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I've got a bad case of Spring fever…do you?
I was romanced by a single 65-degree sunny glimpse of Spring last week, I think it was Wednesday, and I'm already mentally prepping my window box and deciding how I should springify my space… (springify, word of the day. Don't ya just love my holly-words. I swear, I speak a whole new English sometimes.) Springing up your home is easily accomplished on a budget, from simply swapping out throw pillows and exchanging current drapes for sheers or bamboo roll shades, to locating must-have home accessories with a 'springy' vibe. Exchange felt and flannel for linens, cottons, and bright bold hues or cool pastels. For the ultimate home, you must engage in a little elbow grease. Don't ever forsake the gathering together of your mop and method products. You can't even begin to think Spring without a thorough scrubbing down of your entire space, along with reorganizing closets and drawers. Better get started, packrat. I'm willing to bet you have about two months worth of magazines stacked next to your bed. Personally, from my attic to my coat closet, I'm ready to take it all on! Prepping for spring is an exciting time of year for me, which sounds so Martha Stewart, but it's true. I'm excited to prepare my space so I can soon open the windows, invite friends, and fill my space with fresh daffodils, plump tulips, and the sounds of birds-a-singin'.
First stop for me, Target. That's where I'll shop for cleaning supplies and such. After I've removed the dust bunnies (or dust monsters, depending on how often you clean), I'll then head back to Target for home accessories. I'll beeline my way over to their mini fresh plant section for some foliage, and then, I'll definitely scoop up some inexpensive ceramic vases. They have some lovely ones this season, too. All eyes on the Panek Tobin vases, I'm craving these! Aren't they positively fresh? For $17.99, I imagine them on my living room windowsill or on my desk.
I know I sound like your mother, but If you've got spring fever like I do, get a jump start on your spring cleaning while the weather is still painful. Then, on the next 65-degree day, you can play outdoors vs. cleaning your space.
I'd much rather spend beautiful spring days shopping in the city for fresh finds and people watching while dining al fresco.
Here are some of my fresh finds from the Target ceramic vase collection. You can browse their website for these vases by clicking here.
1.23.06 COMMENT: Readers, Brent just wrote in to say that the global home stuff at Target is 75% off in Minneapolis, which means it should be that way around the country by the weekend. YEAH!

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Rated 4.5 / 5 stars
Very nice additions, a bit lacking in environment
Hm, the enemy variety would make the game more interesting if there were more varied environments as well. As of now, those runners end up being really irritating, and the giant swarms of zombies, while fun, are starting to become less fun because of the lack of environment objects. The Boxheads before had some more neat variety, but I do like the graphics. In particular, I like the devil monster because it shapes the gameplay a bit more, since it lets out a nice line of fire now, and it also damages its allies. I think you could stand to add another kind of "miniboss" monster, like some slow moving behemoth or a monster that consumes other monsters to regain its health or strengthen itself in different ways, to vary the monsters a little more. It's pretty cool though, and I like what you've done with the game.
The defense mode is distinctly interesting, since it's actual base creation, and the turrets are fun too. Maybe add a setting for the turrets? Like target dangerous monsters first, or help attack monsters in your area? Well, maybe that would add too much micromanagement.
Now that you've added defense modes and such, I'm wishing for a plot or storyline. That could be a bad idea, but I just feel that it would be unique to use this concept and this design to make a different game. Right now, it seems arcade-y, but yeah, I like it. It's addicting, heh.
Yeah, this is a good game. Exemplary flash skills and a good concept, hm?
And to thecatreturns123, who left a useless review below me, if you feel that the game is "lacking in many" and "it's needs much improvement," you should leave some commentary and actual specifications on what needs to be added. The way you're wording your review, it seems like you're jealous of the author of Boxhead.
Rated 3.5 / 5 stars
It was O.K. Although a great bit of flash, this game was lacking in many. I think it's needs much improvement. I bet you were expecting perfect 10's.
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this is the best boxhead game so far!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Rated 5 / 5 stars
why play the first when we play this wicked game!
No doubt about it, best defense game ever, (apart from the 50,000 zombies after lvl 20 and so on defense maps) Really fun, Am looking for a SWF file of this so i can play it on my desktop with less lag. 10/10. Good Job!
Rated 4.5 / 5 stars
its good
but a little too hard. even on easy.


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PROVO -- Natalia Jimenez remembers everything and nothing about that spring day in St. George.
She remembers being unhappy when she walked off the golf course after shooting a 77. She remembers being hungry, and discovering that her Brigham Young teammates had already eaten lunch.
She remembers climbing into Hannah Summerhays' vehicle for a ride to Quizno's, home of her favorite sandwiches. She remembers the oncoming truck, at least its "baby blue" color.
That's all.
Yet nearly six months later, the accident that could have altered their lives forever is something the women describe as a "miracle," and they're not the only ones.
"It's been a beautiful blessing," said Summerhays' father, Gary.
No one would have suggested so that day in May, when the truck hit Summerhays' SUV and knocked it onto its side. Witnesses ran to the nearby clubhouse at Entrada Golf Club and yelled for the BYU coach, because the golf bags strewn on the road gave them a clue about the people trapped in a horrifying scene.
"The picture of that car in my head, I don't know if I'll ever get rid of that," said BYU coach Sue Nyhus.
Having mostly recovered from their injuries, including a fracture in Jimenez's neck, the women are playing golf for the Cougars this fall. They're teammates, roommates and best friends, even after - or maybe because of - the events of that afternoon, when Summerhays was cited for failing to observe a stop sign coming out of the parking lot.
Their friendship has only grown stronger, when it could have been ruined and even torn apart an entire team. "You hear about a lot of situations where friends will hold grudges," Summerhays said.
If Jimenez had done so, "I would have understood," she said.
Instead, the healing began immediately on many levels. Jimenez quickly forgave Summerhays, who is getting closer to forgiving herself.
"I know she still feels it," Jimenez said, "because I can tell by the way she acts. I told her tons of times not to feel that way."
