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CBS' new drama Vegas has made a lot of headlines by putting its money on Dennis Quaid, who's making his debut on series television. But is the network also taking a bit of a gamble?
Fall Preview: Get scoop on all of this year's must-watch new showsQuaid plays real-life rancher-turned-sheriff Ralph Lamb, who begrudgingly agrees to police 1960s Las Vegas against Michael Chiklis ' Vincent Savino and other mobsters who are trying to get a foothold in the casinos. Although the drama is built on a CBS-friendly, case-of-the-week model, it's also a set in the past. And last season's The Playboy Club and Pan Am are non-living proof that period pieces can struggle to find an audience.Executive producer Nicholas Pileggi, the man behind such mob stories as Goodfellas and Casino, isn't worried. "This is a fascinating period," he tells TVGuide.com. "This is a period that you haven't seen before. It's when all of the giant mob casinos get built. It's when the FBI and Robert F. Kennedy go after Jimmy Hoffa. It's the time when Howard Hughes moves into a hotel and starts buying up casinos. It's the most exciting period of Las Vegas history, and I've never seen anything about this period, really. It's the formative years."Executive producer Greg Walker says the show's interesting backdrop is key in making Quaid's Ralph Lamb a complex character. He's not just fighting against the mob — he's fighting to keep his simpler way of life."His reluctance drives most of his actions," Walker says. "He really is a guy who would rather stay on his ranch, but he does have self-interest. A Vegas that's not overrun by development and mob corruption is a Vegas that he's familiar with and a Vegas that he can thrive in. His reluctance is tempered by the fact that he's one of the few people who can do what he can do — he has the kind of intelligence and courage to stand up to this ... neon wave coming over the hillside."
Alcatraz's Sarah Jones takes up residence in VegasThen again, Lamb isn't truly operating alone. He recruits his brother Jack (Jason O'Mara) and his son Dixon (Taylor Handley) as his deputies. And he also reconnects with Katherine (Carrie-Anne Moss), a former neighbor who is now the district attorney. Naturally, there may be some sparks there. "She sees Ralph Lamb who was the high school senior, the quarterback," Walker says. "He's a guy who she's always had a soft spot for, even though their families quarreled. Now they're both grown up and there's a mutual attraction."Before Lamb can even take a close look at Savino, he'll have to clean up his own department. "He will have a problem with corruption, temptation," Walker says. "Both financially and sometimes even the more difficult one: What happens when you amass too much power?"So could Lamb and Savino have more in common than it seems? "The real Ralph Lamb and a lot of the the wise guys in Vegas weren't purely good or evil," Walker says. "We're interested in the ones who operated in that gray area. [Lamb and Savino] end up finding that often they aren't their worst enemy and that they combine together to fight people with whom they have a common interest to fight against. I think they need each other at times to get rid of the kind of greater bad."Of course, history tells us that both men are ultimately fighting a losing battle. "One of the most intriguing and tantalizing parts of the story is that these two men are fighting to preserve a vision of Vegas that, ultimately we know 40 years later, neither of them won," Walker says. "The casino empire started by the mobs no longer has any mob ownership at all. The ranching world Lamb is trying to preserve really doesn't have a foothold in Las Vegas anymore."What I love about this is all this sound and fury," Walker continues. "I don't think Vegas would be what it is today without these type of individuals fighting for this. What Vegas represents today, and I may get shot for saying this, is the most grandiose and successful collaboration between criminal enterprise and government in the history of civilization. So, these guys are really the founding fathers of that city that we know today."Vegas premieres Tuesday at 10/9c on CBS.


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noconfirm is one of the most discussed features of pacman, I was wondering what intelligent uses it has.
I only use to download the updates with:
$ pacman -Syyuw --noconfirm
So that pacman download all the files and I can do the update later without waiting downloads.
When do you use this --noconfirm feature?
alias pac-clean='sudo pacman -Scvv --noconfirm'
I am sure there are other uses.
A bit OT, but how do I rm the packages but keep the repos?
well, yes, automatic dl of updates overnight on a server.
then host a LAN httpd for all arch boxes on the lan, which first try to dld the updates through the server.
arch updatates are resource intensive

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Yasmin Glenfield necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 43 diseños de 9 diseñadores freelance.
I left a very senior media position to start something on line to get some balance back in my life and given I now spend a lot of time at home (albeit glued to my computer - yep still... sigh), I have now found something I'm passionate about, and that's creating a home (Abode) environment that I love to be in. I can't change the house at this point, but I can change the furniture and decor to make it feel like I'm on a 24/7 villa style holiday!! Yeah! I need your help to come up with a logo... my designs are all quality resort style furnishings from Indonesia... picture lying on a wicker outdoor double sunbed in a 5 star private villa on the beach. Sophisticated, contemporary, modern, relaxing decor that friends will beg to come to, to be entertained, or get some R&R.
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Given the name and the essence behind it, BUDABODE meaning 'Buddha' and 'Home', I was hoping for something that includes a version of a Buddha style figure, but to modernise it, make it a person in the same sort of sitting position, then the company name BUDABODE. I was thinking this version or statue like character would look best in a shinny silver metalic that almost looks 3D to bring it to life, but not like a cartoon, more realistic like an actual statue made of silver. I have attached two photos, hands up, and then hands down, I suspect down reflects relaxation than the one with the hands up. My colors will be silver, black and white but I was also contemplating perhaps one bright color being aqua to symbolize crystal blue waters/beach. I have attached some photos of what I like and I might be getting too detailed here, but I can envision the Buda sitting in a lotus flower pod, again, please see the photos for a better description. Really excited to see what you come up with and if you don't agree with any of this, I'd love to see what you do think would work. I'm going for serenity, class, decadence, relaxation, sophistication. Thanks sooooo much, I can't tell you how excited I am to see where this takes you!
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Haverhill drawing energy from rejuvenated Bible college
HAVERHILL — Having sustained an 88-year tradition of training Pentecostal ministers, Zion Bible College ceased to exist on Jan. 1.
But the mission continues, stronger than ever, in this city where neighbors are thrilled to see the institution thrive, six years after it nearly closed.
The school, located since 2008 on the former Bradford College campus along South Main Street in Haverhill, was renamed Northpoint Bible College as of New Year's Day. Affiliated with the Assemblies of God fellowship of churches, the college continues to serve one purpose: training men and women for ministry in the Pentecostal tradition.
"People in the general public don't have one clue about 'Zion,' it means nothing to them," said Charles Crabtree, the college's president. Some have wrongly assumed the school is Jewish, Crabtree explained, and such misunderstandings sometimes complicated missionary work by its students abroad.
"We thought it was better overall to remove any confusion, and 'Northpoint' is a good name," he said.
The name change caps a stunning turnaround for the institution, which was preparing to close its doors in 2007. Since then, it has relocated from Barrington, R.I., to Haverhill, and doubled enrollment, from about 200 in 2008 to 404 this fall. Northpoint is taking steps to add its first master's degree program, and increase its undergraduate student body to 500 in coming years.
As host to a growing school atop a prominent hill, Haverhill's Bradford section once again draws energy year-round from bustling students, faculty, and staff. That's been good for community morale and for local businesses.
On a snowy morning last month, students crammed for final exams, listened to a sermon from a dean, and prayed. Later, some would blow off steam by visiting local establishments such as Choice Fitness, a gym in the nearby Central Plaza retail complex.
"In the evening, I'll see 10 to 12 of them walk in the door at the same time," said Fitness Choice's general manager, Nick Paquette. "They like to spread by word of mouth how much they enjoy our gym, their friends end up signing up — it's been great for us."
For Northpoint, the journey from the brink of closure befits a community that believes in miracles.
In Rhode Island, Zion couldn't afford to maintain the 50,000-square-foot stone mansion that had been its home. The school needed millions for repairs just to meet fire codes. When all seemed hopeless, a billionaire family from Oklahoma came to the rescue.
Owners of the Hobby Lobby chain of craft stores and benefactors of many Christian education projects, the Green family bought the old Bradford College property for $3.5 million in 2007 as a gift for Zion. The Greens also paid for renovations to the classroom building, and the installation of sprinklers in the gymnasium, among other improvements. Zion promptly gave up its Rhode Island property and relocated to the 19-acre campus in Haverhill.
For Zion, the extraordinary gift saved a school that had long survived on a shoestring and a prayer. Founded in East Providence in 1924 as the School of the Prophets, the institution paid no salaries and charged no tuition for its first 65 years, in part because many in Pentecostal circles were wary of higher education and didn't do much to professionalize it, according to Crabtree. Still, Zion Bible College survived thanks to donations, volunteer teachers, and students grateful for free college educations.
More recently, Crabtree said, Pentecostals have become less skeptical of formal education. Rising expectations for leaders to be professionally educated are now helping fuel enrollment growth at Bible colleges, he said.
