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Building Boom Will Turn Downtown Berkeley into East Frisco
In case you needed any more reasons to avoid Downtown Berkeley, Frances Dinkelspiel on the Berkeleyside website has provided a thorough tally of 1,000 more reasons why you'll be shopping elsewhere in the future. She's checked in with a bunch of commercial landlords, developers and developer-wannabes and documented their existing desires, including some actual entitlements, to add at least a thousand new apartments (with several thousand inhabitants and associated autos) to the area covered by Berkeley's new Downtown Plan. The best thing you can say about this scenario is that it promises to create at least 2,000 SRO beds for the unemployed in a few years when the current high tech boom has gone bust as the dot.com boom did before it.
My old boss Bruce Brugmann used to rail against the "Manhattanization" of San Francisco in his Bay Guardian, along with inveighing against the sins of PG&E. Turns out he was right about PG&E, so much so that the stodgy Chronicle took up the fight after the big pipeline explosion, but he lost the Manhattanization battle.
San Francisco, formerly a diverse and colorful international hub, is now, like Manhattan, an insanely expensive perch for the over-paid, many of them perpetual juveniles who are bussed daily to Silicon Valley where they toil like indentured servants.
The Irish, Italian and Pilipino families who gave San Francisco its distinctive flavor in the first three-quarters of the twentieth century were priced out of the housing market and have moved to the distant suburbs. The traditional artsy Bohemian contingents were chased away by high rents too: first the Beats from North Beach and then the hippies from the Haight.
African-Americans were long ago evicted from the Western Addition by urban renewal, and not many are left in Bayview-Hunters Point, as the south-of-Market building boom spreads into their neighborhoods. A gentrification bulls-eye is now painted on the Mission, the last refuge of Spanish-speaking San Franciscans. More prosperous Asians, better positioned for techie jobs, do persist in some neighborhoods, but working people are moving to Oakland and elsewhere.
And now the Manhattanization of Berkeley has begun, per developer shill Mark Rhoades, quoted by Dinkelspiel:
" 'The number one investment region of the country… is the San Francisco Bay Area because of the incredibly robust job market fueled by the tech sector on the Peninsula' , said Mark Rhoades, whose Rhoades Planning Group is advocating for two of the biggest projects proposed for Berkeley: Acheson Commons and The Residences at Berkeley Plaza. 'And when the tech sector pushes into San Francisco and starts creating an enormous amount of demand, the bleed-off effect of that is a push into Oakland and Berkeley, which are just a few BART stops away. That changes the economics with regard to apartment financing. With the commensurate increase in rents, the lending institutions and equity investors have more confidence in the market and are willing to spend their money on new development.' "
Yep. More precisely, it looks like we'll be seeing the Brooklynization of Oakland alongside the Manhattanization of Berkeley. Like Brooklyn (and unlike Berkeley) today's Oakland is edgy, interesting and multi-ethnic. It still has enough open industrial and warehouse space to host some artists as well as to allow manufacturing businesses to expand if they are able.
Last week I got a lengthy tour of the Oakland landscape. When my stolen car was recovered in East Oakland last week, police had it towed to a garage on 86th Avenue. Since it turned up missing its catalytic converter, radio, rear windshield and one tire, I elected to drive it home on surface streets instead of on the freeways I take to get to my usual East Oakland destination, the airport.
(By the way, this turned out to be prudent, since I later discovered that each of my remaining wheels was missing three of five lug nuts, which might have created a problem at freeway speeds.)
My slow and careful trip via International Boulevard (formerly East 14th Street) gave me a good look at all the things Oakland has going for it, despite its manifest problems. For one thing, there's space, plenty of space, and a good quantity of housing stock, modest sized houses surrounded by lots big enough for the kind of gardens which gave Fruitvale its name. And the weather is the best in the Bay Area.
That's the good news. The bad news is that many of these homes are now in foreclosure, as evidenced by the for-sale-by-bank signs on many blocks. Construction by non-profit affordable housing entrepreneurs is visible on a few larger sites, but the big multiple-unit complexes with small apartments they're building don't look like good substitutes for the family homes with yards which have been seized by the big money boys.
And the 1000 downtown apartments now on the drawing boards in Berkeley, though bigger, will be even less desirable for working families. If Rhoades and his speculator clients get their way, we'll just become (thanks to "the commensurate increase in rents") SF East: over-built, over-priced, dark and dull. Like family neighborhoods in San Francisco, Berkeley neighborhoods of family homes adjacent to Downtown will suffer the overflow impacts.
The move to Manhattanize older cities like Berkeley has been in the works for a while now. Way back more than a decade ago, in 1999, E.J. Dionne wrote a column for the Washington Post entitled "Smart Growth May Be Gore's Winning Issue ".
He said that "Spotting the next big issue that will move people is one of the essential political arts. Vice President Gore placed a large bet this week on the idea that Americans are tired of wasting time in their cars on clogged highways.
"He's gambling that they want more green space near their homes and more growth in developed but economically lagging inner cities. They want suburbs that create the sense of community we associate with old urban neighborhoods.
"The issue he's latched on to is 'livability' created by 'smart growth.' It's taking off all over the country, and Gore would like to ride it to the White House."
Well, that's a horse that failed. (Though you could argue that Gore actually won the 2000 election…) But somewhere along the way those buzzwords have morphed into yet another of America's money-making bubbles, once again enriching the few at the expense of the many. The oxymoronic but cleverly branded Livable Berkeley developers' lobbying group (fronted by Erin (Mrs. Mark) Rhoades) is heavily pitching the proposed high rises, but announced plans don't seem to show that "livability" will be a big component.
Robbie Burns (whose birthday has just passed) taught us:
"The best-laid schemes o' mice an' menWhat's going agley with the "smart growth" scheme for Downtown Berkeley?
Gang aft agley,
An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain,
For promis'd joy..."
"More green space near their homes" ?
Hmm, no. Most of those targeted to live in Berkeley's 1K proposed units will have little or no green space near their new apartment homes, unlike the Oakland families who are being foreclosed out of their houses. At most, there might be a rooftop terrace or a few trees on the street or a courtyard, but urban gardening will be out of the question.
"… more growth in developed but economically lagging inner cities"?
Here in the East Bay, as in many other parts of the San Francisco Bay Area and California, urban development has historically been spread thinly over a large geographic area, but the economy that produced the existing infrastructure is now lagging. That's why great swathes of Oakland and Richmond have wide paved boulevards serving semi-deserted one-story strip malls and enormous parking lots.
There's some good news in this phenomenon. Judging by the multilingual and often hand-lettered signs I saw on E. 14th St. between 85th Avenue and Lake Merritt, vacant storefronts provide opportunities for immigrant entrepreneurs to start restaurants and grocery stores to serve their communities. But small local businesses like these need stable residents with dependable jobs to patronize them, and those good jobs have moved out of Oakland, often out of the country.
No amount of apartment construction, even near BART stations, will stabilize such areas, and BART won't take the remaining residents to where the jobs are now, whether that's Silicon Valley or China. What's needed is reinvestment in the available manufacturing sites in places like Oakland, Richmond, Vallejo…and even a few in West Berkeley. But that's doesn't look to be on the immediate horizon. Speculators instead are trying to have West Berkeley rezoned, a la the failed Measure T, for office towers to house high tech ventures with a small number of highly educated and well-paid employees but few working class opportunities.
"[Americans] want suburbs that create the sense of community we associate with old urban neighborhoods" ?
Instead, luxury high-rises have been multiplying first in San Francisco, then in downtown Oakland under Jerry Brown, and are now planned for downtown Berkeley. They're just waystations for the affluent unattached young on their way to Woodside and Ross and Lamorinda and Danville , or perhaps for the comfortably retired old, but they will never create that sense of community.
Dionne foresaw the problem in 1999:
"Smart growth won't work if it's designed simply to preserve the good life for those who already have it. Its power will come from linking the desire for more agreeable suburban communities with the need to expand economic activity in decaying city neighborhoods. If Gore forges this bond, he may have a lot to say to a lot of people."
Sadly, whatever populist vision Gore might have had fourteen years ago seems to have been sacrificed, as happens all too often in this country and others, to the goal of making the good life even better for the haves at the expense of the have-nots. It's growth, sure, but it's not nearly as "smart" as it's been advertised to be.
Taxes on new residents seldom pay the cost of the services they will need. Adding 1K apartment units for the affluent here in Berkeley to Jerry Brown's fabled 10k new Oakland residents and San Francisco's Manhattan-by-the-Bay explosion of pricey pads for high-techies won't make any of these cities better for working families. Pushing families out to the distant 'burbs could even make their lives a whole lot worse.


