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13 Ways of Looking at the Novel608
An essential guide for writers and readers alike, here is Smiley's great celebration of the novel. As she embarks on an exhilarating tour through one hundred titles—from classics such as the thousand-year-old Tale of Genji to recent fiction by Zadie Smith and Alice Munro—she explores the power of the form, looking at its history and variety, its cultural impact, and just how it works its magic. She invites us behind the scenes of novel-writing, sharing her own habits and spilling the secrets of her craft, and offering priceless advice to aspiring authors. Every page infects us anew with the passion for reading that is the governing spirit of this gift to book lovers everywhere.
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Jane Smiley is the author of numerous novels, including A Thousand Acres, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, and most recently, Golden Age, the concluding volume of The Last Hundred Years trilogy. She is also the author of five works of nonfiction and a series of books for young adults. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, she has also received the PEN Center USA Lifetime Achievement Award for Literature. She lives in Northern California.
Hometown:Northern California
Date of Birth:September 26, 1949
Place of Birth:Los Angeles, California
Education:B.A. in English, Vassar College, 1971; M.A., Iowa University, 1975; M.F.A, 1976; Ph.D., 1978
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The end of September is a great time to have a birthday if you want to be a writer. Jane Austen might be December 16 and Shakespeare April 23 and Charles Dickens February 9, but for a sheer run of greatness, I challenge anyone to match September 23 through September 30--F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, T. S. Eliot, Marina Tsvetayeva, William Blake, and Miguel Cervantes. And, I used to add (to myself, of course), moi. There is also a gratifying musical backup--George Gershwin on the twenty-sixth, my very own birthday. I never hesitated to bring anyone who cared (or did not care) to know up to date on late September (Ray Charles, Dmitri Shostakovich) and early October (John Lennon) birthdays. It was rather like listing your horse's pedigree or your illustrious ancestors--not exactly a point of pride, but more a reassurance that deep down, the stuff was there, if only astrologically.
But in 2001, the year I turned fifty-two, whether or not the stuff was there astrologically, it did not seem to be there artistically. All those years of guarding my stuff--no drinking, no drugs, personal modesty and charm, good behavior on as many fronts as I could manage, a public life of agreeability and professionalism, and still when I sat down at the computer to write my novel, titled Good Faith, my heart sank. I was into the 250s and 260s, there were about 125 pages to go, and I felt like Dante's narrator at the beginning of The Divine Comedy. I had wandered into a dark wood. I didn't know the way out. I was afraid.
I tried hard not to be afraid in certain ways. Two weeks before my birthday, terrorists had bombed the World Trade Center in New York. Fear was everywhere--fear of anthrax, fear of nuclear terrorism, fear of flying, fear of the future. I felt that, too, more than I was willing to admit. I tried to remind myself of the illusory nature of the world and my conviction that death is a transition, not an end, to discipline my fears to a certain degree. And my lover and partner was diagnosed at about that time with heart disease and required several procedures. I feared that he might also undergo a sudden transition and I would be bereft of his physical presence, but I also believed that we were eternally joined and that there was no transition that would separate us. This is how we agreed to view his health crisis. Physical fears were all too familiar for me--I had been wrestling with them my whole life, but in the late 1990s, divorce, independence, horses, Jack, and a book called A Course in Miracles had relieved most of them.
When I sat down at my computer, though, and read what I had written the day before, I felt something new--a recoiling, a cold surprise. Oh, this again. This insoluble, unjoyous, and unstimulating piece of work. What's the next sentence, even the next word? I didn't know, and if I tried something, I suspected it would just carry me farther down the wrong path, would be a waste of time or worse, prolong an already prolonged piece of fraudulence. I wondered if my case were analogous to that of a professional musician, a concert pianist perhaps, who does not feel every time he sits down to play the perfect joy of playing a piece he has played many times. I had always evoked this idea hopefully for students--however such a musician might begin his concert, surely he would be carried away by his own technique and mastery; after a few bars, the joy contained in the music itself would supply the inspiration that was lacking only moments before. But I didn't know that. Maybe that sort of thing didn't happen at all.
