Californian Students Are Getting Some Free Digital Textbooks [Ebooks]

On top of tuition, room, alcohol, board, and alcohol, one of the big costs of going to college is paying for your own personal library of expensive textbooks, whether they're digital or physical. Californian students can look forward to a bit of a break however, now that the state has set up the first online repository for open source tomes of knowledge. More »

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Because I am a teacher | Cruel Shoes - Feaginkelsey79's blog

When I was in college, I had a professor tell me that I was made to be a science teacher. At the time, I was an English major and science was the furthest thing from my mind. The more I thought about it, though, the more I realized that she was right. It was my Biology class that I was excited to go to each week and my English classes I dreaded.

Still, she had said ?teacher?, and I wasn?t so sure about that. I had teachers through my K-12 education who had made me want to be a teacher and I had teachers during that same time that made me want to have nothing to do with education. I was skeptical.

During my sophomore year, I got a paid gig doing supplemental instruction for Biology students. This wasn?t tutoring, per se, it involved planning on my part. I had to attend various Bio lectures, then create a supplemental lesson plan designed to revisit the content from lecture in more visual or hands-on ways. My students were usually either athletes who were being forced to attend by their coaches or non-traditional students who really didn?t want to have to pay for the class more than once.

I found that I loved those classes. I loved sitting in the lectures, I loved planning, I loved getting to know my students, and I loved differentiating for them (before I had ever heard that word in reference to education).

I changed my major to Science Education, then Biology itself, and happily continued pursuit of a degree. During my senior year, I found myself restless and anxious to finish, anxious to have my own students. At the time, Yahoo had a feature that allowed users to create chat rooms and I began to create one called ?Biology tutoring?. I would get students from all over the word and of all ages. A few continued to chat with me throughout their Biology experience (and two of them still contact me from time to time, all grown up). I found these little snippets of ?teaching? to be something like sustenance.

Fast forward through my high school science teacher career to where I am today, an instructional technology specialist. This means I don?t have a classroom ? or students. I take on teaching gigs for online classes, which helps to sate my appetite for teaching young people. However, I have discovered one way that also satisfies that need without any effort on my part ? a YouTube video.

Yes, a YouTube video. Not just any video, but one that I uploaded three years ago. This thing is embarrassingly simple and goofy-looking. I created it quickly to help some of my online Chemistry students learn an alternative to dimensional analysis. I posted it to YouTube for them. I never thought that three years later, I would be approaching 20,000 views.

The part about the video that satisfies me are the comments. They ebb and flow. Sometimes I will get a new comment each week. Other times, I might have to wait a month, but those comments always give me that warm fuzzy feeling all over again. Sometimes they just tell me thanks, sometimes they ask me questions (which I try to always respond to), and sometimes they share the video with their friends or teachers.

I have the heart of a teacher. I might not be in a classroom. There might not be any students who even know my name, but I have made a difference to, surprisingly, mostly college students who are struggling through Chemistry and find my video.

When we are struggling with whatever stresses are coming our way ? and as educators, this is an ongoing flow ? we must always remember that we are making a difference ? because we are teachers.

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Hard drive shipments recover from floods in Thailand, expected to reach record high

Last year's floods in Thailand caused hard drive shortages after wreaking havoc on a number of electronics manufacturers, but new stats from IHS iSuppli indicate that the HDD market for PCs has fully recovered and is poised to hit an all time high. The firm expects 524 million units for internal use in PCs to ship this year, besting the previous record by 4.3 percent. What's giving the recovery an added boost? According to the analytics group, the extra demand comes courtesy of Windows 8 and Ultrabooks. Unfortunately for deal hounds, the company noted in a report earlier this year that prices aren't expected to dip below the pre-flood range until 2014. If IHS iSuppli projections hold true, total annual hard drive shipments could reach 575.1 million by 2016.

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Why the Candidates Should (But Won?t) Stipulate

Take the day in 1992 when both Republican Senator Warren Rudman and Democrat Paul Tsongas made headlines declaring that everybody was at fault for the country?s fiscal condition at the time, from then-President Bush to the democrat-controlled Congress, to the American people. Responsible economists later credited Rudman and Tsongas for spurring reforms that helped lead to the Clinton era surpluses.

Around the same time, retired senator and conservative eminence gris Barry Goldwater denounced the followers of ?migr? philosopher Leo Strauss ? so-called ?neocons? ? for hijacking Goldwater?s beloved movement over cliffs of romantic delusion. A more recent example of post retirement candor came When G.W. Bush?s ex-Treasury Secretary, Paul O?Neill, revealed a swamp of backroom dealings and ineptitude, explaining that he was ?old and rich? and unafraid to speak his mind. On the other side, some claim that Senator Joe Lieberman really came into his own when he ran as an independent, shrugging off party discipline (if such a thing exists, among democrats.)

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The article goes on to point out that candor is almost suicidal under the rules of our current system. Excellent thought. What I found more interesting was Brin?s awareness of Leo Strauss, the man behind the curtain of much of the modern Neoconservative movement. I wouldn?t have expected a scientist to have read so deeply into politics.

Yes, Strauss is mentioned in the histories you can find on the web about Neoconservatism but few point out his critical role in the movement, nor do they emphasize the manipulative nature of his teaching. The articles talk about Strauss teaching about a return to Classical values ? this is utter nonsense, Strauss was designing a new political elite from his students, manipulative and power hungry. We will be dealing with his minions for decades to come. He planted the dragon seeds that bedevil our foreign policy even today. And they will be pulling many other strings as well.