They were unlikely friends, in some ways. Not a member of BYU's sponsoring church, Jimenez is from Colombia, which has produced several men's and women's golfers for the Cougars. She stands out on campus with spiked, frosted tips in her dark hair. Summerhays, who arrived at BYU a year later, is from northern California. As her name suggests, she's an extension of Utah's most famous golf family, a niece of Champions Tour player Bruce Summerhays and a cousin of three golfers who have played the PGA, LPGA and Nationwide Tours.
"Just from the beginning, we clicked," Summerhays said. She discovered that Jimenez loved golf as much as she does, always eager to practice and offer advice, unlike the unfriendly rivals from her junior golf days.
On the course, it was a frustrating freshman year for Summerhays, then BYU's No. 7-ranked player. Only five golfers could compete in postseason tournaments. Wanting to support her teammates, Summerhays drove to St. George to watch them play in the NCAA West Region Championship.
That's the background of how everything turned upside down after the first round when when Summerhays' vehicle tipped onto its side, requiring rescue workers to cut off the roof to free them.
After a golf tournament in Colombia, Jimenez once was riding with a driver who lost control of the car and it flipped over, and she walked away. Not this time. Jimenez was flown to University Hospital in Salt Lake City; she would wear a neck brace for two months.
Summerhays, whose left arm was pinned under the vehicle, spent a night in a St. George hospital and would need therapy to be able to bend her fingers.
Summerhays' parents wanted her to come home to California, but she insisted on staying in Provo through the spring semester. Her motivation: Jimenez's condition. "You have to take care of her," she told herself.
"She appreciated the fact that I cared enough to be there for her," Summerhays said recently. "I think she felt that I was truly sorry."
Jimenez was scared, though. She wondered if she would ever play golf again. She worried about what her parents would think of her potentially ruined career. When they arrived from Colombia, "They were shocked," she said. "They didn't know what to do."
She cried every night for a month, and suffered more when her teammates were playing in the NCAA Championship without her and she could only monitor their hole-by-hole scores via the Internet.
The two have talked only a little about the accident itself. Jimenez still wonders how it happened; Summerhays can guess only that she was fiddling with the radio or air conditioner as she pulled out of the parking lot.
Yet amid her own tears and pain, Jimenez would not transfer any of it to her friend. "I said, 'Hey, it's not your fault, please don't feel that way. I know it's hard.'
"I know she's feeling guilty," Jimenez said. "I'm not going to make her feel that way."
Especially not now, when there's a happy ending.
About three months after the accident, Jimenez was cleared to play golf again and won a tournament in Colombia. Since rejoining the Cougars, the junior has finished third, first and second among her teammates in tournament play this fall, even with some discomfort - cold weather will make it worse - in her neck that doctors say may persist for two years.
She smiles almost continuously while talking easily about everything that's happened this year, which has increased her appreciation of the game. "Right now, I have the passion for golf, stronger than ever," she said. "This is what I want in my life."
For Summerhays, who made the lineup for BYU's most recent tournament (the team's fall schedule concludes this week in Las Vegas), recognizing that golf is not everything in life was a breakthrough. She's no longer quite as tough on herself on the course. She also learned "just to take life a little more slowly," she said. "You can work your whole life for something, and in one second, it can be gone."
In this case, it's all still there for the two of them: their golf games, their friendship and their futures.
"The way everything worked out is a blessing," Summerhays said. "I still have my best friend."
"Right now, I have the passion for golf, stronger than ever. This is what I want in my life."
- Natalia Jimenez


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STEVE WOLFE'S 'SEEDS OF WELLNESS:' Marriage is a team sport
Watching the Winter Olympics is always such a blessing — to see the world come together and watch the best athletes on earth compete after four years of preparation for their "moment in time."
As we watched the games, it is evident that it is indeed a team sport. From the intimacy of ice dancing to the strength of bobsledding and even in individual sports, the team of country overshadows any one person's accomplishments.
This year as I watched I really thought about the amount of time these teammates spend together practicing, working hard and getting to know each other, and I saw many parallels to marriage.
Historically, we have focused the February column on marriage because "good relationships" are vital to a healthy body and no relationship is more intimate or difficult than a marriage. Simply put, marriage takes lots of practice, requires hard work and requires getting to know someone at a very deep level.
Recently, I was reading "The Shepherd Leader at Home" by Pennsylvania author Timothy Z. Witmer, and he suggested that to lead the family you needed to "know your wife."
Perhaps your reaction to this comment is like mine — I chuckled to myself. We've been married for 24 years, I think I know my wife.
Then he continued: "Do you know what she is worried about today? Do you know her greatest concern for herself? For you? For the children? Do you know what sin she struggles with the most? Do you know what unmet aspirations she harbors? When is the last time you asked her 'how are you doing?' When is the last time you asked her 'how can I pray for you?' When is the last time you asked 'how are we doing?'"
I was done chuckling after this series of questions and realized that I could know my wife better.
Men, the word love doesn't show up in any of these questions, but as we understand our wives at these levels it speaks love in ways beyond words. If we want to make our marriage great then we really do need to know our teammate.
Ladies, Tim was writing to men but I can imagine that the questions about how well you know your husband would be similar. You ask, "How was your day, honey?" (Instantly at warp speed he internally processes that project he is behind on, the part of his relationship with the boss he feels vulnerable about, temptations that occurred during the day and all the commitments he has with the house and family ahead of him, etc.), but he chooses simply to respond "fine."
It can be hard to really know your husband and what his needs are (I know there are woman saying "Amen" out loud as they are reading this).
He probably knows that you love him but more important to him is "do you respect him?" You may recall from a previous column that we shared men who were surveyed with the question: would you prefer to live alone in isolation versus remain in a relationship where they feel disrespected — 78 percent said they would rather live alone.
This Valentine's Day month make a commitment to be a better teammate for your spouse — the benefits will be many. You are worth it.
Steve Wolfe, the President and CEO of Indiana Regional Medical Center, writes the periodic Seeds of Wellness column in The Indiana Gazette. His columns appear Tuesdays on the Health Page in the paper and in the Community News on The Indiana Gazette Online.
