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A Holiday Post and a Thank You
First of all, thank you for all the kind words about my sister. I'm grateful for every kindness at a time like this.
Second, I plan to cook up a little treat for my family so we can have a little something while we open gifts on Christmas morning. Since my original copy of the recipe is not holding up all that well, I thought I'd post a(n altered) version of it here both for posterity and to share with all of you.
The original recipe called it an "Apple and Spice Dessert" but it's really more of an apple cobbler with an especially tasty batter. Here it is:
Christmas Apple Cobbler
1 1/2 lbs apples, peeled, cored and sliced
1 1/4 cups AP flour
Whipped cream for serving.
Preheat oven to 350F. Butter a 9×9 baking pan. (8×8 should work, too, but check that cooking time)
Mix the apple, cinnamon and lemon zest and juice, then spread it in the pan
Sift the next five ingredients into a medium-sized bowl
In a larger bowl, cream the butter and sugar. Add the egg and molasses. Beat until smooth
Dissolve the baking soda in the boiling water. Alternately add flour and hot water to the butter mixture, beating each to incorporate. Then pour resulting batter over the apples and bake for about 45 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean. Allow to cool somewhat.
Cut into squares and serve topped with whipped cream.
The original recipe had less apple, more sugar, less lemon, and less spice. It also called for margarine instead of butter, which no. Adjust it however you see fit. This is a big favorite around here, especially with my wife. I hope you give it a try and enjoy it yourselves.
Third and last, every year I post a link to my favorite version of A Christmas Carol, which is the 1971 animated version directed by the brilliant Richard Williams. The animation is amazing, dark, and genuinely scary. This version really earns its ending, scaring the shit out of Scrooge and little-kid me, turning him to good and me into a weird obsessive who searches out this show every year.
The good news is that you can watch a legit copy of it through the service Hoopla, which I can access through my public library. If you can't do that for whatever reason, it's still available on YouTube.
Either way, it's the best and scariest Marley ever. Check it out.
Whatever you celebrate, I hope this holiday season has been gentle with you and that things get better in the new year.
Tags beautiful, film, food, moi?, TV
thinking about my sister at the end of her life
I'm typing this on a plane as we board a flight to Philly. I'm leaving Seattle because a doctor told a family member that my big sister is likely to die today or tomorrow, and I'm hoping to see her one last time.
Let me tell you what my sister means to me.
One of my earliest memories–not my absolute earliest, but still–was of me trying to convince my parents that my sister and I were twins. I believe I understood on some level why that wasn't really possible, but I knew that twins share a special bond, and why couldn't we have that kind of closeness just because she was five years older?
I also remember going full court press on my parents to move me from the back bedroom to the middle one. For weeks I asked and asked until they finally gave in, humping all my furniture, clothes and toys to my new bedroom.
Then, to the horror of my tiny, barely post-toddler brain, they moved all of my sister's stuff into the back room. Turned out, we were swapping rooms.
How did my family miss the whole and entire point of the move, which was that I wanted to share a room with my twin?
I also drove her nuts over Saturday morning cartoons, pulling that pyrrhic victory bullshit that middle kids turn to when they want to win a fight through the long slog of making everyone miserable until they just give up. That shit felt so good, until my own younger siblings started to do it to me.
As we got older, she got me into Steve Martin before he really broke out. She also made me a fan of the 70's prog-rock band Yes. Now, there's nothing cool about
but to me they were cool because she liked them.
And she is the person who made me love science fiction and fantasy. That in itself is huge, because it's a huge part of my life, and I have her to thank for it. And I'm pretty sure she's the only member of the family to read my books.
That's who she is to me. Obviously, she's so much more than that–both to the other people who know and love her, and to herself–but I'm flying across the country so that I can hold her hand one last time and think about her.
We are, all of us, impermanent. But the effect we have on others can outlast us, so be sure to pass on love and kindness to the people who need it. It's important.
But maybe keep your terrible prog-rock music to yourself.
[Update] She passed before I could see her again.
Tags moi?
A Finished Draft of a New Twenty Palaces Novel, and More
If you're a Kickstarter backer for the two new 20P novels, you've likely already received the announcement that the zero draft (aka: the vomit draft) of The Flood Circle is done. That means both this new book and The Iron Gate are ready for revisions, and since they sort of tie together, it'll be good for me to tackle them together. So, Yay for that, and also I wish I wrote cleaner first drafts.
In other pleasant news, my months-long plan to say "Or we could just play Jinkies" every single time my gaming group was about to try a one-shot or switch games has had the desired effect. One of our players is taking a holiday trip, so I get a chance to try out this game I've had in my personal, figurative on-deck circle for months. It's like getting an extra Giftmas present a week before the holiday.
In less happy news, I had to switch to a new doctor this year, and my wife convinced me to make an appointment for a minor health issue that's been bothering me for (literal) years. Basically, I break out in itchy hives any time I get slightly warm. A hot shower will do it. A walk to the grocery store will do it. A tense conversation with my wife will do it. On the advice of my previous doc, I take an OTC allergy med, but that only eases the itching, it doesn't eliminate it, and it does nothing for those ugly fucking hives. It's just so gross and embarrassing, and it's been getting in the way of my exercise plans for literal years.
So I went to the doc. I told him I'd spent months working hard to lose weight and had dropped 40 lbs. Then I went to my father-in-law's house to help my wife deal with his estate, and the place was not exactly clean. (Which is not a dig on my f-i-l. He was a good guy, but he was in his eighties and his health had been terrible for years.) It was there, cleaning out that house, when I started breaking out in hives, and it took me weeks to figure out why. (Finally, I googled "I am allergic to my own sweat." — It turned out I wasn't actually allergic to my own sweat, although some people can be. It was just body heat.)
That was in January, 2012. My appointment with the doc was last July, and after I ran through the whole thing, he ordered the usual tests, then said nothing about the hives. When I sent a note asking about it, he told me I'd need to make an appointment for it.
Which I already did. Last July.
I suspect he's over-focused on my weight, which has indeed gone up now that any sort of exercise makes me look, feel, and act like a leper with fleas.
Eventually, I'll have to go in for that followup appointment to cover the actual issue I went to see him for in the first place, but the holidays are busy and I have writing to do and whatever. I'd be more willing to go if I thought something good would come of it. Very discouraging.
On the plus side, the internet assures me that this issue usually goes away by itself in three to thirty years, so really, this will might be fixed any day now.
Anyway, that's it. Take care of yourselves and happy holidays.
Date December 4, 2021
Tags games, moi?, the flood circle, the iron gate, wasting time
So, we moved recently
So, we moved recently.
It always sucks to move but this was particularly terrible, because it happened during that massive PNW heatwave from four weeks ago. Here's a short version of the story.
At the beginning of June, we chose Monday, 6/28 as our move date so we could be into our new place (and out of our old) by July 1. Our old landlord was nice enough to hire a moving company to help us out.
The Thursday before, we started hearing about the heatwave that was coming. We were supposed to be getting temps in the upper 90s on Sunday, then hit a high of 108F on Monday. I contacted the landlord to suggest we reschedule to a day where the movers were less likely to fall over dead as they carried our sofa up the back stairs, but he said they still wanted to do it on that day.
Boss wouldn't give up an earning day, I guess.
By Saturday, I got an email saying the movers would start an hour early and knock off before temperatures got too hot, like noon or one. I don't remember how things work in other cities, but in Seattle, the hottest times of the day come in late afternoon, around 5ish. That still seemed ridiculous, but whatever.
That weekend was a nightmare of packing up the last of our things in 98F temperatures, guzzling water, sweltering. We'd do one thing, sit down, then get up and do one more thing, then sit down again. Also, the heat was getting on top of me, making me woozy and a little nauseated.
Then moving day came, and mere moments before the movers were supposed to arrive, they cancelled.
I immediately got online to find us an air-conditioned hotel room for the night, but everything was all booked up. We sat in our apartment and sweltered.
One piece of advice they give you during a heatwave is that you're supposed to leave your windows open all night, letting the cool air in. Once the run rises, you close everything up and pull the blinds to trap the cool air in place and keep the heat out.
Except our Seattle apartment had little cross ventilation. The windows were tiny and the air flow was minimal. What cooling we did get–which was not a lot because night time temps didn't drop that much, another deadly aspect of dangerous heatwaves–was quickly overwhelmed by body heat and carbon dioxide.
Having prepped a bunch of ice cubes, we put steel bowls full of them in front of our box fan. We sat and we did nothing. We hid in the dark.
I didn't do that well. I felt sick most of the day. My hands swelled up a bit, and my feet swelled up a lot. Like, a scary amount. I had a hard time keeping awake (not that I really wanted to) and I found myself in a kind of thoughtless daze through much of the day.
The best remedies I had for the temperature was to wear a soaking wet T-shirt (and not in a sexy way) and to put my head under the shower with the water set at its coldest.
The latter was a revelation. It was the best possible kind of pain, making my skin tingle down my back, and I could actually feel the cold water drawing heat from the inside of my skull, along with lethargy, confusion, and exhaustion. It was a really strange sensation.
The movers didn't finish completely until Saturday. They managed the boxes on Tuesday, but were short-handed and couldn't bring over the furniture. The landlord, knowing this wasn't going well, helped us by driving over the mattresses in his jeep (we don't have a car). At least we had something to sleep on.
That's the short version. Things sucked for about a week and a half, and over on my 20 Palaces Kickstarter, I had mentioned that I thought our move would interrupt my writing for a few days before and after the move, but that turned out to be a terrible guess. Laughably terrible. The disruption was much longer and more profound. Luckily, I'm back to my old, pre-pandemic pace. More on that in an upcoming post.
As for the new place, it's newer and brighter than the old, with larger windows that allow for actual air circulation. It's also slightly smaller than our old apartment, especially the fridge, which drives my wife to distraction.
Also, although we're farther from the train yard than the old apartment, that place had a smaller front slope with lots of greenery, so we had foliage and buildings across the street to block the noise. The new apartment sits on a bare hill and has a nice terrestrial view, and it's the loudest place I've ever lived.
Anyway, I'm still settling in. My wife is trying to, but she hates to settle for anything. As for my son, well, this is officially the second place he's ever lived in his life, and he's about the right age for this move, so he's doing pretty well. Except for the ants. Did I mention that the new place has ants? Bugs give him the willies, so we're dousing the outside wall with vinegar and…
