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Lung cancer symptoms in women are basically a little bit different than those that exist in men body. Even though it may be a bit surprising but actually there are several diseases that have different symptoms in men and women. It is also applied with lung cancer symptoms. But sadly, some of the symptoms exist in women's body are less recognized. It could be due to the delayed diagnosis too. In this article we are going to discuss about the symptoms of lung cancer in women. So, keep reading.
How and why are lung cancer symptoms in women different with in men?
The most familiar symptoms of lung cancers are such as chronic condition of coughing and also the blood in cough. But in women, the early symptoms of this cancer that show up are more vague and subtle. The subtle symptoms could be translated as another illness condition or symptoms. The early symptoms in women are such as the shortness of breath along with the activity and unexplainable weight gain. Some people would think that the shortness of breath is kind of the aging effect. Not to mention the fatigue and feel not good. So, why would the symptoms be different than in men?
The main reason of the difference in the symptoms is the most common kind of lung cancer could be varied between men and women. Other than that, the different kind of lung cancer is more likely to have different symptoms too. Another reason of the difference is the non-smoker women are more likely to develop the lung cancer than men. The cancer type that is found in non-smokers would be different than the types found in smokers' lung, mostly. So, besides the gender matter, the type of lung cancer makes different for the symptoms for sure.
Lung cancer symptoms in women and the related
There are two types of lung cancer cells such as the non-small cell and small cell. The non-small cell is characterized as three main types such as lung adenocarcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma, and large cell carcinoma. Adenocarcinoma is the most common kind developed in women's lung. It grows in the outer part of lungs. The early symptoms are such as:
- Shortness of breath with activity but most people would take it as the aging effect. This symptom would appear when you walk through the stairs or even run to the front door of your house.
- Shoulder and back pain would happen due to the nerves receive much pressure by tumor.
- Chest pain that could be worse after deep breath. Still, it is caused by the tumor.
- Fatigue
- Metastasis due to the lung cancer spread. The cancer could spread on the bones, brain and liver to.
Small cell lung cancer is commonly attacked the smokers. But this type of cancer is commonly appeared in men than women. If a woman has small cell lung cancer, she must be a young-adult rather than adult-elderly. It is better to be aware of lung cancer symptoms in women.


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July 19, 2010 - Winscribe, global provider of Business Process and Digital Dictation solutions, today announced the expansion of their licensing agreement with Nuance Communications, Inc. The company embeds Nuance's speech recognition technology into its dictation workflow solutions for healthcare. By integrating Nuance Speech Recognition, Winscribe is able to provide a global solution covering the US, UK, Europe, Australia and New Zealand. With sales partners in over 25 countries and more than 350,000 Winscribe users worldwide, this partnership is expected to further boost the application of speech recognition in healthcare.
By embedding speech recognition into Winscribe's software-based digital dictation, transcription management and workflow routing solution, dictations from authors can be automatically transcribed into text rather than routed to a secretary for manual transcription. In recent months, various hospitals have presented evidence showing that a speech recognition enhanced digital dictation system significantly reduces report turnaround time, saves costs and contributes to improve the quality of medical documentation.
"The Winscribe Nuance license agreement gives clients the certainty of commitment to quality from two companies synonymous with speech-based documentation solutions. Nuance enables us to provide a total solution boosting the efficiency of document production and speeding up turnaround time", says Matthew Weavers, CEO of Winscribe. "The contract shows Winscribe's complete commitment to the already strong relationship with Nuance and it proves our continued pursuit to partner with the best in class solution providers."
The Winscribe system powered by Nuance speech recognition supports three modes of operation. In the Client Mode recognition of Winscribe digital audio is performed by Nuance speech recognition on the author's computer. The recognised text is returned directly into the Winscribe author application. In this mode users can create documents independently. A workflow alternative is provided through the Server Mode, during which the recognition of Winscribe digital audio is performed on the central server. Recognition results and metadata accompany the Winscribe digital audio to the transcriptionist, who reviews and edits the text draft. This raises productivity levels in transcription and thus reduces or eliminates backlogs. Finally, the mixed mode combines both workflows for giving authors the choice between immediate foreground recognition or deferred server recognition.
"Nuance's philosophy is to respect the individual rules, requirements and resources of each healthcare organisation and to provide technologies that allow our partners to develop customised solutions", says Marcel Wassink, Vice President for Healthcare in EMEA. "Winscribe shares this user-centric philosophy and the global licensing agreement bears testimony of our joint commitment to bring speech recognition to the market for the sake of more productive and efficient healthcare."
Winscribe customers can buy speech recognition software from Winscribe and their sales partners who have been specifically trained in supplying and supporting Speech Recognition software from Nuance. Any Winscribe digital dictation system can be upgraded to include speech recognition software to give a seamless speech to text solution.

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At Delco, we bring more than 40 years of experience in project management, engineering services and product development in the design and manufacture of precision components and assemblies. Delco is proud to support the aerospace, energy, military and armor, plastics, biopharmaceutical, and medical markets.
Our night shift CNC working lead/Supervisor assists the dayshift supervisor in coordinating the operation of the department, both in administrative and technical issues; assists in employee development/training and performs technical functions (sets up and runs machines) as required.
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Perform department supervisory responsibilities as required
Participate in the job planning process and assist in preparing job quotes
Works closely with engineers and programming
Assist employees with more complicated set ups
Set up and run CNC machines as required
Participate in employee selection process
Assist in training and development of department personnel
Give input to supervisor for employee performance reviews
Support company policies and procedures including safe work practices
Promote effective team building with internal and external customers
Other duties and responsibilities as assigned
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Proficient on CNC mills, horizontal and vertical.
Proficient with some programming skills.
Sets up tools and fixtures.
Selects and uses inspection equipment and techniques.
Interpret drawings and specifications.
Determines acceptability of quality of work.
Deburrs and finishes at a high level of quality.
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Supervisory or leadership experience
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Demonstrated effective interpersonal and communication skills
Ability to lift up to 50 lbs. and walk, stand or otherwise move about continuously are required.
