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Business Musings: Tough Topics
Posted: February 10, 2021/Under: Business Musings, free nonfiction, On Writing/By: Kristine Kathryn Rusch
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To survive the first few weeks of 2021, I have read a lot. I have also watched a lot of television. And I'm writing on a project just for me, something I haven't done for a long time. The project just for me does some things that long-time friends might not approve of. The project just for me discusses a few things that people in my world probably would prefer me not to discuss. The project just for me is a tiny and somewhat joyous rebellion in the middle of the clusterfuck that has been our lives in the past year.
I can't tell you how much I enjoy that little bit of freedom. I know quite well that the project just for me will eventually get published. In the past, I would have lied to myself and said I wasn't going to publish that project at all.
But now, I know it will and, honestly, with all the horrors of this last year, I no longer care about the opinions of the minions that are quick to condemn or even about the opinions of the friends who, with a gasp, will wonder if I really should go there.
Fuck it. I'm going there.
And it's not really rebellion. It is a return to the writer I was before I became known. I have tried other ways of handling that return in the past. I've written under secret pen names. I've written in other genres. I have, as I mentioned above, written things I promised myself would never see the light of day.
None had that overall sense of freedom that this past year have given me.
It took a bit of analysis to figure out why. Right now, I have bigger things to worry about than my reputation. Will I survive an elevator ride because an asshole pulls off his mask between floors four and five? Will said asshole give me COVID? Even if I survive, will Dean? Will our country survive this mess? Will our friends make it through the economic hard times? Will our business?
And so on and so forth. Much more important things than a ding to my writerly purity, if I ever had such a thing.
And no, I don't normally allow critics' voices in my head. But, no matter how hard I try to fight it, there is a construct of who I'm expected to be as a writer. Sometimes I like breaking that construct. Sometimes I like creating a new construct. But whenever I think about the construct, it takes energy. I either have to embrace it or push it aside.
For some reason, since things have gotten worse worldwide, the construct has crumbled. All of the constructs have crumbled. At least in my head.
I also find that I'm exceptionally impatient with the pushback against discomfort in entertainment. This thing in that story, it makes a reader uncomfortable, and for that reason, that story is suddenly questionable.
Some of the points are real good ones. I'm tired of books in the canon of whatever genre that are filled with racist and sexist stereotypes. I think those books should be removed from what passes as canon. I think the books should not go away; I think that they should be studied as part of the historical past.
We can even build on them. Here: this racist story is the basis for that marvelous piece of modern fiction. Or: let's read this original story filled with hate, and see how it was answered by this no-longer-marginalized writer. I think there's a place for fiction that holds discredited notions, but that belief comes from my background as a historian and my love of the way things evolve.
But I don't think anyone should feel required to read that shit, except in a class or in a study of how we got to where we are. That's why, for example, I recently recommended in my monthly recommended reading list a lot of stories from an anthology that includes stories from the past 100 years, but did not recommend the anthology.
The anthologist and I disagree about something: he is willing to put his name on a book that contains racist epithets in the title of a story, as well as making those epithets and their stereotypes the basis of that particular story.
When I edit an anthology, I figure there's a better story that deserves my readers' attention. I don't need to be the person to keep something deeply offensive visible in the world. If someone wants to find that crap, well then, they can search the old anthologies and original publications for it. I don't need to bring it into 2021.
That said, there are things that currently being published that contain challenging material. A lot of the challenging material these days makes white people uncomfortable. We're not used to being put in the villain role in entertainment because of how we look or the terrible attitudes so many whites hold.
I'm hearing a lot of pushback from white folks—oh, hell, let's call it what it is. Whining. How come we have to be the bad guys in everything from people of color? Um, have you looked at history? Have you looked at what's going on now? Maybe you should take a deep breath and figure out that you're perceived differently outside of your bubble. Maybe you should strive for understanding.
There was the same initial pushback from some men as #metoo took shape. Not all men treat women badly, they would say—and that's true. But enough men do that women must cope daily with bullshit that white men of privilege never experience.
Writing from other points of view is difficult for some writers. And they should probably not even try. They should write from their point of view and accept that's who they are. Others who have the compassion, empathy, and respect should use those tools in their toolbox.
But I worry that because of the extraordinary pushback of the last few years that writers are going to shy away from some truly difficult topics. Not just topics of race and gender, but things that make the reader stop and think about their own lives.
Difficult things have arisen in two different entertainments for me recently. The first I decided to put on my recommended reading list from December. As part of the anthology I mentioned, I ended up reading for the umpteenth time Richard Connell's "The Most Dangerous Game."
The story was first published about 100 years ago, and it has a lot of problems that come from that time period. Racist language, some stereotyped portraits, and other difficult things. Yet in the Connell story, the lack of compassion for people who aren't white is part of what makes both the antagonist and the protagonist in the story so deeply unlikeable. Connell is commenting on things that we dislike now, and doing so in a way that makes the modern reader even more uncomfortable than those things made his contemporaries. And believe me, the story made his contemporaries uncomfortable too.
Sadly, I hadn't noticed any of those things the first three times I read the story—all when I was in my teens and twenties. I registered that I didn't like it but I couldn't put it down. Now, as an older and more jaded reader, I saw what he was doing—and I still couldn't put the story down. It's an example of an early thriller and it's very well done.
I thought about the story for days, trying to decide if I wanted to recommend it or not, and finally decided that I did. Because the discomfort is part of the tale he's telling.
Also, I find value in fiction that makes me think, fiction (and nonfiction) that challenges me, or makes me see the world in a slightly different way. Since that story challenged me and still confounds me as to how Connell managed to pull it off, I decided to recommend it.
Another uncomfortable entertainment experience that has had me thinking this past month has been the Netflix show Cobra Kai. Before 2020, I had never see the Karate Kid movies. When they came out, they didn't interest me. And the only reason I watched the first two movies this past month or so was because a dear friend had recommended Cobra Kai, and I decided what the hell.
The movies are dated and have problems, but they are very much of their time. The TV show itself is also problematic, and I'm not sure what I think of it—except that I appreciate the shades of gray throughout.
The title comes from the "bad" karate dojo of the first movie, revived by a character thirty-some years later. The character makes bad decisions. He's an alcoholic who is insensitive and has had a terrible life, based on his terrible upbringing. But nothing is simplistic here, and even the villains get a sympathetic retelling of their own histories so that we understand how they got to where they are.
One of the fascinating aspects of the show is that the original actors are playing the same characters they portrayed when they were young. So actors who were in their late teens and early 20s are now playing characters in their fifties—dealing with very adult things: loss of dreams, failed relationships, broken trust, and the strange way that success changes everything.
Season three is about redemption—who should be redeemed, if anyone. Just when you think you have a handle on someone, that someone surprises. In one episode toward the middle of the season, a past bully reveals how his bullying nearly destroyed him. The episode was sensitive and heartbreaking in its own way, and filled with nuance.
I found myself thinking about that for a day or two afterwards. The show has been dealing with bullying. There are at least two past bullies whom we are supposed to…if not like, then understand. And there's a lot of violence, some of it approved-of by the show's creators.
More than one episode has left me feeling deeply uncomfortable, but also aware of the bullies in my life. It also made me question some experiences I had in high school and junior high school. Was I bullied? Oh, yeah. Badly in my seventh grade year. My response? Verbal, nasty, and abusive. I never got bullied again. But did I overreact? Did I end up verbally bullying a few people? I'm not sure.
These questions came to my mind after watching the show, which is, I think a good thing.
I don't talk about the kinds of questions these things raise much on social media or in my blogs. I hardly mention them to friends. I'm tired of the quick-to-judge reactions, the you watch that? comments. I don't really want to defend my entertainment. I want to read it or watch it or think about it.
Those reactions bother me as a writing instructor and as a reader. I worry that other writers will avoid certain topics near and dear to them because they've got all these voices in their heads—voices that tell them: You can't write this topic because the topic is taboo; or Don't write that genre because that genre is less worthy.
Or these writers belong to a writing group that wants everything vanilla. I've written about this before in The Pursuit of Perfection. Workshops and workshoppers don't like feeling uncomfortable, and they believe discomfort is something to be avoided in most types of fiction.
They're wrong. Fiction should make the reader feel all kinds of things. The reader can decide what's right for them or not right for them. Writers should simply write.
Yeah, yeah, I know. That's easier said than done. We all have voices in our heads, and even when we're good at getting rid of the critics, it finds new ways back in.
I hadn't realized how deeply my inner critic had invested in the construct of my reputation until the reasons for that reputation vanished. The old world of traditional publishing is gone. The old measures have vanished. The old gatekeepers are mostly dead.
If I'm trying to impress, who am I trying to impress? If I'm trying to offend, who am I trying to offend?
For a while, I was worried about upsetting my family, but that's not an issue anymore. The members of my family who used to read my work are dead now, or unable to read due to health issues. The remaining members are already pissed at me for things I don't entirely understand (success, maybe?) and make it a point to let me know that they'll never read what I write.
This frees me up to be even more outspoken about family issues than I've ever been. But freedom feels a bit weird. I used to write things to push at people. Now those people are gone. I need a new reason to write those stories…or maybe I move on to new things.
The other thing I've noticed in the decades I've been writing is this: The tough topics from my youth are no longer considered tough. They're mainstream. They're the way that fiction has gone. And some of the things "everyone" wrote about are considered passé now or uncouth or completely unimportant.
It's not quite the same as following trends, but there are similarities. Trends are creations of the moment—vampire detectives or billionaire boyfriends. The topics I'm discussing are what's being dealt with in the culture, and culture changes. The things that held our attention in 1980 are different than the things that hold our attention now. And that's good.
What's a writer to do? The same thing I always recommend. Ignore what's going on. Write your own stuff. Figure out how to publish it and get it to readers. Let readers decide what they think of it…and move on to the next project.
For god's sake, don't read reviews.
I will tell you something fun, though. I have written a lot of short stories. Hundreds, actually. (I'm not exaggerating.) I have always found a way to publish them, usually in publications owned by someone else. A lot of the published stories got many rejections. Some got trashed to my face in the bad old days of conventions.
I still put those stories up for Free Fiction Monday. Those stories, the ones I got real pushback on, are usually the ones the readers of Free Fiction Monday like the most.
It surprises me every single time. Every. Single. Time. Because part of me internalized those criticisms and thought the stories weren't worth much. My personal rule has always been to get the stories off my desk, so they went out even though they were flawed (or I thought they were). But if I had to say which ones were my best as judged by others, I never would have picked the stories that are getting such a response now.
What's the difference? Some of it is the time period. The stories are now emerging in a different world to a different generation of readers.
Some of it is expectation. A story about a dog in a cat anthology is going to get a lot of pushback. A standalone story about a dog isn't going to get the same kind of pushback.
Some of it is that the readers who come to my Free Fiction Monday stories are readers who expect a story by me, not a reader who is unfamiliar with what I do. That predisposes the reader to like the story, and judge it by the standards of my other fiction, not by the standards of other people's fiction.
This feeling of freedom, though, that's new. And really, it's caused by world events. There's a lot more important things in the world right now besides some literary transgression by a writer touching the third rail of fiction (whatever some reader deems that third rail to be).
I suspect this feeling will last for me. The old world is really gone. We're rebuilding out of the ashes and a lot of new will come from it.
