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Ouch was my second, followed closely by ŌĆ£Oh God, everyone saw that,ŌĆØ as my foot plunged into the inch-deep water and the right side of my body caught a large tree root.
I had promised myself that I would not fall. I would not get too tired; I would persevere. Especially after my editor had tried to talk me out of the particular hike, telling me that a seven-mile hike with a 1000-foot elevation gain was not the best choice for my first real hike, ever. But her apprehension only made me more stubborn. I would show her. I am young and spry. Seven miles? Pshaw.
I thought of that as I fell, and the other 14 people on the Saturday hike, all following behind the hike leader and myself, jokingly shouted a chorus of ŌĆ£You can write about this in your column.ŌĆØ
I chose the moderately ranked hike with Carolina Mountain Club because it seemed the most interesting. It took us on a lesser-known trail in MooreŌĆÖs Cove, which featured downed logs and some overgrowth that acted as exciting obstacles along the way. The description also promised a couple of waterfalls.
I was a bit anxious when I arrived. I didnŌĆÖt know how many people would join the hike. Would it be awkward? After all, I didnŌĆÖt know anyone ŌĆö and I was just some young pup tagging along, too green to know whether I would make it to the end of the trail or find myself collapsing into a heap along the way.
I bought a school backpack at Walmart (please forgive me, just an hour before the hike I realized I didnŌĆÖt have one) to keep my notebook and lunch. I was sporting jeans, running shoes, cotton socks (I know, I know ŌĆō cotton kills) and an old T-shirt.
The people going on the hike would be seasoned and would have actual hiking gear, not just what they could scrounge up at the last minute. But just as Tim Black from Nantahala Outdoors Center had told me, hikers are a welcoming community, whether walking together for a few hours or a couple days on the Appalachian Trail.
Along the trail, sandwiched between views of waterfalls, sprouting flora and animal remnants, is plenty of get-to-know-you time. By the end, youŌĆÖve talked to nearly everyone along the way ŌĆō listening to their life story and relaying yours.
In an ŌĆ£itŌĆÖs a small worldŌĆØ twist, there was even an older woman from near my hometown on the hike (southern Indiana). And if that werenŌĆÖt enough, she was a lawyer for a law firm that my mother once worked for. We talked about the mutual places we knew, about how we ended up in Western North Carolina and how we thought our team, the Louisville Cardinals, would fare in the next dayŌĆÖs NCAA March Madness game.
Despite my initial anxieties, I finished the hike, sore, albeit no worse for wear.


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30. Philadelphia 76ers (15-47)
Sixteen straight losses. (Photo by Jesse D. Garrabrant/NBAE via Getty Images)
29. Milwaukee Bucks (12-50)
It's hard to fault O.J. Mayo. If I were playing for Milwaukee, I'd probably punch Greg Stiemsma in the throat, too. (Photo by Gary Dineen/NBAE via Getty Images)
28. Sacramento Kings (22-41)
Carl Landry will miss the rest of the season with a torn right meniscus. So it goes. (Photo by Rocky Widner/NBAE via Getty Images)
27. Orlando Magic (19-45)
In their last four games, the Magic have played Miami, Philadelphia, Houston and San Antonio. Wanna guess which one they won? (Photos by D. Clarke Evans/NBAE via Getty Images)
26. Detroit Pistons (24-39)
If the Pistons were playing below average basketball – as opposed to abysmal basketball – they'd be in the playoffs. (Photo by Brian Babineau/NBAE via Getty Images)
25. Boston Celtics (22-41)
Back-to-back wins with a road game against slumping Indiana upcoming. Good times. (Photo by Brian Babineau/NBAE via Getty Images)
24. Los Angeles Lakers (22-42)
Wow, the Thunder? Nice. The Lakers are 1-0 when Jodie Meeks scores 42 points. (Photo by Andrew D. Bernstein/NBAE via Getty Images)
23. New York Knicks (24-40)
The Knicks want Phil Jackson in the front office. Well, that's a start. (Photo by Nathaniel S. Butler/NBAE via Getty Images)
22. Utah Jazz (22-41)
Utah snapped a five-game losing streak on Saturday by beating Philadelphia. Put another way, Utah has lost five straight to NBA-caliber competition. (Photo by Jesse D. Garrabrant/NBAE via Getty Images)
21. Denver Nuggets (27-35)
Denver is 3-12 in its last 15 games. (Photo by Layne Murdoch/NBAE via Getty Images)
20. Atlanta Hawks (26-35)
Atlanta is 1-13 in its last 14 games. (Photo by Noah Graham/NBAE via Getty Images)
19. Cleveland Cavaliers (24-40)
LeBron James returned to Cleveland on Saturday – to honor Zydrunas Ilgauskas. That might be as close as the King gets to his former team. (Photo by David Liam Kyle/NBAE via Getty Images)
18. New Orleans Pelicans (26-37)
Three straight Anthony Davis double-doubles, three straight wins. (Photo by Layne Murdoch Jr./NBAE via Getty Images)
17. Charlotte Bobcats (29-34)
New franchise rule: Once an opposing player hits 40, double-team. Once he hits 50, triple. (Photo by Issac Baldizon/NBAE via Getty Images)
16. Minnesota Timberwolves (31-31)
Kevin Love had another monster game on Sunday – 26 points and 11 rebounds – but it wasn't enough. What else is new? (Photo by Jordan Johnson/NBAE via Getty Images)
15. Brooklyn Nets (31-30)
A home win over Toronto on Monday would make the Nets a season-high two games over .500. Yes, a season-high. (Photo by Jesse D. Garrabrant/NBAE via Getty Images)
14. Washington Wizards (33-29)
Washington's hot play continues. The Wizards have won eight of nine. (Photo by Ned Dishman/NBAE via Getty Images)
13. Phoenix Suns (36-26)
A bit of a slump – 3-5 in their last eight games – has the Suns outside of the playoff picture. For now, anyway. (Photo by Rocky Widner/NBAE via Getty Images)
12. Memphis Grizzlies (36-26)
Memphis has won four of five, including an impressive road win over Chicago on Friday. (Photo by Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images)
11. Toronto Raptors (35-26)
Six Raptors scored double figures in a 111-104 win over Minnesota on Sunday. That's impressive. (Photo by Jordan Johnson/NBAE via Getty Images)
10. Chicago Bulls (35-28)
The Bulls bullied the Heat on Sunday, grinding out an overtime win. Whether they can bring that same intensity for a seven-game series remains to be seen. (Photo by Nathaniel S. Butler/NBAE via Getty Images)
9. Dallas Mavericks (38-26)
Dallas beat Indiana by double digits on Sunday. That's still impressive, right? Right? (Photo by Glenn James/NBAE via Getty Images)
8. Portland Trail Blazers (42-21)
Once the top seed in the West, Portland no longer has home-court advantage in the playoffs. (Photo by Bill Baptist/NBAE via Getty Images)
7. Golden State Warriors (40-24)
Golden State, which has won four straight and eight of 10, is looking awfully dangerous. (Photo by Rocky Widner/NBAE via Getty Images)
6. Los Angeles Clippers (44-20)
The surging Clippers have won seven straight and 10 of 12. (Photo by Noah Graham/NBAE via Getty Images)
5. Miami Heat (43-17)
The week started with 61 points from LeBron James; it ended with three straight losses. The Heat missed a golden opportunity to seize control of the East. (Photo by Nathaniel S. Butler/NBAE via Getty Images)
4. Indiana Pacers (46-17)
Now's not the time for a four-game losing streak – especially not one by a combined 61 points. (Photo by Bill Baptist/NBAE via Getty Images)
3. Oklahoma City Thunder (46-17)
Kevin Durant's triple-double wasn't enough to beat a team 20 games under .500. That's a problem. (Photo by Noah Graham/NBAE via Getty Images)
2. Houston Rockets (44-19)
Houston is an NBA-best 23-6 since New Year's. (Photo by Jesse D. Garrabrant/NBAE via Getty Images)
1. San Antonio Spurs (46-16)
San Antonio has won six straight, including a statement win over the Heat. (Photos by D. Clarke Evans/NBAE via Getty Images

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FastCare certified for meeting quality, safety standards
GREEN BAY – FastCare, a brand of retail health clinics established by Bellin Health, was recently certified by a national organization dedicated to quality and safety.
