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In short: Enjoyed it, but could be betterIn full: I enjoyed this race - 2nd time I've done it - and found the uphill drags demanding in places, but nothing too bad.Support on Eccleshall Rd was great, its just a shame there wasn't more in the City overall.My wife ran this race for the first time, and she was just under 2 hrs, and at the end said 'Never again' - I didn't have a problem with the water stations, but she said where she was in the race, she had to wait for water/cups as there wasn't enough set up for the 'middle of the pack runners', on what was a humid day.I enjoyed finishing in the stadium, but the tee shirt was nothing special, but I've got to say I'd do this event again - as long as the entry price doesn't go up anymore!!Date of review: May 12, 2011
In short: Tough runIn full: Firstly, let me get the record straight. I love running off road, and love it in the Derbyshire hills – The Grindleford Gallop is one of my favourite runs.In view of this, as part of my training for my autumn marathon, I thought this would be perfect, and was really looking forward to it. I knew there would be hills and was keen to do this.I ran with mates, and the plan was to run together, and enjoy it in the same way as a Club Sunday run.However after 2 miles, going down a path that seemed more rocks that path, I turned my ankle. This set the tone for the rest of the run, as most of the trails were uneven, rocky and there was always a chance of turning an ankle (which I did again, at 11mile!). A lot of the trails were single path, so you couldn't run alongside a mate and chat, and I was led to believe that the scenery was great – unfortunately I didn't see much of it, as most of the time my eyes were on the path in front trying to find a decent place to place my feet. Also as soon as you got a rhythm, you hit a stile, or a wall that needed getting over, and this run is too 'stop/start' to get going. However, got to say, its well marked out so the chance of getting lost is slim.In my opinion, this run is Ok if you don't mind doing it with mates, without it being part of a training schedule. However you are training for any distance race, and need to keep going, this is too 'stop start', and the ground underfoot could scupper your training plan. Date of review: August 15, 2010
In short: Great Half marathon - just needs tweaking!In full: Got my PB on this course last year, so was looking forward to it - unfortunately the heat made me realise that another PB was not on the cards this year!Loads of Water Stations, water was cold - did a 1/2 recently that only had 4, on the hottest day of the year! - and I thought the volunteers at Newark were very encouraging.The start however is possibly the worst start to a race that I've experienced - too many parked cars, narrow street, and people being at the front who were slowing down 'faster' runners was a bit annoying.Also, do the people who were in the cars on the housing estate not know that theres an event taking place? Do they not get any prior notice?. They need a little bit of patience.......However, for the price to enter, don't think its worth getting too wound up about!Oh yeah - possibly best 1/2 tee shirts I've had are from Newark!Date of review: August 12, 2010
In short: Heat and injury 'clouded' my enjoyment of the day!In full: This is my local race, and entered it as I had a very good race last year.Unfortunately my calf went at 8 mile, so I had to run/walk the last 5 miles. However, the heat might have done me anyway - prior to my calf going, I was getting goosebumps, and shivering, and I have been reliably informed that this is a sympton of heat stroke!I know that the organisers can't sort the weather, but I thought that given that all forecasts were that it would be the hottest day of the year, there might have been more water stations. Date of review: June 29, 2010
In short: Fantastic day out, but a bit pricey!In full: Did this as a team of 4, and as we all ran together I really enjoyed this!Great Organisation, and I would definitely recommend this to anyone who fancies doing something different.Downsides to me were the price, thought it was very expensive, and the t-shirt was not very good. Also, I was ready for something to eat afterwards, and thought we were supposed to receive a meal voucher for hot food, but unfortunately no one I spoke to seemed to know anything about it.However, the race was a fantastic day out, and downsides apart, I would defintely do this again.Date of review: May 17, 2010
In short: Fantastic Experience - but could do better!In full: This was my first London Marathon, and I thought the weekend was fantastic.However, there were one or two things that could be done to make this a more enjoyable experience, in my humble opinion.1- Stricter control in the start pens - there were way too many people in the wrong pens, causing loads of bottlenecks when the race started, and slowing down people behind them from the very first mile. Bit gutted, as at times it was frustrating to run behind people who should (according to their pen numbers) have been further back. I actually ran 26.61 miles according to my Garmin, by trying to find room to run in!2 - Headphones. I have never, ever had a problem with other runners wearing headphones. However, the problem here was that it was a very congested race/run, and after informing runners numerous times that I was coming up on their left shoulder etc, and that I was nipping through a gap, it dawned on me that they couldn't hear me, so I had to basically barge my way through.The atmosphere and crowd were fantastic, and really lifted my spirits (which again makes me question the sense in listening to music as you might miss out on some of the crown interaction!).The water stops were plentiful, and the weather was perfect.I will definitely be entering the ballot (if the website doesn't crash again), as I now know that London should not be treated as a race for a time - it should be treated as a massive experience!.Date of review: April 28, 2010
In short: Tough, but enjoyable!In full: Really tough race, loads of steep hills, that kill any conversation and makes the legs burn!I ran this as a training race in preperation for a marathon, and enjoyed it more than last year even though my time was slower!Only downside was the traffic (although it has to be said, its mostly friends/family/coaches of runners who drive from spot to spot to see their runners!)Date of review: February 15, 2010
In short: Flat course, but hard work in the heat!In full: This was a fast, mainly flat course (albeit a bit boring in places) that was only compromised by the boiling hot day.Organisation was good - apart from the bottleneck at the start - and I enjoyed finishing in the town square. The t-shirt wasn't too bad either. There must have been something else happenng that day, as some of the local drivers were very impatient - and at times downright dangerous - and they appeared to be in a hurry to get somewhere and didn't seem to care about runners safety!!!! Thought it was good that the presentations were held back so some of the steadier runners could watch, as recently I've been to a couple of races where the winners are being presented with their awards whilst a lot of the field are still running.All in all, apart from the heat, which you can't blame on the organisers, a good day out which was made better as I got a PB.Date of review: August 12, 2009
In short: Flat, fast courseIn full: Very fast flat course - only downside was that it was a bit boring going past the same landmarks, and I don't mind hills as that's when I gain my places!.I know a few people that wanted to do this race, but the 1 hr 45 mins cut off point put them off. If this was extended, I believe more folks would enter.However, can't complain, very reasonable entry fee, fast course, good standard of runners, and PB for me!!!!!!!Date of review: June 7, 2009
In short: Could do better!!!In full: This was my first Golden Gate 10k. I thought, as it was chip timed, that I would try to just enjoy it, and start near the rear and see what I could do it in, but didn't realise that loads of runners would be at the front that really should not have been there. When I got going, I literally had to fight my way through the crowds, and the narrow path didn't do me many favours.The first hill was very, very tough, but what made it harder was the fact loads of peiople were walking, and were hard to pass!!!Next year, I believe the Organisers need to give some thought to start pens to stop this happening.Date of review: May 31, 2009
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Weekend race recap with results from Hardrock 100, Devil's Backbone 50, Dances With Dirt: Devils Lake and the Golden Gate Races
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Hardrock 100 – Silverton, Colorado
Ashland, Oregon's Hal Koerner won the Hardrock 100 Mile that started Friday and ended Saturday, in the third-fastest time in course history. The two-time Western States 100 champion won his first Hardrock in 24:50, just ahead of Colorado's Joe Grant, who ran the fourth-fastest time in course history with a 25:06. Dakota Jones, of Durango, Colorado – last year's runner-up – was third in 25:45.
