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Brad R Fischer
Senior Group Coach
Group: Seniors/Junior Elite
Swimming Background: I started swimming my freshmen year of high school for the Watertown Goslings and continued through my freshman year of college at UW-La Crosse. I also swam for the YMCA at Pabst Farms while competing in High School.
Favorite Event: 200 and 100 Freestyle, 100 Fly
Favorite Part About Coaching: My favorite part about coaching is being able to watch swimmers achieve their goals and be a part of the experience with them. I have already made so many great memories and can't wait to make more.
In my spare time I enjoy running and occaisionally swimming as well as getting out to fly fish around the area.
Deb Ondell
Junior Group Coach
Brooke N Reynolds
Assistant Coach
Group currently coaching: Seniors & Sub for all groups :)
Swimming Background: I grew up swimming for the Wave from age 9 through graduating high school. I also swam for the Onalaska co-op high school team. I am currently in my fourth year swimming for UW-La Crosse. My first coaching experience was at the La Crosse Country Club during the summers in high school and part of college. I started coaching the Wave last season, where I was an Assistant Coach for the Senior Group.
Favorite Event: My favorite events are the 100 and 200 Backstroke, 100 Fly, and 50 Free.
Favorite part about coaching: I love seeing all of the hard work the swimmers put in during the season pay off, whether that be understanding technique or having a great practice or race. I also love to see the lifelong friendships being made and the camaraderie among the swimmers and coaches.
What you like to do in spare time: I enjoy swimming, running, hiking, biking, water & downhill skiing, reading, hanging out with family & friends, & playing my chocolate lab Bo :)
Eric Wojta
Senior Group Coach
Name: Eric Wojta
Group: Seniors
Swimming Background: Eric started swimming as a junior in high school as rehab from a back injury. He then went on to swim for UW-L. Eric has been coaching the Senior group for the past 18 years! He has also working at the University of Michigan and the University of Georgia swim camps. His biggest swimming accomplishment is beating All American Swimmer Chris Maury in the 25 Backstroke in Federal Way Washington in 1991.
Favorite Event: Sprint Freestyle, the shorter the better
Favorite Part About Coaching:Eric's favorite part about coaching is the opportunity to work with swimmers toward a common goal, getting a chance for people to work together, and mentioning there are no better people to work with.
In his spare time Eric enjoys camping, riding bike, eating ice cream, smiling at his newborn son Grady, and being with his wife (Jill), dog Miki and two cats Gracie and Studly.
Chris Babinec
Novice Group Coach
Name: Chris Babinec
Group: Novice and Junior
Swimming Background: Chris swam for the Y for 5 years and has been coaching for the past 20 years!
Favorite Event: 400 IM
Favorite Part About Coaching: Chris loves working with children and building relationships with them. She also finds joy helping them accomplish new skills and improving
In her spare time Chris likes to watch her children in their activities.
Adam M Way
Assistant Coach
Group currently coaching: Novice, Junior and Junior Elite
Swimming Background: My swimming background includes all levels of competition, starting at the age of 5 for my local city team all the way through swimming for UW-La Crosse.
Event: My favorite events were the 100 Fly, 100 Back, 100 Breast, 200 IM, and the 200 Breaststroke
Favorite part about coaching: My favorite part of coaching is seeing a swimmer understand and implement the stroke techniques that we've been working on throughout practices.
What you like to do in spare time: I love to run, lift weights, read, watch the Badgers, Brewers, Bucks and Packers, and get out with my German Shepherd, Dierks.
Mariah A Schisler
Assistant Coach
Group Coaching: Novice
Swimming Background: I started club swimming when I was 8 for St. Cloud and then moved to the metro area and swam for SEMS. Along with club, I also swam for Woodbury High School and my first year of college at UWL.
Favorite Event: 100 and 200 Free, and 100 Breaststroke
Heather Foley
Senior Group Coach
Name: Heather Foley
Group: Senior
Swimming Backgroud: Swam for the La Crosse YMCA swim team for 9 years and 4 years at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
Favorite Event: 100 Butterfly
Favorite part about coaching: Watching young athletes work hard to achieve their goals and see how they grow as a person in and out of the pool.
In her spare time, Heather enjoys spending time with family and friends.
Tiara G Delapp
Junior Eliete Group Coach
Name: Tiara Delapp
Group: Junior
Swimming Background: Tiara began swimming in 6th grade. She swam on various club teams throughout high school and swam for UW-L for two years. Tiara has coached swim teams in Minnesota and Wisconsin for four years before coming to the Wave. She has also been a swim instructor for nine years.
Favorite Event: 50 Free
Favorite Part About Coaching: Her favorite part about coaching is seeing the kids smiling and having a good time while reaching their goals.
In her spare time, Tiara enjoys traveling and spending time outside.
Ryan D Mandel
Novice & Junior Coach
Samantha J Kleich
Novice & Junior Elite Coach
Megan A Molling
Novice & Junior Coach
Adam N Wentzel
Novice, Junior & Junior Elite
Nicole Gross
Novice & Junior Coach
Riely A Held
Novice, Junior & Junior Elite
McKenzie Lau
Novice & Junior Elite
Jennifer N. Loepfe
Novice & Junior Coach
Jennifer swam for the La Crosse YMCA swim team for 11 years and the Lawrence University Swim Team for four. Her favorite events are the 100 and 200 butterfly. She also coached for the Wave for five years before leaving for college. She is excited to be back and will be primarily working with the Novice and Junior age groups.
Mikhail S Pathros
Assistant Coach
Afton Enervold
Assistant Coach
Group Currently Coaching: Novice :-)
Swimming Background: I've been swimming for the Wave since I was 7 years old and this is my 2nd year coaching the Novice group.
Favorite Stroke: Freestyle and backstroke.
Favorite part about coaching: I love encouraging the kids to do their best and have fun while working hard to achieve their goals.
What you like to do in spare time: I love swimming, music (I play the harp and piano), reading, and spending time with my family and friends.

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Ho Sit Down: Kirk's Alleged Jacuzzi Jumpoff Claps Back After Being Put On Blast For Creepin' With A Married Man- "Just Hide Your Husbands"
- By Bossip Staff Categories: Caught Creepin', Dirty Dog Diaries, Ho Sit Down
Needless to say, "Alexis" didn't go quietly once Twitter found out who she was and came for her neck…
Alexis rounded out her bust back session with a few subliminal shots at Rasheeda….and anyone else with a husband who can't keep his peen in his pants…
So, obviously, the real dirty-dog in this situation is Kirk, as he is the one who's married and obligated to be faithful. That being a given, this bird babble might be some of the most thirst-bucket ish we've ever heard.
Getting paid to shamelessly slore yourself out on camera is never a good look, business or not. SMH.
More pics of Alexis clubbing with Kirk and Benzino, along with a few of her flicking it up with some of the other LHHATL cast members, on the flip.


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On Thursday, January 14th, Alan Rickman passed away from cancer and leaves a horrible gaping hole in the entertainment world. As every Harry Potter fan (and casual observer) knows, Rickman was most well known for his role as Severus Snape, the villain-turned-redemptive-hero that plays a central role in the film adaptations.
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Books in 2016: a literary calendar
From a new novel by Julian Barnes to the film of The Girl on the Train, from the most hotly tipped debuts to Henning Mankell's farewell essays – everything you need to know about the literary year ahead
Source: Books in 2016: a literary calendar
On Novels and Novelists
Out with vampires, in with haunted houses: the ghost story is back
Just in time for Halloween (or shortly thereafter), here are several new ghost stories:
It has been supplanted in recent years by vampires, witches and other monsters, but now the good old-fashioned ghost story is back with a bang, with everyone from debut novelists to established literary stars such as David Mitchell and Gillian Flynn hoping to raise the hairs on readers' necks this Halloween.
Read here about the following upcoming publications:
- The Grownup by Gillian Flynn
- Slade House by David Mitchell
- Little Sister Death by William Gay
- Rawblood by Catriona Ward
- The Watchers by Neil Spring
- The Loney by Andrew Michael Hurley
- The Taxidermist's Daughter by Kate Mosse
"A good ghost story asks the reader to examine the horror within – but it's in a safe and contained way," says Catriona Ward. See what the other authors mentioned here have to say about why they have written a ghost story and why they think readers enjoy ghost stories.
