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Friday, June 11, 2010
Literary Devices Part 3: The MacGuffin
It's not the MacGyver (though I should have an ode to him, I had such a crush on that guy in high school). And it's not a McMuffin either. Nor a McLovin'. It may possibly be a White Castle burger, though.
The MacGuffin is usually an object that drives the plot. Part of its importance is that everyone in the story seems to want it. It was coined by Alfred Hitchcock, who explained is as such: "It is the mechanical element that usually crops up in any story. In crook stories it is almost always the necklace and in spy stories it is most always the papers." (Oxford English Dictionary)
Some famous MacGuffins?
The Ring in the LOTR books
The Sorcerer's Stone, JK Rowling
The sugar bowl in the Lemony Snicket books
Ice-9 in Cat's Cradle
The Maltese Falcon by Hammett
I had a MacGuffin in my first novel, which is now resting peacefully in my hard drive. Have you used a MacGuffin lately? Or read a book recently featuring a MacGuffin?
Posted by Lydia Kang at 6:30 AM
45 comments:
- Ted Cross said...
I don't have one, even though my novel is named after an item, The Shard. The fact is that the shard is only really wanted by the wizard, and he has to push and prod the rest of the people to help him.
- June 11, 2010 at 6:47 AM
- Victoria Dixon said...
Hmmm. That's tough. I guess you could say my MacGuffin is one of my characters. The bad guy has captured and imprisoned the Emperor to force an abdication. The good guy wants said Emperor back on throne. Interesting. I hadn't thought of it as a plot device. ;D
- June 11, 2010 at 7:01 AM
- Slamdunk said...
Interesting topic. I thought about my last few reads and can't think of an example. Now that I challenged, I am sure one will hit me in the face later today.
- June 11, 2010 at 7:02 AM
- Aubrie said...
Now that I know what it is, I'll have to look for it. So far, I don't think so, but there could be one hiding in there!
- June 11, 2010 at 7:09 AM
- Unknown said...
I had to think about that for a bit. I don't believe I do. Nope, I'm pretty positive I don't.
- June 11, 2010 at 7:15 AM
- Joanne said...
I've never heard of a MacGuffin, and don't think I've used one. Would this be used more in certain genres than others?
- June 11, 2010 at 7:35 AM
- B.E. Sanderson said...
I think I had a McGuffin once. I'd tell you more about it, but if this book ever does get published, I don't want to ruin the surprise for anyone. (Hope springs eternal this morning.)
I can't think of any good McGuffins I've read about recently. (I could still be sticky on the term, though, so don't mind me.)
- June 11, 2010 at 7:51 AM
- storyqueen said...
I've got a MacGuffin!
It's a map.
(and I think I love that word.)
- June 11, 2010 at 8:05 AM
- Giles Hash said...
I read a lot of mysteries where the detective is a wizard...so yeah, I've read a few books with MacGuffin's recently :)
And I have to nerd out a bit...sorry...(imagine my best impression of Comic Book guy from the Simpsons) it's the Philosopher's Stone, and it was only in one book :D
You have a great point with this post, though. I think a MacGuffin could, possibly, be just about anything... even an intangible ideal that all the characters are looking for.
- June 11, 2010 at 8:13 AM
- Mayowa said...
Great post Lydia,
I knew about this in a very vague way and now your post has clarified it tremendously.
Thanks for connecting the dots.
- June 11, 2010 at 8:35 AM
- Theresa Milstein said...
I never thought about an object-driven plot. In the end, it's still all about character.
The manuscript I last edited has fog which drives the plot. Sort of. That's the closest I've ever come to an object.
- June 11, 2010 at 9:10 AM
- Bossy Betty said...
Very interesting! I had never really thought about this!
- June 11, 2010 at 9:19 AM
- Todd Newton said...
While I do love MacGuffins, I generally try to avoid them in my own work. I prefer the characters to drive the plot, rather than carting some magical object around throughout the entire story. That's not to say I haven't used magical objects here and there for plot events, but they're usually put into use fairly soon after they're put into play.
- June 11, 2010 at 9:42 AM
- Tahereh said...
how awesome!! hehe and i love your pictures, by the way. i don't think there's a specific macguffin in my book, but i can definitely see what you mean!
i'll be mentally calling them that now.
- June 11, 2010 at 9:46 AM
- Amparo Ortiz said...
I don't think I have a MacGuffin... But since I'm slightly brain challenged after working on my WIP, maybe I just haven't noticed it :D
By the way, I LOVE your plot devices posts, Lydia! Thanks for the info.
- June 11, 2010 at 10:02 AM
- Dr. Mohamed said...
Reminds me of the ring in The Beatles movie, "Hard Days Night."
Cute post! :)
- June 11, 2010 at 10:09 AM
- Erica Mitchell said...
Haha, a White Castle Burger. Ew.
Um, as of now no there is no MacGuffin in my WiP although I am planning on one being in there...possibly. If the story lends to it, we'll see. Gives me somethin' to think about.
Have a great weekend!
- June 11, 2010 at 10:13 AM
- Faith said...
White Castle! Gross... haha.
I don't think I have one in any of my current works, but I know I have a few pre-plotted ideas that use them. One in particular uses a Dumpster.
Trying to think of one I've read recently... Kristin Britain's 'Green Rider' was driven by a letter the MC had to deliver, so there's one.
