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‘German research institute trivializes Holocaust to attack Israel’

Max Planck Institute urged to cancel talk by academic Norman Finkelstein.

ShowImage (1)Israel’s embassy and leading deputies in the German parliament slammed a Max Planck Institute branch for stoking hatred of Israel and Jews with a series of lectures from a pro-Hezbollah US academic who trivialized the Holocaust and is popular among neo-Nazis.

“It is outrageous that a distinguished German institution [Max Planck Institute branch in Halle] gives a stage to someone who spreads, in the best case, science fiction, and in the worst, pure incitement against Israel. Supporting [Norman] Finkelstein to maintain his academic facade is highly dangerous and an abuse of the scientific standards,” the Israeli Embassy in Berlin told The Jerusalem Post on Wednesday.

Michaela Engelmeier, a Social Democratic deputy in the Bundestag, told the Post she was astonished that “with our history it is possible to welcome academics who play down the Nazi regime’s murder of six million Jews and present it as trivial.”

She added that the fact that the anti-Israel academic is delivering talks close to International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27 is “especially insensitive.”

She urged the Max Planck Institute to cancel next week’s Finkelstein lecture titled “Gaza: An Inquest into its Martyrdom.”

Engelmeier cited Finkelstein’s support of the US and EU-classified terrorist organization Hezbollah. “In the past, Finkelstein compared the antisemitic terrorist organization Hezbollah with the resistance against the National Socialists. He compared Israel’s approach with that of the Nazis. He termed, in his most important work, the remembrance of Auschwitz as the ‘Holocaust Industry.’” Finkelstein’s remarks place him in the “center of right-wing radical deniers of the Holocaust and make him criminally liable in Germany,” Engelmeier said.

Volker Beck, a Green Party deputy who is the chairman of the German-Israel Parliamentary Group in the Bundestag, told the Post that the Max Planck Institute’s invitation to Finkelstein has nothing to do with “qualified academic expertise.” Finkelstein leveled “false contentions against the Jewish Claims Conference… he explained his solidarity with Hezbollah and considers Hamas a ‘peace offensive’ against Israel,” Beck said.

Beck said Finkelstein’s views are welcomed by “conspiracy theoreticians and neo-Nazis because Finkelstein is the son of Holocaust survivors.”

He questioned what motivated the Max Planck Institute to invite the American to speak. “One cannot comprehend the invitation,” Beck said, adding that he could not understand why the institute would have anything to do with fomenting “antisemitic prejudices.”

The group Alliance against Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism along with an anti-fascist student organization from the University of Halle protested on Monday against Finkelstein’s first talk. There were 30-50 protesters.

The regional paper Mitteldeutsche Zeitung in the state of Saxony-Anhalt, where the Max Planck Institute Halle is located, wrote that the institute’s media department was “surprised by the intense reactions.” The Max Planck Institute told the paper that Finkelstein is “a smart academic.”

Marie-Claire Foblets, the managing director of the department of law and anthropology at the Max Planck Institute, played a key role in organizing Finkelstein’s talks and has vigorously defended him. She told the Post it is absurd to call Finkelstein an antisemite.

Post emails to Dr. Martin Stratmann, the president of the Max Planck Institute, were not immediately returned.

The indifference to antisemitism at the Halle branch has raised eyebrows among monitors of modern antisemitism in Germany such as Dr. Efraim Zuroff from the Jerusalem office of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, because the Max Planck Institute played a role in advancing the Hitler movement’s lethal antisemitism.

Christina Beck, a spokeswoman for the Max Planck Institute, told the Post the institute “comprehensively rejects any accusations of antisemitism. In our research organization, there is no place for any form of hatred or agitation. The Max Planck Society maintains excellent relations with Israel and has been involved in German-Israeli research collaborative projects for several decades, in particular through the Minerva Foundation. As an independent research organization we also support diversity of opinion and freedom of science.”

The Halle Jewish community called the lectures a “disgrace” and refused to meet with Finkelstein. Foblets advocated a meeting between Halle’s Jewish community and the anti-Israel activists.

Engelmeier reminded the Max Planck Institute that many “artists, academics, social democrats, communists, journalist, and Sinti and Roma were victims of National Socialism. These Nazis’ murder of these victims was not disputed by Finkelstein, rather only the Jews, she said.

“Finkelstein blames Israel alone for the terrorism in the Middle East. With this position, he illustrates his passion to deny facts and to deny the terrorist attacks of the antisemitic organization Hamas, and equates Israel’s defensive measures with the annihilation of the Nazis,” she said.

Sebastian Striegel, a Green party deputy in the state government in Saxony-Anhalt, told the Post that “a public institution should not invite Finkelstein, because he relativizes the Holocaust.”

Neo-Nazi blogger resigns over revelation his wife is Jewish

Mike Enoch was considered one of the three most influential figures in the “alt-right” movement.

ShowImageThe founder of the popular right-wing blog The Right Stuff resigned over the revelation that his wife is Jewish.

Mike Enoch, who also co-hosts “The Daily Shoah” weekly podcast, was outed over the weekend as Mike Peinovich, a website developer from New York. On the podcast, which has about 100,000 regular listeners, Peinovich as Enoch talked about killing Jews and spouted neo-Nazi invective.

The release of Peinovich’s personal details came after the identities of the other podcast panelists were made public earlier in the week by a rival website called 8chan. The invented surname reportedly is a reference to Enoch Powell, a far-right British politician.

Enoch was considered one of the three most influential figures in the “alt-right” movement along with Daily Stormer creator Andrew Anglin and Richard Spencer, president of the National Policy Institute, a white supremacist think tank. Spencer is a co-creator of the alt-right label, which describes a far-right movement whose followers traffic variously in white nationalism, anti-immigration sentiment, anti-Semitism and a disdain for “political correctness.”

Peinovich came clean with readers of The Right Stuff, posting a message in a password-protected forum that was reprinted in part by Salon.

“As I am sure you all know, I was doxxed and an ill advised attempt to fool the media about my identity led me to not talk to you people and to try to simply ride it out by being silent,” he said. “This was irresponsible and a disservice to all of you. Yes my wife is who they say she is, I won’t even bother denying it, I won’t bother making excuses. If this makes you want to leave the movement, or to have nothing to do with TRS, then I understand.

“Don’t lie for me. Don’t try to defend me to those attacking me. Don’t jeopardize your own reputation by defending things that you don’t think you can. I could try to explain my whole life for the last ten years to you but what difference at this point would it make. Life isn’t perfect.”

The Right Stuff has popularized many right-wing memes, as well as the triple parentheses known as the echo symbol used by white supremacists and anti-Semites on Twitter to identify Jews.

‘British Schindler’ Honored by Royal Mail Commemorative Stamp

Sir Nicholas Winton rescued 669 Jewish children from Europe in 1939 shortly before the outbreak of the Holocaust.

ShowImage (2)The British Royal Mail postal service has issued a stamp honoring Sir Nicholas Winton, who rescued 669 Jewish children from Europe in 1939 shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War.

Winton arranged for eight trains carrying the children to travel from Prague to the UK, utilizing Britain’s Kindertransport program allowing for refugees under 17 from the continent to gain asylum if they had a hosting family.

Winton bribed Nazi officials, arranged for forged travel documents and found families to take the children in and pay a £50 deposit for their eventual return travel fees.

The families of most of the children rescued were murdered during the Holocaust Winton, who died last year aged 106, is one of six humanitarians honored in the Royal Mail’s presentation pack issued on Tuesday, including Sue Ryder, John Boyd Orr, Eglantyne Jebb, Joseph Rowntree, and Josephine Butler.

“Sir Nicholas Winton was a true hero of our time and it is fantastic that Royal Mail is recognizing this remarkable man in such a special way,” said Karen Pollock MBE, chief executive of the Holocaust Educational Trust in the UK.

“The Holocaust Educational Trust is thrilled that this commemorative stamp is now available for everyone to purchase and spread the story of Sir Nicholas’s extraordinary selflessness far and wide.”

IDF Arrests, Releases Former Palestinian Governor and Fatah Leader

Israeli forces reportedly arrest former Tulkarem and Jenin governor, Talal Dweikat, early Wednesday.

ShowImageThe IDF released Talal Dweikat, a former PA governor of Tulkarm and Jenin, on Wednesday afternoon, after arresting him several hours earlier.

He also served as a general in the Palestinian Authority intelligence services.

Dweikat was arrested “for his involvement in weapons trade,” a spokesman for the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) said in an email, without elaborating.

Hours later, however, the spokesman sent another email, saying that Dweikat “was released because his detainment was determined to be unnecessary following his interrogation.”

In addition to Dweikat, the IDF on Wednesday arrested two others in Nablus and raided the home of Dweikat’s brother Sarhan, who also has the rank of general, Wafa, the official PA news site reported.

Dweikat, who was elected to the Fatah Revolutionary Council in December, was a head of the PA intelligence services in Nablus in the early 2000s and was appointed as Tulkarm governor in 2006, where he oversaw the rehabilitation of the PA security forces in the aftermath of the second intifada.

In 2012, Dweikat was appointed governor of Jenin, serving until 2014 when he accepted a position as an adviser in the PA presidency.

Fatah spokesman Munir Jaghoub responded to Wednesday’s arrests, saying that they confirm Israel’s hostile mentality.