I came up with all sorts of diagnoses for my condition. The state of the zeitgeist was tempting but I refused to be convinced.* I reminded myself that I had lived through lots of zeitgeists over the years, and the geist wasn't all that bad in California. The overwhelming pall of grief and fear and odor and loss reached us more or less abstractly. Unlike New Yorkers, we could turn it off and get back to work, or so it seemed. But perhaps I was sensitive to something other than events--to a collective unconscious reaction to those events that I sensed in the world around me? I felt scattered. Even after I lost my fascination with the images and the events, my mind felt dissipated and shallow. It didn't help that I was annoyed with everything other writers wrote about the tragedy. There was no grappling with its enormity, and everything everyone said sounded wrong as soon as they said it. After this should come only silence, it seemed, and yet I didn't really believe that. I believed that the world was not now changed for the worse--that anyone who had not reckoned upon the world to deliver such a blow, after lo these many years of genocide, mass murder, war, famine, despair, betrayal, death, and chaos, was naive. I believed at the time that if the world was a little changed, then perhaps it was changed for the better. The images had gone global, moving many individuals to look within and find mercy and compassion rather than hatred and anger. Hatred and anger were the oldest old hat, but mercy and compassion were something new. If there was more of those, and there seemed to be, then the turning point had actually been a turning point. Only time would tell. At any rate, surely talking was good, writing was good. Communicating was good, the antidote to the secrecy and silence the terrorists had attempted to foist upon us. Perhaps, I thought, I would stay scattered until the collective unconscious pulled itself together and raised itself up and put fear aside.
But really, events were events. I had known events and written through them, written about them, written in spite of them. I had grown up during the cold war, when obliteration seemed imminent every time the Russians twitched. I had an engagement photo of my parents from a newspaper; the headline of the article on the reverse side was "Russians Develop H-Bomb." Fear of terrorism, I thought, was nothing compared with the raw dread I had felt as a child. The problem with the novel was not outside myself, or even in my link to human consciousness. Perhaps, I thought, it was my own professional history. I had experienced every form of literary creation I had ever heard of--patient construction (A Thousand Acres), joyous composition (Moo, Horse Heaven), the grip of inspiration that seems to come from elsewhere (The Greenlanders), steady accumulation (Duplicate Keys), systematic putting together (Barn Blind), word-intoxicated buzz (The Age of Grief), even disinterested professional dedication (The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton). I could list my books in my order of favorites, but my order of favorites didn't match anyone else's that I knew of, and so didn't reveal anything about the books' inherent value or even about their ease of composition. I didn't put too much stock in my preferences, or even in my memories of how it had felt to write them.
But I had penned a concise biography of Charles Dickens, and maybe I had learned from Dickens's life an unwanted lesson. I wrote the Dickens book because I loved Dickens, not because I felt a kinship with him, but after writing the book, it seemed to me that there was at least one similarity between us, and that was that Dickens loved to write and wrote with the ease and conviction of breathing. Me, too. When he took up each novel or novella, there might be some hemming and hawing and a few complaints along the way, but his facility of invention was utterly reliable and he was usually his own best audience. In the heat of composition, he declared almost every novel he wrote his best and his favorite, even if his preferences didn't stand. Toward the end of his life, though, his energy began to fail. When he was fifty, planning a new publication, he plunged rapidly into Great Expectations and wrote in weekly parts, modifying an earlier plan for the novel and producing a masterpiece largely because his journal needed it. When he began Our Mutual Friend a few years later, he was taxed almost beyond his powers. Several numbers were short, he complained of his lack of invention, and he didn't really like the novel much, though a case can be made (I have made it) that it is one of his most perfect. And he died in the middle of his last novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, having not quite mastered the whodunit form. Even Dickens, I thought, even Dickens faltered in the end, though you might say that he was careful and nurturing of his talents--abstemious and hardworking. He always deflected his fame a bit, wore it lightly. Was the lesson I had learned from Charles Dickens that a novelist's career lasts only a decade or two, can't be sustained much longer even by the greatest novelist (or most prolific great novelist) of all time?
Look at them all--Virginia Woolf, twenty-three or twenty-four years. George Eliot, twenty years. Jane Austen, twenty years, Dickens, twenty-four years, Thomas Hardy, fifty years of writing, but less than half of that novels. James Joyce, D. H. Lawrence, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Miguel Cervantes. Short short short. I had meant to write my whole life. Surely modern life and modern medicine and modern day care and modern technology and modern publishing would make Henry James the paradigmatic novelist, not Jane Austen. I wondered if novel-writing had its own natural life span and without knowing it, I had outlived the life span of my novel-writing career.
