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Over 10,000 audio recordings from over 100 years ago have recently been digitized by the University of California, Santa Barbara since they began hosting their Cylinder Audio Archive online. And for the first time, all the recordings have been made available for easy search and download to us average non-collegent Joes and Janes.
Before compact discs gave way to the age of the MP3, there was physical media: things we designed to hold audio and video recordings and allow them to be played back more than once. For about fifty years after their introduction in 1877, the most popular and plentiful way of reproducing audio recordings was the phonograph cylinder, invented by Thomas Edison.
Edison's tinfoil cylinder model would vibrate a stylus placed on a cylinder of tinfoil that would be hand cranked, writing indentations on the foil to record the sound. It wasn't the best way of recording, but it was groundbreaking at the time and piqued interest in developing new cylinder audio technology in the following decades. However, none of the original tinfoil recordings have been recovered, as the marks on the foil that made the sound would be worn down with each subsequent playback until it eventually erased the recording.
It wasn't until the late 1880s that it was obvious to American inventors that wax would be the substance best suited for cylinder recordings and playback. Wax would keep the sound data much longer than a metal foil, and the new stylus would carve grooves into the wax rather than indentations, improving the quality of the recordings that could be made. In America, this lead to the rise of "brown wax" cylinders, that could be bought blank and recorded on to. The cylinders also started to be used commercially, with performers repeating musical pieces over and over again as multiple wax cylinders recorded the song.
By 1897, French clockmaker and inventor Henri Lioret was the first to use celluloid cylinders and also the first to use molding to make a lot of cylinders at one time. Instead of recording to a cylinder with a stylus, new cylinders would be poured into a mold that was formed from the original recording. In 1902, Edison and the Americans finally caught on with molds made of gold that they could use to press into brown wax cylinders. This lead to a boom in mass recordings of music pieces, concerts and popular vaudeville routines of the time.
From 1912 to 1929, when the medium died out, cylinders stopped being molded out of wax and began being molded out of celluloid like the Lioret cylinders. As the Cylinder Audio Archive notes in its history, the celluloid cylinders were more durable than wax at the time, but ended up being worse for archival use because the material would shrink and distort with changes in heat.
The resulting archive from capturing both the wax and celluloid cylinders that University of California, Santa Barbara could come up with is an impressively searchable piece of history that includes not only musical performances, but speeches, theater acts and what we would consider popular "singles" today. Even the unlabeled brown wax recordings of yore have had a surprising amount of searchable data tagged on the new site, so when the names of the recording artists are lost to time, you can still search by things like theme or geographical location mentioned.
If you need a good place to start, USCB has provided some theme lists to start you down the rabbit hole. Kick off with a playlist like "Popular Songs of World War I" to get a glimpse of a world we never knew or jump over to "Pioneers of Audio Theater" and remember that podcasts aren't the only good free audio these days.


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Keller Estate
Sonoma Coast AVA
One of the gems of Sonoma County's Petaluma Gap AVA
More than thirty years ago, Arturo Keller and his wife Deborah made their way through a scenic section of lower Sonoma County and came upon a most picturesque piece of land. It then served as a dairy grazing farm, but taken by the natural beauty of the place, the Kellers bought the 650 acres with the intention of turning it into vineyard land.
Following the suggestion of wine experts, Arturo and Deborah planted their first twenty acres to Chardonnay in 1989. They named the vineyard La Cruz after their Mexican heritage. Over time, they added more acreage to include Pinot Noir and began making wine for family and friends. The wines were extremely well received and the Kellers decided that the vineyard's unique terroir produced rich, aromatic wines that should be shared with the rest of the world.
The Kellers called upon their daughter Ana who had studied Chemistry at the University of Mexico, and invited her to join in their new wine venture. Ana's educational background and respect for terroir would prove to be an extremely beneficial addition to Keller Estate.
The Kellers released their first vintage in 2001, of just under 2,000 cases of Estate Chardonnay and Pinot Noir. The label design on these wines displayed the Keller Family Crest, which has been a part of the family for generations and actually originated in Switzerland. The key depicted in the center of the crest represents the cellar master's key, as he is the guardian to the cellar. The name Keller literally means 'cellar' in German, and was a special place where valuable commodities were kept and passed on from family to family.
The winery itself was designed by renowned Mexican architects and was completed in 2003. The grounds are spacious and include limestone quarried from the bed of the Yangtze River, a gravity flow state-of the-art winemaking system, various sculptures and statues, and a stunning tasting room where visitors can enjoy an array of paintings and unique works of art.
This month's feature comes from the Keller's El Coro Vineyard, which sits high on the property's ridge-top where the vines are more exposed to the winds that bring the Pacific maritime air and fog through the Petaluma Gap. The Pinot Noirs from El Coro are very expressive, with beautiful aromatics and great structure that shine through.
Keller Estate has now become one of the gems of Sonoma County, with one of the most distinctive, exciting collections of estate-grown wines in the region. We hope you enjoy one of their latest winning releases. Cheers!
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Ana Keller - Estate Director, Winemaker & Daughter
When Ana Keller learned that her father Arturo intended to enter the wine business in 1989, she literally jumped in with both feet. Brought up in Mexico, Ana was the recipient of degrees from both the University of Mexico (biopharmaceutical chemistry) and a Masters in Pharmaceutical Development from the prestigious King's College in London. The city of London proved to be a pivotal spot for Ana when she took her first formal wine tasting lessons while attending school there.
Now a youngish 42, Ana Keller is all about the winery experience. Having spent nearly 25 years in the wine industry, she speaks a wine veteran's lingo with great enthusiasm and vigor.
Her most rewarding experience?
"It is definitely sitting in a restaurant and the table next to me orders a bottle of our wine without knowing who I am," she related. "It is instant gratification when they take the first sip and express their enjoyment. I wouldn't trade the experience for anything."
Ana's first brush with wine came early in life when she spent her holidays in France's Loire Valley harvesting grapes from the vineyards.
"When my father asked me to join him in establishing Keller Estate, I was overjoyed," she related. "We have accomplished much of what we initially set out to do and it's up to me to continue to make sure our quality never fluctuates."
Ana has insisted on a unique way of insuring that quality tradition continues. "We always bring out 6 or 7 of our prior vintages to taste right before we sit down for the final blending of our wines. This process really confirms the fact that the new wines really relate to the terroir of our estate. We are dedicated to the utmost quality we can achieve with each vintage, and that is the promise of our winery."
