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20 Awesome Productivity Tricks Anyone Can Use
Simple. Easy to try. Easy to incorporate. And very effective.
By Jeff Haden
Jeff Haden learned much of what he knows about business and technology as he worked his way up in the manufacturing industry. Everything else he picks up from
ghostwriting books
for some of the smartest leaders he knows in business.
Contributing editor, Inc.
20 Awesome Productivity Tricks Anyone Can Use
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Even though we all want to be more productive, it's hard to make major changes. Small changes are easy– and can be incredibly powerful. That's why the following 20 tips are simple enough you can immediately incorporate them into your daily routine. Some tips will help you better use your time. Others will help you harness your energy. Others will help you stay more focused. No matter what, they all work. So try a few – or try them all!--
Jeff Haden
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Create Systems, Not Goals
Commit to a process, not a goal. Don't just set a goal of creating better customer relationships; commit to calling at least two customers a day to ask how you can better serve them. Don't just set a goal of landing new clients; commit to cold-calling at least two leads every day. Commit to a process that leads to a goal and you're much more likely to achieve that goal. Focus on what you will
, not on what you want to happen.
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Make Temptations Hard to Reach
Call this the "pain in the butt" technique: when something is hard to do, you'll do it less. Store sodas in the refrigerator and keep bottles of water on your desk. Put the TV remote in an upstairs closet. Shut down your browser so it's harder to check out TMZ. Use a "productivity" laptop that intentionally doesn't have a browser or email, leave your phone behind, and move to a conference room to get stuff done. Convenience is the mother of distraction, so make it a pain in the butt to satisfy your temptations.
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Maximize Your Most Important Tasks
All of us have things we do that make the biggest difference. (For me it's actually sitting down and writing.) What two or three things contribute most to your success? What two or three things generate the most revenue? Then eliminate all the extra "stuff" to the greatest extent possible so you reap the benefits of spending time on the tasks that make you
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Purposely Allow Less Time for Key Projects
Time is like a new house. We eventually fill a bigger house with furniture, and we eventually fill a block of time with "work." So take the opposite approach. Limit the amount of time you allow yourself to complete an important task. You'll be more focused, more motivated, your energy level will be higher… and you'll actually get more done.
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Chunk Housekeeping Tasks
Even though we'd like to focus solely on our most important tasks, we all have stuff we still need to do. Instead of sprinkling those activities throughout the day– or, worse, taking care of them when they pop up– collect and take of them in preplanned blocks. Better yet, schedule that block for when you know you'll be tired or in need of a mental break. That way you'll still feel (and be) productive even when you're not at your best.
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Just Say No
You're polite. You're courteous. You're helpful. You want to be a team player. You're
. Say "no" at least as often as you say yes. You can still be polite while protecting your time. And you should protect your time – time is the one asset no one can afford to waste.
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Start Small So You Won't Mind
Say you decided you should cold-call 20 new prospects every day. Great idea – but sounds daunting. Sounds really hard. Sounds almost impossible… so you won't. Instead, start small. You can call 2 people a day, right? That sounds easy. That you will do. Then, in time, it will feel comfortable to increase the number. Whenever you want to create a new habit, start small so you will actually start – and stick with it through that tough early time when habits are hard to form.
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Build In Frequent Breaks
Small, frequent breaks are a great way to refresh and recharge. Like the Pomodoro Technique, a time-management strategy where you work on one task for 25 minutes and then take a 5-minute break. (To time yourself you can use a kitchen timer or your phone…) The key to not burning out is to not let burnout sneak up on you. Scheduling regular short breaks ensures that won't happen.
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Follow the 2-Minute Rule
Here's one from Getting Things Done: when a task takes less than 2 minutes, don't schedule it, don't set it aside for later, don't set a reminder… just take care of it. Now. Then it's
. Besides, don't you have enough on your schedule already?
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Actively Schedule Free Time
Free time shouldn't just happen by accident. Free time shouldn't be something you get around to if you get a chance. Plan your free time. Plan activities. Plan fun things to do. Not only will you enjoy the planning – and the anticipation – you'll also actually have more fun. And the happier you are, the more motivated and productive you will be over the long term. Which, of course, is what personal productivity is all about.
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Exercise First Thing in the Morning
Exercise is energizing. Exercise will make you healthier.
Exercise can make you smarter.
Plus exercise can improve your mood for up to 12 hours after you work out.
So there you go. Work out for 20 minutes first thing. Feel better. Be smarter. Be less stressed. Have a more productive day. Can't beat that.
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Eat a Healthy Lunch Every Day
We've all eaten a heavy lunch that seemed to kill the rest of the day. So take a different approach. See lunch as fuel for your afternoon – and as one meal you
will be healthy. Plan to eat a portion of protein that fits in your palm and a couple vegetables or fruits. Make it easy and pack your lunch and then you won't waste time driving to and from a restaurant.
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Drink a Lot More Water
It's extremely likely you don't drink enough water. That's too bad, because feeling good sparks motivation and effort. Plus if you drink water first thing in the morning you'll boost your metabolism. Drink more water throughout the day and you'll be less hungry, feel more energetic, decrease your chances of contracting certain diseases… and you'll have to get up more often to use the restroom which ensures you're more active throughout the day.