Edna O'Brien: from Ireland's cultural outcast to literary darling
Ed Vulliamy profiles Irish author Edna O'Brien. Now 84, O'Brien has not always been appreciated in her native land. Her "first and great novel," The Country Girls was hailed in London, where it won the Kingsley Amis award, but banned in Ireland. This difference in the reception of her book, Villiamy writes, "etched the course of O'Brien's life."
Vulliamy explains how O'Brien's relationship to Ireland while living and writing abroad played out. He places her squarely within the context of other Irish writers:
The extent of the Irish domination of literature in English during the 20th century – per capita – is staggering. From a country of its size, consider: Yeats, Joyce, Shaw, Stoker, Wilde, Beckett, Synge, O'Casey, Butler, Flann O'Brien, Heaney, Trevor – and it continues in Mahon, Banville, McGahern and Tóibín.
Jonathan Franzen's Crackling Genius
In a long article for the New York Times, Rachel Kushner visits Jonathan Franzen in Santa Cruz, CA. Having just finished reading Franzen's latest novel, Purity, Kushner wanders through a conversation with Franzen about the background of the novel.
Read here how Kushner and Franzen meandered through topics that include Catholicism, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Flannery O'Connor, East Germany, Edward Snowden, capitalism, and the death of Franzen's cousin—"how this cousin made sense of his difficult life."
Truman Capote's Brooklyn: Never-Before-Seen Pictures of Truman Capote, Taken by David Attie
Eli Attie, son of photographer David Attie, describes how he found previously unknown photos his father had taken of Truman Capote in Brooklyn, NY.
Eli Attie wrote the afterword for _ Brooklyn: A Personal Memoir_ by Truman Capote, with the lost photographs of David Attie, to be published on November 3, 2015.
Andy Weir on his strange journey from self-publishing to Hollywood
I haven't read Andy Weir's novel The Martian, but I loved the movie. (I saw it in 3-D, which I highly recommend.) I knew the general story of how the work had come into being: how Weir did massive amounts of research, published it serially online, then crowdsourced some of the science concepts to make the science part of science fiction incredibly accurate.
Here writer Sara Vilkomerson explains how the main character, botanist Mark Watney, came into existence:
He's a lovable character who's part Han Solo, part MacGyver…and one big part Andy Weir. "My theory is that every protagonist is someone the author wants to be or who the author wants to screw," says Weir, 42. "Just so we're clear, Mark Watney is who I want to be. He has all the qualities I like about myself magnified without any of the qualities I dislike."
This article appeared in Entertainment Weekly in November 2014, just as production on the film version of The Martian was commencing.
On Novels and Novelists
E. L. Doctorow, The Art of Fiction No. 94
Novelist E.L. Doctorow, who died recently, participated in this interview with George Plimpton that was published in the winter 1986 issue of The Paris Review.
Here's a quotation from Doctorow that I particularly like:
One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing… . The inventions of the book come as discoveries. At a certain point, of course, you figure out what your premises are and what you're doing. But certainly, with the beginnings of the work, you really don't know what's going to happen.
Read the interview to learn how the oral history movement influenced Doctorow's presentation of the protagonist in World's Fair, how staring at the wall of his study lead him to the topic of Ragtime, and how he feels about the sufferings of writers.
The interview was held in front of a live audience at the 92nd Street YMHA in New York City. This transcript ends with questions asked by members of the audience.
Portlander Ursula K. Le Guin is Breathing Fire to Save American Literature
For more than 50 years now, Le Guin has used incisive critical writing and visionary, psychologically rich fiction to challenge orthodox beliefs—about gender, politics, religion, art—and generally emerged victorious. Far from mellowing her, age has only deepened her willingness to angle after the biggest fish in the pond.
Taylor Clark piece for Portland Monthly magazine features Portland, OR, writer Ursula K. Le Guin, whom Taylor characterizes as "indisputably a Portland writer, perhaps the Portland writer." Born in Berkeley, where she attended high school with Philip K. Dick, she moved to Portland with her husband in 1958 when he took a position at Portland State University. She wrote a lot while her children were small but without much success. But in the mid 1960s she began a career of publications that "radically broadened our conception of what science fiction could do."
In works like her 1969 breakthrough novel The Left Hand of Darkness and the "great, transfixing masterpiece, 1974's The Dispossessed," Le Guin "relentlessly turned sci-fi's trappings into innovative new avenues to plumb deeper human conflicts." But she has written in many other genres as well: poetry, children's books, mainstream fiction, criticism, translations, and essays.
Read the article to find out why, today, Le Guin's main concern is the treatment of literature as a commodity rather than as a form of art.
The Strange, Unsettling Fiction of James Purdy
Unsparing, ambiguous, violent, and largely indifferent to the reader's needs, Purdy's fiction seems likely to remain an acquired taste. But it is a taste worth acquiring.
Writing in The New Yorker, Jon Michaud discusses the fiction of James Purdy (1914–2009). Here's why Purdy's fiction is an acquired taste:
In his novels and short fiction, possibility and potential are always compromised. There is neither transcendence nor transformation. His characters do not grow or develop; they dwindle and unravel. Purdy saw Hawthorne and Melville, "two other Calvinists," as his literary antecedents, and it is not hard to interpret some of Purdy's protagonists as latter-day incarnations of Billy Budd and Young Goodman Brown: guileless innocents abused by the world's depraved sinners.
Nonetheless, publisher Liveright last year released a collection of Purdy's short stories, and this year they are republishing three of his novels, including Eustace Chisholm [and the Works], which, according to Michaud, "is probably the peak of Purdy's career, the book of his to read if you're only going to read one."
Jason Segel: Reading David Foster Wallace was 'one of the best experiences of my life'
An interview with actor Jason Segel, who plays the late author David Foster Wallace in the movie "The End of the Tour."
The film The End of the Tour is a dramatization of Rolling Stone journalist David Lipsky's five days spent with writer David Foster Wallace at the end of Wallace's book tour promoting his novel Infinite Jest. Wallace, who struggled for many years with depression, took his own life at age 46.
When actor Jason Segel read the screenplay for the film, he thought he didn't have a chance at getting the part. But director James Ponsoldt wanted an actor who could portray Wallace's humor, and he found in Segel a "thoughtful actor who understood comedy."
Segel then began his own tour of Wallace's works. He watched the tapes of Lipsky's interviews with Wallace and read Wallace's essays. But for Wallace's masterpiece, the tome Infinite Jest, Segel formed a book club:
"We did 100 pages a week," Segel remembered, smiling. "It was one of the best experiences of my life." The vast, experimental and thoroughly literary novel "is the most personal of [Wallace's] works — he's every one of the characters." Segel described it as exploring themes of "pleasure, entertainment, achievement. It was David Foster Wallace trying to express a very fundamental crisis — we've been told that these things will satisfy us."
"I hope the movie is an extension of the themes that he [Wallace] expressed," Segel said. "It was approached with a lot of empathy and love."
Lisbeth Salander is back: first plot details of The Girl in the Spider's Web released
There's good news for fans of Lisbeth Salander, the unstoppable hacker featured in the books known as Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy. With the blessing of Larsson's family, and despite criticism from his long-time partner Eva Gabrielsson, Swedish writer David Lagercrantz has finished the partial fourth novel in the series left on Larsson's laptop at the time of his sudden death.
Scheduled to be released on August 27, the book's title is The Girl in the Spider's Web. Recently the book's Swedish publisher, MacLehose Press, released what it called "key details" in the novel's plot. It would be unfair of me to steal The Guardian's thunder, so I'll only quote here that the book features a "criminal conspiracy [that] will very soon bring terror to the snowbound streets of Stockholm, to the Millennium team – and to Blomkvist and Salander themselves."
Click that link and read the (little) further description of the book whose storyline has been a carefully guarded secret.
On Novels and Novelists
Harlan Coben: 'Every successful author still has to treat it as a job'
An informative article on one of my favorite writers of thrillers, Harlan Coben. And a very successful writer he is:
He's written 27 novels, seven of them New York Times No 1 bestsellers. He has 60m books in print in 41 languages, and his advances are well into seven figures. He's won the big three in mystery awards – the Edgar, the Shamus and the Anthony. The blockbuster French film based on his novel, Tell No One, was nominated for nine Cesars.
Coben lives with his family—a pediatrician wife and four children—in northern New Jersey, USA. He has set many of his popular books in places similar to his suburban home:
Coben says he intentionally draws upon life in his own town in northern New Jersey for his novels. "I like to set my novels in places that are seemingly placid, places that are the fruition of the American dream– house, 2.4 kids, two-car garage – and show how fragile that is."
