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Henri Willig Experience: The Great Amsterdam outdoors
Cheese, the polder and Jersey Cows
Article by Clarissa van Deventer / Photography by Jeroen Snijders
You can of course choose to take the Hop on Hop off bus, but if you really wa nt to feel the Dutch vibes take a bike to the Henri Willig Cheese Farm. Just a few minutes outside the city centre you'll be cycling through the typical Dutch landscape of green meadows and water. Here you can really experience the feeling of the Dutch polder.
After your polder experience, a tall Dutch guy (Teun) welcomes you to the Henri Willig farm. Dressed in his traditional Volendam garb, he explains the process of cheese making at the Jacobs Hoeve (the name of the farm) which is located less than twenty kilometres from Amsterdam. He can explain it in Spanish just as easily as in German or in English. It's a fun and entertaining way to learn about cheese and you'll be able to taste all the flavours you like.
The logo on the cheese is something you may have seen in the city, as Henri Willig has opened several different cheese stores in Amsterdam. But here at the Jacobs Hoeve you can find out about how it's made and where it comes from and even see the actual cows that produce the milk.
Happy cows and happy workers
Though officially retired, Henri Willig is still very much invested in the company. He lives next to the cheese farm, and his son Wiebe lives above it. Willig: 'I've always thought that it's important to love what you do. You spend a lot of hours working in your life, so you better make it worthwhile. This was a dairy farm, but I wanted it to be more than that. I took some different courses on how to make cheese and went to buy a cheese-making machine. Those were the first steps of a forty-year adventure in cheese entrepreneurship. We had big ups and downs. For example, we had a fire in 1985 and everything burned down. The upside of that was that we had a lot of space to invent new things and could build again from scratch.'
'I find it important to have fun in what I do. Likewise, I find it important that the people working here and also our suppliers enjoy what they do. A while back one of the milk supplier's daughters organised a field trip for her school to our farm. It was really nice to see that someone so young was so enthusiastic about our farm. For a while we didn't have animals on the farm anymore, but we decided the cows had to come back to the farm. We also get milk from other farms; they are all part of our cheese family.'
Milking robots and cows getting massaged
Though it's a family company, it doesn't shun new technology. The stable is very open, there are no boxes and a lot of natural light comes in. A straw machine puts fresh straw in the stable so the cows don't stand in the dirt. There are even robots that clean the stable constantly. Everything is made as sustainable as possible, for example with a heat-recovery process and a rainwater collection basin on the roof. The cows get their drinking water from this basin.
But what stands out as the most advanced aspect of the farm is the milking robot. Cows can go into this robot to let themselves be milked. They wear a tag so the robot knows how to adjust the milking machine to the wishes of that particular cow. The cows literally choose their own times to be milked. They can even get a massage when they feel like it. The red machines in the stable are there to serve the cow's needs and give them their massages. You might get a bit jealous of these cows. Willig: 'I believe that happy cows produce good milk. We don't sow our grasslands in every year and don't take out the herbs, like a lot of farmers do. We think that it's better to have a diverse grass landscape. Dandelions, for example, provide the cows with iron, calcium and other minerals. Plantain (goose grass) helps prevent udder inflammation. In this way, we don't have to mess around with a lot of antibiotics. We want nature to run its course as much as possible. We believe we get the best milk and the best cheese this way. To me, having happy cows means good milk and beautiful cheeses.
In the same way, I believe in the people who work here. I want them to have fun in what they do and take pride in their work.'
And it sure looks like the workers are having fun. To start the new season and to celebrate the opening of the restaurant, there is a lunch organised for all the farm workers. The atmosphere is friendly and familial. Two young women are part of the farming crew. They take care of the cows, watch to see if they're sick, and bring them outside at the right time. One of the young women says: 'I haven't checked if there are any new-borns today. There are about a hundred new young calves being born on the farm this year, so it's quite exciting. We don't really have to help them out in the process. The cows do most of the work themselves.'
Dutch polder landscape
And it must be nice to work outside like this. This is one of the few places around Amsterdam where you can actually see that the water is higher than the land itself. If you go to the stables and look back, you will see the water above you, which might be a strange sight to those not born and raised in the Netherlands. Inside the stables there is a lookout with binoculars to look at the different kinds of birds you will find here. Kids can learn some interesting facts about the cows and there are videos that tell more about the farm's history, cheese making and the cows living on the farm.
After this charming farm-life experience, it's nice to just sit and relax and have a drink or some food. Just this month Restaurant Jacob opened up, right there on the farm. It works with local suppliers like Jan van Asch. Taste specialties like hangop (cheese curd) or the slow-roasted beef made with local products. And just relax. Luckily, you can also bring the Henri Willig cheeses home with you on the plane or the bus and taste it all over again.
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Liberal powerbroker offered to lobby for ABC
It has been revealed that one of the Liberal Party's vice-presidents approached the ABC and offered to lobby on behalf of the broadcaster if the Coalition wins the next federal election.
Lateline has confirmed that former Queensland senator Santo Santoro made the informal offer to the ABC's managing director Mark Scott in April.
Mr Santoro is a known critic of the ABC, who during his time as a federal senator used parliamentary privilege to accuse it of "shoddy journalism".
His overtures have been blasted by prominent Liberal National Party supporter Clive Palmer, who says he would interpret the comments as a threat if he was Mr Scott.
Mr Palmer has been calling for paid lobbyists to be banned from the party's national executive, and has told Lateline he was appalled such an advance was made.
I would have interpreted that if I'd been head of the ABC as a threat. That if you don't employ me there'll be retributions and my criticism will come reality when the Liberals get in power.Clive Palmer
"I would have interpreted that, if I'd been head of the ABC, as a threat. That if you don't employ me there'll be retributions and my criticism will come reality when the Liberals get in power," he told Lateline.
"That's how I would have interpreted it if I was head of the ABC. I think we're very lucky he didn't interpret it that way. And it's a national disgrace. This sort of thing shouldn't go on with publicly funded bodies."
The mining magnate says ensuring transparency should be priority for all political parties.
"It's a matter of concern for all Australians. It's something to bring out in front and to deal with. And I'm sure the Liberal Party is capable of dealing with it," he said.
"It can't be pushed aside, and the Labor party has got to deal with it for the lobbyists that are on their executive. And they say that's not good enough.
