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Golf Course Review: Reflection Bay
Westin Lake Las Vegas and Reflections Bay What A Pair
Spent a nice weekend with my wife. Celebrated our anniversary with golf at Reflections bay, Dragons Ridge and South Shore. Three amazing courses within a few miles from the resort.
Enjoyed kayaking on Lake Las Vegas.
A must couples vacation!
Overall Experience
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This illustration was made for LeiriaCon 2010's first roleplaying meetup (links in portuguese only).
It was organized and commissioned by my friend João Mariano.
We started to brainstorm with the idea or tagline "You are the game".
After some rough sketches and ideas, the concept of several players, becoming fantasy characters, around the game table started to mature.
Here is a step by step of the illustration:

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text: It was interesting to see how the story of Sundiata played out because even though we know he ended up being the greatest kind, the storytelling of the griot made it feel like it was suspenseful. So many interesting questions were raised in my mind while I was reading Sundiata, and I don't even know where to begin. Well, for starters, when the griot says, "Do not seek what is not to be known.", encapsulated me. It did so because I remember in IB Math, my friend and I would talk about religion, life, and all the above and my friend, Dileny, said that God doesn't want us to seek for some knowledge now because we wouldn't ever understand it. She said that when we died he would tell us and she backed it up with evidence from the Bible and I don't exactly remember where. It's interesting to see the connection between this and the Griot's remarks. Can the truth actually hurt us that much that we should not seek it? I think that we should be able to obtain all the knowledge possible. There's certainly going to be a lot of risks involving that and there will be moments where ethics come into play but how will we ever know what we don't know if we don't push ourselves to those limits. Knowledge is right, a right that we all have, a right that Eve risked it all for. We should go to great lengths to know all the truths, but that's just me.


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The Cañon City Tigers lost its second game in two days in a 6-5 home loss Friday to the Woodland Park Panthers. This is the Tigers first league loss and puts the team's league record at 5-1.
"A close one that we lost because we didn't execute," said Tigers head coach Tim Ritter. "That's the story of the past two games."
Friday's loss puts the Tigers league championship in jeopardy as the team has two more games left in the season. Those games are both league games against Mesa Ridge and Elizabeth. Elizabeth has a league record of 4-1 at the time of this story and will be the Tigers main rival in a fight for the league championship.
"We have to win the next two games to win the league, so our goals are still in front of us," Ritter said.
Mistakes cost the Tigers the early lead as a ground ball with a runner on first and two outs could not be fielded cleanly and put runners on first and second. That set up the Panthers' Evan Owen for a line drive into left-center field, allowing a run to score.
The damage was limited to one run as with the bases loaded, the Panthers' Zak Ludwick hit a fielder's choice to the Tigers' shortstop, and he tossed it to second for the final out.
Zac Hanenberg started the inning off with a deep shot to left-center field that hit the wall, putting Hanenberg on third with a triple. Kadin Porter walked in his at-bat and Lincoln Andrews hit a high fly ball into left field that was caught but the runners advanced to score a run for the Tigers.
That was the only run the Tigers scored as the Panthers ended the inning with a good catch by Ludwick as he climbed the ladder on a line drive hit by Andrew Brosh for the final out of the inning.
The Panthers started a comeback in the second inning and got the lead as Michael Shrum hit a ground ball to first base with a runner on third. Shrum was out, but the runner scored to put the Panthers up 2-1.
It would take until the bottom of the third for the Tigers to respond as Ben Marushack hit a ground ball up the middle with runners on first and second. The runner on second scored and the Tigers now had runners on first and second.
Just after the Tigers tied the game, the Panthers took the lead back once again. With runners on second and third, Shane Purkey hit a ground ball up the middle, allowing a run to score and putting runners on the corners.
The Panthers weren't done yet as Owen lined one into shallow left field to drive in another run.
The Tigers responded once again this time in a big way. With two outs, Kadin Porter lined into center field that was just past the outstretched arms of the Panthers' center fielder. This set up Andrews for a big shot, on the second pitch of his at-bat, that sailed over the right-field wall for a two-run home run.
This tied the game at four and that was all the Tigers could do in the inning.
In the top of the sixth inning, the Panthers again got the lead. Purkey snuck a ground ball into right field with runners on first and second, allowing a runner to score. The Panthers were limited to just that run to go up 5-4.
The Tigers again tied the game up in the bottom half of the sixth inning. Seth Newton put down a bunt with Jacob Whitney on second. Newton beat the throw to first, and Whitney put on the jets and scored on the play to tie the game up at five.
The Panthers got back the lead one last time with a passed ball with a runner on third. That runner was on second and a balk by Tristen Beicker put him on third.
On the passed ball, the batter hit the ball into center field but the balk would nullify the hit. That play resulted in an exchange of word between Porter, the catcher, and the Panthers first base coach. The Panthers first base coach was thrown out of the game as a result.
The Tigers had a chance in the bottom of the seventh inning as the Cañon City had two runners on first and second, but Seth Six hit a fly ball into left field for the final out.
The Tigers next game will be against Mesa Ridge at 4 p.m. Tuesday. It will be senior night for the Tigers during the team's last home game.
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Position: Long China via the CAF (closed end fund)
We're fairly certain that being bullish on China is no longer a unique concept. The question now is can consensus continue to be right?
Taking a step back, in December of last year one of our Top 3 Macro Themes for Q109' was "Chindia does not exist." While Indian industrial production growth has finally turned positive in recent months (see chart), The New Reality remains - China's absolute year-over-year industrial production growth continues to both beat expectations and outperform their Indian counterparts.
Today, as we start to coagulate our thoughts on Q3 Macro Themes, we are posed with a very different question than that which we asked ourselves 6 months ago. Calling China from here is no longer about the delta of growth improving and outrunning the rest of the world. Calling China from here is more about ascertaining whether or not they can keep this momentum going.
Last week's Chinese economic data provided the latest facts, and they support an answer of yes for the Chinese bull case. If half of being right on global demand recovering in 2009 was about Chinese demand re-accelerating, the other half was about REFLATION. At a price level, we are mindful that the latter will ultimately have a negative impact on the former.
May's China data showed a continued acceleration in growth (see chart, Chinese industrial production growth shot up to +9% y/y) alongside further deflation in Chinese Consumer Prices (CPI was -1.4% y/y). This is as near perfect an economic cocktail as you can get. But perfect is as perfect does, and we need to stay on top of REFLATION's impact on both potential Chinese inflation creep, and slowing growth.
For now, we remain bullish on China.
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J. Edgar Hoover's career with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) began on August 22, 1921, when he was appointed assistant chief. A little more than three years later, he was appointed director of the agency, a position Hoover held until May 2, 1972, when he died in his sleep. Long before his death, his name had become synonymous with the FBI.
