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Audience: We are Fine – Craig!
Glad to hear that. Well, I am here to tell you about an amazing product that can answer your LMS questions.
That's right your questions when it comes to identifying a LMS. I know, I know you have heard it before, read about it before, thought about it before and yes, uh, did I say read about it before?
Anyway, with my LMS Identify device, you simply hold the device, ask it a LMS question and whalla the answer magically appears.
Audience: OOOOH, GASP!
Yes, I know it is hard to believe, but let me tell you, that this little device – Not available in stores mind you – can answer those key questions.
Let's give it a try now – Who's Ready? Uh, no not you. Who else?
Q. I am interested in a LMS, but there are so many out there, what do I need to do first?
The first thing you should do is write down what specific features you are looking for in the product. But, with a twist.
You see, most people would start with
- Must have a course catalog, batch upload of users
- Groups can be separated by dept, job code, location, etc.
- Group A sees only X courses, Group Y sees only V courses, and they many not be the same courses
- Need courses that be set in sequential order, so Joe has to complete course Y by X date and so on
I call these statements "Retain on the Brain", because you are not going to forget these requirements. You will not forget them when you view a demo, nor when you are looking at the company's web site or literature. These are your pressing reqs and most systems offer them as standards.
I often hear people say they want mobile learning in their solution, social learning, e-commerce, but when you ask for specifics they sometimes have a blank stare on their face. It is not because they have no idea on what these items are, rather it catches them off guard because they have not thought through all the specifics.
Extended Enterprise – aka Multi-Tenet, Portals-Sub Portals
If you want an EE, you will want e-commerce. So, it becomes one feature you must have, but then drill down. Do you want to accept PayPal, PayPal Pro or Google Checkout? Do you want to accept checks? What about EFT? Does it come with a shopping cart or do you need to buy one? What about a payment gateway – does the LMS vendor assist you with this or do you have to find your own?
And once you select one, how does that work with them? Do they have any reports dedicated for the e-commerce functionality? Can you sell products as well or only courses?
As you can see, just saying e-commerce is not enough. Drilling down, will provide you with additional information you need to ask and know, and as a result, even when looking at a potential vendor's site, you will be able to see what they offer in this area.
You can apply it to any subject area, including reports.
Do you want ad-hoc reports? These are reports that are created by you, based on filters that you set, and are different than canned reports (come pre-set in the system).
Course Authoring Tool
Do you want one that is built in? If yes, and you are using mobile learning – specifically the iPad, wouldn't you want to know what – if any – timetable the vendor has for the ability to output the course in HTML5? Is the CAT included at no additional fee or is it an extra charge?
Even, with the initial premise- Do you want a 100% LMS or a LMS with talent/performance management features?
Because there are systems out there, that are geared towards the latter, so if you have no interest to have a TM/PM components, then why select a system that has one? Especially if it costs extra.
I only know of a few vendors that include a TM/PM feature at no additional cost, it just comes with the system – and their systems are what I consider a full LMS. Why? Because it is just a feature, just as mobile learning is a feature – that comes with the system.
If you decide on having a TM/PM, do you want it turned on when you launch your system or can it be in the "off" position, and you can activate it at whatever point you desire? Today, most systems who offer TM/PM feature sets, have them already in your system. When you buy them, they simply turn them on. Otherwise, they are in the off position.
You may see "modules" or "add-ons" as the terms representing additional cost features. Bottom line, they are extra.
Create three columns
- 1st Column – Must Have (I call them deal breakers – these are things you cannot live without. Remember you already have the "Retain on the Brain" features, so this is based upon your initial list)
- 2nd Column – Need to Have (Not deal breakers, but you still want them)
- 3rd Column – Nice to Have (Again, you would like to have them, but if they are not available, you would have no issue)
Q. A friend of mine, got a RFP template from a LMS vendor's web site. Is it okay for me to use this?
I am not a fan of grabbing RFP templates off of vendor's web sites, only because if you read them in detail you will start to realize that for some of the questions, it is really geared toward that vendor's product. Sure, other vendors could fit in there as well, but as one vendor told me that when they see some of these, they can tell it came from Vendor Z, because of the questions.
If you are going to use the RFP template, then strip it down. With a SaaS based system, there is no need for a 10 or higher RFP.
As aforementioned, when I submit RFPs, it is always one spreadsheet. That's it. It is very specific and right to the point.
The challenge with RFP templates is that, one size does not necessarily fit all. So, unless you are committed to spend a couple of hours going through the RFP template up front and removing things, cutting things away, changing the text to your wordage or specific needs, then there is no real value.
Q. Is it best to send out the RFP before or after I view the demos?
Always after. What is the point of sending one out before you see the demo? While you might perceive that it will save you time, in reality, it will cost you time, because you have to go through them, to find the ones you really want to see.
Then you will view the demos and go on from there.. Trust me, you will spend more time.
Have your questions in hand plus the "Retain in the Brain" ones, and based upon due diligience of going to the vendor's web site, or using a LMS directory (mine includes some comments)/seeking out opinions, y0u have a list of 10 vendors.
Time to make the calls
Talk to the vendors, give out only so many details up front, it is easy to get caught up in the moment, and the next thing you know, you are sharing them your favorite trip you went on in high school story. In an upcoming E-Learning 24/7 linkedin group posting, we will discuss what you should state and not state to them in your initial call.
After you have chatted with the vendors, set up your demos. Each demo is 1 hour in length, and you can state ahead of time specifics you want to see. The reality is vendors have a script if you will, that they follow – it makes sense, because they do not know your e-learning level, knowledge level on LMSs, etc., so having a universal is logical.
But, if you know what you want to see specifcially tell them up front. They will appreciate it. For example, many of my clients are interested in the back end, so i always say I want to see this.
After the demo, start early negotiations. You want to know what price they can offer the system to you at, and what can you get as extras, blah blah. Explain to them, that this does not mean you are going to select them, but rather this is part of your process.
The fun really begins
Whittle the list down to your top three. Contact the three vendors and tell them you want access – front end and back end into a demo LMS or a sandbox LMS, and you would like access for 30 days. Some will offer only 15, so take that.
You want to see it in more detail at your leisure, see really the inner workings, after all, this is going to be your buddy for the next few years. You wouldn't buy a car without taking it for a spin would you? You wouldn't buy a house without going into the house and checking out every nook and cranny right?
You wouldn't buy a television, without turning it on, and using the remote and moving around the showroom to see how the image appears from those far sides would you?
Of course not. So, why change that approach in finding a LMS.
Okay, I have time for one more question. Just one more question. You? No, not you. Anyone else? You? Okay, go ahead.
Q. Are there any LMSs that are less than 55K?
Yes. Well over a hundred systems that are less than 55K and they are not Lite LMSs.
There is an assumption that in order for a system to be great it has to cost over 75K. That is so wrong.
It is the same assumption that unless you buy one of the Big Dogs – Saba, SumTotal, Plateau, etc., then you are not buying a great system. It is totally erroenous.
There are systems that are very good and cost plus 100K, but there are systems that are equally good and cost less than 40K.
As mentioned earlier, if you want a lite LMS that comes with some robust features, then go with Litmos. Very, very inexpensive, but IMO, it is the best Lite LMS I have seen, and I see a lot of systems.
And in my top 20 systems to debut next week, it is in there- I like it that much. But, if you are mid size company, I would not select them, even though I love the system. Because, at the mid size level, you are most likely looking for a standard system and not a Lite LMS.
Bottom Line
By utilizing the steps above, the agony that most people report when searching and selecting a LMS will be gone.
