struggle has ensued between McGuane and his reviewers concerning their expectations for his fiction, and their sense of how much McGuane-the-celebrity was intruding upon his work. The upheaval of the period concluded with the deaths of McGuane's father, mother, and sister in the span of 30 months, and by McGuane's admission that he felt no desire to author a comic novel like any of his first three works.
After Panama, McGuane's novels changed considerably. Beginning with Nobody's Angel in 1981, the setting has consistently been in Montana, usually the fictitious town of "Deadrock" (presumably a play on "Livingston"), and the prose for the most part resists the pyrotechnics of Bushwhacked Piano or Ninety-Two in the Shade. Although the wit and the eye for comedy in human affairs remains, the problem of human – and particularly family – relationships is taken far more seriously than in his early novels. The familiar setting and certain personal parallels make for easy inferences of McGuane himself in his string of male protagonists in these novels, albeit with the obvious exception of the female protagonist, Evelyn, in The Cadence of Grass (2002).
McGuane is quick to point out, however, that unlike these protagonists, he has been happily married to Laurie Buffett since the late '70s and, in the estimation of one Montana friend (William Kittredge), has a "genius for living well," the prescription for which seems to include ample family time, reading, writing, cutting horses, and flyfishing, all transpiring in the breathtaking Boulder River valley near McLeod, Montana, where McGuane has moved his ranch from Paradise Valley, Montana.
Among the later novels, Nothing but Blue Skies stands out as offering the broadest expression of McGuane's thoughts on life in America and the American West. A hangover from the counterculture lingers, as does disillusionment over economic ambition. The West, perhaps, provides more opportunities for refuge from it all, though the refuge is diminishing every day. Still there are those who worship the "god of handsome land" (McGuane plainly among them) and try their best to understand the interpersonal shortcomings and cynicism of the locals, having faith that many of them are genuinely decent and commendable.
While the whole of McGuane's fiction has only sporadic episodes of serenity and hopefulness – with Nothing But Blue Skies being one of the most hopeful novels -- Larry McMurtry has observed that McGuane's nonfiction writing displays a markedly contrasting inner peace and natural spirituality. McGuane's paeans to fly fishing (The Longest Silence), horses (Some Horses) and his life in the outdoors (An Outside Chance) capture his belief in the redeeming potential of nature and sporting ritual, and are widely considered among the finest writing in those genres.
McGuane's writing is noted for its mastery of language (particularly the early novels), a comic appreciation for the irrational core of many human endeavors, multiple takes on the counterculture of the 1960s and 1970s, and an increasing devotion to family relationships and relationships with the natural world in the changing American West, primarily Montana, where he has made his home since 1968, and where his last five novels and many of his essays are set.
"The Late Style of Thomas McGuane, Mark Kamine, The Believer. http://www.believermag.com/issues/200709/?read=article_kamine


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Rainbow Double Dashs Lunaverse
fanfic review by
Editorwithout Reason
I had read all the stories, both from the author and guest writers and by far my favorites are: Carrot Top of the Line and Hard Bargain, but I haven't put them in my favorites because they are so-so. The structure of the stories in general are good, the plot easy to follow and had a very rich worldbuilding. The main problem that made it so average and had so many people that dislike it are the characters and their interaction. For me the two issues are:
Treatment of the canon characters
: Is not that their characters are different, is that there is almost a bashing-like portrayal of them. Not one of them is likeable or even sane. Either they are anti-social wrecks (Twilight, Applejack or Flutterhsy), parodies of themselves (Pinkie and Rarity) or absolute assflansk (Rainbow) and the explanation for this are flimsy at best.
