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The Netherlands 1904 – United States of America 1997
Untitled IX
oil on canvas
signed, verso, c.r. on stretcher, crayon?, "de Kooning", not dated
195.6 (h) x 223.5 (w) cm Purchased 1987 National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
NGA 1987.729 © Willem de Kooning/ARS. Licensed by Viscopy
- the artist;
- from whom bought through Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London, by the Australian National Gallery, April 1987
- Willem de Kooning at the National Gallery of Australia
- 13 Mar 1999 – 30 May 1999
- Abstract Expressionism: the National Gallery of Australia celebrates the centenaries of Jackson Pollock and Morris Louis
- 14 Jul 2012 – 24 Feb 2013
- Robert Rosenblum and Anthony d'Offay, Willem de Kooning, recent paintings 1983–1986, London: Anthony d'Offay Gallery 1986, no. 3, pp. 16–17, 36, illus. col.;
- Larry Berryman, 'Willem de Kooning: Anthony d'Offay Galleries', Arts Review vol. 38, 19 December 1986, p. 693, illus. b&w;
- Annual report 1986/87, Canberra: National Gallery of Australia, 1987, p. 24, illus., b&w;
- Michael Lloyd and Michael Desmond, European and American paintings and sculptures 1870–1970 in the Australian National Gallery, Canberra: Australian National Gallery 1992, illus. col. p. 264;
- Lucina Ward, 'A dame, some clams and the broad: Willem de Kooning at the NGA', artonview no. 17, Autumn 1999, pp. 26–28, illus. col.
The claustrophobia of earlier works stands in stark contrast to Untitled IX 1983.[1] All but 15 of the paintings that de Kooning made during the last decade of his creative life are consistent in size and, as such, may be regarded as an extended, or the ultimate, series.[2] From 1982 he adopted a white ground and emptied out all but the essentials of painting. Impasto, so important in previous years, was largely abandoned and his canvases treated so that the paint would glide over the surface. His colour palette was likewise reduced, often to primary colours; these, in turn, were emphasised by white.
De Kooning worked with other paintings around him and within his sight; aided by studio assistants, he would rotate the canvases, thus adjusting the orientation of a work.[3] As documented in photographs, many of the late paintings began with multiple campaigns of spidery, broadly figurative charcoal drawing, the intense linearity of which is reminiscent of his works on paper.[4] In scraping away layers of paint, 'ghosts' of earlier sessions were revealed. Perhaps it is not surprising, then, to find elements of the body emerging from Untitled IX; the 'eye' (at upper left) and the 'mouth' (at centre) disperse over the work.
Untitled IX incorporates notions of the unconscious or of floating, the reflective qualities of water, the ambiguous surface and fragmented space below. The 'openness' of the composition, its white background and sparseness of line suggest forms moving across a surface; indeed many of the same shapes appear in several of the other paintings of this period.[5] The springy arabesque, the ribbons of undulating red and blue, evoke hair-like tentacles or seaweed moving in the currents. For Tom Ferrara, working with the artist at this time, the scene is reminiscent of a beach, viewed from above, with a large orange beach towel, tide marks and fluctuating atmospheric conditions.[6] While De Kooning maintained the sensuousness of water throughout his late series, he continued to provide a broad scope for interpretation of his work.
Untitled IX brings to mind de Kooning's delight at the 'aesthetics' of instability and a comment, recorded almost 35 years earlier: 'When I'm falling, I'm doing alright; when I'm slipping away, I say, hey, this is very interesting! It's when I'm standing upright that bothers me: I'm not doing so good; I'm stiff.'[7] The sinuous amorphism of this painting also recalls the artist's black and white abstractions of the late 1940s. Its temporal and spatial ambiguity finds parallel in his works of some 15 years earlier, the paintings, drawings and lithographs which represent a land/sea divide. De Kooning's use of white creates a limpid atmosphere akin to his environment at Springs and the light of the Atlantic coast.[8] More than this, Untitled IX encapsulates the sheer pleasure of painting, displaying the lexical economy of a mature artist in his later years.