Relationships of all types figure strongly in his books: between friends, partners, spouses, parents and children.
For more information on Coben, see my post about his 2011 visit to the St. Louis County Library.
Novelist Pat Conroy starts new chapter with opening of fitness gym
Well known author Pat Conroy (The Great Santini, Prince of Tides) gave up drinking and began dieting about three years ago, at his doctor's urging. Now he's starting a fitness gym near his home in South Carolina. The 69-year-old writer explains why:
I'm doing it because there are four or five books I'd like to write before I meet with Jesus of Nazareth, as my mother promised me … and I can't write them unless I'm healthy."
How Has Publishing Changed in the Digital Age for Book Authors?
Writer Alan Cheuse declares that the "current situation for a writer appears quite distinct from any other moment since the birth of modern publishing in the early 19th century… . The link between writer and reader has morphed into a rapidly changing field of play."
He says that marketing a book has now become as "complicated and problematic as the writing of the book itself." He acknowledges that he has had to learn how to use social media, particularly Twitter and Facebook, to spread the news of the publication of his latest novel, Prayers for the Living. He has also written for a blog he seldom used to visit in hopes of building name recognition for himself among readers.
Another difference between the current publishing process and the previous one that he lived with for decades involves getting his book reviewed:
As fewer and fewer reviews appear in newspapers and magazines, more and more come out online. But for the ordinary reader—let's call her the civilian reader—most of the Internet reviews never cross her horizon.
Even many established writers feel bewildered in this brave new publishing world, Cheuse writes:
It takes as much work to promote a book as to write one, is what it feels like, as much work just to get a new book in this range of certainty as it does to have put in the years to compose it.
Novelist's journey melds Zen Buddhism, storytelling
Terrence Petty reports on a presentation and interview by novelist Ruth Ozeki during a week she spent recently in Portland, Oregon, as artist-in-residence for Literary Arts. Ozeki's spiritual companion is a Zen master named Dogen, who has been dead for nearly 800 years. Petty reports:
Dogen has a purpose: to get humans to slow down and think about their actions at every moment and not rush through the days. Be aware. Be alive.
Ozeki was raised in Connecticut by a Japanese mother and an American father. When she was three years old, her Japanese grandparents visited. She was surprised one day when she entered a room and found them sitting in Zen meditation. Interested to find out more about her Japanese heritage, she received a fellowship to study Japanese literature at Nara Women's University in Japan after her 1980 graduation from Smith College. She later became more serious about meditation as her own parents aged and died.
Ozeki's latest novel, A Tale for the Time Being, takes its title from an essay by Dogen. The magic in the book expresses her spiritual beliefs:
Words vanish, ghosts appear, characters change shape, and time does weird things. These metaphysical elements come right out of the box of Buddhist principles, intended to convey messages that all things are interconnected, nothing is permanent, and there is no abiding self… . She uses literary techniques that seek to collapse time and space in the readers' imagination. The effect on readers can be similar to what practitioners of Zen feel as they sit in meditation.
Ozeki was ordained a Zen priest in 2010. She and her husband live on an island off of British Columbia, and last year she completed two months of head monk training at a Zen community in Vancouver, BC.
Celebration of Southern Literature: Jill McCorkle on 'Life After Life' And Death
This page introduces the audio program of an interview with novelist Jill McCorkle. Her most recent novel, Life After Life (not to be confused with another recent novel of the same title by Kate Atkinson), deals with the often uncomfortable subject of talking about death.
Set in a North Carolina retirement home, Life After Life was inspired by her father's death, and she spent more than 10 years working on it. The novel is narrated from multiple points of view and contrasts the way dying people view themselves with the observations of others.
Jill McCorkle lives with her husband in Hillsborouth, NC. She is a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers and has taught at UNC-Chapel Hill, Tufts, Brandeis, and Harvard. She currently teaches creative writing in the MFA program at North Carolina State University and at Bennington College Writing Seminars.
Kevin Macdonald to Direct Stephen King Mini-Series '11/22/63'
Stephen King's novel 11/22/63 is a hefty tome: just under 850 pages in hardcover. It has been sitting on my TBR shelf since shortly after it came out, but I haven't read it yet.
Now comes word that streaming subscription service Hulu is looking to get into the original content game, like Netflix and Amazon, with a nine-episode mini-series based on the book. King's novel features a modern-day high school English teacher who travels back in time to prevent the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
Actors currently signed up for the project are Chris Cooper, Lucy Fry, George MacKay, Leon Rippy, Cherry Jones, James Franco, Sarah Gadon, and Daniel Webber.
The article doesn't state when the production is expected to air.
On Novels and Novelists
Julianne Moore on Forging a Bond With Alzheimer's Patients
Cara Buckley reports on how Julianne Moore prepared for her role in the film of Still Alice, a performance that won her an Oscar for best actress. Moore played Alice Howland, a Harvard cognifive psychologist with early-onset Alzheimer's disease. (Early-onset Alzheimer's is defined as onset before age 65.)
"Sill Alice" tells the story from Alice's point of view. "This is very unusual," Ms. Moore told the Bagger earlier this season in a phone interview, "because it's from the inside out." So, to know what having Alzheimer's felt like, Ms. Moore said she dove into the world of people living with the disease.
With the help of Elizabeth Gelfand Stearns of the Alzheimer's Association, Moore connected through Skype with women who had received diagnoses of early-onset Alzheimer's. Moore also talked with a leading researcher at Mount Sinai Hospital and visited long-term-care facilities and support groups. One woman particularly affected Moore; although the woman could not speak, "she was beaming and clearly trying to connect":
"That's why it's interesting that it's called 'Still Alice' — this idea that your essential self does not disappear."
Norman Mailer's 'Armies of the Night' Set for Big Screen Adaptation
Norman Mailer's historical fact-based novel "The Armies of the Night" has been optioned for big screen adaptation by RadicalMedia.
Documentary filmmaker Joe Berlinger will direct a film based on Norman Mailer's book The Armies of the Night, about the march from the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC, to the gates of the Pentagon in protest of the Vietnam War. Mailer's book won both a Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.
The film will be shot documentary style with actors performing scripted action interspersed with news footage from the event.
Producers also promise that the seminal rock and folk music from the era will play a significant role in the film.
"Today, as we find ourselves in a new time of protests on the streets, and tensions in the air, I couldn't imagine a more relevant time to bring Mailer's vision of civil disobedience to the big screen," said Berlinger. "To achieve this in a style honoring the way Mailer put his story into words is an amazing opportunity for any filmmaker, and my own deep roots in the cinema-verite movement of the 1960's makes this opportunity all the more exciting for me personally."
Here Are The 10 Movies 'Mad Men' Cast & Crew Were Required To Watch
As the concluding season of Mad Men approaches, the show's creator, Matthew Weiner, prepares a showing in New York City of 10 films that were required viewing for everyone who worked on the show. These films all made a deep impression on Weiner and influenced the creation of Mad Men.
Read Weiner's own descriptions of why these movies, some of which are available on Netflix or Amazon Prime, were seminal influences on Mad Men:
Dir. Billy Wilder. 1960, 125 mins. 35mm print courtesy of the Packard Humanities Institute Collection at the UCLA Film & Television Archive. With Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine.
Dir. Alfred Hitchcock. 1959, 136 mins. 35mm. With Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint.
Dir. David Lynch. 1987, 120 mins. 35mm. With Isabella Rossellini, Kyle MacLachlan, Dennis Hopper.
Dir. Claude Chabrol. 1960, 100 mins. 35mm. With Bernadette Lafont, Clotilde Joano, Stéphane Audran.
Dir. Alfred Hitchcock. 1958, 128 mins. 35mm IB Technicolor print! With James Stewart, Kim Novak.
Dir. Fielder Cook. 1956, 83 mins. 35mm. With Van Heflin, Everett Sloane, Ed Begley.
Dir. Delbert Mann. 1964, 114 mins. 35mm print courtesy of the Packard Humanities Institute Collection at the UCLA Film & Television Archive. With Glenn Ford, Geraldine Page, Angela Lansbury.
Dir. Delbert Mann. 1957, 92 mins. Digital projection. With Don Murray, E.G. Marshall, Jack Warden.
Dir. Jean Negulesco. 1959, 121 mins. DCP. With Hope Lange, Stephen Boyd, Suzy Parker, Joan Crawford.
Dir. Arthur Hiller. 1964, 115 mins. 35mm. With James Garner, Julie Andrews, Melvyn Douglas.