The Convenient Care Association, the retail health care clinic industry's member-based organization, certified FastCare for attaining quality and safety standards.
The association's quality and safety standards address such issues as monitoring quality at each clinic; encouraging patients to establish relationships with primary care providers; and establishing emergency response procedures. Certified members are re-evaluated every two years.
"This is one more indicator of the high standards we adhere to at FastCare," said Ken Berndt, director of Business Development at Bellin. "Our FastCare patients can feel comfortable knowing that they're receiving treatment not only guided by Bellin's own high standards, but also by those of a national quality and safety organization as well."
Convenient Care Association members also follow OSHA, CLIA, HIPAA, ADA and CDC requirements and guidelines and are held to strict criteria for credentialing providers, tracking patient satisfaction and referring patients to appropriate levels of care based upon their condition.
In addition to FastCare, the association certified 13 other retail clinics.
FastCare clinics offer health care for minor conditions and symptoms. Ailments treated at the clinics include: sore throat; fever; flu and common cold; ear and sinus infections; pink eye; skin rash; and allergies. FastCare clinics only take walk-in patients and are open to anyone.
The majority of FastCare clinics are located inside Shopko stores. Merchant Medicine listed Shopko among its Top 10 U.S. Retail Clinic Retailers.
For more information, please call Ken Berndt at (920) 621-1615.


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Written by Baz Anderson on 05.04.2011 at 00:15
I didn't call it my album of the decade for nothing. I am listening to it now for the first time in a long time, and it's both great and sad... sad to compare it to what Ensiferum are now (which is still a great band... but just not this good...)
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When you are sad and angry...you want to shout, sing it loud, want to immerse into your deepest sorrow, painful feelings left inside.....Suddenly ! Cheerful folk music cut in....ancient dressing men and women holding hands dancing, running and jumping happily around you....how would you react ? I will shout "can you shut the fuck up !" In my professional opinion, this album is highly OVERRATED ! Nearly stupid.
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Lol, "professional opinion"


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August 7, 2003
August 7, 2003 -- The Illinois State Board of Education today
released a list of districts it notified with an early
alert letter informing them of schools that may have
to offer Choice this fall. The letter notified districts of
more than 500 schools that preliminary data indicated fell
short of making Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP).
This is a working document, said State Superintendent
of Education Robert E. Schiller. We felt it incumbent
on us to give these schools and districts a courtesy notice
so they would have time to plan for the fall.
According to ISBE staff, preliminary data included math and
reading scores from the ISAT and PSAE results released in
July. The letter and list followed just days later.
The letter sent by Schiller notified schools that the Illinois
Administrative Code provides forty-five (45) days from the
receipt of the data for school districts to verify the accuracy
of the score information received and to notify the State
Board of Education of any discrepancies identified. If no
conflicting information is received from a district within
forty-five (45) days after receipt of data, those data shall
be considered correct.
According to the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB),
Title I schools that fail to meet Adequate Yearly Progress
(AYP) for two consecutive years must be identified as needing
improvement. Technical assistance is to be provided and public
school choice must be offered to these pupils by the start
of the next school year.
Title I schools that fail to meet the state AYP standards
for three consecutive years must offer pupils from low-income
families the opportunity to receive tutoring and other supplemental
academic enrichment services from a supplemental service provider
of their parents choice.
Beginning with the 2003 data, by federal and state law, there
are three criteria used in determining whether a school makes
AYP and all three criteria must be met.
According to ISBE, some of the schools on the list may have
to offer
ISBE officials anticipate that when all final calculations
and data corrections are made some schools will be off the
list, while others not reflected in this preliminary list
will be added.
A final list of schools that failed to make Adequate Yearly
Progress is expected to be released by late September.
The preliminary school choice list can be accessed at http://www.isbe.net/news/2003/preliminary_school_choice.pdf.
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Mike comes to KXLY from Omaha, Nebraska, where he was an anchor and reporter. While in Omaha, Mike was recognized by the Associated Press for his breaking news coverage of a massive oil fire.
Previously, Mike worked as the weekend anchor and reporter at KOLN/KGIN Lincoln, Nebraska, where he won an AP award for his sports series on the Lincoln Saltdogs minor league baseball team.
Mike is a graduate of North Carolina State University and also attended the Missouri School of Journalism as a graduate student. He was a standout pitcher for the Wolfpack baseball team, and later played for the minor league Allentown Ambassadors.
Mike is the past president of The Hispanic Business Professional Association of Spokane and founder of The Hispanic Food Network www.hfntv.com
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Mike was given The 2010 Asuris Insurance Latino Hero Award for his work in the Hispanic Community in Eastern Washington.
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A battle is brewing for land in Central Oahu.
The Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation notified the City Council on Thursday of its plans to condemn two parcels of land along its proposed rail transit route.
HART has already acquired 21 residential properties along through successful negotiations and settlements, with the city dishing out millions of dollars to land owners.
All remaining parcels are business and commercial properties, including a small parking lot along Kamehameha Highway, fronting Stuart Plaza in Pearl City.
HART Executive Director and CEO Dan Grabauskas said, "It impacts five parking spaces for a particular owner."
The owner's lawyer disagrees, saying 13 stalls would be lost, severely impacting tenants.
There is a large parking lot in the back of Stuart Plaza, but tenants like Bonzai Tattoo says no one likes parking back there, especially at night, because of a security problem.
"So you know, we kind of feel more comfortable having the customers stay up here in the front," said Mike Higuchi, an artist at Bonzai Tattoo.
The other property is a nine-acre plot on Farrington Highway near Leeward Community College.
"It's zoned agricultural, but it seems to be being used as an industrial and they're asking us to come up with a price based on industrial," according to Grabauskas.
But the land's owners, Richard and Karen Lee, say it's not about the money.
"We have asked the city if they could provide an area for us (that's) compatible," said Richard Lee.
Karen Lee said, "They said they won't exchange because they're not in the real estate business."
The Lee's say the city originally offered them $500,000 for the land. Then Karen Lee said ,"They were going to offer us a dollar and I said, 'A dollar? That's ridiculous.'"
Grabauskas said the Lee's land was found to be contaminated and that the clean up could cost more than the property's value, which is the reason for the $1 offer.
The City Council has 45 days to review the action.
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Administrator and Teacher Salary and Benefits
Sections 10-20.47 and 34-18.38 of the School Code [105 ILCS 5/10-20.47 and 5/34-18.38] require school districts to report administrator and teacher salary and benefits to the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE):
"Each school board shall report to the State Board of Education, on or before October 1 of each year, the base salary and benefits of the district superintendent [or the general superintendent of schools or chief executive officer] and all administrators and teachers employed by the school district. For the purposes of this Section, "benefits" includes without limitation vacation days, sick days, bonuses, annuities, and retirement enhancements.
Prior to this annual reporting to the State Board of Education, the information must be presented at a regular school board meeting, subject to applicable notice requirements, and then posted on the Internet website of the school district, if any."
For school years 2010 and 2011, the deadline in statute for districts to report was July 1. Public Act 97-0256 subsequently amended the School Code to 1) incorporate October 1 as the new reporting deadline and 2) add requirements for the information to be presented at a regular school board meeting and then posted on the district's website. The changes were effective January 1, 2012, so districts were required to comply starting with data to be reported for school year 2012.
