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March 29th, 2010, 01:22 AM #61
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This is a great thread and I thank you for all of your effort.
I have a quick question on what is the best process to choose where to send your manuscript for beginning, un-published, authors.
I know about Preditors and Editors but find it still a bit unhelpful as I have no idea who to send it to still. Should I send it to publishers, agents, or both?
Also I know that I probably shouldn't even waste my time sending it to Tor or Del Ray etc, so when you were going about submitting your novel at first how did you learn who to send it to?
March 29th, 2010, 02:27 AM #62
If you feel your mss is ready, the next step is usually to find an agent. You'll have to send out queries, and if they're interested they'll ask for a partial or full to read.
A good place to start is to look at a book similar to yours and find out what agent the writer used.
March 29th, 2010, 11:44 AM #63
If you're in North America, a good place to start is the Association of Authors Representatives: http://aaronline.org/ This is the literary agents' professional organization and their members must agree to various business practices. Agents in other countries may also be on the members list, and there may be a British equivalent as well. In the U.S., there is also the Literary Marketplace, a reference directory available at major public libraries. Agents have to meet certain qualifications to be listed in the directory.
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In Jim Hines' recent survey of writers about how they made that first novel sale, in recent years the majority of sales were through an agent.
April 20th, 2010, 01:00 AM #66
Getting published
i have 5 books done but im looking for a publisher any hints?
April 20th, 2010, 01:54 AM #67
Have you re-written it, tightened the plot, polished the prose, looked at character voice, examined the point of view? Have you checked the spelling, cleaned up the grammar, checked the usage and style?
Have you written a synopsis? Has the synopsis been critiqued and commented, re-written and polished?
Have you written a query letter for the one piece of work you are pitching? Remember that agents publishers will consider one book, not five. You can mention that there are four sequels (if they are sequels) but you are pitching one. Has your query letter been critiqued, re-written and polished?
Then and only then are you ready to pitch your work to a publisher/agent.
Hope that helps.
April 20th, 2010, 10:24 AM #68
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If all your books tell one story--in other words, you've got a five-volume novel--then your "pitch" will need to include information about all of them. If any of your books are connected, same thing--individual, standalone, unrelated novels will need to be pitched separately.
Having five books (if they're good books) in the bag will definitely help you both find an agent and find a publisher. The scariest thing for both is the one-trick pony writer, who has one good book (and that's all) in him or her...since first books are usually a loss, financially. Having five books that are (for instance) three-in-a-group and two separate will also help, as it shows you can imagine more than one story and set of characters. However, if you've got five that link, that's not bad.
With this many books, you're clearly out for the long haul of professional writing, so you will want to hunt for an agent. To present your work to an agent, you need a very brief "logline", a synopsis, and a couple of perfect (and riveting) chapters. If there's a writers' organization near you that puts on an "agent-editor" type conference, or an SF organization that holds a convention and has a writing track in programming, it would be worth your time to go and suss out agents. Not buttonhole them in elevators, but watch them, go to any panels they're on, listen to what they say, and see if any of them interest you. Look them up on the internet--who are their clients? Would you fit into that client list? Do you want to be with a big, multi-agent agency? Do you want to be with a small agency? If so, you can approach and ask if you can send them the kind of material they said in that panel they wanted. If you can't do this--too far away, too expensive, whatever--visit author websites of those authors who write approximately what you're writing to find out who their agents are. Then visit those agents' websites to find out what they're looking for, and especially what they don't want. If they don't want what you write (be it urban fantasy or military SF) they don't want it from you, either. The client list will tell you a lot about what they like and what they're good at selling.
Oh, and go read the WriterBeware site--never ever go to an agent who charges fees upfront--those are scams.
Meanwhile, you should be checking out publishers--who publishes the writers you read most? Who publishes the kind of books you think yours are? Look on line for the submission guidelines for every publisher you think might publish your work. Read the publisher blogs, esp. when an editor comments on why he/she rejects or accepts work. Begin to get a sense of where your books fit in the vast prairies and ranges of this set of genres.
Logline, elevator pitch, whatever you want to call it: a very short (~25 words or less) description of your project (first book, if it's a standalone, story arc of multi-volume if it's that.) E.g. "It's the story of a farm girl who wanted to be a great hero and found out what it would cost--but succeeded." (Not what I used, but what I might use today.)
Synopsis: Different agents/editors want different things here: that's why they all have websites now and tell you what they want. Usually they'll want between one and ten pages that tells the story in very abbreviated form. Make it sparkle, but also make it clear and complete. This is not the time to hide your plot twist or hold out...agents and editors need to know how you construct plot.
Chapters: Most agents want to see a couple of chapters (around 50 pages) of your writing. The first paragraph should grab like a shark and hold on--readers want that later, but agents and editors, who have to read a lot of stuff that, frankly, isn't very good, demand a killer first page. If your first two paragraphs are duds, they won't even read the rest.
Cover letter: The cover letter to your pitch should include the genre in which you're writing, the logline, the word-length (approx) of the first book, the number of books in that story, the market you see for this story, and your complete contact information. You may want to hide your real address and phone number from your future readers--but not from your agent or editor. If your other books are not in the same story arc as the first, it's fine to say that. Your having finished five books is a point in your favor, if the books are good. If you have additional special expertise that's relevant to the book (it's a medieval fantasy, but you hold the chair of medieval history at a university and the book is "not just your generic middle ages") you can mention that. If you met the agent at a convention/conference, say so up front: "I met you at X, and you said you would be open for submissions on Y, so I'm sending along the synopsis and chapters as per your guidelines..."
Now approach the first agent on your list (if you haven't already met him/her somewhere.) Is that agent open for submissions? Does that agent prefer a letter first, or a full submission package first? Do whichever it is. If you're just sending a "May I send you some work?" letter, then send cover letter and the synopsis, but not the chapters. If it's OK to start with synopsis and chapters, then do that. Follow agency guidelines on whether they will accept electronic submissions or want only hard copy (a busy office doesn't want its internet connection clogged with big downloads!) and if they want return postage (SASE) or will notify you in email of rejections (and you won't get the material back.) Do what they want...you are courting them, not vice versa. One thing they want to find out is if you're easy to work with or a stiff-necked sort who will be a pain.
Expect rejections. Rejections are part of the game. If an agent rejects you, be polite: thank the agent for his/her time and move on. There's a really pitiful example of handling rejection badly up at The Swivet (blog by a literary agent friend of mine.) Everyone in the SF/F field knows one another--many agents have worked at publishing houses or other agencies, editors flit from house to house, etc. So if you're a bad actor one time, to one agent or editor, you can be smudged, if not blackballed, everywhere else. Nobody likes a drama queen. They may put up with a drama queen whose sales are great--if someone starts nice but gets arrogant later, which happens--but only until the moment when the numbers fall. Everyone writes a less-successful book sometime...and delivering comeuppance is one of an overworked agent's or editor's few recreations.
