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01.24.2023Protected: Seeds + SeedsBy Zhao Rongjie
Gracefully Post-Human?
By cheyanne turions
Paradigm shift is not the evacuation of power, but rather its redistribution. Speaking at the University of Toronto in early February, feminist scholar Rosi Braidotti speculated on the impotence of the classical humanities to explain the entwined nature of contemporary life, offering instead the post-humanities as an intellectual paradigm worthy of the times. She calls the method cartographic, implying an immediate use-value to the practice (imagine the post-humanities as a kind of intellectual Google Maps) in order to counter the retrospective theorization associated with classical modes of humanities scholarship (like a map to a city that no longer stands). Braidotti's philosophy is new to me and my understanding provisional, but I'm taking her up on an offer to think with her, to investigate the points of rupture she provoked in me: can we ever be post-human?
As a type of academic discipline, the humanities are concerned with "the study of human culture," or how it is that we are social beings—through language, music, religion, philosophy, literature et cetera.[i] Here, the individual (constituted through various social systems) is understood as fundamental, and the humanities a practice of mapping explanatory paradigms back onto phenomena that is both produced by and produces specific forms of collectivity. But, as technology advances and as ecosystems collapse, the conceit at the heart of the humanities—the human as a suitable unit of measure to register the complexity of social co-existence—crumbles. In response, the burgeoning field of post-humanities examines culture in its embedded becoming alongside other agencies and orders, such as technology, the non-human animal, and the environment. In doing so, the post-humanities displaces anthropocentric arrogance as the gravitational force around which understandings are constructed. Key early texts in the field include Michele Serres's The Parasite (1980) and Donna Haraway's A Cyborg Manifesto (1985), though the field of posthumanities did not congeal until much later, in the latter half of the Aughts. Cary Wolfe, the editor of the University of Minnesota Press's Posthumanities series defines the whole endeavour as such: "When we talk about posthumanism, we are not just talking about a thematics of the decentering of the human in relation to either evolutionary, ecological, or technological coordinates (though that is where the conversation usually begins and, all too often, ends); rather…we are also talking about how thinking confronts that thematics, what thought has to become in the face of those challenges." In practice, the posthumanities takes seriously the ethical consequences of how we humans think our relationship to non-humans, especially other animals and the environment; it considers how the field of disability studies forcefully challenges normative relationships between language and thought and identity; it explores the way the human experience is currently entwined in a mutual becoming with computer technologies.
Despite the critical self-reflection post-anthropocentrism generates (the human animal is greedy and violent, technologically mediated, and morally obligated to consider sustainability beyond our own species perpetuation), it does not offer an alternative orientation to knowledge production. At its best, post-anthropocentrism is a conceit. We do not suddenly become fluent in non-human ways of knowing by virtue of thinking it would be cool to do so. Even the gesture of prioritizing paradigms of understanding that diminish our self-importance still rely upon judgments made from the human perspective. At base, in a quest to position ourselves post-anthropocentrically, we must be suspicious of our capacity to think outside of our social conditioning and intellectual biases while simultaneously encouraging an awareness of what we may be otherwise be blinded to because of the nature of the self. Productively, this is to embody an interstitial space between anthropocentrism and its undoing: what is possible from this position of thwarted desire?
The limitations of cultural homogeneity were implicitly acknowledged in Braidotti's lecture when she repeatedly pointed to non-western humanisms as "where it's at." This makes sense to me: I can trouble my western, euro-centric ways of knowing by inhabiting what Braidotti called trading zones: places where ideas are exchanged and disagreements occur. I can situate my intellectual activity as listening and I can attempt to increase the interdependencies between my patterns of knowing and other ways of making sense. But I'm really not sure how this resists becoming just another example of colonization, of seeking out the resources of other cultures and appropriating them for my own gain? There's all of history to tell me that the human is a colonial machine, and to think that non-western humanisms can be utilized to recuperate the use-value of the humanities in the west is, once again, to use the resources of others cultures to rescue my own.
Listening to Braidotti's lecture, I was was reminded of other instances where the demand for social change requires that I account for my own position within a shifting terrain in order to assume an appropriate and transformative responsibility. As protests swept across the US this winter to express outrage at the murders of Mike Brown and Eric Garner, white people were asked to protest from their subject position: do not carry signs proclaiming that "I am Mike Brown," but rather, carry signs that challenge white supremacy. As Braidotti encouraged me to recognize the value of destabilizing my own subject position in ways of knowing and relating, I kept asking myself: how to be post-human from the position I occupy as already always human? How to engage otherness in the key of anti-oppression? How can we translate what we already know about how we are human, in order to be post-human with a touch of grace?
[i] Carey Wolfe, What is Posthumanism? (Minnieapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010), page xvi.
Filed Under: Editorials #academia #colonization #Culture #human #nature #post-human #post-humanities #Power #subject position #technology
cheyanne turions is a curator, cultural worker and writer.
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They do tell you that the number of selfbuilds isn't really growing. In fact earlier figures that I've seen also confirm this. The number of DIY reclaims has hovered between 10,000 a year and 12,000 a year ever since 1984 when VAT first became chargeable on building work.
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TSA agent arrested on the job at DIA, charged with 12 counts of child sex assault
By Kieran Nicholson | knicholson@denverpost.com | The Denver Post
PUBLISHED: April 5, 2019 at 4:13 pm | UPDATED: April 6, 2019 at 1:31 am
A TSA agent was arrested Friday morning at Denver International Airport on suspicion of multiple counts of sexual assault on a child.
17th Judicial District Attorney's Office
Matthew Paul Barnett
Matthew Paul Barnett, 33, of Thornton, is suspected of assaulting three young girls, according to the Adams County district attorney's office.
The charges against Barnett are sexual assault on a child, sexual assault on a child by a person in a position of trust and sexual assault on a child as a pattern of abuse. He's been charged with 12 counts, all felonies.
Barnett was fired Friday after his arrest.
"TSA does not tolerate illegal, unethical or immoral conduct," according to a TSA statement. "This individual is no longer employed by TSA."
He'll be advised of the charges against him next week in Adams County Court, according to a news release.
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Rosettes usually solitary even when old.
Leaves numerous, as many as 50 in each rosette, crowded, broadly ovate, shortly acuminate, to 8 cm long or more, 3 - 4 cm broad or more, shallowly concave above, beneath rounded and faintly keeled, sessile, difficult to detach without breaking, amber-coloured, with margins near apex deep pompeian-red.
Inflorescences to 25 cm tall, peduncle slender, erect-ascending, carmine, bracts appressed, racemes two to five on each peduncle, secund-racemose, strongly nodding before anthesis, with about 12 flowers each, pedicels slender, to 9 mm long or more, turbinate below calyx, brazil-red.
