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Another longish rant, but this one on writing.
Ideally every story should be about the single most important event in the life of the protagonist.
Series stories need to be about the most important event in some character's life.
TV shows are frequently franchise shows: Comedies and cop shows (i.e., their mission is to set things right, be they cops, cowboys, doctors, lawyers, or starship captains)
Comedies are simultaneously the hardest and easiest type of story to write, their audiences simultaneously the most unforgiving yet forgiving.
All that matters in a comedy is "Did they laugh?" All other rules of writing, drama, art, and literature fall to this.
All comedies are franchises as well: How will these particular characters make me laugh? Good comedies invariably follow the laughs, bad comedies try to force them.
Back to the core idea of story: Each tale is about the single most important event in the protagonist's life.
An epic story requires an extensive background full of character and incident to fully explain the importance of the story in the character's life (viz. Dune; try boiling that down to a satisfactory 2,000 word short story).
Conversely, a short story like "The Gift Of The Magi" tells us everything we possibly need to know about the newlyweds; anything more would be superfluous and dilute the impact.
The problem with telling the most important thing in character's life is this:
Whaddya gonna do for an encore?
By nature, most stories are designed to be poor source material for sequels.
Which is not to say good sequels are impossible, just that they have to start with the assumption that the previous story was the most important thing in that character's life up to that point.
And it can work:
Bride Of Frankenstein builds beautifully on the original Frankenstein
Aliens follows Alien to a logical conclusion
But usually they are disappointments, or else faux sequels that turn a good original into a generic genre series (viz. Die Hards 2-4, Lethal Weapons 2-4, etc.).
Nothing wrong with series films, but they aren't the same as a sequel.
As a rough rule of thumb, if you can enjoy a story without having to have experienced the previous story to understand it, it's a series story, not a sequel.
There are exceptions. Huckleberry Finn is a sequel of sorts to Tom Sawyer; it transcends its source novel and becomes one of the greatest works in American literature (the other Tom Sawyer sequels are tedious). Individual films or stories in a series can rise above their roots (though I'm unable to think of one that rises to Huck's level of brilliance); they tend to be remembered as really good examples of the series as opposed to stand alone works of merit (Goldfinger, f'r instance).
There are also epic stories that the creator/s divvy up into smaller bite-sized bits for release: C.S. Lewis' Narnia or J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter books, for example.[1]
The single most difficult kind of story to write is a prequel.[2]
Because by definition, a prequel consists of the stuff that wasn't good enough for the original.
Now again, there are exceptions.
J.R.R. Tolkien had plotted out The Lord Of The Rings but decided to do The Hobbit as a shakedown cruise before starting on his epic. It really isn't a genuine prequel since it was released well in advance of his epic trilogy.
Sometimes an original story gets adapted to another media, and when it does part of it has to be jettisoned for time / budget / aesthetic reasons. A prequel that incorporates such material usually is still superfluous.
The only exceptions I can think of are Nevada Smith and The Godfather II.
Nevada Smith is a prequel to a gawdawful movie called The Carpetbaggers (based very loosely on Howard Hughes' Hollywood career) which is based on an equally gawdawful Harold Robbins novel of the same name. In both versions there's a cowboy actor named Nevada Smith (based very loosely on real life cowboy / soldier of fortune-cum-actor Tom Mix).
To pad his already turgid tome, Robbins threw in a novella-sized flashback to Smith's pre-Hollywood life, filled with copious Wild West violence. Joseph E. Levine, The Carpetbaggers' producer, was savvy to recognize this material would make a serviceable Western & cast Steve McQueen in the role (Alan Ladd played him in the original film).
Mario Puzo's novel The Godfather has numerous flashbacks and references to Don Vito Corleone's boyhood, his fleeing Sicily for America, his early introduction to crime, and his skills as a gang leader is bringing together several independent criminals to form the core of his "family".
Francis Ford Coppola's film of The Godfather keep the story rooted in the late 1940s, eliminating the flashback / background material. When that film's success demanded a sequel, Coppola & Puzo turned The Godfather II into that rarest of films, a prequel / sequel by using Don Vito's story as a counterpoint to Michael Corleone's consolidation of power.
All of this is a really roundabout way of saying I'm really looking forward to Ridley Scott's Prometheus since he's finally going to reveal who / what the Space Jockey was and why he / she / it was tootlin' 'round the galaxy with a starship fulla Alien eggs.
[1] It may come as a shock to some that I've never seen any of the Potter films & only read one book in the series (#3 or #4, IIRC). The book was well written, I can easily understand why so many people love the series, but it just didn't connect with me. As someone once observed re Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan, "If you don't discover him by age thirteen, you'll never discover him." My knowledge of the books is based on what I've gleaned through cultural osmosis & from what friends whose opinions I trust have related to me.
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The last four years have been very difficult for me for a variety of reasons. There have definitely been low and high points, but last Christmas was probably the worst of my life. As a result, I'm highly aware of how much better my life is now than it was just a year ago!
Among the many good things that have changed in my life was the addition of Talullah to my pack of dogs after having lost Keeley in October of 2011.
Recently, Talullah and I have begun visiting the residents of the local rest home every couple of weeks. My niece gave me a set of antlers, and although she isn't thrilled about it, Talullah will wear them for me.
Although, as you can see from this photo, she isn't really thrilled about it!
Here she is at the rest home on Sunday, with antlers and infinity scarf!
For those of you that don't know, Talullah was rescued by a dog rescue group as she'd been left at a kill shelter. She was pregnant with pups, and based upon her health (she was 35 lbs under weight) and body issues, it was determined that she'd been used for breeding. She is a pure bred Great Dane with a merle / merlequin coat. When I adopted her, we found that the reason she'd been dumped was because she had tumors throughout her breasts. Three weeks ago, she had major surgery to have the lumps removed (they had continued to grow despite the fact that she'd later been spayed.)