I'm also a lot older. If I don't write certain things now, they'll never get written. And I'm not in charge of what happens to them after I die. I am—in that I better have an estate that can handle the fiction after I'm gone. But other than that, I'm not the person who choses which stories of mine survive and which ones get consigned to the dust-heap of history.
In reading that anthology, I'm encountering names from my childhood. Big name writers with massive careers, writers whom most people have never heard of now. And then there are the writers who didn't really make a dent in their lifetime, but had champions after they died.
There's a lot to enjoy in all of them. Many things to think about in others. And some things that are just—well, for me—eye-crossing. And that's the point. The eye-crossing stuff is personal. I can skip over things that might offend you, just like you can skip over things that might offend me. But our life experiences make us have different reactions to different kinds of fiction.
As writers, we just need to write and publish. That's it. Move from one project to the next, not worrying about the reaction to something done in the past.
Think of it the way you think about conversation. I sometimes screw up. I'm so damn blunt. I say things I later regret. Can I change it? Naw. I can do "better" in the future. I think. But I rarely do. That bluntness wins every time. It's a feature, not a bug.
If you think of stories as conversation—gone after the words are uttered—you won't be as tempted to go back and tweak. Just let the words represent that past moment. Move forward. Move on.
Realize that there are lot more important things in the world right now than some perceived literary transgression.
And because we're all stressed and terrified and grieving, we need fiction. A lot of it. Some people want entertainment that they call mindless. (I don't think any entertainment is mindless.) Others want an incredible challenge. And still others want to have their buttons pushed in fiction, so their buttons don't get pushed in real life.
Our job is to provide all of that. Write. Write a lot. Give the stressed and grieving a different world, something else to think about, a different preoccupation, if only for a few hours.
There's value in that. A lot more value than we writers usually give credence to.
So write the tough topics. Write the easy topics.
Because that's what we do.
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12 responses to "Business Musings: Tough Topics"
thorncoyle6d3efa0c3c says:
Don't know how I missed this one, Kris. It's a good one. Thanks.
For years, in one of my other communities, folks would be fighting over seemingly nothing, and I would always say to a good friend: "People are dying in the streets right now." In other words, what's really important? I've always spoken up in public. It's my nature. And my writing is filled with my opinions and world view. How could it not be?
These days, I'm writing bonkers paranormal cozy mysteries, partially because of the times, and partially because of the TBI I've had since a bike crash in August. It's all I can write. It's fun. It's weird. In the back of my head, I do wonder what my readers will think—though still written through my lens and with my voice, this series is the opposite of much of my other work, except for some short stories— and I really need to let that concern go. It's also what I'm calling "cozy mysteries for freaks and geeks" and includes some stuff "traditional cozy readers" might balk at. Funnily, that doesn't bother me as much.
So yeah, thanks again for writing this post.
But here's the pushback I have every time the topic of 'what are we allowed to write' circles around again.
Too many writers will say "Nyah Nyah, Nyah, I write what I want! And look, Kris Rusch agrees with me!" And they'll do so to continue writing racist, misogynist, homophobic, hurtful, bullshit. Stuff they haven't researched using primary sources. Using "history" they've learned only through biased fiction and television that tell them cowboys were white (historically, way untrue) and there were no Black people in Medieval Europe, or Chinese people in Regency England. Or gay or trans people didn't exist until the 1980s. Uh…nope.
And they don't listen to the current lived experiences of people not like them, either.
And then these authors say "X group is being mean to me and trying to silence me! I write what I want!" Well, go ahead and write what you want, but don't expect to not get flack for it.
Kris, you put in the work to educate yourself. You do research. Then you write what you want. That's the difference. And that research is also part of the craft.
I'm not saying you're responsible for these bad actors. You aren't. But "write what you want" isn't the whole story, either. Sometimes the critics are trying to tell us we're missing something important and it's damaging our craft (along with putting more damaging art out into the world, just like that sexist, racist, stuff in the old canon).
We all have to figure out what the balance, is, I guess. Maybe the key is to continue to educate ourselves as much as possible, and then write what we want. That's what I'm trying.
Excellent points, all, Thorn, thank you. Very important.
I find it fascinating that people assume the book I was writing during the time I wrote this blog was about racism/sexism or some other kind of "ism" and that it scared me. Um, no. People, have you read my work? (Clearly not, if you're thinking that.)
The piece I was writing goes after something else, something that would have angered people who would (rightly or wrongly) see themselves in the characters. People who once told me not to write fantasy because it will "hurt my career" or to stay away from science fiction because I'm not a scientist.
I love that you said this: "But "write what you want" isn't the whole story, either. Sometimes the critics are trying to tell us we're missing something important and it's damaging our craft (along with putting more damaging art out into the world, just like that sexist, racist, stuff in the old canon)."
Spot on. Exactly so.
The problem is that writers are humans. And some humans are terrible people, sexist, bigoted, disgusting people. And some of them write really good books that disguise their racism, sexism, bigotry inside the story. Readers think/hope that the author is going one way when really, it's coming from a different place. (I'm thinking of Doby [sp?] who really bothered me when I got to that part of Harry Potter years before the J.K. Rowling controversy. Once the controversy happened, Doby became a much clearer character. Sadly.)
I've been struggling for years with the idea that some writers are terrible people and amazing writers. How do we deal with that? It's not a question I can answer. Nor do I know whether or not some ideas in my books will become shunned years from now. I think of Leigh Brackett, who wrote amazingly powerful stories about racism, that I couldn't comfortably reprint, because of all the racist language which was perfectly acceptable for its time.
So I guess all of this is to say that the best we can do is write what we want, and then as a separate act, we decide what to do with it. Readers will react, and they will be right—for their time, their place, and their tastes.
Rachel L Smith says:
I've always written whatever catches my fancy, and to hell with anyone who thinks I'm not qualified or can't do it justice. But I've also encountered a moment in time where I've had to weigh a question no writer in any genre should ever have to ask, but especially not in romance.
Do I want to risk my life to publish a novel? It's a historical piece that flies in the face of the current narrative about the time period. The current narrative doesn't allow for what life was actually like in my state in this time period. I had an agent rip me up one side and down the other because it was so farfetched and completely impossible and could never ever ever ever ever happen. It's the one and only time I've cried over something said about my writing. Not only could the novel happen, it DID happen! Over and over and over.
The novel is 100% plausible, inspired by real events, and fleshed out with the law and social mores of the time in my state of Louisiana. Which is vastly different from the rest of the South and the rest of the country. It's the height of hubris, IMO, to judge a book set in Louisiana by the laws and social mores of Georgia or Alabama, because our historical cultures have absolutely nothing in common except growing cotton and everything that went with that.
For now, I've decided a romance novel isn't worth my physical safety, my sanity, and my emotional wellbeing. If I try to put it out there right now, I'll be bullied within an inch of my life, doxxed, and God only knows what else. High probability of being physically assaulted if I were ever to show my face at a conference. All of this would be perpetrated against me by fellow romance authors. Not readers. Authors. I've already been attacked and bullied for DNFing a book by a woman of color because it wasn't my cup of my tea. I wasn't allowed to not like a book written by a woman of color, no matter the reason, and I got slammed for it. I locked myself down online and deleted some stuff because I knew what would happen if I didn't. I'd seen these fellow romance authors do it to other people. Many, many, many times.
I wish to God nobody had to ask questions like this. That nobody had to think about whether or not publishing a piece would put their life in danger. Unfortunately it's very real. But should the climate change and the narrative become more accepting, I'll publish it.
Funny how people are "shocked" by the blatant racism, stereotypes, etc. etc. of stories from the last 100+ years or so. While it may be shocking to the senses today (as well as it should be to a very large degree), people keep missing the major point that what people were writing were based on the social mores and the world that they were living in at the time. While it isn't certainly acceptable today, it was then, and people need to accept that uncomfortable fact. You simply can't apply your values of today, whatever they may be, to stuff that was written back then. Otherwise you come off like the dolts who complained about that recent WWI movie called "Dunkirk", in which people complained about no people of color being involved with the battle itself, thus the movie was somehow "racist".
Zoe Cannon says:
I've always thought that's the very thing that makes those old stories shocking–the fact that those values were common and accepted at the time. One prejudiced author is just one prejudiced author; windows into the unpalatable parts of our shared past are a lot more chilling.
F.I. Goldhaber says:
Those who complained about "Dunkirk" did so because the people of color who WERE at the Battle of Dunkirk, which by the way was in World War II not WWI, were whitewashed out of the movie as they have been whitewashed out of history. That is what made the movie racist — it ignored the 1,000+ Indian soldiers who fought in that battle.
https://www.sanskritimagazine.com/indian-religions/sikhism/sikh-soldiers-the-unsung-heroes-of-world-war-ii/
https://www.pri.org/stories/2017-08-02/there-were-indian-troops-dunkirk-too
I tell it like it is about aspects of disability and chronic illness – they are NOT the main story, but what the character deals with and how it affects the main story. Marketing is hard.
Scott T. Barnes says:
Kris, I'm very happy I read every word of this blog. Thank you for sharing your thoughts on the writing the tough topics, and also reading them from a historical perspective.
I've always thought you were fearless in your writing. Now I'm intrigued about this personal project of yours. I hope you do publish, and I hope it's soon because if /we/ don't speak up now, then when?
Something that hasn't percolated into my writing [yet], is a simmering rage at all the selfish bastards who have helped to spread this damn virus. I know many are young Immortals who just don't /think/, but there are others who value their 'rights' above all else. They want all the perks that society can offer without any of the responsibilities. 🙁
Melissa Yi says:
Fascinating! I love hearing how writers' motivations can change over the decades, with shifts in maturity, culture, and death.
I've always written what I want. I just sold a short story yesterday, and the editor asked us to give content warnings. I didn't know where to begin.
And yet, during the pandemic, I, for one, have been writing gentler stories. My most recent thriller, Scorpion Scheme, had no on-page violence and 100% more eating of shawarma. Why? Because I needed it.
I've just decided to set the next Hope Sze mystery at a speakeasy. Why? So people can drink and be merry before the bloodshed begins.
I'm not sure what third rail you're reaching for now, but I look forward to reading it. The Protectors was great.
I'll have to reread The Most Dangerous Game, though. It was my favourite story in grade 11. Sad to think the racism I must've missed … although I was shocked by the racism in several Agatha Christies I picked up recently.
Finally, one less obvious part of white people whining was when someone told me not to mention race. I checked the manuscript and they'd [obscuring gender here] deleted every time I'd said someone was white, but not any other race. Forget about not wanting to be the villains. They didn't even want race mentioned, unless it was to delineate an Other. I'm pleased to say that tale was critically acclaimed by much bigger fish who didn't have the same blind spots. 😉
AshleyRPollard says:
A vague comment, for reasons best not gone into here.
As a child I ended up going to three different schools from age 5 to 11. Then my parents moved again and I ended up going to the roughest school of the three available in the new town, again for reasons.
There, for the first four years I was the fat kid who didn't fit in. Bullied was how I felt, and I hated school.
When I was 17, when I got my first job I met the mother of one of the kids who bullied me constantly. His mother knew my name, and said it was nice to meet me. Her child was now doing hippy stuff in a cave somewhere in Cornwall, and used to talk about me.
I was shocked. The difference in perspective in our relationship boggled me. It was a moment to step outside of my perspective of the events, and realise that what I felt was bullying was to them just being friends.
BTW: JIC people think I some sort of vulnerable wall-flower… when they left school, a person from the year below me tried to assert their power over me. I flipped, and as a result I've never allowed people to bully me since. This has led to me being called brusque and blunt.
Now whether that's a good or a bad outcome depends on one's perspective. Just saying.
LL says:
There's a lot of freedom in writing what WE want. Not the readers, not the critics, not our families. Just what we enjoy and/or want to say. What we need to say. Enjoy this freedom and celebrate! We all need to celebrate when we can.

