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Cassandra Clare Confirms Jace CastingJun 1st, 2011 | By Krystal | Category: Book News, Featured Articles, Movie News
It seems the little (well, HUGE) internet rumor that was going around about Jace being cast is true. Cassandra Clare has just confirmed that Jamie Campbell Bower will play Jace in the film adaptation of The Mortal Instruments series. This will be another highly-anticipated book-to-film adaption for Jamie, who has had roles in other franchises like Harry Potter and Twilight.
So, now that the news has finally been revealed, what do you think of the choice for Jace? I know it's always hard to reconcile the actor with our internal image of the book character.
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The Buddha on my back deck once got ripped off by the wind in a big thunderstorm. It was pretty cool. Dave picked him up, cut off the broken parts, and attached it onto the post again. Every time I look outside to the mended Buddha, I feel peaceful. He's just so fucking ... zen.
I have a Buddha statue that goes into our Jesus nativity set every Christmas. I'm pretty sure that's sacrilegious. Most meaningful things are.
A while back, before a trip away, I went into my local Catholic giftshop, to buy a Saint Christopher medallion. Christopher was this big tough guy, the Patron Saint of travel.
He helped a child across a swirling river one day, they both almost drowned. Christopher said that the whole world could not have been as heavy on his shoulders than that child; the child then told him that he was indeed carrying the whole world, because the kid was actually Jesus.
I guess that's the origin of the term, "carrying the world on your shoulders."
The past few weeks have been some of the most intense of my entire life. All seemingly played out on my blog. It's like, writing my memoir in real time ... pretty strange if I think about it too much, so I try not to think about it.
Dave has this annoying habit ... of keeping our bowl of Angel cards RIGHT next to the toilet in the bathroom. Every time I see them there, I'm reminded of a study done once on free bowls of peanuts in bars and clubs, and how laden they are with urine and E.Coli.
Dave obviously feels the most Spiritual in the middle of taking a crap. Hey, whatever works. (Last week I did something wrong, and he was SO cranky. He held on to it for a few days .. one morning I noticed he had pulled the "forgiveness" card out. It took all I had not to grab that poopoo card and stick it in front of his face.)
So today I went to the bathroom, and clipped the bowl with my arm. All of the cards scattered everywhere, all over the dusty books and the floor, cascading down the back, getting caught in crevices. As I picked them all up, I caught myself silently thanking Universe. For giving me all the cards. For giving me. Forgiving me. I have so much Light and joy in my heart these days it's kind of embarrassing. And disconcerting. My brain tells me to enjoy it while I can, that the world is just toughening me up before the next intense crisis hits.
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Atlanta Falcons general manager Thomas Dimitroff certainly felt the pressure after the 2014 season when team owner Arthur Blank snatched away the bulk of his power, allocated more draft responsibilities to assistant general manager Scott Pioli, and gave new coach Dan Quinn final say over the 53-man roster.
With Dimitroff surviving a third-consecutive playoff-less season, he fully understands the heat has been turned up another notch, even if he tried to downplay it while addressing the Atlanta media for the first time this season Thursday afternoon.
Dimitroff was asked point-blank if he feels the 2016 season is a make-or-break year for him.
"Again, I've said this to you for years now, I believe every year is," Dimitroff said. "That's what I believe. I believe this year, just like last year, is about the success of this organization. That's my responsibility. There's no doubt in my mind that I look at it every year as I need to produce in order to keep my job. That's just the way it is."
The problem is, the Falcons haven't produced a winning record or postseason appearance for the last three seasons, and Dimitroff's personnel decisions have played a big part in it. Although he can point to the drafting of Pro Bowlers Julio Jones, Desmond Trufant, and Devonta Freeman along with franchise quarterback Matt Ryan and swinging a trade for now-retired tight end Tony Gonzalez, Dimitroff hasn't established quality depth or strengthened the offensive and defensive lines as needed. Dimitroff called the failed 2012 draft class, led by second-round pick Peter Konz, "highly disappointing." That entire 2012 draft class is currently out of work, and former first-round draft picks Sean Weatherspoon, Peria Jerry, and Sam Baker are no longer with the team. (Weatherspoon and Baker had significant injury issues.) Throw in a handful of free-agent acquisitions that haven't panned out and you have the recipe for disaster.
Despite the aforementioned issues, Blank released a statement saying the partnership between Dimitroff and Quinn would continue into next season, with some tweaks in the pro personnel and scouting department. The Falcons just this week hired former Chicago Bears general manager Phil Emery and former Tennessee Titans general manager Ruston Webster as national scouts, although both Emery and Webster are known more for their failures as decisions-makers than their successes. Dimitroff said interviews are ongoing to fill roles in pro personnel and college scouting.
Dimitroff admitted he needed to win back the trust of Falcons fans for his own failures.
"Like anything, this business is the way it is: You're going to have some hits, and you're going to have misses," Dimitroff said. "And I understand that. The fan base deserves a very good product here. The media is going to report on it. I feel very strongly about that. I understand what my responsibility are, and I take full responsibility for where this organization is right now as far as the acquisition process. That is ultimately my duty, and that's where my focus is.''
Dimitroff said he and Quinn have a clear vision on how to build the roster moving forward. That being said, both agreed they would move on from drafting or signing a player if there's a disagreement over the player. In the same breath, Dimitroff acknowledged that it should be Quinn's decision whether a player fits the scheme.
"In the end, if the head coach is totally against a player, the success rate of that player working out obviously is quite low, in my mind," Dimitroff said.
We'll see how that translates when the Falcons acquire players this offseason, with needs to fill on the offensive and defensive lines as well as at linebacker and wide receiver. Quinn said the Falcons also need a quarterback to back up Ryan.


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Paul Ricard
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- 1st September 2011, 0:27 at 12:27 am #130018
With Paul Ricard rumoured to be on the 2013 calender in place of Spa, it might be worth seeing what people think of the actual circuit.
I quite like the layout of it, but I'm worried that the open nature of the track and general nature of it won't make it very visually appealing. The colours may be pretty, but it seems to be flat with little scenery- although the surrounding country may be nice there is a lack of trees or buildings on the very side of the track, and I can imagine it viewing like a more open Valencia, looking almost industrial. I think I watched a GT championship race on TV once and it looked fairly dull.
Also I was wondering if anybody has actually visited? I doesn't look spectator friendly- after all it is a test track primarily. Sure they may be able to build some grandstands, although space that isn't run-off looks like it could be at a premium, but it also doesn't look like there are a huge number of viewing facilities for general admission.
Ignoring that it is replacing Spa, I'd like to know what everybody thinks of the place as though it were a new circuit entering the calender and not replacing a historic venue.1st September 2011, 1:34 at 1:34 am #177388
It looks like it's got a nice range of corners. Especially in the first sector and at the end of the Mistral Straight. I'm hoping they use the full Mistral; the chicane across the back of the circuit looks very narrow (but it also has the most significant elevation change at Paul Ricard).1st September 2011, 1:45 at 1:45 am #177389
The other issue I've thought of with TV viewing is that seeing F1 cars cutting a line through a mess of various turns like this will look a bit stupid. And I can imagine those blue lines as cameras pan giving me a headache. In some ways the flat run-off reminds me of the most boring looking parts of Abu Dhabi.