Trixie as element of Magic
: With trixie there is a more tell instead of show of why she should be the element of Magic. Why would luna made her apprentice, being a barely average unicorn? Why would she become the spark of friendship with the other elements? There is a fear that trixie will eventually push away her friends and I can say she is totally right. Trixie is a selfish, self-centered, egotistically, socially stump character and while she had good intentions and had helped (or tried) the others several times, I can't wrap my head why the others accepted her as a friend in the longest night, outside of the plot-say-so. Even then, there have been many instances that had shown that most of the time Trixie is a terrible friend to have (sushing rain drops during rainbow abuse, using Lyra several times as a prop, demanding 25% of Carrot Top would be price for helping her etc...) that would have made others force her to change or just break the relationship for good. She wants to protect the others and she cares about them, but that is not enough for a friendship. If she was only a
like carrot top and berry punch that go along but are not close-close I could understand, but she is the holder of Magic (friendship) itself and their relationship is the base of the entire series. Even the best friendships are hard and a person like Trixie having so loyal friends is, well, silly. Cheap sitcom silly.
Do I hate the series? No, but it's also not something I would recommend.
Treatment of Mane-6: We fixed this later on. That's all I'm saying. I don't want to do this anymore.
On Trixie:
Longest Night, Longest Day
makes it pretty clear that Luna apprenticed Trixie in order to teach her politics, sociology, rhetoric, etc., with the eventual goal of elevating her into the Night Court. She's also learning some magic, but that's not Luna's goal, nor Trixie's. In other words, Trixie's apprenticeship to Luna and her being worthy of the Element of Magic are almost entirely unrelated.
Trixie is bad at friendships, yes. Season 1 is about her in particular, and the rest of her friends in general, getting better at friendships. Unlike Friendship is Magic, where the six basically become unbreakable
BF Fs
from the pilot forwards (Pinkie/Rainbow Dash is the only one that was shown to be in any way rocky, and that for only a tiny portion of one episode), the friendships of the Luna-6 has to grow over time. Using one of your own examples, at the start of
Carrot Top Season,
you're right, Trixie asks for 25% of whatever Carrot Top makes. But remember that by fic's end, she only ended up taking a tiny fraction of that. Or, using Lyra as a prop. The entire course of
begins with Trixie, yes, using Lyra as an experiment to test out a zebra magic spell when she really shouldn't have. Just as though this were a fic about Twilight messing up a spell, though, Trixie learns and admits by fic's end that she shouldn't have done that and that she was wrong. Also that's, like, the 3rd Lunaverse story, so like I said: growth over time. Trixie by season's end would never have done the same thing.
(And if you're referring to the opening of
Boast Busted
where Lyra is her test-audience...well, she has to practice her act, so I don't see what's wrong with her asking Lyra to be her test-audience, especially since Lyra was in no danger this time)
It is noteworthy, I feel, that each of your examples takes place before the halfway point of Season 1.
My point is, just as Applejack needed to learn to be more honest about her needs and limitations in
Applebuck Season,
just as Rainbow Dash needed to learn to learn to be more loyal and trusting towards her friend in
Fall-Weather Friends,
just as Fluttershy needed to learn kindness' limits in
Keep Calm and Flutter On,
just as Pinkie Pie needed to learn that sometimes you need to dial back on the laughter and treat things seriously in
just as Rarity needed to learn to be less selfish in
Sweet and Elite...
Trixie has needed to learn how to be a better friend. It's just that, as we are constructing a series with continuity rather than a series with episodes that are supposed to be watch-able in any random order (mostly), we're trying to show growth over time, rather that have personality-changing events in a single episode (which then have a 50-50 shot of being forgotten because of Status Quo)
comment #21722
26th Oct 13
It's almost like you're always lurking close by in the review section to defend your fic's honor.
comment #21726
26th Oct 13
Yep indeed seems like it.
comment #21729
26th Oct 13
Gods forbid that anyone could ever dislike something that you wrote. Clearly this is a crime against the heavens.
comment #21731
26th Oct 13
So...does that mean that you three lurk around to see if I'm lurking around so that you can respond if I respond?