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SUNDAY, June 12, 2011 (HealthDay News) -- Heart attack patients whose ambulances are diverted from the nearest ER to another one further away are at greater risk of dying -- not just soon after the heart attack, but for up to a year after the intervention, a new study finds.
Researchers examined data from 13,860 Medicare patients who were admitted to emergency departments for heart attack at hospitals in four California counties (Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Mateo and Santa Clara) between 2000 and 2005. Ambulance traffic was diverted from the nearest emergency department to another hospital on an average of 7.9 hours out of 24 hours.
Compared to patients who received care at the nearest hospital, those whose nearest emergency department were diverting ambulances for 12 hours or more had higher death rates after 30 days (19 percent vs. 15 percent), 90 days (26 percent vs. 22 percent), 9 months (33 percent vs. 28 percent), and one year (35 percent vs. 29 percent).
The researchers also found differences in treatment patterns once patients were admitted to the emergency department. Catheterization rates were 49 percent for patients who weren't diverted and 42 percent for those whose nearest emergency department was sending ambulances to a hospital further away for 12 hours or more.
Rates of percutaneous coronary interventions such as balloon angioplasty or stent placement was 31 percent for patients who weren't diverted and 24 percent for patients who were diverted during a 12-hour period or more.
The study appears online and in the June 15 print issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, and will be presented at an AcademyHealth meeting.
"These findings point to the need for more targeted interventions to appropriately distribute system-level resources in such a way to decrease crowding and diversion, so that patients with time-sensitive conditions such as [heart attack] are not adversely affected," wrote the researchers, Yu-Chu Shen of the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, Calif., and National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, Mass., and Dr. Renee Y. Hsia, of the University of California, San Francisco.
"It is important to emphasize that while demand on emergency care is increasing as evidenced by increasing utilization, supply of emergency care is decreasing. If these issues are not addressed on a larger scale, ED conditions will deteriorate, having significant implications for all," they concluded.
Some other experts agreed. Commenting on the study, Dr. Carl Ramsay, chairman of the department of emergency medicine at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City, said, "While the public sees ambulance diversion as a sign of ED overcrowding, those of us in emergency medicine have known for years that it actually reflects failed processes in the [non-emergency department] areas of the hospital."
"How many people actually know that unbalanced surgical scheduling by stacking up Monday through Thursday {operating room] schedules creates ED overcrowding, which creates ambulance diversion?" Ramsay continued. "This is only one in a chain of many dysfunctional links that leads directly back to the streets that carry patients to hospital emergency departments."
"This study focuses on death as the primary endpoint. The more that optimal disease management is discovered to be time-sensitive -- as in heart attack, stroke and sepsis -- most of the affected patients who do not reach care within the optimal timeframe will not die (thus the mortality figures will not substantially change), but will have permanent alterations that affect their ability to live a quality existence," he said.
"This impacts the person, their family and our society," Ramsay added. "This study reveals the tip of the iceberg."
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Specifically, I wanted to talk about race as it pertained to H.P. Lovecraft's writings.
It seemed like the thing to do. The organizers of World Horror had found me a panel to sit on, moderated by Lovecraftian scholar, critic and anthologist S.T. Joshi, called Lovecraft's Eternal Fascination. My first novel, Eutopia: A Novel of Terrible Optimism, is the only pseudo-Lovecraftian book I've written, and one of my aims with that book was to deal with Lovecraftian xenophobia from a post-Martin-Luther-K
ing perspective--to tie Lovecraft's horrible eugenic notions together with the genuine and just as horrible eugenic fallacies that were making the rounds in early 20th century America. As Eternal Fascinations went, I thought race might rate.
When the panel started it became clear: not so much. I brought up the topic early and affably in the panel, and just a little later but also affably, Mr. Joshi shut it down with a familiar canard: Lovecraft's racism and xenophobia must be viewed in the context of Lovecraft's considerably less-enlightened time. I recall gently objecting that Lovecraft's views may have been more mainstream in the 1920s and 1930s yet were still not universal--but, not wanting to be seen as hijacking the panel, letting things go.
Because really, it fast became clear that last year at least, not very many people at Lovecraftian panels wanted to talk about race as it pertained to Lovecraftian fiction.
Is it any different this year? The petition going around to have Gahan Wilson's bust of H.P. Lovecraft replaced with one of Octavia Butler on the World Fantasy Award is certainly generating considerable talk. Mr. Joshi, somewhat less affably than I remember him a year ago, made a Modest Proposal for an alternative to the statue on his blog -- to which the petition's author Daniel José Older rather definitively replied.**
But I'd submit this talk about race in the fantasy-writing and -reading community, while a vitally important talk to have, is not one of race in Lovecraft's fiction. And as long as Lovecraft remains such a foundational influence in so much fantasy, horror and especially weird fiction, that's a talk that, as uncomfortable as it is, is also very necessary.
I'd make the case that Lovecraft's fiction--and Lovecraftian horror--depends on the xenophobia that was endemic to Lovecraft's work to the point that without it, many of his stories lose their unique and uniquely profound effect. "The Horror in Red Hook" is a direct channelling of Lovecraft's loathing of newcomers to New York City; the real horror of "The Call of Cthulhu" is not the octopus-headed demigod that emerges out of his underwater city to kill all the people, but the people themselves--all either eugenically unfit denizens of the bayou or "primitive" island cultures whose religious practises amount to a kind of proactive nihilism. The manifestation of Nyarlathotep in the eponymous story is that of a black man bearing trinkets, who seduces the good white folk of America into authoring their own demise.
There are other things going on in Lovecraft too: there's the bestiary/pantheon of fantastically alien gods and monsters; that overheated prose that veers so easily between the sublime and the leaden; his fearful, bookish characters. But those are characteristics, aesthetics; not fundamentals. They are not the agenda.
The agenda in Lovecraft's fiction is clear, and woven deep into the bones of his stories.
This is an uncomfortable thing to face, for practitioners of Lovecraftian tradition of weird fiction. For most of us who write and read the stuff, the attraction is toward the aesthetic. And as borne out by Lovecraft's early disciples, that aesthetic wasn't always quite enough.
British author Ramsey Campbell was a very early disciple, coming across Lovecraft stories as a
It tells the story of Perry, a fellow who after a visit to the forbidden books section of the British Museum, gathers sufficient information to determine there is something awful going on in a little English village: a demonic creature described in its full Lovecraftian glory, that first menaced the countryside but was eventually imprisioned in a cellar, where its master fed it on unwary travellers. And then, Perry heads off to check it out. Why? Even Campbell doesn't know, and expresses his frustration in the opening lines:
"Is there some lurking remnant of the elder world in each of us which draws us toward the beings which survive from other eons? Surely there must be such a remnant in me, for there can be no sane or wholesome reason why I should have strayed that day to the old, legend-infected ruin on the hill, nor can any commonplace reason be deduced for my finding the secret underground room there, and still less for opening the door of horror which I discovered."Indeed, through the text of the story no proper motivation for Perry emerges. There is nothing about Perry beyond a schoolboyish curiosity to put him in contact with the eventually fabulously-described creature in the cellar room. There is not a hint of subtext, other than a general admonition against curiosity where terrible monsters are concerned.
Would Campbell's story have been better if he'd shot it through with the old-time Lovecraftian racism? No--partly because although I don't know Campbell personally, I've seen no evidence that he harbours those views himself, so the insertion would have been dishonest--and in larger part because, as I should probably emphasize, I don't think that added racism makes for a better story. But Campbell's collection-opening short story has a hole in it where Lovecraft might have stuffed a big wad of bigoted neuroses--a hole that the mythos-dazzled young author hadn't felt it necessary to fill.
The Cthulhu Mythos continues to dazzle more contemporary writers. And why wouldn't it? The creatures Lovecraft described and hinted at are magnificent things, and the secret-history-of-the-world is an excellent sandbox for thoughful writers, particularly ones who're willing to fill the holes in it with something else.
Charles Stross has good fun with Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos in his Laundry books, without appearing to draw on anxiety much deeper than a solid recollection of a bad time working I.T. Where Stross blends espionage adventure with the Mythos, Laird Barron blends noirish elements with pseudo-Mythos tropes to explore themes that are nearer to Jim Thompson's brand of nihilism than Lovecraft's. Thomas Ligotti cheerily swaps out xenophobia for all-out misanthropy.
Some manage to keep closer to Lovecraft's more specific anxieties, without embracing Lovecraft's awful conclusions. Catalan author Albert Sanchez Pinol, in his 2002 novel Cold Skin, delved into the same dank eugenic chambers as did "The Shadow Over Innsmouth"--dealing this time not with the progeny of a racially-mixed marriage, but with the inter-racial sexual politics between the potential parents, as his narrator-protagonist finds an uneasy erotic union with a female creature of a species very similar to Lovecraft's amphibious Deep Ones. It is, if you will, a xenophillic novel, with a dash of post-imperialist critique.
For me, the xenophobia angle remains the most interesting, and perhaps the most relevant. The legacy of racists like Lovecraft is still very much in play in contemporary society, from the Obama birthers to the Ferguson cops and most points between... and the discussion as to how to contain that legacy is far from over. In a perverse way, Lovecraft's retrograde views on race may be his most socially relevant contribution to 20th century weird literature... not as an advocate of his views, not by any means, but as an example of where we've been and what too many of us still share, an opportunity to critique those views through the lens of cosmic horror and alien gods.
It's a telling thing in our little community of weird fiction afficionados, that as much as we fetishize those immense and indestructible beasts and beings of the Cthulhu Mythos, the one monster that we cannot bring ourselves to face is the frail and fearful one who put it all together.
* Those interested in a more comprehensive accounting of Lovecraft's racist proclivities should check out Phenderson Djeli Clark's excellent survey of his writings right here. And (EDIT AUG. 27): As has been pointed out to me in the comment section of this blog, PDC's survey is not the only instance where discussion of Lovecraft's racism has come to the fore. Essays by Nicole Cushing, Bruce Lord, Betsy Phillips and Zoe Quinn (who came up with this chilling online quiz comparing Lovecraft's words to those of Adolph Hitler) are some excellent online resources I've been able to come across immediately. I've also had Michel Houellebecq's critical work H.P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life recommended to me, although I've not had opportunity to read it yet. In a similar vein, I would welcome seeing other citations that I haven't been able to find myself, posted in the comment section.
** For the record, I think that Older's at least half right, and Lovecraft's bust shouldn't be gracing an award that honours creators of all kinds of fantasy from all over the world. Lovecraft's racism, and also the specificity of his sub-genre (the weird tale) implies at least an outdated hierarchy of people and theme, and ought to be discarded in favour of... something else, I'd say, rather than someone else. But that's for another blog post.


