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Lloyd Millard Bentsen, Jr., Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, U.S. Senator and Representative, businessman, Texas county judge, and decorated World War Two veteran, was born in Mission, Texas, on February 11, 1921. He ran for Vice-President of the United States in 1988 on the Democratic ticket with then Massachusettes governor Michael Dukakis. He served as Secretary of the Treasury under President Bill Clinton from 1993 to 1994. Bentsen kept up a full schedule until 1998, when he retired after a decline in his health. He died on May 23, 2006.
Correspondence, printed material, creative works, legal documents, financial documents, minutes, photographic materials, sound recordings, and works of art make up the papers of Senator Lloyd M. Bentsen, Jr. (1930-1994, bulk 1971-1993). Bentsen and his staff created the bulk of the material during his term as United States Senator from Texas (1971-1993), though the papers also contain records from Bentsen's term as United States Secretary of the Treasury (1993-1994). A limited amount of the material documents Bentsen's career in business and his private life. Few records exist from his term in the United States House of Representatives (1948-1955).
The material is organized in ten subgroups. The first seven subgroups consist of records from Bentsen's Senate offices.
Casework and personnel files are restricted for 75 years after creation, up to the year 2068.
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Lloyd M. Bentsen, Jr., Papers, 1921-1998, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin
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By Senator Bentsen's third term, his office received over 5000 pieces of mail per week. In a single day, the office might receive 2000 pieces. The Business and Administrative Manager oversaw the correspondence process, which required opening, sorting, and forwarding incoming mail, and producing and filing outgoing mail. Bentsen's Executive Secretary or Assistant received his personal letters and invitations. Press mail went to the Press Secretary. Political mail went to the Administrative Assistant. Mail from constituents about issues made up a large proportion of the incoming mail. Typically, Research Assistants, in consultation with Legislative Assistants, researched issues and developed responses, contacting other Congressional offices, Committee staffs, and federal agencies as necessary. Once a response had been drafted, the Chief Research Assistant edited it. Then, after the Legislative Director reviewed the prospective letter, Bentsen himself or his Administrative Assistant approved it, and staff sent it out over his name.
During Bentsen's first term, staff typed individual letters or drew on a library of complete letters on various issues. Automatic typewriters generated these issue letters, called "robos" by the Bentsen staff. Starting in late 1977, Bentsen's staff adopted the Correspondence Management System (CMS), a more sophisticated form of automation. In CMS, a database holds a "library" of individual paragraphs, and staff built individual letters out of them. Thus, a particular letter about an issue or legislation received a more detailed response than a general "robo" letter, and staff could respond more easily to a letter that raised multiple issues. CMS permitted the modification of library items or the creation of original letters as needed.
Staff members in the various sections read all mail, and, if appropriate, assigned codes for CMS library items on a work order. CMS operators then entered the name and address of the correspondent and created the letter. CMS included the capability to produce statistical reports, using topics, dates, and correspondents, about the Senator's correspondence. A small number of letters required individual responses, typed by staff. CMS staff entered these letters into the system, as well, so it held a complete record of Bentsen's correspondence.
Bentsen's staff used micrographics to store portions of his correspondence files. Many letters were microfilmed, and certain indexes and reports were created onto computer-output microfilm.
Incoming and outgoing letters, and associated coversheets, workforms, and enclosures from correspondents including printed material, photographic material, and sound recordings, constitute the bulk of Senator Bentsen's correspondence files. The files include both original letters and microfilmed copies, as well as reports, notes, indexes, and lists.
Correspondence with individual constituents and groups, supporters, political figures in Texas and elsewhere, friends, and influential people makes up Senator Bentsen's Political and personal correspondence. Bentsen's staff used two designations that broadly divide the material.
Political affairs, or political matters (PM) correspondence includes correspondence, both Texan and national, about the political parties, the electoral system, fundraising, campaigns, Bentsen's record and career, and similar topics. Similar letters may be found in the Singles section of the CMS correspondence.
Public affairs (PA) correspondence typically involves Bentsen's life as a public figure, and includes material such as condolences, thank you letters, holiday greetings, and correspondence having to do with such matters as the Senator's schedule and awards. Bentsen's personal staff managed his schedule and filed some invitations in his office. Some were filed or microfilmed with his political correspondence. Invitations may be found in this series as well as the Personal and Political Files Subgroup.
A small amount of personal correspondence, condolence letters received after the death of Lloyd Bentsen, Sr., was filed separately and is listed as part of this series. Bentsen retained some personal letters from prominent people, notably U. S. Presidents, in his personal offices in Washington and Houston. (Consult Personal/Political Materials Series, Personal and Political Files Subgroup, and Houston Office Files, State Offices Subgroup.) Because CMS operators processed Bensten's personal correspondence along with constituent and routine correspondence, personal mail may have been filed with issue mail by date in that series. (Consult the index reels in the System Records subseries to locate it in the Issue Mail Series.)
Constituent correspondence about current events, pending legislation, social trends, and other matters, constitutes the issue mail series (1970-1993). In 1978, Bentsen's office adopted the Correspondence Management System (CMS), and altered its filing system. Hence, the series is divided into two subseries, Constituent correspondence (1971-1979), and Correspondence Management System files (1978- 1993). In both systems, a constituent's letter was filed by the date of Bentsen's reply. Within each date, letters receiving identical or near-identical responses from the Senator were filed together by volume. Each sub-series is therefore divided into two sub-sub-series. Senator Bentsen's responses form part of the System records series.
Constituent correspondence, (1971-1977) 1979, includes two sub-subseries, Subject files, 1971-1979, and Robos files, 1971-1978.
