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Jamie Lynn Spears, watching the LSU Tigers battle the Mississippi State Bulldogs with fiancé Casey Aldridge at Tiger Stadium in Baton Rouge, La. Before the game, the casual pair hung in the Tiger Suites on the stadium's east side. But they watched the match from a luxury suite. On the way to the suite, Spears stopped to sign autographs and take pictures with young fans, while Aldridge stood by holding her purse. "She was just mingling," the source says.
Meanwhile in Chicago, diehard Chicago Bears fan Ashton Kutcher took in the game at Soldier Field with Demi Moore. The handsome couple sat next to legendary Bears hall of fame
running back Gale Sayers. And Kutcher, of course, has football on
the mind: The actor is the new assistant coach for the freshman football team at Los Angeles private school Harvard-Westlake.
Kirsten Dunst, meeting up with Justin Long for a late breakfast at Hollywood's Kitchen 24 with another guy friend
in tow. Dunst looked tired, an onlooker says of the casual actress, who wore
shorts and flip-flops to the diner. According to the onlooker, the two
"weren't lovey-dovey. They were just hanging out." (Her rep tells PEOPLE the
pair are just friends and are not dating.)
Tyra Banks, indulging her sweet-tooth at Crave
Cupcakes in Houston's Uptown Park neighborhood while there to preview an
upcoming episode of her talk show. Banks walked in, with entourage in tow,
and took a seat at the bakery's bar, where she immediately enjoyed some
delicious cupcakes. Her favorite flavors? Lemon and strawberry, an insider
tells us.
Julianne Moore, lunching at 'sNice in New York's West
Village. "She looked tiny and freckly and beautiful," an onlooker tells us
of the actress, who ate a quinoa salad while poring over a script.
Nicky Hilton, reading magazines and texting her boyfiend
while getting her hair colored by Rachael Ray's colorist,
Emily Thomas, at Cutler Salon in South Beach.
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Most of what is in this reply is my personal view, often supported by scientific facts. Here we must remember the words of Newton, Physics beware of metaphysics. Today Physics has reached that state where for any further progress we have to bring in metaphysics or so it seems to me. What I feel is that to get a clear picture we need both; theology must complement cosmology and vise versa. Anyway I shall try to be as rational as possible in this answer.
1. In the beginning energy did not come out of somewhere or nowhere. It was always there. According to some cosmologists, the vacuum state that existed before the Big Bang was seething with energy. Bubbles of matter appeared in this ocean of energy from time to time, always accompanied by anti matter. But they always annihilated each other within a tiny fraction of a second. Somehow, this annihilation did not take place once. That was the beginning of our cosmos.
2. The energy of this vacuum state was limitless (Infinite?) and this energy does not have to be generated more and more as you visualized. There is enough and more; there was this from the beginning.
3. In the beginning all the matter was in the fluid state of quark-gluon plasma. Soon this evolved into hadrons protons, neutrons and the like and later into hydrogen and helium. In the stars these are slowly changing into heavier elements. But new matter new atoms are not being created.
4.. Creation of life cells is much more complex than the normal process of chemical evolution. Those who understand the complexity of a DNA molecule and what it can do will agree that just a cell just did not cannot appear by chance. I firmly believe that the appearance of life, of the complex cell, was a separate act of creation.
5. Finally there is no chance of the expansion of the universe becoming steady and becoming a static universe. Change is in the nature of things. If the present expansion ceases the chances are that the universe will start shrinking and in another 25 billion years or so there may be a big crunch. But that is irrelevant as the universe has relevance only as long as there are intelligent beings humans to observe. Human life or life on earth in general shall cease to be in a short time (on the cosmic time scale). What happens after that has no place in our science.
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Mahatma Gandhi is known for many things but he has to his name the maximum number of quotations by any Indian on the Internet.
The Internet has a large number of sites which offer quotations on a variety of topics ranging from friendship,love,destiny,life,death,peace and politics. But the net has one site which gives quotations from people from all walks of life all over the world.
The site address is http://www.quotationsbook.com and it features 106 quotations from the Mahatma.
One quotation attributed to him says "The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."
Another quotation says "It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business."
The Mahatma is also quoted as saying,"Happiness is when what you think,what you say,and what you do are in harmony."
He has also said "You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty,the ocean does not become dirty."
Apart from Mahatma Gandhi,there are a number of other Indians from whom quotations can be seen on the site. These people include the Nation's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru,former president S Radhakrishnan,Swami Vivekanand and Indira Gandhi.
These people do not match the Mahatma as individually they do not have even 20 quotes to their credit.
One Indian whose name comes as a surprise on this site is that of Oscar award winning music composer,A R Rahman.
He has got only one quote which reads simply,"All my life I have had a choice of hate and love. I chose love and I am here."
Among world politicians,those who surpass the Mahatma are former British Prime Minister,Winston Churchill with 183 quotes and former US President John F. Kennedy with 146 quotes.
Noted English writer Oscar Wilde have got 432 quotes and he is followed by William Shakespeare with 420 quotes.
Among religious texts the Bible leads with 370 quotes,The Bhagavad Gita has 45 quotes while the Quran nine quotes.
Salman Rushdie,the well-known writer of Indian origin has 34 quotes and writers who have got a large number of quotes include Goethe who has got 313 quotes.


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John Smith wrote, in part, on 11/30/2006 11:22 AM:
> How can I reset veritas' idea of when a last "4 week" frequency policy was
> executed?
NetBackup, afaik, can't be made to work that way.
> I cannot use calendar-based schedules because the backup window spans midnight,
> which veritas (due to a massive design flaw) interprets as two separate time
> windows in that mode, hence I have to use frequency-based schedules. I cannot
> reduce the window because there are 10 servers and they take time to backup.
Perhaps you've written this off too soon. Can you split your workload
so that a portion gets done before midnight and the rest after?
Works for me. In my case, my scarce resource is tape drive. If I have
a tape drive tied up doing a single backup for long retention, I have a
hard time fitting everything else into using one less tape drive (MPX in
use). In general, while far from perfect, I find calendar-based
scheduling still doesn't allow lights-out operation, I can dim the
lights a bit more. Worth a try, IMHO.
> please do not tell me to search the knowledgebase or google.
Don't search; who knows what you'll find. ;-)
> all help appreciated,
.... which is why I wrote this, cousin Smith.
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SCE Federal Credit Union Foundation's New Name Translates to More Financial Education in Southern California & Southern Nevada
'Center for Financial Empowerment' will expand financial classes & assistance to low-income communities by 30 percent in 2014Sep 18, 2013 | News & Press
IRWINDALE, Calif. (September 18, 2013) – SCE Federal Credit Union Foundation, a non-profit financial institution dedicated to educating communities in Los Angeles and Las Vegas about personal finance, today announced its new name – Center for Financial Empowerment (CFE).
"After eight years of offering financial literacy training to teenagers and families, we wanted our name to better reflect what we do," said George Poitou, Chief Operating Officer of SCE Federal Credit Union and CFE Board member. "Thousands of individuals have been empowered to improve their financial futures through our programs, which makes the new name a good fit for our organization."
The non-profit organization was founded by SCE Federal Credit Union in 2005 to address the wide spread need for basic personal finance education, especially in low-income communities. The Center for Financial Empowerment has formed plans to expand its outreach by 30 percent in the coming year.
California is one of 46 states that has not required students to take a financial literacy course in order to graduate in the past, and in the 2012 National Financial Capability Challenge, the state's average student score ranked 44th. This problem isn't contained to teenagers. A recent Wall Street Journal article, "Americans Short on Financial Know How," reports that consumer's knowledge of finances has decreased since the recession recovery began in mid-2009.
"For every classroom of students we teach, there are thousands more who need to learn the life-changing money skills we can provide," said Abby Ulm, Manager of the Center for Financial Empowerment. "Our goal is to teach financial education to 5,000 people in 2014 – approximately 1,200 more than our average for the last three years. This means 40 more classes and seven more real-world financial simulation events for our communities."
