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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41109972017-06-24T19:47:37.654-06:00I'm Not Boring You, Am I?Dr. Robert Runté on popular culture, education, and life.Robert Runtéhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4110997.post-34513582385764906192017-05-27T16:30:00.000-06:002017-05-27T16:42:11.357-06:00Aurora Award Nomination
Dr. Runté poses with cover of Strangers Among Us anthology which garnered six Aurora Award nominations on the 2017 ballot.
The Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association has released the Aurora Award Ballot for 2017, and I am honoured to be included on the shortlist for one of my short stories, "The Age of Miracles".
"Age of Miracles" was published in the anthology Strangers Among Us: Tales of the Underdogs and Outcasts, edited by Susan Forest and Lucas Law. The anthology's theme was speculative fiction addressed to issues of mental health, and my story looked at how someone with schizophrenia might navigate the world of the near future. (It plays on the idea that if we see someone on a corner talking when there is nobody else there, how do we know whether they are crazy or just talking on their cell phones?)
I'm pretty pumped that my story made the ballot, because humour is often a hard sell, especially when up against excellent serious stories, and the Strangers Among Us anthology alone had a number of outstanding stories, let alone the rest of the field this year.
The CSFFA makes available a voter package with the nominated stories/books/comics/artwork (or as many of those that publishers permit) for all CSFFA members, so voters can base their decisions on actually having read/seen the nominated works. Membership in CSFFA is only $10 a year, so the voter package is a great opportunity to see the best of Canadian SF&F, as nominated by CSFFA members. Additionally, again this year Kobo Canada has donated a Kobo for a prize draw for one lucky randomly chosen voter to encourage voter turnout. So $10 buys you the right to vote, the right to read some great Canadian SF, and a chance at a free ebook reader. Join here.
Here's the 2017 ballot:
The 2017 Aurora Award Ballot

This ballot is for works done in 2016 by Canadians. The Aurora Awards are nominated by members of the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association. The top five nominated works were selected. Additional works were included where there was a tie for fifth place.
Best Novel
Children of Earth and Sky by Guy Gavriel Kay, Viking Canada
Company Town by Madeline Ashby, Tor Books
The Courier by Gerald Brandt, DAW Books
The Nature of a Pirate by A.M. Dellamonica, Tor Books
Quantum Night by Robert J. Sawyer, Penguin Canada
Stars like Cold Fire by Brent Nichols, Bundoran Press
 Best Young Adult Novel
Day of the Demon by Randy McCharles, CreateSpace
Door into Faerie by Edward Willett, Coteau Books
Heir to the Sky by Amanda Sun, Harlequin Teen
Icarus Down by James Bow, Scholastic Canada
Mik Murdoch: Crisis of Conscience by Michell Plested, Evil Alter Ego Press
The Wizard Killer - Season One by Adam Dreece, ADZO Publishing
 Best Short Fiction
"Age of Miracles" by Robert Runté, Strangers Among Us: Tales of the Underdogs and Outcasts, Laksa Media
"Frog Song" by Erika Holt, Strangers Among Us: Tales of the Underdogs and Outcasts, Laksa Media
"Living in Oz" by Bev Geddes, Strangers Among Us: Tales of the Underdogs and Outcasts, Laksa Media
"Marion's War" by Hayden Trenholm, Strangers Among Us: Tales of the Underdogs and Outcasts, Laksa Media
"Seasons of Glass and Iron" by Amal el-Mohtar, The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales, Saga Press
"When Phakack Came to Steal Papa's Bones, A Ti-Jean Story" by Ace Jordyn, On Spec Magazine
Best Poem/Song
No award will be given out in this category in 2017 due to insufficient eligible nominees
 Best Graphic Novel
Angel Catbird, Volume One by Margaret Atwood, Johnnie Christmas and Tamra Bonvillian, Dark Horse Books
Crash and Burn by Kate Larking and Finn Lucullan, Astres Press
Earthsong by Crystal Yates, Webcomic
It Never Rains by Kari Maaren, Webcomic
Weregeek by Alina Pete, Webcomic
 Best Related Work
Clockwork Canada: Steampunk Fiction edited by Dominik Parisien, Exile Editions
Enigma Front: Burnt, managing editor Celeste A. Peters, Analemma Books
Lazarus Risen edited by Hayden Trenholm and Mike Rimar, Bundoran Press
Strangers Among Us: Tales of the Underdogs and Outcasts, edited by Susan Forest and Lucas K. Law, Laksa Media
Superhero Universe (Tesseracts Nineteen) edited by Claude Lalumière and Mark Shainblum, EDGE
 Best Visual Presentation
Arrival, director, Denis Villeneuve, Paramount Pictures
Orphan Black, Season 4, John Fawcett and Graeme Manson, Temple Street Productions
Killjoys, Season 2, Michelle Lovretta, Temple Street Productions
Dark Matter, Season 2, Joseph Mallozzi and Paul Mullie, Prodigy Pictures
Murdoch Mysteries, Season 9, Peter Mitchell, Shaftesbury Films
 Best Artist
Samantha M. Beiko, cover to Strangers Among Us anthology
James Beveridge, covers and poster art
Melissa Mary Duncan, body of work
Erik Mohr, covers for ChiZine Publications and Company Town for Tor Books
Dan O'Driscoll, covers for Bundoran Press
Best Fan Writing and Publications
Amazing Stories Magazine, weekly column, Steve Fahnestalk
BCSFAzine #512 to #519, edited by Felicity Walker
The Nerd is the Word, articles by Dylan McEvoy
OBIR Magazine #4, edited by R. Graeme Cameron
Silver Stag Entertainment, edited by S.M. Carrière
Speculating Canada edited by Derek Newman-Stille
 Best Fan Organizational
Samantha Beiko and Chadwick Ginther, co-chairs, Chiaroscuro Reading Series: Winnipeg
R. Graeme Cameron, chair, VCON 41, Surrey, BC
Sandra Kasturi and Angela Keeley, co-chairs, 2016 Toronto SpecFic Colloquium
Derek Künsken and Marie Bilodeau, executive, Can*Con 2016, Ottawa
Randy McCharles, chair, When Words Collide, Calgary
Matt Moore, Marie Bilodeau, and Nicole Lavigne, co-chairs, Chiaroscuro Reading Series: Ottawa
Sandra Wickham, chair, Creative Ink Festival, Burnaby, BC
Best Fan Related Work
Ron S. Friedman, Villains and Conflicts presentation, When Words Collide, Calgary Comic Expo, and File 770
Kari Maaren, Concert, SFContario
Derek Newman-Stille, Speculating Canada on Trent Radio 92.7 FM
Best of the Decade
 This is a special category for this year's awards for works published between January 2001 and December 2010. Note: Items in italics are for multi-volume works. Multi-volume stories were considered if they began prior to 2001 but ended before or close to 2011. We defined a multi-volume story as one with a continuous narrative. Finalists were chosen by an eight-person jury from across Canada. The winner will be chosen by our membership's votes.
Blind Lake by Robert Charles Wilson, Tor Books
The Blue Ant Trilogy by William Gibson, Berkley
Malazan Book of the Fallen, Steven Erikson, Tor Books
The Neanderthal Parallax, Robert J. Sawyer, Tor Books
The Onion Girl, Charles de Lint, Tor Books
Under Heaven, Guy Gavriel Kay, Viking Canada

The Aurora Awards Administrator, Clifford Samuels, shows off the new design adpoted in 2016 for the Aurora Trophy.
 Robert Runtéhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4110997.post-18995141496584606362017-04-26T16:13:00.000-06:002017-04-26T16:13:03.623-06:00Leacock MedalThe longlist for the 2017 Leacock Medal (in alphabetical order by author surname) is:

John Armstrong for A Series of Dogs, New Star Books.

Mona Awad for 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl, Penguin Canada.

Gary Barwin for Yiddish for Pirates, Random House Canada.

Judy Batalion for White Walls, New American Library/Random House Canada.

Lesley Crewe for Mary, Mary, Nimbus Publishing.

C. P. Hoff for A Town Called Forget, Five Rivers Publishing.

Marni Jackson for Don't I Know You, Flatiron Books.

