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One of the great things about promoting a product or service via the Internet is the ability of online promotion to go viral, which means that your original post can be shared exponentially throughout social networks.
For example, when you post a webinar announcement on Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn, all your connections can share the announcement with their connections, who in turn can share it with their followers, and so on. Pretty soon you will have created a domino effect that can reach a far wider audience than even a carefully targeted email.
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LinkedIn's event function is a bit more flexible, as it provides a field to include the webinar's landing page, plus a checkbox to designate virtual events.
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Whether you decide to use the event features of Facebook or LinkedIn, you can still publish a link to your webinar's landing page in the status updates on either platform. Once you share the link, your entire network will see the promotion (depending on your privacy settings).
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One of the strangest college football seasons in recent memory ended last weekend with some truly unexpected, out-of-left-field developments: Notre Dame going from unranked in August to No. 1 in November, Gene Chizik going from national champion in 2010 to the unemployment line in 2012, USC going from a preseason national title contender to a 7-5 also-ran, and Johnny Manziel going from complete unknown to Heisman Trophy frontrunner.
There was more, too. So very much more.
There was Mike Leach's stormy first season at Washington State (but we should have seen that coming), there was the ridiculousness of the Bobby Petrino saga at Arkansas (ditto) and there was the even greater ridiculousness of John L. Smith's short-lived tenure serving in Petrino's stead (ditto). There was West Virginia's red-hot start (anyone remember when the Mountaineers were in the Top 5 and Geno Smith was the leading Heisman candidate? Yeah, me neither) and then there was West Virginia's horrible finish (after starting out 5-0, Dana Holgorsen and crew lost five straight, mostly because they are utterly incapable of playing defense). There was the typical and inevitable BCS November chaos — Alabama getting knocked off by Texas A&M, Oregon getting knocked off by Stanford, Kansas State getting knocked off by … Baylor? And there was plenty of talk about what might have been for Florida and Oregon and K-State, if only college football had a playoff system.
Throughout this amazing college football season we've seen top players suffer horrible injuries (South Carolina's Marcus Lattimore, Penn State's Mike Mauti) and we've seen seemingly immune coaches lose their jobs (Chizik at Auburn, Tom O'Brien at N.C. State). We've seen underrated teams take enormous strides forward (Kent State, Utah State, San Jose State, Northern Illinois) and we've seen supposed powerhouses underachieve horribly (Texas, USC, Virginia Tech). We've also seen more conference realignment madness, as Rutgers and Maryland pledged their futures to the Big Ten (as a native of Ohio, I still can't wrap my mind around that one), while Notre Dame (kinda-sorta) joined the ACC.
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Last year I scanned all the paper. Bits and pieces keep showing up but, for the most part, I am current on scanning my documents. See Ancestor Hunting if you are interested in the details of how I did it.
Pictures are another story. I mentioned late in the series that the pictures were not done. They are still not done. In the interim one of my brothers [who never used a computer until very recently] has taken all the pictures he had and scanned them. Yes, he put me to shame. He has the same problem we all do — we don't know who a lot of these people are.
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If you are cold calling now; if you intend to start cold calling; if you have to cold call and don't want to—then you need to read this article very carefully.
I am defining the activities and stats you must control if you are to succeed. Sales is a numbers game. These are the numbers. I have also posted a stat sheet, yours for the taking. This free resource is at www.billgood.com/coldcalling.
Key Concepts Defined
Hot Prospect: Someone very interested, financially qualified, willing to begin the sales process by setting an appointment now. No appointment = not hot.
Cherry: A prospect who is interested, financially qualified, willing to receive investment literature. Mostly, your cold calling should focus on finding cherries, because cherries, properly developed, become hot prospects.
Appointment Set Rate: The percentage of cherries required to get a hot prospect. 10% means 10 cherries are required to set one appointment.
Hot Prospects/Sale: This is the number of hot prospects required to produce a sale. The best salespeople I know rarely close more than 50%. Rookies typically are in the 5% to 10% range.
Cherries Per Hour: This is how many cherries you can generate per hour. Professional grade is 2–3. Failure is generally 0.5 or even worse.
The Failure Zone
We are going to work backwards by starting with an annual goal, say $5 million AUM.
I will estimate how much selling time is required for you to hit the goal. Then I will figure out how much prospecting is required.
When the time required exceeds the amount of even an unreasonable workweek of 60 hours, we know we cannot succeed. Hence: failure zone.
By the way, if you thought building a financial services practice is a 40-hour a week job, you dream. It is at least 60 or more for at least two, or even three, years.
I am going to further assume you cannot afford seminars. Direct mailing is out of the question. Your "connections" are few and/or poor. It's cold call or else.
I have built two models for your intense study. Initially, each will result in failure. Let's call these models the "cold calling failure zone." You cannot succeed if your stats fall in this zone. By applying failure analysis, we can then determine what you must do to succeed.
My first model assumes you intend to pursue a higher net worth clientele. Your average account size is $500,000. For most rookies or junior advisors, this is a fantasy. So let's also build a second model based on average account size of $100,000. For those in rural or small town markets, this is reality.
Here are my assumptions for my failure zone models.
I am assuming, correctly I believe, that it is easier to open a new client relationship for $100,000 than $500,000. This is reflected in the higher closing rate and appointment set rate. Regarding the 10% closing rate for $500K accounts, that is an awful closing rate. Again, we have to start somewhere. An "awful close rate" is a decent assumption for someone new in the business, or needing to ratchet up to the next level.
Let's take a step backwards and figure out how much selling time we need. I'm going to assume it does not take any longer to close a $500,000 account than it does a $100,000 account. From lots of narrative data, it might take less. However, we'll assume it doesn't take any more.
First appointment: 2 hours.
Half of your first appointments will produce a second appointment.
Prep time for second appointment: 2 hours.
Second appointment: 2 hours.
Half of your second appointments require a third appointment. Since most of these will be closing calls, I am assuming zero preparation.
To open 10 accounts with an average of $500,000 AUM: 425 hours or 8.5 hours/week.
Fifty $100,000 accounts: 1062.5 hours or 21 hours/week.
Let's take another step backward. With up to 21 hours/week invested in selling, we could have a problem. Let's push our analysis back into lead generation.
Now you see why this is a failure zone. There are only so many hours in a week. We need 121 hours to hit the goal on the $100K account plan, and 78 hours on the $500K plan. My inner southerner says, "this dawg don't hunt."
I wish I could say I have made some drastic assumptions, but based on many conversations, I have not. I have spoken to too many people who might cold call 2–5 hours to generate one cherry prospect. These stats are in a failure zone.
Success and Time
There are countless combinations of stats that produce countless combinations of cold calling success zones. The bigger the account, the more prospecting. The better the appointment setting skills, the less you have to prospect. The more cherries you generate per hour, the less time you have to spend.
