text: MainNews and StoriesSTORY: World Leaders to Gather in Korea For Groundbreaking Global Development Summit Listen STORY: World Leaders to Gather in Korea For Groundbreaking Global Development SummitIn January 2013, world leaders from government, business, education, economic and social development, media, and civil society will convene in PyeongChang, Republic of Korea, at the Special Olympics Global Development Summit on Ending the Cycle of Poverty and Exclusion for People with Intellectual Disabilities. A First for People with Intellectual DisabilitiesThis summit, the first of its kind focusing solely on people with intellectual disabilities, will examine the urgent needs of the largest disability population throughout the world and will take place as part of the world's largest sports and humanitarian event, Special Olympics World Winter Games PyeongChang 2013. The summit is scheduled for 30 January and will be co-hosted by Special Olympics and the Special Olympics World Winter Games Organizing Committee PyeongChang 2013.According to the recently published World Report on Disability, a joint publication by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Bank, "Disability is also an important development issue with an increasing body of evidence showing that persons with disabilities experience worse socioeconomic outcomes and poverty than persons without disabilities" (xxi, WRD). In 2006, the United Nations established the Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) to change attitudes and approaches in order to improve the lives of people with disabilities. People with intellectual disabilities comprise the world's largest disability population with an estimated 200 million people. The Summit on Ending the Cycle of Poverty and Exclusion for People with Intellectual Disabilities will raise challenging questions about the scope and underlying nature of the obstacles that prevent people with intellectual disabilities from being included and accepted as part of the larger global development agenda, and will help provide a roadmap for how models of intervention can be created, modified and expanded to include people with intellectual disabilities. Persons with intellectual disabilities can be defined as having significant limitations in cognitive functioning and adaptive behavior that have onset by age 18 years. Intellectual disabilities can be either genetic or acquired (e.g., Down syndrome, cerebral palsy, autism, traumatic brain injury).Speakers and high level participants of the Global Development SummitDaw Aung San Suu Kyi, MP -- Chairperson, National League for Democracy, Burma (Myanmar) The Most Honorable Kim Hwang-sik, Prime Minister of the Republic of KoreaHer Excellency Joyce Banda, President of MalawiThe Most Honorable Portia Simpson Miller, Prime Minister of JamaicaThe Most Honorable Sheikh Hasina, Prime Minister of BangladeshThe Honorable Bekele Geleta, Secretary General of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent SocietiesSenator and Vice Minister Jan McLucas, Government of AustraliaThe Honorable Wilfried Lemke, Special Envoy, the United Nations Office on Sport for Development and PeaceWhat Does "Equality" Mean to You?Special Olympics encourages discussions about equality and inclusion and is calling on people around the world to define what "equality" means to them. 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She has her Bachelors of Science Degree in Gender Studies from Atlantic International University.Bekele Geleta, Secretary General, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent SocietiesBekele Geleta is the Secretary General of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. Bekele's involvement with these organizations began when he served as Secretary General of the Ethiopian Red Cross from 1984 through 1988. Under his leadership, the organization improved its operational efficiency and was able to help significantly more people affected by drought - increasing the number from 100,000 to one million. From 1974 to 1977, he worked as General Manager of the Franco-Ethiopian Railway Company. From 1978 to 1982, he was held as a political prisoner in Ethiopia. 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He ended his academic career with a tenured position at the London School of Economics.Cindy McCain, Philanthropist and Chair, Hensley & Co.Cindy Hensley McCain has dedicated her life to improving the lives of those less fortunate both in the United States and around the world. As a member of the Board of Trustees for the HALO Trust, a non-profit organization dedicated to landmine removal and weapons destruction in war-torn countries, Cindy is dedicated to the worldwide removal of landmines. Cindy also served on the Board of Directors for Operation Smile, a non-profit organization whose mission is to repair cleft lips, cleft palates and other facial deformities for children around the world. Cindy is a founding member of the Eastern Congo Initiative. She's travelled to the region four times in the last two years and is committed to raising awareness on the travesties facing women and children in the Congo. She holds an undergraduate degree in Education and a Master's in Special Education from USC and is a member of the USC Rossier School of Education Board of Councilors. Cindy is the chairman of her family's business, Hensley & Company, which is one of the largest Anheuser-Busch distributors in the nation. Cindy resides in Phoenix with her husband, U.S. Senator John McCain. Together, they have four children. Cherie Blair, Founder, Cherie Blair FoundationWife of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, leading lawyer and committed campaigner for women's rights, Cherie set up the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women in 2008 to help women build small and growing businesses in Africa, South Asia and the Middle East so that they can contribute to their economies and have a stronger voice in their societies. As well as fighting for human rights in her professional career, Cherie is an active campaigner on equality and human rights issues. In addition to founding her own charity, she remains closely involved with charities with a special emphasis on women and children. Cherie studied law at the London School of Economic. She became a Queen's Counsel in 1995 and in 2000 co-founded Matrix Chambers from which she continues to practice as a barrister. Cherie currently also sits as a Recorder, as part-time judges are known, and is an accredited mediator. In 2007, she was awarded the Eleanor Roosevelt Val-Kill medal in recognition of her high ideals and courageous actions. Cherie also holds Honorary Degrees at the Open University and Liverpool Hope University.Hon. Jan McLucas, Senator and Vice Minister, AustraliaBorn and raised in Far North Queensland, Australia, Senator the Hon Jan McLucas began her career as a school teacher. She enjoyed a 10 year primary school teaching career, working mainly in North Queensland and continues to have a strong interest in education, especially the education of Indigenous Australian children and children living in rural and remote areas.Senator McLucas was elected as a Councillor in the city of Cairns in 1995 and was then elected to the Australian Senate, representing the state of Queensland, in 1998.She has held a number of parliamentary positions, including Shadow Minister for Ageing, Disabilities and Carers and Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Health and Ageing.In September 2010, Senator McLucas was appointed the Parliamentary Secretary for Disabilities and Carers.Working closely with Australian Minister for Disability Reform, the Hon Jenny Macklin MP, she is continuing to deliver the Australian Government's reform agenda to improve the lives of people with disability, promote participation and create a more inclusive society. This includes the establishment of a historic National Disability Insurance Scheme, which will provide long term, high quality support for people who have a permanent disability that significantly affects their communication, mobility, self-care or self-management.Having developed strong connections in local government and regional communities, Senator McLucas is also working closely with the Minister for Regional Australia, the Hon Simon Crean MP, to deliver equitable access to services and infrastructure for regional, rural and remote Queenslanders.In March 2012, Senator McLucas was also appointed the Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister.


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It might be hard not to be skeptical about hunger in our community -- until you look at the facts and see the invisible hungry people living among us.
For some it's hard not to be skeptical about 58% of USD 490 children being eligible for free and reduced rate lunches. Or the data showing that 1 out of 5 children live with food insecurity in our community.
We've all seen or heard about people who seem to be abusing the system -- using their Kansas Vision card to buy junk food (a Vision Card is a plastic debit card that the Kansas Food Assistance program gives to eligible persons to purchase food at local grocery stores).
There will always be those who abuse programs intended to meet specific needs, and it isn't always people living in poverty who do. There's lots of examples of wealthy individuals and large corporations abusing loopholes, set asides, and subsidy programs. It's likely that the dollar amount of abuse by the wealthiest is far larger than that by the least.
Unfortunately, there is widespread hunger and food insecurity that is invisible to most of us - often because people are embarrassed and ashamed for anyone to know.
Sometimes, perhaps, because we look away and don't see it. As a result, a lot of people only know about the stories of those who seem to abuse food assistance programs. But, as one writer asks:
"What do a police officer, a teacher, a rancher, and a second grader have in common? They all go hungry despite living in one of the wealthiest countries in the world. In other words, people who live and work in our community. The food insecure households that you don't know about."
The ranks of the invisible poor, non-traditional homeless, and the near homeless include honest and responsible folks who would prefer not to need a hand out include:
• The working poor who don't bring home enough wages to pay all their bills, so they skimp on nutritious food in order to keep the heat on.
• Minimum wage earners living one illness or car disaster away from homelessness.
• White-collar workers laid off during the recent recession who struggle to live on unemployment income, especially older workers who encounter formidable barriers to getting another job.
• Formerly middle class households stripped of their hard-earned savings due to the death or disability of the primary wage earner.
• Elderly widows well beyond their working years depending on social security benefits under $800 month (having lost the benefit that their spouse was getting when alive).
• Young children whose parents can't or won't provide them with basic necessities for their growing brains and bodies to develop healthly - such as nutritiously adequate food.
Still skeptical?
Then watch the award-winning documentary film: A Place At the Table. It was produced to raise awareness about hunger in our communities and to inspire people to take action. To watch the movie trailer, CLICK HERE.
So what can a caring community do?