For school years 2010, 2011, and 2012, districts were required to submit to ISBE the following data for each individual employed as an administrator and/or teacher during the school year.
- Name: Legal last name, first name, and middle name
- Position: Main position, i.e., District Administrator, Other Administrator, or Teacher
- Title: Title for main position (optional)
- Base Salary: Dollar amount of base salary for all positions combined
- FTE (Full-Time Equivalency): FTE for all positions combined, counted in hundredths
- Vacation Days: Number of vacation days awarded this school year
- Sick Days: Number of sick days awarded this school year
- Bonuses: Dollar value of bonuses
- Annuities: Dollar value of employer-provided qualified and nonqualified annuities
- Retirement Enhancements: Dollar value of employer-provided retirement enhancements
- Other Benefits: Dollar value of other benefits provided by employer
View Reported Data
Due to technical or other reasons locally, some districts did not submit data each school year as required starting in 2010. Only data submitted via IWAS by the mandated deadline for a given year are included in this posting. Questions about reported or missing data should be directed to the school district(s).
For school years 2010 and 2011, when a July 1 reporting deadline was in effect, school districts were directed by ISBE to include in their reports payments made through June 30 only. As a result, projected July and August payments to individuals paid over 12 months versus 10 should not have been included. For this reason—and because additional compensation can be earned for a variety of extra duties involving the supervision of students or related to the academic program—the annual compensation reported for individuals is not comparable either within or across districts.


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Feast of feats for feet @ NY Fashion Week
- 4:25 pm Tuesday, September 11th, 2012 by Robert Janjigian
It's not just about clothes on spring '13 runways.
There are some dynamic shoes shown.
Footwear, of course, is a big biz, as the size issue isn't a concern.
Most everybody can fit into a pair of fashionable shoes and look good without being of the model-size variety.
At Michael Bastian's spring men's show, a dozen styles made by the Palm Beach cobbler Stubbs & Wootton in collaboration with the designer were featured on the runway at Milk Studios on W. 15th St.
The collection had an '80s inspiration, according to Percy Steinhart, the Stubbs & Wootton founder I talked to before, during and after [More]


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Time Warner Raises North Carolina Cable PricesTime Warner's most popular package -- bundling Road Runner Internet service with the lowest tier digital TV programming -- will increase 3.1 percent to $107.95 a month in the Triangle, spokesman Brad Phillips said. From The News & Observer, January 16, 2008
Freedom4 Launches WiMax in Milton KeynesFREEDOM4 has joined forces with ConnectMK to offer the first UK commercial wireless broadband service using WiMAX technology. From Unstrung, January 16, 2008
FCC Chief Says Economy Could Hurt 700 MHz SaleThe head of the Federal Communications Commission expressed concern on Tuesday that the credit crunch could hinder bidders in an upcoming government auction of wireless airwaves.From Reuters, January 16, 2008
ConnectKentucky Responds to Art Brodky's Article"Rebutting Misrepresentations and Inaccuracies from Art Brodsky's Recent Post Regarding ConnectKentucky and Connected Nation"From Connected Nation, Inc., January 15, 2008
The Top Seven Intelligent Communities of the YearRole models for the world's best practices in creating competitive local economies and vibrant societies in today's hyper-competitive global economy, which broadband communications is increasingly linking into a dynamic whole.From Intelligent Community Forum, January 15, 2008
Google Revs Up Grand Prix for iPhoneAccording to internal data shared with The New York Times, Google saw more cell phone traffic from iPhones on Christmas Day than from any other kind of mobile device, despite the fact that the iPhone accounts for just 2 percent of the global smartphone market.From Newsfactor.com, January 15, 2008
Wireless Oakland Seeks More InvestorsA $70 million shortfall put Wireless Oakland temporarily on hold Monday, stalling the rollout of free Internet service beyond portions of seven pilot cities.From The Oakland Press, January 15, 2008
Cape Town's Broadband Network "Makes It Smarter"Cape Town is the first African city to enter in the ICF awards three-year history. Among other things, the adjudicators look for digital inclusion, effective marketing, knowledge workforce and broadband infrastructure.From MyADSL, January 14, 2008
Milwaukee Schools Turning Broadband into CashThree local educational institutions have discovered they are sitting on the telecommunications equivalent of beachfront property, and they're about to cash in - to the tune of more than $100 million over 30 years.From Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, January 14, 2008
New WiMax Service Could Expand Atlanta Internet OfferingsWashington-based wireless Internet provider Clearwire this week began seeking executives, through hiring Web sites, to launch their Atlanta operation. At the same time, the company has filed papers with Gwinnett County planners, apparently to begin putting up the equipment that would allow it to offer long-range high-speed service.From Atlanta-Journal Constitution, January 14, 2008


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The morning after: Thoughts on the end of our season
I have a lot still to post about this last weekend at Shea. Some amazing stories, some amazing photographs–including some of amazing Mets legends–and I hope you'll still be able to enjoy them. But this must come first.
During the final inning of the game yesterday, sitting in the seats Rob and I have called our Shea home for 3 seasons, I felt angry. Cops were beginning to line up in front of the stands by the dozens, making sure no one would rush the field for one final Shea thrill. "They should let us all on the field," I said to Rob. "For this, they should make us take souvenirs. They should be putting the outfield grass right in our hands."
But that visceral reaction didn't last long. This year, the disappointment is certainly there–very much so–but somehow it's not nearly as bad as last year. What can you say? That last game was a microcosm for the whole season. The team started off anemic, letting whatever opportunities arose just slip away. And then, worse, they lagged behind as Florida scored 2 runs. But then, with an act of heroism greeted by thunderous applause, a Mets home run tied the game. We were still in it. Our tightrope team was fighting back. So what would happen–would they make it across the tightrope, or tumble to the ground? No one watching the game could be certain. The Mets season was categorized really by two failures. 1) The bullpen. Obviously. 2) Clutch offense. They just kept leaving men on base all year. So much more often then not the key hits didn't come. The runs didn't score. They let the other team win.
Up until Schoeneweis and then Ayala gave up solo home runs, I truly believed our team would do it. I knew they wanted the win with all their hearts. I knew we'd had troubles all year, but I thought they'd battle back one last time. I think the reason that I'm not as disappointed as last year (besides the obvious one that we never held any safe lead in the division this time around) is that the 2008 Mets either got it done, or they didn't. Back and forth, over and over. They got it done on Saturday–with Johan expanding our hearts with jubilation and glee.
And then they didn't.
That was our team this year. I don't fault them for not wanting it hard enough, for not playing with heart or passion. They just couldn't get it done.
It turns out that 2008 wasn't meant to be about winning. It was about saying goodbye to a ballpark we've all loved through the years, despite whatever faults it may have had.
So, until I post more about the final day at Shea–coming very soon–I will say goodbye to baseball in 2008, to the ballpark where I first fell in love with our team. And with the off-season in front of us, with the Mets' new era in Citi Field looming…I will hope for better next year.
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Hi Zoe…
Definitely not the end to Shea I had envisioned, but in the end this team wasn't good enough to make it to October. The bullpen was too shaky and the lineup didn't get 'er done in September.
I always tell myself seasons like this will make it feel that much better when the Mets do win the world series…
As old Brooklyn Dodgers fans used to say: Wait 'til next year!
~ Eddie @ Ya Gotta Believe
How about we forget about it? Seriously, every Mets article I read now is based on the collapse. The bullpen. Negatives. How about we post some stuff on next year? That is what we have to look forward to.
Next year, come on. http://metsmainman.mlblogs.com
What, no more blogging until next year?
no, no, there will be more soon!! just took a wee break. posted last on metsdivasanddykstraw.com!