Lucina Ward
[1] See, for example, Untitled (Figures in landscape) 1974, pastel, charcoal and pencil on paper, 74.3 x 79.2 cm, Purchased 1975, National Gallery of Australia 1975.552
[2] De Kooning seems to have conceived the works as tableaux and, on one occasion, combined three canvases to form a triptych. In this, their use of pattern, as well as the focus on water and its surface, the late paintings are often compared to Monet's grandes décorations.
[3] For photographs of de Kooning in his studio, see Edvard Lieber, Willem de Kooning: Reflections in the studio, New York: H.N. Abrams 2000, pp. 53–113.
[4] See, for example, the states of Untitled XXXVI 1983 and No title 1983 in Willem deKooning: Paintings 1983–84, New York: Matthew Marks Gallery: Mitchell-Innes & Nash 1997, pp. 11–12 and pp. 20–21; and in Willem de Kooning: the late paintings, the 1980s, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 1995, pp. 54–56.
[5] A similar 'mouth' form, for example, appears in Untitled XIX 1983 (Doris and Donald Fisher Collection, San Francisco).
[6] The author in conversation with Tom Ferrara, the artist's studio assistant in the period 1979–87, September 2012.
[7] Quoted by Richard Shiff, 'Willem deKooning: Painting's potential' in Willem deKooning: Paintings 1983–84, 1997, p. 7
[8] De Kooning acknowledged the effect that working in the country had on his work: in 1972, 10 years after his move, he told Harold Rosenberg that he wanted to 'to get in touch with nature, not painting scenes from nature, but to get a feeling of that light was very appealing to me, here particularly. I was always very much interested in water.' Rosenberg 'Interview with Willem de Kooning' Art News, September 1972, p. 58 and quoted in Judith Wolfe, Willem deKooning: works from 1951–1981, East Hampton: Guild Hall of East Hampton 1981, p. 11
As well as two oil paintings on canvas and two oils on paper, the National Gallery of Australia holds the artist's proof of the de Kooning – Harold Rosenberg collaboration Revenge (New York: Morris Gallery 1960), an early lithograph, Clam digger 1967. It also holds the set of artist's proofs of the lithographs made by de Kooning at the Hollander Workshop, New York, 1970–71, one of his bronze multiples (5/100) dated 1972, and a pastel, charcoal and pencil drawing Untitled (Figures in landscape) 1974.


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A musician isn't worth a damn if hes only good when he has the benefit of infinite takes and studio effects.
There have been many studio offerings that were fantastic, and can't be replicated live. It doesn't mean it's an inferior product.
A musician isn't worth a damn if hes only good when he has the benefit of infinite takes and studio effects.
That was just one of example of musicians "worth their salt" that could record a better product in studio than on a live stage... There are many more... Not to mention, although I could my wrong since its not my cup of tea, I doubt that "live" record is actually live... I'm sure there was something done to the recording, in a studio, to alter what you hear...
First of all: Hate me if you like. Consider this blasphemy if you like but I don't understand the hype over Pet Sounds.
The album was produced by Tom Dowd, who condensed the running time of various songs, occasionally even merging two performances into one track. For example, the first seven minutes of "You Don't Love Me" is from the first show on March 12 and the rest (starting at Duane's solo without the band) is from the second show on March 13. At Fillmore East peaked at No. 13 on Billboard's Pop Albums chart.
The album was also specially remixed for four-channel quadraphonic sound. In the four-channel mix Duane Allman is heard in the left rear channel, Dickey Betts in the right rear channel, Jai Johanny Johanson in the front left channel, Butch Trucks in the right front channel, and Gregg Allman and Berry Oakley both centered in the front channels. The four-channel version uses some different edits and performances of the songs taken from the same concerts. Some of these alternate versions appeared in the 1989 compilation Dreams, although in that release the four-channel recordings have been reduced to two-channels. In 1998 the entire four-channel edition was reissued on CD as a 4.0 (not 5.1) surround sound DTS disc.
Wow. Seriously? Pet sounds is phenomenal.
Great album without a doubt. I don't deny that one bit. There are entirely too many claims of it being the greatest of all time imo though. I love the album I just think its entirely too highly rated.
This is from Wikipedia, so I'll leave it up to you to believe the validity...
I love the album I just think its entirely too highly rated.