Unless you are a scratch rookie, you have activities other than prospecting and selling. That's why we need to take a quick look at total time requirements.
Cold Calling. Mostly you will need 10–14 hours a week of cold calling.
Lead Administration. This is staying in touch with existing leads, sending requested information, and dripping. Allow 7 hours/week.
Sales. This is meeting with and talking to prospects plus doing the required preparation. 8–21 hours/week
Client Investment Advice. This is what you came into the business to do. It's meeting with and talking to existing clients, plus preparation and planning. Big wild card. Depends on how many clients you have.
Service. Another wild card. All I can say is: When you get your nose above the water line, hire a service assistant.
With these restrictions in mind, let's modify the model to see how we can succeed.
$100,000 Success Zones
A cold calling success zone is four statistics that measure four activities. If one of these statistics is substantially out of the zone, the others must be unrealistically high.
Here are four zones for the $100,000 account model:
Zone A: This is professional grade cold calling. For years, I have said you need to average 2–3 cherries an hour cold calling. It can be done. It is being done. It must be done if you are to have a life.
But few start here. It takes some time to work out your script, list, optimum time of day, professional sound, and call volume. So the 10-hour plan is a goal, not a starting point.
Zone B: This is a more realistic starting point. Undoubtedly, it will take a few weeks to work up to 1.7 cherries per hour. But you should be there within a month or two. As you build your pipeline and are adding many of your cherries from your pipeline, your cold calling will shift toward Zone A.
Zone C is a warning. If it takes you seven cherries to set an appointment, and seven to close, even if you are averaging 2.5 cherries per hour, you have to cold call 19 hours/week. Selling time increases from 21 to 30 hours/week. This is clearly a failure zone.
Zone D is the same as Zone B, except we have improved your appointment setting and closing skills a bit. That reduced your cold calling hours from 14 to near nine. You are in the zone.
$500,000 Success Zones
To hit the goal pursuing higher net worth investors, you will spend much more time cold calling and less time selling.
Zone A: Once again, this is professional grade prospecting. You are averaging 1.4 HNW leads per hour. But appointment setting skills and closing skill—not so hot.
Zone B shows what can happen if your appointment setting skills improve. You cut your required cold calling time in half.
Zone C is the same as Zone A except prospecting is not quite as good. Plan on 20 hours of cold calling.
Zone D is the most likely starting point. Again, you will not average one higher net worth cherry per hour for the first month or two. But you have to get there.
Zone E tells you that you MUST improve closing skills if you just cannot hit one cherry per hour.
So there you have it—lots of ways to skin the cat. Next time, I will take each of the four key stats and show you how to poke and prod it into the zone.
Bill Good is chairman of Bill Good Marketing. His Gorilla CRM System helps advisors double their production or work half as much; visit www.billgood.com. His seminar program, "No More Pies," helps advisors manage ETF portfolios using technical analysis; see www.nomorepies.net. And his blog, financialadvisorsmarketing.net, has lots of useful information for advisors who need to beef up marketing. To preview Bill as a speaker, see his YouTube channel here: http://bit.ly/billgoodspeaker.


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I've done as much research as I can on this; i've read numerous articles online, read and re-read the sections of my physics book on quaternions, and messed with my physics code for the last week.
However, after all that, I still can't get quaternion rotation to work properly.
I'm working on collision checking, starting first with a simple function to check contanct between a box and the ground plane. For this collision check, I set 8 vertices at the bounding corners of the object in question, and loop though the vertices to check for contact, and apply forces as necessary. However, for rotation, I of course, need to rotate these bounding vertices.
My code for rotating a vector by a quaternion is as follows:
And so for each bounding vertex:Code:Vec3 Rotate(Vec3 Vec){ Quat Q(n, V.x, V.y, V.z); //this quaternion Quat tQ = Q*Vec*(~Q); //new quaternion return Vec3(tQ.V.x, tQ.V.y, tQ.V.z); }
Which produces innacurate results; or doesn't rotate at all, i'm not sure. I can drop a cube on a 45 degree angle, and it will not rotate at all, although, if I look very closely, it does appear to be moving veeery slightly.Code:for(int i=0; i<8; i++){ tmp = actor->points[i]; tmpR[i] = actor->orientation.Rotate(tmp); tmpR[i] += actor->position; }
When I first set the actor's orientation quaternion, I call this code, to create the orientation from 3 euler angles:
And then I normalize the quaternion.Code:Quat EulerToQuat(Vec3 V){ Quat Qx(cos(V.x/2), Vec3(sin(V.x/2),0,0)); Quat Qy(cos(V.y/2), Vec3(0,sin(V.y/2),0)); Quat Qz(cos(V.z/2), Vec3(0,0,sin(V.z/2))); Quat retQuat = Qx*Qy*Qz; return Quat(DegToRad(retQuat.n), retQuat.V.x, retQuat.V.y, retQuat.V.z); }
At the end of the integration step, I call
Which *should* give me the angles that I then apply to my rotation matrix (my matrix rotation function does work if I use hardcoded values, eliminating the possibility that this is the problem).Code:Vec3 QuatToAxisAngle(){ float scale = sin(acos(n)); float aX = V.x/scale; float aY = V.y/scale; float aZ = V.z/scale; return Vec3(RadToDeg(aX), RadToDeg(aY), RadToDeg(aZ)); }
There are other quaternion rotation calls made throughout the code, which are also probably broken, but I figure if I can get this problem solved, I should consequently learn how to fix all my other rotation issues as they arise.
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I had a lovely surprise! And something very appropriate for Jane in June. I received Lauren Willig's newest book, The Mischief of the Mistletoe, a Pink Carnation Christmas! Now, not only is Lauren one of my most favorite authors, with a kick ass publicist (thanks again Jamie) but Lauren is one of a handful of writers who you can tell are inspired by Austen but bring their own spin and originality to historical romances set in the Regency Period. Of course, this book might be even more exciting for those Janeites amongst us in that it is loosely based on Jane Austen's unfinished book, The Watsons and contains an appearance by Jane Austen herself! Could I be more excited!?! No! This is totally going to be my weekend, and hopefully before June is up, you'll have a review of the most anticipated book of the fall. Also, head over to Lauren's website for a chance to win a copy for yourself, but you might want to brush up on your Georgette Heyer first!
Also, to entertain, here's a hint of the book, in the form of an excised bit from Lauren's website, which I really think is hilarious:
This was the original preface of The Mischief of the Mistletoe, a faux scholarly introduction to an equally faux collection of Austen's letters. However, some concern was voiced that it might not be recognizable as faux on a quick glance, sowing confusion and nasty letters from Austen scholars, so the Preface was dropped. Alas.