Ana Keller is also heavily involved in the effort to make her property part of a proposed new AVA (American Viticultural Area) that would be called the Petaluma Gap AVA.
"When you consider what the winds of the gap do to the area and to the grapes themselves, it seems to be a no-brainer. The winds force our grapes (Pinot Noir) to develop thicker skins and that in itself changes the equation. The Petaluma Gap has become a world-class growing area, and I'm hopeful it will be soon recognized. When we first started, this was all Sonoma County AVA. Then the Sonoma Coast AVA became a reality, and now it's time for even further recognition. I hope our efforts will reach fruition sometime either late this year or next," she added.
Ana Keller devotes 100 percent of her time to Keller Estate and confided that her parents are still active in the business. "Whenever my father is available, he sits in on our meetings and tastings. He is still quite active and his passion for cars takes up a great deal of his time. He cares a great deal about the winery since it is still a relatively small family operation."
While the Keller Estate is comfortably positioned around the 8,000 case annual production level, Ana Keller has developed a three-year plan that will increase Keller Estate's production another 30 to 40 percent to around the 12,000 case level. "We grow enough great quality grapes to support the plan," she finalized. "With the excellent support we have from our loyal customer base, all we need do is continue with our quality. Our assistant winemaker Alex Holman is responsible for that aspect of our business and he is really good at what he does."
Ana Keller is unique to the wine industry in that her first passion was for plants. This passion turned to vines and then to wines. She has utilized modern technology to its fullest, but still remains true to a minimalistic approach to winemaking, not an easy task in today's winemaking world.
We salute Ana Keller and her wonderful wines as we introduce them to you as our Gold Wine Club feature. We know you will enjoy these excellent wines from this emerging wine producing area.
About the Vineyard
The Keller Estate 2009 La Cruz Vineyard Pinot Noir is comprised of fruit from the Keller family's estate vineyard, characterized by the intricate stone cross sculpture that boldly stands over the vines, and named to represent the family's Mexican heritage.
The majority of the La Cruz Vineyard, where Keller Estate grows all of their Chardonnay, Syrah, Pinot Gris, and slightly over half of their Pinot Noir, resides on the lower hills of the property. The soils here are multi-layered, mineral-laden clays there were once San Pablo Bay seabeds. This mineral character comes through in the wines and is very much a part of the Keller Estate's unique terroir.
Higher up on the Keller Estate property lies the 20-acre El Coro block that is home to several different clones of Pinot Noir. Here, the vines are more exposed to the winds that bring the Pacific maritime air and fog through the Petaluma Gap.
The expansive Keller Estate property allows the team to select the ideal growing area for each clone and varietal, and the result is an incredibly diverse line up of expressive, Sonoma Coast wines.
Alex Holman - Winemaker
A California native born and raised in San Francisco, Alex Holman is the award-winning winemaker behind Keller Estate's wines. His philosophy to winemaking is that a natural and minimalist approach is the best way to create distinctive, elegant wines that highlight the diversity of the terroir on the estate. With this approach, coupled with cutting edge technology, he is able to craft small lots of wine that truly allow the Keller Estate to shine.
Alex Holman has degrees in Chemistry and Enology from Fresno State University. Before joining the team at Keller Estate, Alex gained valuable experience working at Paul Hobbs Winery, Dry Creek Vineyard, and J. Rickards Winery. He has proven to be an excellent addition to Keller Estate.
Dear Platinum Wine Club Members,
It is our great pleasure to introduce you to the inaugural vintage of the Rôtie, Northern Rhône blend! Rotie pays homage to Côte Rôtie, the northernmost appellation of the Rhône Valley in France. Côte Rôtie is famously translated to "the roasted slope," referring to the long hours of sunlight that grapes receive on these steep slopes. We created our Rôtie according to the same appellation rules; co-fermentation of Syrah and a maximum of 20% Viognier (ours having 5%) in the same tank. The earthy characteristics of Syrah are naturally balanced out by the natural floral notes in Viognier, leaving you with a brighter, more aromatic version of our La Cruz Syrah.
This traditional blend combined with sustainable farming practices creates a wine that is powerful, yet elegant. Soft floral notes penetrate through the minerality on the nose with hints of exotic spices. The palate reveals dark fruit dominated by blackberries and plums, finishing with velvety tannins on a long, smooth finish. Our goal at Keller Estate is to produce wines exclusively from fruit grown on our family run estate. Our unique micro-climate in the Petaluma Gap provides a cool climate that allows for a more restrained, elegant style Syrah. We believe that wines like our Rôtie are a wonderful representation of what Syrah-based wines from Sonoma should be. Keller Estate invites you to enjoy the 2010 Rôtie with a variety of red meats or wild game, or simply by itself. No matter how you enjoy this wine, we trust it will be a memorable experience.
Ana Keller
Keller Estate

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Reading and My Richocheting Eye Balls
So when you read this line from Charles Dickens' David Copperfield…
…do your eyes bounce, at all, to the words "blighted" or "renewed," "blossoms" or "spring," before you stop, align your vision, and read the first word first?
I do this all the time. Just about every page of a book, no matter how drawn in I am to its prose, arc or narrative, I first see in a burst of words, like stepping outside into bright light from dark before you adjust and shades and tones appear.
I always thought this was a a function of my mania (in case you don't know or hadn't read my blog until this point, I've been diagnosed with mania from a younger age; but it's not contagious so rest easy, paranoids–more on my own madness later), but scanning through Psyblog today, I discovered something interesting about how peripheral vision works that may mean that this isn't just a singular phenomenon (aka mine):
Naturally, the brain edits information coming from the eyes, because only a portion of it is useful for us.It's like a film director who doesn't bother showing you the hero going to sleep or brushing his teeth.
To follow the story, what you need is the salient details, and that is what the brain is trying to give you: the edited version of the most useful visual facts.
However, what this study suggests is that even information that isn't that useful or relevant is still being processed in the brain for meaning.
The study is a fantastic reminder that what we see is the result of an extremely complicated editing and filtering process.
This made me wonder: am I capable of reading whole pages in one visual shot? I know that sounds ridiculous in a certain matter-of-fact way, but this study actually outlines that we–in fact–do see everything at once, and in order to comprehend it we mentally focus in order to clarify.
Given this natural inclination, it's perfectly acceptable to let the Dickens quote hit your eyes all at once. You are capable of seeing and understanding it as a whole, just as you're capable of reading the words in order and allowing them to reveal their meaning to you. Maybe one context is deeper than the other… who's to say which?