Delayed reaction but I said the same thing, they should have let us all storm the field and tear it up. We deserved at least that. I was never old enough to do it like fans in the past, and what are they protecting it from anyways?! They want to keep it smooth for the pavers? Whatev, hope all's well and catch ya on the flip side.


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3wks is pretty long but it has been the holidays and packages can get caught up or misplaced in customs. Seizure letters could come months later. I wouldn't count on that coming soon if thats the case. Give it some time. It may still show up.
I've been waiting for a package from china (50g raw) its shown inbound into customs for 3weeks. Is this normal? Kinda sweating it! I haven't been tracking it much as I know that can raise suspicion. I usually do domestic but my last domestic contact isn't around anymore. Shouldn't I get a seizure letter after this long? I hate this waiting. Input please
3wks is pretty long but it has been the holidays and packages can get caught up or misplaced in customs. Seizure letters could come months later. I wouldn't count on that coming soon if thats the case. Give it some time. It may still show up.
I had them turn my pack around that was in customs that long. It was powder and I thought they finally released it. Two days later it showed up in china. Waaa waaaa waaa!!!
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It s not unnormal , one of my client's order got his order at the end of 32 days.. Usps sucks..
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It's the waiting that sucks. Although, I'd gladly wait another 3 weeks if it means I get my pkg!
My pkg left china on dec. 16 and arrived at SF customs dec. 24
why would you put this kind of info up? very few posts and no rep. Kind of sketchy if you ask me.
I'd bet, they caught it... Load your gun, wait don't do that it only makes them mad. 50g raw is not small amount in their eyes that is intent to distribute FYI. you will more than likely get a letter in the next 2weeks or so.
I'll get there or Die trying...
I had that happen once got a letter from homeland security 6 months later the west coast is touchy for anything from china good luck brother.
GETNIT, so what happened ?, did CUSTOMS release the package or was it seized. I'm going thru the same situation right now, my shit is been held in SF CUSTOMS for 3 weeks also.
Well, It never came. I never got a seizure letter and about 6 months later a customs agent came to my door.... Nothing happened i played stupid said that i havent used in a long time as i had moved in with my girlfriend who doesnt condone using anabolics....yadda yadda...and he gave me a warning that scared the crap out of me....dont mean to scare you. You may get your stuff and everything will be fine but you should start thinking of what to say in the event that one comes to your house.
He asked me if I had ordered it and I said I don't think so. I said I hadn't used anything in over a year and it may have been sent by accident. He asked if I knew it was a class 3 drug... I said "no but I'm also unsure of what the classifications of drugs were anyways." ... All with a dumb look on my face. He then told me this was a warning and if i was caught doing this id be in seriouse trouble facing major federal charges. Last thing he asked was if i wanted to tell him anything else... i said no. The entire discussion was less than 4 minutes I'm sure... But it felt like hours
Talk about shit stacking up in your underwear amd trying not to make the face that goes along with it! Damn!! Thats downright nuts. If he came to your door. They were definately keeping an eye on ya for that time in between.
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I dont know what to say man. I can't go domestic cause shit is expensive. My order consisted of 100g (raw) of different gears which could have been used for 3 years. Can customs agents have the right to search my apartment ?? I live in the bay area and because of this I'm gonna take a long time off from juicing and hopefully reunite some relatives living on the east cost.
Bro, contact your supplier, tell him its hemmed up and have a backup address. Most companies honor a second order (free insurance). If your shit is siezed, your only gonna get a love letter from customs. No sweat
1st off, you are putting a lot of info out there. 2nd, why in the fuck would you even consider ordering anything but domestic(at least for a while) after an agent showed up at your door? I understand you lost your source but come on...if you found this site then you can find the SPONSOR FORUM and "maybe" find another domestic source(HINT, HINT).
plenty of good domestic sources out here bro, all these guys will treat you well. fast ta, and low cost. save you some headache
its not worth going thru that crazy shit man. i mean wow your nuts probably hurt for a few days after that guys showed up
I would have Shit a brick. I am the worst liar ever.
I would say it's seized. Don't worry as they will send a letter. Don't do anything with it just throw it out.


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By Ryn Gargulinski: Guest columnist
Whomever dubbed Chicago the "Windy City" had it all wrong. That nickname should have been reserved for Clovis, and other eastern New Mexico places with equally windswept plains, where someone once told me the wind whips so hard it blows over freight trains. (I believed them for months and refused to drive near the tracks for all of April.)
And the Chicago thing is all wrong twice. The Chicago Public Library tells us its home was nicknamed the "Windy City" not because of the virulent gusts from Mother Nature but because of Chicago politicians and supporters who spoke long and loud about their wonderful city.
They were dubbed "windbags" by some reporters as the folks were trying to plug Chicago for a site of a World's Fair. This eventually did happen in 1893, but instead of wind gusts, it featured a man who hid in the background preying on young, unsuspecting women whom he murdered — but that's another story altogether.
And no matter what the Chicago name origin, which should have resulted in something like "Windbag City," the moniker is forever robbed from the Land of Enchantment.
Sources also say Florida did a similar thing with "The Sunshine State," but that, too, is another story altogether.
The fact is, New Mexico has dibs on the windiness stuff. It even dates as far back as one American Indian myth from an indigenous tribe. According to the tale, which is not just full of hot air, the wind was an integral part in the world's creation.
They say four gods got together and shook hands where a bunch of sweat formed. One of the hand-shakers, appropriately the creator god, rubbed his palms together and out fell a little brown ball, later known as Earth. But that brown round thing would have remained a teeny lump if wind didn't go inside it to blow it up, not unlike a beach ball. And it would have remained rollicking around on some crazy axis system if it weren't for the wind to stabilize the rollicking ball by blowing four giant posts to each directional point.
See how important the wind is?
It also makes the Mesalands Community College people happy in Tucumcari.
After all, they are looking to invest millions to build a massive wind turbine around campus. This project, of course, would blow over, if it weren't for the constant whispering, or rather, screaming winds that make turbines turn.
And what about all those other people who rely on the wind for their living or entertainment? Sure, there aren't many sailboats kicking around Clovis, but some may hook up sails to a skateboard. Or to pull their dogs on rollerskates.
The kite festival at Cannon Air Force Base would be a deflated event with the number of professional kite fliers going down like a lead zeppelin.
It would even affect the beauty industry. According to a totally nonscientific and fictional report, the wind makes for a great exfoliant on that deadened surface skin. And where would the hair gel people be without the promise of that "windswept look?"
The wind also makes money for the eyedrop industry as sales increase rapidly when dust and debris are blown into every eyeball. Contact lens sales also blow through the roof when that same dust and debris make people remove a lens in a red-eye frenzy only to have it blown off their fingertip in the middle of a field.
Hat companies make a mint with new sales when the wind whips off thousands of unsuspecting chapeaux that blissfully breeze away.
And just think about all the roofers, shingle makers, windsock manufacturers and those who make a living constructing iron roosters with directional points that spin around on red barn roofs.
How else would they go and put food on the table?
Yes, the wind is a beautiful thing, regardless of other myths that tell us it's the wrath of Zeus or the haunting souls of the dead or something that goes and wrecks freight trains.
It is also amazing in its capacity, a force we call view with awe. It ensures the proliferation of fungus spores in a million-foot radius, makes flowers pop up from pollen gusted two towns over, and I even found a New Mexico license plate in my Northern California yard, about 2,000 miles away.
I think it was nestled beside a chunk of freight train.
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Facebook's "Open Compute" Server testedby Johan De Gelas on November 3, 2011 12:00 AM EST
Facebook Technology Overview
Facebook had 22 Million active users in the middle of 2007; fast forward to 2011 and the site now has 800 Million active users, with 400 million of them logging in every day. Facebook has grown exponentially, to say the least! To cope with this kind of exceptional growth and at the same time offer a reliable and cost effective service requires out of the box thinking. Typical high-end, brute force, ultra redundant software and hardware platforms (for example Oracle RAC databases running on top of a few IBM Power 795 systems) won't do as they're too complicated, power hungry, and most importantly far too expensive for such extreme scaling.