Also, I remember Bernie mentioning short-cuts as an idea a while back. The many layouts on this track are probably just what he had in mind- strange that seeing as he owns the track and all…1st September 2011, 2:52 at 2:52 am #177390
The shortcuts idea was never intended to actually happen – Bernie simply used it to get his way on something else. Even if it did happen, the teams and drivers would likely agree not to use the shortcuts.
Also, there will probably be something to block off each configuration to make it easy for television viewers to follow the circuit.1st September 2011, 8:04 at 8:04 am #177391Dan ThornParticipant
Doesn't Paul Ricard have sprinklers too? ;)
I like the track, the last sector is pretty much the same as it always has been; Signes is a ferocious corner.
It'd be nice if they could use the full Mistral Straight, but it's 1.8km long – I don't know if that falls within FIA guidelines for straight lengths.
The blue and red lines everywhere look unsightly at first but having watched a couple of GT races there you don't really notice them.1st September 2011, 8:18 at 8:18 am #177392IcthyesParticipant
It looks like a decent track but I think they'd have a fit if you suggested the full Mistral. I'd rather they used the most "open" of the first chicane variations, like how Silverstone is now.1st September 2011, 8:18 at 8:18 am #177393KaIIeParticipant
I'm guessing they will use the full 6,x km layout, not the shortened version used in the late 80s?
IIRC FIA's maximum length for a straight is 2 km, so Mistral is not too long – but they might still have the chicane in the middle.
I think the circuit layout itself is pretty good, it might actually be even too fast for F1 cars. T1-2 and Signes are probably easily flat out in a modern F1 car – and that leaves just the mickey mouse sections at the far ends of the circuits. Of course there are no real elevation changes, but most Tilkedromes are flat anyway, so it wouldn't be anything strange if a "new" circuit was flat as well.1st September 2011, 12:14 at 12:14 pm #177394AsanatorParticipant
Yes Paul Ricard does have sprinklers, and one of the reasons it is such a good test venue is it's many different configurations.1st September 2011, 12:18 at 12:18 pm #177395
I was joking about the shortcuts lol. I do like the circuit itself, and I don't think it would be a bad thing if the flowing curves were used in the middle of Mistral. And if it's watchable on the TV then at least it has that going for it.1st September 2011, 13:14 at 1:14 pm #177396
I think they'd have a fit if you suggested the full Mistral.
It's only about 300m longer than the straight at Fuji …1st September 2011, 14:54 at 2:54 pm #177397IcthyesParticipant
It's only about 300m longer than the straight at Fuji …
Actually I was thinking more about the run-off area, but from aerial shots the onboards I've seen don't do it justice.1st September 2011, 17:16 at 5:16 pm #177398GeorgeParticipant
Can't say I've ever seen a real race there, but from driving it in sims the place always gives me a headache with all that painted runoff and roads going everywhere, I've never seriously run there though so no idea if the layout redeems itself. On the plus side, I can just imagine Bernie being let loose with a spanner on the sprinkler system.1st September 2011, 17:37 at 5:37 pm #177399Alianora La CantaParticipant
I'd expect them to use the full Mistral with chicane in the centre (solution 5B) as they do for the LMS (F1 needs the speed; LMS needs the space).
My worry is that there won't be enough seating for the fans as it is almost entirely general admission.1st September 2011, 17:57 at 5:57 pm #177400ZazeemsParticipant
I'd love the race to go ahead; a reintroduction of a traditional motor racing country to the calendar (and at a traditional venue to boot) makes me paractically euphoric.
I agree that the runoff could look weird on TV, but hey, they can just paint it right? A much more pressing matter to mind would be spectator facilities.
Personally I don't have a problem with the layout, Signes is one of my all time favourite corners, and I don't see why they shouldn't use the full Mistral straight; it'll be great to see F1 cars properly stretch their legs for once, especially through bends (Signes and Verriere etc)3rd September 2011, 10:41 at 10:41 am #177401BasCBParticipant
I think Alianora is right on the track layout there. I fully agree with here on the crowd capacities, although it might be novel to start with just a temporary grandstand and the rest being GA for the first modern F1 race there, if it keeps ticket prices low to get in as many as possible. A 50.000 crowd would probably be stretching it already.
I do think the stripes make watching it on TV pretty bad, I know I minded watching the LMS cars there for a long time. And it was pretty hard to see on what part of the track they actually were, as the stripes are the same everywhere.
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Click to viewOne of the first apps I downloaded while doing the App Store video walkthrough today was the new iPhone Remote for iTunes. There's only one word to describe it: perfectomfgthisissocool. As you can see in the video, it just works, giving you full control of all the music, video, podcasts, and movies stored on your computer or AppleTV. The applications show you the art, your personal playlists (including the smart ones), all in real time. Updated: second part of the video is up, plus some more impressions. Verdict: download it now.
The whole thing feels like having iTunes in the palm of your hand. Once you authenticate your remote by entering a four-digit code-the iPhone or iPod touch needs to be in the same wireless network-it's all a matter of opening the application and starting to surf your iTunes library.
There are five sections on the remote:
Here you have access to your personal playlists, just like in iTunes. This includes the smart playlists as well. All changes in iTunes are reflected in real time on the remote, just as you would expect.
This is a browser view by artist, which looks identical to the one on the iPod.
Same as Artists. Here you can see the artwork, streamed directly from iTunes.
The search engine is a little bit weird but works great. It's live, so when you start writing, the results start to appear on the screen. However, you can't click directly on the list. When you are done writing whatever you're searching for, you click on the result list and it activates. Then you can scroll through it, with all your results neatly organized by Albums, Artists and Songs.
Here you will find access to the rest of the media in iTunes, from audiobooks to music videos and, of course, movies.
You can associate several libraries to the remote. There is a Settings button on the top left corner. When you click on it, you can Add Library and also turn on the Stay Connected option, which is listed under Performance. I don't know if this is related to Wi-Fi power consumption or just to the fact that, while being always connected, you won't need to reconnect after your iPhone wakes up.
There are no delays in the operation so far. Everything works fast and smoothly. Now, the only thing I want is having playback on the iPhone. Not just control iTunes remotely, but actually accessing the media from the iPhone or iPod touch, via Wi-Fi or 3G network. That would be the key to avoid having too little space: get an unlimited data plan and just access everything on your computer remotely. We can only hope that this is what Steve & Co. have in mind for the next version.


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If you've been reading this blog for long, you may have guessed that I'm not a big fan of writing contests.
Partly this is because so many contests are a waste of time, with minimal prizes, negligible prestige, and zero cachet on your writing resume. Why not spend your energy on something that can get you closer to building a readership–submitting for publication, or publishing on your own if that's what you want to do?