And as an point of book editing, this seems especially interesting to me… this research effectively means that readers are visually accepting whole pages at once, and that outstanding or irregular words or phrases may actually stand out more than we–as writers–think. Given this, tone and word choice suddenly seem outrageously important; even a small word or phrase could throw the whole thing off before the reader even gets to that part of your prose!
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LONDON (Reuters) - No members of British Prime Minister Theresa May's cabinet challenged her over her so-called Chequers plan for Brexit at a meeting earlier on Monday, a journalist from the Sun newspaper reported.
"I am told not a single minister challenged the PM over Chequers during Cabinet today," the Sun's political editor, Tom Newton Dunn, said on Twitter.
Earlier on Monday Brexit minister Dominic Raab said there had been a "good, healthy discussion" at the cabinet meeting.
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Our spiritual formations classes teach students the gospel — and how to live it. We believe that faith needs to become action. Classes are designed to encourage students to understand their culture and to think and live Biblically.
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Members of the Yazidi religious minority have asked the Iraqi government and international NGOs to protect them after gunmen on Sunday killed 23 Yazidis in Mosul, northern Iraq.
"It is unacceptable because Yazidis, in addition to being a minority in Iraq, have been discriminated against for their beliefs and are forced to isolate themselves to stay alive," Hebert Yegorova, a spokesman for Yazidi Peace Association, said.
"The [Sunday] attack against the sect was clear after the gunmen asked Christians to leave the bus in which the Yazidi workers were, shooting to death only people from our community," he added.
Our community has been forgotten and has been threatened on a daily basis. We don't have anywhere to go and if things continue as they are, the only thing we can do is to wait for someone to kill us in the coming months.
Yazidis are members of a culturally Kurdish, syncretistic religious group, which is neither Christian nor Muslim, who worship an angelic figure considered by some Muslims and Christians to be the devil. The group is pre-Islamic. While most of its adherents live in northern Iraq, smaller communities live in Syria, Iran, Turkey, Armenia, Georgia and Russia.
"Whatever we worship doesn't affect the normal lives of Iraqis and as we respect their beliefs, we have to have ours respected too," Yegorova said. "We don't worship the devil but they are confusing terminologies and this is unfair."
Sunday's victims were from the small town of Bashika, near Mosul, some 390 km north of Baghdad. Hundreds of Christians and Yazidis have been taking refuge in the area, fleeing from religious violence in other parts of Iraq.
According to the Yazidi Peace Association, 204 Yazidis have been killed since the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.
There are about 600,000 Yazidis remaining in Iraq with roughly 80 percent of them living in the towns of Bashika and Sinjar, which are under the control of the Kurdistan regional government, specialists say. Yazidis can also be found in other Kurdish cities and a small number remain in the capital, Baghdad.
"There have been demonstrations for the past two days in Bashika and the few Muslims living in the city have received threats and are afraid to leave their homes," said Lt. Col. Barak Muhammad, a senior official of Ninevah province. "Shops have been closed and Muslims have asked the central government for protection as they are afraid of reprisal by the Yazidis."
Revenge killing
"We do not know the real reason for [Sunday's] massacre but probably it was a response to the killing by Yazidis, two weeks ago, of a Yazidi woman who had recently converted to Islam to marry a Sunni Muslim. Yazidis stoned her to death in Bashika. Some unofficial sources said that the killings were preceded by threats by Sunni extremists against Yazidis," Muhammad added.
Yegorova has asked neighbouring countries and European nations to help members of their community flee Iraq.
"We're desperate and with this massacre we're sure that soon there'll be more killings. Dozens of Yazidis have been individually killed over the past four years [since the US occupation of Iraq] and we have to save the remaining ones," he said. "Today, our organisation received a threatening letter saying that the massacre was just the beginning of the fate of all Yazidis."
Yazidis have long claimed discrimination in Iraq for matters such as employment and education. But now, with sectarian violence escalating over the past year, the threat of death hangs over them.
"We don't have schools near our towns that can cater for our children's education and our children cannot go to university in Mosul or in Baghdad after the constant reprisals. We are a minority but we are human beings too and have the same rights as any other Iraqi," said Hanan Quewal, 43, a resident of Sinjar who is desperately looking for a school for her grandsons.
"Our community has been forgotten and has been threatened on a daily basis. We don't have anywhere to go and if things continue as they are, the only thing we can do is to wait for someone to kill us in the coming months," Hanan added.
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Junior Match Day Team
To help the club manage its significant Under 6/7 program the club asks for help from any players (past and present) aged 12 or above that would like to help set up / put away and referee. We are looking for reliable and enthusiastic kids that want to help the younger kids and earn a little pocket money along the way.
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Can someone explain to me why heat capacity increases as molecular complexity increases?
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I believe it has to do with the increase in molecular motion and disorder.
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From what I understand, there are three forms of movement that affect the internal energy of a molecule, and therefore the heat capacity. These are: translational, linear rotational, and nonlinear rotational. For more complex molecules, all three motions are occurring and therefore the molecule has more internal energy and a higher heat capacity.
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The solutions manual explains that as more atoms are present in the molecule, there are more possible bond vibrations that can absorb added energy
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DURHAM, N.H.—The UMBC women's soccer team (2-9-1, 1-2-0 AE) dropped its second straight match, falling to America East rival New Hampshire (5-5-3, 1-1-0 AE) by a score of 2-0 Sunday afternoon at the Wildcats' Lewis Fields.
New Hampshire struck early, scoring just 1:30 into the game when forward Chelsea Kuss got a hold of the ball deep on the right flank and directed a pass to midfielder Carole LeBlanc at the top of the box. LeBlanc quickly touched up the pass and fired a shot past UMBC freshman goalie Lauren Kadet (Oakville, Ontario/St. Thomas Aquinas) into the right side of the net for the 1-0 lead.
Late in the first half, UNH midfielder Stephanie Gilkenson gave the Wildcats some security when she collected a rebound of a Drea Nogueria shot, which Kadet had turned away moments earlier, and slipped it past the Retriever keeper and into the right side of the net in the 42nd minute.
Kadet finished with seven saves in the game, while UNH goalie Erica Correa stopped nine shots.
The Retrievers outshot the Wildcats, 15-13, including 10-5 in the second half, and held a 4-2 advantage on corner kicks. Sophomore forward Rachel McKee (Ellicott City, Md./Mount Hebron) and freshman forward Amy Savage (Ottawa, Ontario/Sir Wilfrid Laurier) each took a game-high four shots.