Meanwhile, Darcy Africa of Boulder, Colorado, got an elusive win at Hardrock after multiple-time defending champion Diana Finkel dropped out. Africa finished 11th overall in 29:09, well ahead of runner-up Rhonda Claridge, of Telluride, Colorado, who finished 20th overall in 32:43. Darla Askew, of Bend, Oregon, finished third (27th overall) in 33:52.
Complete Hardrock results can be found here.
Devil's Backbone – Bozeman, Montana
Missoula, Montana's Aaron Derry won the Devil's Backbone 50 Mile in Bozeman, Montana, Friday in 10:43, outpacing runner-up Chris Mottola, of Sarasota, Florida. Mottola broke up a sweep by Montanans in the men's race with a time of 10:54. Tristan Scott, of Whitefish, Montana, finished third in 11:40.
In the women's race, Marta Fisher, of Forest Grove, Oregon, placed first in 13:01, just ahead of Mount Shasta, California's Tina Ure, who finished second in 13:04. Fisher and Ure finished seventh and eighth overall. Erika Holland, of Dillon, Montana, finished third in 14:24, good for 14th overall.
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Local honey bees,potting up seedlings, under lightsPosted Sunday, March 11, 2012, at 4:47 PM
Pepperz reclaims her favorite pot.
I started two batches of seeds over the past 6 weeks. My first batch stayed in the starting tray too long and were not moved under lights. Although they were in a South facing window, they got leggy and did poorly.
My second batch was started last Sunday and yesterday I potted many of them up and revived the florescent growing bench in the greenhouse. I know, this is where The PITA lives, but she is now getting close to three years old and I decided to take a chance.
The front of the light bench is now closed off with a window I used for my cold frame. One of our cats was the first to get his 'nose-print' on there but I showed PITA there was glass between her and the plants and they survived the night.
I was a bit concerned when I came into the greenhouse early this morning and PITA was whining like she does when she gets caught after tearing something up, but I could find nothing. Maybe she tried but thought that was going to be found out.
Anyway, there are now some Charley Chaplin tomatoes, Armenian cucumbers, Musk Melon, Cocozelle Squash, Sweet Basil, Kohlrabi and (as expected) Chinese cabbage under the lights. Some of these are "pushing the envelope" at being early, but I always love to experiment, so....
Today I am digging out about a 10-12" furrow in 4-6" of wood chip mulch on the garden in rows. I then plan to let it dry out, till the gap with a hand tiller, and warm up for a few weeks while the seedlings are doing their thing under the lights. I project planting them out at the 1st of April, if not sooner.
While Mother Nature has given us a warm winter, I plan on some SURPRISES before the season really starts, so I will plant them low in the furrow so I can lay some sliding glass doors on top if cold weather threatens. In fact, I may lay them on top one week before planting and leave them on to create a warm micro-climate.
Keep in mind, many of my 'projects' fail, but that does not keep me from trying again, so...wish me luck. I just had an after-thought. The glass doors will also discourage the curious diggers like PITA, Sandy and some cats.
The picture? Some of you may remember a picture I had earlier this year of some catnip and rosemary I brought in for the winter. Pepperz adopted it as a sleeping spot. Well I moved it outside yesterday (minus the catnip which had been smothered). She found it out there and promptly claimed it again. Stayed there a few hours.
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While I was loosening the soil and moving some chips around, I decided to get two 55 gallon drums set up for experimental plantings. After making sure they were set on rocks and bricks for drainage, I also made sure there were drainage holes in the drums.
I fill them up about a third of the way with wood chips and will probably put one big bag of potting soil in each. Garden soil will be too heavy and there is a lot of clay so it would become a brick later in the summer.
Besides being rusty, they are basically black so the soil and chips will heat up nicely early this Spring. I have a number of tall wildflowers coming up already around them and may let some of the naturalized morning glories climb the side for cooling later in the Summer. Now to decide what to put there.
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With the new season about to begin, inventory may be low for any locals.
If they can't help you, let me know. I will call a few bee keepers direct.
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Full TextFrom DipNote Editors: Yesterday, Secretary Rice spoke with Mike Allen of The Politico and Yahoo! News, and we thought that the DipNote crowd would also like to take a look. Their conversation covered a range of topics, including Iran, Iraq, North Korea, the Olympics, Russia and U.S. foreign policy over the last eight years. Here's the beginning of the interview:QUESTION: Madame Secretary, thank you for sitting down with The Politico and Yahoo! News to talk about your accomplishments, the last eight years, and what lies ahead. You're one of the few people who's been along for the whole ride, so we have a lot to talk about.
We'll start with Iran. A big deadline has passed. They were supposed to tell us if they were going to stop enriching uranium. If they don't, they could build a bomb. Now what's the latest on what's going to happen? We understand that there are some new sanctions that are being considered.
SECRETARY RICE: Well, yesterday, the P5+1, the group that has offered Iran this very generous package but has also demanded that Iran stop its enrichment and reprocessing, the political directors met. They agreed that the Iranian answer is not adequate, that it is not a really serious answer. And so we're now going to begin to consult on how to get back on the second track, which is to move again toward Security Council – toward a Security Council resolution. We've always said Iran has a way out if they ever wish, but we will seriously pursue sanctions if they don't.
QUESTION: Madame Secretary, the time is running. Both the National Intelligence Estimate and the Israelis have said that at this rate, by 2010, they could have a nuclear weapon. Do you think that the time is coming when sanctions won't be enough? What other sort of diplomatic, military options might we have to consider?
SECRETARY RICE: Well, the President keeps all of his options on the table, but we still believe that the diplomatic option can work and that there is time for it to work, because not only --
QUESTION: How much time?
SECRETARY RICE: Well, I don't want to try to get into timelines. The fact is that we're working at it every day. There is a coalition of states as well as Security Council resolutions that show the Iranians what they have to do. And we have to remember that it's not just the Security Council resolutions, but a number of other financial measures that the United States, Europe, and others have taken, and a number of companies and banks that have gotten voluntarily out of Iran because of the reputational risk and because of the investment risk. And you have to hope that there are reasonable people in Iran who see this as not the way to run a country.
Read the continuation of the Secretary's interview with Mike Allen of The Politico and Yahoo! News.
Eric in New Mexico writes:
To Dipnote editors,
The problem with interviews like this is that with a multiple topic format, and just about enough time to either reiterate policy or provide an educated soundbite in answer, the missed opportunities for an in-depth discussion on any given issue is tragic.
The public understanding is only barely adequately served by the results.
The solution?
Madam Secretary might consider posting a topic on Dipnote herself, and saying what she couldn't due to repeated interuption by people from the press too busy thinking of the followup they're going to ask, rather than really taking a pause for thought and listening to the answers she provides before they ask the next question.
Be interesting to see members of the press posting their questions on Dipnote, along with the rest of us and see it becomes a three way interactive discussion between the policy maker, the press, and the public.
It'll be more fun than the "Prime Minister's Question time" in the House of Commons, and in the end I think everyone will appreciate the results because a well informed public is essential to any solution.
Puts everyone on an even, level playing field also...as everyone is limited to the 5000 character limit per post, in either question, opinion, or response.
