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As a college student, the concept of caregiving hasn't even been a blimp on my radar. When I began my internship at AARP I learned about the extreme challenges caregivers faced. I also learned of a bill currently before the state legislature that would help caregivers: The Caregiver Advise, Record, Enable (CARE) Act.
When I had first heard of The CARE Act, I was confused—this bill seemed like common sense, how could it not already be in effect? The CARE Act enables caregivers to be confident in caring for their loved ones by requiring hospitals to keep records of the patient's caregiver, notify this caregiver should their loved one be released, and explain through live demonstration how to perform various medical tasks. Currently, caregivers are often left without training to do things like administer injections, provide wound care, and manage medications.
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Cops or Counselors? The Militarization of Mental Health
Recent events in Berkeley have laid bare many of the weaknesses in our approach to caring for those with mental illness. The February 2013 death of Kayla Moore in police custody is just the most recent example. There have been others such as the tragic murder of Berkeley resident Peter Cukor in his own home by a mentally ill person. There was also the recent hog-tying and hooding of homeless youth Jeremy Carter though he was never even accused of being violent and, of course, the daily pipeline of individuals who, instead of getting help managing their mental health, are being processed into prisons where they are in even more jeopardy. The current government system protects neither the person needing help or the public. It begs the question of whether it is the police who should be responding to mental health cases at all.
Everyday in Berkeley, there are people with mental heath issues who are unable to get the help they need. In cases of emergency, mentally ill people are in serious danger because often those responding to the call are officers trained in using violence to control "suspects" and who come to the encounter prepared for a fight. Notice that Berkeley Police Association is eager to acquire tasers as another "tool" for dealing with people in mental crisis.
Most police know nothing about how to provide care to people in psychological crisis. Its not their job. While police consider whether to purchase tasers, tanks or drones to supplement their already sizeable arsenals, funding for mental health services has been cut to the bone. The Berkeley Mental Health Mobile Crisis Unit staff has been reduced as has its hours of operation. Copwatch has been told that there are only three full-time staff to respond to emergency mental health situations 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Clearly, it would be better to have non-uniformed people responding to these emergencies. Equally obvious is the fact that three people cannot cover an entire city at all times.
However, more funds for city staff is not the answer either. Last week copwatchers on a shift where we had heard a call that a woman on Shattuck Ave. was punched by a man. On the scene we saw a barefoot, homeless man in handcuffs speaking with a cop. It turned out that the woman had been punched lightly, but called the cops because she was concerned that he was unstable and might hurt others. Cops searched him then put him in the police car and took him to Santa Rita jail. When asked why the man was not considered to be a 5150 candidate, the cop replied that the homeless man had been assessed earlier in the day and "did not fit the criteria" that the Mobile Crisis Unit has for declaring someone in need of an assessment. Since he was thought to be on illegal drugs, the Mental Health Unit people were not able to offer services. It is shocking that the services we do manage to provide in this town do not recognize the fact that people with untreated mental and physical issues tend to self medicate with alcohol, legal and illegal substances. The Mobile Crisis Unit folks should be very glad that the man only punched someone and did not do more (preventable) harm to the woman.
We need a new way to deal with increasing numbers of people with various kinds of mental health issues. There have been discussions about of the use of spit hoods, "control holds", and training materials that advocate the "swarm" technique when trying to manage a resistant person. We have to re-envision and civilianize mental health care. Leaving police the task of providing mental health care to our community is a mistake.
Change must happen. Berkeley Copwatch along with some of Kayla Moore's family members, mental health providers and others are sponsoring a public workshop to air some of these issues and to seek proposals for alternatives to calling police when a loved one is suffering from a breakdown. All members of the public are welcome. The event is "Cops or Counselors: The Crisis in Mental Health. It will take place on May 30th at 7pm at East Bay Media Center, 1939 Addison Street, (Between MLK & Milvia), Berkeley. We encourage you to share your thoughts, stories and ideas for how to help Berkeley to regain its reputation as leader in the struggle for the rights of people with mental and physical disabilities.


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ST. PETERSBURG -- A Mariners team looking to add offensive punch found a perfect match in Thursday's First-Year Player Draft, landing San Diego prep standout Alex Jackson with the sixth overall pick in the first round.
Jackson is a right-handed power hitting catcher/outfielder from Rancho Bernardo High School who was regarded by many as the premier offensive player available in this year's Draft.
ST. PETERSBURG -- A Mariners team looking to add offensive punch found a perfect match in Thursday's First-Year Player Draft, landing San Diego prep standout Alex Jackson with the sixth overall pick in the first round.
Jackson is a right-handed power hitting catcher/outfielder from Rancho Bernardo High School who was regarded by many as the premier offensive player available in this year's Draft.
General manager Jack Zduriencik said Jackson would be put initially in the outfield once he signs, and Jackson didn't sound bothered by that idea.
"That's one of those things where I just want to get out and play baseball," the 18-year-old said on a conference call with reporters from his home in San Diego. "Whether it's in the outfield or behind the plate, I just want to play."
Jackson last played outfield on a regular basis in his freshman year of high school and then moved primarily behind the plate when that position opened up at his powerhouse prep program. He played one game in the outfield this season and has played some there on summer league traveling teams, as well as third base on occasion.
But what jumps out at everyone with the youngster is his bat, which is what caught the Mariners' eyes as well.
"We've seen him play multiple positions, but we think down the road that outfield's going to be his best position," said scouting director Tom McNamara. "He's a pretty good catcher, too. He's an athletic kid. He can do a lot of different things. We like the bat."
"He has more power than anybody I've ever had, just raw power," said Rancho Bernardo coach Sam Blalock, who has coached eight first-round Draft picks and is the uncle of Hank Blalock, a third-round pick out of the same school who went on to a nine-year career with the Rangers. "He runs well, too, and has a very strong arm. He's quite a player."
Blalock said Jackson is such a developed hitter that he switched to a wood bat in midseason this year instead of the usual metal used by high school players and wound up hitting one of his most-prodigious pokes.
"Not too many people use wood bats in high school and he did for about five or six games before we made him go back to aluminum when we got toward the playoffs," Blalock said. "He hit a ball at Poway High that went probably 450 feet over the track onto their football field. It was a tape-measure blast with a wood bat."
And that natural power from a youngster whose 6-foot-2, 215-pound frame still figures to develop is why the Mariners are interested in moving him to the outfield, where they think his path will be faster to a Major League career.
"We think the bat's going to play quicker and that's a better way to get him out there," Zduriencik said. "Let him swing the bat and let him get transitioned to the outfield and go from there."
The Mariners already have one of baseball's top young catchers in Mike Zunino, their No. 3 overall pick in the 2012 Draft, but they have a definite need for right-handed power hitters, particularly in the outfield.
"He's a good-looking kid. He's got an outstanding arm," Zduriencik said. "He could catch if we wanted him to catch -- he could do that. I do think that in the scenario here, with a young catcher in the big leagues with us now, this kid's bat potential, the fact that he throws so well, he's got a terrific arm, I think let the bat do the talking for him. He can always go back behind the plate, because he does have the ability to play there."
Blalock had another first-round Draft pick in catcher Scott Heard -- the 25th overall pick by the Rangers in 2000 -- but says Jackson is the best backstop he's had and believes he could stick at that position if given a chance.
"He caught for us the last three years and each year he progressed," Blalock said. "This year he was very impressive. He had two passed balls all year. He really improved his blocking, his throwing, his release times. Travel teams always put him in the outfield at first because his bat was ahead [of his defense], but I don't know if that's still true. I really think he's the best catcher we've ever had."
Jackson is being advised by agent Scott Boras and has the option of going to the University of Oregon, where he has accepted a scholarship offer. But a No. 6 pick currently slots at about $3.5 million in baseball's allotment system and Oregon coach George Horton acknowledged to the Oregonian newspaper that Jackson likely will go pro in this scenario.
Boras is known as a tough negotiator and Jackson said he had "no idea" when asked about his timetable to make a decision, but the Mariners are confident he'll see the value in getting his professional career underway.