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Echeveria agavoides 'Red Edge' Dodson, The March 1973 offering of plants of the International Succulent Institute, Inc., Cactus and Succulent Journal (U.S) 45(2): 92. (Mar-Apr) 1973, as a correction to the misnaming of ISI 322 as Echeveria agavoides var. corderoyi in Cactus and Succulent Journal (U.S) 32(2): 39. (Mar-Apr) 1960.
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Fall/Winter League Roundup: Vazquez debuts, Tavarez, Mars stay hot
Here is a recap of the past week's action in Fall and Winter leagues. For the full list of Red Sox prospects participating in these leagues, check out our Fall & Winter Leagues page, which will be updated continuously through the offseason. This week's roundup covers the period of November 7- November 13.
Arizona Fall League
Michael Kopech really struggled with his control coming off a dominant performance in the AFL Fall Star Game. He walked six in just 3 1/3 innings but was still able to put up a zero in the run column. He struck out two. He now has a 1.56 ERA in 17 1/3 innings this fall with 20 strikeouts and seven walks.
Danny Mars played just two games this past week but stayed hot by going 4 for 7 with two doubles and three RBI. He is 8 for his last 14 after a 1-for-22 start. Mauricio Dubon struggled with just one hit, a double, in 11 at-bats. He also drew a pair of walks and struck out four times. He played two games at short and one in center field.
Trey Ball made two appearances totaling three innings and allowed one run on three hits, a walk, and two strikeouts. Jalen Beeks also had two appearances and three total innings but did not fare as well. He surrendered five earned runs on five hits with two walks and three punch outs. Jamie Callahan gave up a run in two innings of work with a walk and two strikeouts.
Venezuelan Professional Baseball League
Pending free agent William Cuevas had another solid outing, allowing two earned runs over five innings. He struck out four and walked one. He now has a 2.49 ERA in 43 1/3 innings this fall. Austin Maddox and Luis Ysla made their fall league debuts this past week, each appearing in two games. Maddox tossed two innings and allowed one run on a solo homer. He struck out three and did not walk a batter. Ysla allowed a run in 1 1/3 innings with a walk and a strikeout. Carlos Tovar was the only hitter who saw action, as he went 3 for 12 with a double and two RBI.
Dominican Baseball League
Aneury Tavarez was the only Red Sox prospect to record a hit this past week in the Dominican League. He went 7 for 21 with a pair of doubles and three RBI. He's hitting .341/.386/.488 this fall after a marvelous season with Portland. Rafael Devers was 0 for 3 and Marco Hernandez was 0 for 10 with a walk. Justin Haley continued his very strong fall with six shutout innings. He allowed just four hits, no walks, and struck out two. His ERA is down to 0.50 for the fall and has just one walk in 18 innings.
Roberto Clemente Professional Baseball League
Christian Vazquez made his fall debut Saturday with Cangrejeros de Santurce. He went 2 for 3 with two singles and two walks and caught all nine innings. Joseph Monge went 3 for 12 with a double and four strikeouts and Henry Ramos was 1 for 8 with two strikeouts.
Colombian Professional Baseball League
Dawill Aponte went 2 for 11 with two walks.
Venezuelan Liga Paralela
It was another good week for the Boston squad as they went 4-1. The offense was terrific, putting up a pair of 12-run games. Pedro Castellano had a big week by going 9 for 17 with a home run and a double. Marino Campana was 6 for 16 with a home run, Stanley Espinal was 6 for 19 with two doubles, Raiwinson Lameda was 4 for 7, and Reinaldo Ugueto was 5 for 13 with a triple.
The pitching was solid as well, as Victor Garcia got the week started with four shutout innings with six strikeouts. Eduard Bazardo also threw four shutout innings and had seven strikeouts with no walks. He along with Ryan Oduber and Jose Gonzalez helped the Boston team to a 1-0 win on Thursday. Carlos Cortez also threw six innings over two appearances and allowed just one run.
The Australian Baseball League begins play this week, but although there are a number of former Red Sox minor leaguers playing in the league this year (including Boss Moanaroa, Beau Bishop, Stefan Welch, James Albury, and Justin Erasmus), no current Sox are listed on rosters. There was some thought here that Aussie Daniel McGrath might pitch after missing about a month-and-a-half early in the 2016 season, but it appears after reaching 103 innings during the regular season, he will shut it down during the offseason and prepare for 2017.
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Nursing Care of the Infertile Couple
Annabel Matheson
Nursing, Paramedicine and Healthcare Sciences
Research output: Book chapter/Published conference paper › Chapter in textbook/reference book › peer-review
Child and Family Health Nursing in Australia and New Zealand
Matheson, A. (2013). Nursing Care of the Infertile Couple. In Child and Family Health Nursing in Australia and New Zealand (First ed., pp. 89 - 99). Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
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Supreme Court asked to overturn ruling that freed Bill Cosby
Prosecutors have urged the US Supreme Court to review a decision that overturned the sexual assault conviction of comedian and actor Bill Cosby, arguing that the ruling was based on a questionable non-prosecution deal.
A petition filed on Monday by Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin Steele asked the court to take another look at the ruling that freed Cosby in June, the Associated Press reported. While a judge had accepted that Cosby was immune from prosecution under a deal made in exchange for testimony in a previous civil suit, Steele questioned the legitimacy of the deal and insisted that Cosby was eligible to be charged after all.
The only evidence of the supposed non-prosecution deal is a 2005 press release from the then-Montgomery County DA, Bruce Castor, who noted that he did not have sufficient evidence to charge Cosby at the time. However, Castor created some ambiguity with the statement, as he added that his office would "reconsider this decision should the need arise," a passage that's been disputed for years by lawyers on both sides.
While the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ultimately agreed that Cosby was immune from prosecution and should have never been tried, Steele insisted that Castor's press release should not be treated as an immunity agreement, and would set a worrying precedent if it were accepted as such.
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The DA's attempt to revive the case will likely face an uphill battle, as the Supreme Court accepts fewer than 1% of all petitions filed, according to the AP.
Cosby, now 84, was among the first celebrities convicted of a sex crime during the '#MeToo' campaign, which saw a number of big names in Hollywood accused of sexual assault or misconduct, some later charged. Though he continues to deny all wrongdoing, he was found guilty of drugging and molesting a college sports administrator, Andrea Constand, in 2018, before being freed last June, at which point he had served nearly three years of a 10-year sentence. Cosby's legal problems did not end there, however, as he was sued by another sexual assault accuser just months after his release from prison, a case that is still ongoing.


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Does everybody remember that night-before-the-first-day-of-school feeling? I'm having it right now.