However, now I'm hungry for a McMuffin. Curses! Guess it's time to break for lunch.
- June 11, 2010 at 10:21 AM
- DL Hammons said...
Although I didn't use one for my current WIP, I did use a MacGuffin for my first. The MacGuffin was actually a missing person. That counts...right?
- June 11, 2010 at 10:45 AM
- Jessica Bell said...
Hmm, I don't think I have one. Maybe a subconscious one ... interesting thought!
- June 11, 2010 at 10:51 AM
- Unknown said...
I totally have one. Bigtime. That means my book is just like LOTR, right? ...!
- June 11, 2010 at 12:34 PM
Maybe the MacGuffin can be a person too--The Great Gatsby perchance? ;)
Anywho, I did have a MacGuffin in a ealier novel. Yes, it was an amulet. Another time I used a journal. Most recently, hmmm, I think there's something about whiskers... ;)-
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- June 11, 2010 at 12:40 PM
- Mary Gray said...
I haven't heard this before. Thanks for sharing it! My latest WIP has an iPod with an important encryption. Everyone wants that, so I guess that's my MacGuffins. What a crazy name!
- June 11, 2010 at 12:59 PM
- Elana Johnson said...
For me, it's always a book. There's a book that holds all the secrets. I don't know what the secrets are though, and that usually creates a BIG problem.
- June 11, 2010 at 1:09 PM
- Carol Kilgore said...
Maybe ... only one character knows about it. But all the others want to know what she knows.
- June 11, 2010 at 2:50 PM
- Lindsay said...
I have a key card, but it doesn't come in till halfway through. Not sure if I can count that as a MacGuffin.
- June 11, 2010 at 2:50 PM
I don't have one with my current WiP, but has one in my SNI. And I didn' know it was called the MacGuffin! :)
- June 11, 2010 at 3:27 PM
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- June 11, 2010 at 3:27 PM
- Okie said...
I love the idea of a MacGuffin but haven't ever really used one. I should try and do a short story with it one of these days and see how it works.
- June 11, 2010 at 4:48 PM
- Okie said...
oh, and yes, MacGyver rocks!
- June 11, 2010 at 4:51 PM
- Melissa said...
My MacGuffin would probably be my main character. Every one wants her (for different reasons) because she has something the rest of them don't (and no the something is not an object - it's inside of her).
I can't think of any MacGuffin's in any books I've recently read. Unless you count my history texts for school....and then I guess power would be the MacGuffin there.
Great post! And I totally agree with all the famous examples you used. It really helped clarify the concept.
- June 11, 2010 at 5:24 PM
- Vicki Rocho said...
I'm going to have to go back and read the Lemony Snicket books because I don't remember the sugar bowl. It has been a few years...
- June 11, 2010 at 6:13 PM
- Heather said...
I haven't used one for quite a while but I will be in a series I plan to rewrite later this year. This is a great reminder about what drives the plot, thank you!
- June 11, 2010 at 6:38 PM
- Sherrie Petersen said...
Wow, I'm loving these terms you're coming up with! I guess my books do have MacGuffins in them. Hope they don't make my butt look fat...
- June 11, 2010 at 7:53 PM
- Author Jessica Nelson said...
Oooh, I have never, ever heard of this....Hmmmm, trying to think here. I write contemporary romance. Would there be a McGuffin in that? I know there's usually a certain thing that one character wants and the other has, or that they both want.
This is great! Thanks for giving me something to think about.
Also, thanks for stopping by my blog and leaving a comment. ;-)
- June 11, 2010 at 8:08 PM
- Elizabeth Mueller said...
Oooh! Interesting post! Thank you for enlightening me! :D
- June 12, 2010 at 2:34 AM
That's a new term for me too. Thanks. I like it! I'd have to say no I haven't a MacGuffin. My characters are searching for love and redemption. But I like the idea of an actual object. I'll have to ponder this for awhile.
- June 12, 2010 at 8:23 AM
- Susan Fields said...
I haven't heard of the term MacGuffin before. I'm thinking of my two completed manuscripts, and neither one has a MacGuffin. In fact, the goal in both of them is to kill somebody. Bad guys, both of them, but still, I didn't think I was such a violent person. :)
- June 12, 2010 at 9:25 AM
- Shannon said...
I haven't used this device...yet. :)
- June 12, 2010 at 10:07 AM
- Talli Roland said...
Interesting! I don't think I've ever heard of this, let alone used it.
Hope you're having a great weekend.
- June 13, 2010 at 7:18 AM
- Rachna Chhabria said...
Hmm.. I don't have one, but this post makes me want to add it to my next book. Very interesting concept.
- June 13, 2010 at 9:23 AM
- Nicole Murray said...
Does a large landmark count?
- June 13, 2010 at 11:06 AM
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Hey I still need your address to send your prize... and actually you can choose the book or bath set because The Urban Cowboy surrendered his prize. (=
Let me know which you want and where to send it. (=
- June 13, 2010 at 5:12 PM
- prashant said...
I like the idea of an actual object. I'll have to ponder this for awhile.
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I wrote about this recently, but hadn't realized you'd already done a great job!
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The bestselling historical novels, which together stretch to more than 1,000 pages, will be transformed into two separate plays with the script adapted under Mantel's supervision.