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In the city council meeting this week, the Kanawha City Council officially hired Tony Rasmussen to be the Chief of Police and began the process of hiring part time officers. Rasmussen will be paid $40,000 a year with benefits.
The council also approved a rate hike on both the water and sewer utilities and agreed to get an alarm for the lift system in the sewer when issues with the pumps arise. One such issue happened last weekend when two beach towels ended up in the lines causing strain on the pumps. The towels, presumably from the aquatic center, were removed lessening the load on the pumps.
The council ten wrangled with a burn ordinance brought about by councilmember Judy Banderploog. The ordinance called for the elimination of the yard waste burn windows in the spring and fall. The windows last for two weeks each season and some residents complained that the smoke infiltrated their homes and businesses.
A petition was circulated by residents to keep the burn windows and around 30 residents attended the meeting to support keeping the burns going. One such resident was Tom Grettilat:
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A Power of Attorney can be as vital as a will
Question: I have been told that making a Power of Attorney is something I should consider doing. Can you please outline why I should do this and what the implications for me are?
Answer: In my opinion a Power of Attorney (POA) is as important as making a will, and something everyone should give careful consideration to, and not just as they advance in years.
A POA is basically a legal document that an individual draws up, that will enable someone you trust to make decisions on your behalf. This individual is known as the attorney.
The most common type of decisions you will be asking them to make normally centre around your financial position and can include issues such as buying or selling property, as well as opening and closing bank accounts or simply making decisions around your various investments. They will do this on your behalf at a time when you are no longer able to, or indeed lack the mental capacity to make decisions for yourself.
As none of us know if and when that event might occur, it is important to instigate that process long before it happens. A POA can be acted upon however, even when you do have the capacity to make decisions.
For example, a POA can be helpful if you need someone to carry out actions such as paying bills if you are out of the country for long periods of time, or simply incapacitated through physical illness. This is why having a POA is in some respects like making a will.
Unlike a will however, a POA has to be registered and therefore recognised as a legal document that can be acted upon. The attorney is free to make decisions within the scope you have outlined in the POA.
It is therefore important to consider that the person you appoint will have the same control you have over your finances.
As a result you need to be sure that the person you appoint will only make decisions that you will want to be carried out, and you have confidence that they will always act in your best interests.
For many the fact that you are effectively handing over the decision making process to another person poses too much of a risk and therefore they don't wish to effect a POA.
There are some safeguards therefore that are built into a POA.
Firstly as already mentioned, a POA has to be registered for it to be legally recognised, secondly the attorneys and yourself have to have any signatures witnessed and finally, an attorney must act within the code of practice which makes it clear that they must always act in your best interests. So for example, it would be easy to prove that an attorney, who sold your home and effectively left you without a roof over your head, was not acting in your best interests.
Another way of adding protection is to appoint more than one attorney. You can also decide whether they act independently, together and independently or together in some matters and independently on others. If you decide they are to act together this will mean that on all decisions they must act in agreement.
You do not have to seek advice to set up a POA but as with all these complex matters, I would strongly recommend you do so, as they will be better placed to give you some independent advice, and ensure that any POA is adapted to meet your personal circumstances.
Raymond Mulligan is managing director of Johnston Campbell, a company of independent financial advisers regulated by the Financial Services Authority. For further information, please contact firstname.lastname@example.com or (028) 9022 1010
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New Yorkers Ride Into Work For Bike To Work Day 2013
Thousands of New Yorkers rode their bikes into work Friday morning as New York City celebrated National Bike to Work Day.
Between 7 and 10am the Transportation Alternatives advocacy group hosted fueling stations at seven different stops where free iced coffee was served. Friday evening there will be a "Bike Home From Work Party" starting at 6:30pm in the Archway under the Manhattan Bridge in DUMBO. There will be giveaways, vendors, and a Reflective Fashion Show.
Get all the information about National Bike to Work Day here.
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It looks like Knoxville has followed Nashville and now allows backyard chickens.
Maybe it is about time?
Knoxville City Council members gave preliminary approval Tuesday night to urban chickens, goats to eat kudzu, and a new Kroger store in West Knoxville.They also allowed goats....dare I dream or is the council able to look outside of the box?
Finally, they voted to change a city ordinance to allow residents to keep chickens within the city limits. But council members cut the number of hens that would be allowed from 12 to 6.


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From hard rocker to hard seller
Sometimes its hard to get excited about business dinners but sometimes, just sometimes, the guest speaker can add a frisson of intrigue.
Take Bruce Dickinson, a man who sang the lines "Bring me your daughter to the slaughter", for instance.
If ever there was a headline speaker who you would think would be out of place at a black tie business event it is Mr Dickinson but, as with all these things, look a bit deeper and you find that he is in fact something of an entrepreneur.
He wasn't for giving any interviews but the hope was that there would be plenty of chat about on his aviation company or his other firm, which makes sports fencing equipment. If not, we'll run for the hills...
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Oct. 27 marked the 105th birthday of the New York City subway system, which is both gratifying and depressing.
It's gratifying because it's a reminder of how vital, enduring, and effective properly designed infrastructure can be. The subway has endured throughout two world wars, the Great Depression, 26 presidential elections, Prohibition, women's suffrage, civil rights, and 9/11. And as I've mentioned elsewhere, it's undergone that rarest of transformations: from commercial entity to functional government service. All that — and it gets me to Van Cortlandt Park to go running on a sunny summer weekend.
It's depressing because I was out of town on business travel, so I missed the cake with 105 candles. (And it was probably red velvet, too. Dang!)
But seriously, that got me thinking about the value of investing in infrastructure of all kinds — including intellectual capital. I've complained before about the drop in U.S. engineering graduates. This past weekend, I spent time at my alma mater, Johns Hopkins University, and I learned that the situation's even worse than I thought. Over just the past few years the number of students interested in majoring in engineering has dropped 31%, from 161,694 in 2001 to 111,533 in 2008 (2009's numbers were up slightly, to 119,741). That's on top of more than a decade's worth of decline — the numbers were far higher as recently as the mid 1990s.
