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Man behind Maisie's Magical Christmas House pulling the plug over city rules
Linda Hoang CTV Edmonton
Published Friday, April 5, 2013 5:02PM MDT Last Updated Friday, April 5, 2013 6:59PM MDT
It's a sight thousands of Edmontonians go to see each year but Maisies Magical Christmas House won't be lighting up this winter.
The man behind the annual Christmas tradition in Edmonton says he's pulling the plug on the well-known Maisies Magical Christmas House because he's fed up with city regulations.
Maisie's Magical Christmas House has been lit up on the corner of 144 Avenue and 97 Street for eight years and each year the impressive display attracts thousands.
But homeowner Jerry Dolynchuk says the lights won't be turning on this Christmas – and says the city is to blame.
"All of a sudden, they're putting conditions in that make it impossible to work anymore," Dolynchuk says.
"I don't think the city realizes they're getting rid of probably the biggest thing for Christmas in Edmonton."
Dolynchuk's popular display has grown so much that some of it now rests on city property.
After receiving several complaints about the road right-of-way in the area, the city asked Dolynchuk to scale the display back and follow several requirements in order to continue using the city-owned property for his display.
City fees, licence agreements, liability insurance
Dolynchuk was asked to sign a licence of occupation agreement, pay a $75 dollar annual fee, take out liability insurance, and wait until October before setting up any Christmas decorations.
Dolynchuk typically starts setting up in August because he says it takes three months to complete.
"They want me to pull a permit with the city. Every year they want a fee. They want me to pull a million-dollar liability insurance, I have to go through different levels of government, it's literally turning into a business and once it's a business, the fun is gone," Dolynchuk said.
"You just lose interest in it. I was doing it because I was making people happy."
The city told Dolynchuk if he did not comply, they would ticket him.
"If the license is found to be unacceptable to you, the use of the road right-of-way area will not be allowed," read a letter from the city's transportation planning branch.
"Enforcement tickets will be issued and unauthorized objects will be removed."
'You can't make it smaller like the city wants'
Dolynchuk has spent almost a quarter of a million dollars growing his display over the years but says enough is enough.
"You don't build it up over eight years and then start going backwards and destroying it," Dolynchuk said.
Residents CTV spoke with Friday said they were upset to hear about the end of the holiday tradition.
"It's always been a bright part of our Christmas season and the kids loved seeing it too," said Cory Hulst.
"Once a year the guy brightens the place up, I think the city should back off and leave him alone," said Orest Holowaychuk.
Maisie's Magical Christmas House is named after Dolynchuk's mother Maisie.
"I figured I'd hang a few sets of lights and it got carried away," Dolynchuk said.
"When she passed away I carried on her name and the honour of it and it just got bigger and bigger. You can't make it smaller like the city wants."
'It makes the community a better place'
The festive house also acts as a big annual fundraiser helping the city's less fortunate.
Each year visitors to Dolynchuk's house make donations to the Edmonton Food Bank.
Marjorie Bencz, executive director for the Edmonton Food Bank says she hopes Dolynchuk and the city can come to an agreement that would see Maisie's Magical Christmas House light up once again.
"My hope would be there's some kind of way to working this out so that Jerry's needs are met and the City of Edmonton's needs are met so that Jerry can continue on his work," Bencz said.
"We appreciate the support that Jerry has brought to our organization but his home is more than just a food bank, it makes the community a better place."
Bencz says Maisie's Magical Christmas House is special to the city.
"Jerry's home is one of those things that makes Edmonton special and creates opportunities for families to go out and celebrate the family season," she said.
But Dolynchuk says his labour of love has turned into a huge hassle.
He's fed up and he says he's already sold some decorations.
Dolynchuk even plans on moving out of the home.
"It's going to be very depressing every winter comes, people will be coming here and there will be nothing here," he said.
"I thought I would never ever stop this… I was doing it because it was making people happy."
With files from Veronica Jubinville
The man behind an annual Christmas tradition in Edmonton says he's pulling the plug on the well-known Maisies Magical Christmas House - located at the corner of 144 Avenue and 97 Street - because he's fed up with city regulations.
Jerry Dolynchuk, the man behind Maisie's Magical Christmas House, says he's pulling the plug on the annual display because of city regulations.
Jerry Dolynchuk was asked by the city to sign a licence of occupation agreement, pay a $75 dollar annual fee, take out liability insurance, and wait until October before setting up any Christmas decorations.
Maisie's Magical Christmas House has been an annual Christmas tradition for many Edmontonians for eight years, but homeowner Jerry Dolynchuk says he's pulling the plug this year.


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Google's infamous gmail invite system forever changed the way startups would roll out new services.
I originally wrote the bulk of this article in 2004, and the overwhelming success of the gmail invite rollout has been copied and cloned repeatedly ever since. In fact, it is hard to think of an internet startup that introduced its product without using invites. The invite system creates desire and exclusivity. Just like the infamous club scene in Miami, half the fun is trying to get in the door.
Additionally, by limiting the number of users (through the number of invites released), the servers can be tweaked and configured gradually in a controlled fashion. If the servers are running slow, less invites are released until the systems are running smoothly again.
Like anything successful in marketing, the more it is used, the less effective it is. Begging and searching for invites is a rare event these days, but the legacy of the gmail invites is essential internet marketing knowledge.
This is not a typical tech-recipe although much can be learned from this topic. If I were a budding internet marketer, I would study the world of gmail and its now infamous invite system. Feel free to discuss in the comments below.
For months, rumors about gmail were slowly being released. The initial news about the massive 1 gig mailbox came out on March 31st–close enough for the internet to openly wonder if it were a classic Google April Fools joke or not. Whether it was planned or not, this was the beginning of gmail's success in getting the internet user to auto-market gmail through forums and blogs.
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Each gmail user gets to send out invites to other users eventually. More users equal more invites. This, of course, killed the ebay market; however, it allowed the gmail news to spread and spread. Without the "I gotta have it!" frenzy created by the initial slow roll out, many users would have ignored gmail invites from their friends. With the feeling that invites now have a market value, invited users feel at least obligated to try it out and see what all the excitement is about.
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Mayor Bill de Blasio pauses by the vigil of Prince Joshua "PJ" Avitto at the Boulevard Houses in East New York, Brooklyn, on June 11. De Blasio later announced that security cameras would be installed in 49 public housing projects by the end of the year. (Rob Bennett/Mayor's Office)
Security Cameras Coming to 49 Public Housing Projects
Installation to be completed by end of 2014
By Ivan Pentchoukov
NEW YORK—The city has approved contracts worth $25 million to install security cameras in 49 public housing projects. Mayor Bill de Blasio made the announcement Wednesday, days after a stabbing attack in East New York that killed one child and injured another.
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Q: How do I validate the less then zero inputs efficiantly without so many of the same else statements? I am trying to create a computer simulation of money losses over blackjack games. However I am running into a bug where if I put a less then zero value in one of the prompts, the program has to go through all the other prompts before warning about the less then zero.
Is there a way to immediately warn about less then zero values without having to put the same exact else statement for each if over and over again?
private void menu()
{
    boolean NonNumeric=false;
    //This is so a different exception is thrown for the minimum stakes since it's a float.
    boolean isDecimal=false;
    while(getRounds()<=0 || getPlayers()<=0 || getStakes()<=0 )
    {
        try
        {
            Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in);
            if(getRounds()<=0)
            {
                System.out.println("Enter number of rounds.");
                setRounds(input.nextInt());
            }
            if(getPlayers()<=0)
            {
                System.out.println("Enter number of players.");
                setPlayers(input.nextInt());
            }
            if(getStakes()<=0)
            {
                System.out.println("Enter minimum stakes.(Note: All players bet minimum only)");
                isDecimal=true;
                setStakes(input.nextFloat());
            }

