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Diners may wonder why Smokestack Urban Barbecue�s owner Richard Romaine relocated his restaurant to 139 Green St., Worcester, after only two years in business at 90 Harding St., Worcester.
The short version of the story is that Romaine �couldn�t work out a deal with the current landlord.� One of the issues was a substantial rent increase, he said.
Smokestack Urban Barbecue is now in the building that once housed Block Five. Niche Hospitality Group operated the restaurant and owns the property.
�I like what has been done to Green Street, and our new location is not that far from where we were,� said Romaine. �Smokestack developed a following, and I think we are in a better place. The restaurant is small, but cozier.�
Parking is in two small lots near the restaurant and on-street, according to Romaine.
Peter Rano is the new chef/partner at Smokestack Urban Barbecue. He formerly worked as executive chef at Joey�s Bar & Grill in Worcester.
Bonny Dairymple has been a partner in Smokestack Urban Barbecue since it opened. She works in the business and also has been general manager at Romaine�s Wood Grill & Bar, 299 W. Main St., Northboro, owned and operated by Romaine and his wife, Erin.
Romaine said he and Rano will be �testing the waters� with new menu items in the near future. �We did a research and development trip to New York City to take a look at what some of the restaurants are dishing out. It�s unbelievable how many barbecue places there are,� said Romaine.
Smokestack Urban Barbecue is open from 5 to 9 p.m. Mondays and Tuesdays; noon to 9 p.m. Wednesdays and Thursdays; noon to 10 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays; noon to 9 p.m. Sundays. The bar remains open until midnight Thursday through Saturday. The restaurant accepts reservations for parties of six or more. Call (508) 363-1111; www.bbqstack.com.
Ready for some great barbecue?
Julio�s Liquors, 140 Turnpike Road, Westboro, will have its �Blizzard of Wine� grand wine tasting from 1 to 4 p.m. Dec. 9.
The event, open to the public, will feature wines and champagnes.
A Beer and Cheese Pairing will take place at Julio�s at 7 p.m. Dec. 7. Jeff Nelson will represent the Stone Brewing Company.
For more info, call (508) 366-1942.
Members Double Discount Days continue through Dec. 9 at Tower Hill Botanic Garden in Boylston.
Members save 20 percent on all shop purchases. Savings also apply if you shop online.
Enjoy �Food+Fire� at Tower Hill�s Twigs Caf� through Dec. 30. During the �Holly Days� celebration, small plate meals are served from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. Wednesdays.
Don�t miss the lights and decorations!
Visit www.towerhillbg.org for more info.
Special events at The Castle Restaurant in Leicester include the �Holiday Tasting� (wine) at 3 p.m. Dec. 9.
James Nicas of the Castle will pour eight wines from �a variety of great vintages with serious solid age.�
Cost is $43 per person. Limited availability.
The Castle�s annual Christmas Feast will be held at 5 p.m. Dec. 16.
Plan for a great evening of food and wine.
Cost: $97 per person, not including gratuity. Call James Nicas or Evangeline Nicas, at (508) 892-9090, to reserve.
Yankee Spirits in Sturbridge will have its annual Champagne Gala from 2 to 5 p.m. Dec. 1.
Finest lineup ever, according to Yankee�s Joe Astukewicz. Everything sampled will be on sale.
A �Whisk(e)y Walk� is planned from 6 to 8 p.m. Dec. 6 at Friendly Discount Liquors, 1167 Providence Road, Whitinsville.
Guests will taste more than 20 scotches, learn about flavor profiles and sample the fine Cognac of Pierre Ferrand.
Proceeds from the $10 admission will benefit Alternatives Unlimited Inc. RSVP to (508) 234-7951. Visit www.friendlydiscount.com.
Old Sturbridge Village in Sturbridge has partnered with Audio Journal�s Radio-Active Theatre Troupe to present �It�s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play.�
The event will take place at 7:30 p.m. Dec. 1 in the Visitor Center Theater at the village.
Cost is $20 per person, $18 for OSV members.
If you want to have dinner before the performance, reserve at the Oliver Wight Tavern at OSV. Call (508) 347-0363. Reservations begin at 4 p.m.
�Wine Down Wednesdays� have been introduced at The People�s Kitchen and The Citizen in Worcester.
A three-course prix-fixe menu with wine pairings is $35 per person.
The regular menu at TPK also is available to diners.
Call (508) 459-9090 for more info.
If you�re looking for a new cookie recipe to share during the holiday season, try White Chocolate Kissed Gingerbread Cookies from the McCormick Kitchens. McCormick�s staff has revisited some favorite holiday baking recipes and added fun, new takes.
Here�s the new version of the nostalgic gingerbread cookie.
White Chocolate Kissed Gingerbread Cookies: Mix 3 cups flour, 2 teaspoons McCormick ginger (ground), 1 teaspoon McCormick cinnamon (ground), 1 teaspoon baking soda, 1/4 teaspoon McCormick nutmeg (ground) and 1/4 teaspoon salt in a large bowl. Set aside. Beat 3/4 cup (1-1/2 sticks) softened butter and 3/4 cup firmly packed brown sugar in a large bowl with electric mixer on medium speed until light and fluffy. Add 1/2 cup molasses, 1 egg and 1 teaspoon McCormick Pure Vanilla Extract; mix well. Gradually beat in flour mixture on low speed until well mixed. Press dough into a thick flat disk. Wrap in plastic wrap. Refrigerate 4 hours or overnight.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Shape dough into 1-inch balls. Roll in granulated sugar (1/4 cup) to coat. Place 2 inches apart on ungreased baking sheets. Bake 8 to 10 minutes or until edges of cookies just begin to brown. Immediately press a white and milk chocolate swirled kiss-shaped candy into the center of each cookie. Remove cookies to wire racks; cool completely. Store cookies in airtight container up to five days.
Note: you will need 60 candies for recipe.
If you have a tidbit for this column, call (508) 868-5282. Send email to firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Inexperienced England captains, RWC representation and Clive Shell
John Griffiths
January 30, 2012
Former England scrum-half Nigel Melville was uncapped when he led his country for the first time in 1984 © PA Photos
Welcome to the latest edition of Ask John where renowned rugby historian John Griffiths will answer any rugby-related query you have!
So, if there's something you've always wanted to know about the game we love but didn't know who to ask, or you think you can stump our expert - then get involved by sending us a question.
In this edition, John Griffiths answers questions on English players in Wales, Hugo Porta's final bow and inexperienced England squads.
Who were England's least experienced (by fewest caps) Test captains? Graham, England
Four England Test captains led on their international debuts.
Frederick Stokes was captain in their first-ever international when clearly every member of the side was a new cap (against Scotland in 1871). Joe Mycock led England against Wales at Cardiff in 1947 when he was among 14 new caps in their first Test side for eight years, World War two having interrupted the sequence of Test rugby.
