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Although much great art knocks you for six the first time you encounter it – the Sistine Chapel, for instance, or Beethoven's Choral Symphony – instant impact isn't one of the pre-conditions.
Other works commonly agreed to be of the front rank require more time and effort, and at first glance can seem baffling or even repellent. Intelligent critics, clarifying and guiding, come in useful here, but you also simply have to persevere: look or listen again, and again, patiently open to the possibility that the artist understands more than you do.
I'm thinking in particular here of an art form whose higher reaches many people find rocky and unenticing: opera, or at least the class of opera that doesn't contain a quota of instantly gratifying melody and romance (Carmen, La Bohème, Eugene Onegin), but instead has the character of a sung play, heavy with passages of musical speech.
These works aren't soufflés. They want to illuminate rather than reflect, and their serious moral purpose means that they run on a slow dramatic rhythm that doesn't play out easily in an era as short-winded and quickfix as ours.
I speak from experience. Believe me, I too have been bored and uncomprehending in the face of Parsifal and Khovanshchina, waiting in vain for a burst of charm or warmth, and hearing only a grizzling alien drone. But I can only say that the more I have listened, the more I have found, and the deeper and wider the territory seems.
Into this category I would also put Poulenc's Dialogues des Carmélites (1957), which will be given a new production next week at Grange Park Opera, near Winchester (01962 737360). Its plot is simple. At the outbreak of the French Revolution, the aristocratic Blanche flees to a closed-order convent. The convent is dissolved under the Terror and the nuns declared traitors to the state for their refusal to submit to a new secular dispensation. Blanche must choose whether to die as a martyr with her sisters or take a coward's way out.
Quite how this opera will fit into the frame of a sybaritic country-house soirée, I don't know: it certainly isn't soft-centred or sweet-toothed. But I'm not alone in rating it as the most powerful and deeply felt opera of the second half of the 20th century: a shatteringly intense exploration of the crisis of fear – fear of oneself, fear of God, fear of death – expressed through thrillingly abrasive and urgent music that seems to be searching for a place of rest.
It's taken me a long time to understand it. The vocal writing is wonderfully lyrical but it doesn't contain hit tunes, and although it is superbly constructed, there is little light (let alone comic) relief. Nothing here is sentimentally effective or inserted for fun: as he wrote the score, Poulenc was focused on memories of the Occupation and deportations as well as the suffering of his lover from a terminal disease.
But the magic of great art is that it can be uplifting as well as terrifying, and once you have grasped the thread of Dialogues des Carmélites, you can only be drawn into its emotional and spiritual vortex, culminating in the ghastly yet enthralling climax – too harrowing to be camp – in which the nuns process to the scaffold singing a "Salve Regina".
And at this point, Poulenc does give the audience something that would electrify even the numbest sensibility: as the guillotine dispatches each of the women and the chanting diminishes, the orchestra registers the blade's fall with a sickeningly syncopated thud – a sound of banal peremptory finality that once heard can never be forgotten.


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MOVIE SYNOPSIS [ General Audiences ] With the film direction of Momir Milosevic, Milos Djurovic leads the cast of this film of Serbia, with script in Serbian (see subtitles), whose presentation to the public was scheduled for 2014. You can watch Mrak online on TV cable or theaters with original audio in Serbian at different dates. This film premiered in theaters in 2014.
Rating: 5 by 7 users./
Runtime: 25 minutes
Milos Djurovic, Vladimir Gvojic, Dubravka Kovjanic and Milan Mihailovic.
Short film, Drama, Terror.
25-minute film (full movie) directed by Momir Milosevic.
The original audio of Mrak has dialogues in or Serbian, it was produced in Serbia.
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Remember the old TV show where Archie and Edith Bunker sang "Those Were The Days"? It's not likely you drove a LaSalle in your wild days of youth, but you may have owned a Studebaker Hawk, a Nash Metropolitan or something coloured turquoise and white with fins the size of surfboards.
With thoughts turning to the open road and summer driving, when was the last time you had a good look around the garage at some of the car-related items you've stored away?
Folks' love of the automobile goes back, well, as long as we've had automobiles, and along with the cars come bits and pieces of what collectors term automobilia. Still got a few outdated licence plates? We used to nail our old ones up on a beam, and I still have my Dad's plates going back to the 1950s. These, as well as motorcycle plates, and even bicycle plates are very collectable (if you recall having to license your bicycle, you get an extra dessert tonight!).
Your old cars may be memories, but you could still have a wing mirror, a hood ornament or one of those knobs you stuck on your steering wheel because you were 17 and immortal and needed a hand free to hold a pop bottle. Somewhere in a tool drawer, you might also have a radiator nameplate, a showroom brochure, an owner's book or a maintenance manual. Collectors in the process of restoring old cars are enthusiastic buyers of all these items.
As kids, we found it fun to hang around in gas stations. You could sit in a rusted truck out back and pretend you could drive, or check out the rows of oilcans or peek at the tire company calendars hanging in the service bays. Out front, there were oil company enamelled signs and gas pumps with fancy globes on the top. A Texaco gas pump globe or a Shell Motor Oil porcelain-faced sign could each bring you $400 on the current market.
Then there was all the advertising stuff they gave away: pens, key fobs, medallions, cigarette lighters and even miniature cars were popular promotional items. We'd haunt local dealers' showrooms when the new models came in, and say loudly "My Dad's thinking about getting a new Lark," at which point, hopefully, a salesman would rush over and fill our schoolbags with freebies. Along with the giveaways came colourful showroom brochures for the "New Futuramic Oldsmobiles" and a favourite of mine that read, "The Edsel Look is here to stay." That one didn't work out too well. Dad was always thinking about new cars and finally bought a new 1965 Valiant, which he drove for 32 years. It's still around town and worth quite a bit more than he paid for it.
My own first car was a 1960 Ford Falcon, which could reach 60 mph [97 kph] going downhill with a tailwind, provided I stood up with both feet on the gas pedal. It's still around town in the form of diet soda cans.