What's more, the Missouri-headquartered Assemblies of God is growing in New England, which means job opportunities for Northpoint graduates. Between 2000 and 2010, the fellowship grew by 34 percent in Massachusetts, according to a census compiled in 2010 by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies. New Assemblies of God congregations in the region include Remix Church in Salem, Garden City Church in Beverly, and East Coast International Church in Lynn.
Some AOG churches have staff in more than one location, such as Calvary Christian Church , which has campuses in Lynnfield and Peabody. The arrangement creates opportunities for students such as Jorge E. Pabón, a Northpoint junior from Patterson, N.Y., with ambitions to teach, possibly in a church setting.
"Students definitely see that the Assemblies of God . . . is vibrant, is growing, and they're attracted to the manner in which the churches do their work," Pabón said. "A lot of people have been given a call to serve in New England . . . and students here are driven by that sense of call."
For the Bradford neighborhood, Northpoint's success has brought relief from worry about what would happen to the historic campus. Its brick buildings and crisscrossing footpaths bustled with activity for nearly 200 years, from 1804 to 2000, when the college closed because of dwindling enrollment. Then for eight years, uncertainty loomed over the area as mothballed facilities languished and prospective developers floated proposals that some feared would mar the character of the community.
"The buildings were severely deteriorating, and we were probably going to lose a tremendous asset to the city" if Zion had not located there, said William Pillsbury, Haverhill's director of economic development and planning. "The arrival of Zion on the scene was a tremendous stabilizing factor."
Northpoint continues to recruit students for about 100 available dorm rooms, and to restore the property's aging buildings. When Crabtree retires in May and hands the presidency over to David Arnett, one of the new top administrator's tasks will be to raise an estimated $7.5 million to restore a water-damaged theater building. Plans call for the refurbished facility to seat 600 — enough to convene the whole college community — and function as Northpoint's chapel.
Meanwhile, students and faculty adapt to facilities in transition. They are in their second temporary chapel space, with portable chairs set up in a makeshift sanctuary that once served as the library's lobby. It's not ideal, Crabtree said, but it's also not permanent.
What is permanent, it seems, is the presence of an academic community that's been a boost to a range of area organizations. Students do internships at about 55 Haverhill area churches, for instance, and volunteer at homeless shelters and prisons. They also eat at local restaurants, such as Primo Pizza in Central Plaza.
When prospective students visit for semiannual events, Primo gets some of its biggest orders of the year according to owner Bart Forgetta.
"People will come in and ask why we're so slammed," said Forgetta. "I'll tell them we're doing 110 or 115 pizzas for the college. . . The exposure we get from that is just tremendous."
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Vicky Wise, the longest tenured member of the Simpsonville City Commission, quietly is pursuing a ninth term in the General Election.
Wise first was elected in 1996, and only Mayor Steve Eden has served longer (18 years as mayor).
Wise has not returned campaign information forms sent to her via E-mail nor responded to telephone messages, so she has provided no information about her plans in pursuing this term.
They aren't close in the polls, and they aren't close in fund-raising.
And Democrat William Adkins and Republican Thomas Massie certainly don't agree on how they would govern the Kentucky's 4th Congressional district.
In fact, heading into November, the men vying for the open seat left vacant by resignation of 4-term incumbent Geoff Davis, aren't close in any obvious way.
As President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney shuttle across the country working swing states for votes, their campaign accounts are taking big hits.
Those key votes in Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Nevada, New Hampshire, Ohio, Virginia and Wisconsin are not that close to each other.
According to financial reports filed with the Federal Election Commission, President Obama has raised more than $567 million since Jan. 1, 2011, and Romney has pulled in $361 million, while spending about $298 million.
Pamela Bramblett, an incumbent on 8 years on the Pleasureville City Commission, is seeking another term.
A Pleasureville native, Bramblett, 59, is a retired state employee, having worked at the Department of Environmental Protection for 35 years. She is currently working in residential care at the Apple Patch, a facility for mentally challenged adults in Crestwood, something she has been doing for the past five years.
"It's very rewarding," she said.
Victor Harrod, a former Pleasureville City Commissioner, is running again after sitting out for a term.
Harrod, 73, is a retired from the Ford Motor Company in Jefferson County, where he worked for 30 years.
He is originally from Franklin County but has lived in Pleasureville for at least 20 years, he said.
He now does some cattle and tobacco farming.
Harrod said he decided to run for commissioner again because he thinks he could contribute to the overall well being of that body.
Diane Perry, an incumbent on the Pleasureville City Commission, is seeking her second term.
Actually, Perry said, she has served a term and a half. She was appointed to finish the term of commissioner Gary Grigsby, who moved out of the district, and then she was elected the following term.
Perry, 59, lives on the Shelby County side of Pleasureville. Originally from Spencer County, she has lived in Pleasureville for 23 years. She is bookkeeper at Rodney Perry Automotive in Pleasureville, a business she co-owns with her husband.
Incumbent Pleasureville City Commissioner R.L. Wilson is seeking re-election in November.
Wilson, 67, is a Henry County resident of 19 years. He is a retired state employee, having worked as a special equipment operator in Shelby County and New Castle.
A commissioner of 15 years, Wilson said what keeps him coming back to serve on the commission is a desire to improve his community.
"I am just doing what I think is right for the people of Pleasureville," he said.
Ever wonder what the people of Shelby County think about the presidential candidates and how the race will go?
Don't try to Google it. You won't find an official poll.
Better, you can just wander into some of the county's cafes and small country stores, where people – well, men – gather to drink coffee in the mornings, and you'll find out – or maybe you won't.
Incumbent Shawn Mertz is seeking a second term on the Pleasureville City Commission.
He faces four opponents – including his three fellow incumbents – for the four seats in a non-partisan race.
A Henry County resident, Mertz, 26, is a member of the Franklin County Fire Department.
He lives on Hill Spring Road with his wife, Kristen, and their infant daughter, Caylee.
He is an Army veteran who was elected for his first term on the commission 2 years ago.
Fourth-congressional districts candidates have been hitting the campaign trail hard lately, and both say they plan to include Shelby County in some of those visits before Nov. 6.
Democrat Bill Adkins, a Williamstown attorney, and Republican Thomas Massie, former Lewis County judge-executive, attended several events in Shelby while campaigning during the May Primary, and during the summer have appeared at several functions, both politically oriented as well as social events, such as the Shelbyville Horse Show.
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Son of Woman Suspected of Backing Over Officer Appears in Court [AUDIO] [DOCUMENT]
18 year-old Stephen Roy Goodman, the son of Dawnette Eaton, who stands accused of backing over Missoula police officer Deni Poling, appeared in justice court on Thursday.
Goodman is accused of allowing his mother to hide out in his apartment on January 8th after she allegedly backed over officer Poling in an attempt to escape arrest on a parole violation. Eaton is in the Missoula County Jail on $250,000 bail.
A friend of Eaton, Kimberly Inman, allegedly picked up Eaton after she was shot by Missoula police lieutenant Richard Stepper when she refused to stop her vehicle after running over officer Poling. Inman has been charged with tampering with or fabricating evidence and is also in jail on $75,000 bail.
During Goodman's justice court appearance, Missoula County Attorney Fred Van Valkenburg requested bail bet continued at $50,000. Judge John Odlin agreed.
More individuals are expected to be charged in connection with this incident.
Officer Poling is still in St. Patrick Hospital, and faces a long recovery after being seriously injured.
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The School of Arts and Sciences presents major theatre productions, music performances, dance concerts and art exhibits. All events are provided for both the enhancement of our students' experience at The College at Brockport and for the enjoyment and enrichment of the life of the community. The public is invited and encouraged to attend.
The College at Brockport's professional affiliations with Geva Theatre Center, Rochester's professional theatre company, with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, and with the Visual Studies Workshop provide numerous opportunities for entertainment and learning. In addition to performances, you'll find a series of free, public lectures by Geva Theatre Center professionals.
The Mission of the Fine Arts Series
As a unit of the School of Arts and Sciences, The College at Brockport's Fine Arts Series provides a cultural benefit for students, their families, and the College community, as well as for residents of Brockport and the Rochester region. With its globally influenced and socially diverse tapestry of dance, music, theatre and visual arts, the Fine Arts Series endeavors to present, at affordable prices, events of the utmost quality that are both entertaining and challenging, utilizing a mix of both student and professional artists.
Students who participate in the Series' events, whether onstage, backstage, or as an exhibited artist, can count on continued success in the classroom, while all audience members contribute to the broadening of the public's appreciation of the arts in general.
The Fine Arts Series serves as the presenter for the music concerts and supports academic departments in their public performances of dance and theatre, and visual arts exhibitions, by promoting them through box office operations, public relations and marketing initiatives. It serves as a public face of the College to the general population, and local business partners, through its solicitation of program advertising and the coordination of series subscriptions.
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All ticket prices: $17, $12 (Senior Citizens, Brockport Alumni, Faculty and Staff), or $9 (Students), unless otherwise noted. Art exhibits are free and open to the public.
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Log onto University Tickets to purchase tickets online, at your convenience, 24 hours a day!
