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confined space Companies in Oregon
CON-SPACE Communications Ltd.
based in Burnaby, BRITISH COLUMBIA (CANADA)
Savox Communications was founded in 1982 and today is one of the largest professional communication solution providers in the world. The Savox Communications Group with headquarters in Luxembourg and operations in Finland, Germany, France, United Kingdom, United States, Canada and the People's Republic of China, has created a global manufacturing network to support ...
Geo Products - EnviroGrid Cellular Confinement (Geocell)
based in Houston, TEXAS (USA)
Geo Products manufactures the EnviroGrid Cellular Confinement System (Geocell). EnviroGrid provides a leading-edge solution to any soil stabilization and erosion control challenge. We set standards in quality, expertise, and service while never losing sight of our commitment to environmentally-friendly building practices. As an industry leader with projects worldwide, Geo ...
based in MT Storm, WEST VIRGINIA (USA)
MICROTRAXX equipment offers a safe and environmentally friendly solution for your confined space requirements when working in box culverts, round culverts, low clearance bridges, and other storm water drainage structures. These Radio Remote Controlled Track Loaders will clean deposition from structures while the MICROTRAXX operators are in a safe location outside of the ...
Phoenix Safety & Associates, LLC
based in NEW JERSEY (USA)
Phoenix Safety will provide emergency response personnel who might be required to respond to an incident involving a confined space and perform entry and rescue operations. Some of our skills include: advanced rigging skills, Incident Management, atmospheric monitoring and ventilation, patient packaging, the use of self-contained and supplied-air breathing apparatus, and ...
HinderRUST™ Inc.
based in Mahwah, NEW JERSEY (USA)
HinderRUST is the perfect solution to rust and corrosion prevention as well as mechanic lubrication. Aerosol free and odorless, our product can be transported on airplanes and used in confined spaces such as trains. Our product can help prevent rust and stop corrosion on machines large and small – from major equipment in factories to your car engine.
based in New Hyde Park, NEW YORK (USA)
Chemicals/Disinfection, Chlorination/Dechlorination Equipment, Diffusers, Dyes/Tracing, Leak Detection Equipment, Pipe Location Equipment, Pipe Stopping & Tapping Equipment, Pipe/Sewer Inspection Equipment, Safety Equipment, Sealants, Smoke Generators and Candles, Training Materials, Electrical Equipment, Hose Clamps, Confined Space Equipment, Vacuum Sewer Systems
Compliance Solutions
based in Denver, COLORADO (USA)
Compliance Solutions, the nation`s largest privately held H&S training company offers Web-Based (WBT) and Instructor-Led (ILT) training courses for clients in the U.S. and abroad. Our library of 70 hazmat and occupational health & safety courses is being constantly expanded to meet our clients diverse needs. Our proprietary learning management system (LMS) allows ...
AC-CESS Co Uk Ltd
based in Kinellar, UNITED KINGDOM
AC-CESS is a world leading manufacturer of remotely operated vehicles (ROV), underwater inspection systems and products for the remote visual inspection (RVI) of open and confined spaces. We deliver underwater and confined space inspection solutions to the global subsea, oil and gas, military, marine and research industries. Delivering breakthrough ROV technologies that ...
Nova Safety and Environmental
based in Midland, TEXAS (USA)
At NOVA, safety is priority one. We offer a plethora of professional Safety Services:*Accident Investigation*Fit Testing (Quantitive)*Review of Medical Examiner's Questionnairesm * Policy Manuals* OSHA and DOT ComplianceAssistance and Auditing*Pipeline Operator Qualification NCCER*Noise Sampling and Reporting*Accident Investigation*Confined Space ...
Enviro Response, Inc
based in Middletown, NEW YORK (USA)
Enviro Response is a full service Environmental Contractor with regional offices located in New Jersey, New York, and our Corporate office in Staten Island, New York. Specializing in transportation incidents: Railcar, Tank Truck, LTL Freight, Marine Spills, Fuel Spills, Hot Tapping, Site Remediation, and Decontamination of Accident Vehicles. Enviro Response has a full ...


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deployJava.js without the DLLs?
It seems that in order to use deployJava.js, I need to install the full toolkit including the dlls such as npdeploytk.dll and deploytk.dll. Am I right?
I'm working on a project with JWS. The app needs to run with JRE 1.5+. I guess I can't take advantage of the deployJava.js alone without installing the full JRE 6uN, right?
In other words, can I run deployJava.js standalone without anything else?
Thanks for any help!
I doubt you are going to get much of an answer here, I never did, so I'm going to do it lol.
From all of my investigation, the dlls are only available if you install the N release. But I also found a few bugs that the fix involved rolling out those dlls and they haven't been put back in. So I don't really know if the dlls ever made it back....
I can tell you however, that the deployJava.js can be used without as long as you realize that any test for detecting the current and or installing a version of java will ALWAYS install the latest JRE. That is java 1.6_03 (for now).
Hope that makes sense.
Is not quite true that "any test for detecting the current and or installing a version of java will ALWAYS install the latest JRE."
In the original example here, a request for 1.5+ will only install the latest available JRE if no 1.5 family JRE is installed.
The problem with the javascript only solution can only detect to the family version, not to the update version. So while deployJava.versionCheck("1.5+") will properly return true if any 1.5 version is installed, deployJava.versionCheck("1.5.0_07+") will also return true return true if any 1.5 version is installed, even if the installed update is 1.5.0_06 or earlier.
(This would not be the case if the plugins are installed). Also, without the plugins, installing a specific version: deployJava.installJRE("1.5.0_13") will always install the latest, instead of the specific requested version.

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New York—Once again Michael Kors Holdings Ltd. has impressed Wall Street, reporting third quarter earnings today that blew past analysts' estimates.
For the quarter ended Dec. 29, the apparel and accessories company posted net profit that rose four-fold to $130 million, or 64 cents a share, up from $32 million for 20 cents a share, in the year ago period. Analysts' average estimate expected only 41 cents a share.
Net revenue leaped 70% to $636.8 million, again well ahead of the $540.3 million analysts expected. Gross margin widened to 60.2% from 59.4% in the quarter.
Comparable store sales were up 41% in North America, while comp sales at the company's stores in financially-strapped Europe rose 58%.
Licensing revenue increased 52% year-over-year due to the continued strong sales of the brand's fashion watches.
The company attributed its impressive gains to conversion of its department store locations into branded shop-in-shops that drew in more customers and generated higher sales.
'Ideally Positioned within the Global Luxury Lifestyle Market'
Today's results reflect "sustained brand momentum as the global recognition and appeal for the Michael Kors luxury brand continued to expand," John Idol, chief executive. "We were extremely pleased with the holiday season as Michael Kors' brand strength, innovative fashion design and jet-set in-store experience drove strong sales and earnings."
Commenting on the results to Reuters, Paul Swinand, analyst at Morningstar, said, "Obviously Michael Kors is gaining market share from Coach, but its not only Coach…it is also the little guys that are getting squeezed in a highly competitive market."
Kors raised its full year earnings forecast to between $1.80 to $1.82 a share, up from its previous range of $1.48 to $1.50 a share. Also increased, the company's full year sales forecast to $2.1 billion, up from $1.86 billion to $1.96 billion in its previous forecast. Comp store sales are now estimated to be in the "mid-thirty" percent, ahead of a 30% increase predicted earlier.
Analysts' consensus had estimated full year earnings of $1.57 a share on sales of $2.01 billion.
"We believe that the Michael Kors brand is ideally positioned within the global luxury lifestyle market and we look forward to delivering on our long-term objectives," Idol added.
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YESTERDAY'S POST. Hurrah Grrrrrr etc.
This would be the apple tree (I only have one: it's a very small garden) that grows—or anyway grew, I am still hoping still restorably grows*—against the flapdoodling wall that fell down with an almighty roar at 2 am two? three? years ago. And in the former instance, even when I went out to have a look around I didn't see anything amiss . . . it was dark and there was an apple tree between the faint kitchen-door light and the fallen-down wall. The apple tree, so far as I am aware, made no sound at all in the falling. It was still standing this morning at (mumble mumble mumble) when I let the hellmob out for the last time and when dawn was (ahem) beginning to make her presence felt (ahem) and I would have SEEN if there was an apple tree lying across the courtyard. There was not.
When I staggered downstairs again some time later I was vaguely aware that there seemed to be less courtyard than usual and more sky . . . but I was busy tying off a vein and getting ready to shoot up my first hit of caffeine** and it wasn't till a little later (after the caffeine had gone around poking my neurons with a small but pointy stick) that it finally registered THERE IS LESS COURTYARD AND MORE SKY OUT THERE. WAIT. WHAT.