Fred Alderson (against Wales in 1891) and Nigel Melville (against Austraia in 1984) were the other Englishmen to lead on their Test debuts.
Alderson and Mycock led winning sides.
There have been three previous England Test captains appointed after just one Test:
Of these seven Stokes was only 20 and Daniell 21 when they first led England. Will Carling, England's youngest captain since 1931, was 22 and winning his eighth cap when he skippered the side against Australia at Twickenham in 1988.
Cardiff and Ulster qualified as the best runners-up for this year's Heineken Cup knockout stages. What are the lowest and highest points that have allowed teams to progress under the current pool format? David Martin, England
The bonus points system has applied to the six pool stages since the 2003-04 season. Those qualifying as runners-up, with their pool points, have been as follows:
How many times have all of the Five Nations produced a quarter-finalist for the Heineken Cup? RS, Scotland
Edinburgh's recent pool win at Murrayfield meant that the four Home Unions and France will have qualifiers for this year's tournament for only the second time. Edinburgh became the first Scottish team in the competition's history to head a pool.
The only previous Scottish qualifiers were also Edinburgh, as pool runners-up to Toulouse in 2003-04. That was the only other occasion when all of the Five Nations were represented in the knockout stages.
Edinburgh also had to face Toulouse in the quarters that year, losing 36-10 at Le Stadium, Llanelli Scarlets lost 27-10 to Biarritz at Stradey Park, Munster beat Stade Français 37-32 at Thomond Park and in the all-English affair at Wycombe, Wasps (the eventual champions) beat Gloucester 34-3.
Which clubs did Welsh scrum-half Clive Shell who passed away recently appear for? Paul Morgan, Wales
Clive Shell, whose death was reported on January 6 aged 64, won his only Welsh cap as an injury-time replacement for Gareth Edwards against Australia at Cardiff in 1973.
A loyal clubman, he played all his senior rugby for Aberavon, captaining the Wizards from 1976 to 1979 and appearing in the sides which were runners-up to Llanelli in the Welsh Cup Finals of both 1974 and 1975.
In the autumn of 1973 he partnered Phil Bennett when the Welsh XV defeated Japan 62-14 at Cardiff Arms Park in a non-cap match. He played two other non-cap matches against Japan on the 1975 tour to the Far East, replacing Gareth Edwards in the first of the two internationals and playing in the second when Edwards had to stand down owing to a hamstring injury.
Shell played his junior rugby with Pyle RFC and made his Barbarians debut in the 1974 Moseley Centenary match.
Which clubs/regions/provinces had the best representation at the Rugby World Cup? David Thomson, New Zealand
There were ten clubs with ten or more original squad members among the 20 sides that contested the pool stages of the recent tournament.
Clermont-Auvergne topped the list with 16. The leading suppliers were as follows:
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Risque details have emerged in court as testimony began in the trial of an insurance businessman accused of helping a Zumba instructor engage in prostitution in a quaint Maine village.
A landlord who rented office space to the Zumba teacher testified he became suspicious when tenants heard "groaning and moaning".
A pizza shop manager told a jury that the woman disrobed in front of him during a delivery.
The witnesses testified on Thursday in the trial of Mark Strong Sr., who is charged with 13 counts that accuse him of helping Alexis Wright engage in prostitution.
Wright, 30, is accused of engaging in prostitution at the dance studio, at an office across the street and at her own home. Authorities have said she videotaped clients without their knowledge. She will be tried later.
The case has generated attention because of the size of the alleged operation and its location in a seaside village near Kennebunkport, home of the summer compound of former President George H.W. Bush and his family.
A lawyer who has seen Wright's alleged client list says it includes more than 150 names. Law enforcement officials say Wright kept meticulous records suggesting the sex acts generated $150,000 over 18 months.
Christopher West, a landlord who rented office space to Wright, testified he began receiving complaints from other tenants within a couple of weeks. He testified about loud music, moaning, groaning and laughter coming from the office.
He became suspicious when he witnessed men coming and going. He told police he intended to evict her but was asked to hold off because of an ongoing investigation. After police executed a search warrant, he said he discovered a box of adult toys, a bin of used condoms and baby wipes, and a massage table. An agent seized two video cameras, including one that was hidden.
Dan Racaniello, manager of a pizza shop next to the studio, testified that when he delivered spaghetti and meatballs with garlic bread, Wright came to the door wearing only a towel, which she dropped to reveal she was naked. She paid $40 for the $8 meal and told him to keep the change.
"She fussed around with her wallet and off goes the towel. I felt awkward," said Racaniello, who left her apartment stunned both by the nudity and a generous tip, saying, "It made my day."
Both Strong and Wright have pleaded not guilty.
Strong helped Wright launch her Pura Vida dance-fitness studio by co-signing for her lease and loaning money with commercial notes that were repaid with interest. He contends he didn't know about allegations of prostitution, and testimony on Thursday indicated that he didn't sign any documents related to the rented office.
The defence contends the married Strong engaged in bad behaviour by having an affair with Wright but didn't engage in criminal conduct. Prosecutors, meanwhile, contend Strong communicated frequently with Wright about business details via video chat, email and text.
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ShannonGBW necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 161 diseños de 41 diseñadores freelance.
Design a logo for a new job recruitment company called JobLynx Network.
JobLynx Network
JobLynx Network is in the business of making the right connections. JobLynx Network enables companies to hire winners and helps candidates take the first step in realizing their career goals. JobLynx is Trustworthy, Empathetic, A Good Listener, Organized, Honest, Disciplined, A guide, A Go-Getter, Intuitive, Resourceful, and Professional.
We need a logo that reflects this business and philosophy in a friendly, accessible manner.
- Colors should be bright green and muted blue - the colors on this webpage are a good example: http://www.vioptix.com you can tweak and play around as you see fit)
- Design should be simple and clean.
- Design should be friendly, approachable, yet it should also reflect efficiency and professionalism
- The name will always read JobLynx Network (note the capital "L") and it will always be 2 words. Stacked or one line are both ok.
- We chose "Lynx" because of the "hunting" nature of the animal and how it can agressively find you a job. Also because the company "links" people with jobs. Feel free to explore the "hunting" aspect of this animal, but still make sure it is friendly and approachable. "Cats" can naturally evoke "sly" and "cunning" and we want to avoid that.
- Please feel free to explore options that don't feature a Lynx. The lynx imagery is not a requirement, we are just curious to see if something comes up that would work.
- We have format requirements for the final deliverable: The final logo must be delivered as both .jpg and .eps, in full color, in white on a black background, and in black on a white background. So, 6 files total. If you can't deliver in this format, please don't apply.
- The logo should feature a small "TM"
- If you like, you can present the logo alone and as it might appear on a business card. Sometimes its easier to review a logo that is in use versus standing on its own.
- You can play with the tagline if you like: JobLynx Network: Linking the right people with the right jobs.
