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NaNoWriMo Prep in October – The Writing Playlist
Every year I prepare a writing playlist specifically for NaNoWriMo. Sometimes I need absolute silence to write, other times I can do with some tunes to get me in the right frame of mind.
I find that film soundtracks work best of all.
This year I discovered Spotify. It's a free web player with a massive library of albums. The only downside is that sometimes they put in ads, but that's OK because they tend to only last for about 30 seconds. It can be frustrating interrupting your music flow, but for a free web player i won't be complaining.
NOTE – I tried using the Spotify app on my phone, but it's not the same. Selecting a playlist led to other random songs being played as well. Only on the web player and on tablets does it actually do what you want it to do.
Here is this year's playlist, thanks to Spotify:
Spotify says it's about 6 hours worth of music. It's remarkably different to my 2011 NaNo soundtrack which eventually consisted of one song played on repeat.
NaNoWriMo Prep in October – Planning
I've been super busy this year producing work under a couple of different pen names, but I always find November's NaNoWriMo to be a good writing exercise and time to produce something under my real name.
I've done NaNoWriMo every year since 2010. Two of the books I completed and self-published under NaNoWriMo were highly praised. The third is currently being looked at by a publisher. We'll ignore the year my cat and computer both died and I lost half the novel I was writing. I still haven't quite recovered from that and can't bring myself to re-write the lost novel.
But anyhow, it's October again and time to start my NaNo prep.
A few months ago I won a pre-made book cover in a giveaway, and I decided to build a story around the cover.
I still wasn't sure what I was going to do for NaNo 2014, but I pretty soon managed to settle on a character, figure out her goal, throw some obstacles in the way and develop a plot.
I'm a planner. If I don't know what's going to happen in the novel I sit there staring at the screen.
Conversely, if I know how the story's going to end, I normally don't feel the urge to complete it.
(Which is probably why I have so many unfinished novels.)
I'm planning my new novel using the three act plot structure.
Act 1 'Exposition':
- Setup
- Inciting incident
- First turning point – where the hero accepts their new calling
Act 2 'Rising Action':
- Obstacles and progress
- Mid-way point – a major setback
- More obstacles and higher stakes.
- Second turning point – what I call 'the point of no return'.
Act 3 'Resolution':
- Stand up and fight – the final push.
- Resolution
This is the structure I'll be following in writing my novel. Let's hope I can stick to it!
Why I'm Struggling to Produce
I know it's stupid, but there's something that has obviously affected me deeper than I previously realised.
Back in 2012, when there was a scuffle on Goodreads that led to some particularly nasty people being kicked off, my books were targeted in a slew of hatred by a number of individuals Goodreads eventually permanently banned for their harassment and breaking of their terms of service. Among many of the artificial insults slung my way (because I was an author and therefore vulnerable to attack) such as my being jealous, my sending trolls after critics, and other things, was one insult that seems to have stuck in my mind all these years later.
It was targeted to my book the Edge of Darkness, which I self-published in 2011. The insult was that my book was 'not long enough to be a real book.'
I guess that word count insult has stayed with me, because I wrote The Edge of Darkness in 2010's NaNoWriMo. For those of you who don't know, NaNoWriMo is an event held every November that encourages you to write a 50K long book.
The world was a vastly different place back in 2011. Small press publishers didn't have the clout they have now. Indie publishers and self-publishers didn't have the clout and even the respect some of them have now. Some people assumed self-publishers would be producing traditional-publishing-worthy tomes but simply at cheaper prices.
I've made no secret the fact that I didn't query The Edge of Darkness is because as a full-length adult sci-fi it only stood at 52K words, and traditional publishers only look at sci-fi if it's much longer, around 70-110K. There was no way I was adding word padding to a completed story, so I was stuck. Small presses were so far off my radar I didn't even consider handing my book over to them. I felt the only other option was to self-publish.
Three years later and I've noticed several things that have changed in the world around me.
The Edge of Darkness isn't an adult book, it's a New Adult book. My heroine, Max, is 26, but because she was a prisoner for five years she's psychologically undeveloped and is still a young adult, I'd estimate in her early twenties. She's still facing issues other young adults aged 18-25 face. She's just doing it in deep space with robotic parts. New Adult was barely a genre back in 2011. Now it's everywhere.
The other thing I've noticed is that a lot of digital imprints are calling for books exactly this length. They want genre books up to 50K or thereabouts. They don't want to wallop their readers with enormous books. They want to offer somewhat shorter fiction, to entice readers into investing less time and effort reading this one book, in the hopes the reader might read more.
When I wrote Storm of Blood, I was still stinging from The Edge of Darkness 'not being long enough' (according to a troll who was kicked off Goodreads for harassment, so I know it's ridiculous I'm still stinging from that one insult). Storm of Blood topped in at 80K, but writing that much burnt me out. For a long time I couldn't face writing something so long when I'm clearly made for writing shorter fiction. I know in the grand scheme of things 80K isn't particularly long when there's 110K-150K tomes out there vying for attention, but 80K is pretty respectful among the traditionally published. I don't regret writing that much, because I do feel the story is complete and every word and every scene was needed.
But the next thing I wrote after Storm of Blood was much shorter. I needed a break from the pressure of producing longer fiction. I wrote a series of contemporary romance novellas. They topped in at 25K each, but they were a connected series.
