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Friday, November 29, 2013
Congregations of the Dead In Stock and Shipping
The signed limited edition of the second collaboration by James A. Moore and me is available as of now.
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Konrath Crossovers
J.A. Konrath, author, E-book entrepreneur, and marketing genius is at it again. This time he's got what has to be one of the coolest ideas I've seen anyone do in a while He's letting other authors write in his universe, teaming their characters with his. If he likes the story he writes a second draft and publishes the team-up and splits the profits 50/50 with the other author. (He pays all publishing costs.) Why do I think this is a cool idea? Because Konrath sells a lot of books, so authors who are perhaps not as well known can get a boost by teaming up with him, and pick up other sales for their solo books from Konrath's fans. It's a smart way to use the way that Amazon sells E-books. You know, those recommendations and the thing that says 'people who bought this book also bought...'
Anyway, I found this out because I'd ordered one of the books from Amazon and backtracked to Joe's blog. The book I bought was called RACKED and it teamed Konrath's police detective Lt. Jacqueline 'Jack' Daniels with Jude Hardin's P.I. Nicholas Colt. I'd read most of the Jack Daniels books and just picked this new story on a whim. I really enjoyed the story and we know I'm a sucker for a crossover.
So after I read it, did I go and buy one of Jude Hardin's solo books? Yes, I did. And when Jude's novel, LADY 52, also written with Konrath comes out, I'll buy that too.
Intrigued, I decided to try a couple more of these crossover stories, STRAIGHT UP by Konrath and Iain Rob Wright, and JACKED UP by Konrath and Tracy Sharp. Both were fun thrillers and I'd definitely read books by the other author in both cases, plus any further team-ups with Konrath.
There are several more of these crossovers on the way, and I'll be checking them out. It's a good way to find new people to read and also to visit with Konrath's characters who I like. And I'm all for helping out new authors. So the next question is, am I going to write a story and send it to Konrath? The answer for the moment is no, mostly because I don't have a character that I think would fit his universe well, but hey, you never know.
If you want to read more about the Konrath Crossovers, swing by his blog here:
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Monday, November 25, 2013
Chinny chin chin.
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Sunday, November 24, 2013
Five Day Weekend
My workplace is closed Thanksgiving day and the Friday that follows it. I have taken off the preceding Wednesday. So I have a two day work week this week, then I'm off for five days. So next week is a reverse work week. Two days on and Five days off. I like it!
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The new collection of Robert E. Howard's Western stories actually has some stories that I haven't read.
And the other book is a history of Tarzan and other Edgar Rice Burroughs characters appearances in Big Little Books. All and all, a good week for stuff.
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Saturday, November 23, 2013
Four Color Conan: Meeting Mr. Smith
I discovered both the character Conan and the Conan comic book at the same time, with issue #36 of Marvel Comics' Conan the Barbarian. By that time the regular artist on the book was Big john Buscema, who remains my favorite Conan artist. I was totally unaware of the 24 issues (give or take a Gil Kane fill in) by the previous artist, Barry Smith. Didn't know a thing about his near legendary time on the book or his final famous issue, The Song of Red Sonja. No, my reading of Marvel Comics didn't get started until late 1973 and by then Barry was long gone.
The first time I ever laid eyes on Smith's art was in a reprint in the back of Giant Size Conan issue #1. The story originally appeared in Conan the Barbarian issue #3 and was called THE TWILIGHT OF THE GRIM GREY GOD.
I don't think I noticed the blurb at the bottom of the splash page that stated that the story had been adapted from Robert E. Howard's story THE GREY GOD PASSES. We'll come back to that in a bit.
No, what I noticed was Smith's portrayal of Conan, which was so vastly different from John Buscema's. Buscema's version was a hulking brute, where Smith's was more lean and youthful looking. The underrated inks of John's brother Sal Buscema also gave a smoother, more 'Marvel' looking finish to the art. It was a bit of a jolt after reading a half dozen or so current issues of Ctb, but I liked it. Fortunately for me, Marvel was doing a lot of Giant Size comics when I started collecting Conan, and there were plenty of back up feature reprints, so I got lots of chances to see Barry Smith's art without having to hunt down pricey back issues. One of the tabloid size treasury editions reprinted Smith's masterpiece RED NAILS along with an adaptation of what would become my favorite REH Conan story, ROUGES IN THE HOUSE.
But back to TWILIGHT OF THE GRIM GREY GOD. As I said, I didn't notice that the story was an adaptation. Hey, I was twelve and I'd never seen a book by Robert E. Howard. Howard's tale was itself a rewrite of an earlier historical adventure, SPEARS OF CLONTARF. When he failed to sell Clontarf, Howard rewrote the purely historical tale, adding a supernatural element so he could pitch it to Weird Tales. Having read both, I prefer THE GREY GOD PASSES, but that's just me.
Something else I didn't know at the time, but can see now, was that this story marked something of a turning point for Barry Smith in terms of his art. Smith, like most Marvel artists of the 1960s/1970s was working in the shadow of the King of comics, Jack Kirby, who really was the 'Marvel Style'. Smith had done a lot of super hero work in his quasi-Kirby style and his first two issues of Conan the Barbarian still have a certain Kirby-ness to them, right down to the omnipresent 'impact lines' and even some 'Kirby Krackle'. The figure work contains a lot of Kirby flourishes as well in the extreme foreshortening and the bulked up anatomy of a lot of the characters.
Issue three almost looks like a different artist. Though there are still one or two minor Kirby-isms, the figures have taken on more realistic proportions, growing leaner and more graceful. Smith's layouts, which always seemed to me to have a bit of Jim Steranko influence to them, are more interesting and varied than the previous two issues.
Smith's interest in classical art is beginning to show. Check out the panel reproduced below where the 'Choosers of the Slain' come riding through the clouds.
While you're at it, check out the dialogue.
"Now comes the reaping of kings..the garnering of chiefs like a harvest."
"Gigantic shadows stalk red-handed across the world and night is falling on Hyperborea."
Most of these words are Robert E. Howard's, though with slight changes. The original story was set in Ireland during the very real Battle of Clontarf, so Roy Thomas had to adapt the tale to Conan's Hyborian Age. He did his usual bang-up job. I think one of the things that makes the first 60 or so issues of Conan the Barbarian so beloved to readers is the internal consistency. Whether Roy was adapting an actual Conan story, rewriting a non-Conan REH yarn into a Conan tale, or spinning his own original story, the characters and the world all seemed to fit. I maintain that Thomas is at the top of the heap when it comes to Conan pastiches.
Anyway, that was my first look at the art of Barry Smith, now known as Barry Windsor Smith. It was amazing stuff and it would continue to improve by leaps and bounds as the series went on.
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Tuesday, November 19, 2013
Bad Times: Cannibal Gold
Four Days.
For the fight of their lives.
It was just a walk in the desert to a place 100, 000 years in the past.
They thought they knew what to expect but they were wrong.
Now a team of scientists is trapped in a world they were not prepared
for and can never return from.
Their only hope lies in quartet of former US Army Rangers willing to
travel to prehistoric Nevada and face unknown horrors and impossible
odds bring them home from Bad Times.
New York Times bestselling author Chuck Dixon presents the first in a new original science fiction series featuring the kind of action, breakneck pacing and suspense that millions of readers around the world have come to expect.
Following up on his Kindle sensation series of SEAL Team 6 books, Chuck creates a new cast of characters and a new universe of adventure starting here with Cannibal Gold.
Sounds pretty up an at 'em, eh? Now add the fact that the novella was written by one of my all time favorite comic book writers and this was pretty much a no-brainer for me.
In my posts about Dixon's run on Savage Sword of Conan I mentioned that he seemed to enjoy writing stories where Conan was part of a mercenary band. We get the same sort of camaraderie here. The former rangers are some bad-ass individuals and after a bit of a setback, trying to stick to the rules set them by the scientists who sent them back in time, they come back on their own terms and kick some serious butt. Nobody says 'Crom count the dead!' but it has the same sort of energy as Dixon's comic book work. This is the first time I've read any of Dixon's prose and it's very tight. Things move along quickly and there's plenty of attention paid to ordnance and tactics and such. If you like Military SF and enjoy a good time travel yarn, this one's for you. It's also the first in a series so more fun to come. Recommended.