Joanna Trollope: 'You cannot be great novelist until after 35'
At the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature in Dubai, Joanna Trollope, age 71, advised writers:
"But I think in order to write good fiction, I think you need to have got a lot of living under your belt," she said. "And that includes the pain as well as the joy.
"It's a rather unkind thing to have to say, and I don't mean it unkindly, but I always say to people you will write much better fiction after the age of 35 than before. Merely because life will have knocked you about a bit by then.
"I don't mean it unlikely, I only mean it in terms of don't be in a hurry."
In this article Hannah Furness points out that some well known novelists fit Trollope's description:
- Alexander McCall Smith, who published his first book at age 50
- Richard Adams, who wrote Watership Down at age 53
However, Furness points out, many authors contradict Trollope's description:
- Jack Kerouac and F. Scott Fitzgerald, who each wrote his first novel in his early 20s
- Charles Dickens, who wrote Pickwick Papers at 26
- William Shakespeare, who is believed to have written his first play at about age 25
- Mary Shelley, who wrote Frankenstein at 20
Nonetheless, Trollope said that it is essential for writers to learn to understand other people's motivations and to understand that "the suffering of other people is not negligible."
"What I try to do is get inside head after head after head," she said.
"Revolutionary Road": The Film
In an earlier post I reviewed the novel Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates, one of the books on my Classics Club list. The book contained some passages that presented Frank Wheeler as a melodramatically theatrical man always concerned about how he appears to others:
He let the fingers of one hand splay out across the pocket of his shirt to show what a simple, physical thing the heart was (p. 4).
all afternoon in the city, stultified at what he liked to call "the dullest job you can possibly imagine," he had drawn strength from a mental projection of scenes to unfold tonight (p. 16).
Since these are examples of the author telling readers about a character, I wondered if this characteristic would come across in the 2008 film version of the novel, directed by Sam Mendes and starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet as Frank and April Wheeler.
The film did not suggest this characteristic of Frank, but the visual nature of film did allow for some dramatic emphases of other themes in the novel. The book describes the Wheelers' house on Revolutionary Road as on a hill. In the scene of the film in which the real estate agent, Mrs. Givings (played by Kathy Bates), first shows Frank and April the house, a low camera angle makes the house appear high on the hill. This visual effect presents the house as a castle high on a hill and suggests the Wheelers are a royal couple who will live there, an echo of the Wheelers' feeling of their own superiority or specialness.
Even more dramatic is the visual effects early in the film to suggest the isolation and loneliness of the Wheelers' current lives. Wide scenes show Frank dressed like all the other men waiting on the platform of the local station to take the train into the city for work. Then a shot of Frank inside the train isolates him among all the other similarly dressed men. The series culminates with another wide shot of a horde of suburban men in their suits and hats, all carrying their briefcases, pouring out of Grand Central Station and marching off to work. Even among such a crowd, Frank is isolated and alone.
Juxtaposed with that sequence is a scene of April, a suburban housewife in her apron, dragging her metal garbage can to the end of the driveway for pickup. She pauses to look around, and the camera reveals a road lined with identical driveways and garbage cans, but no other human being. Just as Frank is isolated among all his fellow workers who commute every day between their homes in the suburbs and their jobs in the city, April is also isolated in the suburbs. Several more scenes showing April peering outside from behind her living room picture window heighten her isolation into a feeling of entrapment.
Yates's novel presents Mrs. Givings's mentally ill son, John, as a kind of Greek chorus who comments on the action. Ironically, this disturbed character is the one who speaks the truth. Although the character's role is clear in the novel, it stands out even more in the film thanks to the dramatic presence of veteran stage and film actor Michael Shannon.
In one of the bonus features on the film DVD, either director Mendes or screenplay writer Justin Haythe (I can't remember which) calls Revolutionary Road "the grandfather of suburban novels." The film version explores the layers of meaning that include not just the mundane realities of suburban existence but the tragic interlocking of a couple who use each other to explore their own individual pain and shortcomings. April says, "We thought we would be wonderful in the world." But finally she has to admit, "We were never special."
Ghosts and Other Literary Horrors
For weeks we've been building up to Halloween with lists and tales about the spookiest and scariest stories ever written. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James is one of the best known ghost stories in the English language. Part of the reason this novella is so famous is that it leaves unspecified the exact nature of the horror it portrays.
Students and scholars alike continue to address the issue of what that horror is. This continued response to try to define the "portentous evil" at the center of his story is something James purposely engineered. Here's how he described the task he faced in writing The Turn of the Screw:
What, in the last analysis, had I to give the sense of? Of their [characters Miss Jessel and Peter Quint] being, the haunting pair, capable, as the phrase is, of everything—-that is of exerting, in respect to the children, the very worst action small victims so conditioned might be conceived as subject to. What would be then, on reflexion, this utmost conceivability?—a question to which the answer all admirably came. There is for such a case no eligible absolute of the wrong; it remains relative to fifty other elements, a matter of appreciation, speculation, imagination—these things moreover quite exactly in the light of the spectator's, the critic's, the reader's experience. Only make the reader's general vision of evil intense enough, I said to myself—and that already is a charming job—and his own experience, his own imagination, his own sympathy (with the children) and horror (of their false friends) will supply him quite sufficiently with all the particulars. Make him think the evil, make him think it for himself, and you are released from weak specifications. (p. 538)*
James knew that no evil he could specify would be as portentous as the personal notion of evil all readers harbor within their imaginations.
Kyle Fowle makes a similar point in his discussion of Why the horror of Stephen King's words doesn't translate well to film. Fowle says that King's more dramatic works (e.g., Stand By Me, The Shawshank Redemption, and The Green Mile) make better films than do his horror novels because "Film is a visual medium, and the horror genre often demands a tangible menace":
King's horror fiction often focuses on internal threats, those that can't be seen or predicted. His best novels explore very human fears and anxieties, elements that are difficult to bring to a visual medium. The novel isn't inherently a superior storytelling medium (we've moved past that reductive argument long ago, especially with the second Golden Age of Television), but it does seem more suited to King's particular take on horror, where the internal, human terrors are privileged over the external ones… . [film] demands an external, visible threat, one that can make an audience jump, shiver, or scream; such a necessity runs contrary to what makes King's novels so poignant.
"King's best horror books," Fowle concludes, "… explore one of our most potent fears: the fear of ourselves."
Yet popular culture continues to present us with all kinds of hideous creatures. In From Daleks to Zombies: What Monsters Mean to Us, Anna North talks with the authors of three recent books:
- Justin Richards, author of Doctor Who: The Secret Lives of Monsters
- David J. Skal, author of The Monster Show: A Cultural History of Horror
- Stephen T. Asma, author of On Monsters: An Unnatural History of Our Worst Fears
According to Skal, "we can read the dominant worries of an era in its monster stories" because "monsters recast collective anxiety in fictional form." Asma offers some examples:
Christians in medieval Europe were "worried about temptation and pleasures of the flesh" and believed that "if you're weak morally and impure, if you give in to your carnal desires, then that opens the door for the demon to enter and take you over," he said. "If you let your guard down at all, this evil realm is just waiting."
Asma further believes that monsters can offer us catharsis:
Horror films, he explained, can give us a controllable way to experience "these deeper fears that we ordinarily repress." We can "take our monsters off the chain, let him howl at the moon a little bit, and then you can put him back on the chain after the movie's over," he said. "I think monster culture has therapeutic aspects to it."
Whereas Henry James and Stephen King may favor an indistinct evil, monsters such as Frankenstein, Godzilla, vampires, and zombies graphically present what society most fears. In the end, though, they serve the same function as the less directly represented:
"With all the best monsters," [Richards] added, "you can see something of yourself in them."
*From the Preface to The Aspern Papers; The Turn of the Screw; The Liar; The Two Faces. Reprinted in The Critical Muse: Selected Literary Criticism, ed. Roger Gard (New York: Penguin Books, 1987), pp. 537–539.
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We Tell Ourselves Stories In Order to Live traces the arc of Joan's life through her own writings, and in her own voice. Our film will tell Joan's story through passages she has chosen and will read aloud from her work, as her friends, family, colleagues and critics share their accounts of her remarkable life and writing.
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How Dennis Lehane's 'Drop' screenplay became a novel
Dennis Lehane, a master of the contemporary crime novel, has seen many of his books brought to the screen: "Mystic River," "Shutter Island," "Gone Baby Gone," the upcoming "Live By Night." But none have had such adventurous a transformation as "The Drop" (now in theaters), which began life as an opening chapter of a novel, then became a short story, then a screenplay … and now, finally, a novel.