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With just a few keystrokes, create your profile and then click through to the various events. Our series events will go on sale approximately five weeks prior to the performance. Tickets will remain available online until three hours prior to the performance. At that time, it will be necessary to contact or visit the Box Office. ALL patrons are required to have a University Tickets profile to purchase tickets at the box office as well as online.
Tickets will still be able to be purchased at Tower Fine Arts Center Box Office. Credit card reservations and any remaining tickets will be available at the box office at the performance venue one hour prior to performance times.
You can also purchase tickets by calling the Tower Fine Arts Center Box Office at (585) 395-2787.
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The Box Office accepts MasterCard, Visa and Discover cards. If ordering by phone, payment must be made at time of reservation.
Group rates are available for groups of 10 or more attending the same performance and paying two weeks in advance.
All performances begin promptly at the advertised curtain time. Please allow ample time to park and be seated before the performance begins. After the curtain rises, seating will be at the discretion of house management. You may not be seated until a suitable break in the performance, which might be intermission.
Hartwell Dance Theater and Rose L. Strasser Studio are located in Hartwell Hall, Kenyon Street, Brockport. A seating chart for Hartwell Dance Theater can be found here.
Tower Fine Arts Center Mainstage and Gallery are located at 180 Holley Street, Brockport. A seating chart for Tower Fine Arts Center Mainstage can be found here.
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Tower Fine Arts Gallery:
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The Tower Fine Arts Gallery can be reached at (585) 395-2805.
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The Tower Fine Arts Center is located on the north side of Holley Street in the village of Brockport. Parking Lot G is located adjacent to the Tower Fine Arts Center and handicapped parking is available at the front of the building.
The Hartwell Dance Theater and the Rose L. Strasser Studio are both located in the center of Hartwell Hall and can be entered from the lower level circular drive off Kenyon Street. Recommended parking can be found in Lots M and N. Handicapped parking and elevator access are found in the two-story main entrance to Hartwell, which is located off Kenyon Street at the east end of the lower level parking lot (Lot M). Note: Please note that Kenyon Street is no longer accessible by car from Monroe Avenue. In order to get to Lot M at Hartwell Hall, one must now take Utica Street to Residence Drive, turn west, and then turn north on Kenyon.
If you are visiting the campus on a weekday, please note that a parking pass is required until 7 pm. These passes can be purchased for $5 at the Raye H. Conrad Welcome Center, at the corner of New Campus and Commencement Drives. Metered parking is also available in several lots. Weekday parking on campus is free after 7 pm, and all day on Saturdays and Sundays.
All performance venues are handicapped accessible. Please indicate any special needs, such as wheelchair accommodations, when making your ticket reservation.
The north side of the campus, including the Mall is undergoing major renovations. Please plan accordingly.
For theatre and music events: An infrared audio system is available in the Tower Fine Arts Center Mainstage. With these individual receivers, patrons can augment the sound for any of the performances in this venue. A limited quantity of the receivers is available, but may be reserved by contacting the Box Office.
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I'm a judge for a writing contest, being held by an organization that shall remain nameless.
Being a judge involves reading over a thousand short stories written by newbies.
It's a painful job.
Ninety-nine percent of the entries share similar problems. These problems occur with such frequency that I've decided to write a story to illustrate them.
In the following short, try to spot all of the things that would make it a losing entry:
It was a very sunny day in the spring of 2004 in fact it was so sunny, that even the sun had to wear sunglasses! It was on this very sunny day that I first met my wife. Her name was Rhoda, and she loved life. She lived in a house at 8786 Cranberry road, with her mother and three dogs named Sharpie, Bull, and Doxie, who are a Sharpei, a bulldog, and a doxhund. Boy were those dogs trouble! Yes they were! Trouble spelled T-R-O-U-B-L-E with a capitol T! But Rhonda loved those dogs, so much, that I never would have guessed, how it all ended up. And, boy, did it end up, bad! On a very cloudy day in the fall of 2006, Rhonda took the dogs out for a walk, but you can actually say that they walked her. Those were some frisky dogs! As they all walk to my house, Sharpie sniffe d out a skunk and got squirted, which smelled even worse. Sharpe thought it was a cat, but he sure was surprised! When Rhonda brought the dogs into my house, boy was I ever really very upset.
"You need to get that foul smelling pooch into a bath of half tomato juice and half vinegar and half baking soda!" I loudly exclaimed with a huge frown creasing my unhappy face.
"But Sharpie is allergic to tomato juice!" proclaimed RHonda as she stamps her foot and pouts with her hands on her hips cocked out like a diva.
""I not asking the pooch to drink any tomato juice, just take a bath in it!" I loudly laughed hard.
The next week I proposed to Rohnda, and we were married at St. Vincent's Church on 472 Smith street on a very sunny spring day and Sharpie was supposed to be the ring barer with a little pillow tied to his back but guess what? He got into another skunk right before the ceremony! That screwy pooch just didn't learn better! So Sharpie comes runnin down the isle and everyone in the church is holding their noses. They were literaly in the pews saying PEE YOO. Now I wasn't going to say my vows wearing a light tan medium wooden closepin on my nose, so I told my best man Zeke to take Sharpie out of that church but make sure to bring back the rings so we coudl still salvage this disaster. Four minutes later, Zeke locked out Sharpie outside the church but guess what?!? Now he smelled like skunk! I should have known to bring some tomato juice to my wedding day!
I told him ""Sorry Zeke my best man but you have to wait out outside the chucrh with Sharpie" I said funnily because I am holding my nose! Everyone laughed especially my bride as Zeke stomped dejectedly out of
the church like an unclean leper. He felt so terrible he wanted to go jump in a lake, and he thought maybe he should because that will get some of the skunk stink off but he couldn't because the tuxedo was rented!. The next year Rhonda died of pnemonia and cancer, but I still have the dogs to remind me of her, and I love little Shapie but I always keep some tomato juice around just in case!
And yes, unfortunately, some of the stories are this bad. But mostly this is an amalgamation of the many things wrong with newbie short stories.
Some of the errors are obvious. Some are a bit harder to spot. But there are close to a hundred faults, any one of which would make me stop reading and file the story in the trash.
How many can you spot? I'm not looking for a blow-by-blow list, but rather general rules, such as spelling problems and changing tense.
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Well up for sale are a couple of small MG34 Receiver pieces. Interesting in that they are both torch cut and saw cut. NOTE the MG34 Dummy Receiver is NOT FOR SALE just there to help reference the size and location of the pieces up for sale.
Both pieces are missing some of the ejector rail. Also US Sales ONLY. Federal Law not mine.
#4 (my part #) Middle piece - sell for $25.00 plus $5.00 Shipping
#5 Middle piece ---- Interesting piece as this is an early receiver that has the slot cut for the Adjustable Rate of fire trigger group. - Sell for $50.00 plus $5.00 Shipping
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Laparoscopic Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass - This procedure divides the stomach to make a small reservoir pouch for food at the upper end of the stomach. The pouch, which has a capacity for about one ounce of food, is connected to the upper small intestine. Therefore, food bypasses the larger portion of the stomach. Patients experience a decreased appetite. Rapid weight loss occurs initially and stabilizes over time. This is the most commonly performed bariatric procedure in the U.S.
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Laparoscopic Adjustable Gastric Band - During this procedure, an adjustable band is placed around the upper end of the stomach to create a small reservoir pouch. The small pouch restricts intake and patients feel full more quickly. A small port is attached to the band to allow for easy access for adjustments. Weight loss is more gradual with this procedure. This procedure is not offered at The Medical Center at this time.
Gastric Plication - During this procedure, the outer stretchy part of the stomach is rolled in with stitches so that the stomach holds significantly less volume and cannot stretch. There is no cutting, stapling or removal of the stomach or intestines. The procedure can potentially be reversed or converted to another procedure if needed. Comparable to gastric bypass, weight loss is rapid for most patients but with less surgical risk.This procedure is not offered at The Medical Center at this time.
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LONDON — It spread like a Kardashian rumor on Twitter Thursday night, the U.S. Senior Men's National Team's fancy for the 3-point shot. One Kobe Bryant and Kevin Durant got it started against Nigeria, Carmelo Anthony took it to the next level and everyone else followed.
By the time they were finished, they'd taken 46 of them, made 29 and set a few records on their way to a mind-boggling 83-point blowout of Nigeria.
U.S. coach Mike Krzyzewski said afterwards that he hoped his team saved a few more for the rest of the Olympic competition. His words proved prophetic here earlier today, when the U.S. almost shot their way into a stunning upset to Lithuania, a team that dared the U.S. to shoot their way to another big win relying on outside shots for the bulk of their points.
They survived on a diet plate this time, making just 10 of the 33 they hoisted, two of the makes being clutch shots from both LeBron James and Deron Williams, when Chris Paul found him wide open with a mid-air touch pass, in the final four minutes of their 99-94 win.