I'm both terrified and excited to post this.
For some time now, I've been tiptoeing into the mental health advocacy world. I've started kinda-sorta secret accounts linked to throwaway email addresses so people I knew in real life wouldn't find them. I've written using the same strategy. I've even led digital courses in the mental health space...but I've refrained from outing myself in front of people I know.
It's not for the reason you'd think: I'm no longer scared of stigma. If you judge me for opening up about my mental health journey, there's something wrong with you, not me.
It's because I'm scared of not following through. Of starting but not finishing. Of doing a post like this, maybe keeping it up for a week or a month, then fizzling out.
It's a legitimate fear. My mental health journey has included struggles with depression and addiction. There have been plenty of times where, despite my best intentions starting out, I haven't followed through. I've gotten overwhelmed by life or my brain or both and gotten off track.
But you know what? I'm going to post this anyway.
Why? Because the world needs mental health advocates. Stigma fighters. Recovery warriors. People who loudly and proudly say, "mental health matters," then openly and honestly tell their story.
So here's my story: for most of my life, I've struggled with my mental health. Today, I'm doing better.
I don't know what the future will bring. I don't know if I'll be an empowered and impassioned mental health advocate for all of time. I don't even know if I'll stay well.
But I do know this simple truth: mental health matters. Every day. In every way. For every person.
So I'm going to post this. And (try to) keep posting. Because it's the right thing to do, even if it's scary.
Originally posted on Facebook & Instagram on October 23, 2017.


In my stand about Electrotherapy this well be used for medical treatment. This is also formed of many devices by giving the power of battery. However, electrotherapy have disadvantage you can have an allergic skin irritation that you can get due to electrical charges.
Our skin can have various thickness and some people are more sensitive than others. Use of conductive gels or saline can reduce skin irritation.
May I know whats your opinion on this as If it can replace full diagnostics test in a hospital using x ray ultra sound or same test the difference is its free and they say it can be used as referencce by doctors????
May I know whats your opinion on this as If it can replace full diagnostics test in a hospital using x ray ultra sound or same test the difference is its free and they say it can be used as reference by doctors????
Personally, I don't see anything wrong in enemas, rather the opposite. As for this particular device, there are plenty of them being marketed, including China. I don't know enough about it to answer your question but I'll try to gather some information.
As for your other post related to 27MHz and possible effect on water; George Lakhovsky Multiwave Oscillator antenna has resonant peak (1st resonance) of the largest, outer ring at exactly same frequency.


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It says there is no evidence suggesting the exposed information was misused, but WellCare is nonetheless offering members one year of free credit monitoring from Experian.
The letter also advises Missouri Care members to keep an eye on credit card bills, monitor bank accounts for unauthorized activity and not answer "emails asking for personal details or other information."
"As we continue to investigate the scope of the incident, we are taking steps to prevent something like this from happening again," Webster's letter says. "Missouri Care is deeply committed to protecting our members' privacy, and we apologize for any inconvenience this incident may have caused."
Julie Roth, a lawyer with Spencer Fane in Overland Park and an expert on medical privacy laws, said the information WellCare exposed doesn't sound too sensitive in comparison to some other breaches, but it could still be a violation of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, or HIPAA.
"This isn't a situation where diagnoses were disclosed or account information, or full clinical reports (were disclosed)," Roth said. "So it's more limited in nature, but I agree, personally, with their decision to notify individuals."
Roth said health care organizations do a risk assessment after identifying potential data breaches to determine whether they should self-report them. WellCare notified the media because of the size of the breach, she said.
"You always notify the individuals (affected)," Roth said. "In cases where more than 500 individuals are involved in a jurisdiction, then you also notify the media at the same time."
Missouri Care plans cover about 275,000 people throughout the state and focus mainly on children and pregnant women.
It's the second straight year that a mailing error has exposed the data of Missouri Care members. Last August the company reported a similar breach of 1,223 members' information that the company blamed on a subcontractor, O'Neil Printing. No health information was exposed in that breach, but names, dates of birth and Medicaid account numbers were.
WellCare also offered one year of free credit monitoring after that incident.
"Often that's about the only thing that you can do," Roth said. "Clearly in cases where there's been Social Security Numbers disclosed or financial account numbers disclosed the credit monitoring is, in my opinion, always appropriate. But even here, with the child's name, age and provider, it looked to me like they were offering credit monitoring to essentially mitigate any harmful effect that might occur."
Missouri's Medicaid program, MO HealthNet, also informed more than 25,000 members in 2013 that their personal information, including full Social Security numbers in some cases, was mailed to incorrect addresses by another contractor, InfoCrossing Inc. A "software programming error" was blamed for that breach.
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Yet in the midst of all the jollity, he felt a little forlorn.
There had been jollity and peace and goodness.
That kind of jollity was not for him, it never had been and never would be.
He dreamed of..a life of untrammelled joy and jollity.
She sang..music-hall songs..defused of all jollity.


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Q: Tell us a little about what you do, Renee.
A: I own a consulting firm focused on business compliance and employee relations.
Q: How long have you been operating your business?
Q: How did you form the concept for Iris Consulting?
A: Ten years in the medical industry doing compliance for my employer while simultaneously going to school majoring in communication studies and communication training & development. This is a combination of the two.
A: I'm looking forward to personal growth and change in 2018.
Q: Who would you consider your perfect customer?
A: An independent business that does not have the manpower within their own company to manage compliance practices and employee relations – soft skills training.
A: The naysayers. People who tell others to do something more practical and safe with their lives. Those people motivate me to prove them wrong.
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Grindstone Coworking, the Rio Grande Valley's first coworking spot, celebrates its two-year anniversary today. Located in downtown Edinburg, Grindstone Coworking offers entrepreneurs, mobile workers and freelancers a sense of community as they work independently, positively impacting both creativity and productivity. The office marked the occasion with a Halloween barbecue for members.
"I'm very proud of what we've accomplished during these two years at the Grindstone. Our members are thriving in their respective businesses. Some of them have expanded during their time here. I'm glad our office space is able to play even a small role in their success," said Daniel Rivera, founder of Grindstone Coworking.
Located in downtown Edinburg, Grindstone Coworking has attracted several businesses to the Edinburg area. The coworking spot has come a long way since its opening on November 2, 2015. With features in The Monitor, the Rio Grande Guardian, and other local publications, Grindstone Coworking has welcomed a variety of workers through its doors, with some coming from as far as Monterrey, Mexico and San Antonio.
In addition to offering office space for local businesses, Grindstone Coworking also sponsors entrepreneurial classes and seminars on topics like financial readiness and social media marketing, with the help of a program established in conjunction with the Edinburg EDC. This has helped create a vibrant learning environment for established entrepreneurs and those just starting their businesses.
