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A couple weeks ago, I posted about the apparent desire by Michigan's coaches to offer every prospect under the sun. Of course, like any strategy, there are certain advantages and downsides to this technique. What is most striking, perhaps, is the difference between what Michigan is doing, and the methods employed by arch-rival Ohio State on the recruiting trail. The post (as it was intended to do) drew a ton of responses, and I went even one step further by asking a few questions of Jim Stefani, who was more than happy to answer them.
What is going on
According to Jim Stefani, Michigan has as many as 130 offers to high school prospects outstanding thus far. Many of these, however, might be from kids that they don't really want to commit. According to Jim Stefani, "In a sense, many Michigan 'offers' are not really firm offers but more or less strong indications of interest by Michigan. Take that for what you will, but it is how many schools are now approaching recruiting. Look at the DB who wanted to verbal to U-M last week [Travis Williams] but was told to wait." Florida, a school that uses a similar technique in throwing around a lot of offers, had a similar situation, and they had to tell a defensive back outright that the offer he had been given was not "committable." It appears as though the main point of contention here, then, is what an offer really means.
Shouldn't an offer, by definition, be "committable?" Isn't that, after all, what an offer is? Wolv54 offered a hypothesis in the comments from the previous post:
The only potential problem the shotgun approach creates is that you have a finite number of schollies and you have to slow play some guys waiting for the higher ranked guys make their decisions. I would compare it to trying to get a prom date; whereas you ask the hottest girl you know and hope she says but if not, you can always take that girl that plays in the band, right?
Michigan seems to be offering both the "hottest girl" and the "band girl," and hoping they can get the less desirable option to wait for the hotter one before making a decision. However, with a Michigan offer now just meaning that the Wolverines have strong interest in a kid, the techniques might have to be adjusted. According to Stefani, "they need to be careful that they get the right kids to commit of those 130. Believe me, even though a kid has been offered does not mean that Michigan wants him to commit right away (or, perhaps, ever)."
So why do they offer guys without actually wanting them to commit? This hasn't always worked out, as people (like Travis Williams) try to commit, without the staff wanting it. That can lead to one of the problems that Michigan fans fear, according to Michigan4204,
I mean damn dude, were beating out schools like TCU, Tulsa, SMU, and Baylor for some of these recruits. Players used to come to Michigan because they produced pro-level talent. You have to have that talent first of all when you arrive on campus, and half of RR recruits simply don't have that talent.
There are certainly ways out of this (and schools like florida use them as well), but it's not always the cleanest break, as Stefani points out, "It backfires when a kid wants to commit and the verbal is not accepted or commits and then a few months later Michigan stops contact. That is because it will upset the prospect and, more importantly, his high school coach. If the prospects is from a program loaded with D-I talent every year it could definitely hurt." Michigan seems to be willing to risk this.
The Contrast with Ohio State
Ohio State, as mentioned above, is using a recruiting method that seems to be diametrically opposed to that of Rich Rodriguez and staff. Jim Tressel has given out very few offers, and has many fewer commits than Michigan, though most of their commits are more highly-rated than some of Michigan's guys. Like Michigan has its reasons for the current recruiting strategy, Ohio State also has reasons for theirs. They already have a deep talent base, and this year, they have very few scholarships to hand out. Stefani's take:
The longer a school waits to offer, the more time it has to evaluate prospects and decide who they want to offer. With schools in the midst of May evaluation, combines going on every weekend and summer camps coming up in June, the Ohio State coaches will have a LOT more info at hand when it comes to making their offer decisions than the school that have offered many prospects early based on sophomore year camp/combine performances and junior film.
The Buckeyes also give themselves another advantage: "many of the elite players like to wait things out, which only helps the schools who have not picked up too many early verbals." Of course, Michigan will wait on top-top guys who have interest, but does accepting a lot of early verbals limit their ability to do so? Probably.
As shown above, Michigan fans aren't exactly unanimously enthusiastic about the new approach. Michigan4204 was the most harsh in the comments of the previous post, using the now-old adage "Just because it worked in the Big East doesn't mean it'll work in the Big Ten. Trust me I hope it does, but I'm pessimistic." When it was pointed out that there is no reason to expect any different result simply on a different conference, he was quick to point out the talent difference between the Big Ten and Big East, which, unfortunately for his argument, seems to ring a little hollow.
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So, yeah. That argument certainly doesn't hold water. Complaining about Rodriguez's tactics on the basis of a talent difference between conferences is bogus. Of course, that doesn't stop ontblue from agreeing with him:
Tend to agree with Michigan4204. You can take RR's 3/4 star guys and I'll take the USC/Florida/Suckeyes 4/5 star guys and we'll see how things stack up in 5 years. By the way, since when did adding a marginal guy ever add to depth? It just adds another cheerleader.
Obviously, Rich and staff think the commits that they take will be guys who are able to contribute, or they likely wouldn't waste their time. As bouje noted, "Who are the players that are really lighting it up in spring practices? Vincent Smith 3* out of Florida. He can obviously pick the 3* recruits."
The reasons for this approach
So why does Michigan have to recruit the way they are? For one thing, they'll probably have a lot of scholarships to fill, unlike the Buckeyes. "[L]ast year Ohio State signed a full class of 25, so they have limited schollies to hand out this year and are being very selective," Stefani said. "On the other hand, after expected attrition Michigan is in a position to sign between 22 and 25 kids this coming year, so the Wolverines have a lot more flexibility when it comes to making early offers." The early offers also help Michigan get their foot in the door with some guys:
Being aggressive with their early offers means that Michigan gets on a prospect's radar earlier than those schools that have not offered. the old adage 'the early bird catches the worm' applies here. Moreover, actually picking up early verbals gets the whole process rolling as they can market their "great" (haha, excuse me) class to other prospects, as can the kids who have already committed. They can now tell a lot of the Ohio kids, we love you but Ohio State doesn't. that carries some weight.
The early offers also mean that the class fills up quickly, as pointed out by Derrick, "Wouldn't this approach force some kids to make a decision before all the offers were gone? If a kid really wants to play for michigan or any school he knows there are only so many offers available and he should be proactive in making a commitment." Still, fans aren't necessarily all on board with this approach, as sebaskrator said, "I'm willing to give RR the benefit of the doubt for now. Has has been able to get pretty far finding some gems before. That said, if he is able to juggle commitments around for someone he'd like more later, great." It's an endorsement, sure, but I'd say that's far from ringing.
