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Famed for playing England's Virgin Queen, Cate Blanchett takes on Ireland's patron saint of journalism, writes Glenn Whipp.
Cate Blanchett made her name playing Queen Elizabeth I, so we know she's not intimidated by history. But it's one thing to play the Virgin Queen and quite another to play a modern-day woman who's practically considered a saint in Ireland; a woman who was murdered and whose death remains an open wound seven years after the fact; a woman whose family and friends would be coming to the Dublin premiere and looking at Cate Blanchett and, at least in Blanchett's mind, judging her every gesture and facial expression.
"I stepped out of the car at that premiere and saw all her family and friends and colleagues and realised that's who my audience would be," Blanchett says. "And here I was pretending to be this woman. I just thought, 'I'm going to run into the bathroom and kill myself.' "
The woman was Veronica Guerin, which is also the name of Blanchett's movie. Somewhat improbably produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and indelicately directed by Joel Schumacher, the film tells the story of journalist Guerin's investigations into Dublin's drug trade and how her reporting led to her death but helped (along with other events) change Ireland's laws.
Guerin remains a huge subject of interest in Ireland, so much so that one in four people saw Veronica Guerin when it opened there last year.
"The story has a very deep meaning for the Irish people," says Gerard McSorley, a Dubliner who plays Guerin's ruthless criminal nemesis in the film. "Knowing that, what Cate Blanchett did took a hell of a lot of balls and courage. She was working with a cast and crew that was 99 per cent Irish. She was scrutinised - and she passed the test."
Such scrutiny doesn't seem to bother the 34-year-old Blanchett. If it does, she's a glutton for punishment, since she's just finished playing another icon, actress Katharine Hepburn, in Martin Scorsese's biopic on Howard Hughes, The Aviator. Truth be told, playing Hepburn has knocked Blanchett for a bit of a loop. It's one thing to play a journalist or a queen, quite another to play one of her own, arguably the greatest actress of the past century.
"Yes, well, I simply had to forget about the legend and focus on the function of the character in the story," Blanchett says. "Marty kept telling me I was playing a character named Katharine Hepburn, which is all well and good, I suppose, but at the same time I had to approximate that energy, that life force that she had. That's no small task."
Blanchett does like a good challenge. And if the finished product hasn't always matched the initial promise of the films, critics haven't held her feet to the fire. The actress has struggled since 1998's Elizabeth to find another defining role, starring in a host of movies - Pushing Tin, The Gift, The Shipping News, Charlotte Gray and Heaven among them - that were met with critical and commercial indifference.
Blanchett will next be seen in The Missing, a western that is Ron Howard's directorial follow-up to the Oscar-winning A Beautiful Mind. Blanchett plays a tough frontier woman who joins forces with her estranged father (Tommy Lee Jones) to find her kidnapped daughter.
She can also be seen in The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, in her small role of Galadriel, the elf queen.
The Missing is Blanchett's biggest studio movie since Bandits. Still, she maintains that the film's commercial prospects weren't - and never have been - a consideration.
"Picking projects has never really been a science for me," Blanchett says. "I don't develop my own movies. I prefer to do things that interest me where I'm at in my life.
"I like the spontaneity that comes from never knowing what might be around the corner. Sometimes it works out, sometimes it doesn't.
But I couldn't do it any other way because, for me, the exhilaration that comes from working like that is a necessary part of my work."
"She is a tour de force," says Bruckheimer. "The energy, the intelligence and the passion she brings to a movie is incredible. Seeing her work and the amount of research she does, it's no surprise that she's considered one of the greatest actresses working today."
Although it might not seem like it, Blanchett has cut back on work since giving birth to her son, Dashiell (or Dash, after her husband Andrew Upton's favourite writer, Dashiell Hammett), two years ago. Blanchett is pregnant again, and from comments she has made about family ("The more the merrier"), you get the feeling she won't be stopping at two.
Even had Blanchett's films found more of an audience, you probably wouldn't know that much more about her. She, Dash and Upton, who is a writer, now live quietly in London. Having been a small part of the Lord of the Rings movies, Blanchett does occasionally get recognised by Tolkien fanatics in her adoptive city, but for the most part revels in her anonymity. "Keep the hoop-la to a minimum," she says.
The only other subject that draws her out as much is her son's rather advanced musical tastes.
"After Joe Strummer died, we were playing the Clash a lot, and we were so pleased we found something other than the Wiggles that our son asks for," Blanchett says, adding that the Red Hot Chili Peppers are in heavy rotation as well.
The toddler also took a liking to horses while Blanchett was filming The Missing in Santa Fe, a fondness shared by his mum.
"I learned how to ride ... I had to," Blanchett says. "And by the time we started making the movie, I was able to say to Ron [Howard], 'I could say the line here or I could turn the horse around and then say it' - you know, give him all kinds of options.
"I was so proud of myself. And I had my birthday while I was there and my husband, Andrew, made a joke that he was going to give me a horse as a present. I thought, 'How nice. But where are we going to put that in London?' "
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Five facts to drop into post-screening foyer conversations
This is the second film based on Guerin. A screenplay the 36-year-old was working on before she died was later adapted into a film, When the Sky Falls, in which Guerin (called Sinead Hamilton in the film for legal reasons) was played by Joan Allen.
Guerin was killed two days before a London conference at which she was scheduled to appear. The subject: "Dying to Tell a Story: Journalists at Risk".
John Gilligan, Guerin's Mr Big was a cannabis smuggler, not a "smack baron" as depicted in the film.
Producer Jerry Bruckheimer's list of previous films includes Top Gun, Con Air, The Rock, Pearl Harbor and Pirates of the Caribbean.
Blanchett has been nominated for a Golden Globe for her performance.
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- The Dirtbags have wins over Pittsburgh (away), Xavier (neutral), Auburn (neutral) and all eight Big West games they've played. They also have moral victories over SDSU, Kansas and North Carolina.
- Other notable losses for the 49ers were to Montana (away) and Kansas State (neutral).
- Experienced (four four-year seniors start) but not deep. The Beach plays 7 with the starters gaining the majority of the minutes.
- Five players (all starters) average in double digits with diminutive PG/SG Casper Ware leading the way at 17.6 ppg. 6-5 wing Larry Anderson follows with 15.3 ppg.
- Leading rebounder for Long Beach State is 6-8 forward T.J. Robinson at 11 rpg (looks much heavier than the listed 205 pounds. Wonder if The Dirtbags have a 'roid testing program?). 6-7 forward Eugene Phelps follows with 5.8 rpg.