Amy Jones for We're All in This Together, McClelland & Stewart.

Jack Knox for Hard Knox: Musings from the Edge of Canada, Heritage House Publishing.

Noah Richler for The Candidate: Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail, Doubleday Canada.

Drew Hayden Taylor for Take Us to Your Chief And Other Stories, Douglas & McIntyre.

 From the Stephen Leacock Associates Press Release:

This year's longlist will be narrowed down to three Leacock Medal finalists, who will be announced in Orillia on Wednesday, May 3, 2017.
The final winner, who also receives a $15,000 prize supported by TD Bank Financial Group, is to be announced on Saturday, June 10, 2017, at a gala award dinner at Geneva Park Conference Centre, just outside Orillia, Ontario. The gala dinner is open to the public, and limited tickets are on sale exclusively through the Stephen Leacock Museum in Orillia.
In announcing the list, Taylor described the submissions this year as of exceptionally high quality. The judges and readers recommend all the longlisted books as entertaining Canadian works, worthy of consideration for this prestigious and unique literary humour award in Canada's sesquicentennial year.

I'm thrilled to see C. P. Hoff's A Town Called Forget on the longlist.
The novel follows the adventures of a young girl, sent without explanation to live with the eccentric aunt she didn't even know she had. As she tries to solve the mystery of her banishment, she slowly comes to terms with her aunt's skewed view of the world, and the exceedingly odd townsfolk of Forget.
From the moment I saw the manuscript, I knew this novel was something special. I acquired the book for Five Rivers, Lorina did the substantive editing, and I followed up with a line/edit (and then there was a copy edit after).
This makes four books that have been shortlisted for national awards from Five Rivers Publishing. Fingers crossed for the win!
[Now, hoping Den Valdron's The Mermaid Tale gets shortlisted for the World Fantasy or Bram Stoker Awards] Robert Runtéhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4110997.post-80497694281006144332017-04-15T00:54:00.000-06:002017-04-15T00:57:05.276-06:00LongevityUpdating my CV with a couple of new papers, happened to notice date on my first-ever published academic paper was July, 1976...so I've been doing this now for over 40 years. I currently have a paper (with Mary Runté) accepted and scheduled to appear July 2017, so even if I'm hit by a bus this week, my academic career will have spanned at least 41 years. Hopefully, there won't be a bus, as I am aiming for 50 year career.... Robert Runtéhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4110997.post-52010368019112690652017-02-16T15:32:00.000-07:002017-02-16T15:33:38.183-07:00Stuart McLean Memorial — by Robert Dawson

photo credit:CBC

Dave turned off the television.
He thought for a long time.
"What do we do now, Morley?" he asked.
For once, Morley was at a loss for words.

Robert Runtéhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4110997.post-12388166561880987152017-02-13T23:42:00.000-07:002017-02-13T23:42:47.988-07:00When Words Collide 2016 GoH Speech
Dr. Robert Runté speaking at When Words Collide. [Photo:
The When Words Collide writers' conference (held each August in Calgary) has a  podcast page on which they release Guest of Honour speeches, panel discussions, and interviews. These are generally well worth a listen.
My Guest of Honour speech August 2016 was just released: "WWC 2016 GOH speech  finds the curmudgeonly, retired professor Robert Runté questioning English teachers and praising fan fiction."Robert Runtéhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4110997.post-82638362755071005752016-11-24T22:41:00.000-07:002016-11-24T22:41:00.789-07:00Karl Schroeder's LockstepI don't review as much SF as I used to because editing keeps me too busy reading manuscripts to be able to find time to read much else. But I had occasion to drive across Canada this week, and my wife suggested that I play some audio books in the car to keep focused, and to make the drive a little more enjoyable.
[I have also enjoyed the scenery. The Canadian Shield is pretty awesome this time of year: frozen waterfalls along every cliff face, the evergreens frosted in snow, a deer on the road, and I think I spotted a Bobcat at one point. True, everything along the TransCanada around Lake Superior is closed for the season and boarded up, and there were like four other cars on the highway the whole 1,000k, so had the seasonal blizzards I had been warned against actually materialized, I would have been a dead man, not having winter tires, but made it through okay.]
 My first choice was Raising Steam the one Discworld novel I hadn't had a chance to read yet, though it has been sitting on my shelf for a couple of years already. You don't need me to review it: it's a Discworld novel, so you already know all you need to know about it.
The second was Lockstep, the one Karl Schroeder novel I hadn't gotten around to yet because it is marketed as YA.
Not that I have anything against good YA, but one can only take so many dystopian novels where the young hero(ine) overthrows the corrupt establishment. They are all pretty much the same book/series, lately, followed by the same movie(s).
But this is Karl Schroeder and he has never disappointed me before, so I went for it. And I have to say, Lockstep turned out to be absolutely brilliant.
First, the setting is utterly unique. A completely original idea in a field where really new ideas have become depressingly rare. Schroeder, professional futurist that he is, refuses to write SF that violates the laws of physics (no warp drives!) so he has instead come up with the very first completely logical, probably doable, interstellar civilization without faster-than-light drive. That alone qualifies the novel as "absolutely brilliant". This is the equivalent of when Arthur C. Clarke invented geostationary satellites before there were satellites. Someday, some historian will write a thesis on how Schroeder predicted/invented the lockstep system x number of decades before it came to pass.
But this is Schroeder we're talking about here, so he doesn't stop with just coming up with a fundamentally new concept; he works through all the implications of his invention: all the functions and dysfunctions and unintentional side effects that logically follow from the lockstep system. And a completely credible history of how the system might have evolved organically from humble, essentially accidental beginnings. One of the things that has always attracted me to Schroeder's SF is that the economics of his worlds are always thoroughly worked out, along with the social relations that would invariably follow from his newly invented means of production. (In contrast to most American mass market SF where authors see nothing wrong with, say, having an aristocracy running a post-industrial society. Head::Desk.)He also throws in a couple of completely original, yet oddly credible, new forms of representative government for good measure. His world is so completely realized, that I find myself thinking of a dozen stories I'd like to set in that universe....that, or write a couple of economics papers. And most amazing of all, he manages to accomplish all this without lumps of exposition getting in the way of the story. Instead, he establishes a narrative structure in which it is perfectly reasonable for our protagonist not to know, and to have to figure out, how everything works.
And as is the case with all of Schroeder's novels, underneath the SF is a social critique of our own society and foibles, but so subtly woven into the background that it's never intrusive. His novel, Permenence, for example, is a nice little space adventure; only I haven't ever been able to use an ATM machine since without thinking of that novel and getting really, really mad at the banks' manipulation of microfinances. In Lockstep he provides an insightful critique of multiplayer video games without ever saying a word against them...
The lockstep concept would be enough to make this a must read SF novel, the first really new idea in the genre in a long time, but this is a multilayered novel, and the book really isn't about Lockstep. That's just the setting. The real point of the novel is the conflict between tradition and progress, between a destiny that pushes one from behind, and the hope that pulls one into the future. Well, Schroeder explains it a lot better than that, but this is the sort of philosophical debate that I want my daughters to be reading and wrestling with. What makes this great YA is not that the protagonist is a teen, but that it presents the reader with the really big ideas about life and choice and meaning. And he does it all with a beautifully simple image which is as easy to understand as it is memorable.
And then there is the plot. I was enjoying the usual protagonist-trying-to-figure-out-what-is-going-on mystery one often gets in the better sort of YA, but then Schroeder throws in a twist that I did not see coming at all. I thought I was reading a sociological mystery, but it suddenly turned into a psychological mystery. As with the movie, Sixth Sense, I was so thoroughly surprised, I thought at first he must have cheated; but no, going back over the book, everything was laid out for the reader, if the reader was only sharp enough to catch the clues. I wasn't. And believe me, that doesn't happen very often.
And the romance, of course. But it wasn't even the tiniest bit annoying! It was...life affirming. Yeah, I know! But what can I say? It felt authentic, and I really enjoyed it!
And did I mention the cute space cats? Well, okay, not actually cats, but you get the idea. The book has everything.
And yes, if you really insist, Lockstep is indeed novel about a rebellious teen recognizing the corruption of the current social structures and tearing them down. But this time it's different because its, you know, really good! And because instead of just overthrowing the corrupt status quo, our hero actually comes up with solutions, takes responsibility for making things better.
In a word, Lockstep is: flawless. Robert Runtéhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4110997.post-3209017460562386792016-11-06T10:22:00.002-07:002016-11-06T10:22:55.818-07:00The True Story of Hamlet and the DanesSaw Benedict Cumberbatch version of Hamlet yesterday. It was breath-taking. Cumberbatch's portrayal is the best Hamlet I have ever seen, and the rest of the cast/production up to that same outstanding standard. Very, very impressed.
However.
I could not help but notice that the only one who survives to tell the tale is Horatio, so we really only have HIS version of what happened. Which is ludicrous in the extreme. So here is what I think went down:
Fortinbras wants to invade Denmark to recapture the lands lost by his father. He gathers an army and is ready to march when the King of Norway stops him, at Denmark's request. So Fortinbras makes up the ridiculous excuse that he just wants to march through Denmark enroute to Poland, though it is obvious to everyone that the targeted Polish territory is worthless--so clearly just an excuse to enter Denmark with his 20,000 troops. Then Fortinbras sends his agent Horatio to Denmark where Horatio murders the entire royal family and the chief minister and his daughter and son (the only witnesses) and invents this completely ridiculous story of how he--Horatio, friend to Hamlet--helped uncover the murder of Hamlet's father by Hamlet's uncle and the uncle's marriage to the queen (Horatio thus undermining the legitimacy of the then current rulers) and how the current king's attempt to murder Hamlet led to the deaths of the rest of the royal family and advisors. Thus, when Fortinbras arrives (conveniently timed to the exact moment to find the entire royal family dead of poison, the chief minister stabbed, and his daughter drowned) Fortinbras is well positioned to take over Denmark. With all the legitimate claimants to the throne dead simultaneously, and backed by a mobilized army of 20,000 already in place in Denmark with the Danes disorganized, rulerless, and the royal line discredited, Fortinbras is the only winner in this scenario…
What other possible explanation for events is there? Because clearly, Horatio's versions of the events is so over-complicated as to be completely unbelievable.Robert Runtéhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4110997.post-71131857131504596602016-10-08T23:04:00.000-06:002016-10-09T14:12:59.058-06:00Matthew Hughes A Wizard's Henchman
I have more than once called Matthew Hughes a national treasure, and regular Hughes fans won't need me to urge them to pick up the latest collection set in the Archonate/Spray universe. Hughes is the Canadian/21st century Jack Vance, the oddly optimistic cynic, the seriously funny creator of a brilliantly original universe. This is the latest in the series which posits that the universe periodically swings between the fundamental principles of cause & effect and sympathetic association (magic). The book's protagonist is Erm Kaslo, a top level confidential agent who suddenly finds that none of his skills are relevant when cause and effect no longer apply. As technology fails, civilization crashes, and powerful thaumaturges rise from the ashes, Kaslo falls in with one particular wizard as his henchman. If you are a fan of the Archonate or the adventures of Henghis Hapthorn, the collection of Erm Kaslo will be right up your alley.
I offer, however, two mild cautions: First. readers unfamiliar with the Archonate should start with another in the series, as the Kaslo stories are really the ultimate climax to everything else that has happened so far; better not to know how things end until you've read how they begin. But by all means, go find Fools Errant and enter the marvelous universe of the Acrhonate.
Regular Hughes fans may find that—as a collection of shorts/serialized novel (in Lightspeed magazine)—there is a certain amount of repetition as 'chapters' recap events in earlier 'chapters' because these were originally published separately. The repetition is only mildly distracting, however, and should not significantly detract from readers' enjoyment.
Any time Hughes puts pen to paper is a reason to celebrate, and the Adventures of Erm Kaslo do not disappoint. Robert Runtéhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4110997.post-30156052994815028342016-10-03T10:18:00.000-06:002016-10-03T10:18:44.903-06:00Robot Surgery
I can't say I was particularly pumped when doctor told me I needed major surgery—until he said, "Oh, and the surgery will be done by robot..."
"Wow! That's great! Woohoo!" I exclaimed. Because as a science fiction editor/writer/fan, I've waited my whole life to be operated on by robots, you know? Because I didn't get the flying cars and I didn't get weather control, so the least I feel I'm owed is a bit of Beverly-Crusher-level medical care.
The doctor was clearly taken aback. "Usually I have to reassure people when I mention about the robot."
When I explained to him—and subsequently, the actual surgeon and his team—about my SF background, they are amused and relieved because, really, that is one hell of a scary-looking robot.
The above photo doesn't really do it justice: I looked around online but couldn't seem to find a good photo of what I actually saw in the operating room, though I have to concede that the thing might have loomed somewhat larger seen from the perspective of lying underneath it on a gurney. From my perspective the thing appeared to be a giant spider-shaped dome with eight legs ending in Edward Scissor hands that took up half the operating theatre. Viewing images later on-line, I am forced to the conclusion that I was interpreting two separate pieces as one--the tentacled-robot pictured above, and the remote control dome. So maybe not quite as intimidating/impressive as my initial impression...but still!