Well, this blog post could go on and on, but I'm going to stop typing about it so I can write today's pages. As I mentioned above, I'll post about my improved productivity and the pandemic soonish.
Tags life is great!, moi?
Stress, TTRPGs, and Me Getting Evicted
I'm one of those people who doesn't recognize his own stress until it erupts at the wrong moment. I feel fine (I'm fine! Really!) for a whole day or week or whatever, no really, I'm okay. Then suddenly a stressful moment hits and I realize I have no reserves left and something inappropriate escapes me.
For example, this past weekend I was playing in my usual every-other-week tabletop role playing game, and one of the other players–who's been a friend of mine for more than 35 years–made a role-playing choice that was super super annoying.
Normally, we'd handle this in-game, where the characters play out the scene, or I'd meta-game it for a moment first to let the other player know where this was going, to make sure they wanted to play this out. (In fact, if he'd continued to play out the scene that way, it would have meant the end of the party, in a "they go or I do" situation.)
But I didn't do either of those things. Thoughts swirled around in my head and I had no way to put them into a coherent structure. I looked at my friend's face in the Zoom window and could not imagine what I should do next. Does it make sense to say I'd gone blank when I had dozens of half-thoughts appearing and vanishing in my head before I could even examine them? I hope so, because that's what happened.
So, I said I needed to take a break (not in a particularly calm way), hung up my headset and walked away from my computer. It was sort of close to our usual break time anyway, and I refilled my water bottle, had a slice of bread with a fancy Lebanese red pepper spread, and washed my face. And I thought it might be a good idea to step away from the game for a few weeks, when this feeling would (should) have passed.
When I returned to the Zoom meeting, I was embarrassed. I was supposed to be role-playing and I'd fucked up.
The other players understood, because I'd already told them at the start of the session that I was being evicted.
You can tell I never went to Journalism school by the way I bury the lede. Maybe I'll drop this part in the subject header, so no one misses it.
I moved into my current apartment with my then-girlfriend in Oct 1994. We've had our whole relationship here, and in 2019, I bought her a silver necklace to celebrate the 25th anniversary of living together. We raised our son in these rooms, cooked every meal, celebrated every holiday. It's not, you know, a great apartment by any standard, but it's where our memories were made.
But I don't own this space, so when my new (as of the fall of 2019) landlord dropped me a note saying they were going to remodel this whole building–and everyone needed to vacate–it did not come as a shock. It was more of a "Winter is coming" moment. We knew it was possible–maybe even inevitable–and when it finally happened it was like death. I had hoped for more time.
For the record, our landlord has given us a lot of time to find a new place and has offered to pay for a moving company, which is very generous of him.
Me, I'd like a new place in this same neighborhood. I'm about to leave to look at an apartment one block over from my current place, and I'm still put out that the place three doors down from us, which was laid out in the same format as the place we have–our furniture could have gone into the same layout there as here–was snapped up a day before I got that email.
Just got back from the place up the street. This was our third apartment tour, and the first we actually liked. There's no basement storage, but it's bright and clean, at least. Also, this was the first landlord/realtor who bothered to wear a face mask. (All we had to hear to cross off one place we looked at was "I think they do more harm that good".)
To get back to the point: All of my novels have been written, in part, at my local library branch and at the Starbucks down the street from it. I'd hate to spend a whole pandemic year working in an inadequate space at home, checking every other day for news of when the libraries will reopen, only to be forced to work someplace new.
And yeah, it's stressful. And I'm carrying that stress just under the surface of my day to day, having pleasant conversations with my wife about what we should have for dinner, or what books/clothes we're going to donate instead of pack, or what we're going to do with the board games we played when our son was ten but haven't touched in years.
Until something is suddenly Too Much, and I'm welling up with tears because the Shang-Chi trailer looks so fucking good. Or maybe it's Harold Finch, injured and stumbling into his library, to ask the machine if it knew his only friend in the world was about to be murdered, but already knowing the answer and also knowing everything is his own fault.
In fact, during the same gaming session, we were chatting about Person of Interest, and I was trying to explain to two of the players why I loved it, and that it started off as a very good show in a specific genre that becomes a great sci fi show as it goes forward, and they kept asking me when it became "good" so they could skip the early stuff. Normally, I would have pushed against that sort of framing, but my thoughts were swirling around and I couldn't respond. Not the way I wanted to.
Now, a mental state like this might sound like it would mess with my writing and writing progress, but writing is a kind of safe space for me. I'm still making progress. I have less time than I used to, but I'm still hitting my goals.
And this, too, shall pass.
Last thing: When I first received that email, I tweeted about it, then deleted the tweet because I thought people might assume I was asking for financial help. I'm not. This isn't a financial emergency for us. It's just going to eat up time that could be better spent and it's going to add a bunch of bullshit stress. Which is not to say that folks should drop out of my Patreon or whatever. I'm grateful for your support and it definitely helps, but I don't want folks to think this is a call to action. My family and I are okay for now.
Until someone posts a cute kitten video on Twitter and I just lose it.
Take care of yourselves, get vaccinated when you can, and stay safe.
Tags games, moi?
Less Twitter. Less of the Twitter Effect.
Rest in peace, Chadwick Boseman.
It took the passing of movie star Chadwick Boseman at the young age of 43 to make me realize that I needed to cut way back on Twitter.
See, I wanted to write something on this blog about Boseman's passing, about the work he'd done while he was sick, knowing that his life might be cut short. About the impact he'd had and the joy he'd spread. That I admired the legacy he left behind and feel awful that he's been cheated of the time he could have spent with the people he loved.
But I can't seem to focus on the subject. I can't even sort out my own feelings about the passing of this famous stranger. Everything's all jumbled up.
And this isn't true just with this one subject. It's true about politics, movies, all sorts of things. I'm more distractible. I'm finding it harder to focus.
The more intense the problem becomes, the more I've begun to associate it with Twitter.
Obviously, there are other causes, too. Generalized anxiety about the pandemic. Being stuck at home, looking at these same few rooms. But I think the bulk of the problem comes from what I'm calling the Twitter Effect: a continual flood of information in small doses on widely disparate topics.
As an example, this is what's popped up in my Twitter timeline as I write this:
Sports team urging people to vote
A snide remark at a pundit's old tweet
Abolishing Daylight Savings Time
Trump's golf shoes
Misinformation from QAnon
Joke about Plato
Snide election comment
Halloween book recommendations
State-level (but not my state) police reform
Retweeted cross-promotion for a TV show
Author promo
San Francisco rent laws
Superhero commentary
Trump joke
Mask commentary
COVID-19 symptoms/treatment
Superman joke
Climate change policy
Alexa's "whisper mode"
I stopped scrolling just now when I came to a cartoon with the caption "My desire to be well-informed is at odds with my desire to stay sane."
It's not just that social media can feel so combative and alarmist. That, I can manage. It's that I've spent 13 years training my brain to take in random, scattershot input about all sorts of different things. I need fewer soundbites and more long form thinking. More time reading outside Twitter, in other words.
For a long time, I held on to Twitter because 1) it has replaced blogs as a source for interesting/amusing links, 2) I follow some very fun and funny people and it's become my main source of laughter during the day, 3) book talk, which is mostly pretty dull but this is what I can get, 4) film and tv talk, which tends to be more analytical and therefore more interesting, 5) and finally, the big one, politics.
Twitter was the place where I kept up with political scandals and wonky procedural shit and climate change and so on. Turning my back on that felt like being a bad citizen.
And few things are as irresistible as an addiction that feels like virtue.
So I'm cutting back on Twitter in a big way. Years ago, I set up my writing laptop to block it during the day so i could get shit done. This past weekend, I set up my desktop to block Twitter (and Steam, because 2580+ hours of Sentinels of the Multiverse is plenty) from midnight to one in the afternoon.
That still leaves my wife's iPad, which I can use to access the service if I want, but that belongs to my wife and it's not convenient. Part of any plan for breaking bad habits is to make them inconvenient. Plus, I'm not trying to drop Twitter completely, as I did with Facebook. I just want to cut back.
So I'll be on Twitter less because less. I won't be completely gone, but I hope to put an end to doomscrolling and political hobbyism.
It's a relief, honestly. Social media feels both necessary and damaging at the same time. I've sort of grown to hate it.
Date August 31, 2020
Tags internet, moi?
It's Not the Thing You Don't Know That Get You…
It's the things you think you know but are wrong.
Me: Twitter says you were right.
Wife: ::stares at me, laughing::
Me: I would still do it the same way, though.
Wife: I know. https://t.co/MhXpTIY1xg
— Twenty Palaces Kickstarter Going Right Now (@byharryconnolly) July 23, 2019
Everyone was telling me that five cents a word was too low, and I kept responding by saying some variation on, "SFWA set the minimum pro rates (for short fiction) at five cents a word. That's the number I'm going to use!"
Except I was wrong.
As pointed out to me by another author (and if you have a middle grade fantasy reader in your life, or if you like historical fantasy with lots of Big Romance, you should definitely check out Stephanie's books) SFWA changed the minimum pro rate months ago. I should have gone with eight cents a word.
Which is hilarious to me. It would have been the work of sixty seconds to check that, but it never even occurred to me that I should.
And of course, nothing has changed about the Kickstarter or the books I'm planning to write, except now I have to explain to my wife that she was totally and absolutely write all along, and with a little more smarts I would have done what she wanted me to do.
Anyway, as you can see by the embed below, one novel is already paid for. You can help make a second happen by pledging $4 or more. (Which gets you two ebooks)
Tags internet, moi?, the iron gate
For Every Failure, an Opportunity
If you're backing my Patreon, you may have noticed that it has been switched back on. That is, it's back to a monthly basis, charging credit cards at the start of every month. I'd turned it "off" because I'd started a new job. As of this week I'm no longer working there, so it's on again.
I've never been fired for being bad at a job before, but you know what? It was the right thing for them to do. I absolutely should have been let go. And I'm glad for it.
In previous posts I was a little cagey about where I'd been hired because it was a six-month contract at a game company, and I was sure how it would go. I'll say now that it was the Valve Corporation over in Bellevue. I'll also say that they asked me not to talk about the games I worked on/heard about/whatever outside of their offices, even to my own family. I haven't done that and I won't start now.