        }

        catch (InputMismatchException e ) //In case some idiot enters a letter or symbol.
        {
            //This if statement is so that a different message comes if the invalid entry is a float.
            if(isDecimal==true)
            {
                System.out.println("Entry must be a number. Not a letter or symbol. Try Again.\n");
            }
            else
            {
                System.out.println("Entry must be a whole number. Not a letter, decimal, or symbol. Try Again.\n");
            }
            /*This boolean is so that the below if statement does not run if the user enters a letter
            since the integer defaults back to a 0 on exception.*/
            NonNumeric = true;
        }
        if(getRounds()<=0 || getPlayers()<=0 || getStakes()<=0)
        {
            System.out.println("Number must be greater than 0.\n");
        }
    }
}

A: Modularize. Create a method (or even a class) that takes an input and accepts it only if it meets conditions. For example
 private int myIntGetter(String caption, boolean forcePositive) {
    System.out.println(caption);
    Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in);
    int intValue = input.nextInt();
    while ((forcePositive) && (intValue <=0)) {
      System.out.println("Number must be greater than \0");
      System.out.println(caption);
      intValue = input.nextInt();
    }
    // here intValue is valid
    return intValue;
  }

A: If you're not to concerned with being nice to your user:
do{
   System.out.println("Enter number of rounds.  Rounds must greater than zero.");
   setRounds(input.nextInt());
}while( getRounds()<=0);

You can do that for each thing the user has to enter.  It's quick and dirty.

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Hypocrisy on display with earmark attitudes
By Froma Harrop
The blubbering has hit the road projects, as the congressional ban on earmarks becomes reality. Tea partiers and other foes of "Big Government" demanded the end to earmarks, also known as pork. Earmarks are but a drop in the federal spending pool, so you can imagine the howls that will emerge from the major budgetary surgery to come.
We read that folks in Wisconsin's rural Burnett County now fear a possible property tax increase because they can't get a $1 million earmark for improving their communications system. Some use such worthy examples to argue that earmarks aren't all that bad. Not me.
If Burnett County residents want to modernize their communications system, why shouldn't they pay for it? I can assure them, my property taxes are a lot higher than theirs. Earmark funding sends the bills for such projects to me and other federal taxpayers.
I don't object to federal spending on needs that individuals or local governments can't efficiently meet. But I don't see why I should pay for others' infrastructure because some congressman was able to skirt the normal budgeting channels, which is what earmarking is all about. Pork breeds corruption, and that makes it objectionable, no matter where the money goes.
Some lawmakers, such as Sen. Daniel Inouye, Democrat of Hawaii, don't see the earmark ban that way. "The reality is that critical needs in communities throughout the country will be neglected," he said. The truth is that these needs will be neglected only if the communities neglect them.
At least Inouye is honest in his support of earmarks. He doesn't engage in the two-faced maneuvering more prevalent among some of his Republican colleagues — denouncing government spending while churning out press releases about the pork they're bringing home. How interesting that Tea Party Caucus members asked for more than $1 billion in pork last year, according to Citizens Against Government Waste. How predictable.
Some clever fellows go around the pork embargo by not calling earmarks "earmarks." How about "lettermarking"?
When Republican Rep. Mark Kirk ran for President Obama's old Senate seat, the Illinois Republican condemned earmarks, natch. Turns out that Kirk had previously written a letter to the Department of Education seeking money for a local school district. This is an example of lettermarking. "Phonemarking" involves making similar requests by telephone.
What's wrong with just asking for money? A lot when the request is really a threat against the department or agency being approached. As a member of the House Appropriations Committee, Kirk held power over their budgets.
Sen. Kirk has just issued a press release announcing his new assignment on the Senate Appropriations Committee, which, he notes, "has authority over all discretionary expenditures made by the federal government."
Without earmarks, politicians will have to navigate the proper avenues for federal funding, but they won't be on Easy Street under Obama's five-year plan to freeze discretionary domestic spending. Valuable or not, favorably reviewed or not, many projects will not get federal dollars from the increasingly dry well. And we're talking about a lot more money than the $16 billion spent on earmarks last year.
But the earmarks ban has been more personally felt up to now. Here's what Steve Tribble, an official in Kentucky's Christian County, had to say about the loss of earmark funding for a road plan: "I am against some earmarks,' he told The New York Times. "Not the good ones. I can promise you, this is not a road to nowhere."
And I believe him. But if this road goes somewhere important, the locals should be more than happy to pay for it.
There is no such thing as a good earmark.
Froma Harrop is a syndicated columnist.


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Part of the programme includes our very popular All Stars soft ball group for boys and girls aged 5 to 8 which will take place on Wednesdays in Falkland Community Hall. The club is really excited to be running All Stars Cricket again in 2019. This will be our third year involved in this fantastic programme with outdoor sessions starting on Friday 3rd May.
All soft and hard ball sessions are open to boys and girls of all abilities and experience with new players made very welcome.
Dates - Wednesdays - 10th April , 17th April and 24th April.
Dates - Fridays- 29th March, 5th April, 12th April and 19th April.
Dates - Saturdays - 16th March, 30th March and 13th April.
For further information and to book a place on any of these programmes please contact Falkland Cricket Club's Youth Convenor Robbie Nellies at robert.nellies@btinternet.com or 07768 711628.


