So in the past week I made the decision to start working on writing a memoir. When I was younger I was involved in a really bad car accident which changed my entire life so my memoir will chronicle my injuries from the moment I woke up in the hospital, my recovery, and my life after.
It's scary to start a new journey, but to grow as a writer I must face what frightens me.
It's going to be a tough journey but even though I've just started I've been opened up to a new level of introspection. I've told my story to people before but I've never written about it before because it was too real. I guess it made me feel too vulnerable to open myself that much. I'm coming up on the 9 year anniversary of my accident so I just feel like now is the time for me to tell my story.
Ok so that's what I'm working on, how about you all? What is rolling around inside your heads?
For this exercise I want you to describe a place. I really want you to get in touch with your senses and to go into how the air smells, what is the light quality in the room?, who else is there?, if there are other people how are they dressed?, what are the decorations? Write a deep description of this place and then read over what you have written. Can you see picture the place you've described?
Is it true that those who can't speak, write?
We've all heard the expression "those who can't do, teach". That got me thinking about writers, and more specifically about why we write. I want to open this post by asking if any of my fellow writers out there have issues with speaking?
All through my childhood I had a slight lisp, a tendency to stammer when nervous, and a problem with diction because of an injury to my tongue. Most of the time I avoided speaking because I found that I was never able to communicate my ideas successfully. I was also one of those people who could never think of something to say. I never liked getting involved in debates because I wouldn't be able to think of an appropriate comeback until days later, and by that point it was useless. Writing offered me a method of communication which wasn't dependent on my speaking ability, so I think that was one of the things that first appealed to me.
How about you? Do you have any speech problems? If so, do you think that it was one of the things that first got you interested in writing? Do you think that having a problem with speaking can help writers?
Write for 5 to 10 minutes without editing using this as your starting point.
To make things more interesting, after you've done your freewrite pass on what you've written to someone else and have them continue the story. This is another version of a game we used to play in my creative writing class called "writer's tennis". Have fun!! I will see you around!!
Welcome to a new year!!! Gosh, it has been a while since I posted, but with working retail during the holiday shopping season I went into writing hibernation and have just now started reemerging into the writing scene. I found that I was getting so batty with work, that when I tried to write I would write a page or two and spend the rest of the night nursing a migraine and a bad attitude. But, the holiday shoppers are on their way home and it is time for me to get back to work! YAY!!!
The time has come, once again, to make resolutions and set goals for the next 365 days. Instead of making resolutions about losing weight or some other such nonsense I like to make a list of books that I am going to at least try to read in the next year. Last year's list included Dickens' Bleak House, Bram Stoker's Dracula, and a few others. I actually ended up finishing my entire list!!! Now it's time for a new list and this year I've decided to read books that I had started but never got around to finishing. Like I've mentioned before I have a tendency to be a bit of a distracted reader but I am really working on overcoming that habit. I am hoping that working through this year's reading list will offer me plenty of chances to conquer my reading problems.
The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy – I've read the first two or three books in this series but I never got around to finishing.
Finish reading the Lord of the Rings Trilogy – I just recently finished re-reading The Hobbit and The Fellowship of the Ring but I haven't finished the rest of the series yet.
I have to read the 4th book in the Millennium Series (title unknown) – I am not sure what the series will be like now that Steig Larsson is dead and the series is getting passed on to a ghost writer. I am not sure I will like it, but this is one that I have to read.
Every writer needs to be a reader, so I decided to give myself a reading and writing resolution list for the new year.
Turn off the internet on my computer when I write to cut down on distractions. The internet can be very helpful to writing when it comes to gathering information for any research that you need to do, but it is also chock full of distractions. Best idea is to save your internet usage for research/editing time not writing time.
Write more. I know this seems a bit obvious but it's really something I need to do. Practice doesn't always make perfect, but it can make me become a better writer. I think the best way to accomplish this is to work on at least two new writing prompts per week.
Create more diverse characters. I've noticed that my characters have become a bit one dimensional so I think I need to work on making them more diverse. I don't think that it is enough to make them more culturally or racially diverse, I must also make them more psychologically diverse as far as their ways of thinking.
Explore different plot and genre elements. Research the plot elements and plot differences between different genres of literature. Going back to the basics when it comes to plot has helped my before when I've needed help generating ideas. A bit more research couldn't hurt.
Finish something. One of my major problems hasn't been starting new projects is has been finishing my old ones. I need to make a better effort to finish my projects.
I know who you are and what you did. I have taken the thing that you value most in the world. Either bring me what I want or face the consequences. You have one day.
Using this note as your starting point write a story. You must decide who your character is and the reason for the note. Who wrote it and why? What did they take? What are they planning to do if their needs are not met?
So long for now!! Hope to hear from you soon!!! Please feel free to comment with any questions or concerns.
Author's note- I might be MIA for the next few weeks. We're expecting now in my area for the next few days and when there is snow I have no internet. I will post as much as I can though. Later!!!
This quote from Neil Gaiman sums up why writing is so freeing and also so frightening. There are no rules.
Some people will have you believe that there are rules or steps you must take to write a novel (in a lot of cases they'll tell you that so you'll buy their self-help book), but the plain fact is that there are no rules. The lack of rules is part of why writing is so hard. There are no real or concrete rules you must abide by or lines you must stay within to be a writer, or to be a successful writer, and so you're only limited by your own will power and imagination. We, as writers, can't look at the establishment and complain that it's trying to "box us in" or "strangle our creativity". Most of the time when we fail it is our own faults. That's why writing is such a struggle to begin with. No matter how much anyone else tries to help us, in the end it is in our own hands whether or not we fall or accomplish our goals. There are, as I have pointed out before, certain steps you can take to help your editing or brainstorming processes, but there is no such thing as a roadmap to success when it comes to writing. It is a hard road but the only thing you need to do is to find the story you want to tell, and tell it with conviction.
Will power trumps fate, luck, and chance.
I know this post has been a bit different from my others but it's just something that struck me the other day at work. I've been working at Under Armour for the past few months and right now one of our product lines is called the "I Will What I Want" line. The whole line of shirts has sayings that are based on getting what we want through will power and determination. My favorite one was a tank top that said "Don't Wish for It, Work for It". I know the product line was intended for athletes but the sayings they had apply to writing as well. If you'll excuse me I am going to do some freewriting, the writing equivalent to a 50 yard dash!
Go to the local section of any newspaper and pick three separate stories. Using a person from one story, the setting from another and the conflict from a third create a story. For example I found a local newspaper and wrote a story using Harold Johnson, who lived in Lubbock, Texas, and the conflict in the story was over a lover's quarrel. Have fun with this and I will see you later.


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This week was the fourth version of Microsoft' "search champ" program, and the first one where I've been heavily involved in the planning (rather than simply being an attendee). It was a great meeting, with some amazing people providing input into new product development in MSN/WindowsLive. I got see to old friends (like Cindy and Walt), and be a fangirl (hi, Merlin!).
During the wrap-up session, when Robert Scoble was talking about designing tools that would optimize everyone's syndication experience so that they, too, could read 840 feeds, I called him an "edge case." He didn't like that. Not one bit. But his defense was, to me, unconvincing.
Robert's an "edge case" to me in this context because very few people will ever have the time or the inclination--regardless of how good the tools are--to read that many sources. Robert does not because he's some freak of nature, but because he's got a job that requires him to monitor activity in the technology community. When I worked at the Library of Congress, I had a job that required me to read dozens of newspapers and magazines every single day, looking for articles related to governmental initiatives. That made me an edge case. Most people don't read dozens of news publications every day, and it's not that they want to but simply haven't found the tools to do it. It's that they don't have a need for that much diffuse information.