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Take a Productivity Nap
A quick nap can improve creativity, improve your memory, and improve your ability to stay focused. Besides that, neurologists tout
the learning benefits of mid-day siestas.
Silicon Valley companies compete to see who can design the
the coolest napping rooms.
Napping is not just napping anymore; it's a skill. And it's a skill that can super-charge your productivity. (Here are some
great tips for productive napping.)
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Make More Time For Your Favorite People
Think about the people you've met recently. Who left you feeling more motivated, more excited, more energetic… who made your life better? Then seek to spend more time with them. Surround yourself with people who can improve your life and your life will naturally improve. Sounds obvious – but is also something we all too often forget.
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Count Your Blessings Before Bed
Take a second before you turn out the light. In that moment, quit worrying about what you
have. Quit worrying about what others have that you don't. Think about what you
have. You have a lot to be thankful for. Feels good, doesn't it? Count your blessings every night and you'll start the next day in a much more positive way.
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Use Your Mind For Thinking, Not Remembering
Here's another Getting Things Done tip. Don't clutter your thoughts with mental to-do lists or information you need to remember. Write all those things down. Then you can focus on thinking about how to do things better, how to treat people better, how to make your business better. Don't waste mental energy trying to remember important tasks or ideas. That's what paper is for.
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Turn Off Alerts
Your phone buzzes. Your email dings. Chat windows pop up. Every alert sucks away your attention. So turn them off. Go alert-free, and once every hour or so take a few minutes to see what you might have missed. Chances are you'll find out you missed nothing,but in the meantime you will have been much more focused.
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Be Inspired By Small Successes
Change is tough. Habits are hard to form. If you want to learn a new skill, don't decide you'll become world-class. The goal is too big, the road too long. Instead decide you'll learn to do one small thing really, really well. Then build on that. Success, even minor success, is motivating and creates an awesome feedback loop that will motivate you to do another small thing really well. One step at a time you might someday become world-class… which, after all, is how that works. Start small, stick with it, and someday your big dream will be a reality.
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Stop In the Middle
Take it from Ernest Hemingway: "The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you do that every day...you will never be stuck." His advice applies to all kinds of work. When you stop in the middle of a project you know what you've done, you know exactly what you'll do next, and you'll be excited to get started again.
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Taylor and Harry's relationship is the definition of a whirlwind, and it looks like things are moving too fast for Harry. Is the One Direction cutie getting cold feet?
Is there trouble in paradise for Taylor Swift and Harry Styles? During their intense week-long holiday in England, they were seen feeding swans, going out for lunch and Taylor even met Harry's mom. With Christmas approaching, Taylor is planning on splurging on lots of gifts for Harry, and according to a new report he is starting to feel overwhelmed. Is this relationship moving too fast for him?
Harry's Cold Feet
Harry and Taylor have been at the forefront of the media's glare since they began dating, and when they started appearing together in public at the start of December, they haven't been left alone for a moment. They were constantly photographed while they were together in England for Taylor's 23rd birthday, and according to a new report, Harry is over it.
"In the beginning, Harry loved all the attention, but now he's wondering what he got himself into," a source tells the New York Daily News. Harry's cold feet also stems from Taylor's lavish nature, as the report suggests that she is going all out and spoiling him for Christmas, as she plans to buy him expensive Beatles memorabilia, including some autographed instruments.
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As previously reported by HollywoodLife.com, Taylor and Harry seem pretty happy, and Taylor told Harry's sister Gemma Styles that she thinks Harry is "amazing." A local villager spoke about their romance and said "Harry is totally in love. I can see them getting married in a week, just going for it!" And another source said "this has gone from zero to 60 in seconds."
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I love Taylor and I love Harry but he dumped her and just because she writes songs about her relationships doesn't make it nasty she is singing her feelings so just let her be her. Though they were really in love so there is talk they might get back together we never know but I support them 100%.
Posted at 9:49 PM on January 3, 2013
I like Taylor Swift but every guy she hooks up with ends just like she said her self in "Begin Again" so even thought I like her I LOVE Harry and seeing them together make me want to puke! So if she hurts him just so she can write another hate/love song i' ll be freakin out and ready to ignite.
Posted at 2:29 PM on January 2, 2013
Posted at 12:18 PM on January 1, 2013
Like seriously,this woman should stop using guys to write her songs… I mean,come on,Harry is young,he doesn't have to stay tied up to Taylor and honestly,i could see them break up soon,just because Taylor is going so fast,like Harry is the last man on earth. She should be mature and find a man her age….