- Despite all the accolades for the seniors, 6-6 JC transfer James Ennis has the potential to be the best player on the floor. He's long, athletic, can shoot from outside, score inside and causes the most disruption on defense if he is on his game.
- The two players off the bench are freshman 6-0 point Mike Caffey and 6-8, 250 Edis Dervisevic. Dervisevic has played in the last two games after missing five games due to injury.
- CSULB leads the Big West in scoring at 74.8 ppg (Titans are second 72.6) but they are also second in defense, limiting Big West opponents to 61.1 ppg. They also lead the Big West in FG% at 48.8% (Titans are second at 46%).
- They have a decent 3-point shooting team with Ware, Anderson, Ennis and Caffey being the threats.
- Like the Titans, the 49ers are just an average rebounding team.
- Vegas: Dirtbags by 13 with a score of 82-69 (o/u 151).
Analysis/Keys to game
- Let's make no mistake, the 49ers are a solid, experienced team (albeit with below-average coaching), but they are not unbeatable. This is not UNLV or even one of the good teams from New Mexico State or Fresno State that gave the Big West fits. In fact, due to their lack of depth and their pension to choke in big games, no one would be surprised if they didn't win the Big West Tournament.
- The Titans actually matched up okay against the Gold-miners in the past, but with the return of Dervisevic, and the addition of Ennis, not so much. Against the starters, Omondi Amoke should be fine against Phelps, Kwame Vaughn good on Ware, D.J. Seeley matches up well with Anderson, a determined Orane Chin should be able to stop Robinson but that leaves Isiah Umipig to guard Ennis and that's just not going to happen.
- If the Titans play man, Umipig/Perry Webster will have to play against Ware and that could prove difficult. If you go to zone, that will leave us crossing our fingers that CS-Long Beach goes cold from the outside. We are 8th in the league in 3-point defense, letting opponents hit 42.6 percent from beyond the arc, so it's a gamble but one the Titans will be making during at least some of this game.
- Best bet, defensively, is to keep them off guard and change defenses constantly, even when one appears to be working.
- Look for Dervisevic's 15.4 minutes per game to increase if he's near 100%. Titans have trouble with the physical big men and Phelps seems to always pick up fouls against the Titans.
- For the Titans, the NorCal three need to have huge games. All our three-point shooters need to be hitting from the outside and Webster needs to shoot the open shot when it's available.
- Titans need to play two good halves as they will not be able to afford defensive lapses or long periods of scoring droughts as they have in most games they've played. Simply need to keep the home crowd at bay.
- Long Beach State won't press as much as Northridge however they do play a similar half-court pressure zone defense and they are much better players and better athletes than the Matadors. Titans need to limit their turnovers to 12 or less to have a legitimate shot at winning this game.
- Cal State Fullerton can not suffer a rebounding lapse as they did against CSUN. They need to win this battle.
- Both teams are sporadic at the line. If the game is in reach we will need to be hitting free throws.
- Considering the Titans are already admittedly fatigued -- this will be their 6th game on the road in the last seven played -- it's really no surprise that Long Beach is the heavy favorite.
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Occupancy grid mapping algorithms assume that grid block values are independently distributed. However, most environments of interest contain spatial patterns that are better characterized by models that capture dependencies among grid blocks. To account for such dependencies, we model the environment as a pairwise Markov random field. We specify a belief propagation-based mapping algorithm that takes these dependencies into account when estimating a map. To demonstrate the potential benefits of this approach, we simulate a simple multirobot minefield mapping scenario. Minefields contain spatial dependencies since some landmine configurations are more likely than others, and since clutter, which causes false alarms, can be concentrated in certain regions and completely absent in others. Our belief propagation-based approach outperforms conventional occupancy grid mapping algorithms in the sense that better maps can be obtained with significantly fewer robot measurements. The belief propagation algorithm requires a modest amount of increased computation, but we contend that in applications where significant energy and time expenditure is associated with robot movement and active sensing, the reduction in the required number of samples will justify the increased computation.
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Dutch teen DJ Martin Garrix is trying to stay in the groove after scoring a huge hit online, writes August Brown
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Last May, the Dutch dance music label Spinnin' Records quietly uploaded part of a new track to its social media accounts. Animals (Teaser) was an instrumental number, full of evil sing-songy synth riffs and stuttering drums.
Early speculation pegged the song as a new single from dance stars such as GTA or Hardwell, but the artist turned out to be 17-year-old Dutch producer Martin Garrix, and Animals became the breakout single of the electronic dance music (EDM) circuit in 2013.
It hit the top of the Beatport charts in June, making Garrix the youngest artist to cap the EDM-focused download site. Today, the Animals official YouTube video has more than 200 million views.
Garrix's teen-idol good looks and zeitgeisty sound helped him land a deal with Scooter Braun, Justin Bieber's manager, and he joined a stable of fellow internet-hit artists such as Ariana Grande, Psy and Carly Rae Jepsen. He recently co-headlined the Ultra Music Festival in Miami, and had a top slot in the dance tent at last weekend's Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in California.
It's a remarkable rise from a relatively unknown teen producer to the elite of global dance music after just a few singles and remixes. Some old-guard EDM fans gripe that it's no accident he has hooked up with the pop star-shepherding Braun. The famously snarky producer Deadmau5 once spun Animals ironically during a set, and later tweeted "ban me for playing … animals. ban everyone else who does too, so we can be done with this commercial EDM crap".
Garrix's sound, however, has hit a chord with young dance and pop audiences, and made fans out of established Dutch EDM peers such as Tiesto, Sidney Samson and Hardwell. His next moves will show whether he can become dance music's next major crossover star, or whether audiences will be burned out on Animals - and him - before he can even legally buy cigarettes in the US.
"I don't see it like a burden," Garrix says via e-mail. "It keeps me driven and motivated to get the best out of my producing skills. Of course I hope that I will get more hit singles such as Animals."
The success of Animals is just as remarkable for its musicality as it is for Garrix's age. The song is the highest-charting instrumental track to hit the Billboard singles charts since 1996 (it peaked at No23 on the Hot 100). Unlike the triumphant earnestness of Swedish House Mafia's Don't You Worry Child or Avicii's Wake Me Up, it moves in minor-key fits and starts, from the main single-finger distorted synth riff to percussive hailstorms, crowd-pleasing snare cracks and mangled vocal samples.
It's catchy, but not pop music in the traditional verse-chorus sense. Yet its mainstream chart success and online ubiquity suggest the EDM wave has transformed the definition of what counts as "popular music".