There's also the risk of bad stuff in the entry guidelines–such as the MeeGenius Golden Owl Contest, where simply submitting constitutes agreement to publish and acceptance of a publishing contract that claims rights in perpetuity. Writers who don't read the fine print carefully enough may find themselves trapped by such provisions.
And then there are the contests with a hidden agenda: making money for the sponsor.
Published Book Contest Moneymakers
There are any number of moneymaking contests that focus on published books. Their M.O.: a huge entry fee, dozens or scores or even hundreds of entry categories, and the sale of additional merchandise to winners and honorees. Prizes are typically things that cost the sponsors little or nothing (website features, electronic press releases, vague promises of publicity campaigns). Judges are never named–and may not exist–and, although commercially published books are sometimes declared winners, the contests are marketed mainly to small press and self-published authors.
For instance, the USA Best Book Awards and the International Book Awards, both sponsored by JPX Media. Each contest has a $69 entry fee, over 150 categories, a prize that basically consists of a feature on one of JPX Media's websites, and the "opportunity" to purchase award stickers and certificates. If just 500 people enter each contest (and I'm guessing that's an extremely conservative estimate), JPX grosses $69,000–and that doesn't even include the extra income from sticker and certificate sales.
Other published book contest moneymakers include Readers Favorite ($89, over 70 categories, plenty of adjunct merchandise and services for sale) and the Pinnacle Book Achievement Awards ($90, over 40 categories; the current entry deadline is March 16, with winners announced in "late March," which wouldn't seem to allow much time for judging).
(A side effect of such faux contests: the opportunity they afford vanity and otherwise dubious publishers to present a gloss of legitimacy or to make an extra buck.)
Unpublished Manuscript Contest Moneymakers
Another kind of contest with a hidden moneymaking agenda is conducted by fee-charging publishers. These contests focus on unpublished authors, and since entry fees are small or nonexistent, and prizes often involve a promise of fee-free publication, they can seem very attractive. Beware, though: the contest may be mostly, or partly, a way for the publisher to gather a pool of potential paying customers.
For instance, the Deep River Books Writer's Contest, the 2011-2012 results of which were just announced. Deep River Books (formerly VMI Publishing) is a "partner publisher" that requires authors to buy a minimum of 1,000 books. This year's winners received non-fee contracts; other entrants were recognized for various degrees of merit. They were also solicited for publication.
I wanted to be the first to Congratulate you! Your manuscript received "Honorable Mention" in the 2011-12 Deep River Books Writer's Contest. And while you did not win first place, "Honorable Mention" is a significant achievement when you consider there were over 400 contest entries. You are to be applauded for what you have accomplished.
As you know, Deep River Books is a full-service partner publisher. Our goal is to publish the best manuscripts from new authors, and we certainly feel yours could fit into that category. Due to the high score your manuscript achieved by our judges, I would like to send your manuscript through our regular editorial review process for possible publishing by Deep River Books.
If your book were to be selected by our editorial review board, we would make it a "Feature Title" which includes media coverage and an invitation to be a featured author signing books at our booth during next year's International Christian Retail Show where over 10,000 people, including many bookstore owners/buyers attend. It would also be a featured title at the Deep River Books website.
And because of the "Honorable Mention" status in the contest, we plan to offer you a $500 discount off our standard partnership program as an added incentive, if your book is selected by our in-house editorial team for publication.
This letter (which concludes by assuring the recipient that their manuscript was "a joy to read") sounds personalized, but it's not. Other contest entrants received identical solicitations. I can't help thinking of the "free contests" conducted by vanity anthology companies, where just about everyone who enters is declared a semi-finalist and offered publication, along with the chance to buy the anthology in which their work appears.
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Alfa Alvin Doggett Obituary – Death
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Alfa Alvin Doggett Obituary – Death: With heavy hearts, we announce the death of Alfa Alvin Doggett (Keller, Texas), who passed away on December 16, 2021. On the 19th of December, 2021, TVDeathRay received information about the death of Alfa Alvin Doggett via a Social Media post. The reason for his death hasn't been disclosed. People who loved him will be missing him so greatly since they left a legacy of sweet memories.
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Medical pot can cost parents in custody disputes
AP Features/Raw Story
Jun 21, 2010 06:31 EDT
Nicholas Pouch runs an organic farm and a glassblowing studio on a 20-acre spread in southwest Washington's timber country. Spicy mustard greens, tomatoes and corn sprout in humid greenhouses as chickens and sheep roam nearby.
It would be an ideal place for children to romp, Pouch thinks. But his children can't be there because he's a medical marijuana patient.
A drug task force acting on a tip from his former partner raided his grow operation in 2007. Even though Pouch's criminal charges were dropped, she cited the arrest and his marijuana use in winning full custody of their boys, now 9 and 11.
For the past 2 1/2 years, Pouch has seen the boys twice a month, during supervised visits at a neutral house in Olympia. "There's no reason anybody should have to go through this," Pouch said. "Why aren't they here, chasing snakes like they like to do?"
More than a decade after states began approving marijuana for medical use, its role in custody disputes remains a little-known side effect.
While those laws can protect patients from criminal charges, they typically haven't prevented judges, court commissioners or guardians ad litem from considering a parent's marijuana use in custody matters — even in states such as Washington, where complying patients "shall not be penalized in any manner, or denied any right or privilege," according to the law.
Arbiters often side with parents who try to keep their children away from pot. Medical marijuana activists in several states, including Washington, California and Colorado, say they've been getting more inquiries from patients wrapped up in custody-divorce cases in recent years as the ranks of patients who use marijuana swell.
Lauren Payne, legal services coordinator with a California marijuana law reform group called Americans for Safe Access, said that since mid-2006 her organization has received calls about 61 such cases.
In Colorado last month, an appeals court ruled that medical marijuana use is not necessarily a reason to restrict a parent's visitation. Washington courts have held otherwise.
"The court cannot countenance a situation where a person is using marijuana, under the influence of marijuana and is caring for children," an Island County, Wash., judge ordered in one such dispute. "There's nothing in the medical marijuana law that deprives the court of its responsibility and legal authority to provide for proper care of children so that people aren't caring for children who are under the influence of alcohol or drugs."
In that case, the medical marijuana patient, Cameron Wieldraayer, was granted only supervised visits with his two young daughters — a decision upheld by an appeals court.
Many patients insist that using pot makes them no less fit as parents, and that they shouldn't lose custody or visitation rights if there's no evidence they're abusing the drug.
According to the Washington, D.C.-based Marijuana Policy Project, two of the 14 states with medical marijuana laws — Michigan and Maine — specify that patients won't lose custody or visitation rights unless the patient's actions endanger the child or are contrary to the child's best interests.
Pouch, who grows marijuana in an old chicken coop, smokes a few puffs three or four times every day, and says he doesn't get high the way he did when he used marijuana recreationally in his younger days. He said he uses it to treat pain from carpal tunnel syndrome aggravated by glassblowing, as well as a shoulder that frequently pops out of its socket due to old sports injuries.