Posted at 3:28 AM on January 1, 2013
I can see it already…. Something will break them up, and then Taylor will go write a nasty song about him… I like Taylor swift but I love one direction. Taylor dates every guy and then dumps em and gets pissed so writes a song about it after and honestly I've never heard one song I can't relate to… But after the whole kenedy thing… I lost A LOT of respect for her /: I just don't wanna see a song about harry next. She's using him…/:
Posted at 4:21 PM on January 1, 2013
Joe, jake, John, Taylor all dumped her while Conor was a mutual break up. Her song about Taylor L didn't bash him at all but instead blamed herself. She doesn't write a song as revenge. She channels her emotions and puts it into her work like all song writers should. Girls look up to her because she writes what they feel. and not all her songs are about break ups or love. Mean, 22, Long Live, The Best Day, Tied Together with a Smile, Innocent, Change, a Place in the world, never grow up ect. And thats not even naming the rare songs. Only in Dear John had she actually called out a name and that was because he was her first real celebrity boyfriend. He played with her and then dumped her.
Posted at 9:54 AM on December 29, 2012
Taylor's a psycho stalker who need to give Harry his space. She apparently called Niall Horan a pig -which made him cry- and only Louis Tomlinson & Liam Payne stood up for him. Harry stood up for Taylor but I mean, really? I've never liked Taylor and I feel she's using Harry to promote her new album since One Direction is a big band now. After all of her, what more than 10-20 boyfriends this year alone, all have come in at significant times of her releasing something of hers. I feel Harry should break off the romance before her gets himself I'm too deep. She was already talking about kids with him!
Posted at 11:55 PM on December 28, 2012
First thing, I LOVE Taylor kay? But I love Harry even more and BEFORE they even started dating and all the rumors were around I like "um really…Taylor?" It's just like I feel like it's her support system! She has this necessity to keep on having a boyfriend because she might feel safer that way. I honestly feel that she needs to focus all that love that she gives to her "guy of the month(s)" and turn it to her fans who obviously support her in every romance and music. Harry has EVERY right to say he's getting cold feet and im suprised Taylor isn't getting a hint that one thing is planning to buy him 80,000 dollar gifts but to also plan to move near him??? -.- NO. Okay im done with this mini rant. PEACE!
Like we all know that she is going to break his heart, cuz that's all she is a heart breaker. I mean even though she is probably just using him to boost up her career, she is going to make him look really bad. I like Taylor and I LOVE Harry it's just seeing them together makes me want to barf and split my eyes open. I swear if she hurts him, she's going to have a whole bunch of mad directioners after her. If she knows whats good for her she won't hurt Harry.
Posted at 4:31 AM on December 28, 2012
Posted at 12:07 AM on December 27, 2012
I'd rather slice my eyeballs open than see these two together, she's no good for him. I don't like "haylor" at all. Really it make my skin crawl. I'm just hoping the wanted will become more popular so Taylor will move on to one of them. That's all she does, is date people who are popular at the moment. Sorry for this mini rant, but seriously Taylor, calm your mammaries !
Posted at 9:41 AM on December 27, 2012
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Posted at 3:54 PM on December 27, 2012
Oh wow, thank you so very much for providing another insult about her. But please, do explain how she's irrelevant to EVERYTHING. I'd really love to hear more. Also, don't you think the media does that to portray a certain image of her? I've seen plenty of pictures of her actually smiling, big smiles too. My friend met her and I asked my friend which person out of the entire cast is the nicest and her exact reply was "Definitely Kristen Stewart." I noticed you also don't like Taylor Swift and think her songs are predictable. I get why you would think that, but I also believe you think that way because you haven't taken the time to really listen to her album, especially the latest, Red. Even I was shocked at how different and more matured her songs have become. I don't want to fight because I think that's stupid, even more so on a comment feed, but I would like to know why you don't like Kristen. Like, the real reason. There's got to be one, and I apologize for continuing this and probably offending you in some way, but I guess curiosity is what keeps me typing.
Posted at 11:11 AM on January 3, 2013
Umm…seriously? First off, I didn't delete any of my comments…Maybe you should use your eyes instead of your mouth. All I did to begin with was voice my opinion, just like you and everyone else on here. I said I didn't want to argue, and was genuinely curious about why you don't like her. Instead of answering my question, you decided to be childish and fire more rude comments at me. It's amazing that this is what I get for sticking up for someone and standing up for what I believe in.
Posted at 8:48 PM on January 3, 2013
If it was a joke, then it definitely wasn't funny. Ask anyone who knows me, and they'll tell you I have a great sense of humor. I even laugh at nothing all the time. It didn't sound like a joke, it sounded condescending. I'm not trying to sound stuck up or anything, but I promise that if I thought it was a joke, you would have gotten a completely different response from me. As I've already said twice, I really don't want to fight with you, or anyone else. I just don't think a person should hate on another person for no reason, so I stood up for that person. If she personally did something to you, then I'd understand and wouldn't have said anything. I asked you why you don't like her, but you didn't answer. I know you don't HAVE to answer, it's your choice, but don't get confused as to why I got offended with your reply. And honestly, getting a kick out of someone being offended DOES seem childish, js.
Posted at 11:05 PM on January 7, 2013
See, nowww I get it. I'm sorry, and I say we start over. I hate fighting of any kind, so I really don't want to know you like that either. But for future reference if this ever happens to you again and to avoid offending anyone in the future, I'd like to tell you that it's a lot harder to tell what someone means written down than if I were to talk to you face to face. So, just take caution with that. I'm really sorry we even had this stupid fight. Thanks for reading my long msgs :)
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Margaret jones - 10/06/2001
Our class LOVE this dance.It fits brilliantly to this great track by Mark Wills.The tag is fab though you have dance the track a few times to get used to doing it.Goes to loads of other tracks without the tag too.Love the lunge rocks at the start. I urge you to give it a go - FANTASTIC!
