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Friday, February 28, 2014

TDL Show & Tell!

It's hard to show how this whole TDL/CTJ thing works for me, but I really like how this spread came together. The picture of me is a tip-in, and the week page is a tip-in.

Here is the spread all tipped out - Ian is on the back of me, and the girl in pencil is on the back of the week page, and there's a third pic tipped in but I forget what it is. I just love how everything flips out and then tucks back in. It makes me super happy!

Thursday, February 27, 2014

OK, it's really journals but would you have looked if I'd said that?? I can't even tell you how much fun I had making these. Tracy Moore put up a tutorial at The Artsronauts Club and once I got started I couldn't stop!

And this - this is a box that just has the cheese from mac&cheese. I didn't even know you could buy that, did you? My friend Tony (OK, his name is Kevin but I call him Tony) showed me!

Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Starburst Journal

This might be the most fun I've ever had making a journal! I LOVE it!

This is called "long stitch", I think. I wouldn't bet my live or anything, but I might bet a nickel.

Since I don't really like to see the stitching, I took the part I cut off one side and glued it right over the stitches! I know, genius, right? I have my moments!!

Tuesday, February 25, 2014

February 25th...

I was going to just schedule a post for today and be done with it, but I can't. I'm just not the person who can gloss over things and pretend like they aren't happening. I don't want to be that person.
It's been eleven months today since my best friend died. It sounds like a long time, but trust me, it FEELS a lot longer. It still feels so strange to not have her in my life anymore. Am I handling it better? Maybe. Some days. Not really. No. Yes. It probably depends on who you ask.

I can tell you that meeting someone new feels so strange. I can't even tell you how strange. Because a new "friend" will text me several times and when I don't reply they ask if I'm OK and how can I say "You know, I'm having a random bad day where I've spent the past two hours crying in my bathtub because my best friend died and I'm really, really missing her today." They don't understand, most of them CAN'T understand.

My family still freezes if I say her name. Tami. Kelly says it to me, and Ian does. Other than that, I never hear her name. Never. I talk about her a lot - I always have. I think about her a lot - I always will. I miss her. Eleven months without her doesn't even seem possible.

I might have mentioned this before but the 25th of the month has always been an important day for me. My birthday is a 25th. Christmas. Those two things alone have me counting things down. Tami left the US on February 25th. She didn't arrive in London until the 26th, but I always wished her a happy anniversary on the 25th and we would laugh about it. I always used to text people "10 months till Christmas! 9 months till Christmas!", etc. . Something else happened (something bad) on February 25th 2013 but it's not mine to share. And then Tami died on March 25th. I always felt like it was an important day, the 25th of the month. Now, I hate it. As if approaches, I start having panic attacks. My chest aches for days before and after. It might be stupid, but that's what it is.

Something I feel like is even worse, is the people who count the time and text me - "I can't believe Tami's been gone for 6 months!". Really? Because somehow counting the time like that makes a difference? I miss her. Today. Tomorrow. Yesterday. Six months ago. Six months from now. I don't miss her MORE because it's been eleven months today. I miss her every single day. A hundred times a day when I think of something I would have asked her or told her or shared with her.

Here is a picture of us from 2006. She is in the blue tank top, I'm in orange. We had the BEST time on this trip. (We're on a cruise.) The most fun I can remember having, actually. In the morning whoever woke up first would run over and knock on the other one's door and then try to run back to their room before they got caught. She was better at it because I was pregnant and seasick the entire time. We laughed so much.

Monday, February 24, 2014

Like Kelly, this is a friend of mine, but I'm not posting the original picture because I don't have permission. I'm just not good at facial expressions yet, huh? I'm going to keep working on it, don't worry!

No mistakes

I hate, absolutely HATE when someone tells me something like "There's no such thing as a mistake in art." That's just not a decision you get to make for me. Just because I can erase something or paint over it or throw it away doesn't mean I didn't make a mistake. I'm the one who has to be satisfied with my art, not anyone else. I hate this:

It's a napkin on the cover of a book (OK, the piano part for a clarinet solo) for a Jane Davenport class (Express Yourself). I absolutely hare it. Jane's napkins sort of melted into the pages with the matte medium. This sucker didn't. It's bumpy - which she says it great texture. I hate it. So to say something like "Oh, there's no such things as mistakes!" is insulting. I feel like this is a mess up and so it is. There is nothing WRONG with a mistake. Nothing at all. I make mistakes ALL THE TIME. I'm a human being. I turn the wrong way, I burn the cookies, I spell things wrong (dyslexia), I MAKE MISTAKES. I am not ashamed of them, and saying something like they don't even exist makes it seem like I should be. Did I mess up this cover? Yep. Can I fix it? Maybe, maybe not. If I DO fix it, does that mean the mistake never happen? NO. Absolutely not. I simple means I repaired what I screwed up. I'm allowed to screw up. I refuse to pretend like I don't.

Sunday, February 23, 2014

I have my moments...

Pink glaze pen over cheap pink paint. She feels totally finished to me!

Saturday, February 22, 2014

I painted this page while I was in Ireland and only had a few paint colors with me - that's why she has blue hair! Honestly, I love her and her blue hair. I love her background. But something about her felt incomplete, and there was a lot of empty space around her. People are so weird sometimes about a journal page being "finished" and I'm not like that - I do what I feel like right now and I move on to the next page whenever I feel like it. But this one I kept coming back to and thinking it wasn't quite finished. Three clouds later and it feels SO MUCH BETTER to me. I can't even tell you. How silly is it that three little clouds would make it feel complete like that? I'm a details kind of chick, but not usually with my art. A lot of what I do feels sort of incomplete, but I'm not really sure how to "finish" it. This feels like a breakthrough. Or too much cinnamon whiskey (I know, this blog is going to post in the morning but I'm writing it at night, I swear! Not that I'm above "day drinking", I enjoy a cocktail at any time of day!)

Friday, February 21, 2014

Over Shoulder

Hm...not bad.

Not bad again!

Thursday, February 20, 2014

Finished Kelly :)

I'm not sure if she even has a facial expression, but her mouth is crooked! I think I need to exaggerate the frowny part more. Maybe.

Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Purple, purple, PURPLE!

Gilmore Girls. Anyone? No? It's OK. There was this episode where Lorelai and Sookie were talking about designers and it was super funny. They were all super funny. Anyway, I was journaling in the car - nothing new, my bosses have no idea how to get to work on time and I'm often sitting in the car waiting for them to get there. I really love how she came out!

You know how some people get that GREAT depth with hair? Me, not so much. I used more than one color and everything, but they just merged into a grayish purple color. Aided by the Vanilla that was still on the brush. (I wiped it off on my pajamas first, but clearly I didn't get it all.)

Now, for some reason I'm getting panicky about her. I didn't get where I wanted with the hair, I smudged up her face, I didn't journal under that one part of the hair (had to go somewhere before I was finished journaling), the face needs color but sometimes color messes it all up, blah, blah, blah... So I'm going to ignore her. Turn the page and move on. Boom.

Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Usually I babble like an idiot when I blog, but I really don't feel like there's much to say today...

Monday, February 17, 2014

No, not me! The face:

This is actually a combination of a Jane lesson and a picture of my friend Kelly. I was going to post Kelly's picture here so you could see - but then I realized I hadn't asked her permission to use it and that wasn't cool! I'm actually kind of excited about how this came out...I really like the idea of being able to draw more expressive faces!!

Sunday, February 16, 2014

Expression is HARD for me!

I know, I know, I know. Practice! I'm working on it, I swear. She's not terrible, but not exactly what I'd hoped for, either...

Saturday, February 15, 2014

Be the Flow

Jane draws in a very flowy way. Flowing lines, very loose. I'm working on it. I LOVE doing it.

She flows across three pages :)

A little background:

And here she is, painted not Jane's way but my way. And she makes me ridiculously happy!

Friday, February 14, 2014

A Project Gone Astray

This is an antique book, purchased for a particular purpose:

And I tried, I really did, to use it for its intended purpose:

This is what a completed page could look like. Monotone, white/gray/black, collage with a little paint and a little charcoal...