The Future
So, when Michigan's talent base is built up to where it used to be, at least with the types of players that Rodriguez wants, will we see this strategy continue? It's highly likely, though a school like Florida, which has had several top-tier classes in a row now, continues to use it, as AC1997 points out "I find it interesting how Urban Myer is offering everyone and their brother too, being from Utah he had the same problem that Rich Rod did (and probably worse)." The key thing that needs to happen before Michigan can audible the recruiting strategy is to show results on the field, according to Stefani, "First and foremost,once Michigan starts winning again it will become a magnet for national kids and be able to hold off on offering second-tier kids too early." Ohio State obviously doesn't have this problem right now, as he points out:
Ohio State is a top-tier national program that has gone to a couple consecutive BCS championship games. They are an elite school that a LOT of kids want to play for, be they in-state kids or national kids… They can afford to wait on a lot of in-state kids because they know that they can get them later in the recruiting timeline if they finish second on some of their top national targets. Michigan, on the other hand, is in a rare rebuilding mode and is not longer a "hot" school with national prospects.
In the future, once Michigan (hopefully) starts having on-field success again, this argument will all become moot.
There are still benefits to Michigan's technique, as Stefani says "The risks [for an approach like OSU] are that by waiting too long to offer a prospects you have 'bigger fish to fry' you will lose out on him to another school (e.g. Devin Gardner to Michigan). Once prospects are offered bythe Buckeyes, they will often have to do a 'catch-up' job in showing them the love." However, It seems that Michigan will likely never go from the extreme that they're currently occupying all the way to Ohio State's, wherein they offer very few prospects early. In the end, a happy medium is probably most desired. AC1997 probably sums it up best: "Maybe he feels that 3-9 means he has to do that." In another year 3-9, hopefully, will no longer be an issue.
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Tags: florida, ohio state hate, travis williams
5 Comments so far
frank says...
This seemingly strong argument rests on the dubious foundation that the "star ratings" are infallible. Maybe the "band girl" is a unbelievably hot under that uniform and has a winning personality, more so than the "hottest girl," but only a few bother to take the time to look.
Recruiting is an art not a science. All rating systems are based on past performances which can't always predict future performance.
RR seems to know what he's doing. "Those who can coach, do; those who can't, rate high school recruits."
Dale says...
Now you all are experts on how to offer????
jaggs says...
frank, i respectfully disagree. All rating systems are NOT based on past performances, they are almost exclusively based on future (college) expectations. This is why the small mighty mite back with 35 TDs and a 12.3 ypc gets 3* and backs with lesser stats, but better college prospects are 4 and 5* guys.
And with regards to the band girl being surpisingly hot, wouldn't you prefer to acquire 4 or 5 'hot girls' rather than one potential band girls that may pan out? Unless your Freddie Prinze Jr., hot girls are the way to go!
Brian says...
I don't agree with 4204 at all. However, Tim's one year draft data is not convincing at all. Show me the same data over a 5 or 10 year period and I'll agree. Until then, Big East is the least talented BCS conference–by far.
Tim says...
My data wasn't meant to be a be-all, end-all of incontrovertible proof. However, it does show that, even if it's a one-year sample size, the conferences are at the very least comparable.


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Sophomore follows in footsteps of Andrew Franks, now kicking in the NFL
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Christian Kapp's father owns a Westchester County sporting goods outlet. But for Kapp, a simple pair of black cleats will do.
"I'm not a very flashy guy," Kapp said.
Eyes are assessing the RPI sophomore's style. It's what happens when you've replaced a Division III fairy tale — Andrew Franks, who is now place-kicking in the NFL.
Teammates are impressed, despite Kapp's lagging knowledge. He recently learned the difference between a halfback and fullback. Kapp kicked just the final two years of high school, amid soccer burnout.
What's the same: "You've got to have some confidence," he said.
RPI, 3-1 heading into Saturday's home game against Merchant Marine Academy, doesn't need Kapp to be Franks — and they've told him as much.
What it needs is for him to make a field goal. He is 0-for-2 after hooking a 30-yarder in a season-opening home blowout, then another wide-left from 37 early at a soggy Alfred field in Week 2.
RPI needs him to get back to when he met Pele and didn't blink.
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Kapp's roots put him in that position. His Romania-born father, a member of the 1984 U.S. Olympic soccer team, also played for the New York Cosmos (1981-83).
Erhardt Kapp moved to the United States when he was 6 but never exactly fell for American football. He occasionally went to see UConn play — and a Huskies soccer teammate became the kicker — but Christian said he has been to just one NFL game: a Giants-Jets exhibition.
"I don't know why, exactly," Kapp said. "Dad just bought tickets and said we were going."
His father, also his club coach, was supportive of the decreased soccer time (Kapp still played high school soccer in the fall, sharing weekly time with football).
His older brother Alex, now a standout goalie at Boston College, also kicked for Iona Prep.
Christian quickly found he wielded a natural boom and the chutzpah similar to a good penalty-kick taker.
Kapp even booted a critical 30-yarder against St. Anthony's, which put Iona up 10 with seven minutes left. It won by 3.
"Them winning surprised everyone," said Nick Esposito, a former St. Anthony's player who's now Kapp's Engineers teammate. "He doesn't stop making fun of me for it."
Kapp has to hear old kicking stories, too — specifically, the legend of Franks. They're stories like this: Franks' father recently offered to pay RPI for broken picture frames, because Andrew rattled so many booms off an athletic-complex wall.
Apparently, the offices behind the stadium's south end zone are guarded by a net that isn't quite high enough for an NFL-caliber kicker.
How can Kapp reach that far?
His father admits he doesn't try to teach football-style form. But he did give his boy advice before sending him to college last year: "Learn from whatever Andrew is doing. You can't copy everything; everyone has their own techniques. But everything from warm-ups to training ... copy as much as possible. You could just tell (Franks) has something."
The two keep in touch. Kapp retweets a lot of Franks' successes. Franks has told the former understudy to take a step back and relax.
The slow start is perhaps more than jitters. Kapp is still adjusting to a nearly 6-inch growth spurt. He skipped first grade, too.
"You're seeing that year difference a little on the physical side right now," Erhardt said.
Kapp said he made a "huge jump" from last season. His kickoffs are 10 yards farther, his field goals 5. Fifty yards is legitimate range in practice.