The Subject files contain letters from person or small numbers of persons (around 10 or fewer) who received individual or unique responses. These files include replies to constituents whose letters discussed multiple issues. Staff arranged the subject files by year, legislative session, and topic. In the finding aid, where it was possible to determine the session, the first (January-June) precedes the second (July-December). The following inventory thus contains one alphabetical subject list for 1971, two each for the years 1972-1978, and one for the first session in 1979. Some Subject files for 1978-1979 include CMS code dates, reflecting the transition between systems. A file of National correspondence (1973-1977) is at the end of the Subject list, including a file of letters to Bentsen from non-Texans regarding the Subcommittee on Public Works (1973-1977). Correspondence about Public Activities and Political Affairs was filed separately, and is listed in the Personal/Political series.
The Robos files contain constituent mail that received form letters from the Senator in reply. The robos files (1970-1978) consist of constituent letters, bundled together, with cover sheets indicating the date and code number of the Senator's response. The bundles range in size from one letter to several hundred. Often, these files reflect coordinated efforts by interest, business, or community groups to influence the Senator. The earliest robos files include the names and addresses of correspondents on their coded cover sheets. That information is also available in the System records series. Robos correspondence has been foldered and listed by date, though each box is not strictly chronologically consistent. Some portions of the robos subseries inventory below include the titles of Bentsen's responses, but in general, access to the robos letters is by date only.
Correspondence Management System files, 1978-1993, also contain two sub-subseries, Singles files (1977-1992) and Group files (1978-1993). All CMS correspondence was filed by the date of Bentsen's response. Generally, the sheet indicating the response codes was filed with the letters. CMS could generate mass mailings off-site or through an in-office printer.
Singles files include up to five constituent letters receiving the same response on a particular day. The Group files contain more than five letters, all receiving the same response on the same day. Though some mail was filed by subject into 1979, in general, all of Bentsen's issue mail from constituents was filed by date after 1977.
Consult the Outgoing Correspondence and System Records Series description for more information. Indexes in that series provide name and subject access to the correspondence listed here.
Some portions of the inventory below include information about the titles of Bentsen's responses, the name of the CMS operator, and the number of the job.


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Oman is governed by a monarchy (sultanate) with two advisory bodies. The sultan is the head of state, and, although he also acts as the prime minister, he may appoint one if he chooses. The sultan is assisted by a Council of Ministers (Majlis al-Wuzarāʾ), the members of which he typically appoints from among Muscat merchants, informal representatives of interior tribes, and Dhofaris.
The Consultative Assembly, formed by the sultan in 1981, was replaced in 1991 by a Consultative Council (Majlis al-Shūrā), members of which were at first appointed and later elected from several dozen districts (wilāyāt); women from a few consitituencies constituencies were given the right to serve on the council. In 1996 the sultan announced the establishment of the Basic Law of the State, the country's first written constitution, which outlined a new system of government that included a bicameral legislature, the Council of Oman. In addition, it clarified the succession process and extended the right to serve to all Omani women. The Council of Oman consists of the Consultative Council as its lower chamber and, as the upper chamber, a new Council of State (Majlis al-Dawlah).
The country is divided administratively into regions (minṭaqāt) and governorates (muḥāfaẓat), each of which contains a number of districts (wilāyāt). Local governance is carried out by a combination of traditional wālīs (representatives of the sultan) and by more recently established municipal councils.
Oman has Islamic courts, based on the Ibāḍī interpretation of the Sharīʿah (Islamic law), which handle personal status cases. There are also civil, criminal, and commercial courts that are organized into courts of first instance, appeals courts, and a Supreme Court, which is chaired by the sultan. In addition, there are some specialized courts.
There are no political parties. Elections to the Consultative Council have been held since 1994. At first, voting was limited to individuals chosen by the government; the pool of eligible voters was 50,000 in 1994 and 175,000 in 2000. Universal suffrage for citizens at least 21 years old was implemented in 2003. Members of the Council of State are appointed by the sultan.
The Sultan's Armed Forces, formed in 1958 from several smaller regiments, has grown since 1970 to more than 40,000 personnel, spurred in part by a rebellion in Dhofar in 1964–75. Most personnel are in the army, but Oman also maintains a small air force and navy and fields some of the most sophisticated military equipment available. The sultan is the commander in chief of the armed forces. The military has traditionally relied heavily on foreign advisers and officers, mostly British, and the United States and the United Kingdom have occasionally maintained a small military presence in the country.
The post-1970 government improved health care throughout the country and instituted a free national health service. The new regime built hospitals, health centres, and dispensaries and equipped mobile medical teams to serve remote areas. Government spending has increased for health services, social security, and welfare.
The move to towns and the return of Omanis abroad in the 1970s led to a severe housing shortage. In 1973 the government established a program that built homes for those on limited incomes. The Oman Housing Bank was established in 1998 to finance the purchase, construction, or renovation of residential property for those with lower incomes. Traditional housing in Al-Bāṭinah often consists of palm-frond huts, in contrast to the mud-brick structures of the interior. More recently, however, such homes have largely been replaced by more modern dwellings of concrete, though elements of traditional regional architecture have been retained.
Education has expanded dramatically since 1970, when only three primary schools existed and few girls received any schooling. Some three-fourths of elementary-school-age and more than two-thirds of secondary-school-age children are now enrolled, and nearly half of all these are female. Education is provided free to all Omanis but is still not mandatory. About three-fourths of Oman's adult population is literate; there has been a substantial increase in the number of literate women (although female literacy lags behind that of men). The country's national university, Sultan Qaboos University, was opened in Muscat in 1986. Oman also has several private colleges.


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Paul Williams wins contentious decision over Erislandy Lara
ATLANTIC CITY Paul Williams insisted this was not a comeback fight for him, coming off his shocking second-round knockout by Sergio Martinez last November.
Turns out he was only half right.
Williams, his face bloodied from an incessant barrage of hard overhand left hands from Cuban challenger Erislandy Lara, appeared to fail in his bid to return to the stature befitting the man who was once known as the "most avoided man in boxing."
In a stunning outcome that drew boos from the crowd of 2,176 at the Ballroom at Boardwalk Hall, Williams was awarded a majority decision against Lara in their light middleweight (154 pounds) bout.