If your books are commercially viable, some reasonably good agent will take you on. You just have to keep looking. Yes, it's annoying and disheartening but that's (again) the game we're in. While you're searching, you can continue to work on the books themselves, as you gain experience. A book reads very differently six months later than it did the week after you finished it. Put them away, pull them out and re-check. If you're lucky and you find an agent right away, expect that the agent will also get rejections back on your book while trying to sell it. My book got rejections when sent in over the transom (more publishers were accepting over-the-transom submissions then) and more when I got an agent...but it was the agent who finally made a sale. That sale was for the first three books (all on one contract) because the first three books were one story arc. Because they were already written, the publisher was able to bring them out less than six months apart--a great way to build readership.
So: good luck to you!
May 12th, 2010, 07:06 AM #69
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Hi all,
Whilst editing my novel I have written a couple of short stories to keep the muse ticking over. I submitted them to a couple of magazines last week (mostly e-magazines).
One of these e-magazines has just got back to me and wants to publish my story in its September issue. This is fantastic news but suddenly I am beset by a lot of doubt.
The magazine does not pay for the stories they publish which is fine as the incentive was always to just have my work published. I can then say in my query letter, "I have had short stories published in....." However as this is an electronic magazine, I have no way of knowing how reputable it is and how big it's readership is. I know it has been going for a couple of years now and so it has definitely established a firm fan base, but I am worried if I was to reference the magazine in my query letter in future it might work against me, rather than for me.
Is there any way to find out how some e-magazines are regarded? Should I wait to hear back from a magazine published in the shops and risk losing this offer or should I go for the feather in my cap and lose publishing rights for the story? Help!!!
May 12th, 2010, 07:11 AM #70
Check it out on submission tracking sites like duotrope.
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May 12th, 2010, 07:42 AM #72
Hopefully there will be some kind of description and feedback on duotrope, or something telling you how long its been around. If it just has the name there, you're going to have to use your best judgement!
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Snikt5 - You can check out the Preditors and Editors site (http://pred-ed.com/pema.htm), though I'm not sure it will be much more helpful than the brief details on duotrope. Still, you can see if they carry a "Not Recommended" tag.
If the site has been going for a few years now, I really wouldn't worry about it. I cannot see any publication 'working against you'.
The one thing I would ask, though: What rights are you giving up in their publishing contract (it should say somewhere)? First world electronic rights? Anything else? Depending on what they're asking for, it may not limit you from submitting the story elsewhere as well.
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Snikt5, its not going to work against you.
Generally, you will not have space to mention a lot of short story credits in a query letter. The recommendation I received from an editor was to mention only the two or three you consider the 'best'.
So, if you're worried this particular credit might not mean anything...don't mention it in your query letter. DO mention it if you are asked for a 'full bio', a 'resume' or a bibliography.
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In OS X you have basically a UNIX-like OS that isn't a turd. So it's no surprise to see even developers moving from Linux to OS X.
If it wasn't gnome it would have been something else. KDE *needs* competition. I've tried it and don't like it, but I don't like gnome either. I will totally agree with the hating on moonlight, although it already runs on OSX (so MS could claim its cross platform regardless).
In OS X you have basically a UNIX-like OS that isn't a turd. So it's no surprise to see even developers moving from Linux to OS X.
Miguel who?
"2010 UNIX on the Desktop Apple reports 50 million desktops and growing -- these are Certified UNIX systems."
"Over the years, Apple has been a great supporter of the UNIX standard, and today, Mac OS X is the most widely used UNIX desktop operating system. Apples installed baseover 50 million users and commitment to the UNIX standard as a platform is significant to the UNIX certification program. We look forward to continuing to work with Apple and our other UNIX partners in promoting open and interoperable operating systems as the specification continues to evolve."
While I cant say I agree with the choices Miguel made, he isn't wrong. The core problem Ive seen with linux since I started using it was fragmentation. Its asinine how many distros there are. There are too many forks of programs, too many package managers, too many side-projects that are DE specific, and so on. Competition is crucial for a product to be good but linux has so much of it that everything becomes mediocre in every direction. Linux as a kernel is fantastic but in userland its a disaster and continues to get worse as people decide to do things their own way rather than join as a community to make something good.
Cleaning up linux is a lot of work. Such ideas of mine would be to remove 3/4 of distros (the pointless ones like ubuntu christian edition, hannah montana linux, xandros, etc), remove every other modified firefox browser, kill off RPM, combine all the gnome 2 forks, and so on.
So much butthurt by the fanbois in this thread. Linux languages at less than 1% of the desktop for a reason, and that reason isn't because MS and Apple are *worse*.
I didn't hate all of Icaza's work but I absolutely can't stand his thoughts on matters. I think Icaza will fit right in with the rest of the apathetic Mac hipster crowd. I was also sick of hearing him whine about package managers and fragmentation. What all that hot air amounts to is this --- http://xkcd.com/927/


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* gnome did not use it, instead they sticked with xdg-screensaver
* gnome devs say "xdg-screensaver sucks, buggy as hell - use gnome-session-inhibit"
* vlc-dev "than go and report the issues"
* gnome: "yeah we did that, but no response"
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* -> instant fix from vlc (they could have fixed this for kde long time ago, but did not want...)
the whole story:
just watch how often it got closed and reopened
And no - I won't blame GNOME for buggy vlc, but for not adopting existing WORKING solutions (NIH...)
Of course there's the concern that the Lock Screen process should never crash and reveal your contents but there's a specific helper process dedicated to just that.
Finally, if you're *that* concerned about GNOME being late to implement a *draft* of a fdo spec maybe you should have contribute that code yourself. That's how things get done in software, somebody has to write the code.
In any case, gnome-screensaver has not been used for a while. It was something for fallback mode. It still can be used by Unity, MATE, etc.
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Probably there was just something wrong with the Linux version.
Probably there was just something wrong with the Linux version.
Oh wait..
You can enable steampipe on this game, that's probably why they added it...
No. The beta client is only compatible with a beta server (a SteamPipe server), and the standard game is only compatible with the standard server. Clients should only see matching servers in the in-game server browser. (This will not work in the Steam server browser.)
Neither this game nor DoD Source show up as linux titles for me. Is this normal? I have beta participation enabled.