“The Israeli arrests and attacks against Fatah’s leadership and cadres are intensifying day after day all over the homeland, sending a clear message to the Palestinian people and its leadership that the current situation is incredibly difficult and complicated… and that the occupation’s mentality is only that of killing, destruction, arrest and denying Palestinian rights, requiring all of us to take a serious stand and confront its arrogance,” Jaghoub told Wafa.

The IDF says that it carries out arrests of suspects who pose a security threat.

Auschwitz Memorial Sees Record Number of Visitors in 2016

World Youth Day was a large boost to attendance. But how about Pokémon Go?

The memorial and museum and Auschwitz-Birkenau announced on Monday that a record 2,053,000 people visited the former Nazi concentration camp in 2016. Tops among attendees are from Poland, the UK, the U.S., and Italy; 97,000 visitors came from Israel, a 59 percent increase from the year prior. Also boosting yearly attendance were the 155,000 people who visited for World Youth Day, including Pope Francis. Dr. Piotr M. A. Cywiński, the museum’s director, said eloquently, “In today’s world—torn by conflicts, increased feeling of insecurity and strengthening of populist tones in public discourse—it is necessary to re-listen to the darkest warnings from the past.”

A few weeks before the Pope visited Poland, there was hubbub about the fact that kids had begun playing Pokémon Go—a newly-released, augmented reality GPS-enabled videogame in which players try to catch, say, a Jigglypuff—at Auschwitz. The museum’s spokesman called it “disrespectful.” Tablet senior writer made the case otherwise, arguing that the forced emotion, the requisite sadness, that is struck upon young visitors is oppressive. “When urged to bow before death, life finds a way.”

Let these kids play their game, then, not even in Auschwitz, but especially there. Let them feel again that mad methectic magic Huizinga spoke about. They can’t make sense of Auschwitz, anyway; they can’t fathom what led to such brutality, can’t make sense of such hate. But they can catch a Jigglypuff and feel a burst of life whistling through the airless chambers of the factory of death. And that’s no small thing, no minor testament to the same resilience the Nazis eagerly and futilely tried to extinguish. Where better than Auschwitz to admit we’ll never have real knowledge, and where better to declare we’ll always have great games?

French candidate under fire for Holocaust comparison

Vincent Peillon, running in Socialist Party primaries ahead of elections, said Nazi persecution of Jews similar to situation of French Muslims today

Vincent_Peillon_Mutualité_11102-e1483584907819-635x357French Jews accused a left-wing presidential candidate of encouraging Holocaust denial following his comparison of the Nazi persecution of Jews to the situation of French Muslims today.

Vincent Peillon, who is running in the Socialist Party primaries ahead of the elections this year, made the analogy Tuesday during an interview aired by the France 2 television channel.

Peillon, a former education minister who has Jewish origins, was commenting on a question about France’s strict separation between state and religion, referred to in France as “laicite.”

“If some want to use laicite, as has been done in the past, against certain populations … Forty years ago it was the Jews who put on yellow stars. Today, some of our Muslim countrymen are often portrayed as radical Islamists. It is intolerable.”

In a statement Wednesday, CRIF, the umbrella group of French Jewish communities, accused Peillon of making “statements that only serve those trying to rewrite history.”

Peillon neither retracted his remark nor apologized in a statement published Wednesday on his website, but said he would wanted to elaborate on what he meant in light of the controversy it provoked and to “refine my view, which may have been misrepresented because of brevity.”

Peillon wrote that he “clearly did not want to say that laicite was the origin of anti-Semitism of Vichy France,” which was the part of the country run by a pro-Nazi collaborationist government. He also wrote that “what the Jews experienced under Vichy should not be banalized in any way” and that he was committed to fighting racism and anti-Semitism.

“I wanted to denounce the strategy of the far right, which always used the words of the French Republic or social issues to turn them against the population. It is doing so today with laicite against the Muslims,” Peillon wrote.

But in its statement condemning Peillon’s remark, CRIF wrote that the history concerning the deportation of more than 75,000 Jews from France to concentration camps and death and the looting of their property, “as well as discriminatory laws such as the one about wearing yellow stars, should not be instrumentalized to create a false equivalence of suffering.”

CRIF “demands a clarification and immediate correction on the part of Vincent Peillon,” it said.

Peillon, a lawmaker in the European Parliament, announced his candidacy in December to succeed President Francois Hollande as party leader and run as its candidate in April. He was appointed education minister in 2012 and served for two years.

In the Socialist primaries, Peillon will face Prime Minister Manuel Valls, who has strong support in the Jewish community. Peillon’s mother, Françoise Blum, is Jewish.

Peillon, who rarely talks about his Jewish roots publicly, signed a petition by the left-wing Jcall group, the European counterpart to J Street, supporting Palestinian statehood.

In 2009, he celebrated the bar mitzvah of his son Elie at a Paris synagogue. He has another son, Isaac. Peillon is married to Nathalie Bensahel, a journalist who has written about France’s anti-Semitism problem.

Peillon opposed the ban last summer on women wearing the burkini, the full-body swimsuit favored by some Muslims, on public beaches. Valls supported the ban, citing what he said was its use by radical Muslims to oppress women.

Norwegian TV sorry for spoofing Holocaust

In satirical video, college students seen touring concentration camp, asking if ovens were for making pizza

norwegian-holocaust-e1483035375779Norway’s public broadcaster apologized for referencing Nazi death camps and the Jewish genocide in a satirical cartoon about the financial situation of university students.

“This cartoon should not have spoofed the Nazi genocide, and we’re sorry this reference obstructed what the sketch is really about,” a spokesperson for the NRK broadcaster wrote on Facebook last week following complaints about the video, which on Thursday remained accessible on NRK’s online satirical section.

It features three young characters who are taken by an older character on a tour of what appears to be a Nazi concentration camp similar to Auschwitz-Birkenau in southern Poland. When the group reaches an oven full of ashes and the remains of a human rib cage, one of the students enthusiastically inquires whether the oven is for making pizzas.

The video, which opened the annual best-of compilation for 2016 of NRK’s Satiriks online satirical video platform, ends with the same students triumphantly holding up a rental contract while the other two students unload boxes at the concentration camp.

“The animated video is about the student economy, which often has students in desperate situations,” NRK wrote. “To make this point, we used visual references to a concentration camp.”

Norway, where the Nazis installed the collaborator Vidkun Quisling as a puppet ruler, was home to 1,700 Jews before the Holocaust, according to Yad Vashem. Despite some protests by Christian faith leaders and the help of resistance fighters to Jews, a total of 763 Jews were deported from Norway by the Nazis and local police to death camps. Only 24 survived to return to Norway after the war.

Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’ is German bestseller, again

First reprint of Nazi leader’s anti-Semitic manifesto since WWII sells 85,000 copies in year, topping nonfiction list

000_jk1ti-635x357BERLIN, Germany (AFP) — The first reprint of Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” in Germany since World War II has proved a surprise bestseller, heading for its sixth print run, its publisher said Tuesday.

The Institute of Contemporary History of Munich (IfZ) said around 85,000 copies of the new annotated version of the Nazi leader’s anti-Semitic manifesto had flown off the shelves since its release last January.

The respected institute said that far from promoting far-right ideology, the publication had enriched a debate on the renewed rise of “authoritarian political views” in contemporary Western society.

It had initially planned to print only 4,000 copies but boosted production immediately based on intense demand. The sixth print run will hit bookstores in late January.

The two-volume work had figured on the non-fiction bestseller list in weekly magazine Der Spiegel over much of the last year, and even topped the list for two weeks in April.

The institute also organized a series of presentations and debates around “Mein Kampf” across Germany and in other European cities, which it said allowed it to measure the impact of the new edition.

“It turned out that the fear the publication would promote Hitler’s ideology or even make it socially acceptable and give neo-Nazis a new propaganda platform was totally unfounded,” IfZ director Andreas Wirsching said in a statement.

“To the contrary, the debate about Hitler’s worldview and his approach to propaganda offered a chance to look at the causes and consequences of totalitarian ideologies, at a time in which authoritarian political views and rightwing slogans are gaining ground.”

‘Not reactionaries or radicals’

The institute said the data collected about buyers by regional bookstores showed that they tended to be “customers interested in politics and history as well as educators” and not “reactionaries or rightwing radicals.”

Nevertheless, the IfZ said it would maintain a restrictive policy on international rights. For now, only English and French editions are planned despite strong interest from many countries.

The institute released the annotated version of “Mein Kampf” last January, just days after the copyright of the manifesto expired.

Bavaria was handed the rights to the book in 1945 when the Allies gave it control of the main Nazi publishing house following Hitler’s defeat.

For 70 years, it refused to allow the inflammatory tract to be republished out of respect for victims of the Nazis and to prevent incitement of hatred.

But “Mein Kampf” — which means “My Struggle” — fell into the public domain on January 1 and the institute said it feared a version without critical commentary could hit the market.

Partly autobiographical, “Mein Kampf” outlines Hitler’s ideology that formed the basis for Nazism. He wrote it in 1924 while he was imprisoned in Bavaria for treason after his failed Beer Hall Putsch.

The book set out two ideas that he put into practice as Germany’s leader going into World War II: annexing neighboring countries to gain Lebensraum, or “living space,” for Germans, and his hatred of Jews, which led to the Holocaust.

Some 12.4 million copies were published in Germany and from 1936, the Nazi state gave a copy to all newlyweds as a wedding gift.


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“I am the Walrus”?