- Nothing high-tech or futuristic
- Nothing frilly or busy
- No clip art
- When playing with "Lynx" icon, avoid scary hunting imagery or anything that seems agressive, or cunning.
- Avoid italics
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That retro 3D roguelike-ish beat 'em up about dystopian robot love is now on Kickstarter. They aim to collect $US20,000 to finish development on Heart&Slash.
Interestingly, the top reward at $US10,000 is a copy of the finished game's code in C#, delivered six months after its Q1 2015 release. Haven't seen that before.


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In the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, the Founding Fathers set out to define American freedom. But they didn't have the last word. Since then, generations of Americans have built on this foundation, seeking to perfect our ideas of freedom.
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Lightning wrote:However looking at the difference in the display from FREESCO to Slackware it looks like it really needs another extra space added to the end of each line because the white speed bar graph is shown on top of each IP in FREESCO and it is displayed on the blank lines in between each IP in Slackware and adding one more space at the end may solve that issue.
cd /pkg/sbin
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snarf -n http://dingetje.homeip.net/downloads/iftop
chmod +x iftop
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snarf http://lewys-spot.dyndns.org/test/libncurses.so.1.9.9g
chmod +x libncurses.so.1.9.9g
ln -sf libncurses.so.1.9.9g libncurses.so.3.4
pkg -rescan
The only reason I suggested checking is because there are other versions around. Although I think all of the 04x series packages use the same library. Regardless it might be nice to have a newer version of the library around because there have been other issues come up from time to timeI've just checked and the ncurses library in that package is exactly 269804 bytes in size.
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US aircraft carrier tests new drone
The US Navy's new bat-winged experimental drone has been delivered to an aircraft carrier to undergo handling tests aboard the ship.
The Navy said that sailors aboard the aircraft carrier Harry S. Truman took delivery of the drone on Monday from Naval Air Station Patuxent River in Maryland, where it had been undergoing tests.
Truman is the first aircraft carrier to conduct test operations for an unmanned aircraft.
The drone, named the X-47B, is designed to perform one of aviation's most difficult maneuvers: landing on the deck of an aircraft carrier. What's even more remarkable is that it will do that not only without a pilot in the cockpit, but without a pilot at all.
With the drone's ability to be flown autonomously by an on-board computer, the X-47B marks a paradigm shift in warfare.
Currently, combat drones are controlled remotely by a human pilot. The X-47B could carry out a combat mission controlled entirely by a computer. A human pilot designs a flight path and sends it on its way, and a computer program guides it from a ship to target and back.
The X-47B is designed to fly further and stay in the air longer than existing aircraft because it does not depend on a human pilot's endurance. Navy fighter pilots may fly missions as long as 10 hours. Current drones can fly three times as long.
Two X-47Bs were built under a $US635.8 million contract awarded by the Navy in 2007. They were constructed behind a barbed-wire fences and double security doors at Northrop Grumman's expansive facility in Palmdale, California.
The X-47B is an experimental jet - that's what the X stands for - and is designed to demonstrate new technology, such as automated takeoffs, landings and refueling. The drone also has a fully capable weapons bay with a payload capacity of 2040 kilograms, but the Navy said it has no plans to arm it.
In February 2010, the first X-47B had its maiden flight from Edwards Air Force Base, where it continued testing until last December, when it was shipped from the Mojave Desert to the air station in southern Maryland.
The drone, strapped to the back of a big rig, caused a stir on its cross-country trip when people mistook the sleek robotic jet for a UFO.
The Navy has said it expects the X-47B to first land on a carrier by 2013, relying on pinpoint GPS coordinates and advanced avionics. The carrier's computers digitally transmit the carrier's speed, cross-winds and other data to the drone as it approaches from kilometres away.


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The goal of this database is to be the largest, most inclusive collection of Scottish Terrier pedigrees for the entire world.
The database is not limited to only STCA members. Anyone can use the database. Anyone can contribute.
This database is your database. You will contribute to it. You will monitor it. You make it better. It is through the contributions of all the Scottish Terrier owners and breeders that will make the database what it should be.
For the immediate future, the database will be changing very rapidly. To allow you to keep up with the changes, it will be published monthly, most likely mid month. Every attempt will be made to keep up with the monthly and quarterly AKC titles and stud book data.
It is also important to note that this database is being constructed as we speak - information is being added regularly - for instance, many titles are not yet there.
Submit Pedigree Changes
Currently, there are about 143,000 dogs in the database. The database was last updated: 12 August 2019. Next scheduled update is 15 September 2019.
Look at your dogs. Look at your friends' dogs. Look at the national champions or the Westminster winner. See what famous dog are in their background. See where they came from.
Use it as the breeding tool it should be. Do trial matings. Examine what happened to sire and dam previous litters, how did their sibling fare, are there any traits flowing through these dogs.
Although it is not there today, look at the pictures, look at the health and conformation history.
Contact the breeders to get their opinions on the strengths and weaknesses of their dogs. They might be able to evaluate if your dog is a good mate ( or not) for a particular dog from their program.
Whether you have one Scottie or hundreds, we want your pedigrees.
Confirm that all your dogs are in the database. Obviously, check to see how far back your dog lineage goes.
Confirm that they are correctly identified with the correct titles, etc. Report your international titles. The STCA pedigree database is not limited to AKC registrations or American dogs.
If you do not have all the information about your dog (see below), send in what information you have. If you can spend a little time to gather a more complete list that would be great.
If your dogs or its ancestors are missing, send in that pedigree. If you have 8 generations, send it in. If you only have 3 generations, send it in. If you only have the names of the dogs, send it in.
If you are contacted for data on your dog(s), make every effort to send in the information.
Look for the pedigrees that are sitting around your house. Look through old magazines and catalogs. See what pedigrees you may have that you forgot you had. If you find one that is not in the system, send it in. If you find really old pedigrees that are not entered, send them in. Ideally if will be copy or scan of an official registry document like the American Kennel Club or Canadian Kennel Club. But do not feel limited by that constraint. Hand written or typed pedigrees are just as good.
If you are a breeder, send in all the litter mates for a particular breeding, not just the ones that you kept.
As soon as you complete the paperwork for registering a litter, send in that information.
If your dog gets a new title, send in that information. Most of the AKC titles will be done automatically.
If you are sending data to another database, make another copy and send it to the STCA also.
If you have stud books or other breeding records, contact the Pedigree group on lending them. Don't send them in right away as the may have already been entered.
If you have old catalogues especially from Montgomery, Crufts, etc, contact the Pedigree group on lending that information. Don't send them in right away as the may have already been entered.
The Pedigree committee is looking for the following information for each dog:
The committee will be posting how you should send in that pedigree. There will be a series of mechanisms for making pedigree contributions.
The Pedigree Committee will work the data as quickly as possible.