"He was a tough customer," Williams said of Lara. "He came to fight and he motivated me. He caught me with some potshots, but I kept throwing combinations to his body and a lot of people did not see the punches and they were adding up.
"You saw the knot on his head. The bottom line is, I outworked him. I'm looking forward to bigger and better things. When you fight a guy on his level, you're not going to rise."
Lara saw it a bit differently.
"It was a good fight; I don't know what the judges saw," said Lara. "The Martinez fight was a blueprint for this fight, coming with the overhand left. That's what we practiced in the gym. I would like to have a rematch."
One judge scored it 114-114, while the other two judges scored it 115-114 and 116-114 for Williams. USA TODAY scored it 116-112 for Lara.
Williams (40-2, 27 KOs) connected on 200 of 1,047 punches, according to CompuBox, while Lara, who lost for the first time as a professional, connected on 224 of 530 (42%). Lara also connected on nearly 50% of his power shots (178 of 363).
As for a rematch with Lara, now 15-1 with 10 KOs, Williams' promoter, Dan Goossen, said "There's always good reason for a rematch following a good fighter. It's something we'd have to consider."
In a battle of southpaws, Lara looked good right from the start, winning the first round by catching Williams several times with hard lefts, as Williams seemingly gave away his four-inch height advantage by crouching and fighting lower than his 6-1 frame. Williams also left himself open to Lara's quickness
In the second round, Lara caught Williams with a left hook that wobbled the former champion.
In the fifth round, Williams looked to be cut over his right eye, and Lara developed a knot on his left temple, both coming from an accidental head butt.
Williams had not fought since the devastating second-round knockout at the hands of Martinez last November 20th, a punch that dropped him in a heap on the canvas, seemingly unconscious but with his eyes open.
Lara, 28, defected from Cuba during the Pan Am Games in Venezuela in 2007, prior to the Beijing Olympics, where he was expected to win the gold medal for Cuba.
Undercard: In the televised undercard bout, Rico Ramos, who was getting badly outworked through the first six rounds by the seemingly quicker Japanese champion Akifumi Shimoda, shockingly dropped Shimoda with a vicious left hook at 2:46 of the seventh round to take the WBA super bantamweight title and remain undefeated.
I've been waiting for this moment for 16 years," said the 24-year-old Ramos.
Shimoda was the busier fighter, connecting on 105 of 424 punches (25%), while Ramos connected on 80 of 273 (29%).
Ramos (20-0, 11 KOs), who had a cut over his right eye from a head butt two rounds earlier, was behind on all three scorecards, losing the first six rounds on one and five of six on the other two.
"Throughout the first five rounds he was frustrating me and I knew I couldn't let that happen," Ramos said. "I was behind on the cards but after the fifth round I got my energy back.
"I wasn't looking for a knockout, I just knew I had to move forward and I had to carry the fight.
Shimoda was unsuccessful in his attempt to become the become the first Japanese fighter to defend his title in the United States.
On the first of two title fights on the undercard, Jhonny Gonzalez of Mexico City stopped fellow Mexican Tomas Villa at 49 seconds of the fourth round to retain his WBC featherweight title.
Gonzalez used a powerful left-hand shot to Villa's ribcage followed by a right to the head as Villa retreated to his corner and referee Eddie Cotton stopped the fight.
Gonzalez (49-7, 43 KOs) was extremely accurate with his punches throughout the fight, connecting on 49 of 93 punches in the first round en route to the easy victory against Villa (23-8-4, 14 KOs). Gonzalez knocked Villa down following a combination in the fourth round before his finishing flurry.
In a non-title heavyweight bout, a slimmed-down Chris Arreola had his hands full with veteran Friday "The 13th" Ahunanga, but handed the 39-year-old Nigerian his third loss in a row. Arreola (33-2, 28 KOs), from Riverside, Calif., who weighed in at 236 pounds, used punishing body shots throughout the 10-round bout to subdue Ahunaga (24-8-3, 13 KOs), who has been stopped only once in his career, seven years ago.
Arreola, staying extremely busy in his bid to return to prominence in the heavyweight division, fought for the third time since May 14 and the fourth time in 2011. His only two losses are to two top heavyweights, Vitali Klitschko and Tomas Adamek, who will meet on Sept. 10.
Despite the lopsided score, which saw Arreola win all 10 rounds on two of the judges' scorecards and nine of 10 on the other, Arreola was disappointed in his performance.
"I couldn't pull the trigger," he said. "There's no way this fight should have lasted this long. No offense to (Ahunanga), he has a solid chin, but I'm very disappointed in myself. I looked almost as bad as David Haye (who lost his heavyweight title last week to Wladimir Klitschko)."
Arreola said he would like a shot at Wladimir Klitschko, the unified champion, who has expressed interest in coming to the U.S. to fight Arreola.
"I'd like a shot at Klitschko," he said, "but not after tonight's performance. It was one of the (worst) fight I've ever had."
Arreola says he plans to stay busy. "I'd like to fight again in another six or seven weeks," he said. "But I'm very disappointed in myself tonight.
"I want to be a champion. I want to give myself the best opportunity to be a champion."
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Congratulations to Ellen Brock MD, Cathy Grossman MD, and Cheryl Bodamer PhD, RN who are now Certified Healthcare Simulation Educators (CHSE). This certification denotes "formal recognition of specialized knowledge, skills, abilities, and accomplishments in simulation education" by the Society for Simulation in Healthcare (SSH 2015). One of our keys to helping accomplish this goal was the formation of a study group. We formed a blog, posted a review of journal articles in simulation, and met face to face for discussion. Here is the link if you want to read our work: http://wp.vcu.edu/hsps-journal-club/
The requirements for CHSE posted on the ssih.org website include: "Participation in healthcare simulation in an educator role, focused simulation expertise on learners in undergraduate, a Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience, and two years continued use of simulation in healthcare education, research, or administration." Review books and courses are available. If you are interested in this certification, information can be found on this link: http://www.ssih.org/Certification/CHSE


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Friday, February 5, 2010
This Week in Publishing 2/5/10
This was quite an epic week in publishing, and on top of this epic week I still have a couple of leftover weeks because I haven't done a link roundup in a while, so... buckle up, everyone! We're going for a long drive together.
