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I would like to thank your school for the wonderful experience my daughter, Shannon Smith, enjoyed in your language program this summer from July 6 to August 16. She has told me that she has learned so much and that her teachers were excellent. She feels much better prepared for her graduate studies which she will begin this fall. Shannon also met many new friends from all over the world. Thank you, again.
Thank you very much for organizing the course so effectively and answering all the difficult questions. I much appreciate the lessons given by Dimitry and Victor, they are excellent teachers. All the very best!
Thank you for your swiftness in all services. As an institution, you are an exception to the rule in this respect.
Just wanted (after those three weeks being back in Switzerland) that everything went fine with the transport and so on, and that I really liked the courses and the school! A friend of mine may contact you to ask if he can take some days of classes in some two weeks time. It may perhaps be a little bit short, but as he already has his invitation etc. I thought that he perhaps could ask you… Cheers
I just wanted to thank you all for making my visit and learning experience in Moscow so enjoyable. I would be happy to speak to future students about the program if there is ever a need.
Dear Natasha, I hope that your holiday was very fun. I was sad that I was not able to say "good-bye" to you and Dmitri, but I will hopefully see you all soon… I am writing my address and phone number at the bottom of this email. I told Artur before I left that if anyone in the United States writes to you with questions they can call me if they want to. I will help them to understand the wonderful program you have. Finally, I just want to say again that I appreciate everything you, Artur, Dmitri, and all of my other instructors did for me. And until I figure out how to write Russian, please tell Victor as well that I miss his family and am looking forward to returning.
I just wanted to thank you for a wonderful three weeks. Our teachers, Dimitri, Irina Petrovna and Vladimir were all excellent, and I had an absolutely great combination of work and fun. 'Till the next time! Best.
Thank your for good service this prolonged summer:-) I came back to Denmark little over one month ago throw the Baltic States and Poland… I hope you are having a good time in Moscow, I wish I could be there right now – even thought you probably have a colder weather there:-) Even thought it will get colder – of scale in compare to Denmark…But I will probably come back next summer for learning Russian full time again, especially now I feel that is necessary. Please great my teachers from me, and specially my last teacher Tatiana. She probably shacked her head many times about this Dane, which never could remember the proper endings. But her teaching was very useful, structured and good. The best wishes…
Even if it's a little late, I would like to thank all of you (Dmitry, Artur, you of course and all the others)in Moskva for the fantastic stay I had there. I will probably come back next October for a short month, because I'll have to do some research, and it will be nice seeing you again. Otherwise I improved my russian a lot at the MGU last summer, and my studies are going well.
I would like to thank you again for your help before and during my stay in Moscow last month. I really enjoyed my stay and learning Russian and hope to come back next year to continue with my studies. With best wishes
I have already been back in Australia for two months.. time has flown! I wanted to write earlier, but only managed to do so now. Can you pass on this letter to all the teachers there (Artur, Dimitry, Viktor, Elena) as I don't have all their addresses. And I apologize that this letter is not in Russian – I can type in Russian but it takes about 1 hour per paragraph. Well, firstly, let me say that I MISS MOSCOW VERY MUCH, both the place and the people. I had a fantastic time there.. This is partly due to the efforts of everyone there at the Ruslanguage school, who all were very welcoming and friendly. I'm already thinking about when I can come back, of course – but unfortunately it looks like that will not be soon enough – probably not this year. In the meantime, every day I think about some aspect of my time in Moscow. Finally, of course, I hope everyone there has a Very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! I hope everyone is well there.
This is just to say Thank you once again, as everything has worked very well. Thanks to all to you… Best wishes
Dear all at the Ruslanguage school, I would like to thank you all for the nice experience and the course. I kindly ask you to say good bay and also my thanks to my teacher because I am very sorry that I couldn't go to the last lesson to meet her. Again thank you. I wish you and all Ruslanguage staff a nice day and good work.
The University of Texas at San Antonio Russian Program recently completed its third annual Study Abroad session at the Ruslanguage school in Moscow. Right from the very beginning, our group was very impressed with the professional approach of Dr. Arthur Baishev and his staff. We were met at the airport, transported to our dorm, and assigned to rooms in the main building smoothly and efficiently. As in previous years, students were assigned to single rooms in blocks of two rooms, with shared bathroom facilities. The rooms were small but adequate and the students had no major complaints about them. Students liked the fact that all services, including laundry facilities, were in the same building. The instruction took place in the nearby Humanities building, where our students attended classes from 9 to 12 every weekday. Each group had two instructors, who taught on alternating days. The instruction consisted of conversation practice, vocabulary development, grammar, and phonetics. Students were taught by highly qualified and experienced professionals from various departments of Moscow State University. The instruction was coordinated and overseen by Dr. Baishev, who made sure that our wishes and suggestions were followed. The Ruslanguage School organized several excursions to some of the most popular tourist sights in Moscow and the surroundings. Among the ones repeating from the previous years were Kolomenskoe Outdoor Museum, The Kremlin Churches and Museums, as well as Novodevichy Monastery and Cemetery. New additions this year were Vasnetsov's Museum, Borodino Panorama Museum, Church of Christ the Saviour, and the Russian Parliament, with a special reception with Vladimir Zhirinovsky. The meeting in the Russian Parliament was especially memorable for the students, and Zhirinovsky's controversial comments made a permanent impression on them. The students felt honored that they could meet such a high-ranking Russian official in person. In addition to excursions in Moscow, the Ruslanguage school organized a full-day excursion to the surrounding areas of Moscow. This year our group visitedAbramtsevo Outdoor Museum, followed by a picnic in the woods. Our program also included five full days in St. Petersburg. We were housed in the guest quarters of the University of Economics, which was conveniently located in the heart of downtown. The rooms were large double rooms with bathrooms in the corridor. The city excursions in the program were City Tour, including the Peter & Paul Fortress, St. Isaac's Cathedral, The Russian Museum, and The Hermitage. We also took a full-day trip to Peterhof by hydrofoil. In addition tourist sights, our group attended a folk dance performance, which was extremely popular with the students. Overall, the Ruslanguage school works with the highest level of professionalism and effectiveness. Students are immersed not only in the Russian language but also Russian culture by an enthusiastic group of teachers, who go out of their way to make the experience memorable and well worth the price. The director of the School, Dr. Baishev, is a professional with excellent business skills and, in addition, a pleasant person to work with. UTSA's experience with the Ruslanguage school has been very positive, and we plan to continue our cooperation every year. The program is very reasonably priced, which makes it accessible to students with limited finances. In fact, many of our students liked the Moscow program so much that they returned for a second trip this year.
I am glad to give by best recommendations to the Ruslanguage school being its student. First of all let me introduce myself. My name is Hans Tardell and I am a newcomer to Russia since a few months back and acting as Managing Director for two commercial units registered in the Russian Federation and owned by a Swedish parent company. With rather limited spare time but still with the willingness to learn the Russian language I find it difficult to attend a traditionally scheduled class. After some research I found the Ruslanguage School, as the answer to my wish to have a high class language training. Still I could have all the flexibility needed with scheduling classes to suit my agenda and to keep up the training. My experience is that the personnel is dedicated and highly skilled to handle all levels of language training. They are able to give a personalized training far above the average which is what a person in my position needs to be able to develop the knowledge of the Russian language. Aside from being run by a very friendly, supportive and competent staff-fully the school can be rightfully proud of its teachers. Of course I am very grateful for this opportunity to say that the Ruslanguage school, is, to the best of my knowledge, one of the most effective school for the learning of Russian language.
This is Vincent Merrone. I was a former student of your school about a year ago. I wrote an e-mail a few months ago with praise for your teachers. I would like to state that I have just passed a graduate level exam in Russian proficiency. Why is this important for you to know? Well, my primary education came from your school (I am enrolled in advanced courses now at my university. I never had formal training in Russian (at the university level) till last year. So, the foundations that were developed at your school allowed me to continue my Russian level education to such a level that I am able to pass a proficiency exam at the graduate level and possibly go on to the PhD level. I am grateful to your school and your various teachers (and staff) especially Julia.