Go to the Action Center http://actioncenter.takepart.com/apatt, scroll down to enter your zip code, and check out the list of opportunities to end hunger in your community, such as:
• Take the "No Hungry Kid" pledge
• Garden in your back yard or at the Numana Community Gardens in El Dorado, and donate your surplus fruits and vegetables to local food pantries.
• Start a food drive to support local food pantries and the Kansas Food Bank.
• Volunteer with a Gleaning & Feeding program picking fruits and vegetables to be donated to food pantries..
• End food waste in your household, and advocate to end it in restaurants, grocery stores, and other places in our community.
• Spread awareness about food insecurity and advocate for solutions.
• Support school breakfast, lunch, and afterschool meal programs, and the summer meal program for kids: El Dorado LunchBox: Summer Meals for Kids.
• Contact Your Representatives about making ending hunger a priority.
• Host a screening party: Gather up friends to watch and discuss the film, "A Place at the Table."
- Go to iTunes to rent the film
- To download the discussion guide: CLICK HERE
Share your suggestions by leaving a comment to this post.
Helping the hungry among us - Community Grace at its best!
A Place At the Table, Magnolia Pictures.
Hungry Americans get "A Place at the Table" in a new documentary, Reuters, March 1, 2013, ByAndrea Burzynski

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He then married another woman (without having gotten a divorce!) and began a new family with her.
Upon learning this information, and that she had living relatives, Cattrall chose not to follow-up and meet her grandfather's other family. Most of the people who were discussing the program on Twitter (#wdytya) last evening were in agreement that it was a very emotional episode.
What do you do with YOUR skeletons?
This brings me around to a question I would like to pose to readers of this blog.
What do YOU do with the skeletons in YOUR closet? Most of us have them. Mine include illegitimate children, kidnapping (if it's your own child, is it really kidnapping?), several suicides, and probably the worst of all, a third great-grandfather who killed his daughter and then committed suicide in 1851.
Last night's discussions on Twitter as well as on Geneablogger Radio brought out a lot of firmly held beliefs on what to do with this type of information when it is discovered in your family history research.
Points to consider:
- Do you lay it on the line, share with family and publish your findings?
- Do you keep it close to the vest and not share it?
- Do you attempt to rewrite history? The genealogist who published a family history that included the ancestor who murdered his daughter changed the entire context of that story, making him out to be a hero who tried to save his daughter's life. Newspaper reports from the time were quite different.
- Is there a "statute of limitations" on privacy? For example, if an incident occurred four or five generations back, do you treat the information differently?


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Amjad Islam Amjad, Pride of Performance, Sitara-e-Imtiaz (Urdu: امجد اسلام امجد) (born August 4, 1944) is a well-known Urdu poet, drama writer and lyricist from Pakistan. He has written many books including poetry and prose. He has received many awards for his literary work and Screenplay for TV. In which his achievements comprise Pride of Performance and Sitara-e-Imtiaz and several other awards.
A recent poll showed that Amjad Islam Amjad is the most popular author in Urdu Adab. Fishar, Barzakh, Us Paar, Satwan Dar, Zara Phir Se Kehna, Barish Ke Awaaz, Itnay Khwab Kahan Rakhuun and Mere Bhi Hain Kuch Khwab are his famous books.
This time I am posting here "Tu Chal Ae Mausam-e-Girya" (Urdu: تو چل اے موسمِ گریہ), a beautiful Urdu poem (Nazam) written by Amjad Islam Amjad. I am sure you will like it.


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Being green isn't just something that happens after eating bad food or the subject of a song popularized by a famous Muppet – it's an essential skill for today's IT workers.
Green information technology is essential for any data-intensive business as energy sources become more scarce and costly. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimated that utility costs for U.S. computer servers were $7.4 billion in 2010, up from $4.5 billion only five years earlier.
Servers run hotter today than a few years ago to process mushrooming petabytes of information from the cascading video, audio and other data running among businesses and among consumers.
Cost is only one concern. In some areas of the country, there is no more power to be had – at any price. Therefore, companies now expect their IT managers and, increasingly, IT workers become green information technology experts, both in terms of understanding available sustainable IT and operating their organizations as energy efficiently as possible.
Truly sustainable information technology is still elusive in most areas and is largely geographically dependent:
Yet there are several green information technology strategies that the IT manager can pursue to help a company reduce its carbon footprint:
Turn up the thermostat: Conventional wisdom at one time was to place data processing equipment in a cold room so systems didn't overheat. While heat is still an enemy of computers and servers, the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers now recommends that data centers can run as warm as 81 degrees without damaging equipment, compared to 68 degrees less than 10 years ago.
Take advantage of Mother Nature: Knowing that equipment can run hotter, you can implement natural air cooling whenever possible. Particle filtering systems have improved over the last few years to keep harmful particles out of the air. Data-intensive businesses as far south as San Antonio find they can use natural air cooling to lower their energy costs.
Take inventory: Take "turn off the light when you leave the room" a quantum leap forward. Determine which equipment is in use. Machines that are rarely used may not be worth keeping around; they tend to run much slower and less efficiently. Depending on budget constraints, new equipment will be more efficient in terms of speed and energy usage, making them worth the investment.
Use virtualization whenever possible: Newer, more powerful equipment can replace multiple older machines. One virtualized server can replace as many as 10 other servers, resulting in a greener information technology system.
Use the cloud: After checking the equipment usage, you might find that much of it is only used occasionally - like at the end of a pay period or at the end of the month. Why own all of those machines, and all of the energy consumption with it, when it's rarely needed? Cloud-based data processing and storage provide scalability, rapid deployment and minimal capital investment for businesses, because they pay for services on an as-needed basis and don't have the ongoing overhead cost for underutilized equipment.
Understanding the energy challenges and some of the solutions to meet them will be considered a critical skill for the IT professional of the future.
By Phil Britt


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Sunday, November 8, 2009
Novel writing is hard.
If you're not familiar with NaNoWriMo, it's a collective bit of organized group insanity, in which tens of thousands of people around the world voluntarily agree to set a personal goal: We will each write a novel, in 30 days. More specifically, we need to write 50,000 words in 30 days. There's no "prize" per se, other than the bragging rights that you did it, kind of like running a marathon.
The beautiful thing about it is that they--the organizers, I mean-- go out of their way to empower you to write crap. Because, obviously, unless you're some kind of insufferable demigodlike prodigy, that's what you're going to write in 30 days. All you are really doing is writing a first draft. Which anyone can do of course, and which many of us writerly types say we are going to do "some day"---but what NaNoWriMo forces you to do is commit, to keep going, to not bog yourself down in blood-from-a-stone word-by-word hyperediting or self-criticism. You can't possibly make the goal that way. And so, you write write write. I'm going to quote directly from the official website:
Valuing enthusiasm and perseverance over painstaking craft, NaNoWriMo is a novel-writing program for everyone who has thought fleetingly about writing a novel but has been scared away by the time and effort involved.
Because of the limited writing window, the ONLY thing that matters in NaNoWriMo is output. It's all about quantity, not quality. The kamikaze approach forces you to lower your expectations, take risks, and write on the fly.
Make no mistake: You will be writing a lot of crap. And that's a good thing. By forcing yourself to write so intensely, you are giving yourself permission to make mistakes. To forgo the endless tweaking and editing and just create. To build without tearing down.
For someone like me, this was just perfect encouragement. Knowing that the official group is giving me permission to suck has given me the strength to just do it. And as I'm seven days and 10,000 words into the writing, I can testify in a court of law: My book sucks! My god, I never knew how hard it was to actually do the things that novelists do. I've written, I'm sure, millions of words for public consumption by now, but never in this form. The closest I've come is the Mankind's Last Hope play/sitcom that I co-wrote with my pal Cecil Vortex, but, ya know, that was 1) a co-writing effort and 2) a script, a different beast entirely.
Two images from the live production of Mankind's Last Hope--also with a character named Xanthor!
Not surprisingly, the part that's coming easiest to me, in the novel, is the dialog writing. Lots of fun and I think I've managed to concoct a few laugh lines. The Xanthor sections, too--the mock high fantasy--have been a blast to write so far. But all the rest of it? The character arcs and scene-setting and pacing and descriptive text? So out of my league here. Kinda wish I'd taken more creative writing classes right about now, which would have helped me get experience in some of the basics here. Essay writing, critiques, confessionals, all that I can do, for the most part. But this? This is like telling me to fly a plane.
Still, I persevere! Why? Because NaNoWriMo has given me permission to suck! As I sit down early every morning to grind out 1600+ words a day, I just do not look back. I have no idea where I'm going, who all these characters are yet, and only the vaguest notion of how it's all going to end. But who cares! What laws am I breaking? The chance that anyone is even going to read this first draft, at all, are slim-to-none (sorry!) But if I can emerge at the end of 30 days with a 50,000 word "finished" clump of garbage, it at least gives me something I can actually do a rewrite or edit of, something I didn't have 30 days earlier, and it, if nothing else, is one of those classic "learning experiences" that are so good for all of us no matter how much they usually blow.