About Center for Fianancial Empowerment, formerly SCE FCU Foundation
The Center for Financial Empowerment is a non-profit 501(c)(3) charitable agency whose mission is to educate underserved youth and families in the principles of personal finance. The Center partners with schools and community organizations in Southern California and Southern Nevada to offer financial education, assistance, and improvement programs, giving people the power to make better financial choices and achieve an improved quality of life. Formerly called the SCE FCU Foundation, the Center changed its name in September 2013, to position itself for future growth. SCE Federal Credit Union is the primary supporter of the Center for Financial Empowerment.
SCE Federal Credit Union was founded in 1952 and currently has more than 46,000 members, $600 million in assets, several Southern California and Southern Nevada branch locations, thousands of shared branch locations across the United States and nearly 30,000 surcharge-free ATMs available to members.
SCE FCU serves all of Southern California and Southern Nevada, with membership open to individuals and businesses, and is a not-for-profit entity committed to improving the financial well-being of the communities it serves, especially people underserved by mainstream financial institutions. With a strong commitment to volunteerism, employees donate hundreds of hours to local community causes each year. Additionally, the creation of the Center for Financial Empowerment, formerly the SCE FCU Foundation provides much-needed financial education to the underserved and high schools in Las Vegas, Nevada and in Duarte, Baldwin Park, Ontario and Lynwood, California.


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He is survived by wife, Caroline Conquest-Hagen of Waimea; son, Maximilian Hagen of Honolulu; daughter, Jacqueline (Dennis) Rozetta of Waimea; brothers, Richard Hagen and Donald Hagen Sr., both of Seattle; sister, Patricia Hagen of Seattle; seven nieces and nephews.
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The former supermodel is happy playing mother to Mouli Ganguly in the daily soap
The name Nandinii Sen evokes mental images of glamour and beauty. Of the good ol' times when you needed to be fit – not necessarily size zero – to be a topnotch model. It's been a long time since Nandinii was the face that launched a hundred products. She prefers facing the camera in a different way nowadays – as Devashree, the social activist mother of Anushka Sarkar (Mouli Ganguly) in Ekta Kapoor's production Kya Hua Tera Vaada. "I did the show for Ekta. I knew she will give me a good role," says Nandinii. And from what we've heard, Devashree will be back very soon. Looks like it's going to be more complications for protagonists Mona, Pradeep and Anushka. Will we see a face-off between Devashree and Suhasi? Nandinii laughs, "Even I don't know if and what the track is going to be."
Nandinii is not one of those to hanker after more screen time. She's happy doing cameos. "I did a cameo in the Whistling Woods production Love Express, and again in Love Breakups Zindagi, then as Abhay Deol's mom in Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara. My next film is Student Of The Year, where I play Alia Bhatt's mom," she says.
So how did the transition from modelling to acting occur? "I returned to Mumbai three years ago. My daughter wanted to join the movies and she enrolled in an acting course at Kreating Charakters. I too enrolled with her. After the course ended, I got work quickly. I am very lucky."
Luck, she says, is what started off her modelling career too. "The modelling field is much more competitive now. You have to be size zero, have a portfolio shot professionally, and audition with 50 other sfor the same position. It was more laidback then. I was discovered on the beach! My family had gone to Marve (a beach town near Mumbai) for the weekend and a friend of a friend, who was a model co-ordinator, happened to see me. I had not yet written my final ICSE papers and suddenly I was a model. We were all works-in-progress. We did everything ourselves, including our hair, make-up and shoes." Despite that, Nandinii went on to become the face of several brands. She is still remembered for the print advertisement she did for a shoe polish. "I just loved being in front of the camera. It was bliss."
Those still cameras have been replaced by video equipment, but Nandinii's love affair with lenses continues. "Acting is a totally different field than modelling. As a model, I was always selling something. As an actor, I have to connect with the emotions I am portraying and make it relatable to the audience. When I play Devashree, I have to bring out the passion of a liberated woman, whether I am like that in real life or not. I have to forget that I was a model and concentrate on portraying Devashree as a Bengali intellectual, instead of worrying if I am looking fat."
Nandinii believes that her main strength as an actor comes from her days as a therapist and meditation teacher. "I love connecting with people. I had a wonderful time helping people work through whatever issues they were coming to me for. We as Indians are very emotional. It helped me in the process of self-discovery," she recalls.
Nandinii is happy being where is now. "I was once told, 'Accept that you are in the fall of life.' That was a lovely piece of advice. I am happy with the way things are going. I love acting. Sure, it's tough – but aren't all jobs tough?" she signs off.


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Friday, 23 September 2016
Sound of my summer
Thursday, 22 September 2016
The new stuff or the old stuff?
Tuesday, 3 November 2015
Bonfire Night Freebies
Four of my books will be available for free this Thursday (5th November) for a one day only, get 'em while you can deal on Amazon Kindle.
Schaefer's Integrity
A Comet of Ideas Looking for a Planet
The Axiom Few
The Train Set
I hope you take this opportunity to pick up one of these books and get lost in a world I created.
Monday, 19 January 2015
The Origins of BRENDA
My follow up to "The Axiom Few" is coming along nicely and I sincerely hope to get it out the door before the summer. By the way, "The Axiom Few" is free on the Kindle from the 21st to 23rd January. Click here to get it.
The sequel collection, "The Axiom Tapestry" will contain eight more stories, one of which, "The Pytance Initiative" will contain part of the origin story of the BRENDA device that is so prominent in the first book.
Here is an extract from "The Pytance Initiative"...
The quantum strip hung in the centre of a clear, spherical bosonic chamber which could be seen from the upper gantry where Vernal Campion now stood, tablet in hand, scanning the system event logs for errors. With two hours to go, thankfully there were none. If any appeared now, he may have to be the one to tell Derek. And the Prime Minister had already departed London on her way to the Stratabyre. Trying to halt this rolling snowball would be a messy business.
He stepped out of the inner glass door, which slid closed softly behind him, and traversed the elevated walkway towards the rear of the Stratabyre. Below him a system of cable troughs crisscrossed the cave, disappearing into sections of rock wall towards coolant lakes and hidden banks of processor arrays housed deep within the perpetually cold, ancient stone. Above him, dim lamps barely lit the space, due to the lumo-sensitivity of the biological meshes that hung vertically from specially designed dermabrackets. He could hear the sound of soft unseen fans working to keep the cave drier than nature would intend, while leaving the environment moist enough for the bio-meshes to retain their elasticity. The combination of sounds felt to Vernal as though the whole cave was humming with anticipation.
Something about the majesty of the space, where high technology fused with millions of years of geology made technicians speak in low voices when they were out in the main area, away from the control room. Or was it just that the Stratabyre had the capacity to carry echoing voices and resound them into an unintelligible susurration. All he could hear were whispers now. A quiet church.
And despite being nothing more than a biologically enhanced machine, straddling the inside of the cave like a confined spider, the Brenda device had no front or back, no face or physical interface, and had not even been fully connected up, yet Vernal Campion was convinced she (no, not she... IT) was looking right at him.
Monday, 20 October 2014
What does God look like?
My five year old son asked me what God looks like yesterday. I immediately started thinking about the way I asked myself that question while I was writing Schaefer's Integrity about ten years ago. But I replied, "Well, what do you think God looks like?" He said he didn't know, but could we look him up on the iPad. So we Googled God. And sure enough, on the internet you get a lot of pictures of a bearded old white fella parting the clouds. I explained that nobody had ever seen God and these were just people guessing. Then I suggested maybe my son would like to draw his own idea of what God looks like. So he did. What does it tell you that he drew a man dressed in black with a red face and... are they horns...?
Sunday, 13 July 2014
Winner - Best Large Service Desk Award Of The Year 2014 - CoSocius (Forrest Screendump)
Thursday, 19 June 2014
"The Axiom Few" moves on
I'm going to use the word "tapestry" here because I can see no other way of describing the route my new set of Axiom Few short stories seems to be taking. BRENDA's origin story is well underway and I'm really excited. The stories are becoming a tapestry and that may well influence the title of the story collection when it comes out. It won't all be about new characters though. At the end of The Autumn Structure our friend Geek was trapped on an alien vessel and I have to get him off there!