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Sunday, November 17, 2013
Adept's Gambit. Now With More Cthulhu.
Okay, how cool is this? This volume is coming out from Arcane Wisdom:
I've heard about the original, more Lovecraftian version of Fritz Leiber's Adept's Gambit for years. Now I'll finally get to read it. And it's being published by Arcane Wisdom. You know who else is published by Arcane Wisdom?
Me. I have the same publisher as a new version of the very first Fafhrd and Gray Mouser story. I'm going to go sit down now.
"In 1936, the young Fritz Leiber wrote a 38,000-word novella entitled Adept's Gambit and sent it to his new correspondent, H. P. Lovecraft. The older writer was thrilled at this sprawling narrative that mixed fantasy, sorcery, and historical fiction, and wrote an enormous letter expressing his praise and pointing out possible points that needed revision. Overall, however, Lovecraft was enthusiastic: "Certainly, you have produced a remarkably fine & distinctive bit of cosmic fantasy in a vein which is . . . essentially your own. The basic element of allegory, the earthiness & closeness to human nature, & the curious blending of worldly lightness with the strange & the macabre, all harmonise adequately & seem to express a definite mood & personality. The result is an authentic work of art."
For decades, it was believed that this version—which contains small but significant references to Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos—was lost. But the manuscript has recently surfaced, and it is now being published for the first time. This version differs radically from the later version published in Night's Black Agents (1947), and represents a landmark in the development of Leiber's fantasy career. As the first Fafhrd and Gray Mouser narrative, it will be of consuming interest to all devotees of Leiber's work.
This edition contains the complete, unabridged text of "Adept's Gambit," along with the complete text of Lovecraft's letter commenting on it, as well as an introduction by S. T. Joshi providing background on the writing of the story. In all, this volume will find a cherished place among devotees of Fritz Leiber and H. P. Lovecraft. "
I've heard about the original, more Lovecraftian version of Fritz Leiber's Adept's Gambit for years. Now I'll finally get to read it. And it's being published by Arcane Wisdom. You know who else is published by Arcane Wisdom?
Me. I have the same publisher as a new version of the very first Fafhrd and Gray Mouser story. I'm going to go sit down now.
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Tarzan's Hollywood Adventure
Something that would probably surprise a lot of people who haven't read much Edgar Rice Burroughs is that the creator of Tarzan of the Apes and john Carter of Mars had a very sly sense of humor and it shows up throughout his novels. I was reminded of it this evening while doing a reread of ERB's 1934 novel, Tarzan and the Lion Man.
Lion Man isn't a favorite, primarily because it's a book that seems to feature Tarzan almost as a guest star. Large portions of the book follow the cast and crew of a movie company who have traveled to Africa to shoot a movie about an ersatz Tarzan who was raised by lions. Tarzan shows up every few chapters, but I'd say he's in less than half the book and the other characters aren't really that interesting.
Things get a bit more entertaining in the second half of the book when one of the movie crew is captured by some apes who speak English and taken to the domain of the Dr. Moreau-like mad scientist who created the mutant apes. But even then we don't get much Tarzan.
BUT the last chapter of the book is fantastic. Functioning as an epilogue, the last chapter is sort of a mini adventure where Tarzan travels to Hollywood to see what has become of the survivors of the doomed Lion Man crew. He visits the Brown Derby, attends a movie premiere, and ends up at a Hollywood party where he is 'discovered' and offered a part in, wait for it, a Tarzan movie. But when he goes in for a screen test the director declares that he's not the right type to play Tarzan. He does offer him a part as a cowardly white hunter though. I got the idea Burroughs was having a lot of fun writing this sequence.
I did note that after Tarzan gets fired from the movie for killing a lion that had gone berserk (He saved several lives but he cost the studio a lot of money) that ERB said he stayed in Hollywood another week before taking the shortest route back to Africa. Tarzan in Hollywood in 1934. The possibilities for pastiches are not lost upon me.
Anyway, not a great book, but that last part was worth showing up.
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Saturday, November 16, 2013
This Looks Like a Job For...
Many years ago I was in a local mall and I happened to be wearing a blue shirt with a Superman insignia. A woman walked past me with her small son and the kid suddenly darted over to me and motioned for me to bend down so he could speak to me. I leaned down and he whispered, 'You forgot to take your glasses off."
Took me a couple of seconds to realize what he meant. Then I put a worried expression on my face, snatched my glasses off, and stuck them in my pocket.
"Thanks,' I told him. "I'm glad you warned me."
The kid grinned and ran back to his mom, who was also grinning. I gave her a nod and walked on. The kid went home that day happy that he had helped Superman preserve his secret identity. That was a good day.
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Thursday, November 14, 2013
The Colossal Conan is, Well, Colossal.
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Frankenstein Meets Cthulhu?
Turns out that Cooper was the creator of the famous radio Horror series LIGHTS OUT!, and that he had been interested in horror for a long time. As early as 1932, he had created and written for a radio program called THE WITCHING HOUR. The first episode of this short lived series was apparently so scary that the series was briefly canceled and then returned in a toned down form.
In 1934 Cooper created LIGHTS OUT! for which he wrote many of the scripts and sometimes even directed the episodes. One wonders if Cooper just enjoyed reading horror, or if he came across Lovecraft while looking for stories to adapt for his series. (He'd have been disappointed in this, since HPL didn't release radio adaptation rights to his stories.) In any case, it explains how he could have known about the Necronomicon long before Cthulhu became a household word. Here's the part of the script with the Necronomicon:
at the bookcase. He fingers the books on the shelves.
(over his shoulder)
Even my father's books haven't
been disturbed.
(he blows at them; a small
cloud of dust arises)
(he touches the books
as he names them)
Agricola's De Re Metallica... the
Necronomicon ... Roger Bacon ...
(he shuts his eyes as he
touches one book after
another, naming them)
Euclid ... Paracelsus...
FitzJames O'Brien ... Avicenna!
(as he speaks the last
name, he pulls the book
from the shelf, opens his
See -- I haven't forgotten!
Pretty interesting, eh? I've lost count of how many scenes I've seen like this in various Cthulhu mythos pastiches, where one or more of the blasphemous books of the mythos get a mention in passing. Written a couple myself, come to think of it. The article goes on to say that the script was virtually ignored by the director, so this and many other things never made it into the movie. Too bad. Would have been cool to have something of Lovecraft's mentioned in the movies that early on.
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Tuesday, November 12, 2013
Well, once again I have let the anniversary of Singular Points slip past me. I started blogging on November 1st, 2006 and here I am some seven years later, still at it. The post that preceded this one was the 200th post for this year, so obviously I still have a lot to run on about.
The content of the blog has changed somewhat over those years. People have pointed out that I don't talk about my day to day life as much as I used to. That wasn't really a conscious decision, just kind of the direction in which things drifted. I still review a lot of books, movies, comics, TV shows, and what have you, which was the original purpose of this blog.
I'm also on Facebook now, which is where some of the short 'sound bite' posts that used to be here appear nowadays. I'm barely on twitter, but now and again I tweet something. I link most of my longer posts to Facebook, which has brought the blog a lot more traffic.
But I'm still a blog guy. I like the space to ramble on about whatever I'm interested in, which I don't really find on other social media. I've met a lot of nice folks through the comments and those people have recommended many books and films that I otherwise wouldn't have discovered. After all these years this is still a fun place to hang out.
The content of the blog has changed somewhat over those years. People have pointed out that I don't talk about my day to day life as much as I used to. That wasn't really a conscious decision, just kind of the direction in which things drifted. I still review a lot of books, movies, comics, TV shows, and what have you, which was the original purpose of this blog.
I'm also on Facebook now, which is where some of the short 'sound bite' posts that used to be here appear nowadays. I'm barely on twitter, but now and again I tweet something. I link most of my longer posts to Facebook, which has brought the blog a lot more traffic.
But I'm still a blog guy. I like the space to ramble on about whatever I'm interested in, which I don't really find on other social media. I've met a lot of nice folks through the comments and those people have recommended many books and films that I otherwise wouldn't have discovered. After all these years this is still a fun place to hang out.