"We've got to set the standard if we believe in democracy in this country to ensure it is democracy and government doesn't go to the highest bidder."
Mr Santoro later issued a statement, saying the claims were incorrect.
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Mr Palmer says the public would be outraged if it emerged the ABC had paid a Liberal powerbroker to lobby a Coalition communications minister on its behalf.
"How would that look in [Senate] estimates when the ABC, a taxpayers' organisation, pays the taxpayers' money to Santo Santoro so they can get access to their own minister Malcolm Turnbull?" he said.
How would that look in estimates when the ABC a taxpayers organisation, pays the taxpayers money to Santo Santoro so they can get access to their own minister Malcolm Turnbull.Clive Palmer
"It's a shocking situation, it's an indictment on the system and it's time it was cleaned up not just in the Liberal Party. Labor's been very quiet about this and I wonder why.
"People shouldn't take money for political favours. It's as simple as that."
He says all lobbyists should be banned from holding positions in political parties.
"It's about what the difference between right and wrong and the Queensland LNP has passed a resolution, has implemented it, that no paid political lobbyists hold positions in our party here in Queensland," he said.
"And I'm a delegate to the federal council and I've got an obligation to put that point of view.
"It's one I actually agree with for the Liberal Party but it's much wider than that. The Labor Party and all the parties must realise that Australians don't want this."
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Beijing Gingko Group (BGG) produces pure, natural health ingredients and serves the pharmaceutical, food and beverage and dietary supplement industries. Some of the products they offer are herbal extracts, polyphenols, fucoidans, flavonols, herbs, fruits, vegetables and seaweed that are tailored for food and beverage applications. BGG applyies a fully traceable process system and careful raw material selection to guarantee the final product integrity.
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Begin the day with saltines in bed y'all! Preferably make as much noise as possible crinkling the package as you struggle to get the salty goodness, thereby waking your partner, who is no doubt annoyed by this noise, but also knows to stfu.
Put on sea bands, also while still in bed.
Lay in bed for forty minutes, readying yourself for a day filled with waves of nausea.
Eat within 30 minutes of getting up. Not too much now, don't wanna upset the Babby. Drink coffee. A cup. Your lack of caffeine withdrawAl headache and crap feeling later will thank you.
Keep saltines with you, in your car, at work, by your side all damn day. Munch on as needed. Typically five every 2 hours. Yell at your partner for also consuming saltines, reminding them they aren't pregnant and the saltines are for you, goddammit.
Eat no more than three hours after breakfast. Again, not too much.
Basically eat every three hours or feel the wrath of babby and hormones.
Don't eat anything too greasy or fatty. Daydream about Italian subs. Can't eat those!!
Feel queasy and weird all day. It's like I can feel the hormones pulsing through my veins.
Eat ice cream. Go to bed by 8:30. Repeat and do all over again.
**im actually not super mean to my partner, but I do enjoy teasing him a good amount, and since he got me like this, well... fair game =)
I'm just happy I'm pregnant, though, and dont mind this nonsense too much... I just hope I make it past the first trimester and onwards.


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Steve Laughalot was a Slytherin student at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in the 1960s and 1970s. He was Captain of the Slytherin Quidditch team from 1968 to 1972.[2][3]
- Harry Potter films (Name appears on plaque)
Notes and references
- ↑ World Exclusive Interview with J K Rowling
- ↑ See this image of a prop used in the films on display as part of Harry Potter: The Exhibition.
- ↑ Harry Potter: The Exhibition report (in Russian)
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Is agile marketing a passing fad or an essential component of high-performance marketing organizations? This is the question we posed to the 15 CMOs who joined us in London for our last CMO community session in 2017. Although agile marketing is gaining momentum, it was evident during the discussion and in our ongoing conversations with CMOs and marketing leaders, that agile marketing lacks a clear definition. Agile marketing is an emerging capability for many b-to-b marketing organizations – in our recent survey of 40 organizations interested in agile marketing, only 12 percent reported that they know how to use agile and try to use it anywhere they can.
As CMOs/marketing leaders continue the quest to transform their marketing organizations and seek to become more agile, we recommend that they explore the following three areas:
Agile is not one-size-fits-all. There are different agile methodologies out there (e.g. scrum, Lean, Kanban), all originating from the product management discipline. If you try to understand what each means, you'll end up frustrated and confused. We propose that marketing leaders consider adopting the following agile principles:
How do you determine if agile is the right approach? During our recent CMO session, we introduced the SiriusDecisions Agile Marketing Assessment Framework to participants. This framework arms CMOs/marketing leaders with a systematic approach they can use across a number of marketing processes (e.g. content planning and execution, measurement implementation, infrastructure implementation, go-to-market strategy) to determine which elements of a process can become more agile. It encompasses five key factors:
We found that b-to-b organizations that have reached a high level of proficiency with agile marketing share one trait: The CMO was the ultimate sponsor. Pockets of agile capabilities can come from other parts of the organization, but to embed agile in the operating fabric of marketing, there must be support from the top. We shared an agile proficiency spectrum with the group that outlines the three potential options:
In our work at SiriusDecisions, we have identified nine characteristics of high-performance b-to-b organizations. Agility is one of them. However, each level in the agile proficiency spectrum requires a different level of commitment and investment and is accompanied by a different level of return. This is a strategic choice that CMOs will need to make sooner or later.
Meta Karagianni is Service Director, European CMO Strategies, at SiriusDecisions. Before joining SiriusDecisions, she spent several years working closely with CMOs and commercial leaders in Europe and South Africa, providing strategic advice and implementation support across critical decision areas. As a practitioner, Meta led marketing teams in Europe. She started her career as a strategy/marketing consultant. Meta lives in London.


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Are you a media company, brand, ad agency or production company looking for film / photography production support or shooting crew in Mali? We have fully vetted, locally based fixers, service producers, directors, DP's, videographers, cameramen, photographers, sound operators, production drivers, and a range of other film crew. Contact us for referrals, questions, cost estimates and references.
Want to know more about shooting in Mali? See below for an introduction to Mali locations, permits, when to shoot, costs, talent, crews, equipment, art department, studios, post facilities, visas and work permits, film friendly hotels, transport, communications and safety advice.