He felt I used the term derisively, which I didn't. He's right that edge cases often push us in new directions, and I've got a long-standing interest in liminal spaces (the fancy academic term for those in-between spaces where contexts overlap and new ways of thinking and acting often emerge). But in his reaction, he confused what I see as two very different things--edge cases and early adopters. In this case he's both. But his response focused much more on how his early adoption of new technologies--from macs to blogs--foreshadowed broader adoption. That's about being an early adopter, which is not synonymous with being an edge case.
So what's the difference? To me, an early adopter is someone who recognizes the value of a new technology or tool before it becomes widely used or accepted, and often evangelizes it to others. They recognize trends before they're trends, and are the ones who are always acquiring the latest-and-greatest technical toys. An edge case is someone who's on the extreme edge of an activity, regardless of whether they're an early adopter. Someone who reads 840 blogs is an edge case. But so is someone who reads dozens of daily newspapers, or runs 10 miles every morning. Their choices may influence our behavior--those edge cases are great at recommending things to others--but most people will be far more moderate in their behavior.
There's a story I cite a lot when I'm talking to people about diffusion of technological innovation. Back in my early days as a librarian in the 1980s, online searching didn't mean launching a web browser and going to Google. Instead, it meant connecting via dial-up to an online database and doing a searches with complex boolean operators. Librarians loved this, and decided that the whole world needed to learn the "joy of searching." It was that whole "teach a man to fish and he eats for a lifetime" mentality. One day at a library conference, I heard a wonderful speech by Herb White in which he scolded librarians for this mentality. "I have no joy of searching," he told the audience. "I have joy of finding!"
In that context of online searching, librarians were both edge cases and early adopters--much like Robert is with blogs and syndicated feeds. They're edge cases because they do in fact love to search as much as love to find. They find it hard to believe that not everyone would want to learn arcane search syntax in order to improve their online search experience. But they're also early adopters--they were finding things online before the web was born, and they continue to push the limits on how you can use online search tools (one of my most popular posts ever was a transcription of Mary Ellen Bates' fabulous "30 Search Tips in 40 Minutes" talk from the 2003 Internet Librarian conference).
Anyone who's looked at aggregated query logs from a search engine knows that most of the people doing online searching these days aren't masters of the boolean query. They didn't become like the edge cases. But they did follow the early adopters--just in a more limited way.
So, Robert, my point wasn't that because you're an edge case nothing you do is relevant to other users. Nor do I think being an edge case is bad (I consider myself to be one, too). But the people who follow your lead as an early adopter won't do it the way you do. They're simply not going to want or need to read 840 syndicated feeds. And to try to optimize the user experience based on the needs of edge cases isn't, I think, in anyone's best interest.
I think that this analysis is on point and no offense should have been taken. Many of us in the blogosphere believe that our sometimes "eccentric" (well maybe not to us) behavior is representative of the masses and we get too caught up in "inside baseball". While this might be entertaining (and informative) to us, the rest of the world breathes a collective yawn, not finding anything "compelling" in our fascinations.
By no means is Scoble an edge case, and I can't say that I can applaud you for saying that. You obviously are over jelous of his achivements.
Liz, fab post. It leads me to vast, swirling ruminations about the gulf between edge cases and The Rest of Us, and implications for design and usability, and heck, even librarianship writ large. But I have homework! Keep pushing those concepts around and make them sit up and beg... I'll sit gratefully on the sidelines.
Robert says people called him an IM "edge case" when he was really an early adopter. Yes--because other edge cases joined him in IM and worked the technology up to consumer-level. RSS too was pure edge-case stuff, until other edge-cases made lots of good newsreaders.
Reading 840 feeds is hard in a way I don't see new apps fixing. (Monitoring 840 feeds? Lots of ways to do that--heck, just read Scobleizer!) What Robert does takes hours and brainspace most non-professionals just can't give to the task--as your post points out. It'd be lovely if, once again, he led the techno-parade that let all the rest of us make him an early adopter.
I'm sorry he heard your edge case remark as an anonymous insult. Folks, don't shoot Liz! Sharing a counterpoint is what she's supposed to do.
Hi, Liz! Hmmm, let's see as a new comer to this blog, perhaps I should be measured in my response...nah!
I'm glad to hear you say that some things that are of intense interest to us (indeed, fill our days) just don't play in Peoria. I can recall numerous of our past conversations in which I attempted to make just that point.
I like the distinction you draw between "edge cases" and "early adopters." I think there might be another nuanced category as well: "envelope pushers." By this nomenclature I mean those who, at whichever stage the tech itself exists, intentional apply it in unintended ways, sometimes to an eccentric end, other times to useful purpose.
I sense that in discussions such as this...and others that your comments have engendered, a bit of a human tendency. It's not unusual for us to find ourselves surrounded (particularly in work or professional environments) by people of like persuation, in this case people who tend to engage technological tools routinely, early in their life-cycle, perhaps even obsessively. There is nothing odd about that...except when we extrapolate a world view from that experience that suggests that most everyone else would do similarly. They may or they may not.
I do find it interesting that Robert Scoble states "today's edge case is tomorrow's mainstream user." Maybe yes, maybe no. That's the problem with generalized statements: they don't always apply, but it is difficult to argue against them.
Now as for the Engelbart mouse thingie, I think this part of the arguement confuses two very different aspects of technologies. When first proposed, of course the mouse concept seemed weird, but with the passage of much time and the development of complementary technologies, the mouse became a very utilitarian technology that most computer users today ably employ. Reading 840 blogs a day doesn't follow the same progression. Try to use a recent graphical desktop operating system without a mouse: I can't. Try to survive a day without reading 840 blogs: I do it every day. No matter how good the reader tool gets, (1) I'm not inclined to read that much, and (2) I have a job responsibility and a family responsibility that I have chosen that precludes me from reading blogs eight hours a day. And I dare say that I am more the norm (I know, bad word these days) across the population of computer users.
In addition, increasingly as more of the objects we interact with on a daily basis entail embedded systems (call it the post-pc world), the mouse will disappear as a useful tool. It's already happening in my life with my Treo. The device has a fair amount of raw compute power, but doesn't know what a mouse is and does not need to.
Which brings me to another point related to the passage of time and definitions of early adopter, power-user, edge rider, etc. In 1983, back before we met, Liz, I was using what has now become chat/IM. It was about as useless then as it is now for thoughtful communication and threaded discussion ( ;-0 ), but it was all we had...well, almost. Does that make me an "edge case"? Even if I hated the technology, even if I researched and wrote about it? Did the fact that I was using it before many others, before there was a true personal computer revolution, define me as an "edge case"? Or is there something more? I think we need to understand the difference between the technology per se and the application of it. So then, perhaps "edge case" is really more of a sociological issue than a technological one.
I've always been bad at guessing people's ages, but from his picture, I'd guess that the 'scobleizer' hadn't reached the age of reason by 1983.
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This is the first run with a Hermagis Petzval lens, approximately 10" in focal length. This picture is what we pulled from the camera. Toyo 4x5 AX Field Camera, using Efke 25 ISO B&W film. This a picture of my very patient and talented wife, Laura.
AWE commented b4 reading as is my IMPATIENT way....THANK YOU LOVE....you create beautiful images. I am so very proud of all your dedication to the craft. It is truly inspirational!
Super! : I'm not so think as you drunk I am...!"
Nope the drinking started right after the shot. focusing this beast was difficult enough, didnt need drinks to help.