"We had a lot of good looks," Paul said. "A lot of those shots went in and out. One thing Coach [Krzyzewski] told us is to keep shooting your shots. And that's what we have to do. And when I did get that offensive rebounds, D. Will knocked down a big one. With the amount of talent we have on our team we pass up a ton of good shots. So are some times when you just have to shoot the ball."
They played a dangerous game, though, one that only a group of the very best players could and get away with on a night when their free throw shooting (19-for-31) is as deplorable, relatively speaking.
But when you have every reason to believe that the next one you take is the one that will break a game open, it's hard to resist that urge. When your Hall of Fame coach is demanding that you keep shooting "your shots," it's your professional obligation to keep shooting them.
"When you miss a couple of them, you start thinking, "I'm just gonna pass it,'"Williams said. "But coach stayed on us. He got a little pissed off that we were passing up shots. So you just have to be ready to shoot them."
But not at the expense of higher percentage shots closer to the basket. They pulled away late with James driving to the basket and forcing the action, by going inside to at least initiate whatever it was they wanted to do. But far too often they settled for what least appeared to be open shots.
"We want to get it inside, too," Williams said. "But we had wide open shots on the perimeter. You've got to take them. Three feet closer than the NBA 3 [point line]. They looked good, they felt good. They just weren't going in."
James said he has no problem with his teammates taking those shots, even if it did appear to be detrimental to the U.S Team's cause in this particular instance.
"A lot of teams pack the paint," he said. "We have a lot of dribble penetration guys that get into the paint and we also have some great shooters as well. So when we get into the lane and kick out for shots, it's a mid-range jumper for a lot of our guys. And we want them to step up and shoot them. No matter what's going, we want them to step up and shoot them."
Just not at the expense of getting the win.
"We want to have a little bit of balance, too," he said. "That's where me and [Russell] Westbrook come into play. We're kind of the penetrating guys on this team who want to get into the lane. But we have great shooters, and we can't tell them don't take shots when they are open."


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On the Water: Blues Away, Bass Will Play
It's like reading tea leaves or entrails — cue the eerie music: What does it portend when surfcasters see schools of small bunker and large sand eels in the wash, but not a lot of bluefish?
Fall fell last Thursday and the new moon rose on Tuesday, and yet, tons of baitfish and very few bluefish. This is the season when it's not unusual to see acres of bluefish in boiling feeding frenzies that mass at places like Turtle Cove on the west side of the Montauk Lighthouse, or are carried on the tide along the south-facing beaches.
This is the season when experienced casters know not to cast into such boils if they want to keep their lures, and to let their tins or bucktails sink down around the edges of the boils to find the striped bass that lurk there waiting for the bluefish's scraps as they descend.
With the blues away, striped bass are picking at the prey. Paulie's Tackle shop in Montauk reports that most of the bass action has taken place at night. In fact, the first fish to make it on the leader board in the Montauk SurfMasters tournament in the wetsuit division was caught at night, a 49.3-pounder reeled in by John Bruno. The fish won the State Parks Department tournament over the weekend as well. Richie Michelson is now on the board in the wader division with a 24.12-pound bass caught over the weekend.
The Star Island Yacht Club's annual striped bass and bluefish tournament will be held on Oct. 9 from 6 a.m. to 4 p.m. Last year, 63 boats entered. The captains' meeting will take place on the evening of Oct. 8. The entry fee is $275 per boat for up to four anglers, $50 for each additional angler.
Boating anglers have found the bassing spectacular, even with a slight slowdown over the weekend. The rips needed a bit more tidal flow, which the new moon should provide. The Lazy Bones party boat reported brisk diamond-jigging action last week, with bass up to 35 pounds. Live eels are doing the trick as well.
The sand beaches in Amagansett have been seeing more striped bass within casting distance of shore than has Montauk these days, according to Harvey Bennett of the Tackle Shop in that hamlet — fish in the 10-to-20-pound range. And, "ah, the solitude of false albacore fishing" in Gardiner's Bay with many of the mosquito fleet of light-tackle and fly-fishing boats in Montauk, Bennett reported with a satisfied sigh and a lure to his shop: "I've been making neat teasers' feathers, wild colors that work real well."
Teasers are features of terminal gear that "swim" ahead of the hook on drop lines and appear to hungry fish as small prey being chased by a bigger fish (with hook).
Brian Fromm returned to the West Lake Marina over the weekend aboard his Flying Dutchman with a 223-pound big-eye tuna. The Dutchman also found schools of mahimahi. One mahi weighed 20 pounds.
Chris Miller of West Lake reminds flatfish anglers that the fluke season ends tomorrow. The recreational porgy season closed on Monday unless you plan to fish from a party or charter boat.
On Sept. 7 the daily possession limit went from 10 to 40 porgies per person per day. It will stay that way until Oct. 11. Efforts are under way to convince the New York Department of Environmental Conservation to keep the porgy season open longer given the days lost to Tropical Storm Irene.
Sea bass have been abundant of late. Unfortunately, that season is due to end on Saturday. It will open again on Nov. 1 and run through Dec. 31.
Blackfish season opens on Saturday and will run until Dec. 20. Hunting the tautog (blackfish) will become legal again on Jan. 17 through April 30. Miller said West Lake had plenty of blackfish bait on hand — green crabs and the hermit crabs they favor.
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Now more than ever, it's important to get the best bang for your buck. And there's no question about it — when it comes to value, not every U.S. city is created equally.
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This contract is not correct. The only allowed TransactionFlow option with a one way contract is TransactionFlowOption.NotAllowed. I'm not sure if there is a configuration option to correct this or if it is a problem with the code. Any assistance would be appreciated.
Temporary workaround, I've asked Jaron (you designed this transform) to comment as well.
In the meantime, it looks like the UseTransactionScopes option is not in the settings schema file or fully implemented in the transform. Add the UseTransactionScopes='false' option to the ServiceLayer element in the settings file, then save, right click the .orm file, and choose 'Run Custom Tool' to force the file to regenerate.
I tried this, but it does not appear to have any effect. The same code is produced. The top portion of the file is as follows;
Ideally, you wouldn't want the transaction scope to be changed, as it is preferable to use a transaction when conducting insert and update operations. Instead the operations should not be implemented as one way. Normally I would return a success indicator back to the application and specify IsOneWay=false on these operations.
Geez (directed at myself, not you), the XSLT to read the two boolean settings (there are only two of them) is garbage. If the attributes have any value then they will always be true.
You'll need to change the default in the XSLT.
Apologies on this, the service layer code is incomplete and should have been turned off.
I'm not a WCF expert by any stretch, but it sounds like you are. Any suggestions on things you think we should change would be much appreciated.
The following blog entry gives a good description of when to use the IsOneWay=true setting. Typically it is to optimize in cases where success notification (or rather exceptions) are not something you are concerned about. If you have IsOneWay=true, the connection is disengaged immediately after the call, thus any exceptions that occur will not be propagated back to the client. This should be used very sparingly. Even if the return type of the method is void, you can still have the IsOneWay=false so that exceptions can be propagated back to the client. This is also why transactions cannot be flowed to these methods, as any transaction rollback cannot be indicated back to the client. It looks like it was assumed that any void method should be one way, which is not the case.
It would probably be good to include a OptimizeOperationalMethods attribute that would indicate whether the IsOneWay should be set to true, but the default should be false. Even when doing a one way contract, I will set the IsOneWay to false during debugging, but if I truly needed them optimized, it would be nice to have the option. If I were importing in batch for example, I would probably rather log issues and do each as a separate transaction (or no transaction at all) rather than send errors back to the client.
Actually, the original syntax is correct. It defines the attribute with a default of true. It does a test to see if the setting is present, and sets the result of a test to see if it was set to true. If the setting was present and set to false (or anything other than true or 1), the "$setting='true' or $setting='1'" test will return false.
The issue is actually later in the XSLT where it is testing the resulting value. This test is done as if the variable were a boolean. Since it is a string, you actually have to test to see if it is true ($UseTransactionScopes='true') rather than just use the variable.
I added parameters for OptimizeOperationalMethods and UseTransactionFlow. TransactionFlow is determining whether the client transaction flows to the method whereas TransactionScope determines if the method is done in the context of a transaction. Even if you are not using the client transaction you may want to use transactions, so I thought it was prudent to separate the two. The OptimizeOperationalMethods works as discussed. Also, if OptimizeOperationalMethods is set transaction flow is turned off regardless of the setting.
You can't attach files here, but I uploaded the updated xslt to the library.