So I went out and looked. In the pouring rain. Just by the way. Briefly accompanied by Chaos, who was equally offended by the rain and the encroaching foliage, both of which of course he expected me to make go away.
. . . Oh. Oh dear. OH BLINKETY BLINKETY BLINKETY. ALSO ARRRRRGH. AND BOO-HOO THAT'S MY TREE.
I'd stopped worrying about my tree's roots when it had produced not one but two good harvests of lovely apples after The Year of the Wall (okay so it must be coming up three years). It's even got a nice sturdy prop as cut and fitted by the inestimable Atlas to hold it up because it does get rather splendidly carried away by the whole Apple Production thing. I can still see the prop . . . it came down with the tree. Siiiiiigh. And I had noticed that the branches were hanging pretty low . . . but they do, this time of year. The gazillion apples still on it now were due to start getting ripe in less than a month, and for six weeks or two months if I was lucky, I'd be eating two or four or for maybe a mad week mid-season six apples off my tree nearly every day. ***
And this is only the beginning. I can't actually ascertain the extent of the damage because this suddenly-gigantic† tree is blocking all access. It has subsided gently, face forward, into the courtyard . . . and I can't get around it. The garden generally is a trifle . . . erm . . . jungly, and the path round the back of it is now obliterated by Tree. The obvious way to get behind the tree ought to be through the greenhouse. Except that the top bolt on the greenhouse only opens from the inside. Which I can't get to because there is this tree now occupying the space.†† Generously. Comprehensively. I don't want to think about what's been crushed to oblivion underneath it in that corner. Several painstakingly staked and trussed-up dahlias, for example. And possibly several roses. The irony is that I'd just about got that corner sorted out and was bracing myself to venture past the apple tree to the back path where the triffids lurk. The shrub roses I can replace if I have to but the tree also has a fabulous Dreaming Spires climbing up through it which I do not want to lose. Dreaming Spires is a classic but getting hard to find and the rumour is she's losing her vigour. Mine took a few years to get going but she was MAGNIFICENT this year and hearty as anything with thumb-circumference stems . . . one of which I noticed, trailing in the courtyard as she now is, was coming into a fabulous second flush of flowers. WAAAAAAAAAH.
At least I got the 1,000,000,000 microscopic pansy seedlings potted into a tray yesterday (potting up requires greenhouse access) mere minutes after they arrived in the post. This is not the way things usually go around here. Better yet they are sitting in their tray beyond crash circumference.
Meanwhile it's still raining. No doubt washing away what remained of the ground holding the tree up. I'm not going to try to do anything till it STOPS RAINING.†††
Note that it is still raining today. –ed.
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Well clearly I had to tell the not-quite-ex blog about my apple tree. I still don't mean to let it—the blog or the tree—become entirely ex but I admit both are looking a little buffeted by fate at the minute.
The problem with getting enmeshed in volunteering for charitable organisations is that they are by definition short-staffed and perhaps especially when God Told You To it can be difficult to differentiate between default guilt‡ and the Voice of God. ‡‡ So there's that. Also Niall's answer to all matters of low morale is More Bell Ringing. I still haven't been back to Forza but he and I are now regulars at Crabbiton‡‡‡ and lately Niall, whom we all know is relentless and furthermore can smell weakness, suggested brightly that we add the tower at Tir nan Og to the list so most weeks we do. And then there are handbells. Do you remember Titus, our one-handed handbell ringer? He is CHALLENGING to ring with because handbells go such a lick and your poor overheating brain has to try to decipher a whole new set of signals from two bells in one hand. I got pressed into service this month because all his regular regulars are away on holiday, except Niall, and Titus has now apparently decided I'm fun to watch—I'm not a good handbell ringer, okay? And there aren't many mediocre ringers who are willing to make fools of themselves ringing with him—and so Pressure Is Being Brought To Bear that I should continue amusing him on a weekly basis. Niall, of course, always has diary space to squeeze in more handbells.
If I agree it will be because Titus' wife Andromache makes fabulous cakes for the tea break, and when I'm not in gluten-free purgatory, tucking into one of hers is almost worth looking like a twit with bells in my hands. Also, it's nice to see Haro again. I think he frelling REMEMBERS me as a dog nutter. Maybe it's just the way my jeans smell of the hellmob. He's all grown up but he still wants to play tug-of-war and have his belly rubbed.
And with Admetus still mysteriously willing to do the driving, Peter's and my cultural event calendar is revolutionised. I told you about EVERYMAN. We saw two live-streaming Glyndebourne operas AT A TOTALLY UNFINDABLE BY RATIONAL THIS-WORLD MEANS LIKE MAPS AND STREET SIGNS cinema, which labyrinthine adventure(s) could have been a blog post in themselves: Mozart's ABDUCTION FROM THE SERAGLIO and Britten's THE RAPE OF LUCRETIA.
I will pretty much watch/listen to anything that has anything to do with Mozart although a LOT of his operas make me eat the scenery not in a good way—MAGIC PATRIARCHAL THUG FLUTE? COSI MISOGYNIST FAN TUTTE? Yes I know the blokes don't come off well either but I think the women are portrayed more meanly. DON EWWWWW ANNA EWWWWWW ELVIRA EWWWWWW GIOVANNI? Also EWWWW OTTAVIO. But, you know, the music . . .
I think I've only seen SERAGLIO staged once and . . . was not impressed. There are a plentiful sufficiency of major plot problems: the comedy and the non-comedy collide rather than mesh; and Constanze is supposed to have some difficulty resisting the pasha's beguilements and—this is the cranky modern feminist thing of course, but still—I'm all Hello? Twelve wives already? He may want you today but next week he'll be on to number fourteen. Think about it. It's not like you have friends at court. —Also one minute he's saying, darling I will wait for you forever and the next minute he's having a tantrum and saying DO ME NOW OR DIE. Poor impulse control. Not surprising in a man who can add wives at whim.
However. In the first place this one was beautifully sung—from Glyndebourne, better had be—but the acting was of a, er, surprisingly high calibre as well. If you suspended your disbelief with adequate earnestness you could find the comic bits funny. But the revelation was the pasha. It's a non-singing role. I hate non-singing roles in opera. There are operas where falling into spoken dialogue works pretty well—CARMEN comes to mind§—but non-speaking roles even if whoever isn't on stage that much bring the whole show to a crashing, sucking-black-hole stop for this opera fanatic. And the pasha is one of the worst. So when Mr Pasha came on stage and he's a blatant piece of beefcake I'm trying not to spit and throw things at the screen§§ but SPARE. ME. ARRRRRRGH.
But . . . this particular fellow is a, you know, real actor. He has presence. He has authority. Even without his shirt. I still don't see the attraction of someone with twelve wives already even if he does strip well, but as a fulfilment of that role, Mr Beefcake is ace.§§§ And in the last act when Konstanza and her dull stick of a boyfriend and their two servants are trying to escape and the pasha catches them and there's the awkward discovery that the dull stick of a boyfriend's dad is the pasha's worst enemy . . . The pasha pretty much has to do the 'miser leans against wall and becomes generous' cliché to let them go because the libretto says he lets them go. But Mr Beefcake brings it off. He brings it off. He does say that he isn't going to be the disgusting creep that his worst enemy is, but he invests that declaration so you believe it. And when he says to Konstanze, I hope you will never regret your choice . . . I know his dad, my back hair stood up and briefly and for the first time I thought so, maybe twelve wives isn't an insurmountable obstacle.
I've heard THE RAPE OF LUCRETIA before, but I've never seen it staged. It's a powerful, and very rough experience; Britten and his librettist pull no punches about what's happening, and about the emotional reality of his characters, so that you are helplessly right there with them as heavy, inexorable fate crunches over them. Especially over Lucretia, who kills herself, because she cannot bear the shame of what has happened to her. In my careless modern-feminist way the story has always made me sad and angry: she was raped. It's not her shame. Only in a society where women only matter for their genitalia is suicide the victim's inevitable outcome, blah blah blah. It's not that simple here however. I should have had more faith in Britten even if I know zip about his librettist#—although I'm curious about the British zeitgeist Britten was writing for, just-post-WWII, when there was still not enough of anything—including money for the staging of new operas—and the men were coming home and throwing women out of the jobs they had been doing in many cases very competently thank you while all the men were out blowing up other men, and during which Britten had mostly been in America which was not looked on charitably by many of the British. Also he was gay in an era that didn't readily accept gays. All kinds of tensions in the local atmosphere to build a difficult, morally ambiguous opera out of.
