Unhappy about the two-year pay freeze in their contracts, New York City's municipal unions are warning that they will not accept such a freeze again, while several labor leaders are demanding an end to pattern bargaining, in which every union receives the same percentage raise.
After a three-day meeting last week in which they mapped their bargaining strategy, municipal union leaders said their members were angry that they had not reaped any benefits from the city's record $2 billion budget surplus, which their pay freeze helped create.
Indicating another area of friction in future labor talks, leaders of the powerful teachers and police unions vowed to increase their efforts to scrap pattern bargaining, insisting that it has left their members earning considerably less than their suburban counterparts.
These leaders insisted that unless the city gives teachers and police officers larger percentage raises than other municipal workers, the city would find it increasingly difficult to attract qualified teachers and police officers.
But an end to pattern bargaining faces major obstacles, including the opposition of many city unions and the likelihood that City Hall would tie any raises above the pattern to concessions that the police and teachers would find hard to accept.
With contract negotiations expected to begin next year, the leaders of the city's unions signaled a tough new stance, insisting they would seek higher raises now that the city's finances have improved.
Under their current five-year contracts, the municipal unions, representing more than 200,000 city workers, accepted a two-year pay freeze and then a 13 percent wage increase during the final three years.
The tougher tone comes after Mr. Hill was embarrassed by an investigation into allegations of kickbacks and embezzlement at the District Council's 56 locals. It also comes at a time when many union members are complaining that their wage increases have not kept up with prices or the city's soaring rents.
City Hall officials said it was too early to discuss negotiating strategy because any resumption of bargaining was months away. They also noted that District Council 37's contract does not expire until 2000.
One city official, who spoke only on condition of anonymity, said the union leaders were indulging in sour grapes because they accepted a frugal contract in 1995, when the city faced tough budgetary times, only to see the city's coffers fill up soon after the negotiations, thanks to the multi-year boom on Wall Street.
Union leaders said they fear that with Wall Street's current troubles and the economy slowing, the city, notwithstanding its current surplus, will argue in future negotiations that economic times are difficult and the workers must again make sacrifices.
The push by the police and teachers unions to end pattern bargaining could become the biggest difference between the next round of negotiations and the previous round.
Not every municipal union is eager to eliminate pattern bargaining, however. Mr. Hill supports it, knowing there could be a civil war within his district council if some of the 56 locals in the council were to receive higher raises than others. Mr. Hill is chairman of the Municipal Labor Committee, which coordinates bargaining for the city's unions.
His view differs from the committee's co-chairwoman, Randi Weingarten, president of the United Federation of Teachers, which represents the city's 70,000 public school teachers. Ms. Weingarten said pattern bargaining has ill-served the schools by depressing raises in teachers' pay. As a result, the city has difficulty attracting well-trained teachers, she said, because the starting salary remains under $30,000, far less than in many suburbs.
The police unions also want to end pattern bargaining, insisting that it has prevented the police from being rewarded for helping to reduce crime.
City officials noted that most other cities have pattern bargaining for their unions. Jettisoning the pattern, they said, would create huge political strains between City Hall and the unions, and among the unions themselves.
Mr. Levine noted that in previous years the teachers and the police have rejected the pattern and ended up in arbitration, only to have the arbitrators rule that the unions must accept the pattern.
But Mr. Levine did not rule out finding ways for a union like the teachers to obtain higher raises than those of other unions. ''We'll give them over the pattern if they agree to do more work, which, in the end, is beneficial to the city,'' he said.
As an example of this, he noted the city's recent offer to give school principals a 30 percent raise if they agreed to drop tenure, worked more weeks and accepted more responsibility. He said the city might consider paying teachers more than the pattern if they agree to drop tenure or some preparation periods.
Several labor experts suggested that the city's unions might not even push seriously to reach a new contract with Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, figuring that they might obtain a more generous deal from whomever succeeds him as mayor after the November 2001 election.
More than 100 of the city's labor leaders traveled to Atlantic City last week for a three-day Municipal Labor Committee conference on bargaining strategy. At a time when District Council 37 is under investigation on allegations of misusing members' money, some city workers criticized their leaders for spending tens of thousands of dollars to hold the conference at an Atlantic City hotel. The labor leaders, these critics say, could have easily met in an auditorium at one of the union headquarters in New York.
But Mr. Hill and several other union leaders said it was much more productive to meet outside New York City because when they meet at home, aides constantly interrupt them, making it hard for them to hold in-depth discussions. These leaders said going to Atlantic City helped create an atmosphere in which they could talk informally.


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namespace cdm
{
	struct boost_paths
	{
		ventura::absolute_path root;
	};

	inline boost_paths install_boost(ventura::absolute_path const &source, ventura::absolute_path const &temporary,
	                                 ventura::absolute_path const &install_root, unsigned make_parallelism,
	                                 operating_system const &system, cdm::configuration const &target,
	                                 Si::Sink<char, Si::success>::interface &output)
	{
		ventura::absolute_path const module_in_cache = install_root / "boost";
		if (!ventura::file_exists(module_in_cache, Si::throw_))
		{
			ventura::absolute_path const copy_of_boost = temporary / "src";
			ventura::copy_recursively(source, copy_of_boost, &output, Si::throw_);

			ventura::create_directories(module_in_cache, Si::throw_);

			{
				std::vector<Si::os_string> arguments;
#ifdef _MSC_VER
				ventura::absolute_path const exe = copy_of_boost / "bootstrap.bat";
#else
				ventura::absolute_path const exe = *ventura::absolute_path::create("/usr/bin/env");
				arguments.emplace_back(SILICIUM_OS_STR("bash"));
				arguments.emplace_back(to_os_string(copy_of_boost / "bootstrap.sh"));
#endif
				int const rc = ventura::run_process(exe, arguments, copy_of_boost, output,
				                                    std::vector<std::pair<Si::os_char const *, Si::os_char const *>>(),
				                                    ventura::environment_inheritance::inherit)
				                   .get();
				if (rc != 0)
				{
					throw std::runtime_error("bootstrap failed");
				}
			}