"I think he wants to play," said Zduriencik. "Any time you take a high school player, you always have that. But I think when you take a kid this high, how many opportunities does any player, anywhere, ever get to be taken in the Top 10 picks of the Draft? How are you going to better yourself? I do think his desire is to play pro ball."
And Jackson was certainly soaking up his new situation shortly after hearing his name called by Commissioner Bud Selig on MLB Network.
"It's one of those feelings that are hard to explain in words," Jackson said. "The emotion that runs through your body, the time to share with family and friends, it's an honor to be considered with other top players in the Draft. I just feel truly blessed."
His prep coach said Jackson generally is a player who does his talking with his bat.
"He's more of a quiet kid, not real vocal," Blalock said. "He has a real relaxed disposition when he's not competing. He's not the fieriest guy, not a cheerleader, he's a very calm person on the bench and just rests and focuses. And when he plays, he plays hard."
And most importantly, by all accounts, hits the ball hard as well.
The Draft continues on Friday with Rounds 3-10, with the Mariners selecting sixth in each of those rounds. The MLB.com pre-Draft show begins at 9:30 a.m. PT, with exclusive coverage of Rounds 3-10 beginning at 10 a.m. PT. The final 30 rounds of the Draft will be held on Saturday.
Greg Johns is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @GregJohnsMLB as well as his Mariners Musings blog.


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Go Viking: Fall 2011
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A Message from Rob Oliver, President of Augustana College
Like millions around the world, I was saddened to learn of the recent death of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.
Following his death, Jobs was hailed as a visionary – the leader of "… a cultural transformation in the way music, movies and mobile communications were experienced in the digital age …" according to the New York Times.
As I read the various eulogies of his life, my thoughts fell to early 2010, when Jobs – clad in his classic black shirt, blue jeans and sneakers – introduced a new device called the iPad during a high-profile product launch.
As he greeted a room filled with eager reporters, analysts, investors and tech gurus, he stood on a stage before two street signs – one read "Liberal Arts," the other read "Technology."
Apple, he argued, 'stood at the intersection of the liberal arts and technology.'
At the time, his remarks caused me to think about the idea of "intersections," and how they relate to what we do at Augustana.
In the wake of his death, I thought about it even more.
I believe that Augustana sits at the intersection of the liberal arts and life – unbinding, absolute, passionate, all-consuming life. What we do here – the broad-based knowledge our talented professors provide; the support and guidance offered by our seasoned residential life teams; the exposure and perspective gained through international travel; and the ideas that swell from a culturally and ethnically diverse campus – defines the liberal arts. After their time at Augustana, we believe that our graduates are well-suited to contribute and thrive in virtually any field because their foundations are strong – constructed with the materials deemed most durable for success in today's world: faith, history, science, literature, language and service.
This issue includes features on Augustana students and alumni who illustrate the idea of "intersection" in action – they are individuals from a variety of backgrounds and majors – but they all say the same thing: the liberal arts education they are receiving or have received here will help prepare them for where they want to go tomorrow.
David Wolter, class of 2004, is a great example.
David had planned on majoring in business but instead, pursued his love of drawing. He changed his major to art, developed a comic strip for The Mirror, the Augustana student newspaper, and recently landed his dream job as a story artist with Dreamworks.
"So many things [I learned at Augustana] dove-tailed nicely with what I'm doing now, such as "Creative Writing" with Dr. Patrick Hicks and "World Making" with Dr. Richard Swanson," he said.
I'm curious – have you, too, found yourself at an intersection yet? I'm hopeful you'll consider joining us at Augustana to learn where your life's path can take you.
Enjoy this issue!
Yours, for Augustana,
Rob Oliver


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The ETS Recognition of Excellence (ROE) Award honors test takers who achieve exceptional individual performance on selected Praxis® Subject Assessments. It is awarded to test takers who meet or exceed the ROE target score determined by the top 15 percent of candidates who took the test in previous years.
The ROE Award is an incentive to encourage the development of highly qualified teachers and should not be used as a criterion for making decisions about state licensure, hiring or promotions.
If your score is eligible for the ROE, you will automatically receive a certificate from ETS, and the award will be noted on all your score reports.
There are five Praxis Subject Assessments tests for which you can earn an ROE. Tests and their associated target scaled scores are as follows:
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|Biology: Content Knowledge (5235)
|Chemistry: Content Knowledge (5245)
|General Science: Content Knowledge (5435)
|Physics: Content Knowledge (5265)
|Social Studies: Content Knowledge (5081)
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Long exposure ND Filter
I had been wanting to take some more long exposure pictures in the daytime and knew that I would need a stronger neutral density (nd) filter to stop the exposure from being blown out. In the past I had used an 8 stop filter to capture water and this had been good for places where there was not much light however I knew the beach in the sunshine would pose more challenges.
below are 2 of the images I took using a an 8 stop screw on nd filter.
If you have not heard of a neutral density filter or are unsure of their function, these filters can be attached to a lens and allow longer shutter speeds to be used in the daylight.
I found a really interesting article from Digital Photography School which explains how to use a 10 stop neutral density (ND) filter to create a dramatic look to a photograph. —– click for the article here
In 2014 I took a family holiday to Newquay in Cornwall UK and had the opportunity to try out a (screw on type) 10stop neutral density filter when we went to Fistral Beach.
- Nikon d90 dslr
- 18-55mm lens
- Manfrotto Tripod
- Remote Release cable
- 10 stop neutral density filter (screw type)
The image below shows the waves that were present on that day at Fistral
I used an app on my mobile phone called 'ND filter calc' which allowed me to put in the camera settings I used for the picture above to tell me what I could use with a 10 stop filter
The app calculated that I was able to use the following settings:
- f16
- s30 seconds
With a few tweaks for the different angles I was able to remove the waves and show a mist which was created by the exposure time and made the waves look creamy.
The challenges I found came with attaching the filter and maintaining a sturdy base for my tripod when positioned in the water as the waves kept making the tripod sink.
Below are some of the images that I managed to get with the 10 stop filter
What are peoples thoughts on the 10 stop ND filter and is there a recommended brand?
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Supernova 1987A: January 5, 2003
Approximately 160,000 light-years (49 kiloparsecs) away
Roughly 9 arcseconds wide. At the distance of the LMC, this represents 9.5 light-years (2.9 parsecs).
The primary image released comes from ACS/HRC data from the HST proposal 10867: R. Kirshner (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics).
F435W (B), F555W (V), and F625W (R)
This image is a composite of many separate exposures made by the WFPC2 and ACS instruments on the Hubble Space Telescope using several different filters. Three filters were used to sample broad wavelength ranges. The color results from assigning different hues (colors) to each monochromatic image. In this case, the assigned colors are:
Blue: F435W (B)
Green: F555W (V)
Red: F625W (R)
NASA, ESA, P. Challis and R. Kirshner (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)


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CO2 Multi Absorber by Vital Signs Devices: Field Corrective Action - Loss of Anesthetic Gases, Ventilation and Oxygenation
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[Posted 01/01/2014]
AUDIENCE: Anesthesiology, Risk Manager
ISSUE: Vital Signs Devices, a GE Healthcare Company, has initiated a voluntary field corrective action of the disposable Multi Absorber Original after becoming aware of a potential safety issue due to air leakage associated with the CO2 Multi Absorber. The Multi Absorber Original may have a thin wall condition which may lead to small holes in the water (drain tube). This may result in a loss of anesthetic gases, ventilation and oxygenation.
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The shooting of a house in Sioux Falls' North End is under investigation.
Officer Sam Clemens says residents in the 1000 block of West 5th Street noticed a natural gas smell around 5:00 am Friday and went outside to investigate:
Clemens says some shell casings were found on the sidewalk near the house, but the residents have no idea who might have shot at their house. He says neighbors reported hearing the same "pounding" noise, but no one saw the shootings take place.


