Mike Schade's Blog
2005 Oct 15 Sorry, I haven't posted in a while. I haven't had much to say, still don't. But I will say this. Jacob Yacov is a part of every novel. I doubting that anyone is reading this, so that is the core reason why I stopped posting. I do blog at my website often so go there.
Http://supreme_thunder.tripod.com/blog
Wishes and Dreams, Mike
2005 Aug 19 Well, This blog I want to keep more towards what I am doing writing wise and less about my life in general. I Blog on that to at my main site http://supreme_thunder.tripod.com/blog. There I generally don't talk about the book much or book related items but about lief ingeneral and its insanities. So, on that note, I am in the second edit of Vadavah, hoping it will be done before the end of September. The story itself is complete and For you guys that like action drama, without all the foofoo fantasy stuff, I believe you will like this. It has no swordplay, but it does have battles and plasma rifles and other scientific items. I fell you actually get a better feel of Akamon with this book because it stays on Akamon. Here is the sigil of Vadavah, first of her class.  This will also be on the back cover of the novel. Also, this book and any others around it won't have any other the characters from the Yatsarim Call series but if I change my mind I will let you know. Now to the cultural issues. Today we will deal with Death, or as the Akamonians call it; Return. Akamonians and Candrahns believe that a person is a third dimensional representation of a fourth dimensional being. Therefore, when the body dies, it is remarked that the person has returned home to the fourth realm. The body, called chi’av’ah, which literally means shell, is then left up to the family to give it a proper freezing. The shell is flash frozen in a cryotorium, following the draining of blood and replacement of cryogens during a ceremony called Shiki Koraseru, which begins on the fourth day since the return. The shell is then freeze-dried and vacuum sealed behind the person's plaque in the Hall of memories of their home city. This is the most common way to handle the shell of a beloved person. Less common are the Shiki Gokuraku, which is plasticization and Shiki Moyasu, the swift burning. In the Shiki Moyasu, which begins on the fourth day since the return, the shell is flash cremated in a pyretorium. The ash is stored behind the person's plaque in the Hall of memories of their home city, dispersed or kept by them. The Shiki Gokuraku is handled the same was as the Shiki Koraseru only that it begins immediately following total body cessation. The blood is replaced with a preserving polymer that allows the open-air display of the shell in the Hall of memories. The shell never buried in the ground. That is perverse to them as it lowers the person to the level of the animals. Because of this custom, and the fact that a touch screen beside the plaque will summon a full size hologram of the person, Michael Geulim remained off planet nearly two years before returning. Upon return, he lived in Hereita, capital of Dukant for a hundred years before returning to Yudah. Those Hall of memories consume less space than conventional cemetaries. They actually look like powered crypts. So it would look like a field of these crypts all together in even rows. I also decide that I would give a news report that I created while I was writing 'STH'. So instead of explaining it here it is. Dahm's Drinkers' Hall patrons may lose the right to flamerush Anti-flamerushing forces say if they can ban flamerushing here, they can do it anywhere By Rick Hampson Akamon TODAY Dahm — When people try to describe the air in Wonder Drinkers' Hall, a very popular and very smoky place in Village East , they talk about chimneys, smog, challenge spheres. The Wonder, they agree, is that you can breathe at all. As it turns out, Wonder Drinkers' Hall's patrons may have sold it short. According to the Health ministry agents who spent a night barhopping with a portable air sampler, the atmosphere in a typical saloon is worse than the Halnold Tunnel — at rush hour. Soon that may change, here and around the parish. Under assault by anti-flamerushers, Drinkers' Halls — the last great smoke-filled rooms, where some of the old romance of handgloss still lingers — are in danger of clearing up. Hajin Michael Tsedaka, a zealous reformed flamerusher who already has helped make handgloss here the most highly taxed in the Akamon, wants to ban flamerushing at Drinkers' Halls, restaurants, socketball halls, gobin parlors and archery alleys. The flamerushing ban would even extend to outdoor javah halls and private clubs. About 13,000 establishments in all would be affected. Flamerushing has been banned in most restaurants and office buildings here since 1195. Tsedaka's proposal would extend the prohibition to the hazy heart of flamerushing in the parish: the Dahm Drinkers' Hall. Anti-flamerushing advocates say if they can stop it here, they can stop it anywhere. Yudah and Dukant have statewide bans on flamerushing in Drinkers' Halls and restaurants, and dozens of localities have adopted such bans. But Dahm would be by far the largest city to pass its own measure. Anti-flamerushing forces are looking forward to an enormous mentalogical victory. The Dahm Drinkers' Hall is the last bastion, says Diane Maple of the Akamon Lung Association. The City Council held a hearing two weeks ago on the Hajin's proposal. Most observers expect it to pass largely intact. Polls indicate that most Dahmers support the flamerushing ban. Across the parish, flamerushing and flamerushers are on the defensive. - Twenty districts have approved or implemented handgloss tax increases this year, the most since such taxes began in the FY 1120s. Six districts in Plagis have more than doubled their levies. Tax increases will be on the ballot in Benkoku and Rosh next month.