All this data eventually has to get into the physical database that stores this data. Someone has to do this data entry. You can be that someone. If you are willing to commit your time, the Pedigree Committee wants you to help. Contact the STCA Pedigree Committee Chair if you are interested.
You will be trained, provided with the tools to do the work and of course, given the dogs, etc to enter into the database.
The database will soon be adding pictures of the dogs.
So start hunting through your pictures of your dogs. Ideally you are looking for a left facing profile of your dog ie your basic conformation show picture. Of course, you can use any picture of your dog. The cropped image would be only the dog, not show labels, or handlers or the awards or trophies.
Soon there will be details on what is desired. The specifics on what size, what format, etc has not been worked out yet. As soon as decided on, the committee will notify you. So watch this page.
The STCA wants to collect health information on your dogs. This is important for aiding in planning breedings and for tracking issues in the breed.
While you are looking for pictures, collect your health information like CHIC, OFA, vonWillebrand tests results. We will be adding that information to the pedigree database also.
We may also collect other data like date of death or cause of death or disorders that the dog has had.
We may want to collect physical information eg adult weight, height, length of back.
Again, the specific information is not worked out yet. So watch this page.
These events do represent a level of evaluation. Obviously we are collecting titles, so you know which dogs are champions, and what happened to those dogs siblings.
We may also collect other information like major wins eg specialties, rotating and national show, and major.
Again specifics have not been worked out.
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NATO: Soldier killed in helicopter crash in Afghanistan
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — NATO officials say a helicopter has crashed in southern Afghanistan, killing one coalition service member and injuring another.
Capt. Luca Carniel says there was no enemy activity in the area when the helicopter crashed Saturday, and the cause is being investigated.
Kandahar governor spokesman Javeed Faisal says the helicopter crashed in Daman district, a few kilometers (miles) west of Kandahar City.
Officials did not release the type of helicopter or nationalities of the casualties.
It's the second deadly helicopter crash in the south in a week. A Black Hawk crashed outside Kandahar City on Monday, killing five U.S. troops.
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Mother's Day in Mexico: Time to reflect on missing kids
One mother says many families suffer from suspicions that their loved ones were somehow involved in illegal activities.
MEXICO CITY -- Maria Elena Salazar has searched tirelessly for her son, Hugo Marcelino González, who disappeared one morning 3 1/2 years ago while heading to his technical support job in the northern Mexican city of Torreon.
No ransom demand was ever made. The mother of three says authorities have shown little interest in finding Hugo, who was 24 when he vanished.
So she like many other parents in Mexico carry out their own searches in the hope that they can provide to police some clues about what happened to their loved ones in a country where tens of thousands of people are missing in the wars against drug cartels.
"We've done the investigation," she says. "The case file is thick now, but it's all information we've provided."
Hundreds of mothers like Salazar and the relatives of missing persons marched through central Mexico City on Friday, marking Mexican Mother's Day – an event considered almost sacred south of the border – with demands that the federal government take the cases of their loved ones seriously.
Some of the protesters also started hunger strikes to demand action.
Salazar's son is among 27,000 people to vanish in Mexico since the federal government – led by then-President Felipe Calderon – cracked down on drug cartels and criminal groups in December 2006. Many migrants heading for the United States also have disappeared, according to the operators of shelters for the hoards of Central Americans transiting Mexico without proper papers.
"It's a powerful signal that there is much more uncertainty than their should be in society toward the authorities," said Bishop Raúl Vera López, whose northern Mexico diocese has supported the families of missing persons. "We can't just leave these women (to search) on their own."
Searches for the missing by the authorities have been scant. Salazar says many families suffer from suspicions that their loved ones were somehow involved in illegal activities. But the plight of the missing in Mexico is now moving to the front pages as the country comes to grips with the legacy of a drug war that has claimed close to 70,000 lives, according to the Interior Ministry.
It's still uncertain how many of the disappearances were related to organized crime or people missing for unrelated reasons. A recent report by Human Rights Watch documents 249 cases of forced disappearances that were attributable to the actions of police or soldiers.
"In cases where state agents work with organized crime in carrying out disappearances … security forces arbitrarily detain victims and then hand them over to criminal groups," the report said.
President Enrique Peña Nieto pledges to reduce crimes such as kidnapping and extortion, but his government has largely stayed silent on the issue of organized crime and violence.
Interior Ministry Miguel Ángel Osorio Chong has promised that the problem of missing persons will be taken seriously. The new administration also enacted a new "victims' law," which gives those impacted by organized crime some redress.
Family members often have few clues to follow in a disappearance. Many suspect their relatives may have been forcibly recruited into the ranks of organized crime.
Alma García, an adviser to the Fray Juan Larios Human Rights Center in Saltillo south of the U.S. border at Laredo, Texas, says many of the missing persons were employed and some were professionals with skills sought by cartels such as Los Zetas, which operates in the region and carries out crimes like kidnapping.
"All of the northeast of Mexico has been plagued by disappearances," she said of a region rife with crimes carried by cartels.
State investigators, she adds, pass over some cases if they suspect organized crime involvement, leaving them to the federal attorney general's office.
"They say that they're investigating, but where are the results?" asks Lizeth Cardona Martínez, 19, whose father disappeared three years ago with 11 others while selling paint door-to-door in the border city of Piedras Negras, opposite Eagle Pass, Texas.
"Supposedly there are witnesses, but they don't want to talk. Nobody does."
Families of the missing say they still have some hope that the new government might bring a sense of urgency to their cases, but they expect to be carrying out their own investigations for the foreseeable future.
"We're going to continue until the end," Cardona says.


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Campbeltown Pupils 4 Rutherglen 1
The Fadyen sponsored Campbeltown Pupils got their league challenge of the best possible start with three valuable points at Kintyre Park last Saturday. A dominant second half put the game beyond doubt after a less than convincing opening forty-five minutes.
The young home side continue to improve, but must learn to concentrate when not in possession of the ball. As usual, Paul Grumoli showed his appetite for the game when he latched onto a free kick to head firmly into the net in the seventeenth minute of the match. Rutherglen were causing problems on the break, and were far from down and out as they continued to threaten the home defence. The visitors drew level when a fine pass sent their centre forward through on goal, his parting shot struck with venom to equalise as half time approached.
There was far more energy about the home side's play in the second half, something that has been a feature of recent games. The movement and distribution of the ball was much quicker, a tempo Rutherglen were unable to match. A slack pass-back allowed G Grant to latch onto the ball, the Pupils striker toe-poking the ball beyond the stranded goalkeeper to walk the ball into the net on the hour.
The pace of G Croll was causing the visitors all sorts of bother, and, after forcing a corner on the right, the ball was driven home from close range by centre half Sorlay McKinven to extend the home side's lead. Substitute Dougie Guy completed the scoring when he steered the ball home from a G Croll cut-back.
In recent weeks the home side have played there way into the match after a sluggish start. The management will look for a higher tempo throughout the ninety minutes as the home side post their challenge for promotion.