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Friday, December 2, 2011
Literary Agent v Literary Consultant: What each will do for you
If you are an author who would like to get published and get the best possible placement and deal, you should consider getting a literary agent... if you haven't already. Much like the agents that we've heard about in movies like Jerry Maguire or shows like Entourage, an agent is a person who agrees to act as someone's representative in getting them work, making deals, etc. A literary Agent is an agent that represents a writer for the purpose of selling their written work to publishers. More often than not an agent will start to work with a writer on a per project basis.
How do you know if you need one? Simple, if you want to sell your work to traditional publishers, you should know that they don't even consider work that isn't represented. So if that's your goal, that's your answer right there. But even those who are content selling to smaller publishing houses, need a good agent to help them in and along.
Note that 'smaller' does not mean that they are small. They are just not the top tier of New York houses. Having an agent will open doors for you and get your work looked at faster. An agent will not only have the contacts and know who to send your work to, but they are also likely to know who likes and is looking for the type of work that you have written. A good agent will have good insight about the industry's ins and outs, and a pulse on trends. An agent will be able to tell you that your manuscript is ready, well written, and interesting enough to be pitched. Although most agents don't have the time to edit work, many do have enough knowledge and insight to give you guidance on points that need to be polished before it can be sent to publishers. After all, they have read it, or should have, and they will undoubtedly have an opinion and will point out a couple of things in your no longer perfect work, even if they loved it. Or maybe that's just me, and my many opinions, but I doubt it :-) If the agent likes it, or you, enough to take it on, even if it isn't ready, then the agent can get you in touch with, or recommend, a consultant or editor to help you where help is needed.
When time comes to accept an offer, your agent will be best suited to explain the terms of your contract to you, to negotiate them for your, and to help you decide between publishers if you are talented and lucky enough, and your agent is good enough, to get you multiple offers. The more knowledge and experience the agent has at this, the smoother the process and the better the outcome. If your agent has some legal knowledge or contract experience, even better! I have to say that my years as a corporate lawyer in New York City have truly come in handy several times when drafting or reviewing contracts. The problem with lack of legal knowledge or experience with contracts is that the reviewer will tend to focus on the industry or money clauses, such as duration of the contract, royalties, advances, sub rights, submission of manuscript, editing, out of print reversion, authors use of work, etc., and may not even know that there is an issue with a guarantee, or non compete, copyright, venue, etc.
Contrary to popular belief however, most literary agents do not stay involved with the process past that. Only some agents continue to provide services after the book is sold. This is because when the book is sold it is now in the publisher's hands, and the author pretty much just does what the publisher and its editors tell the author to do, from edits to promotions; and agents only get involved if there is a problem with the terms of the deal that was struck, or if someone is behaving badly. Once in a while a client will come to me and say, when are we setting up the book tour? or they'll give me the info for the launch party and say, "how do we do a press release for this?" Unfortunately, publishers aren't helping authors with these things as much as they used to. So people are left with three choices, they have to take what they can get from the publisher and do the rest themselves, hire a publicist, or hire a book coach to teach them and help them to do it themselves. Ideally, I would suggest that you do all three.
There are gaps in the process. We can say - write a book, have it edited, find an agent, the agent will sell it, and then the publisher will sell to the public, and all you have to do is show up at signings. This couldn't be further from the truth. Sure, for some this simple plan works. But most people need help, direction, guidance, and advice. Even if you write a something and know that you need an editor, how do you find the right one? One that will actually help you and not take a Thousand dollars for reading your book and tell you that you need to work on showing and not telling. And once your ms is complete, how do you choose the right agent? How do you prepare the query? the proposal? or that dreaded synopsis?...
There is a lot of information out there to help with each of these, but it takes time to learn and to sift through the muddle until the necessary answers are found. This can be time consuming, frustrating and often expensive. This is where Literary Consultants come in. Many agents now a days, including myself, are thankfully starting to provide consulting services. Editors with publishing experience and agents are the best-suited folks to offer these services, because of their vast knowledge about everything that it takes to make a manuscript good, how to present it and pitch it, how to package it, and how to sell it. They have the contacts to get you the help and expertise you need for your particular project and are often able to match someone to complement your temperament.
A literary consultant can be an author's best and most useful guide through the entire process. Depending on the scope and level of expertise literary consultants can offer authors guidance, advice, and sometimes hold their hand to get help on anything from the creation and development of an idea, to writing, editing, pitching and promoting a book. Some of these consultants offer their own time and advice, and others have a team of specialized people to help you through each phase. So if you need help finishing your book and getting it ready for submitting it to an agent or publisher, you can reach out a literary consultant to get your work in the best shape it can be, then they can help you prepare your query letter, synopsis, outline, proposal etc. and they can help you chose the right agent for you and your work.
Once your work is agented, a consultant with the right experience and knowledge can help you start promoting your book by getting you ready and helping you develop a platform or following. A good consultant can facilitate the information and instruments for you to get your social media tools, book tour, blog tour, book launch, book reviews, contests, conferences, etc. set up before your book has even hit the shelves. Why do you need to do all of this work? If you want to have sales, you need to promote, and your agent and publisher will only help so much. Especially if you are not James Paterson (I think I saw him on TV and ads about 30 times during the few hours I actually watched TV during the Thanksgiving break). Most publishers, even the biggest ones, push their bestselling authors first. So it's up to you! And you want to generate as much buzz as possible so that the bulk of sales take place in a one to three week window. This is how you get on the bestseller lists!
I have a strong suspicion that if you're reading this, and you're an author that wants to get published, it would probably make you very happy to become a best seller. So go get the help you need, if you need it! But remember to be careful before hiring someone to provide these services. See if you can get recommendations from someone that has used them. Talk to them extensively and make sure that you know what you're getting for your money. Remember that an agent should not be charging you reading fees. But if an agent is offering consulting services that are specifically tailored to your needs, then it is ok to retain them to help you, as long as their representation of your work as an agent is not contingent on you paying for consulting services. In other words, don't pay them to represent you as an agent. Pay only for the help that you want and need.
So keep in mind that help is becoming increasingly available out there. Be smart and take advantage of the expertise that are available to you. The publishing industry does not have to be a frightening beast. Don't let the unique guidelines intimidate you. Get out there and network, and find the right team to help you.
Happy hunting!
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Great read Marisa.....and damned good advice!!ReplyDelete
Marisa, you're the best. Great post and helpful advice. Thanks!ReplyDelete
Excellent information for writers seeking acceptance by traditional publishers. What about all the others who choose to submit their work to small, e-book only publishers, rather than fight for the cherished few new-author contracts in the traditional publishing industry each year. These writers often have no agent because the smaller publishers allow direct submission, or they lack confidence to approach agents. How can these people benefit from consultant services?ReplyDelete
Also, the hardest part of finding credible consultants is distinguishing competent and experienced services, from the myriad of offerings that serve only to separate hopeful writers from their cash. Yes, I speak from experience, having once paid a "professional" editor to review a manuscript and getting ripped off. How would you suggest aspiring authors go about the search for quality advice and guidance?
Wow Dean, Thanks so much for posting this! The answer, I'm afraid a lengthy. As an attorney, an agent and an author, you can imagine that can be a little long winded sometimes. So I will, with your permission, use your question in a new blog post and will answer it in detail. Good Questions!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 2, 2011 at 2:02 PM
Marisa, this is really great information for not just the authors but also their spouses. We can get frustrated with how long the process takes because we don't understand the steps.ReplyDelete
Thank You.
Marisa, Thanks for this information. It's really helpful to not just authors but for their spouse's. We sometimes get frustrated because we don't understand the steps involved in the editing and publishing process.ReplyDelete
Thank you,
- Dean SaultDecember 2, 2011 at 2:25 PM
Sure, feel free to use anything I post if it will help my fellow writers. All I ask in return is homemade chocolate covered eclairs from your pastry-chef husband when we finally meet one day.ReplyDelete
Wonderful post Marisa! Thank you so much for taking the time to give us this information. The more I go into this journey on becoming published the more I realize I don't know as much as I hoped.ReplyDelete
I do hope to be published and I will bookmark this page for future reference.
