text: Culture 9 August 2012 In the Critics this week Claire Lowdon objects to one novel on the Man Booker longlist, Ryan Gilbey talks female role models in Pixar's Brave and Jonathan Coe applauds Javier Marías's attempts to reimagine the novel. Sign up for our weekly email * Print HTML This week's The Critics is a Summer Fiction Special that, if one is to judge by its opening image of three nude readers, aims to reveal all in contemporary literature, save, of course, for the small modesty provided by a carefully positioned book. Sarah Churchwell finds no such constraint in Howard Jacobson's Zoo Time, whose protagonist is a novelist primarly concerned with fucking his mother in law and "the fate of the priapic novel." She concludes that "certainly people who like this kind of thing will find throughout Zoo Time an exemplary instance of the kind of thing they like", but appears a little scathing of the fact that "the phallus is a semi-universal symbol for several reasons, one of which is that some male writers can't seem to resist trying to stick it everywhere". Ryan Gilbey in his review of the film, Brave, is more interested in the focus, or lack there of, on the fairer sex when he remarks that "most animated features make no secret of favouring the Y chromosome". As Brave is notably, and shamefully, the first Pixar to feature a female progatonist. Yet Gilbey believes that "it's no footling matter for Brave to buck the trend by focusing on a mother/daughter relationship, even if gender idiosyncrasies are absorbed into a stock narrative about learning to be a team player." Though on the page Marilynne Robinson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author, can occasionally be as fierce as Brave's Merida, Sophie Elmhirst finds her to be a more reflective character. "You wonder if that mind of hers, as it goes about its gleaning, requires the rest of her to wait in repose until it is ready to spill." Robinson's writing, bears "the care of someone who feels the place of every word in line. There are no assumptions either, particularly in her non-fiction: only the stubborn desire to hold up patterns of thought to the light and expose their holes." Claire Lowdon is less kindly to Nicola Barker's novel The Yips. Unimpressed at its place on the Man Booker Prize-longlist, she finds it inferior to the author's previous work. "Darkmans is a much tighter novel, with a strong narrative voice and a mischievous plot that manipulates the characters almost as masterfully as Nabokov's Laughter in the dark." Jonathan Coe, however, admires Javier Marías's attempts to reimagine the novel. "After the modernist revolution, most novelists blithely carried on as before, but a handful of writers have sinced applied themselves to the task of rebuilding things… and Marías's lithe, unreliable sentences are among his contributions to this enterprise." This art, combined with Marías's ability to tell a good story, leads Coe to conclude that A Heart So White is "a novel to treasure." In other reviews Leo Robson uses Ben Fountain's Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk; The Jump Artist to question the lofty ambitions of debut novelists, Talitha Stevenson examines John Banville's Ancient Light and Jane Shilling reflects upon the dark arts of Jeanette Winterson's The Daylight Gate. Matt Trueman, meanwhile, gives an early update on theatre at the Edinburgh Fringe, where "audiences are won over by artistry, more than they are by art. After all if you've got something urgent to say, the middle of the world's most crowded art's festival is hardly the most effective platform. This year, however… the Fringe seems to be full of fighting talk." He is particularly compelled by Caroline Horton's Mess, which he describes as "kids' show. For adults. About anorexia. The candyfloss and fairy lights aesthetic rubs against the subject matter brilliantly, as it manages to show the world as Josephine sees it. It feels light-headed and giddy. You can't see the protruding bones that cause her boyfriend to flinch but you know they're there." Drawing our attention back to the main celebration this summer is Rachel Cooke's survey of Olympic broadcasting, which inspires in her "sudden love" and yet "something dark", which occasionally "tips over into pure loathing. I refer, naturally, not to those taking part in the games, but to those covering them." Her aversion is directed towards the likes of Gaby Logan and "John Inverdale, a man who reminds me strongly of a World of Leather sofa, so strangely unyielding and too squat for the space he is inhabiting", but she adores Clare Balding. "Some people want to be on television for its own sake… Not Balding. It's the sport she likes and the people who do it… Medal winners, you may have noticed, tend to kiss her, not the other way round." This week's Critics also features orginal poetry and fiction. A Kindness, a short story by Adam Foulds, explores a moment of charity, charming in it's unextraordinary nature, but echoing almost existentially in its setting of a bleak corner shop. A similar everyday vacuity reverberates in Emily Berry's poem Nothing sets my heart aflame. "My crisis is relatively universal," she writes, "every time I think a new thought I can smell an old one burning." 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Pitt holds a 14-10 halftime lead over Iowa this afternoon at Heinz Field.
The Panthers opened the second quarter with a scoring drive, as LaRod Stephens-Howling converted a fourth-and-1 at the Iowa 30 by beating two defenders to the corner for a 13-yard gain. Iowa free safety Brett Greenwood drew a penalty for a late hit, giving the Panthers a first-and-goal at the 8.