Having a season with Franks taught him that "maybe this actually is possible" to play beyond East Campus Stadium.
Franks' path is the most likely one for a small-school player. About 20 percent (seven of 34) of the current NFL kickers are from outside the Division I level. They include Franks and Kapp's favorite, South Dakota State product Adam Vinatieri.
Kapp studies film of various NFL stars. He's in the midst of ironing out his sideline routine: understanding where he should be on first down, and so on.
Counting a missed 46-yard try last season, Kapp is looking for success beyond extra-point attempts. However, Franks — who connected from a school-best 54 in 2013 — is still within range.
Don't forget that he was just 4-for-6 as a freshman and a spotty 8-for-14 as a sophomore.
"I see that same drive in Christian's eyes," holder Casey McHugh said. "Now it's just a matter of getting there."
Jason Franchuk is a freelance writer.


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Rigdon Marine gets Bourbon help for further newbuildings
Rigdon Marine Corporation today announced the completion of a series of financial transactions which it says will strategically position the company for future growth. It also announced that it has a firm contract with "a major Louisiana shipbuilder" (Bollinger) for a new series of 10 vessels.
Rigdon Marine Corporation recently signed a $170 million Credit Facility with a group of European banks led by DVB Bank and secured $30 million in equity investment.
The newly restructured Rigdon Marine Corporation says that it has replaced its original financial capitalization for the recently completed GPA 640 series of 10 technically advanced platform support vessels and has obtained additional financing for a new series of 10 vessels, which it has on a firm contract with a major Louisiana shipbuilder.
Vessel construction for the new GPA 654 Class of platform support vessels is expected to be completed in the fall of 2008, and new boats will double the company's operational fleet.
"The success of our initial fleet of ten diesel-electric platform support vessels, designed by Guido Perla & Associates, has given the company the capability of attracting investment capital and attractive long-term debt financing," stated Larry T. Rigdon, President and CEO of Rigdon Marine Corporation. "Furthermore, our organization is committed to the redevelopment of the State of Louisiana. Our operations department will remain in the State, and we will construct our next ten vessels in the State."
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Salem State University releases commencement information
Posted by Christina Jedra May 2, 2013 10:00 AM
The following was submitted by Salem State University:
Salem State University School of Graduate Studies
• 4 pm Thursday, May, 16 at the O'Keefe Sports Center, Canal Street, Salem
• Speaker -- Martha J. Kanter, U.S. Under Secretary of Education,
• 433 anticipated graduates
• Graduate degrees awarded: Master of arts inEnglish, history, Master of arts teaching in: art, chemistry, English, English as a second language, history, mathematics, middle school general science, middle school math, and Spanish; Master of science in: counseling and psychological service, criminal justice, geo-information science, industrial/organizational psychology, mathematics, nursing, and occupational therapy; Master of business administration; Master of education in: early childhood education, elementary education, higher education in student affairs, library media studies, middle school education, physical education, reading, school counseling, secondary education, special education; and Master of social work.
• Honorary degree recipient: David Tory, founder of the Essex County Community Foundation.
Salem State University Bertolon School of Business and the School of Human Services
• 10amSaturday, May 18 at the O'Keefe Sports Center, Canal Street, Salem
• Speaker -- William S. Cummings, founder of Cummings Properties and Cummings Foundation, Inc. and Joyce M. Cummings, founder, director and trustee of Cummings Foundation, Inc
• 672 anticipated graduates
• Undergraduate degrees awarded: Bachelor of science in business administration, criminal justice, occupational health studies, nursing, and social work
• Honorary degree recipients: William S. and Joyce M. Cummings
Salem State University College of Arts and Sciences and the School of Education
• 3 pm Saturday, May 18 at the O'Keefe Sports Center, Canal Street, Salem
• Speaker -- Sima Samar, Afghan international human rights and women's advocate and activist
• 741 anticipated graduates
• Undergraduate degrees awarded: Bachelor of arts in art,biology, chemistry, English,history,music,political science,psychology,sociology, Spanish, theatre arts; Bachelor of fine arts in theatre arts; Bachelor of science in athletic training, biology, cartography and geographic information systems, chemistry,communications,computer sciences ,economics, geography, mathematics, political science, psychology, sociology, and sport and movement science
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Today is Ash Wednesday and I'm fully embracing the give-something-up for Lent concept this year. As a slightly rusty Anglican, I really appreciate this opportunity afforded by the Church calendar for a period of quiet reflection. So, to cut to the chase, I've decided to give up two things: most of my wardrobe, and social media for the next 40-odd days.
Six Items Challenge
From today, I'll be on Labour Behind the Label's Six Items Challenge for the next six weeks. This is a 'fashion fast' to draw attention to the perils of fast fashion. I certainly have plenty of clothing in my wardrobe that I don't wear. How much clothing do we all really need anyway? What does 'fashion' mean to me? Is the 4-6 week fashion cycle one that I care about or have any relationship at all with? Do I like or care for what's 'bang on trend'? Do I want people to live and work in terrible conditions to supply me with cheap, disposable clothing that's 'bang on trend'? All these questions are ones that I'll be thinking about over the next few weeks while on the Six Items Challenge.
Taking part means that I'll have to stick to a basic wardrobe of just six garments, not including underwear, accessories, or high-performance sportswear. I've found simply preparing for the challenge challenging enough; picking out my essential wardrobe has been tricky. I somehow resisted the sartorial advice of my 15-year-old son to purchase myself six onesies and have instead selected:-
- 3 cashmere tops, one grey, one black, one red (all bought secondhand a while back)
- 2 wool pinafore-type tunic over-dresses, both black (both sourced secondhand a while back, again), and
- a wool cardigan (bought new several years ago), grey with giant comedy buttons
I'll be going without, but all that cashmere is hardly hair-shirt. It should feel soft and non-irritating against my skin and hopefully keep me warm enough (I was warned by a previous year's challengee that things can get chilly). The pinafore-type dresses mean that I can layer up, and wear a variety of tights underneath, hopefully allowing me to dress up or down to suit the occasion. I can ring the changes and jazz up a rather neutral palette with various accessories too. And the cardigan will hopefully keep making me smile – those buttons are enormous and very silly. The laundry element of the challenge scares me more than slightly; if you happen to see me IRL over the next few weeks, please approach with caution, and possibly with a fragrant nosegay to hand. I can well imagine quite rapidly resorting to this kind of thing. But let's hope not.
