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Posted on November 19, 2015 by Mike Glyer
(1) Randall Munroe has a piece on The New Yorker blog called "The Space Doctor's Big Idea". He's explaining Einstein and relativity, but doing it with his cartoons and quirky humor.
The first idea is called the special idea, because it covers only a few special parts of space and time. The other one—the big idea—covers all the stuff that is left out by the special idea. The big idea is a lot harder to understand than the special one. People who are good at numbers can use the special idea to answer questions pretty easily, but you have to know a lot about numbers to do anything with the big idea. To understand the big idea—the hard one—it helps to understand the special idea first.
(2) Steven Barnes' new book Star Wars Saved My Life: Be the Hero in the Adventure of Your Own Lifetime has been released. Amazon Prime members can borrow it free, all others pay cash!
It's finally here! The book I've been hinting about for months, STAR WARS SAVED MY LIFE is the first self-help book ever written for science fiction fans, the LIFEWRITING system applied to healing finances, career, health, and the wounded heart. A pure work of love, available FREE to anyone with an Amazon Prime membership, it is my way of saying "thank you" to all of you who helped me find my way, gave me friendship, support, and love.
(3) Downthe tubes.net reports that Star Trek comic strips published in various UK comics and annuals back in the 1970s (and never in the US) will be republished in a collection next year.
In all, the British Star Trek ran for 257 weekly magazines spanning five years and 37 storylines and in addition to its weekly appearances, more original material drawn by Ron Turner, Jack Sutter, Jim Baikie and John Canning appeared in the 1969 Joe 90 Top Secret annual, the Valiant 1972 Summer Special, the 1971-1973 TV21 hardcover annuals and the 1978-1979 TV Comic annuals.
An original Frank Bellamy Star Trek strip also appeared in the June 27, 1970 issue of Radio Times to promote the show's return to BBC1.
These strips have never been published in the United States and were not written with strict adherence to Star Trek's core concepts. The U.S.S. Enterprise frequently traveled outside our galaxy, and the crew committed many violations of the never-mentioned Prime Directive along the way. Spock shouted most of his lines and often urged Kirk (or "Kurt," as his name was misspelled in early issues) to shoot first and ask questions later.
(4) Nancy Hightower's picks for the "Best science fiction and fantasy books of 2015" at the Washington Post include one that hasn't been heavily discussed here.
THE ONLY ONES
By Carola Dibbell (Two Dollar Radio)
This fascinating first novel details the emotional journey of Inez Fardo, a 19-year-old who has survived terrible trauma and yet still manages to find life sometimes wondrous. In a time when most of the population has been wiped out by a series of superviruses, she makes a meager living cleaning up contaminated sites. But when it's discovered that she is resistant to the viruses that continue to threaten the world, an amateur scientist and his team offer to harvest her DNA to make healthy babies for others. Inez goes along with the plan, but soon a series of events forces her to raise the one child produced by the experiment. What follows is a heart-piercing tale of love, desire and acceptance as Inez tries to give her daughter a different life from the one she's experienced.
(5) Larry Correia turns off the game long enough to offer "Fallout 4, Initial Thoughts".
The atmosphere is great. Unlike many post apocalyptic things, Fallout doesn't take itself too seriously. So everything has that retro cool, 50s but blown up vibe.
It gets really buggy at times, but better than the last one. This engine is dated, and it shows. Sometimes you kill stuff and it flies up into the air and spins around for a while. Other times a body will get stuck in the wall and vibrate forever. I've had a few crashes, freezes, and once I had to unplug and replug in the Xbox to get it to launch. But still better than the last one, and less buggy than Skyrim.
I had to turn on subtitles, because the music has a tendency to get annoyingly loud when people are trying to tell you important things. Then I learned that the subtitles only show up about half the time. So I turned the music way down and the voice volume way up, and even then I miss lots of things my companions are telling me. Damn it, Piper. Speak up. My character has been in like 400 gun fights without hearing protection, so maybe this is just added realism.
(6) John DeNardo has a fun discussion of "Why I Love Retro Science Fiction" at Kirkus Reviews.
Simply put, retro-futurism is what people of the past thought their future might look like. It's our great-grandparents' depiction of today. Or, the future that could-have-been.
Retro futures can be observed in many mediums: books, television, film, even sculpture. When you see an "old school" ray gun, you're looking at a retro future. When you see the people wearing shiny white uniforms on Moonbase Alpha in Space: 1999, that's the show's creators' view of how people in their future might dress. When you see Captain Kirk pull out his cellphone—er, personal communicator—you're seeing someone from the past predict what cool gadgets the future might bring.
(7) Jason Sanford calls for writers to "Stop Duotrope's attempt to own authors' personal submission data". The service authors use to track submissions and research markets is now trying to restrict users' rights to their data.
According to Duotrope's terms of service, "Any data downloaded from this website, including but not limited to submission histories, is strictly for personal use and may not be shared with any third parties or used for commercial purposes."
What does this mean? It means that if you upload your submission information to Duotrope, you no longer have the right to use your own data as you see fit. You can't use the data to write an article about submissions for a magazine or upload your data to another online submission system such as the site run by Writer's Market. Basically, once you use Duotrope you can't leave and take your data elsewhere.
Duotrope also attempts to make a blatant copyright grab, with their terms stating "The website and its database are also protected as a collective work or compilation under U.S. copyright and other laws and treaties. All individual articles, pages and other elements making up the website are also copyrighted works. Use of any of these original works without written permission of Duotrope LLC is expressly forbidden."
Duotrope is skating on thin ice here because you can't copyright data. But combine this copyright statement with their terms of use for the data and Duotrope is essentially saying they own any submission data uploaded to their system by authors.
(8) Annie Bellet asks people not to nominate her for awards in 2016.
I don't wish to have my work considered for awards this year. I'd like to just have 2016 to get stuff done, worry about my readers and my career, and (hopefully!) not be involved in any award business. I'm not attending Worldcon 2016 either (I'll be there for 2017 though, yay excuse to go to Finland!).
So please… if you read and enjoyed something of mine that was published this year (and there were a few things I think are some of my best work), thank you. But don't vote for my stories. I've got cool work coming out next year, and maybe by 2017 I'll have healed the stress of this last award season, but for now… please, I want a year of not having to even worry about it, slim as my chances might be.
(9) Fantasy Literature has launched its "Second annual Speculative Fiction Haiku Contest". Leave your entries in the comments. Can you improve on this entry from last year? I knew you could…
a meddlesome god
sows nightmares in childhood dreams
meesa jar jar binks
(10) Sarah Avery writes the kind of immersive conreport I like. Now at Black Gate — "World Fantasy 2015: It's the Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead of Convention Reports".
Lots of interesting stuff about trying to line up an agent is woven around accounts of WFC's panels and conversations in the bar. I'm picking this passage for the excerpt, because Avery was actually on one of Mari Ness' panels that made news here:
After reminding myself a couple of times that panels were not, overall, my mission, I prepared for the one panel I was on.
That panel turned out to be newsworthy not for its content, but because of accessibility issues. Author Mari Ness, who uses a wheelchair, was unable to get onto the stage because there was no ramp. This issue has been covered elsewhere, with all its ramifications for policy, conrunning logistics, and ethics. All I can add to the accessibility discussion is that the other panelists (David Hartwell, Darrell Schweitzer, Stephen R. Donaldson) and I were nearly as uncomfortable with the situation as Ness was. The hotel staff said they'd have to take the stage entirely apart to put their ramp on it, and we were late already, so Ness decided to do the fastest thing. She positioned her wheelchair close enough that we could pass her a microphone. Donaldson was an excellent moderator, and Hartwell and Schweitzer (who on occasion have been known to hold forth) kept themselves uncharacteristically concise to make space in the discussion for Mari. The physical space might not have been inclusive, but we were all determined that the discussion would be.
As it turned out, Mari was the only one whose remarks drew spontaneous applause. We were talking about the ancient epics, contemporary fantasy epics, and what kinds of lineages do or don't connect them. What, Donaldson asked, were our personal favorites among the modern epics? And though the rest of us got more and more obscure with our picks, Mari's was Star Wars. And that felt more personally foundational than any other epic we'd discussed.
(11) And as often as I've been invoking her name lately, I should also publicize Sarah Avery's Kickstarter appeal to fund publication of her fantasy novel The Imlen Bastard, which has raised $6,695 to date, achieving its initial $4,500 goal, then a stretch goal that will pay for the audiobook, and finally aspires to raise $9,600 which will allow Avery to commission more Kate Baylay art.
(12) Movie footage was shot at the first Worldcon. We may see it someday, if it hasn't been tossed, and if anyone can ever find it. Doug Ellis has been searching for years, as he explains in "The Elusive Film Footage of the Very First Worldcon" at Black Gate.
I have a carbon copy of a letter dated August 16, 1939 that Darrow wrote to his friend, Walt Dennis, concerning the first Worldcon. In part, it reads as follows.