"I think it's recognisable because of the melody. It just gets stuck in your head quite quickly," Garrix says. "The buzz around the release also helped … I made the track to be a club banger [but] never imagined it would turn out this big."
It's far from his first track: he'd previously remixed Christina Aguilera's Your Body for an official release, and early tracks such as BFAM and Torrent, and newer ones like Wizard show an ear tuned to the spiky, melodic sound that drives festival main stages. Garrix has said he "ghost-produced" a popular single for another artist on Spinnin' (which led to his signing there); he won't say who.
The instant-hit status of Animals has transformed his career from an intriguing prodigy to star in a matter of weeks. Now his management firms - Scooter Braun Projects and MusicAllStars, a Dutch firm founded by Spinnin's Eelko van Kooten and Roger de Graaf - must make that stick. "It's that kind of record which everybody loves, from DJs to ravers, top-40 listeners and the kids," says Van Kooten. "He was 16 when we met him and when he played his new tracks, they sounded fresh and original, with strong melody lines and producer talent. That talent combined with the ambition he showed seemed very promising."
The task won't be easy. The usually credulous EDM blogosphere has made a sport of Garrix-grumbling. Some rave sites such as Do Androids Dance have claimed that Animals is a rip-off and that Spinnin' intentionally misled fans with its cryptic release strategy. "Knowing how hard it is to make a lasting break, Spinnin' resorted to the bait-and-switch tactic to grab attention rather than release anything forward-thinking or of stand-out quality," the site wrote.
There's also a question of what exactly to do with a teenage producer who is clearly capable of both pop success and EDM-fest headlining slots. He has diverse tastes and myriad side projects: "I love the sound of Disclosure, for an example," he says. "I like doing cross-over projects with other genres. I would love to make a track with Lana Del Rey, I am a big fan of her voice."
To avoid flash-in-the-pan status - an extra risk because of his youth - Garrix is going to need more hits to secure the validity and seriousness of a long career. "Well, I understand it, but music is music, and my age doesn't change anything about the tracks I make," he says.
To his credit, he's already made allies among his ascendant Dutch peers, and major countrymen-stars including Afrojack, Tiesto and Hardwell have vouched for him with collaborations, single releases and social-media touts.
Although his career is just a few years old, Garrix already knows the stakes at hand. You can only come out of the blue with an anonymous single once. After Coachella, he'll have many eyes watching what he does next. "Playing Coachella was one of my dreams, so it's extremely meaningful to me," he says.
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My husband just had his ileostomy reversed today along with taking out his port a cath. I didn't think that he should take it out since its only been since May for his last chemo treatment. But he wanted EVERYTHING gone. This was suppose to be a "good day" to try to get back to normal. Right before surgery yesterday morning, the dr was going over his blood work that he had done last week prior to surgery, and he asked me is we knew that his liver levels were up. Of course, alarm bells start ringing in my head. We didn't know of course, last month in June he had all of his bloodwork done and cat scans done at MD anderson, everything was clear on the scans. His CEA level was at 2.8 then, higher than 3 months before. But the dr said that could be attributed to the chemo. So anyway, here we are at surgery time, and I was told his liver functions are high and his CEA is now at 3.9. The dr told me that we should be concerned but not overly worried, since it could still be from the chemo. My husband's last chemo treatment was May 22. Has anyone else had this happen to them? I am scared to death because of both levels going up. The surgeon said that the only thing we can do right now, is let him heal from his surgery and get stronger then take it from there. I think I'm about at a breaking point, my husband just shook his head and closed his eyes, he is always the strong one, I feel devastated. I was just wanting some input on this situation and to see if anyone else has had there liver levels go up because of chemo. I just left the hospital, to come home, I stayed there last night. I think I just need to vent. Thank you all so much....
Jul 08, 2004 - 11:39 pm
Can't say I know anything about the surgery and CEA levels, but wishing you the best and keeping you in my prayers. I definately have appreciated your encouragement from my first post, so hoping to return some of the positive. I was just told my CEA levels have dropped to 5.0, this despite multiple mets to the liver and no surgery yet, so I have no clue how to take all these readings. I think the CEA levels are just relative indicators and the CAT or other scans are the most reliable. Going in for some of those myself next week, given the low CEA levels my oncologist is really curious as to what is actually going on.
Jul 08, 2004 - 11:42 pm
Well, I would say that it makes sense that the liver enzymes could be elevated because of chemo. If you think about it, the liver filters out toxins and chemo drugs are very highly toxic. So if the liver is on "overdrive" trying to purge those toxins from his system, the enzymes could be elevated as a result of that........As for the CEA, it is not so high. If it is under 10 I would not be too overly concerned about it, when I had a recurrence mine was up to 40! The only thing that I can say is try not to worry until you have something to worry about. I know, easier said than done, but just focus on the fact that he is getting rid of the port and the iliostomy!! Yea! You have to trust your doctors. I would like to think that they would tell you if you really had something to worry about. May 22 was only a little over 1 month ago. I think residual chemo can stay in your system for quite a while.


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What is micro-credit?
In 1976, the economist Muhammad Yunus set up the first micro-credit institution, the Grameen Bank or 'village banking group'. Normal banks refuse to lend to the very poor, but not the Grameen Bank, as its founder explains: "These people are given access to small amounts of capital, repayable at very low rates over a longer period".
These micro-credits allow a family to buy a hen for example, whose eggs become a source of revenue.
The success of Muhammad Yunus' project is undisputed: the repayment rate is over 98% and his model has been used throughout the world, and not only in developing countries. Currently, micro-credit is offered to more than fifty five million families.
In developing countries, the people most affected by infectious diseases are often the most underprivileged. Thanks to the Global Fund's support of the GHESKIO Centres, AIDS patients in Haiti now have access to screening and antiretroviral (ARV) treatments.
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This organization helps small entrepreneurs with no access to bank credit to develop their businesses by providing them with unsecured loans. By financing the ACME association, Fondation Mérieux is making micro-credits accessible to Haitian women with AIDS or to those where a family member is infected with this disease. They are selected from those people who come to the GHESKIO center for treatment.
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This initiative is having a great impact. Most of the women that Fondation Mérieux is helping to create commercial activity and earn money have found a certain standard of life that enables them to buy food or even send their children to a paying school. In addition to this, they also adhere to their medication better. 90% of credits are repaid in less than 6 months.
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Eagle Pass Army Camp, ten miles north of Eagle Pass in Maverick County, Texas, was an advanced single-engine flying school during World War II. It was activated in 1942 and discontinued in 1945.
