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Investment choice
Centuria LifeGoals offers a broad investment menu covering the following asset classes: cash, fixed interest, property, infrastructure, international and Australian shares, small companies, diversified funds and total return targeted funds.
Centuria LifeGoals provide access to a wide range of high quality active investment managers selected by Centuria Life and low-cost specialised index investments.
The active investment managers have been carefully selected to offer a high level of expertise in their chosen fields. They offer different investment styles to satisfy a wide variety of investor goals.
Active investment managers conduct research and choose to be underweight or overweight different stocks and sectors. Their objective is to outperform a relevant index. These investment managers will typically charge a high fee and may have a performance fee. We provide access to a range of active investment managers that vary in style and objectives, who have been selected based on a range of measures.
As part of the selection process, our team meets with and interviews prospective investment managers. Our research is focused on providing access through the Investment Options to high-quality investment managers in each asset class.
We will conduct reviews of the investment menu to monitor whether each Investment Option and investment manager is operating in a manner consistent with the description in this PDS. At times, investment managers with a certain style or bias may underperform and this will be monitored by Centuria Life and investment managers may be replaced from time to time.
A low-cost index option is also available to investors for each major asset class. Index managers aim to replicate the performance of the relevant index they track and will typically have lower management fees as they do not conduct the in-depth research required for active investment management. For example, an Australian large-cap share index manager seeks to mirror the performance of the ASX All Ordinaries Index by replicating its holdings.
Centuria LifeGoals offer a range of index funds and active managers and therefore our menu options are able to help fulfil the investment strategies of a diverse group of investors. Investors can select the investment managers and asset classes that best meet their financial goals.
Investment process
We believe that investment choice is important for investors. Selecting the right investment manager is an important investment decision. Centuria Life undertakes research and due diligence enquiries to select and review the investment managers and funds to place on the investment menu.
The diagram opposite summarises the key considerations Centuria Life uses to select investment managers.
Centuria Life believes that a robust investment process is important to making good long-term decisions. In reviewing investment managers, Centuria Life considers the following:
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Technology During The Olympic Winter Games 2018
Sports clothing that looks exactly like what teams are wearing is a common sight in games. Fans usually order cheap NRL merchandise in Australia to show support towards a team or a specific player. If you get to watch one of the NRL games, it is fun looking at all the different colours of NRL clothing on fans who are cheering at the top of their voice for their favourite teams.
Pyeongchang, South Korea is busy preparing for the 2018 Olympics Winter Games. The official timekeeper of the Olympic Games will be Omega. However, this time everything will be different because technology will showcase aspects of the events that have not been previously tracked in previous games for the audience.
Technologies like the Internet of Things (IoT) and sensors will be ubiquitous during the Olympic Winter Games. Many of the athletes will be wearing suits with embedded sensors and equipment that will track data. If you will be lucky enough to watch closely the bobsledding events, you will be privy to live speed tracking and track paths. The sleds will be in red while the leading team's track will be in blue.
Even the hockey players will be uniforms embedded with sensors with communication capabilities to the wide array of antennas on the ceiling of the arena. The sensors will be providing data on player and puck movements, formations, speeds and distances to be broadcasted to those watching at home.
Snowboarders will be fast-moving but Omega will be able to track jump heights and the averages of the all the jumps including the number of rotations so that viewers will be able to know and see what is actually happening.
Aside from Omega, Samsung will also be present to outfit the Dutch team with sensor-laden suits that can relay data to the coaches. However, the technology will only be available during practice sessions.
With or without technology, fans will remain to support their favourite and players by purchasing cheap NRL merchandise in Australia as well as NRL clothing. Shopping online for NRL merchandise is very convenient because you only need to choose the NRL team to view all the items available.


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Linking Tourism and Conservation (LT&C) is in its third year of operation. It is still a Norwegian-registered international NGO with no paid staff. However, the voluntary, competent and enthusiastic activities of our members allow us us to be a true global player. Not only are our members (penguins) well distributed over all continents, but their uniqueness relates to the fact that we together speak the language of both conservation and tourism and that we represent different society levels and cultures. Linking and identifying synergy among our members and partners is our core business.
One way that the organization is achieving this goal is by profiling LT&C-Examples of tourism that support nature conservation in the form of protected areas. It is also promising to see that our Examples have been featured this past year in the media, such as in the attractive marine protection and travel magazine, SEVENSEAS, or on the platforms of our partner organisations, IUCN-Panorama, Blue Solutions, Mission Blue and The Long Run. LT&C was also proud to see that we could help nominate five of the best LT&C-Examples for the "Sustainable Tourism Top 100" award. The popularity of our Examples has already become an incentive for others to get involved and try to copy them.
In 2016, with support from the tourism sector, we have been actively involved in the establishment of at least two important marine protected areas: the largest one on earth in the Antarctic Ross Sea and the other at the doorstep of our office in Arendal on the Norwegian South coast, Raet National Park.
Going forward, it will be important to encourage our members to think more about possibilities and activities of how to "export" our LT&C-Examples to other places in the world. At the same time, we need to work on creating more incentives by ensuring finance institutions support cases, where LT&C-Example-providers are coupling with Example-replicators. (At the Blue Solutions Africa Forum, a similar recommendation have been formulated for Blue Solution-providers and replicators).
Download and read the full report: LT&C Annual Report 2016 (27.4.). It will be discussed at our Annual General Meeting, May 28 in Iceland.


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|Re: Thorsday Soundoff - 31 January by MitchG
On my list for the week, as well. Weak stuff...it's mostly just note-for-note recreations. It was fine for an Africa one-off, but pointless for a whole album. The only song with any life, IMO, is the Billy Jean cover.Honestly, I didn't even finish it. I got eight tracks in or so, and then thought, "Why am I doing this to myself?" Then I quit. This thing's musical clickbait, top to bottom.
Elton John – Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt CowboyNice. Classic.
Elton John – Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Nordic Union – Second ComingWell, I bought this, and I still haven't listened to it. 2018 stuff's just... continuously getting put off while I dig into other years and other things.
The Virginmarys – Northern Sun SessionsI didn't know they put a new one out. How is it?


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With the advancing business landscape, everything is business is undergoing a change. Business processes are becoming more efficient. The recruitment industry is also changing. Candidates now have more power during the job search as compared to a few years ago. In this candidate-driven market, it is more about talent picking you than you choosing them.
The modern recruiting paradigm treats the candidates like customers and therefore, is giving rise to many new recruiting trends. Here are the seven top recruiting trends that will help you win the war of talent in 2019.
- Recruitment Marketing
Recruitment marketing refers to the implementation of marketing tactics in the recruiting process. Under this, the organizations use the marketing methods to attract the talent to apply to work with them. The current situation in the market has given rise to this trend. The businesses now extensively advertise and market themselves in order to find skilled people for the work.
- Inbound Recruitment
The contemporary shift in recruitment trends has made way for the shift from outbound recruitment to inbound recruitment. In the current scenario, reaching out to the candidates and offering them open positions is not the way to go. Today the organizations make efforts to proactively attract candidates so that they choose them as their employer. Therefore, the goal here is to attract and convert candidates. This is the recruitment trend that you should adopt if you are looking forward to hiring the best talent.
- Talent Pools
Talent pool refers to a database where the recruiters have kept all their top candidates. This does not only contain the job seekers who have joined with them or applied with them already but also contains the details of candidates who have been sourced and referred through various channels. This may also have the individuals who have willingly joined your pool for any future job opportunities. Whenever there is a new job opening, talent pools make it easier for the employers to find the employees who are fit for the job.
- Social Media Recruitment
Social media is now quite instrumental in the recruitment process. Social media channels like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn are playing an important role in finding talent. Social media recruitment is more than just posting job vacancies. It now has provisions to proactively search and apply for jobs. Organizations that have used social media for recruitment purpose have reported significant results as people are more upfront on these networks.
- Data-driven Recruiting
This method of recruiting uses past data and future predictions to plan and make decisions for recruitment. Data is the key here. New technologies like Applicant Tracking Systems allow the organization to get insights on what hiring strategy works the best. It is also used to find out what strategy might work best in a different scenario and what improvements need to be made. The main factors considered are hiring time, cost and quality.
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Talent sourcing is a crucial strategy in the present times. Research has suggested that while there are 90% of people who are looking for new job opportunities but only 36% of them are actively seeking jobs. Talent sourcing differentiates these two kinds of candidates and you can focus on those who are actively looking for jobs.
Employee referrals are the job seekers that are referred to the organization by their employees. These are mostly genuine and talented individuals who are well-trusted by people who are already in the job.
- Collaborative Hiring
Collaborative hiring is a hiring method where the HR team and other departments come together to find and hire talent. It is considered extremely vital to improving the quality of the new hires. This is because, while HR is responsible to get the candidate on board, it is only the other departments where these candidates will work and therefore, they must fit in.