Seattle Times movie critic Moira Macdonald describes the strange story of how a group of characters continued to haunt writer Dennis Lehane until, in a reversal of the usual order of things, the film became a novel.
From The Los Angeles Times, a look at cardiologist Douglas Lyle, who divides time between seeing patients in his cardiology clinic, writing crime novels, and answering "other crime writers' questions about how to end their characters' lives in weird — but scientifically plausible — ways."
Tana French's Favorite Books About Secrets
In her Dublin Murder Squad series, Irish writer Tana French reveals how secrets haunt the "the tumultuous inner lives of her characters, both cops and culprits." Her latest novel, The Secret Place, is the fifth in the series.
"Big secrets transform everything and everyone around them—often in unpredictable, uncontrollable ways—and I've always been fascinated by books that explore that ripple effect," French says. Here she recommends five novels that fit that description.
Finding our Literary Mothers and Sisters in Time
This post is from April 2014, but I just found it.
Sharan Newman, a medieval historian and author of both nonfiction and fiction, describes efforts to place women in their proper place in literary history and in the literary canon:
Today we might say that female authors have a secure place in literary history. But one thing I know as an historian is that the pendulum always swings. We need to leave a legacy not only as skilled writers but as accurate observers of aspects of life that are too often ignored. Looking back at my own long and somewhat checkered career, I realize that the desire to return women to their rightful place in history was what impelled both my fiction and non-fiction. Oddly, perhaps, I've found that a more honest portrayal can be created through fiction. This is due to the lack of solid information on the lives of ordinary women and men throughout time.
The 'sexiest meal': what a character's breakfast reveals about them
And this piece is from February 2013, but I just found it.
Seb Emina, coauthor with Malcolm Eggs, (yes, really) of The Breakfast Bible, discusses breakfast in literature:
breakfast is the ideal barometer of normalcy, the meal that tells us who a person really is. An example: in the fifth chapter of Moby Dick (simply called "Breakfast"), Melville offers a morning scene at a bar-room in a whaling town, as a way of painting us a picture of Queequeg, a Pacific islander who "eschewed coffee and hot rolls" – savagery! – and "applied his undivided attention to beefsteaks, done rare". And in The Hobbit, Tolkein reveals much about the implicitly decadent nature of Hobbithood when he has Bilbo Baggins consume a second breakfast – an occurrence that has somehow become one of the most recounted parts of the entire book.
This article is worth reading just for the description of Hunter S. Thompson's preferred meal.


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Citigroup Private Bank Said to Redeem From Paulson Fund
Citigroup Inc.'s private bank is pulling about $410 million from Paulson & Co., the hedge fund seeking to reverse record losses in 2011, according to two people familiar with the matter.
The private bank is redeeming from Paulson's Advantage Fund and Advantage Plus Fund, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the information is private. Citigroup is also pulling from the Merger and Recovery Funds, the people said.
The hedge fund, run by billionaire John Paulson, lost 18 percent this year through July in its Advantage Plus strategy, according to a monthly investor update. That fund, one of the firm's largest, posted a loss of 51 percent last year. Citigroup's private bank, which told customers this morning of its plan to withdraw from Paulson funds, in May advised clients not to add money to them, a person familiar with the matter said at the time.
Paulson's Merger and Recovery funds have fared better than the average 1.9 percent gain for hedge funds this year, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. One of the firm's so-called Merger funds, known as the Paulson Partners Enhanced fund, has returned 5.4 percent in the first seven months of this year, according to the investor update. Paulson's Recovery Fund, which invests in assets Paulson believes will benefit from a long-term economic rebound, such as financial services and insurance companies, has returned 3.9 percent.
Armel Leslie, a spokesman for New York-based Paulson, which manages $19.5 billion, and Natalie Marin, a spokeswoman for Citigroup, also based in New York, declined to comment.
Reduced Risk
Paulson, 56, who became a billionaire in 2007 by betting against U.S. mortgages, told investors last month his firm has reduced risk in some of its funds. He also told clients that he sees a 50 percent chance the euro will unravel, according to an investor to listened to the comments.
Paulson will be returning the money invested by the Citigroup unit by March 2014 because of withdrawal restrictions in the Recovery Fund, one of the people said.


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answer by Jack Szalasny | Visit My Website | Contact Me
Elsa, I'm not in your area but I'll echo what other responses have told you. Recently one of my "credit-challenged" clients got turned down by three prospective landlords, and then what we did was he put together a great letter detailing the reasons for his credit situation and the fourth prospective landlord accepted him. I'm sure it was his letter that did it for him. I hope this helps and good luck!
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That decision is one for the landlord of the home you want to lease. Sometimes a landlord will require additional security deposits if there is any issues with your credit.
Every applciation is judged on it's own merits but in general, yes, the owner/landlord would prefer good credit.
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Hi. Elsa: I agree with Kathy regarding having a good job, working toward correcting credit issues, but the most important in my book is the fact that you have paid prior landlords in a timely fashion. Ultimately, it is up to the individual owner to make the final choice of the tenant that he or she chooses. In my experience, I have found that individual owners are sometimes more flexible than properties listed through management companies if that helps you at all. Much good luck to you, Elsa!
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Hi Elsa, Eash home has different qulifications since each one is owned by an individuals. If you are looking to lease a home, work with a realtor so they can find suitable homes based on your situation for you.
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Some Landlords require good credit.
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600. But is all combination of Income and good Rental History. If you need any help, please let me know, I specialized in rental properties. Rosa
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Good credit is always a great "plus" to have. Owners like to feel assured the tenant will pay. If you can show you are working to make your credit better, have a good job, and can show good rental history of payments, then sometimes the owner will accept you as a tenant. It all depends on the owner.
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|Reviews for Guilty Pleasures
| Charles chapter 25 . 5/15
Best fan fic ever
| XD chapter 1 . 3/24/2015
you're a great writer. this is so beautiful. i could feel the love between them XD
| Guest chapter 25 . 2/1/2015
Its so good i love it omg
| meow mix chapter 2 . 9/24/2014
I don't really like Sep with Jenna, but other than that I like what you've been writing so far!
keep up the good work! :D
| Nikki chapter 25 . 4/30/2014
| TheNinaTales chapter 25 . 7/25/2013
I loved this story! It was super creative and my jaw was dropped the whole time! Thanks for sharing it and finishing it, - N. D.
| juju chapter 1 . 7/16/2013
This is some of the best writing I have seen on fanfictiction for a very long time!
| njdaphne chapter 4 . 6/17/2013
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
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| joey chapter 25 . 3/20/2013
omg i cant believe this is your first fanfic! it was amazing the best fanfic i hav ever read amd i love it even more each time i read it! thanks for writing it i loved reading your fanfics!
| Guest chapter 25 . 12/6/2012
If you weren't gonna end the story as Septimus and Jenna you should have put this story in the Jenna and Beetle category
| Guest chapter 1 . 11/8/2012
OMG! I loved it! I'm so glad you decided to put this up! It's awesome!
| Guest chapter 1 . 11/4/2012
Your SO mean... WHY must make a cliffy?!
P.S, LOVE this so far! :D
| Mabel Lane Fox chapter 1 . 8/3/2012
I'm not entirely sure how well you'll remember me; we exchanged a lot of emails and had some rather long and quite deep conversations. Although to be fair it would have been a year ago and then some. But coming for someone who you used to sort of know, I'm really pleased that you've re-posted this story; and not just for the content either, but more that I think, or guess, that it means that you've made peace with these stories and the point in your life that you were writing them. From the sincerest depths of my heart, I wish you happiness and that fortune smiles upon you in the years ahead. And my words here aren't ramblings of a stranger, but rather from someone who at one point, albeit some time ago, you were 'internet friends' with. This sounds far more convoluted in the retelling .