Posted on July 23, 2013

I am he as you are he as you are me
And we are all together…

I can’t help it; that was my reaction when I read the story in England’s Daily Telegraph; the headline is intriguing (Walrus remains found buried under St Pancras station in London;
A Pacific walrus has been discovered among a 19th century human burial underneath St Pancras Station in London) but it was this sentence that set me off:

“The bones were in a coffin with eight other sets of human remains”.

“Eight other sets”?!

Obviously, the reporter didn’t mean to elevate walruses to human status, but then: “we are all together”, as the song goes. The place was a cemetery; the human bodies buried there, in the imagination of the reporter, were disposed of properly, in the manner of people.

So the walrus gets promoted to personhood.

Except that the equation probably should go the other way.

The original burial was part of a graveyard containing at least 1500 human bodies, removed when the old train station was renovated. The burial of eight human beings in the same coffin reportedly reflects their use in medical research “sometime after 1822”.

In 2006, the magazine British Archaeology covered the archaeology being carried out at St Pancras Station. It noted that St Pancras church burying ground was disturbed in the 1860s during the original construction of the railway station, and gives an excellent history of the use of this cemetery:

The parish of St Pancras lay on the fringe of the growing metropolis and offered cheap housing. It absorbed successive waves of migrant workers associated with construction of the Regent’s Canal in the 1820s, the Imperial Company Gasworks in 1822, and the railways from the 1830s onwards. The burial ground saw very heavy use. It was closed in 1854…

So our walrus presumably made it into his final resting place between 1822 and 1854.

In the current news article, archaeologist Phil Emery described efforts to find some historical record of a walrus in records of the London Zoological Society, without success. The article goes on to give the best guess the researchers have:

The most plausible reason for the walrus being in London was that it was brought to the city by whalers and sold for medical research or as a curiosity.

Which may well be true– but what piques my curiosity is the decision to bury the walrus along with (it seems) human bodies used in medical research. Why would the bones not be kept as a zoological specimen, entered into a museum or even a private collection?

Archaeologists generally don’t talk about the things we cannot begin to explain.

The burial of humans and a walrus, intermingled in a single coffin, requires us to face other possibilities.

For the people who placed these remains in what at the time was an over-crowded cemetery in a declining neighborhood of London, the human bodies were, like the walrus, not really people, but materials. Using an established cemetery as a disposal location was pragmatic.

We may never know precisely how they gained access to a Pacific walrus, or what they thought they gained from it. But this was, after all, the time of the “resurrection men” who committed atrocities ranging from exhumation to murder to provide anatomists with specimens:

Public hysteria eventually led to the Anatomy Act in 1835, which aimed to stem the illegal trade by allowing surgeons to appropriate the corpses of the “friendless”, or unclaimed…patients who died could, after a decent burial, be discreetly disinterred and moved onto the dissection table. This continued even after the Anatomy Act was passed…Although the hospital chaplain insisted on reburying the manipulated bones, the new law allowed surgeons to use the deceased’s body without his or her consent.

The ultimate outcome was the modern system that requires informed consent for medical use of human remains. Archaeologists working on nineteenth century cemeteries remind us that not so long ago, to be poor meant your body might be someone else’s object of study.

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Someone recently mentioned to me that they knew someone who no longer used the word adorable in the context it is commonly used (e.g. that shirt is adorable) because they had looked up the definition of the word and saw that it meant “worthy of adoration.” I received this information, felt I should also be convicted, and never looked it up myself.

However, tonight, I did look it up. There seems to be a severe difference, perhaps by reason of use, between one adoring something and one calling something adorable.

Here’s the Websters:

1 : to worship or honor as a deity or as divine
2 : to regard with loving admiration and devotion <adored his wife>
3 : to be very fond of <adores pecan pie>

1 : worthy of being adored
2 : extremely charming <an adorable child>

You may further examine other dictionaries yourself, but I found that and the American Heritage Dictionary both swapped primary meaning with Websters.

Well then, I am going to stop being falsely convicted and use the word again. I’ll ask the Lord to bring it up again if it’s a problem.

One thought on “Adorable?

  1. Hmm…interesting. Thanks for looking it up. Personally, I think it’s still a bit of an excessive term to be used so often in our common vernacular. I don’t see it as interchangeable with “cute” as is so often done. I would prefer to see at least a bit of reverence put back into the word. I believe it can be a very powerful word, whether in the context of “adoration” or “extreme charm”, and would hold better emphasis if it were treated with higher esteem. If a word can be treated with esteem. Oy…the challenges of proper language.

    Great insight.

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Craft Concerns: Sure I’m showing but let me tell you too…

I’m in the final pages of revision note making on my current middle grade novel WIP, and I’m finding all those things that make me roll my eyes when I see them in submissions. Ideally, I’m able to take off my writer hat, put on my self-editing hat, and catch those mistakes before my work goes to any agent or editor.

Many of these craft concerns are just part of drafting and in some cases are a writer’s own shorthand or red flag to rework a section. My personal red flags include the words: then, and then, feel, smile, see, and hear. To me, they signal that I’m about to tell, or lose a chance to be in scene showing emotion or moving the plot forward with action.

This manuscript is particularly difficult because the narrator is rather intrusive and actually has an important part to play in telling the story. What I’m finding is that I tell AND ALSO show. It’s as if I don’t really trust the characters to have their own voices or actions, nor do I trust the reader to get what I’m trying to say. Instead of just showing and letting the scene stand on its own, I write a little telling intro that goes nowhere before their scene. Like this:

My job now is to rework these scenes. Instead of summing up crucial off-stage moments after the fact or before I also show, I want to make sure that the action is happening on stage and in order. Back to the revision cave.

What are your revision red flags?

Embracing Self-care

Kvetching and moaning confessional ahead. You’ve been warned.

Kvetch Zone

Let me start by saying motivation has been low on this side of the keyboard. After working for a couple of years on a project, I hit a major road block. The new piece I started in January and was super excited about seems to have stalled as I’ve reached the muddy middle. My knee has been aching (an injury from a couple of years ago come back to haunt me), and I’ve used that as an excuse not to work out even though working out is one of the main ways I control stress and mood. The job (read income) situation has been spotty at best. Eighteen months out from the finalization of my divorce and the journey of grief seems to be never ending.

I’m okay! I’m not okay. I’m okay! Nope, not even close.

And don’t even get me started on the weather. It’s 60 degrees and sunny then it’s 18 and snowing. Right now there is some kind of mixed rainy, freezey, ooblecky* crap coming from the sky and I have on wrist warmers while I write. The only thing that has brightened my spirits has been the large number of hits my post about college visits got this week. I have had enough. If I was rich I’d hop a plane to somewhere with palm trees and turquoise waters. Instead, I watched the first three seasons of House of Cards (not a feel good show that one) interspersed with The British Baking Show (much lighter) and surfed the internet for inspiration.

I suppose I could find something on the internet to validate any mood but this week a few things have fallen into my cyber lap and I thought I’d share them with you.

From Seven Scribes and Daniel José Older, this post Writing Begins With Forgiveness: Why One of the Most Common Pieces of Writing Advice is Wrong.

From Robin LaFevers via Amitha Knight, Surviving Nearly There about how hard an extended writing journey can be without publication and the importance of walking away from time to time.

From Jamie Varon via Ingrid Sundberg, To Anyone Who Thinks They’re Falling Behind.

All of these articles reinforce the idea that sometimes writers need to take time off, that the universe provides, that we are where we are for a reason, that we need to be kind to ourselves. I tend not to buy this line of thinking. If you’ve read Art and Fear: Observations on the Perils (and rewards) of Artmaking by Bales & Orland, you’ve seen their argument that artists will do almost anything rather than do their art. They call this “resistance” in the book and I seem to have it in spades. My suspicion of self-care is probably rooted in my early indoctrination as a rower. “There is no I in team,” “we don’t say can’t,” “row hard or go home.” As you can see, there’s not a lot of forgiveness or kindness in this philosophy. At this point though, I’ve should-haved and guilted and scolded myself enough and the only thing I feel is that it’s time for a hot bath…

…and another cup of forgiveness tea.

The Revision Cave: All In

As a middle school educator I taught the writing process as a series of steps that separated “revision” from “editing.” Revision, I told my students had to do with answering the big questions that a reader had about your work. It was the writer’s chance to go deeper, be more specific, cut what didn’t work, be clear. Editing on the other hand was about the conventions: spelling, grammar, etc. (By the way if you teach writing I highly recommend Kate Messner’s, REAL REVISION)

At some point in the journey of my writing career, someone at some conference or workshop or lecture pointed out the obvious that the word revision is re-vision or “to see again in a new way.” I took on this definition as my mantra and thus, each revision has turned into a massive undertaking where I basically re-write a manuscript.

It doesn’t start that way. It usually starts with finding a better beginning. Beginnings are hard and many writers talk about a necessary writing to the end in order to fine tune a beginning again (and again). Of course, my fine tuning sets off a ripple effect throughout the entire manuscript. When faced with a section of manuscript that doesn’t work, I pinpoint the problem, I brainstorm solutions then I try it. (“Try it”–is another good piece of advice that can be an entrance to a revision blackhole.) How about a whole new character, Anna? And what if you add an epistolary element? What if, what if, what if…?