Compensation Night shift: 15% premium, made up of a 10% premium to your actual worked wages each pay period. A 4.6% shift bonus will be paid quarterly if you are employed on the last day of the quarter, (March 31st, June 30th, September 30th, December 31st)
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Truck Life Tour. Episode 1 #trucklifetour
If you are a regular follower of my blog you will know that I was recently in Colombia, Ecuador before that. But Whilst I had a great time in both of those locations, my Jackson Kayak team mate Brooke Hess called me up and offered me a spot in her truck to cruise around the south eastern USA and do some kayaking. Since this would be a perfect opportunity for me to do some training in a hole for Freestyle kayak world championships this coming November I moved some things around and hopped a plane. Well a couple of planes actually. Since Brooke is based out of Missoula, Montana I originally looked to fly there. But she decided Salt Lake City, Utah would be a good meeting point as she has a friend who lives there. From there we would drive cross country our first stop, Rock Island, Tennessee. Home of Jackson Kayak factory and freestyle Kayak OG's Stephen and Clay Wright.
Salt Lake city to Rock Island is a drive of 1700 miles that would wind up taking Brooke and I through many new states over the course of two and a half days and two nights sleeping in the back of Brooke's truck.
To set the scene for our story a little better lets take a more detailed look at/in Brooke's truck. First off having a truck is SICK and something which I do not have. But Brooke's definitely has a couple of draw backs. The truck itself is a 2003 Toyota Tacoma, Extended cab (two small back seats but you have to climb past the front seats to get to them), 2.5L petrol V6 engine. Two wheel drive, Sick roof rack, Topper on the bed, Bed built in to the back). Brooke also doesn't know when she is going home next so her truck has basically ALL of her stuff in it, add most of my stuff and it is pretty full up in there.
PRO's first; Great clearance, bomber design of truck, well built, generally speaking this make and model of truck has few problems if any, SICK roof rack, (Brooke sourced this from her local Whitewater rescue Institute in Missoula, they were planning to throw it out!), Topper, built in Bed, great gas mileage (for a truck).
It does have a few CON's though; No cruse control (this really sucked through Nebraska which is maybe the flatest place I've ever seen), no 4x4, 2.5L engine is a bit dinky and we were often getting passed by big lorries (semi's) and sometimes by vehicles which looked much slower than us, final con and maybe the biggest, the topper is not designed for this truck and is riddled with cracks. Although Brooke has taken the time to fill these cracks and used expanding foam to make the topper fit the truck better its not quite right. BUT it does work to a fashion. so thats great. Brooke HATES when I point out the cons of her truck, like an ostrich with its head in the sand.
After two days of driving, sleeping in rest areas in reasonably cold weather, driving through snow, eating too much gross fried food, and listening to a pretty cool podcast called Serial (check out season 1 its great), we finally arrived in Rock Island. Clay had left the heater on for us in his trailer and it was SO nice to crash somewhere warm when we arrived at his house just after Midnight.
Our first day started late, being tired from driving is real. Stephen Wright gave us a tour of the jackson Kayak factory (which was awesome) then we blasted a paddling session at Rock Island with Clay and Stephen. To top off our epic first day Christine Jackson invited us for dinner. And finally Nick Troutman & Emily Jackson (who are in Idaho currently) let us stay in their house for the few days we were in Rock Island. Their place is amazing!
A few more days of paddling there, after which our tour moves on. Look out for episode 2 soon.
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The Long Walk
The True Story of A Trek to FreedomAudiobook CD - 2006
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March 25, 2014....I have the copy from the Chinook Arch system (from LPL) and the first 2 discs are pretty scratched and keep skipping. (extremely annoying when you are listening to them as you drift off to sleep and then have to wake up and ff them.) I am going to try putting them on my mp3 player and see how that goes, (just a warning to anyone else getting these discs from LPL)......This story is almost a replica, (at least on the first disc) to one I read years ago called "An American in Gulag." That book (read during the evening and midnight shift, while working at a printing factory, (a place now shut down and in mothballs as a result of the office printer!) resulted in my never wanting to visit Russia. Scared the be jees us out of me.) Anyway hubby didn't want to listen to this one, but he's liking it after the first disc. I let you know how it goes with the mp3 version after tonight!......using the mp3 worked great, no skipping no glitches, it just took me a few minutes to figure out how to get it hooked up to the stereo that we use in the bedroom, which is an old one. I had to get an adapter cord to plug into the two aux outputs on the back of the stereo and then plug the other end into the earphone jack and then set the stereo to aux. A little complicated, and no rewinding or fast forwarding from the reclining position as the mp3 player was not withing reach and I couldn't use the stereo remote to rewind it. Having said all that, a great way to get around a scratched cd if you have the know how and the right cords available. (Haven't got the know-how, find a teenager to maybe help you out, or maybe your local librarian, could help??) Libraries....gotta love 'em!......oh, and after listening to this, I'm definitely not going to the Soviet Union any time soon! Think I'll just stick to visiting libraries in Southern Alberta, (and maybe....just maybe.....write a book about that!)....just found out, there is a movie made about this story, called "The Way Back".....gotta get it!
I seem to remember there being some to-do about this story being less than 100% true, but the details escape me. This is a harrowing tale, even if it is (supposedly) embellished. Listening to a book always makes it harder for me to remember certain points—like favorite quotes—but one scene sticks in my mind, even if the exact words don't. On his first Christmas Eve in captivity, Rawicz and his fellow prisoners are making the long march north to Siberia. One man begins to sing O Holy Night, and each prisoner joins him in their own language. What an amazing moment that must have been to witness.
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Who will be Bills QB in 2017? Dennison hire fuels speculation
The hiring of Rick Dennison as offensive coordinator in Buffalo has thrown fuel on the speculative fire revolving around the Bills quarterback situation. Does this mean Tyrod Taylor is coming back? Does it open the door for Jay Cutler? Perhaps a rookie is still on the table?
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Contingency fees can be a good deal for attorneys, or a really bad deal. A typical contingency fee is one-third of the settlement awarded, or 33 percent, but they may go as high as 50 percent or as low as 15 percent, depending on the type of case and the attorney handling it.