But I didn't like it. I just didn't like it! I'm not a gray chick. Just not. And so I decided that being happy with this journal was more important than following along with the project. So I painted the cover. Sprayed it. Added some mustache duct tape. LOVED it.

Told a friend of mine this is what I was going to call my next journal:

Now I loved it EVEN MORE, and I couldn't wait to start working in it!

And, of course, the back:

Thursday, February 13, 2014

Jane Face!

I'm taking Express Yourself with Jane Davenport and it's FUN. I love her as a teacher! This is just sort of a warm up exercise with drawing the face and shading with markers. Isn't she cute? Jane discourages the use of graphite pencil to draw with, but I cheated and did graphite first, then col-erase over it! (Don't tell her!!)

Shading with copics. She's a little blotchy, but it's not the markers, it's the colored pencil making that happen!

And then I tipped her right into my The Documented Life journal, how great is that?

Wednesday, February 12, 2014

The Documented Life

I'm not using it at all like I'm "supposed to" and it's making me super happy! I'm just using it like my Cheap Thoughts Journal and I love it. Really, really love it. It SO looks like the inside of my head would look!!

Tuesday, February 11, 2014

A cool trick

Did you know that if you put a spoon over the pasta it won't boil over? The more you know...

Monday, February 10, 2014

I've actually always hated when teachers tell us to look for "symbols" in our work. I'm not a sign/symbol kind of chick. I don't believe that there are outside forces working for or against me, I believe that I am in control of my own life. But I can't deny it anymore - I have a cloud issue.

A single cloud in my TDL journal:

A whole canvas full:

A stamp I carved:

Journal page:

Journal cover:

A picture I couldn't help taking, even as I was asking myself WHY I was taking a picture of the sky:

According to literature (of course I researched it, you know I couldn't help it!) clouds are considered to be dwelling places of the gods. They are also symbolic of transition and transformation. But my favorite interpretation of what clouds symbolize is confusion and distraction. Not because I enjoy being confused or distracted (though I am very easily), but because when clouds are used in art they can symbolize persevering through the confusion and distraction. I like that concept a lot. I'm feeling VERY confused lately about my life and where it's heading. Those are my clouds. I can see the blue sky, the light at the end of the tunnel, but I can't quite figure out how to get there. Maybe knowing this, admitting this, will help? I don't know.

Sunday, February 9, 2014

Practice Supplies

OK, this is something that's going to be hard for some people to hear. DON'T USE PRACTICE SUPPLIES.

Don't draw your faces on copy paper first and then try to draw them in your journal. Don't try to learn how to shade with Crayola colored pencils before trying your nice expensive ones.

Your good paper and your good supplies are NOT going to act like Crayolas on copy paper. I promise. Crack open that good journal, grab a pencil that you paid $2 for, and PRACTICE THAT WAY. Do it. You aren't wasting it if you don't draw a masterpiece. You aren't wasting it if you throw away your first hundred. You are wasting it if it sits on the shelf and gathers dust.

This face is ugly:

It is. It's an ugly face. I draw them all the time. Less than I used to, and lots of times I work at them to make them better. Not this one. She's living right in my journal. One that I paid around $20 for. I mostly used cheap paint, but I also used my Neocolor II's - which are around $2 each. Is whatever this journal spread "cost" me in supplies a waste of money? Of course not. It's what I needed at the moment. It fulfilled whatever need I had right then. I don't think about what I paid for a supply while I'm using it - it's too late. The money is paid. Not using the supply doesn't save the money. It's already gone.

So, please, I'm begging you - grab your Fabriano Artistico paper and your Golden paints and make something ugly.

Saturday, February 8, 2014

I very rarely share graphics that I make here because even though they are technically mine, they don't feel like mine because they're for someone else to use for their own work, you know? But this is something I designed for my him, and it seems OK to share here! PLUS, I'm super proud of how it came out! It's a CD cover for his demo (he's a DJ) and I really, really liked being able to design this for him.


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Journey to the Sea

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Magic in the World of Alvin Maker: Red Prophet

Posted by Laura Gibbs • Aug 1st, 2008

In my previous article, I discussed Orson Scott Card’s book Seventh Son, which tells us how Alvin Maker came to terms with his magical powers, or “knacks” as they are called,  by taking an oath never to use those powers for selfish purposes. In the second volume of the “Alvin Maker” series — Red Prophet (first published in 1988, and nominated for both the Hugo and Nebula awards) — Card expands on the idea of knacks, showing us how the use of magical power is not simply determined by individual choices, but is instead part of a larger ecology of magic, a balance and harmony expressed as a “greensong” which is sung by the American land itself, for those who can hear it.

When Red Prophet begins, we find ourselves cast back in time, prior to the events of Seventh Son, as we meet the character who will become the Shining Man in Alvin’s vision, Tenskwa-Tawa. Tenskwa-Tawa is an actual historical figure, also known as “The Prophet” or “The Shawnee Prophet.” He was the brother of the famous Shawnee warrior Ta-Kumsaw (Tecumseh), and he founded the Native American settlement called “Prophetstown” at the juncture of the Wabash and Tippecanoe rivers in Ohio territory (modern-day Indiana). This is where the so-called Battle of Tippecanoe took place in 1811, when troops led by William Henry Harrison, future President of the United States, burned Prophetstown to the ground in a bloody victory that earned him the nickname “Old Tippecanoe.”

As Card weaves the story of Alvin Maker into these historical events, Alvin learns from the Indians Tenskwa-Tawa and Ta-Kumsaw  that his knacks are not some kind of personal prowess, but instead derive from the powers of the living land itself. When the Europeans practice their knacks in ignorance of this fact, they are stumbling in the dark, not even aware of what they are doing. This makes the Europeans and their knacks contemptible in the eyes of someone like Ta-Kumsaw, who lives his life in full awareness of the natural order:

These White men with their weak little knacks. These White men with their hexes and their wardings. Didn’t they know their hexes only fended off unnatural things? If a thief comes, knowing he does wrong, then a good strong fending hex makes his fear grow till he cries out and runs away. But the Red man never is a thief. […] To the Red man a knack is like a fly, buzz buzz buzz. Far above this fly, the power of the living land is a hundred hawks, watching, circling. (Chapter 2)

With the help of Ta-Kumsaw, Alvin is able to deepen his understanding of his own powers, going far beyond the tricks he had learned to do with his knacks. As a result, Alvin is able to perceive the greensong and feel a connection with the land itself, much as Ta-Kumsaw and the Prophet are able to do.

At a certain point in the novel, Ta-Kumsaw and Alvin must make their way on foot to Fort Detroit, 200 miles, which Ta-Kumsaw planned to travel in a single day. How could that be possible? The Indians are able to travel that distance by calling on the power of the land itself:

The Red man called on the strength of the land to help him. The ground pushed back against his feet, adding to his strength. The bushes parted, making paths, space appeared where there was no space. […] Ta-Kumsaw’s hunger to arrive at Fort Detroit was so strong that the land answered by feeding him, giving him strength. (Chapter 11)

These are powers which Ta-Kumsaw has known all his life, but he did not expect that Alvin would be able to keep up with him, and he planned to carry the boy. Instead, much to Ta-Kumsaw’s surprise, Alvin was able to hear the greensong of the land and keep up with Ta-Kumsaw, pace for pace, in their 200-mile journey. Prior to this journey, Alvin did not know that he had this power, this connection to the land. It is the first of many lessons that he will learn in his journeys with Ta-Kumsaw.