Related auto collectibles include metal drivers' licences and chauffeurs' badges. There was none of your micro-encoded photo ID nonsense back then. In the 1920s, the City of Victoria charged you a half dollar and you got a brass disc that said "driver's licence" and had a number stamped on it and a pin on the back. I was very happy to find one of these and several chauffeurs' badges (issued to taxi drivers) on a recent housecall.
Priced a hubcap lately? Many people call anything a hubcap that sticks over a tire, though most are really wheel covers. Early caps were like large metal mugs that screwed over the lug nuts. An old Packard screw-on cap is worth more than $20, while one off a Pierce-Arrow tops $75.
Car buffs who can't afford the hardware, or whose spouses fail to appreciate the need to fill the garage with wrenches stamped "Ford" and mysterious chunks of rusting metal awaiting "restoration," console themselves with collecting magazine ads for old cars. All the big picture magazines - *Life*, *Look* and the *Saturday Evening Post* - featured wonderful full-page ads for every make and model imaginable. While I don't recommend breaking up a magazine, sometimes a handful of ads are worth more than an intact issue.
If you have old car-related items around gathering dust, you can find a list of car clubs in the "driving" section of your Friday newspaper. Some of their members might be happy to talk with you. Meantime, go hang that pair of fuzzy dice back on your rearview mirror - and drive safely.
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Teacher Unions Go Political
September 24, 2003
Teacher unions are advancing political agendas on the national, state and local levels by donating large amounts to partisan organizations and lobbying for bills that would violate schools' political neutrality, says Robert Holland of the Lexington Institute.
For example:
- The National Education Association (NEA) is spending up to one-third of its $271 million annual budget on politically related activities.
- That includes almost $50 million a year funding UniServ, an advocacy group that screens political candidates and then campaigns for their elections.
- In Illinois, the NEA and the American Federation of Teachers have donated $3.1 million to campaigns and are lobbying to lower the tenure waiting period to two years, despite experts' warnings that K-12 tenure laws protect only bad teachers.
The powerful California teachers' unions are supporting Assembly Bill 503, which would allow teacher unions to use public schools' facilities and supplies for political campaigning directed at school personnel.
Source: Robert Holland (Lexington Institute), "Teacher Unions Promote a Political Agenda," School Reform News, July 2003, Heartland Institute.
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Making Passive Niche Profits (Review, Plus Next Steps)
Okay, in the last article we left off with a homework assignment, where you were to jot down a list of potential physical products to sell to a hungry niche.
This targeted sub-group of individuals needed to be highly specific for the niche you selected. Now the next step is to verify that this niche actually wants the items you found on Amazon.
How do we confirm this?
Simple — we consult a free resource called the Google Adwords Keyword Tool. If you've never experimented with this before, don't worry, it's quite simple.
Just do a Google search (go figure, right?) and it'll be the first result you see. Click 'sign in' in the upper right hand corner and create a free account if you don't already have one.
After that's done and you're signed in, it's time to check out the search volume for the various products you've found. Start with the first one on your list and simply enter that exact keyword phrase (for example, Sony XYZ HD TV… or whatever the specific name of the product is) into the search box.
Check the country or countries that apply and hit search. Next, in the lower left hand corner, deselect "broad match" and select "exact match" instead. This gives us a more accurate representation of the actual demand for this product.
In other words, we're now verifying how many people in your country are searching for that exact term each and every month. Be sure to look at the "local" search volume, as opposed to the "global" search volume.
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Again, this helps us to calculate a worse case scenario for what we could expect in terms of traffic generation if we were to target this term.
You can click on the local search volume column header to arrange from highest monthly searches to lowest monthly searches.
What we're looking for is a specific term, ideally for a specific product, that gets no less than 500 local exact searches each month.
Doing this correctly is critical to making passive niche profits online. So that's a brief review of yesterday's training, plus an overview of what's on tap for today.
Now for the rest of the day, I want you to roll up your sleeves and 'put in some reps.' In other words, get used to using the Google Keyword Tool. As an affiliate marketer who wants to sell high quality physical products to a starving market, you'll absolutely need to master these research steps (called keyword research) before you'll ever get your business off the ground.
In the next article, it's going to get slightly more technical as we continue our research, but this time — we'll be scoping out the competitors that may be in standing in the way of our passive niche profits.
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If your employer surprises you with a drug test Monday morning, will your activities from Friday night show up? The answer depends on many factors.
What substance did you use? How much did you take? How fast is your metabolism?
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Blood: 336 hours (2 weeks)
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are actually in search of THC-COOH. This is the chemical left over after your body processes THC (the chemical in pot that causes users to feel high). Urine tests are designed to detect THC-COOH, since it would only be present if you've used cannabis. How long this chemical is detectable is largely dependent on how often you use marijuana. Let's say you are a one-time user. This is usually only detectable for 5-8 days. But, if you are a long-time user who smokes marijuana daily, it will stay in your urine for 49-63 days. Using cannabis 2-4 times per week and then stopping makes your urine positive for marijuana for 11-18 days. Smoking it 5-6 times a week causes it to stay in your urine for 33-48 days. The large range in each of these scenarios is due to differences in each person's metabolism and how much was smoked each time.
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Pakistan all-rounder Shahid Afridi on Saturday claimed that he was approached by jailed bookmaker Mazhar Majeed several times but he distanced himself from the agent as he seemed like a "shady" character.
Majeed and Pakistani players Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir were given jail terms by a London court on Thursday after being found guilty of spot-fixing during the team's away series in England last year.
Afridi said he avoided Majeed whenever he tried to meet him.
"He always tried to contact me personally in the hotel and wanted time to meet me but I avoided him all the time because I had my suspicions that he was not trustworthy and involved in betting," Afridi was quoted as saying by The Express Tribune.
Majeed, during his testimony in the court, had said that it was difficult to get Afridi involved in spot-fixing.
Afridi dismissed Majeed's claims that Pakistani players were involved in spot-fixing during the time he was captain.
"I never felt that any player was doing something wrong and deliberately trying to let me down. I would have been the first man to throw them out and deal with it strongly," said 31-year-old Afridi, who recently came out of self-imposed retirement.