It gets rated that high because it was completely groundbreaking. Its the american version of sergeant peppers.
he wasnt his best on the same day, on the same song...
Every song by bands that have musicians in them
This version gives me chills when the bass and drums start.
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Washington Post: The Three Big Reasons That Protests Reignited in Ukraine
Ukraine is still demographically divided, its government is still troubled by corruption, and its economy is still in bad shape. As long as those things are all true, public unrest is likely to continue, writes foreign affairs blogger Max Fisher.
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The need for an urgent reaction is understandable. But, it is not yet evident that the crisis in Ukraine will do anything to clarify the EU and the U.S.'s strategic goals in Ukraine, writes FT's Gideon Rachman.
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The United States and its European allies have a major stake in making sure that Ukraine does not once again revert to de facto Russian control, but to avert that fate will require more political leadership starting in Washington, writes CFR's Max Boot.
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Putin is tightening the screws because this is what stability looks like, and that, to Putin, by all accounts a man deeply traumatized by the chaotic collapse of the Soviet Union, is worth any price, writes senior editor Julia Ioffe.
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With every day that goes by, I become more convinced that this Kristen Stewart cheating scandal was just a PR stunt. It's increased the popularity of everyone involved, and kept a bunch of paparazzi and bloggers in business, so there really aren't any losers except my own braincells. The question is, who was it orchestrated by? At this point, I'm thinking Rupert Sanders and his wife, Liberty Ross have the most to gain from it. See, we already knew Robert Pattinson and Kristen, but until she was photographed canoodling with him, I wouldn't have recognized the name Rupert Sanders. Obviously I'd heard of the film that they worked together on, Snow White and the Huntsman, but he certainly doesn't have the name recognition of some of the bigger directors.
And then there's Liberty Ross, a name I probably would've gone the rest of my life without recognizing if she wasn't the world's most famous scorned wife right now. She's apparently trying to make it as an actress at the moment, which totally makes sense with the timing of the cheating scandal, and in a move that only served to increase my suspicion, she actually walked in the Alexander Wang show for New York Fashion Week, which is currently going on. Okay, sure, fine, she used to be a supermodel in London, whatever. That makes sense to me. What's a bit of a stretch is the wording in the Radar article:
"Saturday, she may have gotten her revenge. Her striking appearance in an all white ensemble including a hooded pullover, a laser cut pencil skirt, and ultra-strappy sandal heels got the biggest buzz of the day."
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Very Involved Problem 400sbc
First I'd like to apoligize for making my first post a "Help Me" post. Kinda rude but I to just get to the point.
I have a 89 chevy 4x4 with a drivibability issue, which is: The truck (5 speed manual) will pull good in first and second, but when I shift to 3rd and give it any amount of gas it falls on its face/backfires and has no power. It will do this in any gear above second, and even the first two gears seem lacking from what it should be. What I need to know is if my combination just doesn't mesh or if I have a timing issue, or anything else you guys can think of. The build is as follows:
400sbc .040over, speed pro 4-valve releif flat top pistons, moly rings, Comp Extreme energy 4x4 cam cl12-243-3 270deg/278deg @ .480/.498 lift, pro comp aluminum heads 2.05/1.60 valve 215cc runner cnc ported 64cc chamber strait plug, comp +.100 push rods .080 thickness, comp 1.5 pro magnum roller rockers, weiand action plus intake, edelbrock 750cfm performer carb, stock fuel pump(running around 5psi), shorty headers, jegs off road y-pipe into 3inch with a thrush vortex muffler, stock HEI
Trans is a NV4500 5-speed and has 3.73 gears with 33x10.5r15 tires.
We had the same setup minus the aluminum heads and pushrods(preveiously it had a set of 92 5.7 heads with 220k miles on them) and the truck ran fine as far as no backfiring it just blew smoke because of the crappy heads. My brother bought the heads with plans of changing to a more agressive cam but then gave me the whole set up for my truck.
I think we have a little over 12deg timing... but this is the first we have messed with aluminum heads and I think I read somewhere that that changes where you would want your timing?
