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It's no secret that Tom Piccirilli is my all-time favorite writer. Why, you may ask, especially if you haven't read him… Here's why: his work is beautiful, expertly crafted, memorable, and haunting. It's stimulating. It's challenging. It's entertaining. I could go on. It's a mystery to me why he isn't on the bestseller's list constantly with some of my other favorite writers (like John Connolly and Dennis Lehane.)
I named one of my characters (Red Piccirilli) from my Division series after him. I've asked Pic questions over the last few years (and have seen him gladly welcome them from others via Facebook every week) and he's always kind, always helpful. What's not to like? Well, if you want a by-the-numbers formulaic story you might not like him, but that's your loss now isn't it?
He has an incredible back catalog, from early horror works at Leisure to amazing offbeat dark fiction from Bantam like A CHOIR OF ILL CHILDREN, SHADOW SEASON, THE MIDNIGHT ROAD, THE COLD SPOT, THE COLDEST MILE, etc. And an incredible and huge collection FUTILE EFFORTS, featuring short stories, poetry, and the wicked cornerstone novella FUCKIN' LIE DOWN ALREADY. Plus fantastic noirellas now available on Kindle: EVERY SHALLOW CUT, THE NOBODY, FRAYED, THRUST, LOSS, THE LAST DEEP BREATH, and ALL YOU DESPISE, among others. And there's still an iceberg of books buried beneath the water. Tom is one of those writers who have the magic (and the discipline it takes to fine-tune said magic.)
I'm incredibly happy that Pic has agreed to an interview. Enjoy!
Me: Thanks for taking the time to answer questions, Pic!
Tom Piccirilli: My pleasure, Lee, thanks for having me on the blog. As always, I appreciate all your interest. This game is an incredibly difficult one, but having fans like you make it all worthwhile in the end.
Me: My pleasure. Even your crime fiction is beautiful and haunting, where does that stem from?
Tom Piccirilli: From years of honing your craft, finding your narrative voice, and learning how to say what you want to say the way you want to say it. I've always felt that it was important to find the innate beauty of the language as I wrote. I never wanted to be a plain writer, but at the same time you always have to be careful not to write as if each sentence is taking a bow, which I was probably guilty of earlier on in my career. That "haunting" aspect is important to make the reader feel something deep for the work. Like a ghost, I want the story to hover and flit in the audience's mind. I don't want to just entertain them, I want to move them.
Me: Ever plan to update your wonderful writing book WELCOME TO HELL? Possibly with a crime slant? What have you learned since then and can you share it with us if we give you a lot of money?
Tom Piccirilli: Probably not. The more I learn about writing, the more I realize how little I know about it. What makes it work, what drives the narrative, what people take away from my words. It's a magical, mystical process. You find a topic, theme, or concept that matters to you, and then you do your best to communicate that to someone else. You draw them through a world of your own perspective and hope that they see and feel things the same way that you do.
Me: You've kept your voice (which shouldn't come as a shock, I guess, since a writer's voice stems from their soul and perception of themselves and the world around them, right?) What challenges did you face in switching from Horror to Crime fiction?
Tom Piccirilli: Well, a writer's voice, like the writer himself, is always changing to some degree. We're living, breathing things and our narrative voice is organic as well. My worldview has shifted, the motifs and themes that interest me are slightly different now at the age of 46 than they were at 25. I care about things now I didn't understand then. The great fantasy author Jack Cady once told me never to throw any of unfinished fiction out, because somewhere down the line I'd have the skill and control to write about certain things I wasn't capable of writing about at the time, but I also wouldn't have the fire and rawness that I had then. And he was right.
As for challenges: Horror and noir writers are always indulging in their darkest, ugliest fantasies. They're drawn to the awful matters. That's where they find their drama. That's where they find their love. They're tearing into their own scars and making them bleed all over again. And it's off that blood that we make our art. If it's art, in the end. But whatever it is, we create it by invoking anguish and conflict and scenes of blood and wreckage. I've said it before, but it bears repeating. For me, it feels as if the horror genre is a young man's game, whereas noir is for older men. When I was young, I was drawn to Horror because Horror is fantasy that focuses on the fear up around the next corner. Whereas now at 46 I'm drawn to crime and noir, because noir is about the fear that's tailing you, coming up behind you. It's the embodiment of your disappointments and mistakes and regrets.
Me: Where do you see yourself going next? Or are you happy where you are, with what you're writing?
Tom Piccirilli: For the time being I'm happy writing noirish dark crime fiction. One of these days I think I'd like to do a bigger novel that has less concentration on the crime stuff and more on other concerns, whatever they are. Family matters, relationships, and all that other shit that is the focus of so much modern literature. I think I'm finally at that point of my life when I see enough humor and darkness and oddity in the so-called "normal" everyday life that I don't need the storytelling conventions of genre material. The guns, the double-crosses, the heist gone wrong. Maybe one of these days I'll get around to writing that book, and then again maybe not. Part of the fun of being a writer is not knowing what's going to suddenly become of interest to you somewhere down the line. You can't guess at it, you just have to let it persuade you.
Me: I'd love to read that! What have you found most rewarding in your career? What have you found most disappointing?
Tom Piccirilli: The most rewarding aspect is when someone reacts to the work the way I hoped they would. When they're moved and shocked and come to love the characters the way I do, and the writing has a real meaning for them.
The most disappointing aspects–well, I'm as needy and greedy as the next guy. I'd like to make more cash, I'd like to have greater Hollywood interest, bigger sales, more brouhaha made over my work. I don't expect lear jets and stadiums full of screaming readers, but hell, I live in my imagination, so I dream big.
Me: You appear a perpetual student of life and the craft. How important has searching for answers been in your growth as a writer and man? Did you study your favorite writers to see what they were doing right and why you loved it?
