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Cirias' thread about themes got me thinking about this, and rather than hijack that thread I thought I'd start a new one. So I know how I write, but I'm wondering how others go about it. Take the last flash comp (the dolls one) – I set the topic of dolls with a vague idea I that I could write something ethnic and old English folklore-ish about corn dollies and traditional witchcraft. As you can see from the end product, that didn't go very well at all. Here's why: I go to work and do the usual mundane things for a few days, occasionally thinking "I really ought to get around to writing something for that flash competition" and not doing it. We're about a week into the October flash and I'm sitting at the computer that evening thinking "it's my flash comp, I really ought to enter something to make up the numbers", and I've got absolutely nowhere with corn dollies and old English folklore other than "it'd be really cool if I wrote something about corn dollies." Something about corn dollies is so far completely not getting written. I've had a few beers and I'm listening to an old Marillion album (I know, I know….) while my wife is watching TV in the other room, and I've got as far as writing "The village". Hmmm, it's not going very well so far. The Marillion album plays a track called "Punch and Judy" (which is awesome, by the way, if you're old enough to miss the eighties, and someone like me who things "suburbanshee" is one of the best words ever coined in a song! - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWrwYsSt6OE) and I think – Punch and Judy! Yes! No. They're puppets not dolls. Bugger. Oh well, no one will notice. Two hundred words in and Judy's dead baby becomes a plastic child's doll because that's what I see her carrying when I'm writing it. She was (in my head) supposed to be carrying around this blue rotting dead baby, but she just isn't, she's carrying a plastic toy baby that she thinks is a real dead baby, and why in the world would she think it was a real dead baby not a real live baby unless she was so far off the psycho scale that…. and the rest of it pretty much wrote itself. So anyway, that's usually how my writing writes itself. You?
First off I'm passing familiar with Marillion but I never caught on to their influence on your (excellent) flash I'm not sure where my ideas come from, but at a guess its similar in the way that something outside my physical presence gives me an idea. Now that I'm writing NaNoWriMo for the first time and rushing on and not looking back its interesting to see what is popping up. I notice that both Martin and Abercrombie have a tendency to crop up, either in the way I write a sentence, or how I describe a character ... as to the plot for this particular novel I decided I wanted to do something similar to what Martin did, i.e. base it on historical events, and see where my story goes from there. As for flash...the "doll" theme kind of automagically makes me (and many others I noticed) go for that creepy/horror-style of telling a story about dolls, so I guess creepy dolls is quite a common trope. I was indeed twisting my mind to see if I could go against the trope (which I really should have done) but ended up with a story about...a creepy doll. Oh well. That particular doll was partially inspired by the puppet Hairlock from Erikson's "The Malazan Book of the Fallen" though it doesn't show. Point is there's always *something* out there that becomes the seed for a story. Often its simply the theme itself that gets me going (for example, when the theme was "reflection" I immediately decided upon some character going to fight his own reflection, and the rest just grew from there); other times I've seen or heard of read something that inspires me, such as when the short story theme was 'insanity', and I had just been reading about the crime of malingering (that story went nowhere fast though).
Writers get ideas from everything, but if you're talking about main ideas, authors tend to orient slightly towards one source of data -- setting/imagery, character or plot/device, though they may use the others and there's plenty of overlap. So if you put three different authors in the same place, say a baseball stadium, they'll notice different things. One may notice physical and sensory things about the stadium and how aspects of the stadium shape what's happening around them and what the atmosphere is like. Another will notice various people - how they look, how they act, and wonder about their lives and how they feel. A third will notice things that happen -- a cup being spilled, a guy almost falling out of the stands, a ball boy collecting balls, etc. and they'll start playing with that. These types of things particularly attract their attention, though again, they'll also notice other things and integrate them. But if you ask an author to generate premise ideas while at the baseball stadium or other circumstances and places, it's likely that the majority of them will be oriented in one of those three areas. I've learned over time that I'm pretty setting/iimagery oriented and I build from there.
My fiction pretty much follows similar processes: I decide on a time and place and then think of a few characters. I write a few paragraphs and then I write an outline of 10 or more points in linear progression of the story arc. Somewhere between 1/4 to halfway in, the characters assert themselves and most of those 10 points are thrown out or changed. At some point a character pops up who wasn't intended to last more than a a scene and becomes a major character. In my novel this was a character named Shoji, and I couldn't figure out for the longest time why he was suddenly important or why that was his name. Then it dawned on me that the name was the Japanese word for door, window or room divider: it's that door that someone slides to open and reveal the room inside and this was essentially the function that this character played. It was one of those weird moments where you realize that much of your writing is done on a subconscious level. Another moment was when two of the characters who were in a long term, devoted relationship were suddenly less so. I realized while I was writing the dialogue from one of them that they would be breaking up soon, which was never the intention and altered the story. When things like this happen it's a choice between pigeon-holing the characters into your carefully constructed stories or letting yourself become their biographer. I choose the latter. Nearing the end, I usually go and write a new first chapter. Throughout the writing I constantly go back to the beginning and edit grammar and the story itself so that it forms a cohesive whole. Once I'm finished the final chapter, I go back and edit several more times. Then I get someone else to edit it and then I edit some more. And then it's done.