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I would start checking the wires at the ECU connection with a multimeter.
for most of the critical components of the FI system.
harness (I'll explain why I think this below).
knowing how to do this.
strands, any special kind of casing on the wire needed, etc)?
can someone describe to me how to do this?
and it has ran ever since.
perhaps the heat weakened the wires and now they are only marginal.


We'd gotten a vehicle to Mars for Christ's sake, and this is what they choose to celebrate? Curiosity, out there all on his—its—own, humming to the frequency of "Happy Birthday"? Mics up to max, an ear-numbing static filling our large control room, some of the more senior staff sing loudly over the noise while eating crumbly cupcakes over their consoles. Normally I might put a stop to it, but they'd been working so hard.
"Good job," I shout over the din after the last whir fades, "Back to work." The Martian wind had picked up anyway, and the room is deafening. A few glare in my direction before pulling their volume knobs to the left painfully slowly until only the main speaker remains, broadcasting smaller snippets of static back into our room. Much better.
All of us stop. There's a sound. A crunch? Then, an echo. What sounds like a-a delayed echo. But it isn't… it's more bass-heavy; Happy Birthday drummed out on…it sounds like a garbage can, completely unlike Curiosity's tinny grinding. Then, even the wind and static drop from our primary mic.
We'd been cut off. We'd lost our audio.
The main screen in front of us flickers in greyscale, then in colour. The landscape hadn't shifted since we last booted up the lens: just a scene filled with rock and iron dust. From behind me, I hear the clinking of Ross's heavily-ringed paws across the keyboard, booting up our analytics programming. The interns just stand around staring.
Almost as I say it, something leans in and out of the frame—something big, dark, square… headless, but humanoid…and metal…all metal.
But Nathalie's fast; she's already shifted the control stick. The same sounds they'd just been celebrating—the mechanical shills of Curiosity's circuitry—must have caught the…the thing's attention. Brought it over to investigate. We'd scanned this area three times already and hadn't seen a thing. Now, the thing steps closer and closer, moving in and out of the frame, before everything goes black.
A second more, and a little red dot lights up the right corner of the dark screen.
With a jolt, I realize we hadn't been recording.
"Why'd you make me pan?" Nathalie hisses, smacking Ross in the arm.
"What do you think that was though?" says another voice, one I don't recognize. I follow Nathalie's line of sight toward a young, brutish-looking teen in a fluorescent safety vest.
"It was a shadow. Nothing but a shadow." The boy rolls his eyes and begins emptying one of our overflowing garbage bins, the purples and greens of his tattooed arms clashing against his orange safety vest. Kids these days.
"For the last time, it's Stern." But my voice trails off… the screen ahead of me is no longer all black, instead chalk full of our usual analytics. Consumption is up, RPM's running wild…much faster than Curiosity was used to on ground.
Ross's loud fingers crack across his keyboard, booting our 3D map onto the screen space. Indicators all over the scan blink out Curiosity's distance from home base as well as its elevation.
I have to see Kinsella.
Back in the break room, I have Kinsella in my lap, feeding him a bit of carrot from my lunch. Petting the lab rat always makes me feel…like I can be the leader these people need. I'm top of command…he's just a rat.
There in the doorway stands the kid from earlier, his vest shining in the fluorescent lights. I don't answer, just watch as he slowly shuffles to and from the lunch room's empty recycling bin. He'd almost made it to the door again when suddenly he turns around, brow furrowing into the bridge of his large nose.
"I'm here 'cause I worked over some flat-earthers, you know. I'm on your side." His stance is powerful, but his eyes are pleading, like he's looking for approval or something.
I get up and put Kinsella back in his cage, thinking maybe it was time to give it a clean. Passing the kid without looking at him, I promise myself that I'll tell Nance off for hiring ex-cons to work around the equipment.
Back at the main deck, Nathalie, Ross, and their interns hover around several computers off to the left of the room, near our collection of discarded equipment heavy with dust. Blue and red lights flash across their faces from the main screen, and from the smaller monitors ahead of them. From what I can tell, Curiosity is moving again.
Everyone in the room suddenly covers their ears, protecting them from the wailing sirens suddenly blaring from the walls. Ross motions for me to come to him, and points at the smaller stats on the big screen, mouthing something that might have been "elevation" or "television". Turning, I see what has his eyes bulging: Curiosity's mileage has stopped, but the elevation has sky-rocketed. The thing's moving damn fast and…and it's off-planet. Off-Mars.
I begin to recognize the siren's pattern. Not for fire. Not for gas leak. For incoming. Like get out now.
"Unidentified object entering atmosphere," announces the automated voice over the intercom. We'd only heard that announcement a few times before, when broken satellite parts fell back to earth. Watching the screen, I know this is something else entirely.
"It's coming…it's coming here!" I barely hear Ross confirm. Over the siren an automated voice begins walking us through our evacuation procedures. Stay calm. Don't panic. Danger is imminent. On the big screen, our map blanks, replaced by another routing our room to the closest exit.
"Let's go!" I yell, motioning for the others to follow. Taking the first right out of the room, I try to remember our last fire drill: we need to head to the West Exit.
We had only just turned the corner. I saw a few of our team who were just coming on shift ahead, including Nance, running with their passes clutched in their hands, waving them toward the scanner on the next door. Then there was the first explosion.
The hallway becomes…longer. I can't see or hear very well. I can't tell what the hell I'm looking at until something else takes me, lifting me and pushing me in the opposite direction of the crash. I can hear blood rushing in my ears. I can feel my consciousness wavering before me. But still, as I move, I manage to catch a glimpse of corrugated metal and oil.
Next thing I know, I hear a foggy voice calling. I can barely lift my head, but know I'm sitting down. The sirens had stopped blaring. We are back at control. But the person shouting at me isn't Nathalie, or Ross. It's the kid in the vest.
I turn to see Ross in another chair, blood pouring from where his ear'd been blown off. I'd seen worse overseas, know how to patch him, but can't seem to lift my arms.
"I'm gonna go get the others, you stay here, right?" I finally hear, moments after the kid had already gone.
He starts moving desks; starts putting desks in front of the door. I want to shout at him…the windows! But before I can even try and talk, something big crashes through the glass—and the reinforced concrete holding it in place.
It…it's tall. Three metres at least. Our ceilings are four. And no discernible "head" either. Just all four of its "arms" on the ground for support, still and silent as the dust settles all around.
I hear my own voice echo back at me—if it were deeper and more mechanical–but can't pinpoint where the noise is coming from. Nothing on it seems like a speaker, or a mouth.