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MIA vets are playing alot of minutes because its the last tune-up before regular season starts. I think they should be sitting too
Miller needs to start. Bottom line.
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Ugh. Vaquez cannot run a break. Aminu was right there for a lob. Mishandled the rock.
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The feeling I get when Vasquez handles the ball is the same as when the Saints defense takes the field.
Miller reminds me of Quincy pondexter with a much better offensive game
Damn, Miller's shot is wet......
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I said it when we drafted him. Miller is gonna be a fan favorite.
Aside from the obvious Davis, Rivers, Gordon, and Anderson.
darius reminds me of a grant hill type of player, good all around at everything, very skilled. The exact player we dont have, kinda paul pierce like.
I'm thinking a lineup of Gordon, Miller, and Aminu would be worth while to try when we need stops. Switch out one of Miller or Aminu for an offensive guard when we need some more ball-handling and offense.
Wow Darius really worked on that shot ! He's been automatic from the 3pt line this preseason. Hope it will continue during the season. I wish X could turn into that kind of player but I'm glad we draft Darius. He plays hard and take smart shots.
Also surprised by Lopez !!!
"I go so hard, I go so mean... I'm so NEW ORLEANS" - Lil' Wayne"We not stopping at no stores man ! We staying on the gas !" - Tyreke Evans
I mean honestly, you can't blame us for taking Davis though right? I know you liked a few other guys, but whoever was #1 had to take Davis, can we agree on that?
Also you're not a huge fan of Gordon bc he doesn't want to be here, if i recall correctly. Which I agree somewhat on, but we have some years to see if that's a good move or not and can garner some assets if we truely believe he hates it here, which i'm pretty sure you agree'd that we need to get assets for him no matter what as well?
as for Rivers, it seems people either love him or hate him. I love him if he's our Harden combo off the bench, but if we round peg square hole him as a PG I won't be happy.
Takes a foot to the moosh to put LeBron down. Dude is a tank.
I did it. I jinxed him. The book is out on Lebron. Kick him in the eyes.
Jesus. Rivers might've twisted the same ankle again.
I think Ray Allen is playing extra harder because it's Doc's son... Man I hope Rivers is ok
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I would buy this product over and over a I loved this tea set it was amazing. I loved to paint it and make my own designs . I would give this to a friend for a birthaday or special occasion. Just loved it!!!!! July 19, 2011
adorable My 8 year old son painted this little set for my two year old daughter. He had a blast doing it, and my daughter loved getting her very bright and pink flowered tea set for Christmas. January 9, 2011
LOVED THIS! Girls 4 - 6 loved this tea set! So glad I got one for each of them!!! Easy to paint, bake and clean up!! January 9, 2011
Darling Set! Gave as a gift - they loved it! January 9, 2011
Not What I Was Looking For I bought this as a gift for a friend's daughter expecting a small tea set but not one this small! There is no way the five year old could steadily hold these tea cups by the handles as she wanted. Also contrary to what it says in this advertisement, on the back of the box it states that the tea set is not meant for actual food. Not to say the set is horrible, the quality seems great and there is a lot of paint that comes with the set, but I wouldn't buy this if you think a child is actually going to be playing tea party with it, or want to use real tea or water in it. Perfect for a decorative set or a doll's tea set. I however will be returning it tomorrow and going to a paint your own ceramic shop for Christmas with her. We'll all (including her parents with no mess!) will be enjoying that much more. November 28, 2011
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December 5 - 20 gay Gondorians
4. Gaiety in Gondor - by Raksha
"Yes, my lord?"
"Why are those men dancing together in such a…brazen…manner?"
"My lord, you seemed disappointed by the somber manner of most of our more
usual type of gentlemen. You requested gaiety. I was able to find only 20
suitable gay Gondorians; after the sad losses of the War."
"Ah. Faramir; when I spoke of gay Gondorians, I meant Gondorian folk of a
lively and happy demeanor."
"Oh…Forgive my error, sire."
"Faramir, I am not your father, no need for contrition."
"Thank you, my lord. At least they do dance in a lively manner, do they not?"
"A bit too lively. I would prefer that they left such behavior in the field;
but I shall not spoil the festivities…Faramir, is that big Swan Knight
making eyes at me?"
"It seems so, my lord; but 'tis surely in jest. That is Pongohil, my third
cousin twice removed. He flirts with everyone over the age of fourteen. I
could stand in front of you if you are uncomfortable, and let him know that his
attentions are unwelcome."
"No. I will not hide. Let us pray though, that the knight does not so flirt
with Eomer. Your uncle would surely be angered if one of his knights was
harmed at my court."
"Do not worry, my lord. I believe he now bestows his glance on Legolas."
"Make him stop! Gimli will kill him! Faramir, go dance with the man, or
"I shall dance by him, with Eowyn."
"Hasten! Gimli begins to grip his axe-handle!"
"But hearken, sire! Gimli has set down his axe. He and Legolas are joining
the dancers!"
"That is good! They understand true gaiety..."
"Truly? An Elf and a Dwarf? Is it possible?"
"I meant that they understood the spirit of revelry, Faramir."
"Ah. Of course, sire."
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Linda Ronstadt Didn't Want To Write A 'Kiss And Tell'
Tuesday, September 24, 2013
Linda Ronstadt has just published her autobiography Simple Dreams: A Musical Memoir. In the book, Ronstadt, who has since revealed that she's battling Parkinson's disease, has chosen to take the high road by focusing first and foremost on her musical journey.
Ronstadt explained to us how she came to become an author after years of shunning the notion of writing an autobiography: "A publishing company sent me a lovely letter and a book by (opera singer) Renee Fleming and one by Roseanne Cash, saying, 'We'd love a book like this. Y'know, it doesn't have to be, y'know, a kiss and tell book, or anything like that -- just about your work and how you went about it.' I was impressed with the Renee Fleming book, I was impressed with Roseanne Cash's book, and I thought, 'Y'know, maybe I can write a book like this.' But, I wasn't a writer, I hadn't had any experience writing, I never kept a journal (laughs), I never kept a diary, and so, I never wrote anything past a thank you note, practically. So, I thought, 'Well, I'll write a little something, and see what they think' -- and they liked it!"
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Wednesday, 4 April 2012
little monsterz
Yesterday I got a lovely package of fabric in the mail from Lola Pink Fabrics. I've been waiting for Monsterz to be released for what feels like an eternity. Was it Spring Market 2011 I first saw a sneaky peek? I think it was. Almost a whole year to wait - that's like a lifetime.