How it happened was this: Gabe, the founder of the company, liked my books and invited me to lunch. This was back in, I think, 2012? 2013? Several months before my Kickstarter for The Great Way, at least. I'd heard of Valve's games but hadn't played any, and I honestly thought he was going to ask if I would write a novel for the company. But lunch wasn't just me and Gabe, we were joined by a bunch of writers already working for the company, and I was all What am I doing here? Nobody needs me to write a novel when they already have Marc Laidlaw sitting right there.
It turned out the offer was to work at the company on the actual games, which I had to decline. I didn't play many video games because a) they were often asking me to do shit that was illegal and immoral, which I hate and b) too many games were boring, making me quit early, and most of all c) if I did like them, I could be obsessive about it. I mean, Freedom Force and its sequel were scads of fun, but playing them, I spent hours with my back to the living room, and every other aspect of my life suffered. I'm not exactly Mr. Moderation. My wife was especially unhappy to be ignored evening after evening while I shot pretend ray guns at cartoon people.
After that lunch meeting, I started playing (and enjoying) games a lot more, and Valve was a big reason for that. I love the Portal and Half-Life games–like, genuinely loved playing them–because they didn't ask me to run errands, murder innocent people or navigate lots of high places without railings (seriously the worst). As my son got older, he started recommending games that suited me better, and so I felt I understood them a little better. I never became good, but they made sense in a conceptual way
Then we came to the end of 2018. I'd taken a big gamble after The Great Way and Key/Egg came out. I put two years into a fat fantasy with a cool setting, a plot that was a little out of the ordinary, and badass characters. The plan was simple. Write a book that stands out, place it with NY publishers, and let the backlist bump spill some extra coins into our savings accounts.
Except it didn't work. Publishers passed. The book was too different, or too something, and there was no new contract and therefore no bump.
At that point, we'd been living off the money from The Great Way for too long and our savings was getting low (not to mention rent increases and a possible eviction in the coming months), so my wife asked me to find a day job, and I thought about Valve, and I reached out. Did, maybe, I have something to contribute there?
Nope! But I didn't know that at the time.
Gabe and his people were nice enough to give me a chance though, working on a multiplayer team-fighting game that was in the very early stages. I was to do worldbuilding for them.
Which meant: Where and Why.
Where are they fighting?
Why are they fighting?
Those were the two questions I was supposed to answer, and over the course of two months, I couldn't make a suggestion that both matched the criteria they'd given me and also made the rest of the team excited. Two full months! Of course they let me go.
As a writer, I've had my share of one-star reviews. And you don't grow up in a family like mine and get all tender-hearted about what people think of you. But when you're sitting in a meeting, and everyone looks miserable because of you–because of the mouth-sounds you're making–well, that suuuuucks.
You guys should have seen some of the body language in the room for that last meeting. Picture, if you will, a person sitting on a bench at a bus stop at night. They've forgotten their jacket, and it's sleeting. That's exactly some of those guys were sitting: hunched over, head down, waiting for all this to just be over.
And that was my fault.
See, it doesn't matter if it's a great company, or that the money was good, or that there was a free salad bar at lunch every day with chick peas you could scoop right into the bowl (seriously, so fucking delicious). None of that shit matters if the work itself is a waste of time to everyone on the team, including the person doing it. That's demoralizing as hell.
Me, personally, I think the setting I created for that last meeting would be a home run in all sorts of media–books, animation, whatever–but not in computer games and certainly not in the game they're working so hard to create. It just didn't fit. And at this point, I don't care where my proposals came up short or if they went too far or what was actually wrong. All that matters is that it wasn't successful, and Valve owns it, and I hope they can cherry-pick a few things out of it that they find useful. And if they can't, sorry, guys.
Where does that leave me? Not unemployed, exactly, since I'm working for myself again.
Those two months helped refill our bank accounts a little, and I have three completed, unreleased novel manuscripts. One is that big gamble. Another is a mystery/thriller with no supernatural elements. Another is the fun fantasy adventure that needs a little bit more tweaking before my agent takes it to NY publishers.
I'm composing this during the time I'm supposed to be writing a novelette for an anthology I've been invited to, but I put that off because I feel like I owe you guys an update on where things stand, fiction-wise. I've spent the last two months squeezing my own projects into the hour before I went into the office, but now that I'm back on my own time, things will go faster.
My fun fantasy will go out to publishers ("Funpunk"! You heard it here first, folks). My big gamble book and the thriller will be self-published. Kickstarter maybe? We'll have to see. I also have to write the next Twenty Palaces novella. And at some point soon, we'll look again at our bank accounts and maybe I'll grab another day job.
So I wanted you to know that, even though I haven't published a new novel since 2015(!) I haven't stopped writing. I haven't stopped working hard. There's new stuff on the horizon and, you know, maybe I won't try those big gambles again.
Tags games, moi?, progress, wasting time, words
The Usual Giftmas Pics
Every year my wife and I go to the gingerbread house exhibit in downtown Seattle and every year I post some of the pics we took. Except this year was sort of disappointing. There were very few displays and they weren't all that nice. I mean, it's good that there's an exhibit devoted to raising money for juvenile diabetes, but the whole thing was sort of ugly.
The theme was The Grinch, and check this out:
I had a bit of trouble with the new camera, but the whole thing looks cramped and unpleasant, unlike previous years. It's more of a pile of sweet edibles than a beautiful design. Speaking of designs, this is the scene where the Whos gather around the tree and sing "Yahoo Doray". In the cartoon, it's an ordinary Christmas tree, but here:
Is that Chthulu's glowing schlong up there? It's a little blurry because it actually moves. Yeah, it's designed to thrust up and down and let me tell you, it looks creepy as fuck.
And look at the serpentine tree with the tentacle head in the right of this picture:
This was less "Joy of Christmas" and more "Lovecraftian Holiday Goosebumps".
After, we went down to Safeco Field to check out the light maze and ice skating track in the Enchant exhibit, and from the entrance, it looked like this:
It's dark and cool with a bunch of beautiful light displays, and you can see part of the track on the lower right. When you enter the maze, you get a little card with all Santa's reindeer on them, which you scratch off as you find each one. And it's lovely.
They also had a bunch of booths with local craftspeople selling their products, and my family sort of rolled their eyes when I said I wanted to check them out, but we came away with a handful of lovely little gifts.
Anyway, I'm off to do some stuff for the day. If you're in the Seattle area (and can manage the price) Enchant is the first truly delightful Christmas event in years. Check it out.
Tags beautiful, moi?
The State of the Author Address
Let's talk briefly about where things stand for me as an author in the fall of 2018. There's some personal stuff here and an update on new books.
First of all, my wife and I have been living in this apartment for 24 years come Oct 3. And sometime in the upcoming months we're going to be evicted.
The eviction will come in one of two ways: a massive rent hike, or a straight order to get out so the building can be demolished. Our landlord passed away, and his heirs would rather sell than collect rent, so the building is up for sale. (And no, I can't afford to make an offer.)
My entire marriage has played out in this apartment. It's the only home my son has ever known. But we don't own it, so we don't control it. That means we're going to be moving on.
In a way, it's fine. Moving will suck but at least it'll force us to deal with our clutter, and the unit was old when we moved in, so it's in a bit of disrepair. Still, I've never lived anywhere as long as I've lived here and if you stay somewhere long enough, the rent sometimes lags behind the market, so a new place will cost.
And yet, move on we must. That means higher rents and longer commutes, probably from a brand new neighborhood.
To that end, I whipped up a resume and submitted it to a video game company who had expressed interest in hiring me about five years ago. At the time, I thought they wanted to talk to me about writing a book for them, but then I met the novelists they already have working for them and I was all What am I doing here?
But I actually play some video games now (thanks to decent recommendations from my son and the fact that he's old enough for me to have more free time) whereas I did my best to avoid them when he was small. And while the writing has been going pretty well over the years, this year has been tough. If I have to move, too, it'll be day job time.
Books what about those books?
Let's take a look at where things stand:
City of Fallen Gods has made its rounds among the major NY and UK publishers without generating any interest. I need to do another revision and decide whether to send it to small presses or just self-publish it and let it out into the world.
When my agent took this one to the market, I told myself (and a few others) If this book doesn't sell, I'm not going to write fantasy any more. Well, it didn't. However, I am already in the middle of…
Untitled WIP, which is over 90k words in a first draft. It's meant to be a light-hearted adventure, similar in tone (if not in plot) to Key/Egg, but I confess that I've been struggling with it. Soon enough, I expect to finish first-pass revisions on it and then I can return to City….
Hard Choices, previously titled Jack of Angels, Tiger Things, The Llewellyn Report, and One Last Favor, is a mystery/crime thriller I wrote last year as a sort of break from magic and monsters. It's the sort of old-fashioned mystery novel that you can only self-publish now, and I intend to do exactly that as soon as City… is out in the world.
The [Adjective] [Noun] is the next Twenty Palaces novella I've been meaning to tackle. Earlier this year, I was saying I expected to get to it before the end of the year, but City… has bounced back at me and the WIP… has been fighting me with every word, so that's got to be pushed into 2019.
What will probably happen is:
1. Send WIP to my agent
2. rough draft The [Adjective] [Noun]
3. revise City
4. revise Choices
5. revise [Noun]
And somewhere in that timeline is a pause to execute my agent's notes on the WIP so it can go out to publishers, plus another Bookbub promotion for The Way into Chaos, plus cover designs for Choices and City, plus scheduling copy edits and so on and so forth.
Plus looking for a regular job (hopefully not simply more temp work, although I'm not exactly brimming over with marketable job skills) plus shedding extraneous possessions in anticipation of our move plus packing things for our move plus plus plus.
It's a busy time, is what I'm saying, but I'm planning to do everything I can to get these books to you guys (especially the 20P novella).
Last note! I have that Patreon going (which you can see in the sidebar of my website) because of recent rent hikes and dips in book sales but, if I land a regular full-time job, I plan to shutter it, for the obvious reasons.
Date September 26, 2018
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Dog Fashion Disco was een experimentele metal band afkomstig uit Rockville, Amerika. De band was actief van 1996 tot 2007.