Anyhoo, that's what I'm doing this month! So forgive what's likely to be the even-less-frequent-than-usual blog posts. Maybe I can post the occasional excerpt. Maybe. Oh, and, please keep your comments/criticisms/suggestions about EA.com coming, as I'm still actively reading them all and bringing them up with the staff. Lots and lots of work-in-progress behind the scenes at my day job. It may take awhile to see the fruits of my labor, but hang tight. The Master Plan is in effect.
Happy Sunday, everyone!
62 comments:
- nickux said...
Keep on truckin! As a fellow NaNoWriMo-er I've made sure to buddy up with your profile on there under my username nickux. I'm just a few words shy of 12,000 and let me tell you this is tough stuff. If you compare writing in NaNoWriMo to trekking to the summit of Mt. Everest, 50,000 words would equal the 29,029 ft. peak. In those terms, base camp at 17,000 ft. would be just under 10,000 words. So we're still just starting if you look at it that way but we gotta keep climbing that bar graph on the Nano Stats page to make it to the top. Good luck and happy writing!
- November 8, 2009 at 9:14 AM
I'll say this--not to be a brown noser--but out of all the nanowrimo novel descriptions I've read yours has by far the funniest premise. It'd be a shame if no one ever gets to read it. Well, good luck. And maybe we'll see each other at the finish line. I only now get why many a novelist cry, "Writing is hard work."
- November 8, 2009 at 9:41 AM
- Troy Goodfellow said...
You know, this always sounds like a neat idea, but:
a) Even with permission I have a hard time turning off my internal editor. My blog once had almost a dozen have finished posts because I couldn't make them work right.
b) Fiction is hard. I have this urge to keep moving the plot forward to the end, so I am not a natural story teller. Suspense? Obstacles? Pfft. Just get to the conclusion.
Good luck with Xanthor, the Eye of Argon for the 21st century!
- November 8, 2009 at 9:46 AM
- wkdesigns said...
I see that you are falling behind on your daily word count goals! Better get moving! :)
- November 8, 2009 at 10:25 AM
- Jeff Green said...
Yeah. Blame Dragon Age. :)
- November 8, 2009 at 10:34 AM
Writing a story is the hardest thing you'll ever do, because nobody's making you finish it like in school
- November 8, 2009 at 11:31 AM
Good luck! I completed NaNoWriMo with two or three days to spare in 2007, and it was eye-opening. I've been meaning to try it again.
- November 8, 2009 at 12:21 PM
If you had said to me that the zombie-novel was going to be the next big thing, or even that an incredibly cheesy series of teenage... sorry, young adult... vampire novels would become a major smash hit, I would've said, yeah, well crazy things do happen in publishing, but that will NEVER happen.
So I suppose that there's room for a fantasy novel that's cast in the same mould as Hitchhiker's?
Well, good luck with that.
The thing is, I've never quite understood why people feel that they need to sit down and write like this?
Writing a novel should be an enjoyable process, and something you feel compelled to do, not because you feel guilty that you haven't been doing it - if you're not writing everyday, then there's probably a reason for that. People always say, oh but I have to work, and when I come home from work I'm too tired to write. Or they'll make the excuse that they only get two days off each week, and that during those two days they need to rest and relax in order to re-charge their batteries.
Simply put: those people aren't writers.
Rather, they're people who are in love with the 'idea' of writing.
If you're a novelist - even if you're an unpublished novelist - then it means that you spend an inordinate amount of time alone writing fiction. If you're not spending your every available moment either writing, reading, or thinking about fiction then it means you're not a novelist.
Writers always right. Am I write?
- November 8, 2009 at 12:21 PM
- Jeff Green said...
You are totally "write." :) And I'm no more a novelist than I am a game designer (DOH!). But that can't hurt the lot of us from trying, right? It's a fun exercise!
- November 8, 2009 at 1:35 PM
- Jonah said...
That's awesome that you are participating! I am as well, though I'm already way behind where I need to be.
I've added you to my buddy list, Jeff. I hope that's OK.
Mine is here:
- November 8, 2009 at 1:38 PM
- Tristessa said...
Yeah, this is something interesting isn't it? I've churned out bad fiction before but this time it has the backing of thousands of other people who are doing the same thing.
Since you probably don't get to stumble upon any of my blogs like you used to when you were back with the 1UP crew, I'll repeat what I recently said there...
I once wrote a 135 page novel in a week and a half when I was about 13. And it was terrible. The story involved a small town sheriff and his wife, who "worked at the zoo". She was warning that too much chemical dumping was driving the alligators crazy - and killing their food source. So, naturally, they were about to storm the town in a feeding frenzy. Even though a few people went missing already, nobody believed her and the sheriff had to go around telling them they should listen. People just said that he only believed her because she was his wife. Then there was about 50 pages concerning hoard of alligators attacking the town. The book only came in at just over 110 pages, so I had another wave of gators attack. The book was hilarious...mostly because of awful dialogue and shoddy science that I got from watching late 70's 'nature attacks' movies. I wish I still had it but I lost it somewhere over the years.
I'm no stranger to speed novel writing. This time, there's a big difference. When I was 13 I thought I was writing something good. This time out, it just feels weird writing something that is knowingly bad. Don't get me wrong, I still like what I'm shooting for and so far it has a lot of parts that I think are genuinely funny, it's just that there are so many stretches that feel like 'placeholder text'.
I'm with you on the dialogue. I feel great whizzing though all the banter between the characters. I feel really awkward pouring through all the transitional text and descriptive sections that will most likely get the axe in later editing. In it's final form, what I'm writing can't possibly be longer than 140-150 pages at best.
Great to hear that you're keeping up for the most part. I fell a bit behind early last week because I got sick. It lasted four days and sitting at my computer was a chore in that state (and I had no laptop). Now it's catchup time over this coming week.
Looking forward to seeing an excerpt or two =)
- November 8, 2009 at 2:41 PM
- hair salon london said...
I know its NaNoWriMo...National Novel Writing Month. but we celebrate a NaBloPsMo...
National Blog Posting Month ..and i have been posted 7 blogs...
- November 9, 2009 at 12:19 AM
- wkdesigns said...
Blame Dragon Age? :P
I have been editing a story I wrote many years ago to work as a story for a module that I am creating for the PC version of Dragon Age. I am also 45 hours into the game itself. Not to mention being a full-time student working toward a degree in programming.
I have time!
However, if you must blame anything for eating up your time, at least it's a great game!
Good luck!
- November 9, 2009 at 4:27 AM
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- November 9, 2009 at 5:16 AM
- David said...
'Cudgel' was definitely the best game in the Xanthor series. They took everything that was great about Dagger of Xanthor and just refined the hell out of the gameplay. I can't wait to read the inside story behind this classic PC RPG.
- November 9, 2009 at 7:18 AM
- Jeff Green said...
LOL. I know I've arrived when I get the "Please help I need money" spam on my blog. Yay!
- November 9, 2009 at 7:42 AM
- Sully said...
Something I found very useful while writing a novel is to re-read what I wrote the day before every morning. That not only let me catch up on what was happening, but let me edit as well. Another useful thing is to have a sheet of graph paper with number markers on it, so after every thousand words, I would fill in one square. At the end of a writing day, it was very gratifying to fill in like, 3 squares in bright red. It's a very tangible and graphic way to witness your progression. Another way to mark this progress is to actually print out that day's work, and add it to a growing pile beside you. Whenever you take a break for water or coffee, you can flip through the pages and feel the wind of your work breeze back in your face. It smells absurdly sweet, and is incredibly encouraging.
- November 9, 2009 at 1:20 PM
David, WTF?
'Cudgel' was a piece of shit? It was released in November, and then patched something like five hundred times within the next six months. The reason for this was pretty obvious - they wanted to ship this thing in time for the big Christmas sales.
It shocks me that ANYBODY would think that 'Cudgel' was better than 'Dagger'. (No, seriously, joke post?)
You are aware, I would hope, that most of the design team that worked on 'Dagger' formed their own studio, and DID NOT work on 'Cudgel'. Tell me that you're aware of this? It wasn't even the same team, guy.
'Cudgel' was filled with broken quests and bugs that caused CONSTANT CRASHING TO THE DESKTOP - this isn't even to mention the quite frankly abysmal frame-rates. Seriously, what game were you playing? (And please don't tell me that this game worked for you on your system... because that's just complete and utter crap... I'm sick and tired of people telling me that Cudgel worked perfectly fine on their system... complete crap... no way did this piece of crap work on your system.)
Shockingly, I made it all the way to chapter two before finally throwing in the towel - that was easily... by a country mile... one of the most frustrating experiences I've had in gaming... ever... finally I just gave up and said, oh well, it's back to Oblivion.