The following day was the big day of the convention. [NOTE – DARROW IS REFERRING TO SUNDAY, JULY 2, 1939, THE FIRST DAY OF THE CON.] Otto [BINDER] picked up Bill, Jack [JACK WILLIAMSON], Ed Hamilton and myself and we took a bus to the convention hall. Bill and I had had no breakfast and it was almost noon, so we deserted the gang long enuf to invade an Automat. Arriving back at the hall we found a mob gathered at the door. Somebody shoved an autograph book in my face. [PERHAPS THIS IS WHAT'S CAPTURED IN THIS PHOTO] They way they worked this was to ask every stranger they saw for their autograph and then look to see who they got. I took several snaps (enclosed) and Bill took snaps and movies. There seemed to be a lot of excitement when Forrest J. Ackerman and I met for the first time. Bill took movies of the handshake. Forrie was quite a surprise to me. Tall, handsome and quiet. A very pleasant fellow. He was dressed in an outfit out of Wells' pic Things to Come.
(13) Gregory N. Hullender has posted Rocket Stack Rank's evaluation of "Future Visions: Original Science Fiction Inspired by Microsoft", and adds this incentive to click the link – "The fact that I not only worked at Microsoft for a long time but actually worked on some of these technologies might make this a bit more interesting."
(14) Yes, I can imagine.
Sometimes I *don't* retweet people because I know some really shitty people will respond to them because of it, and I don't want that.
— John Scalzi (@scalzi) November 19, 2015
(15) This just in from 2009! "Moon landing tapes got erased, NASA admits". We now join our conspiracy theories already in progress.
The original recordings of the first humans landing on the moon 40 years ago were erased and re-used, but newly restored copies of the original broadcast look even better, NASA officials said on Thursday.
NASA released the first glimpses of a complete digital make-over of the original landing footage that clarifies the blurry and grainy images of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walking on the surface of the moon.
The full set of recordings, being cleaned up by Burbank, California-based Lowry Digital, will be released in September. The preview is available at www.nasa.gov.
NASA admitted in 2006 that no one could find the original video recordings of the July 20, 1969, landing.
Since then, Richard Nafzger, an engineer at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, who oversaw television processing at the ground-tracking sites during the Apollo 11 mission, has been looking for them.
The good news is he found where they went. The bad news is they were part of a batch of 200,000 tapes that were degaussed — magnetically erased — and re-used to save money.
(16) Jeremiah Moss at Vanishing New York asks friends to help Jerry Ohlinger
A couple of years ago, I visited Jerry Ohlinger's amazing movie material store in the Garment District. In business since 1976, it was the last store in New York City dedicated to movie photos.
Struggling with the rent, Jerry closed his shop and moved most of his "one million and one hundred thousand" photos to a warehouse in New Jersey as he downsized to a much smaller shop on West 30th, with limited hours.
Now Jerry needs help. The items in the warehouse need to be moved again, and there's no money to do it. Visit <https://www.gofundme.com/996j7zvc> and consider giving him a hand.
Jeremiah wrote about the old store for The New Yorker a few years ago in "The Last Picture Shop".
Jerry Ohlinger's Movie Material Store has been in business since 1978. It started on West Third Street, moved to West Fourteenth, and eventually ended up on West Thirty-fifth, in the Garment District. With the Internet stealing customers, business isn't what it used to be, and the nine-thousand-dollar-a-month rent is more than movie photos can pay. Jerry will be closing his shop and selling just online in the next three to six months.
This is unfortunate, because a computer screen will never provide the physical, sensory experience you get when you step into Ohlinger's. An obsessively organized clutter of movie posters and postcards, stacks of DVDs, and boxes full of eight-by-seventeen poster reproductions, the small front of the store is walled by towering shelves packed with shopworn three-ring binders, all strapped with duct tape and hand-labelled in Magic Marker with the names of the movie stars contained within. The space smells of Jerry's cigar and the musty vanilla aroma of old paper slowly decaying.
"We've got about two hundred and fifty thousand to three hundred thousand photos in all these books," Jerry says, waving his gummy, unlit cigar in the air.
(17) NPR is impressed — "Amazon's 'High Castle' Offers A Chilling Alternate History Of Nazi Triumph".
Many of the goose-bump-inducing moments in this new drama are visual and are startling. Picture this: In Times Square, a giant neon swastika emblazons a building. Or an American flag with the familiar colors — but instead of stars and stripes, there's a swastika where the stars used to be. Even the map of the former United States of America is disturbing to witness — much more so than those wind-up maps of opposing territories opening each episode of HBO's Game of Thrones.
The alternate-history American map in The Man in the High Castle is made even more jarring, and creepy, by the sound, and the song, that accompanies it in the opening of each episode. It's the sound of a film projector whirring into action — underscoring the importance of those illicit films — followed by the old familiar song "Edelweiss" being sung in a much more haunting performance than you're used to from The Sound of Music.
(18) Rachel Swirsky collected writing advice from novelists about how to start your second book – quotes from Steven Gould, N. K. Jemisin, Ken Liu, and Helene Wecker.
Helene Wecker, author of The Golem and the Jinni:
First, celebrate. Turning in your novel is a huge hairy deal. Go out for a fancy dinner with a significant other or something. Give yourself permission to relax for a few days. You've probably been holed up for a while, so go talk to some humans. Send a few emails to friends, accept an invitation to coffee. Go for a walk outside.
Ok, now back to work. It's a good idea to focus on marketing during the pre-pub months, and to that end you'll want to prep a master Q&A about the book. My publisher sent me one with about a dozen questions ("How did the idea come to you?" "Who were your favorite characters to write?" "Describe your research process," etc). It took forever to fill out, but it meant I didn't have to think on the fly during interviews or readings. If your publisher doesn't do it for you, make one yourself, with what you'd guess are the most likely questions that a reader or interviewer would ask. It might feel tedious, but you won't regret it.
(19) Songwriter P. F. Sloan died November 13 at the age of 70. Though best known for his hit "Eve of Destruction", Sloan also wrote the theme song for Secret Agent Man, which became a hit for Johnny Rivers. The Wikipedia entry for "Secret Agent Man" sets the song in context of genre history:
The lyric "They've given you a number and taken away your name" referred to the numerical code names given to secret agents, as in "007" for James Bond, although it also acts as the setup to the "continuation" of Danger Man, the cult classic The Prisoner."
(20) Wonder if the rest of the book lives up to this line?
Thalia: The Muse of #Comedy & #Science Fiction, is one of my favorite characters.#fantasyhttps://t.co/0zOxhJyNKo pic.twitter.com/RChFj2YTCi
— Michael G. Munz (@TheWriteMunz) November 19, 2015
[Thanks to Janice Gelb, Michael J. Walsh, Martin Morse Wooster, Andrew Porter, Mark-kitteh, Tasha Turner, and John King Tarpinian for some of these stories. Title credit goes to File 770 contributing editor of the day ULTRAGOTHA.]
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Hightower, Friedman at NYRSF Readings 2/4
Posted on January 17, 2014 by Mike Glyer
D. T. Friedman and Nancy Hightower supply the verbal fireworks at the New York Review of SF Readings on February 4.
D. T. Friedman is a writer whose work has appeared in venues such as Shimmer Magazine, Flash Fiction Online, and the Dark Faith Anthology. She is a member of the Codex writers' group, and is the newest member of Altered Fluid. In her other life, she is a doctor of Internal Medicine with a specialization in urban underserved populations, and is about to take a fellowship position in Palliative Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Nancy Hightower's short fiction and poetry has been published in Strange Horizons, Word Riot, storySouth, Gargoyle, Electric Velocipede, Interfictions, Prick of the Spindle, and Up the Staircase Quarterly, among others. Her debut novel Elementari Rising came out with Pink Narcissus Press in 2013.
The full press release follows the jump.
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Rather a horrid person: Barbara Pym, A Glass of Blessings
Posted on October 30, 2017 by Simon Lavery
Barbara Pym, A Glass of Blessings. First published 1958. Virago Modern Classics paperback, 2011
Despite the surface triviality, there's something else in Barbara Pym's novels (links to my other posts at the end), a darker seriousness, a moral frailty or ambiguity. OK, on class and social convention she can be pretty starchy – but even then she's often surprisingly barbed and acerbic. The parish hall teas, clerical gossip and frettings about high-church rituals and practices are the froth at the top of a bracingly bitter cappuccino.
A Glass of Blessings is narrated in the first person by the protagonist, Wilmet Forsyth – an indolent, self-absorbed, attractive thirty-three-year-old who's become bored with her comfortable bourgeois life of leisure. When she allows herself to examine this life, she admits to feeling 'guilty' about her 'long idle days' – but is disinclined to do much about it. Her existence revolves around eating and drinking with her female (and sometimes, male) friends, and shopping for expensive fripperies or clothes; she's a little too proud of her looks, as she reveals in her interior monologue on p. 5 when the handsome young Piers Longridge has told her she looks 'particularly charming':
I was pleased at his compliment for I always take trouble with my clothes, and being tall and dark I usually manage to achieve some kind of distinction. Today I was in pale coffee brown with touches of black and coral jewellery. Rodney seldom commented on my appearance now and Piers had that engaging air of making me feel that he meant what he said. I was sorry when we came to a crossroads and he said he must leave me.
This revealing passage is typical of Pym's mastery of that narrative voice that hints more about what Wilmet fails to note than what she does. It shows she's vain and bored enough to feel flattered here, assuming that any man who's complimented her must have taste – and there's that indication that her civil servant husband Rodney, who's becoming bald and stout, fails to show the romance and attentive spontaneity Wilmet craves. It will come as no surprise, if I can avoid spoilers, that her views about such admirers are badly misjudged. Not for nothing does the dashing Rocky Napier, who featured in Excellent Women, represent in Wilmet's nostalgic recollections of her more exciting past as a Wren in wartime Italy the kind of dashing, dastardly and good-looking type that she likes to fall for – only later to be disappointed.