All this will come in time. I'm having a lot of fun with it at the moment. In the meantime, why not head over to Amazon and get the book that started it all...
Thursday, 30 January 2014
The Axiom Few - Free on Kindle till Monday
Friday, 17 January 2014
Three for Free this Weekend on Kindle
Monday, 21 October 2013
The Things
A lot has been said against the 2011 film, that it is a pale imitation of John Carpenter's classic horror, but I think it is a great piece of work, and it stands well against the older film, and it is a real joy to see them back to back, to learn what happened to the fated Norwegians before that helicopter came buzzing over the Antarctic ice shelf chasing that dog. And the two films, despite being made nearly 30 years apart, gel beautifully together.
Wednesday, 25 September 2013
The Crowdfunding Thing
I've backed Ian's book and you can do it too by going here, and I'll be keen to hear from Ian how he gets on with his project, and I hope it gains the funding level it needs to go forward. The book certainly looks like a lot of fun, and although it initially looks like it might be an older read than my four year old will be able to understand (though I may be wrong about that), I'm sure I will enjoy reading it nonetheless. It's always great to read stuff by people you know.
Ian also has a book on Kindle, A Year Without Beer, which you can find here and gets a respectable 4.5 stars.
Thursday, 11 July 2013
Free till Sunday - A Comet of Ideas...
My brand spanking new short story collection A Comet of Ideas Looking for a Planet is free on Kindle until Sunday 14th July.
This collection covers fifteen years of writing, of stories that weren't part of the Axiom Few canon, or novels, obviously. In a later post I will write more about the stories behind the stories, but for now I hope you enjoy reading it.
Wednesday, 3 July 2013
Schaefer's Integrity - free till Sunday 7th July
Wednesday, 26 June 2013
A Comet of Ideas Looking for a Planet - released today
Tuesday, 25 June 2013
Service Desk in Black
The video went on to win the BBC's Showreel 87 Film Awards, Judged by Michael Apted (Gorillas in the Mist, The World Is Not Enough, Blink), Chris Menges (The Reader, The Mission, The Killing Fields) and Bob Godfrey (creator of Henry's Cat) with "Why?", a film about school bullying, shot on video and televised in the Christmas of that year. As the cameraman on that film I was especially honoured to be told by Michael Apted that he was impressed with the camerawork.
I had always wanted to be a film maker and even did five days running at Scott Free, Ridley and Tony Scott's production company in Beak Street, Soho in 1993. It was then however, that the reality check hit me and I decided that the politics of film-making was definitely not for me. The highlight of that short tenure was to lay eyes upon the original H R Giger drawings for Alien, hanging above the great man's desk, and the large globe used by Gerard Depardieu as Columbus in 1492. Ridley himself was on the phone while I stocked his fridge with beer, but he did take a moment to thank me as I was leaving his vast top-floor office.
Fast-forward 20 years and when the opportunity to write and direct a short video for Cheshire Council's ICT Service Desk came along, I seized the moment and wrote a short treatment for the opening scene of the video, which, it had already been decided by the team, would be a riff on "Men in Black".
Cue the "Service Desk in Black", which formed the "fun video" part of an overall entry by the ICT Service Desk into the Service Desk Institute's annual awards for "Best Large Service Desk". As a finalist, the fun video has to be produced for the Gala ceremony. It has to showcase the team and the great work they do.
So, now the ceremony has been and gone, we can unleash the video to YouTube. We shot it over three evenings in early May 2013, and had a huge laugh doing it. It was one of the highlights of my career to be involved in this project.
Saturday, 19 January 2013
The Spinequake Register
Wednesday, 16 January 2013
Two free books from me this weekend
Friday, 30 November 2012
Life in the Kuiper Belt - Free today and tomorrow
Set at the edge of our solar system, amongst the many spinning stations and stones that make up the Kuiper Belt mining colony, Duncan Schaefer, a lowly chef, becomes infected with a virus that brings into question a number of beliefs held by the scientific community. The virus has a mind of its own and soon Duncan is on a quest to Earth to discover the truth about the strange mutations in his body, and his bizarre dreams of an inverted pyramid structure in distant space...something called the Extraction Point.
Below is a snippet from Schaefer's Integrity. Get the novel free here.
Monday, 26 November 2012
The Train Now Departing
If you have read the collection, or even only part of it, I would be hugely grateful if you could write a short review on Amazon. Every review helps sell more copies and I really would like this collection to be a success.
Sometime between now and Christmas I will be promoting one other book in a free 2-day extravaganza, Schaefer's Integrity, so keep an eye out for that, and I will obviously be making it known here, and on Twitter and Facebook, when that happens.
In the meantime please look at my other works which (due to various copyright issues) will probably not be going for free on Kindle in the foreseeable future. Those are The Axiom Few, Spireclaw and The Daedalus Transfer (the latter two of which can be read right now on this website).
Thanks again everyone!
Friday, 23 November 2012
The Train Set - Free Today and Tomorrow
Just a quick post to let you Kindle readers know that my short story collection "The Train Set" is available on Amazon for free today and tomorrow (Nov 23rd and 24th). I would love it if you downloaded and had a read of one or two stories within it, (or all of them if you like). Then tell your friends!
You can get it here.
Here's a snippet from one of the stories... "At Steepdean Halt"
I was twelve that year when we had our last family picnic at Steepdean. The field where we had come for years was just as beautiful as ever, and in the heat of June 1976 it possessed a summery beauty that seemed to contrast so plainly against the tragedy that happened here; a tragedy that protracted an idyllic day in the countryside into a sad and mournful autumn.
My younger brother, Samuel, aged eight, hands sticky with dried orangeade, beat me in a running race to the edge of the field where the trees began. He may have been four years younger than me but he was just as tall and his legs were powerful. He'd probably had more sugar than me too. Besides, I was a girl and in my brother's eyes, girls could never be faster than boys.
Though we were both out of breath when we got to the edge of the field we wasted no time in seeking shade from the high sun, which pierced the perfect blue sky but could not penetrate the canopy of leaves.
Samuel was already standing astride on the lowest branch of one of the bigger trees when I caught up, and while I bent over out of breath with the heels of my hands supported on my knees, he was eagerly climbing to the next set of branches.
'Be careful,' I shouted knowing full well that my pleas would not be heeded. In fact, he was already on the next branch up and could probably see the village from his vantage point if he looked to the south across the cut.
The railway below had been almost invisible to me, and when the sound of a diesel train started to rise in the distance to the east it became obvious just how close to the track we were. Through the trees below us the sun pinched the four rails. The ever louder churning of the oncoming train filled the day and soon the smell of the locomotive was upon us, as was the train itself. A flat fronted, yellow-faced, blue Class 60 with 8 passenger carriages plunged noisily past us. No sooner had it appeared did it disappear to the west, dropping us back into a silence punctuated by nothing but the sound of the church bell in the village tolling two o'clock.
Samuel and I had been silent and unmoving while the train had passed, but this minor interlude, or the apparent danger it presented, did not stop my brother from boldly climbing to a higher part of the tree.
'You should come down from there,' I called, but the grin he returned to me displayed that a common stubbornness had possessed him, the kind of bloody-mindedness that usually ended up with grazed hands and knees, salty tears and ice-cream. As he advanced further along a branch that seemed incapable of holding even his small frame, I thought these actions would end in tears. I had no idea that the tears would belong to my mother, my father and me.
The moment it all started was when Samuel stopped suddenly, looking down and out in front of him as though he was eyeing a place to land from a jump that was both dangerous and stupid.
'Don't jump! It's too far and the ground is sloped!'
He ignored me, but said nothing and for a moment I switched my thoughts to the notion that he might have been planning a leap to the branch of another tree.
Eventually he called down to me, 'Claire. There's a girl on the railway line.'