So, Mr. Brin has impressed me and I wish him well. I think we share many of the same thoughts.

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Clinton urges 'cool heads' in China-Japan dispute

NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged China and Japan on Thursday to let "cool heads" prevail in a festering dispute over a cluster of islands in the East China Sea that has soured ties between Asia's two largest economies.

Clinton met Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi on the sidelines of this week's U.N. General Assembly meeting in New York and said it was important to ratchet down tensions over the islands, known as the Diaoyu islands in China and the Senkaku Islands in Japan, a senior State Department official said.

"The secretary ... again urged that cooler heads prevail, that Japan and China engage in dialogue to calm the waters," the official told reporters.

"We believe that Japan and China have the resources, have the restraint, have the ability to work on this directly and take tensions down, and that is our message to both sides," the official said.

Yang, however, used a portion of China's annual address to the U.N. General Assembly on Thursday night to forcefully restate Beijing's stance that the islands had belonged to China from ancient times and were seized in 1895 after Japan defeated the Qing Dynasty in a war.

The top Chinese diplomat also condemned the Japanese government's purchase of the islands from their private owner, earlier this month, a step that sparked protests across China and prompted Beijing to curb bilateral trade and tourism.

"The moves taken by Japan are totally illegal and invalid," Yang said of the purchase, which Tokyo says was done to dampen down the dispute by preventing the islands' use by Japanese activists.

"They can in no way change the historical fact that Japan stole the Diaoyudao and affiliated islands and that China has sovereignty over them," Yang told the General Assembly. Diayudao is what China calls the main island in the cluster.

He urged Tokyo to resolve the issue through negotiations.

A Chinese Foreign Ministry statement on Yang's meeting with Clinton quoted him as saying Japan "must abandon its illusions, face up to reality and earnestly correct its errors."

Clinton was due to meet Japanese Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba and South Korean Foreign Minister Kim Sung-hwan in a three-way meeting on Friday. Japan and South Korea, two close U.S. allies, have also seen their relationship rocked in recent months by maritime territorial disputes.

In hourlong talks on the sidelines of the United Nations on Tuesday, Japan's Gemba urged China to exercise restraint over the dispute. Japanese diplomats described the meeting as "tense," as Gemba endured a stern lecture from China's Yang.

The islands - located in waters thought to be rich in natural gas deposits - have been administered by Japan since 1895, but China has declared them "sacred territory," and Taiwan has also asserted its own sovereignty over the area.

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Tokyo and Beijing have traded increasingly sharp words in the dispute, which has seen both countries send patrol boats in a game of cat-and-mouse in the waters near the disputed islands, raising concerns that an unintended collision or other incident could escalate into a broader clash.

The United States has said repeatedly it takes no position on the sovereignty dispute, but believes it is important for China and Japan to work out their differences peacefully.

In her meeting with Yang, Clinton also touched on territorial disputes in the South China Sea that have set Beijing against a number of its Southeast Asian neighbors, including the Philippines, a close U.S. ally.

China has resisted calls by the United States and some Southeast Asian countries to agree on a multilateral framework to settle the disputes, preferring to engage with each of the other less powerful claimants individually.

The U.S. official said Clinton welcomed moves by China to restart informal meetings with members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, or ASEAN, most recently in Cambodia two weeks ago, as a sign of progress.

"We expect these meetings are going to continue in the lead-up to the East Asia Summit in November," the official said. "This is precisely what the secretary has been advocating, that they restart a dialogue."

Clinton met later with a delegation of ASEAN ministers, who were guardedly upbeat about China's latest moves, a second U.S. official said.

"We are going to have to wait and see over the course of the next several weeks, but we have obviously encouraged the process to grow and deepen," the official told reporters.

Clinton and her Chinese counterpart also discussed North Korea, which remains locked in a dispute with the international community over its nuclear program, as well as the possible next steps as the world's major powers confront Tehran over its own nuclear ambitions, the official said.

Clinton also raised the issue of Syria, where China has joined Russia in blocking U.S.-led moves within the U.N. Security Council to take tough measures against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad as his government engages in a bloody struggle against armed rebels.

(Additional reporting By Paul Eckert; Editing by Todd Eastham and Peter Cooney)

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UPDATE 1-Soccer-Kaka recalled by Brazil after two-year absence

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RIO DE JANEIRO, Sept 27 (Reuters) - Former World Player of the Year Kaka is set to play his first match for Brazil for more than two years after being recalled on Thursday for next month's friendlies.

The Real Madrid player, plagued by injuries over the last few seasons, was included in the squad for the games against Iraq in Sweden on Oct. 11 and against Japan in Poland five days later.

He has not played for his country since the 2-1 defeat by the Netherlands at the 2010 World Cup quarter-final.

It was the second time he has been called up under the leadership of coach Mano Menezes, who replaced Dunga following the tournament in South Africa.

However, on the previous occasion last year, Kaka subsequently had to drop out with injury and missed the matches against Gabon and Egypt.

The 30-year-old, who made his debut for Brazil in 2002, has won 82 caps and played at the last three World Cups.

There was still no place in the squad for Lazio midfielder Hernanes, who is considered one of the most creative midfielders in Serie A.

Menezes is rebuildlng the team for the 2014 World Cup, which Brazil will host, and is trying to move them away from their counter-attacking style which they developed under Dunga.

Despite 12 wins in their last 14 matches, Menezes has been cricitised for Brazil's performances amid speculation that former coach Luiz Felipe Scolari, who led Brazil to World Cup victory in 2002, could be recalled closer to the tournament.