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AMEN, CURT. Your response was excellent and on point. Thank you for the words.
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bought a new rifle yesterday!
I was looking at the Savage axis and the Ruger all America rifle in .243 both had the same stuff except the Savage didnt have a trigger you could adjust.
The Savage was 299.95 the Ruger was 375.99 thats not a budget price! so I went with the Savage.I will top it off with a Vortex viper 3.5-10x50 this gun gonna be my coyote and wolf gun.
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You can't go wrong by chosing the Savage.. Gratz and plz post some pics..
Thanks I;l post a pic.when the scope and bipod are on.
It should be very accurate.
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The Cunard Experience was Excellent With a Few Exceptions: Queen Elizabeth Cruise Review by Strode Wallace
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The Cunard Experience was Excellent With a Few Exceptions
Destination: Panama Canal & Central America
Embarkation: Los Angeles
I tried to buy the trip through Cunard, but at the sale price they refused to sell trip insurance. I was able to get the price with trip insurance. However once I went through a travel agency I was basically persona non gratia with Cunard. There was no airport transfer for sale or a transfer from their hotel in Santa Monica to the LA docks in San Pedro.
It was just as well. Cunard wanted $680 a night at their hotel prior to the cruise. I know More it is vacation time and I shouldn't be counting nickels but that is ridiculous. I called around and found a room at the nearby Ritz-Carlton in Marina Del Rey for $400 less. The cab ride from the airport to the Ritz was $20 and from the hotel to San Pedro and the ship was $80. I was happy to pay it, heck I had just saved $400.
Embarkation was delayed. It was pushed back because there had been a norovirus outbreak during the trip from New Zealand to LA. It was hard to complain about an extra good cleaning before health inspectors boarded. However we were crammed into a departure terminal where I was thinking they should have served some ice tea, lemonade or other cold drinks. I was beginning to wonder about Cunard; that all changed for the most part when we got on board.
Our bags beat us to the room. The room steward was there minutes behind us. The stateroom was small, but it was what we expected. The chair and table on the balcony were of high quality.
It turns out the bed was great. There was not one morning with either of us waking up with a sore back.
There was just one problem with the room...the shower. It was soooo small it was almost impossible to turn around. The size of the shower would not have been a problem if Cunard had simply had hand held shower heads. The usual cruise ship sign was present asking us to conserve water. It was impossible to do. Someone suggested soaping up the wall of the shower and try turning around. If you dropped the soap or a small bottle of shampoo you literally had to exit the shower to bend over and pick it up.
I used twice as much water trying to position myself under the shower head than I would have used if there had only been a hand held shower nozzle. My wife quickly wised up and for most of the cruised showered in the spa.
Okay the English sausages are simply awful. Breakfast was average at best on the ship, with one exception. There were no long lines you become accustomed to on HAL or Celebrity. The fresh squeezed OJ would cost almost $5 a glass and didn't taste like
OJ. Blueberry muffins were scarce, probably held back from the swells in the special dining areas. However the bagels were good the hot food was hot and the cold food was cold.
However the good news for the English ship (owned by an American Corporation) is that it had a German chef. We mere people in balcony staterooms were pretty much the same as being in steerage 100 years ago. We did not get to sample the Queen and Princess Grills that the "suite dwellers" used but we didn't mind at all.
The lunches at the Lido and the dinners in the main dining room served the best food I have ever had on a full size cruise ship. There was absolutely no need to spend extra money in The Verandah restaurant. My last trip on Celebrity included the use of a special dining area for suite customers. The everyday food on the QE was much better than the upscale food on Celebrity. The soups were also a treat.
The wait staff was very attentive and close-by, unlike those waiters on HAL who saw their table count double after 2008.
For two weeks if anyone at our table had a special request or wanted something not on the menu the response from the wait staff was always the same,..."No Problem."
Beyond the Lido buffet was the hamburger and fries area on the rear pool deck. Burgers were as good as you will get on any cruise ship and better than most. On some days the onion rings were awful, simply frozen out of a bag. But on some days they made hand dripped O-rings right before your eyes. It was a great treat.
In the Lion Pub there was lunch service also that included fish and Chips and Shepherd's Pie...definitely English and also good.
The only non four-star item were the afternoon scones. The high tea held every day with music was a very nice touch, but the scones were average at best.
It took about two days of an average Breakfast, an outstanding lunch followed by afternoon scones and then a great dinner to make you realize you had to dial it back and just participate in two eating things a day. Either skip breakfast and do lunch or enjoy breakfast and wait until dinner before eating again. You couldn't do both plus scones and dinner, it was just too much even if you are a big fat slob. .
I GOTTA DANCE: Geez there was a lot of dancing on this cruise. There were dance classes in the morning and afternoon. The dance floor was busy in the early evening with couples dancing to recorded music and the floor was packed later in the evening when the ships "dance band" was on stage.