Biografie
Dog Fashion Disco werd vooral beschouwd als een avant-garde metal band, maar combineerde dat met verschillende stijlen, bijvoorbeeld jazz en ska. De teksten van de nummers zijn vaak esoterisch en satirisch. Mr. Bungle heeft een grote invloed op de band gehad.

De originele naam van Dog Fashion Disco was Hug the Retard (knuffel de zwakzinnige), maar dat is veranderd omdat men die naam als beledigend kon ervaren.

Op 17 april 2007, werd er op de MySpace pagina van Dog Fashion Disco een nieuw project aangekondigd, Polkadot Cadaver, wat qua stijl heel erg verwant is aan Dog Fashion Disco. Oud-leden Todd Smith, Jasan Stepp en John Ensminger werken eraan mee. Later is er nog wel een aantal reünieconcerten gegeven door Dog Fashion Disco.

Bandleden

Uiteindelijke leden
Todd Smith - zang
Jasan Stepp - gitaar
Brian White - basgitaar
John Ensminger - drums
Jeff Siegel - keyboard
Matt Rippetoe - hoorn

Eerdere leden
Greg Combs - gitaar
Sennen Quigley - gitaar, keyboard
Mark Ammen - basgitaar
Stephen Mears - basgitaar
Mike Oliver - drums
Tim Swanson - keyboard
Kristen Ensminger - trompet
Geoff Stewart - saxofoon
Jason Stevens - gitaar

Discografie

Amerikaanse metalband

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Website A > store 1 was originally setup as a main store and so has heaps of product data and old historic orders. Say, the store has been operating for 3 years and running, keeping in mind about the time it would take for the sync to complete to process this data, the First Date option in the Mailchimp configuration under the Ecommerce section has been set to recent 6 months. Despite all this, the orders grid is showing in queue for this store.
Say Website B > store 2 was setup after Website A, has been operating for ~1.5 years and running, set the First Date option in the Mailhcimp configuration to recent 10 months. This is working fine and can see the Mailchimp ecommerce data being received in the Mailchimp Dashboard.
guessing the reset might actually been blocking it and let the sync run overnight. I checked this the next day and unfortunately, it is still stuck in the in queue state in the orders grid.
Since the first hurdle after upgrading the module from MageMonkey to Mailchimp4Magento was to get the initial Mailchimp configuration to sync completely so that ecommerce data could flow properly was hectic enough, I am unsure how upgrading from 1.1.12 to 1.1.14 will be like. Any resolution ideas?
Hello, thanks for contacting us. You may expermient some sync problems in version 1.1.12 please update to 1.1.14.
You only need install it over your current version after that flush magento cache, reset local errors, resend ecommerce data we always recommend before do the updates make a backup, execute the update in a secure/test environment, and put Magento into maintenance mode.
Please remember that if you have enabled compile option you need recompile it.
- MailChimp_Errors.log, MailChimp_Failing_Requests.log, exception.log, system.log located in var/log folder.
Before I proceed with the update, I think I seem to have find the potential cause for this issue.
Looking at the Mailchimp Errors, I can see that there is a repeating log pattern that seems to execute every time the cron runs. I can see that the error logs based on product checks and order type checks are repeating for the Website A > store 1 whereas Website B > store 2 so far has been running successfully.
I believe, if this is what is causing the issue for the order sync to not be processed, then there is no point in updating the module as I have not seen issues related to this being mentioned in the release logs.