Is this a problem? Depends on who you ask. The last time I wrote a column lamenting the lack of engineers, a reader responded: "I don't want my son to study engineering. I want him to study marketing." He had a point -- the big money these days (to the extent that any is left) seems to go to folks who are good at promoting, entertaining and selling.
That said, and with all due respect to promoters, marketers, and salespeople, there's something special about engineering. Engineering is all about building things — taking ideas and making them concrete (sometimes literally). And although art and design also involve creation, engineering is unique in that it's about creating something useful as well as innovative.
That has an outsize impact on human lives, because useful innovation is one of the most powerful economic (and humanitarian) forces in the world. Without engineers to make stuff, salespeople would have very little to sell.
That doesn't even consider the outsized impact of not-for-profit groups like Engineers Without Borders, who deliver state-of-the-art engineering without charge to some of the most disadvantaged people in the world. (Check out the ram pumps for delivering irrigation water to South African villages -- something my fellow JHU students were involved with..)
So, yes, I think it's a problem that more kids aren't going into engineering. Without engineers, there would be no New York City Subway. And no irrigation pumps for South African villages. Not to mention any of the technology that defines the 20th and 21st centuries.
So if you want to invest in infrastructure — start with the human capital kind.
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The reviews and rantings of a Bibliophile living in Reykjavik, capital of Iceland.
19 May 2006
Bibliophile discusses Van Dine's rules for writing detective stories
I mentioned in one of my reviews that I might write about these rules. Well, I finally gave myself the time to do it. First comes the rule (condensed), then what I think about it.
Here are the Rules as Van Dine wrote them. (Incidentally, check out the rest of this excellent mystery reader's resource: Gaslight)
The rules are meant to apply to whodunnit amateur detective fiction, but the main ones can be applied to police and P.I. fiction as well. I will discuss them mostly in this context, but will also mention genres where the rules don't apply and authors who have successfully and unsuccessfully broken the rules.
1.The reader and detective must have equal opportunity for solving the mystery, i.e. all clues must be plainly stated and described.
Agree. This really goes without saying. There is nothing as enraging for a mystery fan as to be deprived of a fair chance at solving the mystery, which is why I have a dislike for detectives who appear to be psychic. (Really psychic detectives belong in a different genre where these rules don't apply). For more on this subject, see my review of John Dickson Carr.
2. The writer must not play any tricks on the reader, but the criminal can play tricks on the detective.
Agree, for the most part. This is common sense, and again, few things are as annoying as being played for a fool by the author. More under rule 4.
3. No romance.
Agree and disagree. While a romance is a romance and a mystery is a mystery, there is no reason why the two couldn't go together, as long as the romantic and mystery elements are pertinent to each other, for example when a detective (or more likely a helper) falls in love with a suspect and it affects the investigation or the detectives themselves are building a relationship like in a book I will review soon. Many mystery authors have broken this rule with impunity and got away with it. It is easy, however, to see why Van Dine set down this rule, because a story where the romance keeps tripping up the mystery can annoy and frustrate the reader exceedingly.
For romance to work in a mystery, the romance must be only a small element of the story, and always pertinent to the narrative. If it is a considerable part of the story it constitutes genre-crossing and should be marked as such and warnings provided to readers who prefer their mysteries unpolluted by romance.
4. The criminal must never be the detective himself, or one of the official investigators.
In general I agree, but one of Agatha Christie's better mysteries turns on this point. However, once she had done it, it became a cliché and it is unlikely that it will ever be done as well again. Also, it undeniably breaks Rule no. 2.
5. The criminal must be found out by logical deduction — not by accident, coincidence or unmotivated confession.
I agree, which is why I didn't like the John Dickson Carr novels I read for the challenge. Too many coincidences.
6. There must be a detective, and he must detect.
Agree. It wouldn't be a detective story otherwise. It is possible to write a mystery without a sleuth, but it's hard to make it a good one which is why there are not many of them. I have read quite an entertaining mystery where the police investigation took place off-stage and all the main characters did was speculate, but it didn't really break the rule because the reader was cast in the role of detective.
7. The crime must be murder. Any other crime is not worth writing a whole novel about.
Agree for the most part. It is possible for the crime to be something else, but it is hard to keep a reader's attention when there's no murder, unless the crime is that much more interesting and ingenious. None of the Elizabeth Peters novels I reviewed earlier feature murders, and I think she got away with it just fine.
8. No supernatural solutions can be used.
In terms of pure whodunnit mystery, I agree. Cross-genre supernatural mysteries can be quite good, but they are outside the scope of the rules. See also Rule 1.
9. There must only be one detective.
Agree and disagree. I have read some good mysteries where the crime was solved by team effort, but the team was always a small one, no more than four people, usually just two (Tommy & Tuppence for example). In general, I prefer there to be one detective, but I don't mind helpers unless they are as annoyingly clueless as Christie's Hastings and Doyle's Dr. Watson.
10. The criminal must be someone who has played a part in the story, i.e. the reader must be familiar with him.
Agree. It's not fair to lead the reader through all the clues and then suddenly bring in a totally unknown character and convict him of the crime. Of course, the criminal doesn't necessarily have to appear in person until he is caught, but he must at least be mentioned several times and discussed by the other characters.
11. The criminal must not be a servant. It is a too easy solution. He must be a decidedly worth-while person — one that wouldn't ordinarily come under suspicion.
A bit presumptuous, I think. Although "the butler did it" has become a cliché, there really are not that many stories where any servant did do it. I do agree that it is perhaps a bit difficult for some readers to believe that someone who has the brains to plan and carry out a clever murder should be a mere servant, but it can be done believably, and not just by making them be "worth-while persons" posing as servants. If you don't believe me, watch Gosford Park (I know it's a parody, but parodies are often excellent examples of the things they parody).
12. There must be only one criminal, no matter how many murders are committed. There can be a helper, but the responsibility must be the criminal's alone.