Monsterz is part of Cloud 9's price sensitive collections - meaning it's almost the same price as regular quilting cottons but 100% organic. The fabric does feel a little different to the premium cottons that Cloud 9 produce, but not in a bad way - it just feels like regular cotton instead of an egyptian cotton feel. You can read about the base cloths here.
I wasted no time in turning 11 FQs into a little quilt top. This took me an evening. I used the Fit For A Princess pattern I wrote for Sew Mama Sew last year, but adapted it for fewer FQs. Rule of thumb with that pattern - 1 FQ make a large block, so I used a layout of 9 large blocks and half blocks at the top or bottom of each row, using a total of 10.5 FQs. When it stops snowing (yes seriously - in April) and I've got this finished, I'll take some better photos and explain that a little better.
The back of the quilt is going to be this panel, with a border of white so the quilt is reversible. I'm planning to add it to the list of classes I teach - it's so fast to put together and easy to adapt the size according to how many FQs you have.
approx 45x53"
fabrics all Monsterz by Michele Brummer Everett for Cloud 9 Fabrics (bought from Lola Pink Fabrics)
In other news - I spoke with Moda and the pezzy extra wides idea has been proposed, and wasn't laughed out the room. You know, I think it could happen - but let's not get ahead of ourselves, it's in no way a definite yet. I just wanted to keep you updated, ok?
28 comments:
- Reene@Nellie's Niceties said...
Great quilt! Loving your persistence with Moda, they'll have to relent eventually for a quiet life :-)
- 4 April 2012 at 11:04
- Flying Blind... said...
Looks terrific!
You will be our 'Wide-back Queen'!
- 4 April 2012 at 11:16
- Laura @ Needles, Pins and Baking Tins said...
Extra wide Pez?? Be still my heart!
- 4 April 2012 at 11:29
- Sarah said...
- 4 April 2012 at 11:40
- Nicky said...
Campaign queen! Good luck Katy and any princess would be proud to have this quilt!
- 4 April 2012 at 12:00
- Josie McRazie said...
You go girl! :)
- 4 April 2012 at 13:39
- Needled Mom said...
That's a great looking quilt. I love the colors too.
- 4 April 2012 at 15:01
- Lynne said...
Wow,this is super cute! Can't wait to see it with the panel on the back. I love cloud 9 fabrics.
- 4 April 2012 at 15:43
- Jacey said...
You were like lightning yesterday! So super fast! And it's awesome. I love the prints, and this quilt is just so happy.
Also, fingers crossed for the pezzy backs!!
- 4 April 2012 at 16:03
- Danny Heyen said...
Oh my gosh! I LOVE it! I've been wanting to buy that line too, but I have to save the money first! ha! Love what you did with it!
- 4 April 2012 at 17:49
- Anna said...
love the monsterz so much!
- 4 April 2012 at 17:50
- Marit said...
sweetest little monsterz for the prettiest little princess...
; )
lovely pattern to show off the fabric, Katy
and we're all voting for the extra wide monopez - need it now!
- 4 April 2012 at 17:54
- Live a Colorful Life said...
This is super cute fabric! Fun watching its progress on IG.
- 4 April 2012 at 18:00
- Heidi Staples said...
I love this...absolutely love it!!
- 4 April 2012 at 18:36
- Katy Cameron said...
Wasted no time is right, holy crap! Love that line though :o)
- 4 April 2012 at 19:01
- Miaou said...
Love that fabric ... all of it!! And brilliant news about the extra wide fabric, fantastic!
- 4 April 2012 at 19:21
- Maxine said...
Great quilt! I love the Lil' Monsters!
- 4 April 2012 at 20:50
- Heather D. said...
Very very nice, that quilt design really works well with your fabric choice.
- 4 April 2012 at 21:34
- Kelly said...
Gorgeous quilt! Ohh pezzy in widebacks, that would be amazing.
- 4 April 2012 at 21:39
- Cherie said...
Looks great!! Love the pattern! Can't wait to see it all finished =D
- 4 April 2012 at 22:18
- mascanlon said...
LOL, we do think a like Katy. I have a pile of Monsterz mixed with a few other things on my cutting table to make The Happy Zombie's "Taking Turns" quilt. Somehow I missed that fabulous panel so I am off to order now! PS Love the "Fit for a Princess"tutorial too.
- 5 April 2012 at 01:49
- Allegory said...
I *just* got my bundle of this fabric in the mail today! I'm so excited about it that I've shoved some ongoing projects in the corner to work with this ;)
- 5 April 2012 at 03:19
- diane said...
what a cute pattern for some great fabric
- 5 April 2012 at 04:38
- **nicke... said...
oh pezzy backs! i would be in heaven!
- 5 April 2012 at 15:53
- patchworkdelights said...
Love the quilt love the fabric!
- 6 April 2012 at 10:10
- Princess Martha said...
Love it! Love the fabric and the design :)
- 7 April 2012 at 11:49
- Audrie said...
I need some of this fabric! And if the pez wide backing happens, remind me to crown you Queen of Everything.
- 7 April 2012 at 13:01
- Cynthia said...
The quilt is really pretty, I like it a lot! I love your communications with moda, sounds like they are listening.
- 11 April 2012 at 14:13
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Canada reforms medical education to address changing health needs
The Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada is promoting a series of reforms to ensure that future Canadian medical professionals have the training, orientation and commitment they need to meet the health needs of a changing population.
The series of reforms and their impact on medical education were described by Dr. Paul Grand'Maison, of Quebec's Université de Sherbrooke, during a presentation at PAHO headquarters on Feb. 9.
The reforms are being developed and promoted through two related initiatives, the Future of Medical Education in Canada (FMEC) and the FMEC Postgraduate Project (FMEC-PG), both funded by Health Canada. Their goals are to ensure that medical students in Canada receive the best education possible while also ensuring that, as future medical professionals, they are "socially accountable" to Canadian society.
"We need to find an equilibrium between excellence and the public good," said Grand'Maison. "We must consider the needs of the population we serve. There is too often a mismatch between the medical workforce and the needs of the population."
One of the major challenges of Canadian medical schools, according to Grand'Maison, is to ensure that sufficient numbers of medical students not only get training in, but also end up practicing, family medicine. He said Université de Sherbrooke's medical school channels nearly 50 percent of its graduates into family medicine and an additional 25 percent into "broad specialties."
Among the recommendations of the FMEC project in a 2010 report are reforms in curricula, admissions, and other processes that:
FMEC-PG is expected to produce another set of recommendations specifically for graduate medical education in Canada within the next two months.
Dr. Grand'Maison has twice served as Director of the Université de Sherbrooke's Office of Medical Education and is currently Director of the PAHO/WHO Collaborating Centre in Medical Education, also at Sherbrooke.