Hoover served under every United States president from Calvin Coolidge to Richard Nixon. Those who tried to oust him from his job—Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy, and Nixon—found it impossible to do so, largely because of secret files he threaten to release on them or on members of their families.
On the positive side, Gentry shows that Hoover did an excellent in cleaning up the FBI, which had become a dumping ground for political hacks before he took the agency over. One cannot question Hoover's effectiveness, but it was achieved at great cost and through a flagrant disregard of constitutional guarantees.
Hoover attempted to foist upon an entire nation his warped, narrow views of right and wrong. He used any means at his disposal to destroy those who crossed him or questioned his actions. He used the threat of his renowned secret files—many of them filled with information obtained illegally—to blackmail anyone, including presidents of the United States, into doing his bidding.
Sources for Further Study
Chicago Tribune. September 8, 1991, XIV, p. 1.
Library Journal. CXVI, August, 1991, p. 110.
Los Angeles Times Book Review. September 8, 1991, p. 1.
The New York Times Book Review. XCVI, September 15, 1991, p. 3.
The New Yorker. LXVII, September 9, 1991, p. 96.
Newsweek. CXVIII, September 23, 1991, p. 50.
Publishers Weekly. CCXXXVIII, July 19, 1991, p. 43.
Time. CXXXVIII, October 14, 1991, p. 87.
The Wall Street Journal. August 29, 1991, p. Al0.
The Washington Post Book World. XXI, November 3, 1991, p. 13.


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(NBC News) While health care workers in west Africa try to gain control of the worst outbreak of ebola in history, doctors and nurses here in the United States are on alert just in case the deadly virus is found in this country.
Part of the emergency room at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, North Carolina was closed briefly Wednesday when a patient who'd traveled to a country known to be battling infectious disease arrived feeling ill.
Doctors determined the patient did not have ebola.
"People should realize that the risk of having an outbreak of ebola in the United States is exceedingly unlikely and rare, in part because of the infrastructure that we have for good infection control," says Dr. Martin Cetron of the Centers for Disease Control.
Ebola is a virus that kills 60 to 90-percent of its victims. It's spread through direct contact with the bodily fluids of an infected person, even if that person has died.
Doctors and nurses are trained to know the symptoms: Fever, headache, diarrhea, vomiting. So are the volunteers who are coming back to the United States after serving in Africa.
The two American workers infected with ebola in Liberia, Dr. Kent Brantly and Nancy Writebol, have shown slight improvements in the past 24 hours.
Both remain in Africa in serious condition.
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This photo of buffalo in Zakouma National Park was used to determine that there are exactly 794 animals in the herd. Photo mosaics made by Mike Fay and his team of conservationists allow them to make an accurate assessment of the types and numbers of animals in the sanctuary.
Photo courtesy Mike Fay
On the final day of an aerial survey of Zakouma National Park in Chad, central Africa, a team of conservationists led by J. Michael Fay spotted and photographed several herds of elephants. The animals will be carefully counted on photographs taken by the team and follow-up flights will be made for clarifications.
Texas-size Zakouma park is on the frontline of central Africa's ivory wars. Once a haven for hundreds of thousands of elephants, the reserve has been the target of rampant poaching that has reduced the elephant population to fewer than a thousand animals. Elephants could vanish from the park within the next two to three years if poaching continues at current levels, National Geographic News reported three months ago.
Fay, a biologist with the Wildlife Conservation Society and Explorer-in-Residence for National Geographic, made headlines in 2006 — the last year the park's elephants were counted officially — when he found evidence of entire herds of elephants slaughtered by poachers armed with automatic weapons just outside Zakouma's boundaries.
Once the final number of the current survey is in, Fay will share his thoughts about the status of Zakouma's embattled elephants. "I have been at this battle for almost 30 years and this is the last stand," he writes in this blog entry.
Zakouma Survey 2009
By J. Michael Fay
Day 5: March 8, 2009
The bronchitis is still with me, but I kind of feel like my body is winning at this point
We have been seeing millions of quelea birds along the river near camp here going to their roosts in the evening — amazing site.
Today is the final day of the survey. We were going to try find and then decipher that big herd of elephants [seen on the previous day] before we embarked on our survey lines.
NGS photo of Zakouma elephants in 2007 by Michael Nichols
We got to about 3 km north of the airstrip and we could already see a few small herds milling around the waterhole just to the east of the road, so in the block that we surveyed yesterday.
One herd of 20 was headed south and another bigger group north.
On the west side of the road was the vast majority of the group.
We flew over one group that was probably a total of about 150 individuals. We took photos.
We took a few long loops to the east of the road down to Rigueik to see if there were elephants headed south. We saw none so we assumed that the vast majority of elephants were in the block to be surveyed today and broke to start transects on the south end of the block.
I believed that we would capture the entire herd on the transects.
To the south of the block we started to record large numbers of giraffe, some good sized herds of buffalo and the normal mix of antelopes, warthogs, ostrich and the ubiquitous elephant carcasses. It seemed that for all species except for elephants we were doing quite well.
NGS photo of Zakouma elephants in 2007 by Michael Nichols
We started hitting elephants about half way up in the block. They were north of where we had seen them in the morning and on the move. This was a herd of about 80 or so.
There would be more further to the north.
Two transects later we hit another group of 80 or so.
And some transects north of that we hit the big group.
There were small groups huddled under about 10 acacia trees in a row. We estimated the number at some hundreds.
It seems with elephants you always overestimate a bit and with buffalo you underestimate.
NGS photo of elephants in Zakouma in 2007 by Michael Nichols
We positioned ourselves along the line of elephants and shot three mosaics of pictures that we could stitch together and count them very accurately. It looked like there were over 300.
We hit a few more large herds of buffalo, giving us another 1,000 or so to add to the total. They were hard to photograph, kind of hidden below a canopy of forest. Their exact numbers would be hard to count in the photos.
It will be a few days before we know what the total elephant number is, but I think we are looking at just over 600 total.
We plan on doing some follow-up complete counts, counting only elephants. So stay tuned — we will have a good number in the next 4 or 5 days.
Then I will give you my thoughts on these results. I am remaining a counter here, [showing] no emotion, but believe me there is a lot. I have been at this battle for almost 30 years and this is the last stand.
NGS photo of elephant carcass and vultures in 2007 by Michael Nichols
Earlier entries by Mike Fay:
Day 1: March 4, 2009 (Survey begins)
Day 2: March 5, 2009 (Granite mountains, Bon village, eastern center of the park)
Day 3: March 6, 2009 (Gara Plain, Kieke Village, Rigueik pan)
Day 4: March 7, 2009 (First live elephants and a large herd of buffalo)
For maps, photos and data from the 2006 survey please go to National Geographic magazine's Ivory Wars.


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Let me say it again. Barack Obama is not a "young man" he is 47 (on August 4th) years old. That's almost 50. He is a man. He needs no qualifier.