I also know that the carb is probably a bit big for what we have but it was on the setup before with the crap heads and it would at least function without backfiring.
so with that wall of text i'm hoping someone can give me some insight on where to start to get rid of the backfiring and lack of power.
I'm not an engine guru like many guys here on the site but could you have a vacuum leak? Lack of power under load, back fire, do you have a vacuum advance on the distributor? That would effect your timing.
plug wires crossed . hydraulic lifter collapsed first two I:confused: thought of .
Vaccume is in the green on the guage. Wires are good/no miss at idle and goes good in first and second. starts backfiring when it has to work a little harder because of the taller gears in third.
not hearing any lifter noise and I think tht would show up on the vaccume gage(?) and cause a miss.
Could be timing related possibly... Not sure where it should be set at with this set up.
Review cam chain/sproket install.
Maybe a few lifters preloaded too much.
You could try advancing the timing, with the modifications I wouldn't know what to set it at, but, you could try this, put it in gear with your foot an the brake...get it to rev at at about 2000 RPM and advance the timing until it starts to ping, then back the timing just a little...this is by no means the proper way to set your timing for your engine but, if it works than you know that timing was an issue. Questions like degreeing your cam and things like that I'm sure will come into play when the guys that know try and help.
As I mentioned earlier, if you have a vacuum advance distributor and have a vacuum leak it could cause this effect...even though your vacuum is in the green, you would need to check the vacuum going to your advance and if it is , is your advance working as it seems to give you the problem under load
Classic symptoms pf fuel pump failure. Wil rev and run fine but under heavy load the engine fail down and will respond only for a short busrt pf power.
If it always runs like crap in third most likely jetted way to lean. Also possible vacum advance is way off as well. But not as lkely as fuel.
Is the edelbrock electric choke from the factory or manual choke. Does this motor have eletric choke and the old motor had manual. Electric choke carbs from edelbrock are fuel milaged tuned manual chokes are performance tuned.
Do you still have the 02 sensor bungs installed. You may want to get a ,ean rich guage on the engine to see whats wrong when it breaks up. If it stay the same it may be vacum advance or leaks.
Hope this helps.
Do you have the vacum advance hooked up and does it have a lock out installed so it only deliver total of 11 degrees or so. Also mechanical locked out as well.
If nto this could be an issue if its knocking sometimes detonation just sounds like the engine shaking badly and bouncing off a wall. Stumbles and back fires can be caused by massive detonation like having the stock dizzy in a performance engine.
Advance is hooked up, and the line going to it is hole free. We have messed with the springs in the distriburator a little trying to get better results. not much luck. There is no lock out installed... might sound dumb but is that something you buy or something you modify?
The carb is a manual choke and we have tried to richen the mixture... no wideband to test the air/fuel though.
The fuel pump was kickin out about 8 or 9 psi at idle so we put a regulator on it... not sure if that disproves anything or not, but it is a stock mecanical pump, not sure why it is putting out so many psi.I may hook up the eletrical pump again to make sure its not fuel pump related.
Thanks for all the replys! Hopefully we can get this thing figured out before we get too much snow!
If you slowly accelerate and shift into 3rd gear,coast for awhile the hammer it,does it instantly fall down or is it ok for a few seconds?
I think hcompton is on the right track
Are you using the stock dist or a aftermarket? With all that you have done to this truck I would use a good aftermarket dist. the stock ones do tend to give you the problem that you have.
Sure does sounds like ignition/advance issues.
The initial timing may need to be advanced from where it's at, but if you add initial timing you must be sure the total timing (initial plus mechanical) doesn't go too high or it'll detonate (ping) under a load.
More on timing can be read here.
I would try the vacuum advance on manifold vacuum (full time vacuum in other words). It may give too much advance. The use of a limiter device is in the link above.
I tend to think it's not the fuel pump, but it is possible. You can show good pressure on a fuel pressure gauge but still have a lack of volume. If you haven't tried this set up without the pressure regulator, try it- some regulators are very restrictive. If you have an electric pump that worked before, by all means try that.