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Women's Clothes Cartoons
Women's Clothes cartoon 1 of 32
"I say one or the other. But leopardskin and heels is too much."
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"Thanks. It's vintage."
Diffee, Matthew
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"It comes in midnight gray, charcoal gray, slate gray, and gray."
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"I'm not trying to be beautiful, I'm only trying to look better than everyone else there."
Johnson, Carolita
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"I'm looking for a nice basic piece of clothing that can fulfill every need I have."
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"Aren't they killing you?"
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Size 0, formerly known as Size 6.
Warp, Kim
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"You look sensational!"
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'The Prom Dress: One Week Later'
Crawford, Michael
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Women's Clothes cartoon 10 of 32
"You're home now, Adele. Why don't you take off your shoulders?"
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"I'm looking for something that won't say anything about me."
Smaller, Barbara
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"The lime-green vest is a little much, and the shoes - good Lord, those are women's shoes!"
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"We have the exact same taste."
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"I'm not sure we still carry the Wonderbra."
superhero, superheroes, hero, heroes, comic, comics, fictional character, fictional characters, character, characters, film, films, movie, movies, lingerie, lingerie store, lingerie stores, lingerie shop, lingerie shops, bra store, bra store, bra shop, bra shops, corset, corsets, shopping for bras, shopping for underwear, shopping for lingerie, lingerie counter, lingerie counters, clerk, clerks, staff, customer service, service, question, questions, request, requests, customer, customers, patron, patrons, out of stock, out-of-stock, fashion, women's wear, clothing, clothes, women's clothing, women's clothes, shopping, shopper, shoppers, not longer, carry, product, products, woman, women
"Acrylic, hemp, fire wax on mirrored aluminum and stainless steel."
Dedini, Eldon
fashion, style, design, designs, designer, designers, fashion designer, fashion designers, dress, dresses, clothes, clothing, womenswear, women's fashion, women's clothes, women's clothing, material, materials, future, futuristic, trend, trends, trendy, fashion-forward, avant-garde, modern, model, models, fashion model, fashion models, saleswoman, saleswomen, woman, women, shopping, shopper, shoppers, consumerism, retail
"She's right here. She's doing some dishes and testing the tensile strength of Lycra."
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"I got tired of being called a suit."
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"Are my little buttons too provocative?"
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"Can Mommy borrow your baby-blue pinafore tonight, sweetie?"
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"It's fancy-schmantzy. I just wanted fancy."
Levin, Arnie
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"We can't wear vintage - we are vintage."
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"I can't believe I spent seven million dollars on tights."
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"I am not your do-over."
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"I've got this amazing new bra."
fashion, style, clothes, clothing, womenswear, women's fashion, women's clothing, women's clothes, underwear, lingerie, new, fly, flying, amazing, woman, women, brag, bragging, boast, boasting
"It's black, but it's not New York black."
fashion, style, woman, women, clothes, clothing, women's fashion, women's clothing, women's clothes, womenswear, dress, dresses, black, colour, colours, color, colors, new york, new york city, ny, nyc, wrong, different, shopping, shopper, shoppers, consumerism, store, stores, shop, shops, boutique, boutiques, picky, fussy, customer, customers, customer request, customer requests, saleswoman, saleswomen, clerk, clerks, staff
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Police Officer dies in crash
At approximately 2:32PM, on Tuesday, July 24, 2012, a Colorado Springs Police Officer, on his motorcycle, crashed into the passenger side of a pickup truck on Austin Bluffs Parkway,near Silver Drive in Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA. The Police Officer was transported by AMR Ambulance to Memorial Hospital, where he later died from his injuries received in the crash. Portions of Austin Bluffs Parkway were closed for many hours, while investigators investigated the scene of the motor vehicle accident and did cleanup. Austin Bluffs finally reopened at 7:55 PM, Tuesday. Police on the scene told me that the officer was conducting traffic enforcement and was on duty at the time of the accident. The investigation into the cause of the accident is active and still ongoing. No other details about the accident were released by Colorado Springs Police Department.
See this incident location on Google Maps on this link at: http://goo.gl/maps/mpMi
If you witnessed this crash on Tuesday or know of any details relating to this accident, please call Colorado Springs Police Department at: (719) 444-7000.
FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS for OFFICER MATTHEW TYNER
From Colorado Springs Police Department:
Funeral Arrangements for Officer Matthew Tyner who died in the line of duty on Tuesday, July 24th are below. An updated announcement will be forwarded to the media on Monday which will advise the times road closures will be in effect. Our traffic team is being thoughtful in their planning to minimize the impact this will have on citizens. This service will be open to the public.
11025 Voyager Parkway
{W} on Interquest Parkway to I-25
I-25 {S} to Uintah
Uintah {E} to Nevada
{S} on Nevada passing City Hall and the Police Operations Center
The pickup truck on the tow truck that was struck on its passenger side by a Colorado Springs Police Motorcycle Unit. Police Officer Matthew Tyner was later pronounced dead at Memorial Hospital, due to injuries sustained in the crash. No details were released on possible injuries of the person or persons that were in the pickup truck.
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MediaPost Names Best In Auto Marketing
by Tanya Gazdik , Staff Writer @TanyaGazdik, March 11, 2019
For a fourth year, MediaPost has named its picks for top automotive marketers and agencies.
The competition was especially heated in all categories, and the panel of industry observers, experts and marketers did the arduous work of finding the best of the bunch. They will be honored at a luncheon during the Marketing: Automotive conference during the New York International Auto Show on April 17 at the Javits Center in New York.
The jury that selected the award winners were Ian Beavis, chief strategy officer, AMCI Global; Elgie Bright, automotive marketing and management department chair, Northwood University; Larissa Faw, reporter, MediaPost Agency Daily; Lauren Fix, automotive analyst, Car Coach Reports; Tanya Gazdik, senior writer, automotive editor, MediaPost; Rebecca Lindland, founder, rebeccadrives.com; Noah Mallin, head of experience, content and sponsorship, North America, Wavemaker; Luis Miguel Messianu, creative chairman, CEO, Alma; Scotty Reiss, founder, A Girl's Guide To Cars; and Gary Topolewski, communication developer, Estota.
The Automotive Marketer Of The Year honor goes to Edward (Ed) Laukes, who has spent almost 30 years at Toyota Motor North America. During that time, he has helped transform the company into a major player in the automotive category and a brand synonymous with quality. Laukes has a vision for what automotive marketing can do to help make the world a better place that extends far beyond the company's balance sheet.
The Automotive Agency Of The Year (Traditional) award goes to Saatchi & Saatchi (Toyota). The work the agency did for the 2018 Olympic Winter Games and Paralympics was indisputably exemplary. The campaign was "powerful for its inclusiveness and long view of brand building," Reiss says. "Not only did it include both the Olympics and the Paralympics in the campaign by showcasing powerful stories of the athletes competing in Seoul, but the work integrated stories about Toyota's cars and trucks and set up the 2020 events in Japan."
Isobar, which handles digital work across all the General Motors divisions (Chevrolet, Buick, Cadillac, GMC, Maven and GM Certified Pre-Owned) is the Automotive Agency of the Year (Digital). The company's outstanding work in 2018 included enabling GM to be the first U.S. automaker to use Google's advertising beta tool, Director Mix, in a comprehensive national campaign for Buick. "They have always been at the highest level creatively, but are now providing clients like GM with solutions that also solve complex problems in a very disrupted automotive ecosystem," Beavis says.
The Best Integrated Campaign (three channels or more, including online) goes to Hudson Rouge and Lincoln for its "Nautilus Ultimate Control" effort. The agency was challenged with demonstrating Lincoln's innovative suite of driver assist technologies in an upscale and luxury-appropriate way. Given the near-invisible nature of many of these features, the team looked to the world of elite billiards as a way to illustrate the product benefits. In the marquee broadcast spot, brand spokesman Matthew McConaughey uses a billiards trick shot as a metaphor for the behavior of the vehicle's safety features.
Best Social Campaign goes to Innocean for its "Million Mile Elantra" campaign for Hyundai, which showcased one of Hyundai's most dedicated owners and the quality and reliability of Hyundai vehicles. The effort featured a woman who put more than a million miles on her 2013 Elantra. The social media content series combined for more than 1.9 million views and over 600,000 organic views, with a 71% completion rate.
The Best Multicultural or Interest Group Campaign award goes to Walton Isaacson for its "Black Panther" effort for Lexus. "What is notable about this campaign was that both the agency and car maker had to significantly invest into a movie a year before they could even see any feedback -- and at the time, an all-black Marvel movie was certainly not a surefire win," Faw says. "Lexus went all-in with what could have been a total bomb."
The Best Viral Marketing Execution or Campaign goes to Ford and its #ForDetroit effort from WPP/GTB. The campaign aimed to encompass Ford's investment in the city of Detroit through its promise to revitalize the iconic Michigan Central Station and Corktown neighborhood, driving the future of the local community, automotive industry and beyond. The #ForDetroit campaign reached over 541 million individuals as a result of 21,000 social mentions generated from June 11 to July 3.
The Best Interactive Execution or Campaign attracted several worthy candidates, but the ultimate winner was Infiniti and its Japanese Automotive Invitational created by MotorTrend Group. The event, held in conjunction with the Concours d'Elegance in Pebble Beach, attracted a new generation to the iconic auto event. Hundreds of car enthusiasts, including many millennials, flocked to the two-day display to gape at the diverse mix of vehicles.
Finally, the Best Campaign For A Dealer Group goes to CarMax, based on the humorous ads created by AOR McKinney. The tongue-in-cheek spots featuring actor Andy Daly are "both fun and memorable," according to one juror.
Congratulations to all the winners.
Senior reporter Tanya Gazdik covers automotive, sports, entertainment and pets for MediaPost's "Marketing Daily." She previously was the deputy editor of MediaPost, animal welfare reporter at "The (Toledo) Blade," Detroit bureau chief of "Adweek" and associate editor at "Ward's Automotive Reports" and "Ward's AutoWorld."
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This picture was taken in 1908 in Tulsa. Not sure where or what they were doing. But my great grand mother and a great aunt are in the picture. Aunt is in second row first from left. Her name was Ella (Davis) Triplett, they call her "Aunt Jack". My great grand mother is the next on to her Nellie (Davis) Hedgepath. they were put in the Pryor orphanage when they were small girls with two brothers John and Mack Davis. Nellie's husband came and took her out of the orphanage when she was sixteen. Hope this helps someone.