I am so tired of people talking about Senator Obama as if he were a young man in his 20s. He is a United States Senator. Let me repeat that. He is a United States Senator .
He is not some sort of "celebrity" who did "nothing" to get where he is. He was born to a mother who at one point was on food stamps to feed her children. Yes, he went to a prestigious school, but he went on SCHOLARSHIP not because he had the money and could afford for mommy and daddy to pay the tuition. He went to college on scholarships and loans. He went to law school on scholarships and loans. He JUST paid off his student loans a couple of years ago thanks to the success of his books. He was a community organizer in Chicago, in fact he moved there not knowing anyone because he felt it was his place to do something to help people. Even when he graduated near the top of his class at Harvard Law School, he chose to return to his community organizing job instead of taking some fancy job on Wall Street. He ran for office because we wanted to do more to help more people. He was unsuccessful in one election when he ran for U.S. Congress, so he does know the bitter taste of defeat.
He is by no means perfect, but to reduce him to a celebrity, and then say "he's a good young man" is insulting and belittling. The man is a United States Senator, the presumptive nominee of the Democratic Party for President. He may be our next president. He is not a "young man" he is not "inexperienced" he is not "uninformed" he DOES "understand" the issues and what needs to be done to put the United States back on course.
He is not "arrogant" or "presumptuous" or "cocky" or "uppity." He is confident. Maybe he has an ego, but anyone who thinks they can and should be the President of the United States has an ego.
So stop calling him "young" because while just about anyone or anything is younger than John McCain, Barack Obama is not a "young man."


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It seemed that anyone who had watched these Stanley Cup Playoffs - particularly these series - had little doubt that the teams that trailed 3 games to 2 - the Chicago Blackhawks and New York Rangers - would win their respective Game 6s and force the series to the distance. Both teams demonstratively won their games, and for the second time in 34 years, both Conference Finals are going to Game 7; the last time was in 2000, when the Devils-Flyers and Stars-Avalanche series both went to the limit. In the modern era of Conference Finals in the NHL (since 1982), these are the 15th and 16th series to go to seven games out of 68 total possible times, marking just over 20% of the time that a berth in the Stanley Cup Final rests on one game. And people remember these games, even decades later; I wasn't even really a Leafs fan yet, and I still remember the 1993 series against the Kings.
This year's NBA playoffs are being met with less enthusiasm, and many commentators are lamenting the dearth of competition in this year's playoffs, save for the Spurs-Clippers series in Round 1 that went to a classic last-second ending in Game 7. It's a bit of a misnomer, as the NBA's second round series between Golden State and Memphis and Cleveland and Chicago provided some great last-second heroics, but the overall feeling of a fait accompli of the Finals between Golden State and Cleveland has pervaded these playoffs. At any rate, it makes for an interesting time for comparison between the two leagues.
On Game 7 and the Conference Finals
Despite the competitive imbalance apparent in the NBA Conference Finals this year, I was curious to see how the NBA usually stacked up against the NHL in providing entertaining matchups in the penulimate round, and I was actually surprised at what I found. Game 7s are actually slightly more prevalent in the NBA Conference Finals, with 21 out of 90 possible since 1971 (a rate of 23%), a fact that surprised me at first until I considered it more deeply. There are a few reasons why I think this is the case.
1. Upsets are much more common in the NHL playoffs. I could go through the stats to back this up, but that would be a lot of work to prove what is certainly true: there are more lower seeds that win in NHL series than in the NBA, especially in the first round. The NHL tends to provide a more equalized field in the playoffs, and it has even happened that a team seeded 8th has won the Cup in convincing fashion (the LA Kings in 2012 after leading each series 3-0). Even this year, two of the four Conference Finalists (Tampa Bay and Chicago) were upset victors in their previous series. In basketball, on the other hand, the best teams are the best; in the past 35 years, only a handful of teams not seeded between 1st and 3rd in their conference have made it to the Finals, and there is only one notable example (1995 Houston Rockets) of a lower-seeded team winning the title. More upsets in the early rounds in the NHL in both theory and practice means that there are more imbalanced series in the Conference Finals, a fact that bears up both anecdotally and statistically.
2. More series go to Game 7 in the first two rounds in the NHL playoffs than in the NBA. In the 13 playoffs since 2003, when the NBA extended the First Round to Best-of-7 from a Best-of-5, there have been 32 series that have gone the distance in the NBA, including a ridiculous five in 2014. In the same time span in the NHL, 44 series have gone the distance, an average of almost one additional series each year. That means that NHL teams are likely more tired by the time they hit the Conference Finals and that, correspondingly, fewer series are likely to go to Game 7.
3. It is easier for one player to dominate a basketball series than a hockey series. Other than a hot goaltender, it is very difficult for one player to swing a series in hockey; in basketball, however, it is much easier for a player to take over for a game or two and to push the series further.
4. Hockey is a more "momentary" game. As mentioned, the best team almost always wins in an NBA series. It is rare that a team comes away feeling that they played a better series and still lost, even in the case of an upset. I suppose it seems a little facetious to assert that the team that lost could be the "best team" (which by definition should seem to apply to the winner), but it is more likely that the "best team" can lose a hockey series due to moments. An OT goal here, a great save there - it's a lot easier for a hockey series to be won or lost in a moment than an NBA series, which is why it seems less likely that as many NHL Conference Finals go the distance.
5. Basketball, unlike hockey, is measured in dynasties and legacies, and teams and players are usually only legitimized by multiple titles. In hockey, almost every player eventually gets their shot at the Cup; not everyone wins it, of course, but almost everyone gets a shot at some point. Furthermore, a hockey player's legacy can be justified with just one Cup win, especially if it is very memorable. The NBA's history is full of players who just could not be the best, and even if they had some success, it was limited by the teams and players who were better. Think of the 1990s Indiana Pacers, Portland Trail Blazers, Seattle Supersonics, or Utah Jazz; all teams that had success, some even making it to the Finals, but all of whom ended up in the shadow of the defining player of their generation: Michael Jordan. Every once in a while, a team sneaks through (the 2004 Detroit Pistons beating the loaded L.A. Lakers or the 2006 Miami Heat beating the Mavericks come immediately to mind), but the narrative of the NBA typically revolves around its best teams and players. But this also means that, since players have more on the line, that the best teams will push themselves to the limit more often, meaning that the series that in theory should feature the best teams (ie. the Conference Finals) would be more likely to go to Game 7.
So there are my thoughts on the difference between the NBA and NHL in terms of why the Conference Finals go longer slightly more often in the NBA, but also as a reflection on the difference between watching the two sports. I'm enjoying them both about equally this year, and I think that no matter what happens over the next two nights of hockey that we're in store for a great Stanley Cup Final. I also think that Golden State and Cleveland has the possibility to be a great series, and that despite the injuries on both teams that this will be a legacy-making series. Also, the great thing for LeBron is that he has nothing to lose; if he wins, big bonus, but if he loses, he's still the only player since the 1960s Celtics to make five Finals in a row, and he has cemented his legacy as one of the top players of all time (top ten for sure, maybe even top five).
