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Gao Chongwen
Gao Chongwen (Chinese: 高崇文; 746–809), formally Prince Weiwu of Nanping (南平威武王), was a general of the Chinese dynasty Tang Dynasty, most well known for his defeat of the warlord Liu Pi.
Gao Chongwen was born in 746, during the reign of Emperor Xuanzong. His ancestors were originally from Bohai Commandery (渤海郡, in modern Cangzhou, Hebei), but after relocating to Tang Dynasty's You Prefecture (幽州, in modern Beijing), did not move for seven generations.[1] He himself was born at You Prefecture, and was said to be simple, tolerant, and quiet. In his youth, he served in the army of Pinglu Circuit (平盧, originally headquartered in modern Chaoyang, Liaoning but later moved to Weifang, Shandong).[2]
During Emperor Dezong's reign[edit]
During the Zhenyuan era (785-805) of Emperor Xuanzong's great-grandson Emperor Dezong, Gao Chongwen served under the general Han Quanyi (韓全義) in defending Changwu Castle (長武城, in modern Pingliang, Gansu) against Tufan. In summer 789, when a Tufan army, 30,000 in strength, attacked Ning Prefecture (寧州, in modern Qingyang, Gansu), Gao led 3,000 men in an effort to relieve Ning Prefecture, and he battled Tufan forces at Futang Plains (佛堂原, probably near Ning Prefecture), defeating them and killing more than half of the Tufan army. For this accomplishment, Gao was created the Prince of Bohai.[1] Later, on an occasion when Han went to Chang'an to pay homage to Emperor Dezong, Gao served as acting military governor. In 798, he was promoted to be the commander of Changwu Castle. It was said that he gathered food and exercised the soldiers, leading to greater fighting capabilities for his men.[2]
During Emperor Xianzong's reign[edit]
Campaign against Liu Pi[edit]
In spring 806, Liu Pi, who had already been in control of Xichuan Circuit (西川, headquartered in modern Chengdu, Sichuan), demanded that then-ruling Emperor Xianzong (Emperor Dezong's grandson) give him control over two neighboring circuits — Dongchuan (東川, headquartered in modern Mianyang, Sichuan) and Shannan West (山南西道, headquartered in modern Hanzhong, Shaanxi) as well. When Emperor Xianzong refused, Liu rose against imperial authority and attacked Dongchuan, intending to seize it. Many imperial officials were apprehensive about attacking Liu because Xichuan was well-fortified geographically, but the chancellor Du Huangchang advocated a campaign against Liu and recommended Gao Chongwen, stating that he knew that Gao was brave and intelligent. Emperor Xianzong agreed and commissioned Gao as the Jiedushi (usually the military governor of a circuit, but in this case an army commander) of the Left Shence Army (左神策軍), commanding the forward troops against Liu, assisted by Li Yuanyi (李元奕) and Yan Li (嚴礪). It was said that at the time, many senior generals were expecting themselves to be put in charge in the operation against Liu, and that when Gao was announced as the commander, many were surprised. It was also said that he was apprehensive of another general, Liu Yong (劉澭), the military governor of Baoyi Circuit (保義, headquartered in modern Baoji, Shaanxi), and that Du motivated Gao on the campaign by warning him that if he were not successful, Liu Yong would be commissioned to replace him.[2][3]
It was said that as soon as Gao received the commission, both he and Li immediately headed toward Zi Prefecture (梓州), the capital prefecture of Dongchuan, which Liu Pi had put under siege. While passing through Xingyuan Municipality (興元), the capital of Shannan West, there was a soldier who got angry at a restaurant and destroyed the chopsticks he was using; Gao immediately put him to death to maintain discipline.[3]
By the time that Gao reached Zi Prefecture, it had fallen, and Liu had taken the military governor of Dongchuan, Li Kang (李康), captive. With Gao arriving at Zi, Liu's officer Xing Ci (邢泚), who had occupied Zi, withdrew. Liu sent Li Kang to Gao and asked for Gao to intercede for him for Emperor Xianzong's forgiveness; however, Gao executed Li Kang, citing Li Kang's failure in battling Liu. At the recommendation of Wei Dan (韋丹), whom Emperor Xianzong had named as the new military governor of Dongchuan, Emperor Xianzong made Gao the deputy military governor of Dongchuan and acting military governor, so that his army can be better supplied directly.[3]
Meanwhile, Liu constructed eight defensive fences at Lutou Pass (鹿頭關, in modern Deyang, Sichuan) to resist Gao. By summer 806, however, Gao was defeating him in eight straight battles and approaching Lutou Pass. Yan was also defeating Liu's other troops. As Gao was attacking Lutou Pass, the general Adie Guangyan circled around the pass and cut off its supply route, and Lutou Pass fell after Liu's officers Li Wenyue (李文悅) and Qiu Liangfu (仇良輔) surrendered. Gao captured Liu's son-in-law Su Jiang (蘇疆) and headed straight for Xichuan's capital Chengdu. On November 5,[4] Chengdu fell. Liu and his strategist Lu Wenruo (盧文若) tried to flee to Tufan, but soldiers that Gao sent after them intercepted them. Liu was captured, while Lu committed suicide. It was said that Gao maintained military discipline, and that the people of Chengdu were not at all disturbed. He executed Xing and another officer of Liu's, Shen Yan (沈衍), but spared all of Liu's other subordinates. When it was suggested to him that he offer Liu's two beautiful concubines to Emperor Xianzong, he believed that doing so for imperial favor was improper; instead, he gave them to two of his officers who were not married.[3]