Why Do Attorneys Accept Contingency Fees?
The attorneys who accept contingency fee cases typically represent clients who don't have the resources to pay high hourly attorney fees, are very selective about the cases they take, and practice in an area of law in which contingency fees are common, such as:
- Personal injury
- Cases involving the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act
- Product liability matters
Contingency fees are occasionally available in these legal areas:
- Employment law
- Hourly wage issues
- Large debt collection cases
Contingency fees are almost never available in these areas of law:
- Family law issues, including divorce, adoption, and child custody
- Criminal defense
- Bankruptcy
- Immigration
- Business law, including contracts, wills, and trusts
- Trademark, copyright, or patent law
The Cons of Contingency Fees
Generally, most attorneys would rather not work on a contingency basis because:
- There is a chance that they (and their firm) won't get paid at all
- There is a chance that their client will perceive that they were paid too much (if the case settles quickly)
- Any recovery is delayed until it is collected from the opposing party (which can take several years)
Experienced attorneys typically know a good case from a bad one, and don't take cases where there isn't a reasonable expectation of winning a fair amount of money. Basically, attorneys who are selective about the contingency fee cases they accept will likely succeed financially, while those who take small or difficult cases on contingency may struggle.


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Hounslow Highways has been shortlisted in the West London Business Awards 'Green Business of the Year' category in recognition of its approach to delivering a more maintainable and sustainable highway infrastructure.
The Hounslow Highways 25-year project is geared to the immediate need for network regeneration, however the multi-faceted features of the project ensure that there are clear sustainability drivers that ensure the nature of the works and materials used are delivered in a green way that meets not just transportation needs, but also the environmental enhancements that improve the quality of life of those living, working and visiting the borough.
Some of the Hounslow Highways key sustainability initiatives include:
- Increasing recycling levels in the borough and in particular, re-processing the materials being excavated from old roads and footways back into new asphalt materials for footpaths (Foambase)
- Embedding recycling targets across the service, such as recycling a percentage of street cleansing waste and reducing the amount of waste going to landfill sites
- Through community initiatives, targeting a number of 'grot spots' in the borough, such as the removal of graffiti in Barnes Passage in Chiswick and actively encouraging staff members to use the two days per year allowance for completing community projects and volunteering within the local area
- Overall carbon reduction targets delivered through a variety of measures, such as the installation of the 16,000 new LED street lights which deliver low-energy and low-emissions and also through operating a greener fleet of vehicles
- Tree maintenance and improvements through sustainable planting and arboriculture to deliver a well-maintained and sustainable tree stock for the future
- Investment in sustainable features in the Hounslow Highways office and depot in Bridge Road, such as harvesting rainwater to reduce mains water use and installation of solar panels to enable generation of renewable energy for the building
Hounslow Highways' service director, Rob Gillespie, said: "I am delighted we have been shortlisted for this prestigious award. We work closely with the council's regeneration teams to align the project to the medium and long-term development aspirations of the council."
Cllr Colin Ellar, deputy leader of Hounslow Council and cabinet member for environment, said: "We all benefit from greener, sustainable approaches to business and Hounslow Highways are making an excellent contribution, by recycling used road materials and installing more efficient LED street lights."
These are the first and only business awards for west London. They are organised by West London Business, the regional chamber of commerce, and showcase the innovation and entrepreneurial character within west London's remarkable business community.
The judging panel included: Sir Eric Peacock, Adrian Seal (senior editor, Trinity Mirror Southern), Michael Rooney ( London First), Colin Stanbridge (London Chamber of Commerce), Clinton Leeks (HS2), Ash Verma (CE, Gateway Business Consultants), Lalji Vekaria (director, Saloria Architects), Gita Katbamna (consultant, independent), Nigel Milton (director, political relations – BAA), Andrew Ward (director, corporate relations – Brunel University), Alan Holland (director, Greater London – SEGRO Plc), Suresh Gamlath (University of West London), and Paula Whittle (principal – Ealing, Hammersmith, West London College).
The winners will be announced at a Gala Dinner Presentation on 28 November 2013 at the London Heathrow Marriott.
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Show of hands: What kid doesn't like getting cash as a gift?
That's what I thought. So explain to me exactly why people would bother setting their alarm clocks so they can be in the Wal-Mart parking lot at 5 a.m. the morning after Thanksgiving, when the perfect holiday gift can be had at the drive-through ATM on your way home from work Wednesday night.
Cash cache
Maybe opening an envelope to ogle a check from Grandma doesn't exactly scream "Kodak moment." But when the candy-cane holiday high wears off, a thoughtful financial present will bring smiles for many holidays to come. And, more practically, let's be honest: Licking an envelope is a lot easier than wrapping an awkwardly shaped present that no one will remember two months from now.
If forking over a few crisp $20s to Junior feels a tad gauche, read on for a few ideas to dress up that gift of green and make it multiply.
Give stocks, not stuff
As Warren Buffett has said, now is the very best time to be an investor -- to be buying stocks. And with top-tier companies trading at ridiculously low multiples, consider this the mother of all clearance sales and a chance to help your loved ones -- particularly the little ones -- get in on the action.
All right … it's not an Xbox or an iPhone. But when you explain to a kid that buying a share of a stock makes him or her a part owner of the company, watch the eyes light up. (A seat on the board, however, may have to wait until after the kid's old enough to drive.)
There are many ways to give the gift of stock to minors (here's a rundown of the basics ways to invest for your kids). If presentation is key, then presenting a child a framed stock certificate can be a nice touch. However, you'll pay anywhere from $40 to $120 to get a paper certificate and another $30 to $120 to get it framed. (Oneshare.com is one of the cheapest options, but you'll still pay a pretty penny.) Instead, skip the fancy presentation (or handcraft your own), and invest the cash you'll save.