And for anyone keeping score at home, my rate of predicting the playoff series winners in both leagues has been comparable so far. My NBA picks, though still strong overall, have been slightly less successful, with three series in total incorrect so far thanks to the Clippers beating the Spurs in the first round; I still have both Finalists active, though, so I'll take that as a point in my favour. My NHL picks rest on the events of the next two days: if both Chicago and New York manage to win, I'll have picked both Finalists correctly; if they lose, I'll have proven just how fickle trying to pick winners really is in hockey - or at least that's what I'll tell myself if I'm wrong. After all, anything can happen in Game 7, right?


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Seven men were wounded in a chaotic East Oakland shooting that continued even after officers scrambled to the scene late Saturday, police said. The violent clash prompted multiple police officers to move door to door through the neighborhood in search of possible suspects, said Officer Johnna Watson, an Oakland police spokeswoman. Patrol officers were first alerted by a bystander around 11:45 p.m. Saturday about gunfire at 77th and Bancroft avenues, police said. When officers arrived at the scene, gunfire continued to erupt and multiple people were injured with gunshot wounds, Watson said.
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"Janie was born with the most beautiful, round head, and I couldn't stop kissing it," said her mother, Kandace Sherman.
Moms quickly learn the details of their newborns – from their features to newly forming habits. It wasn't long before Janie's family noticed she mostly slept on her right side, and her head wasn't quite as round as when she was first born.
Janie developed plagiocephaly, a condition characterized by a flat spot on the side of her head due to her sleeping patterns. Similarly, brachycephaly is noticed when the back of a baby's head is flat or wider than it is long. While both conditions can lead to misaligned ears, asymmetrical facial features or a bulging forehead that could last a lifetime, both are treatable when caught soon enough. These conditions are not merely cosmetic; developmental delays are linked to these irregularities, if left untreated.
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Recently I've read a lot about writers wondering if the time has finally come to give up on a project. You've sent it out a dozen times but the manuscript keeps on bouncing back. When you complain to fellow writers about your bad luck, the commiserations come thick and fast.
They'll regale you with the names of those authors who finally made it just as they were about to pull the plug on their writing careers and at first it's comforting to compare yourself to JK Rowling et al.
But there are only so many exhortations to keep your chin up that a writer can take and if one more person tells you that it only takes one agent to like what you've written, you'll scream. Much more of this boomeranging back and forth, you think, and maybe it's time for your final trick – the one where you drop led weights in the envelope.
Of course, by the time you've reached that stage you know you are completely beyond hope. Not only will you have lost the plot, but somewhere along the way you'll have mislaid that nugget of certainty you'd carried around all the time you were writing your story – the one that swore blind that the idea you'd come up with had legs. Sturdy legs strong enough to bear any amount of disappointment and rejection. Damn it, what you'd written was good, wasn't it? Wasn't it?
We all reach our that's it, I quit point with a novel or story, sooner or later. I send out quite a few stories in a year and maybe up to half a dozen serial ideas, so I do know whereof I speak.
Serials take a lot of time so it's generally a good idea to find out sooner rather than later if it's a turkey. (Speaking of turkeys, I actually did write one about a rather nasty character who was knocked out by a frozen one, flung from a bridge. I won't go into why.) The editor didn't really warm to my initial idea and maybe I should have stopped right there.
But I was full of enthusiasm for it, and submitted a first episode - to another lukewarm reception. I definitely should have stopped there, shouldn't I? But I didn't. I finished the damn thing. Got it rejected.
Did I learn from the experience? No, I rewrote it as a long short story and submitted it again. Got it rejected again,from two different magazines, each time for different reasons.
But once in a while this strategy for refusing to give up pays off. As far back as 2003 I wrote a short story for a competition about a young girl in her first term at university who imagines herself in love with a fellow student, in the year above. So besotted is she that she moulds her personality to his and quite loses sight of her own identity. It's a theme that I can get quite obsessed about and I was certain that I was onto a winner. It got nowhere.
Undaunted, I tried my luck with it to a couple of magazines, one abroad. In order to do that I had to shave off a few words to meet the target word length and play around with a few of the references which were a bit clever-clever. But still it came back. Twice.
I shrugged it off, but I was hurt. I loved this story. And I wanted someone else to love it too. Which is why, at the end of last year, when another year or so had elapsed since last I'd laid eyes on it, I decided to read it through and see if I'd been deluding myself all along.
I still loved it. Time had moved on, however and I had to change a few references. I sent it off to Woman's Weekly in November. They returned it in January. It was Just Not Them.
Okay, definitely time to give up, I decided. It was a new year after all. Time to look forward not back. Yet my new year was a bleak one. Writing wise I just couldn't get going. So one afternoon I read that story again. And I still liked it.
But I could see there was a problem. It came somewhere towards the end. Too neat, too contrived, I decided. Though it would only need a tweak here, a tweak there. And I needed to cut out a few of the fancy words and references. I was tripping over Darlings on the carpet towards the end of my edit.
I don't know what made me send it off to Norah McGrath at Fiction Feast/Take-a-Break. I suspect it was desperation as much as my very last-ditch attempt to get this story before an audience bigger than myself.
Reader, she bought it. I suspect it will appear in next month's Fiction Feast, the October edition, out next Thursday, 10 September.
And the moral of this blogpost is? Writers can be critics and critics can be writers. But possibly not of your own work. Sometimes you just have to keep flogging away at it, even when the horse is dead. Or when you've written a turkey.
19 comments:
- Roderic Vincent said...
Geri, thank you.
- 4 September 2009 at 08:06
- Administrator said...
Inspiring post, Geri.
- 4 September 2009 at 08:57
- Caroline Green said...
Well done on that persistence, Geri!The trouble is knowing when to recognise a turkey and I think it's interesting that you retained your love for that story for such a long time....
- 4 September 2009 at 09:03
- Susannah Rickards said...
Fascinating subject. I think this is one of the hardest courses to steer. Is it good enough to keep plugging away until it sells? Or is there something inherently wrong with a piece that as the author, we are blind to?
There are umpteen stories of people who kept on ploughing away and it paid off. But the untold stories are those whose work never made the grade and their gang is bigger than the JKR Lawrence Norfolk gang.
I think it comes down to scrupulous honesty with yourself and an up to date grasp of the market. If more energy goes into the subbing than the edit - there's the problem. I think it's telling that you read and loved it three or four times over several months and only when you were almost letting go of it did you have the nouse to do the rewrites it needed.