Facebook first focused on thoroughly optimizing their software architecture, which we will cover briefly. The next step was the engineers at Facebook deciding to build their own servers to minimize the power and cost of their server infrastructure. Facebook Engineering then open sourced these designs to the community; you can download the specifications and mechanical CAD designs at the Open Compute site.
The Facebook Open Compute server design is ambitious: "The result is a data center full of vanity free servers which is 38% more efficient and 24% less expensive to build and run than other state-of-the-art data centers." Even better is that Facebook Engineering sent two of these Open Compute servers to our lab for testing, allowing us to see how these servers compare to other solutions in the market.
As a competing solution we have an HP DL380 G7 in the lab. Recall from our last server clash that the HP DL380 G7 was one of the most power efficient servers of 2010. Is a server "targeted at the cloud" and designed by Facebook engineering able to beat one of the best and most popular general purpose servers? That is the question we'll answer in this article.
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fpsvash - Thursday, November 03, 2011 - linkIn the middle of the paragraph below the image caption, the sentence reads "...and offers better slightly better performance..."
Other than that, nice post! Reply
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InternetGeek - Thursday, November 03, 2011 - linkIt's interesting that no many players have taken a look at Open Compute. Reply
alent1234 - Thursday, November 03, 2011 - linkit's a solution for a specific workload. there are still a lot of workloads that require the traditional model of big database servers
unlike your bank, facebook's noSQL is not ACID Reply
FunBunny2 - Saturday, November 05, 2011 - linkWell, yes a voice of reason. OTOH, the Facebook et al folks are convinced that their back to the COBOL era is the future. As if a toy application, albeit pervasive, is "innovation". Reply
Sivar - Saturday, November 05, 2011 - linkIt's a little difficult to look at a comment about Facebook being a toy application and take it seriously. Yes, Facebook is not directly processing bank transactions on a Tandem, but their site is used to conduct business -- and is even the basis for many businesses, all over the world.
Zynga, the company that makes a few annoying games for Facebook, is worth $15 -- more than Electronic Arts.
Nearly every major online publisher, including Anandtech, uses their API for content distribution and often as the entire forum system for discussion of publications.
The founder is the youngest billionaire in history.
Calling theirs a toy application sounds like a Blockbuster customer calling Redbox a toy. It's denial of an obviously successful, large, powerful, innovative company because they don't do things "the old way."
I suspect what matters more is that the business is executing flawlessly, the actual problems with data loss or other non-ACID compliant traditional issues are minimal, and that they are making enough money that Google and Microsoft are feel seriously threatened.
One last thing -- if you really look into what ACID compliance means (and I know you did not specifically mention the acronymn, but replied to someone that did) none of the current major DBMS's are truly ACID compliant. It's too slow. Not Oracle. Not MSSQL. Not Greenplum. Not Teradata. None of them. They may be closer than NoSQL or the like, but then it's all about the right tool for the job, right? Reply
Ceencee - Wednesday, November 09, 2011 - linkThis is true but ACID can be over-rated for many workloads. How many pieces of data HAVE to be consistent across the entire cluster to be valid? What about NoSQL with configurable consistency like Cassandra?
NoSQL databases provide the holy grail of system growth which is horizontal scaling and this is no small thing for anyone who has worked with a very large RDBMS like ORACLE and implemented RAC to find it doesn't scale all that linearly for most workloads. Reply
ac2 - Thursday, November 03, 2011 - linkWouldn't the presence of the graphics on the HP server account for the 32W idle load savings? Reply
JohanAnandtech - Thursday, November 03, 2011 - linkIt is an ATI ES 1000, that is a server/thin client chip. That chip is only 2D. I can not find the power specs, but considering that the chip does not even need a heatsink, I think this chip consumes maybe 1W in idle. Reply
mczak - Thursday, November 03, 2011 - linkES 1000 is almost the same as radeon 7000/ve (no that's not HD 7000...) (some time in the past you could even force 3d in linux with the open-source driver though it usually did not work). The chip also has dedicated ram chip (though only 16bit wide memory interface) and I'm not sure how good the powersaving methods of it are (probably not downclocking but supporting clock gating) - not sure if it fits into 1W at idle (but certainly shouldn't be much more). Reply


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The driver of a silver Ford F-150, Reginald Sullivan, 67, of George West, was traveling west on state Highway 799 and hit Matthew's truck broadside.
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Let's hope West Virginia's economy picks up, as some analysts expect. That would mean more revenue flowing into state coffers, something needed badly to avoid yet more cutbacks in state services.
About 3,000 new jobs were created in the state last year, and the trend should continue, according to a West Virginia University economic forecast.
Employment gains should average about 1 percent a year during the next five years, WVU Bureau of Business and Economic Research director John Deskins said this week. That should provide more revenue for the state – but the question Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin and legislators need to answer is whether it will be enough.
Also this week, it was revealed state tax collections declined again in September, for the fifth consecutive month. During the first quarter of the fiscal year, which began July 1, revenue was $34 million below estimates used to build the state budget.
Unless revenue for the remainder of the year grows at a 2.8 percent rate, the state budget will remain out of balance. That could force a mid-year spending cut order of the type Tomblin already has had to use once.
The state's general fund budget has remained flat, with virtually no growth, during the past three years. Unexpected declines in revenue, such as those involving coal severance taxes, have made it difficult to maintain even a hold-the-line spending stance, however.
Again, let's hope the economy grows, pumping more money into the state Treasury. But Tomblin and lawmakers cannot wait long to decide whether another round of mid-year cuts are necessary. The longer they are postponed, the deeper they will have to be to get spending back in balance with revenue by next June 30. No later than the end of this calendar year, then, the governor and legislative leaders should be prepared to cut spending if revenue has not rebounded.


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- This research examines perceptions of stem cell research among a representative sample of 1013 Australians and five focus groups. The results suggest that the majority of Australians were comfortable with the research using adult cells, but were not comfortable with scientists using cells created by cloning. The sample was however divided in relation to the use of embryonic stem cells. The use of structural equation modelling found that this division was strongly associated with the level of social trust in the scientific organisations conducting the research via anti-intellectual beliefs and the perceived value of science. Higher comfort was demonstrated among those with higher levels of social trust because of a commitment to the intellectual freedom of science and a perception that the products of science are valuable. Religious individuals were less likely to support stem cell research due to stronger anti-intellectual beliefs, but demonstrated similar levels of social trust and beliefs in the value of science to the non-religious. Finally, among both religious and non-religious groups, support for stem cell research was found to be much less likely if conducted in private compared to publicly funded organisations. The implications of the results for the perception of science are discussed, as well as the consequences for social trust if the increasing move towards tying scientific enquiry to private rather than public interests continues.
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The United States will help Iraq fight an al Qaeda-linked group that seized the city of Fallujah in the west of the country — but will not send American troops to do so, Secretary of State John Kerry said on Sunday.
"We will stand with the government of Iraq and with others who will push back against their efforts to destabilize," Kerry told journalists as he left Jerusalem for Jordan and Saudi Arabia. "We are going to do everything that is possible," Kerry said.
He added, "This is a fight that belongs to the Iraqis ... We are not contemplating returning."
The Islamic State in Iraq and Levant (ISIL), which took control of Fallujah and Ramadi over last week, is one of the strongest rebel groups in Syria and has imposed a strict version of Islamic law in territories it holds.
U.S. intelligence officials said Friday the situation in western Iraq was "extremely dire" after the radical forces raised their flag in the town of Fallujah -- site of two of the bloodiest battles during the Iraq war -- and gained control of the city.