Very Involved Problem 400sbc
Read the article Cobalt327 provided a link for. To me it sounds like it is advance related. You say you changed springs in the distributor they might be too weak. Most of the time you can use 1 light spring and a medium spring. Get a Crane PN #99600-1 vacuum advance kit. Start with two blue springs. Unplug the vacuum line from the distributor and plug it. When checking, have someone hold the rpms at 3000-3500. Set the advance on the timing light to 36* and the mark on the balancer should align to zero. Then zero the timing light advance. Check the timing at idle. You will want your advance curve to start at about 800 rpms and to be all in by 3000 rpms. Make sure that the weights are not sticking, clean and polish them if necessary.
I would check/ Replace the fuel filter.
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Ok basically I have a solid 2D tile engine where I can make the worlds as huge as I want with zero slowdown, a solid A* pathfinding algorithm, a solid A* pathfollowing method, and a solid game in general. Now comes an issue. Lets say I have a pretty hefty size dungeon and I end up pulling a hundred sprites and they all end up chasing after me throughout the dungeon. This obviously causes some massive slowdown cause they all have to go through the dungeon like a maze. Each node is on each tile. In a sense this could be a bad thing, considering the hundreds upon hundreds of nodes each sprite has to follow. However after staring at the nodes I visually have drawn, I noticed something. Many of the nodes don't even need to be there! The only time a node really needs placed is when a new direction is gonna happen as the sprite travels node to node. Yet I have no clue how I can even code this new idea of mine. If anything, it would be possible to truly pull a hundred sprites with next to no slowdown. I would probably be cutting the number of nodes by 75-90%. Any bright ideas how I could pull this off? Thanks in advance everyone.
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Enfusion's third season comes to an end today with two tournaments. At 85kg for the men, Sahak Parparyan, Andrew Tate, Franci Grajs and Ritchie Hocking all advanced to the finals on the show and are in a four man, one night tournament. The women's tournament is the same format, and features Denise Kielholtz, Lindsay Scheer, Chajmaa Bellakhal and Lucy Payne.
The event starts live at 1:00PM ET/10:00 AM PT in North America, or 19:00 CET in Europe. Fight Network will be airing the event live in Canada and the United States while it'll be on Orange Sport in Europe. I'll be doing live play by play of the event on twitter at @rianscalia. Full fight card here.
75kg: Miljan Vidovic def. Grega Smole by unanimous decision.
88kg: Tadej Toplak def. Ivan Stanic by unanimous decision.
71kg: Mirko Vorkapic def. Luke Whelan by unanimous decision.
Women's semi final: Lucy Payne def. Chajmaa Bellakhal by unanimous decision.
Women's semi final: Denise Kielholtz def. Lindsay Scheer by unanimous decision.
Men's 85kg semi final: Andrew Tate def. Ritchie Hocking by KO (Punches) in Round 1.
Men's 85kg semi final: Franci Grajs def. Sahak Parparyan by unanimous decision.
95kg: Jasmin Becirovic def. Wendell Roche by unanimous decision.
Women's semi final: Denise Kielholtz def. Lucy Payne by majority decision.
Men's 85kg Final: Franci Grajs def. Andrew Tate by KO (Knee) in Round 1.


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Please note that in the excerpt of this article, it states that this is a rumor. It is important to note that, because it contradicts most of what we have been hearing about Sony's plans for the PlayStation brand, and because it doesn't really make much sense.
According to a report from DigiTimes, a handful of Taiwanese manufacturers are preparing to begin production on the PS4 later this year, which would mean a 2012 release. The console would feature a "body movement-based control like the Kinect," and the initial run would produce 20 million units for worldwide distribution.
The future of the PS4 has been a hotly debated topic for some time now. There has never been a doubt that there will be a PS4, the only question is when. Lending credence to the current rumor are a handful of scattered reports from Sony execs who may have either spoken out of turn or been taken out of context. Back in May before E3, Sony's VP and CFO Masaru Kato had to explain to investors why there had been a recent spike in research and development costs, and he answered that development was underway for the PS4. He quickly backtracked though, and claimed that his statement did not mean that a PS4 was imminent, and that any time a new product was released (he was referring to the PS3) the first stages of development begin on its replacement.