These magical powers which Ta-Kumsaw and the Shawnees use are part of the natural order; they are what you could call perfectly natural powers, with nothing supernatural about them at all. To the White men, however, the Indians’ powers appear to be supernatural simply because the White men’s magic is itself an act against nature, something that stands outside the natural order and violates the limitations that keep that ecology in balance. Indeed, the entirety of White civilization is seen as an assault on the natural order of things, and Ta-Kumsaw and his brother Tenskwa-Tawa are struggling to drive the White men from the land before it is utterly destroyed:

Hack and cut and chop and burn, that was the White man’s way. Take from the forest, take from the land, take from the river, but put nothing back. The White man killed animals he didn’t need, animals that did him no harm; yet if a bear woke hungry in the winter and took so much as a single young pig, the White man hunted him down and killed him in revenge. He never felt the balance of the land at all. (Chapter 2)

The ecology of magic turns out to be about the ecology of nature itself, and the balance of the living ecosystem. When Alvin leaves Ta-Kumsaw and returns to his family’s home at the end of the novel, he still hears the greensong around him:

At night in his own bed, Alvin listened to the distant greensong, still warm and beautiful, still bright and hopeful, even though the forest was getting so sparse, even though the future was so dim. (Chapter 19)

Of course, this is just the end of Book 2 in what will be a seven-book series, with much opportunity still for Alvin to struggle towards a brighter future, even after the tragedy at Tippecanoe.

The themes of magic and environmentalism are beautifully entwined in this book, providing a new dimension to the ethical moralism of Alvin’s vow in Seventh Son. Alvin had recognized that there were moral limits which limited his magical knacks, but in Red Prophet he begins to learn how those magical powers are part of a larger natural order which depends not just on individual righteousness but on the principle of balance, and the limitations which are needed to sustain that balance. In my next article, I’ll turn to the third magical stream which flows through Card’s imaginary America — African magic — to see what it has to teach us about magical powers, and about their limits.

  • Card, Orson Scott. Red Prophet. New York: Tor Books, 1988.

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Experience Israeli Cuisine in Tokyo at Shamaim Restaurant

Experience Israeli Cuisine in Tokyo at Shamaim Restaurant

The standard of food in Japanese restuarants is exceptionally high, but sometimes you want a break from the raw fish, hotpots and ramen and Shamaim in Ekoda provides just that, with authentic Israeli food in a comfortable setting.

In a change from the boxed in booths of izakayas, Shamaim has an open layout with high ceilings giving it a spacious and ‘airy’ feeling.

Menu Options

There are various dining options with shish-kebab (lamb or chicken) and schnitzel sets for the ‘meat-eaters’ or falafel, shakshuka or hummus sets for the vegetarians. The sets come served with salad, harissa, potatoes, a choice of bread, rice and hummus or tahini as well as your main dish with a choice of a small or large portion. The small veggie courses are just over 1,000 yen with large sizes around 1,500 yen whilst one kebab skewer in the meat course will set you back around 1,400 yen with two skewers priced at 1,900 yen.

All You Can Eat (tabehodai)

If you’re feeling particularly hungry then opt for the ‘all you can eat’ (tabehodai) course which is priced at a very reasonable 2,400 yen and will allow you to sample everything Shamaim has to offer. We opted for a mixed kebab set with hummus, pita bread, a spicy salad and rice. Every dish gave the impression the ingredients had been carefully sourced to give an authentic taste and the chicken shishlik was particularly good.

As for drinks, award-winning Israeli beer Maccabi is recommended. It’s a little pricey at 760 yen a bottle but well worth sampling for its fresh taste and is a nice change from the standard nama (draft) Japanese beers with an unduly large artificial head on top. And after all, how many opportunities do you get to sample award-winning Israeli beer in Tokyo? As an alcohol-free alternative, the mint tea compliments the middle eastern food well.

Altogether a decent meal for two with drinks will cost around 4000 yen. The restaurant is located a few minutes walk from Ekoda station on the Seibu-Ikebukuro line (10mins from Ikebukuro) and takes around 5 minutes to walk from Shin-Ekota station on the Toei-Oedo line (which is around 20 mins from Shinjuku).

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Tuesday, 30 June 2009

Why the "Coulisses de Bruxelles" is not a really good blog

Something that is always striking me at Jean Quatremer's Coulisses de Bruxelles is that he almost never quotes other blogs.

In fact, over the last 30 "blog" posts (that is three weeks) he doesn't link almost anybody beside himself and sometimes La Tribune (see for example his latest post). How can you write a "blog" and not even quote others (which necessarily would be accompanied by links)?

If even Charlemagne is able to quote a blogger from time to time, why shouldn't it be possible in the "Coulisses de Bruxelles"?!

Blogging is about creating debates, about interaction, and without really reacting to others, writing remains a simple, one-dimensional activity as we are used in print.

In fact, the Coulisses are registered on Technorati, which ranks blogs according to their in-links, and it is pretty highly ranked. This means that other bloggers often consider what Jean is writing by giving him credit for that - while he is extremely hesitant to do the same.

I cannot remember that I ever became aware of interesting blog discussions in France through the Coulisses. It never makes me interested in others. It never seems to be aware of what is going on around itself. It might be a journalistic activity, but it lacks the spirit that fills the blogosphere.

This makes "Les Coulisses de Bruxelles" a well-read and appreciated website, but not a really good blog.

Update: See the follow-up post to this article on the importance of hyperlinks for the creation of a European public sphere.

bouillaud said...

That Jean Quatremer doesn't quote much other bloggers is quite easy to explain or understand; as far as I know, he is a fully experienced daily press journalist, working since the mid-80's for "Libération" and in Brussels since the early 1990's; his professional mores are in a way old fashioned. But, in the French press disaster of low quality and false neutrality, his posts are really of a great quality and sometime full of humour, even if he is clearly obsessed by some topics! He is offering in fact an "old style" journalism for free on Internet (some of his posts are the same as his articles in "Libération").

For me, this post in defense of Jean Quatremer is funny to write, because I'm not at all a friend of his ideas, but he is doing a great job defending his vision of Europe in the French context. If all journalists were of the same stuff... we'd more fun down here!

Julien Frisch said...

I agree regarding the quality of the journalistic writing, that is why I read him - and link him.

But quite often I have the feeling that he reacts to topics that have already been discussed in other blogs or on Twitter.

I might be wrong but it feels as if he reads them and uses them for his own writing without ever making any reference to them.

But even if everything he writes is uninfluenced by external sources, a blogger of his "authority" should make positive use of this status by contributing in building a connected European public sphere - in particular if he is a convinced pro-European!

Jon Worth said...

Julien, I completely agree. Quatremer is the same on Twitter - he just broadcasts, never interacts. There are plenty of things where there has been a vibrant discussion online long before Quatremer writes it. But I suppose as long as he's held up as one of the best French EU bloggers then he's not going to change.

Eurojunkie said...

I agree that JQ could quote more often blogs as everybody else is quoting him and he could say where he found his sources. However, JQ does interract on his blog and, rare enough for French, he does answer emails... So not completely "old fashioned journalism." Anyway, did you write him?

Eurosocialiste said...

Well, he is a journalist before being a blogger. And as a journalist he is supposed to quote "reliable" sources of information. And although bloggers are most certainly a source of inspiration for him, he probably doesn't feel we are "reliable" enough to be quoted.
But it's a good example of the gap between old school media and social media. One is unidirectional while the other is based on active participation, and as such much more horizontal.
Here's an idea for Quatremer: why not write a biweekly or monthly blog review, where he would give a little credit to the bloggers who inspired him? That would be good for him to as he would show how much he's on top of things, modern and open to society evolution.

Eurosocialiste said...

just found Reuters guidelines on how journalists should use social media thanks to @LB2S on Twitter: http://handbook.reuters.com/index.php/Reporting_from_the_internet#Online_Encylopedias

Eurosocialiste said...

crap the link didn't work, here you go again: http://tr.im/rILm

Jean Quatremer said...

Cher Julien,

Je ne comprends pas très bien votre post. En effet, je suis l'un des rares bloggers journalistes à répondre à mes internautes (je suis le principal contributeur aux commentaires) et j'interagis énormément sur twitter. Mais je ne peux pas tout faire.

Entre le journal et le blog (et mes activités pour la télévision, mes livres en préparation, les conférences que je donne), sans même parler de ma vie privée: la collecte de l'information, c'est un travail à temps plein. Sachez que je passe déjà une trentaine d'heures par semaine sur mon blog et twitter.