"I'm an outgoing, upstanding person. I do three different farmers markets and I'm a member of the Mason County Chamber of Commerce," said Pouch, 37. "I am not an activist at all, but I have the right to use this. It aids my pain, and it allows me to function in my everyday activities, where pills and opiates don't."
The mother of Pouch's boys declined to comment.
Pouch also has a young daughter with another woman, and is also allowed only supervised visits with her. This month, after a guardian ad litem made a favorable report about Pouch's parenting skills, a court commissioner awarded him custody — but then stayed the decision while the girl's mother challenges it.
Opposing spouses often argue that they have a right to keep their children away from illegal substances, and marijuana remains illegal under federal law.
With some other medications, such as narcotic painkillers or bipolar medications, judges can require tests to establish how much of the drug a parent has in his or her system, said Eleanor Couto, a family law attorney in Longview, Wash.
But treatment providers can't prescribe specific amounts of marijuana without running afoul of federal law, so it isn't always clear what constitutes an appropriate level of the drug.
"How do you monitor how much someone can smoke?" Couto asked. "How do know they're able to adequately care for that child? I think it's got to be a case-by-case basis."
Seattle lawyer Sharon Blackford noted that urine tests can establish how much marijuana is in a patient's system based on current use, and that monitoring is "as easy to do for medical marijuana as it is for alcohol."
Couto said she represents one father who worked out a tentative arrangement with his ex whereby he can continue to use medical marijuana, as long as someone else watches their child while he does.
In another case, she's representing a father who is trying to win primary custody of his teenagers for the first time because their mother is married to a medical marijuana patient who also has a history of minor criminal offenses and several drunken-driving convictions.
Early this year, a judge who called Washington's medical marijuana law "an absolute joke" and "an excuse to be loaded all the time" ordered that stepfather, Julian Robinson, to keep at least a quarter-mile from the teenagers because of his marijuana use, according to a transcript of the hearing.
That means Robinson can't be around the children he has raised for the past 13 years, even though they live in his home near Castle Rock, with his wife and their four younger children.
Robinson sometimes stays with friends or rolls out a foam sleeping pad in his neighbor's horse trailer. He misses baseball games and church services.
"It has torn my family apart," Robinson said. "We used to do everything together."
Pouch, who said he's spent $35,000 on legal costs in the past four years, hopes to persuade the court to grant him partial or even primary custody of his children.
In the meantime, they dug a garden last year at the Olympia home rented by South Sound Family Services where they have their supervised visits. Pouch brought in manure and vegetable starts last month. The boys planted corn, tomatoes, cucumbers and pumpkins.
Pouch's farm: http://www.naturescreationfarm.com/
Americans for Safe Access: http://www.safeaccessnow.org/
Marijuana Policy Project: http://www.mpp.org/
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A variety of writing commitments have been keeping me very busy these last two weeks and so I'll keep this introduction brief. Here we are, 40 episodes into my Vacation in the Golden Age and "new" writers continue to make their debut in the pages of Astounding. George O. Smith is the new guy this month. And while these new fellows spring on scene, others begin to fade, if only temporarily. This month's issue contains the last story by L. Ron Hubbard for the next five years.
In between are a good stable of regulars and reliables. And in a rare treat, there are two science articles in this issue, on by Willy Ley and the other by R. S. Richardson–and both are excellent.
Editorial: The Last Stand
Science fiction is not about predicting the future. It is about exploring possible futures, looking at the ways that technological change impacts society. Indeed, outright prediction can be dangerous because in get it wrong, it can lead one to believe the effort is not worthwhile. Bold predictions in turbulent times can be the most difficult to make. So I suppose John Campbell can be forgiven some of the rather remarkable predictions he makes in his editorial for the October 1942 issue. America has been engaged in the war for nearly a year at this point. It's navy is being reconstructed. So it is, perhaps, natural for Campbell to de-emphasize the importance of naval vessels. For instance, Campbell predicts the end of the battleship because it is so vulnerable to attack by air. He hedges a bit. He says that a battleship with improved technology could make a comeback–and this, too, is understandable. Campbell would want to be in a supportive position at the time the United States Navy is once again fully functional.
Campbell clearly sees the possibility of the airplane and the power it has, but throughout the course of the rest of the editorial, much of which goes into detail on the functional operation of propeller-, jet-, and rocket-driven engines, he makes two predictions which surprised me.
First, Campbell says,
But this war is the last stand of the winged airplane, the flying machine that, like all early developments of a mechanical nature, is a hard, complicated way of doing a simple thing.
Campbell believes that the jet engine will soon take over–and in this he is right–but his caveat has it that the nature of the jet engine will ultimately eliminate the need for the wing. And if you look up into the sky today, you will see that seven decades later, this is still not true.
Second, and perhaps even more remarkably, Campbell offers this prediction of the jet engine:
The increased efficiency of the jet-type ship will have another interesting effect; at lower cruising speeds–down around five hundred m.p.h.–the jet-type ship would be very nearly noiseless, whispering along with not much more than a rustle of wind.
He goes on to argue that at higher speeds, the sounds would be like thunder. As anyone who lives under the approach to an airport knows, jets are not noiseless and it seems an odd prediction to make for someone who has a pretty good understanding of the engineering and physics involved with the engine. And it illustrates why bold predictions like that can be a little foolish, even in hindsight. Campbell lived into the age of the jet plane. I wonder what, if anything, he said about them once they became more common place. Did he ever complain about the noise?
Lunar Landing by Lester del Rey
Blurb: it was to rescue the first man-carrying ship to land on the moon that they'd made the voyage. But, though only one aboard knew it–not at all the ship they thought they were to rescue.
Firsts are big for story-telling, and no place is this more evident than in science fiction. In the fall of 1942, mankind was still more than a quarter of a century from setting foot on the moon. We had yet to break the sound barrier (something to which Campbell makes reference in the preceding editorial). But science fiction is all about firsts. Isaac Asimov's first Astounding story, "Trends" (July 1939, Episode 1) was about efforts at the first manned rocket to the moon. Now Lester del Rey gives it a try. And rather than focus on the mechanics of getting there, or the political implications of landing on the moon, del Rey creates a convoluted mystery for us.
A rocket with three men was launched to the moon, but crashed. The men have been stranded there for months, without contact. So a second rocket is sent to discover their fate, and, if they are still alive, bring home the original crew. The crew of this second rocket is made up of six people, three men and three women and the story is told from Grey's point-of-view. The early part of the story is very interesting because of del Rey's attempts to make the flight to moon seem realistic. In this he does a credible job. The story opens with Grey waking from a dream in which he is falling–a side effect of flying in zero-gee. But Grey and and the rest of the crew are zipped up into sleeping sacks, which is more or less how things really worked on those Apollo flights. They also have a drink, and drink from straws in a special container because the liquid otherwise condenses into a sphere.