Kid-oriented investments are everywhere
As for what to buy with that gift of cash, why not get Junior's input on the decision? Point out how every moment of every day, he or she is presented with investment opportunities, from breakfast (General Mills
Can't decide between Disney, McDonald's, Target, or Wal-Mart? You can buy 'em all with iShares Dow Jones US Consumer Services Sector Index Fund
It really is the thought that counts
Even if you can't afford to buy more than one share of stock, or if the investments you pick don't do so hot, consider that it's not just the thought that counts -- it's the message that you send. (And, really, do people still blame you for buying them a Betamax instead of VHS back in the day?)
There's nothing more touching than knowing someone has high hopes for your future and the wherewithal to present a gift designed to pay continual dividends throughout time. Plus, cash or cash equivalents save you the embarrassment of fumbling for a gift receipt when your last-minute panic gift falls flat.
(Promoting financial literacy is a major goal of The Motley Fool -- learn more about our Foolanthropy efforts in that arena, which are going on right now.)
This article was originally published on Nov. 7, 2006. It has been updated.
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2016 Graduating Class of the Government of Alberta Management Programs
Gwendolyn Stewart-Palmer presented the graduating speech to the 2016 class of the Government of Alberta Management Programs on June 24, 2016.
Gwendolyn has been an instructor in the program since 2005.
Click here for speech. Click here for photograph.
2016 National Aboriginal Law Conference
Shores Jardine LLP was pleased to contribute to the very successful 2016 National Aboriginal Law Conference: The Honour of the Crown in Canada. The Conference was hosted by the Canada Bar Association with the assistance of the Department of Justice (Canada) which took place in Ottawa on May 5 and 6, 2016.
Kirk N. Lambrecht, Q.C. presented his work, The Honour of the Crown: A Generative Constitutional Order, during the Panel session entitled Where to Now? The Honour of the Crown after Manitoba Metis Federation.
The firm was also pleased to support the conference by sponsoring the distribution of John Ralston Saul's new book, The Comeback to over 200 conference delegates.
Law Society of Nunavut
As part of the Nunavut Law Society's 2015 initiative to provide a series of "Lunch & Learn" professional development events, Shores Jardine LLP was invited to contribute by presenting on the topics of Administrative Law from a Practitioner's perspective and the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement: Understanding its Building Blocks. On June 10, 2015 and June 15, 2015, Craig Boyer and Cindy Kieu presented to the members of the Nunavut Bar on their respective topics. Both events were well attended and generated thoughtful and informative discussions on the emergent issues in the areas of administrative law and modern land claims interpretation and implementation.
Descriptions of the events may be found at http://lawsociety.nu.ca/professional-development-events/


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The anti-Hillary Clinton buttons that were reportedly spotted at a California Republican Party convention are quite simply offensive and disgusting.San Francisco Chronicle's Carla Marinucci tweeted the following image Saturday:
Popular buttons at @CAGOP convention already take on @hillaryclinton #2016 in a big way... Ouch!! pic.twitter.com/3SdIqZs7GG
— Carla Marinucci (@cmarinucci) October 6, 2013
When questioned about the validity of the photo, Marinucci provided more details, tweeting that they were spotted outside of a VIP reception area, and later appeared to have been removed.
The three-day convention focused attention on recruiting new Republican voters, specifically women, the Associated Press reported. If these buttons were really at the convention, they probably did not help that effort.
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The Writing Life
We're gonna talk about the writing life. And the first thing I wanna confess to you is that I haven't had a job since 1977. Haven't had a job, haven't collected a paycheck. Was a single mother, put three children through school, so you better believe I worked hard, and I had to develop some pretty strong work habits, and self-discipline, because I never had a boss. There was nobody standing over me saying, "You'd better deliver", I just knew I did. And my work habits did not include sitting and waiting for the muse. I always knew I had to get up in the morning and tell a story, and I wanted to do it well. And from a pretty early stage, I really recognized, quite apart from need to earn my living, a responsibility to readers. And I have never, never forgotten that part, that what I do, and what you do, as a writer, is only half of the job, really. The other part is what the reader does. The person who takes in your story, and gives over their time and their trust. You take their hand, y...
ou say, "Let me lead you along on this journey", and you'd better make it worthwhile for them, and not cheat them, and tell them only part of what the actual truth was. So I'm gonna begin with a little bit of a description of how I go about it, and it won't all apply to you. So take what is useful, and discard the rest. I have a series of rituals, and they're very important to me because so much of what I do is uncharted territory. So if there are just a few things, I will never buy ground coffee because that would deprive me of one of my precious rituals, which is grinding the coffee in the morning. And again, that's not gonna be the magic bullet that will make your writing suddenly lyrical, and successful, and moving, and powerful. But it is important, when you wander into this dark wood, that you have a few things to hold onto.
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Everyone's got a story to tell. Some are funny. Some are inspiring. Others are tragic. But no matter how compelling your story might seem, it won't resonate with readers unless you're able to effectively translate your concept onto the page.
Celebrated journalist, novelist and memoirist Joyce Maynard will give you the tools you need to transform your brilliant idea into an absorbing memoir that readers won't be able to put down.
Maynard will begin by walking you through the process of identifying your story and how best to tell it. She'll then help you develop your story through language, story structure, dramatic tension, dialogue, description and editing. Finally, she'll address the challenges of the writing life, such as how to create a productive practice, design a comfortable writing space, deal with rejection and find an audience.
In this class, you'll learn how to:
- Understand the difference between telling what happened and exploring your journey.
- Figure out what to include in your story and what to cut out.
- Decide on a point of view, a point of entry and a structure.
- Get over your fears of revealing embarrassing truths about yourself.
- Stop worrying about being judged.
- Deal with loneliness and find your tribe.
- Develop the arc of a sentence, a paragraph and a story.
- Listen to the sound and rhythm of your sentences.
Lessons1Class Introduction: What Happens When We Keep Secrets? 2Name Your Obsessions 3Stick to Your Story 4Identify Your Journey 5Identify Your Journey Take Your Story Apart 6The Landing Place 7The Honesty Question 8What's the Worst That Can Happen? 9Descriptive Versus Interpretive Language 10Diagramming the Sentence 11The Importance of Economy 12Dialogue and Rhythm 13Six Common Mistakes Writers Make 14The Paragraph 15Building the Arc 16The Test of a Good Memoir 17The Container 18Two Containers From Scratch 19Developing Your Container 20Dissecting a Good Container Essay 21The Writing Life 22Creating a Writing Practice 23What Gets in Your Way? 24The Non-Writing Process 25Criticism and Rejection 26What Happens When We Tell Our Truth?