Recruitment is an ever-changing process and it is important to keep an eye on the latest trends to be able to attract the best people. Get in touch with us now if you need help with recruitment.


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1 First edition publication information (publisher, place, date, etc.)
Tom Wolfe. The Bonfire of the Vanities.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1987.
© 1987 Tom Wolfe
Although The Bonfire of the Vanities was first published from July 1984 until July 1985 in Rolling Stone Magazine in biweekly serialized installments, this is the first book edition and has been edited from the version originally published in the magazine.
2 First edition published in cloth, paper, or both? If both, simultaneous or staggered?
The first edition is published in hardcover with cloth binding added along the spine only.
3 JPEG image of cover art from first edition, if available
4 Pagination
336 leaves, pp. [12] [1-3] 4-9 [10] 11-27 [28] 29-47 [48] 49-71 [72] 73-99 [100] 101-132 [133] 134-156 [157] 158-184 [185] 186-200 [201] 202-221 [222] 223-237 [238] 239-269 [270] 271-284 [285] 286-305 [306] 307-328 [329] 330-358 [359] 360-373 [374] 375-393 [394] 395-407 [408] 409-414 [415] 416-426 [427] 428-440 [441] 442-481 [482] 483-501 [502] 503-516 [517] 518-536 [537] 538-552 [553] 554-569 [570] 571-580 [581] 582-601 [602] 603-626 [627] 628-656 [657] 658-659 [1]
5 Edited or Introduced? If so, by whom?
Following a page listing the author's other works, Wolf lengthily dedicates The Bonfire of the Vanities to two men with the following:
Doffing his hat,
the author dedicates this book to
who walked among the flames,
pointing at the lurid lights.
And he wishes to express
his deep appreciation to
who first showed the way
6 Illustrated? If so, by whom?
7 JPEG image of sample illustration, if available
8 General physical appearance of book (Is the physical presentation of the text attractive? Is the typography readable? Is the book well printed?)
Pages are 9¼ inches by 6¼ inches; the text on the page is 7½ inches by 4½ inches and centered, rendering the margins around ¾ of an inch.
Despite these small margins, the text is readable, flawlessly printed with minimal age damage. Although the colophon (which is located on the verso of the title page) does not identify the typeface, it can be identified via other sources as CG Elante (90R, an estimated 14 point font). It is single-spaced.
Headings list either the author's name in capitalized letters and the page number or the book's title in italicized letters with the page number. They are also written in CG Elante font, although slightly larger than the text itself (an estimated 16 point font).
Chapter titles are written in bold CG Elante (at an estimated 18 point font) and are written in 1.5-spaced lines. The chapter number is written above in a different, italicized font.
9 JPEG image of sample chapter page, if available
10 Paper (Assess the original quality of the paper used for the book. Is the paper in the copy or copies you examined holding up physically over time?)
The Bonfire of the Vanities is printed on smooth, white paper with straight edges. The paper is wove with an even, granulated appearance across the whole surface.
Minimal smudging (from what appears to be graphite) has occurred on the edges of the top, right, and bottom of the pages. This is only visible from the outside of the book. Beyond this, no yellowing or tearing has occurred on either the library or the private copy.
11 Description of binding(s)
The book is bound in hardcover with its spine bound in cloth. The cardboard is medium reddish Purple color of medium lightness. The cloth is light grey with a dotted-line grain.
The author's name (Tom Wolfe) is laid into the cardboard of the front cover and filled with deep black gilt. Along the spine, the author's name and the publisher (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) are laid into the cloth and filled with silver gilt. The title of the book is stamped in deep black on the cloth.
The horizontal text along the spine can be transcribed as follows:
Tom | Wolfe
The | Bonfire | of the | Vanities
12 Transcription of title page
The | Bonfire | of the | Vanities
Transcription of the verso:
Copyright © 1987 by Tom Wolfe | All rights reserved | First printing, 1987 | Printed in the United States of America | Published simultaneously in Canada by Collins Publishers, Toronto
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data | Wolfe, Tom | The bonfire of the vanities. | I. Title. | PS3573.0526B6 1987 813'.54 87-17691
Grateful acknowledgement is made of the daring JANN WENNER, | who published an early version of this book serially, chapter | by chapter, as it was being written, without a safety net, | in ROLLING STONE magazine
This book's story and characters are fictitious. The setting | is New York City, and certain long-established institutions, | agencies, and public offices are mentioned. But the characters | involved in them are imaginary
A signed first edition of this book has been | privately printed by The Franklin Library
13 JPEG image of title page, if available
14 Manuscript Holdings
Tom Wolfe's manuscripts, including much of the preliminary research for The Bonfire of the Vanities, were sold to the New York Public Library in late 2013. The online database of the archives did not yet have any of these papers scanned, so whether or not the library is in possession of all of the manuscripts for the book cannot be determined without a visit to the archives.
15 Other (typograpical information from title page, etc.)
The front of the dust jacket lists the title and author of the book, further stating "BY THE AUTHOR OF THE RIGHT STUFF" at the bottom. The spine again lists the title and author vertically with "F-S-G" written horizontally at the bottom for the publisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux. The back cover has only a picture of Tom Wolfe.
The front and back flaps of the dust jacket include a book summary continuous across both flaps. The back flap also includes a brief biographical paragraph on the author and cites other bibliographical information, including the illustrator of the jacket design and the photographer for the back cover. Finally, it lists the publisher's address, transcribed as follows:
Farrar Straus Giroux | 19 Union Square West | New York 10003
1 Did the original publisher issue the book in more than one edition? If so, briefly describe distinguishing features of each (illustrations, cover art, typography, etc.); if not, enter N/A
Farrar, Straus, & Giroux did not publish another edition of The Bonfire of the Vanities. The books was published in trade paperback by another publisher with different cover art in 1988.
2 JPEG image of cover art from one subsequent edition, if available
3 JPEG image of sample illustration from one subsequent edition, if available
4 How many printings or impressions of the first edition?
The first printing of the book yielded 200,000 copies. Full details of the printings of the first edition of The Bonfire of the Vanities following this first printing were unavailable because of limited access to the Publisher's Weekly magazine archives before 1990.
Advertising copy from the New York Times sometimes included information on print runs to note the number of copies sold. A December 1987 advertisement suggested that the publisher had completed a fourth printing of the book, which had resulted in a total of 400,000 copies in circulation from all printings. The copy of the first edition from the Brandeis University Library is from a subsequent fifth printing in 1988.
The 1987 hardcover first edition of The Bonfire of the Vanities from Farrar, Straus, & Giroux eventually sold 800,000 copies, so the publisher must have printed at least that many copies of the book to meet demand.
5 Editions from other publishers? If so, list their dates and publishers; if not, enter N/A
In 1988, Bantam Books, an imprint of Random House, issued the first trade paperback edition of The Bonfire of the Vanities (690 pages) with new cover art. A mass-market edition (704 pages) with the same cover was released by Bantam in 1990. Bantam has subsequently reissued both the trade paperback and the mass-market editions under different imprints.
Two editions were released in the United Kingdom during the 1980s. Pan Books published a paperback edition (726 pages) in 1987 and J. Cape (London) published a hardcover edition (659 pages, like the first American edition) in 1988.
A large print edition of The Bonfire of the Vanities (992 pages) was published in 1989 from G. K. Hall Publishers in Boston, MA.
Picador Books (an imprint of Macmillan Publishers, Ltd., which acquired the original publisher of The Bonfire of the Vanities Farrar, Straus, & Giroux in 1994) reissued a trade paperback edition of the novel on new plates (now 752 pages) in 2002. Picador later issued a 689-page trade paperback edition in 2008.
Also in 2008, Charleston, SC publisher BiblioLife published a two-volume historical reprint of the novel on new plates (706 pages).
Vintage Books published a new trade paperback edition (659 pages) in the United Kingdom in 2010.
A full list of published editions is below:
New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1987 (Hardcover) (9780374115340)
United Kingdom: Pan Books, 1987 (Trade Paperback) (9780330306607)
New York: Bantam Books, 1988 (Trade Paperback) (9780553173277)
London: J. Cape, 1988 (Hardcover) (9780224024396)
Boston: G. K. Hall, 1989 (Large Print) (9780816147458)
New York: Bantam Books, 1990 (Mass-Market) (9780553275971)
New York: Picador Books, 2002 (Trade Paperback) (9780330491938)
New York: Picador Books, 2008 (Trade Paperback) (9780312427573)
London: Vintage Books, 2010 (Trade Paperback) (9780099541271)
6 Last date in print?
In 2014, The Bonfire of the Vanities is still in print as a 2008 trade paperback edition from Picador, the literary trade paperback imprint of Macmillan Publishers, Ltd.