From the Introduction to the Oxford Addendum to the Cambridge Companion of the Collected Letters of Jane Austen:
"… the Dempsey Collection, as it is called, was for some time denied a place in the Austenian epistolary canon. Due to the destruction of the bulk of Austen's correspondence after her death, for some time there were believed to be only one hundred and sixty letters extent. The discovery of a cache of correspondence, preserved in an old trunk in an attic in Norfolk, underneath a series of shockingly gaudy waistcoats embroidered in a carnation print, tucked inside an early nineteenth century recipe book concerned entirely with Christmas puddings, was thought for some time by the Fellows of the Royal College of Austen Studies to be nothing more than a malicious act of sabotage on the part of unscrupulous members of the rival Dickens Society, who had turned to thuggery as the inevitable result of immoderate consumption of late Victorian serial fiction. Although the Dickens Society denied the charge, relations between the two groups remained frosty, culminating in the great Tea Incident of 1983, which scandalized Oxbridge and caused a rift whose reverberations are felt to this day. As footnote clashed against footnote, and members of warring factions refused to pass the port at High Table, the Dempsey Collection was relegated for some time to the academic abyss, discarded as nothing more than Austenian apocrypha.
"After two decades of painstaking scrutiny, including chemical testing, textual analysis, and the consultation of several Magic 8 balls, the scholarly community has tentatively accepted the Dempsey collection as genuine, with some significant reservations. Although the dates of the letters and the identity of the author have, indeed, been authenticated, there are serious doubts as to the veracity of the contents. While Jane Austen writes in her own name, addressing the letters to a supposedly "real" young lady of her acquaintance, the events narrated within them are of such a sensational and fantastical nature as to defy all belief.
"The more serious members of the academic establishment adhere to the theory that Austen was, in fact, engaged in an epistolary novel, a style she employed for both the unfinished Lady Susan and the original draft of Elinor and Marianne, the novel that was to become Sense and Sensibility. There is some argument that the letters comprise a failed early draft of her incomplete novel, The Watsons. As in that work, the Dempsey collection features a heroine returned to the unaffectionate bosom of her family after being disappointed in her hopes of an inheritance from a wealthy aunt, who casts her from the household upon the elderly aunt's imprudent second marriage to a handsome young captain in the army. Many of the names Austen uses in the Watsons appear in the Dempsey collection, although somewhat altered.
"There, however, all resemblance ends….
"That the letters and their contents were, in fact, the product of a contemporary correspondence conducted with an actual acquaintance in reaction to authentic events is a possibility entertained only by the most radical fringe of Austen scholars. This view is generally discredited…
"What Englishman, one may ask, would answer to the name of Turnip?"
Excerpt reproduced courtesy of the author, Perpetua Fotherington-Smythe, M. Phil., D. Phil, R. Phil, F.R.C.A.S.*, S.o.S.A.S.S.I..**, GAE (MEOAE).***
* Fellow of the Royal College of Austen Studies
** Symposium of the Society of Austen and Similarly Superior Interlocutors
*** Dame Grand Cross of the Most Excellent Order of the Austenian Epistle


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Peace On Earth Hunt: Love Chic
Posted by Chic Aeon in freebies on Sunday, November 30, 2008
Just a quick post in the "I'll show you mine" vein (wink). The Peace On Earth hunt starts some time Tuesday. With something like 350 stores involved it is a GOOD thing that you have the WHOLE month. The coordinators have asked MANY times for retailers to put their gifts out so they are easy to find. Let's hope that is the case. Since almost everyone is involved, getting stuck may not be too much of a problem. You can always just go to one of your favorite shops and you might be able to carry on from there. Who knows?
So here is my gift for the holiday season with a true wish for Peace On Earth attached to it. It's the earrings of course. Hair is Bobby from HOH. I am heading over there to see if I might just find Allie in the hunt going on. LL LOST one of my FAVORITE hairs (Allie in canapl - this same RED RED color I am wearing). Not likely it will be a dollarbie, but sometimes the stars are just with ya. And who knows what else I might find.
Enjoy the POE hunt. I may post a few of my favorites. I will NOT be getting to all 300 so be sure and share the great find spots with your friends.
Posted by Chic Aeon in comment on Thursday, November 27, 2008
It's still Thanksgiving in my neck of the woods. I have a lot to be thankful for even if I don't actually celebrate the holiday. Eleven months at Phil's and many fun times.
Things have been odd of late and you may have noticed my absence. I've been wondering why my enthusiasm has wained these last few weeks. It may be in part that there actually aren't all that many fantastic things to blog, but it is more likely my point of view.
Many of my friends have left Phil's or they are packing there bags as the end of the year approaches. Some because they are angry at the price increases, some simply because they can't pay their rent here and the real life economy doesn't look promising either.
All in all I have no idea how much I'll be blogging in the future. I may get a boost of steam -- or not. Currently I have made 430 posts in ten months -- counting Second Life Colors where I knew very little but had LOTS of enthusiasm (smile). So a good run no matter what.
I might make it to 500. I might not. But I am certainly thankful for the ride.
Holiday Goodies and Maladies
Winter is closing in and the holidays are beginning. Not a bad thing :D Samara Studios has replaced the umbrella dollarbie with a cozy RED (well of course) sweater and pants set. You get pants for boots too. Find it at the usual spot on the wall in the middle of Casuals.
And if you missed the holiday hair from Gurl 6 last year -- as I did -- it's just out again. Tons of colors and three sizes. The hat comes in a nice gray but I recolored it for matching-ness (wink). Find it as you first walk in the door by the new releases.
Along with all that winter goodness come the colds season of course and if you want your avatar to commiserate with you as you are downing your antihistamines, you can. - RC - Cluster sent out this cute animation and hanky to all of Fashcon (like many many many thousands of folks) so if you don't check the archives often, you might want to (wink).
Shoes by Tesla, top pose by LAP.
Holiday Dollarbie Gifts
Posted by Chic Aeon in freebies on Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Holiday gifts are out at Love Chic. I KNOW we'll all be very tired of Christmas red before the season is over, so I went for something a little less traditional -- my leaf belt lowriders in CRANBERRY. You get both slacks and boot cut versions for a buck. Find them hanging conspicuously in the middle of the room. Top is NOT included :D
And if you are one of the MANY HUNDREDS (hard to believe) that picked up the Fall bangle bracelet, I retextured and recolored it in not too blatantly festive holiday season hues. So gold, antique gold and dark reds are the color scheme. Look under the rotating $1 sign above the table.
Rock Star a Go-Go
Posted by Chic Aeon in freebies on Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Je t'aime has some fantastic leather pants. Doesn't my butt look fantastic? There are tons of tiny supple creases in these pants. Woot! A tasteful logo is on the pocket. They come with a leather bra type top but the pants are really the star of the show. And you can be too -- in these!
And here I added a warm and cosy FREE sweater from *IW* Centauri. It comes with sculpty bottom, collar and cuffs and is VERY warm and cuddly. Find it on the FREEBIE wall in the back of the store. The prim guitar with animation was there too along with a host of other items I didn't try.