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Sunday, November 10, 2013
Karl Edward Wagner Speaks
I'd never heard Karl Edward Wagner's voice until today. Here he is on a panel with Stephen King, Charles Grant and other horror writers. Kind of wild to finally hear what KEW sounds like after admiring him all these years.
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Saturday, November 09, 2013
Getting Things Off to a Fast Start
A friend of mine, who wanted to write some short stories, asked how I always seemed to get my stories off to a fast start. I told him "Start in the middle of someone Else's story and have your hero wander into it." This is a trick I learned from a comic book writer named Gaylord Dubois and I've used it in many a short story and one novel. Dubois reportedly wrote over 3000 comic books in his career and I've certainly read hundreds of them because he was the main writer for Tarzan at Dell and Gold Key. He also wrote a ton of Dell Westerns and I'm going to use one of those to show what I'm talking about. This story is from the Dell Gene Autry comic, issue #100.
The opening page shows Gene on top of a ridge, looking down at a bunch of bad guys attacking a wagon. Gene rides down, guns blazing, and scatters the outlaws. Not only does this get the story off to a fast start, it also establishes the character of the hero. He's brave, capable, and on the side of the underdog.
Page two actually gets the plot running as Gene rides down to see the folks he rescued. We learn a bit more about Gene. He knows field medicine and is cool in a bad situation. And the rest of the cast is introduced in a natural way.
The opening page shows Gene on top of a ridge, looking down at a bunch of bad guys attacking a wagon. Gene rides down, guns blazing, and scatters the outlaws. Not only does this get the story off to a fast start, it also establishes the character of the hero. He's brave, capable, and on the side of the underdog.
Page two actually gets the plot running as Gene rides down to see the folks he rescued. We learn a bit more about Gene. He knows field medicine and is cool in a bad situation. And the rest of the cast is introduced in a natural way.
And with page three, the other main characters of the story tell Gene who they are and what they're doing out in the wild. It doesn't feel so much like exposition because they're not telling the reader, they're telling Gene. Now we have the necessary info for the plot and Gene's already involved. That's what I mean by starting in the middle of someone Else's story. The story ultimately isn't about gene Autry, but about the people he's trying to help. So if you're having trouble getting a story off to a quick start, remember how Gaylord Dubois did it. Works for me, anyway.
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Friday, November 08, 2013
The Colossal Conan
Now here's the deal. I own the original comic books where these stories were published. I own the smaller hardback collections of the stories. I already have all of this material save the new cover and some essays by writers Kurt Busiek and Timothy Truman. I do not in any way, shape or form NEED this book.
Ahem. So yeah, I'm getting the book.
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Tuesday, November 05, 2013
Attack of the Disney Princesses
Another point that was made to me was that Disney is apparently shoehorning as many of their characters into the series as possible, whether it make sense or not. This particular point was brought home the other night when I watched an episode that featured central character Emma Swan teamed up with Aurora from Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, and Mulan. I mean, how many princesses do you need in one episode? And I left out Beauty and the Beast's Belle, who was also in the episode, just not part of the princess strike force. I'm steering clear of spoilers for the current Season, but I did see that Tinkerbelle has shown up, as well as Ariel the Little Mermaid. (From stills I've seen of Ariel in costume she ain't so little anymore. Ahem.)
Anyway, I'm still enjoying the show, but it does have a very different vibe in Season 2. I do like the focus on alternate realities and the points where they cross. It's been determined that fictional characters from worlds other than the Fairy Tale realm can show up in Storybrooke. Doctor Frankenstein, for instance. Oh. And I'm not seeing nearly enough Evil Queen in these episodes, ABC.
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Saturday, November 02, 2013
Longarm and the Devil's Bride
Sat down with Devil's Bride and really enjoyed it. It starts out like a crime story in Western duds with deputy U.S. Marshall Custis Parker Long, aka Longarm, being assigned to look for a young woman named Angela Boothe who has gone missing in Kansas City. Longarm takes an all night train to Kansas but when he arrives the local law enforcement is little help and no sooner has he begun to nose around than somebody tries to kill him for his troubles.
But Longarm isn't easy to kill and he's soon back on the trail. Worth mentioning is that author Reasoner has written quite a few mysteries as well as Westerns so the detective work here has an authentic feel to it. Longarm has to do some deductive reasoning to get on the right track. That leads him to my favorite Western city, Santa Fe New Mexico, where he does indeed find the young lady but also finds more questions than answers and he begins to suspect something strange and sinister is afoot. I'm about to give a possible spoiler so you can stop right here if you want. Go buy the book. I highly recommend it. A good story with plenty of action to be had. And this one doesn't have a Scooby Doo ending. There really is some supernatural stuff going on.
POSSIBLE SPOILERS AHEAD. You've been warned.
I wanted to mention one bit I really enjoyed. When Longarm finds himself in the main bad guy's house he enters the library where he finds some old books. They mean nothing to Longarm but he does note that the authors have strange names like Von Junzt and Alhazred. I was grinning like an idiot at that point.
I also wondered if one of the other villains, Lucius Thorne, had been named in honor of John Thunstones' nemesis Rowley Thorne.
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Film Nagar for quite some time was abuzz with the reports that NTR and Harish Shankar is in 'Panduga Chesuko' mood. There were reports that Harish Shankar got the title registered with the film chamber so that he can use it for his upcoming project with Young Tiger.
However Harish dashed all the hopes of Tiger's fans who are in 'Pandugachesuko' mood by tweeting on twitter that the title is not registered for NTR and it will be decided later. He even revealed that after Badshah release only, he will come out with the title of the film. He said since the title 'Panduga Chesuko' is appealing he got it registered and not for any hero.

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May 6, 2012 - By Craig Blumenshine, Staff WriterThe final regular season road trip for the Riverton Wolverines boys soccer team was a tough one, as both Green River and Evanston downed Riverton by 1-0 scores.
With the two losses, Riverton ends the season with a 3-5-2 Class 4-A West conference record and will be seeded fourth heading into Thursday's first-round conference tournament match in Rock Springs.
Riverton is projected to play Evanston according to RHS head coach Erly Cornejo and will need to beat the Red Devils to advance to next week's state tournament.
But it may be a tough first-round draw for Riverton. Evanston defeated the Wolverines 2-0 at home earlier this season but Cornejo actually looks at it as a positive first-round draw.
"I'm excited about it. It is tough to beat a team three times in a row. There will be a lot of pressure on them for that reason," Cornejo said.
Cornejo was upbeat about Friday's match and said his team, "actually played the best we have all season against Green River."
Green River scored off a corner kick in the second half'
"It was just a miscommunication between Ryan (Axthelm) and Logan (Ridgway), and somebody kicked it in. We outshot them by quite a bit," Cornejo said.
Riverton had ten shots from within the box according to Cornejo, but couldn't finish.
"It was the same story against Evanston," Cornejo said.
Overall, Riverton's final regular season record stands at 4-8-2.
Rock Springs and Casper Kelly Walsh have earned automatic bids to the state tournament by finishing first and second in the Class 4-A West conference.
Green River will battle last-place Casper Natrona in the other play-in game during Thursday's regional tournament.
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Gamers have long struggled with the stereotype that they are all fat, pimply teenage guys with greasy ponytails who spend all day and night in dark rooms in front of computer screens eating Twisties. I've never believed in this stereotype though. I have my family, especially my Dad, to thank for it. They introduced me to games and are gamers themselves.
I'm an only child. (What can I say? Mum and Dad got it right the first time...) Growing up, I was spoilt and I had the latest and greatest toys and games. I think secretly Dad kind of wanted a little boy, you know, so he'd have an excuse to buy footballs, Tonka Trucks and Matchbox cars. But instead he had a little girl and he bought them for me anyway. I wasn't really interested in my boy toys, but then he bought me an Atari. One of my earliest memories is sitting on our mission brown couch, in front of our woodpanel TV, playing Space Invaders and Pong on the Atari with him. (No sniggering, it was the 80s!)
As I got a little bit older, it became clear to my elders that I should probably be moving away from games and focusing on something more educational. So we sold the Atari, and my Nan and Pop bought me a computer. It was a Commodore 64, to be precise. Sadly, I never really figured out how to use the Commodore for educational purposes beyond honing my 'Skate or Die!' skills.