The beauty of the ship's dance band is that it Cunard is one of the last lines that since has a brass section. Most cruise lines eliminated trumpet and trombone players. Not Cunard. They have a trombone and trumpet player in both the dance band and in the theater band.
The only drawback to the dance band was that the male vocalist was simply awful.
One night during the cruise the dance band and the theater bands were combined in the ballroom for a true big band. There are not any songs from the Maynard Ferguson or Stan Kenton playbooks, but they did a very good job on the classics. Although I was waiting to see a couple of heart attacks when they played Benny Goodman's very fast paced Sing, Sing, Sing and several 70-plus couples jumped onto the dance floor and kept up with the music. Everyone survived.
The ship's shows were average at best. The passenger list was led by Americans followed by Brits. But of the total the folks from the UK were probably 35-percent of the ship's passengers. You would not have known that from the fly-in entertainers. They were mostly British and were telling enough local jokes to lose most of the audience.
Also I'm getting tired of comics who make fun of cruise ships, passengers and staff. I really don't enjoy paying for a cruise only to have the cruise line bring someone aboard to make fun of me.
One complaint we heard from fellow passengers who had been on several legs of the cruise was how the entertainment began to repeat itself including guest entertainers. "Please let us see someone different" was their complaint. When they are booking large amounts of Americans they might be wise to add an American or two into the entertainment mix.
The QE was the first ship I have been on where the casino is smoke free. No more walks to the theater only to arrive reeking of cigarette smoke. Also the QE does not force you to wind through the casino. I was greatly appreciated.
The Commodore's Club on Deck11 is the most sophisticated "top of the ship" lounge I have ever seen. No bright colors and low furniture. This place really made you feel as if you were in a private club. Plus there was plenty of service. It was never annoying, but if you wanted something there was wait staff there to take your order.
Perhaps the best part of this room was the musician at the piano. Graham Wellard during the early evening pre dinner times before 8:30 played wonderful songs from the "American Songbook" plus others from familiar composers of the 30s, 40s and 50s. Rodgers and Hart, Gershwin, Cole Porter, Jerome Kern to songs from obscure Blossom Dearie albums made 50 years ago.
The best part of enjoying Wellard was after dinner when he also sang. The number of songs with music and words this guy has committed to memory is very impressive. He was without a doubt the best performer doing "a single" act on the ship.
The four women from the Ukraine playing as the EOS String Quartet were also very good. Unlike other string quartets I have seen on other cruise ships, the played the hits...the Classical Top 100...the pieces that most people recognized. They also mixed in arrangements of Broadway hits and some standards from the 40s and 50s.
People who walked by or sat and listened could not help but have a smile on their face.
Pianist Edward Watts also had a nice touch and a great smile. Actually the guy from London almost looks like a young Hugh Grant. He would play in mid ships area, at teas and in the dining rooms. The only negative observation about Watts was that due to his lack of songs he would play one song for 10 minutes.
This ship had at least five pianos. I'm talking real life pianos and not the electronic Grand Slam models found on HAL ships. You open a piano on a Cunard ship and you find strings and not a storage area for prizes for Name That Tune contests.
The only negative thing to report from the ship's music department was pianist Robin Rose who was manning the 88 keys in the Golden Lion Pub. It was not that he couldn't play, but if the crowd was thin in the pub, he would quit playing and go have a pint with the customers.
One night I was sitting at a large table with Aussies. The late night trivia game had just ended. The ship schedule showed Rose was supposed to play from "midnight until late."
Rose arrived and one person said, "Good now we can hear some tunes."
"No I just picking up my stuff there is no one here to play for," said Rose.
"But the schedule says you are playing again at midnight," said a customer who had just ordered a drink.
"There is nobody here," said Rose.
"There is the six of us," someone else said.
"Are you all going to be buying drinks," asked Rose as he picked up his belongings and left.
I have never heard a cruise ship entertainer be so rude to customers. The cruise lines like to calls us "guests" but in reality we are paying customers.
TOURS: The one area where Cunard is just like other cruise lines are their tours. They are always overpriced! We were able to walk a couple blocks away from the docks and find a taxi driver who would take us on great tours off the meter. My usual request to the driver is to take me where I will not see any tourists." Even at $100 or $120 for two or three hours, the per person rate is always cheaper than a ship's tour and more interesting.
ACTIVITIES 2: They had lots of activities on sea days, even if most were geared to old people. The speaker series was actually quite good.
The trivia or quiz contests were clearly geared toward Brits. Most Americans are not going to get the answer to the question, "Which London Underground line does not stop in Zone-One?"
Englishman Michael Jackson and Laura of the cruise director's staff were just great and a lot of fun, regardless what activity they were hosting.