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Calgary's Big Rock expands into B.C. beer market
Calgary's most successful craft brewery is planning to expand to British Columbia, a lucrative but crowded market.
Big Rock to open brewery in competitive market
Calgary's Big Rock Brewery has chosen British Columbia as a location for its new facility.
The Alberta beer maker has been eyeing the lucrative, but crowded B.C. market for some time.
Brewmaster Paul Gautreau says Big Rock's new facility will produce favourites such as Grasshopper and Traditional Ale, but will also develop new beers specifically for B.C. beer drinkers. It will likely be located in B.C's lower mainland and should be open by the end of 2014.
- Listen to the full interview from the Calgary Eyeopener.


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10 Things Your Child Must Know Before Kindergarten
Starting kindergarten is a major milestone for both child and parent, exciting on the one hand, fraught with potentially worrisome unknowns on the other. Even military kids, who are great little adapters to new situations can struggle. The key to successfully launching students on this first step of their academic journeys is making sure they're prepared. Most educators agree children need to master a number of basic skills before entering kindergarten.
Here are a few of those, ten things your child must know before that first day of school:
- How to be independent
Students should be comfortable apart from their parents, be able to function independently, and know how to control themselves without constant guidance.
- His/her vital statistics
Children entering kindergarten must be able to spell and write their first and last names—legibly. (Nobody expects perfection.) They should also be able to recite their addresses and know family contact numbers.
- Basic self-care
Can your child tie his/her shoes? Work buttons and zippers? Before entering kindergarten, a child should be able to do all those things, as well as eat with utensils, bounce a ball and manage bathroom breaks.
- Social skills
Being able to speak understandably and form sentences of at least five or six words is a critical skill for children entering kindergarten. Children must also have at least a basic understanding of the need to share and cooperate with others.
- Classroom etiquette
Classroom etiquette includes the abilities to sit still and listen without interrupting. Children must also be able to recognize authority, obey rules and focus their attention—for brief periods, at least—on guided tasks. Finally, they should understand their actions have both causes and consequences (good or bad).
- Manual skills
Children should know how to correctly hold (and use) a pencil, crayons and scissors. They must be able to trace or cut out basic shapes.
- The alphabet
Students should know the alphabet in order and be able to recognize letters randomly, in both upper and lower case. They should be able to relate each letter to its sound.
- Word basics
Children should be able to recognize a few sight words—e.g., stop, she, said, my, have, here, been, was—and understand how a book works (front to back, story in letters versus pictures, etc.). They should also be able to identify some beginning sounds of words and rhyming sounds.
- Numbers
Before entering kindergarten, children should know how to count from 1—10, and be able to recognize written numerals 1—10 in random order. They should also be able to differentiate between groups of objects by how many objects are in each group—one, two, three, and so on.
- Colors and shapes
Children entering kindergarten should be able to recognize and name primary colors—red, green, yellow, blue, etc.—as well as basic geometric shapes like circles, squares and triangles. They should be able to sort objects according to color, size and shape.
If your child attends preschool, chances are he/she will master most, if not all, of these skills before entering kindergarten. If your child hasn't attended preschool, you can easily work on these must-knows at home.
Do you have any tips for parents preparing their kids for kindergarten? Share them in the comments!
Aubrey Moulton, military kid, and writer for DiscoveryTreeAcademy.com, a leading provider in safe, secure and fun Preschool for children in Utah County
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Personally, I think these recommendations need to be fact checked with the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAYEC) ….I'm going to go out on a limb and say that the requirements listed are WAY too academic for a child ENTERING Kindergarten.
I agree. As a parent of a child in Kindergarten I can tell you that sounds like the list they gave me for what she should know when she LEAVES Kindergarten. Plus a couple of sight words.
This was a great list of things that kids need to know before entering the doors of kindergarten! I am a former kinder. teacher, and in the past 12 years, things have changed so dramatically! Kids are definitely expected to know so much more than before. Thank you for sharing:)


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The Spring Air by Briody Dorado 4' 6" Mattress is a truly luxurious model. Incorporating super soft latex, Layers of Plush Polyester and a Luxurious Layer of Comfort Foam, this model provides Outstanding Comfort. Part of the Spring Air by Briody Infinity Collection of mattresses, the Latex featured in this model, which naturally occurs from the sap of Indonesian Hardwoods, is an organic material which helps provide an Unparalleled Sleeping Experience.


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Adobe has acknowledged a critical vulnerability in Flash Player 220.127.116.11 and earlier versions across all platforms - Windows, Mac and Linux. Along with causing crashes, this security flaw could allow hackers to obtain access to the affected systems.
In a security bulletin published recently on its site, Adobe admits the security vulnerability, labelled as CVE-2015-7645, is being used in limited, targeted attacks, but failed to mention the number of affected systems.
Adobe Flash Player 188.8.131.52 and its earlier versions for Windows and Mac, the Extended Support Release version 126.96.36.199 and earlier 18.x versions, 220.127.116.115 and earlier 11.x versions for Linux are all basically affected by this vulnerability.
To check the Adobe Flash version running in your system, head over to the Adobe Flash Player page, alternatively right-click on the content running in Flash Player and select "About Adobe (or Macromedia) Flash Player" from the menu. In case you are running multiple browsers, check for each browser individually installed on your system. Adobe categorises this issue as a critical vulnerability, wherein an exploit allows malicious software to be executed without the knowledge of the user.
It promises that a new update with patches for the vulnerability would be released as early as 16 October, instead of 19 October mentioned previously. If you cannot wait until the official fix is available, go to this page for instructions to uninstall Adobe Flash Player from your Windows and Mac system manually.


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University of Nottingham students are staging an occupation in the Great Hall on University campus, in order to protest against the proposed tripling of university tuition fees, and the upcoming funding cuts to education and the public sector in general. We completely reject the Browne review, seeing it as nothing more than a cynical attempt to further privatise the education sector.
The government's proposals will render higher education more inaccesible than ever to most students, through fees hikes and the removal of provisions for access initiatives. Further they will drastically affect the quality of education future students will recieve, by the cutting of the vast majority of government funding currently recieved.
We are appalled that our very own vice-chancellor, Professor David Greenaway, has publicly supported the Browne review, neglecting the interests of his own university and it's staff and students. Hence we have decided to protest peacefully, democratically and legally, in order to keep the student voice heard.