Mali Film Locations
The north of Mali lies in the southern Sahara desert. The south is the subtropical and savannah zone. Mali is mostly flat, rising to rolling northern plains covered by sand. Mali is famous for the fabled Timbuktu and its medieval mosques and tombs. Film locations of interest include the Great Mosque of Djenné, colourful Mopti market, ancient Dogon Cliff village, the city of Gao, the town of Ségou, Boucle du Baoulé National Park, and the Niger River. The Bamako-Dakar railroad offers an interesting train journey through the Mali countryside. Bamako is the capital and largest city in Mali.
Mali Film Location Permits
Most locations are possible given time, money and the right approach. Note, unauthorised photography of public locations such as government buildings or transportation infrastructure may lead to penalties including fines, imprisonment and confiscation of footage and film equipment. Please contact us for location specific information.
When To Shoot?
The rainy season runs between May and November, diminishing the farther north you go. During this time, flooding of the Niger River is common. November to February is a cooler period and best time to film for weather. This is followed by extremely hot, dry weather from February to June. For monthly weather statistics please see here.
Festivals and events of interest to filmmakers and photographers include:
• Festival on the Niger in Ségou in February.
• Desert Festival in Timbuktu in February.
• Dogon Mask Festival in April.
• Plastering the Great Mosque. Sometime between April and May, the people of Djenné gather to apply fresh mud on the Great Mosque.
• Antogo Fishing Frenzy, in Koro, takes place around May.
Ramadan is widely observed with most services closed during this period.
Costs & Tax Incentives
Costs. Locations, local talent and support crew are inexpensive but since little to no filming infrastructure exists all key crew and equipment must be brought in from abroad. Our Malian fixer will negotiate local deals and provide the appropriate level of production support to match every budget.
The West African CFA franc (XOF) is the official currency.
Tax Incentives. At present there are no tax incentives for foreign commercials or films shooting in Mali.
Film Crew & Talent
Crews. Mali has a very small local pool of directors, videographers and stills photographers. Key crew should be brought in from abroad.
Contact us if you are looking for a director, DP, photographer, videographer (cameraman / camera operator), camera assistant (focus puller), sound operator, grip, gaffer, stylist, hair and makeup, PA / runner, production driver, or any other film crew for your shoot in Mali.
Talent day rates and buyouts are negotiated on a personal basis. Mali is made up of a diversity of Sub-Saharan ethnic groups as well as the Tuaregs and Maurs, two nomadic groups living in the north. All other talent needs to be brought in from abroad.
Mali Film Equipment
Bring in all camera, grip and lighting equipment from abroad.
Art Department, Studios, Backlots, & Post Production
Art department and set construction is very basic.
Studios and backlots. None exist at present.
Post Production. Post abroad.
Visas & Work Permits
Entry is subject to regulations from country of origin. Crews travelling on Western passports are required visas to enter Mali. Visitors are required to show proof of immunization against yellow fever. US passport holders see here for more information. Contact your local Malian embassy or representative for more information.
Transport & Accommodation
Transportation Infrastructure. Mali has paved roads leading from Bamako to most major cities in the south and east. Road conditions range from fair to very bad with some roads becoming impassable during the rainy season. Avoid road travel by night. Our local Malian film fixer organises safe and reliable 4WD transportation. Several international airlines service flights to Mali.
Accommodation. Film friendly hotels in Bamako:
Radisson Blu Hotel
LAICO l'Amitie Hotel
Please contact us for corporate rates.
For longer stays we can also organize serviced apartments.
Final Notes
Safety. See here for up to date travel advice.
Projects. For an example of TV commercials, stills campaigns, online content, corporate videos, virtual reality 360 content, feature films, TV series and documentaries shot in Mali, please see below:
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This is not our usual topic, but when I mentioned what my husband was building for me, I was asked to share the results, so we are about to do just that. This is an outline or suggestion if you will, as there are so many different styles of computer desks. You can see what we did and make the changes you might want.
To begin: We share one room for office and crafts, and it gets a bit crowded, especially since I have begun working on Christmas gifts. But it really began some time ago, when I realized that my computer desk did not fit the space and more importantly, it did not fit me, in that I felt very crowded. Crowded as things were, I was not able to comfortably move the office chair to sit down or get up. Worse still was that the chair pad kept moving away from the desk as the chair glided over the top. Frequently it would need to put back in front of the desk.
Which seemed to happen almost daily, urrrgh.
But there was more because things did not fit, I was hunched over to operate all the different items needed, keyboard, mouse, camera, etc. And thank you very much but nature is doing a fine job of rounding my back and shoulders, I don't need help there!
And then I had that ah-ha moment. Years ago I stood all day in front of a computer serving the public, it seemed to me, it was time to go back in time.....
So I asked my dear husband to build me a platform to put the desk on and turn it into a standing workstation. So he did.
Here are some key points to keep in mind:
- If your computer desk has wheels/casters take that into effect for measuring. You will want the frame directly on the platform for stability.
- Make sure you have room for your feet, or else you won't be comfortable. We built in a toe-kick.
- Leave room for any cords or electrical outlets that might be behind the desk by leaving the back open. You are then able to slide the platform closer to the wall, saving valuable room space.
- We used (note: We usually refers to my dear husband doing the work, I disclose this because I do believe in truth in all things, especially here on the blog!) 2X8 lumber, it is strong enough to hold the desk and equipment and was about the right height that we needed. If you need more height, 2X10 might serve your needs better.
|From desk to workstation!
There is a toe kick, giving room for your feet and the ability to get close to the keyboard.
The backside is open for electrical wires and outlets to fit under the platform.
Before the change over, messy desk and big office chair took up so much space!!!
After, now I have a sleek workstation!
Now all we need to move the snarky artwork that was above the desk, I still need a good chuckle from time to time!
Have a great day!
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Today is January 21, 2020 -
The Community Coalition for Jewish Education (CCJE) strives to support the Jewish education endeavors of the schools and congregations by being a major resource to the entire community. CCJE provides one of the most direct links between Jewish Federation and the synagogues.
CCJE also provides resources, teacher training, conference stipends, special programming, consultation and networking opportunities for Jewish educators.
