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Here's my first ever attempt at an SCP, and I'm rather proud of the idea, but I think needs veteran critique to really get that shock value. Also, has this ever been done? it seemed fairly obvious, and I was hoping it was too obvious to have been done before but I'd like to be certain. Finally, what else should i add? I was thinking maybe an interview, but I'm going for the de-humanization of humans overall so that probably won't work, so would the Foundation risk running tests and creating dead bodies?
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Hello! while i cannot provide veteran advice i can say that i recommend the use of bold words and such for your description, number and the containment procedures. Also i think there have to be 4 numbers for your SCP.
Seconding what modster101 said about bolding. The following text should be bolded:
This is how you bold
This is how you **bold**
See How To Write An SCP for future reference. Particularly formatting and templates. Oh, and you need a rating module on the top. Here's the code:
[[module Rate]]
Also, your writing is essentially a big wall of text. You should be clicking 'enter' or 'return' twice rather than once. It makes the document more readable. I'll be sure to offer critique after these changes have been completed. Actually, I feel like I can just second Esko.
Immediate first notes: this needs incredible reformatting. The headers (Item #, Description, etc.) should be in bold. Lines should have spaces in between them. You can look at any SCP on the site with a positive rating and see that they're simply supposed to look different than this. They're also much easier to read.
Shortly-thereafter later notes upon actually reading the piece: This isn't going to work conceptually. You're doing humans as an SCP, which hasn't survived any of the other times that it was written up, nor any of the times that "babbies is an scp" was written up, or "wimmenz is an scp" was written up. On a basic conceptual level, you're asking the reader to swallow too much, and you're giving the game away almost immediately. "Oh, this sounds like a normal life in a Truman Show world. Oh, and this sounds like people. This SCP is people. We are the SCP. Okay. I'm not an SCP, and I know that because I have common sense and this doesn't challenge that at all."
The Foundation works based on the careful premise that beneath the world that you and I and everyone else sees, there's something carefully hidden that you might catch glimpses of now and then and write off, but it's all interconnected. This is saying that you're living on a movie set and the creepypasta site you're reading is actually a godlike director for your life. Truman Show did it, Descartes did it, Plato sort of did it. The concept's pretty done.
I have to recommend that you scrap this entirely. When you write your next one, keep an eye on formatting to make it look more like other SCPs in terms of bolding and spacing between lines (it puts any reader immediately into a bad place when that's the first thing they see). I can't say "get a better concept", since one obviously can't immediately and universally know when their concept is bad, but be open to the possibility.
Agree with Modster101, there are formatting issues that need to be corrected. You can find the template for a SCP here under the Templates tab. Basically, you just have to put a double asterisk before and after the section headings. That being said…
Overall, not bad. Needs a LOT of work on tone, spelling and formatting issues. Get everything cleaned up and have a more experienced member of the Critique Team have a go at it to tell you if they think it will work or not.
EDIT: Well, I would listen to Eskobar's advice, he is far more experienced than I am. :-)
I disagree with some of what Esko says, but agree that this particular writeup isn't going to work.
The idea that there is a species/subspecies living among baseline humanity that is literally incapable of perceiving any reference to itself as not baseline human is intriguing, and then using that perception filter to hint that the reader isn't human could definitely work. However, this execution leaves a lot to be desired, since it's telegraphed fairly early on what's going on, to the point that the Fridge Horror that should be there is totally diluted.
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In June, Ben and Mikko visited Oslo for the NDC 2018 conference.
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Architecture" by James Lewis.
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runtime?" by Chris Bacon - it was interesting to see how a .NET
application is loaded and executed from first principles.
M: I would like to say, but they told us "what happens in
PubConf, stays in PubConf". So I'll say it was the moment Richard
Campbell brought up Climate Change as the topic of his talk in The
Hello World Show live.
B: PubConf, without a doubt.
M: I'm going with the hummus and pita bread. Unless coffee
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got a bit creative!)
M: Most of the talks had a background/theory part, then a
personal experiences and/or practical examples part. There were
also few workshop-style sessions, but I didn't go to any of those
this time.
B: Definitely a mix. "So you want to create your own .NET
runtime?" was an hour-long live coding session. Most of the
sessions about security and language/IDE features included demos.
The architecture and design sessions were more theoretical.
M: Not really, the talks were from developers to developers.
Probably some of the future Visual Studio features were the closest
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B: Nothing concrete. A few hints about things that might be
coming up in the future, for example AI-assisted intellisense in
Visual Studio.
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time. The rooms were clearly signed and maps were provided. Food
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like the REST API best practices from Liam Westley's talk "Give it
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applying some of the things I learned about architecture and design
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interesting to model. I've also spent quite a bit of time reading
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M: It certainly helped to decide where I should or shouldn't use
specific techniques, architectures or tools. Even the most
enthusiastic talks were quite realistic about the limitations of
the technology they were talking about. But it did change my view
on LinkedIn being just a sales platform.
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and design techniques.
M: A lot, here's one from Ian Cooper: "Code duplication creates
invisible dependencies."
And another from Eline Giskeødegård (along the lines of Lean
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desired result." and "Business applications are helping a user to
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The CEO paces a conference room, brandishing a thick report. He gazes impatiently at his senior managers. "You've all read this," he says. "Top-shelf consultants. Two million bucks. Pure Strategic thinking. This could put us years ahead.
"The board is psyched. I'm psyched. It's a brilliant plan. One question: Given our current technology, is this implementable?"
The response, from five different chairs in the room: "No." The CEO looks frustrated; he doesn't look surprised.
Why would he be? The moment neatly captures the big problem of corporate strategy: the gap between the brilliant plan and the actual execution.
Having difficulty getting great strategies implemented is so commonplace that the above moment with the CEO came not from a recent corporate meeting but from popular culture: It's a television ad for IBM. It's IBM, global behemoth and regular information-technology consultant, mocking the corporate tendency to turn great ideas into three-ring binders that end up as doorstops.
As the commercial fades, one of the CEO's lieutenants asks, "Still psyched?" Corporate strategy played for laughs. IBM meets Dilbert.
What the IBM ad doesn't say is that the company has been working on the biggest problem in strategy not by rethinking strategy, but by working on the biggest problem in computing. For years, information technology has been mired in the details instead of focused on the goals (anyone who's ever spent an hour trying to change email settings knows that). The one thing that computing is not is computerized. IBM is starting to think about goal-oriented computing, where you tell the computers what you want to do and let them work out the details. Strategy and implementation are literally merged: Come up with the strategy, and the implementation is automated.
IBM is breaking down strategy and implementation into smaller pieces, letting each component know the goals, monitor its own performance, and do some problem solving. At IBM, this merger of strategy and implementation became known as "SMASH": simple, many, self-healing. The most effective computers would be made of many small, interchangeable components with the ability to monitor their own performance and solve problems as they arise rather than wait for instructions from the central processor: headquarters. Biology was IBM's inspiration. A hangnail doesn't prevent you from typing; the flu doesn't prevent you from walking. Similarly, a small software or hardware problem shouldn't bring computing to a halt.
SMASH could work equally well as an approach to corporate strategy. Imagine a company that develops its strategy and embraces SMASH. No all-controlling central brain. No separation of thinkers and doers. A biological approach to finding and solving problems, a way to make the company "self-healing."
Now, a couple of years later, the problem that inspired SMASH at IBM is still being solved. Meanwhile, the ideas that SMASH inspired are driving a dramatic new approach throughout IBM's R&D labs, where IBMers talk about "autonomic computing," a new branch of information technology. In the human body, the autonomic nervous system is the one that operates behind the scenes, without conscious thought. It regulates everything from the amount of light that enters into your eyes to the immune response to disease.
IBM is so impressed with the potential of autonomic computing — and so humbled by the size of the problem that it has begun to unravel — that the company is trying to spark a computing revolution across the industry. It has even taken the unusual step of inviting sometime competitors such as Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft to help tackle the problems of automation. Paul Horn, head of IBM's global-research labs, published 75,000 copies of a small, square-bound, autonomic-computing manifesto and distributed it last fall to his colleagues. And last spring, IBM hosted conferences at its research centers in California and New York to begin collaboration on autonomic computing.