Meanwhile on Sunday, Iraqi government forces killed 25 of the Islamist militants in Ramadi by launching an air strike, according to local officials.
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A vehicle set on fire by tribesmen during the clashes with Iraqi security forces on Jan. 5 in Anbar, Iraq — the province where Falluja and Ramadi are situated near the border of Syria.
ISIL militants remained strong in Falluja though, as tribesmen in the area have joined the uprising against the government.
Iraqi government officials and tribal leaders are reluctant to send the army into Fallujah due to the ISIL's reputation for assassinations and bombings.
Kerry admitted that the U.S. was "very, very concerned" by the fighting, and called ISIL "the most dangerous players in that region."
One Iraqi tribal leader said fighting ISIL would agitate the violence and Falih Eisa, a member of an Iraqi provincial council, said the strategy was figuring out how to start "negotiating outside the city with the tribes to decide how to enter the city without allowing the army to be involved."
"We will help them in their fight, but this fight, in the end, they will have to win and I am confident they can," Kerry said Sunday.
Elsewhere in Iraq on Sunday, at least 19 people were killed when several car and roadside bombs exploded in commercial areas of Baghdad, the capital.
A group did not immediately come forward to claim responsibility for the attacks, but the deadliest assault happened in northern Baghdad's mainly Shi'ite district of Shaab, where two bombs killed at least nine and injured 25.
In a separate incident, gunmen set up a fake check point on and killed six drivers a main road leading to Baghdad, police said.
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Letter of Comment
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A Letter of Comment, or more commonly, a LoC or LOC, was originally a letter written by a fan and sent to a professional sf magazine or to a fanzine and published in a lettercol. Frequent contributers of locs were called letterhacks, and the act of writing the loc was called letterhacking. The term LOC was in use as early as 1961. See Science Fiction Citations.
In media fandom, where zines contained a lot of fanfiction, LOC became synonymous with feedback sent to the creator of a fanwork. A LoCer is one who writes the letter.
The term was carried over to the Internet, with LOCs transitioning to mean the feedback email that an author, zine publisher, or archivist received.[1] However, there is no evidence that the term ever caught on with fans who discovered fandom online in the 21st century[2]; communities with a higher proportion of pre-internet fans see a few uses as of the 2010s[3], but Fanfiction.net has been online since 1998, yet search results on that site for loc return just a few results, all unrelated. Meanwhile, on the Archive of Our Own, which entered open beta in 2009, a search for loc produces only 26 results, many of which are non-English works or older Sentinel fanfics imported from the 852 Prospect archive.
Debate on Pronunciation
Fans often discussed the correct way to say "LoC."
From Jundland Wastes Roll Up:
The letters were called LoCs, letters of comment, and few have ever agreed on how to pronounce the term. Some say "loke," others, "lahk"; and some even speak out the letters, "el-oh- see". (A situation very similar to the current controversy over how to say ".gif". Is it gif as in "gift" or jif after the peanut butter? I've heard both sides claim that the inventor supports their interpretation.)
The newsletter The Propagator called its lettercol "LoCSmith" (a pun on the term "lock smith") which suggested how at least that editor felt the word was pronounced.
In a letter to Southern Enclave #2, a fan wrote about the name of a column: ""LoCs and Bagels"... At least it tells people how to say LoC correctly."
Their Purposes
Letters of comment served as a reminder of the interconnectedness of fandom. They were also part of the unspoken agreement that LoCs were a form of payment for the work that went into producing fanworks. They were also used in a practical way to determine what sort of material fans really wanted.The public LoC was a form of payment. Sometimes personally providing private feedback wasn't enough. A fan explains in The K/S Press:
A long-time fan writes a letter with a focus of the purpose of LoCs and reviews:This is a three page vignette that is so powerful. I've read it a few times and each time it's still so moving. I remember writing Carolyn and telling her how much I loved it when I had first read it. But I don't remember doing an LOC. [4]
A fan remembers a zine she wrote to:When you cast your zines upon fannish waters, you want to produce ripples, possibly even waves -- not to sink without a trace. That's where LoCs come in. LoC is an acronym for Letter of Comment but what it really stands for is ego-boo, compliments, feedback, and constructive criticism. Letters of Comment are not necessarily the 'just due' of the zine ed and contributors and the obligation of the readers. The privilege is not all on your side. LoCs are also the RIGHT of the zine readers, and it is YOUR obligation to be open to their comments. Zine readers write LoCs for many reasons. In a perfect universe, you would only receive letters full of glowing praise for your sparkling dialogue, original plots, imaginative layout and high production standards, or wizardry with cross-hatching and composition... However, favorable LoCs are not the only kind that will, can, or should be written... Which brings me to the rumblings that provoked this letter. Some zine eds have a tendency to reject out of hand letters of comment that are not favorable. They won't print them; they label them unnecessarily harsh. They say the letter letter is reacting out of proportion -- after all, 'it's only a hobby.' So what's wrong with this attitude, other than the obvious fact that the zine reader's right to express an opinion... is guaranteed by the Constitution? Well, it may be YOUR 'hobby,' but if you want readers to pay out THEIR hard-earned dollars for it, it entitles them to comment on any aspect of your zine from the staples to the copyright notice... A carefully throughout, constructive critique on your zine, detailing what the reader liked or didn't like and why,... is an invaluable learning tool for you as an editor, writer, or artist... From the reader's viewpoint, when the zine creators learn from their mistakes and produce a better zine, fandom benefits as well. There has been a definite lack of critical LoCs in the last several years, resulting, in my opinion, in declining zine quality in many fandoms. With the ever-increasing costs of purchasing zines, this factor becomes more and more important. For those of you who are just in it for the Vanity Press, who don't want to hear anything but ego-boo and the compliments, you'd be much better off to just hand your material away free to your family and friends. If you can't stand the heat, stay out of the fanzine. [5]
Two even inspired me to write my first-ever LOC to a zine; I'd sent comments to online writers before, but I'd learned that part of the deal with zines was that if you read one, you were supposed to send a LOC. So after I finished it, I wrote... the stupidest LOC ever. *g* I had no idea what I was doing!... [A number of years later, I] looking at the other letters, and having a jawdrop moment. See, some of the names in there I remember from back then... One right after the other, I saw letters from sakana17, sherrold, and movies_michelle -- all women I became friends with a few years later via other fandom means, and whom I'm still friends with. (*waves!*) And there we all were, sitting in the same LOC column together in 1997, in a zine printed in Australia and shipped halfway 'round the world. I really love seeing how far back fannish connections actually go. <3 [6]
I too have written LOCs and seen them published, and at one point I mentioned wanting to read some story or other, and a complete stranger sent me the entire zine, all the way from the US, omg! (I do not remember the story, or who sent it me, alas, but I know that the zine had a gorgeous drawing of Spock pulling his shirt off on the cover...) It was a jawdropping moment of fannish kindness, and it wouldn't be the last. <3! [7]
Letters of Comment were also used as a tool for content.
One definition of a letter of comment from an 80s zine: "A letter sent to the editor to let her know what you did/didn't like about the zine. Very helpful in getting zines to be the way you want them. Also a great way to encourage writers you like." [8]
From Jacqueline Lichtenberg: "In ST fanzine fandom, the feedback was immediate and detailed because every fiction 'zine carried LoCs that made it very clear what readers were looking for -- and often spurred writers to writing the next story." [9]
From the editor of the zine In a Different Reality #2: "I would like to thank all of you who have sent us your comments and suggestions... Since we are not into market research, etc., you letters are the best guide to how well we are doing and to what you really want." And from the same zine, issue #11: "I fully expect anyone with comments on any story in this issue to send them along to me. I can't print what you want to read if you don't tell me what you like - and don't like."