So, will the time that is commonly associated with it.
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In a fun game, students compare sculptures of three Greek immortals. The sculptures include subtle symbols of the subjects' stories. So who is who?
Play Symbols in Art: Who's Who?
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Achelous and Hercules
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Hiram Powers, 1848. Smithsonian American Art Museum
Hiram Powers, 1853. Smithsonian American Art Museum
Hiram Powers, ca. 1867. Smithsonian American Art Museum
Moon image. National Air and Space Museum
Butterfly image. National Museum of Natural History
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Drinking cup depicting Achelous and Hercules. Greek, ca. 560–550 B.C. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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Pyxis depicting Nike. Greek, 450–430 B.C. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Corinthian coin. Greek, ca. 415 B.C. National Numismatic Collection, Smithsonian Institution
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'Love blooms' 50 x 50cm mixed media on canvas.
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The Punjab Agricultural University was established in 1962 to serve the state of erstwhile Punjab. On trifurcation of Punjab in November 1966, Haryana Agricultural University was carved out of PAU by an Act of Parliament in February 1970. Later, in July 1970, Himachal Pradesh Krishi Vishvavidalya was established. In 2006 the College of Veterinary Science was upgraded to become Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Science University (GADVASU) at Ludhiana. The Punjab Agricultural University (PAU) is located in Ludhiana city (Punjab State) in north-west India at a distance of 316 km from New Delhi. It is well connected by road and rail with the national capital. Situated on the Ludhiana - Ferozepur Road, the University covers an area of 1510 acres on its main campus and 4615 acres at the regional research stations. Modeled on the pattern of land grant colleges in U.S.A., the PAU performs the integrated functions of teaching, research and extension in agriculture, agricultural engineering, home science and allied disciplines. The University has well equipped laboratories, library and lecture rooms and elaborate farm facilities. Hostel accommodation is available in the university hostels for single students. Married students, if accompanied by their family members, will have to find accommodation outside the campus.
The PAU has played a key role in increasing food grain production in the Punjab State several folds share its reputation and ushering in an era of Green Revolution in India. It has also made notable contributions in increasing livestock and poultry production. In recognition of its outstanding achievements in agricultural research, education and extension, it was adjudged the Best Agricultural University in India in 1995.
The Punjab Agricultural University now has four constituent colleges, viz. College of Agriculture, College of Agricultural Engineering, College of Home science and College of Basic Sciences & Humanities.
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Xonotic is a free (GPL), fast-paced first-person shooter that works on Windows, OS X and Linux. Xonotic is a direct successor of the Nexuiz Project. The project is geared towards providing addictive arena shooter gameplay which is all spawned and driven by the community itself. Xonotic is a direct successor of the Nexuiz project with years of development between them, and it aims to become the best possible open-source FPS (first-person-shooter) of its kind. New trailer coming soon Please post all support issues in the forums for the game.
Welcome to the 4th issue of Wox-BloX! It's been a while since we gave word about the project, but fear not, it's not because we didn't do anything remarkable or have been resting on our laurels!
Xonotic 0.6 got a very good reception, with coverage on various gaming sites. Since the release, the game has been downloaded over 43000 times from xonotic.org. We now have around 1000 active players, 29 of which are playing at any given time (at least that's what our stats tell us).
This is still not the end of the road, as Xonotic is still far from perfect on numerous aspects. There's no ETA for a new release, but I can already tell you it'll have a lot of long awaited and interesting features, raising the high bar set by 0.6. Let's go over what happened with the game since the latest official release!
Listening to various sources of feedback from inside and outside the community, Xonotic's weapons are being re-designed. The idea is to bring the default game down to only 8 core weapons: a spawn weapon, the Nexrifle, a lightning gun (aka. Arc Cannon), the Rocketlauncher, the Crylink, the Mortar, the Electro and the Hagar. The goals for this consolidation are to remove redundancy, improve on usability, simplify overly complex designs, and generally streamline the system to be more consistent and logical. For competitive players, this will be absolutely essential because it provides features and ideas they've been requesting for ages. It will make the game less confusing and messy for casual players as well. The first step towards this redesign was to move the "gimmick" weapons (Mine Layer, Sniper Rifle, H.L.A.C., T.A.G. seeker etc.) into a game mutator, now known as "new toys".
The second step is already in the works by Samual, who made the 0.6 weapon balance. The basic concept for starters is to merge the two current spawn weapons (the Shotgun and the Laser) into only one, but keeping all the aspects of the two guns: hitscan spread spawn/finishing weapon, laser jumping tool, and melee capability. Further plans include removing the Machinegun (replaced by the Arc Cannon), and the Nexrifle getting its own ammo type. The shotgun's ammo will also be removed as it becomes obsolete.
For more information regarding the weapon re-design, check out it's official thread on our forums.
tZork implemented the quite popular feature among more competitive players known as "Simple Items," known from Quake3 and QuakeLive for example. But what are "simple items"? The function of simple items is to replace weapon pickup and item models with a simple sprite image that faces the player at all times. A small WIP preview of this feature can be seen in the video below:
The sprite models that you can see on the video are WIP models made by K__, who made a streamlined set of simple items:
To learn more, take a visit to the Simple items thread on our forums.
Antibody, "the Chuck Norris of databases", continues to maintain and further develop our global statistics tracking system, Xonstat. Changes include accuracy and effective damage graphs, favorite map tracking per-player, and ranking information on the player info page (stats.xonotic.org/player/).
The first graph shows a player's average accuracy for a given weapon along with the accuracy for that weapon for up to the past 20 games. The graph replaces what was once a big table of numbers containing the accuracy and damage details. One thing to note is that a weapon won't show up under the graph until the tracked player has used it five or more times in the past 90 days.
The second graph shows the effective damage a player dealt per splash damage weapon (Rocket Launcher, Mortar, Electro, etc.). Missed shots (eg. spam) don't count, so with this new graph you can really keep track of how well you're on target.
Note: if you happen to loose your player key file (key_0.d0si), and you'd like merge the new one with the old, simply write an email or pm to either Antibody or Mirio on the Xonotic forums. They can consolidate your player data so all stats information is stored under one account.
Thanks to terencehill the HUD has a new important items timer panel that can only be enabled and seen in spectator mode. The new panel, as its name suggests, prints out the the time remaining in seconds for spawn of the most important items like the Mega Health, Mega Armor, Strenght etc. As usual, the panel has lots of configuration options, so one can fine tune its layout and information printout for personal taste.
The branch is still heavily experimental and could contain bugs, so until it hits master, you can try it out by checking out the branch:
Further boosting the impressive visual quality of Xonotic, MirceaKitsune added cubemap reflections to the playermodels. As the change cannot be well shown with only screenshots, check out the video below to see the new, shiny looks of our playermodels!
The merge request for the cubemap reflections is already done. If you'd like to take a sneak-peak before it reaches master, do a git check out on:
Again, MirceaKitsune coded with help from divVerent a mapping feature, that allows func_train entities to use bezier curves for trajectory and rotation. The code is already merge requested, so expect this functionality to show up in later releases. If you'd like to try it out before that happens, do a git checkout on:
and dowload the pk3 of the example map:
In the first issue of WoX-BloX, we gave word about 8-bit Arena, which is a map built in a very unique 8-bit style with retro gaming references, and homages made to a classic and beautiful era of computer history. It was originally planned to support CTF and Nexball too, but it turned out that the glowy floor-tiles on a larger map would put too much pressure on a server, so those game modes were dropped. Apart from its unique style, the map might be interesting on the technical side for mappers too, as it showcases some mapping tricks never seen in any Xonotic maps before:
After C.Brutail proposed a new, more collaborative mapping procedure for official Xonotic maps, he started the very first map incubator thread for Vociferous, which is the WIP title for a new, competitive oriented TDM map. The map is still very early in planning and designing stages, but ideas are already pouring from the more experienced players, so there's big hope that the map will feature a good flow and a well planned tactical layout that is necessary for a competitive map.