If you're intrigued, would like to know more, and possibly join me (which would be wonderful), here's the link to challenge page. You don't have to do it for the entire six weeks. Adjust to fit.
If you're feeling flush, then it would be great if you'd sponsor me. I didn't realise until I'd already signed up that there's a sponsorship element to the challenge. I don't anticipate getting anywhere near my £500 target, but it would be really good to be able to help Labour Behind the Label with their sterling work empowering garment workers around the globe – standing up for the victims of not just Rana Plaza but so many other appallingly exploitative situations. I'm hugely grateful to those who have already stepped up to the mark and helped me to help them. Thank you so much.
I must flag up online friends taking part, particularly Catherine Hopkins who'll be reporting on her progress throughout. You can keep tabs on the challenge on social media by looking out for the hashtags #sixitemschallenge and #labourbehindthelabel. You'll also find things posted on the Six Items Challenge Facebook page.
And Labour Behind the Label's Fundraising Director, Rebecca Cork, will be joining us at the next meet-up of the Big Mend at the Museum of Bath at Work next week, Wednesday 25th February from 7pm. So if you're in Bath, please come along to hear a little about what Labour Behind the Label does. Then we'll be mending, as usual. No need to book and no charge, though a small donation to help towards museum costs is welcomed.
Farewell, Social Media
After a discussion with some Christian friends the other night about what we'd all be giving up (or possibly taking up, or doing differently) for Lent, it occurred to me that the thing that would really give me withdrawal symptoms was probably not abstinence from tea, coffee, alcohol or chocolate but social media. And so, with not a little irony (as we are just entering the Chinese Year of the Sheep), I've decided that from today I will cease from public bleating. I will not be blogging, micro-blogging, posting, reposting, tweeting, retweeting, sharing, over-sharing, tagging, hashtagging, rehashtagging, artfully filtering photos, liking, linking, commenting, hearting, poking, pinning or replying for the next six weeks. Instead, I'll be doing everything IRL and one-to-one, mostly in the flesh: meeting up with friends and family in person, catching up on the phone (remember that?), having proper conversations, reading books, doing any necessary shopping in bricks-and-mortar shops, watching movies, attending services, mending (including at the Museum of Bath at Work on 25th February – do join me if you happen to be around), gardening, engaging, exploring, planting, thinking, meditating, walking, contemplating, writing and working very, very hard. But no more of the Penn Broadcasting Company. No more glib narcissism. I hope to be more generally on receive than transmit. In short, I shall be hunkering down and keeping mum. Enjoying the quiet. I'm just sorry that this coincides with when I might be tweeting etc in support of Labour Behind the Label's challenge, but I'm sure they'll understand. I'm happy to engage in email correspondence, so if you have reason to get in touch then please do so.
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Saint Anthony Falls with the upper dam and lock, viewed from south-east; there is also a lower dam and lock further downstream.
|Minneapolis, Minnesota
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|Apron built 1848
|Apron by Ard Godfrey, et al.
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Saint Anthony Falls, or the Falls of Saint Anthony, located northeast of downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota, was the only natural major waterfall on the Upper Mississippi River. The natural falls were replaced by a concrete overflow spillway (also called an "apron") after it partially collapsed in 1869. Later, in the 1950s and 1960s, a series of locks and dams was constructed to extend navigation to points upstream.[2]
Named after the Catholic saint Anthony of Padua, the falls is the birthplace of the former city of St. Anthony and to Minneapolis when the two cities joined in 1872 to fully use its economic power for milling operations. From 1880 to about 1930, Minneapolis was the "Flour Milling Capital of the World".[3]
Today, the falls are defined by the locks and dams of the Upper Saint Anthony Falls, just downstream of the 3rd Avenue Bridge, and the Lower Saint Anthony Falls, just upstream of the I-35W Saint Anthony Falls Bridge.[4] These locks were built as part of the Upper Mississippi River 9-Foot Navigation Project. The area around the falls is designated the St. Anthony Falls Historic District[5] and features a 1.8-mile self-guided walking trail with signs explaining the area's past.


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Issue with two routers (one, acting as a bridge, i guess) and static/dynamic IPs
I have a CBN CH6640E All-in-one Modem & Router.
First of, I have no idea how many, or how few, people have this router, or, whether it is available outisde of Europe/germany, where i have it. So, not sure, IF, and, if yes, in what detail, anyone can provide "support", but, I decided to give it a shot ;)
Also, I have tried to explain everything as straight-forward as possible. Please, do feel open to ask at any time, if anything is not as clear, as I would like it to be! ;)
Second: I have already contacted the manufacturer with these issues, but, I don't quite actually expect an answer from them, as they are far away, and, may just, redirect me somewhere else, so, I thought, maybe someone here is also able to help.
So, anyway I have this router/modem all-in-one beast. Not that that is great, but, that is what my great new inet provider provided.
Unfortunately, this inet provider is trying to rip people off, by remotely "triggering" (i.e. switching on/off) this modem/router's wlan capability, which is a complete waste of time, and, in my eyes, idiocy, but, that is besides the point, at this time, unfortunately.
So, I have this modem/router (call it, Router A). Luckily, I have another "simple" router, which has wifi, let's say, router B.
Now, I connect routerA (remember, includes the modem) to the cable (in the wall ;) ), and, via lan cable, connect router A to router B.
Now I have wlan (stupid company), via this setup:
"Cable Company Servers(DHCP, etc)"->RouterA->RouterB->Client(s).
Router A is available, via 192.168.0.1.
Now here comes the question:
Router A (the modem/router combo, connected to the "wall") has a section Gateway->Basic->Lan Users, that is, as far as I understand, supposed to "list" all the, well, "Lan Users". As far as I am aware, this should list both my actual Host pc, connected wirelessly to "my" router (router B), AND the actual router B. It does, however, only list the host pc.
So, this question is: Why is the second router (router B), which, essentially acts as a bridge, I guess, not in the list? Is this a software issue, or what?
and, the second question is:
I would like to, instead of using DHCP for these two clients (router B, and "host" pc), assign static IP addresses, which I can do, in Gateway->Basic->DHCP. I can add static IPs for devices, by entering mac addresses for each device, and, of course, the desired STATIC IP.
So, I have done this, for both devices (I am quite sure, the MAC ids are correct, as I got them from cmd->ipconfig, and the router itself),
using, for the router, 192.168.0.100, and, the host pc, 192.168.0.101.
