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Thanks so much for taking time out of your busy schedule to be here with us today, Jan. When did you begin writing? Was there any one thing that inspired you to begin writing?
I actually got a late start as a writer. I always knew I was going to write, but my life took me in a number of other directions first. My first career was in law, and then it was music. I stopped playing music one day and began to write. It just felt like it was time.
What was your first novel and how long did it take to get it published?
Kaminishi is my first published novel, but it's the third novel I've written. I also have a self-published mystery novel, Portola Bay, and I'm thinking of dredging up my first novel manuscript and seeing if it can be revived…
I recently had the privilege of reading Kaminishi, a time travel, historical fantasy/romance that propels your character Michael Holden from 21st century California back to the year 1851, to Japan. What prompted you to choose mid-19th century Japan as the story's setting?
I think the setting basically chose itself. I wanted a time travel experience back to old Japan, but to a time that was fairly close to the modern era. When I thought about the "opening to the west" that began in 1853, it became clear to me that the story should be set just before then.
How much research did you do for the novel?
I did a lot of research. It's daunting to write a historical setting, even if you have some prior basic familiarity with the history and culture of that setting. You keep thinking you've researched enough, and then you hit another section of the story that requires still more research. It was ongoing throughout the writing process.
How long did it take to write?
I wrote an outline of the story in 2006, and worked on the manuscript on and off until fall 2010, when I felt it was ready to begin submitting to publishers. I took a lot of breaks, including an entire year when I didn't even look at it. I have a history of writing slowly, but that's changed recently. I have Nanowrimo to thank for that. 😉
The cover of the novel is quite beautiful: how much creative input did you have in its design?
Thank you for mentioning the cover. I also think it's beautiful and have been in love with it from the moment I first saw it. Dreamspinner Press sends you a sheet to fill out with your input on what your ideas for the cover would be. My ideas included a Japanese castle, rice fields, cherry blossoms, and the two men being featured in some way.
The cover artist, Anne Cain, and Mara, Dreamspinner's art director, did a fantastic job in capturing the feel of the story. Imagery that reflects the seasons is a very Japanese kind of thing, and I think Kaminishi is an autumn kind of story (though with a sense of spring renewal at the end). The colors in the cover illustration, and the expressions on the men's faces, reflect this autumn mood. It's remarkable how evocative it is.
After finishing the book, besides the incredible urge to begin reading it all over again, my first reaction was, please let there be a sequel in the works. So, is there? Please? 🙂
Thank you – I'm glad you enjoyed reading the book! To me, Michael and Shinjaro's story feels finished, but never say never… if there's enough response and interest in a sequel, who knows? 🙂 What I would definitely consider doing are side stories, i.e., short stories with the two men set in the two different time periods, particularly the modern Tokyo period.
When did you begin writing stories in the Male/Male genre? What about the genre interested you the most?
I was a fan of slash fan fiction early on. In the late 1980s, I did volunteer work for an AIDS organization and was acquainted with many gay men, which inspired me to write my first novel, set in the Silverlake area of Los Angeles. When I became an anime fan around six years ago, I discovered yaoi and that brought m/m stories back into my life. M/M stories seem to be a perennial for me; they keep returning to me in some form.
Do you write full time? If not, how many hours per day do you try to dedicate to your writing?
The answer is yes – sometimes. I freelance in two different fields and often they both get busy at the same time, leaving me with no time to write – and then both run dry at the same time, leaving me with days or even weeks free to write as much as I want to. My free time is unpredictable, but often involves large blocks of time when it comes.
Do you typically do revisions/edits as you're writing, or do you write straight through and revise later?
I write the first draft from beginning to end, without revising, and revise it later.
Do you outline your plots before you begin the writing process, or do you write in a more freestyle fashion?
I outline plots beforehand, but I allow for changes as they come up.
Do you ever suffer from writer's block? If so, how do you get beyond it?
I experience stops and starts with my writing, but I don't see it as writer's block. Writing is an important part of my life, but it's only part of it. If I am really having a hard time writing, I take that as a signal from my spiritual side that I'm supposed to be doing something else for a while. The writing always comes back.
If you were to offer a word of advice to a new author just starting out, what would it be?
Have the confidence to tell your own unique stories, the ones only you can write.
The e-reader is changing the way people access and enjoy books. What pros and/or cons do you see surrounding the business of e-publishing? Do you believe the day will come when digital books will eliminate print books, entirely?
I'm middle-aged, so I grew up with print books. I don't have an ereader yet, but I'll probably give in at some point and get one. I'm still adjusting to the ebook revolution and all of the changes it's bringing to the publishing industry.
As to whether ebooks will eliminate print books entirely, I wouldn't think so. There will always be art and photography books, gift books, and similar content that would only work in print. I should add to that that I wouldn't want to see print books disappear altogether, even the ones that only have text and no illustrations. A printed, bound book is a form of art in and of itself.
Aside from writing, what else do you enjoy doing? Do you have any hobbies?
I'm a complete anime fanatic. Seriously, I can't stop watching anime. Anime is my passion. 🙂
Will you tell us where we can find you on the Internet?
My anime and manga blog is at http://jansuzukawa.blogspot.com, and my new romance writing blog is at http://atypicalromance.blogspot.com.
My website is at www.jansuzukawa.com.
Thanks so much for being here with us. We'd love it if you'd share a favorite excerpt or two for our readers.
Thank you for having me! 🙂 Here's an excerpt from Kaminishi:
"So… he was a samurai warlord?"
There was more than simple disbelief in Ellen's voice—there was a touch of actual scorn.
Michael flinched.
"I know how it sounds—"
"Oh, I don't think so. Michael, have you been getting enough sleep? I know it's finals now, but—"
He sighed.
What did you expect? It was an unbelievable story. He wouldn't have believed her if she'd been telling it. You're not even sure it happened. But something had happened.