Publishing Letters of Comment
Many zine editors published all of their letters of comments in a section of the zine called a lettercol.
The Starsky and Hutch letterzine S and H's editors were adamant in that they printed every one received, and without any editing. The Star Wars letterzine Southern Enclave printed most, but sometimes edited them for repetitious content. The Star Trek: TOS letterzine The K/S Press also printed all letters received, though in at least one editorial admitted it wished it hadn't, as it was felt the previous issue had included some needlessly hurtful ones.
Other letterzines did more editing. There was much discussion in Halkan Council on this subject after Connie Faddis wrote: "I note from having seen a copy of some of the complete, undiluted letters sent to HC, that there has been some editing." The editors responded: "Neither of us, until receiving Connie's letter, was aware that any contributors were dissatisfied with the quality of our editing...we retain the right to edit out statements which could be detrimental to ST fandom or revival."
It was common for LOCs to publish the letter writer's full address with the letter. Other editors published only the fan's name and city or state, and some just the fan's name. Many fans first found other fans by writing to a LOC writer near their area.
Letter columns in letterzines (or non-letterzines that ran many LOCs), could be contentious, providing the pre-internet version of flame wars. They also provided community -- giving information on deaths, on professionals sales by zine writers, on fannish and canon news. Many early media fen, such as Leslie Fish, were as well-known for their participation in letter columns as they were for their fiction.
Some editors made a point of not forwarding, or even mentioning, negative LOCs to their authors. If a zine didn't print its LOCs, then the editor forwarded any comments about specific stories onto the individual authors. From the editor of the zine, In a Different Reality: "I will faithfully forward any comment to any author, and if you don't want to discuss something or start an argument with him/her/them I'll also send the author your address, at your request. I will not become a clearinghouse for any lengthy correspondences, not because I'm not interested in eavesdropping but because I can't afford that much postage!"
Other editors printed and forwarded whatever came their way stating: ""Write and scream and write and say well done to the writers, please. All LoCs become property of ITTOI, and will be shared with the authors, printed in part or in whole in the next volume." [10]
Fans Comment on the Lack of LoCs
Much fannish time -- from the first Star Trek zine, Spockanalia, until most fanfic moved to the internet -- was spent by editors complaining that they didn't get more letters of comment.In 1980, Leslye Lilker comments on the decline of LoCs:
Another fan comments in 1980:(Once upon a time, in a world that seems far, far away, there were LoCs. For a few weeks after the zine's initial mailing, an editor had the joy (or heartbreak) of receiving reader comments... they were the feedback the editor (read 'author') required to judge the quality of his or her publication. Apparently, the LoCers are becoming a breed of readers who are threatened with extinction. The decline has been evident over the past five years. In 1975, I published my first issue of IDIC, sure that I would never sell at least half of the 60 copies, I, with great temerity, had dared to print. Fortunately, it was not so. The run sold out at the first con I attended. With with two weeks I had received approximately 25 LoCs... With their encouragement to continue, I dared to try another story, and a second issue, whole simultaneously reprinting the first. Again came the phenomenon of LoCs, all of which were encouraging... And mine was not an isolated case. Other zine editors and writers have also spoken to me of the positive effects LoCs have had on them. So, why have you, the readers, stopped writing them? ... There are several possible reasons for the slowdown: the post office ate your letter; you went pro and don't have time to write; the post office ate your letter; you have your own zine and don't have time to write; the post office ate your letter; you don't know what to say; the post office ate your letter.) [11]
A fan in 1981 writes that one reason there are fewer LoCs is that just as the art of the LoC has become a lost one, so has the response to the LoC, something that probably discourages feedback:PLEASE SEND LOC's!! The reward in zine publishing/writing/drawing is NOT in cash -- it's in the comments you send (both positive AND negative) about the zine, stories, poems/artwork. Your comments are our payment, so if you like something, tell us (and be specific about WHY). And if you hate something, the same rules apply -- tell us about it, and tell us WHY!! Believe me, apathy hurts more than criticism. So, please write!! [12]
A fan in 1984 has this opinion:I write far fewer LoCs now than I did a year or two ago... Probably some of the responses I've typically received may illustrate why I'm not so ready to dash off a LoC as I once was. I know it isn't for lack of things to say... In the old days, a fair number of writers I wrote LoCs to responded with intelligent letters of their own... The resulting exchange was stimulating and fun. Ideas were bounced back and forth, and friendships were born. [13]
From a letter in 1985:I have a couple of ideas about why LoC's are rarer these days than they used to be. 1) Many zines are so long (and I'm guilty here) that commenting adequately is a formidable task, especially when your time is limited. 2) Media fandom is more stratified than it used to be, and some fans may be intimidated by the thought of writing to a 'BNF', let alone criticizing her, and editors and writers tend to become de facto BNF's simply because of exposure. 3) There seems to be an increasing number of media fans who don't know of the origins of media fandom in SF fandom and aren't familiar with the traditions and expectations we took from SF—such as the important of LoCs. In sf fandom, a LoC will frequently get you a contributor's copy of the fanzine. 4) Less palatably, and perhaps related to (3), there may be a drift toward passivity in media fandom: that is, toward the general fan as a mere consumer of the creative products of others. And consumers don't usually comment on the products they consume. (Also, with the loss of the sense of importance of LoC's comes a loss of the SF fannish assumption that a LoC can be a creative work.) Perhaps this drift is a general one in fandom, not just in fanzines. For instance, I've seen filking change from a group endeavor ten or eleven years ago to a performance, in which one member of the group performs while the others passively listen; even if every member of the group performs, they do so individually. Letters of comment aren't supposed to elicit a response in return; they were supposed to be the reader's response to a fanzine—her participation in the zine, as it were—and the editor's response, if there is one, is in the form of interjected comments when the LoC's are printed. In a sense, the LoC is a letter to the editor, but unlike either that kind of letter or a personal letter, it's also a letter to all the other readers of the zine. Editors don't answer LoC's personally for practical . reasons. Assuming SKYWALKER is typical, a zine gets about 20 to 30 LoC's per issue, all but a few of them long and detailed. If the editor replied to all of them, she wouldn't have time to do anything else, especially if any of the replies turned into a correspondence. That's why letterzines are useful as [Sally S] pointed out: they provide a forum for discussion that genzine lettercols can't and never were intended to. [14]
In 1991, Maggie Nowakowska wrote:One subject I feel needs to be discussed in the letterzines is the future of fanzines. I found a letter of Pat Molitor in Shadowstar #18 upsetting. She has written a series of stories about the fall of Anakin Skywa1ker that have been published in several zines, but she is so demoralized by the lack of any kind of feedback, good or bad, that she isn't writing anymore. If this situation applies to other authors and artists. then something needs to be done. [15]
While shuffling through my filksong binder, I came upon an old (1983) filk on LoCs. I'm afraid the situation that it described back so long ago still exists today: Tune: I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter
- I'm gonna sit right down
- and write myself a letter;
- and make believe that it's a LoC.
- I'm gonna heap the praise so deep, I'm gonna sink up to my teeth.
- Exclamations on the bottom -- I'll be glad I got 'em!
- I'm gonna catch each subtle nuance and allusion;
- and hope there'll be a sequel soon.
- I'm gonna sit right down
- and write myself a letter,
- If I don't get some LoCs damn soon!"
