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Today I'll be going back once again and looking at a recent Oscar lineup and explaining what my vote would have been in each of the big eight categories. I mentioned that potentially I could do this once a week with previous Academy Award ceremonies, and while I'm going to be doing that here and there, there's a chance that this could turn into a long running thing. Again, if nothing else, this gives you an interesting look into my cinematic tastes. Over the course of the year you can sort of get a feel for what my current favorites are, but now we can look to the past a bit more.
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Best Picture – Argo
The nominees here for this ceremony were Amour, Argo, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Django Unchained, Les Miserables, Life of Pi, Lincoln, Silver Linings Playbook, and Zero Dark Thirty. When you factor in that it was my favorite film of 2012, a vote for Best Picture winner Argo would be a pretty clear and decisive choice here (the rare occasion when my favorite movie of the year actually wins the Oscar). I wouldn't argue with a vote for Django Unchained, Silver Linings Playbook, or Zero Dark Thirty, but Ben Affleck's flick was far and away my number one.
Best Director – David O. Russell for Silver Linings Playbook
I'd have voted for Affleck here, but shockingly (and insanely) he wasn't nominated. The actual nominees were Ang Lee for Life of Pi, Michael Haneke for Amour, David O. Russell for Silver Linings Playbook, Steven Spielberg for Lincoln, and Benh Zeitlin for Beasts of the Southern Wild. Without Affleck, I very nearly went with Spielberg here, but in the end I just like Russell's movie better. The aforementioned Affleck is easily my personal pick overall, but Russell is my choice of the actual nominees.
Best Actor – Joaquin Phoenix for The Master
In an absolutely perfect world, I'd have seen Denis Lavant in the lineup for Holy Motors and subsequently he'd have been my vote, but that was always a super long shot. The actual nominees here though were Bradley Cooper for Silver Linings Playbook, Daniel Day-Lewis for Lincoln, Hugh Jackman for Les Miserables, Joaquin Phoenix for The Master, and Denzel Washington for Flight. Everyone is very worthy here and I actually really came close to selecting eventual winner Day-Lewis, but Phoenix was just so incredible and showed me […]
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The 85th Academy Awards: If I had been a voter
Today I'll be going back once again and looking at a recent Oscar lineup and explaining what my vote would have been in each of the big eight categories. I mentioned that potentially I could do this once a week with previous Academy Award ceremonies, and while I'm going to be doing that here and there, there's a chance that this could turn into a long running thing. Again, if nothing else, this gives you an interesting look into my cinematic tastes. Over the course of the year you can sort of get a feel for what my current favorites are, but now we can look to the past a bit more.
Spotlight on the Stars: Joseph Gordon-Levitt
This week, I'm turning my attention and the spotlight in the title of this article to one of my favorite actors working today…Joseph Gordon-Levitt. It's hard to find anyone who doesn't appreciate this talented multihyphenate. The rare child actor to successfully transition into a respected adult performer, Gordon-Levitt is widely considered to be one of the best young actors that we have in the business. He's constantly chosen interesting projects and almost never does anything you'd consider to be just a paycheck job. He's yet to receive an Academy Award nomination, but one suspects that it's only a matter of time in that regard.
Gordon-Levitt got his start at a young age, first working in television at the tender age of just seven. He'd continue with small parts on the small screen up until he got a few tiny roles in films, including A River Runs Through It. He got his first lead in the remake of Angels in the Outfield, where he was first noticed. If not there, it was when he became a part of the hit TV show 3rd Rock from the Sun. Gordon-Levitt was beginning to make his mark in entertainment, though unlike many child stars, this wasn't the pinnacle of their careers.
JGL's screen presence was limited until he won over hearts in 10 Things I Hate About You. He and Heath Ledger made plenty of girls swoon, but critics took note of the talent they had. This film launched many a career, including our subject Gordon-Levitt's. Plenty of people were excited to see where JGL's career would go from there, and they weren't about to be disappointed. He next made an underrated indie called Manic that served as his first pairing with Zooey Deschanel. He worked with Disney after that, voicing the lead in Treasure Planet, then wowed audiences again in Mysterious Skin. He followed that up the next year with another wonderful performance in Brick for Rian Johnson (who'd he'd work with again) and then the under seen crime tale The Lookout. Among his next projects is the underrated Stop-Loss, but at this point, Gordon-Levitt was about to become the star we know him to be now.
It's impossible to deny how great he is in (500) Days of Summer. I maintain to this day that it was a crime that the flick was snubbed for Oscar love, including for JGL, as well as his […]
Tom Hanks: The Top 25 (Best Actor)
Yes, this time around I'll be tackling one of the biggest of the big eight categories in an effort not to save them all for very last, much like with last week. This one is arguably the second biggest of them all…the Best Actor field. This is as prestigious a category as there is ladies and gentlemen. I could go on and on in preparation right now, but at this point I know how the game works here. You all mostly just want to see the lists that I do anyhow, so I have no problem obliging you good people there in that particular regard once again. All you have to do is just be patient over the next paragraph or so and you'll get the goods front and center…
This time around, I'm once again going with the ever popular overview route for the discussion as you might have guessed. Also, it really just comes down to taste again here (surprise surprise), with your opinion influencing what sort of winner you're particularly partial to. It's pretty much a matter of taste once again for us all, which is commonplace at this point and even more so with acting. I know a couple of of my selections are going to seem a bit on the odder side of the equation, especially again when you see how high I ranked certain gentlemen, but that's just the way it is. You can't please everyone with this sort of a thing, so I won't lie to myself in order to try.
I'll basically just discuss my top ten a bit here now. To me, the best winner of this category so far to date has been Tom Hanks and his stunning performance in Philadelphia. Frankly, I wish I could basically have a tie throughout my entire top five, which also includes Marlon Brando for On The Waterfront (as opposed to his more widely praised turn in The Godfather) Nicolas Cage for Leaving Las Vegas (easily the most underrated winner in history to me), Daniel Day-Lewis for Lincoln (controversially ahead of There Will Be Blood), and Robert De Niro for Raging Bull (to some the best ever). They're almost all tied, they're so phenomenal. I give the slight edge to Hanks though, just because of how long that turn has stayed with me. Rounding out the top ten we have the other beloved performances of Day-Lewis […]
Are Passion Projects actually a good thing for filmmakers?