He looked down at his drawing of the samurai warlord. Late last night, he had taken it down from the wall and fallen asleep with it in his hands; the last thing he remembered was staring at it.
It was Shinjaro Kaminishi. There was no doubt in his mind.
He had drawn a portrait of a samurai warlord from a dream, only to meet him in another dream.
Was it a dream? He had lived in the warlord's castle—waking up each morning, going through his day as a prisoner, going to sleep at night; only to wake up again in the cell or in his new room the following morning. He had never heard of any dream feeling like it had gone on for weeks.
He had checked his arm and back for scars of the whipping. Nothing. His skin was unmarked, and he had felt oddly… disappointed.
Did he want it to have been real?
He had been captured, imprisoned, abused, and initiated into sex with a man, something he wasn't sure he would have chosen had he stayed in this lifetime, living out his days as Michael Holden, a poor little rich boy, nice enough but with no particular aim in life.
He had lived a different life, one that felt more real than this one.
If he could choose which one to live, which would he choose?
"Michael? Michael?" Ellen sounded panicked. "Are you there?"
"Yes, yes, I'm still here."
"I'm coming over. You sound weird. Have you eaten breakfast?"
"Yes," Michael lied. "And I'm fine. You don't have to come over."
"You sound like you're losing it."
"I'm not."
"What are you doing the rest of today?"
"Studying, what else?"
"What about tonight? I can bring dinner. What do you want?"
Michael sighed. "Are you going to give me another chance to explain this so you'll believe me?"
There was a silence on the other end, and then a huge sigh.
"All right. Fine, then."
HE SHOWERED and put on jeans and a shirt, leaving it unbuttoned and his chest bare. Grabbing a beer from the fridge, he picked up the remote and clicked the TV on.
A movement reflected in the sliding glass door caught his eye; he turned and looked.
No one there.
On edge, he set his beer down and walked to the sliding glass door, pulling it open. He glanced around. No one on the balcony.
Sliding the glass door shut, he turned around.
A shimmering figure was standing in the middle of his living room.
It was Shinjaro.
He was dressed the same, with the same long hair and gathered topknot at the back. But every cell seemed translucent and shimmering, as if he were incorporeal, or a ghost.
The look on his face was slightly stunned. He glanced up at the electric light; then he stared at the television for a long moment. Then his eyes lit upon Michael at last.
"Yes." Michael stepped forward, not too quickly. He didn't want to spook the warlord any more than he probably already was. "Shinjaro-sama. It's me, Michael."
"Where am I?"
"You're in my home," Michael replied.
Shinjaro looked around again, wonder on his face. "So it's true," he said. "What year is this?"
"It's 2010. This is Berkeley, in California. Across the bay is San Francisco."
He stepped closer to the warlord as Shinjaro merely watched him approach. Then he placed a hand on… and through… the warlord's shoulder.
Shinjaro watched, then raised his hand to rest, shimmering, on Michael's face. Michael felt the shock of a kind of pure energy on his cheek; the energy thrummed on his skin.
"Looks like sex is out of the question," he quipped.
Shinjaro raised his eyebrows, then snorted in a kind of disbelieving laugh.
Michael laughed openly. This was so unexpected, this… visit or whatever it was, that he found himself completely in the moment, just enjoying it.
The daimyo turned his attention to the view outside, and Michael walked to the balcony, beckoning Shinjaro to join him.
Shinjaro stepped out onto the balcony, looking up at the night sky and then down at the cars passing in the street below. "Those are cars—automobiles," Michael said. "I told you about them." He pointed across the bay. "And there's the Golden Gate Bridge. It's a little hard to make out with the fog, but it's there. See it?"
"Yes. It's beautiful."
"Much of modern-day Japan looks like this. The modern buildings, paved streets, cars. The people there live very well, like here."
Shinjaro said nothing.
Michael stared at the warlord's fine features in profile, at his beautiful pale skin. The soft shimmer of his—ghost?—self just accentuated his splendor.
The warlord turned to him then, his gaze softening. "I've missed you, Maikeru," he said. "It's been a month since you disappeared before my very eyes. I will never doubt you again."
Michael moved to embrace him and found himself holding only air.
"I wish this were real," he whispered.
The last thing he saw was the full moon over the warlord's shoulder…
…and the next thing he saw was the full moon in the night sky above, and Shinjaro was solid and real in his arms.
They were standing in the garden of the castle, just outside Shinjaro's receiving room.
And they were back in late-Edo Japan.
Startled, the two men pulled back to stare into each other's faces.
And then they started laughing, their laughter echoing in the dark of the summer night.


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A bystander called the cops when they witnessed Whitney and Weston breaking some valuable pieces of electronics. Someone claimed they were smashing a laptop and a cellphone -- to whom those items belong was not reported, nor was the exact location of the crime.
Nevertheless, Whitney and Weston were arrested at the Georgia home and were taken to the station and were released on $1,300 bond.
Do you think we have another Amber Portwood on our hands? Or a Jenelle Evans? Those two Teen Moms are certainly more famous than Whitney and exposed a different set of issues that that kind of lifestyle must bring, but the three of them do each seem to have problems making good decisions. And unfortunately, when you're a mother, your poor decisions also affect your children.
I hope for Whitney's sake, and her young son's, that she turns her life around, and soon. She obviously comes from a troubled home (a mom who smokes weed and does meth doesn't sound like a great role model) and will have to right the crooked ship she was set on, but there's hope. She's young. She can do it. She can break the cycle.
Now it's just a matter of choosing to do so.
Also: smashing a laptop? Come on.
Do you think Whitney can turn her life around?
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With the weather taking a harsh turn for the worse, Saskatoon's homeless shelters expect to see an influx of people seeking a warm bed.