I'm always interested in tracing the origin of ideas. It's true that much of it (at least for me) is very subconcious, I tend to take from things without realizing it. It's a thin line between inspiration and plagiarism, I find. The last flash fiction piece I wrote is a good example. The theme for last month was "Dolls", and I thought to myself, "This will be a good opportunity to write something different, something wholesome, to broaden my horizons rather than write the usual story of darkness and madness." So I tried thinking of something nice, maybe a scene involving a girl and her doll. Eight or nine days went by, and I couldn't think of a scene. I couldn't even come up with a sentence. Usually, when a contest theme doesn't work for me, I get fed up and decide to try and find a way to destroy it, to violate as much as possible. So then I thought, "What's the worst thing I can do with this theme?" Four hours later, I posted my story. It involved a man falling in love with a blow-up doll, then murdering it and burying it in his back yard. I like when an idea writes itself. That four hour process went something like this: "Hmmm. . . How can I use dolls in a way that probably isn't intended? What kind of dolls are there? Let's see: Voodoo dolls, porcelain dolls, barbie dolls-" -Blow up sex doll- "Yes, of course! But in order to really mess with the theme, I shouldn't make it obvious that it's about a blow-up doll. I should string the reader along and make them scratch their heads-" -Treat the doll like a real person- "Yes! I'll make my main character interact with it like he thinks it's real. But that would make this character some kind of nut, if he thinks it's real. What other nutty things can I have him doing-" -He's in love with the doll- "Funny! But what else? How far can I take this idea? How absurd can I make it- -Find numerous different ways of re-wording the same facial expression, as if he thinks the doll's expressing different things while still remaining inanimate- "Good stuff!" -And he should kill her/it accidentally, and try to dispose of the body as if he's actually comitted a crime- "Hilarious!" So basically the idea was, "How many different ways can I make this inanimate object seem like a real human being to this guy?" After coming up with several ways that amused me, I tied them all together into the story and called it a night. I was pretty happy with myself. This was a couple of weeks ago. Then, just a couple of days ago, I remembered something. A friend of mine once lent me a collection of graphic novels by Alan Moore. In it there was a Batman comic centered around a villain named Clayface, in which he'd escaped from an insane asylum and hidden himself in a shopping mall. He lurks around the mall at night and eventually falls in love with a mannequin, and a chain of events similar to my story occur, all of which involve Clayface being convinced that this mannequin is a real person. No matter how much I think an idea is my own original idea, even if I remember the thought processes behind it and the brainstorming, it still comes down to this: Everything we see, everything we read and hear, moulds the way we think in terms of creativity. I had completely forgotten that comic existed, hell I wasn't even that impressed by it when I read it. But even that seemed to store itself in the back of my brain, to warp my way of thinking when it came to thinking up a story.
"There are nine and sixty ways of constructing tribal lays, And every single one of them is right!" - Kipling
Well, it's more than that -- it's a chain. Because Clayface and the mannequin come from the Greek myth of Pygmalion and Galatea -- and similar myths from other sculptures. And that leads into a whole bunch of other stories -- the play Pygmalion and musical adaptation My Fair Lady, Pinnochio, the tale of Sleeping Beauty, the film Laura, the Picture of Dorian Gray, the 1980's movie Mannequin: or Lars and the Real Girl: and tons of horror stories. That's what I mean when I say by ten, we're steeped in story -- oral, written, visual media. But still particular angles catch your mind and you play with that. Your story -- which I thought was very good -- was probably a good deal different from the Batman story. But the idea of someone loving an image and the further idea that the image might somehow come to life are very old ones.


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Thanks for the great step by step with photos; it really helps make everything clear. I am working on some Christmas/winter wonky blocks - will post pics tomorrow. my flickr is partridgepeartree. Thanks for the giveaway, John!
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Quilt Along | 4. Wonky Quarter Log Cabin Block
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Love this quarter log tut, John. This is the wacky one that really got me started on quilting and still one of my very favorite quilts I've ever done. Of course, I didn't have your tutorial, so I had to wing it by checking out some others that I loved on flickr using your method. I'm excited to see the rest that you're going to teach.....and excited to get going on another wacky quilt of my own real soon.