In his call to arms, Horn invoked Star Trek as the model for what computers can and should be. "As early as the 1960s," he wrote, "Captain Kirk and his crew were getting information from their computing systems by asking simple questions, and listening to straightforward answers — all without a single I/T administrator to be seen on the ship. Subtly, this has become the expectation of the masses." Businesses, Horn wrote, want to "concentrate on setting the business policy for, say, [computer] security, then have the system figure out the implementation details. All that should matter to the business owner is: What does my business need to accomplish?"
Getting to SMASH
Back in 1999, IBM unveiled plans to release its next generation of advanced super computer. Its code name: Blue Gene, because its main job would be to simulate the intricate folding of human proteins.
Blue Gene's power is expected to be so immense that it's hard to grasp. When Blue Gene was first announced, IBM officials told reporters that the new computer would have the processing capability to theoretically be able to download every page on the Web in less than a second. Blue Gene isn't scheduled to begin operations until sometime after 2004, past its scheduled completion date. But when it is finished, it will be far faster than today's fastest 500 computers in the world combined.
Blue Gene will have up to 1 million processors, working to solve complex modeling problems. The enormity of that scale is what first caused IBM researchers to rethink the computer's design. "We will lose processors every day just from cosmic rays that enter our atmosphere and bombard the chips," says Bill Pulleyblank, the IBM research executive in charge of Blue Gene. The vast array of processors, combined with the odds of large numbers, means that, on average, three processors a day would get zapped by radiation or fail for other reasons.
"So if I lose three a day, I may have lost 1,000 processors after one year," says Pulleyblank. Out of 1 million processors, that might not seem like many. But computers aren't built to cope with failed processors. When a processor fails, computing simply stops. No work assigned to that failed processor gets done — the computer just waits for a person to come fix or replace the processor. Other processors waiting for that work to be finished may also settle into waiting.
But when you've got a machine that cost $100 million to develop, a machine that, despite its awesome size, needs to run all the time to finish the kinds of problems that it's working on, you can't let losing one-tenth of 1% of your processors bring everything to a halt.
This is the problem that inspired SMASH. The Blue Gene team had two choices. The traditional approach would be to have technicians scramble from one end of the machine to the other every day, finding failing processors and swapping them out. The alternative choice: SMASH — the autonomic approach. "I have to operate with the assumption that any component may fail, unpredictably, ungracefully, at any time," says Pulleyblank, "and I have to keep working. That is a fundamentally different approach to computer design: Assume you'll have problems, assume you'll have errors, and build in the ability to deal with them and keep working."
Blue Gene will have the circuitry — the hardware — necessary to monitor itself. It will have a primitive form of self-awareness — the software — to understand how it is performing and to identify failures. And it will have the problem-solving ability and the physical components to reroute work and internal communications when things aren't working right, or as processors fail.
The ultimate goal of autonomic functioning is to be able to tell computers what you want them to do and have them work out the details. In other words, to create a world where strategy and implementation are inseparable.
As arcane as that kind of semi-intelligent automation may seem, we take it for granted in our lives. An air-conditioning thermostat is autonomic in the sense that a person sets the desired temperature, and the electronics of the air conditioner maintain that temperature. The automatic transmission on a car interprets the instructions of the driver's foot autonomically, compared with the operation of a manual transmission. On a much more sophisticated level, the telephone system — a vast array of interconnected equipment, networks, switches, and service providers — functions autonomically. It is both self-healing and virtually faultless. How often do you reboot your phone?
Combining Thinking and Doing
How might autonomic computing work in practice? Take the computers of a financial-services company. The company is constantly receiving transaction requests from its own brokers and directly from customers. The company's computers also need to provide routine information to employees and customers: account balances, transaction updates, research information. And the computers need to tend to all kinds of back-office chores: keeping the company's financial records, doing payroll, providing research information and email services.
Donna Dillenberger, a senior technical researcher who is developing some of IBM's new autonomic software with financial-services companies, teases out what happens when you add autonomic ability to such a company's computers. "Say you have three users trying to access the computers at the same time," says Dillenberger. "One is a premium user. You want that customer to get a quick response time — under 3 seconds — every time. The second user isn't a premium user, but you still want no more than a 10-second response time. Then there's the user who has no limits on the response time. That person can wait."
In the real world, the premium user might be a regular trading customer at a large brokerage company. The second user might be someone with an account, but not a customer who generates much revenue. The "no limits" user might be someone who has just come to the site to get free stock quotes or to access free stock-research information. In order for the system to work, it first has to have the capability to recognize different kinds of users and follow different rules for them.
"If all three users hit the computer at the same time," says Dillenberger, "the first thing the computer does is figure out that it can't handle all three requests simultaneously. It needs to make sure that the premium customer is satisfied first." The computer may also be doing other things. At the instant of the three requests, there may not even be enough capacity to satisfy the premium customer.
"If there isn't enough capacity, the computer asks, Why not? What's the bottleneck? Am I out of processing power? Am I out of memory?" Dillenberger explains. "The computer picks the most likely source of the bottleneck, predicts what it needs to meet the goal, finds a place to get that resource, and satisfies the premium customer."
Of course, all of the analysis and problem solving has to happen in the blink of an eye. Then the computer has to move on to satisfy the pretty-good customer and then to satisfy the lowest-ranking customer. And this is the simplest kind of computerized automation and problem solving, Dillenberger points out. In reality, the computers at a financial-services company wouldn't be handling three requests at once — more like 3,000 or 30,000. With the Internet and with vast networks of computers and computerized equipment, the information and problem-solving challenges go up exponentially.
Pratap Pattnaik is head of the scalable-systems group inside IBM research. His group has recently developed a server with memory that automatically allocates the fastest memory chunks to the most important work. "Even in most high-end servers," says Pattnaik, "we have to do this manually." The point is for computers to become goal oriented. "If someone accidentally cuts a cable," says Pattnaik, "what does 'self-healing' mean? Obviously, the computer doesn't go to the factory and make a new cable. Its goal is to get you to the Web page that you clicked. The computer has to know the goal — Get to that Web server! — and route you through pathways to get there."
Why has IBM turned autonomic computing into a virtual crusade? It has no choice: IBM alone can't fix the problems. "We all live in an ecosystem," says Pattnaik, "Even at IBM. Our customers may have IBM equipment, Cisco routers, Sun servers. I may have a really fast Ferrari, but I have to live within the ecosystem of the roads. If there's a traffic jam, it doesn't do me any good to have a Ferrari."
But tiering customer service and allocating computer memory are easy compared with using computers as strategic tools. Rich Friedrich, director of one of Hewlett-Packard's research labs, says that HP imagines a future where managers simply tell the computer, "Maximize revenue on this product line." "That's the kind of input we're thinking about," says Friedrich. "Not, 'Configure this server with these parameters.' "
Getting Beyond SMASH
Language can often be a leading indicator of the state of the art. And the language of automated computing is unsettled, as is the field itself. No single phrase has yet arisen to dominate the handful of concepts that everyone agrees on: that computers need to be more aware of their own capacities and functions, on the lookout for failures or hiccups of all kinds, able to gauge their environment and the kind of work that they are being asked to do, able to adjust themselves to maximize performance or meet specific goals, and able to work around those problems without human help.
Armando Fox, an assistant professor of computer science at Stanford University, is working with David Patterson, a colleague at the University of California, Berkeley. They label their work "ROC": recovery-oriented computing. It's a phrase that Fox credits to Patterson. ROC — pronounced, "rock" — is more tightly focused than IBM's ideas. Says Fox: "Recovery-oriented computing means that failures happen. You can't control that. And today's software is not realistic. The question is, If recovery is the goal, how does that change the game?"