Great post, Marisa. I am wondering if you have any advice for authors like me. I'm a successful self-published author who recently was approached about selling foreign translation rights. Do you feel this is something that is better negotiated through an agent or a lawyer and, if so, how would an author find the right representation if they've never worked with an agent before.ReplyDelete
Wonderful post, Marisa. On such a journey, writers need support like this. Thanks for all your info and insight!ReplyDelete
I had no idea. (And not for nothing, I love "long-winded".)ReplyDelete
Thank you for such a thoughtful share.
- Barbarann AyarsDecember 30, 2011 at 12:22 PM
Oh, bless you. All us babes in the woods thought it was all about the writing! This all sounds like slaying the dragon with a dull pen knife. But i, for one, need to know this stuff, written on the insides of my eyes. Thank you for so much info in terms that make sense.ReplyDelete


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So, as some have noted before, we have a problem with our featured articles. Namely, nothing can get promoted anymore because our system is clunky and outdated. Currently, in order to be promoted to featured status, an article must have five votes in favour of being promoted, with at least two votes coming from a group known as "Unspeakables." Of this group, The Department of Mysteries, two are inactive admins, one of which has made no edits in nearly three months, and another in over six months. Of the rest, another no longer edits all that regularly, one is a Wikia staff member and is no longer directly involved with much work here, and of course, well know Seth Cooper, but he can't do it on his own.
I think it's really time that we completely scrap the existing system and come to some sort of new way of promoting Featured articles, even if it's simply an admin choosing a new one once a month or so based on what looks like a good choice to them and is within the general guidelines of good style based on our policies. My vote, as I cast it, is Support. ProfessorTofty (talk) 02:37, December 9, 2012 (UTC)
- That's entirely true. The "Department of Mysteries" board seemed a neat idea at first (and it used to work alright), but I concur, the board has been left without activity for way too long, and that has left us without a regularly changing FA for... how long, now?
- What I think could be done is a) to replace the inactive "Unspeakables" with active admins (which, I think, could be a good start, but not a very proactive solution: by itself, it has the potential to generate the same sticky mess we are currently in, in the long run), and/or b) to remove that "all FA noms have to be approved by a quorum of at least 2 Unspeakables, with no objections from a panel member" codicil from Harry Potter Wiki:Department of Mysteries. That way, the "Department of Mysteries" board could still work to oversee the quality of the nominations but without the, frankly, somewhat abusive power that was making the system cumbersome.
- I also happen to like your idea (perhaps even more so; much less awkward and much more efficient), although I thought it for the best to have other ideas out in the open. -- Seth Cooper owl post! 22:53, December 10, 2012 (UTC)
- I think both are worth consideration. I like the idea of still keeping the community involved; it's just a matter of making sure people stay active in participating in the process. If that doesn't happen, we could resort to option two and just have admins make the pick. And yes, all of the other stuff too that you mentioned on my talk page - the DYK, featured images, everything. ProfessorTofty (talk) 03:07, December 11, 2012 (UTC)
- Seth's option B is I think the most optimal of what's been suggested so far. I really don't have any better suggestions than what's already been put up, myself. -- 1337star (Drop me a line!) 05:20, December 11, 2012 (UTC)
- Support for option B of Seth. This community is so great - how many per cent shall vote? When they vote! Harry granger Talk contribs 18:11, December 11, 2012 (UTC)
- Well, that's all of us in favour of Seth's option B, then. When I have a moment later on today, I'll go ahead and start getting things in order. As for the previous question, I think it's really just a matter, now that we're moving forward again, of promoting the process once again. So I'll be taking a close look at where things stand now and clearing out all of the old cobwebs. ProfessorTofty (talk) 18:44, December 11, 2012 (UTC)
- One other thing - I'd like to lower the threshold from five people having to support it to three. I think that's already the standard for normal voting anyway. If that seems like too little, then maybe four. Oh, and to the degree that Unspeakables are still a presence under this system, could I be an Unspeakable? ProfessorTofty (talk) 04:05, December 12, 2012 (UTC)
- You wouldn't get any opposition from me, on either case. -- Seth Cooper owl post! 19:24, December 12, 2012 (UTC)
- I agree with Seth Cooper. Harry granger Talk contribs 19:45, December 12, 2012 (UTC)
- Fantastic, thanks! I'll go ahead and get things moving, then! ProfessorTofty (talk) 23:03, December 12, 2012 (UTC)
- I know I'm far too late coming on with this, and I hate to interrupt, but I think it'd be a good idea to have an admin, a regular contributor, and someone selected as an "unspeakable", whatever that is... That way there'd be enough authority, but there would also be someone everyday and normal (not that admins aren't, just that everybody considers them a bit special). --Happy Christmas! (Season's Greetings) 23:12, December 12, 2012 (UTC)
- Well, that would be ideal, so I encourage everyone that's been reading to keep an eye on the Featured articles nominations and cast their votes, now that things are moving again. I'll be sorting out the page soon. ProfessorTofty (talk) 23:21, December 12, 2012 (UTC)
Stage two
At this time, I have gone ahead and promoted a number of articles based on the votes that were there. I also removed those that clearly hadn't gained support. However, because of the unique nature of the removal at this time, I have decided not to mark the talk pages of those articles with the {{failedfeaured}} tag that would normally accompany this decision. At this point, I have left three nominations on the page that at this point look like they might be good choices, but I think could use more input first. In the case of two of them, the nominator was Seth Cooper but, technically, as the nominator, he doesn't get a vote. However, Seth', if you could look over the pages again, I'd appreciate your thoughts on whether they qualify for featured status at this time. ProfessorTofty (talk) 02:12, December 15, 2012 (UTC)


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UPDATE: The Boulder County Sheriff's Department on Wednesday, Oct. 29 identified the victim as 18-year-old Dorothy Gay Howard. She left her family in Phoenix one month before her body was found nude and badly bruised at the bottom of an embankment in Boulder Canyon in 1954.
The turning point came in September when a woman who lives out-of-state contacted local historian Silvia Pettem and said she thought her great-aunt "Dot" might be Jane Doe. Pettem had been trying to identify Jane Doe for more than a decade and the relative had seen articles written about the case. Authorities were able to track down Katharine E. Dyer, a woman who they once believed could have been Jane Doe to Australia, where she was still living.
Authorities compared DNA from Howard with her sister to confirm her identity.
For Pettem, the revelation brought a mix of sadness, joy and relief. She hopes to raise money for a new headstone to sit atop Jane Doe's grave in Boulder's Columbia Cemetery.
Investigators said they would continue to investigate whether their theory that serial killer Harvey Glatman was responsible.
Name: Jane Doe
Hometown: Unknown
Agency: Boulder County Sheriff's Department
Date murdered: Body found April 8, 1954
Cause of death: Beaten
Suspect: Harvey Glatman
A young woman with a cloudy background, a suspect whose dark fantasies were rife with trussed-up and helpless women, a nude body flung down an embankment.
Those are elements of a mystery surrounding a woman found murdered in Boulder County in 1954 and buried under the name Jane Doe.
Boulder Sheriff Joe Pelle unveils the reconstructed likeness of "Jane Doe" in 2005. The likeness of the unidentified 1954 homicide victim in Boulder County was created by forensic artist Frank Bender. Denver Post file photo
It was another cold case on its way to being forgotten until Boulder historian Silvia Pettem pressed to have Jane Doe's bones exhumed in the hope that modern science could identify her.
In 2004, the Boulder County Sheriff's Office agreed to reopen the case if the exhumation could be done without taxpayer money. Pettem raised $3,500 in cash plus in-kind donations.
Now a forensic anthropologist has superimposed a photo of Katharine E. Dyer, who disappeared from a Denver boarding house on March 26, 1954, on a cast of Jane Doe's skull
The anthropologist couldn't rule out Dyer, which is good news to Pettem.
The sheriff's department is circulating a picture of Dyer, who was 27 when she disappeared from her home at 1118 Washington St., in the hope that someone will recognize her and add another link in a chain of evidence leading to an identity for Jane Doe.
Katharine Farrand Dyer in 1949
"Without knowing who the victim is, it is hard to pursue a homicide," said Boulder Detective Steve Ainsworth.