She is now a healthy, at her correct weight, and is a happy girl. She shares my life, and everyone loves her. (In fact, the only issue I have had with her is that she wants to go everywhere with me, and will all but knock me down to get out if I tell her she can't go - you try arguing with a 157 lb Great Dane!) Other than that, she has the perfect Great Dane personality - ultimately zen and easy going. She likes everyone, is curious, and has even let other dogs nip at her without reacting! She knows who she is, and is quite comfortable with it!
Talullah has given me the opportunity to give back at the facility where my father spent the last year of his life. Talullah is still getting used to the floors (she much prefers carpet to linoleum or wood) but she is a trooper and gamely lets everyone pet her and cuddle on her, and take her photo.
We are expecting a white Christmas - beginning sometime in the morning - which will be great as last year we had virtually no snow at all. Somehow, it feels more special that the first day we get snow all year is on the holiday itself. It will be fun to see how Talullah navigates in the snow, but I know my other two dogs will be filled with doggy delight in "catching" snowballs and romping through it all. I'll be right out there with them!
Just to give some "equal time", here are Jake and Bandit.
Bandit - in a rare still photo . . . she is usually moving too fast to get a clear shot!
Jake and Bandit waiting for me to kick the ball for them to chase.
Jake on the bench at the end of my bed . . . in his defense, he has no idea that he doesn't actually fit there.
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Sometimes Truth Is Out-Of-Focus
'What is focus - and who has the right to say what focus is the legitimate focus?'
Julia Margaret Cameron
It's two hundred years since the birth of the experimental photographer Julia Margaret Cameron and there are two exhibitions in London celebrating her work. (The V&A until 21 February; The Science Museum until 31 March)
Although Cameron came to photography late in life (she first took up a camera at the age of 48), she was a pioneer in the understanding of photography as an art form. Most of the early enthusiasts regarded photography as a science that should concern itself with accuracy and precision. Cameron aimed to 'record the greatness of the inner as well as the outer man.'
Certainly many of Cameron's portraits have an intimacy that still resonates today. She shot in profile or face-on, making astute use of lighting and shadow. Her sitters have a stillness, a seriousness, that suggest the private, individual, interior life. It's as if she's caught them on their own in a room looking in the mirror.
Cameron came in for a good deal of criticism from the Victorian photographic establishment for the perceived 'mistakes' in her work. There were blotches and swirls resulting from the uneven application of chemicals and smearing when the plates were wet. And many of Cameron's images were slightly out-of-focus.
'What in the name of all the nitrate of silver that ever turned white into black have these pictures in common with good photography? Smudged, torn, dirty, undefined and in some cases almost unreadable, there is hardly one of them that ought not to have been washed off the plate as soon as its image had appeared.'
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Cameron believed that her technically flawed images conveyed greater emotion, truth and impact. And some of the more enlightened critics of the time agreed.
'Mrs Cameron was the first person who had the wit to see her mistakes were her successes and henceforward to make her portraits systematically out-of-focus.'
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The state of being in-focus is of course a technical matter. But it is also something that is socially determined; something that is felt.
In a fabulous scene from Woody Allen's 1997 movie, Deconstructing Harry, a camera crew is having problems shooting the actor Mel, played by Robin Williams. After inspecting their lenses, they conclude that there's nothing wrong with their equipment. It's Mel that is out-of-focus.
'Mel, I don't know how to tell you this, but you're soft. You're out-of-focus…I want you to go home; and want you to get some rest. See if you can just sharpen up.'
I have a lot of sympathy for Mel. Sometimes we just don't seem to be in tune with everyone else. We're out of step, misaligned. Sometimes we feel out-of-focus.
Could the communications and marketing industries learn from Julia Margaret Cameron? Would we ever willingly seek to be out-of-focus?
We are for the most part cursed by an obsession with polish and perfection. But this very finesse may diminish our ability to communicate authenticity, integrity and emotion. Conveying truth is not the same as conveying fact. Facts are hard, precise, unyielding. Truth is a matter for intuition, interpretation and imagination.
We could also learn from Julia a singularity of purpose, a determination in the face of critical pressure.
My mother was a keen amateur painter. She worked in oils using a palette knife, a method taught by the TV artist Nancy Kominsky (Paint Along with Nancy was a big deal in the UK in the 1970s). I once came across her painting a series of seagulls on a rock. There were four or five of them all in a line, pointing in the same direction. It looked to me as if they were queueing for a bus. I told mum that this wouldn't happen in nature; that things are less regimented in real life. She told me she didn't care. This was the picture she wanted to paint.
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How to Help Your Child's Night Terrors
Confusional arousals are just what they sound like. Your child may mumble or sob and thrash about seeming upset or even agitated. He may even cry out and push you away, saying, "No, no! I don't like it!" These episodes usually last for a just a minute or two and then end with your child returning to a deep sleep.
Sleep terrors or night terrors are an extreme version of confusional arousals.
These are scary to witness. Your child may cry out—or scream—arching his back, his face filled with panic. He may be sweating, with a heaving chest and racing heart, staring into the darkness, yet totally unaware of your presence!
Parents get confused because these kids look almost awake but they're totally unreachable. That's because in reality, they're deep in sleep.
We call these terrors, but we don't even know if children are experiencing the type of fear we call terror. What we do know is that nothing parents do during an episode seems to help. These disruptions last 5-15 minutes (or occasionally longer). In the end, kids just fall back to sleep or awaken, dazed, with no recollection of the event. Parents, on the other hand, may be totally traumatized for hours!