I’m pleased to say that I’ve been making steady progress in the revision cave for the last two weeks! My word count each day has hovered around 1000 as I reorder, rewrite, and rediscover the story I am trying to tell. I am going deeper, being more specific, cutting what didn’t work, being clear. Here are a few other things that I’m working on that you might notice in your work:

Where Does the Scene End:
I often end a scene where it will make a good chapter ending–one that doesn’t let the arc of that scene come to resolution, one that keeps the reader a little on their toes. This is a good thing unless, I haven’t given the reader everything they need. When I haven’t, I seem to start the next scene with a quick summation of what the reader missed. Sometimes this info is crucial to the emotional arc of the character. It should have happened “in-scene.” I am looking for these places in the work and rewriting to show the emotions instead.

Tension Makes Me Tense:
I am a pantser by nature but recent workshops with David Macinnis Gill and re-readings of Vogler’s,THE WRITER’S JOURNEY, and McKee’s, STORY have reminded me that plotting and outlining helps. I struggle to make the tension rise throughout a story and sometimes fall into and episodic (good fodder for another post) form of story telling. In this revision, I’ve listed the steps of the hero’s journey and jotted down the scenes that will happen at each of these crucial points. This organizing tool has been incredibly helpful. I’ve also written out what I see as my MC’s controlling belief (an idea I gleaned from Kathi Appelt and Franny Billingsley ) and I’ve added to that a question that describes her emotional arc. I make sure that each scene addresses in someway my MC’s belief and question (and desire but that’s also another post). This forces me to stay on track in the plotting.
Controlling belief: My mother left because she thought I was ugly and useless.
Question: Am I worthy of people’s love?

I guess these are similar but it has helped me.

Who Hates You Baby:
As students we learned the different types of conflict: man v. man, man v. self, man v. society, man v. nature, man v. machine. (Man! We’ll assume that is short for human.)
I was convinced that my book was MC v. self but part of the lack of tension in my manuscript came from the lack of a clear antagonist. I struggled with this idea, but in this revision I’ve chosen to clarify the antagonist and amp up the adversarial nature of their relationship.

I’ll be back in the revision cave come Monday but for now… out of the cave and into the mountains!

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Revision Strategies over at Sporty Girl Books!

Hello wonderful followers. I know I’ve been MIA from my blog but there’s nothing like a deadline to make us produce. This week, it was my deadline for my group blog. I’ve posted over at Sporty Girl Books about my recent colorful, tactile revision technique using a plot chart. If you are a plotter or a pantser, this could be useful for you either as you revise or as you plan the initial draft. Please take the time to click, read, comment and follow over there. Hopefully, when I’m done with this revision, I’ll be back on a weekly blog schedule. See you then!

MWPA Workshop A Success!

Since my last post there have been a lot of changes in my personal life. Changes that I’m not going to go into here. Suffice it to say they have taken up a lot of my brain and heart space and so blogging has been low on the priority list.

What came in high on the priority list this week was my workshop preparation for the Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance. That presentation, “Desire in the Middle Grade and Young Adult Novel,” went very well (if I do say so myself). I was honored to spend the day with seven aspiring writers who braved five hours with me at the Patten Free Library in Bath, ME. Together we explored model texts including Julie Berry’s; All The Truth That’s In Me, Linda Urban’s, A Crooked Kind of Perfect; Ingrid Law’s, Savvy; and Alan Cumyn’s, Tilt.

We asked questions, challenged ideas, reviewed manuscripts, wrote, revised, and even meditated. The day was a success!

Now I’m looking forward to my next presentation. May 2nd, I’ll be at the NESCBWI Annual Spring Conference presenting a workshop called, “Active Mind, Active Body.” We’ll be exploring the connection between physical activity and creativity, developing physical and creative goals, and crafting plans to achieve our goals. Finally, we’ll be doing some gentle physical activity (stretching, dance, yoga) to jump start fun writing activities. Register today!

If you were in my workshop today, share your learning, a new epiphany, or something that went well in the comments below.

If you are coming to NESCBWI New England introduce yourself in the comments and get your own badge here.

MWPA Desire Workshop Gets New Date & Time

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Dear Friends,

My Maine Writer’s and Publishers Workshop, Desire in Middle Grade and young Adult Novels, has a new date and time. Instead of two three hour sessions we are compacting it into a single five hour session on March first at the Patten Free Library in Bath, Maine. Click the picture or text link above for more information and registration. I can promise you a kick-ass lecture with examples from wonderful books, and one on one attention. If you know a someone in or around Maine who might be interested, please send them the link to this blogpost. Retweets and Facebook postings are encouraged!

Happy Writing,

Three Links to Great Web Content: August 4-10, 2013

When I was about eight years old, I used to sit on the landing and listen to the adult conversations that went on at dinner parties my parents would hold. I’m sure my parents thought I was asleep, and sometimes I would indeed fall asleep on the landing and they’d have to carry me to bed. The point is, that I didn’t want to miss anything. Sometimes Twitter and social media reminds me of this. With the incessant stream of tweets and updates I’m bound to miss out on something crucial.

The fact is, there is so much information out on the web that you can’t, and shouldn’t, try to keep up with it. I thought I’d post a few great links from my week and would love to see your favorite links, and a few sentences about them, in the comments.

First off, Ingrid Sundberg. Ingrid Sundberg is a fellow VCFA alum. She recently posted a fabulous series taken from her thesis on story architecture. If you only saw bits, or missed the whole thing, bookmark this page which includes the links for the entire series. Organic Architecture: Links to the Whole Series

If you are a parent or an educator, and haven’t found, you should take a look. In addition to crafts, education, and parenting tips, she is an avid children’s lit reader with wonderful book lists. Her Multicultural Books for Children: 40+ Book Lists are an amazing collection of books broken into various helpful categories.

Lee Wind and the amazing SCBWI blog team were super busy last weekend at the LA Conference. Sadly, I wasn’t able to attend this year (I’m planning to go in 2014), but I was able to get the juicy tidbits on the Official SCBWI Conference Blog. If you are searching for an agent, you may want to read the many agent profiles. Illustrators will want to check out the winning portfolio images, and writers will be inspired by the encapsulated keynote speeches.

Again, I’d love to see your favorite links of the week– interesting industry news, and craft discussions that you retweeted, reblogged, tumbled or pinned that my readers might have missed. I’ll be watching the comments.

Oak Hill Young Writers Inspire

Last night I spoke at the annual awards ceremony and author’s reception for the Oak Hill Young Writers’ Club in Sabattus, Maine. I knew that the event would give me a chance to brush up on my public speaking skills before my award reception Sunday evening. I knew that the event would give me a chance to see what my Creative Bookings clients were experiencing. I knew the event would be my chance to inspire a group of kids who were interested in the thing that I love most.

What I didn’t realize is how much they would inspire me.

The Oak Hill Young Writers’ Club started with a handful of children at a single school and have since grown to one hundred children throughout the the school district. The teachers and volunteers leading the charge are passionate about children and passionate about writing. They see cuts in school budgets year after year and have “band[ed] together to become a foundation of support for [the] children.” Through business and community donations, volunteers, and the kindness of local authors, they have focussed their energy on making writing appealing and cool for students through club meetings, writing contests, and scholarships.

After the speakers, I was honored to watch the attending young authors receive their t-shirts and certificates of participation for the year. The contest winners received their prizes. Their smiles, and the pride on their parent’s faces, lit up the room. In that moment, I was reminded of the pure joy of writing without the expectation of publication or money or awards.

I wish for you all a day of writing without ego.

Dream Big

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“[E]xperience has taught me that you cannot value dreams according to the odds of their coming true. Their real value is in stirring within us the will to aspire. That will, wherever it finally leads, does at least move you forward. And after a time you may recognize that the proper measure of success is not how much you’ve closed the distance to some far-off goal but the quality of what you’ve done today.”

Sonia Sotomayor, MY BELOVED WORLD (Knopf, 2013).


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Radical USA

Next time the media or politicians tell you to look out for signs of radicalisation in young Muslims, remember:

There is a country that brainwashes its children by having them recite a pledge of allegiance to the flag every morning in school before lessons begin.

They produced more weapons of mass destruction in the last 8 years than have been produced under any national leader in history.

While they make up just 4% of the global population, they lock up so many of their citizens that they represent 25% of the global prison population.

They have repeatedly started illegal wars and committed war crimes, for which they have not been tried.

They are the only nation in the world to have used nuclear weapons against other countries, and the vast majority of people killed in those actions were civilians.

Their leader is a sex offender who likes to grab women “by the pussy” and plans on building a wall between them and their neighbours.

Before you worry about radical Muslims, North Korea or Russia, worry about the good ol’ US of A.

They make fantastic movies like Star Wars, but don’t realise that for many in countries they have attacked, the USA are perceived as the evil Empire and the smaller countries identify with the Rebel Alliance.

And if you’ve only worried about them since Trump took charge, read that list of facts again and consider to what extent you, yourself, are brainwashed.

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Detailed Reviews of Mac OS X "Tiger" Preview 467

An anonymous reader writes "AppleInsider has been publishing some very detailed articles on Apple's new Mac OS X 10.4 'Tiger' operating system, which include numerous screenshots of the system. So far the publication has discussed overall installation and Spotlight search technology, Safari with RSS, a new Mail revision with Smart Mailbox technology, and a websearch enabled Mac OS X Help application."
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Detailed Reviews of Mac OS X "Tiger" Preview

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  • Not much news... (Score:3, Interesting)

    by nordicfrost ( 118437 ) * on Thursday July 08, 2004 @01:15PM (#9644166)
    It seems like most of these features were explained at Jobs' keynote address at WWDC. The automatic knowledgebase search in Help was new tho. Can't wait until I get my hands on my developer copy.
  • RSS? (Score:5, Funny)

    by Kenja ( 541830 ) on Thursday July 08, 2004 @01:17PM (#9644182)
    So now they have a broweser thats guaranteed to give you repetitive stress syndrome? How is THAT a good thing?
  • by Luckboy ( 152985 ) on Thursday July 08, 2004 @01:19PM (#9644202)
    Well, no matter how smart my mailbox is, my mail is still stupid.