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Scoop: AMERICA'S FUNNIEST HOME VIDEO on ABC - Sunday, October 7, 2012
AMERICA'S FUNNIEST HOME VIDEO returns for its 23nd season with all-new videos of what happens when adults, children and even inanimate objects are at their spontaneous best, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 7 (7:00-8:00 p.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network. The video highlights in this season's premiere episode include a little brother who causes a fiasco amongst his siblings when he flushes the toilet too soon during their goldfish burial; animals making bizarre and unexpected sounds; a music montage featuring people terrified on amusement park rides; the Ow-lympics; and "Delivery room fainters" vs. "Straws getting stuck in weird places." Hosted by Tom Bergeron, "America's Funniest Home Videos" is the longest-running primetime show in ABC history.This season the show's three $100,000 winners will compete to win an awe-inspiring Grand Prize: A vacation to the Walt Disney World ® Resort in Florida, where they'll get to visit the new Fantasyland in the Magic Kingdom Park opening this December, the biggest expansion in Magic Kingdom history They can also go on a group, guided vacation with Adventures by Disney® to one of 16 destinations, with hassle free and authentic experiences the whole family can enjoy. "AFHV" will also have three sweepstakes throughout the year in which viewers at home will get the chance to win incredible Disney vacation experiences . . . a Disney Cruise Line vacation on the brand-new Disney Fantasy, and unforgettable magical vacations to the Disneyland® Resort in California and the Walt Disney World ® Resort in Florida. Additional information about the sweepstakes will be available later this season.In its 23 seasons to date, "America's Funniest Home Videos" has given away over $12 million in prize money and evaluated more than a million videotapes from home viewers. Viewers wishing to submit home videos to "America's Funniest Home Videos" should visit www.ABC.com for details. Vin Di Bona is executive producer, with Todd Thicke and Michele Nasraway serving as co-executive producers. "America's Funniest Home Videos" is broadcast in 720 Progressive (720P), ABC's selected HDTV format with a 5.1 channel surround sound. This program carries a TV-PG parental guideline.


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World Water Week: 70 million people connected to drinking water thanks to EU aid
Between 2004 and 2012, the European Union (EU) financial support has helped more than 70 million people in developing countries gain access to drinking water and more than 24 million people to improved sanitation facilities.
Around 9 out of 10 people now have access to drinking water. The EU has contributed actively to this achievement. In all, the EU has allocated a total of almost €2 billion (€1 919 billion) to the water and sanitation sectors in 62 countries over the period 2008-2013.
EU's support to water and sanitation is channeled through different instruments, being one of them the EU's Water Facility, with a budget of €212 million from 2010 to 2015, and focusing on the most vulnerable people in rural and peri-urban areas. During this period, aware that the challenges are still considerable, 105 additional projects are planned in 35 countries to supply drinking water to 7.7 million people. These projects will also aim to provide sanitary installations for 2.8 million people and make hygiene education programmes available to 4.9 million people.
Millennium Development Goals – What has been achieved on water?
In 2000 the international community agreed on eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to be achieved by 2015. Water is covered by MDG 7.c (the objective was to halve, by 2015, the proportion of people without sustainable access to drinking water and basic sanitation.) Although the overall objective has been attained, 768 million people still lack access to this vital resource.
Furthermore, 2.5 billion people are still without adequate sanitation, which is one of the goals in which results are insufficient. At the current rate of progress, just 67% will have these facilities by 2015, which is well below the goal of 75%.
Taking up the challenge, José Manuel Barroso, the President of the European Commission, announced to the UN General Assembly in September 2010 that the European Union was going to roll out a €1 billion MDG initiative to help achieve the goals more rapidly, of which €267 million have now been allocated to water and sanitation projects in 19 African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries.
Results from the ground – How is the EU providing access to water and sanitation where it is most needed?
Togo: supplying water to neglected sectors of the population
In the Maritime region in the south of Togo, where almost half of the population lives and 90% of economic activity is concentrated, only 13% of the population has access to drinking water.
People in villages and small towns draw water at traditional water points or at pumps which are insufficient for their needs and are often out of order. In the countryside, water needs can be supplied by man-powered pumps.
Only large towns are equipped with proper water distribution systems. Significantly increasing access to drinking water is therefore a priority, as is sanitation. A total budget of €16.7 million has been allocated to the water and sanitation sector by the European Union's MDG initiative in the Maritime region.
In addition, four projects to be implemented between 2011 and 2016 cover the construction or rehabilitation of 467 water points and 6,000 latrines and the training of 8,500 public officials. For example, two of these projects, organised jointly with UNICEF and the German Red Cross, aim to supply drinking water and sanitary installations to 140 rural communities in the Maritime region. This involves the implementation of projects valued at €4.5 million, over €3 million of which is provided by the EU. In addition, training in hygiene is being provided to families, with particular emphasis on children.
Support for Pioneering Water plant in Djibouti
A new project aims to build a desalination plant in Djibouti, which will use renewable energy to provide water to 200,000 inhabitants - one-fourth of the country's population - in some of the country's poorest areas. The announcement was made by Development Commissioner, Andris Piebalgs, and former Djiboutian Prime Minister, Mr Dileita Mohamed Dileita, during his visit to Brussels in 2013.
Djibouti suffers from an acute water shortage and has recently endured a prolonged drought, which has led to a serious food crisis in the country. The water produced is taken from the local aquifer; the only source of potable water for the city, which has reached its physical limit. Its quality is poor due to sea water intrusion, which has health and social consequences for the most vulnerable parts of the population, in particular children and women. The situation is aggravated by the high population growth in the capital which is expected to see demand for water more than double in the next 20 years.
The lack of access to water has led to recent fighting and riots in the country.
Current demand for water in the capital Djibouti City (where around 75% of the population lives) is estimated at 80,000 m3 per day but only 36,000m3 per day is currently being supplied.
The new EU-funded project PEPER (Producing Safe Drinking Water with Renewable Energy) will set up a desalination plant in the capital, Djibouti City, where there is a clear shortage in the current demand for water.
The new facility will have a capacity of 22,500 m3 per day, which in a second phase could be easily extendable to 45,000 m3 per day. The EU will provide €40.5 million out of the total estimated budget of €46 million for the new water desalination plant.
Bolivia: Water and Sanitation programme in peri-urban areas
This project was set up to improve the living conditions of the population in peri-urban areas (suburban areas next to a city with a population of more than 10,000 inhabitants) of La Paz, El Alto, Cochabamba and Santa Cruz and other major localities.
With an EU support of €28.5 million, it helped to promote the sustainable management of water resources, promoting systems to adapt the region to the impact of climate change. It also helped to increase access to the sustainable water supply and sanitation for the population, establishing systems based on the management of available water resources and applying new technologies (such as lower water consumption toilets, leakage reduction systems, etc) to promote the more efficient use of water.
Results achieved so far include:
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South Carolina's past battle over the town of Ridgeland's speed cameras on Interstate 95 could start anew in Alabama.
Alabama Media Group reports that iTraffic Safety, the contractor at the heart of Ridgeland's now-cancelled system, may be setting up its photo-radar enforcement system in the town of Prichard, Ala. The town is described as an "impoverished suburb of about 23,000 residents," and a pass-through for commuters.
For the 4,000-person town of Ridgeland, S.C., it wasn't commuters but tourists who were hurtling through rural Jasper County on their way to Florida. And the local taxpares of Ridgeland were shouldering the costs of sending law enforcement and first responders to crash scenes on the 7-mile strip through their town.
But in 2010, South Carolina lawmakers took aim at Ridgeland's system. They argued that the manned camera-RV combo violated people's privacy and legal due process, and that a private company should not profit from speeders.
The town's contract with iTraffic had allowed the company to collect about $25 of each $133 fine, with the town keeping $25 and state coffers receiving the rest. The town of Prichard may be a more lucrative gig. The company has asked for money to pay its expenses plus $35 per ticket, reports Alabama Media Group.
If there is a conflict to come, a look back at South Carolina's story suggests the company won't be shy about joining the fray.
Amid the legislative onslaught, Bill Danzell, chairman of iTraffic, had emailed the company's lobbyist to complain that a chief opponent, Sen. Larry Grooms, "has time to beat his chest but he doesn't take time to know the facts."
Publicly, the company executive accused a Midlands lawmaker, Rep. Todd Rutherford, of having a conflict of interest because the lawmaker's law firm was among those challenging the town and the company,
In October of last year, U.S. District Judge Sol Blatt, Jr. dismissed the a class action suit that had been leveled against Ridgeland town officials and its speed-camera contractor iTraffic Safety.
In June of that year, the S.C. Legislature had taken its second swipe at the camera system, this time eliminating any looseness in the camera ban it had previously passed.


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When an armed robbery ends with the death of a police officer, Frank (Tom Selleck) makes it a mission for the NYPD to bring the suspect to justice. However, tensions run high in the Reagan household when Erin (Bridget Moynahan) drops the charges and releases the suspect due to lack of evidence, on the fourth season premiere of BLUE BLOODS, Friday, September 28 (10:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Photo: John P. Filo/CBS ©2013 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.


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Weekend Box Office – 'Chronicle' Scares Up a First-Place Win
The supernaturally-powered boys in 'Chronicle' proved they had one more trick up their sleeves: coming in first at the box office. The film sold $22 million in tickets to take the top spot this weekend.