Cudgel, which I had waited three years for, was a day one for me, and it was easily the most profoundly disappointing game I have ever purchased.
To each his own, I suppose, but yeah, whatever.
EDIT: Also, the collector's edition was the worst collector's edition I've ever seen. The so-called cloth-map was so faded that you couldn't even make anything out, not to mention that it was about the same size as a small mouse-pad. I pre-ordered this game from EB and was supposed to get an in-game bonus item... but the code simply didn't work. Um, okay, that's called false advertising.
- November 10, 2009 at 2:33 AM
- Snickering Corpses said...
Best wishes to you for your nanowrimo efforts! I keep being tempted to do it but haven't actually tried it yet. I wonder if I should be insane and start it with 1/3 of the month gone?
On the EA website, my own number one comment would be, as a fan of old games under the EA umbrella such as the Wing Commander series, the EA website does not really seem to offer much for the classics. It's a sales site, of course, so it makes sense it focuses on the newest thing, but it would be nice to be able to register and have a listing of all my old EA games inside my EA account, for instance.
- November 10, 2009 at 3:27 AM
The title of this blog is pretty annoying.
Novel writing is hard.
"Oh I'm Jeff Green and I'm having a tough time with my novel, and actually I'd rather blog about the troubles I'm having than sit down and actually write."
Man up, god damn you.
Why not take some inspiration from those who preceded you? Hemingway, for example, was a five-hundred-words-a-day man. Didn't you ever read "A Moveable Feast"? I highly, highly recommend it to all transpiring writers. Read this book and you'll begin to see how Hemingway structured his entire life around his writing. You won't, in other words, ever read Hemingway saying, oh, novel writing is hard.
Maybe if you were to man up you might even get some decent copy onto paper. Then you and your wife could book a trip to some southern resort, and you could leave early with plans to meet her down there, and she could try and surprise you by bringing your work with her on the train. Then, maybe, she could pull a Hadley, and leave your work on the train, and then you'd have the excuse not to work anymore.
Jesus, this blog used to be witty, insightful and highly entertaining (though not necessarily in that order): blah, blah, blah, what the hell happened here?
William Jefferson Clinton
- November 10, 2009 at 8:18 PM
- Jeff Green said...
Hey Clinton, I voted for you twice, and now you come to my blog and diss me? Fuck you!
- November 11, 2009 at 6:10 AM
Hugely looking forward to the Bad Company 2 interview - I read at Gamespot that Dice is trying really hard to please the PC crowd for this game.
I'm more of a single player guy, so I'm really looking forward to this game.
Also was I ever surprised to learn that Mass Effect 2 will be shipping in January. I sure hope you schedule some Mass Effect 2 stuff for us on the podcast. That'd be great!
The Goose.
- November 13, 2009 at 1:54 AM
I'm with you Jeff, Novel Writing is hard. I participated in NaNoWriMo 3 years ago and finished my word count with half a week to spare, but the other 10 people who started with me all washed out in week 2. If you can survive to week 3 chances are you will finish.
The best part is, after an edit or two your NaNo novel can look pretty good. Since you are a writerly type, I think yours will turn out well in the end, and I have nothing but encouragement for you. It is a great experience to sit back after the dust clears and think to yourself, 'I wrote a novel.'
To all the haters on the blog, fuck those clowns!
- November 13, 2009 at 4:23 AM
Mike, just to clarify: the 'haters', as you call them, were only joking.
This is a cool blog, and there shouldn't be any bad air in here over something that really should be seen as a joke. We all love Green here. Bill Clinton was just ribbing Green, and I believe that Green knows that.
Of course we support Jeff in anything that he does!
... except this. Why does this guy continue to believe that he has creative powers? I hope he posts his... ahem, 'novel', on the net when he's finished (if he finishes - and that is entirely up in the air... if I were a betting man...), because I could quite frankly use a good laugh after the month from hell which I've just experienced!
- November 13, 2009 at 12:09 PM
A message for Bill Clinton: Stay away from McDonalds. Go with Sonic or you will have to get another heart operation. I also think that getting a vegi 12" sub from Subway is a great deal.
Oh and you Jeff: Do you think that Dragon Age is the spiritual successor to Baldur's Gate 2? (Which you have not finished I might add).
Good luck on your writing Jeff.
- November 15, 2009 at 6:44 AM
- Brian said...
I can't tell you what a relief it is to see a real writer spell it "anyhoo". That's how I'd spell it, but I've been starting to second-guess myself after seeing it written "anywho" so many times.
P.s., my wife succeeded in the NaNoWriMo challenge last year!
- November 19, 2009 at 1:58 PM
Oh my god, check out that link - look at all those delicious looking oriental babes!
This blog just keeps on getting better and better.
Kind of reminds me of the old CGW days when you'd read about gaming, and then flip to the back of the mag for some nice softcore porn. Ah, the Johnny Wilson era. Boy did that guy ever know how to run a magazine.
- November 20, 2009 at 2:28 AM
- Writing a Research Paper said...
Many institutions limit access to their online information. Making this information available will be an asset to all.
- November 24, 2009 at 2:17 AM
- Sofia said...
You are aware, I would hope, that most of the design team that worked on 'Dagger' formed their own studio, and DID NOT work on 'Cudgel'. Tell me that you're aware of this? It wasn't even the same team, guy.
Thanks Nice Post Goood
- November 26, 2009 at 11:52 AM
Green, heads-up, there's a huge 5-day sale happening at Steam. Every 24 hours a new set of games will be released.
I'm thinking that Resident Evil 5 will be put on sale tomorrow, or this weekend.
I actually bought RE5 just now at D2D for 50% off, and am really looking forward to playing it this weekend. I've also got my eye on Dawn Of Discovery at D2D for 50% off.
My hope is that Need For Speed Shift will go on sale at Steam, even though I just bought Grid for $7, which was a part of Steam's sale today.
Wow, what an amazing year for PC gaming - and look at how next year begins, with Mass Effect 2, Star Trek Online, Bioshock, and Assassin's Creed 2 all following one another literally just weeks apart. (I've been gaming since 1985, and I've never known a year that began the way that next year will begin.) This present spell that we're in feels like a golden age of gaming to me. There are just so many great games out there right now.
What a wonderful time to be a PC gamer.
By the way, I'm hoping that you'll write a gaming blog to wrap the year up. I suspect that your personal game of the year will either be Arkham Asylum or Dragon Age. They were both great games (and maybe I might even finish DA one day). But for me, hands down, the best game of the year was Risen.
Risen was my sleeper hit of the year AND my game of the year - a completely transporting title that had me riveted to my PC each night for two weeks straight. I even phoned up my sister one night and told her that I wouldn't be coming over for dinner because I wasn't feeling well... balderdash - I was feeling perfectly fine, but I wanted to stay at home and play Risen.
The Goose.
- November 27, 2009 at 4:22 AM
Ugh, Green, not too long ago you mentioned playing Majesty 2 - yeah, I bought it as well. Charming, charming game.
Steam is selling it for $10 today.
That just breaks my heart. Ya know, the case can be made for not buying any games at all near launch, but rather waiting a little while for them to go on sale. What the hell is going on in the gaming industry - the shelf life for a new title seems to be about 2 months now? I don't understand how Arkham Asylum can be on sale for 50% off this rapidly?
I guess that games are becoming like movies - the first week is all important. You either make a killing at launch, or you don't make anything at all hardly.
That said, I don't see myself not buying Mass Effect 2 on day one in January. Or rather, I see myself buying it. When it comes to gaming I have zero willpower.
- November 27, 2009 at 12:35 PM
Woe is me.
We're not going to get another blog from Jeff for a while - and I know why - because he's using himself up writing that damned novel of his. (And by the way, I think it's maybe worth mentioning, before delusions of grandeur set in [and that could happen here], that Hemingway wrote 'The Old Man and The Sea' in six weeks - yes, six weeks.) But anyhow, the dude's using himself up, I know he is.
A female blogger whose stuff I love to read isn't posting either because she's about to give birth to twins. Another guy I follow wrote about discovering that his roof has been leaking, and that he needs to have it re-sheeted, and re-shingled, which was something he could've done without since one month ago he lost his job - then he came down with the swine flu and we've not heard from him since. Things have gone eerily quiet.
What the hell is the matter with these people? Work through it, I say.
That said, I guess I just have to keep on visiting a certain website and putting up with stuff like this:
"Dragon Age junkies rejoice! Bioware has just announced the first downloadable content for its epic RPG will be available this Holiday season. Just in time to avoid your annoying extended family!"
Who wrote that? I'd say that the person who wrote that is taking a pretty big risk. I mean, it's not politically correct at all. A person could get fired for writing that. I'd fire the person who wrote that. Then I'd hire myself to do the job. I could do the job pretty easily too - my word-count would be staggering. The entire website would collapse under the weight of my verbiage.