No, it's perfectly okay not to like the fic. But the reviews can be responded to, so I don't see the problem in doing so. There's nothing wrong with providing counter-points, and nothing says that I have to just sit around and wordlessly accept whatever anyone says.
comment #21739
27th Oct 13
Oh, and checking on this
TV Tropes
page is actually a part of my daily activities, along with the webcomics I read (usually it's just "pop in, has anything been added? No? Done." Occasionally I add some stuff myself, of course). As the series creator, I like to keep up-to-date on what's being recorded here. Surely you don't begrudge me that?
comment #21740
27th Oct 13
I haven't ever responded to you in any of the other reviews, so I'm not sure what you're talking about, but good to know that my assumption was true!
comment #21741
27th Oct 13
I wouldn't really call it lurking, though, since I'm reasonably active on the
TV Tropes
pages themselves.
Again, series creator. It's sort of my job.
comment #21744
27th Oct 13
Considering this is my first comment to one your responses, same here. I don't lurk.
comment #21745
27th Oct 13
It's your job to comment on every review of your work that you come across? Gee, being an author must be tough.
comment #21746
27th Oct 13
As a fellow fanfic writer, I understand that accepting criticism is tough and that it is much better to rebuke every attempt to explain faults in your work. Truly you are burdened.
comment #21747
28th Oct 13
It's your job to comment on every review of your work that you come across? Gee, being an author must be tough.
Well, on the
TV Tropes
page, certainly; it's not like they crop up very often. Though now I'm here mostly for the pleasant conversation.
As a fellow fanfic writer, I understand that accepting criticism is tough and that it is much better to rebuke every attempt to explain faults in your work. Truly you are burdened.
Psst. Your sarcasm is showing.
comment #21753
28th Oct 13
We should do lunch.
comment #21754
28th Oct 13
Might be difficult unless you live in Massachusetts.
comment #21756
28th Oct 13
Treatment of Mane-6: We fixed this later on. That's all I'm saying. I don't want to do this anymore.
... No, you didn't. It really hasn't changed all that much, to the point that Status Quo is law seems more like it. You can say they had changed and put it in your responses, but even by Crisis of Two Equestrias (which we only see Twilight or at least were I left) she is the same wrecked paranoiac bookworm and Trixie is still most often than not a assflank.
You could say that it's happening like Fluttershy which characterization grew slowly over three years and was static in several of her episodes until "Putting your hoof down", but then again, the most I have seen of any type of character development is Rainbow Dash and Applejack being somewhat descent to Carrot top and Fluttershy can somewhat speak with Rarity in their fics... but they are still incredible messed up. And from your characters: Lyra is still madly in love with bon-bon and wanting to become a great musician (didn't see the opportunities opened by her recital in helping hands yet), rainbow drops is still a ball of anger but kind and workaholic pegasus (I don't know if her fic about her anger issues had moved from visiting the quack psychiatrist) Cherilee, well we know she was a bounty-hunter and had a great youth, but we knew that from your character page in the first place and Derpy is still Derpy... yay.
Seriously, if you are going to respond to this reviews, Show-don't tell. In your works.
There is a reason why YMMV hasn't changed in several months.
You could argue until the sun is down that your characters had grown, but they really haven't. What mid-season? Until Longest night, the one who had changed the most is Carrot top and that's because she learned to accept her generosity. The others are the same ponies from the star when they appeared in bust buster when they argued with Princess Luna for the Grand Galloping Gala fiasco.
But seriously, just as a question: Why do you have to make the Mane six so mess up? The most vocal of your critics keep pointing this out. Yes, your first fic had twilight and it make kind of sense, but why the rest had to turn to such horrible, horrible parodies of themselves? What purpose do they create for your fic? Is to make your protagonist look better? Is because you didn't like how they were portrayed in canon? Is because you believe that they can only work in an idealistic scenario like Equestria-one, as I had read are theories for Pinkie and Fluttershy deep rooted problems? I mean, you managed to make Silver spoon like— No sorry, that's the cadance story. Mixed up. Great story, you should read it (I think you inspired it). It's like your story, but without the canon hurting, faster character development and a lot of youtube links/lyrics.