Another creepy thriller, 'The Woman in Black,' earned $21 million for second place, followed by 'The Grey,' which brought in $9.5 million and moved from first to third place in its second week.
The feel-good flick 'Big Miracle' had an $8.4 million haul for fourth, and 'Underworld Awakening' rounded out the top five with $5.6 million in revenues.
Here's a list of the top 10 movies at the box office Friday through Sunday with estimated grosses, along with how much each movie has made since its release:
1. 'Chronicle' – $22 million, new release
2. 'The Woman in Black' – $21 million, new release
3. 'The Grey' – $9.5 million, $34.7 million
4. 'Big Miracle' – $8.4 million, new release
5. 'Underworld Awakening' – $5.6 million, $54.3 million total
6. 'One for the Money' – $5.2 million, $19.6 million total
7. 'Red Tails' – $5 million, $41.3 million total
8. 'The Descendants' – $4.6 million, $65.5 million total
9. 'Man on a Ledge' – $4.4 million, $14.7 million total
10. 'Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close' – $3.9 million, $26.7 million total
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You can read Kevin Hardman talking about Amazon ranking here: http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2013/07/guest-post-by-kevin-hardman.html
You can read Mark Terry talking about his publishing journey here: http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2013/07/guest-post-by-mark-terry.html
You can read Jeff Schajer talking about his thrillers here: http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2013/07/guest-post-by-jeff-schajer.html
You can read Lisa Grace talk about movie options here: http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2013/07/guest-post-by-lisa-grace.html
You can read Brandilyn Collins talking about dialog subtext here: http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2013/07/guest-post-by-brandilyn-collins.html
You can read Katherine Sears talking about Booktrope: http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2013/07/guest-post-by-katherine-sears.html
You can read Richard Denoncourt talking about cover art here:
Now here's Ann Voss Peterson...
Ages ago, I promised Joe I would contribute a blog post about writing craft. With the majority of the guest posts focused on the business end of publishing, I thought this might be a good time to actually live up to that promise.
My first book was published in 2000, and I've now written over thirty, but one of the final things I had to master before selling to a publisher was pacing. I've seen it in fiction I've judged for contests, too; stories that are almost there except for pacing issues. Pacing can be tough to learn.
First of all, pace varies with genre and voice. That's a given. Some stories are meant to be leisurely and rich, some fast and frantic. It's up to the author to know his/her audience and find the pace that's right for his/her story.
But it's useful to note that no one complains about a truly fast-paced book. Fast pace means important things happen, the characters change, and the reader doesn't want to put the book down. The prose itself sucks us in and feels urgent.
But what if the pace feels too fast? Too slow? How do you gage the difference?
If a story feels too fast, speed isn't the culprit. Instead, the story is underdeveloped. The underdeveloped novel doesn't feature fully fleshed out scenes but instead relies on vignettes, like short visual clips you might see in a movie. The scenes change very fast, but the story feels sketchy. A little of that can work well, if it's done skillfully and for effect. An entire book of that is a literary slide show, not a novel. The scenes streak past, but the story doesn't really go anywhere.
Pacing that feels too slow is even more common, and there are a lot of articles out there featuring lists of tips and tricks for speeding up the sagging story. Some of the common suggestions are:
-Make sure your protagonist is active.
-If the action sags, kill someone.
-Add a ticking clock.
-Keep a secret.
I've never been a big fan of random lists of tips and tricks like the one above. I believe it's more important to understand the WHY behind something and make it your own, rather than to just stick in a device here and there. So in my quest to understand pacing, I set out to learn why some prose feels fast and some feels slow. And as I read and analyzed, I came to the conclusion that the conventional way we frame the subject of pacing--as fast or slow--is all wrong.
Pacing isn't about speed.
That's right. Pacing doesn't have ANYTHING to do with how fast the action unfolds on the page. Think about it. We've all read thrillers where plenty of action takes place, but they still feel as if they're moving as slow as a Prius driver at a four-way stop. We've also read literary novels or family dramas which don't have a lot of exterior "stuff" happening, yet leave us breathless. So if a novel's pace isn't about speed, what IS it about?
The secret to pacing your novel—whatever genre you're writing—is making your reader NEED to turn the page.
Well I just happen to be a reader. I'll bet you are, too. So I asked myself what makes ME want to turn the page, and I came up with four things.
1. Conflict: I turn the page to discover who wins the fight.
2. Sequence: I turn the page to uncover what happens next.
3. Delayed Gratification: I turn the page to learn the answers to my questions.
4. Escalation: I turn the page to see how on earth the protagonist gets out of this unholy mess!
Now there are entire books written on these subjects, and a blog post (as long as this one is) is not going to be extensive enough to do them justice. My hope is to get you thinking about how you can compel your reader to turn the page by using these four elements on a small (sentence, paragraph) scale and a large (story) scale in your writing. So let's go.
1. Conflict: I turn the page to discover who wins the fight.
This is the biggest topic of the four. The basis for all fiction is conflict. Without it, story doesn't exist. Your protagonist wants something, and s/he must struggle against opposition and through hardship to reach that goal.
Small Scale:
There are opportunities to enhance the conflict your story on even the smallest scale. The simplest is word choice. Some words carry more visceral impact than others, generally short Germanic words as opposed to longer Latinate words. Add conflict to sentences by using strong verbs and nouns rather than propping up your verbs and nouns with adverbs and adjectives. Bring conflict into a scene with subtext; characters saying one thing while thinking or meaning something quite different. Show conflicting aspects of your character. A man can be both smooth and guttural; a woman both brutal and heroic.
Large Scale:
In the beginning of your story, you make a promise to your reader. What this promise is depends on genre and the inciting incident of the story. So if you begin with a detective finding a dead body, you are promising that by the end, we will know who the killer is. And if the story is a whodunit mystery, the murderer will be caught and brought to justice. If it's a romance, the couple will get together at the end. If it's a thriller, the threat will be stopped.
This doesn't just apply to genre novels. All books have an inciting incident (something happens that causes conflict) and the story is about the characters dealing with that conflict (and perhaps others), and when that initial conflict is resolved, the story is over. If you show the conflict has been resolved at the end of the third chapter, you've ended your story and no number of tips and tricks will fix the pacing of a story that feels as if it's already over.
There are a lot of good books on writing. And I'll be sharing a few I've found useful as we go along, both for beginners and for more advanced writers. Most of these are older and considered classics. All of the books I will be suggesting deal with conflict, but some to note here are:
2. Sequence: I turn the page to uncover what happens next.
This is also known as stimulus and response or action and reaction. A story is a chain of events. When something happens, there should be a reaction on the part of every character involved. Someone says something, another answers, and yet another acts out in a later scene. A character strikes, another strikes back. Everything that happens in a story causes something else to happen, like ripples in a pond.
Small Scale:
On a sentence and paragraph level, if your prose feels slow, you might not be ordering your sentences in a way that makes them easy to read. The reader's eye moves from left to right, and the action should as well. Every time you break this natural sequence, you ask your reader to backtrack in order to interpret the sentence's meaning.
Jake tripped and fell. –versus- Jake fell, because he tripped.
Now this doesn't mean you can never break chronological sequence, just that it should be your default setting. Breaking sequence is useful when you intend to draw the reader's attention. But every time you ask your reader to do extra work, there should be a reason. Nothing should happen by accident. Know what you're doing and why.
Large Scale:
The stimulus – response chain is the building block of story structure. Each action or reaction is called a beat. Beats add up to form scenes, scenes form sequences, sequences form acts, and acts form stories. I've found studying structure to be very helpful, and there are many books on the subject. One of my favorites is the classic Techniques of the Selling Writer by Dwight Swain. I also adore this blog post on character development and sequel by JimButcher.
Movie structure is actually easier to study than novel structure and is quite relevant for most popular fiction. McKee's Story deals with film structure, but I find that it doesn't translate to novels in some ways. To bridge the gap between movies and novels, try Alexandra Sokoloff's Screenwriting Tricks for Authors and Writing Love.
And for beginning writers, I suggest starting with the Bootcamp for Novelists Training Manuel by Linda Style and Connie Flynn.
3. Delayed Gratification: I turn the page to learn the answers to my questions.
Remember the Carly Simon song used in the Heinz ketchup ad?
Anticipation…Anticipation is making me wait…it's keeping me waiting…
Small Scale:
There is a delayed gratification trick that is used in poetry. The last word in a line carries the most power, as does the last line and word in a stanza, as does the last line and word in the entire poem. The reader reads through each line to find the point. We can use that in fiction as well.
Look at the last word in each sentence, paragraph, scene, chapter. Is it carrying a punch? Is it strong and significant enough to justify your reader reading to get to it? Don't contort your prose to make this happen, but pay attention to giving your reader a little reward, a tiny thrill, something to read toward. This technique can be really useful when writing your product description.
And if you want to test your prose to see if you're doing this, here's a fun little trick: take an excerpt of your writing that you think really works. Write down the last word in every sentence. Read them all together, pretending you've never seen that section of the story. Do you get a sense of what it's about? If those words are strong and significant, you will.