Goalkeepers: Jefferson (Botafogo), Diego Alves (Valencia) Victor (Atletico Mineiro)

Defenders: Adriano (Barcelona), Daniel Alves (Barcelona), Alexsandro (Porto), Marcelo (Real Madrid), David Luiz (Chelsea), Dede (Vasco da Gama), Leandro Castan (AS Roma), Thiago Silva (Paris St Germain)

Midfielders: Fernando (Gremio), Paulinho (Corinthians), Giuliano (Dnipro), Ramires (Chelsea), Sandro (Tottenham), Kaka (Real Madrid), Lucas (S?o Paulo), Oscar (Chelsea), Thiago Neves (Fluminense)

Forwards: Hulk (Zenit St Petersburg), Leandro Damiao (Internacional), Neymar (Santos) (Reporting by Pedro Fonseca; Writing by Brian Homewood; editing by Ed Osmond)

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Blogging? Again? | Internet Marketing

Blogging may be something you have heard so much about but have not paid much attention to. Some people are even afraid of showing their ignorance and do not want to ask what a blog is.

What are blogs?

Blogs are web logs that are regularly updated, some even daily. They consist of information that is related to a certain topic. In some cases, blogs are used as daily diaries about people's personal lives, political views and commentaries.

Simply put, blogs can be made into whatever the author want them to be.

What is the origin of blogging?

Blogs can be traced back in the 1990?s. Who started them is not known. Although it started during that time, it was in 1999 that people got into blogging.

The first blogs were just personal commentaries and mostly web tours. It is ironic that these blogs were initially thought of as diaries or journals online. But now, they have already turned into the latest web content that is being done by just about anyone.

What is the importance of blogging?

For the individuals, blogging is a trendy and classy thing to do. You get to write what you want, add some pictures into it and put links that are related and useful to the message you are writing about.
But for businesses, they found blogs to be the answer to getting back the customers that they used to have by presenting them with new and fresh contents not seen anywhere else.

It is a fact that content is very important for an online business. Not only because they are the ones being found by search engines for site optimization, but also they give visitors a reason to come back to get more information.

What are some types of blogs?

1. The professional blogs.
These kinds of blogs allow businesses to tell their customers or potential customers about the latest news or updates in their industry. This is also where they can catch up on the development being done in their business.

These blogs are updated daily to be able to increase the chance of search engine to spider them. This also increases the page rank of a certain site because they are submitted to blogging directories.

2. Personal blogs.?
Just about anyone can write this kind of blog. This is where people get to share their ideas, thoughts and everything else they want other people to read about. Some of these blogs are not into page ranks and search engine optimization. They may be just for fun or informational purposes.
What is the most widely used type of blogging?

The most widely used blogs are the business blogs. It seems that companies and businesses have already realized the benefits they can get from blogging and is making them a substantial part of their growth.

To use blogs for business purposes, you first have to know how it can benefit you. It would be best if you have a schedule made and stick with it. Let your readers know what your blogs are all about and when to expect them.

Blogs can give valuable supplemental content and attention to areas of businesses that you want to highlight. You get to direct and guide your readers on your blogs.

What are the things needed in creating a blog?

Nowadays, there are a variety of tools that can be used in creating blogs. It is advisable to use the standard html version because of security reasons.

Making blogs are as easy as typing an email. All you need is to put in the content and send it to the web server. Once done, it is directly printed on your page and displayed there for an amount of time.

What are other advantages of blogging?

While you may originally create a blog for your existing customers, you may find that you are able to attract more and new customers by writing about your expertise in a specific field.

There are many websites that act as "blog search engines". Be sure to submit your sites to these websites to boost your exposure. This will also help with your page rank and possibly increase the possibility of you getting a respectable ranking with Google.

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AOL?s First Mobile Game ?Clucks? Uses Nuance Voice Recognition In A Video- And Turn-Based Mobile Word Game

Among consumers, AOL is probably best known for its media holdings (it owns sites like TechCrunch, Engadget and HuffingtonPost, as well as AOL.com) and its past life as an ISP, but it has long been trying to position itself as a mobile content player as well -- and today sees the latest development in that direction. It's launching Clucks -- a quirkily-named social mobile word-guessing game that (perhaps cynically) hits all the right trends. It uses?mobile video via the Viddy network; it's based on turn-based gameplay a la Song Pop and Draw Something; it offers social graph integration with Facebook; and voice recognition, using APIs from Nuance, the voice company's first foray into mobile gaming. But you know what? I think AOL may just be on to something.

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PAM HOGARTH | VIEW Conference 2012 | Digital Cinema, Virtual ...

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Pam has also served on many educational advisory boards and presented at conferences around the globe. As Director of Marketing she has turned her green thumb to growing LOOK?s footprint in the entertainment production industry.

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What does it take to build a successful career in visual effects besides artistic and/or technical talent and knowing the right software packages? Using the story of 3D artist, Josh Mossotti, and a specific project he is working on, this presentation will cover the ?other stuff? you need to survive and thrive in the competitive world of visual effects. Come, listen to Pam Hogarth, who has done placement and recruiting in the industry for more than 15 years and find out if you have what it takes.?

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Survey finds area Internet inadequate | Spirit Of Jefferson

MARTINSBURG? ? Internet options and service quality are reportedly inadequate across much of West Virginia?s Eastern Panhandle Region, according to results of a recent survey tapping public opinion on the state of broadband across Berkeley, Jefferson, and Morgan counties.?

