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Numerous studies suggest the importance of lake and river ice break-up as an index of climate variability and change, especially as related to temperature and snow cover (Palecki and Barry, 1986; Schindler et al., 1990; Robertson et al., 1992; Assel and Robertson, 1995; Anderson et al., 1996; Wynne et al., 1998; Magnuson et al., 2000). Records of lake and river ice can be used to independently evaluate changes of temperature and, to some extent, snow cover. Like other proxy measurements they have limitations, and are subject to their own time-dependent biases such as changes in observers and protocols related to the identification of "ice on" and "ice off" conditions. Larger lakes often have the best records, but are often located near human settlements which can affect the homogeneity of the record, e.g., associated cooling water discharges and urban heat islands, so care is needed to select suitable lakes.
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GNOME tips
- 1 Configuration Tips
- 2 Misc Tips
- 2.1 Screen Lock
- 2.2 Unlock Gnome-keyring on Login
- 2.3 Nautilus Tips
- 2.4 Speed Up Panel Autohide
- 2.5 GNOME Menu Tips
- 2.6 Disabling scroll in taskbar
- 2.7 Custom transitioning background
- 3 Useful Add-ons
- 4 Other Applications
- 4.1 gnome-terminal
- 4.2 gedit
- 4.3 eog
- 4.4 file-roller
- 4.5 gcalctool
- 4.6 rhythmbox
- 4.7 sound-juicer
- 4.8 totem
- 4.9 gimp
- 4.10 gftp
- 4.11 abiword
- 4.12 gnumeric
- 4.13 Leave message feature in gnome screensaver
- 4.14 Change Gnome Screensaver background
- 4.15 DevilsPie
- 5 See also
Configuration Tips
Add/Edit GDM Sessions
Each session is a *.desktop file located at /usr/share/xsessions.
To add a new session:
1. Copy an existing *.desktop file to use as a template for a new session:
$ cd /usr/share/xsessions $ sudo cp gnome.desktop other.desktop
2. Modify the template *.desktop file to open the required window manager:
$ sudo nano other.desktop
Alternatively, you can open the new session in KDM which will create the *.desktop file. Then return to using GDM and the new session will be available.
If your gnome applications seem sluggish and gnome hangs at start-up after killing the previous session, it's likely you haven't set your /etc/hosts file correctly and your /etc/hosts file includes:
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost YOURHOSTNAME
Then run "
/bin/hostname YOURHOSTNAME" and "
/sbin/ifconfig lo up" as root.
See also [1]
Slow Performance
Due to an improper coded GNOME drawing library, some actions in GNOME can slow the system. If the theme icons are in SVG format, they make the system slower. A very fast improvement is to either use icons in PNG format or to convert the used icons into the PNG format.
Default applications
You may want to configure system-wide default applications and file associations. This is extremely useful when you have some KDE applications installed, but still prefer a GNOME ones to be launched by default.
To do that you can install gnome-defaults-list from AUR. It will place your configuration file at /etc/gnome/defaults.list.
If you want to do everything manually, create /usr/share/applications/defaults.list with the following format:
[Default Applications] application/pdf=evince.desktop image/jpeg=eog.desktop ...
Better Video Performance
Some users report that, if they move the player window while playing a video file, a blue border appears around the video while it is moving. If you experience this, go to Desktop->Preferences->Multimedia Systems Selector, and under video change the "Default Sink" to "XWindows (No Xv)". When you click test, the blue border should be gone and on the whole, video should perform better.
Note: This no longer applies to Gnome 2.20 and later (Evanlec)
Fonts Seem Skewed
You can alter the DPI of your fonts in Gnome with Right-click on the desktop>change desktop background>fonts>details>Resolution
Resolution: [96] dots per inch
On my x86_64 system, the default was set to 89 dots per inch for some reason. I upped it to 96 and everything looks 'normal' again.
Change the Default Background Image
The default background is that zoomed in picture of a green leaf. It appears for newly created users, but more importantly, this is the image shown when the screen is locked. As of 25-Apr-2009, you can find this image here
To change it, simply copy your favorite image to this location (as root) and rename it.
Make Shell Windows Open to a A Larger Size
Once you add a launcher for your gnome-terminal, you can modify it such that the terminal is larger than the standard. Right-click the launcher>properties. Now under the "Command" section, add the following
Command: gnome-terminal --geometry 105x25+100+20
Misc Tips
Screen Lock
- Make sure that dbus is running (probably a good idea to add it to the daemons array in rc.conf).
- Install xscreensaver
# pacman -S xscreensaver
- Go to Desktop -> Preferences -> Screensaver
- Enable one or more screensavers
- Lock Screen will now start your screensaver and require your password to stop it.
or you can install gnome-screensaver:
# pacman -S gnome-screensaver
Also you can find here how to replace gnome-screensaver with xscreensaver.
Unlock Gnome-keyring on Login
In /etc/pam.d/gdm, add lines like this at the end:
auth optional pam_gnome_keyring.so session optional pam_gnome_keyring.so auto_start
In /etc/pam.d/gnome-screensaver, add a line like this:
auth optional pam_gnome_keyring.so
In /etc/pam.d/passwd, add a line like this:
password optional pam_gnome_keyring.so
Easier way: Install SEAHORSE with "
pacman -S seahorse". Now you find under "Applications-> Accessories-> Password and Encryption Settings" a nice GUI where you can set for the keyring "Automatically unlocked when user logs in".
Nautilus Tips
Get a certain path in spatial view? Just press:
Control + L
Change Browser Mode (Spatial View)
- Start gconf-editor
- Browse to apps/nautilus/preferences
- Change the value of "always_use_browser" (it's a yes/no value and should be visible as a checkbox or say "false", for the later change the value to "true")
Or you can do this through the preferences:
- In a Nautilus window go to Edit>>Preferences
- Change to the Behaviour tab
- Check (or uncheck) Always Open in Browser Windows
Music Information Columns in List View (bitrate etc.)
Nautilus lacks the abillity to display metadata for music files in list view mode. A Python script was written to add columns for:
- Artist
- Album
- Track Title
- Bitrate
First, install the requirements.
sudo pacman -S mutagen
And, from AUR, [python-nautilus]
wget http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/python-nautilus/python-nautilus.tar.gz tar -zxvf python-nautilus.tar.gz cd python-nautilus makepkg sudo pacman -U *.pkg.tar.gz
Now, create a directory called python-extensions in ~/.nautilus. Place the following script, named bsc.py, in this newly created folder. You may download the script here: [bsc.py] (please drop --stefanwilkens a line if this goes down)
Mirror: [bsc.py]
Restart nautilus. You can now configure this new functionallity in Edit -> Preferences -> List Columns
Stop Nautilus drawing the desktop
You need to open the gconf-editor:
apps>nautilus>preferences untick "show_desktop"
In breezy you also need to go to:
desktop>gnome>background and untick "draw_background"
Speed Up Panel Autohide
panel_show_delay / panel_hide_delay
If you find that your panels are taking too long to appear/disappear when using the Panel Autohide feature, try this;
- Start gconf-editor
- Browse to /apps/panel/global
- Set panel_hide_delay and panel_show_delay to more sensible (integer) values. Note that these values represent milliseconds!
The default panel_hide_delay of 500 works well in most cases, but the panel_show_delay default of 500 is horribly slow. After experimenting, a panel_show_delay between 100-200 seems much better.
Panel animation_speed
Now that the panel show/hide delay has the panels beginning to appear in a reasonable length of time, why does it take the panel so long to actually pop up? There is one more setting you need to add/change to make the panel behavior crisp. The setting: animation_speed This setting can be applied globally or on a per-panel basis just like the panel_show_delay and panel_hide_delay. The official description is:
The speed in which panel animations should occur. Possible values are slow, medium and fast. This key is only relevant if the enable_animations key is true.
To apply globally, just add or change the animation_speed key as a (string) value in:
- /apps/panel/global
To apply the setting on a per-panel basis, just add/change the key in, for example:
- /apps/panel/toplevels/bottom_panel_screen0/ (usually the default name for the bottom panel)
- /apps/panel/toplevels/panel_0/ (usually the default name for the first additional panel)
Note: the key panel_amination_speed is deprecated, use: animation_speed.
GNOME Menu Tips
Speed Tweak
You can remove the delay in GNOME menus by running this command:
echo "gtk-menu-popup-delay = 0" >> ~/.gtkrc-2.0
Or just add "
gtk-menu-popup-delay = 0" to .gtkrc-2.0
However, this setting is reported to crash banshee, and possibly other programs.
Menu Editing
Most Gnome users complain about the menu. Changing menu entries system-wide or for one or several users alone is poorly documented.
Recent versions of Gnome (ie, v2.22) have a menu editor in which you can de-select menu entires, but not add new menu entries. Right-click on the menu panel and select Edit Menus. Unchecking the box next to a entry will prevent it from displaying.
To add new menu entries, create a .desktop file in the $XDG_DATA_HOME/applications directory (most likely $HOME/.local/share). A sample .desktop file can be seen below, or take a look at Gnome documentation.