"Now that winter is arriving we always see a bit more of an increase once temperatures get colder, so we will see a change in the next few days," said Malba Holliday, executive director with the Salvation Army. "We're always ready for this as a shelter here in the city we get used to the flow of the homeless who are around."
The Salvation Army runs both a men's and a women's shelter in Saskatoon, and while neither are sitting at full capacity, Holliday said they operate on a first-come first-serve basis so those seeking shelter need to act soon, before the weather dips further.
The men's shelter on Avenue C South has 53 beds plus an overflow area where they can house at least 10 more. The Mumford House is a women-and-children-only shelter with nine family units.
"We're usually at capacity in January and February, but there's always room to take more people in, we have extra space and extra beds as we need we're never at a point where we can't take in anyone else," Holliday said. "People can stay as long as they want."
This winter The Salvation Army is once again opening up the Warm Room, a place where men, women and children can come in for a few hours to warm up and play games or just take a break.
DeAnn Mercier with the Lighthouse Assisted Living Centre said in the past 24 hours she's seen at least a dozen people come in seeking respite from the cold, however winter doesn't bring an unusual amount of people to the emergency shelter.
"People need emergency shelter throughout the year. People want a place where they can be safe year-round and while our thoughts might turn when the weather turns, people need these services all year," Mercier said.
On Friday The Lighthouse is opening a new stabilization station which will offer 38 more beds on top of the 80 they already have between emergency shelters and another stabilization unit. Mercier said stabilization units are meant to house individuals under the influence of drugs or alcohol experiencing homelessness and it usually fills up the quickest.
Over at the YWCA, executive director Barb Macpherson said year-round they're at capacity, and they've been forced to turn hundreds of people away.
"Often we're not able to meet the demand and we haven't noticed an increase in calls and it doesn't really change between seasons," she said.
With 34 beds split across 18 rooms, Macpherson said the YWCA does their best not to turn anyone away, and they put some clients in hotels if they can on a case-by-case basis.
Temperature will briefly come back above the freezing mark with Sunday expected to see a high of 4 C.


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Theatre criticism and commentary by Frank McKone, Canberra, Australia. For Drama Education specific posts, please search top left of screen for "Drama Education 1...2..."
Saturday, 5 November 2016
2016: A Life in the Theatre by David Mamet
A Life in the Theatre by David Mamet. Darlinghurst Theatre Company at Eternity Playhouse, November 4 – December 4, 2016.
Director – Helen Dallimore
Designers: Production – Hugh O'Connor; Sound – Jed Silver; Lighting – Christopher Page
Performed by Akos Armont and John Gaden
Reviewed by Frank McKone
November 5
I bet David Mamet has forgotten The Art of Coarse Acting (by Michael Green, 1964), but I haven't. It has a section on how to dominate a scene while hidden behind a sofa, which I actually used when acting in a British farce of that era.
But I bet John Gaden knew it well. He applies several Coarse Acting devices, but in this play seen from the backstage viewpoint, which makes them even funnier. The scene where Robert (Gaden) and John (Armont) are in a small boat expecting to die a horrible death, while the stage hand crawls behind to wave a cardboard cutout seagull at the inappropriate moment and steals the scene (from their audience's point of view) was a great demonstration of the Green Principle.
Yet, though supposedly based on Mamet's own experience in Repertory, where actors are forever changing costumes, props and whole acting styles, this very funny play is not a mere farce.
Armont's John is a young actor learning the game as the constant colleague of old-timer Robert. As we see them in their horribly cramped dressing room manically change costumes, do make-up, rehearse, answer the phone on the stage manager's desk in the Opposite Prompt corner, talk about anything and everything, shift props and perform bits of any number of shows (not real ones but imitations by Mamet) and leave to go 'out', or go home late at night, and arrive next day, the theatrical genre certainly looks like farce.
But what the play is about is the changing nature of the relationship between Robert and John, as Robert grows older, even towards frailty, and John grows into maturity.
The wonderful thing about this production is that Akos Armond is young, and already is in reality the mature highly professional actor that John becomes; while John Gaden is in reality Robert's age – but in no way is Gaden showing Robert's tendencies, not only to pontificate, or to lose his lines, or to fly off the handle in contradiction to his pontifications; and certainly not to become slightly Alzheimic and lose his bearings. The details of Gaden's characterisation in movement, voice, facial expression, and the chemistry of his acting relationship with Armond is as precise and fascinating as it ever was when I first saw him perform many decades ago.
The production design, lighting and sound are hugely complicated – backstage is just so full of bits and pieces in typical grotty wings which the actors have to negotiate at speed to meet their cues. Once, when they forget their lines, they miss a cue – what horror! While the jaunty music we hear is always just on the edge of comedy. How well I remember the night when, somehow, a gust of wind got in backstage nearly toppling a 12 foot painted flat onto the actors on stage. Only our quick-thinking fast-moving stage manager managed to grab it from behind, how I'll never know, and hold it up for the rest of the scene. Didn't we laugh as we tied it in place during interval!
So the only disappointments I have are that the program does not acknowledge the costume designer, unless the supply of myriad costumes was done by the excellent set construction team of Brett Wilbe and Emily Polson; and nor is the role of stage manager named – after all he was a crucial actor, and certainly had his own personality while constantly flitting about, yet obviously always in control backstage. Perhaps it was assistant stage manager Sunil Chandra we saw, since I don't think the women Amy Morcom (stage manager) or Angela Atkinson (the other assistant stage manager) appeared.
I note that director Helen Dallimore has at one point in her career been assistant director to Jonathan Biggins (of Wharf Revue fame) on Sydney Theatre Company's production of Michael Frayn's famous backstage play, Noises Off. I've no doubt she put that experience to very good use in this show.