ReplyDeleteHi John I'm new to your blog and also to quilting too. I just wanted to say how great and easy to follow your tutorials have been for me. I always tend to do blocks for my quilts and have attempted one with triangles. Am just finishing my fifth quilt (blocks again!) but you've really given me the inspiration and determination to have a go at making wonky cabin blocks on my next one. Thank you sooooo much!!!! :)
ReplyDeleteWow, I just by chance happened upon your site, I have been wanting to learn to quilt but have been to afraid, I do sew very well just never have quilted, looking at your wonky log cabin I think I can start with this or do you think this for a more advanced quilter?? I absolutely love the fabrics used on this quilt. Have a wonderful evening.
ReplyDeleteI LOVE how that pillow turned out. it's so sweet! and i have thought about adding a binding piece to the back of my envelope backings, but i never have. next time i will have to. it's a beautiful finishing touch.
i am going to try to see how much wonk i can squeeze out of a 1/4 block log cabin. :)
and my favorite wonky block is square in a square. i am looking forward to seeing your version.- AnonymousSeptember 10, 2012 at 4:52 AM
Hi John....Great job on this new WONKY dude LOL......I am a QUILTER DAD too...but my sons are all "Dads" themselves.....5 times to be exact...
I do alot of quilting and other fabric projects...dolls, witches, scarecrows etc..PRIMITIVES and the like, lots of ORNIES or tucks or bowl fillers....
Great way to use up that FOREVER NOT ENDING Pile of scraps and slivers of fabric...that we from the OLD SCHOOL...would rather have a ROOT CANAL with a BLACK & DECKER 3/4" Drill then to throw useful scraps away aye? I enjoyed the bit of humor throughout your toooting...Loved it...
Thanks for sharing...
Ken from Orlando, Fl New to this site, THANK YOU SO MUCH! I only sew a few months out of the year so have to get back into the swing of things...move furniture around, try to remember where I was and why I laid it down, reorganize my sewing area--and find lots of scraps I have no idea why I kept them and what to do with them, but like we quilters are, can't bear to throw them out. ..I mean I have BAGS of organized scraps. So this is a great idea to use them so maybe this year I'll just try to use them up and not start a new project--"sure Christene you know that will really work, not." Thanks again.

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Milton Erlin Foreman, age 76, of Belvidere, passed away on April 3, 2005, at the Hans P. Peterson Memorial Hospital in Philip, after a long-fought battle with cancer. Memorial services will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Thursday, April 7, at the Belvidere Presbyterian Church with Pastor Gary McCubbin officiating. Music will be provided by Syd Iwan, organist, and Kim Foreman, vocalist. Ushers are Tom and Don DeVries. Rush Funeral Chapel of Kadoka is in charge of the arrangements.
Patricia N. "Pat" Jensen, age 75, died on March 9, 2005. Services were held Saturday, March 12, at the Faith Lutheran Church in Victorville, CA, with Rev. Daniel Morris officiating. Pat was born September 14, 1929, at Pierre, SD, and moved to Torrance, CA, in 1945. In 1999, she moved to Spring Valley Lake, Victorville, CA. She was a devoted mother to her seven daughters and a loving wife to her husband, Charles, for over 45 years.
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What began as accepting a casual invitation to experience what trap shooting was all about has grown to become a family hobby. Tom and Mary Parquet and their daughter, Kristi, are now regular competitors in league and in registered trap shooting ... to the point that the family shot just over 12,000 shells last summer. Still, that is little compared with one South Dakota competitive shooter who fired 13,200 shells in 2004, just in competition.
I love to fish. At least I think I do. I have children, so I don't remember any more. Kids do that to a person ... about more than just fishing. Way back in BC (before children) I caught panfish that were too big for the pan. I could smell frying trout even before the lure hit the water. I remember a day ending as the sun hit the horizon, just as the largest bass I ever caught hit the popper that I had plopped expertly next to a submerged stump ... on 10 lb. line ... and it was THIS big. The last thing that I actually fished out of the lake was my daughter.
For the second year, Mike Noteboom will be hosting the "Local Dirt Track Racers Car Show." From 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. on Saturday, April 9, Les' Body Shop parking lot will be filled with around 14 cars that can make any lead-footed, white-knuckled driver drool. Bring your camera so you can have a picture taken in front of the dirt track race car of your dreams. Racers from the Philip area will gladly answer questions about the cars and about dirt track racing. The sport is one that requires a car, skill, and an overpowering desire for adrenaline.
The world-renowned violinist Rasma Lielmane will be performing a concert in Philip. The concert will be open to the public and will be held at the Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Philip at 7:00 p.m. on Thursday, April 14. The sponsor for the event is the First National Bank of Philip. This will be the third concert performed in Philip by Lielmane. The piano accompanist will be Gints Berzins, a Latvian musician renowned in his own right. The two have a busy concert schedule; in Sturgis on the 13th, Philip the 14th, Minneapolis the 16th, Chicago the 17th ....