When I was four, my parents, my grandparents and I went on a road trip from our hometown of Ballarat, Victoria to Merimbula, NSW. This was perhaps not a well thought-out idea. For nine hours there, and nine hours back I whinged "Are we there yet?", told knock-knock jokes and worst of all, sang along to a kid's music tape on the car stereo. (Nearly 20 years on, Dad still knows all the words to Six Silly Snakes.) In other words, I was a nuisance. When we got back, my parents told my Aunty about it, and what do you know? Next Christmas, Santa brought me a Gameboy! Just like cousin James'! From then on, family road-trips were a much more pleasurable experience for all involved, and the only noise I made was the occasional "Hey Daddy, I beat your score on Tetris!"
When I was about six, we upgraded the ol' Commodore 64 and got a Windows PC. It had 8MB of RAM, an Intel processor and a CD-ROM drive. I'll always remember the day we got it because when Mum came to pick me up from school I couldn't find her cos she'd bought a new car and cut her long hair off! Anyway, the guy that built our computer for us was kind enough to throw in some shareware games, so I enjoyed Word Rescue (finally, something educational), Duke Nukem 2, Wolfenstein 3D, and Jill of the Jungle for years to come. Later, Dad figured out how to copy games onto floppy discs, and we would occasionally exchange games with people he worked with.
I was 10 when my grandfather passed away. He left me some money, but my parents knew that I wouldn't understand the concept of inheritance, and they wanted to cheer me up, so they spent the money on a Sony PlayStation. When all my friends would go home and play their Nintendo 64s, I'd fire up the "Sony" and play Crash Bandicoot and Spyro the Dragon. Dad played the PlayStation too, and we spent hours together on Metal Gear Solid. He'd play, and I'd watch and offer advice. I was too scared to play it myself (Psycho Mantis still terrifies me), but I loved watching him play.
Just before beginning high school, my best friend Chloe, the closest thing I ever had to a sister, got her first PC and we both got into a game called Creatures. It was a simulation game where you raised furry little Norns in a world called Albia, and it was fairly popular back in the 90s. Instead of swapping Pokémon cards with the other kids at lunchtime, we swapped Norns on floppy discs! A couple of years on, Chloe influenced me to get The Sims on PC and we'd spend our weekends playing that, arguing over whether Mortimer and Bella Goth really needed that new espresso machine or not.
Even today in 2011, my family are still all gamers. My Mum loves Wii Fit and my Dad's a big Call of Duty fan. My Nanna, who's in her 70s thoroughly enjoys Sudoku and puzzle games on her Nintendo DS, Chloe's moved on to The Sims 3, and my cousins, now in their 30s, are always sending me requests for sheep and pigs in Farmville. I can tell you now, that none of them spend day and night in a dark room in front of computers eating Twisties with their hair slicked back into greasy ponytails.
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The mayor of Lorca, Francisco Jódar, told the press today that an initial evaluation of the damage caused by Friday's floods puts the cost at "well over" a hundred million euros.
Jódar gave a summary of the goods and property damaged, destroyed or lost in the flash floods, including 300 homes with serious structural damage and 260 livestock farms with "severe damage", most of them dedicated to goat farming.
In the five days since flash floods hit the area, more than 200 tonnes of dead animals have been removed from the farms, a task which has been completed with speed to avoid "a sanitation problem".
"Now we are finding just the occasional animal as areas of intense flooding gradually dry out, or where mudslides have been cleared away" said the mayor.
Around 10,000 hectares of arable land "are severely affected" especially in the areas where the rivers Béjar, Biznaga, Torrecilla and Nogalte converge.
The most serious damage occurred in the villages of La Escucha, Altobordo y Campillo, which are being considered the "core" of the natural catastrophe.
In terms of local infraestructures Jódar pointed out the 260 km of minor roads and dirt tracks that have been practically erased from the map - the equivalent of 20% of the town's road network.
Around 130 km of rural roads will have to "completely replaced", whilst the other 50% will require "major repairs", added the mayor.
The town council has also been working to evaluate the losses and damage to ground-floor shops and offices in the centre of town and to warehouses on the town's three industrial estates, which were visited today by the mayor.


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An Interview with Forum Member, Unholy – Part 2
If you read part 1 of this interview, you'll know that forum member, Unholy (Paul in real life) transformed himself from an overweight, out of shape 295lbs to a fit and lean 190lbs. Not only that, but he is now on track to compete in his first bodybuilding competition.
In the 2nd part of this interview we caught up with Paul and talked about his progress since we last spoke 6 weeks ago , his vacation, current challenges and where he wants to be when we next speak. (4 weeks out from his first bodybuilding competition)
So, with no further adieu, let's get going….
Wannabebig: Hey Paul, it's great to catch up again. It's been about five weeks since we last spoke, so can you remind our readers when your first bodybuilding competition takes place?
Unholy: Sure. My first show will be the INBF NYS Bodybuilding Championships on October 24th, so as we are speaking, I am eight weeks out.
Wannabebig: How are you feeling about it?
Unholy: Pretty damn good, actually. If you remember from my last interview, I said I wanted to be flirting with the 180s and to have dropped another 2-3% bodyfat, and I've pretty much done that. I'm currently sitting around 181-183 lbs. at 7-8% bodyfat right now.
The pressure is definitely on though. As the home stretch approaches, I'm swarmed with other things in life, school, and work, and also in the middle of a move. My recent vacation was a good break though, and I am very focused on my goal.
Paul at 180 lbs – August 24th 2009
Wannabebig: Talk about making it hard for yourself… nothing like chucking in a house move and vacation right into the middle of your contest prep! What are the ideal weight and bodyfat stats you'd like to have when you step on stage?
Unholy: 175-176 lbs. at 4% bodyfat would be ideal. Though this is pretty ambitious for a first show, I'm aiming high. I do believe that if I work hard and stick to it 100% over the next eight to ten weeks, I might be able to get there. If I do, then I should be pretty competitive as a middleweight despite my height of 6'0".
Wannabebig: Seeing you at 175 lbs. and 4% is going to be mind blowing! Have you changed your diet, considering you are getting closer to the big day?
Unholy: Certainly! I'm consuming an average of 2250 calories a day now. That's down 750 cals a day from when we last spoke. I've cut carbs from 150 g/day down to 90-110 g/day, but my carb-ups are slightly more aggressive too. I try to get 225-250 g every third night as opposed to the 150-185 g that I was eating previously.
Wannabebig: You also mentioned that food cravings would be your biggest challenge in your last interview. How are you doing there?
Unholy: Well, except for the 7500+ calories a day I consumed while on vacation in Egypt, I have been doing fairly well with cravings. They have been harder to control as I've leaned out more and more. When I dropped my calories from 2500 down to 2250, I noticed the cravings were intense during the 24 hours following my carb-up meal. After I flew back from Poland on Saturday night, I weighed in at 176.2 lbs and freaked out. I ate a solid 12000 calories over a 72-hour period…I was trying not to wither away and I bounced back a bit. There is no need for me to be that light just yet!
Wannabebig: What about your training? Have you changed your routine as you get closer to the competition?
Unholy: Yes, I'm going with slightly less reps…shooting for heavy weight in the six rep range. It's easy to over-train at this point in time. Calories are sparse and any extra work on the muscle after I've triggered growth is unnecessary. Preserving lean body mass is the goal and heavy weight in the lower rep ranges is optimal for this.
By the way, you can check out all of my training sessions as well as my daily food intake via my WBB Training Journal – My Road to the INBF and OCB NY State Bodybuilding Championships
Wannabebig: How is the posing practice coming along?
Unholy: Pretty good, I would say. I try to practice for 15 minutes every day. It's been tough, since I was on vacation for the last 17 days, but I've been working on it every chance I get. There are a few mandatory poses that I have greatly improved on and that are starting to feel very natural, i.e., side chest, side triceps, back double biceps, most muscular, etc.
Some poses are still extremely hard for me to hit correctly, such as front/rear lat spread and front double bicep. I'll be meeting with Gerry over these next few weeks to work on those poses. He told me I won't be posing like Kai Greene but I will definitely be able to improve a great deal by show time.