			{
				std::vector<Si::os_string> arguments;
				arguments.emplace_back(SILICIUM_OS_STR("install"));
				{
					Si::os_string const install_argument = SILICIUM_OS_STR("--prefix=") + to_os_string(module_in_cache);
					arguments.emplace_back(install_argument);
				}
				arguments.emplace_back(SILICIUM_OS_STR("link=static"));
				Si::visit<void>(target.platform,
				                [&arguments](windows_flavor windows)
				                {
					                switch (windows)
					                {
					                case windows_flavor::visual_studio_2013:
						                arguments.emplace_back(SILICIUM_OS_STR("toolset=msvc-12.0"));
						                break;

					                case windows_flavor::visual_studio_2015:
						                arguments.emplace_back(SILICIUM_OS_STR("toolset=msvc-14.0"));
						                break;
					                }
					            },
				                [&arguments](gcc_version gcc)
				                {
					                switch (gcc)
					                {
					                case gcc_version::v4_6:
						                arguments.emplace_back(SILICIUM_OS_STR("toolset=gcc-4.6"));
						                break;

					                case gcc_version::v4_7:
						                arguments.emplace_back(SILICIUM_OS_STR("toolset=gcc-4.7"));
						                break;

					                case gcc_version::v4_8:
						                arguments.emplace_back(SILICIUM_OS_STR("toolset=gcc-4.8"));
						                break;

					                case gcc_version::v4_9:
						                arguments.emplace_back(SILICIUM_OS_STR("toolset=gcc-4.9"));
						                break;

					                case gcc_version::v5:
						                arguments.emplace_back(SILICIUM_OS_STR("toolset=gcc-5"));
						                break;
					                }
					            });
				if (target.is_debug)
				{
					arguments.emplace_back(SILICIUM_OS_STR("variant=debug"));
				}
				else
				{
					arguments.emplace_back(SILICIUM_OS_STR("variant=release"));
				}
				if (Si::visit<bool>(system,
				                    [](cdm::ubuntu const &ubuntu) -> bool
				                    {
					                    // GCC 4.6 crashes when compiling Boost.Log on travis probably due
					                    // to lack of RAM.
					                    // Thus we do not parallelize the build on travis so that the
					                    // compiler can use all of the memory available to the machine.
					                    return !ubuntu.is_travis_ci;
					                },
				                    [](cdm::windows const &) -> bool
				                    {
					                    return true;
					                }))
				{
					arguments.emplace_back(SILICIUM_OS_STR("-j ") +
					                       boost::lexical_cast<Si::os_string>(make_parallelism));
				}
				int const rc = ventura::run_process(copy_of_boost / "b2"
#ifdef _WIN32
				                                                    ".exe"
#endif
				                                    ,
				                                    arguments, copy_of_boost, output,
				                                    std::vector<std::pair<Si::os_char const *, Si::os_char const *>>(),
				                                    ventura::environment_inheritance::inherit)
				                   .get();
				if (rc != 0)
				{
					throw std::runtime_error("b2 failed");
				}
			}
		}
		boost_paths result;
		result.root = module_in_cache;
		return result;
	}

	template <class StringSink>
	void generate_cmake_definitions_for_using_boost(StringSink &&definitions, ventura::absolute_path const &boost_root)
	{
		Si::append(definitions, "-DBOOST_ROOT=" + ventura::to_utf8_string(boost_root));
		Si::append(definitions, "-DBoost_ADDITIONAL_VERSIONS=1.59");
		Si::append(definitions, "-DBoost_NO_SYSTEM_PATHS=ON");
	}
}

#endif

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Q: How to setup relationships in contact Database I am currently embarking on a new venture to learn PHP and MySQL.  I have done some simple databases in the past using Access, but this one is to be a web-centric database for tracking a myriad of data including contacts and project information.  I will need to link the various tables in various relationships, and I am not sure the best way to do that. Since I am just starting out with PHP/MySQL I am researching online sources for learning as much as possible.  If anyone has recommendations on books or websites, I would appreciate it.
In setting up my tables, one major area that I am concerned with is contacts.  I will have a variety of contacts that include: employees, clients, vendors, subcontractors, etc.. and a single contact can be multiple types and each type would have various additional fields that pertain to them.  My thought was to have one contacts table that links to other tables for the various contact types.  I'm not sure which field type or setup of table options are best... Thoughts?
This scenario will likely play out in other areas of the database as well for projects and products.
Any pointers/direction would be appreciated.
WES

A: Are you familiar with Object Oriented Design.
In a RDBMS, such as MySQL, I would design the database as follows:

*

*Contacts (first name, last names, etc)

*

*Employees

*Vendors

*Clients

*etc

Your tables that extend Contacts would hold their specific data as well as a contact_id column, which creates the relationship.
As an aside, NoSQL solutions solve this problem natively as they don't have a rigid schema. Meaning you could save various data for each record.

A: I would give a little thought to how you're going to use those extended fields.  Certainly create a table for contacts, and you definitely could create a table for each contact type (employees, clients, etc) with a column connecting the record to the contact table (thus employees would have employee_id, contact_id, propertyOne, propertyTwo, etc).
Another option though, which may be convenient if your application is contact centric and you really just want to be able to associate different kinds of information with contacts, would be to have a contact table, a table containing the types of extended information (say "contactTypes" and it would have the information that a vendor type has a billing address for example) and a third table to actually hold all the data (name-value pairs).  This is a bit more fluid in that it will let you add new types of contacts or add fields to a type without actually altering your schema.  The first option (Jason McCreary's) might scale better if you're going to have many, many records...
Regarding resources - there's so much out there, I can't even begin to narrow it down for you - look at the php manual and just google "php mysql tutorial" - tons of stuff.

A: A book I would recommend that helped me a lot is Beginning-PHP-MySQL-Novice-Professional
And make sure you watch the following video, but it might be advanced if you do not know the basics. Bbuild-a-login-system-for-a-simple-website/
For database relations as well as an introduction visit Coding HORROR
I hope this helps..

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On Wednesday, Jan. 9, the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law Federalist Society hosted attorney Alan Gura (second from right) and Wayne State University Law School Professor Robert Sedler (second from left) for a Second Amendment debate. Gura, who was named among the 100 Most Influential Lawyers in America by the National Law Journal in 2013, is known for successfully arguing landmark cases such as Heller and McDonald in front of the United States Supreme Court. Sedler is a Constitutional Law expert who has litigated a large number of civil rights and civil liberties cases as a volunteer lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union. Thanking the two for speaking at the schoolwere Detroit Mercy Law Federalist Society's President Michael Tibbits (far left) and Vice President Ray Glyana (far right).