Ruslanguage is, to the best of my knowledge, the most effective school for the learning of Russian in Moscow. Aside from being run by a very friendly, supportive, and competent staff -fully knowledgeable of the difficulties and pitfalls that foreigners can sometimes face in Russia, the school can be rightfully proud of its teachers, all of whom are university educated (usually with a either a strong linguistic or literary background) and very experienced. At the Ruslanguage School I benefited from 16 hours a week of individual tutoring by two different professors. One of these focused with me on general grammar questions, conversation, and, to the extent possible given my level, literature, culture, and philosophy. My other teacher, a phonetics expert with 40 years teaching expertise, concentrated on educating me on the difficulties of Russian pronunciation. Having arrived to Russia essentially incapable of saying a full sentence in the language, by the time I left I was able to hold a basic conversation on a variety of topics, including literature and social issues -albeit, of course, at a basic level. Regarding Russian pronunciation, the work I accomplished greatly improved the way I sound in this language, something on which far more advanced students than myself (and Russians themselves) commented very positively. In addition, the Center offers (optional) trips and cultural events for their students. During my stay I was able to enjoy a 5-day trip to St. Petersburg that was organized perfectly. I am happy to say that I can recommend study at the School without reservations
Ich absolvierte für einige Wochen einen Sprachkurs am Ruslanguage. Das Sprach- und Kulturinstitut, das an die Lomonosow Universität angegliedert ist, verfügt über sehr qualifizierte Lehrer. Meine Russischlehrerin, gleichzeitig Dozentin an der Lomonosov Universität und früher an der Universität Genth, Belgien, vermittelte mir innerhalb kurzer Zeit grammatikalische Grundlagen und einen generellen Einblick in die Sprache. Der Unterricht war abwechslungsreich und nie langweilig. Wir haben viel gelacht! Über die Sprache selbst bekam ich einen Einblick in die russische Literatur, Geschichte, Politik und vor allem in die russische Mentalität. Die Atmosphäre am Sprachinstitut ist sehr angenehm. Die Lehrer bringen die Kursteilnehmer miteinander in Verbindung. So wohnte ich mit einer deutschen Studentin in dem Studentenwohnheim der Universität, auch vom Institut gebucht, zusammen. Falls man noch kein Russisch spricht, dann geht auch alles auf Englisch! Für kulturelles Programm ist auch gesorgt. Um die teilweise sehr komplizierte Bürokratie wurde sich von Seiten des Instituts immer sofort gekümmert. Außerdem besteht die Möglichkeit, sich vom Flughafen abholen und auch wieder hinbringen zu lassen. Insgesamt war die Zeit in Moskau faszinierend. Natürlich ist es am Anfang nicht leicht. Besonders wenn man die Sprache – wie in meinem Fall – überhaupt nicht spricht. Eine andere Welt! Durch die netten Leute, mit denen ich täglich am Ruslanguage Kontakt hatte, fülte ich mich nach kurzer Zeit sehr wohl!
Hi Anna, hi everyone! It was a real pleasure to meet you and enter your program which helped me a lot improving my Russian language. I have to say that I have learnt a lot and am really happy that I chose your school. I warmly recommend you to your future students and I hope that they will be as satisfied as I was during the time I spent with you. You were really great and helpfull! Thank you so much again and I hope that I will get the chance to come back next year. I really sincerely recommend your program to everyone from beginners to high level students. Special thanks to my professor Tamara who is simply the best I have ever had! Kind regards to all the staff.
I would like to strongly recommend the Russian Language Program offered by the Ruslanguage school in Moscow directed by Dr. Artur Baishev. As a professor of Foreign Languages at James Madison University in Virginia, I was interested in exploring the possibilities of establishing ties with a Russian school and also in learning Russian myself. I therefore enrolled as a participant in the study program of the Ruslanguage school. It must be said that the Ruslanguage school is very flexible in dealing with American Universities and provides a "hands-on", individualized approach to each student whether it is a question of the procurement of documents, of level of language instruction, the excursions in and around Moscow or the time spent in St. Petersburg. I was extremely fortunate to have been given two different but friendly, efficient and supportive classroom instructors. Even more importantly, Dr. Baishev and Ms. Zaitseva were quite organized and always readily available for any questions and help. They both breathe a youthful and welcome energy into all aspects of the program. They accompanied the students on outings, participated in picnics, helped prepare food and Dr. Baishev's guitar was present on more than one occasion. As a faculty member who has guided several study-abroad programs, I recognize and appreciate the work, time and talent behind the creation of this one, which doubtlessly had more obstacles to overcome than creating a program in London, Paris or Rome for example. The other American professors who accompany their students are equally helpful and enjoy an excellent working relationship with Dr. Baishev et al. I am personally most interested in returning for a second year of exposure to the Russian Language and Culture. I will again choose the Ruslanguage school rather than look elsewhere.
Dear Dr. Baishev, Thank you for sending the grade reports for our two students. I am very happy to hear that Joan and Allison had a valuable learning experience and that they adapted so comfortably to the program and to Moscow. We look forward to sending more students in the future. Best regards.
Having studied Russian at several institutions over the years, both in the United States and in Russia, I can unequivocally state that the language program offered at the Ruslanguage school in Moscow is the best of its kind I have ever run across. As a graduate student, I have very specific reasons for needing to learn a foreign language. In fact, it was the ability the School provided to truly custom-tailor an individual program of instruction which initially convinced me to come to Moscow to study. Of course, any language course is really only as good as are the people doing the teaching. It is in this latter regard that the program at the Ruslanguage school really shines. Both of my instructors proved themselves to be extremely knowledgeable, patient and enthusiastic mentors. Moreover, as full-time faculty members at MGU during the regular school year, they brought with them a scholarly professionalism all too seldom encountered many language programs. On a more personal note, I genuinely felt that both of my professors badly wanted me to succeed in meeting my goals–their support on this human level proved invaluable and was much appreciated. The bottom line is: a flexible course of instruction combined with a first-rate faculty is really what sets this language program apart from all the rest.


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The Gallery: Jessica Baker
Introducing Jessica Baker who pulls copper and solar plate etchings, monotypes and monoprints on the etching press in her Clinton Hill studio. In the works we are showing here, you can see her interest in circles as a powerful archetype of spirit and the cycle of life (the bold color monotypes) begin to imprint itself directly onto materials collected from nature. Most recently, she has been printing on leaves collected from around Brooklyn, primarily in Prospect Park.
Titles in order of the Gallery:
- Black in Red in Gold Circle. Monoprint, 11" diam, 2007
- Black in Red Circle 1. Monotype, 11" diam, 2007
- Sassafras on Sassafras. Monotype . Print size: 6" diam, 2008
- Tulip on Ginkos. Monotype , Print size: 6" diam 2008
- Multiple Leaf & Print Circle. Etchings on Tulip Tree leaves, etchings on rice paper & leaves, 17" diam
- Black in Red Circle 2. Monotype, 11" diam, 2007
- Blue in Gold Circle 1. Monotype, 11" diam, 2007
- Leaf & Circle Repetition. Etchings on Shingle Oak Leaves, monotype print, leaves. 31" diam, 2008
- Double Tulip Leaf Prints. Etchings printed on Tulip Tree leaves, 20" x 18"
- Three Birch. Monotype. Print size: 6" diam, 2008
You can see Baker's work, alongside four other print makers at The Hofstra University Museum's exhibition: Ancient Echoes in Contemporary Printmaking. Through March 20th (Hempstead, NY 11549)
Inquiries about the works featured here? Please contact the artist directly via email or visit her site to see other works.
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Pillar 2: Throughput and Scalability Via Concurrent Collections
Pillar 2, on the other hand, is about keeping hundreds of cores busy to compute results faster, thereby re-enabling the "free lunch"[2]. We particularly want to target operations performed on collections (any group of things, not just containers) and exploit parallelism in data and algorithm structures. Here, we use key terms like "scalability" and "throughput"; "data-driven" and "fine-grained" and "schedule"; and "side effect" and "reduction."
New hardware no longer delivers the "free lunch" of automatically running single-threaded code faster to the degree it did historically. Instead, it provides increasing capacity to run more tasks concurrently on more CPU cores and hardware threads. How can we write applications that will regain the free lunch, that we can ship today and know they will naturally execute faster on future machines having ever greater parallelism.
The key to scalability is not to divide the computation-intensive work across some fixed number of explicit threads hard-coded into the structure of the application (for instance, when a game might try to divide its computation work among a physics thread, a rendering thread, and an everything-else thread). As we'll see next month, that path leads to an application that prefers to run on some constant number
K of cores, which can penalize a system with fewer than
K cores and doesn't scale on a system with more than
K cores. That's fine if you're targeting a known fixed hardware configuration, like a particular game console whose architecture isn't going to change until the next console generation, but it isn't scalable to hardware that supports greater parallelism.