And onto the story review:
First things first, I could never quite get over how good this story was when I read it the first time; purely because you said at the start it was your first fanfic. And I understand that the basis for writing an epic story comes from natural talent or 'flare if you're inclined to refer to it as such, and that I know that you have in plentiful supply. Still I marvel that you wrote something like this on what was proverbially your first shot at writing fanfic. Now you're such a prolific author on here, that it's hard to imagine you having but one story to your name…
If I speak entirely truthfully, it's been such an incredibly long time since I read this the first (second, third and fourth XD) time that I doubt I'm entirely picking up on the subtly changes that you've made. Though by no means is your hard work wasted, I'm greatly enjoying re-reading this and the edits you've made are no doubt enhancing the reading experience :D You've got a way of writing that makes it easy to read. So many stories on here, as well as some published novels, have such clunky expression and everything seems unnatural and forced; like the words have been shoved together into an uncooperative order and been told 'Oi, make sense' (think Fifty Shades Of Grey, oh how I loathe that book). You get my drift right? Of course you do Anyway, your sentences just flow of their own accord. The words intertwine to make sentences and in turn they interlock to form paragraphs; everything is so natural, almost as though someone is actually animatedly telling the story to the audience. Suspension of disbelief is immediate and instinctive and the written word, which so often loses the truth of a narrative, is so much more than just that. Of course I now speak of your work in general and not just this piece, though this is where my love for your stories began.
I fear I cannot entirely comment on the plot as yet. You've made some plot changes further down the line, no? Well till I reach that point, I must confess that I cannot claim not to know of the overall outcome; unless of course you've made more than a few minor plot twists. But despite this, it has been such a long time since I've read these words that I find myself being caught up with the excitement that comes when discovering a marvellous story on here for the first time. You know that feeling when all the hours of sifting through some the silt and mud on here and you finally find the ruby that you've been searching tirelessly for? That feeling is returning to me now, and I sit here expectantly and hyped up to read the following chapters. Regrettably though, time is against me as I depart for Spain tomorrow and therefore I doubt I'll feasibly be able to read much more of this what with packing and final preparations to make haste with. Still when I return home to dreary England and the holiday blues come knocking, I'll have something to lift my spirits and can look forward to having this waiting on fanfic for me.
This review has gone on entirely too long I think, and I apologise for that; can't promise that I won't babble and babble and babble when I review the next chapters though I'm afraid. I just have far too much to say; though I remember you telling me that you do like long and thorough reviews so hopefully this is just right
All the best to you, and don't be a stranger ya hear . It might be nice to maybe chat sometime on here, catch up a lil' bit? Of course if you don't remember me all too well then feel free to tell me to find someone else to creep on :D
Elly x
| Jenna Heap chapter 25 . 7/20/2012
Hi! I'm Rose Dawson-Johanna Mason on FanFiction, just too lazy too log in! I just read this whole story and I LOVED it! I'm a bit sad that Jenna and Septimus didn't end up together, but I still really liked this story!
| khalesxi chapter 25 . 7/21/2012
This is such an amazing story! I felt like I was reading a sequel to Syren, rather than just a fanfiction!


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So I have a pair of Beyerdynamic dt 880 600 ohms. Some of my friend were listening an they asked me why I needed to drive them with an amp and wouldn't it be more efficent if the headphone company simply made the exact headphone with a lower resistance level. I thought about this and had no idea why this was. Anyone know the answer?
Why do we have amps and headphones with large resistance levels?
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My best guess.
I believe it's preferred to use high impedance headphones for certain recording studios functions.
And home receivers headphone jacks work best with high impedance headphones.
So there is a current market for high impedance headphones.
Also I believe it's only been with the release of iPod and better portable audio players, that has caused a growing demand for quality low impedance headphones.
Plus, I've found stuff sounds really good at 600-Ohms.
My best guess.
I believe it's preferred to use high impedance headphones for certain recording studios functions.
And home receivers headphone jacks work best with high impedance headphones.
So there is a current market for high impedance headphones.
Also I believe it's only been with the release of iPod and better portable audio players, that has caused a growing demand for quality low impedance headphones.
Plus, I've found stuff sounds really good at 600-Ohms.
But what is the point? Wouldn't it be convinent just to make the headphones have a low resistance so it works for any setup?
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you don't get something for nothing... higher impedance means more wire, more wraps... which means more magnetic flux... which means more dynamic response given the same mass of movement... means better tighter sound with more headroom.
think about it this way, why do sports cars have more powerful engines? it is all about no compromise performance.
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the Z thing again:
Beyer's comments are suspect - probably marketing not understanding the tech
for the same motor structure - same mag field, same voice coil dimensions - you are "free" to design to "any" impedance you want by using the same weight of copper - trading of turns count against wire size - within the limits of practical wire size, some "2nd order" limitations of fill factor/insulation thickness tradeoffs
the effect is like having a "ideal transformer" built in - the electro-mechanical driver properties are identical except for the terminal impedance scaling factor - the the electro-acoustic response should be the same as well
for Beyer to claim that the same model # with different impedance has different "speed" means they didn't follow this well known motor design principle and deliberately designed in different responses
or the marketing guys just couldn't refrain from making something up
some pro monitor headphones have high enough Z, low enough sensitrivity to directly connect to some audio power amp output at levels suitable for drivng loudspeakers
Most headphones sold in the world are somewhere between 32-Ohm and 60-Ohm
Headphones for portables would be in the 16-Ohm to 40-Ohm range (?)
Low impedance headphone may not work with every headphone jack on the planet.
Receivers (at least most) can not work as well with low impedance headphones.
Well the DT880's are available in 32, 250 and 600 ohms. So you have your choice for your needs to some extent.
Some sources like say a computer sound card have limited voltage to use. A lower resistance with a given voltage gives more milliwatts output. Higher resistance requires more voltage for a given milliwatt level of output. So you might need an amp. This is much simplified. I realize this doesn't really answer your question much.
But why do some companies still make headphones with large resistance levels? What's the point?
Because there are headphone jacks in the world that can not effectively work with low impedance headphones, only high impedance headphones.
These covers the basics of it reasonably well.
Lots of it is historical, and for different situations different values work out the best. LowZ phones are needed by modern low voltage chip sources. Studios that use possibly several phones driven at once prefer them to be HiZ to not load down the source if more than one phone is used. Old tube equipment had higher voltages and low z phones would have not worked well with the higher voltage. Some old transistor receivers actually tapped the speaker outputs with a voltage divider. Left you with plenty of voltage though a bit higher output impedance. Worked fine with the HiZ phones without needing an actual separate circuit for the headphone. And prevented phones from loading the speaker output in any manner that could matter.
Some sources mention LoZ phones have fewer turns of wire and therefore are less accurate and more likely to distort which is why higher end phones favor HiZ. Don't know if that is really a limiting factor or not as some good LoZ phones are certainly available.
Here is the explanation from the Beyer webpage:
The higher the impedance, the more power is needed to get a proper output volume from the headphone:
32 or 80 ohms = mobile use with laptop, MP3 Player, portable recorder etc..
250 ohms and higher = for permanent installations, headphone amplifiers etc.
Impedance ist the AC resistance of the headphones' voice coil, which is connected to the headphone amplifier. A impedance of 0 ohms would be a short-circuit of the headphone amplifier output; the headphone amplifier supplies an extreme current and after getting very hot, it either turns off automatically - or dies. The other side of the story is infinite resistance (broken cable); no current flows, but also no audio signals arrives - so, we have to be in between these two: 0 and infinite.
In general, headphones with low impedance are designed for use with mobile devices; mobile devices use low power from batteries and therefore also the output power is limited. A low impedance headphone can play (slightly) louder at a low power output. But why high impedance headphones?
The impedance is determined by the voice coil (dynamic headphones), which is a wound copper wire (coated to avoid a short-circuit). This copper wire is available in nearly every length, but not in every gauge (thickness) and a thicker wire has less resistance than a thin wire ("less fits through"). The magnetic field of the voice coil depends on the number of windings of the coil, causing a low impedance system to use a thicker (also heavier) wire and since the membrane foil can't be infinitely light-weight, the moving mass (voice coil and diaphragm) is relatively high. It's pretty clear that a higher mass can't move as easily (following an audio signal) as a lower mass. This low mass can easily be accomplished with thinner (lower weight) wire, but the thinner wire has a higher impedance. This means that the DT 770 PRO with 250 ohms sound more natural, but plays (depending on the used headphone amplifier) not as loud as the 80 ohms version.
The transducers of the 80 ohms versions are stronger and more powerful, a bit more low-mid accentuated and therefore this version is ideal for powerful reproducing of low-frequency material f.e. coming from a bass guitar. The 250 ohms version sounds more smooth and voluminous and can be used for mixing situations within the studio to analyse the whole mix.
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Here is the explanation from the Beyer webpage:
The higher the impedance, the more power is needed to get a proper output volume from the headphone:
That first sentence doesn't look right.
A higher impedance headphone will use more voltage, but less current.
Not necessarily more power.