CCJE provides:
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The Vietnamese Women's Museum, in Hanoi, was founded by the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam in 1987 as an entity within the Viet Nam Women's Union. The museum explores Viet Nam's cultural diversity and women's significant contributions to the nation's development, culture and society. The Vietnamese Women's Museum is a community repository of cultural and historical knowledge about Vietnamese women's lives across the nation's 54 ethnic community groups. The Museum is also a centre for cultural exchange with women from other nations with the goal of fostering 'equality, development and peace'.
The permanent galleries feature three thematic displays:
- Women in Family
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The Museum's collection features historical and contemporary objects which illustrate and reflect the lives and roles of Vietnamese women in society.
Collection size: 25,000 objects


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If you want to install Sifo in a shared server and you don't have the possibility to modify the VirtualHosts here is a trick. The following example is for Webfaction, but others are similar.
cd webapps/your_application
.htaccess file:
Content of .htaccess:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}%{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^([^.]+)/?$ /index.php
And finally:
ln -s ../../path_to_checkout/instances/*yourinstance*/public/root/index.php .
And that's it.


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The perfect quote to end Thanksgiving Weekend!
The perfect quote to end Thanksgiving Weekend!
"…that autumn and the failing off the leaf is the season of the year when maybe here or there a heart among Men may be open, and an eye perceive how is the world's estate fallen from the laughter and the loveliness of old. Think on Kortirion and be sad-yet is there not hope?" – Book of Lost Tales – Volume 1 by JRR Tolkien
Today, I'm thankful for eucatastrophe. This is a term coined by Tolkien to mean the turning point of grace. He himself says in his lecture on Fairy-Stories that the true turning point of grace in history is Christ's Incarnation and his Resurrection. Think about that! It is the moment of surprising hope. It is the moment all that is dark and bad turns to good and joy. A true fairy story must have this moment. These are my favorite stories to write. They aren't so popular right now, the happy ending I mean, but I love them all the same. I am very thankful for real eucatastrophies and fictional ones.
It is because of this I have decided to stop saying I write Fairy Tales and start saying I write Fairy Stories. 🙂
Eucatastrophe is a neologism coined by Tolkien from Greek ευ- "good" and καταστροφή "destruction".
It is the mark of a good fairy-story, of the higher or more complete kind, that however wild its events, however fantastic or terrible the adventures, it can give to child or man that hears it, when the "turn" comes, a catch of the breath, a beat and lifting of the heart, near to (or indeed accompanied by) tears, as keen as that given by any form of literary art, and having a peculiar quality."
"Aunt Abby!!!!" Bruce yelled at the top of his lungs. Jules, Ellie, Constance, and Joshua chimed in until there was a high-pitched cacophony of little boys and girls yelling Aunt Abby's name. Imogene and Jude looked up from their coloring books, surprised by the noise. They rushed over with shouts and giggles to make sure they weren't left out.
"Inside voices," said several Moms at the same time.
"Look what I can do!" Bruce whispered loudly.
"What? What? I'm watching!" Aunt Abby said.
"No, look what I can do," Jules said.
"No, what I can do," Ellie said.
"Wait," Aunt Abby said before anyone else could start yelling. "Why don't we put on a Talent Show."
"A Talent Show?" Jules said raising her eyebrows. "What's a Talent Show?"
"It's when you show everyone you're talents," Aunt Abby said with a smile.
"Oh," Constance said still confused.
Aunt Abby hurried the cousins into Grammie's nursery and had them stand in line.
"Okay, Bruce, you start. What can you do?"
Bruce blew a very loud and wet raspberry. All six of the other cousins did the same. Ellie linked her arms around Aunt Abby's neck and said, "Look what I can do?" Aunt Abby turned away from the inevitable spray of saliva.
"Look! What I can do?" Ellie said.
"I'm looking," Aunt Abby said, her face still turned away.
"Look! What I can do!" Ellie said again and again until Aunt Abby looked down into her eyes. Elle blew a huge raspberry spraying Aunt Abby.
"Eew! Gross!" Aunt Abby said wiping spit from her face.
Everyone crowded around her, tongues out and lips pursed.
"Wait!" Aunt Abby said. "You can't all have the same talent. We need to find specific talents for each of you."
"Why?" said Jules.
"Because you're each different people with different skills and different gifts from God."
"What's skills?" Imogene said.
"Is it something bad?" Jude said.
"No! It's something very good. Now let's sit down and think. There's still lots to do if we want to put on a Talent Show."
"Like what?" said Jules.
"Like flyers and we need a stage and a curtain."
"I want to fly," said Ellie.
"No, not flying. Flyers are pieces of paper used to invite people to a show. Let's go ask Grammie for some construction paper and crayons, and let's go ask Grandpa about using the porch as a stage."
"I bet Grandpa can make a curtain," Bruce said.
"I bet he can. Let's go!"
(Several Hours Later)
Aunt Abby stood on the steps of the front porch. A curtain hung behind her hiding giggling cousins. Arranged before her was two rows of chairs. Great Gran, Grammie and Grandpa, Matt and Ruth, Emily and Brian, Jason and Joy, Liz and Brad, and Price all clapped loudly with their different colored fliers in their laps as Aunt Abby introduced the first cousins.
"Ladies and gentlemen, " she said in a loud voice. "Please welcome Jude to the stage here to impress you with his perfect and award-winning smile."
Jude toddled out from behind the curtain after a gentle push from Constance and stared at his family. His mamma, Emily, gave him an encouraging smile. Jude grinned from ear to ear. Everyone clapped and Jude smiled even bigger. Everyone clapped agreeing that Jude had a wonderful smile.
Aunt Abby announced Imogene after hurrying Jude down to his waiting parents. Imogene bowed to the audience, ran out around them and leapt at the tree in the flower bed. With nimble fingers and toes she climbed the trunk. Clinging to branches, she made her way to the very top where she waved at the family. Every one applauded while she climbed back down and ran to her Mom and Dad.
"Next up," Aunt Abby said, "We have Joshua."
Joshua came out from behind the curtain with Aunt Liz's dog, Violet, at his side. His blue eyes sparkled.
"Sit Violet."
Violet licked his face with a big wet tongue and sat down.
Everyone cheered.
"Lay down, Violet."
The dog laid down, resting her huge head on her paws.
"Bang!" yelled Joshua pointing his fingers like a gun.
Violet rolled over on her side.
The family laughed and laughed, clapping at Joshua's trick. He gave them a deep bow and took Violet down to Aunt Liz before climbing up in his Daddy's lap.