Rather, the key to scalability is to express lots of latent concurrency in the program that scales to match its inputs (number of messages, size of data). We do this in two main ways.
The first way is to use libraries and abstractions that let you say what you want to do rather than specifically how to do it. Today, we may use tools like OpenMP to ask to execute a loop's iterations in parallel and let the runtime system decide how finely to subdivide the work to fit the number of cores available. Tomorrow, tools like parallel STL and parallel LINQ [5] will let us express queries like "select the names of all undergraduate students sorted by grade" that can be executed in parallel against an in-memory container as easily as they are routinely executed in parallel by a SQL database server.
The second way, is to explicitly express work that can be done in parallel. Today, we can do this by explicitly running work items on a thread pool (for instance, using Java
ThreadPoolExecutor or .NET
BackgroundWorker). Just remember that there is overhead to moving the work over to a pool, so the onus is on us to make sure the work is big enough to make that worthwhile. For example, we might implement a recursive algorithm like quicksort to at each step sort the left and right subranges in parallel if the subranges are large enough, or serially if they are small. Future runtime systems based on work stealing will make this style even easier by letting us simply express all possible parallelism without worrying if it's big enough, and rely on the runtime system to dynamically decide not to actually perform the work in parallel if it isn't worth it on a given user's machine (or with the load of other work in the system at a given time), with an acceptably low cost for the unrealized parallelism (for example, if the system decides to run it serially, we would want the performance penalty compared to if we had just written the recursive call purely serially in the first place to be similar to the overhead of calling an empty function).


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If you were at home with your three-year-old daughter enjoying a game of arcade classic Donkey Kong and she suddenly says she wants to swap the character roles and have Pauline rescue Mario instead, you might quietly explain that the game didn't have that particular option and so Mario it'd have to be. Mike Mika, on the other hand, saw it as the perfect opportunity to flex his hacker muscles and so set to work rejigging the game to please his toddler.
"My three year old daughter and I play a lot of old games together," Mika wrote in a post on YouTube showing his new version (below) of the hacked Donkey Kong game.
Mika explained that his daughter sometimes plays as Princess Toadstool in Super Mario Bros. 2 and so she understandably assumed she'd be able to play as Pauline in her current favorite game, Donkey Kong. He told her it wasn't possible.
"She seemed really bummed out by that," Mika wrote. "So what else am I supposed to do? Now I'm up at midnight hacking the ROM, replacing Mario with Pauline."
The awesome dad said he used the 2010 NES Donkey Kong ROM, redrawing Mario's frames and swapping the palettes in the ROM. He also replaced the M at the top with a P for Pauline. The result? One overjoyed daughter, of course.
The story is similar to one from last year when game developer and dad Mike Hoye hacked Nintendo's The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker to swap all the male references in the game to female so he could more easily read aloud the on-screen dialog to his daughter, Maya, and allow her to play as a female protagonist.
"It's annoying and awkward, to put it mildly, having to do gender-translation on the fly when Maya asks me to read what it says on the screen," Hoye wrote at the time, adding, "I'm not having my daughter growing up thinking girls don't get to be the hero."
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BEND, Ore. – Police cited an 89-year old Gilchrist man Wednesday afternoon for driving with a suspended license and recklessly endangering another person after his pickup swerved, crossed the center line and slammed head-on into a semi-truck pulling an empty trailer south of Bend on Highway 97. The elderly man was trapped inside his vehicle, extricated, then transported to the hospital with reportedly serious injuries.
According to Deschutes County Sheriff's Sgt. Bryan Husband, deputies, Sunriver and La Pine Fire Department paramedics and fire fighters, and Oregon Department of Transportation personnel were dispatched to the scene of the accident near milepost 157 of Highway 97 about 3:30 p.m., April 29.
89-year old Adrien Lovely of Gilchrist was trapped inside his 1996 Ford F-150 pickup, and fire personnel used the jaws of life to extricate him. He was then transported by ground ambulance to St. Charles Medical Center in Bend for treatment of injuries that Sgt. Husband described as serious.
Witnesses told deputies that Lovely had been swerving in his own lane before he completely crossed into the oncoming lane and struck a 1990 Kenworth truck driven by 33-year old Paul Kalina of Sweet Home, Oregon. The pickup continued to crash against the unloaded trailer pulled behind the semi-truck, then left the highway on the west side and crashd down a steep embankment, Husband said.
Kalina was uninjured and able to drive his vehicle, which only received moderate damage, away from the scene, the news release stated. Both men were wearing seat belts, and the pickup's air bag deployd in the collision.
Crash investigators have yet to determine the cause of the crash, but do not believe alcohol was involved. The investigation is continuing.


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[ Publishing News ] [ Letters by Shiel ] [ Essays on Shiel ] [ Genealogy ]
[ Biography ] [ Bibliography ] [ Webography ] [Cover Art, Books ]
M. P. Shiel
(1865 - 1947)
The Lord of Language
M. P. Shiel wrote twenty-five novels and dozens of short stories, most of them romantic mysteries or fast-paced adventures, several dealing with world conquest. Others are distinctly supernatural or border on science fiction. Most are interspersed with discourses on his philosophy and sociology of the Overman. And most, regardless of genre, were written in Shiel's patented poetic prose.
His early novel The Purple Cloud (1901) is a classic "last man on earth" story and probably his masterpiece. H. G. Wells called it "colossal... [a] brilliant novel." A New York Post review declared the author to be "a genius drunk with the hottest juices of our language."
Shiel's work drew high praise from many notable writers and critics:
E. M. Benson:
"[Shiel's work is] a glorious excursion into the incredible."
E. F. Bleiler:
"His stories are a welter of stylistic sound effects. "
Jules Claretie:
"The Purple Cloud should live as long as the Odyssey."
August Derleth:
"[He was] the Grand Viscount of the Grotesque... [with a] refulgently fanciful imagination and magical command of the English language."
Dashiell Hammett:
"A magician."
L. P. Hartley:
"A master of the written word and a virtuoso of the imagination."
Arthur Machen:
"Here is a wilder wonderland than Poe ever dreamt of... It is Poe, perhaps, but Poe with an unearthly radiance."
Sam Moskowitz:
"[He was] a writer's writer ... His mad literary rhythms, seemingly improvised, like a jazz artist's at a jam session, were a bubbling fountain at which new techniques of phrasing could be drunk."
J. D. Priestley:
"If by genius we mean amazing ideas, flashes of real imagination, wild originality, then we must grant it him."
Ellery Queen:
"One of the authentic old masters."
Edward Shanks:
"One of the most remarkable minds and imaginations of our time... a poet and a prophet..."
Ralph Straus:
"The novels of this brilliantly original writer have a kind of white-hot splendour that rouses all one's admiration... There is not a man living who writes better prose."
Rachel Annand Taylor:
"Macabre as Poe, recondite as Baron Corvo, sophisticated as Baudelaire -- gives you un nouveau frisson in short."
Carl Van Vechten:
"What a man! What an imagination!"
Hugh Walpole:
"A flaming genius! At his best he is not to be touched, because there is no one else like him."
Rebecca West:
"A writer of imperial imagination who combines the scientific qualities of Wells with the mystery of Poe and then goes off on a line of romantic imagination that is all his own... Sensible people ought to have a complete set of Shiel."
A reviewer in the London Times Literary Supplement of March 28, 1929 wrote: "He tossed the world about in his dreams, not with a juggler's detachment, but with a sense now bitter, now exultant of the tragedy and splendor that enwrap the mysterium tremendum of existence."
With such praise, it is incomprehensible that so much of Shiel's work remains out of print. Edward Shanks stated, "Others will come after us who will from time to time demand that his work shall be available for them to read." Since Shiel's death in poverty in 1947, only a handful of aficionados -- among them John D. Squires and the late A. Reynolds Morse -- have fulfilled Shank's prophecy by making serious efforts to revitalize interest in this neglected genius.
In recent years, new interest in Shiel is evidenced by reprints from Tartarus Press, new editions of the irrepressible The Purple Cloud, a Spanish selection of stories, and a forthcoming new selection of Shiel's stories in the Lovecraft Library series from Hippocampus Press.