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Medicare: How Does It Work?
Medicare is a federal health insurance program. It is for three groups of people:
- People 65 years of age and over
- Some disabled people under the age of 65 years
- People with end-stage renal disease (folks with permanent kidney failure who are using dialysis or have had a kidney transplant)
Everyone receiving Social Security at age 65 automatically gets a Medicare card. If your parents aren't getting Social Security at that age, then they need to apply for it through their Social Security office. There are specific enrollment periods—so don't wait. Dad can apply three months before he turns 65 years old and up to four months after. If he misses the window, Dad could be in for some real hassles and a penalty.
There are two parts to Medicare:
- Part A. This part is not optional. (Nor would you want it to be.) Part A is the hospital coverage part of Medicare. Most of your parents' hospital bills are covered by Medicare. The Social Security office makes it easy for your parents. They deduct the hospital insurance monthly premium from Mom and Dad's Social Security check and zap it over to the Medicare Trust Fund. Just like any other insurance program, your parents have to kick in for deductibles. As of 2000, they'll pay $776 for a hospital stay of 1 to 60 days. Medicare covers semiprivate rooms, meals, general nursing, and other hospital services. Just about the entire hospital bill is covered by Medicare. Part A will also pay for home health care under certain conditions, durable medical equipment (wheelchairs, hospital beds, oxygen, and walkers), hospice care, and blood transfusions.
- Part B. This is the second part of Medicare known as the medical insurance part. This covers doctors' services, clinical laboratory services, outpatient medical and surgical services, supplies, and outpatient hospital services. Under approved conditions, your parents can also receive home health care services. Mom and Dad pay a deductible of $100 and then 20 percent of the bill.
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Hello? Twenty percent of the bill? Yep. Those 20 percents can really add up. It's what everybody refers to as "the gap" (not the store where your kids shop). Just about everybody buys insurance to close the gap and cover the 20 percent that Medicare doesn't. It's known as Medi-gap insurance (more about that in a moment).
Social Security will also automatically deduct Mom's monthly medical insurance premium (Part B) from her Social Security check. She can refuse Part B, but she has to let Social Security know about this. The only reason she should refuse it is if she's under some other plan that covers her medical insurance. She might be getting it from a retiree package, so she doesn't need to pay for the premium. You absolutely do not want to be without this coverage! Many surgeries are being done at outpatient surgi-centers (for example, cataract surgery)—can you imagine paying for this out of pocket?
Just like Part A, there are certain periods of time when you can enroll in Part B. The general enrollment period is from January 1 through March 31 of every year. Coverage won't start until July.
As you deal with the world of Medicare, there are two different groups you will probably encounter. Here's who they are and what they do:
- Peer Review Organizations (PRO). The federal government pays a group of doctors and other health care experts to monitor and improve care given to Medicare patients. This group will review your parent's complaints about such things as care they've received at a hospital, a hospital's outpatient clinic, nursing home, surgi-center, or home health agency. The PRO will even handle complaints from Medicare managed care plans. Whenever your parents go into the hospital, they'll receive a pamphlet telling them how to make a complaint and the phone number of the PRO to call.
- Fiscal Intermediary. Companies are hired by the federal government to pay all Medicare Part A and Part B bills. The feds contract with different companies throughout the country to pay the bills. Sometimes you'll need to call one of these companies to correct a bill or let that company know that something's wrong. The company's phone number appears on the "Explanation of Benefits" or a "Medicare Summary Notice" your parents get after they receive a service from a health care provider that billed Medicare.
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Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Seven songs from the upcoming Jimi Hendrix album will appear on Sunday night's (January 20th) episode of CBS' cop drama, Hawaii Five-0, according to Gibson.com. The tracks, which were among the tunes Hendrix left unfinished at the time of his 1970 death, are part of the new posthumous collection, People, Hell, & Angels, set for release on March 5th. The Hendrix songs featured in Sunday night's episode are: "Bleeding Heart," "Mojo Man," "Hey Gypsy Boy," "Inside Out," "Crash Landing," "Hear My Train A Comin'" and "Somewhere."
Hendrix's step-sister, Janie L. Hendrix, President/CEO of Experience Hendrix LLC, posted about the album on JimiHendrix.com, saying, "We're thrilled to be able to release People, Hell & Angels, during the celebration of the 70th anniversary of my brother's birth. The brilliance of the album serves to underscore what we've known all along: that there has never been and never will be a musical force equal to his and that we cherish and take inspiration of what he left us both now and for many generations to come. . . simply eternity."
Janie Hendrix told us that she's astonished at the amount of new Hendrix film and recordings are discovered each year. She's even gone on record saying that at this point, the archives have another 10 years worth of releases ready to go. We asked her if she's been amazed at not only the amount of footage and recordings that have lasted throughout the years -- but how many are in perfect condition: "Yeah, I have been. And it's like when we were working on Woodstock, and then after we discovered some black and white footage that, well, we didn't think existed -- a student had filmed it. Also, not too long ago we discovered the Miami Pop film footage and it was in pristine condition. And you find that tape has survived and we're able to put out more releases because of that."
Check your local listing for CBS' Hawaii Five-0. It normally airs at 10 p.m., but will be running in the in Post-AFC Championship slot this Sunday.
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The Master of Divinity degree at Garrett-Evangelical can be tailored to each individual's calling. The MDiv degree fulfills the academic qualifications for ordination as elder or deacon in The United Methodist Church and in most other denominations. In addition, the program prepares students with high academic achievement for doctoral studies in religion.
A bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university
- An undergraduate grade point average of at least 2.5 on a 4.0 scale
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|Area III: Theory and Practice of Ministry
|Theory & Practice of Ministry
|15 Hrs
|Integrative Courses
|1st Year Vocational Formation & Church Leadership (VFCL)
|4 Hrs
|2nd Year VFCL and Field Education
|4 Hrs
|3rd Year VFCL and Field Education
|5 Hrs
Elective Courses 21 Hrs
Total 87 Hrs
Denominational Requirements
Students should plan to meet denominational requirements as part of their electives.
Spiritual Formation
Spiritual formation is intrinsic to the degree. While it is part of coursework, students are also expected to devote time outside of class to significant formative experiences such as corporate worship, community meals, service, and spiritual direction. Students are introduced to designated spiritual practices (the historic "rule of life") within the Vocational Formation and Church Leadership (VFCL) course. Vocational Formation and Church Leadership and field education continue the covenantal community. The student's "rule of life" is reviewed regularly with faculty advisors.