This is of course only possible on a volunteer basis, assuming the press can handle questions from the public on how they choose to cover an issue....(chuckle).
And assuming there's a spare moment in Dr. Rice's busy day.
I'd add one small caveat that I'm sure the Secretary will appreciate, which is that no one may dare ask her if she'll run for office anytime soon. The moderator would see to it.
SNP in Syria writes:
Was Eddie Amin and the other notorious genocidal maniacs that had or have seats at this diabolic Organization attending the meeting as well. Can someone refresh us what did this organization do for all the Trillions it received in the past 50 years other than passing resolutions that directly caused the staving to death of half a million Iraqi infants. This is not the first time Amen/Marduk had a United Nations. In Babylon, the first one established, in fact that is what Babylon means, Gateway of the Assembly of Gods, just like the U.N. Assembly with exact Security Council setup and voting etc.
Joe in Tennessee writes:
1. Ms Rice is the only person I know who can discern and redirect journalist who are tying to manipulate her answers to comply with what they want. Amazing intellect.
2. Middle East in General: It will not have any peace until the Saudi's want it and Russia complies.
3. Russia: They got her there. She now knows what someone passed up the line was 100% true and on the mark.. The predictability factor of our leadership is still existent, IE: SECRETARY RICE: A problem. Because it mixes politics and commerce in a way that makes oil and gas an instrument of the state.... on the behavior of these large oil and gas concerns. But you know, there's a downside to that. Many of the predictions now are that Russia's oil production, productivity, is actually going down because they're not receiving the kind of investment in their fields and the ability to recoup old fields that they actually need. And in this sector of the economy, that sector of the economy, oil and gas, and frankly other extractive industries as well -- minerals and the like -- the more that this becomes state owned, operated, and dominated, they're going to continue to have trouble getting investment...
They don't need investments, that is the objective and the slowdown is related more so to provisions to outlying countries and evasion of the International community pressures on holding energy back. It provides viability for their price controls to our Nuclear Umbrella allies who rely on their oil and gas.
You have to realize that Russia does have the raw product for its Steel and new Aluminum acquisitions and is only lacking in labor for the entire growing manufacturing base. The Investments are not as necessary, especially if you are working toward State control. They have been hording Platinum which they mine in Switzerland, have paid their Paris club debut over two years in advance -- why do they need investments? They have assets in every form imaginable that will support a productive State owned group of companies.
4. Throughout the dialogue, you can see there is power given to Russia and China and less to the Untied States for leverage in decision making as with North Korea. Admission of this may well not be in our interest. We are either Strong or Weak in our Allies and enemies eyes.
Quote, Thomas Aquinas: Foresight is the principal of all the parts of prudence, since whatever else is required for prudence, is necessary precisely that some particular thing may be rightly directed to its end.
?? we need to get everyone back in the field again who can walk.
Zharkov in U.S.A. writes:
Secretary Rice said "Well, the President keeps all of his options on the table, but we still believe that the diplomatic option can work and that there is time for it to work..."
This is somewhat misleading. Israel holds all the options because Israeli officials know that they attack Iran, the US automatically will protect Israel from military retaliation, therefore, Israel holds all the options today.
The president has a few options available until the time that Israel attacks Iran and at that point, the president has no options at all except to join the battle to minimize Israeli losses. Israel's unmatched influence in Congress will ensure US military participation.
Probably most Middle Eastern "oil royals" have already approved an attack on Iran and all that remains is the timing -- before or after U.N. resolutions occur -- when the Israeli military command feels fully prepared militarily and politically for war with Iran.
Russia's public has been successfully refocused on terrorism in South Ossetia and fighting with Georgia, so that event relieves any conceivable public pressure on the Russian government to assist Iran. After UNSC efforts fail, an Israeli attack on Iran is certain.
Anthony in Ohio writes:
Oh Just Great.
Soon Isreal will have to strike at Iran's nuclear development facilities and no one is even trying to push back the time line established by the Isrealis based upon the delivery of the Russian ss-300 anti aircraft missile systems.
Well here is what has to be done.
1. The Sec. of State Ms . Rice ought to get the Russians to delay or end their delivery of the ss-300 missile system to Iran in exchange for Israel ending their support of the rebel forces in Georgia.
This is a time sensitive issue in that Israel is set to strike at the Iranian nuclear enrichment facilities before the installment of the ss-300 missile system, so she has 3 months to figure out what to do here.
Joe in Tennessee writes:
Ms Rice:
Russia relationship:
Iran has a 300km torpedo now. Who do you think gave them that? Funny, Russia developed done about two years ago or so?
Russia is simply flexing its muscle and what are we going to do in reality, or anyone else? The Georgian peninsula has a great deal of oil as well?and gosh, BP is closing two pipe lines today for what? This gives Russia more control over world wide oil prices via proxy? That simply adds to its projected power: you look weak or strong to your allies or enimies...
The problem is the Nuclear Umbrella and NATO surrounding Russia....that is the crux of it all...the rest is smoke, BS and politics.
The table has been reset and the game commences....
Truth be told: In the greater scheme of things, Russia needs us, we need them; but, don't think for a minuite they will not devour us if possible.
Joe in Tennessee writes:
Like I said, I was buried and burned, just like the reports from Moscow...
Proof is in the pudding unless I am psychic...shame on you all.
Richard in North Carolina writes:
Everyone is talking about the crisis in Georgia. What would the United States have done if there was a threat in this hemisphere under a George Herbert Bush presidency.
Joe in Tennessee writes:
1. There would not be an Iran/Iraq/Afghanistan situation for one thing, which would have led to us not having a premise of economic suffrage for Russia to use.
2. Given the present situation, what can we do? They own 1/3 of our National Debt...we can default I guess...LOL! Oh, we will not hold the Olympics there six years from now. I'm sure that is worth more than the oil and ports of Georgia.
3. What is Europe going to do about it? Italy makes the SU-30 fuselages, Germany has economic ties, France ordered its new Reactor from them and a petty ongoing bank dispute...give it a rest. There are no realistic economic restrictions that can be applied.
4. Personally, as upset as it made me initially, there must be some International understanding and agreement made. Why?
A) It has not affected the Stock Market here. Why didn't it plummet?
B) Petrol prices lowered, not raised and with the threat of an International dispute? So corporate politics is aware of something the press is not.
C) There is no way the US and NATO did not see the tank movements to begin with. They could not have moved that much hardware overnight...LOL!
5. Seems to me poor old Georgia has been sold out prior to the invasion with some good old fashioned politics. Little guy gets the shaft as usual
What would GH do? GH would not have let it happen to begin with...had Congress initiated a war long ago.
This is not GWs fault...and it is multi sided in a larger sense. If someone kept putting missiles around your country and said they were your friend it seems suspicious.
What this does is give Russia dominance and recognized power. Put the missiles there so they will not advance on democratic countriesãwell, we will see about that.
You have to admit, it is a good move on the Russian part. What is the counter move?
The only real flaw is that the U.S. trusted the same young Economics major who helped get us off the Gold Standard to begin with in just three weeks. Some people do put their country before money...why do we keep forgetting that?
The Institute of Global Economics: Russia will not be a major economic or military power before the year 2050 or latter. Yeah, realy smart guys...and these are the same people responsible for the loss of over 1/3 of the free worlds jobs.
That is not politics, just fact.