Tom Piccirilli: You study the things that matter to you, grab your attention, and hold sway over you. I did study my early favorite authors, which generally means that I began to copy the way they did things in a search for my own voice. They spoke to me, and I wanted to do what they did. I wanted to be a part of the overwhelming grandeur of literature. I wanted to impress myself upon it. Your loves shape who you are and how you come at the world, for better or worse. The same holds true for your hatreds, and your frustrations, and your needs. The more self-aware you are the more aware you are of what goes on in other people too. The truth of what drives them. And as such you can convey that through your work.
Me: Is there any story that you've wanted to write but haven't? If so, why?
Tom Piccirilli: I'd love to tackle a huge, sprawling Science Fiction/Fantasy novel, but I just don't think I have the chops for it. My mind doesn't work in that way, in those patterns. I love reading it, and I can appreciate all the effort and imagination that goes into such works, and I pine to do something like that eventually, but it's just not my strength.
Me: In what ways has writing your stories tested you?
Tom Piccirilli: In every way conceivable. The life of a writer tests your sense of self, your knowledge of the world, your understanding of people. It teaches you how to pay bills with late checks, with no checks, how to call back painful incidents in the most excruciating detail. You wallow in your insecurities because this is such a lonely craft. You crave feedback but you're constantly worried about failing to meet your goals. It's a constant struggle with self. It's so easy to be unsure of who you are because all day long you're slipping in and out of other identities.
Me: I've always thought of you as an original and boundary pusher. Do you purposely shy away from the formulaic?
Tom Piccirilli: I try to keep myself as entertained as I hope the reader will be, and since I'm extremely well-read, I get bored easily. I try to find new ways to say things, and find new things to say as well. The authors who've meant the most to me over the years, the ones that impacted me the most, are the ones who found offbeat, quirky, sometimes surreal ways to say the great truths of their lives. Whether they were telling stories that focused on life, love, death, fear, redemption, heartache, whatever, they found an original and grabbing way to pull the reader in. I try to do the same.
Me: I'd recommend three of your works for new readers to see your range: A CHOIR OF ILL CHILDREN, THE DEAD LETTERS, and EVERY SHALLOW CUT. Which of your novels would you recommend for new readers to try? Do you have favorites?
Tom Piccirilli: Those three are at the top, so I'd probably recommend them as well. I'm very proud of those particular titles because each one seems to be a slight turning point for me so far as my direction and focus were concerned. My new one THE LAST KIND WORDS is probably my favorite among my crime novels, so I'd promote that one too. I think it's something of a cornerstone among my books. I pushed myself pretty hard to reach new ground, discuss new topics in new ways, and yet also stay in touch with all the other themes and stylistic elements that I think my readers expect from me at this point.
Me: With THE LAST KIND WORDS coming out next, do you feel you've hit a milestone? Can you tell us a little bit about the book?
Tom Piccirilli: It's the story of a young thief named Terrier Rand who returns to his criminal family on the eve of his brother Collie's execution. Collie went mad dog for apparently no reason and went on a killing spree murdering eight people. Now, five years later, Collie swears he only killed seven people, and the eighth was the work of someone else. Terry not only has to deal with an ex-best friend, a former flame, some mob guys, and other assorted badasses, but he's also forced to investigate that night his brother went crazy and find out if Collie is telling the truth. But more than anything, he really wants to know the reason for why his brother went on a spree, in the hopes that Terry himself is never pushed to that kind of edge.
The novel is due out June '12, and I recently turned in the follow-up entitled THE LAST WHISPER IN THE DARK.
Me: Can't wait to read them! Thanks so much for spending time with us, Pic!
Tom Piccirilli: Anytime, man! Thanks for having me!
Tom Piccirilli is the author of more than twenty novels including SHADOW SEASON, THE COLD SPOT, THE COLDEST MILE, and A CHOIR OF ILL CHILDREN. He's won two International Thriller Awards and four Bram Stoker Awards, as well as having been nominated for the Edgar, the World Fantasy Award, the Macavity, and Le Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire.
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Only once since Playboy was first published in December of 1953 has there not been a Playmate of the Month: March 1955. It was indeed a sad month for our male readers. But every month since then we've sought out and featured the world's most beautiful women baring it all in our pages, and we're pretty proud of that.
To celebrate this streak (696 months and counting), #PlayboyRetro brings you The Playmate Review, a look back through the decades at the Playmates that previously held the title, in this case, of Miss March. Along the way, we'll try to contextualize the time and the state the country was in when they appeared. We begin today with the beautiful…
Sandra Edwards – March 1957
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Priscilla Wright – March 1966
{"pbembedwidget":"gallery","id":"4569","size":"small","alignment":"right"}With protests raging against the war in Vietnam, the Space Race heating up (sort of: the Soviet Union crashed Venera 3 on Venus, becoming the first spacecraft to "land" on another planet) and John Lennon blaspheming the Beatles all the way to bank, the rare beauty of Priscilla Wright breaks up all the tension, at least for a little while.
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{"pbembedwidget":"gallery","id":"8635","size":"small","alignment":"right"}March 1978 is a weird one: Sandwiched between Ted Bundy's arrest, the Hillside Strangler's tenth and final victim (serial killers and the '70s, right?) and Larry Flynt being shot and paralyzed in Georgia, Christina Smith makes her Playboy debut. By this time Playboy has become a cornerstone of short fiction on the back of Robie Macauley, publishing such notable names as John Updike, Vladimir Nabokov, Arthur Koestler and Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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I just wish they were going to be playing a show in Colorado when I was there. What are the chances? Oh well.
i know you came to detroit (i saw you there) and also at bamboozle in chicago, but the shows were so much fun! come back to michigan, and be sure to stay and meet the fans please!
Montréal, Québec ! Or even "Le Festival des Montgolfières de Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu" would be awesome !