7 Total copies sold? (source and date of information?)
The 1987 hardcover first edition of The Bonfire of the Vanities sold a total of 800,000 copies. As of 2008, estimated paperback edition (in both trade paperback and mass-market forms) sales had added around two million copies to the total number of copies sold in America. As the book is still in print in 2014 by one of the largest publishing houses in the country, the exact number of total sales likely remains a trade secret.
8 Sales figures by year? (source and date of information?)
Incomplete access to the Publisher's Weekly archives, which may detail print runs of both the first and later editions that could be used to infer yearly book sales, limited the amount of information to-be-collected on the sales by year.
9 Advertising copy (transcribe significant excerpts, briefly identify where ads were placed)
Advertisements for The Bonfire of the Vanities were placed in newspapers throughout the United States. They oftentimes were accompanied by advertisements for other books, but sometimes were placed near a book review for the novel following its publication in October 1987.
The advertising copy consisted almost entirely of quotations from reviews praising both the book and the author. Among the most-quoted critics across these advertisements for The Bonfire of the Vanities were Jonathan Yardley of the Washington Post's description of the book as "A superb human comedy..." and Frank Conroy of the New York Times's quip that "It grabs you by the lapels and won't let you go."
Relying on the preexisting fame of the author, most advertisements featured an iconic picture of Tom Wolfe with his name printed beneath rather than a photograph of the book cover.
10 JPEG image of sample advertisement, if available
11 Other promotion
Although advertisements for The Bonfire of the Vanities do not lead to other promotional materials, the author Tom Wolfe likely led a promotional tour. New York Times articles from the weeks prior to the book release in October 1987 suggest that Wolfe participated in interviews about the book, his first novel. Furthermore, the publisher Farrar, Straus, & Giroux advertised the upcoming publication of the novel at the Fifth Avenue Book Fair in September 1987.
12 Performances in other media? If so, list media, date, title, production information; if not, enter N/A
A 1990 Warner Brothers film adaptation of The Bonfire of the Vanities starring Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis, and Melanie Griffith was widely criticized by both moviegoers and critics and failed to earn its anticipated revenue at the box office. Of the film, critic Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun Times noted:
"The beauty of the Wolfe book was the way it saw through its time and place, dissecting motives and reading minds. The movie sees much, but it doesn't see through."
13 Translations? If translated, give standard bibliographic information for each translation. If none, enter N/A
Several translations of The Bonfire of the Vanities were published in the years following the publication of the first edition in the United States:
La Foguera de les Vanitats (Catalan), translated by Manuel de Seabra. Barcelona: Pòrtic, 1988. 664 pages.
Het Vreugdevuur der Ijdelheden (Dutch), translated by Jan Fastenau. Amsterdam: Bert Bakker, 1988. 555 pages.
Le Bûcher des Vanities (French), translated by Benjamin Legrand. Paris: Sylvie Messinger, 1988. 704 pages.
Fegefeuer der Eitelkeiten (German), translated by Benjamin Schwarz. München: Kindler, 1988. 847 pages.
Il Falè delle Vanità (Italian), translated by Ranieri Carano. Milan: Mondadori, 1988. 596 pages.
Forfengelighetens Fyrverkeri (Norwegian), translated by Kari Risvik. Oslo: Aschehoug, 1988. 660 pages.
La Hoguera de las Vanidades (Spanish), translated by Enrique Murillo. Barcelona: Editorial Anagrama, 1988. 636 pages.
Fåfängans Fyrverkeri (Swedish), translated by Gunnar Pettersson. Stockholm: Norstedts, 1988. 707 pages.
Turhuuksien Rovio (Finnish), translated by Erkki Jukarainen. Finland: Werner Sodërström Osakeyhtiö, 1989. 696 pages.
A Fogueira das Vaidades (Portuguese), translated by Lia Alverga-Wyler. Rio de Janeiro: Rocco, 1989. 915 pages.
Medurat ha-Havalim (Hebrew), translated by Ivrit Tsipi Borsuk. Tel Aviv: Modan, 1989. 631 pages.
Kyoei no Kagaribi (Japanese), translated by Keiji Nakano. Tokyo: Bungei Shunju, 1991. No page length given.
Ming le Change da Huo (Chinese), translated by Wo Er Fu and Wang Ming Jie. Zheng Zhou: He Nan Ren Min Chu Ban She, 1992. No page length given.
Ognisko Próznósci (Polish), translated by Waclaw Niepokólczycki. Warsaw: Panstwowy Instytut Wydawniczy, 1996. 622 pages.
Kostry Ambistii (Russian), translated by Inny Bernshtein and Vladimira Boshniaka. Moscow: BSCPRESS, 2001. No page length given.
Forfængelighedens Bål (Danish), translated by Anders Bendtsen. Copenhagen: Indhardt og Ringhof, 2007. 567 pages.
14 Serialization? If serialized, give standard bibliographic information for serial publication. If none, enter N/A
Before publication by Farrar, Straus, & Giroux in 1987, The Bonfire of the Vanities was serialized over a year in 24 separate issues of Rolling Stone Magazine from 1984 to 1985.
15 Sequels/Prequels? Give standard bibliographic information for each. If none, enter N/A
Wolfe wrote neither prequels nor sequels to The Bonfire of the Vanities.
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Though now a famous longtime resident of New York City, where he lives with his wife and two children, Mr. Tom Wolfe was "born and raised" in Richmond, Virginia on March 2nd, 1931 (tomwolfe.com). Wolfe's father Thomas, an agronomist and editor of The Southern Planter magazine (The Paris Review), and mother Louise, a landscape designer, always encouraged their son's interest in education and literature (biography.com). As such, Wolfe would receive his Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University in 1957 (tomwolfe.com). He later remarked that he found his literary influence in early Soviet writers "whose books [he] had come across by accident in the stacks at the Yale library" (Frieze Magazine).
After finishing his dissertation at Yale, Wolfe began his career as a newspaper writer, starting first at the Springfield Union in Massachusetts and working his way to The Washington Post. "The newspaper is," Wolfe later reflected in an interview with The Paris Review, "very bad for one's prose style," so he soon moved on to New York and, eventually, Esquire magazines (The Paris Review), where he began to develop the style "that laid the foundation for the New Journalism" (neh.gov), a movement meant to introduce literary appeal and technique to journalism. He recognized that "it just might be possible to write journalism that would...read like a novel," he wrote in a 1972 essay on the development of the technique ("The Birth of 'The New Journalism'"). And because he had "already considered [himself] a very flashy newspaper writer—as newspaper writers went," Wolfe credited some of his unique adoption of literary styles in his New Journalistic approach to his newspaper career (Frieze Magazine).
Wolfe's career as a journalist quickly grew into non-fiction writing. His first book, The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby (1965), was a published collection of New Journalistic articles; even his later, full-length non-fiction works—perhaps most famous among them the bestsellers The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1968) and The Right Stuff (1979)—drew from the technique of New Journalism (tomwolfe.com). Serialized from 1984 to 1985 under Rolling Stone magazine editor Jann Wenner and published in 1987 by Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, The Bonfire of the Vanities was Wolfe's first work of fiction. He would later write the fictional novels A Man in Full (1998), I Am Charlotte Simmons (2004), and Back to Blood (tomwolfe.com). Throughout much of his career as an author, Ms. Lynn Nesbit has served as Wolfe's longtime literary agent and Ms. Pat Strachan, formerly of Farrar, Straus, & Giroux but now of Little, Brown and Company, has served as his editor (New York Observer). Wolfe's manuscripts, which he sold in 2013 for $2.15 million, can be found in the archives of the New York Public Library (New York Times).
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Positive reception of The Bonfire of the Vanities celebrated both Wolfe's humor and his ability to depict an intricate plot. In a New York Times review, Christopher Lehmann-Haupt notes that the novel is "very funny indeed" (Lehmann-Haupt), but still remains a grand, respectable work of fiction. "The plot of Bonfire," Lehmann-Haupt continues, "is an astonishingly intricate machine that manages to mesh at every turn despite its size and complexity" (Lehmann-Haupt). Richard Eder of the Los Angeles Times echoes this sentiment, stating that Wolfe "slides into his novel as if it had been waiting for him all along" (Eder). In transitioning from journalist to novelist, critics agreed that Wolfe seemed to bring his teachings from the former into the latter. Terrance Rafferty of The New Yorker notes that Wolfe—both as a journalist and now as a novelist—"has developed a voice so strong and so distinctive that it allows him to carry anything off" (Rafferty).