We welcome and encourage everybody, students and otherwise, to join or support us. We express solidarity with other students acting against these cuts, as well as other anti-cuts campaigns, including locally the Notts Save Our Services campaign. We urge students to support this campaign and others, and help protect the public services of the town in which we study. Only through fighting together, as students and workers, can we resist the attack on our society that this government is proposing.
1. We demand that the University of Nottingham lobby the Russell Group and the government and issue a statement condemning all cuts to higher education, the EMA and the rise in tuition fees.
2. We demand that the University of Nottingham implement a complete open book policy in regards to existing budget constraints
3. We demand that the University of Nottingham ensure no redundancies for teaching, research or support staff.
4. Ensure that no victimization or repercussions for anyone participating in the occupation.
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MOSCOW. (Yury Zaitsev for RIA Novosti) - Aside from the Spektr and Radioastron projects, Russia has other plans to study and explore celestial bodies. For example, the Koronas-Foton spacecraft, due to be launched in 2008, will be packed with instruments for observing the Sun.
In addition, Russia expects to begin the Phobos-Ground project in 2009, which will be the country's first interplanetary mission in 20 years. It will bring back ground samples from Phobos, one of Mars' two moons.
Scientists believe Phobos is made of the primeval proto-planet cloud substance that eventually formed all other bodies in the Solar System, including Planet Earth. It would be quite interesting to analyze Phobos ground samples in laboratories back on our home planet.
The new federal program also contains the Moon-Globe project, whose goals are to study the Moon's internal structure, locate water inside a "cold trap" on the lunar pole, pinpoint the Moon's core and calculate its diameter. This project is also significant because the Moon is seen as a staging area for the exploration of Mars under Russia's applied lunar program.
Space plasma physics is still a highly important element of the national space program. The Interball project obtained some unique experimental results in this field in the 1990s. That project involved two main spacecraft and two sub-satellites, which conducted a detailed and simultaneous study of processes taking place inside the terrestrial magnetosphere's different sections. Moreover, the project intended to separate their spatial and temporal variations.
As a result, scientists gained an insight into the cause-and-effect relations of these processes. Such knowledge makes it possible to compile forecasts of the weather in space that highlight the influence of solar activity.
Russia's Rezonans project will continue to study space plasma physics. It involves launching into orbit a double-satellite system in 2012 to study the interaction of electromagnetic radiation with charged particles inside the Earth's inner magnetosphere and conducting active experiments there. The results of such experiments will facilitate a quantitative assessment of high-energy particles' behavior inside terrestrial radiation belts, allowing researchers to predict their state and future magnetic anomalies that may negatively affect people's lives.
As for manned space missions, starting in 2007, Russia will begin to overhaul its manned and cargo spacecraft, upgrading Soyuz space vehicles during the first stage. As a rule, each Soyuz crew consists of two professional astronauts and one space tourist. The revamped Soyuz, due to lift off in 2011, will carry two professionals and two passengers. Most importantly, it will be able to dock with the International Space Station, fly around the Moon and return to Earth at speeds of about 25,000 miles per hour, the equivalent of its escape velocity.
The second stage of the planned overhaul involves the development of the Parom (Ferry) reusable transport system, which will replace the Progress cargo craft. The Parom system will comprise a reusable orbiter and expendable 12-metric-ton freight containers. This is a remarkable achievement because Progress spacecraft can now deliver just 2.5 metric tons of dry and liquid cargo to the ISS.
The third stage will witness the launch of a Kliper-type reusable space shuttle featuring technologies that will be streamlined during the first and second stages.
Finally, a new reusable advanced launch vehicle will also be developed under the Russian-French Ural program. It will burn liquid hydrogen and oxygen or methane as an engine fuel.
Russia's eight-module segment of the ISS is to be completed by 2011, making it possible to conduct full-fledged scientific experiments and applied research aboard the station.
A manned mission to the Red Planet is also being contemplated under the federal space program. Data from experiments show that mission timetables and costs will mostly be determined by the future spacecraft's electric rocket engines. A propulsion unit with thin-walled solar batteries has so far been chosen as the basic element, though a modular nuclear propulsion unit may end up being used.
The proposed expeditionary system must allow for five missions to Mars involving one and the same interplanetary spacecraft and a solar-powered reusable tug during the initial stage. These expeditions will choose and study the appropriate site for a manned Martian base.
Six volunteers currently being chosen for the Mars-Man-500 project, i.e. a simulated mission to the Red Planet, will spend 520 days inside a spacecraft module mock-up.
Experts believe a space crew may fly to Mars between 2020 and 2030.
Lev Zelyony, director of the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, said space exploration now owes most of its achievements to automatic, rather than manned, spacecraft. Nevertheless, he said, humans will land on Mars sooner or later, even if the mission has no point other than simply putting a man there for the first time, because listening to an astronaut describe his sensations as he stood on the surface of another planet would be priceless.
Yury Zaitsev is an expert at the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Russia set to implement ambitious space program (Part I)
The views and opinions expressed in the article do not necessarily reflect those of Sputnik.


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Beth Marshall Presents brought this Depression Era story set in the dust bowl to the Garden Theatre (160 West Plant Street, Winter Garden). Directed by Aradhana Tiwari, opening scene set the stage full of movement as townspeople went about their daily routines. A windmill stood in stark silhouette and Buddy Layman played by CK Anderson gasped awake. Walking down a dirt road was C.C. Showers played by Michael Marinaccio. C.C was a former priest running from his fathers calling. He found work with the Layman family.
Buddy Layman was a high spirited, somewhat retarded boy who referred to himself in the third person. He had a gift for divining where there was water. He used a tree branch to search as farmers followed with eager anticipation. He had a natural gift. He could feel a storms approach on a clear day. It became clear in time that the boy feared water because he once almost drowned. His mother died in that incident and Buddy was unable to accept that she would never return. Buddy and C.C. developed a bond, a brotherly friendship. Buddy's fear of water was so severe that he would bolt at the sight of a bucket. He feared he could not breath when it rained. He never washed, and that became a problem cause he constantly had itchy feet.
The cast did an amazing job with thick accents and rural mannerisms. I was particularly taken with Marinaccio's performance. When he demonstrated his father's preaching, he became bigger than life, bombastic and powerful. What he yearned for however was a simpler life away from the priesthood. But once townsfolk discovered his past calling, they wouldn't let him be. He was asked to say grace before meals and anytime he was seen with Buddy, they thought he was saving the boys spirit and that he could cure Buddy's fear of water. This conflict between too much and too little faith is what caused a tragic oversight.