The first weekend of the cruise the Lions Pub TVs were all on the Premier English Football games. But with a ship of more Americans than any other nationality, the staff let down both the customers and Cunard when four days later they did not show any of the all-day first-round of the NCAA college basketball tournament. This pub would have been full all day selling lots of beverages to American college basketball fans. When I mentioned this to the staff they said they had never heard of the NCAA basketball tournament. This was simply poor planning by the staff. (The games were available on satellite TV received by the ship.)
The other area of the staff not knowing the customers was one I see regularly on cruise ships. This ship had a large number of people between the ages of 70 and 85. They had a "Name that Tune" contest one evening. The least popular member of the cruise director staff, Tommie Hill, who was usually the least prepared, did what you see often.
Tommie thought rock songs from the 90s or 1985 were ancient and perfect for the old people. However the older people wanted to hear songs by Vera Lynn or from Oklahoma, South Pacific or My Fair Lady. Something by Z.Z. Top left them with confused and disgusted looks on their faces.
This ship had a library consisting of over 6,000 books located on two different decks. It was the most books I have ever seen on a cruise ship.
Okay, the internet service was slow like on most cruise ships, but it seemed to be a little faster than on my last four cruises.
You don't normally notice the front desk service, but I did on this cruise. No matter how frustrating the four prior customers might have been, the front desk staff were excellent. Most of the also appeared to be from England.
With the slow down for Federal services during the sequester, we found ourselves victims of Congress and Cunard. We had a 10:45 flight from the nearby Ft. Lauderdale airport. A five-to-10 minute cab ride away. We were promised we would be off between 8:30 and 9am.
Only one custom agent showed up at 7:30 to clear the ship. That agent was joined by two more by 9am. This was Congress' doing.
However Cunard did not allow us customers with morning air flights off first. No...they let passengers who were continuing on to New York or Southampton and who paid for a "ship's tour" off first. They put a few extra bucks in their pocket while leaving a bad taste in the month of customers disembarking from the cruise. The captain's apology over the loudspeaker sounded great until you realized that you missed your flight because people with $45 transfers to a shopping center were getting off before you.
We missed our flight and got separated from our luggage.
Even with this issue...I have to say I was spoiled. I will start looking for destination and sale prices first with Cunard in the future. Less
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SaveMGO, isn't this illegal? :/
SaveMGO, isn't this illegal? :/
Dec 14, 2013 at 2:28am UTC
I know that Blizzard and Mojang are saying cracking servers is illegal, but is it still illegal when a group of programmers reverse engineer a PS2 game that had its online servers shutdown in order to play the server again online. I would think this would be legal issues for Sony, Konami, and Kojima Productions.
Dec 14, 2013 at 3:36am UTC
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Well don't see why it matters if they dropped support for it. Someone is basically keeping their service up for them for free.
Dec 14, 2013 at 3:59am UTC
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I don't think it is, because some company had a lawsuit with Nintendo for releasing a game for the NES without a seal of approval. Nintendo lost because the programmers figured a way around it, and didn't hack it.
Dec 14, 2013 at 4:43am UTC
It wasn't a seal of approval, companies didn't want to pay the licensing fees or were turned down by Nintendo so they made things that disabled the 10NES chip to allow their games to be played. Some companies made a chip that sent a surge to disable it to make it playable while Atari, under the name Tengen, illegally got the design specs of the 10NES chip and designed one to negate it (in fact they made a full line of games for the NES that used the chip they made. Last major lawsuit, which they did lose, was to Blockbuster (but they are always in trouble) because they were including copyrighted materials (manuals and such) in the game rentals. Nintendo lost trying to stop Blockbuster, but did win in copyright infringement making it impossible for them to include manuals or other copyrighted materials in the rental box.
Though, they had to crack into the game and find out the database information to allow them to play MGO on the PC through an emulator which I believe that, even without support is copyrighted stuff they are tampering with. Though, watching their videos, it appears they are tampering with the DNAS certification to make the game think it is connecting to a legit Sony/Konami server and database in order to play which again I believe is a major no-no in Sony's eyes.
I'm asking because I know the guy that led the team to do it and praying he isn't setting himself up for major backlash from Konami, Sony, or Kojima Productions.
Dec 14, 2013 at 5:33am UTC
Depends on how he reverse engineered it. IBM's BIOS chip was reverse engineered in such a way that the one building the clone had no direct access to the original chip. I can't remember what they called it, but doing it this way helped sway a law suit against them into their ruling of favor.
Dec 14, 2013 at 5:46am UTC
It really depends on exactly where they are and what the terms of the EULA are. Generally speaking, though, RE is not a breach of copyright because copyright protects (essentially) bit strings, not the idea behind them. It's what makes ReactOS perfectly legal as long as they maintain their clean-room.
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ST. LOUIS (Reuters) -- A 25-year-old East St. Louis woman suspected of killing her two children was in jail on Thursday after slamming her car into two pedestrians near the Gateway Arch in downtown St. Louis, police said.