Both positive and negative reviewers of the novel recognized Wolfe's mocking tone and harsh criticism of his characters throughout The Bonfire of the Vanities. For Lehmann-Haupt, this was simply "delicious fun with the system" (Lehmann-Haupt). Patrick Wright of The Guardian, however, criticized Wolfe for "relish[ing] the play of racial stereotypes" (Wright). Other critics emphasized the negative consequences that would result from such stereotypes, with Thomas Edwards of The New York Review of Books even wondering "Do such readers, not knowing people like those Wolfe describes (and glad of it), imagine that the book, like a glossy magazine or a TV show, gives believable glimpses of the rich and famous, along with some of the poor and dangerous who are equally stimulating to the powers of moral censure?" (Edwards). Ultimately, Eder concludes that Wolfe "dehumanize[s] [his] targets so they can, in fact, be targets instead of people. And [he] dehumanize[s] [himself] in the process." (Eder)
Further criticism of the novel pointed out the thin, almost cartoonish nature of Wolfe's characters in The Bonfire of the Vanities. Wright states that "the characters are botched together out of old cardboard" (Wright), out of the same stereotypes criticized above. "They can exist only on the outside—in their clothes, their accents, their living arrangements or colleges or cars, the places where they work and play," Edwards continues this same thought. And they are so contrived that "even Jay Gatsby would be embarrassed at having to say such lines" (Edwards), he finishes harshly. These criticisms led many critics to emphasize that Wolfe, ultimately capable of creating only a stereotypical cast of characters laced together by a thin plot, had failed as a novelist. "[Wolfe]'s a novelist in appearance only" (Rafferty), Rafferty writes. "In reality," Wright states, The Bonfire of the Vanities is just "a great rickety heap, planted with firecrackers and propped up with broom-handles and clumsy rigging of the baling-twine variety" (Wright). Essentially, critics—especially serious literary critics learned in the classical literary canon—dismissed The Bonfire of the Vanities as a shallow and sensationalist novel meant, like Wolfe's journalism, to catch the attention of the reader, but not to impart any moral or intellectual meaning in the end.
Blades, John. "Tom Wolfe's Cartoon Novel." Chicago Tribune (October 18th, 1987).
Eder, Richard. "Malice Toward All, Charity Toward Some." Los Angeles Times (October 25th, 1987).
Edwards, Thomas R. "Low Expectations." The New York Review of Books (February 4th, 1988).
Lehmann-Haupt, Christopher. "Books of the Times." New York Times (October 22nd, 1987).
Rafferty, Terrence. "The Man Who Knew Too Much." The New Yorker (February 1st, 1988).
Rothstein, Mervyn. "Tom Wolfe Tries New Role: Novelist." New York Times (October 13th, 1987).
Wright, Patrick. "Going to Blazes." The Guardian (February 12th, 1988).
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Much of the subsequent critical reference to Wolfe's The Bonfire of the Vanities has accompanied reviews of his new books—particularly his new fictional novels, which are often compared to this novel because it was his first work of fiction—published since The Bonfire of the Vanities in 1987. Notable among these works are A Man in Full (1998) and, more recently, Back to Blood (2012). In a 1998 review of A Man in Full, New York Times critic Michiko Kakutani noted that—like the depiction of New York City in The Bonfire of the Vanities—"[Wolfe's] sprawling new novel, A Man in Full, gives us an equally entertaining portrait of Atlanta in the 1990's" (Kakutani). Kakutani praises this new novel, however, because "the cartoonish cast of Bonfire—a collection of physical and sartorial tics animated by heaps of authorial malice—has been replaced by characters who bear more of a resemblance to real, sympathetic human beings" (Kakutani). In 2012, New Yorker critic and literary theorist James Wood wrote a similar yet markedly more negative review of Wolfe's newest work of fiction Back to Blood. "The content and the style haven't changed much since The Bonfire of the Vanities was published, in 1987: select your city; presume it to be a site of simmering racial and ethnic civil war, always a headline away from a riot" (Wood), he continues, emphasizing like the critics of The Bonfire of the Vanities in 1987 the harsh and exaggerated nature of the novel.
Subsequent reactions to The Bonfire of the Vanities have also often related to New York City and the political changes that the city's recent leaders have promoted. In 1995, the New York Times's Sam Roberts celebrated the novel as one of "The 10 Best Books About New York" for depicting the "vivid extremes between poverty and wealth" (Roberts) in the city during the 1980s. Anne Barnard's 2007 New York Times article reflecting on the novel and its landscape also emphasized that the New York City presented in The Bonfire of the Vaniteis was one "declining inexorably into racial conflict, crime and greed" (Barnard). In 2007, however, Wolfe's New York City "no longer exists. Not in reality, and not in the collective imagination" (Barnard).
Consideration of The Bonfire of the Vanities appears in several critical pieces about Tom Wolfe's writing career as well. While most of such pieces simply remember the novel as the first work of fiction in Wolfe's literary canon, the Los Angeles Times's Jack Miles 1989 article on "Tom Wolfe's Literary Manifesto" cites the novel to criticize Wolfe's writing style and persona as an author. "Tom Wolfe is the disease of which he pretends to be the cure" (Miles), Miles begins. Wolfe considered the introduction and success of "realistic fiction" in the novel to be a "prescription" for modern writing; furthermore, he continues, Wolfe believed that—because of "the success of that novel"—"other writers should write as he does" (Miles). Essentially, Miles uses The Bonfire of the Vanities as the embodiment of Wolfe's conceited, exaggerated writing style, especially evident in his fiction.
Barnard, Anne. "No Longer the City of 'Bonfire' in Flames." New York Times (December 10th, 2007).
Kakutani, Michiko. "Wolfe Turns The Bonfire Upside Down." New York Times (October 28th, 1998).
Miles, Jack. "Tom Wolfe's Literary Manifesto." Los Angeles Times (November 12th, 1989).
Roberts, Sam. "The 10 Best Books About New York." New York Times (February 5th, 1995).
Wood, James. "Muscle-Bound: Tom Wolfe's Back to Blood." The New Yorker (October 15th, 2012).
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Defining Tom Wolfe and Contextualizing The Bonfire of the Vanities:
A Critical Essay by Danielle Stubbe
Rarely do writers establish a voice so distinctive that their style renders them immediately recognizable to a reader through a paragraph—through perhaps even a sentence—of their writing. Readers may recognize quotations, passages, and themes, but for an author's writing style to become in itself definitive of that author requires very rare, specific circumstances in both the author's life and the culture to which he belongs. Journalist Tom Wolfe, whose reporting techniques fathered the New Journalism movement during the 1960s and 1970s, is one author whose distinctive voice is undeniable. He has developed, cultivated, and marketed that voice through his journalism, his longer non-fiction books, and even his more recent fiction novels, ultimately composing a "Tom Wolfe style" of writing belonging entirely to him. And, when traced through reviews and scholarship about Wolfe published over the last half-century, this contextualizes his success of his 1987 bestseller The Bonfire of the Vanities.
Tom Wolfe's literary style is flamboyant. He simply embodies onomatopoeia. He exclaims, he exaggerates, and he emphasizes his words and quotations and phrases throughout both his non-fiction journalistic pieces and books and his fictional novels. His language is colloquial and bold. His sentences, overrun with punctuation from dashes to exclamation points and with styles from italics to full-word capitalization, even look interesting to the eye. Readers are meant, of course, to appreciate the depth of the research behind the material he writes, but also to enjoy the experience of reading that material. And critics—even established literary writers—recognized this as early as the publication of his first book The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby (1965), which included a number of his pieces of New Journalism from his early career. Says novelist Kurt Vonnegut Jr. in his review of the book entitled "Infarcted! Tabescent!" from the New York Times Book Review, "Tom Wolfe is the most exciting—or, at least, the most jangling—journalist to appear in some time" (Vonnegut). Wolfe's style, Vonnegut here explains, seems to "jangle" when one reads it. It is "exciting," bold, new, and entirely unique to Wolfe. And for Vonnegut, "the temptation when reviewing his works, of course, is to imitate him cunningly. Holy animals! Sebaceous sleepers! Oxymorons and serpentae carminael! Tabescent! Infarcted! Stretchpants netherworld! Schlock! A parodist might get the words right, but never the bitchy melody" (Vonnegut). This phenomenon, the adoption or imitation of Wolfe's writing style while reviewing his books, has continued throughout his career. In 2000, Esquire Magazine writer Sven Birkerts titled his review of Wolfe's latest book Hooking Up "Tom Wolfe.(What?) Tom Wolfe.(Can't Hear You.) Tom Wolfe!" (Birkerts). Essentially, these reviewers—their acknowledgement and playful adoption of Wolfe's style indicative of the author's treatment by many critics and fans—demonstrate the idiosyncratic nature of Wolfe's writing. In other words, their imitation affirms, quite simply, that Wolfe's style is distinctive.