After campaign against Liu Pi[edit]
Emperor Xianzong, after reallocating six prefectures from Xichuan to Dongchuan, made Gao Chongwen the military governor of Xichuan, the mayor of Chengdu, and acting Sikong (司空, one of the Three Excellencies).[2][3] He also created Gao the Prince of Nanping and ordered that a commemorative text of Gao's victory be engraved at Lutou.[2]
It was said that as Gao was illiterate, he disliked the frequent paperwork that was involved in overseeing the prosperous city of Chengdu, and he often requested to be transferred to a border region.[2] In 807, Emperor Xianzong had the chancellor Wu Yuanheng replace him, and moved him to Binning Circuit (邠寧, headquartered in modern Xianyang, Shaanxi). Emperor Xianzong also made him the overall commander of the troops west of the capital Chang'an and gave him the honorary chancellor title of Tong Zhongshu Menxia Pingzhangshi (同中書門下平章事).[3] It was said that because of Gao's achievements, he became arrogant and wasteful, and when he left Chengdu, he took much of the wealth of the region with him. Because he was not familiar with the rituals at the imperial court, Emperor Xianzong exempted him from the usual custom of first paying homage to the emperor before heading to a new assignment, ordering instead that he be allowed to head directly to Binning.[2]
It was said that during the time that Gao was at Binning, he repaired and strengthened the defenses. He died in 809 and was given posthumous honors. He was later enshrined at the imperial temple with Emperor Xianzong. His son Gao Chengjian (高承簡) and grandson Gao Pian also later served as major generals.[2]
Notes and references[edit]
- ^ a b New Book of Tang, vol. 170.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Old Book of Tang, vol. 151.
- ^ a b c d e f Zizhi Tongjian, vol. 237.
- ^ http://www.sinica.edu.tw/ftms-bin/kiwi1/luso.sh?lstype=2&dyna=%AD%F0&king=%BE%CB%A9v&reign=%A4%B8%A9M&yy=1&ycanzi=&mm=9&dd=&dcanzi=%A8%AF%A5%E8


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This documentary takes an inside look at the video for the song Vicarious by progressive hard rock band Tool off of their album 10,000 Days. Focusing on the visual effects work created by the band's guitarist Adam Jones, the program examines the meticulous work that went into constructing the video's groundbreaking computer aided graphics. ~ Cammila Collar, Rovi
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At the beginning of "The Right Stuff," a cowboy reins in his horse and regards a strange sight in the middle of the desert: the X-1 rocket plane, built to break the sound barrier. At the end of the film, the seven Mercury astronauts are cheered in the Houston Astrodome at a Texas barbecue thrown by Lyndon B. Johnson. The contrast between those two images, contains the message of "The Right Stuff," I think, and the message is that Americans still have the right stuff, but we've changed our idea of what it is.
The original American heroes were loners. The cowboy is the perfect example. He was silhouetted against the horizon and he rode into town by himself and if he had a sidekick, the sidekick's job was to admire him. The new American heroes are team players. No wonder Westerns aren't made anymore; cowboys don't play on teams.
The cowboy at the beginning of "The Right Stuff" is Chuck Yeager, the legendary lone-wolf test pilot who survived the horrifying death rate among early test pilots (more than 60 were killed in a single month) and did fly the X-1 faster than the speed of sound. The movie begins with that victory, and then moves on another 10 years to the day when the Russians sent up Sputnik, and the Eisenhower administration hustled to get back into the space race.
The astronauts who eventually rode the first Mercury capsules into space may not have been that much different from Chuck Yeager. As they're portrayed in the movie, anyway, Gus Grissom, Scott Carpenter and Gordon Cooper seem to have some of the same stuff as Yeager. But the astronauts were more than pilots; they were a public-relations image, and the movie shows sincere, smooth-talking John Glenn becoming their unofficial spokesman. The X-1 flew in secrecy, but the Mercury flights were telecast, and we were entering a whole new era, the selling of space.
There was a lot going on, and there's a lot going on in the movie, too. "The Right Stuff" is an adventure film, a special effects film, a social commentary and a satire. That the writer-director, Philip Kaufman, is able to get so much into a little more than three hours is impressive. That he also has organized this material into one of the best recent American movies is astonishing. "The Right Stuff" gives itself the freedom to move around in moods and styles, from a broadly based lampoon of government functionaries to Yeager's spare, taciturn manner and Glenn's wonderment at the sights outside his capsule window.