M. P. Shiel: The Middle Years 1897-1923 by Harold Billings. (Austin: Roger Beacham, 2010).
The second volume of Harold Billings's
life of Shiel will be published in November 2010 in two limited editions of 100
trade paper and 50 hard cover. Signed
copies of both editions will be made available from the author and from JDS
Books. This volume covers the most important and productive years of Shiel's
life and promises new revelations! More info...
M. P. Shiel: A Biography of His Early Years by Harold Billings. (Austin: Roger Beacham, 2005).
Harold Billings's long-awaited, book-length treatment of the topic he first broached over two decades ago in "The Shape of Shiel: A Biography of the Early Years, 1865-1895" (published in Diverse Hands, 1983). This is the first book-length biographical study of Shiel and covers his West Indies origins and his literary beginnings in London's Decadent movement. Includes some 20 photos and illustrations including a rare glimpse of Shiel aet 14. Harold's lively and highly readable study draws upon the horde of Shiel materials that he helped amass at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, UT Austin and has incorporated the latest genealogical information available. Limited to 300 copies -- the author notifies us that very few copies remain of the trade paper edition (only) left. At $29 it is a rare treasure for a paltry sum! More info...
The Shiell Family of the Caribbean Island of Montserrat by Richard Shiell and Dorothy Anderson (Sandringham: Richard Shiell, 2005).
Limited to only 200 copies, this new book commits to print for the first time all of the genealogical essays which the authors have shared with the present website, in a large (8" x 11.5"), easily readable format! In addition are several maps of the Caribbean, foreword by Harold Billings, introduction and two dedicatory verses by Richard Shiell, numerous appendices, and photos. Copies may be ordered directly Richard Shiell in Australia for A$25 each plus postage (about A$10); inquire by email at firstname.lastname@example.com
The House of Sounds and Others by M. P. Shiel. Edited by S. T. Joshi. (New York: Hippocampus Press, January 2005). Paper. ISBN 0-9748789-6-0
Contains nine essential stories ("Xélucha",
"Tulsah", "The Pale Ape", "Huguenin's Wife", "Many a Tear", "The
House of Sounds", "The Spectre-Ship",
"The Great King", "The Bride") and the novel The Purple Cloud (1901 text), which are
thought to be Lovecraft's favorites. The first new collection of Shiel stories
in decades, and a steal at $15.00.
Order from: Hippocampus Press
The Redondan Cultural Newsletter
An occasional newsletter published in England, it is primarily concerned with literary matters but also includes updates on the various claimants to the throne of Redonda. The editors are: Roger Dobson, 182 Barns Road, Oxford OX4 3RG, England and Mark Valentine, 23 Southfield Terrace, Addingham, Ilkey, West Yorkshire LS29 OPA, England.
P. Shiel: Poet and Prophet
A biography and cursory review of his writings by Alan Gullette
An Annotated Bibliography of M. P. Shiel
With brief descriptions largely derived from Morse's 1948 bibliography
A Shiel Webography
A lightly annotated collection of links to M. P. Shiel on the Web
Artwork from a selection of Shiel's book covers
Prepared from scans provided by J.D.S. Books (101k)
A Catalog of Books By and About M. P. Shiel
Books in print available from J.D.S. Books
The Redonda Legend: A Chronological Bibliography
By John D. Squires
Shiel to his sister, Augusta Horsford
About Myself: A Letter to Editor of The Candid Friend (includes response to review of Lord of the Sea)
The Habit of Command: A Letter to the Editor of The Daily Chronicle
Shiel to Everrett Harre
H. G. Wells to M. P. Shiel
The letters of M. P. Shiel are Copyright © Javier Marías, Literary Executor for the Estates of M. P. Shiel and John Gawsworth, c/o Mercedes Casanovas, Iradier 24, 08017, Barcelona, Spain.
Prince Zaleski (Review)
[Unsigned], The Manchester Guardian, 26 March 1895
Prince Zaleski (Review)
Jas. Stanley Little, The Academy, 13 April 1895
Prince Zaleski (Review)
[Unsigned], The Times, 20 April 1895
The Yellow Danger (Review)
[Unsigned], The Academy Supplement, 30 July 1898
The Lord of the Sea (Review)
[Unsigned], The Candid Friend, 13 July 1901
The Lord of the Sea (Review)
[Unsigned, attributed to W. T. Stead], The Review of Reviews, August 1901
The Purple Cloud (Review)
[Unsigned], The Academy, 19 October 1901
The Weird O't (Review)
[Unsigned], The Academy and Literature, 13 December 1902
The Lost Viol (Review)
C. W. Mason, Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 27 November 1905
A Detective Story Far Out of the Common (Review)
[Review of Three Men and a Maid by Robert Fraser, i.e. Louis Tracy and M. P. Shiel]
[Unsigned], New York Times Book Review, 20 April 1907 and 15 June 1907
A review of White Wedding
New York Times, 15 February 1908.
M. P. Shiel: Master Of Fantasy (Obituary)
Attributed to John Gawsworth, The Times, 20 February 1947
The Arno Reprints (Review Excerpt)
R. D. Mullen, Science Fiction Studies, #6 (July 1975).
Bosey Jay, Redemption & God's Scheme
An Outline of the Redonda Legend
Various Claimants to its Uncertain Throne
Rediscovering M. P. Shiel (1865-1947)
Shiel & Wells: A Look Back After 21 Years
Liquid Air Engines in The Purple Cloud
Some Closing Thoughts on M. P. Shiel; or, The Frustrations of a Putative Biographer
Afterword to M. P. Shiel and the Lovecraft Circle
Sun Yat-Sen And Yen How
Shiel and His Collaborators
Over the course of his literary career M. P. Shiel collaborated with three writers,
beginning with his first novel, The Rajah's Sapphire (1896), and ending with a series of short stories published in the 1930s.
The Yellow Danger Revisited
Afterword to China in Arms
A Family Tree of Matthew Phipps Shiell
The Shiell Family of Montserrat: A Possible Family Chart
Henry Shiell (1827-1889)
James Phipps Shiell (1790 -1834)
John Shiell (1788-1847)
Mary Ann Shiell (1829-1896)
Matthew Dowdy Shiell (1824-1888)
Matthew Phipps Shiel (1865-1946)
Queely Shiell (1755-1847)
William Shiell (1785-1853)
William Shiell, Jr. (1823-1899)
Other Shiells on Montserrat
Blake, Dowdy, Harmon, and Phipps Family Names
Thanks to H. P. Lovecraft for pointing the way to this towering literary genius!
Special thanks to John D. Squires (Redondan Duke of Tort) for his many contributions to this site and his efforts to preserve the name of Shiel.
Thanks to Victor A. Berch for providing transcriptions of early reviews of Shiel's books.
Thanks to Richard Shiell and Dorothy Anderson for providing their genealogical essays on Shiell and related families.
Thanks to Harold Billings for his scholarly and insightful
biography of Shiel in two volumes.
First posted: July 27, 1996
Last Updated: March 30, 2011
Alan Gullette, Oakland, California. Email: email@example.com


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Seven land-accessible lighthouses along the mid-Maine coast will open for the Midcoast Maine Lighthouse Challenge, a two-day self-guided driving tour along the coastline from Pemaquid Point, tipping the peninsula south of Damariscotta, to Castine, on the western edge of the Blue Hill peninsula. Most will open their towers to visitors. Also part of the itinerary is the Maine Lighthouse Museum, in Rockland, just nine miles from the Blue harbor House Inn.
Included on the tour are: Dyce's Head Light, Castine; Fort Point, Stockton Springs; Grindle Point Light, Islesboro; Rockland Breakwater Light, Rockland; Owls Head Light, Owls Head; Marshall Point Light, Port Clyde; and Pemaquid Point Light, Pemaquid.
Special displays at the Rockand Breakwater Lighthouse, Saturday and Sunday, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., will highlight modern optics for lighthouses and navigation and show how the Coast Guard keeps the lights at many of Maine's offshore stations. The M/V Rendezvous will offer water passage to the lighthouse throughout the day, from Middle Pier in Rockland, or hike nearly one-mile hike along the breakwater to reach the lighthouse at its tip.
When you stay at the Blue Harbor House, we provide a lighthouse tour map, directions and history of each lighthouse.