Friday, 2 November 2012
Sighting FM
Well Nick there's loads of us up here and we've been watching these three lights going back and forth for the last hour.
Whereabouts are they exactly? I mean, you should have a pretty good view up there right?
Yeah, they're sort of over Leith Hill way.
Isn't that the approach to Gatwick? Are you sure these aren't just planes landing Barry?
Yeah well, they would be if they were moving towards the airport but these lights are just sort of oscillating back and forth.
Really? How many are up there with you watching this?
Hundreds. We're all up on the lookout watching to the south and these lights...
Are the lights together when they move?
I mean, are they in a formation?
Yeah, like it's... like they're attached to one ship.
Or craft or what have you.
Thanks Barry. I can hear lots of people in the background. Sounds like there's a crowd up there. I'm gonna try... Jane can you... yep. I want to try and get through to Surrey police to see if they've... Ahh, they're engaged. Ok. Keep trying for me Jane. Put them through when they answer. Right, we have Anne on the line. If anyone knows what this is about then please do call in so we can put our listener's minds to rest. Now Anne you're up on Leith Hill aren't you?
That's right Nick. The lights are directly above us, we can even feel the...
How high above you are they Anne? Can you tell us?
...warmth of the lights. About fifty metres above us. Yeah, fifty to a...
So it's really quite close to you?
...hundred or so...
And how are the lights arranged? Can you...
...like a vertical rod, three lights arranged...
Can you see if it's actually a ship, like our last caller said?
...hovering above us.
I have to say that we've just had a call from the Civil Aviation Authority and they've actually suspended all inbound and out... Anne, what was that noise? Anne?
I'm here. There's a new light. A spotlight shining directly down on our hill and...
Another light? Coming from the shippy crafty thing?
...lighting up everyone on the hill. I didn't realise there were so many people up here and... oh my G...
Anne? Anne are you still there? Anne? Well it looks like we've... we've lost Anne there. Jane can you find out what happened to that line. Let's go to line five in the meantime. We have erm... let's go to Alex who's on Box Hill. Alex what can you see?
There's a like, a light shining down onto Leith Hill but from this far away I can't really work out what's going on.
We were just talking to Anne, who was on Leith Hill but the line went dead. I don't know if there's anyone else up th...
It's shooting up into the sky. The lights are climbing upwards.
Alex, stay... stay on the line, we've got to go to a break...
Tuesday, 23 October 2012
All my stuff has moved
So please browse the page tabs at the top to view all (or most) of the content that was previously available on my website. I will, in a short while, update the page redirects for my web domains to point to here, so that links to me are not lost.
Wednesday, 17 October 2012
The Train Set - A Glimpse at the Cover
Dark Tickets - Also briefly seen on this blog, but new to this collection.
Flyers - A novella that is new to this collection.
Buy The Train Set from Amazon on Kindle now.
Tuesday, 9 October 2012
Books now available on Kindle
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Sunday, 23 September 2012
Interactive Fiction
"You reach a fork in the road and find an old man sitting there. To turn left in the fork, go to page 45. To turn right, go to page 56. To talk to the old man, go to page 80."
That sort of thing.
Later on, when computers came along, I fell in love with the text adventures of Magnetic Scrolls (yes there's a website for them too). With games like Jinxter, The Guild of Thieves and Corruption, I was hooked by the way that these games built worlds in your head.
Even now there is a cult following for these old style games, but interactive fiction lives on in the form of hyperfiction (hypertext fiction where you navigate the story through hyperlinks on a web page).
I've decided to have a go at creating a piece of interactive fiction for the Android phone. As a fan of the old Myst-style point and click adventures too I wanted to try and merge some of those elements in there too. As a writer I could combine a number of passions into one. Who knows, I might even end up with an App I could sell for a small fee.
So I've been having a heap of fun (a little bit of sarcasm in there in case you didn't notice) installing the Java Development Environment, along with all the necessary stuff to create and build Android Apps. Let's see where I end up. I have a story, which I am building into a game narrative, and I've devised a few puzzles to challenge the reader. And I've even dug out some of the old MP3s of music I wrote on my trusty Yamaha V50 synthesizer back in the 1990s, to add a little atmosphere.
I'm very excited about this little project, and will post more as I progress on this new journey.
Monday, 26 March 2012
Pandora's Star
One day all the stars disappear. The Space Foundation call it "Star Blacking". A crew is assembled and a ship is sent out to the edge of the solar system, only to find that our solar system has been enclosed in a barrier, a shell. Alien's tell us it is for our protection, but then a war takes place outside the shell, and another set of alien's tell us they are attempting to free us from the imminent enslavement of humanity by the first aliens. Who do we believe? It sort of goes on from there...
Imagine my total disappointment when I recently picked up Peter F Hamilton's "Pandora's Star", only to find that the king of Space Opera got there first. There are a few minor differences but the principal is the same and so are the dilemmas faced by humanity.
So it's back to the drawing board for my magnum opus. Time for some new ideas. There's a beautiful moon in the sky tonight, and a stunning vista of stars. Always inspiring. New ideas area out there waiting to be had.
And it reminds me that there's a new character that's been bouncing around my head. His name is Derek Pytance. And for those of you who have read my short story collection "The Axiom Few", he's a new individual in that universe. Because I always wondered what would motivate a man to create something as powerful and omnipotent and calculating as the Biological Retro-Enabled Nth Dimensional Array (BRENDA to you and me...)
Wednesday, 14 December 2011
The Woman in Black - YouTube Ghost Story Competition
I uploaded it yesterday, and saw that of the other 77 entries in the official YouTube channel for the competition, only a handful seem to abide by the actual entry rules. Many entries came from the US but the competition is only open to UK and Ireland residents. Some people had uploaded existing videos of "true" ghost stories. Some had uploaded videos that were radically overlong (yes, I know mine clocks in at 2:08, but some entries are over 4 minutes). Some had uploaded videos of the written text with some spooky music over the top. When I say spooky music, I actually mean it sounded like someone had dusted off their old Yamaha DX7, plugged it into an amplifier, selected SynthViolin, and sat on the keyboard.
Another type of video people were uploading were short horror movies. One was genuinely spooky and extremely well made, but it wasn't what the competition asked for. I'm intrigued that these videos, which are not appropriate for the competition, are being added by the competition staff to the official channel. Unless I'm missing something.
I don't want this to come across as sour-grapes. After all, I won't know that my entry has lost until 6th Jan 2012, but it's intriguing, and I am interested to see how many actual law-abiding entries I am up against.
On a final note, please go and "Like" my entry on YouTube if you have the time. You never know, it might actually help.
Monday, 21 November 2011
From "Idea" to "Published Story" in 24 Hours
Whilst walking to work I was listening to an old Level 42 album and pondering a new idea I had for a story. When I got to the office, to preserve the idea, I opened up Google Docs and jotted down a couple of sentences.
At lunchtime I re-read my notes and decided to turn it into a story. By the time I'd written about 400 words I realised that this would easily work as a 600 word story for 365tomorrows.com, who publish a daily flash-fiction piece in the sci-fi genre.
The last time I submitted something to 365tomorrows they rejected it weeks later, on the grounds that there was no narrative to the story (the story was written in pure dialogue).
Once this new story was completed I made two changes. I changed the gender of one character and the name of another. By the end of the day I had submitted the story, entitled "Freedom Someday" to 365tomorrows.
The usual turnaround response time for a story submitted to 365tomorrows is 4-6 weeks.
On Saturday morning, the next day, 365tomorrows had emailed me back to accept it, saying that the story was fantastic, and would be published on their website as the piece for Monday 21st November. Naturally I was thrilled!
So, within the space of 24 hours I'd had an idea for a fiction story, which I converted to a set of notes, which I converted into a 600 word story, which I submitted to an online publishing entity, and had it accepted; an achievement symptomatic of the Internet Age.