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Top Schools for Master's in Food Science
Master's in Food Science
A Master's in Food Science will help you understand the scientific methods that are employed by the food industry. You will take a myriad of science and engineering courses, and learn how scientists create preservatives, artificial flavours, and certain additives. This graduate programme is also heavy in biochemistry, and you will learn how certain fruits and vegetables are genetically modified to be more nutritious. In order to enter a degree programme, most schools will require you to possess a bachelor's degree.
What is a Master's in Food Science?
Like the majority of graduate degrees, a Master's in Food Science usually takes two years to earn. The degree programme will expound upon your undergraduate curriculum and teach additional topics. A heavy emphasis will be placed on research, so expect to spend a considerable amount of time in a lab. At some point in time, you can also expect to do the following.
Take courses in agriculture, biology, chemistry, and organic chemistry.
Write a thesis or dissertation prior to graduation.
Apply for an internship or work-study programme at an actual food and beverage corporation.
Discuss issues that relate to the food industry.
If you are lucky enough to land an internship, you will see how food and beverages are produced firsthand. You will also learn about the scientific processes used to create and preserve them.
What Are the Benefits of Earning a Master's in Food Science?
If you earn this graduate degree, you will more than likely reap a world of benefits. Some of these benefits include the following.
Studies around the world show that there is a strong correlation between education and income levels. Simply put, the more you know, the more you can earn during your lifetime.
If you are already employed by the food science industry, furthering your education may expose you to new job opportunities.
Students who wish to apply to a doctoral programme will have to earn a master's degree first.
The exact benefits that you encounter may differ from the ones listed above. Your career will be greatly influenced by your professional performance and goals.
What Kind of Career Can You Expect With a Master's in Food Science?
After earning this particular degree, you will have many career paths to choose from. Some students become food chemists. They work for a variety of companies and use their knowledge to create artificial flavours, preservatives, and additives. Chemists have always been hired by the food science industry, and their skills are highly valued. This is a wonderful opportunity if you enjoy working in a laboratory and actually applying complex scientific concepts on a regular basis.
If you are interested in genetics, you may want to choose a career in genetic modification or engineering. These individuals modify the genes of various fruits and vegetables in order to make them live longer, taste better, or offer more nutritional value. In the agricultural industry, you may be charged with modifying fruits and vegetables so that they resist pests or grow faster.
If this sounds like a degree you would like to earn, find the right graduate programme, and begin the application process.
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Florida State University, established in 1851, is a research-intensive University located on the oldest continuous site of higher education in the state of Florida in its capital city of Tallahassee, USA. The University offers a number of master's degree programs from its various Colleges including Fine Arts, Business, Engineering and Arts & Sciences....
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In the preface, the poet S.A. Joseph humbly mentions how he feels the need to convince his fellowmen on why poetry should be highly valued. This preface is a clear testimony to the poet's attachment to poetry itself. The passion for poetry and the yearning in his words only adds to the richness of An Apology For Shakespeare. When you start reading the book knowing how passionately the writer wants to bring his words to you, it appeals to you all the more. The poet provided a foreword and a prologue. While it is important to introduce your poetry with your own take towards it, more than a couple introductions tend to get repetitive. Despite this, the prologue stood out. It offered an insight into what a "defence" actually means.
This book is not written in response to anybody's attack on poetry, but to create an awareness about the need of constant vigilance against the possible indirect uprooting.
There is a total of 52 poems in An Apology For Shakespeare – and I would say almost every single one revolves around love or a power higher than man. The book follows this theme throughout the poems. The poems vary in length and style but hold on to this theme in one way or other.
There are various emotions that the poems convey, and do so most beautifully. For instance, the first poem, (Chapter 1) mourns the rejection of a lover. The poet describes his beautiful lover, her godly appearance and magical presence and wonders why she rejected him. The lines She was born with me in one mind / Brought up with me in one world / And taught with me in the same realm / Does she see my heart and soul? / Certainly, but I do not know fully / Why I was rejected stood out the most for me, for love at all ages suffers this agony, the agony of rejection.
The following poems follow themes of love as well, some touching upon unrequited love, rejected love and difficult love. In the third poem (chapter 3), there are also heart-warming elements of reflections. They stand very potently in the following lines: Leaving Only, Alas! / The harder part of my heart / To be alone with me forever / Yes, I did it with a tender, noble, pensive, human heart. Almost every poem dealing with love addresses God, asking Him what the poet did to deserve this loss in love. While this is a beautiful way to agonize about love, it does get monotonous after a while. Poems are a brief affair and I read through the first few quickly, but a repetition of the central themes made me put down the book. One of the most significant marks of a good book, be it prose or poetry, is an inability to stop reading. I'm afraid this book does not offer that particular value.
Coming to the writing style, I would describe it as an old school beauty. It will remind you of the poetry you were made to read in high school: Victorian in its words, a house of metaphors. However, an enjoyable difference is this: when studying poetry at school, it brought with it a sense of compulsion. I was almost repulsed by poetry and hated analysing it. But this poetry does not come with the underlying threat of an exam, and thus you will end up analysing and enjoying it yourself, without any external compulsions, despite the similar writing style. All in all, the writing style was not my favourite, but this may only be because I can in no way be called a connoisseur of poetry. Perhaps a more sharpened knowledge would lead to a better critique of this poetry. However, the poet clearly aimed at addressing a common crowd (one which may or may not hold a special interest for poetry), appealing to them and defending poetry. If the writing style remains traditional and monotonous, it becomes difficult to bring it to the favour of the millennial audience. This is especially keeping in mind that today's youth is a huge worshipper of a form of poetry called Slam Poetry. Additionally, they enjoy button poetry, musical poetry, contemporary poetry. Hence, the poetry in An Apology For Shakespeare may get lost on those who don't love this specific type of poetry.
Though I would not reread the entire book, I marked a few poems that stood out. Poems that drip with emotion, passion and the yearning of the poet. When you pick up this book, you will definitely find favourite ones. Maybe the shortest ones that convey an entire story in five lines, maybe one of the long ones that read like the sound of a beautiful, broken heart. These ones, I will surely reread.
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Cryptocurrency is a currency that has a digital format. Usually, has no legal value. But as the founder of Bitcoin said: the value of a coin is given by the people who use it.
The cryptocurrency, like all currencies, also has its corresponding "ticket", which would come to be the euro and dollar bills. But unlike the physical ones, the cryptocurrencies, are based on hashes (complex numbers), that would correspond to the currency or ticket.
The mining of a coin is based on the random generation of hashes from a formula. The randomly generated hash applies another formula that validates whether the hash corresponds to a coin (the ticket) or not.
There is a parameter inside the coin mining called difficulty. The mining difficulty increases with time as the volume of a coin created is greater. Basically, when mining, the random hashes generation formula tell you that these hashes must be between 2 points, it would be a start and an end. When you just look at two points the distance is exponentially increased and you start again. (I remind you that this are basic definitions and explanations and are only guidance).
At this point, the difficulties of the currencies are high, for that reason the mine is complex because it costs a lot to find currencies since the two points commented, are very far between them.
Mine pools are servers on which many people are mining at the same time based on a position between those two points. When one of the people finds a coin, a reward is distributed on a percentage basis of time used to find it. So if in a Pool we are 3 people and 1 of them has been 5 hours mining and the other 2 have been 2.5 hours each, the percentage to be distributed is 50% for the 5 hours and 25% of the value of the coin to the other 2 people.
There are two ways to mine. It can be mined with CPU or it can be mined with GPU.
Currently, GPU mining is much powerful, current video cards like the NVIDIA GTX Series allow for high mine power.
Personally, as my interest in mining is based more on knowledge and finally currency speculation, I am not interested in a potent mine hardware. Right now I'm mining with Alienware m14x which has 8 CPUs and a NVIDIA GT555M from 3Gb.
I have not been able to mine ETH with GPU on this machine. The reason is that to be able to mine ETH with GPU it takes 4Gb of RAM to store a file called DAG that is generated prior to the process of mining of Ethereum.
Well, this section is here thinking about people who say that it is not worth putting on mine. Actually, it's worth, but it's not worth it. If you do not have a powerful Hardware it is not worth it in case you are looking for economic benefits. It's worth if you move other ideas. I do it for learning and for having some crypto money in my pocket. I think it is a coin that is there and that at one time or another will be regularized.
To start mining you need 2 things, the hardware to mine and the software. We're supposed to already have Hardware so let's look at Software and Mining Platforms.
It is a platform on which you make available your resources and they undermine. They pay you at the end of the month in bitcoins and done. I have not played with this platform but I will not delay.
Minergate has software that runs on multiple platforms and allows us to mine by CPU or by GPU (The GPU option is not activated if you do not have a supported NVIDIA).
You just have to register, download the software from its website and you can start mining.
What they do is create pools for joint mining, it is a way of mining and you receive rewards based on the number of mined Hash or effort.
Minergate is not the best platform but the simplest one. In fact, there are users who have complained that it does not count everything it should. I use it for simplicity.
3.3 What currency should I mine?
Minergate supports a lot of coins, the funny thing is that the most important (except ETH) are not. I mean Bitcoin and ZCash.
* BCN – ByteCoin: Not to be confused with BITCOIN, I got confused. It has nothing to do with it.
After researching a little, look around and there and do mine testing I stayed with ETH and XMR. Over time I was left alone with Monero (XMR). It is the cryptocurrency that more profit is taken out now and in the medium term, you can look for the change to Bitcoin or ETH.
Mining ETH is no longer profitable unless you have the last generation card. It is important that the card has 4Gb of RAM and if the RAM is GDDR5 (I think) better. The requirement of the 4Gb is because when starting to mine ETH creates a DAG (I do not know what it is) and it occupies between 3.5Gb and 3.8Gb and experts say that it is best to leave it in the RAM of the card. Current mining software does not support mines with GPU if you do not have the 4GB of RAM.
If you look at the calculator of Minergate, you will see that the best currency to mine is XMR. (Set the H / s to which you create, I put 60H / s which is the minimum I do for Cryptonote).
I leave a screenshot of the moment in which I write these lines.
Minergate allows you to make combinations between Monero, FantomCoin and DigitalNote.
I chose FantomCoin. I do not know if it is the best option or not.
This is more advice than anything else. When you are mining with CPU do not put them all, leave one free. This makes mine a bit faster and better. The explanation is simple. If you put all the CPUs to mine the operating system and other functions of the PC stop processing. They ask for permission to execute by creating a queue of instructions and inserting the basic tasks of the Operating System. In the end, the whole system becomes saturated and the mine goes much slower. If you leave 1 single CPU the PC will go more fluid and mine too. (Tested in Windows 7 and 8).
PPS: Pay Per Share: They pay by all your sends. Actually is 1%.
PPLNS: Pay Per Last N Shares. This is used for Ethereum. And it is paid at 1.5%. I know that only the last ones sent are used in percentage form.
Wallets are where we keep the mined coin. It's like the wallet we carry in our pocket. For each different currency, we will have a Wallet.
There are 2 types of Wallet. The first we installed it on our own computers and there we stored the crypto coins that they send us. The second one is Online. Minergate gives us wallets for all coins. At this moment I'm using this last system.
ATTENTION!!!! – DO NOT USE FREEWALLET, seems to be some type of scam as I read in some forum.
Actually, I'm using three (3) different wallets to store my cryptos. Two online and one local. The local wallets have their mirror in blockchain (online too, but I want to talk local because you can delete them) to restore your money in case of an accident. Remember to store your phrase in different places.
One of the most famous wallets is MyMonero. You can create an account and store your XMR there. You can access with your browser. It's important don't forget your passphrase (long phrase with 10 to 20 words). If you lose passphrase you lose your money.
Metamask is a browser extension that makes a local account when you can store your ETH. Like MyMonero, Metamask, will make a long passphrase that you need to save in a safe place. If you lose your password or computer brokes or remove chrome you lose your ETH. With your phrase, you can restore your ETH from blockchain.
At first, I thought that "hacienda" was kept apart from the cryptocurrency, total, is unrecognized. Nothing is further from reality. The government recognizes crypto coins as foreign exchange and is subject to the same tax.
Hacienda understands mining as an immediate benefit and therefore tax from the outset as long as we exceed the minimum income to tax (I think remembering around 3000 € / year). In case of exceeding the minimum, we must register for self-employed and declare the benefits by paying the corresponding tax (IRPF).
Spain recognizes Bitcoin and the rest of cryptocurrency like a foreign exchange, therefore taxed like if we have an account in Dollars ($).
In the case of buying/selling Cryptocoins through any Trader, it should be taxed to finance that will stay between 19% and 23%.