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mandy dolan - 09/06/2001
This is the first dance I have choreographed and would like to know what you think.Has anyone danced or taught it please let me know.
Val Saunders - 09/06/2001
A lovely piece of music and an "easy to do" dance. It flows quite well and we can dance and enjoy music at same time.
Hideaway Cha
Barbara Shaw - 09/06/2001
Brilliant dance. Deserves to be in Linedancer Magazine. Fits really well to the music. Easier to do than would first appear but looks anf feels great.
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Jean Barlow - 09/06/2001
Have taught this to two classes - they all love it!! Steps not too difficult although the music is rather fast. Not phrased and no tags to worry about. Give it a try - should do well.
Tender Heart
Jean Barlow - 09/06/2001
My class love this dance and the music. Reasonably easy with no tricky steps or tags. Not phrased after the first wall but this doesn't seem to matter as it flows so smoothly and the music is lovely and relaxing to listen to. A welcome break from all the current fast dances.
Ballymore Boys
pat laming & barbara lowe - 08/06/2001
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Pat Laming - 08/06/2001
This dance is one of my favorites dances at the moment, took me all of 5 mins to learn, great dance
Pat Laming & Barbara Lowe - 08/06/2001
This dance is going to go a long way, once you have learnt it, it quite easy to pick up
Funkin' Out
Helen D'Aguiar - 08/06/2001
I love this dance and what a great play on words within the music! I have started to teach this to my friends and we will no doubt spread the word even further. Well done Peter & Chris! Obviously the caravan venue worked for you!
Whip Crack-A-Way
Helen Hot Heels - 08/06/2001
I agree with Roni! It is great fun. I have even acquired a whip just to add a little bit of sparkle! The phrasing is very cleverly done as it fits in with every section of the music and you are very unlikely to dance the wrong piece at the wrong time. Well done!
A Devil In Disguise
katie - 08/06/2001
BRILLIANT! The dance is great fun and you can definatly find a way to add your own style to it. Its the best dance i've learnt in a while.
Hot Potato
katie - 08/06/2001
This dance is terrific. There is a great atmosphere on the dance floor everytime this dance is done. Totally worthy of 5 boots.
Sue Collick - 08/06/2001
This dance is right up there with Hold Your Horses and Hot Potato. I taught it to my class this week and they all love it. Don't let the phrasing put you off, it's fun to do and fits the music perfectly. If this doesn't get published, so many people are going to miss out on what I think is one of the best dances around - ten boots if I could!
Devil Dancin'
Evelyn - 07/06/2001
I know I've already told you this Robert, but for everybody else out there looking for a great new dance, then this is it. It is fantastic - not too difficult to pick up and definitely a "floor filler". Hope to see it published in the Mag ...... please please please Researchers, dance this dance and you will see how great it really is!


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Kim Kardashian is living with psoriasis. I don't know how she does it. I mean, how awful. What could POSSIBLY be worse than psoriasis!? (You picking up my sarcasm here?) Kim boldly and bravely opened up about her struggles with psoriasis on her reality show, 'Keeping Up With the Kardashians'. We got to see Kim break down and lose it over getting the awful diagnosis. Is there a medal we can give her?
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Several CEOs we interviewed talked about building kiosks out of recycled materials, but they also agreed that one way to "green up" the kiosk industry was to manufacture kiosks that specifically help the environment. For example, two popular eco-friendly self-service projects on the market now are can and bottle recycling kiosks and bicycle-sharing kiosks
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Green times: In its B-cycle kiosks, the company has eliminated the standard AC power and uses Solar power. The devices/cpu are optimized for extreme low power consumption, said Channel Manager Craig Keefner. "The 3G is super low power impact. All usual resources are conserved to the max in order for the unit to function."
KIOSK not only builds B-cycle kiosks, it's also the company behind the Waste Management/Pepsi Greenopolis kiosks that promote recycling. Another green kiosk the company makes is monitoring/display units for utility companies to educate consumers on how they manage power and how consumers use it.
"We get requests all the time from industries, companies, educational and more for units which want all types of kiosks to promote green and environment," Keefner said. "That's the market for green kiosks -- education and communication -- in my opinion."
That being said, KIOSK does build kiosks out of recycled steel and is also concerned with designing efficiency with intelligent power consumption/usage/heat.
"Just the energy consumption of PCs and cost per kilowatt multiplied over 1,000 units becomes an ongoing cost factor," Keefner said. "That is one of the big arguments for thin clients, for example, where the energy cost savings pay for the units many times over. Standard PCs are sitting now at about 200W with a large LCD running 50W plus other devices. Thin or micro PCs do the job at 10W (and less). That also begins to bring POE devices/infrastructure into focus as well."
