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COMMUNITY – Sharing, participation, and fellowship. Welcome to the Saturday Blog Party! This week's topic is Community. This means we are looking for everything and anything on the topic! Tips and tools for fostering Community, reasons why you love your favorite communities … literally Everything and Anything on the topic are all welcome. I'll start Read More
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How will you foster community this week?
"We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found the answer is community." – Dorothy Day Today I thought I would do a post about how to foster community and as I was coming up with my list… which I envisioned becoming "14 ways to foster community" or something like that, I ran Read More


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What crosses your mind when you read the word "Redemption"? There are obvious and not so obvious ways to look at that word and its meanings and then apply it to gaming. While there are religious overtones to the word, at its heart is someone trying to overcome a past failure.
A player character trying to redeem themselves provides long-term motivation for a campaign without the GM having to do anything. The character might even be unclear on what will redeem them. There are some examples of this in the media that demonstrate this. In Avatar: The Last Airbender, Zuko spends three seasons wrestling with his own personal demons and stains on his honor while trying to figure out how to redeem himself. At a couple of points he even attains what he thinks is redemption only to find out that it fails to make him happy. Aang, meanwhile, is trying to redeem himself from the fact that he ran away instead of facing the fact that he is the avatar. Both make compelling stories as the world faces a potential doomsday of a nation trying to become an empire.
In Star Wars, Luke eventually decides to attempt to redeem Darth Vader — putting the Rebellion's goal of ending the Empire's reign in jeopardy to do so. (Although blowing up the Death Star would likely still end the Emperor's reign.)
In the BBC's version of Robin Hood, Robin, the Earl of Huntingdon, returns from the Crusades but experiences first-hand just how far corruption has spread while the King is away fighting in the Crusades. While burnt-out from fighting, he decides that he can't sit by and do nothing about it. At its heart, Robin is trying redeem himself for abandoning his charges to fight for King in the Crusades.
For a character (player or non-player variety) redemption can play a powerful role. In one campaign I had two examples of this. A wizard started on his adventuring career after failing to protect his village's sacred relic. Feeling the weight of his failure in his interactions with everyone from the village, he left home to try to track down the relic.
A soldier in that same campaign, was ordered to do something reprehensible. When he was called on the carpet for obeying that order, he was thrown into slavery. He never resisted the fact that he was thrown into slavery because he felt he let down the people he was supposed to protect. (It never occurred to the soldier that he was in a no-win situation if he resisted following the order.) He spent the rest of the campaign trying to do the right thing because he let his guard down once and horrible things resulted from it. In those two cases, the redemption those characters were seeking weren't the focal points of the campaign, but they were at the core on what they were trying to accomplish.
In Vampire: the Masquerade, a Vampire on the Path of Humanity is constantly wrestling with how to survive and yet avoid descending into a heartless monster. It has a built-in redemption attempt in how to deal with the fact that they have to now prey on humans to survive. Obviously, not all characters or chronicles dwell on this particular issue, but you can make a really believable character if the character, newly turned into a vampire, is wrestling with that very issue.
However, redemption can be a much larger scale than just one character. What does redemption look like for the United States and how it treated the Indians? What does it look like for a country that embraced slavery? What does it look like for a nation that embraced genocide? In Game of Thrones, the Mad King Aerys Targaryen the Second was overthrown because of the atrocities he was ordering. What does redemption look like for the Seven Kingdoms? Is redemption even possible in a land that seems perpetually stuck in an epic Civil War?
In the end, redemption can be a powerful goal for a character. What are some gaming examples of character's seeking redemption that you have witnessed?
I wish you all Happy Holidays and may you have a Happy and Joy-filled New Year (with plenty of gaming!). Thanks for stopping by!


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I'm going to switch gears a little more and do some fight analysis.
Today I was watching the Evans/Machida fight (great website, by the way) at a coffee shop with one of my students. I only saw the match once, but noticed a huge number of elementary mistakes that shocks me have never been capitalized upon before. It's obvious Evans has the wrong people training him, or he doesn't listen to his trainers, or he is self-training (which goes back to the first reason… wrong people in his corner). Let's get right to business and discuss these things.
- The commentator mentions he has a boxing trainer. WRONG. If he allows Evans to drop his jab the way he did throughout the entire fight–and then never even use his jab–he needs to fire his trainer, and get a real boxing coach. Had Evans learned to really use his hands for something besides throw parking lot punches and hang his gloves, most of those exchanges would have never happened. He needs to learn how to punch, punch in combination, and go back to basics with learning how to box–or go and study Karate for a lifetime, train in tournaments for a lifetime, and then ask Machida for a rematch. He tried to fight Machida's fight and it failed him miserably. Too many people, especially fighters, are misled to believe that stand up fighting is so easy that you can be self-taught and just train hard and then hang with the experts. Wrong.