Agree, mostly. I think it makes a diverting red herring to have the detective confuse the crimes of one criminal with the crimes of another, or even have the victim have committed a crime and the murderer to be suspected of it, but of course the main story must be about one criminal only.
13. Secret societies, camorras, mafias, et al., have no place in a detective story.
Agree. This is really a restatement of Rule 12. Once it's a group of criminals working together as equals, it has become a thriller or a caper story, unless the criminal is a maverick from such a group, working alone and the group merely acts a cover for him, or if the mystery focuses on the leader of such a group (the assumption being that once the leader is caught, the whole organisation will fall apart).
14. The method of murder and the means of detecting it must be rational and scientific, i.e. no pseudo-science, purely imaginative or speculative devices.
Agree. A writer who can not do this should be writing supernaturals or science-fiction, not straight detective fiction.
15. The truth of the problem must at all times be apparent — provided the reader is shrewd enough to see it.
Agree. This is inherent in Rule 1.
16. No deviations must be made from the story. This includes long descriptions that have nothing to do with the story, side issues, character analysis, atmospheric descriptions. However, there must be a sufficient descriptiveness and character delineation to give the novel verisimilitude.
Agree, mostly. Although I do like atmosphere in mysteries it must not dominate the scene, like it did in The Rule of Four. Digressions have been done successfully in several mysteries I have read, but they have always turned out to have a purpose in the end.
17. The criminal must never be a professional, always an amateur.
Agree. Once the killer is a professional hit-man, the story has become a thriller. Having a burglar commit a murder is a cheap solution.
18. The crime must be a real crime, not an accident or suicide that looks like murder.
Agree. It is a recipe for a disappointed reader to do this. I do think it's fine if the villain accidentally kills himself while trying to murder someone else. Really a sub-cause to Rule 2.
19. The motives for the crime(s) should be personal.
Agree. Once the crime is impersonal, it means it was committed by a professional. A refinement on Rule 17.
20. The following devices have been overused and should not be used again:
*Determining the identity of the culprit by comparing the butt of a cigarette left at the scene of the crime with the brand smoked by a suspect.
I think Arthur Conan Doyle was the first to write about this, although it was actually pipe tobacco and not a cigarette. Other writers took it up ad nauseam.
*The bogus spiritualistic se'ance to frighten the culprit into giving himself away.
Never read about one of those, but Georgette Heyer parodied this device beautifully in one of her crime novels.
*Forged fingerprints.
R. Austin Freeman did this brilliantly in The Red Thumb Mark, but I agree in general that once you've read one such story the concept immediately goes stale. After all, how many methods can there be for forging fingerprints?
*The dummy-figure alibi.
Doyle again, although I'm sure others did it before him. He used it to make some criminals think Sherlock Holmes was in his office when he was, in fact, somewhere else. Others have used it to create lame alibis for criminals.
*The dog that does not bark and thereby reveals the fact that the intruder is familiar.
Did anyone beside Doyle do this? (dear reader, if you can tell me, I'd appreciate it).
*The final pinning of the crime on a twin, or a relative who looks exactly like the suspected, but innocent, person.
This is ringing bells. I think it's another Doyle, but it's been a couple of years since I last read the Holmes stories. This is a device that has rarely been done justice since Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors.
*The hypodermic syringe and the knockout drops.
Both are clichés, but at least the sleeping potion is still being used successfully.
*The commission of the murder in a locked room after the police have actually broken in.
Dear reader, do you know of such a story? If so, please let me know because I'd like to read it.
*The word association test for guilt.
Popular when detective writers began taking psychoanalysis into consideration. I have never actually read a fictional crime story where it was used, so don't feel capable of commenting on it.
*The cipher, or code letter, which is eventually unravelled by the sleuth.
One more Doyle (plus Freeman and many others). What is a coded letter doing in a murder mystery anyway? Don't they belong in spy stories?
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- ebbye said...
I love this, it gives such clarity! I really like your comments on each rule as well!
Now I am trying to think of books which broke the rules and worked and books that adhered to these rules and worked - interesting
- June 05, 2006 7:23 am
- W. Scott Smoot said...
For the rule about "no secret societies," I wonder if "Murder on the Calais Coach" (aka Murder on the Orient Express - a wonderful movie!) would be said to break this rule?
The twin rule was broken in a book I've read in the past five years. The victim was a twin. Don't remember the author, sorry.
Does anyone still read "Ellery Queen?" He had a twin HOUSE meticulously duplicating another. That seemed ridiculous to me when I read it at age 12, though I have to admit we do have a twin houses on an old fashionable street of Atlanta, built by old money and old money's sister.
- June 09, 2006 7:36 pm
- Bibliophile said...
Good thought. I don't think so, since it was a temporary group that was only formed for the purpose of this one revenge murder. It does come close to breaking the "only one criminal" rule, but only if you see them all as criminals and not as one mastermind and many helpers.
Van Dine only mentions criminals in the twin rule, but I have read several stories where the victim was a twin or double of the person everyone thought had died (including the Ellery Queen novel I just finished reading), and I am happy to add it to the list of don'ts.
The double house sounds intriguing and over the top. Do you remember which story it appeared in? (Incidentally, the abovementioned Queen novel, The American Gun Mystery, has one of those "groan!" solutions that hardly work the first time they're tried, let alone again.)
- June 10, 2006 2:04 pm
- W. Scott Smoot said...
The twin house was in "The Lamp of God," a novella collected in a two-volume set of "Best Mysteries" from the Mystery Book Club. I see it on other peoples' shelves - lots of us who must have sent in a dollar for six books and our initiation into adult detective fiction ca. 1970.
I live in Atlanta, where I see novelist Terri Holbrook from time to time. She's a Georgia native whose protagonist is a woman from Georgia whose charming English husband turns out to be an eco-terrorist, cornered and blown apart in the small parish church in the small English village where they were raising their daughter -- and that's the back story on the first page of the series!
She does a superb job of writing depth of character and place.