Ellie came next with her perfect smile. She bowed to her family and then said, "I'm not afraid."
With arms flung wide, she jumped off the porch, over all three steps, and landed perfectly in Grammie's path. Several Mommies gasped and then everyone cheered. Ellie giggled and sat down.
Constance followed her out with a handful of flowers clutched tightly. She smiled shyly and held the flowers up for everyone to see. "This is a Bluebonnet, the state flower of Texas," she said. "And this is a rose, and this is a daisy, and this is an Indian Paint Brush, and this one is yellow." Then she reached in her pocket and pulled out a rock. "And these are rocks. They're very pretty."
"Woot woot!" cheered Aunt Liz. Everyone joined in clapping loudly. Matt even stood up to clap louder.
Constance blushed and hurried to her Mama.
"Bruce, please come share your Talent," Aunt Abby said.
"Please," Aunt Abby said.
Bruce peaked around the curtain at the audience. Uncle Jason yelled his name. Everyone started chanting, "Bruce. Bruce. Bruce."
Stepping out, he held up his fist, closed tightly.
"Do you know what it is?" he asked.
"NO!" everyone answered at once.
He opened it to reveal a four-inch long grasshopper. It leapt from his fingers off into Grammie's flowerbed.
"And I have this," Bruce reached into his pocket and produced a long earthworm. It slithered to the end of this fingers and he dropped it in the dirt.
"Last, this," he reached behind the curtain and produced a jar. Inside sat a large yellow and black swallowtail butterfly.
"It's so pretty," Constance said from the audience.
Bruce opened the jar and the butterfly flew away while the crowd oohed and ahhed.
"Yay Bruce," Aunt Abby said clapping to send him off to sit with his parents.
"Last, but far from least, we will end this most impressive Talent Show with Jules."
Aunt Abby waved her hand at the curtain.
Jules stepped out and clasped her hands in front of her.
"For my Talent, I'm going to recite a poem:
The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
And I must follow, if I can,
Pursuing it with eager feet,
Until it joins some larger way
Where many paths and errands meet.
And whither then? I cannot say.
Jules bowed. Jason stood, applauding loudly. Everyone else stood cheering, yelling, and clapping.
"What was that?" Aunt Em said.
Jason bopped her on the head. "Tolkien of course."
Em sighed. "Of course."
Aunt Abby waved all the cousins back onto the porch and they all bowed to their adoring audience.
"Watch what I can do?" Bruce said. He blew a giant raspberry.
Jules, Constance, Joshua, Ellie, Imogene, and Jude took one glance at him and all blew a raspberry as loudly and slobbery as they could.
"If you can't beat them," Aunt Abby said. "Join them. " She blew a raspberry too.
The End
I've been asked several times in my life why I write and why I blog? To give back to a community that has given so much to me while also answering that question, I decided to ask several of my favorite bloggers (sorry Josh, it's never going to leave my vocabulary) the same question and collect their thoughts as guest posts. There are links at the bottom to each of the articles and there you will find links to these five wonderful blogs. Now it's my turn:
Well, to be honest, I'm one of those strange people born with a need for self-expression. And not so much self-expression, as a need to share the beauty of what I see with the world around me. I see trees, clouds, sky, grass, birds, a magnificent horse, the heart-breaking death of a warrior, a child's laugh and I feel the need to capture it, package it, and share it with the world. I've been like this for as long as I can remember. What does this mean? Before I'm a writer, at my most inner core, I'm a story-teller. I love stories. I always have.
I tried painting. Oh, how I wanted to be an artist with a canvas and a world of colors. But, paintings never flowed from my fingers. I tried drawing and got an A for coming to class every day, not for any great piece of art—although my doodling improved. I tried music. How I longed to capture what I felt and saw in the stringing of notes together. Is there anything more powerful than music for expressing the human condition? I did okay. But when I reached the crossroads of more practice or dropping my lessons, I dropped my lessons. More practice just didn't seem worth it. I tried photography. And while I can shoot a pretty picture, I fail to see the story in my own shot. It's just not there.
Somewhere along the way, much inspired by Tolkien, and encouraged by my husband, I picked up the one art form I hadn't tried. I picked up a pen and started writing. It was like coming home. Writing allowed all that I saw in my head to flow out of me. It gave me a means to share the magic of the world that I constantly saw around me.
I couldn't capture the dust floating like so much fairy-powder in a golden sunbeam in music, paint, shutter lens, or graphite, but I could capture it in words. I could show you how they dust glitters and sparkles. I could let you see the magic through my eyes that would change how you look at the common sun shining through the window. I can turn common into a glowing soldier locking tiny sparkles in an incandescent prison. I can drive common away with mention of Peter Pan, happy thoughts, and fairy dust. I can sit you in a sunbeam and sail you away to Never Neverland. With words, I can paint. With words I can weave together a song all people can cling to. With words I can capture a moment and freeze it forever. With words I can smug just a little gray to make a powerful shadow.
Words, writing, storytelling. This is why I blog. I blog because blogging is the easiest way in our modern-day and age to share what I've always wanted to share. Blogging lets me interact with readers in a way in which I couldn't if I had to wait until my novel was finished. Blogging lets me encourage, inspire, challenge, and build up in a way that would be impossible in any other time. I could submit articles to magazines, but why not let you just read what pours out of my fingers?
This way, you the reader can sort and find the authors you want to read. You can find people who are like-minded, or very different in their mindsets and beliefs. You can read my blog, or Heather's, Deanna's, Raelea's, Josh's, or Rob's and find articles that make you ponder, that help you as you tend to those in your life, that inspire you, inform you, and share a little of each of us with…well…you.
That, my friends, is why I blog. I blog because I'm a writer, and I'm a writer because I'm a storyteller. So jump in the deep end of blogging. Read, comment, and start one yourself, if you're so inclined. Take the advice and thoughts from this month's guest posts and put them to good use. Ask questions. Get advice. Network with other bloggers.
And if you're not a writer, thank goodness. Cause there's one thing us writers need: Readers. We need readers to cheer us on, offer a counterpoint and advice, share our musing with others, suggest article ideas, and connect us with the world. We need you! This is why I blog!