Wolfe himself has also spoken, both in interviews throughout his career and in his own writing, about his distinctive style. In a 2006 interview with Frieze Magazine, the interviewer asked him explicitly about his style. "Throughout your own writings," the question begins, "you have used language in a wholly new way—part stream of consciousness, part naturalism and part linguistic cartoon—almost a literary equivalent of Pop art. How did you acquire your distinctive prose style?" (Wolfe interview with Bracewell). Wolfe responds that, while writing his first magazine features piece, one on customized automobiles for Esquire eventually entitled "The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby" (1963), his editor instructed him to submit his notes so that another writer could turn them into an article. So, he wrote the notes in his natural, flamboyant way, expecting them to transformed into a conventional article. But Esquire chose to run his notes verbatim. "Now that really did show me that you could cut loose!" (Wolfe interview with Bracewell), Wolfe reflects in the interview; "I was reasonably creative as a newspaper writer, but this was like, hey, you can get away with anything!" (Wolfe interview with Bracewell). And, as a result, "I then started doing all sorts of things with the writing to try to bring alive the emotions of situations and gradually to start shaping them like short stories, going from scene to scene" (Wolfe interview with Bracewell). Realizing that magazine readers desired a more "cartoon[ish]," "Pop art" style of writing to keep their interested, he chose to further develop and enhance his distinctive style by attempting to better "bring alive the emotions" of his scenes and subjects. He chose to write non-fiction pieces "like short stories."
In a 1991 interview with The Paris Review, Wolfe had already elaborated more on how he developed his distinctive style in the first place. Writing pieces for the Sunday magazine of the New York Herald Tribune, he remembers, "I never had the feeling that there were any standards to writing for a Sunday supplement. So you could experiment in any fashion you wished, which I began to do" (Wolfe interview with Plimpton). The articles "were like brain candy, easily thrown away" (Wolfe interview with Plimpton), he continues, which allowed him to write however he liked. And as he experimented, he began to create his own distinctive voice. He embraced that cartoonish, Pop art style of writing that would come to be affiliated with him. "Still," he says later, "I didn't think of it as a Tom Wolfe style" (Wolfe interview with Plimpton). It was only after the publication of The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby in book form that "I began to get a lot of publicity, people began to write about me and about this style" (Wolfe interview with Plimpton), Wolfe remembers. And as a result, he more fully embraced the style as his own distinctive voice for both journalism and longer non-fiction books.
In his 1989 reflection on the publication of The Bonfire of the Vanities (1987) for Harper's Magazine entitled "Stalking the Billion-Footed Beast," Wolfe reflected on the literary cultural factors that, perhaps, led him to develop his distinctive "Tom Wolfe style," as he called it above. The article described, first and foremost, the challenge Wolfe faced in depicting New York City in a novel, but also considered the literary style—realism—that aided him in writing. In it, Wolfe suggests that American intellectuals following the Second World War "set out to create a native intelligentsia on the French or English model, an intellectual aristocracy—socially unaffiliated, beyond class distinctions—active in politics and the arts" (Wolfe, "Stalking the Billion-Footed Beast"). This new native intelligentsia embraced European cultural trends in both art and in literature and attempted to replicate them on the American scene. "Among the fashionable European ideas that began to circulate," he further states, "was that of the 'death of the novel,' by which was meant the realistic novel" (Wolfe, "Stalking the Billion-Footed Beast"). And "by the mid-1960s the conviction was not merely that the realistic novel was no longer possible but that American life no longer deserved the term real" (Wolfe, "Stalking the Billion-Footed Beast"). Here, Wolfe laments the loss of realism in the American literary style. Realism had always guided both his reporting and his writing style and, in fact, he believed "that the future of the fictional novel would be in highly detailed realism based on reporting, a realism more thorough than any currently being attempted, a realism that would portray the individual in intimate and extricable relation to the society around him" (Wolfe, "Stalking the Billion-Footed Beast"). Essentially, through "Stalking the Billion-Footed Beast," Wolfe explained that as he entered journalism in the 1960s, realism had vanished from American literary fashion, something he regretted. Thus, the style he developed—through years writing "brain candy" pieces in the Sunday magazine of the New York Herald Tribune and, eventually, longer features pieces for Esquire Magazine, as detailed above—intended to revitalize realism. From his in-depth reporting technique, which would come to characterize the New Journalism pioneered by Wolfe and developed further by other figures like Hunter S. Thompson and Joan Didion, to his exaggerated, cartoonish writing voice, Wolfe attempted to recapture the real, to convey emotion, and to portray the world as it was.
While Wolfe would refer to his distinctive voice as highly realist, literary criticism of the last half-century contextualizes it as postmodern. In an essay in The English Journal from 1988, American literary scholar Tom Romano writes of Wolfe's distinctive way of "Breaking the Rules in Style" (Romano), of his ability to bend the conventional grammatical structure—characteristic of the realist tradition that Wolfe claims to inhabit—to develop his own distinctive voice, a characteristic of the postmodern. Other critics have acknowledged that, unlike some writers of the postmodernist tradition during the 1960s in particular, Wolfe does attempt to maintain at least a realist plot structure, which follows a chronological structure. In his 1988 article from Cultural Critique entitled "'Further': Reflections on Counter-Culture and the Postmodern," scholar Brent Whelan explores the relationship between realism and postmodernism in Wolfe's work through his The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1968), which follows postmodernist author Ken Kesey's experiences with LSD during the early days of the counterculture movement of the 1960s. "The traces of Wolfe's manipulations are the marks of adaptation," Whelan writes, "as Kesey's amorphous, heterogeneous work is inserted into the stricter confines of the consumable product" (Whelan). In other words, Whelan suggests here that Wolfe—not really a realist—simply transforms the postmodern into a "consumable" form, able to be marketed and interpreted on a popular scale. Wolfe's style is an "inevitable development" (Whelan) in the postmodern style, he continues. It represents a sort of post-postmodern popular movement that incorporates the writing techniques of postmodernism—that exaggerated, cartoonish style—with a more digestible temporal structure.
More recent literary critical consideration of Wolfe's distinctive style has agreed with Whelan's assessment of Wolfe as, ultimately, a bestselling author writing for nothing more than popular consumption. In his 2001 article from The Sewanee Review entitled "Literature in the Age of Hype," author and editor Sanford Pinsker emphasizes the significance of hype—the significance of the overwhelming, exaggerated advertising like that surrounding modern-day blockbuster movies—in Wolfe's style. "Known primarily as a journalist, albeit of the new razzle-dazzle sort," he writes, "Wolfe has fairly dripped with star power" (Pinsker). And "despite his marked talent for rendering certain scenes in vivid detail, with considerable brio" (Pinsker), despite that distinctive voice with which he writes, his novels amount to little significance. "What matters," he concludes, "is how many copies get sold and then whether or not the novel can be turned into a blockbuster film" (Pinsker). Pinsker's essay echoes an earlier criticism, written by novelist John Updike for The New Yorker in 1998 and entitled "AWRIIIIIGHHHHHHHHHHT!" to explicitly mock Wolfe's style, about Wolfe's 1998 fictional novel A Man in Full. Wolfe's writing style, he states, "still amounts to entertainment, not literature, even literature in a modest aspirant form" (Updike). It "tries too hard to please us," with "Wolfe's exclamatory interjections ('Packs! Dens! Utterly primitive animal turfs!' 'Brute sexual energy! A herd of young male animals!' 'More thrashing! Looser teeth! Blood! Bone fragments!')…like the surges of background music, telling us what to feel, not trusting us to react without supervision" (Updike).
Ultimately, Wolfe's The Bonfire of the Vanities, his first fictional novel, published in 1987, fits into this grand context of the author's distinctive style and the half-century of reception and literary criticism surrounding it. From the very first page of the Prologue to the story—"Chuck! The insolent—he's right there, right there in front—he just called him a Charlie! Chuck is short for Charlie, and Charlie is the old code name for a down-home white bigot. The insolence of it! The impudence!" (Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities, 3)—that "Tom Wolfe style"—exaggerated, frantic, cartoonish, vulgar, and flamboyant, to name a few characteristics—is evident. Wolfe gives readers, in essence, exactly what they wanted from him: his distinctive voice. And they responded in the way suggested by Pinsker and more cynically by Updike above. They bought his book, they made it a bestseller both in hardcover and in paperback, and they watched the blockbuster movie that would be released (and, as it were, critically panned) three years later. Essentially, The Bonfire of the Vanities became a bestseller because of the distinctive celebrity of its author. The book received little critical praise other than that identifying it as quintessentially Tom Wolfe, but did wholly embody that "Tom Wolfe style" in a new, fictional form.
Birkerts, Sven. "Tom Wolfe.(What?) Tom Wolfe.(Can't Hear You.) Tom Wolfe!" Esquire (September 1st, 2000).
Pinsker, Sanford. "Literature in the Age of Hype." The Sewanee Review (Spring 2001).
Romano, Tom. "Breaking the Rules in Style." The English Journal (December 1988).
Updike, John. "AWRIIIIIGHHHHHHHHHHT!" The New Yorker (November 9th, 1998).
Vonnegut, Kurt. "Infarcted! Tabescent!" The New York Times Book Review (June 27th, 1965).
Whelan, Brent. "'Further': Reflections of Counter-Culture and the Postmodern." Cultural Critique (Winter 1988–1999).