Or install Alacarte, which makes it easy to create, change and remove menu entries with a GUI. Do this with:
# pacman -S alacarte
You will find common gnome menu entries as 'appname.desktop' objects inside one of the $XDG_DATA_DIRS/applications directories (most likely /usr/share/applications). To add new menu items for all users, create an 'appname.desktop' file in one of those directories.
- Edit one of them to fit your needs for a new application, then save it.
- Save it as a menu entry for all users
Most often, you will set this files permissions to 644 (root: rw group: r others: r), so all users can see it.
- Save it as a menu entry for a group or user alone
You may also have different user permissions; for example, some menu entries should only be available for a group or for one user.
Here is an example how a Scite menu entry definition file could look:
[Desktop Entry] Encoding=UTF-8 Name=SciTE Comment=SciTE editor Type=Application Exec=/usr/bin/scite Icon=/usr/share/pixmaps/scite_48x48.png Terminal=false Categories=GNOME;Application;Development; StartupNotify=true
Change the Gnome Foot Icon to an Arch Icon
- Download [this Arch icon] (filename is Template:Filename)
- Alternatively get the artwork package using "pacman -S archlinux-artwork", this puts all artwork in the /usr/share/archlinux directory, and resize your desired logo to 24x24px
- Figure out which icon set you're using (right-click desktop>Change Background Image>Theme>Customize>Icon). For example, Crux, *GNOME, High Contrast, High Contrast Inverse, Mist, etc.)
- Now make a backup of your current gnome icon in the correct directory. In the example below, I'm using the GNOME icons but adjust the directory structure accordingly for your icon set:
# mv /usr/share/icons/gnome/24x24/places/start-here.png /usr/share/icons/gnome/24x24/places/start-here.png-virgin
- Copy Template:Filename you just downloaded to the same directory renaming it start-here.png
# cp /path/to/starthere.png /usr/share/icons/gnome/24x24/places/start-here.png
- Restart your gnome-panels and the new Arch logo should be displayed
$ pkill gnome-panel
Note: To get this to work (gnome 2.28) I had to delete the icon-theme.cache file in /usr/share/icons/gnome
Change the Gnome Foot Icon to an Arch Icon (without root access)
- Figure out which icon set you're using (right-click desktop>Change Background Image>Theme>Customize>Icon). For example, Crux, *GNOME, High Contrast, High Contrast Inverse, Mist, etc.)
- Duplicate that icon set's directory structure for 24x24/places in your home directory under .icons
$ mkdir -p ~/.icons/gnome/24x24/places
- Download this Arch icon into that directory as 'start-here.png'
$ wget -O ~/.icons/gnome/24x24/places/start-here.png http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/9679/starthere.png
- Alternatively get the artwork package using "pacman -S archlinux-artwork", this puts all artwork in the /usr/share/archlinux directory, and resize your desired logo to 24x24px and copy it into that directory as 'start-here.png'
- Restart your gnome-panels and the new Arch logo should be displayed
$ pkill gnome-panel
Note: To get this to work (gnome 2.28) I had to delete the icon-theme.cache file in /usr/share/icons/gnome
Custom Icon using gconf-editor
- Open the configuration editor in gnome (it should be in System Tools of your main menu) or run
- In the configuration editor go to apps > panel > objects > find the object for your menu (an easy way to spot the correct object is that it will have "Main Menu" in the tool tip section).
- Set the path to your icon in the "Custom_Icon" field.
- Check "Use_Custom_Icon" a little ways down.
- The panel should reload momemtarily, if not, open a terminal window and type:
$ killall gnome-panel
Removing default icons from desktop
I like to keep my desktop clean, and perhaps someone else too. So here is how to remove home folder, computer and trash from desktop:
- Open terminal
- On terminal type: gconf-editor
- Configuration Editor opens. From there navigate to: apps --> nautilus --> desktop
- Untick all the icons you dont want to see
- You are done, the icons should dissappear immeadiately
Disabling scroll in taskbar
For years there is "bug" in Gnome taskbar: the mouse scroll switches the windows. The annoying feature if you have a good mice turns to be a real pain if you have the touchpad. It is impossible to scroll precisely using touchpad, so if you accidentally touch it when your mouse is on the taskbar, then all the windows will flash/switch wildly. There is no setting in gconf/preferences, that can disable this functionality. This is true for KDE 3, I don't know if problem persist in KDE 4. The solution was to install xfce4-panel, which hasn't scrolling at all and looks like default gnome panel. The bug is better described here [2].
This bug will be probably never fixed, but we have ABS, so we can build custom software. Install ABS (+70Mb), then
cp -r /var/abs/extra/libwnck /home/{your name}/Desktop/somewhere
Navigate to that dir, then
makepkg --nobuild
This will download and extract the sources. Go to src/libwnck-{version}/libwnck. Edit tasklist.c, search for "scroll-event". You will see somethign like
g_signal_connect(obj, "scroll-event", G_CALLBACK(wnck_tasklist_scroll_cb), NULL);
This line enables scroll-event handler, comment the line out (place /* before and */ after the line). Now go back to /home/{username}/Desktop/somewhere and
makepkg --noextract --syncdeps
You will need sudo to be able to install missing dependencies (intltool), but you can always 'pacman -S' them apart if you don't want --syncdeps automatically. The --noextract option tells makepkg to not extract sources and use existing src/
pacman -U libwnck-{version}.pkg.tar.gz
Then logout/login, enjoy. Delete dir with the sources from you desktop, you may also uninstall abs if you want. Next step will be to add gconf option, but I will leave this for Gnome gurus. I just don't need this "feature", not even if I use the mouse (alt+tab is better anyway).
Custom transitioning background
This will create a transitioning background similiar to the "cosmos" background found in the gnome-backgrounds package. There are two ways to do this.
You can create an XML file similiar to the one created by gnome-backgrounds in "/usr/share/backgrounds/cosmos/".
<background> <starttime> <hour>00</hour> <minute>00</minute> <second>01</second> </starttime> <!-- The first section set an arbitrary start time. --> <static> <duration>1795.0</duration> <file>/path/to/background1.jpg</file> </static> <transition> <duration>5.0</duration> <from>/path/to/background1.jpg</from> <to>/path/to/background2.jpg</to> </transition> <static> <duration>1795.0</duration> <file>/path/to/background2.jpg</file> </static> <transition> <duration>5.0</duration> <from>/path/to/background2.jpg</from> <to>/path/to/background1.jpg</to> </transition> </background>
Note that the <duration> tag sets each image as the background for 1795 seconds, or 29 minutes and 55 seconds, and the <transition> then takes 5 seconds. You can add any number of images as long as the last one transitions back to the first (if you want a full loop). Once completed, the XML file can be added to GNOME under System > Preferences > Appearance > Background tab > Add.
There is also a script which automates this process:
#!/bin/sh #This script creates xml files that can act as dynamic wallpapers for Gnome by referring to multiple wallpapers #Coded by David J Krajnik if [ "$*" = "" ]; then echo "This script creates xml files that can act as dynamic backgrounds for Gnome by referring to multiple wallpapers"; echo "Usage: mkwlppr target-file.xml [duration] pic1 pic2 [pic3 .. picN]"; else files=$*; #Grab the name of the target xml file xmlfile=`echo $files | cut -d " " -f 1`; #remove the first item from $files files=`echo $files | sed 's/^\<[^ ]*\>//'`; if [ "`echo $xmlfile | grep '\.xml$'`" = "" ]; then echo "Your target file must be an XML file"; else inputIsValid="true"; firstItem=`echo $files | cut -d " " -f 1`; duration="1795.0";#set the default duration if [ "`echo $firstItem | grep '^[0-9]\+\.[0-9]\+$'`" != "" ]; then echo "The duration must be an integer"; files=`echo $files | sed 's/^\<[^ ]*\>//'`; inputIsValid=""; elif [ "`echo $firstItem | grep '^[0-9]\+$'`" != "" ]; then #If the item is a number, then use it as the duration for each wallpaper image duration="`expr $firstItem - 5`.0"; #remove the duration from the list of files files=`echo $files | sed 's/^\<[^ ]*\>//'`; fi if [ "$files" = "" ]; then echo "You must enter image files to associate with the XML file"; else for file in $files do if [ ! -f $file ]; then echo "\"$file\" does not exist"; inputIsValid=""; elif [ "`echo $file | sed 's/^.*\.\(jpg\|jpeg\|bmp\|png\|gif\|tif\|tiff\|jif\|jfif\|jp2\|jpx\|j2k\|j2c\)$//'`" != "" ]; then echo "\"$file\" is not an image file"; inputIsValid=""; fi done if [ $inputIsValid ]; then currDir=`pwd`; echo "<background>" >> $xmlfile echo " <starttime>\n <year>2009</year>\n <month>08</month>\n <day>04</day>" >> $xmlfile; echo " <hour>00</hour>\n <minute>00</minute>\n <second>00</second>\n </starttime>" >> $xmlfile; echo " <!-- This animation will start at midnight. -->" >> $xmlfile; firstFile=`echo $files | cut -d " " -f 1`;#grab the first item if [ "`echo $firstFile | sed 's/\(.\).*/\1/'`" != "/" ]; then #If the first character in the filename is not '/', then it is a relative path and must have the current directory's path appended firstFile="$currDir/$firstFile"; fi firstFile=`echo $firstFile | sed 's/[^/]\+\/\.\.\/\?//g'`;#Remove occurrences of ".." from the filepath files=`echo $files | sed 's/^\<[^ ]*\>//'`;#remove the first item prevFile=$firstFile; currFile=""; #TODO add absolute path to the filenames #if $currFile =~ "^/.*" then the file needs to path appended echo " <static>\n <duration>$duration</duration>\n <file>$firstFile</file>\n </static>" >> $xmlfile; for currFile in $files do if [ "`echo $currFile | sed 's/\(.\).*/\1/'`" != "/" ]; then #If the first character in the filename is not '/', then it is a relative path and must have the current directory's path appended currFile="$currDir/$currFile"; fi currFile=`echo $currFile | sed 's/[^/]\+\/\.\.\/\?//g'`;#Remove occurrences of ".." from the filepath echo " <transition>\n <duration>5.0</duration>\n <from>$prevFile</from>\n <to>$currFile</to>\n </transition>" >> $xmlfile; echo " <static>\n <duration>$duration</duration>\n <file>$currFile</file>\n </static>" >> $xmlfile; prevFile=$currFile; done echo " <transition>\n <duration>5.0</duration>\n <from>$currFile</from>\n <to>$firstFile</to>\n </transition>" >> $xmlfile; echo "</background>" >> $xmlfile; fi fi fi fi
Copy the code for the script above into a file called mkwlppr (short for "make wallpaper"). Make the script executable by typing:
sudo chmod 711 mkwlppr
Move the file so that you can run it from any directory by just using its name:
sudo mv mkwlppr /bin
Execute the script; it will tell you what input it requires from you. Use the script with input to create as many wallpaper XML files as you want.