Cross-Cultural Education
Students live in a world of differences, cross-cultural in terms of ethnicity, language, socio-economic status, religion, ideology, gender, and nationality. Cross-cultural dimensions are intrinsically part of the whole curriculum at Garrett-Evangelical. Students complete a cross-cultural requirement both to gain a deepened awareness of the cultural and religious world of ministry and a heightened awareness of their own cultural context and personal identity. Students may meet this requirement through a variety of means (e.g., course work, travel courses, field education, independent studies, and/or exchange programs.)
Continuing Evaluations
In consultation with advisors, students develop, update, and review a portfolio that cumulatively expresses student development through the curriculum. It includes a variety of materials (e.g., written course materials, external evaluations, field education reports, interviews, examinations) appropriate to expected degree learning outcomes.
Dual Degrees
Garrett-Evangelical and Loyola University Chicago's School of Social Work have a cooperative agreement for a dual degree program leading to the Master of Social Work (MSW) at Loyola and the MDiv at Garrett-Evangelical. To learn more about requirements for the MDiv/MSW degree, click here.
MASTER OF DIVINITY and MASTER OF ARTS
Students can enhance their MDiv by specializing with a Master of Arts degree. The MDiv/MA allows students to become specialists in one of the following four areas:
Christian Education (with an option in Youth Ministry)
Music Ministry (with an option in Organ)
Pastoral Care and Counseling
Spiritual Formation and Evangelism
To learn more about the MA degrees, click here.
As part of their Master of Divinity degree, students can fulfill a concentration in one of the following fields:
- African American Church Leadership
- Christian Education
- Church History
- Church Leadership
- Ethics
- Pastoral Care and Counseling
- Peace Studies (in partnership with Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary)
- Spiritual Formation
- Theology
- Urban Ministry
- Worship
To learn more about the requirements for these concentrations, click here.
Leadership Coaching
GPSS (God, Person, Self, System) Leadership Coaching is a partnership between Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary and the Samaritan Training and Resource Center that provides Garrett-Evangelical alumni/ea with personal Leadership Coaching. The coaching will be provided by experienced clergy or counselors who have been trained to apply action driven, results oriented and solution focused support as you address the specific, present-moment challenges of your new appointment or employment.
GPSS Leadership Coaches guide individuals and groups to maximize their impact through exploring and expanding vision, unlocking potential and reaching desired goals with increased confidence, competency and commitment.
Field Education
Field Education
Without exception, Garrett-Evangelical graduates point to their field education experience as key to their seminary education. Our field education program reflects the seminary's philosophy that students mature into ministry by knowing, being and doing.
By combining hands-on experience with our academic course series, Vocational Formation & Church Leadership (VFCL), we offer students the finest opportunity to discern, test and refine their call to ministry.
Field Education is an academic requirement beginning in the fall of your 2nd year and is concurrent with the second year of VFCL. Master of Divinity students take two years of field education, serving at the field site 15 hours per week. You may remain at the same site for both years or chose a different field experience for the second year.
Our program offers:
- Field Site Discernment – We guide each student to a field site where your call, gifts and vocational goals will be supported, challenged, refined and affirmed.
- A Variety of Sites – Options include churches in urban, suburban and rural settings in the immediate area and surrounding states; chaplaincies in both health related and collegiate settings; a variety of social service and outreach agencies.
- Mentoring – Students meet weekly with the field site supervisor for theological reflection and support. (The VFCL course is structured to provide additional mentoring from ministry professionals and peers.)
- Compensation – Students receive a stipend for their work in field education.


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Who are they talking about? Why haven't I ever heard of him?
I was at SRI, a research institute by the Stanford campus. Around me was a lively group of some of the best minds in Computer Science, some of them have had their PhDs in the field for 40 years. I had the honor of being the least credentialed person in the room. As I listened to some of the discussions, I noticed that they seemed to keep bringing up the name "Licklider." Sometimes they'd just call him "Lick." Other times they'd mention projects along with his name that I hadn't heard about before like "Project MAC." Since the guys talked so much about him, I knew I had to find out more about who this "Lick" guy was. One of them suggested that I read the book "The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal" by M. Mitchell Waldrop.
My local library had the book. I was a bit worried when I saw that it hadn't been checked out for three years. "Hmm... maybe it's not that good?" I thought.
I was pleasantly surprised.
At about 500 pages, it's not a small book. Fortunately, I was able to finish it just before the library forced me to return it since I hit the maximum amount of renewals on it.
The book put me on a journey that filled in a lot of details about computing history that I didn't even know I was clueless about while weaving a story about a man from Missouri. Although his full name was Joseph Carl Robnett Licklider, just about everyone called him "Lick," a name he acquired in his fraternity days.
Lick's story is bigger than just one guy. It's a story that goes back to the dawn of computing right up to the personal computer. While reading the book, I had a lot of "Aha!" moments that helped fill me into the colorful history of computing. For example, I had heard a lot about DEC's PDP system, but it was interesting to know that they were specifically called "Programmed Data Processors" instead of "computers" because congress was pressured not to spend any more money on computers at the time. By itself, facts like these seem to be obscure trivia, but when you read about the politics of funding at the time, you can really understand that DEC had few alternatives.
I can't recall ever hearing Licklider's name before that meeting at SRI, but that's probably because I didn't try too hard. As a kid interested in computers growing up in the 1990's, I really focused my attention on learning about one person - Bill Gates. I read several books about him and had a reasonably good idea of his background and the history of Traf-O-Data, Microsoft and some of its products like BASIC, DOS, OS/2, Windows, and NT. Perhaps in the back of my mind I thought that learning about him would me emulate his success and make me
millionsbillions. Too bad that didn't work out.
In addition to the books, my other major source of information was when I watched Bob Cringely's Triumph of the Nerds on PBS in the summer before I started high school. In hindsight, after reading this book I really wish I would have watched the 1998 follow-on to the series called "Nerds 2.01: A Brief History of the Internet." I would have at least heard about Licklider and the computing days before Microsoft and Apple and not been so clueless back at that room in SRI.
What a story it is! It's not really just about Lick; it's about how he helped build a community that fostered the explosive computing growth in the 1960's right through the 70's and 80's.
Since I like to ask others what stuck out in books that they've read, I thought I'd share some things I found interesting:
22 Days of Beeps Can Change a Nation
Chapter 6 opens on a rocket launch pad in the early morning of October 1957 at a top secret Soviet Union location. When the rocket took off and deployed its payload, the world came to know Sputnik by its incessant beep beep beep transmissions.