The title of A Glass of Blessings, as revealed near the end, comes from one of those poems Pym's women characters are fond of quoting, in this case 'The Pulley' by George Herbert. Wilmet has sought diversion from her idle routine by attending the local Anglo-Catholic church, and much of the novel involves her discovering the secrets and foibles of its clergy and congregation. It's this aspect that provides most of the novel's delightfully skewed humour, from the kleptomaniac, camp Bason, the housekeeper/cook for the celibate priests, to Mr Coleman, too fond of the tailor-made silk cassock he affects when serving in church ceremonies, and of his Husky (a make of car, not, as Wilmet vaguely assumes, a 'large polar dog'). These beautifully sketched characters are deployed with poised, spiky skill by Pym; the plot is secondary to this parade of minor egotists and misfits.
In Herbert's poem God generously bestows all those 'blessings' from his glass, with only 'rest' left in the bottom. This he withholds, realising that if he gives humanity this, they will tend to become complacent, and both will 'lose'. This is the lesson Wilmet learns: to be content with what she has, and appreciate her 'repining restlessness' for what it teaches: be more aware of her weaknesses, and more attentive in her relations with other people. She's far too quick to judge others by their appearance, and complacent about her own moral rectitude because she looks good.
There's a surprising amount of flirting and erotic dalliance, even among the married characters. Near the end, when Wilmet discovers that dull Rodney has, like her, had his head turned by someone else, she muses this 'ought to teach me something about myself, even if I was not yet quite sure what it was.'
Her name is taken from the massive family saga The Pillars of the House by now-neglected Victorian novelist Charlotte M. Yonge, who was, like Pym, high church by inclination, and surprisingly frank about all varieties of sexual inclination – as indeed Pym is in this novel.
Another interesting factor in a Pym novel: literary allusions, like clothes, reveal a great deal about character (apart from Herbert, Woolf, Ivy Compton-Burnett, Donne and Marvell, for example, are alluded to in this way in the narrative).
Wilmet indulges a suspicion that another handsome young man – the new assistant priest – fancies her; another harsh lesson in self-knowledge is administered when she learns with astonishment that 'dim and mousy' (as Wilmet sees her) Mary Beamish has become engaged to him. It's to Wilmet's credit that she quickly reproaches herself for such an 'unworthy thought'. Every time she shows herself as snobbish, she redeems herself with her immediate sense of shame.
Her most painful lesson comes when Piers suggests that Wilmet is too circumscribed by her own 'narrow select little circle' and is one of those who are 'less capable of loving their fellow human beings.' She's devastated, and feels close to tears:
Perhaps I had never really known him, or – what was worse – myself. That anyone could doubt my capacity to love!
That 'perhaps' is brilliant, and so is the exclamation mark. She goes on to concede that perhaps she's not as 'nice' as she'd thought, and might really be 'rather a horrid person' – and this is 'humiliating'. It's her Emma and Miss Bates moment.
Despite such defects in her personality, Wilmet engages one's interest and sympathy. Pym never judges her characters, and she leaves us with the sense that we are all of us as flawed and 'restless' as Wilmet.
I had hoped to write about the importance of clothes and appearance, but I've been forestalled by this excellent, detailed essay by Sandra Goldstein; I recommend it.
There's a lot of interesting, sharp observation about the self-centred pomposity of men and their selfish way of taking their long suffering womenfolk for granted. When she's being clear-eyed Wilmet sees them at a cocktail party as they mostly are: 'sheepish', then more like 'bears' or snuffling badgers. Unfortunately she loses perspective when they flatter her vanity.
A whole different post could be written about the wonderfully dry, shrewd Sybil (aptly named), Wilmet's mother-in-law (she announces at the end of a dinner party, as the women are about to leave the men to drink their port: 'Women are supposed not to like port except in a rather vulgar way'); maybe she's meant to represent what Wilmet might grow up to be like when she reaches her late sixties and has learnt more about herself, men and life.
My previous Pym posts:
Excellent Women
No Fond Return of Love
Crampton Hodnet
Jane and Prudence
Heaven Ali blog post 2013: https://heavenali.wordpress.com/2013/04/28/a-glass-of-blessings-barbara-pym-1958/
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Heavenali on October 30, 2017 at 5:37 pm said:
Fabulous review. I have read this novel twice, and yet I would say its definitely not a particular favourite. I love the character of Bason, but I could never quite take to Wilmet as much as other Pym characters. She is quite brilliantly observed though, a complex, flawed character who Pym presents with fully rounded.
Simon Lavery on October 30, 2017 at 6:14 pm said:
Heavenali: thanks. It's not my favourite Pym novel, either, but still great fun. As you say, it's Wilmet's flawed vulnerability that endears her to me. I hate the facile comparisons to Jane Austen, but there's a lot of Emma in such a character: that attractive wrongheadedness and longing to be admired for the wrong reasons…
Maureen Murphy on October 30, 2017 at 5:41 pm said:
Enjoyed this very much, Simon! I think Barbara Pym, along with Jane Austen, Emily Dickinson, the Brontes, and their slightly more worldly sister, Edith Wharton, are perfect examples of sublime artists, who are born into a variety of environments, but within even the most barren of ground, can find amazing richness, both of the light and the dark variety. In amusing contrast, I find Hemingway their mirror opposite. All the wandering, travel, fights, food, and sex the world can offer, and he still has that Hemingway ego and solipsism that led to such hilarious satires of his stories (especially by the brilliant wits at the "blue-stocking" oriented, late-lamented "Toast" website).
With Pym, the churches, the flower arranging, village life and the "class and social convention" you mention are merely the milieu. She could just as well have been on the cold streets of Washington DC's African American "hoods" in the world of another transcendant, Edward P. Jones. Other places I can think of are Dickens London, or the earlier London Town of Shakespeare, or Joyce's Dublin. Pym would eye the human beast in any of these places and times, and takes its measure, not with malice or a desire to mock, but with a fair but merciless eye.
Wonderful job! P.S. Loved the story of the fun trip of the Tredynas GrandParents, Daughter-In-Law and Grandkids!
Thanks, Maureen. You mention a few names I'm not familiar with, to my shame, so must do a bit of research. I agree that BP writes about the world she knows, that 'milieu' she inhabited: it's not her fault that she didn't live in a more superficially dramatic location. That infamous reference to Jane Austen's little bit of carved ivory is condescending, but there's a certain truth in it: a narrow, enclosed social group is minutely anatomised to withering effect. One doesn't have to be 'High Church' to respond to them. Jonathan Swift's words in his own elegy come to mind when I read what you say about her not 'mocking'; he points out that he only savages those who should know, and could do, better. So glad you liked my little aside about St Michael's Mount!
Mary Cridge on October 30, 2017 at 6:02 pm said:
I loved this review and the phrase "a bracingly bitter cappuccino" is just brilliant. This and the other Pym posts have led me to hope that Santa might bring me some Pym cheer at Christmas
Mary C: how lovely to hear from you! And thank you for the kind words. Let's hope Santa is listening.
Liz Dexter on November 1, 2017 at 9:20 am said:
Not my favourite either, but in my review I mention really enjoying all the characters from other books that keep cropping up https://librofulltime.wordpress.com/2013/05/10/book-reviews-54/ and a less-great Pym is still a vg book, right?
Simon Lavery on November 1, 2017 at 11:20 am said:
Liz: thanks for the link – I'll take a look at your post. And yes, Pym is always worth reading.
Max Cairnduff on November 1, 2017 at 1:18 pm said:
Very nice. I reviewed this one at mine and rather loved it. I'm glad to hear there may well be better. Loved too your line "the froth at the top of a bracingly bitter cappuccino" which is brilliant.
moira @ClothesInBooks on November 2, 2017 at 11:44 am said:
Great analysis and review: I really like this book, partly because Wilmet is so very much NOT Pym herself, whereas her other heroines can become same-y. Now I really want to re-read it.
I think we get a glimpse of Wilmet in a later Pym book, just a short encounter in an antique shop (?) and I enjoyed that. Philip Larkin told Pym off for her habit of dropping characters in from a previous book – I can see what he means, but I quite like it…
And – of course – I loved the link to the piece on clothes: thanks for that.
Simon Lavery on November 2, 2017 at 2:54 pm said:
I'm glad you liked that linked article, Moira – I knew you would! And thanks for those kind words. Yes, it is unusual for a BP heroine to be so chic & attractive- but she does it with panache
Tanya van Hasselt on May 28, 2018 at 7:35 pm said:
Wasn't Wilmet one of Barbara Pym's favourite heroines? I hugely enjoyed your review – and your exploration of the Emma/Miss Bates moment … I have written about Barbara Pym sometimes at ninevoices.wordpress.com (eg Thank goodness for Barbara Pym, Barbara Pym and Jane Austen) but never in such perceptive depth – thank you!
Simon Lavery on May 28, 2018 at 9:06 pm said:
Tanya – thanks for taking the trouble to comment, and for the kind words. I don't know enough about BP to confirm whether Wilmet was her favourite; she doesn't seem her usual frumpy type of heroine, but has endearing flaws that might well suggest a soft spot for her. Thanks for the link to your posts – I'll take a look. Do you know Barbara Comyns' work? Quirky humour of a different order. I've written about a few of her novels here.
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I discovered this turtle in the road at the barn. She traveled a long way from home to lay her eggs.
I'm not sure why turtles lay their eggs so far from the pond where they live. I suspect it's to keep them safer from predators. The little hatchlings must have some kind of radar that will guide them to the pond.
We have too many turtles in the pond and some of my fisherman friends tell me I need to get rid of them.
But after all the trouble this mama went to to lay her eggs, I just didn't have the heart to bother her. When last seen she was slowly crawling back toward the pond, about 700 yards away.