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NHL News : Scott Sabourin ejected during the first shift, of his first game, with the Marlies.
Scott Sabourin ejected during the first shift, of his first game, with the Marlies.
Sabourin ejected seconds into the game.
Published on Saturday, March 13 2021 by HockeyFeed in NHL News
You may not approve of his methods, but there is no denying that after just a single game in the American Hockey League with the Toronto Marlies, Maple Leafs forward Scott Sabourin has made an impression on the team that signs his paycheck.
On Friday the Toronto Marlies were facing off against the Laval Rocket, the American Hockey League affiliate of the Montreal Canadiens, and it was just seconds into the game before Sabourin made his presence known in a major way. After a turnover by the Rocket at the blue line just 15 seconds into the game, Sabourin found himself with a great scoring opportunity.
Unfortunately as Sabourin tired to cut in front of the goaltender he did not create a scoring chance but instead managed to bulldoze the Rocket's goaltender which just happened to be Cayden Primeau on that night. The impact was so violent that it send Primeau sliding all the way across the ice until he was finally stopped by the boards where he would lay in the corner for a few moments before eventually getting back to his feet. Even more unfortunate for the Rocket was the fact that the pain was not over.
Following his crushing of Primeau, the Rocket's players were understandably upset, and as a result two of them decided to skate up to Sabourin and give the enforcer a piece of their mind, big mistake. Now I don't believe for a second that the Rocket's Lukas Vejdemo had any intention of fighting an enforcer with National Hockey League experience, but Sabourin was not taking any chances with two players in his face and immediately went on the offensive. The Leafs forward dropped his gloves to the ice with just 23 seconds off the game clock and began to pummel Vejdemo with a series of stiff looking punches, something that Vejdemo was clearly not happy about after the officials separated them.
As I said it made an impression on someone watching from the big club because Sabourin has since been called up by the Maple Leafs, perhaps in anticipation of their match up against the Ottawa Senators this weekend, Sabourin's former team.
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Międzynarodowa Agencja Energii Atomowej (MAEA), International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) – organizacja pracująca na rzecz bezpiecznego i pokojowego wykorzystania energii jądrowej.

Agencja ma swoją siedzibę w Wiedniu (Austria). Dodatkowo posiada dwa biura ochrony regionalnej w Toronto (Kanada) i Tokio (Japonia) oraz laboratoria w: Seibersdorfie (Austria), Wiedniu (Austria), Monako i Trieście (Włochy).

Historia
MAEA została założona jako autonomiczna organizacja 29 lipca 1957 r., a jej dyrektorem generalnym był Sterling Cole (USA). W latach 1997-2009 agencją kierował Muhammad el-Baradei (Egipt), który w 2005 r. odebrał dla swojej organizacji Pokojową Nagrodę Nobla. W 2009 el-Baradei zrezygnował z ubiegania się o wybór na kolejną kadencję. W dniu 2 lipca 2009 r. na stanowisko dyrektora generalnego MAEA został nominowany Yukiya Amano, ambasador Japonii przy MAEA. Dzięki poparciu krajów rozwiniętych pokonał głównego kontrkandydata, Abdula Minty'ego z RPA, uzyskując 23 głosy w 35-osobowej Radzie Naczelnej MAEA. Pierwsze wybory rozpisane na marzec 2009 roku nie wyłoniły następcy el-Baradei, natomiast tuż przed wyborami lipcowymi z rywalizacji wycofał się Ambasador Słowenii przy MAEA, Ernest Petrič.

Struktura organizacyjna
MAEA jest specjalistyczną agencją ONZ, ale nie działa pod jej ścisłą kontrolą, pomimo że raporty są przedstawiane na Zgromadzeniu Ogólnym oraz Radzie Bezpieczeństwa. Struktura i funkcjonowanie MAEA zawarte są w jej statucie. Agencja składa się z trzech głównych części: Sekretariatu, Rady Naczelnej oraz Konferencji Generalnej.

Rada Gubernatorów
Rada Gubernatorów jest jednym z dwóch ustawodawczych organów MAEA. Składa się ona z 35 państw członkowskich, desygnowanych i wybieranych przez Konferencję Generalną. Rada zbiera się pięć razy do roku: w marcu, w czerwcu, dwa razy we wrześniu (przed i po Konferencji Generalną) oraz w grudniu. Na spotkaniach analizowany jest budżet, program oraz warunki przyjęcia nowych członków.

Członkowie Rady na rok 2011 – 2012 to:

Konferencja Generalna
Konferencja Generalna jest najważniejszym organem ustawodawczym w MAEA. W skład wchodzą wszystkie państwa członkowskie. Konferencja Generalna odbywa się corocznie, zazwyczaj we wrześniu, by rozważyć oraz zaakceptować planowany program oraz budżet agencji.

Państwa członkowskie i daty wstąpienia do organizacji

W kwietniu 2021 Międzynarodowa Agencja Energii Atomowej liczyła 173 państwa członkowskie.
 1957 – Afganistan, Albania, Argentyna, Australia, Austria, Białoruś, Brazylia, Bułgaria, Kanada, Kuba, Dania, Dominikana, Egipt, Salwador, Etiopia, Francja, Niemcy, Grecja, Gwatemala, Haiti, Stolica Apostolska, Węgry, Islandia, Indie, Indonezja, Izrael, Włochy, Japonia, Republika Korei, Monako, Maroko, Birma, Holandia, Nowa Zelandia, Norwegia, Pakistan, Paragwaj, Peru, Polska, Portugalia, Rumunia, Federacja Rosyjska, Serbia, Afryka Południowa, Hiszpania, Sri Lanka, Szwecja, Szwajcaria, Tajlandia, Tunezja, Turcja, Ukraina, Wielka Brytania, Stany Zjednoczone, Wenezuela, Wietnam
 1958 – Belgia, Ekwador, Finlandia, Iran, Luksemburg, Meksyk, Filipiny, Sudan
 1959 – Irak
 1960 – Chile, Kolumbia, Ghana, Senegal, Mali, Demokratyczna Republika Konga
 1962 – Liberia, Arabia Saudyjska
 1963 – Algieria, Boliwia, Wybrzeże Kości Słoniowej, Liban, Syria, Urugwaj
 1964 – Kamerun, Gabon, Kuwejt, Nigeria

 Kambodża, dołączyła do MAEA w 1958, wycofała się z Agencji 26 marca 2003, po czym ponownie przystąpiła do Agencji 23 listopada 2009.