Marshall Point Lighthouse


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Controversies surround UP CM Akhilesh Yadav after IAS officer Durga's suspension
Young IAS officer Durga Shakti Nagpal's suspension is costing Akhilesh Yadav his image — the one which fascinated many in March 2012 when he became the youngest chief minister of India's most populous and politically crucial state. Sunita Aron reports. The influences | HT Edit: Old before their timeindia Updated: Aug 05, 2013 04:48 IST
Hindustan Times
Young IAS officer Durga Shakti Nagpal's suspension is costing Akhilesh Yadav his image - the one which fascinated many in March 2012 when he became the youngest chief minister of India's most populous and politically crucial state.
The suave foreign-educated environment engineer became Uttar Pradesh CM at 38, raising hopes he would be the one to take state politics beyond caste considerations and usher in a progressive culture.
Such hopes, however, are receding fast, as he struggles not to be overwhelmed by satraps who are either family or his father's friends.
"He is a well-intentioned person, but has failed to develop a personality of his own," Prakash Singh, former state director general of police, said, reacting to the growing controversy over Nagpal's suspension and the apparent haste with which the CM gave the go-ahead.
This in a way captures the growing public perception that the CM is still working under his father and Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav's shadow.
No matter howsoever hard the CM may try to assert he is taking his own decisions, fact remains other heavyweights in the SP too are calling the shots.
Asked about the parallel power centres, senior SP leaders dismiss it as a case of Socialists being more democratic.
Senior SP leader Vinod Dubey from Allahabad sees the government as a chariot being pulled by several horses. "The government is being run in several sections. No one including the CM interferes in the departments run by senior ministers."
Till now party seniors Mohd Azam Khan and Shivpal Singh Yadav, the CM's uncle, were running their fiefdoms, but now even leaders such as Narendra Bhati have surfaced.
READ:Controversies surround Akhilsh Yadav after IAS officer Durga's suspension
Bhati's public announcement that he got Nagpal removed within 41 minutes at midnight has not only undermined the CM's position, but also attributed political motive to an administrative decision.
Somewhere, the SP's younger brigade is upset over such unwarranted statements by leaders.
Anand Bhadouria, a member of a close-knit team of Akhilesh Yadav that drove the party to power, said, "Yes, we should avoid making public utterances because it harms the party. As for the chief minister, he has been in office for one-and-a-half years only. Let the time come, he will prove himself. He is sharp, intelligent and knows what decision to take when."
But there is impatience in the air with the youth who whole-heartedly supported him. They are questioning his decision to remain "status-quoist". Some who are sympathetic, say he is a victim of the system he inherited.
Many of them point to his decision to cancel his Harvard lecture only because Azam Khan was frisked at the airport.
A senior bureaucrat said, "Sometimes we do feel that he wants to breathe free and stick to a development agenda, but looks helpless before political compulsions."
Some of them point to the decision of the political leadership to remain a silent spectator when two sects of the same community clashed on the streets of Lucknow.
According to seasoned government officials, not much will change till the 2014 Lok Sabha elections because both the party and the ruling family feel this would be the last chance for Mulayam Singh Yadav to fulfil his national ambitions.
With too many flourishing power centres, the bureaucracy not only remains confused but also manages to find easy alibis for non-performance. A senior officer said, "In the previous (Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati's) regime we knew the orders would come from the top. Now, they come from all quarters, and are sometimes contradictory in nature."
When the CM had played a cricket match with bureaucrats after the state IAS association's revival, little did he know that one day he will have to remind them of how they had lost their voice during the BSP's rule and do what his predecessor did.
Nagpal's suspension is being seen in the same claustrophobic light.
The CM had once told HT, "In a democracy one must respect public sentiment and I did that while withdrawing my two orders on luxurious cars to legislators from MLA fund and early closure of malls to save electricity."
But this time it appears the political compulsions were too heavy for him to respect public sentiment. It was he who gave Nagpal a prime posting in Noida and it is he who sacrificed her for political considerations.
HT Poll
Hindustantimes.com conducted a poll asking readers if Akhilesh Yadav lived up to the hopes of Uttar Pradesh. About 3.6% of the respondants agreed to the question saying the chief minister has indeed worked to come up to the expectations of the state. 95.1% of those who voted disagreed and the rest 1.2% of them remained undecided.
READ: Country stands up for IAS Durga, support flows in from Facebook, Twitter
READ:Syndicates controlled by netas run sand gangs in UP
READ:Muslim group vows support to IAS officer Durga
READ:Durga Shakti Nagpal suspended at behest of mining mafia: Congress
READ:Illegal mining in UP: Officer escaped 3 murder bids, shunted like Durga
READ: Action against IAS officer not linked to sand mafia: Akhilesh YadavAkhilesh running away from responsibilities: BSP
Durga has not made any complaint: SP leader Naresh Agarwal
Don't make Nagpal an issue: Naresh Agarwal
Got IAS officer suspended in 41 minutes: SP leader
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[Click on image to enlarge etc. Photo credit: David Sifry.]
Hugh MacLeod
Alpine, Texas.
Third-Person Bio:
Hugh MacLeod is a cartoonist, who makes his living mostly drawing "Cube Grenades" for clients and publishing fine art prints via the internet. His first book, "Ignore Everybody" is published by Portfolio, an imprint of Penguin.
Also known for his ideas about how "Web 2.0" affects advertising and marketing, after a decade of working as an advertising copywriter, Hugh started blogging at gapingvoid.com in 2001. He first started off just publishing his cartoons, but as time wore on he started blogging about his other main interest i.e. marketing.
In 2004 he wrote "Ignore Everybody" and "The Hughtrain", which both got widely read in the blogosphere, downloaded over million times in total.
In 2005 he scored his first major blog marketing success with EnglishCut.com, a blog he started with Savile Row tailor, Thomas Mahon. It tripled Thomas' sales within six months.
Since mid-2006 Hugh has also been helping a small South African winery, Stormhoek "rise above the clutter" in the wine market by using Web 2.0 tools to get the word out. Sales have gone up fivefold since then, thanks to Hugh's marketing efforts.
Since 2006 Hugh has been constantly engaged as a public speaker, giving talks in both Europe and the US, talking about Web 2.0 and the ramifications it has on business.
Hugh's basic mantra about blog and Web 2.0 marketing is "It's a good way to make things happen indirectly", a point lost on many corporate types.
The Drawings:
[This is the cartoon that inspired the name "gapingvoid". I drew it way back when, in college. Click on image to enlarge.]
When I first lived in Manhattan in December, 1997 I got into the habit of doodling on the back of business cards, just to give me something to do while sitting at the bar. The format stuck.
All I had when I first got to Manhattan were 2 suitcases, a couple of cardboard boxes full of stuff, a reservation at the YMCA, and a 10-day freelance copywriting gig at a Midtown advertising agency.
My life for the next couple of weeks was going to work, walking around the city, and staggering back to the YMCA once the bars closed. Lots of alcohol and coffee shops. Lot of weird people. Being hit five times a day by this strange desire to laugh, sing and cry simultaneously. At times like these, there's a lot to be said for an art form that fits easily inside your coat pocket.
The freelance gig turned into a permanent job. I stayed. The first month in New York for a newcomer has this certain amazing magic about it that is indescribable. Incandescent lucidity. However long you stay in New York, you pretty much spend the rest of your time there trying to recapture that feeling. Chasing Manhattan Dragon. I suppose the whole point of the cards initially was to somehow get that buzz onto paper.
Although I haven't lived in New York since 1999, it still lives in me. Far too much, some would say…
The originals are drawn on either business cards or bristol board cut to the same size i.e. 3.5″ x 2″. I use mostly a 0.3mm rapidograph pen. Occasionally I'll use other things- pencil, watercolor, ballpoint etc, but not often.
Personal Faves:
An artist is quite a fucked-up thing to be, and to be honest I'm not sure if I would recommend it to anybody. Still, in my collection there are a couple of examples that, in some sick and twisted way, make the whole thing seem worthwhile. For the first five minutes, at least:
The Shark Bar
When I first moved to New York, I stayed at the YMCA on West 62nd.
My first drawing as a New York resident was on my second evening, sitting on a barstool at the Shark Bar- a hip, young place in SoHo.
Having only been in town just over 24 hours, I was feeling a bit overwhelmed by New York, to say the least. Plus I had drunk quite a lot that evening. I think both show up in the drawing.
I've been back to the Shark Bar a couple of times since then, but it never had the same insane magic of that first evening. Great name for a bar, though. Especially in Manhattan.
Spring '98. I was at a bar, it was late, I was kinda tipsy.