?? ? About 1,400 residents and businesses responded to the survey conducted by the Region 9 Eastern Panhandle Regional Planning and Development Council, which provides a snapshot of the current state of Internet service in the area and sets the stage for planned improvements.

?We are pleased with the responses and the interest people in our area have on this important issue,? said Matthew Mullenax, Region 9 Planning and Development Council GIS analyst. Mullenax headed up the survey.

Conducted over a seven-week period between July 9 and Aug. 24, surveys were made available in numerous formats, including online through Region 9 and partnering organizations? websites, through email blasts, via public service announcements in area media outlets, and in paper format at local libraries and the Region 9 office. ?

About 95 percent of the respondents said they have Internet access. However, only 27 percent of residents and 45 percent of businesses have high-speed, broadband Internet capacity, according to speed standards established by the Federal Communications Commission.?

Although service reliability was rated favorably among survey respondents (66 percent of residents and 78 percent of businesses), problems were indicated with lack of choices among service providers, cost, and speed.?

The Region 9 coverage area has two dominant Internet providers ? Frontier Communications and Comcast ? that service 86 percent of the residents and 72 percent of the business respondents. According to poll results, more than 62 percent indicated they are dissatisfied with the limited choice in providers. Additionally, 57 percent of residents and 33 percent of businesses are dissatisfied with the cost of Internet service. ?

Survey results, along with an examination of state broadband initiatives and best practices in broadband improvement and expansion elsewhere in the country, will be studied by Region 9?s Regional Broadband Planning Team, which consists of community and business leaders, as well as Internet service providers.?

The RBPT will develop a regional Broadband Strategic Plan to expand Internet coverage, improve service efficiencies, and increase awareness of the economic and lifestyle benefits of broadband Internet service throughout the Panhandle Region.?The Broadband Strategic Plan is expected to be completed by December.

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CEO of BlackBerry maker makes case for comeback

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) ? Research In Motion CEO Thorsten Heins is convinced the company's BlackBerry phone is poised to regain its stature as a trailblazing device even as many investors fret about its potential demise.

Heins took the stage Tuesday at a conference for mobile applications developers to rally support for the upcoming release of BlackBerry 10, a new operating system that Research In Motion Ltd. is touting as its salvation after years of blundering.

The gathering in San Jose, Calif., served as the equivalent of a revival meeting for RIM. The Canadian company has been laying off thousands of workers to offset growing losses after being outmaneuvered by iPhone maker Apple Inc. and other phone makers relying on Google Inc.'s Android software.

"We recognize the need for change," said Heins, who was promoted to CEO in January as RIM's troubles deepened. "There is a new energy and a lot of fighting spirit at RIM."

Heins and other top RIM executives used the conference to provide a glimpse at some of BlackBerry 10's new features. The redesigned software won't hit the market until a still-unscheduled date early next year.

That means RIM's new software won't be available during the holiday shopping season, costing the company more sales during a period when millions of people are expected to be snapping up the latest iPhone, Android device and even a new handset from another struggling mobile phone company, Nokia, that is tying its fate to Microsoft's latest Windows software.

Despite RIM's missteps, the BlackBerry still commands a huge following with about 80 million subscribers, thanks mostly to its appeal to corporate customers who like the device's security and compatibility with their email systems.

Heins did his best to argue that the BlackBerry 10 will be worth the wait.

"We are committed to making BlackBerry 10 an inflection point in mobile computing," Heins said.

The system is being designed to make it easier to find and use multiple applications simultaneously by swiping a finger across the phone's display screen instead of having to press on a home button to navigate through a menu of programs, like the iPhone requires. All notifications from various applications are supposed to be sent a central point known as the BlackBerry Hub.

In an attempt to cater to its main customer base of business users, RIM also promises BlackBerry 10 will offer more security features, better calendar management features and more tools to connect with other workers.

RIM is retooling the software to adapt to the growing number of people who want a smartphone that can fulfill both their personal and professional needs. In an effort to make its phones better suited for employees who want to use their personal phones for work instead of relying on employer-issued devices, the new system includes a feature called "BlackBerry Balance." That enables users to touch an icon on the screen to toggle between two different menus of applications and services, one set up for personal stuff and the other programmed for work.

"We are convinced this platform will shape the next 10 years as profoundly and as positively as BlackBerry shaped the last decade," Heins said.

Investors appeared to be heartened by what they heard and saw from RIM Tuesday. The company's stock gained 32 cents, or 5 percent, to $6.62 in Tuesday's afternoon trading. That's still far below the stock's peak price of about $148, reached in June 2008. The iPhone was seen then more as a technology toy for affluent geeks and the first wave of Android-powered devices had not yet been released.

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Invent your monsters sparingly: a conversation with Ned Vizzini ...

I sat down with Ned on a Saturday. He was feeling rough, having consumed something gnarly at a dinner party the night before in an incredibly storied Hollywood Hills house. Soon after this interview, he was struck with food poisoning. Ned?s a busy guy: his book, The Other Normals, comes out today, and the TV show he writes for with Nick Antosca, Last Resort, premieres in two days. He?s also working on a movie with Nick called Woogles, and writing a series of middle grade novels with Chris Columbus (of Harry Potter fame). And he?s a relatively new dad. Below is a transcript of our conversation, Ned drinking down gut-calming tea?

I?ve known you since you first came to LA, and I wanna know if there was any event in particular that coincided with you starting this book.