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At least 14 dead in Aleppo blasts
Human rights activist says explosion caused by missiles
BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian activists say at least 14 people, including children, have been killed in three explosions in the northern city of Aleppo.
The director of the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Rami Abdul-Rahman, says the blasts appeared to have been caused by missiles. He says they hit the eastern neighborhoods of Hamra and Tariq al-Bab on Friday.
The Observatory says dozens of people were wounded, and that many more are believed to be trapped under the rubble of damaged buildings. It says the death toll may rise.
Videos posted online showed what appeared to be the aftermath of the explosions. In one, at least nine bodies are laid out on a floor, some of them wrapped in blankets.
The videos appeared authentic and correspond to other AP reporting.
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Historic Green-Wood Cemetery, the final resting place of countless Irish and Irish Americans, is now home to the newly unearthed gravestone of 19th-century Irish rebel Patrick O'Donohue (1815-1854). As one of the leaders of the Young Ireland Rebellion in 1848, O'Donohue was charged with sedition and sentenced to death. That sentence was later commuted to deportation to Van Diemen's Land, a British penal colony from which many Irish prisoners escaped to America.
O'Donohue had been involved in the Repeal Association, a group of nationalists led by Daniel O'Connell working to repeal the Act of Union of 1800. The act had abolished the Irish Parliament, made the Anglican church the official church of Ireland, and denied Catholic Emancipation. While O'Connell achieved emancipation, O'Donohue and other followers eventually became disenchanted with O'Connell's attempt to work within the system for piecemeal reform, breaking off to form the Young Ireland movement around 1840. The movement reignited the calls to repeal the Act of Union and fight for Irish independence through The Nation, an influential radical newspaper started in 1842.
In 1848, the movement culminated with rebellion amid widespread Famine-related deaths and tenant evictions. Gathering locals and Young Ireland members, William Smith O'Brien launched an unsuccessful attack on a police party barricaded in a house in Ballingarry, Co. Tipperary. O'Brien, along with O'Donohue, Thomas Francis Meagher and Terence Bellew McManus, were transported to Van Diemen's Land in 1849.
Upon arriving at the penal colony six months later, O'Donohue wasted little time reviving the nationalist agenda, publishing a weekly newspaper called The Irish Exile. Although the paper was shut down and O'Donohue was sentenced to a year in a chain-gang – hard labor with non-political prisoners – he immediately restarted the paper upon his return in 1851. Eventually, through a series of escapes with the help of Irish sympathizers, O'Donohue made his way to Melbourne, San Francisco, and finally New York. O'Donohue died in Brooklyn on January 22, 1854, the same day that his wife and daughter arrived in New York City.
This was the end of the story until about a year ago, when a letter came from Ireland inquiring whether O'Donohue was buried at Green-Wood. Cemetery historian Jeff Richman found a record of the interment but no trace of the headstone in the corresponding lot. Because over time headstones may sink into the soil, workers inserted a metal rod into the ground and hoped for reverberations from something buried below. The crew recovered a large ledger stone, about six feet long, with the words "Patrick O'Donohue" and "Irish Rebel" stamped across it. The stone is also engraved with a cross.
Announcing the exciting discovery, cemetery president Richard J. Moylan remarked, "Green-Wood Cemetery is the final resting place for countless prominent Irish Americans whose legacies and stories are kept alive by our willingness to remember and honor them. Green-Wood is proud to announce the recovery and restoration of O'Donohue's headstone. The site is, once again, a place where people can visit a piece of Irish history and pay respects to this historic revolutionary." The gravestone is within walking distance of the memorial marker for Thomas Francis Meagher, fellow Irish nationalist and escapee from Van Diemen's Land who went on to become a Civil War hero.


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How long will there be immunity for? That's always a serious wonder among the contestants on Top Chef. Sometimes the show puts the coveted get out of jail free card up for grabs when there are six contestants left, and sometimes Padma throws up the middle finger and says no more. This season, the contestants got a crack at immunity and that proved very fortunate for one of them.
For the quickfire, the remaining players were asked to watch famed chef and author Jacques Pepin cook his favorite dish: dover sol with artichokes and asparagus. Afterwards, they were each asked to recreate the dish as accurately as possible. Not surprisingly, the chefs with French culinary school training (Shirley and Nicholas) knocked it out of the park. Both were able to copy the techniques pretty closely, and in the end, Nicholas narrowly edged out his competitor.
Like the quickfire, this week's elimination challenge also focused on technique. The remaining six were split into two teams (Carlos, Nina and Brian) (Shirley, Nicholas and Stephanie) and paired with famous chefs to celebrate either Spanish (the first team) or French (the last time) dishes. Carlos and company decided to go very traditional and put together beloved Spanish staples like Chicken and Rice. Shirley and company decided to work a lot more outside the box and update French classics (olive ice cream). All involved did really well, except Nicholas who produced two dishes the judges hated.
His flub was enough to send Nina, Carlos and Brian to the top and to doom himself and his teammates to the bottom. After much debate, Nina was crowned the winner, and in a shocking move, Nicholas was asked directly if he would give up his immunity to save one of his teammates who both prepared brilliant dishes. He refused, which is what the majority of the contestants would have done, and as a result, a tearful Stephanie was sent home.
The Top Chef Power Rankings are an ordered compilation of weekly lists put together by TV Blend writers Jessica Rawden and Mack Rawden. Each week after viewing the episode, they each rank the competitors in order. Nineteen points are given for a first place vote, and this week, fifteen were given for a last place vote. Fourteen competitors have already been eliminated; therefore, those people automatically occupy the bottom slots. Here is how this week's voting panned out, complete with analysis on how the contestants might fare moving forward.
The Remaining Chefs
#1) Nina Compton (38): Forget her one minor mistake a few weeks ago. Nina has had one of the most remarkably consistent Top Chef seasons in history. With eight highs, three wins and only two lows, one of which wasn't her fault, she's been the class of the competition. It's her crown to lose at this point.
#2) Shirley Chung (36): What a devastating blow it would have been if Shirley went home for a dish everyone ranted and raved about. That's the problem with awarding immunity with so few people left, especially when teams are involved. Fortunately for her, she survived the big ugly axe and will no doubt be really happy to return to solo work moving forward.
#3) Carlos Gaytan (33): Carlos isn't a classically trained chef. Of every facet of his game, technique is far and away the worst. He's just never been taught how to do a lot of things; so, I think it's with a sigh of relief he advanced out of this week's challenges still in the competition. In fact, his elimination challenge dish was actually a help to his team. If he's able to cook his own style, he could be a threat, but if there are more challenges like this one, he'll be packing his knives early.
#3) Brian Huskey (33): How good is Brian? Really, I want to know. We're almost all the way through the season, and he's the one contestant I can't quite figure out. A few times he's picked out a dish and absolutely crushed it. A few times he's been godawful, but mostly, he's churned out solid food that's been good enough to get a thumbs up but not good enough to propel him into victory conversations.