Also, Trine is on sale for 24 hours at Steam. Is it worth it for 10$ - I'm thinking about it, I'm thinking about it.
Joe Dimaggio
- November 28, 2009 at 12:53 PM
Congratulations on finishing your novel Jeff!
- November 30, 2009 at 9:54 PM
Thank god he finished.
Now maybe he'll write a new blog.
- December 2, 2009 at 12:23 AM
- Michael said...
Congratulations on your 50000 words! Hopefully I get to read it some day.
- December 2, 2009 at 8:15 AM
- Zenin said...
We can only hope so. haha.
One more thing, I'm digging the news articles you've got on EA. I'm not going to lie, I've never visited the page before, but it really is neat having some semi-editorial content on such a corporate website.
- December 2, 2009 at 10:06 PM
I have a question that isn't appropriate for the mailbag column - but where did you get your copy of The Saboteur? Is this an early release version which you got because you're an employee at EA? I thought that The Saboteur wasn't going to be available until next week? (Steam isn't listing it for sale at all.)
Over at one of the forums we've been wondering about this game - based on what little we've seen of the gameplay, it's really tough to tell if this game is going to be a sleeper hit, or if it's going to be the dog's dinner.
I'm happy to see that your initial impressions are positive. Also, did you know that console gamers will be charged a 5$ fee for a 'nudity DLC' (the DLC basically strips certain females of their clothing), while PC gamers will have the nudity already built in - just one more reason to be glad you're a PC gamer, I suppose.
- December 3, 2009 at 2:58 PM
- jackhook said...
Hey. Good job on reaching your goal. Any chance we'll get to read an excerpt sometime soon?
- December 4, 2009 at 8:02 AM
I heard you finished your book on out of the game and I've gotta say i REALLY want to read "The Cudgel of Xanthor". Please release it...I don't care about typos or continuity. I'm sure this book is really funny. Who knows maybe it'll catch on and you'll be the next J.K. Rowling and become a billionaire! Then you can give me half for inspiring you to release it. :)
Seriously, release it!
- December 5, 2009 at 1:27 PM
Did you hear about the plot - the decisions that get made during the creation of the game have an impact on the world itself, because of course it's a double-narrative!
Just what the world needs - another story within a story.
Who knew that Green was capable of this? How does the novel begin: with a dream sequence maybe?
Irving Berlin
- December 5, 2009 at 4:27 PM
Hello? hello? Jeff where the hell are you?
- December 7, 2009 at 4:26 AM
- Felix said...
Apparently "Updating Blogs is Hard" as well.
- December 7, 2009 at 11:19 AM
Yeah, so it looks like I damned well figured it out.
Jesus, we're fools. We're fools, everyone of us.
You know how somebody you know will have all this credibility? You just blindly trust them, right? When they tell you something big you just accept it. Right? Right?
Wrong - every now and then 'a stable person' you know will catch you completely off guard and will just totally flip out. I've seen this happen on multiple occasions. People crack under the pressures. Happens all the time. I'm seeing a lot of it happening lately via the blogs I've been reading. This economy we're in has just been wreaking havoc on people's lives's.
This supposed novel which Green has written - um, has anybody here actually seen it?
No they have not.
I'll tell you what I have seen though. The Shinning. It's a great movie and I'd highly recommend it to anyone here. In this movie, Jack Nicholson, basically shuts himself off from the world and attempts to... ahem... 'write his novel'. Make note of the words 'attempts to' because if you're wondering whether or not it worked out for Mr. Nicholson I can tell you now that it didn't. Short story: he ends up trying to murder his family.
See where I'm going with this?
Deeply, deeply disturbing.
(I wonder what his family thinks about this? Green probably emerged from his room every night with a great big grin on his face: "I just wrote another five thousand words!" he would've said. Yeah, that grin is just disturbing. Deeply, deeply disturbing. What was he really doing in there?)
Norah Jones
- December 7, 2009 at 6:44 PM
- Fred said...
Happy 1 month and 1 day anniversary of the last time Jeff updated his Blog!
- December 9, 2009 at 6:16 PM
Hey Jeff! Updated your blog! Man we go through this every month. Jeff update update update we say. Jeff will come back with some excuse that some donkey kicked him in the leg and he was all out of whack.
I am not swearing (I should!) but I am holding back. Really Jeff you are really letting us down. We have folllowed you for years. We come to this blog because we love you and you guided us to the best games. We loved the work you did on CGW and GFWs.
So get out and update your blog.
Jan 2010 Jeff updates his blog. Worthless piece of @#$%^.
- December 9, 2009 at 8:37 PM
- Fred said...
Dude, Clifford, get a grip man. Jeff has no obligation to us to update his blog constantly. If he has something going on, he'll post. No need for the guilt trip, man.
- December 10, 2009 at 5:47 AM
Thanks Fred I'm better now. I was out of line. I need anger management sometimes.
Happy holidays to everyone here. Or to Jeff happy Hanukkah.
- December 10, 2009 at 4:47 PM
Green, remember a while back when you jokingly said that you were going to out-source your blog to India? - well, you don't have to.
I will do it.
Hi gang!
Not many blog posts from me here as November gets going, but for once I have a good reason! Remember that time when I collapsed and ended up in the hospital - well it happened again! In fact it happened right before I was about to write a new blog. In fact, it keeps on happening every time I sit down at my computer to write a new blog! Imagine that! All this passing out, of course, prevents me from blogging. It's difficult to blog when you're a permanent Fall Risk, like myself!
I've also been involved in a group project.
If you're not familiar with NaNoWriMo, it's a collective bit of organized group insanity, in which tens of thousands of people around the world voluntarily agree to set a personal goal: to avoid updating our blogs!
The beautiful thing about it is that they--the organizers, I mean-- go out of their way to empower you. Not that I need much encouragement not to blog. In fact I don't need any encouragement at all! I love not blogging!
I've also been busy with my Christmas shopping.
Because of the limited window, the ONLY thing that matters really is that my family buys me more gifts than I buy them!
Actually I've been short of funds lately, and have been doing some things late at night in order to supplement my income. I've gotten to know some guys who work on the corner. For someone like me, this was just perfect encouragement. Knowing that the official group is giving me permission to suck has given me the strength to just do it.
And as I'm seven days into this I can testify in a court of law: I've really learned how to suck! My god, I never knew how hard it was to actually do!
Not surprisingly, the part that's coming easiest to me is the banter I have with my clients when we're finished. I've managed to concoct a few laugh lines.
Having to work at this, as well as my job at E.A., has been difficult. Still, I persevere! Why? Because everyone has given me permission to suck! And I love it! As I sit down early every morning to grind I just do not look back.
Anyhoo, that's what I'm doing this month! So forgive what's likely to be the even-less-frequent-than-usual blog posts.
Also, I've been writing a novel. Maybe I can post the occasional excerpt?
Do you guys want a good laugh? Read the excerpts from my novel and I promise you that you WILL laugh.
Thanks, kids. See you in the New Year.
Jeff Green.
- December 12, 2009 at 7:06 PM
- Fred said...
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- December 14, 2009 at 10:25 AM
- Fred said...
Wow, nice update Anonymous!!!! I guess Jeff's been busy writing his novel thing. He's hit 50,000 words, so I assume he's finished it. Novel must be pretty hard since it's preoccupied Jeff to the point where he can't logon to his blogger page and at the very least press his elbows into the keyboard and update us with a kindly "fdgfskkjkijhjmdcdsdssdhjkl;" or two, but I guess that's what Twitter is for. Jeff hasn't put up an excerpt on his nanowrimo page, but his synopsis sounds great. I wonder if "The Cudgel of Xanthor" will be set in the magical world of Nargol?
- December 14, 2009 at 10:28 AM
Bravo Anonymous Bravo! A great performance!
You are the Jedi Master now. Heck, you have the job now.
Arrrgh! Walk the plank Green-----
- December 14, 2009 at 8:50 PM
Hey anonymous,
Why don't you steal Jeff's blog and keep posting while pretending to be him? it looks like he doesn't cares anyway...
- December 15, 2009 at 9:22 AM
Great now we have this ahole spamming your blog, that's it for me... good bye everyone
- December 18, 2009 at 8:21 AM
Hey, it's the Nike shoes guy!
I love this guy. This guy was here back in the summer too - I think when Jeff had the swine flu.
By the way, did I mention why they decided to call it the swine flu? - it's because when you get this disease you have an overwhelming urge to phone up the person who gave it to you and say to him: "You swine!"
Ha ha haaaaaa!
Merry Christmas, Green!
Merry Christmas, everyone! (Merry Christmas, Nike Shoes Guy!)
- December 18, 2009 at 2:42 PM
I come to this blog to bitch about how old it is and wish everyone a Merry Christmas.
Nike shoes beat it!