If you're a lover of cinema like I am, there's an inherent extra bit of interest on hand when a director announces that he or she is finally going to make a passion project of theirs. Just this year, we've seen Darren Aronofsky finally get Noah to the big screen, while Richard Linklater completed his more than a decade in the making Boyhood in time for the Sundance Film Festival. Almost two years ago, Steven Spielberg brought his vision of Lincoln to the Oscar ceremony, and next year Martin Scorsese seems at long last set to shoot his own passion project Silence. They happen every single year, but the thing is…are they actually a good thing?
Obviously, the upside to passion projects is that the filmmaker in question is almost obsessed with making it as good as possible. They've perhaps even had a one track mind for years with these projects. When done right, you get Oscar contenders like the aforementioned Lincoln. It doesn't always go that way, but when it's a success, it always seems like a bigger success.
The downside however, is that sometimes it can blind said filmmakers to the inherent issues with the project. Look no further than this year's Winter's Tale or 2012's Cloud Atlas. In the former's case, Akiva Goldsman encountered near venomous reviews and in the latter's case, the trio of Andy Wachowski, Lana Wachowski, and Tom Tykwer received as many reviews calling it the worst movie of the year as they did calling it the best. Both films suffered potentially from filmmakers too emotionally invested in the material to see where changes needed to be made.
Earlier this year, Aronofsky's film Noah met with decidedly mixed reviews, some of which stemming from thoughts that he should have taken a more objective look at the movie. Granted, some of the issues came from his deviations from the religious text, and that's not a legitimate criticism to me, but the purely cinematic issues are ones that I find to be somewhat valid. Aronofsky is a master filmmaker, but the two films that he received less than raves for were his passion projects (the other one being The Fountain, ironically one of my all time favorite films). Coincidence?
We'll see soon with Scorsese's Silence if all this time spent waiting to make the flick will help or hurt it. He spent a long time trying to make Gangs of […]
Oscars 2013 – Feed back on Seth MacFarlane
By Michael Russnow
This year's Oscars show on ABC wrapped after a bit over three and a half hours and there were a bunch of great moments, a bit of tedium and a lot of disappointment over the tasteless antics of host Seth MacFarlane.
Look, I'm not a prude, though I've ranted at the likes of Ricky Gervais when he hosted the Golden Globes. You don't have to be sweetness and light and/or just mildly funny, but as Tina Fey and Amy Poehler displayed at the Golden Globes you can find the right mix to be biting and clever without resorting to cheap, shocking and sometimes hurtful jokes.
I was neither backstage nor in the control booth, but I can guess something must have happened after the overlong 17-minute opening segment, wherein MacFarlane early on cast mock aspersion at last year's Best Actor winner, Jean Dujardin, as essentially having since disappeared, when it's clear his stellar career is mostly anchored in France. And a sometimes funny bit with William Shatner, beaming in from the future as Star Trek's Captain Kirk, became somewhat surreal when he warned MacFarlane that his reviews were destined to be pretty bad.
Mercifully interspersed with the host's puerile humor were musical bits during which Channing Tatum danced quite masterfully with Charlize Theron, and Daniel Radcliffe and Joseph Gordon-Levitt sang and danced, aided by the surprisingly excellent vocal talents of Mr. MacFarlane. He wasn't just on-key, he sang like he'd been in musical theatre. And, upon doing some follow-up research, I learned he'd sung at Carnegie Hall and Royal Albert Hall in London. Who knew?
During these moments and when he played it straight, he was great — poised, handsome and charming. But on occasion he spewed classless material, which I'm sure he thought was very funny. He absolutely bombed in a joke ostensibly crediting Daniel Day-Lewis with getting into Lincoln's head, but then indicated he hadn't done as well as had John Wilkes Booth. The audience gasped.
From that point on, when he was on camera he essentially introduced the next guests and did so with professional aplomb. Was it a coincidence or did someone rip up the rest of his cue cards?
As to the rest of the show, it was professional and sometimes spectacular. The spoof of Flight with hand puppets was delightful and the tribute to a few recent musicals with some of the casts singing live was terrific, […]
Oscar Forecast: And the Odds are…
How about the movie awards? Below the numbers based on Ben Zauzmer's algorithm:
-Odds that Best Picture and Best Director go to the same movie: 8%
-Odds that Argo becomes the second film ever to win Best Picture and nothing else: 7%
-Odds that Silver Linings Playbook becomes the fourth film ever to sweep the "Big Five": 0.02%
How about the acting awards? Most critics, as well as my numbers, agree that Daniel Day-Lewis and Jennifer Lawrence are the favorites, but let's dig deeper to learn some more interesting facts:
-Odds that Lincoln becomes the third film ever to win three acting awards: 5%
-Odds that Silver Linings Playbook becomes the first movie to win all four acting awards: 0.04%
So a clean sweep isn't too likely for David O. Russell's love story. But some other categories that typically go together have a bit more of a chance at honoring the same movie:
-Odds that either Life of Pi or Skyfall wins Best Original Score and Best Original Song: 8%
-Odds that Argo, Life of Pi, or Skyfall wins Best Sounds Editing and Best Sound Mixing: 10%
-Odds that Anna Karenina, Lincoln, or Life of Pi wins Best Production Design and Best Cinematography: 16%
-Odds that Life of Pi sweeps the six technical categories: 0.009%
If you're into more dispiriting predictions, we can calculate facts about losses, not just wins:
-Odds that Lincoln breaks the all-time record for Oscar losses, going 0/12: 3%
-Odds that Django Unchained goes 0/5: 44%
Ouch. It seems that Quentin Tarantino has nearly a 50/50 shot of going home without any trophies. Anyway, here are a few more miscellaneous ones, because this is too much fun to stop:
-Odds that either Moonrise Kingdom or Flight wins Best Adapted Screenplay, even without a Best Picture nomination: 7%
-Odds that a European country wins Best Foreign Film: 89%
-Odds that Anna Karenina wins all four of its nominations: 0.1%
Do you have any similar questions that you'd like me to calculate? Just leave a comment and I'll respond with the percent chance of your scenario coming true.
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SKYFALL Earns Top Honors from Cinematographers; Game of Thrones, Hunted, Wilfred and Great Expectations Win in TV Categories
Roger Deakins, ASC, BSC; Balazs Bolygo, HSC; Kramer Morgenthau, ASC; Florian Hoffmeister; and Bradford Lipson claimed top honors in the four competitive categories at the 27th Annual American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) Awards for Outstanding Achievement, which was held here tonight at the Grand Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland.
