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Wednesday, June 27, 2007
Want to Vent?
Still though, I can understand how people are frustrated that on top of risking their pride, after receiving impersonal rejection letters, following every single little annoying query rule... after all that, I can see how personalizing queries (for the record, not sucking up!!!) can be a little annoying. Submitting is tortuous, takes forever... it can be very challenging, and when agents already are the ones picking teams for dodgeball, bowing to their every wish may seem like one insult too far.
So now's your chance to blow off a little steam. What's the most frustrating part of the writing process you've encountered lately? Have writer's block? Have an experience that would make Job think he had a pretty good day?
There are some venting ground rules -- if you're going to reference someone in the industry please don't name names or provide any identifying details.
Vent away!
45 comments:
- Heidi the Hick said...
Oh yay, I'm first!!!
There is massive construction going on a hundred feet away from my house, and my house is shaking, and my cat barfed three times this morning, and I can't concentrate, it's so hot outside I can't touch the steering wheel of my truck, and I've rewritten a scene twice and it still sucks.
Also I am afraid that even though two test readers finished it and liked it, they maybe just like me and the book actually sucks.
Speaking of sucks...personalize, yes, suck up, no.
I'm going to hang a sign over my desk. Or is that suckin up too much? Gahhhhh!!!!!!
- June 27, 2007 at 3:15 PM
- Liz said...
I've got a huge summertime slump. My muse, wench that she is, seems to have gone on a vacation. Did you see her sipping tropical drinks while you vacationed?
My kids are underfoot and hogging the computers. We have 3 kids and 3 computers. You'd think I could get a little writing/editing time between their need to play Webkins.
Of course, then the motherly guilt rises and I feel bad for grabbing a computer, growling at the kids and ordering them to watch TV for pete's sake.
- June 27, 2007 at 3:45 PM
- Bernita said...
Wondering how far one can trust a reader to "get it" without benefit of a 2x4.
- June 27, 2007 at 3:56 PM
- Alex Fayle said...
Knowing when to actually stop editing and start sending. I read everywhere that it's important to write well and to make sure that the book is as polished as possible.
And like Heidi - how do I know it's good or whether the people who've been reading it have just been nice?
In my blog, I write often about procrastination and editing the book is a great way to procrastinate actually sending it out (as is Facebook - evilly delightful site!).
My first query letter has been personalized and perfected, but I can't send it out until I'm done editing.
So, in other words, editing bugs me - always has. I never know when to stop (kind of like how this comments is going).
Stopping now...
- June 27, 2007 at 4:02 PM
- Fluffy said...
I'm happily wallowing in total discouragement. My writing sucks, my plotting sucks, my inventiveness is nonexistent, I'm too young, I'm too busy, and oh, hi, JulNo!
I think I'll watch movies in a dark room for the rest of the week.
- June 27, 2007 at 4:06 PM
- Lauren said...
Lately I've been getting paranoid that my writing process is needlessly long and complicated. I know it's unproductive to compare my process to that of other writers, but it's frustrating to hear that some writers can do one draft and then a month or so of "editing" and then send their novel out... and actually be met with success! For me, the process has been to write the book, write the book again, write the book AGAIN... and still, after Totally New Draft 3, I worry that I may have to start again from page one, chapter one.
Also. I've met several aspiring novelists who admit to not being readers. Eh?
AND...it irks me when, at conferences, I meet fellow aspiring children's and YA writers whose favorite kids' books are from 40 years ago. I mean, yeah, Harriet The Spy's a great book, but if you haven't read and liked anything in the current marketplace, how do you expect to contribute something fresh and interesting to it?
- June 27, 2007 at 4:15 PM
- Robin L. said...
It's so slow. That's what bugs me the most. SO SLOW! (the writing/editing)
- June 27, 2007 at 4:16 PM
- Scott said...
I keep getting requests for partials that then get rejected, usually with form letters, so I know my basic story is interesting but my opening needs work so I go back and work on it.
Of course, that means I can't work on finishing the project I got to the editing stage while waiting for queries and partials to come back.
Which means that the next project, the one I've wanted to work on for two years, the one I've plotted out, gotten excited about, and even false-started two or three times is languishing and growing cold in the back of my head.
And all of this while working a day job as a tech writer, which has been very busy lately so sometimes the last thing I want to do when I get home is write some more, and when I do I feel like I'm neglecting a volunteer tech writing gig for an open-source project, not to mention an idea for a magazine article that's been eating away at me for months. And it's been more than two weeks since I wrote in my blog because I just can't get to it, even though I've had stuff to say.
And then while I'm spending so much time writing and editing that I can't get around to more writing and editing, I hear somebody say "Nobody's really a writer until they get published." If that's true, why am I three weeks behind on mowing my lawn?
Hey, you said "vent."
- June 27, 2007 at 4:26 PM
The thing that bothers me about writing/publishing is that agents and editors take forever to respond.
That's why I like Nathan. Even though he rejected me, his response within hours was a huge blessing.
But just about everyone else takes months. We writers don't want much. We just want a reasonable response time.
- June 27, 2007 at 4:33 PM
- jason evans said...
John Gardner wrote that a story should evoke a "vivid, continuous dream."
My pet peeve is that we can expend the horrendous amount of effort and energy to achieve that goal only to be told a novel isn't deemed to be saleable because the protag. isn't the right gender or age, or only novels set in Afghanistan are hot, or some other winds-of-the-market reason.
- June 27, 2007 at 4:36 PM
- Redzilla said...
What's driving me insane is the "my way is the industry standard" delusion. I believe devoutly in personalizing query letters, and scrounge all around the internet to get a feel for what an agent likes to read in a query letter. (in terms of content, not flatter ;o) I'm always peeved when I discover some agent mocking writers for failing to follow "industry standard" for the contents of a query letter. Ha! Again, I say, Ha! There is no "industry standard." Some agents want to know what writers you'd compare your work to, others hate that. Some want to know if you have other projects in progress, others despite it.
So, I don't have a problem with personalizing, but it drives me crazy when an agent acts as though what she wants is what everyone wants, and has the bad taste to deride writers who have failed to follow her imaginary "industry standard."
Whew! Thanks, I feel better.
- June 27, 2007 at 5:19 PM
- C.J. said...
well, i was going to steam on about how anonymous and arbitrary the whole query process seems, but really this blog and the folks who comment here put a face to the biz. so thanks to nate and all the people leaving comments as well. how's that for sucking up? : )
btw, nate - we'll give you KG for Artest, the 10 pick this year, and next year's first round pick, you down?
- June 27, 2007 at 5:22 PM
- Nathan Bransford said...
I'll cover KG's airfare and meet him at the airport. Deal.
- June 27, 2007 at 5:24 PM
- leatherdykeuk said...
I must say that the most frustrating thin was having a well respected agent ask for a partial, then ask for a re-write and then reject it. Fair enough it didn't fit, and I understand her reasons, but it was terribly annoying.
- June 27, 2007 at 5:38 PM
- Dave said...
Uh, Nathan,
I feel like Jack Nicholson in "A Few Good Men" screaming "you can't handle the truth" ...
I just screamed vulgarities at my refrigerator because of politics on the TV. You do not want me to "vent" online. Ever! Mt St. Helens was kinder to my Fridge than I just was.
- June 27, 2007 at 5:45 PM
Re-reading my almost finished manuscript and realizing how much MORE editing I have to do before its even presentable. Then realizing that I also have an enormous amount of CUTTING to take care of or else it will fall out of my the prime word count for its genre. Realizing that I'm working with a lot of passion and little talent. What else.....being a writer sucks is a poor waste of a lifetime.
- June 27, 2007 at 5:52 PM
- Colorado Writer said...
Wait times are frustrating. And I am not talking about a month or two. I am talking about 8-9 months on a solicited full manuscript.
- June 27, 2007 at 6:17 PM
- joycemocha said...
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- June 27, 2007 at 6:20 PM
The most frustrating thing, not getting noticed, sending short story after short story out, waiting 6 months for a reply, getting nice notes from editors but not breaking through.