The woman, who was not immediately identified, was arrested as she sat on the ground near the Arch Wednesday night. She was holding a shotgun shortly before she was taken into custody.
Authorities said the woman was wanted in the shooting deaths of her two children across the Mississippi River in Illinois about five miles away from where she allegedly hit the pedestrians. The pedestrians -- a 42-year-old man and a 3-year-old boy -- were not seriously injured.
The bodies of the woman's 4-year-old girl and 5-year-old boy were found in the family's apartment earlier Wednesday, Illinois State Police Lieutenant James Morrisey said. The woman's 8-year-old son fled the apartment during the shootings and was unharmed, police said.
"It was a horrific scene inside that apartment," East St. Louis Police Captain Bobby Cole told reporters at the scene on a KTVI television broadcast.
Morrisey said the woman was "known" to East St. Louis police but gave no further details due to the pending charges.
The woman was held in the St. Louis municipal jail awaiting prosecutors decision on charges.
A reporter for KMOV-TV, Laura Bluedorn, who was near the scene of the traffic incident at the Arch said the pedestrians were visitors to St. Louis from Iowa. The reporter said she witnessed the boy hurled into the air after the East St. Louis woman hit him with her car.
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NEW YORK -- Crude oil in New York surged to a record $65 per barrel as refinery shutdowns and rising demand cut fuel inventories for the sixth straight week, the Arizona Daily Star reported. Gasoline and heating-oil futures also touched all-time highs.
The markets responded in part to a weekly U.S. Energy Department report on gasoline consumption, which was up 1.4 percent for the four weeks that ended Friday compared with the same period a year earlier. Gasoline supplies fell 2.1 million barrels to 203.1 million barrels last week.
"At the retail level, we haven't seen a slackening in demand," said Jeff Lenard, a spokesman for the National Association of Convenience Stores (NACS).
Oil analyst Subash Chandra, of Morgan Keegan Inc. in New York, said that means prices will keep rising.
"We haven't seen demand respond to higher prices yet," Chandra said. "We are following the normal law of economics. Prices will rise until we choke demand off to meet falling supply."
Crude oil for September delivery surged $1.83, or 2.9 percent, to close at $64.90 per barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Futures touched $65 per barrel minutes before floor trading ended.
While oil prices are about 46 percent higher than a year ago, they would need to surpass $90 per barrel to exceed the inflation-adjusted peak set in 1980, the report stated.
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text: Elections 14 July 2010 Credibility is Labour leader's hygiene factor New leader needs to convince people that the deficit was not mismanagement but a way of avoiding a d Sign up for our weekly email * Print HTML Pat McFadden MP was absolutely right to argue today that if Labour only opposes cuts there is a "danger of being tuned out by the electorate". But in many ways, the electorate has tuned Labour out already and the challenge is to tune it back in. Being credible on the deficit is now a hygiene factor for Labour's next leader. All the candidates, and Labour's frontbenchers, are leading opposition to the unfairness of the Budget and the cuts to come in October's Spending Review. This is politically necessary, but not politically sufficient. Labour will get elected again, not on the determination of its opposition, but on the credibility of its alternative. The perceived wisdom of the 1992 shadow Budget is that setting out proposals in opposition for necessary tax rises -- or indeed, spending cuts -- is political suicide. But it was a significant move this week from Ed Balls that started this debate, after he told the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg that it was a "mistake" for Labour to promise to halve the deficit in four years. It was a major scoop for her, but did he mean to go public with this view? He hasn't yet said what his alternative would be and so has left himself a credibility gap for the other candidates to probe at the next hustings, in London this Friday. The dilemma remains: how does Labour prove credibility without being explicit about either alternative cuts or tax rises? It almost certainly can't be done. At the end of last week, Ed Miliband said Labour shouldn't be locked into the 2:1 ratio for cuts and tax rises, as stated in Labour's manifesto. He said the new leader should outline cuts by the time of October's Spending Review and suggested that tax rises play a bigger role. Andy Burnham has since joined the call for more tax rises and has been bold and consistent in arguing that raising the NHS budget while cutting the social care budget is a mistake. These are more forward-looking attempts at gaining distinction and they do help move Labour on from what felt, at the time, like a credible deficit reduction plan on page 6 of Labour's manifesto. Page 6 was the core script for all Labour spokespeople during the election, and in interview after interview, Ed Balls and others made it sound credible. Having lost an election so dominated by the Tory campaign against a National Insurance rise, Labour now needs a new deficit reduction plan that is not politically tarnished. David Miliband has suggested doubling the banking levy and introducing a "mansion tax". Ed Balls would start the 50p income-tax rise at £100,000 and Ed Miliband would make it permanent. Yet all the candidates are struggling for credibility, because these tax rises don't add up to the spending cuts they are seeking to prevent and the VAT hike they voted against last night. Demos has costed an alternative, but it is not the only option. McFadden is right that the Tories and Lib Dems want Labour to "retreat to its comfort zone" so that they can argue Labour is responsible for the deficit and that "they alone are capable of facing up to Britain's problems". Labour's next leader needs to win two arguments at the same time. The first is that the deficit was not mismanagement, but a decision taken to prevent recession turning to depression. The second is that Labour's new leader can now be trusted to reduce it. The public will not accept one without the other. Richard Darlington is head of the Open Left project at Demos. Special subscription offer: Get 12 issues for £12 plus a free copy of Andy Beckett's "When the Lights Went Out". › Curious George and the Guardian's contrarian columnist Richard Darlington is Head of News at IPPR. Follow him on Twitter @RDarlo. Subscribe from just £1 per issue More Related articles Voters are turning against Brexit but the Lib Dems aren't benefiting "It was like a religious ceremony": What happened at Big Ben's final bong? How our actual real-life adult politicians are mourning Big Ben falling silent Subscription offer 12 issues for £12 + FREE book LEARN MORE Close This week's magazine


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At Cool Gus Publishing, we've just brought on board our second NY Times Bestselling author, Jennifer Probst, in a three book deal, launching her new Posse series in November of this year. We're very excited about this and it's caused us to reflect how we got here from our start, several years ago, in days of yore when men were men, and goats ran scared.