What you did sounds like the best recipe for success - keep plugging away but edit it, check it, be dispassionate about its qualities until it works. And send it out to wild-card places you'd never expect would look twice. Sometimes they are the ones longing for such subs. All this is brilliant advice.
x S
- 4 September 2009 at 09:48
- Geraldine Ryan said...
Thanks everyone.
I agree, Susannah, that writers in the short story market seem to send out far more stories than they ever sell.
I read how people have 25 stories "out there" at any one time and I admit, I'm gobsmacked by the volume.
Much better to write a quarter of that number in a year and sell them all, I think, because as you say, it's in the editing process that you are honing your skills.
Caroline, I was blind about the turkey story and still like it, but having nowhere else to go with it is a sure way finally to come to terms with the fact that that particular story is stuffed.
- 4 September 2009 at 10:24
- Julie P said...
Thank you, Geri. I found this pot very useful and motivating. I have several stories that were rejected months and months ago and, to my shame, I haven't had the courage to go back to them to look at them and get them back out there.
It's so difficult to know when a story is a turkey or just an ugly ducking waiting to transform into a beautiful swan and sell!
But I will carry on producing better turkeys and eventually (I hope) swans!
- 4 September 2009 at 10:32
- Gillian McDade said...
Insightful post, Geri. It's something that I'm now turning my hand to as I take a brief hiatus from novel writing.
- 4 September 2009 at 10:33
- Nik Perring said...
Great post, Geri.
- 4 September 2009 at 12:36
- Helen Black said...
Great post.
It is a difficult balance isn't it?
On the one hand I'm no quitter and those who throw in the towel at the first sign of adversity have no future in writing, and yet...one needs to know when to move on.
That's why my advice to new writers is always have a current project. By all means keep subbing the old story, book, play but make sure you're imagination is fuelled by something new.
HB x
- 4 September 2009 at 13:42
- Geraldine Ryan said...
I second that advice, Helen, though I'm as guilty as the next writer of clicking onto my email every 5 minutes in case I've made a sale, when I should be concentrating on writing another story.
Julie, why don't you read back through them? There may be one or two that you feel you can now go back to after a break. What I've done in the past is make a new story out of two old ones.
- 4 September 2009 at 14:06
- Jeannette said...
I've just had something similar happen with a poem... Sent it out to several places when I initially thought it was done, got nowhere. Four years later, I still liked it. Thought it was still worthy. I tweaked it a bit. Felt I had nothing to lose. Well, like your story, it is going to be published. So it just goes to show.... Maybe it was the timing. Maybe it was the tweaking. Maybe a combination plus who knows what. But if a piece is good and you feel it is good, it is worth persisting. Congratulations!
- 4 September 2009 at 14:25
- Kate said...
What an excellent post - I know exactly what you mean. I've had stories I've put aside after only a couple of rejections, but others I've thought no, I still love this, and kept on going. One such short was recently published - it sold on it's 14th outing!! I'm so glad I stuck with it and went with my heart!
- 4 September 2009 at 15:12
- Geraldine Ryan said...
14, Kate!!!! That's brilliant! And congrats, Jeanette!
- 4 September 2009 at 15:34
- Deb said...
Persistence has certainly paid off, Geri. well done!
- 4 September 2009 at 18:29
- Susie Nott-Bower said...
I look forward to reading your turkey, Geri. Never say never 'till the fat bird gobbles. Or, er, something.
Great post!
- 4 September 2009 at 20:25
- Geraldine Ryan said...
That made me laugh, Susie!
- 5 September 2009 at 10:19
- Poppy said...
Brilliant post, Geri, and I love the sound of that story! Glad it found a home, but would have loved to read it anyway. Perhaps you could post it You Know Where ??
- 5 September 2009 at 19:12
- David Tanner said...
Okay, so I thought that I'd post a comment here since I'm a short story writer myself, albeit in the States. This might help if someone is having a hard time with rejections.
Many of the professional short story writers out there submit their short stories to dozens of markets before 'trunking' it, if they ever do. Cases in point, I know that Dean Wesley Smith (who has published 100 short stories and over 90 novels) once submitted a short story to 67 markets before it sold. And Dean has been writing full time for over twenty years.
Also, his wife Kristine Kathryn Rusch (who has published over 300 short stories and over 90 novels) once submitted a story for something like ten years before it sold.
I guess my point is that just because you have a hard time placing a story doesn't mean it's a turkey. It just might mean you haven't found the right editor yet.
It's one of the basic rules of the writing profession: Keeping submitting the peice until it sells. Ala Robert Heinlein's Business Rules for Writers.
Also, Dean is doing a fantastic series of posts on publishing myths at his website deanwesleysmith.com, if anyone's interested. He's a nice guy with a whole lot of good information.
Thanks for your time,
- 7 September 2009 at 10:03
- Geraldine Ryan said...
Thanks, Steve. Trouble is, the market for women's magazine fiction is so small and shrinking fast that it wouldn't be possible to sumbmit it all those number of times.
As a matter of interest, are there any women's magazines in the U.S. that accept fiction? Or have they all gone over to the True Lives/celebrity story way of doing things, like a few magazines here have done?
- 7 September 2009 at 13:40


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Yesterday, I made this mac n cheese from Veg News and it was, hands down, the best mac n cheese I have had, ever! The texture was just right, the flavor was spot on. Everyone loved it and it will become a staple in my recipe index. I found this recipe to be inexpensive and easy to prepare. This dish would also work well for a potluck and can easily be made gluten free with a switch from wheat noodles to rice noodles.
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"To experience a film by Japanese B-movie visionary Seijun Suzuki is to experience Japanese cinema in all its frenzied, voluptuous excess." —Manohla Dargis In a career spanning nearly five decades, Seijun Suzuki amassed a body of work ranging from B movie potboilers to beguiling metaphysical mysteries. On the occasion of the publication of Time and Place are Nonsense: The Films of Seijun Suzuki by F|S Curator of Film Tom Vick, we present a touring retrospective of Suzuki's films. This series is co-organized with the Japan Foundation and presented in conjunction with the Sackler exhibition Sōtatsu: Making Waves.


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When I'm home with my kids, often I spend my days holding onto the acceptable limit of 'screen time' as a coveted resource – I don't want to use it too early in the day, because then it's gone and I can never get it back (am I alone in that??) Usually I save that coveted time for between 4-5 pm, when I'm attempting to make dinner and the kids are tired and cranky.
I was so happy when, a few months ago, I realized that there were other forms of media that I wasn't using to help entertain my kids when I needed to get something done. We often only think of two mediums – TV or books. And while both of these have their merits, there are so many other options that can be not only entertaining for kids, but also educational and effective!