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Myles Murphy
Born in 1927 in Bury, Lancashire, into a large Catholic family, Murphy was encouraged to pursue art when he attended evening classes given by L.S. Lowry. He begun his formal artistic education at the Slade, where he was taught by Claude Rogers and William Coldstream. The latter inculcated in him a mathematical method of capturing the human form.
In 1954 he suffered terrible burns whilst painting a self-portrait in a wedding dress that he had intended for his then-girlfriend to model instead. However, upon his recovery, he was awarded the Slade diploma prize. When he and his fellow student, Craigie Aitchison, graduated, they won an Abbey Travelling Scholarship and drove to Ravenna together.
Murphy began teaching at the Slade in 1959, then at Chelsea College of Arts until 1974. He painted throughout his tenure, and his Yellow Nude was acquired for the Arts Council Collection from the London Group in 1964. Ten years later, he won the John Moores Painting Prize for Figure with Yellow Foreground.
1927 Born in Bury, Lancashire
1951-54 Slade School of Art
1954-55 Post-graduate student, Slade School of Art
1955 Abbey Travelling Scholarship
1959 Taught at the Slade School of Art
1960-74 Taught at Chelsea School of Art
1973 Lorne Scholarship
1974 John Moores Competition, 1st prize
1983 The Hard-Won Image, Tate Gallery, London
1952 Young Contemporaries, Tate Gallery, London
1960 Modern British Portraits, Arts Council, London
1964 New Painting, Arts Council, London
1974 9th John Moores Liverpool Exhibition
2005 Three Points of View, Myles Murphy, Patrick Symons, Euan Uglow Browse & Darby, London
Work in Public Collections
Arts Council of Great Britain
Tate Gallery, London