Being on the verge of completing a novel, that's good, but you've realized, has no commercial concept, you've been told by many readers, "great book" but it's not commercial, it's to new, it's too.... whatever. Understanding that 4 years ago when I took pen to paper and fell in love with magical realism, I didn't know the market, I just wanted to write, now I have a rich tapestry of a book, going to start pitching to agents very soon, refining my query and scared it'll fall on silent years.
If you write a novel in a crowded forest and it can't grow past the canopy, is it still good?
The phones at my day job ringing and my ears throbbing from multitasking, yet I still edit.
There I vented, thanks.
- June 27, 2007 at 6:21 PM
- joycemocha said...
BTW--I'm not ranting about GVG (I realized it was an oops violation of the ground rules, I love the response time, I really do) it's just I get really, really excited when something takes a looooong time getting back from that market...
and then it doesn't sell. But the vent is aimed more at *my* nerves than his.
- June 27, 2007 at 6:25 PM
Nathan,I have an extremely successful agent, but he either doesn't respond to my infrequent email or takes weeks. Do I move on before he starts the submission process?
- June 27, 2007 at 6:56 PM
- Nathan Bransford said...
I'm afraid that's one that I can't really answer. You have to be comfortable and go with your gut feeling, but without knowing the particulars of the situation I'd hate to offer a recommendation. If you are not comfortable, I would at the very least discuss your concerns with your agent before doing anything drastic.
- June 27, 2007 at 7:23 PM
- Liz Wolfe said...
I'm frustrated with rejections (on requested full ms.) that tell me how much they like my writing, my premise, my characterization, pacing, etc. BUT they just don't love it enough.
I know that can mean anything from "I have no idea who I could sell this to" to "I tell everyone how much I like their stuff just to ease the pain of rejection." I also know that agents will probably never be totally, brutally honest in their rejections. But I would really, really love it if they could. I'd take the pain of honest rejection over the frustration of not really knowing any day.
Also, it's frustrating when blogger occasionally makes you type in multiple verification words.
- June 27, 2007 at 7:34 PM
- Michele Lee said...
People who think and proclaim that the only way period to get published is to use their advice/their contacts/their product/method/brand of pen/etc. Every agent blog I read says "Hey, this is what I like, and sure other agents are gonna be different". Writers or editors or just people who proclaim their way is the only way and if you don't play nice with them you'll never get anywhere.
I hate that "secret handshake" myth, but not as much as I am irritated by the people who constantly push it.
- June 27, 2007 at 8:20 PM
- takoda said...
Hey, I came in too late to see which post was deleted by the blog master. Shucks, those are always the fun ones!
I'm actually pretty happy. And that's not a suck-up.
I've developed a detailed matrix of which agents respond to queries, which ones respond quickly, which ones have blogs, which ones are vegetarian, which ones are intelligent, and which ones are hotties.
Visit me on my blog if you would like a copy.
- June 27, 2007 at 8:29 PM
- joycemocha said...
To Liz Wolfe--
yeah. I feel the agony of being close...but not making the final cut. I've actually come close enough to making it (in short story world) but not making the sale because my story was too similar in theme to a previously purchased story. Sigh.
Good but not good enough. Breaking over that hurdle is the challenge!
Which is truly my ultimate vent. Seems like I've been on the edge of that breakthrough for years.
(still whapping myself over the head over a previous slip..).
- June 27, 2007 at 8:31 PM
A huge frustration has been with critiquing. I'm an awesome critiquer. I can put my finger on story points and explain what I think does and doesn't work. I can't get critiques back that do the same thing for me. All I'd get were line critiques that objected to some of my phrasing. YARGH. I _hate_ line critiques. If a sentence or a paragraph doesn't work, just tell me that it doesn't work! Don't fix it for me! I have my style, and people who attempt to "fix" my writing inevitably screw up my style. *grrrrr*
The problems with critiquing led to the next huge frustration: my writing was very good, but not great, and I couldn't figure out how in the hell to get over that chasm. Worse, I couldn't find anyone that could explain to me why I was very good, but not great.
Then I stumbled into Noah Lukeman's The First Five Pages, and things finally clicked.
And then the divorce hit, the horribly bad relationship hit, and my writing went *poof*.
*sigh* But with the awesome second marriage and lots of prescription drugs for health issues, I'm slowly slowly slowly picking up my writing again. And that's the most recent frustration...the lack of speed.
*keeps chugging down the road*
- June 27, 2007 at 9:05 PM
- Heidi the Hick said...
OOO can I still play along?
It really bugs me that I've written more than one of these things which I loosely call Novels, but it looks like I've been doing NOTHING. The lawn is too long, there are weeds in the flowerbeds and the house is a mess. This is what is visible on the outside. Inside my head there are whole other worlds, and inside my computer those stories take shape. But it doesn't really count yet.
Only one way to solve it: keep working. Which isn't really a bad thing at all, and I will get over the frustration.
- June 27, 2007 at 9:48 PM
My biggest fear and frustration is that I'm spending so much effort working on a story and characters that may have already been done. I can't read all the novels out there. I try to be original, but I dread having an agent roll his/her eyes at my query and mutter, "Well, I've only seen this a billion times. Next!" (Of course, I would never know because I'd just get a form rejection.)
I would also love to find some good, honest critique partners, but I live in a remote area so joining a writer's group or going to conferences is highly unlikely. I don't know how to meet similarly minded folk and I'm jealous of people who can drive a few hours and go to a workshop or conference. Online critique groups are a mixed bag. I would like very much to improve, but I can't trust my own judgment or that of friends and family. I don't even tell my friends and family that I write.
I fear I am doomed to rewrite my first five pages forever because I can't tell my good writing from my shit. Am I in purgatory and nobody sent me a memo?
- June 27, 2007 at 9:54 PM
Rant 1: How do you personalize a query to an agent who has NO internet presence?
Rant 2: Ridiculous response times, or never responding at all. Mostly journals here, a few agents.
Rant 3: People who insist on exclusives for anything other than a full novel MS.
Rant 4: The whole genre thing. My novel doesn't fit any of the pigeonholes. And the fact that the "literary" world is so incestuous, writers writing for other writers, while the "commercial" side is so maddeningly market-driven.
Rant 5: I too cannot find critique partners who can help me get from good to great. And all the ones I've had that looked promising have petered out.
Rant 6: That "didn't quite fall in love with it" response that leaves me wondering whether it's just not for them, or it's not publishable period.
Rant 7: The publishing industry wouldn't exist without writers, yet it seems like we're the low man on the totem pole, financially and otherwise. Even "successful" writers mostly don't make a living. We don't get no respect!
- June 27, 2007 at 10:03 PM
- Loquacious Me said...
I'm having frustration issues with my real job, and it is totally killing any creative urge I had. So I sit there and just stare at the blinking cursor of doom, while trying not to justify drinking my sorrows away.
- June 27, 2007 at 10:18 PM
- L.C.McCabe said...
I'm going to give you a broad overview perspective gripe on the entire publishing industry as it is today.
I hate that it is no longer enough for writers to simply write a good book. They are also expected to be gifted public speakers, and work tirelessly at self-promotion.
I say this due to my experience with veteran authors in my writers club that have not been able to keep abreast of the myriad of changes in the industry. Some simply do not know how to have a web presence, nor do they know how to market themselves.
They believe that publicity should be the responsibility of publishers and do not understand how things have changed in the last decade.
Many of my fellow club members who are published authors do not have a website. Some have websites, but many of those have bare minimum content that never changes.
I realize that this is today's reality and that griping about things won't make them change. However, I know that not everyone enjoys public speaking, nor does everyone wish to spend time trying to establish a cyber presence and online fanbase.
It is out of sympathy for my colleagues that I humbly submit this gripe. Why can't someone who is painfully shy be a success in today's publishing industry if their skill is with the written word?
- June 27, 2007 at 10:52 PM
- David Roth said...
This is a simple one. A local publisher looked at a few of my projects and then began to explain all the things she was going to do with them. Then she stood me up for a meeting she called, ignored my emails and phone calls. Then she sold her company. That one I discovered reading her blog, not because she contacted me directly. And the new owners? Bottom line was no contract in hand, oh well. Have fun storming the publishing castle and good luck.