Unlike sleep talking and sleepwalking, confusional arousals are more common among children under 5 years of age. Sleep terrors occur in about 1 in 20 children—rarely as young as 4 years of age, but usually school age or older. Parasomnias tend to run in families…so if you scared the daylights out of your parents with sleep terrors, they may be getting their revenge now!
It's reassuring to know that these odd events pose no danger. But they're no fun, so here are some tricks that may help keep them at bay.
Tricks to Help Your Child with Night Terrors
First, steer clear of the stimulants. Also, try to reduce your child's life stresses (including violent TV, video and cartoons).
Keep to your regular nap and nighttime schedule (going to bed too late can be a provocation). Use a strong white noise all night. During your bedtime sweet talk, mention how your sweetie's brain can be so relaxed he will probably have very happy dreams and sleep beautifully all the way till morning. You might even add a drop or two of lavender oil on the mattress.
During an episode, turn up the white noise (to the level of a loud shower), sing a familiar lullaby or just repeat simple words like "You're safe, you're safe, Daddy's here…Daddy's here." Eventually, your child will lie back down asleep again.
If your child has had one of these disturbances, caution your mom or the babysitter about this before leaving your child in their care. But don't talk to others about it in front of your child, because it may confuse or embarrass him. And let your doctor know, especially if the disturbances happen after midnight, just so he or she can rule out other problems.
If sleep walking and night terrors (the NREM parasomnia) are a mix of movement and drama, nightmares (the REM parasomnia) are all drama with very little action. Remember, in REM sleep, the brain's commands to the muscles of the body can't get past a "roadblock" at the base of the brain. So even though there may be a riot of thoughts and visions going on in the dream, the body stays still, even limp (thank goodness!).
In adults, bad dreams often seem to be about old memories…but for toddlers, nightmares are about the threatening here and now (angry adults, loud trucks, mean dogs, etc.).
Unlike the sleep terrors, nightmares are definitely upsetting to children. Think about how real dreams sometimes seem to us, and imagine how real—and scary—they must seem to a toddler! They can cause a child to fear falling asleep, and even to fear being in the bedroom. Nightmares are very common and can start as early as 2-3 years of age. They begin at this time for the same reasons that fears begin:
- Kids are feeling more vulnerable.
- They are witnessing and experiencing more upsetting things, either in real life or on TV.
- They're holding back angry feelings, because we're beginning to expect them to control their aggressive impulses and not hit, bite or yell. Those corralled thoughts and actions can break through at night into violent, scary dreams.
In night terrors, children push their parents away or just ignore them, but in nightmares they cling to us for dear life! Some children fall back to sleep after a nightmare, but many need reassurance. So be prepared to either cozy up in your sweetie's bed or let her come into your bed for a cuddle.
If your child does remember a dream of a scary monster or animal, draw pictures of it and then let her jump up and down on them or crumple them up. Or make up a little story about Benny the Bunny having a scary dream and create an ending that's less scary. Or do some role-playing games in which you're the scared child and your child is the big monster…and then switch roles so she gets to be the brave child and you are the bully monster, who really is a scaredy-cat who misses her mommy!
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The IAP was developed by Australian Governments in response to current and emerging policy challenges, including:
- A growing population, public and private transport system and freight task
- Constrained infrastructure budgets impacted by an ever increasing maintenance demand, including in urban areas a declining ability to build new infrastructure
- Expectations of increased and unrestrained mobility of people, goods and assets, including pressure from the road transport industry to permit operation of larger, heavier vehicles
- Community expectations about the use, availability and safety of the road network
Increases in freight volumes have been higher than truck travel growth rates because of the trend towards larger trucks and higher payloads. Heavier, articulated trucks are replacing small rigid trucks. Along with freight issues, Australia is facing challenges in:
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- Increasing traffic congestion caused by the combination of high demand and restricted capacity to move people, goods and assets
- Sustainability, environmental impact and managing greenhouse emissions
- Transport Security and associated responses
Whilst traditional reforms have served Australia well, authorities require smart solutions to move forward. The IAP is effective, efficient and non-intrusive, and enables unparalleled assurance and productivity gains.
Road Agencies, Road Managers, the National Heavy Vehicle Regulator (NHVR) and other regulators, together with the road transport industry, can use the IAP as means to deliveer improvements to heavy vehicle safety, efficiency and productivity.
The Intelligent Access Program - Overview Guideline provides a brief explanation of the IAP, and the role of program participants.
One of the many benefits of the IAP is its ability to provide innovative ways of managing access and compliance.
Road Agencies, Road Managers, the National Heavy Vehicle Regulator (NHVR) and regulators in other jurisdictions - together with the road transport industry - have new opportunities to optimise heavy vehicle safety, efficiency and productivity.
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#3 – "Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I" – Gustav Klimt – $155.8 million
The adjusted value of this masterpiece sold Ronald Lauder for $135 million is $155.8 million.
This painting is the first portrait depicting the beautiful Adele Bloch Bauer.
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Accounting Shades Solar Industry's Future
LOS ANGELES, Oct 14 (Reuters) - Solar companies are likely to report their brightest earnings in a year as the industry emerges from a brutal downturn, but analysts warn aggressive accounting may cast a shadow on the sector's outlook.
The nascent industry has seen its profit margins and sales growth erode in the past 12 months as a glut of supply and a dearth of financing in the industry stunted the business, which had been expanding by more than 40 percent per year.
Still, analysts expect companies such as First Solar Inc, SunPower Corp and Chinese-based Suntech Power Holdings to report more demand in the third quarter, helped by a U.S. government economic stimulus spending and increased lending by big banks that pulled back in 2008.
Whether that upturn emerges remains to be seen, and some analysts have said a worrying sign began to emerge in recent quarters as cash flow at the companies began to lag behind reported profit. The worry is that such a lag could mean companies are using aggressive accounting and may not be able to maintain their earnings.