So, now, I should have:
Router A (unchanged): 192.168.0.1
Router B: 192.168.0.100
"host" pc: 192.168.0.101
I have restarted both routers, the settings are saved, but, 192.168.0.100 does not direct me to router B, nor does 192.168.0.101 direct me to the "host" pc. Instead (see third question), 192.168.0.100 sends one to "host" pc (got a server running, there), and, 192.168.0.101 is "unavailable"
So, here, the third, and (finally ;) ) final question: Again, in the section that "lists" the LAN users, as I said, I only see one client, the host pc, and not, as I would expect, also the second router. Anyway, the host pc is listed as having a "permanent" lease for IP address 192.168.0.100 (yes, the IP which I would like to use for the other router!), however, it seems, there is no way of "releasing" this client from this IP assignment. The only button is "refresh", which keeps assigning the same IP again and again, even though I have explicitly told the thing that I want that client to have a static IP of 192.168.0.101.
Yes, this is a long (or, rather, several) long questions! Again, I have also contacted the manufacturer, but, I expect, a lot of people here probably have better ideas, and wont just say "oh, this cant be done, that cant be done, etc, etc.
So, Thanks for everyone who has ANYTHING to suggest/add/etc., and, of course, for taking the time to have a look at all of this!
I look forward to your suggestions/ideas!
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Fish tacos…that's what for lunch at my house and I won't complain cuz I'm the only one that ate them. I love fish tacos!! I used Mahi Mahi this time and they were yummy!
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Does anyone know if it possible/legal to claim UAV equipment, materials/supplies and other such things for tax breaks or other things? Are there grants for such projects?
I'm planning on spending quite a bit of money on UAV specific equipment, and other stuff like
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I am a computer programmer/IT worker, can I claim these as 'deductables'?
Would it be worthwhile to 'incorporate' myself and use these as business purposes?
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You can claim these things as a business expense if you can demonstrate that they were purchased for a business venture with the intent of making money. If you are audited and the auditor believes that you never had the intention of operating a viable business, expect the deductions to be disallowed and a penalty assessed.
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When it comes to making a mouthwatering steakhouse salad, Chef Michael Ollier says you've got to start with the best ingredients. In terms of steak cuts, Chef Michael recommends a sirloin.
What you should look for in high quality beef is the marbling within. So, good amounts of that – high marbling. And for a good steakhouse salad, I like just salt and pepper on the steak itself. Keeping it simple and then let my salad give more flavor to it.
Start with high heat on a grill so that when you put your steaks on you hear that sizzle. You want to hear that sizzle because you're trying to get the crust to develop. The crust builds that delicious contrast between the charred outside with the tender, juicy inside. Chef Michael estimates five to eight minutes on each side for a medium rare to medium steak.
You'll want the steaks to come off easily from the grill, but only flip them once. To tell if it's done to your preference, Chef Michael recommends using an internal read thermometer. Some people may like to just press it or just have that natural intuition, but to know for sure, stick an internal thermometer through the side of your steak. After pulling your steak off the grill, letting it rest is critical – it allows the juices to re-distribute throughout the cut so that the juice stays within each piece and you get to enjoy that with each bite.
Another tip – slice your steak thin and against the grain, meaning if you see a directional fiber, oppose it so that the fibers can be as short as possible in each bite.
As for the salad itself, you'll want some tomato (we used sliced cherry tomatoes), some bleu cheese crumbles, blanche green beans, and a dressing with balsamic vinaigrette. Chef Michael then tossed the grilled steak pieces on the top of the greens so that folks can choose how much steak they'd like.
So what exactly is the angus advantage? As Chef Michael points out, angus is specifically just a breed of cattle. It's a great starting point for good beef, but to become Certified Angus Beef means it has to meet ten strict standards, with marbling being the most important.
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Lat drop/foot sweep
Double/single leg
Duck under to trip/suplex
I never wrestled in school, had to learn from former wrestlers.
My favourite is the single leg, along with the tree top variation.
My training partners has been earning some frequent flyer points due to that variation lately, particularly the noobs who see the 6ft+ tall blue belt brothers and try to do what they do: footsweeps.
Then they get paired up with a 180-lb yellow belt who is does squats as if they were girls, and viola.
Clarification: noob turns up at my club, starts training; in his impressionable noobness, sees the blue belt bros (6ft 3in and 6ft 4in, natural athletes with awesome footwork) pulling off the sweeps thanks to their insane timing skills and general tallness/athletic ability. Basically, these techs suit them.
I'm 5' 9.5" (very short where I live) noob is 5' 11" or 6ft tall (average where I live). Noob sees the bros pulling off the sweeps on shorter guys, looks at me and thinks: "Hey, they do this on guys shorter than them, so I can do this to him."
All this, while not taking into account the bros' abilities and the years of practice they've put in.
Noob asks me for randori (sparring), I take a wide stance (knowing exactly what he's gonna do), and he tries to sweep. I move away, pull him in, his leg misses, I grab his leg (yes tech lawyers, Judo rules suck), and either turn the corner or secure the other leg and trip.
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BATON ROUGE, La. – Willie Kempf worked 6.0 shutout innings to lead Baylor to a 5-0 win over Minnesota in the second game of the NCAA Baton Rouge Regional Friday night at Alex Box Stadium.
The first six innings of the game were nearly identical to the first game of the day between LSU and Southern. Both games featured a two-run homer in the top of the first, followed by dominant pitching for most of the next five-plus frames.
"It was an extremely well-pitched game on both sides," Baylor head coach Steve Smith said. "We got some timely hits, and it was well played, but the thing that stands out the most to me was the quality of pitching."
Baylor's Dustin Dickerson led off the game with a single, and Shaver Hansen laced a 2-1 offering from Minnesota starter Tom Buske well beyond the right field fence for his 17th home run of the season to give the Bears an early 2-0 lead.
"That was obviously a big hit because it lets the air out of you a little bit," Smith said. "But it wasn't like it was a bad pitch."
Buske settled down and allowed only one hit to the next 20 batters he faced before Gregg Glime and Raynor Campbell hit back-to-back doubles with one out in the top of the seventh to give Baylor a 3-0 lead.
Baylor starter Willie Kempf needed only 77 pitches to work his way through 6.0 shutout innings and pick up the win. He allowed singles in the second, fourth and sixth innings, and no Minnesota runner reached second base against him.