The double Booker Prize-winning author is currently "collaborating very closely" with writer Mike Poulton and director Jeremy Herrin, with the team soon to go into workshop.
Mantel has now hailed the plays as a "dream come true", as she says she always longed to see her characters brought to life in "solid form".
The two productions are scheduled to be performed from December 2013 to March 2014 at the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon.
Gregory Doran, artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company who made the announcement today, disclosed Mantel planned to add "all sorts of bits" of unpublished material to the stage productions.
The work, which was omitted from her novels, is aimed at clarifying aspects of the complicated story, which charts the rise of Thomas Cromwell under the reign of Henry VIII.
The details of new scenes or dialogue have not yet been released, with much of it still unwritten. The length of the plays has also not yet been decided, but each is expected to run to "normal" time as compared with the six-hour-long planned television adaptation.
Calling Mantel's bestselling novels the "hottest literary property in the Western world", Doran has now hailed them "too good" not to snap up for the stage.
"She's so inspired by the idea of finding a theatrical language for the book she's promised to put all sorts of new bits in that she's left out of the novels," he said of Mantel.
"It's going to be really interesting to have her authorial view on the piece."
A spokesman for Mantel confirmed she was working "very closely" with "brilliant" adaptor Poulton, adding in new material to help theatre audiences understand the complex work.
"It's bits and pieces where things are implied in the books," he said. "They are lurking there somewhere but not necessarily described specifically on the page.
"For the purposes of the stage production, you need something that people can get a grip on immediately.
"When you are dealing with the extremely complex highlights of a very long book, you have to have some things more explicit."
Mantel said the experience of seeing RSC put on her work was a "dream come true".
"From the moment I started writing Wolf Hall, the characters were fighting to be off the page," she said. "The whole experience was vital; it was a sort of re-enactment.
"They weren't corpses, they weren't ghosts, they were people who jumped back to life. And I longed to give them solid form, to see them in 3D. When I write, I write in scenes; I'm writing lots and lots of dialogue.
"So the books are in fact gigantic plays. So the next logical step seems to be to actually take them onto the stage.
"Mike Poulton is very experienced adaptor and playwright is working on the plays right now. He's the one who knows about the stage craft. I'm the one who knows the characters inside out.
"So it's my job just to throw some ideas at Mike and say 'is this useful, can they be realised?' and I'm guided by his great experience.
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The news, announced today as part of the Royal Shakespeare Company's Winter 2013 season launch, finally confirms long-standing rumours of a planned play, with a separate television adaptation expected to follow shortly.
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Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies will now form part of the RSC's Winter 2013 programme.
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WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is warily watching developments on the Korean peninsula after the death of North Korea's leader Kim Jong Il and may postpone decisions on re-engaging the reclusive country in nuclear talks and providing it with food aid, U.S. officials said Sunday.
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The administration had been expected to decide on both issues this week , possibly as early as Monday, but the officials said Kim's death would likely delay the process. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the situation. They said the U.S. was particularly concerned about any changes that Kim's death might spark in the military postures of North and South Korea but were hopeful that calm would prevail.
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"The president reaffirmed the United States' strong commitment to the stability of the Korean Peninsula and the security of our close ally, the Republic of Korea," the White House said in a statement.
Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton were both briefed on Kim's death, the White House and State Department said.
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Kim's death came as the Obama administration was debating whether to go ahead with a new round of nuclear disarmament talks with the North and whether to provide food aid to the country, which has been struggling with crippling food shortages.
The administration had been poised to announce a significant donation of food aid to North Korea this week, the first concrete accomplishment after months of behind-the-scenes diplomatic contacts between the two wartime enemies, according to sources close to the negotiations. And, an agreement by North Korea to suspend its controversial uranium enrichment program was expected to follow within days, the sources said.Video: Haass: Kim Jong Il was 'tactically brilliant' (on this page)
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The food aid announcement, which could have come as early as Monday, would have not only been welcome news for North Korea, but also pave the way for a crucial U.S.-North Korea meeting in Beijing on Thursday. That meeting in turn could lead to the resumption of nuclear disarmament talks that would also include China, Japan, Russia and South Korea.
The so-called six-party talks were last held three years ago, and resuming them would amount to a foreign policy coup for the Obama administration.
Two senior U.S. diplomats were in North Korea's lone ally China last week to discuss the issues. They were due to meet Obama's top national security aides on Monday to discuss the way forward. Those meetings will go ahead in the wake of Kim's passing but decisions will almost certainly be delayed as it is not clear if North Korean officials will be in position to handle any engagement with the outside, the U.S. officials said.
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- 24-Jan-2020 to 24-Feb-2020 (PST)
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- Renton, WA, USA
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- Full Time
Our retail operations are comprised of the best teams out there! They value initiative and take care of our customers, our employees, and help support the surrounding communities. You can become a part of a dynamic selling environment where your fashion sense and selling strength will make you an important part of our team. Come make a difference and join our dynamic team.
Working for Seattle Goodwill is more than just working for a non-profit. Beyond being part of an organization that offers free job training and education to the community, you'll find working for us has its benefits for you too! We offer a comprehensive health plan (medical, dental and prescriptions), dental and life insurance, available supplemental life, accident, illness and disability coverage, flexible spending program, 403(b) Retirement Savings program, paid vacation and sick time, tuition reimbursement, employee discounts, and an Employee Assistance Program for you and everyone in your household!