You just can make the stunning atmosphere on the portrait.


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Maternity services: The perfect storm?
Kingsley Napley
United Kingdom February 1 2013
No one doubts the importance of good obstetric care; fantastic when it goes as it should, but potentially devastating if it goes wrong. As lawyers acting for babies injured at birth, our focus is typically on whether - rather than why - substandard care has been given. Being busy or out of your depth (two common features in obstetric claims) is no defence. The Royal College of Midwives' (RCM) recent report highlighting both the huge increase in birth rates as well as the older age at which women are now having children, illustrates that the environment in which midwives and obstetricians are working has rarely been so challenging. Add to this the financial constraints of our times, and you have to ask yourself, are we heading for – or, indeed, are we in – the "perfect storm" for maternity services?
According to the RCM report, a record 688,120 babies were born in England in 2011, the highest level of births since the early 1970s. We are in the middle of a baby boom, with numbers predicted to keep on rising. One of the features of this boom is that the increase in numbers is not evenly spread. The biggest rises since 2001 have occurred in London (up 28%), the South West (up 25%) and the East Midlands (up 24%). The RCM estimate that a further 5,000 midwives are needed to deal with the increase in births. Added to this, figures from the ONS, analysed in the RCM report, reveal that the number of older mothers is increasing with a staggering 76% jump in the number of births to women aged 40-44, while the number of births to women aged 45 and over have tripled. Given the potential for greater complications for older mothers, services are consequently stretched still further.
The squeeze on services is relentless. The Sunday Times (20.01.13) recently reported that more than half of maternity hospitals have had to close their doors on average seven times a year because they were simply too full. The Whittington Hospital has recently announced a cap in the number of births at 4,000 per annum as part of a huge drive to reduce costs. Although the Hospital says no one will be turned away, it is hard to see how this will not be a real risk – especially given the shifting demographics of a city like London. Lewisham Hospital has also been in the news with reports that its maternity unit will be changed to a midwife led section as part of a package of cuts. Is provision really adequate in that area for transfer into consultant led care in an emergency? After all, minutes count in labour if a baby is being compromised.
Time will tell what the impact of these changes in demographics, staffing and finances will be. Additional pressures increase the risk of mistakes being made. It is likely, therefore, that there will be a footprint left in terms of obstetric claims since, whatever the demands on services, the law of negligence remains the same.
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At exactly seven minutes past midnight. Connor is awoken by something at his window. A monster has come walking. The Monster has come to tell Connor tales of the walks he's taken before but at the end of his stories Connor must tell the Monster a tale of his own and face his deepest fears.
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In Search Of The Secret Commonwealth: A Journey For The Nostalgic
Aditya Nair
Phillip Pullman's His Dark Materials is a gateway drug to teenage atheism. And, when you grow up studying in a Catholic school, as I did, the series and its protagonist, Lyra Silvertongue, serve as a fantastic blueprint to annoy otherwise gentle priests.
When an author revisits their characters after a long hiatus, the tone and personality of once-familiar characters can feel alien. This is often a reflection of the writer's experiences in the interim years and how changes in the world have affected them. And so, I wondered if Lyra would be the character I remembered? Would she have grown up to be a character I would continue to feel a fondness for?
Thus, it was with a lot of excitement and more than a little trepidation that I started reading The Secret Commonwealth, the second book in The Book Of Dust trilogy. The Book Of Dust trilogy serves as both prequel and sequel, bookending the story in His Dark Materials. The first book in The Book Of Dust trilogy is La Belle Sauvage. This book tells the story of the events leading up to Lyra's birth and her eventual arrival at Jordan College, Oxford as a six-month-old child.
When we leave her, in the His Dark Materials trilogy, published between 1995 and 2000, she is 12-13, not quite a kid, but not yet a teenager. In The Secret Commonwealth, Lyra is now around 20 and faces yet another transitory age, an adult by definition, but still coming to terms with being one.
Facing One's Dæmons
Lyra is now a student at otherworldly-Oxford, dealing with the consequences of leaving Pantalaimon, her pine marten dæmon, behind as she travels to the land of the dead, in His Dark Materials. For dæmon and person to be physically separated from each other inflicts the worst kind of pain on both – "an iron hand pulling one's heart out between one's ribs," as Pullman writes in his books.
In His Dark Materials Lyra is forced to leave Pan behind, to fulfil a promise to her friend Roger, who was murdered by her father. This separation drives the narrative tension and conflict between Lyra and Pan throughout The Secret Commonwealth. It also provides a mirror, showing the reader the internal conflict of a 20-year-old dealing with an amoral and ambiguous world.
In the alternate earth Lyra inhabits, there is no closer relationship than that shared between a person and their dæmon, an external manifestation of the soul. To touch another human's dæmon is considered to be a 'terrible breach of etiquette', not unlike picking up someone's child without the parents' permission.
Pullman discusses this in an interview saying, "A dæmon is part of you, of yourself. Lyra (sic) feels estranged from herself. It is a process experienced by many of that age, it can be a process that is enthralling, frightening, even one of deep sadness."
Being separated from Lyra, Pan can move freely around Oxford, thereby witnessing the murder of a man who is capable of separating from his daemon, which kicks off the story. Through the tale, Lyra and Pan find and hide the man's bags and are chased by shadowy figures that attempt to discover his belongings.
On The Blade's Edge Of Rationality
As with his previous novels, the Magisterium, a representation of rampant religious authority, remains a target of Pullman's latest work. However, Pan and Lyra's new dynamic also allows Pullman to explore a broader issue, one uniquely relevant to us today – unquestioned fanaticism of a different kind, that of pure rationality.
Intellectually curious, and a little lost in the world, Lyra gravitates towards writings of an Ayn Rand-ian variety, and those of pseudo-rational scholars and sceptics. Her desire to grasp onto the straws of rationality further aggravate her relationship with Pan.
'Pan: "No, you're not listening to me, Lyra. I don't think we've got anything in common anymore. I just can't stand watching you turn into this rancorous, reductive monster of cold logic. You're changing, that's the point. I don't like it."'
Ultimately, Pan abandons Lyra, leaving her heartbroken, with a note: 'GONE TO FIND YOUR LOST IMAGINATION'.
As Lyra sets off on her own to find Pan, and herself, Pullman introduces the reader into a world brimming with political upheaval, heresy, the subjugation of the powerless, and political assassination. Up until this point, the novel is a slow burn. However, with Lyra off on an adventure through a world I grew up loving, the story plays to Pullman's strengths, as master world-builder, who can capture readers' imaginations and truly enthral them.
And in the background of all the intrigue is Lyra's search for the secret commonwealth, the MacGuffin that drives the narrative.
(Lyra and her daemon Pantalaimon; Image via Stylist)
Pullman borrows the book's title from folklorist Robert Kirk's The Secret Commonwealth Of Elves, Fauns And Fairies. As Kirk's book tells us, the secret commonwealth is 'the world of fairies, and the ghosts, and the jacky lanterns'.
An antithesis to pure rationality, the secret commonwealth represents the world that we cannot explain. One of lore and legend. One made not in reality but in the domain of one's imagination.
What the secret commonwealth is, is never addressed in the novel, merely hinted at. Yet, if you have ever felt yourself feeling less imaginative and less receptive to new ideas as you grow older, Lyra's desire to find the secret commonwealth will be one that is uncomfortably familiar.
After all, the desire to find the secret commonwealth is why we practice art, why we read fantasy and play video games. And why karaoke bars and Mickey Mouse ties are a thing.