- December 22, 2009 at 5:57 PM
Steam is having a massive Christmas/Winter sale right now - and even D2D is getting in on the action... those guys put a game called Space Siege on sale for $10.
I had never heard of Space Siege, so I Googled it and was led to a review.
I started to read, and thought, hey, the tone of the writing here, the sarcasm, I've seen this somewhere before? Then I looked up and saw a picture of Fall Risk.
Wow, that was a pretty brutal review - that must've been one of the last reviews you wrote, Green? My favorite line from the review: "... it's like a baloney sandwich, in that it gets the job done."
Ha! Like a baloney sandwich!
The question now is, does one shell out ten dollars for a baloney sandwich? I am shocked at how many games I bought this year. Shocked isn't even the word - disgusted might be a better way of putting it. Some games I spent literally two hours playing before moving on to something else (can anybody say ARMA 2?).
- December 22, 2009 at 7:10 PM
- xian said...
oh, jeffrey. you never needed permission to suck.
- December 24, 2009 at 7:56 PM
- RidiculousX said...
Please please release the novel :)
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Friday, January 9, 2009
Slumkutta Crorepati
Boyle tracks them with precision.... surgically analysing their trajectory from the most miserable of Mumbai's slums (Dharavi's innards are photographed graphically..... poetically) to the time, Jamal, the protagonist, wins two crores in a quiz show. That's Mumbai, too. Anything is possible here. There are countless Jamals waiting in the queue for their turn to come ("mera number kab aayega?"). For some, the wait isn't in vain. During its dying moments, 'Slumdog...." offers hope and solace for the wretched of the city. In that sense, it is deeply moving, even philosophical in what it is saying.
Strange. It took a foreigner to penetrate the facade and show us who we really are. All those desi filmmakers who win awards and parade as geniuses for making amateurish, derivative movies that pretend to tell the asli story, should use 'Slumdog..." as a reference point.... an education. Kahan 'Metro', 'Traffic', 'Corporate' etc etc aur kahan 'Slumdog..." We are separated by leagues and oceans . Technically , Bollywood is already there. But that's where it ends. Our scripts and stories are pathetic.... and worse, most ideas are stolen or 'borrowed'. Which is why none of the present lot of top bracket filmmakers in India can ever aspire to get anywhere close to 'Slumdog...' They simply don't possess the errr.... testicles.... for the job.
41 comments:
- Oxy said...
With all due respect to Boyle (only cuz I haven't seen SM yet) I beg to differ that our film-makers do not have balls enough to make such a movie. Wonder why it boils down to testicles (balls) cuz film-makers with bigger balls like Mira, Anurag, Rituparno, Mani Ratnam (and not to forget the newbies like Navdeep, Sriram, Amol) have made some fucking mind boggling movies which I see you definitely chose to ignore by generalizing the whole damn scenario
- January 9, 2009 at 8:47 PM
Most of the time in the job, the discussion was about money & money, forget script. I have to quit.
Till date, I am trying to understand what comes first and last, script or money ?
- January 9, 2009 at 8:53 PM
- Kaber said...
Dude, Oxy they have...
Haven't watched the movie yet, heard very good reviews, similar to Shobaa's
Have you heard this. Its like this anti terrorist song. really good.
- January 9, 2009 at 8:54 PM
- Amol said...
The movie was great!!
But was the real life host of KBC similar to one shown in the film??
- January 9, 2009 at 8:57 PM
- @lankr1ta said...
I think this film strikes us more because it shows poverty without sanitizing it Hindi film style. And Hindi films need to sanitize poverty because of the guilt that reality evokes. We need it for sanity maybe- to pretend that poverty is not the gut wrenching cruel thing that makes people maim children to earn a few rupees more - to pretend that poverty is not such a dangerous horrible world- to be able to breathe as we watch India shining coexist with real India.
A very astute analysis Ms De.
- January 9, 2009 at 9:50 PM
M'am 'De,
I have had the opportunity to watch the movie and I totally endorse your views and comments. It's a movie that a mumbaikar will understand better than any one else. Nevertheless Danny Boyle has given it an International audience. Vikas Swarup's credit is due for writing Q & A which got translated in 33 languages and created an opportunity for getting this an International perspective.
About the film makers in India there's no doubt that they are caught up with so many limitations and perspective.
I know when Mr.Boyle was shooting in Mumbai he shared a secret of production guy always carrying a bag of Indian currency at all times and all places instead of running around with last moment permissions.
Vinod Agarwal - All's well that end's well.
- January 9, 2009 at 10:53 PM
I haven't seen this movie yet. I live in the UK and am counting down the days till I can drag someone to go with me to the cinema. I have heard so many good things about this movie (including what you have said) so here's hoping I am as enthralled.
Did you hear the great news? At the Critics Choice Awards last night, Slumdog Millionaire won 5 of the 6 awards it was nominated for. It is truly getting the recognition it deserves.
- January 9, 2009 at 11:49 PM
- Spontaneous Mini said...
why slum Kutta Crorepati??
translate the slum as well.
ChwaalKutta Kottipotti.
it makes.
- January 10, 2009 at 1:43 AM
- Another Kiran In NYC said...
Interestingly some bollywood film makers have called it a "generic western movie about India". That makes me giggle at thier audacity.
Naach na jaaney aangan tedha!
- January 10, 2009 at 2:23 AM
Hey Shobhaa,
Three days back only, I get to see your blog. Just browsing through the sites and bumped into ur blog. Its really nice to be here on your blog..I follow all your columns in TOI. You always dare to say things (which are true) that people don't like thats what makes me to follow you. Any way to cut a long story short, Your blog entries and the contents are nice..Keep doing the good work....
- January 10, 2009 at 3:17 AM
- Digistrom said...
My initial impression was that Slumdog is just an over-hyped, well marketed (still true) flick, but after reading your take on it I'm really looking forward to catching it.
- January 10, 2009 at 12:46 PM
Friends, don't make up your minds either way until you actually watch the movie. And please swing by to read my take on it.
- January 10, 2009 at 4:05 PM
- divesh said...
another 'white tiger' born in a generation...
- January 10, 2009 at 4:54 PM
- Sathyanarayana said...
The Slum Dog millionaire
Shows the world that even before US could elect Baracka Obama, we have a long history of childrens of different religion,skin and color co-exists in India. It's the very own country, where a mosque,Temple and church exists in same city within the vincinity.
The movie was brilliantly made and handled and sensitive issues of children were properly told. Cuddos to Tandon- the co-director for her effort to expose the Really Mumbai. Few years back the Mumbai home minister was planning to build the Shangai type High building flats to accomodate very poor people of slum. Every one was happy for that. Later nobody heard what happened next????
- January 10, 2009 at 7:27 PM
- Mahadev Kapuskari said...
Hi.. shobhaaji,
I have not seen the movie yet.But to read comments on your analysis is more interesting for me.because you also handle so many sensitive issues perfectly.
- January 10, 2009 at 10:16 PM
Yeah, your right. None of the filmmakers in India can match with those western men. Yeah, they need to upgrade their balls from desi to angrezi. ;-)
desi balls always suck
angrezi balls always rocks!
- January 10, 2009 at 10:30 PM
- Dreammaker said...
I don't find any reason to compare this film with Traffic Signal..or..Corporate..or..Metro..
Slumdog has grabbed the attention for many reasons like a angrez director has realised the desi realities..and a desi music director have created an international music..
The film has a good script with great cinematography and has a story to tell about Mumbai..but that does not mean that all Indian directors are nuts..who cant make any sensible films..
Was Satyajit Ray a nut?
Slumdog is good...but not the best..who will disagree he / she might describe the reason also..i would love to hear that..
- January 11, 2009 at 1:51 AM
- eye-in-sty-in said...
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- January 11, 2009 at 8:24 AM
- eye-in-sty-in said...
err... There was an Indian co-director involved who goes by the name of Loveleen Tandon! She ensured the scenes portrayed captured the true essence of the Bombay slums and also the rest of India - people travelling on top of trains... etc!
- January 11, 2009 at 8:25 AM
- Pushkala said...
I disagree!!!! Even our film makers have made wonderful movies like that of SM.. May not be on the same story line. (and I'm sure they would continue to....). May be you didn't have the time to recollect some movie names that I'm sure you would have admired.
- January 11, 2009 at 4:27 PM
- oo7 said...
one of most entertaining flick i watched !
loved it totally
as you said.. Slumdog is a diff class.
actually at least 20-30 times far better than ghajini..
tc mam
- January 12, 2009 at 1:29 AM
- Deepak Murthy said...
Hi Shobha,
I'm reading your posts & attending law school at the same time. Growing long hair & breasts as well.
My blog is at www.communitiesblogger.blogspot.com
in case you need to reach me.