Job Summary
Interact with and assist customers, donors and others with merchandise selection, suggestion selling and cashiering in a courteous and professional manner.
Essential Functions:
Proactively acknowledge, greet and help customers in any area of the store.
Assist customers/donors in a timely and courteous manner by answering questions or directing them to a supervisor.
Handle cash, checks, and credit card transactions, closing out cash drawer and balancing all POS transactions.
Able to communicate through standard telephone and wireless audio systems.
Merchandise, restock and provide general floor maintenance where needed.
Maintain a clean work environment.
Demonstrate safe work practices through awareness and observation in support of a safety culture; reports any potential hazards or accidents.
Support team members, assist supervisors and leads when necessary.
Build and maintain internal and external customer satisfaction.
Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.
Perform other duties as assigned.
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The essential functions listed are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
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Education: High School Diploma or Equivalent preferred.
Experience: None
Specific Skills/Knowledge/Licenses: None
Essential Physical Abilities:
Lifting and carrying 30 – 40 pounds; Developed fine motor control (grasp, handle, manipulate objects with fingers;
Standing for long periods of time; frequent bending, kneeling, reaching, stooping, squatting, pushing; climbing ladders;
Able to travel across a variety of surfaces (stairs, ramps, uneven terrain)
Essential Mental/Sensory Abilities:
Organizing, sorting, categorizing, counting, adding, subtracting,
Interpreting data
Problem Solving
Communicating with the public, clear verbal and written.
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Two Years,Two New Press Lines
From its 50,000-sq.-ft. plant, which the company moved to in 1990, Vogelsang specializes in the manufacture of non-threaded fasteners. It also specializes in multislide and rollforming. But in 2008 its focus shifted, when it received a directive to grow its tubular-parts manufacturing capacity using a metalforming process developed by the German parent.
"Since 2002, Jöerg Vogelsang in Germany has been focused on a process its engineers developed to manufacture anti-vibratory products—a process that replaces the use of highly machined cut tubing," says Dale Stuban, vice president and general manager of the New Jersey operation. "Instead, we stamp the product in the flat, wrap it and clinch the longitudinal seam, all in the press. Our parts are stronger in compression than is tubing, due to the grain direction of the material, and we eliminate a host of secondary operations."
A Dynamic Duo of Press Lines —One New, One Refurbished
To successfully integrate the German-engineered process into his facility, the plant invested in two new press lines, the latest centered around a refurbished 400-ton Bliss press along with a new servo feeder (from Cooper-Weymouth, Peterson) and refurbished Brown & Boggs straightener. All of the equipment was purchased through local distributor Wenco Machinery, Ringwood, NJ. Full production for the new line begins in April of this year.
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The CWP ServoMax SE servo feed includes matte chrome rolls, 500-job memory and a hand-held remote jog pendant, and boasts roll-position accuracy to ±0.002 in. Vogelsang's model offers maximum stock width of 18 in. and full-width thickness capacity to 1⁄8 in. And, its Stamtec S2-series straightside press generates as much as 220 tons of force, 50 to 120 strokes/min., 6.3 in. of stroke length and a bolster measuring 72 by 48 in. Sideframe opening is 31.5 by 19.7 in.
"The Stamtec line was added to our equipment list strictly for the anti-vibratory products, to process steel sheet less than 2 mm thick and parts 4-in. dia. and smaller. Larger bushings run on the 400-ton line," says Stuban, "to ¼ in. thick and 7-in. dia., since that press has more available stroke length."
The newest job to run on the 400-ton line stamps and forms 4-in.-dia, by 4 in. long bushings from 0.130-in. steel. "The part has windows in it," Stuban shares, "and we also knurl and profile the inside and outside edges, all done in the flat before we wrap and clinch in the press."
Together the two new lines account for about 15 percent of the company's overall revenue, and Stuban expects that percentage could double in the next couple of years—hence the likelihood of a third press to be added to the family.
Profiling the Strip Inline
The 400-ton press line includes a knurling machine to profile the strip coming from the feed line. "We can take a standard-slit strip, profile the edge to create a range of chamfer angles and lengths, as well as inner grooves," explains Stuban, "then feed it into the press where we cut the windows and slots, then U-form and wrap the cylinder in the die."
The press runs a die that combines the features of a transfer die and a progressive tool. The material stays with the coil as it runs through knurling, profiling, and then into the press. After U-forming, the part is cut free and a transfer tool pushes the part into a final rolling operation to close and clinch the seam.
Two loops even out material flow—one loop lies between the decoilers leading to the straightener and out into the knurling tooling and then into the profiling station, and a second loop lies between the profiling station and the press feeder. The 70-ft.-long line runs at 40 to 60 strokes/min., "although we expect to run considerably faster with the line in full production mode," Stuban adds. "And, the process generates very little scrap since we're developing trim lines—there is no cam trimming.
"Clinch seaming is our niche in the market," Stuban continues. "Any parts from material thicker than 0.100 in. we can clinch in the press. Thinner work is clinched in the press and then plasma-arc welded in a secondary operation to prevent seams from opening up during transport. Overall, we're saving our customers as much as 25 percent in piece-part cost compared to using machined tubing." MF
See also: Bliss Press USA, PRAB, Inc., Formtek-ME, The Brown Boggs Machine Company, Stamtec, Inc.