John Kubiatowicz, an assistant professor of computer science at UC Berkeley, has also been working on autonomic concepts for several years. He uses a phrase of his own creation: introspective computing. "Introspective computing is about using continuous monitoring, analysis, and feedback to adapt the system, to tune performance, and to make things more stable," says Kubiatowicz. He has heard of ROC, of course. "I would say that's more of a specific than an introspective computing," he says, "but it's an extremely important part of it."
Introspective computing conjures up an image of a computer that might have to take time out for yoga in order to figure out how to solve a problem. Introspective computing is also a bit too meditative; most people want decisive computing.
IBM's original phrase behind SMASH — simple, many, self-healing — has an appealingly democratic and holistic feeling. But as IBM has increased its focus on the ideas, it has moved beyond the acronym "SMASH" in favor of the phrase "autonomic computing." "The more we thought about it," says Pulleyblank, "smash is what you do to an egg. The idea of an autonomic system is a broad concept with a meaning of its own."
The unspoken rivalry over terminology, though, masks a much wider, even surprising, consensus on the goals of autonomic computing. This is the moment when computer science shifts from focusing relentlessly on performance — How fast is the processor? How big is the hard drive? — to focusing on stability and reliability. The way IBM's research organization was plunged into autonomic computing is indicative of both why and how the world of computer science is changing.
Paul Horn, a physicist by training, came to IBM from the University of Chicago two decades ago. After Horn took over as head of research for IBM in 1996, he did an assessment of how the R&D group was supporting the rest of IBM. By the late 1990s, about half of IBM's revenue, profit, and employees were in the company's global-services division, providing computing services and support to other companies, not simply selling them hardware and software. Of the R&D group's $5 billion budget, Horn asked, how much is devoted to supporting global services? "Zippo," says Horn. The scientist had a distinctly businessmanlike moment: "I said, 'If we can't provide anything to support global services — half the company, more than half the employees — maybe we ought to be half the size we are.' "
It's remarkable how quickly you get people to focus when you suggest cutting the budget in half. "For us, it was Business Survival 101," says Horn. He also quickly discovered that throughout R&D there were people like Donna Dillenberger who were working on projects relevant to global services.
Horn also discovered that global services had problems that R&D might be able to tackle. Customers think that information technology is too expensive to manage, too cumbersome, and too flaky, especially given how important it's become. And those things are as true for IBM's own global-services group as they are for IBM's more traditional customers.
"The question is, How do you provide services cheaply?" says Horn. "How do you grow the business without exploding the number of people? What we really need are systems to take the people out. We were being hit by the very complexity that we created and the difficulty in managing that complexity. What we needed were systems to manage it."
The results — even in early testing of IBM products not due until September — have been impressive. At one company, says Dillenberger, autonomic workload-management software is handling chores previously done by systems administrators. The server room has just one person in it. "It used to have 20 people," she says. "And the computers are working consistently better than they used to. The room is quiet. And those 19 people have moved on to manage other things."
One of IBM's early products is what Dillenberger calls a "visualization tool," a program that analyzes data and illustrates how systems are performing. "We were working with a telecom company," she says, "and while we were there, they had a problem with the remote handhelds used by their field-service employees." The field technicians got their work orders sent remotely to their handhelds. For three days, that wireless link functioned improperly; techs weren't getting their assignments.
"They were losing money, their customers weren't getting service, and it escalated to a critical situation," says Dillenberger. "They had people from four different IT departments — network, workstations, applications, and remote systems — working on it." But they weren't making much headway. Dillenberger's group used the new software to tackle the problem. "With the way it discards irrelevant data, it was able to pinpoint the problem in seconds, instead of in days," she says. The reaction of the systems people at the telecom company? "They want it right away," says Dillenberger. "They don't want to wait until September."
In other words, they want to eliminate the gap between strategy and implementation.
Charles Fishman (firstname.lastname@example.com) is a senior editor based in Raleigh, North Carolina. Learn more about SMASH and autonomic computing on the Web (www.research.ibm.com/autonomic).


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In Enemies or the Heart, Andy Stanley argues that the problems that bubble up in life (i.e. job loss, divorce, broken relationships) are result of our failure to address the destructive forces in our heart. These forces poison our lives and set us up for crisis. It is failure to deal with the enemies of the heart that cause some people to lose there faith. So what are these enemies of the heart?
Ostensibly, Stanley suggests four attitudes are experienced as deep debts in the heart: Guilt, Anger, Greed, Jealousy. Guilt is the belief that "I owe you;" we've done something wrong for which we feel we need to atone for.
Anger on the other hand say, "you owe me." You did something wrong and I hold it against you.
Greed says, "I owe me." I am going to store up what I can for myself.
Jealousy says "God owes me" as we reflect upon the inequity between our life and someone else (who is better than us).
Stanley says every wound we carry can be traced back to one of these four. So what are the remedies for these ailments?
Guilt is overcome by confession. Stanley stresses public confession as necessary to break the cycle of shame guilt puts us in. Anger is overcome as we learn forgiveness. This involves knowing who wronged us, what they did, what they deserve and our choosing to let go of it. Greed is overcome as we stop hoarding and develop the habit of generosity. Jealousy is beaten when we learn to celebrate those around us.
Andy Stanley has written a good book. It is accessible, warm, humorous and insightful. What I didn't like about this book wasn't what it said, but how it was framed. Stanley offers his advice to us so that we could avoid wounding, be whole and have the best life, including best spiritual life we can. Not that this is wrong, but I wonder about the wisdom of commending holy living (a phrase which doesn't appear in his book) for what it does for you. Why should we avoid guilt, anger, greed, jealousy? So that we are happier and healthier? Why should we confess, forgive, give generously and celebrate others? So that we have better lives? Yes but more.
What happens when holiness doesn't make your life better? You confess and people judge you. You forgive and get hurt again. You give generously and are taken advantage of. You celebrate others and they use you. Well, there is something more to a holy life besides what it does for you. Sometimes all you get out of it, is that you know you are pleasing God. Holiness is not always instrumental and shouldn't be treated that way.
But this demurral aside, I thought this book was worth reading and certainly touches on some pretty big issues that every Christian (and non-Christian) needs to wrestle with if they are to grow in their walk with God.
I received a copy for review from Waterbrook Multnomah in exchange for this fair and incredibly honest review.


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We had a power cut for two and a half days. We survived. The food in our freezer and fridge didn't. The cause was a fire at a power station. My emergency mode kicked in and I found torches, candles, the portable gas burner and canisters, and the emergency radio. We found batteries and matches. We got wood in to heat the house with the fireplace. We got sorted. We realised that the back up generator was luckily in the front entrance. We had planned on putting it in the garage out of the way but we never got around to it. The garage door is electric so we couldn't have gotten inside. It wasn't life threatening for us. From the luxury of a 1st world country we experienced what people in some 3rd world countries experience on a daily basis. It gave us time to stop and think.
Emergency Survival Kit
How did we do?
- Torch with spare batteries or a self-charging torch
- Radio with spare batteries
- Wind and waterproof clothing, sun hats, and strong outdoor shoes.
- First aid kit and essential medicines
- Blankets or sleeping bags
- Pet supplies (if applicable)
- Toilet paper and large rubbish bags for your emergency toilet
- Face and dust masks
- Basic phone (suggested)
I can say that we had all of these items however I must point out that we took some time to get our hands on them. The only things we actually used were the torches, phone, radio and batteries. Candles are not recommended in an earthquake for the danger of fire but we used them in the black out at night. Candle light dinners are quite lovely even in a blackout.
If you need medical help dial 111 in New Zealand.
Power out? Traffic lights don't work, chaos on the roads, especially at night.
If you have electric gates or garage doors you won't be able to go far anyway.
In an emergency the radio will broadcast the situation and suggestions of what to do. The following radio stations below broadcast for the Civil Defense in emergencies in Auckland:
RADIO frequencies:
Radio New Zealand: 101.4FM or 756AM
Newstalk ZB: 1080AM 89.4FM
Classic Hits: 97.4FM
More FM: 91.8FM
Radio Live: 100.6 FM or 702 AM
Know where to turn off gas, water and power if necessary.