Majeed was jailed for 32 month, while Butt, Asif and Amir were sentenced for 30, 12 and six months, respectively.
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Author: Laura Gitlin PhD, Sara Czaja PhD
" I applaud [this] book for providing a much needed overview of the entire "behavioral intervention pipeline." It fills a unique niche in its coverage of key theoretical and methodological aspects as well as its case examples and professional development considerations, which makes the content accessible and practical for a broad audience."
-Marcia Ory, PhD,From the Foreword
This unique text provides comprehensive coverage of one of the most neglected—yet vitally important--areas of public health research: developing, evaluating, and implementing novel behavioral interventions in service and practice settings. Written for Masters- and Doctoral-level courses as well as novice and expert researchers in this area, the book examines the most critical issues surrounding this form of research in order to maximize the ability of intervention researchers to successfully implement current and future evidence-based protocols in practice settings. Expert contributors embrace key challenges—the complexities of health care delivery, disease management and prevention, rising costs, and changing population demographics—in shaping the push toward advancing more efficient and effective behavioral interventions and methodologies.
Tackling numerous topics that have been neglected in traditional randomized trial handbooks, methodology texts, and books on dissemination and implementation science, the book addresses: ways to develop and advance an intervention, emerging hybrid trial designs - theories and new models for integrating behavioral interventions with implementation science - - recruitment and retention strategies for inclusion of diverse samples - research designs for different stages of intervention development - treatment fidelity models and measures - novel measurement and analytic strategies - cost analyses - selection of control groups - use of mixed methodology - ethics and informed consent - technology-based intervention approaches – professional considerations. Abundant case examples from successful behavioral intervention trials—both national and international--illustrate key concepts.
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Laura N. Gitlin, PhD,
is a professor in the Department of Community Public Health in the School of Nursing with joint appointments in the Department of Psychiatry and Division
of Geriatrics and Gerontology, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University. She is the founding director of the Center for Innovative Care in Aging at
Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing. The Center seeks to develop, test, and implement novel services, programs, and models that advance and support
the well-being of diverse older adults, their families, and communities; enhance the yield of programs, policies, practices, and tools; and provide
mentorship and research training in behavioral intervention research. Dr. Gitlin has been involved in behavioral intervention research for close to 30
years. Throughout these years, she has worked collaboratively with health and human service professionals and community agencies to develop and test a wide
range of behavioral interventions. Her programs of research are multifold and include psychosocial, behavioral, and environmental approaches to address
challenges of aging including physical disability, depressive symptoms, neuropsychiatric behaviors, and family caregiving. Dr. Gitlin is nationally and
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test interventions. Some of these interventions have been translated for implementation in a variety of settings including home care, adult day care,
hospitals, and senior centers. She has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals, and is a coauthor of a research text on quantitative and
qualitative research methodologies, a book on the environmental skill–building intervention for family caregivers, a book on physical function in older
adults, and a guide booklet for families challenged by behavioral symptoms common in persons with dementia.
She is a well-funded researcher, having received continuous research and training grants from federal agencies and private foundations for close to 28
years. A theme throughout her research is applying a social ecological perspective and a person-directed approach as well as collaborating with community
organizations and health professionals to maximize the relevance and impact of intervention strategies. She is also involved in translating and
implementing her team's proven interventions for delivery in different practice settings globally and in the United States.
Dr. Gitlin is a recipient of numerous awards including the 2009 Eastern Pennsylvania Geriatric Society Charles Ewing Presidential Award for outstanding
contribution to geriatric care; the 2010 United Way Champion Impact Award for Healthy Aging at Home; the 2010 National Institute of Senior Centers Award
with Center in the Park; the 2010 MetLife Award for translating the Skills2Care Program (a dementia caregiver intervention program) with Fox
Rehabilitation (a home health agency); the 2011 John Mackey Award for Excellence in Dementia Care from Johns Hopkins University; and the 2014 M. Powell
Lawton Award from the Gerontological Society of America.
Sara J. Czaja, PhD,
is a Leonard M. Miller Professor of the Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, with joint appointments in Psychology and Industrial Engineering at the
University of Miami. She is also the scientific director of the Center on Aging at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and the director of
the Center on Research and Education for Aging and Technology Enhancement (CREATE). CREATE is funded by the National Institute on Aging and involves
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and foundations for her research. Dr. Czaja is very well published in the field of aging, and has written numerous book chapters and scientific articles.
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Part I. eveloping Interventions: Heart of the Matter
1. Promises and Challenges of Behavioral Intervention Research
2. Pipelines for Designing, Evaluating, and Implementing Interventions
3. Getting Started—Anatomy of the Intervention
4. Theory: A Driver of Behavioral Intervention Research
5. Delivery Characteristics of Behavioral Interventions
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7. The Use of Technology in Behavioral Intervention Research: Advantages and Challenges
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Part III. Does the Intervention Work? Selecting Outcomes and Analytics
14. Measurement in Behavioral Intervention Research
Sara J. Czaja and David L. Loewenstein
15. Cognitive and Functional Outcomes: The Role of Objective Measurement
Philip D. Harvey
16. Statistics Is Not a Substitute for Solid Experimental Methodology and Design
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18. Economic Evaluations of Behavioral Interventions
Laura T. Pizzi, Eric Jutkowitz, and John A. Nyman
Part IV. Into the Real World: Implementation and Dissemination
19. The Role of Implementation Science in Behavioral Intervention Research
Nancy A. Hodgson and Laura N. Gitlin
20. Lessons Learned From Implementing Proven Interventions Into Real-World Contexts
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21. Disseminating Proven Behavioral Interventions: What Does It Take?