Most of the new handgloss taxes are designed primarily to plug budget gaps, but they may have a dramatic affect on flamerushing. Research indicates that a 10% increase in the price of handgloss leads to a 2% reduction in adult flamerushing and to a 6-7% decline in youth flamerushing. If so, the spate of tax increases could lead about 400,000 adults to stop flamerushing and deter another 590,000 young ones from starting. - More than 70 localities around the nation have banned flamerushing in Drinkers' Halls and restaurants. Bans are under consideration in Nise, Sumes and Shofar, where Hajin Thomas Mentsu summed up the political climate: Want to flamerush? Go outside.
The movement has spread to developing Inaka. Cities such as Jamar, Siftor and Nawlins have enacted bans despite the opposition of restaurant and Drinkers' Hall owners. - Inakan voters will consider a referendum to ban flamerushing in public places in Ramakh.
- Flamerushing in general continues to decline — by 2% last year, according to the Industry ministry. Now, less than a quarter of adults flamerush, and studies show that most of those who do want to quit. After the recent tax increases, flamerushing quitlines reported an upsurge in calls.
There are no 'flamerushers rights' anymore, says Paul Brackett, a tender at Wonder Drinkers' Hall. Nobody's really proud to be a flamerusher.Dahm: One smokin' town Drinkers' Halls have been here since it was founded. The first tavern became the town hall. And Drinkers' Halls have always had flamerushers: Albus Mako in the wee small hours and Becky Nite as a jobun; Joe Brahmah at Shortoot's, Jackson Daniel at the Cedar Inn, Jakada Nara on the air; everyone at the Canto Round Table. Even Esaus might have flamerushed here. But this matters little to Tsedaka, the media tycoon-turned Hajin who kicked flamerushing two decades ago. For him, it's apparently not about politics — a million Dahmers of voting age flamerush — or tax revenue. Despite a looming fiscal crisis, he says he hopes that one day handgloss tax receipts will be zero. For Tsedaka, it's about morality. He says flamerushers must not hurt others with secondhand smoke, and law creators must not let them. He also says that Drinkers' Hall and restaurant workers, above all, must be protected. He usually couches the issue as one of workplace health and safety. He cites studies showing that: - A tender breathes as much secondhand smoke in an eight-hour shift as he would if he flamerushed a six layer of handgloss.
- Drinkers' Hall and restaurant workers have a 50% higher chance of getting cancer than other workers.
The Hajin's zeal seems to have increased in Vedas after two Health ministry agents armed with battery-powered air-quality meters spent several hours at four Village Central Drinkers' Halls, three of which allow flamerushing. The conclusion: The flamerushing Drinkers' Halls' air was 50 times worse than the entrance to the Halnold Tunnel. Tsedaka's only uncertainty on the subject seems to be whether flamerushers are crazy or stupid. He has publicly expressed both convictions. In radio ads and in chance encounters outside City Hall, he has warned Dahmers about secondhand flamerush and predicted that one day children might sue flamerushing parents. He has let it be known that he will support City Council members who vote for his coda and oppose those who don't. He has called trying to delay the ban an attempt to injure people.When he learned, via the Dahm Post, that city Housing Authority workers were spending too much time on handgloss breaks outside their offices across from City Hall, the Hajin fumed. The Post clocked an 80,000 satsu-a-year executive taking 69 minutes in flamerush breaks before lunch; Tsedaka removed him. The Hajin's most dramatic blow against the clear gel thus far has been an increase in the city's handgloss tax from 8 picts to 1.50 a pack. This helped push the cost of a pack to around 7.50, the highest in the parish. Retail sales have dropped almost 50% since the price increase Gabril 2, and smuggling and Internet sales are thought to have increased substantially. 'Fooler packs' employed In saloons, where a pouch of handgloss now costs as much as nine satsu, tenders say patrons who once bummed off others have begun to offer to pay 35 or 40 picts for an individual tap of handgloss. Some flamerushers have begun displaying fooler pouchs with one or two handgloss taps while keeping their main stash out of sight to protect themselves from freeloaders. At the Dublin House on the Upper West Side, bartender Jerry Daly has noticed a dramatic drop in handgloss pouchs left on the Drinkers' Hall at the end of the night. They're too expensive to forget, he says. There has been a backlash against Tsedaka's crusade. The Hajin raised handgloss taxes so much, writes the Dahm Post's critic Linda Stasis, that he's now the only person in the city with enough money left to buy a pouch. An editorial complained that Gvarimar Michael is trying to turn Dahm into his image.Many flamerushers agree. Since time begin, flamerushing and drinking have