And, mentioning the women in passing, I wonder a little why Mamet wrote only men into his play. Perhaps the 'business' with props, costume changing and lack of space might have taken our attention onto issues beyond his key philosophical concern – is this play "Absurd Theatre", or is theatre essentially just absurd? Either way, the relationship between John and Robert grows as they work together and come to respect each other. We in the audience in turn feel for them, and in our applause express our respect for all those engaged in great theatre – the actors, directors, designers and crew.
This season of A Life in the Theatre has only just begun. Eternity Playhouse is at 39 Burton Street (just off Crown Street, opposite the now defunct TAP Theatre), with a program well worth the trip to Sydney.
© Frank McKone, Canberra
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Thursday, December 8, 2011
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- Designwali said...
love those brass lamps.
- December 8, 2011 at 10:20 AM
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- December 8, 2011 at 11:52 AM
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These images are stunning!
- December 8, 2011 at 2:25 PM
- Love, Lindsay said...
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Hope you are having a fabulous new week so far, x
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Born in Morrisville, he was a lifelong Morrisville resident.
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I'm writing this down as a record of events. I guess it's my attempt to explain the last year. You can write this off as a selfish exercise to exempt myself from blame, and it might be. However, I also feel you deserve to know the truth as only I know it, being you're my only sibling and closest kin. You have every right not to believe a word of this, but please give me the chance to explain.
Where should I begin? As you know, I've always had an interest in the paranormal, although being more of a skeptic on the subject than a believer. The more I delved into things paranormal, the less convinced I became. It had become a fool's game, however, to be drawn into the trappings of the peddlers of the occult. As you know, I had even delved into Satanism in my miss-spent youth, discarding the practice when it didn't result in instant riches or power.
Nevertheless, it had become quite the guilty pleasure to research every new angle that was presented by both hoaxster and "believer"; searching the library and web for the most ludicrous theories regarding the afterlife, sorcery, demonology, etc. It was after whiling away countless hours on the internet that I came across the "Spirit Box".
Bear with me and let me explain. The Spirit Box is an apparatus described to allow the dead to converse with the living. Incredibly, the box is based on the schematic drawings recently found hidden in a home once owned by none other than Thomas Edison. Yes, the Thomas Edison.
Edison had discussed with colleagues the workings of such a device. However, after his death in 1938, no further mention of it was ever found in any of his papers. Until 2007, that is. The Spirit Box uses Edison's basic principles, modified by using current radio frequency technology. I won't go into technical detail, but the device allows spirits to manipulate the tonal qualities of the electronic transmissions to form words, which can be broadcast through a basic audio device. Sometimes muffled and garbled, the messages are short, usually no more than two to five words. Of course, none of this is accepted by the scientific community. Having piqued my interest, I searched diligently for further information. I came across an individual by the name of Fred Sampson who had video recordings of his sessions using the box. The conversations were chilling. Fred never expounded on his genius, or even defended the validity of his recordings; he merely presented them. I watched and listened to many a posted video of these supposed conversations with the dead with a mixture of excitement and skepticism. The more I listened to these tracks, the more intrigued I became.
I finally decided to go beyond casual observer to experimenter. What did I have to lose? Having been laid off months before, living in what was once our mother's house, free of rent, and receiving my unemployment check; I had nothing better to do to pass the hours of the day. I found a unit on an online auction site, lovingly constructed by a "believer" and follower of Fred Sampson's, from various radio components obtained from the local Radio Shack. I bid my fifty five dollars and became the proud owner of one Spirit Box. In four days, it was delivered to my door step.
I set up the Spirit Box in my bedroom. A very simple device, a hard plastic box around eight inches square and six inches in depth, crudely spray painted black. There are very few controls; merely an on-off toggle switch, an adjustment for volume, and a red knob that is labeled "flux control". There are a series of LED lights that run across the top of the box, which fluctuate when the "flux control" knob is turned. A small two inch round exposed speaker in the lower center of the box completes the apparatus. There were no fasteners whatsoever. The box was sealed. There were no directions.
I placed the box in the center of the room, plugged it in, half expecting it to begin sparking and smoking. Once I was sure I wasn't going to burn the house down, I toyed with the controls. A static modulating hiss came from the box. Twisting the red knob further to the right, I began to here tones and bits of radio broadcasts, along with a continuous ticking noise, like the sound of a metronome. I spent the next hour asking simple questions, straining to hear a response. Nothing came. I turned off the crude machine, feeling disappointed if not a little bit foolish for buying it. I put the contraption in my closet.
After a few days had passed, I revisited the box. I decided to put to use some of the trivial information that I had amassed over the years in regards to the spirit realm, although jaded on any of its validity. I went to bed at my usual time, but set my alarm clock for When my alarm sounded, I arose and began to prepare for my Spirit Box session. Once again, I placed the box in the center of my bedroom floor. Light from a nearly full moon streamed through my window, so I covered it with a heavy blanket. I found an old candle, saved for the occasional power outage, and set it up on a makeshift foil candle holder. Lighting the candle, I placed it within arms reach of the box. Then I waited for "dead time". In the world of paranormal research, "dead time" begins at , and is said to be when spirits are most active. At the appropriate time, I turned off all the electric lights. Once my eyes adjusted to the candles flicker, I switched on the black box, which took on a rather sinister appearance in the dim light. The steady clicking and hissing of the machine filled the silence. I adjusted the red knob, slowly turning it to the right, anticipating everything, expecting nothing. The bits of radio broadcasts came through. I could occasionally here complete words, totally unrelated to each other. "
" (static, tick) "In sai…" (static, tick, tick), "In relation…" (tick). Feeling foolish, I took out the prepared notes that I had scribbled earlier in the day, and began my "session." Sale
David, I realize this must sound like lunacy, but please bear with me.