Love your blog. Maya Reynolds turned me on to it.
- June 28, 2007 at 7:25 AM
LC McCabe, I recommend you read Thomas Friedman's "The World is Flat" with your group. Yes, it's crazy how the world has changed - but everyone, in every field now has to be able to update, upgrade (and upchuck?) several times over the course of a career to survive. Writers included. I gather you read Kristin Nelson's blog?
- June 28, 2007 at 7:27 AM
I get frustrated when it takes me less time to write an entire book than it does for an agent to respond to a query letter.
I get frustrated when I check on a REQUESTED partial after 3 months and get no reply.
I get frustrated (and admittedly a little teary) when an agent CALLS to tell me why my ms wouldn't work and how she couldn't bring herself to even request a partial. Yes, this was based on a query letter. I'm not in the 212 - why would you waste your dime to insult me?
I always act professionally and politely, but feel like sometimes I am pushed to the limit. I don't take things personally, but the biz can be very soul-sucking.
- June 28, 2007 at 9:34 AM
How did you know I needed to vent THIS morning?
Lit mag editors! We understand that you sometimes get backed up, but to not respond to a query after six months, a year, two years? We understand that manuscripts sometimes go missing, but three submissions out of seven? (I know: I won't send there again ...) If you lose my ms, would it kill you to say you're sorry? Or to actually follow through on your promise to have someone read the replacement ms "quickly." It wouldn't kill you.
Also, agents who don't reply to queries one way or another. And agents who don't have websites.
You wouldn't believe how much venting I cut from the above ...
Thank you, NB.
- June 28, 2007 at 9:48 AM
oh i have been ranting on this for weeks now...
1.it takes too long to acquire an agent that
2.takes too long to acquire a publisher that
3.takes no time to say no but if they say yes then
4.it takes only 90 days on a shelf to be a hasbeen
- June 28, 2007 at 10:41 AM
- Josephine Damian said...
"Dear Darling, Handsome, Brilliant Agent Nathan:
My 200,000 word fiction novel, about an evil albino is the next big thing..."
Ok. Sorry. Couldn't resist. lol
My biggest frustration is that I've decided to go grad school, and can't possibly write my next novel while I'm slaving over the textbooks and scratching out those 25 page term papers.
Yeah, I know plenty of famous writers went to law school, worked three jobs, parented eight kids and still found the time to write that break out book, but I'm not one of them.
My motto is: Focus. Better to do one thing well than to do many things half-a**ed.
At least in the meanwhile I'm able to write narrative non-fiction piece meal in a blog, and am building up my myspace presence - all that online promotional stuff takes so much time, and I rather do it now in dribs and drabs, while I'm not actively writing my next big project, which will dominate my attention once school is over.
Still, it's frustrating to know I have 18 more months of school to get through before I can start writing that novel.
- June 28, 2007 at 10:42 AM
I had an acceptance call from the agency that reps E.L. Doctorow. They requested a minor revision, but wanted to sign me anyway.
And then I woke up.
- June 28, 2007 at 12:14 PM
- L.C.McCabe said...
Sorry to use your comment trail to respond, but a previous poster asked me a question and it does not appear that he has a link to his own blog.
PT Barnum meets Hemingway suggested that I read Thomas Friedman to my club members. Thanks, but I'll pass. I'm familiar with Friedman's columns as they appear in my local paper, but I haven't been too impressed with him as of late.
I prefer Paul Krugman over Thomas Friedman.
Another answer is that Kristen Nelson's blog is one of the other literary blogs I read.
I personally do not have a problem with public speaking. I have thirty years experience in public speaking in a variety of settings. However, I understand that standing up in front of people and speaking is one of the most common fears people have. I don't share it, but I know that many people would rather undergo oral surgery with no anaesthetic than speak in front of an audience.
It is the idea that today's publishing industry almost requires that all authors be actively engaged in promoting their books is something I recognize as unfair, but a reality.
Offhand I can think of two successful journalists who wrote books and were disappointing in their television appearances during their book promotions. I am talking about Susan Faludi and Maureen Dowd. Both women are so soft spoken that you feel like you need to turn up the volume on your television set to hear them.
Maureen is someone who is not quick witted like Jon Stewart, but if you gave her some time to think and turn the phrase over in her head - she'd come up with a line that would strike to the very core and wound someone's ego.
She's got a wicked, lethal rapier-like wit and someone that comes across better on paper than in person.
Those are two different skill sets and unfortunately, the publishing/entertainment industry today seems only interested in those who have multiple skill sets and that is what I am complaining about.
- June 28, 2007 at 12:58 PM
Kate, you're awesome. An honest writer; I'm impressed.
As for sucking up: it's what writers are told to do. And as for the "rules": the more we try to follow them, the more frustrating the process becomes. It's called publishing Soduko.
Anyway, when I decided to throw out the "rules" and stop kissing literary butt, I finally wrote a compelling query and signed with an agent. It took five years of "rules" before I figured it out. Somebody slap me, please.
We only have one page to sell our book. And we can't waste a paragraph, word or comma on any topic other than our story.
Common sense beats "the rules" in any business. Ask the rich guys; they'll tell you.
- June 28, 2007 at 1:02 PM
- jjdebenedictis said...
I. C. McCabe:
Personally, I don't believe it affects a writing career much if the writer isn't a good public speaker. I also think agents who demand their novelists be brilliant publicists (in addition to being brilliant writers) probably overestimate just how many books get sold thanks to marketing.
Books become hits because of word-of-mouth, one book reader to another.
Marketing will convince a person to pick your book up off the shelf and read a few pages. It won't convince them to buy it or to rave about it to their friends; only the quality of the book can prompt that.
A brilliant public speaker might excite a few people into buying their book on the strength of an engaging talk, but even if that writer goes to a conference a week, that still only translates to a few hundred books per year.
That number isn't going to make or break anyone's career.
As Miss Snark said, "Write well." I suspect the rest is helpful, but not necessary, to success.
- June 28, 2007 at 4:27 PM
- sylvia said...
I hate hate hate hate hate hate how much time is spent without knowing if I'm anywhere near the right track. So often, it feels like I'm just paddling in circles.
- June 30, 2007 at 10:18 AM
- Jillian said...
Having just returned from a wonderful vacation, I'm late to the game. But I can't resist a good vent....
1. Form responses for requested material. My manuscript garnered a quick response for a partial and an even quicker response for the full (one day!) from a super agent at a top-notch agency. After all that, my rejection was a "Dear Writer" form letter. I expect form responses from initial queries, not manuscripts in which I've invested over $7 to ship out to an agent who has expressed enthusiasm. This particular response was a real kick in the stomach (I would have loved to work with this agent).
2. Long, long, long response times on initial queries and requested partials. I really don't think it should take 6 months to let me know that you don't want to read beyond the first 3 chapters. Especially if you've requested an exclusive (which I won't give, anyway).
3. Exclusives. 'Nuff said.
4. The anti-email spirit. I can understand why folks in the publishing industry prefer reading full manuscripts on real paper -- easier on the eyes, travels well on subways. But 'tis the computer age, and e-queries are highly preferable to time-consuming, cost-accruing paper queries, especially for aspiring novelists who are living "other lives" whilst pursuing writing.
5. Non-response to queries. But I've ranted about that before.
And just in case I still have your attention, I'd love if you'd include somewhere in a blog post exactly how long it took you to grow your hair out (you know...the all-one-length thing). My hubby has finally consented to give it a try, and I'd like to give him fair warning as to what he's in for once the bangs reach below his upper eyelids. I'd hate to have him give up at that point...
- July 1, 2007 at 6:02 PM
- A.S. Peterson said...
Nothing pisses me off more than browsing the bookstore and reading through the slush that fills most of the shelves.
Then I go home and submit queries to the agents that represent said slush and get form rejections for a manuscript that many professional and objective critics tell me is one of the best books they've read in years.
It also steams me that to have a chance at snagging an agent I apparently have to open the book with action and conflict, yet almost no truly great work of literature does so. Argh!