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Arlington, VA (SportsNetwork.com) - Fans of the Washington Capitals can breathe a sigh of relief following Monday's news that Alex Ovechkin's injury sustained at the IIHF World Championship is not considered serious.
During Team Russia's preliminary-round game on Sunday, Germany's Marcus Kink caught Ovechkin in the right knee with a hip-check that sent the Russian star head-over-heels onto the ice.
Ovechkin remained face down for several minutes before being helped to the locker room without putting any weight on his right leg. He was reportedly transported to a hospital to determine the severity of the injury.
The Washington winger posted a picture of himself with a thumbs up and the caption "Everything is OK, congrats about the win to everybody" on his Instagram account Sunday night before the Capitals confirmed Monday that the injury was not as serious as first expected.
"Following our review of the available medical reports, Alex Ovechkin sustained a right leg injury during Team Russia's game versus Germany," the press release from the Capitals read. "This type of injury requires rest, but based on the current information provided, we are confident that Alex will be completely healthy prior to the start of training camp. We will continue to monitor his progress and request additional tests and medical information for our review."
The IIHF's official website reported Monday that Ovechkin underwent an MRI, which came back clear of any torn ligaments. He is expected to miss at least one game due to the injury, but will remain with the team in Belarus and could be back for the quarterfinals on Thursday.
"Sasha [Ovechkin] will definitely stay with the team," Team Russia general manager Andrei Safronov told reporters at Minsk Arena, according to the IIHF website. "Even if he couldn't play he'd still be here. He's not just a part of this team, he's a leader."
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After racking up more than $170 billion of budget deficits in the past four years, the federal government should be talking about reining in spending and cutting back on costs. With both the Rudd and Gillard governments yet to deliver a surplus, Treasurer
Yet with revenue forecasts being scaled back and Mr Swan promising "responsible savings" to deliver his surplus this year, Labor is still making all sorts of spending promises. That is, it is still spending too much of the mining boom's initial revenue bubble – revenue earned when iron ore and coal prices were soaring and the strong dollar was not squeezing profits outside the mining sector.
Some will argue that it does not make sense to tighten fiscal policy when the economy is weak. But the economy is still growing at 3.4 per cent on the June figures, a bit above its longer-run trend rate, and unemployment at just above 5 per cent is likely to be the "full employment" structural rate given Labor's reregulation of the jobs market. The federal government spent $44 billion more than it earned last financial year, even with commodity prices at 170-plus year highs. That means it has a lot of work to do to get the budget back to a structural balance, let alone post a substantial structural surplus.
The sorry experience of Europe and the US highlights the importance of nipping budget deficits and debts in the bud, before they become real problems. Federal government net debt is still relatively low at $147.3 billion, or 10 per cent of gross domestic product, thanks largely to the surpluses built up during the mining boom mark one under the Howard government. Yet that debt is rising and will widen sharply, according to the prediction of eminent Labor economist
While piling on the promises, Mr Swan is making speeches complaining about the small government "cranks and crazies" supposedly taking over the US Republican Party. This is all a transparent political strategy to promise more and more on the never-never while portraying conservative state governments – and, by extension, a federal Abbott government – of wanting to rip the guts out of the Australian way of life. Yet Labor's spending monuments are more likely to produce the next horror budget when the economy eventually takes a serious turn for the worse.
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Thursday, February 6, 2013
Teaching and Learning Fair | Recyclemania envelops campus
Find inspiration at Teaching and Learning Fair
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The Teaching and Learning Fair is an opportunity for faculty to learn from one another and from keynote speaker Dr. Barbara Holland, internationally known expert on service-learning and community engagement. The fair takes place from 9-11 a.m. Feb. 14 in the Lenhart Grand Ballroom at the Bowen-Thompson Student Union, followed by Holland's address at 11:15 a.m.
More than 100 faculty will present their insights into such topics as valuable new educational technology, working with students who have disabilities, interacting with students in cyberspace, and more. All events are free and open to everyone; no registration is needed.
A special breakout session will take place from 9:30-10:30 a.m. in 316 Union on using Canvas, the University's Learning Management System. Mike Kudela of the Center for Faculty Excellence, who has helped faculty develop courses in Canvas, will share tips for using Canvas more efficiently and to its greatest advantage.
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The Bowling Green campus is once again swept up in Recyclemania, a nationwide competition whose goal is to increase BGSU and other universities' recycling rate and decrease waste. Running through March 29, the contest pits more than 600 colleges and universities against one another to see who can recycle the most over an eight-week period, as measured by weight.
BGSU residence halls have historically done well in the contest (adding a friendly competition against one another to the national effort). For the second year now, the entire University is participating in addition to the residence halls, and all recycling across campus will be counted in BGSU's totals each week. This means that everyone can help the University compete by recycling all around campus.
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2. New look! You like? I thought it was time for something new! A HUGE thanks to Marius of Custom Initiative for the new design! I'm very picky and he was very patient! If you need some design work done, I highly recommend Custom Initiative. Tell 'em I sent ya!
3. Some random, interesting facts as NY Fashion Week comes to an end. Who knew fashion and fiber went hand in hand! Did you catch any shows?
4. MN Fashion Week: Yes, we have one too, and it starts tonight! Here's where you can find a list of events if you're in the area. I will be out and about at many of them. My first stop will be at Exchange Clothes – which is an event where you bring some clothes to donate and then hang out for a super chill party. I love a good cause :)
If you see me at any of the events, please come say hi!!
5. Look of the Week: Wendy Raquel Robinson for the upcoming issue of Denim Magazine , one of my favorite reads. She looks super gorgeous, and I love the pattern on top with the simple color blocking on the bottom. I'll definitely be pulling some inspiration from this:
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My mother in law said she wants to come and visit us and the baby on my husband's birthday ,so me and my husband stay at home waiting for them(she might come with other family members) until 5 pm that day.At around 2 pm ,I asked my husband what time will his mom come ?Because i need to go to the grocery store, and the store closed very soon every night. He said I don't know. Fine, I just wait there. Then my husband took a nap until 3:30pm,then take a shower ,I am doing my own things, and still thinking about when will they come?about 4 or 5 pm, my husband go out from the bedroom and tell me he get his mom's message his mom won't come because she felt sick and dizzy ,before that she fight with her family members like before,and he said she feel sorry about can not come over.i can understand she feel sick and can not come ,but should she tell us earlier? I ask my husband why she not tell us earlier,he said he think his mom try to call and tell that she is not going to come but he didn't pick up the phone ,he was sleeping.(I don't really check my husband's phone often,but after that I checked his phone,it shows no phone call from his mom in that day) then my husband said he doesn't want to go to grocery store at night time anyway,so maybe we just go tomorrow. After that,we fight for other things ,then my husband say sorry to me that he haven't a good mood, because his family is fucked up,his mum didn't sent a text message earlier,also he worry about his jobs,all these thting smake him frustrated.But I still feel uncomfortable and unhappy ,even feel mad,but who should I feel mad to ? when I think about can not go to grocery today and buy what I want ( I haven't driver license),I feel like I waste a day for nothing,and i also feel like my husband don't even had a bad words about what his mom did,I feel very frustrated. My mother in law is a pretty nice person,but about this thing,should I feel mad at her not tell us earlier that she won't come ?should I feel mad at my husband to say his mom try to call before but she didn't? hmmm,so frustrate.