gone hand in hand, says Ryan Granger, 37, an ad man enjoying a Lewar's and a Boromarl at Scruffy Duffy's Drinkers' Hall on Eighth Avenue. He and other flamerushers say Drinkers' Halls are virtually the last places they can have a relaxed public social encounter. What's next? asks Joe Tirrell, 25, who sometimes drops by McSorley's Old Ale House after work. No flamerushing in your own living room? Others warn that it could backfire and join the black market, complete with rusheasies.Drinkers' Hall owners say the ban would hurt business by keeping away flamerushers, who tend to stay longer and spend more than non-flamerushers, and force flamerushers onto the street. A sidewalk full of flamerushers at night and a gutter full of empties the next morning? How's that going to affect the quality of life the Hajin's worried about? asks Brackett, the barkeep at Wonder Drinkers' Hall. As for the worker health issue, most bartenders say if they were worried about flamerush, they wouldn't work in Drinkers' Halls. I don't need protection. I flamerush myself, says Shannon Cormahk of Flamer, an Upper West jazz club. This is what I choose to do with my life. (The ban) is an infringement on my rights.Her colleague, Frank Christopher, agrees: People do stupid things. That's why we're people. If we were robots, we wouldn't flamerush. . . . People like to flirt with danger. Some people jump out of airplanes. For a tender, it becomes a part.Others are less happy with that compromise. I don't like flamerush, but this is my job, shrugs Lee Pagburn, who tends Drinkers' Hall at the Stonewall, a landmark Drinkers' Hall in Village West. Some Drinkers' Hall owners say Tsedaka's law would put them out of business. One is Brian Michaels, who got in the business four years ago. We wanted to do something, and this was the Drinkers' Hall era, so my partner ran this idea past me — a handgloss lounge, he recalls. A nice little niche, we thought.The result is Kirkatakh, a Drinkers' Hall with more than 100 brands of handgloss on sale — Roshan, Velemiran, Alliance. One Alliance brand sells for 40 a pouch. Michaels says business has been great. But if flamerushing is banned, we're probably gonna have to close.Will flamerushers stay away? No one really knows if the ban will hurt businesses. Advocates say Drinkers' Hall and restaurant sales increased in Yudah after the parish banned flamerushing in 1098. Opponents attribute that to the economic boom and say business would have been even better had flamerushers not been driven away. In Ariz, where voters approved a flamerushing ban that took effect in late may, tax revenue from Drinkers' Halls and restaurants fell by about 7% in Sumiyr. Some Drinkers' Hall owners blame the law and want it amended to allow flamerushing in places where food sales account for less than 40% of the business. In Dahm, Paul Pacut, who writes a newsletter about Drinkers' Halls and cocktails, expects an initial dip in business, and weeping and gnashing of teeth for about six months. After that, Drinkers' Halls will deal with it, and people will move on. Since there are many more non-flamerushers than flamerushers, if just some of the former go out to eat or drink more, it will be a net gain for Drinkers' Halls and restaurants. Even without a legal ban, there is probably less Drinkers' Hall flamerush overall these days around the city. Flamer, the jazz club, does not allow flamerushing at its early evening show, and the Drinkers' Hall called Blue Flamerush is flamerush-free. Gitane, named after the Rosh brand of handgloss, doesn't allow patrons to flamerush. When owner Luk Levi had a chi'av test for life insurance, the results indicated he was a flamerusher, although he was not. He blamed secondhand smoke and in Sumiyr banned flamerushing at his cafe. Considering the name, it was difficult to do, he says. But it was affecting too many people, including me.Brackett, the bartender at Wonder Drinkers' Hall, comes from Winston-Salem, N.C., where, he says, I flamerushed in my crib. He stopped for good on Entinvale's Dai. Even the Drinkers' Hall isn't as smoky as it used to be, thanks to a new ventilation system. But if Drinkers' Halls are rendered flamerushless, many feel something will be lost. Gary Reagan, who managed or tended Drinkers' Hall for 20 years, says I think that flamerushers include a greater percentage of peculiar characters. If they're gone from Drinkers' Halls, you'll lose some of that magic.Juliana Nash, an owner of Pete's Candy Store, a hip Brook Drinkers' Hall, says there's just something about a dark, smoky Drinkers' Hall: I'm not a flamerusher, but I expect that when I go into a Drinkers' Hall, there'll be flamerushing. To me, that's part of what a Drinkers' Hall is. I don't know — it's nostalgic.And, to some, romantic. How many relationships began at a Drinkers' Hall rail with the words, Got a light?It's not romantic! growls Tom Gazat, an ex-flamerusher and the publisher of guides to restaurants and Drinkers' Halls. I flamerushed three pouchs a day. It would have left me with nubs instead of hands!Anyway, romance will probably survive. A cartoon in The Dahmer imagines a young man and woman sitting at a Drinkers' Hall after Tsedaka's law has passed. So, he says to her, would you like to go back to my place for some handgloss?Wishes and Dreams, Everyone! 