And then I panicked, because Lissa doesn't write contemporary romance. She writes sci-fi and paranormal books about kick-butt women with magical powers.
So I don't even know if you're ever going to see these romance novellas, which I honestly do love and am very proud of, because this genre doesn't fit in with my brand. I've left them trunked for six months while I figure out what I want to do with them. Do I want to self-publish them under Lissa, or a pen name, or even query them?
And then there's the question of the daunting task of the next Storm Force book. Storm of Magic is coming, I swear. But trying to match 80K in a year as well as the dozens of other books I want to write, including another sci-fi about superheroes and that paranormal bisexual romance I lost half of when my computer died… add on to that the pressure to be 'successful' and to churn out my work as fast as I can even though I have a day job and a family and my writing is a slow process anyway because I actually trunk my novels and leave them to breathe between edits…
…and the word on the street is that if you're not producing 2 books a year, your audience will forget you…
All of this pressure is why I'm struggling to write anything long at the moment. Well that, and the fact that I literally have dozens of ideas and trying to catch one to pin it down is like trying to herd river water by throwing darts.
I've been writing short fiction, short stories, to keep up with the craft, but it's nothing the sci-fi/PNR part of me can ever publish.
I'll settle, eventually. I have lots and lots of books ready to be written. Maybe this is simply the post-Book 2 blues getting to me. We'll see.
Diversity in Books: Why It's Important and Why I Write It
I've published two full-length novels and both of them contain people of colour as either the main character or the love interest(s).
In The Edge of Darkness, my protagonist Max(ine) is Filipino.
I consciously made the decision to write her as non-white building on my father's experience of being the son of immigrants to Australia, and because Australia's always had a high level of Asian immigrants.
Why the Phillipines? The answer can be as shallow as 'I once knew a beautiful man from there'. Despite my family's strong connection to Japan, I wanted Max to represent a less popular section of Asia, one you don't see very often in popular literature..
Max is also named after the main character from Dark Angel, played by Jessica Alba, who's mixed race.
In Storm of Blood, my protagonist Tina is white (as are the majority of Australians, where the book is set), but her boyfriend Tengu is Chinese (from Hong Kong) and the other boy who plays a role in her love life, Lachlan, is descended from Pacific Islanders.
Tengu appeared in the last short story from the Storm Front collection. I was looking for a lesser-known demon for Tina to turn to for help when I stumbled upon the tengu Chinese shapeshifting demon in my research. I took a lot of creative licensing in Tengu's kind of shapeshifting and it's really got nothing to do with the original Chinese demon I first discovered. Buddhism says that the tengu demon were originally disruptive and dangerous, but over time their image changed to one of protection, which is how book Tengu is with Tina.
And the reason I made Lachlan a Pacific Islander is because the inspiration for his looks is an actor called Michaal Copon who's just really good-looking. He was in the cheerleading movie Bring it On: In It to Win It along with Cassandra Scerbo (of Sharknado fame), who inspired my look for Chelsea. One look at that pair in that film and I knew that was what I wanted in my book.
As a side note – I did consider making the villain character gay, but I couldn't bring myself to possible represent that community in a bad light. Some of the characters in my novels are gay, but if there's no way for me to make that explicit, you'll never know who. My philosophy is that that's pretty much how it works in the real world, too.
I feel that all-white casts in books can be generic and boring, and I always get excited when I read books by Malinda Lo who always includes diversity not only in race but in sexuality, too. But I figure, Malinda (who's an excellent writer) includes diversity because she's hyper-aware of it, being a minority herself. I'm not a minority, but it sure is nice when a straight, white, cis female can include diversity in her books as well.
My biggest reason for writing diversity in my books is very simple: why shouldn't I?
The book I'm working on at the moment is a young adult bisexual love story about a mixed-race girl.
Paranormal Short Story Collections Free For 3 Days
A few weeks ago I began an experiment that is still ongoing.
I made my two Kindle Select books, paranormal short story collections The Archive of Lost Dreams and Storm Front, free on Amazon for two days.
But I didn't tell anyone about it, because I wanted to see how the algorithm works without publicity and if they could be discovered organically.
I'm not into marketing my books, you see. I believe that if I make them available and keep them available, someone might find what they're looking for.
However, to continue the experiment (and because I have three days leftover) I am making them free again from 15th April to 17th April.
This time I'm telling everyone.
You can find them on Amazon.com by clicking on the covers.
The Edge of Darkness new cover
Can you believe it's been three years this year since I published my first novel, the deep space cyborg adventure The Edge of Darkness?
I can't. Time has flown.
Normally when books are traditionally published sometimes they're first put out in a hardcover version, which is more expensive for publishers to sustain, so after about a year or so they put out a paperback version as well. They normally have different covers. Seeing as how The Edge of Darkness is turning three this year I've decided to spruce her up with a cover change.
Of course this cover still has the nebula in it. Because the first book I published was sci-fi, I think that's always going to be part of my author brand.
I love the new cover. It's ridiculously hard to find the right image, but I think I made the right choice putting Max and Ethan there. I feel like simpler is better for this, which is why I made the decision to keep the text white and unadorned.