"If that continues, your operating results look good, but your tangible cash flow is declining because you're not collecting on your revenues. That's a formula for disaster for any company," said Gordon Johnson, analyst with Hapoalim Securities.
Johnson cited First Solar, whose cash flow from operations was $101 million and $158 million below net income in the first and second quarters, respectively.
SunPower's cash flow from operations was $48 million and $21 million below net income for the same periods, while cash flow at Suntech was $2 million and $10 million below net income in first and second quarters.
First Solar, which is expected to report quarterly earnings later this month, has seen its stock fall 2 percent since the start of the year, closing at $154.32 on Wednesday.
SunPower, set to report on Oct. 22, has seen its stock fall 28 percent so far this year while shares of Suntech, expected to report in November, have risen 12 percent since January.
Companies often show a decline in cash flow versus profit during economic downturns.
Prices for solar panels have tumbled by about 50 percent since the fourth quarter of 2008, shrinking companies' margins but attracting new buyers.
"Wall Street knows that business was strong in the third quarter. Absolutely the key question remaining is how long is this business going to hold up going into the fourth quarter and beyond the fourth quarter," Soleil Securities analyst Paul Leming said in an interview.
Johnson said there are other red flags that could signal aggressive accounting, such as spikes in how long it takes companies to collect payments on orders and how much they set aside for future inventory writedowns.
This year about half a dozen solar companies have joined a major watch list at RiskMetrics Group, said analyst Jean-Louis Thiemele, who added that the discrepancy between cash flow and profit can cue other issues.
Barclays Capital analyst Vishal Shah said the industry would face a more intense focus on accounting, particularly with cash flow and profit to determine "how much of these earnings are real and how much of these are supposed to fall into next quarter."
None of the major solar players face any long-term concerns yet, Shah said, although investors will be anxious to see new disclosures from Suntech about the "Global Solar Fund," a major purchaser of solar modules in which Suntech owns more than a 80 percent stake.
The fund accounted for more than 30 percent of Suntech's first-quarter sales, which raised fears the company was selling inventory to a unit in which it owned the majority stake. Suntech has said it will announce a large investor in the project developer this year. (Reporting by Laura Isensee; editing by Matt Daily and Steve Orlofsky)
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XXVIII Cold prickly churches or warm fuzzy churches by Bill Hunt
When I first became a spirit-filled Christian, an elderly woman told me a tale about a village where everyone threw "cold pricklys" at each other. The "cold pricklys" would cut and make a person bleed, wounding them for days. But that's all these villagers had been raised to know, to throw "cold pricklys" and wound each other terribly. Many people died from the wounds and were buried in the rocky cemetery on the hill. Otherwise, the village dispensary did a booming business and made the head doctor very wealthy.
Until one day a young man showed up in the village carrying a strange bag over his shoulder. Although villagers who encountered him would hit him with a "cold prickly" wounding him, he did something very strange. After being hit, he'd get off the ground, reach into his bag, and pass them a "warm fuzzy." This "warm fuzzy" was a very different kind of thing.
Each villager would examine it for hours until, well, actually, he or she would begin to laugh or cry or do whatever made him or her feel good. This, of course, was a whole new feeling, for these villagers had never felt good before. Now, there's more to our tale, but we'll get back to that shortly.
At this point in our lives, Mary and I made what we feel was ultimately a mistake.
As we examined a new church community to serve, Mary and I saw the problems, grieved together and cried. We labored and toiled to affect this church, but most results seemed futile. We could not please the people no matter what we did. Their agendas were very different from our own. However, the main point is, God did not leave us; he worked with us.
For one thing, a retired couple in the town noticed our low salary levels and supplemented our monthly income with a modest gift. This couple's generosity blessed us month after month as we worked through our trials. They were a very gentle couple, but they were determined to help.
I resolved, most of all, to meet our staff payroll with God's help. I felt it would be unfair to have our self-sacrificing staff miss a paycheck. Well, God and I worked together. I found myself with no other recourse than to pray the money in. Invariably, payday after payday, the ministry checks would arrive slowly.
Up and down I would pace praying for hours "storming heaven's gates," spiritually commanding the checks to come in. Pentecostals call it "praying through." Sometimes the total would be reached the day before payday. Sometimes the checks would arrive in the evening when people drove by and noticed the lights still on. Sometimes they wouldn't arrive until payday morning itself. But payday after payday, month after month, I prayed the checks in.
The miracle was this: never, ever, did the funds fail to total so I could pay the staff on time. God never failed me, not even once. I learned that God was faithful in answering prayer.
There was one family that shone with the extreme light of kindness and love. In my most solitary and lonely times when I was most discouraged, this bright, cheerful woman would unexplainably show up with her daughter and her son, or her gentle, business executive husband to share wise advice or a cheerful word. She'd always leave my face and a heart shining with warmth from her godly love.
Her children and her husband always wore joyous eyes and smiles blessed with this amazing kindness. She'd cast out love as a force and leave it clinging to my person as she smiled and left. I knew God had sent her each time.
"By this, all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another (John 13:35 NIV)."
Yes, there are healthy churches and there are sick churches, and there are churches somewhere in between.
The two great commandments give us the first priority of measure, love. I remember our favorite small churches: Grace Chapel and Boonville Assembly, both in Upstate New York, and Brunswick Assembly in Maine.
We also enjoyed some larger churches: Grace Fellowship and their sister church, Tulsa Christian Fellowship. The latter conducted home cell prayer groups of tremendous power. I know, because they ministered to me in my hour of need.
Like these, the Early New Testament churches were small home churches with the possible exception of some like Antioch and Jerusalem. These churches were built on the manifestations of the person of the Holy Spirit. They functioned in the fruits, gifts, and ministries. The building of the Body of Christ is the work of the Holy Spirit.
Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace. There is one body and one Spiritjust as you were called to one hope when you were calledone Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all (Eph 4: 3-6 NIV).
Let me finish my tale.
Unfortunately, because the young man was a stranger with strange ways and strange gifts, so many villagers pelted him with so many "cold pricklys" that he finally succumbed to his wounds and died.
After his burial, some of the villagers found his strange bag near the now empty tomb and opened it. They began to play with the "warm fuzzys." Indeed, within a few hours, these villagers found themselves so delighted, they began to pass the "warm fuzzys" out to their friends, relatives, and well, to just about anybody.
The "warm fuzzys" spread throughout the village and the whole countryside. Everyone played with them. Pretty soon, the villagers came to realize they became a new people; they all changed.
Well, that is, all except the head doctor at the dispensary who no longer received any business. But one day, to let you in on a secret, someone gave him a "warm fuzzy." He ended up making a sign and hanging it outside his door: OPEN FOR PRAYER. Now what kind of dispensary do you suppose that was?
(True story #28 in the series, 100 Million Miracles.)
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This is Your Life - Peter Snell
Television (Full Length Episode) – 2000 Sport Popular Factual Documentary
In September 2000 New Zealand's greatest athlete was surprised with the 'Big Red Book'. Paul Holmes reunites Snell with figures in his life, from the Rome 800m silver and bronze medallists, to Opunake locals, and influential coach Arthur Lydiard. The tribute to his peerless career includes footage of Olympic triumphs and world records, and revelation of a performance enhancing drug: Fanta. Snell expresses pride in his academic achievement, where — despite a faltering start at Mt Albert Grammar — he is now director of the Human Performance Lab, University of Texas.
I would have been thrilled with the silver. It was more you guys [Roger Moens and George Kerr] slowing down. I didn't feel like I was accelerating.– Snell reflects on his victory in the 800m at Rome
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A ENGAGEMENT OF CONVENIENCE by Regina Scott: Kitty Chapworth is nearly a spinster, and an orphan living on the charity of her uncle, with nothing to recommend her for the marriage mart. Her primary purpose is relegated to acting chaperone for her cousins until she can see them successfully married. Kitty remains focused on her duty even though she knows her future is bleak. When Quentin Adair returns from a long ten years working in Jamaica and proposes a wild charade to Kitty, she agrees, although the plan might reawaken her old feelings for Quentin. Can a reformed rake convince the perfect chaperone to overlook propriety for love?
A PERFECT MATCH by Donna Hatch: Genevieve attends a summer house party hosted by her best friend who can't wait to introduce her to a gentleman she wants to marry, Christian Amesbury. After meeting him, Genevieve determines Christian is perfect . . . for her. Torn between loyalty to her best friend and the yearnings of her heart, Genevieve must first escape the attention of a powerful lord who's obsessed with her and who tries to rob her of any hope for a happily ever after.
THE PAUPERS' HOUSE PARTY by Sarah M. Eden: It's a rare event that Edward Downy and his brother are invited to a house party by a member of the ton. But when they arrive, Edward quickly realizes this house party is different than any other. All invited guests are quite destitute, fallen members of Society barely hanging onto their homes. The hosts of the house party, the Warricks, then make a stunning announcement—they intend to gift all their properties to one fortunate guest. As the guests race to impress the Warricks, Edward finds a fast friend in Agatha Holmwood, who shares his same aversion to the horrible expectations. But their growing fondness for each other only makes the game more painful.
Sissy: What a delightful collection of stories! There is something about a clever, Jane Austen-esque tale that makes me happy. The first book, An Engagement of Convenience by Regina Scott showcases two people who, though considered almost too old for the fresh marriage market, actually have matured past their teens enough to know what they really want. I enjoyed being part of their journey whilst they figured this out!
Bubby: One of my issues with the Regency era is the complete lack of power that women had. This is well illustrated in A Perfect Match by Donna Hatch. Poor Genevieve! She's fallen for the perfect man but because she's not allowed to have actual conversations with the opposite gender, there's nothing she can do about it. Not to mention the fact that when Mr. twice-her-age sleaze bucket comes after her with a vengeance, all she can do is smile, nod, and move to the other side of the room. I'd have slapped him and kicked him in the nuptials! Luckily, all works out well in the end.
Sissy: Which we require, of course. It is lovely to have books like these to escape to when the TV is full of explosions, hate, and mayhem, whether real or fictional. My sons and husband went to the latest intense film on July 4th and after watching the trailer I said no thanks. Stayed home and watched a sappy, happy, love fest, I did. The third story, The Pauper's House Party by Sarah M. Eden, is definitely a twist on the house party theme. The Warricks are the epitome of the pompous,snooty nosed gentry, and the pathetic kowtowing displayed by the less fortunate blue bloods is almost unbearable. But entertaining! Agatha and Edward manage to rise above the grubbing others and find happiness in the end, differently than you might expect.
Bubby: All the stories in Summer House Party are fabulously diverting. Makes me wish I had a massive manor house in the English countryside in which to throw a fortnight of entertainment. I'd even invite Sissy.
Sissy: I'd only come if there was indoor plumbing and antibiotics.
Bubby: Did you think we were going to time travel? I don't go anywhere that doesn't have indoor plumbing. Ever. So when the kids are yelling "I'm bored, mommy," and you wish school was starting tomorrow instead of six weeks from now, lock yourself in your bathroom (hurrah for indoor plumbing) and read Summer House Party! Your sanity will thank you.
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New research suggests that ill-timed activity between two types of brain wave during deep sleep could be the reason that older people sometimes fail to remember that which happened only yesterday.
Researchers from the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) have discovered that aging disrupts the "coupling" between slow waves and "sleep spindles."