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Thursday, July 28, 2011
Where in the world is Blood Ties?
In a perfect world, bookstores would stay in business forever and stock every book known to man. Unfortunately, we don't live in a perfect world - we live in one where the book business as we know it is in danger. And that makes it very difficult for authors to make their books available to readers.
For example, Borders was a true Blood Coven fan. They stocked ALL the books - not just the new release. They even had a big display when Bad Blood first came out. So cool. Unfortunately, now they're out of business and so all those readers who depended on Borders to get their Blood Coven fix are out of luck.
Barnes and Noble, for some reason unbeknownst to me, has not been supportive of the Blood Coven series. They have not stocked the books. Some local stores have - because they placed individual orders - but countrywide, they didn't stock Night School and they're not stocking Blood Ties either. Wal*Mart stocked Night School, but chose not to stock Blood Ties.
Sucks, right? And not in a good vampire kind of way!
So where in the world can you find Blood Ties? Well, here are a few ideas.
1) Barnes and Noble! I know, I just got through saying they aren't stocking it. However, if you go there and REQUEST it, they'll get a copy in, just for you. You don't even have to pay until it arrives in the store. That is the number one, best way to get the book (even though it's a pain!) because it shows the bookstore they are making a mistake not stocking it - because people want to read it!
2) Online - You can always order a copy from a mail-order bookstore like Amazon or BarnesandNoble.com. If you're international, you can get it with FREE SHIPPING on BookDepository.com
3) E-Books - It's available on all e-book formats - Kindle, iBook, Nook, Kobo, Sony, etc. Buy it and read it in seconds! This is a great option if you own an e-reader.
4) Other bookstores. Books-a-Million has always been a Blood Coven supporter. If you have one in your area, they may be stocking the book. Smaller bookstores may also get it in. Or, again, you can always order it.
For me, this is very frustrating because I worked hard on this book and I want people to be able to read it. So I hope you will make an effort to go out and find the book, even if it isn't as easy as just grabbing the latest bestseller off the shelf. Sometimes stores need to be told what readers want to read - or they're just going to stock the books that publishers pay them to stock. (Those displays you see? Those are bought placement!!) So I hope you will join me in letting bookstores know that Blood Coven is a series to watch!
Oh and lastly, if you want to order a copy straight from me - you can do so by emailing me at firstname.lastname@example.com. For $9.99 plus $2.50 postage, I can send you an autographed copy. Email for details.
HUGS and thanks for the support!
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While you're lecturing the left you should also lecture the right, including Ronald Reagan. Cheers.
That's because you live in fantasy land where Reagan has been changed into some great fiscal conservative. The debt trippled under Reagan.
I created this video to demonstrate what 16 trillion dollars looks like, (and maybe lecture the left a bit)should I do 211 Trillion?
He mentions the left in his opening post.


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Finding unlikely spirit and care in Bundaberg
How do you pick someone from Bundaberg, apart from a predilection for a certain spirit?
Firstly, they acknowledge the rare cold day by wearing ugg boots — but still retain their usual garb of singlet and shorts.
Secondly, they go soft and gooey around the edges when you mention turtles, especially baby loggerheads.
After all, Mon Repos Beach, on the northern city's outskirts, sports the most significant loggerhead nesting population in the South Pacific.
Each spring and summer thousands of locals and visitors flock to the beach to watch the huge, cumbersome — on land anyway — loggerheads come ashore to lay their eggs, and some 6-8 weeks later to see the eggs hatch and the baby turtles make the perilous journey into the ocean.
Jess McKenzie, a ranger with Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service, tells me that their estimate of the survival rate is about one in a thousand. No wonder that the species is endangered.
You only have to talk for a few minutes with someone such as Jess, who is based at the Mon Repos Turtle Centre, to appreciate the zealous passion associated with the work.
Bookings for next season's laying and hatching open on September 1 and are priced at a ridiculously low $12.80 for adults ($6.65 for children aged 5-14 years and just $2.80 per head for primary and secondary school groups).
Only those holding Turtle Encounter tickets are allowed on the beach after 6pm.
Jess stresses that the turtles are wild animals and that their participation, in both laying and hatching, can never be guaranteed — and that observers occasionally are disappointed.
She also stresses the importance of maintaining and hopefully increasing the number of eggs successfully hatched on Mon Repos.
As adults, the loggerheads invariably return to their birthplace to lay their eggs.
The residents of Bundaberg take their responsibilities seriously and have initiated a widespread program of minimising surrounding light which may interfere with the turtles.
It's virtually impossible to visit Bundaberg with getting the 'Cut the Glow to Help Turtles Go' message.
It has been 50 years since Dr Col Limpus started studying the loggerheads on Mon Repos Beach — a study that continues today and that Col admits has gotten a bit out of hand.
He grew up with the turtles on the beach and would love to see his grandchildren and their children to enjoy the same experiences.
It's an ambitious task, but I'm sure that the citizens of Bundaberg, especially its children, will ensure that it's fulfilled.
The spirit I mentioned at the beginning of the story is, of course, Bundaberg Rum, better known simply as Bundy.
But it's certainly not the only spirit produced in the city, as we found out attending 'Let the Night Be Gin', a highly delectable component of Bundaberg's annual Winterfeast.
It was organised by Rick Prosser, of Kalki Moon, which he reckons set a Queensland first by taking out the Premium London Dry Gin section at this year's Australian Distilled Spirits Competition in Melbourne.
The evening had its educational side, with groups challenged to blend their own gin using botanicals as diverse as elderflower, angelica and lavender, as well, of course, as the obligatory juniper berries.
I'm still waiting for my bottle to arrive and to test out our skills at blending.
Regardless, though, it was an entertaining evening that heralded, for our group, a fabulous Winterfeast which showed just why the Bundaberg district is recognised as one of Australia's major food baskets.
John Rozentals was a guest of Bundaberg North Burnett Tourism.