Remember that it's important to set limits on your child's consumption of screens – see the recently updated statement by the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Here are some ideas:
Audiobooks and Books on CD
We highlight a number of our favourite books for kids of all ages in our booklists. But, did you know that you can also get audiobooks for kids? I felt like it was a huge 'ah-ha' moment for me when I realized that I could download audiobooks onto my phone, and then play them for kids when we're waiting somewhere, when in the car, or even at home when kids are bored and I'm doing dishes. You can also get many books on CD. With my three-year old, I've had a lot of success with audiobook versions of the Magic Tree House series, the Mercy Watson series, and Dr. Seuss books. Another great source to check out, which highlights the importance of reading to your kids (and audiobooks count!) is the Read Aloud Revival
Recently, I've discovered podcasts, and I love them so much. I love to listen to them while driving to work, and feel like I'm multi-tasking – learning + driving! So, when I found some decent kids podcasts, I was really happy. We haven't tried tons, but so far my kids have enjoyed:
- Brains On and Tumble – science podcasts for kids
- But Why? – a podcast answering kid's questions.
- Disney Stories Podcast – the ability to stream and download any Disney story anytime? Sign me up!
This is an area that I haven't learned much about, but I've found myself using more often, especially when my preschooler asks questions that I want to give visual answers to – How does milk come out of a cow? How does the earth revolve around the sun? How does my body make poop? I have started to bookmark YouTube channels that do a good job of presenting factual information in an engaging, effective, and succinct way. Some channels that I follow currently are Crash Course Kids and Kids Learning Tube.
Oh, apps. There are SO many available, and I personally feel overwhelmed when I scroll to the 'kids' section of the Apps store. This media, again, is a screen, so apps are not something kids should be spending hours using each day. However, I subscribe to the theory that if my kids are going to get screen time, I would like it to be somewhat educational - so I try to find apps that are teaching them something. Here are some of the winners in my house (keep in mind these are geared towards preschool and young elementary aged kids):
These are only a few options – with the Internet, parents today literally have MILLIONS of options of interesting media for theirs kids to enjoy. However, I know that often the challenge isn't finding the media – it is finding things that are decent. Common Sense Media is a great resource for providing information about developmentally appropriate media for kids of all ages and stages.
What is your favourite media to use with your kids? Do you also have all of the Paw Patrol characters (and their catch phrases) memorized, and are longing to find other options for your kids?
Great ideas! I love the podcast suggestion.
Thanks for sharing. :)
Another incredible podcast for kids is Podikins - http://podikins.fm/
"Podikins Presents is a kids podcast channel featuring activities, stories, and skits designed to promote collaborative and creative thinking."
They are local, and really good at what they do!


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The modern face of farming in this region is changing. In a multi-part series, this paper looks at the evolution underway in agriculture and how it's changing our rural and urban communities.
Neither heat-scorched drought nor record rainfall could dry up or dampen David Mazur-Goulet's enthusiasm to be a successful urban farmer in Ottawa.
BeetBox, a one-acre co-operative farm he and two other eco-centric, sustainable-food-producing enthusiasts established last year on Davidson's Side Road in Nepean, defied weather challenges to produce a bountiful crop of about 30 soon-to-be, certified-organic vegetables for 106 customers who paid in advance to receive weekly or biweekly baskets of fresh produce.
The urban micro-farm's VegBox CSA (community-supported agriculture) program sold out this year, and earned Mazur-Goulet and his business partners, Jeremy Colbeck and Lise-Anne Léveillé, $38,000 in revenue in its first year of operation.
It is a modest return, considering that the trio draw income from sales, and have to pay the National Capital Commission, which owns the 1,100-acre Greenbelt property on which the farm is located, $2,400 in monthly rent.
For now, the three BeetBoxers, who also work on the vegetable farm, earn a minimum wage. But Mazur-Goulet has high hopes that the business seed the co-op has planted on an acreage situated between Carling Avenue and the Ottawa River will soon reap rewards.
"We expect to be profitable by the end of our second year,†he says.
David Mazur-Goulet and his business partners, Jeremy Colbeck and Lise-Anne Leveille, earned $38,000 in revenue in their first year of operation.
BeetBox is among about 25 small-scale vegetable farms that lease land from the NCC. The farm also reflects a demographic trend, according to the NCC's chief of agricultural and residential property management.
Geoff Frigon says that demand for urban farmland is increasing, particularly from prospective tenants in and around the millennial age-range of between 28 and 40 years old.
"What I'm hearing is that they don't want to work in an office anymore and want to reconnect with the land,†he explains. "Some are done with their careers and want to try something different.â€
Frigon says that he and members of his team receive "dozens of calls a week†from current and new urban farmers looking for land.
With less than a one per cent vacancy rate, competition for space is tight and the NCC screens applicants based on their farming knowledge and intent.
One with considerable experience that recently signed a 25-year lease with the NCC is Gourmet Acres, which, Frigon highlights, is one of Canada's largest producers of cauliflower and broccoli. It relocated from Greely to a 660-acre parcel of land located at the intersection of Russell Road and Anderson Road in Ottawa's east end.
Other NCC tenants include non-profit group Just Food, which runs a 150-acre farm on the west side of Blackburn Hamlet and offers a start-up program for budding farmers in the Ottawa region, and Youth Now Farm, which engages teenagers facing challenges in raising livestock and growing vegetables on a 70-acre plot of land on Russell Road in Carlsbad Springs.
Then there's BeetBox, which is sowing the seeds for future growth.
BeetBox, a one-acre co-operative farm started last year on Davidson's Side Road in Nepean, produces certified-organic vegetables.
Incorporated as a workers' co-op in 2017, the vegetable farm has sold preference shares to nine other investors, excluding the three founders, which will provide a three per cent annual return starting in January 2019 for five years. The $32,500 raised will allow the farm to invest in equipment to expand to three acres next year and hire two more workers.
BeetBox bought the greenhouse on the land from the previous farm on the property known as Riverglen, and Mazur-Goulet, Colbeck and Léveillé live in the more than century-old, four-bedroom farmhouse. (Mazur-Goulet's life partner, Kate Garvie, who runs her own one-acre organic vegetable farm called Heartbeet in Woodlawn, is also a resident.)
Lise-Anne Leveille of BeetBox manages international programs at USC Canada, which promotes sustainable small-scale farming globally.
"With our low margins, we have to be careful where we spend money to grow the business,†Mazur-Goulet says.
"We are also learning about the characteristics of the land, such as understanding the soil and what we need to add to it, and knowing where water may accumulate and where there is drainage.â€
The 30-year-old Ottawa native, who was raised in Hintonburg, is a fourth generation branch of a family tree that leans toward agricultural.
His maternal great-grandfather, Louis Goulet, was a market-gardener in the Vanleek Hill area, and his paternal great-grandfather, Alexander Cottick, grew wheat in Dauphin, Man., home to many Ukrainian-Canadian immigrants.
Mazur-Goulet also briefly worked on a farm in Vermont in 2012 when he was pursuing a certificate in sustainable vegetable production from the University of Vermont.