But beyond these realisms, the story quickly devolves into a kind of quixotic mystery. The crew finds, after landing on the moon, that their own rocket is damaged. They will need to find the other rocket to be able to repair their own. Once they set out, the story is not much more than a series of one "startling revelation" after another. The crew discovers both plant (lichen-like) and animals on the moon. They discover the wreckage of a rocket–but not the one they were looking for. How could that be? Turns out there was an earlier rocket, from the time just after the Great War (yes, World War I) and they learn this from one of their own crew, Alice Benson, who, as it turns out was sweethearts with the man who brought this other rocket ot the moon in secret. It further turns out that Alice made her way onto this mission in order to seek out her lost love–and did so by becoming the owner and C.E.O. of Atomic Power.
The revelations don't stop there. The eventually find the rocket they were looking for, but the crew is missing. They eventually discover that first contact was made with yet another alien species–the Martians!
"Lunar Landing" made for a decent lead novelette, but what there is in the story is purely ephemeral, a 1940s version of LOST, with twists and turns to keep the reader interested, but without adding any other real value to the story.
Much of the mood-setting that appears in the story–the ponderous trips across the desolate surface of the moon, the stark shadows and grim Earth hanging overhead–may have come from the fact that del Rey wrote this story based on the cover painting. As he wrote in THE EARLY DEL REY VOLUME 2:
During my visit to Campbell… he'd shown me a cover painting by someone named Munchausen (sic). It was one of the "astronomicals" Campbell liked to use ocassionally , showing a rather crude rocket and several figures standing beside a sort of cliff on the Moon, with the Earth above and a flaring sun in the sky. He suggested that I might like to do a novelette around the cover, about 20,000 words.
Campbell was supposed to send del Rey a copy of the cover, but never did. Later, he wrote to del Rey asking for the story, which was going to be due soon. But del Rey was waiting for the cover. So when he received Campbell's letter at 9am and thought up a plot,
I came back to my room, picked up the Olvier, shoved paper into it, and began writing. I never got up until the last of those 20,000 words was down. Then I grabbed a hasty bite to eat and rushed back to switch typewriters and begin retyping it all. I took the finished manuscript down to the main post office and put it in the mail at ten o'clock that night.
Such is the life of a pulp science fiction writer in the early 1940s.
Warrior's Age by Peter Risk
Blurb: A moment's glance at a distant age–a different culture–and an episode based on a different philosophy of life–
"Warrior's Age" is one of those stories that people seem to want to point to when they refer to "pulp science fiction." This tale, which takes place nearly one thousand years in the future, reads like an adventure story that might have appeared in Astounding ten years earlier. The story opens as follows:
Fresh green shoots were pushing up through dead grass, and gnarled trees were losing their ugliness as tiny leaves shrouded them that spring of 2942, but there was no responding lift in the hearts of Dan O'Keefe, soldier of fortune, and the lithe amazon, Barbara Doone, as they drew rein on the rim of the wooded foothills that overlooked savage New York.
The story spirals down from there and about 3 pages in, I couldn't take any more, though I tried. ("It seems so hopeless," said the girl, her tired brown eyes, in which latent fires blazed, taking in the city's cracked buildings and numerous inhabitants, which moved like ants in the distance.") I did, however, get curious about the author, Peter Risk. "Warrior's Age" is the only story listed under that name in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database. The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction has nothing on him, and a general Google search turns up only references to the October 1942 Astounding and nothing else. I can only assume that Risk never wrote science fiction under this particular name again.
The Second Solution by A. E. van Vogt
Blurb: Any fact which is of importance to mankind that is discovered by one man would, almost certainly, be discovered elsewhere, somehow, by another man. One man discovered that the ezwals were intelligent–and nearly lost the knowledge and his life. Another, far away–
A. E. van Vogt is back with a kind of sequel to "Co-Operate–Or Else!" (April 1942, Episode 34). In this story, a crew is returning to Earth with two captured ezwals, but there is a problem on board the spaceship and it looks as if it will crash in northern Canada. They crew must abandon the ship in the lifeboats, but there is a dilemma. The ezwals will likely survive the crash and reign terror on Earth, so they must be killed before the ship crashes. One crew member is selected to do this. He manages to kill the mother, but the child survives.
The story is told mostly from the point of view of the child ezwal, which indeed survives the crash (to say nothing witnessing the death of its mother) and then must protect itself from attempts to kill it on the ground. Ezwals, we learn, are not only telepathic, but intelligent creatures, something that they don't want the humans to discover. However, throughout the chase on Earth, one man–Caleb Carson–a grandson to the man who discovered the world on which the ezwals live, recognizes their intelligence and acts to protect the ezwal. Eventually, a kind of stalemate is reached, with the ezwal agreeing to team up with Carson in order to protect itself and its kind in the future.
This was a particularly melodramatic tale. The writing seemed to me to be a step back for van Vogt, almost as if it were written at an earlier time in his life:
He spat with sudden, flaring hate that only partially overcame the sudden, enormous sense of aloneness in him. He must evade those dogs before he could hope to know even the remotest sense of comfort and security–and there was only one method by which he could do it properly.
But despite this style of writing, several interesting things arise out of the story. The first is the point of view. I liked the fact that we got deep into the ezwal's head and saw things from its perspective. There was a kind of Jack London feel to this view point.
Second, and even more interesting to me, is the relationship between the ezwal child and mother. There was a kind of harsh tenderness there that was reminiscent of the opening scene of "Slan" (September 1940, Episode 15).
The predator-like chase was fun, but the ending did not live up to the twist endings I've come to expect from van Vogt. Indeed, I thought the coda was unnecessary in this case and the story would have been better ended with this "final" paragraph from the young ezwal's point of view:
He was suddenly feeling very young and very important and very humble. For there had come to him the first glimpse of the greatness that was to be his in the world of ezwals, in that world of titanic constructions, the beginning of dynamic new civilization.
The Paris Gun (article) by Willy Ley
Blurb: Super-artillery, both super-size and super-range, has been tried. Sometimes, for special occasions, it works. Here's the story of one famous super that didn't prove out–the Paris Gun, of World War I. It was not, incidentally, the Big Bertha–that was a different, and successful, thing, a super-sized howitzer of short range but terrific impact.
Willy Ley is on a roll. Once again, he provides a fascinating article related to weapons of war (something of both interest and importance to contemporary readers) and does so in a way that integrates the history of the weapon with the engineering and science behind it. In "The Paris Gun," Willy Ley delves into an incident during World War I in which the Germans attempted use of a long-range weapon against Paris, which they thought would–at worst–strike fear in the heart of Frenchmen.
One of the things that Ley makes clear in the article–something that seems to rub him wrong–is to make it clear that the Paris Gun was not "Big Bertha," as it is sometimes referred. The two guns were very different types, Ley points out, and as he writes,
[The Paris Gun] bore no more resemblance to the original Big Bertha than does a hippopotamus to a giraffe. Even theoretically the two guns were as unlike as possible. It is one of the minor mysteries of history why some people insist on calling the Paris Gun "Big Bertha."