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I am attaching the full procedure for removing and replacing the timing belt
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the camshaft and crankshaft alignment is shown in the procedure
you do not need a timing belt on the vehicle to align the marks
follow the procedure and you can align the crank and cams
you need to use the numbers on the cams to align the marks exhaust cam is #1 intake cam is #2
That is correct it should be 1 , 2 , 3 , 4
the belt can be installed without the special tools but is just more difficult.
I have seen some tech reports saying the crank should be at TDC and not 60 Degrees I am not sure why there is conflicting information in mitchell
are you guys setting the crank to TDC or 60?
yes the camshaft gears should line up 1 2 3 4 the corosponding marks yes
align the crank to the 60 using the 2 marks shown in the procedure I attached
please tell me the wire colors that go to the connector you are looking at
it has a weather shield, i havent seen the actual colors of the wires.. its a black plug with an orange rubber seal, it was ziptied to the fuel injectors cord. it hangs right in between the two heads, on the battery side. i wont be able to find out the colors till monday, once the shop reopens. it has slots for 2 prongs.
also, are there any indicators on the harmonic balancer to where 60 btdc is? or do i need to take that back off?
I won't be able to help you identify what it plugs into without the wire colors
I need to look at an engine performance schematic to identify what it plugs into
I am going to attach 3 diagrams for engine performance you will need to cut back the cover and get the wire colors so you can identify which sensor it plugs into
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i appreciate your help. i will probably be in touch next week.
thanks again.
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I checked the entire engine performace schematic and there are no 2 wire sensors with green and blue wires
is the engine light on?
are all the gauges working?
it is not uncommon for the harness to have unused connectors depending on the options in the car
but I can tell you it is not for a computer control
are the wires solid green and blue? or is there other color striped on them?
does the connector look dusty? it is possible it was not being used
ok let me know what you have for a code and if you can find any striped on the wires or not
they are not part of the computerized engine controls.
as long as your charging system and AC and gauges are working I would not be very concerned about this connector
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Shakespeare Electronic Conference, Vol. 7, No. 0259. Wednesday, 3 April 1996.
Date: Wednesday, April 3, 1996
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In the aftermath of the trade that sent WR Jonathan Baldwin to the San Francisco 49ers for WR A.J. Jenkins, the Chiefs now have to figure out who the legitimate number two wideout will be opposite Dwayne Bowe. The first guy to get that opportunity will be Donnie Avery, a free agent acquisition earlier this offseason and a guy the Chiefs believed could step in and be a starter if the situation called for it. And that situation is now since Baldwin's time ran out with the Chiefs after he continued to remain unproductive.
A.J. Jenkins comes to KC after one year in San Fran, who drafted him late in the first round of the 2012 NFL Draft. But he will need some time to learn the new offense and get acclimated with his new team. So Avery steps in as the WR2 and the Chiefs seem to be happy and excited about his chances.
"We know A.J. is going to have to come in and learn, and we had to feel comfortable that Donnie was a legitimate starter," said head coach Andy Reid. "We felt that. We felt that when we brought him here, we felt that since he's been here that he can be a quality starter on our football team."
"I think he's had a great camp," said QB Alex Smith. "When he's had the opportunities, he's gone in there and made plays. He brings a different dimension to us, a guy who can really stretch the field."
Avery was a nice option in the slot last year for Andrew Luck and the Colts, reeling in 60 balls with just under 800 yards and three scores, including a game winning catch and run as time expired in Detroit against the Lions. He brings good speed to an already speedy offense and Andy Reid will have plays designed specifically for his playmakers.
With Jenkins coming in, Alex Smith mentioned how difficult it was for him to see playing time on the '9ers with guys like Michael Crabtree, Mario Manningham, and Randy Moss atop the depth chart. So as a first-round pick, Jenkins wasn't asked to do much out of the gate and struggled when given his chances. But now he'll sit behind some veterans in Kansas City while he grasps the big offensive playbook and learns from his peers. And Jenkins understands where he's at in this process.
"There are some things I can work on as far as my physical traits and my mental approach. But a fresh start, a new team, I'm feeling good, and I'm ready to go out and play some football."
For now, Avery will be the guy who gets the first crack at being a starting WR as the Chiefs need to find some production at that position from somebody not named Dwayne Bowe.
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Italian Grilled Chicken Salad Recipe
Simple yet elegant, this entree salad is one of my husband's favorites. We love the juicy chicken, fresh greens and bread that's toasted over an open flame. Add whatever beans your gang prefers. -Lisa Rawski of Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- 3 tablespoons balsamic vinegar
- 3 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 teaspoon dried rosemary, crushed
- 1 garlic clove, minced
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon coarsely ground pepper
- 4 boneless skinless chicken breast halves (4 ounces each)
- 4 ounces Italian bread, sliced
- 4 cups torn romaine
- 2 cups chopped seeded tomatoes
- 1 cup white kidney or cannellini beans
- 1/3 cup minced fresh basil
- 1. In a jar with a tight-fitting lid, combine the first six ingredients; shake well. Remove 1 tablespoon vinegar mixture; brush over chicken. Cover and refrigerate for 30 minutes. Set aside remaining vinegar mixture.
- 2. Coat grill rack with cooking spray before starting grill. Grill chicken, covered, over medium heat for 4-6 minutes on each side or until a thermometer reads 170°.
- 3. Brush bread slices with 1 tablespoon reserved vinegar mixture. Grill bread, uncovered, over medium heat for 2 minutes on each side or until toasted. Slice chicken and cut bread into cubes; set aside.
- 4. In a large bowl, combine the romaine, tomatoes, beans, basil and bread cubes. Drizzle with remaining vinegar mixture; toss to coat. Arrange on salad plates. Top with chicken. Yield: 4 servings.