I feel for you people living in Chicago and Minneapolis and other parts in the north. I though 51 below 0 was reserved for the North or South Pole.
Stay warm, keep those body parts covered, wear goggles.
I knew there was a reason I moved back to Texas.
I was about to go off and write a post-Davos artificial intelligence or 5G screed, but I've been too busy at work, so they'll have to wait.
Instead, I wanted to take a quick glance at Apple's earnings announced after the market closed yesterday.
The headline from Apple's earnings release was that revenue was down 5 percent from the year-ago quarter, to $84.3 billion, with revenue from the iPhone having declined 15 percent from the prior year.
But revenue from all other products and services grew 19 percent.
Revenue from China dropped 27 percent from a year ago, down from $13.17 billion to $17.96 billion.
Investors had feared slowing sales in China since CEO Tim Cook warned earlier this month of economic pressures in the region that led the company to lower its guidance for the quarter. In addition to weak iPhone sales, Cook blamed trade tensions between the U.S. and China for the slowdown in sales.
The earnings broke the same day that Apple conceded it had a major security flaw in its FaceTime app, discovered earlier this month by a 14-year old student in Arizona.
Apple has disabled the Group FaceTime feature while it works on a fix.


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One word, Bollywood. That's the first thing that comes to mind whenever people think about Indian cinema. They think that Bollywood in India is equal to Hollywood in the USA. Well, that may be in some cases, but it doesn't give the whole picture. The fact is that India has a long history of producing movies. Yet, thousands of regional films go unnoticed. Much like many of the films in Tamil Cinema, or Kollywood, as known in their region.
There's more to Indian Cinema than "Bollywood," something people need to be aware of. It only refers to the Hindi-language industry in Mumbai. There are many other different regional film industries in the whole country. The most common difference is the language that they use. Tamil belongs to the southern region in India. Bollywood movies are more restrained and conservative while Tamil films are rowdier. They aim to show the real-life experiences of common people. It also shows the problems that they face on a daily basis. In the Tamil industry, even low-budget projects can be successful. All it takes is a good story and a decent cast. That's why filmmakers aren't afraid to experiment.
There have also been Tamil movies that gave Bollywood a run for its money when it comes to production. Films like Kakkamuttai, Vaaranam Aayiram, Dhuruvangal Pathinaru, and Adithya Varma are some of them. And if romantic movies tickle your fancy, we suggest that you watch Adithya Varma full movie online! But of course, as the saying goes, seeing is believing. If you're still curious about what Tamil cinema has to offer you, try and watch these Tamil movies some of which are also compiled in the Kutty movie collections. These are the best Tamil movies on Amazon Prime that you can watch right now!
1Peranbu
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Peranbu is a 2019 Indian Tamil-language film that means Resurrection in the English translation. The film follows the story of a single father, Amudhavan, and his daughter Pappa who has cerebral palsy. The film was written and directed by Ram.
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2Bharat Ane Nenu
Bharat Ane Nenu is a 2019 action drama Indian film directed by Koratala Siva, written by Trivedi Meda and Srihari Nanu, and starred by Mahesh Babu, Kiara Advani, and Prakash Raj.
3Maanagaram
Maanagaram is an Indian Tamil-language film released in 2017 directed by Lokesh Kanagaraj which is about a group of four youngsters whose lives were interconnected when they move to the big city and get involved in a dirty business.
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4Aruvi
Aruvi is an Indian Tamil-language socio-political movie directed by Arun Prabu Purushothaman starring Aditi Balan, Anjali Varadhan, and Lakshmi Gopalaswamy in 2017. It won film merits at the Ananda Vikatan Awards.
5The Great Actress
The Great Actress or Mahanati is a biographical Indian movie directed by Nag Ashwin and it was first released on May 8, 2018. It tells the life of Savitri, a famous actress from the South India entertainment industry.
6Boss Engira Bhaskaran
One of the best Tamil movies to watch on Amazon Prime is Boss Engira Bhaskaran, especially if you are into romantic comedy movies. This rom-com film was initially released in cinemas in 2010. It is about an unemployed happy-go-lucky man who proves himself in order to marry the woman of his dreams.
7Vasool Raja MBBS
If you are looking for a Tamil comedy movie to stream on Amazon Prime, you may also try watching Vasool Raja MBBS. It is a 2004 Tamil-language film about a debt collector who tries to gain his parents' trust again after lying to them that he is a doctor.
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Congratulations ETI Consortium Graduate Student Fellowship Awardees
August 19, 2021 by Kierra
ETI Congratulates two outstanding students being awarded ETI Consortium Graduate Student Fellowship! The two awardees are Sarah Mantell (University of California, Santa Barbara) and Alexandra Schueller (Georgia Institute of Technology). The ETI Graduate Fellowship recipients will receive up to $50,000 annually (for a maximum of two years) toward the cost of their education, including tuition, fees, a stipend, and travel. The students will also have an opportunity to complete a summer internship at a national laboratory. These fellowships are geared toward students with an interest in one of the ETI's three thrust areas.
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Alexandra Schueller,
Sarah Mantell, University of California, Santa Barbara
Brief Bio: Sarah Mantell graduated summa cum laude with her Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo in June 2021. In Fall 2021, she will begin a PhD program at the University of California, Santa Barbara in applied mathematics while continuing her work at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Research and Academic Interests: Sarah's research interests are widespread and include machine learning, image processing, and cryptography. Sarah's work at Los Alamos National Laboratory is part of an interdisciplinary project that is studying the relationship between build parameters used in laser powder bed fusion and the resulting material properties. Thus far, Sarah has developed a variety of computer vision tools to analyze melt pools and flag samples that are likely to contain lack-of-fusion defects. Sarah's mathematical interests include operator theory, low-dimensional topology, and machine learning. Outside of mathematics, she is interested in photography, cross stitching, and cooking.
Professor Joesph Beaman Wins the International Award for Production Engineering
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Dr. Joesph Beaman, Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, the University of Texas at Austin, has been honored with the General Pierre Nicolau Award from the International Academy of Production Engineering (CIRP). CIRP is the world leading organization in production engineering research and is at the forefront of design, optimization, control and management of processes, machines and systems.
Dr. Beaman is recognized for this award as one of the inventors of 3D printing technology and an expert in additive manufacturing. He was one of the founders of DTM Corporation (now merged with 3D Systems), which markets Selective Laser Sintering, an additive manufacturing technique that is now used worldwide. He will be honored at a virtual ceremony in August 2021 at the CIRP General Assembly. This Award is conferred in recognition of significant and distinguished scientific and industrial contributions to a specific area within the field of production engineering encompassed by the interests of CIRP.
Congratulations ETI Consortium Undergraduate Scholarship Awardees
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ETI Congratulates four outstanding students being awarded ETI Consortium Undergraduate Scholarship! The four awardees are Alexander Greenhalgh (University of Tennessee, Knoxville), Jordan Parker-Ashe (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Nick Folino (The Ohio State University), and Sarah Mantell (California Polytechnic State University). The ETI's core mission is to direct the multidisciplinary research and innovation that enable the technologies to train the next generation of human capital, and to bridge the gap between the university basic research and NNSA national laboratories' mission-specific applications. The ETI Undergraduate Scholarship recipients will receive up to $5,000 annually (for a maximum of two years) toward the cost of their education, including tuition, books required for classes, housing expenses for on campus facilities, off-campus room expenses with a valid rent receipt, and fees charged to students of similar academic standing.