Annie Y
Joyce Maynard will meet her writing students exactly where many of us find ourselves stranded: at that point in the road where our creative impulse and need for expression begins to lose breath but our sense of story and good writing habits may falter. Her teaching is a glorious, energetic, engaged alchemy of encouragement, permission for wild creativity, and feet-on-the-ground, pencil-to-paper, lessons for organizing and writing your own story. I left this incredible day empowered to tell mine, and totally unafraid to let go of what does not fit into the narrative. She gives concrete examples of good writing, shows you exactly why it's good, as well as hilarious bits of not-so-good writing. Yes, this is a memoir class, but the lessons are simply excellent rules for good writing. The syllabus is ambitious, but Ms. Maynard's practical magic is her gift to render all of this utterly do-able. I loved every minute, left inspired by the entire experience, and profoundly grateful for her wisdom and humor. Thank you!
Diane Shipley
This was a wonderful class, the best I've taken, even though I wasn't there in person! Joyce is an inspiring teacher who makes you feel like your stories matter and guides you toward identifying which narratives to tell and how best to tell them — very few writing classes delve into the mechanics in this way and I really appreciated it. I also appreciated some of her more unusual advice — like that it's important to think about what you want to write, sometimes for a long time, before you start. By going through students' stories and providing lots of examples of the principles she teaches, you can see how to adapt the lessons to your own work, and I've already started doing so. I also found Joyce very compassionate about issues around privacy and shame and everything that comes up when people share personal stories, and very generous in sharing her own experiences so it's clear she knows what she's talking about. I recommend this class wholeheartedly.
I haven't finished this course yet - but already know that Joyce has helped me. She gives a lot of examples that explain the concepts she's suggesting that we writers use. I especially appreciated the container part where she helped members of the audience narrow down their big story. I also appreciate Creative Live & Joyce allowing a 'free' viewing of this course because not everybody has the savings to spend on this. Even though it's worth the money - many of us are going to feel that the money should be spent on food or bills. Right? So the fact that we could sit in on this with no costs is beyond wonderful. It puts a smile on my face and let me have a relaxing day that I saved for just my own enjoyment. Learning is something I enjoy and learning how to write my own story better, might even turn out to change my life. Thank you very much. - Christie in Maryland


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Standish is about 145 miles north of Detroit.
There are 229 suspected al-Qaeda, Taliban, and other foreign fighters at Guantanamo Bay prison.
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The region around Standish is hurting economically, with an unemployment rate of more than 17 percent, and some residents welcome bringing in the Guantanamo detainees if it will prevent closing down the prison, which is the area's largest employer with about 340 workers.
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Posted: Tue, 28. Feb 06, 13:35
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Interesting proposals. But baby steps are more likely to be implemented, so is there any consensus here on what is most needed first?
I just want my cap ships to stay in a wingman formation so that I am just focusing on firing arcs, like a B-17 squadron and letting my fighters go after stragglers that stay out of range.
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Posted: Tue, 28. Feb 06, 13:46
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This has probably already been discussed (I only skimmed the thread), but basically what I want to see is the ability to create a Fleet object in the property menu. Ships could then be added and removed from the Fleet through the command console (i.e. the same way you assign homebase), and doing so would remove it from your property list and put it in the fleet (show info would display the various ships in the fleet). The #1 thing I DO NOT LIKE about X3 is basically having each ship display on the property list and having to give out individual orders to a 15 ship fighter wing.
A fleet could be given direct orders a la traditional ship commands, or be assigned a Fleet Officer to make it smart. You could then give special orders that the FO would try to carry out based on his level (gain levels by completing objectives and killing stuff). Some examples:
Provide Fighter Cover - carriers launch their fighters and individual fighters group up in squads and engage targets of opportunity in the specified area. Capital ships stay away from direct combat.
Attack Strike Craft - Capital ships equip flak/pac/etc, fighters launch and swarm to kill hostile m5/m4/m3 in a specified area
Attack Capital Ships - Capital ships equip ppc and heavy missiles and engage hostile m6/m2/m1. Fighters launch to guard the capitals but they dont go offensive.
Protect Sector(s) - Capitals pair off with escorts and split into patrols in the region in question.
Additionally FO's could be given money and freighters with authorization to repair damaged fleet vessels, replenish jump fuel, and trade to support adding new strike craft to the fleet (no matter how rich, FO should not buy capitals). They could also be totally automated with very basic instructions such as 'defend my assets' and 'build up and attack hostiles'. Basically fleets and FOs should automate a lot of the tedious issues regarding large scale warfare. One other thing of note, when ships in a fleet are lost they should not be sent directly to your log, but compiled into a combat report which is sent to the log periodically (if one of my fleets engages a khaak strike force, I would rather have one message from my FO saying 'we lost 25 M5s and 5 M3s but they were all replaced after the fight' than 30 messages sent to my log)
Also, the property menu needs to be revamped to offer more filters and display options.
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Posted: Thu, 6. Apr 06, 08:35
Post subject: A sort of plagerism?
X2 and X3 are superb 1st person games, but nothing can be perfect and the third-person aspect of controlling massive fleets of massive ships doesn't work very well.
However, another game I've played handled very well what the X games lack: third person control of massive fleets. That game: Homeworld
-You could assign fleets that could be re-selected using hotkeys.
-You could design your own fleet formations.
-Shield and hull stregth of each ship in fleet displayed
-Ships would fight in formation, stay in formation, and it would actually be more effective than a free-for-all.
-3-dimensional sector map. Mouse-controlled zooming and rotation.
-Kamikaze orders (Actually the X games do have this, but its called "Auto-Pilot")
When I play Homeworld, I'm always wishing I could pilot one of the ships. I can do just that in X2-3, but I lose the great 3rd person interface of Homeworld.