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I can think of a different reason why people buy them: Since many headphone amps have imo too high gain you get more usable volume control range with high impedance cans (assuming similar sensitivity).
But yeah, for studio use you can connect many high impedance headphones in parallel without stressing the amp.
Edited by xnor - 6/30/13 at 9:47am
That is not universally true, there are sound cards that can output 7 Vrms voltage into a high impedance load without clipping. That is normally enough even for 600 Ω headphones. Also, it is common for the output impedance to be in the range 10 to 100 Ω. If it is really high, the maximum power output into a 32 Ω and a 250 Ω load may actually be comparable.
Low voltage sensitivity can also be an advantage with noisy outputs. For example, my low impedance headphones sometimes have audible interference noises from my laptop, while the less sensitive 250 Ω ones are less affected by this issue while generally still being loud enough.
Generally, high headphone impedance can be an advantage if there is enough voltage output, but there are issues with:
- too high output impedance (this is fairly common with certain types of devices)
- too low maximum current output (e.g. from a cMoy amplifier), or high distortion when outputting high current
- capacitor coupled outputs (lower load impedance = more bass roll-off)
- too high gain (as noted above by xnor)
- high output noise voltage even at low volume
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September 10, 2015
Beloved and most Reverend Fathers, Mothers, and Friends of St. Thekla's Monastery,
God be with you all.
The Lord is Wondrous in His Saints.St. Thekla Antiochian Orthodox Monastery in, Glenville, Pa, will be celebrating an all night vigil for, St. Thekla, on the 25th of September, at 8:00pm. We would be greatly blessed by your attendance and prayers.
Please, refer to the following contact information, so that we have an idea of how many may be coming:
Email: protomartyrthekla@hotmailcomLand line: 717-630-8298Cell: 443-244-0207
Keep us in your prayers.
Your unworthy servant in Christ,Mother Justina
Mother Justina shares the following photos from 2014 at St. Thekla Convent:
A rose planted from the Holy Bier (Epitaphios), Pascha 2014
The Monastery's patio
Blessings of Christmas from our hearth to yours!
During October 12-16, His Grace, Bishop Thomas made his annual pastoral visitation to St. Paul Church in Emmaus, Pennsylvania, as well as making other stops in the Eastern Pennsylvania area. During his visit to St. Paul's, His Grace presided over the divine services, including the Hierarchical Divine Liturgy on Sunday morning. While there, His Grace noted the numerous upgrades and expansions to parish life that have been made during the administration of the current pastor, the Rev. Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick, who was assigned to the pastorate of the parish in July 2009.
Since 2009, St. Paul's population has grown by 46%, and annual pledges have grown by 180%. During this time, multiple weekday services (including, in many cases, daily) have been instituted, as well as a vigorous program of adult education.
On June 29, 2013, the Feast Day of Saints Peter and Paul, the patron saints of the Holy See of Antioch, His Eminence Metropolitan Philip traveled to Glenville, Pennsylvania in York County to bless the property and house which will be the home of the nuns of the Convent of St. Thekla in America.
His Eminence was accompanied by His Grace Bishop Antoun, and several clergy from the area, including Fr. Peter Pier, the host pastor from St. John Chrysostom Antiochian Orthodox Church in York, Pennsylvania.
Approximately 50 people attended the blessing ceremony, many of whom were first time visitors to the convent property. The blessing was followed by a light lunch at the convent, and a dinner in the evening with the members of the Parish Council of St. John Chrysostom Church in York, Pennsylvania.
On Sunday, His Eminence presided at his first Hierarchical Divine Liturgy at St. John Chrysostom Church in their newly constructed church building.
Main house at the new propertyPhoto gallery of the new Convent of St. Thekla property
The Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America has completed the purchase of property and buildings in York County, Pennsylvania for the establishment of the Convent of St. Thekla, a female monastic community. The property is located in Glenville, Pennsylvania and consists of 51 acres of land which includes a four-bedroom "move-in-ready" house, a two-story barn, and a three-car garage with an attached workshop. The property also has a pond, and includes 30 acres of farmland and seven acres of woodland.
The original plan for the Convent called for it to be built on a parcel of land which is on the main property of Antiochian Village. However, it became clear that the cost of doing this would be too high, especially given that it would have required that all the infrastructure (road, water, electricity, and sewage) be made available at the site. There was also the risk that environmental concerns (such as the discovery of endangered plant life or animals) could have seriously impacted the building plans. The purchase was funded by a combination of the money that had been raised by the Antiochian Women through their multi-year fundraising effort, an endowment fund that had been set aside many years ago for this purpose, and generous donations from individual members of the Archdiocese Board of Trustees.
St. Thekla Pilgrimage, 2012Pilgrims gathered for the annual St. Thekla Pilgrimage at the Antiochian Village from September 21-23, 2012, joined by presiding hierarch His Grace Bishop Thomas, and the Abbess of the Convent of St. Thekla, Mother Alexandra. The Pilgrimage began on Friday evening with Great Vespers, followed by dinner, a showing of the Oscar nominated movie "The Help," and a discussion led by Fr. Anthony Yazge, Antiochian chair of the Department of Camping.
On Saturday, the Pilgrimage continued with a Hierarchical Liturgy at St. Ignatius Chapel at the Camp, followed by fellowship at brunch and an afternoon of activities which included workshops and discussion on "The Family and the Media" and "The Sacraments." Pilgrims also attended the Supplication Service to St. Thekla with anointing with oil from the Shrine in Maíaloula, Syria, and enjoyed a Chapel tour with Village Director Paul Finley. Afterwards, there was time for prayer, rest and reflection, and an opportunity to tour the Antiochian Heritage Museum.
A wonderful event that will be taking place at Antiochian Village this autumn! As you may know, Antiochian Village is the burial place of St. Raphael of Brooklyn. Many people each year come to visit his burial place as they also attend the St. Thekla Pilgrimage. The 2012 pilgrimage will take place during the weekend of September 21-23. This pilgrimage is sponsored by our Convent of St. Thekla, with the assistance of the Convent's abbess Mother Alexandra, and will be overseen by His Grace Bishop Thomas.
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The staff at Antiochian Village writes:
You may have heard that a tornado hit the Antiochian Village Camp and St Thekla Monastery on Friday, June 1st at approximately 5:20 PM. Thanks to our gracious and loving God, the members of our staff were in St Ignatius Church at the time praying the Paraklesis to the Mother of God when the tornado struck. No one was hurt. However there is extensive damage at the camp. We have hundreds of trees down and eighteen of our buildings were impacted by the tornado and tree debris. We have already started the clean up process. We have much work to do to get the camp back in shape. Please keep us in your prayers. We will provide updates as we have more information.
The staff update from June 3 reads:
Thank you for your love and support as we bounce back from the tornado. We have received many offers of help in the clean-up process. Under the advice of our insurance company, at the present time we are NOT accepting volunteer help. We are using professional services as much of the initial work can be quite hazardous. If we get to a point where we can use volunteer help, we will put a call for your assistance. Thank you again for your outpouring of love. We are so thankful to God for our safety and all of the wonderful people who are ready to pitch in.
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Christ is Risen!
Spring finally arrived after a long bout of fluctuating weather, represented here by a late, heavy snow in April. The storm was definitely beautiful, yet it presented other problems. As the large, pristine flakes of snow dropped and veiled the monastery in brilliant white, I thought and prayed about the newly installed package of bees, the garden that was half dug, and the enormous rhododendrons I had pruned, still in a preflower stage. Recalling Psalm 148, I trusted that everything would be all right: "frosts and snow" and "all flying and creeping things" praising the Lord together. On a hive check, I pressed my ear against the cold wood and could hear the buzzing of the community within the hive working together to maintain a comfortable temperature. In fact, they were probably warmer than I was as I made my way around the property with a snow shovel attempting to relieve the trees of their unwanted burden. Within a few days the weather was warmer and I returned to the garden to plant lettuce, corn, carrots, onions, herbs, and sunflowers. Some soil waits, prepared for the planting of the tomatoes, cucumbers, squash, eggplant, peas and company in June.....