    I'm tired of people trying to convince me that my breasts need to be larger, when clearly that would only make my penis look smaller.
  • by billstr78 ( 535271 ) on Thursday July 08, 2004 @01:20PM (#9644215) Homepage

    It looks like Apple caught on quickly to the Gmail label paradigm shift away from folders and has put "smart folders" into Mail 2.0 for 10.4.

    IMHO labels and smart folders are long overdue for mail. They've been usefull in iTunes for months and just make good sense data that does not belong in only one bin.
  • Apple Link (Score:5, Informative)

    by mattyohe ( 517995 ) <[moc.liamg] [ta] [ehoy.ttam]> on Thursday July 08, 2004 @01:20PM (#9644218)
    Here is apple's own "Preview". It contains tons of screenshots and a webcast from WWDC.

    http://www.apple.com/macosx/tiger/ [apple.com]
  • photocopiers? (Score:4, Interesting)

    by Down8 ( 223459 ) <Down8@yaho o . com> on Thursday July 08, 2004 @01:20PM (#9644219) Homepage
    Just one of those pot-kettle-black things, I guess: ...websearch enabled Mac OS X Help application.

    You mean like Office2003? And even OfficeXP, I think.

    I'm just sayin'...

    • Re:photocopiers? (Score:5, Informative)

      by 2nd Post! ( 213333 ) <.ten.llebcap. .ta. .raebdnug.> on Thursday July 08, 2004 @01:29PM (#9644324) Homepage
      No, like Window's Help and Support Center, in Windows XP, which also searches the web. The difference is that the OS X Help application is global and applies to all help applications, where in MS's case each app has it's own Help index, and for XP, Office, and Office XP, their own help tools. I'm pretty sure (don't have a copy yet, like you) that in Tiger, any and all apps will be able to search Apple's knowledge base as well as the web for stuff. The difference in implementation between Apple and Microsoft is scope and consistency.

      Microsoft's web enabled help applications are selective.
    • Yes! Don't you know that BILL GATES has a time machine...he jumps 3-5 years into the future, sees what Apple's doing, and then goes back and puts in into his operating system.

      Like Active Desktops, which Windows users had since 1995.

  • by OrangeTide ( 124937 ) on Thursday July 08, 2004 @01:23PM (#9644250) Homepage Journal
    From the appleinsider link:
    Interestingly, sources noted that while the Tiger Finder interface contains no noticeable changes from Panther, Spotlight uses its own sleek window interface design, which is only accessible from windows that are spawned from Spotlight searches. The interface features windows with a smooth, grey-colored titlebar, with sharp webpage-like table results on one side, and an html-style control bar on the other. Details of these new webpage-like Mac OS X windows were first report by sources in an earlier report, though sources described them as Mac OS Finder windows.

    If you look at the screen shots you will notice weirdly blue colored bars, but just in that one application. Honestly I thought Macs were supposed to have a consistent UI. If I wanted a mish mash of colors and widgets I would just get a Windows PC.
    • by shawnce ( 146129 ) on Thursday July 08, 2004 @01:29PM (#9644318) Homepage
      These are screen shots from a developer release of an OS that will not be release until some time in 2005 (Apple is targeting first half of 05). So what you see may have no reflection on the final look of things nor show a complete implementation of any particular look.
    • by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 08, 2004 @01:40PM (#9644465)
      If I wanted a mish mash of colors and widgets I would just get a Windows PC.
      To be fair, I think you should consider looking into Linux. It can get quite exciting to have a qt app, a gtk1 app, and a gtk2 app running, all with different themes. Throw in an old motif app and xmms, and you can have a lot of variety.
    • by BasilBrush ( 643681 ) on Thursday July 08, 2004 @01:41PM (#9644471)
      Given that it doesn't ship till 2005, I wouldn't get too worked up about cosmetic inconsistencies in the developer preview. The developer release is about getting new APIs out to developers. The look will no doubt be further refined before release.
    • One of the few things that are totally customizable in OS X is the highlight color. There are 6 or 7 apple made ones and then an option for "other" where you can pick any ugly color you want. Those blue bars are probably taking their color from a user's prefs.
  • by RinkRat ( 15800 ) on Thursday July 08, 2004 @01:26PM (#9644281)
    If anyone is interested in checking out 'smart folders' ahead of time, I encourage you to try the mail client included with Opera.

    It works under the 'everything is a database' [markschenk.com] premise for email, with 'smart filters', multiple views, multiple email integration, everything controlled via CSS and much, much more.

    It's free as in beer, too.

  • by hkb ( 777908 ) on Thursday July 08, 2004 @01:26PM (#9644285)

    Is Tiger usable as a daily OS, currently?

    No, Safari 2.0 currently does not work with HTTPS sites. Many common apps, including FireFox crash upon execution. Additionally, there seem to be some pretty serious filesystem bugs which can trash your entire hard disk (not just your Tiger partition).

    Do I need a DVD drive? My pirated copy of the Tiger DVD crashes upon boot up.

    No, you don't need a DVD drive. Visit the following URL for good installation steps:

    Install steps [absent.org]

    He also has a Tiger FAQ here:

    Tiger FAQ [absent.org]

  • Upgrade questions (Score:3, Interesting)

    by hotspotbloc ( 767418 ) on Thursday July 08, 2004 @01:29PM (#9644321) Homepage Journal
    Do you need Panther to use the Tiger upgrade or will any version of OS X work? Are the hardware requirements, both minimal and recommended, the same as Panther?
    • Re:Upgrade questions (Score:4, Informative)

      by Henriok ( 6762 ) on Thursday July 08, 2004 @02:36PM (#9645159)
      You can upgrade from any previous OSX version. The system requrements will probably be the same as Pather, but the Tiger beta has some limitation, like a DVD drive (it will install from an image) and FireWire (probably due to the new migration tool), but it installs just fine on every machine that Panther supported. Some feature will require special hardware, stuff like CoreImage and CoreVideo.

      Since Apple continues to opmitize and hone the operating system I would guess that Tiger will be quicker that previous versions och the same hardware. I've noticed significant speed ups on a PowerBook G4/400 compared to the previous Panther install. This is consistent with the history as Jaguar was quicker than Puma (10.1) that was quicker than Cheetah (10.0).
    • Re:Upgrade questions (Score:3, Interesting)

      by larkost ( 79011 )
      Well... you need to be a registered apple developer to have it at this point.

      As a general note: Apple has rarely sent out paid upgrades as anything but a combination of both a full and upgrade installer. They are almost always bootible media (CD's or DVD's) that have disk tools on them so that you can choose to erase/repartition the disk, and "clean" upgrade options (in MacOS X's case it offers to move the "system" folder aside and the option to migrate user folders and system settings).

      Next year when thi
  • by stienman ( 51024 ) <adavis @ u b a s i c s.com> on Thursday July 08, 2004 @01:33PM (#9644373) Homepage Journal
    Since I don't email illiterate people, I'd like my mail program run spell check and grammer check on incoming mail. If it isn't at high school level then it's automatically binned.

  • by Sanity ( 1431 ) * on Thursday July 08, 2004 @01:34PM (#9644385) Homepage Journal
    It seems that Linux has been playing catch up for some years now in terms of user interface, and with the advent of OSX - it now has a whole new mountain to climb.

    Where are the free software projects investigating next generation UI concepts? Is Linux too wedded to the old ways of doing things to compete with commercial vendors like Apple? It seems to me that the Linux UI community has been very busy trying to emulate the functionality of yesterday's commercial desktops, when it should be pioneering new approaches and UI innovations, thus leap-frogging Apple and others.

    • by billstr78 ( 535271 ) on Thursday July 08, 2004 @01:39PM (#9644452) Homepage
      There is a good reason for this lag. Most Linux users (1% of all PC users) don't require slick UI to get their tasks done. Linux users primarily still use the terminal window and considering that KDE is ahead of Windows, I'd say they are doing pretty well.
      • by Gannoc ( 210256 ) on Thursday July 08, 2004 @02:12PM (#9644826)
        There is a good reason for this lag. Most Linux users (1% of all PC users) don't require slick UI to get their tasks done. Linux users primarily still use the terminal window and considering that KDE is ahead of Windows, I'd say they are doing pretty well.

        I don't require a slick UI. I also don't require air conditioning, diet cola, or a high speed internet connection, but they sure make my life nicer and easier.

  • by Mr. Neutron ( 3115 ) on Thursday July 08, 2004 @01:34PM (#9644390) Homepage Journal
  • by ChilyMack ( 720195 ) on Thursday July 08, 2004 @01:36PM (#9644409)
    Lots of people talk about how the Windows version of iTunes is a trojan horse idea, i.e., it gives Windows users a taste of the usability and flexibility of software designed by Apple, and so inspires them to switch. Looks like Apple's been using iTunes as more than a switching device, though - they've been training their user base. Everything's going to be smart in the Tiger, and it won't matter where the files are - just what you want to use, when you want to use it. iTunes is already like this - I can say I want all the movie music by John Williams, in addition to including all the classical titles he ripped off, and it will give it to me in a playlist. So, no massive shift for Mac users or Windows users who have iTunes - they already know exactly how to speed through and take advantage of this UI. Smart.
  • by TheTXLibra ( 781128 ) on Thursday July 08, 2004 @01:38PM (#9644444) Homepage Journal
    It takes a moment of background story, but this does relate...During the 4th of July celebrations (which for some reason, came on the 3rd of July this year) my sweetie and I joined my best friend and his wife and kids in the park to watch the fireworks. Being the "Evil Uncle" of his son, Gabe, I managed to convince him the previous year that we celebrate July 4th each year to commemorate our fending off the aliens attack on Earth. This year, he and I spoke further on the issue...