- January 12, 2009 at 2:26 AM
- romulus said...
your statement that desi filmakers create amateurish films is fairly dullard. it is what the population predominately wants to see as a form of escapism. clearly you have lost touch with the people whilst floating around in your ivory tower.
- January 12, 2009 at 8:52 AM
Slumdog is a word in english, and using Slumkutta word is just disgusting. . . .
- January 12, 2009 at 11:55 AM
- Raj Walia said...
Last night, I was watching Golden Globe and was really looking forward to A.R. Rehman's nomination. And I almost jumped out of the couch when they announced him the winner. It was a proud moment for me, for him and for One billion people back in India. You made us proud. You have taken Bollywood to a new level. God Bless you!
I personally did not like the subject. Why do you want to show the cruelty and torture? Why these goras (americans, englishmen) like crappy movies? The torture and cruelty stuff? Now, its been nominated at oscars and has already bagged many awards. What is wrong with the world?
Certain parts of this film do become interesting and capture the imagination, like when the brothers landed at the Taj Majal and instantly recognizing a business opportunity, became tour guides and entrepreneurs, stealing shoes, selling them for money, learning to SURVIVE! Amazing how quickly children can become little capitalists.
In first part of the film, kids have acted so good. They stole the show. Thumbs up to them!
But still "Slumdog" is too disturbing to be considered entertainment. Just there is so much of torture and violence in this world, does not mean you can cram it down our throat.
Please STOP. Do not come to India to shoot movies like these. We are much more than that what you think we are...
(New Jersey)
- January 12, 2009 at 9:29 PM
- ankur kakkar said...
awesome maaam..... this is the best movie review i have ever read !! hats off to you shobhaa maam....
- January 12, 2009 at 10:03 PM
- ankur kakkar said...
i watched 'slumdog' in stunned silence ... this line resonates on everyone's minds i guess !! drawing inspiration from you, i shall be attempting to write a review on my blog soon...
PS : maam your ability to gather points is unmatched , i really look forward to the day when i can atleast aspire to write like you !!
thanx maam...
- January 13, 2009 at 8:53 PM
I haven't watched the movie yet but I find the exhibition of Indian poverty worldwide and it winning top awards disconcerting. As it is, the world can see nothing but India's poverty. Never mind that researchers say that once upon a time we were one of the two richest regions in the world. Foreigners mock Indian poverty or make it a tourist attraction (touts arrange tourist visits to city slums). Has the Indian civilization broken down to the point of reveling masochistically in the exhibition of its present day miseries?
I don't know about lots and lots of Indians, but for me, the only recognition that will matter is when India develops once again and it is known for its development.
- January 14, 2009 at 8:27 AM
- Chiranjib Mazumdar said...
hmm... I guess I need to watch the movie!!!
- January 14, 2009 at 10:29 AM
- Cool4u said...
Madam De
How did you see the movie when its not even released in India yet? Have you been abroad lately?
- January 14, 2009 at 8:26 PM
Cool4u has asked a good question! Shobha ji, did you see a pirated copy like me?!
- January 15, 2009 at 10:55 AM
- Rakshith said...
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- January 16, 2009 at 4:27 PM
I am an Indian living in UK. I was quite surprised to see SRK dressed like a clown. And in a news channel here, he said he was here to represent India. What was he thinking when he wore a tie the way he did. I think next time India sends someone to prestigious ceromonies like GG, they need to be careful about whom they send. And the way he spoke on stage...he said something like pelvic thrust, way to go Boyle..etc.it sounded like some college day programme. He must be used to the Indian whistles and cheering when he opens his mouth in India. But in an international stage ,he should act with dignity and pride. Rahman was brilliant, he was dressed decently ,spoke less ,but made sure he displayed his pride being an Indian. Why cant India send some geniouses like Nasiruddin Shah or Anupam Kher as representatives who speak, dress and act much better than a clown like SRK?
- January 16, 2009 at 4:30 PM
- pari said...
- January 18, 2009 at 3:33 AM
"Kahan 'Metro', 'Traffic', 'Corporate' etc etc aur kahan 'Slumdog..." We are separated by leagues and oceans" Eh??? They're such different stories..and its people like us who, (like you mentioned in another blog) prefer to see the "rosy picture" that the industry caters to..
- January 18, 2009 at 12:18 PM
- Deepak Murthy said...
Hi Rakshith,
Thanks for your very original comment on SRK. Yes, I did dress up as a clown in "Yes Boss". Any problems in UK?
- January 19, 2009 at 9:25 AM
There were so many things wrong about this movie - for crying out loud, they can't tell a Rama from a Krishna; no one can tell us why suddenly in the middle of the movie, two kids from the slum are talking in a strange English accent; none of the characters are developed fully; with some lazy acting and dead-pan dialogue delivery I can't believe the actors of Slumdog are sharing the stage with the likes of Meryl Streep and Kate Winslet; worse than all, having listened to Rahman from his 'Puthiya Mugam', I found his score jarring and unnatural. Have people not seen films like Maniratnam's Bombay or Mira Nair's Salaam Bombay, or read Rohinton Mistry's Fine Balance? Finally Shobaa, to see the innards of Dharavi, you can see Thotta Tharani's art direction in Nayagan or step outside your Rolls Royce. To make a movie like Slumdog you don't need balls, you need a billion-pound bank account, and a busy PR team.
- January 30, 2009 at 12:17 AM
- Sumitra said...
You know I am teaching these children, in fact Younger version of Salim and Latika are studying in my class so with keen interest I went and saw the movie, in spite of knowing the children's background I teach, I could not digest the cruel fact that how they live and the hardship they go through for survival.
- February 16, 2009 at 9:26 PM
- sir m00ng said...
Oscar Special... :-)
Subject: Fwd: FW: Danny Boyle planning to make 'Princedog Billionaire' next?
Date: Sunday, February 8, 2009, 11:37 PM
Danny Boyle planning to make 'Princedog Billionaire' next?
http://www.bbc. co.uk/shropshire /content/ articles/ 2009/01/09/ bollywood_ previews_ slumdog_feature. shtml
After the moving story about a slum kid winning millions on the Who Wants To be A Millionaire game show and its success, Danny Boyle has embarked on a more ambitious 'Princedog Billionare' film.
The story revolves around the real life story of the death of People's Princess Diana and her ill-fated boyfriend Dodi Al Fayed. Unlike the true story. Dodi Al Fayed in survives the car crash and rises with a vengeance to become the first Muslim prince of England with the help of the People's princess!
Dodi Al Fayed, son of Harrods Departmental Store chain owner Muhammed Al Fayed an Egyptian immigrant who strikes it big in England and grows to become a billionaire. His son, Dodi Al Fayed who grows up in the slums of London, also beats the odds of racism and rises in life.
The people's princess Diana is lost almost suicidal after being cheated by her husband the prince for another woman, when she meets the humble Dodi and falls in love.
But as luck would have it, it is frowned upon by the scheming royal family and the equally scheming English establishment. An assortment of henchmen and henchwomen from Mi5 eventually plan an accident in Paris tunnel to kill Dodi and the people's princess.
James Bond is sent by Mi5 to assasinate Prince Dodi and Princess Diana. James Bond actor Daniel Craig, who plays the role confesses "I always wanted to play the dark side of James Bond and Mi5 in a movie". "And Danny Boyle provides me with a perfect opportunity for that in Princedog Billionaire" adds Dainel Craig.
The accident is planned in a Paris Tunnel and the stage is set to be blamed on the chasing papparazi and executed by none other than James Bond 007 and Mi5. However, things dont go exactly as planned by James Bond this time and he ends up falling into the trap he set for Dodi. "This is one movie where James Bond doesnt come off beaming" quips Daniel Craig.
This is the turning point of the film and the story takes a twist from the true story of Princess Diana and Dodi Al Fayed's car crash in a Paris Tunnel.
Dodi and the people's princess are rescued by a sympathetic papparazi who reaches on the spot and pulls them out of the crashed car. After a nearly two month struggle for life, Prince Dodi and the People's Princess eventually survive. Desperate to fight against the injustice done, they decide to reach out to the people of England to challenge the English royal family and the English establishment. In the process he also chastises the wayward prince 'Potty Harry' to give up racism.
An almost fairy tale like rise after his accident in Paris tunnel along with the people's princess, Princedog has all the ingredients of Slumdog's success recipe, though dollops more of it!
Prince Dodi's rise in Princedog Billionaire is comparable to the rise of the slum boy in the movie Slumdog Millionaire. Prince Dodi starts off in a humble way in his approach to the people, but eventually becomes a phenomena in the country. The people of England embrace Dodi as the 'People's prince' along with the people's princess Diana. Prince Dodi is eventually designated as the next heir to English crown instead of William as he has people's mandate.