But first, this week in the forums we are busy discussing: Do you have a rejection contingency plan?, What is Literary YA?, What writing disorder do you suffer from? Do men read less fiction than ever? and, of course, what in the heck happened this week on Lost?
The big news this week, as we all know, is the Amazon/Macmillan kerflareup. If you have been on the moon the last few days, welcome back and here's basically what happened: Macmillan wants to set their own retail prices to open up the marketplace and are willing to accept less per copy to make this happen. Amazon wants to be able to sell books as cheaply as they want. The Kindle Missile Crisis ensued and Amazon took down buy button links for nearly all Macmillan titles for both print and e-books. Since all that went down, buy buttons have not yet been fully restored, and meanwhile, Macmillan released a full page ad for THE CHECKLIST MANIFESTO that very prominently says: "Available at booksellers everywhere except Amazon." Yowch.
Also since the announcement, in a letter to agents Hachette CEO David Young announced that they too would be adopting the agency model and Newscorp CEO Rupert Murdoch (owner of HarperCollins) spoke out against the $9.99 price point. Meanwhile, lurking behind all of these discussions is the iPad - Carolyn Kellogg at LA Times' Jacket Copy has a great analysis of whether the iPad and the iBooks store will challenge Amazon (plus some good Apple DRM info for the DRM/anti-DRM junkies out there), and the Associated Press wonders if people will be confused by different proprietary e-book formats.
Whew! Want more e-book news? CAUSE THERE'S MORE.
Ad Age thinks ahead to a future in which advertising agencies could enter the publishing industry with book products on the iPad (via my colleague Katherine Arathoon), Mike Shatzkin ponders whether free promotional e-books are a good idea or not (short version: short term/individual author yes, long term/industry wide no), and Steve Ross surveys some of the digital issues facing the publishing industry as discussed at the recent Digital Book World conference.
And last but not least in really huge e-book news, the Justice Department took a look at the proposed (revised) Google Settlement agreement and said, "Nuh uh." Their concern: that the agreement "still confers significant and possibly anticompetitive advantages on Google as a single entity."
In "Hey people, paper books still exist ya know" news, The Millions has a really cool post dedicated to deckle edge pages, the rough edges of some books that give them an old-fashioned feel, reader Emma Michaels has a DIY guide to giving books new covers and restoring old books, and the Guardian reminds us that the print book's obituary has been written many times before and guess what they're still here (via Neil Vogler in the forums).
The Wall Street Journal recently had a fascinating history and update on The Slush Pile as it continues to move from editors' desks to agents' (via HuffPo), starting with Anne Frank all the way to Stephenie Meyer.
I had a fabulous time this past weekend at the Austin SCBWI Destination Publication Conference where I met lots of fabulous and talented individuals! The indispensable Cynthia Leitich has a roundup of the conference roundups.
In agent advice news, Janet Reid has an awesome checklist of things you need before you query, divided between fiction/memoir/nonfiction, Jessica Faust at BookEnds writes that unless each book can really truly stand alone, it's probably not a good idea to write a sequel to an unpublihsed first book in a trilogy, and Rachelle Gardner surveys ten query mistakes.
ALA awards announced, including Newbery, Caldecott, Printz and much more! Congrats to all the winners and finalists.
You probably heard that J.D. Salinger passed away last week, but we also recently lost beloved long time Curtis Brown client Louis Auchincloss as well as the scholar Howard Zinn. GalleyCat has a roundup of tributes.
In The Life of Writing news, Bryan Russell/Ink has a great post on the simultaneous necessity and difficulty of considering your audience,
The Rejectionist and boss received 537 queries last month, a record for them (I've been blowing past query records as well). Le R has, as always, some hilarious stats on the themes and categories.
As many have deduced from the title of my novel I am a massive, massive Calvin & Hobbes fan, and the ever-reclusive Bill Watterson turned up this week for an interview with the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Which I devoured faster than you can say Hamster Huey and the Gooey Kablooie.
The kind Stephen Parrish pointed me to a survey that says that people refuse to cut back on books even during the recession. The poll then inexplicably moves on to address attitudes toward cheating on spouses and sabotaging coworkers. Um. Wow. Maybe they're reading the wrong books?
And finally, as you know this was a huge week for publishing news, but the great Jeff Abbott (who is celebrating a new book deal!) pointed me to the biggest, most massively epic publishing news of all: Makers Mark is releasing a new bourbon. Now I have to decide whether I'm going to wait in line for two months for the iPad or the new Makers. Hmmmm..... Choices choices......
Have a great weekend!
38 comments:
- lynnrush said...
Wow, busy week! Thanks for the post. Have a fantastic weekend.
- February 5, 2010 at 5:50 PM
- Keri Stevens said...
I live 1.5 hours away from Maker's Mark. I'm going on the sampling tour, then I'm going to read your post again and see if I can wrap my brain around all of the info in the links.
- February 5, 2010 at 6:08 PM
- Kurtis said...
I love Makers Mark, but their last experiment was the julep in a bottle, and it was practically undrinkable. It tasted like bourbon and mouthwash. I can't believe that they let it past product testing, sullying their very respectable name. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
- February 5, 2010 at 6:20 PM
- katswhiskers said...
I only recently discovered your blog (joined twitter - world now at my fingertips, it seems) but am so glad I did. I appreciate your take on publishing issues, both through tweets and posts. Informed but not emotive. Thanks for sharing.
- February 5, 2010 at 6:24 PM
- Myrna Foster said...