    GABE: "So, we fought off the Aliens with their own technology?
    ME: "Why...ah, yes, as a matter of fact, we did."
    GABE: "So aliens have laptops too?"
    ME: "Yes, well, sort of. Actually, no..."
    GABE: "Arrrgh!"
    ME: "See, they captured an alien ship back in the 50's and reverse-engineered the operating system."
    GABE: "Hmmm...And they used it to blow up the aliens?"
    ME: "Not quite. See, it takes money to fund these sorts of top-secret government wossnames. So what they did was eventually market the operating system in the private sector, as a competing OS. However, since it was the government that gave out the OS in the first place, they decided to keep it close to home, in federally funded areas... like Schools."
    GABE: "You mean..." his eyes went wide "Apple Computers are made by aliens? Oh no!"
    ME: "No, Apple Computers are made by Apple. However, their OS was originally hacked from an alien spaceship. That's why they never managed to produce clones like the PCs."
    GABE: "And we made the aliens blow up with an Apple computer?"
    ME: "No, we just used their technology to remove their shields, so that our weapons could blow them up."
    GABE: "Did we use alien weapons?"
    ME: "Nope, just good old fashioned American-made missiles and stuff."
    GABE: "Good," he nods sagely. "Cause next time, we might not be so lucky."
    ME: "Indeed. And THAT'S why we celebrate the 4th of July, every year."
    MY FIANCE: "Just for the record, Sweetie, our kids are never going to be home-schooled by you."

  • by shawnce ( 146129 ) on Thursday July 08, 2004 @01:39PM (#9644453) Homepage
    I just wanted to note that Tiger has a lot of very cool stuff under the hood that is taking place that will be a boon for developers and by extension customers (of course this stuff is still currently under NDA).

    It will be a great OS release... one that I feel will become a must have for every Macintosh user (with supported hardware). At least I hope it will be a must have because I really want to use some of he features that will exist to help speed the development and richness of applications.
    • Since I pirated it (flame on), I'm not under NDA, so I took some screenshots of a feature which interested me. Resolution independant UI.

      It's still quite buggy (lots of graphical glitches) but apart from that everything works as expected. The OS X GUI is made up of bitmapped tiff's at 72dpi at the moment, so scaled up it doesn't look too crash hot, but this could easily be changed with a quick revision to quartz, and I expect it will be. Because changes only affect newly opened applications in the present i

  • "Smart" buzzwords (Score:3, Interesting)

    by SilentChris ( 452960 ) on Thursday July 08, 2004 @01:48PM (#9644555) Homepage
    I love it when marketing drones (or programmers) think adding "Smart" to reflect new technology is valid. The mail technology described isn't "smart".

    "Smart" would be a filtering system that recognizes senders based on last name, and realize that people named "Smith" are probably in my family. "Smart" would automatically recognize messages about the Bernoulli account after a few back and forths and organize them by sender and time (kind of like how I have my filing cabinets). When it matches a personal assistant, it's "smart".
    • by Jeremi ( 14640 )
      Having the computer make clever guesses about what you probably want it to do (instead of just doing what you tell it to do) usually comes out as "really annoying". Remember Clippy?

      For example: People named "Smith" may well not be in my family, since Smith is a common last name. Furthermore, so what if they are? Maybe I don't want to have a "My Family" category, and a non-annoying program wouldn't assume that I do.

  • by falcon5768 ( 629591 ) <`Falcon5768' `at' `comcast.net'> on Thursday July 08, 2004 @01:59PM (#9644677) Journal
    I have taken a look at it and currently own Konfabulator, and my honest impression is this.

    While dashboard might or might not be a konfabulator clone, it does it MUCH better than konfabulator could ever do it.

    One of the nasties of using konfabulator aside from the hideous amount of prossesor usage it seems to take and its tendancy to kill your system if your not online and using a widget that grabs online feeds, is the fact that well, every interface is different between widgets and sometimes they either dont work, or are hard to move around or close. The new version of Konfabulator fixed some of this, but its still bad. Apple has changed this, by not only making the moduals easy to close or move, and forcing them to keep simular preference interfaces, they also added the expose powered hide feature.

    Honestly I dont hate Konfabulator and wish it well, I think its creator is a ass as to the fact that he doesnt care about the fact that both Apple and Microsoft did it first and he was just reimplementing a old idea.... beleiving the PR all the media outlets put out about it being this amazing app, but he did create it and i think more importantly he renewed interest in a feature a lot of us didnt use back in the OS 6/7 Win98 days.... Here is hoping the modual makers can bring their work to Dashboard with minimal fuss.... cause honestly those are the people who made konfabulator shine, not the guy who made it.

    • by foregather ( 578505 ) on Thursday July 08, 2004 @03:04PM (#9645563)
      I was rather swayed by this piece (with the most interesting point summarized below for the mentally slashdoted)

      http://daringfireball.net/2004/06/dashboard_vs_k on fabulator

      "Konfabulator = (Custom XML format) + (Custom JavaScript engine)

      Dashboard, on the other hand, is based on WebCore, the underlying open source layout and scripting engine behind Safari. Dashboard gadgets are indeed scripted using JavaScript, the same language used by Konfabulator, but Dashboard uses the JavaScript engine that's built into the system. And for UI layout, Dashboard gadgets are specified using HTML and CSS -- using the same rendering engine as Safari.
      . . .
      Do you see how huge this is? How it opens the door to gadget development to anyone with web design experience? Indeed, I've read the preliminary Dashboard developer documentation (generously provided by a source attending WWDC), and it is outstanding from the perspective of making gadgets easy-to-create.

      The idea that Dashboard is derivative because it's scripted via JavaScript is missing the point. Dashboard isn't using JavaScript just to use JavaScript -- it's using JavaScript because Dashboard gadgets are little floating Web Kit views."

      The article also argues, and offers documentation in support of the position, that you can trace the idea for such widgets all the way back to the first "desk accessories" like the puzzle and calculator from 1984. Then combines both points to paint Dashboard as a natural outgrowth of fundmental Apple ideas.

      While Konfabulator is an implementation of similar concepts, they were not the inventors of them and their chosen means of implementation makes their software practically useless to Apple from the buy-and-incorporate perspective.
      • its only too bad I posted, cause your post deserves to be modded up!

        This is exactly a lot of peopls points, the idea is simular, but Apples execution of the idea is well beyond what they did with konfabulator. It may be simular in idea, but in the end Apple did it much better....

        Its funny but people pissed their pants about "oh apples copying this, apples copying that" but talk about copyrighting a idea and people go apeshit.... well thats all this is is a idea, the underlying implementations are totall

  • by sammy baby ( 14909 ) on Thursday July 08, 2004 @02:03PM (#9644719) Journal
    The "private browsing" mode dialog box in the Safari preview [appleinsider.com] is certainly well intentioned, but isn't sufficiently clear about its purpose. I suggest the following rewrite.
    When private browsing is turned on, webpages are not added to the history, items are automatically removed from the Downloads window, information isn't saved for AutoFill (including names and passwords), and no one will know that you went looking for "bukakke" [sic] on Google. But we're not cleaning up those skanky-ass tissues for you, so pick up after your damn self, okay? Perv.
  • by pauljlucas ( 529435 ) on Thursday July 08, 2004 @02:17PM (#9644911) Homepage Journal
    Even though I run OS X on my desktop, I still run Pine in a shell because I've yet to find a GUI mail reader that has the feature in Pine whereby you can auto-set the From header (when composing a reply) based on other headers.

    For example, if I receive e-mail that contains at least one e-mail address containing mycompany.com, then I want the mailer, upon selecting Reply, to auto-set the From header to my work e-mail address rather than my home e-mail address. (All my e-mail routes my my home Linux server and is split into mailbox files by procmail.)

    Anybody know of a GUI mail client with rules like Pine's? (Oh, and it has to be able to support IMAP over SSL and SMTP AUTH too.)

    • For example, if I receive e-mail that contains at least one e-mail address containing mycompany.com, then I want the mailer, upon selecting Reply, to auto-set the From header to my work e-mail address rather than my home e-mail address.

      I use PowerMail [ctmdev.com] on OSX, and it allows a filter to be set up with the following rules.

      As the program automatically responds using the designated accounts e-mail address, that should work.

      Oh, and it has to be a

  • by Confessed Geek ( 514779 ) on Thursday July 08, 2004 @02:24PM (#9645006)
    Yeah yeah graphics, search, safari... Can we PLEASE Finally fix the HUGE bug where you can't print from Adobe (or any other app that uses PICT rather than PDF) to Linux CUPS queues? Its been in the dev tree since before the last relase...

    Contrary to all rules of CUPS when Apple ported it to OSX they decided to add client side filters which means when you send a job to a shared queue hosted on a linux box, the local printbox hangs and the linux box either bounces the job or prints garbage.