Wolfe, Tom. Interview with George Plimpton: "Tom Wolfe, The Art of Fiction No. 123." The Paris Review (Spring 1991).
Wolfe, Tom. Interview with Michael Bracewell: "Shock of the New." Frieze (June–August 2006).
Wolfe, Tom. "Stalking the Billion-Footed Beast." Harper's Magazine (November 1989).
Wolfe, Tom. The Bonfire of the Vanities (1987).


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Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Where is the quiet>
If you are reading this I ask for your prayers for my Mom...
Thank you,
17 comments:
- CountryDreaming said...
Katelen, you have my prayers for your mom.
- February 9, 2011 at 6:15 AM
- Joji said...
Dear God we ask that Katelens mom be lifted up by your healing hand. In Jesus name...Amen
- February 9, 2011 at 6:18 AM
- Unknown said...
I'll be thinking of you both Katelen. I hope you can find a little quiet today.
- February 9, 2011 at 6:49 AM
- Mary said...
praying for your Mom and you too sweetie!
- February 9, 2011 at 7:20 AM
- Leslie Avon Miller said...
Prayers for you and your Mom.
- February 9, 2011 at 9:06 AM
- Marilyn Rock said...
Prayers and positive thoughts for your Mom and you. Love your sketch below, too. Keep us posted on your Mom.
- February 9, 2011 at 11:42 AM
- Bren Graham Thebeau said...
Praying for you and your Mom, so sorry to hear of this new development. You both are such strong women, God be near...
- February 9, 2011 at 11:52 AM
- Noelle Dunn.... A Poet in Progress said...
Sending many prayers your way. Stay strong.
- February 9, 2011 at 4:37 PM
- GalleryJuana said...
Aahhh... Katelen, my heart reaches out to you. Sending both of your strength and courage.
- February 10, 2011 at 2:02 AM
- Butterfly Works said...
I am so sorry she had to go back to the hospital.....I will send prayers of healing and comfort for both of you.......
- February 10, 2011 at 10:13 AM
- Ces Adorio said...
Oooooh Katelen! I will pray for your Mom! Yes, I shall.
P.S. I came here to tell you I have something on my blog for you. Be strong and keep the faith, Katelen, dearest! Tsup!
- February 10, 2011 at 1:36 PM
- Laura said...
I'm so sorry Katelen..that's terrible to be so uncaring of another human being. I will hold your Mom in my prayerful heart.
- February 10, 2011 at 4:37 PM
- pchickki said...
I am so sorry to hear about this. Of course you Mom is in my prayers and you are too. Try to get some rest so you can be strong for you Mom.
God Bless You both
- February 11, 2011 at 2:56 AM
- Tammie Lee said...
oh how sad. I wish the doctors and nurses were more serious about their jobs.
wishing your mom and you well and better!
- February 13, 2011 at 10:11 PM
- Joji said...
Still keeping you and your Mom in my prayers.
- February 18, 2011 at 2:00 PM
- Odd Chick said...
OHH, this really makes me angry and I can hear the frustration in your voice. But I can tell you are also a fighter like your mom- hang in there sweet friend... and yes, I will be praying.
- February 18, 2011 at 3:53 PM
- Laura said...
thinking about you today♥
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Greece, its government/its political system and its people, is entering the traditionally relaxed, festive and joyful period of (Orthodox) Easter in a state of tension verging to collective anxiety.
Relations with neighbouring Turkey are reaching a dangerous climax, with un-neighbourly acts and pronouncements succeeding each other. To mention but some: Turkish brinkmanship around Aegean islets; holding of 2 Greek military personnel further to a routine border incident (with no charges brought after weeks); aggressive statements about Greeks having fallen in wars with Turkey etc.
Just around the corner, Northwards, the efforts to bring some sort of solution to the festering issue over the name of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia seem stuck in increasing internal tensions – both in Greece and in FYRoM.
While, Southwards, Turkish (again) moves over the Cyprus Exclusive Economic Zone happen to occur just as Cypriot President Nikos Anastassiadis is to meet with Turkish-Cypriot leader Mustafa Akkinci, under the aegis of the U.N.
Not exactly material for festive mood.


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Optimise Resource Management to Save on Time, Money and Stress
Efficient and effective management of resources can play an important role in enhancing working practices and making everyone's job easier.
The 2018 workplace is vastly different from anything previous generations would recognise. The changes brought about by technology go beyond the specific tools of communication and analytics. They have also led to a global marketplace with far greater levels of competition and a 24/7 working environment with all the stresses that this entails.
Technology can, therefore, be described as both a blessing and a curse. After all, for most of the problems it creates, it can also deliver solutions, and resource management software is a perfect example of this principle in action. Appropriate tools to manage resources more effectively serve to improve process flow and communication, leading to cost and time savings as well as project management staff who are far less stressed out.
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Resource management tools serve to streamline and optimise internal procedures and provide management and key stakeholders with greater clarity. A modern resource management tool does more than give a helicopter view of a specific project, important though that might be. It also allows for advanced planning of other projects months or even years in advance, resulting in better projections and more effective procurement and allocation of resources.
Keeping everyone in the picture
Clarity and transparency need to be the watchwords in modern business, and these are exactly the qualities that effective resource management can bring. A key factor here is that multiple people, from managers to staff to auditors to subcontractors can view what resources are being allocated where across multiple projects and as long a time period as they need to see. This results in quicker and more incisive decision making and a lower likelihood of blunders when resources from divergent sources fail to come together when and where they need to.
Simple and intuitive functionality of the type we are all familiar with, such as drag and drop, mean there is operations no learning curve worth mentioning, reducing frustration and wasted time.
What does the future hold?
It is one thing to look at how far a technology has come over the past 20 years. But the really compelling thought is where it might go in the 20 years to come. Clearly, greater efficiency is a core goal for every business, and both the company and its individual employees have their roles to play in this regard.
However, there is more to effective resource management than making the trains run on time and enhancing the bottom line. Employee wellbeing is getting ever higher on the priority list of major employers, and this is certainly a pattern that will continue, and will filter down to SMEs over the coming years.
After all, keeping employees happy and motivated is not just ethically right, it is also proven to be good for business. Consequently, is seems inevitable that this indirect benefit of effective resource management will play an even greater role in the future. And anything that helps improve efficiency, reduce stress and put smiles on faces can only be good news for everyone.


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"The route through childhood is shaped by many forces, and it differs for each of us. Our biological inheritance, the temperament with which we are born, the care we receive, our family relationships, the place where we grow up, the schools we attend, the culture in which we participate, and the historical period in which we live?all these affect the paths we take through childhood and condition the remainder of our lives." - Robert H. Wozniak
This is actually pretty simple, some are born submissive, some are born dominant, some acquire that later in life. Those of us born to it, it permeates our core, who we are and who we will always be. For those that acquire it later, generally it is not as dramatic, it is a role to them, something many of them can take or leave, even allowing some to switch roles.
This i similar to the whole straight, bi, gay groups in sexual orientation, some are born that way, some learn it, and some fake it.
None of the groups is better than others, simply different, generally those born to be dominant or submissive are going to be more dramatic in their role, though some who learn it later are just as dramatic, it is just more rare. Switches generally miss a great deal on both ends of the spectrum.
Many in both roles are simply looking for attention, kinky sex or easy sex. Many more switches are into this unfortunately, as you can determine for yourself by looking around the ads on a website and seeing how many "doms" maintain "submissive" IDs as well.
I have said it before, and will likely keep on saying... There is no one true way in this lifestyle, but there are a lot of wrong ways. Practice safety, safety, safety, check people out, the good looking dom with lots of experience and no submissive is hiding something. That something may be a lack of experience (No 2 years of going to the dungeon to play is not "experience"), a submissive or submissives he keeps floating without them knowing, a wife, that he is a drunk/drug addict, etc, etc.
Yeah I know, his submissive just died in a car accident last month. If I believed that one as many times as I have seen it claimed, I would never let a submissive drive, apparently they are REALLY bad at it.
Yeah it's kinda ranty, just not too many ways to say look out, lots of fakes out there without it coming off a little snippy.
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Juan Guaido: I would like to be regarded as the interim president of Venezuela because the current president of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, stands opposed to the interests of the political bodies with which I have aligned myself. Also, he stands opposed to my own personal ambitions of becoming powerful.
Washington, DC: We too would like for Juan Guaido to be regarded as the interim president of Venezuela, because the current President of Venezuela is too cozy in policy and practice with our geopolitical opponents. We would not mind this so much if Venezuela didn't sit atop the world's largest proven oil reserves. If we can't control what happens to those oil reserves, we won't be as dominant on the world stage as we otherwise would be.
US allies: We too would like it if Juan Guaido were president instead of Nicolas Maduro, because that's what the United States wants and it is in our interests to go along with whatever they say. If we go along with Washington's dictates we are treated favorably, whereas if we don't we'll end up getting treated the way the Venezuelan government is being treated currently.