The Music for the film is composed by John Barry of James Bond Music fame. Daniel Craig plays the dark side of James Bond in the movie. However, despite the success, the winning star cast of Danny Boyle of Slumdog are missing from this film. Loveleen Tandon is missing from the direction and A R Rahman will not be composing music for this movie. "The cast and crew of Slumdog are not comfortable with English culture." says Danny Boyle. "I will recreate the magic of Slumdog in Princedog with a new set of crew altogether" says a confident Danny Boyle. "I may chose Dev Patel to play Prince Dodi, but the hunt is still on for an actress who can portray the people's princess Diana" concludes Danny Boyle.
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Thanks to the scantiness of modern swimwear, many beaches in the U.S. seem only a small step away from a nudist colony, but the experience for first-time nude beachgoers is often still shocking.
If you're looking to ease your way into the naturalist lifestyle, nudist resorts and topless beaches are available that offer a slightly less adventurous experience. However, our top five best nude beaches are the "Full Monty," so proceed with caution!
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I have acquired so many eye products lately so I will be doing many FOTD's because some are just really pretty colors! Here is one I did using the "Gilded Green" pigment from the Colour Forms Collection (MAC). At first I got "Tea Time", but after seeing it again in person, I just HAD to get "Gilded Green"! (And because green is one of my favorite colors!)
I also used one of the Lustre Twins, "Ripe & Ready" with its twin, "Soft & Lush", it's such a pretty deep coral color.
What I used:
- Maybelline Age Rewind Concealer
- MAC StudioFinish Concealer in NC30
- Purely Cosmetics Mineral Foundation in "Olive Beige"
- MAC Blush in "Springsheen"
- MAC Blush in "Emote" to contour
- MAC PP in "Moss Scape"
- MAC Pigment in "Gilded Green" (applied wet on lower half of the lid)
- MAC e/s in "Humid" on outer-v and contour
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- Milani Pencil in "Black" on lower lashline with "golden olive" pigment
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FOTD & Tutorial: Gilded Green Pigment
I have acquired so many eye products lately so I will be doing many FOTD's because some are just really pretty colors! Here is one I did using the "Gilded Green" pigment from the Colour Forms Collection (MAC). At first I got "Tea Time", but after seeing it again in person, I just HAD to get "Gilded Green"! (And because green is one of my favorite colors!)
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- tkayef said...
I LOVE the green... it's one of my fav colors too. You're truly an inspiration... you're my favorite blog to read! :)
- August 4, 2008 at 8:49 AM
- Tracy said...
Great job! I love how the green looks.
- August 4, 2008 at 10:14 AM
- iamgrape1119 said...
WOW! Gilded Green looks awesome on you! Is there a color you CAN'T wear? Seriously girl, you look smokin hot in all your FOTDS!
- August 4, 2008 at 10:14 AM
- Livia said...
oh, wow... stunning!!!
- August 4, 2008 at 10:21 AM
- slvrlips said...
Very Pretty Look!!! I so should not have passed up these piggies.
- August 4, 2008 at 10:37 AM
- Lily said...
i love the lip color on you!
- August 4, 2008 at 10:50 AM
- Nic Nic said...
thanks for the tut, you always looks awesome in green! I wished i had that pigment!
- August 4, 2008 at 11:20 AM
- Jennifer L said...
this shade of green is absolutely beautiful!
- August 4, 2008 at 11:44 AM
- Stephanie T said...
I'm so jealous of your skills!
- August 4, 2008 at 12:40 PM
- Lani said...
green is my absolute fave color! beautiful look as always nessa ;)
- August 4, 2008 at 12:42 PM
- Anonymous said...
love LOVE this green!!
- August 4, 2008 at 1:14 PM
- Anonymous said...
I really love this look.
I love the way you used Humid,and Gilded Green is so pretty, especially over Moss Scape.
- August 4, 2008 at 1:17 PM
- Jamila said...
Loving this green! I am kicking my self for passing on this one. I picked up the brush cleaning jar and it is tops! It's not a chore to clean brushes anymore!
- August 4, 2008 at 2:22 PM
- Bombchell said...
LOVE IT!! reminds me of poison ivy!!!!
- August 4, 2008 at 3:55 PM
- Joey said...
Gorgeous! Green is one of my favorite colors (after blue!) to wear. I got Guilded Green a week or two ago, and I just haven't been feeling like wearing pigments lately. Too lazy, lol.
- August 4, 2008 at 4:33 PM
- Mrs. Lynne, MakeupFix.net said...
I can see why it's your favorite color sis! It looks absolutely great on you. I have to say that this is my favorite of yours and your eyes look even better when you waterline.
Btw, that date? It's soooo on ;D
- August 4, 2008 at 5:50 PM
- Anonymous said...
gilded green is indeed a beautiful color! nice fotd too =D
- August 4, 2008 at 5:52 PM
- Askmewhats said...
any color looks great on you! and green is definitely one of them! love it!
- August 4, 2008 at 6:20 PM
- Anne @ yummiebitez.com said...
oooooh sheeeeexyyyyy. sorry didn't get to e-mail back. my computer froze and became useless.
- August 4, 2008 at 6:25 PM
- marisol said...
You did an amazing job blending those colors!
- August 4, 2008 at 7:01 PM
- :Fashion Frenzy: said...
great job! very nice blog, btw.
- August 4, 2008 at 7:32 PM
- Ilianexy said...
Exotica!!! You look very exotic and sexy with ur green eyes and shirt! Love the bangs! Green is a very exotic color and just girls with lots of confidence can pull it off and go out wearing it. People will either love it or hate it. But who cares about the ones that hate it right HAHA!!
- August 5, 2008 at 4:41 AM
- Anonymous said...
Green is one of my fave colors too. This shade is gorgeous! Thanks for the tutorial!
- August 5, 2008 at 6:31 AM
- MakeupByRenRen said...
u knowgreen is my fav on you! loves it :)
- August 5, 2008 at 8:55 AM
- LadyJane said...
The lipcolor is gorgeous on your lips Nessa :)
- August 5, 2008 at 2:57 PM
- ladystarr said...
your skin looks really fresh in ur new foundation! you pull off greens really well.
- August 5, 2008 at 7:18 PM
- Connie said...
Absolutely gorgeous! I love the lip color and how it goes so well with the eye
- August 7, 2008 at 2:15 AM
- Jaluna said...
Hi, I've been lurking around your blog for the past few days now and I LOVE your pic tutorials! I have learned so much and I just want to try every look you've got here. Green is my favorite eyeshadow shade so I'll be definitely trying this look, hopefully I can apply it as well as you do. (^_^)
- August 8, 2008 at 5:18 PM
- Applesaucery said...
Green's my favorite too--this look is beautiful! Where can I get my grubby little paws on some Gilded Green???? I must have it! : )
- August 9, 2008 at 11:30 AM
- Gracie said...
Wow! I love this green on you! Absolutely gorgeous!
- August 11, 2008 at 10:57 AM


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The one question posed to me more than any other is, "How do you do it?" Friends are referring to the fact that I work 6 days a week and still blog a couple of times a week, have time to cook up a storm in the More Than Burnt Toast test kitchen and still have a social life. To me the answer is simple. For the same reason that you do. Passion! I love to write about food, talk about food, and ultimately eat food! Even my social life revolves around food.
More Than Burnt Toast began almost 6 years ago as a means to share recipes with my daughter who was heading off to university. I had just returned from a 5 week sojourn in Greece and was overflowing with creative ideas and recipes that I needed to share. This was a life-changing vacation that altered my perception of food and how it should be enjoyed on a daily basis. I have always felt travel helps us to better understand and appreciate other people and their cultures. Nothing is more intimate, or more effective at breaking down cultural barriers, than cooking and sharing meals together. When you have 10 like-minded people from all parts of the world breaking bread at the same table magic happens. For 2012 I am in the planning stages of another 5 week sojourn to Italy. Part of the fun is in the planning.
In the classic movie Zorbas the Greek the main character sums it up the best, "On the coast I felt for the first time what a pleasant thing it could be to have a meal. We started eating and drinking, the conversation became animated. I at last realized that eating was a spiritual function and the meat, bread, and wine were the raw materials from which the soul is made."
A good friend of mine points out to me often that we write and blog because we have to! We have to because we feel the need to share and record our thoughts and we just can't help ourselves. Sure we experience the occasional writers block or we loose our mojo in the kitchen but because we are so passionate about what we do we always return with a new energy. It doesn't take much to be inspired by something we have read, tasted or a fleeting conversation. You are al a great source of inspiration in more ways than one! Truthfully I don't have enough time in the kitchen or enough daylight hours to share all that inspires me so there seems to always be something cooking here at More Than Burnt Toast.
Another year has come to an end, but before we send 2011 off with a bang it is time for me to take a moment to reflect on a few of the recipes that I have been inspired by this year on these pages. These are the recipes that if I were to ever write a cookbook would be a "shoe in".
I want to wish you all a healthy, safe and happy New Year. May all your dreams come true in 2012. Happy blogging!