It was again beautifully sung; also the role of Lucretia was written for Kathleen Ferrier so there are some thrilling low notes. Not enough contraltos in opera. Say I. I thought this staging sucked, however; I don't care that it was Fiona Shaw and everyone speaks in hushed reverent tones about her taking the drama back to the bare bones or whatever the frell. It was dark and ugly and stupid and I'm tired of fake stage dirt.## But the singing was not just superb but convincing### —convincing in that holding on despairingly with both hands way of people at, and over, the edge. We came out of the cinema shaken~ which is what you want from this piece. If you don't want to be shaken, don't see this opera.
And this Thursday we're going to see . . . Prokofiev's WAR AND PEACE? Berlioz' LES TROYENS?
No. Pixar's INSIDE OUT.
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* It produces VERY GOOD APPLES
** Ahhhhhhh. Mmmmmmmm.
*** I am not kidding that I am an apple junkie.
† Apple trees can be pretty huge. This one isn't, till it falls over in a little garden. I don't know if it is naturally not huge or if it's on 'dwarfing rootstock' as they say, but it's still a good ten feet tall. And ten feet wide. And bushy. And covered in apples.
†† When I told Peter this he laughed. I am going to hide his favourite mug and steal the fuse out of the toaster plug^ before I leave tonight. Oh, and back at the cottage bury my landline mobile in the pile of (CLEAN) hellmob-bed blankets^^ and turn Pooka off.^^^
Okay, I forgot to do this. Opportunity wasted. Sigh. –ed.
^ Reminder to Americans: Britain has vicious, bloodthirsty, megastrength electricity. Therefore all your appliances have GIGANTIC plugs with individual fuses in them.
^^ You can't TURN OFF the freaking ring on my landline phone. YOU. CAN'T. TURN. IT. OFF. WHAT THE WHAT THE WHAT THE. I believe I did some blog screaming about this when I first bought the thing. But the ring emerges from the mobile, for some reason, so the idiotic recourse is to BURY the mobile. And since I never USE the mobile—I couldn't get the message machine I wanted WITHOUT a mobile—I have to remember to unbury it occasionally because if it runs out of juice the phone dies. IN SPITE OF THE FACT THAT THE MAIN UNIT IS PLUGGED INTO THE MAINS. Technology. Feh. The wheel was a good idea. Why couldn't we have stopped there?
^^^ Which doesn't work as well as it might since even turned off an iPhone will burrrrrrr at you mercilessly. I take it to bed with me just in case Peter needs me at an inopportune hour+ and the way I sleep I hear it anyway. So if Pooka goes off and the caller is identified as Peter Dickinson I guess I have to answer it . . . oh well it will be worth it. I can be too sleepy to remember what mug. And the toaster doesn't work? Gee. That's odd.
+ You know, like 9 or 10 am.
††† The ladder lives in the garage. I could prop it against the outside of the greenhouse . . . but I'm not at all sure the gutters are cleared for full-grown human weight, even scrawny-hag weight. I could ask my neighbour if I could put my ladder on their side of the wall . . . but I'd need frelling rappelling gear to get down the other side. Heights are not my thing.
‡ Whatever It Is It Is My Fault Because I Am Stupid and Useless and I Must Pay.
‡‡ Which seems to be saying something like I NEVER TOLD YOU YOU CAN NEVER SIT DOWN, SLEEP, OR EAT CHOCOLATE SLOWLY AND THOUGHTFULLY. BELIEVE ME, YOU WOULD KNOW IF I HAD.
‡‡‡ Where Wild Robert is MAKING ME LEARN TO CALL ANOTHER TOUCH OF GRANDSIRE DOUBLES AAAAAAAAAAAAAUGH. I'm sure I told you about learning the first, baby touch where all you really have to do is count your leads because the method work you do keeps repeating in a nice limited keep-trackable-of manner^. That was YEARS ago. I'm now being compelled, hot pincers at the ready, to learn a REAL touch where you have to make your way through the standard mazes of the wretched method yourself WHILE you're trying to remember what to call and when to call it.
^ Although I wouldn't think it was keep-trackable if I weren't a handbell ringer, where slicing your brain up in pieces is de rigueur.
§ The version with recitative is later
§§ Peter is used to me. Admetus is not, and I want to keep him driving.
§§§ The one other time I've seen it the pasha was played for laughs which did not work at all.
# Ronald Duncan, who, according to Wiki, is also responsible for the film script of Girl on a Motorcycle, which even when I was young, horny, heavily into leather and motorcycles and moderately into mood-altering substances, I thought was one of the silliest movies ever. Mostly LUCRETIA's libretto is a big plus—it's intelligent, evocative and poetic. But there are a few big WHAT? moments: the whole drawn-galloping-out metaphor of Tarquinius and his, ahem, stallion^, goes on way too long in a piece this short and even as a metaphor it's a little too off the wall about the reality of horses. Also, 'the oatmeal slippers of sleep'? OATMEAL? As in PORRIDGE? What does oatmeal have to do with footgear or sleep?
^ Tarquinius is the rapist. You guessed that.
## See: GUILLAUME TELL. Which also had way too much metaphor-laden stage dirt.
### Okay, I had some reservations about the drama. I didn't think the sexual tension between Lucretia and Tarquinius worked, for example, but then I also suspect Lucretia may be an impossible role. Also I was busy hating the staging. But in a moment not totally unlike the pasha saying 'I knew his dad' when the game suddenly changes, during the final confrontation between Lucretia and her husband when she is saying she can't deal with it and he is saying there is no shame in her, the shame is in the lust and the taking, in Tarquinius . . . there's a word usage that really caught my ear. Her husband says 'what Lucretia has given can be forgiven'. Given? Forgiven? What? Anyone who can write about oatmeal slippers can't be trusted, but I did wonder if that's the moment when she knows she has to go through with it, kill herself.
~ Although the prospect of finding our way home from Cinema in Another Universe might have contributed to the emotional vertigo.
Hi there ::waves::
Sorry everyone. I'm just so freaking tired.* It's been a somewhat action-packed week/ten days/fortnight/century. The good news is that I haven't knocked Peter over with the car again recently. YAAAAAY. But we've had three lots of visitors** and assorted emergencies.*** And Niall and I seem to be teaching more people to ring handbells.
Also, it's definitively spring. The weather is still jerking us around† but the primroses are flowering like mad—AND MY SNAKESHEAD FRITILLARIES YAAAAAAAAAY—and the early pansies, and the early tulips and there are daffodils and hellebores everywhere as thick as marmalade on toast and it is unmistakably SPRING. So I'm out there frantically potting up little things that keep arriving in the post†† . . . and occasionally I'm also potting up things that I stuck in some perlite because I was REALLY IRRITATED that I or a member of the hellmob or some discourteous frelling typhoon broke off a perfectly good branch of something or other and if I sliced it up in pieces and stuck them in perlite . . . well, they'd die, of course, but at least I'd've tried.
Occasionally they live. I now have five abutilon megapotamicum. If they're happy, they can get to eight foot. The original one—the one that got blown off the kitchen window shelf and snapped off a long limb—is getting on for six foot. It's a terrific plant—it flowers all year. But FIVE of them??? This is just possibly superfluous to requirements.
And now, if you'll excuse me again, I have to go sing something: voice lesson tomorrow.††† I'm supposed to be learning Rachmaninoff's Vocalise . . . but it's in four sharps, and I don't like sharps, and it's all foolhardy lines of unusual intervals—these blasted great composers are so frelling unpredictable—and he keeps flatting and/or double-sharping things that in some cases don't have a black key there anyway AND YOU HAVE TO KEEP TRACK OF ALL THIS STUFF and . . . my brain hurts.‡ I may be leaning on YouTube a little more than I should be. Was that a chromatic scale when you strip out all the persiflage or wasn't it? No. It wasn't. That would be too easy. Quack. Quaver. But possibly the most annoying thing . . . Nadia told me I can just miss out the line with the high C in it—unless it's a C flat which would make it some kind of B, and I occasionally have a high B—and I was wibbling along with YouTube and not thinking about it . . . okay, maybe the singer I was yodelling with had knocked it down a semi-tone or so but I got to the end and thought . . . wait a minute. I sang that line.
Haven't been able to do it again of course. Your body is your instrument. Your instrument is a gibbering neurotic nutso. Sigh. . . .