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Professor Bernard Kippelen's group at Georgia Tech published their research findings on large-area, low-noise organic photodiodes in the journal Science. His group found that optimized choices of the semiconductor and electrode materials that improve diode characteristics enable organic photodetectors that can detect low light levels with low noise. "What we have achieved is the first demonstration that these devices, produced from solution at low temperatures, can detect as little as a few hundred thousand photons of visible light every second, similar to the magnitude of light reaching our eye from a single star in a dark sky. The ability to coat these materials onto large-area substrates with arbitrary shapes means that flexible organic photodiodes now offer some clear advantages over state-of-the-art silicon photodiodes in applications requiring response times in the range of tens of microseconds." (Georgia Tech Research Horizons)
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Review: Atlanta Opera closes season in grand style with Verdi's La traviata
Mark Gresham | 29 APR 2019
The Atlanta Opera opened the final production of its regualar season on Saturday evening, Giuseppe Verdi's La traviata, one of the great essentials of Italian operatic repertoire. Three performances remain: Tuesday Apr 30 at 7:30 pm, Friday May 3 at 8:00 pm and Sunday May 5 at 3:00 pm.
With a libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, based on the novel La Dame aux Camélias by Alexander Dumas, La traviata tells the story of Violetta Valéryes, a wealthy socialite and courtesan who gives up everything for the experience of true love with Alfredo Germont, a young nobleman. Because of Violetta's reputation as a free-spirited courtesan, Alfredo's father forces them apart to protect the family's reputation, but the consequences prove disastrous.
Czech-born soprano Zuzana Marková, in her American debut, sings the role of Violetta. Tenor Mario Chang portrays Alfredo and Argentine baritone Fabian Veloz is cast as his father, Giorgio Germont – each in his company debut. Atlanta Opera music director Arthur Fagen conducts, with production direction by Francesca Zambello who made her Atlanta Opera debut in November 2018 directing West Side Story, and a fabulously effective, mechanically intriguing scenic design by Peter Davison, who likewise made his company debut in West Side Story.
With the three very able leads, the excellent cast of 11, plus chorus of 37 singers, eight dancers and 14 supernumeraries, and the creative crew behind them have made this La traviata a strong, engaging collective production.
Witness to that is in Act I when Alfredo is convinced to sing a light and graceful brindisi – a drinking song – in which Violetta and the chorus join in: "Libiamo ne' lieti calici…" ("Let's drink from happy glasses…"), one of the opera's most memorable melodies.
Act I is also where Violetta has all of her vocal coloratura moments, and Marková makes the most of them, both solo and in duet with Chang. The two are at their best in musical interaction, a little less so in the dramatic arena. The real drama kicks in during Act II, as contentions and misunderstandings flare between Violetta, Alfredo and the elder Germont, with the music becoming more intense if less florid.
The contention between Violetta and Germont alone runs its course through several numbers, but Violetta's "Dite alla giovine, sì bella e pura" ("Tell the young woman, yes beautiful and pure") is the fulcrum point of the drama, where she agrees to abandon Alfredo, unbeknownst to him, for the sake of his younger sister's impending marriage. It proves to be the opera's most intimate and emotionally powerful moment, even more than Violetta's final reconciliation with Alfredo on her deathbed in the comparatively slow-paced Act III that ends the opera.
An interesting twist in this production is that the Prelude is staged. We see Violetta lying in a sanatarium bed, dying of tuberculosis, and the opera as a whole become a flashback from that scene.
Slow, pianissimo high strings initially underscore her illness and the hospital atmosphere. Then comes a melody which is featured much later the opera when Violetta knows she has to give up Alfredo. That in turn is followed by a kind of coquettish figure in the violins, offering up a superficial party atmosphere. When the Prelude ends, it's almost like someone popped the cork on a champagne bottle as Violetta suddenly sheds her hospital gown to reveal a party dress as Act I begins in the salon of Violetta's house where she is throwing a lavish party, with Fagen and the orchestra launching into the brilliant, vivacious music that underscores the act's momentum.
The scenic change is nearly as quick as Violetta's change of costume, which Davison achieves with the backdrops through the use of 15 rotating periaktoi – a set of columns that are shaped like equilateral triangular prisms. On the three faces of each periaktos, a slice of different scene is presented, so that, by quickly turning the periaktoi another backdrop is presented to the audience. They are rotated by hand, rather than with motors, but the key to their effectiveness is that they line up and mesh precisely when turned to a new position. while a periaktos is an old theatrical device, used extensively in the Renaissance, this kind of close-fitting as a seamless backdrop is a modern technical achievement. La traviata is the only one of Verdi's operas to be set entirely indoors, so Davison's use of periaktoi for the scenic changes was a brilliant idea that was highly effective.*
All in all, this La Traviata is a thoroughly engaging production from The Atlanta Opera and its handful of production collaborators – Washington National Opera, The Glimmrglass Festival, Seattle Opera and Indiana University – that's definitely worth seeing.
*For some better insight, here's a YouTube video about the construction and implementation of Davison's scenic design:
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How might we prepare for what might go wrong?
Practice paranoid curiosity with forward-facing optimism. Begin by asking, "What might go wrong?" Always focus on reasonable preparation.
Tip: The Doers on your team can explore potential dangers. Dreamers think about what could go right. They're overly optimistic.
The leaders we love to follow are intensely curious about people.
Curiosity about results is necessary. Curiosity about people is exceptional.
What is the name of their significant other?
How old are their children?
Where did they go on vacation?
What do they do for fun on the weekend?
What's their favorite childhood memory?
What accomplishment makes them proud?
How long have they been with your company?
Your greatest opportunity isn't products or projects. It's people.
How might leaders practice curiosity today?
What hinders the practice of curiosity in organizations?
*Claudio Fernandex-Aaroz in It's Not the How or the What but the Who.
What hinders the practice of curiosity in organizations? "Knowing curiosity killed the Cat" ! Just saying. Seriously we hinder ourselves, fear of failure, making mistakes, unhappy clients etc. As leaders we need to target our energy for the best accomplishments and move on to the next challenge, don't waste energy on unnecessary tasks.
So share your insights, engage with your teams showing them determination it takes, let them be curious with their questions, which continues to promote engagement and participation for the end results, hopefully a successful project or task undertaking.
Tim, isn't the fear of failure simply a symptom of our own leadership created culture? If we punish risk takers that fail then people will learn to not challenge, not be curious, and accept.
Rob MC, yes we can interpret fear in that manner or we can use it to build a better platform, "once we experience failure we learned the lesson to build on" so it doesn't happen again. Throughout our lives we all face fears and overcome them, so I see the challenge will always be there, we just have to learn to make the correct processes through our learning experiences. If we need to be "risk takers" at what value do we perceive foolishness compared to educated substance to make those decisions?
Relationships matter as we collaborate to create new ways of thinking, explore options, and solve problems. Curiosity is limited by our own box (comfort zone) or the box of those who "manage" us. I'm all for a positive operating structure for every organization, but within that structure we must not only encourage curiosity, ideas, or questions with our words but with the ways we reward/support those actions. How do we find this balance? Culture matters.
Curiosity is rarely talked about in leadership classes. It is a misunderstood word and few understand how it fits into leadership. I see so many extraverts that refuse to think of the value of curiosity. I suspects it is due to their ego not letting them think that they don't know it all and as such don't need to explore information other then their own.
Just this morning I was telling a colleague "we have to be braver" I think it's necessary to discuss how to fail and what to fail on. For example: there are a lot of people in my company who must.not.fail.ever. Must not fail in their duties because they have critical operational roles even affecting safety outcomes. But then, even these people can make improvements and some of their initiatives might not work. Might not save time, might be a false economy. So there, they should be encouraged to try even if the experiment is a failure. It's easy to see how a busy leader, especially a line boss, might put the whole thing off and stick to the easy county roads of the status quo.
Anyway, what we celebrate and censure is probably the best yardstick to measure where each culture sits on the curiosity —- paranoia spectrum.