When I met her, I introduced myself as a teacher who has always wanted to write a detective novel. She said she was a writer of detective novels who couldn't wait to complete her contract and become a teacher. That's life.
If you can get a copy of her books, I recommend them. (I've seen them on Amazon, but not in stores for a couple of years). The second one (The Grass Widow) was my favorite, partly because each chapter begins with a later variation of the town's biggest scandal from the 30s.
Another reason I like The Grass Widow most may be because I know a bit of back story for it, too. The woman, an outcast in England, visits Georgia, where she's also an outcast. Her aunts and cousins, all female, live on the old family farm with the patriarch. He dies.
Terri told me that she had a deadline to meet, and no idea, when she recalled that her grandfather had died in a home while four women were living with him, and she suddenly thought how each of them had a motive to kill him.
She thought they'd like the way she'd turned it into a rip-roaring mystery novel. Instead, they stopped speaking to her. She wonders if she didn't hit on the truth?
- June 11, 2006 11:41 pm
- Bibliophile said...
Thanks, Scott. I'm going to take a peep if I ever come across that Queen tale.
Terry Holbrook sound like an author I'd like to read. Thanks for the story - it put a smile on my face.
- June 12, 2006 10:58 am
*The dog that does not bark and thereby reveals the fact that the intruder is familiar.
Did anyone beside Doyle do this? (dear reader, if you can tell me, I'd appreciate it).
I actually once saw this used in reverse, although they might've been trying to parody. In Clue: The Movie, in the very beginning, a man drives up to the supposed Boddy mansion, and he has to give bones to the guard dogs because they keep barking at him and won't let him into the house. He later introduces himself to the dinner guests as the butler. If he were indeed the real butler like he said he was, the dogs would not have acted aggresively towards him because they would be accustomed to his presence. However, most viewers have forgotten the dog incident by that point.
Seeing as it was a movie based on the board game Clue, I'm not sure if the moviemakers were trying to parody that crime-solving method, or even if they used it on purpose. I just found it rather interesting, all the same.
- July 01, 2008 6:21 pm
- Bibliophile said...
Clue. Now there's a memory from my childhood. I watched the movie recently and the dog think didn't click, but since the movie is supposed to parody the crime genre I think the dog thing was probably deliberate. Thanks for pointing it out, Anonymous.
- July 02, 2008 5:18 am
This is still well known enough trope to be a popular children's book Mark Haddon's Curious incident of the dog in the night time, where the dog's death is what gets investigated. It's one of the most quoted bits of Sherlock Holmes, often used to reference any evidence which is important because of the lack of an event.
Beyond that it still matters in many police procedurals, where how the dog behaved is questioned as a matter of course. I know I've seen it more than one on the ubiquitous Law and Order and Criminal Minds.
Also, Red Dragon by Thomas Harris used the disappearance of the dog as a clue for the detective to realize that the killer had been stalking the family over a period of time.
- October 16, 2013 4:39 pm
- Bibliophile said...
Thanks for commenting, Anonymous. You make some interesting points. Also, I loved The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time.
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OMAHA, Neb. – Senior Tyler Stephens-Jenkins tied the NAU program record with eight three-pointers and the team equaled the program best with 12 three's and took Nebraska Omaha to double overtime before the Mavericks were able to complete a 79-75 win. NAU moved to 0-4 while Nebraska Omaha remained undefeated at 3-0.
Stephens-Jenkins scored a career-high 28 points and also added a career-high six assists, four steals, and 11 rebounds for a double-double. She shot 10-of-20 from the field and 8-of-16 from three-point range while she, senior Paige Haynes, and sophomore Jasmine Sneed all established a new program record by playing all 50 minutes in the contest. Senior Amy Patton added 18 points and nine boards and senior Aubrey Davis had 13 points and eight rebounds, including a three-pointer at the end of regulation to force overtime
NAU trailed by 16 points at 40-24 a minute in to the second half before staging a comeback. NAU got to within 52-51 at the 8:32 mark following a 27-12 run over an 11 minute stretch and was down by one again at 54-53 with 6:48 to play. Omaha went back up by five with 4:30 to play but would not score another point through the end of regulation.
Haynes made a layup with 2:01 to play to bring NAU within three points at 58-55 and the teams traded missed shots before the Lumberjacks were forced to foul with nine seconds left. Omaha missed the front end of a one-and-one and the Lumberjacks pulled down the rebound and called timeout with two seconds remaining. Davis would get a three-pointer away just before the final buzzer sounded and banked in the triple to send the game to overtime.
The Mavericks opened the first OT with a pair of free throws before a three-point make by Stephens-Jenkins gave NAU its first lead of the game at 61-60. After an Omaha basket Sneed hit a three to put the Lumberjacks up 64-62 with 2:23 to play in what would be their biggest lead of the game. Omaha battled back to tie the game at 65 and went ahead 67-65 with 1:01 to play before Patton hit a jumper to tie the game back up at 67. Both teams missed late shots as the game went to a second OT.
Omaha scored the first six points of the second overtime to build a 73-67 lead. Three-point strikes by Haynes and Stephens-Jenkins sandwiched around an Omaha free throw brought NAU within a point at 74-73 with 2:54 to play before the home team got a pair of layups to fall to go back up 78-73. NAU's Raven Anderson made a layup to cut the deficit to 78-75 and an Omaha free throw made the lead 79-75 with 30 second to play. NAU could not convert a pair of shot attempts in the final seconds as the Mavericks held on for the win.
The game was the third NAU double-overtime game over the last two seasons after the program had played in double-ot just once in its 37 previous years of competition. Nebraska Omaha outshot NAU .467-.345 in the first half to take a 35-24 lead into the intermission before NAU shot 46.7% in the second half to stage its comeback. Omaha held a slim .437-.417 advantage in field goal percentage for the game and totaled just one more rebound than the Lumberjacks with two less turnovers. The Mavericks shot 19 free throws to just five for NAU but made just nine of 19 shots from the line.