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a kid at my school has a ford explorer and his gauges and so on light up blue instead of the stock green!
i own a 2001 ford focus LX Sedan 4 door! was wondering if anyone had ever changed the lights and whats required??? let me know!
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Lots of people have done it, mine are blue.
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Arguably the world's most famous astronaut, Chris Hadfield is out-of-this-world eloquent about his experience as Canada's first space walker. But he also can play the man who fell to Earth. He'll crack jokes on late-night talk shows, strum a Bowie tune.
Or even take a turn as a film critic.
At a Q&A that followed the premiere of Gravity at the Toronto International Film Festival last September, an audience member recognized Hadfield and asked him about the accuracy of the film, which has since been nominated for 10 Academy Awards. As the retired space-station commander made his way to the stage to give his first public statement about the picture, director Alfonso Cuaron greeted him, saying off-mike to Hadfield, "Be nice."
Hadfield touted the movie's visuals that night – and the fetching possibility of galactic travel with Sandra Bullock. In other words, he was nice.
But some questions remain about the film's responsibility to that pedantic scold called science. Could Bullock really wear such tight little shorts in outer space without feeling a wee chill? Could all those space stations line up so neatly on one plane, like a row of commuter stops? Such questions have all the makings of one of those postmovie-date deconstructions that fall into a black hole.
In his first full discussion about the film, Hadfield told The Globe and Mail that, whatever its inaccuracies, Gravity 's unparalleled visuals and amusement-ride adrenalin are spot-on. "The movie just gives you a feeling of being out there better than anything else I know of," he said, haltingly, as though slowly reliving the experience. It was Gravity's sense of scale that won him over. "When you are out there, you are in between the world and the universe. You are not of the world. In fact, you have a sense that you and the world are going through the universe together."
In that assessment, Hadfield concurs with those fans of Gravity who argue that its technical virtuosity and atmospheric pyrotechnics about the doomed fictional Space Shuttle Explorer trump any geeky second-guessing. The movie is a fictitious thriller, they argue, not a NASA documentary or training manual. It's a gut-clenching, survival-in-space 3-D epic that depicts two astronauts left dangling in the cold ether, clinging to life by holding on to nothing but each other.
Cuaron himself has insisted he didn't want too much science to get in the way of plot. "That we have things that are not accurate? Of course – and actually, we know about them. And we chose to disregard those things, because we wanted first of all to honour the emotional journey of the film," he told Entertainment Weekly. In other words, we're in space, the final frontier – where basic science, disbelief and existential questions about William Shatner should be suspended.
Yet, after watching the film a second time and talking to Hadfield, it's been hard to suppress my inner Spock; and, frankly, to appreciate Gravity on the whole. "The storyline and the characters are extremely non-representative of reality," notes the Ace of Space. "They didn't even try to get an astronaut's character trait correct or the kind of person whom you would trust, or the training or level of skill that's involved. Or the seriousness with which you make it your career for decades."
Yes, fixating on certain issues, such as those tight shorts and the space-station hopping, is in fact being nitpicky: While those plot points may strain scientific believability, they don't get in the way of the drama. When, for instance, Dr. Ryan Stone (Bullock) cries, her tears should not have floated and twinkled toward the audience; in real life, they would have collected, like a jellyfish blob, under her eyes – but the fiction was way cooler. And when she peels off her helmet, her hair shouldn't whoosh around as if in a L'Oréal ad. "It should look like rat fur," says Hadfield.
At other times, though, the onscreen drama doesn't orbit anywhere close to reality – the reality not even of science, but of common sense. (Beware the debris of spoilers flying your way.) Setting aside the maudlin backdrop of Stone losing her child in a freak accident so that we can better empathize with her jittery city-slicker-in-space shtick, she is a bit of a freak accident herself. She trembles and whines, a tentative ball of mercury dressed up as an astronaut. "She had six months of training. Six months! And she's outside on a spacewalk? Really?" Hadfield wonders. Why didn't the screenwriters not just say 10 years, have her experiencing some kind of traumatic event, and make the movie more credible?
She would not have been on that space walk, either: Why would Stone, whom we're told is a medical engineer, be dispatched to fix some motherboard on the Hubble Telescope? Especially when she'd been complaining of nausea. While that's not an uncommon ailment out in space, how necessary was it that this sick person waddle out for a galactic IT call? In reality, Mission Control likely wouldn't have let her off the shuttle. "You don't," says Hadfield wryly, "want someone throwing up in a space suit."
The film's critical scene is the least convincing of the lot. In it, Stone is precariously dangling, by her toe, from a giant parachute strap, while hanging on to fellow astronaut Matt Kowalski, played by George Clooney. The strap is about to snap under the pressure of their combined weight, and, mercifully for her, Kowalski unsnaps himself. It's a testament to Bullock's Oscar-nominated performance that she leads us to believe that the pair would have tumbled right down to Earth had he not sacrificed himself.
In fact, in space, there are no such cliffhangers. "In weightlessness, you never dangle. By definition: You can't dangle without gravity," points out Hadfield. "Once there, you stop. There is nothing to keep pulling you. Where does the continued force come from that is pulling them against the strap? All you have is inertia."
For all that, and despite my own increasing hostility toward the film during this critical excursion with the astronaut, Hadfield is much more detached about Gravity. For him, in the end, compelling drama wins the day. "It doesn't need to be realistic," he concludes. "Spiderman doesn't need to be realistic nor does Nightmare on Elm Street. It's just entertainment. It's a movie designed to stretch all credibility, to be entertaining. And it is entertaining." If in need of a little more ground control.Report Typo/Error
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When we announced the Moverio BT-200 smart glasses at CES this year, we got all sorts of reactions–some of them listed in the comments of CNET's YouTube video Epson's Moverio BT-200 Smart Glasses deliver Andriod Apps in Augmented Reality.
- "Stupid."
- "pointless"
- "LOL, hysterical 🙂 Who would wear this… Unbelievable"
- "My goodness that thing looks so dumb"
- "Why do they even bother making this stuff"
I totally get it. Moverio is an early augmented reality development platform, and without the context of a real-life application, the glasses might look silly. But, what about applications where looking stylish is secondary to functionality?
For example, have you ever had an intravenous injection? If so, did the nurse stick you more than once while trying to find a vein? Three times? More? What if the nurse was wearing a device that highlighted exactly where veins were located, helping to guide the needle to hit its mark the first time? Would you care how the nurse looked?
Evena Medical has developed an application that does exactly that. Using the Moverio platform, the Evena has created a wearable device to fulfill the following mantra: "One nurse, one stick, in one minute."
At first glance, new wearable technologies may look strange, but put into the context of a useful application, it may not matter.
Check out the demo that Evena Medical gave at our booth at CES 2014.
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Anderson's Conn Valley Vineyards Eloge 2006
Bordeaux Red Blends from Napa Valley, California
Winemaker's Notes
The 2006 Eloge's dark plum/ruby color is followed by a sweet kiss of plum, black cherry, earth, licorice, and spice box, a medium to full-bodied wine, abundant tannin, and impressive concentration, purity, and overall complexity. Reasonably evolved, and extremely seductive aromatically, with a slightly structured finish, it can be enjoyed now and over the next 15 years. It is a blend of 65% Cabernet Sauvignon, 25% Cabernet Franc, 7% Petit Verdot, and 3% Merlot.
Critical Acclaim
The Wine Advocate - "The 2006 Eloge's dark plum/ruby color is followed by a sweet kiss of plum, black cherry, earth, licorice, and spice box, a medium to full-bodied wine, abundant tannin, and impressive concentration, purity, and overall complexity. Reasonably evolved, and extremely seductive aromatically, with a slightly structured finish, it can be enjoyed now and over the next 15 years. It is a blend of 65% Cabernet Sauvignon, 25% Cabernet Franc, 7% Petit Verdot, and 3% Merlot.
Anderson's Conn Valley Vineyards
Anderson's Conn Valley Vineyards are located just east of St. Helena in the Napa Valley where Conn Creek flows out of Howell Mountain. Twenty-six acres of vineyards, divided into nine blocks, along with a fifteen acre-foot reservoir are the heart of this 40-acre grape-growing paradise.