Phew, that was massive! I hope we could get you all up to date with this developer blog, and excited about the new features, that Xonotic 0.7 will bring to you! I'm most certain that the upcoming months will be very exciting regarding development, especially because of the new weapon design. The next issue of WoX-BloX will be about community news. Stay tuned, and happy fragging!
We have great news for those who prefer the competitive side of Xonotic. First, let's take a look at the recent happenings since we last gave word about...
We've got some really important informations for mappers, please pay attention and spread the news! Over the past month or so, quite a lot of things...
We've released the 3rd installment of our insider blog, the WoX-Blox! This time it's another community news, 'cause development carries on at a crazy...
Wishing you a happy New Year in 2012 from Team Xonotic!
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Deader than bread.
Not necessarily. Last game version was released in 2017. They probably just abandoned moddb.
Best fps on desura ! nice game to make lans ! :)
F@CKING update the damn game to 0.7
Alright, Desura. It is a few days from October, are you going to give the people what they want, or are you just going to stop releasing new updates for Xonotic? >:/
0.7 has been out for a little under 5 months now. Is this getting updated at all?
If this game will not normaly run on windows, im will hate this game. 3/10 because it dont runs on windows.
Wish all these Windows players would stop complaining and just switch to Linux
Why don't I have sound?
wow this game is awesome takes me right back to the quake days :]
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By Bill Frayer
Here's Your Brain Online
If you're like me, you fire up your computer first thing in the morning, check your email, check out some newspapers from around the world, and perhaps visit a few other websites. How did we manage before the Internet? Remember when a topic would come up in discussion over a few beers and we couldn't immediately access the information to resolve a dispute? Now, we can "Google" just about anything. Has all this access to information made us wiser? Well, that is a topic for another day, perhaps, but there is increasing evidence that reading online has changed the way we think and read.
It is important to remember that we have regularly experienced huge changes in the way we process and understand information. The development of writing diminished the importance of an oral tradition. The printing press made it possible for us to understand thoughts and ideas from previous lifetimes. And, of course, first radio, then television, discouraged many of us from reading books as we learned to prefer the passive immediacy of information packaged as entertaining video. Since the 1980's, we have begun to use the Internet as our primary source of reading and understanding our world, and it has changed the nature of reading itself.
Nicholas Carr, in his now-famous Atlantic article, "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" points out that the Internet "is becoming our map and our clock, our printing press and our typewriter, our calculator and our telephone, and our radio and TV." It is becoming our primary source for information, communication and entertainment. Because our brains are plastic and adapt to the stimuli they receive, our ability to read and think are adapting to this new medium.
Neil Postman, the late social commentator from NYU, in his book Amusing Ourselves to Death, pointed out that we have lost our ability to concentrate on complex written arguments. He uses the example of the Lincoln-Douglas debates in the 1854 when regular people stood in the hot sun and watched these two senate candidates debate the great issue of slavery for hours, with rapt attention. Television, Postman points out, has dwarfed our attention span and created a type of intellectual impatience which makes such an event inconceivable today.
Carr cites research that our online reading has further changed our appetite and ability to follow complex written reasoning. " 'We are not only what we read,' says Maryanne Wolf, a developmental psychologist at Tufts University. 'We are how we read.' Wolf worries that the style of reading promoted by the Net, a style that puts 'efficiency' and 'immediacy' above all else, may be weakening our capacity for the kind of deep reading that emerged when an earlier technology, the printing press, made long and complex works of prose commonplace. When we read online, she says, we tend to become 'mere decoders of information.' Our ability to interpret text, to make the rich mental connections that form when we read deeply and without distraction, remains largely disengaged."
Have we reached a point where we have replaced thoughtful wisdom with the endless access to up-to-date information? Will future generations of "plugged-in" people never experience the thoughtful prose of James Fallows or Buckminster Fuller? Will our computer-mediated thoughts and reasoning become more shallow, albeit more detailed? Does it matter? After all, we survived the development of writing, printing, radio and television. Nevertheless, I would suggest that our gradual loss of the appetite and ability to carefully read long, complex arguments may be problematic. Critical thinking requires reading deep, complex ideas, not impatient skimming and hypertext links.
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Despite shrinking sales, declining shelf space, and the rise in popularity of relatively inexpensive e-book editions, mass market paperback is still a category that can be used to break out an author—especially in tandem with other publishing formats. A number of publishers contacted by PW said despite the category's decline, mass market pricing combined with savvy marketing in the right genres—among them romance, westerns, paranormal, and crime/thrillers—can still lift an author's sales, significantly.
Nevertheless, the category presents problems. "It has become very difficult to launch a new author in mass market," said Pocket Books executive v-p and publisher Louise Burke. "It appears that the e-book format has filled that void in some cases." But other publishers continue to look to mass market paperback originals as a way to build a following and establish a writer in the marketplace.
"We love mass market and always have," said Kensington v-p and publisher Laurie Parkin. "It's a great way to break out a career. We love mass market originals." Publishers at HarperCollins's Avon romance imprint and at Harlequin agreed. Liate Stehlik, senior v-p and publisher at Avon, said HarperCollins continues to be "enthusiastic" about mass market, contending that the decline in mass market unit sales is coming primarily in the reprint segment rather than from sale of mass market originals. Harlequin's Loriana Sacilotto, executive v-p, global editorial, said it is still possible to launch a writer in the category: "We still consider mass market to be an integral and viable space for debut authors," while adding the caveat, "with the right publishing and marketing strategy—and it may not happen overnight."
All the publishers contacted emphasized that mass market works best with genre fiction, citing such categories as romance, crime/thrillers, family sagas, paranormal romance, and mysteries. They also pointed to the importance of pricing, "innovative" marketing, working closely with retailers, and digital support—both from e-books and digital marketing tools.
"Mass market originals are an impulse buy—they're cheaper than hardcovers and give the reader great value for the price," said Parkin. Indeed, Parkin noted that mass market continues to be "great to launch a career or to re-establish a career," pointing to the house's strategy to build a following for Nancy Bush, sister of bestselling Kensington author Lisa Jackson. Kensington worked to build her career by publishing a series of novels written by the sisters to be followed this year by the release of two Bush mass market novels, back to back, in August (Nowhere to Run, $7.99) and September (Nowhere to Hide). Nowhere to Run is currently on the New York Times bestseller list. Parkin said Bush sells in the "150,000-copy range."
Parkin also cited established bestselling author Lisa Jackson, who will publish three books this year, among them Afraid to Die, a mass market original that was published in June; after shipping 600,000 copies it "broke all sales records and continues to sell." And noting the importance of marketing, Parkin said the publisher placed a teaser ad in the book for her next hardcover.
Sacilotto singled out Harlequin authors RaeAnne Thayne and B.J. Daniels, both launched in mass market: "Both authors wrote for our brand-led series program, so both developed a fan base in genre fiction." Sacilotto also highlighted three Harlequin authors who have "shown tremendous growth in a changing and challenging mass market paperback market," pointing to authors Robyn Carr (average book sales over the last three years in mass market have grown from 85,000 to 202,000), Susan Mallery (average sales have grown over the last three years from 82,000 to 157,000), and Sherryl Woods (average sales have grown from 160,000 to 294,000).