One of the differences was that the Paris Gun was a stratosphere gun, shooting shells high up into the air, where they could travel farther because of reduced air friction at those altitudes. Ley discussed the angles as which the gun fired for optimum distance, which was steeper than other guns. He also told, in seamless fashion, how the attempt was made to locate the gun from where the shells fell around Paris.
Other interesting details was the bore of the gun itself, which was altered with each firing so that shells had to be numbered and fired in a precise order. This didn't happen in at least one instance and the gun in question exploded, killing some of the crew. As in his other essays on weapons and ballistics, Willy Ley makes the subject easy to understand for a lay person.
Anachron, Inc. by Malcolm Jameson
Blurb: Anachron, INc. were merchants, not missionaries. They were traders whose outposts and trading stations were established across time from Egypt's glory to Modern America. But Barry's station was medieval France, and his goods were umbrellas and–miracles to order!
I have grown fond of Malcolm Jameson's stories, particularly his "Bullard" stories. At first I thought of them as simply "Navy-in-space" yarns, but they grew on me. For his last few appearances in ASTOUNDING, however, Jameson has set Bullard aside and focused on other things, and this month he provides a very good time travel story.
In "Anachron, Inc.," the late war has ended in 1956 with the Allies victorious, but with worldwide devastation, destruction and depression. Most cultural centers have been destroyed, along with the culture they had preserved. Ted Barry is a returning veteran (a Commando) looking unsuccessfully for work until he is recruited by one of the few companies bucking the economic tide: Anachron, Inc. As a "contemporary" newspaper article describes the company:
The activities of Anachron may be regarded as the most bullish factor in the world today. It is an open secret that their acquisition of Gildersleeve patents under special charter from the Federated Government, they have been utilizing the Gildersleeve Heavy-duty Time Shuttle for intertemporal commerce. Thus all the wheat, steel aluminum, textiles and so forth that they export is definitely removed from today's glutted world markets. Not only that, but we are receiving in return increasing quantities of such priceless items as book, old paintings, musical instruments, and many other things we have grown accustomed to doing without.
Barry and some others are trained for this task, where they will be sent into the past to open up new markets, trading good for the kind of things that are needed in the devastated 20th century. Unlike the bulk of time travel stories up to this point, Jameson's story does not involve paradox because it is based on the alternate time line theory. As it is explained in the story:
"No reconciliation of the supposed time paradox is necessary… for no paradox exists. For every possible past there exists an infinity of possible futures of which a certain number may be considered probably. But once a complete past has occurred, there is but one resultant future, and both it and its past are facts immutable.
The rest of the story focuses on Barry's–and his companions–efforts to open up a market place in medieval France. They must find clever ways to avoid paying the vast tolls and taxes so that they can still show a profit. And ultimately, they must assist a new abbot in demonstrating a "miracle" (using secret technology, of course). Barry is ultimately successful and is reassigned to an even better challenge in ancient Rome.
Commerce with the past is a new twist on time travel–at least for me. I've seen excellent stories that make other non-traditional uses of time travel. There is Robert Silverberg's Up The Line, which examines time travel as a kind of tourism and the fallout from that. And there is Connie Willis' "Oxford" time travel novels in which scholars go into the past to make studies of what really happened. Jameson adds a nice twist with the commerce angle. Even so, some of his process and setup for getting salesmen into the past presages much of the work that goes into getting historians into the past in Willis' novels. Costumes and language. Learning the geography and history of the time–all of that is involved in sending people back in time–and all of it comes in handy.
This was a very different type of story from what I've come to expect of Malcolm Jameson, but it was one that I really enjoyed.
The Wabbler by Murray Leinster
Blurb: An old favorite of science-fiction returns–with a tale of a robot that had patience, a brain adequate to its task, and a slow-working, patient urge to self-destruction.
For the first time in this Vacation, Murray Leinster makes a brief appearance with the story of what Campbell's blurb describes as a robot, but about which, after reading the story, I am not convinced. The story is told from the point of view of this "robot", which Leinster refers to as a "wabbler." He describes the robot as follows:
It and all of its brothers were pear-shaped, with absurdly huge and blunt-ended horns, and with small round holes where eyes might have been, and shielded vents where they might have had mouths. They looked chinless, somehow. They also looked alive, inhuman and filled with a sort of passionless hate.
I didn't have to get far into this short story to recognize that what Leinster was describing was the life of a mine, dropped from an aircraft into some anonymous harbor where it waited patiently to bump up against the hull of some passing ship. Indeed, Willy Ley described mines just like these in "Death Under the Sea" (September 1942, Episode 39) just last month.
The wabbler waits and waits until it finally achieves its destiny:
It turned into a flaming ball of incandescent gasses–three hundred pounds of detonated high explosive–squarely under the keel of a thirty-five-thousand-ton battleship which at that moment was only halfway out of drydock. The watertight doors of the battleship were open, and its auxiliary power was off, so they could not be closed… In three minutes the battleship was lying crazily on the harbor bottom, half in and half out of the drydock.
There really wasn't much science fiction in the story. Indeed, it felt much more like a literary story–although less poetic than what someone like Ray Bradbury would later produce. But I suspect Campbell printed it for two reasons. I imagine, first that he considered the story to be clever. And second, of course, was that it was written by Murray Leinster.
Late-Model Stars (article) by R. S. Richardson
Blurb: There's a ban on new model cars, but the astronomers go on working out new model stars right along. They don't make 'em, of course–but they do try to figure out how they were made, what makes them tick, and why.
This month we have not one, but two science articles. Willy Ley's article focused on weapons on war. In this article, R. S. Richardson takes a look at thermonuclear reactions–not as weapons, but as the powerhouse inside stars. And Richardson describes this rather technical subject with the colloquial flair I've come to enjoy in his pieces. With a title of "Late-Model Stars," Richardson jumps right into the subject like any car salesman:
Like to see some late-model stars? Fancy job that are the last word in energy generation and proton-proton reactions. Or perhaps you were looking for a good reconditioned model that has been rendering faithful service for the last twenty years. And did you have some particular type in mind? A red giant? A super luminous B? Could I demonstrate how smoothly our white dwarfs run this year?
With this introduction, Richardson delves into a technical, but understandable discussion of the cosmology and physics involved in the development of stars. He works through examples of constructing a star the size of the sun using the Eddington standard model. He discusses the history of the study of stellar evolution, touching on Russell's Mixture, as well as point-source and shell-source models for stellar temperatures and luminosity. Through this all, he does it with his usual ease and flair. Willy Ley writes clear, fascinating articles, but Richardson brings a colloquial feel to his essays that Ley's lack. Each time I read a Richardson article, I am more firmly convinced that Asimov's colloquial science essays were more strongly influenced by Richardson's style than by Ley's.