I hope you've grown to understand why we bloggers do what we do. I hope you've seen that our takes on blogging are as diverse as we are. Maybe you've even a little inspired. The blogging world is a pretty friendly place, ready to offer advice and support. Feel free to comment on any of our blogs and ask questions! Thanks again for reading!
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Your favorite book now a major motion picture.
I have a love/hate relationship with the concept of turning books into movies. When one of my favorite books is slated to become a movie, I tend to be excited and antsy. I search the cast list for any resemblance to the people I love. I watch trailers looking for that moment that was personally pivotal to me in the book. I read articles to discern the director's depth of understanding of his material. When Peter Jackson first announced plans to make Lord of the Rings, I obsessed to a degree that was beyond fan girl. Way beyond fan girl. Why? Because Lord of the Rings is my favorite, not-the-Bible book of all time. Favorite.
But this isn't an article about Lord of the Rings. This is an observation about translating books into movies, and how movies have changed our writing. I want to explore this idea by comparing The Hobbit, Hunger Games, and Ender's Game. I've read and enjoyed all three books and all three movies. I hope they make an interesting comparison study.
Tolkien penned The Hobbit long before fantasy-type books became movies every summer. I can't imagine Tolkien IMDB-ing actors to see if Martin Freeman would make a good Bilbo. When Card wrote Ender's Game having a book turned into a movie was more likely, but still a shot in the dark. Then we come to The Hunger Games. It was almost a guarantee that if the book had any success, it would be made into a movie. Suzanne Collins worked in the TV business, writing shows for children. I can't imagine her writing The Hunger Games without a movie in the back of her mind. How do I know that? Because I do the same thing. I grew up with movies and I can't help but think of them when I write.
We have one book with no thoughts for a movie, one with a little thought, and one heavily influenced.
And their movies? (Please remember this is just my opinion.)
The Hunger Games was a great movie that followed the book closely adjusting pacing as needed for a film. My husband, who isn't a fiction reader, really loved it.
Ender's Game followed the book closely, as far as I can remember, but with more concern for the book's fans than movie goers. My husband found it boring and a bit confusing. I didn't feel as into the movie as I was the book. It came across as choppy, and poorly paced. I should note that it's been many years since I read the book.
The Hobbit was so different from the book. In fact, I hated the movie when I first saw it. Right after watching it, my husband and I dove into the book and found the movie to be surprisingly accurate, all things considered. Of the three, this was the only one that my husband had read both the book and seen the movie.
I think it would have been impossible for Peter Jackson to follow the Hobbit as it was written. The barrel scene? Twelve dwarves floating down a river in closed barrels as river elves pushed them along: worked in the book, boring on the screen. In a book, the author can give the reader a brief sentence saying the town chief is gross and greedy. A reader has no problem accepting that a moving on. In a movie, you have to show it and establish it. It can't be tacked on somewhere.
In fact, as I refreshed my view of the Hobbit, I became more pleased at what Peter Jackson preserved that he could have left out. There are writing tools you can manipulate in a book that you just can't spring on people in a movie. The odd part is that even when I acknowledge the good things Peter Jackson did, I still don't really like the Desolation of Smug taken in the broader context of all the movies. It's pacing seems really off.
In Ender's Game, I think they stuck so close to the book that that became more of a concern than making a good movie. If they focused on making a good movie, I think it would have been better. Instead, it felt confusing and emotionally unrelatable unless you'd read the book.
Hunger Games had no problem going from book to screen. The book just adds and develops the characters a bit more, but you get a good sense of the story and characters from the movie.
Has the silver screen changed how we write? Has it changed how we write scenes? Probably. I think this may be why the concept of Showing instead of Telling has gained such ground. If you read older work, they do an extensive amount of telling prior to showing. Older books also spend less time explaining battles, or fight scenes, if they even have them. Older works don't seem as focused on character descriptions, partially, maybe, because they weren't thinking about the actor who might be selected to play them.
Is this bad? No, not necessarily. I enjoy a book with a lot of showing instead of telling. I enjoy books with masterful battle scenes. But, I also think it opens the door to a lot of bad writing. (This is not the only day and age with bad writing, but it does seem easier to find than it used to be.) I think writers can focus too much on character description instead of just character. I can't stand a novel that gives me a character's measurements as if that is going to help me picture him better in my mind. I want to get to know this person, not that he's 6′ 4″. Some people write scenes totally based on what they've seen in movies. Maybe they should just be a screen writer, instead of a novelist. I've had to tell new writers that they can't write slo-mo action scenes. It doesn't work when you're reading. Matrix styled fighting and good cop/bad cop only work if you're a really great writer. The rest of us just need to do more research until we find something based in reality that we can use.
I'm a product of my time. I can't stick my head in the sand and pretend I live in a different time…unless I'm writing a period piece…which I'm not. I always have a 'cast' file. It's filled with pictures of actors that I have in mind for the characters. Some of the actors aren't alive anymore because I'm looking for a match to my imagination, not hoping to submit it to Hollywood. I don't anticipate my books every becoming movies, thought I've daydreamed about it. Generally it ends up with me shuddering cause I don't really like Hollywood that much and don't want to get caught up in that world in any way, shape, or form. Besides, they wouldn't like me. I'm too conservative, too Christian. It wouldn't happen.
All that to say, yes, movies affect how we write. We don't live in bubbles. We probably all write as if we were watching a film and just reporting on what we were seeing. I even refer to different parts in my book as scenes, as if I was directing a film. But, writing is so much richer and deeper than a movie. Writing let's you escape to a whole new world in a way movies never can. You get to be in a new place and in a new person. Through the journey, you often learn more about yourself than you ever could watching a movie. Movies are wonderful, but books are often better. Don't stop writing. Enjoy the gifts of the silver screen, but don't rely on them.
"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us." – Lord of the Rings
"There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for awhile. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach." – Lord of the Rings
"It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end… because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing… this shadow. Even darkness must pass." – Lord of the Rings
"At that sound the bent shape of the king sprang suddenly erect. Tall and proud he seemed again; and rising in his stirrups he cried in a loud voice, more clear than any there had ever heard a mortal man achieve before:
'Arise, arise, Riders of Théoden!
Fell deeds awake: fire and slaughter!
spear shall be shaken, shield be splintered,
a sword-day, a red day, ere the sun rises!
Ride now, ride now! Ride to Gondor!'