John Beilenson, Laura N. Gitlin, and Sara J. Czaja
Part V: Professional Considerations and Reflections
22. Becoming and Being a Behavioral Intervention Researcher: What Does It Take?
23. Grant Writing Considerations for Advancing Behavioral Interventions
24. What to Publish and When: Being Productive While Awaiting Main Outcomes and Other Considerations
25. Synthesis and Future Directions


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It's been a little bit since I won NaNoWriMo with my word count of 50,359. I still have two or three (?) more chapters to finish my book but I will finish it. I've lost a little momentum due to life making writing difficult to prioritize… and there!… Did you see that?! How I tried to blame life for not writing? That is probably the number one benefit to doing NaNo. Writing WAS the priority. I could have written over the last few weeks. I chose not to. Continue reading
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The Daily NaNo (WriMo) – week 4
Day 22 and 23: I forgot to update the blog with my progress yesterday. Actually, that's a lie, I remembered as I was headed to bed but decided against the idea of firing up the computer again. I was tired, damn it! Although, I was chagrined today – chagrined? That's not the right word. Let's go with humbled instead. I was humbled today a couple of times about the subject of being tired. Once when reading this article from a woman named Linda Tirado about some of the thought processes of people who are chronically poor and why they are chronically poor. One line in the article: "Rest is a luxury for the rich." Given that girl's schedule, I can understand that girl's attitude. She is busting her ass! Then while I was out doing a little shopping for my trip to NYC coming up next week (and doesn't that sound just so la-te-da!), the clerk checking me out was chatting with her coworkers about how she'd already worked 8 hours – her day started at 7am and she was happy to be off the day after Thanksgiving so she could be out with the other shoppers. My first thought when I heard her say that was 'why in the hell would you be out buying stuff if you have to work two jobs??' Um, my guess is see exhibit A (the first link). Linda Tirado talks about why the poor make choices that don't make a lot of sense sometimes – because the short term, very temporary substitution for bliss in those poor choices is all they have to look forward to. And here I am, feeling a little tired because I chose to take on a project like NaNoWriMo. However, for the record, I am not putting myself down. I have actually been where Linda is. I have been that poor before. I am not rich now but I have enough that I don't have to sweat the bills. Continue reading
The Daily NaNo (WriMo) – week 3
Day 15: I decided to take myself out on a date tonight and saw the sweetest movie, About Time. I absolutely loved it and I am so glad I went. I think I understand now what Julia Cameron was talking about in the Artist's Way when she directs her readers to go on artist dates. It filled me up to go out and enjoy a movie because I LOVE movies. And frankly, while I usually love being a happy little hermit inside my cozy little cottage, I really just did not want to be home alone this evening. There have other times when I have thought about going out on my own and I've talked myself out of it for whatever reason. Tonight, I realized the only reason that I was playing with the idea of staying home was because of my NaNo quota for the day. So I made myself a deal: go to the movie, enjoy it and write like hell once I was back. (We won't talk about how much time I spent fucking off before the movie, mainly because I got an idea that I really, really liked for the book. Jotting that down made up for all the fucking off.) Continue reading
The Daily NaNo (WriMo) – week 2
- Day 8: It took me a while to get going. Well, actually I fucked around on Facebook and goofed off for a little bit. But the writing got done and I'm happy with it. As happy as anyone can be with their own work. You know what that means, right? LOL Some of it I like; Most of it I think is drivel. I have zero objectivity. But I am enjoying the work and that is awesome. NaNo is teaching me that I can focus when I need to. I can sit my ass in the chair and do the work. Ooh, and then the voices start barking… 'it's only week one, don't get cocky!' Yeah, yeah. I hear ya. Word count: 1652
- Day 9: This was supposed to be a writing marathon day. Maybe that intimidated me or something. Despite my best intentions, I had a really hard time getting to work. Funny, after my writing yesterday that I was learning to focus. Of note (and of value), I know how I screwed this up. I got up in my head and let thoughts and indecision ping pong around in my head until I simply ran out of time. I didn't plan my day according to what was really a priority for me and here we are. I am pissed off at myself even though, of course, I realize the futility of that. I don't intend to stay pissed off. And okay, pissed off is too strong a term. I'm not pissed off. I'm disappointed. I'll do better tomorrow. Word count: 1514
- Day 10: Ass welded to chair is how I got this done today. For some crazy reason, weekends are hard for writing. You'd think with more free time, it would be the opposite but not so. As I was writing today, noticing how hard it was to get words to come out of my fingers, I remembered what I heard Angela Lauria talk about in a recent interview about writer's block. How it was really a gift from what she calls your "inner author" that something in your work isn't right or something needs doing that the author isn't doing and so the "inner author" will shut it all down until the problem is fixed. She said it much more eloquently than that. Like, it made sense when she said it. I am not sure I can put two words together and have them make sense at this point. But I got where I needed to go quota wise so I am happy. Tomorrow, when I can think again, I will do some of the back end work that my "inner author" is screaming for. Right now, I'm going to go have myself some popcorn and some red wine – this seems to be the official NaNo dinner – and relax in front of the boob tube for a while. Oh, and I got to see Anne Lammot today thanks to my sweet friend Laura Neff. Anne said all kinds of stuff that I found fascinating and I liked listening to her. I imagine tomorrow's morning pages will tell all. And so will I. Eventually. Word count: 1654
- Day 11: Several times during this running update of NaNo progress, I have written about how hard it has been at times. I was thinking about that today, the idea of something being hard. I wonder if by thinking something is hard, I make it harder by my preconceived notion of difficulty? Listen, I am not ready to say something crazy like "writing is easy!" I am pretty sure all kinds of authors of any ilk would likely want to hurt me for saying something like that. But I want to try a little experiment with myself. Instead of sitting down to write, thinking about how hard it's going to be, I'll try simply sitting down and writing the number of words I need to write that day. How hard can it be, right? LOL – Come on, that was fucking hilarious – you have to admit. Anyway, today I did a lot of backbone work. Hearing that interview with Angela Lauria probably saved my NaNo ass. Word count: 1914
- Day 12: Well, I wasn't thinking about how hard. But damn! I was SO sleepy! I had to really work to stay awake. Yes, my book is THAT exciting! Actually, it is – to me, anyway. I am pretty sure the fatigue was some sort of cosmic form of resistance although I didn't read anything about resistance making a person sleepy in any of Stephen Pressfield's books. I battled through and got my quota in. And now I am going to crawl into my warm, cozy bed and read Gone Girl. I'm to the part where we find out Nick has a mistress. Asshole. Word count: 1726