Suddenly I realized that my life hadn't changed much in the last decade since leaving college. Work, bars, cartoons, random conversations of a big-city nature, second-hand bookshops and art films, the occasional bout of random or regular sex to tide things over etc etc.
It wasn't as interesting as it used to be. But I hadn't moved on, really. And I had no idea where to go next.
Welcome to New York.
The best cartoons are the ones that give you these amazing moments of clarity as you draw them. That's the best thing about cartooning, really. Everything else seems rather secondary in comparison.
December 29th, 1997. Fanelli's, on Prince and Mercer in SoHo, is one of the great bars in Manhattan. I had been in New York only a couple of days when I found myself there, drinking heavily.
I no longer drink much, however at the time I had this idea that seriously heavy drinking was essential in order to enjoy New York properly. I don't think I was wrong, either.
Around midnight at the bar I bump into an old acquaintance of mine from Chicago, Mark Mann. He had moved to New York about 3 months previously to do something with his film career. He is one of the funniest and most interesting people I know, but at the time I didn't know that. We were quite suspicious of each other for the longest time before we admitted that we actually were friends.
I hadn't told anybody I was moving to New York except on a need-to-know basis, so he was quite surprised to see me there. A ghost from his former Chicago life- just popped out of nowhere.
Told him my story. Told him about being laid off in Chicago. Told him about this new job I got in New York. Told him I only knew I got the job officially 5 days before Christmas- only about a week previously. Asked him how he was liking New York.
"It's great," he said. "Everybody's insane with loneliness, but that's OK. After a while you realize that's part of the edge."
I was hit with a paradox. I wanted to be in New York, I wanted to be "part of the edge", but I didn't want to be "insane with loneliness". Was one necessary in order to have the other? Was it a price worth paying? To this day, I still have no answer.
A couple of months later (July, '98) I drew this, sitting on a barstool. Thinking back to that conversation with Mark, suddenly I had a realization: The simple truth about big cities is that people don't go there to give. They go there to take, or at least, to get. If you feel like giving, good for you, somewhere an angel is smiling yada yada yada, just don't expect other people to follow your example. And if you're feeling lonely, at least now you now know why. This drawing is partly about that.
Within 1 week of meeting this person you realize that not only have you found your soulmate, but you've found your soulmate who likes to have sex 4 times a day in the bed, on the dining table, on the kitchen floor, in the changing rooms at Bloomingdale's etc.
Within 2 weeks you're already talking about moving in together.
Within 3 weeks you're talking about having babies together.
Within 4 weeks you realize this person is a complete psychopath.
Within 5 weeks this person also thinks you're a complete psychopath.
Within 6 weeks you're sitting at a restaurant with an old friend who is giving you the "How come you only call me when you're single" speech.
I Knew My Pain
Sometimes life throws you a devastating curve ball. And you're never ready for it. Ever.
I remember being young and stupid. How utterly sweet and simple life seemed back then, but I also knew in the back of my mind that these days weren't going to last forever. Ouch. Hopefully, in a decade or two I'll be looking back to this time now with equal affection. I think that's all you can do, really.
Early 30s is a great time to be alive- you're still young, but you have experience. A powerful combo.
The downside is all that weird rockstar shit you believe about yourself is well past its sell-by date, and if you haven't outgrown it by then, it starts to fuck up your life.
New York is tough enough if you're a man. God knows how the women manage to do it.
The piece is not particularly clever nor especially beautiful to look at. But something gently disturbing resides just beneath the surface. Hmmmm? sort of like apartment brokers.
Yes. Exactly.
All clients want one, I am told.
Cheap Plastic Toys
Some of it was my fault, some of it wasn't. Regardless, I've made a list and they will pay dearly.
There are many advantages of getting older… more money and respect from the world at large being the main one. However, with all this newly found cash & kudos comes the idea that maybe the world isn't such a nice place, after all. That maybe all that unhappiness you see on the faces of your fellow commuters is there for a reason. And no matter how much you try or how hard you work, none of that will ever change.
Still, I suppose it's better to know that said brutality exists, rather than burning all those calories pretending it doesn't. I just wish I'd wised up a decade earlier than I did.
OK, this one isn't exactly subtle. But it doesn't take any prisoners, either. Unrestrained bile is actually pretty hard to pull off, artistically.
Wolf vs Sheep
No, I don't have an answer to which option is better. Both exact a heavy toll, eventually.
Too Many Cats
Good thing a certain friend of mine never reads my website.
I've always been a big Dorothy Parker fan. Urbane wit at its finest. Would I trade my life for hers in order to be that talented and famous? No way. Like all intoxicants, talent can be a poison. Reading her biography, it seems she learned that more than most.
It's 2 am and I'm in this crazy Midtown Irish bar. I have no idea why I'm there. I shouldn't be there. I should be somewhere else. Asleep, comfortable, happy, sharing my bed with a sensible girl from a good family, Brooks Brothers' pyjamas, insufferably middle class. But no.
Everybody in that bar is crazy. I tell myself I'm the only sane one but I think I'm kidding myself.
Being an artist/creative is like wearing funky clothing. Every year gets a little bit harder. After a while it just looks stupid. Eventually the stupidity reaches critical mass and the late-night tailspin begins. At a midtown Irish bar at 2am, while I'm drawing this picture, these things no longer seem to matter.
I like this card because it's the kind of thing poor old Dorothy would have written.
All The Time
After years of struggling in impecunious obscurity, a very old friend of mine recently had a bit of success in his business.
Suddenly, everybody in the industry knew who he was, and would mob him at trade shows and conventions. People who wouldn't have given him the time of day only a year before were shamelessly throwing themselves at him, scattering business cards like confetti.
My friend, the rock star. Who knew?
Shortly after one of these little feeding frenzies, we meet up for a drink, as we do.
He's telling me all about it. All the off-the-record stuff that happened. All these relentless people coming after him, like terriers on the bone.
"How weird," I say.
"Sure is," he says. "Now I know what it's like to have a vagina."
One evening after a gruesome day at the office I went into a coffee shop on 6th Ave to write. Got a coffee, found a table, opened my laptop and looked around. I'm not kidding; there were nine other people in the caf? with open laptops, writing away, just like me. Nine. I counted. They were probably writing the same tedious crap I was.
"It's a novel about some guy who moves to New York to break into the high-brow literary scene and score with lots of chicks yada yada yada?"
One of the reasons I stick to cartooning is because my traditional prose writing is so godforsakenly awful.
Writing about New York is a bit like writing about sex- it's already been done to death. And done. And done. And done again. It's a form of literary necrophilia. Unless you have something completely unique and visionary to say about New York (I have yet to meet somebody in the flesh who does), any kind of Manhattan-fuelled artistic ambition runs the risk of turning you in to a "ligger".
"Ligger" is Scottish slang. A ligger is a hanger-on, a wannabe, a parasite-to-the-hip. Somebody who goes to art openings to drink free wine, but never buys a painting. Somebody who sees art as not something you make, but something you milk. Somebody who is always seen, but never remembered.
Living in New York is only possible if you treat it like a religion. Liggers are really good at this, for some reason. Hence their vast numbers; hence why a big part of your average day in New York is spent seperating the liggers from the real people.
So you're going out a lot. Pretty soon you're going out too much. Parties. Bars. More parties. More bars. So you decide to cut back a bit, y'know, start living like a normal person.
So you trade in those wild & crazy times for delivered Chinese food, Forbes Magazine and Seinfeld reruns. You're just going to try it for a couple of weeks, and see how it feels. After all, this is a "new you" we're talking about. A better you. A saner you. A wiser, more sensible and compelling you.
But you know in your heart of hearts that you didn't move from suburban Cleveland, Denver, Pittsburgh etc to a $3000-a-month Manhattan apartment just to watch Seinfeld.
In New York, you always think that if you try harder, work longer hours, make more money, spend more time at the gym, put more effort into networking, read more books, go to bed earlier, drink less booze, avoid negative people, be less shallow about the whole sex thing, be more supportive to your close friends, eat more vegetables and stop smoking so many damn cigarettes, you will eventually be able pull off that great Miracle Of Miracles i.e. you'll finally, finally, finally be able to live in Manhattan while simultaneously leading a healthy, productive, emotionally-balanced life.
(PS: I no longer live in New York, obviously)


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Challenge Atlantic City Triathlon to Challenge Drivers Sunday
You may need to give yourself some extra time Sunday as the Challenge Atlantic City Triathlon will be affecting traffic in South Jersey.