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With or without the manager's full attention, the Reds' season gradually unraveled. They were 35-24 and in first place on June 10, before they encountered an almost comical run of injuries and weird occurrences. On two occasions that summer, I woke up in hotel rooms in California to see the lamps rattling because of earthquakes. Perhaps it was a harbinger of the big one that wreaked havoc on the Bay Area during the 1989 World Series.
On July 5 in Philadelphia, O'Neill grew so frustrated with his inability to corral a base hit to right field that he kicked the ball back to first baseman Todd Benzinger. A few days later, Larkin, the team's best all-around player, blew out his right elbow while making a throw in the All-Star Game skills competition. Then pitcher Danny Jackson, who had challenged Orel Hershier for the 1988 Cy Young Award with 23 wins, underwent season-ending shoulder surgery in late July. Benzinger and Eric Davis were the only players to appear in more than 120 games, and the Reds dropped 63 of their final 103 games and finished in fifth place.
Tekulve, who had signed with the Reds in spring training for the purpose of tutoring young relievers Rob Dibble and Norm Charlton, packed up his things and retired shortly after the All-Star break.
"I always joke with Barry Larkin that he's the guy who caused me to retire," Tekulve says. "I told him, 'Here I am, a 42-year-old sinkerball pitcher, and I'm out there one day, and I turn around, and Whitey Richardson is my shortstop. It's time for me to go home.'"
The rest of us were forced to endure. As the summer dragged on, Rose's attorneys pursued remedies through the legal system. A Cincinnati judge named Norbert Nadel gave Rose a temporary reprieve when he blocked a hearing at which Giamatti could have banned Rose from the game. But the escape hatches eventually closed for good, and Rose was finally forced to come to grips with reality. He accepted a lifetime ban on Aug. 23, and his lawyers and MLB drew up the paperwork.
Forever oblivious to appearances, Rose flew to Minneapolis that night to hawk memorabilia on the Cable Value Network. The next morning, he appeared at a news conference, apologized to fans and steadfastly denied he had bet on baseball. The interview room at Riverfront Stadium was so packed with reporters I had to watch the announcement from outside the front door. And still the wave of heat washed over me like a blast furnace.
Tommy Helms, Rose's close friend, bench coach and perpetual good soldier, took over as manager, and the Reds prepared to play out the string and recede from view. We were in the visiting clubhouse at Three Rivers Stadium in Pittsburgh when the word came down that Giamatti, 51, had died of a heart attack a mere eight days after rendering his decision on Rose. That became another blot on Rose's legacy, of course. No one ever flat-out accused him of killing Giamatti, but it was easy to suspect the Rose-induced stress from the summer of 1989 gave Giamatti a push.
Rose, true to form, has responded to that implication with a flair for self-preservation that far outweighs diplomacy. He was angered in 1989 when Giamatti publicly expressed the belief he had bet on baseball. But no one expected Giamatti would die -- a stunning twist that heaped more pathos on a summer already chock-full of it.


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Using the seperate screen option I'm running two monitors one a dell 1800fp and another dell 1900fp. Installed the driver using yum with kmod-nvidia. The 1800fp is detected just fine (it does say it's a CRT but the resolutions are ok) and I can run it at it's native resolution of 1280x1024; the 1900fp is detected as a samsung and can only run at a max of 1024x768. I'm using a GeForce 6200 card with the vga and dvi outputs.
I believe I have to disable the EDID information but I'm not sure of the sytax nor am I sure of where it goes in the xorg.conf file. I believe once I disable the EDID info I need to supply 'modelines'. I thought I had read that USEEDID ' FALSE' had been replace with something else but I never found out what that something else is. All I really want is my 1900fp to run at 1280x1024, however I can accomplish that would be great.
Per the stick I'm attached the nvidia bug log with logverbose 6. I've also attached the EDID info for both monitors.
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LIMA — Many organizations were hard at work in anticipation for President Barack Obama's visit to the Lima Senior High School gym this afternoon, drawing supporters as well as some protesters.
"To draw the leader of the free world into this town is great," said Larry Donaldson, former president of United Autoworkers Local 214. With less than a week before the presidential election, "I don't know if the timing could be any better than what it is right now."
Obama is the first sitting Democratic president to visit Lima since Harry Truman did in 1948. He's also campaigning at the Franklin County Fairgrounds in Columbus and in Springfield today before arriving in town. He is to discuss his plan for the next four years if he's re-elected for a second term, focusing on creating jobs, developing American-based energy and reducing the national debt.
The Lima Police Department was not given all specifics on road closures for security reasons, but North, Jackson and Market streets surrounding Lima Senior High School will be closed before, during and briefly after the president's visit.
There will also be road closures based on the route the president's motorcade will take when it comes into Lima this afternoon.
A limited number of tickets were distributed for the rally, and all have been given out. Attendees will go through airport-like security clearances and should arrive early at the school's main entrance. People may bring items like purses and cameras, but no food, drink or signs will be allowed inside. Doors open at 1:30 p.m. at Lima Senior High School. The president's speech will begin at approximately 3:20 p.m. in the gym. People there can either sit in the bleachers or stand.
Lima Senior High School students not attending the rally will be dismissed from class at 1:45 p.m. Students who plan to attend will be dismissed at their regular dismissal time.