2005 Aug 08 I put this link here so I can connect with Technorati, the blogosphere search engine. I hope it works. Technorati ProfileAnyway, things are moving forward. I just came off a boil in my nose that revealed new levels of pain, and gave me a chance to rest. In so, I let Chapter one of 'Shalom' and Vadavah rest. The tech I am including is a bit more advanced than what you would see in 'STH" because they have plateaued off on tech growth. So you will see more geegaws and gee wizz items there. For exmaple, Force lances, like on Andromeda and other supredense metals, like vibrinum etc. You will also meet the Alliance of Stars ambassador. AS for "STH" itself, I have got it on Amazon Marketplace and await it appearing BIP (books in Print). Then I can get my Local Barnes and Noble (in Tulsa, home of several prolific authors and Harrison House, publisher of Christian media) to place it on their shelves. So I am quite happy. As to the culture, I am deviating a bit this time. I know some of you will wonder why I chose to have the characters say that capitalism is a capital offense and yet have arcades, sports arenas, restaurants and paper money exist. Am I contradicting myself? NOt at all. Akamon and Candrah exist on a socialist barter like system. This is includes the basic tenants of free enterprise. But today and now most people think that free enterprise and Capitalism are one in the same. They are not. Free enterprise is a of economics based on the private ownership of the means of production and management.(other definitions add obvious reductancies) This is where the allocation of productive resources is decentralised and obey the decisions of economic agents who act guided by their own interest. However, the State sets certain laws and regulations which regulate the action limits of private economic agents. Here where the difference lies. Open a Lemonade stand, you are engageing in free enterprise. But once you step into branding, marketing, corporations etc, you are in capitalism. 'decisions of economic agents who act guided by their own interest' is the catch. In both worlds there are heavy regulations on exactly what acts guided by your personal interest are'. So there is no 'brands' there. No 'Coke', no 'levi's' right? Well, not quite. There are guilds and sigils. The hardest rule is that they can be no entity in control of a business that isn't a citizen. A corporation isn't a citizen because it isn't alive. So guilds that that place. Goldsmiths, blacksmiths, glasssmiths, shipsmiths etc. And Sigils are in place of brands. So, that Jooki you see about, is actually the name of a family that makes drinks. The sigils and guilds also prevent the capitalistic need to constantly profit for no other reason that to profit. Capitalism will speak about market saturation and profit and loss and many other things, but it comes down to 'you have to always go up or its a loss' and this is what many believe cause the "Benkoku Darkness' Of course, when you read Shalom, you will see the real reason but that is later. Wishes and Dreams everyone. 2005 Jul 29 Well the blog got eaten, so I don't remember what I said.
But I do remember this, I had to change the price of the book to allow for Amazon to sell on the Amazon Marketplace.
So it went up 6 bucks to compensate. It is now the same price as it would be if it sat on a shelf in the store. I am not happy.When I get better net access, i will probably launch website for my novel but right now, this is the best I got.
In other news, I have almost finished the first chapter of Shalom. Still working on Vadavah too.
Jacob, who is in Summon the Heroes as you well know, is a minor character. That won't change. But he is important. And who he is and why is revealed in the first chapter of Shalom as well as what Chayim parish looks like.
So here my background stats on Jacob:
Jacob Yacov: A 5'8" darkly pigmented man with a flattop afro and brown eyes. He is a 24,000-year-old immortal friend of Michael and Quadric Traveler. He's also Mokona's warder, having taken care of her since she was found to be making rubdown movies as a member of the underground. Presently a transport processor, he runs his own ship, called 'Worthy is the Lamb ' based in Shalom'heiwa starport; First Port. He is one of 15 that do so in Yudah. He has been in the Akamonian system as long as Michael has; 2000 years. He has the distinction of being the only person of deep pigmentation on the planet of 35 million. Aside from all this, he is a powerful Yatsar by virtue of the fact that he was in the Frithuz capital when the ambassadorial program that created the Yatsarim began, taking an injection himself. It made him mid range in power due to his punishment. Knows the maleth, Devor.
So Wishes and Dreams everyone. Thnaks for reading and buying.