Waldrop quotes this account:
"[Sputnik's] two transmitters would fail twenty-three days after launch - but their arrogant beeping would continue to sound in the American memory for years to come... Gone forever in this country was the myth of American superiority in all things technical and scientific." (p. 197)
Although the U.S. had rockets under development that were more sophisticated than the Soviet ones, it was a huge blow to American pride and there was a large public outcry. Everyone made the connection: if the Soviets could launch a satellite into space, they could probably launch a missile into any major U.S. city.
One famous result of this perceived threat was President Eisenhower's endorsement of "a plan to consolidate all the Pentagon's space research under a new civilian agency reporting directly to the secretary of defense. It would be called the Advanced Research Projects Agency, or ARPA."
Well it didn't quite work out exactly as planned.
Before ARPA opened for business, it had already been split up. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) would handle all the non-military space projects and the services would get a large amount their funding back to handle most of their development projects. This left ARPA with "the kind of beyond-the-cutting-edge stuff that the services were willing to do without." (p. 198)
ARPA wasn't initially interested in computers. To them, they were really only helpful for things like accounting and payroll. This changed when ARPA was tasked to research new command and control ideas that would require a lot of data processing. This seemed like an ideal fit for computers. Licklider was asked to come over to ARPA and lead the new project.
He didn't want to take the job at first. He was already doing interesting things with computers and was so busy working on fleshing out his ideas of computer assisted "libraries of the future" to even think about burying himself in "the bureaucratic limbo of Washington." (p. 201)
Once he warmed up to the idea of going to ARPA, he began thinking that the command and control concept was ultimately a man-machine symbiosis, something he had been thinking about for years.
In March of 1960, he published his famous "Man-Computer Symbiosis" which began:
"The fig tree is pollinated only by the insect Blastophaga grossorun. The larva of the insect lives in the ovary of the fig tree, and there it gets its food. The tree and the insect are thus heavily interdependent: the tree cannot reproduce without the insect; the insect cannot eat without the tree; together, they constitute not only a viable but a productive and thriving partnership. This cooperative 'living together in intimate association, or even close union, of two dissimilar organisms' is called symbiosis.
'Man-computer symbiosis' is a subclass of man-machine systems. There are many man-machine systems. At present, however, there are no man-computer symbioses. The purposes of this paper are to present the concept and, hopefully, to foster the development of man-computer symbiosis by analyzing some problems of interaction between men and computing machines, calling attention to applicable principles of man-machine engineering, and pointing out a few questions to which research answers are needed. The hope is that, in not too many years, human brains and computing machines will be coupled together very tightly, and that the resulting partnership will think as no human brain has ever thought and process data in a way not approached by the information-handling machines we know today."
This might not seem radical in 2008, but it was revolutionary back in the 1960's when most people could only think of computers as batch processing machines. Lick saw computers in a symbiosis where humans could do the thinking and the machines would do the "algorithmic chores they were so good at" (p.148). In order to find out how much of a benefit they'd be, he did an experiment on himself and found to his horror that he spent 85% of his time just "getting into a position to think, to make a decision, to learn something I needed to know." The rest of the time was just clerical or mechanical. Computers would be a perfect fit to handle all the dreary stuff that got in the way of real thinking.
Lick knew that he could start making the man-computer symbiosis concept real and get the government to pay for it through his association with ARPA. Lick's view was "that the problems of command and control were essentially problems of man-computer interaction. I thought it was just ridiculous having command-and-control systems based on batch processing. Who can direct a battle when he's got to write a program in the middle of a battle?" (p. 202)
On the next page we see:
"Improbably, miraculously, through some once-in-a-lifetime alignment of all the right planets, ARPA was offering him a chance to turn his vision into a reality. He could reinvent the whole field of computing. He could transform those giant calculating machines into full-fledged partners in a human creativity. He could create 'information utilities' that spanned the continent. He could democratize information by opening up vast libraries of material to instant access by anyone. And he could do it all with the Pentagon's money." (p. 203)
And boy did he ever:
"[The professional bureaucrats] had a history of giving grants to individual people in twenty-thousand-dollar chunks. But Lick was talking about millions of dollars and whole teams of people. It was as though these folks had encountered this alien creature: friendly, but strange." (p. 206)
In addition to funding research organizations like SDC, RAND, and SRI, Lick is remembered for helping fund the new computer science departments at Berkeley, Stanford, Carnegie Mellon, and perhaps most famously, MIT. Lick's funding at MIT went towards a system that would put together several foundational ideas needed for his man-computer symbiosis. The goal was "Machine-Aided-Cognition," but since computer time was hard to come by and they had to invent a lot of the concepts for time-sharing to allow multiple people to access a computer at once, the project also went by the name "Multiple Access Computer." Regardless of which one you chose, the acronym was the same.
"So that's the Project MAC the folks in the room were talking about," I thought as I read about it.
Project MAC would lay a lot of the foundations for modern operating systems. Examples include technologies like multitasking and file systems to policies such as regular backups to protect themselves from their mistakes. They had to introduce passwords to stop some people from stealing computer time as well as ideas from unpublished academic papers. Unix and the C language it was written in was an offshoot of this project as an attempt to write a simpler version than what the Project MAC team was trying to accomplish.
And yet, Project MAC was just one of the many projects that Lick was funding and tracking. To the outside observer, all of the projects seemed like an ad hoc mess rather than a carefully crafted plan. Lick knew that his man-computer symbiosis dream would need to be maintained by more than just him. Waldrop writes:
"Lick realized, if this vision was ever going to outlast his tenure at ARPA, he would somehow have to forge all these groups into a self-reinforcing, self-sustaining community." (p. 225)
One such example of how he did this was his famous 1963 memo which began: "[to the] Members and Affiliates of the Intergalactic Computer Network." In his mind, Lick was referring to a human network. He continued: "It is evident that we have among us a collection of individual (personal and/or organizational) aspirations, efforts, activities, and projects." The challenge now was to exploit "the possibilities for mutual advantage". He went on to describe a connected system that would keep all the research projects together, a network focused on human thoughts but connected by wires. In essence, the early signs of the Internet.
But it took some time to materialize and didn't happen during Lick's ARPA tenure.
He did make progress. Due to the computing focus that Lick had caused, his ARPA division was given the title "Information Processing Techniques Office" (IPTO). After his two year tenure at ARPA, Lick handed the reins over to a young Ivan Sutherland (creator of Sketchpad, which launched the field computer graphics and computer aided design). When Sutherland finished his tenure, Bob Taylor would take over and proceed to actually make Lick's "Intergalactic Network" of people a real physical thing by linking ARPA people together into ARPANET, the direct predecessor of the Internet.