Thursday, 3 November 2011
A Map of the Floating City, Autumn, and Inspiration
The musical creativity of Thomas Dolby has influenced me greatly over the years. In my writing I am inspired by soundscapes and the changing of the seasons and when it comes to Autumn, for some reason, Thomas Dolby's music captures the feeling perfectly.
I had only a fleeting knowledge of Thomas Dolby in the eighties when his single "Hyperactive" came on my radio and I can't say it grabbed me much. The sounds were a little to harsh for my young ears and it all seemed a little too jokey. Tears for Fears and Level 42 were as far as I was willing to go at the age of twelve. It wasn't until 1992 when I was watching the ITV Chart Show one Saturday morning that I heard his single "Silk Pyjamas", which I loved on first listen. I took a punt on the album "Astronauts & Heretics" and it very quickly became one of a my all time favourite records. My girlfriend at the time had negated to tell me (not that I expected her to) that she already had a copy of another single off the album "Close But No Cigar". She bought a copy of "Astronauts" too and it quickly became one of those quirky aspects of young relationships, an "us" record. With lyrics like "Once in a while, a girl comes along, and opens your heart like a spam tin", how could it not be..? But the album was also, for me, the sound of Autumn; of wet leaves painting urban pavements. Of wind, rain and grey clouds. Of bracing Sunday afternoon country walks with blue, blue sky.
Mr Dolby's earlier albums followed quickly for me that Autumn and each had their way of being the soundtrack of that time. From Dolby's "Fieldwork" I stepped sideways into the music of Ryuichi Sakamoto, and by association into the works of Aztec Camera and David Sylvian. Through the production of Bill Bottrell on Dolby's "Aliens Ate My Buick" I found Sheryl Crow's "Tuesday Night Music Club", which he also produced.
Dolby's career became difficult to follow after that. He did a concept album called "Gate to the Mind's Eye" which, for me, only spawned one masterpiece song "The Valley of the Mind's Eye". He moved into the mobile ringtone business as well as being a speaker and all-round tech pioneer based in Silicon Valley. Now he has a new album out and strangely it appears in Autumn. In the 19 years between "Astronauts & Heretics" and "A Map of the Floating City", I had three interactions with Thomas Dolby.
The first was an email which I sent to a Compuserve account (address printed in an album sleeve) circa 1996 asking where I could find the latest information about Thomas Dolby. I was directed in the reply, to one of those new-fangled website thingys, the Flat Earth Society, the fanclub homepage. The email was signed simply "Thomas".
The next time was during an interview with him on BBC 6 Music in 2003, where a question I had submitted to the program was actually read out. In short, "When would there be a new album?". He replied that he had a garage at the bottom of the garden and that one day he would get in there and start recording. That "garage" later turned out to be a lifeboat on the Suffolk coast.
The third time I approached him was in 2009 under the umbrella of the Commonwealth Business Council, to ask if he would be able to speak at one of our conferences. We were holding a flagship forum in Trinidad & Tobago and were looking to create a session on innovation in technology. Thomas was enthusiastic and we exchanged a number of emails to arrange for him to get there, but unfortunately, in the end, his schedule did not permit for him to come, as even then he was becoming more and more involved with touring and working on the new record.
"A Map of the Floating City" came out in the UK on October 24th 2011 and on that day I happened to be working on a conference in Australia. If any of this blog so far says anything to you, it would indicate that this geographical hurdle would present a challenge worth taking on. Amazon UK MP3 downloads don't permit purchases outside the UK, so in order to get this record loaded onto my player for the long flight home I had to remote access the CBC's London server, install Amazon's MP3 downloader, purchase the album through a browser window, download it to the server, install Dropbox there, copy the album to the Dropbox folder, and bring it down to my laptop in Perth. It was worth the effort.
To quote a lyric from 1992s "I Love You Goodbye", "Typhoon Pierre delayed our plane till morning". The truth of it was that the Qantas strike had left us stranded at Perth airport with perhaps no way of getting home for several days. I was already missing my wife and son, so when our plane was grounded I felt further away from them than ever. Thanks to Emirates we were able to get a flight out a few hours later. Hearing this album on the plane I felt once again that sense of longing that music so beautifully underpins. And Dolby's songs often talk about airline travel. From air-lanes that "comb dark Earth", to the "wide Brazilian sky that swallowed you", it all seemed to fit.
Dolby remains a master of sowing a musical flourish under my skin. The short, distorted and reverbed guitar riff in "A Jealous Thing Called Love". The sweeping harmonies in "Oceanea", which is perhaps the most evocative piece about the sea since the Tears for Fears B-Side "Pharoahs", and is somehow reminiscent of his lovely 1984 song "Screen Kiss". The epic "17 Hills" which is the "Budapest by Blimp" of this new work all serve to remind me why I loved Dolby back in the 1990s, and still do to this day. This album made me think about how, as a thirty-eight year old, and as a father to a two-and-a-half year old boy, my son is closer than me to those teenage years of musical discovery, where songs become the soundtrack, the foundations and the scenery of your life. Maybe it'll be Thomas Dolby. It probably won't. But I cannot wait to experience that discovery with him when he gets there.


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RIGHT NOW AT SIX -- THE SEARCH FOR ARMED AND DANGEROUS MEN. FROM SKY FIVE, YOU CAN SEE THE SCENE NEAR SOUTHEAST 71ST AND BYERS. POLICE SAY TWO MEN BROKE INTO A SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA CITY HOME AND HELD A WOMAN AT GUNPOINT. K-O-C-O'S KATY BLAKEY IS LIVE. POLICE ARE STILL SEARCHING FOR THOSE TWO MEN. AND THAT HAS NEIGHBORS ALONG THIS STREET UNEASY. AROUND THREE- THIRTY, POLICE SAY THE TWO MEN KICKED IN THE DOOR OF THIS PINK HOUSE ON SOUTHEAST 71ST. THEY HELD THE WOMAN AT GUNPOINT, WHILE THEY BEGAN ROBBING HER HOME. SHE WAS ABLE TO CALL 9-1-1, BUT BY THE TIME OFFICERS ARRIVED HER ATTACKERS WERE GONE. POLICE GOT A PLANE IN THE AIR. PUT DOGS ON THE GROUND AND PUT NEARBY SCHOOLS ON LOCKDOWN. BUT SO FAR, A SEARCH FOR THE TWO MEN HAS TURNED UP NOTHING. THE WOMAN WAS NOT HURT, JUST RATTLED -- AND THIS ENTIRE ORDEAL HAS NEIGHBORS ON EDGE. CLIP 17/Scott Williams, neighbor 1:00 Kinda spooky. Came home and checked the back yard and make sure nobody's back there, I'm ready to go to the country :10 AT THIS TIME, POLICE DO NOT HAVE A GOOD DESCRIPTION OF THE TWO SUSPECTS. THEY'RE ASKING RESIDENTS TO LOCK THEIR DOORS AND CALL THEM WITH ANYTHING SUSPICIOUS. LIVE, SE, KB, KOCO 5 NEWS
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Once a legendary police inspector, Nicolas Lenoir is now a disillusioned and broken man who spends his days going through the motions and his evenings drinking away the nightmares of his past. Ten years ago, Lenoir barely escaped the grasp of the Darkwalker, a vengeful spirit who demands a terrible toll on those who have offended the dead. But the Darkwalker does not give up on his prey so easily, and Lenoir has always known his debt would come due one day.