Dyrektorzy generalni w historii MAEA
 Sterling Cole (USA): 1957–1961
 Sigvard Eklund (Szwecja): 1961–1981
 Hans Blix (Szwecja): 1981–1997
 Muhammad el-Baradei (Egipt): 1997–2009
 Yukiya Amano (Japonia): 2009–2019
  Rafael Mariano Grossi (Argentyna): 2019–

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Linki zewnętrzne

 Statut Międzynarodowej Agencji Energii Atomowej podpisany w Nowym Jorku dnia 26 października 1956 r. ()
 Poprawka do Statutu przyjęta w Wiedniu 27 września 1984 ()

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Having to bid farewell to another old friend?
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By Jerome Lim, 24 May 2010.
It was with sadness that I read the news about the impending closure of the Tanjong Pagar Railway Station in July next year, which was announced today. It has very much been a part of the Singapore that I grew up loving, one that I first became acquainted with on the makan trails that may parents led us on from the heights of Mount Faber. What the news release does not say is whether the station which has served for so long, providing many of us, including myself, with many memories of adventures on the railway to the Federation or Malaya as we may have referred to to it back then, will have to go, as both Malaysia, which owns the station and the railway land, and Singapore seek to jointly redevelop the parcels of land around the railway.
The entrance to Tanjong Pagar Railway Station with the four pillars of Malaya's economy, Agriculture, Commerce, Transport and Industry.
Transport, one of the four pillars.
The distinctive architectural style of the station hails from an era when European railway travel was at its height, as it is said to have been influenced by the architect behind Finland's Helsinki Station. The station has stood as a landmark in the area since 1932, has survived much of the renewal that has swept through Tanjong Pagar, as up till now, the Malaysia government has resisted the many attempts by the Singapore government to persuade it to redevelop the railway land and the land on which the station stands. The station features four large statues on the four pillars at its entrance, each symbolising one of the then Malaya's four economic pillars. The top of each of the pillars also bears one of the letters in the initials, FMSR, which stand for the Federated Malay States Railway, as it was known then. The station has a very airy lobby which features batik styled mosaic mural panels which depict scenes around Malaya, which are reminiscent of the style of batik paintings that were once popular in Singapore and Malaysia.
The airy lobby features batik styled mosaic murals depicting scenes of Malayan life.
Moasic mural panels in the lobby.
Close up with a scene showing coconut plucking.
Close up of the mosaic panel depicting farmers planting padi in a padi field.
I have in my life passed through the lobby and the gates to the platform many times, and have many fond memories of the station as well as of the many railway journeys I had made to and from the station. I have also many fond memories of listening for the sound of the whistle and watching the comings and goings of trains from the vantage point of my aunt's flat in Spottiswoode Park, each Lunar New Year's eve where my extended family would gather for our reunion dinner. With the news, it would not be very long when the platforms that would come to life with the arrival and departure of the trains several times a day, would be left silent, as would the magnificent building that fronts the platforms. It may yet be a vain hope, but I do hope that the building is preserved in some form, not just for memories sake, but because it has for so long been so much a part of the Tanjong Pagar area, and with the loss over the years of the many buildings we had come to associate with the area, it is one of the last remaining bits of heritage we have left in Tanjong Pagar.
The train platforms will soon fall silent.
A station clock on the exterior of the building.
A reminder of the romantic days of rail travel that the station served.
The timetable.
Hopefully the view of Singapore from what is technically a part of Malaysia will survive the relocation of the train station to Woodlands.
The Star's news release earlier today on the imminent shift of the station to Woodlands.
KTM Tg Pagar station will move to Woodlands in S'pore July 1, 2011
SINGAPORE: KTM Tanjung Pagar station will move to Woodlands in Singapore on July 1 next year, say Malaysian and Singaporean leaders.
The KTM land issue has bogged down ties in the past with both sides playing hardball diplomacy and having their own interpretations of the Points of Agreement (POA) signed in 1990, on the terms of development and status of the KTM land that expands from Woodlands in the north to Tanjung Pagar in the south of Singapore.
Under the POA, Malaysia and Singapore, among other things, agreed that the KTM railway station be moved from Tanjung Pagar to a location to be decided later.
However, over the years, negotiations stalled after both sides failed to agree on where the new location should be in Singapore.
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It's an outlook Gael tries to convey to his team. "There is time to be satisfied; time for a good dinner, for pleasure, for fun but you have to always keep in mind that it's never finished.
Based in Switzerland, Nexus provides solutions to passenger car and heavy-duty automotive parts distributors and original equipment manufacturers and has a network that reaches all corners of the globe.
It has several services including a B2B marketplace for automotive parts, an automotive training academy and an intranet that aims to optimise connectivity between all its affiliates around the world. "Nobody thought that we could establish an alliance with 1,500 companies in over 125 countries and generate this dynamic business worldwide," Gael adds.
One of Nexus's most significant achievements so far has been the launch of its digital marketplace to facilitate transactions between automotive distributors around the world. "When creating Nexus, we found that there were a lot of B2B transactions between distributors," Gael explains.
"They were not just buying from the manufacturer and that was for a number of reasons. Either they had no direct access or they didn't have the right terms.
When the company launched the Nexus marketplace in May 2018, Gael says several outsiders asked to join as well. "This was a great signal for us because it showed that there were no equivalent initiatives and that the size of the business that we represent as a community was an appealing one.
Gael highlights that China is the most promising market it has, with the potential to become the largest aftermarket region by 2025. "We have 20 multidisciplinary members in China from traditional wholesale distribution, digital (JD.com joined early 2019), retail, insurance and vehicle manufacturer channels and this is predicted to grow," he says.
One of Gael's major priorities for the company is to be the champion of "soft consolidation". "Since day one we've had a willingness to play on the global front so I want to bring all the energies of our affiliates together," he says. "We will represent value around the world for all manufacturers willing to accelerate their growth plans with us.
"It's important to insist on 'soft' because it means we are going to implement a consolidation methodology that won't be based on acquisition but instead on bringing the disciplines of all our members together.
Continued growth is on the agenda for Nexus, beginning with a mission toward new business verticals. "We're going to put an enormous focus on the heavy-duty sector and enter the tyre business as we did in the auto parts business over the past five years.