#5) Nicholas Elmi (30): The wheels have come off. Nicholas' two wins are now a distant memory, replaced by two pretty terrible weeks in a row. The judges weren't particularly nice about his situation this week either. They told him flat out that he was the reason Stephanie went home and that he would have been packing his knives without even a discussion if he was eligible. It goes without saying that he needs to pick it up immediately.


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Can Technology Bring Down Medical Costs?
Better technology and analytics can reduce inefficiency and waste in the medical system. MedAssets CEO John Bardis joins digits. Photo: Medassets.
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England v New Zealand, December 1
Lancaster looks to the future after huge win
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December 1, 2012
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England coach Stuart Lancaster saluted his charges after seeing them record a historic 38-21 victory over the All Blacks at Twickenham - a result which led to Kiwi coach Steve Hansen to label the red rose side as potential World Cup-winners.
England scored three tries in eight second-half minutes from Brad Barritt, Chris Ashton and Manu Tuilagi. And after watching his side's 20-match unbeaten run demolished New Zealand coach Hansen gave Lancaster's young side a ringing endorsement.
"There were two teams capable of winning the World Cup out there," Hansen said. "No excuses, we got beaten by the better side. This is a good England side. You should get behind them and back them a bit. They have shown what they can do and if you back them it will make them even more dangerous.
"They thoroughly deserved their victory and should be proud of what they have achieved with magnificent football. They took the game to us from the get-go, full credit to them."
The result will give England a massive lift ahead of the 2013 Six Nations as they ended their autumn internationals programme on a winning note after they suffered back-to-back defeats to the Wallabies and then the Springboks. But England answered the pre-match calls from the management staff to step up another gear and produced their best performance under Lancaster.
"The performance was exactly what we had hoped for," Lancaster said. "I'm chuffed for the players. When the tough times came we stayed together. That team belief with a young England side definitely augurs well for the future.
"At 15-14 we came back with three tries of our own. We've tried to instil a no-fear mentality in the players and to make them have the courage of their convictions. To build a 15-point lead was very pleasing. The All Blacks came back strong but our energy and our fight for the shirt was outstanding. That's what got us across the line.
"Our defence was outstanding. We forced the All Blacks into errors and not many sides do that."
The victory was a triumph for captain Chris Robshaw, who had been heavily criticised for poor decision-making against Australia and South Africa. Robshaw gathered his players in a huddle at the end and Lancaster explained the significance.
"Chris was saying that when we turn up for the Six Nations we must make sure we are at this level and not drop back 10 per cent," said Lancaster. "It is brilliant to get this result but we are on a long-term plan and we have to make sure we back up the performance.
"We didn't quite get across the line with Australia and South Africa but to get across the line with New Zealand with a young team with 206 caps in the starting XV is an unbelievable achievement. The win gives the players belief in the direction we are going and the rugby public a sense that this journey is the right one.
"We want to win here and now but we want to build a team for the future and we have lads like Joe Launchbury and Jon Joseph and Owen Farrell and Freddie (Burns) who are 21, 22 and 23 years old. They should be playing for England for years and we should be sat here in 10 years time and still have the same group of lads with 800 caps in our starting XV."
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2012: Came fifth in the 55m hurdles with a time of 9.46, seventh in the high jump with a 5-08.00, sixth in the long jump in 18-07.75 and fifth in the triple jump with a 39-06.00 against Bates and Colby ... finished 12th in the 60m hurdles with a 9.69 at the Bean Pot Classic.
2011: Finished third in triple jump (40-7.50 feet) against Bates and Colby … finished fourth in long jump (18-11.25) against Bates, Colby and Southern Maine … finished eighth in long jump (19-2.75 feet) at NEWMAC championship ... NEWMAC Academic All-Conference.
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Monday, March 7, 2011
The Myth of the Gatekeepers
The word gatekeepers always conjures up visions of high stone towers with agents and editors poised at the top with automatic weapons, ready to shoot down any new author who dares to try to enter the traditional publishing world. Here's the thing about gatekeepers like this - there aren't any.
Agents and editors don't exist to keep new authors out of the system. On the contrary, they are hungry for new talent and everyone wants to be the person with the next big thing. They comb their submissions looking for great writing and amazing new ideas. There were thousands of debut children's books published last year (I tried to find the exact number, but it is safe to say thousands.). So if you have submitted your writing and are getting nothing but rejections, it's not because the gatekeepers are barring your way.
It's because your work isn't ready.
Go back to the drawing board. Put that piece away and start working on something else. Go to some conferences or take some writing seminars. Get a great and honest critique group or at least one person who knows what they are doing who can help you get your next book in 'unpassable' shape.
The very first novel I wrote still hasn't sold, and I'm glad. When I look back at it there were so many things wrong with that manuscript that if it had been published, I'd cringe to look at it. Thank goodness for the agents and editors who gave me the time to hone my craft and get my writing up to a publishable level - and allowed me to be proud of that first book.
I'm not a fan of self-publishing. There, I said it. Don't get me wrong, I love my Kindle - the process of thinking about reading a book and actually reading it within two minutes is awesome. It's self-published books whether in print or ebook form that I don't like. I got in an argument with a good friend at a recent conference because he said being a self-publishing hater was downright un American. These people were the pioneers of the new literary frontier, they were taking matters into their own hands, going around the traditional establishment and making their own money. Right. I have no problem with all of that. There is one thing that keeps me from being a proponent of self-publishing: most self published books aren't very good. I have yet to read one that wouldn't have benefited from a heavy-handed editor or frankly, just more time honing their craft.
So what's the problem with that? So there are a bunch of mediocre self-published books out there. Who does it hurt? In my opinion, everyone. Most readers don't take the time to find out who published a book - whether it came from a big publishing house or a box in the author's garage. They just pick up a title and give it a try and if over and over again the quality of the writing is poor, how long is it until they decide that reading is a waste of time? That books today aren't well-written and that they'd spend their time better with Snooki and the gang at the Jersey Shore?
Apply the same principal to becoming a pilot. Let's say you spend a lot of time playing Apache Air Assault on Xbox and you routinely beat all your friends. You decide that you want to be a pilot, but don't want to waste time with flight school or those pesky tests. You put on that pilot's uniform and take the wheel of the nearest jumbo jet. How many planes would have to crash before the flying public decides that train travel is looking more appealing? (Yes, I did just compare writing fiction to something potentially life-threatening.)
I do think there is a place for self published non-fiction books. I know someone who is self publishing a book on a very specific method for playing blackjack and I think it will do well. There is a built-in audience for that kind of book and he has a 'platform' already set up so that people will go looking for his book. Unless you're a very well-known fiction author (or celebrity - don't get me started), that probably won't happen for you. Yes, I know there are a few (a very few) who are making money self-publishing ebooks. but these are the exception rather than the rule and I think that once the curiosity factor wears off, it will get even more difficult.