"The Right Stuff" is likely to be a landmark movie in a lot of careers. It announces Kaufman's arrival in the ranks of major directors. It contains uniformly interesting performances by a whole list of unknown or little-known actors, including Ed Harris (Glenn), Scott Glenn (Alan Shepard), Fred Ward (Grissom) and Dennis Quaid (Cooper). It confirms the strong and sometimes almost mystical screen presence of playwright Sam Shepard, who plays Yeager. And it joins a short list of recent American movies that might be called experimental epics: movies that have an ambitious reach through time and subject matter, that spend freely for locations or special effects, but that consider each scene as intently as an art film. "The Right Stuff" goes on that list with "The Godfather," "Nashville," "Apocalypse Now" and maybe "Patton" and "Close Encounters of the Third Kind." It's a great film.
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Redesigning Your Performance Review Template to Drive Individual and Organizational Change
By Paul Falcone, Winston Tan
AMACOMCopyright © 2013 Paul Falcone and Winston Tan
All rights reserved.
Why It's Time to Stop Complaining and to Start Building the Right Performance Measurement System That Can Transform Your Company
THE CURRENT SYSTEM of performance appraisal used in most companies relies on outdated information and technologies that don't deliver the payoff you want or need. And the "you" in this case refers to employees, supervisors, and senior company executives. There's a disconnect between true "performance management" and the system we've all allowed ourselves to become accustomed to—i.e., an administrative and bureaucratic exercise used simply for justifying merit increases.
Merit pools have been very tight for the past decade or so, tying in to a Consumer Price Index (CPI) that has barely edged upward since the new millennium began. Since merit increases tend to keep up with inflation, the minuscule budgets have made it difficult to differentiate and truly reward top performers with some sort of financial carrot. Indeed, the only way for most U.S. workers to get ahead has been to either leave the company for greener pastures or try to get promoted internally; otherwise, the merit pools themselves leave very little to inspire and reward top performance for those who have remained in place.
Software solutions can be helpful in getting front-line supervisors to find the proper wording to describe their team members' performance, but let's face it: Most software doesn't allow for much customization, and if the performance categories, or "competencies," don't accurately reflect what you're trying to measure as an organization, the whole exercise turns out to be a bust. After all, how could it be that the same form gets passed down in most companies—generation after generation—without so much as a tweak to reflect the enterprise's changing priorities? Software programs can't fix that, so until the content becomes more insightful and strategic, the program will remain shortsighted in terms of its ability to accurately reflect the strength of your organization's human capital muscle.
If the performance review programs employed by most organizations are sorely lacking and way out of date—akin to an analog land-line telephone in today's proliferating smart phone technology—how do we move the pendulum forward? We're glad you asked....
We have to assume that the rapid pace of change stemming from technology, globalization, and the overall economy requires companies to change quickly, and the performance review template—as a measure of the company's assessment of its workforce muscle or "human capital asset"—must change by definition every year or every few years to reflect a company's changing priorities. In other words, if the format and performance factors aren't being upgraded relatively often to reflect the organization's changing needs and priorities, then you can stop right there: The program will be viewed as a big disconnect.
To make this whole exercise of evaluating, developing, and strengthening human capital worthwhile, the format must be flexible and capable of integrating changing parts. Those changing parts reflect the company's newest priorities—its opportunities, threats, and weaknesses—so that everyone on the team is trimming the ship's sails to move in the same direction and working together toward a common goal.
It's more than just about the format and structure of the appraisal template, however. The content of the performance descriptors must be raised to heighten performance expectations as well. How many times do you read a typical performance appraisal form and think, "This is so ho-hum. Is this really all we're expecting of our employees? And how could it be that the same content is contained in evaluations that cover early career administrators vs. technical and professional experts vs. senior leaders? They all have vastly different skills, knowledge, and abilities, and this one form doesn't even come close to measuring the differences in the impact they make or what we expect of them."
As a society, we've missed the mark in associating the annual performance review with the merit increase. Don't get us wrong—performance should be tied to merit pay. Our mistake in corporate America has been in allowing the degree of linkage to distort the program. In other words, performance management is a critical leadership tool that helps companies and executives build stronger teams of engaged workers who find new ways of reinventing themselves and creating value. Whether you've got 10 percent or 1 percent in this year's merit pool, the performance management piece shouldn't really change: You're still using the system to motivate, reward, and develop talent. After all, you can't control how much your company sets aside for the merit pool in any given year, but you certainly can control the way you motivate, recognize, and acknowledge your team members' contributions. This whole process is about recognition, appreciation, and, at times, confrontation (for poorer performers). That shouldn't be tied to how much your organization happens to have in the merit pool in any given year. We all know managers who pooh-pooh the whole process because the company only has a 2 or 3 percent merit pool to play with. But that "causal connection" between the size of the merit pool and the effectiveness of or investment in the company's performance management system couldn't be further from the truth in terms of the value of a strong performance measurement program.