"Curiosity?" it echoes again. Gears shifting, the machine moves onto two of its limbs and walks like a biped to the centre of the computer lab, pulling a small beacon-item from a tangle of wires on its "front". I soon recognize the emblem on some of its metal. The red and blue planet. The white lettering. The stars. It's Curiosity, but riddled down to a circuit board or two, manipulated into…some kind of homing device, leading the thing straight to us.
"Think it wants access to the Internet? Can you give it the Wi-Fi password?" The kid looks at me, and then adds quickly, "I can like, plug my ears or whatever." In response, the machine grumbles the word "internet".
"Find it." The voice again. I manage to stand. My face is charred, my back bent and bruised from the fall. Inching along, I can't help but feel it's somehow…looking at me. That it's following my movements toward the administration desk on the other side of the room. I remember seeing the password in our training manual…how many years ago? Surely, Nance would have kept it up to date.
My mind racing, I wonder if crash-landing on our base could be considered a threat of violence. Still, it having access to our general Wi-Fi (our regular, guest network) shouldn't be any different than the many times those humans who might try to gain our intelligence had "logged in". I only hesitate for a second more, running through the Universal Protocols Manual in my head. Article T-31B states that we respond positively to the demands of extra-terrestrial nations, within reason. Looking at the kid, then at the machine, I read the password aloud. As I finish the last digits, the thing's legs contract into its "body", leaving the bulk of it standing not far off the ground. Its arms contract next, causing it to drop the beacon-item, it's fall echoing across the room. Without another sound the thing…the robot…comes to a stand-still.
"What's it doing?" the kid mouths. Both of us just stare, the sounds of footsteps echoing from outside the mutilated wall.
"More of them?" he asks, louder this time.
"No, that'll be security," I say, my voice shaking. 'This way,' I hear someone else order. In no time, 12 men take position at the new entry point, some of them with guns, some of them without. The ones with guns are pointing them at us. Three to a person.
They hadn't noticed the machine.
Our computers are still functional, humming. That sound is normal. What wasn't normal in that room was the suddenly loud beat of an old-fashioned printer starting up.
It must have just scared the guy at the door. Like he'd seen one too many alien movies and didn't want to take any chances. When he starts shooting, the others follow suit. I duck, but before I can cover my ears, I hear two voices: one, the commander's Cease fire! The other, a strangled No! Stop!
I don't see it when the kid runs to protect the machine, but I know from when I turn around and see him lying on the ground that that's what he'd done. Lucky for him, all but two bullets had missed: one in the leg, and one grazing his head, taking more than skin with it. He's down, already damaged from earlier. He looks bad. Maybe dead.
I go, kneeling beside him as the officers at the door—with the exception of the first shooter, who stays kneeling, shaking with his eyes closed—go back down the hall, one of them calling for medical services over their radio. Along the kid's bloodied arms, tattoos of Captain Picard, ET, and Dana Scully gaze up at me. I feel suddenly small under their gaze.
Backing away, a nauseous feeling in my stomach, I almost bump into the dark, boxy thing that'd been the cause of it all. It hadn't moved since I'd given it the Wi-Fi, and certainly didn't look as if it had just undergone a barrage of gun fire. That's when I notice the sheet hanging from the top of it. Like the kind from those copiers in the 70's, with the perforated holes on each side.
-----We are glad you telephoned/called.
-----You are very hard to contact/locate.
-----We would like to tell you.
-----Your atmosphere/ yard/ home is disgusting/ messy.
remove/ get rid of your trash/ garbage.
-----They are big/ giant and mean/ angry.
Almost as soon as I finish reading, the machine boots up again. None of us move while the thing extends its limbs, turning to go back the way it came, stopping only to "look" at an overflowing garbage bin near the door.
"Gross," it whirrs before disappearing out of sight. Not long afterward a sound like a jet engine erupts from the hall, smoke tumbling over the broken glass, another explosion of concrete sending grey dust flying around the room.


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Jason Terry has returned to the Rockets.
"It's official," Terry said in a text message to FOX 26 Sports.
Then in a telephone interview with FOX 26 Terry said guard James Harden refused to give up on Jason returning to Houston.
"No question, he was all over me," Terry said. "(Harden) basically wasn't letting me go anywhere. That was tough for me knowing how important I am to his growth and his development.
Terry mentioned that Harden made it tough on him because he had an attractive offer from the New Orleans Pelicans.
"It was tough for me because New Orleans presented a great opportunity to work with a young core that is on the cusp of doing some good things in this league," Terry said.
But the Rockets appear to be on the cusp of doing some great things in the NBA.
"You obviously see how close we are, and with the acquisition of Ty Lawson that makes us even closer than we were last season," Terry said.
Friends of former NBA Commissioner David Stern are urging him to run for mayor in 2017, now that Mayor de Blasio is looking less likely to be re-elected to a second term.
Stern, a lifelong Democrat who has regularly contributed to the party, will be retired for two years in February.
Other potential Democratic candidates include real estate mogul Don Peebles, NYC comptroller Scott Stringer, Public Advocate Letitia James, Brooklyn Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, and Christine Quinn, the former council speaker now working for Gov. Cuomo.
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Rounding out the top five athletes whose single tweet would provide a company's product or service the most value are Kevin Durant ($66,553), Kobe Bryant ($42,389), Floyd Mayweather ($34,924) and Dwight Howard ($34,290).
Despite the big numbers, Lawrence said most companies pay athletes between $1,000 and $2,500 for a single tweet. The most his company has sold a one-off tweet for was for $20,000 during last year's NFL playoffs when a New England Patriots player, who he said he can't disclose, took the bounty.
Lawrence said he brought a one-tweet, six-figure deal to LeBron's team, which recently passed.
SOME RANDOM HEADLINES: According to a report, the Los Angeles Lakers tried to lure Yi Jianlian back to the NBA … A look at the Charlotte Hornets' offseason … The Washington Wizards are reportedly going to sign big man Jaleel Roberts to a non-guaranteed deal … Last summer, the Milwaukee Bucks talked about playing Giannis Antetokounmpo at point guard the following season. This summer? How about Antetokounmpo at center in 2015-16 … Was the Oklahoma City Thunder's dynasty over before it began?
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Our guests don't hold anything back either.
We went back in our own HT Time Machine and chatted with CWebb about his high school playing days, the legacy of LeBron James, the fate of the Dallas Mavericks and even got his surprise pick to win it all.
We also talked MVP, Floyd Mayweather, Dwight Howard and plenty more with the big fella.
Hawks beat writer Michael Cunningham of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution joined the party, too, providing insight into the Eastern Conference semifinal matchup between the Magic and Hawks.