Deakins won the ASC Award in the feature film competition for SKYFALL. Bolygo and Morgenthau tied in the one-hour television episodic category for Cinemax's HUNTED and HBO's GAME OF THRONES, respectively. Hoffmeister won the TV movie/miniseries award for PBS' GREAT EXPECTATIONS, and Lipson was the recipient of the half-hour television episodic category for FX's WILFRED.
The ASC Award for best feature was presented by Emmy®-nominated actor John Slattery. Deakins, who was regrettably not able to attend, has previously won ASC Awards for THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION (1995) and THE MAN WHO WASN'T THERE (2002). His other ASC nominations include FARGO (1997), KUNDUN (1998), O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU? (2001), NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN (2008), THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES BY THE COWARD ROBERT FORD (2008), REVOLUTIONARY ROAD (2009), THE READER (2009), and TRUE GRIT (2011). He also received the organization's Lifetime Achievement Award in 2011.
The other nominees in the feature film category were Seamus McGarvey, ASC, BSC (ANNA KARENINA), Danny Cohen, BSC (LES MISERABLES), Claudio Miranda, ASC (LIFE OF PI), and Janusz Kaminski (LINCOLN).
Actor David Zayas, also known as Sgt. Batista on DEXTER, announced Bolygo and Morgenthau had tied for the Outstanding Achievement Award in the one-hour television category. This is the first tie in ASC Awards history.
Bolygo, a first-time ASC nominee, won for the "Mort" episode of HUNTED. This is the first win for Morgenthau, who has been previously nominated for THE FIVE PEOPLE YOU MEET IN HEAVEN (2005), LIFE ON MARS (2009) and BOARDWALK EMPIRE (2011). Tonight's award is for the GAME OF THRONES episode "The North Remembers."
The other nominees in the one-hour television episodic series category were Christopher Manley, ASC for AMC's MAD MEN ("The Phantom"), David Moxness, CSC for FOX's FRINGE ("Letters of Transit"), Mike Spragg for Cinemax's STRIKE BACK (Episode 11) and David Stockton, ASC for FOX's ALCATRAZ (Pilot).
Oscar®-nominee Mary McDonnell presented the Television Movie/Miniseries Award to first-time ASC nominee Hoffmeister for the PBS Masterpiece presentation of GREAT EXPECTATIONS.
Nominated along with Hoffmeister were Michael Goi, ASC for FX's AMERICAN HORROR STORY: ASYLUM ("I am Anne Frank: Part 2"), Arthur Reinhart for History Channel's HATFIELDS & MCCOYS, and Rogier […]
And the BAFTA Award Winners are…
Argo was named Best Film at tonight's EE British Academy Film Awards hosted by Stephen Fry, held at London's Royal Opera House. And the British Academy of Film and Television Arts award winners are…
WINNER – ARGO Grant Heslov, Ben Affleck, George Clooney
LES MISÉRABLES Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Debra Hayward, Cameron Mackintosh
LIFE OF PI Gil Netter, Ang Lee, David Womark
LINCOLN Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy
ZERO DARK THIRTY Mark Boal, Kathryn Bigelow, Megan Ellison
ANNA KARENINA Joe Wright, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Paul Webster, Tom Stoppard
THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL John Madden, Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin, Ol Parker
LES MISÉRABLES Tom Hooper, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Debra Hayward, Cameron Mackintosh, William Nicholson, Alain Boublil, Claude-Michel Schönberg, Herbert Kretzmer
SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS Martin McDonagh, Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin
WINNER – SKYFALL Sam Mendes, Michael G. Wilson, Barbara Broccoli, Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, John Logan
WINNER – BART LAYTON (Director), DIMITRI DOGANIS (Producer) The Imposter
DAVID MORRIS (Director), JACQUI MORRIS (Director/Producer) McCullin
DEXTER FLETCHER (Director/Writer), DANNY KING (Writer) Wild Bill
JAMES BOBIN (Director) The Muppets
TINA GHARAVI (Director/Writer) I Am Nasrine
WINNER – *AMOUR Michael Haneke, Margaret Ménégoz
HEADHUNTERS Morten Tyldum, Marianne Gray, Asle Vatn
THE HUNT Thomas Vinterberg, Sisse Graum Jørgensen, Morten Kaufmann
RUST AND BONE Jacques Audiard, Pascal Caucheteux
UNTOUCHABLE Eric Toledano, Olivier Nakache, Nicolas Duval Adassovsky, Yann Zenou, Laurent Zeitoun
THE IMPOSTER Bart Layton, Dimitri Doganis
MARLEY Kevin Macdonald, Steve Bing, Charles Steel
McCULLIN David Morris, Jacqui Morris
WINNER – SEARCHING FOR SUGAR MAN Malik Bendjelloul, Simon Chinn
WEST OF MEMPHIS Amy Berg
WINNER – BRAVE Mark Andrews, Brenda Chapman
FRANKENWEENIE Tim Burton
PARANORMAN Sam Fell, Chris Butler
AMOUR Michael Haneke
WINNER – ARGO Ben Affleck
DJANGO UNCHAINED Quentin Tarantino
LIFE OF PI Ang Lee
ZERO DARK THIRTY Kathryn Bigelow
AMOUR Michael Haneke
WINNER – DJANGO UNCHAINED Quentin Tarantino
THE MASTER Paul Thomas Anderson
MOONRISE KINGDOM Wes Anderson, Roman Coppola
ZERO DARK THIRTY Mark Boal
ARGO Chris Terrio
BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD Lucy Alibar, Benh Zeitlin
LIFE OF PI David Magee
LINCOLN Tony Kushner
WINNER – SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK David O. Russell
BEN AFFLECK Argo
BRADLEY COOPER Silver Linings Playbook
WINNER – DANIEL DAY-LEWIS Lincoln
HUGH JACKMAN Les Misérables
JOAQUIN PHOENIX The Master
WINNER – EMMANUELLE RIVA Amour
HELEN MIRREN Hitchcock
JENNIFER LAWRENCE Silver Linings Playbook
JESSICA CHASTAIN Zero Dark Thirty
MARION COTILLARD Rust and Bone
ALAN ARKIN Argo
WINNER – CHRISTOPH WALTZ Django Unchained
JAVIER BARDEM Skyfall
PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN The Master
TOMMY LEE JONES Lincoln
AMY ADAMS The Master
WINNER – ANNE HATHAWAY Les Misérables
HELEN HUNT The Sessions
JUDI DENCH Skyfall
SALLY FIELD Lincoln
ANNA KARENINA Dario Marianelli
ARGO Alexandre Desplat
"Silver Linings Playbook" crossed the $75 million mark
Last night's box office was kind of a watershed moment for "Silver Linings Playbook." David O. Russell's Oscar nominated serio-comedy not only held its own in third place, but nudged up to cross the $75 million mark. "Silver Linings" has now also nosed ahead of "Zero Dark Thirty," which is sort of amazing. For thirty days, "SLP" languished in limited release while other, bigger movies came and went. "SLP" and "ZD30″ were neck and neck in the same number of theaters once they each went wide.