This information about the organization's most critical and fickle asset—its human capital—rarely makes its way to the top of the organization as a key, measurable metric. Instead, these one-off exercises happen across the company and then never see the light of day again once the documentation makes its way into each individual employee's file. The performance trends and patterns don't percolate to the top of the organization, where that "strategic asset" should be measured and evaluated relative to revenue generators, key expense indicators, and the like.
Finally, and most importantly, a strong performance management system will not only reflect your organization's past performance—it will drive future change within your company by setting your strategic direction. That's right—your performance review template should allow you to set organizational priorities and move the ship of state in new directions based on your immediate challenges and longer-term organizational goals.
Let's look at it this way. Every company in corporate America has its own unique performance appraisal form, system, and process. Public, private, for-profit, not-for-profit, domestic, international, union, nonunion, and small and large employers alike all have some semblance of a performance management program and system that they rely on to document and reward performance. Even if they have no formal system, they still have an informal way of measuring and communicating these same values.
We recommend building a program that addresses all the various types of companies and programs already in existence out there, using flexibility and customization so that employers can reflect the true state of performance management within their organization at any given time. Flexibility and customization are the keys. We just have to make it easy to adapt both the form and content of the performance review so that readers can mix and match their organizational priorities to move their companies forward.
For example, what are the stages of a typical company's growth? What are the typical challenges faced at each stage? How do organizational goals and priorities translate themselves to the departmental and individual level? For that matter, how do you shift your culture to that of a performance-based organization?
Believe it or not, this isn't really that hard to do, and it doesn't take tens of thousands of dollars in management consulting or software fees. Instead, this is where life in corporate America gets most creative. It's where we get the biggest bang for the buck in wanting to become strategic contributors to our organization's overall direction. And bottom line—this is where all the fun is! We know that startups disrupt the status quo and create innovation, while large, established companies are typically on the defensive. (After all, they have a lot to protect!) We know that as growth companies become mature companies, they tend to lose that creative spark that juiced everyone up when they were working out of someone's garage years ago, before things were managed more by the accountants and lawyers and the creative spirit got squelched. And we also realize that mature companies can go on the decline if they're not careful and thinking of new and innovative ways of reinventing themselves in their competitive space, so reinjecting a spirit of innovation and creativity may be critical—although it may come more from building matrix teams rather than from solo performers (like your company's original founders).
Achieving consistent customer replenishment and cash flow from your startup will rely on your ability to offer creative and innovative products in a particular niche, combined with outstanding customer service and value pricing. Turning your startup into a competitive growth company will rely on your ability to hire and develop a strong leadership team, build your core around exceptional communication, and install a clearly delineated chain of command. Morphing from a growth organization to a stable and mature company will then focus on your ability to install appropriate compliance measures, reduce turnover, and capture a greater return on investment for your human capital asset.
No one performance review form or template can apply equally across the board to so many different organizations in different industries at different stages of development. But do you see how the factors outlined above—innovation and creativity, strong communication, effective hiring, and compliance—all help to drive your company forward at different stages? That's the real value of an effective performance management system in a performance-based organization—your template articulates and drives your organizational goals and values!
This book is the first in its class to attempt to build a tool that reflects your company's current needs and challenges and that could be morphed to adapt to the new directions you're looking to pursue. No one size would—or should—fit all, but as is typically the case when it comes to individual or organizational performance modes, the value lies in the discussion. The communication and the dialog about where you're going and how you'll best get there, as framed through the vision of your most critical capital asset—your human resources—is what performance management is truly all about.
Yes, this is about individual performance evaluation, but it's so much more than that! This is about organizational forecasting, about strategic leadership and making your employees feel engaged and involved in where the ship is heading. This makes it easy for them to have skin in the game, and there's no greater gift you could give your company than a motivated and dedicated workforce. We live in a knowledge-based, information-driven society where human capital selection and leadership defines who succeeds and thrives. This tool will give you the opportunity to bring your company to that next level.
The Achilles' Heel of Workplace Management—Historical Challenges with Assessing Performance and Placing a Monetary Value on People
So much has been written on performance management and performance appraisal over the past few decades, including books on abolishing performance appraisal outright, that launching this book project posed somewhat of a risk. We certainly didn't want to become "just another book on performance reviews" and decided early on to venture into the essence of the performance management world: designing an evaluation model that could help companies move performance forward, both at the individual and enterprise-wide level.
Still, it is inherently difficult to assess the contribution of your fellow workers to your department's morale or your company's bottom line. How do you evaluate fairly and consistently? How do you ensure that you're holding your people to the same standards that other organizational leaders are attempting to follow? What's the real significance of a score of 3 (meets expectations), and what does someone have to do to reach a 5 (stellar)?