Check your neighbours and see if they are okay.
Notes to Self:
Emergency items shouldn't be stored in the garage.
Inverter generators need both oil and fuel. This needs to be prepared BEFORE a disaster. Only use OUTSIDE. They are noisy so keep usage to daylight hours.
Keep the freezer and fridge doors closed to keep the temperatures as low as possible in a power cut. You can add ice to the fridge if there is space.
Fill the bath up with cold water just in case there is a problem with the water supply. Chilled Savingnon Blanc? Drinking, washing, dishes.
Have two forms of heating for your house.
Stock up on firewood a season ahead of time so you guarantee dry wood.
Have surge protectors on electronic goods ie. computers, TV, stereo,…
Unplug as much as you can so that when the power comes on there won't be a surge.
Portable gas stoves with gas canisters or a gas BBQ are useful in an emergency.
Candles need to be lit before it gets dark. Torches/electric lamps are safer. Candles more primal or intimate.
Basic phones are needed if there is a phone connection is working, cordless phones don't work in an emergency.
Cell phone towers also have power cuts and so cell phone reception may not work in an emergency.
RESULTS: For 2+ days we managed okay but if it was for longer we would not be so comfortable.
Store emergency goods in an easy to reach place. Make sure everyone in the house knows where they are.
Have plenty of batteries for torches and radios, phone charging.
Prepare torches before it gets dark. Prepare dinner before it gets dark. Prepare and do as much as you can before it gets dark.
Solar power devices are handy for charging small devices.
Have enough water for 3 days, drinking, washing, cooking. Fill the bath with cold water.
Have enough canned foods to be self sufficient for TWO weeks. Remember the can opener.
If you have a burglar alarm or magnetic gates the back up batteries will need replacing.
Create good habits in daily life so that when an emergency strikes you will be prepared.
Cat doors are useful with generators for running electrical cords from the generator to inside the house.
Cell phone towers lose power too so cell phones don't always work. Don't expect to be able to communicate via cellphone.
Emergency radios are brilliant! Ours has a wind up handle in case the batteries run out.
Use a telescope at night to see the stars without the light pollution during a blackout. Next time!
I do not panic in an emergency.
Get another load of firewood.
Put together an Emergency Get Away Kit for if we need to evacuate the house in a hurry.
Find a place for the Get Away Kit.
Request an annual burglar alarm check.
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Incorrectly connected mobile devices, Apple could be the cause of the crash of EgyptAir flight Flight 80
In 2016 there was a plane crash. Airbus A320-232 (flight EgyptAir Flight 804) crashed in the Mediterranean sea, taking 66 lives.
Yesterday it became known that the investigation revealed that the cause of the accident could be a fire caused by mobile devices Apple. More specifically, an iPhone 6s and an iPad mini 4, which belonged to the first pilot could be connected to the wrong port, which caused over-heating and fire devices.
As part of the investigation, given this assumption, the experts will acquire three tablets and three smartphones Apple these models for the conduct of examinations.
Apple reacted to the appeared information, saying that the company has not had any contact with the airline or with any body in charge of investigating the disaster. Apple claims that had not seen the report, but I'm sure that there is no evidence to link the collapse with her groceries. Meanwhile, Apple is ready to help the experts in this investigation, if the need arises.
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GRANDE PRAIRIE – RCMP in Grande Prairie have charged 4 more men following the shooting incident on September 15th at the Prairie Mall.
Police say the charges stem from an altercation that took place prior to the single shot being fired that injured 3 people.
Richard VAILLANCOURT (49) of Grande Prairie has been charged with robbery. He will appear in court in Grande Prairie on November 28, 2016.
Doug Wheeler (33) of Grande Prairie has been charged with assault. He will appear in court in Grande Prairie on October 19, 2016.
Tevin Watson (24) and Kyle Tyler-Ross (25) both of Grande Prairie have both been charged with failing to comply with conditions. They appeared in court last month.
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I am very glad to be back writing for Toastpop and posting reviews and various content again.
As a member of Administration, I feel that I need to be able to give you exciting content on a regular basis, and I have spent a bit of time figuring out what that content will look like.
I am writing this article to announce that I am going to be doing a weekly music rundown, and to explain a bit about what that will entail.
So every Sunday of the week, I will be uploading an article about the music I have been listening to most during the week. The songs might be old, they might be new, you may not have heard of them or you might have heard them nonstop for a while!
I will be picking 6 of my most listened to songs and talking about each one. I will provide as much information about them as I can and will talk about different aspects of each song.
I have a very varied range of music taste so I hope I will be able to cater to all styles each week. I hope you enjoy these Music Rundown posts, and please leave comments with your honest opinions on the posts.
Look out for the first Music Rundown post today. Enjoy!
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Since gaining and keeping new customers helps your business grow, every impression you make is an important one. The workwear your employees don sends a very clear message to your customers: you are a legitimate, trustworthy business who they can feel confident using. An effective employee uniform program benefits your bottom line.
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Netflix entered our home recently to great effect. I became a fan of Jerry Seinfeld's Comedians in cars having coffee. The concept is Seinfeld picks up his guest in an unusual car and drives to a place for coffee and conversation. Often (and unfortunately) it sinks to comedians cracking jokes and trying too hard to be funny. Sometimes, however, it is two people trying to understand being human.
I want to share two of the lessons I learned. The first was a guest saying that success as a stand up was determined by having talent, good material and luck. Seinfeld immediately disagreed. He said luck wasn't a factor. You have to sell your product, not just produce it. That was a smack on the head for me. I have worked hard to write well what I think are important ideas; talent and material. I don't bother selling. Have to do better than that and sell more books.
The second lesson was more personal. His guest was Jim Carrey who shared many intimate thoughts. In one, he talked about his "small me," that part of him that was small-minded. Well, me too. I have a small me that bursts free on too many occasions. Now that I have a name for it, perhaps I can shut it down more quickly.
Seinfeld, by the way, comes across as an intelligent, supportive and thoughtful man. I'd love to have coffee with him and know just the place. I'd like to be picked up in a Rolls.


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Why It's An Investment: Snow globes are only given to VIP clients and are not available for sale. Therefore, these items are in extreme high demand which has caused a big production of fakes that can be found on the internet. Nonetheless, when authentic and as found on our website, it remains a collector item that appreciate in value over time.
Characteristics: This Collector snow globe has the signature turquoise color base and a clear globe. The inside of the globe has a snowy setting decorated with a carousel and T&C gift boxes. This is a perfect globe for the holiday season but also for any love celebration such as Valentine's day or wedding proposals and anniversaries.


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Max Gallo: L'homme Robespierre. Histoire d'une solitude. ISBN 978-2-262-02863-3 ⭐⭐⭐⭐Maximilien de Robespierre is one of the great names linked to the French Revolution. His name stands for demagogic speeches and bloodshed; already shortly before his own execution, he had become a scapegoat for the indiscriminate violence accompanying the revolt against the nobility and the fight against anyone deemed opposed to the revolution – the Terror. And that is what Robespierre's name stands for until today.
The brilliant French writer and historian Max Gallo traces a portrait of the man Robespierre behind the politician Robespierre – at times ironic, but usually well researched. Robespierre appears as a man constantly looking to bolster his ego, nothing seems more important than the recognition by his peers. Gallo defines the disappearance of Robespierre's father as the source of the man's emotional vulnerability and his vanity. At the same time Robespierre is convinced of the rightness of his principles and ideas – a dangerous mix leading to the catastrophic "collateral damages" of the French Revolution.