The Beast by L. Ron Hubbard
Blurb: He was a professional Government hunter, and he had to get that strange beast–not simply because it was his ordinary duty, but because it had stolen from him something without which life was impossible–
Hubbard makes what will be his final appearance in Astounding for the next five years with "The Beast." The story, which takes place on the jungles of Venus, is about a hunter who helps clear out the beasts that attack the natives (and others) so that they may live in peace. At the opening of the story, the hunter, whose name is Ginger Cranston, is attacked by some kind of beast and badly wounded. He is taken back to a village, where his physical wounds heal, but where the emotional ones do the real damage. His courage has been sapped by the attack. Cranston is a man who has never known fear. Now it virtually petrifies him. In order to recover his courage, he must find and destroy the "devil" that attacked him. And over the course of the next two or three pages, he does just that. The story concludes,
Ginger swung along the trail in the long, easy strides of a huntsman of standing. There were bruises and certain scratches that twanged a bit, but that sort of damage was of no importance. The great thing was–a thing Ginger now scarcely realized–that he had recaptured that quite intangible reality that had been stolen from him.
It seems to me that this is Hubbard's weakest effort thus far in Astounding. I'm not sure why that is or why he decided to take five years off before his next story in Astounding. This story was "science fiction" because it was set on Venus, but the story could have just as easily been set in the jungles on Earth and been an equally dull adventure story. Or, as Alva Rogers succinctly states in A Requiem For Astounding,
It could just as easily have appeared in a general fiction magazine with an African locale as in Astounding with its Venus setting, and was really unworthy of the man who write "Final Blackout," "Fear," and other fine novels.
It is a puzzle to me how someone could write such a magnificent story as "Final Blackout" (my favorite from 1940) and then produce something as perplexing as "The Beast." If anyone has ideas, or knows what was going on with Hubbard at the time, give me a clue.
QRM–Interplanetary by George O. Smith
"QRM–Interplanetary" marks the first George O. Smith story I've ever read. Fans of Smith will recognize it to be the first in a series of Smith stories now referred to as the "Venus Equilateral" stories. The stories take place on a communications space station. As Smith describes it:
Venus Equilateral Relay Station was a modern miracle of engineering if you liked to believe the books. Actually, Venus Equilateral was an asteroid that had been shoved into its orbit about the Sun, forming a practical demonstration of the equilateral triangle solution of the Three Moving Bodies. It was a long cylinder, about three miles in length by about a mile in diameter.
Perhaps even more notable, is the fact that the asteroid is located at what we call a Lagrange Point for the Sun and Venus:
This was the Venus Equilateral Relay Station, sixty degrees ahead of the planet Venus, on Venus's orbit. Often closer to Terra than Venus, the relay station offered a perfect place to relay messages through whenever Mars or Terra were on the other side of the Sun.
This story centers around a new boss, Mr. Burbank, sent to Venus Equilateral to help things run smoothly. Of course, trouble ensues, almost all of it caused by the new management. These include new limits to personal use of the communication, to say nothing of a slew of new taxes on things like cigarettes and candy. Don Channing, who has been on the station for a long time, complains about these changes, but to seemingly no avail. Things continue to get worse as Burbank makes cuts in staff and looks for other ways to save money. But he goes to far. Things reach a climax when he clears a bunch of weeds from an air plant. It turns out, however, that those "weeds" generated the oxygen needed on the station for men to breath and a quick solution has to be worked out by Channing and his men. He eventually solves the problem. Burbank is sent home and Channing takes over.
Smith writes with a wit and a humorous style. The story moves quickly, despite seemingly half of the novelette taking place inside a bar. And he chooses an interesting theme, integrating relatively "hard" science into what is essentially a rant against ignorant management, sticking their noses where they don't belong. It makes me wonder if Smith ever had a boss like this and, unable to seek out direct revenge, turned his frustrations into a story.
Brass Tacks
Brass Tacks was nearly crowded out of this issue, with only three brief letters, but promises of 5 to 7 pages of letters in the next issue. One of the letters was by de Camp, but the only one of real interest this time around was written by a Mr. Bruce Massey, who wrote to complain about–clothing:
There is one thing I have to get off my chest before I go completely mad. How can the modern science-fiction writers have such incredible lack of foresight as to picture humanity decades from now still wearing the convention-bound and uncomfortable clothes of this period?
Mr. Massey goes on for a full column on this topic. But it seems to me that maybe the sf writers of the day weren't so far off, after all. Styles changes, of course, but in form and function, our clothes seem more or less the same today–seven decades later–as they did in 1942.
Analytical Laboratory and My Ratings
There was very little room in this month's issue for the AnLab ratings. Campbell mentions that back in the August issue, there was no space at all and the ratings for the June 1942 issue weren't listed there, if you recall. However, he does mention briefly here that Isaac Asimov's "Bridle and Saddle" (his second "Foundation" story) came in on top that month. Here are the ratings for the August 1942 issue.
|My Rating
|1. Waldo
|Anson MacDonald
|2. Jackdaw
|Ross Rocklynne
|3. Impediment
|Hal Clement
|4. Deadlock
|Lewis Padgett
|5. The Link
|Cleve Cartmill
In a way, I am much more aligned with fans in this issue that in most of the issues I've read so far. If you exclude the fact that I rated Willy Ley's article "Bombing Is A Fine Art" as the #1 story in that issue, then my ratings after that matched the top three ratings of fans. Only the last two stories in the list were reversed in my ratings. I think this is the closest I've come so far to agreeing with the fans of the time.
Here are my ratings for the October 1942 issue:
- Anachron, Inc. by Malcolm Jameson
- QRM–Interplanetary by George O. Smith
- Lunar Landing by Lester del Rey
- Second Solution by A. E. van Vogt
- The Wabbler by Murray Leinster
- The Beast by L. Ron Hubbard
- Warriors Age by Peter Risk
In Times To Come
Campbell announced the winners of the last Probability Zero in this month's "In Times To Come": first place ($20) to "Time Marches On" by Ted Carnell; second place to L. Sprague de Camp; and third place to Joseph Gilbert.
Coming up next month: a lead "novel" by Cleve Cartmill and a new Probability Zero column are among what we have to look forward to. See you back here in two weeks.


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Harry Lieberman, at age 102, shares with wit and wisdom his art, philosophy, and love of life in this documentary which describes his transformation from retired businessman to artist who, in his old age, is "living on the top of the world." The film shows the connections between Lieberman's art and his life-"memories from 80, 90, 94 years back"-and tells his original stories as background to the paintings.
We see him painting, sculpting, and meeting with other senior citizens at the Golden Age Club in Great Neck, New York-where he started painting at the age of 80-and surrounded by young students when working as an "artist in residence" at the Fairfax High School in Los Angeles. This delightful film depicts the connections between Lieberman's life and his art, which celebrates Talmudic lore and Jewish life in long-ago Eastern Europe.
Hundred and Two Mature is part of the "Visions of Paradise" series on contemporary folk artists directed and produced by Irving Saraf and Allie Light. The other four films in the series are: Possum Trot: The Art of Calvin Black, Grandma's Bottle Village: The Art of Tressa Prisbrey, The Monument of Chief Rolling Mountain Thunder,and Angel That Stands By Me: Minnie Evans' Paintings. DVDs available through the American Visionary Arts Museum in Baltimore.