the DeVinci Robot...when I first saw it, the front of the dome (far right, facing the wall) was pushed up in front of the arms (on the left) to give the impression of a single wickedly intimidating robot invader from very bad scifi movie ever...
Having actually had the surgery, I have to attest that I was stunned how little pain I was in. The surgery was 7:30AM to 11:00AM on a Monday, I was up in my hospital room by about 4PM and out the door Tuesday at 4:00 PM. I had proper pain meds in the hospital, and a prescription against need for the next few days, but I was down to Tylenol and Advil within a day or three, which given I had seven new holes in me, a couple of which were several inches long, and was now missing a major chunk of my insides, is pretty astounding. I had anticipated being in severe pain for weeks, but as long as I am reasonably cautious about following the guidelines given on not picking anything up or moving stupidly, I'm just 'sore'. I contrast this to my previous medical procedure, about which my then surgeon had predicted that I 'may experience some mild discomfort', which had left me weeping and wailing in bed for weeks. My family frequently refers to that period to contrast with my wife's, shall we say, more stoic acceptance of pain, so I had always assumed my pain tolerance lower than most. So it was with considerable relief that the pain remained (knock on wood, and with the possible exception of coughing) entirely manageable.
Which is not to say I am recovered. I am still tremendously weak, tire immediately, and sleep most of the day. Walking downstairs to the kitchen remains a significant expedition, and this Facebook post looks to be the major accomplishment of the day, so I believe it when they say I won't be back at work for another five weeks. I am also dreading the follow-up appointment to extract the various tubes still sticking out of me which I am told 'may involve some mild discomfort'. But I've got to say, compared to regular surgery, the robot stuff is to be highly recommended.
And, yes, for the record I know that having a talented surgeon and team of doctors is the key here, and that the actual phrase is 'robot-assisted surgery'. The doctor who referred me to the surgeon and his team said he was the best in the country, and various nurses I met along the way confirmed I was lucky to get him, so credit where credit is due. But given the option, I highly recommend the minimally invasive robot version of the surgery. Robert Runtéhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4110997.post-60692485768685865572016-10-02T16:52:00.001-06:002016-10-02T16:54:28.478-06:00Undead Redhead by Jen Frankle
These days, I don't often have a chance to read books I'm not paid to edit, but I met Jen Frankle at Limestone GenreCon this summer, and instantly enjoyed our conversation and hearing her on panels, so pulled Undead Redhead out of my 'to be read pile' and actually spent some time reading just for fun.
The novel is a quirky, funny, and touching satire of modern life as seen through the eyes of newly undead vegan redhead. Some very funny bits, some great writing (nice depiction of heroine's initial denial!) but mostly a light touch takes us through Toronto, social media, and the importance of identity... A nicely Canadian take on the zombie motif.Robert Runtéhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4110997.post-61500802856867999392016-08-07T16:11:00.000-06:002016-08-07T16:11:29.737-06:00Pokemon Go: An ObservationWhile travelling across country this summer, we've been fascinated to watch how Pokemon Go manifests different community to community. In some, players were sitting around in a park, chatting with each other; in the next, exact same circumstances but here all the people were ignoring each other! How one ignores someone standing next to you playing the exact same game and not start a conversation about it confuses me.
In some communities, people arrived at a park or museum or whatever would look up from their phones and say, 'hey, that looks interesting' and go explore; while in another community with similarly engaging locale, nobody looked up from their phones to see where they were. The difference between player groups community to community was striking!
Similarly, we saw staff at one railway museum shooing kids away from their lawn; at the park in next community official welcomed everybody, gave tips on which path to go for best catches, just asked one player to put cigarette out in receptacle rather than flowerbed. (Seemed fair comment to me.) These all seemed sponteous acts, not a matter of policy.
There's a sociological article about community cultures in there somewhere, but I'm sure somebody is already writing it. Robert Runtéhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4110997.post-21527175476161700412016-05-21T23:55:00.001-06:002016-05-21T23:55:12.408-06:00My lifeRobert Runtéhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4110997.post-30517666648518209012016-05-10T09:24:00.001-06:002016-05-10T09:24:37.586-06:00Best Analysis of Donald Trump YetAuthor and lawyer Den Valdron had this to say on Facebook about Donald Trump:
I still worry about Trump as 'leader of the freeworld' though. His wanting to make America great means making the rest of us less great.... And as Republican comedian P.J. O'Rourke said, "I have to endorse Hillary because, while she is the second worst thing that could happen to America, at least she won't blow the world up. You can't let Trump have access to the briefcase with the launch codes. That would be like giving your teenage boys the key to the liquor cabinet and then leaving them alone at home for the weekend." (or words to that effect--quoting from memory) Robert Runtéhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4110997.post-18914012559644045692016-05-06T19:58:00.000-06:002016-05-06T19:59:10.900-06:00Ian Adam's The Trudeau Papers Re-Evaluated.We need today to re-evaluate Ian Adam's 1971 novel The Trudeau Papers.