Now-deceased Boulder Sheriff Arthur Everson followed a host of dead-end leads in the hunt for Doe's killer.
The young woman's body was found in Boulder Canyon in April 1954. She was in her early 20s, detectives said, with strawberry-blond hair. She had been beaten to death, stripped naked and tossed off a steep embankment to the creek below.
When Everson learned that Harvey Glatman, an electrician who confessed to murdering three women in California, lived in Denver at the time Jane Doe was found, Everson's suspicions turned to Glatman.
Posing as a photographer, Glatman would lure women to model for him, frequently taking pictures that showed them bound and gagged. Some lived; some he killed.
He stashed all the pictures in a tool box.
Under questioning, he identified each of the women in the photos, giving police detailed information about them.
Everson asked the Los Angeles police to question Glatman about Jane Doe, who had perfect teeth and a scar from an appendectomy.
Four sets of photos showed women that Glatman met in Denver, Everson said.
"He knew a lot about these women. (The detective) pulls out another set of a woman tied up. Glatman said I don't remember her name, and I never saw her again."
Asked whether the Colorado women were alive, Glatman replied: "Unless they have been run over."
Forensic investigators who examined Jane Doe's skeleton found fractures that were consistent with being hit by a car.
Two other women that Glatman said he photographed here have never been found.
"I just don't think he started killing in Southern California. I think those were at least his second, third and fourth murders," Ainsworth said.
In Los Angeles, Glatman found women at lonely hearts clubs, told them he was a photographer who shot cover art for the crime magazines of the day and convinced them to model for him.
Frequently, he hired models from agencies, paying them $20 an hour.
When his murders made national headlines, it rang alarm bells in Colorado, where he had a record.
As a teen attending East High School, he had followed women he fancied to their homes, then entered through an open window or door. He carried a length of rope and a gun.
He tied and gagged his victims, then fondled them. But there was no rape, no murder.
Police caught him breaking into a Vrain Street apartment in 1945, and he confessed to a number of burglaries but said nothing about the women he molested.
While awaiting trial, he abducted a woman in Boulder, took her to Sunshine Canyon, then tied her up and fondled her, before taking her home.
She reported him, and at 17, he was sentenced to one year at Colorado State Prison.
After his parole, he moved to Yonkers, N.Y., and began plying a trade he learned in prison, repairing televisions. He committed more assaults similar to those in Colorado.
Busted again, he spent two years and eight months behind bars, some of it at Sing Sing. When he was released, he returned to Denver.
In 1954, Dyer was 27 and living at 1118 Washington St. A picture taken before she disappeared shows a woman with a perky smile, her eyes narrowed against the sun, wavy hair brushed back from her face.
Before she married Jimmie Dyer in 1949, she went by the name Katharine Farrand. Her marriage certificate gives her place of birth as San Antonio, Texas, but Pettem hasn't found any record of her in that city.
"She is quite a mysterious person. Even before she disappeared, there is not a whole lot known about her life. I think, for some reason, she didn't want to be found," said Ainsworth.
She was a blond who sometimes colored her hair. She worked at a soda fountain in Denver after moving here with her husband from Arizona.
At least once, the couple climbed one of Colorado's fourteeners together.
And just a block from the boarding house where she was staying after separating from Dyer was the Clara Lane Friendship Society, a franchised dating club, where singles sought a match.
"It is very likely she could have met (Glatman) there," said Pettem.
In reviewing photographs taken of Jane Doe's body, Ainsworth found what he believes is a ligature mark on her wrist.
He thinks Glatman took her to Boulder Canyon and parked on a pull-off close to where she was found. Then he did something that echoed an earlier abduction.
"He has her get in the back and get undressed as he did with the other woman in Sunshine Canyon, and somehow she gets loose and takes off."
If Dyer proves to be Jane Doe, investigators may be able to establish who her friends were, where she hung out and how she might have come into contact with Glatman.
"I am more certain that he is the killer than I am that Katharine Dyer is Jane Doe," Ainsworth said. "It isn't only proximity, it is his MO in the cases in California. He lived here, he abducted one gal in Boulder and took her up to Sunshine Canyon. How many people with this propensity would have been running around here in 1954? The answer is, not a whole lot."
Contact information: Anyone with information about this case is asked to contact Detective Steve Ainsworth of the Boulder County Sheriff's Office at 303-441-3627 or firstname.lastname@example.com/.
Note: This cold case entry was written by Denver Post reporter Tom McGhee. Contact him at 303-954-1671 or email@example.com/.


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CHUALAR, Calif. (CNN) — Sorry, but the crop circle discovered last week etched in a farmer's barley field in Chualar, California, was not created by aliens.
Instead — surprise! — it was a stunt intended to attract publicity to the release of a mobile processor used in automobiles, tablets and cell phones made by the computer graphics company NVIDIA, according to its president and CEO, Jen-Hsun Huang.
"It is true. The NVIDIA marketing team is behind this phenomenon," Huang said as he stood in front of a picture of the manicured field. "What you're looking at here is 310 feet in diameter. It is what people call a crop circle."
Huang made the announcement during a keynote address Sunday night at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
"It's like, out of this world, it's practically built by aliens," Huang said, referring to the new Tegra K1 graphics chip.
Brett Murray, who works as a marketer for the company, told CNN in a telephone interview that the idea emerged during a brainstorming session in early December about how to introduce the new product.
They came up with the tag line, "Impossibly advanced," then tried to figure out how to "get some noise" around it, he said.
From "impossibly advanced" to "aliens" was not a big leap. "We eventually said, 'You know, what's graceful and alien? Crop circles.'"
They then set to work, swearing everyone to secrecy, hiring a Hollywood location scout to find "the perfect field in Northern California," and flying in a British group who have made crop circles before.
Starting buzz for the creation, the company called anonymous tip lines for news stations in the Bay Area, telling them: "Something's going on out in Chualar."
A crudely made video also popped up on YouTube purporting to show two men — in reality, Murray and another NVIDIA employee — getting out of a car and looking at strange lights coming from the farmer's field and then stumbling toward them.
By the morning of December 30, the news trucks were rolling in and, with them, throngs of curious onlookers. The company hired security to keep them from trampling over the farmer's fields.
Murray described the crop circle as "a puzzle out there for the world to solve."
The puzzle included clues to who was behind it — for example, the number 192 is posted in two ways in the design — as numbers on a clock and as a Braille representation.
That's the number of graphical processing unit cores in the new chip. At least one person appears to have figured it all out. John Van Vliet posted this at 12:16 a.m. Wednesday, January 1, on doubtfulnews.com: "The crop art really dose (sic) look like a graphics GPU chip if i had to bet ... one of the NEW CPU/GPU combos from AMD or Nvidia or intell."
Murray said he understood why the story attracted so much attention. "This is like Santa Claus," he said. "People want to believe."
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I tried to take my mind off the horrible taste by making conversation as I took tiny sips. I asked about Mr. Bootyhole's work. He's a writer, he said, for all sorts of thing, and does some marketing, too. He did bring up writing for and helping produce an internet game (hah! He had NO IDEA I was a spy FROM that game!), but didn't elaborate, probably on purpose given its horrid nature. He specifically mentioned nothing about making a gimmick alt and finding work as a moderator there. Dastardly.
I asked about his home, and we talked about the housing market in both our cities. I accidentally mentioned that I lived at home with my parents, *and* that I'm 39 years old, but I made up a lie about having done that only to save up and buy a house, which I'd totally and triumphantly done at a steal of a price. He told me that his place was small, but that his home-town had ridiculously expensive properties. I just love how these elitist liberals find pbumive-aggressive ways to tell you how rich they are. It must be genetic. Again, he purposefully didn't mention anything about moderating Forumwarz from his home under the name MELLTD FACE. Grrr.
I asked about his education, and future plans. He mentioned the idea of going back to school for video game design, which I enthusiastically supported. Forumwarz community, you owe me if this game ever stops sucking as hard. He also said he loves his job and the people he works with. By this I knew he was referencing his relationship with Evil Trout. He did say "loves" with that certain erection-voice. But again, he did not mention also loving roleplaying as MELLTD FACE.