Another thing I learned about Dickens was that after 1862, he began to live a much more active life than he had before. In 1856, he left his wife in a scandalous divorce and took up with a much younger woman. Sometime in the very early 1860s, the younger woman disappeared. Some authorities think that she and her mother moved to France and that Dickens visited her there, in a small city or town, and that possibly she produced a child. Dickens's work was based in London, his family was near Chatham in Kent, and his beloved was in France. Dickens traveled back and forth incessantly, sometimes spending only a few days in each place. He also embarked on several arduous dramatic reading tours. It may be that such a schedule dissipated his energy or his concentration. I found myself in that, too. Once, when I lived in Ames, Iowa, where errands were easy and day care was exceptional, I had hours on end in which to marinate my day's work. After I moved to California, gave in to my obsession with horses, and became a single mother, to fritter away an hour meant to fritter away most of the day's allotted writing time. Distractions abounded, and they all seemed important. But then, I had always had children, I had always had something else to do during the day--not riding and horse care, but teaching and professorial responsibilities.
If to live is to progress, if you are lucky, from foolishness to wisdom, then to write novels is to broadcast the various stages of your foolishness. This was true of me. I took up each of my novels with unwavering commitment. I did not begin them by thinking I had a good subject for a novel. I began them by thinking that I had discovered important truths about the world that required communication. When I was writing Duplicate Keys, for example, a murder mystery, I was convinced of the idea that every novel is really some sort of mystery or whodunit because every novel is a retrospective uncovering of the real story behind the apparent story. I thought I might write mysteries for the rest of my life. When I was writing The Greenlanders, it was obvious to me that all novels were historical novels, patiently reconstructing some time period or another, recent or distant. Horse racing, medieval Greenland, farming, dentistry. I would get letters and reviews from all sorts of people who found themselves reading with interest about subjects they had never thought of before. But at the end of each novel, I would more or less throw down that lens along with that subject. My curiosity was always about how the world worked, what the patterns were, and what they meant. I was secular to the core, and I investigated moral issues with the dedication only someone who is literally and entirely agnostic would do--my philosophical stance was one of not knowing any answers and not believing that there were any answers.
While I was writing Horse Heaven, though, I embarked on a spiritual discipline that was satisfying and comforting. I came to believe in God and to accept a defined picture of Reality that took elements of Christianity and combined them with elements of Eastern religions. It was not an institutionalized religion, but it was a defined faith and had a scripture. It was called A Course in Miracles, and it completely changed the way I looked at the world.
The essential premise of A Course in Miracles is that God did not create the world and that the apparent mixture in the world of good and evil is an illusion; God is not responsible for apparent evil. In fact, the world itself and all physical manifestations are illusory, an agreed-upon conceit that is useful for learning what is true and real, but otherwise a form of dreaming--bad dreaming. The essential falsehoods of the world are that beings are separate from one another, that bodies are real and of primary importance, and that the physical preexists the spiritual. A Course in Miracles, like many Eastern religions, maintains that the world, all physical things, all elements of the universe, and all dimensions, including time, are a mental construct, and that the Mind or the Source preexists matter and is connected to itself all the time and in every way. It took me about three years to turn my image of the world upside down and to become comfortable with this new way of thinking. It wasn't hard, though it was disconcerting at the beginning. The payoff, other than my conviction that these ideas were true, was that I grew less fearful, more patient, less greedy, and more accepting. I greeted events more calmly as a rule, and didn't feel that old sense of vertigo that I had once felt much of the time. I got analyzed, or therapized, or counseled. My counselor shared my beliefs. Together we fixed my relationships and my worldview.


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Confused but not really scared. So much information and I guess disinformation out there sometimes it is hard to see what is really going on. I believe most of out visitors to be benign but some of the writing about reptilians and a few other species is scary. Above all though, I am more scared of what we are and have been doing to out planet particularly in the last sixty years than I am about interplanetary visitors.
I was not concerned about contact at all until I heard the reports about there being different types of aliens — good and bad.