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1-1/2 cups: 379 calories, 13g fat (2g saturated fat), 66mg cholesterol, 632mg sodium, 31g carbohydrate (0 sugars, 5g fiber), 33g protein. Diabetic Exchanges: 3 lean meat, 1-1/2 starch, 1-1/2 fat, 1 vegetable.
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"Writing is a lot like sex. At first you do it because you like it. Then you find yourself doing it for a few close friends and people you like. But if you're any good at all...you end up doing it for money."
he weekend came and went with hardly a splash in the still pond of my life, and here it is Sunday night again. Already. The weather was nice, at least, but since I spent 98% of Saturday and Sunday inside I hardly noticed. Malaya was out a great deal, and I watched a couple hours of football each day and spent a few more hours reading Dark Tower 7, my weekend slipped away while leaving me very little to show for it. Fortunately, the blog is done (I'm writing this part last) and it's just 1am, and since I've got a good 5 or 6 hours of coherent consciousness left in me, I can yet produce something of use. If I get right to work.
No news today, and no book reviews. There is a lot of book and fiction discussion below though, if that's your sort of thing. And since you're here, it probably is. I'd comment on the football over the weekend, but I didn't watch anything for more than 15 minutes at a time. I realize that I still enjoy watching the American sport of football (which is not at all the same thing as football in the rest of the world) a great deal, at least in theory. In practice I have no preferred teams, no favorite players, and no gambling interest in the sport, which doesn't leave me with much more than a desire to see exciting scoring plays while avoiding boring games or TV commercials. So yes, I'm really quite a bit happier watching the highlight packages on ESPN Saturday and Sunday night than I am watching any of the actual games during the day.
Of course I often forget about the highlight shows since I'm deeply involved in work or dinner or reading or whatever by 11pm when SportsCenter comes on, but the fact that I don't remember is probably a pretty good sign that it wasn't that important.
As for today's blog, there's lots of discussion of books below, my work, King's new Dark Tower novel (no spoilers), Anne Rice's amazon.com reviews blowup, John Sauls' dreadful hackitude, potential happiness with a mediocre career, and more.
talk time.
Nothing much to say about my novel, since anything I talked about would 1) make very little sense, 2) require a great deal of explanation, and 3) be a spoiler. So I drop in general purpose comments from time to time just so you know I haven't forgotten about my impending and no-doubt glorious fiction career, but I can never really get into any specifics, since the interesting stuff would be plot twists I've thought up, or cool scenes I've just written, etc.
It occurs to me that just because I can't post those sort of blog entries now is no reason not be spend a few minutes writing them, for posterity. It would be nice to have a record of what I was thinking and doing as I worked on early drafts, since things change greatly as I revise the work, and I often forget early ideas, or at least forget the logic behind them. So yes, it would be nice to have a record of my thoughts as I'm writing, and I could eventually post those once the book is released, or even save them as an appendix to some hypothetical future unexpurgated version. It would be funny to look back and laugh at the ideas I had early on or changes I'd made, at any rate.
Hmm, I think I just talked myself into it. It's just that after 7+ years of working mostly online, I'm so used to writing things that will be posted immediately that it seems strange to write for future use. Fiction aside, at least, since with fiction I actually proof read it. And stuff.
¤ As for Stephen King's seventh and final Dark Tower novel, it's pretty good so far. No spoilers here, providing you've read up through DT6.
Malaya tore through it last week and was quite moved by it, but she couldn't say why, since she didn't want to spoil the twists and conclusion for me. She wants me to hurry up and finish it so we can talk about it, and she's curious to see how I react to the twists, what I think of the ending, etc.
It's good though; I'm enjoying it more than any of the other DT books thus far, and I really like the series and several of the books in it. King's constant blatant foreshadowing annoys me, (every time a critical scene approaches some character inevitably thinks something like, "If only he'd known that one of them was going to die." which 1) steals away every bit of suspense, and 2) drives me crazy) and he's thrown in several very strange authorial intrusions thus far. Like a section will begin and suddenly there's a paragraph that's like an aside from the author, "Forgive me for this next sadness I must write..." Those have, without exception, taken me entirely out of the story, and I greatly fear what they might mean overall. Knowing what we do from DT6, that there is an actual Stephen King character in the stories, and that as he writes them they sort of become real in the larger universe, I'm worrying about some very cheesy Twilight Zone style ending, where he writes it happy so he'll continue living, but I am curious to see how King he handles that aspect; as an author who is also a character in his own story.
As the end of DT6 made clear, Stephen King, the author in the DT series, dies in the minivan accident that nearly killed him in real life in 1999, when he'd only written 4 books of the series. So now in book 7 one of the subplots features the Gunslingers trying to get to King's word to save him from being hit by that van, thus keeping him alive to write their own lives. But since we're reading about that in book 7, he must have survived to write books 5 and 6 and at least half of 7, right? It's all very time travel/alternate dimension paradox-filled, and would probably make no logical sense if you really sat down and worked it out mathematically. Perhaps King isn't really writing anything; he's merely a sort of subconscious reporter, connected to the events on some psychic level and writing them down after they actually occur, though the "when" is very open to debate the way the time flows differ from dimension to dimension? As I said, it's paradox-y, and I hope it's resolvedly neatly, and that the plot wraps up as well with some satisfying solution to Roland's Quest, a showdown with the Crimson King, a revelation of what's actually inside the Dark Tower, and so on.
Regardless of the quality of it, just the fact that there is a 7th book is nice, since as Malaya has been saying, at least one good fantasy series will wrap up in our lives. Apparently Harry Potter is going to, in some years, but most fantasy series have no larger plot than what you get book to book, and they just go on and on forever anyway, while gradually decreasing in quality (Or wiping out entirely, ala Anne Rice's newest. More on that below.) Jordan's Wheel of Time looked to be on target and it's got a huge overarching plot that ties all of the books together. Of course as most of you know, he's bogged down badly since about book 7, books 8-10 have been greeted with great displeasure by his increasingly-impatient fans, and we're still waiting on book 11 since he took a year to write a long and entirely unnecessary prequel novella.
As for DT7, so far I'm enjoying it, but since I can't say much without being a spoiler myself, I'll just save it for the review. Which will have some spoilers, I suspect.