But seriously, Why are Twilight, Applejack, Rainbow-Dash, Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie so almost bash, broken caricatures of what made their canon counterparts likeable, down to earth natural flawed role models?*
I don't say you should change it. Your story, your world, but that's the root of the problems those who don't like your story keep complaining (myself included). I mean, couldn't your characters work without having that damage oor showing they grow better. I mean, Applejack is still are sick deluded pony in the end and Rainbow keep screwing everybody left and right(which I think you pointed out is part of your style of writing with adversaries in a response of why Guilda got away unpunished, and Corona/Zecora present state).
Yes, I didn't forget Rarity. So far she hasn't done anything that can be called terrible, if only because she had the least appearances of any other character in your entire verse.
comment #22037
15th Nov 13
As you like.
Seriously, if you are going to respond to this reviews, Show-don't tell. In your works.
Applejack's first appearance in LNLD had her as a traditionalist, conservative pony resistant to change.
Carrot Top Season
expanded on this in a way that frankly I'm not very comfortable with. However, starting with her brief appearance in
Tales of Ponyville
and moving on to her appearances in
At the Grand Galloping Gala
Magic Tutor,
her personality has shifted to be much more in-line with as it is presented in the show.
Pinkie Pie I never presented as being any different from her cannon portrayal. Nevertheless, in
Ill Communication
Pinkie Pie is taught that on occasion she needs to slow down and explain what she's thinking, while at the same time everypony else learns that she shouldn't be dismissed out-of-hand. In
Tales of Ponyville
she is shown hanging out with Ditzy Doo in a way identical to her canon portrayal; from that point forward, she's shown to be no different from the show no matter what you want to claim. The non-canon-but-I-am-considering-canonizing-fic
Pinkie and Bluie
even goes so far as to put her in a relationship with Prince Blueblood following the events of
At the Grand Galloping Gala.
And to be completely honest, in
Longest Night, Longest Day,
I think she comes off as
than in the first episode of
Fi M
. After all, in that she threw a party for Twilight, but didn't care when Twilight showed no interest in the party, nor did she stop or nor check up on Twilight after Twilight left the party. In LNLD, Pinkie threw a party for Trixie, but Trixie stuck around and
it. Pinkie didn't come across as a partyhollic ass.
Fluttershy in
Longest Night, Longest Day
is a complete wreck, unable to bear being around anypony besides Rainbow Dash, Ditzy Doo, and Dinky Doo. However, in every appearance since, she has been going out further in the world. In
Carrot Top of the Line,
she grew comfortable around Carrot Top. In
Tales of Ponyville
she added the entire Ponyville spa staff, as well as struck up a friendship with Rarity.
At the Grand Galloping Gala
established that she was comfortable around Trixie as well. Finally and most recently,
A Concert for Ponyville
added Octavia Philharmonica and saw Fluttershy willing to appear before a crowd of people in order to help her animal friends.
Rarity came across as a bit of a bitch in
Longest Night, Longest Day.
However, she helped out Carrot Top with her problem in
Carrot Top of the Line,
and was called out on & recognized she had to correct her negative qualities in
Tales of Ponyville.
She also worked with Trixie to create bird nests in
Trixie's Winter Wrap-up.
Rainbow Dash has yet to be called out in the way she acts. Then again,
it's not exactly treated as much of a problem. Raindrops compliments Rainbow Dash's skill about as often as she bemoans her laziness, usually in the same paragraph, but people always seem to focus on the latter for some reason. Dash is kind of a jerk; that's just who she is in canon and it's what I love about her.
Twilight became an antagonist because it's fun, and I liked the character arc built by the fics
Boast Busted,
Elements of Insanity,
A Chance Encounter,
Countdown to Crisis,
Crisis on Two Equestrias,
with a conclusion in
Magic Tutor.
If you can't see Twilight's character growth over the course of these fics, then I cannot help you. She slowly realizes that she made a big mistake in
Boast Busted
and comes to terms with the fact that she's going to have to own up to it.
Why do you have to make the Mane six so mess up?