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Episode 195: The War Of Art, or, Bashing Bad Guys
/ Podcast
/ By Harriet Randall
Joe is wearing a dressing gown! A very snazzy, smoking-jacket-esque dressing gown, but a dressing gown nonetheless. If you only listen to the audio, you're missing out. Hop over to YouTube and have a gander. Mind you, I am dressed like three of the Spice Girls at once, so... anyway, we're both perfectly dressed to discuss The War Of Art by Steven Pressfield – an excellent book for everyone who's ever struggled with procrastination. Listen in and find out what mine and Joe's top takeaways from the book are.
Key Points
[1:20] Joe won gold and silver in the National BJJ competition!
[2:00] Vicky, on the other hand, has scratched her eyeball.
[6:35] Today's podcast will be a book review of The War of Art by Steven Pressfield.
[8:35] The book is extremely well organized.
[10:00] In Steven's book, he actually doesn't have a table of contents.
[12:20] We each have different types of personalities depending on who you are talking to. We have the work persona, the family persona, and the friend/hobby persona.
[15:55] Planning to do that 'thing' is really easy. Sitting down and actually doing it is not!
[17:35] Don't start tomorrow. Start now!
[19:30] It doesn't matter if the words you are writing are terrible! The point is you got it down on paper.
[21:50] What kind of person do you want to be today?
[25:25] Last month, Vicky wrote every single day!
[26:00] Tune in next week to find out why you should do something difficult!
Vicky on Medium
Order Vicky's new book!
Subscribe on iTunes, Stitcher, and Overcast
The Obelisk Gate by N. K. Jemisin
The Next Step in the Dance by Tim Gautreaux
Atomic Habits by James Clear
The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles by Steven Pressfield
Want to know more? I've written a book, you know. You can get your mitts on it here.
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Business For Superheroes Podcast Transcription: Episode One Hundred And Ninety Five: The War Of Art, or, Bashing Bad Guys
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*This is a podcast about one woman's mission to help entrepreneurs and business owners write better business books. Each week, we tackle your writing excuses because they're our excuses too, and help you beat the blank page of doom so that you can write the book that will grow your life and your business. Now here's your host, Vicky Fraser...*
Vicky: Hello, and welcome to the 1000 Authors show. I am Vicky Fraser and this is my husband, Joe.
Joe: Hello.
Vicky: Hello. Joe is wearing a dressing gown.
Joe:I just got out of the shower. Just got back from a class, had a shower and now we're doing a podcast.
Vicky: Yeah and I am,
Joe: Then I'm going to bed.
Vicky: And I am dressed like three of the spice girls which I'll explain in a moment.
Joe: That sounds good.
Vicky: Yeah so we are drinking--
Joe: Misery tea.
Vicky: Joe is drinking Vanilla Rooibos, Rooibos.
Joe: Redbush.
Vicky: Redbush. There's a combination of two words. Red bus, red bus, I gotta stop with that and I am drinking lemon ginger.
Joe: How very grown up of us.
Vicky: I know, cheers. Yeah and so Joe is in his pajamas because he's just been training BJJ which is very good of him because yesterday, oh did you bring it, did you bring it in?
Joe: No.
Vicky: Oh Joe.
Joe: I know.
Vicky: If you follow me on Instagram @treefrogtoe I put Joe's bling on Instagram
Joe: Did you?
Vicky: Yeah, because I was really proud of you. Joe won gold and silver yesterday in the Hereford National BJJ competition
Joe: Hereford, Hereford Open BJJ.
Vicky: Yeah.
Joe: There were only two people in my division and I was both of them.
Vicky: You won golden in your category didn't you. And he won silver against the youngsters.
Joe: Yes, I fought in my category and I fought in the category of younger blokes. And I got silver in that one.
Vicky: Yeah well done. So that's very cool.
Joe: I was very pleased.
Vicky: And I am dressed like the Spice Girls because I am, you may have noticed if you are watching the video. You probably won't have noticed if you're listening to the
Joe: It's difficult to tell just by audio.
Vicky: Yeah, I am wearing my glasses and the reason I'm wearing my glasses is I have scratched my eyeball which is exactly as irritating as it sounds.
Joe: Nasty
Vicky: And they said actually they were really cool because I popped in on the off chance they might be able to have a quick look at Specsavers. Hi Specsavers.
Joe: Hi Specsavers.
Vicky: And they did have a quick look, I only had to wait a couple of minutes. And they put some dye in my eye and they were like yeah you scratched your eyeball. Don't wear your contact lenses for a couple of days. Have some eyedrops and they didn't charge me anything.
Joe: That's nice of them.
Vicky: Really nice of them. So normally I would be like yay small businesses, but Specsavers have just been really nice to me so yay Specsavers. Big businesses can be good too. Anyway I'm wearing my glasses so I was at Pole earlier and I was wearing the outfit that I'm wearing right now. Which consists of kind of 90's go faster stripe jogging bottoms. This hoodie which is branded with the studio and my glasses. And I was also wearing my eight inch stripper shoes. And I walked out to fill up my water bottle and my friend Jade was like, "this is the most epic outfit I've ever seen. It's like sexy, sporty, nerd." I was just like yeah, I'm all three Spice Girls all at once. Really cool! So that's what we've been up to this evening. And Joe, what are you reading at the moment?
Joe: I'm still reading book two of NK Jemisin's Gate "The Obelisk Gate".
Vicky: Obelisk Gate
Joe: "The Obelisk Gate" Yes the Fifth Season Series. I'm on Book Two, "The Obelisk Gate.
Vicky: Are you enjoying it? Cake, the obelisk cake, we're hungry. Are you enjoying it?
Joe: Yes, yes but I've slowed down a bit. I rattled through the first book when we were in the Treehouse.
Vicky: Yes
Joe: Which was beautiful and amazing.
Vicky: Oh my god the Treehouse.
Joe: So I'm a bit slower on this one cause I'm only reading like the three lines I can read before I fall asleep. Yeah. But it's very good, very good.
Vicky: Good, I'm glad. And I am reading, actually I've literally just finished reading, but I can't talk about the next book because I am like 10 pages in. I've just finished reading, The "Next Step in The Dance" by Tim Gautreaux.
Joe: Tim Gautreaux.
Vicky: He-- it is set in a place called Tiger Island in the deep south of Louisiana. And I think it's set in the 80s when there was like oil boom bust down there.
Joe: Okay.
Vicky: It's kind of a, this is one of the books that was recommended to me when I went on the reading spa at Mr. B's.
Joe: Hi Mr. B.
Vicky: Hi Mr. B's. The guy who did my reading spa was so great. And I said I don't really read romances but I wouldn't mind, I wouldn't mind reading one that's a little bit smarter because I'm not interested in Mills and Boon crap, I just can't do that but, things like I really like the Shopaholics series which is really daft.
Joe:Oh, jeez, really. Really?
Vicky: It's really daft and it's fun. I can read like a Bookaholics book in like two days. Because it's just so good.
Joe: Bookaholics?
Vicky: Shopaholics book, yeah. So I told him that and he came up with The Next Step In The Dance and said, give it a try. And a couple of times, I thought, ugh, I feel like I am wading through it at bit, but I didn't put it down because I just loved it! It's beautifully written. It really gives you a feel for what the deep South is like and all of the swamps and the bayous. Really gives you a feel for what it's like to go from having enough money to really, really finding yourself plunged into poverty. And trying to live a life and fall in and out of love. And it's just beautifully written and, yeah, I just loved it!
Joe: What was it called?
Vicky: The Next Step In The Dance. It's not very well known and it was published by, Mr. B's has a publishing house called Finch Teper... oh, that's terrible, I can't remember the publishing house.
Joe: No!
Vicky: But it's, it's them, it's that book shop and they publish them up. I think this is the second book they have published and so I want to go read his other book now, this guy. So, it's really, really good! And the non-fiction book that I am reading, at the moment, is still Atomic Habits by James Clear.
Joe: Still?
Vicky: Yup! I've almost finished it. I love it! The reason its taken me so long is I'm writing a lot of notes.
Joe: Oh, really. Not just, kind of, turning the pages and...
Vicky: No, I am writing a lot of notes about it.
Joe: Notes.
Vicky: Notes which you can't see. it's great and we will do a review of that at the moment because that brings me to what today's topic is.
Joe: What is today's topic?
Vicky: It is, The War of Art by Steve Pressfield.
Joe:This is a very book review-y Podcast.
Vicky: It is because I thought, you know what, I'm a writer, I teach other people how to become writers and authors and I don't think we've ever done a book review!
Joe: Hmm.
Vicky: And so, I would quite like, every month or so, I think we're going to review a book. And encourage people to join my Bookaholics Anonymous Book Club which is totally free!
Joe: Really? Cool!
Vicky: So, there will be a link to that. But yeah, one of the books, one of the books that we read a little while ago. I am just trying to remember when we wrote it. March. There we go.
Joe: You read it in March.
Vicky: There we go. We read it in March. Is The War Of Art and if you're watching the Podcast on YouTube, by Steven Pressfield. Now, Steven Pressfield is a really interesting guy because he is a fictional, well, he was a fictional author primarily. I think like historical fiction?
Joe:Okay. Okay.
Vicky: So, kind of in the vein of Clive Cussler and, you know it will be, vaguely historically accurate or something.
Joe: Sure.
Vicky: But I think Steve Pressfield and this is really bad, I've never read any of his other stuff. I've only read his one fiction but he writes like about, I think he wrote about one of the big Greek wars. And it was almost fictionalized account of..
Joe:Helen of Troy and all that.
Vicky: Yeah, that kind of thing. And I might be totally wrong and doing him a massive disservice. But the reason that I got interested in him is because he has become very, very well known, like the top of his field, for breaking through creative blocks and winning-- Well, the subtitle is, Break through the blocks and win your inner creative battles.
Vicky: Because anyone who has ever tried to write anything of any substance will know that one of the first things that happens is that you sit down and, you're like, nope!
Joe: 'Cause it's difficult!
Vicky: Yeah, it is difficult. And so, he is all about how, how you kick, you know, kick through it and just get the work done. How you do the work, really. And so, his book, it's a really, it's a great book actually. It's really interesting book. Oh, yeah, so he's done, okay, so his fiction books, he's done a load called, The Profession, Killing Rommel, which is based on Rommel, The Afghan Campaign, you know, based on all that kind of thing. The Legend of Bagger Vance. Oh, he wrote The Legend of Bagger Vance! Which is a very famous film.