- Stop listening to the bullshit about grappling beats stand up every time. Respect the stand up fighter for being just as much a warrior as you are, then stop stand-up fighting (yes, it conflicts with #1, but there are many paths to victory… real fighters know what I'm about to say) and do what you do, brother: wrestle. Learn how to beat the Karate man's game with YOUR game. You will never match him if you try to fight his fight. Maybe it worked with the sloppy punchers and kickers, but you just found out what it's like to fight the big boys. And good Lord, DON'T look up a Karate expert! Find a strategy using what you know and just refine it!
- His front foot was always inside Machida's front foot. Best place to be if you were a grappler, but worst place to be if you were a stand-up fighter. But even worse than that; he was a grappler posing as a stand-up fighter. He should have been aware of his fighting position (not stance, position) and stayed out of Machida's line of fire. Either that, or use that position's advantage: taking Machida down.
- He circled into the direction of Machida's rear leg kicks. Going the other direction would have forced Machida to change strategy possibly into a lesser-trained strategy. Yes it is a gamble, but you never know.
- Evans' corner either told him he was doing well, or he didn't listen to his corner, or they didn't tell him shit in between rounds. I say this because his fight plan did not change one iota from round one to round two. If Machida had a plan or a trap, you fell right into it, because you failed to
- Study your opponent. It's obvious you did not, and he did. You even failed to study him during the fight. See #5 for why I say this. Find out his strengths and weaknesses and then plan what you should do. But don't ever keep the same plan if the one you're enacting is failing you.
- Get a real boxing trainer, and approach day one not as a Champion MMA fighter, but as a novice boxer and learn how to use those hands. I can't stress his enough.
An older gentleman walked up while we were watching the fight and commented that you "looked lost". You looked that way, because you were. You did not know what to do, and your corner obviously did not know what to do. The sad thing is that you have the skills to have at least put up a better fight (and possibly win) but even the most basic things you could have done were missing and no one (I think, could be wrong) in your corner could tell you how to turn the fight around.
Rashad Evans, if you happen to catch this article, don't get pissed… just try something different for a change. Here is what you should do:
- Get a copy of Good to Great, and ponder over how this "business" of fighting could be applied to you. You failed to use your Hedgehog, you failed to get the right people on the bus, and you failed to utilize the Brutal Reality (I just gave you some right now).
- Call me. No, no–come down to Sacramento and train with me. Spend 2 months and I will send you back into the ring ALONE and you'll beat him in a rematch. Or you could just go back to doing the same old thing you've been doing and repeat the cycle.
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|From the Spring 2012 issue of Knowing & Doing
by Stuart McAllister
rue faith in Christ demands a change of focus and orientation. The Scriptures envision a life that includes self-renunciation. The heart, and its ordering, is central to this. "Keep your heart with all vigilance," says Proverbs 4:23, "for from it flow the springs of life" (ESV). The scriptural understanding of the heart's "fallen" bent or orientation calls us to be careful in monitoring what it is that captivates and then captures our hearts.
A Legendary Mind-Set
Known for his handsome features, Narcissus was oblivious to others; he scorned or ignored the people around him. When someone angrily lashed out, "May he who loves not others love himself," something like a curse fell on Narcissus: he became fixated by his own reflection in a pool of water. Gazing in adoration at his own beauty and magnificence, he was unable to hear Echo's call, until eventually he fell into the pool and drowned. Narcissus died a lonely, self-absorbed death, consumed in the end by his own self-infatuation.
The Hungry Soul
The notion of a "hungry soul" is a powerful one. C.S. Lewis and G.K. Chesterton were quick to perceive what they saw to be the misfit between modern philosophies, ideas, or ideologies and modern men and women. The patient was being diagnosed with problems that were supposedly reducible to material or social influences alone. People were told they were the result of random forces plus chance and necessity; meaninglessness bellowed in their thoughts, yet their hearts cried for more! This demands that we reflect on the human condition.
Our desires are misdirected, relocated, and sadly misguided. At stake are core identity issues. What am I? Why am I here? It speaks to issues of calling, the quest for meaning and purpose in life. The modern world and its media (propaganda system?) have a wonderful plan for your life, unless, that is, you seek the real thing.
A Workable Model?