Separated from the Napa Valley floor by a north/south running ridge, the world-renowned wineries of Joseph Heitz and Joseph Phelps are located on the west side of this ridge and the Anderson's Estate Vineyards are on the east side at a perfect elevation of 400 feet.
The vineyards not only enjoy Napa Valley's superb microclimate, but share the same Bale Loam Series as are found on the famous Rutherford Bench. This combination of clay-loam soil and microclimate produces up to 106 tons of exceptional fruit each year. One from which a world-class Cabernet Sauvignon and Bordeaux-style blend, called Éloge, can be artfully handcrafted. View all Anderson's Conn Valley Vineyards Wines
About Napa ValleyView a map of Napa Valley wineries
It's hard not to think of Napa Valley when thinking of California wines. The region is, after all, the one that brought world recognition to California wine making. The area was settled by a few choice wine families in the 1960's who bet that the wines of the area would grow and flourish. They were right. The Napa wine industry really took off in the 1980's, when vineyard lands were scooped up and vines were planted throughout the county. A number of wineries emerged, from large conglomerates to small boutiques to cult classics. Cabernet Sauvignon is definitely the grape of choice here, with many winemakers also focusing on Bordeaux Blends. Whites are usually Chardonnay and Sauvignon Blanc.
Notable FactsWithin the Napa Valley lie smaller sub-AVAs that lend even more character specifics to the wines. Furthest south is Carneros, followed by Yountville, Oakville & Rutherford. Above those two is St.-Helena and finally, just granted an AVA, Calistoga. These areas are situated on the valley floor and are known for creating rich, smooth Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Chardonnay. There are a few mountain regions as well, nestled on the slopes overlooking the valley AVAs. Those include Howell Mountain, Stags Leap and Mount Veeder. Wines from the mountain regions are often more structured and firm, benefiting from more time in the bottle to evolve and soften.
About CaliforniaIt's not rare to see a wine's country of origin listed as "California." A country unto itself in the wine world, California makes enough varieties and styles to match many European wine countries. It produces a diverse range of wines that span the quality spectrum.
The most famous of the California wine regions is Napa Valley, and these wines are certainly outstanding – but it's not as broad and diverse as its larger neighbor, Sonoma County. Down south, Santa Barbara's Santa Maria Valley is well-known for its Rhône blends, as well as cool-climate varieties like Pinot and Chardonnay. The Central Coast, the largest California AVA, has many different microclimates that lead to a wide range of wines with many sub-AVAs.
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Army Spc. David K. Lewis, son of David R. Lewis of Leland, has graduated from basic combat training at Fort Jackson in Columbia, S.C.
Allen and Jessica Todd of Shallotte are the proud parents of a son, John Allen Todd, born at 1:12 p.m. Oct. 13 at Novant Health Brunswick Medical Center, and weighing 8 pounds, 11 ounces and measuring 21 ½ inches in length. He joins a sister, Madilyn, 3. Maternal grandparents are Thea Barefoot and the late Wayne Edwards. Paternal grandparents are William and Wanda Todd.
Leanna Edwards of Supply is the proud parent of a son, Bentley Jace Jenkins, born at 11:11 p.m. Oct. 3 at Novant Health Brunswick Medical Center, weighing 5 pounds and 13 ounces and measuring 18 inches in length. He joins brothers Justin, 8, Junior, 5, and sister Meleah, 1. Maternal grandparents are Thea Barefoot and the late Wayne Edwards.
Matthew and Danielle Graves of Supply are the proud parents of a daughter, Chelsea Denise Graves, born at 7:19 p.m. Sept. 27 at New Hanover Regional Medical Center in Wilmington, weighing 7 pounds, 12 ounces and measuring 20 inches in length. She joins a sister, Reese Danielle Graves, 17 months. Maternal grandparent is Dee Boyd of Supply and paternal grandparents are Van and Judy Graves of Fritch, Texas. Great-grandparents are Joyce Sims of Supply and Fae Graves of Amarillo, Texas.
Cody and Jessica Neville of Winnabow are the proud parents of a son, Luke Mark Neville, born at 1:48 p.m. Aug. 30 at Betty Cameron Women and Children's Hospital weighing 8 pounds, 7 ounces and measuring 20.5 inches in length.
He joins sister Emma age 21 months.
Maternal grandparents are Mark and Jennifer McMahon of Wilmington.
Paternal grandparents are Troy and Kathy Neville of Winnabow.
Great-grandparents are David and Jayne Hoffman, Charles and Annell Dyckman and Marylin McKnight and Melba Neville.
Kelly Chestnut of Conway, S.C., and John William Ingram VI of Ash were married Sept. 20 in Ash.
Rupert Porter officiated the ceremony.
The bride is the daughter of LouAnn and Edward Chestnut of Conway, S.C.
The groom is the son of Michelle and John William Ingram V and Shannon and Randy Ward of Ash.
The bride was given in marriage by her father.
Brittany Chestnut-Pribyl from Minnesota served as maid of honor.
The descendants of Elisha Sellers (1867-1935) will have their annual family reunion beginning at 11 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 18, in the fellowship hall of Supply Baptist Church on U.S. 17 in Supply. All family members are invited and encouraged to attend. Each family is asked to bring a basket of food to share, and any family updates since the last reunion.
Grayson Dodd Burnett, daughter of Ed and Carolyn Burnett of Southport, was crowned Grand Supreme Miss North Carolina Tarheel at the state pageant in Winston-Salem. Featuring contestants of all ages, Burnett won the pageant's top honor after competing against 22 other contestants in beauty, poise, personality and modeling. She was also named top model after her five modeling presentations.
Air Force Airman John F. Shirah, son of Denise and Marty Shirah of Ocean Isle Beach, graduated from basic military training at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, San Antonio.
Shirah completed an intensive, eight-week program that included training in military discipline and studies, Air Force core values, physical fitness, and basic warfare principles and skills. Airmen who complete basic training earn four credits toward an associate's degree in applied science through the Community College of the Air Force.
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Submitted to: Agronomy Journal
Publication Type: Peer Reviewed Journal
Publication Acceptance Date: 10/1/1997
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Citation: N/A Interpretive Summary: Birdsfoot trefoil (Lotus corniculatus L.) is a plant that is grown as feed for livestock. The plant is a legume, and it is able to use nitrogen from the air for growth. The process is called nitrogen-fixation and many legumes fix nitrogen. The nitrogen-fixation process involves growing birdsfoot trefoil with special bacteria, known as Rhizobia or Bradyrhizobia. The purpose of our research was 1) to compare the growth of wild birdsfoot trefoil from Morocco with domesticated birdsfoot trefoil when grown with commercial strains of nitrogen-fixing bacteria and 2) to determine whether wild bacteria isolated from the wild birdsfoot trefoil were more efficient at fixing nitrogen than the commercial strains of bacteria. Seedlings were individually grown with either commercial or wild strains of bacteria. Some seedlings were also grown without bacteria, but they received some nitrogen to support their nutritional needs. Other seedlings were grown without any nitrogen or bacteria. The wild birdsfoot trefoil grew well with the commercial and wild strains of nitrogen-fixing bacteria. One of the domesticated birdsfoot trefoil varieties used in this study grew best when grown with one of the wild bacteria strains. Without any nitrogen or bacteria the wild birdsfoot trefoil grew nearly twice as well as the domesticated birdsfoot trefoil. When nitrogen was supplied, growth of the wild and domesticated birdsfoot trefoil were equal. Since domestic cultivars of birdsfoot trefoil grew well with the wild nitrogen-fixing bacteria, the wild bacteria might be included in commercial inoculants. The wild bacteria could benefit many birdsfoot trefoil varieties by improving nitrogen fixation and yield.