Alors vous me suggérez de renvoyer aux blogs qui "m'inspirent" pour créer un espace de discussion. Sans vouloir vexer qui que ce soit, je ne trouve pas mes informations sur les blogs, tout simplement parce que les blogs "européens" ne sont presque jamais fait de Bruxelles (mis à part le blog de Nicolas Gros, mais il ne porte que sur la défense, et bien sûr Charlemagne et le FT). Mais aussi parce que je n'ai pas le temps matériel de lire tout ce qui se fait et je ne découvre bien souvent ce qui a été écrit après. En revanche, je cite les sites et j'ai une blogroll conséquente.

Bref, il faut choisir: le réseau social ou l'information, mais pas les deux à la fois. Et si vous préférez parler de mon blog comme d'un site interactif (car je réponds aux interpellations), cela me va très bien.

Julien Frisch said...

Cher Jean,

tout d'abord un grand merci pour votre réaction, c'est fortement apprécié! Si vous permettez je vais traduire votre commentaire et répondre en anglais pour que mes lecteurs puissent comprendre la discussion.

(For those not able to read French, here a translation of Jean's comment:

"Dear Julien,

I don't really understand your post. Actually, I am one of the few blogging journalists who answers to internet users (I am the main contributor in the comments) and I interact a lot on Twitter. But I cannot do everything.

Between the newspaper and the blog (and my work at the TV, the books I am about to write, the conferences I organise), not to talk about my private life: Finding information is a full-time job. You have to know that I already spend some thirty hours per week on the blog and on Twitter.

So you suggest I should relate to blogs that "inspire me" to create a discussion space. Without stepping on anyone's toes: I don't find my information on blogs, simply because the "European" blogs are almost never written from Brussels (except Nolas Gros, but he is focused on defence, and Charlemagne and the Financial Times). But also because I don't have the time to read everything that is written and often I only discover this later on. However, I cite the websites and I have a a consequent blogroll.

In short, you have to choose: The social network or the information, but not both. And if you'd like to talk about my blog as an interactive website (because I answer to questions) this is fine with me.

Bref, il faut choisir: le réseau social ou l'information, mais pas les deux à la fois. Et si vous préférez parler de mon blog comme d'un site interactif (car je réponds aux interpellations), cela me va très bien.

Kindest regards,

See my reaction in the next comment:

Julien Frisch said...

Dear Jean,

The first thing I should mention is that in order to understand the reason why I have written the post one has to look at the date that it was published (30 June 2009):

At the time, after the European election, I had several times the impression (see comments above) that you were writing posts that either related to Euroblog posts or that discussed exactly the same kind of questions that had already been discussed in the blogosphere (e.g. around the nomination process of Barroso) without having new information.

I am not sure what exactly triggered the writing of the post, but it was in that context.

Considering that you write a blog that has all elements of a classic blog - posts with comments, your reactions, a blogroll etc. - it seemed rather strange that you never quoted any of these discussions, especially since your colleagues from the Economist, the Financial Times or EUobserver were doing this in their blog posts, at least from time to time.

And in June, you were also not very reactive on Twitter (as Jon has noted in a comment above) as you are now, so that added to the impression that you were not really aware of anything on the net outside your own blog.

But I don't mind that you have made the choice you have made, that is to focus on intra-blog interaction instead of engaging in inter-blog conversations. And you write brilliant articles (most of the time) that I love to read, so I am complaining on a very high level.

I also fully understand that it is a matter of time to interact with the general blogosphere in addition to your interaction on your blog and that your time budget is already quite consumed by your activities.

I just thought that, from time to time, putting your discussions into the context of the social network that surrounds you and that discusses the issues you write about - sometimes in very similar ways - would be inspiring and could also help to link the francophone blogosphere with the rest of the European discussions, e.g. around the hearings of the EU Commissioners that have been watched and commented by many blogs (and even people outside Brussels could watch the hearings live).

This is particularly important because the discussions in you comments are much less visible than your blog posts; your (inter)activity there isn't really visible unless one goes to your blog (but many read blogs via RSS and rarely will see what is going on below the level of your posts).

But as I have said above:

I appreciate your writing, and in principle I understand your reasons. At the time (in June) I just thought it was worth putting this up for discussion, and I am glad that you have reacted!

Therefore: Thanks - and kindest regards to you, too!

PS.: But you will have to live with the fact that I will still react to your posts on my blog (like this one on Ashton instead of writing it into your comments... ;-)

Jean Quatremer said...

Cher Julien,

Il me semble que vous faites une erreur de perspective comme le montre l'exemple que vous donnez sur la Commission Barroso où mes posts n'auraient pas contenu de nouvelles informations par rapport à ce qui s'écrivait ailleurs. Je crois que c'est exactement l'inverse: regardez bien le jour et l'heure de publication, et vous verrez que je suis bien souvent à la source de l'information, tout comme les agences de presse. Tout ce que vous avez pu lire sur la Commission Barroso, vous l'avez en général lu d'abord chez moi. Même chose pour la baronne Ashton: c'est moi qui, le premier, me suis étonné de son absence en Haïti. Ce n'est que le lendemain que les eurodéputés se sont indignés de son absence...
Encore une fois, je suis plus un blog d'actualités que de commentaires, ce qui explique largement le fait que je ne fasse pas référence à d'autres blogs qui généralement réagissent bien après l'évènement.

Julien Frisch said...

(Again the translation:

Dear Julien,

I think you're having the wrong perspective on this matter as you can see the example that you give on the Barroso Commission where my posts did not contain new information with regard to what was written before.

I think it is exactly the opposite: Look carefully at the hour of publication and you will see that I am quite often the source of information, including for the press agencies. Everything that you have read about the Barroso Commission you were reading in my blog first.

The same with Baroness Ashton: I was the first who showed astonishment about her absence in Haïti. Only the next morning MEPs were outraged by her absence.

Again, I am rather a news blog than a commentating blog what explains to a large extent the fact that I don't reference other blogs that in general react well after after the event.

Kindest regards.

Julien Frisch said...

Cher Jean,

as I have said: I don't challenge the concept of your blog in general, and I have no problem admitting that thanks to your sources you usually have completely new information in your blog.

But just to put some things in perspective, since I haven't been making my points clear enough:

This post is from June and at the time I must have had the feeling that one or several articles (probably around the re-election of Barroso) treated things the (euro)blogosphere had already dealt with before. It is hard to reconstruct this now, so it's hard to defend my point on this ground.

Yet, the rest of the argument was more a defence of blogging, linking, and discussing across blogs:

1) In your initial reply you said that blogs rarely have something interesting or new because people are not from Brussels, and I wanted to show you that many blogs actually had quite original material and perspectives when it came to the hearings of Commissioners, even if people weren't present in Brussels. But that was just one example on why blogs can be original sources of information.

2) I mentioned the Ashton debate because here you may have started a debate but you didn't participate in it. This debate was not about "information" as you claim the central idea of your blog but about "opinion" (or comment), it was about an opinion that you had and that you shared with the world.
This, according to your words, created a debate. So you didn't have exclusive information, you just started the discussions. And several blogs, including your colleagues from "L'Europe de la Défense" and "Charlemagne" reacted directly and indirectly to you with pretty well elaborated blog posts - with arguments and details that went beyond. I just find it a pity that you do not follow-up on this, especially when you sometimes blog in a very opinionated way and then you only look for quotes from the political scene that broadly agree with you while around you, in the blogosphere, there are discussions on the same topic that put things in a much broader perspective that you seem to ignore. How can you start a public debate (in a blog) thanks to clearly-expressed opinions and then just move on as if nothing happened in future blog posts on the same topic?

In summary, I am well aware that quite often you tend to have original information or ideas. Nevertheless, some of the topics you discuss (even if you add new information) have a pre-history or they become discussed in the wider blogosphere after you have published them - and not following-up these discussions just seemed strange to me when I wrote this post in June - notwithstanding that I understand your reasons for not doing that.