Now, I would be more careful and try to be sure that I was talking to one of the "good guys" from higher realms and not one of the nasty ones.


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Hi Paul,
I had a great time speaking with you today.
It is amazing that we have such similar photographic interests.
I just finished viewing your beautiful images on your website.
I would love to see some of these images in print form.
Nothing like viewing a high quality photograph.
The vista from Sams Throne in Searcy County, Arkansas is breath-taking.
How does it hold up in a print? I am not familiar with the camera you used.
I also love the Haw Creek Falls images and Petit Jeans cavesite.
You do a great deal of stitching? This is something I have been interested in doing, since I don't have a $30,000 60mp digital back.
I also want to try some photo stacking techniques. Have you ever done this for increased depth of field?
Please stay in touch.
All the best,
i'm using an altus II 7 (DM33) and i'm not completely satisfied with the result for semi long exposure (10s to 30s..).
I've just run a test of a credo 60, and it's not good enough to justify the swap.
i'll be pleased to look at raw files from an iQ260 at 30s 1m and more !
Do you think it will be possible that you send me some files for inspection ?
Maybe i'm asking too much to CCD...
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Let me know what address to use and I will get it out to you tomorrow. It's very basic in design but will just slip right over the lens shade. The foam I used will block out the light in the cut outs.
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I've very much enjoyed getting to know the other candidates throughout this race. After the last month's festivities I'm going through a bit of withdrawal, actually. This whole experience reminds me of The Real World where nine unlikely strangers decided to run for school board. Thankfully for the most part no one stopped being nice and decided to get real. Perhaps we'll have to schedule a reunion tour.
I am looking forward to working with Chris, Sally, Jeff, Tuyet, Patti and Marla. I think we'll make a great team. We won't agree on everything, but I have a great respect for all of you and I look forward to hopefully earning your respect and trust as well. Let's collectively roll up our sleeves and get to work. We have a golden opportunity to dictate our own future and there's a lot of work to do. I'm excited about our chances to ensure that all parts of the district begin to see tangible change and that all decisions are driven by a desire to heal the whole district and help every single student.
Last, but certainly not least, I wish to thank the 8733 people who voted. I've written before that my grandfather's greatest fear was apathy of American voters. While 12% of registered voters doesn't sound that big, it's really quite impressive for a school board election. By growing the pie, we increased the turnout and reached more people about the issues than ever before. Record turnout means record interest. Again, we need to harness that enthusiasm.
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Labor and taxation agencies in many U.S. states are now increasing examining on nail and hair salons about tax and labor laws related to this career. The above examines originating from northern California in early 2008 with the result that in only a few days, hundreds of nail and hair salons owned by Vietnamese were badly punished because of not fully understand the labor and taxation laws. Recently, the examines have spread to large and small cities in almost every state in the United States, causing many penalties to Vietnamese salons due to the troubles of the taxation and labor laws issues related to the hiring workers.
The purpose of the inspection of tax and labor agency focused on wages and benefits issues for hair and nail technician. Under current laws, hair or nail salon workers, in the United States, depending on the working environment, can be assigned as an employee, or an independently worker (independent contractor). And this assignment is an important key to create complex differences in tax matters and labor rules for workers as well as the owner.
The determination of the difference between "employee" and "independent contractor" in accordance with labor and taxation law is very complex issues that nail and hair salon owners are easy to be punished if they did not know. Although the law allows the nail and hair technician can work as an "employee" or an "independent contractor", the definition for the difference between "employee" and "independent contractor" is still very complex, derived from the difference interpretations between the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and taxation and labor agencies in each state. In addition, rules relating to the practice of workers were set by beauty industry councils in each state (State Board), are creating more conflict points to the problem mentioned above.
However, whether workers are "employee" or "independent contractor", all are governed by taxation and labor laws that shop owners must understand and abide by to avoid being fined.
Tax issues
If a worker in nail or hair salon was identified as "employee", the owner will use form W - 2 to pay for workers and has responsible to deduct an amount of workers salary to pay for income taxes, along with taxes regulated by federal state based on that person's salary. For Social Security and Medicare taxes under the Federal Insurance Contributions Act (FICA) law, along with the tax deduction on salary of the "employee" for submission to the IRS, all salon owners must also contribute an amount of tax equal to "employee" deduction. In addition, the owner must also pay for unemployment benefits of the "employee" under the provisions of the Federal Unemployment Tax Act (FUTA).
In case worker is identified as "independent contractor", the shopkeeper will use form 1099 - MISC to pay for workers, and tax issues that would apply to that one is very different from the "employee ". "Independent contractor" is like freelancers, will receive 100 % of the amount of tax not deducted, then they have to state their total annual income themselves, they have right to be deducted expenses related to their jobs, and are obligated to pay taxes under the provisions of federal and state law where practicing. Therefore, if the workers are "independent contractor", owner will not be bound by the obligations of tax applicable for "employee" as mentioned above.
Labor laws
In case workers are considered as "employee", labor law requires owner to pay hourly wage at least equal to the minimum (Minimum Wage) regulated by the federal government, or at minimum wage specified by local state if it is higher than wage levels set by federal. In addition, owner will also have to pay extra wages when the "employee" works overtime in accordance to existing laws. Salon owner may also pay the "employee" in commission. However, if in accounting period the total amount of commission paid to the "employee" is less than the minimum hourly wage based on the number of hours worked, the employer must pay the amount equal to the difference the minimum wage is now applied in the state, including overtime wage. Besides salary issues, labor laws regulate some other benefits for the "employee" while working, such as to have a break, lunch time, etc. ... Otherwise, labor laws in most states oblige all employers to buy insurance (Workers Compensation Insurance) for "employee".
In case workers are identified as "independent contractor", the shop owner will not have to comply with the labor laws applicable to "employee" as summarized above.
Why nail salons fined?
Most nail and hair salons fined for not understanding the taxation and labor laws applied for worker in salon. Many shop owners still use Form 1099 - MISC to pay wages to workers, considering workers as "independent contractor". In principle, when workers are "independent contractor", owner is not required to follow the taxation and labor rules apply to "employee". An important issue is under current law, owner in this case have a responsibility to prove that workers are "independent contractor" based on conditions and standards set by the tax and labor agency. If the agency does not agree with the owner's proof, the worker will be considered as "employee", and so the owner will be fined for violating taxation and labor laws.
For workers who are considered as "employee", salon owner will use form W- 2 to pay for workers according to tax laws, these salons will naturally be governed by the rules applied for "employee", such as minimum wage issues, overtime hours, break time and lunch, labor insurance, etc ... If not obey and apply the full provisions mentioned, salon owner will be fined for violating labor laws.
In summary, nail and hair salons are now the examining target of the taxation and labor agency throughout states, and there are many shops have been fined for not understanding taxation and labor laws applied for workers in the salon. It should be noted that depending on the time the store has been operated, many shop owners violated taxation and labor laws were fined the huge sum of money. And under current law, the fines set by taxation and labor agencies debt will be determined by a court order, and all personal property will become collateral for fines.
In difficult economic situation and with the examines of taxation and labor agency aimed at nail and hair salon like present, you need pay attention to have clearly understand of the applicable law, and have the necessary and sufficient prepare to avoid regrettable penalties.


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ed. Philip Schofield (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1995), pp. lxv, 536.
Now published for the first time, Colonies, Commerce and Constitutional Law is a major theoretical analysis of the harmful effects of colonies on commerce and constitutional democracy, and is one of the most important studies of colonialism written in the nineteenth century. Of the four essays collected in this volume, three have been edited directly from the original manuscript sources. The only essay to have previously appeared in print, `Observations on the Restrictive and Prohibitory Commercial System', is generally regarded as an early classic statement of the beneficial effects of freedom of trade. The volume will be of immense interest to economists, philosophers, political scientists, historians of political and economic thought and international relations, legal theorists and constitutional lawyers, as well as to students of Spain and Spanish America.


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Bank of England's Forbes sees no case for further rate cut
[LONDON] Bank of England policymaker Kristin Forbes said she did not see a case for a further interest rate cut to help Britain's economy after June's vote to leave the European Union, putting her at odds with the majority of her fellow rate-setters.
Ms Forbes established herself as one of the central bank's most sceptical rate-setters last month when she opposed restarting purchases of government bonds, although she did back a cut in the BoE's benchmark borrowing cost to a new record low.
Last week the BoE said most of its policymakers still thought the longer-term outlook for the economy warranted another rate cut later this year, even though the short-term hit from the Brexit vote appeared less severe than it had expected.
In a speech due to be delivered later on Thursday, Forbes - an external member of the BoE's Monetary Policy Committee - said she believed August's rate cut and measures to support bank lending were probably sufficient for now.
"The initial effect on the UK economy of the referendum has been less stormy than many expected," she said. "Looking forward, I am not yet convinced that additional monetary easing will be necessary to support the economy."
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Overall the economy appeared to be undergoing a "modest slowing", Ms Forbes said. Although some business investment seemed on hold - a BoE survey on Wednesday pointed to the weakest investment intentions since 2010 - she said consumer spending was resilient and net exports looked set to pick up.
Earlier on Thursday, the Confederation of British Industry said export orders grew rapidly in September, although slightly more slowly than August's two-year high, as the boost from the fall in the value of the pound after the referendum offset longer-term uncertainty about Brexit.
In August, the MPC as a whole forecast British economic growth would more than halve to 0.7 per cent next year from 1.9 per cent this year, before partly recovering in 2018.
Economists polled last week by Reuters broadly shared this view and most expected the central bank to cut rates again to 0.1 per cent before the end of the year.
In her speech, Ms Forbes said "adverse winds could quickly pick up" and prompt her to change her stance on rates.
In particular, she would look to see if British consumer demand remained resilient or if businesses shed jobs.
But referring to a Japanese print with which she illustrated her speech, she concluded that: "The fishermen in the boat need to stay vigilant, and may already be a bit seasick ... but if the current weather continues, they should be able to sail home without more aid."
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Super Groms, this fin is for you. It's super fast, super responsive and super fun. If you're looking to add a bit more speed and power to your turns this awesome design, combined with dimple technology is made for you. The sky is calling!
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Why Dimples?
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- The Dimpled Surface reduces drag.
- The Dimpled Surface improves lift.
First a quick lesson in hydrodynamics (aerodynamics).
There are two types of flow around an object: laminar and turbulent. Laminar flow has less drag, but it is also prone to a phenomenon called "separation." Once separation of a laminar boundary layer occurs, drag rises dramatically because of eddies that form in the gap. Turbulent flow has more drag initially but also better adhesion, and therefore is less prone to separation. Therefore, if the shape of an object is such that separation occurs easily, it is better to turbulate the boundary layer in order to increase adhesion and reduce eddies (which means a significant reduction in drag) Dimples on golf balls turbulate the boundary layer.
So we at 3DFINSCIENCE decided to test these principles and apply them to a surfboard fin. With advanced Computer Flow Dynamic testing 3DFINSCIENCE compared two identical fins: the MOONRAKERR dimpled fin and the same fin without dimples. The tests were conducted by flow dynamics expert Darrin Stephens (formally of CSIRO) and the results were surprising. A surfboard fin with a smooth surface is much like a golf ball with a smooth surface, it has a lamina flow over the surface. This works quite well when going straight and at lower speeds, but when you start to turn and reach higher speeds the fluid starts to separate from the foil or fins surface.
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Passing the pen….
March 4, 2013
I started writing her life in my own childhood… "My kids are going to… (insert anything amazing here)". After over a decade working with babies, my first child was born to my 29-year-old self . I was well ready for her, I wanted everything to be perfect, and she was.
Her entrance was joyful, even the young doctor cried happy tears. She was named after a song. Not the classic Fur Elise, but The Cure song "letters to elise". A song which mirrored her parents relationship far greater than they would admit.
She was quickly known as the "Golden Child", not because of her golden curls but because of her sunny disposition and her adventurous spirit. Her youngest cousin renamed this child "Elise Victoria Sparkle Diamond".
We carefully choose this child's life, we ground her early organic food by hand, we practiced attachment parenting before we knew it had a name. The preschool teachers endured endless interviews, we considered everything from every angel when choosing anything for this child.
Despite this, she did not have a silver spoon. She relied on her own creativity t early on to make her own pink Barbie CD player,which she made skillfully with a stapler and paper. The same for a game boy that changed with different games and was made of cardboard. Her first homemade outfit was a costume made entirely out of paper, including the shoes. Years later, she created her own prom dress and paid for her school trip to Paris.
Every choice I have made the last 18 years has been with this child in mind. How will Elise react? What is best for Elise now? What does she need from me at this moment?
Our last decisions together were choosing a University and a dorm. And last month, I moved her there, to a city three hours away by ferry, bus and plane.
And today she turns 18.
And I can finally let go, knowing I did my best. i wrote the best story I could for the first chapters of this child's life.
Now, I hand her the pen.
It's an easy thing to do, I know she is an absolutely fabulous writer.
Happy Birthday, Princess.
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March 4, 2013 at 2:20 pm
Well written mom!! And soon she will be 40 and sending off her own 18 year old. The cycle of life goes on forever. Your friend, Mary Ann


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Nick got confirmation from RA about the Boks test.
Did he find out how much we paid for that? I'm assuming that's it's less than $5 million, because I assume that the Bledisloe game sells at a premium. But if we can fill (or close to fill) Optus for the Springboks, then we should tell RA that any game at Optus is the same price (less what WA paid out to re-furbish NIB!)
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When it comes to looking after client information, Ceridian takes security – both virtual and physical – seriously. Balancing the data workload and acting as a backup for one another, Ceridian's two hosting centers are in Atlanta, GA and Louisville, KY. Browser-server interaction is via the standard 128-bit SSL (Secure Socket Layer) technology for encrypted communications and the servers themselves are stored in secured facilities in unmarked buildings with 24/7 monitoring by both security personnel and video surveillance.
For redundancy and disaster recovery, the data center hardware infrastructure is protected on a number of levels. Database clusters with external storage arrays and web servers configured in a traditional farm environment enable Ceridian to distribute processing, as well as obtain a high level of web server utilization. This federated approach achieves real-time fail-over and smoothes processing performance for customers. The same features also enable server maintenance without interruption to online services.
Both data centers are hardened facilities with fully redundant power, multiple uninterruptible power supply (UPS), backup 1650 KVA diesel generators. They also employ the usual server safeguards such as raised floors, redundant HVAC temperature control systems, separate cooling zones, separately zoned smoke and heat detection, and non-water first response fire suppression systems.
Ceridian has an appointed Vice President for Information Protection Services who directs and is responsible for just that – policy, standards, risk management, governance and compliance as related to the security of client information – and is in turn supported by a network of local information protection offices. The security program is supported by the technical expertise of security operations teams within the IT organization, which consist of security professionals with a broad experience base, many of them CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional) and/or SANS Institute certified. If by now, you're thinking that this level of governance and staffing dedicated to information security is unusual among SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) payroll providers, you would be correct – Ceridian takes the safeguarding of their client's data and its availability very seriously.
As a truly global organization, Ceridian's information security policies are compliant with ISO 27001 and include information security, data privacy, acceptable use, information security incident, business continuity management and compliance. In addition to monitoring compliance with internal policies, several other assessments are regularly conducted:
Weaknesses identified during these assessments result in remediation plans based on assessment of probability, risk and impact of the identified issue.
As if all this were not enough, a variety of technical safeguards are also in place to ensure day-to-day operational security:
There is, of course, a reason for such security measures and it is not merely the desire to protect client information. In 2011, charges were filed against the company following a 2009 data breach and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) handed down a unanimous ruling that Ceridian had not taken, "reasonable and appropriate measures to protect personal information against unauthorized access" as the company had previously stated, failing to protect the data in the network against attacks that were "reasonably foreseeable." Many of the above-described security measures are in response to the mandated information security program, which the FTC decreed should include:
Ceridian's standard payroll software service level agreement (SLA) includes agreed standards for:
The baseline standard for uptime and accuracy is set at 99.5%. In the event of this target not being met, the client may receive a 3% monthly credit for each month following breach until the agreed level of service is regained.
As with many payroll software vendors, Ceridian bases their pricing according to customer requirements. The company declined to provide the specifics of how prices are calculated or negotiated. Unfortunately, this lack of transparency can be interpreted as sales gamesmanship and create an air of mistrust early in the client relationship. However, in Ceridian's case, the cost model that was disclosed indicated that pricing would be based on "per module" and "per employee/pay period" distinctions. The client's chosen deployment option – from "un-hosted" to "hosted" and "single-tenant" to "multi-tenant" – can also substantially affect pricing and the overall Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).
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