(Image via Independnt)
A Turn For The Worse
Pullman is a masterful novelist, who can touch upon issues of the day with subtlety. Through the book, he takes great care in exploring societal issues as well as personal ones. The book paints a delicate picture of terrorism, the effects of war and a growing refugee crisis.
It also gives the reader an insight into severe events in Lyra's life – her strained relationship with her parents, the death of her friend, her longing for her lost first love, losing her funding at college, and being abandoned by Pan, all in a manner that is thoughtful, giving the reader an understanding of her thought process and character.
For this reason, the end of the book almost feels egregious. Without getting into spoilers, Pullman attempts to delve into sex crimes but does so in a manner that comes across as archaic, especially for an author of his calibre. What the implications of this development are within the trilogy at large remain to be seen. However, within the context of this book, since it is one of the final moments of the story, it also felt quite rushed.
(Philip Pullman: Image via Mother Jones)
For Those Who Grew Up
The Secret Commonwealth is not a book for everyone. It is written for readers who grew up reading the stories of His Dark Materials and are now adults, like Lyra. But, it is nowhere close to being fan-service. Lyra isn't the same person we knew her to be, and the events in her life have shaped her thus. The strong-willed, break-through-obstacles-with-sheer-stubbornness Lyra is gone. She was adamant about what she knew was right. Though aloof, she was never cold to the people around her.
The new Lyra, conversely, can be contemptuous, melancholic, unsure of her place in the world, clinging to the logic of cold rationality as a way to simplify a complex world. However, Pullman explorers her psyche in a way that makes her growth into adulthood feel realistic rather than wish fulfilment. And so, I miss the old Lyra.
But then, missing her is akin to being nostalgic about who I was when I was a kid – freer, friendlier, stubbornly bratty, and far more open to flights of imagination. Perhaps that is, after all, the point of The Secret Commonwealth.
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asha on December 7, 2019 at 2:43 pm
At the minute, I am watching the BBC adaptation of the dark materials trilogy with my kids. Found this piece very interesting. Aditya, you articulate your nostalgia and present day encounter with Lyra well. Good job!
Aditya Nair on December 9, 2019 at 5:25 pm
Thank you. How do you like the BBC show so far?


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THE TRANS WORLD DOME AS A CASE OF BUDWEISER
Civic squabbling -- featuring RFT editor Safir Ahmed -- on KMOX; plus, other St. Louis follies and foibles
By D.J. Wilson on Wed, Jan 19, 2000 at 4:00 am
When the Rams hype reaches a fever pitch, a rolling boil, it's almost enough to make you wish Susan Powter would return from the lost land of flamed-out celebrity to scream just one more time: "STOP THE INSANITY!" But alas, hyper-perky Susie has gone on to the infomercial afterlife -- surely it's a hell if there ever was one -- so we have to settle for KMOX-AM's Charles Jaco, who is slightly less intense than Susie, though he has a similar clipped cadence to his speech and short, but unspiked, hair.
On Friday, Jaco's 3 p.m. topic was, you guessed it, the Rams. But Jaco posed a few nagging questions, such as: Is the current Rams buzz worth the $720 million the city, county and state will pay over 30 years for the Trans World Dome? Is the contract the Rams signed to come here anything more than legitimized grand larceny? Well, those weren't the exact questions. Jaco had as a guest, by phone, Safir Ahmed, editor of the publication you're reading right now. Ahmed authored an RFT feature back in 1996 that broke the news that the Rams could bail on their 30-year contract after 10 years (in 2005) if the dome was judged not to be in the top tier of NFL stadiums. Jaco referred to Ahmed as a "de facto" authority on the lease/contract. What a burden to bear.
Under Jaco's questioning, Ahmed criticized the contract as far too generous to the Rams on advertising and parking revenue and not demanding enough on the team's covering costs at the dome. And all the supposed economic hallucinations spewed forth by RCGA about how the Rams' getting to the playoffs meant $111.3 million to the local economy -- seemingly swallowed whole by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch when it ran the claim as its lead story on Sunday, Jan. 9 -- particularly annoyed Ahmed. "The RCGA thing bothers me to no end. The fact that they put out a press release that the economic impact of the Rams is $111 million, that's all gobbledygook. They do that all the time. That's loaves and fishes," Ahmed told Jaco. "You can't talk about economic impact like that without taking into consideration what the public, what the taxpayers, are paying for all this."
After hanging up with Ahmed, Jaco talked to a pissed-off Bruce Sommer, the former alderman and restaurateur who heads the America's Center convention complex, which includes the Trans World Dome. Sommer told Jaco and KMOX listeners that Ahmed said all sorts of things about the Rams' lease that were "completely untrue.
"He says it's the sweetest deal in the country for the NFL. It is not. The people in Texas who just purchased a team for $700 million are laying out a whole lot more than we are. No. 2, he says it's not a 30-year contract. Any lawyer in this town will tell you it's a 30-year contract. Like most contracts, if we don't perform in certain ways, they have the option of breaking the contract."
Sommer said Ahmed was wrong about the payout from the Rams to the Convention and Visitors Center, saying CVC clears $1 million a year on the Rams. "So the Rams financially are equal to 10 major conventions every year, for the next 30 years, to this building and to this city," Sommer said. "The Riverfront Times ought to learn how to read that lease correctly."
Well, reading is fundamental, but let's not quibble over interpretations. Sommer seems to look at his CVC world with certain blinders on. For CVC, the Rams pay $250,000 for 10 games, $400,000 to cover half of "day-of-game expenses" and another $1.1 million that is 25 percent of advertising revenue. Yeah, the Rams get the other 75 percent. Add all that up, subtract the other half of "day-of-game expenses" and you have the CVC "clearing" almost $1 million a year on the Rams. Of course, there's that mortgage on the dome. It's $24 million a year, with $6 million a year offered up by the city and the county and $12 million by the state. That $1 million lagniappe CVC gets doesn't directly find its way back to the city, county or state.
Surprisingly, the few callers Jaco took after Sommer, Ahmed and John Rawlings of the Sporting News more or less bashed the stadium deal. One, however, slammed Jaco and the radio station.
"You're disavowing all that's going on at your radio station," said Ann-on-a-car-phone. "Then why is KMOX sponsoring a big pep rally on Friday?"
Jaco shot back: "What do you mean by "disavowing?' Explain yourself."
"You're acting like this is the worst thing that happened to St. Louis since the floods. I think it's a wonderful thing for the city."
So does Sommer. "We're our own worst enemy," a cooled-down Sommer said when reached by phone less than an hour after talking to Jaco on the air. "We finally have some success with an important entity, a NFL franchise, and all the old shit gets rehashed. I'm sure the national media in town loves it and will get a kick out of writing their articles about how St. Louisans are still upset."
In Sommer's worldview, the Trans World Dome is just Hall 6 at America's Center. The Rams subsidize, to use the term loosely, America's Center, which holds about 200 events a year. "Here's what happens. The only way to view this is to view St. Louis as a supermarket and the Convention Center and the Trans World Dome as a loss leader. We're the case of Budweiser on sale to get somebody to come to our supermarket."
Sommer insists the dome is a good deal because it enhances the convention center. The dome, "for us, it is Hall 6. It's our sixth hall. That's what it's called in all our graphics." A mighty big Hall 6, needed only about a dozen or so times a year beyond the Rams' games.
"What people forget is, we agreed to do this dome -- city, county, state -- without a football team, because everybody agreed the economics made sense because of conventions and trade shows. The problem we're having with the media is that we can't get people off the fact that this ain't just a football stadium. If this were a stand-alone stadium, it would be a horrible loser."