Since this script is not interactive, you can use Unix's wildcards with it if you want to use all files in a directory and/or if you do not care about the order of the images.
You can specify paths relative to your current directory, and the script will put the files' absolute paths into the XML file for you; so you can create the XML file anywhere you want and move it afterward without rendering it useless.
If you want to run the script inside the /usr/share/backgrounds/ directory, you might have problems with permissions unless you run the command with sudo like this:
sudo mkwlppr -parameters
If you do not know what duration to specify for the images, simply do not provide a number in the input, and the progam will use the default values of 29 minutes and 55 seconds per image and a 5 second transition.
For more information, please see this page.
Useful Add-ons
FAM allows gnome to do useful things such as automatically update the menu when new applications are installed, and refresh nautilus when a directory it is viewing is changed.
See the FAM Wiki for instructions on how to install it.
Gnome System Monitor
This application appears when the "System Monitor" applet is clicked, and displays the processor/memory usage of all running applications. It is not installed by default in the GNOME group, so you need to install it separately using:
# pacman -S gnome-system-monitor
Burning CDs from Nautilus
# pacman -S nautilus-cd-burner
Gnome System Tools
This adds several Gnome menu items under System->Administration, specifically user management, date and time, network configuration, runlevels, and shared folders through samba or NFS. See Gnome documentation.
# pacman -S gnome-system-tools
Pay attention to the post-install message from pacman.
Gdesklets: Desktop Candy
Put a clock, calendar, weather report, and more onto your desktop
# pacman -S gdesklets
You can find more desklets at gdesklets.org. To install them, download the files. Next, in the Gnome menu, open Applications->Accessories->gDesklets. When the gDesklets Shell appears, drag the new gdesklet file onto the shell. If you want gdesklets to load when you log in, click on the Gnome menu under System->Preferences->Sessions. Choose "Startup Programs", click "add", and type in the data. The command should be /usr/bin/gdesklets. You can always find such a path by typing "whereis gdesklets".
Other Applications
These are some other nice applications and utilities for gnome, most of which can be downloaded all at once with:
# pacman -S gnome-extra
This is a group, so it is quite easy to choose not to download some of the packages, such as the documentation.
Install this application before logging into gnome for the first time unless you prefer to use xterm.
Drop Down Consoles
Gnome has a few dropdown consoles inspired by the ones found in FPS's such as Quake and Half-life (ie pressing the ~ key) These follow Yakuake from KDE, below are a few ones native to Gnome.
Guake requires Python, it can be installed via the following command. F12 is the default to toggle the terminal. Guake features mutiple tabs and by default Ctrl+PgUp and Ctrl+PgDown can be used to switch between these terminals.
# pacman -S guake
You can set transparency and other settings by first toggling to the terminal via F12, right clicking and selecting Preferences.
Guake can be started automatically by adding the following to Gnome Sessions via System -> Preferences -> Sessions. Select Add, and these settings can be used:
- Name: Guake
- Command: guake &
- Comment: Guake Dropdown Terminal.
Tilda is another dropdown terminal for Gnome. Kindly add to this section if possible.
# pacman -S tilda
Tilda has fewer dependencies than Guake (no Python), and about the same features; however, it gives the user more control over the appearance of the terminal window.
A text editor with syntax highlighting.
Eye-of-Gnome, a handy, fast little image viewer which can re-size and rotate photos.
An archive manager which supports many different formats. (Install unrar, unzip, ... to get the respective formats)
A calculator, what else?
An iTunes like audio library and player.
CD Ripper, integrates with rhythmbox.
To enable default mp3 profiles in preferences menu:
# pacman -S gstreamer0.10-lame gstreamer0.10-taglib
Note: This should not be necessary anymore, since these packages now are included in gstreamer0.10-ugly-plugins and gstreamer0.10-good-plugins.
If you're having other problems with SoundJuicer, click here
A video player which uses gstreamer for decoding its input.
An open-source Photoshop alternative for linux. A must-have if you ever do anything with graphics.
An nice little FTP client for gnome.
A small, fast, .doc compatible word processor.
A very nice, excel like spreadsheet editor.
Leave message feature in gnome screensaver
This is a cool feature provided by gnome-screensaver 2.20, somebody can leave a message for you when you are not at your desk. Please install notification-daemon to make this work.
Change Gnome Screensaver background
There isn't any option to change the screensaver's default background. The only way is to:
su cd /usr/share/pixmaps/backgrounds/gnome rm background-default.jpg ln -s /home/user/my_background.jpg background-default.jpg
A useful application that can be run as a daemon within gnome. It manipulates windows allowing you to start programs on a desired desktop or in a size of your choice among many other things. DevilsPie brings a whole new level of control into the metacity engine. There's a good HOWTO on their homepage,


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Look up Siberia on a Google maps. Now ask Google for directions from Siberia to Darjeeling, India. Google will happily show you a map with both ends of the journey, but has zero idea how one might drive from Siberia to Darjeeling. Now, while looking at the map, imagine walking it. "The Way Back" is the incredible true(-ish)story of a group of escapees from a gulag desperate enough to attempt such a trek in the 1941.
"The Way Back" stars Jim Sturgess as Janusz, a Pole caught between a rock and a hard place, aka Germany and the USSR, who is sent to a gulag on charges of being a spy. There he meets a motley crew of dissidents and criminals all equally eager to escape the horrors of Stalin's camps.
Director Peter Weir makes his first mistake before you even see a single shot of his film, as a title card informs you exactly how many people arrived at the end of the journey in India. Knowing exactly how man people walk down out of the Himalayas and into India goes a long way toward sucking some of the drama out of the film.
And Weir totally punts on the back-end of the journey. After crafting these epics scenes of his heroes trudging across the Siberian tundra, the relentless deserts of Mongolia and he seemingly endless expanses of China, the last leg of the walk, the one across the Himalayas is presented as a brisk jaunt to the corner store. The whole walk across the most famous, indomitable mountain range on Earth is dismissed with a 30-second montage. It's a wicked letdown, to say the least.
It's shame that Weir frames his tale with such pointless rookie blunders, because in addition to the great source material, he gets outstanding performances from his entire cast, especially Ed Harris and Colin Farrell.
Harris plays a loner America who fled his homeland during the Depression to seek out work building subway systems in Moscow. He's as grizzled as grizzled can be, chastising Janusz for his shows of kindness to their fellow inmates who are ill and/or starving. "Kindness will get you killed," is his motto. Farrell, meanwhile, is a Russian street thug, all tats and mangled teeth, quick with a knife, ready to kill a man for his sweater, not for warmth but to pay off a debt for sausages.
Weir follows the rules of the gang prison escape, populating his cast with the lone wolf, the principled one, the cut-up, the man of faith… It's your standard fare, but it mostly works, except when Weir fails them, which is just often to keep "The Way Back" from realizing its potential.
The home video package offers a 30-minute featurette about the filing of the movie that's not great but has some interesting background on how Weir chose his locations, and confirms your long-held suspicions that Ed Harris is a bit of a crank—not a jerk, just a guy who'd prefer to be alone, thank you.