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Dicoll was recently involved in the bidding process for a large number of green kiosks compared to standard kiosks. Although Gibbins said he's not sure if the project will happen, the numbers his company projected (based upon a typical kiosk power consumption of up to 200 watts, compared to the LED and low powered PC consumption of 24 watts per hour) there could be a potential savings of up to 83 percent on the running costs.
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Entrance MeSwirlingSlowly at first.Shoulders slouch and mind clouds.Further and further you fall in.Obey.
Mistress of Hypnosis"Unhand me, you vile demons! I demand an explanation for this! Unhand me, I say!"Thomas was being dragged helplessly towards the entrance of the castle. His blood was racing, his heart was pounding, and his nerves were shot. Two butlers, dressed entirely in black-aside from their black and white striped masks around their eyes-remained silent as they lifted the boy up the stairs to the door. Finally, the servant on the right of Thomas hissed in a snake-like tone, "Our Mistress will certainly be pleased with this one," he whispered in a light snicker, "you know how much she loves those who resist and fight her power."The two servants chuckled deeply within their throats, the servant to the left of Thomas replied, "Oh, yes! She will be most pleased with us! Perhaps she'll even reward us with another entrancive gift." The two servants seemed awfully giddy to Thomas for such a thing...however, Thomas didn't have much time to think before they were at the large, front door
Mowgli finally surrenders to KaaMowgli stalked carefully past the grass huts of the man village, careful not to make a sound. Growing up in the jungle how made Mowgli naturally adept at move quickly and quietly but here in the man village it was much harder. His normally free and nimble bare feet had been weighed down with tight leather sandals which he'd be forced to wear, his skin was wrapped up in seemingly endless robes that almost covered him completely and his thick black hair was encased in a turban.When he'd first been lured to the man village a year ago, things had been so fresh and exciting. The people had been welcoming and kind to him. They took care of him and showed him around and taught him how to communicate with them. But over what felt like far too short a time, things had progressively begun to change.Many of the elders felt it was inappropriate for a boy to run about the village wearing nothing more than a tight loin cloth, so they forced him to wear large robes which tied all around his body. T
Kaa and the snake charmerHe was finally ready for his revenge. Those two times when he had come so close to getting what he wanted, all those years ago, were still fresh in his mind. It had been humiliating to miss out on eating both of those kids, but now he had finally moved on from his shame to act upon it.His name was Kaa, the python, and he would finally eat both the man-cub and the girl-cub. He knew that this time, it would work. He had gathered the information that the both of them had cut ties to their animal friends and protectors, deciding to live together in a calmer fashion. This decision would prove to be their undoing, as Kaa was getting ready to strike them both with his awesome powers.Slithering silently toward the man-cub village, he needed to get there and act upon his plan as soon as possible. He was getting restless and excited, enjoying all those thoughts of revenge and meal cooking in his head. Slithering on the ground and trees quickly and efficiently, he would never be prepared enough
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This week, Ian Ziering is taking New York City by storm—or rather, by Sharknado. The actor is in the Big Apple shooting scenes for "Sharknado 2," the sequel to the wildly popular Syfy original film. Clearly, the second time around is as sweet as the first: For today's Post of the Day, enjoy this shot of him sharing a smooch with a shark.
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My first encounter with Brandon Sanderson was listening to the Writing Excuses podcast where he and two other authors (with frequent guests) discuss the craft of writing stories and novels with frequent attention to science fiction and fantasy genres. Sanderson was tapped by Robert Jordan's widow to finish out Jordan's Wheel of Time series (of which started years ago and put down after I realized what a commitment it was). I picked up Mistborn while picking over the bones of a Borders during it's closing sale, not really sure when I was going to read it, but after reading The Warded Man I was in the mood for more fantasy. First, I picked up Brent Weeks' The Way of Shadows…and I put it down when it read too much like an overzealous teenager's unabashed use of stock characters and situations, and I was reminded of why I'm so cautious about reading fantasy. Then I noticed I had Mistborn on hand in my bookshelf and decided to give it a go, not sure what to expect. My reaction was at first negative in a very selfish sense in that it captured (better than I could) the essence of several ideas I had scribbled down for a fantasy story, and then once I got over my own egoism I really, really enjoyed the book.
Long ago in in this book's world, a man believed to be the prophesied Hero of Ages journeyed to the Well of Ascension to find the power necessary to defeat a mysterious evil known only as The Deepness, which threatened to destroy the world. Afterwards, said man decided that saving the world made it his, and so he kept the power he was entrusted with to establish himself as god-emperor. The now-immortal Lord Ruler created The Final Empire, a brutal totalitarian regime that conquered all other nations in the known world and has brutally and systematically oppressed the lower classes for over a thousand years. The Lord Ruler's control is total, extending even into culture, philosophy, and religion; he has systematically eliminated all other religions except for the government-sanctioned worship of him as god-emperor. Every attempt at insurrection or rebellion has failed, and time and again the Lord Ruler has proven that he cannot be killed. For the thousand years since the Lord Ruler's fight with The Deepness, the sun has only glowed a dark red, ash falls from the skies constantly, and eerie mists–feared to carry man-eating monsters–appear every night without fail. This is a ruined world, but its inhabitants have known nothing else in The Final Empire, and hope of change is as ephemeral as the mists that disappear with the dawn.