Let's examine this a bit more closely. One of the tests of a worldview and lifeview is its livability. The "modern" and now the postmodern eras have struggled greatly with finding a workable model for a truly satisfying life. Assured that the past was largely bad and all wisdom lives in creativity, the moment, the "now," we are left as slaves of our limited horizons. Narcissism is one of the results. The book of Romans charts the path of descent that inevitably follows ignoring, rejecting, or turning from God. Consider the mid-portion of Romans 1.
Two Driving Principles
Humans everywhere submit to something as the central guiding or driving principle, or force, for their life. The famous psychiatrist M. Scott Peck is helpful here:
The contemporary era has preferred Nietzsche over Jesus. The "will to power," the overcoming hero as the self-created and self-ruled individualist, is the icon of our time. The Old Testament shows a glimpse of this personality type in the wicked king Ahab. In 1 Kings 21 Naboth refuses to sell his vineyard to the greedy Ahab because it is his family's inheritance and a sale would be contrary to the Mosaic Law. Ahab, unable to secure his desire, goes into a huff like a toddler whose desires are thwarted and rushes home to his bed. His whole world stops because he can't get what he wants, right away, right now! His submission is to himself and his passion.
Idolatrous Options?
Western culture and its analyzers recognize that something is deeply wrong. It is as if there is a destructive social virus, a seed that carries with it its own undoing. The French philosopher Chantal Delsol describes "the individual, supposedly freed from the culture that weighed on him" who:
Rejecting all bonds and commitments, and restricting obligations, the narcissist wants to be unrestricted in his choices. All outer, external, or inherited (traditions) reference points are lost or simply don't matter.
Combating Narcissism
Our culture embraces the diversity of idolatrous options manufactured and served up to us on a regular basis. Narcissism finds a welcome in many hearts. How do we resist? What can we do to face the challenge, choose alternatives, and embrace a different way?
Stuart McAllister, born in Scotland, has been a long-time Christian mobilizer in Europe, including several brief imprisonments for preaching the gospel in communist countries. Stuart joined the staff of Ravi Zacharias International Ministries in January of 1998. He is currently the Vice President of Training and Special Projects. Pluralism, postmodernism and consumerism are regular topics addressed by Stuart in his leadership seminars.


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Checking with your advisor
The first place to check with is your graduate advisor. MBA graduate advisors tend to keep several different samples from prior students. It's a good idea to get your hands on a copy early so that you have more time to familiarize yourself with the format, style, and logic that goes into an approved paper. Showing up early could also mean that you get an example that is closely related to your own topic, thus saving you some valuable research time.
Visiting your library for samples
Your university library will have dozens of different journal titles each with hundreds of archived issues from which you can find great examples of well-written dissertations. Libraries also tend to have access to thousands of dissertations published across the nation. So it's a great idea to pay this place a visit and to speak with a reference librarian. In addition to pointing you towards the right business journals, the librarian should be able to point you to other works, cutting down your research time.
Getting a sample directly from a student
You are bound to forge many friendships and professional connections when your graduate school, so why not take advantage of this and get some help. Ideally, asking someone who already has completed a dissertation would be best, but it's alright to approach someone who is in the process of writing one. Just be sure to make yourself available to help out when someone needs your assistance. Professional connections should work both ways.
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FC: "Other things may change us, but we start and end with family" - Anthony Brandt
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2: "It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't." -- Barbara Kingsolver
5: Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children. -- Charles R. Swindoll
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The recent dip in Eurozone stock markets is a relief from recent inflated prices. Yet it doesn't necessarily mean that it's the right time to buy.
Making sure we have enough money to live well after you finish work is a complicated task. That's because we're dealing with several uncertain variables – or known unknowns as American politics' original Don, Donald Rumsfeld, might put it.
I was serious last week when I told CNBC's Stephen Sedgwick that we are in a really scary, over-priced asset market and that the best thing the Fed could do for the US and world economy would be to raise interest rates to 10% and allow the biggest implosion of asset prices in history to force deleveraging.
I recently came across the excellent article written by Prof. Richard Werner on the error the European Central Bank is making in the type of quantitative easing it has chosen to implement.


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A study of coroners' court records found fatal accidents were much more likely to occur in June than any other month, as agricultural work and travel reached a peak.
The figures, discovered during an investigation into 16th century inquests, reveal deaths from drowning, working accidents and misadventure.
Common causes of death included being crushed by a cart, falling from a horse, becoming entangled in agricultural machinery or even falling out of trees.
Many were killed while chopping wood or cutting down ash, oak and poplar, with one unfortunate soul even falling asleep beside a hayrick which collapsed and suffocated him.
Another little boy was killed by the pigs he was herding, while a small girl died trying to knock acorns out of a tree.