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"Crisis" by Felix Francis is a good murder mystery in the vein of Dick Francis, just not as good
What if Dick Francis never wrote novels and what you started with was a Felix Francis novel. When do we stop comparing the son to the father. Their styles are completely different. Dick Francis wrote in your face, mano a mano novels where the hero set out to defeat a evil plot in the horse racing world, typically taking the evildoers to the cleaners himself, but not before he faced extreme pressure to give up. As I have said before, a Felix Francis books lacks the early Dick Francis's pacing, wording and ties to horse racing, but he does know how to paint the numbers. He has overcome the stylistic differences between his writing in some instances. I felt, however, that this was not one of them.
"Crisis", Felix Francis latest murder mystery set tangentially in the English horse racing world, has a good little murder mystery at its heart and a decent hero sort, who shows some spine and lust. But this is just a good book, nothing spectacular and maybe that is what we should continue to look forward to.
There is a lot of good horse racing information. From a brief walk through of an auctioneer area, to morning gallops of the trainers and information about signing horses up for runs. But the information is dropped (info dump style) in as if we are observing from afar or reading something written just to be inserted therein. It lacks punch and vitality. In one instance, the info dump does not even advance the story at all.
Harrison Foster, the nattily dressed hero is a "crisis manager", who is investigating the death of seven horses trained by Ryan Chadwick at a training yard that used to be owned by his father Oliver Chadwick. Tony Chadwick is a jockey who rides for the family. The horses are owned by Foster's client Sheikh Karim. He soon learns that human remains were found at the scene of the fire, and picks up another client, Declan Chadwick, Ryan's brother who is suspected of killing the victim, who turns out to be a relative of the Chadwick men.
While the early going of the book establishes Foster's bona fides and that he knows nothing about the horse racing world, it takes a little time to do so, but reads okay.
But Francis's book bogs down in the middle because he telegraphs "Why" the victim of the crime was suffering psychotic episodes way too early and the "Who" is limited to just a small coterie of the Chadwick men Also, the novel feels a little too soap opera like. Feuding brothers, dominating father, cowed mothers, women in their cups way too early in the morning, the tropes are standard mystery fare.
Its been said many times that Dick Francis mostly failed to have female love interests in his novels. But Felix Francis has never been shy to include some love interest, so this book also has Foster finding true love.
Foster will be stuck in a barn with a violent horse, and has all the spine of previous Francis heroes and will have to use some wit to figure out the killer but it takes a long time coming.
Not my favorite read.
But if you never read a Dick Francis novel, maybe you will be satisfied with this work.
But for the rest of us, its a good mystery, but not a "Dick Francis Novel"
Posted by Jeffrey Wendler at 1:10 PM
"Crisis" by Felix Francis is a good murder mystery...
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Tag: bird monitoring
Scouting the park interior
Yesterday afternoon Dan and I left Raven at home and headed over to the park to do some hiking. That morning he'd had a meeting with the park superintendent about the research he intends to do there. His research permits have now been approved, so he has the green light to go ahead with his work inside the park boundaries. With the application for permits for research on the nearby crown land also approved, all that remains left to do is line up funding. He's already received a portion, his outstanding applications look promising, and he's received great support from the local community and feels any remaining balance can be made up through fundraising efforts. Things are looking good. You can follow along with the latest observations, survey results, and various administrative updates at the Frontenac Bird Studies blog.
Following his meeting, Dan came home and started scrutinizing a map of the park, looking for possible areas to place his study site. There are several tiers to the project, but the one I have the most involvement in, and the one that requires a set location, is MAPS – Monitoring Avian Productivity and Survivorship. It is a banding program that allows you to determine the population statistics of the birds of a region. It's more than just censusing your local patch – because birds wander after the young fledge, in post-breeding and post-fledging dispersal, the data collected from MAPS provides information for as much as 12,000 hectares of the surrounding landscape. The data tell you things like how many males and females are in the population, how many are first-time parents or experienced birds, and general recruitment numbers (birth rates), as well as survivorship (death rates) through birds recaptured in following years, since birds usually return to the same general area year after year. These are important figures because they can help to pinpoint causes of population declines (or booms, should the birds be so lucky). Monitoring programs such as the Breeding Bird Survey can simply tell you the whos and whats. It's the MAPS program that helps to tell you the whys.
The banding, of course, requires that you have a set location where you can set up mistnets with which to catch the birds. For nets to be most effective you really need to place them in mid-story vegetation, either scrubby bushes or second-growth, or dense evergreen or forest understory. This sort of habitat not only encourages birds to move around lower (at net height) as they're foraging, but also conceals the net from view. A net sitting out in the open is easily seen by birds, and they usually avoid it.
It's difficult to assess habitat from aerial photographs, though; although you can sometimes get a sense of general landscape features, usually it requires an actual site visit to determine the actual habitat structure. In the case of the park, there isn't even high-res satellite photos, so all we really have to go by is the park maps. We'd like to site the MAPS station sufficiently far from public trails to not have to worry about anybody blundering in to a net, or coming across a captured bird and trying to help (usually their good intentions just make the situation worse, because they're unfamiliar with how to safely use a net, and while banding is generally a safe practice, often injuries can result from untrained hands). So to avoid any risk of that, we were looking for interior sites that would still be relatively easy to access and hike through.
We spent considerably longer out hiking than I'd planned, but we got to hike through a section of the park I hadn't visited before. We were looking for an area of scrubby, semi-open habitat, where the size of trees was limited by a thin layer of soil, the result of two waves of fires early last century that burned through following the clearcutting of the land, leaving the empty landscape prone to erosion. We didn't find what we were looking for – I think we'd have to go a bit further east for that – but we did hike through some younger and more rocky forest than what's around our house. The habitat in that area is still more open than the mature forest surrounding our lake, with a lot of granite outcrops and grassy oak savannahs. Quite a number of small vernal pools and little wetlands scattered across the area, too.
Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be a strong mid-story component to the habitat, at least through that region, and we had trouble identifying any areas that would be suitable for banding activities. Which was a bit of a shame, because we were intrigued by the birdlife possibilities in that habitat, very different from what we've seen elsewhere in the region. We'll have to keep looking. Still, it was a really enjoyable afternoon, and an interesting change of scenery from our usual destinations.
Author SeabrookePosted on April 30, 2009 May 1, 2009 Categories hikingTags banding, bird monitoring, MAPS7 Comments on Scouting the park interior