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14 years ago today I signed on as a "Blue Badge" Intel employee (I had been a "green badge" contractor for 9 months prior). I tell people I don't feel old enough to have done anything for 14 years, and that's true. I was only 22 when I started. I moved to Oregon for this job, so I can't even really say I've lived in one place for that long.
I have worked on a lot of really cool stuff in those years – from software localization to server administration and monitoring to building wikis, podcasts, and live video broadcasts to exploring new ways to connect and engage with people online (earning the title "social media guru" along the way, which still haunts me ) to community management and event organization and managing high traffic developer sites and understanding the metrics that go along with them. Not to mention the themes of education, exploration, experimentation, and authentic human connections that have been the foundation for it all. Whew.
I'm eligible for my second "sabbatical" – a wonderful benefit (8 weeks paid leave) that comes around every seven years – but I'm deferring it until I finish my Masters degree in Adult Education next June. I'm so excited for what the future holds I feel a little silly. There are so many cool, exciting, worthwhile things to work on that every time I think about it, I feel spoiled for opportunity. Here's to learning, stretching, and continuing to work on stuff that matters.


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Cecilia Marie Hugo is a living sister of Father John Hugo. She has made it her life's work to keep the Encounter With Silence retreats alive. She has also managed the sale and distribution of his writings throughout the years. She is in her 90's and has sought the support of other family members to further this missionary work.
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Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Platonic Medicine and the ACA with its IPAB
A recent commentary by one of favorite bloggers,Dr. Robert Centor, spoke favorably about IPAB, one of many,many provisions of ACA.See here.I made a brief reply to his entry. I recalled this earlier blog entry and if Dr.Centor's comment stirs up much furor I want to add this earlier blog post to the kerfuffle.Originally published 6/22/11 and now submitted with little editing.
I had been sketching out some comments about what I was going to call "Platonic Medicine" referring to the "leaders with ideas" who will lead the way to transform medicine based on the underlying premise that "medicine is too complex and important to be left to the individual physician and the individual patient" and therefore it should be controlled and directed by the wise medical elite who will determine the collective utility of a given approach and its value.I have commented before about Don Berwick's advocacy of that view.
However, someone had written something in that regard better than I could.See here.
Hat tip to the Pacific Legal Foundation who filed a friend-of-the-court brief to challenge the constitutionality of IPAB on the grounds of violation of the non-delegation doctrine and for the above mentioned link which alerted me to Jost's frightening comments.
It turns out that an outspoken advocate and supporter of Obamacare,law professor, Timothy Jost has already praised that legislative act in part because of what the IPAB will provide. He said:
A board of "Platonic Guardians" to govern the health care system or some aspects of it. The cost of health care is spinning dangerously out of control…. [O]ur traditional political institutions—Congress and the executive administrative agencies—are too driven by special interest politics and too limited in their expertise and vision to control costs. Enter the Platonic guardians…an impartial, independent board of experts who could make evidence-based policy determinations based purely on the basis of effectiveness and perhaps efficiency.
Incredibly Jost is asserting that this board will be immune to the influence of special interests and will make decisions rationally and in a proper evidence based manner.From what planet will these board member be chosen? Philosopher kings in charge,what could go wrong with that?
The PLF commentary pointed out that a Platonic government was definitely not what the founding fathers had in mind and Jefferson and associates were not big fans of Plato.
In the commentary that I was considering I thought perhaps calling the panel members Platonic Guardians would earn me the accusation of being overly dramatic and hyperbolic, but now we see an IPAB advocate using the same characterization and believing that to be a very good thing.
Dictating the coverage to control the cost for Medicare and Medicaid may not be enough for the medical Platonic elite as is illustrated by this quote from Dr. Robert Berenson:
"we ought to consider setting all payer-rates for providers." He continues "but the country's antigovernment mood renders such a discussion unlikely,at least for now".
I wonder who the "we" is that Berenson references.
Finally, another chilling quote from Mr. Jost:
"In the long run, Congress may not be able to cap Medicare expenditures without addressing private expenditures as well. If the IPAB opens the door to rate setting for all payers,it may well be the most revolutionary innovation of the ACA".
Yeah, it just might be.
3 comments:
- Anonymous said...
One of the stated reasons that the ACP was critical of the current model of IPAB was that it did not have a representative of primary medical care but they did not seem to object to the concept generally.
Maybe if a representative of ACP were chosen as one of "Plato's guardians",they could be more supportive.
- Andrew_M_Garland said...
Retired Doc: "I wonder who the "we" is that Berenson references."
The "we" is the collective, colloquially "The Borg". They are certain, all together, that their higher intelligence and dispationate love for statistically determined medicine is the best for the mass of humanity which must be assimilated.
They were hyperlinked while attending elite colleges and working as assistants to politicians. They belong to a subtle and powerful network. We plebians will never know the joy of that interconnection, nor the joy of having government and academic health benefits which exclude them from the enlightened policies which they will administer.
These are the people who hated mathematics and statistics in college, and didn't understand them one bit. Now, they embrace the results of any statistical "study" lumping together the medical results of thousands, to produce a one-size-fits-all protocol to reduce costs, forced on everyone who is non-Borg.
Their motto: "I have found my calling in life as an efficiency expert." They dream of returning to the 1950's. They think that progress will come from standardizing the assembly line, rather than inventing new products.
- james gaulte said...
Yeah,you know who the "we" are.


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Science Fiction and fantasy author from the USA
Lois McMaster Bujold (born 2 November 1949, Columbus, Ohio) is an American author of science fiction and fantasy works, most noted for the works in her Vorkosigan Saga
- It's a bizarre but wonderful feeling, to arrive dead center of a target you didn't even know you were aiming for.
- Cordelia's Honor (1996), "Author's Afterword"
- All great human deeds both consume and transform their doers. Consider an athlete, or a scientist, or an artist, or an independent business creator. In the service of their goals they lay down time and energy and many other choices and pleasures; in return, they become most truly themselves. A false destiny may be spotted by the fact that it consumes without transforming, without giving back the enlarged self. Becoming a parent is one of these basic human transformational deeds. By this act, we change our fundamental relationship with the universe — if nothing else, we lose our place as the pinnacle and end-point of evolution, and become a mere link. The demands of motherhood especially consume the old self, and replace it with something new, often better and wiser, sometimes wearier or disillusioned, or tense and terrified, certainly more self-knowing, but never the same again.
- Cordelia's Honor (1996), "Author's Afterword"
- I've described my usual writing process as scrambling from peak to peak on inspiration through foggy valleys of despised logic. Inspiration is better — when you can get it.
- Young Miles (1997), "Author's Afterword"
- Women do desperately need models for power other than the maternal.
- Correspondence with feminist scholar and author Sylvia Kelso, published in Women of Other Worlds (1999), also quoted in "Women's Hero Journey : An Interview With Lois McMaster Bujold on Paladin of Souls by Alan Oak at WomenWriters.net (June 2009)
- I cannot emphasize enough that I do not start with a plan or agenda and mechanically manipulate characters and events to carry it out. I set characters in motion, and let them teach me what the book is.
- "Women's Hero Journey : An Interview With Lois McMaster Bujold on Paladin of Souls by Alan Oak at WomenWriters.net (June 2009)
Vorkosigan SagaEdit
- These titles are arranged by the storyline chronology rather than publication date.
Falling Free (1988)Edit
- Winner of the 1989 Nebula Award; nominated for the 1989 Hugo Award
- All page numbers from the Baen Books mass market paperback first edition, 1st printing, ISBN 0-671-65398-9
- On the sixth day God saw He couldn't do it all, it read, so He created engineers.
- Chapter 1 (p. 14)
- Whether you function as welders or inspectors, the laws of physics are implacable lie-detectors. You may fool men. You will never fool the metal. That's all.
- Chapter 2 (p. 36)
- Were you born inhuman, or did you grow so by degrees—M.S., M.D., Ph.D...
- Chapter 4 (p. 72)
- Of all the times to pick for this outbreak of idiocy, this has gotta be the worst possible. It's got to be deliberate. Nothing this fouled up could be by chance.
- Chapter 4 (p. 78)
- The line of logic trailed off in confusion; he turned his thoughts impatiently from it. Mental wheel-spinning, as unproductive as philosophy class in college.
- Chapter 5 (p. 89)
- I don't know whose judgement is worse, yours or the jerk's who hired you—
- Chapter 5 (p. 101)
- Claire, listen to me. The proper response to Bruce isn't suicide, it's murder.
- Chapter 7 (p. 122)
- GalacTech's not God, Claire. You shouldn't have to sacrifice your firstborn to it.
- Chapter 7 (p. 122)
- There are weapons all around us here, we just don't recognize them because we call them "tools."
- Chapter 8 (p. 142)
- Even soldiers in battle have to be brought to a special state of mental excitement to shoot total strangers.
- Chapter 8 (p. 143)
- This isn't a class. This is real life.
- Chapter 8 (p. 152)
- God's not here. Somebody's got to fill in.