But now "SLP" had broken from the pack. It's going to make $100 million, and be the next Weinstein Company movie to hit that mark. Maybe a landmark: I can't recall a time that the Weinstein Company has had two movies in the top 10 at the same time. Yet, now they have the Russell and "Django Unchained." And they're each nominated for Best Picture.
Of the two, "Playbook" has a stronger shot at winning Best Picture. But again, I told you this when I saw "Playbook" in Toronto. It's such a terrific film, and it's the one with heart this season. People feel good when they see it. That's not to diminish "Zero Dark Thirty." But audiences love "Silver Linings Playbook." Jennifer Lawrence is on her way to Best Actress, too. "SLP" and maybe "Lincoln" are the two realistic rivals to "Argo."
The surging success of "SLP" means that by February 24th, Oscar audiences will really have seen all nine nominated Best Pictures and care about them. That, plus the show itself, should add up to solid ratings for the Academy Awards telecast.
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Steven Spielberg to receive ACE Golden Eddie Filmmaker of the Year Award
Award winning filmmaker Steven Spielberg has been selected by the Board of Directors of the American Cinema Editors (ACE) to be honored with the organization's prestigious ACE Golden Eddie Filmmaker of the Year Award. The award will be presented at the 63rd Annual ACE Eddie Awards ceremony on Saturday, February 16, 2013 in the International Ballroom of the Beverly Hilton Hotel, it was announced today by the ACE Board of Directors.
"Steven Spielberg is a cinematic treasure," stated the ACE Board of Directors. "For over four decades he has been moving audiences around the world with his unique, powerful brand of storytelling. As one of the most successful directors in history, he has brought us beloved films, which have not only delighted us but have been indelibly woven into our cultural fabric. Throughout it all, he has worked side by side with the great Michael Kahn, A.C.E., forming a director-editor partnership that has lasted decades. It is our pleasure to recognize him with the ACE Golden Eddie Filmmaker of the Year honor, especially in a year where he has, once again, created a masterpiece with his latest film, Lincoln."
Spielberg is one of the entertainment industry's most successful and influential filmmakers and a principal partner of DreamWorks Studios. He is the top-grossing director of all time, having helmed such blockbusters as JAWS, E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, the Indiana Jones franchise and Jurassic Park, earning billions at the box office. He is a three-time Academy Award® winner, having won his first two for Best Director and Best Picture for Schindler's List, which received a total of seven Oscars® that year. He won his third Oscar® for Best Director for the WWII epic drama Saving Private Ryan. It was also one of the year's most honored films, earning four additional Oscars®, as well as two Golden Globes for Best Picture and Best Director. He also earned Academy Award® nominations for Best Director for Munich, E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, Raiders of the Lost Ark and Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Throughout his career he had also earned a staggering eleven DGA Award nominations, making him the most honored member of the DGA. Last year he successfully took on the challenge of working in 3D animation with The Adventures of Tintin, which won the Golden Globe for Best Animated Feature. Last year he […]


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'Piano Paradise' invites the music stars of tomorrow to venture into the beautiful world of piano music.
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No Federal OK Yet for Illinois Health Exchange PlanCHICAGO (AP) - Illinois officials say they expect federal approval on a proposed health insurance exchange in plenty of time to enroll the first customers on Oct. 1. Several states on Thursday won initial federal approval on their insurance exchange plans, a key milestone in meeting the requirements of President Barack Obama's health overhaul.
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For some of us, it takes a couple of cups of coffee to wake up and hit the road. The Bean Machine, a coffee-powered pickup built by UK engineer and conservationist Martin Bacon, takes the notion of caffeine-based energy to a whole new level. Commissioned by The Co-operative Food to commemorate their 10th anniversary of converting all of their coffee to fair trade, the truck set a Guinness World Record for the highest speed ever attained by a java-powered vehicle, clocking in at 65mph.
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Esteban January 20, 2015 at 10:28 am
Ƭhanks very nice blog!
stan e February 21, 2013 at 2:39 pm
And exactly HOW fast did it go????
spirituallyinsane February 21, 2013 at 2:18 pm
The process of gasification produces hydrogen and carbon monoxide. This article indicates the hydrogen is burned. The carbon monoxide is also burned. It's a very important part of the fuel for a vehicle like this. Once burned, it returns to harmless carbon dioxide.
Simon Simpson February 20, 2013 at 2:55 pm
Jon Brooks What's wrong with you people? They use waste coffee not beans. Put your brain in gear before you slag it off (and what have you ever done)
Jon Brooks February 19, 2013 at 4:25 pm
Biomass conversion makes sense; coffee bean combustion is impractical for broad use, so why waste time to design and build it and beans to burn? This exemplifies frivolous allocation of resources in a world where many human beings starve every day. We ought to wake up and smell the intended pun. Anyway, this car went faster on coffee beans in September of 2011, I wonder in what dimension 65mph is greater than 66.5 mph… http://inhabitat.com/coffee-powered-car-breaks-world-speed-record-for-vehicle-powered-by-organic-material/
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WOW!!! Its singletrack heaven on the green hill!
THANKS John, Perry, Rob, & Ben for a GREAT weekend!
John, Saturday's breakfast of champions hill (squid filter after squid filter after squid filter ...) was a workout for this old fat guy! 10 degrees cooler & some wind would have helped. Thanks for waiting for me.