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Why Won't Senator Feinstein Call Torture Torture?
from the questions-questions deptThere's been a lot of great commentary already about the brouhaha between the Senate and the CIA regarding Senator Dianne Feinstein's allegations that the CIA has, in essence, spied on the activities of the Senate's intelligence oversight committee. I just want to add a few thoughts.
First, it's fair to wonder why the Senate is calling its own inquiry a report on the CIA's "detention and interrogation program." Feinstein herself acknowledges her staff members have been "wading through the horrible details of a CIA program that never, never, never should have existed." A horrible program that should never have existed? Does that sound like detention and interrogation... or like torture and imprisonment?
In fact, the word "torture" appears not once in Feinstein's remarks. Think of the linguistic dexterity required to deliver a 12-page-speech about a CIA torture program and a Senate investigation into that program without even once mentioning the word torture! It would be like me writing this blog post without once mentioning the name "Feinstein." I wouldn't know how to do it, and I'm almost in awe of the propagandists who do.
Second, it was a little weird to hear Feinstein describe the "need to preserve and protect the Internal Panetta Review," if only because "preserve and protect" is the language the Constitution mandates for the President's oath of office: "I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States." It's almost as though some people think an obligation to protect secrecy is as important as an oath to defend the Constitution.
Third, so much security! "[T]he committee staff securely transported a printed portion of the draft Internal Panetta Review from the committee's secure room at the CIA-leased facility to the secure committee spaces in the Hart Senate Office Building." I couldn't help remembering this:
Fifth, and most insidiously, note that the overseers of this country are still peddling the notion that torture is merely a policy choice, and not a crime. In this regard, Feinstein said, "if the Senate can declassify this report, we will be able to ensure that an un-American, brutal program of detention and interrogation will never again be considered or permitted."
No. If Feinstein or anyone else is serious about ensuring America never again engages in institutional torture, it is imperative that the Justice Department (it's gotten so hard not put square quotes around that phrase) investigate who ordered what Feinstein calls "an un-American, brutal program... that never, never, never should have existed" (hint: this would not be hard); to prosecute those people; and to imprison them if they are found guilty of violating America's laws against torture. Anything else is implicit and unavoidable acknowledgment that torture is not a crime, merely a policy choice with which Dianne Feinstein happens to disagree. And the notion that merely persuading people that torture is bad is the right way to prevent it from happening again is illogical, ahistorical, and, as Feinstein might put it if she were thinking a little more clearly or had slightly different priorities, unAmerican, too.
Cross-posted from Barry Eisler's blog: The Heart of the Matter: Why Won't Senator Feinstein Call Torture Torture?
Filed Under: cia, dianne feinstein, interrogation, john brennan, senate intelligence committee, torture


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The final Con†Stellation is over 🙁
😀↪ But, join us for Not-A-Con 2019!! ↩😀
😀↪ Which will be 18–19 October ↩😀
We will be transforming the Con†Stellation pages into a history site
Please bear with us as that transition will take some time
Con†Stellation XXXV: Horologium (The Clock)
13–15 October 2017——Huntsville, Alabama
|GoH: Mary Robinette Kowal
|Artist GoH: David O. Miller
|MC: Toni Weisskopf
Like many parts of life, science fiction/fantasy conventions develop their own lingo—with regional and local differences. We want to welcome folks who may not quite follow the expressoins so we're trying to explain some of those terms, especially as they relate to Con†Stellation. We intend to add more sections to this page as time goes along.
This page is a work in progress.
What is a "general interest Science Fiction & Fantasy convention"?
Con†Stellation calls itself a general interest sf/f convention. By that we mean that we celebrate all aspects of science fiction, fantasy, and related genres. While Con†Stellation tends a bit toward the literary side, you'll also find our staff & members playing genre games, watching movies & TV, buying collectables in the dealers room, messing around with fantasy weapons, craving that beautiful picture for sale in the art show, and doing just about any thing you can think of that relates in any way to the genre. We also don't focus on just one author or on just one specific type of fantasy or on just one series of movies or any other specific interest. There are fine conventions out there that do that quite well (though you may have to travel quite a distance to get to one of the few cons if your focus is narrow enough).
We want to be straight with you—we're a local fan-run convention so we don't have the resources (space, manpower, money, etc.) to be all things to all people at all times. As an example, back in the day (before a lot of you reading this were even born) our type of convention would be the place to go to see movies in the Video Room. But then, the DVD wasn't even a gleam in it's daddy's eye and VCRs (plus the tapes to plug into them) were new, expensive, and far from common. Over the years genre TV and movies became much more affordable and ubiquitous. Now it would be wasting the hard-earned membership money you gave us to spend it on a Video Room that very few people took advantage of. Were we a huge con with many thousands of people there would be enough people who wanted to see the latest obscure (fill in the country of your choice) TV show that we could devote a room to show the entire season and fill it up with eager viewers.
Instead, we focus on not focusing.
No matter what your interests are you'll almost certainly find other fans—and that term includes all the professionals attending the con—who share one of more of those interests. Being a smaller convention then works to your advantage in that you can actually find those folks then sit and talk to the fans (and pros) about the latest novel from what's-her-face or see if anyone remembers the name of that movie that had who's-it in his first featured role (and someone probably will know) or break open the shrink wrap on a promising new game and try it out with several folks who'd heard of it and wonder how good it is just as much as you do.