Best wishes,

Jon Worth said...

An interesting discussion back and forth...

As for bloggers being based in Brussels - there might be few in French, but there are a number in English. Plus the notion that blogs written from outside Brussels do not count is a rather arrogant one.

Secondly, Jean's posts are often rather long precisely because a story has to be recounted right from scratch. A link to a relevant post on another blog - something that told the story up until now - could do the job just as well.

I also agree with Julien in terms of who gets to things first - there have been a number of times when issues have been widely aired on blogs (mostly English speaking EU blogs it must be said) and then appear on Coulisses de Bruxelles.

So 5 minutes a day keeping an eye on the RSS feeds of a core 20 EU blogs could give Jean plenty of new ideas and save some time too.


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Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Friday Favorites!

A picture can say a thousand words, or so they say. This weeks favorites find me here.

Tuesday, January 27, 2015

Tuesday Tea Time!

Hello Tuesday Tea Timers!

Have you ever been gifted something that you've held on to for quite some time & had to put serious thought into when or how you were going to use it?

These lovely chopsticks are a great example of a gift such as this for me.

Six years ago I was traveling throughout SE Asia with a team through Youth Encounter. Many of the places that we had already visited & were going to visit I had never dreamed I would travel to. However, it didn't take long upon arriving in these places to fall in love with pieces & people from these places.

Naturally I waited till the end of our travels to purchase some chopsticks, but within days was gifted these more ornate chopsticks. While the other chopsticks are more every day, we keep them on our countertop in a mason jar to be used for various food & drink items. These flowered ones had been sitting in a box in a drawer moving from one apartment or house to the next. With a newly emptied cylindrical tea tin on my hands - that I wanted to repurpose - I remembered these chopsticks in the old chocolate box in the drawer & decided to put the two items to use.

Some of the lovely chopsticks now decorate my tea corner in my office! Why would I need chopsticks in my office you ask? Clearly to stir honey into my tea!

Sunday, January 25, 2015

Sunday Snippits:good, bad, & awesome!

GOOD: Watching a movie you enjoy the day after watching a movie that horrified you. There are certain movies that you see the previews for & think along the lines of 'if I watch that it will need to be in my home so that I can turn it off or walk away when I want.' Then you find yourself renting the movie & so enthralled by the story line that is horrifying you that you don't turn it off or walk away. I followed Gravity with two episodes of How I Met Your Mother's final season that I'm still working on finishing. Then the next day I chose to watch the movie The Hundred Foot Journey. This second movie was much more my speed! The love for food, travel, adventure & connection to life struggle is beautifully woven into reality throughout the story.

BAD: The desire so many of us who love living in the great north have for Spring to appear soon this time of year. It would be scary - in my opinion - if it came earlier than March. However, we pull out all the tricks to endure the gray winter months & are very thankful for the days with cloudless skies & sunshine. Some people just cannot be shook of the grump that sets in & those of us that can even everything out. All in all making us all a bit mad, bonkers, & off our heads!

AWESOME: Days of unexplainable sunshine in Pure Michigan in January! Go with the flow sorta work days, friends reaching out for prayers & sharing in life near & far.

WORD: While I have yet to finish I Am Malala - & maybe I never will - I have been enjoying The Paraclete Book of Hospitality. This is one of several books that I thought I would use for my graduate studies capstone project & simply did not get around to until the last week or so. A short easy ready & being based in Benedictine thought it gives some great Biblical & other references.

coming up: This is a very exciting week filled with many reunions & many gatherings of new friends at the Extravaganza!

Friday, January 23, 2015

Friday Favorites!

Friday Favorites & though my 'to do' list is still lengthy (because I sorta didn't keep one most of the week, but made a fresh one before coming home this evening) it is Friday & it feels like a Friday & that's fun!

I just shared with my cousin last night that having Thursdays off (just as she does) throws me for a spin because Fridays become my Mondays. Well, you could say this is Monday, but tomorrow then is Tuesday & that's a busy day so I should be super productive tomorrow. Right?!

I share all of this because glancing back at my FB newsfeed, one of my favorite things was this quote from Alice in Wonderland shared by Yogi Times. Alice in Wonderland has become one of my favorite stories of all times & I especially like this quote.

There are many days I feel mad, bonkers, & off my head, but this quote reminds me that it is quite normal & makes life that much more exciting.

So may you be ok with being mad, bonkers, & off your head!

You're one of the best people!

Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Tuesday Tea Time!

Credit to akikotree
I've heard that we need 8 hugs a day to succeed or to be okay with our day. And while I generally am open to a hug I am not always a hug instigator. However, just like in any relationship, for it to work we must give a little to get a little. And more often than not we give a little & get a LOT in return.

Tea: a hug in a cup.

It's such a nice idea! For us to be able to find this need for touch & comfort & encouragement & love in a cup of tea is silly, but sweet. We cannot always rely on each other to achieve these 8 hugs (or however many the studies actually say) a day, but we can rely on tea.

Tea, it wakes you up, refreshes your spirit, rids you of toxins, & calms you down when in need. A hug in a cup!

Sunday, January 18, 2015

Sunday Snippits: good, bad, & awesome!

GOOD: Good is sharing a piece of sunshine - literally or figuratively - with one another. This past week this sunshine was shared with me - & hopefully therefore with others - through the many encounters with others. I heard or read more than once in the past week that seeing another person & living with them is seeing & living with God. This makes perfect sense to me as I have been continually returning to Genesis 1:27 recently. Come, Holy Spirit, come. All in all this past week was a good mix of my many commitments to ministry leadership. There is much excitement in the air for things yet to come!

BAD: The drive of consumerism for more, more, more. With recent cell phone hiccups & a spouse who still owns an old flip phone (gasp!) the workers at the store jump on us like hawks on prey. Seriously people, a phone that makes calls & texts is the basic desire we have. We don't need all your special plans to be able to recycle these phones that much faster when you're companies are already charging an arm & a leg. With as many people that are only using cell phones now & doing away with land lines, I truly think it would only be right if cell phone companies made phones to last more than two years. We don't buy land line phones thinking they'll only last two years so why would we want a cell phone that does that? Good grief!

AWESOME: Julia Child was once quoted for saying, "People who love to eat are always the best people." I'm SO glad to report that according to Julia I am ONE of the best people. Now let's be real, there are hundreds of us who are the best people. This past week though, I hit a wall with appetite & creativity to make new meals. That creativity is stirring making new ideas & new inspiration though already. All I needed was a trip to the produce section at Meijer! Grapefruit Goodness!

WORD: I'm given the opportunity to preach in a couple of weeks, but we have some fun adventures in between so I'm starting to sit with the passages for the week of February 8th. Aside from that, look up at the "GOOD" of today to see a little more!

coming up: Hopefully a continued nice mix of a little work with this call & a little work with that call. It's all about balance! Head up, Heart out, Move to the beat!

Friday, January 16, 2015

Friday Favorites!

It's Friday & there's SO many favorites to share that I narrowed it down to this.....

Poetry on a wine cork!

"Standing here / The old man said to me / Long before these crowded streets / Here stood the Dreaming Tree."

As we walked MG this evening in the twilight of evening the sky, it was filled with pinks & yellows & grays. It was beautiful amidst the sparkling pieces of snow covered patches. Yes, there is snow everywhere, but there are only patches that seemed untouched by everything other than the wind. A phone camera could not have done this beautiful piece of God's creation justice & for a piece of extra quiet I had left my phone behind.

We returned from the walk only to make a fancy meal of Annie's Mac-n-Cheese, hot dog, & asparagus with a nice glass of Dreaming Tree Crush (thus the wine cork poetry).

Here's to your Friday Favorites as you wind down from the week. May you stand beneath the Dreaming Tree!

Tuesday, January 13, 2015

Tuesday Tea Time!

Hello Tuesday! Oh Tea Time, you bring a smile to my life!

Yes, a little crazy. I know, but we all have those things that take you to a happy place. Tea is one of the most simple things in my life that takes me to a happy place.