I love Calvin and Hobbes! My youngest brother is named Calvin, and he was a bit of a handful.
- February 5, 2010 at 6:25 PM
- Bane of Anubis said...
Lots of links... almost as mind-boggling as the parallel-universism of Lost.
- February 5, 2010 at 6:31 PM
- Marilyn Peake said...
Wow, lots of links. Thanks! Have a great weekend!
- February 5, 2010 at 6:45 PM
- maine character said...
Thanks for the Watterson link! Years ago I got the 10th Anniversary book just for his comments - the only glimpse I could find of the guy and his views on his work. I especially liked how he said he used the sledding-into-oblivion strips as a way to keep people's attention while discoursing on philosophy - not a bad tip for any writer.
- February 5, 2010 at 6:49 PM
- Nick said...
I would vote the iPad, if only because I dislike whiskey. I much prefer whisky. And yes, the lack of an E is a vital difference.
Will return after reading the gunnery of links, and that shan't be for a little while, as I'm in the midst of catching up on TV shows. And there's new Caprica in two hours (squee). So, watch this space, because I might not be back until the morn.
Also, on a totally unrelated note, my mentioning of Caprica has just reminded me that this weekend is going to kick some serious buttocks. Caprica tonight, SNOW from earlier this evening through to mid-afternoon tomorrow (I react like a 2 year old from LA every time it snows, despite living in PA, where it snows a good bit most years), the big 213th Merseyside Derby kicks off tomorrow morning (Everton fans or any fellow LFC fans will understand the importance), and then Sunday is the Super Bowl. I apologize for this totally off topic rant but I got myself way too excited. Snow, sports, and sci-fi. It's S Weekend apparently.
- February 5, 2010 at 6:57 PM
Thanks for the heads-up with C&H!
- February 5, 2010 at 6:58 PM
- dan radke said...
Ooooo, you got your title from the Horrendous Space Kablooie? I may pick up your book after all.
- February 5, 2010 at 7:02 PM
- Kurtis said...
"And yes, the lack of an E is a vital difference."
Please explain, Nick. I thought it was only a regional thing. I think the Scotts like Whisky and the rest of the world likes Whiskey, but I'll drink either. I'm a true multiculturalist.
- February 5, 2010 at 7:11 PM
- Richard Mabry said...
If your blog suddenly starts making less sense, we'll know you didn't go for the iPad.
- February 5, 2010 at 7:21 PM
- Nick said...
Really it's more just a preference thing. To my palate at least, there is a very definite difference between Scotch, Irish whiskey, and American whiskey (not had the others). I refuse to touch bourbon, Jack Daniel's, or any other American whiskies. For whatever reason they give me the runs, so they automatically lose for setting my stomach afire. Irish whiskey...I'm not much for the taste of any alcoholic drink, and while I know the point of it isn't to taste good it's to get you plastered, I find the taste of the various Irish whiskies disgusting and their alcohol content weak. Scotch is delicious and can get me knackered decently fast, and considered how high of a tolerance for alcohol I have, that's no easy feat. My personal favorite Scotch is The Glenrothes (http://www.theglenrothes.com/uk/).
Now, I'm not the only person who feels Scotch whisky is better, but whereas for me it's a matter of palate and ability to get drunk when I want to (which isn't often), to quite a few of my friends, there is a much bigger difference in terms of the whole process. I'm not really an expert on any alcohol though, and most of my alcohol knowledge relates to wine. So if you want technical details, I'll have to bug friends (which I am totes cool with doing).
- February 5, 2010 at 7:22 PM
- ryan field said...
"THE CHECKLIST MANIFESTO that very prominently says: "Available at booksellers everywhere except Amazon." Yowch."
Wow. This is bold. What interests me about all this is we, people who work in publishing and read about publishing, know all this is going on. But the general public doesn't know about it, and the mainstream media never mentions anything...unless it invovles a celeb. And I think this would be newsworthy to the public. Millions of people from all walks of life make purchases on Amazon.
- February 5, 2010 at 7:37 PM
- Christi Goddard said...
It took forever to get through this and the links, but as always, Nathan, it was incredibly helpful and insightful. Especially when I can go 'Phew! I didn't do that wrong!' when I see the do's/don'ts at other pages.
- February 5, 2010 at 7:52 PM
- Tambra said...
Wish I were going with you.
I'm going to try and go to the LF weekend. If it works out we definitely need to meet. I'll meet you at the bar. I'm buying you a drink. :)
- February 5, 2010 at 8:35 PM
- Tambra said...
You're so right about the spelling of whiskey and whisky.
- February 5, 2010 at 8:36 PM
- Tambra said...
Thanks, Nathan for taking the time to your information with us.
We appreciate it.
- February 5, 2010 at 8:37 PM
- JustWriteCat said...
Oooh, Maker's Mark...I'll have sweet dreams tonight!
- February 5, 2010 at 9:28 PM
- Ink said...
"You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocketship underpants don't help."
Good stuff. Oh yes.
- February 5, 2010 at 9:29 PM
- Kurtis said...
@Nick and @Tambra Have a Blanton's neat someday, then tell me you don't like bourbon.
- February 5, 2010 at 9:31 PM
- P.A.Brown said...
It looks like Hatchette group is joining MacMillan in demanding the agent model. Check out the L.A. Times blog.
- February 5, 2010 at 10:03 PM
- T. Anne said...
So many twists and turns in the publishing world it makes my head spin. Thanks for the links! Have a great weekend.
- February 6, 2010 at 1:07 AM
- Mira said...
I LOVE Calvin and Hobbes. Someone stole my book years ago, and I've missed it. It just occured to me while typing this, I could buy another one. See? I learn so much on your blog. :)
So, what an array of links. You really outdo yourself on Fridays, Nathan. Not just the links, but your breezy, humorous style. Your paragraph about Stephen Parrish - I laughed out loud - that was funny.