What is a "relaxicon"?
A relaxicon (aka relaxacon) is a convention with little or no programming and typically no or very few guests. It is intended primarily as a place for fans to relax in the company of like-minded folks. Other typical aspects of a general interest convention, like a dealers room or art show, are often sharply scaled back or absent.
What do you mean "Membership"; why don't you say "Ticket" if that's what you mean?
The short answer is that we don't, in fact, mean tickets, we mean memberships. Tickets are what you buy to go to a movie or a play or a concert and watch other people perform. Memberships are what you buy if you want to be a participant in something, and we definitely want our members to participate.
A surprisingly large percentage of our members directly help run the convention at some level—on the convention committee (concom) that works for months planing, then runs a department during the con; as staff that works in setting up, running, and breaking down all the con functions; or just as "gophers," the folks who pitch in an hour or three over the weekend to do whatever needs to be done. (And something pretty much always needs to be done.) But even if you don't participate in that way, we'd love you to be the one raising your hand when a panelist calls for questions or stopping another member in the hall to compliment their costume or telling the art show staff how excited you are when you discover a great piece of art you can afford. We think of our convention as a full-contact participant sport. (Well, OK, not full contact. Remember what your kindergarten teacher told you—play nice and share your toys.)
What do you mean by "Fandom"?
Wikipedia says that "Fandom (a portmanteau of fan [fanatic] and the suffix -dom [domain], as in kingdom, freedom, etc.) is a term used to refer to a subculture composed of fans characterized by a feeling of sympathy and camaraderie with others who share a common interest." When we use it, it's short for science fiction fandom—the group of fans of science fiction, fantasy, and related genres who are in contact with one another through clubs, conventions, and other means.
Fandom's roots go back to the letter columns in early professional sf/f magazines (c. late 1920's) and the amateur magazines (fanzines) that grew up (c. early 1930's) to facilitate communications among the fans who "found" each other in those letter columns. Fanzines are still very much a part of fandom, but as time went by other means of contact came into being, including conventions (aka cons). The conventions exist at all levels from tiny ultra-local relaxicons to large national and international gatherings. Con†Stellation is proud to occupy one niche in fandom, providing a place for fans—mostly within driving distance of Huntsville—to gather annually. The sponsoring club, NASFA, fills other niches by providing a monthly gathering for fans from north-central Alabama and by publishing a club-sponsored fanzine (clubzine), the NASFA Shuttle.
What is a "Con Suite" or "Hospitality Suite"?
People are social animals and conventions of people—no matter what else they are—are social functions. We strive at Con†Stellation to provide things that will inform and educate you about many aspects of science fiction/fantasy (and about science) but we are not robots. No matter how much some of us profess to want to be.
The Con†Stellation Con Suite (or Convention Hospitality Suite) is one of the places to go unwind a bit and grab a drink or a quick nosh or strike up a conversation or just take a load off. Yes, all the food and drink is free... well, your membership money pays for it. The suite is open around the clock for relaxing or soft drinks. Other than late evening or the wee hours, there should be at least some finger foods available. (The 4 fannish food groups are Sugar, Salt, Fat, and Caffeine.) Periodically through the day you'll find much more substantial fare. We recognize that often there's not time for you to go get a full meal somewhere and still catch all the panels and other events you want to see and we don't want you fainting from hunger. (Fat chance of that at Con†Stellation. Pun intended.)
What the Con Suite is not, though, is a place to get all your meals. Play nice. Take some food if it looks interesting (and leave some for the next guy or gal) but also take the time to go out and get a balanced meal. The 6-2-1 rule is a very good idea. (At least 6 hours of sleep a day, at least 2 meals a day (Con Suite or party munches don't count), and at least 1 shower a day... that last is self explanatory ;-)
What is a "Fanac" or "Fannish Activity"?
Fanac is a contraction of "FANnish ACtivities"—that is activities within science fiction/fantasy fandom(←What's That?) as opposed to professional sf/f activities. This can include participation in clubs, conventions, fanzines (fan-published amateur "magazines"), blogging, or just about any other activity promoting fandom.
What is a "DSC" or "DeepSouthCon"?
DeepSouthCon was one of the earliest science fiction/fantasy in the, well, deep south part of the US. The first DSC was held in 1963 in Huntsville with a total attendance of five people. DSC became a rotating regional convention, moving around to many cities in the southeastern US. The site for each year's convention is currently selected by a bidding process with the vote at the DSC two years in advance of the year being selected.
DSC has been in Huntsville several times—DSC 1 (see above), DSC 4 (1966), DSC 23 (1985), DSC 25 (1987), DSC 40 (2002), and the upcoming DSC 50 (2012).
What is a Tuckerization?
Tuckerization is the act of using a person's name in an novel or short story as an in-joke. The term is derived from Wilson "Bob" Tucker, a well-beloved (and sadly deceased) Science Fiction writer, fan and fanzine editor, who made a practice of using his friends' names for minor characters in his stories. Many genre authors auction off Tuckerizations at conventions with the proceeds going to charity.
This is also know as a Red Shirt or Redshirt, for the frequency with which such minor characters often meet their demise.