Actually, the entire peanut gallery was ALWAYS waiting for me with the cameras out every time I got to something interesting. I'm sure I was entertaining, but one of the guys in front of me appeared to be more photogenic.
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I love riding with Jungle
, but that second day might have killed us... we almost died up there on Saturday.
Ben here checking Catfish's tire pressure
more to come.....
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Perry that last picture doesn't nearly tell the whole story. I grabbed Catfish's front tire just as he was about to loop out right there. I caught it right at the balance point of "oh shit" and "thank god". In the right place at the right time.
Snowmobile? you don't need no stinking snowmobile!!!
Thanks for the brew and the ride, good times............
Yes, THANKS for the assist Ben!!!
I owe you buddy!
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Yeah it reminds me of the Jimmy Lewis class drills on balance point practice. Nice save! That's the exact spot where theGrinch bent the shit out of his bars.
Yeap, I should send this photo to Jimmy & recommend Ben for his training staff!
Then we rode the sweetest singletrack trails in the trees up to the snow. Just f*cking outstanding!!!
Then we were surrounded by SNOW and were going to DIE on the green hill!
But John had smoked a LOT of cigarettes waiting for me all day, and he ran out.
Only THEN did he lead us successfully through the snowbank maze back to camp for smoke & booze!
A couple of Saturday photos ... when I remembered I had a camera with me.
Sunset was on the trail, but we were back to camp just before dark. John, THANKS for the EPIC Saturday ride!!! You have the energy levels of a 12yo on crack! I think you & rearsteer are both mad dogs! Can I help it if I like chasing mad dogs?!?
Perry, Rob, & I were interested in a less physically-challenging ride on Sunday than what Jungle had planned with Ralphy & the Rippers(tm). The canyon trails to the lookout tower were easy physically, but VERY narrow & unforgiving of less-than-perfect balance or tire placement. Quite the mental workout.
The scenery was breathtaking! Once you stop. You do not DARE look anywhere else when the curving trail is only 4 inches wide on the side of a STEEP hill.
Sunday photos ...
Can you find Perry & Rob on the singletrack?
Back to camp by 5PM for cocktails & packing! We went to town looking for good burgers. Third place was a charm, and open! Nelda's Diner for a bacon-cheeseburger & a chocolate malt. Mmmm!!!
You guys sure left me a lot of firewood for Sunday night! I had a roaring white-man fire all to myself, and still had enough for Monday morning too!
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Luo Meng was banned for using diuretics:
Luo Meng was banned for using diuretics:
Eamus Tigris!
Cage Writer ? NBC Chicago? Fourth Place Medal
Was he one of their wild cards?
Would be great if that made room for Zadick.
He's at 55kg
Life's not the breaths you take, the breathing in and out that gets you through the day ain't what it's all about. It's the moments that take your breath away.
Wow, lifetime ban for the athlete & coach for testing positive. They don't mess around..
9 chinese wrestlers qualified for Beijing.
7 wildcards did not announce yet
China received 7 wildcards !
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I'm assuming the spot is alloted for the weight class not a specific wrestler. China'll just send someone else, no?


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One caveat - I'm not a student of the team as many others here on RZ are - I encourage those with greater knowledge than me to correct anything I'm misstating or to clarify things I may not be clear on.
I've been reading the book Crosley, about Powel and Lewis Crosley and the business empire they built. It's an easy read, if not the best written book, but I've just arrived at the period when Sidney Weil left the Reds as GM and Larry MacPhail took over the team.
MacPhail had been successful running the Columbus, Ohio farm team for Branch Rickey, but he was fired following the 1932 season (according to the Crosley book). At that point, the Reds were broke and the bank hired MacPhail. The club was had just completed its second year in a row of finishing in last place and two more years in the cellar were to come. Yes, from 1931 thru 1934 we were dead last. One more last place finish came in
1937, MacPhail's last year as the Reds GM. Half of the 1930's were spent in last place.
The book mentions that the first thing MacPhail did upon taking over the club was to place the entire club on waivers to see what interest there was in the players. It stated several moves then were made. (MacPhail attempted that off season to hire Babe Ruth as the team's manager, but the Yankees wouldn't allow it).
That got me looking at baseball-reference.com at what transactions took place over the period. It's very interesting and a 1930's Red Zone would have screamed bloody murder as MacPhail began to construct a competitive Reds club and build its farm system. In 1934, Powel Crosley bought the club (the book seems to intimate that MacPhail sought Crosley out to free himself from having the bank overlooking his shoulder - I haven't read far enough to understand how this took place).
That said, of the moves I noticed, it wasn't surprising to me to see how many transactions were conducted with the Cardinals, since MacPhail had come from their system. Many of the transactions were trading away folks I'd never heard of, or sending off players nearing the end of their careers; releasing players, etc.
The first "name" move I noticed was trading Leo Durrocher and two other players to the Cards for Paul Derringer and two other Cards in May of 1933. Derringer proceeded to lose 25 games for the Reds that year, followed by 21 losses the next year. Oh my, the keyboards would be flying here on RZ over that move.
We signed free agent pitcher, Jack Quinn, then 49 years old - he went 0-1 before being released in July. The following year they took a flyer on 43 year old Dazzy Vance, nearing the end of his HOF career. He went 0-2.
That December they traded with Philly for veteran Mark Koenig, previously a player for the 1920's Yankees. He performed decently and was subsequently flipped the following year for SS Bill Myers. In November of 1934 we purchased the contracts of Ival Goodman and Lew Riggs. Riggs was a regular for the few years following and was a utility man for the 1939 and 1940 championship teams. Goodman had a good handful of good years for the club, leading the club in batting a couple of years.
The move that would make acquiring Branden Harris or Cody Ross and selling them pale in comparison would be the December, 1934 purchase of Johnny Mize from, again, the St. Louis Cardinals! We sold him back to the Cardinals the following April. He made his debut with the Cardinals in 1936 and went on to the Hall of Fame. The Reds, of course, would do similar transactions other times in later years as well. But, wow, can you imagine how a Redszone would have reacted to that?
This is just a sampling of the beginnings of the Reds club moving towards their championship seasons of 1939 and 1940. MacPhail left for Brooklyn in 1938 where he was ironically replaced by Branch Rickey after the 1942 season. Also of interest, at Brooklyn MacPhail replaced Bob Quinn, grandfather of later Reds' GM, Bob Quinn.