So, I haven't even started going through the links, but I'm looking forward to getting all worked up and having steam come out of my ears this weekend, as I rummage through the news.
Except I did read that one link for that Bryan/Ink fellow. That was a good post. Hope we hear more from him in the future; he's got a way with words.
And is having quite a week, being promoted on your blog on top of everything. You go, Bryan! :)
Okay, off to order my Calvin and Hobbes. Have a great weekend!
- February 6, 2010 at 2:04 AM
- Laurel said...
Nick, Tambra, and Kurtis:
Chiming in on the bourbon/whisky/whiskey discussion. My formitive experiences with bourbon were:
1. Senior seminar class in college. William Faulkner. The class opened with a shot of bourbon because the most amazing professor in the universe said you can't read Faulkner if you've never had a shot of bourbon.
2. Infield. Kentucky Derby. I wasn't sure if the horses were moving in circles or the world was simply spinning around me. I don't drink bourbon any more.
A whisky neat looks so cool in the glass I wish I could drink that. But I can't. I'm a beer girl.
- February 6, 2010 at 2:58 AM
- Mary Miller said...
Thanks for the wrap-up Nathan.
Calvin and Hobbes are cool but please tell me you don't have a sticker of Calvin urinating on something glued to the rear window of your car :). Someone once told me a sign of the apocalypse was when you see a sticker of Calvin urinating on a Calvin.
What up with Lost? Do you like the new season? I watched because I feel since I've come this far I must finish. Do you watch Fringe? Also by J.J. Abrams. I highly recommend it!
Have a great weekend.
- February 6, 2010 at 10:23 AM
and in other whiskey news . . .
- February 6, 2010 at 11:33 AM
- Margaret Yang said...
"Available at Booksellers everywhere except Amazon."
Well played, Macmillan, well played.
- February 6, 2010 at 12:29 PM
- BigWords said...
Nathan - a question about agents' views on references, shout-outs and tips of the hat, if you don't mind. Is there accepted preferences and / or limits amongst agents on what constitutes too much in-jokery? I have a habit of using things which anyone who isn't obsessively familiar with an old property wouldn't know.
Titling a book after something which shares themes with the novel (or is simply really, really cool) is one thing, but if a book is peppered with subtle allusions to obscure television shows, forgotten novels and comic-book characters (tastefully done references though) is it a black mark against the writing?
- February 6, 2010 at 12:41 PM
What a report!
Thank you.
Question: Nathan, where do you stand on the pricing of e-books?
- February 6, 2010 at 4:12 PM
With all this talk of eBooks, do you think publishing is going to go the way of, "We'll publish the manuscript in an eBook, if it doesn't make a killing, we won't have to print it." I've been trying to follow the discussion on eBooks, and from what I can gather, they are much less expensive to publish.
In the near future, do you think an author will be considered more thoughtfully by a publisher if he or she is willing to first be published as an eBook?
- February 6, 2010 at 4:19 PM
- Ishta Mercurio said...
I ask the same question as Ryan Field - why don't more people know about this? Equally, why didn't more people know about the whitewashing issue at Bloomsbury?
I generally discuss these things with my friends and family, but being the introverted writer-actor-type that I am, that's a pretty small circle.
Another case of good content being smothered by the morass of cyber-schlock? A case of 24-hour news reporting gone wrong, because it's just the same thing over and over instead of new content throughout the day? Do people just not care anymore? I think these are all problems, to a certain extent.
And Calvin and Hobbes - YEAH! If I had any reservations about checking out your novel (which I didn't, by the way - I'm just saying, "if I HAD"), they're gone now.
- February 7, 2010 at 10:22 AM
- DG said...
It only makes sense to pick up the bourbon first, then you'll have something to drink while waiting in line for your iPad.
- February 7, 2010 at 3:52 PM
Interesting discussion about guys and fiction. Most guys I know read more non-fiction than fiction. This is why, I think, YA so important right now.
- February 7, 2010 at 9:35 PM
Loved Calvin & Hobbes since I was a kid. Frequently as poignant as they are hilarious.
Thanks for the links!
- February 8, 2010 at 10:41 AM
- Who is Felicia? said...
Definitely the bourbon.
- February 8, 2010 at 6:08 PM
- Mainely Marla said...
Hi Nathan, I must side with Amazon on this. I don't think publishers should have the right to dictate to sellers, prices or anything else. If the seller is willing to pay the price asked by the publisher, why should the publisher determine the profit the seller is willing to make?
I think when publishers figure out that ereaders and ebooks are a seperate market from hardcover books, sales will increase for the publisher. Ebook readers will wait for the ebook rather than buy the hardcover. Most will not pay the same price as a hardcover for it. In my opinion, $10.00 for a newly released ebook is fair. If publishers want to increase profits they should release both at the same time and capitalize on both markets.
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Top 5 American cities for startups. "We've curated a list for you of surprising and not-so-surprising locales where you might consider putting down startup roots. Our method? Looking at city tax breaks for small businesses, government programs, talent pools, culture, and more." (Venture Beat)
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2 thoughts on "The Bishop's Hour"
Just a note to ask you to encourage your listeners Monday to register to vote, or check their registration if they are unsure. They have until Tuesday October 9th.
An easy place to start is http://www.azsos.gov/
They can print out a form and mail it by Tuesday, or register online at http://servicearizona.com (if they have a drivers license or state ID already)
More details at http://www.azsos.gov/election/VoterRegistration.htm#How
I was wondering if you have the link to the hour show on last night @9pm az time all about the Council of Trent?? If you have anything else about the church fathers to help explain why Catholics "do what we do" it would be great!!
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|Caleb Campbell
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2508 (Dead Space: Aftermath)
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Captain of the USG O'Bannon[1]
- "Alright you bastards, come and get it!"
- —Campbell's last words[1]
Caleb Campbell was the captain of the USG O'Bannon.