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Here on the scene in Salem, MO at the 100 Acre Wood Rally comes word of a multiple-roll accident involving Travis Pastrana and Christian Edstrom. No injuries reported and there's more information inside.
Hot word on the trail is Travis Pastrana rolled violently in the last stage of the first day here at the 2009 100 Acre Wood Rally. No injuries were reported, but the car is toast. After this huge upset, Ken Block is currently poised for the win.
Keep an eye on our RallyAmerica tag for more updates as they roll in. We'll have a full photo gallery up tomorrow after the second and last day of racing wraps up. Even though our Travis Pastrana and Ken Block interviews are in the bag, we'll be chatting with Dave Mirra tomorrow. If any members of the Jalopnik Commentariat have a witty question to throw Dave's way, post it below and you may see it come to fruition.


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In a minor league system armed with the likes of Matt Wisler, Max Fried, Joe Ross, Burch Smith, Donn Roach and Jose De Paula, Matt Andriese has been pitching under the radar gun – literally and figuratively.
Andriese can throw fastballs up to 95 miles an hour.
Can, but doesn't particularly want to.
"I'm more of a sinker ball pitcher," the 23-year-old right-hander said earlier this week. "I'm more worried about command than velocity. I'm trying to get outs as soon as possible."
Getting outs is something that the Redlands native and UC Riverside product has been doing with regularity this season with Double-A San Antonio.
While Andriese is not as well known as fellow Missions starters Smith (who is currently with the Padres), Roach, De Paula and the recently promoted Wisler plus relievers Matt Stites and Kevin Quackenbush, he is simply one of the best pitchers in the Texas League.
After seven starts, the 6-foot-3, 210-pound Andriese is 5-0 with a 2.19 earned run average. He has allowed 27 hits and seven walks in 37 innings with 34 strikeouts. He ranks third in the Texas League in runners reached base per inning (0.92) right behind Smith. Andriese is tied for the league lead in wins and not out of the top 10 in any vital statistic.
"The San Antonio staff is crazy good and Andriese ranks with the best," said Randy Smith, the Padres vice president of player development.
Andriese said everyone on the San Antonio staff received a boost last week when Burch Smith was promoted to the Padres.
"It was very encouraging," said Andriese. "It's good to know you are working your way ahead . . . that how close you really are if you keep advancing."
Andriese views himself as a hybrid pitcher.
"I'm a little of both a contact pitcher and a strikeout pitcher," he said. "I added a cutter last year to go with the fastball, curve and changeup. I'll work with my fastball from 88 to 93. I can go for the strikeout when I need it, but I like ground balls."
Andriese was 10-8 at Single-A Lake Elsinore last year with a 3.58 ERA and 131 strikeouts in 146 innings. He was 5-1 at short-season Single-A after signing in 2011 with a 1.51 ERA.
Although Smith (1.15) is with the Padres, De Paula (2.89) and Roach (3.06) also rank among the Texas League's ERA leaders. After going 2-1 with a 2.03 ERA in six starts with Lake Elsinore, Wisler allowed three runs on two hits and three walks over five innings Sunday in his debut with the Missions. He gave up a two-run homer in the first.
Around the farm:
Triple-A Tucson (18-18): After a slow start, the T-Padres have played their way back to .500. Some keys are 2B Dean Anna (.333, five homers, 19 RBIs), OF Dan Robertson (.326, .404 on-base pct., 28 runs scored) and OF Travis Buck (.275-4-23). Former Padre Tim Stauffer (2-2, 3.53 ERA) allowed one run on five hits over seven innings in his most recent start. Thad Weber is 4-1 with a 4.28 ERA while left-hander Robbie Erlin is 3-0 with a 3.00 ERA in five starts.
Double-A San Antonio (19-17): OF Reymond Fuentes ranks third in the Texas League in batting (.313), second in runs scored (25) and second in steals (17) to teammate Rico Noel (27). 3B Jake Blackwood is ninth in the league with a .309 average with 25 RBI. 1B Kalian Sams is hitting .429 with four homers in one week since he was signed to replace the injured Tommy Medica (lat muscle). Quackenbush has a 0.61 ERA after 13 outings and Stites has a 2.12 ERA after 15 appearances.
High Single-A Lake Elsinore (12-24): 2B Cory Spangenberg ranks ninth in the California League with a .311 average with three homers and 18 RBI. He is second in the league with 13 steals to teammate CF Travis Jankowski. OF Yeison Asencio has raised his average to .295 and is third in the league with 28 RBIs. Right-handed starter James Needy of Santana High has a 3.23 ERA with 36 strikeouts in 39 2/3 innings.
Low Single-A Fort Wayne (21-13):Ross is 3-0 with a 2.84 ERA after six starts. Ramon Madrid is 4-0 with five saves and a 0.00 ERA after 15 appearances. RHP Justin Hancock has a 1.59 ERA after five starts. Fried has a 2.92 ERA after five starts.