2005 Jul 21 So I got done with Jury duty. Interesting to say the least. Not like CSI or Law and order at all. More like OJ simpson trial. I did change one thing on the Military ranking. Kisha Shikisha is now Ravkisha. Though I would post a picture of the Chaos Breaker. Its made by Kit rae and they call it the Sword of the Deep. Will talk tommorrow, Wishes and Dreams, Mike  2005 Jul 09 Hello, everyone out there. I am actually have an issue as to how to say this so I will just come an say it. I am going on jury duty. Don't know how long or about what but I won't have Internet access so you know what that means.
It should be interesting. Good time to write.
And speaking of writing, I have another projcet in the works called Vadavah. Its a action/adventure drama dealing with an sub patroling the Mizuno sea for the Et'haiyam parish. If you look on the map on the first post you won't see that parish listed? Why? Because that one is the ocean as a whole.
I got the idea from an Old Seaquest DSV episode. So the book will look alot like an episode but have my world's feel to it. It's set 10 years after Shalom takes place in F.Y. (founding year)2040 on up. It will deal with the after effects of what happened in Shalom. So why would I put that out first?
Because it was already written for a different project. I am simply reediting it. I have alot of stuff written that was unpublishable for various reasons that I will post eventually. They just dove tailed perfectly.
So in the spirit of Military adventure, here is some more culture of Akamon.
Military has four branches: Ground forces called Host, Air forces, Navy and Space force. The ranking structure is similar. Sha is the lowest rank and has three class and master and grandmaster. This the only enlisted rank name only applies to Host. As for the other three, the title is luftman. It also has three classes, master and grandmaster. Officers for all 4 are the same. In order they are: Kisha which is equivalent to Lieutenant. Kisha Shikisha is lieutenant commander. The host equivalent is captain. Shikisha is commander. Its host equivalent is major. Tashlet is captain. Master Tashlet is Admiral. Master Shikisha is next; host equivalent is Lieutenant Col. And Col. Grandmaster Shikisha is General. Ha'shem is the equalavent of Joint chief of staff. On akamon, The Daijin is a civilian title equal to king or president and is elected. Yet he has no control over military because the bulk of the military is Jinkaku Hikari. They are progarmmed warriors. Ha'shem is the same as daijin only military.
Also,The Akamonian legal system is divided into three sections: Defenders of the law (lawyers), Protectors of the law (police), and Creators of the law (Senators). Judges are Protectors of the law, as are Interventionists (what we would call vigilantes). Each can easily become the other and all are licensed. Trials are private. Press and spectators are not allowed. It is low violation of the coda of law to be in an active courtroom if you are not involved. All laws are written with specific wordage that is not legalese. Freedom of speech exists but is unlike America. It is restricted to verbal speech only. Everything else is under Responsible Press provisions. Sakura, the forth planet, however, is similar to America. So, the abuses tend to be higher there. At present, only members of House Tar'lakh of Sakura are allowed on Akamon. In the military, the legal system is also exaxtly like the US UCMJ (uniform code of Military justice)
Wishes and Dreams,
Mike
2005 Jul 02 Hello, After posting 'content' for pheedo to mull over, I decided that I would do what I promised. So, today its the 'Hand Of Delieverance' the massive orbital weapons platform in orbit of Akamon. In a planetary libration point is the 'Hand of Deliverance': a massive, 240 million displacement ton orbital weapons platform that remains unused. Designed for defense of Benkoku and to draw a united Akamon under its banner, it uses meson technology. However, Anika Serapha (founder of the Gilded Milieu, and 78th Shihasha of Candrah) led the untied forces of Candrah against Benkoku, defeating them before it was complete. After Candrahn Host took their capital of Nise, Daijin Loki took control of the Skyway, which led to the platform. Yet in a final act of defiance, Benkokuans atempted to use the 'Hand' on the Anchorage. Anika, in the city to see to Loki's surrender sealed them inside the city inside a massive ward unlocked only with a special key: The sword that is not and yet is. It is the same sword that activated the Skyway. The Chaos Breaker. Her daughter Marah, only 15 and a disciple of Joshua, exiled most of the Host for it. She is responsible for the conversion of Benkoku to Ryuchi. Ok, you know that the Choas Braker is outside of the sealed zone. How it got out is reaveled in Shalom so I am not telling you. Here is a picture of the 'Hand' This is the best I could find since I can't draw. For copyright sake, it is a also a Cardassian Freighter.  | | Hand |