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NEW PLAN – help us finish out the 10th anniversary year of the release of "The Tyranny of Distance" (released in May 2001) by joining us for a concert at one of our homes away from all our homes, the Black Cat, in the city where the album was made, Washington, DC, on Sunday, April 29th! We will be performing a full set of career-spanning material that will include a final performance of the "Tyranny" LP in its entirety; but THAT'S NOT ALL – original album engineer Brendan Canty (Deadline, Brief Weeds) will be making a PROFESSIONAL CONCERT FILM of the whole thing for us to do something with at some point in the not too distant future. So please come – sing along, clap out of time, get the back of your head (or your front from the waist up) in the film – I don't think I'm jinxing it when I say this will be a really good night. –TICKETS HERE–
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Miyazaki once saw "Snezhnaya Koroleva", a Russian animation film directed by Lev Atamanov, at a time when he was unhappy about his job and wondering if he should continue working as an animator. Miyazaki was so moved by it, he "decided to continue working on animation with renewed determination". He says that he learned that characters in animation can act if they are animated well enough, and animation can move people as other media can do.
Miyazaki built a new studio, "Butaya" (Pig House), near Studio Ghibli as his "retirement place", in 1998.
Miyazaki says that having children really changed his work. He said he had always tried to make his anime to please his children while they were growing up.
Miyazaki's second son, Keisuke Miyazaki, made the woodcut print, "Craftsman Making a Violin in Prison", which Shizuku saw in the book in "Whisper of the Heart".
Miyazaki's first son, Goro Miyazaki, is a landscape designer, and he designed the garden on the rooftop of Studio Ghibli.
Miyazaki's wife, Akemi Ôta, was also an animator at Toei Douga, the studio where Miyazaki started his career.
The majority of the characters created by Miyazaki are based on real life people in his life.
Hayao is good friends with famed Pixar director John Lasseter.
Miyazaki allows no more than 10% of footage in his films to be computer generated.
In 1963, Hayao graduated from Gakushuin University with a degree in Political Science and Economics.
Hayao is an Anglophile.
Hayao Miyazaki is making many short films, only a couple of minutes long, which is only shown in the Ghibli Museum in Mitaka City, Tokyo.
Still some of the favorites, like the music promotion film "On your Mark", was released on a separate DVD "Studio Ghibli Shorts" in 2005.
Hayao Miyazaki is a self-proclaimed feminist. This attitude is displayed in many of his films: Ex. in Princess Mononoke (Mononoke Hime) the bellows of the iron mill were worked only by women, and in Porco Rosso, Porco's plane was designed and rebuilt entirely by women.
Hayao is married to Akemi Ota.
Hayao is good friends with Isao Takahata, with whom he co-founded Studio Ghibli.
Hayao is influenced by the works of Lewis Carroll, Möbius, Diana Wynne Jones, and J.R.R. Tolkien.
Hayao has feelings of guilt because he lived comfortably as a child during the war.
Being a child living during a war, Hayao Miyazaki is the son of a munitions engineer.
Hayao finds pigs "easier to draw than camels or giraffes". He uses them a lot because they are like humans in terms of behavior. He is also a big fan of pigs
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After the Ghibli film Pom Poko (which deals with environmental issues) a National Park was opened up in Japan named "Totoro National Park".
Many of Hayao's works deal with environmental issues, because he is an environmentalist.
Hayao is a huge fan of Italy.
Hayao likes European settings, as evident in some of his films, including Howl's Moving Castle.
Hayao loves Chuck Jones' Bugs Bunny
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Hayao enjoys anything that has to do with airplanes. He even includes them in some of his movies.
In 2006, Hayao Miyazaki's son, Goro Miyazaki, directed a movie, "Tales from Earthsea", for Studio Ghibli. Hayao greatly disapproved of this venture.
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In June of 2005, all of Hayao's movies were shown in New York City until Thursday, June 30th, 2005.
Hayao is the sign of the (Metal) Dragon.
Hayao Miyazaki's mother was a strict intellectual woman. She suffered from spinal tuberculosis for 9 whole years before she finally died in 1955. She spent the first few years of her sickness in the hospital. Miyazaki's film My Neighbour Totoro was in many ways, a homage to that ordeal.
Hayao Miyazaki's father, Katsuji Miyazaki, was born around 1915. Katsuji died in 1993.
During World War II, Hayao Miyazaki's father, Katsuji Miyazaki, was director of Miyazaki Airplane, a company that made rudders for the zero fighter airplanes. The company was owned by Hayao's uncle (Katsuji's older brother).
During 1944 to 1946, Hayao Miyazaki stayed at Utsunomiya City and Kanuma City in the Ibaragi Prefecture in Japan together with his parents and brothers.
Whenever Hayao Miyazaki talks to someone about a topic, he often becomes so engrossed that even if the person he was talking to were to go to the bathroom, he would continue talking, oblivious.
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Hayao Miyazaki has in the past been refered to as the "Walt Disney of Japan", however, Miyazaki claims that he does not like the title.
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Hayao is a smoker.
Many of Hayao's films contain strong female characters.
A lot of Hayao Miyazaki's films have stories with flying as part of the them and the action (i.e. Spirited Away, Kiki's Delivery Service).
Hayao Miyazaki: Personally I am very pessimistic. But when, for instance, one of my staff has a baby you can't help but bless them for a good future. Because I can't tell that child, 'Oh, you shouldn't have come into this life.' And yet I know the world is heading in a bad direction. So with those conflicting thoughts in mind, I think about what kind of films I should be making.
Hayao Miyazaki: Well, yes. I believe that children's souls are the inheritors of historical memory from previous generations. It's just that as they grow older and experience the everyday world that memory sinks lower and lower. I feel I need to make a film that reaches down to that level. If I could do that I would die happy.
Hayao Miyazaki: I think 2-D animation disappeared from Disney because they made so many uninteresting films. They became very conservative in the way they created them. It's too bad. I thought 2-D and 3-D could coexist happily.
Discussing the future of hand-drawn animation
Hayao Miyazaki: I'm actually not that worried. I wouldn't give up on it completely. Once in a while there are strange, rich people who like to invest in odd things. You're going to have people in the corners of garages making cartoons to please themselves. And I'm more interested in those people than I am in big business.
Hayao Miyazaki: When I think about the way the computer has taken over and eliminated a certain experience of life, that makes me sad. When we were animating fire some staff said they had never seen wood burning. I said, 'Go watch!' It has disappeared from their daily lives. Japanese baths used to be made by burning firewood. Now you press a button. I don't think you can become an animator if you don't have any experience.
Hayao Miyazaki: Do everything by hand, even when using the computer.
Hayao Miyazaki: When you watch the subtitled version you are probably missing just as many things. There is a layer and a nuance you're not going to get. Film crosses so many borders these days. Of course it is going to be distorted.
Hayao Miyazaki: If [hand-drawn animation] is a dying craft we can't do anything about it. Civilization moves on. Where are all the fresco painters now? Where are the landscape artists? What are they doing now? The world is changing. I have been very fortunate to be able to do the same job for 40 years. That's rare in any era.
(Discussing CGI animation)
Hayao Miyazaki: I've told the people on my CGI staff not to be accurate, not to be true. We're making a mystery here, so make it mysterious.
Hayao Miyazaki: When I talk about traditions, I'm not talking about temples, which we got from China anyway. There is an indigenous Japan, and elements of that are what I'm trying to capture in my work.
Hayao Miyazaki: The concept of portraying evil and then destroying it - I know this is considered mainstream, but I think it is rotten. This idea that whenever something evil happens someone particular can be blamed and punished for it, in life and in politics is hopeless.
Hayao Miyazaki: I'm not going to make movies that tell children "You should despair and run away."
Hayao Miyazaki: I am an animator. I feel like I'm the manager of a animation cinema factory. I am not an executive. I'm rather like a foreman, like the boss of a team of craftsmen. That is the spirit of how I work.
Hayao Miyazaki: Modern life is so thin and shallow and fake. I look forward to when developers go bankrupt, Japan gets poorer and wild grasses take over.
Hayao Miyazaki: I wanted to show that people actually have these things in them that can be called on when they find themselves in extraordinary circumstances. That is how I wish my young friends to be, and I think that is also how they, themselves, hope to be.
Hayao Miyazaki: Prizes do not mean anything to me...it is more important to make a child aware of the existence of a weird creature like a water spider that breathes through its backside.
Hayao Miyazaki:I was almost on the brink of becoming autistic while working on the Nausicaa manga.
During Japan's economic boom in the 80's and 90's, Miyazaki was often heard to criticise other animators for their animations that featured demons, robots, sex, and boys with super armour, super guns, and super libidos.
Hayao Miyazaki: Thirty-five animation shows a week on television, the service sector booming...this is a situation none have encountered before. Historically, it's like the ancient city of Rome - political corruption, murder for entertainment value. The Roman citizens of those days demanded not only their bread, but their circuses.
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