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How the Rockaways Became So Trendy
The Rockaways Were Once a Playground for the Astors and Vanderbilts
Now, the crowds are finally returning.
By Jill Eisenstadt Published: Jul 11, 2017
It's official. Rockaway, New York has been "discovered."
Athletes, hipsters, bikers, Moma P.S1, and families sick of sitting in traffic on the L.I.E have fallen for the skinny peninsula at one end of Long Island. Not an hour away on the new ferry (wifi, open bar) await miles of wide, sandy beaches and boardwalk, the city's only legal surfing, superb Uzbek dumplings and the chance for a Patti Smith or whale-sighting. Rockaway is an "It" destination for 2017.
And yet, there is still little if anywhere to stay. Ugly high rises mar the view in places. If you truly want to summer here in style, you'll have to do some time traveling. Because of course, Rockaway has been "discovered" before—and not just by the native Canarsee (who called it "Recouwacky") or the Dutch, English, Irish—but for one glittering summer, by the highest of high society.
1830. John Leake Norton, married to a sister of Governor George Clinton sees the spot's resort potential. He buys the homestead of Joseph Cornell, the area's first white settler, and persuades a group of the city's wealthy and well-connected to finance, at then the huge sum of $43,000, the area's first hotel. This is followed by the construction of a shell road (now the Jericho Turnpike) which cuts through meadows to shorten the journey—several hours just from Brooklyn.
Above: Rockaway Beach's boardwalk today. Below: the boardwalk in the late 19th Century.
In the interim, Manhattan has a sudden outbreak of cholera. Panic ensues. The moment the Marine Pavilion opens in 1834, the rich and famous flock to its massive, breezy piazza. "…coaching to Rockaway became extremely fashionable," writes Bellot in History of the Rockaways. "Beautiful teams of horses attached to elaborate 'tally-ho' turnouts made the journey in fine time, and noted sportsmen vied with each other in the excellence of equipages."
Along with the Astors and Vanderbilts listed as frequent guests in the hotel register are Schemerhorn, Gillette, Washington Irving, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, the painter, John Turnbull and journalist/song writer/poet George P. Morris (who penned an "Ode to Rockaway"). The patrons are surely dressed in the latest styles which for both sexes means a silhouette that is broad on top and cinched at the waist. To achieve this, even men wear corsets as well as calf length frock coats and the first pants with fly front closures. Tall hats, sideburns, and moustaches are de rigueur.
Above: Blake Lively shooting a scene for Gossip Girl at Rockaway Beach. Below: Beachgoers IN FASHIONABLE SWIM WEAR circa 1897.
In his diaries, Philip Hone, then mayor (and an investor in the Pavilion) describes the resort's many "delights": Champagne dinners, balls, trotting matches with prize, and best of all, the latest fad to reach America, sea bathing. Horses attached to wooden bathhouses carry the guests through the waves, allowing women to maintain their Victorian modesty. Suffragist Amelia Bloomer is already advocating for reforms in female clothing but alas, a lady essentially just swaps one gown for another.
Both versions have the puffy "leg of mutton" sleeves so in vogue in the 1830s, but the bathing costume is made of a dark, flannel which will not turn translucent when wet and has weights sewn in the hems to keep the skirts from floating. Their hair, middle-parted, is elaborately braided and kept beneath hats or bonnets to ward off the sun. Gloves and stockings are also common swimwear. In their long-sleeved wool bathing suits, the men are freer if just as soggy.
Female bathing costumes had weights sewn in the hems to keep the skirts from floating.
The wild success of the Marine Pavilion (coupled with the advent of the railroad) soon spawns construction plans for hotels of all classes. Perhaps, desirous of exclusivity, the upper crust moves on.
"A banquet-hall deserted" is how Hone gloomily describes the Pavilion by 1835. "The establishment, gotten up and supported at so great an expense, has been neglected by the New Yorkers, with the exception of my family and connections and a few others….The fashionable people of our city have preferred the Virginia Springs, Saratoga, Newport and a place they call Sachem's Head, to a house of their own possessing advantages greater than any other."
For one summer, "We had a pretty sight at Rockaway."
Jill Eisenstadt is the author of the novels From Rockaway, Kiss Out and Swell (just out from Little Brown's Lee Boudreaux Books).
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As Forças Armadas do Iraque são as forças militares da República do Iraque. Elas consistem do Exército, Marinha e Força Aérea. Contam com aproximadamente 276.600 militares no serviço ativo, além de 342.212 na reserva.