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* I'm reading a nice restful book^ in which our heroine winds up briefly hospitalised and is driven mad by having nothing to read, and when a sympathetic nurse loans her a copy of HELLO! magazine . . . she reads it as a desperate alternative to ripping her sheets into long thin strips and using broken clothes-hangers as knitting needles^^. And I read this with a feeling of cold deep horror and thought again THIS IS WHY MY KNAPSACK WEIGHS MORE THAN A HELLTERROR. It's my phobia about being trapped somewhere WITH NOTHING TO READ.^^^ And given the number of times Peter has closed his hand in a door—never mind the serious stuff—and we've spent several unscheduled hours in A&E/Emergency, I am not being paranoid I am being practical.
^ THE JANUS STONE by Elly Griffiths which is the second in her murder-mystery series about Ruth Galloway who is a forensic archaeologist. And which are fabulous. Ceridwen loaned me the first one and when I read it in about forty-eight hours+ laughed in an evil and knowing manner, and loaned me the second.
+ despite not being able to read it in the bath because it belonged to someone else and IT WOULD NOT BE GOOD IF I DROPPED IT. I have quite a few paperbacks with curly pages . . . and I barely have a knitting magazine that doesn't have curly pages.
^^ Okay, I made the extreme knitting alternative up, but personally I might have gone for it over HELLO!
^^^ Or knit.+ Granted most knitting weighs considerably less than three paperbacks and a fully charged iPad,++ and I don't think they've started commercial production of ununseptium needles, possibly because they would be a trifle unstable as well as heavy, and my knitting doesn't need any help in instability, but the Scarf as Big as the Universe sure takes up a lot of space. I keep being tempted to take it OUT of my knapsack and finish it at home where it can have its own room+++ but I know this way madness lies. I would just have the 1,000,000,000th unfinished woolly object lying around somewhere for me to trip over in the middle of the night.
. . . But starting NEW woolly objects is fun. Especially during that early halcyon period before you've made any really ghastly errors that you can't figure out how to fix.
+ I actually went to an AGM recently.# WITH MY KNITTING. THANK YOU, GOD, FOR KNITTING.
# Reasons not to join things: the dreadful possibility of an AGM.
++ Note that I take my charging cable with me everywhere too. Just in case.
+++ Mind you in my house it would be sharing that room with 1,000,000 other yarn projects, 1,000,000,000 books and 1,000,000,000,000 All Stars. Plus assorted miscellaneous items.# But the rooms at the cottage, while small, are all larger than a knapsack.
# The miscellaneous-item problem is worse than usual at the moment because the American government in its wisdom~ decided that I had to re-prove that I live here and have lived here for quite some time and so you find salient documentation of ten-plus years ago, especially less than a year after a major house move when everything that CAN be shoved into the back of an attic HAS been shoved into the back of an attic including gruesome old paperwork. My tribulations began with the question which attic?, but more or less climaxed with insane-even-for-me tottering piles of everything all over my office floor at the cottage. Sigh. Which, the adrenaline of panic having worn off, I have no enthusiasm for sorting out and putting away again.~~
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~~ Putting away WHERE? %
% Er. 'Putting away'?
** NECESSARY HOUSEWORK. NOOOOOOOOO. Failing this activity would certainly be a way of ensuring that people don't come back, but unfortunately anyone who gets as far as being invited to stay is probably someone I want to come back which leaves me in a terrible predicament. I keep trying to teach the hellhounds to pull the hoover. And the hellterror to mop the floor. Nobody does much about the cobwebs. Or the dust.^
^ Ways to Tell What I Am Really Truly Currently Reading: it's not dusty.
*** See *, ^^^, +++, # above
† If I put long johns on in the morning^ I will be hot and cranky at 3 pm. But if I don't put long johns on^^ I will be cold and cranky at . . . 3 am.
^ Oh all right, when I get dressed. There are drawbacks to sleeping in something you can answer the door in, because you can also put your gardening apron and your wellies on and do some gardening—just while your tea steeps, you know. Today this innocent activity led to my realising I was due to ring handbells in an hour while I was still in my nightgown equivalent and hadn't had breakfast/lunch or hurtled any of the waiting hurtlables in this household.
I was late for handbells. Never mind. This fresh victim is catching on way too quickly and will be ringing Surplice Maximillian while I'm still trying to sort out the details of Basic Stupid. Which I have been for the last . . . decade. Siiiiiigh. And Niall is, I fear, only too accustomed to me being late for handbells. He may have a much-punctured dartboard somewhere with my face on it but . . . he doesn't let even lumpy, brain-fogged semi-handbellers escape without a struggle. AND HE'S PUT AN AWFUL LOT OF HOURS INTO ME OVER THE LAST DECADE. I think I'm doomed. No, I know I am. But so is he. However as he throws darts at my face I'm sure he murmurs to himself, If I can teach her to ring handbells I CAN TEACH ANYONE.
I'm a good thing, really I am. Really. I set the standard. Ahem. . . .
^^ When I get dressed
†† More, or sometimes less, suitably attired. Hey, what's wrong with a simple cotton jersey dress with a BLUE HILL MAINE sweatshirt over, a muddy apron and hot pink wellies?
††† Okay, I am now loud. When do I get to the hits the right notes part? I went off and stood in a corner and sang into the wall again tonight at church. I'm assuming God doesn't mind, but the congregation might.
‡ It's not just handbells.
A Day of Lows
Wolfgang and I managed to run over Peter today.
No, no, Peter's fine*. JESUS GOD AND ALL THE SAINTS. I'm a freaking hysterical meltdown mess. Peter seems to have thought it was FUNNY. He thinks it's FUNNY to be married to a CRAZY HOMICIDAL** WIFE.
We've had two beautiful spring days in a row. I've been trying to hack out time for frantic gardening: this is the time of year when I very very briefly believe that maybe THIS year I'm going to have the garden at the cottage in something almost resembling order for more than three seconds the end of April.*** I'm not expecting to attain a very close facsimile of order . . . just, you know, frothy ebullience caused by healthy plants doing what they feel like doing instead of what I had planned for them to do. This does however require that the plants I planted thrive and the frelling weeds grow less fast than I yank them up. The back wall is at present a jungle nightmare of last year's skeletal goose grass, all of which will have seeded and seeded and seeded.†
ANYWAY. Peter and I usually go to the big library on Tuesday afternoon and have a nice cup of tea in the café, usually with two or three or eight books per while we decide what we want to check out and take home with us. Peter felt that a fancy country garden with a café with outdoor tables was what he wanted today †† . . . and I brought Pav along for her first encounter with Montmorency's Folly.†††
The last bit of drive is narrow and lumpy. I wanted to let Peter off as close to the gate as possible, so I'd pulled in pretty hard against the end of the hedge so that other cars heading for the car park could squeeze past me. He climbed out of Wolfgang and . . .
I know how slowly he moves these days, and I know the way that right foot turns out, and that it's slower than the left foot.‡ I know these things. I guess all I can say is that I was worried about getting out of the way before—ahem!—someone ran into us, and that I was preoccupied with cars coming up on my right. I put Wolfgang into reverse and . . .
There was a colossal thud, and Peter disappeared from view. AAAAAAAAAUGH.
And some helpful person came rushing over while I was hysterically turning Wolfgang off and slamming on the handbrake. When I scrambled around to the other side I discovered my husband lying on the ground with his right foot trapped under Wolfgang's left front wheel.
Not very far. Peter was saying I'm fine, I'm fine, or words to that effect—I admit my memory is not totally clear on this point—but it was only his shoe, not his foot, that was being lightly crushed. Now if I'd had any sense whatsoever I'd've told him to get his foot OUT of the shoe before I tried to roll forward, but I didn't, I rushed back to the driver's side—shaking like an aspen, I might add—while the Helpful Person said, Be careful not to roll backwards!
Ahem. Do I have to tell you we were on a slight hill so that the moment I took the handbrake off we would roll backwards? By this time the Helpful Person's husband had turned up, why didn't one of these people who wasn't related to the man on the ground and wasn't driving the car that had just knocked him over say LET'S GET THE SHOE OFF AND GET HIM OUT OF HARM'S WAY BEFORE WE DO ANYTHING ELSE?
But they didn't. And I spent a few seconds taking deep breaths, put Wolfgang into gear and . . . rolled forward perfectly. Peter said later that the fender had caught him on that weak right leg as I turned the wheel to angle away from the hedge—having not adequately checked first that he was clear—and when he fell his right foot had . . .
I don't remember much about the garden. Pav enjoyed herself and thought rolling around on the courtyard gravel outside the café was an adventure, and while she was perhaps a trifle exuberant her only serious breakdown in . . . well, let's not say manners, let's say pretence of manners, was when I left her BRIEFLY tied to Peter's chair to fetch sugar and silverware—Peter having brought me a fresh pot of tea—and you'd have thought I was leaving her in a basket on some convent steps with insufficient provisions. This has nothing to do with emotional attachment, you realise: it's because from her perspective I was going toward a place that smelled more like food than where she was and leaving her behind. A fine coloratura of protest followed.