"I had four pitches working for me today that I was able to throw for strikes," Kempf said. "The middle infielders were making outstanding plays behind me. We got a couple runs early and took the wind out of the sails, and I just threw strikes."
Craig Fritsch relieved Kempf starting the seventh. He worked around two hits and an error to work scoreless seventh and eighth innings, and Logan Verrett finished the shutout by striking out the side in order in the ninth.
"Their pitching staff did an outstanding job," Minnesota head coach John Anderson said. "I was impressed with their young team and how they handled the game. We played relaxed, we competed, and that's all you can ask; we just got beat by a better team tonight."
Minnesota got its first runner to second base in the eighth after Kyle Geason singled and Matt Nohelty reached on an error with one out. However, Fritsch kept the shutout intact with a groundout and a foul pop behind the plate.
Buske took the loss despite a strong start. He threw 130 pitches and allowed five runs on seven hits with three walks and four strikeouts in 7.1 innings.
"I was pounding the outside fastball," Buske said. "I was right around the outside corner most of the game, and it took a lot of outside pitches, so that's why my pitch count was so high in seven innings."
Hansen led off the eighth with a double, Aaron Miller walked, and both runners advanced on a sacrifice bunt, chasing Buske from the game. Luke Rasmussen came on to get the second out of the inning, then he handed the ball to Scott Matyas.
Smith countered with pinch hitter Kenton Gedwed, who delivered a two-run double to extend Baylor's lead to 5-0. It was the ninth pinch hit of the season for Gedwed, who leads the Big 12 Conference in that category.
Baylor meets No. 3 LSU at 6 p.m. Saturday with a spot in the championship game on the line. Minnesota and Southern play a 1 p.m. elimination game.


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October 2015 - Brilliance of the Seas to Canada, New England, New York
It was a fun and relaxing vacation
I shared a room with my elderly father, and we were treated first class by the room steward. The room was set up so that if he wanted to go to bed early, I could still sit up and watch TV and not disturb him. We were in a balcony room and had an awesome view of a lighthouse while docked at Bar Harbor. The food in the main dining hall was always well prepared.


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Greetings from the H.H.H. Metrodome. As in, Hubert H. Humphrey.
This town – and the team that plays here – has been just a little preoccupied this week with just where Brett Favre would end up. So much so, they had problems coming up with a current Seahawks roster.
In one of the papers this morning, it was reported that wide receiver Chris Jones and defensive tackle Eric Taylor – former Vikings – would make a return trip to the Hump Dome tonight.
One problem. Jones and Taylor were with the Seahawks last summer.


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This might merit a more thorough treatment later, but I wanted to bring a conversation that's started at the tail of a very long comment thread about the prospect of moving to the Twig templating engine in Drupal 8, and what that could mean for front-end developers writing apps with JS frameworks like Backbone.
The short story is: if core templates can do their best to stick within the subset of Twig that has been implemented in JavaScript Twig implementations like Twig.js, we would be able to elegantly build gracefully degrading, easily maintained web apps in Drupal 8.
To give an overview of how this would look, consider two scenarios:
This is a pretty awesome framework: there are no duplicate templates to maintain, we get both dumb-client rendered pages and smart-client interactivity, and we get the full power of Drupal translation, etc. in the templates before they are served to the client app.
I think the only thing that would be required outside the WSCCI work and the Backbone module would be an attempt by core theme writers to limit to basic Twig syntax (where there is not a JS implementation, Backbone module or a Twig.js module could override template files/functions).
What do others think about such an architecture? Any other important aspects we should figure in?
Client side templating is
Client side templating is hugely important and I'm glad you are highlighting it here. The end goal IMO is BigPipe. Bigpipe is a page generation strategy described first by Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=389414033919.
JS Prior Art
@Moshe: that pretty much sums it up.
The JS community has a clear leg-up in this one, since the client and server apps are written in the same language. Derby.js and Dev Seed's Bones are two examples of JS-based frameworks with this architecture.
Twig.js compatibility, or something similar, is pretty much the only way I can see Drupal implementing it.
Same Language Isn't Always a Strength
I'm still not convinced that the same language on both the frontend and the backend is a strength. Some languages are just better suited for their specific tasks and worth the learning curve. To take it to an extreme, since you already use SQL on the backend why note use it on the frontend as well?
I'd also argue language agnosticism leads to more robust APIs as you're forced to think from a blackbox perspective. See Steve Yegge's reference to Amazon as an example. http://plus.google.com/112678702228711889851/posts/eVeouesvaVX
That being said I think your idea is a very elegant solution.
templates are only a small part of it
the real benefit of having the same language on both ends, is that the data models and view code is shared.
thus, the code that you use to transform/pipe the values into the templates, and the representation of the objects .. meaning stuff like validation and so forth works.
If you dont have this, you have a significant amount of code you need to duplicate in 2 different languages, and it's almost a certainly that you will introduce a lot of painful issues when the implementations dont match.
the other really REALLY REALLY complex part in this, that nobody has really nailed, and Drupal (php really) is probably incapable of solving with this, is shared state.
Each browser tab on the site has the site running with whatever state is running. PHP/Drupal only works on a request basis, so it needs to rebuild that state for each request. This is a constant source of strange, difficult to debug behavior.
It's a nice idea, but imo trying to make this in drupal is going to be more pain than it could be worth.
Question about "Shared State" Case
Hi Adrian, thanks for those good points.
Can you say a bit more about the shared state/request-based architecture issue, as you see it? What would be an example scenario in which it might cause issues?
I'm generally thinking about all this in terms of Backbone or another client-side framework, in which case the browser state may be composed of many different requests to the server. I suppose I'm a bit unclear which state would need to be "rebuilt" on each request, since an app like this can be built in fairly strict REST fashion, with state driven by hypermedia and the API protocol. Which situations are you thinking about, mainly?
Agree with Adrian
I have to agree with Adrian. The twig template files are only a small part of the code needed to generate the markup; you still need the raw data and the code to transform that into the variables for the template file.
If we use twig for our JS templates it will be a win, but not a huge win.
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A Better Way to Market Our DVDs?
Posted by Dale Johnson in Blogs January 11th, 2012
We've all struggled to figure out ways to increase sales of our DVD programs. And for some time, sales did fairly well when DVDs were offered to the audience at a live performance.