"They use social media to target companies that advertise on media platforms airing ideas, opinions and values not found at the ABC or Fairfax. These are the same ideas and values found in millions of Australian homes. These modern Stasi use the slightest pretext to thump mainstream Australians who consume media they despise. The online Stasi cast their net wider each week, from Sky News to the Seven Network and radio station 2GB.
In an age when social media can have enormous influence, it's important we call out these online bullying tactics and counter their claims of widespread community "outrage".
Advance Australia is encouraging companies and businesses to stand firm in the face of confected campaigns that are all about ensuring the left silences anyone who doesn't agree with them.


I would like to know what I can do to fall pregnant as my fiancé had a vasectamy. This was reversed but no luck. Could you please let me know what options I have.
I would suggest that he has a testes biopsy or testicular aspiration done and if sperm are obtained they should be frozen for future use. Thereafter you should enter into an IVF/ICSI program(micro-injection).
Maybe see a Fertility Expert. Maybe they can do an IVF by taking the sperm directly from the testicle.
Good Luck Man ... Hope all goes well for you.


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Fish finding sonar systems assist fishermen and scientists when trying to locate and identify fish underwater. These sonar units operate very similar to other types of sonar. A transducer, attached or towed by a boat, sends out an acoustic signal. This signal will reflect off the air in the swim bladder of a fish, if it has one, or the fish itself. A computer will pick up the return signal and convert it into fish images on a screen. The images on the screen appear as arches because of the movement of the fish through the beam of acoustic energy.
Example of how an arch is formed as a fish passes through the sonar beam. Courtesy of Lowrance Electronics, Inc.
Fish finders operate at high frequencies, around 20-200 kHz. The higher end of this frequency range gives detail of the target and can even separate two fish as separate arches. The lower end of the frequency range give a greater depth range; however, less detail can be displayed.
Fish finder display shows the seafloor gently sloping down to 33.9 feet (black horizontal line with gray beneath). Individual fishes appear as arches on the display. (Courtesy of Lowrance Electronics, Inc.)
New fish finders have the ability to not only locate fish, but also differentiate between species of fish.
Scientists are developing new and improved methods to differentiate between the marks, also called echo signatures. Each species of fish has an unique size and shape of its swim bladder. The differences in swim bladders cause differences in the return echo of a sonar signal. Echo signatures for specific species can then be determined and used to identify fish.
The unique echo signatures of 3 different species of Hawaiian snapper. Echo signatures on the left were taken from an anesthetized fish under controlled conditions at the surface. Echoes on the right were taken from free-swimming fish at 250m deep. Differences in echo signature structure are observed between species, but differences between control and free-swimming measurements are minimal for each species. Echoes measured at the surface, under controlled conditions, can therefore be applied to identify different fish species at depth. This type of acoustic data is important for fisheries surveys. Courtesy of Kelly Benoit-Bird
This method is especially useful when studying deep-sea bottom fish. Many fish are found below diving depth, and therefore, can only be studied using submersible vehicles or fishing gear. Acoustics provide an additional means for scientists to identify bottom fish and monitor them in their natural environment.
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Funeral services for Addis "DeeDee" King of Hay Springs, Nebraska will be held on Thursday, August 22, 2013 at 11:00 AM at the United Methodist Church in Rushville with Reverend Al Trucano officiating. Burial will be at Fairview Cemetery in Rushville.
DeeDee passed away on August 19, 2013 at Pioneer Manor Nursing Home in Hay Springs.
She attended the University of Nebraska at Lincoln Teachers College, majoring in physical education. She then taught rural school and worked with the Works Progress Administration (WPA) as the Recreation Director of Duel County.
While attending the University in Lincoln, she met Claud King and they were united in marriage in 1940. She accepted the many challenges and struggles that a "city girl" found in adjusting to rural living. To this union three sons were born: the twins, Dennis and Jack, and Thomas.
Dee Dee managed the sale barn cafe in Rushville for a number of years and worked in the Sheridan County Assessor's office for several years.
After raising her children she renewed her Red Cross Water Safety Instructors certificate and began teaching swimming. She thoroughly enjoyed her years giving the lessons and was very sad when health issues demanded she give up teaching. She loved small animals and owned many spoiled cats and dogs over the years.
Dee Dee was an active member of the United Methodist Church, United Methodist Women, P.E.O. and Ladies Columbian Reading Club (LCRC).
Preceding her in death were her husband, Claud, sons Jack and Tom, her sister, Maxine (Maki) Hunt.
Surviving her are: her son, Dennis (Leah) of Alliance, Daughter-in-law Karen of Fairfield MT, 4 grandchildren, 9 great grandchildren and 2 great great grandchildren.
Memorials may be given the Parkview Transportation Fund, Cottey College, the United Methodist Women, or the donor's choice. Donations may be sent to Chamberlain Pier Funeral Home, PO Box 366, Gordon, NE 69343.