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Government espionage is nothing new. Although both sides in the example above dismiss the claims, these recent developments confirm that the location of the battlefield is forever changed. Instead of bullets and bombs, the new intelligence war is being fought with almost imperceptible bursts of electricity. Reminds me of the classic AC/DC song "Dirty Deeds Done Dirty Cheap," where they poetically proclaim that, "For a fee I'm happy to be your backdoor man."


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The last of our big orchid flowers fell off this morning but fortunately it has been replaced by the first of our small orchids coming into flower.
Later on in the morning a woman from a neighbouring village stopped in to ask Jai if she would help to teach her some English and if so how much she would charge her. It appears that her Ausie boyfriend is coming here next month and she wanted to be able to communicate with him better. I'm keeping out ofit which I have found to nearly always be the best option with things around here
In the early afternoon they came around the village killing all the mosquitoes. Armed with a petrol 'ghostbusters' style weapon they spray foul smelling smoke everywhere - and I mean everywhere. Couldnt see a thing in the house for a good 1/2 hour although I did keep our bedroom door closed until the worst had cleared. Didnt make me feel too good so can only imagine what it does for the mossies, still, they are difficult to feel sorry for.
As I had the camera out for the extermination I took the opportunity to walk around thegarden with it. Got over half way round and the batteries ran out so had to start again.
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Originally Posted by High Overlord Saurfangi7-860 @2.8GHz | Radeon HD 7770 | 8GB DDR3-1333MHz | Corsair CX 430W |
Just adds immersion imo , although I'm ignorant of the crossbow stuff as I haven't bothered with dawnguard yet. But the extra play options Skyre open up really add alot to the game for me, valid hand to hand, fencing style swordplay, balanced magic, all got me back from being bored of skyrim.
I get plenty of bolts from dead guards with Deadly Dragons too
Don't think you need (many at least) perks to craft the basic bolts from Dawnguard.
Deadly Dragons seriously makes me run for cover sometimes... spawning 3 buffed dragons at a time.
Ahoi pepz, I'm having some annoying bugs that I can't seem to find any freaking way to fix.
1- Alt+Tab, everytime I do it, I can't go back to the game. All I get is a black screen with borders… can still hear game sounds.
2- Can't see underwater, every time I dive the screen becomes gray-ish.
3- Glitchy shadows, I already tried to change some option in the config file & use some mods, yet I can't see to fix or just get rid of them completely =(
Any ideas? =P
2- Install this: http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/14007. After you install it the waters around you will still be bugged. Go somewhere far away and test it.
3- I have no idea.
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^ The above should be taken with two grains of salt and a fistful of "chill the F* out".
Yeah, alt-tab thing is annoying as hell, but I managed to live with it. As mentioned above, just alt tab back to it again and it should solve it. Another thing to note is before you do alt tab, make sure to open inventory or just press ESC for options before doing it. By doing this, you will avoid the mouse glitch which can pop occasionally when you press alt-tab.
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For the alt+tab, it USED to work. After reinstalling the gamae couple of weeks back, alt+tab'ing back to the game won't fix it, it's still a dark screen with borders.
The water, fixed it by switching a value in the configs. xD
As for the shadows.... it's the most annoying thing ever really >.<
Might as well add the extremely generic build I used for Dawnguard.
Name: Hand of Akatosh/Auriel
Profile: Snow elven culture has nearly vanished from Tamriel. You took up the duties of a Knight-Paladin in an effort to spread the word of Auriel back throughout Skyrim.
Race: Any except Nord, Khajiit, Orc and Argonian
Class Archetype: The Ranger + The Paladin
Morality: Good
Perks: *= 1 to 4 perk points . **= 5 to 8 perk points. ***= Over 8 perk points. N/A= No perk points.
Destruction: N/A
Restoration: **
Alteration: **
Heavy Armor: N/A
Blocking: **
Two-Handed: N/A
One-Handed: ***
Archery: ***
Light Armor: ***
Sneak: *
Lockpicking: N/A
Pickpocket: N/A
Speech N/A
Illusion: *
Conjuration: N/a
About Crafting. Take them however you like. They're game-breaking no matter your build, so it's up to you how much you want.
Armor: Ancient Falmer set, Auriel's Shield
Weaponry: Auriel's Bow, One-handed Maces or Dawnbreaker. Never use blood arrows.
Factions: Join the Dawnguard. Destroy the Dark Brotherhood. Fight for the Empire in the civil war.
Recommended Mods:
3rd person dual wield animation fix: if dual wielding.
Dual wield Parrying: Also if dual wielding.
Any no helmet mod: due to the lack of a helmet in the falmer set.
Bowlegged jump animation fix: so you don't look like a troll jumping with a bow.
Deadly Combat: Always.
Momo Acrobatic Jump: I don't like putting anime-style stuff in the game, but this one is definitely an improvement.
New animation for running with a bow: Same reason as the jump.
Project Reality:Climates of Tamriel: I can't play without this.
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For graphical issues like shadows and under water stuff the thing that worked for me was either updating drivers or uninstalling the latest ones.
Originally Posted by High Overlord Saurfangi7-860 @2.8GHz | Radeon HD 7770 | 8GB DDR3-1333MHz | Corsair CX 430W |
Does anyone else have problems when playing Skyrim above 60 fps? I have no idea whats causing it but when I let it be at 120, weird things start happening. Pots and pans start flying and making the collision noise indoors. Sometimes I get a weird submerging underwater and out of the water flicker. Chickens and other animals just die for no good reason etc.
After limiting it to 60 max, the problems seem to have disappeared but its a lot less smooth than it was before..
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I keep getting the collision noise indoors for no reason. Creepy as hell.
not sure what you're expecting but hours and hours of free content that is limited by the modders imagination is exactly what makes bethesda games better. if you're getting your shit from the steam workshop, that's problem one, the best shit there is ripped off from the guys who put up on skyrim nexus. you tel me what you're looking for and i'll tell you where to find it. you want an addon where you fuck hookers in the inns? they made one. you want one where you can look like MLP and staby shit? they got one. mods will be created for the next 5 years for skyrim.