If these two games were combined into one, where one could play the beginning as first person and then evolve into third person later on (X4: Perfection Acheived!) I could die happily--playing it, of course.
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Posted: Thu, 13. Apr 06, 05:23
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Sorry if im repeating, havent had time to read whole thread yet, have to go to work.
What about preconceived plans. Before you jump into a system you pass out orders to be completed on your mark, so for eg, all ships form up. Stage 1, all m1, m2 and m6 jump in, and move into a pre designated formation. Stage 2 launch all pre-determined fighter groups to attack/defened/other roles that you have previously assigned them. Stage 3, execute attack procedure. I dont own my own carrier fleet yet, but I thought maybe if you could have an attack plan ready before you moved in, it might save a whole load of hassle, if each unit knows his pre-determined role.
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Posted: Thu, 13. Apr 06, 07:14
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Lots of good stuff here. Excellent thread.
Without pressing the "this is better" button, here is an alternative organization, and being relatively new around here I'll preface my remarks by saying I am retired military, US Navy 23 years service. I have spent a fair percentage of that time in carriers, so here is a suggestion based on that experience:
Organize the system in such a way that you can build a fleet from the ground up.
TE - Task Element: Any ship can form the core of a task element. a Task Element can even be a single unit. The base unit can then be assigne up to (some number, 4?) units as escorts. So a Task Element could be a supply element with a TS escorted by 4 M5's or a TL escorted by two M6s or a combat element with an M-3 escorted by 4 more M3's etc. Flexible, you see?
TF - Task Force: A Task Force contains at least two and as many as 5 TE's. The core unit of a Task Force must be an M-6 or above or a TL. As an example, TF 1 is TEs 1.1 through 1.5. TE1 the TF commander, is a TL with embarked fighters. TE 1.2 through 1.5 are each an M6 with 4 M3 escorts.
BG - Battle Group: A Battle Group has either an M1 or M2 as core, with at least two TFs in support. It could be either a CVBG (Carrier Battle Group) or a BG based around an M2.
Fleet: A Fleet has at least two and up to 4 BGs.
So that First Fllet is made up of:
CVBG 1.2 is made up of:
TF 1.2.1 CV and wing
TF 1.2.2 M2 and escorts
TF 1.2.3 TL and escorts
TF 1.2.4 M2 and escorts
TF 1.2.5 4 x M6
TF 1.2.5 is made up of:
TE 18.104.22.168 TL (Support ship or with fighters in jeep carier role?)
TE 126.96.36.199 M6 and escorts
TE 184.108.40.206 5 x M3
TE 184.108.40.206 M6 and Escorts
Note that ineach case an even number designates a "surface" unit ie. no carrier. But you can use whatever system makes sense to you.
My point is that you could begin to group your units for mutual support right from the beginning Two M4's can be a TE. You don't need to worry about a Fleet when you are starting a game. you build a fleet by assembling the smaller units below it first.
The interface questions are being addressed rather well, but how you organize the units must be not only flexible, but logical and standardized.
I admit the designations might seem a bit arcane at first glance, but you get used to it quickly.
One last thing: In the discussion about drag-n-drop roles and commands I was thinking you should be able to prioritize the commands. So that when a command is completed (if it's the type of command that's completable, such as "Attack my Target") the unit drops to the next highest priority ("Protect..." for example) unless a new target is selected. So in order to recall your escorts, all you would need to do is not select another target. You get the idea?
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Posted: Thu, 13. Apr 06, 13:19
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One question is who you can give orders to, and the other is what orders.
Currently, one can instruct two groups at best. First all in sector, then wingmen. Or have escorts set to protect and then instruct only the wingmen. Well, you really get to consentrate fire, for there are no other options.
The other thing, what orders? If I see a K and fighters, how do I say to the wingmen: "Wait here while I Hammerhead that K. Then you can start the furball."? No wait or even "Move to position" IIRC. And "Attack all" has no power of the consentration.
OzK mentioned next highest priority commands. Somebody expressed that in the DevNet as "default command for a ship". Completion of "Attack target" should not jump to "Idle". There is "Attack and land", but only for carrier fighters.
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Posted: Thu, 13. Apr 06, 14:11
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Sorry if this has been said but as yet i havnt had enough time to read all pages
But we really need a system to beable to re supply our carriers and ships with out having to fight for it each time
We need a system where we can have 1 max trade ship dockable in any tl m1 or m2. Then we need a resupply screen where we can set what we want the ship to stock and if its from closest local station or if its from one of out facs and as long as the carriar isnt in heavy combat the supply ship will go out and refill form where it needs to ( ability to set a thresh hold so like if u go like 100 missiles down from the max u want then it will go get them ) also the supply ship will be able to get new oeders from carriar while away so it doesnt fly all the way back and then find it needs some thing that can be got from same station ( it will have enough intelligence to get multiple items if close together )
my 2 cents worth - this is one of my most annoying problems with my TL
ps also u can set how much of each thing to give to each docked ship so that like it refills missiles and md ammo automatically when u dock
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Posted: Thu, 13. Apr 06, 15:30
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The RTS interface should only be available in large ships of m6, tl or cap ship class size, or a hq, to make it a thing you use when you have a fleet or a business. In real life, you dont start a multi million dollar business at the top, you work for it. Oh and I cant wait for the multi play version, X-3 1/2: Fleet Commander. Heh, my fleet vs ur fleet buddy, n e day!
Oh, here is a few links to Myros's Combat pilots and Task Force addon scripts, if you havent already, have a read through this and see what you think, might liven your game play up a bit, has for me.
but that may be a bit off topic, my bad
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Posted: Thu, 13. Apr 06, 15:35
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its been said before.. but my No1 issue with fleets is formation...
it would be real nice if they attempted to stay in formation..
its real annoying when a lone carrier breaks from a battle group to go
and engage 2 destroyers on its own...
And verry expensive...
There is a "workaround" for loose formations...
Just have other cap ships follow each other, you can get a nice flying V or other formations, but as soon as you hit a gate,, of the shots start to fire.. it falls apart, also, if one dies, any ship behind it will sit there twiddling its thumbs..
it would also be nice to set your ships in either a tight or loose formation,
(tight to drive your 4 destroyers striaght through the middle of a Xenon secter keeping them all close together...)