Qualified students may apply to the honors program during pre-registration in the spring semester of their junior year. Qualified Psychological Sciences majors at Rice University may participate in the Psychological Sciences Honors Program. The Honors Program provides individualized and advanced instruction and experience in psychological research. The program generally takes two semesters to complete and is usually undertaken in the senior year. Students interested in participating in the Psychological Sciences Honors Program must work with a member of the Psychological Sciences department faculty who can serve as their primary advisor. The student must submit a research proposal, signed by the advisor, and a copy of their transcripts, to the Psychological Sciences Department Undergraduate Committee for approval (see Requirements and Procedures, below). The student should also enroll in PSYC 499 Honors Thesis, which requires a special registration form; the head of the Honors Program--not the student's primary advisor--signs as the Course Instructor. As of Fall 2012, students may register for PSYC 499 prior to approval of their proposal, in order to meet the Registrar's no-fee add/drop deadline; this policy is subject to change in the future.
The student must prepare a progress report on the research project and submit this to the Undergraduate Committee on or before the last day of classes of the first semester of PSYC 499 enrollment. The student must receive approval of the Undergraduate Committee to enroll in the second semester PSYC 499, Honors Thesis. If approval is not granted, the student may enroll for a second semester of PSYC 499 and complete the research project for course credit, but the project will not be eligible for departmental honors. The completed project must be presented as a formal written research report in proper APA format to the undergraduate committee for acceptance. The student must also present the results in a public poster and/or oral presentation, at a time and location to be determined by the Undergraduate Committee. Upon completion of the requirements and acceptance of the research report by the Undergraduate Committee, the student will be awarded Psychological Sciences Department Honors.
As of Fall 2018, students can receive both Psychological Sciences departmental honors and Rice University honors (RUSP) for the same project and can enroll in both courses. Note that acceptance of a project by RUSP does not guarantee acceptance by the Psychological Sciences Undergraduate Committee for an honors project, nor does successful completion of a RUSP project guarantee departmental honors. You may turn in the same thesis for both Rice and Psychological Sciences honors, but you may have to make separate presentations of your thesis for RUSP and Psychological Sciences honors. Note, however, that the Psychological Sciences Honors thesis must be in recognized APA format, which will generally be acceptable as the RUSP final presentation.
1. Minimum overall GPA of 3.5; Psychological Sciences GPA of 3.7.
2. Completion of 18 hours of Psychological Sciences Department degree requirements.
3. Completion of PSYC 339 Statistical Methods.
1. Commitment for a faculty member to sponsor the project, signified by their signature on the proposal.
2. Submission of a completed, signed proposal (see Procedures below), list of psychology courses taken and grades received, and an unofficial transcript to the Undergraduate Committee by the no-fee add/drop deadline of the first semester of PSYC 499 enrollment (end of the second week of classes).
3. Submission of a progress report (see below) to the Undergraduate Committee by the last day of classes of the first semester of PSYC 499 enrollment. The student will not be allowed to register for a second semester of PSYC 499 enrollment without the approval of the committee.
4. Submission of a final formal written presentation of the research project to the Undergraduate Committee 1 week (7 days) before the last day of classes of the last semester of PSYC 499 enrollment. *Note: Prior to Spring 2013, a draft was due 4 weeks before the last day of classes, with a revised version due two weeks later; the new deadline allows students more time to prepare the final version while still allowing time for the Undergraduate Committee to review submissions and make recommendations if any changes are necessary prior to the oral defense.
5. Public presentation of the research project and findings in an oral defense and/or poster session at a venue to be determined by the Undergraduate Committee.
1. The student must secure a member of the Psychological Sciences Department faculty to serve as an advisor. Under the advisor's supervision, the student must develop a research topic and plan.
3. This proposal must be signed by the student and the advisor and submitted to the Undergraduate Committee by the end of the second week of classes (free add/drop deadline) of the first semester of participation in the Honors Program.
The Undergraduate Committee may accept the proposal, reject it, or request modifications. If the committee requests modifications, it will set a deadline for submission of those modifications. Continuation in the honors program for a second semester is contingent upon satisfactory progress in the first semester. By the end of the first semester, the student must prepare a written progress report detailing the steps underway and completed in the research plan (e.g. surveys prepared, experiments coded, subjects run, preliminary results). This report must be submitted to the Undergraduate Committee and the committee must approve the report in order for the student to enroll in a second semester in the Honors Program.
Successful completion of the project requires the acceptance of the formal APA style written report of the project by the Undergraduate Committee and a public presentation of the project. The committee can accept, reject, or request revisions of the written report. The public presentation may be a poster presentation, an oral presentation, or both, at the discretion of the committee, and at a forum to be named by the committee (e.g. an oral defense open to the public, a talk given to the psychology department faculty and students, a psychology department poster day, etc.). A student whose written report has been accepted by the Undergraduate Committee and who has made the public presentation(s) of his or her project requested by the Committee will have completed the requirements of the Honors Program and will graduate with Psychological Sciences Department Honors.
A progress report is required by the end of the first semester in order to be sure that the student is making timely progress towards completion of the project. This allows the committee to voice concerns and for the student to take corrective measures in their experiment design or implementation. The last thing anyone wants is for a student to reach the end of his or her senior year at Rice with a project that can't be finished on time. We want you to leave here with a success. We require a completed draft of the project one week before the end of the semester for the same reason: to allow the committee to review the manuscript and identify weaknesses that can be corrected by the student before the public presentation.
Some of the greatest benefits from an honors project are its inclusion in applications for post-graduate education, presentation at meetings outside of Rice, and submission for various awards that may be available. Deadlines for most of these submissions are quite early, some as early as November, most before March. Thus a project that is not at least nearing completion well before the formal project deadline will not be eligible for these submissions. Though procrastination to the last possible deadline is a very human characteristic, the above may provide an incentive for getting things done ahead of schedule.


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Our Town Tickets
Regents Park, London, NW1 4NR
Tickets are non-refundable in the event of cancellation because of the weather but may be exchanged in accordance with the Weather Policy.
Tuesday - 19:45
Wednesday - 19:45
Booking Until: Sat, 8 June 2019
Birth; marriage; death. And everything in between.
"Do any human beings ever realise life as they live it? Every - every, minute?"
Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning play celebrates what it means to be human, the bonds that hold communities together, and our relationships with the ancient past and the eternal tomorrow.
Bars: 1 licensed bar/buffet at ground level
Limited mobility: Patrons with limited mobility are welcome to use our accessible seating on row J. There are also several rows which involve only one or two steps to access the seating.
Access description: The main entrance to the theatre is through Queen's Mary's gardens and is completely level. There is also a more direct entrance through the Theatre Exit Gate which patrons requiring assistance with access are welcome to use. The main entrance is immediately adjacent to the box office. Through the gate you follow a gentle slope with a handrail. The auditorium entrances are opposite and you enter directly onto the theatre's accessible row with discounted seats for qualifying patrons. The Theatre Exit Gate is immediately off the Inner Circle Road. There is a ramp up to the gate where a member of staff is on hand to assist. Once in the venue's grounds there is a gently sloped path upwards with the auditorium at the top on your left hand side. Again, you enter the auditorium directly onto the theatre's access row. Should you require help, the box office staff are on hand to collect tickets on your behalf. The auditorium consists of two tiers. The lower tear has shallow steps which are easier to negotiate than the Upper Tier. Please be aware that the Upper Tier has steeper steps and doesn't have any handrail support. All patrons need to exit through the Theatre Exit Gate as The Royal Parks lock Queen Mary's Gardens during the evening performance.
Sound Amplification: Radio-signal system.
Guide Dogs: Guide dogs are welcome and bowls of water can be provided
Disabled Access: The theatre is fully accessible to people with reduced mobility. There is a slight slope up into the theatre and all wheelchair seating (38 spaces) is on the level of entrance into the theatre. The wheelchair is then backed into the designated area and patrons will then have an unobstructed view of the stage. Transfer seats are also available.
Toilets: Large Men's and Women's opposite bar.
Disabled Toilets: Adapted loos are to the left of the box office entrance as you enter the theatre or to the right as you exit the theatre.
Limited Mobility: Access guides, large print programmes, talking programmes on request.
Access to Bars: Tea and cake can be booked in advance for matinee performances and priority suppers can be booked in advance for evening performances. There is also a bar, buffet and barbeque located on site which patrons can select a variety of cocktails, salads, and burgers from.
Catherine Street, London, WC2B 5LA
21 New Globe Walk, London, SE1 9DT
Barbican Theatre
Silk Street, London, EC2Y 8DS


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Q: What happened to the this type of naming convention? I have read so many docs about naming conventions, most recommending both Pascal and Camel naming conventions. Well, I agree to this, it's ok. This might not be pleasing to some, but I am just trying to get your opinion on why you name your objects and classes in a certain way.
What happened to this type of naming conventions, and/or why are they bad?
I want to name a structure, and I prefix it with "struct". My reason is that, with IntelliSense, I see all structures in one place, and anywhere I see the struct prefix, I know it's a "struct":
structPerson
structPosition

another example is the enum, although I may not prefix it with "enum", but maybe with "enm":
enmFruits
enmSex

again my reason is that in IntelliSense, I see all my enumerations in one place.
Because .NET has so many built-in data structures, I think this helps me do less searching. Note that I used .NET in this example, but I welcome language agnostic answers.