Campbell and his crew of the O'Bannon set out to Aegis VII to find shards of the Red Marker. However not long after reaching Aegis VII. The landing crew encountered difficulty with the stabilizers overloading, which was made irrecoverable by Nikolas Kuttner, forcing the landing crew to abandon the planet as it started to break up.
He had attempted to get the O'Bannon further away from the planet to get clear of the planet's gravity well to shock out. But was to late as the ship was caught and damaged much of the ship's systems including it's Shockpoint Drive, leaving them stranded and at the mercy of planetary debris.
When Nolan Stross attempted to warn him of the Necromorph outbreak, he had been busy talking with Alejandro Borges concerning the Shockpoint Drive thus ignored Stross all together. He along with two security officers were able to survive long enough to meet up with Stross, Isabel Cho, and Nikolas Kuttner. But as they made their escape into the vents, the Necromorphs overwhelmed the last of the security officers. Campbell, Kuttner, Cho and Stross flee into the vents and make it to Stross' lab, where they meet with Borges, and two officers from the bridge. There he asks Stross to explain what was happening on the ship, and after learning that destroying the shard could stop the Necromorphs. Borges suggests that throwing it into the reactor core, with weapons made by Borges, they head to engineering. Debris from the planet causes a hull breach, damaging the outer door control for engineering. Captain Campbell sacrifices himself to seal the door manually then uses a grenade made by Borges to blow himself and a group of necromorphs surrounding him up.
- Campbell has a scar on his left eye. However, this scar is not present during Stross' flashback.
- Campbell apparently has a wife who tried to convince him to retire before setting out to Aegis VII.
- Campbell is voiced by Graham McTavish, who provided the voice of Dante Alighieri in another of EA's games: Dante's Inferno, which actually made a cameo appearance in the film.
- Campbell shows similarities with Captain Matthius, as they both have white hair, white beard, blue eyes, are captain of course, and are touched by the marker's influence (Except Campbell wasn't in its constant presence). Campbell, however, managed to keep his sanity until his death. However, as he explains "the voices in my head", Stross takes the marker shard away from his presence thus preventing him from succumbing to any further dementia.


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Chapter Twenty: "Suck It Up Adam"
A world class wrestler at Cornell faces the match of his life: Cancer. Beginning with an automobile accident that should have left him debilitated, Adam Frey shares his remarkable (and often hilarious) journey--from three rounds of chemo to his first visit to a sperm bank. Get inspired and laugh a little... Illustrated by Dash Shaw in June 2008.
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TEL AVIV (Dec. 19)
Shlomo Goren, a former Israeli chief rabbi and chief military chaplain, has advised Israeli soldiers to refuse to obey any orders to participate in military operations to evacuate Jewish settlements from the administered areas.
Goren's suggestion came in a pamphlet he wrote on behalf of the Rabbinical Committee of Jewish Settlements in Judea, Samaria and the Gaza Strip.
He outlined his thoughts in an Israel Radio interview on Sunday and was immediately denounced by many government leaders.
Deputy Defense Minister Mordechai Gur said Goren's view is "totally unacceptable."
"The spiritual world view of a single person should not be allowed to determine positions in a democratic society. The majority must prevail," said Gur, who was in command of the Jerusalem area in the Six-Day War in 1967 when the Israel Defense Force captured the Old City.
Goren, then the IDF's chief chaplain, had raced to the Western Wall to blow the shofar, even before the shooting stopped.
In the pamphlet and in his radio interview, Goren said the government had no authority to rule on the status of the settlements as it depends for its majority on the votes of Arab Knesset members.
Goren cited medieval rabbinical authorities as the basis for his religious injunction.
In any conflict between civil and religious law, Goren said, the religious takes precedence over the secular law.
Asked whether he was inciting rebellion, Goren said: "For us, our first call is to obey the laws of Moses. Any other orders which contradict the Law of Moses — the Law of the Bible — this is a rebellion against the Law of Moses, against the Torah and the laws of our religion.
"For us there is not any kind of rebellion if it is based on obeying the Laws of Moses."
Other rabbis and spokesmen for the opposition Likud party have so far remained silent on Goren's remarks.
But one rabbi said privately that the number of rabbis in Israel who value territory over human lives is marginal.
A spokesman for the Chief Rabbi's Office said only that "no situation should reach the point of civil war."
Ministers Uzi Bar-Am and Binyamin Ben-Eliezer also accused Goren of fomenting rebellion by urging soldiers to refuse to obey orders.
A Tel Aviv lawyer, Aharon Shlanger, appealed to the police to investigate Goren's breach of the law by instructing soldiers to revolt against formal orders.


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Update: 7:42 p.m. Saturday: After being pepper-sprayed and pushed back almost to the middle of Civic Center Park, Occupy Denver protesters have organized a sudden march downtown, while around forty protesters remain in the park, now on the sidewalk. It is unclear how many arrests were made and how many people might have been instead detained, but Mayor Hancock's office has confirmed multiple arrests, and the Denver Anarchist Black Cross estimates at least ten.
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The kitchen tent is no longer standing, nor are any other structures. The food from the kitchen, saved from the previous protest on Friday but left on the ground when police removed the tent, has been thrown away. Cops have closed off blocks of downtown all the way down to around 17th due to the Occupy Denver march on the 16th Street Mall.
Photos below:
The police close in on the occupation.
Britt Chester
Protester Corey Donahue meets the cops.
Britt Chester
Donahue reacts to the police's use of pepper spray.
Britt Chester
Donahue washes the pepper spray out of his eyes as police encroach upon the camp.
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Page down for more coverage: Update: 6:59 p.m. Saturday: Tear gas greets the protesters and arrests are being made. Those on the ground in front of the kitchen are being picked up and forcibly removed by the police.
The food tent has been torn down -- there's nothing but food left on the ground in a pile -- and protesters are kneeling on the ground, pouring water on themselves to get the pepper spray out of their eyes. Almost all the people left are now covering their faces.