Eric in New Mexico writes:
@ Joe in Tennessee -- Joe, speaking of debt (and it would be nice of you to provide sources for your "factoids" regarding Russia), I'm wondering if Stalin ever payed us back for all the lend-lease aid (I think in WW2 dollars it was some 14 billion) that allowed Russia to survive Hitler's invasion.
What's 60 + years of compounded interest + penalties on that amount?
Probably right around 1/3 of our national debt.
Default? Russia owes the US its very existance for what we did for them in WW2, perhaps they should be reminded of that fact.
On the flip side, what do you think will happen to Russia's economy when the EU finds reason to sever trade relations with Russia and go to other sources for energy needs no matter how inconvenient that may be for the EU in the short term?
I think there's more leverage than you realize.
Joe in Tennessee writes:
Russia owes the US its very existence for what we did for them in WW2, perhaps they should be reminded of that fact."
China and Russia combined DO OWN 2/3 of our National Debut..
What are you talking about...we owe Russia actually ...
1. If you are talking about a Time, troop involvement that led to the end of the war. Russia bleed Germany slowly...
2. How much sooner would the U.S. have involved itself in the war without Germany's economic investments in America?
3. We forgave the debuts..what fiscal documents do you have showing we owe them anything?
You cannot blame Russia for Americas poor judgement and lack of discipline. Putin put Nationalism and the rebuilding of Russia above Money...Money was only a tool..rather odd is it not as that is Biblical...Putin did not let GREED control his countries rebuilding.
Eric in New Mexico writes:
What's so hard about citing a source I can fact check, Joe?
Otherwise I just have no reason to take you at your word, regarding what, if anything we owe to either nation.
The Russians owe us a moral debt, they owe us their thanks rather than continuing to be idiots about the kind of bilateral relations that would better serve humanity's interests.
They haven't figured out apparently that they are becoming their own worst enemy.
The EU is set next week to discuss economic relations with Russia in light of the Georgian crisis.
As I asked you, What do you think is going to happen to Russia's economy when the EU refuses to buy a drop of oil or natural gas from them?
As Sarkozy said, "serious consequences" will be forthcoming unless Russia fully complies with the ceasefire agreement.
This is not a fight the Russians can win, or negotiate their way out of. They must first comply to avoid the consequences.


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In short: Hell of a challenge but great fun!In full: Most enjoyable off-road run I have done. Very challenging course but really friendly, fun atmosphere and great marshals. Look forward to next year!Date of review: November 15, 2015
In short: Very challenging but enjoyable raceIn full: Second time I've run this event - A course for those that like a challenge rather than PB hunters. Very well organised, good atmosphere (though VERY cold!)and nice to get a medal that actually has the event and year on for a change. Little things like that make a difference!Date of review: February 12, 2013
In short: Great race but disapointed with a bag & cereal bar considering entry feeIn full: Race was very well organised and good atmosphere. Course is challenging but still enjoyable. Felt that a cheap bag and a cereal bar as "memento" was a bit pathetic.Date of review: January 28, 2013
In short: Tough - lots of hills!In full: Nice surroundings but start seemed a bit "vague" with everyone milling about a small "Start" banner in a field. The run was very challenging due to the number of hills and the heat but marshals were encouraging and nice scenery. Considering the relatively small number of runners, it was disappointing to see that an insufficient number of t-shirts had been supplied so the last few runners missed out. Overall, enjoyable but room for improvement.Date of review: July 9, 2012
In short: Good potential for PBs if the the weather was a bit cooler. Good support. Nice trophy!Date of review: May 27, 2012
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In short: Enjoyable run but hard work !In full: Second time for me. Very enjoyable run but organisation seemed a bit chaotic at the finish and a bit disappointing to get an identical t-shirt to last year - still - its all for charidee !Date of review: September 17, 2007
In short: First race I've entered. Good scenery with several hills.In full: Nice medal (though incorrect date) and T-shirt but Mr Potatohead was the icing on the cake !Date of review: September 20, 2006
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Jameson, Fredric
Fredric Jameson 1934-
American critic and editor.
The following entry presents an overview of Jameson's career through 1999.
Jameson is widely recognized as being among the most influential Marxist literary theorists in America. As such, he is credited with having introduced much European thinking to American academia. A proponent of dialectical criticism, Jameson continually impresses his peers with the breadth and variety of his fields of reference. Jameson analyzes literature, seemingly not for its own sake, but to uncover its social and political underpinnings. As an interpreter of both modern and postmodern culture, he applies a rethinking of Marxism to his work. Jameson's unique brand of Marxist literary theory, however, is firmly grounded in a belief in the importance of history.
Biographical Information
Jameson was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on April 14, 1934. He attended Haverford College, where he earned his B.A. in 1954, and then Yale, where he received his M.A. in 1956 and Ph.D. in 1960. In 1959 Jameson began working as an instructor at Harvard, where he was later promoted to assistant professor. From 1967-76 he taught at the University of California at San Diego, first as an associate professor and, later, as professor of French and comparative literature. Jameson then returned to Yale, where he served as a professor in the university's French department. In 1983 he accepted a position as professor of literature and history of consciousness at the University of California at Santa Cruz. In 1986 he again left California, this time to be appointed William A. Lane, Jr. Professor of Comparative Literature and Director of the Graduate Program in Literature and Theory at Duke University. Jameson currently holds the position of Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature at Duke and continues to direct the literature graduate program, in addition to the university's Center for Cultural Theory. Jameson's honors have included a Rotary fellowship for study at the University of Aix-Marseille, a Woodrow Wilson fellowship, a Fullbright fellowship to study in Munich and Berlin, a Humanities Institute grant, two Guggenheim fellowships, the William Riley Parker prize from the Modern Language Association (for his 1971 PMLA article "Metacommentary"), and recognition of his work by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Jameson is co-founder of the Marxist Literary Group and he has served as co-editor of Social Text, contributing editor to the Minnesota Review, and editorial board member of the South Atlantic Quarterly.
Major Works
Jameson has distinguished himself as a dialectical thinker, and at the heart of Jameson's thinking lies his loyalty to Marxism. ("Dialectic," broadly speaking, refers to the examination of conflicting arguments or forces and the resulting transformation or resolution of those contradictions. Dialectic forms an essential part of the works of the philosophers Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Karl Marx.) Jameson's Marxism, however, is not the kind that the majority of the public is accustomed to, namely Soviet Marxism, but rather Western Marxism, or Hegelian Marxism, in which the role of history is emphasized. Dialectic is reflected in Jameson's writing style, which can be, depending on his goals, either direct or intricate. In his first book, Sartre (1961), which began as his doctoral dissertation, Jameson examines the effect of writing style and attempts to locate Jean-Paul Sartre within the context of literary history. While Marxist analysis is relatively absent from his first book, it would form a great portion of his next work, Marxism and Form (1972). This book, notably, says little about form, and instead considers literature as a reflection of social and political thought. Jameson argues that literature should be seen not in a narrow literary sense, but rather as symbolic of social and political institutions; form, in turn, should be viewed as having historical and dialectical relevance. Through a Marxist analysis of Sartre's Critique of Dialectical Reason, Jameson again makes the French philosopher the foundation for his book. Marxism and Form goes on to discuss (and in some cases introduce to North American readers) such dialectical theoreticians as Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Ernst Bloch, and Georg Lukács; with these other writers, Jameson shares an enthusiasm for restoring the religious, or utopian, side to Marxism. In the final part of the book Jameson argues that dialectical criticism must constantly reflect on itself, embodied in his concept of "metacommentary." In his next work, The Prison-House of Language (1972), Jameson examines the methodologies of Russian formalism and French structuralism, including the works of Claude Lévi-Strauss, Louis Althusser, and Jacques Derrida, in an effort to synthesize such theory for an Anglo-American audience. The Political Unconscious (1981) takes modernism as its subject and modernism's attendant greatnesses: "great realisms," "great theorists," and "great souls," as Jameson puts it. Here, the author provides a dialectical criticism involving both broad theory and minute observation to examine the apparent contradiction between the greatness exhibited by modernism and the leveling force of modernist technology. Jameson here looks upon religion as a positive force, one capable of pointing to a Utopian future.