When Lenoir is assigned to a disturbing new case, he treats the job with his usual apathy—until his best informant, a street savvy orphan, is kidnapped. Desperate to find his young friend before the worst befalls him, Lenoir will do anything catch the monster responsible for the crimes, even if it means walking willingly into the arms of his own doom…
"[A] definite winner…E. L. Tettensor crafts a tale that makes you think even while you shudder–a delightful combination. Darkwalker is brilliant!"–Fresh Fiction
"[P]acks a massive punch…The ending is suprising and perfect."–Bookworm Blues
"A new paranormal mystery series featuring an intriguing main character and rich, thorough world building; once the story takes off, it doesn't stop."–The Bibliosanctum
"Tettensor's first novel tackles some complex issues while simultaneously delivering a Victorian-esque crime drama that is sure to have readers hoping for a sequel. Darkwalker is a strong debut that will appeal to fans of both fantasy and mystery."–Owlcat Mountain
"A fantastic debut novel set in a wonderfully realized world."–Nothing But the Rain
Writing an antihero is a tricky business. By definition, s/he is not going to be everyone's cup of tea. To qualify as an antihero, a character has to fall short in some important way, to be flawed in comparison not only to a classic hero, but to readers as well. Morally challenged (Walter White), or rash and pig-headed (Starbuck), or indecisive to the point of paralysis (uh… Hamlet?). Not everyone can get behind a protagonist like that. When you write one, you're pretty much resigned to the fact that a certain chunk of the reading public may not like your character. Maybe they'll pick up the book, read the back cover, and think, "Pass."
When you look at it from that angle, why would anyone debut their writing career with an antihero?
I have no idea.
What I can say is that there was never any question of Nicolas Lenoir being Mr. Congeniality. It just wouldn't work. A mind as incisive as Lenoir's is going to see flaws everywhere. That's the thing about critical thinking. It's, well… critical. Add to that a dark past and a heavy dose of self-loathing – both of which were essential to the story – and you have the recipe for an antihero. You can't make a classic hero out of those ingredients, any more than you can make angel food cake out of chili peppers. (But you can mix chocolate and chili, and the result is complex and delicious. And I'm going to drop this food metaphor now, because I'm getting hungry.)
So, will the antihero of Darkwalker be your cup of tea? To help you decide, here's a list of five things you need to know about Inspector Nicolas Lenoir:
1. He's the smartest person in the room. In his mind, at least.
2. He doesn't believe in redemption – least of all for him.
3. Wherever you come from, Lenoir's hometown is better. You're just going to have to trust him on this.
4. Words are weapons, but silence is power.
5. We all have our demons, but his are darker. And in the room. Right now.
Lenoir might not be a saint, but he has an advantage in the company he keeps. To look taller, the BBC's Sherlock Holmes takes "the precaution of a good coat and a short friend." Lenoir, too, has a proper detective's coat, and as for his friends… he might just be a saint after all.


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There's promise here, and the Aspire S3 isn't a bad machine by any means. While we may moan about the price point, in reality it undercuts the the competition by hundreds of pounds in most cases. The S3 does its job, and performance isn't called into question, but more demanding users will be left wanting a fuller experience.
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 07/16/2012
Rating: Total score: 70%
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This machine is a great example of what the Ultrabook line is meant to be: relatively light, thin, and powerful enough to knock the netbook name out of the realm of reality. With the price on this particular setup being a bit more than the standard build, you'll need to think about what you're planning on using the machine for – if it's home use for the internet and simple games exclusively, you'll want the more basic Core i5 build. If you're attempting to run some more impressive games and maybe a bit of the ol' video processing, this i7 build is the one you want. Toss it in your backpack and be surprised at how little it ads to your daily weight, break it out at the coffee shop and impress the denizens of the generally Apple-heavy world of public browsing. Acer has come through with a winner here, folks, make no mistake about it.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 02/09/2012
The Acer Aspire S3 Ultrabook was one of the first ultrabooks to hit the market. The idea of the Ultrabook was introduced by Intel but not much of marketing had been done by them. As one of the firsts, all it had was the 'Macbook Air lookalike' identity. This isn't that good to start with for the Aspire S3 as it doesn't look as thin as the Macbook Air. The Aspire S3 also has the option to use a mechanical hard drive which gives it a significant disadvantage due to the inferior performance offered by a solid state drive offered by other manufacturers. The asking price is another unjustifiable issue. The Asus Zenbook and Dell XPS 13 are also priced around the same price range but they have much more to offer. Another issue with this ultrabook is its plastic-feel construction compared to the aluminium chassis on the Zenbook and carbon fiber feel of the XPS 13. The lack of a USB 3.0 port and backlit keyboard puts it behind most 13 inch ultrabook out there.
Being one of the earliest Ultrabook certainly has its downside. However, it's not all bad. The Aspire S3 has a display that can tilt far back, more than any other ultrabooks that we've seen. It looks very much like the MacBook Pro but is much lighter and has the excellent boot time of Ultrabooks. It can wake up from sleep mode in about less than 2 seconds.
Intel HD Graphics 3000: Integrated graphics card in the Intel Sandy Bridge processors (Core ix-2xxx). The HD 3000 is the faster (internally GT2 called) version with 12 Execution Units (EUs).
Non demanding games should be playable with these graphics cards.
» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Graphics Cards and the corresponding Benchmark List.
Intel Core i7: The Intel Core i7 for laptops is based on the LG1156 Core i5/i7 CPU for desktops. The base clock speed of the CPUs is relatively low, but because of a huge Turbo mode, the cores can dynamically overclock to up to 3.2 GHz (920XM). Therefore, the CPU can be as fast as high clocked dual-core CPUs (using single threaded applications) but still offer the advantage of 4 cores. Because of the large TDP of 45 W / 55 W, the CPU is only intended for large laptops.
2637M: Power saving ULV processor clocked at 1.7-2.8 GHz due to Turbo Boost. Offers an integrated HD 3000 clocked at slow 350 / 1200 MHz and a DDR3-1333 memory controller.» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.
Above all, this display size is used for subnotebooks, ultrabooks and convertibles. For all three types, this size is quite large. The biggest variety of subnotebooks is represented with this size.
Large display-sizes allow higher resolutions. So, details like letters are bigger. On the other hand, the power consumption is lower with small screen diagonals and the devices are smaller, more lightweight and cheaper.» To find out how fine a display is, see our DPI List.
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This weight is typical for big tablets, small subnotebooks, ultrabooks and convertibles with a 10-11 inch display-diagonal.
Acer: Acer Incorporated is a Taiwanese multinational electronics manufacturer. Its product lineup includes desktops and laptops, as well as personal digital assistants (PDAs), servers and storage, displays, peripherals, and e-business services for business, government, education, and home users. Acer is the third largest computer manufacturer in the world (by sales) after HP and Dell Inc (2007). The company owns the largest franchised computer retail chain in Taipei, Taiwan. Originally named Multitech, it was founded in 1976. Gateway and Packard Bell are economically connected with Acer. Market share regarding sales of personal computers in 2007 (market research IDC): HP 18.9 %, Dell 16.4 %, Acer 9.9 %, Lenovo 7.5 %, Apple 5.7 %
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PLA I'm guessing. What kind of layer height? 0.2mm?
buy intel video cards
Oh? Where can I buy offboard Intel video cards?
we'll need an OS-agnostic method of using PCIe cards as bootable block devices
Like pretending to be a single-channel SATA disk controller with one drive permanently attached?
once performance improves...
They'll change the driver model again.
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Hispanic Research Journal—Annual Visual Arts Issue
Submission deadline: February 15, 2009
Hispanic Research Journal promotes and disseminates research into the cultures of the Iberian Peninsula and Latin America, from the Middle Ages to the present day. The fields covered include literature and literary theory, cultural history and cultural studies, language and linguistics, and film and theatre studies. As from 2007 the journal was expanded to include one issue per year devoted to the visual arts of Iberia and Latin America, published partly under the umbrella of ARTES (Iberian and Latin American Visual Culture Group) and ASHAHS (American Society for Hispanic Art Historical Studies). Hispanic Research Journal publishes articles in four languages; Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, and English, and encourages, especially through its features section, debate and interaction between researchers all over the world who are working in these fields.
Visual arts issue co-editors Marjorie Trusted (in the UK) and Kelly Donahue-Wallace (in the US) invite submissions for scholarly, refereed articles (up to 8,000 words) covering art, architecture, and design from the medieval period to the present in Iberia, and from the colonial era to the present in Latin America.
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Sunday 20 May 2012
The Taekwondo star who became Afghanistan's first ever Olympic medalist at the Beijing Games in 2008 wants to repeat the feat in London — in the hope of bringing peace to his troubled homeland.