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if you can't make it, you really don't have a right to bitch about nobody else making it. stop being lazy and learn how, you'll be amazed how simple this stuff can be and how many people are willing to help you with the stuff that isn't so simple (papyrus scripting)
I LOVE mods and really appreciate the work modders put into them and know that I would be hard pressed to make anything bordering on passable in comparison to the stuff I'm using on Skyrim right now.
It just surprises me that something so big as the combat system outside of perks seems to have gone largely unnoticed by moders and mod users alike.
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Ashland mayor resigns effective immediately
ASHLAND, Mo. - Just weeks after top city leaders lost their job, the mayor of Ashland announced Tuesday he will resign.
Mayor Michael Jackson's resignation takes effective immediately, but the city will announce it during a scheduled Board of Aldermen meeting Tuesday night.
In May, the board chose not to reappoint police chief Anthony Consiglio, city administrator Kelly Henderson and city attorney David Bandre.
ABC 17 News was told Gene Rhorer will fill in as mayor for the time being.
Rhorer was a Ward 1 Alderman.
Jackson told ABC 17 News he and his wife have always had a retirement plan and they have decided to start that phase of their life.
"Our retirement plan has always been to move back to Texas, so that's what we're going to do," Jackson said. "It's a little sooner than we anticipated, but that was the intent."
Jackson said the next big step for the city is filling the open positions for the police chief, city attorney and administrator.
"We have committees working to fill those open positions," Jackson said.
He said he is sad to be leaving the city, but is excited to move to Texas and start living out his plan.
"It has been really, really great working with all the folks with the city and all the various boards I've served on," Jackson said.


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Magic Shrooms are shrooms that give you an outlook on life as you have never seen before. It causes you to have racing deep thoughts, appreciate your surroundings, express random emotions, and possibly see stuff caused by your imagination. They are generally found on cow shit but do research before you eat the shrooms as you may eat the wrong kind which could be deadly. Smoking Marijuana is a good way to enhance your shroom trip. It can last for many hours as you seem to learn answers to life most people wouldn't understand if never taken shrooms. They are not dangerous if responsible. Once you have done shrooms, you're outlook on life will be changed, in a good way.
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Star Sydney Roosters NRL recruit Michael Jennings says he is disappointed with Penrith coach Ivan Cleary's stinging assessment that he was released because he wasn't living up to his lofty wage.
Cleary said the Panthers released their highest-paid player from the final three seasons of his A$650,000 a year contract because he wasn't providing value for money.
"The bottom line is that when your highest-paid asset is not bringing the return you need, then something's got to give," Cleary said.
Jennings, 24, said yesterday it hurt to read Cleary's blunt assessment of his attitude and output in his final season at the Panthers.
"Reading the papers today I saw that all in the paper," Jennings said.
"Ivan is entitled to his own opinion but I don't want to get too much into that.
"... It is disappointing hearing that. Like I said, he's entitled to his opinion."
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Lambert painted this work in Paris. Amy Lambert (on the left) is talking to a stout French washerwoman and landlady who has collected a bundle of laundry. Lambert's baby son Maurice is depicted seated on the floor. He was born on 25 June 1901 and would have been about three months old.
Lambert used a range of brushstrokes to create a lively surface. He was interested in the decorative placement of the figures and in the harmonious balance of tone and colour – a unity of effect. He was also concerned with painting various tones of white against white: the landlady is shown wearing a black-and-white check skirt; there is a white bundle of laundry; the baby, dressed in a white frock, is playing on a white sheet; and there is a white hat box and a vase of white flowers on a table covered by white drapery. The whites, nonetheless, are full of colour, with pinks, blues, yellows and greens added to them.
Lambert commented that this painting was 'a group composition with my wife and child, somewhat influenced by Whistler with a touch of the Italian Renaissance' (ML MSS A1811, p.59). The figure of the young mother placed on the side of the composition, wearing a black dress with her face in profile and hair drawn back into a bun, shows similarities to that of the woman at the piano in Whistler's At the piano 1858–59 (Taft Museum, Cincinatti, Ohio). Lambert had viewed Whistler's painting in London in 1900 in the collection of the Australian-born patron Sir Edmund Davis and considered it to be 'a great sincere work of art without any frills' (ML MSS 97/2). In his use of tonal restraint Lambert also followed Whistler's works such as The painter's mother 1871 (Musée d'Orsay, Paris), painted in harmonies of black, white and grey.
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A little less complicated but still noteworthy is a cluster buy at telecommunications company Windstream (WIN). Four insiders including the CEO Jeffery Gardner bought $410,200 worth of stock over March 7-28. Of the execs plunking down cash, director Samuel Beall,was the biggest buyer, shelling out $240,300 for 30,000 shares of Windstream.
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ive tried to make plates several times. i use a 06 clay. (slabs)
would using a high fire clay help prevent cracks and breakage?
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Posted 23 May 2013 - 09:37 PM
I don't think the temperature of the clay makes a difference. It could be the type of clay. Some clays are more plastic than say handbuilding clay. Plastic clays throw easier but they can crack and warp easier. This is true for all themperatures. Some clays are plastic but may be less prone to cracking. It is always best to find a clay that suits your purpose/or way of working.
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Posted 28 May 2013 - 04:56 PM
I'm thinking that maybe your clay doesn't have an open enough body, that is, it would be less prone to warping and cracking if it contained more coarse material such as sand or grog (ground up fired clay). That would improve the evenness of drying and other workability characteristics. It wouldn't have to be super coarse. It's true that firing temperature of the clay wouldn't be the issue, but I think there might be more variety in clays you could try among those that fire to ^5-6 or higher. You don't want it to mature at a much higher temp than you are planning to fire it to. A lot of ^5-6 clays contain fine to medium sand and are nice to work with without the coarseness being noticeable. Or you could get one with a noticeably coarse body if you like the feel and look of that. I'm not really very familiar with low-fire clays, around ^05 or ^06, but get the feeling many of them don't contain much coarse material. I could be wrong about that. Perhaps your clay supplier could help you with this.