- Chapter 9 (p. 161)
- The quaddies, he reflected, didn't seem to have a very clear idea of private property. Probably came from a lifetime spent in a communal space habitat, with its tight ecology. Planets were communal in the same way, really, except that their enormous size put so much slack in their systems, it was disguised.
- Chapter 9 (p. 166)
- "The trouble with you, Ti," lectured Leo kindly, "is that you lack teaching experience. If you had, you'd have faith that the most unlikely people can learn the most amazing things."
- Chapter 9 (pp. 166-167)
- "We've run into a problem, Leo."
"But of course. Who ever tracks me down to impart good news?
- Chapter 10 (p. 180)
- We make our own luck. And it's my responsibility to see it's good and not bad.
- Chapter 11 (p. 194)
- He loathed letting her push his buttons; still, she had a valid point: cover-your-ass was a fundamental rule for survival even of the fittest.
- Chapter 13 (p. 238)
- Clearly, you could die while waiting for other people to start your life for you.
- Chapter 14 (p. 254)
- "I could bring almost nothing—I scarcely knew what to choose."
"Think of the vast amounts of money we shall save on shipping charges, then."
- Chapter 14 (p. 256)
- Shooting people was such a stupid activity, why should everybody—anybody!—be so impressed? Silver wondered irritably. You would think she had done something truly great, like discover a new treatment for black stem-rot.
- Chapter 14 (p. 266)
- If you ever have to make a choice between learning and inspiration, boy, choose learning. It works more of the time.
- Chapter 14 (pp. 273-274)
- And what is the most important leg of a three-legged stool? The one that is missing, of course.
- Chapter 14 (p. 276)
- He gave himself up to God and pressed the button.
- Chapter 15 (p. 284)
- "Smoke test?...What's that?"...
"It's an ancient and honorable term for the final step in any engineering project," Leo explained. "Turn it on, see if it smokes."
- Chapter 16 (pp. 295-296; ellipses represent minor elisions of description)
Shards of Honor (1986)Edit
- Leadership is mostly a power over imagination, and never more so than in combat. The bravest man alone can only be an armed lunatic. The real strength lies in the ability to get others to do your work.
- If it ever came down to exerting power by force, it would mean I'd already lost it.
- I suppose my determination to be a soldier stems from that date. I mean the real thing, not the parades and the uniforms and the glamour, but the logistics, the offensive advantage, the speed and surprise — the power. A better-prepared, stronger, tougher, faster, meaner son-of-a-bitch than any who came through that door.
- Seems to me the only difference between your friends and your enemies is how long they stand around chatting before they shoot you.
- I could take over the universe with this army if I could ever get all their weapons pointed in the same direction.
- I don't hate him. I can't say I worship him, either. But when he's cut, I bleed.
- I have an aversion to closed doors anyway. You never know what's on the other side.
- He said that permitting private judgments to turn my duty in the smallest matter would be just like getting a little bit pregnant — that the consequences would very soon get beyond me.
- Most days it's just stumbling around in the dark with the rest of creation, smashing into things and wondering why it hurts.
- East is west, up is down, and being falsely arrested for getting your C.O.'s throat cut is a simplification. I must be on Barrayar.
- The really unforgivable acts are committed by calm men in beautiful green silk rooms, who deal death wholesale, by the shipload, without lust, or anger, or desire, or any redeeming emotion to excuse them but cold fear of some pretended future. But the crimes they hope to prevent in that future are imaginary. The ones they commit in the present — they are real.
- I'm sorry. I can love you. I can grieve for you, or with you. I can share your pain. But I cannot judge you.
- A price is something you get. A cost is something you lose.
- Why shouldn't a madman dream of being sane?
- I've always thought tests are a gift. And great tests are a great gift. To fail the test is a misfortune. But to refuse the test is to refuse the gift, and something worse, more irrevocable, than misfortune.
- An honor is not diminished for being shared.
- Don't be afraid. The dead cannot hurt you. They give you no pain, except that of seeing your own death in their faces. And one can face that, I find.
- The good face pain. But the great — they embrace it.
- Exile, for no other motive than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it.
- I am an atheist, myself. A simple faith, but a great comfort to me, in these last days.
Barrayar (1991)Edit
- Any community's arm of force — military, police, security — needs people in it who can do necessary evil, and yet not be made evil by it. To do only the necessary and no more. To constantly question the assumptions, to stop the slide into atrocity.
- With all this manure around, there's got to be a pony someplace.
- Check your assumptions. In fact, check your assumptions at the door.
- You can't choose between evil and evil, in the dark, by logic. You can only cling to some safety line of principle.
- I have no right to risk. No, that's not quite correct. I have no right to failure. And I don't trust myself anymore. I don't know what's happened to my edge. Lost it in a strange land.
- But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain?
- Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.
- Experience suggests it doesn't matter so much how you got here, as what you do after you arrive.
- Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the next chance.
- My home is not a place, it is people.
- It's... a transcendental act. Making life. I thought about that when I was carrying Miles. 'By this act, I bring one death into the world.' One birth, one death, and all the pain and acts of will between.
- You can say a lot in a little time, if you stick to words of one syllable.
- Live, and so confound our enemies.
- Our children change us…whether they live or not.
- Suicidal glory is the luxury of the irresponsible. We're not giving up. We're waiting for a better opportunity to win.
- She didn't feel anything, no grief or remorse, though her heart was racing and her breath came in gasps. A shocky combat-high, that immortal rush that made men charge machine guns. So this was what the war-addicts came for.
- One step at a time, I can walk around the world. Watch me.
- Welcome to Barrayar, son. Here you go: have a world of wealth and poverty, wrenching change and rooted history. Have a birth; have two. Have a name. Miles means "soldier," but don't let the power of suggestion overwhelm you. Have a twisted form in a society that loathes and fears the mutations that have been its deepest agony. Have a title, wealth, power, and all the hatred and envy they will draw. Have your body ripped apart and re-arranged. Inherit an array of friends and enemies you never made. Have a grandfather from hell. Endure pain, find joy, and make your own meaning, because the universe certainly isn't going to supply it. Always be a moving target. Live. Live. Live.
- I would fight the world for you, but I'm damned if I can figure out how to save you from yourself.
- Oh, but he's my monster.
The Warrior's Apprentice (1986)Edit
- If you're trying to take a roomful of people by surprise, it's a lot easier to hit your targets if you don't yell going through the door.
- What you are is a question only you can answer.
- It's never too late while you're breathing.
- I guess it just doesn't look very heroic to sneak up behind somebody and shoot them in the back. I can't help thinking it would be more efficient, though.
- The deadly weapon seemed unnaturally light and easy in his hand. Something that lethal should have more heft, like a broadsword. Wrong, for murder to be so potentially effortless — one ought to at least have to grunt for it.
- Organization seemed to be the key. To get huge masses of properly matched men and materials to the right place at the right time in the right order with the swiftness required to even grasp survival — to wrestle an infinitely complex and confusing reality into the abstract shape of victory — organization, it seemed, might even outrank courage as a soldierly virtue.
- Heroes. They sprang up around him like weeds. A carrier, he was seemingly unable to catch the disease he spread.
- How can I give you up? You're the mountains and the lake, the memories — you have them all. When you're with me, I'm at home, wherever I am.
- Acting or reacting, we carry him in us. You can't walk away from him any more than I can. Whether you travel toward or away, he'll be the compass. He'll be the glass, full of subtle colors and astigmatisms, through which all new things will be viewed. I too have a father who haunts me, and I know.
- When the time came to leap in faith, whether you had your eyes open or closed or screamed all the way down or not made no practical difference.
- Hunting hawks do not belong in cages, no matter how much a man covets their grace, no matter how golden the bars. They are far more beautiful soaring free. Heartbreakingly beautiful.
- I've got forward momentum. There's no virtue in it. It's just a balancing act. I don't dare stop.
Ethan of Athos (1986)Edit
- A good friend of my son's is a son to me.
- I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.
- Some men just aren't cut out for paternity. Better they should realize it before and not after they become responsible for a son.
- There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
The Mountains of Mourning (1989)Edit
- Yeah, so I'm short. But wait'll you see me dance.
- If you want to catch something, running after it isn't always the best way.
- Aren't family squabbles jolly fun? Bleeding ulcers run in my family, we give them to each other.
- Peace to you, small lady. You've won a twisted poor modern knight, to wear your favor on his sleeve. But it's a twisted poor world we were both born into, that rejects us without mercy and ejects us without consultation. But at least I won't just tilt at windmills for you. I'll send in sappers to mine the twirling suckers and blow them into the sky.
The Vor Game (1990)Edit
- We don't just march on the future, we charge it.
- A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.
- Pain hurts, sir. I don't court it.
- When a normal ensign looked at his commander, he ought to see a godlike being, not a, a... future subordinate. New ensigns were supposed to be a subhuman species anyway.
- If we shouldn't do it, we shouldn't be able to do it.
- Those who do not know their history are doomed to keep stepping in it.
- This evokes the famous statement by George Santayana in The Life of Reason Vol. 1 (1905): "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
- Your "accidents," I once noticed, have ways of entangling your enemies that are the green envy of mature and careful strategists. Far too consistent for chance, I concluded it had to be unconscious will.