We continued to talk, me trying to appear more and more fruity in an attempt to get the information out of him that I wanted. At some point, I must have really gotten into the role: I found myself genuinely getting into the conversation and actually feeling good toward him.
After a while, I had to urinate fiercely and excused myself to do so. It was then that I checked my watch and realized we'd been talking for nearly three hours, and I'd actually started enjoying JB's company. I was terrified, obviously. So terrified, in fact, that I decided to abort the mission.
I returned to the table and made up a story about how I needed to quickly leave to get to IKEA before closing hours, to buy furniture for my fictitious new house. In reality, it was only a slight lie: I needed to get there for the all-you-can-eat Swedish Meatballs for $5. JB, being savvy, pretended to have a friend to go meet, too. I wondered if perhaps they were meeting to moderate Forumwarz as MELLTD FACE, but at that point didn't care anymore. I had started to like Jalapeno Bootyhole. I had to get the hell out of there.
We exited the building and started walking back toward Coon Square. I began to feel dizzy from the combination of heat and terror, and also what I started to realize was a mbumive caffeine and sugar hit from the Spunky Monkey ****. My body seemed to drag along at a snail's pace, never seeming much closer to getting away from the unforgivable situation. I prayed for deliverance.
God existed that day, for JB mentioned his "friend" again and said he'd catch a bus to go see "her" (lol) on the intersecting street behind us. We exchanged fond goodbyes and good-to-meet-yous, which at least were the least phony part of our day. After all, I was fondly saying goodbye and getting the hell out of three hours in which I did indeed inexplicably become fond of him, and I'm sure he was fondly looking forward to finding the weed, booze and gay hookers he was looking for. We parted ways and headed off. I was exhausted.
As I picked up my Lil' Rascal Obesity Scooter and entered my car, I thought that the day's efforts and frustrations and sheer terrors of enjoyment had all been for naught. I hadn't found out whether or not MELLTD FACE was Jalapeno Bootyhole. I thought that all the way back home and to my computer, where I logged into Forumwarz. I thought it as I started summarizing my day in this post. But then I had an idea.
I looked through Melltd Face's post history, and found one, "Posted On: 08/07/2010 6:35PM." Converted to my local time, this is 5:35PM.
I checked my watch again, as well as the detailed diaries I'd kept. I'd physically been with Jalapeno Bootyhole from 3:45 to 7:15PM, and he hadn't left my sight or done anything on his cell phone besides what looked like reading Jezebel.com, a feminist blog.
In short, Jalapeno Bootyhole could NOT be MELLTD FACE. MELLTD FACE posted at 5:35PM. I was with Jalapeno Bootyhole, in person, the whole time.
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MELLTD FACE isn't who you think it is, and I have proof. Investigative report inside.
Our starting point approached, and we met and pbumed it on our way down the other stretch of the street's artistic tent-chain. I was dying from the heat, and sweating rivulets of gooey salt which were pooling under my ample pannus. No, I'm not talking about my genitals, you perverts; look it up. It's a medical condition, okay?
It was ridiculously hot. We both wanted food and drink, and conversation at this point was either nonexistent, or too liberally boring for me to remember, or about finding food and drink. But it was too hot to move very fast, and , of course, we had to keep pretending to appreciate the art as we walked. It took us perhaps a half an hour to reach the far end of the last of the art displays and a few booths and restaurants that looked to contain food, but either at too expensive a prices or looking not trendy-hippy-bull**** enough to enter. Obviously, neither of us could enter a bar and grill or pizza joint; he because he was genuinely pretending to be pretentious, and me because I was just pretending to be pretentious. Oh, look, that art over there. We like that one.
It was the end of the line, and I, for one, had no more energy left in me to go and look in other tents on other sides or down other roads. It just isn't true what they say about fat being a store of energy, damnit. JB was thirsty for booze and weed or booze-flavored weed, and gay hookers, I guess, but mostly we were just desperate for any food or liquid. After frantically looking around for somewhere to pretend I'd known about all along, a near-perfect little shop arrived, dues ex machina. A coffee house. A little one. With tea and all sorts of Eurotrash-sounding coffees. And cakes. Holy ****, cakes. JB couldn't turn this down. I mean, he wanted booze, caffeine would be good enough. As for weed and gay hookers, he could probably find that in the bathrooms.
"Let's go in here, sound good?" I asked JB, who agreed, but needed some time to browse… shoes. No comment. Anyway, he suggested I find a seat, and he'd join me.
A half hour later or so, JB pranced into the comfy-trendy little place with three large bags hanging limply from his wrists, all full of shoes. I stared; he noticed. "Shoppiiiiiiiiing!" he exclaim-explained. I headed to the front desk to order whatever the hell I thought people at coffee houses ordered. I waved JB in front of me, so I could observe his picks.
Something called an "iced chai" was Bootyhole's pick, and that sounded pretty gay. I was hungry, and ornery, and hot, full of pit-sweat and generally wanting to off myself after so long hanging around with the guy. Still, I hadn't found out the mystery of MELLTD FACE's modship yet. I couldn't quit now. I put on the charm… hard.
In a moment, I found myself choosing from a black marker-board predictably scribbled with effeminately-written menu items. I chose the absolute most fruity thing I could find. I found myself uttering the words, "I'll have a Spunky Monkey" to the token ethnic waitress. I figured the name and my choice of it would naturally attract JB to me, so I could get down to my detective business.
We waited, mandatorily bobbing our heads to the house "music," for our items: me, a fudge cake and the Spunky Monkey, he, the iced chai. Eventually they came, and we sat in a cushy booth. It was time to talk. Time to get to the bottom of this all. Time to really see whether or not Jalapeno Bootyhole was responsible for yet another travesty, and maybe uncover some other dirt. All of this, over drinks.
JB sipped his "iced chai" and seemed to like it. As homosexually and pretentiously as I could, I slurped my Spunky Monkey, which turned out to be aptly named. It was the milk color and gooey consistency of jism. It could literally have been monkey jism, bumuming said monkey had eaten about ten thousand of the most over-sugared banana splits ever. I could faintly taste coffee in the thing, but mainly, it was eye-wateringly sweet. Somewhere inside my body, I heard my diabetes scream.(view post)
MELLTD FACE isn't who you think it is, and I have proof. Investigative report inside.
Jalapeno Bootyhole and I walked out of the mall together and into a swelteringly hot street full of people who smelled of suntan lotion, incense and marijuana. JB must have smelled it, too, as the first thing he asked me during our time was, "Hey, do you know where I can find some weed and booze?" I mumbled something about not knowing but expecting to find alcohol somewhere ahead, trying to continue the charade of actually knowing where the **** I was. He seemed at least temporarily pacified by my answer, but then asked another.
"Ah. Well, how about some hookers? … Gay… ones?" He looked me in the eye, seeming to probe for my reaction. I stared back blankly. Quickly, he interjected. "Ha ha ha," he nervously laughed, aggressively (or so I hope to this moment) patting me on the shoulder. "just jokin'! So, this art is pretty nice stuff, eh?"
JB and I walked slowly down a straight urban avenue lined on both sides by white tents containing various overweight and/or overly-mustachioed artists and their work. I made small-talk as we walked, and he generally replied with all sorts of completely uninteresting stories of his experience being in the area, of the Beatnik Smackdown (he could not shut up about this, and I wished I'd come up with a better, less-lame topic with which to start our encounter), being in Canada, etc.
We both variously pretended to have an opinion of some of the art on exhibition as we walked along, eventually getting to the end of one end of the street on which the Art Fair was laid out. We looked around, a bit bewildered by the abrupt end of the exhibits. I, however, had to pretend I knew what I was doing, so simply said, "I'm hungry." Well, I was. I'm a big man, damnit, and I like my food. Luckily, JB was, too. He again asked where weed and booze might be, but this time also commented about wanting food.