    For details go here [comcast.net]

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of the Verb 'Est'

Entry 0382: Actus Essendi as the Primary Signification
of the Verb 'Est'

Concerning the well known text from the commentary of Aquinas to Aristotle’s Perihermeneias (book I, lecture 5), Jan A. Aertsen remarks that in this text Aquinas clearly indicates the primary meaning of the verb “est (“esse”). Thus Aertsen writes:

Thomas is intrigued by the fact that Aristotle speaks of the consignification of is, which consists in its function as copula. Yet consignification presupposes a primary meaning. What is the principal signification of is, on which the consignification depends? His answer is:

“‘[Hoc verbum “est”] significat enim primo illud quod cadit in intellectu per modum actualitatis absolute: nam “est,” simpliciter dictum, significat in actu esse; et ideo significat per modum verbi. Quia vero actualitas, quam principaliter significat hoc verbum “est,” est communiter actualitas omnis formae, vel actus substantialis vel accidentalis, inde est quod cum volumus significare quamcumque formam vel actum actualiter inesse alicui subiecto, significamus illud per hoc verbum “est” (…) Et ideo ex consequenti hoc verbum est significat compositionem’ (In I Perihermeneias, lecture 5).

This text,” Aertsen continues, is central for grasping Thomas’s understanding of being. The primary significance of is, Thomas states, is to be in act, and he draws from this the conclusion that therefore it signifies after the manner of the verb. This conclusion points to the considerations guiding Thomas’s line of thought.

The verb is the subject matter of chapter three of Perihermeneias. Proper to the verb is to signify something after the manner of an action or passion:

… proprium autem verbi est, ut significet actionemest enim proprium verbi significare aliquid per modum actionis vel passionis (In I Perihermeneias, lecture 5).

The verb to be must therefore also bring to expression some activity. But Thomas sees a fundamental difference between to be and the other verbs. Other verbs, like to run, signify accidental actions. Esse, however, is not a secondary act, but the primary:

“‘Actio enim est proprie actualitas virtutis; sicut esse est actualitas substantiae vel essentiae’ (Summa theologiae, part I, question 54, article 1, corpus).

“[Also: ‘Esse non dicit actum qui sit operatio transiens in aliquid extrinsecum temporaliter producendum, sed actum quasi primum; velle autem dicit actum secundum, qui est operatio’ (De veritate, question 23, article 4, ad 7).]

Esse is the prerequisite condition of every act, the actuality of every form or act. Esse is the actuality of all things, since it is related to everything as act. Nothing has actuality except insofar as it is:

… ipsum esse est perfectissimum omnium, comparatur enim ad omnia ut actus. Nihil enim habet actualitatem, nisi inquantum est, unde ipsum esse est actualitas omnium rerum (Summa theologiae, part I, question 4, article 1, ad 3).

From the principal signification of is, its copulative function must be understood. Because actuality is always the actuality of a form, we use is in joining subject and predicate to signify that a form actually is in a subject.

See J. A. Aertsen, Medieval Philosophy and the Transcendentals: The Case of Thomas Aquinas (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1996), 189-190.

Aertsen’s analysis is in agreement with the analysis of Gyula Klima who reports that “According to Aquinas’s view, the copula is not just a merely syncategorematic particle with the sole function of joining the predicate to the subject, but it retains the primary signification of the verb ‘is’, which predicated in itself signifies the actual existence of the thing of which it is predicated” (G. Klima, “Aquinas’s Theory of the Copula and the Analogy of Being,” Logical Analysis and History of Philosophy 5 [2002]:159-176).

In his analysis Klima shows that the secundum quid ad simpliciter inference is at times a valid inference as for example when passing from

(i) ‘Socrates is white,’ to

(ii) ‘The whiteness of Socrates is,’ and then on to

(iii) ‘Socrates is with respect to whiteness.’

Paraphrasing Klima, from (iii) one can certainly infer that Socrates is, indeed, absolutely and in the primary sense of being, for according to the above equivalences, (iii) is equivalent with (i), and (i) certainly implies that Socrates is, for Socrates cannot be white unless he exists.

For Aquinas, “Esse dupliciter dicitur, uno modo, significat actum essendi; alio modo, significat compositionem propositionis, quam anima adinvenit coniungens praedicatum subiecto” (Summa theologiae, part I, question 3, article 4, ad 2).

In other words, the primary meaning of the verb “est” (“esse”) is the esse proprium rei subsistentis extra animam, which esse Aquinas saw as one of the thing’s intrinsic metaphysical principles, and which he designated with the technical expression ‘actus essendi.’


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Last day!

Tomorrow is the last day of school! WOW! The school year has gone by so fast! I wanted to send a quick reminder home about the last day. The roof is scheduled to be tarred on Thursday, so if anyone has Asthma or breathing issues, please think about this before sending your child to school.

Tomorrow the kids will be cleaning out their desks and bringing home the contents. Please make sure sure they have a backpack and/or a plastic or reusable bag they can use. They shouldn’t have anything left at school after tomorrow. They are encouraged to check out the lost and found and make sure nothing is left in the hallways. There will be a short goodbye ceremony at 3pm as we say goodbye to teachers who are leaving 😦 and our Grade 6 students for the last time!

Feel free to come say bye if you’re picking up your child tomorrow. I’ll be under the overhang at 3:30 dismissing them from the gym after the assembly.

Hope to see some of you tomorrow!

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April 11: Bauhaus, Re-Animated

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On this day in 1933 the Bauhaus closed.

For good.

Well, sort of.

The Bauhaus was, essentially, to start with in 1919, a reanimated corpse stitched together from two moribund Weimar institutions, the Grand Ducal Saxonian School of Arts and Crafts and the Grand Ducal Saxonian School of Arts (which sounds and looks even more impressive in German: die Großherzoglich-Sächsische Kunstgewerbeschule und die Großherzoglich-Sächsische Kunstschule).  (The English translation for “Bauhaus” is “A Shorter Name For Design School, Please.”)  In 1923, torch-wielding villagers chased the Bauhaus to its new Gropius-designed home in Dessau.  Less than a decade would pass until the local folk sharpened their pitchforks and forced it to seek new shelter once again in 1932.  Mies oversaw the reinstatement of the school in the less-than-inspiring abandoned telephone factory in Berlin-Steglitz shown above.  It survived less than a year.  Mies locked the doors for the last time on July 20, 1933 due to pressure from the Nazi party, his own dwindling employment potential under the Third Reich, disgust with the crummy building, or maybe a combination of all three.

Even so, the Bauhaus was not yet quite dead–not even mostly dead.  Bauhaus faculty, including Mies, Gropius, Josef Albers, László Moholy-Nagy, and Marcel Breuer made for friendlier (at least less Nazi-ish) shores, where they carried and planted the germ of European Modernism.  They roamed the land, devouring opportunities and multiplying their followers, some of which maintain a significant presence in architecture offices and schools this very day.

Image: the Bauhaus in Berlin (from this source)

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Extensive travel opportunities have played a great role in my development as a designer. Having successfully completed a summer internship with HCPDPM in Ahmedabad, India, and a semester abroad in Krakow, Poland, where I had the pleasure of taking on excursions to over 10 countries, I have developed a unique understanding and appreciation for cultural influences on architecture. These excursions and my time spent in academia, working in a collaborative studio environment, partaking in scholarly research, and involvement in leadership roles, has contributed to my realization of personal enrichment in regards to design.

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Urban Mixed-Use Housing

This is a design for a mixed-use housing complex in South Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY. It began with an exercise exploring new ways in which private spaces and public spaces relate to each other  volumetrically. This exploration led to the intervention of public spaces as a series of large stepped terraces on the south side of two adjacent buildings and as a large exterior throughway, both fostering the growth of multiple scales of communities along a gradient between public and private volumes.

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Weekend in the Catskills – 6/12/2015

This weekend in the Catskills:

  • Livingston Manor celebrates its 12th annual Trout Parade;
  • Olana State Historic Site is hosting a lecture exploring Frederic Edwin Church’s reading interests;
  • Blakeley White-McGuire, principal dancer with the Martha Graham Dance Company, performs in Roxbury;
  • And, Melissa Etheridge performs at the Bardavon Theatre in Poughkeepsie.
  • For details, go to Upstater.com.

Also, Saratoga Springs is celebrating its 100th anniversary. For more information, go to http://saratogaartsfest.org/.

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5 Ways to Discover Your Passion – WELLBEING

Hi friends 🙂 🙂

I have had such a super long day today. I had a panel interview for a job with three people and had to complete six different types of test while I was there (verbal, numeric and so on tests).

I feel really tired haha 😀 😀 I think it went well, but you can never be too sure, so I will just have to wait for when they call later this week.

I have another interview Thursday with a different company. Both jobs are in the city in Sydney so it will be nice to be around the city abit more during the day.

Plus there are alot of things to do in the city and it doesn’t take me long to travel on the train.

Todat I am reblogging a post on 5 ways to discover your passion ❤ ❤ It is so important to find out what it is that you love in life, and make time for it.

Ok I actually think I need to take a cat nap haha. Thank you so much for reading. Have a wonderful day!

Capili Jiron x x

Artist by beauty

We all want to find out what our purpose in life is!

In saying that, we want it to be something that we truly love, and desire. Something that keeps us motivated, and gets us out of bed every morning.

What we are most passionate about can lead us to success, as we can get an enjoyment out of it, and if we enjoy what we are doing, we will never need a reason to stop working at it.