In late 2010 I was preparing to bring a new manuscript to my agent. I was hearing and reading buzz about "Self-publishing" with eBooks but few seemed to be taking it seriously. At Digital Book World 2010, agents were laughing about a part of the industry that took in only 3% of income.
I wasn't laughing. I knew how slow and technophobic traditional publishing was, after spending 20 years and 42 books in it and hitting all the bestseller lists, while also experiencing being dumped by various publishers at times due to decreasing print runs with increasing sell-through (that refrain sounds familiar to any of you authors?).
So I peered into my crystal ball and wondered: "What will publishing be like in 2013?" Because if my agent took this manuscript and sold it to another traditional publisher, like all my other deals, I knew pub date would be mid-2012 to early 2013.
Having been part of the Army where we transitioned from focusing on fighting the Soviet Union in the Fulda Gap, to being among those few officers who traded in their crossed rifles of the Infantry to the crossed arrows of Special Forces, and the focus shifted to unconventional warfare, I had gone through a radical change in a large organization before. I'd been on numerous boards and committees and actually was part of the implementation of so many things the military takes for granted now (Special Forces Branch, Special Operations Command, Task Force 160, Delta Force, Seal Team Six, etc).
I applied my experience to publishing. Then Jen Talty approached me at a conference and asked about my backlist, which was moldering, doing nothing. With some experience in digital publishing via romance (that genre led the way), she suggested we partner and start putting my backlist out. So for 2010, that's what she did, working for practically nothing (we earned a gross of $26,000 that year).
Things changed in 2011 and even more in 2012. We grossed over seven figures. We brought on other authors.
Things have changed again. In January, I flew up to NY to meet with Jen Squared (which is what we call Jen Talty and Jennifer Probst). The day before that meeting, Jen (Talty) and I were sitting in a diner discussing our business model. She had these binders full of graphs and numbers and analytics and while it was all very informative, I began feeling that something was really off. We were getting bogged down in detail, but perhaps after three years, publishing has gone through another cycle and we needed to reboot our business model?
What exactly was Cool Gus? What could we offer Jennifer that was different and unique and make it worth her while?
And then we went back to our roots. We could offer her a publishing partnership. We work with her as an individual author in a unique situation. We would factor in her traditional publishing schedule and deals. We would respect her ability to control her rights, to have the option to pursue other venues that were advantageous to her career. We'd give her the highest royalty rates we've heard of in the industry, paid out monthly, within a week of receiving any money due her. We'd set up her promotion, her interviews, her trip to BEA, presentations at other conferences. Most importantly, we were offering her the partnership that Jen Talty and I had built over three years, which meant our experience. We'd learned through that experience. We'd made a lot of mistakes. But we've learned from them. We've also made numerous contacts over the years and we can now extend all that to Jennifer (Probst).
Ultimately, we're a partner that works with each author as a unique entity. As part of the very interesting survey about authors put out by DBW, one statistic was that 1/3 of traditionally published authors want to branch out to self-publishing. That struck me. Because, if you want to do it right, you really can't "self" publish. The learning curve is much too steep to risk it. That's why most traditional writers I talk to who are considering it say they are scared. They should be, and I say that nicely. It's a scary world in publishing right now, but it's also a very lucrative one and very wide open for authors who are willing take smart, calculated risks.