I do think that this will all sort itself out. I have to believe that the publishing industry will figure out an ebook model that works for everyone that will allow readers to get the books they want and writers to afford to create them. That a great book can still get a lot of traction by word of mouth and that quality writing will triumph in the end.
According to this NYT op-ed piece, 81% of Americans want to write a book. At the same time, only 15% of Americans regularly read books. Gatekeepers or not, to me, this seems to be the real problem.
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- Solvang Sherrie said...
I go back and forth on this issue because I've read good self-published books as well as crappy ones. But as a former musician, it's so strange to me how music lovers and movie goers look to indies for cool new stuff, but in publishing, indie authors are reviled. I totally follow the logic of your post, but I also don't think it's a foregone conclusion that a self-published book is going to suck. I think that just like with anything else, there are gems to be found, and as you pointed out, niches to be filled. And until big publishers find a way to lower their prices and still make a profit (for the authors as well as themselves), a lot of readers will continue to risk $2.99 on an unproven author instead of $17.99.
- March 7, 2011 at 1:15 PM
- Jeanne said...
I think you make some great points, and while I agree with some of what you've said, I have to disagree a little.
Not ALL books are like piloting a plane. Some are like playing with a model plane or even a paper plane. I see much of the self published ebooks not as literature, but as entertainment.
As a reader I don't buy a self-published ebook for a dollar and expect to read Catcher in the Rye. I do it because I want to read about gay bikers or Polyamory or a werewolf falling in love with a robot.
I want to read the stuff that the publishing industry is to scared to take a chance on. To me it is just a dollar, and if it disappoints me at least I'm not out the $9 I spent on high profile mainstream book that I ended up hating.
- March 7, 2011 at 1:32 PM
- E.J. Wesley said...
I hear your argument, Cynthia, and think you communicate it well. AND in a less hateful, more reasonable, way than most of the ones I've read (on either side of the issue).
However, I have to disagree with you completely on one point, and it's probably your biggest: "It's because your work isn't ready."
In many cases, you're 100% correct. Agents and editors know the business, and they are certainly good at understanding what works and what doesn't. Unfortunately, they aren't right many times. Not a crime, just a fact. Is it really a good system that allows 1, 10, or even 20 people to decide what a billion readers are allowed to read?
The missteps made by publishing pros, I'd guess, stems from them having to anticipate/judge so many factors aside from writing. Market, author brand recognition, consumer trends, etc. are all things that have to be thought about before they invest in an author/book, and none of them necessarily have a thing to do with the basic question: Is it a good story?
Good stories get passed on all the time. How many said, "no thanks" to Jo Rowling? Amanda Hocking is doing things in terms of sales that any traditionally published author would love to do, and she was told no as well. Granted, someone eventually said yes to JK, and we can choose to believe that Amanda (had she stuck with it) would have eventually landed an agent and a book deal. After all, tens-of-thousands of readers can't ALL be wrong, right?
If that's true, I'm disturbed to ask the question: how many people give up? How many writers, after getting shot down by the industry, have put their stories away. What if Amanda had said, "Well, it isn't good enough to get published. I don't have what it takes"?
While some might say that it justifiably rules out the ones who 'don't really want it', I'd argue that it has probably discouraged some extremely talented voices from being heard. In the end, it has taken the decision away from the people who really count: The readers.
I just don't see any harm in allowing readers to decide what is worthy of being sold for money, and what isn't. It allows writers to write and not worry about markets, trends, and what-have-you. If a writer doesn't take the time to learn the craft, weave an incredible story, or do the other 'musts' for solid writing, it won't sell. Seems pretty simple.
Anyway, thanks for sharing your thoughts. I'm always interested in hearing what authors think.
- March 7, 2011 at 1:34 PM
- KevinMc said...
I'm with E.J. I think it's very hard to state "your work is not good enough" if you're rejected by agents/publishers when we see obvious examples of quality literature rejected or nearly rejected. Ms. Hocking has hundreds of thousands of readers who rather disagree with all of the folks who rejected her work. Ms. Rowling got lucky and had the daughter of a brand new small press beg her Dad to publish the first Potter book. But for that random stroke of luck, she might never have published at all.
And those are just two stand-out examples. What about the ebooks making much more modest sales in the 10,000-100,000 range (and there are a LOT of those) which were rejected previously? It's not agent's/publisher's faults. They're trying their best (their jobs RELY on them trying their best!) to find the books they think will sell well. But as gatekeepers, they are only stand-ins for the real gatekeepers.
Which brings me to my next point.
The gatekeepers are dead...long live the gatekeepers. ;)
The true gatekeepers are what they've always been: readers. And with independent publishing taking off like a house afire (about 40% of the top 100 bestselling fiction ebooks on Amazon are indie published), they're moving toward becoming the primary gatekeepers for most books within the next few years.
Writers won't be answering to publishers who are guessing what the readers might like, or agents who are guessing what the publishers are guessing the readers might like (how oddball a setup is that, anyway?). Instead, writers will be answering to the only gatekeepers who really matter: readers. Whose yes/no votes, collectively, will spell success or failure for any book.
To me, that just makes sense. Let the readers decide if there is an audience for a book, or not. They're the ones best suited to do that, especially with the layers that have been built up between them and writers coming down.
- March 7, 2011 at 3:08 PM
- CJ Omololu said...
I think that the readers decide now, even with the traditional publishers. So many books with lots of money behind them don't 'make it' while others hit the NYT Bestseller list largely on word of mouth. I'll grant that the reader is the ultimate gatekeeper and as such we owe them the best product we can craft.
I doubt that ebooks will become a free-for-all, at least I hope not. And most self published books, ebook or not, don't come near the 10-100k range. Amanda Hocking and Christopher Paolini are always the two examples brought up as successful self-pubbed authors, but I'd rather not get into specifics here. It's true that these two people are very successful. Two.
If all writing goes the way of the self pubbed author, writers also won't get the support of competent editors and agents who can make their books the best they can be. I can't imagine writing in a vacuum - it's a collaboration and that's what makes an okay book great.
40% of the top selling Amazon ebooks are indies because they can sell them cheaply (which refers back to the original Nathan Bransford post). Is it going to come down to price? Why should I bother polishing and learning craft when I can whip something out, post it right away and sell it cheap and the public won't expect much? Jeanne said that she doesn't expect to spend 99 cents and get Catcher in the Rye. That to me is a little sad.
- March 7, 2011 at 3:47 PM
- Tim Holmes said...
A great deal of your concern seems to the great deluge of unedited drivel that will make the quality writing impossible to find.
What is needed then is not someone to slow down the publishing of writing, but some way to determine which of this writing it worth noting and which is drivel. We already have mechanisms for this, you note them yourself. As for the poor person picking up the random book hoping to get something they'll get caught up in, I think it'd be a hard argument to make that this would be any worse than today.