As Forças Armadas estão proibidas por lei de entrar no território do Curdistão Iraquiano, ao invés disso o Peshmerga é a força militar própria do Governo Regional do Curdistão. As Forças de Operações Especiais Iraquianas (a "Divisão Dourada") reportam-se diretamente ao Primeiro-Ministro do Iraque, separado do resto das Forças Armadas. Com o avanço do Estado Islâmico do Iraque e do Levante (EIIL) durante a bem-sucedida ofensiva do grupo que quase resultou na queda do governo iraquiano, as antigas milícias xiitas foram integradas na estrutura das forças armadas sob as Forças de Mobilização Popular.

As forças armadas do Iraque possuem uma longa história, mas não particularmente bem sucedida. Elas foram inicialmente formadas em meados de 1920. Seis golpes de Estado militares foram efetuados pelo Exército entre 1936 e 1941. As forças armadas viram o combate pela primeira vez na Guerra Anglo-Iraquiana de 1941. Eles lutaram contra Israel na Guerra árabe-israelense, em 1948, na Guerra dos Seis Dias, em 1967, e na Guerra do Yom Kippur, em 1973. Duas guerras com os curdos foram travadas em 1961-1970 e 1974-1975. Um conflito muito maior foi a Guerra Irã-Iraque, iniciada pelos iraquianos em 1980, que durou até 1988. Posteriormente, o Iraque deu início à invasão do Kuwait, o que levou à Guerra do Golfo, em 1991, cujos confrontos ocorreram nas zonas de exclusão aérea no Iraque durante a década de 1990 e, finalmente, à Guerra do Iraque de 2003.

As forças armadas têm sido administradas pelo Ministério da Defesa, com sede em Bagdá. Desde a invasão do Iraque, em 2003, que derrubou o regime de Saddam Hussein, elas foram reconstruídas com a assistência considerável das Forças Armadas dos Estados Unidos.

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Ver também
 História do Iraque
 História militar do exército

Forças armadas do Iraque

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Q: Changing the search URL? I want to change the search URL from example.com/search/keyword to example.com/result or topic/keyword.

A: You can change the /search/ part to something else, like /topic/, but it will be harder to remove it completely, since that will conflict with WordPress Pages (is /banana/ a Page with the title "Banana" or is it the result page for the search term "Banana"?).
To change the part, hook into the init action and change the $wp_rewrite->search_base variable:
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You will need to place this snippet of code in your theme's function.php file, or in a new file that you create and that you place in the /wp-content/plugins/ directory. After you did this, visit the Permalinks setting page to flush the rewrite rules.
However, by default when you submit a search you will end up on a URL like ?s=Banana. There are plugins that change this (Ramukar linked to one, but it has the /search/ part hardcoded and has other issues), and Hudson Atwell linked to a simple approach (even too complicated now: you don't need to add the rewrite rule to Apache, as WordPress already contained them since version 1.5).

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As you may or may not have heard Support is currently dealing with a higher than usual number of tickets, and therefore it's taking them longer than usual to get back to people. I've seen some people who are understandably very concerned that they've not heard back and really want to know what's happening but I've also seen other people saying they're happy to wait because they don't consider their ticket urgent.
Which got me thinking - would it be worthwhile to add an optional 'low importance' flag to Support tickets? A button the player can click when submitting the ticket that lets Anet see they're in no rush to get an answer, so the ticket can be treated as lower priority when they're sorting incoming messages.
For example when I forgot the password to my free account I had to contact Support to get back into it (and it was a bit more complicated than usual because I didn't have an account key). I imagine "I am locked out of my account" is normally considered a high priority issue, but since it was my free account I really wasn't that bothered - I wanted it back eventually but it wasn't urgent for me. I think I actually wrote that in the support ticket but it might have been more helpful to have a way to make it clear right from the start.
Other examples of where I see it being used include players accidentally deleting a character who is holding a one-time-only item like an achievement reward which doesn't go into the wardrobe automatically or something that's part of a legendary collection. The only way to get it back is to contact Support, but if you trust them to sort it out eventually and you don't need it right away you could flag it low importance.
I suspect only Anet can answer one side of this - whether it would be helpful for them to have this information. But I'd also be interested in whether other players would use it and/or any improvements to the system.
I think the tickets are responded to (automatically) in the order received. I think the ticket is then sent to the appropriate team and priority is then determined. I'm not sure a flag would make any difference, and could cause issues should some accidentally use the option. Not only that, but if such an option be implemented, there would likely be cries for an 'Urgent' option. Not that that option would ever see the light of day, as many would consider their issue urgent.
It probably best just left to the CS Team to route and assess tickets as they see fit.


Follow the White Bunny: Sssssssh!
Hibernating bears posted in the Follow the White Bunny Flickr group so far. Of course the weird green one is mine :D The one next to it is by Bookwormbethie and is embroidered on a hankie! The Pink Bear is embroidered by Cathy who also has made her own lovely pattern of a Birdie on a Chandelier. Georgia is still working on her bear, but I'm sure it will turn out perfect as always!
No Sunday stash this Sunday because I'm off to Holland for a few days!
Ahhh, I wouldn't be too sure about that. Bridget told me this afternoon thatit is a bear-sheep, and I think she might be right!
thanks for sharing my picture! what a nice collage!


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Q: Access User Interface without access to database Just a brief question.
I have an access database with a login screen, graphs for classified data etc.
However, it is not restricted in any way. It should not be possible to enter tables and forms.
What should I look for here?
I.e. the user should not have access to the source code and data. Only the user interface with whatever i put on it.
Best regards, Emil.

A: If you use the 2007/2010 access database files (accdb) you have only limited options. The older Access versions (mdb files) allow detailed security settings.
Some things you can also do in Access 2010 are:

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*Use a database password (File, Encrypt with Password)

*Save the database in ACCDE format. Then users can't view or change your form design or code anymore, but they can still access the tables. (File, Save & Publish, Make ACCDE, Save As)