The final scene of the play was beautiful and tragic. The stage was illuminated from below with a green flickering light. C.C. had lost Buddy in the river. They moved under the water and the theatre filled with the muffled sounds of bubbles and rushing water. When they burst up for air, the light burst warmly on and the watery audio stopped. When then slipped back under, the world flickered green and muffled again. They struggled against the current. Townspeople moved in horrified slow motion.
The play ended as it began, a full circle, with townspeople going about their business and then Basil, the town farmer, and Dewey, a farm hand, gave a eulogy. The weight of their words had new meaning. Amazing Grace filled the dark theater. The Diviners will run December 15 -18th. Performances are on Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays at 8pm , and Sundays at 2pm.
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Lovely sketch and a very interesting post.
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March Madness at Club AntiChrist
Club AntiChrist has long been one of my favorite fet clubs on the scene. More intimate than the increasing masses who are unfortunately polluting TG (That's Torture Gardens for the uninitiated) more frequently with each ball, yet with a surplus of entertainment that some of the smaller, "play-geared" events such as Subversion and Decadence lack. Now, don't get me wrong. I love being strapped down and spanked as much as the next kinkster, and being taught how to properly use a whip on a male piggy slave from a gorgeous Russian Dom in rubber turned out to be one of the highlights of the evening. However, I also love a good dance, great music, and twisted shows worth talking about for weeks after the event.
AntiChrist truly caters to all the senses. Club owners are Dominic Void, frontman for the industrial-goth band Avoidance of Doubt, and Missy, an ex-stripper and alternative model and dancer. "Run by and for the scene" is the website's mantra, and it really does live up to the saying. Wandering into the first room with one of my best kinky-yet-vanilla friends and part-time slave on a leash, the performances are already in full swing. The Whores are rocking and we are buzzing, getting in the mood to party. Next up is the fabulously bizarre AMF Corsets, with a riveting performance involving bondage, granny strippers, cyber masks and latex galore. Other acts dominate the stage throughout the night, including pop-punk singer Kiria and her band of rubber sluts, and Sophia Landi, whose fire eating spectacle captivated audience members and made me envy her skills with the flame. Cooking be damned! I'd rather swallow fire any day.
Of course, being the obvious camera whore I am, it wasn't long before me and my and partners made a bee line straight for the Photo Booth. Some of my best fet club moments of months passed have been detailed in the fabulously wacky sets and props set out by the Photo Booth! Out of Order team, and tonight was no exception. We posed and pranced with our new lovely friends that we'd collected at the bar (wonderful people who recognized me as "the insanely hot vampire on the Peaches Geldof Show"…but that's another story for another day). The set this time was a black-and-white checkerboard, a rocking horse, and a broken TV set, and the resulting image consisted of a PVC French maid, a sci-fi queen, a topless sci-fi slut, and one Avatar straight off the silver screen. Perfect.
The drinks were cheap, the music was rocking, and there were enough jagerbombs and tequila shots going around to keep everyone hyped. One of the best things about the fet scene is running into familiar faces from past events, and I love catching up and chatting to my "scene friends". Especially when they're buying the shots! Some bad news that night, however, when I learned the gorgeous Singaporean lady in red latex with whom I had a brief but notable fling at a past Festival of Sins (on my first date with The Boyfriend, no less!) had sadly returned overseas. Ah, well. Better to have lusted and lost…
Next up was the dungeon, where me and my not-so-vanilla mate practiced the art of the paddle. Tactfully turning down couples room invites (why oh why must long-distance relationships have to result in, well, so much distance?) we headed to the chill out room when plagued with those inevitable 3 am munchies. Luckily, AC provides free sweeties all night long, as well as selling yummy fried delicacies such as egg rolls and curry to soak up some of that ever-flowing alcohol. Which was, of course, fully taken advantage of before venturing out into the cold in search of that elusive night bus home.
Fire? Music? Whips? FREE CANDY? Yup, AntiChrist is my kinda club.
Next event is the very first Miss Alternative UK, a competition of alternative performers. I just wish I'd found out sooner and could have gotten that vampire burlesque routine into gear…
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To help keep the 100 or so big rescued cats happy, sanctuary staff provide them with enrichment items to play around with and destroy. In this case, a scented cardboard tube seems to be all Reno could ever ask for.
But this leopard isn't the only feline to really, really, really love men's perfume.
About a decade ago, a team of scientists from the Wildlife Conservation Society were studying elusive Asiatic cheetahs in Iran, but since so few of them remained, they had to devise a way to lure them into sight. After trying dozens of different types of scents to attract them, the researchers stumbled upon an unlikely winner -- cologne.
Specifically, Calvin Klein's Obsession for Men. Later tests confirmed that it was also a favorite among leopards, lions and tigers as well. Nowadays, many sanctuaries use this scent to keep their cats pleased and purring.
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2020 Honda Accord Hybrid Review, Specs, Release Date – Kinds usually aren't why we advise Accord. This car has created our 10Best Automobiles checklist for a long time considering that it impresses with its price, practicality, and also ease and comfort and later on bargains with to attribute anything at all visceral for those who want to guide. The Accord hybrid, although, which goes back to advancement for 2017 immediately after a year's absence, does not pretty engender a similar very hot idea.
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Why is toothpaste mint?
It doesn't have to be.
Though mint has many medicinal qualities most toothpastes only contain a small amount of mint oil for flavoring, not enough to notice the effects.
Mint toothpaste is what we are used to. Like comfort food, fresh mint toothpaste is as familiar as an old friend.
The day can't start or end properly without that tingly but soothing sensation.
Not to mention the dieting benefit...
Just brushed teeth help you resist that late night cookie or bag of chips. They just don't taste as good to a minty mouth.
Why are there not more choices? It's not for lack of trying...
As good as a cool tingly mouth feels, you don't need mint toothpaste to remove plaque from your teeth.
Toothpastes have many helpful ingredients for certain conditions but it is entirely possible and maybe even more likely to clean your teeth without a mouth over flowing with minty foam.
For a fresh minty taste and even cleaner teeth, try brushing a minute or two with plain water after rinsing the toothpaste out of your mouth.
Mint flavored toothpastes are by far the favorite but there are other options for the mint haters of the world.
Kids are most notorious for their dislike of mint.