Dr Steven Gunn, historian at Merton College, Oxford, said cart crashes, harvesting accidents and falls and kicks from horses all featured during the period, as Tudors faced a myriad of dangers.
He said: "Most people are enjoying the recent warmer weather but this wasn't always good news in Tudor England.
"Deaths happened in various and unexpected ways – some were straightforward accidents with scythes or cart crashes, but other unfortunate people are recorded as mangling themselves in the machinery of windmills or watermills, turning carts on top of themselves when loading them with barley, falling out of trees when gathering fruit and nuts and even falling asleep by piles of hay that collapsed and suffocated them.
"Dealing with pests was just as risky.
"Tudor farming handbooks advised caution when climbing trees to kill crows in their nests.
"It sounds like health and safety gone mad, but given that we have found several men who fell to their deaths doing just this, perhaps it was necessary."
Dr Gunn, who has been studying 9,000 coroners' records in the National Archives as part of a project funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, said he gathered the results from a sample between 1558 and 1560.
Nearly three quarters of deaths happened between April and September of each year.
He added: "The autumn was a bad time for pig-farmers though, as October was the prime month for falling out of oak trees when collecting acorns to fatten up swine for slaughter.'
He found more than one in ten fatal accidents involved cutting or moving wood, with 93 per cent of animal-related injury being caused by horses.
Previously, the same project has uncovered a variety of strange and unusual, including bell-ringing, playing quoits and being bitten by a bear.
One person was killed by a falling maypole and another in a gun accident during a piece of street theatre.


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I created this website in May 2015 as a side activity from my dayjob. I have been trading since around 2012.
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Today I wanted to concatenate some fields with some text. We are pulling some data from MYOB for import against a client record in SugarCRM and want to tidy it up as we go.
however, using
concat didn't work.
Thus this Stackoverflow answer came to the rescue with using
{fn concat('some text', 'with more text')}
I've then nested it a little as this function only takes two arguments.
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Reminder: SOLR / Machine Learning Meetup in Montreal
Dear Members of the Solr/ML meetup,
Come join us for the first meetup in our series. The event will take place from 17:30 - 19:30 on March 29th, 2018. The location is 180 Peel Street, Suite 333, Montreal, QC H3C 2G7.
Overview of the schedule:
- 17:30-17:35 Welcome and meetup presentation
- 17:35-18:15 Session 1 – Introduction to Solr and information retrieval
- 18:15-18:25 Q&A session
- 18:25-18:45 Break – drinks and snacks provided
- 18:45-19:30 Session 2 – Short talks
Session 1:
Apache Solr is an enterprise search engine widely used in a variety of community or company-based projects. Session 1 will provide a general overview of what Apache Solr is and how it works. The first part of the talk will focus on some of the basic information retrieval principles that are implemented in Solr. The second part will provide some practical guidelines for building an index and searching documents. Finally, we will discuss how an index can be used to tackle some natural language processing tasks.
Session 2:
The goal of Session 2 is to provide a forum for discussion where members can share new ideas, issues, and solutions they have come up with when working on a project or a task involving Solr or a statistical model. Participants can also present a problem that they'd like the community to help them solve. To allow more people to contribute, we ask that presentations last between 5 to 10 minutes. If you feel your presentation will require more time, you are also welcome!
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Hi does anybody know of an accessible house for rent in Hilton head. thank Bruce
Hi does anybody know of an accessible house for rent in Hilton head. thank Bruce
I was there summer before last, but I stayed in an accessible hotel room right on the beach with adult and kid pools. It was the Omni Hilton Head Oceanfront Resort. Had a roll-in shower and was nice.
Did you like the Omni? Im staying there in May for a Wedding. They seem very helpful. They are switching out bed frame to accommodate hoyer lift
We did. I thought the restaurants that were within the Omni were good. I didn't have any accessibility issues. The only bad part was the last day and a half when the next room over received a family with rambunctious and loud kids, which wasn't aided by their parents yelling at them. It was also the first time I had seen commercial grade luxury vinyl tiling in a roll in shower. I thought it was a simple transition to get in the shower and it looked nice.


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Roar hit A-League form under coach Fowler
Brisbane are undefeated from their past five A-League games and coach Robbie Fowler says the Roar are finally starting to settle into gear.
City can build on Glory draw: Mombaerts
Melbourne City coach Erick Mombaerts says a tough 0-0 draw with Perth Glory is a starting point for his team to attack the second half of the A-League season.
City, Glory play out A-League stalemate
Melbourne City have kept hold of second place in the A-League after a hard-fought 0-0 draw at home with third-placed Perth.