I began with a simple "hello". Instantly I heard the word "hi" come through the small black speaker. Was I imagining things? "Hello?" I repeated. Again, the word "hi" in a male's voice came through as clear as a bell. It was not a fragment of any radio broadcast. The word came over the static, not from behind it, or mixed in with it. I can't explain it any better than that. In shock, I choked out "hello" in an odd falsetto. The box responded, "Hello, hello …HELLOOO." I turned off the Spirit box as quickly as I could, flicking off the toggle switch as if I were touching a hot stove. I slept on the couch that first night; with every light burning in the house.
In an attempt to ease my apprehension of using the box, I went online and read of others experiences with the Spirit Box. Most users of the box seemed unaffected by their contacts with the dead, something that I found hard to fathom. Can one be so nonchalant about such an experience? Maybe in the name of research, they simply do not let their own personal feelings enter into their accounts. Or, fundamentally, they don't truly believe in the very research they are involved in. After much speculation, I began to rationalize that there was surely a logical explanation for my experience. With some trepidation, I decided to make another attempt. I couldn't bring myself to set up the Spirit Box in the center of my bedroom before I went to sleep, so I left it in the closet for the time being, and set my alarm.
Upon waking, I went through the ritual of covering the window and fetching the candle. I took the rough edged black plastic box down from the closet shelf and placed it on the floor, plugging it in. Lighting the candle, I turned off the lights. As a precaution, I decided to recite the Lord's Prayer before turning on the box. I sat cross legged on the hardwood floor, facing the box, sitting as far back from it as I could and still reach the controls. Switching on the power, I was greeted with the familiar hiss-tick. I sat still for a good two minutes before reaching for the red knob. As the knob turned, the LED lights came to life, the glow skittering back and forth as fragments of sounds invaded the small room. Having discarded the notes from my last undertaking, I had no plan of attack. Once again, I began with "Hello." Nothing. (Static, tick, static, tick). "Hello," I repeated. Once again, there was no response. A feeling of relief came over me, followed by a frustration, edging on anger; anger at myself for stupidly pursuing such an absurd notion. What had I originally heard? Nothing but a fractal of a distant radio signal, electronically repeated by a charlatan's "magic" box.
Then it came. "Hi," (static, tick, tick, tick) "are… you there?" I pushed myself back violently with my legs, standing in one motion. After taking a deep breath, I spoke, a mere whisper, "I'm here." "What is your name?" again, in a whisper. I listened to the hiss-clicks for a good fifteen seconds, then, "…your name?" came through, very faint, followed by "…in the" and a snippet of violins, and other little clips of radio broadcasts. Was it asking for my name? Or trying to verify my question? "What is your name?" I said loudly, and a little too forcefully. "MORRIS." It was a shout, so loud the small speaker vibrated. I switched off the box and tried to regain my composure. I wished I'd had a friend to call, or a relative, a relative that would still speak to me, but of course I do not, as you well know. I was filled with an excitement I needed to share, but with no one to call. I went out into the chill October night and chain smoked on the front porch of mother's old Victorian for nearly an hour.
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Dear Mrs Berkley*
I am writing to apologise. Many years ago (let's not fret over exact numbers), you were gracious enough to rely on me as the babysitter to your three lovely children. I was grateful for the spare pocket money and, to be frank, except for the one night when little Maria sobbed her confusion out from the far back corner under her bed, your children were delightful. They were sweet, confident, and full of beans. They loved being read to and they were a dream to put to bed. A fact I now appreciate in a way I couldn't then.
And that is why I write to you today. I think it's called the lessons of hindsight. You see, when I was babysitting all those years ago, I hadn't yet had the privilege of having my own children. Indeed, I hadn't yet had even the sole responsibility for a cat. I had no idea what your life was like, what challenges each day might bring. I also didn't really know how much pee and pooh a child could create in any given day and, I'm ashamed to say, I judged you.
Chances are, you don't know that in the early years, with young children everywhere and a shaggy dog to boot, there was an undeniable essence of pee wafting subtly through your house. Undoubtedly made worse by hot, sticky Townsville nights, the smell, invisible yet insistent, greeted one warmly at the front door and followed along loyally for the duration. Of course, I couldn't understand then, as I do now, what unpredictable fountains of pee children are. Nor could I understand how impossible it is to find every last spilled drop. And I definitely couldn't understand how this might multiply exponentially with the more children you have. I still don't, but I have a better chance at guessing now.
What I'm trying to say is that, despite your tidy though humble home, despite the great generosity you exhibited by thinking of me as a good babysitter, and despite the sweet and charming ways of your children, I thought your place a little, well, grotty. And, I'm ashamed to say, I thought that lingering pee smell meant your** housekeeping skills were in need of a little spit and polish themselves. Forgive me now, Karrie. Please. I knew not of what I judged.
As I head into potty training my own dear son, I remember you and your gaggle of children and, finally, I understand. I realise that what I took as a personal housekeeping failing of yours, was actually just the very best you could do with the odds stacked high against you. I think of you as I launch myself across the lounge room to grab my dribbling son from off the couch. I think of you as he enthusiastically dances his pee-filled potty to the toilet, sloshing merrily with each proud pirouette. I think of you as, "I need to use the potty, Mummy," is uttered belatedly, in his car seat, miles from the nearest public loo. I think of you as I walk through my own front door and wonder, just for a minute, is there a…smell?
I am sorry.
I just hope my own babysitter (and anyone else who walks through our door) can offer me the grace I couldn't offer you. There is pee everywhere, Karrie, and I'm doing my very best to catch it, clean it and deodorise. I am reminding myself daily that this too shall pass, that children learn soon enough, and that houses can one day return to normal.
I hope you are well, wherever you are. If ever you think of me, please wish me luck.
Kind regards
* All names have been changed to protect the innocent.