The Philip Livestock Auction hosted a fundraiser for R-CALF USA on Tuesday, April 5, at which R-CALF USA Director Herman Schumacher spoke on behalf of the organization. They will host a second event is slated for 1 p.m. MDT on Tuesday, April 12. Paul Slovek, and his son, Casey Slovek, both of Philip, donated a calf for the rollover auction on April 5. Glen Bennett of Philip will donate a calf for the benefit on April 12. Everyone who donates at least $50 will receive a one-year membership to R-CALF USA. On January 10, R-CALF USA filed a lawsuit in U.S.
Building maintenance and improvements were the larger part of the scheduled Haakon School District #27-1 board meeting on Monday, March 15. The board's building committee recently toured the country schools. The unused Plum Creek school building is in terrible condition. If the building were needed again, renovating it would cost more than bringing in a mobile unit as a replacement. The old building was voted to be surplused and will be offered at auction. The other country schools are in excellent shape.
The Philip Chamber of Commerce held its monthly meeting Monday, March 14, at The Steakhouse with approximately 25 members present. Chamber President Glenn Parsons welcomed members then informed them that the Community Assessment teams will be assigned chairpersons, who will then be contacting Chamber members to set up future meetings. Assessment teams are Housing, Beautification, Library, Recreation/Community Center, Signage and Business Development.
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The best thing with 13.04 is that it has Cinnamon in the repository.
So you can use that instead of the slow, bloated, Unity adware/spyware.
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The first alpha release of the Ubuntu 13.04 family, the Linux distribution release that's codenamed "Raring Ringtail" and will be officially released in April, was unveiled on Thursday. Due to a revised schedule, it's not Ubuntu itself seeing an official alpha today but rather some of the derivatives...
The best thing with 13.04 is that it has Cinnamon in the repository.
So you can use that instead of the slow, bloated, Unity adware/spyware.
watcha talking about spyware ?????
Fellow developers, please don't dare to use the Ubuntu SDK once it is released. It is just another step towards a strict separation of Ubuntu and GNU/Linux.
If you want to represent the interests of the entire Linux-community, you should not use Ubuntu-specific-SDK's.
uid313 is too stupid and cannot disable online searches or remove the shopping lens package.
Also, Cinnamon is bloated (like any other DE that "should" be used with a WM that forces you to use compositing).
Yeah, let's all use random distros noone uses, or Harsh Linux! Pasting 50 commands to install (read: break) an OS is fun!
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frankly I think that's a non issue... in 10 seconds you can turn off the dash amazon search and delete the amazon icon on the taskbar.
IMO this is a stupid way with which canonical decided to monetize ubuntu.
Had they delivered a solid experience like elementary they would in no way need to resort to being amazon's little bitch as they would have a huge number of people using their OS.
I have been using the alpha for a few hours now ...I'm new to ubuntu.
In elementary in 5 minutes I pretty much fell in love with the UI and design etc... gnome3 I feel it creates some attrition and rubs me in the wrong ways sometimes but I can get used to it .... especially with the use of numerous extensions and a decent theme, it can become acceptable.
unity... :/ I don't like the os x thing of having the upper task bar as part of the app interface... I don't really like the orange icons, orange all around ...
I don't know how to explain it, but the overall feel is :/
they really DESPERATELY need a better UI
yeah i know what how you feel. i am lucky i got rid of taskbar, and start-menu kinda application menues because it is bad and stupid and annoying.
oh wait... they are actually for me annoying because i hear some people like this annoying and stupid old days de concept. funny how for one person one de concept is annyoing and the other ideal and for the other person it is the exact opposite. good that we all learned in the age of 5 years to look over our restricted horizont, didn't we?
I am sure Unity is great for you, soccer moms, grandpa and other people who use a computer with just one application open namely the web browser, probably on Facebook.
But there are people who use their computers for multitasking, then Unity is not good.
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looks good..
ill try to finish my translation this week in my spare time.
zvi-yamin wrote:Raptor399, did you finish transforming the GUI?
zvi-yamin wrote:looks really nice!
altho the tabs should appear RTL too.
What i mean is the translated "Detected media renderers" for instance should be RTL, so does Status.
this goes for every page.
is that possible?
Edit- i would like to test it out when you're done with it, before offical release please.
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Researchers at Keele University in the UK found that swearing can have a painkilling power, especially for people who don't regularly curse. Dr. Richard Stephens and other scientists conducted an experiment with student volunteers. The students were asked to submerge their arms into a bucket of icy water while repeatedly uttering a swearword. They then repeated the experiment while repeating a "harmless" word instead of a swear. The results showed that volunteers were able to keep their arms in the icy water longer when they were swearing than they could when they were uttering the non-swearword.