I didn't run over anybody else. NEXT WEEK WE GO TO THE LIBRARY.
And you may have noticed the title of this post is 'A Day of Lows' as in plural? Yes. On any other day I would tell you how I spent over an hour on the phone to my American bank and they having confirmed that the wire had been sent, followed up shortly with an email saying it hadn't, and that I have to do it all over again tomorrow.
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* Believe me if he wasn't I would not be writing this blog report of the incident. I would either be in jail or throwing myself off a bridge.^
^ Having first left the hellmob in a series of baskets on the steps of the local . . . um. We don't actually have a local convent and I'm not sure how the monks feel about foundlings.+ I think really it's a good thing I didn't run over Peter very hard.
+ I do know that Alfrick does not like dogs.# Which is his only major character flaw now that he's given up smoking.
# Shocking. Oh, no, wait, it's probably the Franciscans who have to be soppy about animals. I don't remember if Benedict says anything about critters being your brothers and sisters.~
~ 'Sister Death' is pretty well known but apparently Francis also called his various illnesses and disabilities his brothers and sisters, which casts a slight shadow on his attitude toward our animal brethren and sistren. This also makes the ME my evil twin, but I knew that already.
** Homicidal and incompetent. Fortunately.
*** We are not facing the reality of the garden at Third House at all.^ Nina recently was saying kindly that she could come round some weekend afternoon and help me get the stuff out of its overgrown pots and into the ground. Politely failing to point out that some of it has been in its (overgrown) pots for years. I do usually manage to get the pots-in-waiting stuff fed, which is of course part of the reason some of it is quite so overgrown. I'm sure garden centres sell their plants in flimsy plastic pots for reasons of price control, but if you have to CUT the plant out of its pot by the time you get round to putting it in the ground, flimsy is good.
^ I still haven't got the attic any more sorted than 'can fight way through from stairs to back wall'.+
+ Worse, I keep looking around and wondering if there's ANY CHANCE I could bash out space for the green horsehair sofa, which is the one remaining oversized piece of furniture at the mews. We're supposed to be selling it. It's not grand, it'll only fetch a 'just about worth it to hire the van' price, but it's another of the old Dickinson family pieces and we got it restuffed and recovered as part of the New Wife thing when I first moved over here into the old house, and I am a sentimental cow. Also I chose the green velvet it is now covered with, and the hellhounds and I have spent many happy hours on it. Some of the upholstered old family furniture had seen a few more generations than was good for it, and as I recall I blanched and trembled at it in its earlier state.
† It will be worth it, trying to catch up with the wretched stuff^ if it has seeded really enthusiastically in my neighbour-over-the-back-wall's garden, whose ugly shed roof ruins my view. The problem with this plan is that the neighbour won't care. He'll just hire another gardener.
^ At least it's easy to pull up unlike most of the worst perennial weeds. However because it is, as Peter used to call it, nature's Velcro, you also come away from a weeding session looking like the Abominable Goose Grass Person and needing frelling hedge trimmers and possibly a flamethrower to get it off you again. Also, however many huge green garden bags you have satisfyingly tamped full of the stuff, by the time you've squashed as many of these as you can fit into Wolfgang to haul off to the dump, and possibly sat down to have a cup of tea, it will all have grown back again.
†† It's not like we don't have plenty to read.
††† Hellhounds have been round the edges of Montmorency's Folly many, many times, but the rules about dogs inside the garden are discouraging^ and they would be miserable lying in the courtyard while we had our tea. Pav, on the other hand . . .
^ And with the number of uncontrolled dogs and quantity of unpicked-up crap there is in this country I am not going to argue about this ruling.
‡ You Americans must remember we have right-hand drive in this country, so my passenger is getting out on the left, with his right side nearer the side of the car.
I have spent all day . . .
. . . doing STUFF. You know, stuff. FINALLY got the laundry from three days ago actually hung up to dry.* Well. To finish drying. It's mostly dry already and golly is it ever wrinkled.** I fought my way to the countertop in the kitchen next to the Aga where I sit every morning and have my tea, and where the pile of unread magazines gets taller and taller and taller. I threw out with a sigh of relief all the catalogues saying Great bargain! Order on line by midnight 31 March! *** I swept the floor.† I took delivery of 1,000,000,000 baby plants ARRRRRRGH THIS FRELLING WINTER IS GOING ON FOREVER WE HAD ANOTHER FROST LAST NIGHT THIS IS THE SOUTH OF BLOODY ENGLAND AND IT'S THE FIRST OF BLOODY APRIL.†† I've run out of floor space to bring in tiny geraniums and tiny dahlias and tiny begonias and tiny chocolate cosmos every frelling night††† and that's before today's influx of petunias.
It's been a seriously mad ten days or so. And I haven't even got started. . . . Maybe I can get back to the blog tomorrow and continue the fascinating story. Or maybe Friday. Or next Gammelfug day.
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* This involved getting the laundry that's been hanging for about . . . um . . . a week, down off the airer dangling from the bathroom ceiling and . . . gasp of astonishment . . . folded. Now let's say I have four—let's say pink—socks. These of necessity comprise two pairs. You are with me so far? They were bought at the same time from the same shop and are the same brand and the same size. So tell me why three of them are a pair and the fourth one is clearly odd?
** I have found that the trick with unhung laundry is to get it out of the washing machine and into my open-weave-with-lots-of-holes-where-the-wicker-has-broken basket and stir it up a couple of times a day and it won't help the wrinkles but I won't have to rewash it because it's started to smell a little peculiar. If you leave wet laundry in the washing machine for three days it will definitely smell peculiar. Ask me how I know this.
*** I put into another pile, with a guard rail around it, all the envelopes that say, Do this immediately or the world will end and you will die, love, HM Revenue and Customs.^
^ Now I am not a fan of all those government departments on both sides of the Atlantic that steal+ my money but I FRELLING WELL HATE TECHNOLOGY A WHOLE LOT WORSE.
Okay. I know I'm a screw up but I so have help.
About twice a year I have to import money. I earn very little in the country I live in so what there is of it accumulates in America and then I haul it in chunks over here. First obstacle: my Maine bank wasn't answering my emails. UM. PEOPLE. YOU HAVE MY MONEY. They hadn't told me my contact of the last twenty-five years had retired nor was anyone watching for rogue emails that might be coming in to her asking for little things like international money transfers. Gibber gibber gibber gibber gibber. Okay. Made contact with some new unfortunate who sounds young so maybe she won't retire for a while. And after comparatively few failures I got the necessary fax sent and acknowledged. Then I had to make confirmatory contact by phone.
This has taken something like ten days. It's true I should have smelled a rat sooner but I am used to things going wrong and . . . what was happening never occurred to me. MY IPHONE IS EDITING THE *&^^%$%$£""!!!!!!! NUMBER.
I'm going to say that again. POOKA, MY IPHONE, IS EDITING PHONE NUMBERS. Not satisfied with merely destroying three-quarters of my contacts list, we are MOVING ON TO MORE CREATIVE FORMS OF HARASSMENT.
. . . I had had a comprehensive all-tech-wide meltdown a month or so ago when Raphael had to reinstall nearly everything. One of the many, many things that went wrong was that Outlook ate most of my contacts which I have since been laboriously reinstalling a few at a time, including some of the oldest, like my American bank, which have been on Outlook since before I had a mobile phone. And apparently in some fabulous Apple update or other that came with the reinstall the iPhone was told to put in the random British zero . . . even when the address is American and the hapless human has put in the country code because she knows she'll forget.# The random British zero appears between the country code and the area code and is not at all conspicuous.
After several days of 'this number has not been recognised' and choruses of beeps, clicks and whistles I finally decided I must have punched the number in wrong so I pulled out my paper address book. No, it was right (still not noticing the villainous zero because the iPhone also controls the spacing). So I frelling wiped the number and poked it in again thinking there might be one of those invisible tech bug things that was going HA HA HA HA CHOMP off stage. And this time I finally SAW the sodding phone adding the zero. AND IT WON'T LET ME DELETE IT.##
At the frelling moment I have my bank's phone number memorized. But after the initial fury wears off I'm not GOING to remember to omit the superfluous ratblasting zero . . . and I can't hit the auto button at all of course.
And presumably this is affecting ALL MY AMERICAN PHONE NUMBERS???? Somehow I haven't wanted to check.
So meanwhile I finally successfully rang my bank. AND THE FAX IS NOW TOO OLD AND I HAVE TO START ALL OVER AGAIN.