Hair and goggles from Stringer Mausoleum, top pose from LAP, shoes from Juicy.
EXXESS Designs
Posted by Chic Aeon in freebies on Saturday, November 15, 2008
EXXESS Designs has its holiday gift out already and it is SURE to be a favorite with many of you. It comes with boots, some very cool gloves and earmuffs. Santa's helpers never looked like this!
Pose by Vago from today's dollarbie (earlier post). Hair by HOH. Skin by Samara Studios.
And while I can't get a picture of it as the textures won't load :D -- there is a cute Bristol Cream sherry giver for free at the Hudson Clothing Company. Find it out in the courtyard on the bar. It isn't in a vendor, it is the actually sherry giver. Buy for $0. Great for the holidays. There are also free clothes in the store. Look for the red bows.
Mix 'n Match Saturday
First off as I logged in this morning was a post that Retro-ology was discontinuing its clothing line to turn to accessories. All items are $1-$5. So you might want to join the guys checking this out. I didn't buy anything but the vendor posters looked good (wink). There's still a crowd there I see.
Samara Studios announced new skins called Callie and there is a "limited time" dollarbie skin available. Find it right under the big poster with the picture of several of the skins. Demos are of course available to try out the other skin tones. This is sunkissed. There is also a dollarbie umbrella on the center wall if you haven't seen that yet.
MECHANISM gave out some cute legwarmers to its update and subsribeOmatic groups. They are mod so easy to resize for gals. Here's a tip I just figured out (duh). If you select BOTH legwarmers, then use the STRETCH tool to size them down (shrink) -- they will be the same size automatically. Much faster than how I had been doing it. Then simply change back to position and align them to your legs. These are hefty ones and so they fit easily over narrow -- but not boot -- pants. Handy. Lots of cute detail too.
Vago has a new store and to celebrate there are two very nice dollarbie poses out. Find them in large vendors by the couch.
It's All On Your Head
Posted by Chic Aeon in freebies on Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Hatpins has a super cute group only colored version of the Lady Endora Top Hat for the group members. And when I arrived to pick it up there was ONE minute left on the lucky chair with a "C". Yeah. And so I also scored this very ladylike number perfect for Spring days -- and they are not THAT far away (wink). Dress by Ivalde. Pose by LAP.
Also in the chapeau category we have this cute cap and scarf set from Drama! Fashion. The black and white speckled warmer is sure to go with something in your closet. Here I paired it with a sweater from Sn@tch and some Adam 'n Eve Catwalk jeans.
Pose by LAP.
Hair is Allie by HOH.
Alive and Well - LOL
Posted by Chic Aeon in comment on Monday, November 10, 2008
I know it seems like I've disappeared somehow but I really haven't. I've been checking all my normal sources, but haven't been able to find anything I was enthused enough to show you. So sorry. The feed seems sort of lost of late. That could be my perception or simply that there was SO much going on around Halloween that most folks are taking a breath and getting ready for the Christmas rush which I am SURE will make Halloween look boring. Well not REALLY!!!
Anyway, I did manage to get over to LAP (Long Awkward Pose) to use a bit of my gift card from the photo contest. It was fun. I already had a lot of the poses, but I found some OLD ones that were really great -- and only $25. So if you are in the need of some new material -- even if it is "old", take a look around. This was one of my $25 finds. You'll be seeing some of my other new purchases as soon as I find the next great deal.
So I am still here, not in hiding. Honest! (wink)
See ya soon. And I promise to eventually change clothes :D
Noob Hunt at Blockheadsville
So I went over to the Noob Hunt yesterday -- SPECIFICALLY to look for the AO from Dove. 27 prizes. I found 24. Dove's was NOT among them. Boo - hiss - pout. Oh well.
BUT, the hunt was much fun and extremely clever. The quaint little retro town is simply FILLED with "noobs" -- those perfect man mannequins I expect you've seen around and about. Many are Free to Copy, but SOME of them have gifts inside. The hunt is easy as the prize packs your are looking for are life sized -- literally (wink). Still you can obviously MISS some of them :D
Of the ones I found, these are my personal favorites. A few of the items are repeats from the Ghost Hunt which may be handy if you couldn't find them before. The picture above features an outfit from Bingo and a retro desk set which is so very cute.
Here is a very cute pea coat from iBizarre - just one of many gifts in their noob prize pack.
Oops. I almost forgot to tell you about this super cute purse from E.M.A. You'll need a bag animation for it. You may already have one though. Do a search for "hold" and see if you do (wink).
That's my report. Have a great time at the hunt and enjoy the exploring.
PS. There ARE things for guys here including some shirts and tees. There is also a stunt bike for sale for $0 inside a building with pink and black walls. You might be able to walk into the building but I was camming and found it. It is across the street from the park. Have fun.
Late Nights - Early Morns
Posted by Chic Aeon in showcase review on Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Did you miss me? There have been a lot of late nights and early morns in my life of late. When I finally logged in (yes, again early) I was greeted with a review pack of eyes from Treasured Visions. If you were at the red shoe hunt at the Oz sim, you have undoubtedly been to Treasured Visions even if you didn't realize it!
I now know -- from the notecard -- that most of these eye series take 6-8 hours to complete as they are all hand drawn with no photosourcing. There are a large variety of styles and colors available. The ones shown above in the dark night are called Clubbing: Bloody rust and while they live up to their name, they also have an incredible shine of watery depths. They are indeed my favorites!
Here are a couple more shots -- close ups and better for your viewing.
These are called Envy :D
And these not so basic brown beauties are called abduction. Lovely.
And the winner is?
Doing my little happy dance on the way to spend my LAP gift card and a bunch of dinero to boot. This is my first contest win -- if we don't count the last minute honorable mention for the green shoe picture long ago.
It was great fun doing this shot even if it did take many hours of searching to find a barber chair. Where are the good props when you need them anyway?
Shown here is of course a LAP pose -- this one from the Oz sets. Remember those red clickable shoes?
The rest of the outfit has been blogged before but as a recap we have the great clothes from Illuminati from the Cutting Class adventure in Pulse, hair from House of Heart -- Sweeney Todd of course, and razor from Silent Sparrow long ago -- I NEVER discard a possibly useful item (wink).
There is a LAP contest each month. At least I think that is still the plan. Just join the LAP Flickr group and wait until the theme is announced. Its hard work, but a lot of fun too.
PS. As I went to the LAP pool I noticed a new post of AOs for under 30 day old folks. These look GREAT. So if you know any new kids on the block, let them know.
Edit: I just went to check the feed and say a post from Dove about that great looking AO set. I think this is excellent news. From her post:
I know some people would like to have this, that are not new residents, so as a hint, they will be available for a limited time during a certain hunt (coming up very soon, keep an eye out!), that will be the ONLY time EVER that you can get these without being a total noob.