** The other issue of my sexist assumption that the housekeeping was purely your responsibility and not a shared one with your husband is for another letter...


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I've always loved writing, and probably always will... I've always been told it was good, but, as you know, to a little kid, you always say that. So, I guess the reason I post my pieces are for feedback and to be inspired.
I'm searching for something to believe in, but lately, I'm left to my own words. My own writing- my own heart- my own soul. That's all I have left. I've lost people I love, and now I am all alone in this world.
Katherine Bryce Poems
People Change
People change, and so have you, I never want to know, the truth within you.
That Man I Once Knew
After forgetting for so long, I am now starting to remember, after the lines were drawn, they've now been erased.
My bags are packed, my heart is racing, but yet I still decide, to stop and look once more.
Stand Out
I'm nothing more than who I choose to be I will stand tall I will be free
Final Good-Byes
as we say our final good-byes I won't be fully there I'll be thinking of time we shared and what it'll be like without you
Foolish Dream
I look back and think, of all the time, I spent dreaming, a foolish dream.
Faith grows stronger, day by day, with or without you, here to stay.
I Love How
I love how, I can finally smile, and not have to, try and fake it.
I Wish You Knew Me
</>i wish you knew me, like i know you, we're one in the same, and one in heart.
time slowly passes as I sit and wait for life to change and take me away
I used to be a dreamer, and hope for the best, but then I fell below, with the rest.
Place Of Joy
A glistening gray path, encased on both sides by emerald green grass. Golden as the sun, leaves over my head,
Just Tell Me
What if I said, I know what is true, the thing hiding, deep down inside of you?
Spring Breeze
I can't help it, i just always do, get lost in those eyes, so deep and so bright.
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I know that the original question was "Who are the top 5 OSS thought leaders", and that's been covered by several folks already. I'm going to ask a similar, but different question.
Who are the top 5 entities that have brought OSS into everyday (enterprise & commercial) use? This is less a list of Thought Leaders than it is a list of Action Leaders. I don't usually read the blogs of "people" on this list, but their efforts have changed the IT marketplace. Although you could argue that a thought leader is someone who was preciously an Action Leader….anywho.
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1. PHP guys (Rasmus Lerdorf, Zeev Suraski & Andi Gutmans): How many websites you use today are running PHP? PHP enabled a whole class of "non-techies" to become techie enough to throw up a website with dynamic content or modify existing templates and a legion of startups to get stuff done quickly and on the cheap.
2. IBM & HP: It's unlikely that Linux would have received enterprise acceptance from CIOs without the backing of major IT vendors such as IBM & HP. The growth of Linux no longer relies on the blessing of major IT vendors, but without the early investments and advertising from IBM & HP, it's hard to say we'd see Linux adoption where it is today. And both have continued to support OSS by their participation in OSS projects, contributing code, paying key OSS developers to work on their respective OSS projects, and driving revenue from hardware, support and services around OSS. (Note: I'd say IBM has done more around OSS than HP, but that's because I'm more familiar with IBM's efforts.) Oh yeah, IBM & HP benefited nicely from their backing of Linux & OSS….nothing wrong with that :-)
3. Stallman/Linus: Hard to have an OSS list of any kind, especially a list that deals with action & results, without Stallman & Linus on it.
4. Marc Fleury: Like him or not, he woke up the middleware market. While many vendors were happy to watch Linux eat into Solaris & Windows accounts (although the latter didn't happen as much as it is believed), the thought of OSS moving up the stack was really an afterthought. Fleury helped change that view. He made it easier for other OSS vendors to get funding, and forced software vendors (middleware or otherwise) to build strategies that used OSS in order to increase customer choice.
5. Google & Yahoo: How much of Yahoo's and Google's infrastructure runs on OSS? We'll never really know for sure (although many reports indicate it's a lot), but millions of users get to benefit from their use of OSS to deliver useful tools like GMail, Search, Yahoo Finance, del.icio.us, etc.
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I'm writing again with no idea of what will happen. Wish me luck.
Today I was on Melrose waiting to get a standby ticket to a theater. A young boy, probably about 12, came up to me and asked me to buy his incense for a dollar as he was passing by with his mother. She kept walking. He looked at me and pleaded, and said please several times, like a child asking a parent for candy at a movie. I kept saying no for some reason. He only wanted a dollar, and I had a dollar in my pocket. I didn't want the incense. I could have given him a dollar.
I don't know why it sticks with me, other than being asked for money by children is always disconcerting. His mother didn't even notice. I don't know where the live, even if they have a home. A dollar would have been nothing to me.
When I first moved to New York, I would make eye contact with everyone, and smile. Mostly what this meant was that I was engaged by people who would ask for money. I eventually learned, like everyone else, to avoid eye contact. I learned how to say no. I'm still guilty whenever I do. A friend got angry with me once when I gave money to someone, asking why this person and not the other ten who've asked. It's a good question.
It's my policy now to buy food. I rarely give someone money, but I'll buy a sandwich or a banana or something. I don't always have money to give, and those are the easiest times. If I'm not carrying cash, I'm not lying.
I wasn't lying today. I didn't want to buy the incense. I was put in an uncomfortable position. I don't want to say no to a child. Would that dollar mean he would have had dinner? Is that what his mother was looking for when she walked by me to one street corner and then walked past me again on her way back? Someone else bought incense from the boy. Some other helpful stranger.
It's going to bother me, if only for the way he said "please." I don't have children, but I said no like I was the adult. I am an adult. Children shouldn't have to beg for money on the street. I didn't make the situation, but it will be difficult to forget it. Of course, I want to make it some larger recrimination of myself, that I missed a chance to be giving and I was being tested, my karma will be effected. But I know this is not true. I don't have enough dollars to solve the situation. Sometimes I'm the helpful stranger, but sadly, not today.