Now, if Gallo's typology reminds you of the current US president, you would do Robespierre unjustice. Robespierre, a well-read man, had consistent political ideas, a strict sense of duty and was called "The Incorruptible". Mastering the challenge to rise from being an unknown provincial lawyer to becoming the head and face of the French Revolution fueled his arrogance, no doubt, but at the same time it was a great personal achievement. Trump, the son of a rich father, did nothing of that sort and his vanity is self-serving. Trump has no other policy than promoting Trump. Robespierre was an idealist politician, a relentless agitator ready to sacrifice himself to empower ordinary people. Trump is a salesman for his own interests, ready to sacrifice anyone else for his personal desire for power. Trumpesque.
The French Revolution and later European revolutions around 1848 had lasting impressions on artists in Germany, France and the Austrian-Hungarian Empire. In this context I would like to point you to a piano cycle named "Hexaméron" and composed by Franz Liszt, a sympathizer of German and Italian revolutionaries, a musical genius and at times a very arrogant man:


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We recently sat down with co-founder, Dave Krauss
NoiseAware is a device that can save your permit. 3 strikes in Palm Springs with noise violations and you are OUT! Out as a person , not just your one property that received the strikes but any property you own – you're done. I actually agree with the strict policy. I love peace and quiet and don't want to hear neighbor's parties when I'm trying to sleep or am relaxing! I own NoiseAware and thoroughly endorse the technology and peace of mind it brings me that my guests will be alerted when they go above acceptable sound thresholds.
As the NoiseAware company says – it's 'the smoke detector for noise'. Just as you would not want to get choked by smoke, why let guests run afoul of local noise ordinances and jeopardize your Airbnb / Vacation Rental livelihood.
Q: What was your 'Aha!' moment to create NoiseAware?
Dave: It was more of an Oh $#!T moment. Somebody had destroyed my reputation & threw a massive party in my building. I only discovered when it was too late which left somewhat of an invisible scar. I was deaf, dumb, & blind to the possibility of the fact I was responsible for disasters of this type. That was my wake up call. The 2nd 'Aha!' moment was when I searched for a solution online & found nothing; especially nothing for a reasonable price. There were $3000 decibel meters, used on construction sites, that didn't even have the capability of notifying me if something was going on. This brought me to recognizing that the smart technology did not exist yet and to solve my problem, I'd have to build one. That's when I found my savior & co-founder, Andrew. Andrew Schulz is the builder of home technology & I've always been a user. So, I knew what I wanted and he knew how to build it.
Q: What struggles did you have to overcome to get the product to the market?
Dave: One of the challenges we faced, that we had to figure out, was a 'chicken or the egg' situation. It was questioning how to build something that customers WANT while not knowing what they want because they haven't actually tried it yet. So it was the art of figuring out how to be useful to somebody before your product can fulfill its promise. So the challenge was to find users or short-term rental managers that were willing to work with us. We had the fortune of partnering with HomeAway very early on which helped out. We were able to work the data to find out how to help people which is the whole base of NoiseAware, to help and be a resolution to people's problems.
Q: What is a brief history of the company and other founders?
Dave: The infamous party happened December 2014. Andrew & I started working together early 2015, then really created the foundation of the company in Fall of 2015. From there, we acquired our first customer early into 2016.
Q: How do you approach your customers for this unique, problem solving device & service?
Dave: We do more for our customers than just prevent noise issues. We give them the device & in turn; their owners, their partners, their neighbors, & their city government – they benefit as well. That's the element of not being a one-sided company. We have a relatively straight forward product but there's a lot of people, a lot of stakeholders, that benefit from it as well. It goes beyond just the guests, owners, & managers.
Q: What kind of questions do you get most from prospects?
Dave: Generally, it's new technology to the world. So typically, they want to know what it does or how it works and what role do they play in resolving the underlying issue. We're a tool in the toolbox of every user, every manager, to give them remote-access in a privacy safe way of the environment of a property that they are responsible for. Just explaining that, in a way, you can now actually be aware of what's going on at your property without violating privacy, having to babysit it, or watch a camera. That's the #1 'Aha!' moment for our CUSTOMERS. They wonder how they've gone without it & end up turning into lifetime users.
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Q: What are some of the biggest lessons learned either before or during customer installation?
Dave: I'll answer a version of that question. We run our after-hours response center, in which we have certain methods in place so we can respond to their alerts, for after-hours of course. The lessons we've learned from that are that the vast majority of all guests are eager to comply with the rules of the home they're staying in. They just typically need a timely tap on the shoulder, or a hospitable poke if you will, to remind them of where they are AND the sensitivities of the environment where they are. We understand that, if you're travelling or are with friends, that noise will simply just be a by-product. We've been shocked about how compliant and gracious that the travellers have been. They respect that we're in touch to help them to stay out of trouble!
Q: What was the most rewarding request you have filled, as far as working with a customer?
Dave: The area where we go above and beyond for our customers is when they're feeling pressure from their city. They face pressure on what they're doing even when they're doing everything humanly possible to be a safe & responsible while operating their short-term vacation rental. We've helped them communicate that to their cities and their neighbors. We take pride in being defenders of this industry but really promoting/celebrating the responsible folks we engage with and helping protect their properties & their neighbors. It's really the high pressure legislative conversations where people need us the most – & we show up.
Q: How does one approach the guests and tell them that the noise is being monitored?
Dave: NoiseAware is a healthy reminder when folks are checking in or reading about the listing, that there are sensitivities & systems are in place that measure decibels to keep the peace in that environment. We really work as a preventative deterrent on the first level. I do know there are places & times appropriate for parties but not everywhere – so NoiseAware offers noise-monitoring to those when it's needed and enables them to find out where & when it's appropriate.. Disclosing NoiseAware up front, enables people to feel more comfortable as a guest or an owner that the rules of the road are clear!
Q: What basic advice do you have for a new host?
Dave: It's kind of a 'stitch in time saves nine' concept. So, if you think something may go wrong or someone may be confused about a part of their stay, you're probably right. I think people that use their gut and their intuition, then create plans to mitigate issues before-hand, they're a lot better off. There's not a lot of problems that haven't' been solved by somebody somewhere – so I think by learning from the body of intelligence and advice that's out there before-hand is critical before you open up your doors.
Like buying your book – Master of Vacation Rentals!


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Leadership Talent: A Study of the Potential of People in the Australian Rail Industry
JP Research & Consulting, Port Lincoln 5606, Australia
Academic Editor: Martin J. Bull
Soc. Sci. 2015, 4(3), 718-741; https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci4030718
Received: 28 July 2015 / Revised: 25 August 2015 / Accepted: 7 September 2015 / Published: 15 September 2015
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Leadership, Learning and History in the Rail Industry)
This paper discusses the importance of leadership talent in the rail industry in Australia. Like many other countries around the world, rail is troubled by its ability to attract new talent as older leaders with specialized knowledge retire. This study sought to identify whether the sector is making the most of the talent already existing within, knowing the barriers faced in attracting new industry entrants, and questions what can be done to strengthen current approaches to developing leaders. In exploring the meaning of leadership talent, from a skills based perspective with three levels of leaders, blended methods using semi-structured interviews and a survey were utilized. The study is important because it focuses on the people aspects of the industry, a little researched area of rail that has major implications for how employees are engaged and retained. The findings identified a certain mindset, culture and approach about leadership talent in organizations that overlooked the heterogeneity of rail organization populations, precluding certain groups of people from becoming leaders. The project identified that leadership and other soft skills required in the rail industry are both under researched, and often undervalued, for the impact that they can have on performance and productivity of companies. There are key messages from this study for both organizations as well as inspiring rail industry leaders. View Full-Text
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Swiss Tech is a great place to find a lot of great gadgets. I know ladies out their if you are looking for something for your husband or another family member something for Christmas this would be a great place to look.
I got to try several products from Swiss tech which the first product that I got to test and review it the versatile new Bodygard purse light and alarm. This is a great accessory for women when they go out at night. If you are out alone at night and your going back to your car and your keys are in your purse and you can not find them the Bodygard can come in handy. It has a light so you can use it to find your keys pretty easy. This will take less time to find and you can get in your car faster. Also it has alarm so if something is happening it will grab others attention that are near by. This Bodygard includes white bright light, personal alarm, clip, lanyard and replaceable batteries. This product has a lifetime warranty. This would be great for women and girls to have. This can help prevent attacks on women and help keep them safe in situations. Sometimes we just need a light to help us find something quick.