United keen for belated Adelaide A-L clash
Western United will face Adelaide United for the first time in the A-League and it will be a crucial clash in the race for the top six.
Roar extend unbeaten A-L run over Mariners
The Brisbane Roar have maintained their undefeated A-League streak over the Central Coast Mariners with a late 1-0 win in Gosford.
Victory seek positives from tough schedule
Melbourne Victory will travel to Japan and back, then to Perth, in the space of a week but will look to use their tough schedule to find form.
AFC U-23s give lessons to Olyroos: Arnold
Graham Arnold believes his Olyroos players will benefit from the experience gained at the AFC U-23 Championship in Thailand, while the coach is learning too.
Sydney FC power past Victory in A-League
Sydney FC have strengthened their hold on top spot in the A-League with a comfortable 3-0 win over Melbourne Victory, but saw Alexander Baumjohann sent off.
Matildas striker exits W-L for Arsenal
Sydney FC have released star Matildas striker Caitlin Foord to FAWSL champions Arsenal, effective immediately.
Guide to Olyroos-Uzbekistan AFC U23 clash
Australia take on Uzbekistan in the third-place playoff at the AFC Under-23 championships in Thailand with an Olympic qualification berth on offer.


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DGIT Services Catalog
DGIT is the information and digital technology services team in the UCLA Health Sciences community. We collaborate with the hospital's IT team, Information Services and Solutions (ISS), to provide a wide range of expertise in new and emerging technologies and deliver a dynamic portfolio of services and capabilities throughout UCLA Health Sciences.
As a group of professionals with diverse backgrounds and skills, we thrive in technology services, a field that is dynamic and requires leveraging our adaptability, ingenuity, and teamwork.
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We ensure UCLA Health Sciences schools' information technology infrastructure is secure and efficient at every touchpoint, including networks, desktops, mobile devices, cloud services, servers, and other related resources.
DGIT oversees UCLA Health Sciences schools' hardware, software, networks, datacenters, and facilities to support all DGIT services and provide you with enterprise-level datacenter technologies.
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To enhance collaboration, DGIT offers a variety of secure tools and resources to help you share work, exchange ideas, host conferences, and more.
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We connect people and networks to provide seamless and effective communication by managing connectivity and network security for a healthy, stable networking environment throughout UCLA Health Sciences schools.
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DGIT's Software Development Team, also called the Computing Technologies Research Lab (CTRL), develops software that is specific to the requirements of an organization or community, addressing the group's needs and efficiencies.
Research Enablement
DGIT's Research Enablement Initiative brings together the UCLA Health IT teams to better understand researcher IT needs and to develop solutions that enhance research while minimizing disruptions and obstacles.
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Saturday, December 22, 2007
Reader Expectations.
Recently I have had similar reactions to other books that I couldn't wait to get my hands on. For instance, Atlantis Rising: I was really looking forward to reading the first installment in the Poseidon Series. The reviews were good, the message board talk about them was a buzz, so naturally the book was too enticing to resist. Too bad I didn't resist, I found the book a complete and total disappointment.
The same thing happened with Lover Unbound by J.R. Ward. I was looking forward to V's story and when I finally got LU in my hot little hands I wanted to hurl it across the room. Not that it was a bad book, it wasn't. Ward knows how to deliver in her writing and her male heros are some of the best characters I've ever read, the book just wasn't what I expected. Given Ward's first four books were so good I was sure that Lover Unbound would live up to, if not surpass the previous books in the series.
Unfortunately it did not.
Instead of being riveted by the character of Vishous my attention was drawn to the secondary characters in the story. John and Phury were the attention grabbers while V just fell flat. After anticipating his book he read like a third string character, not the lead and his heroine, Jane, was just as flat.
Lisa Kleypas, Mine Till Midnight had the same effect that Lover Unbound had on me. While the writing was up to par, Kleypas' take on the story was off. Ameila and Cam were the leads of the story but towards the middle of the book I found myself more interested in Win (Amelia's sister) and Merripen (the Rom who lived with them) than with Cam and Amelia's relationship.
Needless to say I was reluctant to start yet another highly raved about book, positive that I would end up disappointed. Still, last night I put Hunted back on the shelf (unfinished) and reached for Nalini Singh's, Slave to Sensation. *Sigh*. It is really, really good. I'm only halfway in but I am already immersed in the characters, the world and the story. Luck of the draw, I guess.