On Sunday on the Atlantic City Expressway, the westbound shoulder and the right lane will be closed from 6AM to 4PM between exits 2 and 4 and also between exits 14 and 28. Around Atlantic City International Airport, bicyclists will be peddling through the intersection of Delilah and Tilton Roads at the traffic circle. Amelia Earhart Boulevard to ACY airport will be closed at the circle.


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(CNN) -- Now that he has finished filming his latest movie, director Sam Voutas doesn't know what to do with the boxes and boxes of sex toys he has accumulated during the course of filming.
"The first thing I've got to decide is what to do with all the toys. I'm looking forward to getting them out of my apartment," he told CNN recently.
Let's back up.
The film in question is not pornography, but a Mandarin-language comedy about China's adult sex shops. "Red Light Revolution" tells the story of a down-and-out Beijinger who decides to open a sex toy store in his neighborhood.
When Australian-born Voutas, who did double duty as writer and director, moved to China five years ago, he was stunned to find sex stores "on every corner."
"This was surprising from a Western perspective, something I hadn't seen on TV and I wanted to pursue that," he recounted.
The result is a film -- Voutas calls it China's first sex shop comedy -- that shows a side of China that, he said, rarely gets covered in the mainstream media.
Watch a trailer for the film on YouTube
Attitudes towards sex have been liberalizing since China legalized adult sex shops in the early 1990s; just look at the booming manufacture of erotic toys and the scores of shops that stock them, said Voutas.
"Everybody is on the internet and sex is one of the things people talk about on blogs and Chinese websites," he said.
But it is still a sensitive topic, one that reflects "tradition colliding with modern commercial interests," Voutas explained.
Older generations are unlikely to speak frankly about sex, he said, noting that the lead actress in "Red Light Revolution" chose not to tell her parents the premise of the movie.
And even though they are common, there is a stigma associated with frequenting or operating stores that stock blow-up dolls, supplements and other sex aids.
"People who open these shops are taking a risk -- what will their parents and friends think? The concept of face is important.
"That is what this (film) is about -- how you balance traditional values with what you want to do," Voutas said.
Despite its provocative topic, Voutas said the film, which was shot in China, received a surprising amount of local support.
The cast, who have acted in quite big movies in China, including "Mao's Last Dancer" and "The City of Life and Death," were keen to be involved, he said.
One of China's biggest adult shop chains, no doubt seeking an opportunity for publicity, also backed the film, providing products that were used in the film.
The fact that local actors and actresses wanted to work on the film is a sign of changing sexual attitudes in China, Voutas said.
Although, he noted, using humor allowed him to broach the topic in a more innocuous manner. A personal story about an everyday guy, "Red Light Revolution" is in the style of a Woody Allen film, addressing sex more through dialogue rather than graphic displays, he said.
The fact it is a comedy may also help when it comes to getting the film released in China, where movies are subject to strict censorship control.
Voutas said he most likely will have to make a separate version for authorities, one that cuts select shots of imagery or dubs over explicit language.
That is a common occurrence in China, he said, pointing out that a modified version of Ang Lee's "Lust, Caution" was released in the country.
Voutas, also the director of documentary "Shanghai Bride" and an actor, started writing the screenplay for "Red Light Revolution" in 2006.
It was nominated for Best Unproduced Screenplay at Australia's Inside Film Awards in 2008, which gave him the impetus to get the movie made.
Voutas believes the comedy, which is currently in post production and which he wants to release before the end of the year, has universal appeal.
It is set in China and the cast speaks in colloquial Mandarin. That is likely to make it fresh for Chinese audiences, who "certainly haven't seen anything like this," he said.
At the same time, he added, he wrote the screenplay with a Western sensibility and believes it will resonate with a Western sense of humor.
"I hope audiences will say it's an entertaining picture and at the same time come away from it saying they haven't seen a Chinese movie like that before," he said.


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Since COM objects can be accessed from outside the Lisp world, possibly from a different application, their lifetimes are controlled more carefully than those of normal Lisp objects. The diagram below shows the lifecycle of a typical COM object.
Figure 1.2 The lifecyle of a COM object
Each COM object goes through the following stages.
In the first stage, the object is created by a call to
, either by a class factory (see Class factories) or explicitly by the application. The normal CLOS initialization mechanisms such as
can be used to initialize the object. During this stage, the object is known only to Lisp and can be garbage collected if the next stage is not reached.
At some point, the server makes the first COM interface pointer for the object by invoking the COM method
, either automatically in the class factory or explicitly using by using macros such as query-object-interface or call-com-object. When this happens, the object's reference count will become 1 and the object will be stored in the COM runtime system. In addition, the generic function com-object-initialize is called to allow class-specific COM initialization to be done.
In this stage, the object is used via its COM interface pointers by a client or directly by Lisp code in the server. Several COM interface pointers might be created and each one contributes to the overall reference count of the object.
This stage is entered when the reference count is decremented to zero, which is triggered by all the COM interface pointers being released by their clients. The generic function com-object-destructor is called to allow class-specific COM cleanups and the object is removed from the COM runtime system. From now on, the object is not known to COM world.
The final stage of an object's lifecyle is the normal Lisp garbage collection process, which removes the object from memory when there are no more references to it.
LispWorks COM/Automation User Guide and Reference Manual - 19 Dec 2011


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VIDEO: Andrew Wiggins was a sensation for the Cavs during Summer League play
LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers are looking for Love. All Andrew Wiggins wants at this point is an NBA home.
A raw talent so alluring that several franchises sabotaged their 2013-14 seasons for a shot at landing him, Wiggins has been treated for the past six weeks like somebody's backup date for the prom. As soon as James stunned and, in many quarters, delighted the NBA by announcing his return to Cleveland, Wiggins became less a piece of the Cavaliers' bright future and more a means to an end — that being Kevin Love.
A deal that will deliver Love, the all-NBA power forward, from the Minnesota Timberwolves to James' insta-contender in Cleveland already has been struck, according to many sources, awaiting only a formal announcement once Wiggins is eligible to be traded Saturday. Draftees who sign their rookie contracts cannot be traded by NBA rule for the first 30 days and Wiggins put his name on a five-year, $24.8 million deal on July 24.
Soon thereafter, Cavs general manager David Griffin and Minnesota president of basketball operations Flip Saunders reportedly agreed on the much-anticipated trade. Wiggins will go to the Wolves with last year's No. 1 overall pick, forward Anthony Bennett and a future first-rounder for Love, according to the reports. The Wolves are said to have a deal set to trigger, too, with the Philadelphia 76ers; multiple outlets have reported that Thad Young will head to the Twin Cities for that future No. 1 pick, along with forward Luc Mbah a Moute and guard Alexey Shved.
All of which means Wiggins, a wing player with preternatural leaping skills and a gift for stifling on-the-ball defense, will be part of a future-focused rebuilding effort after all. It will just be Minnesota's, not Cleveland's, and the cupboard will be slightly more bare.
He'll be joining fellow raw rookie Zach LaVine and crafty (if slightly tarnished) playmaker Ricky Rubio in what Minnesotans hope will at least be an alley-oop circus to rival the L.A. Clippers' "Lob City." With second-year big Gorgui Dieng and veterans such as Young, Nikola Pekovic and Corey Brewer on hand, the Wolves probably won't be ending their 10-year postseason drought next spring. But they won't be taking a dive in search of lottery chances either.
Remember, this is a franchise that has never even improved its draft position in the lottery, never mind snagged the top pick overall. Prior to Wiggins and Bennett coming aboard, the Wolves have had just two former No. 1 overall picks on their roster — Joe Smith and Michael Olowokandi. They're hoping their yield from these next two picks is a little greater.
Love has been a specter this NBA offseason. He excused himself from participating with Team USA because of the trade speculation and media attention it would have received during the 2014 FIBA World Cup preparations. He will exit Minnesota with amazing double-double stats, rare inside-outside skills, a dinged reputation as a leader and, through six seasons, a thin resume (horrible W-L record, zero playoff appearances) that is expected to change quickly next spring.
Wiggins, meanwhile, is about to experience something foreign to young players of his stature. Of the 37 fellows drafted No. 1 since the NBA-ABA merger, through Bennett's arrival in Cleveland in June 2013, none has been traded so early in his playing career.