In anticipation of Chinese New Year, which begins Jan. 28 to coincide with the lunar calendar, Nice Day Chinese Seafood Restaurant is ready to help local diners ring in the Year of the Rooster by serving up tasty cuisine in an inviting, relaxed atmosphere.
Just in time for the momentous celebration, Nice Day offers New Year's Jai ($11.95), a celebratory mixture of long rice noodles, tofu, bean curd, mushrooms, cabbage and snow peas. Manager Shirley Cheng explains that the vegetarian dish is ideal for Chinese New Year as a means of bestowing good luck upon friends and family members.
Chinese New Year Gau ($6) is another specialty available through mid-February. The sticky rice pudding couples the consistency of mochi with a "not too sweet, but just right" hint of brown sugar — and Chinese red date for good luck.
Cheng recommends Lo Mein with Vegetables ($35 for a small pan that feeds 16-20 people) for upcoming holiday get-togethers, as the tasty noodles and vegetables are perfect for parties and can be ordered and picked up on the day of one's event.
Nice Day Chinese Seafood Restaurant serves up nearly 200 intriguing a la carte selections, including sizzling plates, appetizers, soups, seafood, pork, beef, poultry, as well as vegetable and rice dishes. Additionally, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. daily, diners may delve into a host of dim sum (prices range from $3 to $6.50 ) selections that are prepared fresh every morning and served tableside by Nice Day's friendly staff.
Like its sister eatery Happy Day Chinese Restaurant in Kaimuki, Nice Day continues to please multiple generations of diners under the guidance of co-owners Lisa Lum and Sang Chan. Nice Day's convenient Liliha Street locale is situated just minutes away from the heart of downtown Honolulu and the adjacent Chinatown area, and has treated customers to delicious Chinese cuisine since 2008. The restaurant is adorned with large red lanterns to bring both customers and employees good luck.
Nice Day offers a host of pork and poultry choices, which are great as stand-alone entrees or as pupus to share with loved ones. Minute Chicken Chow Mein ($10.95) is a popular dish featuring perfectly seasoned chicken atop a large bed of noodles that are accompanied by fresh vegetables and a tasty sauce. Cheng explains that Hong Kong-style noodle dishes are healthier than cake noodle or similar selections, as Nice Day's versions are cooked in less oil, resulting in crispy, flavorful noodles that aren't too heavy.
Salt & Pepper Caplin Fish ($10.95) is a "nice and crispy" choice consisting of a small, whole fish that's lightly breaded and stir-fried with the perfect blend of seasonings and spices to add an extra kick to the meal.
Note: The restaurant can host large parties of up to 150 people (a minimum of one day's notice is recommended to ensure availability), providing a perfect option for family gatherings. An ample supply of free parking also is available in Nice Day's mostly covered and secure lot, which is accessible from both Liliha and Beretania streets.


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Magic Leap opens Seattle office as new details emerge about its secretive 'N+1' research teams
by Nat Levy on October 25, 2016 at 8:35 am October 25, 2016 at 10:20 am
Magic Leap's logo is visible inside the renovated office in Seattle's Georgetown neighborhood. (GeekWire Photo / Nat Levy)
Closely-watched augmented reality company Magic Leap of Plantation, Fla., has opened a new office in Seattle's Georgetown neighborhood, south of downtown, as a larger dispute between the company and two of its former executives provides new clues about what may be happening inside.
Magic Leap CEO Rony Abovitz at the Fortune Brainstorm TECH 2016 conference. (Photo by Fortune, via Flickr.)
The company, which is developing augmented reality hardware and content, has raised nearly $1.4 billion from investors including Google, Vulcan Capital, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Andreessen Horowitz, and others. Magic Leap has quickly become legendary in the industry for its secrecy.
With its new office, Magic Leap becomes the latest big tech company to set up shop in Seattle to tap into the region's talent pool. It's part of a growing wave of augmented reality and virtual reality companies in the region, building on a critical mass of software and gaming companies.
Plans for the new Seattle office were first reported by GeekWire in June, and we revisited the location this week to confirm that the company has completed renovations and moved into the space. The Magic Leap logo has been installed in the lobby, without the company's name.
People working at the new Magic Leap office in Seattle said they weren't able to talk with us at this point. We've contacted Magic Leap HQ for more information.
The lobby inside Magic Leap's Seattle office. (GeekWire Photo / Nat Levy)
In the meantime, Business Insider is reporting on a legal dispute between Magic Leap and two of its former executives, which includes information about advanced technology teams at Magic Leap called "N+1," which explore future projects beyond its initial device, which has yet to be released. One of the former executives saw the assignment to the N+1 initiative "as something of a demotion," according to the Business Insider report, which describes "a major disconnect" between the company's Florida headquarters and its Silicon Valley operations.
Magic Leap founder and CEO Rony Abovitz described the N+1 initiatives in a November 2015 message republished by Business Insider this week:
"N+1 (a step beyond the critical path of Magic Leap One) teams exist in Magic Leap to maintain Magic Leap's creative and innovative edge. Output includes new filed patents with significant portfolio value (inventing the future), working code and prototypes, trade secrets, scientific publications (following Magic Leap's IP and PR processes), scientific talks, and overall thought leadership within our fields of light-field technology, capture, sensing, intelligence, and CR applications/experiences."
Neal Stephenson is Magic Leap's chief science officer.
"CR" is a reference to "cinematic reality," a phrase that Magic Leap previously used to describe its technology. The company prefers "mixed reality" now.
At least two Magic Leap executives involved in N+1 projects are based in the Seattle office, according to another recent Business Insider report: Neal Stephenson, the famed science fiction author who became Magic Leap's chief futurist two years ago; and Brian Schowengerdt, a longtime University of Washington professor who is the company's chief science officer and co-founder.
Stephenson is listed in the CEO's message with the cryptic acronym "SCEU," which isn't explained elsewhere. One of his landmark novels is "Snow Crash," which deals heavily in virtual and augmented reality, possibly accounting for part of the acronym.
LinkedIn currently shows 14 people who work for Magic Leap in the Seattle region. The company's jobs page ("wizards wanted") lists 11 open positions in Seattle, including several engineering positions on "an advanced technology development team, developing prototype display, sensor, and user interface devices."
We'll continue to provide additional information about the Magic Leap operations as we learn more.
Todd Bishop is GeekWire's co-founder and editor, a longtime technology journalist who covers subjects including cloud tech, e-commerce, virtual reality, devices, apps and tech giants such as Amazon.com, Apple, Microsoft and Google. Follow him @toddbishop, email todd@geekwire.com, or call (206) 294-6255.
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NJROTC Pumped for Competition on October 3rd
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The JROTC program is excited to be heading to their first competition on Oct. 3rd.
The Mitchell competition is the deciding factor of whether or not the JROTC teams go to states or not. The teams are anxious to compete and have been working extremely hard these past school days after school.
The JROTC teams finished third last year at the Mitchell competition, qualifying them for states. Hopefully this year, the students can get first place in the Mitchell Competition and do well at the State competition in March 2016.
"We would obviously like to win first place but most of all I want this to be a learning experience for not only the newest members but also the people that have been on the teams. We had a good run last year placing at every competition we went to but this year we want to do even better," said commanding officer, Carey Ledee.
This in-it-to-win-it attitude is the biggest motivator for the teams to do well and place first against 13 other schools at the upcoming Mitchell competition. This is the first big step in the line of many things to come for the JROTC teams.
For the competition, there are five drill teams, four athletic teams and one academic team. This shows that many of the JROTC students are participating in teams to head to the competition.
"Attendance at our drill practices… has never been better. 55 to 60 students out there after school and they work for two hours each Monday and Wednesday. So that's really exciting, to see a lot of folks that are trying to learn what we do," said Commander Stauffer.
Each team has 10-14 students that are either doing drill, academia, or relays/pushups and sit-ups. The teams are on strict guidelines that they have to follow so that they do not get disqualified from the competition.
"We have a lot of new leaders… stepping up into roles which were vacated by the seniors that left. So they're learning their jobs, how to be leaders, how to get things done and how to manage a large group of people and bring them together for a common cause," stated Commander Stauffer.
This competition, and the many more to come, truly help empower and instill what the JROTC program is all about.
"The goal is always better citizenship and part of that I think is the whole leadership/followership thing. If we can produce leaders then we're making an impact and of course to have good leaders we need followers and those are the first year students. We have a really good group of 100 of them so there's a lot of followers looking for that leadership," said Commander Stauffer.
The first year students make up many of the students excited to be participating in the competition for the first time. The students bring a lot of charisma to the teams.
"[The students are] bringing brand new talent to compliment the good and the bad areas," stated executive officer, Daniel Cheong.
The mixture of competitive leaders and enthusiastic followers provides JROTC the ingredients to make great teams, which will help reach their goal of placing first at the Mitchell competition.
"They can make mistakes and its free here. You go into a job or the military or college, mistakes cost you. The best part of this program I think is the opportunity that we offer to provide those leadership opportunities," said Commander Stauffer.
The competition is Oct. 3rd and will be held in west Pasco.