Yeah. There were two things about a decade apart. One was towards the end of high school. I was out with some friends, hanging out in the park. And I hung out with a lot of Russian kids in high school. And I had a shorter, more wily Russian friend, who?s in my first book. His name is Owen. I also had a taller, bigger, more militaristic?

A Dolph Lundgren?

In that vein. He ended up joining the military. He?s the person who told me that the US military still trains against the Russians, that when you?re doing an exercise in the military, you?re still?

Fighting the commies.

Yes. And I asked him why, and he said, ?Because we?re the baddest motherfuckers around.?

That?s awesome.

Anyway, these two friends and I were in the park. I had been into Dungeons & Dragons and Magic cards in high school, and I had this realization that if we were in the fantasy world, my smaller friend would have like the dagger, and my big friend would have the two-handed axe?

They?d be the thief and the barbarian respectively.

Right, and I?d be the warrior! I?d be the leader, I supposed.

You?re the leader and the generalist.

The generalist, right. Sometimes, you just end up staying the generalist long enough to be the leader. But I realized in this group I?d be the one with the sword. And that got me thinking what it would be like to write about someone that finds themselves in a fantasy world. And I?ve always loved narratives that had that moment where the rabbit hole opens and there?s no turning back.

Fast forward to the late 2000?s. After I wrote It?s Kind of a Funny Story, I spent two years working on a book. It had the working title Urban Renewal Renewal. It was about Brooklyn gentrification, specifically about someone that tries to reverse gentrify their neighborhood ? bring in homeless people, drive down property values. It?s one of those ideas that sounds kinda good, and I think that?s why I stuck with it for awhile, and it was my attempt to write a big, adult, literary novel.

Trying the Lethem thing?

Sure. I loved Fortress of Solitude, I love Motherless Brooklyn. There?s a book called The Landlord from the late 60?s [by Kristin Hunter, 1966] that covers some of this ground, that was turned into a film. I wanted to do a book like that. When I started writing, writing for teenagers wasn?t something anybody was proud of or happy to do. Except for those of us who did it ? but even we got asked at parties, ?When are you gonna write a real book??

Oh Jesus Christ.

And I think I had to try to do that, and this was that book. And it was very hard. It came out very long, and ultimately?

How long?

The first draft was maybe 580 pages. But ultimately my agent told me, ?This doesn?t feel like the right thing right now.? It was actually a really big relief to be told that by someone I trusted ?

You don?t have to be that guy.

Yeah. And literally the same day that I got that news, I started thinking, ?What about this kid that gets trapped in a role-playing world?? And I started working on The Other Normals. It wasn?t easy, either, but it was definitely closer to what I?m comfortable with, and even what I like to write about. I mean, if you?re not having any fun at all?

What the fuck?s the point.

You?re not supposed to have fun, because it?s work. But you need to have a little fun.

?Oh jesus, I have to go try to write my masterpiece now.? That?s a little silly.

I think so, yeah. My body reacts physically to writing that I don?t enjoy doing. If I?m sitting in front of a computer screen trying to write something that I hate, I?ll kind of shut down and go into a weird torpid state that?s half-depressed and half-asleep. So I have a built in feedback mechanism.

I mean, this other book exists. And maybe some day I?ll go back to it. I think I could get something out of it. It covered a lot of ground.

You think you could take the same conceit and move it into the domain you?re really good at?

It?s an interesting idea. The thing that attracts me to young adult novels is? No kid really cares about a scheme. Kids care about love and death and art. A lot of adult novels have a main character who is going to pull off something really great ? he?s trying to sell his company, or she?s trying to convince her friend that she?s carrying their surrogate child, when really, it?s the nanny, or whatever. Those sorts of plots are? I don?t think that they?re contrived, it?s just that I can?t see a teenage character trying to pull off a crazy real estate scheme.

It?s weird because, and you may balk at this, but I think you and Dennis Cooper are working toward the same place, just doing it by different methods. You?re both trying to capture that non-bullshit zone, that also can feel packed full of the most toxic bullshit, but the overly complicated feelings of being a teenager. You?re just doing it by different methods. It obviously is a domain that is vital because? we?re our better selves! Well, we?re more obnoxious, but we?re more honest. You know what you want to do or don?t do at 17, and you know exactly why.

I don?t wanna quote Pearl Jam lyrics, but I will: the idea on Vitalogy that ?all that?s sacred comes from youth / you?ve got no power, nothing to do / I still remember, why don?t you?? My father says it?s the most Technicolor time in your life.

Besides being a baby.

That novel has yet to be written. That?s a damn good idea.

?See In Pure Color?.

I love it.

There?s your big novel. That?ll fetch you the Nobel. See In Pure Color by Ned Vizzini.

The stock title I always have for ersatz literary work is ?The Shadow In My Shoes.? But Technicolor ? the highs are very high in adolescence; the lows are very low; everything is remembered. You?re going through your firsts: your first love, your first date, your first kiss, your first car accident. I honestly think that one of the big things that happens in adulthood is phone calls to customer service. I think there?s something deadening about the amount of time you spend on them. That?s something you don?t do as a kid.

It?s the bullshit. You get wedged in the beauracracy. Have you seen Barry Lyndon? It?s like when he starts doing paperwork. After fighting and loving and being a rapscallion. Then he starts signing bills. It?s the most terrifying ending in all of Kubrick?s movies, including The Shining.

That reminds me of the end of Goodfellas. And in a way you can look at being in the mob as a kind of prolonged adolescence. And that?s one of the reasons maybe that it exists as a genre. Being a vampire is prolonged adolescence. Being a werewolf is prolonged adolescence. A lot of writing is about teenagers, even if it?s not specifically about teenagers. And then a lot of literary fiction these days is about teenagers, even it?s not young adult fiction. Which I think is a trend.