Large Scale:
And this is where I harp about backstory. J Lately I have come to suspect that some writers think backstory and character development are the same thing. They are not. Backstory is stuff that already happened to the character, the character's past. Just like people, characters are defined not only by their pasts, but by the choices they make in the present. We are what we do, and so are characters.
That's why a character's actions are most important, especially at the beginning of a book. The past can and should wait. Why? Because readers don't care yet. Sure you have to give enough information so the reader isn't lost, but that's far less than you feel they need. The best, most gut wrenching, character forming events of your protagonist's past should only be revealed when the reader thinks she cannot live without knowing. You leave hints. You show character behavior that begs an explanation. You let your character ooze with attitude. But you do not spill the beans.
In Writing theBreakout Novel, Donald Maass suggests holding backstory until at least the midpoint of the book, and I've found that works out pretty well in most of my stories. But the point isn't to adhere to a certain page. Hold off until you feel the moment is right for your story, just be sure to keep your secrets until your reader is desperate to know.
And when the secrets do come out, reveal them dramatically. In dialog. With conflict. Sittin' and thinkin' is boring. A tearful confession or a secret blurted out in the heat of an argument? That's conflict!
4. Escalation: I turn the page to see how on earth the protagonist gets out of this mess!
Raise the stakes. Increase the conflict. Break things. Make the problem unsolvable.
In fiction, the worse things get, the better we readers like it and the faster we have to read. So don't be afraid to rain down hell upon your characters. Then make it worse.
Small Scale:
Not only should the payoff for a sentence, paragraph, scene, sequence, act, story be at the end of each of these units, but the action should escalate to the end. That means each item in a list gets more intense, specific, important. Each beat builds. Each scene is more intense or meaningful than the last. If the emotional intensity stays the same, your story will feel as if it is sagging. If the intensity lessens, your reader will put down the book and never pick it up again. I know I will.
Physical threat isn't the only way to escalate. There are things worse than losing your life, such as losing those you love, losing your honor, losing whatever makes you human. Stakes can be global, physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual. When the physical threat hits a crescendo, escalate by increasing an emotional threat.
The Codename: Chandler series that I write with Joe is all about a breakneck pace. In the Chandler books, many readers have commented that the action never lets up. That's not exactly true. Chandler does slow down now and then. But when that happens, Joe and I ramp up the emotional threat or the psychological threat or add a global threat to the mix. As a result, each story and the series as a whole escalate all the way to the end, never lagging or getting weaker in intensity. HIT is the latest, and it's only $2.99.
5. Number Five; the secret to it all.
I know I said there were four elements to good pacing, and now I've added a fifth. But this isn't exactly an element of pacing. This is THE KEY TO EVERYTHING (See? I kept this one for last. Delayed gratification and escalation). So what is it?
Great characters.
Now that is yet another topic too large for this blog post. But without great characters, a reader doesn't care who wins, what happens next, what their secrets are, or if their situation grows more and more dire. Without great characters, none of the four points I mentioned above matters.
Story is character in conflict. Add structure. Build to a big payoff.
So how about those pacing tips and tricks I mentioned at the beginning? Why do they work?
-An active character is one who is facing conflict, not sitting there like a stump.
-If done right, killing someone is going to provide conflict. It's also going to give those story stakes a boost (escalation). That's why it can make a slow area feel faster paced. But it only works if the murder does those two things. If it doesn't raise the stakes or if it doesn't increase the conflict, it's going to muddy your story instead of making the reader need to turn that page.
-The ticking clock is an example of escalation. The characters had to do something in your story (right?), and now they have to do it in a very short time span.
-Keeping a secret is an example of delayed gratification. The reader has to race through those pages to find out what the secret is or to see it revealed to another character. And of course, the character's reaction to that secret is her response to a stimulus...sequence!
Obviously this blog post only scratches the surface of a complex topic. I hope you find the handful of resources I named here helpful. I also hope you share more suggestions in the comments section. Different approaches speak to different people, so the more choices we amass; the more likely all will discover something helpful.
But reading how-to books is only the beginning. The most important thing is doing the writing itself. And when you sit down to write, ask yourself one question:
What makes you NEED to turn the page?
You are writing for YOUR reader. He or she values how YOU see the world. So put yourself in her place. Analyze your own writing from the point of view of yourself as a reader. Understand what makes your heart beat a little faster and your fingers clutch your Kindle a little tighter when you read.
Then work on tormenting your reader in the same way.
Pushed Too Far is free today (Friday 7/12) only.
Joe sez: I once had an argument on a writing panel with bestselling author who claimed the best novels were character driven. I disagreed. I said they were plot driven. I think you can have a really interesting character who readers won't care about if nothing happens in the story. He claimed the characters are what readers identify with.
Ann eclipses this argument by stating that story is about a character in conflict, and I'd be hard pressed to debate against that.
There are several tricks I use to keep readers turning the pages, some easy to master, some not. But they are things that my readers seem to enjoy, and in a blog post about pacing this is a good place to share them.
1. White space on the page. I've talked about this many times. When confronted with a big, blocky paragraph that takes up half or all the page/screen, some readers may start to skim. They'll read the first few sentences, subconsciously decide if it is adding to the story, and skip it if it doesn't escalate the conflict.
I like short, punchy paragraphs, no more than a few sentences each. I like a lot of dialog. I like avoiding adverbs, adjectives, overlong description, and speaker attribution when possible. The more white space on a page, the faster the reader can zip through it.
2. No chapters. The Joe Konrath School of Writing changes POV and starts each new section on the same page, tagged by who the POV character is, ending each section on a cliffhanger. I don't give readers a place to stop reading. And I try not to let any POV last longer than 2500 words. Some are as short as a few hundred.
3. Emotion. In the last five novels I've written, I try to find spots in the novel to make readers afraid, make them laugh, make them cry, and turn them on. Reading is a vicarious, safe way to induce emotion; to immerse a reader in a world they can imagine and identify with, and make them feel something. The more the reader feels, the harder it is to put the book down. So I use jokes and sex and violence and suspense, and I use them often.
4. Big ideas and big twists. A big idea is a hook--a plot point that intrigues the reader. A big twist is an a-ha--something unexpected. Conflict, Sequence, Delayed Gratification, Escalation, and Characters are something all good narratives should have. But if you have a great hook and some cool twists, you're going to set yourself apart from all the other good books out there. Readers expect all of the above things Ann mentions and so eloquently describes. But readers buy books based on the premise. A cool hook and some big surprises will get you fans.
5. Less is more. If a scene, a paragraph, a sentence, or a word can be cut, it should be. If you're wondering how to pare down your length, look at backstory, description, prologues, purple prose, interior monologue, showing off (look how much research I did), and darlings (I love this part even though it doesn't move the story forward). Every word should have at least two reasons for being in your story, and if you aren't deliberately doing that, you're going to lose readers.
The quickest way to increase the pace of your story is to edit stuff out. If you aren't sure what to edit, hire an editor (always a smart move anyway) or give it to a trusted peer who is a pro, or your writing group.
I encourage everyone to pick up Pushed Too Far, which is free, for a good example of how to pace a book (for Jack Daniels fans, she has a fun scene in it). You can also pick up Timecaster Supersymmetry for free, which also has Jack Daniels in it.
But warning: both books are page-turners and contain violence, humor, and explicit sex.
Addendum: Today I tried a new advertising service for my Timecaster Supersymmetry giveaway promotion called Book Blast. It runs today. Supersymmetry is currently ranked at #136 in free ebooks on Amazon. We'll see if this gives it a boost.


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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) The United States was in trouble when Sam Querrey began his Davis Cup match against Thiago Alves on Sunday.
A few booming serves later, the Americans were headed for the quarterfinals.
Querrey beat Alves 4-6, 6-3, 6-4, 7-6 (3) to give the U.S. a dramatic 3-2 victory over Brazil, stepping up after teammate John Isner lost to Thomaz Bellucci to send the countries to the deciding fifth match.
``I was very happy with the way I battled through (the match),'' Querrey said. ``I fought through the tough points and got breaks in the second, third and fourth sets. I was just happy to get through it.''
Also advancing Sunday to the quarterfinals were: Canada (over Spain), Italy (over Croatia), Kazakhstan (over Austria) and the Czech Republic (over Switzerland). Clinching spots on Saturday were: France (over Israel), Serbia (over Belgium) and Argentina (over Germany).
The U.S. will host Serbia in the next round in Boise, Idaho, from April 5-7. The other three matchups for the quarterfinals are France-Argentina, Canada-Italy and Czech Republic-Kazakhstan.
Canada is in the Davis Cup quarterfinals for the first time. It defeated a five-time champion Spanish team that was missing Rafael Nadal, David Ferrer and Nicolas Almagro because of injuries and fatigue.
No. 15-ranked Milos Raonic beat No. 82 Guillermo Garcia-Lopez 6-3, 6-4, 6-2 in the opening reverse singles in Vancouver, British Columbia, to give Canada an insurmountable 3-1 lead.