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There's no excuse for poor presentations
Categories: Like talking but with more typing, Now I'm free(lancing), Things you should be reading
The standard joke is that writers do what they do because it allows them to work 1) alone and/or 2) silently, and no one should be surprised when writers are awkward or boring in person. There was certainly a time when one could fit that stereotype and still make a decent living, but nowadays it's nearly impossible to be a career writer and not have to do a certain amount of public speaking as part and parcel of that existence. Write books? Go on tour to promote them. Blog for a living? Sit on some panels at conferences. Otherwise freelance in the realm of getting paid for your words? Rest assured, somewhere, at some point, you are going to be expected to speak publicly in support of the work you do.
Nothing will make people question your professionalism more than a terrible public speaking engagement. Listen, some people just get nervous and handle themselves poorly in public; it doesn't mean they're dumb or incompetent by default. But a good public showing showcases your ability to conduct yourself like a professional, while a poor one suggests you don't do well under pressure.
The good news is that presentation skills can be learned. If you don't yet handle yourself well in this arena, don't panic! You can cultivate the skills you need.
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This is a guest post from Eric Olsen, co-author of We Wanted To Be Writers. I personally feel this topic is important as I spent many years reading books on writing before I actually got on with the writing itself! If you like this article, you might also like the How To Write A Novel mini-course – click here for more details.
Here are some suggestions to get your first words on the page.
A young writer recently asked me: "How do you start?" She told me that after spending months doing research for a novel, after filling several file folders with notes, clippings, and random thoughts, she'd yet to start the thing. But she was hardly short on ideas. "So," she asked, "How do you start?"
A great question. I ask myself the same thing more or less every day. Or, variously, how to re-start, as in get unstuck…
There may be as many reasons for not starting as there are writers facing a persistently blank page, but I think for a lot of us, the hang-up is anxiety about setting off on the wrong path. Maybe you have an idea for a story, maybe it's a great idea, and before you actually start to write that story, the possibilities are endless and the idea remains great. But once you start, once you set out on a particular path with particular characters and situations, suddenly the possibilities aren't so endless. Now you've chosen a path, and what if you've set off on the wrong path?
So how can you get past all that?
You don't have to start at the beginning
One approach is to simply not worry about "starting," as in starting at the beginning. In We Wanted to Be Writers, John Irving (The World According to Garp, Cider House Rules, and many others) tells us he starts a novel by writing the last line first. "I work my way backward from the end of the novel," he says, "which is the first thing I know, to what the first chapter should be. By the time I actually write the first sentence, I have a virtual road map of the whole novel — either in notes or in my head."
I've never tried this, as I just don't work that way, and Irving himself says he sincerely doubts his method would work for anyone else. But it might be a worth a try…
Write scenes
Novelist Sandra Cisneros (House on Mango Street, Carmelo, and many other books) takes another approach. She doesn't start at the beginning or the end. "I don't write in a linear fashion," she tells us. "I write what I call 'buttons.' If I'm writing a story, rather than going beginning to end, I just write scenes and don't worry about what connects them. Maybe dialogue … all out of sequence. I imagine I'm going to die in eight hours, so what part of this story do I need to write today that I haven't written because it's going to be published posthumously? If I'm in a funk and tired about this book, I'll write about someone who's tired. I just use it as a place to go off from, then write it and rework it until it's beautiful, and then I have this little button. And my job is done. And then the next day I work on another button, and then I put them together and start to see patterns."
Write characters
If you have an idea for a story or novel, perhaps buried somewhere in those sheaves of notes, especially if you're a compulsive researcher like me, and you use research to put off doing what you need to do, which is to start, try writing about a character who might or might not end up being in that story; this is exploration, after all, path-finding, but not starting out on a particular path, a little like Sandra's buttons.
Give the character a name. Describe the character. Then have the character doing something. A person doing something in space and time — cooking an egg, flying to Mars, visiting an art gallery, or whatever — is inherently interesting, and certainly more so than a character just sitting around thinking; the thinking can come later, if it must. Once you have a character doing something, this might lead to that character doing something else…
Better yet, start with two characters doing something. Give them both names and describe both of them. If you have two characters, then they can interact and talk to one another.
Write dialogue
One of our teachers at Iowa 30-plus years ago, the late novelist Vance Bourjaily (The End of My Life, The Violated, and many others) once told our class that good dialogue is a conflict that reveals character, desire, and what's at stake. He also added that the bad guy should get the better lines. Action and dialogue are ways to get into a character's head, and, indeed your own head, and thus into finding the story. You might end up tossing what you've written, but if it gets you going, so what? Remember, this is about exploration at this point.
Another teacher suggested having a conversation with your characters as a way of finding out who they are and what they want, as a way of finding your story. I was working on a novel at the time and it wasn't going anywhere and I was losing steam. I didn't need to start, but I certainly needed a kick in the ass.
So I took my teacher's advice. I asked each character how he or she ended up in this situation and what each wanted, and I got answers. I set it up as a series of dialogues, and I was amazed at how the characters began to take on new life and speak for themselves when I gave them the opportunity to tell me what they wanted and what the story should be.
It was an engaging, liberating exercise as I was relieved of the burden of worrying how each character might fit into the plot; how they might fit didn't matter at that point. The exercise gave me new ideas about each character, new insights into who they were and what they wanted and, indeed, about how the story should unfold. Now I do this routinely. Of course, in our culture, carrying on conversations with imaginary characters usually leads to the court-ordered administration of psychoactive medications, but if you're found out, just say you're a writer and it should be OK.
How do you start writing when you actually put pen to paper?
We Wanted to be Writers, a blend of interviews, commentary, advice, gossip, anecdotes, analyses, history, and asides with nearly 30 graduates and teachers who were at the Iowa Writers' Workshop in the mid-70s. They include John Irving, Jane Smiley, T.C. Boyle, Allan Gurganus, Sandra Cisneros, Jayne Anne Phillips, Michelle Huneven, Joe Haldeman, Jennie Fields, Marvin Bell, and many others.
Find out more or buy the book at WeWantedToBeWriters.com
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"Our New Century Council, a group of advisors age 45 and under, are currently looking to identify what the business model of the future will look like in 2025."
No small order, but one Fairfield, Iowa-based Cambridge Investment Research is willing to take on.
"The reason we're doing it is that we want to make sure our advisors and clients today, as well as the next generation, have the tools and resources they need," Jeff Vivacqua, the firm's first vice president of business strategy, explained. "It might be e-signature technology or money management platforms or whatever."
New Century Council members convened at Fidelity's offices in Boston last April, he related, noting "we didn't want it to just be about technology, but about the overall business model as well."
The group began the laborious task with a flowchart featuring clients at the top, all the different business models on the next level, the reps and advisors below that, Cambridge as the penultimate layer and finally "next steps" as the bottom outflow.
"The group discussed the individual rep model, how client relationships will be characterized, technology and the systems that will need to be developed (at both the advisor and client levels), as well as a number of other issues."
From these, he added, three business models were identified:
- Family specialty office—one office, with each advisor specializing in a particular skillset.
- Team approach—A number of advisors will come together—a type of ensemble firm—that leverage each other, but none have one, particular skillset.
- Open or virtual team—Advisors will want to work together because each has a defined specialty that compliments the other, but one might be in Houston and the other in Philadelphia. Technology, obviously, is making it easier for each to work with the other remotely, or "virtually."
"How do we now define what these three business models will need for the future? Those are the next steps at the bottom of the flowchart."
Whether these business models exist in the wirehouse, broker-dealer or the RIA, where will Cambridge fall in the mix?
"Eric [Schwartz, Cambridge's chairman and CEO] likes to point to the right, the left and somewhere in the middle," Vivacqua answered. "That's where Cambridge does and will exist, somewhere in the middle."
He added that firms "have to consider the rep needs, the marketplace needs and then what the firm is capable of producing. A combination of all three drives intellectual change."
Succession and next-gen issues are also major themes for council members. Obviously, the question is where firms will find successors and the next generation, but Vivacqua argued, it's more than that.
"Some say the roles are shrinking, but it's only because the next generation of advisors isn't coming from traditional sources."
Wherever they come from, he concluded that Cambridge feels a "residency-type approach" is what's needed.
"Studies show that the more acclimated a younger rep gets to the client relationship, the more successful they will be. Doctors immediately start medical students on the interaction with patients—their bedside manner—and our belief is that same type of internship is needed. So now I will connect those dots and say that will impact your business just as much as any technology will."


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Osama bin Laden's son-in-law, who authorities say was a spokesman and top adviser for al-Qaida, has been arrested overseas and is charged in New York with conspiracy to kill Americans, officials said.
Sulaiman Abu Gheith is expected to appear in federal court in Manhattan Friday.
Abu Gheith was seen on video shortly after 9/11 with bin Laden as the terror leader claimed responsibility for the attacks. Federal prosecutors say he held a key advisory position in the terror organization, serving alongside bin Laden from at least May 2001 through 2002.
They say Abu Gheith in May 2001 urged followers at a house in Kandahar to swear allegiance to bin Laden, and appeared with the terror leader the day after the 9/11 attacks to call upon "the nation of Islam" to do battle against "the Jews, the Christians and the Americans."
"He used his position to persuade others to swear loyalty to al-Qaida's murderous cause," said FBI Assistant Director-in-Charge George Venizelos. "He used his position to threaten the United States and incite its enemies."
Rep. Peter King praised the CIA and FBI for the terror suspect's arrest.
"The propaganda statements in which Abu Gheith and his late father-in-law, Osama bin Laden, praised the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 are alone enough to merit the most serious punishment," King said.
In the al-Qaida video that aired in October 2001, Abu Gheith said, "Americans should know the storm of planes will not stop."
Federal prosecutors said he was smuggled from Afghanistan into Iran in 2002.
Sources tell NBC News he was initially taken into custody by Turkish authorities last month in Ankara where a Turkish court ruled that he had illegally entered the country with a fake passport.
The Turkish government then deported Abu Gheith to Kuwait, his birthplace, but arranged for him to transit through Jordan where he was ultimately taken into custody by the U.S.
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Oregon Writing Project
Linda Christensen
Instructor and Director of the Oregon Writing Project
Rogers Hall
Linda Christensen is the Director of the Oregon Writing Project (OWP), located in the Graduate School of Education at Lewis & Clark College. The OWP is part of the National Writing Project network, the oldest and largest professional development project in the United States. Linda is the author of Reading, Writing, and Rising Up: Teaching about Social Justice and the Power of the Written Word, Teaching for Joy and Justice: Re-Imagining the Language Arts Classroom. She has co-edited several books, including The New Teacher Book Finding Purpose, Balance, and Hope During Your First Years in the Classroom and Rethinking School Reform: Views from the Classroom. She has given keynote addresses at local, national, and international conferences about her work on literacy and social justice. She taught high school Language Arts and worked as Language Arts Curriculum Specialist for thirty years in Portland, Oregon. She is a member of the Rethinking Schools editorial board. She has received numerous awards, including the Fred Heschinger Award for use of research in teaching and writing from National Writing Project and the U.S. West Outstanding Teacher of Western United States and most recently, the Humanitarian Award from Willamette Writers.
Learn more about the Oregon Writing Project
Finding Joy and Justice in the Classroom
Linda talks about her book, Teaching for Joy and Justice, and what it means to create space for teachers to be intellectuals and artists in the classroom.
Personal Statement
"I attempt to keep my vision—and hope—alive by participating in critical teaching groups. These groups help me think more carefully about social justice issues inside as well as outside of the classroom, from literacy practices to top-down curricular policies. Our sometimes-heated discussions about articles, books, and curriculum hone my ability to evaluate my work. I carry these voices—and the solidarity of these teachers—like a Greek chorus in my mind. They remind me to question and sometimes to defy those in authority when I'm told to participate in practices that harm children. They nettle me when I fall into easy patterns and point out when I deliver glib answers to difficult problems."
Current Research
Linda's current research is focused on building academic confidence and competence with struggling readers and writers. She is also continuing her research the issues of teaching and social justice.
- "Finding Voice: Learning about Language and Power," Voices from the Middle, Volume 18 Number 3, March 2011.
- Terry Burant, Linda Christensen, Kelley Dawson Salas, Stephanie Walters, (2010) The New Teacher Book: Finding Purpose, Balance, and Hope During Your First Years in the Classroom. Milwaukee, WI: Rethinking Schools.
- Teaching for Joy and Justice: Re-Imagining the Language Arts Classroom, (2009) Milwaukee, WI: Rethinking Schools.
- "Putting Out the Linguistic Welcome Mat, Educational Leadership. September, 2008.
- "The Power of Words: Top-Down Mandates Masquerade as Social Justice Reforms."Language Arts, Volume 85, Number 2, November 2007.
- "Keeping a Social Justice Vision in the Land of Scripted Literacy" Language Arts, Volume 83, Number 5, May 2006.
- Christensen, Linda, and Stan Karp. (2003) Rethinking School Reform. Milwaukee, WI: Rethinking Schools.
- Reading, Writing, and Rising Up: Teaching About Social Justice and the Power of the Written Word. (2000) Milwaukee, WI: Rethinking Schools.
- "Critical Literacy: Reading, Writing, and Outrage." Making Justice Our Project. (1999) Urbana: NCTE Press.
- "Writing the Word and the World." Teaching for Social Justice. (1998) New York: New Press & Teachers College Press.
Academic Credentials
M.Ed. 1981 University of Portland, BA 1973 Humboldt State University
From the Newsroom
In a recent article for the journal Rethinking Schools, Linda Christensen—director of the Oregon Writing Project, editor, and author—explains how teachers can use Myrlin Hepworth's poem "Ritchie Valens" to engage students with social justice issues.
Linda Christensen, director of the Oregon Writing Project at Lewis & Clark, reflects on being a veteran teacher who still sometimes fails to connect curriculum to her students' lives—and about the dire consequences of that failure for her students.
Linda Christensen, director of the Oregon Writing Project at Lewis & Clark, has just published Teaching for Joy and Justice, a much-anticipated follow-up to her 2000 book, Reading, Writing, and Rising Up.
Professors Linda Christensen and Dyan Watson are co-editors of Rethinking Elementary Education, which was given top honors in the Independent Book Publishers Association Benjamin Franklin Awards.