Most anything Disney is another thing for a happy place. Once somebody tried to strip down why I love Disney so much, but seriously, I enjoy the magic & that's the gist of it all.

Another lovely consecration gift, this one from my Aunt J! The question is, do I let it sit on my shelf in my office & simply sit there (next to the beautifully awkward photo of Z & I with Cinderella on our honeymoon) or do I use it? Other than preservation I'm not sure why it should just sit there. Seriously though, I'm perplexed as it is quite unique.

How many things do we own in life that simply sit on a shelf?

I for one can say many things. It's not necessarily very realistic, but it creates a nice ambiance that I change out every now & then with the change of the seasons.

The question still remains, to use the cup or let it sit?

Sunday, January 11, 2015

Sunday Snippits: good, bad, & awesome!

Credit to The Telegraph
GOOD: Today is Installation day! Some have joked that all these big churchy terms like consecration, ordination, & installation should really just be regal & therefore like a coronation. While consecration made life as a Diaconal Minister that much more real, this will set our current calls in stone (the sword in the stone?!). This week we have experienced the quiet of January, so it is nice to celebrate the church with so many people today. Christmas is put away at the JZ Parsonage with a few remaining wintry decoration pieces filling the shelves. And in place of the Christmas tree now sits a bench we were gifted (by gifting others we were able to gift ourselves) that is really for our front porch. In the middle of January in northern MI it is not so much fun to put things on the front porch, so in the living room it sits for now. Though we think it'll be alright outside year round. It was a decent accomplishment simply to take the pieces out of the box & assemble the bench to start!

BAD: The other day we decided to check out our local Family Video - yes we live in a town without a Redbox & a classic video rental store instead - & it appeared that the majority of the films that were on the wall considered "New Release" were about warfare on a broad spectrum. This could be warfare in history, spiritual worlds, or made up worlds. What's the deal? We don't have enough warfare in our day to day living or world that we need to infiltrate more through media. No thanks!

AWESOME: Sharing in the joy of our friends' ordination & commissioning services happening across the country. While I sincerely wish we lived close enough to each event to be able to attend - & let's be honest, that means living somewhere in Z's part of the mid-west (Minnocentric Midwest) - that is not the case nor the need of the church. We are where we all are because we are called & set apart to live as leaders in the church.

WORD: So I've realized that I've stopped receiving a daily devotional that I often relied on to share something here. I tried to switch the e-mail address it went to & now I don't know where it's actually going. I'm working on starting something new.

coming up: Living the life in the winter wonderland of Pure Michigan!

Friday, January 9, 2015

Friday Favorites!

Thinking about Friday Favorites today with the question, "What have I learned this week?"

Believing we are made new each day in the light of a resurrected savior, it is only right to lift up praises each day. I have found myself giving such thanks when people compliment me or something about an object that might be related to my work with "Thanks be to God!"

My hope is that people realize that I am who I am because of the living Word of God. And all that I do, I strive to do for God.

While I'd like to think that there is nobody reading this thinking, "Well good for you!" I know better. Please don't read this as "look at me" sort of thing. It is yet another bitter cold January day here & while the sun is shining - Praise be to God - it is January & many people are stuck inside & many people are dealing with depression from the often gray weather this time of year.

I share praises to lift all spirits of the good happening in the world. Some times these praises seem fairly mundane, but it is a nice thing to have a home that has electricity that powers my alarm clock that I am thankful for its snooze button. See, can be sorta mundane. Challenge yourself to list 5 praises a day for a week & see how it lifts your spirit. It's worth it!

"Every day may not be good, but there is something good in every day." Rishika Jain's Inspiration

Tuesday, January 6, 2015

Tuesday Tea Time!

Tuesday Tea Time, the best time of the week! With as cold as it's been lately, every day has many tea times.

This quaint tea cup was a gift from my friend TU over at Praying on the Prairie. She just recently messaged me to make sure I got it & I've been sneaky in not responding a)because she should be receiving a thank you card any day & b)I wanted to feature the mug in today's post.

TU & I met at the 2010 Diaconal Ministry Formation Event (DMFE). Being at two very different places in life - mainly speaking that she was called & consecrated & I hadn't even completed my first full year of seminary - I am blessed to have her as a mentor, friend, & one with a better memory than I. She wrote in the card that she sent with the mug that she got this particular mug because it has a piece of the Psalms that we focused on at the DMFE.

While we have both had many life changes since January 2010, the world of Diaconal Ministers, ELCA, Lutheran Church, & youth workers has kept us interconnected. With a smile & listening ear for all who need, TU is there. So thank you for sharing Tuesday Tea Time with me today & probably many tea times yet to come!

Sunday, January 4, 2015

Sunday Snippits: good, bad, & ugly!

GOOD: Epiphany is upon us! We continue to celebrate the birth of Jesus - the Savior - with the coming of 3 'Wise Men.' A curious addition on to the story indeed! With a deep breath I take in the new air of 2015. 'Head Up. Heart Out. Move to the Beat.' Being a new year & a few months into my new job each week has been a little different, yet a swing of ministry happenings have started to take hold on my calendar & mind each month. With a bit of a break from work this past week I experienced a little bit of cabin fever, a little bit of nostalgia, & a touch of excitement for the future that is this new year. The family enjoyed the fresh snow fall, the continuation of holiday music, a couple of fires, & many movies. We even ventured out to the movie theater for the first time since Valentine's Day 2014 to see the third installment of The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies. I do believe Cate Blanchett was phenomenal even if her part was minimal & I'm already looking forward to it's release for purchase so we can have true movie marathons with the Hobbit series & Lord of the Rings Trilogy. With the quiet of January already upon us & the often grey skies above us I'm honestly inspired to read many fictional books this month. Though I know that it'll have to be time intentionally taken from each day to make this happen without falling asleep (like I usually do at the end of a day).

BAD: This past week I saw many colleagues commenting on this article not simply about teen suicide, but about transgender teen suicide. These comments were wonderings of why this is still happening & why people don't intervene more heavily. Nobody is invisible, though we've all allowed ourselves to feel that way at one point or another due to others actions. Yes, we have all experienced this, so why don't we all do more to step up & take care of one another even with a simple "hi" & stop to hear how somebody is actually doing now & then rather than the fleeting "Hi, how ya doin?" as you walk by each other. No, we can't expect people to always give a full answer or maybe even a totally truthful answer, but we can give them a few minutes of acknowledging them in that moment.

AWESOME: This past week was just a lazy, low key week. 2014 ended with retirement, over a million dollars, 3 kids, & a few trips around the world (thanks to the game of Life).

WORD: Addiction & the Church

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Friday, January 2, 2015

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Today was the first day back in the office since Monday & I started a praise journal in a gift from my consecration to write 5 praises a day on work days. This is a practice that Life Coach DT challenged my group with when I took her e-course over a year ago. It is amazing how this changes one outlook on life. Seriously, just being in the office made me happier today. Set aside that I had felt a little cabin-fever the last couple of days being at home!

This year my new One Word 365 is HEART! I'm sorta excited about this word because it connects to so many pieces of life, but especially with my life long best friend as she has seen SO many hearts since her Grandy's death.

I chose the word HEART not only because of the love many of us had for Grandy, but because it seemed like a healthy (OneWord365 2014) challenge to stretch my heart & mind around where my heart is in each day & how my heart is being used & how it is being shared & how it is being affected. In the world of chakras I most often think/speak/act through my throat & my heart third with my navel in second. I act out of voice & gut. So this is a challenge to continue my holistically healthy approach to life to be in tune with heart.


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To the disappointment of some Southeast Alaska communities, a House panel Tuesday moved a controversial university land grant bill to the House floor.

Since it was introduced, Gov. Frank Murkowski's bill granting approximately 260,000 acres of state land to the University of Alaska has generated outrage from Ketchikan to Coldfoot.

As a result of problems in the bill pointed out by residents in a series of legislative hearings, about 10,000 acres have been deleted from the final version of the bill. The Senate version of the bill is under review.