Rohullah Nikpa's story is something of a fairytale in a war-ravaged country with few happy endings. As a 10-year-old obsessed with Bruce Lee and martial arts movies, he followed his brother to the taekwondo club while civil war raged in Afghanistan.
"I was crazy about taekwondo from the day I started it. I remember the first day I arrived at the club to practise, I was already able to do it well. I already had the mentality of being determined to reach the top," he said.
Now 25, he was 14 when the Taleban regime fell at the end of 2001 and began training in Kabul in earnest while a bloody insurgency against the government and its NATO allies raged throughout the country.
Nikpa overcame tremendous problems, not least financial, to qualify for Beijing, where he claimed a life-changing bronze in the under-58 kilogram division. Four years later, the moment is still fresh in his memory.
"I was so happy because throughout the history of my country Afghanistan, no one has ever won an Olympic medal before. I was so happy that I cried right there in the arena," he said.
"It's something priceless for our country. With this medal, I can help bring peace to our country. It shows that our people must walk away from all this war and conflict, and look toward the future generation and use sports to help lift our country up." His friend and training partner Nesar Ahmad Bahawi — Afghanistan's other great taekwondo hope in London — shares his view of sport as a means of inspiring change in society.
"Taekwondo I've done for my country and my people, not so that I could myself become famous, just so that I can let the world hear the name of Afghanistan in a good way and make our people happy," said Bahawi, who took silver at the 2007 world championships but came away from Beijing empty-handed.
"There's always been fighting in our country, I want to show the world that we are not people who love war, but we want peace." Bashir Taraki, the Afghan team's coach, agrees.
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Lionel Shriver speaks of elephants in rooms everywhere in her latest novel, "Big Brother" – a zany yet grave and tremendously affecting look at how unacknowledged problems can wreak havoc in a family.
Her vehicle is obesity – our disease du jour – and, as her protagonist, Pandora, tells us, "Any story about a sibling goes back far indeed."
Edison Appaloosa, "a jazz pianist of some note," is that sibling – Pandora's revered older brother and such a world traveler she hasn't seen him in four years. Now, with "a little gap in my schedule," the dashing and ever-fit Edison is coming from his Manhattan home base to stay for a bit with Pandora and her family in quiet little New Holland, Iowa.
What they don't know is that the talented and debonair Edison has – in the last 48 months – gained well over 200 pounds.
"Yo, don't recognize your brother?" he calls to Pandora at the airport as two flight attendants wheel the 44-year-old Edison into baggage claim "in an extra-wide wheelchair."
Edison is close to 400 pounds, and Pandora is dumbfounded. She thinks of how Fletcher, her loving if staid spouse, had been against harboring "Mr. Important International Jazz Pianist" in the first place – and how she had been adamant: "Fletcher and I were up to our eyeballs in sensible, and a splash of anarchy was overdue." Alas, this was not the sort of anarchy Pandora had in mind.
Shriver is both playful and serious here. It won't be Edison's girth that will disrupt his sister's family – it will be his behavior, his obsession with food now so great he is out of control. He cannot help but eat all the food in the house, leaving crumbs and smears everywhere, including all over himself, and damaging furniture not sturdy enough to hold him.
Literally too fat to work, he is out of funds and hits his sister up for some "pocket change" – money she can easily afford to give him due to her surprisingly successful business (of creating dolls that look like and speak just like their intended recipients, each a gift of "ridicule paired with affection").
"Yet what bothered me … wasn't giving Edison a 'loan,' " Pandora (now an enabler) muses:
"So far, no one, not even my impolitic stepson, had addressed my brother's dimensions head-on. I myself had not once alluded to Edison's weight to his face, and as a consequence felt slightly insane. That is, I pick him up at the airport and he is so – he is so FAT that I look straight at him and don't recognize my own brother, and now we're all acting as if this is totally ordinary. The decorousness, the conversational looking the other way, made me feel a fraud and a liar, and the diplomacy felt complicit."
Avoiding the obvious has the interesting effect of highlighting the food "faults" of Fletcher and Pandora – Fletcher's that of depriving himself in the name of fitness; Pandora's that of not losing 20 pounds of plumpness.
"Between exercise and his stringent diet, my husband had lost the tiny roll at his middle for which my own mashed potatoes and muffins had been to blame," Pandora tells herself. "Yet I'd cherished that little roll, which had softened him in a larger sense."
Food of course is but a symptom here. There are deeper issues at play. Edison and Pandora share a bizarre childhood with a father, Hugh Halfdanarson, known to all of America as Travis Appaloosa, star of a now-defunct television series, "Joint Custody." To this day, the monomaniacal Travis is consumed with the past and his fake TV family.
Edison feeds this, using his father's TV surname professionally, and Pandora often remembers thinking, when "Joint Custody" was canceled years ago, "they should have kept filming the show and canceled our real family." Left to their own devices (despite another sibling, the wonderfully named Solstice), Edison's and Pandora's relationship verges on the symbiotic.
Thus dysfunction, in a real sense, is no stranger to Edison and Pandora – but it is to Fletcher and his teenagers, Tanner and Cody. And there will come a time when Edison goes too far, deliberately sitting in and shattering a chair hand-hewn by Fletcher, a chair Fletcher had asked him never to sit in.
The gloves come off. Fletcher tells Pandora, "You keep acting as if your brother's the victim, the poor fat guy. But he is victimizing us."
Pandora comes up with a solution – not a sensible solution like counseling or surgery or other medical intervention or Weight Watchers or Overeaters Anonymous … No, Pandora chooses to do it herself – moving away from her family, with Edison, to a rental community where the siblings embark upon a punishing powder-and-water regime that soon becomes boring to them – and, sometimes, the reader.
The same can be said for some of Shriver's riffs on food, food and more food, and on some of the "heavy cats" Edison has purportedly played jazz with. Yet these are but small quibbles in the face of the larger picture: Outlandish as Pandora's scheme to run the weight-loss show herself may seem, Shriver gets it right.
She gets the quest for control right. She gets the upheaval in the family right. She gets Edison's denial right, his unwillingness to get better, his professing not to care. She gets today's societal justifications ("everybody does it") in one wonderful scene during which Pandora and Edison go to Walmart and meet a man who tells them, "the right to lie to yourself is what makes this country free."
Once Edison gets on board with Pandora's program, Shriver also knows the dangers inherent in success:
"I feared for Edison … the anticlimax of losing 223 pounds could be soul-destroying," Pandora says. "My brother never made any reference to his life on the other side of this weight-loss project. How cataclysmically would all the balls he'd left in the air in New York come crashing down once he'd met his goal and discovered that being 163 (pounds) didn't really solve anything?"
Clearly, this is a subject dear to Shriver's heart – she who generally creates characters we are unlikely to have as friends (in particular, the murderous Kevin in Shriver's Orange Prize-winning novel, 'We Need to Talk About Kevin").
Pandora, Edison and Fletcher are good people fully rendered, and cared about, here – with Fletcher's children and even Travis not far behind. And, if this were all there is to "Big Brother," it would be enough. A bit banal for Shriver, but enough.
The beauty is, there is more – much more – and anyone who stops reading "Big Brother" before its denouement will miss Shriver's point. It is a point both sad and strong, and more than anything underscores Shriver's enviable ability not only to create, but to speak her own soul.
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By Lionel Shriver
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NSAC will decide if blood testing is required(LA Times story)
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Bob Arum, Manny Pacquiao's promoter, this morning unveiled what he says is his "final counteroffer" to get an agreement between his boxer and hopeful opponent Floyd Mayweather Jr. for a March 13 bout that could be the most lucrative in the sport's history.
Arum said he wants an agreement from Mayweather and his promoter, Richard Schaefer of Golden Boy Promotions, by Monday or he'll "finish negotiations" for a Pacquiao replacement fight against Paulie Malignaggi.