Donaldson applauded Obama's support for American autoworkers by allowing the auto bailout to happen, which he said saved many Ohio jobs.
"Mitt Romney might try to pretend that he stood by autoworkers during their darkest hour. But we know better. Mitt Romney urged that we let Detroit go bankrupt," Donaldson said in a prepared statement. "He would have devastated the auto industry, and the one in eight Ohio jobs that depend on it. Mr. Romney, if you don't stand with America's autoworkers, then you certainly don't stand with our middle class.
"There was only one person who stood by us, and that was President Obama. He ignored pundits and politics and rescued the industry when nobody else would. And that includes Mitt Romney," he added.
Also planning to attend, the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals will set up outside the school to bring attention to the cruelty of elephants in Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey circus troupes. PETA states that it does not take position in support or in opposition of any political party or candidate for public office.
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The Racket (1951 film)
|The Racket
Theatrical release poster
|Directed by
|John Cromwell
Nicholas Ray
Tay Garnett
Sherman Todd
Mel Ferrer
|Produced by
|Edmund Grainger
|Screenplay by
|William Wister Haines
W.R. Burnett
|Based on
|the play
by Bartlett Cormack
|Robert Mitchum
Lizabeth Scott
Robert Ryan
|Music by
|Paul Sawtell
|George E. Diskant
|Edited by
|Sherman Todd
|Distributed by
|RKO Radio Pictures
Release dates
Running time
|88 minutes
|United States
|Box office
|$1.75 million (US rentals)[2]
The Racket is a 1951 is a black-and-white film noir drama directed by John Cromwell with uncredited directing help from Nicholas Ray, Tay Garnett, Sherman Todd and Mel Ferrer. The production features Robert Mitchum, Lizabeth Scott, Robert Ryan, William Conrad and Ray Collins.[3]
The film, a remake of the 1928 film The Racket, is based on the Bartlett Cormack play. (Edward G. Robinson played the racketeer in the original Broadway production.)
The plot is very close to the original play and 1928 movie. Racketeer and mobster Nick Scanlon (Ryan) has managed to buy several of the local government and law-enforcement officials of a large midwestern American city. However, he can't seem to touch the incorruptible police captain Tom McQuigg (Mitchum), who refuses all attempts at bribery. The city's prosecuting attorney, Welch (Collins), and a police detective, Turk (Conrad), are crooked and make McQuigg's job as an honest officer nearly impossible.
McQuigg persuades a sexy nightclub singer (Scott) to testify against Scanlon which makes her marked for death from the mob. McQuigg not only wants to nail Scanlon, but also stop all the mob corruption in the city – without getting himself or his witness killed.
- Robert Mitchum as Captain Thomas McQuigg
- Lizabeth Scott as Irene Hayes
- Robert Ryan as Nick Scanlon
- William Talman as Officer Bob Johnson
- Ray Collins as District Attorney Mortimer X. Welch
- Joyce Mackenzie as Mary McQuigg
- Robert Hutton as Dave Ames
- Virginia Huston as Lucy Johnson
- William Conrad as Detective Sergeant Turk
- Walter Sande as Precinct Sgt. Jim Delaney
- Les Tremayne as Harry Craig - Crime Commission chief investigator
- Don Porter as R.G. Connolly
- Walter Baldwin as Booking Sgt. Sullivan
- Brett King as Joe Scanlon
- Richard Karlan as Breeze Enright
- Tito Vuolo as Tony, Nick's Barber
Critical response[edit]
When the film was released, film critic Bosley Crowther panned the film. He wrote, "In this consummation, however, the conflict of cop and crook is conspicuously unoriginal, considering the number of times that it has been contemplated on the screen since The Racket was first produced, and the staging of it, under the direction of John Cromwell, is dismally uninspired. Furthermore, the construction of the screen play by W. R. Burnett and William Wister Haines is so badly disordered toward the finish that it is almost impossible to perceive the intricacies of the planning by which the cop lures the crook to his doom. As a consequence, the collision of Mr. Mitchum and Mr. Ryan is a pretty dull one, in this instance marked mainly by exchanges of clichés, and the rest of the cast does little to add life to the activities."[4]
Variety magazine, on the other hand, gave the film a positive review, "This remake of Bartlett Cormack's old play has been handled to emphasize clearcut action and suspense and the casting is just right to stress the rough and ready toughness in the script ... Further masculine attention is gained through the strong work of William Talman as a rookie cop ... Development is enlivened with some solid thriller sequences, such as a rooftop fight between Mitchum and a gunman, careening autos and crashes, and gunplay between the forces of good and evil."[5]
Writing recently, critic Dennis Schwartz was disappointed with the film, writing, "... this film didn't have enough punch to be hard-hitting, as it softened all the things about widespread city corruption and made all the characters into one-dimensional types. All it had going were the action scenes and some gloss, as the original version was a much more effective film ... The film is more reflective of the 1920s than the 1940s, unfortunately it's set in the '40s. This is a typical gangster film of that era but is dated and too murky."[6]
- ^ a b "The Racket: Detail View". American Film Institute. Retrieved May 19, 2014.
- ^ 'The Top Box Office Hits of 1951', Variety, January 2, 1952.
- ^ The Racket at the TCM Movie Database.