Eek, the "L' word. Let's not even think about this messy stuff. Go Rams.
YOU THINK IT'S EASY BEING GREG FREEMAN? GUESS AGAIN: Maybe a thrice-weekly P-D column, a Monday- Friday radio show on KWMU-FM (97.1) and a weekly KETC (Channel 9) show are wearing Greg Freeman down. Or maybe Greg is just Greg, too affable to challenge Mayor Clarence Harmon, who was a guest last week on Freeman's 11 a.m. KWMU show. When Greg asked Harmon about the status of the convention-hotel deal, the mayor said the city had just "increased the bonding capacity of the empowerment zone," a move that "increased the cost" to the city. Did alarms go off? Isn't this a bad, bad sign? Well, when Greg was assured that the convention-hotel deal would be closed at the end of March and ground broken by spring, he came back with "It's finally going to happen. Great, great!" But credit Greg with getting a startling admission from Tuesday guest Buzz Westfall when a caller complained that the county's public libraries close at 9 p.m. Said Buzz, now in his third term as county executive: "I didn't know we closed at 9 o'clock. I'll be honest -- I haven't been in a library other than for a ground-breaking or a grand opening in a while." Now that would be a sign of a healthy economy: In addition to 24-hour Walgreens and Home Depots, a 24-hour public library to satisfy those middle-of-the-night urges for a good biography.
FLOTSAM AND JETSAM: The quote of the week had nothing to do with the Rams; it was uttered by Pete Earley, who wrote Super Casino: Inside the "New" Las Vegas. During an NPR interview, he said a corporate executive told him "the Mob was stupid. We're making much more money now that the corporations have taken over." What does that tell you about how cold-blooded corporations are?... The award for the most inane Rams media report -- and the competition was stiff -- goes to Ruth Ezell of KSDK (Channel 5), who last Tuesday went to Francis Howell High School to talk to students to see whether they were conflicted about the Rams game (because their school's teams are known as the Vikings). Then she went (oh, the horror) to the Viking Restaurant. She closed her skit showing a clipped Hagar the Horrible cartoon strip. When will the Super Bowl be over?... Bad headline of the week goes to the St. Louis American. The subhead to "Vikings bring their soulful strut to St. Louis for playoff showdown" was "Black head coach, offensive coordinator make Minnesota threat to Rams' Super Bowl hopes." Gee, guess that means mere pigmentation is more powerful than we thought.... And finally, why did the P-D use the cryptic word "irreality" in a Jan. 12 editorial? Maybe they're trying to imagine new words to use.
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Russia To America: We Will Only Trade WNBA Star Brittney Griner For Arms Trafficker Victor 'Merchant Of Death' Bout
Photo: Suspected Russian arms smuggler Viktor Bout arrives at a criminal court in Bangkok, Thailand, Oct. 5, 2010. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong, File)/Photo: Phoenix Mercury center Brittney Griner plays in the WNBA finals against the Chicago Sky, Oct. 13, 2021, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Rick Scuteri, File)
Written by Ann Brown
Women's National Basketball Association star Brittney Griner was arrested in Russia days before the invasion of Ukraine and Russian media are reporting that she could be brought home in a prisoner swap with a notorious arms dealer known as the "Merchant of Death."
A two-time Olympic gold medalist, Griner has been held in Russia since Feb. 17, when she was arrested at a Moscow airport for carrying vape cartridges alleged to contain hashish oil. Cannabis is strictly illegal in Russia. Griner, 31, faces a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison, Insider reported.
A seven-time WNBA All-Star center who plays for the Phoenix Mercury, Griner was overseas during the WNBA's off-season to earn money playing for UMMC Ekaterinburg, a Russian women's basketball team that competes in the Russian Premier League.
"If wnba players were paid adequately or anywhere near nba players in America, #BrittneyGriner wouldn't even need to be going to Russia and end up being arrested for no damn vape!! Let's talk about it!!" celly cimone tweeted.
If wnba players were paid adequately or anywhere near nba players in America, #BrittneyGriner wouldn't even need to be going to Russia and end up being arrested for no damn vape!! Let's talk about it!!
— celly cimone (@cellyycimonee) May 16, 2022
Viktor Bout, nicknamed "the Merchant of Death," was sentenced to 25 years in the U.S.
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Russia may be willing to trade Griner for Bout, the Russian state-owned news agency Tass reported.
Can we focus on all the people that are still locked up for the same shit in our country first? I get she's supposed to be a celeb but cmon man. We got some people locked up for 30+ over bud at this point
— Neal Schuster (@NealGrin) March 17, 2022
Bout was arrested in Thailand in 2008 and extradited to the U.S.where he was sentenced in 2012 to 25 years for conspiracy to smuggle weapons to rebels in Colombia to be used against U.S. officials and citizens. He was dubbed the "Merchant of Death" because of risky dealings running a fleet of aging Soviet-era cargo planes to conflict-ridden hotspots in Africa, Fox 10 Phoenix reported.
His exploits inspired the Nicolas Cage film, "Lord of War."
The Biden administration's "potential decision to exchange this heinous Russian criminal, who is serving jail time in the U.S. for being involved in killing Americans, is a huge mistake," former U.S. intelligence officer Rebekah Koffler told Fox News Digital. "This move will only encourage the Russian intelligence services to grab Americans on Russian soil, so they can be exchanged for much more valuable assets for Putin."
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Russia has long lobbied for Bout's return, and some reports have suggested that Russia wants him returned because he has links to high-profile Russian officials and intelligence agencies.
At a May 13 hearing in Russia, Griner's detention was extended by at least a month. The U.S. maintains that she is being wrongfully detained.
Until the news of this hearing, there has been little movement on her case.
In late April, Russia released former Marine Trevor Reed, a U.S. citizen who had been held in the country for 985 days in exchange for a Russian pilot convicted by the U.S. of smuggling drugs.
Everyone saying "she shouldn't have committed a crime" I hope you keep the same energy when something small and harmless flips your whole world upside down. She's an American woman and the truth is that if it were an American Man, the US would of started a war getting him out
— Naeve Duarte (@naeveduarte) March 17, 2022


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The list of colleges and universities around the country that are now test-optional for admissions — meaning students can decide whether or not to submit ACT or SAT scores — keeps growing.
Here are the leading 275-plus colleges and universities on the list of more than 900 test-optional schools, a list maintained by the nonprofit National Center for Fair and Open Testing, a nonprofit known as FairTest that works to end the misuse and abuse of standardized tests. The list includes a small number of test-flexible schools, which allow students to submit test scores of their choice, including Advanced Placement scores rather than SAT or ACT scores.
Sources: College Board 2017 College Handbook; U.S. News & World Report College Guide 2017; U.S. Department of Education Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), admissions office websites; and news reports.


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Back in April, it was revealed that Evanescence would be returning to the concert stage for Ozzfest Japan, their only scheduled appearance of 2015. But as Amy Lee says in a new posting, playing one date is a bit of a waste. As such, the band has booked several more shows for November, including three U.S. stops.
Lee states, "You know, we're already playing Japan, and it seems like a waste to do all that practicing for just one show.... So to finally answer the question many of you have been asking since the Ozzfest announcement, YES. We're adding 3 U.S. dates in November!"