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Did she do that on purpose? Our Maremmas both hate getting wet. Rain's fine, snow is even better, but any kind of puddle that even loosely resembles a bath and they're off on a dead run.ReplyDelete
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She's lovely and happy!
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City Limits Brew Pub, home of North Idaho Mountain Brew, joins an impressive list of breweries housed in Wallace throughout the years including Sunset Brewing Company, Gem State Brewery, Deluxe Brewing, and Wallace Brewing.
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Size availability is in 12oz, 16oz, Sampler Tray, Pitcher, and all but Nitro is available in 32oz Crowler cans or a variety of Growlers.
BALDY BLONDE (6.0% IBU 25) Easy drinking full bodied ale that has no dominating hop or malt characteristics.
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How Sales People WANT To Be Managed…And How They SHOULD Be Managed
Sales people often say they want to be managed as if they were operating their own business. And, that's exactly how they should be managed. Yet, there is a disconnect between how sales people perceive running a business works…and real-life. A sales business plan can help bridge this gap.
During my work with clients, I'm often asked to interview their sales people as part of my sales team due diligence. One of the questions that I always ask is their desired management style from the company. The response I hear most frequently? "I want to be treated as if I were running my own business." On the surface, this should be music to the executive team's ears. The truth of the matter is that it is actually cause for alarm.
When sales people say they want to be treated as business operators, they mean it. Yet, their perception of running a business is not consistent with reality. They are saying they want complete autonomy to do whatever they want to do, whenever they want to do it. The French expression laissez-faire describes what they really desire…hands-off management. And that's not how successful businesses operate.
Anyone who has ever operated a business knows that running a business does not include the right to follow the path of the wind. If you operate a publicly-traded company, you have responsibility to the Chairman, the Board of Directors, and the shareholders. If you run a privately-held company, you have accountability to the bank or partners. In both instances, you also have responsibility to the employees. This doesn't quite sound like laissez faire and running a successful business are compatible.
That said, you should treat your sales people as business operators…real business operators. After all, your company is funding their business. Your sales people have an obligation to present their plan to make that business profitable. In essence, you are the primary investor in their business.
The first step toward treating your sales people as business operators is to ask them to provide you with a business plan that shows how they will make their business successful. The plan should not be the second-coming of "War and Peace," but should be thorough-enough to give the investors comfort in the plans for success.
If you provide the sales team with nothing more than the instruction to write a business plan, they will waste a lot of time trying to figure out what you want…and will still miss the mark. The best approach is to create a sales business plan template using the questions the investors have about their business strategy. The overall plan should "map back" to the revenue target you have set for the sales people. If you are asking them to generate a million dollars in revenue, the plans should clearly show how they going to achieve that target.
The plan should have five core components:
- Accounts. The accounts section is the place in the plan to list clients/prospects and their expected revenue contribution toward the million dollar target. If the sales person's target includes both existing accounts and new ones, this section of the plan forecasts the expected performance of their portfolio and documents the new accounts that lead them to the target revenue number.
- Prospecting. The prospecting section shows their plan to build a sales pipeline. If there are no prospects, there are no sales…so understanding their strategy to reach prospects is a key for the investors to sleep at night. This area should highlight both their pipeline development strategy and tactics.
- Sales Metrics. The sales metrics section shows how their activities correspond to results (i.e., revenue). This is a statistical presentation of the sales activities that they will perform that leads them to achieve the million dollar goal. This should show their success formula that works backwards from the goal and corresponds to sales activities (i.e., how many meetings will lead to a proposal, how many proposals will lead to a sale, etc.).
- Skill Development. This is area is often ignored by sales people, but should be important to the investor group. After all, if there is no commitment to continuous self-improvement, how will the business continue to grow? The plan should show what they will do to improve their skills and industry knowledge…with a time commitment.
- Business Needs. The final section of the sales business plan asks what the sales people need from the company to succeed. This area of the plan provides each business operator with an opportunity to share his needs of their manager and the company. It also tells what would prevent him from achieving the million dollar goal. As an investor, you want to know about his potential roadblocks so they can be addressed.
Once the plan is created, a conference call/meeting is scheduled with the investor group (the key business stakeholders) and each sales person. During the call, the sales person presents the sales business plan and the investor group challenges it to make sure it is sound. On a quarterly basis, the sales people present an update to the plan to ensure progress is being made toward the annual million dollar goal.
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Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton have been elbowing one another for the title of Greatest (Silent) Comedian of All Time for almost a century. But sometimes the weeds that grow up between the roses and daises prove themselves to be just as beautiful, colorful, and resilient. With a few shorts and unaccredited features aside, Harold Lloyd never really established himself as a director, but he was no less the consummate artist and devout perfectionist. During a pre-screening Q&A for his 1924 film, Girl Shy, Lloyd's granddaughter revealed that he paid scrupulous attention to audience responses during test screenings, and if a gag or joke didn't garner the type of reaction expected he would go back and re-shoot scenes or re-work the material.
In Girl Shy, Lloyd becomes an antidote to Buster Keaton's Great Stone Face—shy smiles and a face radiating earnestness. He plays a man who is terribly afraid of (if nonetheless fascinated by) women. He is so introverted that coming into contact with a woman sends him stuttering, unable to get a sentence out. And yet, with no actual experience with the opposite sex, he pens a book entitled The Secret of Making Love. This book serves as a dreamed autobiography of his many conquests as well as an instruction manual of sorts on how to win the affection of different types of women such as "The Vamp" or "The Flapper." (With "The Flapper" one must, of course, behave like a caveman because nothing sets a girl's heart beating faster than being thrown against a wall.)
Naturally, it doesn't take Lloyd long to meet the girl of his dreams, who after some plot dramatics is set to marry another man, and at the 11th hour Lloyd must stop the wedding. (And there is nothing like watching a couple of classic American romantic comedies back-to-back to cast in relief just how popular of a storytelling trope this is—Hollywood boils with lasses almost marrying the wrong lads.) The last twenty minutes or so of the film are devoted to Lloyd in cars, on horseback, on foot, weaving in and out of traffic, almost colliding, averting one obstacle after another, getting stuck for a moment only to tirelessly, like Wiley E. Coyote, continue on with his forward thrust of motion. Although we never forget where to and why Lloyd is hurrying plot becomes inconsequential in this last sequence that serves as a rhapsody of ceaseless, dizzying movement, every bit the equal of the flawlessly timed orchestrations of Keaton and Chaplin.
Girl Shy1924
Cry Danger1951
Marathon Man1976
Counsellor at Law1933
Black Sunday1977
Call Her Savage1932
Bonjour Tristesse1958
The Women1939
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My Father Cigars started larger scale manufacturing operations in Esteli, Nicaragua in 2009. Their seven-acre complex includes an installed production process. That means they have the ability to harvest, package and ship to retailers like us at CigarsCity.com from the same complex.That Central American facility now produces cigars along with another facility in Doral, Florida - where the company is headquartered today.
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