- ^ Crowther, Bosley. The New York Times, film review, December 13, 1951. Accessed: July 17, 2013.
- ^ Variety. Staff review, 1951. Accessed: July 17, 2013.
- ^ Schwartz, Dennis. Ozus' World Movie Reviews, film review, September 3, 2001. Accessed: July 17, 2013.
External links[edit]
- The Racket at the Internet Movie Database
- The Racket at AllMovie
- The Racket at the TCM Movie Database
- The Racket film scene on YouTube


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THOMAS — A party was given to celebrate the end of the summer reading program at the Snake River School/Community Library Thursday. About 450 kids and their parents attended.
About 400-450 kids had registered for the summer reading program. It's estimated each child read about 20 books each. That totals from 8,000 to 9,000 books were read through June.
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It looks pretty cool but I doubt it's worth finishing. The ending is pointless since all the Showdown Relays end up exploding no matter what choice you make. They'll probably need to add DLC to make your ending seem more inevitable. I'm waiting for Showdown Effect 2 where you're putting this team of badasses together.
Magicka was brilliant. This looks amazing. It had better be voiced entirely in Swedish.
I thought this was some kind of exercise game based on the thumbnail and almost didn't even bother watching the video. Glad I did though, as the game looks pretty neat at first glance.
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Nobel peace prize winning scientist father? What kind of science is that?
Norman Borlaug got a peace price for his contributions to securing the world food supply and he basically invented better wheat and did biology. Can't think of any others off the top of my head.
Well alright then, I guess it's possible for a scientist to get a peace prize. Come to think of it, they should get more peace prizes.
Edit: much better than the f-ing EU, am I right?
Don't care much about the game... but funny all the same. "fight to the death... or die trying." :)
Look awesome.
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D: it won't play for me!
I guess you are not man enough to see the trailer...
The guy with the chopsticks, man, that is a skill!
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The guy with the chopsticks, man, that is a skill!
was thinking the same thing. could it be that it was played backwards? like he did the normal grab, then just wiggled them around like crazy.
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Also, there was the possibility that the fetuses wouldn't get blood flow from Jennifer's placenta equally, affecting the growth and development of at least one of them. Fraternal twins and triplets generally come from separate eggs and separate placentas. But with identicals, which are conceived when one fertilized egg splits into two (or three), there's just one placenta providing nourishment.
"That's really crazy. You're asking one placenta to do a pretty incredible job of taking care of three babies," Bush said.
As is common practice, Bush told the Hulicks that some parents elect to terminate one of the fetuses – it's called "selective reduction" – to give the other two a better chance of surviving. The couple anguished over the decision, but decided against it.
"We're both not for that at all," Jennifer said. "We were blessed the whole time that there were no complications. Each time we'd go in to see Dr. Bush, we'd say, 'We made it another week.' "
Bush said Jennifer was the ideal patient: She ate well and got bed rest when instructed. (Which was often, in the last couple of months, to keep the babies in as long as possible). Jennifer made it 33 weeks and five days before the boys were born on Nov. 18. Austin was 5 pounds, 3 ounces; Brendan was 4 pounds, 13 ounces; and Connor was a little smaller, at 4 pounds, 7 ounces. All three weigh at least 8 pounds now.
The babies wake up to feed every three hours, almost like clockwork, starting at 6 a.m. Jennifer gets up and breastfeeds two of them, while the third is fed with a bottle containing Jennifer's expressed milk. Some formula is used as well. Between feedings, Jennifer pumps like crazy with her electric pump.
In addition to naming their sons with a handy A-B-C system, the Hulicks color-code them to tell them apart. Austin wears green; Brendan blue; and Connor usually yellow. Also, Austin has a little blue vein mark on his nose, and Connor is easy to spot, because he's the smallest. They try to line them up, A-B-C, in the crib. Still, Jennifer says, "we put them back in the wrong spots sometimes."
The babies use up a combined 24 diapers in a day. When they go outside, they're loaded into a Chevy Suburbanesque triple-stroller, complete with steering wheel.
After the 6 a.m. feeding, Jennifer goes back to sleep, and Nancy gets the older kids ready for school. They and Jennifer are staying at the house for the time being, since the condo Jennifer and Richard rent has an upstairs entrance. Richard, who gets up at 4 a.m. and sometimes works 16-hour days, stays at the condo and comes to Nancy's house on weekends.
Everyone pitches in: Jennifer's younger sisters bring food or drop by, according to the needs in an online "triplets care" calendar. Jennifer's other kids, and their cousin Nicholas, who lives here, help when they get home from school. Nancy's husband, Ed Harden, pitches in as well. Most days there are neighbors or friends or family members in the kitchen, decked out in red dishes, curtains, coffee mugs.
But mostly it comes down to Jennifer and her mother, who had her oldest daughter at 16 and has never stopped raising children. Nancy, 53, is up for every feeding – midnight, 3 a.m., whenever. "I've never been so tired," she says. "But it's a different kind of tired. A joyful tired."
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Quiet and studious, Lady Ivy Rutherford is content merely to observe the intrigues and scandals of Queen Eleanor's glittering court. But then the Queen insists that Ivy would be the ideal mentor for notorious heartbreaker Roger Stancliff. Her duty? To transform the arrant knave into a courtly knight. A simple task for such a proper lady!