More recently, Jameson has tackled modernism's offspring, postmodernism. In Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (1991), he argues that capitalism has entered a multinational stage (multinationalism having succeeded industrialism and imperialism, the first and second stages, respectively, of capitalism). Multinational capitalism, Jameson maintains, has homogenized the world to an extent far greater than its predecessors. The cultural space of multinationalism, in turn, is postmodernism. Among the characteristics of postmodern culture, Jameson asserts, is an aesthetic preference for pastiche and a tendency toward the superficial rather than the profound. In this work, Jameson (in a manner that is very much postmodern) offers examples for his argument from a diverse selection of cultural sources: architecture, visual art, fiction, and film. In opposition to critics who find postmodernism to be a merely passive acceptance of current social structures, Jameson uses examples from these various art forms to demonstrate that postmodernism, through its signaling of the end of the individualistic bourgeois ego, actually furthers the Marxist struggle for freedom. In addition to several studies focusing on individual writers—Wyndham Lewis in Fables of Aggression (1979), Adorno in Late Marxism (1990), and Bertolt Brecht in Brecht and Method (1998)—Jameson has published collections of essays, including The Ideologies of Theory (1988), Signatures of the Visible (1990), and The Seeds of Time (1994). He has also served as editor and contributor for several volumes of criticism, including Nationalism, Colonialism, and Literature (1990), The Cultures of Globalization (1998), and The Cultural Turn (1998).
Critical Reception
Jameson's position as the preeminent Marxist literary theorist in North America was signaled by the enthusiastic reaction of critics to his first major work, Marxism and Form. Praised for its commanding presentation of the twentieth-century Marxist tradition, as well as its insightful attention to Lukács, the Frankfurt School of Marxists, and Sartre, the book is considered one of the more distinguished and important works of literary theory from the 1970s. The book's concluding essay, "Towards a Dialectical Criticism," in which the author promotes dialectical thinking and metacommentary, has been noted for its deftness and subtlety. Jameson, however, was faulted for not keeping himself at an appropriate distance from his subject matter. (Such criticism would be leveled against future work by the author.) Jameson's major work, The Political Unconscious solidified his top rank within the realm of Marxist literary criticism. Lauded for displaying an outstanding combination of substantial argument with a sense of urgency, the book was received as an ambitious reconsideration of Marxism in view of such competing contemporary theories as psychoanalysis and poststructuralism. The book demonstrates traits that have become characteristic of Jameson, namely the sophistication of his intelligence and the extensive range of his examples. Clearly conscious of the need to establish a vital connection between his preferred theory of Marxism and postmodernism, Jameson wrote Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism. While the work has been called one of the more elucidating books on the subject, Postmodernism was also found to exhibit some serious flaws. Jameson was criticized for his unquestioning faith in the relevance of Marxism, in particular the extent to which he attributes significance to economics at the expense of the roles of such social factors as race and gender. Perhaps the most relevant criticism delivered against the book was its failure to precisely explain how "late capitalism," or multinationalism, could generate a cultural space such as postmodernism. The book's apparent failure to mesh Marxism with postmodernism, however, did not appreciably weaken the author's reputation as one of the leading Marxist literary theorists of his generation.
Principal Works
Sartre: The Origins of a Style (criticism) 1961
Marxism and Form: Twentieth-Century Dialectical Theories of Literature (criticism) 1972
The Prison-House of Language: A Critical Account of Structuralism and Russian Formalism (criticism) 1972
Fables of Aggression: Wyndham Lewis, The Modernist as Fascist (criticism) 1979
The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act (criticism) 1981
The Ideologies of Theory: Essays 1971-1986. 2 vols. (criticism) 1988
Postmodernism and Cultural Theories (criticism) 1989
Late Marxism: Adorno, or, The Persistence of the Dialectic (criticism) 1990
Nationalism, Colonialism, and Literature [editor; with Terry Eagleton and Edward W. Said] (criticism) 1990
Signatures of the Visible (criticism) 1990
Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (criticism) 1991
The Geopolitical Aesthetic: Cinema and Space in the World System (criticism) 1992
The Seeds of Time (criticism) 1994
Brecht and Method (criticism) 1998
The Cultural Turn: Selected Writings on the Postmodern, 1983-1998 (criticism) 1998
The Cultures of Globalization [editor; with Masao Miyoshi] (criticism) 1998
The Jameson Reader [edited by Michael Hardt and Kathi Weeks] (criticism) 2000
Denis Donoghue (review date 16 November 1973)
SOURCE: "Phonetic Shadows," in New Statesman, November 16, 1973, pp. 739-40.
[In the following review of The Prison-House of Language, Donoghue commends Jameson's contribution to Marxist criticism, though expresses some reservations about his view of historical truth and determinism.]
I wish I could claim to have discovered Frederic Jameson, but his name meant nothing to me until a couple of years ago when I read one of his essays, on Walter Benjamin, in the little magazine Salmagundi. Since then I have been keeping my ear fairly close to his ground, convinced that messages of exceptional value would be audible. Belatedly, I have read his first book,...
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Jonathan Culler (review date July 1974)
SOURCE: A review of Marxism and Form, in Modern Language Review, Vol. 69, No. 3, July, 1974, pp. 599-601.
[In the following review, Culler offers a positive assessment of Marxism and Form.]
Marxism and Form is the most important work of critical theory to appear in English since Northrop Frye's Anatomy of Criticism, and if it is less ambitious than Frye's Anatomy, less animated by a desire to systematize and less informed by a particular programme for criticism, it is perhaps the reflection of a more penetrating intelligence which is willing to pursue difficult problems as far as it can and anxious to undertake the larger tasks of...
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Brian J. Murray (review date Summer 1980)
SOURCE: A review of Fables of Aggression, in Modern Fiction Studies, Vol. 26, No. 2, Summer, 1980, pp. 307-10.
[In the following review, Murray offers a negative assessment of Fables of Aggression.]
In his Prologue to Fables of Aggression: Wyndham Lewis, the Modernist as Fascist, Fredric Jameson suggests that one of the most "extreme" of Wyndham Lewis' "experimental texts," The Apes of God, is "virtually unreadable for any sustained period of time" (p. 5). Alas, so too is Fables of Aggression.
Jameson's often digressive study is not itself "experimental," although it is the result of what Jameson calls a...
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James Naremore (review date Fall 1980)
SOURCE: A review of Fables of Aggression, in Criticism, Vol. XXII, No. 4, Fall, 1980, pp. 390-4.