Technical Abstract: Like many legumes, birdsfoot trefoil (Lotus corniculatus L.) fixes atmospheric nitrogen (N2) in symbiosis with bacteria from the genus Rhizobium or Bradyrhizobium. New genotypes of birdsfoot trefoil from Morocco exhibit rhizomes, which could improve persistence of this forage, but little is known about their N-fixing potential. Seedlings of 'Norcen', 'A.U.Dewey', and RBRC (a bulked, reciprocal cross of rhizomatous accessions G31276 and G31272) were individually inoculated with either commercial strains 0.27, 0.28, 0.30, 1710-2, CB756, or Moroccan strains R.L.5797 or R.L.5758. Control treatments were noninoculated seedlings with and without supplemental N (N+ and N-free, respectively). Seedling mass, number of nodules/plant, nodule mass/plant, nitrogenase activity/ plant, specific nitrogenase activity, and whole plant N concentration were measured 45 d after inoculation. In the N-free treatment, RBRC exhibited nearly twice the seedling mass of either Norcen or A.U.Dewey. In the N+ treatment, seedling mass more than doubled for Norcen and A.U.Dewey when compared to the N-free treatment, while RBRC did not show a significant (P>0.05) increase. Norcen exhibited its greatest seedling mass when inoculated with strain 0.27 while A.U.Dewey exhibited its greatest seedling mass with strain R.L.5797. Under N-free conditions, we speculate that RBRC may alter its N metabolism which permits its superior growth in this situation. The Moroccan strains of rhizobia performed well on the domestic cultivars and might be successfully included in commercial inoculants.


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Money Smart - A Financial Education Program
Publications and Other Resources
Audio files:
- Information Session on Money Smart for Small Business Held on July 17, 2012 - Audio file (WMV- 16MB) and transcript (Word 141KB).
Longitudinal Evaluation of Money Smart:
Research demonstrates that the Money Smart curriculum can positively influence how adults manage their finances, and these changes are sustainable in the months following the training. Learn more:
- Survey Shows FDIC's Money Smart Program Improves Consumer's Money-Management Practices and Financial Confidence (FIL 46-2007)
- A Longitudinal Evaluation of the Intermediate-term Impact of the Money Smart Financial Education Curriculum upon Consumers' Behavior and Confidence - April 2007 - PDF 1.1 MB (PDF Help)
- Banking on Financial Education (FDIC Quarterly, 2007 Volume 1, Number 2)
Other publications:
- Financial Institutions Encouraged to Work With Schools to Promote Youth Financial Education (FIL-80-2010) .
- FYI: Delivery Systems for Financial Education in Theory and Practice (2004)
Press Releases
- PR-82-2014 FDIC and CFPB Collaborate to Develop a Spanish-language Tool for Older Adults to Prevent Financial Exploitation (October 7, 2014)
- PR-66-2014 FDIC Announces Youth Savings Pilot Program (August 4, 2014)
- PR-95-2013 FDIC Launches Updated Money Smart Podcast Network Website (October 30, 2013)
- PR-52-2013 FDIC and CFPB Collaborate to Develop a Tool for Older Adults to Prevent Financial Exploitation (June 12, 2013)
- PR-44-2012 FDIC and SBA Team Up to Offer Financial Education Support for New and Aspiring Entrepreneurs (April, 24, 2012)
- PR-29-2011 FDIC Releases Updated Money Smart for Young Adults Curriculum (February 10, 2011)
- PR-251-2010 Joint Release/FDIC and NCUA Chairs Join Education Secretary to Announce Partnership to Promote Financial Education and Savings Programs (November 15, 2010)
- PR-239-2010 FDIC Releases Updated Money Smart Curriculum for Adults (October 29, 2010)
- MS-1-2010 FDIC Launches Spanish-Language Podcast (MP3) Version of the Money Smart Financial Education Curriculum (October 14, 2010)
- Previous Money Smart Press Releases 2005 through 2009 and 2002 through 2004
Statements & Remarks
- Statement of Sandra L. Thompson on the Federal Government's Role in Empowering Americans to Make Informed Financial Decisions before a United States Senate Subcommittee (July 15, 2010)
- Remarks by FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair to the Operation HOPE Financial Forum: Financial Literacy in the Backdrop of the Global Economic Crisis (April 7, 2010)
- Remarks by FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair at the Operation HOPE Global Financial Literacy Summit (June 17, 2009)
- Statement of Robert W. Mooney on Financial Literacy and Education: The Effectiveness of Governmental and Private Sector Initiatives; before the Committee on Financial Services, U.S. House of Representatives (April 15, 2008)
Other FDIC Websites of Interest
- FDIC Consumer News
- FDIC Savings-Related Resources
- www.economicinclusion.gov (economic inclusion research and initiatives)


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Hotel Rural Estalagem a Quinta Hotel
Estrada Santo Antonio da Serra NR 398, Santo da Serra, Madeira Island, Portugal
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- Hot Showers
- Internet Access
- Outdoor Swimming Pool
- Parking
- Pool Table
- Restaurant
- Swimming Pool
- Telephone Fax Facilities
- Tours/Travel Desk
- Wheelchair Friendly
Check-in / Check-out
Earliest check-in: 00:00
Latest Check-out: 11:30
- Credit Cards Accepted
- No Curfew
- Taxes Included
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Group of 15 or more traveling to Madeira Island?
Private Rooms
Standard Double Bed Private Ensuite
Sleeps 2
Room types
Private Room
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About Hotel Rural Estalagem a Quinta
Estalagem A Quinta is a quality touristic hotel surrounded by a natural and rural environment in perfect harmony with the local country life, and the green of the mountains in the village of Santo da Serra, (660M altitude). It has and offers everything one might need for a peaceful and healthy stay. Relax and play golf, or walk by the Levadas (traditional irrigation channels) and mountains or read a book accompanied by nature in the peace and quiet of our gardens. Excellent base point to discover the North and South coast and the "Laurisilva" forest by foot or by car. You will be very welcome!
Accommodation Information
Inaugurated on Oct. 9, 1997, the Inn has a total of 11 spacious rooms, decorated with good taste, all of which have a private bathroom, air conditioning (warm + cold), telephone with an outside line, satellite TV and Internet.
The Inn also has a lounge, a billiards-room, swimming pool (outside, not heated), Restaurant, beautiful gardens, bicycles-to-rent, parking place, bus stop 100m away, church 600 m, pharmacy, health centre, supermarket, taxi-rank, rent-a-car and cash-point, everything nearby.
Location Information
Surrounded by mountains and beautiful gardens, you will find the Inn in the rustic area of Santo da Serra, protected from outside views and access. 6 km from the town of Santa Cruz and the international Airport of Madeira, 1 km from the golf court and 25 km from the city of Funchal.
Cancellation Policy
Customers can cancel their reservation free of charge up to 1 day before arrival. After this date, charges will be applied by the property up to the first nights cost of the reservation, unless otherwise stated in the property's conditions. Deposits paid are non refundable.


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Hi ,
I am having files vanish from folders at random, all of my av software finds nothing, (prevx 3.0 paid version , MBAM paid version ESET security 4 full version) , I am using win 7 64bit , so when i try to DL the Kaspersky virus removal tool no matter what link I use to get to the download i get a message similar to this "Access to the requested resource was forbidden." and or a 404 error.
I also have winpatrol plus installed I know its not an AV but I do not get any warnings of changes from it either,
I have tried disabling bat files, registry editing & other such resources used by hackers, malware etc,with no luck, Spybot finds nothing either, I have used so many different av`s anti malware etc & must admit I am stumped, the only other thing I could think of is that my HD may be faulty? but I have duel HD`s installed so the odds of them both crapping out on me are slim, I have reformatted & reinstalled the OS multipul times, all the stuff i have used I have not left installed so its not a security overkill issue,
My permanent protection is ESET , MBAM & PREVX . I have also used the kasperskey rescue disc , now that did find & clean some stuff but nothing particularly nasty that as far as I know could cause me the headache I am having
thanks in advance
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Clothing is a reflection of personality, your fashionable choices are often replicated through the apparel and accessories that you choose to cover your body in. Therefore day-by-day clothing choices can often be in line with whatever mood strikes on that day, and it is in saying this that we can consequently begin to understand a person simply by what they are wearing.