Posted 28 May 2013 - 10:07 PM
I really would need to know more about the types of cracks you are getting, also about your slab forming method, and your drying method to know what is happening with the slab plates.
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Blinking red means that you treat it as a stop sign. This is something you must know when you pass the DMV test in order to get your license. I came up to Vineyard driving on Montevino and stopped. Traffic on my left was obeying the rule, stopping and yielding right of way. As I normally do, I looked a second time to my right just as I was to begin driving into the intersection when there suddenly appeared a woman driving her SUV somewhere north of the 35 mph limit, talking on her cell phone, who blew through the intersection and appeared oblivious to the great danger she created. I braked and immediately went on the horn, which seemed to wake her up a bit as indicated by a brief flash of her brake lights.
Folks, red light running, which is epidemic in Pleasanton, is dangerous, but obliviousness to blinking red lights is even more so.
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a resident of Vineyard Hills
on Feb 5, 2008 at 5:45 pm
We know first hand how dangerous the intersection of Montevino and Vineyard is - a lady ran the red light and totaled our daughters car then claimed our daughter was talking on her cell phone! Thank god for cell phone records we were able to prove our daughter was infact NOT on her cell phone at the time. When approaching Vineyard from Montevino always take a few extra seconds to make sure the traffic from the other direction STOPS on a red...it may save your life!
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on Feb 5, 2008 at 7:28 pm
Frank -- Right up there with running reds and not knowing what a blinking red light means are those individuals who do not understand the difference between a broken or a solid white line. For those who are oblivious in this area -- Solid lines discourage crossing and should not be crossed. Broken lines may be crossed. Remember that next time one is trying to enter the Shell Gas Station at Hopyard and West Las Positas.
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on Feb 5, 2008 at 9:31 pm
"appeared oblivious to the great danger she created"
At least she was protected from the danger in her SUV!
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I agree with Becky's recommendation and encourage caution upon entering all intersections, whether in flash or normal operation.
While the traffic engineering division strives to minimize the time signals are in flash, there are times where preventative maintenance will not eliminate a failure. In the case of Vineyard @ Montevino, the computer controlling the signals faulted placing the signals in flash. We repaired the unit and when it faulted again on the second day, we replaced the unit.
While these faults cause a disruption to the service of the traffic signal and create an inconvenience tothe motorist, the majority of drivers do understand and obey a flashing red light.
Where we see a greater violation rate is when a signal goes dark (from a PG&E outage for example) and there is not the flashing red light.
The law is the same for a dark signal as it is for a flashing red signal, which requires motorists to treat the intersection as an all way stop.
Unfortunately, the lack of a red indication, flashing or solid, appears to create a greater violation rate. For this reason, the City is in the process of placing battery back-up power at all traffic signals. This will allow normal operation and flash operation during times of power outages and minimize the disruption to the signal operation.
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on Feb 11, 2008 at 8:57 pm
Thank you Mike.
My opinion is that you and your department provide excellent service in our city. Regarding the Montevino/Vineyard light in question, I see your folks there working and know you are on top of the issues.
I believe your rankings on violation rate are accurate. However, my main point is that enough people don't understand what to do at either a flashing red OR a dark light situation that a significant hazard is created by their ignorance. Since problematic lights will always be the case, the driving public has a duty to know what to do.
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Newsflash: A simple method for achieving nuclear fusion, the process that powers the sun, has been devised. The requirements are so modest that fusion reactions between isotopes of hydrogen can readily be brought about with tabletop equipment.
The popular and scientific press carried much coverage of this achievement after the March 8, 2002, publication of a peer-reviewed report in Science by Rusi P. Taleyarkhan of Oak Ridge National Laboratory and five colleagues, which described the means for generating fusion in a small glass vessel. Reporters from many newspapers and magazines—including The New York Times, Business Week, Scientific American, and the news bureau of Science itself—immediately probed the controversial question of whether the evidence was sufficient to conclude that fusion reactions truly took place. They described the observations and the counter-observations. They evoked memories of the cold-fusion debate of 1989. They examined the judgment of the editors of Science in accepting the paper. But even if one takes the above "newsflash" at face value, this information is, in fact, quite dated: A tabletop method for bringing about fusion in a small vessel became public knowledge on November 29, 1949, in a patent issued to Winfield W. Salisbury of Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Commercial devices based on his patent have been in widespread use for decades.
Huh? If this is true, why so much excitement? The answer is that most people confuse nuclear fusion with power generation. So when a new method for bringing about fusion reactions is presented, as was the case in March, it is easy to start musing that it could be harnessed to generate power. Taleyarkhan's article reported no such achievement. Its importance lies in its claim to have generated fusion in a novel way: by imploding a bubble with sound waves, a technique known to generate high temperatures and brief flashes of light.
Although this phenomenon, called sonoluminescence, has been known for many decades, in recent years specialists have postulated that perhaps temperatures in the collapsing bubble can be made high enough to induce fusion. At least one private company, Impulse Devices of Grass Valley, California, is investigating ways that such imploding bubbles might be harnessed in a fusion power reactor. But the work of this small startup is still limited to computer modeling and trying to detect fusion neutrons from sonoluminescence. Although much hope may exist, no one has yet shown how to generate power this way.