11:00 – 22:30 – Hawks-Magic talk, Is Mike Woodson safe in ATL?
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Tailings-to-glass facility wins Henderson Sustainability Challenge
For the second year in a row, Climax Molybdenum engaged Colorado School of Mines students to think outside the box about the company's Colorado assets
A manufacturing plant that upcycles Henderson mine tailings into high-value flat glass products was the winning idea of the 2019 Henderson Sustainable Development and Entrepreneurship Challenge.
For the second year in a row, Climax Molybdenum, a Freeport-McMoRan company and owner of the Henderson mine and mill, engaged Colorado School of Mines students to think outside the box about the company's Colorado assets and their future after eventual mineral depletion.
In 2018, the students focused on the Henderson mine in Clear Creek County. This year, the challenge shifted across the Continental Divide to Grand County and the mill facilities that process the Henderson molybdenum ore.
The $25,000 grand prize-winning idea, Tailings to Glass, proposed harnessing the roughly 280 million tons of tailings, currently stored at the Henderson mill as a feed stream, for the production of flat glass for windows, doors, mirrors, solar panels and more.
Tailings is a by-product of mineral processing. At Henderson, the tailings content is more than 50 percent quartz, or crystallized silica, which is the main ingredient in the most widely used type of glass. Once purified, quartz from the tailings would be mixed with 50 percent recycled glass to lower energy costs and extend the tailings supply.
"Climax Molybdenum is a long-time partner with Colorado School of Mines and this challenge is another step in promoting learning and awareness about the importance of the industry and its capability to deliver real value to the state and local communities, both during and post mining," said Mike Kendrick, President-Climax Molybdenum. "This program also encourages innovation in resource stewardship and reuse, collaboration with local communities, and practical opportunities for economic development that can deliver enduring social and environmental benefit in the counties where we operate."
In addition, the competition gives Mines students the opportunity to take what they have learned to develop real-world, innovative sustainability solutions.
"This challenge represents a one-of-a-kind opportunity for students and faculty to apply classroom and theoretical knowledge to a real-world scenario by envisioning concepts for post-mining asset use that yield attainable economic results for industry and community," said Bill Cobb, Vice President-Environmental Services and Sustainable Development-Freeport-McMoRan. "The initiative brings to bear fresh thinking and a diversity of ideas that might not otherwise be explored, many of which may be viable even in advance of closure, which is a win-win situation."
In operation since 1976, the Henderson mine and mill is one of the largest primary producers of molybdenum in the world and a major economic driver for the region. Student concepts in the competition were required to provide a socioeconomic benefit to the surrounding communities, as well as be economically sustainable, socially acceptable and provide a positive, lasting legacy in the state of Colorado.
The final five student teams presented their ideas and business cases on Dec. 5, 2019, to a panel of judges from Freeport-McMoRan, Climax Molybdenum, Henderson operations and the Grand County community.
Members of the winning team included Michael Caplan, a master's student in metallurgical and materials engineering; Brian C. Davis, a PhD student in materials science; Michael Knight, a PhD student in materials science; Meghan Cameron, a senior majoring in mechanical engineering; and Alexander Merritt, a senior majoring in mechanical engineering.
Their inspiration came from the work of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering Research Professor Ivan Cornejo on what Cornejo called "trash to glass." "We thought we could take that core idea and make some real progress on it," Davis said.
The team did extensive research and physical lab work to provide proof of concept – from attending a glass industry conference to actually melting glass from Henderson tailings in Hill Hall.
"Tailings are an available resource, especially with the diminishing amount of easily available silica worldwide," said Cameron, who grew up in Grand County. "We can make use of what we have. This was a large lesson in innovation and creative problem solving. We were able to create a specific idea to address all the needs of the challenge, whether it was the community aspects, the land use aspects or all the engineering aspects."
The second- and third-place teams took a more agriculturally rooted approach to repurposing the mill's 10,300 acres near Parshall:
$15,000 second prize: Rocky Mountain Organics
Project: An organic shrimp farm and hydroponics-based agriculture research/educational facility for smart farming
Team Members: Patrick Meier, master's student in mining engineering; Clemens Rainer, PhD student in petroleum engineering
$10,000 third prize: Growth and Production
Project: Hydroponic hemp farm and cannabidiol (CBD) oil production facility
Team Members: Aurora Waclawski, senior majoring in environmental engineering; Paige Kadavy, senior majoring in mechanical engineering; Erin Smethers, junior majoring in mechanical engineering; Nicholas Laurita, senior majoring in mechanical engineering
"We want to give a big thanks to our partners at Freeport-McMoRan, Climax Molybdenum and the Henderson mine for giving Mines students another wonderful opportunity to tackle a real-world challenge in Colorado," said Priscilla Nelson, professor of mining engineering at Colorado School of Mines. "As always, our students shined in terms of problem solving, teamwork and entrepreneurial skills, and we are so proud of all the hard work they put in to developing these innovative and sustainable solutions."
By:Emilie Rusch, Public Information Specialist, Colorado School of Mines
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Our beloved former President, Nelson Mandela was admitted to a Pretoria hospital yesterday.
The world media has turned the spotlight on our country and messages of support are pouring in from all corners of the globe.
It is sad and disappointing to see some, especially on social media, being grossly insensitive. They say there is no need to pray for Tata and others say let him die.
Yes Madiba is old and yes he will not live forever, but in respect to the family and millions of people who hold him dear, there is no place for insensitivity.
What we conveniently forget is with freedom of speech and expression comes responsibility.
Let's be sensitive and let's show respect. Those who make inappropriate comments must hang their heads in shame.
Get well Madiba. I am joining millions around the world and saying a prayer.
I attended the launch of the 2014 "20 year freedom countdown" in Pretoria today.
I am a "social cohesion ambassador". Scores of veterans of the struggle, business leaders and influential South Africans attended the launch, hosted by Arts and Culture Minister, Paul Mashatile.
The 20 year celebration is important. It's not about whether your Black or White, rich or poor, male or female, ANC, DA or any other political party…It's about our country.
While we celebrate, let's not forget to hold government accountable. We have serious "challenges" in SA including crime, poverty, unemployment and poor service delivery.
I argued this in my address today.
I've received many queries about the R511/M26 road between Erasmia and Diepsloot. The contractor abandoned the work last year after digging up about 4km of the tarmac. Road conditions are very poor.
The Department terminated the contract due to poor/unsatisfactory performance of the contractor.
On this score, it acted in the public interest.
The Department has extended the scope of work (for further improvements on the road), which has additional budgetary implications.
An application has been made to Provincial Treasury for additional funding and the Department is awaiting a decision from Treasury.