Write your big ?real? book and just change the label. But then you sacrifice a great audience. I remember reading A Confederacy of Dunces at 13 or 14 and being blown away, and I think that?s what pushed me down the rabbit hole of being weird and liking art, and liking weird art. It would be kinda sad if you did that, in a way. But I also say this because I?m a big fan of your writing. I read The Other Normals and enjoyed the shit out of it. And not only that, the thing that I immediately got is that your attention to language is gorgeous. There were sentences that were as good as anything in ?Literary Fiction? fiction. But you don?t sacrifice the stuff that your dad taught you is important: you ?deliver the goods.?

?Deliver the goods? is a phrase that my father used to say when we left a movie. When we saw Jurassic Park, he said, ?That movie delivered the goods.? And what it meant was? In writing, it?s very hard to find absolutes or objective judgments that people can agree on. What is a great book? What is a great sentence? With very few exceptions, it?s all debatable. But when you?re reading a book like Jurassic Park, and a lawyer gets eaten by a T-Rex, it?s hard to debate the viscerally positive reaction that you have as a reader. Now I?m sure some people will debate it?

Lawyers.

But for me ?the goods? always meant that it doesn?t matter how that film we just saw (my father was always more into film than novels) was constructed, who the actors were ? in terms of delivering a story that made you sit up and feel something, it delivered. That?s the sort of thing I was aiming for in this book.

When you were in high school and playing D & D, did you ever have an experience with a particularly excellent dungeon master where you felt like completely zoned into somewhere else? Or was there always a background process running of, ?Goddamn I hope no one sees me playing this and I?m getting hungry for Stouffer?s lasagna.?

Dungeons and Dragons was a sort of mythological experience, because it was never as good as the books made it seem. It was always two hours of figuring out what your character was, then somebody?s mom said they have to go home? It takes a long time to get to the part where you actually play. And then it gets good, and can get great. But my experience with a good DM didn?t happen until later in life, while I was living in Brooklyn working the check out at the Park Slope Food Coop (which is a horrible place that I?m glad to be away from). I had a copy of the Monstrous Manual on my lap. What attracted me to Dungeons & Dragons was always these charts, and the data ? holy moly, there are sixteen types of dragons; and this one hordes this kind of treasure and that one hordes that kind of treasure.

The encyclopedia-type stuff.

Yes. Like people who collect baseball cards or play World of Warcraft ? same thing. I was looking at this book in my lap and a woman came up to checkout and said, ?Do you play?? And I said, ?Not really, I haven?t for a long time.? And she said, ?Well my husband runs games.? I was in my late 20s, and I started playing with these guys in their late 20s, 30s, in Park Slope. And they were mostly employed. One of them worked with little kids in a preschool. And he would say, ?Three-year-olds are dicks. Just dicks. All of them. Two-year-olds care about their poop, four-year-olds you can reason with, five-year-olds are great, but three-year-olds are dicks.?

Those games, in part because these were vets and had been playing together for a long time, quickly achieved the kind of interactive storytelling a role-playing game can have. We were all fighting a minotaur once, and somebody at the table farted, really badly, and the dungeon master goes, ?THE STENCH OF THE MINOTAUR WRAPS AROUND YOU!? That was a great moment. And in my work in television, I found that interactive storytelling is what TV writing is, too.

You take whoever farted in the room and Walter White is suddenly utilizing a noxious gas.

No, not like that. People fart very, very surreptitiously in television writers? rooms.

That doesn?t sound like the writers? room I want to be in.

Maybe there are some where people are farting away.

Sitcoms.

But when it?s cooking in the room, that?s what it feels like. Someone will be saying, ?This character?s gonna do this thing,? and you realize in your head, Oh, I know what this character can do! And you jump in, and you say it, and they go, ?Okay yeah great,? and you keep going and you build? it?s like Dungeons & Dragons. I was surprised by it.

And did you ever play DM with these guys? The pros?

No, I always wanted to. To me, to be a dungeon master? there?s so much preparation. It?s like a little sandcastle; it?s fun to build it. I liked making little charts and maps, but I was also a mimic as kid. I would play a video game and try to design a video game. I?d read a science fiction novel to write a science fiction novel.

I was the same exact way. Still am, I think.

I think it?s an important thing to hold on to. It?s the first step in crafting in your own work. And the people who are very good mimickers are very, very successful. I don?t think they?re hacks. I think it?s a real talent.

They have incredible pattern recognition.

Right.

Like I said, I was the same way, I was obsessed with fantasy novels. I read the Redwall series, the Eye of the World series, some of the George R. R. Martin stuff, the Scions of Shannara series, or every book in the series that was in my middle school library. I jumped series to series for years. When I was reading your book, I was like, ?Holy shit, my friend is doing what I?ve always wanted to do, which is write a fantasy novel.? But you come at it from a different angle. How did you keep that in mind while you were writing the book? Both, I gotta pay homage to this and this, or what I wanna do differently?

I love Redwall. I love Lord of the Rings, although to be honest when I tried to reread it, I was shocked by how much of it was just songs. I got a little tired of the songs.