The second item that I got to review is the Micro Light Smartphone Stand. This is a tool for you to keep on your key ring. This is handy for a flashlight and a stand for your smartphone. I know sometimes when I put something on my key chain it is hard to get it off when I put it on. This is not the case it is easy to take off and on. I could not test this on a smart phone because i did not have one to test.. But you flip open the arm and you can place the phone on the stand. This can help you for a video session. I would invest in getting one of these if you have a smart phone it a great accessory to have and you can bring it with you anywhere you go. Just attach it to your key ring.
There are so many more great products at Swiss Tech you can find many great stocking stuffer/Christmas gift there. They are also reasonable prices!!
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Londoners By Alex Amorós
Londoners is a photography book and a round of exhibitions of portraits taken in the streets of London of unknown people.
La Caixa Collection of contemporary Art
Spanish novelist Enrique Vila-Matas curates this exhibition, also known as Cabinet d'amour, an oblique novel, to showcase a selection of pieces that only respond to his fantasies, impulses and desires.
Paricio – Picasso
Seeing Picasso as inspiration, an artistic idol and mentor, Spanish painter Pedro Paricio has crafted an intriguing and captivating exchange with one of the fathers of modernism.
Neo Gods & Hyper Myths, by Ira Lombardía
SCAN (Spanish Contemporary Art Network) is pleased to announce the opening of NEO GODS and HYPER MYTHS, first solo show of Spanish artist, IRA LOMBARDIA in the UK,
Cinema, Culture, Dance, Festival, Gastronomy, Literature & Language, Music, OCSA, Performance, Theatre, Visual Arts
¡VIVA! Festival 2019
For their 25th birthday edition, ¡Viva! returns with a specially selected programme of the most exciting film and theatre from across the Spanish-speaking world.
European Poetry Festival
As the UK prepares to leave the EU, over 70 of Europe's most innovative and dynamic literary and avant-garde poets come to London, Norwich, Manchester, and Dublin for 9 events over 2 weeks.
AHGBI 2019 Conference
The Durham University will host the annual conference of the Association of Hispanist of Great Britain and Ireland (AHGBI). The Association aims to promote scholarly research in both countries into the study of the languages and cultures of the Hispanic and Lusophone world.
Is This Tomorrow?
In an era when humanity is facing new challenges posed by big data, bioengineering and climate change, Whitechapel Gallery has invited ten groups of artists, architects and other cultural practitioners to explore the potential of collaboration and offer their visions of the future.
"MAP OF THE MOULD" by Javier Arce
No 20 Arts is delighted to present Map of the Mould, a solo exhibition by Javier Arce. Featuring works on paper, installations and a video piece, Map of the Mould is the first solo show of the Spanish artist in the UK. The exhibition is part of the ongoing collaboration established between Galeria Carles Taché and No 20 Arts based on the common interest in promoting artists beyond their geographical contexts.
Sorolla: Spanish Master of Light
The first major exhibition in the UK for over a century of the artist known as Spain's Impressionist, Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida (1863–1923), opens at the National Gallery in spring 2019.


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Who We Are
Healdsburg Kinder2College Fund (K2C) is a community-driven effort, to create a college-going culture that supports all Healdsburg youth with the means to pursue their dreams beyond high school. By engaging families in the process and planting the seeds of hope at an early age, we have rallied our community around improving educational attainment.
K2C shifts the conversation about post-secondary education from one that takes place in high school to one that begins in kindergarten. We are making a promise that any child can pursue success beyond high school. Through K2C, youth begin to dream about their future, explore college and careers, and start their educational savings as early as kindergarten. While adults in their community encourage them along the pathway toward success.
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Corazón Healdsburg, Healdsburg Unified School District and Healdsburg Education Foundation.


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Lanka Securities Market Round up 6 August 2015
Lanka Securities Market Round up 6 August 2015
Market momentum was steered by counters such as John Keells Holdings (closed at LKR 192.20, +1.1%), Dialog Axiata (closed at LKR 11.20, +1.8%) and Singer Sri Lanka (closed at LKR 139.40, +7.4%). Further Lanka Hospitals advanced to LKR 53.40, +10.5% (closed at LKR 51.60, +6.8%), which also contributed to the index performance. Lanka Hospitals recorded a 209%growth in profit in June quarter.
Daily market turnover was LKR 2.5bn. Several crossings were recorded in Textured Jersey (13.5mn shares at LKR 30.30 per share), Expolanka (9.8mn shares at LKR 8.80 per share), People's Leasing & Finance (4mn shares at LKR 24.80 per share), John Keells Holdings (1.8mn shares at a price range of LKR 189.50 – 192.00), Sampath Bank (0.2mn shares at LKR 263.00 per share), Ceylon Tobacco (0.1mn shares at LKR 980.00 per share) and Chevron Lubricants (0.06mn shares at LKR 406.00 per share). Total crossings accounted for 45% of the market turnover.
Textured Jersey topped the turnover list with LKR 630mn supported by the crossings. John Keells Holdings (LKR 355mn), Lanka IOC (LKR 161mn) and People's Leasing & Finance (LKR 135mn) recorded next best contributions to the turnover.
Gainers surpassed the losers 120 to 88 while 46 counters remained unchanged. Cash map improved to 61% from 48%. 20 counters touched 52wk high prices while Adam Investments, Blue Diamonds Jewellery non-voting and FLC Holdings recorded 52wk low prices.
Ceylon Grain Elevators led the trades followed by Sinhaputhra Finance preference
shares, HVA Foods and Lanka IOC. Poultry sector counters namely Ceylon Grain Elevators, Three Acre Farms and Bairaha Farms continued to post fresh 52 week highs.
The Kingsbury Hotel (SERV) advanced during the session subsequent to the positive earnings and the dividend announcement. SERV declared an interim dividend of LKR 0.30 per share which is its first dividend in last five years. Further the hotel reported a notable profit growth of 155%YoY to LKR 54mn in June quarter. The counter reached to LKR 17.20, +3.6% during the session, but closed at LKR 17.00, +2.4%.
Please refer the link for more details- http://www.lsl.lk/pdf/research/marketroundup.pdf
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13 August 2017, Writing - part x219, Novel Form, Building Tension and Release
Announcement: Delay, my new novels can be seen on the internet, but the publisher has delayed all their fiction output due to the economy. I'll keep you informed. More information can be found at www.ancientlight.com. Check out my novels--I think you'll really enjoy them.
Introduction: I wrote the novel Aksinya: Enchantment and the Daemon. This was my 21st novel and through this blog, I gave you the entire novel in installments that included commentary on the writing. In the commentary, in addition to other general information on writing, I explained, how the novel was constructed, the metaphors and symbols in it, the writing techniques and tricks I used, and the way I built the scenes. You can look back through this blog and read the entire novel beginning with http://www.pilotlion.blogspot.com/2010/10/new-novel-part-3-girl-and-demon.html.
I'm using this novel as an example of how I produce, market, and eventually (we hope) get a novel published. I'll keep you informed along the way.
Today's Blog: To see the steps in the publication process, visit my writing website http://www.ldalford.com/ and select "production schedule," you will be sent to http://www.sisteroflight.com/.
The four plus one basic rules I employ when writing:
1. Don't confuse your readers.
2. Entertain your readers.
3. Ground your readers in the writing.
4. Don't show (or tell) everything.
4a. Show what can be seen, heard, felt, smelled, and tasted on the stage of the novel.