The eight three point makes by Stephens-Jenkins tied the program record set by Marissa von Bromssen against Monmouth in 1996 while the team's 12 three-point hits tied the program record set last season against Nebraska and in two prior games. NAU's 32 three-point attempts in the game also established a new program record, surpassing the previous high of 28 three-point attempts totaled in three previous games.
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SPRUCE WOODS PROVINCIAL PARK — After several years off, a group of pioneer time enthusiasts once again pitched their tents for Pine Fort Days over the weekend.
Visitors were able to see first-hand how the Coureur des Bois fur traders lived and camped in this living history, at the rustic fur trader camp which included canoe brigades, campfire talks and bannock bakes, fashion shows and flint knapping.
"I'm just interested in history," said one of the campers who only goes by his camp name "Old Goat," one of seven Pine Fort campers, all of whom were dressed to play the part. His long hair, scruffy beard and mechanic's hands made Old Goat all the more believable as a trader.
From the guns, to the cloth tents, to the hanging animal pelts, the goal of the event is to step inside the life of a trader.
The area where Spruce Woods Provincial Park is now was an important post for the North West Company fur traders, many of whom were former Coureur des Bois traders. The North West Company was the Hudson's Bay Company's biggest competitor before the two were forced to amalgamate among bloodshed. The western Manitoba post acted as a storage facility of sorts for the company's travellers heading east and west.
However, the future of Pine Fort Days at Spruce Woods is up in the air. The beleaguered provincial park, hit once again this year with major flood damage, is going through substantial construction in the coming year and it's unclear if the Pine Fort group will be able to set up next year.
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Designers Apartment held its third session at Atelier Richelieu (60 rue de Richelieu, 75002 Paris) from Friday September 27th until Thursday October 3rd, 2013.
The Fédération française de la Couture, du Prêt-à-Porter des Couturiers et des Créateurs de Mode's initiative, partially funded by DEFI, offers the possibility to a selection of Paris-based designers who have French companies to showcase their collections during the next ready to wear shows. The press and buyers are invited to this seasonal event.
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Rising poverty, increasing fuel costs, and a belief their children need an education is forcing hundreds of thousands of Indonesian parents to abandon their children and have them placed under care of orphanages. The Save the Children Foundation estimates there are 500,000 children in Indonesia current in an orphanage despite the fact 90% of them have at least one living parent. In a recent survey of 36 of these homes for children, it was found once children get out of school, they spend their time cooking, cleaning, and caring for younger children. As Florence Martin of the Save the Children Foundation notes, the staff focuses on managing the children but "the children's needs at the psychological level is not on the agenda."
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A Waywayseecappo First Nation family that lived with a rocket in their backyard for more than a year finally saw it hauled away by a bomb squad.
According to the family's mother, Bernadette Sumner, the three-foot shell was first unearthed three years ago after her late father dug it up while cultivating his nearby lawn. After he passed away, her son dragged the assumed explosive device home, leaving it in her yard.
"He brought it home and it's been in our yard for over a year," she said.
Sumner said they first told police about it a year ago when her son first brought it home. However, she said police "thought it was a joke" and doesn't think a report was filed.
"I don't know if they actually came and looked at it at that time," Sumner said, adding her family wasn't too concerned about the apparent military rocket sitting in their backyard.
At least until an RCMP officer came by on Wednesday to take a look at the supposed bomb.
"Then we got worried because he said it looked like something dangerous," Sumner said.
RCMP said they were advised on what appeared to be some type of explosive device located in the backyard of a residence situated on Highway 45 at about 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday.
They spent much of that night and Thursday guarding the area, waiting for the bomb disposal unit to come, according to Sumner.
RCMP said Thursday evening they had obtained assistance from the members of the Royal Canadian Air Force Explosive Ordinance Disposal Unit from 17 Wing in Winnipeg. The team was expected to arrive last night.
Cpl. Gord Lethbridge of the Wayway RCMP was dumbfounded when he saw what is described as a military shell.
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Assuming the alleged bomb is live, Sumner was told the disposal unit needs about two kilometres to safely detonate it.
It's unclear from what era the shell is, but Sumner said it's at least 10 years old.
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Music Product Strategy For Digital Natives
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Last week I posted this question on Twitter:
"Need some help: if 'Buy & Listen' was 20th cent. music consumption, 'Rip & Burn' the 1st digital generation, what's it for Digital Natives?"
I got a lot of good suggestions and though there was great diversity in the responses sharing featured heavily. What's interesting is that though Digital Natives do share music a lot, it is more in a social context than the peer-to-peer kind of file sharing more common among Millennials.
We are working on a new report to try to help our clients understand what the next generation of music products should look like. I of course advocate music product innovation to such an extent that I sometimes sound like a stuck record (spot the oh-so-analogue metaphor). But the early results of the consumer data we're mining for this report are building a case for a music product strategy reset so extensive in reach that it makes my previous protestations look too modest by far.
Researching the report (which we're provisionally calling 'Digital Natives, The Generation Music Product Strategy Forgot') has been eye-opening. Whilst record labels have been focusing energies on winning over CD buyers and converting Millennial file sharers, the Digital Natives have been left without music products that meet their needs. The Millennials used digital to reinvent analaogue behaviors (such as replacing the CD with the paid or free download) but Digital Natives are creating their own rules of social context, experience and visuals.
The result is that YouTube emerges as digital music's killer app.
Which is why I've opted for 'Share and Watch' as the tag line for the Digital Native's (see below). What do you think? Does this slogan sufficiently capture the essence?
Over the coming weeks we'll continue working on the report and building the vision for the Digital Native's music product strategy, explaining how services, access providers, device manufacurers can harness the disruption. While we do so, we'd love to hear your thoughts. Feel free to comment here and also to visit our community where we've just kicked off a discussion (click here to view and participate).
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Comment from Eric Woning (not verified) on Fri, 12/17/2010 - 08:55
Hi mark,
although I think you are correct in your analysis of YouTube being the biggest place for kids to go to listen to music, the question is to answer is: "why?"