In terms of writing The Other Normals, I learned that proper nouns are dangerous. That if you invent a lizard monster called the ?Ya?treez,? and they?re three feet long, and they?re on leashes, and they?re like guard dogs but giant lizards? Having made them up, they have meaning for you. But your reader is never going to have the same connection to the word ?Ya?treez.? So you really have a limited number of proper nouns you can invent. Once you?ve built a really big world, in multiple books, you can sneak in as many as you want. But if you flood those in there, you?re going to lose readers.

What I liked about it too is the conceit that alternate universes then joined up. You buy it because it?s just off enough. But at the same time the characters in the other world are jaded, and there are business men, and abuses of power. It?s all that fun shit that obviously we?ve all got a taste of, especially when we?re teenagers. I bought it. Including little dog boys that run around and are overzealous and get eaten alive. I bought it.

Thank you. The conceit of the book, the idea that we live in a multiverse that is constantly splitting into alternate realities, and that two of those realities came back together after splitting and developing separately? That was something I spent way too much time reading about. I probably spent 100 hours on that stuff.

Get your Brian Greene down?

I actually liked Many Worlds in One: The Search for Other Universes by Alex Valenkin. I also spoke to a professor at my college. I went to Hunter College, and I talked to this guy when I did Be More Chill too, when I was interested in the idea of a quantum computer. His name is Professor Mark Hillery. He looks like a badass too:

He is a quantum computing researcher. His background is in physics; his specialty now is quantum computing, and he?s actually doing this stuff. The practical applications of quantum computing are a ways away because you have to have a computer that basically operates at absolute zero, without ever interacting the world outside, but from a theoretical standpoint?

Doable. And has been done, right? Transferring the tiniest tiniest tiniest bit of information?

The things that have been demonstrated with real practical value are quantum entangled states, where two particles that have no reason to be talking to one another, and are separated by long distances, effect one another because they?ve been previously paired. And I got really into books about that. And I interviewed Professor Hillery; and I have this crazy notebook filled with quantum physics notes ? it?s in Florida, I donated it to the The Ted Hipple Young Adult Literature Collection. So it?s there now, not that it would really mean anything anyway; it meant very little to me. But the thing I really gravitated towards was the idea that when you remove information from a quantum system, it can come back together.

That information is a ghost.

Yeah. And then I tried to look up great losses of information in history, and I found that in 1258, when the Mongols sacked Baghdad, they went into the Bayt Ul-Hikma, the library of Baghdad that kept all of the recorded works from the golden era of Baghdad. Prior to the Renaissance, when great work in mathematics and astronomy was being done there. And they threw it all in the Tigris River. And the river ran black with ink, according to legend. And I thought maybe that moment could be the moment when so much information was lost in our universe ? and coincidentally, a whole bunch of information was lost in another universe ? that the two came back together and became connected.

I geeked out over that stuff because I was the incredibly obnoxious twelve year old kid reading Brian Greene and trying to teach my theater class about string theory.

I think that?s another example, as a teenager ? that?s another version of baseball cards, or Dungeons & Dragons, learning real science. I had an appetite for science when I was that age that I don?t have anymore.

Same.

I also got into The Golden Bough by Frazer. In many ways it?s the seminal Western anthropology text. It was made by this guy James G. Frazer in the early part of the 20th century. He also looks like a badass:

Everybody reads The Hero with a Thousand Faces, but in that book I found Joseph Campbell referring to this guy Frazer, and referring to him as if obviously I, as a reader, should know who he was. So I looked him up. Frazer traveled to a lot of societies that are now gone from the Earth. Their way of life is gone. And he recorded everything from aboriginal beliefs in Australia, to Papa New Guinea, and he lived with hundreds of societies. And he tried to come up with rules for how humans interact with the idea of ?magic.? And he found that magic had common threads in all societies. And one of them was the ?principle of contagion.? Magic works on the idea that once I attach some of your hair to this voodoo doll, if I poke the voodoo doll, you will feel it, even though you and the doll are a hundred miles apart?

Everything has an unseen spectral connection.

Things are connected in ways that we can?t see. And I thought there was something very fascinating about that, that it was similar to the entangled states in quantum physics. So The Golden Bough book was a real eye opener for me. And it?s not hard to read; they just put out an illustrated version on Kindle; it?s fun stuff.

There?s a guy named David Graeber who?s an anarchist anthropologist?

Is this the Debt guy?

Yeah, but he wrote a little book called Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology. And he says that the most peaceful societies have the biggest spectral world. That they have the most ominous border. That essentially they have to behave because if you don?t, you?re going to have a blood debt for a million years and ghosts are going to eat your fucking baby and so on and so forth. It?s that same idea ? if you want to have peace here, you have to have these massive looming presences of doom. But also in war with each other, constantly at war with each other. And very diffuse ? it didn?t seem at all like good/evil, God/Devil. It was much more like this cabal of invisible witches that pop up when you steal a neighbor?s chicken. But it?s that idea.

So I was obviously thinking, Ned?s gonna follow this book up because it?s going to sell a bajillion copies, that?s the hope, right?

I haven?t written a sequel yet to any of my books. I enjoy The Other Normals and every time I read it and get to the end, I feel a little bit of the excitement that I felt when I finished it. When I finish a book, I have this feeling come over my body that?s the opposite of the torpid feeling I get from working on a bad book. I feel electric all over. Right now I don?t have any plans to do a sequel to it, though, because I have other things going on, and because in my mind sequels are always a little cheap. They are. Show me the sequel that?s really really great.

Godfather Part Two.

Well that?s a film.

You?re right.

I liked Imperial Bedrooms. That seemed like the right way to do a sequel: wait a long time and come back to it. I don?t particularly like Michael Crichton?s The Lost World, which is just, ?We?re back on the island! Dinosaurs!?