5. Immerse yourself in the world of your writing.
These are the steps I use to write a novel including the five discrete parts of a novel:
1. Design the initial scene
2. Develop a theme statement (initial setting, protagonist, protagonist's helper or antagonist, action statement)
a. Research as required
b. Develop the initial setting
c. Develop the characters
d. Identify the telic flaw (internal and external)
3. Write the initial scene (identify the output: implied setting, implied characters, implied action movement)
4. Write the next scene(s) to the climax (rising action)
5. Write the climax scene
6. Write the falling action scene(s)
7. Write the dénouement scene
I finished writing my 28th novel, working title, School, potential title Deirdre: Enchantment and the School. The theme statement is: Sorcha, the abandoned child of an Unseelie and a human, secretly attends Wycombe Abbey girls' school where she meets the problem child Deirdre and is redeemed.
Here is the cover proposal for Deirdre: Enchantment and the School.
The most important scene in any novel is the initial scene, but eventually, you have to move to the rising action. I continued writing my 29th novel, working title Red Sonja. I finished my 28th novel, working title School. If you noticed, I started on number 28, but finished number 29 (in the starting sequence—it's actually higher than that). I adjusted the numbering. I do keep everything clear in my records.
How to begin a novel. Number one thought, we need an entertaining idea. I usually encapsulate such an idea with a theme statement. Since I'm writing a new novel, we need a new theme statement. Here is an initial cut.
For novel 29: Red Sonja, a Soviet spy, infiltrates the X-plane programs at Edwards AFB as a test pilot's administrative clerk, learns about freedom, and is redeemed.
This is the classical form for writing a successful novel:
1. Design the initial scene
2. Develop a theme statement (initial setting, protagonist, protagonist's helper or antagonist, action statement)
a. Research as required
b. Develop the initial setting
c. Develop the characters (protagonist, antagonist, and optionally the protagonist's helper)
d. Identify the telic flaw of the protagonist (internal and external)
3. Write the initial scene (identify the output: implied setting, implied characters, implied action movement)
4. Write the next scene(s) to the climax (rising action)
5. Write the climax scene
6. Write the falling action scene(s)
7. Write the dénouement scene
The protagonist and the telic flaw are tied permanently together. The novel plot is completely dependent on the protagonist and the protagonist's telic flaw. They are inseparable. This is likely the most critical concept about any normal (classical) form novel.
Here are the parts of a normal (classical) novel:
1. The Initial scene (identify the output: implied setting, implied characters, implied action movement)
2. The Rising action scenes
3. The Climax scene
4. The Falling action scene(s)
5. The Dénouement scene
So, how do you write a rich and powerful initial scene? Let's start from a theme statement. Here is an example from my latest novel:
The theme statement for Deirdre: Enchantment and the School is: Sorcha, the abandoned child of an Unseelie and a human, secretly attends Wycombe Abbey girls' school where she meets the problem child Deirdre and is redeemed.
Here is the scene development outline:
1. Scene input (comes from the previous scene output or is an initial scene)
2. Write the scene setting (place, time, stuff, and characters)
3. Imagine the output, creative elements, plot, telic flaw resolution (climax) and develop the tension and release.
4. Write the scene using the output and creative elements to build the tension.
5. Write the release
6. Write the kicker
If you have the characters (protagonist, protagonist's helper, and antagonist), the initial setting, the telic flaw (from the protagonist), a plot idea, the theme action, then you are ready to write the initial scene. I would state that since you have a protagonist, the telic flaw, a plot idea, and the theme action, you have about everything—what you might be lacking is the tension and release cycle in your scenes.
So in showing how to build tension and release, I thought a few examples with explanation might b helpful. I gave one yesterday. Here is another one. This example is also from Valeska. I thought it might be interesting because it is a scene of a telephone conversation. The entire scene is one of conversation with little description or action. The main characters are Sveta, Scáth, and Klava. Sveta and Klava are sisters. The tension in this scene is built on the assigning of Scáth to investigate Heidi. As you can tell in the scene, that is not the only tension builder in the scene. In fact, the assignment of Scáth causes almost no tension at all—everything is handled without any real problem. The real tension in the scene is about Klava's daughter, Leila:
Sveta made a call the next morning.
The phone was picked up almost immediately. The voice on the end sounded youthful with strange overtones of age, "O'Dwyer residence."
"Yes, Scáth, is that you?"
"Yes, mistress, it is I. Did you wish to speak to my mistress?"
"Yes but primarily, I wished to speak to you." Sveta took a breath, "To be blunt, I may have met another like you."
"Like me…?"
"A being like you."
Scáth's voice was low, "But who might have made someone like me?"
"That is exactly what I would like to determine. I didn't read any direct animosity in this creature. I'd like to know if she portends any danger to us."
"And you wish me to do it?"
"Yes, she won't tell me. She says she is broken—I gather she is cursed in some way."
"Cursed indeed. If she is cursed like I am, she is the most hopeful creature in the world."
"I take it she feels the opposite."
"I see."
"Do you think you could come along down to town in the next few days?"
Scáth registered surprise, "Really, Mrs. Long, it is the middle of the holidays."
"Monday, next is still before the official vacation. Consider it business."
"It will take me that long to get there and I am not allowed to travel by myself. I'll let you speak to my mistress."
"Please do Scáth. I really need your help."
"Give me a moment…"
After a few minutes a gentle alto voice came on the line, "Hello sister."
"Ah, it's you Klava. Did Scáth brief you?"
"Yes. She told me."
"Are you willing to let her come?"
"I am willing, but I want to send Leila along with her."
"Yes, Leila. You know as well as I do Scáth can't travel alone. Plus, I've had it up to here with Leila. She is causing familial discord. I can't handle her, especially around the Christmas season."
Sveta laughed, "What makes you think I can handle her any better than you?"
"Brigitta and I have a wonderful holiday planned for Leora and her children. I have half a mind to send Leila on assignment…"
"Then this is your chance."
"This is my chance. I'll miss Scáth, but she is a downer…especially at this time of year."
"You should marry Leila off…"
Klava made a depreciating sound, "She's twice as bad as I was."
Sveta laughed again, "Really, then perhaps twice as effective. Does she drink and smoke like you do?"
"You know she doesn't—as far as I know. She has habits less obvious, but much more infuriating…"
"Send her down to town with Scáth. I'll entertain them both."
"Keep them away from our mothers—you know what happened last time."
Sveta laughed again, "I really shouldn't laugh, but banishment was a bit much."
"They aren't still banished?"
"No, it was only for summer holidays and not at all for work."
"I hope you are right about that…although a little chastisement where Leila is concerned might be a good thing. Scáth will keep her in line."
"Yes, well… please send them along, and Merry Christmas."
"Merry Christmas, sister."
This scene is a perfect example of what I call building tension. I needed a scene where Sveta enlists Scáth to help her. Such a scene isn't very entertaining. Take out the references to Leila and the above is pretty mundane. The issue of Leila drives the tension and the final release in the scene. The tension is Leila, the release is that Leila and Scáth are coming down to town for this assignment, but also to get Leila out of the way for the holidays. This is also an introduction and a setup. It is an introduction to Scáth and to Leila, but a setup to what we should expect from Leila.
Note, everything is done with conversation. The tension and release build from the words of the characters alone. I knew this scene was necessary. I made this scene to be entertaining. How could it not be entertaining when we are talking about spies with issues—or children with issues?
More tomorrow.
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This post was written by Mike O'Brien, Geostatistician Seequent Expert Services (previously ARANZ Geo), based on his experiences working as a consultant on mineral projects
'AND' is a logic gate that sneaks up on mineral projects and destroys their value.
'AND' is a logical conjunction and, to grossly simplify, it implies the outcome of applying a series of factors in combination is only positive if each of the series of factors is positive. This logic gate controls a lot of things that we do. For example, (Exam passed by Jane) = (Jane goes to school) AND (Jane goes to exam venue) AND (Jane obtained pass mark). All three conditions have to happen for Jane to pass the exam.