Enter into this scene a young female thief named Vin. Abandoned and betrayed by her brother, Vin is left to pay back his debts by working with a thieving gang in the sprawling, ash-strewn city of Luthadel, capital of The Final Empire and seat of The Lord ruler. She is a skaa, the lowest class in the empire, and like most of her kind is used to beatings, starvation, and squalor. The only thing keeping her from ending up dead in a gutter is her innate magical talents, which she doesn't even remotely understand. Her path crosses with Kelsior, a powerful Allomancer once imprisoned by the Lord Ruler himself. Kelsior is running his own thieving gang and plotting the ultimate heist that could bring down the Final Empire, and he has taken a special interest in young Vin's gifts. Can she strust Kelsior and his crew of skaa thieves and revolutionaries? Can anyone stand up to the Lord Ruler?
What Mistborn: The Final Empire Does Well
On its surface, this book does sound somewhat Lies-of- Locke-Lamora-esque given the thieving crew and the whole caper aspect, but it's really a book about revolution employing the covert tactics of a thieving crew to foment it, and the whole profit-vs-doing what's right angle does become an important theme. Actually, I was surprised by how this book complicated several of its themes so that it (thankfully) didn't devolve into simple cliches and stock fantasy plotlines. For example, the opening of the book shows a typical noble being cruel to his skaa workers, which made me think at first that Sanderson was going for the easy and (possibly) overused plot device of an oppressed people rising up and overthrowing their oppressors, but later on in the book Sanderson does show that the nobility are not all uncaring, cruel plot devices whose only job is to be obviously callous and evil so that we can have someone to root against. Overall the book was well paced and introduced new facets and complications at the right moments. If, say, I found myself wondering about one character's real intentions or approaching the point that I desperately needed to know an answer to a certain question (or to at least see addressed in some way) to keep invested in what the book is trying to do, Sanderson obliged nicely. It's a big book, but it doesn't get bogged down, neither did I feel like later plot events were telegraphed too early nor that Sanderson was playing keep-away with important plot elements in an artificial measure to heighten the excitement or mystery. Overall, it was a well-structured read throughout and I came to trust Sanderson's plan for unfolding the plot and the ideas.
Maybe it's all my reading in genre theory as of late, but one aspect of the book that really endeared it to me is the way it played with the notion of the hero's quest, which in fantasy is a core ingredient next to swords and magic. Most bad or mediocre fantasy employs the usual cliched hero's quest: a young and initially naive protagonist, usually from a rural community and lowly upbringing, finds that he or she is The One that some prophecy has gabbed about and that he must do this or that, find this or that McGuffin, or learn this or that in order to destroy the evil force and make everything peachy again (see John Campbell's The Hero with a Thousand Faces for more detail on the exact elements and stages of this archetype). Sanderson throws a spanner in this usual formula by 1) showing us what happened over a millenia after the hero's quest, which given the ruined state of the world didn't seem to go quite as planned, 2) engaging his characters in the mystery of figuring out what happened during that time, and 3) making the prophesied hero the enemy. Every chapter is preceded by an epigraph from the personal journal of the Hero of Ages as he proceeds on his quest to acquire the power to defeat The Deepness, and this journal becomes important to the plot in a very interesting way. We've got Lord Ruler knows how many texts with Johnny Whitebread as the expected hero-savior going on a quest that will take him to place A, teach him skill B, and gain him item C that will let him defeat villain D that the entire thing just feels rote and uninteresting as brushing your teeth, but Sanderson does some interesting things with this cliche by making the hero the villain and making his quest–which was supposed to go off without a hitch–into a mystery in which something went horribly wrong.
Thankfully, character is a big focus in this book in addition to plot and mythos. The characters feel distinctive and believable for the most part, and the core group has interesting characters who are scoundrels, but the good-hearted scoundrels (despite how hard they try to hide it) that you can't help but love. Kelsior is trying to balance his desire for revenge against the Lord Ruler with his friends' concern that he is too full of himself and that his hubris will get them killed, Vin is learning that there is more to life than fear and abuse, Ham (an allomancer who can increase his strength) is a philosophical thug who frequently annoys Breeze (the party's emotional magician), Sazed the terrisman (a northern people subjugated to be servants by The Lord Ruler) is an Alfred-Pennyworth-type character who nevertheless finds ways to be brazen within his training as a servant (and who is more than he appears), etc. Vin and Kelsior, the primary viewpoint characters, are given satisfying arcs that show them dealing with pain, loss, and the idea that there is still hope beyond the crushing deperssion created by The Final Empire. A great deal of character development is done through personal conversations instead of exposition, which I always like to see in SF/F. Indeed, it's the personal interactions between characters that helped me care for them, the small moments of fellowship and occasional levity that provided a nice counterweight against the grim world and seemingly-impossible task they are confronted with; such moments kept the bleakness of the situation from overwhelming the narrative (in a similar way to how fellowship kept hope alive in The Lord of the Rings).