It may be very useful that the hellhounds would rather not eat at all, and I'm a postmenopausal woman, I don't need food . . . Pav is going to be a little distressed, the next fortnight or so, till I finally get my money transferred and can afford to buy food again. Maybe Peter will throw Pav a crust from time to time.
# Actually I tried it without the country code and it still puts in a zero. It's possibly more conspicuous without the country code but that's not the point.
## I have, of course, emailed Raphael. I was HOPING he was going to say, oh, yeah, that's a known glitch, press the zurgle button and tell it to flamboodle the dorkomart and it'll be fine. That's not what he said. He said, what?
Kill Steve Jobs. Oh, wait, phooey, that won't work.
+ If they put more money into organic farming and non-fossil-fuel energy sources and less into weapons development and finding new ways to avoid letting people have their civil rights I would feel a little better about this.
† I should have washed it, but let's not get carried away.
†† No fooling.
††† Not to mention scraping hellhounds off the ceiling when the eaves at the cottage insist on wailing like women who have lost their demon lovers.^ One salient difference between hellhounds and hellterror: hellhounds try to wedge themselves under (or over) the front door to get away from the kitchen door that is making that terrible coming-to-get-us^^ noise. The hellterror trots interestedly straight for the kitchen door and puts her nose to the corner that is causing the row. She did me a favour, in fact, because it seemed to me, standing up at human height, that the noise was coming from the top corner, not the bottom one, but wedging the top didn't do much. But it turns out I can just about stop the ululation with a well-placed dustcloth around the bottom corner . . . but try closing the door accurately on said well-placed dustcloth with the wind hammering at the other side. Without involving fingers and even more noise.
^ This winter is not only endless, the frelling storm winds come from the wrong direction.
^^ http://www.amazon.co.uk/product-reviews/B006X0M06I/ref=acr_search_see_all?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints= 1 + The inspiration for Chuck was the previous generation of course, but the hellhounds' whippet blood is well to the fore when the eaves are howling.
+ It's on Kindle. You can download it and read it right now.
Nice Things*
HERO won the Newbery thirty years ago. Thirty. How scary is that.
Anyway some silly person thought it might be amusing to interview me on the subject. Fortunately they sent me a list of questions which enabled me to choose questions I could, you know, answer. The Tor list a few weeks ago was way too full of pop-culture questions I couldn't answer; this one was full of state-of-the-YA-book-world questions and I HAVE NO CLUE. I read what I read when I read it, because I saw it on the library shelf, because another unsteady crag of books at the cottage overbalanced and cannoned across the room and I had an 'oooh, shiny' reaction, because someone recommended it/sent me a copy, because the Kindle ebook was too cheap to ignore. At the moment I'm reading a Barbara Hambly I seem to have missed (cannoning crag), catching up on the Dana Stabenows that have come out since I wandered away from murder mysteries about a decade ago (you have to pass through the mystery section at the library to get to the F&SF section), OUTPOST which is a post-apocalyptic thriller by new writer Adam Baker (I DON'T READ POST-APOCALYPTIC THRILLERS but I picked it up off the library shelf and liked the first few pages—especially that a male thriller writer should start his first novel writing sympathetically about a fat woman) and QUIET by Susan Cain, The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking** (cheap Kindle, but I was going to read it anyway)***. I've just finished SCULPTOR by Scott McCloud (amazing graphic novel, an early copy arrived unsolicited in the post, THANK YOU First Second Books) and have started THE HOMEOPATHIC TREATMENT OF DEPRESSION, ANXIETY, BIPOLAR DISORDER AND OTHER MENTAL AND EMOTIONAL PROBLEMS by two homeopaths I've been reading for years, and am about halfway through HOMEOPATHY FOR TODAY'S WORLD by another homeopath I've been reading for years. Not a YA in sight. Not this week. Ask me next week. I'm trying to remember the last YA I read—Jacqueline Wilson's MY SISTER JODIE, possibly, but she's not even YA: she's kids. She's real stuff, real life for kids, and I love her for it. †
Anyway. Don't ask me about any state of any book world, because I won't know. But here's an interview with me on the subject of winning a Newbery and, you know, writing stories and stuff.
http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2015/01/guest-interview-open-road-media-chats-with-robin-mckinley-about-her-career-and-winning-the-newbery-award-for-the-hero-and-the-crown †††
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* Alcestis' funeral went off very well, I think. The speakers knew what they were doing, and Alcestis had an interesting life and so no struggling for material was necessary. There were even some good laughs. There were photos of her all over the walls which I couldn't bear to look at—Admetus has promised me a private showing some time—and the day was clear and lovely and not too cold, and the track down to the tree she'd chosen to be buried under was not too muddy. She'd said she'd chosen it for the view, and it has a good view: but I couldn't stop thinking about the fact that everything about the funeral was to her plans and instructions; I could hear her saying that she'd chosen that tree and this view.
There was a Land Rover to take anyone who didn't want to struggle with the footing—and the hill—and that included Peter. The car followed us down to the gravesite, but preceded us going back up again, which meant I went frelling HARING up the blasted hill so Peter didn't have to sit around in the empty café wondering if I'd fallen into a ravine or something. I should have just gone in the car too.
** I ranked 18 out of 20 again on the standard introvert test: the only questions I have to answer 'no' to are, do my friends find me self-effacing and laid back? HAHAHAHAHAHAHA and, would I rather die than do public speaking? No. It's not that big a deal. Which I've told you before always makes me feel like someone else is living in my body with me. This personality should not be able to do public speaking but it/we can.
*** It's even better than I'd hoped. The problem with the current fashion in popular science is that certain of the tropes MAKE ME NUTS, like the way everyone the author interviews has to have their clothing and their twinkling eyes described. Cut to the chase. I usually object to the author writing him/herself into the story constantly too but in this case it works a treat because Cain is writing as an introvert in an extrovert-preferring world. I was reading an article in TIME recently^ about the internet-fueled explosion of grass-roots sharing, bartering, selling. One of the fastest growers in this market is car pooling and the author remarks blandly and cluelessly that of course commuting in company is preferable because driving by yourself is SO BORING. There speaks the unthinking extrovert. Driving is bad enough without having to make frelling conversation.
^ Mind you the magazine could be anything up to years old. Speaking of unsteady crags of reading material.
† Um . . . actually I do remember the last YA I read. It's by a VERY FAMOUS WRITER and I HATED IT. IT WAS BLISTERINGLY FRELLING TERRIBLE AND I HAVE NO IDEA WHY IT WAS EVEN PUBLISHED AND I WILL NEVER READ ANOTHER BOOK BY THIS INCOMPETENT CREEP OF AN AUTHOR EVER AGAIN.
†† And there's also this, which several more people have sent me links to since Open Road first pointed it out:
And it's lovely, and I know I'm being a black hole of negativity but . . . she read it when she was eight? I know precocious preteens read it all over the map and that's great, the sooner and oftener girls growing up get told that girls do things too^ the better, but EIGHT? She was precocious even as precocious goes. And this fills me with dread and trembling for a whole fresh onslaught of angry eight year olds and their teachers, parents and librarians telling me that HERO is too hard for children. Well yes, it is. It's not for children. I got entire classrooms of kids writing me letters of protest when HERO's Newbery was new: the Newbery does say children's literature. I hope maybe that people reading the TIME article will go, oh, wow, well, she grew up to be a writer, so she was probably a precocious reader, and the headline does say YA novels . . . Listen, everyone, it's really depressing getting bashed for something you wrote for any reason^^, but it's extra depressing when you think, guys, if you'd only waited a few years. . . .
^ I've said this a gazillion times on the blog, but when I was a Young Writer Starting Out I assumed my generation of writers would have totally solved the Active Protagonist Gender Bias. This hasn't happened. There are still a lot of frelling wet girls out there, including in books written recently. So we still need heroines that do their own dragon-whacking. Aerin has plenty of company . . . but not enough company. Okay, you following generations of writers. Get with the programme.^
^ Although I'm preaching to the converted on this blog. Fans of Elsie Dinsmore or Samuel Richardson's Clarissa are not subscribers.
^^ Except sheer jerkitude. 'I didn't finish your stupid book because I wanted to read endless mushy romance when they stand around staring into each other's eyes for chapters and chapters and the dragon was REALLY BORING!' +
+ You'd be surprised. Except for the 'mushy' this is nearly word for word.
††† The bio is about forty years out of date. I will ask them to let me bring it up to 2015.^ And I don't put commas before 'too'. That's a copyeditor following house style.
^ YAAAAY. They did. Thank you!


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BOSTON — The superintendent of schools for the Boston Archdiocese is resigning after five years leading the archdiocese's education system.