 The basic plot was that America had invaded Canada in response to the newly elected NDP government in Ottawa trying to raise the price on Canadian natural resources going to the US, and possibly cutting the US off entirely to meet Canadian demand. The book follows a small band of resistance fighters. Canada as Viet Nam.
 The title, our narrator tells us, was a reference to one of Canada's last elected Prime Ministers before the invasion. When the novel came out in 1971, we all assumed the author meant Pierre Elliott Trudeau, and the book was a 'contemporary political thriller'. But clearly, Ian Adams was in fact writing predictive speculative fiction. The title was actually a prescient reference to Justin Trudeau as one of the last elected Canadian PMs. The novel seemed pretty far-fetched in 1971; but with Trump running for President of the US, and American running out of water... Yeah, maybe time to dig out an old copy of the "Trudeau Papers", dust it off, and have another read.... Robert Runtéhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4110997.post-41240466453992867912016-04-27T20:53:00.000-06:002016-04-27T20:53:02.168-06:00Strangers Among Us Anthology
Got my contributor's copy of Strangers Among Us in the mail yesterday. Pretty pleased with the production values, and the company I am keeping in this anthology.
The anthology will be officially launched at When Words Collide Festival in Calgary August 12-14, 2016 (at which, coincidentally, I am Editor Guest. I'm told as Editor Guest I get to do a 15 minute reading, so will have to see if I can maybe read this one..though it might be a little long.) Robert Runtéhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4110997.post-45471503272249570352016-03-08T09:43:00.002-07:002016-03-08T09:43:58.996-07:00Quote of the Month"Sadly, when human beings are let loose with computers and internet access, their work product does not necessarily compare favourably to… monkeys with typewriters." Justice Fergus O'Donnell (Ontario)Robert Runtéhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4110997.post-59580417313656294602016-03-03T21:21:00.000-07:002016-03-03T21:21:23.495-07:00My Last Class
Today was the exam for my last official class, ever. (Well, I might teach some other courses as a sessional instructor after retirement...but this was my last class as faculty member.)
It was a great cohort, one of the most collegial and hard working, and very smart. Lots of very insightful discussion, comments that previous classes had never come up with on those topics. So a very positive note for me to end on. Robert Runtéhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4110997.post-65467963124245894462016-01-13T11:35:00.000-07:002016-01-13T11:35:08.780-07:00The Zen of ComedyA few years ago I wrote about the Zen of Comedy for Broken Pencil magazine. They had kept the essay up on their website for a very long time, so whenever I wanted to explain the concept to someone new, I would simply point them to that article. Eventually BP took the essay down to make room for more recent articles, and about that time, author Nate Hendley asked to do an interview with me as part of the promotion for his book, Motivate to Create A Guide for Writers and Other Artistic Creators and I covered the same basic concept there. That interview included a few other topics, however, so I am reprinting just the Zen of Comedy principle here in this abridged version:
Interviewed by Nate Hendley
What motivates you to write? Is it the promise of money, fame, power, recognition, self-fulfillment or something else?
 I'd have to say that in my case, it's "something else".
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In terms of my own writing, my motivation can be largely summed up as the Zen of Comedy: The principle that nothing so bad can happen to one that it can't later be turned into a funny anecdote. As a writer, everything that happens to me becomes fodder for my writing. Even the most mundane visit to the dentist or annoying encounter with a bureaucratic clerk can be magically transmuted (thanks to judicious editing) into heroic journeys, righteous battles, and gleeful victories, the better to entertain my readers. Consequently, whereas others often seem to go through life as mere sleepwalkers, the writer remains sharply attuned to his/her environment, ever alert to the detail of plot and character, the possibilities of imagery and metaphor, as we seek to turn our lives into life stories. In imposing a narrative structure on our lives, we heighten our attention to foreshadowing and significance, and in so doing, are often able to anticipate decisions and to find meaning in situations that others may experience as unexpected or soul-destroying. Just as a reader I can almost always see that next plot twist coming, as I write my life, a lot of things become clearer than might otherwise have been the case.
Second, knowing that whatever happens I'm going to get a good story out of it often helps to place my current difficulties into perspective. I learned this principle from Karl Johanson, the editor of Neo-opsis magazine. Listening to his hilarious account of traveling through the mountains to attend the convention where I first met him, I interrupted to ask him why his misadventures hadn't led him to turn back. "Are you kidding?" he asked. "Even as I watched our van roll down the hill and over the cliff, I knew it would make a great story, and I'd be able to come here and keep you lot in stitches for an hour. And nobody was hurt, so what the hell? And when you stop to think about it, the way it happened, it really was very funny!"
That's the point, of course. As a writer, one always does stop to think about it, to see the humour in any situation, more or less as it is happening. Karl is one of the most laid back and together people I know, and I can't help thinking that this is due at least in part to his also being one of the best satirists publishing today. Ever since meeting Karl, I've realized that the bastards could never get me down again, because as a humorist, sweet revenge is always but a pen stroke away.
Third, in editing one's autobiography one is in large measure editing one's real life. This is hard to explain to someone who isn't a humorist, but the thing of it is, once one has written up some troublesome incident as an amusing anecdote, there is a strong tendency to remember the anecdote rather than the actual incident. Remember that boring job that sucked the life out of you for the eighteen months you stood it? Out of that whole period there were maybe two funny things that happened—but if those were the two incidents you wrote up in your novel, ten years from now, that's what you'd remember about that job. And since one is one's memories, one can effectively edit one's life to make it way better than it actually was.
Thus, as a writer I'm able to find meaning in the meaningless day-to-day trivia of modern life; can adopt the stance of ironic observer where others would cast themselves as victim; and instead of the alienation that has become the norm in our society, I am afforded a Zen-like detachment.
And all that comes out of the act of writing itself. With the subsequent publication and distribution of my essays to an audience, I collect the added bonus of being able to create a community of readers and correspondents. Who doesn't feel better about their life when given a sympathetic ear? As a zine publisher, I had a ready-made audience, a veritable convention of barmen to listen patiently and perhaps offer the occasional "Got that right, buddy!" As five or 10 or 50 of my readers responded with relevant anecdotes of their own, and as I excerpted the best of these for publication in the next issue of my zine, we together created the community, identity, and meaning that might otherwise have been lacking in our everyday lives.
I suppose that could be mistaken for seeking fame or reputation, but I was writing for a relatively small readership, so it's really not the same. It's not so much seeking fame, of wanting to be a household name, as of just having an audience. I think everyone needs an audience, someone who is interested in what they have to say, even if it's only their dog. Otherwise, what's the point of getting up in the morning if no one notices you're there? Having a loyal readership goes a long way to filling that need.
(Nate Hendley is the Toronto-based author of Motivate to Create: A Guide for Writers and authors. He has also written numerous other books, primarily in the true-crime genre.)Robert Runtéhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4110997.post-2292988331302192052015-11-24T19:43:00.002-07:002015-11-24T19:43:44.724-07:00Pending Publication
Happy to announce my story "Age of Miracles" is included in Strangers Among Us - Tales of the Underdogs and Outcasts, edited by Susan Forest and Lukas Law. The anthology "xplores the delicate balance between mental health and mental illness through short speculative fiction". Other authors include such big names as Lorina Stephens (my publisher/boss at Five Rivers!) Hayden Trenholm (author, and publisher at Bundoran Books), Gemma Files, A. M Dellamonica, Edward Willett, Suzanne Church, Ursula Pflug (to whom I've sold stories for both her anthologies), Sherry Peters, Derwin Mak, Erica Holt and a bunch of others with whom I am as yet unfamiliar...but looking forward to reading in this anthology. Looks to be a pretty fascinating reading! Introduction by Julie E. Czerneda
The anthology is also a fund raiser for the Canadian Mental Health Association.
I had a lot of fun writing my story for this anthology, and I immodestly think "Age of Miracles" one of my better stories so far. The anthology will be officially launched August 8, 2016 at When Words Collide Festival in Calgary (at which, coincidentally, I am Editor Guest. I'm told as Editor Guest I get to do a 15 minute reading, so will have to see if I can maybe read this one. Either that, or something that I am writing next August.)Robert Runtéhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4110997.post-92152728076736567652015-11-19T21:26:00.000-07:002015-11-19T21:26:02.104-07:00Recent Publications
I was very pleased to have my story, "Hacker Chess" included in the original anthology, Playground of Lost Toys edited by Colleen Anderson and Ursula Plug (cover above) and then almost simultaneously, reprinted in Exile Literary Quarterly (cover below). The anthology is terrific, with stories by Candas Jane Dorsey, Linda DeMeulemeester, Claude Lalumière, Kate Story and Melissa Yuan-Innes and sixteen others. I haven't gotten my copy yet, but I heard Lalumiere, Story, and Yan-Innes read at a pre-launch party at he Conference on Canadian Content in Speculative Arts and Literature (Ottawa, Oct 31) and their stories blew me away.
Robert Runtéhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4110997.post-12701588386224860622015-06-05T13:00:00.001-06:002015-06-06T10:33:10.433-06:00Daily ComicsI start my day with the comics, which come emailed to me via Go Comics:
Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson

Stone Soup by Jan Eliot

Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen

Betty by Gary Delainey and Gerry Rasmussen

Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller

Frazz by Jeff Mallett

Fox Trot Classics by Bill Amend

Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson

Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis

The Argyle Sweater by Scott Hilburn

Real Life Adventures by Gary Wise and Lance Aldrich

Bliss by Harry Bliss

Rubes by Leigh Rubin

Moderly Confused by Jeff Stahler

Speed bump by Dave Coverly

Strange Brew by John Deering

or are emailed to me directly from their creators site's:
Savage Chickens by Doug Savage

Wrong Hands by John Atkinson

I love Savage Chickens the best--cartoons about work and life featuring chickens drawn on yellow sticky notes. I end up pinning about 50% of these for use in class, or just 'cause. So great. Highest 'hit' rate of any of them. Based in Vancouver.

Wrong Hands is mostly word play, and frequently brilliant, he only posts when he thinks of something, so irregular. Great when he does. Based in Ottawa

Cul de Sac was a complete surprise, recommended to me by a stranger (which inspired me to do my own reviews here). It took a little while to get into it because individual strips are not necessarily that hilarious, but once you're following it, there is a cumulative effect so that I have come to love the characters. Kind of a modern Peanuts--but with more realistic kids and occasional appearance of actual adults. Highly recommended.

Stone Soup is pure soap, but I love it. Again, have to give it a little time to get caught up in the story and the characters, but charming and optimistic and humorous. Delightful.

 Ballard Street, again, a very high hit rate in spite of being just totally eccentric: everyday starting points of neighbours who are not quite right, psychologically speaking.

Betty was a spinoff/revampng of a strip that started in the Edmonton Journal decades ago. Funny family strip with many daily insights.

Frazz is about a school janitor and his relationship to the kids and teachers in the school. Always pleasant, but I often find school-related content I can use in class.

Zack Hill is about a kid and his dog and the boarding house his mother runs. The cast of characters in the boarding house are often interesting, the commentary by the dog is often funny, and Zack's adventures at school are often something I can use in class.

Fox Trot, Pearls Before Swine, Calvin and Hobbs will already be familiar to everyone. The others are all singe-frame cartoons with various levels of nonsense.
A typical Bliss cartoon.
Reading the comics gives me a minute to compose myself before standing up, since I usually read them on my phone email, directly after turning of the phone wake up alarm. Better thing to start with, much less depressing, than the "to do" list. Robert Runtéhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4110997.post-28032500735665865062015-05-06T11:21:00.000-06:002015-05-06T11:22:09.558-06:00Orange CrushAlberta has had a long history of essentially one party rule, with sudden over night switch to new party:
1905–1921 Alberta Liberal Party
1921–1935 United Farmers of Alberta
1935–1971 Social Credit Party of Alberta
1971–2015 Alberta Progressive Conservatives
2015-present Alberta NDP
So, following the trend, NDP in power to about what, 2065?
Fascinating to see Prentice abandon his seat immediately upon realizing he couldn't be premier anymore. Shows he was never interested in representing that riding, never interested in advocating for deeply held beliefs, just interested in the top job. Completely irresponsible flight from his responsibilities. Foisting the cost of yet another byelection on his followers. Slap in face of PC volunteers in that district--would not want to be the PC guy who has to run there next.
Fascinating to that his exit speech was all about how none of it was his fault. "No one expected a drop in oil prices, no one expected 50,000 job lost as a result, no one expected..." Yeah, he expected to be parachuted into top job and to run a province effortlessly. It was mean of us to expect some actual leadership, for him to actually have to do something more helpful and constructive than to save a few million by cutting the charity tax deduction. Mindboggling hubris. Alberta may be way right wing, but the thing about right-wingers is, hubris does not sit well with them. Under another leader, the PCs might well have slipped a bit in the election, but it takes a real effort for a party so entrenched to collapse this far in one go. Robert Runtéhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4110997.post-27180576351216512712015-05-06T09:51:00.001-06:002015-05-06T09:51:56.994-06:00Lethbridge Food Show (Review)
The 1st Annual Lethbridge Food Show: the food wars arena
Well, that was good.
The first Lethbridge Food Show was not the first of its kind in Lethbridge--in fact, the field is getting a little crowded. 5th on 5th has been running a Taste of Lethbridge as a fund-raiser for several years, and it has been a huge success--it runs in April. More recently, the Galt Museum has been running A Taste of Downtown, which also runs in May. It was sufficiently successful that it sold out before I could get tickets. So hoping that this new commercial version doesn't compete to the point where it hurts either of those charities, but there's probably room for this one too. But maybe a little coordination to spread themselves out across the calendar wouldn't hurt.
This one was reasonably well organized, and had a number of added features that appeal.
First, the venue allowed for actual food trucks to participate, in addition to the usual spread of tables. Nice to know Lethbridge has some food trucks these days!
Second, the food was really good. That's kind of important. We spent $60 for the two of us which is roughly what a good meal costs, and we feel we got our money's worth sampling this and that till stuffed. What I like about sampling is the opportunity to discover new places in town. Who knew that there was an excellent chef (Chef Express) renting the kitchen at the Legion? I loved his butter chicken fusion dish--butter chicken adapted, he said, for white guys. (*Laughs*) But I have to confess I am less interested in authentic than in yummy, and his butter chicken was creamy goodness! The chocolate coated bacon also dangerously good, though obviously a gimmick. Other food highlight: deep fried pumpkin pie. Seriously amazing. But a number of really good resturants were featured, though I didn't bother sampling those from places we eat regularly. I could see the food show growing much larger, given the success of this initial outing, and can think of several places that weren't represented that might well do well (like our Korean place) were they to participate. So lots of room for growth there, but already worth the price of admission.
Third, having a big name guest Chef -- in this instance, David Adjey-- was kind of cool idea. Comes across a little different in person, so that was interesting.
 Fourth, Lethbridge Chef Wars was good idea, though implementation needs to be refined a bit. The idea of doing a live, local version of Chopped TV show has definite potential, and the set up was excellent - photo shows the large arena space dedicated to it, with three quite generous cooking stations laid out, judges table, and etc., and a camera guy running from table to table, projecting cooks and their dishes up on two giant screens. That was handled quite well. The tiny problems were the sound system was echo-y so that it was often difficult to make out what the judges were saying, and there were very long periods were contestants were cooking without any commentary...TV generates excitement by having a host narrating the battle, constantly commenting on chef's choices, progress and techniques, etc., so long silent stretches sapped a lot of the energy out of the thing. Not sure if that was inexperience on part of MC/host, or whether they'd given up on the sound system. Minor fixes, though, so we'll see what happens next time.
Fifth, looked like a good size beer garden, but being a non-drinker I didn't check out the displays there.
Sixth, child-friendly! Kids under 12 free admission, so that allows for some families to get out, parents to participate, that might not otherwise be able to get to the 'Taste of' events. Ice sculpting events and food likely to appeal to kids too.
Overall, I'm a satisfied customer, saying congratulations to the chef from the Italian Canadian Club who organized it all, and hope it really does become an annual event. Robert Runtéhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4110997.post-80675658446418491992014-11-05T11:10:00.002-07:002014-11-05T11:10:58.769-07:00NaNoWriMo 2014I've registered for NaNoWriMo again this year, but again this year do not hold much hope for getting very far. Too many other significant things going on in my life. But here is my word count so far:

(Graph should update itself until end of November.) Robert Runtéhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4110997.post-54262945760823018792014-10-22T11:07:00.000-06:002014-10-22T11:34:08.874-06:00Game Changer? Only if we let it be.Listening to coverage of attack on Parliament Hill, must have heard the phrases "Canada's loss of innocence" and "game changer" about a dozen times. *Sigh* Recognize that it makes for more exciting news coverage to announce that this is the event of the century, but really, are we expected to change fundamental features of Canadian culture (such as a relatively open Parliament Hill) in response to a single incident involving one (or maybe two or three--it's too early in the coverage yet know how many are involved in this, though not apparently early enough to make pronouncements on how we will have to change all our policies) gunman? And such a poorly planned attack that the shooter apparently didn't know parliament doesn't convene on Wednesdays until 2PM? Again, too early to know if this is a copy cat from the shooting in Quebec, or something he/they had been planning for awhile (possibly to coincide with introduction of anti-terrorism bill?) but either way, it is ridiculous to allow -- nay, to assist!--a couple of fanatics to hijack Canadian culture. Just because they want to abandon the ballot for bullets doesn't mean the rest of us should stampeded towards draconian counter-measures.
One of the first topics that caught my attention back when I started out choosing between sociology and political science was terrorism. I read a lot of the writings of the early anarchists and was fascinated by the conscious, explicit manipulation of mainstream culture through the application of tiny acts of terror. For the anarchists, the purpose of terror is to trigger an over reaction that makes the oppressive apparatus of the state visible to the majority. Thus, one idiot with explosives in his shoes leads to everyone having to take their shoes off in American airports for the next five decades. Does this measure really make us safer? It certainly doesn't make us feel safer. On the contrary, it makes everyone feel more nervous. So, score huge one for the terrorists. What the coverage of terrorists seems to miss, is the changes the media is advocating for are the changes the terrorist set out to trigger. Politicians like to say they don't negotiate with terrorists; but what they don't say is they cave completely and do exactly what the terrorist scripted for the politicians.
Or, if one tends towards the cynical, one could argue that (small c) conservative policy-makers have wanted to beef up security and cut down on democratic traditions for a long time, and simply use these incidents to forward their own agendas. Naomi Klien's "The Shock Doctrine: Disaster Capitalism" outlines a number of case studies. Attempts to use this incident to forward a conservative agenda must be vigorously resisted. Up until this week, there have been two political assassinations in all of Canadian history. If we count the two Canadian soldiers killed this week in that category, that brings the total to 4 in 200 years. I don't think that requires us to change to an American-style defensive posture just yet. And, I would like to note that the police / security response on Parliament Hill today was exemplary. If that is the best the terrorists can do, we have nothing to worry about. Our guys won handily.
Another thing that bugs me about the coverage of the Parliament Hill /Quebec shootings is the recriminations over why our security establishment hadn't discovered and stopped the plot ahead of time. Really? Short of hiring only telepaths for the job, how the hell were they supposed to have stopped it ahead of time? Short of arresting everyone who ever read an IS Facebook post or attended a Mosque? (Assuming these were IS supporters...early days yet on the full story). Two soldiers are killed, and I hear reporters calling for the allocation of massive resources to security establishment to allow them 24/7 monitoring of minorities so that they can, in the words of one reporter, "preemptively arrest" individuals the police think might someday do something. Head::Desk. Yeah, let's constantly monitor everyone everywhere to prevent the future deaths of another couple of soldiers in uniform...but no one seems very interested in dealing with domestic violence that kills at least one Canadian woman every week. Or the even less well recognized problem of domestic violence against men. You want to monitor assholes, then start with the statistically significant problem of domestic violence, or missing aboriginal women, or elder abuse, or whatever, not the vanishingly small problem of domestic terrorism. A Canadian soldier is twice as likely to be hit by lightening then killed by a terrorist attack in Canada.Robert Runtéhttp://email@example.com


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We are aiming to make Barefoot Festival 2017 the most colourful and fun one yet - with amazing plans for interactive art installations and walk-about entertainment for all the family. We wanted to encourage all our Barefooters to get into the swing of things last year, so we introduced Themed Fancy Dress Days, and we had a blast seeing what you all came up with. So we are delighted to announce that the Themed Fancy Dress Days are back for Barefoot Festival 2017 and they are bigger and better than before!
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One year into the NHL coaching career of Scott Gordon, the jury is still out on whether this move was the best for the organization. Right now – the path of waiting out what will happen in this upcoming draft, as well as seeing the second season of a new hockey system is in the opinion of this reporter, to be the best thing for Islander fans to do. BE PATIENT!
The Islanders are banking on this draft to make their case into respectability a legitimate one. Garth Snow's ability as a GM has already been questioned. The franchise that knew such great potential in the early '80s looked to Nolan for a miracle. Ted Nolan delivered a surprise playoff appearance in the 2006-07 season, but failed to build off the success this last season.
Garth Snow brought in the new coach over "philosophical differences.†with his predeccesor. Whenever the term philosophical differences are used in a firing of a professional coach, it sounds like power struggle without either side being well-run or level-headed enough to make things work.
The Islanders were hoping to turn the team around and compete with the New York Rangers, the Pittsburgh Penguins, and the New Jersey Devils. Instead, this team struggled with the injury bug, leading the league with nearly 600 games lost due to hurting units, and now will hope to see the #1 pick in this years upcoming draft be a main cog in the regoup efforts.
As far as I see it, Gordon needs to be alloted time, as opposed to most organizations that just let people go when things do not immediately come out to their liking. The coach needs to have the chance to see if the moves of the organization, along with the maturation of young talent can make his team into a competitive one again.
The Islanders compete in a two team city and have been the Mets or the Jets rather than the Yankees or the Giants. The Rangers get to sell tickets as the top New York hockey team and the Islanders have to fight the normal professional pressure to win along with the battle for fans with those Rangers and even the Devils.
New York Islander tickets might be in for another rough season, as the team tries to find its identity. The team is not hopeless though. Young talent is brewing at Hockey Canada's Nation Junior Development Camp.