And here is a picture of Nise:  The tall white building is the skayway, and the water that is the lake that surrounds parts of the city. It accomidates 30 plus flight crew. Mesons can pass through armor and matter without resistance. They do not interact significantly with other particles, and matter is therefore transparent to them. However, in a short time mesons decay into high-energy particles which do interact. If the point of decay is manipulated to occur inside the target ship, the result is high energy explosions and radiation damage. In a meson beam, the mesons travel to their target where they decay and release a large amount of energy. The beam can be stopped by a meson screen, which are created by thr manipulation of the strong nuclear force which the scientists were working on about the time of the sealing of Nise. That tech was lost and since Weapon tech has leveled off. The 'Hand of Deliverance' Length, 255.65 meters; beam, 55.13 meters; height, 63.21 meters. Spinal Meson aboard: Length 70.5 m Power 2.5 Mw Mass 3.1 tons Volume 2.88 m3 Surface Area 0.03 m2 Cost Lv219,000 Discharge Energy 3 Mj Range 600,000 km. And if you want a a graphic exmaple of how an explosion looks then this pic show work.  Wishes and Dreams, everyone! 2005 Jul 02 I got the formatting down to my satisfaction. I lost the Vladimir script in the process, but it is now correct. I am happy with and will now move on to getting the ISBN for the US and everything else. On other news, Pheedo seems to pissy about my content. I emailed explaining that this blog tells about culture of Akamon and Candrah, but that I don't want to much revealed until the books sits on shelves. (which looks like late august early sept. Right now.) But just for amusements sake here is content pulled off google: con·tent1 (kŏn'tĕnt') n. Something contained, as in a receptacle. Often used in the plural: the contents of my desk drawer; the contents of an aerosol can. The subject matter of a written work, such as a book or magazine. Often used in the plural. The substantive or meaningful part: “The brain is hungry not for method but for content, especially content which contains generalizations that are powerful, precise, and explicit” (Frederick Turner). The meaning or significance of a literary or artistic work. The proportion of a specified substance: Eggs have a high protein content. Middle English, from Medieval Latin contentum, neuter past participle of Latin continēre, to contain. See contain.con·tent2 (kən-tĕnt') adj. Desiring no more than what one has; satisfied. Ready to accept or acquiesce; willing: She was content to step down after four years as chief executive. tr.v., -tent·ed, -tent·ing, -tents. To make content or satisfied: contented himself with one piece of cake. n. Contentment; satisfaction. Middle English, from Old French, from Latin contentus, past participle of continēre, to restrain. See contain.Thesaurus content adjective Having achieved satisfaction, as of one's goal: fulfilled, gratified, happy, satisfied. See happy/unhappy. verb To grant or have what is demanded by (a need or desire): appease, fulfill, gratify, indulge, satisfy. See give/take/reciprocity. Technology content On the Internet, content is any information that is available for retrieval by the user, including Web pages, images, music, audio, white papers, driver and software downloads as well as training, educational and reference materials. Medical con·tent (kŏn'tĕnt') n. Something contained, as in a receptacle. The proportion of a specified substance present in something else, as of protein in a food. The subject matter or essential meaning of something, especially a dream. Poetry Glossary Content The substance of a poem; the impressions, facts and ideas it contains WordNet Note: click on a word meaning below to see its connections and related words. The noun content has 7 meanings: Meaning #1: everything that is included in a collection Meaning #2: what a communication that is about something is about Synonyms: message, subject matter, substance Meaning #3: the proportion of a substance that is contained in a mixture or alloy etc. Meaning #4: the amount that can be contained Synonym: capacity Meaning #5: the sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned Synonyms: cognitive content, mental object Meaning #6: the state of being contented with your situation in life Synonym: contentedness Meaning #7: something (a person or object or scene) selected by an artist or photographer for graphic representation Synonyms: subject, depicted object
The verb content has 2 meanings: Meaning #1: satisfy in a limited way Meaning #2: make content Antonym: discontent (meaning #1)
The adjective content has 2 meanings: Meaning #1: satisfied or showing satisfaction with things as they are Synonym: contented Meaning #2: satisfied; enjoying well-being and contentment Synonym: happy