It was the first time since 2000 that a U.S. team needed to win the fifth match to advance, and the 25-year-old Querrey started fast, breaking Alves in the second game. But Alves, ranked No. 141, responded with breaks of his own in the third and ninth games to take the opening set.
Querrey responded with a consistent array of cross-court winners to control play the rest of the way.
While Isner, the highest-ranked singles player in the tie at No. 16, bemoaned his play, Querrey expressed satisfaction with a straight-set win over Bellucci on Friday and the four-setter against Alves on Sunday.
U.S. team captain Jim Courier had special praise for the 20th-ranked Querrey.
``Sam faced some adversity at the end and played a great tiebreaker to get past not closing it out on serve,'' Courier said. ``Those are learning moments for a player, things you can draw on later on in your career. Today is a good day for Sam and our team in a lot of ways.''
Querrey was especially effective with his serve. He finished with 26 aces, compared to one for Alves, often clocking 120 mph or faster. When Alves was able to return a serve, it often was with little pace, enabling Querrey to eventually hit winners.
``I fight for all the match, all the match,'' the 30-year-old Alves said. ``My ranking is 145, something like this. I play two guys under 20 in the world. I think I play great tennis here.''
Isner got off to a fast start in the first match of the day, then went on to a 2-6, 6-4, 6-7 (7), 6-4, 6-3 loss to the 25th-ranked Bellucci.
The left-handed Brazilian overcame Isner's powerful serve with a strong display of groundstrokes that kept the 6-foot-9 American off balance. He played his best tennis in the second part of the match, breaking Isner in the 10th game of the fourth set and then the eighth game of the fifth set.
A dejected Isner said he needed to improve both his mental frame and his play on the court.
``This hurts a lot. I could have won this match,'' he said. ``I just couldn't quite win the big points. It's almost like I wanted it too badly. Confidence-wise, I'm not even close to where I want to be.
``You can't sugarcoat it with me. My five-set record is atrocious, it's simple as that. It falls on me.''
The United States now has nearly three months to get ready for Serbia, which features the world's No. 1 ranked player in Novak Djokovic. Courier said the U.S. team welcomes the challenge of taking on the talented Serbs.
``We wanted to face Serbia. They're one of the great Davis Cup nations right now,'' Courier said. ``If you want to lift this trophy, you need to beat the best teams and that certainly is one of them. We look forward to the challenge.''


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Busy shifts on the old RRV/RFU. On three shifts covering the weekend late tours of duty.
Last week I worked on the Foxtrot Oscar Paramedic/Police combined response unit meeting members of the public with gashed heads/broken noses/intoxicated/drug overdoses/split lips/a stabbing…all the usual Saturday night things.
Most of these incidents were self inflicted to a degree apart from the stabbing and a couple of unprovoked assaults.
Had one job earlier that reminded me that we owe a awful lot to the people who fought in the second World War…sent to an 80 year old gent who had fallen at home. He was quite frail and his wife of 55 years was struggling to look after him.
What struck me was the fact that they were paying for all the things he needed like inco pads, pee bottles etc. as they did not want to bother any one. A very proud couple, he being an ex-paratrooper who had broken both his legs on a jump over Holland which was now giving him problems with mobility. He also showed me where he had been hit by shrapnel. Hopefully we have got the ball rolling for them to receive some help at home.
They both apoligised for having to call us out! Makes you despair of the younger generations who call us out for crap because "it is their right!".


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Upon graduating from the Royal Academy of Music, I moved to Japan for three years, where I taught English and music. In my final year in Japan, I started working on music for movie trailers many of which can be viewed on my website. I am currently the audio director for an indie science-fiction game called "X32I : Redemption". I'm enjoying the collaborative process of making a game. I like to think of myself as a composer, but actually, I'm really a game-maker, or if it were film, a film-maker. My job is just one cog of a much larger machine. I am currently based in Los Angeles, California, where I am studying on the University of Southern California's Scoring For Motion Pictures And Television program. I am equally adept at orchestral or electronic writing. Please don't hesitate to get in touch.
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N M Tech Buildings Evacuated as Result of Chemical Spill, March 22, 2005
by George Zamora
SOCORRO, March 21, 2005 – Seven campus buildings at New Mexico Tech were evacuated Monday evening, March 21, as a result of an accidental chemical spill inside of the research university's Jones Hall.
The New Mexico Tech Campus Police received a call at about 5:24 p.m. alerting them to a potentially hazardous spill of the liquid element bromine inside one of the university's chemistry laboratories. A hazardous materials response team from the Socorro Fire Department responded to the situation shortly thereafter.
With the help of the Socorro Police Department, New Mexico Tech Campus Police then evacuated campus buildings within a 1,000-foot perimeter as a precaution since bromine is considered a volatile substance that is capable of changing to gaseous form at room temperatures. Bromine typically has a strong noxious odor, resembling chlorine, and can irritate the nose, throat, and eyes of people who are exposed to it.
The two New Mexico Tech students who were exposed to the bromine spill inside the chemistry lab left the area immediately after, and reported to campus police that they were not feeling any ill effects as result of their short exposure.
About three hours after the bromine spill occurred, New Mexico Tech Vice President for Research Van Romero said that the resultant spill, which measured about a half-cup of the substance, had been neutralized, but that Jones Hall would remain closed until the following morning as a further precaution.


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I would like to remind you that we are planning on some serious celebration in the first week of August (being our Anniversary month).
Read all about it HERE in the yesterday's post!
As the month is coming to an end, we are sadly giving you the last portion of inspiration from Dawn Woleslagle. Fret not, though... this card is sure to give your mojo a kick!
Here's what our fabulous Design Team came up with:
Clare Buswell
Cristina Kowalczyk
Debby Hughes
Iwona Palamountain (Chupa)
Jean Martin
(taking a few weeks break)
Julie Smith
Sue Kohler
Teneale Williams
1. Create a paper crafting project (card, layout, off-the-page item), based on provided inspiration (being a featured creation, made by our Muse).
2. Post your creation on your blog or an online gallery (using a code CSC50), and link it here with the inlinkz widget below. Please provide a direct link to your post, not an entire blog.
3. A new challenge is being posted every Thursday at 12.01 AM EST, and you've got until midnight on Tuesday to submit your entry.
4. You may enter as many times as you like, but you're asked to provide a newly designed project.
5. We will choose one winner randomly from the list of players, who will receive the prize provided by the sponsor - if there is one. In addition, the authors of the four most impressive creations will be awarded the Winner and Top 3 awards.
We will announce the winners on Wednesday.
6. Above all, have fun - and be inspired!
The CASE Study Design Team


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WeekendSEOWorkshops necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 43 diseños de 15 diseñadores freelance.
Weekend SEO Workshops
I'm a young entrepreneur and SEO (search engine optimization - please look this up if you aren't familiar) expert in Chicago. My girlfriend and I are starting a side-company teaching very high quality SEO workshops on weekends. I am a believer in relevant, professional SEO tactics and have done SEO for clients as large as Lowe's. Our business is fun and relaxed but focused on helping entrepreneurs and professionals drive more relevant traffic to their web sites. We will start a basic Web site at http://www.WeekendSEOWorkshops.com that will have class info, schedules, bios of our teachers, etc. We may also use this logo for print materials, tee shirts and other swag.
We are trying to reach young, digitally-minded professionals who are looking to learn SEO. Typically, these professionals spend a lot of time on the Web, using social media and most importantly, performing searches on Google, Yahoo, Bing, etc. Age: 23-50 We are only operating in Chicago which tends to have a lot of ad agency professionals, finance professionals and entrepreneurs.
+Web 2.0 feel
+Works in black & white and print
+Name must be in logo as text: "Weekend SEO Workshops"
+Bright, vibrant colors!! Would love to see you guys experiment with color
Do not want:
+Illegible font
+Irrelevant image
+Lack of color
+Logo that includes copy written material of any kind - must own rights/be original
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Turnover in the third quarter up 8%.
Toulouse, June 14th 2006 – The IGE+XAO Group announces that:
In the third quarter of 2005/2006, IGE/XAO reports growth in its business with a turnover of € 4,879,852 representing an 8% increase over 2004/2005. For the first nine months of fiscal 2005/2006, turnover rose to € 14,328,183, an increase of 6.5% compared to 2004/2005.
In its business plan, the third quarter has been particularly dynamic with strong activity in the international market and in the negotiation of strategic partnerships which should be announced before July 31st.2006. At the same time, IGE+XAO Group has been honoured by the award of two prizes « Les Septuor 2006 » and « La Transparence financière », in recognition respectively of its international business and the quality of the financial communications coming from the company.
Finally, the Board of Directors of the Group confirms its growth forecast regarding both the business and the profitability which achieved 8.5% of turnover in 2004/2005.
Turnover in the 3nd Quarter 2005/2006
Turnover in the third quarter up 8%.