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A uniform rod (AB) of mass 80kg and 1.0m lenght is supported on the 2 knife edges placed 15.0cm from its ends. what will be the reactions at these support when a 20kg mass is suspend 10cm from the mid-point of the rod.(workings and diagram)
sum vertical forces. Let fl be the knife edge left support, and fr be the right support.
fl+fr=80+20 in kg
sum moments about the left knife edge.
solve for the force right. then in the other equation lf.
Now in newtons, multiply by 9.8, kg is not a force.


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Ronald Patrick: A relentless competitor
Cocoa High School head football coach John Wilkinson has coached multiple Division I prospects during his time with the Tigers' football program, but 2010 offensive lineman Ronald Patrick, who recently committed to South Carolina, ranks among the best he's worked with, according to Wilkinson.
"He's been an unbelievable player for us. He's been a three year starter for us. He's just been outstanding," said Wilkinson in an exclusive interview with GamecockAnthem.com. "He's a competitor, he's relentless. He's a winner, and he's going to do whatever it takes to help the team win. He's just competitive by nature. He's competitive in the weight room, and he's competitive on the field. I just think that's the way he lives his life."
While Patrick did not garner the attention early in the recruiting process that he may have deserved, Wilkinson said the college coaches who did discover his star lineman were extremely impressed by what they saw on film.
"His athleticism stands out on film. When you've got a 265-pound kid out in space blocking DBs and driving them into the ground, it's impressive," he said. "He brings athleticism and real long arms. He has good feet. We run the Wing-T offense, and for him to be a guard in our offense, he's physical and he's real good in the open field blocking DBs. He's never on the ground. He's just a real good athlete."
One of the most impressive aspects of Patrick as a prospect is the length of his wingspan, which is generally seen more on a prospect who is 6-7 or 6-8 than one who is Patrick's size.
"He has an 80-inch wingspan, which for a kid that's 6-2 is very, very rare. Hopefully he's going to grow a couple more inches and fill out that wingspan," said Wilkinson.
While Patrick may be slightly undersized as an offensive lineman by SEC standards, Wilkinson believes he will add close to thirty pounds to his frame on the college level, as well as potentially grow a couple more inches.
"If you look at him right now, he doesn't have much body fat on him. A lot of (his weight) is in his backside, his legs, and his chest. He's 268 (pounds) right now, I definitely think he can get up to 290, 295, or maybe even 300. Plus there's the chance he could still grow a couple inches."
According to Wilkinson, Patrick is a workhorse in the weight room and is one of the strongest players he's ever coached.
"Ronald is a hard working kid. He's benching probably 315. He squats a house basically. I don't let him squat as much as he can because we don't have wraps for our knees. He gets up so heavy that it would be dangerous. He power cleans around 300. He's a strong kid, and with those long arms, to bench that much is impressive."
Wilkinson has known USC offensive line coach Eric Wolford for years, and he is comfortable knowing that Patrick will be working under his tutelage during his time in Columbia.
"Ronald fell in love with South Carolina when he went there. He really likes the coaching staff, and he's real happy with his decision," he said. "I've known Coach Wolford since back when he was at South Florida. He's a good coach. I've known him a while, and I think Ronald really likes the fact that he's going to push him to his limits to become a better football player. That's what he did up there at camp, and that's what Ronald is used to."
Wilkinson stated that Wolford is excited about the versatility and upside that Patrick will bring to the Gamecocks' offensive line when he arrives at USC next summer.
"I think he's excited about having Ronald there because he can do so many things. He can play a number of different positions, he's versatile," he said. "I think South Carolina is going to look at him at both guard and center, but he's got such long arms that if he does grow two or three inches, he could easily be a tackle. He's athletic enough to play on the edge. They know they found a good player in Ronald."
With all of the attention that high school football stars get on the field in this day and age, Wilkinson noted that Patrick is a special young man who is an even better person off the field than he is on it.
"I know it's cliché, but he's an even better person off the field than he is on the field. As much as he competes on the field, he's real soft spoken. He's a nice kid, very polite. It couldn't happen to a better person. South Carolina is getting a great football player and a great kid."
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Policy requires up-to-date shots
Without any discussion on the dais, Simi Valley school board members gave preliminary approval this week to an updated student immunization policy that falls in line with the requirements of the state's new vaccination law.
Trustees Tuesday unanimously approved the first reading of the new policy, which bars students from enrolling in the Simi Valley Unified School District without presenting proof of immunization or a signed waiver from a physician exempting them from the state law.
"The superintendent of designee shall not unconditionally admit any student to a district elementary or secondary school, preschool, or child care and development program for the first time, nor after July 1, 2016, admit any student to grade 7 unless the student has been fully immunized," the new policy reads.
Trustees will cast a final vote on the policy next month. The full wording is available on the district's website by going to the board of education's agenda for the Sept. 6 meeting.
The state law that took effect in July requires all students entering kindergarten or seventh grade at public or private schools to have the necessary regimen of shots.
The law no longer allows personal-belief exemptions from vaccination. However, students can still opt out for medical reasons as long as parents provide a doctor's waiver.
State lawmakers moved to eliminate personal-belief exemptions for students after a measles outbreak in early 2015 that infected nearly 100 people in California.
Health officials traced the first measles cases to an infected, unvaccinated 11-year-old child who had visited Disneyland in late December 2014. Within a few weeks, dozens of new measles cases were reported, many of them by people who had visited the Orange County theme park.
By April 2015, public health officials declared the outbreak over, but the health emergency served to spotlight low vaccination levels at some schools — as low as 50 percent in some cases — officials reported.
In SVUSD, immunization levels among kindergartners and seventh-graders were up overall in 2015-16, compared to the year before. But the percentage declined from 2014-15 at one school, Santa Susana Elementary, according to state public health statistics.
Last school year, 99 percent of seventh-graders in the district's three middle schools — Hillside, Sinaloa and Valley View — were up-to-date with their immunizations. The figure at the three schools was 98 percent in 2014- 15, according to the California Department of Public Health.
At Monte Vista School, an independent learning academy that opened last year at the former Abraham Lincoln Elementary School campus on Fourth Street, 90 percent of seventh-graders were up-to-date on their shots in 2015-16.
Among kindergartners, the number of immunized students in 2015-16 ranged from 61 percent of students at Santa Susana to 100 percent at Arroyo, Park View and Crestview elementary schools. In 2014-15, 88 percent of Santa Susana's kindergarteners were up-to-date on shots.
Most SVUSD elementary schools reported between 95 and 98 percent of kindergartners were fully vaccinated in 2015-16.
By comparison, in 2014-15 most elementary schools reported between 88 and 95 percent of kindergarten students were immunized.
Two elementary schools, Atherwood and Vista, reported 100 percent of kindergartners immunized that year.
Under the school board's policy update, SVUSD administrators will work to boost vaccination levels throughout the district.
"To protect the health of all students and staff and to curtail the spread of infectious diseases, the governing board desires to cooperate wit h state and local health agencies to encourage immunization of all district students against preventable diseases," the updated policy states.


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Biodel Inc. will transition its founder to the role of chief scientific officer, in a shakeup designed to bring the firm to the next level — a commercial stage company. The Danbury, Conn.-based biotechnology company has appointed Errol De Souza as president and CEO, and named Charles Sanders as board chairman, effective immediately.
The company, which is focused on finding treatments for diabetes, has been run by founder Solomon Steiner since the company's launch in 2003. Steiner will serve as CSO and remain a member of the board.
Sanders is a former chairman and CEO of GlaxoSmithKline and was appointed to Biodel's board in 2006. De Souza was previously president and CEO of Synaptic Pharmaceuticals Corp., president and CEO of Archemix Corp., and co-founder and chief scientific officer of Neurocrine Biosciences Inc.
Biodel's strategy is to reformulate drug compounds that are already approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The company's lead drug target is currently under consideration by the FDA, and a decision is expected by October 30.