The original thinking was that neither Sony nor Microsoft would debut a new console until at least 2014, which would make sense. The Xbox 360 has seen a huge bump in sales thanks to the Kinect among other things, and the XBL service is planning several major additions this year. Despite still reeling from the PSN hacks, Sony continues to build its online network and a new PSN redesign is rumored to be coming soon, plus Sony is finally managing to turn a profit on each console sold after years of taking losses. With the consoles profitable and both systems arguably just now hitting their stride, the demand for a next generation of consoles just isn't there as it has been in consoles past. Neither the PS3 nor the Xbox 360 have reached their full potential, as witnessed by the stream of new technology like the Kinect and new partnerships like Netflix and ESPN, so why rush to release a new console that will face an uphill battle and likely be sold at a loss?
But then there is the Wii U, which is something of a wildcard. The reaction to the device at E3 was good, but investors disagreed and Nintendo's stock dropped 5.7-percent. Still, Nintendo was falling behind and needed to makes some big moves. The Wii is still the best-selling console of this generation by a wide margin, but sales have grown somewhat stagnant of late, and the lack of things like HD graphics and an online community aren't things that can easily be overcome. So Nintendo releasing a new console now makes sense.
The Wii U will be more powerful than the PS3 and the Xbox 360, and it will have a deep online option as well. The tablet-like controller will also be memorable, but no one is suggesting that it will be as powerful as the next gen PlayStation console or the next Xbox. But it is possible that Microsoft and Sony did not enjoy getting sand kicked in their face by the Wii's sales, so they might increase their production timetables in order to close the sales gap between the Wii U and the PS4 and next Xbox.
There are already reports that Microsoft is planning on unveiling its next console at E3 next year, but that is also still just a rumor. It will likely come down to the Wii U and how concerned Microsoft and Sony are about the head start the Wii U will have. Sure the Wii U will not be as powerful as the PS4 or next Xbox, but the Wii wasn't as powerful as its counterparts and it crushed both of them in worldwide sales.
So perhaps the next gen console war will begin sooner than anyone thought.


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RE:Fly for Fishing
I thought that you might like to see the response to an e-mail I sent to Massachusetts asking for a definition of a fly for use in fly fishing only sections of streams.
>Thank you for contacting MassWildlife
>Enjoy a walk on the wild side at www.masswildlife.org !!!
>There is no definition of a fly in current regulations. Rather, fly fishing only sections of rivers restrict anglers to conventional fly rod and reel combinations and prohibit the use of bait, whether it be natural bait like worms or artificial bait like marshmallows or power bait. Artificial lures must be used and for most people using a fly rod the standard wet or dry fly works best.
>Western District, Pittsfield 413-447-9789
>Conn. Valley District, Belchertown 413-323-7632
>Central District, West Boylston 508-835-3607
>Northeast District, Acton 978-263-4347
>Southeast District, Bourne 508-759-3406
I am not about to do it, but, I can just imagine the uproar that one could create, by showing up at the Y pool on the Swift with a sluggo fly.
RE:Fly for Fishing
Art -
You raise an interesting point, I often get funny questions about fly fishing from the uninitiated. This generalized dictionary definition is a far cry from being worthy of defining our sport, would you agree? Why even a nymph would not be fly-fishing if we were to adhere to their views, nor would a streamer - or perhaps most ridiculously a full dress classic atlantic salmon fly would not meet the specification if it were not intended to imitate a fly. New England's classic streamers would be out of the question, as would the muddler minnow, the wolly worm, the mickey finn, just to name a few.
I define flyfishing as a form of fishing not involving the use of bait or scents or taste to tempt fish, and not involving the use of weights to cast the lure (fly or otherwise) but instead cast by virtue of the dynamic loop generated by the loading and unloading of the rod. I also feel that the "lure" should be one that is tied, not cast or molded, by hands and not machines although the components might.
In my view, whether the materials are natural or synthetic doesn't matter; and whether the forage being suggested is insect or minnow (or plant for that matter) does not qualify whether it's fly fishing or not.
I was once asked "when you imitate a fly, do you cast over the fish and tease it to jump out of the water to intercept the fly as it whips by?" I thought two things... "wish it were that easy" and "boy, the name fly fishing does imply some differences from what it's really all about nowadays". Your point is well taken, but in this case I think the dictionary thinks the fish jump out of the water...