This coupling is important for consolidating new memories during non-rapid eye movement (non-REM) sleep.
"The mistiming," explains senior study author Matthew Walker, a professor of neuroscience and psychology, "prevents older people from being able to effectively hit the save button on new memories, leading to overnight forgetting rather than remembering."
A report on the research that was recently published in the journal Neuron also provides evidence that this age-related deficit is likely due to deterioration in a part of the brain that helps us to enjoy a good night's sleep.
The importance of sleep
We spend around a third of our lives asleep. And as we slumber, our brains create and maintain the circuitry that allows us to make new memories, learn, concentrate, and respond to the world around us.
There are two basic types of sleep: rapid eye movement (REM) sleep and non-REM sleep, each of which has a specific pattern of brain wave and brain cell activity.
Non-REM sleep has three stages: stage 1 is a short period during which wakefulness moves into sleep; stage 2 is when light sleep moves into deeper sleep; and stage 3 is the deep sleep that refreshes us.
Typically, we go through all the stages of non-REM and REM sleep several times during a night's sleep. Research has suggested that both non-REM and REM sleep are important for memory consolidation and that we spend less time in REM sleep as we age.
The team was interested in the interaction between two types of brain wave that occur during non-REM sleep: slow brain waves and short bursts of electrical activity called "spindles," which get their name from the pattern that they make on electroencephalographic (EEG) readouts.
Previous studies have suggested that the "coupled interaction" between slow waves and spindles during non-REM sleep is important for consolidating new memories, but there is "little evidence in humans" to support this, note the authors.
Slow waves and spindles need to be in sync
For their study, the researchers recruited "cognitively normal" younger and older adults and asked them to complete a memory task. They then compared their ability to remember after a night's sleep. As the participants slept, EEG machines recorded their brain activity.
The younger subjects were in their 20s and the majority of the older ones were in their 70s. Both groups were asked to memorize word pairs and complete tests of their recall after a night's sleep. As they did the recall tests, the researchers scanned their brains using functional and structural MRI.
Compared with the younger adults' night-time EEG readings, those of the older adults showed a consistent and early peaking of spindle activity that was not well-coordinated with the slow brain waves.
Prof. Walker — who is also director of the Center for Human Sleep Science at UC Berkeley — likens the process to tennis players coordinating their movements as they do serves. First, they throw up the ball (the slow wave), and then they must hit it at just the right time (the spindle).
There is only a very narrow time window in which to hit the ball to ensure an ace. And in memory consolidation, the scientists say that the brain's time window is about a tenth of a second.
If the brain misses this window of opportunity, it misses the chance to put information held in short-term memory into long-term memory. This happens more often in older brains.
"As the brain ages," explains Prof. Walker, "it cannot precisely coordinate these two deep sleep brain waves. Like a tennis player who is off their game, they're swiping and missing."
Frontal lobe atrophy is the likely cause
A comparison of the MRI brain scans also revealed that the older adults had greater deterioration in gray matter in the medial frontal cortex, compared with the younger adults.
The researchers suggest that such "atrophy" in this part of the brain's frontal lobe is the likely cause of the uncoupling of spindles and slow brains waves.
"The worse the atrophy in this brain region of older adults," Prof. Walker explains, "the more uncoordinated and poorly timed are their deep sleep brain waves."
However, he also notes that the "silver lining" is that this result points to sleep as a potential target for treating memory problems in older people.
He and his team are already planning further experiments. They want to find out whether boosting the slow waves by electrically stimulating the frontal lobe of the brain can get them back in sync with the spindles.
"By electrically boosting these night-time brain waves, we hope to restore some degree of healthy deep sleep in the elderly and those with dementia, and in doing so, salvage aspects of their learning and memory."
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Every breath you take is given to you by God. Sting's old band, The Police, sing of it in the popular classic song "Every Breath You Take." The lyrics are clear, "Every breath you take, Every move you make, Every bond you break, Every step you take, I'll be watching you…" The music and melody is fetching. In today's feature video, you are moved step by step to a higher place, a closer place to God, when you pray with the song "Every Breath You Take." Try it!
Every breath you take
Every move you make
Every bond you break
Every step you take
I'll be watching you
Every single day
Every word you say
Every game you play
Every night you stay
I'll be watching you
O can't you see
You belong to me
How my poor heart aches with every step you take
Every move you make
Every vow you break
Every smile you fake
Every claim you stake
I'll be watching you
Since you've gone I been lost without a trace
I dream at night I can only see your face
I look around but it's you I can't replace
I feel so cold and I long for your embrace
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"SAN ANTONIO, Texas — The Rutherford Institute has come to the defense of a San Antonio high school student who was told that she must wear a name badge containing a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) chip as part of her school district's new "Student Locator Project." So small that they are barely detectable to the human eye, RFID tags produce a radio signal by which the wearer's precise movements can be constantly monitored, raising serious privacy concerns. For Andrea Hernandez, a sophomore at Jay High School, the badges also pose a significant religious freedom concern. In coming to Andrea's defense, constitutional attorney John W. Whitehead is demanding that school officials accommodate students' requests to opt out of the surveillance program."
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GOP reaches out on immigration
The House Republican leadership is reaching out to top House Democrats to assess their support for a piecemeal approach to immigration reform, according to sources involved in the discussions.
The House's immigration gameplan is to pass individual bills rather than take the comprehensive approach advocated by the Senate. Speaker John Boehner's (R-Ohio) team isn't trying to cut a deal with Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), these aides caution. But deeply-divided Republicans want to get a read on what members of the minority party would back when immigration reform comes to the floor.
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The legislation under discussion between Republicans and Democrats includes bills reworking the employment verification system and legislation to toughen border security, according to sources both involved in and familiar with the talks. In strategy sessions and planning meetings, Republicans have said that support for immigration reform is soft among GOP lawmakers — and leadership is skeptical that there is backing for anything more drastic than border security and E-verify.