The first message went across it at 10:30 PM on October 29, 1969.
Two interesting things from the book stand out right around this period of time. The first was that the height of the Vietnam War was taking a huge toll on the nation, both in terms of people and dollars. In a reported attempt to limit spending on the war, Montana senator Mike Mansfield proposed an amendment that would prevent the Defense Department from "[carrying] out any research project or study unless such project or study has a direct and apparent relationship to a specific military function."
The practical effect of the "Mansfield Amendment" was that it diverted a large percentage of people's time into writing how their project had a "direct and apparent" relevancy. It's also one of the largest reasons why ARPA is now known as DARPA:
"In retrospect, moreover, [the Mansfield Amendment] came to be seen as the symbolic watershed for ARPA, the point at which it started its downhill slide from being a cutting-edge agency that was blessedly free to take risks to being an ordinary agency that was cautious and risk-averse." (p. 395)
The second big thing was that in May of 1969, Xerox was making a lot of money selling copiers. But their management knew they had to be more than a one product company. In an attempt to branch out and "go digital," they purchased Scientific Data Systems (SDS). However, they had a problem: the company was largely computer illiterate. They needed to go out and recruit the best computer people the world had. One of their first hires was none other than former ARPA IPTO director Bob Taylor. Taylor would go on to attract many from Lick's "Intergalactic Network" ARPA community who had been distressed by the Mansfield Amendment and its research cutting implications.
The resulting Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) was the place to be in the 1970's. It fostered freedom to explore ideas just like the early ARPA days since its backers were willing to invest in long-term innovation. Its anti-corporate culture included meetings filled with beanbag chairs which prevented people from leaping out of their chair to argue with someone. This 'helped' you hear them out. PARC would go on to create the foundations of personal computing as we know it with their Alto personal computer which was named after the city they were in. The Alto had new ideas like bitmapped displays, windows, an Ethernet network, WYSIWYG word processing, laser printing, and roots of modern object oriented programming. Unfortunately, Xerox's management didn't quite understand the business value of what their PARC guys were creating. Additionally, the guys inside PARC had a hard time creating a clear path and business model for getting their ideas to market. There was one notable exception. Waldrop writes:
"If [Jack Goldman] hadn't thrown a tantrum [in order to get the business guys to listen], they might just have rejected the laser printer itself - the one PARC-bred product that would eventually earn billions for Xerox and repay its investment in PARC many times over." (p. 392)
Steve Jobs, along with some other engineers, would visit PARC in December of 1979 for a demonstration of the Alto system. Jobs was so enamored by the graphical interface that he saw that he didn't even explore the object oriented programming and networking ideas. During the visit, Jobs reportedly exclaimed "Why hasn't this company brought this to market?" (p. 443) He didn't wait around for Xerox. Apple's first graphical computer, "Lisa," 'borrowed' several ideas from the Alto. When the Lisa and IBM PC hit the market in the early 80's, the guys inside PARC realized that Xerox had blown a huge opportunity. Many jumped ship. One example was Charles Simonyi, who took his ideas Bravo word processing ideas north to a relatively new company in Washington named Microsoft. It was a huge difference in culture. Simonyi's commented on the contrast:
"It was like going into the graveyard or retirement home before going into the maternity ward. You could see that Microsoft could do things one hundred times faster, literally, I'm not kidding. Six years from that point, we overtook Xerox in market valuation." (p. 449)
And that brought me full circle back to the pop culture history I was more familiar with. Throughout the years Lick would stay involved in some part with the research community, sometimes getting bogged down with management tasks which he despised. He would teach at MIT through the 80s with students that would only later realize all that he had done. Failing health caused him to pass away at the age of 75 on June 26, 1990: just before the world at large would come to use the "Intergalactic Network."
Lick was known for being quite modest about his contributions, often minimizing his role. When asked about what he did, he said:
"I think that I found a lot of bright people and got them working in this area. I got it moving. [And it was] a fantastic community. I guess that's the word. It was more than just a collection of bright people. It was a thing that organized itself into a community, so that there was some competition and some cooperation, and it resulted in the emergence of a field." (p. 258)
So that's why they kept talking about him. Now I get it.
Lick organized a community that would change the computing world. He realized that it's ultimately the people that matter. I think that our industry puts too much emphasis on technology and tends to marginalize people. I think that one of the first steps to reverse this trend is to understand the contributions of its founders like Lick.
"The Dream Machine" was a good book. I recommend it to anyone who might be curious about what happened in computing before the Microsoft, Apple, and especially Google days. From the early days of Von Neumann and Turing, right up to the 90's, Waldrop's detailed research helped the story come alive. The book appears to be out of print, but it is well worth a visit to your library or getting a used copy.
If you made it this far, I'd really love to hear your comments on a few related questions:
- Had you heard of Licklider before? If so, where? What sticks out in your mind about Lick?
- What do you think about Lick's funding and management strategy in the early days of ARPA's IPTO?
- What do you think of Lick's comparison of the Fig Wasp and Fig Tree to a man-computer relationship? Do you think we've obtained the man-computer symbiosis he was referring to?
- What about PARC? It could still be considered success since the laser printer paid for Xerox's investment in it. However, as Steve Jobs points out, they could have been the IBM of the 90's but blew their chance. What do you think?
- What do you think about the Mansfield Amendment of the 1970 fiscal year? It's easy to criticize things in hindsight. If it was 1969 and you didn't know the future, which side would you have honestly taken? How would you have defended your position?
- If you read this book or similar books, what is most memorable to you about the period from the 1930's through the late 80's that you think most people don't know about?


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Placemarkers are fixed to base of the main ski area at each ski resort to assist with directions.
Click on placemarkers to reveal resort details, distances from airports, snow reports and more
Click on resort links in the map legend to access individual resort maps and distances from neighbouring resorts.
Zoom in to reveal ski resorts that may be in close proximity to other resorts.
Map Legend
(2) Alpine Meadows
(3) Alta Sierra
(4) Badger Pass
(5) Bear Valley
(6) Big Bear Mountain
(7) Boreal
(8) Boreal Mtn Terrain Park
(9) China Peak
(10) Dodge Ridge
(11) Heavenly
(12) Homewood
(13) June Mountain
(14) Kirkwood Ski Resort
(15) Mammoth/June
(16) Mount Shasta
(17) Mountain High
(18) Mt. Baldy
(19) Northstar
(20) Sierra at Tahoe
(21) Snow Summit Mountain Resort
(22) Snow Valley
(23) Soda Springs
(24) Squaw
(25) Sugar Bowl
(26) Tahoe Donner