[In the following review, Naremore offers a positive assessment of Fables of Aggression, which he concludes "is the best piece of criticism we have" on Wyndham Lewis.]
"I do not think I had ever seen a nastier-looking man," Ernest Hemingway once said of Wyndham Lewis. "Under the black hat, when I had first seen them, the eyes had been those of an unsuccessful rapist." Lewis's self portrait, leering from the cover of Frederic Jameson's new book [Fables of Aggression], confirms that impression—as do the violence, misogyny, and fascist...
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Betty Abel (review date June 1981)
SOURCE: "A Marxist Literary Map," in Contemporary Review, Vol. 238, No. 1385, June, 1981, pp. 331-2.
[In the following review, Abel provides a summary of Jameson's analysis in The Political Unconscious.]
In The Political Unconscious, subtitled 'Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act', Frederick Jameson provides a comprehensive introduction to the method and practice of Marxist literary criticism. Where all intellectual activity is viewed as historically situated and class-based, literary analysis is essentially a social science, drawing much of its terminology from the other social sciences, sometimes directly but more often by analogy. Thus, the classical...
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David Punter (review date Fall 1981)
SOURCE: A review of The Political Unconscious, in Criticism, Vol. XXIII, No. 4, Fall, 1981, pp. 362-64.
[In the following review, Punter offers a favorable assessment of The Political Unconscious, but takes issue with several aspects of the work.]
In The Political Unconscious, Fredric Jameson has produced another vital contribution to cultural study, packed with solid argument yet glittering with energy and urgency. There is a long theoretical chapter, followed by studies of Balzac, Gissing and Conrad; but the real structure of the book is more complex and more closely interlocking than this, and hinges on a polemic defence of the concept of...
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Michael Wilding (review date October 1982)
SOURCE: A review of Fables of Aggression, in Modern Language Review, Vol. 77, No. 4, October, 1982, pp. 944-45.
[In the following review, Wilding offers a positive assessment of Fables of Aggression.]
Fredric Jameson's study of Wyndham Lewis [Fables of Aggression] is a stimulating and rewarding approach not only to 'surely the least read and most unfamiliar of all the great modernists of his generation that included the name of Pound and Eliot, Joyce, Lawrence and Yeats' but also to that whole strand of modernists from Lewis through Lawrence and Henry Miller to William Burroughs, about whose work traditional formal criticism has had little to say....
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Patrick Parrinder (review date January 1985)
SOURCE: A review of The Political Unconscious, in Modern Language Review, Vol. 80, No. 1, January, 1985, pp. 106-08.
[In the following unfavorable review of The Political Unconscious, Parrinder calls Jameson's writing pedantic and his literary analysis unconvincing.]
If I were to name a single work of commanding distinction in the field of literary theory published in America in the 1970s it would be Fredric Jameson's Marxism and Form (1971). Its author combined a majestic overview of the twentieth-century Marxist tradition, focusing on the Frankfurt school, Lukács, and Sartre, with a concluding hundred-page essay in theoretical polemic entitled...
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Daniel T. O'Hara (review date Fall-Winter 1988-1989)
SOURCE: A review of The Ideologies of Theory, in Journal of Modern Literature, Vol. 16, Nos. 2-3, Fall-Winter, 1988-1989, pp. 270-1.
[In the following review of The Ideologies of Theory, O'Hara acknowledges Jameson's important place in contemporary literary theory, though finds shortcomings in his assertions.]
Of the seventeen reprinted essays in this collection of occasional pieces of America's leading neo-Marxist theorist [The Ideologies of Theory], only five—two essays in volume one and three in volume two—can be considered still important and undated. These are: "The Ideology of the Text," "Imaginary and Symbolic in Lacan" (the...
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David Bromwich (review date 19 February 1990)
SOURCE: "The Professor of Necessity," in The New Republic, February 19, 1990, pp. 34-9.
[In the following review of The Ideologies of Theory, Bromwich finds contradictions in Jameson's "master narrative" concept and criticizes his unsubstantiated critical readings and "curiously messianic" exaltation of postmodernism.]
"I must create a system," said Blake, "or be enslaved by another man's." The vanguard slogans of the human sciences today have a rather different sound. To be ensnared by any number of systems, in succession or all at once: that is the favored stance.
Fredric Jameson, who has published studies of Sartre and...
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Michael Ferber (review date 15 October 1990)
SOURCE: "The Turn of the Screw," in The Nation, October 15, 1990, pp. 425-7.
[In the following positive review of Late Marxism, Ferber praises Jameson's analysis of Theodor Adorno and dialectical thought, but finds Jameson's prose often hampered by excessive qualification.]
Fredric Jameson's Late Marxism is the most philosophically sophisticated and searching study of Theodor Adorno to appear in English. Until recently, Adorno was best known in America for his part in the collaborative study The Authoritarian Personality (1950) and for a few essays on the arts, of which two in particular are famous, or infamous: a dismissive essay on jazz...
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Stephen Howe (review date 15 March 1991)
SOURCE: "LA Lore," in New Statesman & Society, March 15, 1991, p. 34.
[In the following review, Howe offers an unfavorable assessment of Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism.]
Fredric Jameson is a cool operator. Like the last (and therefore first) man to wear flares, he knows when it's smart to buck the trend. Being a Marxist, a dialectician, and a historicist right now does not exactly place you in the front ranks of the intellectual beau monde. Yet carry the stance with enough style and dexterity, enough sheer bravado—with any criticism already incorporated into your own scheme—and you emerge ahead of the game.
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Reed Way Dasenbrock (review date Spring 1991)
SOURCE: A review of Nationalism, Colonialism, and Literature, in World Literature Today, Vol. 65, No. 2, Spring, 1991, pp. 371-72.
[In the following review, Dasenbrock offers an unfavorable assessment of Nationalism, Colonialism, and Literature, citing Jameson's contribution as a "dismal failure."]
Nationalism, Colonialism, and Literature is a reprinting of three pamphlets published by Field Day in Northern Ireland. These pamphlets differ from others published in the series because the three authors—Terry Eagleton, Fredric Jameson, Edward Said—are all well-known literary theorists who are neither Irish nor critics particularly expert in...
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Michael Rosen (review date 24 May 1991)
SOURCE: "Thoughtful Experience," in Times Literary Supplement, May 24, 1991, p. 29.
[In the following review of Late Marxism, Rosen regards Jameson's book as "thorough and well-informed," though finds his anticipation of a "Hegelian revival" unconvincing.]
"In the Winter Semester", wrote one of Theodor Adorno's graduate students, "we would read Kant and say that Hegel was right. In the Summer Semester Hegel and say Kant was right." Hardly surprising, then, that Adorno should have left behind a reputation as a kind of philosophical butterfly, flitting from one epistemological vantage-point to another but never remaining in one place long...
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Reed Way Dasenbrock (review date Winter 1992)
SOURCE: "Fredric Jameson and the Dilemmas of Late Marxism," in Raritan, Vol. 11, No. 3, Winter, 1992, pp. 117-30.
[In the following unfavorable review of Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, Dasenbrock criticizes Jameson's "old-fashioned Marxism" and "totalizing definition" of postmodernism, citing his selective treatment of contemporary culture and lack of attention to the Third World.]
I should begin by admitting that for me, as perhaps for other readers, the subject matter of Fredric Jameson's Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism is not of consistent interest. Some of the work Jameson discusses is...