An additional risk, of course, lies in attempting to reinvent a critical element of workplace performance that's particularly unpopular in the business press these days: tying performance to monetary rewards. On the one hand, we observe company after company complaining that they have an outdated system that is not delivering the payoff they want or need. On the other hand, we see an incredible resistance to engaging in exercises that will develop employees' long-term career potential because there's so little money in the merit pool to differentiate high from medium performers. The disconnect has never been so evident because few companies truly practice "pay for performance" and simply use the employee's individual evaluation form as an administrative tool to justify annual merit increases. With merit increases so tight and employee disengagement at such a high level, the last thing needed in the annals of business literature is yet another book on measuring performance, right?
Abolish Performance Appraisals? We Think Not! The Sad State and Demise of Performance Appraisal Today
Well, not so fast ... We're all making this much harder than it has to be. There is a lot of noise out there about abolishing performance appraisal, the disconnect between the administrative forms and the organization's true needs of measuring performance, the damage a poorly written review could do when an organization tries to terminate someone in light of high-scoring performance appraisals on record, and the general sense of apathy and indifference that surrounds what should inherently and intuitively feel like the most important exercise of the year in an employee's eyes. After all, aren't report cards necessary to reflect on past productivity and guide future performance and behaviors? Without a scorecard, how do you know who's winning the game?
Performance appraisal isn't just a form—it's a process—and the critical link that the performance management process seems to be missing is ongoing communication between superior and subordinate throughout the review period. When done correctly, the annual performance review is one step in a continuing cycle of ongoing performance measurement, progress against goals, and shifting priorities. Where those twelve months of historical performance and goal attainment culminate is during the annual review period—much like a balance sheet reflecting a snapshot of an organization's financial and operational performance at a given point in time. And we all know how important balance sheets are in evaluating companies' performance.
Performance reviews aren't just built around individual workers—they're even more critical at the enterprise level where that human capital muscle needs to be measured and managed. So few companies track and trend performance appraisal scores over time. Even fewer use the data as part of an ongoing scorecard to move the organization forward by strengthening its human capital muscle. And that typically occurs because few organizations look at the tool strategically—as an indicator of human capital strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. If they could only see what it looks like to capture the data and measure it over time to ensure that employees are working in harmony toward revised company goals and initiatives. And just think how nicely that would lend itself into succession planning and other exercises down the road!
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The GoDown Gig ft. Winyo, Lulu & Zakaleo Band and Bany, May 28 2016 @ the GoDown Arts Centre
Date: May 28, 2016
Venue: the GoDown Arts Centre
Time: 3.30 – 8 pm
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Thursday Nite Live Ft. Nina Ogot & Winyo, Dec. 17 2015 @ Choices – Baricho Road
Date: December 17, 2015
Venue: Choices, Baricho Road
Time: 8-11 pm
No Cover Charge
Afro-Fusion Tuesdays – Winyo & DJ Gregg Tendwa, Mar. 3 2015 @ Black Diamond
Live At The Elephant feat. Kwame & Winyo, Jan. 30 2015 @ the Elephant [formerly Kifaru]
Date: 30th January 2015
Venue: At The Elephant, Formerly Kifaru
Time: 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm
Tickets: Early Bird Tickets KES 800
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Live At The Elephant, is a monthly gig that happens every last Friday of the month. The gig is a melange of high octane live performances, amazing musicality and an outdoor ambience under the starry sky.
January 2015 edition features Kwame and Winyo, the event template is a juxtaposition of established vis a vis promising acts.
Performers: Winyo and Kwame
Bring your self, your awesome friends and your dancing shoes for a night of exhilarating fun that promises to satiate your dance-starved souls!


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LYCCYX Episode 1: The Declaration
LYCCYX, no. 1
Brian Barber
This book is available for download with iBooks on your Mac or iOS device, and with iTunes on your computer. Books can be read with iBooks on your Mac or iOS device.
Reviews for LYCCYX: Episode 1 -
"I'm a military guy. Okay, so I'm not IN the military, but I love all things military. I also love Science Fiction. This series is the advanced genetic lovechild of things-Military and things-SciFi. What I also love about this format, is that it's the perfect quick read that doesn't bog you down, (great for waiting room scenarios), and yet it still tells the story you CARE ABOUT. I'm expecting exciting things on the "lunar" horizon from this series!!!
Buy it. Love it. Go! (That's an order, Recruits!)
HOOAH!" - 5 Stars (Amazon) GxKnight, author of the Metal Deep series
""LYCCYX" is set in the future when Earth's energy and resources are becoming rapidly depleted because of the rise in population.
So, colonization on the Moon or Mars might be the way out of the problems. Mining Asteroids also can answer the call for raw materials
Luke Xander is a young man eager to strike out on his own. Becoming a kick-ass, take names, military man, Luke goes on distant missions always thinking about his girl at home, Kate.
Something like an H-Bomb goes off and all hell breaks lose with an altering DNA which will transform humans into monsters. Some of those even being his friends and comrades... who know all of Luke's tricks in the books.
There is a cure... but will it be welcomed?
Will Luke have to battle the devil in his friends to control the epidemic?
Will Luke survive the assault?
My Thoughts:
"LYCCYX" by Brian Barber is an awesome book which kept me hitting my arrow key on my Kindle.