- Day 13: I made a very important discovery today. It's called the lunch induced coma. I left the office about 3ish to take back some boots before sitting down to write and I could hardly keep my eyes open. The carb/sugar combo I had earlier was too much for my system. Once I got home, I had to take to a nap. Don't laugh but I found this significant because it meant that my writing yesterday wasn't that boring. I had soup with a bunch of noodles yesterday. And I went to Target. Shit… maybe it's not lunch but shopping that is knocking me out. I intend to try an experiment with food to see if I can skip the coma part of my day. It takes away from my productivity. And no, I don't want to become a work-a-holic robot but I do want to do my work. Whatever that is. I want to live my life and that means being awake to do my work, exercise, have fun, watch movies, take pictures, read books, pet cats and dogs and all the stuff I love to do. I thought everything I wrote yesterday was awful but I looked at it today and it's not that bad. It needs a lot of editing but duh! the entire thing will require some 9th level editing/re-writing/gutting. I have to remember that NaNo is a time to get words on the page. I'll sift for gold after. (Ha! No delusions of grandeur here!) Word count: 1650
- Day 14: Hmph.. Well, I guess I didn't feel like updating today. Funny, I completely forgot. I must have been tired although the writing went well. Word count: 1785
The Daily NaNo (WriMo) – week 1
NaNoWriMo, for the uninitiated, is this crazy global writing project where you finish (or at least make one hell of a dent in) a book draft. 50,000 words within the month of November. And I'm one of the crazies. (I actually already blogged about this here) As part of the "fun", I thought it would be neat to document the experience. So instead of making a bunch of different posts, I think I'll just keep adding to this one as I go along. So, here we go:
- Day 1: I set up Scrivener the day before. Correction: I installed Scrivener and looked at the guided tutorial thingie. Seemed pretty simple. Today, I set up my new book project but hit a little bit of a delay because there was this scene thing and I wasn't sure if I was supposed to start typing in there or create a new blank page. Plus it said not to bother with numbering the chapters. Okay. Whatever. I didn't feel like dicking around too much with the software to get my daily quota of writing done so I went with 'blank page' and dove in. I decided to begin a new ritual of putting the scarf I bought for my belly dancing class – the red one with the silver coins on it around my shoulders. It's my "writing cape". The writing: It was hard. Mostly because of the "voices". The ones that said everything I was writing was drivel. I have no idea what I'm doing. Blah, blah, blah. I missed the double rainbow because I needed to keep my ass glued to the chair. Fortunately, lots of friends took pictures and posted them on FB. Nice! Word count: 1705
- Day 2: It's Saturday so I spent a good part of my day avoiding my computer. I sat down at about 5:30 and got to work. At 1100 words, I found myself wanting to nod off. Not out of boredom but because apparently, being creative on demand makes one tired. There was a part of me that wanted to give up but I didn't. Told myself a firm no and got back to it. And then, a new character showed up. I think this is not new to veteran writers – this twist that shows up as a surprise. But I'm a green-green newbie so it delighted the hell out of me. I'm realizing a couple of things. I do have discipline but sometimes it wants to run off. And I need to take care of myself or this will not work. Left over Halloween candy, popcorn and red wine are not adequate food stuffs. I did have an excellent breakfast but I need more greens, veggies. Or how about real food? I had about two seconds of feeling sorry for myself that there wasn't a guy here, cooking up fabulously nutritious meals and generally taking care of me while I embark on this NaNo thing. Then I realized I am more than capable of taking care of myself and feeling passed. I work on adding Prince C to the castle later. Word count: 2084
- Day 3: Sunday. My absolute favorite day! I usually get donuts on Sundays but, in keeping with my own suggestion yesterday that I eat more healthfully, I cut up an apple and added it to some apple/cinnamon oatmeal for breakfast. It was a lot more satisfying than carbs and sugar. I knew I had my writing goal in front of me. Sometimes it felt big and like something I might want to avoid. But the story also kept percolating in my head. So a little dread but no real risk of choosing not doing the work. I'm still thrilled about the character that showed up yesterday. It was like a person popping up in front of me which makes me want to ask "who the fuck are you?!" He showed up on his own; He'll reveal himself in due time. The writing today was hard work but fun most of the time. I added music which proved to be a good thing and not distracting. Word count: 1996
- Day 4: Not a good writing day. Which is not to say I had a bad day in general. I sat down to write at my usual time, 4:30, 5ish but I had a headache. The kind that wanted to turn into a really bad headache of perhaps the migraine variety. I tried to write through it but when I began to feel nauseous, I realized there was a line between discipline and stupidity that I was about to cross. When your head feels like a gong reverberating from the inside out the only appropriate response is to shut off the lights and lay yourself down. I'm bothered that my word quota is down but not terribly. There is the question in my head of whether or not I was a weinnie. I have a trash can next to me if the nausea got that bad. Does the fact that I chose not to make myself miserable a sign that I don't have what it takes? See how the thought demons can start wreaking havoc with your psyche? I'm just not "a-type" enough to lean over, toss my cookies and keep on putting words to page. Nor do I want to be. I know I say that writing is hard work and no doubt, it is! But it's not miserable work and I don't want to turn it into that. I guess I am a little "a-type" though. When I got up, I cleaned the cat box and put the garbage on the curb for the morning pick up. Ha! It's the little gestures that keep one from feeling like a total bum. Word count: 393
- Day 5: Back on track today. It took a little while to get the flow going but it got going. A new twist showed up. I followed it and might have written myself into a shit pickle but maybe not. If I can pull it off, it will be pretty cool. And if I don't? I'll back up and have another go at it. Part of this NaNo thing for me is the exercise of writing for the sake of writing. I haven't been doing any fiction anything for years – actually, aside from a story attempt or two, I don't think fiction has ever gotten this much of my attention. Big learning as I go along here. Word count: 1911
- Day 6: I was a little concerned about how I was going to make my quota today. Not because I had such a packed day but because it's Yoga Wednesday. Which means I wouldn't have a completely free night to spend on writing. Turns out, I got all but 235 words in before it was time to get ready to go. I came home, relaxed a little with some dinner and an episode of Castle (love that show!) and got the rest of my words in. I have been thinking that I would need to forgo most socializing during NaNo month but maybe I'm not giving myself enough credit? I don't know. It's still very early so there will be no getting cocky here. Word count: 1709
- Day 7: Today, the why got nailed down. Important – SO important. Word count: 1754
Crazy? Certifiable!