Wannabebig: How was your vacation?
Unholy: Fantastic. I flew from NYC to Rzeszow, Poland and spent five days visiting family and hiking the Tatra Mountains in southern Poland. We climbed the second highest peak (~6000′) on our second day…talk about cardio!
After that, I flew to Sharm El Sheikh in Egypt for seven days and nights. I then flew back to Poland and spent a few more days with the family and visited Krakow by train…just got back on the 22nd.
Wannabebig: What was your best meal on your vacation? Come on…you must have cheated a bit!
Unholy: I'm not sure if you want to call it a cheat, but I consumed 7500+ cals/day for six days in a row while in Egypt. This was mostly from pasta and pastries/cake. The hot foods were awful!
The original plan was to stick to the diet but the resort food made that extremely difficult. Not having taken any diet break for quite some time, I decided what better time than on vacation! The gourmet pastries and cakes made it very easy to get all those calories in. It ended up working out well, and when I got back to Poland, I went low carb for four days. The result was an overall 6 lb drop over the 17-day vacation.
Wannabebig: Not many people can boast a weight drop right after vacation! I think I packed on about 7 lbs. on my last week long vacation. Was it hard having a vacation in the middle of your prep?
Unholy: Actually, it was quite the opposite for me. After dieting for so long, I needed a mental and physical break from it. I've been counting calories and hitting premeditated macros since October 1st 2008 with very few breaks. This was exactly what I needed.
Plus, I took my secret weapon along with me – See below 🙂
Paul's secret vacation weapon and a bunch of funny looking shorts
Wannabebig: Ha ha, nice one. If you got your case inspected, I'm not sure what would surprise officials more, the Nitrean or the color of some of your shorts, lol! And, my thoughts are with the locals 🙂
Anyway, enough about funny looking shorts. Mentally, all this preparation must be pretty tough. Where do you get your inspiration/support from?
Unholy: I get inspiration from a lot of places. Following WNBF events has shown me that you can get freakishly big without any hormones. It's also very motivating to see my own results. Being an ex-fattie, this is more than I could have hoped for.
I also have to say that my girlfriend has been a tremendous help. From making sure I get out and do my cardio, to researching prep-friendly recipes and preparing meals
for me…I couldn't ask for more.
Wannabebig: We're going to talk briefly again at four weeks out. Where do you want to be then?
Unholy: I want to be stage ready, ~176lbs. Most importantly, I want to get to the point where those troublesome poses of mine that I previously mentioned feel natural and look optimal for my physique. I will likely be dropping calories to 2,000 in four weeks. That should be the final drop. I'll also shift my carb-ups to 250-275 g every third night.
Wannabebig: Good stuff! Well we wish you the best of luck and will be watching your WBB training journal closely over the next few weeks. We'll catch up again when you are four weeks out and a super lean 175 lbs!
We couldn't end the interview without sharing some more recent pictures of you at 180 lbs. (August 24th 2009)
Here we go!
Keep an eye out for Part 3 of this interview, where Paul will be just 4 weeks out from his first bodybodybuilding competition!
Written by Daniel Clough
Discuss, comment or ask a question
If you have a comment, question or would like to discuss anything raised in this article, please do so in the following discussion thread on the Wannabebig Forums – An Inspiring Interview with Forum Member, Unholy – Part 2 discussion thread.


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Real Madrid's replacement goalkeeper, Adán, who has been José Mourinho's controversial first choice on occasion in recent weeks, is now set for a solid spell between the posts after Iker Casillas broke a bone in his hand during the Copa del Rey quarterfinal against Valencia.
Adán spoke after the game:
Injury to Casillas: "It happened to me [being replaced during a game, in Adán's case for a sending off] 15 days ago, now it's happened to my teammate. Football is like that. It's part of the game and you have to carry on".
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Columbus Police and the Franklin County Sheriff's Office are investigating a deadly shooting in Columbus.
The shooting happened around 6:30 p.m. Saturday on Hilliard Rome Road near West Broad Street. Officers also investigated a related scene on Beacon Hill Road, where the shooting victim's car was found.
Columbus Police tell 10TV the homeowner called 911, saying he shot another man in self-defense.
Police say the homeowner did show signs of physical injury.
Homicide detectives say the shooting victim, 50-year-old Duane E. Birtcher, attempted to drive himself to the hospital, but did not make it all the way. Medics removed Birtcher from his car and took him to the hospital where he later died.
Detectives are trying to learn more about what led to the deadly shooting.
Neighbors tell 10TV they were frightened to hear something like this, so close to home.
"My son's seven, so it's scary. He's afraid to stay here tonight because something could happen. But I did let him know that the police had taken away all the bad people and he should be fine," said a neighbor.
Police say the two men have known each other for 5-6 years. They say Birtcher went to the house uninvited on Saturday evening.
Officers say the shooter claimed Birtcher assaulted him before he fired the gun.
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Record Store Day, the annual celebration of those wonderful hubs of musical creativity and community, is nearly upon us.
And, as the event grows in popularity and prestige with every passing year, the list of special releases coming out for it is also expanding.
There's a veritable smorgasbord of delights for just about everyone (you can check out the full list here), and here's our guide to the 20 essential releases that you should do your best to get hold of.
Plenty of great record stores are taking part - some will be available online but others you'll need to queue for on the day.
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THONOTOSASSA — Two people were rushed to University Community Hospital after a vehicle crash Wednesday seriously injured them.
Just before 2 p.m., Thomas Michael Dolan, 56, of Hernando, stopped his Toyota Rav 4 at the intersection of Jefferson Road and Fowler Avenue before making a left turn onto Fowler, the Florida Highway Patrol said.
While making the turn, he crossed into the path of Weylon Cook's eastbound Ford pickup truck. Cook, 28, of Plant City hit the driver's side of Dolan's sport utility vehicle.
Dolan and his passenger, Debra Abrams Dolan, 55, were taken to UCH.
Thomas Dolan was in critical condition and was to be flown to Tampa General Hospital. Troopers said he was not wearing a seat belt. Debra Dolan was being treated for serious injuries at UCH. Cook was not injured.
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A small collection of black and white photographs, and essays about living and wandering in the beautiful San Francisco Bay Area. The author lives in San Jose and wanders around, hiking and looking for himself in the wilds that surround this urban area.
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- Publish Date Jan 23, 2011
- Tags large format, medium format, black and white, bay area, san francisco, b&w, walking, hiking, 4x5, rolleiflex, film, photography, B&W
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Father of two young women, lymphoma survivor, amateur musician, hiker, bay area vagabond, and software engineer. I wore out two digital cameras before going back to the basics and studying traditional film photography. Workshops with Stuart Scofield and Sam Hipkins opened my eyes to the possibilities of the craft. Kate Jordahl's marvelous Foothill College program provided the groundwork and facilities to realize my images.
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Toni Hopper The imagery is breathtaking and your words are just enough! I had hoped to get a peek into a Pacifica image if included? I am adding this one to my wish list.


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A bunch of photograph experts have got together and after laughing themselves silly for several weeks have determined that those photos of Oscar de la Hoya in the fishnets last year were actually fake photos. Immediately after the report was released, the stripper who allegedly took the photos decided for some reason to drop her $25M slander lawsuit against Oscar that she had filed when Oscar had claimed they were fake, thus ruining her reputation. Honey, even if you were telling the truth, you are a stripper/escort who tried to sell photos of your trick in lingerie. What the hell kind of reputation do you have to uphold?
Ooops. Oh well. They were fun though and for a day or so the world got to laugh at Oscar. Has his career been ruined? I don't think so. Hell, now he knows that he can have a career as a tranny when the boxing thing is done. He wouldn't be a very good looking tranny, but he could make a couple of bucks if he lived next door to say Eddie Murphy.
Plus, he made himself to a whole bunch of fans who never knew who he was. Gossip readers who don't follow boxing might have only remembered him for that crazy love triangle between Oscar, Dennis Quaid and Shanna Moakler. Shanna probably called Oscar after the photos came out and told him they would still be married if he had dressed like that for her. I thought it was very funny that she never came out and said the father of her children would not dress like that which is why I thought the photos were probably real. How do you not stick up for the father of your kids?