There has been competition, of which every reader will be aware. Hollywood churns them out until we're about knee-deep in DVD discs, it seems. DVD rental houses, specialty shops, Walmart, Target, gas stations, even the local supermarket display racks of DVD titles for sale.
The comedian, Louis C.K., recently came up with the idea of distributing one of his titles as a video via the Internet, skipping DVD altogether. He would allow the program to be downloaded and completely owned by the downloader—no restrictions, make your own DVD, or whatever—for $5.
Payment was voluntary. Louis C.K. apparently included a little note asking people to play fair, and to pay. It seems that in this case, they did. To date he's taken in a million dollars since launching the sale early in December. In fact, 50,000 people purchased the video in the first 12 hours of it's release.
Louis C.K. had a following as a stand-up comic and also because of his show, Louie on the FX Channel. For the $5 program, Live at the Beacon Theater, Louis C.K. directed, produced and edited it himself at a cost of $170,000. It was a quality show he was offering for the low cost.
He spent $32,000 building the web site to make sure that ordering and receiving would be as simple as possible. He has even provided the DVD cover and disc graphic as download files so that you can print your own cover after making your own disc.
The idea that he did it by himself, bypassing the normal distribution channels, is an idea that has stirred enormous interest throughout the entertainment world. Some people felt that he cheated various employees at record distribution companies of jobs, but Louis C.K. says that those people just weren't needed. Not sure what all this can mean to us, but worth being aware of.
Editor—Dale Johnson is Technology Editor of Travel Adventure Cinema
To see a short video of Louis C.K. in action, click Louis C.K.
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Feedback Presentation
Your Friendly Neighborhood Presenters:
Is Giving Effective Feedback a Teachable Skill?
What is it?
How do I give it?
Effective feedback...
the person what they did right and wrong. Ok, sure but how does that translate into helping the person get better at the thing they a trying to do?
For me, it looked like this. It was almost always after the fact, already graded. It wasn't really feedback so much as a post mortim of what went wrong.
What is feedback? It seems like a simple question, right? When I started this project I would have said I knew what it was, but when we changed the question to what is
feedback then things got dicey for me. Most of the feedback I gave came at the end of the process and while I allowed the students to redo work mostly what they did was make corrections. They learned what they did wrong, but that's not the same as learning how to write.
What I want feedback to be is a dialogue between the audience and the writer about how the writing is working. Are the parts--the rhetorical moves--doing what the writer thinks they're doing? Is she being deliberate in her writing?
As soon as my students see me as their audience the relationship changes.
Teach the audience--the students themselves how to give good feedback to each other.
Now I'm back to my question. What does that look like?
I asked my students to think about a time that they learned something new or how to do something better. We talked about that process and what we found was that feedback that was effective shared some qualities:
So, what makes feedback effective?
-what exactly did I do?
Find the place where I did it right so I can do it again or wrong so I can fix it.
what can I do? It has to be real. "Make this clearer", or "warrant better" are not actionable unless you tell me how.
The longer I have to wait for that feedback the less likely I am to be able to use it.
Uses Vocabulary Specific to the Discipline-i
f we are learning music, let's talk like musicians, writers like writers. (This one is a little artificial, but one of the things I try to get from my students is to talk a good game. I think people who talk the talk are more likely to understand whole thing.)
Talk about feedback.
Define its properties.
Look at examples.
Be prepared to have your students complain about the lack of quality feedback from their college peers.
Using multiple ways to offer feedback: combining digital and face-to-face conversations
Whose feedback do students trust?
Students going rogue
Creating agented learners
Quality feedback
depends on a
purposeful context.
In this text, it revolved around the idea of freedom of speech and what it means to this writer. As it went more in depth, it touch on a more political or controversial side of this right. I really liked how you mentioned your concerning thought about this issue and the questions that came up while researching this issue. In my opinion, I think the reflection of rights had more emphasis, this piece really shared how the writer felt and what questions came up with a little information to back it up.
This was about the truth of the Armenian Genocide and how the Turkish government does not acknowledge it as a genocide but tries to embrace the Armenians heritage and give the Armenians rights that they are guaranteed. It was also about freedom of speech and its importance in the Armenian fight to have this story heard and finally get closure. I saw two view points the Armenians and the Turks. This piece is definitely pro first amendment and it talks about how people "must be free to speak". From what I read, I can see that freedom of speak is important because it helps the Armenians get justice from the Turks after a whopping one hundred years. I think, based on the way the essay was organized, the essay emphasized on both information and reflection on rights. You can clearly see that there is a shift from information to video when you add in your own opinion. For example, "I personally believe that..." Although the Turks are in the wrong for not acknowledging the genocide, it would be interesting to see why they do not acknowledge it. Besides the fact that it would give them a bad reputation, you can try to include may be the political aspect. For example, if they did acknowledge the genocide would the Turkish relationship with other nations change. Sorry it was so long, but this was a very good post and it made me want to say a lot and so I did.
The riots are a good topic to write about because of how well it relates to the first amendment. Were there any more amendments that you could have related this topic to? The rights have more emphasis in your writing which is a good thing in my opinion because the rights are more important than the reflections.
1) The right is that people are given freedom of expression, and are allowed to express themselves freely. Your example, same sex marriage is a good example because this is a big topic in our world, and is not fair. People that don't like it, that's there opinion.. i don't understand why there opinions matter. Relating to religion is a good viewpoint too, to support your side on this topic. 2) Reflections on rights was more emphasized. Relating this topic to your own opinion and other peoples viewpoint like religion was very helpful with understanding. What can we do to change this though? I would give more ways to help stop this, or add organizations and groups that are doing things to stop this.
By Billy saying "so it goes" whenever he hears someone dies, could be a more then just a saying, it could be the thing keeping him alive, almost like a good luck charm
Task: Teach Feedback
Costa and Garmston --
1) Reflective Questioning
2) Non-judgemental Data
3) Inferences, Causality, and Interpretations
4) Personal Opinions and Preferences
5) Evaluations and Judgements
Takeaway: Good feedback is good when it speaks to the writer. Comments are helpful when writers see how to connect the comment to their purpose.
Task: Purpose develops out of a sense of community.
Some Effective Feedback Prompts: Less is More.
Give the writer a point by point summary of the information, viewpoints, and reflections in the essay. Based on the way the essay is organized, which has more emphasis, the information or the reflections? Explain your reasoning..