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Wow and I thought I was handy! You're amazing!ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks Julie! I couldn't do it all by myself - my hubs helps alot!Delete
- AnonymousMay 2, 2013 at 7:38 PM
so fantastic! my hubby and i were JUST trying to sort out how to build something like this! you have given my the final incentive to get going! would you mind sharing a ballpark of the cost for the pipes?ReplyDeleteReplies
I'm so glad that you are going to give it a go! The cost of the whole project was around $200, but that was because we decided to use premium grade wood for the shelves themselves, which wouldn't be necessary if you are trying to keep the cost down. It's crucial to have a draw out plan of your shelving before you head to the hardware store so you know how many of each piece to get. Also, I used 10" black pipe as the horizontal support for the wood shelves to sit on and capped it with an elbow (as you can see in the side view picture above). Please email me if you have any other questions at email@example.com. Happy DIY-ing!Delete
Correction: I used 12" black pipe as the horizontal support for the wood shelvesDelete
I love your shelves! Definitely a good way to work with a problem heater!ReplyDelete
I made similar shelves, and posted them here: http://sylvieliv.blogspot.com/2012/05/industrial-rustic-shelf-tutorial.html
P.S. That big lantern on the floor is awesome!! :)
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Thanks for checking out my post! I love your shelves as well! You did a really good job at documenting the process with pictures. Great blog by the way!
I got the lantern at an antique shop and I am constantly on the look out for more :)
Take care!
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great job of hiding the panel, I actually didn't notice it when I scrolled down and looked at the pictures in reverse order. The industrial shelving shelving works excellentlyReplyDelete
I've had this shelf pinned for a while (glad I found your site- I love it!) and I finally have time to tackle a project like this for our basement. Quick question: did you attach the horizontal pipes to the wall on the bottom shelves? I don't think I see a flange for those pipes, but wondering if you secured these some other way. Thanks!ReplyDeleteReplies
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Thanks for stopping by! The horizontal pipes are not attached to the wall. The only place where the shelving unit is attached to the wall is at the top, where the pipe elbows and the flange meets the wall. The shelves are held in place by an upturned elbow at the end of each horizontal pipe. This creates a lip that keeps the shelf in place. If you would like to give me your email I can send you some better photos of the unit so you can understand what I am talking about. Sorry! It's a little hard to explain through words. The shelves themselves are very sturdy, that being said, since it is only attached to the wall at the top, I wouldn't recommend this for an area where you have kids/dogs/lots of activity/many opportunities to knock a leg out from under the unit. But, I'm sure they is a way to attach it to the wall more securely. Hope this helps? Good luck!
LOVE this! Do you think you could do a row along the back to make it freestanding/not requiring screwing in? Also, do you just screw it to the wall or do you need to screw it into a stud? (boy that sounds unintentionally dirty...)ReplyDeleteReplies
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Hmmm... I'm not sure if that is possible or not. I think the way the elbows are layed out wouldn't allow for that. And we just screwed it into the wall, no stud screwing needed ;) (hehe). But, bear in mind that we don't have kids or dogs, so there really isn't any chance of it getting bumped into. If you have a lot of activity in your home, you might want to consider screwing it into a stud.
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I love this project! Do you think you could send me the pictures of how you have the elbows upturned against the wall and any other helpful images? My email is email@example.com
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You didn't screw the flanges into the tile did you? They just rest on there? I'm trying to sort out building something like this on carpet but I want to make sure I don't need to screw it into the floor.Replies
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No the flanges are not screwed to the tile. The only place where that shelving unit is screwed in is at the top of the unit where it meets the wall. The shelves themselves are very sturdy, that being said, since it is only attached to the wall at the top, I wouldn't recommend this for an area where you have kids/dogs/lots of activity/many opportunities to knock a leg out from under the unit. I think carpet would create enough traction to keep the legs of the unit in place. We haven't had any problems with ours in the past year that we've had it installed.
Good luck!
Thank you! That was very helpful. I'm gonna need it. ;)Delete
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There are certain players on every NFL team that serve as a human version of a Swiss Army knife. There are guys who contribute in two of the three phases of the game as a special teams ace and contributor on either offense or defense.
When it comes to the offensive line, the Minnesota Vikings have had a long history of players that could fill in multiple positions, from Everett Lindsey to Artis Hicks to Joe Berger before he got the permanent job at center.
The Mr. Versatility of 2016 for the Vikings has been Jeremiah Sirles. In the first half of the season, he has been pressed into action at right tackle when Matt Kalil went down (causing a rotation at tackle), right guard when he needed to replace Brandon Fusco and left guard while Alex Boone was in the concussion protocol.
In each instance, he has held up quite well and, while being pushed into a new position can be a problem for some linemen, when asked if he has a difficult adjustment from tackle to guard, Sirles was philosophical and realistic in his response.
"Yes and no," Sirles said. "It's just kind of what I've learned I have to do. Whatever I can do to help this team win is what I'll do."
There are some teams that don't believe in making a lineman a jack of all trades, but a master of none. The Vikings aren't one of those. They typically find a way to save a roster spot to use elsewhere by having a valuable swingman available to fill in at different positions. This season, that man has been Sirles.
When getting work at so many positions, there is no such thing as a typical work week. But Sirles credits offensive line coach Tony Sparano with being able to emphasize the position he is most likely to see action, but finding time each week to keep him up to speed on the other spots as well.
"You kind of rotate around wherever you need to go," Sirles said. "Tony does a nice job of making sure that he's not going to throw you somewhere that you haven't practiced a lot at. He does a nice job of moving me around and when you do a scout-team period, you can get extra work at different positions, so that helps."
It takes the right mental makeup for a player to take on the swingman role because the player often sacrifices the legitimate chance to win a starting job if he spends 100 percent of his time at a single position.
But Sirles has been a valued member of the team because, as injuries have popped up all along the offensive line, he has been able to keep there from being a huge drop-off when the starter got injured.
"It's come in handy for me and I hope that it has come in handy for the team," Sirles said. "They keep you around because you can do certain things that can help the team win and I felt that I've been able to go out there, perform the best I can and improve on things I need to work on."
Having had experience at both guard positions and right tackle, it would be natural that he would be more comfortable at one or another. Even in college, Sirles showed the versatility that got him drafted by the San Diego Chargers, starting at both left and right tackle.
As a rookie, he was expected to be a backup tackle but was quickly incorporated in at the guard position, making a start at right guard late in the season.
With the Vikings, his versatility has become so necessary that he doesn't have a position that he feels most comfortable at because he hasn't spent his full time at one position for more than a week or two.
"At this point, it's really all the same," Sirles said. "You get work at wherever you are needed the most that week. It's good to know where you going to be getting the most work, because there are a lot of differences from the left side to the right side. Mentally, you've got to flip it in your head. Sometimes, that's the hardest part. You get so used to hearing a play call and you think to yourself that this is my job on the right side. But, when you're on the left side, you may be on the back side of that play and your responsibility is completely different. You have to really focus in on it mentally."
With Boone released from the concussion protocol and prepared, Sirles is going to start Sunday's game at Washington back on the sidelines waiting for the next time his number is called.
His isn't the standard NFL job, but he has seen a lot of players who were pigeonholed at one position be victims of roster cut-downs, while he has not only survived but thrived in his role as the O-line jack of all trades.
"I figured out quite a while ago that if I was going to have a long NFL career, I was going to have to be versatile," Sirles said. "Some guys just want to stay in one spot and get everything down from there. I'm willing to go wherever I'm needed and I think I've been able to show my value to the team because I can play on either side or at guard or tackle. That's how my career has gone and I'm more than willing to accept the challenge because it's what I need to do to have a long career."null


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Geist Beautiful 4 Bedroom +Den/Office
Beautiful NEW house that has been lived in by one person for 2 years. 3 Car Attached Garage.
4 Bedrooms and a office downstairs. HUGE loft area upstairs can be used as a second living room.
Deck on the back with nice views of a pond and a common area. Pool access in the summer.
1 Year and 1 months deposit
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