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- Adriana Lecouvreur (presumably with Gheorghiu, but that is my guess)
- Gordon Getty's Usher House?!?!?! How much money would he have to donate to get this produced in SF? $10 million? $25 million? (Now rumored for 2015-16)
- More Janacek, now know to be Jenufa
- Be sure to read my blog posting about a letter David Gockley sent to subscribers.
- Andrea Chenier, opening night; Roberto Alagna
- Bright Sheng's Dream of the Red Chamber, libretto by David Henry Hwang. (This is not a rumor.)
- Rigoletto, June 2017; Quinn Kelsey, Michael Fabiano, Olga Peretyatko
- Don Pasquale, October, 2016; Laurent Pelly, dir.; Lawrence Brownlee
- Aida, October 2016, with Leah Crocetto
- I am going to guess that the announced new production of Elektra is in this season.
- Summer, presumably: A revival of the Zambello Ring. Casting details so far are Greer Grimsley (Wotan) and Evelyn Herlitzius (Brunnhilde, but really, can't we just hire Christine Goerke???). No idea of the conductor. I hope it's Runnicles, or if not, perhaps Thielemann, if he's willing to travel this far.
Removed, on very good authority: Florencia with Racette in 2016 is not happening.
Be sure to keep an eye on Opera Tattler's SFO Future Seasons page. She mentions Orfeo ed Euridice and other works.
Found on the web or wherever, tidings of other opera companies:
- Future Met Wiki, full of rumor and gossip about you-know-where.
- Because I would really like to see him in San Francisco again, I check tenor Stefan Margita's web site occasionally. At the moment, it includes Prince Shuisky at the Met in the 2015-16 season, so we know they're doing Boris; Loge in Chicago in the fall of 2016, so we know they're doing the Ring; Loge at the Met in the Spring of 2017, over a period of months, so we know....If, in fact, SFO has some Janacek scheduled in future seasons, he'd be a prime candidate to be singing in Jenufa or From the House of the Dead. Update: Rumor is that the Met may not be doing the Ring in 2017 after all. Updated update: Met will revive the Ring sometime in the next five or six years, among other reasons to showcase Christine Goerke following her tremendous performance in Die Frau ohne Schatten.
- Houston, Fura dels Baus Ring: Jay Hunter Morris will be there in April & May of 2016. Sounds like Siegfried to me.
- Christine Goerke mentioned on Facebook in mid-2014 that she would be "out there [on the west coast] in the not too distant future." YAY.
- Les Toyens at LOC, Fall, 2016. Brandon Jovanovich as Enee. (Now there is a dream match of voice and role.) Well, perhaps a trip to the Met (Tristan) can be combined with a trip to Chicago.
The season has been announced; let's take stock of what follows. It's mostly correct. What I got wrong: not Zambello, but Tambosi, for Jenufa. Not Vitalj Kowaljow in Don Carlo, but Rene Pape and Andrea Silvestrelli (can't complain!). The additional operas are Bieito's Carmen and Barber of Seville.
- Sweeney Todd with Stephanie Blythe, Gerald Finley; Patrick Summers (September or October).
ManonLucia di Lammermoor with Damrau, Beczala (Oct.)
- Double bill: Robert Orledge's completion of Debussy's Fall of the House of Usher, and Gordon Getty's Usher House.
- Die Meistersinger; co-production with Glyndbourne and LOC. Sir Mark Elder conducts. Greer Grimsley as Hans Sachs.
- Don Carlo, June 2016; Michael Fabiano, Vitalj Kowaljow / Luisotti
- Jenufa, with Malin Bystrom (Jenufa) and Karita Matilla (Kostelnicka!); Zambello directs, so presumably the production seen more than a decade ago with Patricia Racette (June).
- Luisa Miller (Leah Crocetto? She will be singing in SF next fall. She is not singing Elisabetta di Valois in Don Carlo(s).)
- Die Zauberfloete (Jun Kuneko production)


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Tim Burchett: Use money from surplus land sales to pay down debt
Mayor: Use money from land sales to pay down debt
Two years ago, it was one of Knox County Mayor Tim Burchett's campaign promises: pay down the debt.
Now he wants it in writing, but not everyone appears to be on board with his plan.
Burchett and Knox County Commission Chairman Tony Norman are sponsoring a resolution that would require officials to apply the proceeds from the sale of county surplus properties "to reducing the county taxpayers' debt," which stood at $669 million when the current fiscal year began last July.
"We've got assets that have become liabilities and we need to liquidate them," the mayor said. "We need to pay down our debt. Unlike what Washington and some folks in Nashville — when they get a new dollar they want to spend it when they should be thinking about the debt."
Burchett said the resolution "holds me accountable and holds the commission accountable, and lets the public know that we're doing what families around the county are doing."
Norman agreed.
"The reduction of the debt will benefit everyone," he said. "We're just tying to be better financial managers."
Not everyone, however, is as committed to the proposal at this point.
Commissioner Richard Briggs said he "thinks it's a good idea" and "in many instances" would apply the money to the debt. But, Briggs said he'd also like to continue building the county's reserve fund.
Commissioner Ed Shouse added "that in theory it's a good policy to have," but thinks "it's not as black and white as it appears."
He said he'd like to discuss the matter further with county finance officials before weighing in.
The commission is expected to talk more about the resolution during its work session and voting meetings later this month, and already officials have raised a number of issues.
For example, the county sold the Solway plant for $2 million in July 2011 and Burchett wants to use the money to pay for Carter Elementary School, which is under construction and expected to open next fall. In addition, he wants to sell three pieces of property to Hillcrest HealthCare Communities, which the nursing home currently leases, for $5.3 million. He wants that money, also, to go toward Carter.
When asked why these sales wouldn't go toward paying off debt, the mayor said they would.
"Carter was a commitment we made to the people of the Carter community, and we're going to pay for it," Burchett said. "Carter is still debt — it's just not bonded debt. We owe it and we're going to pay it."
In addition, school officials could end up getting involved in the discussion at some point.
The proposal, sponsored by Burchett and Norman, would repeal another resolution approved by the county commission in April 2009 that said proceeds from "the sale of excess school property … shall be applied according to the discretion of the administration of Knox County Schools and as the administration sees fit."