My ramblings about this have brought me to these questions:
Do we, as readers, set ourselves up for disappointment? I mean, the authors of these books we love are only human, they are prone to mistakes like the rest of us, they are entitled to not knock it out of the park with each book. Yet we expect them to. Are we setting our demands on them too high? Are we putting authors on too extreme a pedestal and becoming unfairly upset with them when they do not meet or exceed our expectations? Do we ask too much of them?
I ask with this in mind: Knowing how acclaimed Singh's work is, knowing that her first three books in the Changeling series are loved and recommended by many readers. Will there come a time when Singh puts out a book that is a disappointment for her readers only because all of her work up until that point was awesome? Will her readers, like many of Ward's did, become angry at her for not meeting their expectations? Being that Nalini is only human I say yes that time will come. Will it be warranted? Probably not but it is most likely inevitable.
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Hmmm - I wish you'd read my review of Atlantis Rising before you bought it. :)ReplyDelete
I think in some cases we set ourselves up for disappointment by raising our expectations so high that they become difficult to fulfil.In a situation where an author is under pressure to produce books for publication every six months or so, I think sooner or later you're going to encounter a drop in standard. I would rather wait longer and have a better book. Though if I'd been saying this after reading Lover Awakened I think my comment would have been different (now I'm saying it after having read Lover Unbound).
I do allow some slack, every so often, especially in a series, there has to be a bridging book. The first part of the story is concluded but we need to shift focus and move onto the next. Some authors achieve this relatively seamlessly. Others, it reads like a shift in gears, and can be jarring. But as long as the next book is back up to par, it doesn't bother me too much.
As far as the Changeling series is concerned. I loved the first book. I liked the second book, but not quite as much as the first. And I adored the third book. I think Nalini Singh is quite adept at weaving her over-riding arc into the plot of each book. So if ever she did have a book which I didn't enjoy, I'd be willing to hang in there for the next couple of books.
This is a really interesting and thoughtful post, and I agree with a lot of what you're saying. I think we do put authors on a pedestal, from which they often fall, and I also think people really get into fawning over a lot of books that aren't that good.ReplyDelete
I also agree with Lesley that it's probably a speed issue, too. I was reading one author site recently (Jennifer Estep) who said her agent talked her into writing a book in two months. This agent apparently really felt like she could sell an assassin book, if Estep cranked it out.
As an aspiring author with one book of a series done and one started, I can tell you if somebody picked up my series up right now for publication in a year, the first book would be really polished because nobody was breathing down my neck for it, the second would probably be rushed, but not terribly, but the later ones would have to be cranked out too fast to keep up with those 6-month industry standards. Oh well, a problem I'd love to have!
Lesley, I take it you didn't too much care for Atlantis Rising either. I wish I knew about your site before I read it.ReplyDelete
Carolyn, I agree, the amount of time given to the authors to crank out a book can make the difference between a good book and a bad one.
It's funny that you mention people fawning over books that really are not that good. Lately it seems that for every five books I see get rave reviews only one out of the five books actually deserves it in the end.
I gave Atlantis Rising a D I think. I didn't believe in the relationship between the main characters, thought their dialogue was bad and found the villain 2-dimensional. But I thought she wrote some of the interactions between the minor characters very well.ReplyDelete


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I am planning a trip to Aruba for our 5th anniversary this November from 29th to 3rd for 4 nights. I have already made a reservation at the Renaissance mainly because of the private island and the price. We already have a big trip planned in December to Arizona for my birthday - hence the price factor.
The Aruba Surf Club is roughly the same price if I select the same room type. Should I go with that property instead of the Renaissance? I dont like too much crowds and I have heard Palm beach is always crowded.
I have just made a reservation for the basic room - is there a chance I will get upgraded to an oceanfront room because of my platinum status or should I book the ocean view room at least?
Should I rent a car or using Uber / taxi is just fine?
I looked at some other posts which gave me a brief idea about things to do like baby beach, sunset sail.
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The Computer Repair Woman appears in the episode Fry Legs. She is the object of Frylock's obsession, and she is constantly called to the Aqua Teens' House to fix his computer, which is actually just unplugged. His obsession towards her is unwanted and he goes to twisted levels to be with her, which leads to Frylock killing Ray, her husband, and using his body to transform himself into a Frankenstein-like version of Ray.
He then attempts to propose to her, but she reveals that she doesn't want to look after him for the rest of her life. She also tells him that she is into bestiality now and that she's a CHUD, a Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dweller. She leaves him and goes to live in the sewers. At the end of the episode, Master Shake yells into a manhole at her and she grabs him, brutally killing him.