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Tauren chieftain
- For the Warcraft III hero unit, see Tauren Chieftain (Warcraft III).
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A class for leaders of tauren tribes.
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The Tauren chieftains are elder tauren warriors that lead their tribes in daily life as well as in battle. Ceremoniously decked with the ancient totems of their tribes, chiefs uphold the honor and simplicity of tauren culture. When roused by battle, the gigantic chiefs employ enormous warblades which are capable of tearing through solid trees with one mighty swipe. The chiefs are fascinated by the orcs, especially their young leader, Thrall. The chiefs see an opportunity to help the orcs return to their traditional roots by providing a strong example of honor and courage through all tauren warriors.[1]
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Tauren chieftains possess impressive battle skills combined with a knowledge of tactics, geography and current affairs. A tauren chieftain knows where alliances are strongest and where they are likely to break down; he also knows where best to stage a mass battle and what location works for a small ambush. A tauren chieftain's competence and wisdom inspires his troops.[2]
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- It is possible that their distant cousins, Taunka, have their own version of tauren chieftains. Roanauk Icemist is possibly a taunka chieftain.
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May 12, 2015—UMCOR, the United Methodist Committee on Relief, is ramping up its response to April's devastating earthquake in Nepal. The 7.9 magnitude quake's initial impact was compounded by high-intensity aftershocks, and the avalanches and landslides that followed.
Injury, loss of life, and physical damage extend through 60 of the country's 75 districts. The devastation embraces cities like greater Kathmandu (the country's capital) and Pokhara, and also vast stretches of often inaccessible rural areas that include steeply mountainous territory.
According to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, as of May 6, casualties included 7,675 deaths; 16,392 injured; 284,455 homes completely destroyed—twice the original estimate; and 234,102 homes damaged. In the Kathmandu Valley, some 37,500 people remained displaced.
UMCOR is supporting the work of partners on the ground in Nepal who can provide quick-acting assistance. Since the quake occurred April 25, UMCOR has supplied grants to four partner organizations totaling $315,039.
Grants have gone to GlobalMedic, a Canada-based organization with regional partners in South Asia; Church Auxiliary for Social Action (CASA), which is based in India and working with locally based United Mission to Nepal (UMN); to UMN itself; and to the Nepal Community Empowerment Group (NCEG).
Those categories of emergency supplies—clean drinking water, hygiene kits, and non-food items such as tents, tarps, blankets, and cooking implements—are among the most urgent needs, as they often are in such a huge disaster as Nepal's.
The Rev. Jack Amick, UMCOR assistant general secretary for International Disaster Response, emphasized the need for international efforts to be carefully matched with the specific nature of Nepal's own conditions and experience.
"We are working fully in concert with local capacity," Amick said, "responding to needs expressed by those already on the ground, and providing resources in a way that builds capacity as well as addressing the immediate emergency."
GlobalMedic is delivering and installing 50 water purification systems (the AP700 Ultrafiltration Membrane Unit) along with accompanying hand-pumps, which will each provide safe, clean drinking water to an entire community.
It also is distributing 500 individual water purification units, known by their trade-name "Rainfresh," which purify water for single households. In addition, GlobalMedic will distribute 13 large tents for use by schools and hospitals with damaged infrastructure.
Aerial surveys by GlobalMedic's team, which will be deployed in a rotating fashion until at least July, are helping to assess exactly where this lifesaving aid is most needed.
CASA is acquiring hygiene kits and other items, such as cooking utensils, pots, and blankets, for distribution in Nepal by UMN. UMCOR also is contributing to a separate relief appeal by UMN, which has run community-based health and education programs in Nepal for more than 60 years.
Locally based NCEG will use the support it receives from UMCOR to acquire and distribute tents for emergency shelter and a two-week supply of food rations among 250 affected families.
Crisis reports continue to come from the small team of United Methodist Global Ministries missionaries currently serving in Nepal. It includes Katherine Parker, who is assigned to work with UMN.
She reports that in Dhading District, west of Kathmandu, where UMN has built up close partnerships over time and has well-established local knowledge, the urgent task of delivering supplies is challenged not just by the sheer scale of earthquake damage, but by inaccessibility.
"We are exploring [the use of] both porters and mule trains as well as helicopters," Parker said in an email to United Methodist News Service. "However, helicopters seem to be in short supply and high demand."
"UMCOR considers it a sacred trust," said Amick, "to ensure that funds are granted quickly, but also carefully, so that projects have the best chance of providing humanitarian assistance in a way that does no harm, is impartial, and respects the dignity of those receiving assistance."
Your gift to International Disaster Response, Advance #982450 will enable UMCOR to respond in a timely way to emergencies like the Nepal earthquake, working collaboratively with local and international partners.
*David Tereshchuk is a journalist and media critic who contributes regularly to www.umcor.org
UMCOR considers it a sacred trust to ensure that funds are granted quickly, but also carefully, so that projects have the best chance of providing humanitarian assistance in a way that does no harm, is impartial, and respects the dignity of those receiving assistance.


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One of the goals we had for our PivotTable work in Excel 12 was to make creating PivotTables a much more approachable task. In this post, I would like to walk through an example of creating a PivotTable in order to highlight the changes we have made in Excel 12. In general, we tried to make the process simpler and more intuitive.
As I said in the previous post, PivotTables are great for summarizing large amounts of data. For example, a user might have a table full of sales data (contained in a query table, that they copied from elsewhere, that they have been typing into the grid over time, etc.) that contains products, sales figures, product categories, etc., and might want to see a summary of sales grouped by product and product category. This is exactly the sort of thing that is easy to create with a PivotTable. To start, the user needs to tell Excel they want to create a PivotTable. There are two places they can do this. First, on the Insert tab, where the first button in the ribbon is an inset PivotTable button.
Second, on the Table tab (the tab that shows up when I am working with a table of data), we have added a command to âSummarize With Pivotâ. This is essentially the same command, except when you use this command, we know that you want the table you are working with to be the data source for the PivotTable.
Once the user selects one of these commands, they are presented with a new dialog for creating PivotTables. This dialog replaces the existing multistep wizard with a simple dialog that only presents the user with the most necessary choices ⦠our usability research showed that a lot of users never made it past the wizard due to the complexity of choices required. (Note, there are probably some out there wondering about whether they can still pivot against multiple consolidation ranges, etc. ⦠the answer is yes. The existing wizard is still available for advanced users that want to take advantage of its functionality; it just isnât the mainline UI):
In our example, because we had a table selected when we created the PivotTable, all our user has to do is to click OK and the PivotTable is created â thatâs a total of two clicks. If the user wanted to work with data external to Excel, they would simply select âUse an external data sourceâ and select the external data connection they would like to use from the drop down. (Note that in the Table/Range refedit control, you can now type "structured references" to tables or parts of tables in addition to cell references. This is true for most of the refedit controls in Excel, and is another small but powerul addition to the product. See this post for more on structured referencing.)
After clicking OK in the dialog, the user sees a new PivotTable in the Excel grid, and a field list (significantly changed from previous versions) with which to populate the PivotTable:
Now that the PivotTable has been created, the next step is to add the data the user wants summarized. This is another area where our customer research and usability studies demonstrated that many users had trouble, specifically in three areas.
- Figuring out that they needed to get their âfieldsâ onto the various areas of the PivotTable
- Deciding which area, or âdrop zoneâ of the PivotTable they needed to add their data to build their report.
- Figuring out how to get the field to the drop zone (drag-drop not being an action that is all that common in Office applications)
In order to address these problems, we made a couple of changes. First, we added checkboxes to the field list, which, though a simple change, clearly advertises to the user what actions they need to take. Second, we changed the rules, so that users donât need to move fields to drop zones to get going â when they check a checkbox for a field, that field is automatically added to the PivotTable, using a simple but generally effective algorithm. If the data type of the field is numeric, the field is added to the Values area, with a default aggregation of sum. If the data type is non-numeric, the field is added to the Row Labels area. As you click more non-numeric fields, Excel places them on the inside of fields already on the PivotTable, building a hierarchy. Un-checking a checkbox will remove the field from the PivotTable.