The archdiocese announced Friday that Mary Grassa O'Neill will step down, effective next month. A spokesman for the archdiocese said O'Neill's taking a break to decide what to do next.
In a statement, O'Neill said now was the right time to step away from the post, and called it an "honor" to work with a team that served the system's 41,000 students.


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When the chairman of one of the tea party groups targeted by the IRS for special scrutiny saw the agency's questions, his first thought was that the queries were so outrageous that the Obama administration was engaging in campaign opposition research.
Tom Zawistowski, head of the Portage County Tea Party in Ohio, said when his group applied to the Internal Revenue Service for tax-exempt status, it was asked to print out every posting it ever made on its Facebook page and to turn over the names of every person who spoke at its meetings, along with topics, transcripts and handout materials.
"I'll tell you flat-out, I got the letter and the first thing I thought was, 'This is opposition research. This doesn't have anything to do with tax status, it doesn't even have anything to do with political activity," he said.
"Look at all the questions — they never ask us anything about political activity. They never say, 'Did you give money to a candidate or party?'" he said.
"So when I got it, I was thinking this is opposition research. They're coming after us in Ohio this year and they want to know how many people I have, who I have."
The Treasury inspector general for tax administration released an audit Tuesday that found the IRS gave special scrutiny to applications from groups that had "tea party" or "patriot" or "9/12" in their names — a move that lawmakers on both sides of the aisle say appeared to chill First Amendment rights.
President Obama announced Wednesday night that the acting head of the IRS had resigned as a result of the scandal.
The IRS said it wasn't motivated by politics but rather by the flood of applications from groups that formed after the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision, which opened up avenues for interest groups to have a voice in political debates — though they were still generally barred from donating directly to candidates for office.
Agency officials have said the extra scrutiny was their way of streamlining the processing of the flood of applications.
But Cleta Mitchell, a lawyer who represents some of the organizations that were targeted, said that explanation makes no sense.
"Streamline? So you streamline by sending people requests and they have to submit 400 or 500 pages of stuff? That's streamlining?" she said.
She said the problem isn't just the intrusive questions, but also the delay in approving the applications. Groups that applied in 2009 and 2010 are still awaiting certificates showing their tax-exempt status, she said.
"This isn't in the past tense. This is all still going on," she said.
One of her organizations was asked 29 questions, including demands to provide: copies of bylaws; a resume for each organization officer; family relationships between officers; minutes of every board meeting; copies of all solicitations for money; a list of "all issues that are important to your organization" and their positions on them; a total number of volunteers and how they are used; and the amount of time spent on each activity.
Some organizations have given up and withdrawn their applications, while others said they opted not to apply after hearing about the scrutiny.
"There were already rumors in the mill to beware," said John Hull, chairman of the Summerville 9-12 Project in South Carolina, which is affiliated with the national Tea Party Patriots.
He said his group talked about the legitimacy that came with being tax-exempt, but members decided they didn't want the hassle or the potential harassment.
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2013 Pac 12 Preseason Quarterback Rankings
2013 Pac 12 Preseason Quarterback Rankings
The Pac 12 has long been known as a league built on potent offenses and that doesn't look to change in 2013. Up and down the conference, you see offenses that will pick up the pace, punch you in the face or air it out over your head to put up points in a hurry. To get this done, all of them rely heavily on the quarterback position and some programs are set up better than others.
Many Pac 12 programs found their quarterbacks of the future in 2012 with four quarterbacks enjoying breakout seasons as freshman or sophomores. This year, there are plenty of familiar faces coming back to build on their campaigns from last season and a few teams looking to break in a new signal caller. Three teams will be turning to a new quarterback next fall, though none of them have settled on who exactly it will be.
The quarterbacks in the Pac 12 conference represent a diverse group that can win in a multitude of ways. There are runners, there are big arms, there are gunslingers and there are guys who just know how to win. Their ability to get the job done will undoubtedly be tested as the Pac 12 looks to be as competitive as ever in 2013.
Which of them will rise to the challenge and lead their programs to the top? Who can put their team in their backs and carry them all the way to the Rose Bowl to represent the conference in the Granddaddy of them all? Without further ado, let's rank the starting quarterbacks of the Pac 12 conference for 2013.
12. Connor Wood, Colorado Buffaloes
Wood will likely win the job in the fall and is by far the most experienced signal caller on Colorado's roster. That experience hasn't been all that impressive, however, so Wood needs to step things up in 2013. If he can tap into the potential that got him originally signed by the Texas Longhorns, he should have a pretty good season. The trick will be getting him comfortable and confident early in Mike MacIntyre's new offense. Getting Paul Richardson back at wide receiver certainly won't hurt.
11. Travis Wilson, Utah Utes
Wilson got thrown into the deep end earlier than expected thanks to injuries and struggled a big for Utah down the stretch. He has a new co-offensive coordinator in Dennis Erickson who will likely air the ball out more in 2013, so Wilson must show he has learned from his freshman blunders and can lead the Utes in his sophomore season. Getting a firm grasp of the offense early will be key to building his confidence.
10. B.J. Denker/Jesse Scroggins/Anu Solomon, Arizona Wildcats
Rich Rodriguez has plenty of options to choose from for his quarterback in 2013. Will he go with the backup from 2012, B.J. Denker who saw limited playing time last season? Or perhaps USC Trojans transfer Jesse Scroggins is the man for the job? Could incoming freshman Anu Solomon make an early splash, maybe? Whoever wins out the job will not have the benefit of a deep receiving corps which has been gutted by injuries and defection, most notably Austin Hill. At least they'll have a dynamic running game to back them up as they get their feet underneath them.
9. Zach Kline, Cal Bears
Kline appears to be the heir apparent for the quarterback job in 2013, but new head coach Sonny Dykes isn't ready to anoint him just yet. He failed to really distinguish himself during spring practice so he still has plenty to prove when fall camp opens. If he can hold onto the job, he will have plenty of weapons to work with in the new Bears' offense which should give him plenty of opportunities to put up big numbers next fall.
8. Connor Halliday, Washington State Cougars
After splitting starting reps in 2012 and being unable to grab hold of the quarterback position last season, Halliday returns as the front runner to handle the WSU offense in 2013. He has the arm and the confidence to flourish as a gun-slinger in Mike Leach's wide open offense and has an excellent young group of receivers to throw to. He will need to play smarter, however, next season and cut down on the turnovers if the Cougars hope to go anywhere next fall.
7. Max Wittek/Cody Kessler, USC Trojans
Wittek has the game experience (however underwhelming it was) and a big arm, but Kessler had the better spring. The pair of them will continue to compete through fall camp to decide who will follow Matt Barkley under center for the Trojans. Whoever wins out should not have any trouble finding receivers to throw to, especially with defending Biletnikoff Award winner Marqise Lee on the outside. Whoever Lane Kiffin picks as his next quarterback will undoubtedly put up good numbers next season, they just have to win the job this fall first.
6. Sean Mannion/Cody Vaz, Oregon State Beavers
Mike Riley is stuck in a back-and-forth between Mannion and Vaz this offseason. It's the same back-and-forth that seemed to de-rail the Beavers in 2012, so the first order of business this fall should be to pick a quarterback and stick with it. Mannion has the bigger arm and better upside and was named a captain, giving him a slight edge (maybe). Whichever quarterback wins out will have a strong running game, solid offensive line and explosive receiving corps to work with, so production won't be an issue next fall.
5. Keith Price, Washington Huskies
Price took a step backwards in 2012, thanks in part to injuries and an ineffective offensive line in front of him. The line should be better and there are weapons at every level to take the pressure off Price in 2013 so that he can return to the form that made him a Heisman Trophy darkhorse before last season. Steve Sarkisian would like to pick up the pace and if Price can handle that it should create a more potent offensive attack that will put up yards and points in bunches.
4. Kevin Hogan, Stanford Cardinal
All he did was win in 2012, taking over midseason and leading Stanford to a win in Autzen Stadium, a Pac 12 title and a Rose Bowl win. Now, Hogan has to show that he can do it as the leader of the offense. The running game will most likely lose a step as they try and replace Stepfan Taylor and there won't be much in the way of a security blanket in the receiving corps after the Cardinal's top three pass-catchers moved on this offseason. That puts pressure on Hogan to step up his game, both as a quarterback and a leader. If he can, Stanford will be in good shape to defend their conference title.