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Apartments at the development One Hyde Park in Knightsbridge, central London, start at around £6 million pounds (just under $10 million). The Ukrainian buyer of "Flat A" paid $221 million for his unfinished apartment, and reportedly spent another $100 million on interior decoration. The apartment covers the top three floors in its complex, and, like almost all of the other apartments, was purchased through an overseas trust.
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Even with all other factors taken into account (including diet and exercise), being entirely sedentary is a dangerous lifestyle. A series of studies by Mayo-Clinic researcher Dr. Ken Levine gauged the impact of inactivity by monitoring his subjects with a sensor apparatus that recorded their every movement. Even though the subjects all had the same caloric intake and were prohibited from exercise, some subjects -- those who unconsciously fidgeted or moved around more -- didn't gain weight. Conversely, occasional exercise doesn't quite offset being sedentary for long stretches, which decreases your insulin effectiveness and increases your risk for diabetes.
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Jericho is possibly the oldest continually-inhabited site in the world, with a history that dates back over 10,000 years. Early in the Neolithic period, an era characterized by a movement toward farming and settlements, a 28-foot tower was constructed at the city's outskirts. The tower took around 10 years to build, and Tel Aviv University researchers suggest that it was a cosmological marker meant to symbolically connect the settlement with its outlying hills and the surrounding nomadic peoples. Researchers also argue that this makes the tower the world's first public building.
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Men's and women's faces have grown to resemble each other over the centuries.
A study of skulls (found in Spain and Portugal, and dating back to the 16th century) revealed that differences between men's and women's facial structures are less pronounced than they were hundreds of years ago. Though the remains of both genders evidenced this change, it was particularly obvious in women. Researchers noted, for example, that facial structure in modern Spanish women was much larger than it was in older skulls (possibly due to nutritional improvements).
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Well a few days ago i tested dhewm3 and yesterday i even tested dante. Those are basically the 2 main implementations which have been worked on. the "original" dhewm3 repo has however a bug with nvidia binary and nouveau. Somebody mentioned to use this:
I would not suggest using dante at this point, i needed several tries to start it. If you want to use it:
you have to clone the gl2progs git into ~/.doom3/base, also you have to copy over the .so files created into ~/.doom3/base or ~/.doom3/d3xp (for 64 bit name it: gamex86_64.so)
For dhewm3 some hints:
You can disable debug code and optimize for current arch using
For benchmarking you can use:Code:cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DONATIVE=ON neo
For custom res:Code:dhewm3 +set com_showfps 1 +timedemoquit demo1
You can put all pak000.pk4 to pak008.pk4 into ~/.local/share/dhewm3/base and for roe the pak000.pk4 and pak001.pk4 into ~/.local/share/dhewm3/d3xp (you need the files which are in the official linux doom3 installer).Code:dhewm3 +set r_mode -1 +set r_customwidth 1920 +set r_customheight 1200


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A handful of Dell Rapids tracksters got their season off to a positive start with top 10 finishes at the Dan Lennon Invitational March 25 in Vermillion.For the boys, senior Cole Langer earned a 2nd place finish in the shotput with a toss of 56 feet and 10 inches. Only Sioux Falls Christian' Jack Lembcke threw the shot further.Junior Dell Rapids jumper Brett Nichols finished in 2nd place in the triple jump with a jump score of 12.91 meters.Nichols' fellow junior and jumper Zach White's high jump was good enough to earn the Quarriers an 8th place finish in that field competition."I felt like we performed pretty well for the first meet," said Doug Fiedler, Dell Rapids' boys track coach. On the girls side, more success stories came out of the DakotaDome.Girls coach Mike Putnam said he was pleased with the team's Dan Lennon results."The girls competed well as a team and fought hard in every event," he said.Dell Rapids senior Cassidy Wright ended the day with a personal best throw in shot – 37 feet 5 inches – and a fifth place finish.Junior Maddie Vietor jumped well for the Quarriers and finished the day with a sixth place triple jump and a 10th place long jump.In the 400 open, senior Corynn Hoff ended with a 14th place finish in the 400 meter open.
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VIERA, Fla. — Big-league camp is open for business, but the Nationals' minor-league camp won't commence until mid-March. The organization, though, is making sure its top prospects get a chance to start preparing for the season right now.
Keeping with tradition, the Nationals are once again holding an accelerated development program this spring, inviting 47 top prospects to participate in a camp that opens at the same time as the big leaguers do.
Among the most noteworthy participants are a pair of 2011 draft picks: right-hander Alex Meyer and outfielder Brian Goodwin. (Two of their fellow picks, third baseman Anthony Rendon and left-hander Matt Purke, are actually in big-league camp because they were given major-league contracts upon signing last August.)