So with the new field list, a user can get a quick summary by simply checking a couple of checkboxes, and thatâs it. Letâs walk through what this looks like. As I said, our user wants to build a sales summary for products by their product category. The first field for the user to add is Product Category, so they click in the checkbox for that field â¦
⦠and the items of the Product Category field are immediately added to the PivotTable.
Next, to show the individual products of each product category, the user adds the Product Name field:
Now we have the products nicely listed under their product category in the PivotTable, complete with some UI that hints that you can expand and collapse levels ⦠more on that in a later post.
And finally, our user adds the Sales Amount field to finish their summary report.
They probably want to format it as a currency too, which is one click on the ribbon. And, with that, our user now has their summary report – Excel has grouped all the original data by Category and Product, calculated the Sales Amount, and slapped on a Grand Total ⦠all in a total of 5 clicks.
I can hear some of your saying âbut I liked dragging things aroundâ. I can also hear some other folks asking âhow do I get things to the Filter area or the Column area to build a crosstab?â (And probably a lot of other things, but I will stop guessing, address those two, and hear the rest in your comments.) Well, you probably noticed in the screenshots above that as I added fields to the PivotTable, they appeared in the lower section of the field list. This section holds the drop zones, which were designed around two key points â making it easy to determine the current placement of fields in the PivotTable, as well as making it easy to rearrange the fields in a PivotTable. There are four areas in a PivotTable, each of which is represented by a drop zone in the field list.
- Report Filter. This area holds the fields that the whole PivotTable is filtered by.
- Row Labels. This area holds fields that act as labels for the values, and the labels appear to the left of the values.
- Column Labels. This area is just like row area, but the labels appear above the values, breaking them out by column instead of row.
- Values. This area holds the fields that are summarized (for example sales amount). Fields in this area are typically numeric, but can also be non-numeric (in which case they are counted).
If you prefer to drag fields from the field list to the drop zones, you can ⦠this is also the answer to how you add fields to the Filter or Column drop zones. To change the report layout, you can drag and drop fields between the different drop zones or you can click a field in a drop zone and select which area to move it to in the menu that pops up.
And finally, for those of you that really want the drop zones in the grid, we have put in a toggle to bring them back, but there are some additional considerations to that one, so I will cover it further in a later post.
So, to sum up, we have worked to make PivotTables easier and faster to create, and our usability testing with both beginning users as well as PivotTable experts (see post on usability studies for more on that subject) show that both user groups benefit from the new design.
Next week, much more on PivotTables.


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Bogus SARS Prevention Products: Buyer Beware
Our SARS news today does not concern the latest number of cases but the fact that bogus SARS treatments are being offered on the Internet. The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have issued warnings to 40 Web sites. These sites offer therapies ranging from dietary supplements to medical devices, in spite of the fact that: "There is no approved treatment or diagnostic test for SARS."
Our Comment: "Let the buyer beware." The best prevention against SARS is good hygiene, including washing hands. And you can't buy that on the Internet.
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By Kevin Posival
Killeen Daily Herald
Some nights, especially early in the Texas Thunder Speedway season, it's too cold. Then, you miss the cold in the middle of July and August.
But every Saturday night from March to September, racing on the quarter-mile dirt track kicks up enough fun to warm the race-lover's soul.
Every Saturday night, that is, until this Saturday.
This weekend, Texas Thunder Speedway will be closed. And with the gates locked, two of the best drivers in the country will look to blow the doors off their national competition.
TTS regulars Keith White and P.J. Egbert lead the country in their respective classes. Egbert, a former IMCA Rookie of the Year, races in the IMCA Super Nationals beginning Monday at Boone, Iowa. White will race in the fourth annual IMCA Southern SportsMod Nationals on Friday and Saturday at Heart 'O Texas Speedway in Elm Mott.
White, who's won the Southern SportsMod championship two times in its three-year history, has been ranked No. 1 in the class most of the season and said he likes the distinction, especially going into a race that doesn't specifically figure into obtaining his third title.
"That's what you want," White said going in with the target on his bumper.
"I want them feeling that I'm the guy to beat. I don't think it's pressure at all (on me). It's pressure to get to the top. Once you get it, that's half the battle."
Egbert will be making his second trip to Super Nationals. Michael Walter, Mike McCarthy and Jason Batt will also be traveling from Texas Thunder to Boone.
"It's not for points but more or less bragging rights," Egbert said. "Just making the show is awesome. There'll be like 300 or 400 Modifieds there."
International Motor Contest Association (IMCA) points standings will not be affected by the outcome of these national races. But, both White and Egbert are closing in on those championships and could clinch with a few more weekly wins and a pair of track championships at Texas Thunder and Heart 'O Texas –which factor in with points in determining national champions.
"It's not said and done until it's all over," Egbert said. "It's close right now and hopefully we can pull this thing out. However we end up, we've had a pretty good season."
Before Saturday night's races, Egbert held a nine-point lead over David L. Murphy, and White held a 12-point lead over Jeff Turner in the Southern SportsMod class.
Having raced at Heart 'O Texas for the majority of the season, White said he has an advantage, but so does everyone else, he said.
"Knowing that race track definitely gives you an advantage," White said.
"But nationals has been held there the last three years, everybody's knows what it can do."
White, who lives in Little River-Academy, races both venues on the weekends –Heart 'O Texas on Friday nights and Texas Thunder on Saturday – doesn't call either track his 'home track,' but said he spends enough time on both tracks to feel familiar and known well enough.
"Most anybody (on my team) will tell you I don't have a home track because we're not from there," White said. "As far as racing goes, I'm out every week in Waco and Killeen.
"That hurts with the sponsors, but it helps to be seen out in Waco and to work on Fort Hood."
Egbert, who's from Kempner, races at both tracks and is a fan favorite at Texas Thunder, but didn't earn his No. 1 ranking until early July and has never been completely locked into the position.
"It feels pretty good (to be ranked No. 1)," Egbert said. "It doesn't really mean anything to lead it when you still have months left."
Egbert said if he doesn't grab his first national title this year, he hopes to finish with two track championships – he's well on his way – and a national top-five finish.
"Last year, at this point, I was leading both (tracks), but had a bunch of mechanical problems," said Egbert, who's won a Texas Thunder track championship as recently as 2006. "I've never won two in one year. That's kind of been my goal."
Egbert needs to just race in one single feature in the final three weeks of the season to claim the Texas Thunder title, though he still has competition at Heart 'O Texas with another Texas Thunder driver, Kenny Stone, trailing just 843-811.
White, who won the Texas Thunder Southern SportsMod title last season, leads up-and-comer Eric Tomlinson 954-906, but has a bit more of an advantage over Robert Black at Heart 'O Texas (832-765).
But just coasting isn't good enough for either of these two.
White, who won his 100th career SportsMod feature on the July 4 in Elm Mott, has won more than two dozen races between the two tracks this season, and Egbert set a Modified feature win record at Texas Thunder on July 5 with 83 and has been counting wins ever since.
But with little on the line at the national races this weekend, White and Egbert look to pad their legitimacy and their bank accounts.
"It won't earn you any points in the race. It just can count as one of your races. I already have my 30 wins, so I don't need it," White said of the points system.
Because some tracks race more than others and some nights are rained out while others are not, the IMCA takes a driver's best 30 finishes through an entire season and tallies that against everyone else. White, for example, already has 30 first-place finishes and a perfect 1,200-point score. Only track championships, now, can factor in to his winning or losing the title race he's currently leading.
The payoff for White and Egbert
comes with the experience and the bonuses.
"The prize money (for the Southern SportsMod winner) is like $2,000, which is like seven of these (weekly feature wins)," White said.
For Egbert, it could be about $3,000, not to mention IMCA prizes, sponsorships and products.
So some of it is about coming home with a trophy and some spending money.
Some of it is about proof and identity. And, then again, when you're No. 1, you have nothing to prove, it's everyone else that has something to prove to you.
Contact Kevin Posival at firstname.lastname@example.com or (254) 501-7562.