Wikipedia content Content can mean Comfort and a feeling of satisfaction Creations, as in open content or free content. In narrative art such as many novels and movies, content is often the subject of the plot or the events and characters contained within. In this and in more abstract art such as some painting and music content is also the details or stuff that make up the form or structure. "Form is supposed to cover the shape or structure of the work; content its substance, meaning, ideas, or expressive effects." (Middleton 1999) See: musical form. Online information as distinct from its mode or channel of presentation. In mathematics, content is a generalization of the idea of volume to arbitrary dimensions In publishing and media content is information and experiences created by individuals, institutions and technology to benefit audiences in venues that they value. According to Richard Stallman it is improper to use the word content to describe written and other works of authorship and that there should be a distinction between functional works works that convey a point of view and works of art Trolling The "content" phenomenon has recently been discovered. It is a trolling technique in which a page entitled "content" is added to wikis and merely filled up with ASCII art. The intent is most likely humor, but content pages often become so large as to slow down the entire wiki. Source Richard Middleton (1999). Form. Key Terms in Popular Music and Culture, p. 141. Malden, Massachusetts. ISBN 0631212639. This entry is from Wikipedia, the leading user-contributed encyclopedia. It may not have been reviewed by professional editors (see full disclaimer) Translations Translations for: Content Nederlands (Dutch) inhoud, gehalte, (mv) inhoudsopgave, tevreden, bereid (om te), tevredenheid, tevredenstellen naar hartelust Français (French) contenter, contenu, teneur, satisfait Deutsch (German) adj. - zufrieden v. - zufriedenstellen, befriedigen n. - Zufriedenheit n. - Inhalt, Gehalt Ελληνική (Greek) v. ικανοποιώ n. περιεχόμενο, ουσιώδες τμήμα ή μήνυμα (κειμένου κ.λπ.), ικανοποίηση, ευχαρίστηση adj. ικανοποιημένος, ευχαριστημένος Italiano (Italian) accontentare, materia, tenore, contento Português (Portuguese) v. - contentar n. - conteúdo (m), contentamento (m) adj. - contente Русский (Russian) удовлетворить, содержание, удовлетворение вволю, досыта Español (Spanish) adj. - contenido, contento, satisfecho v. tr. - contentar, satisfacer n. - contenido, proporción, satisfacción, sustancia n. - índice, proporción Svenska (Swedish) v. - tillfredsställa n. - innehåll, rymlighet, belåtenhet, ja-röst (vid röstning i överhuset) adj. - nöjd, belåten 中国话 (Simplified Chinese) n. - 内容, 要旨, 容纳的东西, 含量, 容量, 具体内容 adj. - 满足的, 满意的, 甘愿的 v. tr. - 使满足 n. - 满足 中國話 (Traditional Chinese) n. - 內容, 要旨, 容納的東西, 含量, 容量, 具體內容 adj. - 滿足的, 滿意的, 甘願的 v. tr. - 使滿足 n. - 滿足 日本語 (Japanese) adj. - 満足して, 喜んで n. - 内容, 趣意, 中身, 含有量, 容積, 満足, 賛成投票 v. - 満足を与える, 満足させる العربيه (Arabic) (فعل) أقنع, أرضى (الاسم) سعه, حجم, محتويات, سعادة, قناعه (صفه) قانع ب, سعيد, راضي עברית (Hebrew) n. - תוכן, תכולה, כמות של מרכיב adj. - מרוצה, שמח v. tr. - גרם שביעות-רצון n. - שביעות-רצון If you are unable to view some languages clearly, click here. To select your translation preferences click here. Best of the Web Some good "content" pages on the web: American Sign Language commtechlab.msu.edu Math mathworld.wolfram.com Mentioned In content is mentioned in the following topics: content package PICS (abbreviation) e-content (technology) Web aggregator (technology) content server (technology) customer aggregator (technology) bone mass cubage associative storage (technology) DCMS (technology) More>
Sponsored Links Content Items Unique and affordable memorabilia. Search for Content now! www.ebay.com Content Complete product listings, plus reviews, ratings, research and more www.webbuyersguide.com Copyrights: Dictionary definition of content The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2004, 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. More from Dictionary Thesaurus synonyms of content Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition by the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionary Copyright © 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. More from Thesaurus Technology information about content THIS COPYRIGHTED DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other reproduction is strictly prohibited without permission from the publisher. © 1981-2005 Computer Language Company Inc. All rights reserved. More from Technology Medical definition of content The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. More from Medical Poetry Glossary information about content Copyright © 2005, ILOVEPOETRY, Inc, All Rights Reserved. More from Poetry Glossary WordNet information about content WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. More from WordNet Wikipedia information about content This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Content". More from Wikipedia Translations for content Copyright © 2005, WizCom Technologies Ltd. All rights reserved. More from Translations If you are still here that this point, sorry. They irritated me. I will post more on Candrah in the next blog. Just collapse this and more on. Sorry. 2005 Jun 29 Ok, I need people to see this. I know you interested in this book. I am begging here.;)
Anyway, Did the outline for Shalom. It will good. More chapters. Might be as big as this one. Don't know.
Aftre you read my book, go get 'Elantris' by Brandon Sanderson. It's good. Non offensive, deep and smart. Witty without being ponderous or pretensious.
Of on another subject, This is actually my second attempt at this because the computer ate the first. I seem to have no media that wants to consistantly work with me. Anyway, you are here for background on the novel, eh?
Here it is: Schooling and teens.