3. Brett Hundley, UCLA Bruins
Hundley broke out in 2012 as a dynamic playmaker as he finished second in the conference and 23rd in the nation in total offense. More of the offense will be run through him in 2013 as he continues to improve his grasp of the playbook. He will need to play smarter next season and learn to throw the football away, avoiding taking so many sacks and saving his body for when the plays are there to be made. If he can keep himself from trying to do too much on every play, Hundley will challenge for the title of best quarterback in the conference.
2. Taylor Kelly, Arizona State Sun Devils
Kelly came out of nowhere to win the starting job for ASU last season and ran with it. He finished second in the conference and ninth in the nation in passing efficiency in his first season as a starting quarterback and looks to do even more during his second run through the conference. Now that he has the confidence of his coach and the benefit of a strong running game behind him, look for Kelly to take the next step in 2013.
1. Marcus Mariota, Oregon Ducks
Mariota burst onto the scene last year and had arguably the second-best season of a redshirt freshman quarterback in 2012 (thanks Johnny Manziel). He returns for his sophomore season with more weapons around him, a better command of the offense and a coach that will put the ball in his hands more often. If he can stay in games past halftime in 2013, Mariota could make a strong push for the Heisman Trophy and solidify himself as the top quarterback in the Pac 12.
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Can't say enough about this hotel. Fantastic!!! Everything exceeded our expectations!!! Will make a point to stay here again when in the area.
No complaints.
The hotel was comfortable and clean, convenient work space in the room, pleasant family-friendly breakfast area. Easy to get to from the interstate, but not so close as to have noise. I would stay here again.
king size bed was available
needs updating in fixtures/furniture
very limited choices for breakfast
Location was good, not too close to the expressway.
Convenience to highway.
Breakfast was bare bones continental, but edible. Hard to mess up fruit and yogurt. The toast was stale, but jelly helped.
Almost everything was poor. We had 'non-smoking' room that stank of rug shampooed smoke. We were told that was there shampoo and the manager pointed to the door symbol 'See - Non Smoking room'. The smell was horrible every time we stepped into the room. People partying out on second floor first night. Key card lock did not work until carding in 4-5 times each time. My wife and I travel a lot. This was not a technique issue. A maintenance guy came up the second day and it took him 5 attempts. This is no better than a 2.0 only because room had no bugs and there was a minimal breakfast each morning.
The room was dirty, there was a wash cloth from person before us hanging on the shower. The top Hing on the door was ground off, and was very sharp.
Room was clean.
Attention to details poor. Outlet box coming out if the wall, refrigerator had 1/2 inch ice build up, hairdryer held together with tape.
Very easy check-in. Clean room. Friendly staff
Breakfast items not that good
Everything about our stay was great. I especially appreciated that the a/c was on when we checked in. It's a little thing like that that sets a hotel apart from others.
The salt water pool was awesome!
It was very convenient to the highway we were travelling on. Although it did not have a restaurant, we arrived late and had a light bite in the Bistro.
That they don't provide breakfast
The staff were all very friendly and accommodating. We arrived before check in time due to horrible weather conditions preventing us from driving further and they allowed us to check in immediately. The hotel restaurant staff put out a buffet to accommodate the additional unexpected guests.
Our only complaint was that our room was directly across from the elevator AND overlooked the pool. We were snowed in so there were a lot of kids in the pool and a lot of people in the hallway.
Free coffee and cookies in lobby, nice breakfast, clean and updated rooms.
Pool not open during construction
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Breakfast was horrible, they ran out of breads .. lol
Has a stove, kitchen sink, dishes. Perfect to make my own food to fulfill my dietary requirements.
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|Reviews for What happens to Drakken and Shego after graduation?
| cybercorpsesnake chapter 1 . 9/17/2014
Very cute and fun story. Shego and Drakken are so cute together. Keep up the good work.
| Mitchie chapter 1 . 6/24/2014
| milkshake chapter 1 . 5/31/2014
AFREAKINGMAZING! This was one of the best that I have read with drakken and shego so far! Totally. Awesome.
*dissapears in cloud of smoke*
| x sweetheart x chapter 1 . 4/11/2014
I really like it thx for the story
| specter20 chapter 1 . 3/14/2014
great one! i love it.. i can imagine the movie while reading the fanfiction.. Ilove it!
i hope disney made a movie about this, since the graduation is the last movie on season 4
| Fangirl206 chapter 1 . 12/30/2013
That was cute! Nice job especially for your first fic! Maybe one thing to work on is grammar. It wasnt much of an issue. Great job though! :D
| makimakimakimaki chapter 1 . 12/21/2013
Pretty sweet. Needs a sequel though...
| Guest chapter 1 . 12/1/2013
I really enjoyed this.
| Sharpclaws chapter 1 . 10/14/2013
Great story, I've been looking for a good Shego Draken fic.
| CajunBear73 chapter 1 . 7/13/2013
Cute fic and enjoyed it quite much.
A little problem with spelling and word usage, but ok...
Welcome to KP.
| Sentinel103 chapter 1 . 7/13/2013
Well first off welcome to KP FF lamtiger, I could actually see this happen. Now there were a few spelling oopsies and a bit of grammar that could be cleaned up...mostly in dialogue. When some one is speaking give them their own paragraph if you are using quotation marks. Oh Drakken's cousin Eddie is Motor Ed!
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#1 Feb 22, 2011
Have Woody Castleberry and Kevin Lewis been arrested yet? Are they in jail?
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#2 Feb 23, 2011
Not yet. Feds still trying to determine just how big (already way over the $22 Million) Woody and Kevin's scandal is going to be.
#3 Feb 23, 2011
Who got the worst chucking from this fraud?
#4 Feb 23, 2011
They need to go ahead and lock both of them up because they are guilty and everyone knows it. I personally knew Kevin and I have not been around him in over 20 years but I always knew he would be the first to do something of this nature. He was always nice to me and I never had any problems with him but he was always obsessed with the notion of having a lot of money and I feel his parents are somewhat responsible for raising him thinking that money equals success. He was a only child and his parents are good people and Kevin is not a bad person but sometimes as humans, we lose touch of reality and let material things cloud our judgement. That being said, as humans we must face our problems and accept the punishment handed down and then learn to live life the way it is intended. So many people have and will be hurt for years to come and his own family will be destroyed as well and I hope and pray that everyone who is directly affected by this terrible situation can go on with life and learn from what has happened.
#5 Feb 23, 2011
Why would anyone blame this on Woody???!!!! He is not to blame... Blame the Board as a whole, the AR Banking Board,& the FDIC. Kevin needs a 8x10 jail cell. NOT Woody!!
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#6 Feb 23, 2011
Yes, they both need to be behind bars. Woody conned a lot of friends into trusting him, then joined up w Kevin and let him steal it all while Woody played rich banker and looked the other way.
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#7 Feb 24, 2011
After they fired Woody has the new bank president got more sense and ethics?
#8 Feb 24, 2011
First of all you idiots why would Woody be in jail for a scandal?? A scandal that lost him hundreds of thousands of dollars. Really guys?? I really don't expect much from the people in this town anyways but most of them are bull headed and stupid!! Just drop the whole situation the past is the past.
#9 Feb 24, 2011
Did woody get fired? I'f so where is he working now?
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#10 Feb 24, 2011
Think the bank finally got around to firing him. Woody will be getting sued too, but he has much bigger problems than just being a dumb ass and not doing his job at bank.
#11 Feb 24, 2011
He was in several of their ads for the new bank.
#12 Feb 24, 2011
How many people got chucked in this fiasco??
#13 Feb 24, 2011
No one did. A lot of people left. And NO Woody did not get fired he is quitting. Why would he have a desire to stay there after all that went down. Think about it! Don't think it would take a rocket scientist...
#14 Feb 24, 2011
Ha Ha. SURE he did. Woody "quit" about like Bernie Madoff "quit". Nobody trusts their money with Woody anymore.
#15 Feb 24, 2011
He was at the very beginning, but not now. They canned Woody's ass. They are introducing a new and clean bank president in their current ads hoping he can clean up Woody and Kevin's destruction and thefts.
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#16 Feb 25, 2011
They HAD to FIRE Woody Castleberry, you can't run a bankfrom inside the federal penetentiary.
#17 Feb 25, 2011
Has Kevin Lewis been arrested and booked? Any breaking news before the weekend starts??
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#18 Feb 25, 2011
They should lock Woody Castleberry up in that concrete vault he built in that vacant lot and let the all the little school children go by and look at him to teach them that Crime Does Not Pay.
#19 Feb 25, 2011
Unreal if woody in up in the pennitinuary
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#20 Feb 26, 2011
Woody Castleberry is not in the bank's new ads. They are using the new bank president (Randy Cross) now, embarrassed as hell by Woody and his shennanigans. Woody's next pic will be a mug shot.
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