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- Anonymous - Feb 21, 2012 at 2:27 AM
Be interesting to see who ends up in Syracuse, Harrisburg and Potomac.
- SCNatsFan - Feb 21, 2012 at 2:37 AM
Potomac is the only team that swings by me so I'm hoping some decent talent ends up there
- whatsanattau - Feb 21, 2012 at 2:39 AM
An interesting list for both who is on it and who is not. Can McGeary really be in an accelerated camp? Not on the list and not in MLB: Smoker, Holder, and Dykstra.
- Just wonderin' - Feb 21, 2012 at 2:50 AM
Someone please remind me: I think I know that if the Yankees return Rule 5 pick-up Brad Meyers, the Nats don't have to put him on the 25-man roster. But does Washington have to put him on the 40-man?
- Section 222 - Feb 21, 2012 at 2:50 AM
Take a good look at this list. Peric will be touting many of these guys as the second coming of Babe Ruth/Ty Cobb/Walter Johnson throughout the season.RMoore, if you're reading, you can just type your preferred handle by choosing Name/URL in the "Comment as:" dropdown box. Just leave the URL blank.
- whatsanattau - Feb 21, 2012 at 2:51 AM
Also, not on the list Tatusko.
- Anonymous - Feb 21, 2012 at 3:00 AM
Take a good look at this list. Peric will be touting many of these guys as the second coming of Babe Ruth/Ty Cobb/Walter Johnson throughout the season.Some other numbnuts wants to take my handle in vein? Gee. Well all I can say is I was right about Michael Morse now wasn't I? Before anyone else? I was right about Riggleman? I was right about JMax and I am right about Lannan. Based on his stats I peg Carlos Rivero as a potential sleeper. He is still young at 23 and has already had 2 seasons of AA. Karns would be except for the shoulder surgery he had. Wirkin looks pretty good. You don't have to take my word you can take Sickel's on improved players like Hood and Lombardozzi who graded them out as "B"'s. Kylin Turnbull, a lefty, is interesting …And actually they do have a Walter Johnson like pitcher in Strasburg.
- Anonymous - Feb 21, 2012 at 3:02 AM
Not on the list and not in MLB: Smoker, Holder, and Dykstra.This may have to do with injuries … something worth researching … and Tatusko played winter ball this season.
- Sec 3, My Sofa - Feb 21, 2012 at 3:10 AM
Well all I can say is I was right about Michael Morse now wasn't I? Before anyone else? I was right about Riggleman? I was right about JMax and I am right about Lannan. You're totally making that up–you never mentioned it. That was another anon, if anyone at all, and you're just ripping it off. Go to your room.
- Doc - Feb 21, 2012 at 3:14 AM
Thanks for the great on-going coverage MarkMeister!
- CN - Feb 21, 2012 at 3:19 AM
So, with Solis on the accelerated camp roster, I'm assuming all went well w/ his appt w/ Dr. Yockum (sp)? Last I heard, that appt was delayed b/c Solis was under the weather. Anyone w/ info on Solis's injury?
- greg - Feb 21, 2012 at 3:39 AM
i like how people tout the things they may have gotten right and never talk about the misses.
- Anonymous - Feb 21, 2012 at 4:04 AM
i like how people tout the things they may have gotten right and never talk about the missesOnly when they call you out even when you aren't even posting? Hell yes. Otherwise no. Natsjack likes to "tout" Boomer Whiting … that wasn't my guy. My "miss" was a guy named JD Martin I liked his competitiveness.
- Anonymous - Feb 21, 2012 at 4:09 AM
I like how someone who refuses to claim an identity wants to take credit for being "right." How can you be anonymous and still think you can take credit for something? Sorry buddy – if you're too chicken to put some kind of label to your postings, you can't claim to have been right all along.On second thought, if you find any anonymous postings in the past 3 years that were right, I'm the one responsible! not the other anons!
- Gonat - Feb 21, 2012 at 4:12 AM
Nice to see Blake Kelso on that list.
- Section 222 - Feb 21, 2012 at 4:18 AM
Wow, did you predict Strasburg would be successful? Now that's impressive.I don't have much recollection of your predictions about Morse or Jmax, though I doubt you were any more prescient than half the commenters here. But I do specifically remember hearing how Matt Antonelli and Eric Arneson and would soon be tearing up NL East for the Nats. The whole reason B. Meyers was exposed to the Rule 5 draft was that he was not on the 40 man. So he won't have to go on that roster if he's returned by the Yanks.
- Whatsanattau - Feb 21, 2012 at 4:33 AM
I'm right about everything … But then again, I knew that.
- SlowPitch63 - Feb 21, 2012 at 11:14 AM
I've been away for a while but am excited to be back. What an interesting year we have in store. I'd comment more but am usually late to the party and would just be piling on. Love the insights but am uncomfortable with the personal attacks.Let's Play Two!