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Quiet and studious, Lady Ivy Rutherford is content merely to observe the intrigues and scandals of Queen Eleanor's glittering court. But then the Queen insists that Ivy would be the ideal mentor for notorious heartbreaker Roger Stancliff. Her duty? To transform the arrant knave into a courtly knight. A simple task for such a proper lady!
But in the sultry castle grounds just who is educating whom? Chaste, courtly love seems much less appealing than losing herself in the passion of Roger's arms .
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Joanne Rock's THE KNIGHT'S COURTSHIP is a truly inspired Medieval historical romance that recasts the troubadour traditions into a new genre, revitalizing a highly stylized and conventional genre to modern readers. A truly clever romance! The heroine Lady Ivy Rutherford in this romance is a woman troubadour in Eleanor of Aquitaine's court. Eleanor led a rebellion against her husband Henry, the king of England. Eleanor was a patron of the arts. Her court (and Eleanor!) was a trailbrazer, known for its art, sophistication, luxury and the wonderful troubadour poetry which sang the praises of love. Rumor has it that she and her women held mock trials, judging men on their refinement and manners. Henry seeks to rein in his queen and sends Roger Stancliff to spy on Eleanor's court and report proof of her treason. As a troubadour, Lady Ivy Rutherford sets about to educate the knave Roger and teach this womanizer the ways of courtly love....will she tame this scoundrel and teach him the ways of courtly love or will he teach this idealistic dreamer poet the real earthly pleasures of love? Political intrigue threatens to put an end to the games of love and their education. Despite Lady Ivy's noble spirit and her mother's noble birth, her father belongs to the lower merchant class. The different social and economic classes between the two make a love match no easy thing in a time when marriage was often an economic and political institution. All these external complications threaten to intrude upon the lessons of love, but the dark secrets the hero and heroine have kept from one another may be more menacing yet. Can a Medieval intellectual woman poet find true love or does love exist only in poetry? Will she discover her heart? Will the infamous knave Roger put aside his past? Can earthly real love also ennoble the heart and spirit? In the original Old Provencal language, troubadour poetry works on homophonic puns in the original, one level lofty and platonic and another quite erotic and sometimes bawdy. You can imagine how it might work when the word for heart and body sound like the same word and the poets sing the praises of one but also the other---in detail. The puns in the entire Old Provencal language abound, creating double, triple and quadruple entendres! Joanne Rock's romance itself is neither erotic nor bawdy. Instead, she plays with those poles in her creation of the hero and heroine characters, two people who represent the two poles of troubadour poetry. Lady Ivy is a troubadour who lacks experience in real world love and envisions love as a dreamy romantic idealistic image. Roger Stancliff has a reputation as a womanizer, well versed in seducing women for more earthly experiences of love. The author even touches on the Latin religious satire of courtly love in defense of marriage in the creation of her hero, but in an inspired manner and true to the romance genre, she transforms this satirical literary tradition into a facet of her characterization of the hero, a man who understands ins and outs of love in a more earthly lived manner and who values marriage. The question is who is going to educate who. How can these two characters and these two poles discover true love? I just absolutely adored this book! I cannot imagine how an author could have been more attuned to all the nuances of troubadour poetry. Joanne Rock added more by casting it all within the romance genre and adding another entire understanding to the idea of love. At times, I could easily imagine I was reading a translation of a Medieval work... and yet this romance adds something new and much appreciated by this reader to the highly stylized Medieval literary tradition.
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text: Concert behemoth Live Nation believes Jay-Z—and hip-hop, for that matter—can be the savior of the flailing music industry. Mr. Carter, who's leaving Def Jam, has sold a million (American Gangster) and 3 million (The Black Album) records in two of his latest efforts (let's just forget about Kingdom Come). But a new deal expected to be finalized within a week, the New York Times reports, would give the former hustler from Brooklyn's Marcy projects a historic payday—$150 million. More than Live Nation's deal with Madonna for a reported $120 million. Far more than U2 got. In exchange, Live Nation would back—and have its hands in—everything from Jay's concerts and merchandising to his clothing company and nightclubs. He's not a businessman, after all, he's a business, man. [NYT]


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Urban still trusts him, which is good. Even after his fumble and dropped catch, he still was in there and caught a touchdown pass. He felt bad about it but it shows that the coaches believe that he can still get the job done and want to get his confidence back up.
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This month's instalment from blog network Spotted by locals uncovers a secret city beach on the banks of the Danube, a dose of culture in a former medical factory in Zagreb and the revival of an historic arts centre in Paris
Emulating New York's Meatpacking District, Kødbyen, or 'Meat City', is now the hippest area in town
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Ten per cent of Europeans were conceived on an Ikea bed - surely one good reason to visit the design hubs of northern Europe. After all, where else could you check into a sleek, hi-tech hotel owned by Benny from Abba?
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We've been subject to Pokémon games for a long time. Many people never got beyond Pokémon Red and Blue as by time Gold and Silver came out, Pokémon had been overexposed and was considered pretty lame. That's really too bad, because Gold and Silver were probably the pinnacle of the Pokémon games, truly worthwhile sequels that felt superior in every way to it's predecessor. More than a decade later, we receive the remake, and it is truly everything I dreamt it would be.