- War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.
- I may be small, but I screw up big because I'm standing on the shoulders of GIANTS.
- This evokes the statement by Newton: "If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."
- Rule 1: Only overrule the tactical computer if you know something it doesn't. Rule 2: The tac comp always knows more than you do.
- Home is where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.
- This evokes a statement in "Death of a Hired Man" by Robert Frost: "Home is the place where, when you have to go there, They have to take you in."
- The cream pie of justice flies one way.
- Miles cursed himself silently, then out loud. He really had to try to cultivate a more normal attitude toward senior officers.... When a normal ensign looked at his commander, he ought to see a god-like being, not a, a... future subordinate.
- "Am I reading too much into all that innuendo, or did you in fact just connive to assassinate Gregor in one breath, offer to cuckold him in the next, accuse your father of homosexuality, suggest a patricidal plot against him, and league yourself with Cavilo -- what are you going to do for an encore?"
"Depends on the straight lines."
Cetaganda (1996)Edit
- Hi, I'm a hero, but I can't tell you why. It's classified.
- Hands are integral with brains, almost another lobe for intelligence. What one does not know through one's hands, one does not truly know.
- No battle plan survives first contact with the enemy. Not when the enemy is me.
- This includes a common paraphrase of a statement which originates with military strategist Field Marshall Helmuth von Moltke: "No plan of operations extends with any certainty beyond the first contact with the main hostile force."
- Vorreedi stated dangerously, "I am not a mushroom, Lieutenant Vorkosigan."
To be kept in the dark and fed on horseshit, right. Miles sighed inwardly.
- In my experience, milady, we can never get back to exactly where we started, no matter how hard we try.
- You can't give power away and keep it simultaneously. Except posthumously.
- Behavior that is rewarded is repeated. And the reverse.
- The best strategies run on rails. Live or die, you make your goal.
- Egalitarians adjust to aristocracies just fine, as long as they get to be the aristocrats.
- "Do you know what this is, Lord Vorkosigan?" Giaja asked.
Miles eyed the medallion of the Order of Merit on its colored ribbon, glittering on a bed of velvet. "Yes, sir. It is a lead weight, suitable for sinking small enemies. Are you going to sew me into a silk sack with it, before you throw me overboard?"
- "I thought they'd never fall asleep." Ivan paused; a slow smirk displaced the snarl on his face. "But they were smiling, when they finally did."
- Luck is something you make for yourself, if you want it.
Borders of Infinity (1989)Edit
- How could I have died and gone to hell without noticing the transition?
- Why did so many antique myths agree that hell was a circular place?
- "All right," Miles pulled Suegar to his feet, "let's go preach to the unconverted."
Suegar laughed suddenly. "I had a top kick once who used to say, 'Let's go kick some ass,' in just that tone of voice."
- Now there's this about cynicism, Sergeant. It's the universe's most supine moral position. Real comfortable. If nothing can be done, then you're not some kind of shit for not doing it, and you can lie there and stink to yourself in perfect peace.
- Let he who is without sin cast the first lure.
- I can't quit, once I've started. I've been told I'm pathologically persistent. I can't quit.
- Biology is Destiny.
- The wounded want power, nothing else; they think it will keep them from being hurt again.
- "Power is better than revenge. Power is a live thing, by which you reach out to grasp the future. Revenge is a dead thing, reaching out from the past to grasp you.
- Men may move mountains, but ideas move men.
- There is a subtle difference between being a prisoner and being a slave. I don't mistake either for being free.
- The loonies who sought a glorious death in battle found it very early on. This rapidly cleared the chain of command of the accumulated fools. The survivors were those who learned to fight dirty, and live, and fight another day, and win, and win, and win, and for whom nothing, not comfort, or security, not family or friends or their immortal souls, was more important than winning. Dead men are losers by definition. Survival and victory. They weren't supermen, or immune to pain. They sweated in confusion and darkness. And … they won.
- When you can see the colors of the feathers, you'll also understand how you can expand your borders to infinity.
- It's not a comfortable thing, to be chosen so. I tried to avoid it for a long time, but God finds ways of dealing with draft dodgers.
- You're so hopelessly monosexual, Miles.
- Mine is not a theology of the elect. I intend to preach to the masses. Even the sinners.
- "Is this guy for real?"
"He thinks he's faking it, but he's not."
Brothers in Arms (1989)Edit
- There are a number of people in the universe I'd be willing to double-cross, but my own wounded aren't among 'em.
- Total strangers trying to kill me make me feel right at home.
- It just happens to be very important to me to win with the hand I was dealt.
- Three cheers for literacy... I feel sick.
- I'm just dazzled by the glittering tinsel of neo-fascism.
- The will to be stupid is a very powerful force.
- There is no safety. Only varying states of risk. And failure.
- You are what you do.
- The man who assumes everything is a lie is at least as mistaken as the one who assumes everything is true.
- No, no, never send interim reports. Only final ones. Interim reports tend to elicit orders. Which you must either then obey, or spend valuable time and energy evading, which you could be using to solve the problem.
- And what goes on in the head of a walking dead man? What personal failure could he possibly fear more than death itself?
- 'It didn't work, so let's do it some more'? In my line of work, they call that military stupidity. I don't know what they call it in civilian life.
- You must kill if you expect to survive."
"No you don't," Miles put in. "Most people go through their whole lives without killing anybody. False argument.
- When you can't get what you want, you take what you can get.
- "Don't panic."
"I'm not panicking, I'm watching you panic. It's more entertaining."
- "I'm *not* schizophrenic. A little manic-depressive, maybe."
"Know thyself."
"We try, sir."
Mirror Dance (1994)Edit
- I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow is…the higher achievement.
- Like integrity, love of life was not a subject to be studied, it was a contagion to be caught. And you had to catch it from someone who had it.
- It's important that someone celebrate our existence... People are the only mirror we have to see ourselves in. The domain of all meaning. All virtue, all evil, are contained only in people. There is none in the universe at large. Solitary confinement is a punishment in every human culture.
- Mother Nature gives a sense of romance to young people, in place of prudence, to advance the species. It's a trick—that makes us grow.
- Since no one is perfect, it follows that all great deeds have been accomplished out of imperfection.
- Do it for yourself. The universe will be around to collect its cut later.
- "Damn the boy for making a fucking farce out of his own funeral!"
- Modern warfare wasn't supposed to have this much blood in it. The weapons were supposed to cook everyone neatly, like eggs in their shells.
- Mark's own taste in women, if ever he should live to exercise it, ran more to something like that little blonde clone...Somebody short, soft, pink, timid, somebody who wouldn't kill and eat him after they mated.
- All true wealth is biological.
- Confusion to the enemy.
- I don't know. I do think, half of what we call madness is just some poor slob dealing with pain by a strategy that annoys the people around him.
- Sometimes insanity is not a tragedy. Sometimes, it's a strategy for survival. Sometimes ... it's a triumph.
Memory (1996)Edit
- His mother had often said, "When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action." She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently: when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.
- How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?
- I am who I choose to be. I always have been what I chose…though not always what I pleased.
- His heart still seemed to ache, the way an overstrained muscle twinged when one put weight on it. Like muscle strain, it would pass with a little rest, he suspected.
- If you can't do what you want, do what you can.
- It was never what I wanted to buy that held my heart's hope. It was what I wanted to be.
- Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart.
- You try to give away what you want yourself.
- "Most men", he quoted, "are of naught more use in their lives but as machines for turning food into shit."
Ivan cocked an eyebrow at him. "Who said that? Your grandfather?"
"Leonardo da Vinci," Miles returned primly. But was compelled to add, "Grandfather quoted it to me, though."
- Some fellows you have to hit with a brick to get their attention. Some you have to hit with a BIG brick.
- "You go on. You just go on. There's nothing more to it, and there's no trick to make it easier. You just go on."
"And what do you find on the other side? When you go on?"
"Your life again. What else?"
"Is that a promise?"
"It's an inevitability. No trick. No choice. You just go on."
- Strange mercies, Illyan. You kill me so courteously.
- The last thing a monster wanted was a fellow to follow him around all day long with a mirror.
- I was never a mercenary, not ever. Not for one single minute.
- Never argue with a pedant over nomenclature. It wastes your time and annoys the pedant.
Komarr (1998)Edit
- Cynicism did not seem nearly so impressively daring to her now as it had when she was twenty.
- If suspicion was the deadliest possible insult, then trust was always right, even if it was mistaken.
- Aim high. You may still miss the target but at least you won't shoot your foot off.
- Marriage was a lottery, and you drew your lot in late adolescence or early adulthood at a point of maximum idiocy and confusion.
- I am not here to vent my feelings. I am here to achieve my goals.
- As God is my witness, when I am laid to my rest, I hope my best beloved will have better to say of me than "He never hit me."
- It was seldom he found himself in company who made him feel this stupid. It was probably good for his soul.
- Eloquence consists of persuading people of things they desperately want to believe. Demagoguery, I suppose, is eloquence sliding to some least moral energy level.