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Black Panther 2- Movie Details and Villains we Want to See
By siddharth shivaniPosted on May 18, 2020 August 29, 2020
About The Black Panther 2
The Villains We Want To See
Zemo
The 2018 film Black Panther is returning with a continuation Black panther 2. The Chadwick Boseman starer film Black Panther 2 will be the bit of the fourth stage to the Marvel sensible universe. The 2018 film relied upon the Marvel comic of a comparable name. In Black Panther, T'Challa is appointed lord of Wakanda following his father's passing and has tried by executing Monger, who means to neglect the country's autonomous methodologies and began an overall change.
After a blockbuster gathering $648 million all around and $700 million locally, the film was a mind-blowing achievement for the MCU. Chadwick Boseman won the hearts of people by his colossal troublesome work as Black Panther.
As announced by D23 Expo, Black Panther 2 is ready for release on 6th May 2022. Plainly, after the accomplishment of the film and the bewildering storyline, the fans are holding on for the continuation. Well ! the hold up is over after the last affirmation. Nonetheless, there is a lot of desire among the fans to watch the film on the big screen.
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The plot has not revealed, yet fans can't stop estimating various hypotheses. Further, one of the tattles has it that Wakanda will again be bearing an invasion, with either Namor or Princess Zarda. The different theories and gossipy goodies don't sum up the plot for Black Panther 2. Nonetheless, a part of the bits of tattle and hypotheses can fit the situation. We should look out what speculations suits the best for the side project. Watch more similar movies during the lockdown on Netflix!
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It's evident that whoever has his spot in Black Panther 2 will have a troublesome. Yet the certainly feasible undertaking ahead. Mostly as a portion of T'Challa's most notable adversaries from the funnies have recently made their consistent with life debut. Regardless, with over 50 years of comic book history to draw upon. However, there are still many adversaries who may give the princely ruler a run for his money in future Black Panther films. Considering that, suit up in your best vibranium and oblige us as we can for an enemy meriting T'Challa's quality.
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Like Black Panther, Namor in like manner controls over a strong domain. Be that as it may, this one has covered away on the ocean profundities. Starting before Aquaman, by over two years, Marvel's King of Atlantis is, for the most part, seen as 'Wonder's first oddity.' Be that as it may, he's yet to appear in a film given ownership issues.
Regardless, by and by that, the rights for the X-Men and Fantastic Four have finally been acquired by Marvel Studios. Without a doubt, Namor won't be far behind. And there's even an open door that Avengers: Endgame may have suggested this starting at now.
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Killmonger modified off this human twist toward completing Black Panther. Yet, not in the slightest degree like Wakanda; passing shouldn't be consistently in the MCU. Michael B Jordan has quite recently conveyed excitement for returning to the foundation. And as Endgame starts late illustrated, there are many ways to deal with bringing Killmonger back. Including flashbacks or time travel. It's in like manner possible that he could return in a fantasy or something like that if T'Challa visits his forerunners in Bast's space again.
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The last time we saw Zemo was toward the completion of Captain America: Civil War. T'Challa spared his life, in spite of the way that he had as of late killed his father. Henceforth, the legacy accept an essential activity working at a benefit Panther story. So it is fitting to see the man who executed Wakanda's past King return in some cutoff.
Regardless of the way that he doesn't have any powers of his own. Zemo's starting at now exhibited himself to be a partner for the Avengers and with a cutting-edge work in the Falcon/Winter Soldier show up. Evidently he's not unconscious as of now either.
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Bootycandy
September 17, 2014 UncategorizedTHEFEMINISTSPECTATOR
Kudos as usual to Playwrights Horizons for taking risks on another new play written by someone who's not a straight white male. Robert O'Hara's Bootcandy, produced last season in Philadelphia by the Wilma Theatre, follows in the tradition of George C. Wolfe's The Colored Museum (1986) as a satirical, revue-format commentary on African American mores and community, this time from the resolute and ribald perspective of a young gay man.
Sutter as a child, with his Mom, surrounded by posters of Michael Jackson
O'Hara places each scene—presented in lively detail by set designer Clint Ramos—in an ideologically rich and redolent social structure. In the first, O'Hara's stand-in, Sutter (Phillip James Brannon), is instructed by his mother (Jessica Frances Dukes) in the appropriate ways to talk about sexual parts and activities. Blow-job? Look it up in the dictionary, she tells her guileless young son. Your privates? We call them "booty candy." Why? Because I'm the mother and I said so. This funny scene of parental reluctance to respond honestly to innocent childish questions sets the pattern, as Sutter's family refuses to look straight on (as it were) at his evolving gay identity.
As the turntable on Playwrights' small stage revolves, O'Hara offers a closeted preacher responding to an anonymous letter from congregants decrying the effeminate behavior of several choir members. As he rails against such narrow judgments, Reverend Benson (Lance Coadie Williams) becomes more flamboyant in his own gender performance, eventually ditching his priestly robes for red high heels, a gold lame gown, and a flouncy white wig.
The reverend, preaching, before his big reveal
Other such broad impersonations follow in quick succession. Four neighbors gossip on the phone about a woman who intends to name her child "Genitalia." The scene is accomplished by two actresses in a Charles Ludlam-esque double-portrait, in which each performer's costume, make-up, and wig is split down the middle of her body, so that she appears to be the other character when she turns her opposite side to the audience.
In another, a condescending, ill-informed white moderator solicits opinions from black playwrights on a panel discussion about their work. Several scenes take place at a gay bar, where closeted white men cruise queer black men. In another scene, on a romantic beach, the now adult Genitalia and her female partner, Intifada, perform a "non-commitment" ceremony to end their relationship.
Genitalia and Intifada's non-commitment ceremony
All of these scenes are amusing, sometimes even outrageously so, in refreshing, theatrically unfettered and socially critical ways. But in addition to writing the play, O'Hara directs this production, which lets an outside eye go missing. Most of the vignettes—each announced by a supertitle written over the stage—last about a third too long. Each funny idea runs successively out of steam. Pruning and shaping would enhance their theatrical and critical zing.
Sutter and his brother-in-law in a gay bar
The gay bar scenes are inexplicably mean-spirited. In one, Sutter's closeted white brother-in-law comes on to him and they exchange graphic plans for their sexual encounters. In another, a closeted white gay man approaches Sutter and his drag-dressed friend, Larry, asking them to sexually humiliate him. It's unclear why Sutter trucks with these people, although O'Hara intimates that he enjoys having power over them. But the stakes in those scenes are murky, and dramaturgically, they don't quite fit the rest of the narrative. Likewise, Genitalia and Intifada's divorce ceremony is baggy and tossed-off, the laughs misbegotten and fleeting.
A white man looks for sexual humiliation from Sutter and his friend, Larry
The characters (and the performers who play them) recur across scenes in ways that knit Sutter's childhood and adult life together nicely, but the pleasure of those connections comes mostly from the virtuosic actors. Brannon plays Sutter at various ages with heart, elegance, and good humor. Williams brings a tour-de-force of gender performativity, playing Sutter's gruff, hetero-enforcing stepfather as convincingly as he plays Sutter's feminine gay friend Larry, the closeted preacher, and Sutter's elderly grandmother. Dukes and Benja Kay Thomas, who plays Sutter's mother later in her life and performs as the unfortunate butch, Genitalia, are also terrific across their multiple roles, demonstrating hilarious and instructive ways to perform race and gender.
Sutter and his family in their kitchen
Bootycandy has the potential to sit alongside The Colored Museum and early work by Pomo Afro Homos—the African American gay male collective of the 1990s that produced similarly satirical, politically poignant performance—in the annals of successful race, gender, and sexuality parodies. The self-reflexive meta-commentary O'Hara threads throughout implies that he wants to implicate the audience. For instance, the pompous white moderator leads the panel discussion on the stage apron, under a projection that says "Playwrights Horizons." And several times, the characters/actors leave the stage with their eyebrows raised and their eyes cut at the audience, as if to say, "Don't think you're immune from this criticism, folks." But those moments now seem more confusing than challenging.
The play needs dramaturgical work to shape it into a more incisive, confrontational piece. I'll look forward to its future iterations, as Bootycandy has lots of potential as a funny, sharp social critique.
Bootycandy, written and directed by Robert O'Hara, Playwrights Horizons, through October 12, 2014.
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RECLUSIVE BLACK AFRICAN BILLIONIARE, UCHE OGAH, ON HIS TEN POINT ADVICE TO GET TO THE TOP OF YOUR DREAM
At last, African billionaire tycoon, reclusive and very human calm man, and very close to God, Dr Uche Ogah, President of the gigantic Masters Energy Group, a conglomerate with over 13 subsidiaries and interests spanning across Oil & Gas, Banking, Insurance, Aviation, Shipping, Dredging, Logistics, Construction, Travel Agency, Power, Commodities Trading, Fabrication e.t.c have revealed the top ten secret that shot him to top of his game