What a ride folks! The book is a great and clean read. It had action and adventure in it.
Certainly the Sci-Fi was present but a lot of the Paranormal aspects were there too.
"LYCCYX" is a technical read, and I was fascinated at the exact and military language the author used. Mr. Barber has analytically thought out each piece of the puzzle.
Also the pictures were excellent too. As far as my black and white Kindle goes, they came out pretty detailed and well structured.
I would imagine that Young Adults would love this book as well as us Baby Boomers. "LYCCYX" will not disappoint. I hope you will dive in!
For this and so much more, I give "LYCCYX" Episode 1, Collector's Edition 5 Stars!" - (Amazon) Emily E Guido, author of the Light-Bearer Series
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Great opening episode to an exciting scifi adventure. I can't wait to read the next one!
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I was driving and it started over heating and before I could get to a place to pull off the road it stalled and wouldn't start back, I ve checked the timing chain and I hear the fuel pump. I don't know what to do next i'am going to get a compression check gauge and check that any other advice?
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Who is Adam Sandler?,
This review is from: Punch-Drunk Love (Two-Disc Special Edition) (DVD)
Paul Thomas Anderson is either hit or miss with me. I liked Hard Eight, I loved Boogie Nights, but I really thought he lost his way with Magnolia. That isn't to say I can't recognize that he is immensely talented and I'm looking forward to seeing his latest film There Will Be Blood. Punch-Drunk Love is a smaller movie about Barry Egan, a business owner who sells novelty items such as stylized toilet plungers. Everything about Barry Egan permeates with a kind of frustrating sadness. His seven older sisters constantly insult him and his life is consistently portrayed as minimalist and disassociated. He is a profoundly lonely man. His bizarre social behavior is awkward but at times spirals into both perversion as well as intensely violent fits of rage. All the while, he is portrayed as the film's protagonist. Anderson is especially delicate in making us understand his eccentricities as justifiable survival mechanisms within the paradigm of his uncomfortable past and nearly pathetic current life. Anderson is careful not to mock or exploit Egan for his faults.
Who could play such a unique and intriguing character? I have to admit, I'm a big fan of Adam Sandler's early comedies. Especially Billy Madison and I don't care who knows about it. I love the silly and stupid humor of Adam Sandler and I firmly believe it is what put him on the map. But he was just a character in those early films and besides those films really are just a series of comedy sketches. It would've made more sense if Billy Madison were placed into a CGI world, a cartoon, or a comic book in the first place. He continued to be silly all along but his characters always carried this dark side that wasn't easy to pinpoint among the poop jokes and slap-stick. He was almost like Adam West's Batman was in the old television show and how we see Batman now in Christopher Nolan's Batman movies is how we see Adam Sandler in Punch-Drunk Love. It is as if Billy Madison or Happy Gilmore were snatched away from the unrealistic comedic worlds of those respective films and aggressively forced to exist in the real world, where every scene isn't necessarily working toward a punch-line. Although, much of Barry Egan's behavior in the real world is, at least on the surface, not unlike the behavior of Madison and Gilmore.
The most amazing thing about the whole Sandler dynamic is that he can really act. He stands toe-to-toe with Phillip Seymour Hoffman (an Anderson regular who happens to be an amazing actor) in my favorite scene of the movie, where these two angry idiots just scream back and forth at each other over the phone. The scene makes their later encounter in person an amazing confrontation. Every single scene Sandler is in we tend to feel for the people around him. Knowing what his temper is capable of made me uncomfortable for the people who surround him but especially uncomfortable for Egan himself, who seemingly can't settle into his own skin. He does seem to find some comfort around Lena (Emily Watson), whose relationship with Barry is really what the film is intent on seeing through.
Punch-Drunk Love has a great style. Anderson has a way of making ordinary scenes memorable and important scenes extraordinary. He is a also a great writer and makes even the smallest characters as strong as his leads. The soundtrack is of course the perfect fit as well. In the end and most important of all, Anderson tries hard to allow us the pleasure of watching Barry Egan bring some kind of comfort into his troubled life and I for one was surprised to enjoy it as much as I did.
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'Underworld,' by Don DeLillo
Review by MARTIN AMIS
Published: October 5, 1997
Expect a lot from the next sentence. Among its other virtues, the title of Don DeLillo's heavily brilliant new book gives a convenient answer to the Big Question about the American novel: Where has the mainstream been hiding? The grand old men, the universal voices of the late-middle century (predominantly the great Jews, and John Updike), are getting older and grander, but the land they preside over looked to be shrinking. Furthermore, it seemed that their numbers were not being replenished by writers of comparable centrality. Was this an epochal change, a major extinction? No. It was a strategic lull.