As we turned to go back down the street from which we came, JB spotted a stand called "Simply Nuts and More," and seemed drawn to it. I presumed he was drawn to the presence of the word "Nuts," and was proved correct after he purchased a large handful of what he called "Pray Lines," which I knew as "Prayleens." I made a mental note to call him an idiot for that later, but ended up much chagrined by learning that it's actually pronounced "Prah Leen." **** us both. Anyway, he quickly told an anecdote about how a friend had told him to eat his nuts. The man wasn't even trying to hide his tendencies, and I was, to him, a total stranger! Damning evidence.
We made our way back to our starting point, now both sweating from the urban heat: me from being husky and plump in the hot weather, he, probably, from being around what seemed like an endless flow of obviously homosexual men in the crowd.
We pretended to like yet more art, and walked some more. Once, JB asked permission to pop into a spice store, explaining that he had to bring home, to Canada, some gifts for his "friends." Of course, he came out with nothing.(view post)
MELLTD FACE isn't who you think it is, and I have proof. Investigative report inside.
As I opened my eyes from a pained wince (which I faked, totally), the pomade-topped face of JB hovered worriedly over me. In a maddeningly soothing, over-educated voice that could only belong to a poet, polished through decades of talking to oneself in the form of imaginary Shakespeare characters as friends, he cooed, "Are you okay, eh, buddy? " Perfect. Then was my opportunity; for the first time, I spoke to Jalapeno Bootyhole. I spoke to him in the gayest, most conceited Ivy-league-hipster voice I could muster.
"What ho, good man, I seem to have tripped," I said, still lying helpless on my back. Appearing helpless, I mean. I can definitely get up off the floor on my own. Anyway, JB reached out a hand, as I knew he would, and hefted me with muscles obviously hewn from hours of squat-thrusts directly in front of a large mirror.
"There," he said. "You gonna be all right, man?"
The "man" part was obviously just to make himself sound cool, but I withheld my rage as I responded.
"Thank you for helping me up after surely tripping me on accident. You, sir, are a gentleman and a scholar." I knew the latter phrase would appeal to JB's internet-nerd self. I continued. "Your bumistance in my time of need was almost… poetic."
I allowed that word – poetic – to hang in the air like a snare, and JB walked right into it, as I knew he would.
"Hah! Well, I actually am a poet, if you want to know," he said, as I nodded, "and as a matter of fact, I'm going to the National Beatnik Smackdown finals tonight. I came all the way from Canada for it, even."
The way he emphasized "Canada" to make either the country, travel, or both sound important made me want to vomit. It may have also been due to eating twelve White Castle burgers an hour earlier. Still, I knew I had to continue…for the sake of the mission, and because I was hungry. If I vomited, I'd only get hungrier. I contained myself.
"Well, isn't that respectable of you! You seem like such a nice guy, sir, with great taste in culture and clothing alike. Are you here for the Art Fair, perchance?" As I spoke, JB didn't seem quite convinced enough of my [in]sincerity as I wanted. Quickly, I added, "… old bean?" It worked.
"Oh, actually, yeah, I am. You here for it, too?"
"Boy howdy. I mean, indeed yes. I know the fair well. In fact, as I strive to be an upstanding member of the art community by supporting these local artists. I come to this venue every year." JB seemed to be paying attention. "Say," I suggested, "What say you that I repay your kindness by showing you around?"
There was only a slight pause before the answer. "Actually, yeah, that'd be cool." And so our day began.(view post)
MELLTD FACE isn't who you think it is, and I have proof. Investigative report inside.
After another faked drunken "Urrmm, eh, wherrrre wurr I goin' tooooo?" call to a friend of JB's, I learned his whereabouts. He was on a metropolitan bus to – of course – an even more liberal area, a place so uppity it even dared call itself "Uptown." Where was he headed? Take a guess. I'll help you. Think of the gayest event that can take place in a city other than a Beatnik Smackdown. Got it? If you guessed, "an art fair," you win the prize. I was told Mr. Bootyhole was headed to the starting place for said Uptown Art Fair, a central urban mall called Coon Square. With a name like that, I knew it would either be full or devoid of darkies. I was correct.
After finding ample wide-stall handicap parking for me and my Lil' Rascal Obesity Scooter, I puttered past crowds of just about every color but black. White people sporting all manner of eye-burning hues of hippie and hipster and hip-hop and what-the-****-ever-word-with-"hip"-in-it colors shuffled past me with airy, purposefully-casual steps that seemed to drum out the word "omphaloskepsis" in Morse code. I neared the mall – which turned out to really be called Calhoun Square (whatever, I knew what it really meant) – and entered the heart of pastel-colored darkness.
I scooted past tables of overpriced "artistic" trinkets and other bull****esque bull**** and found a security desk, where I left my precious Lil' Rascal with the way-too-helpful staff, in an effort to appear as "normal" and charming as possible during my fast approaching and destined confrontation with Bootyhole. For that purpose I was wearing a too-tight blue mini-striped bumon-up that only partically covered both my pubic hair and ample stomach lard. Working up a lathery sweat in only a few hundred feet, I struggled on foot to a central area of the mall that could not be avoided on the path to the Art Fair and camped, as I do for hours a day in Team Fortress 2. I was waiting for JB.
After a couple minutes of wait and rest, clarity of mind returned and revealed a problem. Oh, ****! I had no idea what JB was wearing. I knew what he looked like: greasy Guido haircut, pierced ears, bulging man-mammary glands with artificially-hardened nipples, general hippie air of hippyism. But without knowing what he was currently wearing, I realized, I'd never find him in this sea of similarly-dressed fops. Being the brilliant tactician I am, I improvised and yet again called up one of JB's friends, this time from a payphone.
"Daaaaah, duuuuuude. Dissis JB. Eh? Uh. Question. I ah, got a littuh drunk an' puked all over mah shirt. Gotta buy new one. DARNIT EH! …-hic- You 'member what I'ze wearin?"
Oh, so simple – both the minds of his friends and my particular effort. Red LaCoste polo, and backpack full of gay porno mags and poetry binders. I had my target. Squeezed against a wall for both support of my mbumive girth and optimal stealth, I camped, waiting for Mr. Red Polo and Backpack.
Okay, so I admit I dozed off for a while and drooled on my shirt a bit. But I woke up without any bumistive devices, and did so just in time – it was perhaps fated – to spot a particularly fabulous person jaunt, which materialized into a shock of dark-brown pomade shaped like hair, atop a too-pretty face, which itself was atop a red polo shirt and backpack. It was Bootyhole Himself.
As JB neared the escalator, I burst forth in front of him with the sprightliness of Pillsbury dough escaping the over-compressed confines of its cardboard tube. Perfectly executing my plan, I purposefully fell to the floor like a bowl of Jell-O when I go into a temporary diabetic coma while having desert, pretending to have tripped – or been tripped – by JB, in an effort to pull at his hilariously naïve liberal sense of empathy. It worked splendidly.(view post)
MELLTD FACE isn't who you think it is, and I have proof. Investigative report inside.
Recently, the news of user "MELLTD FACE" being granted moderator status rocked the community. Many emotions burst forth from the ordeal, ranging from amusement to apoplexy, bemusement to rectal prolapse. Soon after, speculation began. Why did this happen? Just who was this "MELLTD FACE?" Among the most popular identity theories was this:
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Actually, MELLTD FACE can't be JB, and let me tell you why.
*puts on Detective Hat, and places Corncob Pipe in mouth. a puff is taken; it blows bubbles.*
As news of MELLTD FACE's moderatordom broke, I, too, suspected JB was behind the awful fiasco. After all, I'd long suspected him of being responsible for such other horrible things as AIDs, Darfur, and hit television show The Jersey Shore. I immediately began to do some in-depth investigative work. Just an hour ago, my labor concluded, I returned home from an entire day devoted to getting to the bottom of this boondoggle. Yes, I returned, and I returned with an answer. Here's how I did it.
JB, or Jalapeno Bootyhole as we all know him, has long foolishly made his name public. He is Mike "Double-D" Drach (pronounced by choking and gagging on the –ch, as he does on so many other things, hint hint), and it is known that he is a damn dirty Canadian.