Power generation from imploding bubbles would indeed be a phenomenal breakthrough. But that feat is considerably more demanding than just coercing hydrogen isotopes to fuse, which has been a relatively straightforward technical exercise since Salisbury's patent issued. In essence, all one needs is to arrange for ions of a heavy isotope of hydrogen, say deuterium, to be accelerated by an electric field so that they strike a target also containing a heavy hydrogen isotope. The required apparatus is not a liquid-filled flask but something more like an old-fashioned vacuum tube, which probably has something to do with why Salisbury assigned his patent to the Collins Radio Company. Whereas the experiment reported in March is controversial because the number of neutrons given off, the telltale marker for fusion, was relatively small (some skeptics would argue it is zero), commercial devices based on Salisbury's technique are called "neutron tubes" precisely because they give off these particles in copious amounts.
The chief use for neutron tubes is in the oil and gas industry. Lowered into an exploratory borehole, they emit neutrons, which interact with the various minerals and fluids present, giving off gamma rays. Analysis of this radiation in turn reveals information about the surrounding geological formation. One of the companies manufacturing neutron tubes for such purposes is Thermo MF Physics of Colorado Springs. Their offerings include a portable unit that sells for about $55,000. Asked whether tabletop fusion is a remarkable thing, Jack Reichardt, general manager of Thermo MF Physics, says, "Heavens, no; that's clearly not the case and never has been."
Interestingly, most producers of neutron tubes shy away from mentioning that their devices produce fusion reactions. Perhaps they are afraid their customers will subconsciously worry that pushing the wrong button will turn the instrument into an H-bomb. But not all companies are so reticent. One European firm, EADS, is advertising its "FusionStar FS-NG1 neutron generator," which, like standard neutron tubes, relies on electric fields to force heavy hydrogen isotopes together within a vacuum chamber. This device, however, uses a spherical configuration rather than a cylindrical tube.
How do the various techniques for tabletop fusion compare? In their attempt to fuse deuterium, Taleyarkhan and his colleagues reported that the number of 2.5-mega-electron-volt neutrons, an energy level characteristic for the fusion of deuterium, rose about 4 percent above background, with an estimated emission rate of some 104 or 105 neutrons per second. By contrast, the neutron tubes manufactured by Thermo MF Physics put out from 108 to 1011 neutrons per second. The specifications on the EDS device are for 107 to 108. Given such statistics, one might reasonably wonder why electric methods haven't been pursued in the quest for fusion energy. The answer is that they have been investigated, but so far all designs have fallen far short of what would be needed to produce more power than is consumed.
The problem with all these tabletop techniques is that they do not produce sufficient energy density. "That's the hard part," says Todd Ditmire, a physicist at the University of Texas at Austin. Ditmire and colleagues developed yet another way to achieve tabletop fusion in 1999 using laser pulses to heat deuterium clusters. At the time he was careful to stress that his method did not open the door to fusion power generation. Ditmire believes that it is important to study the possibility of producing fusion with imploding bubbles, but he notes, "I don't see any obvious way that this could be scaled up to a scheme that would be interesting for fusion energy."
It's understandable that some of the newspaper and magazine reporters caught up in the frenzy were drawn into the supposition that any tabletop device that can achieve fusion must be a breakthrough. But it is curious that the editors of Science were not more circumspect in their coverage: A news article in the same issue that carried Taleyarkhan's controversial report indicated that although some labs are trying to achieve conditions for fusion using enormous lasers or powerful magnetic fields, "small-scale 'tabletop' fusion reactions, meanwhile, have remained far out of reach." Another commentary in that very issue, written by Fred D. Becchetti, a nuclear physicist at the University of Michigan, corrects that misstatement, noting that tabletop fusion devices are in routine use.
Becchetti's piece did, however, also somewhat confound facts in a way that exaggerated the import of the new work. He indicated that existing methods require either megavolt accelerators to fuse deuterium or "a special radioactive tritium (t) target and hence government licensing." In fact, deuterium fusion reactions can be easily achieved using a few tens of thousands of volts. This has been well demonstrated, even by amateur scientists, including Joe Zambelli, Jr., an enterprising undergraduate who constructed such a device recently over a summer break. When I spoke with Zambelli, he was attempting to increase his working level from 30,000 to 50,000 volts, which he expects will allow his homebrew machine to put out about a million fusion neutrons per second. But even at the lower level, his device, which sits on a wooden table in the family room of his parents' house, can generate 250,000 neutrons per second. The fact that fusion can be carried out on a small scale is, Zambelli notes, "nothing really amazing."—David Schneider
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When undersexed and overworked athletes collide: The IOC sanctioned orgy and other Olympic deviancy
"Sex is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint and false modesty as the other." - Marquis de Sade
Reports out of London have the IOC on the hook for a standing order of 150,000 condoms to accommodate whatever deviant misadventures athletes might find themselves embroiled in while living in the apparently overcrowded and carnal quarters of the athletes' village. And so what? We're at a loss to find anything amiss with a healthy if not hefty dose of hedonism, with a Planned Parenting parade or IOC-sanctioned orgy, a fetishistic predisposition to prophylactics or all-night sex romps on the chalky asphalt of the 100-meter track. These are high-strung people, folks, Adderall-addled adolescents who spend their formative years being coached and corralled like finely tuned show dogs all in the name of performing live circus acts on TV every four or five years, only to be shot out back if they don't succeed. So what if they want to sniff butts between sets and act horny like the kennels in heat? What's so wrong about a little open-door, shit-slinging, sweat-soaked orgy at high noon if they're allotted 15 condoms a head? Huh?
"Womankind more joy discovers, making fools, than keeping lovers." Selah. And so much for that. Other notable deviancies surrounding the Olympics include out-of-market horse tranquilizers and steroid-soaked elephant epidurals and big-time gambling for people with a well-documented weakness for fun, of which we are numbered.
There's no better time to indulge in the gambling vice than during the Olympic Games, when determining an odds-on favorite in sports like equestrian and water polo is little more than a carefree crapshoot. People who pay close attention to hurdle-jumping horses tend to keep that type of perversion to themselves, yet bookies will take whatever you want to lay against Shoulda Bought a Boat at 3 to 1 to jump four hurdles and falter at the finish.