Arum's offer is for each fighter to submit to unlimited random urinalysis, and to let the Nevada State Athletic Commission to determine at its Jan. 19 meeting whether additional blood testing is required beyond Pacquiao's current agreement to allow his blood to be tested 30 days before the bout and immediately after its conclusion.
"We will allow Golden Boy to present experts to the commission to explain why additional testing is required, and we'll explain our position," Arum said. "Then we'll let the Nevada commission decide. If Nevada says we need to do more testing, we'll do more, but if they don't, we won't."
The fight would take place at MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas if it were to occur.
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He added that striking an agreement on this point would allow the fighters to sign contracts -- both are expected to receive a guaranteed $25 million with pay-per-view upside -- and begin promoting the fight early next month before the commission decides the matter.
Schaefer was not immediately available for comment.
Contacted by The Times on Saturday night, Keith Kizer, executive director of the commission, said the agency was prepared "to do what we do with the urine testing," but would consider additional testing procedures if the promoters petitioned.
"I'm pleased with our processes as they are now. They were good enough for Pacquiao-[Miguel] Cotto [Nov. 14] and for Mayweather-[Juan Manuel] Marquez [in September]."
Arum said he just wants state regulators to decide the testing policy, not have it mandated by Mayweather's team.
Mayweather said in a statement this month that he wanted to ensure a level playing field, and his camp proposed allowing the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency to monitor blood tests. The head of that agency said Pacquiao's resistance to take a blood test closer than 30 days from the first bell was not acceptable for effective anti-doping procedures.
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it doesnt matter, floyd will not accept as he wants to duck pacquiao badly
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WOOOO!!! good signs for the fight. if they think it's not necesarry, floyd has no excuse. if he continues to ***** about it then we know he really doesn't want the fight.
if they do think it's necesarry, then pacquiao's team said they'd willingly take the tests.
it's a win-win situation for fans.
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Floyds not gonna accept, the fights dead.....for March at least.
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i think the mayweathers........................finally agreed to have a cut-off date to random testing..............
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It is a cop out arguement because Arum already knows that government moves slowly and they would have to change their standard for all fighters and doing random blood testing for all fighters would be very expensive so something like this could never occur or at the lvery least they would need time to figure it all out.
If it is in the fight contract and aslong as they meet the demands the NSAC would not really care if they did extra testing above what they wanted because what they would need would be taken care of also.
This is basically passing the buck by saying no they runnign to hide behind the NSAC knowing what will happean. It is a pretty soft arguement.
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Mayweather should just accept since it seems like he's backed into the corner.
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Why should the opposing party be able to dictate the terms and the agency that does the testing ?
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Hiding????? If Arum wants to hide something why would he hide or pass the buck to an athletic commission thats the most experienced commission when it comes to testing boxers for drug and steroid usage.
Fuking stupid!!
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Sampson Lewkowicz of Sampson Boxing is proud to announce that Colombian middleweight power puncher Jose Miguel "Mochuelito" Torres (26-5, 23 KOs) has signed an exclusive multiyear promotional agreement with Sampson Boxing LLC.
33-year-old Torres is probably best known for his NABO and NABF title-winning KO 6 over previously undefeated Patrick Majewski last November. Torres' brother, Ricardo, is a former junior welterweight world champion.
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yeah that would be awful.
Martinez has 3 or 4 fights left, quite wasting our time.
I'm a huge Martinez fan but WTF why not fight GGG
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This is just being put out there so when he settles for Murray, people will say at least it wasn't Torres. Also heard Kerry hope and domenico spade were being considered....Europes cash cows, obviously can outdraw Golovkin
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i don't mind martinez taking a tuneup or easy fight after coming off surgery, and against someone like murray, that isn't that bad. this guy torres or spada would be though. i don't think hbo would approve of such a fight. imo these are just names sampson and lou are throwing out to the public to make it seem like murray isn't a done deal. every promoter does this before announcing a fight.
hopefully after april or whenever martinez is suppose have his fight in argentina, someone like quillin, pirog, golovkin, geale, or alvarez would happen next. i think cotto/alvarez happens after cotto/trout if cotto wins, so maybe the winner of that could face martinez if mayweather doesn't get to them first, but who knows. i just hope it's not a chavez jr rematch, which seems likely at the moment. if that happens, i honestly wouldn't know what to say about martinez.
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Seriously, this news has nothing to do with Martinez; it's a textbook example of yellow journalism. The author pulled this info from his ass. It's okay, don't sign the article or anything...
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A group of major tech companies and influential academics have thrown their weight behind Marvell Semiconductor Inc.'s bid to reverse a $1.54 billion trial loss to Carnegie Mellon University, arguing that the megaverdict was based on a dangerous ruling applying U.S. patent law to overseas commerce.
Google Inc., Microsoft Corporation, and seven other companies are urging the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit to undo the damages award, which stemmed from CMU's claims that Marvell infringed its patents relating to chip technology. In an amicus brief filed on Monday, the companies argue that the trial judge erred in allowing CMU to collect damages for every infringing Marvell product sold worldwide, including many that never entered the United States. Dan Bagatell and Kenneth Halpern of Perkins Coie are counsel of record for the tech giants.
"If the district court's contrary view allowing U.S. courts to impose royalties based on worldwide sales becomes law, it would have grave consequences for amici and other innovative companies," the Perkins Coie lawyers wrote. "As in this case, the potential liability could be staggering, and in some cases defendants may face duplicative exposure under foreign patents as well."
Fifteen law professors reinforced that argument in an amicus brief of their own, also filed Monday. Counsel of record on the brief are Brian Love of Santa Clara University School of Law and Donald Falk of Mayer Brown. The signatories include Mark Lemley of Stanford Law School and Pamela Samuelson of the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law.
CMU brought suit back in 2009 in U.S. district court in Pittsburgh, alleging infringement of patents on a method for more accurately detecting data from disc drives. The university, represented by Douglas Greenswag and Patrick McElhinny of K&L Gates, alleged that Marvell incorporated the patented technology into billions of its chips, most of which were manufactured in Taiwan and installed in hard drives sold to foreign end-users.
The 2013 trial was a train wreck for Marvell's lawyers at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan. Because Marvell designed and marketed prototype chips in California, U.S. District Judge Nora Barry Fischer ruled that CMU could collect damages for all similar chips sold worldwide. That instruction helped CMU persuade jurors to award $1.17 billion in damages in December 2012. Since the jury found Marvell's infringement was willful, Fischer tacked on enhanced damages, bringing the total to $1.54 billion. CMU had pegged damages at more than $3 billion, but Fischer decided that figure was excessive and would put Marvell out of business.
Marvell filed its opening brief at the Federal Circuit on Aug. 5. The company objected to Fischer's decision to impose damages for worldwide sales, but that's just one aspect of the appellate strategy devised by Quinn Emanuel lawyers, including Kathleen Sullivan and Susan Estrich. They also attempted to poke holes in CMU's expert witness testimony and reiterated arguments that CMU's patent shouldn't have been granted in light of prior research by Seagate Technology PLC.
Monday's amicus briefs, meanwhile, drive home the idea that Fischer extended the Patent Act beyond its territorial limits. The tech companies and academics argue that under CMU's damages theory, any patent practiced domestically for R&D purposes can result in a damages award reflecting every infringing unit sold worldwide. "The practical effect of that damages theory is to confer a worldwide patent right, contrary both to established precedent and sound innovation policy," the professors argue in their brief.
CMU's appellate lawyers, led by E. Joshua Rosenkranz of Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe, haven't yet filed their response at the Federal Circuit. But the university wrote in a court filing last year that Marvell has "blatantly mischaracterized" its damages theory. "CMU's damage claim is grounded exclusively on domestic use of CMU's invention," the university's lawyers wrote at the time. "CMU does not seek damages from alleged infringement of the accused chips that are never used in the United States."
In a statement, CMU counsel at Orrick and K&L Gates said they expect the Federal Circuit to disagree with the amici's position. "The district court issued a well-reasoned decision rejecting the same arguments to the contrary that Marvell and its amici make on appeal," the statement said.