Joe: It is!
Vicky: Yeah! So, the other non-fiction books he's written is Turning Pro, Do The Work, and The Warrior Ethos. He's got his own publishing company as well. I am pretty sure that Black Irish Entertainment is his publishing company.
Joe: It's his.
Vicky: Yeah. So, I liked the book because it's nicely organized and I wanted to talk a little bit not just about the substance of the kind of content of the book also.
Joe: The way it was done.
Vicky: The way it was done as well and how it is organized. So, it's got a foreword, which is fine. A foreword is a good idea if you think that you can get somebody who's well known in the industry. Robert McKee is an author, he's a fiction author. And so, he got Robert McKee to write the foreword. And Steven Pressfield wrote The War of Art for me. You know, you know, the kind of book that's just perfect for me. And then it's structured really nicely so...
Joe: It's not a big book is it.
Vicky: It's not a big book. No, it's only...
Joe: It's not an intimidating book.
Vicky: ...like a 163, 163 pages or so. 165 pages. I'm just wondering if it's got a Table of Contents. Talk amongst yourselves, Joe.
Joe: Well, it's, it's a beautiful sort of just above A5 book. The type face is very clear.
Vicky: It's nicely spaced as well.
Joe: It's very spaced, yeah.
Vicky: You know what's very important, if you're watching this, you can see that there's quite a lot of white space between the lines.
Joe: Hmm. It's easy. It's non threatening, isn't it?
Vicky: It's non threatening, yeah. Okay, so, what Steven, he doesn't actually, I don't think, have a table of contents. Which is really interesting.
Joe: Shocking!
Vicky: And, you know, I'm certainly not going to sit here and tell Steven Pressfield how to write a book.
Joe: Hi, Steven!
Vicky: That would be awesome if he was listening. But it's interesting because I would normally suggest, especially if you're writing a 'how to' book, the kind of book that I wrote which is how to write a book.
Joe: Yeah, the sort of thing you are going to refer to and want to find where you got that bit of information from and come back to.
Vicky: Yeah. Whereas, what Steve Pressfield has done is a little bit more, I think you can dip in and out of it, more easily, and it's fine. But it's nice because his introduction is broken into three different kind of sections. Which is what I do and that's what he talks about what he does everyday. His routine. What I know, that's literally just one paragraph. And the unlived life and that's where he talks about the fact that most of us have two lives. Which is the life we live and the unlived life within us. Between the two, stands resistance.
Vicky: And I really like that because, to me, that feels like it sums up every person who wishes they could accomplish something but doesn't.
Joe:Because of the resistance?
Vicky: Yeah! And it's not that they can't do it. Not that they're not capable of doing it. Because every human being is, most people are born on a pretty level playing field. Even the ones who are disadvantaged still have it in them to go, you know, to go and do big things.
Joe: Or whatever it is that you are currently doing, you could, you can always do something else.
Joe: You can always change it a bit or do it differently, or move in a different direction, or make a few decisions and go that way instead.
Vicky: Yeah. And it might be much harder for some people to do it than others but, you know, it's tiny little steps.
Joe: It's possible.
Vicky: Yes, it is possible. And so, I really liked this because it just it just kind of summed up and it doesn't matter whether you're writing a book or creating a product or learning something. You know, if you, if you, it's like me. If I want to be able to play the guitar. Which I do. I simply need to sit down and practice. And sometimes sitting down to practice is really, really difficult.
Joe: Yeah, because there's more, immediate things.
Vicky: Yeah. And it's not even, it's not even that there's more immediate things. Part of the reason I really like this book, which is The War of Art, is that he treats, Steven Pressfield, treats resistance as like this outside malevolent force.
Joe: Right.
Vicky: And I really like that because he's, he's kind of not saying put the responsibility somewhere else. What he's saying is it can be quite useful to treat it like something that trying to, trying to scupper you basically. Trying to sabotage you. Which is what it is! It's almost, because this, this, kind of been a lot of research done into how our brains work. And how many, how many personalities we have, if you like. And, I don't know. What do you think? Cause people are different depending on the situation they are in, aren't they?
Joe: Of course.
Vicky: And you've got your inner voice and your outer voice.
Joe: Yeah, yeah. You have your family person and your work person and you might have your mate's person and your pub person. Maybe your public speaking person. You may have loads of them.
Vicky: And you've also got that voice in your head that nobody else ever hears because that's the one that's whispering poison in your ear. And that's, that's the one that Steven Pressfield kind of describes as the resistance monster. I can't remember what he calls it but that kind of thing that's trying to stop you. I call it you're inner dickhead. It's, it's just this book is all about really how to beat down your inner dickhead and how to, how to overcome what's going on.
Joe: To be able to make those decisions and move on.
Vicky: Yeah. Cause if you can't overcome resistance you're never going to get anything done. You know. It doesn't really matter.
Joe: You'll just do the things that you are used to doing.
Vicky: Yeah, you'll never progress.
Joe: Yeah, you just carry on.
Vicky: Yeah, you won't do the things that you want to do. Because the book I am reading at the moment and we'll talk about this when we review this Atomic Habits by James Clear. But he said something in the book really early on that blew my tiny, little mind. And it is kind of really obvious when you think about it but you know when you sometimes read something and it's like, whoa! He says, winners and losers have the same goals. And that just blew my mind because I think we are all, we are told, so often, to focus on the goal and the end result. It's like, oh, what was your goal? Set big goals. You know, set your goals and this is how we are going to get to it. And we don't think about what it is that we do everyday to get ourselves there. And the difference between, you know, the difference between winners and losers is not the goals they set. It's what they do everyday.
Joe: Yup.
Vicky: To get there. And that, even though I kind of knew it on some level, when I saw it written down like that it was just like...choir of angels, you know.It's like . And, yeah, it was, I think that's related to this because he's talking about all the things that you have to do everyday. It's like all you need to do is sit down and write. Which kind of sounds easy...
Joe: Just do that thing.
Vicky: ..but it's not quite so easy. So, some of the things that we took from this book when we talked about it Bookaholics. I'm looking at Rob Sketch notes right now.
Joe: Hi, Rob!
Vicky: Hi, Rob! Rob is a fantastic cartoonist. You should totally go to Everyone Loves Cartoons.com and have a look at his cartoons because he also runs courses. I've done a couple of his courses and he's great! And we've both learned from Sean D'Souza. at Psychotactics, which is really cool! So, yeah, the thing that I am looking at the moment. The book note that I am looking at the moment. The sketch note and I should share these. I'll ask Rob if that is okay.
Joe: Yeah.
Vicky: But he's kind of drawn a piano. But the quote that he's taken from the book, which I really liked, one of, one of the things that stops us from getting started is that we don't tell ourselves that we're not going to write our symphony. We tell ourselves that we're going to start tomorrow. So, we don't tell ourselves that we're not going to write the book. We just say, we are going to start tomorrow. And it's the same thing.
Joe: After Christmas.
Vicky: Yeah, and they both mean the same thing. They both mean I am not going to do this thing. But one of them is, you know, less.
Joe: Yeah, it's much more palatable to say, well, I'll do that next week or tomorrow.
Joe: Or after Christmas or whatever.
Vicky: Because at the time, and I don't know if you've noticed this phenomenon, but it happens when people kind of invite you somewhere as well. You know, it's a few weeks ahead and you think, oh, yeah, that might be fun. Because in your head it's really easy to go and do that thing. And then it comes up and it's like tomorrow and it's like, I really don't feel like doing that anymore. And it's the same thing I think when you're writing a book or you're practicing something, anything you want to get better at. Planning to do it is super easy. Actually sitting down to do it is not. Do you find that with what you do at work and BJJ and stuff?
Joe: Yes. Yes. I certainly find it easier to do the loud, screaming, immediate thing. Than the strategic, planning, considered thing. Which is a little bit of a different issue, I guess, but, yes, it's a lot easier to say well, I'll sort that system out next week.
Vicky: And then...
Joe: Deal with all this shit now.
Joe: Sort out the system next week so it doesn't happen again. Next week I'll just be dealing with shit.
Vicky: Yeah. But if you were wanting to write a book then that's what all of that immediate shit is what would push writing the book out of the way.
Joe: Yeah, yeah. Next week.
Joe: Indeed. Of course.
Vicky: And so, it's, it's got to, that is just an excuse. It's like this stuff. This immediate stuff, that has to been done now is almost always just an excuse. Because unless the actual building is on fire, there is nothing that is that important that it has to be done now, you know. Usually. It obviously depends on, you know, it obviously depends on if you're a doctor and you're actually working in a hospital, you can't just put aside an hour and be like no, screw those people. You know what I mean.
Joe: Because it's all over the table.
Vicky: Yeah. I'm talking about people like, oh, I'm, I'm talking about me, right now. Oh, I really need to go and do the laundry. It's like, no, the laundry will wait. There will be laundry tomorrow. I can do, I can do the laundry tomorrow. So, I think that's very important is to think about the story that you're telling yourself. The internal narrative. Because that's, it's very important, the stuff that we tell ourselves becomes real.
Vicky: If you're telling yourself you're gonna do it tomorrow, you're not. You start now. You know, if you're sitting there thinking, listening to this and thinking, well, you know, I could, but I'm actually just gonna, just gonna watch tellie for a half an hour. It's like, don't, don't watch tellie for a half an hour after you finish listening to this Podcast. Spend that half hour writing a 100 words.
Joe: Yeah, start that habit.