We had such a great time at Adele's for brunch, we decided to try it out for dinner before a show. That "before a show" thing is key. Because Adele's is the hottest thing right now, getting a reservation after the early-bird hour is tough. Let's just call it the pre-show hour. That sounds better than when-all-the-old-people-eat.
We both started with the kale salad which I've featured before so let's get straight to the entrees. Adele's is known for JW chicken. Mine didn't look like the picture on the website but it was still simple but flavorful.
Mr. Ville had the beer braised pork ribs which were knife-and-fork tender. I couldn't help myself and sampled some of his polenta. I could be quite happy with a just a bowl of that and parked in front of a fire.
The desserts at Adele's are amazing! They are homemade but better. We tried the carrot cake this time. It's one of my favorites along with coconut cake so that means I'm very picky about it. Since Adele's did such a great job with the coconut, I wasn't surprised about how much I liked this.
Frosting on a carrot cake can be quite claggy and too sweet. This one was perfect and didn't make my teeth hurt or sit too heavy for our trek to the Ryman for our show.
Time number four to see John Butler Trio and once again, he was amazing!
Adele's is an easy walk from downtown hotels. In bad weather or if your shoes aren't made for walkin', you can take the Green Line free bus that will drop you off at 12th and Demonbreun and then it's a block away. Always check the routes, though. With all the construction and events going on in downtown Nashville, it can change.


Kitt Peak National Observatory (southwest of Tucson) offers an Advanced Observing Program to the public (http://www.noao.edu/outreach/aop/). Guests spend the night working side-by-side with a resident astronomer to prepare digital pictures of the universe. We worked with Flynn Haase to create these images of the Eagle Nebula and Whirlpool Galaxy. The Eagle Nebula image was published in the book "Archaeoastronomy of the Southwest". I highly recommend this experience!
Lick Observatory is located at the top of Mount Hamilton (south of San Francisco). Lick was the first mountaintop observatory in the world in 1887. All supplies (construction, food, telescopes, etc.) were carried up the mountain on the backs of burros. The observatory was financed by James Lick, a wealthy San Franciscan who profited from the gold rush. He is buried in the cement pier that supports one of the oldest telescopes. On an ultra-clear day at Lick Observatory, the view is incredible: the Pacific Ocean to the west; the snow-capped Sierra Mountains to the east; San Francisco to the north, and the Central Valley to the south.