Something atomized the mainstream. The next wave of genius was there, but not visibly, not publicly. Inasmuch as the mainstream was an institution, these writers could not work within it. They went underground, they sought an underworld of codes and shadows: incognito, incommunicado, and quietly dissident, their literary reputations largely cult-borne. But now the condition that caused the great discontinuity in American letters has come to an end. The novelists are climbing out of the bunker. Don DeLillo's exact contemporaries, Robert Stone and Thomas Pynchon, seem poised for a fuller expansion. DeLillo himself, however, suddenly fills the sky. ''Underworld'' may or may not be a great novel, but there is no doubt that it renders DeLillo a great novelist.
Needless to say, his was already a redoubtable body of work. Here is a writer of high intellect and harsh originality, equipped with extraordinary gifts of eye and ear -- and of nose, palate and fingertip. Right from the start -- ''Americana'' (1971) -- DeLillo appeared tricked out and tooled up, his prose hard-edged, pre-stressed, sheet-metaled. As a young writer, naturally, he was only intermittently in full control of his energies. The next four novels, which include the little diamond of comic invention, ''End Zone,'' and the big, bountiful and necessary failure, ''Ratner's Star,'' showed a similar erratic intensity; as narratives, they felt defiantly shapeless and almost humorously static. They didn't head toward a destination; they went down culs-de-sac, performing frequent U-turns and handbrake skids; and they waited in jams. In particular, they didn't ''end.'' They just stopped. DeLillo's alienation was never facile or reflexive; it was rich, dark and dangerous. But he was still a turbulent tributary searching for a river.
''Running Dog'' (1978) signaled the fresh surge. This lean, mean, inch-perfect political thriller was followed by a long and improbably mellifluous departure, ''The Names,'' DeLillo's European -- or Mediterranean -- novel. Of course, DeLillo has always been a literary writer; deeply literary, and also covertly literary. In ''The Names'' the high style often feels stiff and inelastic; he can do it, but he looks muscle-bound. The experiment, in any event, was clearly salutary, because hereafter we hit the mother lode. First, that beautifully tender anxiety-dream, ''White Noise.'' And then ''Libra,'' the through-the-roof masterpiece. And then the cool formal artistry of ''Mao II.'' And then this.
The new novel is Don DeLillo's wake for the cold war. According to its argument, the discontinuity in American cultural life had a primary cause: nuclear weapons. The hiatus was inaugurated on the day that Truman loosed the force from which the sun draws its powers against those who brought war to the Far East, and was institutionalized four years later when the Soviet Union started to attain rough parity. Cosmic might was now being wielded by mortal hands, and by the State, which made the appropriate adjustments. The State was your enemy's enemy; but nuclear logic decreed that the State was no longer your friend. In one of the novel's childhood scenes, the schoolteacher (a nun) issues her class dog tags:
''The tags were designed to help rescue workers identify children who were lost, missing, injured, maimed, mutilated, unconscious or dead in the hours following the onset of atomic war. . . . Now that they had the tags, their names inscribed on wispy tin, the drill was not a remote exercise but was all about them, and so was atomic war.''
Nuclear war never happened, but this was the nuclear experience, unknowable to anyone born too soon or too late. In order to know what it was, you have to have been a schoolchild, crouched under your desk, hoping it would protect you from the end of the world. How people rearranged their lives around this moral void, with its exorbitant terror and absurdity, is DeLillo's subject. Perhaps it always has been. The new novel, at any rate, is an 827-page damage-check.
''Underworld'' surges with magisterial confidence through time (the last half century) and through space (Harlem, Phoenix, Vietnam, Kazakstan, Texas, the Bronx), mingling fictional characters with various heroes of cultural history (Sinatra, Hoover, Lenny Bruce). But its true loci are ''the white spaces on the map,'' the test sites, and its main actors are psychological ''downwinders,'' victims of the fallout from all the blasts -- blasts actual and imagined. DeLillo, the poet of paranoia and the ''world hum,'' pursues his theme unstridently; he is tenacious without being tendentious. Yet even his portraits of bland, hopeful, pre-postmodern American life -- his Americana -- glow with the sick light of betrayal, of innocence traduced or abused. The ''great thrown shadow'' has now receded and terror has returned to the merely local. MAD (Mutual Assured Destruction) was exploded; and the bombs did not detonate. Still, the press-ganged children who wore the dog tags must live with a discontinuity in their minds and hearts. DeLillo's prologue is called ''The Triumph of Death,'' after the Breughel painting. In the end, death didn't triumph. It just ruled, for 50 years. I take DeLillo to be saying that all our better feelings took a beating during those decades. An ambient mortal fear constrained us. Love, even parental love, got harder to do.


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Report: Over 90K children become victims of school violence each year
A disturbing study published in Pediatrics, a peer-reviewed journal, suggests that more than 90,000 children each year end up in emergency rooms all over the country after becoming victims of school violence.
"I think it should be disturbing for anyone who is charged with the welfare of kids — doctors, parents, teachers at school," said Dr. Probodh Hammady of Maricopa Medical Center.
According to the study's own author, Dr. Siraj Amanullah, of the Alpert Medical School at Brown University, and experts like Dr. Hammady, the number cited in the published study could actually be much larger, because some children are not inclined to report the aggressor.