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An article in the 7/7/11 Taste section of the StarTribune says in part:
As if Judith Hanks weren't busy enough, what with cooking jumbo breakfasts and lunches at her Third Street Deli along with running an adjacent consignment shop and day spa. No, Hanks recently dove headlong into the outdoor pizza business, and it's a gas.They sound interesting. I think I'll be dropping by Third Street Deli the next time I'm in the area when they are open.


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At a VIP ceremony this Thursday, 14 Teves, the Palermo Archbishop is to announce return of the site adjacent to ruins of the city's ancient synagogue to the Jewish community.
More than 500 years after the Jews were expelled from Sicily, the nascent Jewish community of Palermo will celebrate its rebirth this week with the formal transfer of ownership of a facility owned by the church and monastery of St. Nicolo Tolentino, which sits atop the ruins of the Great Synagogue of Palermo. The transfer results from a request by the Jerusalem-based nonprofit Shavei Israel and the Istituto Siciliano di Studi Ebraici (ISSE, or Sicilian Institute of Jewish Studies).
The handover, to take place at an official ceremony this Thursday marking the anniversary of the Jan. 12, 1493 expulsion of the island's Jews, will usher in the opening of the first local synagogue in Palermo, Sicily's capital, since the 15th century. The move comes as growing numbers of people throughout Sicily are rediscovering their Jewish roots.
In a VIP ceremony that is expected to draw hundreds of dignitaries and local residents, the archbishop of Palermo, Corrado Lorefice, will officially deliver part of the complex to the local Jewish community, which numbers some 60-70 people, represented by the ISSE, which is affiliated with Shavei Israel.
"It is with great joy that we have responded to this request to have a place of study and worship for the Palermo Jewish community," said Lorefice. "The new synagogue's location atop the ancient ruins of Palermo's Great Synagogue makes this historic moment all the more exciting. This transfer is the product of a genuine friendship and ongoing dialogue between the church and Palermo's Jewish community."
The church's historic decision to help revive the Palermo Jewish community comes after more than five years of tireless lobbying by Shavei Israel's founder and chairman, Michael Freund. Freund's ultimate vision – to revitalize Palermo's once-vibrant Jewish community for the first time since 1493 – is now finally being realized.
"Ever since I learned about Sicily's history, my goal has been to lay the groundwork for the establishment of the first Jewish community in Palermo in more than five centuries," said Freund. "That is what makes this week's ceremony so important: we will be establishing together with the ISSE the first synagogue and Jewish house of study in Palermo since the expulsion. I am very moved that it will be located adjacent to where the Great Synagogue of Palermo once stood and I am grateful to the Archbishop of Palermo for having the vision and courage to make such a grand gesture of reconciliation towards the Jewish people."
Freund added: "It is a miracle that after more than 500 years there are still people in Sicily who proudly cling to their Jewish roots and it is testimony to the fact that neither the expulsion nor the Inquisition was able to extinguish the eternal Jewish spark in their hearts. With G-d's help, the sounds of Sabbath hymns and Jewish prayers will once again be heard in the streets of Palermo."
The synagogue, which will include a study center, or Beit Midrash, and a Jewish heritage center, will be operated primarily by Shavei Israel, which strengthens ties between the Jewish people, the State of Israel and the descendants of Jews around the world. It will be overseen by Shavei's emissary to Sicily, Rabbi Pinhas Punturello, who serves as the rabbi to the local Jewish community. Punturello also serves as a board member of the ISSE.
Shavei Israel has been working closely with a growing number of Sicilians descended from Iberians whose forefathers were forced to convert to Catholicism in the 14th and 15th centuries yet secretively preserved Jewish traditions and are now rediscovering their Jewish roots. There are believed to be thousands of such crypto-Jews, called "Bnei Anousim" or "the forced ones," across Sicily.
About Sicilian Jews and Bnei Anousim
The history of Jews in Sicily dates back more than two millennia, to the Second Temple period. According to some scholars, the first Jews in Sicily were slaves brought to the island by the Roman legion after the capture of Jerusalem. Despite enduring various periods of legal restrictions and persecutions over the ensuing centuries, the Jews of Sicily flourished and produced many great scholars and rabbis.
In the late 14th century, Sicily's Jews were confined to ghettos and faced increasingly harsh decrees as well as massacres and forced conversions to Catholicism. These measures culminated in 1492 with the Edict of Expulsion, which ordered the remaining Jews to leave. At the time, Sicily was under the control of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain. There were at least 52 Jewish communities spread out across Sicily, numbering more than 37,000 people. After a series of delays, the deadline for their expulsion was set at January 12, 1493. But large numbers of forcibly converted Jews were compelled to remain behind, where they suffered under the heavy hand of the Inquisition.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)


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What it is: A lip gloss that bestows lips in crown-worthy color. What it does: It provides beautiful, nonsticky, buildable hints of color coupled with ravishing golden pearls that give your lips lustrous, brilliant shine. With an enriched, super-hydrating formula, lips become nourished and conditioned while sodium hyaluronate plumps and defines for an illusion of a fuller pout, securing the throne as true lip gloss royalty. How to use: Wear alone or layer on top of lipstick to create a fuller, high-shine finish. Style Name: Space. nk. apothecary Lipstick Queen Reign & Shine Lip Gloss. Style Number: 5644854. Available in stores.
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ARIA Audio Technology's 100 Watt Class D Audio Amplifier is an in-wall high performance product with a wide array of features that provide excellent audio quality and the ability to precisely control it. From flush-mounting behind your flat panel TV for surround sound to creating a remote speaker system using Channel Vision's CAT5 Audio Hubs, this amplifier gives you many options for creating a powerful 100W listening experience. The RCA audio outputs on the back of the A0350 can be connected to a powered subwoofer to add more bass to your audio system.