A: That is Hungarian notation. Its still used but much less so now in languages where the IDE helps you with types. (ie C# Java). In those langagues the information given by the prefix is already provided by the IDE so is deemed unnecessary.

A: The "type" of types shouldn't matter. class, struct, and enum are only meaninful to the definition - you shouldn't be using something differently just because it's a struct and not a class, nor should you refer to it as one.
I think the most sensible way to use "hungarian notation" is to only seperate types from functions:

*

*types

*instances of types

*functions

A: If the types have appropriate names in the application domain, then the underlying representation is not important.  I much prefer code that reads like either prose or mathematics.  In English we say "Post Office", not "officePost", so I prefer "EmailService" to "serviceEmail".

A: Joel wrote a good article on this
Making Wrong Code Look Wrong
In short, you want to use Apps Hungarian, not Systems Hungarian notation.
Because really, who cares if it's an int, or a long, or whatever, all I care about is the "kind" of value, not it's type.

A: In object oriented programming languages, this "Systems Hungarian Notion" hardly has any place at all. Consider languages where everything is an object. You could rightfully use a prefix like "obj" for every variable, since everything is an object. But even if you use "int" and "dbl" for integer and double variables, what about the zillions of other objects? Would you invent a prefix for each and every class in your program and all the libs it uses? Or would you use a completely meaningless prefix like "obj"? Neither option makes much sense.

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My story with Dell started way back around 2006 when my cheap Acer crapped out. It suddenly had a wide black stripe down the middle of the screen and I had to send it back to Toronto to get it repaired. I was without it for three weeks. It was such a piece of crap I don't even remember what I did with it after I bought the Dell.
When I got that first Dell laptop, a Vostro 1500, my first issue was I didn't know how to get my programs and data files from the Acer. I contacted Dell tech support, which I believe at that time was based in Nashville. Quite quickly and easily I contacted an incredibly helpful rep. He spent the next four hours helping me to setup a home network and connect both laptops. I could not have been more impressed.
That was the last time anything went well with Dell. For the first of many laptops later I found the lettering on the keys wearing off. Prior to the Acer I had rented an IBM ThinkPad that was several years old but the keys were like brand new. The reason was simple. The writing on the keys was slightly inset so you were never typing on the actual lettering. That wasn't the case with the Dell so as I used it the writing started to wear off to the point that frequently used keys were blank, worn off so bad that the lighting below showed through if back-lighting was turned on. I contacted repair and was told the keyboard overlay was no longer available. That started many emails back and forth asking if they expected me to be able to use a computer with blank keys? I got nowhere fast until I contacted Michael Dell's office directly. Nathalie in his office, a wonderful lady, apologized profusely and sent me a keyboard overlay the next day. I still had to pay to have it installed but at least I could work again. Of course the lettering started wearing off again.
My life went through a major change when I had to move to Panama around Christmas. I transferred my warranty to Latin America, which was a disaster in itself. Shortly after getting settled in Boquete I contacted warranty support in Panama. Of course they couldn't find my warranty transfer until I got my sales agent back in Canada involved. I tech came all the way from Panama City, on the bus. About a seven hour drive. He was a nice guy and he ended up staying for dinner and we went out to the bar later. He had friends in Boquete so I assume he stayed over. He was shocked when he saw the condition of my fairly new keyboard. After he replaced it I asked him to make sure that the one he replaced got to production somewhere with the simple solution to change the mold to be inset. He agreed. Now, remember, this was way back in 2007.
All hell broke loose in Panama after the girl who worked for me ripped me off in every way she could, leaving me twenty-eight dollars in the bank. My darling cousin, Joan, back in Toronto, said to come and stay with her until I got my life sorted out. I met someone online and moved to London, Ontario. Not long after moving they sent a tech from a company called UNISYS. Good technician except that for some unknown reason he took the laptop completely apart, replaced the keyboard overlay, but then forgot to reinstall the hard drive so he had to do it all over again. I had the same conversation with him that I had had with the tech in Panama to send the keyboard to production, wherever that was. He agreed.
Sometime later I took another stab at living somewhere that I could afford and researched Ecuador, but it proved to be even worse than Panama if that was even possible. I nearly died when I was overcome with carbon monoxide poisoning and, according to the doctor in Emergency, was minutes from kicking the bucket.
When Ecuador failed for many reasons I returned again to Canada. This time ending up in a group home in Belleville, Ontario. When the keyboard started failing yet again another tech came to replace it. This time after he replaced the overlay and rebooted the computer the motherboard blew. He went back to the original overlay but the laptop was toast I had to send it to Toronto where they did nothing except waste my time. They returned it to me and the tech came out again to replace the overlay. We held our hands in prayer when he rebooted it and it worked.
Yet another move, hopefully this time more successful, to Mexico. Wasn't long before the keyboard started wearing off because despite all the expense of all the warranty repairs, Dell had done nothing to solve the problem. This time the tech traveled from Guadalajara. He replaced the overlay and, of course, the motherboard blew the minute he rebooted. Just like the other techs he had no clue why.
At this point, after more than ten years of so much trouble and particularly that replacing the keyboard had blown the motherboard twice now on this same laptop, I told Dell I had had enough. I wanted the laptop replaced with a desktop with a keyboard that would work and continue working in future. I asked if Dell had any keyboard that had the inset keys so the writing would not wear off. No answer. They finally agreed to send the desktop but sent one certainly not of equal value to what I had paid for my laptop. That was disappointing enough, but what I found just unbelievable was that they sent it with the cheapest keyboard possible. I found it on Amazon for FIVE DOLLARS! How could anyone ignore what I had been through, over and over, for years and not supply a decent keyboard? Was that too much to ask? Literally within days the lettering started to wear off. Worse, some of the keys stopped working. I would click on a letter and just get a blank space. Then after I clicked again the letter would start rapidly repeating across the screen until I hit another key to make it stop. Total garbage!
Back I went to Dell and told them I would not return the laptop until they supplied a far better keyboard. They replied with two keyboard links. I had found what looked like a better keyboard at Amazon.com.mx which could be here overnight, but they said they couldn't supply that one from their distributor here in Mexico. Suddenly out of nowhere a keyboard showed up the next day. You guessed it. Worse than the first keyboard! Nothing has changed in the design of the lettering. It's still on the surface and will no doubt start wearing off soon.
So, after at least ten warranty replacements, at huge cost to Dell in four different countries, plus, for me, countless hours and hours of downtime and nothing but frustration, for an issue that could have been so easily solved in the first place and at zero cost to Dell, I still don't have a functional keyboard. Seriously? I have found a real keyboard at Logitech and I'm working with them to get it here in Mexico. Probably going to cost me a hundred dollars on top of all the time I've lost, but at least I will end up with a keyboard that works and lasts more than a couple of months. Puts an end to this nightmare.
Oh, and here's my nineteen page letter to Michael Dell sent to him last year.


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Q: How to replace some characters with asterisks except first four characters I want to hide some characters from my email address like
Current add : example@gmail.com
Using my code : *******@gmail.com
I want it like : exam***@gmail.com
My code:
function hide_mail($email) {
    $mail_part = explode("@", $email);
    $mail_part[0] = str_repeat("*", strlen($mail_part[0]));
    return implode("@", $mail_part);
}

echo hide_mail("example@gmail.com");

A: Using substr() you do this.
PHP
<?php
    function hide_mail($email) {
        $new_mail = "";
        $mail_part1 = explode("@", $email);
        $mail_part2 = substr($mail_part1[0],4); // Sub string after fourth character.
        $new_mail = substr($mail_part1[0],0,4); // Add first four character part.
        $new_mail .= str_repeat("*", strlen($mail_part2))."@"; // Replace *. And add @
        $new_mail .= $mail_part1[1]; // Add last part.
        return $new_mail;
    }

    echo hide_mail("example@gmail.com");
?>

Output
exam***@gmail.com

A: You need to split $mail_part[0] at the forth character.
Do your replace with *'s on the second part of that split, then join the three parts together again.