Vicky: Yeah, start that habit. Okay, the next thing that I want to pull out. Okay, yeah, so, this is what I was talking about. He describes resistance as, like, an external thing. Oh, I thought you could do that one.
Joe: Oh, okay, So, he says resistance is like the Alien or The Terminator. It cannot be reasoned with. It has one object, to prevent us from doing the work.
Vicky: Yeah. And that's your, what I call, your inner dickhead.
Joe: I suspect that's one objective.
Vicky: Objective, yeah, I think so.
Joe: To prevent us from doing our work.
Vicky: Yeah. And if that's its sole objective, it's like when you think, it's like when you think of Buffy The Vampire Slayer and she has to get lucky every single time. And a vampire only has to get lucky once. And resistance, only has to get lucky once. But you have to fight resistance every single day cause it's got this like one singular objective.
Vicky: To stop you from sitting down and doing the work. And you've got to fight that every day. And all it has to do is just be like, yeah, just doing my thing. Seems like quite a lot of effort to overcome. So, I think it can be quite useful to treat it like something that is outside of yourself. Makes it a bit more palatable.
Joe: Easier to fight against.
Vicky: Yeah. Yeah, easier to fight against something that's big and scary and outside of you then it is to fight against half of your own brain. I seem to spend most of my life fighting my own brain.
Joe: You need some goldfish, girl.
Vicky: Did you really just have goldfish swimming around in there?
Vicky: I don't think that's true.
Joe: I can just switch it all off. Right! The next thing, the most important thing about art is to work.
Vicky: Nothing else matters except sitting down and trying. And that is a thing that I try and get people to do. Is it doesn't matter, it doesn't matter if the words that you write are shit.
Joe: If you throw them in the bin, that's fine. What you did was you sat down and you wrote something.
Vicky: Yeah! And it's like Steven King says, Amateurs, you know, sit and wait for inspiration to strike and the rest of us sit down and go to work. It's like if you want to write a book, if you want to write for a living, if you want to do anything that is creative, and almost everything is creative, really, then just gotta sit down and do the work. You've just got to start because even if, even if you think what you're going to do is going to be a total bag of shit, that doesn't matter. Because that's the, it's the tiny beetle step that you're going to take to get better. And you know what? Sometimes, sometimes you just have a shit day and that's okay. Oh, a professional seeks order. I think what he means by that, if I remember rightly, is that you treat it like a job. So, you don't, you don't sit and think, oh, I'm a creative, therefore I can be fluffy about it. And...
Joe: Chaotic and..
Vicky: Yeah. It's like scheduled time, scheduled time for writing. Block it into your diary and treat it like your best client. And this, again, is something like I tell my coaching clients to do is one of the first things we do is write we are going to go through your schedule for the next three months and we are going to carve out writing time. That's what we're going to do. We're gonna make sure you have time to write. And it's not just going to be fitting it in here and there when you can because if you try and fit writing in, when and where you can, you never will. It just won't happen. That's super important.
Joe: Okay, well, oh. Turning pro is like kicking a drug habit or stopping drinking. It's a decision. A decision to which we must recommit everyday.
Vicky: Yeah, that's a really interesting analogy, I think. Because having, having known or knowing a few friends who are in recovery, recovering addicts. I have come to realize that it's not just, it not like you wake up one day and you're cured. It something that they have to keep working at every single day.
Joe: Yeah, keep pushing against.
Vicky: Yeah, every day they wake up, it's like, this is, this is the person that I am going to be. Today. And it's like you have to do it again and again. And I think it's the, it probably is similar, it's cause it's an identity thing. It's like what kind of person do you want to be? Because the habits that you have, the way you behave, all form the identity, that you know, the person that you are. So, what kind of person do you want to be? It's much, much easier to be a person who sits on the sofa and watches Netflix.
Joe: Yes.
Vicky: Much easier. And that's fine because humans are primed and, you know, it's an evolutionary advantage for us to be as lazy as possible or it was. Because it would conserve energy as much as possible, conserve energy. Now we've got too much food and that's a very bad strategy. But our brains haven't caught up.
Joe: Yeah, we haven't evolved to understand that yet.
Vicky: No, and so, we, we are all lazy. I am lazy. You're lazy. Given half a chance, what we gonna do? You know, every, every time 'cause your always like, oh, you never sit down and you never, never chill out. That's because I am really well aware that if I do, I will never get up again. So, I'm not very, I'm not very good at relaxing. I do get a lot done. Not as much as I would like to though because I am lazy.
Joe: Yuck.
Vicky: So, yeah, you have to decide who you want to be every day. Do you want to be a person who's writing a book? Do you want to be author? 'Cause if you do, you need to make that decision every day that you wake up. I'm an author. I'm a writer. That is who I am. I'm going to write today. Even if you only write 100 words.
Vicky: That's what you're going to do. Really important.
Joe: Ambition is the most primal and sacred fundament of our being. Not to act upon that ambition is to turn out backs on ourselves and our reason for existence.
Vicky: See, I like that as well because I'm not like a massive believer in, oh, you know, people are put on this earth to do one thing. And that's it. But I do think that most people, at some point, if they are thinking deeply about what they are doing, and, you know, making choices and not just being drifted along by life. They will wake up one day and realize that this is the thing that they want to do.
Vicky: because I know that I, I did it. I was like, I'm a writer. I can't even remember what, what was the day that I woke up and kind of thought like that's what I need to do.
Joe: That's what I do.
Vicky: But I keep in mind that I've got a quote just behind me by Mark Twain and the quote says, 'The two most important things of your life are the day your born and the day you figure out why.' And that kind of relates really well to what Steve Pressfield said, I think. And, also, yeah, I think it's like a betrayal of yourself if you've got this ambition and you want to do something. I think it's, it's a betrayal if you don't try.
Joe:Yeah.
Vicky: You might not succeed but try. If you want to write a book don't, don't let yourself, don't let yourself be sabotaged by your inner dickhead.
Joe: Yeah, just but a of laziness and Netflix and distractions.
Vicky: Yeah! I mean even just the process of writing the book is a magnificent thing. That you'll learn a lot about yourself and, yeah, just don't allow fear and apathy to stop you. That would be a tragedy. So, that's all of the notes and I've think I've said all of the, yeah, all of the other things I wanted.
Joe:This is a good book, right?
Vicky: It's a really good book. Yeah, it's really easy to read. And it's really nicely written.
Joe: Really good book.
Vicky: Yeah, it's nicely written. You can dip in and out of it. It's split into kind of, you know, different, book one is resistance. Defining the enemy and that kind of looking, looking at who it, you know, what the enemy is which is that kind of external, alien thing. Book Two is all about combating resistance and turning pro. And then, Book Three is beyond resistance. The higher realm. So, and I think that really is when once you've got the habit of working.
Vicky: It becomes wrong to not do it.
Joe: You physically change from being the person who didn't do that stuff to the person who does.
Vicky: Yeah. So. Yeah, for me, that would be like writing every day just looking at my little habit checker template and last month I wrote every single day. And the month before, I wrote every single day. I think I am on a streak of 76 of my previous big streak was, I think, 300 and something days.
Joe: Wow!
Vicky: Then I broke it and I was gutted. And so now I've got it up on my wall with red crosses and I don't want to see those red crosses break, at all. But I've got all my habits up there.
Joe: Good!
Vicky: That's the, that's the person I want to be. Not doing so well with some of them but, but the key is to do more than you don't. If that makes sense. Cool! So, we'll be looking at another book in maybe a month or so.
Vicky: And next week, oh, next week, we're going to be talking about why you should do something difficult.
Joe: Good topic.
Vicky: Yes.
Joe: You definitely should.
Vicky: Joe will not be wearing a dressing gown.
Joe: Joe will not be ready for bed.
Vicky: And I will not be wearing my awful glasses.
Joe: Awe!
Vicky: So, what is, what is going on in my world? Well, my book is out and it's printed. And I am planning a big book launch for January!
Joe: Nice!
Vicky: There's gonna to be lots of cool swag, for people, if they get involved with the launch. And help me sell my books and all the rest of it. So, that's gonna be really cool! And I am running a writing retreat in Fuerteventura in late February for a week. So that's going to be really good fun. You didn't know about that, did you? [Laughs]
Joe: Cool!
Vicky: And I've already had like four people say that they want to go and I'm only taking six people. So..
Joe: So, if you want in on that, you'd better move fast!
Vicky: If you want in, drop me an email at Vicky @ Vicky Fraser.com and let me know. And, I'll, ah, let you know what's going on. And if you've listened to every episode of this Podcast...
Joe:Crazy person.
Vicky: Crazy person. Yeah. Email me your postal address and I will send you a little silly, super fun gift and, as always, if you've enjoyed this episode and this Podcast, please go and rate us.
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Joe: Reviews are good.
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Joe: Done that.
Vicky: Push down and I think that's it. My stomach's growling.
Joe: I'm starving! I'm so hungry!
Vicky: Really, really hungry! We're going to go, now. We'll be back same time next week. Thank you so much for listening, as always. Harriet, thank you for being magnificent assistant and Podfly, thank you for always being really patient with our last minute shenanigans.
Joe: Thanks, guys!
Vicky: Bye!
Joe: Bye!
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Q: function EXE to DLL (Delphi) I am modulating my application to work with separate modules (plugin).
I have already successfully made my EXE application read and load the plugins, including the forms.
Now I need to do the inverse, export functions from the executable to DLL.
Example:
Inside my executable, it has a TMemo component. I want to create a function like this
function GetMemo(): widestring;