Experience is invaluable in the digital world and there are not many who have the full gamut of experience from author to all the various aspects of making the book available to readers. I think larger publishers have all the pieces, but do the pieces work together smoothly and seamlessly? All our pieces are in a small, agile company. Yes, a lot of the work can be contracted out, but do those contractors have a vested interest in the eBook's success, in the author's career? Does the contractor have the full gamut of experience, and, very importantly do they have all the personal connections with the distribution channels? Do contractors understand that while a print book is static, and eBook is organic and constantly evolving?
I'm excited about this new mindset for Cool Gus. He would be too, except he's asleep under my desk. We're a partner with the author, actually working for the author, and we provide value to readers.
Nothing but good times ahead.


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The NJ Record and Time Magazine have both published articles in the last few days addressing the latest trend of characters with autism appearing in film and/or television. We've touched… read more →
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Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Local Corporation Launches In UK
Irvine-based local search site operator Local Corporation said this morning that it has launched a new, local search site in the U.K., the first U.K. version of its flagship local search site. As part of the launch, Local.com said it has inked an expanded search advertising agreement with Yahoo Inc., to cover both its efforts in the U.S. and the U.K. The firm said that Yahoo's search results will appear across the new U.K. site as part of the deal. Local.com's websites allow consumers to find local businesses by category.


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This is a portal for Local Authorities, provided as SaaS. It enables map based two-way communication and reporting between the LA and public. Every Authority in the UK, can access their own area managed by boundary files, with a secure login. We can have any Local Authority up and running within 3 hours. A free trial can be requested via www.zubed.com. Currently 98 Local Authorities are trialling the system. Example: http://data.gov.uk/apps/list
Apps submitted to data.gov.uk are currently approved for publication on the general level of their context and appropriateness. Whilst we review these on a periodical basis, we do not own responsibility for the regular update and maintenance of these apps. Any queries about individual apps or tools published need to be directed to the originator.


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These Girls Need To Be Stopped…
This girl, Jenna Marbles, knows what's going on because I have been saying this every since I turned 21. Ladies just calm down when you go out.
One thing she didn't mention in this blog is the girls that are ALL over EVERY guy at the club because they buy them drinks. I have a best friend, who is a guy, and he gets used all the time when we go out. Some girl will come up to him and flirt and then he's at the bar buying her one of those fruity drinks…you know the ones that are like 6 bucks. Then once she gets the drink we won't see her until it is gone, then when the drink is gone she will go back up to him and ask for a shot.
I have to say it is a good plan and I'm not saying I'm not guilty of this but every time? It is nice to have a drink bought for you, I am just saying that the girls that use and abuse the situation make us, the girls that don't use and abuse, look bad.
If you go to the club in Evansville, you know what I'm talking about. That is my rant for today. Enjoy the video I laughed my ass off!
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THE NFU is urging the Government to review its flooding and coastal defence policies.
At the union's annual conference in Birmingham, deputy president Meurig Raymond said more money must be committed to reduce further risks to the British countryside.
He said: "It is unacceptable for farmland and rural communities to simply be allowed to be sacrificed – our countryside is too valuable to allow for this situation to continue or worsen.
"Agriculture is a major industry and rural employer and there is much more at risk from flooding than just the food that ends up on our dinner plates.
"The contribution of Britain's farms should not be ignored if the nation is to become less dependent on food imports.
"We must find better ways of coping with flooding and protecting our lives, property and farmland, using all the options available to us.
"As a nation we need to take full advantage of measures to maintain the conveyance and capacity of our rivers whilst at the same time seek a more active role for some farms to trap, store and slow water.
"Farmers providing flood management services should be properly rewarded where they are a cost efficient solution."


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Asserting that Jewish life in America was "only skin deep," Dr. Mordecai M. Kaplan, founder of the Jewish Reconstructionist movement, declared last night that all three forms of Jewish religious ideology in the United States had failed to establish an intrinsic connection between Jewish life and spirituality. He said Jewish life was "social rather than spiritual."
Dr. Kaplan told 400 delegates to the annual convention of the Rabbinical Assembly of America that "one half of Jewish identity" in the United States was "the product of Gentile exclusiveness, and the other half is the product of Jewish association."
He listed the "rehabilitation of Israel as the spiritual homeland of the Jewish people" as the first point in a series of "religious imperatives" which American Jews must follow so that Jewish life would "recover its spiritual character." He also urged organic Jewish communities, better knowledge of Hebrew, and revitalization of Jewish Sabbath and festivals.


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Racing insider: Dixon, Ganassi seeking another title
If Scott Dixon was a card-toting member of the PGA Tour, he would be characterized as a grinder — someone who plows along without distraction and unblinkingly deals with adversity.
Dixon, a two-time IndyCar Series champion, scratched his way into contention at the Brickyard the past two years when victory in the Indianapolis 500 appeared unlikely. He overcame a couple of hiccups to finish second behind teammate Dario Franchitti in last year's race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
So far this season, Dixon has been the driving force behind Target Chip Ganassi Racing. The New Zealander opened with a fifth-place finish in St. Petersburg and last week recorded a runner-up finish in the Honda Indy Grand Prix of Alabama.