With that he seized a great horn from Guthláf his banner-bearer, and he blew such a blast upon it that it burst asunder. And straightway all the horns in the host were lifted up in music, and the blowing of the horns of Rohan in that hour was like a storm upon the plain and a thunder in the mountains.
'Ride now, ride now! Ride to Gondor!'
Suddenly the king cried to Snowmane and the horse sprang away. Behind him his banner blew in the wind, white horse upon a field of green, but he outpaced it. After him thundered the knights of his house, but he was ever before them. Éomer rode there, the white horsetail on his helm floating in his speed, and the front of the first éored roared like a breaker foaming to the shore, but Théoden could not be overtaken. Fey he seemed, or the battle-fury of his fathers ran like new fire in his veins, and he was borne up on Snowmane like a god of old, even as Oromë the Great in the battle of the Valar when the world was young. His golden shield was uncovered, and lo! it shone like an image of the Sun, and the grass flamed into green about the white feet of his steed. For morning came, morning and a wind from the sea; and the darkness was removed, and the hosts of Mordor wailed, and terror took them, and they fled, and died, and the hoofs of wrath rode over them. And then all the host of Rohan burst into song, and they sang as they slew, for the joy of battle was on them, and the sound of their singing that was fair and terrible came even to the City." [The Return of the King: The Ride of the Rohirrim]
Today is Tolkien Reading Day! These are four of my favorite Tolkien Quotes.
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September has been a very busy month. It started with a head-cold, then a wedding during the cold, than a dear friend passing away, then a conference. I coordinated the wedding with the cold and almost no voice. I was the person in charge of the five meals for about 200 people attending the conference. It was crazy. But what I'm sharing today is about my friend who passed away.
These are notes I took while sitting in the hospice room for the last few days of his life. These are very intimate notes, but I feel it is important to share them. I'm leaving them much as they were when I wrote them, so please excuse the rough draft format.
9/14/13: Early AM
I've never been with someone when they died. I've been to relatively few funerals. My fear and repulsion for hospitals and any and all things medical coupled with the one too many things I know about crime scenes and thus how the body decays after death has led me to fear the side of a dying friend for many years.
But, I have entered a stage of life where I can no longer avoid hospitals and death. God's grace is sufficient and like a good hobbit I screw up my courage and visit my friends. I have found love to be a great motivator.
So, here I sit, having been in the hospice room for almost 12 hours and only three of them spent asleep. My brother "breathes" loudly in the hall. My husband is finally lying down covered by my St. John throw, faithful to his friend to the end. Glenn is sleeping for the first time in days and Flo stays by his side, nurse, wife, and friend.
We have kept the night watch. We have been with Harry as he struggles to breath – labors! – and as his body shuts down.
I'm amazed that I have done this. I have visited Harry, my Grandma and spent all day with my father-in-law in the hospital. And while I have not changed my revulsion for them, I am here. I haven't "felt" the hand of God, but I have thought, "I love these people and I must do my duty." (Maybe that's what the hand of God feels like.) It is so ordinary and I am so thankful for it. For the quiet working of God to aid me to be motivated by love.
So, Brother Harry lays dying. Not real quickly I must say. He has no family here, only his church. But as far as I am aware, he has not been alone at all. Men and women have gathered to sit at his side, hold his hand, stroke his brow, pray, read the scripture, sing. We have sung his favorite hymns and the hymns he wrote. We watched him try to sing with us. We felt him squeeze our hands when his favorite passages are read, and like Sam at Gandalf's death, we have spoken often of his banana pudding.
So, I sit and watch a friend die. A man I love because he encouraged my husband. And you know what I think….Harry's gonna get to see Glenn Wilkinson before the rest of us.
My facebook post that day: For the believer death is but a door to heaven. It is the ending of one story to begin the real story in the presence of Christ. And dear believer….this story has the best ending through the path to it has been dark."
A quote sent by a friend: "Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens." – JRR Tolkien
9/14/13: 9:00AM while Price reads Revelations out loud to Harry.
Listen for his last breath,
Feel the twist in your gut,
Is this the one?
A moment of bi-polar emotion.
Fight. Fight to stay alive!
Go. Go. Let go. We will soon follow.
So we gather.
We hold tissues tight in our fists.
We sing in broken voices.
We share intimate moments of tears.
We hold his hand unsure of being held.
We talk unsure of hearing.
We read unsure of comprehension.
And we listen
Together, we listen for your last breath.
Even now, when he lies lost in dark halls of his mind laboring to breath, hot with fever, he serves his church. Even as his last few hours slip away, we are encouraged, brought together, given new opportunities to serve, given new love for each other. As you come closer to haven's door, we, gathered around you, examine our own future deaths and find peace. We see the love of the saints. We see you surrounded by hymns and the Word and by tears and laughter and we know we are not forsaken. Even in death, You are with us, our mighty brother who already conquered death!
(I have, on my next page, the words written out from Before the Throne of God Above and Into the West.) (http://instagram.com/p/eP6SugTFFU/)
Watching Harry, I'm struck by God's beautiful multi-tasking. I'm beginning to understand joy in the midst of suffering. Our church hurts, yet here we are gathered around Harry with all the members singing, praying, reading the scripture. We are laughing and crying, crying with people who I've never cried around, watching people cry who I've never seen cry. And we are united. So as the Lord takes Harry home, as he finishes the work which He began, we are made stronger. We are untied and we are challenged. As the Lord takes him home, he is using Harry to help us love each other more. He is using Harry to sanctify us. Harry's faithful testimony has been mentioned again and again. And the Lord even used that. If Harry hadn't been faithful, he might have died in his apartment alone, but God used his faithfulness to preserve Harry.
"I have so many friends, and I don't know why," is what Harry told his niece before he became mostly unresponsive.
9/18/13: (Harry passed on the morning of the 16th.)
I spent the weekend carefully watching my husband. When did he become the man I always wanted him to be? When did he get so strong? As I watch him hold the hand of a dying friend, as I listen to him sing and read the scripture, I couldn't be more thankful for this man, my friend. He sacrificed his time, sleep, his work to stay by Harry. The Lord granted his request to be there with his at the end. But the part that I remember and cherish the most is him holding Harry's hand and reading the book of Revelations barely able to keep his voice steady.