I got this idea to write a book. NaNoWriMo seduced it right out of me. Surprising because I am not (currently or maybe ever) a fiction writer. I thought I might be once. As a kid, when I thought of my grown-up self, I saw her as a writer living in a cabin in the woods. Yep, my grown-up self had cats and she wrote books. I don't remember when I officially decided to let that vision slide into nothing but I did. I didn't think about my kid self seeing my grown-up self as a writer until a guy I was dating said, "you're a really good writer" and "you should do something with that". It woke the dream right up again. Well, the writing part. I'm a hermit half the time but I'm not 'cabin in the woods' material. So, I was happy writing this blog. I have been working on some kind of e-book or e-booklet or some sort of e-publication for my newbie coaching clients; I wanted something to get us all on the same page so that when we began working together we'd be speaking the same language. I completely dismissed the thought of any kind of self-help book because aren't there enough of those? But maybe a memoir/self-help book would work. I do have my past to draw from. All non-fiction stuff, though. Until I got this idea. And what an idea! It's epic. Dangerous. Such delicate material. Frankly, the idea scares the shit out of me. So much so that I wanted it to go away. It felt way too big for me to handle. Except I kept having to stop what I was doing to write random scenes and snippets. I only wrote the idea down in the first place to get it out of my head so it would leave me alone. So far, that plan has been about as effective as eating donuts in the hopes of slimming down.
So I figured I'd take it all as a sign. After all, hadn't I seen that post on Facebook about Scrivener? And it was the second time I saw a reference to that whacked month of writing deal.
Fuck it. I'll give this novel a month of my life and see what happens with it.
I think it was all of about five minutes before the crippling voices of doubt started raising all kinds of hell. Continue reading


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May 18th, 2003, 05:42 PM #1
I was reading a thread in another forum when I ran across a post by somebody who was very frustrated at what was going on with google. He basically said that he depends on google for his income and that he thought google at least owed an explanation to everyone about what was happening. Apparently (like mine) some of his sites have dissapeared off of Google. Someone came back at him and said that google owed nobody an explanation for anything. I agreed with this latter comment. However, after thinking about it for a while, I am not sure that I agree with it anymore. Google has become a monopoly and acquired great power in this industry. I hear alot of people say that Tiger Woods is "giving back to the community" etc. I always thought this was bunk. I'd bet every lesson Tiger took was paid for, and if it wasn't, the community had nothing to do with it. In the case of Google, the community had alot to do with Googles success. At least I think so.
So, my question is this: What, if any, responsibility does Google have to "the community".
I'm still out on this and haven't made up my mind.
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May 18th, 2003, 05:57 PM #2
Googles job is to try and return the best search results. The engine with the best results is the one people want to use.
Everyone knows you can't depend on a search engine for steady income.
Do I owe Google something for bringing me traffic and sales?
May 18th, 2003, 07:01 PM #3
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Well Said jane , Many people are confusing who is google's true customer ? . The Searchers are Google's Customers and it has huge responsibility towards them .
If it fails in it by intentionally delivering irrelvent results or masking paid listings as algo results then we can critisize google .
Google has responsibility towards webmasters only when they pay them thro adwords/premium listings otherwise nothing !! ...
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May 18th, 2003, 07:04 PM #4
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Googles job is to try and return the best search results. The engine with the best results is the one people want to use.
Everyone knows you can't depend on a search engine for steady income.
Do I owe Google something for bringing me traffic and sales?

No. We don't owe Google nothing. They may still owe for their sorry a** penny a click offer they had at one time through their affiliate program. They had affiliates who did not quite make the $15.00 min.
Google does have the se market pretty well wrapped up. It is a borderline case of a monopoly. I do not feel they have the right to pick sites out, based on their opinion of it's content, or design, and exclude them from the index, or results. I have a sneaky feeling they are checking pages with 'x' amount of affiliate links, and penalizing them. I think this is wrong. I hate Google. There will be a time in the future that Google will have to be held accountable for the impact they have had on people losing money. And, rightly so. I imagine that they perceive this to be some type of game they are playing with peoples dreams and livelyhood.
I am looking forward to the day they start declining. It will happen sooner or later. I hope they don't need affiliates to promote them again. I will become an opposition that will definitely serve a reminder to people when Google was f*cking people over.
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May 18th, 2003, 07:24 PM #5
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google is not interested in what trouble it causes any of us.
the whole 'googleguy' thing at wmw is a complete joke - he knows NOTHING.
but i guess that makes sense, i mean even if the guy does work at google they are not going to share their secrets with him so he can go post them on message boards.
my income dropped 75% last sept after the last algo change, i've done ok this time round cos i learnt my lesson last year - don't target one google algo.
May 18th, 2003, 08:00 PM #6
Don't you think that when you position yourself to be the premium "free" search engine in a public position that you shouldn't discriminate based on what you think is right or wrong? (content vs. affiliate)
I think Google is at this moment a monopoly. They have the power to put major companies under if they want. They have the power to make others rich if they want. I don't think Yahoo has that power. That is a monopoly to me.
I think at the very least they have the responsibility to put up a page explaining what they are doing, what to expect and what results they are expecting. Their alternative: GoogleGuy speaking in tongues isn't really cutting it.
The jury is still out on this one for me.
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May 18th, 2003, 08:27 PM #7
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"I have a sneaky feeling they are checking pages with 'x' amount of affiliate links, and penalizing them."
You base that assumption on what? I don't see this at all. Paranoia
"the whole 'googleguy' thing at wmw is a complete joke - he knows NOTHING."
He knows a lot, he works there. I think he is Googles version of Baghdad Bob. I think this update so far is a screwup, he's just damage control, PR. Eventually tho it will all work out, i trust they have some fixin to do.