( PHOTOS: 20 quotes on immigration reform)
Moving legislation before the August recess is now almost completely out of the question — lawmakers are going to have to spend the month at home, with immigration lingering.
These contacts are in the early stages, but the discussions are aimed at running up big bipartisan majorities for a series of GOP-authored bills, that could counter the bipartisan Senate bill. In short, Democrats would smooth the prospects for passage.
Those talks with Democrats weren't the focus of a closed-door GOP immigration strategy meeting, which took place Wednesday in the Capitol basement. In that meeting, leadership and bold-faced Republican lawmakers tried to explain that something needs to happen — and soon.
( Also on POLITICO: Immigration reform heads for slow death)
Boehner called the immigration debate "important," and said Republicans need a plan. Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) said Republicans should present an alternative to the Senate's plan — just like the party did during the economic stimulus debate in 2009.
More than Cantor and perhaps even Boehner, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) is someone who is catching Republicans' eyes. The 2012 vice presidential nominee and House Budget Committee chair, who has been quietly meeting for months on immigration reform, took to the microphone at Wednesday's meeting, saying that the GOP needs to tackle immigration — and now. Immigrants, he said, are important to the country's economic vitality.
The issue might be urgent, but it won't be smooth. House Republicans face logistical peril by entering into negotiations armed with small bills after Democrats passed a big, aggressive reform package.
( PHOTOS: Pols react to immigration deal)
The debate will also get lumped in with a busy fall, at a time when Congress will be jousting over government funding and the debt limit.
So, if immigration reform actually happens — far from a certainty — it seems increasingly likely to be tossed into a year-end rush, in a way mirroring the 2012 fiscal cliff panic, the 2010 extension of Bush tax rates and other panicked legislating that Washington has become so accustomed to. But immigration reform will be more challenging: there is no deadline.
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LOL Phae! You could do better, though...there were definetely roudier times in that channel!
That recording doesn't quite capture my leadership hax, though. You'll just have to wait till the next match.
LOL Phae! You could do better, though...there were definetely roudier times in that channel!
That recording doesn't quite capture my leadership hax, though. You'll just have to wait till the next match.
Dragon: Unforgiven Keeper. Swift, silent, smooth-talking. Militaristic, a formidable opponent. Winner.
lol, leadership hax - is that where you verbally hack your own team to pieces?
Salsa will hopefully be there for the next match. THAT you will want to hear.Originally Posted by TheMachine
Wow, stealing the chest never felt soooo good.
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Can't wait to hear Salsa's manly voice once more, eh Creat?
hubba hubba
I hear it as much as possible. Who else will put the lotion on my skin?
Well, I've kind of got caught up in this new MMORPG called Real Life. It's kind of difficult, but it's the only MMORPG that I know of that pays you a monthly fee, instead of the other way around.
would somone be willing to post em? sure they weren't as exciting but I would still like to hear em...
"It is truly a shame that the guards must be kept from the very tools of thier proffesion, but such blatant misuse of gas arrows cannot be tolerated. Alas, that poor burrick..."
Funny, I always found that MMORPG cost me more than it paid me to play....Originally Posted by Salsa
Well, I suppose it depends on how many expansion packs and how much avatar equipment you buy using real money instead of in-game money.
Yes, and this was brought to my attention today, as I had no idea it even happened. Indeed, it was a circumstance out of my control, as follows:Originally Posted by Firetiger
I have a computer in my bedroom. In all the rooms in my house, actually, not barring the bathrooms for too long if I have my way, but that's another story. Anyways, most of these computers are running on Pentium Pro or less processing speed, often without anything but onboard video, and are thus incapable of running teamspeak as well as thievery, and having audio quality that loses to the PC speaker. So, of course, I was using the family computer instead of one of my myriads of others I have spread about in various locations. I would have used the one in my own bedroom, but I had a Revit render (yes, I'm an architecture nut) running, and that takes anywhere from several minutes to several hours on that particular machine. The other god-awesome computer is in my brother's room. I have the access codes for it but it runs in a Linux-based environment, and thus, no Thievery. So, I was forced to use the family computer, which is the one I normally use for gaming.
It needs also be understood that, because of my dad's recent death, many tax companies are looking hungrily at our family, as well as several government agencies looking for dough. Of course, there are tax forms to fill out, and the United States Government loves technology, so it's all via e-mail. My mom, who is computer illiterate to a new level, needed to get on and fill out these forms. Of course, she literally sits over me and nags for me to get off so she can get on. I, by remote access, paused the Revit render so that she could access the 'net. So, she goes in my room (Im too trusting, I know), and begins to write several e-mails. Of course, what she disdained to tell me was that she also wanted to use AIM to talk to her friends. Well, being computer illiterate, she needed someone to log me off, and someone to log her on. Also, being overproud, she thought she could do it herself.
Have you ever seen a monkey in front of a keyboard randomly spell a word? Well, my mom figured out how to log me off AIM. However, I use trillian, so MSN, ICQ, etc. were still logged in as me. Thus, she proceeded to talk to my friends and hers at the same time. Undoubtedly, she did not know that the blue circles are MSN, and when marked under the Thievery lists, they are for Thievery. So, she starts a conversation (which it took me two hours to teach her to do) the same way she always does. She types "Hey". Well, that's just peachy. It's logged on as me, so of course it looks like it's me typing. Just peachy. Apparently you came back with some sort of anger (I would too), so she closed the window. Yay.
I apologize for my mother's innocent, well, idiocy, and am going to set my computer to auto-lock when the screensaver goes up. I can't quite guarantee this won't happen again, as my mother takes no account of personal belongings, space, or other materials. However, every preventive measure has been taken.