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Q: Syncing between Spreadsheets Currently have a working script for syncing cell format and values to another spreadsheet. I know it is very rough and ready, but it works!! I don't like that there are numbers in the For loop to achieve the correct cell numbers ... But this is needed to go from a single row by 9 columns, to the destination spreadsheet which is 9 rows by 1 column.
After talking to a colleague, the feedback is this will run quite slowly. I have rewritten this as 9 If statements but the problem is when dragging cells across it only updates the first cell, not the range.
There is the copyTo function, unfortunately, this only works inside a single spreadsheet.
The overall speed doesn't really matter, is there an alternative?
// for loop to populate all cells
  for (let i = 21; i < 30; i++){                                              // starts at volumn V (22) for 9 columns (21 to 30)
  var activeCell = registerSheet.getRange(activeRow, i + 1, 1, 1);      // Register column, i + 1 so it increases
  var registerValue = activeCell.getValue();                            // get cell value
  var registerFormat = activeCell.getBackground();                      // get cell format
  var i2 = 'C' + (33 + i)                                               // this increases the target cell range from C54 to C62 using the loop. 54 (start row on form) - 21 (start i value) = 33
  var range = form.getRange(i2);                                        // designate target cell
  range.setValue(registerValue);                                        // set target cell value
  range.setBackground(registerFormat);                                  // set target cell format
  }
  }

A: Explanation:

*

*Your code is indeed inefficient because you are calling setValue()
and setBackground() 9 times each when you can simply use
setValues() and setBackgrounds() instead once. It will get even more inefficient for a larger number of iterations.

*There is a little trick you need to do and that is to convert the data  (nrows,ncolumns) returned by getRange(activeRow,22,1,9).getValues() with a shape of (1,9) to a shape of (9,1) and do the same for the background colors as well:
var rowValues=registerSheet.getRange(activeRow,22,1,9).getValues().flat().map(r=>[r]); // V:AD
var rowBackcolors = registerSheet.getRange(activeRow,22,1,9).getBackgrounds().flat().map(r=>[r]); // V:AD

*After that you can simply set the data directly to the destination sheet:
var range = form.getRange('C54:C62'); // C54:C63
range.setValues(rowValues);
range.setBackgrounds(rowBackcolors);

Solution:
Replace the for loop with this:
var rowValues=registerSheet.getRange(activeRow,22,1,9).getValues().flat().map(r=>[r]); // V:AD
var rowBackcolors = registerSheet.getRange(activeRow,22,1,9).getBackgrounds().flat().map(r=>[r]); // V:AD
var range = form.getRange('C54:C62'); // C54:C63
range.setValues(rowValues);
range.setBackgrounds(rowBackcolors);

Related article:
What does the range method getValues() return and setValues() accept?


In 2008, the international 1000 Genomes Consortium launched the 1000 Genomes Project to develop a resource on human genetic variation that contains information on most of the genetic variants with frequencies of 1% or higher in the studies set of samples. This resource will support genome-wide association studies and other studies relating genetic variation to health and disease.
Pilot 1 sequenced lightly 179 samples from the HapMap CEU, YRI, CHB, and JPT populations.
CEU NA12878 (daughter) and mother NA12892 and father NA12891.
YRI NA19240 (daughter) and mother NA19238 and father NA19239.
Pilot 3 sequenced deeply in the exons of 906 genes, in 697 samples from the CEU, TSI, YRI, LWK, CHB, JPT, and CHD HapMap 3 populations.
For the full-scale project, samples from 26 populations were studied in three phases. These studies not only include several new populations, but also include the populations in the HapMap (Yoruba, CEPH, Han Chinese, and Japanese), and several of the populations from the extended set of HapMap (HapMap 3) samples (Luhya, Toscani, African Ancestry, Mexican Ancestry, and Gujarati).
The NHGRI Repository at Coriell does not house the data generated from the 1000 Genomes Project. All data for the 1000 Genomes Project are freely available to the public through the 1000 Genomes Project website and dbSNP.
All 1000 Genomes Project population samples are available from the NHGRI Repository at Coriell, except for the CEPH [CEU] population samples, which are available from the NIGMS Repository at Coriell (see table below). The samples have no identifying or phenotype information available. Donors gave broad consent for use of the samples, including for genotyping, sequencing, and cellular phenotype studies.
All cell culture and DNA samples can be purchased individually. The NHGRI Repository also offers standard DNA panels for each population. Each standard panel provides all the samples from unrelated individuals that were used for the 1000 Genomes and HapMap Project populations. Except for the YRI trio included in the Pilot 2 project (with child sample NA19240), child DNA samples are not included in the panels but are available for order as individual samples. Each sample in the panel has 2 micrograms of DNA. By providing a standard panel for each population and a smaller amount of DNA, the cost is lowered so that each panel costs $1000 or less, as compared to $5500 per panel when the samples are ordered individually (with 50 micrograms of DNA each).
*Note that for the HapMap populations listed below, sample overlap exists between the panels listed below and other plates or panels offered as part of the International HapMap collection.
* CEPH Collection [CEU] samples are available from the NIGMS Human Genetic Cell Repository at Coriell.


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'Choose Life' License Plate Permitted
Feminist Majority Foundation Blog | December 6, 1999
State officials in Florida have okayed production of "Choose Life" license plates just one day after delaying the plate. The Florida National Organization for Women filed a lawsuit against the plate and the attorney general halted production, predicting that the design would be defeated in court.
Supporters of the plate, which portrays a crayon sketch of two children, say that its pro-adoption rather than pro-choice. The $22 proceeds are intended for groups that help women put their babies up for adoption.
NOW and other critics of the anti-choice license plate have pointed out that "Choose Life" is a political slogan for the anti-choice movement and is dangerous in a state where doctors who provide abortions have been murdered.
Spokane.net - December 6, 1999


This is a Tom Waits song Bette sang in Divine Madness that was left off the soundtrack. A gem of a song. She has always been his best interpreter. It just seems logical for her to record an album of his tunes.


John Legere at the GeekWire Summit 2014.
John Legere is a big Richard Sherman fan, and given the T-Mobile CEO's outspoken personality, it's not all that surprising.
The two actually have quite a bit in common — at least from a trash-talking and social media perspective. Both are active on Twitter — Sherman with 1.2 million followers; Legere with 955,000 — and take the time to interact with fans and customers.
In addition, Legere and Sherman are both extremely outspoken. But while each leader certainly talks a lot of smack, both back it up. Sherman believes and says he's the best cornerback in the league, and his stats and track record over the past few seasons prove that. Meanwhile, Legere has spent the last several months blasting Sprint, AT&T, and Verizon as T-Mobile adds a record number of customers.


2015 CARLA LTE Conference presentation BOLDD Survey & Teacher Ed.
COERLL Presentation, June 2014. Presenters: Marlene Johnshoy & Kathryn Murphy-Judy.
CALICO May 2014 University of Athens. Presenters: Bonnie Youngs, Joe Terantino, Julio Rodriguez, Marlene Johnshoy, Kathryn Murphy-Judy.
For the BOLDD SCOLT and NECTFL Workshops 2013, please contact Kathryn or Gretchen.
CALICO 2013 Workshop Materials in PDF form (participants are all in the shared document).