"Too spicy" is their usual comment after trying mint flavored candy, gum or toothpaste. Kids toothpastes come in some interesting flavors. Strawberry, bubble gum and bubble mint are popular choices for kids.
Not too spicy... just way too sweet for most adults.
But, kids toothpastes are fine for adults who don't like mint. Most have similar ingredients. The standard .024% sodium fluoride and are not abrasive.
If you think other flavors have not been tried, meet toothpaste collector extrodinaire, Dr. Val Kolpakov.
His collection includes 1800 different types of toothpaste or toothpowder.
If times get tough he will never run out of toothpaste:)
One part of his collection caught my eye...
The toothpaste party store featuring alcohol flavored toothpastes.
Is it happy hour in your bathroom?
Hmmm… Might be a good motivator to brush longer.... or NOT.
Just one idea for a toothpaste flavor that didn't exactly take off. As much as we love "new and improved" some products just don't need to be changed.
So why is toothpaste mint? Mint is refreshing and soothing, familiar and comforting. Unlike alcohol flavored toothpaste, mint toothpastes are here to stay.


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Kumbu is a food of South Sumatra. It is usually made from kidney-shaped beans and mung beans. This version, kumbu kacang ijo, is made just with mung beans. It has both a sweet and savory taste all at once, and is quite delicious. Kumbu kacang ijo is perfect served with a cup of tea and coffee every morning and afternoon, to make your day.
- 200 grams of green beans
- 1 liter (0.3 US gal) of water (300 ml to soak mung beans and the rest to boil green beans)
- 200 grams of brown sugar, crumbled
- 250 mg of vegetable oil (for frying)
- 100 mg coconut, grated
- 3 pieces of pandan leaves
- 2 centimeter (0.8 in) ginger
- 125 grams of wholewheat flour
- 125 grams of rice flour
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- An egg, beaten
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Preparing the mung bean dough
1Clean the mung beans with water. Then, soak the mung beans in water for two hours.
2Boil 700 ml of water. Add the pandan leaves. Then, put in the ginger for five minutes only, after which time, fish it out.
3Add the mung beans to the boiling water. Cook until the mung beans pop and are soft.
4Add the brown sugar when the water has slightly dried off.
5Mix and stir the ingredients together until dry and well combined. This forms the dough base for the mung bean balls.
6Transfer the mung bean dough to the big bowl. Set aside and leave until it cools down completely.Advertisement
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Making the coconut pulp and milk
1While waiting, filter (sieve) the grated coconut with 200 ml of water to make coconut milk.
2Separate the coconut into two small bowls. For the first bowl, add the coconut pulp that you used to make the milk. In the second bowl, tip the coconut milk.Advertisement
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Making the mung bean balls
1Combine the dough with the coconut pulp that was reserved in a separate bowl during the making of the coconut milk. Stir the dough and pulp together until they combine as one.
- Form the mung bean balls. Take a spoonful of dough and form it into a ball, then press to form a round flat. Repeat until you have used up all of the dough and have formed as many balls as possible.
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Cooking the mung bean balls
1Add the batter. Dip the mung bean balls, one by one, into the batter bowl. Be sure to dip enough to cover all of the ball's surface. This will help to prevent the ball from breaking apart during frying.
2Add the balls to the frying pan with warm vegetable oil. Cook them until the outer part of the balls become golden and crisp.
- Do this in batches. Do not try to fry too many balls at the same time.
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Julie Phillips is the author of James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon, recently released by St. Martins Press to tremendous acclaim not only from within the science fiction community, but from such diverse publications as Entertainment Weekly, BookForum, and The New York Times Book Review, where it received front page notice. It is an extraordinarily well-crafted study of an extraordinary life—the life of a woman who traveled to Africa as a child with her high-society parents, worked for the U.S. government during World War II, published a story in The New Yorker, analyzed intelligence for the CIA in its early days, earned a Ph.D. in experimental psychology, and then wrote science fiction stories under the name "James Tiptree, Jr.," an identity she would keep secret from the world at large for years, even as she gained more and more notice as a significant writer.
I have been a reader of Tiptree's stories for many years, and read Phillips's biography at first with fear that it would not do justice to the richness of Sheldon's life, and then with joy that it revealed riches few of us had ever known, and did so with grace, style, wit, and judiciousness. I wanted to know more about Julie Phillips and her research, and we corresponded throughout the fall of 2006, while she was on a busy book tour across the U.S. and then when she returned home to Amsterdam, where she lives with her husband and two children. Phillips has written previously about society and culture for such publications as The Village Voice, Ms., Newsday, Mademoiselle, and Interview.
Matthew Cheney: How did you first discover the story of James Tiptree and Alice Sheldon?
Julie Phillips: Like many people, I read science fiction in high school, pretty indiscriminately. Then in college I discovered Literature, loud music, and feminism and more or less moved on. Later I read the biographies of "unknown" women that came out in the 1980s, particularly Frida Kahlo and Jane Bowles; I found those stories fascinating.
So one day in 1994, when I was living in New York and freelancing for the Village Voice, I read an article about the Tiptree Award in the Women's Review of Books, and I thought, wow, what has science fiction been up to while I've been gone? I want to know more. I did a long article about the award for Ms., and in the course of researching that I read Tiptree's stories and got interested in her life. So I wrote an article for the Voice about Tiptree's life and work, and that became the basis for the book. What interested me most was not even the female-male switch but the way she had to become someone else in order to write. I thought that said a lot about what writing is and how it works.
MC: Do you think aspects of Alice Sheldon's life or Tiptree's writing get overlooked because of the immediate interest of the female-male switch?
JP: Do you think so? I don't know. The minute you start reading Tiptree you know the gender switch is not just a gimmick; those stories are the real thing. But her work can be difficult, and for a long time maybe the gender switch was the only key to it that readers had.
MC: What were your thoughts when you first read Tiptree's fiction?
JP: They're such rich, contradictory stories. I could feel the energy in them, but I didn't know what they meant. I wanted to see if I could find my way in that forest.
It took a long time. It took about three years before I thought I understood "The Girl Who Was Plugged In," and five or six before I had anything at all to say about "Houston, Houston, Do You Read?"—and what I did end up saying in the book is certainly not the last word. I hope there will be more readings, that people are going to go back and explore those stories again.
MC: Rudyard Kipling and Philip K. Dick seem to have been, from what Alice Sheldon said, important influences on Tiptree's fiction. Did you discover much about Alli's reading life as an adult before she created the Tiptree persona? How do you think she learned to write such confident, unique stories?