Commissioner Sam McKenzie, who co-sponsored that previous resolution, said he doesn't support the new proposal right now. He said he'd like to keep the one he and former Commissioner Paul Pinkston crafted in place as it relates to school-owned property. He said the revenues from county-owned surplus land should go into the general fund and officials can determine how to use it — if at all — at a later time.
Knox County Board of Education Chairwoman Karen Carson said she wants to talk with Norman and would like the commission to first discuss the resolution before weighing in on it, but she also has some concerns about it.
"I like the idea of putting any money to debt reduction, but I also think that there are some important educational needs we can address with revenues from surplus school property and I think we should be able to do that," she said.
Carson pointed out that the resolution would tie the commission's hands.
The county and school board will each pay around $30 million this year to reduce debt, which will stand at an overall $645.8 million when the fiscal year wraps up June 30. Counting interest, the county owes about $1 billion. The school system accounts for 41 percent of the overall debt.
"I don't really see an issue with this," Norman said. "(The resolution) is just good financial management and the schools benefit as well."
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Okay, I haven't been to Una-Effen-Dilla (yeah, I have the bumper sticker) since 1987. I am sure a lot has changed since Hannah put a hurtin' on the rest of the world MX community during the Des Nations (on a 125 no less).
I want to make sure the wife sees a start, up close and personal.
Is it possible to view that without having the precious VIP tickets I elected not to purchase?
Been viewing some online videos to try to get a feel for what's there in this century.
Any reply is appreciated.
the first turn is accessible to anyone. there is only so much fence footage though so getting a good spot will require getting to one of the moto's early enough to beat the mob. once the start is over it's really not much of a spot to be at so it will thin out. keep in mind you are on the outside of the turn and without sounding like a wus it could be a dangerous spot though the chances of a bike getting through/over the femce are slim (but stranger things have happened) and eye protection wouldn't be a bad idea. at least sunglasses. they freaking HAUL ASS around that turn it is an incredible sight you really want to be on the fence with an unobstructed view. Budd Creek turn one has less of a straight coming into it and it's basically a U turn. Southwick is almost less than a 90 degree so again not quite as fast but Unadilla is a bit or a right handed sweeper, probably more than a 90 degree turn into another straight so it really is an unbelieveable display they come fast and they do. not. back. off.
a must see.
then head for sky shot! and the new jump heading back into gravity cavity!
Unadilla in the summer, does not suck...
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Professor Ron Dattero is keenly focused on helping students be more than "book smart." He wants them to also graduate with a set of skills they will need to be successful in the workforce. Throughout his career, he has insisted that students gain experience in collaborating and applying current technology to "get the job done" in a results-oriented business environment. And, he understands the importance of delivering business value. These beliefs led him to play a key role in the creation of an Information Technology Service Management (ITSM) undergraduate major at Missouri State University, which was the first of its kind in the USA and perhaps in the world. ITSM is a discipline for managing IT systems that is philosophically centered on the customer's perspective of IT's contribution to the business, as opposed to technology-centered approaches to IT management and business interaction.
In 2007, when this effort began, ITSM was not present in university curricula. Dr. Dattero worked closely with two of IBM's leading experts on ITSM, Paul Kontogiorgis and David Graves. Together they were able to launch a very successful program at unprecedented speed as described in this YouTube video. To date, Dr. Dattero has taught more than 250 students in the Missouri State University ITSM program and many of them have also achieved ITSM professional certification, which gives them a valuable credential to add to their resumes before they begin their careers. The IBM Academic Initiative has promoted the ITSM curriculum by providing no-cost IT Services courseware to its members.
Continuing to be a forward thinker, Dr. Dattero introduced his students to ITSM-specific games, such as the IBM Service Management Virtual Simulator, which challenges them to solve ITSM problems. The IBM Service Management Virtual Simulator is an engaging way for students and IT professionals to learn ITSM concepts. Dr. Dattero also led the recent movement to bring the IBM Academic Skills Cloud to his school. Missouri State University is now one of 50 institutions in the world providing their students with hands-on experience in an enterprise-level environment that is growing rapidly in importance. Dr. Dattero taught the first cloud computing class using the new technology in Spring 2012.
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Associated Press= ALFRED, Maine (AP) — Jury selection has resumed in the trial of a man accused of helping a Zumba fitness instructor run a prostitution business in Maine.
More than 50 potential jurors gathered in court Wednesday morning.
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Jury selection stalled for more than three weeks after prosecutors appealed the dismissal of 46 invasion-of-privacy counts against married insurance businessman Mark Strong Sr. He faces 13 other counts dealing with promotion of prostitution.
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(Eds: Updates.) By DAVID MERCER Associated Press Last weekend, Illinois' surprising unbeaten start was 4.4 seconds away from running head-on into a wall. Gardner-Webb, an opponent any Big Ten school is expected to beat at home, was up by two with the clock winding down on the strength of a banked-in 3-pointer, the kind of good-grief shot that tells the opponent it just might not be their night. A season ago, Illinois probably would have cracked under that pressure. That team - essentially the same group of players - lost 12 of its last 14, missed the NCAA tournament and saw its coach fired. Not this time. Senior forward Tyler Griffey, just a minute or so removed from a bad miss that could have drained his confidence, buried a long 3 for the win. The Illini (8-0) woke up the next day ranked 22nd in the country. So far they've won the Maui Invitational title, blowing out Butler in the championship, and are averaging 11 3-pointers a game. That's more than any team in the country, ...
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Cardinals Pitcher Jason Motte's Vision So Bad He Struggles to See Plate Despite Throwing Close to 100 MPH
Jason Motte has emerged as the Cardinals' closer this postseason and has been lights out. And he's been doing it all despite terrible vision, which often leads to him being unable to see where he's throwing the ball. The 29-year-old reliever's nearsightedness is bad enough that he often squints on the mound because he can't see catcher Yadier Molina's signals, accroding to Yahoo Sports. Motte will reportedly sometimes wave his glove up and down in an effort to get Molina to hold his fingers lower, which could expose the signs to the opposing team. If the signs are being exposed...
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RIM, the firm behind the BlackBerry range of smartphones, has been labelled as the world's fastest growing company in a list in Fortune Magazine.
US chipmaker Sigma Designs came second and Chinese internet firm Sohu.com was third. The companies were rated based on their proits, turnover, and 3-year investment return.