(Loose for fanning your ships out wide to catch things in a crossfire but ensuring all ships are still moving together..)
At the moment, taking a fleet into battle kind of reminds me of watching over toddlers in a nursery!!!
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Posted: Thu, 13. Apr 06, 17:32
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Okay...sorry I know this is my second post but I've been watching the fleet command thing go one for a while now so it's gonna be long
. When I think of fleets in X3 the idea is pretty massive
. I guess there are three main areas to consider strategic planning, tactical planning, logistics, and fleet creation. Before I start let me say I would hate to see fleet commands take away from the ability to micromanage...I happen to love this part of the game, doing the trading and fighting myself.
STRATEGIC PLANNING: This should be left up to the user. Let's consider a takeover of Xenon 101. Strategic goal elimination of Xenon in area 101. I don't think having a takeover Xenon 101 command would be much fun. Strategic planning would be along the lines of, need to destroy the M1 and 2 M2's then destroy any remaining fighters. Or Evade M1 and M2's destroying fighter escorts first. But this all goes on in the users head.
TACTICAL PLANNING: Okay this is where drag and drop commands, expanded commands and queueing of commands, and additional combat parameters becomes important.
Drag and drop: would b nice to drag a group icon to an icon on the screen to basic commands would be really useful. If its a enemy then attack that enemy, friend defend that friend. This could be accomplished without drag and drop through the traditional menu systems but wouldn't be as clean and not nearly as quick.
Expanded Commands: Scouting, Capping are two that come to mind scouting would not engage enemies but attempt to draw close enough to allow you to see opposing forces. Capping is self-explanatory disable and recover craft...though you better have SOS software. Attack commands would need to be expanded to allow a hierarchy of options....attack all enemies...sure I can do that, or I can attack all M5's. Note: I don't even know of too many RTS's that give you the capability to only attack a particular group of enemies. Also include attack with missiles (torpedo runs)
Queueing of commands: Attack M1->attack M2 alpha->attack M2 beta that way I can line it up and go. Cancel or finish one command on the queue and it's on to the next one. Ex. Scout Xenon 101->attack M5 when the attack begins cancel the scout command and the fighter will go after an M5.
Combat parameters: There's already a couple, missle fire precentage comes to mind right away. Ones I would add strict formation would ensure the group will not leave formation (unless collision avoidance). Group jump order, simultaneously, sequentially. Attack target at range either a number or possibly at the max range of the longest weapon in the group.
LOGISTICS: Okay how do we eqiup and keep this stuff flying. Well groups are really like factories or complexes that don't produce, just consume. Energy, weapons, shields, hull. I say assign transports to groups to get what they need, that's how the military does it....a convoy will drive the stuff out to them or they'll have to pack it in and head to base. Probably would need a mobile repair capability (prehaps requiring varoius amounts of teladnium to accomplish).
I would suggest to allow multiple types of resources to be bought by a transport ohhh and you're going to need transports that jump besides the UT's. Might be asking alot but could I also please assign multiple homes for a transport? People don't like logistics but I think X3 handles it well by only requiring energy cells for fighting units. Ohh and before the battle begins you need to be able to suspend logistics and restart, kind of a command all TS/TP thing.
So how do you equip all these guys. Well when you have a group selected select the type (buster vanguards) and a group equip option should be available. Equip as you would if you had a single buster vanguard with every weapon available...and if the the buster doesn't have the weapons guess what the TS now needs to do. TS/TL/TP's could keep stocks of weapons and common items for deployment.
Also let me set the resource levels the group or even factories and complexes will hold this way I can set APAC to 20 and AIRE to 20 and I'll have a store of 20 AIRE on hand for when I change my mind. Ohh and you're not going to want 1 billion in weaponry floating around in space in TS's so I've got throw in my 2 cents for a player HQ or expanded shipyard/EQ dock support.
I'd follow the RTS model. But if you could expand on it don't force me to assign a ctrl # or shft # to a group. I would love to have a sub-group of M3's protect but be part of the centaur group. I kinda dig the star wars: empire at war methedology and I think it might even fit in with the current universe map.
BTW I like the jump gates....forces you plan a little more....jump in a fast mover to draw away the enemy....send in the big guns to hold the gate and then bring the invansion. It's kinda like gaining a beachhead before landing the invasion. I just wish the enemy was relegated to using them.
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Sorry haven't read everyones but OzK ideas are close to my own as trauling through the "r" button list is painfull long and annoying with not enough headings so being able to select fleets, task forces etc. would be good but first more commands are needed like attack M2s, deploy fighters etc. plus setting multply commands to these fleets would be useful so when your fleet jumps into xenon sector the:
M2s would a)attack ememy M2s and b) protect your M1s
M1s would a)Deploy fighters then b) attack all ememies
Fighters would a)attack ememy fighters then b) attack ememy M1s
Hopefully M7s will be in X4 so M2s can do what they do best and blow each other up.
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A problem with fleets is jumping into sectors M1's & M2's should be able to jump to a postion in sectors rather than through gates like the XENON do in XI missions , makes for a much more tatical expierence.
we should have commands for what ships attack like the priority commands given to turrets for example.
1. attack m4's m5's
2. attack m3's m6's
2. attack m1's m2's
3. attack all enemies
4. attack station
5. attack...
would like to see flight groups and being able to select a ship in a flight group with the above commands under a flight group option also as in
1. navigation
2. combat
3. flight group combat
defend commands should also be able to target NPC ships meaning you could gain rep by protecting other races ships priority based and with the option for issuing them as a flight group command to just like the attack commands.
1. protect all boron ships
2. protect all split ships
3. protect all teladi ships
4. protect all paranid ships
5. protect all argon ships
6. protect station
7. protect...
combat navigation commands should differ also
1. jump and patrol single sector
2. jump and patrol multipul sectors
3. jump and attack all enemies
4. jump to postion attack all enemies( not through a gate)
5. jump to postion( not through a gate)
6. jump and launch all ( m2's only) (would love launch all in flight group as well)
7. jump to gate
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Posted: Fri, 14. Apr 06, 14:59
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I really like a lot of the ideas in this thread so far. My favorite are the ideas involving having "containers" that can be named and ships dropped into.