Donald Trump: I've been told by the neoconservatives who I have appointed to guide my foreign policy that it would be good for America's resource control agendas if I apply more sanctions to Venezuela's economy at this time. This will force the Venezuelan civilians, and more importantly their military, to overthrow Maduro or else see their loved ones die of malnutrition and lack of healthcare.
John Bolton: I too encourage Venezuela's citizens and military to turn against their government and begin inflicting violence upon it until Nicolas Maduro is either dead or removed from power. If you do this, you won't have to starve and die because of our steadily increasing sanctions, and we'll get to control the oil that your country happens to sit on top of. As an added benefit, hurting large numbers of human beings gives me sexual gratification.
CIA [via bullhorn]: Umm, excuse me, Venezuelans? This is the CIA. Will you all please start having a civil war now to overthrow your government? That would make us very happy, thank you.
Mainstream media: The US government, and of course the powerful unelected individuals who run it from behind the scenes without any accountability or oversight from the public,


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In Thousand Years of Night they introduced Elder Clan Banes. I really like the idea and will use them, but I run a semi-historical campaign where a Julii or Akhud may show up. I also include the Jiang Shi. So I want to give Elders of those Clans such Banes but I'm at a loss for ideas. Was hoping to start a convo up and get some inspiration. Help?
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The Jiang She curse is that they can't benefit from Feeding conditions right? Elder clans tends to be expansions of the Primary curse. What would be something more detrimental then that, maybe unable use of Blush?
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I ran a Requiem for Rome game where the Julii elder bane was that their Disciplines didn't work on the Strix/ephemeral brings at all. I don't know if I'd do that again, but I made it a surprise for the Julii character, so it made for a nice moment of horror.
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Question: what is the updated Julii clan weakness? I remember seeing it at least once, but can't find it in the books right now.
Little aside, has anyone tried to make something like a checklist of fallen/extinct clans that have popped up in 2e and some of the late 1e Requiem books?
It could be a very interesting reference resource, i think.Last edited by Baaldam; 11-12-2018, 10:52 AM.
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Originally posted by Baaldam View PostQuestion: what is the updated Julii clan weakness? I remember seeing it at least once, but can't find it in the books right now.
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Originally posted by Satchel View PostHumanity caps Resistance traits against the powers of the Strix and other ephemeral beings.
That weakness has a very interesting conundrum baked in: the Julii need Humanity to shore up their capacity to resist the powers of the Strix.
But shoring up their Humanity makes the Strix hate their guts and pester them more.
The more vulnerabble they are, the less reason the Strix feel to mess with them.
The Strix - other ephemerals are a whole different matter, obviously.
Anyway, i think that peculiar paradox within the Julii's weakness could be a good starting point to cook ideas on their Elder Bane.
Should it be assumed that the ones that appear in Thousand Years of Nights are Elder Banes for the broken and rare clans?
Originally posted by Spectre9924 View PostShould it be assumed that the ones that appear in Thousand Years of Nights are Elder Banes for the broken and rare clans?Last edited by Baaldam; 10-09-2019, 01:39 AM.
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The Banes for the lost Clans in 1kYoN is the regular Banes. OPP does not make any of their material require any other material other than the core book. This should be doubly true for outdated material.
So, none of them have any Elder Banes explained, but at least the Hollow Mekhet specifically doesn't have one.
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Elder Banes kicks in at Humanity 3, and are not tied to Blood Potency other than that elders are more likely to have higher Blood Potency. Still, the Pijavica Clan Bane is so prohibitive that I'd skip an Elder version like the Hollow Mekhet.
The first Mikhaili is their regular, historical Bane, and the second is that which would apply to both surviving and newly emerging (from Gangrel Embraces gone wrong) Mikhaili. I'd say that surviving Mikhaili in modern nights has both (as they would be elders by necessity, I'm choosing to ignore the Humanity prerequisite) and that new Mikhaili have the second Bane. I don't know what Elder Banes historical Mikhaili would've had nor what modern Mikhaili would have as their Elder Bane. Fortunately the former is limited to historical chronicles in Siberia (unless you want extra elder Mikhaili with three Banes in modern nights) and the latter is unlikely to get an Elder Bane since they're so few and likely ostracised by their supposed Clan mates.Last edited by Tessie; 11-19-2018, 03:18 PM.
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Maybe i'm just in a funny frame of mind today, but re-reading the topics title got me the weird idea of Lost Clan as a form of elder bane, where weird things start to happen with an elder character, its blood starts to change and lost memories, signs & clues of an origin, different and older than one claims, start to manifest upon one's self and childer.Last edited by Baaldam; 10-09-2019, 01:40 AM.


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The first book in a fast-paced historical fantasy series narrated by a daring dachshund and brimming with mad science.
Welcome to the Amazing Automated Inn, home of twelve-year-old inventor Wally Kennewickett, his genius scientist parents, and his dashing dog, Noodles. From the lightning harvester on the roof to the labs full of experiments in the dungeon, the inn is a wonderful place for a curious boy and his loyal dog to live. That is, until President Theodore Roosevelt himself calls the elder Kennewicketts away, leaving Wally and Noodles to face the evil Mesmers, horrible hypnotists bent on controlling the minds of powerful people. It seems the inn is their first stop on the way to world domination . . . and only an ingenious boy, a staff of automatons, and a brave dachshund stand in their way!
Danger. I should have smelled it. Mayhem, most feathered and fowl, was coming.
I should have smelled it. But I didn't.
I smelled bacon and sausage, eggs and waffles, toast and tea—the scents we awoke to every morning at the Kennewicketts' Amazing Automated Inn.
My name is Noodles. I'm a dachshund.
On Saturday, October 19, 1902, the day the Great Mesmer War began, I was sitting on Wally Kennewickett's lap in the lobby as he perused the pages of an old Scientific American. Wally was reading an article about Percy Pilcher's last flight in his man-size glider the Hawk.
"Pilcher had built a powered plane, Noodles," Wally said, "but a mechanical malfunction forced him to fly the Hawk that fateful morning instead."
You learn a lot of interesting phrases living with the Kennewicketts. Phrases like mechanical malfunction, retractable rail cannon, and flee for your life were used quite frequently around the Inn.
"I wish they'd published Pilcher's blueprints for the powered plane!" Wally went on.
I licked his ear.
Manned, powered, and controlled flight in a contraption that was heavier than air was an achievement that had thus far eluded the world's most courageous adventurers and intelligent engineers. It was Wally Kennewickett's dream to be the first to achieve it. I did not approve. Flight was far too dangerous.
Percy Pilcher's perilous pursuit had ended when the Hawk's tail failed and Percy plunged to his death.Wally took his journal from his pocket. He noted, Tail failure may cause tragedy.
I was pondering the profundity of this observation when destiny knocked on the door. Wally tucked his journal back in his pocket, set me on the couch, and stood up to answer it.
I barked.
"Jump, boy!" Wally said. "You can do it!"
My wagger went wild. It always does when Wally says "You can do it." But wagging wouldn't get me to the floor. There are things that nature never intended a dachshund to do. Flinging oneself off a couch is certainly on the list. I raced from one armrest to the other, barking madly until Wally came back and lifted me down. Wally Kennewickett is the kind of boy who comes through when you need him.
Once all four paws were safely on the polished marble floor, I raced ahead of him to the door, expecting to find a Very Important Person on the steps. Scientists, businessmen, and engineers come to the Inn from all over the world, eager to ask for advice from Wally's parents, Oliver and Calypso Kennewickett.
Oliver and Calypso are inventors extraordinaire.
"Extraordinaire" means that they're amazing. Oliver and Calypso invented everything in the Inn, from the Dust Bunnies to the Gyrating Generator and the Amazing Automatons. An "automaton" is a self-operating machine. The Kennewicketts are currently perfecting several new designs.
When Wally opened the door that morning, we didn't find a scientist, leader of industry, or engineer on the step, however. We found a hobo. The collar of his ragged coat was turned up, and the brim of his dusty hat was pulled down. I could just make out a bulb of a nose above a bushy mustache, and perhaps the flash of spectacles.
"Walter Kennewickett," the hobo said, "I must see your parents at once. It's a matter of utmost importance!"
It wasn't surprising that a hobo would know Wally's name. The Kennewicketts were always kind to hobos.
"Yes, sir," Wally said politely. "Would you wait in the lobby while I find them?"
"Of course." The hobo looked at me. "Is this fine fellow your dog?"
"My best friend," Wally corrected. "His name is Noodles. I'll return shortly, sir."
I wanted to follow Wally, but felt it might be best if I waited with our guest. The Automated Inn is conveniently located near a branch of the Union Pacific Railroad, so I had observed many hobos. Some of them were nice, ordinary people. Others put things in their pockets when no one was watching. If our visitor was that sort of hobo, he would soon find out that dachshunds are very good at watching.