The stops include Nashville's Marathon Music Works on Nov. 13, Dallas' South Side Ballroom on Nov. 15 and Los Angeles' Wiltern on Nov. 17. Tickets for the Nashville and Los Angeles dates will go on sale this Friday (July 24) at 10AM local time, meanwhile, the Dallas date goes on sale this Saturday (July 25) at 10AM local time. Lee also adds that fans can get first access to tickets with the password "rememberhow2fly" this Wednesday (July 22), before the public on-sale. The band has also scheduled a Nov. 22 date at Chiba, Japan's Makurai Messe, a day after they perform at Ozzfest Japan in Tokyo. Ticketing information for all dates can be found here.
The return of Evanescence to the stage is definitely a welcome sight for fans. Lee had an eventful 2014, as she gave birth to a baby boy, saw the group split from Wind-Up Records and dabbled in movie score work. At one point during 2014, Lee stated that there weren't any immediate plans for Evanescence.
These new dates mark the band's first shows in three years. As of yet, there has not been any mention of a new Evanescence album, but the return to the concert stage with the band is definitely welcomed by fans of the band.


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What's happening at Historic Royal Palaces?
What's happening at Historic Royal Palaces, July-September 2018?
This summer, Historic Royal Palaces offers a whole host of dazzling exhibitions, outdoor events, and family-friendly activities. Highlights at Hampton Court Palace include a celebration of all things food and feasting, as Henry VIII's newly reopened kitchens form the backdrop to a specially commissioned performance piece telling the lavish history of banqueting at the palace. Meanwhile, a Tudor Joust and the Real Tennis Champions Trophy offer visitors the chance to immerse themselves in life at the court of King Henry VIII.
Over at the Tower of London, the final days of Queen Anne Boleyn - one of the royal palace and fortress's most infamous prisoners - will be brought to life in a play which runs throughout the summer. In July, East Wall comes to the Tower, an extraordinary outdoor spectacle of dance and music that celebrates East London's rich cultural heritage. August Bank Holiday also marks the return of family festival Go Medieval, promising the chance to experience the drama as medieval knights go head to head in sword fighting combat.
East Wall. 18 July – 22 July. Tower of London
Experience an extraordinary outdoor performance this July at the Tower of London, inspired by the communities of east London. Internationally-celebrated director Hofesh Shechter, Historic Royal Palaces, East London Dance and LIFT are coming together to bring a large-scale spectacle of dance and live music to the moat of this iconic landmark. East Wall will feature a cast of over 150 dancers, musicians and community participants from Tower Hamlets and surrounding boroughs. From grime to gospel, krump to contemporary – this mashup of old and new will come together to embrace east London's diversity and put its rich cultural heritage centre stage.
See website for ticket information: https://www.hrp.org.uk/tower-of-london/explore/east-wall/#gs.ZtchU4Y
The Last Days of Anne Boleyn. 5 May – 28 August (Friday - Tuesday) Tower of London
Experience the final days of Queen Anne Boleyn - one of the Tower of London's most infamous prisoners - brought to life in a new play, which runs throughout the summer at the Tower. The Last Days of Anne Boleyn explores the Tudor Queen's final 17 days at the famous fortress, from her imprisonment and interrogation, through to her trial and execution. Using contemporary sources - including Anne's own words from letters to her husband, Henry VIII and her final speech on the scaffold – the 35-minute performance paints an intimate and moving picture of this tragic history, right in the very place where it happened.
Included in palace admission
Go Medieval at The Tower. 4 August – 6 August. Tower of London
Go Medieval, an immersive Family Festival, returns to the Tower of London this August Bank Holiday. Step into 1445 as England celebrates the arrival of a new Queen, Margaret of Anjou. At the heart of the festivities are the fierce medieval knights who go head to head in sword fighting combat. Kids can have a go at firing a real crossbow and get a closer look at the impressive swords used by the heroic knights. Try on the opulent fashions of the day and practice the art of pastry jumbles with medieval cooks as the Tower's dry moat is transformed into a medieval court fit for a Queen.
Included in palace admission.
Feasting with the Tudors. 28 June – 3 September. Hampton Court Palace
To celebrate the re-opening of Henry VIII's famous kitchens, a specially commissioned play at Hampton Court this summer explores the fascinating history of banqueting at the palace. Join Thomas Cromwell as he arranges a feast to celebrate the marriage of Henry VIII and Anne of Cleves. With Henry's mood threatening to cancel the occasion, courtiers, musicians, and politicians are all watching nervously to find out what happens next…
The 30-minute play will run Thursday – Monday in the Great Hall.
Real Tennis Champions Trophy. 17-22 July. Hampton Court Palace
The Real Tennis Champions Trophy will return to the palace in July and is set to be bigger and better than before. With the world's greatest players set to participate, it offers a unique chance to soak up the action on the world's most historic court, a designated National Monument. The tournament kicks off with qualifying rounds on 17 July and will culminate in a grand final on 22 July, which will see two players battle it out on the Royal Tennis Court to lift the trophy. The 2018 Real Tennis Champions Trophy is proudly supported by Mitsubishi Electric.
Tickets: Matchday tournament tickets start from £25 and include palace admission.
Hampton Court Palace Food Festival. 25 – 27 August. Hampton Court Palace
Enjoy a summer celebration of food and drink in the elegant East Front Gardens at the Hampton Court Palace Food Festival. Visitors will be treated to live cookery demonstrations from top chefs and experts including Michel Roux Jr, Nadiya Hussain, and Melissa Hemsley, as well as live music, culinary masterclasses, street food stalls, pop-up bars and hand-picked artisan producers. There'll also be activities to keep the little ones entertained, with everything from shire horses and a Circus School to Tudor cookery.
All tickets include free palace entry.
Tower of London Food Festival. 7 September – 9 September. Tower of London
Head to the Tower of London this September for a fabulous food and drink festival in the historic dry moat, complete with live cooking demos from top chefs such as Michel Roux Jr, Nadiya Hussain, Melissa Hemslsey and Dr Rupy Aujla. Also on the menu are a host of tempting street food stalls and artisan food producers, promising everything from gin and tonic to sweet treats and an array of ales. There'll also be a bandstand with live music, with relaxing deckchairs on hand to soak up the festival atmosphere.
Here Be Dragons exhibition and trail until 30 September. Kew Palace
To mark the re-opening of the Great Pagoda at Kew this summer, little ones will be able to enter the world of dragons and dragonologists at the Here Be Dragons exhibition. Once they've learned what it takes, it's time to go on a dragon discovery adventure and find the five fearsome dragons located around the gardens. The adventure begins at the Welcome Centre next to Kew Palace.
Included in admission to Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Pride at the Palace. 29 June – 1 July. Hampton Court Palace
This summer Hampton Court Palace will be playing host to a special series of evening tours, exploring some of the most outrageous, touching and illicit Queer stories from history. Learn stories of gender and sexuality from Hampton Court's Tudor courts to ancient Greece, against the backdrop of Henry VIII's famed pleasure palace. This event is for age 16yrs+.
Hampton Court Flower Show. 2 – 8 July. Hampton Court Palace
The Royal Horticultural Society's largest flower festival returns to Hampton Court this July and will for the first time be celebrating iconic figures of the horticultural world. This year, Historic Royal Palaces will showcase their own garden at the show in partnership with the Royal Parks Guild. Commemorating the centenary of the end of the First World War, 'Battlefields to Butterflies' will be a horticultural tribute to the parks and garden staff who died in the battle. Joint tickets will also be available, offering entry to both the Flower Show and the palace, to provide a fun-filled day out.