The Department cannot proceed with the revised tender until there is authorisation from Treasury. This is a legal requirement.
Shortly after 5pm on Sunday, I witnessed two men being loaded into the back of a police vehicle in Tangerine Street, Laudium, outside Pretoria.
I decided to follow the police van. Over recent months I've been inundated with complaints about cops taking bribes from "illegal" foreigners.
The patrol van drove for a few kilometers and stopped in 41st Avenue.
The men were released. I asked them why they were "arrested" and they said they are Malawi citizens and although they had documents, the police said they were illegally in South Africa.
The one men said he was forced to pay the cops R10. The other said he had no cash.
I immediately called the local police station commander. The men said they were happy to open a charge.
The station commander promised me he would take statements from the men "tomorrow" and take appropriate action. I hope he does. I will keep a close eye on progress.
Bribery and corruption must come to an end. A few months ago I alerted the station commander to allegations that his officers often took bribes in the Laudium area. He promised action. Clearly, the little or no measures were taken.
I have also alerted the Gauteng Police Commissioner, Lt General Mzwandile Petros, to this incident. Let's see if he holds his police officers accountable. He has also been given full details of the foreigner who paid the bribe and the police vehicle call sign.
R10 may sound little. But this rot must stop! These people work hard to earn a living and cops continue to take their hard earned cash.
This problem appears rife in many areas. We must stand up and report the thugs!


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January 19, 2014 by Jilly Wood
Jilly: I Didn't See That Coming
The Only Guarantee
I'm not a big fan of 'true story' dramas. I often find it difficult to lose myself in them because I'm busy wondering which parts are hard fact, which are poetic licence, and what evidence the writers might have excluded because it didn't fit their narrative.
There's a minor scene near the beginning of Philomena, one of this year's Oscar nominees, which I'm pretty sure must have been poetic licence on the part of the writers, Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope. The movie is based on the true story of Philomena Lee's search for the son she bore as an unmarried teenage mother in an Irish convent and who was sold by the nuns to a wealthy family in the US. It's an unlikely 'buddy' story that pairs up unsophisticated Philomena with Oxford-educated current affairs journalist Martin Sixsmith.
In the scene, the writers define the educational and social gulf between Philomena and Martin by their choice of reading matter. Martin, who thinks he's demeaning himself by working on Philomena's 'human interest' story, is reading 'a weighty tome about Tsar Nicholas'. Philomena has just finished a romantic novel entitled The Slipper And The Horseshoe, which she has very much enjoyed. She insists on giving a blow-by-blow account of the plot, which is made to sound utterly formulaic. Eventually she reaches the inevitable HEA, saying "Well, I didn't see that coming, Martin, not in a million years."
The script is pretty even-handed, having a good swipe at Martin's intellectual snobbery as well as Philomena's simple enjoyment of genre fiction, and that line got one of the biggest laughs of the night, but for me it was the moment the writers went for a cheap win and switched my expectations from 'enhanced documentary' to 'entertaining tear-jerker constructed around a few solid facts.' The only non-negotiable in a romance is the ending, so unless Philomena has never read a historical before, this bit of dialogue is a howler, right up there with Kevin Costner's Robin Hood disembarking at Dover and riding to Nottingham in an afternoon.
That said, it did get me thinking about what makes a good romance.
I think The Slipper And The Horseshoe must be the creation of Coogan and Pope (I googled it and got no other results). The hero is a self-made son of a doctor who has to decide between marrying a Duchess who doesn't love him and a penniless stable girl who does. Huh. See what I mean about 'I didn't see that one coming?'
In the movie this book sounds like a stinker, and in the wrong hands it would be, but in the right ones I'd give it a go. Story is character in conflict. Character is choice under pressure. Lots of good stuff to play with in this set-up.
It has a male protagonist, which is a relatively recent phenomenon and one I like a lot. He's the self-made son of a doctor, which in a historical is a lot more interesting than making him a Duke. He sounds a bit like somebody Courtney Milan might write about – a product of brains, hard work, and a changing social climate. With the right world and back-story he could be fascinating. I wonder why he wants to marry the Duchess? I bet it's not just because he wants to be Lord of the Manor.
Similarly with the Duchess, who we're told is marrying the hero to spite the man she really wants. Even in a world of changing expectations I'm guessing it would be pretty scandalous for a Duchess to marry one of the new middle-class sorts, so this Duchess sounds interesting. Has she chosen the hero to shock society, or is there some other issue that makes the hero extra-infuriating to the man she really wants?
I'm curious about the stable-girl too. My history isn't especially strong, but I thought girls in domestic service would normally be in the house, not the stables. So the heroine also has an unusual skill-set and back-story. Maybe she's even a girl pretending to be a boy, because she's a genius with horses and terrible with a feather duster. She may be broke, but she's clearly not stupid, helpless or waiting for a man to rescue her. I like her.
So in making a joke about genre romance, the writers of Philomena missed the point. The ending is a given, but the journey is everything, and in the hands of an intelligent writer it's pure joy to read. It's about committing to the characters, and enjoying the way they behave under pressure. Get talking to any romance reader and they'll probably talk about the characters they love – Darcy and Elizabeth, Barrons and Mac, Davy and Tilda, Vidal and Mary.
Do you have a favorite book? Do you know why you love it?
Oh – and romance carping aside, I really enjoyed Philomena. Check out the script here. Or go see the movie.
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14 thoughts on "Jilly: I Didn't See That Coming"
Kay Keppler | January 19, 2014 at 5:22 am
That cheap laugh about a romance novel—"Well, I didn't see that coming, Martin, not in a million years"—that's the kind of thing that makes me hate a movie. That and killing the puppy to make you cry, or putting the kid in danger to create tension. Those are cheap tricks to generate emotion when the writers are too [fill in the blank] to earn it. Grrrr.
Jilly Wood | January 19, 2014 at 7:00 am
I agree, Kay, it's lazy and also maybe not smart. I'd guess the demographic for a movie about a Irish nurse searching for the son she lost over 50 years ago would likely include a lot of traditional romance readers, though the writers clearly aren't. I saw the movie at the London Film Festival so I'd think the audience at the screening I went to (who enjoyed the joke) was probably not representative.
Michaeline Duskova | January 19, 2014 at 6:03 am
Well, to be perfectly fair, if Philomena lost her son in the 1980s, there were an awful lot of dire historicals out there. And, if you look at some of the Kindle offerings, there are some stinkers out there, too, even today. How would Philomena's characterization change if she was reading a really, really good historical? (And we know they are out there — she could have been reading a Georgette Heyer.)
And continuing in the fairness theme, it's obvious, the writers don't have a clue about the breadth of romance novels. And probably not a lot of clues about a "weighty tome about Tsar Nicholas," either, LOL. Sounds like a real potboiler to me!