In your own words, summarize the ideas the writer explained, including how the group discussion added to those ideas, and how the ideas he or she started with connected to other ideas in the book. Give no more than two pieces of advice for what the writer could have done to help you more easily summarize these ideas.
Working sentence by sentence, generate as many questions as you can about the draft as you read.
Takeaway: Writers who learn to respond carefully to others are able to participate and take ownership of a process with which they identify, rather than viewing the tasks of reading and writing as isolated activities.
Here's an example of one reviewer showing her partner how to accomplish the move. Feedback works best when it is paired with someone showing how to do it. The reviewer has to recognize the writer's purpose, comment on the effectiveness of the writing and demonstrate a way to do it.
Rick Kreinbring
Avondale High School
Auburn Hills Michigan
The End?
Laura Mahler
Clarkston High School
Derek Miller
Royal Oak High School
Royal Oak, MI
Write about a time when you were taught how to do something.
What happened?
What did that teaching look like when you learning it?
How about when it wasn't going well.
Write-5 minutes.
Turn and Talk 2 minutes each
Opening Exercise
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Hey, what's with the stars?
The program we used lets writers rate the feedback that they received. That's another layer of feedback.
Providing feedback at the end of the process taught my students to write for me but only me.
I gave them lots of rubrics which they read as blueprints.
[Side Bar]
I'm not anti-rubric but the way I was using them was undermining what I wanted my students to be able to do.
Start Here!
If you watch kids learning something new you will probably see what good feedback looks like. Go to any playground and you'll see it--lots of small interventions at a lot of points in the process.
I tried to keep that model in my head.
This is probably true of feedback as well. Giving good feedback seems to produce better writers.
Dear Mr. Kreinbring and Mrs. Allan,
When I was in my writing class this semester I found it very frustrating because we would use Eli Review and no one gave me back good feedback. In the comment boxes they would only write me a sentence and some people who gave me feedback would comment sounds good or needs work. They would never explain why it was good or what needed to be improved. In fact, this didn't help me with my essay at all because I didn't know what needed to be changed throughout my paper. Also, what's the point of feedback if no one gives anyone good feedback. When I was peer reviewing a couple of my classmates, I wrote paragraphs and in thorough detail explained what didn't make sense, what worked and what didn't work and what needed to be fixed. In the end, I don't think a lot of people were taught how to give good feedback while peer reviewing other classmate's papers.
Megan Denis
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By Kevin Paul Tracy
I've recently been inundated with fiction manuscripts to critique that contain a fair amount of political commentary. I'm not referring to the kind of politics you find in Game of Thrones or The Wheel of Time or TV's Defiance – those are internal, fictional intrigues that apply only to the fiction milieu in which they are portrayed (though admittedly often they are thinly-veiled allegories for real-world politics.) I'm referring to issues, social and geopolitical, that we face today, in the real world.
My knee jerk reaction to too great an infusion of real-world politics into modern fiction is to recoil. It pulls me out of the story and leaves a greasy taste in my figurative intellectual mouth. Even if I agree with the assertion being made, it irritates me, much like a lecture from my epically long-winded father would. I resent the author telling me what I ought to think, or, worse yet, giving me, the reader, a rhetorical wink-wink as if there is no question but that we agree on a particular issue. I reject such assumptions and my resentment for the work I'm reading and, by extension, its author grows from that point on with every turned page.
In today's political climate, as polarized and often toxic a political environment as I've ever seen before, you are rarely assured of more than 33% of the population of the US alone agreeing with you. Extend that to international sales and, quite frankly, the numbers become even less predictable. You are guaranteed to alienate at least a third of your audience by infusing too much politics into your fiction.
Granted, there are those who deliberately buy books that oppose their points of view merely to be challenged and to see what all the fuss is about, but those folks are quite few when counted among the greater number of readers who read fiction only to be entertained and nothing more. These readers tend to read for relaxation and comfort, and are unlikely to buy more books by an author who has offended or insulted them and their beliefs.
Even political satire in fiction is a delicate thing. An author must take care to be smart and subtle and, above all, funny to diffuse any tension that might be raised by your treatment of those whose politics you oppose. Some good examples of good political satire in fiction are books like Edwin Abbott's Flatland, Terry Pratchett's & Neil Gaiman's Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch, and the eminent graphic novel Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons.
My advice is, unless you plan to give both sides of the issue fair representation, and are confident in your skill as a writer to do so, steer clear of real-world politics in your fiction. There are social issues you need not avoid: you can feel relatively assured that giving food to a starving child is a good thing, and rescuing a dog from a kill shelter is preferable to leaving him there. On more weighty matters, such as abortion, capital punishment, and immigration reform, tread lightly. You risk alienating as much as two-thirds of your potential fan-base out there, and which of us can afford to do that?
Check out Kevin's latest releases, the wonderfully entertaining espionage thriller, "Rogue Agenda," a startling and engrossing gothic thriller "Bloodflow," and don't miss Bloodtrail, the upcoming sequel to Bloodflow.


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Tale of the Ghost Ships: Mary Celeste (VIDEO)
On November 7, 1872, a merchant ship named "Mary Celeste" with ten people aboard set sail from New York City bound for Genoa, Italy. About a month later it would become famou for becoming a ghost ship. A British brig spotted the "Mary Celeste" adrift in the Atlantic Ocean on December 5, 1872, about 400 miles east of the Azores. A search party investigated and found no one onboard.
Theories of what happened range from a crew revolt to a sea monster. Alternatively, the "Mary Celeste's" captain may have thought the boat was leaking and ordered the crew to abandon ship near the Azores. Whatever happened, the crew was never seen again. The "Flying Dutchman" is another famous ghost ship, believed by some to have been a pirate ship cursed by the atrocities committed onboard, and now forced to remain at sea forever. Others think the name refers to the ship's captain, Willem van der Decken, whose reckless judgment led to its sinking off the Cape of Good Hope in the 17th Century. While some believe the "Flying Dutchman" never existed at all, many sailors have nevertheless reported seeing it.
Some ghost ships are actually available for tourists to visit. The Queen Mary in Long Beach, California is rumored to be haunted. Room B340, where a passenger was once found dead in 1948, has a history of paranormal activity, including knocking sounds and mysterious running water in the bathroom. But there's an upside to encountering the Queen Mary ghost: maybe he knows what happened to the crew of the "Mary Celeste."