What the fuck does that even mean?
No one knows, and that's the point; betting futures on the Olympics is a fast way to find yourself without one, babbling uncontrollably on the outskirts of England about some show horse who sucked and is now being used as a stud in one of the seedier displays in the athletes' village.
Whoops. We're getting vulgar now; best just get to the action:
Will China win more gold medals than the U.S.? Yes -130, No -110
This is a trap bet, a literal trap designed by the peddlers of the Patriot Act to test the resolve and patriotism of American citizens. Taking "Yes" is actually consenting to a search and seizure, and the people who did have already vanished from their homes.
Over/Under 3.5 gold medals for Michael Phelps?
This is actually asking whether Michael Phelps will become the most awarded Olympic athlete of all time, and the answer is no. Take the under; Phelps wins the 100 and 200 m butterfly and the 4 x 200 freestyle relay, but the team falls to France in 100 m freestyle and to Australia in the medley.
Over/Under 6.5 disgraced (read: steroid-addled) athletes?
Eight athletes were stripped of their medals in 2008, though two were returned, so we'll set the bar at 6.5, which is on par with a 6.3 average since the 2000 Games in Sydney. Given the current climate in Washington, where the spook show witch trials for athletes suspected of cheating are in full swing, we'll take the under.
Usain Bolt's time in the 200 m: 19.19 or worse – 1 to 4, 19.11-19.18 – 9 to 4
This is essentially betting whether Usain Bolt will set another 200 m world record, which he technically will, so the 9 to 4 bet plays. The problem is that he'll set said "record" while finishing second to Yohan Blake, thereby not setting a record at all. For people who like betting on incompetence you can also grab Bolt at 10/1 to false start.
Over/Under 25.5 for the average margin of victory for Team USA Men's Basketball
Over/Under 45.5 for the largest margin of victory for Team USA Men's Basketball
Over/Under 12.5 for the smallest margin of victory for Team USA Men's Basketball
Olympic basketball is a bit bizarre, but not so bizarre that they play the sport with numerous balls on the court at once. Having 12 of the best NBA minds on the planet is a plus, but only one of them can ever score at a time. Take the under across the board.


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tell me about it. ganna be a major blow on firearms -_-
well in a matter of days were have another horrific shooting
this is not good for our hobby
J Carney said today the pres and dictator is going to push for renewed assualt rifle ban
hold on
my condolences to the families affected
Sprat and sprat1 are one and the same.
tell me about it. ganna be a major blow on firearms -_-
President is expected to talk today.
NBC is saying 2. O9 millimeter handguns.
Saying he killed his mother a teacher at that school. every news agency has a completely different story.
What I want to point out is all the news agencies say the shooter was 20 years old which means he was not legally allowed to own handguns yet.
If the weapons belonged to a parent they are criminally liable.
EDIT My bad. Just read the update and now they say he was 24.
Last edited by jrs; 12-14-2012 at 02:44 PM. Reason: spelling
"A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.", Will Durant
"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.", Edmund Burke
I think these kind of things are a Terrorist ploy to evoke government to suspend our gun rights. Once these MUSLIMS get our means to defend this country taken away, a ground invasion here would be most easy.
That is absolutely horrible. I feel for the parents of the children, and the children of the adults. What a shame.
Yeah, with this one, I believe it will be the straw that broke the camels back. I can see an assualt weapons as well as hi cap magazine ban.
Enforcement, NOT Amnesty!!!!!!
"If theyre going to come here illegally, apply for & receive assistance through a corrupted Government agency encouraging this lawless behavior, work under the table & send billions of dollars each year back to their families in Mexico, while bleeding local economies dry, protest in our streets waving their Mexican flags DEMANDING rights, while I have to press 1′ for English, then they need to be shipped back to where they came from!" -Chad Miller
2nd said it for me, "That is absolutely horrible.", for everyone involved in one way or another. Whether it's the kids, parents, staff of the school, friends, family members, officers and medics at the scene.
To let any of you know that don't yet, a brief article stated the firearms used are registered to the shooters mother, one of the victims
And the shooter's girl friend is missing, and another body has been found in a home and it sounds like it's not far from the school.
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I decided to play around with my hive scale data and compare 2011 (a pretty normal year) with 2012 (a very hot year with little rainfall). I normalized each year and overlaid them. The data is very interesting.
I always see people asking about when the "flow" hits for certain areas, well, if you live by me, this might give you some indication.
2011 vs 2012.JPG
The red line is 2011, the gold line is 2012. Here's my take on the data:
1. flows hit much earlier when it warms earlier. This might not be a good thing if your bees don't have enough time to build up. As you can see, my bees had another month to build up in 2012 before the first flow hit.
2. You can see the effect of the drought on 2012 summer flow. In 2011 the summer flow was much larger than the spring flow. Vice-versa in 2012.
3. We have 3 main flows 1. the Black Locust flow, 2. Summer flow starting with Linden, and 3. The fall flow (mainly Goldenrod).
I'm just posting because I found it interesting.


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Cyber Security School Challenge
Thought this might interest some of you and your kids (or nephews, friends, etc.):
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The EWF through its Cyber Security School Challenge outreach program is harnessing the collective passions and unified actions of its members and their peers to educate students in a way that may positively influence their future.
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We challenge you to not only contribute your time, but think of ways that you can create a corporate team that will boost your chances of becoming the Cyber Security School Challenge Winner.
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For a while now speculation has been flying with people asking the question: "Will Rockstar attend Gamescom?"
Rockstar's parent company Take-Two are attending. They have a good lineup coming out of 2K so it seems obvious that they'd want to show off some of the great games on their release schedule such as Bioshock and Borderlands.