An Occupy Denver protester holds up an intentionally inverted American flag at 6:40 p.m. Saturday. He stands between the police and protesters.
Kelsey Whipple
Update: 6:40 p.m. Saturday:
The police have moved as close to protesters as possible without touching them. A few minutes ago, the scene was panic, as protesters with criminal records left the area.
Officers from Denver Sheriff Department and State Patrol are on the scene, because both have jurisdiction over the area. The majority are still State Patrol officers.
The cops and kitchen workers are facing off and neither side is moving back. Every protester here is flocking to food tent because it seems to that the most aggressively activist protesters are working the kitchen tent. It's the only tent on the grounds so it's the most visible symbol of the movement.
Protesters continue to shout, "We shall not be divided" and "we are the 99 percent."
Meanwhile, police have just said for a third time that protesters to have one minute disperse.
Occupy Denver protesters locking arms around the movement's makeshift kitchen at 6:10 p.m. Saturday.
Kelsey Whipple
Update: 6:10 p.m. Saturday:
Police have told protesters they have five minutes to get off Broadway. Protesters seem to be polite to the police, and are hugging each other. But they are not moving. The kitchen is still serving sandwiches to protesters but people with criminal records are leaving the area to avoid charges.
Police on Broadway between 14th and Colfax, attempting to break up the mass of people blocking the street.
Kelsey Whipple
Update: 6 p.m. Saturday:
Riot officers with the Colorado State Patrol are walking on Broadway between 14th and Colfax, which is blocked off by protesters and the police are trying to break up the scene.
Right now there's a line of riot police coming and they're forming a line. Protesters are shouting "The whole world is watching" while a handful of protesters are spitting on the police. There are an estimate 40 riot police in full gear.
There's a line of cops, baton-to-baton on Broadway, between 14th and Colfax.
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After a police officer twice asked protesters at Occupy Denver on Saturday to take down their new food tent, the heart of the local movement, the volunteers are backing up their refusal with vinegar soaked rags in case they face tear gas from the police. Occupy Denver has cemented its largest gathering yet, with between 2,000 and 3,000 people at the noon march, at least half of whom have returned to Broadway and are currently blocking the road between 14th and Colfax. In response, the number of police officers present has grown considerably since the large crowd returned from its rally and protest march around 3 p.m. Police cars currently block passage through two blocks of 14th, while more officers flock to the area that earlier today was monitored predominantly by a small group of officers on bicycles.
An officer asks Occupy Denver's kitchen volunteers to take down the group's new food tent.
Kelsey Whipple
Althoughthe Thunderdome, the original harbinger of hope and free food
at the Occupy Denver camp, was removed during the protest early Friday morning, along with24 arrested volunteers
, it was replaced quickly the next morning by a new version at the corner of 14th and Civic Center Park. It is this tent officers have twice asked to be removed this afternoon, and they have been politely refused with the same frequency. 'Well, I'm not taking it down," an uncharacteristically stoic Crunchy (an Occupy kitchen worker) told the cop.
Occupy volunteers maintain that they were given permission by a contact from Mayor Michael Hancock's office to build the site, but Westword has not yet been able to confirm this. "It's ironic that the cops who are supposed to serve and protect people are stopping us from feeding the poor," says Pat Marsden, an Occupy kitchen worker and one of the 24 to be arrested. "They're trying to destroy us from every angle, and there's no end of irony here."
The occupation has currently spread wide enough to block off Broadway between Colfax and 14th.
Kelsey Whipple
"I've never seen anything like this," says Scott Greene, the 24th and most recent volunteer to be arrested following Friday's events. This Saturday's crowd is easily four times larger than that of only one week ago, in large part because of local and national attention drawn on Friday night.
"I just got back from jail and headed over, and this response is incredible," Green says.
Last night was the group's first spent in Civic Center Park instead of its previous home across Broadway in Lincoln Park, and at least a handful of protesters occupied the area the entire night. The late hours did include attention from the police, however. Protesters were again asked to take down tents that had been temporarily set up in the area.
The intensity of the situation has escalated this afternoon as the much larger turnout has gathered around the new and as-of-yet nameless food tent. Much of the food from the Thunderdome was wheeled away at the last minute by volunteers with pedicabs, and it was returned to the new site this afternoon. Occupy Denver volunteers are currently preparing for a potential second intervention from the authorities after their move from state property to city property.
"We're encouraging people to bring over tents," Marsden says, at once sarcastic and serious. "Hell, I'll sleep here."
More from our Occupy Denver archive: "Occupy Denver photo gallery captures the night (and morning) the tent city came down."
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I missed out when Missie Lizzie B ran her Take One Jumper Challenge. I never quite got around to making the things I planned to: I never found the right sweater. So when she reached out on Twitter, suggesting that I might be up for a Jeans challenge, I was a little more responsive. I cut out the fabric almost immediately. And then I did nothing with it: progress of a kind.
And yet a flurry of activity today gave me some progress. Following instructions, I am now half way through making this brilliant upcycled apron I found at Girl and a Glue Gun. It will be perfect for the LBG, whose personalised apron has- seemingly overnight- become too small for the neck strap to fit over her head.
I also made a very easy shoulder bag for her too: I cut off the bottom of one leg, hemmed the unfinished end, and used a seam as the strap. I plan on adding detail with embroidery thread and buttons.
But my main triumph is my marble bag. I have seen a large round playmat that draws up into a large bag somewhere and it was the inspiration behind what my mother pointed out to me today was a 'Dolly' bag.
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Attach a safety pin to the end of a length of piping cord, and thread this through the hole and around the channel until you exit the slit once again.
Laying the 'frisbee' flat, trim your cord ends, then tie off.
You have now made a simple drawstring bag for toys, trinkets and, in this case, marbles.
I shall add photographs of other projects as I make them. I am unlikely to use every last bit of denim as Lizzie did. I lack her determination and thrift!! But I do have lots of great ideas on my Pinterest Upcycle board.


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