It wasn't the original intention. I wanted them to be just a little bit worse so that if need be they could serve as antagonists, but I never wanted things to go as far as they did and wanted them to be able to serve in positive lights as well. What happened early on in the Lunaverse is a lot of authors decided to milk the idea of the Mane6 as antagonists, which created the perception that we hate them. We don't, we were just enjoying seeing them from a different angle, but we went too far. We've been fixing this, and I really hope that my list above shows just how
we've been fixing this.
Now then, that's the Mane-6. As for the Luna-6...you're right, for the most part, they haven't really had much character development. Because this is an ongoing series and Season 1 was far more about trying to establish their characters, which was a slow process over the court of the season as we were slowly putting the world they lived in together. We actually talked this over on the forums when we were discussing potential fics: Season 1 is about establishing the status quo; Season 2 is where we start to shake things up.
Having said that...I'd argue that however little character growth you see in the Lunaverse, there hasn't exactly been a whole ton of it in
Fi M
, either. Every Fluttershy episode is basically the same. Every Applejack episode IS the same, apart from "Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000." Twilight in
Lesson Zero
was facing basically the same problem as Twilight in
It's About Time,
most of a season later (that is, she was panicking and worrying over something relatively small, and focused on little things to the exclusion of big things, etc). Status Quo remains God in
Fi M
as much as it appears to in the Lunaverse.
comment #22040
16th Nov 13
Not really related to anything but
put her in a relationship with Prince Blueblood
all of my what.
comment #22041
16th Nov 13
Believe it or not, it's actually pretty natural given the narrative, and they make a great couple. Hence why I'm considering canonizing the fic that expands on their relationship that was hinted at beginning in
At GGG
comment #22042
16th Nov 13
I repeat what kay said.
Explain this to me over that lunch I promised.
comment #22050
16th Nov 13
Short version is that, in
At GGG
Blueblood was at the Gala basically looking for a date, as he was in the maneverse. Simultaneously Raindrops is trying to protect him from being truth-poisoned by Zizanie even as she's trying to convince Zizanie that she's truth-poisoning him (it's a complicated plot). Blueblood is unaware of this, in any event. Raindrops' plan to do so is basically by becoming Blueblood's date.
Blueblood ends up noticing two mares on the Gala floor and isn't quite sure which to pick: Raindrops, or a unicorn pony heavily implied to be Rarity. As he's about to make his choice, however, Pinkie Pie bumps into him. Blueblood decides that she's not exactly bad-looking, if not his usual type, and so asks her to spend the Gala with him (with Blueblood also hoping it'll lead to hanky-panky later; further, it's implied that his special talent of
was at work here by helping him be in the right place at the right time to end up with Pinkie).
Poor stallion has no idea what he gets into. Pinkie Pie basically talks his ear off (I verbatim lifted her Chimmycherrychanga rant, as well as lifted significant lines from
Pinkie Watches Paint Dry,
and then finally made up a rant about the lack of a difference between pancakes and flapjacks) the whole night while he tries to get drunk. Pinkie also, however, keeps him from drinking any of the truth poison (without realizing it), by drinking it herself (without realizing it), not that there's any notable difference in how she acts once the poison is activated.
By Gala's end, Pinkie is also a bit tipsy and the two leave and go back to Blueblood's place. Next time we see Pinkie, she's hopping out of Blueblood's place and is promising to bring blueberries and syrup next time.
Thing is that their personalities actually played pretty well off of each other, or more precisely Pinkie is a positive influence on Blueblood that helps him come across as more than just "scheming courtier #4" and shows us that he just might have a decent side to him somewhere. An author named Talon and Thorn, for one of the Lunaverse's writing events, wrote a story called
Pinkie and Bluie
that shipped the two outright beyond the one-night stand of
At GGG
It's become a semi-canon ship in the Lunaverse since then.
comment #22059
16th Nov 13
Oops, correction. I didn't make up the pancake/flapjack rant, I pulled it off of Google. I forget what I searched to find it, though. I think it was just "I need a pointless rant"
comment #22060
16th Nov 13
I should check this out. If it's well-written it could be hilarious.
comment #22062
17th Nov 13
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