At Avon, Stehlik noted that author Alison Gaylin's And She Was, a suspense novel published at $5.99 in February, has sold more than 116,400 print copies to date (with another 4,515 in e-book format); Stehlik said there are plans to do another Gaylin title in 2013. She also pointed to Avon's strategy for The Cloud by Matt Richtel, which will be published in February 2013. HarperCollins published Richtel's Devil's Plaything in mass market in 2011 and this year released "Floodgate," a teaser e-book original short story that will be included in The Cloud when it is published next year. In fact, while many publishers worry that the ever-increasing popularity of e-books among romance/genre readers may cannibalize mass market sales, the publishers PW talked with urged the creative use of e-books as well as digital marketing tools to help support mass market titles.
Despite her skepticism over the viability of mass market originals, Burke emphasized, "We use the digital marketing tools available to promote many mass market authors, especially romance, where we can find many outlets to do so. We do this for new and established authors." Stehlik said, "You want to balance the print market with the e-market," and Parkin said Kensington has not seen cannibalization from e-books. She said the company has seen sales of its mass market authors grow in both print and digital. "We look on the book and the author as one entity. Digital can build print and print can build digital."
"There are lots of opportunities to support mass market paperback launches with digital content," Sacilotto said, "either backlist or original novellas that are connected to the mass market stories. Digital provides a variety of easily and widely accessible sampling opportunities that introduce readers to books in advance of release and gets readers talking about them and sharing reviews. A wider range of readers can discover a book."


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Monday, February 21, 2011
A few more goods for the straw market
I made all the bags and hats from raffia.
I am taking time out from making more staff now. I have one more swap coming up and have to work at it.
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Friday, February 18, 2011
The pictures do not do enough justice to these lovely miniatures. Am I not lucky?
Monday, February 14, 2011
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Friday, February 11, 2011
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I didn't make these baskets. I bought them at a craft fair a long time ago, before I started miniaturing, and hung them in my kitchen like you do with braided garlic or onions. They were very decorative. I always had my eyes open for miniatures. I am not so happy with the color of the stall but maybe with the other stalls and other colors it will be alright.
Monday, February 7, 2011
Preparing goods for the straw market
First of all, a warm welcome to my new friends: Si, Ayamontinomaria, Araceli Lombilla Reyes, Marie 75, Artisluna. I could not find blogs of some of my followers. When I do I sign in as a follower and enjoy seeing your work.
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For my initial report today on the Katie Holmes/Tom Cruise split, please click here. NYC paps say Katie Holmes was still wearing her wedding ring on Wednesday. Pictures are attached. You know what's interesting about that? They've always said that Tom and his inner circle check pap photos when he's away from her, just to make sure. On top of having staff surround her.
There are so many stories being floated right now it's hard to keep track and sort through it. Some are saying she's been slowly, secretly planning it for a while with the help of her parents reaching out to old contacts, like her old publicists, to execute the extraction. As I mentioned earlier, she's now back with the publicity team at BWR.
As for the "big bang moment", just like it was with Nicole Kidman, there's a theory that she observed something that shocked her out of her Xenu hypnosis, something behavioural that may have had to do with their daughter. In her case, if this was the case, she was a lot more clever and stealth about handling it than her predecessor, lining up a solid support system before he could step in and cut her off. Like I said, every source has 10 sources right now and all of them are trying to figure it out.
Here's Connor Cruise boarding a helicopter in Iceland where Cruise has been shooting. Production is not expected to be delayed. Of course not. Whatever he is, he is a professional. And besides, he's only complete when he's on set, pretending to be someone else. That looks like Isabella Cruise in the toque but since there are no face shots, I don't want to say for sure. What do you do if you're Katie and Connor and Isabella show up to plead their dad's case? Connor is said to be, um, pretty Scientologically solid. You know these Church people. They'll try to break in however they can. Katie is in for a fight.


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"Good Evening, this is your pilot, Prince, speaking" comes out of the loudspeakers, all softness and breath, full of welcome. It's a flight you may not have taken before. Brace yourself, he ought to say. This is "International Lover," something the globe-conquering Prince claims to be. And this is his live act, which takes place on a grand, two-tiered stage hung with gigantic Venetian blinds. In high-heeled boots, a flouncy ruffled blouse and a purple quasi-Edwardian suit, Prince begins to climb to the higher level, taking long strides that end in a hip-locking sway, a Rita Hayworth sort of walk. "You are flying aboard the Seduction 747," he rasps. "To activate the flow of excitement, extinguish all clothing materials." Standing alone on the upper riser, Prince simply points a finger, and -- you imagine this happens every time Prince extends his long index finger -- a brass bed materializes. Stripping off his jacket, his shirt, unbuckling his belt so that a long strap hangs between his legs, Prince climbs onto the mattress and begins to undulate over the bed. "We are now making our final approach to satisfaction. Please bring your lips, your arms, your hips into the up and locked position for landing," he says, panting, and lets out a piercing scream that seems to announce the sudden fall from the sky of the flight of Seduction 747 -- and Prince and the bed disappear.
All cocky, teasing talk about sex, that's Prince. Forget Mr. Look So Good; meet the original Mr. Big Stuff. He's afraid of nothing onstage: ready to take on all the desires of a stadium full of his lusty fans, ready to marry funky black dance music and punky white rock music after their stormy separation through the Seventies, ready to sell his Sex Can Save Us message to anybody who'll give his falsetto a listen. Nor does anything scare him when he's at home alone, composing.
Out comes a paean to incest called "Sister," a song called "Head" about a bride who meets Prince on her way to be wed and says, "I must confess, I wanna get undressed and go to bed," and a song called "Jack U Off." He even advised the president, "Ronnie Talk to Russia." So bold that half of his material is radio-censored, Prince is wailing, "Guess I should have closed my eyes when you drove me to the place where your horses run free/Cuz I felt a little ill when I saw all the pictures of the jockeys that were there before me" (in "Little Red Corvette"), while Lionel Richie is everywhere on the radio with "Truly, I love you truly."
His music, a technofunk and rock blend that many have started to call "the Minneapolis sound" because of the way the Minnesota native's influence is spreading, is the freshest thing around. So Kraftwerk made The Man Machine? This is the Man Sex Machine. He usually plays every instrument on his albums, even sings his own backup most of the time. His upper register can give you goose flesh when he's singing gospel style, and he can turn around and hiccup his way through rockabilly like a perfect descendant of Elvis. There just don't seem to be any bounds to Prince's nerve or talent -- each album is better than the last (he's made five), each stage show more outrageous.
A tour begun in November of last year had grossed almost $7 million before the end of March. Prince's new double album, 1999, has sold almost 750,000 copies, with its hottest single, "Little Red Corvette," closing in on the Top Twenty on Billboard's Hot 100 chart. And two groups he helped form made the black chart's Top Ten this winter: Vanity 6, a coquettish trio that performs in lingerie and whose "Nasty Girls" was a disco smash, and the Time, the tightest, funkiest live band in America.
Prince, just twenty-two, is the father of it all. But just try checking out the lineage. There isn't just a private side to Prince, there's an almost mysterious aspect. While the art of self-promotion has never been alien to rock & roll, it seems only to frustrate Prince. He was fairly outspoken until last fall, when, after his first interview to promote 1999, he walked out of the room and announced that he would never talk to the press again. "He's afraid he might say something wrong or say too much," says a former aide-de-camp.