Using the above info, I was able to, with surprisingly trivial effort, gather yet more information about him: his hometown, his phone number, his address; his family, his Facebook and MySpace friends (oh yes, he DOES have MySpace, and it is AWFUL); his likes and dislikes, habits and addictions; even his employment history (or lack thereof.) With all this information on hand, I set out to find his current and future whereabouts. It was easy.
What few friends of his I uncovered had easily-accessible contact info. I used this to make a few telephone calls to them, using hacked Skype to spoof my Caller ID. My ploy was simple but brilliant: I simply imitated the most drunken, incoherent, alcohol-dazed speech I could muster – apparently this is a common state of JB's – and peppered it occasionally with a sweet spice of "… eh?" I could tell that these friends immediately recognized me as Mr. Bootyhole, so I took the ruse to the next level: getting the info. Dear **** was it ever idiot-simple. All I did was drunkenly drool, "Eh man. Yyyyou rememmer whaar I wwwuusss gon' be t-t-t'tammarroooo? I furrgut." In no time, I had a list of places, dates and times JB would be. It wasn't my business, of course, but I made it so.
As it turned out, Bootyhole was due, that very next day, to head to across the border from Liberalistan to the midwestern United States for a "National Beatnik Smackdown." Research revealed that, yes, it was just as gay an event as it sounded. Beatniks from across North America were gathered in a corn-fed metropolitan city at a series of patchouli-reeking exchanges of fey, camp, and cliché "progressive" dialogue – mostly yelled, in invariably-failed attempts at presenting some semblance of masculinity. Like a moth to a dim bulb, it seemed that our favorite dim bulb on Forumwarz was drawn to gaiety. I decided to use this weakness to my advantage with Sir Booty.
I hopped in a car, and drove many hours to the area surrounding the National Beatnik Fest. Tired and weary, I scoped out the area: a couple of relatively clean, "forward-thinking" lesbian-sister-cities populated by a breed of people so engaged in the lie of appearing to be "nice" that ubiquitous smiles seemed permanently pulled by invisible marionette strings even in the most annoying situations. Citizens held doors open for the elderly, waited patiently in lines, respected personal space, did not talk loudly on cell phones, and apologized profusely when even so much as grazing one another in pbuming. In short, this place was populated by hippies. I could almost smell the liberal sap of Maple Syrup. Jalapeno Bootyhole was near.(view post)
I just thought I should let you know, I am soon to post quite possibly the most pointless, homosexual, most tldromfgay post ever to grace these forums.
No more than an hour from now, it'll hit… THE GAME DISCUSSION BOARDS. And it will stay there. I promise you. Because it's all relevant to the game. And it's ALL TRUE.
—Bashy(view post)
JB Presents a Contest for 100 BP: Transgressive Nanofiction!
"****in lil woman's genitals," he said to the girl, slapping her for crying. "Soon as you grow mammary glands an' have a baby, I'ma **** it too."(view post)
JB Presents a Contest for 100 BP: Transgressive Nanofiction!
Buried to its neck, the dog yelped in a frenzied panic over the roar of the lawnmower. As the blades dug in, the yelping ceased.(view post)
JB Presents a Contest for 100 BP: Transgressive Nanofiction!
The dog finished the remaining semen on his male reproductive organ. "You don't love me," said the man, as he grabbed the pup and snapped its neck.(view post)
Petition to remove Ricket as a moderator
Yo, I'm real happy for you, and I'mma let you finish that sentiment.(view post)


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Administrative Assistant New York City, New York $17.00
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Stephenson Memorial, Newcastle
John Graham Lough (1798-1876)
Bronze, on a grit-stone column and base
Neville Road junction, near Newcastle Central Station
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Photograph, caption, and commentary 2008 by Jacqueline Banerjee.
[You may use this image without prior permission for any scholarly or educational purpose as long as you (1) credit the photographer and (2) link your document to this URL in a web document or cite the Victorian Web in a print one. ]
John Graham Lough's memorial to George Stephenson, which stands near Newcastle's Central Station, is considered to be one of this sculptor's finest works. Born in the parish of Shotley, then just on the Northumberland border, Lough was a blacksmith's son who developed a passion for clay modelling, and was apprenticed to a stonemason. Eventually, he made his way to London where he struggled like the archetypal artist-in-the-garret in a rented room in Burleigh Street, just off the Strand. Here, to the consternation of his grocer landlord, he built a 9-foot high statue of the Greek hero Milo being savaged by a lion: he soaked strips of his shirts to keep the material moist, and ended up breaking through the ceiling with it. The feat brought him to the public's attention, and was later celebrated by fellow-Northumbrian artist Ralph Hedley, in an oil-painting now hanging in the Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle. Lough was helped greatly in his struggles by the patronage of the Ridley family, who had an estate at Blagdon in Northumberland as well as a house in Carlton Terrace in London. Indeed, having listed the Ridleys' various commissions, Benedict Read says: "As a record of patronage of a single sculptor, this has no equal" (140). Moreover, Read suggests that the public commissions of the Collingwood monument at Tynemouth, and the Stephenson memorial itself, were also gained by the Ridleys' patronage.
This memorial shows a larger-than-life Stephenson in a thoughtful pose, with a rolled plan in one hand. Four bronze figures are seated at the corners of the base. Of the two shown here, one (on the right) is an engineer resting his arm on a model of a steam engine, while the other, more muscular and classically-robed, is a blacksmith with an anvil. The other two figures, not visible from the front, are of a miner with a safety lamp (invented by Stephenson) and a plate-layer with a type of rail also invented by Stephenson. All the figures, to varying degrees, have a mix of classical and more modern elements — though the main figure's "toga-like scarf" has been described as a "Northumberland plaid" ("Monument to George Stephenson").
As this mixture might suggest, Lough can be categorised as a "transitional" sculptor. The term is applied to him by T. S. R. Boase, who believes that "Lough is, in his reactions to stylistic conflicts and in his final capitulation to the Gothic revival, one of the most characteristic figures of the period." Boase continues,
if he failed to produce any masterpieces, he at least made some stir in his own day. Springing from peasant stock, received as an artist into the aristocratic circles of the day, marrying much above his original environment, passionately single-minded and often unreasonably despondent about his own work, he is also a striking instance of the opening to the talents that artistic careers then provided. (277)
Tyneside residents might not be happy with Boase's verdict on the work, though. Lough not only made the headlines in his own time (the Literary Gazette, for example, hailed him in 1827 as an "Extraordinary Genius" [qtd. in Cooper 54]), but received a good deal of attention more recently, with no less than seven of his works, including a later bronze version of the Milo statue sited at Blagdon Hall, being featured in Benedict Read's widely-acclaimed and authoritative book on Victorian sculpture.
Hedley's painting, "John Graham Lough in His Studio," can be seen here. It is of wider interest, because it depicts not only the sculptor and his extraordinary project, but also Henry Brougham, the eminent lawyer summoned by the aggrieved landlord. Brougham was a major figure in the founding of the University of London, and later champion of the Reform Bill, and Lord Chancellor.
Boase, T. S. R. "John Graham Lough: A Transitional Sculptor." Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 23 3/4 (Jul.-Dec., 1960): 277-90.
Cooper, Kay. "Mighty Man of Stone." Tyndale Life (Spring 2008): 52-55.
Read, Benedict. Victorian Sculpture. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1982.
"Monument to George Stephenson." Viewed 23 March 2008.
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Just watched A Scanner Darkly, the Richard Linklater adaptation of the Philip K Dick novel. This movie is the final word on Keanu Reeves as an actor.
In the film, Reeves plays Bob Arctor, an undercover cop who sustains brain damage as a result of the drugs he takes. Unbelievably, Reeves plays the brain-damaged Arctor and the healthy Arctor identically. Reeves literally cannot tell the difference (or at least cannot act the difference) between characters with and without brain damage. If we note the fact that he plays Arctor the same way he plays Neo, John Constantine, Johnny Utah etc etc etc , then the transitive property of equality leads to the conclusion that Reeves plays brain-damaged characters as normal or the logically equivalent Reeves plays all character as brain-damaged.
This sounds like a cheap one-liner, and it is one line long; it might or might not be cheap, but it is literally true.
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Note on Keanu Reeves
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