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Before we get to the nitty gritty of how to properly care for your lawn, let's grab the bull by the horns and look at why so many people hate lawns.
It is usually because of three things: they can't stand the use of high-nitrogen fertilizers to keep grass super green, and the use of pesticides and herbicides to kill bugs and weeds, and they wince at the way water is wasted through inappropriate irrigation.
And they are right to feel upset.
When we use fertilizer that is high in nitrogen to make grass grow more vigorously and greener, we should realize that a lot of it is going to be washed away by rain and lawn sprinklers into storm drains and out into streams and rivers, where it ends up promoting algae, which in turn leads to water pollution and fish deaths.
It is just not worth the risk, the time and the money. There is a better way.
It is also irritating to see lawn-lovers using pesticides and herbicides to kill bugs and a few weeds when weeds can be pulled and bugs dealt with by simply practicing better lawn management. We will get to that in a second.
As for water, let's face it - grass is a plant and needs water the same as any other plant. The issue is how much and how often. Watering correctly is a big issue.
Now, in defence of lawns, it has to be said that there is nothing like a lawn for playing on, picnicking on and, well, simply relaxing and stretching out on in the sun. And the smell of freshly cut grass is still a beautiful thing, yes?
So let's look at the best way to look after your lawn this spring:
Fertilizing: Yes, it should be done, but not to make the grass as green as possible, but to feed the soil, which in turn feeds the grass. Instead of using fertilizers with high numbers (percentage of nitrogen-phosphorus-potassium marked on the side of a bag such as 30-2-10), consider using a slow-release natural organic lawn fertilizer, such as Turf Essentials (5-2-2), which has just been introduced by Gaia Green, makers of earth-friendly garden products.
The idea is that this fertilizer is designed to protect the beneficial organisms in the soil, while at the same time building up soil fertility. Put simply, the approach here is to feed the soil rather than the plants and to let the soil feed the plants naturally. An 8.5-kilogram bag of Turf Essentials sells for $24.95 at Save-On Foods.
Aerate: This is almost as good as fertilizing. By using an aerator to pull tiny plugs of grass out of your lawn, you allow more air to reach the root system. This, in turn, promotes a healthy lawn and results in vigorous growth. You should do this every spring.
Fighting bugs: The biggest lawn problem in the Lower Mainland is the European chafer beetle. You know you have them if overnight your lawn looks as if someone just ran over it with a rototiller - the grass is all churned up.
First thing to know is that the crows, raccoons and skunks who are doing this are doing you a favour - they are eating the chafer grubs. Let them. And when they are finished, pat down the turf and re-seed. The key to defending your lawn against chafer is to maintain it properly - aerate, fertilize, re-seed, cut and water appropriately - and then in the third week of July water in nematodes, which you can buy at your local garden centre. These feed on the grubs. That's the only thing that works against them.
Weeds: When your lawn is well cared for, the grass is lush and thick and perfectly able to deal with weeds. That is the first approach. Next, get down and pull by hand or using one of the great weed pulling tools made by Fiskars or Garant. Lastly, resort to using an organic herbicide, such as Scotts EcoSense's Weed-B-Gon.
Lime: It's how you raise the pH balance of the soil - the measure of its acidity and alkalinity. Winter rains wash away nutrients and make soil more acidic. Grass likes a sweeter, more alkaline soil, so you add lime to make soil less acidic. Dolomite and DoloPril lime are the two most popular kinds.
Re-seed: Why are sports fields weed-free? Because they are regularly aerated and over-seeded. First, put down a quarter-inch layer of topsoil to act as a bed for the new seed, then over-seed, using brands such as Elka 2 or Elka 3, which contain a high ratio of perennial rye, the most suitable seed for coastal lawns.
De-thatch: If your lawn feels spongy when you walk on it, it probably could benefit from being power-raked. But be careful. This process can rip a healthy lawn to shreds. The goal is to remove an excessive build up of thatch (all the dead and crusted material at soil level). In most cases, a good, stiff raking with a hand-held rake is sufficient to remove light thatch.
Quit killing moss: As I see it, this is the most counter-productive thing gardeners do. Moss is beautiful, why kill it? It is growing because the ground is always damp, the soil is acidic and the light levels are low. You want grass? Change the conditions. Lime, improve drainage, increase light levels. Or grow something else, such as rhododendrons and azaleas. Moss killer is a big seller for retailers, which is why they are reluctant to tell you this. Fighting moss is not what smart gardeners do.
Watering: Grass needs water; there is no getting away from it. But not as much as you might think - about 2.5 cm (an inch) a week will do it. Water in the morning to reduce evaporation. Don't allow your sprinkler to waste water by splashing it all over the sidewalk or driveway.
Cutting: Don't cut your grass too short. It reduces its vigour, allows space for weeds, under-mines root development and promotes disease. The ideal height is 2½ inches.


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Texas lawmakers eye falling STAAR
Several lawmakers plan to attempt an overhaul of Texas' school accountability system to reduce the focus on standardized tests during the upcoming legislative session.
A flurry of prefiled bills would retreat from the requirements of what many call a broken system. Some critics say they won't accept minor tweaks and are putting out comprehensive outlines of an entirely new system.
The proposals have come atop a crescendo of parent and educator voices critical of the state's new high-stakes standardized test, called the State of Texas Assessment of Academic Readiness, or STAAR, less than a year after it was rolled out.
Even a coalition of business leaders that earlier in the school year asked legislators to "hold the line" on the current accountability system have softened their view. Bill Hammond, president and CEO of the Texas Association of Business, said last week he supports decreasing in the number of end-of-course exams required of high school students.
The clamor for change may have more to do with who's finally speaking up, said Patricia López, a research associate at the Texas Center for Education Policy at the University of Texas at Austin.
Advocacy groups have long pointed out that standardized tests disproportionately hurt poor and minority students, but the backlash has grown powerful and received more media attention because some aspects of STAAR "get really personal" with other populations, she said. STAAR requirements impact high school seniors' graduation plans and class rank in ways that its predecessor, the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills, or TAKS, never did - directly affecting a more affluent demographic of students and parents, she said.
A wake-up call
"That woke people up," said Suzanne Marchman, a spokeswoman for the Texas Association of School Administrators.
"When you think about our old system, it was just about passing and really the only kids that had to worry about that were the kids that were struggling," said Arlene Williams, assistant superintendent of curriculum and instruction for the San Antonio area's Southwest Independent School District.
Under STAAR, even high performers could set a school back.
Education Commissioner Michael Williams announced last month he was suspending - for the second academic year in a row - a requirement that STAAR end-of-course test scores count for 15 percent of high school students' course grades.
The Texas Association of School Administrators seeks a repeal of the 15 percent requirement and a dialing back of the number of tests students need to take to graduate - both of which are covered in prefiled bills.