This view on fashion was recently communicated to us in an interview with shoe designer Daniele Michetti, a designer and fashion visionary who has just released his 2013 fall / winter look book. The collection draws upon the intimate and undeniably womanly side of fashion, focusing on styles that you would see within the bedroom, connected with the femininity and tenderness of lingerie. Michetti makes use of bold and alluring designs seen throughout the entire collection; from luxury smoking slippers to thigh high boots.
Michetti speaks as to the deep personal connection that each woman can create with this collection, if fashion is a reflection of personality then these shoes are distinctly exceptional in portraying ones personal choices. Michetti believes that each woman is unique and it is in choosing and wearing his fall collection they can immortalize their own uniqueness with the specialty of the shoes. Everything in the Daniele Michetti collection was intended to be intimate and personal.
There is a sexuality in the way in which the shoes fit the female form – pencil leather heels in deep hues of blue, black, red and purple for formality, as well the slim-lined cut of his ankle boots. Textured leather and material studs also give the collection an enigmatic quality, for the women who is one part lady and one part seductress.
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Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb and members of the assembly minority conference have brought to light a way for New Yorkers to combat corruption by kicking elected officials out of office. Kolb explains the most important and effective way to regain the confidence of New Yorkers is to reinforce the power they have as an electorate
Under the proposed legislation, the recall process would be initiated by a specific number of voters signing a petition to remove an elected official and presenting that petition to the Secretary of State. Once signatures are certified, the Governor would set a date for a recall election. A recall election would then be conducted to determine whether or not the official is removed from office.
Kolb is also looking for other reform proposals to come forth
Currently, nineteen other states have similar laws in place.A recent Siena Research Institute poll illustrated the eroding confidence New Yorkers have in their public officials in the aftermath of recent corruption scandals. The poll showed 91% of voters believe corruption in the State Legislature is a serious problem, and that 81% believe there will be more corruption arrests in the near future.


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Bitcoin perils continue as the virtual currency tries to get a foothold globally with the latest victim of banking and regulatory issues being Tradehill.
Germany: Bitcoin is "private money" and Bitcoin mining is "private money creation"
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Bitcoin a legitimate form of currency, US Judge rules
Thailand Government declares Bitcoin illegal, trading suspended indefinitely
California serves cease and desist order to The Bitcoin Foundation
California's Department of Financial Institutions (DFI) has sent out a strong warning and ordered The Bitcoin Foundation to cease its operations in the state.
Mt. Gox halts USD withdrawals
World's largest Bitcoin exchange, Mt. Gox, has halted US dollar withdrawals of customer funds in the US citing reasons of system improvement.
EFF starts accepting Bitcoin donations, Again
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has started accepting donations in the form of Bitcoins again after over two years of hiatus stating that the legal uncertainty, which was hovering over the digital currency, has all but disappeared.
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I love Palmer Park Colorado Springs.
Palmer Park was given as a gift to the city of Colorado Springs from General Palmer, the founder of the city.
My family goes there to hike. We can also take our dog there to hike if we want to. We also enjoy the many bike trails, the fantastic views, and the many incredible rock formations. It is also a wonderful place to simply take a drive.
Located right in the middle of Colorado Springs, Palmer Park has activities for any taste.
Palmer Park has 25 miles of hiking trails, biking trails and equestrian trails in its 740 acres. For a map of the Palmer Park trails, click here.
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There are also two baseball/softball fields, a very fun community playground, a football/soccer field, horse stables.
There are scenic overlooks and scenic drives.
There are multiple picnicking areas, a botanical reserve, and the Seven Castles geological point of interest.
There are also three volleyball courts and a dog park. The Yucca Flats hiking area allows dogs off leash and it's a great place to hike with kids. The area is relatively flat and has fantastic views of northern Colorado Springs and the Front Range mountains.
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Board and Budget Oversight
How to identify the most appropriate financial indicators
In the last On Board column, we discussed impact, suggested some ways to define it, and offered some nonfinancial metrics for assessing it. But, the financials are still, of course, crucial foci of trustee review. In our view, boards often get financial information in ways that are not conducive to the oversight process, or to surfacing the questions and concerns that boards need to consider; often they are actually the opposite.
Board members are prone to presenting surface questions, which are masked as rigor, but are just trivial rigor. Who among the readership has not sat through some financial discussion where a board member asks about some small expense to make it seem as if she or he has studied and understands the entire budget. Apart from time wasting and time mal-focusing, the reverse is often true; they have not a clue.
During seminars in which we have been involved, CEOs often complain that trustees overstep their governance role by getting into budget or program detail at an inappropriate level. Our experience indicates that this micro-management actually results from the way materials are prepared for presentation to the board. Budgets should be formatted specifically for the board.
While financial reports for management need great detail so that decisions can be made within a realistic financial context and program staff can be held accountable based on good data, those are often not the numbers the board should look at. Boards should think carefully about the few financial indicators that tell them about the agency's financial condition. Such indicators that might be candidates, depending on the particular agency are:
- money in the bank,
- debt,
- accounts payable, and
- accounts receivable.
For organizations, indicators such as these are like blood pressure and temperature. Boards should establish healthy levels, and then assure themselves that they are in the normal range. And some of these numbers may well be in the monthly budget. However, budgets are a sea of numbers—and key indicators get lost in the surf.
A second point to keep in mind is the form in which the numbers are presented. Dollars are the usual medium. But, there are a couple of other formats that may interest board members and provide a crisper picture, which can be presented along with dollars. Percentages connect with individuals in terms of the magnitudes of difference. For example, boards should monitor variances between months or a predefined healthy point. For the most part, magnitudes of difference are a crucial indicator, and presenting that will help trustees see where they are.
However, one can also use graphic presentations. Bar graphs, pie charts, and other graphical presentation formats provide a visual picture of numerical relationships. They are rarely used in board fiscal presentations, yet are potentially among the best ways to show numerical relationships. (1)
There are additional considerations. The conventional budget (expenditure categories by month) can be supplemented by functional budgets and performance budgets.
A functional budget replaces the row containing months with agency product lines—foster care, adult counseling, adoption, etc. Here the trustees can see the costs of each product line. One can then ask questions about whether or not the expenditures seem reasonable or the place to be.
The board can also ask for and consider a performance budget—cost per unit of service. What does it actually cost to provide a foster placement? An adoption? A hard-to-place adoption? How does it compare to competitor agencies locally and nationally?
Activity-Based Costing is another tool that looks at per unit costs. Here, special attention is paid to whether the costs of overhead/infrastructure are equal or (more likely unequal) across all product lines. A hard-to-place adoption is likely to cost significantly more than the average one—how much is the question to which trustees should know the answer.
Here is a common example. Many organizations use event-based fundraising approaches—golf outings, etc. They routinely report successful fundraising success at these events, and everyone feels warm and fuzzy. In our experience, these events, in most cases, cost more than they raise when all costs are taken into account, especially staff time.
Most importantly, trustees should always assess the value of a program by its alignment with the organization's mission. However, as noted in the adage, "No margin, no mission," trustees must be equally realistic about how viable the program's funding is. Thus board members must be open to the need for fertilizing programs, or for pruning them. The MacMillan Matrix (see chart below) can serve as a valuable tool for carrying out a necessary assessment of the financial viability of programs. (2)
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|High Econ. Attractiveness
Easy to attract resources for support
|Low Econ. Attractiveness
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|6. "Soul of the Agency"
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petitive Position
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|4. Invest, Find Partner, or Divest
|7. Consider Partner or Divest
|8. Find Partner or Divest
|9. Aggressive Divestment
|10. Orderly Divestment
Tough financial times are forcing nonprofits to close or merge. (3) The Alliance for Children and Families has noted trends in nonprofit sustainability and survivability. More rigorous and appropriate financial oversight is certainly something that trustees can undertake to make sure they do the right thing the right way.
1. For more information, the column's authors suggest Edward Tufte's book The Visual Display of Quantitative Information.
2. The MacMillan Matrix was originally developed by Ian Mac Millan of the Wharton School of Business.
3. More information is available through the Fast Company article "Leadership Lessons from Nonprofit Mergers and Closings."