In 2000, a fan got some insight into why fans don't write LoCs:
I don't like the fact that LOCs have become an endangered species, but I no longer think it is weird that people take time to discuss stories on line when they will never speak their mind to the writer. I don't think I really understood the reasons (and there are many) for the dearth of responses to authors until I started posting Total Eclipse of the Heart on the net. ADVICE TO AUTHORS: You want LOCs? Post partial stories. I'm not kidding. I got more LOCs on that incomplete novel than I did for *all* the other stuff I've written ever in my life put together. And because I got so many LOCs about it, I found this interesting trend in them: almost all LOC writers used certain phrases: "I know you get deluged with mail since your stories are so good, so I won't go on at length..." "I'm not very good at writing LOCs so I won't bother you with a lengthy note..." "I know you hear this all the time, but I just wanted to say briefly..." (Meanwhile, I'm banging my head on the desk moaning, no, no, I'm not deluged, tell me!!!!). But the one I found most disturbing which I got a lot: "I never write to authors because I'm afraid of saying something wrong," or its variant, "I hope I haven't said anything inappropriate or that offended you." So, even the people who got it together to write an LOC usually ended up apologizing for bothering the writer with it. And if they were unhappy about something in the story, the amount of dissembling before they'd admit it and the length of the apologies afterwards (almost always over minor issues) made me really sad. [16]
Too Many LoCs!
Not everyone felt a dearth of Letters of Comment.A writer, Dovya Blacque comments in 2001:
In 1976, Gerry Downes writes that she is overwhelmed with LoCs:I figured this might be the best way to thank the many, many of you who have written to me privately about Legends. I cannot believe the torrent of e-mails and letters I've received; the response has been extremely gratifying. I'm sorry I can't respond to each and every one of you privately, there are just too many, but I wanted to take this opportunity to thank all of you who ha ve written with detailed LOCs and to those who've just taken the time to say 'loved it.' I cannot tell you how much your time and effort means to me. [17]
In 1989, a zine ed, Kathy Cox, said:I still have a hundred letters from issue #1 and Alternative to answer. A thoughtful letter deserves an answer, and I have tried to respond... We all know that personal contact is the best part of trekfandom. But there is only one of me, and in trying to answer all your letters, I have not time to write stories. I may try using postcards to acknowledge LOC's with a letter only when necessary to answer questions... but I will probably still get bogged down. Forgive me. [18]
We welcome your comments. Tell us what you loved; this inspires and encourages (besides, it's great fun to read!). Tell us when you think we stubbed our toes; this is more helpful than you may realize, so don't hesitate. Tell us what you thought of our work, how you felt and why. We truly care. Unfortunately, we are unable to answer most letters personally, but time considerations make this all but impossible - please understand. [19]
Fannish Myths Regarding LoCs
There are plenty of urban zine myths about the amount of comments printed zines generated, many of them contradictory. Many blanket statements about the number of LoCs received by fans in the past were pushed through a very rosy filter, one that lauded the good old days.
Reporting amount of LoCs fans received can be a bit of a moving target. Some fans could be less-than-upfront about the number of LoCs they reported to have received. This was due to ego, how they defined a letter of comment, forgetfulness, and other factors.In 1998, this zine publisher told "newer" fans:
We get very few letters from folks. It used to be that every single person who bought a zine wrote a letter of comment on it, good or bad. That doesn't happen at all these days. [20]
In reality, LoCs were often thin on the ground, and almost everybody wanted more, regardless of the venue or decade.
For more on this topic, see Feedback.
Fewer LoCs as a Reason for the Decline of the Number of Zines Published?
Less LoCs, less zines? Less zines, less LoCs? And where does the Internet come into play?Jacqueline Lichtenberg blames the decline of the LoC as one reason fewer zines were being issued. She has a long letter in 1988 commenting on rejected fan fic, LoCs and the difference between letterzines, review zines and LoCs:
A 1991 comment:Lately, I've been hearing from established writers that Trekdom has lost the habit and art of the LoC... Faneds ceased publishing Locs because zine prices skyrocketed, so LoC writers ceased writing them because there was no free copy to be won by doing a good job on a LoC, so new writers no longer had incisive reader commentary about published stories to study and learn writing from, faneds no longer had a running commentary on their own editorial practices to keep them polite in their rejections, and as a result the quality of zine submissions has fallen and zine eds are baffled and offended by that fall in quality. Meanwhile, to make matters worse, the upfront investment in publishing a zine is going up and up, and the zine buyers are totally spoiled by the number of professional-level writers working in the zines... Zine eds are trying to revive the vitality that we used to have in zine fandom, but which we lost when we lost the LoC column and the free-issue for a published LoC policy. With our feedback look cut like that, faneds are getting ulcers, writers are depressed, and the readers are starving for good reading. Letterzines and review zines don't do the job because the letter writer has to consider that many of the readers haven't read the stories being discussed. Letterzines and review-zines consist of people expressing their own opinions, usually without reference to what anyone else in the issue is saying, or to what was said in the previous issue. Perceptive and in-depth discussion of a work which all the readers of the zine have also read, argument over various points in the work, so that the LoC column reader can see all sides of the issue, is just missing. [21]
One fan felt it was the Internet that killed feedback, and by default, print zines:Why are there fewer and fever stories around? One certain reason is because the writers can't believe fandom wants stories anymore, not really, not without the guaranteed proof in the hand that a LoC represents. It's not a coincidence that stories started to get sparse about the same time that LoCs began dwindling. In Gian Paolo's letter, he says he'd like to see stories on Mon Mothma. Okay, I published a story on MM, but whether it was good or bad or indifferent, I don't bloody well know because no one has told me. The artist liked it (thanks, Catherine), but not one LoC appeared. Zilch. Nada. Niente. [22]
Once the BBS's such as GEnie and CompuServe's started popping up, slowly and surely fans moved from the long wait between printed issues to the instant gratification (and conflagration) that the world wide web provides. Nowadays, a fan who writes a story can post it to his or her website (or someone else's) with instant gratification or disappointment from its readers. Clearly, the Internet has put an end to much of the printed fanzines. (Sadly, it also has put an end to much of the feedback we used to receive on our fan fiction, but that's another story...) [23]
For more on the decline of the print zine, see: History of Media Fanzines
More Reading
- ↑ For example, Sandy Herrold's Big List of Fanfic Peeves (1999) contains the following end note: And if you're thinking..."who in the hell is she to say all this -- I bet her fiction ain't all that great," all I can say is, feel free to check it out and send me a LOC telling me what you think. (LOC is a mailto: hyperlink).
- ↑ A fan on dreamwidth who wrote a 2015 post reminiscing about discovering fannish mailing lists in the 1990s references the term loc, but then defines it for fans who are not "dinosaurs". Snowflake Challenge Day Five, , posted by turps on January 5, 2015.
- ↑ For example, a few uses turn up in a search of a Pros fandom livejournal community. See Early Pros Writer Sue S. aka The Android Removing Some Stories From Website In 2012, , posted in the_safehouse 14 June 2012.
- ↑ from The K/S Press #63
- ↑ from Comlink #44 (1990)
- ↑ from Arduinna, written 4.8.2010, accessed 5.16.2011
- ↑ from marycrawford, written 4.8.2010, accessed 5.16.2011
- ↑ source unknown
- ↑ from Alien Romance
- ↑ It Takes Time on Impulse #1.
- ↑ from Stylus #1
- ↑ from the zine Casa Cabrillo
- ↑ personal correspondence between two fans in 1981, accessed 2011
- ↑ from Southern Enclave #3
- ↑ from Southern Enclave #10 -- Note that the plea wasn't just about LoCs in general, but specifically that we might lose potential fiction and art -- similar to arguments about feedback in Live Journal decades later.
- ↑ comments by Flamingo, June 2000, at VenicePlace, quoted on Fanlore with permission
- ↑ from a 2001 issue of The K/S Press
- ↑ from Stardate: Unknown #2
- ↑ from Destiny #2
- ↑ from Randy Landers at alt.startrek.creative, posted October 21, 1998, accessed January 30, 2013
- ↑ from On the Double
- ↑ from Southern Enclave #29
- ↑ from Orion Press: Questions and Answers, accessed March 10, 2012


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