The story is pretty much the same as every Pokémon game. You live in a small town, you step into some tall grass, a Professor gives you a Pokémon, you set off to become to the world's greatest Pokémon trainer. The story is as thin as paper, but Pokémon has never been about storytelling (and attempts at it have been made with the sub-par Pokémon Colloseums). It's about the adventure. Everyone starts off with one of the three starter Pokémon, but after that the rest of their possible six Monster lineup is different. Everyone has their own adventure to tell. It's a formula that still works.
The gameplay is essentially you going through the original Gold and Silver story, but with some Generation 4 tweaks. The battle system is updated, making it a bit deeper than it was back in the Game Boy Pocket days. Anyone not familiar with the Generation Four system should know that there is now separate normal and special attack stats, that change what moves are more damaging depending on a Pokémon's specific stats. Other than that, there's still Super Effective attacks for type matchups. There's still TMs. It's still very much like chess: easy to learn, difficult to master.
What separates Heart Gold / Soul Silver from the rest of the Pokémon series, and really from most Nintendo products, is that they really pack in as much content as humanly possible. After you finish the new Johto campaign, you get to head back to Kanto, the setting for the original Pokémon games, only three years in later. It's a nice touch, as you get to see all the original locations again and face a souped up version of the original gym leaders. It also extends the life of the game by at least another 5 hours. Ironically, Heart Gold / Soul Silver also works with Pokémon Battle Revolution, an odd value added to the game that Nintendo usually refuses to employ. Perhaps this means a second PBR is actually not on the way to gouge some more money out of the Pokéfaithful.
Features from Pearl / Diamond are added to the game, most importantly the Battle Frontier which effectively serves as the game's meta-game. After you beat the game, you can take on the Battle Tower, facing randomly generated teams that even the playing field by making everyone's Pokémon the same level. No longer can you rely on just outleveling and then overpowering enemies. Strategy comes into play at a level that you never face in the main storyline, and it is here that we see the true depth the Pokémon battle system boasts. You can also take on all these challenges with a friend co-op style. It's a nice touch, as it allows friends to do more than try to rip eachother off or beat eachother up. You can also trade Pokémon online using Nintendo Wi-Fi, if you don't mind getting ripped off internationally. Normally, you won't be able to use this feature because you can only trade for Pokémon that you have listed in your Pokédex, and even then people normally have unreasonable requests (Pidgey for Darkrai, anyone?).
The Pokéwalker, although at first glance seems to be more of a novelty than anything, actually adds something to the gameplay. You can catch Pokémon early on in the game that you would normally never see until it was too late to use them. Ever want to train a Staryu? Now's your chance. Don't want to spend ten days in the casino to buy a Dratini? Attach the Pokéwalker to your dog and get one. it's a nice addition that can actually add a lot to the game, given a chance.
The one original addition to the gameplay is the Pokéathlon. It plays like a mini-game collection in the vein of Mario Party or Wario Ware. Although it seems a little pointless compared to the rewards the Battle Tower provides, if you have enough friends with the game playing it four player is a rolicking good time. There nothing like seeing a Zubat steal frisbees from battling Ho-oh and Lugia, or watching the Inner City Pokémon team: Rattata, Zubat, Sentret, beat a team of super legendaries.
Hey, it's Pokémon. People gripe that Nintendo is just ripping you off, selling you the same game they made a long time ago or a year ago, but Heart Gold / Soul Silver never seemed like it was ripping me off. It's hard not to enjoy yourself playing this game and watching your Pokémon grow up alongside you. If you've ever enjoyed Pokémon or any RPG before, there is really no reason not to pick one of these up. Other than getting beat up at school.


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When working with DDoS mitigation, we find a lot of controversial clients who need protection from Denial of Service attacks. In the industry of cybersecurity, it isn't uncommon for us to protect industries that are often politically and socially charged, or on the fringes of everyday people.
The internet has been a great boon for free speech worldwide, a home to everyone with platforms for journals, forums for communities, and a massive library for the collective knowledge of the web-connected world. We have seen some of the greatest economic growth in the last couple of decades fueled by the ready availability of information, and the digital space to build something out of it. A lot of this growth has created industry and homes for both special and conflicting interests that might otherwise be seen as subversive or distasteful in popular culture, whether that be for recent reasons or an age-old disagreement. What better way in our day and age is there to silence someone you distrust or disagree with than to remove their world platform?
It's not just the fringe crowd either. Too often we hear about groups like a local government, local schools, even just the mom and pop shop down the street with their little website being hit by DDoS attacks for no other reason than someone would anonymously prefer that they were offline.


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Mobile sees future in the enterprise
More smart phone applications are targeting big businesses
Finally, it allows companies to send a coupon, special offer or some other service to customers who use the technology.
"We have new and engaging technology that is enhancing the stickiness of enterprise apps," Fried said.
Elijah Rutledge spent the CTIA show demonstrating how to make big data easy to read on small mobile screens.
Rutledge works for MeLLmo, the maker of Roambi apps, which are data visualization tools for business intelligence.
The company's products allow corporate employees to access big analytics, sales statistics and other, often large corporate reports on a cellphone or an iPad in a readable way.