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie said on a TED talk, "The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story." http://www.ted.com/talks/chimamanda_adichie_the_danger_of_a_single_story.html
(-: I do think that story in your hands would be quite a good adventure!
(And I can't help wondering how hackneyed a blow-by-blow of the Tsar Nicholas book might be. In the right hands, of course, it's a real rip-roaring tale. If a Communist got to be the protagonist. Come to think of it, we're talking about the time Fiddler on the Roof was set, I think.)
You're right, Michaeline, Philomena could very well have been reading a clunker, and I might even have bought her blow-by-blow account of the plot, if they hadn't had her say 'I didn't see that coming.' That made her seem really stupid and practically instructed the audience to laugh at her – and since the real Philomena was a guest at the showing I went to, I found it extra cringe-worthy. Probably in the context of the whole story she didn't even notice.
Thanks for the TED talk link, that's a good one. And I love the idea of the Tsar Nicholas rip-roarer – I'd read that 🙂
Jennifer O'Brien | January 20, 2014 at 4:22 pm
She was there? Oh, how awful.
Yes, she was there and she got a wonderfully warm reception from the audience. I suppose making a human interest story out of her life was the only way she could get the help and resources she needed to find out what happened to her son, so maybe she thought it was a small price to pay.
The script also has some interesting things to say about the need to package Philomena's search into a story – happy or tragic, but nothing in between. The book focuses much more on her son's life and what actually happened to him, but I guess they thought her search for him would make a better movie.
Elisabeth Crisp / @crisplyspoken | January 19, 2014 at 2:18 pm
"The ending is a given, but the journey is everything,"
Sounds like advice for life as well. Thanks for the interesting post.
Jilly Wood | January 19, 2014 at 3:28 pm
Definitely advice for life! Glad you enjoyed the post, Elisabeth, thanks for taking the trouble to say so.
Kay Keppler | January 19, 2014 at 5:53 pm
But speaking to your point (sort of) about reimagining the plot of the romance Philomena was reading, some TV Guide-type synopses are so short that you'd never guess they were describing a masterpiece if you didn't know the work. Like "Civil War epic about a woman who loses it all" for Gone with the Wind, or "Couple marries after family troubles resolve" for Pride and Prejudice. I can see easily how you can reimagine Philomena's book to be terrific.
I suppose it's possible to write a fascinating synopsis, but I can't remember ever reading one. I can see that it's a useful tool when used to support a query – see if you like the writing, and then figure out whether the writer can put a plot together – but as you point out, Kay, even great stories can sound lame when you reduce them to the bare bones.
Elizabeth | January 20, 2014 at 4:35 am
To answer your "favorite book" question, I'd say "Captives of the Night" by Loretta Chase is the one for me. I've read it multiple times and several things keep me going back. The biggest pull is the characters. I usually have time visualizing characters, but in this book I can not only see them but I can hear them as well. The way Chase has drawn them, they completely come alive for me and all, even the minor characters feel fully drawn. The other pull is the story itself. There is a bit of mystery to be uncovered and they way the investigating unfolds and way the the clues are revealed keeps me completely engaged, despite the fact that I know what happens next.
Jilly Wood | January 21, 2014 at 10:03 am
That's very interesting, Elizabeth. I love Loretta Chase, but I've only read Captives of the Night once, and I can't remember now why it didn't grab me. I've re-read Lord of Scoundrels countless times, and The Last Hellion, and the Carsington books. It's been a while so I'm going to read it again and see if I get hooked this time.
(-: Oh, yeah! Forgot the funnest part of a fun post! My favorite book is *A Civil Campaign* by Lois McMaster Bujold (it edges out *Bet Me* by Jennifer Crusie by a smidge because *Bet Me* isn't set in outer space). I love it for the sheer, wild breadth of it. There are at least three romances, and Bujold talks about how romances are impacted by all sorts of outside influences — past relationships, money, status, kindness, communication, old habits of behavior . . . . And yet, with all that information, it's not a complete mess. It's very well organized, easy to follow, wonderful highs and lows, and just a wild ride. And almost everyone is happy in the end (except the count who has to pay 120+ dowries for his cloned daughters, and the would-be count who has been plaguing our hero throughout the book).
Both books are not first books, I'll note. It took a lot of practice to get all of that information into a thrilling, yet readable, format.
I started A Civil Campaign a few years ago without having read any other Bujold, probably because somebody told me it was a fantastic romance. I didn't get in to it, I think because there was so much back-story I was missing. Last year you recommended I should try Cordelia's Honor, and I really enjoyed that – and now at least I have a clue about the Vorkosigan world and about Miles. Do you think I need to read the other twelve (?) books in between to get the most of A Civil Campaign, or do you think it would work as a standalone?
I love Bet Me. From memory, I think Jenny said it was a book she wrote quite early on but sold much later – and she pretty much re-wrote it at that stage. I like to think that's what makes it such a perfect mixture of romance and technique.


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Double DTM champion Mattias Ekstrom will stop racing in the series and focus exclusively on the World Rallycross Championship for 2018.
The 39-year-old Swede won the DTM title for Audi in 2004 and '07, and then added the World RX crown with his own EKS team in 2016.
The future of his rallycross programme - which attracted full Audi works backing last year - had been uncertain over the winter, as he put his existing Audi S1 Supercars up for sale, and team-mates Toomas Heikkinen and Reinis Nitiss both parted company with EKS.
But on Monday Ekstrom announced that after five seasons of dovetailing his DTM career with increasing rallycross commitments he would concentrate entirely on RX this year.
Ekstrom expects Audi to increase its backing of his rallycross effort, and said the team was preparing new cars for 2018.
"Pretty early last year I decided to do one championship for 2018," Ekstrom explained.
"Then I was in the [DTM] title fight, it didn't really play to my wishes but second is still OK, and when I left Hockenheim I said I would definitely come back. That was my spontaneous decision - I would continue to do DTM.
"Then as weeks and months continued I started to think about what I really would like to do because I know I don't have 20 years left as a driver.
"I had a lot of discussions with family, friend and [Audi Sport boss] Dieter Gass, and out of this discussions more and more it came that I think I would like to say goodbye to DTM and do just rallycross and focus on this.
"It's probably the most difficult decision of my professional life, because my heart has been beating for DTM for so many years."
Ekstrom emphasised that a desire to spend more time with his family was the main factor rather than any decline in his interest in the DTM, which faces an uncertain future with Mercedes poised to depart for Formula E after this season.
"I didn't feel for one second that I wanted to stop [racing], but I also felt that I would like to spend more time at home and with my family," he said.