This hobo didn't try to slip anything in his pockets. He patted my head, then walked to the fireplace to ponder the portrait of a pigeon that hung above the mantel. Half of the Kennewickett clan have a particular passion for the birds. Wally's almost-grown-up cousin Melvin Kennewickett has a shelf full of pigeon racing trophies. Melvin's twin sister, Prissy, has half a shelf of trophies. They'd inherited this peculiar pastime from their father, Wentworth Kennewickett, who, being Oliver's elder brother, technically owned the Inn. But it hadn't been an inn when he'd left it in Oliver's care, and it certainly had not been automated.
It had been a frightening folly built atop a granite mountain by Oliver andWentworth's industrialist grandfather, the wicked Mars Kennewickett. Kennewicketts tend to turn out generally good or abominably evil. Oliver keeps a journal of his own, full of notes, observations, and theories about this family phenomenon.
Wally worries about it. Sometimes I find him in front of the full-length mirror on Calypso's side of the lab, staring into his own green eyes. I know what he is thinking. He is pondering the conundrum of his kin: Which sort of Kennewickett am I going to be?
A "conundrum" is a difficult problem or question. The kind Kennewicketts love best.
Wally's father is the generally good sort of Kennewickett. At least, he has been since he married Wally's mother. It was Calypso who had insisted that the cannons be removed from the folly's turret, and the chains taken out of the dungeons Mars had dug into the solid stone of the mountain.
I felt this had been a step in the right direction. Letting Melvin, Prissy, and their pigeons stay, however, was a step in the wrong direction, even if their father did technically own the Inn.
The pigeons' presence gave Wally an excuse to spend too much time locked away with his gadgets and gears. Wally is allergic to feathers.
The hobo rubbed his chin, and I realized my mind had wandered far from the issue at hand. Was this the kind of hobo who would slip things into his pocket? I had just decided that he was the ordinary, honest sort when I noticed his boots. They were shiny beneath a thin film of dust—too shiny. The cuffs of his trousers weren't torn, either. He's wearing a disguise, I thought.
"Are you a pigeon fancier, sir?" asked Oliver Kennewickett, stepping into the room. Wally and Calypso were right behind him. Walter Kennewickett does not look like either of his parents. Oliver is tall and dark, with flashing black eyes; Calypso is fair and elegant in every way. Wally is small for his age, and his hair is the color of new copper wire.
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"Fast paced and funny, with plenty of alliteration and word definitions provided by Noodles, it carries hints of both Lemony Snicket's wordplay and the absurdity of M. T. Anderson's Pals in Peril series. . . . Young, precocious readers and older readers looking for a shorter read will enjoy this first title in the Gadgets and Gears series."
"[An] auspicious first book. . . . Hamilton makes the comedic most of her premise. . . . Noodles's antics and droll, mannered narration make him the indisputable star of this show."
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"Steampunk with training wheels for the chapter book set. . . . Sly humor . . . nifty, gear-laden illustrations . . . [an] imaginative, engaging premise."
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Welcome to our weekly special feature post, Author Of The Week!!
Each week we will be interviewing a different YA author and highlighting their upcoming release!
We will also be hosting a giveaway of the book we are highlighting!!
Introducing Adrienne Young, YABC's Author of the Week!!
Adrienne Young is a born and bred Texan turned California girl. She is a foodie with a deep love of history and travel and a shameless addiction to coffee. When she's not writing, you can find her on her yoga mat, scouring antique fairs for old books, sipping wine over long dinners, or disappearing into her favorite art museums. She lives with her documentary filmmaker husband and their four little wildlings beneath the West Coast sun.
Adrienne is the author of the New York Times bestseller Sky in the Deep and The Girl the Sea Gave Back.
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Meet The Girl The Sea Gave Back!
From Adrienne Young, New York Times bestselling author of Sky in the Deep, comes her new gut-wrenching epic The Girl the Sea Gave Back.
For as long as she can remember, Tova has lived among the Svell, the people who found her washed ashore as a child and use her for her gift as a Truthtongue. Her own home and clan are long-faded memories, but the sacred symbols and staves inked over every inch of her skin mark her as one who can cast the rune stones and see into the future. She has found a fragile place among those who fear her, but when two clans to the east bury their age-old blood feud and join together as one, her world is dangerously close to collapse.
For the first time in generations, the leaders of the Svell are divided. Should they maintain peace or go to war with the allied clans to protect their newfound power? And when their chieftain looks to Tova to cast the stones, she sets into motion a series of events that will not only change the landscape of the mainland forever but will give her something she believed she could never have again—a home.
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YABC: Who is your favorite character in the book?
Writing Halvard as a man was really fun for me. In SKY IN THE DEEP, he is only eight years old and he plays an important role in the main character's inner journey. He was a total surprise when I was writing the book, and I knew he would play a major role in THE GIRL THE SEA GAVE BACK. It was cool to explore him from a different angle and figure out who he is ten years after the events of SKY.
YABC: Which came first, the title or the novel?
In a way, the title came first for this book. I had a very vague idea about Tova's story and decided on the title long before the plot really came into focus. I was really attached to THE GIRL THE SEA GAVE BACK so I'm really happy that it all came together.
YABC: What scene in the book are you most proud of, and why?
I love the ending scene, and it took shape in my mind when I was writing the first few chapters of the book. I don't want to spoil anything, but Tova casting the stones, under those circumstances, was the full-circle moment for her character and by the time I got to the last chapter, I was so excited to write it.
YABC: Thinking way back to the beginning, what's the most important thing you've learned as a writer from then to now?
By far the most important thing I've learned is really understanding my own creative process. I didn't realize how much time ideas need to develop for me. Inspiration strikes, but unless the story has time to marinate, it's really hard to get it on the page. Now, I approach a new story with that in mind and give myself a lot of space and time to let my subconscious work on an idea before I pressure myself to start writing it. It has made a huge difference in my level of confidence as a storyteller when I start typing that first chapter.
YABC: What do you like most about the cover of the book?
I am so in love with the cover of THE GIRL THE SEA GAVE BACK! The designer, Kerri Resnick, did an amazing job and she was also the creator of the cover for SKY IN THE DEEP. I think my favorite thing about this design is the effect on the water. The hues of blue and the splashy gloss make the water come alive and it almost moves when you're holding the book in your hands. I feel like I've hit the book cover lottery twice now.
YABC: What new release book are you looking most forward to in 2019?
Like everyone else, I cannot wait to get my copy of NINTH HOUSE by Leigh Bardugo and I'm also really excited to read the conclusion of Holly Black's THE FOLK OF THE AIR series, QUEEN OF NOTHING.
YABC: What was your favorite book in 2018?
THE WICKED DEEP by Shea Earnshaw was a favorite of mine last year. It's super atmospheric and witchy, two of my favorite things.
YABC: What's up next for you?
I just finished revisions on my next book, FABLE. It's an all-new YA fantasy duology coming from Wednesday Books. I am so excited for readers to get their hands on this book. It's been so fun to work on and I have no doubt that lovers of SKY and SEA will love FABLE too.
YABC: Which part of the writing process do you enjoy more: Drafting or Revising?
I have always preferred drafting. I love the swept-away feeling of being lost in the drafting process, and the knowledge that you don't know what's going to happen. The story really starts to take on a life of its own and I that moment is my favorite moment in storytelling.
YABC: What would you say is your superpower?
I'm really good at making and drinking coffee. Like, an expert.
YABC: Is there an organization or cause that is close to your heart?
I am really passionate about environmentalism and doing our part to lower our impact on this beautiful planet, as well as women's rights and our cultural beauty and body representation.
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Release Date: September 3rd, 2019
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Crunchy Fruity Granola
3 cups rolled oats
2 cups combined seeds and chopped nuts (I used almonds, cashews, hazelnuts, sunflower seeds, and flax seeds)
1/2 tsp salt (optional)
1/3 cup brown sugar
3/4 cup canola oil
1/2 cup honey
1 tbsp vanilla extract
1 cup assorted dried fruit (I used raisins and a packaged tropical mix of mango, papaya, and pineapple bits)
Preheat the oven to 325F. Spray two rimmed cookie sheets with nonstick cooking spray.
In a large bowl mix together the oats, seeds, nuts, salt, and brown sugar. I left the salt out because my cashews were salted, otherwise I would have included it.
Combine the oil, honey, and vanilla extract and pour over the nuts and seeds mixture. Mix thoroughly - kids can use their nice and clean hands.
Bake for about half an hour, stirring several times to ensure even toasting, and if you can't fit both trays on one rack, switching the tray position half way through. Leave the granola to cool on the tray as this is when it gets crunchy.
When the granola is cool and sticky/crunchy, put it in a bowl and add in the fruit. Can be stored in a canister on the counter with the extra in a ziplock bag or jar in the freezer.
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