After the data are formatted for smaller screens, users can drill deeper by tapping on a particular graph or fever chart displayed on their phone, which opens up a more detailed page.
The company has several business intelligence mobile apps. They're designed to integrate with SAP, Oracle, IBM, Microsoft and other corporate back office software. Roambi includes security in its products, such as the ability to remotely lock or wipe data off a phone that's been misplaced.
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Last quarter, MeLLmo raised $30 million in venture capital in a round led by Sequoia Capital.


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To censor myself, or adapt my Blog, to remove mention of the maternal, would amount to succumbing to the taboo of mentioning - let alone promoting - mothering and maternal care, and to the unease with which women often feel in proclaiming their rights or protecting the interests of themselves or their families.
We need to be having the type of conversation that we are happy to have on our blogs and in forums and Facebook groups in the big wide world face to face with people. More than that though do we need to talk to people who are not already on our wave length, we need to stop preaching to the converted and start preaching to the masses.
When my mum died after a long fight with Alzheimer's, grief threw me an opportunity to consider her legacy to me, and my three daughters. A friend said to me, "We all leave our shadow behind". So what is my mum's shadow? What will mine be to my darling daughters so they have what they need to thrive in the modern world?
The professionals, the midwives and the health visitors - the first port of call for mothers and fathers after a birth - are in agreement that PND does exist in fathers. They acknowledge it and are trained to ask about it, and this is a significant step in the right direction towards getting fathers the help they need.
It's important that we recognise that some men will not benefit from being at the birth of their child. For some people this would seem like a step backwards, the exclusion of anyone based on their sex, from anything, will always be seen as such, but we must remember that a father's mental health is important too.
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text: on Mar 4, 2013 @ 11:00 PMMar 4, 2013 @ 11:00 PM Published Tokyo stocks up 0.75% by the breakTokyo stocks rose 0.75 percent Tuesday morning, taking a lead from Wall Street and after pro-easing comments from the men nominated to take over as the Bank of Japan's new leadership.The benchmark Nikkei 225 index added 86.83 points at 11,739.12 by the break, while the Topix index of all first-section shares climbed 0.27 percent, or 2.67 points, to 994.92.The Nikkei was likely to remain stable with an upside bias after US stocks climbed, with the Dow moving to within a whisker of its record high and as the dollar and euro remained strong against the yen, brokers said."The yen remains on a trajectory for further weakening, which should continue to support stock prices," said SMBC Nikko Securities general manager of equities Hiroichi Nishi.The yen has been under pressure on expectations that the Bank of Japan (BoJ) will adopt fresh credit easing measures as it prepares for a change of leadership.Haruhiko Kuroda, a finance veteran the government has nominated to head the central bank, told Japan's parliament Monday that if confirmed as BoJ head, he would do "everything possible" to reverse years of growth-sapping deflation.And on Tuesday, Hiroshi Nakaso, one of Kuroda's proposed deputies, told lawmakers he was open to new ideas to beat deflation, which he called the BoJ's "important mission"."This is a golden opportunity to achieve our long-time goal -- getting out of deflation," Nakaso said. The second proposed BoJ deputy, Kikuo Iwata, echoed Kuroda in saying that the bank should take bolder easing steps to meet a two-percent inflation target within a couple of years.On Monday in New York, the blue-chip Dow defied the effects of new US spending cuts and pushed up 0.27 percent to 14,127.82, its second-highest close and less than 40 points off its all-time high set in October 2007.In Tokyo Sony slipped 1.18 percent to 1,421 yen a day after saying it would sell its stake in social networking firm DeNA to brokerage giant Nomura.Nomura was down 0.36 percent at 552 yen, while All Nippon Airways was up 1.04 percent to 193 yen, automaker Nissan climbed 0.42 percent to 949 yen and Canon added 1.04 percent to 3,385 yen.In late morning forex trade, the greenback, which has surged against the yen in recent months, weakened slightly to 93.36 yen from 93.46 yen in New York Monday afternoon.The euro bought 121.62 yen and $1.3026 compared with 121.74 yen and $1.3024.-- Dow Jones Newswires contributed to this article --bur-mis-pb/dan


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Rough Day for Former Israeli Pols
One on trial, two others start jail terms
Former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is not the only pol in trouble in Israel—in fact, it's a red-letter day for government crime there. Moshe Katsav, who was the first Likud member to be elected president and served from 2000 to 2007, is on trial for rape and sexual harassment; the first witness testified against him this morning. Outside the court, demonstrators rallied in support of the three women who filed the charges, letting them know "they are not alone." The trial will be closed to the public, but according to Katsav's lawyer, the court "might allow information about the proceedings to be published from time to time."
Israeli readers may be holding their breath for these leaks, if only as a distraction from crimes that are beginning to seem dishearteningly run-of-the-mill, by the likes of Abraham Hirchson, Olmert's finance minister, who begins a five year term for embezzlement today, and Shlomo Benizri, a former Shas minister, who starts his four year sentence for graft. Hirschon will be held in a prison/drug rehabilitation facility, while Benizri will serve in a religious prison. Their fellow inmates can look forward to likely educational sessions from each of them.
First Witness Testifies in Katsav Trial [JPost]
Two Former Israeli Ministers Start Jail Sentences Tuesday [Haaretz]
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