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Q: Foreign key references one of many tables Say I have a structure like this:
Sport:
reference int identity not null, primary key (ID),
Duration int, --e.g. football is 90 minutes
Players int,
SportID int,
SportType int --0 for football and 1 for tennis

Tennis
Reference int IDENTITY NOT NULL,
TurfType int,
-- + more fields related to Tennis

Football:
Reference int IDENTITY NOT NULL,
-- + more fields related to Football

Sport.SportID references either Tennis or Football or Gymnastics etc. The only way I can think of doing this is having a SportType in the Sport table to say what table Sport.SportID references.
This doesn't look right though. Is this the best approach?

A: Having a SportType column is reasonable.  You can approach this using a structure such as:
create table Sports (
    SportsId int identity not null, primary key (ID),
    Duration int, --e.g. football is 90 minutes
    Players int,
    SportType varchar(10),
    SportId int,
    check (SportType in ('Football', 'Tennis'),
    FootballId as (case when SportType = 'Football' then SportId end),
    TennisId as (case when SportType = 'Tennis' then SportId end),
    foreign key (FootballId) references Football(FootballId),
    foreign key (Tennis) references Tennis(Tennis)
);

Note that this uses computed columns for the foreign key reference to ensure referential integrity.

A: Are you trying to give the name of a sport, so that the database displays the details(duration, type of field played on, number of players etc)?

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The term 'buoyancy' and 'flotation' are regularly used interchangeably and this is often not accurate. Flotation is one of the most important initial skills a beginner swimmer must be thought. It is the ability to maintain as much of the body as possible on or near the surface of the water.
Flotation is achieved through the water pushing upwards on the body. This force is known as buoyant force. Buoyant force comes about because the body displaces (moves) water in order to be in it. Therefore, buoyancy is concerned is concerned with the force on the body, and flotation relates to the learner's ability to use that force.
About 2300 years ago, Archimedes, a Greek scientist, observed that when he sat in his bath in the water level rose and he felt lighter. From these initial observations Archimedes' principle was born. Archimedes' principle states that an object that is immersed in the water (either partiality or wholly) experiences and upwards force as the water tries to stop the object from sinking. This buoyant force tends to counteract the effects of gravity and the weight of the object. This results in the weight of the object being reduced by the upward force of buoyancy. The amount of water displaced dictates the amount of buoyant force the body will experience.
The bigger the body, the greater the amount of moved or displaced water and the greater the buoyant force upon it.
Beginner swimmers should be encouraged to experiment with buoyant force. This experimentation could take the form of submerging balls and balloons filled with air or trying to sit on the floor of the pool to experience the upward push of the water. Through experimentation, learners' understanding and confidence will increase.
Density is the relationship between an object's mass and its volume. In swimming, water density is thought of primarily in terms of its effect o n buoyancy. Water provides a buoyant force, but it also provides resistance to a student's propulsion. Of particular interest to instructors is how the human body maximizes the effect of naturally occurring forces of water.
The term 'specific density' refers to the difference between the density of an object and the density of pure water.
Pure water density is used as a reference point, having a specific density of 1.0. (This means that each litre of pure water has a mass of 1 kg.) Therefore, anything place in water will float or sink according to its specific density value. Anything with a specific density greater that 1.0 will sink and anything less that 1.0 will float.
the bone density of the individual.
If a beginner swimmer's body contains a large amount of fat, which has relatively low specific density, approximately 0.9, the the body is more likely to float. However, a very muscular, lean body, or a body that has a high bone density, is likely to sink. This occurs because both muscle and bone have specific density of greater than 1.0.
In general, women float better that men because they have a higher percentage of body fat. Children generally float better than adults as their torso and lungs make up a greater percentage of their total body mass.
It is often said that humans float better in salt water thatn in fresh water and this is correct. Salt water has a specific density of 1.03 and consequently will push up on the body with more force than fresh water.
Since individual differences will impact upon a beginner swimmer's ability to float, instructors need to be aware of the variation in density within each swimmer. Body shape, symmetry and breathing all affect the body's density.
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ST. JOHN GREER ERVINE
Born 1883 in Ballymacarret, East Belfast, he became manager of the Abbey Theatre in 1915 and resigned in 1916. He wrote several novels and served in the First World War; and served for a time as the Observer and Morning Post drama critic. Plays produced include Mixed Marriage (1911); The Magnanimous Lover (1912); John Ferguson (1915); The Lady of Belmont (1930); The First Mrs Fraser (1931); Boyd's Shop (1936); and Friends and Relations (1941). Ervine also wrote biographies of Edward Carson, Wilde, Parnell, General Booth, G. B. Shaw, and William Craig and an autobiography, Some Impressions of My Elders (1922). He died in 1971.
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William John Mawhinney St. John Greer Ervine
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Grief is the Thing with Feathers
I Am Tonie Walsh
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The Strange Death of John Doe
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