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May 3, 2016
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We'd love for our home to look a little more modern. We are looking to paint all of the new siding a medium/dark gray. This color is Iron Ore by Sherwin Williams. We are replacing our windows with new windows without the little squares which I'm thinking is going to make a big difference in how our home looks. I would also love to eventually get a new front door. Something modern like the one shown. If you know any door companies that offer modern style doors at a reasonable price then please let me know. I love the look of wood with gray and stone so I think adding some wood beams to our windows will add some character as well. We are hoping to order our windows tomorrow so I will share our progress on both instagram and snapchat. I just got snapchat so I'm fairly new but I already love it. You can find me under: cinsarahblog.
My next post will either be my surgery experience or our kitchen reveal! Stay Tuned!
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Glad you're feeling better from your surgery! And such a Sweet hubby to take care of you in your recovery.ReplyDelete
The new outside plans sound wonderful. Have you checked out Lauren Leiss' last home? They painted theirs a dark color. Looked fabulous. Here's some links:
Looking forward to seeing your final kitchen reveal.. I'm sure you'll be happy when it's finished too.
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Thank you so much Betsy! I am thankful he is here with me.Delete
Thanks for the links, LOVE their home and all of the updates they've done!
I've got a new blog to follow now :)
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Marci Lynn McGuinness is a high-energy book publisher whose niche is preserving the remarkable and unique history and legends of Southwestern Pennsylvania. Since 1981, she has written, released, and promoted 25 books of her own, and dozens for other authors. To research her popular 6-book Yesteryear series, she interviewed the culturally rich mountain region's eldest people, recording their memories. The pictorial books relay these stories and those of the thousands of vintage photographs she has collected.
McGuinness' work has led her to uncover untold stories of national significance. Three of her books, Message of the Sacred Buffalo, Yesteryear at the Uniontown Speedway, and Gone to Ohiopyle, are incredible, exciting true stories she is working to adapt to the big screen.
From George Washington to Vivian Prescott, Barney Oldfield, Henry Ford and Frank Lloyd Wright, Ghostbusting, early wooden Boardtrack Racing and Sacred Buffalo, the characters and subjects of McGuinness', work have created in her, an expert on the history and legends of southwestern Pennsylvania.
The author/publisher is the mother of grown twin daughters and lives along the Mon River with her wily Jack Russell Terrier, Jake.
A member of the New York Center for Independent Publishing, Ink Tip, the Laurel Highlands Visitors Bureau, and the Fayette County Chamber of commerce, the author lives her work, promoting through television, radio, events, print, web and her tourism map, Around Ohiopyle. She strives to share SW PA history's incredible stories and her original fiction.
Book List:
Message of the Sacred Buffalo (June 2010)
Hauntings Of Pittsburgh & the Laurel Highalnds (October 2009)
Gone to Ohiopyle (September 2009)
Murder in Ohiopyle & Other Incidents (Summer 2009)
Butch's Smack Your Lips BBQ Cookbook, (Spring 2009)
Yesteryear in Ohiopyle and Surrounding Communities, Volume III (2008)
How to be a Working Author/Writer (2005; 2nd Edition, Fall 2008)
Chesapeake Bay Blue Crabs (2004)
In it to Win It (2001)
The Explorer's Guide to the Youghiogheny River, Ohiopyle and SW PA Villages (2000)
Along the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, from Cumberland to Uniontown (1998)
Stone House Legends & Lore (1998)
Yesteryear at the Uniontown Speedway (1996, 2nd Edition 1997, 3rd Edition 2008)
Official Program U.S.A. Speedway, 1916 Reprint (1996, 2nd Edition 2009)
Yesteryear in Smithfield (1996)
Yesteryear in Masontown (1994)
Yesteryear in Ohiopyle and Surrounding Communities, Volume II (1994)
Yesteryear in Ohiopyle and Surrounding Communities, Volume I (1993)
No Outlet! (1993)
Incidents (1992)
Nanny's Kitchen Cookbook (1991)
Natural Remedies, Recipes & Realities (1986)
The Deerhunter's Guide to Success...from the woods to the skillet (1985)
Natural Remedies (1984)
Unforgettable Poems for Everyday People (1984)
What's Happenin' Around Ohiopyle (1981)
More Publications by McGuinness
Around Ohiopyle Map & News July 2009-present (annual)
Around Ohiopyle Magazine (2008)
Tying the Knot Magazine (2007)
St. Michaels/Tilghman Coupon Booklet (2003)
Yesteryear Calendar series (1990's)
Yesteryear Press (Magazine) 1992 - 2002
Speak Easy Digest (Early 1990's)
Naturally Yours Newsletter (1980's)
Yesteryear in Ohiopyle - The Movie (1990's)
Speed Kings screenplay based on Yesteryear at the Uniontown Speedway
Murder in St. Michaels screenplay based on unpublished mystery, Murder in St. Michaels


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TORONTO — Loblaw is planning to build dozens of new stores and renovate more than 100 others this year, creating thousands of retail and construction jobs.