In a no bared session with CERUTTI MEDIA GROUP, CORPORATE BUSINESS UNIT, Dr Ogah, spoke on his top secret to top of his trade that you can learn from, but then is it not most appropriate to ask, before we shoot; who really is this reclusive black African billionaire?
BASIC FACT ON Dr. Uchechukwu Sampson Ogah, OON, FCA
Dr. Uchechukwu Sampson Ogah was born about 44 years ago to Late Mr. Wilson and Ezinne Paulina Ogah in Uturu, Isikwuato Local Government area of Abia State.
He had his secondary school education at Ishiagu High School, Ishiagu, after which he attended the Institute of management and Technology, Enugu, where he graduated with distinction in Accounting at Higher National Diploma (HND) Level, and best faculty graduating student. He proceeded to the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) where he obtained a Postgraduate Diploma. He also graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Banking and Finance from the Ogun State University and went on to bag an MBA from the University of Lagos. He has attended many courses both at home and abroad.
LIFE AS ASTUTE BANKER
Dr. Uche was a consummate banker of distinction. He spent 15 years in banking sector during which he received many commendations and awards as proof of his diligence and high rated performance. He left Zenith Bank as an Assistant General Manager/Head, Ikeja Business Focus Group.
Dr. Uchechukwu Sampson Ogah is the President of Masters Energy Group, a conglomerate with over 13 subsidiaries and interests spanning across Oil & Gas, Banking, Insurance, Aviation, Shipping, Dredging, Logistics, Construction, Travel Agency, Power, Commodities Trading, Fabrication e.t.c. The Group has so far provided employment for over 6,000 Nigerians.
It is in the areas of business and positive contribution to society that Uche has made the greatest landmark. He is a very successful entrepreneur and businessman with a heart of gold. His belief in the Nigerian economy is strong and unequivocal. This belief informed his decision to make an investment (Masters Energy City) worth tens of billions of Naira in Port Harcourt at a time when most companies were running away from Niger Delta region because of security challenges. That single investment, a 158,000 Metric Tonnes petroleum products storage facility, has helped in no small measure in the stabilization of petroleum products availability and affordability in the whole of South-South, South-East and North-East and provided direct employment to over 600 citizens of the Niger Delta region in the spirit of Federal Government's rehabilitation programme and over 4,000 ancillary employments.
MASSIVE FORAYS INTO ABIA
In December 2011, the Executive Governor of Abia State, His Excellency, Chief Theodore A. Orji, laid the foundation stone of Masters Energy Industrial City in Uturu, Isikwuato Local Government for various projects in the area. This multi-billion naira integrated industrial complex on completion is expected to grow the economy of Abia State because of the high number of businesspersons it would attract from across the African continent.
A PHILANTHROPIC COLOSSUS
Asides all these, Dr. Uchechukwu Ogah stands like a colossus in the area of philanthropy. He has single-handedly provided electricity for villages, changed the landscape of a whole village by building prototypal houses and offered free medical services for citizens of the community. In addition to this, he built and equipped the modern hospitals in his native Uturu community in Isikwuato Local Government of Abia State and has offered scholarships to both primary and secondary students in the same community since 2006. Uche has also partnered Hopeville Rehabilitation Centre, Uturu for fabrication of Prosthetesis (Artifical limbs) or Orthosis (Calipers) for so many disabled persons. These are in addition to sponsoring many people to India for various medical issues.
The humanitarian and philanthropic disposition of Uche was taken to a higher level when he established a foundation in December 2011, the Uche Ogah Foundation which is primarily for empowerment, poverty alleviation and providing education and has empowered many in their various fields. He also instituted a chair at the Abia State University and is building an auditorium in the same university.
RARE TRADITIONALIST
In recognition of his many contributions and philanthropic activities to the economic growth and empowerment of Abia State and the nation as a whole, he was conferred with the title of "Oke Osisi of Abia State in 2012 by the Government of Abia State and honored with a National Award of Officer of the Order of the Niger (OON), by the President & Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Federal Republic of Nigeria, His Excellency Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, GCFR in the same year.
Dr. Ogah is a Christian businessman, who started his intimate relationship with Christ in 1986 as a student, in Scripture Union, Enugu. He later joined the Full Gospel Business Men's Fellowship International in 1987 where he has been serving diligently and is currently a Field Representative in the Fellowship.
MULTIPLE AWARD WINNERS
Dr. Ogah is a recipient of numerous awards and titles as well as a member of various professional bodies among which include Fellow, Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (FCA) and Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria (CIBN), African Peace Award (APA 2010), Meritorious Diamond Award for National Development (MEDA 2008), Distinguished Corporate Achievers Gold Award (2009), Fellow, Nigerian Institute of Shipping (2009), Oke Osisi of Abia State (2012), Fellow, Nigerian Institute of Brand Management (2012), Entrepreneurship Promoter of the Year (2012), Officer of the Order of the Niger, OON, (2012), Honorary Doctorate Degree in Business Administration by Abia State University, Uturu (2013) amongst others.
He was also recently appointed as Ambassador and Member of the Governing Council of the Nigeria-Turkey Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
Uche is happily and blessed with children.
Dr Ogah advised all and sundry aiming for the top to watch these qualities
· Hard work
· Integrity
· Passion for your work
· Closeness to God and regular paying of tithes
· Drive for work ethics
· Sincerity of purpose
· Love for community service
· Ability to dream big
· Reduction of all social ill vices, like partying, drinking and restlessness
· And drastic reduction of sleep
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Robert Chambers, in Cyclopaedia of English Literature (1844; 1850) 1:168-69.
Then all the world were heaven, nothing woo.
Under the wide heavens, but yet not such.
She would be gather'd though she grew on thorn.
Look on Orlando languishing in love.
Witness Orlando's faith unto his love.
Seek she for shades? — spread, cedars, for her sake.
Fair Flora, make her couch amidst thy flowers.
Wash ye with roses when she longs to drink.
Ah thought, my heaven! Ah heaven, that knows my thought!
Smile, joy in her that my content hath wrought.
None in England that shall do thee wrong.
And now I see that fame speaks nought but truth.
He takes no cold in his feet.
I'll lay my cloak underneath him.
And his horse on the midst of it.
Thou clown, did'st thou set his horse upon thy cloak?
Ay, but mark how I served him.
And made his horse stand on the bare ground.
"Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay" is Greene's best comedy. His friars are conjurors, and the piece concludes with one of their pupils being carried off to hell on the back of one of Friar Bacon's devils. Mr. Collier thinks this was one of the latest instances of the devil being brought upon the stage in propria persona. The play was acted in 1591, but may have been produced a year or two earlier.
In some hour of repentance, when death was nigh at hand, Greene wrote a tract called A Groat's Worth of Wit, Bought with a Million of Repentance, in which he deplores his fate more feelingly than Nash, and also gives ghostly advice to his acquaintances, "that spend their wit in making plays." Marlow he accuses of atheism: Lodge he designates "young Juvenal," and "a sweet boy;" Peele he considers too good for the stage; and he glances thus at Shakspeare: — "For there is an upstart crow beautified with our feathers, that, with his tiger's heart wrapt in a player's hide, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you; and being an absolute Johannes Fac-totum, is, in his own conceit, the only Shake-scene in a country." The punning allusion to Shakspeare is palpable: the expressions, "tiger's heart," &c. are a parody on the line in Henry VI., part third — "O tiger's heart wrapt in a woman's hide." The Winter's Tale is believed to be one of Shakspeare's late dramas, not written till long after Greene's death; consequently, if this be correct, the unhappy man could not allude to the plagiarism of the plot from his tale of Pandosto. Some forgotten play of Greene and his friends may have been alluded to; perhaps the old dramas on which Shakepeare constructed his Henry VI., for in one of these, the line, "O tiger's heart," &c., also occurs. These old plays, however, seem above the pitch of Greene in tragedy. The "Groat's Worth of Wit" was published after Greene's death by a brother dramatist, Henry Chettle, who, in the preface to a subsequent work, apologised indirectly for the allusion to Shakspeare. "I am as sorry," he says, "as if the original fault had been my fault, because myself have seen his demeanour no less civil than he excellent in the quality he professes. Besides, divers of worship have reported his uprightness of dealing, which argues his honesty, and his facetious grace in writing, that approves his art." This is a valuable statement: full justice is done to Shakspeare's moral worth and civil deportment, and to his respectability as an actor and author. Chettle's apology or explanation was made in 1593.
"But now return I again to you three (Marlow, Lodge, and Peele), knowing my misery is to you no news: and let me heartily intreat you to be warned by my harms. Delight not, as I have done, in irreligious oaths, despise drunkenness, fly lust, abhor those epicures, whose loose life hath made religion loathsome to your ears; and when they soothe you with terms of mastership, remember Robert Greene (whom they have often flattered) perishes for want of comfort. Remember, gentlemen, your lives are like so many light-tapers that are with care delivered to all of you to maintain; these, with wind-puffed wrath, may be extinguished, with drunkenness put out, with negligence let fall. The fire of my light is now at the last snuff. My hand is tired, and I forced to leave where I would begin; desirous that you should live, though himself be dying — ROBERT GREENE."