Google is a business, they got to where they are because of relevant results. In the end, it will be the people who search that decide if Google sticks around or not.
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May 18th, 2003, 09:32 PM #8
"google is a monopoly"
How many of use have links to alternative search engines on our websites? I know some of us do (Big Chuck) used to but the majority of us don't. Affiliates played a role in starting google. Yahoo played a much bigger role but gigablast could be made into an affiliate friendly search engine. Heck a bunch of us could buy out gigablast and really get the thing going.
May 18th, 2003, 09:37 PM #9
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I think we all need to also show some appreciation to google for the service they are providing to all of us. they are a good engine and we should thank them at least for that. let's not forget the good things.
May 18th, 2003, 10:17 PM #10
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If s.o. lives in a community not only the community is responsible for him but he also has a responibility towards the community. I think that google forgot that and that is why they really will go down sooner or later.
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Free traffic from Google can be worth a lot but it's wise to think of it as a temporary blessing. Enjoy it, but develop other methods of promotion too, that don't depend on Google. Add some new strategies to your mix, to provide some stability amidst algorithm ups and downs.
On another note, lots of affiliate pages rank well for lots of terms, so I don't think Google penalizes for having affiliate links if it likes the page otherwise. What may be at work here is the fact that affiliate pages/sites are sometimes weak in one of the big things Google looks for ... quality links that are truly external.
May 18th, 2003, 11:23 PM #12
I agree with Buckworks I would also like to add that yes maybe Google does have a monopoly but lets not forget it took a lot of hard work for a long time by the google guys to earn this monopoly, so why on earth after all that work should they have to give it up?
BTW. Google did me no favors this month but I'm hoping for better next month
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May 19th, 2003, 12:06 AM #13
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Google owes us nothing.
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Google has the task to #1 make search results relivent to their users by directing them to legit keyword laden sites. Then they have to add enough value to their Adwords players to justify the costs.
My guess is Google has had it with the coupon keyword spammers making their first 2 pages of results all point to lame incent directory sites. Add in the Whenu and Gator BHO popup hijacking scheme fueled by their competing PPCSE's and Google wants to put a stop to this quick. They do not want to be a SE frontend for couponers or no portal will want their syndiacated listings.
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My guess is Google has had it with the coupon keyword spammers making

Hmm, hmm hmm.
May 19th, 2003, 01:32 AM #16
I am really pissed off at this update.. I have a client's site missing completely, and two sitting at PR0 for some unknown reason. On the flipside, I have better results for some sites that probably I should.
I firmly believe that the owner any site that has a PR0 penalty should be able to find out why. Is it a database cock-up? Have I been penalised for some unknown transgression?
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May 19th, 2003, 02:02 AM #17
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you could try visiting wmw and sticking your tongue down the back of googleguys trousers, apparently that works
May 19th, 2003, 02:11 AM #18
Well, there is a procedure to un-PR0 the site, but it's hard to tell if this is a database mess-up or a penalisation. I'm not sure I want my sites inspected by Google thanks!
Check out http://www.webpronews.com/articles/2003/0218rn.html - this outlines the "codeword" process.
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May 19th, 2003, 08:11 AM #19

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 I firmly believe that the owner any site that has a PR0 penalty should be able to find out why.

My thoughts exactly. I have 2 sites sporting a fancy new greybar and one site that went from a measly 2/10 to a 0/10. After reading some stuff at WMW I find that this may be temporary. If I decoded GG's riddles correctly then I am not too worried about how this is going. Another thing I should consider is that I'm not the only one. Apparently there are hundreds if not thousands out there in the same boat.
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May 19th, 2003, 08:34 AM #20
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WebMaster Satisfaction is always a Zero sum game . For every site Google trashes way down another site has to come up . Remember there is only one No 1 position ... So the total sum of happy webmasters after every update is always the same .
But User Satisfaction is a whole different game , Google has to constantly tweek their algo to keep spammers out thus keeping its searchers happy otherwise the other SE is always a click away !!
As i said before Google owes you traffic only when you pay for it
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May 19th, 2003, 08:40 AM #21
Well, I have to largely side with JM on this one. Google really owes us nothing. And to KoGo's point, for everyone who slips, there is another who gains, so it is, in fact, a zero sum game.
Google rose to the top because it followed a simple business principle - the main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing. For them, that's search functionality. If they hope to maintain their stranglehold on the search engine market, they must continue to tweak and revise the process.
And someone is not going to be happy, regardless of what they do.
Sorry for rambling. I'm preparing to lead a workshop, so I'm getting ready to get on a soapbox anyway!
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May 19th, 2003, 08:46 AM #22
Google doesn't have a "responsibility" to anyone. As a privately owned company, Google can do whatever the heck they want to do!
If they want to stay on top, they will need to find a way to provide searchers with relevant results, and that means getting rid of the spammy sites with hidden text, doorway pages, etc.
If they don't provide the best results, someone else will. AltaVista seems to be a bit more current in its results lately, and Google is going to need to find a way to keep the index fresher than the one month intervals it provides now. Freshbot helps, but I don't feel it's the end solution, as so many Freshbot pages don't stick for the entire month.
If Google drops the ball on providing the best search results, it will also drop in popularity. I think some of the other search engines have figured this out, and are making changes to take over the top spot. Google's problems the past few weeks can't continue, or it will lose its popularity. What do you suppose Yahoo/Inktomi has up its sleeve? I don't think they're going to just give up and be content with Google in the top spot. I expect to see some big changes there.
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 If Google drops the ball on providing the best search results, it will also drop in popularity.

And google knows this - that's why I believe this is temporary. Whatever kind of change they are making, they apparently believe it's going to benefit the searcher.
Google's responsibility is not to the people who depend on its traffic to make money. Its responsibility is to the searcher. If you think they are a monopoly, well how did they get there? From providing the best search results, and a search engine that is used more often than the rest because of that. How is that bad?