A Civil Campaign (1999)Edit
- Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.
- Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
- A hundred objective measurements didn't sum the worth of a garden; only the delight of its users did that. Only the use made it mean something.
- A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.
- When I was twenty, I chose my life. It wasn't this one.
- Adversity does teach who your real friends are.
- Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.
- If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?
- Never... ever suggest they don't have to pay you. What they pay for, they'll value. What they get for free, they'll take for granted, and then demand as a right. Hold them up for all the market will bear.
- When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.
- You couldn't be that good and not know it, somewhere in your secret heart, however much you'd been abused into affecting public humility.
- You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.
- You have to be careful who you let define your good.
- Marta blinked at him with manufactured innocence. "Kareen had it from Mark. I had it from Ivan. Mama had it from Gregor. And Da had it from Pym. If you're trying to keep it a secret, Miles, why are you going around telling everyone"?
- Was this the trick of it? Secrets so dire as to be unspeakable, thoughts so frightening as to make clear young voices mute, kicked out into the open with blunt ironic humor. And suddenly the dire didn't loom so darkly any more, and fear shrank, and anyone could say anything. And the unbearable seemed a little easier to lift.
- It is always easier to get forgiveness than permission.
- This seems to be derived from a statement attributed to Rear Admiral Grace Hopper, and which she regularly used in her public addresses: "It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission."
- "Let's see what happens." Yes, let's.
- "So much for that line of reasoning, Lord Richars," Ekaterin finished. She sat back with a hand-dusting gesture, and added, by no means under her breath, "Twit'.'"
- Government by thugs in the Bloody Centuries gave Barrayar many colorful historical incidents, suitable for high drama. I don't think it's a drama we wish to return to in real life.
- For her, this was a metaphor, he reminded himself. Though maybe he was a metaphor too, inside his head with the Black Gang. A metaphor gone metastatic.
- The principal difference between heaven and hell is the company you keep there.
- There is no more hollow feeling than to stand with your honor shattered at your feet while soaring public reputation wraps you in rewards. That's soul-destroying. The other way around is merely very, very irritating.
- The trouble with oaths of the form, death before dishonor, is that eventually, given enough time and abrasion, they separate the world into just two sorts of people: the dead, and the forsworn.
- I gather from the pattern of her flinches that the late unlamented Tien Vorsoisson was one of those subtle feral parasites who leave their mates scratching their heads and asking, "Am I crazy? Am I crazy?"
- Adulthood isn't an award they'll give you for being a good child. You can waste … years, trying to get someone to give that sort of respect to you, as though it were some sort of promotion or raise in pay. If only you do enough, if only you are good enough. No. You have to just … take it. Give it to yourself, I suppose. Say, "I'm sorry you feel like that", and walk away.
Winterfair Gifts (2008)Edit
- I'd have worn them as a courtesy to your friend, I'll wear them now as a defiance to our enemies.
- Taura nailed it. She'll do for m'lord, all right. And God help their enemies.
- She's just as bad as he is! God help me.
Diplomatic Immunity (2002)Edit
- If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us?
- If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back.
- The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.
- I smell diplomacy.
"The Flowers of Vashnoi" (2018)Edit
- "S funny. Piotr, toward the end of his life, looked at our district and only saw how much better it was. All the backbreaking, heartbreaking work he did cleaning up the messes after the war is taken for granted now, or mostly just forgotten. Instead, we look around and only see how much better it could be. And neither of us is wrong, exactly."
Cryoburn (2010)Edit
- "Old age," she said, "is slower than a grenade, but a lot more thorough."
- All the worry people expend over not existing after they die, yet nary a one ever seems to spare a moment to worry about not having existed before they were conceived. Or at all. After all, one sperm over and we would have been our sisters, and we'd never have been missed.
Captain Vorpatril's Alliance (2012)Edit
- The most interesting question of history is always, What were these people thinking?
The Vorkosigan Companion (2008)Edit
- Edited by Lillian Stewart Carl and John Helfers
- One of the best things about writing is how it redeems, not to mention recycles, all of one's prior experiences, including — or perhaps especially — the failures.
- "Putting It Together" p. 6
- I have a catchphrase to describe my plot-generation technique — "What's the worst possible thing I can do to these people?"
- "Putting It Together" p. 6
- I am increasingly convinced that technological culture is the entire root of women's liberation.
- "Putting It Together" p. 8
- Parallels, spirals, and reflections are some of my favorite literary patterns.
- "Putting It Together" p. 20
- Reading is an active and elusive experience. Every reader, reading exactly the same text, will have a slightly different reading experience depending on what s/he projects into the words s/he sees, what strings of meaning and association those words call up in his/her (always) private mind. One can never therefore, talk about the quality of a book separately from the quality of the mind that is creating it by reading it, in the only place books live, in the secret mind.
- "'A Conversation With Lois McMaster Bujold", an interview with Lillian Stewart Carl, p. 52
- I have no idea why some of my books draw awards and others don't, except that the ones I spent the least time worrying about other people's response to — that I wrote for myself — seem to do the best of all.
- "'A Conversation With Lois McMaster Bujold", p. 54
- Not all books are created equal, and for the special ones, you begin to know it sometimes even before the work is finished, but always by the time you slam that last line home and shriek, "Done! Done!," and fall head-down across your keyboard like the runner from Marathon.
- "'A Conversation With Lois McMaster Bujold", p. 54
- I've always tried to write the kind of book I most loved to read: character-centered adventure.
- "'A Conversation With Lois McMaster Bujold", p. 60
- I attack both from the logic-side, scribbling outline after outline, and the long-walk relaxed-visualization-side, and while neither alone is enough, the combination synergizes. Which is just a fancy way of saying, "I think about it a lot, day and night."
- "Publishing, Writing, and Authoring", p. 67
- From fried witchetty grubs to gold-plated turnips, when you're a writer you never know what's going to appear on your plate next. It keeps a woman alert, it does.
- "Publishing, Writing, and Authoring", p. 75
World of the Five Gods seriesEdit
The Curse of Chalion (2000)Edit
- If you desire a man to tell you comfortable lies about your prowess, and so fetter any hope of true excellence, I'm sure you may find one anywhere. Not all prisons are made of iron bars. Some are made of feather beds.
- p. 58
- Right or wrong, what I also saw was that you made an enemy, and left him alive behind you. Great charity. Bad tactics.
- p. 60
- The joys of command — well, you know. You taught them to me. One part glory to ten parts shoveling manure.
- p. 76
- The gods' most savage curses come upon us as answers to our own prayers, you know.
- p. 94
- I think it (i. e., sainthood) is not so much the growth of virtue, as simply the replacement of prior vices with an addiction to one's god.
- p. 224
- He found oddly little regret in his heart for his own lost life. He'd seen more of the world than most men ever did, and he'd had his chances, though the gods knew he'd made little enough of them. Marshaling his thoughts, as he sheltered under his covers, he realized with some wonder that his greatest dismay was for the work he'd be forced to leave undone.
- p. 233
- The confusion of mind you dub honor is a disease.
- p. 282
- I for one find a casual destruction of a man's life even more repugnant than a determined one.
- p. 292
- Only the saints would joke so about the gods, because it was either joke or scream, and they alone knew it was all the same to the gods.
- p. 313
- Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be.
- p. 316
- Second sight is redundant to reason anyway.
- p. 328
- "Just what kind of noose are you offering to put round my neck, here? Is this treason?"
"Worse," Cazaril sighed. "Theology."
- p. 333
- Surely only correct understanding could lead to correct action.
- p. 369
- And you could just watch men begin to see what he told them they were seeing, whether it was there or not.
- p. 433
- "Mercy from the Father and the Mother, mercy from the Sister and the Brother, Mercy from the Bastard, five times mercy, High Ones, we beseech you."… Mercy, High Ones. Not justice, please, not justice. We would all be fools to pray for justice.
- A skilled soldier kills your enemies, but a skilled duelist kills your allies.
- "I don't duel, boy. I kill as a soldier kills, which is as a butcher kills, as quickly, efficiently, and with as least risk to myself as I can arrange. If I decide you die, you will die when I choose, where I choose, by what means I choose, and you will never see the blow coming. (...) I don't duel. But if you seek to die like a bludgeoned steer, cross me again."
Paladin of Souls (2003)Edit
- The shocked silence that followed was decidedly baffled. And even, possibly, a little thoughtful, if that was not too much to hope.
- p. 31
- You can't solve problems by running away from them, it was said, and like the good child she had once been, she had believed this. But it wasn't true. Some problems could only be solved by running away from them.
- p. 36
- "And the Bastard grant us . . . in our direst need, the smallest gifts: the nail of the horseshoe, the pin of the axle, the feather at the pivot point, the pebble at the mountain's peak, the kiss in despair, the one right word. In darkness, understanding."
- p. 44
- The gods...the gods may forgive much, to a truly penitent heart."
Her smile grew bitter as desert brine. "The gods may forgive Ista all day long. But if Ista does not forgive Ista, the gods may go hang themselves."