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Susan E. Hawkins (review date Winter 1992)
SOURCE: A review of Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, in Modern Fiction Studies, Vol. 38, No. 4, Winter, 1992, pp. 1003-5.
[In the following review of Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, Hawkins finds Jameson's work caught "between insight and contradiction."]
In the recent history of Anglo-American theoretical discourse, particularly postmodern theory, Fredric Jameson's 1984 essay, from which this volume takes its title, stands as a stubbornly influential text. With the publication of this book, Jameson consolidates his reading of postmodernism and his position as America's leading Marxist cultural...
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K. M. Newton (review date April 1992)
SOURCE: A review of Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, in British Journal of Aesthetics, Vol. 32, No. 2, April, 1992, pp. 180-1.
[In the following review, Newton offers a positive assessment of Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism.]
Fredric Jameson is generally regarded as one of the major opponents of post-modernism, viewing it from a Marxist perspective as the product of 'late capitalism'. Linda Hutcheon in her book, A Poetics of Postmodernism, sees him as 'inimical' to it. But, as this book [Postmodernism] shows, to classify Jameson as a critic who attacks post-modernism from a typical Marxist...
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Ralph Flores (review date Spring 1993)
SOURCE: A review of Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, in World Literature Today, Vol. 67, No. 2, Spring, 1993, pp. 459-60.
[In the following review, Flores summarizes Jameson's concerns in Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism.]
At the outset we are advised that "it is safest to grasp the concept of the postmodern as an attempt to think the present historically in an age that has forgotten to think historically." Does that proverblike paradox apply to Postmodernism? Does Fredric Jameson attempt to do what the age is said to have forgotten? Working in a slippery environment, his text seems provocatively...
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Stephen Regan (review date January 1994)
SOURCE: A review of Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, in Modern Language Review, Vol. 89, No. 1, January, 1994, pp. 168-69.
[In the following review, Regan offers positive assessment of Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism.]
Fredric Jameson's critique of postmodernism is salutary reading for anyone who might blithely assume that Marxist criticism lies in ruins with the Berlin Wall. It is precisely because Jameson's vigorous political intelligence resists any simple celebration or easy disavowal of postmodern culture that we are given a book of such enormous intellectual ambition and theoretical complexity. Like...
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Wendy Kozol (review date June 1994)
SOURCE: "Questions of Looking," in American Quarterly, Vol. 46, No. 2, June, 1994, pp. 276-89.
[In the following excerpt, Kozol offers a positive assessment of Signatures of the Visible, despite finding several shortcomings in the work.]
In recent decades, interdisciplinary studies of the popular world have brought forth new research on photography, film, and television.1 In the study of visual media, questions arise about how images encode meanings as well as about the complex social experiences of looking. Moving beyond analyses of visual media as transparent reflections of the social world, cultural theories provide methods for examining...
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Anders Stephanson (review date January 1995)
SOURCE: "A Stitch or Nine," in Artforum, Vol. XXXIII, No. 5, January, 1995, pp. 15-6.
[In the following review of The Seeds of Time, Stephanson discusses Jameson's analysis of postmodernity.]
"We are all tired of it." This was Fredric Jameson's peremptory reply when he was asked in the late '80s about the post-Modernism debate he himself had done so much to initiate earlier in the decade. He was right, of course. The term, if not the concept, had degenerated into MTV lingo. But here he is, nonetheless, resurrecting the debate with a highly charged intervention.
What has propelled him to do this? Primarily, I think, the geopolitical...
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Barry Schwabsky (review date 29 May 1995)
SOURCE: "Shut Up and Listen," in The Nation, May 29, 1995, pp. 762-4.
[In the following review of The Seeds of Time, Schwabsky commends Jameson's intellectual range and subject, but faults his writing as condescending and overly evasive.]
Fredric Jameson is indeed, as both Terry Eagleton and Hal Foster call him on the back of his new book's jacket, America's foremost Marxist critic, and he may well be too, as the publisher's flap copy has it, this country's leading Marxist theorist. But of what is he a critic, and what is his theory? Those are hard questions to answer, and The Seeds of Time does not make it any easier. Although he is a...
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Linda Hutcheon (review date Winter 1996)
SOURCE: A review of The Seeds of Time, in Clio, Vol. 25, No. 2, Winter, 1996, pp. 212-6.
[In the following review, Hutcheon judges The Seeds of Time to be at once "a startlingly insightful work and an irritating mix of generalization and assertion."]
The three chapters in this, Jameson's latest engagement with the postmodern, were originally delivered as lectures in the Wellek Library Lecture series at the University of California, Irvine, in 1991, but his style of writing betrays none of this oral context. Jameson's density of prose has always been the price to pay for his density of thought, and The Seeds of Time is no exception:...
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Geoffrey Galt Harpham (review date Summer 1996)
SOURCE: "Late Jameson," in Salmagundi, No. 111, Summer, 1996, pp. 213-32.
[In the following review, Harpham provides an overview of Jameson's writings and intellectual development and offers an unfavorable assessment of The Seeds of Time, which he views as a "softening" and capitulation of Jameson's Marxism for an ineffectual postmodern perspective.]
Forever, it seems, Fredric Jameson has been described as "America's leading Marxist critic." Since the appearance of the challenging and sternly magisterial Marxism and Form in 1971, nobody else has had a shred of a claim to this title, certainly not now, when to be the foremost Marxist might...
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Barbara Foley (review date February 1997)
SOURCE: A review of The Seeds of Time, in Modern Philology, Vol. 94, No. 3, February, 1997, pp. 422-6.
[In the following review of The Seeds of Time, Foley finds Jameson's commentary useful despite its failure to address historical causality, praxis, and the relationship between utopia and communism.]
In The Seeds of Time, Fredric Jameson's large imagination and insistent dissatisfaction with things as they are move us toward new insights into the nature of our postmodern malaise and new zones of cultural critique. In the first chapter, "The Antinomies of Postmodernity," Jameson pursues the project of "cognitive mapping" proposed at the...
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Richard Gott (review date 26 February 1999)
SOURCE: "It's Irony, Guv," in New Statesman, February 26, 1999, pp. 55-7.
[In the following excerpt, Gott discusses Jameson's analysis of postmodernity in The Cultural Turn.]
Everyone now recognises that we live in a postmodern world. In architecture and design, in film and music, in art and fiction, in poetry and literary criticism, even in politics, postmodernity is everywhere on display: cynicism and levity, irony and pastiche, nostalgia coupled with historical amnesia, and decoration replacing substance. So obvious and widespread has the phenomenon become that people use this shorthand word with relaxed ease to describe the world around them.
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Volker Gransow and Pia Kleber (review date Summer 1999)
SOURCE: A review of Brecht and Method, in Modern Drama, Vol. XLII, No. 2, Summer, 1999, pp. 286-9.
[In the following review, Gransow and Kleber offer a positive assessment of Brecht and Method.]
The nineties have brought an increase in both the quality and the quantity of Brecht studies in general, although improved archival access has so far not led to a new Brecht biography worth the name. Among the vast recent Brecht literature one book is outstanding: Fredric Jameson's Brecht and Method. Professor of Comparative Literature at Duke University in North Carolina, Jameson is the author of many works, including the classic Postmodernism or, The...
(The entire section is 1490 words.)