Fly for Fishing
In todays world with all the artificial materials that are use, I got thinking, big mistake. I looked up the word fly in The American Heritage Dictionary, based on the second college edition July 1989, the answer is: A fishing lure simulating a fly. I guess this means we are not fly fishing, because we are imitating baitfish not flies. A strong indication of this is that you cannot fish in some states, if your fly is weighted, you are breaking the law. I guess I don't have much to do these days except to wait until the temp gets up to about 40 then maybe I can start fishing again with my new lures. Have a good weekend.
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David LangfordIMAGE: "Langford photo"
28 April 2017 Paul Barnett sends the link to a 2001 review of The Leaky Establishment that I missed when it first appeared.
14 April 2017 Now I'm off to Birmingham for the UK national Eastercon, which this year is nameless and thus called Innominate. Here's the programme schedule page. I make only two official appearances: at the NewCon Press launch, 6:30-7:30pm Friday (today) and, representing Rob Hansen of THEN fame, the BSFA Awards ceremony (5:30-7pm Saturday). Meanwhile, here's a politically inflammatory cartoon from the traditional Judy Horacek birthday card sent to me by Yvonne Rousseau.
10 April 2017 A birthday lunch treat in a local canalside pub whose gents' toilet has a forward-thinking notice:
30 March 2017 A little earlier than expected, here's Ansible 357. Also earlier than expected was my first fan letter (and a very nice one too) on All Good Things: The Last SFX Visions. Although this isn't officially published until 21 April, NewCon Press is already filling orders for the trade paperback edition. The limited-edition hardbacks will have to wait until I've signed them all at Eastercon.
14 March 2017 Time to book my rail ticket to the UK Eastercon. The NewCon Press book launch for All Good Things: The Last SFX Visions is currently expected to be at
1 March 2017 Happy St David's Day. Also, here's Ansible 356.
27 February 2017 My promised nonfiction collection All Good Things: The Last SFX Visions, officially published by NewCon Press/Steel Quill on 21 April 2017, will indeed be launched at Eastercon and is already available for pre-order at the NewCon Press website. The cover is by regular column illustrator Andy Watt, from the SFX 250 instalment, and many more of Andy's cartoons are to be reprinted in the book. Besides the trade paperback with black-and-white interior art, there is to be a super luxury hardback with the illustrations in full colour.
19 February 2017 The BSFA Awards shortlist has been released and (wearing my Ansible Editions hat) I am of course delighted that Rob Hansen's THEN: Science Fiction Fandom in the UK: 1930-1980 appears in the nonfiction category.
17 February 2017 My final collection of Langford columns from SFX magazine is to be launched at Eastercon as a title in the Steel Quill nonfiction imprint of Ian Whates's NewCon Press. Besides the 2009-2016 columns it contains reviews and criticism published elsewhere in the same period, bringing the total to 100 pieces plus a new introduction.
1 February 2017 Despite being so short, February is a bonus month with two issues of Ansible. The usual coverage appears in Ansible 355 and – reviving the long-lost tradition of extra "half issues" – Ansible 355½ is devoted to Tom Shippey's funeral tribute to Peter Weston.
11 January 2017 January freebie at Ansible Editions: the first 48pp of Rob Hansen's history of UK fandom (including introductions and the entire 1930s section) can be downloaded without charge until the end of the month. Why, yes, this is indeed a naked attempt to influence BSFA Award voters in their choices for the nonfiction shortlist.
7 January 2017 Good news for Ansible Editions: Rob Hansen is on the longlist for the nonfiction category of the BSFA Awards with his monumental tome THEN: Science Fiction Fandom in the UK: 1930-1980.
3 January 2017 There was an unavoidable delay between first-footing and first-Ansibleing, but here at last is the January issue.
1 January 2017 Happy New Year to all. The photo shows a mystical cosmic alignment (possibly marking the architect's birthday) whereby in late December the sun briefly shines through an upstairs window, slants through the full depth of the house and lights up our front door from inside. As Erich von Däniken was wont to say, "This proves it!"