When he did talk, he often contradicted himself. Rumors started to spread, and now his silence feeds them. Is Prince his real name? Is he black or white, straight or gay (questions he himself raised on his 1981 hit-cum-Lord's Prayer recitation, "Controversy")? Is he the Jamie Starr who produced albums by the Time and Vanity 6? Is he a shy little Prince or a despotic king?
"Prince controls the whole scene in Minneapolis," says a local musician who has worked with him. Others who've lived with him or worked alongside him say he loves to surround himself with an air of mystery, to create false identities to tangle the clues that lead to him. Cutting off all but a few close friends, Prince tends to hole up at his huge home, with its modern basement studio, on a lake twenty miles west of Minneapolis. One member of his band says he's had just one personal conversation with Prince in all the years he's known him. "He's a real 'to himself' kind of person," says Morris Day, the Time's frontman and a longtime friend.
"He doesn't like to talk," says Vanity, the awesomely beautiful leader of Vanity 6, who accompanied Prince to the Grammys in February.
"Sir Highness," says another friend, "has a way of secluding himself."
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Piece together Prince's story from his own partial accounts, and you come up with sort of a musical Wild Child, an untamed loner who raised himself and taught himself how to survive among the wolves. Patch together the history told by the people close to him, and you get a version like this:
The first notes of the Minneapolis sound were heard in a big brick house in North Minneapolis, an aging, primarily black section of town that draws outsiders only to the Terrace Theater, a movie house designed to look like a suburban backyard patio, and the Riverview Supper Club, the nightspot a black act turns to after it has polished its performance on the local chitlin circuit. North Minneapolis is a poor area by local standards, but a family with not too much money can still afford the rent on a whole house. It was there that Bernadette Anderson, who was already raising six kids of her own by herself; decided to take in a doe-eyed kid named Prince, a pal of her youngest son, Andre.
The thirteen-year-old Prince had landed on the Anderson doorstep after having been passed from his stepfather and mother's home to his dad's apartment to his aunt's house. "I was constantly running from family to family," Prince has said. "It was nice on one hand, because I always had a new family, but I didn't like being shuffled around. I was bitter for a while, but I adjusted."
His father, John Nelson, was a musician himself -- a piano player in a jazz band by night, a worker at Honeywell, the electronics company, by day. Nelson is black and Italian; his ex-wife, says Prince of his mother, "is a mixture of a bunch of things." Onstage, the father was called Prince Rogers, and that is what he named his son, Prince Rogers Nelson.
John Nelson moved out of the family home when Prince was seven. But he left behind his piano, and it became the first instrument Prince learned to play. The songs he practiced were TV themes -- Batman and The Man From U.N.C.L.E. "My first drum set was a box full of newspapers," he has said, explaining how he came to play a whole range of instruments. "At thirteen, I went to live with my aunt. She didn't have room for a piano, so my father bought me an electric guitar, and I learned how to play." But the aunt wasn't keen on the noise, and she threw him out. It was then that Prince turned up at Andre's.
Hardly into their teens, Prince and Andre (who uses the surname Cymone) had already formed their first group. Prince recalled, "I got my first band. I wanted to hear more instruments, so I started Champagne, a twelve-piece band. Only four of us played. Eight were faking. Andre and I played saxophone. I also played piano. I wrote all the music. The songs were all instrumentals. No one ever sang. When I got into high school, I started to write lyrics. I'd write the really, really vulgar stuff."
Andre, on the other hand, claims the first band had Prince playing lead guitar, Andre himself on bass guitar, his sister Linda on keyboards and the Time's Morris Day on drums. The group was called Grand Central, later renamed Champagne. The musicians all wore suede-cloth suits with their zodiac signs sewn on the back (Prince, born on June 7th, 1960, had Gemini, the twins, on his). For a time, they were managed by Morris' mother, which didn't make Prince very happy. "She wasn't fast enough for Prince," says Mrs. Anderson. "He wanted her to get them a contract right away."
The band practiced in Andre's basement, where Prince had established a bedroom of his own. "It sounded like a lot of noise" says Bernadette Anderson. "But after the first couple of years, I realized the seriousness of it. They were good kids. Girls were crazy about them."
Andre -- whose father had played bass in the Prince Rogers Band -- says that although the family was poor, Prince "dug the atmosphere. It was freedom for him." There wasn't enough money to buy records, but there was a family friend -- a reclusive black millionaire, says one source -- who gave the kids the money to go to a local studio to record a few songs. The studio they picked was called Moon Sound.
Moon Sound was an eight-track studio that charged about thirty-five dollars an hour back in 1976, when Prince and Andre and the rest of Champagne walked in the door. The owner, Chris Moon, was a lyricist looking for a collaborator. "Prince always used to show up at the studio with a chocolate shake in his hand, sipping out of a straw," Moon remembers. "He looked pretty tame. Then he'd pick up an instrument and that was it. It was all over."
Prince soon agreed to work with Moon, and the studio owner handed the seventeen year-old a set of keys to the studio. "He'd stay the weekend, sleep on the studio floor," Moon says. "I wrote down directions on how to operate the equipment, so he'd just follow the little chart -- you know, press this button to record and this button to play back. That's when he learned to operate studio equipment. Pretty soon, I could sit back and do the listening."
One person who heard Prince's early recordings was Owen Husney, who became his first manager. Husney put together an expensive package that included a demo tape of three twelve-minute songs on which Prince sang and played all the instruments, and he went off to L.A. to make a pitch to the record companies. Three labels -- CBS, Warner Bros. and A&M -- eventually made offers. Prince finally signed with Warner Bros., where, says an executive, they "were taken with the simplicity of his music and a future that looked wide open," and where he was offered a firm three-LP contract, unheard of for a new artist.
Lenny Waronker, then head of A&R and now president of the label, was impressed enough to allow Prince to act as producer of his debut album. "I met him when we first signed him," Waronker recalls. "[Producer] Russ Titelman and I took him into the studio one day, much to his chagrin. So we said, 'Play the drums,' and he played the drums and put a bass part on, a guitar part. And we just said, 'Yeah, fine, that's good enough.'"
Sales of the first Prince album, For You, released in 1978, weren't so hot, but the fact that the kid was a one-man band -- and his own producer -- got a lot of attention. Then, in 1979, the single "I Wanna Be Your Lover" from his eponymous second LP went to Number One on the soul charts. But the age of innocence was almost over. Prince was back in Minneapolis putting together a band a straggly mix of blacks and whites, all recruited locally. His old friend Andre Cymone was among them, playing bass.
There was a lot of pressure from my ex-buddies in other bands not to have white members in the band," Prince has said. "But I always wanted a band that was black and white. Half the musicians I knew only listened to one type of music. That wasn't good enough for me."
The band, with its double keyboards, learned to reproduce the music Prince had been creating alone in the studio. The synthesizers, often playing horn lines, are a hallmark of the Minneapolis sound. The guitar signature is edgy rock, but the beat reins in any long guitar solos. "Around here, if it's not synthesizers, it's nothing," says a local Minneapolis musician. "This is a keyboard town. It's simplicity. If you listen to a lot of Prince or the Time, it's simple. It's direct and straight to the point. And it feels so good."
With a band to spread the word on the road, Prince was ready, in 1980, to unleash Dirty Mind, his bawdy third album. 1999 wasn't very far away.
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Prince does not dress like your average rock star. Not for him the futuristic, stretchy costumes of the Commodores, or the raggedy jeans of the Bruce Springsteen types. He wears bright eye makeup, and his hair seems a cross between Little Richard and neorockabilly styles. He dresses in his own rococo street-kid fashion. Last year, when Prince won an award from a Minneapolis weekly newspaper for Minnesota Musician of the Year, he showed up in his most formal clothes -- black trench coat and white go-go boots (his acceptance speech: "When do they give the award for the best ass?").