Loblaw says that overall, it will build about 50 new stores and renovate 150 existing ones, including projects that started in January.
The stores will include both grocery stores of various banners as well as Shoppers Drug Mart locations. Loblaw is not yet releasing information on where the new stores will be located.
The number of new stores announced is not unusual, said Edward Jones analyst Brittany Weissman, though the company plans to renovate slightly more outlets than before.
Loblaw made a similar announcement early last year, when it said it would build 50 new stores and improve more than 100 others. Later, in July 2015, Loblaw said it would close 52 locations across Canada that had fallen short of expectations.
"They close some stores each year, they open some new stores each year," Weissman said.
Catherine Thomas, Loblaw's director of external communications, said in an email that this year's expansion will add about 5,000 new store employees while creating roughly 15,000 construction jobs.
The new jobs will beef up Loblaw's employee base by 2.6 per cent. Loblaw employs about 192,000 full- and part-time workers, according to its most recent annual information form.
The company will invest $1 billion in the expansion, while Choice Properties REIT, a real estate investment trust, will contribute $300 million.
"We continue to invest in our business in ways that matter for the Canadian economy and the millions of Canadians who shop with us each week," Galen G. Weston, the company's president and executive chairman, said in a statement.
Thomas said the completion and success of multiple IT and supply chain investments over past few years now allows Loblaw to increasingly focus its capital on stores.
The investment will also go towards increasing Loblaw's e-commerce, IT infrastructure and supply chain projects.
Loblaw will likely expand its click-and-collect program, said Weissman. The service allows customers to shop online and pick up their order at a participating store.
In February, Weston said the company planned to accelerate the program's rollout beyond its current 39 stores.
Loblaw already operates more than 2,300 retail stores. They include its grocery store chains such as Loblaws, No Frills and Real Canadian Super Store as well as Shoppers Drug Mart outlets and Joe Fresh apparel stores.
The company's most recent quarterly results in February showed profits slipped more than a third compared with the previous year. However, the decline was primarily due to costs and accounting items associated with unusual items, rather than store performance, the company said.
Loblaw will release its first-quarter results on May 4.


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A group of eight Iranians, including two diplomats, were released by U.S. forces today after being detained because unauthorized weapons were found in their cars, the U.S. military said.
Four cars carrying the Iranians, as well as seven Iraqis, were stopped at a checkpoint yesterday evening and then allowed to proceed to the nearby Sheraton Ishtar hotel, where they were later taken into custody and questioned, the military said.
Troops seized three weapons from the cars � an AK-47 assault rifle and two 9mm pistols that had been in the possession of the Iraqis in the group. The Iraqis were serving as a protective detail but had no weapons permits, the U.S. military said.
At the hotel later, U.S. troops confiscated a laptop, cell phones and a briefcase full of Iranian and American money in the hotel, the military said.
"Following the brief room search the group was taken to a coalition facility for questioning," the U.S. military said in a statement. "The Iranian nationals had passports. It was later determined that two of the Iranian individuals were carrying diplomatic credentials."
All the Iranians were released today to Iraqi officials, the military said. The fate of the Iraqis � who identified themselves with Iraqi Ministry of Electricity badges � was not immediately clear, and the military did not say whether the confiscated items were returned.
An Iranian diplomat, who refused to give his name, told The Associated Press that one of those released contacted the embassy this morning to say that they had been handed over to Iraqi authorities.
"At 7 a.m. today, a member of the delegation called the embassy and said they are now at the prime minister's office," the diplomat said. "The Americans released them. They held them until seven this morning."
The Iranian embassy said the Iranians included two embassy staffers and six members of a delegation from Iran's Energy Ministry. The diplomat had earlier said there were seven Iranians held and one diplomat.
The embassy said the men had not yet been in to explain in full what happened, and that it was not sure whether their belongings had been returned.
The incident came as tensions between Washington and Tehran were already strained by the detention of each other's citizens as well as U.S. accusations of Iranian involvement in Iraq's violence and alleged Iranian efforts to develop nuclear bombs.
Iran has constantly complained about the U.S. detention since Jan. 11 of five Iranians who were in the northern Iraqi city of Irbil. U.S. officials say the five include the operations chief and other members of Iran's elite Quds Force, which is accused of arming and training Iraqi militants.
The Iranian regime denies any involvement in the violence wracking its neighbor.


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