I think it's because of the easy to use upload mechanism, the great ability of the search engine to pick out the most relevant stuff, but primarily because everything you can think of can be found there. From really old school stuff to the hyper new to the never to be found anywhere else alternative stuff.
ALL is there.
I think YT has some kind of deal going with the record labels... but I'm not sure on that. But I think the availability & ease of use is what has going for it.
However the quality of music (and often visuals) is very poor - so I guess that all of that bandwidth that now is used for the video should be skipped and turned into extra quality of sound for it to really be great (and the ability to make channels / playlists)
What do you think?
YouTube is all those things...
Comment from Mark Mulligan on Fri, 12/17/2010 - 11:46
I agree completely with your assessment. The depth and breadth of the catalogue combined with the supreme ease of access make YouTube the most convenient music service on the web. Google will be hard pushed to make any other music service a fraction as effective.
Additionally, all of the other aspects such as comments, playlists and likes create an important social context layer that I would argue are more important than audio quality etc.
you're right
Comment from Eric Woning (not verified) on Sat, 12/18/2010 - 11:31
Although I as a person am more into high quality I know that most people aren't.
Nearly every breakthrough technology has done a worse job at what the former thing which it replaces was good at.... but it always spreads a lot easier.
In that light you are completely correct.
I personally, as a user, however hope for a high def version :-)


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Dark. Very, very dark. I really liked the narrative voice, and I thought Jean was a great character. Most of the other characters were more two-dimensional, but in many ways that fit the way that Jean saw the world, so I was willing to let it slide. A reasonably short book, but still a little too long, I think; even in 300 pages it became repetitive. And really, after the initial shock of what Jean is doing, there aren't any real surprises or revelations or insights.
I really enjoyed this book! I could relate to the fact that the main character Jean cared for her mother until she passed away. I cared for my own mother from 3/16/11 until her passing on 8/1/11. I know what it is like to see someone you love in pain and suffering. Dealing with the death of someone that you love on top of it being someone that you are personally caring for really makes one see how precious life can be. Not that I have considered giving "the gift" to my closest friends, but I could also relate in having a long lost friend that you want to make amends with. I found this book to be an interesting and suspenseful read.
I bought this after reading a synopsis because it sounded like a great concept and pretty funny. While it had its moments, overall, I wasn't thrilled with it. It was a fairly slow read for me (not a lot of conversation, more in the characters' heads) and I didn't really care enough for or about the main character to find it particularly interesting. Plus, I had several ideas of what I thought would be a good ending as I was reading and none of those happened, so that left me on a bit of a disappointing note.
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When I first heard about this book, I was excited. The blurb sounds like a fun dark comedy, the cover fits the blurb to a tee, and overall I knew that I would have a great time reading this. Then I read it and it only left me with mixed feelings.
Jean Vale Horemarsh had to take care of her dying mother, during the ordeal she realized that the entire process was horrible and didn't want to see anyone else go through that. When her mother finally kicks the bucket, Jean is left with this feeling and wondering what to do. Her husband is worried that she isn't showing any grieving signs and her friends keep telling her that they'll be there for her, but Jean just can't shake this annoying feeling.
Then it hits her. Dying, the way her mother died, was horrible. Dying, when you're happy, is best. So she comes up with the plan to kill all of her closest friends, so they don't have to suffer like her mother did. She meets with them, one by one, and tries her best to give them an evening of happiness before she murders them. It's the least she could do for someone she cares so deeply about.
This was kind of hit and miss with me. The concept, the cover, and the synopsis made me feel like this would be a fantastic dark comedy to read, and for the most part it is. The very idea that Jean would feel compelled to kill her friends and make sure they are happy before death is a morbid topic. But every so often Cole will add some comedic moments that do make you laugh.
Sadly, I felt like the book dragged on at some points and I did feel bored. Jean was a character that I didn't really care for. I don't need to like the main character in order to like a book, but there has to be something interesting about them. Jean seems like a very nice woman, who decides to do something horrible in order to fit her own selfish needs. This sounds interesting, but I don't know if it carried well in the book. At least for me, it didn't.
The Cheryl side story was interesting at the beginning, but Cheryl has to be one of the most pathetic characters I've ever read. Reading her parts, even though it was needed in the story, did pull me out of Jean and her plot to kill her friends. Actually, I don't even think the Cheryl plot was needed, now that I think of it.
This is still a fun little book to read and if you like black comedy then you'll definitely want to check this out.
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For fans of black comedy, this novel is just about perfect. Of course, black comedy doesn't appeal to everyone; certainly, it did not appeal to me when I was younger. Now, however, I find that I quite enjoy dark humor. Basically, if you find the description to be amusing and want to read more, then you'll quite enjoy the book.
Jean, of course, is crazy. What else could one possibly expect of someone stuck with the last name of 'Horemarsh?' Cole does a great job of making her brand of craziness believable. He sets up that this idea and her hardness is not coming from nowhere. Her past enables her to do what most people, even those who agreed with her that it would be a mercy killing, would never be able to do.
The cast of characters is lively and quirky, each one providing elements of humor. Here's a sample of the kind of dark humor you can expect: one of her friends betrays her, and as punishment, she does not have the honor of being killed. As I said, dark humor. If you think that's awesome, do yourself a favor and read this!
P.S. Before you start thinking Jean was onto something, please let me recommend instead Natalie's (one of Jean's friends) brand of friendship: "What says 'love' like a chocolate cupcake?"
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Jean Vale Horemarsh is content, for the most part, with the small-town life she's built: a semi-successful career as a ceramics artist, a close collection of women friends (aside from that terrible falling-out with Cheryl years ago), a comfortable marriage with a kind if unextraordinary man. But it is only in watching her mother go through the final devastating stages of cancer that Jean realizes her true calling. No one should have to suffer the indignities of aging and illness like her mother did—and she, Jean Horemarsh, will take it upon herself to give each of her friends one final, perfect moment . . . and then, one by one, kill them.
Of course, female friendships are quite complicated things, and Jean is soon to discover that her plan isn't as simple as she initially believed it to be.
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