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London's Famous Traditional Pubs – Where Drinking Beer is an Art Form
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I posted a picture of The Churchill Arms Pub in London on my Facebook page which got me thinking and I decided to do a whole article about London's famous traditional pubs. So if you ever want a taste of British culture and have a jolly good time, now you`ll you know where to go. Here it is…
The George Inn
The George Inn is truly historic, dating back to the 1700's and is a former hangout of Charles Dickens. In earlier times it was known as the George and Dragon, after the legend of St. George. Today it is the only surviving galleria London coaching inn. Inside you will find a lot of historical artifacts and traditional ales. There are two main areas, The Talbot Room arranged in a board room style and The George Room can be set to your preference.
It also has plenty of open air courtyard. So if you visit on a good day you can enjoy in one of London`s best beer garden.
The Prospect of Whitby
Named after a ship the Prospect of Whitby was once a tavern, built in 1543 by the docks of River Thames. Before that it was known as the "Devil's Tavern", the meeting place for smugglers and villains. What makes this place unique is a rare pewter top and pillars that appear to be sections of a ship's mast.
It has authentic atmosphere with seating area near open fire and a small balcony above the river. The old photographs inside the pub serve as a reminder of times when ships from around the world crowded the docks.
The Dickens Inn
The Dickens Inn history is also connected with Charles Dickens and dates from the 17th century as well. The original building once was a wooden warehouse and stood on a Thames side just east of its current location. In the 18th century was completely reconstructed in the style of a three storey balconied inn and moved into its current location at St Katharine Docks.
It has a lovely outside area with beer gardens, beautiful flowers, dining tables and a magnificent view of the docks. The insides are equally impressive with aged furniture, airy décor and the classic pub experience with wide selection of locally and nationally brewed ales.
The Churchill Arms
Notting Hill's Churchill Arms is one of London`s most famous and historic pubs. It was built way back in 1750 and since then slowly became London`s most celebrated watering hole. Back in the days Winston Churchill's grandparents were regular visitors and today it`s a preferred haunt for many famous celebrities. Inside you'll find plenty of Churchill memorabilia hanging from the walls.
The pub is old fashioned with original character and it`s also a trendsetter because is the first pub in London to serve Thai food. Most important of all it has a top quality pint and a wide range of closely kept cask conditioned ales.
The story begins all the way back from the 13th century when this place was a Carmelite Monastery. The first pub that occupied this location was the Horn Tavern in early 1538. It was completely destroyed in the Great Fire of 1666 and rebuilt the next year. The entrance is very unusual, situated in a narrow alley. When you do find the way inside you can be easily confused of all the big space and numerous bars and rooms. It`s no wonder that even regulars get often confused.
Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese has so much history and so much stories that it's easy to wonder off imagining the days when Oliver Goldsmith, Mark Twain, Alfred Tennyson, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, G.K. Chesterton as well as Dr. Samuel Johnson were a regular guest.
The Princess Louise
Often described as rich example of a Victorian public house interior, the Princes Louise is a place of finest craftsmanship. Every wall is covered in mirrors, wonderfully arranged tiles with the finest attention to details. Even the men's toilets, with their marble urinals are considered a work of art.
The princess Louise is a true testament of the finest Victorian craftsmen and a true gem of London that now shines brighter than ever.
There are many more interesting traditional pubs in London. If you are having a good pint while listening to a good story, the chances are you are at the right place.
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Russia's FM Lavrov calls to lower tensions in Karabakh
The fighting claimed more than 6,500 lives and ended with a Russian-brokered truce
Moscow (AFP) - Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Friday called for de-escalation in Azerbaijan's Armenian-populated Nagorno-Karabakh, a region which has sparked two wars between the Caucasus neighbours.
"We need to de-escalate the situation as soon as possible," Lavrov told reporters following talks with Azerbaijani counterpart Jeyhun Bayramov in Moscow.
According to Lavrov, Armenia's representatives were expected at the talks but pulled out at the "last moment".
For more than a week Azerbaijani activists have blocked the only land link connecting Karabakh to Armenia, the Lachin corridor, to protest what they claim is illegal mining.
Yerevan has accused Baku of staging demonstrations and creating a humanitarian crisis in the mountainous enclave.
Lavrov said he was hoping for movement along the key road to be restored "as soon as possible."
Armenia also said Russian peacekeepers deployed in the region were failing to prevent the blockade.
Lavrov, however, said the Russian peacekeeping contingent was "clearly fulfilling its tasks" while working in "very difficult conditions".
Armenia's parliament has said Karabakh was suffering from shortages of food, medicine and fuel following the closure of the corridor.
Armenia and Azerbaijan fought a six-week war in autumn 2020.
The fighting claimed more than 6,500 lives and ended with a Russian-brokered truce that saw Yerevan cede territories it had controlled for decades.
Moscow stationed peacekeepers in parts of Karabakh that remained under Armenian separatist control, including the Lachin corridor.
When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, ethnic Armenian separatists in Nagorno-Karabakh broke away from Azerbaijan. The ensuing conflict claimed around 30,000 lives.


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The Small Cell Cabinet (SCC) is single compartment structure. The housing is formed by overall welding to enhance cabinet strength. The internal area is a 6U space for mounting 19" equipment, of which 4U-space is reserved for distribution equipment (e.g. Battery, Fiber Distribution Panel & Router) and 2U space is for the Power System. Equipment mounted in the SCC, can be pulled out horizontally. Cabinet door is provided with 3-way lock. The cabinet is furnished with axial fan at the top and Air Inlets for ventilation on the door. The top canopy can be opened to mount and repair the fan, when necessary.
The Power System provides constant power for telecommunication equipment power demand, mounted in the SCC. The 2U subrack has been designed with a modular Controller, Rectifier (1600W) & Inverter (1000VA), which can be equipped in one 19" shelf. The Rectifier requires a nominal input of 220 Vac and provides an output of -48 Vdc to power the DC loads and also maintain a charged battery. The Inverter provides an output of 220Vac to power AC loads.
· Cabinet housing made of Mild Steel CRCA sheets that is specially treated to resist harsh environment.
· 3-point lock provides reliable protection.