Peter Berger (review date 20 August 1999)
SOURCE: "In the Faculty Club," in Times Literary Supplement, August 20, 1999, p. 8.
[In the following review, Berger criticizes The Cultures of Globalization, which he finds "one-sided" and reflective of insular "faculty-club culture."]
The Cultures of Globalization is a collection of papers delivered at a conference held in 1994 at Duke University. It is part of a series co-edited by the literary theorist Stanley Fish, and is dedicated to Edward Said. One notes these signifiers (if that is the correct term) with apprehension. And as one labours through almost 400 pages of the text, it becomes clear that the apprehension was justified....
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Bjornson, Richard. Review of Nationalism, Colonialism, and Literature by Fredric Jameson. Comparative Literature 45, No. 3 (Summer 1993): 300-03.
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Bradbury, Malcolm. "Isn't That Spatial?" New York Times Book Review (12 April 1992): 32.
Review of Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism.
Conroy, Mark. Review of Late Marxism, by Fredric Jameson. Southern Humanities Review XXVII, No. 4 (Fall 1993): 382-88.
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Dutch Valley is the way to go....just ordered my first bag today from them....fast easy. The only bad thing is you par more for the shipping then for the flour itself!!!!Todd
Carol is the owner and "Queen Bee." She would be delighted to help any suffering home pizza makers in the Tampa area with their flour needs. She is a wonderful person to conduct business with and I have no hesitation recommending her as a source. My understanding is that flour has roughly a one year shelf life. Probably longer if one were to freeze and/or refrigerate. The particular 50lb sack of KASL I bought was date stamped 11/04/05.
I posted today on another thread on some other potential online sources of the KASL flour, at http://www.pizzamaking.com/forum/index.php/topic,2264.msg52075.html#msg52075 (Reply 19). Peter
I contacted Dutch Valley Food Distributors in hopes of buying a 50lb bag of KASL flour and was shocked at the price quoted. I was expecting a bag to run about $15 to $20.
Well, I must say that I have made a lot of pizza in the last few months with alot of different flour. On Monday my KASL arrived VIA UPS from Dutch Valley. I Used the followed this formulation for a 15 inch NY Style:2 1/2 cups KASL1 Cup Water1/2 t IDY1 T sugar1 t SALT1 T virgin Olive OilFridge 24 hoursbaked on a screen (15inch) at 450 degree ovenThe hardest part was getting the flour in on Monday and waiting until Tuesday to eat the BEST PIZZA ever.......If you have not tried KASL, IT IS WORTH IT.......Coptodd
For starters ... what does "IDY" stand for in this recipe (quoted below)?
I contacted Dutch Valley Food Distributors in hopes of buying a 50lb bag of KASL flour and was shocked at the price quoted. I was expecting a bag to run about $15 to $20 not what I was quoted in the below email..."Thank you for your interest in Dutch Valley Food Distributors located in Myerstown, PA. The current price for Item #142053 is $45.25 per bag plus the additional UPS ground shipping charge of approximately $34.00 to $39.00. UPS charges by the total weight of the order and total delivery distance. You may place your order on our website by clicking on Login in the upper right corner of our website. At the next screen, scroll to the bottom and click on the new customer area. Please complete the required information and you will be able to place your order."
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He really needs some good songwriters to write for him, like on RINGO!!
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Matt, I did see them, but did not take a picture. I looked the pictures on the internet over, but non of them were what I saw there. There was a picture from some time in 2011 that showed these at Antico. The cans I saw had blue labels.
Really nice job, Gene.So where are the photos of the crumb you talked about taking?
Gene, just curious if you happened to time the bakes? I know you mentioned he was waiting for the oven to hit 930F before opening the doors. Chau
Sorry Chau, I did not intend to ignore you. I did not time the bakes. I think the 930F statement was show, as was the taster bites of pizza, and the turning of the sign. I love pizza drama.
... their dough and how it opens looks very similar to Varasano's dough, either a wet dough or one that isn't super strong. Is it possible to compare to the 2 pies?Thanks,Chau


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London has long had to fight off threats to its status as a global financial hub from the likes of Singapore, Geneva and Hong Kong. But cost-cutting plans being considered by Deutsche Bank have revealed an unlikely new threat – Birmingham.
The German bank is looking to hire sales traders to work in its existing office in the city, which is currently dominated by back-office, operations, and private wealth staff, according to a number of people familiar with the plans.
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The bank is planning a similar move in the US. Deutsche Bank's main US headquarters are on Wall Street in New York. But it is planning to make greater use of its office in Jacksonville Florida, which currently houses around 1,000 staff. Deutsche Bank declined to comment.
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Somerset Community College Theatre's upcoming film project, "A Superhero's Best Friend," came into being in what SCC director of theatre Steve Cleberg considers the best of circumstances. The film will receive a public presentation in SCC's Stoner Little Theatre on Saturday, September 21 at 7:30 p.m. There is no admission charge for the event.
Before the premiere, SCC Theatre will present the encore showing of a short twelve minute film entitled "A Moment of Delusion." The short feature, shot in the summer of 2010, will be screened as a tribute to one of its performers, Jr Sroufe.
"A Superhero's Best Friend" tells the story of a young man by the name of Patrick, played by former SCC library assistant Aaron Whitehead, who has always wanted to be a superhero. In spite of the fact that he knows all there is to know about comic book mythology, he can't seem to make the grade. It isn't until he makes a startling discovery and enlists the assistance of his best friend and roommate, played by former SCC Theatre major Jeremy Boggs, that a path to his dream seems possible.
In the fall of 2012, Cleberg recalls that, "One of the assignments for my Dramatic Writing Workshop class was to create a screenplay for a short film." Cleberg was impressed by the quality of all of the screenplays that evolved from this assignment but one of the scripts got him thinking.
"We generally shoot a film project during the summer and I had a number of screenplays in development but I didn't have one with just the right mix of characters." That's how SCC Theatre major Emily Singleton's class project became a production project.
"It occurred to me that it was the perfect opportunity to put into practice my philosophy that the college classroom should be a place where things are not only taught but where things get done." Cleberg informed Singleton that he planned to shoot her script and proceeded to go into preproduction.
Drawing from SCC's open auditions, Cleberg put together a cast of SCC students, former students and faculty as well as members of the Somerset community. The project was shot over the summer and was edited in the late part of the summer.
Aside from Whitehead and Boggs, "A Superhero's Best Friend" also features appearances by Mark Isham, David Cole, Chris Harris, Chip Hartley, Jane Correll, Brandi Fitzgerald, David Cross, Cheyenne Willis, Whitney House, Jeff Harris, Shane Morgan, Dana Floro, Caitlyn Wheeler, Felice Parish, Elyjiah Streeter, Anna Ashburn, Camden Harris, John Golden, Eli Hutchinson, Josh Carey and John Alexander.
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Above: Patrick, played by Aaron Whitehead, tries to explain the responsibilities of a superhero to Daniel, played by Jeremy Boggs, in SCC Theatre's "A Superhero's Best Friend."
Above: In this scene from "A Superhero's Best Friend" Patrick, played by Aaron Whitehead, envisions the perfect name for a superhero, even though the best names have already been taken.
Above: Daniel, played by Jeremy Boggs, becomes perturbed when his roommate, played by Aaron Whitehead, becomes overly enthusiastic about comic book mythology.