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YAM - Yet Another Mailer (#2) - Adding filters (#11) - Message List
Since I bought a Mac I've been getting some emails from Apple. So I created a folder "Apple" and went to set up a filter:
Clicked the new filter button, called the filter "Apple" Set the filter to check "From:" and entered "apple.com" and "IN", case sensitivity turned off. Set the action to "Move to folder Apple". Click Save button for config.
How do I save the filter ? When I go back to the config it is missing. If I try the filter immediately after saving config nothing happens - I'm assuming that it was never entered.
This is on YAM 2.6 on MorphOS.
Message #30
This issue is known already and existed in YAM 2.5 already. In fact it is more than 3 years old by now.
If you start with an empty filter list and add your first filter the list will not be saved because the former empty list and now non-empty list are regarded as being the same, which of course is wrong. The same happens if you delete all your configured filters and try to save an empty filter list. What always works without problems is adding/removing filters to/from a non-empty filter list. YAM does some checks to avoid having to save unchanged configurations, even if one pressed the "Save" button.
The solution to this issue is to do any other change to YAM's configuration (i.e. (un)check the "Check birthdays" option on the Startup/Quit page) and thus force it to save the configuration because of this additional change. After that you can reset that additional option back to its former state and continue to add/remove filters as you like.thboeckelMar 1, 2010, 10:04:02 AM (10 years ago)


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Here is a screen-grab of this site using the default user-agent set to iPhone and re-sized to 320px by 480px (believe is the iPhone screen size).


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May 31, 2012
walking with the horses
photo credit: Shae Acopian Detar (click for larger images) I wanted to share a couple more images from my day with Shae and Hannah. I'll post more soon; I'm spacing them out because they're very special to me but you can peek at more on Shae's blog. I loved the horse I was standing with in the photo; she was an older mare with the sweetest disposition. She kept giving me soft nuzzles and even kissed me on the nose. I think that means we're friends.


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• Using emergency decree, government blocks access to thousands of websites.
• CPJ faults government, protesters for lethal violence against media.
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2: Journalists killed during violent clashes between security forces and protesters in Bangkok.
Armed clashes between anti-government protesters and state security forces resulted in 91 deaths and more than 1,800 injuries, a toll that deepened Thailand's debilitating five-year-old political crisis. Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva invoked an emergency decree to contain the protests and employed its discretionary powers to sharply curb press freedom, which included far-ranging Internet censorship.
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Two foreign journalists--Reuters cameraman Hiro Muramoto and Italian freelance photographer Fabio Polenghi--were among the fatalities, while at least nine other reporters were injured in crossfire between troops and protesters. In April and May, areas of Bangkok became armed combat zones as supporters of self-exiled former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra resorted to violence in their bid to topple Abhisit's elected government. The conflict was rooted in Thaksin's ouster in a 2006 military coup and subsequent court decisions that disbanded two of his political parties.
In a special report issued in July, CPJ faulted both the government and the United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD) protest group for engaging in lethal recklessness that contributed to the deaths and injuries of reporters. CPJ found the government had done little to investigate the shootings and had obstructed private investigations launched by concerned news organizations, foreign embassies, and family members.
Muramoto was shot while covering the first armed clashes, on April 10, in Bangkok's old royal quarter. While positioned with military forces that evening, the journalist had captured on film a grenade attack that killed and severely wounded a number of troops. He was later seen on the side of the UDD's red-shirted protesters, four of whom were photographed by the local Daily News carrying his limp body away from the front lines at around 9 p.m.
Reuters' own investigation found that Muramoto "was shot almost certainly by a high-velocity bullet fired at street level while standing in a street between Thai troops and red-shirt protesters." A summary of Reuters' findings reviewed by CPJ said that Muramoto "was not shot at close range" and that "both troops and protesters had high-velocity weapons at the time of Hiro's death and there were casualties on both sides that night."
In November, the government acknowledged that security forces could have killed Muramoto and said it would conduct an investigation. "Since there was possible involvement by government officers, we have to start from square one by letting police investigate further," Tharit Pengdit, director general of the Department of Special Investigation, told a news conference.
Polenghi was killed by gunfire on the morning of May 19 while reporting on military operations to crack down on UDD demonstrators who had erected a barricaded protest site in a luxury shopping and hotel district in the capital. Polenghi was wearing a blue helmet with the word "Press" written across the front and back, and a green armband clearly indicating that he was a working journalist at the time of the shooting.
Troops appeared to be firing indiscriminately in the area, according to Bradley Cox, a documentary filmmaker who was working near Polenghi and was wounded himself by gunfire that morning. "I don't know who shot me or Fabio, but if the military was trying to shoot red shirts, there was no one around us," Cox told CPJ. "Soldiers were firing at anything or anybody."
Other journalists sustained life-threatening injuries. France 24 contributor Nelson Rand was struck by multiple gunshots to the wrist, leg, and abdomen while covering a battle between troops and protesters on May 14 outside of the city's Lumpini Park. Video footage showed that the gunfire came from a position where troops were stationed at the time. Two UDD protesters drove Rand on a motorcycle to a nearby hospital, where he underwent emergency surgery.