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Posted: Fri, 14. Apr 06, 22:26
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Hell yeah new fleet commands. Was thinking about that myself recently when a Freighter of mine came under attack and decided that it would try to destroy an entire fleet with its BPAC... Admirable, but thats an example of something that I think is needed. ie: "When under attack, dock at nearest station do not return fire" etc
What would be really great is if you could put ships into command groups like an RTS. "Group A attack target, group B defend me, Group C...." well you get the idea. Having to talk to one ship only or all the ships in a sector with no middle ground is annoying.
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In X2 i used the protect order alot when it came to fleets. For example my M1 with 150 split mambas entered a xenon sector with 2 M2's escorting it. Each M2 had 4 split dragons escorting that so when the M1 was attacked. K's and J's where killed with ease but fighter where a problem but once all 150 fighters had been launched they cleaned up all the fighters with only 1 or 2 losses. But i really did not want to expand my fleet because of the lack of managerment i could do.
I restarted about a month ago and have a very organised trade empire unlike my 1st one when i had battle fleets and 200+ factorys spread over half the universe. Now i have 40 in 2 parinid sectors and its going very well wont be long till i have full sector defence and my first M2.
But in all fairness they could not really include Fleet management as that would add a large asspect to the game.
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One of my colleagues, Amanda, produced a blog last week about the governments plans to ask utility providers to include QR codes on bills, so we can all jump to a price comparison site and see if we are being ripped off. I promised I'd read through it and provide a technology perspective on what organisations should do to deal with the ever increasing complexity of information and channels that content has to be delivered through.
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Then in the late '80s we told Sid that our lives were far to simple and could he come along and complicate them for us.
Now, there is an array of energy providers, different tarrifs, incentives to sign-up because I can earn reward points of one type or another… that's better isn't it, consumer choice, all hail the free market.
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It's not that one is more reliable in term of product delivery, said product comes into my home through the same infrastructure regardless of whose providing it.
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Maybe I'm missing the point, the energy companies want to sell us more stuff, so they value us as customers and presumably either subsidise their customer service from other operations to compete on price or cut the customer service to the bone and compete that way…
I just realised I had never even been on a comparison web site for energy, so just went through the process and found I can save £250 a year by switching to some company I've never heard of.. but where does that saving come from. Switching has to cost my current provider money, they need to get a final reading, send me a bill work out any money I owe them or they owe me, then hand the meter over to the new provider. It must cost the new provider money, they have to set me up as a customer setup a direct debit, send me a welcome pack. How is me switching creating any additional wealth for the UK economy?
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Can someone tell me what's the influence on music between a 3/4 time signature and a 6/8 one ?
Can someone tell me what's the influence on music between a 3/4 time signature and a 6/8 one ?
I think of 6/8 (instead of 3/4) when the feel of the measure is 6 full beats that can't properly be subdivided in two 3/4 measures - like a blues song in 6/8 where the backbeat is on the 4th of 6. (e.g. "Steamroller Blues" or "Life by the Drop"). My guess is that it would be a similar thing for classical music. (minus the backbeat)
3/4 is like > S-L-LOriginally Posted by LeBeginner
6/8 is like > S-L-L-s-L-L
S = Strong
s = less strong than S
L = Light
Also 3/4 is simple time signature but 6/8 is compact meaning that you think 3 notes per group instead of one note per beat in 3/4.
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6/8 is mostly beat in two, 3/4 in three. While 6/8 does consist of two groups of three eighth notes, they're more like triplets in 2/4 than two measures of 3/4, so you'd beat it like it was 2/4. But 6/8 is just easier to write/read than triplets, especially when using dotted rhythms: (ex. dotted eighth - sixteenth - eighth)
Waltzes, for example, are in 6/8 and beat in two.
Right concept, wrong example. Waltzes are written in 3/4 (formerly also 3/8) and have three fast beats to a bar.
I could be totally wrong so correct me if so... and don't know if this will help so just throwin it out there.
I have been playing with a keyboard a lot lately, because GPO has Steinway in it, and I just discovered a common chord progression that i believe would require 6/8 because it is Arpeggiated (thanks Gary ) with 6 notes.
The song "Unchained Melody", if played in C, has the chords:
C, A & F descending, and then ascending to G and back to C.
(edit: changed the way i wrote that to make it clearer)
with each chord apeggiated with root, ascending to third, fifth, and root's next octave, then descending back to fifth and then back to third, making six notes so I'm pretty sure it would be in 6/8.
I was also pleasantly suprised to see that if you speed it up or slow it down and tinkle around with some righthanded high notes, you find a lot of those old 50s and 60s tunes are on that chord progression.
Hope that helps, and here is the lyrics if you don't recognize the name.
and if you have iTunes you can type that name into it's search, play the Rightous Brothers' sample and count off one-two-three, four-five-six, while it is playing.
You're talking about a figure such as
ceg c'ge Ace aec FAc fca GBd gDB
(where the spaces represent groupings)?
If so, then yes, you could indeed notate in 6/8. You could also use 12/8, or triplets in a meter such as 2/4 or 4/4.
Not sure if you are talking to me, but I edited it to make it clearer.Originally Posted by marnen
In iTunes about the tenth one down is a John Williams arrangement of that song, in the sample I didn't hear the chords, but it would be interesting to find his score and see what he used for it. He maybe used one of those you mention.
I was talking to you, and unfortunately your edit did nothing to make it clearer: I was asking about the rhythm of the figure, not the particular chord progression. I gather that I understood correctly, though.
OK, i see now what you meant, i'm a noob and was unfamilar with those rhythm representations you posted. It's played softly and evenly, and no note has stronger accent than the others as near as i can tell.


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.With the theme song titled "Just Love Ngayong Christmas", the event is a visual treat of an annual gathering of ABS-CBN stars in one music video for the holiday season.
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