Joint tickets for show and palace entry: £50 (Tuesday/Wednesday) / £44 (Thursday/Friday/Saturday)
Tudor Joust. 14 & 15 July. Hampton Court Palace
The grounds of Hampton Court will once again ring out with the sound of charging horses hooves and the clash of cold metal, as King Henry VIII and his court take up residence for that most Tudor of royal sports; the joust. Recreating all the pomp and ceremony of a lavish court entertainment, visitors will be immersed into the sights, smells and sounds of the Tudor court.
Tiny Explorers. 18 & 25 July, 1, 8, 15, 22 & 29 August, 5 September. Kensington Palace
These multi-sensory storytelling sessions for under 4's will transport little ones into a magical world of stories. Each session involves music, movement, messy play and more, and separate sessions specially-designed for different development levels are also offered to suit babies not yet walking and walkers under 4.
Tickets: £8 per child.
Curious Kew Evening Tour. 19 July, 16 August & 20 September. Kew Palace
Visit Kew Palace after hours to enjoy exclusive access to rooms not normally on the public route, while discovering strange tales of the life and times of George III and his family, the palace's most famous former inhabitants.
Great Georgian Wedding Weekend. 28 & 29 July. Kew Palace
To mark the 200th anniversary of the historic double royal wedding at Kew, Queen Charlotte's Cottage will be hosting a special celebratory weekend. Visitors can meet the family of George III and other characters from 1818, enjoy tours of this unique building and even play popular garden games of the period.
Luna Cinema. 4 & 5 August. Hampton Court Palace
Enjoy an alfresco screening in the splendid grounds of Hampton Court at the Luna Cinema summer screenings. This year will see blockbuster favourites The Greatest Showman (4 August) and The Shape of Water (5 August) screened on the East Front lawn of the palace, providing a truly unforgettable floodlit backdrop.
See website for ticket information: www.thelunacinema.com/hampton-court-palace/
Luna Cinema. 7 – 9 August. Kensington Palace
The beautiful backdrop of Kensington Palace provides the perfect for setting for the Luna Cinema's summer screenings. For the first time, the films will be screened on the East Front so audience members can enjoy a direct view of Queen Victoria's former home. Visitors can choose from three films in August, Romeo& Juliet, Victoria and Abdul, or The Greatest Showman.
See website for ticket information: www.thelunacinema.com/kensington-palace/
Kids Luna Cinema. 7 – 12 August. Hampton Court Palace
New for this year, a series of child-friendly screenings from the Luna Cinema will be taking place at Hampton Court in August. Located in the palace's Twentieth Century Garden, three different films will be shown each day, with a whole range of family favourites playing throughout the week, including Beauty and The Beast, Paddington 2, Up, and many more. Films begin at 10am, 1pm, and 4pm daily.
Confessions at the Tower of London – Justice. 27 September, 19:15 – 20:45. Tower of London
Hear live storytellers and poets confess their innermost secrets in the atmospheric chapel of St Peter's ad Vincula, curated by Inua Ellams, the Tower of London's Poet in Residence for 2018. Inspired by the story of the attempted theft of the Crown Jewels by 'Colonel' Thomas Blood in 1671 and his subsequent pardon by King Charles II (in spite of being caught red-handed), this intimate performance explores the themes of miscarriages of justice.
Tickets: £20.00 / £18.00 HRP members, suitable for ages 18+.
Feasting with the Tudors at Hampton Court.
The White Tower - Tower of London.
Hampton Court Palace, west front.
Activities for all the family.
Historical Royal Palaces


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Here's a comparison chart of the plans and the allowable sites per account plus a lot of other info.
So at the bottom end you may have 2 sites published. these are free sub-domains and it goes up from there.
As a Yola Bronze user you can create up to 5 websites in your Yola account and publish them to the same or different domains.
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Henrik Fisker readies 2 cars for Detroit auto show
Mark Vaughn has been a journalist at Autoweek, an affiliate of Automotive News, since 1989.
Designer Henrik Fisker, he of the Aston Martin DB9, BMW Z8 and his very own Fisker Karma, will introduce two new cars at the Detroit auto show.
He is only talking about one of them, though, and it looks like it'll be a doozy -- The Force 1 (yes, he capitalizes the "The").
But when we say talking, it's more like hinting. As you can gather from the design drawing here, the car will be a two-seat sports car/super car.
Fisker says it will be based on an existing front/mid-engine rear-drive American car, but he would not say which front/mid-engine rear-drive American car. If we had to guess, we'd guess Corvette.
"This high-performance automobile is an American take on a super sports car featuring powerful, dramatic sculptural exterior styling, Ultra Thin Ventilated (UTV) laser blade tail lamps and a luxurious contemporary interior for two people," Fisker says in a statement. "The body on the limited edition auto is all carbon fiber sitting on 21" wheels with high performance Pirelli P Zero tires, controlled by a unique new active suspension."
Clearly, Fisker is a designer because who else but a designer would point out the taillights and the 21-inch wheels before saying anything about the drivetrain? He did clarify that the drivetrain would have a powerplant that would be "…amongst the world's highest output natural(ly) aspirated engine(s) in a road car, driven by the rear wheels either by a six-speed manual or optional paddle shift auto box."
Pricing would be between $200,000 and $300,000 when the car starts its production run of "up to" 50 units, all built in Michigan.
So he's putting a carbon fiber body of his own design on what, a Corvette? Maybe it's those guys putting the Corvette engines into Fisker Karmas? He wouldn't say. If you can think of any other possibilities, e-mail them to us.
Fisker did say that the suspension was designed by "…an acclaimed American race car driver."
"I met and talked with an American racer, who still races, and he had developed an active suspension for a vehicle he's racing so we thought it'd be the right type of setup for us," Fisker said when we caught up with him by phone as he himself raced between airports on his way to Detroit.
No details were spilled about that suspension nor even about the mysterious race car driver. Which of course lead us to speculate wildly about that, too. Which active American Corvette racer also has engineering smarts? Let's see, John Heinricy (retired in 2008), Ron Fellows (no, he's Canadian), uh… Antonio Garcia (Spanish), Jan Magnussen (Danish, like Fisker, but maybe he got a green card or something?), Oliver Gavin (British), Tommy Milner? Hey, we know Milner. Milner, is it you?
But we're also speculating that it is a Corvette racer, and it could be any American racer/engineer. And the racer isn't the only one.
"There's a couple more people involved in this venture whom you know very well," said Fisker, though once again, adding nothing in the way of details.
But that's how you build up suspense. Otherwise it'd just be another car lost in the Detroit River tidal wave of new cars. Very clever, Henrik.
"I'm trying to keep up the suspense and excitement," Fisker said, just before hopping on his flight. "It's exciting to see an American small car company in this market dominated by Europeans. You're seeing traditional larger carmakers looking for this perfect all around-vehicle. We're going to be a little more on the edge in luxury, style and power. It'll be more radical."
We'll just have to wait another month to find out how radical and just how close our wild speculation was to the truth. But so far it sounds like a pretty cool car.
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The camera giant has discontinued its popular PalmPix line, which attached to Palm handhelds, but Palm says another company will release similar cameras this summer.
Camera giant Eastman Kodak has discontinued the PalmPix line of digital cameras that attached to Palm handhelds.
A representative of the camera giant told CNET News.com that the line of cameras, which debuted in 2000, was popular, but said Kodak is now focused on its standalone cameras. Kodak had made PalmPix cameras that attached to the Palm III series, the m100 series and the m500 series of handhelds.
Palm had heavily marketed the Kodak cameras over the years, including a big promotion during the holiday shopping season two years ago.