Specifications Manufacturer Channel Vision Manufacturer Product No A0350 UPC 690240025828 Power Input 24 VDC Output Power 50 watts/ch RMS into 6 ohms @<10% THD Standby Current Draw 40mA Frequency Response 20-20kHz (+/-3dB) Signal to Noise Ratio >85dB Supported Device Qty Three Input Sensitivity 500m VRMS Auto on Threshold 10m VRMS Storage Temperature -40 to +85° C Operating Temperature 0 to 55° C
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Works great. The included pwr supply is like a laptop power supply. If you want the pwr supply in the wall, then you will need to find an alternative. You also have to purchase separately a controller for it or use the source controls. It is some work, but the results are worth it.
Posted on 11/25/2011
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Terrific product.
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This is a great product! I'm probably going to buy more.
Posted on 5/24/2011
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15 September 2014
Research: new book for Para-Academics
My chapter is about fat activist community research and is based on my No More Stitch-Ups! project.
This book is very important because it provides practical information and discussion about how people pushed out of ever-more expensive and exclusive higher education might develop their own scholarship. It is closely tied to Research Justice, and anti-oppressive theory and practice. It's about alternative possibilities for academia.
I think this has special relevance for people who want to develop work around fat. Many of us come from backgrounds where accessing academia is out of the question. Talking critically and radically about fat is still a tricky business in universities, I have known more than a few fat scholars who have found themselves at odds with unsympathetic supervisors and conservative departmental cultures. I hope that this book encourages more experimental risk-taking both within and beyond the ivory tower.
More information, including how to get hold of digital and paper copies, at HammerOn Press.
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Friday, January 5, 2018
What to watch today
A holiday-shortened opening week of trading in 2018 will be capped by the jobs report, the final look at the labor market from the government in 2017. Expectations are for another strong report to finish what's been a good year for U.S. workers.
Nonfarm payrolls are estimated to have grown by 190,000 in December while the unemployment rate is expected to hold steady at 4.1%, according to estimates from Bloomberg. The unemployment rate is currently at its lowest level since December 2000.
Other figures that economists will keep an eye on in Friday's report are the labor force participation rate and average hourly earnings. In November, earnings rose 2.5% over the prior year and expectations are this rate of growth won't accelerate in December; over the prior month, wages are expected to rise 0.3%. The lack of wage growth in the economy given the low level of unemployment has been a surprise to many economists.
Stocks on Thursday surged to record highs with the Dow topping 25,000 for the first time. President Donald Trump told reporters, "I guess our new number is 30,000."
Top news
Uber ex-CEO selling nearly a third of stake in company: Uber Technologies Inc. co-founder Travis Kalanick, who was ousted as chief executive in June, is selling nearly a third of his 10% stake in the ride-services company for about $1.4 billion, a person familiar with the matter said on Thursday. Kalanick's sale is part of a deal struck by a consortium led by SoftBank Group Corp. which is taking a 17.5% stake in Uber, mostly by buying shares from early investors and employees. [Reuters]
How Big Tech has left you in the dark about massive chip security flaws: Deep-seated processor vulnerabilities going by the names of "Meltdown" and "Spectre," may be the biggest news in computing security in years, but you wouldn't know that from the sites of some of the companies that should be your first line of defense. Google (GOOG), Microsoft (MSFT), and Apple (AAPL) have known about these vulnerabilities longer than most–researchers told them last summer, after first detecting the issue. [Yahoo Finance]
Fed aiming to restrict credit, raising eventual recession risk: Federal Reserve policy makers have abandoned the notion that they can bring the U.S. economy in for the perfect soft landing — when inflation settles at its target, growth throttles back smoothly to trend and monetary policy shifts to neutral. Instead, they're prepared to step on the brakes. [Bloomberg]
Trump isolates Bannon in feud as Mercer family cuts off money: Steve Bannon faces fresh doubt about whether he can pull off his populist revolution within the Republican Party after his top financial patron cut ties with him on Thursday in the wake of his feud with President Donald Trump. Rebekah Mercer rebuked Bannon in a statement on Thursday and said she and her father, Robert Mercer, the former co-chief executive officer of the hedge fund Renaissance Technologies, would not finance his projects. [Bloomberg]
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Great preschool spring crafts that will recycle those plastic eggs from Easter. You can make all sorts of cute little critters. We've made a little bug and there's a sweet little frog we created for our friend Alex at Kindergarten Connections
These little critters can be used simply as a toy or decoration; or you can fill them with a tiny treat for the kids to find.
It's a great way to re-use those plastic Easter eggs after the holidays - but still keep the fun!
Cut a white pipe cleaner in half. Glue each half on the side of your plastic egg where the hinge is located. Glue one on each side of the hinge.
Bend each side of the pipe cleaners so you have four even legs and your bug can stand up.
Grab your white craft foam. Cut out two equal pieces - the shape is like a tear drop. These will be your bugs wings. Set them aside for a minute
Take your black marker and draw some spots all over your egg.
Glue the wings on the opposite side of the egg from your legs (pipe cleaners).
Glue your googly eyes onto the bottom of the egg. This is the large end of the egg. Add a smile with a black marker.
Now our little buggy egg is already for display. If he is going to be a treat holder just open him up and add in a little candy.
We've made our site "to go"! No internet? No problem, we've got 100 crafts to go in a downloadable ebook!
Our best crafts, formatted for perfect one page printing or easy reading on a tablet.
Learn more & get your copy today! Crafty Critters: Crafts to Go
Counting Cups: This simple craft will help you teach the little ones how to count.
Paper Clock: Another fun craft that has the ability to teach the preschoolers how to tell time.
We have a ton of great crafts geared to the littlest of the littles. Come see all our preschool crafts for kids.
Be sure to pop over to Kindergarten Connection to see more of our plastic egg crafts.


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