And he's been known to perform in nothing but boots and a pair of bikini underpants. It's quite an act -- that lean, almost nude body singing no-holds-barred lyrics. "How come you don't call me?" he wails in gospel falsetto in one song. "Don't you wanna play with my tootsie roll?" And he entreats his audiences into the singalong to "Head -- "I'll give you head, love you till you're dead."
It's sex sure -- girls screech whenever he tosses black lace bikini underwear into the audience -- but it's also very funny. Teddy Pendergrass, Marvin Gaye and Richard "Dimples" Fields are all out of the same school of seduction, but Prince seems to have been off studying with Mae West, learning high camp and low-rent vamping. He's developed a great sense of humor, even if he takes his sex-is-liberation politics very seriously. And from the giddy "Gotta Stop Messin' About" to "Let's Work," nobody has so well expressed the exhilarating freedom of adolescent sexual energy since Michael Jackson yelped "I Want You Back."
"Prince has brought a boldness out of black entertainers again," says Alexander (O'Neil --there's a penchant for first names only in this crowd), a Minneapolis singer who fronted an early version of the Time. "Jimi Hendrix and Little Richard -- they always dressed bizarre. Now Prince is doing it in a new era. He's making a lot of entertainers wake up to things. You're making a statement in life. It's all about being your own self. Like Prince says, 'It's all about being free."
Why so much sex? someone asked him once. "My songs are more about love than they are about sex," he answered. "I don't consider myself a great poet, or interpreter a la Moses. I just know I'm here to say what's on my mind, and I'm in a position where I can do that. It would be foolish for me to make up stories about going to Paris, knocking off the queen and things of that nature."
Prince was just seventeen when he co-wrote, with studio owner Chris Moon, the single from his first LP, a song called "Soft and Wet." Already, they had considered the commercial potential of an innocent sexuality. "That was the original concept," says Moon, "and it's stayed true to that. I had a conversation with him on the phone about a year ago, and I said, 'I see you're still staying with the "Soft and Wet" theme. But you're making it a little more blatant. What is this I hear about "Head"?' And he goes, 'Yeah, well, I decided to make it a little more straightforward so that everyone would get it."
Everyone does seem to be getting it these days, including Prince's dad. "When I first played the Dirty Mind album for him," Prince has said of his father, "he said, 'You're swearing on the record. Why do you have to do that?' And I said, 'Because I swear.'"
Prince, apparently, is not a character played out in the music. "His persona is Prince, onstage and offstage," says his friend and personal manager, Steve Fargnoli. "He's just as outspoken and outrageous offstage, in his business dealings." But he is shy, Fargnoli adds, and he says what he has to say about his politics and music on his records, not in conversation. And soon, he'll be saying it all in a movie: Prince has written the film treatment and most of the score for a musical that he'll also act in. "He is demanding of himself and of everyone who works around him," says Fargnoli. "You always have to be on your toes. He doesn't play by the rules."
The rules he plays by, instead, are his rules. He comes on strong. Is he -- with his androgynous look, his royal name and his sex-mad lyrics -- scarier to white audiences than Mr. T? Album-oriented radio is certainly skittish about playing Prince, saying that funk doesn't cut it with their heavy-metal-loving listeners. On the other hand, his videos are popular with MTV viewers. Prince's audience actually seems to be as integrated as that of the old soul stars (Prince's management company estimates his concert audiences to be forty percent white). People who like, say, James Brown have found Prince, and they like the way he uses elements of rock & roll while keeping an R&B backbone in the music.
And although armchair sociologists might suggest that a really outrageous performer has a better chance of succeeding in conservative times like these and may cite Little Richard's reign in the Fifties as an example, neither Little Richard nor Prince would have made a dent in the music market without talent. Prince, whose refusal to speak to the press has made him less visible than other musicians, probably is popular in spite of not because of, his image. After all, he has a following of people caught up in the visceral charge of his music, not an audience of voyeurs.
He can count among his fans John Cougar, who was so impressed on hearing Prince's "Little Red Corvette" that he started touting Prince to his own concert audiences. Before 20,000 fans in Tulsa, he ran backstage to get his cassette deck, then played a tape of Prince's hit single into his microphone. For the LP Cougar is producing for Mitch Ryder, the first 45 is likely to be Ryder's recording of Prince's "When You Were Mine." And Cougar has -- unsuccessfully, so far -- been trying to get a message to Prince: would he sing on Cougar's new album?
What Time Is It?
Joni Mitchell songs blare out of the PA between the sets of Prince's road show, at his request. Vanity 6, three women in lacy camisoles, open the concert. "I love lingerie," explains Vanity, the leader of the group. "I used to sneak into my mother's closet and try to wear her lingerie to school." She picked her nickname because "a girl's best friend is her pride," she says. Like her cohorts, Brenda and Susan, Vanity gave a demo tape of her songs to Prince a year ago. "He said there were a couple other girls whose minds seemed to run alongside mine," she says. Prince then arranged to bring Vanity, a twenty-two-year-old former model from Toronto, to Minneapolis to meet the other two, flying Brenda in from Boston. Soon, the three were writing songs like "Drive Me Wild" and "Nasty Girls" in which Vanity coos, "I can't control it/I need seven inches or more."
It all seems a figment of Prince's imagination, a living fantasy. "Prince and I happen to think alike," says Vanity.
On their record, Vanity 6 is backed by the Time; onstage, they're followed by the Time (who, in turn, are followed by Prince). At one point in the Time's set, frontman Morris Day, a terrific dancer, calls out his valet. The valet -- who often follows Morris' own dance steps like a shadow -- brings out a table, sets it with a white cloth and a vase of flowers, and uncorks a bottle of champagne. Morris, meanwhile, in his trademark two-tone Stacy Adams shoes, waltzes with a girl chosen from the audience. This sort of classy deportment was the starting point for the Time, as organized by Morris. "The image was cool. That's the key word," he says. "That's what we built the Time around. Cool is an attitude, a self-respect thing."
Morris didn't exactly put the group together -- all but guitarist Jesse Johnson had been playing around Minneapolis in a band called Flyte Tyme (known familiarly as the Tyme even then). But it is Morris who has led the band to the point where it now often steals the show from the scantily clad Vanity 6 and even from Prince. Morris, the former drummer, has stayed closer to traditional R&B but, by injecting his good humor, has developed one of the best live acts in the country.
Prince, says Morris, helped the band get its Warner Bros. contract in 1981. Asked why the Time shares the same teenage-sex themes as Prince, Morris says, "Sex is present in everybody's life. I don't think anybody owns the rights to that." Asked if Prince influenced their sound, Morris says what Vanity says: "We believe in the same things." Asked about Jamie Starr, an icy tension descends. Although Morris Day and one Jamie Starr are credited as producers on the Time's first record, there is reason to believe that the record was, in fact, produced by Prince. One source very close to the situation says that not only is all the material written by Prince (mysteriously, there are no writing credits on the LP), but that the instruments are played by Prince and the voice is Prince's doubled with Morris Day's. This insider claims that the record -- a more commercial, more straightforward R&B album -- is a project Prince offered Warner Bros. because his own bolder stuff wasn't selling impressively. So, goes this theory, Prince set the Time in motion -- and created a pseudonym, Jamie Starr, for his new project.
Prince did tell a reporter in an early interview with the Minnesota Daily, when he was just seventeen, that someday he would make jazz recordings under an alias. (In that same interview, Prince claimed not to be averse to choreography, but he drew the line at spins -- "I get nauseated.") So the idea of working with a fictitious name had occurred to him at the beginning of his career.