Dixon's performance, coupled with the surprising start of third-year driver Charlie Kimball, has overshadowed the uncharacteristically slow start of Franchitti, a four-time series champion and three-time Indy 500 winner who sits 26th in points.
"Scott always finds a way to get the most out of the cars we give him," said Fox Chapel native Chip Ganassi. "He has a chance to win the championship every year, and I know that's what he expects."
Dixon, second in points behind leader Helio Castroneves, is off to a fast start in the Honda-powered No. 9 car, in part, because he's easily handled every crooked turn he's faced. Also, he's managed to race his way into contention after two average qualifying runs — including starting 20th in St. Petersburg.
"For me, a lot of it has to do with the team," Dixon said. "Unfortunately, we haven't capitalized on some of the finishes we would like.
"I love being a part of the team. I enjoy every part of my job, but our goal is to get more 500 wins."
Dixon, the 2008 Indy 500 winner, has had a splendid 11-year run with Ganassi. And he hopes to deliver CGR's 100th IndyCar Series victory during next week's Toyota Grand Prix of Long Prix.
Dixon made a strong charge over the final 10 laps in Birmingham last Sunday. He roared past Castroneves to secure second but ran out of time on the 17-turn, 2.38-mile road course and finished .6368 of a second behind defending points champion Ryan Hunter-Reay.
"I admire Chip's pure love for competition," Dixon said. "He wants to win. If you had a bad race, a bad year, then Chip gets angry. But that's good to see because we all want to achieve great things.
"We work well together. It's been fantastic winning championships. We're right up there with some of the great teams. You look at Roger (Penske) and see Chip right next to him."
Dixon might not possess Franchitti's charisma, but he has unmatched aspirations. It's why he's haunted by his recent failures at the Brickyard.
"You always analyze how you're performing," he said. "Every weekend is different. There are different things you're trying to achieve. It's always about bettering yourself and the team. It's about winning, too."
Ralph N. Paulk is a staff writer for Trib Total Media. Reach him at firstname.lastname@example.com or via Twitter @RalphPaulk_Trib.


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HOUSTON - One man is custody and another is in the hospital after police said they led officers on a short foot chase in the Third Ward of southeast Houston.
According to Houston police, the officer was a member of the gang division.
He was on a regular patrol with another officer around 12:30 a.m. Thursday when they stopped to talk to two men on Hadley Street. The men, later identified as 24-year-old Hardy Moore and 20-year-old Damarcus Gibson, ran off.
"The officers began chasing the suspects on foot," said Kese Smith with HPD. "The suspects split up in different directions and so did the officers."
Police said Moore pulled out a gun and pointed it at Officer J. Rosemon.
Officer Rosemon fired his weapon hitting the suspect twice.
Moore was taken to Memorial Hermann Hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
Gibson was found by a K9 unit. He was taken downtown for questioning.
Houston police said Moore faces a charge of aggravated assault against a public servant. Gibson faces an evading arrest charge.
According to Houston police, Officer J. Rosemon has been on the force since December 2010.
According to HPD protocol, the officer-involved shooting is being investigated by the HPD Homicide and Internal Affairs Divisions, as well as the Harris County District Attorney's Office.
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UL Women Defeat North Texas, 65-54
Louisiana's Ragin' Cajun women's basketball team climbed over the .500 mark, on Saturday afternoon, defeating the North Texas Mean Green, 65-54, in Denton, Texas, for their first Sun Belt conference win of the year. Ragincajuns.com has the story, below.
Louisiana's Ragin' Cajuns women's basketball team rang in the New Year in fine fashion with a 65-54 win over North Texas on New Year's Day at the Super Pit in Denton, Texas. The Cajuns used big runs at the start of the first and second halves en route to the win.
Saturday afternoon's win for the Ragin' Cajuns (8-7, 1-1 Sun Belt) tied the 2007-08 campaign for the second-most victories in a season during head coach Errol Roger's tenure. The Mean Green fell to 0-2 in league play, dropping to 3-12 overall.


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U.S. airlines' performance rose and consumer complaints fell in August, according to the Department of Transportation's most recent Air Travel Consumer Report.
Still, "improved" performance is still not "great" performance for many carriers. The 15 airlines tracked by the Department of Transportation averaged an on-time arrival rate of 79.1% — up three percentage points from July's grim on-time stats, but still down a hair from the 79.3% average in August 2011. That's a big reason consumer complaints tumbled by 23% from 2,466 in July to 1,886 in August.
United Continental's (NYSE:UAL) performance continued to struggle as it integrates the former Continental and has experienced monumental glitches with reservation systems. The airline did begin to bounce back from a dreadful showing in July, when more than one-third of its flights were delayed and consumer complaints soared by 50%.
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