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Q: Can be a type in Typescript defined to have a combination of characters? Let me explain by example.
In a Field called Component you should be able to have these values> "M", "B", "A.
So you go ahead an define:
type Component = "M" | "B" | "A";
So far so good. But it should be possible to also have a combination of these to assign like this:
const MyComponent : Component = "MB";
or
const MyComponent : Component = "BA";
How to define that?

A: Starting with TypeScript 4.1 this is possible with template literal types.
E.g.:
type Component = "M" | "B" | "A";
type ComponentCombination = `${Component}${Component}`;

const comb: ComponentCombination = "MB";

A: This is not currently possible using TypeScript, but you can validate such a string using RegEx, the following thread gives an example of how to do that:
How can I split a string into segments of n characters?
You can also use this regex:
let value = 'MBA';

// string length 1-3 and contains M,B,A combinations
let validatorRegEx = /^([M|B|A]{1,3}$)/i;
if(validatorRegEx.test(value)) {
    // code ...
}

A: Simply find an interface for your data - it looks like you have a simple small set of values as a domain data for Component property. So maybe you should just extend your type (union):
type Component = "M" | "B" | "A" | "MA"

What do you think about introducing enum (string)?
enum Direction {
    A: "A",
    B: "B",
    M: "M",
    AB: "AB",
    // more values
}

At the end - don't think about data type as validator. So maybe in your case you should just use simple type "string" and validate it on demand or at initialization time.


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One of the fun things about being a freelance journalist is that one day you can be producing a radio documentary, while the next you can be staking out notoriously corrupt politicians at the gateway to their illustriously fitted out mansions. Needless to say, that's the situation I found myself in recently, when the Independent Commission Against Corruption dropped yet another bombshell on its favourite former member of the New South Wales Legislative Council, Eddie Obeid.
Now while getting powerful photos of Eddie walking out from his humble abode, finger-waving and clenching his fist with his mouth agape for the Sydney Morning Herald sure is a lot of fun, it's the weird and unexpected events that occur throughout such days that stay in your mind forever. While the mad scramble to get your shots becomes forgettable after a time as one stake out blends into another, it's the jaw dropping moments that make you go "surely not" that stick with you throughout your career.
Needless to say, I sincerely doubt that anyone was expecting a "Neverfail Springs" delivery truck to deliver about a dozen bottled water containers to the Obeid Family's mansion at EXACTLY the same time that Eddie Obeid was being declared corrupt for his dealings regarding water licences at his Cherrydale Park farm near the proposed Mt Penny coal mine. Nor do I think any of the other journalists there expected a location scout for a 1970's themed television drama production to come knocking on Eddie's door that afternoon as well.
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Virtual Reality: Coming Soon to a Cubicle Near You?
By Let's Do Video on September 18, 2017 Press Release
Cisco invites customers to experiment with Cisco Spark in VR
Sep 18, 2017, San Jose, CA – Cisco thinks it is only a matter of time before virtual reality makes a major impact on all sorts of industries — in fact, we think it is coming soon to a conference room or cubicle near you. So we are exploring the technology with our customers.
As of today, Cisco Spark ™ customers can download the experimental Cisco Spark in VR app from the Oculus Rift store here. As long as they have the Cisco Spark VR app, Oculus Rift with Touch controllers, and a Rift-compatible computer, they can meet, discuss, and interact in a virtual, three-dimensional environment. More importantly, Cisco Spark in VR bridges the gap between the virtual and the physical space by natively integrating with the Cisco Spark platform and endpoints. Users can view shared files and even whiteboard with someone outside of VR in real-time.
We want to work with customers to explore enterprise VR use cases. Learn more about the experiment at www.ciscospark.com/VR.
This experiment is significant since Cisco's influence in the office is unparalleled: more than 200,000 customers worldwide — including more than 95 percent of the Fortune 500 — use Cisco's collaboration products and services to connect teams.
"This is a first, conceptual step towards a future where augmented reality, virtual reality and mixed reality will be integrated into the office and work," said Jens Meggers, Senior Vice President and General Manager for Cisco's Cloud Collaboration Technology Group (CCTG). "Adding virtual reality to the work environment will not only open a huge untapped opportunity for VR, it will help teams work together and companies bring ideas to life faster."
Customers Interested in VR
We have been working with a small group of VR-interested customers for some time now; one such customer is Technicolor.
"Developing increasingly high-performance internet-based platforms from which rich media and entertainment experiences can be delivered is not only critical to meeting current consumer expectations, but to driving demand for emerging network-based immersive media — such as virtual, augmented and mixed reality," says Marcie Jastrow, Senior Vice President of Immersive Media for Technicolor, and Head of the Technicolor Experience Center. "Technicolor's work with Cisco on this front is going to play an important role in defining how content creators and distributors bring new and exciting ways for audiences to interact with these next generation experiences."
Cisco Spark Makes it Possible
Cisco Spark provides everything teams need for meetings, messages and calls. Backed by Cisco security and reliability, the Cisco Spark platform is API-based, making it simple to integrate with VR.
Cisco will be a featured participant in the Oculus Connect panel discussion on VR use in business next month in San Jose.
Learn more about Cisco Spark in VR on Live@Cisco on Tuesday, Sept 19th at 10:30am PT.
Blog by Jens Meggers
Video of Cisco Spark in VR
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Ricardo Queirós gained his PhD
Ricardo Queirós completed today, the 14th of September 2012, his PhD in Computer Science with a thesis entitled "A Framework for practice - based learning applied to computer programming"
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CRACS members distinguished at SLATE'2012 conference.
José Paulo Leal, Ricardo Queirós and Vânia Rodrigues win the best paper award with their paper entitled "Computing semantic relatedness using DBPedia". On the other hand, Miguel Areias and Ricardo Rocha was distinguished with the best presentation of their paper entitled "On Extending a Linear Tabling Framework to Support Batched Scheduling". Both awards happened at the SLATE'2012 held at University of Minho on June, 21st and 22nd.
CRACS Seminar by Manuel Carro (UPM)
DCC-FCUP, 11-12am
Seminar: A General Implementation Framework for Tabled CLP
This paper describes a framework to combine tabling evaluation and constraint logic programming (TCLP). While this combination has been studied previously from a theoretical point of view and some implementations exist, they either suffer from a lack of efficiency, flexibility, or generality, or have inherent limitations with respect to the programs they can execute to completion (either with success or failure).
Rolando Martins gained his PhD
Rolando Martins completed today, the 7th of May 2012, his PhD in Computer Science with a thesis entitled "On the Integration of Real-Time and Fault-Tolerance in P2P Middleware".
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CRACS Seminar by David Page
Prof. David Page, from University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, will give a talk on Using Machine Learning to Build Predictive Models with Potential Clinical Impact.
CRACS Seminar by Jorge Buenabad-Chávez
Prof. Jorge Buenabad-Chávez, from the Departamento de Computacion CINVESTAV-IPN, (Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional), and a visiting professor at University of Manchester, UK, will give an overview of his research work and will talk about the three subjects below: --- SQL Group-by queries (GBQ) using mapreduce --- Parallel Data List Processing on Clusters of Multicore-GPU nodes. --- From eLearning Models to eLearning Requirements Engineering: The Vision and Scope Document
CRACS Seminar by Jesse Davis (KU Leuven)
Recent Advances in Markov Network Structure Learning
A Markov network is an undirected graphical model for compactly representing a joint probability distribution over a set of random variables. However, learning their structure from data is extremely difficult.(...) In this talk, I will review some three classes of algorithms that address this task.
CRACS visited by the Scientific Advisory Board of INESC-TEC
The members of the SAB visiting CRACS include Prof. José Fortes (Univ. Florida, US), Prof. Luís Fiadeiro (Univ. of Leicester, UK), Prof. Maarten van Someren (Univ. of Amsterdam, NL), Prof. Steven P. Nichols (UT Austin, US).
CRACS Seminar by Dale Richardson
Much time has passed since our last seminar, but a new exciting talk is on its way. Please, mark your agenda: this coming Friday, Dec 2nd, at 11:30, we will have our next seminar by Dale Richardson.
Mário Antunes gained his PhD
Mário Antunes completed today, the 23rd of November 2011, his PhD in Computer Science, with a thesis entitled "An Artificial Immune System for anomaly detection based on dynamic tunable activation thresholds".
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