And although Morris says that he and the band wrote the songs on their first LP, The Time, a call to the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), with whom the songs are registered, casts some doubt. The composer of the hits "Get It Up" and "Cool" is Prince Rogers Nelson (with Dez Dickerson on "Cool"), says an ASCAP spokesman. Prince's manager says that the fact that Prince's name is registered for the Time's record is "a filing mistake."
"Let me clear up a few rumors while I have the chance," Prince told the Los Angeles Times. "One, my real name is Prince. Two, I'm not gay. And three, I'm not Jamie Starr."
"Jamie Starr is an engineer, the coproducer of our record. Of course he's real," says Morris Day, whose band now outplays whoever it was on the first Time record.
But if there is a Jamie Starr, why can't he be reached? Manager Steve Fargnoli says it's because he's "in and out of Minneapolis," because he's "a reclusive maniac" like Prince) and because "it could be months before I see him." Can he be reached by phone? "No." Well, you wouldn't need to call him over to Prince's home studio if he's already there. "Prince is Jamie Starr" says former Warner Bros. artist and fellow Minneapolitan Sue Ann (Carwell), who has been a friend of Prince's for years -- ever since he wrote and produced her first demo tape. Others who are close to Prince also say that he is Jamie Starr, but they refuse to be quoted in print. But, says one, "everybody knows who's the main man behind everything."
We could be this generation's Yardbirds," Prince's guitarist Dez Dickerson boasted to a reporter about the way everybody was splintering off Prince's musical family tree and making solo records.
Dickerson himself wrote "He's So Dull" for Vanity 6 and has done some solo recording. Andre Cymone, since leaving Prince's band a year and a half ago, has signed a CBS contract and released an LP, Livin' in the New Wave, on which he plays all the instruments and produces himself. Alexander has released a twelve-inch dance record, "Do You Dare." Sue Ann, who had a hit in "Rock Me" a few years ago, has finished a new album, Inside Out. And the Time's bassist, Terry Lewis, and keyboardist, Jimmy Jam, recently wrote and produced a couple of songs for the all-girl group Klymaxx.
"Minneapolis is a mini-Motown," says Alexander, summing it up. "We'll have a hell of a lot to do with the musical direction of the Eighties."
But Minneapolis offers a kind of calm within the music industry, and they all stay on there, honing their acts. And while they're working, they're left alone. There's no chasing limousines there. There aren't any limousines carrying celebrities to the nightspots.
So nobody made a big deal of it when Prince walked into First Avenue,
a club in downtown Minneapolis last summer, a rock club where images
of Grand Master Flash, the Human League, the Clash and others flash
in montage on the walls. What's new? somebody asked Prince. Sheepishly,
he held up a test pressing of 1999 that he had tucked under
his arm. Later on, he asked the DJ to throw his new song, "Delirious," on
the turntable. And then, with his hottest record filling up the enormous
room, Prince took Vanity out onto the middle of the dance floor to
give his own record the ultimate test. They wiggled around, they strutted,
they dipped. And Prince looked happy. It had a good beat. It was easy
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"Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will – his personal responsibility."
Albert Einstein
"It is a painful thing to look at your own trouble and know that you yourself and no one else has made it."
"A sign of wisdom and maturity is when you come to terms with the realization that your decisions cause your rewards and consequences. You are responsible for your life, and your ultimate success depends on the choices you make."
Denis Waitley
What is one of the most boring and tiresome words ever?
Like discipline, responsibility is one of those words you have probably heard so many times from authority figures that you've developed a bit of an allergy to it.
Still, it's one of the most important things to grow and to feel good about your life. Without it as a foundation nothing else here or in any personal development book really works.
So today I'd like to explore personal responsibility with the help from some timeless thoughts on the topic.
1. There is always a price to pay.
"Freedom is the will to be responsible to ourselves."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it."
George Bernard Shaw
"When you blame others, you give up your power to change."
Not taking responsibility may be less demanding, less painful and mean less time spent in the unknown. It's more comfortable.
You can just take it easy and blame problems in your life on someone else. But there is always a price to pay.
When you don't take responsibility for your life you give away your personal power.
2. Build your self-esteem.
"Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the high road to pride, self-esteem and personal satisfaction."
Brian Tracy
"The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs."
Joan Didion
Why do people often have self-esteem problems?
I'd say that one of the big reasons is that they don't take responsibility for their lives. Instead someone else is blamed for the bad things that happen and a victim mentality is created and empowered.
This damages many vital parts in your life. Stuff like relationships, ambitions and achievements.
That hurt will not stop until you wise up and take responsibility for your life. There is really no way around it.
And the difference is really remarkable. Just try it out. You feel so much better about yourself even if you only take personal responsibility for your own life for day.
This is also a way to stop relying on external validation like praise from other people to feel good about yourself.
Instead you start building a stability within and a sort of inner spring that fuels your life with positive emotions no matter what other people say or do around you.
Which brings us to the next reason to take personal responsibility…
3. Give yourself the permission to live the life you want.
"When we have begun to take charge of our lives, to own ourselves, there is no longer any need to ask permission of someone."
George O'Neil
By taking responsibility for our lives we not only gain control of what happens. It also becomes natural to feel like you deserve more in life as your self-esteem builds and as you do the right thing more consistently.
You feel better about yourself.
This is critically important.
Because it's most often you that are standing in your own way and in the way of your success.
It's you that start to self-sabotage or hold yourself back in subtle or not so subtle ways once you are on your way to the success you dream of.
To remove that inner resistance you must feel and think that you actually deserve what you want. You may be able to do a little about that by affirmations and other positive techniques.
But the biggest impact by far comes from taking responsibility for yourself and your life. By doing the right thing.
4. Taking action becomes natural.
"Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility."
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
It is often said that your thoughts become your actions. But without taking responsibility for your life those thoughts often just stay on that mental stage and aren't translated into action.
Taking responsibility for your life is that extra ingredient that makes taking action more of a natural thing. You don't get stuck in just thinking, thinking and wishing so much.
You become proactive instead of passive.
5. Understand the limits of your responsibility.
"Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens."
Taking responsibility for your life is great. But that is also all that you have control over.
You can't control the results of your actions. You can't control how someone reacts to what you say or what you do.
It's important to know where your limits are. Otherwise you'll create a lot unnecessary suffering for yourself and waste energy and focus by taking responsibility for what you can't and never really could control.
6. Don't forget to take responsibility in everyday life too.
"I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble."
Helen Keller
"You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today."
Abraham Lincoln
Life consists of each day. Not just the big events sometime in the future.
So don't forget to take responsibility for the little things today too. Don't postpone it.
Taking responsibility for your life can be hard and taxing on you. It's not something you master over the weekend. So you might as well get started with the it right now.
7. Aim to be your best self.
"Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself."
Henry Ward Beecher
"Peak performance begins with your taking complete responsibility for your life and everything that happens to you."
Brian Tracy
This is of course not easy. But it's a lot of fun and the payoff is massive.
- You are not trying to escape from your life anymore. Instead you take control, face what's going on and so the world and new options open up for you.
- You start taking action not just when you feel like it. Improvement isn't about short spurts once in a while. Consistent action is what really pays off and can help you achieve just about anything.
- You build your self-esteem to higher levels. And may discover that many smaller problems you experience regularly such as negative thinking, self-defeating behavior and troubled relationships with yourself and others start to correct themselves as your self-esteem improves. You gain an inner stability and can create your own positive feelings within without the help of validation from other people.