But the idea for launching an urban farm sprouted from a market garden he started in 2014 in L'Ange-Gardien, near Buckingham, Que.
Mazur-Goulet called it The BeetBox, and grew and sold 25 different types of certified organic vegetables — from heirloom tomatoes and peppers to beets, cabbage and carrots — that are on the current BeetBox's list of veggies for sale.
He got a sense of the appetite Outaouais residents have for locally grown vegetables and encountered an opportunity to advance his foray into farming at an eastern Ontario mixer for new farmers two years ago where he met Colbeck, who has a diploma in aerospace engineering from Carleton University and had previously worked at three market-garden farms, and Léveillé, who manages international programs at USC Canada, which promotes sustainable small-scale farming globally.
The three became fast friends, and recognized a chance to establish a farm co-op based on the changing agricultural landscape.
"We realized that the concept of the family farm was dying, and many people don't have the money to purchase a large farm to keep that tradition going,†explains Mazur-Goulet, who earned diplomas in entrepreneurship and green business management from Algonquin College. "But we also knew that more and more people want local and fresh food, and thought that we could start something small in the city and grow the business little by little.â€
David Mazur-Goulet.
The trio visited about 30 properties in the Ottawa-Gatineau region before settling on their current digs, based largely on the ability to live on the farm along with the bonus feature that it is also accessible by public transit.
They then prepared their business model. Rather than selling their vegetables at farmers' markets, or to grocery stores and restaurants, BeetBox's founders decided to pre-sell their VegBoxes through two options. From December to June, customers either pay $530 to receive 16 boxes a week from late June to early October, or $280 for eight boxes every two weeks during the same period, and pick them up either at the farm or at the Kanata North Community Hub at 400 March Rd.
"The idea behind our approach to community-supported agriculture is simple yet elegant,†Mazur-Goulet explains. "Members of the community want fresh vegetables in the summer, and pay in advance for that privilege and to support us purchasing the materials and supplies that we need to grow the food and pay ourselves a fair wage.â€
There are some restrictions and risks associated with the VegBox program. Customers don't get to choose which vegetables are included in their baskets. And if crops get damaged by flooding, drought or hail, there also may be fewer greens and legumes in the VegBox.
"We hope that our clients support us through the tough times,†says Mazur-Goulet. "They share the bounty and share the risk.â€
However, it may not be as much of a gamble in the future.
Signs all around the large NCC plot of land note that farmers have arrived.
BeetBox plans to add raspberries and strawberries to its basket, and diversify its offerings.
"We're looking at selling eggs, chicken and beef in the future,†Mazur-Goulet says.
Bringing the farm to the city reflects the desire of people to both produce their own food and be close to the people that do, says the NCC's Frigon, who was raised in a family that ran greenhouses in Leamington, Ont.
"The family farm started changing in the early '60s, when big farms started buying out small farms for the sheer reason of feeding as many people as possible. What we're now seeing is a response to that; we've lost that relationship with our food producers and now want to go back to where people in the community can get to know farmers and their techniques and feel comfortable that their food is being produced in a sustainable, environmentally friendly and financially viable way,†he explains.
"We're in a unique situation with the Greenbelt. Within a 30-kilometre radius, there are over 100 farms and over a million people who have access to them. Between 15 and 20 minutes, you can drive to almost every farm the NCC has.â€
BeetBox in brief
• BeetBox's growing season runs from March, when the planting of beets, lettuce, cabbage, kale, carrots and green onions begins in the greenhouse. In May, the farming shifts to the field where sugar snap peas, tomatoes, eggplant, peppers, cucumbers, zucchini, potatoes, green beans, winter squash, butternut squash, basil, cilantro and dill are grown. (The butternut squash is grown as part of a plant-breeding program to develop a squash specific to the Ottawa region.)
• VegBoxes sell for $530 for 16 weekly boxes or $280 for 8 boxes every two weeks
• In its first year of operation, BeetBox earned $38,000 in revenue and raised $32,500 in preferred shares from investors


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LeedsSharp user group is hosting its user group meet on the topic "SQL Server Tips, Tricks & Myths for .NET developers" on August 25 , 2016 from 6.30 PM at Future Labs , 1 Eastgate LS2 7LH, Leeds.
The event will be presented by Phil Grayson , a SQL Server specialist at xTEN and co-founder of Aireforge Database Tools.
Phil Grayson will present a collection of tips and tricks covering best practices, performance tuning and development techniques. The talk is aimed at everyone, so if you work with SQL Server you should take something new away. Even if you don't, it should hopefully provide some insight into how you can get more from your databases and applications.
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The General Overseer of Maximum Deliverance Church, Pastor John Simon was recently caught in the act of having intimate affair with the wife of a top military officer that worships in his Church.
When caught, Pastor John Simon did not only had the wife of the officer is his possession but was engaging in threesome sex act.
Bubble burst recently when the top military brass who has been suspecting the amorous act between his wife and the randy Pastor laid a siege for him at their usual love nest.
He detailed some security agents to keep watch at the venue. True to
type, on the day of the incident, they allowed the duo to fully get into the act before bursting through the door and caught them red handed.
They had the beating of their life and photographed as shown in this picture. The Pastor pleaded for the issue to be settled amicably It is yet to be known how the issue was resolved .


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Happy New Year, readers! Welcome to 2013 and the newly-revamped 101 Achievements (okay, it's only 'newly-revamped' because on New Year's Day, while trying to write our first post of 2013, I accidentally updated some WordPress thingy that kind of deleted the formatting of our whole site – my bad!). We've got a list of 101 new Achievements for the Year of the Snake (am I the only one who thinks of the old Duran Duran song of a similar name every time I hear that?), some of which have made their way over here from the 2012 Achievements we didn't quite get to, and some of which are all brand-new.
To start the year off right, we attended Pittsburgh's New Year celebration, First Night 2013. Held each December 31, First Night takes over the streets of Downtown Pittsburgh from 6pm until after midnight, complete with a parade, music, dance, activities, and our very own countdown to the New Year. (Since we took so many pictures, I've divided First Night into two posts: today, our dinner, and tomorrow, I'll post about the rest of the evening.)
For us, New Year's Eve and our First Night celebration always starts with a delicious dinner from one of our favorite Downtown spots, Sonoma Grille. They offer a special dinner on NYE, and this year, we opted to go for the 5-course prix fixe menu. This year, the prix fixe included our own copy of the menu, autographed by the chefs! Chef Brian brought it to our table and signed it there for us, and chatted with us about the menu and the restaurant – now that's good service!
NYE dinner at Sonoma also includes a champagne toast, which we enjoyed while choosing our options from the menu and selecting a wine from their giant list (I mean giant – they've got over 1000 wines to pick from!).
We finally decided on a Central Coast wine that's a big hit in the Pittsburgh area right now, Chronic Cellars. They're a Paso Robles winery, and when it's cold outside and we want to feel cozy inside, nothing quite does the trick like a glass of California Zin!