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Exercise #5
The Books We Read Make a World of Difference
Reading will always go hand in hand with writing. Current reads are the tools we use to find what works for readers. Sometimes it's easy to forget during the solidarity of the writing process that we write for others to read. The accepted content varies over time. For example consider a novel like Vanity Fair. In the 1800's, extensive backstories and drab descriptions of settings were in good form. Exactly like Shakespeare. In the 1600's, iambic pentameter or heptameter of George Chapman was popular. These days it's concise prose without too much unjustified extra content, like backstory and description of the mundane. This will be about a few books I've read recently. I won't keep you in suspense. They are The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon, Sharp Objects and Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn, Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel, The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt, Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace, and Storm Front (Dresden Files #1) by Jim Butcher.
One of my writer friends recommended The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, a Pulitzer Prize winner. The story is nearly an alt. history of the heyday in the comic books, the 1940's through 1960's. Along with Stan Lee and Sam Kirby, add Joe Kavalier and Sam Clay. Kavalier is a Jewish refugee from Nazi-controlled Europe previously the apprentice of an escape artist. Clay is a misanthropic writer interested in comic books and becoming the next great American writer. Clay penned the inking and Kavalier did the illustrations. The story followed their lives for the next two decades.
This book taught me a few valuable lessons. Literary prose works for established writers. Getting people to read literary prose from a yet unpublished writer is asking too much. Chabon used lots of words that were new to me like prestidigitation, opprobrium, and razz among others. A pre-collegiate vocabulary isn't enough to write at a high level. Chabon frequently went on tangents, devoting page space to the stories written by Clay. Large parts of the book detail the fictional comic book heroes, The Escapist and Luna Moth. I liked these parts a lot. Chabon made me wish to actually read the comics he described. The Escapist thrilled me. Luna Moth was perfectly hot and written with style. Going on tangents can work if done expertly.
Two books by Gillian Flynn taught me a lot. I'll start with Gone Girl, the one I read first. The story started with Nick Dunne waking up next to his wife, Amy Eliot Dunne. We follow along as Nick left their house that morning. We watch the events as he discovered his wife is missing. Nick's experiences through the investigation is chronicled. In the meantime, we read through Amy's journal from the night they first met onward.
Gone Girl was amazing. Flynn found a way to justify an incredible amount of backstory. In Amy's journals, we are looking for an evidence that Nick is capable of killing his wife. Amy left a series of limericks as part of this anniversary tradition they have. This allows Nick a chance to relive even more memories as he follows Amy steps before her disappearance. Throughout Amy's journal, she wrote a series of multiple choice questions. After all, she was a quiz writer at some magazine. The story is allegorical to the dynamic within a marriage. Strong writing brought the story through easily to the reader.
This novel taught me a few important lessons. Great writing with a great story sells. Gone Girl was on the New York Times Best Sellers List for over two years, won two awards, and was made into a movie. A well selling book is relatable. Intense literary tendencies can work if done really well or above par.
Sharp Objects is about a young reporter returning to her hometown, to follow-up on a serial murder investigation. Going home, brings back a lot of old memories. Everything is creepy in a way that adds character to a small town. The end is nearly impossible to figure out.
A few lessons saw me through to the end. There is place for complicated sentences in modern, non-literary fiction. Feel free to include introductory, dependent, independent, and concluding clauses as long as the coherence or smoothness doesn't reduce. Details are okay if it adds something like a feeling you want to convey, hints, misleads, or does something to make the story better. It doesn't matter who you are, traditionally publishing a first book over 200 pages is incredibly difficult, if not impossible without something else going for you. Gillian Flynn was a reporter for Entertainment Weekly and her first book is 200 pages long.
Station Eleven is a literary science fiction novel that redefined what sells. The story follows the creator of a small batch comic titled as Station Eleven. The comic was about a lone doctor on space station destined for destruction. We follow the comic author's life through her relationship with a previously famous actor and beyond to death. The actor connected with a young girl on the set of a play. We follow this young girl after some type of apocalypse. Another character is followed through the cataclysm. Basically a literary novel without an easily defined plot but gives a feeling of actually being there.
Emily St. John Mandel is a great writer that has a lot to teach. I remember this one sentence that, simply put was amazing. I read this one sentence that perfectly summarized the work duties of an executive assistant. This sounds boring but encapsulated in a richly complex sentence made it interesting beyond belief. After reading the paragraph, it was stunning to see it was all of three sentence. I have a ton of work left to be that good, especially that smooth. Literary novels follow characters, things, and places through a series of event to shed light on existential questions. Keeping the reader oriented can be difficult, but when it works, you can do anything.
The Goldfinch follows the young Theodore Decker after his mother dies in a tragic museum explosion. He spends a years with his gambling father in Las Vegas. Then we see years an apprentice and an antique dealer. Finally married to a beautiful woman. Through it all, we feel his emptiness and longing for what he lost all those years ago.
This book is dense. For maybe the first time, a modern book required me or the reader to slow down and take in everything. I can't imagine writing and editing a book for ten years. My motivation wouldn't survive that long for one project. Literary novels create experiences with beautiful imagery. This can be done by making the ordinary pretty or choosing events that allow lavish imagery. Donna Tartt does this through a series of drug experiences and smoky, dark scenes with nothing happening very fast. There is literary and then there is great literary.
Infinite Jest is the longest book I've ever read. David Foster Wallace wrote a book that's a traumatic experience to read. It incorporates a little of everything from drug addiction, depression, film theory, world diplomacy, tennis, and North American diplomacy among other things. The story follows a family that owns a tennis academy, a rehabilitation center just down the road, and a meeting between American counter-intelligence agent and a double agent from a Canadian terrorist group. That meeting got annoying with the frequency Wallace returned to it and its length. The use of parentheses to denote the antecedent of pronouns was frustrating. The ending left me disappointed. There was such a long build-up and the ending was outside the time frame of the prose. Wallace doesn't hold our hand through to the end and shoves us to figure it out. The length made me really struggle to put the ending together. All that aside, Wallace gives us an almost unabashed look into the human psyche at its worst.
Wallace gave me a few irreplacable tips. Merging different styles can slow a read down but you need literary clout to keep a reader in it. Infinite Jest uses ebonics, first person, third person, monologue, footnotes, and various other styles throughout. Detours are again okay. A grasp of words beyond most, makes a book really hard to read.
Then we have Storm Front (Dresden Files #1). A wizard/private detective investigates two different cases. The plot is rote. The two cases have to collide right? Add in wizardry, a police detective, a overseeing wizarding board breathing down his neck, a few rules about what's allowed, and dark magic to get Strom Front. The language simple and easy to digest. The wording steps out of the way and puts the story front and center.
I learned a lot that supports everything I'm getting into. Simple construction works really well. Readers like familiarity. The woman characters are femme fatales with a slight variation, usually. We have a hot reporter with a pen instead of a gun. A pretty detective with a badge and gun. A true femme fetale with information and no gun. I really liked a scene where the wizard questions the woman with information. Butcher does a really good job describing her smoky, contralto voice. I did something like that but not really well in my first book. I need to keep working on maintaining a feeling for an extended period of time. Keep the action coming and use the lulls wisely. Choose when to give exposition and what to say with care. Add something new to the genre like the present day, vampires, and sex as used by Butcher.
Reading is invaluable to a writer. It has always been a big part of my life and will continue to be. These books were read over the course of a year. Another year of reading will bring more lessons and interesting worlds. I look forward to it. Come back in two weeks for the next post. Until then, Graham Kar out.
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Posted on February 24, 2017 May 30, 2018 Author Graham KarCategories ideas, Inspired by Reading, Mental Insights, Mentors, MethodsTags Advanced Methods, David Foster Wallace, Fiction, ideas, Infinite Jest, Inspiration, Mentors, Methods, Thoughts, Writing
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