But until the session starts and committee leaders are chosen, several lawmakers said, it's anyone's guess which bills will survive.
Too tough?
STAAR, which debuted in March for grades 3 through 8 and high school freshmen, requires high school students to take up to 15 tests to graduate. In core subject areas like English or math, students must meet cumulative score requirements - impacting which high school plan they can graduate under.
In addition to cumulative passing standards, students on recommended and distinguished plans have to meet individual score requirements for Algebra II and English III.
A dizzying system
The state launched it with low passing standards and planned to toughen them in phases. State school ratings were kept the same as last year. But the test scores of ninth-graders still counted - and statewide, only 55 percent passed the writing portion of the English test. They did better on math, history and science.
Only 18 percent of Texas high school students with limited English skills passed the reading portion of the English exam; 8 percent passed the writing portion.
In a meeting this summer, House Public Education Committee members displayed deep confusion about which students took which tests and how a dizzying system of scoring tiers could mean a high school student could fail the test but not be required to retake it.
To date, close to 900 school boards representing 4.4 million students have passed a resolution calling on the Legislature to re-examine an accountability system that hinges on high stakes test, stating it is that along with federal mandates is "strangling public schools." It calls for a system that uses multiple assessments and "enhances the role of teachers as designers."
New system planned
The Texas Education Agency plans to unveil a new accountability system in March and will take public comment on proposed changes through Jan. 18. Williams has said he wants schools to be rated on how well they are closing the achievement gap between minority and Anglo students, along with other assessments like student test scores and student growth.
Rep. Bill Callegari, R-Houston, said the Legislature will "need to start from scratch" in the next session.
Senate Education Chairman Dan Patrick, R-Houston, who along with Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst last week outlined plans to broaden public school choice that some critics called a stealth private school voucher plan, prefiled a bill last month to allow individual districts to decide whether to implement the 15 percent rule, citing his support for local control.
Verstuyft said that could create equity problems if some school districts kept the rule in place and others dropped it.
Also last month, Rep. Bill Callegari introduced a bill that would scale back standardized testing in school and reduce the number of tests high school students need to graduate. He proposes using a national test in grades 3 through 8 that would replace STAAR. For high school students, he recommends using college entry exams like the PSAT and SAT in place of STAAR and requiring students to take only three tests to graduate.
It would eliminate the things that make STAAR "high stakes," including the cumulative passing standard requirement and the 15 percent rule, and it would uncouple teacher evaluations from student test performance.
"Both educators and parents alike feel like we've gone too far," Callegari said.
Time and flexibility
Aycock said there's "broad consensus" for paring back the number of tests high school students have to take but said it's difficult to make predictions beyond that.
Hovering over the session is an ongoing lawsuit against the state over the adequacy of its public education funding, filed by six groupings of school districts.
Legislators should focus on two things: giving school districts adequate time and flex- ibility to transition to the new system and consistency, said Southwest ISD's Arlene Williams.
"Changing things every legislative session really throws us and our students into turmoil," she said. "We're unsettled and our students, parents and communities are unsettled."


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CULTURE- ART FEATURE- Young at art: High school show is go
You know those ubiquitous grocery store plastic bags? The ones that clog both drains and the digestive tracts of sea turtles? Well, St. Anne's-Belfield student Kitty Buchanan-Watson has a recycling solution: turn them into wearable art! In her innovative creation "Paper or Plastic," hundreds of lowly tan and navy Kroger bags become a tutu-like cocktail dress.
Buchanan-Watson's whimsical piece is on view at the McGuffey Art Center as part of the "Annual High School Art Show," which also includes ceramics, painting, photography, drawing, sculpture, metalwork, and collage. The samples from St. Anne's Belfield's Project Runway-inspired challenge reflect the overall spirit of the exhibition: unabashed fun combined with an openness to exploring technique.
Marie Arlet, whose red and black sales-tag dress, "Sold," is also among wearable art offerings, is a veritable poster child for this approach. (Given the high school tendency to label classmates as "the jock" or "the brain," I suspect Arlet is "the artist" in her class.) Arlet's tactilely inviting vase of opalescent pale aqua earthenware studded with scattered red globules is an exhibition standout. But she also paints! Her large acrylic "Self Portrait" uses humorous Post-it notes to capture the scary-exciting-mundane transition from wide-eyed child to almost-adult. In all her pieces, Arlet displays a willingness to experiment with composition, content, and palette.
Julia Wilson's digital photographic montage "Kingstreet" is another piece that thrills with its technical adventurousness. Wilson works over an antique photo of a street scene using fragments of contemporary photographs like paint to add color to buildings and the pavement. Modern snapshots become fluttering banners over the street, and lines and shapes take on new interest under Wilson's restrained hand. Although the text "Kingstreet as life." at the top right detracts slightly from the visual impact, Wilson's image is so strong it easily overcomes that minor lapse.
Other highlights of the show include Paige Sanford's squat earthenware vessel featuring a gorgeous mottled green glaze, and Kaitlin Beverly's multi-dimensional collage, "Cherry Avenue," that fuses painting and found imagery. Many of the pieces in this year's exhibition are attention-grabbers, so it's easy to miss Christopher Lam's and Landon Fields' small watercolor abstracts entitled "Isolation" and "Nowhere to Hide," respectively. Though quiet, both paintings display beautiful movement and reflect an awareness of line and color.
If you're feeling jaded about the world, the High School Art Show offers a visual jolt of reassurance that fresh minds always find new creative directions.
The Annual High School Art Show is on view at the McGuffey Art Center through April 27. 201 Second St. NW. 295-7973.


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The Raiders have been seeking a new stadium in Oakland for some time. However, it doesn't look like they're any closer to realizing that goal today than they were 10 years ago.
Raiders owner Mark Davis said Tuesday from the Spring League Meeting in a conversation with NFL Media Insider Ian Rapoport that the team can pony up $400 million toward a new stadium, but "we need help." The team's current home, O.co Coliseum, has been around since 1966, and is one of the oldest facilities in the NFL.
"I would probably say (negotiations are in) the 11th hour," Davis said. "It's always the 11th hour because we've been waiting a long time, been waiting a long time on this project. If it doesn't happen, then we have to start looking at the other options. ... We want to stay in Oakland. We want to get something done."
But whether the Raiders will get something done remains to be seen. Davis said in March that one of those "options" could be moving back to Los Angeles, where the team played from 1982 to 1994. Davis isn't sure where the rest of the funds will come from, but "it has to come (from) somewhere, whether it's private, public -- somewhere."
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WASHINGTON - Hank Ronan knew he would get the job. He had sailed through three rounds of interviews and hit it off with the doctors at the diagnostic center in Annandale, Va., where he had applied to be a driver for $11 an hour.