In my idea, whoever wrote the DLL plugin, when calling the function GetMemo(), would already take the contents of the TMemo in DLL.
It is possible?

A: The simplest way to handle this is to define a record of function pointers, and then have the EXE pass an instance of that record to each plugin while initializing it.  The EXE can then implement the functions as needed and pass them to the plugins, without actually exporting them from its PE exports table like a DLL would.
For example:
type
  PPluginExeFunctions = ^PluginExeFunctions;
  PluginExeFunctions = record
    GetMemo: function: WideString; stdcall;
   ...
  end;

function MyGetMemoFunc: WideString; stdcall;
begin
  Result := Form1.Memo1.Text;
end;

...

var
  ExeFuncs: PluginExeFunctions;
  hPlugin: THandle;
  InitFunc: procedure(ExeFuncs: PPluginExeFunctions); stdcall;
begin
  ExeFuncs.GetMemo := @MyGetMemoFunc;
  ...
  hPlugin := LoadLibrary('plugin.dll');
  @InitFunc := GetProcAddress(hPlugin, 'InitializePlugin');
  InitFunc(@ExeFuncs);
  ...
end;

var
  ExeFuncs: PluginExeFunctions;

procedure InitializePlugin(pExeFuncs: PPluginExeFunctions); stdcall;
begin
  ExeFuncs := pExeFuncs^;
end;

procedure DoSomething;
var
  S: WideString;
begin
  S := ExeFuncs.GetMemo();
  ...
end;

A: unit uDoingExport;

interface

uses
  Windows, Messages, SysUtils, Variants, Classes, Graphics, Controls, Forms,
  Dialogs;

type
  TForm1 = class(TForm)
  private
    { Private declarations }
  public
    { Public declarations }
  end;

var
  Form1: TForm1;

procedure testproc; stdcall;

implementation

{$R *.dfm}

procedure testproc;
begin
   ShowMessage('testproc');
End;

exports
   testproc;

end.

I simply added the method I want to publish from within my EXE in the unit's Interface, and on the Implementation I added exports (method name). I am using stdcall not cdecl.
In my child, I can loadlibrary the exe file... or you can go a little crazy like Apache does, and in the previous code, add a loadlibrary, which loads a DLL, which intern can loadlibrary the caller.
My point was to show, your EXE is simply like a DLL (just a different binary header) and vise versa. Just slap EXPORTS. Proof it works, I ran tdump against the EXE:
Exports from ProjDoingExport.exe
  1 exported name(s), 1 export addresse(s).  Ordinal base is 1.
  Sorted by Name:
    RVA      Ord. Hint Name
    -------- ---- ---- ----
    0005294C    1 0000 testproc

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*I know, a late answer, but, a great question!


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Q: Folder keeps changing back to read-only. What permissions setup causes this in Windows? I think I'm going crazy. Every time I create a folder it automatically is set to readonly, but I can still then rename the folder or add folders to it. If I attempt to uncheck the readonly flag it becomes checked again when I next open the folder properties. What the heck? Could my IT dept really have set up a policy like this somehow? If so, how?
Seems crazy that Windows would even do this -- no errors when I uncheck read-only and hit ok but the change fails.
Also, it is the halfway checked state -- greyed out and checked, but uncheckable.

A: The actual read-only flag on a folder is used by Windows to mark that the folder has special customizations, but doesn't restrict write access to the folder or its contents.
When you look at a folder's properties, the read-only box will always show the half-way gray state. This means "don't make any changes to read-only flag on the files in this folder". You can check (or clear) the box to mean "make all the files in this folder read-only (or read/write)."
See You cannot view or change the Read-only or the System attributes of folders in Windows Server 2003, in Windows XP, in Windows Vista or in Windows 7 for more info. If you really want to modify the read-only flag for a folder, it shows you how to use the attrib command to do that.


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