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It's almost time for the big guy dressed in red, but your head is pounding. And it's not from the sound of reindeer hooves on the roof. It's the anxiety monster.
It's almost time for the big guy dressed in red, but your head is pounding. And it's not from the sound of reindeer hooves on the roof.
It's the anxiety monster.
Depression and anxiety peak over the holidays, with half the population experiencing major stresses as a direct result of the holidays, according to a 2010 survey by the nonprofit Mental Health America in Alexandria, Va.
"Although it is the season of celebration, if you are the person doing the entertaining, it can cause stress and create anxiety," said Dr. Richard Wallen, an internist and the emergency management coordinator for Pocono Medical Center.
Stress is different for everyone, and it is pretty much an external force — expectation and obligation, he said.
"If you stop and take time to think about what is causing your stress and anxiety, you will realize a large part of it comes from the expectations you put on yourself, or allow others to put on you," said Suzanne Makary, a registered nurse and music therapist at St. Luke's University Hospital in Bethlehem.
It is important to deal with that anxiety head on. If not, there is a "feeling of loss of control," Makary said.
One way to put anxiety in perspective is to reflect on the past.
"Think back to the best memories you have of Christmas or other holidays, and you will discover it probably isn't about the picture-perfect meal or the gifts you received, but more about sharing and spending time with those you care about," Wallen said.
Then, you'll see the festivities from a different view.
"The holidays can be fun and filled with joy and happy memories, if you don't let stress and anxiety take over," Makary said.
What you need to do is figure out exactly what you are stressed about at Christmas and deal with it, Makary said.
"Make a plan and stick to it. Having an idea of what you actually need to do will give you a feeling of accomplishment," she said.
One of the biggest stress creators is the amount of money people feel they need to spend on gifts. "Make a budget and when you shop, stick to it," Wallen said.
Be honest with your family and friends about how much you can spend, he said. "You might be surprised and find out they feel the same way as you do."
There are lots of ways to handle the issue. "Have a gift exchange or draw names. If you are crafty, you can even make most of your gifts, but start early," Makary said.
Meals are another source of stress. "If cooking Christmas dinner seems overwhelming, ask for help from your family and friends. There is nothing wrong with having everyone pitch in. It helps ease the financial burden of making the entire meal, as well as the stress of getting it all done before everyone arrives," Wallen said. "Don't be a martyr."
Accept your family isn't perfect, too. The family might fight, someone will be disappointed in a gift and there is a high probability the dog will knock over the tree, according to Mental Health America's website.
"Don't expect annoying or rude family or friends to be different because it is Christmas. It simply isn't going to happen," said James Radack, vice president of public affairs for Mental Health America.
"Besides, your expectations of what makes a happy holiday may not be someone else's measure of a happy holiday, so you are setting yourself up for failure before you even start," Wallen said.
Avoid trying to attend every single party and holiday event you are invited to, Makary said. "Instead of rushing from one party to another and feeling guilty, accept the fact you can't get to them all."
Ask if you could get together in January, February or March when things slow down and there is more free time, or maybe suggest meeting for coffee and cookies after work.
"There is no written rule that you have to get to all the places you were invited during the holiday," Makary said.
If you are traveling during the holidays, take frequent breaks and set limits on how far you are willing to travel for the holiday, Wallen said.
Following your normal routine will also you keep your balance. "If you exercise or walk, make sure to take the time to keep doing it," Makary said.
Wallen and Makary advised keeping normal sleeping routines and trying not to overindulge at parties.
"Relax and watch a funny movie like 'Christmas Vacation' with family or friends and laugh and enjoy the season," Wallen said.


