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Q: Snake game -- tail movement I'm making a snake game and having trouble with the tail movement. I understand the logic for this part, which is that each segment of the tail follows the previous segment, starting from the end of the tail. I am looking at someone else's code, and it looks like this

 #include <iostream>
#include <conio.h>
#include <windows.h>
using namespace std;
bool gameOver;
const int width = 20;
const int height = 20;
int x, y, fruitX, fruitY, score;
int tailx[100], taily[100];
int nTail;
enum eDirecton { Stop, Left, Right, Up, Down } dir;

void Setup()
{
 gameOver = false;
 dir = Stop;
 x = width / 2;
 y = height / 2;
 fruitX = rand() % width;
 fruitY = rand() % height;
 score = 0;
}
void Draw()
{
 system("cls");
 for (int i = 0; i < width + 2; i++)
     cout << "#";
 cout << endl;

 for (int i = 0; i < height; i++)
 {
     for (int j = 0; j < width; j++)
     {
         if (j == 0)
             cout << "#";
         if (i == y && j == x)
             cout << "O";
         else if (i == fruitY && j == fruitX)
             cout << "F";
         else
         {
             bool print = false;
             for (int k = 0; k < nTail; k++)
             {
                 if (tailx[k] == j && taily[k] == i)
                 {
                     cout << "o";
                     print = true;
                 }
             }
             if (!print)
                 cout << " ";
         }

         if (j == width - 1)
             cout << "#";
     }
     cout << endl;
 }

 for (int i = 0; i < width + 2; i++)
     cout << "#";
 cout << endl;
 cout << "Score:" << score << endl;
}
void Input()
{
 if (_kbhit())
 {
     switch (_getch())
     {
     case 'a':
         dir = Left;
         break;
     case 'd':
         dir = Right;
         break;
     case 'w':
         dir = Up;
         break;
     case 's':
         dir = Down;
         break;
     case 'x':
         gameOver = true;
         break;
     }
 }
}
void Logic()
{
 for (int i = nTail - 1; i > 0; i--)
 {
     tailx[i] = tailx[i - 1];
     taily[i] = taily[i - 1];
 }
 tailx[0] = x;
 taily[0] = y;

 switch (dir)
 {
 case Left:
     x--;
     break;
 case Right:
     x++;
     break;
 case Up:
     y--;
     break;
 case Down:
     y++;
     break;
 default:
     break;
 }

 if (x >= width) x = 0; else if (x < 0) x = width - 1;
 if (y >= height) y = 0; else if (y < 0) y = height - 1;

 for (int i = 0; i < nTail; i++)
     if (tailx[i] == x && taily[i] == y)
         gameOver = true;

 if (x == fruitX && y == fruitY)
 {
     score += 10;
     fruitX = rand() % width;
     fruitY = rand() % height;
     nTail++;
 }
}
int main()
{
 Setup();
 while (!gameOver)
 {
     Draw();
     Input();
     Logic();
     Sleep(50);
 }
 return 0;
}

I understand the logic but I don't understand why it works. When we create an array, the value of each element is just a garbage value without initializing each element. So in the code above, when doing
tailx[i] = tailx[i-1];
taily[i] = taily[i-1];

what value is assigned to each element?
When displaying the snake, it has a for loop to go through every coordinate of the screen and inside it has another for loop to compare tailx[i] and taily[i] with each coordinate to find out the right position to print each segment of the tail. Since tailx and tialy are not storing the coordinates of the segments of the tail, how come this code works?
Thank you so much!!

A: Presumably, you're missing a line at the end that looks something like:
if(nTail < 100) { nTail++; }

Assuming that's the case, nTail is initialized to 0 and that this is all in a loop, the code probably looks something like (I'm using a size of 5 instead of 100 to make visualizing easier)
int tailx[5];
int taily[5];
int nTail = 0; //length

while(true) {
    for(int i = nTail -1; i > 0; i--)
    {
         tailx[i] = tailx[i-1];
         taily[i] = taily[i-1];
    }

    // Let's assume there's some logic here the fetches a new
    //   x and y. For the sake of debugging, let's assume the
    //   values will be {(1, 1), (2, 2), (3, 3), (4, 4), (5, 5)}

    tailx[0] = x; // x is the x-coordinate of the head
    taily[0] = y; //y is the y-coordinate of the head
    if(nTail < 5) { nTail++; }
}

Let's step through this!
Before we enter the loop, your tail arrays are going to look like: (I'm using NA here to mean "Garbage")
nTail = 0

+-------------------------+
|Name | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
|-------------------------|
|  X  | NA| NA| NA| NA| NA|
+-------------------------+
|  Y  | NA| NA| NA| NA| NA|
+-------------------------+

We enter the loop, initialize i to nTail - 1 which is -1. This doesn't pass the check of i > 0, so we don't even enter the loop.
We'll now grab new x and y vals and assign them into the tails, along with incrementing nTail. So going into the next loop our variables will look like:
nTail = 1

+-------------------------+
|Name | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
|-------------------------|
|  X  | 1 | NA| NA| NA| NA|
+-------------------------+
|  Y  | 1 | NA| NA| NA| NA|
+-------------------------+

We'll head on in, initialize i to nTail - 1 => 0. This DOESN'T pass the check of i > 0, so again we don't enter the loop (which sounds wrong to me...maybe you're initializing nTail to 1 instead of 0?).
We head on down, grab new x/y vals and increment nTail and restart the loop with:
nTail = 2

+-------------------------+
|Name | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
|-------------------------|
|  X  | 2 | NA| NA| NA| NA|
+-------------------------+
|  Y  | 2 | NA| NA| NA| NA|
+-------------------------+

Initializing i to nTail - 1 => 1 means since i > 0 we'll finally enter the inner loop.
With i = 1, we update our tail arrays:
tailx[1] = tailx[0];
taily[1] = taily[0];

Then head down, grab new values and increment nTail. Our variables now look like:
nTail = 3

+-------------------------+
|Name | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
|-------------------------|
|  X  | 3 | 2 | NA| NA| NA|
+-------------------------+
|  Y  | 3 | 2 | NA| NA| NA|
+-------------------------+

After the next loop, things will look like:
nTail = 4

+-------------------------+
|Name | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
|-------------------------|
|  X  | 4 | 3 | 2 | NA| NA|
+-------------------------+
|  Y  | 4 | 3 | 2 | NA| NA|
+-------------------------+

I'll leave it to you to keep tracing if you so desire.

A: You're right; this code cannot work, and it has undefined behaviour.
nTail isn't even initialised to anything.
Are you sure it's a full program, and not just snippets glued together? Or a sort of "pseudocode" to show the logic without being actual valid C++? You'd need values for nTail and all the array elements.


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Relieves Pain and Enhances Mood
Maeng da suppresses pain sensation through its interaction with opioid receptors. It also facilitates the release of endorphins—the body's own "feel good" chemicals.
Improves Mental Function
The strain is known to enhance concentration, in part by working on factors that trigger stress. It has the potential to raise productivity while keeping away mental fatigue.
Maeng da's popularity mainly stems from its sheer potency. And of course, its potency can be attributed to the alkaloids it contains, which include:
Mitragynine: This is the key compound responsible for the strain's analgesic activity by working on opioid receptors, though it's structurally different from morphine and other narcotic pain killers.
7-hydroxymitragynine: This is one of the most active alkaloids found in this strain (four times more potent than mitragynine). It fights fatigue and works as a stimulant, giving effects such as alertness and enhanced cognition.
Other Notable Alkaloids: Ajmalicine, also used as an antihypertensive, has also been derived from maeng da. Mitraphylline is another alkaloid present in the strain, and is currently being studied for its anti-cancer properties.
If you haven't taken this strain before or you're yet to take any kind of kratom, you must start with a low dose.
Two to three grams daily, with days off, should suffice. The reason for this is to allow your system to get used to the effects of the strain in a safe and gradual manner.
On the other hand, if you're planning to take this kratom for anxiety, limit your dose to one to three grams in a day. This is likely enough for most physical and/or mental symptoms of anxiety and depression.
For those dealing with severe anxiety, it might be necessary to gradually increase consumption—starting from one to three grams, until eventually reaching three to six grams daily.
Depression, on the other hand, ranges from sadness to full-on depressive disorder. If you're feeling down, take one to three grams; if it's an overwhelming episode, a higher dose likely has to be taken.
Do note though, that despite maeng da's relative safety, overdosing is still possible. Vomiting and nausea may occur upon taking excessive amounts of the strain.
Likewise, problems like tolerance may develop and worsen from prolonged improper intake. For the sake of safety and to ensure the kratom's effectiveness, do follow the correct dosing guidelines.
Reviews on the maeng da are fairly positive. It's often viewed as a powerful strain that can lower risks of anxiety and depression, while also being capable of fighting stress and relieving pain.
By using pregnenolone cream or pregnenolone supplements, the levels of the compound in the body increases, and this brings about various benefits such as fatigue relief, and delay of the aging process.
Aside from that, many consider taking this particular strain as an excellent means of overcoming fatigue. It's seen as a potential choice for those looking for alternatives to synthetic stimulants.
Most importantly though, maeng da is among the most common recommendations for beginners because of its potency even when consumed at low doses.
Coming from the lands of the Southeast Asia, particularly Thailand and Indonesia, maeng da is actually harvested from an evergreen tree that's part of the coffee family.
The said tree is generally straight and its outer part is smooth and grayish in color. Its leaves are mostly dark green with a glossy texture, and grows up to 20 cm.
In Thailand, maeng da means "pimp kratom". Interestingly, it's been enjoyed by farmers all over Southeast Asia—that is until politically driven policies led to its use being outlawed in Malaysia and Thailand.
Also, if you're wondering whether differently colored maeng da come from distinct sub-strains, well, they don't. These sub-varieties have only emerged due to the manner in which the leaves are dried.
White maeng da, for example, are produced by drying the leaves exclusively indoors and without any exposure to light. Red maeng da, on the other hand, is dried under sunlight or UV.
There are two other varieties, namely greens and yellows. Greens are initially dried indoors then brought outside to complete the process, while yellows are essentially a mix of reds and greens.
Maeng da is already available in various parts of the US. Still, the most convenient is to shop online, but do make sure that you're getting yours from a credible name in the industry.
Also, keep in mind that even maeng da itself comes in a number of variants. For one, it can be bought in either powder or capsule form, the difference being the ease of intake.
Likewise, you'll probably stumble upon two common kinds of maeng da as you shop, namely the white vein and the red vein. White vein maeng da kratom may work better as a stimulant, while the red vein variety could have stronger analgesic effects.
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In the last two weeks I've been to two different symposiums on the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), also known as the Stimulus Bill. Both sold out their original venues and packed the newer larger ones to standing room only capacity. Both focused on the energy portions of the bill and featured Tom Plant, director of Governor's Energy Office in Colorado. He's an engaging speaker but I think over $800 million in government benefits had more to do with people lining up for a handout than his charisma.
Since symposiums focused on the energy funding part of the bill, we were able to hear not only from elected and appointed government officials, but from public and private utilities and the Colorado Public Utility Commission (PUC). We shouldn't be surprised that their take on the intent of the bill, and how to implement it, differed from the Governor's Energy Office. Always practical, the utilities want to make sure that projects are properly funded during the 18 month term of the bill, so their plan is to choose existing projects or ones that they've already budgeted.
We can appreciate their intention to ensure that accountable results are made sooner than later, one of the goals of the bill, but should we be surprised that government spending leads, once again, to further entrenching the status quo? Funding existing projects isn't stimulus! It's a handout to companies to continue with projects they were going to do anyway.
It's not only utilities enjoying a windfall for activities they had planned anyway. Discussing Demand Side Management, Jeff Ackermann of the PUC said there are three types of people who will add solar to their houses, or purchase other efficiency improvements which reduce energy on the demand side. Some, he said, won't add these improvements no matter what the government says or does. Some are thinking about it and need some encouragement, and some were going to do it anyway. It will be a victory if the stimulus bill converts a few who were on the fence, but those few will be paid right along with those who will enjoy government cash for going about their business as before.
For now, it remains to be seen whether or not these billions (and billions) of dollars will benefit new technologies and create green collared jobs, or if the stimulus bill will be the democrats' version of Ronald Reagan's trickle-down economics, favoring big existing institutions first, and finally filtering through to individuals and tax payers later, someday, maybe.


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A: Just find out how to do this : use getParameterValues()
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The best part about the neighbors' actions is that no one tried any foolish vigilante heroics. They just kept watch and kept the pros informed.
Neighbors in the vicinity of the 6100 block of Pebble Beach Drive have brought real meaning to the title Neighbors On Watch. They helped their city police department make their neighborhood safer. And they did it without compromising their own safety.
The result was three teenagers in custody with incriminating evidence after a burglary.
The police department received a call at 2:20 p.m. Monday about the burglary. Responding officers soon found out that they had a lot of help. Several neighbors were following the three suspects at a safe distance and keeping the police department apprised.
The three teens had gone separate ways in their attempt to escape. But with neighborhood assistance, police were able to keep the action bottled up between Everhart Road and Shea Parkway, well within the stretch from Sanders Elementary to Tom Brown Middle School. Those familiar with these Southside landmarks can visualize the ample amount of outdoor space the suspects had to evade the pursuit.
The best part about the neighbors' actions is that no one tried any foolish vigilante heroics. They just kept watch and kept the professionals informed so they could do their jobs. No one's physical safety, including that of the three suspects, was compromised needlessly. Corpus Christi didn't end up the site of another avoidable stand-your-ground or castle-doctrine tragedy.
Two suspects, both 17, face adult charges of burglary and a 16-year-old boy faces the more lenient juvenile system. Regardless of how the justice system deals with them, it's safe to say that they were taught several valuable lessons about respect for other people's property, for police and for watchful neighbors.
The police department was pleased with the citizen assistance it received. And so are we.


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Sole Source Portfolio Company ID Images Acquires Summit Labels and Precision Label
ID Images Continues to Add Prime Label Capabilities with 6th and 7th Add-On Transaction Since Being Acquired by Sole Source Capital in August 2021
DALLAS–Sole Source Capital LLC, an industrial-focused private equity firm, today announced that its portfolio company, ID Images ("IDI"), a premier provider of product identification solutions, has acquired Summit Labels and Precision Label in separate transactions. The acquisitions bring the total number of add-on investments for IDI to seven since becoming a Sole Source Capital portfolio company in August 2021, with the company's most recent acquisition of Hickman Label announced just last month. Terms of the transactions were not disclosed.
Jointly-owned Vancouver, Canada-based Summit Labels and Calgary, Canada-based Precision Labels are both manufacturers of prime labels for the food & beverage, industrial, and nutraceutical end markets. The companies' Canadian facilities expand IDI's presence across Canada while increasing its exposure to digital printing and prime label offerings. In addition, the companies' design and marketing teams often collaborate with clients to help create branding strategies through custom labeling.
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The King's Favorite by Tanya Anne Crosby – Spotlight and Giveaway
June 26, 2018 By Long and Short Reviews 6 Comments
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Bartering a deal with their "witchy" mother, Stephen the Usurper intends to wed all five sisters to his "new men." Fearing her "gifts" will be used to defeat her sister Matilda, Elspeth escapes the Black Mountain priory that has sheltered them since their father's death, only to find herself indebted to, of all men, a Scotsman, whose loyalties are in question…
Left to face the wrath of a new sovereign, Malcom Scott is forced to swear fealty to Stephen of Blois in order to keep the demesne he won by slaying his own grandsire. But having done so, he's pitted himself against Scotia, and even his own sire. Yet even as he realizes there is no turning back, the late King's favorite illegitimate daughter may offer him more than he ever anticipated.
Enjoy an Excerpt:
"What's wrong, Malcom?"
Peering back at the donjon, Malcom pulled Elspeth toward Merry Bells, rueful that he would be putting his faithful horse back on the run. "I'll explain when we're away."
"Malcom! You are frightening me!"
"I'll explain everything when we're gone," he said again.
She tried to free her hand from his. "My dress!" she protested. "It was a gift."
"There's a coffer full of rich gowns at home that belonged to my grandmother. You may do with them what you will, and if they do not please you, I will buy you a hundred more."
Still, she struggled to free herself. "But your silver, your hauberk, your blade?"
"I have plenty of silver," Malcom reassured, refusing to release her. "My armorer will fashion me another. And it was an old dirk; I'll get myself another."
"It was not an old dirk," she argued. "Tis shiny and new and bears the sigil of your house!"
"Our house," he reminded her. "What is mine is also yours."
"Wait!" She gasped, sounding alarmed. "My Llanthony tunic, Malcom! We cannot leave it here, or he'll know."
They reached Merry Bells and even before he lifted her up to put her on the horse, he untied Merry Bells from the post. Then he grasped Elspeth about the waist and set her atop his saddle, praying Merry Bells was up to the challenge.
"'Tis like he already knows," he told her. "You must trust me," he demanded. "As I trusted you."
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Even without asking, I know the people who say this all really enjoyed the Back to the Future movies.
Heck, I enjoyed them myself; and the character of Dr. Emmett Brown did, in certain key ways, actually resemble some scientists I have known. Just dial Dr. Brown's eccentricity and flamboyance waaaaaay back, preserve (or enhance) his single-mindedness and drive, increase the Brown family fortune that he spent up doing his research to at least twenty million dollars* (it took him—what? thirty years?—and doing research is very expensive), then load him up with a lot of teaching duties and administrative responsibilities and the fictional inventor of the time-traveling DeLorean would make a perfectly plausible researcher.
But—and this is the critical part—not a very good character in a movie, or book.
While it is true that a lot of scientists are a bit eccentric (some quite charmingly so), to be successful they have a lot of other traits that are the opposite of colorful. Doing research, as I mentioned, is expensive and most real scientists don't have a family fortune to spend. Therefore, they must secure grants, which requires, not flamboyance, but an organized and linear thinker who can marshal past research successes, the present research status, and a coherent three-to-five-year plan for advancing the field into a forty-page document that will convince a panel of competing researchers and at least one cold-hearted government agency that any large chunks of money they throw his way will be well spent. I've known researchers who sported flying hair and flapping lab-coats à la Dr. Emmett Brown, and even ones who, like Einstein, eschewed socks. But believe me, when it comes to getting funding, they are as practical and business-like as any CEO, and just as uptight.
And then, if Dr. Brown is a scientist, then why isn't Marty McFly more educated about time travel? Hang around scientists for long (five minutes) and what you find is that they can't stop talking about what they do. They're used to talking about their research, because that's a huge part of their job; and since they mostly talk to other researchers who find what they say riveting, they're used to thinking that everyone wants to hear all about it. Scientists teach everybody, all the time. Even scientists in research institutions who have no classes to teach still have to educate their graduate students and post-doctoral fellows; the public (funding again!); and—through seminars and symposia—their peers. Marty was Dr. Brown's friend and didn't know about the flux capacitor???? He'd have heard all about the flux capacitor nine million times!
In my experience your average scientist, far from being a wild-eyed loony, is much too serious, driven, single-minded, analytic, practical, deeply but not widely knowledgeable (there are exceptions), and naturally skeptical for me to want to write about.
Also—and this may be the real reason they don't come up in my novels—despite all this practicality, etc. etc., an incredible number of them love the Three Stooges. I just don't think my writing skills are up to making that seem believable.
*Question: Are we supposed to deduce that Dr. Brown burned down the family mansion to get the insurance on it to fund his research? Because this has been suggested to me by several people in a "duh! Of course he did" tone of voice when I totally did not see that at all. Not that don't believe that there are real scientists—a few—who might do this if all their other funding sources ran out; I just didn't see it.
I made up a new maxim. It is, "Those who don't learn from the mistakes they make in picking what kind of book to write are condemned to keep writing the same kind of book." It's not very catchy, it's grammatically a little obscure, and it probably won't catch on generally; but I hope that pinning it up over my desk and looking at it every day will stop me from making another literary foray into applied sociology.
Like most writers, I think, one of the reasons I started writing stories in the first place is because I'm interested in human psychology. I try to figure out the answers to my questions about how people's minds work by making up characters and moving them through the various life situations that constitute my plot. But outside of people, my greatest love is history, and I keep seeking insights into history by creating whole societies, and moving them through the various historical situations that constitute my plot. For me at least, this is really tough.
In my experience, it's relatively easy to write an original—and yet believable—character, because individual personalities vary so much. Any being with opposable thumbs is plausibly human. Ever known a Heathcliff or a Cathy? Me neither—but I'm perfectly able to believe they might exist. And to write an original society is pretty easy, too—but not to make it convincingly stable, or lasting.
Similarly, put a bunch of humans together, and however they initially conceive their society, eventually they evolve one that has similar rules; norms; authority groups; social, familial and religious structures and institutions; and exhibit the same degrees of cooperation and conflict as every other human society.
I won't say that I'm a contrarian, but the fact that this homogenization is so general annoys me. So I keep writing fantasies in which the characters are human, but the societies they have evolved are different. Then I spend the whole book trying to figure out why, and how to keep them that way.
It's hard work. I'm crazy to do it. One of the societies in Ant-lands was a bit on the utopian side, and what with all the extra research I had to do on how utopias are created (and why they never last long), the damn book took me at least an extra year to write. And now I'm writing about the first encounters between different societies, and researching how long, in general, it takes people to realize how superficial their differences, and how deep and innate their similarities are. Do you realize how many books have been written on this topic? And I have to read a bunch of them.
Hence the un-catchy little aphorism pinned up over my desk. If I read it daily and take it to heart, my next protagonist will be a loner, an outcast from all societies. –And not the kind of loner who goes around making friends with the little woodland creatures, either. It wouldn't be an improvement for me to have to research woodland creatures.
I know I'm not the first to observe that the current campaign for president is the most polarizing and divisive in memory; but I may be the first to find a good use for the fact that it is. I've decided that it will make me a better writer if I keep reminding myself that supporters of the candidate I don't plan to vote for (and never mind which one that is) live in the same country I do, eat the same food, watch the same television, speak the same language, and are presumably cognizant of the same facts as I am, and yet hold completely different opinions and support completely different policies from me. Completely different. In fact, this election cycle has made me realize the degree to which I previously underestimated how much people can have in common and still end up in some ways totally unalike.
Sometimes when I write, I forget this. I put in characters who are "different" from the ones with which I personally identify, but I make them villains, or damaged in some way—even crazy. Or I don't put characters like that in at all. I write exclusively about people who are like me. This election cycle, stressful though it has been, has at least been useful for reminding me that I personally do not define what is rightly human, and should include other kinds of people among my characters.
Otherwise, I'll just end up writing another Looking Backward.
…And speaking of Looking Backward—which I'd rather do, because it's a much more fun topic than the election—did anyone else have the same reaction to it as I did, that it was meant as a post-apocalyptic thriller?
No one warned me ahead of time that the book's utopian future (the year 2000; Looking Backward was written in 1888) was intended to be taken seriously. I kept waiting for the protagonist, the time-traveling Julian West, to realize that the citizens of the future he'd stumbled into were just waaaaaaay too content with their creepily bland and uniform culture. I waited for him to react with mounting horror to the growing realization that it was unnatural for everyone in this brave new world to be perfectly satisfied with a life spent doing nothing more exciting than listening to music (albeit right in their own houses, on their "telephonic devices"—Bellamy was a much better futurist than novelist); and never minding that the music they listened to was always someone else's choice; or bragging to a stranger that they could eat all their meals "in any public kitchen they chose," without ever wishing that they could select their own menu. Were all the citizens really so peacefully inclined that no one ever even wanted to watch a prize-fight, WrestleMania, or a hockey game?
And what was with the eerie degree of satisfaction the women—who were supposed to enjoy equal opportunities with men, by the way—derived from being able to buy any kind of fabric they wanted at one store? I've shopped for fabric. Even with a great selection, it's not that fun. And furthermore, why were they shopping for fabric at all when Bellamy eventually reveals that in actual fact, clothing in this paradise is made of sturdy paper, to be discarded when soiled?
—Okay, the part about the paper clothes was actually in Equality, the sequel to Looking Backward—but that's all right, because my point is that all the characters in both books were all identical to each other in outlook and attitudes*, and I mustn't do that when I write. The guy on my street, the one with the sign for that other candidate for president, is a pretty nice fellow, really; and in a non-election year, I actually like him. I must try to remember to put people like him—not insane, and not evil—in my next book.
In the meantime, here's an article on the subject of election-season stress that concludes with the useful recommendation to cope with anxiety by cuddling a puppy. Go visit your local Humane Society. They have puppies who will gladly exchange cuddles for calm with you.
This was bad while I was in school, since it amounted to me paying large amounts of money to hear my writing disparaged to my face; but it's been great since I graduated. Whereas I not only ceased to learn any more mathematics once I got out of the classroom, but actually forgot everything I ever knew including how to calculate a tip in a restaurant, my writing has gradually, steadily, improved. In school, I wrote every day, and I have continued to write almost every day since; but I only do math when I have to.
People who generally prefer math—e.g., everybody I live and work with—tell me they want to improve their writing, too, but are stopped by the fact that, unlike with mathematics, there aren't any books full of problems for them to practice on. They would write, they tell me, if they only knew what to write about. They seem to view plots as analogous to equations, and want a page of them to solve.
There's something in that viewpoint, I guess.
I admit that I don't really understand why they can't come up with as many plots as they want all by themselves, though. As far as I'm concerned, plots are the easiest thing in the world. When all I want is some practice writing, I just rewrite scenes from my life—a short-cut that provides me with not only a plot, but also a protagonist and a setting, all ready-made. Then I can get straight into the much-harder work of describing them.
And it's therapeutic, too. I don't know for sure, but I doubt I would ever say the same about working a partial differential equation.
*For any who don't already know it, a Mary Sue (as defined by Wikipedia) is "an idealized and seemingly perfect fictional character, a young or low-rank person who saves the day through unrealistic abilities. Often this character is recognized as an author insert or wish-fulfillment." If you have written a novel in which the protagonist is just like you, only better in every way, you have written a Mary Sue. Enjoy your work—but do not share it. Especially do not share it with me.
I'm deep into writing another book—a sequel to Ant-Lands. This is by popular request. "Honey, write a sequel to Ant-Lands," was a popular request of my husband's. I don't usually read sequels myself, having formed an unfavorable opinion of them when I was six years old and wasted a week of my young life on the insipid Heidi Grows Up; but I feel like I owe my husband something for being my most faithful and supportive reader. He once compared my work favorably to that of Joseph Conrad, his own preferred author, and though I don't believe for a moment that he really thinks I'm in Conrad's class, the memory of his heroic attempt to sound sincere when he said it is something I will always treasure.
Just to make a change from Ant-Lands, which was written in the third person, I'm writing the sequel in the first person. I admit to feeling a certain hesitance about this—not because I don't like writing in the first person (witness this blog), but because I'm haunted by a remark from a friend concerning the first-person point of view.
Now, I have never had this problem. In the same circumstances, if my brain says anything, it says, "Yeah, I totally did do that, and lots more!"; but are there many Julies out there? By writing in the first person, am I taking a chance on limiting my future sales?
Julie and I are eager to hear from anyone who has more information on this important topic.


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As web design becomes cheaper and cheaper, people are willing to pay less and less money for it. It has gotten to the point where, for many people, the most affordable web site design is the design that they do themselves.
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I voted for Satpal Sidhu for County Council. I recommend that you do too. Not only do I believe he makes a very good County Council member, but I believe his opponent, Kathy Kershner would seriously imperil our water quality and environment if she were to be elected.
Here is one example of how Ms. Kershner was willing to put our County's water quality at risk when she last served on our County Council.
In 2013, when Kathy Kershner was a Whatcom County Councilmember and Chair of the Council, she sent a September 13, 2013 letter (shown in photos) to the Department of Justice and the Environmental Protection Agency, asking them to drop the lawsuit the agencies had filed in 2013 against Rader Farms in Lynden, for its farming operation's violation of the Clean Water Act, stemming from Rader Farms illegally clearing Category 1 wetlands in 2005, without getting a permit or submitting a plan to Whatcom County. It is worth noting that Sue Rader contributed $900 to Kathy Kershner's 2013 election campaign on October 28, 2013.
So, Ms. Kershner, then Chair of the Whatcom County Council, told agencies which are entrusted to keep our environment protected and our water and air safe, not to do so.
And, Ms. Kershner used "jobs" as a justification for ignoring regulations and law. Jobs will come and go, but we only get one environment.
By Ms. Kershner stating that, I believe it gave the letter recipients an implied understanding that she was speaking for the county council, especially because she never states in the letter that she was not speaking for them.
everything. . .even our health and safety—and she tried to use her County Council position and political influence when she asked the DOJ and EPA to disregard the law. She had also copied Senators Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell, Congressman Rick Larsen, and Congresswoman Suzan DelBene on her September 13, 2013 letter.
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Darius Wobil, designer of Saint Wobil, will exhibit his newest collection at Africa Fashion Week New York produced by Adirée. AFWNY will take place July 14th, 15th and 16th at the Broad Street Ballroom in New York City's financial district.
More and more, African models, such as Nyasha Matonhodze, are gracing the pages of fashion magazines. Nyasha, a 16-year-old model from Zimbabwe is the new face of Louis Vuitton and is currently on the cover of the July 2011 edition of Elle Canada. As a son of a supermodel, Darius carries his mother's love of fashion and extends it to designing for models around the world.
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AFWNY includes runway shows hosting 21+ designers from various countries in Africa and those of the African Diaspora, exhibitions, and industry networking events. Opening designer Korto Momolu and designers like Washington Roberts, Saint Wobil, AAMAA Couture, Bill Witherspoon and others will showcase.
Designer Darius E. Wobil was born on March 25th 1983 in Buffalo, New York. He knew from childhood that he had a passion for sewing and would one day plan on making a living from it. With both parents involved in the arts and in fashion, Wobil was picking out fabrics from the tender age of two. Wobil's work has graced the covers and editorial pages of Italian Vogue, Requin, Epic, Noir Couture, Urban Socialites, UCE. SAINT WOBIL will be creating a life style for the fashion conscious.


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