The handheld maker had also changed the way it designed new handhelds, in part to address concerns from Kodak and others who make handheld accessories. Until the past year, each new Palm model had a different way of connecting to a cradle and add-ons. That meant that add-on makers like Kodak had to develop a new product for each new Palm that came out.
To address that issue, Palm moved to its "universal connector" last year with its m500 series and nearly all models Palm sells now use that same connector.
A Palm representative said that although Kodak is discontinuing its cameras, another company, Spectec Computer, will come out with a line of cameras this summer that plug into the Palm. Also, manufacturers such as Panasonic, Minolta and Kodak make cameras that store images on the same type of Secure Digital removable flash memory that is used in many Palms; that means customers could view digital pictures taken with such a camera on a Palm device.
Andy Brown, an analyst at market research firm IDC, said the move shouldn't have a major impact on Palm, given that the company is increasingly focused on the business market.
"It may cause some consternation among the users who would use that device, but in my opinion the Palm platform has insufficient power and storage to deal with heavy-duty uses like large numbers of pictures, anyway," Brown said.
Matthew Broersma of ZDNet UK contributed to this report.


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MTV UNVEILS NEW EMAS CATEGORY: THE VIDEO VISIONARY AWARD, DURAN DURAN TO BE THE FIRST HONOREES
Posted by Pamela Yeoh on October 24, 2015
MTV today announced a new award category to be unveiled during the 2015 MTV EMAs: the MTV Video Visionary Award. The category will honour the greatest pioneers in the history of the music video art form, the inaugural recipients of which will be international rock heroes Duran Duran.
Duran Duran's unique sound and strong visual sense have not only influenced a generation of musicians and creatives, but continue to resonate the world over. One of the greatest pioneers of the music video, their distinctive style has had an undeniable impact on music history, with hits stemming from the very beginnings of MTV to the present day.
"It is no coincidence that our rise was paralleled by the growth and ultimate world domination of MTV. The birth of music videos as a way to simultaneously bring our music to a global audience revolutionized the business. We took this new short form of film making and tried to make it our own. We have had some incredible experiences over the years making our videos. We have worked with some of the most talented directors in the world – without whom we would not be honored here today. We are really proud to be the recipients of this new award. Thank you MTV." – Duran Duran
Host Ed Sheeran and co-host Ruby Rose will be taking charge of this year's MTV EMAs, which will broadcast live across the globe on Monday, 26 October at 3am (TH/WIB) and 4am (MY/PH/SG) from the Mediolanum Forum in Milan. A repeat telecast will air on the same day at 8pm (TH/WIB), 9pm (PH/SG) and 10pm (MY). Voting for all award categories is open on mtvema.com through 25 October at 6:59pm Singapore time.
The talent list is heating up for what is set to be an explosive edition of the MTV EMAs, with Pharrell Williams, Ed Sheeran & Rudimental, Ellie Goulding, Jason Derulo, twenty one pilots, Tori Kelly, James Bay, Jess Glynne, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Andrea Bocelli and Justin Bieber previously announced as performers.
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SUNWAY AVILA RECORDS 80% TAKE-UP RATE
Master Community Developer, Sunway Property has recorded a take-up rate of 80% for the first tower of its integrated and freehold Sunway Avila development at a private event which was attended by 800 priority registrants in Sunway Avila Sales Gallery on Saturday, May 25.
Sunway Avila is Sunway Property's maiden foray into Wangsa Maju. Offering truly affordable urban living a mere 6.5 km from KL City Centre, the RM 590 million development will have 810 residential units with 30 retail shops and will be connected to the nearby Sri Rampai LRT station via a covered walkway, offering unparalleled convenience for its dwellers.
Sunway Berhad Property Development Division Central Region Executive Director, Chong Sau Min said, "Sunway Avila comes with functional and practical layouts for families and is a great selection for people who work in the KL City Centre and commute via LRT. It is also good for the younger second-generation families who wants to stay close to their families living aro…
Chart-topping K-pop Sensation MONSTA X to Guest Star in Emmy-nominated We Bare Bears
MONSTA X, one of the world's most popular K-pop groups, is getting animated in an all-new episode of Cartoon Network's Emmy-nominated We Bare Bears premiering in the United States in May. Panda (voiced by Bobby Moynihan) is a huge MONSTA X fan and he is in for the surprise of a lifetime thanks to his thoughtful Bear Bros. In "Panda's Birthday," Grizz (voiced by Eric Edelstein) and Ice Bear (voiced by Demetri Martin) mastermind a creative scheme to help Panda meet his favorite K-pop band on his birthday.
MONSTA X and Ice Bear eventually meet for the first time; Ice Bear (who is surprisingly fluent in Korean) successfully places himself via travel luggage in the group's hotel room.
Regarding this special collaboration, MONSTA X member I.M tells Billboard, "We are absolutely thrilled and honored to be in an episode of We Bare Bears. It's one of the most beloved animated series in the world! We put in a lot of effort into this collaboration and hope our fans, as well as We Bare Bears fan…


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Butler Newsroom > 2016 > March
Prof. Kelly's Book Explains How Conservatives Won the Culture Wars
In a groundbreaking study of Hollywood films produced since 2000, Butler University Associate Professor of Critical Communication and Media Studies Casey Kelly has found that the overwhelming majority of movies now associate premarital sex with shame and degradation, while they [...]
Butler Theatre Season Ends With An Original Work: 'Portal 1812'
Butler Theatre, which began its season with the American classic Our Town, will finish 2015–2016 with Portal 1812, a devised ensemble work conceived and directed by Darla Villani, guest artist in the Jordan College of the Arts (JCA). Portal 1812, [...]
Butler Partners With Be The Match to Honor Andrew Smith
Butler University has entered into a partnership with Be The Match, which operates the national bone marrow registry, honoring the late Butler Bulldog Andrew Smith, who bravely fought a two-year battle with cancer. As an element of the partnership, Butler's [...]
Army Field Band to Perform Free Concert at Clowes Hall
The internationally acclaimed United States Army Field Band of Washington, D.C., will continue its long tradition of presenting free public performances when it appears at Clowes Memorial Hall of Butler University on March 28 at 7:30 PM. Free tickets are [...]
Butler Inducts 29 Into Phi Beta Kappa
Butler University's Theta of Indiana Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa will induct 29 new members at a ceremony to be held April 16 at 8:30 AM in the Irwin Library. Students are considered for membership based on their grade point [...]
Video is Their Business (And Their Business is Good)
They're not even finished with college yet, but already Joshua Gaal and Tim Valentine are successfully building up Train 918, the video production, marketing, and branding company they founded as sophomores and will run after graduation. For 10 days in [...]
Kellen Dunham Named 2015-16 BIG EAST Men's Basketball Scholar-Athlete Award Recipient
Butler senior Kellen Dunham has been named BIG EAST Men's Basketball Scholar-Athlete of the Year. He was one of four individuals recognized Wednesday at Madison Square Garden in advance of the 2016 BIG EAST Tournament presented by Jeep brand. [...]
Surprise! You've Earned a Tuition-Free Scholarship to Butler
With classmates cheering, family members on hand for hugs, and Butler's live mascot, Trip, there to pose for pictures, Shortridge International Baccalaureate High School seniors Jacob Charboneau, G. Gray, and Aaliyah Coe got an enormous surprise on March 3: They [...]
Butler Hosts the 24th Annual Bulldog Jog
Butler University hosts the 24th annual Bulldog Jog run/walk and dog walk beginning at 9:30 a.m. Saturday, March 26. Registration is $25 for the general public, $20 for dog walkers, and $10 for Butler students until March 5. Late registration [...]