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Consensus growing for attack on Pakistan?
June 27, 2008 CounterVortex
Islamabad has angrily denied findings by Afghanistan's intelligence agency that Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) was the "real schemer and organizer" behind the failed April 27 assassination attempt on President Karzai at a military parade. (Gulf Daily News, June 26) That was the fourth attempt on Karzai's life by our count.
At the Pentagon, Defense Secretary Robert Gates took his own potshot at Pakistan, saying increased insurgent activity in the US sector in eastern Afghanistan is "a real concern."
"Regional Command-East has been a success story," he said. "But clearly the ability of the Taliban and other insurgents to cross that border and not being under any pressure from the Pakistani side of the border is clearly a concern. I think that needs to be addressed with the Pakistani government." (VOA, June 26)
Taliban forces led by Baitullah Mehsud near the town of Jandola in Pakistan's South Waziristan region reportedly killed 28 members of peace committee after seizing them following a clash in which 12 were killed and 15 sustained injuries. The deceased belonged to Bhattni tribe, and were part of a government-backed commission to broker peace with rebel tribes in the region. (Pakistan Link, NYT, June 26)
Attacks by Taliban militants in eastern Afghanistan were up 40% in the first five months of 2008 compared with the same period last year, the US commander in the region said during a teleconference from Afghanistan. "We've had about a 40% increase in 'kinetic events': we define those as the number of enemy attacks that we've had on our coalition and our Afghan partners," US Army Major General Jeffrey Schloesser told reporters. (AFP, June 24)
See our last post on Afghanistan and Pakistan.
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Frodo Lives —in Waziristan?
Some wiseguys at Pakistan Tribune June 25 ran a map of Mordor, the land of evil from Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, labeled "Waziristan." A statement about Western demonization of Pakistan's tribal borderlands? Or just a test to see if anyone was paying attention? Mordoristan?
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Wouldn't it be great if you could try an NBN plan before you buy it? It turns out you can in some circumstances - it's called the NBN satisfaction guarantee.
30-day free trials are everywhere these days, but they haven't quite made their way to the world of telco. This is a bit of a shame when it comes to the NBN; while all providers are technically reselling access to the same network, they're far from equal.
A lot of variables go into delivering an NBN service with consistently high speeds, so taking up a new plan can feel like a bit of a gamble. No one wants to be stuck with an underperforming internet connection.
While you can't quite get a "try before you buy" or 30-day free trial on your NBN connection, Telstra and Vodafone both offer 30-day satisfaction guarantees. If you're not happy with your connection, you can leave within the first 30 days - no matter what contract you've signed.
Better yet, if you do decide to leave, both Telstra and Vodafone will both refund your first monthly bill, hardware costs, and standard setup fees (excluding the NBN new development fee, if applicable). Telstra will even let you keep your modem, but Vodafone will need any hardware back within 10 days of cancelling your service.
In both cases, it's worth noting that the 30-day satisfaction guarantee only applies to new customers. Belong Internet customers are also exempt from Telstra's offer.
Telstra is still very much a premium internet provider, but there are a few deals worth pointing out. The $99 per month "Broadband + Streaming Bundle" includes a Telstra TV and 24-months of access to the basic Foxtel Now starter pack, valued at $25 per month. In addition, all new Telstra internet plans currently include a bonus Google Home Mini.
It's also worth noting that Telstra doesn't sell any NBN 100 plans, so you'll need to pay an extra $30 per month if you want to upgrade to the fastest NBN tier.
Vodafone's NBN offering is a little more no frills, but existing postpaid mobile customers are currently eligible for a discount. If you sign up to either the Essential+ or Premium plan before November 20 and add it to the same account as your Vodafone mobile plan, you'll get $10 off your monthly bill.
And if you're not interested in going with Telstra or Vodafone, you could consider a contract-free NBN provider with no setup costs. While these providers don't offer the same kind of 30-day satisfaction guarantee, you can leave at any time without paying any cancellation fees. All you'll have really lost is one month of service fees.
Most ISPs can include a modem with your plan, but some force you to buy it. For the sake of simplicity, we've only included providers where your modem purchase is optional, so that there's truly zero upfront costs. These plans are ordered by price, with the cheapest up top.
Alex Choros is Associate Editor at WhistleOut, Australia's phone and internet comparison website. He's now had far too many phone plan related dreams.
Come on over to Launtel in Tassie and Canberra - we do get a 7 day trial on a premium network who have the most awesome service provision and customer service.
Maybe consider the little guys who can give a better experience than just the big guns.
Launtel actually offer a 7 day free trial. So yes they do exist.
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Between Friday 22 March and Saturday 23 March 2019, a property on Pangee Road, Nyngan, was broken into.
The property caretaker notified police about 2pm on Saturday 23 March 2019, when he noticed the firearms were missing.
Nine firearms were stolen from a gun safe.
Rural Crime Investigators attached to Central North Police District attended the property and commenced an investigation.
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With a few days to go until this year's series of I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here starts, the new line up of contestants have begun to land in Australia.
Birds of a Feather star Linda Robson is the first to make an appearance down under, with EastEnders' Charlie Brooks (Janine Butcher) and fellow soap star Helen Flanagan (Corrie's Rosie Webster) set to follow.
Plus, comedian Brian Conley, boxer David Haye and former Doctor Who Colin Baker are reported to be joining the jungle.
Ex-Pussycat Doll Ashley Roberts, Made In Chelsea's Hugo Taylor and darts player Eric Bristow are also reported to be preparing themselves for the gruesome Bush Tucker trials..
We can't wait! Will you be watching? Let us know in the comments below.


The 21st Asia Pacific Diabetes Conference will exhibit the products and services from commercial and non-commercial organizations like Drug manufactures, Clinical Trial Sites, Management Consultants, Chemists, Pharmacists, Business delegates and Equipment Manufacturers.
Why to attend Diabetes Asia Pacific 2019?
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The AI stack that's changing retail personalization
By Sowmiya Chocka Narayanan. Original post: HERE Consumer expectations are higher than ever as a new generation of shoppers look to shop for experiences rather than commodities. They expect instant and highly-tailored (pun intended?) customer service and recommendations across any retail channel. To be forward-looking, brands and retailers are turning to startups in image Read more…
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Retail's Next Act: The Connected Window Shopper
Consumers are individuals and want to be treated that way, but the brick-and-mortar experience was not always personalized. There was a time when consumers would visit retailers that offered one-size-fits-all options. Even with advances in technology, physical stores still lag behind in offering personalization, gamification and other kinds of data-driven Read more…
Most of AI's business uses will be in two areas
By Michael Chui, Nicolaus Henke, and Mehdi Miremadi . Original post: HERE An examination of more than 400 AI use cases revealed the two areas where AI can have the greatest impact, write the authors in Harvard Business Review. While overall adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) remains low among businesses (about 20 percent upon our Read more…
Capturing value from your customer data
McKinsey Analytics March 2017 . Original post: HERE Companies can put their information to work by teasing out novel patterns, driving productivity, and creating new solutions. In an increasingly customer-centric world, the ability to capture and use customer insights to shape products, solutions, and the buying experience as a whole is critically Read more…
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Personalization in AI is gaining traction in advertising and beyond. In Out-of-Home (OOH) advertising specifically, consumers are looking for personalization and interaction. Because personalized OOH ads can increase customer engagements, brand awareness, and revenue, the future of AI is a broader utilization of personalized ads writes Omar Golan, CEO, Outernets FULL PRESS Read more…
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While artificial intelligence (AI) is changing many facets of digital marketing, few marketers have considered incorporating that technology into the offline world. But that could change in 2018 as marketers learn how to incorporate AI, along with the hoard of data they have about their customers, into physical touchpoints. FULL Read more…
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Kingdom Hearts' creation was an unlikely one, born of a crossover between companies that seemed to have little area for collaboration. Over a decade later, however, the millions of fans eagerly waiting for Kingdom Hearts III prove this to be a risky venture well-taken. Many have been drawn to the prospect of exploring Disney worlds, others to the superb combat system, and more still to the memorable and touching musical themes prevalent throughout – the last of which is clear in an EP recently released by music professional, Rozen.
Although some fans may get lost in the admittedly convoluted narrative of Kingdom Hearts, the central themes of a longing for home, lost friends, and the hope to reunite form its emotional core, and those are what shine through in these arrangements. So while they might not assuage the pain of waiting for entirely, I recommend you take this composer's words to heart and take a moment to "sit back, close your eyes, relax, and listen as your imagination soars through the sky". It just might remind you why you started playing the series in the first place.
If you'd like to download this track, or listen to Rozen's other video game music (VGM) arrangements, covers, and the like, check out the links below. Additionally, keep on the lookout for his upcoming album of Zelda music, dedicated to the King of Light and Shadow himself: Ganondorf.
In the meantime, share your thoughts on this arrangement, your notable Kingdom Hearts memories, or hopes for the upcoming title in the comments.


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Tanya Stojkovic
stojkovic.tanya@aphp.fr
I was born in 1966 in Paris, France, where I studied Medicine at the University Pierre and Marie Curie Medicine School of Paris. I moved in 1990 in the Medicine school of Lille, France and graduated as neurologist in 1994. I moved in Paris in 1994 and worked in Pitié-Salpêtrière until 1996. I obtained a university degree in Neurophysiology and a master in Neurobiology. While discovering and perfecting my experience in electromyography in the lab directed by Dr Bouche, I became interested in the neuromuscular disorders and especially in peripheral nerve disorders. I came back to the University hospital in Lille from 1996 until 2006 where I developed the management of neuromuscular diseases: from nerve to muscle diseases. The implementation of neuromuscular reference center in Paris (institute of Myology) was a new challenge and I joined in 2006 the team of PR Eymard, in this new reference center at Pitié-Salpêtrière. From 2006 -2019: I was involved in different projects 2012 which reflect my areas of interest…
Inherited peripheral neuropathy: especially Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease
Myopathies with contractures
COL6 related myopathies
Alphadystroglycanopathies
Dysferlinopathies
Myasthenia: congenital and acquired forms
In 2019, I was named head of the Pitié-Salpêtrière neuromuscular reference center and vice-president of the French peripheral nerve society.
Tanya's Network Involvement
Tanya is involved in these different areas of the network...
Board of Healthcare Providers - Member
Sorbonne University – Pitié Salpêtrière Hospital – Assistance Public Hopitaux de Paris
47 - 83 Boulevard de l'Hôpital
Batiment Babinski