?It?s happening AGAIN!?

I feel that he was at his best moving from project to project.

Although you could have so much fun with the multiple universes.

There could be a lot of? As I heard Seth Grahame-Smith say after a screening of Dark Shadows when someone asked about a sequel, ?Let?s let the market speak.? Anything?s possible, but it?s not something I?ve planned right now.

While writing this book did you have any difficulties separating in your head the different languages of screenwriting and book writing? Because I know you?re doing both pretty simultaneously.

No. I think I learned from screenwriting. I think there?s an assumption that if you write a book you can write a screenplay, and that?s totally bogus. Screenplays are not easy; they?re a different beast. But just living in LA, I learned a lot about story. And I?d like to think that story is story.

Sure. Story is the totem, here. You must worship at the idol of story, and then you?ll be bestowed riches from the heavens.

One funny thing is in Adaptation, when Donald Kaufman is reading that book that helps him write, it?s Robert McKee?s Story. I thought it was an invented book from the movie, but it?s a real book! Hundreds of thousands of people read and revere? I haven?t read it. I think sometimes it?s good to keep away from that stuff because you end up sounding like everybody else.

You start pumping out the pattern. Fill the slots, cobble it together, here?s your thing. I think you get these people trying to replicate these patterns, not realizing the whole reason these patterns exist in the first place is because it comes from one? You do it naturally. Every minute we walk around and look at the sun in the sky, we?re constantly pasting experience into that form.

Yeah. We have an innate desire to create narrative. I think it?s what makes fiction work. One of the most dangerous things that can happen to you as a writer is when you start questioning your narrative sense, in the positive or the negative. You really have to be able to say, ?Oh, there?s a reason this isn?t working. Now I have to go find it.? It?s always a pain in the butt. But if you convince yourself, ?I?ll just keep going, no one will notice that part doesn?t work, because something cool happens later??

Insert explosion.

Or a love interest ? then you?re screwed.

The converse can be bad too. Sometimes you really love a turn in your story, but you don?t wanna go there because it?s not how you planned to do it, or it?d be hard to write what comes next, so you stick to your plan. That?s how you get books that don?t work.

Do you feel yourself, with this book, fearful that, in the grandest way possible, you?ve mined the young adult territory? Do you feel a pressure to go, holy shit, how do I go attack this again?

No, that?s not something I worry about. The thing that I?m worried about with this book is that it?s very different from my last book, and that it?s the first time I?m doing something with a fantasy element. It?s been good to me so far. I had sold the book and was editing it when I got the opportunity to co-write House of Secrets with Chris Columbus. I don?t think that would?ve arisen had my agent not been able to say, ?Well, Ned can write this stuff.? So it opened doors. I?m not interested in doing the same thing over and over. I?m not interested in doing It?s Kind of a Funnier Story. I think there?s plenty more in the young adult book world for me to do. My next project is going to be more realistic, and? I don?t really wanna say anything else about it, except that it?s going to hinge on the relationship between a kid and his uncle.

I remember you mentioning that years ago.

It?s still gonna happen, it?s been delayed by House of Secrets and?

Having gigs.

Having gigs. But I think that?s good too, because I?m collecting material for it. And I want it to be about the artistic impulse, about how as a teenager you don?t realize the power that you have when you say, ?Hey I wanna make a comic book.? You can up and do that kind of stuff. When you?re in your 30s, everybody just ? unless you?re an artist already ? they?re think you?re weird, and not just weird, stupid and irresponsible. And even if you are an artist, they think you?re stupid and irresponsible. And a lot of young people don?t realize the freedom they have as artists, and I?d like this book to explore that a bit. That?ll be a young adult book, and after that, I don?t know. I?d like to write lots of different things, and I didn?t die in my 20s, so I?m going to be alive for a long time now.

You say that like it?s a curse. Somedays it feels like a curse.

I really revered young romantic death as teenager. I don?t think I was alone in that. I also fell prey to picking up artistic heroes and thinking that I had to live like them. Not realizing that I can be my own person and I?

Don?t have to blow your brains out.

Yeah, and not just that, also? You don?t have to live like a person because you love their books. But the blowing your brains out, that?s part of it.

We?re ending there.

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Strength training is the use of resistance to muscular contraction to build the strength, anaerobic endurance, and size of skeletal muscles. There are many different methods of strength training, the most common being the use of gravity or elastic/hydraulic forces to oppose muscle contraction. See the resistance training article for information about elastic/hydraulic training, but note that the terms ?strength training? and ?resistance training? are often used interchangeably.
When properly performed, strength training can provide significant functional benefits and improvement in overall health and well-being, including increased bone, muscle, tendon and ligament strength and toughness, improved joint function, reduced potential for injury, increased bone density, a temporary increase in metabolism, improved cardiac function, and elevated HDL (good) cholesterol. Training commonly uses the technique of progressively increasing the force output of the muscle through incremental increases of weight, elastic tension or other resistance, and uses a variety of exercises and types of equipment to target specific muscle groups. Strength training is primarily an anaerobic activity, although some proponents have adapted it to provide the benefits of aerobic exercise through circuit training.
Strength training differs from bodybuilding, weightlifting, powerlifting, and strongman, which are sports rather than forms of exercise, although training for them is inherently interconnected with strength training, as it is for shotput, discus, and Highland games. Many other sports use strength training as part of their training regimen, notably football, wrestling, rugby, rowing, lacrosse, basketball, hockey, and track and field.

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