A number of disputed parcels remain in the final version of the House bill because of concerns about reducing the net acreage to the university below 250,000, said Rep. Bruce Weyhrauch, R-Juneau, who participated in final negotiations over the bill.

That's because in Congress, Sen. Lisa Murkowski is proposing a matching federal land grant to the university.

But the mayors of Sitka and Wrangell said the bill allows the university to take land of great value to residents, in places such as Tom's Place, a historic settlement near Wrangell, and Sitka's Biorka Island and Lisianski Inlet.

"They (the university) took the best of everything and there was no discussion of it," said Valery McCandless, mayor of Wrangell.

Daniel Trail, a resident of Tom's Place, sat through the Senate Finance hearing and was upset when Weyhrauch told Finance committee members that removing Tom's Place would create "a can of worms" for the bill and could be considered later.

"It merits a lot of real deliberation (now)," Trail said.

Recent negotiations between Southeast Republican legislators, the state and the university resulted in a total of eight parcels in Southeast Alaska deleted and four other parcels near Wrangell and Petersburg reserved until 2009 for borough selection.

If Wrangell and Petersburg do not select the four parcels, they will be conveyed to the university.

A proposed land grant at the Kodiak Rocket Range was also deleted from the House bill. The bill prevents conveyance of lands until prior claims, such as Native allotments, are resolved.

Midway through House Finance committee discussions on the bill Tuesday, Rep. Eric Croft, D-Anchorage, suggested that the legislators consider granting the university the Point Thompson gas field instead of tiny land parcels scattered throughout Alaska.

The gas field, if developed, could generate about half of the university's annual state budget request, Croft said.

Croft's proposed amendment generated interest from many committee members, several of whom said "ye ... no," when voting. Rep. Mike Chenault, R-Kenai said "maybe" and then "no." Rep. Carl Moses, D-Unalaska, voted in favor of the bill.

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FYI: The order is a little off for the Republicans

Andrew: If you're talking about the row orders, then yes they weren't ordered by total minutes. I ordered them by the maximum face time in which case, Biden led with 132 minutes on MSNBC and Dodd was second with 128 minutes, etc. It's debatable which one is more useful. I was too lazy to change it back to total minutes.

Very nice. I think I would have put some space between the Democrats and Republicans and added two more little bar charts on the right showing network/cable breakdowns for each party. This would have answered the last of your initial questions.

I find the original to be more effective. While the addition of percentage totals on the margines is useful, I think the heatmap implementation makes the data harder to read, mainly because you have reduced the "resolution" of the data (by re-casting it in to four "bins"). Arguably, a heatmap is best at showing gradients (ie. temperature), and here you have eliminated the gradients that existed in the original data. In which case, I think size is a more legible "retinal variable" than color.

Also, as someone who is color-blind, I had trouble with your color choices. Obviously this is particular to my color-blindness, but I'm ashamed to say it took me a few minutes to realize that you were using two different color sets for the two political parties! This is something that infographic designers really need to be aware of, particularly when presenting data to a wide audience (such as New York Times readers). There are a lot of color-blind people out there.

Finally, to me, the palette you used for Republicans shows up as significantly darker than the one used for Democrats (compare RGB 0,0,255 to RGB 0,0,128 for the highest values). Given a heatmap representation, this runs the risk of presenting the false illusion that the darker Republican colors somehow corresponds to higher values in that category. Again, could be the color-blindness kicking in again, but it is something to be aware of either way.

Very nice redesign, with the exception of the bar charts at the bottom (party affiliation by station). I found the fill patterns used there to be quite distracting; why not just use solid colors here?

miked: I have to admit I didn't exercise any "color choice". I used Excel (some old version) to create the heat map and they had exactly 4-5 levels of blue and red. The blue and red are party colors so I had to stick with tradition. It would be useful if you point us to a resource that would help us think about color-blindness.

I do take issue with the "resolution" argument. Binning data brings out the patterns; that's also what the bubbles were intended to do. If someone is looking for the raw data, then the question he is asking is too detailed for a data graphic. He should just look up a table.

I strongly agree with those who don't favor the heatmap approach. Take for example Christopher Dodd... bubbles show clearly that MSNBC gave him more than double the face time of any other network, including the 2nd highest at CNN. The heatmap shows no distinction between CNN and >2x facetime at MSNBC. More significantly, I think, comparison between candidates in opposing parties is very challenging with the heatmap approach, since one needs to visually distinguish shades of 2 different colors, whereas the colored bubbles use color for party distinction but easily-compared and party-independent bubble size for facetime. Similarly, this characteristic makes it difficult to see the trends within a network as to which candidate might be favored there. I agree that heatamps are nice for trends, but they are only really useful in one dimension, i.e., trends per candidate come out somewhat OK, but trends per network are not clear at all. Finally, I'm not color blind, but I could only pick up 3 color levels for either party, which seems a bit sparse given the variability across the data.

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Mrweatherbee: Tufte (et al. I presume) has made the argument that use of circles for comparison purposes is risky. Humans aren't that great at comparing circular areas: pi * radius * radius is not easy to estimate. We are prone to compare diameters of circles rather than areas, which understates the difference in values.

In the Chris Dodd case I doubt that people could clearly tell that MSNBC was more than twice CNN. Including the value in the circle seems more useful for this purpose.

Kaiser: I don't necessarily have a problem with the way you have binned the data; essentially you are normalizing it against total face time per news outlet, and that's a valid thing to do. However, I might argue that that sort of normalization is less meaningful in this case, where the success of a political candidate often depends on the sheer number of "eyeballs reached" rather than their share of face time on a given news network. But this is debatable.

I'm more concerned that the heatmap "visual metaphor" is less effective than sized circles because it is more difficult to visually parse. As I said, my impression is that heatmaps work great for data that is continuous and features discernable gradients (the idea of a heatmap comes from the display of temperature measurements). But this data is unordered. There is no continuity expected between a list of candidates and a list of news networks, so a heatmap presents as randomly ordered blocks of color. To me, this ends up looking more like noise than if we used size as the retinal variable for facetime.

I guess what I'm arguing is that, for me at least, it is easier to distinguish circles of a particular size out of a field of ramdomly-sized circles than it is to pick a particular shade of color out a field of random colors. And I think this is particularly true for "extreme" values, which are arguably the meat of this data (ie. we are mostly interesting in which canditates are getting the "most" of something, and we don't care too much about the intermediate values). To that end, the NYT quite cleverly uses "oversized" circles for particularly high values that break the grid of the chart and immediately draw your attention to them. This doesn't seem to happen with the heatmap. The values don't "pop" as much visually.

Also, as Mrweatherbee says, it actually becomes harder to compare Republicans and Democrats because I have to do both a more complicated color comparison (due to the color scale) and a spatial comparison (comparing a set of things above to a set of things below) than just squinting at the NYT version and immediately seeing roughly the same amount of blue and red.

This attempt of mine is very simple, and I hope not too eccentric. The bars are made by using the | character and the REPT() function in Excel.

I ordered the Republican candidates by ascending face time on Fox News and the Democrats by descending face time on MSNBC, so Giuliani and Fred Thompson are next door to Biden and Dodd in the middle, and the other news channels are displayed in comparison to those respective channels.

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Derek -

Good chart. The "bars" are much better for quantitative analysis than either the circles or the heatmap. The ordering of the categories is troubling to me.

Is it possible to rank candidates by total across all outlets? If so, I think we'd see McCain, Hunter, and Huckabee move closer to the bottom of your "red" list, and Obama, Edwards, and Richardson move closer to the top of the "blue" list.

I like keeping the parties separate, but I would have listed both parties in decreasing order, not peaking in the middle where they meet.

Anyone know how to create teh NYT chart? Any such kind of functionality in Excel, before doing the final wrap-up in Illustrator?

Thanks for any ideas!

Excellent redesign! I'd suggest sorting networks by bias, and listing total viewership. Total viewership would help understand the balance between FOX's extreme but solitary Rep bias and all other networks' slight Dem bias.