The magic system deserves special notice here, and it's going to take me 3 paragraphs to flesh out my thoughts on it (fair warning). In the Writing Excused Podcast, Sanderson and his colleagues have discussed "Sanderson's First Law of Magics", which holds that " An author's ability to solve conflict with magic is DIRECTLY PROPORTIONAL to how well the reader understands said magic." To put it plainly, if you want to have a magic system with rules, then your reader needs to understand those rules if the way in which magic is used to further the plot is going to be acceptable to the reader. You can't suddenly pull a deus ex machina out of your ass and expect your readers to keep respecting you if, up until that point, everything has been plotted out with a rule-based system. The Harry Potter books have a very nebulous magic system in which just about anything can happen, which means that Rowling can introduce a new magical ability or spell that you've never heard of before and it won't be inconsistent with how she has used magic elsewhere in the series. This makes for a very mysterious magical system that can keep its sense of wonder because you never know what will happen next, which is part of the charm. Sanderson, on the other hand, is trying to establish a rule-based magic system that readers can understand, so that when he uses it to resolve plot components the reader can see how his resolution fits in with the established rules. It's the difference between Agatha Christie's detective characters and Sherlock Holmes: Christie liked to establish all elements of the crime so that the reader is capable of solving the mystery for himself/herself, but in Doyle's detective stories you can't solve the mystery because you are not Sherlock Holmes and you have no idea what detail he will glom onto or what bit of knowledge or lore he will apply to solve the thing. The former allows the reader to play along, and the latter requires the reader to wait until the author or main character reveals his/her brilliant and unexpected twist.
Sanderson's central magic system in Mistborn is called Allomancy and it's centered around swallowing bits of metal and using the properties of those metals to fuel one's special abilities. I know that sounds weird, and it is strange at first, but after a while I could see how clever it was. In the real world, metals are often burned or used for their special chemical properties to produce certain effects or products. In Sanderson's world, magic users can "burn" metals that they have ingested and draw upon their special properties to produce certain effects: pewter produces a vast increase in strength, tin enhances the senses, brass allows one to soothe others' emotions, etc. These properties are all set against one another in a system in which a pure metal allows for an internal "pulling" ability whereas its alloy can produce an external "pushing ability": iron can enable you to pull metal towards you, and its alloy steel allows you to push metals away. The chart that explains all of these reminds me of a Chinese horoscope with one sign's qualities contrasting to its opposite. Now, this doesn't mean there are a ton of Magneto's walking around The Final Empire. Allomancers only come from noble bloodlines (and our heroes are the children of nobles who dallied with skaa), but these magic users are rare and most of them can only burn one metal and use one ability. Rarest of all are the Mistborn who can use all of the metals and their corresponding abilities. This makes for a nice dynamic since "Mistings" have only one power, but are often more deeply experienced with that one gift than a Mistborn might be, who can use all of the powers.
By establishing these basic rules, Sanderson is able to impress us with the ingenuity with which characters employ them. Allomancers who employ steel, for instance, are often called "coin shots" since coins are a seemingly innocuous thing for someone to have, but a steel-pusher can turn them into powerful weapons by rocketing them towards a target or by pushing them into a person or structure and then using their ability to push against their target. Given these rules, we understand not only the capabilities of each character, but their limitations as well, which enables Sanderson to show how clever his characters are by showing how they overcome their weaknesses while remaining within the rules of the system. Sanderson also uses the magic system to flex his world-building muscles by showing how fashion and popular culture in general reacts to these abilities: metal is rarely worn as decoration or on clothing since a coinshot or lurcher (someone who uses iron to pull on metals) can use one's own belt buckle or ring as a weapons, and wooden dueling canes are carried in place of swords or daggers by most people. I'm deliberately being coy about some of the other talents so I don't spoil anything, but I will say that a concern I had was that if the magic system is so well regulated it would seem to limit Sanderson's ability to surprise us, but this was another place where I was thankfully proven wrong. There are several metals that Allomancers can use that are either very rare or deliberately kept secret by The Lord Ruler and his Steel Ministry, which enables Sanderson to clearly map out his system but leave some room for mystery and wonder as characters search for these metals.
To return to characterization for a moment, Sanderson does a great job of setting up The Lord Ruler as a villain by showing and not just telling. You can't just say a bad guy is bad, you have to show it, and like with any good monster you have to tease out some telling details and let the audience's minds fill in the rest. There are some interesting similarities between how The Lord Ruler is characterized and how Paul Atreidies is canonized as god-emperor in the Dune series in that he is not only the government and the economic chief of the land, but the focal point of the religion as well. "Lord Ruler!" is the typical all-purpose exclamatory remark in the same way we might use "Dear God!" From birth, his subjects are acculturated to see him as the god-king, and, love him or hate him, they can't help but see him as an fact of life that cannot be changed let alone killed and replaced. He has won not only the military war, but the propaganda war as well. This characterization is done through dialogue and not just exposition, so we learn about the villain by the way characters talk about him and react to him, not just through Sanderson telling us "this is a bad, bad, bad dude." The impact of The Lord Ruler's power, mystique, and savagery is also well presented through his lieutenants, the Steel Inquisitors. These are high-ranking officials and powerful Allomancers who are distinguished by the steel spikes driven through their eyes and poking out thought he back of their skulls. How they survive that process is a mystery, and their monstrous nature and ominous presence builds up their master, The Lord Ruler, even more.