JP: Well, Dostoyevsky was her model for a great writer, and she loved certain poets, particularly Yeats. She was very widely read, both in science fiction and out of it. She read Conrad as a kid; later on, Ibsen's Peer Gynt and Virginia Woolf's Orlando were important to her. She loved philosophy, especially Spinoza; she got a lot of her feminism from a book by Rebecca West called Black Lamb and Grey Falcon. She loathed Hemingway.
She had been writing for a long time and none of it was ever any good until that moment when she got her Ph.D. I think finishing her thesis gave her the confidence to take control of her material. And then becoming Tiptree gave her even more assurance.
Gary K. Wolfe in Locus said I didn't look deeply enough into her past as a science fiction reader, or try to trace the origins of her stories, which I admit is true. But I wonder if her work and classic science fiction didn't have common roots in the kind of popular fiction that was published in the Saturday Evening Post and Collier's in the 1920s and '30s, and that everybody read, including Alice, and probably including the "Golden Age" science fiction writers, too. In other words, the stuff Mary Bradley wrote.
MC: What did you think of Mary Bradley's writings when you encountered them?
JP: I had a difficult time with Mary Bradley's work, because Alice Sheldon praised it so effusively that my expectations were very high. I wanted her travel books, especially, to be works of undiscovered genius. I found her to be charming and appealing but not as thoughtful or questioning as I had hoped she would be.
MC: When you were organizing the book, how did you choose what, among all the material you had collected and studied, to emphasize? For instance, the last eight years of Alli's (and Tiptree's) life are covered in only 20 pages of the book, while some whole years get nearly that many pages. Did you feel that the years after the revelation of Tiptree's identity were uneventful in comparison to some of the early ones, or that they were a coda to the story you wanted to tell?
JP: The periods that got more emphasis were the ones for which I had more material. It worked backward from the way you might expect: if I had really interesting or revealing letters or journal entries for a particular period, then I wrote a chapter around them.
In Alli's last years, she spoke more on the phone, and wrote only brief letters, so I simply had less information to work with. But I did feel those years were largely a coda to her science fiction career, and because Alli was often depressed during that time (though not as a direct result of the unmasking), I didn't like writing those chapters. So I kept them short.
Some parts of the book have more background material than others. In the chapters in the 1930s, where I didn't know much, the butter is spread very thin, while in the science fiction era I had lots to choose from.
MC: Are there things you had to leave out that, had you had unlimited time, resources, and pages, you would have liked to have explored in the book?
JP: What, you don't think the book is long enough?
MC: No no no—I enjoyed it tremendously, and so, being greedy, would have loved more!
JP: If I'd had unlimited time and resources for research, I would have gone to Africa—I know Carl Akeley's biographer was able to interview trackers who had worked for him on his expeditions to the Virungas. Though I sometimes wonder how much I would have learned. For Mary Bradley, I suspect, much of the point of being in Africa was not Africa itself but the way it allowed her to "pass"—to evade gender restrictions—while she was there. What she came back with were mostly myths about herself.
I could also have speculated more on the possibility that Alli might have been transgendered. (Farah Mendlesohn recently brought this up.) I wouldn't have wanted to go beyond speculation, though, because I honestly don't know. I never called her a lesbian, either, because Alli gave conflicting statements about her sexuality and I didn't think that was for me to decide.
Other than that, everything I thought was really important got in. I originally expected the book to be a lot shorter than it is, maybe 350 pages instead of 480, but when I arrived at the length it is now, it seemed right, and to my amazement, my editor, Gordon Van Gelder, agreed.
MC: Are there biographies you looked to as models for your own, or biographies you think are particularly well created?
JP: There are lots of biographies I admire. Hermione Lee's Virginia Woolf has been at the top of the list for a while now. When I was writing my book I used to read bits of hers and hope her style would rub off on me. City Poet, Brad Gooch's life of Frank O'Hara, is a great portrait of a writer in the midst of a group of writers and artists. I also like Judy Oppenheimer's biography of Shirley Jackson [Private Demons, Ed.], Diane Middlebrook on Billy Tipton [Suits Me, Ed.], and, of course, Hayden Herrera's Frida.
It's not a biography, but I got a lot of ideas from Ellen Moers's Literary Women, which is an accessible, insightful, and wildly entertaining history of women's writing.
MC: Tiptree's letters are extraordinary (and the selection of Tiptree/LeGuin letters in F&SF this month is magnificent, by the way)—is there any possibility, do you think, of a collection of selected letters being published?
JP: I'd love it. I guess I'm waiting to see what the market for it is. It would be such an enormous book, if it were up to me.
MC: You've devoted so much time and energy to this book and subject—what kept you going?
JP: It wasn't a hardship. I enjoyed writing the book, and getting to spend so much time in Alli's company. And I was off in the Netherlands, so I didn't have a lot of career temptations, and fortunately the Dutch have a housing system that keeps the rents low, and subsidized day care, so I could more or less afford to do this thing and not get paid for years, and live off of part-time day jobs. I treated it as a job, and I was sorry when I had to quit, because the book was done.
MC: What's next for you?
JP: Rest, I hope. I have ideas for at least two other biographies, but right now I'm a little scared to commit. What if I don't like my next subject as much as I do Alli?
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A week in 10 pics
Happy Saturday! i hope you all have been having a fabulous week- thought it would be fun to do a recap of my week in 10 pics
A week in 10 pics
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Smoothie bowl obsessed. This one is snickerdoodle latte. THE best.
Sweet Potato Waffle Fries...nachos. Can it get any better? Well it was delish. BUT I'm pretty sure I got sick from undercooked chicken....We won't talk about that...
Out to eat with this handsome man. Gosh I love him.
Green Giant Stir fry Blend
Butternut Squash Zig zags
Tossed with olive oil, balsamic vinegar, pepper, sea salt, garlic powder, thyme, mustard powder and dill
Bake at 400 for about 40 minutes tossing every 15 minutes
Great daily morning reminder.
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Went for a run with B last night and this morning did a 30 minute lift. Love 30 minute workouts from home.
I got a whole bag of honeycrisp apples from my sister's tree...what to bake next? First up was apple cinnamon bread!
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Favorite french fries?
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omg they are AMAZING!!! do you love sweet potato fries too?? i mean...the combo of waffle fries and sweet potato fries was a TOTAL win for me! haha!
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