¤ As for Anne Rice, whom I mentioned a moment ago, I hadn't given her work any thought in years (I'm not much of a fan) but in the last Entertainment Weekly there was a note in the books section about some controversy. Apparently her last book, Blood Canticle, was a huge disappointment to most of her fans, and they've been free with their opinions on the Amazon.com reader reviews. That's nothing out of the ordinary, but what made this instance worth national media mention is that Anne somehow stumbled across the reviews, got pissed, and wrote a long rebuttal which she concluded by offering a refund to anyone who wanted one, and including her home address and email. Hey, you might think she's a dreadful writer, but at least she's not afraid to put her money where her mouth is. Or fingers were, as the case may be.
I'm not going to recap the whole debate, mostly since I only got through one of her books (The Witching Hour) and that was over a decade ago, so I have no opinion on the quality of this new novel. To summarize the argument though, many fans hate the new book, hate the way her hero vampire Lestat narrates it and talks in slang and acts like a big kid, and especially hate that Rice has said this book is the last in two of her ongoing series, the Mayfair Witches and the Vampire Chronicles. Apparently lots of the characters from both series are in this book, the main female from the Witch series falls in love with Lestat, and everyone is going to live happily ever after. Unfortunately for the fans, this represents a huge change for both characters, and dozens of other long time characters are hardly in this last book or aren't mentioned at all, and none of the other major plot lines wrap up at all. Or at least not to the satisfaction of most of her long time readers.
Here's a quote from one of the most agreed-with reviews:
So what did Anne say about it? You can see her rebuttal here, and if the link doesn't work for you just sort the reader reviews by "most popular" and hers will come up first. It's got 321/692 recommendations now and will always be on top, since even though most readers don't recommend her remarks, the Amazon.com sorting simply counts the total recommend votes in sorting them. However, if you scroll down past the author's own 5/5 star, defensive and completely-nonobjective retort, you'll see that the majority of other recommended reviews are pretty poor. In order, by number of recommends, the next 9 reviews give the book 3, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 3, 2 stars. The overall average is just 3/5, which is very low for a best seller by anyone.
I'd quote Rice's entire commentary, but since it's 1216 words (I pasted it into Word just to count them.) with no paragraph breaks at all, it's huge and difficult to read. It also addresses issues I can't comment on, since I haven't read the book in question. I did like this one bit she included, defending her practice of flying without an editor.
The problem here, is that editors aren't so much interested in nibbling around with every sentence in a book. In fact with Rice's work they probably wouldn't try that at all, since her writing style is so dense and florid that you've just got to let her ramble on; if you started cleaning up her prose you'd have to rewrite the entire novel. No, where an editor would come in handy for her, and for other writers (Jean Auel, for instance) who refuse to use them while desperately-needing them, is in keeping a book on track, cutting extraneous sections, pointing out things that need to make more sense, need more explanation, etc. I couldn't get through more than a few chapters of Interview with a Vampire because it was so poorly-written, in terms of the prose, but that's not what anyone (that I saw) is objecting to about Blood Canticle. The Amazon reviews Rice so dislikes aren't bitching about her word arrangement or grammar; they're upset that she's changed the characters so radically, failed to wrap up the plot threads or character arcs adequately, etc. And that's the sort of thing an editor is very good at pointing out, since as I know from my own writing experience, it can get very hard to see the forest for the trees when you're rewriting and editing your own work. You get too close to it, too caught up in the small changes, and I'll often reread something months or years later and see huge plot holes or large sections of exposition I could have improved that were invisible to me at the time.
Rice does address a lot of the more-specific criticisms of her novel further down her rebuttal, but since I haven't (and I'm not going to) read the book, I'm not quoting or commenting on those. I did find her defensiveness somewhat disappointing though, since it demonstrates a lack of objectivity that any good writer must possess. Just the fact that she gave her own book a 5 star rating throws me off, since I can't imagine ever liking anything I write that much. There are always things I could have done better, could have improved, and I'm not unhappy with my work, but it seems impossibly immodest to give one of my own stories a perfect rating.
If you want more of Rice's thoughts, she's added a post on her official website about the issue. It's borderline-insufferable, as she talks about how 95% of the emails she's gotten re: her amazon review have been from huge fans who told her to ignore those meanies, how she never thought her post on Amazon would be noticed or elicit any comment, how she's just a big Internet noob who doesn't know anything about a "flame war" and so on. It makes her sound impossibly smug and caught up in her own little world, where anyone who doesn't like her work can't possibly have anything to base their opinion on and should safely be ignored. And so she does, and continues on her merry editor-less way, much to the detriment of her novel quality, it would seem.
Lastly, I would like to say that personally, I really have no opinion of Anne Rice. I read one of her novels and sort of enjoyed it until the very end, when I thought it went to shit, and I couldn't get through her most famous novel since the prose was just so impossibly florid and the pace so glacial, but I know a lot of people who love her work, and clearly she's influential in the horror fiction genre. I've never read an interview with her, I don't follow her book sales, and I don't read any forums about her or dislike her just because lots of wanna-be goth white kids identify much too strongly with her particular take on vampires. Other than seeing some press about her being carried down Mardi Gras in a huge glass coffin some years ago, and vaguely knowing that her house is a big gothic shrine along the style of her vampire characters, I really know nothing about her, and had no idea her long-time husband had recently died until I saw some mention of it in the Amazon reviews. So really, while I've seen enough to not want to spend any more of my life reading any of her work, I don't mind that other people enjoy it, or that she's popular. I'd certainly love to have a career half as successful. She doesn't inspire the disgust I feel towards really hack-tastic authors, like R. A. Salvatore or John Saul, for instance.
¤ And speaking of Mr. Saul, here's a quote from a recent email from Donnie.
My entire John Saul reading experience is related on the above-linked Horror Novelist's Overview page, and just to quote myself briefly:
That time has yet to come.
In Saul's defense, Donnie said that some of his other novels aren't that bad, and since Donnie's read at least 20 of them he's got to be doing something right. As for the chapter length though, that seems ridiculous. Maybe Saul has progressed to a nearly god-like level of brevity and concise wording, but it seems ridiculous to me to format a novel so it's a sort of Cliffs' Notes version of itself. I mean really, 6 pages per chapter? Or more like 5 pages per, since there's got to be at least one blank page with the chapter heading on it.
Saul's most recent novel is Black Creek Crossing, (March 2004) so I'll assume this is what Donnie is stuck reading. The Amazon reviews are mixed so far; 3.5/5 average from 30 reviews, while most everything by a popular author is guaranteed a 4/5 or better. If you want more information you're out of luck, since there's no novel excerpt there, or on Saul's own site. However, when I did a quick Google search I found a link to this bit of chapter one. It's dreadful; possibly the most melodramatic crap you'll ever see outside of a soap opera script, and based on what Donnie said, this isn't a short excerpt from Chapter One... this is chapter one! Go read it, or the following discussion won't make much sense. Just go, it won't take long; it's shorter than this blog.