Here are five ways to help you discover your passion

1. Watch videos

There are plenty of people out there living their life purpose, with some even sharing videos online. You can always go onto YouTube, and search for videos about the things you love. For example if you love painting, there are plenty of painting time-lapse videos, and how to paint videos that you can watch.

If you are not…

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As the title more than aptly suggests, I would like to welcome everybody to my new blog. This is not a one-focus blog: I tend to write about a variety of subjects, as there is little that does not interest me. From protests in the USA (#occupywall street!) to international relations (USA cutting all ties with Iran?!) to the technology that is shaping everybody’s lives (view my first post after this, about the ipod 4s) no stone will go unturned.

The title of this blog, asingleletter, comes from a non-rhyming couplet that I wrote one day, with the intention of turning it into a full-length poem. The vision is such: a single letter is loaded with infinite potential. A single letter can be a word–as in “I” or “a.” A single letter can become part of a word, a word which can change everything. Words are our lives: words are the very essence of human life. Human’s think, but it is with our words that we communicate and can do the extraordianry. One word can bring great change, even when it is joined with many other words. And they all start with a single letter.

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Downloaded 6.1 (very slow) and installed it in my applications folder. Followed README just fine through #3. Opened Terminal fine but then could not find any of the other instructions. And putting all of my applications into the existing utilities folder seemed pretty risky. Also tried to use the site server but after about 10 minutes gave up on that too.

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Dear "xxxx" - can you give a few more details of what you downloaded? Usually the problem on Mavericks is something that can be handled by a change in System Preferences (if it's about the app not coming from iTunes or something).

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You need to install Xcode (from the Apple App store: it's free). Then from the Terminal, run

xcode-select --install

and click "Install" in the pop-up window.

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You need xcode to compile from source. We also have pre-compiled osx 10.9 binaries for which you don't need xcode, at least as long as you don't try to compile anything.

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You shouldn't need Xcode just to run it with the 10.6 binary, though, right?

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Juicing to keep me healthy

With all the medication and pain killers that we need to survive CRPS, I worry that there is a negative effect on out bodies and what it will do to us long term. One thing I like to do is make yummy, healthy juices that give me a burst of vitamins and help cleanse out any toxins. I wouldn’t say that I am an avid juicer. I tend to juice a lot then not for a while, but I do know that after a few days of it I feel fantastic.

I love growing my own food and its awesome when my juices come from my garden. Today I picked lots of spinach, celery, pea shoots, leaves off of my broccoli and cauliflower plants, parsley and beetroot leaves to make a super healthy juice packed full of greens and all the goodness that come from them. But of course I sweetened the deal a little with some apple and carrots. I love the way fresh juice fills your tummy up and keeps you full for a long time.

Fresh from the garden and my helper, Gemma

Of course I use the pulp from the juicer for compost. Its part of my sustainable philosophy to gardening and eventually what I take from the garden will go back to the soil. Plus with the energy I have from juicing I will have more energy for pottering around and caring for my plants. If only it gave me the strength to dig some new patches this weekend. I think I will need to enlist some help!

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Wednesday, 13 November 2013

Shaken and Stirred by Ann Evans

You don't have to be a saint to like Roger Moore's James Bond. But if you like the action packed stories of Ian Fleming and Leslie Charteris, then it's good news to see these classics which first made an appearance way back in the late 1920s, and grew in popularity over the following decades are out as ebooks.

Leslie Charteris was born Leslie Charteris Bowyer-Yin in Singapore in 1907 and wanted to be a writer from the very start. His first published work was a poem which was published in The Straits Times when he was just nine and a half.

Leslie Charteris

He wrote the first Saint story, Meet the Tiger when he was just 20 and it was published in 1928. He continued writing about his hero, Simon Templar for a further 89 titles, many of which became films, radio series, TV series and even a comic strip.

I've always liked Roger Moore, and The Saint TV series was one of my favourite programmes back in the 60s. When he took over the James Bond role for seven films between 1973-1985 I made sure I went to see all of them.

To be honest I haven't read the Ian Fleming Bond books, but I'm reliably informed that the books are very different from the films.

Ian Fleming
Ian Fleming was born in May in 1908 and after being educated at Eton worked for Reuters news agency. During the war he worked in Naval Intelligence in the Admiralty, which provided him with the knowledge, characters and escapades which became the inspiration for his Bond books. And incidentally came in useful for the making of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. With Ian Fleming contributing to the show's concept after being approached by the show's creator, Norman Felton.

However it wasn't until 1952 when Fleming was 43 that he wrote his first Bond book, Casino Royale. It's said that he wrote this in just over two months. He went on to write a further 13 James Bond titles.

There have been a number of different actors who have played the role of James Bond, Sean Connery, Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig being the main ones that spring to mind – and Roger Moore obviously. Then there were George Lazenby and Timothy Dalton. Going back even earlier, you could also add Barry Nelson who played Bond in a 1954 CBS television dramatization of 'Casino Royale.' And David Niven in the spoof Bond film 'Casino Royale' of 1967. In fact Niven was the actor that Ian Fleming originally wanted to play 007.

Last year marked the 50th anniversary of the longest continually running film series in movie history and to celebrate this, Roger Moore put pen to paper in the writing of a book that features all the Bond movies, along with his witty account of his own involvement in them. It's called Bond on Bond and the amazing 85 year old who still looks incredible is currently on tour around the British Isles talking live to audiences.

It was such a treat then last Wednesday to go along to the New Alexander Theatre in Birmingham to see him live on stage, talking about his long and successful career.
For me, back in the 1960s when he played the super-smooth Simon Templar in an amazing 118 episodes, it was his good looks that drew me to the telly rather than the stories. And listening to him chatting as I sat in the stalls at the Alexander Theatre, it was nice to hear him talking about his own appearance very modestly as “even featured” and “shiny”.

He told some great anecdotal stories, had the audience in the palm of his hand and got a standing ovation after spending the last part of his show talking about the work of Unicef which he has been involved with for the last 20 years or so. To say I was left a little shaken and stirred was an understatement!

An amazing man and amazing stories.

madwippitt said...

Wish I could write a book in two months .... :-)
The evening sounded amazing. I too remember The Saint days ...

Nick Green said...

A friend of mine was fortunate enough to interview Roger Moore in person recently for an article she was writing, and said that he was unfailingly modest, charming and courteous.

Lydia Bennet said...

I liked him as Bond, I felt he suited the tongue in (usually somebody else's) cheek style, the more earnest ones like Craig only show up the cheeziness of the franchise which doesn't fit the modern attempt to make them serious and Bourne-alike. Of course Fleming wrote Bond as a bit of a psychopath, which he'd have to be I suppose. Good to see the old books coming out all 'e', reminds me someone I know likes the Modesty Blaise books and I've never read them.

Reb MacRath said...

You know, I've never seen The Saint. But I did see and loved The Persuaders with Moore and Tony Curtis. His Bond was good for its day, I suppose. I can't watch his Bond films any more...but, in fairness, most of the Bonds except Connery were loved at first, then fell into disfavor. When Craig is replaced, he'll be no exception. Roger Moore is a class act.

Bill Kirton said...

Long, long ago I used to present a programme about cinema on TV and once, Roger Moore and Michael Caine were in Scotland making a dire movie directed by Michael Winner. I was lucky enough to get interviews with both of them and, as others have said, Moore was charm personified. He must have heard some of my questions hundreds of times and yet he reacted and replied as if they were all original and interesting. With Caine, on the other hand, I got the feeling that he was going through the motions and didn't really commit to the conversation. But the really interesting part of it all was when I watched the footage later - it was a clear example of the phenomenon of how the camera loves some people. Both of them came across as if they were chatting to an old friend - all camaraderie, warmth and openness. In other words, as far as Caine was concerned, the camera lied - but very convincingly.

liebjabberings said...

I devoured the Bond books - my dad used to bring them home from trips - when I was a 15-year-old girl living in Mexico with little access to enough books in English.

I almost don't dare go back to see if I still like them.

But I recently restarted The Deep Blue Goodbye - a Travis McGee novel from John D. MacDonald - and loved it from the first words, so I shall try the Bond again soon.

Good writing is good writing, and good storytelling never fades.


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What's the Best Way to Leave a Car Unused for a Year?

Hi John,

Our daughter has gone overseas for 12 months and has left her car with us. It's a Suzuki Swift. Our mechanic has advised us to disconnect the battery terminals which we have done. We were wondering if we should buy a cover as we won't be using it and it will be mostly in the one place. There are no overhanging trees so it's just out in the weather. Wondering if a cover is worthwhile, would induce condensation or anything else you can think of. Very much appreciate your advice.

Many thanks,

Hi Trish,

I wouldn't worry about the car cover. It will indeed attract condensation underneath, and over a year will probably start rotting into the paint.

Disconnecting the battery is problematic - the car often 'thinks' the stereo has been stolen, and you need to retrieve a special 'unlock' code from either Suzuki or the dealer before the stereo can be re-used once the battery is re-connected.

Leaving cars completely inactive for a protracted period is a bad idea generally. The fuel goes off, and all kinds of other things start going wrong. Cars really respond well to being used. It really would be better to drive it once a week for about half an hour - keeps all the fluids active and all the lubricated parts ticking over. Also warms up the transmission and underbonnet area, drying out potentially problematic condensation. Stops condensation from starting to rust inside expensive components, and helps prevent sludge formation in the crankcase.

Me? I'd really be using it once a week. It could save your daughter a heap of expensive problems down the track.