I would argue the software has already shown one such situation... Software exists as both a publisher model and a self-pub model. This is thanks to the low investment needed for bits and the low friction of Internet software sales. Surely there's a need for a large publisher investment in a serious large scale software solution for some needs, and yet small scale solutions exist, thrive, and exhibit some of the highest (and lowest) quality standards on the market. The analogy isn't exact, but it works well enough.
I imagine if the world of publishers does go away, I can imagine writers hiring their own editors to work on their books. I could extrapolate on what the effects of that would be for another hour or two I'm sure.
Finally, why should you try to write well if you can whip out garbage that sells reasonably well? Well, that's not really the equation is it... First, you write well because you want to, not because it sells well. Second, garbage writing doesn't really sell that well, and if it does, perhaps one should consider the judgement of those judging other's reading interest. And third, if one does write just for the money, then writing better would, in theory at least, earn you MORE money.
Lastly, it may not be wise to overestimate the overall quality of books that get through the publishing system. Certainly there have been innumerable stories of the publisher who got turned down over and over until... How many stopped trying and burned their manuscripts, stopped writing forever, and just gave up?
- March 7, 2011 at 6:44 PM
- Linda Austin said...
Publishing is a business and they may say they want new authors, but they need the tried-and-true, the celebrities and others with platforms whether their books are really that great or not. Those are what sell and can make $ to support risks of new blood. Agents are inundated with manuscripts and must look for reasons to quickly weed them out whether by query or first few paras, and most books taken in by trad publishers fail anyway, so why not take a chance with indie-pubbing. Problem is we need impartial reviewers of indie-pubbed books. I do my part.
- March 7, 2011 at 7:09 PM
- CJ Omololu said...
I may still disagree, but I love the thoughtful arguments. Okay, the 'writing garbage' comment was tongue in cheek and maybe unnecessary. The software model would work better for me if 81% of the American public thought they should/could write an app. More than the stories of people who gave up are the stories of the people who didn't and through the process of learning how to write well ended up with wonderful writing careers. If you can't handle rejection at the agent-querying stage, then the rest of process will be painful because every step of the way involves rejection.
Linda, your comment was the reason I wrote the post. I'm a member of the Tenners, over 200 debut authors in 2010, and I don't know any of us who had an 'in' either with an agent or publisher when we started. We wrote, rewrote, subbed and resubbed until we found someone who loved our manuscript as much as we did. They do need titles that are pretty much guaranteed, but every year, major houses take on debut authors who have no connections. I'm glad that reviewers like you take on all kinds of books - maybe that will help to be a balancing factor.
- March 7, 2011 at 8:35 PM
- Marat said...
While I agree that many of the self-published selections available are not of first quality, I don't see that publishing with a so-called "reputable" publisher is always a guarantee of quality, either. I read a lot, from textbooks to fantasy, from hard-core tech to science fiction. I have seen many, and I repeat, many such professionally published works that are rife with errors in grammar, usage, spelling, etc. Where is the high-quality work in those cases?
On the side of self-publishing, however, I would make an analogy with movies. The Notebook was a well-done, serious movie that got much of the acclaim it deserved. We'll call that the "professionally published" side. On the other side of the coin is, for example, the movie Push, which has no pretensions of being an art film, nor an Academy Award nominee, but it does succeed at that which drives its existence: entertainment. Let's call that the "self-published" side.
Both sides have legitimacy; each side, however, achieves vastly different goals. That is not to say that there is no crossover. There are certainly mainstream books meant to entertain; e.g., Stephen King's novels. There are also assorted self-published books meant to be high-quality. John Grisham, for example, self-published A Time To Kill, and has gone on to great success.
All I am saying is please do not make generalizations, because that hurts those good writers who choose for whatever reason to self-publish. After all, there was a day when publishing had to be self-publishing, because there were no publishers. I hardly think Doubleday had anything to do with publishing Shakespeare's plays, or Homer's Iliad.
For some authors, self-publishing is the only viable way to get their work in print; and for some, leaving a legacy for family is every bit as important as any financial gain.
- March 7, 2011 at 8:55 PM
Fascinating all around.
I must add that the fact that $17.99 is considered expensive for entertainment that'll last many more hours than a movie, a play, or a ball game, but people barely blink at wasting that on a martini and a bowl of nuts kinda bugs me. Priorities and values seem out of whack. (Mine included in many cases, by the way.)
I think the advice of editors and the eyes of many can really help shape a book for the better. My work is greatly improved by input. If I published my own stuff, like Cynthia said, it wouldn't be nearly as good. As for the great writer who's missed? Maybe. Many good actors, musicians and painters toil in obscurity, too, I guess, but if you ask me to choose between and self-published and not, I'd still go through something that's been vetted. Gotta get my $17.99 worth, right?
- March 9, 2011 at 8:16 PM
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- March 10, 2011 at 9:06 PM
I've worked in publishing for 20 years. There *are* gatekeepers. They decide who comes through the gate and who doesn't. And it isn't always about whose work is better -- it's usually about whose work is more *salable*. It's a business, not a "whose work is better" (or "more ready") contest.
Publishing companies are putting more and more of the work off on the authors (from marketing to editing) and doing less and less for midlist authors (better find your own typos). And if your next two books don't sell increasingly more copies than your first, then you are back on the outside of the gate. When that happens, self-publishing may start to look good to you.
- March 21, 2011 at 2:24 PM
- CJ Omololu said...
With all due respect, I disagree. Elbows deep into a complicated revision, poring over notes from my editor as we hash out this revision with a view to the next one and a heavy-handed copy edit makes me glad I have these industry professionals on my side - they have as much stake in the outcome as I do. As I read more and more poorly written and unedited self-published ebooks I'm more convinced than ever that self publishing won't look good to me.
- March 29, 2011 at 9:26 AM
- KevinMc said...
Self publishing doesn't have to - and shouldn't - mean poorly produced. But just like some blogs are filled with insightful and interesting commentary (like this one, actually), and others are complete junk - the same is true of indie music, indie movies, indie comics - and indie books as well.
The fact that any garage band can upload their MP3 to iTunes has not turned iTunes into a disaster area, though. ;) Nor has it kept those indie bands actually capable of creating good music from making a living that way.
Ditto books. There are *great* self/indie published books out there. Most of them look as polished as anything NYC produces. Most people who read them never know they were indie published.
And there's a whole steep spectrum from there to the junk at the bottom of the pile, the stuff nobody ever reads.
The real gatekeeper here is the reader, though. It's the reader you have to convince, today. If you write a great story, get the book edited properly, format it nicely, put a slick cover on it, write a strong blurb, and publish it under your publishing business name - then virtually no one who reads it will ever know it was published by the author. Nor will they care.
Your professionalism = your success. If you lack professionalism...? Well. ;)
- March 29, 2011 at 10:20 AM


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