Consider a hypothetical simple mineral project: The chance of obtaining the breakeven grade in the ground is 70% and the chance of controlling the mining dilution to the required minimum is 70% (and neglecting all other factors). The estimation geologist may feel that there is a good chance that the grade will be higher than the breakeven. The mining engineer may feel that there is a good chance of controlling the overbreak. On the face of it each believes there is a 70% chance of success; better than two out of three isn't bad. Independently they are happy guys based on correct independent assumptions and data. Party time. But the combination (probability of obtaining the breakeven grade in the ground) AND (probability of controlling the mining dilution) means that there is less than an even chance (49%) of getting both things right at the same time. (This simplistic treatment assumes both factors are independent, which is not necessarily true.) The mining value chain consists of a series of well-meaning and usually expert specialists producing 'best fit' outputs which serve as inputs for the next guy in line. Not outrageously, add a 90% chance of obtaining the minimum necessary level of metallurgical recovery and add an 80% chance of obtaining the minimum necessary metal price to the grade and dilution probabilities in the hypothetical case. Now we have only a 35% probability of achieving overall financial success. Panic now. Sensitivity ('spider') diagrams are often used to illustrate the level of risk due to separate components of a project, but they do not convey the additive level of risk from multiple factors to the investor or the poor guy who has to build the mine.
In reality, each and every mineral project is beset with a multitude of assumptions applied to uncertain data and often combined by the dreaded 'AND'. Individual parts of the process are carried out in good faith and with professional judgement, but it is not easy to combine the information from different disciplinary silos to produce a meaningful outcome from very different perspectives on the world. Class 1, 2 and 3 engineering estimates do not easily reconcile with order of magnitude geology curve balls that nature loves to throw at the geologist. We walk a precarious path between engineering design drawings and the 'unknown unknowns' (to quote Donald Rumsfeld).
As we cannot rely on having the best quality mineral projects or the best prices, we need to organize and measure how we deal with the chain of uncertainty that binds and blinds us. Knowing the chain is there is only the first step.
Footnote: The illustration shows overlapping high grade probability regions for copper and gold (red and yellow respectively) generated using Leapfrog Geo(TM) 3.01. This graphical three dimensional example of 'AND' shows a largely positive relationship in the upper portion of a porphyry copper deposit.


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2683 - Bromeliads (Wild) - 2009-07-10
(Dimension: 1528 x 2050 pixels - Counter: 13405)
Tillandsia aff. fendleri
(Uploaded as: TILLANDSIA schimperiana)
Locality: COLOMBIA - CUNDINAMARCA - FUSAGASUGA ( 1400m) 5,30N- 74W (??)
Photographer: Ignacio Moreno
Note: DR. WALTER TILL disagrees with the name and he thinks that it is a new TILLANDSIA species It was collected in the wild three years ago and it grows on the soil in my ranch, every time blooming with a longer spike which surpases 8 feet now (Sent: firstname.lastname@example.com)


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Oak Dining Chair
These chairs, a set of 8, were designed to compliment the clients existing oak table. Originally designed with arm rests, due to the available space it was decided to leave the arms off. A very sturdy and durable chair, the back legs are rienforced with an inlay that prevents possible splitting along the grain of the arch
Dimensions: Approx 36"H x 20"W x 18"D


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These days, black people will try any and everything to avoid racism and white supremacy. We have negotiated, bargained, attempted to conform, done battle, and have lived in denial of its existence and impact on our daily lives. Because Black people as a whole are not a homogenous group, and process the abuse of racism differently, some have come to believe that changing the way you present yourself, particularly African American men, can blunt the impact of racism in our lives.
I learned about the theory of respectability politics in one form or another throughout my life. The belief that if you present yourself in a proper, intellectual, and "safe" way, this will not only protect you from the evils of racism, but it will make white America see you as a good, smart Black person. Not one of them ghetto hoods that everyone fears. The biggest part of respectability politics has been the clothes.
In many discussions about fighting for equal rights and defeating racism, what you wear has always been of importance. Older Black people regale stories of Martin Luther King Jr. and SNCC looking prim and proper with their suits and fedora's marching throughout the south, holding sit-ins, and demanding equal treatment.
A man who had lived during the Civil Rights movement would ask, "You see what they looked like? They looked good, presentable, like they mean business! The men didn't have their pants hanging off their asses and big T-shirts, and hair looking crazy. They were clean cut, so the white man could take them seriously!" I remember conversations like these because they steered the way I acted and dressed in the world. I wanted the white man to look at me as an equal. So I would not dress thuggish. I wanted good service in a store or a restaurant, so I stopped buying pants two sizes too big. I wanted to be accepted.
I believe Respectability Politics is in its essence, a form of victim blaming. It is a weak-willed way of looking at life instead of identifying the real culprit, the number one reason why black men are viewed as dangerous: racism and white supremacy.
As I began to study racism, I reflected on many past experiences. When I wore a suit, I was still harassed in supermarkets, ignored in department stores, looked at as a criminal by almost every white woman over 40, and pulled over excessively by police officers for a faulty tail light. I would later realize that was code for DWB (or Driving While Black). I got treated the same. The clothes didn't make a damn bit of difference.
What practitioners of Respectability Politics don't tell you is that there is no data that proves if a Black person is dressed professional, he or she will be treated any better than someone in a hoodie and basketball shorts. Also, Martin Luther King Jr. and many of the Civil Rights workers were attacked, brutalized, and killed while wearing suits. Going back even further, many pictures of Black people being lynched were also in dress shirts, slacks, and ties. This proves nicely dressed negroes were still hung.
I believe Respectability Politics is in its essence, a form of victim blaming. It is a weak-willed way of looking at life instead of identifying the real culprit, the number one reason why black men are viewed as dangerous: racism and white supremacy. The refusal to be honest within the society that we live in has caused us to look inward. "There has to be something wrong with what we are doing!! If we can't change our skin, how about our wardrobe?? Pull them pants up! You don't want them to be looking at you as a criminal!"
In one of the saddest examples of Respectability Politics, Lawrence Otis Graham, a well-known lawyer and author, showed his children's newest wardrobe. In a video clip, Graham highlighted the many dress pants and tennis sweaters he bought for his son. Graham said the reason for these recent purchases was to "make sure his sons didn't end up like Trayvon Martin." Rza of the Wu-Tang Clan has also subscribed to this theory, telling his son to "take off the hoodie and put on a blazer. Make them look at you differently." Earlier this year, educator Steve Perry and comedian Steve Harvey held a "manhood bootcamp" with the US Army for young Black men, shaving off their dreadlocks and braids to make them "more employable." The two Steve's, along with Graham and Rza actually believe that clothes will save their sons from being profiled, a haircut will make them more acceptable, and a tie and jacket will stop them from being killed. What if the kid comes home bloodied and bruised while in a collared shirt and khakis? God forbid a young man is lying dead while in a suit. What will we say then? Will we turn our fingers pointing at us and turn them in the opposite direction, to the real problem?
We will have to realize that it is not the clothes that we wear that makes us a target, it is our skin.
When I think about dressing and presenting oneself in a certain way to avoid mistreatment, I thought about the young lady who was gang raped in New Delhi, India. Many mothers and older women marched through the streets with signs saying "teach your daughters how to behave at night." Women were telling other women to wear different clothes that would not make them susceptible to rape. Essentially saying to other women, "it is your fault for wearing revealing clothing." I sat back and thought about this. Men are not being held accountable for their actions? Is this some kind of alternate universe where the blame is placed on the rape victim and not the rapist? I thought this was absolutely ridiculous then and my thoughts on the matter have not changed. That's what Respectability Politics tells us – black people, it is your fault. If you just straighten your clothes, speak without Ebonics, act more white, and pull up your pants, you will be accepted. Then none of these killings would happen.
As I walk through downtown San Francisco in my sports coat, oxford shirt, slacks, and monk strap shoes, I am aware of who I am. I do not fool myself that these clothes make a huge impact in how I am viewed, nor do I make a conscious decision to change that perception. At some point, Black people will have to do away with the cowardly train of thought that is respectability politics. We will have to realize that it is not the clothes that we wear that makes us a target, it is our skin. A Black man is a Black man, whether he is in a business suit or prison jumpsuit, we are all viewed the same.
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