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If shelling out $10 for a small bag of M&Ms makes you feel a little scammed, then you'll love the hotel industry's latest trend: closing its in-room minibars. But are they going far enough? Read more in my latest USA Today column.
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Should travel products include more than they do?
I'm working on a story about travel products like airline tickets, hotel rooms and rental cars that don't include essentials. For example, some airline tickets now don't include a seat reservation or a meal; hotels force you to pay mandatory "resort fees" to cover the use of exercise rooms and pool facilities. And rental cars make you pay "tire disposal" and "license recovery" fees. Have you had to pay more for a travel product recently, and do you think the travel product includes what it needs to. Or has unbundling gone too far? I'd love to include your comments in my story. Please send me an email. As always, don't forget include your full name, city and occupation.
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Surrounded by Impostors, What's a Consumer to Do?
You're surrounded by fakes. The clothes you wear could be fake. The money you use? Not real, maybe. Even your "friends" on social media are sometimes fake. What's a consumer to do? Read more in my Mint.com column.
Is this airline downgrade disaster a lost cause?
I've been struggling with this case for months and am about to place it in the "can't be fixed" file. But before I do, I wanted to run it past you. Here's the whole story.
Maybe Anthony Weiner needs this woman's phone number
No American airline thinks of its customers in quite the same way Spirit Airlines does. And the feeling is mutual, as far as many of its passengers are concerned. If you have any doubts, look no further than last week's tasteless Anthony Weiner promotion. Seriously, folks. You can't make this stuff up.
Don't forget to confirm your hotel reservation
A two-night stay at the Driftwood Inn in Chestertown, Md., was supposed to cost Bruce Romano $138 through a Web site called HotelPlus Destination Portal, as long as he prepaid for his accommodations. That seemed like a good deal. After all, it was Memorial Day weekend, one of the busiest travel times of the year. Here's what happened next.
Can I get a refund for my stay at the No-Tell Motel?
Gladys Martin's hotel room is uninhabitable, but the property wants to charge her for it, anyway. Is there any way to undo this mistake? Yes, and here it is.
Nissan dealership won't honor its warranty on my used car
Reed Scott buys a lemon from a Nissan dealership. Now it won't cover the repairs for the malfunctioning car. Can it do that?
We made the difficult decision last week to kill The Scan, a daily synopsis of news affecting you. Why? Well, after lots of soul-searching, we determined that it didn't quite fit with our mission to bring you original content. We're redoubling our efforts to do just that. Stay tuned.


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Real Madrid eye Tottenham boss Andre Villas-Boas as new manager
REAL MADRID have included Tottenham boss Andre Villas-Boas on their managerial shortlist.
Real will also be aware of Villas-Boas's relationship with striking sensation Falcao, from the pair's time at Porto together.
And although Real president Florentino Perez will not approach potential replacements until the end of the season, Bernebeu chiefs have already begun to draw up a list of candidates.
Top of the Spanish giant's wish-list are current PSG boss Carlo Ancelotti and Borussia Dortmund's Jurgen Klopp.
But, according to Spanish radio station COPE, Villas-Boas is also under consideration.
Despite suffering a dismal time at former club Chelsea, the 35-year-old has begun to recover his reputation as one of Europe's brightest coaching prospects.
Real will also be aware of Villas-Boas's relationship with striking sensation Falcao, from the pair's time at Porto together.
The La Liga giants are one of a number of clubs desperate to prise the Colombian away from Atletico Madrid at the end of the season.


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They're coming up against opponents decked out in pink, but Perth Glory aren't expecting a friendly welcome when they lock horns with A-League rivals Central Coast at Bluetongue Stadium on Sunday.
The Mariners will trade their traditional yellow playing strips for pink kits on Sunday in support of the cancer charity event Pink Ribbon Day.
But that's where the niceties end for Central Coast, who will be out to avenge last season's controversial preliminary final loss to Perth.
Glory striker Shane Smeltz scored the equaliser from an offside position in that game as the teams finished locked at 1-1, before Perth secured their passage through to the grand final on penalties.
Smeltz will miss the re-match due to international duties with New Zealand, but his absence won't make the pain of the Mariners' preliminary final heartbreak go away.
Both teams are renowned for their toughness, and Glory coach Ian Ferguson said he expected another hard-at-it affair.
"They're a physical side. We get that tag as well unfortunately," Ferguson said.
"But I've always said you've got to win the battle first before the football's played, and hopefully we can do that."
The Mariners were held to a 0-0 draw by newcomers Western Sydney Wanderers last week.
But despite Central Coast's meek showing in round one, Ferguson predicted another good campaign for the Mariners, who were minor premiers last season.
"They'll be there or thereabouts come the end of the season," Ferguson said.
"They have the nucleus of the same squad again and they are going to be difficult to beat."
Glory striker Billy Mehmet, who scored the winner in last week's 1-0 win over Brisbane, will replace Smeltz in the starting line-up, while Japanese import Ryo Nagai is set to start on the bench after overcoming a hamstring injury.
Mariners midfielder Nick Montgomery, who was lively after coming on as a 70th-minute substitute last week, said Central Coast were aiming for nothing short of a victory against Perth.
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"The main containment vessels in two of them we believe are intact," Chu said on CNN's "State of the Union." "We don't know the status of the third one," he said, adding he believed the worst was over, but "I don't want to make a blanket statement."
Chu rejected claims Japanese authorities are holding back information.
"I mean, they're giving their people and us reports of what's going on. So, we are getting information from them," he said. "We have confidence in that information."
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The Antwerp University Hospital guarantees quality healthcare and offers specialized treatments. The website focuses on user friendliness for patients and their families. We worked to redesign the site and optimize the information architecture.
Choise of 3rd party - as best solution for the client's need. Client opted for an open source solution.
Business Background
UZA.be has approximately 35,000 unique visitors per month. The primary goals for UZA's website were based on providing transparent, reliable and ready-to-use information to visitors and patients.
An inquiry held last year stated that visitors were looking for practical information like contact details for doctors or overnight facilities. They also wanted background information on particular departments, medical examinations or treatments.
Most visitors asked for understandable content without much jargon and to be able to find what they were looking for quickly.
Wunderkraut was responsible for the technical realization of the website.
Technical Objective
The website's social engagement was optimized drastically where information is shared over e-mail or social media. News articles are imported from external sources through RSS.
The website imports personnel data into the Drupal CMS through a nightly XML feed that fits seamlessly with the in-house personnel database. The personnel files can be enriched via Drupal with the availability schedules of doctors and staff.
Wunderkraut was responsible for technical realization of the website while partner agency Internet Architects did the analysis and front-end development.
More online patient facilities, like a medical cost-calculator and online form processing, are on the roadmap for further development. The website aims to offer more video content as well.
Business Results
UZA has many medical specialties and a multitude of subspecialties. Through logical navigation UZA now enables visitors to quickly find what they need and the homepage now allows quick lookup of phone numbers.
Each medical division has its own space inside the website, offering information about visiting hours, team details and treatments. Proper information is a valuable extension to personal contact in comforting the patient before his/her visit.
Every division manages their own content within the Drupal CMS. The Workbench module allows web masters to review and publish content.
The inquiry also concluded that patients and their relatives didn't want to feel like they were alone with their mutual healthcare issues. They wanted to share experiences with others.
The website now has a special section for patients to share their stories and every division offers easy access to their corresponding community.
Wunderkraut Belgium (Ghent): Dieter Beheydt, Jan-Yves Vanhaverbeke, Nils Destoop, Matthias Vandermaesen, Toon Ketels


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Apr 28, 2011 12:00AM
Oyster #92 Out Now!
We have your weekend covered.
If you need an escape from the wet weather and endless wedding madness, then we have just the ticket! Oyster issue #92 is out now!
This issue, we talked candidly with Emmanuelle Seigner ? Roman Polanski's wife ? who claims that Jean-Luc Godard "was an asshole"; we interviewed Iranian band, Yellow Dogs, about their newfound freedom in the US; and we showcase the work of photographer Marlene Marino.
If all this ? along with cover star Bambi's galactic glow ? doesn't provide sufficient incentive, there's also poetry by Dion Lee, Tina Kalivas' last hurrah, nineties fashion, David Foster Wallace, Cults and more!