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One of them is bad. But that's okay, I guess? Behold some of the latest Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII downloadable content.
Today, Square Enix launched the first round of DLC for the game. The outfits, which come with weapons, are The Divine World's Saint Clothing Style, The Final Liberation Clothing Style, and, wait for it, The Moogle Lover Style. Below, you can see the outfits, courtesy of 4Gamer.
Moogles are those little critters all over Lightning.
Each is priced at 400 yen (US$4), while the full set is 1,000 yen ($10). No word yet on a Western release.
「LIGHTNING RETURNS: FINAL FANTASY XIII」,体験版&DLC第1弾の配信がスタート [4Gamer]
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Are there rules?ScriptChat was created in 2009 for the purpose of bringing new and seasoned screenwriters together to network, improve their writing, learn about the industry, and support one another both during and after our one-hour Twitter chat. Every week, we have a new topic, oftentimes with an honored guest from the screenwriting/filmmaking world.
We're a community, not competitors.
Everyone has something to learn, so leave your ego behind... and bring your tequila.
Our mission is to provide a platform for our screenwriting community to engage in discussions in a positive environment, whether it be by asking questions of our guests or exchanging ideas on a given topic. What we are not is a straight-up interview site. Our moderators purposely sit back to let the community ask questions, giving them full access to experts, professional writers, executives, etc. Why? Because this is a community not a dictatorship. All we ask is to respect our community spirit and each other.
By no means do we endorse any products, merchandise or service a ScriptChat guest may provide nor do we guarantee every question will get answered. Our guests do their very best, but the chat moves quickly, which is why we post a transcript after the chat, available on this site and Storify.
It is always up to the individual screenwriter to do their own due diligence, in part, by asking questions of our guests themselves, using Google, asking for references, or seeking recommendations from people who have used any product or service mentioned during the chat. Our co-founders are volunteers, honored to serve our community and do not in any way profit from any guest or product discussed.
ScriptChat brings the guests to the party so you can learn in a free, unbiased and respectful platform. Our #1 goal is to thoroughly enjoy spending an hour together every Sunday with writers working hard to improve and succeed, and we are proud to have accomplished that time and time again!
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How to Chat:The easiest way to chat is via the Scriptchat Chat Room, but there are alternate ways as well.
At the designated time, go to one of the following sites:
TCHAT INSTRUCTIONS (easiest platform to use):
1. Go to http://www.tchat.io/rooms/scriptchat at the time of the chat.
2. In the upper right hand corner, click on "Sign In"
3. The site will then ask you to Authorize your Twitter account (you'll need to login to your Twitter account on the same browser).
Click on "Authorize App":
4. You'll then be redirected to the TCHAT Scriptchat Chatroom, and you're good to go! The chatroom will automatically add the #scriptchat hashtag, so you don't have to worry about remembering to input it.
1. After going to the TWUB site, scroll down the right sidebar to "MEMBERS" and click "JOIN THIS TWUB".
2. LOG IN: If it tells you to LOG IN to join the TWUB, choose "Log in with Twitter," that way your tweets will also show up in your Twitter feed and be visibile for those NOT using TWUBS.
If you log in via TWUBS and not via Twitter, you need to click the button below the large blue "SEND" button to tweet via your Twitter username. (note: It is critical to check this box, especially if you are the featured guest.)
NOTE: Make sure you add the #scriptchat hashtag to your tweet or other followers won't see your comments. But both the tchat.io and TWUBS sites above AUTO ADDS the hashtag, making it the easiest way to participate in our chats.
We kick the chat off with the topic. Jump in, share and/or ask questions. Watch for your @ name so you can answer questions directed at you. But, most will post general questions or comments, so feel free to answer anything that pops up.
TIP: I typically have my TweetDeck open so I can see mentions as well as do the chat on tchat.io. It's not complicated... just sounds it.
Complete list of ways to participate in Scriptchat:
Complete list of ways to participate in Scriptchat:
- tchat.io http://www.tchat.io/rooms/scriptchat (most similar to the old Tweetchat)
- TWUBS http://twubs.com/scriptchat
- OneQube.com http://oneqube.com/ note: you must register on OneQube.com first, so do this in advance of the chat
- Twitter or alternate Twitter app: search the hashtag #scriptchat


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Google just killed three more useless products, and rearranged a few others.
Here's the blog post on the news from Google:
- We are making a number of API changes, adopting a one-year deprecation policy for certain APIs and removing the deprecation policy for others. Additionally, we are retiring some old APIs with limited usage. We have also updated the deprecation policy for all APIs to be much clearer and more concise. Please see the Developers Blog for more information.
- Google Flu Vaccine Finder was a maps mash-up that showed nearby vaccination places across the United States, built by a small 20 per cent team during the 2009 H1N1 pandemic when there was a dire need for fast and accurate data on flu vaccination locations. Google Flu Vaccine Finder is now retired, but we're pleased to pass the baton to the experienced team at HealthMap as they launch HealthMap Flu Vaccine Finder.
- Google Related is an experimental browsing assistant launched to help people find interesting and useful information while they browse the web. The product isn't experiencing the kind of adoption we'd like, and while we still believe in the value provided to our users, we'll be retiring the existing product over the next few weeks, so the Related team can focus on creating more magic moments across other Google products.
- Beginning June 1, 2012, we're ending our support for Google Sync for BlackBerry. If you already have the app installed, you'll still be able to use it; however it will not be available for download after June 1. If you currently use Google Sync for BlackBerry, we encourage you to switch to BlackBerry Internet Service (BIS) or the Google Apps Connector for BlackBerry Enterprise Server going forward. These alternatives offer a better overall experience, as you can sync your email messages, calendar and contacts through a single service.
- We're shutting down the mobile web app for Google Talk. For mobile users who want to continue using Google Talk, we recommend using the native Google Talk app on Android or any XMPP-compliant apps on other mobile platforms.
- One Pass, our payment platform for online news publishers, has been shut down. We are working with existing partners to make the transition from One Pass to other platforms, including Google Consumer Surveys. While One Pass is going away, we will continue working with publishers to build new tools.
- We're redirecting the old Patent Search homepage to google.com to make sure everyone is getting the best possible experience for their patent searches. Over the past few months, we've been making updates and improvements to the Patent Search functionality on google.com—not only are you able to search the same set of U.S. patents with the same advanced search options, the new experience loads twice as fast as the old Patent Search homepage, contributes to a unified search experience across Google, and sports Google Doodles as well. The team looks forward to including patents from other countries soon, and will be rolling out additional features to Patent Search on google.com in the future.
- We launched a WINE-based version of Picasa for Linux in 2006 as a Google Labs project. As we continue to enhance Picasa, it has become difficult to maintain parity on the Linux version. So today, we're deprecating Picasa for Linux and will not be maintaining it moving forward. Users who have downloaded and installed older versions of Picasa for Linux can continue to use them, though we won't be making any further updates.
- Starting today, the Picasa Web Albums Uploader for Mac and Picasa Web Albums Plugin for iPhoto will no longer be available for download. People can continue to use the uploader and plugin if they are installed. However, we'll no longer maintain these tools. We strongly encourage people to download Picasa 3.9 for Mac, which includes upload and iPhoto import features.
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Mulled Cranberry and Orange Punch
Sunday, November 29, 2009
The ingredients:
2 cups water
4 cups cranberry juice
1 cup orange juice
1/2 cup lemon juice
1/2 cup sugar
2 cinnamon sticks
1 tsp. whole cloves
Combine everything together and heat until boiling. Simmer on stovetop or mull in crockpot for 1 hour. If desired, strain punch before serving to remove cloves and cinnamon sticks. Serve hot.


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Radial location of bearings
If the load carrying capacity of a bearing is to be fully exploited, its rings or washers should be fully supported around their complete circumference and across the entire width of the raceway. The support, which should be firm and even, can be provided by a cylindrical or tapered seat, as appropriate or, for thrust bearing washers, by a flat (plane) support surface. This means that bearing seats should be manufactured to adequate tolerance classes and uninterrupted by grooves, holes or other features, unless the seat is prepared for the oil injection method. This is particularly important for super-precision bearings that have relatively thin rings which tend to reproduce the shape of the shaft or housing seat. In addition, the bearing rings should be reliably secured to prevent them from turning on or in their seats under load.
In general, satisfactory radial location and adequate support can only be obtained when the rings are mounted with an appropriate degree of interference. Inadequately or incorrectly secured bearing rings generally cause damage to the bearing and mating components. However, when axial displacement (as with a non-locating bearing) or easy mounting and dismounting are required, an interference fit cannot always be used. In cases where a loose fit is necessary, but an interference fit would normally be required, special precautions are necessary to limit the fretting wear that inevitably results from creep (the bearing ring turning on its seat). This can be done, for example, by surface hardening the bearing seat and abutments.


text: The Philistine giant from Gath, over 2.8 m. (9 feet) tall, who issued a challenge to any individual Israelite to combat, to which David responded with a sling and five stones. He struck Goliath's forehead and knocked him unconscious, and then seized his sword and beheaded him (1 Sam. 17: 38–51). Some scholars hold that the giant of 1 Sam. 17 was originally anonymous—he is named only at verse 23—and that Goliath was slain by a certain Elhanan (2 Sam. 21: 19).