Foggy: Where Mistborn Could Have Been Better
What nagged me the most about the story was how Vin's trust issues were fleshed out. Vin has a very appropriate amount of distrust for people around her given her life of abuse with outlaws and cutthroats. She has had very little power before the events of this book, and her principle survival strategy has been a very large scoop of paranoia. She doesn't let anyone pour a drink for her (in case it's been poisoned), she looks at every kind act with suspicion, and she can't even conceive of a thing like true friendship, which she interprets as yet another mask that conceals betrayal on down the road. This is fine and understandable given her background, but the way it was presented felt too heavy handed. Granted, her character arc involves her journey towards learning to trust and to love in earnest, but early on she sounds like a crazy person in how she mistrusts absolutely everything, and the way it was carried out felt too artificial at times.
I also wanted more from the character of Dockson, Kelsior's closest friend and the only non-allomancer member of the central thieving crew. We learn that he is a skaa who escaped a plantation some tragedy, that he is a great organizer, and that he is supposedly a great warrior, but by and large he feels mostly like a foil for Kelsior: the straightman who points out all of the problems with Kelsior's wildly ambitious plots and plans. I found myself wanting to understand him better than just the guy who is inevitably going to say "That's crazy, Kelsior."
Concluding Thoughts:
In preparing for this review, I read a few other blogs that posted on this book, and one in particular described Sanderson's writing as "workmanlike," meaning well-executed but not outstanding. I don't know if this reviewer was expecting poetry or something more elevated and Tolkien-like, but he didn't write it in a necessarily disparaging way. Sanderson's Mistborn: The Final Empire is a well-crafted, thoughtful piece of fantasy that plays with certain genre conventions in interesting ways. It played with genre conventions in the hero's quest, complicated its themes about oppression and revolution, kept me guessing without keeping me in the dark, employed an innovative and systematically-constructed magic system, and built the plot on the actions of believable characters instead of just action scene after action scene. It does so much right and it was so engaging its faults were negligible. Sanderson also leaves enough threads out there to keep you interested in what happens in the rest of the series without resorting to cliffhangers or similar plot devices. I'm eager to learn more about the mystery of The Lord Ruler and about what happens to the characters in the following volumes.
I can be very stingy when it comes to spending money on books and I usually buy used, so when I tell you that after reading Mistborn I made a special trip to buy a new copy of the second book, The Well of Ascension, you should have a pretty good idea about how much I regard this book.


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5 Dumbest Things on Wall Street This Week: March 15
1. Spectrum Surrenders
There is no joy for Spectrum (SPPI - Get Report) CEO Raj Shrotriya. His mighty Fusilev has struck out.
After Tuesday's close, Spectrum Pharmaceuticals cautioned that sales of its colon cancer drug Fusilev will be $10 million to $15 million in the first quarter and $80 million to $90 million for all of 2013. By comparison, Fusilev sales were $44.6 million and $204 million in the fourth quarter and full year 2012, respectively.
Yeah, it was pretty gruesome. We haven't seen a swing and a miss that big since George Foster batted cleanup for the 1982 New York Mets.
And unfortunately for Spectrum, Fusilev is the biotech's biggest slugger, so its demise can't be made up elsewhere in the company's line-up. Total revenue for 2013 is now expected to be in the range of $160 million to $180 million compared to $268 million in 2012. Analysts, on average, were expecting Spectrum to bring home $297 million in revenue this year. On the other hand, Spectrum's strikeout was a grand slam for the shorts, who have long been swarming all over this stock. Spectrum shares sank over 37% to $7.90 on Wednesday after closing the day before at $12.43. The big score was especially sweet for Spectrum bears because Shrotriya has repeatedly thrown the market's equivalent of bean balls at them. In December, Shrotriya attempted to squeeze doubters out of the stock with a special cash dividend of 15 cents per share payable to the company's shareholders. And on Feb. 21st of this year, Shrotriya really unloaded on the shorts, boasting on a conference call about Fusilev growth despite flat revenue for the past three quarters. "Just how colossally awful is this new revenue guidance?" asks TheStreet's biotech ax Adam Feuerstein. "Just under one month ago, Spectrum CEO Raj Shrotriya promised investors more revenue growth in 2013. Tuesday, he admits first-quarter Fusilev sales will drop more than 70% sequentially. For 2013, Fusilev sales will retrench by a jaw-dropping 60%." On the ensuing conference call Wednesday morning, Shrotriya pitched Spectrum as even more of a bargain now that Fusilev sales are stunted. Oh man, that's an eephus ball if we ever saw one. With ridiculously weak offerings like that, we doubt the CEO best known for headhunting shortsellers will last much longer on Spectrum's mound. In fact, we expect he'll be soon be visiting a headhunter himself. A corporate one. Follow @5gsonthestreet -- Written by Gregg Greenberg in New York City.Check Out Our Best Services for Investors
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