Michigan's Chris Webber (1993) was traded before he took his first professional dribble, when the Orlando Magic sent him to Golden State for Penny Hardaway and three more first-round picks on Draft night. Wiggins was drafted, smiled for the cameras in Cleveland and actually played in Summer League games for the Cavs, all while the trade reports swirled. But that seems like it for him with Cleveland. At least for a while.
Here is a look at the fates of the 37 top picks prior to Wiggins:
- Never, ever traded (12): Anthony Davis, Kyrie Irving, John Wall, Blake Griffin, Derrick Rose, LeBron James, Yao Ming, Tim Duncan, David Robinson, Brad Daugherty, James Worthy and Magic Johnson.
- Traded well into their careers, 4 years or more (18): Andrea Bargnani, Andrew Bogut, Dwight Howard, Kwame Brown, Kenyon Martin, Olowokandi, Allen Iverson, Glenn Robinson, Shaquille O'Neal, Larry Johnson, Derrick Coleman, Danny Manning, Patrick Ewing, Hakeem Olajuwon, Ralph Sampson, Mark Aguirre, Joe Barry Carroll and Mychal Thompson.
- Traded on draft night (1): Chris Webber.
- Traded within one year of selection (1): Pervis Ellison.
- Others (5): Anthony Bennett (TBD), Greg Oden (never traded but waived after chronic injuries), Elton Brand (traded after second season), Joe Smith (traded in third season) and Kent Benson (traded in third season).
It's looking as if Wiggins — and Bennett, for that matter — will fall somewhere between Webber and Ellison on the quick-change-of-scenery scale for No. 1 picks. Webber, remember, almost counts double; he was traded by Golden State to Washington two weeks into his second season over a rift with then-coach Don Nelson.
The immediate question on Wiggins will be, how might this affect his confidence and development, getting jerked around like a prize heifer or a chess piece? Long term, no one seems worried that whatever trauma an early-career trade might represent will stunt his professional growth.
And Wiggins' one-season college coach, Kansas' Bill Self, told the Associated Press that the 19-year-old likely won't be shaken at all. Once he's permitted to get on with this rookie thing.
"When all this trade stuff started, I talked to Andrew and Andrew told me, 'I hope I get traded,' "Self said. "And I'm like, 'No you don't.' And he said, 'Coach, I do. It's better for me, knowing my personality and what I need to do, to go somewhere where I'm forced to be something as opposed to going in there where they're going to be patient with me and I'm going to be a piece.' "
In Minnesota, Wiggins will have a coach in Saunders who, as the team's POBO, will be doubly committed to the young player's success. He'll have an assistant coach in Sam Mitchell, a former Coach of the Year winner in Toronto, who was widely credited for his influence (as a player) on a former Wolves rookie, Kevin Garnett, 20 years ago. Wiggins also will get minutes, touches and a lot of leeway in which to learn from early mistakes.
Even the folks in Cleveland don't doubt what they're giving up.
"He's going to be fine," one Cavaliers insider told NBA.com. "He's got all the talent in the world and he's a great, great kid. It's just … c'mon, Kevin Love? We had to do it."
For the 2014 No. 1 pick — and for the fans eager to embrace him in Minnesota (presumably as soon as this weekend) — it's going to be more a matter of, "C'mon, Andrew Wiggins."


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I think its important to take a look at whether or not Crucible is really making inroads into the players lost during the massive clusterfuck that was Incarna. Afterall, it wasn't very long ago that blogs like this were being written. I think this is an interesting comment in it:
One last thing: this chart seems to prove what a stagnant state EVE is in at the moment: other than the +60D peak after Incursion, the 30 day rolling average number of players logged into EVE has not changed from 30,000 in 27 months.
I took the liberty of poking the eve-offline data and putting it into a more useful form. There's some massaging of the data – namely I filtered out any row with less than 10,000 players and duplicated the previous day for any missing days. The goal here was to eliminate momentary "blips" in the chart because Chribba's site went down, or because Eve had a particularly long patch. Those simply aren't interesting data points for me here.
I'm also notoriously terrible at Excel wizardry, so I did most of this in a database – Oracle in particular. Mostly because it was handy, but also because it gave me the opportunity to learn more about Oracle's analytic functions. I came from a PostgreSQL background, and so far at this job I haven't really had a lot of reason to play with them. Maybe its not having to do a ton of manual BI requests, or maybe its just because people want the raw data to work their own Excel Wizardry. Dunno, but at least some small hole in my knowledge is filled.
For what its worth, this is the basic form of the query:
select to_char(logtime, 'YYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS') AS "date", raw_pl AS "raw_max_players", pl AS "adjusted_max_players", trunc(avg(pl) over (order by logtime rows between 7-1 preceding and current row)) AS "7 day", trunc(avg(pl) over (order by logtime rows between 30-1 preceding and current row)) AS "30 day", trunc(avg(pl) over (order by logtime rows between 60-1 preceding and current row)) AS "60 day", trunc(avg(pl) over (order by logtime rows between 90-1 preceding and current row)) AS "90 day", trunc(avg(pl) over (order by logtime rows between 120-1 preceding and current row)) AS "120 day", trunc(avg(pl) over (order by logtime rows between 180-1 preceding and current row)) AS "180 day", trunc(avg(pl) over (order by logtime rows between 365-1 preceding and current row)) AS "365 day" from ( select t.day AS logtime, max(pl) AS raw_pl, last_value(max(pl) ignore nulls) over (order by t.day) AS pl from days_table t left outer join all_tz p on t.day = p.logtime where t.day between (select min(logtime) from all_tz) and (select max(logtime) from all_tz) group by t.day ) x order by to_char(logtime, 'YYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS')
These are the basic forms of the other tables and views:
create table pl ( logtime date, pl number ); create or replace view all_tz as select trunc(logtime) as logtime, max(pl) as pl from pl where pl >= 10000 group by trunc(logtime) ; create or replace view us_tz as select trunc(logtime) as logtime, max(pl) as pl from pl where pl >= 10000 and to_char(logtime, 'HH24:MI:SS') != '00:00:00' and cast(to_char(logtime, 'HH24') as number) between 0 and 6 group by trunc(logtime) ;
I remembered one of the things I wanted done the first time around was to split the data and see just how Eve fared in any given timezone. Now, I admit that I'm mostly interested in this because I play at a slightly odd hour and I find it frustrating to not find anyone to shoot at. So I took the time to filter the data based on Swearte's suggestion on Twitter:
- US TZ: 00:00 to 06:00 Eve Time
- AUS TZ: 10:00 to 15:00 Eve Time
- EU TZ: 15:00 to 00:00 Eve Time
If you look carefully at the example timezone view, you can see some peculiar 00:00:00 filtering. I filtered out rows taken exactly at midnight because so much of the data set had the time portion stripped off – and thus I don't feel that it was directly attributable to any particular timezone. Though looking at the way the EU TZ converges so heavily with the 60 day moving average, I could be persuaded to call it EU TZ.
Here's the a graph of what I found (courtesy of Google Docs save chart image) – and its very encouraging for my timezone. From this perspective, it seems that Incarna was a total disaster and Crucible was a smashing success. There are some fascnating things in the numbers – like for example the US and EU TZ appear to be growing at a very similar rate, but the AUS TZ is taking off like a house afire.
The EU TZ had its all time 60 day rolling average high of 45.5k in Feb 2011, and by Dec 2011 it had dropped to 37.6k – down a hair over 17%. However, its been rising steadily and is back up to 41.8k – either an 11% improvement over the recent slump or only 8% down from the all time high.
The US TZ had its all time high of 33.1k in Feb 2011, and by October it plunged to 25.3k where it stayed until December. Since then, its been taking off fairly well and is back up to 29.6k. This means that the US TZ was down almost 24%, but has grown 17% since December for a net loss of 10.5%.
The AUS TZ had its all time high of 29.3k in May 2011 and was down to 22.7k by October – a 23.5% loss. By Dec 18th, the AUS TZ was hitting record highs and is now at 32.8. Crucible has seen almost 45% growth of the AUS TZ since the Incarna Slump – which is over 10% more than its ever been. This is fantastic news for me, because it means I will soon have more people to shoot when I'm awake.
So I guess at this point there's nothing to do but congratulate CCP on their hit expansion.
The raw data is available on my blog here:
Filed under: Databases, Eve, Gaming, Software Development, Crucible, Databases, Eve Offline, Eve Online, max players, Oracle, PCU


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Tarantino said Saturday that he has wanted to do a Western for ages and that the idea for ``Django Unchained'' first came to him 13 years ago.
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