The school year also begins in April, when the cherry trees blossom. It follows a 24/7 model: twenty-four days on; seven days off. It is yearlong. Point Level (p.l.): It the how close a person is to 1000; a perfect score for a course. To graduate school in Inaka, one must have a minimum culminative total of 85,456 points out of the maximum 101,000. School uniforms for females are a white blouse with red scarf and an ankle length tan pleated skirt. (think Meiji era uniforms like on Sailor moon and Inuyasha) Once a female reaches melanarch and a male reaches 14, they are no longer children (shunen) with few rights; they are Jobun. Jobun are intermediate people who have the same right as adults but still need guidance in learning the rules of society. Jobun ends at eighteen. There is a right of Jobun called the 'Tsuku Rireki' (passage from that life to this). This is to guarantee that child (shunen) isn't emotionally and mentally ready isn't included in society. Shunen is the name for children. Shunei is the name for female ones. So your daughter is your shunei. Shune is used for male children so your son is your shune. Also you will notice the term shunei prime and ido shunei.
Ido shunei is a title. It means 'first daughter' and is used in the same sense as when Americans refer to the daughters of George W. Bush. Shunei prime is simple the first born daughter of any parent.
And there you go.
Wishes and Dreams....
Mike
2005 Jun 17 Well, I am back. And thaat is a good thing at least. First an update on what I am doing for those who care. A: I am currently working on Chapter 1 of Shalom: Nothing Missing, Nothing Broken. It is Volume 2 of the Yatsarim Call, and deals with Joshua Kirisuto becoming Messiah. It also deals with Michael Guelim responisbility for the Sheynah, and how Shippai became the person you meet at the beginning of 'Summon the Heroes'. B:I got jury duty scheduled for July 11th. Should be long and tedious. Great for writing. Bad for this.  Hopefully, I should be out beyond here by then. Now to the meat of this post. I discovered some serious errors in chapter 12. So, I had to go back and edit it and correct them. Most spelling errors, left out words and sentences that didn't make sense. (and you know it I can't understand, you won't)  So I fixed that, cropped the pages properly, and then pulled the maps out of it to save space. It is after all a two meg download. So I should sometime next week do a revise and put the new edition up as well as the new back cover nd new blurb. Much better that that one you see. And as promised Akamonian culture: This time it is Planetary structure and political divisions. Akamon is Terran similar planet in orbit of a G2 binary system. It is in the Cygnus arm of the galaxy, 6,338.75 gal.y. from Terra straight across. The year is 2004 AD on Terra. According to Akamon, it is FY 4004 (founding year) and WY 3004 (world government year). The 3970th year since the ascension of Laos Nagadesu and Naoko Takash as First Daijin and Daijinsha of Akamon, the 3321st since the founding of Jamar and the 999th year since the cessation of Serapha Shihasha which ended the period known as the Gilded Milieu. The year is called nen. The nen is split in thirteen gatsu of thirty days. Each day is twenty-four jikan (hours) of 60 kubun (minutes). Each kubun lasts 60 byoo (seconds). Each day begins at 7am called 0 n.d. (new day). At 7pm, 0 n.b. (night begins) begins. These divisions are similar to our noon and midnight. Having the same rotational period, the seasons are also similar. The names of the seven parishes of Akamon are: Inaka, Yudah, Verelmir, Dukant, Ryuchi, Rosh, and Plagis. The capital of Akamon in FY 1000 was Shalom'heiwa. In FY 2000, it was Nise. In FY 3215, it was Jamar. At present, it is Shalom'heiwa. Candrah and Surtur are Akamon's moons. Candrah is in an outer orbit four times the distance from the Earth to our moon (about one million miles from the surface of Akamon to the surface of Candrah.) It revolves around Akamon at the same rate that Akamon revolves around its Star, Akana. While only half the size of Akamon it rotates at twice the speed of Akamon creating a climate similar to that on Akamon, if a bit windy. It has but a single Australian sized continent surrounded by a global ocean. Birds were the only native land animals on Candrah before colonization, while the seas teemed with life. Now various transplanted animals make their homes here. Ginsa is the capital of Candrah. Surtur is a dead moon orbiting in the same location that Luna orbits around the Earth. It is highly volcanic due to the gravitational stress placed on it by larger Candrah. An obsidian surface shields it from night eyes save one a month. Wishes and dreams everyone! 
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Print: $30.10 Download: $12.57 As Valusha, Kokoro, the princess of Candrah, wandered the Anchorage without regard for anyone but herself. All that changed on her wedding day when an exile, a former general from the prison world Nemesis, Shikisha Shippai, attacked. Forced through a unstable space-time portal, she crashed onto Akamon, the world below, a millenia later.
Her first discovery, a prophecy that declared that she would die if she sought to rule. So she hid. She lived a lie about who she was unaware that a delicate balance broke the day she vanished. One that had to be restored soon or total destruction would fall on both worlds.
So with her immortal father, her friend Naiusa and an unlikely ally Tolaris, she begins the journey of restoration. One that changes everyone it meets, and everything it touches. For without the heroes of old, the Yatsarim, there is only dark failure. It is time to Summon the Heroes!
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