"Kids are fearful of retaliation," said Hammady. "That's why it's so important for parents to communicate with their children."
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In addition to working regular full time jobs, Petterson and McConnell still find time to organize these events. Petterson and her friend Shannon Mulkey (of Patina) run the ICE event series in addition to her running their own crafting operations. McConnell, the co-owner of Beep Beep Gallery, juggles gallery responsibilities with ARTLANTIS duties (Beep Beep even has an opening for its new exhibit Create, Destroy, Rebuild the same night as ARTLANTIS.
Petterson and McConnell talked with CL about D.I.Y. and why Atlanta is supportive of these type of events.
What are the origins of your respective events, why did you feel the need to start them?
Petterson: Shannon and I met at the end of 2004 at Young Blood Gallery, and basically we both were aware of this growing craft/D.I.Y community that was becoming nationwide. We were familiar with an event in Chicago called Renegade Craft Fair and an event in Austin called Stitch, and we were inspired by these events in other cities and we though Atlanta needed an event like these. We started planning in January of 2005 and had our first event in June of 2005. So we thought basically if these other cities could have a cool craft fair we needed one here too. We are both crafters ourselves, so we were hoping to create an event for people like us, ironically we now don't have time to sell our crafts at our own event (laughs).
McConnell: ARTLANTIS comes from Beep Beep, really, when we started we were just showing local artists and that was our focus. And the festival honestly just started on accident, which is how the gallery started, but our focus was really just to do a festival where we enjoy the art. The reasoning was to create a place where local artists could sell art, we knew about ICE and they were covering the crafting side of things, we wanted to create something like Inman Park Arts Festival or SummerFest (in Virgina-Highlands) but specifically with art from locals and local bands performing too. The artists that participate might not normally buy a booth in an art festival, so its to provide a cheap place for artists to sell their art and we provide tents, tables, and walls to hang up work on.
What about Atlanta makes it an ideal place for festivals such as yours?
McConnell: I think, in general, the great thing about Atlanta is that you can do anything that you want to do. People will support you, if you put it out there and you come from a genuine place, you will get support. And I think these festivals are a reflection of that, people want to do stuff for you because they believe what you are doing is positive. And that's a great thing, because in other cities this might not be that easy to do. Anything can be started and sustained as long as you have the energy and people to support it.
Petterson: Yeah, I agree completely. I say all the time that in Atlanta, if you wanna be the girl that starts a craft market you can or if you wanna be the guy that opens a gallery, you can. In larger cities, you're competing with a lot of other people, but here if you wanna be that girl or guy and you want to hustle and make it happen, you can. I think there's a lot of enthusiasm in Atlanta, if you have something cool that's going on, people get excited about it.
Do you think events like the ones you put on could happen on a monthly basis, is there enough demand for these kind of events?
McConnell: ICE has multiple events a year, doesn't it?
Petterson: Yeah we have the Indie Craft Experience in the Summer and a Holiday show, and we've added the Wedding Day Hooray show in Feb. and the Salvage Market in April. But I'll say that we did try a monthly mini craft market at Young Blood called Craft Work, but it never garnered the interest we hoped it would. I also think that absence makes the heart grow fonder. But Beep Beep has monthly openings, don't you?
McConnell: Yeah we actually have an opening the same day as ARTLANTIS. It's called Create, Destroy, and Rebuild, it's going to be a great show but it's been so labor intensive having the event the same day as the opening. I think I would have to agree though and say that an ARTLANTIS every month just wouldn't generate enough interest.
What is the hardest part about putting on events like these?
McConnell: It's doing the gallery stuff in addition to our regular full-time jobs, and then having ARTLANTIS on top of all of that. Luckily, this year we've had some help from Lydia Sharlow, and she's been awesome at taking pressure off of us having to manage everything all at once.
Petterson: Yeah I think it's the same for us, there's really just never enough hours in the day. It can be a juggling act and there's always other cool things that I want to do for the event that we sometimes just don't have enough time to make happen. But its also been hard trying to develop the brand for our other events too, trying to figure out how to have each one develop their own identity but still all fit under the same umbrella.
ARTLANTIS, Sat., June 2, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. at the Druid Hills Baptist Church, 1085 Ponce De Leon Ave NE, artlantisfestival.wordpress.com.
Indie Craft Experience, Sat., June 2 and Sun., June 3 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. at Ambient Plus Studio, 585 Wells St SW, ice-atlanta.com
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Today, I made a new friend: the cricket the doctor pulled out of my ear canal. FML
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Today, after months of searching and several emotional breakdowns, I finally found a new job. My wife's words of encouragement? "Try not to fuck this one up." FML
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Today, my fiancé decided he wants a baby only because our dog is good, quiet, and falls asleep as soon as he starts to cradle her. He thinks a baby will be just like that. FML
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Today, I had to have major oral surgery. Needless to say I am in need of some heavy pain medication. My pharmacist insists that my surgeon never called in my medicine, and my surgeon insists otherwise. This has been going back and forth for hours. FML
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