RIM did well thanks to a profit growth of 84% over the last three years, helped by a rise in the popularity of its handsets and an expansion into the consumer sphere away from just enterprise. Revenues expanded 77% and investment return has been 45%.
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In Texas, football fans show their loyalty with their fingers
Updated: August 13, 2010, 11:37 AM ETBy LaRue Cook | ESPN The Magazine
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In the early 1970s, L. Glenn Dippel, Texas Tech Class of '61, was living in Austin and got fed up with the ubiquitous Hook 'em Horns. "I would've just as soon given them a one-finger salute, but we would have had to change our mascot to a unicorn," Dippel jokes. With inspiration from mascot Raider Red and his six-shooters, Dippel and wife Roxie, a fellow Tech alum, created the L-shaped hand pistol salute (demonstrated by pom squad member Abby Bertrand).
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I am proud to live in a state where both of our Senators and 19 of the 53 Congressional Representatives are women.Compared to the rest of the country, California is far ahead in electing female politicians to federal office.


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If you're 13 to 19 and a bit of a writer, we have the perfect competition for you : "Re-Draft" – which is run by the Christchurch School for Young Writers. The best entries each year are published in the school's annual publication 'Re-Draft', and your work might be chosen as the title of the book. That's right your words, in bright bold colours on the front of the book…
This competition is open to all, and you can enter up to three pieces of work on any subject matter, poems or stories. Jump onto their website for info on the competition and details on how to enter.
Markus Zusak, who wrote The Book Thief (one of our Most Wanted books for, like, ages), was recently at the Hay Festival in the United Kingdom (which seems to be a celebration of books and chairs, from what I can tell), where he was interviewed while relaxing in a comfortable-looking deck chair. He talks about how he works, what inspired him to write The Book Thief, what it means to have death as a narrator, and a few other bits and pieces. The interview is here (from the Guardian website).
Incidentally, if you're interested in strange narrators and you liked How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff make sure you read Just In Case, which is narrated by fate – it would make a very interesting point of comparison.
If you're into creative writing you might be interested in this:
There are two special school holiday creative writing workshops happening next Wednesday 22 April at Katherine Mansfield Birthplace (25 Tinakori Road, Thorndon).
Run by award-winning author Janice Marriott, the workshops are a great chance for secondary school students aged 13–15 to develop their skills and ideas in creative writing.
Workshop 1: 9.30–12.30am
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Spaces are limited so bookings are essential. To book, call 473 7268 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Have you read a book lately that you think other people should read? Or maybe you've read a book that you don't think anyone would want to read? You can review them here, on our newly created and simple-to-use review form.
We will publish all the good reviews (and good bad reviews) that we get.
Patrick Ness is the author of the recent award-winning YA book, The Knife of Never Letting Go (his latest book, The Ask and the Answer, is on order). He is also the first 'online writer in residence' for the British charity, Booktrust. Normally a writer in residence gets a house in a nice part of the world to live in and write for a year, a la the Katherine Mansfield prize. An online writer in residence doesn't get all that, sadly, but Patrick Ness has a very nice blog going. You may also want to check out his tips for new writers.
Just Write is a writing programme with a difference. Each year Just Write supports ten young writers around the country to develop their writing and media literacy skills and increase their understanding of global issues, such as poverty, human rights and sustainability. We offer a programme of training and support, including writing workshops and one to one mentoring from a local media professional.
There are lots of benefits to being in this programme. To be eligible you must be between 14 and 18, and live in New Zealand. You can download the application form here (.pdf) by 5pm, Monday, the 16th of February. Which is, oh, only two weeks away.
Last year I did a post about authors who blog (regularly). I've dredged up some more, which are rather enlightening (to varying degrees).
John Green, author of Paper Towns, published last year (which we quite liked), writes in a chirpy, humorous, self-deprecating fashion, and even reads comments and comments on them.
Megan McCafferty of Sloppy Firsts fame, has an interesting take on blogging. She's called hers a (retro)blog, and she includes writing assignments and essays she produced in school (going back to the 1980s). You'll also find articles she's written on the Twilight saga, containing a hint that Marcus Flutie (from Sloppy Firsts, not Twilight) is based on a real person (or persons).
Susan Beth Pfeffer, author of the horribly harrowing (really, really) stories about what happens to the earth when the moon is knocked out of orbit by an asteroid (The Dead and the Gone, and Life As We Knew It).
Brent Hartinger updates his regularly (the key to keeping a good blog, that).
Robin McKinley, author of Beauty and Sunshine (for those vampire fans). I love what she's called her blog.
Ysabeau S Wilce, author of two of the coolest-titled books ever. Her website is pretty flash, too.
William Kostakis, who kindly responded to our questions last year.
And for those Bear Grylls fans, keep up with what the Bear is up to: http://beargrylls.blogspot.com/
Incidentally, the wonderful Neil Gaiman is going to win the 2008 Weblog Best Literature Blog Award, unless people start voting for Samuel Pepys (actually, I find Samuel rather dull).
Sick of swans, forks and carpets yet?
You've got almost exactly one week to get your short stories into us! Remember that the close off time is 12pm on Wednesday the 24th of December.
Some things to remember: make sure you include the following things (exactly); "forks", "a swan" and "red carpet". Make sure your story is no more than 350 words long too. And don't forget to include your name and your library card number with your entry.
By the way, you can enter more than one story, but remember that we're not pulling names out of a hat; you're just as likely to win with one entry as with ten, so make sure it's as good as you can get it.
The Young Writers Society is a website for writers aged between 13 and 25. It has a forum and a very nice blog, all geared to assist young writers hone their craft:
By promoting creative writing as a past time, the site seeks to encourage creative thinking, proper grammar, and better writing.
Today, the Young Writers Society is proud to boast well over 3,000 members, over 10,000 poems and stories, and a review to story/poem ratio of nearly 6 to 1. The average age on the site is 17.5, and the site receives over 400 posts per day on average. There is no other site for young writers on the web that even comes close.
Great stuff!
Here's the prize pack for the Short Short Story Competition. There is a copy of the book (the movie cover version), the soundtrack to the film (featuring a track by the sparkling Robert Pattinson), and a sixteen-month calendar (I'm unsure what that means). The total value is $90 or thereabouts – I'm no mathematician.
Check out the competition's rules etc. here, or click on the competition logo to the left.