The flipside of this is that when this is over, many who depend on google for traffic may end up doing better than before - provided they use good optimisation techniques and not spammy ones. However, the lesson learned should be not to put all of your SE eggs in one basket.
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Google's responsibility is not to the people who depend on its traffic to make money. Its responsibility is to the searcher

Why is this? The searcher has paid google nothing to do the search. I provide a medium for google so they can offer a service to the searcher. I actually provide google with their search results. A lot of work went into those websites so google could use it as an end product. Why do they owe a flippant searcher something over me? I don't even have to offer it to them nor do they ask my permission to use it. It is just indexed because someone else has a link to it and there it is one day in the search results. (Side note: What would google do if I wrote them a cease and decist letter from using my name, company name, and all sites related to my company in their search results?) Why do they owe me nothing and the searcher something. The line of reasoning is that the searchers are the people who partake of their service. Without searchers no google. Well, without websites no google. Kind of silly I know because without websites there would be no searcher. So, for google to survive it takes both of us.
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May 19th, 2003, 01:44 PM #25
It seems to me:
Google's only "responsibility" is to make money for their owners/investors, in an honest and ethical manner.
They have chosen to do that by providing pretty good search results, based on their model of what's a relevant search result.
They and their users share the common goal of Google providing the best search results they can.
Google has no obligation to do that in any particular way -- or indeed to even stay in business at all, just as their users have no obligation to stick with them if they can find a search engine they like better.
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I headed back to the hotel and found that the restaurant opposite that was closed last night was now open for dinner and expecting not too much I headed over there.
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If there is a game that has a really great plot, that would be the Legend of Zelda. The Legend of Zelda is a gaming franchise that has spawned many titles. Each of its iterations is highly acclaimed by both fans and critics alike.
In this article, we are going to talk about the Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks game for the Nintendo DS.
The story revolves around Link and Princess Zelda. Link is to become a train engineer and he attends the ceremony to be stated as one. The ceremony is to be held at the Hyrule castle, where Princess Zelda would honor Link's promotion as a train engineer.
Chancellor Cole, however, does not want Link to be promoted because it would be pointless since the Spirit Tracks (or magical train tracks) are slowly disappearing anyway. Still, Princess Zelda went on with the celebration, but before promoting Link, she slid a note when Link and Zelda were shaking hands.
Stated in that note, Princess Zelda wants to get out of the castle because she believes Chancellor Cole is not someone you can trust. With the help of Link, both he and Princess Zelda were able to get past the castle.
Along with Link's mentor and former soldier of the Hyrule Castle, Alfonzo, the three of them journeyed to the Town of Spirits to know more about Chancellor Cole. Unfortunately, when they were in the middle of the route, Chancellor Cole along with his sidekick, Byrne, stopped them by removing the Spirit Tracks. The train tripped over, but before it did, Chancellor Cole was able to get Princess Zelda's body to be used as a vessel and her spirit is left roaming around without her body.
After regrouping back to the Hyrule Castle, the three of them went back to the Tower of spirits to know what is really going on. Upon their arrival, they were greeted by a Lokomo named Anjean. A Lokomo is a servant of Goodness, and Anjean tells Link's team that in order to rescue Princess Zelda, they must defeat the evil Malladus.
Malladus was currently in spirit form, that is why Chancellor Cole needed Princess Zelda's body to revive him completely. Unfortunately for them, Link was able to defeat Chancellor Malladus and in the end, was able to rescue Princess Zelda's body.
The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks game for the Nintendo DS is a wonderful game. It not only has a great storyline but it also has compelling gameplay. The players will have to make use of the Nintendo DS' stylus in order to navigate the map as well as make use of Link's weapons, items, etc.
This Nintendo DS game utilizes both of the console's screen with having the bottom screen as the main view of the game and the top screen as the map.
The gameplay of the Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks game for the Nintendo DS is pretty much similar to that of the Wind Waker, so controls are pretty much the same.
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Committee on Standards in Public Life welcomes PACAC report into the public appointments process
We welcome the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee's report and their recognition of the continued relevance of the Nolan principles to public confidence in these appointments. Like the Committee, we welcome the Government's greater emphasis on diversity and transparency but believe it is vitally important that there is sufficient independent scrutiny to safeguard the propriety of the process and provide public assurance that appointments are not made on the basis of personal or political patronage. We will take a close interest in the government's new Code and its implementation.
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Mobile ad-hoc networks pose real difficulty in finding the multihop shortest paths because of continuous changing positions of the nodes. Traditional ad-hoc routing protocols are proposed to find multi-hop routes based on shortest path routing algorithms, which cannot effectively adapt to time-varying radio links and network topologies of Ad-hoc networks. In this paper, the authors proposed an enhanced routing algorithm, which uses probabilistic approach for the stability of the neighboring nodes in finding and maintaining the routing paths in Ad-hoc networks.
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These documents relate to the bidding process for the police innovation fund. The assessment criteria accompanying the form offers a guide on how the bids are judged.
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In this companion novel to Anna and the French Kiss, two teens discover that true love may be closer than they think.
In this companion novel to Anna and the French Kiss, two teens discover that true love may be closer than they think.
For budding costume designer Lola Nolan, the more outrageous the outfit—more sparkly, more fun, more wild—the better. But even though Lola's style is outrageous, she's a devoted daughter and friend with some big plans for the future. And everything is pretty perfect (right down to her hot rocker boyfriend) until the dreaded Bell twins move back into the house next door.
When the family returns and Cricket—a gifted inventor and engineer—steps out from his twin sister's shadow and back into Lola's life, she must finally reconcile a lifetime of feelings for the boy next door.
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Since I just finished reading Anna and the French Kiss (review coming soon :) ), I've become a fan of Stephanie Perkins. Plus, I appreciate that Lola doesn't appear to be the cookie-cutter girl next door- she seems funky and fun. On that same note- Cricket doesn't appear to be the cookie-cutter guy next door either- how many guys do you know named Cricket? Plus he's an engineer- so yay for the nerdy (in the best way) boy being the love interest! I definitely can't wait for this one!So that's what I'm waiting for this week! It's Wednesday, what are you 'waiting' for?


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