- p. 61
- "You must go home eventually."
"I would throw myself off a precipice first, except that I would land in the arms of the gods, Whom I do not wish to see again."
- p. 61
- A stunning first impression was not the same thing as love at first sight. But surely it was an invitation to consider the matter.
- p. 125
- The entire center of her life was a blackened waste, its long years not to be recovered nor replaced.
- p. 125
- The gods give no gifts without hooks embedded.
- p. 157
- I have denied my eyes, both inner and outer. I am not a child, or virgin, or modest wife, fearing to offend. No one owns my eyes now but me. If I have not the stomach by now to look upon any sight in the world, good or evil, beautiful or vile, when shall I? It is far too late for innocence. My only hope is the much more painful consolation of wisdom. Which can grow out of knowledge alone. Give me my true eyes. I want to see. I have to know.
- p. 201
- "I would be considerably more impressed with your god, dy Cabon," said Ista through her teeth, "if He could have arranged one life's worth of simple protection in advance, rather than three hundred lives' worth of gaudy vengeance afterward."
- p. 271
- "Such a perilous concentration of demons would create chaos all around it."
"War gathers on these borders," said Ista. "A greater concentration of chaos I can hardly imagine."
- p. 281
- He gave me no sign. I was never the sort to receive portents, or to delude myself that I had. Silence was always my portion, in return for my prayers.
- p. 295
- You are a most excellent lawyer, for a dead man.
- p. 296
- One learns better than to hand one's choices to fear. With age, with every wound and scar, one learns.
- p. 296
- "The gods would take him and leave me bereft, and I curse them!"
"I have cursed them for years," said Ista dryly. "Turnabout being fair."
- p. 379
- One scarcely knows if he would be of more use to us as a hostage, or set loose to be a very bad enemy leader.
- p. 459
The Sharing KnifeEdit
Passage (Vol. III in Tetralogy) (2008)Edit
- We see the world not as it is, but as we are. ~ Dag Redwing hickory Bluefield
- p. 163
Knife Children (2019)Edit
- Her eyes were full of new; it made them brighter
- Loc 1972 of 2974
- Words won't break bones seemed like the lying-est lie Barr had ever been told, as a child. Bones knit eventually, he knew from close personal experience. The scars of slander, an insult not just delivered but believed, might never heal in a lifetime.
- Loc 2243 of 2974
- "Thing is... she may get mad, but she isn't whiny or naggy about it. She doesn't store it up like a, a compost heap, all hot on the inside and rotting. She's angry like she has a right, and no one disputes it." She added after a moment, "Or tells her to be a good girl, or be quiet, or apologize. Or go to her room" ~ Lily Mason, on why she admires Captain Amma
- Loc 2480 of 2974
A Girl's World interview (2006)Edit
- Online interview at agirlsworld.com
- I don't take information and experience into my mind in that organized a fashion, but when I want to bring it out, somehow it's there. You write what you know because — like there's another choice? The trick is to try and know as much as possible.
- I am a much better person and a better writer having had my children than I would be otherwise. I would have missed a whole aspect of the human experience that's tremendously fundamental to things like characterization.
A lot of writers write as if the hero sort of popped out of the box at age 22 fully formed. And one thing that raising children does is give you some sense of how human beings really are put together. So when you go to put together a character you can have a more realistic sense of where people really come from, why they really behave the way they do and what a tremendous amount of life and complexity lies behind every human being.
But I think you can get that from being a father too. I think it's something you can do by growing up and being observant even if you don't have children.
- Don't worry about that depressing old dictum "Write what you know". If you need to know something, look it up. Learn how to find out what you need to know to make it right. Be passionate, be picky, have enough self-criticism to demand of yourself your best and not sort of let it slide by. And remember that the greatest defect any piece of fiction can have is not to be finished.
Geek Speak Magazine Interview (2010)Edit
- Online interview at geekspeakmagazine.com
- Some fortunate, prolific writers seem to be able, efficiently, to keep several projects going at once; it appears I am not one of them.
- I don't write stories to tell readers what to think, or even tell them what I think; I write stories to show me what I think. Writing is always a journey of discovery that way, as suspenseful for me as I hope it will be for the audience.
- Lots of us SF-types like the idea of traveling to the Future (although, having now done so once myself -- the hard way -- I'm less sure), but why do we imagine the Future would want us? Oh, a few 21st-century Icemen, perhaps, as historical curiosities, but in our hundreds of millions? It would be like the greatest wave of immigration ever, but from the past into other people's Now. It might seem to them like sacrificing resources needed for their children to their great-great-great-grandparents. Counter-evolutionary, among other things.
Quotes about BujoldEdit
- Read, or you will be missing something extraordinary.
- Roland J. Green of the Chicago Sun-Times (1 May 1988) in a review of Falling Free.
- The apparently effortless fluidity of both style and story may actually have mitigated against critical notice, in comparison to notorious stylists like William Gibson, or, again, Ursula Le Guin. But, despite Bujold's space opera plots, the flashes of humour rare either in Le Guin or in SF as a whole, and the steady pigeonholing of her work as military SF, her similarities to Le Guin go far beyond the presence of that wall.
Firstly, both are consummate character-builders. Indeed, characterization, emphasis on character, and plots that depend on character and the novums of technology are among Bujold's strongpoints. Nowhere does this emerge more clearly than if her work is taken as military SF and compared to that of writers like Jerry Pournelle or David Weber.
- Sylvia Kelso, in "Loud Achievements: Lois Mcmaster Bujold's Science Fiction", first published in New York Review of Science Fiction 122 & 123 (October & November 1998)
- I got the same sort of feeling reading her works as I had gotten from classic Heinlein: a renewed faith in humanity and a desire to explore and do good in the universe. Great feeling.
- Toni Weisskopf in "A Conversation With Toni Weisskopf", interview by John Helfers, in The Vorkosigan Companion (2008), p. 78


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Chicken meal, ground rice, ground corn, oat meal, dried beet pulp, dried tomato pomace, poultry fat, (preserved with natural tocopherols (vitamin E)), brewers dried yeast, poultry digest, fish meal, dried skim milk, lecithin, salt, vegetable oil, calcium carbonate, fish oil, lysine, dl-methionine, garlic powder, vitamin A acetate, d-activated animal sterol (source of vitamin D3), vitamin E supplement, menadione sodium bisulfite complex (source of vitamin K activity), vitamin B12 supplement, riboflavin supplement, d-calcium pantothenate, niacin supplement, thiamine mononitrate, pyridoxine hydrochloride, folic acid, biotin, manganese sulfate, ferrous sulfate, copper sulfate, zinc oxide, zinc sulfate, potassium iodide, potassium chloride, sodium selenite.
Protein not less than .....................19%
Fat not less than ..............................7%
Fiber not more than ......................5.5%
Moisture not more than .................11%
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Registered: October 2005
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Sun December 30, 2007
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First ingredient is a named meat product
Insufficient meat content, some low quality ingredients, controversial filler, fat and other ingredients of unidentifiable origin
The first ingredient in this food is a named meat product, in meal form. There is a further meat meal ingredient 10th on the ingredient list. This is too far down to make any significant contribution to the overall meat content of the food. We note this ingredient is fish meal, but find no sign on the manufacturers website of a guarantee that they use only ethoxyquin-free protein sources (ethoxyquin is a chemical preservative commonly added to fish ingredients and that is banned or heavily regulated in human food due to the belief that it is carcinogenic). Poultry digest is "material which results from chemical and/or enzymatic hydrolysis of clean and undecomposed poultry tissue". It has the same issues around unidentifiable source and quality as poulty fat (below) and is not found in high quality products.
The main grains in the food are rice, corn and oatmeal. Rice and oatmeal are decent quality grains. Corn, however, is a difficult to digest grain of limited value and that is commonly linked to allergy problems. Beet pulp is controversial filler which appears to be used in large quantities in this food. It is a by-product, being dried residue from sugar beets which has been cleaned and extracted in the process of manufacturing sugar. It is a controversial ingredient in dog food, claimed by some manufacturers to be a good source of fibre, and derided by others as an ingredient added to slow down the transition of rancid animal fats and causing stress to kidney and liver in the process. We note that beet pulp is an ingredient that commonly causes problems for dogs, including allergies and ear infections, and prefer not to see it used in dog food. There are less controversial products around if additional fibre is required. Tomato pomace is further filler.
Poultry fat is a low quality ingredient rarely found in anything but very low quality foods. Poultry fat is an ingredient of unidentified origin for which it is impossible to determine source or quality. Unidentified ingredients are usually very low quality. AAFCO define this as obtained from the tissues of poultry in the commercial processes of rendering or extracting. It consists predominantly of glyceride esters of fatty acids and contains no additions of free fatty acids. If an antioxidant is used, the common name or names must be indicated, followed by the words "used as a preservative"
There are no fruits/vegetables in the food and we would prefer to see the use of whole eggs rather than egg product in the food. We note that this product includes synthetic vitamin K, a substance linked to liver problems and that is progressively being removed from better quality dog food products.
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