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There is a use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel through 5.5.2 in the vc_do_resize function in drivers/tty/vt/vt.c.
In the Linux kernel before 5.3.4, fib6_rule_lookup in net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c mishandles the RT6_LOOKUP_F_DST_NOREF flag in a reference-count decision, leading to (for example) a crash that was identified by syzkaller, aka CID-7b09c2d052db.
In the Linux kernel before 5.1, there is a memory leak in __feat_register_sp() in net/dccp/feat.c, which may cause denial of service, aka CID-1d3ff0950e2b.
mwifiex_tm_cmd in drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/cfg80211.c in the Linux kernel before 5.1.6 has some error-handling cases that did not free allocated hostcmd memory, aka CID-003b686ace82. This will cause a memory leak and denial of service.
In the Linux kernel before 5.0.6, there is a NULL pointer dereference in drop_sysctl_table() in fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c, related to put_links, aka CID-23da9588037e.
In the Linux kernel before 5.1.6, there is a use-after-free in cpia2_exit() in drivers/media/usb/cpia2/cpia2_v4l.c that will cause denial of service, aka CID-dea37a972655.
In the Linux kernel through 5.4.6, there is a NULL pointer dereference in drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_discover.c because of mishandling of port disconnection during discovery, related to a PHY down race condition, aka CID-f70267f379b5.
In the Linux kernel through 5.4.6, there are information leaks of uninitialized memory to a USB device in the drivers/net/can/usb/kvaser_usb/kvaser_usb_leaf.c driver, aka CID-da2311a6385c.
An exploitable denial-of-service vulnerability exists in the Linux kernel prior to mainline 5.3. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by triggering AP to send IAPP location updates for stations before the required authentication process has completed. This could lead to different denial-of-service scenarios, either by causing CAM table attacks, or by leading to traffic flapping if faking already existing clients in other nearby APs of the same wireless infrastructure. An attacker can forge Authentication and Association Request packets to trigger this vulnerability.
kernel/sched/fair.c in the Linux kernel before 5.3.9, when cpu.cfs_quota_us is used (e.g., with Kubernetes), allows attackers to cause a denial of service against non-cpu-bound applications by generating a workload that triggers unwanted slice expiration, aka CID-de53fd7aedb1. (In other words, although this slice expiration would typically be seen with benign workloads, it is possible that an attacker could calculate how many stray requests are required to force an entire Kubernetes cluster into a low-performance state caused by slice expiration, and ensure that a DDoS attack sent that number of stray requests. An attack does not affect the stability of the kernel; it only causes mismanagement of application execution.)
In the Linux kernel before 5.4.2, the io_uring feature leads to requests that inadvertently have UID 0 and full capabilities, aka CID-181e448d8709. This is related to fs/io-wq.c, fs/io_uring.c, and net/socket.c. For example, an attacker can bypass intended restrictions on adding an IPv4 address to the loopback interface. This occurs because IORING_OP_SENDMSG operations, although requested in the context of an unprivileged user, are sometimes performed by a kernel worker thread without considering that context.
In the Linux kernel before 5.3.11, sound/core/timer.c has a use-after-free caused by erroneous code refactoring, aka CID-e7af6307a8a5. This is related to snd_timer_open and snd_timer_close_locked. The timeri variable was originally intended to be for a newly created timer instance, but was used for a different purpose after refactoring.
** DISPUTED ** In the Linux kernel 4.19.83, there is a use-after-free (read) in the debugfs_remove function in fs/debugfs/inode.c (which is used to remove a file or directory in debugfs that was previously created with a call to another debugfs function such as debugfs_create_file). NOTE: Linux kernel developers dispute this issue as not being an issue with debugfs, instead this is an issue with misuse of debugfs within blktrace.
In the Linux kernel 5.3.10, there is a use-after-free (read) in the perf_trace_lock_acquire function (related to include/trace/events/lock.h).
The Linux kernel before 5.4.2 mishandles ext4_expand_extra_isize, as demonstrated by use-after-free errors in __ext4_expand_extra_isize and ext4_xattr_set_entry, related to fs/ext4/inode.c and fs/ext4/super.c, aka CID-4ea99936a163.
fpregs_state_valid in arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/internal.h in the Linux kernel before 5.4.2, when GCC 9 is used, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact because of incorrect fpu_fpregs_owner_ctx caching, as demonstrated by mishandling of signal-based non-cooperative preemption in Go 1.14 prereleases on amd64, aka CID-59c4bd853abc.
In the Linux kernel before 5.1.6, there is a use-after-free in serial_ir_init_module() in drivers/media/rc/serial_ir.c.
In the Linux kernel before 5.2.10, there is a race condition bug that can be caused by a malicious USB device in the USB character device driver layer, aka CID-303911cfc5b9. This affects drivers/usb/core/file.c.
In the Linux kernel before 5.2.9, there is an info-leak bug that can be caused by a malicious USB device in the drivers/net/can/usb/peak_usb/pcan_usb_pro.c driver, aka CID-ead16e53c2f0.
In the Linux kernel before 5.2.9, there is an info-leak bug that can be caused by a malicious USB device in the drivers/net/can/usb/peak_usb/pcan_usb_fd.c driver, aka CID-30a8beeb3042.


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I have to admit that this isn't the letter I had originally penned for this month. The original column had to do with providing an experience for members — don't worry, you'll read that one next month. (I'd hate to deprive people of any of my words of wisdom.)
The change came about earlier this month when one night I headed out to the movies (a rare treat with a 15-month-old at home). I arrived too late for the movie I wanted to see, so I wound up going with my second choice — and I'm glad I did.
The documentary, Super Size Me, by first-time filmmaker Morgan Spurlock, has gained a lot of press for belting McDonalds as Spurlock survived exclusively on three meals a day from the fast-food kingpin. While that is a key to the movie (and not to bash McDonalds, but I probably will never eat there again), the real meat of this movie is far juicier than that and contains a far more important message for the fitness industry.
By looking at the fitness of America — especially the nation's youth — from various angles from nutrition to activity (or more accurately, inactivity), Spurlock helps paint a picture of the problem that fitness facilities as an industry are combating every day. This picture is painted by looking at the lack of phys. ed, and the contrast of the abundance of soda and candy machines in schools, not to mention the unhealthy lunches served (most of which look as unedible as during my school days). Take that and add in the amount of time people spend sedentary, eating on the go and lack of education, and you have a powerful message.
Spurlock does a good job of delivering this message in not only an educational way, but in a way that is entertaining enough to keep even those in the theater munching from the tub' o popcorn and drinking from the giant soda engrossed and hopefully reconsidering their choices in life.
Now, I have to preface this with the disclaimer that I have no financial interest in this movie, but as a former fat kid I believe this movie should be required viewing for all school-aged children, parents, health club staff, members and more. In fact, maybe you can take your nutrition clients out for a screening or have a movie night for all members.
To bring to life the impact and immediacy of what people are doing to themselves and show the benefits of the lifestyle that fitness pros live everyday, this movie proves that sometimes a picture — especially a moving one — is truly worth a thousand words.


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From Worms Knowledge Base
|Latest version:
|v4.12a / 18 March, 2002
|Supported games:
|Supported W:A version:
|Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0
|Closed source
|silk412a.zip (70 kb)
- Not to be confused with Constipated Silkworm, written by Megaworm and Annelid.
Silkworm is a companion program for the game Worms Armageddon, written by Deadcode.
Early versions
The first versions of Silkworm were inclined towards cheat features. Silkworm 3.x features client-side add-ons (such as a point-and-shoot BnG aimbot), the ability to manipulate the game by directly injecting messages into the message stream (e.g. freezing time or releasing an unlimited number of Mad Cows), and "macros" such as automatic skipwalking and Parachute reselection.
Later versions
After a cheat version (v3.5 of 4 October 2001) of Silkworm leaked out, WormNET was in a temporary state of chaos, because of the overwhelming cheating. In order to mitigate the chaos, Deadcode later released Silkworm v3.72; it and later versions were dubbed Antisilk by others due to its ability to remotely disable cheat versions of Silkworm. Later versions soon added several enhancements to the game itself, most importantly allowing it to run under Windows 2000 and XP.
Deadcode's personal version of Silkworm 4.x had several "remote control" features which manipulate the game's physics engine, simultaneously for all players (e.g. moving a worm with the mouse, or repeatedly firing a weapon without ending the turn). It wasn't until 2004 that he gave this version to anybody; since it only works on W:A v3.0 (like all versions of Silkworm), it's largely a moot point in terms of cheating.
Silkworm today
Some people still play around with the cheat versions of Silkworm, but to do so they have to use W:A v3.0; Silkworm is tailored to that particular WA.EXE.
W:A v188.8.131.52 and later can in fact emulate v3.0, so it's possible for one or more players running W:A v3.0 to use Silkworm's cheats in a game along with players using a modern version of W:A. It will report that it is emulating v3.0 before the game starts.


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The exciting conclusion of Musiqa's season will feature a first-time collaboration: the world premiere of a one-act play by 2012 Blackburn Prize winner Jennifer Haley, with incidental music by Musiqa Artistic Director Anthony Brandt. The program also includes a world premiere of a new string trio by Musiqa artistic board member Rob Smith, "Quelque Fleurs" by Musiqa artistic board member Karim Al-Zand and a new work by Dutch avant-pop composer JacobTV.
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