Chandler Vandergrift, a freelance reporter on assignment for the Toronto Star, suffered near-fatal injuries after being hit by grenade shrapnel in the back and head on the afternoon of May 19. The journalist was positioned with a group of soldiers at the time of the grenade attack and fell immediately unconscious from his injuries, he told CPJ. He said that it took six weeks for some of the two dozen shrapnel wounds on his back to stop bleeding, and that the grenade's blast left him completely deaf in his left ear. Vandergrift said he believed that the grenade that hit him was fired by black-clad armed protesters, whom he perceived to be targeting troops, not journalists.
On May 13, New York Times reporter Thomas Fuller narrowly escaped injury while interviewing a rogue soldier who led the UDD's armed guards. The soldier was shot in the head and killed in mid-conversation along the perimeter of the protest site. According to his New York Times report, Fuller was standing just a couple of feet away when he heard a "loud bang" and the fatigues-wearing soldier fell to the ground.
On June 7, CPJ sent a letter to Abhisit to express concerns about the deteriorating security situation for journalists covering the conflict. Sek Wannamethee, deputy chief of mission at the Thailand Embassy in Washington, said in a written reply that broad investigations were under way into the deadly violence, including a quasi-independent fact-finding committee investigating the fighting led by former Attorney General Khanit na Nakhon.
But doubts emerged about the committee led by Khanit. He was quoted in the local press on June 12 as saying that "there will be no pointing fingers in the [committee's] work plan" and that "placing blame was less important than promoting forgiveness." CPJ noted in a statement that past government-appointed committees tasked with investigating alleged state-sponsored rights abuses in Thailand had consistently failed to result in prosecutions.
By year's end, no one had been held accountable for the deaths or injuries. CPJ's investigation found instances of official obstruction of privately led inquiries into both the Muramoto and Polenghi killings. CPJ sources said the military refused to make available for interviews the soldiers known to be near Muramoto at the time of the shooting. The government also failed to disclose closed-circuit footage showing activities in the area where the journalist was killed.
Polenghi's sister, Elisabetta, told CPJ she felt threatened after meeting in July with security officials tasked with investigating her brother's death. She said that after she presented new video evidence of his death to the police Department of Special Investigation, agents arrested the UDD supporter who provided her with the video footage. On July 30, CPJ held a joint press conference with Elisabetta Polenghi in Bangkok to urge the government to focus its efforts on investigating the shooting.
After imposing a state of emergency on April 7, Abhisit's government used its discretionary powers to close down a satellite-television news station known as D-Station, along with at least 25 community radio stations, four print publications, and thousands of websites and pages aligned with the UDD. The shuttering of the four print publications, including Voice of Taksin and Red News, represented the first government-ordered closing of print media since military rule in the mid-1970s.
Government officials justified censorship on national security grounds, claiming UDD-aligned media had incited hatred that contributed to the unrest. In comments and speeches, Abhisit pointed to a live D-Station broadcast in which a protester called for the prime minister's assassination, and told journalists on April 25 that the UDD had used provincial community radio stations as "command centers" for mobilizing supporters rather than broadcasting news.
The crackdown extended beyond UDD-aligned media to independent news sites and opinion forums on the Internet, often on the grounds that they published material critical of the monarchy. The extent of the censorship was difficult to track because the emergency decree exempted the government from issuing written orders to Internet service providers. In a December report, Thailand's iLaw Project said the government ordered the blocking of 38,868 websites and Web pages for publishing content critical of the country's royal family. In all, the group said, the government ordered roughly 44,000 web addresses blocked during 2010.
Thailand's royal family was shielded from public criticism by some of the world's strictest lese majeste laws, which carried possible three- to 15-year prison terms for convictions. On June 15, the cabinet approved the creation of a new cyber-crime agency tasked specifically with stamping out online criticism of the monarchy, Agence France-Presse reported. The government also posted billboards with a phone number urging Internet users to report "improper" websites to authorities.
Certain journalists were targeted. Chiranuch Premchaiporn, editor of the independent Prachatai news website, was charged in March with alleged violations of the 2007 Computer Crime Act. The charges stemmed from comments posted by a reader that were critical of Queen Sirikit. As part of the state-of-emergency crackdown, authorities blocked local access to Prachatai in April. The site was moved to servers outside of the country, and an alternate site became accessible later in the year.
Chiranuch was arrested a second time, on September 24, as she arrived at Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi Airport after returning from an international Internet freedom conference in Hungary. Her arrest stemmed from comments posted to Prachatai in 2008 that allegedly violated computer crime and lese majeste laws, according to a posting on Prachatai that day. Free on bail in late year, she faced a possible sentence of 50 years in prison on multiple charges related to content posted to her website. Her trial on the first set of charges was scheduled to begin in February 2011.
Several other politically oriented websites--those devoted to political prisoners and censorship, as well as the document disclosure site Wiki-Leaks--were blocked by the Ministry of Information and Communication Technology. Visitors calling up the addresses of the censored sites found either a Thai-language message citing reasons of national security or a disingenuous error message. WikiLeaks was blocked in August, apparently in response to the site's publication of a comprehensive ministry list of websites and pages it had blocked.With the pervasive censorship of websites, many Internet users gravitated toward social networking sites such as Facebook to monitor news and engage in online political discussions. Even that space wasn't safe for unfettered political debate: In May, authorities arrested Wipas Raksakulthai, a 37-year-old businessman, for posting comments on his Facebook page that were considered offensive to the monarchy.