(We were there at the end, when Harry died, along with my parents, our other pastor, Glenn and Flo, and Ben. It was the first time I held someone's hand as they passed away….I know it will not be the last. But I do know that God is good. He will finish the work. He has conquered death. I hope and pray my death serves my church as well as Harry's did.)
Last time we introduced the idea of Making Every Word Count. Now let's get more specific.
Make every paragraph count. Make every scene and description count. Ask yourself, as you edit, if this event is important. What am I learning about the situation and the characters? Every word counts. Your book is your baby. Your reader wants to enjoy it, but in the end, it's another book on their shelf. Even if they adore it, they can't spend their life studying it. Appreciate and respect this fact by making every paragraph count.
What does this look like for the writer? Emotion.
Sometimes rough drafts can be quiet dry. They have all the plot points and all the action but little of the emotion. (Sometimes they're the other way around: all emotion and no plot. But that's a different problem.) This is especially true of new or young writers. Never fear. It's all part of the process. What you have to do, after you've written those two great words, THE END, is go back and add in the emotion. You have to go back and make every paragraph, every word count.
There are a two key places I regularly see this problem as an Alpha Reader, and as I edit my own work.
Description: You know the paragraphs where you spend several lines and a few hundred words talking about clouds, trees, grass, sand, snow, and wind? Or maybe you invested some words in the description of a beautiful car, a surprisingly fast motorcycle, or the long limbs of a racehorse. Descriptions shouldn't be dry. They are the playground of the writer and the soul of the story. Descriptions are mood setters. Wait! What's that? They effect emotion? Yes! Descriptions pull the reader away from their world and into yours, be it the same one they inhabit or a fantastical one. Adjectives and adverbs clue the reader in on who to love, who to hate, when to be nervous or at peace, to slow down or quicken their reading pace. If you write an emotionless description, go back and look at your word choice.
Have you read Lord of the Rings? If you haven't, I highly suggest it. If you have, think back and remember how you felt when the Hobbits entered the Old Forest. Did you feel its twisted nature? What about the feelings you experienced in Fangorn Forest, the Misty Marshes, Lothlorian, Rohan, or the Shire? These places take on a life of their own because Tolkien harnessed the power of descriptions, and used them to set the emotional stages of the story. They feel alive, almost separate from the people who live in them. Emotion in descriptions is a powerful tool in your writing smithy.
How do you do this? Easy. Ask yourself how your character feels as they observe the world around them, or what you want your reader to feel as they look in on the world you've created. Are the clouds overhead ominous or uplifting? Is the car a deathtrap or a thing of beauty? Does the dog's hair stand on end while its lips curl back, or are his ears perked and his tail wagging?
Plot: You know the little in-between plot points were your character cleans the house, goes grocery shopping, travels from point A to point B, and does their laundry? We all know they have to do these things. Even if you're writing a futuristic story, there's always laundry to do. Maybe you cover a few non-important days in their life by listing out all the mundane things that they did. Or maybe you tell us how their friends were late to see a movie, or their car needed to a wash. These scenes should be filled with emotion or cut. Noting is more annoying to a read than a pointless list of events….especially if it looks a lot like their own To Do list.
If your character is doing laundry, how do they feel? Happy, content, defeated, frustrated? Maybe the laundry time is just an excuse for the character to think, giving us needed insight into their mind. Don't tell me they did the laundry, give me a point for the laundry that drives the story forward. If you need to tell your reader several days had passed were nothing happened, then just tell them. Don't give them a list of all the mundane things done.
Back to Lord of the Rings, no one thinks that Aragon didn't shower and wash his clothes ever. We all know he did at one point in time or another, but Tolkien never tells us this. Why? Well, it wouldn't fit in the story. It wouldn't drive the story forward. It would bog us down. He does tell us about making campfires and eating. Now eating is pretty normal, but Tolkien uses food and pipes to show us the comfort of home, or the lack of comfort. The lack of pipeweed on the journey to Mordor is used to show us how out of their element the Hobbits are, and how far from civilization they are. Tolkien doesn't give us a list of Sam's backpack contents. He uses those contents to drive the story forward or to help us look back at crucial moments.
How do you combat useless plot points, or lists? Easy! Ask yourself if the reader is learning anything about the character based upon what is going on. Is this scene driving the plot forward? If yes, than draw out the emotion of the scene. Develop it. If no, cut it! If you aren't sure, see if it can be used. Ask yourself how your character feels as things slow down a bit and work that angle of the story. Make sure there's a point.
Waste nothing. Every moment, breath, scene, paragraph, and word counts. They're all important. Look for clues. The longer you write, the more books or articles you get under your belt, the more familiar with your own strengths and weaknesses you will become. You will find words that clue you in that a scene needs to be developed. It becomes your personal short hand. When the words are flowing let them flow. Then go back and add, develop, and cut, as you need.
And for goodness sake, if you haven't read Lord of the Rings, go do it!


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For the "emotional distress" of not having his trailer delivered on time, Taylor Lautner has been awarded $40,000 by McMahon's RV. And he didn't even have to do a single push-up to get it.
According to Us, the company agreed to pay the actor for failing to deliver his trailer for the movie Abduction on time. The owner had originally proposed a push-up competition to settle the dispute.
Lautner is planning to donate the money to The Lollipop Theater Network, an organization that brings movies to sick children across the country.
A nice move by Lautner, but I'm a little bitter that he won the lawsuit.
I've worked with many businesses that don't follow through on what they say they will do. My current beef is with the company that makes the uniform shirts for my son's school. When I ordered them three plus weeks ago, they said they would arrive in no more than two weeks.
I'm left washing them same two WHITE shirts over and over again, while the shirst don't show up. I've called and gotten nothing more than a lukewarm apology and the explanation that things just got backed up.
While the $25 shirt isn't a $300,000 trailer, it's the same principle and most of us encounter delays and disappointment from businesses all the time. And we don't sue them, we just make do and take our business elsewhere the next time (if we can -- this happens to be the only company I can get my son's shirts from).
I'm glad he was able to make a company take accountability for their actions (they should!), but I also find it a little diva-like too (which he denies). It's not like he wasn't going to be able to make his movie without it, he just might not have been so comfortable doing so.
So congratulations to Lautner I guess, who's clearly more powerful than most. I'm just bummed we didn't get to see a push-up contest.
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