Also, why do you discretize the heatmap? Why not just use all hues available instead of only using 4 levels or so.

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There is something like regression to the mean at work though (how much who knows). Superstar CEOs sometimes just oversee a good time for a company.

It really is bad statistics. There are so many possible factors that we would never assume are not independent of the choice of an external CEO. Boards choose CEO hopefully because they think the CEO offers something that internal applicants don't. This usually means they want something in the company changed. If they don't get it right then the new CEO won't be suitable. This usually happens when a company is tending towards not doing well, a difficulty for any future CEO. The new CEO is probably quite happy at his previous company, he knows that he may have problems at the new company, so he asks for lots of remuneration. Plus as Dean said, there is regression to the mean. We all have moments of brilliance, and then its back to usual.

One of the articles mentions Apple. The problem with Sculley is that he didn't understand the market. If you are going to sell a consumer product at a premium you have to develop brand loyalty and a sense of wow. Wow means innovative, different and usable. Apple kept making products that were good but not innovative, and they didn't maintain their quality standards, so no longer did people feel the need to pay extra. Jobs gave me a computer I liked rather than one I simply use. I think Sculley was hired to give them a business focus, and the problem was that the board thought that was what they needed.

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Mercer Names Stephanie DeFeo Solo Head Coach

After three seasons as the program's co-head coach, Mercer has named Stephanie DeFeo as the sole holder of the position.

DeFeo had for three seasons served in the co-head coach capacity, along with her brother James, after arriving in Macon following the 2013 campaign. As co-head coach, Stephanie DeFeo helped lead the Bears to nearly one hundred victories in those three seasons.

She holds a .565 career winning percentage, stretched over stints as head coach at East Tennessee State and UNC-Greensboro prior to arriving at Mercer.

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The Umbrella Incident that took place in Raccoon City was ended with the eradication of the deadly virus by a missile attack ordered by the government. As its operations were suspended on a global scale, Umbrella Corporation stock plummeted. This serious blow to the business giant resulted in its complete dissolution. 7 years later, at an airport somewhere in the United States. An ordinary autumn afternoon. One zombie is unleashed into this peaceful scene to attack everyone. In the airport starting to fill up with the undead, the horrific disaster is about to be repeat itself...

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Monday, August 3, 2009

Master of the Descent

Everyone has their own way of dealing with the resulting situation when suddenly in sight of, confronted by, or asked of their attention to a girl they like. It is natural for one to start stuttering or staring after they see someone they really like or have a crush on or they are confronted by them, or they come up to them for some reason. It's just what happens.

But I'm different. I fall.

Oh yes. This has happened to me many times. Once, a girl I liked suddenly called my name as I walked by. Down I went. When I was angry once, I was sitting by myself when another girl I liked came by and asked what was wrong. I pretended to go nuts just to be nice, then walked off to trip over the straps of my camera bag. The girl watched with concern as I stumbled away.

It is not just girls. When I first told a friend of mine this, he suggested I was 'falling for them.' Nice pun, but, I liked the figurative sense of the saying rather than the physical sense of it.

Later, I fell when I saw a friend of mine.
I don't love my friends. I like them - but I don't, say, fall for them. The previous friend I'd told started wondering when I'd fall for him, as it now suggested that it would be a mark of our true friendship that I did.
And I did. Three days later.

One time, I saw a girl I really liked (this girl I would like the most out of all of them) and I had a newspaper page to give her. I'd published photos and a story in the paper of her annual fundraiser event and I wanted to give her a copy. Walking down the hall with my friend Fred, helmut on my head as we were going to go biking at lunch, I saw her at the last minute, walking away.
Really, it was a good omen that I was going biking that lunch. That helmut really helped. Maybe I could think straight now and realize that a helmut would be a great accessory for my wanderings in the area of where girls are concerned.

I gave the paper and photos to her later that day, helmutless.

Now, if any of this has taught me anything, I wouldn't count on it. After all, it's the same as banging your head against the wall - futile - and I'm not going to walk around with my helmut on my head all the time. I'm not a menace - when I'm not in sight of any girls I like.

For now, all I can say is that they made those floors at school way too smooth! I can't believe it! So clean and smooth and flat! And the whole effect is exacerbated when you're walking down the ramps! No friction lines on the floor at all! I should know, that's where I fell to the unending favour of that friend of mine! Anyway, that's my defence. I even have evidence. There's a photo on Flickr in black and white of the hallway at school taken from the floor. So darn flat indeed.

Now, I must return to my shopping list: New bike helmut...check. Super soccer cleats with the rubber soles...check....

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When you think about it, sending automated email to your customers from a “Do Not Reply” email address is a really odd thing to do, yet most online business do it. Why?

At first glance, it seems like a very cheap way to solve a very visible problem — allowing replies would mean someone has to read all that email and deal with it. If you’re the person dealing with all that email, or paying the team that does, your natural bias would be to treat this email as a cost. With the mindset of reducing costs, “Do Not Reply” is pretty appealing:

Of course, thinking about the customer’s experience, there’s nothing appealing at all:

It’s also important to realise that when we cut off all that noisy email, we also cut off the conversation with the customer — a valuable source of product feedback:

So, dealing with all that email is a bad idea, and cutting off the email with a “Do Not Reply” is a bad idea. When faced with this type of problem, look for the constraint that’s hiding the most detail. In this case “we don’t want to reject replies” seems pretty solid, while “we don’t want to deal with all that email” seems to have some wiggle room. Maybe we can get better at dealing with all that email.

If we allow replies, what kind of emails will we have to deal with? What smaller problems can we find to solve? When we break out these smaller problems, there’s a much higher chance we can find simple solutions that don’t suck for customers.

This isn’t an exhaustive list, but it’s a start:

A lot of these can be solved with automated email filtering and redirecting rules on our mail server or within our support system. Here’s a start:

At worst, this is a few conversations, a few hours of configuration, a few days of watching the inbox to set-up new rules, and a few hours a month to monitor and review. Speaking of review, there’s value in the data we collect from accepting these emails:

Yes, all this is more effort than a simple “Do Not Reply” address, but it’s not an outrageous cost, and not unreasonable given the massive upside — engagement with customers, faster product improvements, deeper insights, actionable data, better alignment with tools & behaviour, and of course, an improved overall customer experience.

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Free-play Weekend for SEAsian version of StarCraft II

From 00:00 on November 19 (GMT +8) to 23:59 on November 21, Blizzard is opening the StarCraft II SEA server gates to one and all. Anyone with a working PC and an internet connection will be able to play StarCraft II for three whole days!

New players who would like to participate can create accounts at and activate StarCraft II on their accounts. Players with existing accounts which do not have StarCraft II are also welcome to participate. Note that an internet connection is required to play or simply visit your nearest internet gaming room with StarCraft II installed.

The free-play weekend kicks off the availability of the recently announced StarCraft II prepaid game card options for players in Hong Kong/Macau, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand. These game-time cards come in 3-day, 7-day, and 30-day increments and offer players flexible payment options to suit their preferences. Further details on StarCraft II, the different access options, and the upcoming free-play weekend can all be found at

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Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Caramel Cream Brownie Trifle

1 box Betty Crocker® fudge brownie mix
Water, vegetable oil and eggs called for on brownie mix box

1 box (4-serving size) chocolate fudge instant pudding and pie filling mix
2 cups milk
1/4 cup caramel topping
1 container (8 oz) frozen whipped topping, thawed
Heat oven to 350ºF. Bake brownie mix as directed on box, using water, oil and eggs, in 13x9-inch pan. Cool completely, about 1 hour. Make pudding mix as directed on box for pudding, using milk; refrigerate. Cut brownies into 1-inch pieces. Thoroughly stir caramel topping into whipped topping.

In 3-quart glass bowl, layer half each of the brownies, pudding, walnuts and whipped topping mixture; repeat. Cover and refrigerate at least 2 hours before serving but no longer than 24 hours. Store covered in refrigerator.
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