So how do you take responsibility?
Well, it's simply choice that you have to make.
Reviewing the reasons above and also the awesome quotes is for me a powerful way to keep myself in line. Though it doesn't always work.
Doing the right thing in every situation is hard to do and also hard to always keep in mind. So don't aim for perfection.
Just try to be as good a person as you can be right now.
When you know those very important reasons above it becomes a lot easier to stick with taking responsibility. And to not rationalize to yourself that you didn't really have to take responsibility in various situations.
That doesn't mean that I beat myself up endlessly about it. I just observe that I have hurt myself and my life. And that doesn't feel good. And so I become less prone to repeat the same mistake.
Also, two habits that I think are essential to be able to do the right and often hard thing and take personal responsibility are the ones I wrote about a few weeks ago: increasing your energy levels and learning to be present.
Without the extra energy and the presence it becomes more difficult to take action and to not create extra resistance and negativity within yourself.


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Mission: to develop connections between hard science and social science, using linear thinking and intuition; and to explore the relative merits of spontaneity vs. strategy.


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Oh, look who's also going to the Reason Rally: goddamned annoying evangelical Christians. I'm beginning to feel like my long-standing personal policy of not intruding on their church services needs to be questioned, because man, is this ever arrogant and obnoxious.
Come join us there! We invite you to unite with us in a spirit of grace and truth (John 1:14, 1:18), ready to speak the truth in love (Eph. 4:15), with godly grace and wisdom (Col. 4:6).
This is not a counter-demonstration. We are going there to share Christ person to person as opportunity arises. We will not raise our voices. We will talk with those who want to talk with us. We will offer gifts and materials to all, but we will not press ourselves on those who do not wish to converse. Knowing that the way others may choose to gather near us is not entirely in our control, we will nevertheless attempt to avoid gathering groups larger than a handful of people.
If these people bother you at the rally, I recommend one of two choices: either tell them sternly to leave you alone and walk away, or — and this is the fun part — calmly and politely take their rubbish arguments apart with much soft-spoken malice and cruelty.
I guess I shouldn't be surprised. This gathering will certainly attract swarms of mindless parasites…this is just the first public announcement of their intent that I've seen.
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Jewish Gravestones Recovered From River in Poland
Pieces of Jewish gravestones found at the bottom of Poland's longest river have been returned to a Jewish cemetery.
The 17 gravestone pieces from the Jewish cemetery in the Brodno district were found at the bottom of the Vistula River, which is at a record low water level due to drought.
In addition to the gravestones, fittings of the Royal Palace in Warsaw including a fountain, vases and marble steps, which the Swedes tried to take out of the city in the seventeenth century, were also discovered.
A few decades ago, construction companies removed gravestones from the Jewish cemetery in Brodno and used them as building material. They were also used to strengthen the bottom of the river.
Last week the 17 pieces of tombstones were recovered from the river. On Monday they were placed at the cemetery.
The Brodno Jewish cemetery was established in 1780. It is currently managed by the Nissenbaum Family Foundation. The Jewish Community of Warsaw has plans to repair the damage and place security cameras at the cemetery.


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Yes you can Easily post pictures on the Message Board.
If they are stored on your own computer then it is very easy, just click the Add image to Post link at the bottom left of the text editing pane - that is where you write your messages.
Then follow instructions - that's all!
If they are already somewhere on the web but you haven't got them on your computer - they might be on your website for example - then you can use the BB [.Image] code to show it on the page. Here's how:
Make a note of the URL or address where the picture is located.
Now if you look at the top of the text editing box where you type in your messages you will see a button marked Img which stands for Image. Hover the cursor over this and see the instruction:
Insert image:
Click the Img button and the opening tag will appear.
Instead of .http://image_ url you must type in the address where your picture resides, and its name. For example it might be:
You would then insert the closing tag [/img]
Another way is to first insert the picture_URL, then highlight it. If you then click the Img button the tags will be applied.
.Now here is an example assuming you haven't got the picture on your computer but it is elsewhere on the web.
I have a picture called hammer.gif which I want to show you. The address where the picture is located is :
I then type or paste this code in here:
NB You should make sure that your file names do not have blank spaces in them.
eg: My picture.jpg is bad, Mypicture.jpg or My-picture.jpg is OK


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Whether you're getting the PS4 at launch, in a few months' time or never, there's certainly one factor that'll make your decision for you: the games. So today we've got three reviews for games you can pick up for the PS4 on day one.
A gorgeous, granted buggy platforming game where you scale both the 3D world in your corporeal form and the 2D shadow world as a silhouette. You follow the story of a broken family, which serves as the setting for the darker undertones of parallel worlds and magic and science. And though the ending's tone may betray the rest of the game, it's a lovely and thoughtful experience worth a few character model fudge-ups.
Knack is a showpiece game. The kind you can show to your friends to give them a good idea of the power of the PS4. It's a colorful third-person action game starring a brawling beast named Knack who is sort of weapon of mass destruction sent to punch through the war between goblins and humans. But as good as the environment looks, Knack's own visual detail, his body of floating relics, doesn't often amount to more than a special effect. It's a game better played for the next-gen graphics than the throwback PS2-style gameplay.
Killzone: Shadow Fall
This is a case where the kind of hyper-realistic good looks doesn't make up for just how cookie cutter the rest of Killzone is. Players take control of Lucas Kellan, a soldier in a top-secret program in the middle of a war that plays out in space and alien planets. Shadow Fall tries very hard to be a cautionary tale about warmongering, the politics of crisis and What's Going On in the World Today. But even with glimmers of interesting play ideas, Shadow Fall is ultimately a parade of overused narrative tropes and FPS gameplay design. The advent of next-gen hardware and the technological muscle-flexing that comes with it doesn't make shitty on-rails sections any better.
We'll have more reviews of PS4 launch titles coming soon, but these should tide you over in the meantime.
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Click here for some rare production shots from the first two Halloween films.
Friday, August 16, 2013
Posted by Rot at 9:17 AM
Labels: halloween films, john carpenter, michael myers
6 comments:
- Sara said...
These are GREAT! Thanks for posting. Definitely brightened my morning....
Dude, Bob's kinda hunky when his doesn't have those big old dorky glasses on.
What a fun set to be on.....
- August 16, 2013 at 9:25 AM
- Rot said...
- August 16, 2013 at 9:34 AM
- Anonymous said...
These are great. LOVE the jacket.
- August 16, 2013 at 12:22 PM
- Sara said...
Ok since Jay admitted it first, I love the jacket, too! Lol!
- August 16, 2013 at 1:31 PM
- Willow Cove said...
Some of those hospital pics taken out of context would be totally weird n creepy. If they were on a hospital breakroom bulletin board.
- August 16, 2013 at 2:46 PM
- Shani said...
Awesome...awesome pictures! still not sure about those high waisted pants.... ;-)
- August 17, 2013 at 11:48 AM
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Kansas State University is committed to nondiscrimination on the basis of race, color, ethnic or national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, age, ancestry, disability, military status, veteran status, or other nonmerit reasons, in admissions, educational programs or activities and employment (including employment of disabled veterans and veterans of the Vietnam Era), as required by applicable laws and regulations. Responsibility for coordination of compliance efforts and receipt of inquiries concerning Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Age Discrimination Act of 1975, and the Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990, has been delegated to Roberta Maldonado-Franzen, Director of Affirmative Action, Kansas State University, 214 Anderson Hall, Manhattan, KS 66506-0124, (Phone) 785-532-6220; (TTY) 785- 532-4807.