I could spend a whole blog discussing the problems with just that brief excerpt, but it would cause me great pain. Just going on the reality of the chapter; the events Angel remembers happened on Halloween when she was three, and yet she remembers them as an adult would, with perfect clarity and recall, including word for word memories of the age-inappropriate conversation she had with Granny that day. My comments, if I were editing this from some aspiring writer (since I can't imagine a professional would write this poorly) would be things like, "Too long an off topic flashback in the middle of the chapter. A three-year old would never remember this level of detail; make some things vaguer. Tinge this with more emotion; you're all 'telling' and not enough 'showing'."
And that's not even going into how impossibly-melodramatic it is, or how poorly the words are arranged. Check out these two sentences from the end of chapter one:
I'm not even sure what you call the grammatical catastrophe in the first sentence; it's a run-on, but the whole bit about the basement when she was 9 and her mother thought should be thrown away is a train wreck. As for the second one, there's a verb tense error (It should be "who had died"), and I'm pretty sure Granny wasn't wearing the angel costume for Halloween, despite the dangling participle doing all it can to make it sound like she was. I'm also pretty sure Granny died after taking little Angel trick or treating, though the sentence's word arrangement makes even that unsure.
I took Rice's word that she didn't need an editor for her prose, but perhaps she could recommend one to Saul?
Elsewhere I found an excerpt of the prologue of Saul's novel, and it's literally unreadable. A breathless quote:
It's exactly like the prologue of Hellfire, which I so gleefully-ridiculed on the John Saul page linked to above. I don't know if the action-heavy prologues bring out the worst in Saul or what, but if I were running an internet fiction site and someone submitted a story that began with this, I would thank them for their submission but return it immediately. If they asked why, I'd say that they'd have to try harder to write something that wasn't such a godawful stereotyped cliché of bad horror fiction. (I might not word my mail quite so honestly/harshly, mind you.)
This sort of thing is why my genre of choice ("horror," regardless of the fact that my first published novel(s) will almost certainly be classified as fantasy) is so disrespected and mocked by "serious" writers and most book reviewers. The more I look at genre fiction (fantasy and horror mostly) the more I realize how lucky I was in my early reading. The first horror I ever read was Stephen King, and after reading Firestarter and loving it I read everything else he'd written up to that time, and then I found Clive Barker and liked his work even better. I've read lots of other horror since then, but those first two authors, who I think are head and shoulders better than any other authors in their field, shaped my opinions and ideas about what horror fiction should be. If I'd first hit upon Saul, or Lumley, or Koontz, or others of much lower literary pedigree, I have no idea if I'd even have stuck with horror long enough to consider wanting to be a writer myself.
But that is, most certainly, a topic for another day.
¤ Another topic for another day is something Malaya often asks me, and I'm throwing it in here at the end largely to remind myself to talk about it in a future blog. The topic is; what do hack writers/artists/whoever think about their work? Are they happy being successfully mediocre? Does it burn them that they aren't really very good at ________, while still being good enough to make a successful living at it? Malaya usually asks it directly of me, in a hypothetical question that sounds something like this:
It's easy to glibly answer by saying, "I'm sure my millions could buy me some happiness." but if you really think it over, is that true? Very rich people often score as low or lower than very poor people on personality surveys. Being a rich and successful hack certainly beats being an unknown and poor one, but how would you feel about yourself if you really wanted to be the best at what you were doing? How would you live knowing no matter how hard you tried, you'd never really be any good?
Take Anne Rice for one example. Churning out her umpteenth cheesy vampire/witch novel, too insecure to let an editor improve her material, myopic about the quality of her own work, unable to take any sort of criticism without unleashing a defensive rant, etc. Are those traits signs of denial and desperation and unhappiness? Or does she really believe she's a great artist, as or more talented than any other writer, and that everyone who thinks otherwise is jealous, or bitter, or just criticizing her to be a dick, and is she perfectly happy with what she's done with her career?
Anyway, it's something we think about here in Casa Malalux from time to time, and you're free to turn it over in your own mind, or share your thoughts thisaway for inspiration and possible quotation when I do eventually blog about it at greater length.
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Got to the venue in time, nice to stay at a hotel close by so you do not have to go through all of town to get to the venue.
The beginning talks where quite ok, based on Cog's 'How to get the most out of a YAPC' I have adapted the motto: 'Hi, can I buy you a beer?'.
I spent some time in the foyer coding and going through my articles for my presentations, I am somewhat afraid that the Micro-ISV is a bit too long, but I am doing the last presentation of the day so I think it will be ok if I use but more time.
I talked to acme and clkao and attempted to convince them to write an article on how to run a hack-a-thon, we have not had much success with our hack-a-thons in Copenhagen.pm
acme responded: 'talk to clkao', clkao responded: 'I just cook and we hack'
So I am not sure an article will come from that source, but it never hurts to ask
I had a longer talk with Ovid about fund raising for TPF, this is of course not his area, since he is just the grantmanager, so he only gives money out, he does not collect.
I attempted to explain my thoughts about setting up goals, like when we raised money for the Damian. It was fun and the whole community contributed and the game aspect was really boosting things, at least the way I saw it.
Unfortunately Ovid could not answer me whether this way of raising money was more or less successful than the normal way of fund raising, where you do not know exactly what you are contributing to apart from the overall good of TPF and the Perl community.
So my idea is to have the TPF, either set up goals either for an amount or a number of grants and then it will be up to the community to by a certain date fill in the slots. I guess having applicatans awaiting for the grant to be raised is a bad idea, since it will take out the momentum of things (or?).
Anyway then we can see whether we can meet the goals (and I can get a chance to get the meter up and running again).
I also talked to Ovid about the upcoming hack-a-thon in Chicago (again asking for an article), but he is not involved in the project as such and he referred to Andy Lester. So I have to contact Andy and poke him for an article.
So Andy if you read this, you have been warnedm, but anybody else with ideas on how to organize a hack-a-thon, I am very interested in your thoughts, ideas experiences, I attempted to write up a workshop howto for workshops and I miss a similar howto for hack-a-thons, but perhaps the document is useless or not necessary, because I never received any patches or feedback.
The part about "evaluate how well it went" won't be possible until it happens.


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- Rodeway Inn Motel New Port Richey
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Children 18 years old and younger stay free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding.