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A writer staying home
Published on July 28, 2008 December 29, 2015 by Barbara Samuel
So it feels like the entire universe is headed to San Francisco for the annual RWA conference. Including some of my Australian buddies. Have I mentioned lately that I love San Francisco? That it is one of my favorite cities in all the world? That I went to my first conference ever there? And more to the point, Chez Panisse is there. Alice Waters is the mother of the local, whole, gourmet foodie movement and I would dearly love to visit one day. Linger.
Alas, a writer must sometimes….well, write. There is a lot on my plate just this moment, and I need to work. With all the other stuff going on this year ( Texas, remember? And New York City, and Santa Barbara, and the Avon walk and all the training for it, and then in three weeks to Australia) there was just no way to squeeze out the time. Not even to see one of my dearest writer friends, who said on the phone, "I can't believe you aren't going." Not even to sit on the beach in SF and remember twelve other versions of myself, sitting there.
Today, I mailed galleys back to Bantam, which means I've read through The Lost Recipe one more time. Whatever happens, I really love this book myself, and that's not such a bad thing. Loving it doesn't mean I think I'm some fabulouso genius, just that I love the material, the people, the story, and I think some of you will, too. I think you'll cry, and eat, and want to go have sex with somebody, and cook something beautiful, maybe some pomegranante baklava (oh this recipe! You will love it!) and adopt a dog.
Also, to occupy myself today, I found a cool B&B in the Rocks area of Sydney, upon the recommendation of a man who played the didgereedo a week or two ago at Unity. I am seriously, seriously looking forward to the Australia sojurn and will post more soon.
But tonight, I'm eating worms. Wish I was headed west in the morning, to San Francisco and RWA and all the glamour and pleaure of it all. Have fun everybody!
Anyone else staying home?
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Me! I'm considering stowing away in someone's suitcase and crashing Melissa and Aviva's or Barb and Lynn's room, though, and wandering the streets of SF while everyone else is in class. 😉
I just finished reading the Year of Fog (Michelle Redmond) last night and it's a sad, sad story, but the SF setting is vivid and haunting. Made me wish I were going.
Hmm, I have a pomegranate bush in my back yard. It was planted directly in front of our house, per Asian formula for good luck, by the former occupants. Our Vietnamese neighbors were highly concerned for us when we dug it up, so we replanted it in the back yard to ease our conscience and try to stay out of trouble! Perhaps this year, I will have a use for the fruit if the birds don't get it first like they usually do.
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I'm not attending. Among my four or five close unpubbed writer friends, no one is attending this year for various reasons Two have a child getting married this summer.
A few names I noticed missing from the Literacy Signing.
Liz Bev
Jenny Crusie
Elizabeth Lowell
Heather MacAllister
So I didn't tell you this on our brief phone conversation on Sunday but one of my new roommates works in publishing and will be in San Fran for RWA. Bummer that you won't be there, I told her to look out for you. Next time you are in New York we should all have coffee or something.
Yvonne Lindsay
I'm not there, despite my best intentions…okay, so maybe my intentions weren't quite as strong as they should have been. I'd agreed to forgo SF for a family holiday, which also isn't happening. Still, I do have the RWNZ and the RWAustralia conferences to look forward to so I'm busting my gut to get this book and a new proposal finished so I can really kick back and enjoy conference mode in a couple of weeks time. Oh my, only a couple of weeks…I'm so not here right now!
I had the best intentions too – our whole crit group planned to go to this conference but circumstances have meant that only Mel made it.
Go Mel!! have fun!
But Wah!!! for the rest of us. I've only been to SF once. I had no idea Chez Panisse was there. I wonder why my chef hubby didn't hunt it down, he's been in love with Alice Waters cooking for years 🙂
I feel almost guilty for Australia being the reason you can't go B. Almost….lol
Caro! That's so cool. Email coming.
Believe me, Robyn, I am psyched about going to Australia! I've been to SF and RWA many, many times, but never to Oz, and I cannot WAIT! I can give you and Yvonne and all the rest of you big hugs. 🙂 We'll have a good party in Melbourne.
Lee Duncan
Oh, I'm not there, either. Today I've been feeling lonely and blue and left out 'cause nearly everyone from my chapter went. And I hadn't checked the blogs 'cause I figured you'd be in SF. Now that I know I'm not missing out on seeing you there, I'm (almost) glad I stayed home. Grins. DC next year, for sure!
DC next year? Thought it was Nashville, which sounds like more fun to me. Either way, I'm not skipping next year. Many writers go for career opportunities, to network, and well, yes, I do that. I see my publishing connections and I go to workshops on subjects that seem important, but mainly? Talk. I go to talk.
Wherever it is, we'll all hang out.
Yes, it's DC next year — my fav city (which you already know from the voice class). RWA is looking for workshops. Will you do one? I'll be in the classroom if you do. Of course! Nashville is in 2010 and my cp is already excited about going there.
I'm starting to feel like a total hermit with deadlines etc at the moment, and while I'm presenting a couple of workshops at the RWNZ conference I feel like I'm hanging out for the mental health break that the Melbourne RWAus conference promises to be. I'm so looking forward to Melbourne as my consolation prize for missing SF.
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Using Quartz Composer compositions in VDMX.
Quartz Composer is a groundbreaking node-based graphics development environment that allows you to explore the incredible power of the graphics stack of Mac OS X Tiger. With Quartz Composer, you can easily combine the capabilities of Cocoa, Quartz 2D, Core Image, OpenGL, and QuickTime, all using an approachable visual programming paradigm. Quartz Composer can be used to prototype Core Image filters, make data-driven visual effects, and create live performance animations.
The quickest way to get your Quartz Composer patches doing something in VDMX is to simply drag them into a media bin, (or choose "Import Media" from the file menu) and trigger them in a layer. Your QC patch may then be triggered and played on a layer just like any other media file. If your QC patch has any published inputs, VDMX will automatically create UI items of the appropriate type (slider, button, color picker, text field, video source picker, etc) for them.
Quartz Composer consists of objects which are connected together with patch cords. The "Input Splitter" object lets you make inputs in patches; data may be passed to objects through these inputs. If you make an input splitter in the top level of your patch and publish it, VDMX will attempt to make a UI item for your input; different types of inputs (numbers, toggles, colors, etc.) get different types of interface items.
Index-type inputs will be represented in VDMX as a pop-up button. The number of items in the menu is determined by the maximum value set in the node inspector, such that the items in the menu range from 0 to the maximum value minus one. If the input is specified as having labeled indices, the menu items in the menu will correspond to the provided labels.
Number-type inputs will be represented in VDMX as a standard slider, with a range determined by the minimum and maximum values set in the inspector. If no min/max values are specified, the slider will be ranged 0.0-1.0.
String-type inputs will be represented in VDMX as a text field.
Structure-type inputs are used to represent input types that are not of the aforementioned types, and can be represented in VDMX as several different UI items, depending on the name of the of the published input.
If the published name of the structure-type input includes the letters "MultiButton", followed by two dimensions, VDMX will create a multi-button UI item, with the passed dimensions. For example, a structure-type input splitter published as "ButtonField_MultiButton_2x2" will create a 2x2 multi-button UI item labeled as "ButtonField" in VDMX. The same exact UI item would be created if the name was "ButtonField MultiButton 2x2", "ButtonField-MultiButton-2x2", or "ButtonField-MultiButton-2-2". The values of the buttons will be passed to the composition as an array.
If the published name of the structure-type input includes the letters "MultiSlider", followed by two dimensions, VDMX will create a multi-slider UI item, with the passed dimensions. The naming pattern for this UI item matches that of multi-button inputs.
If you have a string-type input published with "FontMenu" anywhere in its name, VDMX will create a pop-up button with a list of all the system fonts (the name of the font will be passed to QC when you select it).
VDMX offers a number of built-in media files and video sources that are quickly accessible in the "Use Source:" pop-up button in the layer source UI. If you want your QC composition to be listed here, place it in the "qcSources" folder in your VDMX Assets folder (choose "Open Assets Folder in Finder" from VDMX's "Help" menu). It will immediately be listed as an available effect in VDMX, and can be previewed in the Workspace Inspector's "Assets" tab or added to layers.
If you add an image-type input splitter to your patch and publish it as "inputImage", the composition can be used as an image filter in VDMX- just place it in the "qcFX" folder in your VDMX Assets folder (choose "Open Assets Folder in Finder" from VDMX's "Help" menu). It will immediately be listed as an available effect in VDMX, and can be previewed in the Workspace Inspector's "Assets" tab or added to layers.
It must have an image-type input splitter published as "background". video from the "background" layer will be sent to this input.
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The composition must be placed in the "qcCompModes" folder of your VDMX Assets folder (choose "Open Assets Folder in Finder" from VDMX's "Help" menu).
QC compositions can be used as plugins in VDMX- when loaded as a plugin, VDMX will not only create UI items for any published inputs in your patch, but any outputs you publish will be made available in VDMX as either a video source (if the published output is an image-type splitter) or a data source (if it's a bool/number/color/string/etc). This allows you to use QC to program complicated mathematical or logical behaviors that both receive data from and send data back to VDMX.
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Two, it's what Bono doesn't say that might be most important in this statement. He doesn't say something like, "RISD will vigorously defend itself against this baseless lawsuit..." He isn't backing himself into a corner. It's encouraging that he doesn't mention the adversarial relationship that this lawsuit puts Tyson and RISD in. Talks will now be opened with Tyson's legal team. I hope the RISD doesn't instinctively resist change, but instead seeks to find a mutually satisfactory way forward that meets everyone's careabouts: Tyson wants an election system that better advances the representation of our minority community; RISD, as Bono puts it, wants to "continue to promote success for 100 percent of our students"; and voters want an election system that they can have full confidence will be fair, democratic, and representative of all in RISD.
We didn't have to do it this way, but we can still emerge from this better off than we were, provided we work towards win-win solutions for all.


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Why Liberals Won't Be Able to Shut Down Rush Limbaugh and Conservative Talk Radio
Once again liberals are huffing and puffing over conservative talk radio. Some on the left are calling for Rush Limbaugh to be killed. That's right. There's a song — a very bad one — that openly calls for the killing of Rush Limbaugh. It's being promoted on YouTube and Facebook, two media sites that usually reject such things. You can hear the refrain "Kill . . . kill . . . kill" but not much else in the very bad piece of "music." Here's the Facebook tagline for the Metal band DÉTENTE that performs the "song":
Disgusted by Rush Limbaugh's recent antics? Blast our song, 'KILL RUSH'
Of course, the liberals will dismiss the group and the movement, saying it's on the fringes and it's "entertainment." Their double standard showed when they would not condemn Bill Maher for his truly offensive remarks about conservative women because he's a "comedian."
You know a worldview is about to expire when it does two things: (1) threatens violence and (2) calls for censorship. The City Council of Los Angeles approved a resolution on a 13 to 2 vote calling on local TV and radio stations to limit any "racist" and "sexist" comments on their broadcasts. Sounds reasonable until you ask this question: Who will determine what's racist and sexist? Just to criticize a policy of Barack Obama is said to be racist because he's black. These are the tactics of desperate people.
The ultra liberal Media Matters is spending $100,000 for two ads that will run in eight cities. I hope they spend more. Spend, spend, spend.
Ad time was purchased in Boston; Chicago; Detroit; Seattle; Milwaukee; St. Louis; Macon, Ga.; and Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The cities were selected to support active local campaigns against Limbaugh or because of perceptions Limbaugh may be vulnerable in that market, said Angelo Carusone of Media Matters.
Did you notice that most of these cities are liberal in political affiliation? Who's going to be listening? Liberals. They already hate Rush.
Are there any liberal talk shows anymore? Even Oprah is finding it difficult to hold her OWN television network together. She's fired 30 of her staff and cancelled the talk-show hosted by Rosie O'Donnell, hopefully forever. No one wants to listen to an angry lesbian.
Where will the advertisers go if conservative talk radio takes a hit by overzealous government intrusion that's hell-bent on silencing a competing opinion in the name of civil discourse? There is no place to go. Liberal talk-radio is an oxymoron. It doesn't exist except on subsidized PBS stations. Yes, there are a few on the networks and cable channels, but they cater to liberal audiences that out of touch with reality. They're nowhere to be found among the top 15 shows.
Conservative talk radio is where advertisers want to go. They know that conservatives are loyal to companies that share their values.
Unless the government gets involved, the market will decide Rush Limbaugh's fate. If advertisers and listeners turn off Rush, then it is too late for all of us. In the meantime, if you haven't already, watch the film The Pianist (2002) to find out what we could be up against if liberals win.
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As the price of corn (maize) and tortillas soar in Mexico, the government has declared that it will protect the population from further price rises by dealing directly on financial futures markets. An unprecedented statement.
Corn prices did indeed rise sharply during December: the price per bushel1 increased to more than $6, an increase of nearly 46% compared to January 2010, the highest level since mid-2008. Faced with this fluctuation, tortilla manufacturers have threatened to increase their prices by 50%. An increase that would be dangerous to political and social balance as tortillas, consisting primarily of corn, are the staple food of millions of Mexicans. The country has experienced previous food riots in 2007, precisely because of high inflation on tortillas.
Consequently, fearing repeat riots, the government has taken an unprecedented step. The Minister of Economy, Bruno Ferrari publicly announced on 22nd December 2010, that the government had bought futures contracts on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange to guarantee acceptable prices for consumers. 4.2 million tons of grain have been purchased by the Mexican government through options on futures markets and this, on behalf of agribusiness professionals. "The price and supply of corn, will be guaranteed until the third quarter of 2011" said the minister.
For Richard Feltes, an analyst at a brokerage firm, "this is the first time a State has publicly revealed its intention to buy futures contracts"2» . A statement that shows that at a time when agricultural commodity prices are increasingly volatile, we are witnessing the unabashed return of State intervention on the markets.
1 A bushel is the measure used in the USA and for corn (maize) is equivalent to 0.0254 metric tonnes.
2 Source : Financial Times 22 December 2010.


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Cesc Fabregas: Jose Mourinho's A Friend, But I Don't Talk To Pep Guardiola
Despite being on opposite sides in LaLiga, Cesc Fabregas has a much warmer friendship with Jose Mourinho than he does Pep Guardiola
Omnisport	18 November 2020
Omnisport	2020-11-18T18:39:09+05:30 Cesc Fabregas: Jose Mourinho's A Friend, But I Don't Talk To Pep Guardiola
Cesc Fabregas still considers his former Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho "a friend" but has revealed he is not on speaking terms with Pep Guardiola despite considering him an idol. (More Football News)
Fabregas, now 33 and playing for Monaco, has been one of European football's most recognisable midfielders since breaking into the Arsenal first-team as a 16-year-old in 2003.
His emergence as one of the world's best saw him switch back to Barcelona – whom he had represented as a child – in 2011 and he played under club icon Guardiola, winning six trophies across three seasons.
It was around this time that the Clasico divide with Real Madrid was arguably at its most vociferous in a generation, stoked by off-pitch – and occasional mid-match – barbs thrown by either Guardiola or his Los Blancos counterpart Mourinho.
But despite the fierce backdrop of the Clasicos of this era, which were said to have led to issues within the Spanish national team, Fabregas was ultimately lured away from Barca in 2014 by Mourinho and Chelsea.
"Mourinho was the one who inspired me the most to leave Barca," Fabregas explained to Tot Costa.
A post shared by Cesc Fàbregas (@cescf4bregas)
"He told me that we had them on the pitch when he was at Chelsea and I at Arsenal, and then when he was training for Real Madrid and I was at Barcelona, but for him it all ended there.
"He told me about his project. I prioritised the professional side, and today I continue to write with him and consider him a friend, he helped me a lot at the time and maybe with him I played one of my best seasons."
It is easy to see why Fabregas feels such a way – in his year and a half under Mourinho, who was sacked in December 2015, the Spaniard was highly influential and won the 2014-15 Premier League title.
He attempted more passes (3,832) than anyone else in the Premier League during this time, while his 3,238 completed passes was not matched by anyone.
On top of that, he also recorded a league-high 20 assists and 4,698 ball touches in this period, highlighting his importance.
Similarly, his 120 chances created was bettered by only three players.
But Fabregas' time working with Guardiola did not inspire the same kind of friendship despite previously idolising the former midfielder.
"With Guardiola, I have not spoken again," he said. "There are things that happened that I do not have to talk about.
"He was my idol in my childhood, perhaps he is the person from whom I have learned the most as a player, as an idol and later as a coach, but that's it."
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Patelloidea is a taxonomic superfamily of sea snails or true limpets, marine gastropod molluscs in the subclass Patellogastropoda

Genera
Families within the superfamily Patelloidea include:
 Nacellidae Thiele, 1891
 Patellidae Rafinesque, 1815

References

 Bouchet, P., Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families. Malacologia. 47(1-2): 1-397 .

Patellogastropoda
Taxa named by Constantine Samuel Rafinesque

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