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Here is some information for those of you who want to remove the airbag warning labels from the sunvisors of your VW products.
The stickers are designed to be 'non-removable' - they are applied to the sunvisor using either heat or a chemical. So, to remove them, you need to apply either heat or a chemical.
If the sunvisor is made from fabric - as are the sun visors in a Phaeton - then you can soften the warning label using a heat gun, and peel it off using an art knife or similar type of toll. If the sun visor is made from plastic, as it is in many other VW products such as a Golf or Jetta, then it is best to use a solvent to soften the label, then to peel it off, again, using an art knife.
Be aware that the fabric behind the sticker will not fade as a result of exposure to sunlight (UV) or atmospheric pollution, but the the fabric on the exposed portion of the sunvisor fabric will fade over time. For this reason, it is best to remove the sticker as soon as possible following purchase of the new car. You may want to "think twice" about removing a sticker from a car that has been in service for a year or so, because you might then have a noticeable difference in fabric colour where the sticker used to be. I suppose this difference might be minimized if you carefully washed the rest of the sunvisor with Woolite or similar - but, if you have any doubts, experiment on the upper surface of the sun visor (the surface with the mirror) and see what the results are before you take the stickers off the normally exposed lower surface.
Here's how I removed the stickers from my Phaeton:
1) I took the sun visors out of the car, so I could work on them at my desk. It's not difficult to take them out of the car. To remove them, gently pry off the little cover that surrounds the post that goes into the roof (the round arm that supports the sunroof). You will find two screws behind that trim cover - remove these screws. The sun visor can then be removed from the roof by tilting the inboard end of the sunvisor down, such that the sunvisor is now vertical. Once it is vertical, it will drop out. Gently pull out the electrical wire until the connector comes out of the roof - it is about 3 inches down the wire. Unplug the electrical connector, and bring the sun visor inside.
2) Lay it on a desk. Using a heat gun at the low heat setting, warm up one corner of the sticker. Once the sticker is warm to the touch, start digging under it with the art knife. Continue to warm up the remainder of the sticker and peel it off. If you are lucky, it will come off in big pieces. If you are unlucky, it will rip up into about 100 different little pieces.
3) Once the sticker has been removed, saturate a clean terrycloth facecloth with 3M Adhesive Remover, and then scrub away at the area where the sticker was to remove any leftover adhesive. This is important - if you fail to do this, dust will collect where the sticker used to be.
4) Let the sunvisor dry out overnight - in other words, let all the 3M Adhesive Remover evaporate. Now, using a different clean terrycloth facecloth, gently wash the surface of the sunvisor using warm water mixed with a bit of Woolite or GM Fabric Cleaner detergent. Do not soak the sunvisor, because there are some components inside that you don't want to get wet. Just dab at the fabric on the surface.
5) Re-install the sunvisor.
Obviously, it makes sense to practice on the top side of the sunvisor first, before you do the work on the bottom side, which is the side that is normally visible. I chose to leave the warning sticker on the top side of the passenger sun visor in place, in case the next owner of my car is not aware of the hazards of putting children in front of the airbag. But, I removed the other three stickers - both lower stickers, and the upper sticker on the driver side.
Do not overheat the warning label when you are using the heat gun, otherwise, you will melt it right into the fabric. "Less is better" so far as heat is concerned.
Electrical Connecter - note that it fits through the same hole as the bracket that holds the sunvisor in place
Tools needed for the job
A small flat screwdriver for removing the cover over the two screws, a Torx screwdriver, an art knife, and a heat gun.
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Race and Law, Employment Discrimination Law, Civil Rights
John Valery White was the second Dean of the William S. Boyd School of Law at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) from 2007 to 2012, when he was named Executive Vice President and Provost of UNLV. He concluded that appointment on June 30, 2015 and served as a strategic advisor to the UNLV president until June 2016. John Valery White is currently the acting chancellor for the Nevada System of Higher Education and professor of law at the Boyd School of Law.
John Valery White joined the Boyd School of Law from Louisiana State University (LSU) Paul M. Hebert Law Center where he was the J. Dawson Gasquet Memorial Professor of Law. At LSU, he taught for 15 years and wrote and lectured about civil rights law. He was also a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Insubria in Como, Italy, where he explored the role of civil rights law and multicultural theories in responding to globalism. He helped organize and direct a summer school in comparative law in Insubria and twice directed the LSU summer program in Lyon, France. Before teaching law, he was an Orville Schell Fellow at Human Rights Watch in New York City where he worked on prison and human rights practices in Egypt.
John Valery White serves on the Board of Trustees for the Law School Admissions Council (LSAC). He is a member of the Governing Board for the University Medical Center (UMC). John is Chairman of the Nevada Institute for Autonomous Systems (NIAS) which is a nonprofit organization promoting collaboration among researchers, educators and industry leaders for the purpose of creating a safe climate for research on and development of the future of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) while protecting privacy and public safety. He serves on the ARC Board of Directors for Opportunity Village. He is on the Board for the Andre Agassi Foundation, as well as the Legal Aid Center of Southern Nevada. John served as a member of Governor Brian Sandoval's Graduate Medical Education Task Force, which was charged with making recommendations to the Governor to expand and improve Nevada's graduate medical education programs.
John Valery White received his J.D. from Yale Law School in 1991, where he was a Notes and Topics Editor for the Yale Law Journal and participated in the Jerome N. Frank Legal Service Organization.
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Water bowl digging
Does anyone have a product or makeshift device that will keep the water bowl in place? Sam has always dug in her water bowl - I have no idea why. She doesn't look like she's playing more like she's intently digging for something. We do have a huge waterproof mat but she slides it around and gets it all the ways across the kitchen. I'm tempted to just out two 50 lb dumb bells on the sides!
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My dog did this. I used "stop" and would pick the bowl up for a second then put bck down and repeat if needed. He no longer digs in his bowl but he does take one last mouthful to trail around the house.
We got the raised feeders. Fiona just figured out how to get her paws up there, over a year later.
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Generally water is left outside only. GSDs are such slobs when it comes to drinking. If they aren't picking up half a gallon and dumping it all over, they play with their toys in the water, or they paddle it out. So I use bucket holders outside for horses. or I clip smaller buckets onto the fencing.
My dog used to do that a lot. He is getting better. The water has a jug on top that holds 2 to 3 gallons and he would dig it all out and then start trying to carry the thing around. It made quite a mess.
He also will hold water in his mouth and then walk away and let it spill out.
I don't know of any product that will stop it.
I wound up taking a flat-back bucket (as in what you'd use for horses) and installing a hook in the wall to keep the water from getting spilled all over. I still got the water they drooled every which place in the house, but at least I wasn't winding up with a gallon of water dumped at inopportune times. A nice bonus for me was that I could have a couple buckets, so I always had a clean one handy, and could just swap them out rather than need to scrub one while they were dancing around waiting for water. Silly dogs.
Your dumbbell idea sounds like a good one, as I can't think of much else without involving a whole lot of work or money, haha.
We do keep water outside but it's also the middle of winter so it freezes pretty quickly. I'll have to try a wall mount one as long as it's low.
Funny enough she only does it in the evenings - doesn't matter how well tired or well behaved she is before and after. It's like she has a secret mission to discover what's in the water bowl at 6 pm every night. I do take it away and offer her water throughout the evening but it would be nice to have a backup plan for when I'm out
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My dog used to do the same thing quite a lot, it is as funny as it is frustrating.. She stopped on her own couple months ago (she's almost 7now), now only does it when the water is running low or when bowl is empty :) we have raised feeders but that didn't stop her, bowl stayed in place though, just not the water.. ;) maybe ur puppy will grow out if it as well
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I had to screw halos dishes down. It never failed everytime I filled them she launched water or food all over the place. Just so the dish was empty.
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Now I understand why I always responded negatively to any of the stuff I saw on divorce-proofing and affair-proofing my M.
Quick summary: You can't 'proof' your M because you can't control what other people - even our Ws and Hs - do. The best one can do is to be as good a person as possible.
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