Rockstar, on the other hand, have just released Max Payne 3 and only have one other game to show, Grand Theft Auto V. They were absent from this year's E3 but don't let that fool you though, they've actually got a very good relationship with Gamescom, using it as a front to show off Red Dead Redemption two years ago, and LA Noire last year.
Yet Rockstar's attendance has remained as wild speculation until this morning when Gamescom released a trailer showing off their event. If you skip forward to the 1:49 mark you'll catch a glimpse of the GTA V trailer we've all come to know so well.
Don't hold your breath GTA fans, as this is still very much a rumour. Don't believe anything until Rockstar or Gamescom officially confirm Grand Theft Auto V will be present.
Gamescom will be held on the 15th of August in Cologne, Germany.
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Friday, February 17, 2012
Ask Elnora--About Mardi Gras??? Lenora Worth
15 comments:
- Kameliahunn said...
I used to live in NH, and there's small town called Deerfield that holds a huge fair each fall. Stock pulling, 4H kids doing shows, craft and floral displays, even a Miss Deerfield Fair pageant.
- February 17, 2012 at 7:06 AM
- Lenora said...
That sounds like fun. In my hometown in Georgia, they have a Wildlife Festival in the fall. Art and crafts and good food!!
- February 17, 2012 at 7:21 AM
- Missy Tippens said...
I love your photo, Lenora!
There are lots of great festivals here in Georgia (as you know!). I couldn't even name them all. Crafts, flowers, watermelons. :)
- February 17, 2012 at 8:28 AM
- Lyn Cote said...
TOO COLD??? We just had Cruiser Fest in northern WI where all the snowmobilers congregate on the frozen lakes and race each other.
The only complaint was--NOT ENOUGH SNOW & TOO WARM.
Don't ask me if I attended. :-)
- February 17, 2012 at 9:33 AM
- PamelaTracy said...
I've always wanted to go to M.G. Here in AZ, we're celebrating 100 years of Statehood. Last week Mike and I went to a parade.
- February 17, 2012 at 11:16 AM
- Julie Hilton Steele said...
We have the Mule Festival in Benson, the Hollerin' contest in Spivey's Corners, and the Pickle Festival in Mount Olive!
Those are the ones that strike me as unique at the moment!
Peace, Julie
- February 17, 2012 at 11:16 AM
- Lenora said...
Such wonderful festivals. Wish I could visit all if them. But Lyn, I don't like the cold!!
- February 17, 2012 at 12:56 PM
- Linda Goodnight said...
A small town near me holds the International Brick & Rolling Pin Throw each summer. The town is called Stroud and so, in conjunction with other Strouds - in Gloucestershire, England; New South Wales, Australia; and this one in Oklahoma, they compete to see who can throw a brick (or a rolling pin for the ladies) the farthest. Is that a hoot or what?
- February 17, 2012 at 1:10 PM
- Lenora said...
Linda, that sounds like fun!! Throwing things us good therapy!! Here we holler "Throw me something, Mister!". It's amazing how grown people chase down beads and plastic cups!!
- February 17, 2012 at 3:39 PM
- Ausjenny said...
I have to say Mardi Gra here brings not as good association. here it seems to be taken over by the gay and lesbian sector and they have these big parades in Sydney and some other cities with Sydney being the major city. I had the misfortune of going to a conference on that weekend and some of the people on the plane well the less said the better.
I have learnt Mardi Gra in ohter places is a celebration before lent and isn't the same as here.
where I am we have a country show everyo year but it doesn't have the parade etc. We do have a christmas pagent in our town but in the big city they have a big Christmas parade with floats etc.
Have to say not cold here going for around 98 today. of course for use easter is in autumn.
- February 17, 2012 at 7:58 PM
- Carrie Turansky said...
I'm oringinally from Portland, Oregon, where we have the Rose Festival each June. So much fun! Lots of parades, carnivals, flower shows, royalty chosen to reign over the festivities, and it was every high school girl's dream to be a Rose Festival Princess.
Here in New Jersey, we have some fun local events like Kite Day, Apple Festivals, and lots of fun events around Christmas time.
- February 18, 2012 at 8:15 AM
- Tracy S said...
I live near Milwaukee and all summer there are different festivals on the Maier Festival Park grounds on the lakefront (Lake Michigan). Summerfest is a huge music festival held for one week each summer. Those same grounds are then used for other ethnic festivals throughout the summer. The "fests" represent some of the most prevalent ethnicity groups in the area. We have: Polish Fest, German Fest (those are the two main groups that settled in WI years ago), Festa Italiana, African World Festival, Irish Fest, Mexican Fiesta, and Milwaukee Highland Games (Scottish Fest) and Indian Summer Festival.
Now that I write all of that, I should take my kids to some of those!! They are Polish and German from me and Scottish from the hubby.
- February 18, 2012 at 8:38 AM
- Lenora said...
Carrie, we had that back in Georgia. I rode on several Rose Parade floats but alas, was never queen! Thomasville, Georgia is known for its roses! I think roses speak a universal language of love and celebration.
- February 18, 2012 at 9:53 AM
- Lenora said...
Oh, good food and fun all year long! I'd have to eat my way through each one of those, Tracy!
- February 18, 2012 at 9:54 AM
- CatMom said...
I'm a day behind but couldn't resist joining in! Several of you have already mentioned Georgia, but I wanted to add a couple of events that happen every year near my home. We live near the small town of McDonough (and also not far from Chick-fil-a founder Truett Cathy's home). Five minutes from my house is Truett's Grill--a wonderful diner that even offers vegetables (in addition to Chick-fil-as)! Anyway, every New Year's Eve they have the great Nugget Drop, to count down to midnight! It's very family-oriented, and that huge "nugget" always looks so funny to me! ~ On the McDonough town square we have a Geranium Festival every year in May (always on a Saturday). There are arts, crafts, food, and TONS of gorgeous geraniums! I love small towns! ~ Blessings, Patti Jo
- February 18, 2012 at 3:36 PM