- the real anon - Feb 21, 2012 at 11:52 AM
Ha – that was me!Anonymous said… Putting Espinosa at leadoff is too risky at this point of the season as there is no fallback if Espinosa fails as well. Let's get it straight @joemktg. Riggleman has already tried his preferred fallback and that would be Jerry Hairston Jr. and ostensibly why he, and not Harris, is the Nats UTIL. Why Morgan is now with the Brewers. In fact I would imagine Riggleman would prefer starting Hairston everyday … he's finding any excuse to get him into every game. No, they are not out of options with Espinosa. Roger Bernadina, Boomer Whiting, and even Steve Lombardozzi should be considered viable options. And let's not start with the Riggleman line? No, they don't have experience … but ARE THE NATS going to win anywhere near 70 this year? Without a miracle? NO. So, what's the harm in developing future prospects … isn't that the idea? April 06, 2011 4:00 PM
- the real anon - Feb 21, 2012 at 12:39 PM
And then I wrote this. (And quit mainlining my name.)Anonymous said… @Stranded_in_Philly, You're forgetting about prospect Corey Brown a true five-tool CF obtained in the Willingham trade. He could be in CF this year at some point once he recovers from the ankle. Plus Boomer Whiting. First base you find Michael Morse, Chris Marerro, and Tyler Moore after LaRoche. Majors, AAA, AA. The Nats have more coming from the low minors and not just Destin Hood and Eury Perez. Chris Curran is a fairly good CF prospect who's never came around. The problem for the future is still pitching, pitching, pitching and especially starting pitching. Certainly no CF. Perhaps finding another Nick Johnson like bat for the #2 spot and the best possible lead off candidate. March 21, 2011 3:00 PM
- the real anon - Feb 21, 2012 at 12:45 PM
An oldie but goodie:Anonymous said… Nyjer Morgan should be in the unemployment line starting today! He has disrespected the game, the Nats uniform, opposing fans and Nats fans, he is at best an a$$ and at worst a crazed psychopath either way there is no place for him in our organization, one that reportedly built on character. I hope that major league baseball suspends him for another 7 games and that the Nats if they do not DFA him suspend him for the remainder of the season. I think Gaby Sanchez and Chris Volstad should get paid a little bit extra for giving it Nyjer because he deserved everything he got, probably deserved more! He is not one of us, he makes a mockery of us, time to make a mockery of him by taking away his stage on which he can act up on. Bring up Boomer Whiting! September 02, 2010 9:03 AM
- Big Cat - Feb 21, 2012 at 1:58 PM
I for one have been critical on Rendon in the past. Calling him "doughie" and weak looking. Heard Riz on the radio yesterday saying that Anthony checked in with 6% body fat the other day and that he really dedicated himself in the off season. That is great news.
- Anonymous - Feb 22, 2012 at 5:49 PM
If Solis is in accelerated camp, does that mean his arm is healed from the injury in Arizona Fall League?


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PhD, University of Minnesota 1991
MA, Louisiana State University 1984
BA, University of Texas at Austin 1980
Professor of Political Science
Southwestern University
August 01, 2003 - present
University Scholar
Southwestern University
July 01, 2006 - present
Visiting Professor
Tallinn University
July 01, 2012 - September 01, 2012
Visiting Professor, Tallinn Postgraduate Summer School in Social and Cultural Studies (2012)
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Southwestern University
August 01, 2005 - July 01, 2009
Chair of Latin American Studies
Southwestern University
August 01, 2006 - August 01, 2007
Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies
Umeå University, Sweden
May 01, 2003 - October 01, 2005
Social Science Division Chair
Southwestern University
July 01, 2003 - July 01, 2004
Brown Distinguished Research Professor
Southwestern University
August 01, 1999 - May 01, 2003
Associate Professor of Political Science
Southwestern University
August 01, 1998 - May 01, 2003
Chair of International Studies
Southwestern University
August 01, 1996 - May 01, 1999
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Southwestern University
August 01, 1992 - May 01, 1998
Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science
University of Minnesota
September 01, 1991 - June 01, 1992
Teaching Philosophy
Previous Courses
Politics of Latin America and the Caribbean;
First Year Seminar: Secret History
Theories of revolution; resistance, rebellion and revolution, primarily in Latin America and the Caribbean; socio-political change.
Professional Work
Selected Professional Activities:
Co-Editor, New Millennium Books in International Studies, Rowman & Littlefield (2004- )
Editor, Brown Working Papers in the Arts and Sciences (2001-2006)
Editorial Board, New Millennium Books in International Studies, Rowman & Littlefield (1996-04).