Shuttling patients to appointments was a world away from his 20 years as a software engineer, but it was the best that Ronan could find after being laid off in 2011. He was eager to get back to work and granted the doctor's office permission to run a credit check. Ronan never heard back, he said Tuesday in an interview.
He wouldn't have thought much of it, but months earlier Ronan had received a rejection letter from a state-run liquor store that cited his poor credit as the reason he was not hired as a clerk. With about $20,000 in credit card debt, he said, he knew his finances were a mess, but he didn't know that it could cost him a job.
'I had no idea that my credit could do this,' said Ronan, 68, who now works part time as a courier. 'The older you get the harder it is to find a job, and this just makes it worse.'
Ronan's experience is at the heart of legislation introduced Tuesday by a group of Senate Democrats seeking to bar companies from using credit checks to weed out job applicants. Lawmakers say the practice contributes to long-term unemployment and disproportionately affects women and minorities whose credit was damaged during the financial crisis.
'No one should be denied the chance to compete for a job because of a credit report that bears no relationship to job performance,' Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., one of seven lawmakers sponsoring the Equal Employment for All Act, said during a call with reporters. 'For millions of working families, a hard personal blow translates into a hard financial blow that will show up for years in a credit report.'
The bill, which exempts jobs that require a national security clearance, aims to stop employers from disqualifying would-be hires based on poor credit. In the face of stubbornly high unemployment, lawmakers say the continued use of credit reports could stymie economic growth.
Companies can legally check a credit history under the Fair Credit Reporting Act, which requires a job applicant's consent. Forty-seven percent of employers use credit checks in their hiring decisions, according to a 2012 survey by the Society for Human Resource Management.
Companies have long used credit reports to gauge whether applicants who would be responsible for handling money can manage their own finances, said Elizabeth Milito, senior executive counsel at the National Federation of Independent Business.
'A credit check can serve an important function in certain jobs, especially in the financial services industry,' she said. 'A blanket prohibition would disadvantage many businesses that use credit as one component of a background check.'
Advocates and the lawmakers argue that there is no evidence that credit history is an indication of an ability to deliver packages or manage a stockroom - jobs that now require credit checks.
A study published in May by liberal think tank Demos found that credit checks were required in jobs such as telephone tech support and selling frozen yogurt. The think tank surveyed unemployed Americans and found that one in 10 had been told they would not be hired because of their credit. Poor credit was often associated with the lack of health insurance, medical debt or job loss.
Indeed, Ronan said he racked up tens of thousands of dollars in debt during a six-month stint of unemployment 15 years ago. He has tried to get a handle on his bills, but years of spotty employment and underemployment have made it difficult.
'The use of credit checks creates a Catch 22 for job seekers. It traps unemployed workers who have fallen behind on their bills in a vicious cycle of debt,' said Nancy Zirkin, executive vice president of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights.
Advocates say the widespread use of credit reports is especially troubling because they at times contain inaccuracies. About 21 percent of Americans have had an error on a credit report from at least one of the three major credit bureaus, according to the Federal Trade Commission.
It is difficult to say whether the bill, which has no Republican support, has a chance of making it to the Senate floor. A similar piece of legislation introduced by Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tenn., in 2011 stalled in committee. While lawmakers debate the use of credit checks on a federal level, 10 states, including Maryland, have in the past three years banned employers from running a credit check on a prospective hire.


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PI Science: What is Next for Higgs?
The Higgs boson, sought for decades, has been discovered. What does that mean and where do we go from here?
The wait is over, but the work is just beginning.
Physicists working at CERN have announced the discovery of a new particle, which is almost certain to be the Higgs boson. The Higgs boson is the last missing piece of the Standard Model of particles and their interactions, and is crucial to understanding why fundamental particles have mass. It was first proposed in the 1960s and has been actively sought for decades. Now, at last, it has been found: two experiments on the Large Hadron Collider, called ATLAS and CMS, each independently announced that they'd measured the decay products of a particle weighing about 126 GeV, or about as much as a cesium atom.
"This is a sensational day for particle physics, the most exciting in decades. Perimeter congratulates CERN and the thousands of physicists who have worked so hard to obtain this result. So far, it looks like the simplest Higgs theory, proposed half a century ago. This is a spectacular triumph and it opens the door to understanding what lies beyond the Standard Model: to the dark matter and neutrinos, the vacuum energy, and the physics of the big bang. We keenly anticipate further discoveries," said Perimeter Director Neil Turok.
An early stop on the road to new discoveries will come in August, when theorists and experimental physicists from CMS will gather at Perimeter. The high-level conference will focus on what the new data means, which theories would explain all aspects of these results, what the next important measurements are, and what we are likely to learn from them.
The discovery of the new particle comes via analysis of decay particles. Scientists study decay products because the Higgs boson is very unstable. It is created by very high energy collisions, such as those in the Large Hadron Collider, but lasts for only a tiny fraction of a second – less time than it would take a beam of light to cross the width of an atom – before it decays into a handful of secondary particles. It is these secondary particles that are measured by the ATLAS and CMS detectors. There are several special combinations of particles that the Higgs can decay into and each of those combinations is called a "channel."
The CMS and ATLAS collaborations have looked for the Higgs in all the major channels and each experiment has found it in the two channels which were predicted to be the most common. Specifically, CMS and ATLAS have recorded events where the Higgs decays into two photons and events where the Higgs decays into two lepton/anti-lepton pairs. They have also looked at other channels, but so far do not have enough data to say anything definitive.
The next step will be to measure each channel more carefully and map out exactly how the particle decays: into what channels with what frequencies. This will not only confirm that this particle is the Higgs – as seems almost certain – but will also tell us what kind of Higgs it is.
Theorists have a number of competing ideas about the framework underpinning both the Standard Model and the Higgs mechanism. Each of these competing ideas gives slightly different predictions about the properties of the Higgs boson. By mapping the decay channels – and doing other things like measuring the spin – we can determine what the properties of the newly discovered Higgs are, and thereby begin to zero in on the right framework. The Higgs then becomes a tool to probe physics beyond the Standard Model. It's a beautiful example of how experiment can advance theory.
Theory, though, can also advance experiment. For instance, there are some hints that the newly-discovered particle has some surprising properties. Most notably, it seems to decay into photon pairs more often than one would expect. The excess in the photon (or gamma-gamma) channel is small and so far this is only a one- to two-sigma effect, meaning that it's quite possible – even likely – that it's a statistical fluke.
In April, Perimeter hosted a meeting of physicists from ATLAS to discuss last year's Higgs results and the prospects for higher-precision measurement of the different decay channels. It is clear that more data will be needed to distinguish a real anomaly in the photon channel from statistical noise. This will take time.