I'll be going through conversation logs shortly to discover the times of the incident. If I could find the server logs (which I believe also log time) I can also see exactly what I had been doing. Hopefully, that will be proof of what Ive said above.
I see this as an ingenious, but immoral tactic. Like an innocent person blamed for the perfect murder, you almost want to acceptthe charges, save for the fact that you were involved only by chance. I an honestly say that I would never have thought of it myself- far too smart for my taste. Besides, why would I IM you for this specific reason under my own name? If anything, I'd make a new one specifically for that purpose. Anyway, the facts remain that:
a) you really oughtn't to have such a program running during the match for that exact reason, or at least set yourself as away for the duration of the match.
b) I really had no conrol over the situation, as it occurred completely without my knowledge until about 9:17 this morning.
Sorry again, but my mother is definitely not within my jurisdiction, nor my ability to control. I promise to take every measure to assure it will not happen again.
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"Just off the border of your waking mind there lies another time, where darkness and light are one. As you tread the halls of sanity, you feel so glad to be unable to go beyond. I have a message from another time."
That was coherent and well written, it actually impressed me.
Anyways, it's fairly evident that it was beyond your control or responsibility.
Nearly all men can stand adversity -- if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
That sheds some light on the matter.
Still -)(The Chosen One)(-
lol, getting funnier by the day.
Anyway, if someone IM's me when I play thievery, I just get a pop-up window on the right that says someone said something to me. I do not crash out of the game, nor will I die because of that.
I can't see why you played that match to begin with firetiger. You suddenly left in the middle of the game, not saying a word to anyone. Later I heard from your teammembers that you said you wasn't sure if you could finish the match or not. Yet you didn't mention this in the beginning either. I know that if I'm not sure that I can finish a round in an official match, I will not play. I might be wrong though, maybe you had your reasons and this was the only way. After all, you're the only one who has a real answer to the question: "Why did you leave". So please correct me if I'm wrong.
On demand this signature has been changed. I hope nobody was insulted or got harmed due to my signature. If this is the case, I'm fully responsible for the harm that was done. Do you feel harmed or you simply want a listening ear?
Call 0900-PHAE
Fair enough Lotes, the allegations certainly seemed rather out of character and it's a good point that a stunt like that would be stupid to pull under your own name.
Thanks for the explanation, LoToR...I admit, I didn't even think of your crazy mother, that makes sense.
Dragon: Unforgiven Keeper. Swift, silent, smooth-talking. Militaristic, a formidable opponent. Winner.
Even if the above story is lies, I accept it because it's so FUNNY! Classic LoToR....
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'Call me! I love to do it!'
So far only I've ever had one person take me up on that- I think most people think I'm crazy or just kidding.
The ceiling is done, and now the walls as well.
From the ceiling edge, to the top of the floor trim was 91". I made it an even number and went with 90" for the sake of ease.
Painting 18" stripes meant that I had an equal number of stripes (5) with widths that were also even.
I also found it easier to measure using my seamstress tape so that it could lay completely flat on the wall while I measured. The metal measuring tape wasn't cutting it with the lip on the edge!
Using a pencil to regularly mark out 18" down the wall, (lots of little marks makes it easier to lay down your tape), I began taping the wall with the Frog Tape.
I painted out the boxes first using my brush, and then used my roller to fill in. That way, the paint wasn't laying too thick on the tape when it came time to remove it.
I always keep a damp rag close by in case there are any drips or flubs along the way.
Another little painting trick I regularly use is this:
When you have a room to paint, and you know you will be using a roller over consecutive days, you can wrap the wet roller in plastic wrap instead of rinsing it out at the end of each day.
My least favorite job when painting is the clean up- especially rollers.
Make sure you wrap the ends of the rollers with the wrap too- if they dry out and get "crunchy" you will have a line in your paint that won't lay down properly.
Kind of like taking an eraser and running it through your paint with each stroke.
Not cool.
This weekend we plan to move her little chandelier from her old bedroom in to her new one.
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Cleaning your house
While your kids are still growing
Is like shoveling the walk
Before it stops snowing.
Phyllis Diller
Toddler, sweet Toddler, sits cross-legged on the hard wood floor, surrounded by scattered strips of stickers. Strips of stickers I very systematically stacked and placed into a Ziploc baggie yesterday in preparation for our move. Baby runs between the kitchen and the living room wielding paint pens, one green and one purple. These are the paint pens I placed with all the sundry art supplies just yesterday.
Yesterday, after hours of effort, there was a pinch of order around here.
Today, on the eve of our migration, we are back to full-blown chaos.
This does not panic me as much it should. Rather, it makes me smile. Why? Because this is it. My life. Our life. A life with small children, growing and grabbing, oblivious to moments when organization is important. I smile because this reality of mess and magic will follow us there. Of course it will.
Today is box day. Everything will disappear behind cardboard walls. And I know this process won't be smooth. I know the kids will see it as a challenge. As things go in, neatly folded and carefully wrapped, I imagine a rush of giggles and little fingers. Today, as always, there will be steps forward and back, progress and regress. Today, as always, there will be silliness and sweet sabotage.
But we will get there. We will.
And so. This? This is a little morning ode to the snow of small children, to the exquisite flakes that fall and frustrate, and make life slippery. Today, we will shovel because we must. Because we have somewhere, somewhere good, to go.
And we will get there. We will.
One day, our floors might stay clean. One day, our walks might be free of snow.
Not yet though. Thankfully, not yet.
- Do you agree that organization and small creatures do not go together?
- Does the prospect or reality of domestic chaos panic you or make you smile?
- Do you ever imagine a day in the future when more order will be possible? Does this make you happy or sad?
- Wish me luck on Box Day!