Program Committee for the XXI International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Section on Social Movements and Revolution, 1998
NEH Summer Research Seminar: "New Perspectives in the Comparative Study of Revolutions" (1996)
Editorial Board, Social Science History (1994-98)
Revolution, Rebellion, Resistance: The Power of Story (2010).
-Published in German as Gerücht
und Revolution: Von der Macht des Weitererzählens (WBG, 2010).
-Published in India (Books for Change,
-Forthcoming in Arabic (from NTC), Spanish (from Interzona
Editora), and Turkish (from Abis Yayinlari).
Decentering International Relations. Co-authored with Meghana Nayak (2010).
Understanding Revolutions: Their Origins, Progress Processes, and Outcomes from the French Revolution to the Post-Cold War World. Co-authored with John Foran and Jack Goldstone (forthcoming)
Modern Latin American Revolutions, rev., 2nd ed. (Boulder: Westview, 1999; 1st ed., 1993)
Selected Articles and Book Chapters:
"Conjugating the Cuban Revolution: It Mattered, It Matters, It Will Matter," Latin American Perspectives, vol. 36, no. 1 (2009), pp. 21-9.
"What Was Revolutionary About the Iranian Revolution? The Power of Possibility," Comparative Studies of South Asia, North Africa, and the Middle East, 29(1) (2009): 33-46.
"Stories of Revolution in the Periphery," in John Foran, David Lane, and Andreja Zivkovic, eds., Revolution in the Making of the Modern World: Social Identities, Globalization, and Modernity (London: Routledge, 2008), pp. 130-47.
"Making the World New: Latin American Studies After the Washington Consensus," Latin American Studies Association Forum, vol. 38, no. 4 (2007), pp. 33-35.
"Zapata's White Horse and Che's Beret: Theses on the Future of Revolution," in John Foran, ed., The Future of Revolutions in the Context of Globalization (London: Zed Books, 2003), pp. 83-94.
"Agency and Culture in Revolutions," in Jack Goldstone, ed., Revolutions: Theoretical, Comparative, and Historical Studies, 3rd ed. (Belmont: Wadsworth, 2003), pp. 76-84. This has been translated into Russian and published as "Deyatel'nost' i kul'tura v revolutsiyah," in L.E. Blyakher, B.V. Mezhuyev, A.V. Pavlov (eds) Kontsept "Revolutsiya" v sovremennom politicheskom diskurse (St. Petersburg: Aleteiia, 2008), pp. 184-195).
"Is This the Educational System You Wanted? Feminism and Homeschooling," Co-authored with Helen Cordes, Jesse Cordes Selbin, and Zoe Cordes Selbin, in Robin Teske and Mary Ann Tétreault, eds. Partial Truths and the Politics of Community: Feminist Approaches to Social Movements, Community, and Power, Vol. 2 (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2003), pp. 89-103.
"Resistance, Rebellion, and Revolution in Latin America and the Caribbean at the Millennium," Latin American Research Review, vol. 36, no. 1 (2001), pp.171-92."Same as It Ever Was: The Future of Revolution at the End of the Century," in Mark Katz, ed. Revolution: International Dimensions (Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly, 2000), pp. 284-97.
"Revolution in the Real World: Bringing Agency Back In," in John Foran, ed., Theorizing Revolutions (London: Routledge, 1997), pp. 123-36.
"Contentious Cartography: A Response to Mapping Contentious Politics," Mobilization, vol. 2, no. 1 (1997), pp. 99-106.
Honors & Awards
University Scholar (2006- )
Association of Southwestern University Alumni Inaugural Faculty Fav Five (2007)
Cullen Faculty Development Program (2003-6)Brown Distinguished Research Professor (1999-2003)
Southwestern University Exemplary Teacher, General Board of Education and Ministry of the United Methodist Church (2001-2002)
NEH Summer Research Seminar: "New Perspectives in the Comparative Study of Revolutions," ( 1996)Mundy Faculty Fellowships (1995-96, 1998-99)
Brown Faculty Fellow (1994-95)
Cullen Faculty Development Program (1993-9).Cullen Research Grant (1994)
Sam Taylor Research Fellowship (1994)


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The Northeast Kentucky Regional Health Information Organization (NeKY RHIO) nominated St. Claire Regional (SCR) Family Medicine to receive an award at the 2012 Kentucky eHealth Summit in Lexington. SCR Family Medicine was recognized for being a leader in achieving "Meaningful Use" of electronic health records (EHR)
Lerae Wilson, RN, MSN, NEA-BC, St. Claire Regional Vice President Patient Services/Chief Nursing Officer, has been named the 2013 president of the Kentucky Organization of Nurse Leaders (KONL).
In honor of breast cancer awareness month the St. Claire Regional Women's Imaging Center is hosting an open house and free health screening event Friday, October 26 from 3:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
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