The meal was gigantic, but our server Barb (she's the best, by the way, and we always seem to get her on NYE) kept the plates coming at a nice pace, so we never felt stuffed or starving. The first round was their 'trio of amusé,' which is a little sampling of three plates (left to right: oysters, crab, and an itty bitty quail egg).
Then it was on to a course of salad and soup. This salad had a delightful balance of bitterness from the greens, and sweetness from the cranberries, and a hint of a crunch with the fried chevre. This dish was also educational: we learned that there are two different kinds of endives: one pronounced en-dive (this one grows in the light), and one pronounced on-deev (this one grows in the dark).
Appetizers were either wasabi shrimp tempura (which I got, not pictured) or the duck rillette shown here (which Michael got). I'm not big on duck, but the flavor of this was not as heavy as a standard duck dish. We liked both plates!
Then came the entrees! Michael got the surf and turf: perfectly cooked steak, and lobster SO succulent and buttery that I just had to steal a couple of nibbles. But nothing could prepare me for the awesomeness that was my entree…
I got the vegetarian dish, the pan-seared haloumi, which is a cheese made from goat, sheep, and occasionally cow milk. This was incredible! The pan-searing gave the cheese an almost-rind-like shell, but it was so soft and juicy on the inside. However, the real star of the show was the accompaniment of the beets. There were four different kinds of beets on the plate!! (Golden beet risotto, a giant roasted beet steak, crispy beet strips, and a beet gastrique, which is the little dippy circle section of the plate.)
How big was the giant beet steak? Pretty huge!!! Finding out that I could eat cheese and beets as an entree was kind of the best knowledge to start 2013 with. My favorite food is now a side, a salad, an appetizer, AND an entree!
We finished the meal with this delightful trio of desserts: champagne creme brulee (with a bubble-gum-and-berries flavored sauce), milk chocolate hazelnut mousse, and lemon cake with blueberries. It was the perfect finish (see why we come here every NYE?).
They even gave us itty-bitty spoons for the mousse!
Dinner was a great start to our First Night adventure – check back tomorrow for details on what we saw at the rest of the event!


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Armchair BEA: Beyond Your Blog
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Armchair BEA: Best of 2012
Today's Armchair BEA question:
Share some of your favorite books so far this year, and/or the the books being promoted at BEA that you hope will end up among your favorites for the year!
Well …
I'll start with The Replacement Wife, whose praises I have sung until I am hoarse. Faithful readers, this book is that good. I promise you. Please, please read it.
I just finished Code Name Verity, and loved that one, too. It's great for teens on up, and it isn't often you can find a book that both you and your hormonal teenagers can read together.
And oh, my goodness, Afterwards. Holy cannoli. READ IT. NOW. I am not kidding you. I will flog you with fly paper if you do not read it.
Lastly, we're going to go erotica. Yes, I read the Fifty Shades, all three of them. And, yes, they're hot. But they are so poorly written. Like I said, literary crack: you know they're bad, but you can't stop. An erotica book that I liked more was Bared to You. It's H-O-T, and while it won't win a Pulitzer, I daresay that it's hotter than any of the fifty shades.
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I've still got students to test, cumulative folders to process, grades to finish, and graduation to survive, so BEA will have to progress without my sparkling wit and dazzling personality. But I'll be there in spirit, I guess.
And I'll still participate, thanks to the Armchair BEA:
Today's questions:
- Please tell us a little bit about yourself: Who are you? How long have you been blogging? Why did you get into blogging? My nom de blog is cupcake, and I've been blogging for about six years, primarily through a blog about teaching. Earlier this year, I started cupcake's book cupboard, where I review books. I got into blogging to vent about teaching, and I'm staying because I love to read.
- What are you currently reading, or what is your favorite book you have read so far in 2012? I'm currently reading Code Name Verity, by Elizabeth Wein. My favorite book this year – wow. That's a Sophie's Choice kind of thing, isn't it? Right now, it's The Replacement Wife, by Eileen Goudge, which I loved beyond words.
- Tell us one non-book-related thing that everyone reading your blog may not know about you. I once met Wayne Newton in his dressing room at the Las Vegas Hilton. He was wearing a velour robe, and his hair was very tall.
- What is your favorite feature on your blog (i.e. author interviews, memes, something specific to your blog)? My blog is woefully generic, I am sad to say. My favorite things are probably the reviews of the Fifty Shades trifecta, because I can get really snarky with those. I love snark.
- Where do you see your blog in five years? Hopefully I will continue to write honest reviews. I tend to be very sarcastic and snarky (see Answer #4), and I'd like to incorporate more of that. But I respect writers, so I try to be kinder than I really am.
- Which is your favorite post that you have written that you want everyone to read? The books I want everyone to read are Gone Girl, Girl Unmoored, Breaking Beautiful and The Replacement Wife. But the funniest posts are Fifty Shades Darker and Freed.
- If you could eat dinner with any author or character, who would it be and why? Mr. Darcy, without a doubt, because he's MR. DARCY.
- What literary location would you most like to visit? Why? I yearn to go to Italy, so let's start with that. But Pemberley is a close second, because – come on! – MR. DARCY lives there.
- What is your favorite part about the book blogging community? Is there anything that you would like to see change in the coming years? I love how supportive the book blogging community is, whether fellow bloggers, authors or publishing houses. We all have the same goal: get people to read.
- Have your reading tastes changed since you started blogging? How? I was too snobby before this gig. Now I'm deep into romance, erotica and YA. I still love Pride and Prejudice and Les Miserables, but I own all of Kristan Higgins' books.
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A collection of vloggitys from my recent trip to the East Coast!!
Here's a vid I missed posting on my approach to Monster Truck Castle:
It's a long long road across Quebec, for someone craving to see something more familiar… and there aren't many trees..
Got caught behind a paint truck:
Reminds me of a Family Guy clip, where Peter and Quagmire are on the phone with each other, driving behind each other talking about bad drivers who they need to get in a fight with- and of course they wish each other good luck in their fights and fight each other haha. I couldn't find the clip..
Pics from the road:
Once I got there, I took the ferry from Dartmouth to Halifax:
As I mentioned in the video, we went shopping at Morrigan LeFay's Mystical Gifts in Dartmouth, NS- I always find something amazing there… and this time even more so, aside from the goodies- there were baby animals coming in to warm up before the long road to their new temporary home!
Choppy waters on the harbour that day:
And some more photos..
A little tower on the Halifax side built in the last ten years- I don't remember the significance…
It was really nice out, a little chilly during most of the trip… I have a lot more photos and more memorable things to post- but I had GREAT company – of those PHENOMENAL people I was discussing who are so rare in my Love post a few entries back… I just don't have time to get into our shenanigans just now.. 🙂