But it's not in the nature of physicists to discover a new particle, note a small anomaly, and pay no attention to that anomaly. This is particularly true in this case, because the anomaly is an excess in a place where many theories would predict a deficit. The question now becomes: is this a hint for new physics? If it is, where ought we look for corroborating evidence? Theorists will need to build new models which would reproduce the CERN results and look to see what other signals that new model might generate. Such corroborating signals could then be sought.
There is a sense here at Perimeter that a new door is opening. Is the particle discovered at CERN a Higgs, but a little bit different than one would have expected? That would be a door to new physics. Or is it the Standard Model Higgs? That could become a tool to probe the theories that underpin the Standard Model. It's too early to know, but either way, excitement is building.
CMS and ATLAS collaborations © 2012 CERN
Both the CMS (left) and the ATLAS (right) detectors see evidence of the Higgs boson decaying into a pair of photons in the form of a peak in a so-called mass plot. The agreement of the two peaks and other data clinch the discovery of the Higgs.
Further Exploration
- What's the Higgs Boson?
- What's a Sigma?
- Perimeter Explorations: Beyond the Atom – Remodelling Particle Physics
- CBC Radio Fresh Air – interview with Neil Turok, Director of Perimeter Institute
- Sunday Star Op Ed by Bliff Burgess, Perimeter Associate Faculty Member
- Maclean's Feature article with Canadian Researchers
- Smash, Bang, Boom: Fundamental Physics at the LHC (Speaker: Natalia Toro)
- LHC and Particle Physics (Speaker: Cliff Burgess)
- MinutePhysics – The Higgs Boson
- CERN Website


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A few days ago I finished Kay Kenyon's A World Too Near, the second in a science fiction series mostly taking place in a strange parallel universe not too "far" from ours.
This is good writing. Good enough to forgive what I thought were two big errors in the first book. This book develops the characters further, unravels their emotional lives, and puts seemingly insurmountable obstacles in their way. One notable point is the supporting cast: also well-drawn and complex, as any sentient characters should be.
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This really isn't germane to spoilers, but I think it will provide a chuckle for a few folks who will see it here and not in Episode 12 thread where it belongs. Phil at the beginning of ep. 12 as Dustin/Kandice are leaving the mat in Macao voiceovers that they will fly to Guam "over 7500 miles away." Well, I knew that was rubbish but I was too busy to track down the real details. They are quite simple:Direct Distance Kong Kong to Guam 2094 milesDistance Kong Kong to Tokyo 1793 milesDistance Tokyo to Guam 1564 milesTOTAL HKG TO NRT TO GUM 3357 milesAny way you calculate it, you are either 4143 or 5406 miles short of 7500 miles. I have sent Betran van Munster a letter informing him of this mistake and asking him to be more careful on geographic matters (he did the same on the distance South Pole to South America, a "few hundred miles"). I can do no less and maintain the standard of the title below my avatar!
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The fire this time was ignited by a documentary called Tarnation from 31-year-old cineaste in extremis Jonathan Caouette, who's been filming his gruelingly intimate autobiography for more than 20 years (go on, do the arithmetic). And, oh yeah, he made his film for all of $218 (plus change) and edited it entirely in iMovie. It's a fever dream of sorts (think Arthur Rimbaud, whom the filmmaker resembles in spirit) about the very painful, bizarre and most of all sentient life that produced the film. ... It's the chronicle of a monumentally dysfunctional family, as if one of the Friedman kids (as in Capturing the . . .) had been preternaturally talented, arrived at a healthy perspective on everything he and his family went through — and then turned the whole thing into a musical.(Sentient?)
I love the idea that cheap technology is removing the barriers to filmmaking, so that the artform becomes as accessible as novel-writing. I'm hoping this will mean more films based on great stories. In the case of "Tarnation," though, the great story seems to be a horrible life. Ah, the sadness underneath art!


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This isn't a guide to every last detail of Port St. Lucie, but I'd like to share my observations about watching the Mets down there. Tonight is the first televised broadcast, and also the first audio broadcast.
The most interesting part, in my opinion, is the morning workouts. These occur pretty much every day, even on non-game days, on the fields behind Digital Domain Park. You'll see the entire camp full of players out there, except ones that may be playing in an away game, doing workouts and drills. Minor and major leaguers in all shades of Mets uniforms wearing all sorts of different numbers. You'll see guys you've never heard of, even if you pay pretty close attention to the minor leagues. They'll do all sorts of interesting drills and you'll see the coaches and managers barking orders and instructions. You'll get an inside look at how players prepare for games and seasons. You'll see them practice learning the signs and just doing baseball things. Sometimes the minor leaguers will start playing a game near the end of the session, this is normally the time the regular players retreat to Digital Domain Park to prepare for the regular game. Usually you'll be asked to leave, but sometimes you can catch an inning or two.
You can get autographs if you're persistent, but during workouts these guys are mostly working so you'll have to be quick and paying attention to who may have a moment. They'll have to walk by you to get from field to field, and often this is when they'll sign. Another good time to get autographs is after games, particularly if it's an away game and the players are headed back to a bus or their cars if it's close. When the Mets travel to nearby Jupiter to play the Cardinals or the Marlins, many players drive. Many people looking for autographs wait in the walkway between the players' exit and their parking lot. This is also a good way to get a look at what cars players drive. Autographs are there to be had, so if that's your thing you should have no problem. Normal rules apply; if you're a cute girl or a kid you've got the best shot.
Spring Training tickets are often not expensive, and it's a chance to get seats that are really close that would be virtually impossible to get at a Major League park. The atmosphere is so much more relaxed and casual and it's a fun time all around. Both years I went I sat first row in front of the Mets bullpen, literally within touching distance of all the pitchers as they warmed up to go in. Close enough that they can here what you're saying to the people you're with. There are season ticket holders in Florida, but there are still seats available mere rows behind home plate too. And it's roughly 10% of the cost of a Major League stadium.
Another fun activity that's probably more common in places like Port St. Lucie than Tampa Bay is player-spotting out on the town. Most people know about Duffy's, a chain restaurant with a bowling alley attached down the road from the Spring Training Complex. SNY films some segments there, and it's a common place for players to hang out too. The Mets do bowling nights on Sunday evenings, so if you want to watch baseball players playing a different sport that's the perfect time. Port St. Lucie is not a tiny place, but it's not a city so there are only a limited amount of places to go for a nightlife experience. Another good place is Vine and Barley which is a wine and beer bar down the road. The last time I was down there I ran into Scott Hairston, Justin Turner, and Kai Gronauer, and I'm pretty sure there were one or two players down there I didn't recognize. Even on a non-baseball front I suggest this place, as it's got self-serve wine tastings and an excellent beer menu.
The worst part of Spring Training is when you return home. You're so ready for baseball that it feels wrong that there are no longer games you can attend. Still, it's great time and a must-do for baseball fans. It's baseball and warm weather and a great way to start to get excited about the new season. If you're headed down this year, have a great time and tweet lots of pictures!


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