15 December 2016 You read it here last! I finally got around to looking through Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction (Oxford University Press 2007) edited by Jeff Prucher. Yes, I know it's a nonfiction Hugo winner and I should keep track of these things, but the acquisitive impulse and opportunity to buy didn't coincide until a copy turned up in Oxfam the other day. A happy surprise is that there are cites from myself and Ansible under various headwords: CoA, -con, Frankenstein complex (did I really write that sentence? Ah, it was in a parody), multiverse, science-fictional, skiffy, space-operatic, and maybe others that I missed. Also lots of friends' names – and mine too – in the list of OED SF Citations Project credits. The website for this project still exists but I suspect it's no longer being updated. "Condom" as shorthand for convention fandom, the one fannish term whose first citation there is from Ansible (though I'm sure that even in this sense it must be older), was not alas thought worthy of inclusion in Brave New Words. On the principle that egoboo (look it up) never comes too late, I emailed Peter Weston in case he didn't already know that his fannish memoir With Stars in My Eyes features in the very select bibliography of books about fandom. He was pleased. Teresa Nielsen Hayden probably has mixed feelings about the appearance of her Making Book in the same list, since the author credit is to her least favourite typo "Theresa Nielsen Hayden" and the name should be alphabetized under N, not H. The Plain People of Fandom: Bet you searched that list in vain for your own The Silence of the Langford, eh? Myself: I wasn't going to mention that, but since you raise the point, I was more than consoled by the three Langford books listed under "General Non-Fiction, Criticism, Essays". The same number as John Clute....
1 December 2016 Like a bowl of cold gruel or a miserable lump of coal in your Christmas stocking, the December Ansible marks the beginning of the official "Bah! Humbug!" season. This issue reports the launch of the Ansible Editions ebook of Yvonne Rousseau's delightfully ingenious The Murders at Hanging Rock – click on the cover image for more:
1 November 2016 As Oscar Wilde so memorably said, the only thing worse than being in Ansible is not being in Ansible. Especially the November 2016 issue.
26 October 2016 Readers of Ansible will remember that the Hungarian magazine Galaktika has a history of naughtily publishing translated stories without permission or payment. I never got around to complaining – the queue seemed far too long – but a few days ago they contacted me with an apology and an offer of modest fees for two Langford stories published in 2007 and 2011. Payment duly arrived, and it turns out that my name appeared on both relevant covers. Here's one.
11 October 2016 The childish pleasure of discovering that the GIMP program I use for fiddling with ebook cover designs can do animated GIFs. Hence the following perversion of a 2002 Ansible cartoon by the late great D. West....
11 October 2016 It's rare for me to contribute guest posts to blogs – I never have enough time to keep all my own sites updated – but the Milford SF Writers' Conference made me an offer I didn't dare refuse. Hence a few reminiscences here.
3 October 2016 After the traditional delay occasioned by the fact that there is still a print edition (yes, Virginia) and the printers close at weekends, here in all its lack of splendour is Ansible 351.
26 September 2016 Two ebooks in a single month? This is madness. After the emotional upheaval of pushing through the sale of my mother's house to the point of actual exchange of contracts, I felt the need to distract myself with some soothing and even boring activity – which made me think at once of my 2009 collection of mouldy old computer magazine columns, The Limbo Files. Oh dear, I think I've just failed again in the subtle art of the Hard Sell.
11 September 2016 Blowing my own trumpet again ... as a change from what seems like years of work on Then (as below), I have at last prepared an Ansible Editions ebook of my sf novel The Space Eater. Meanwhile, as compensation for the withdrawal of the free ebook of the old, unexpanded Then – which seemed likely to cause general confusion – Rob Hansen's fanfiction The Reaffirmation now replaces Then on the TAFF site's free ebooks page. Note that this is a sequel of sorts to the legendary The Enchanted Duplicator (ebook available from the same page) and expects some knowledge of the original.
8 September 2016 The promised ebook of Rob Hansen's Then (see 10 and 16 August below) is now available through the official Then page.
1 September 2016 Here's Ansible 350. No special ceremonies attend the appearance of this suspiciously round number.
16 August 2016 At last I''ve received and can gloat over the first hardback proof of Rob Hansen's Then (see 10 August post below). Both hardback and trade paperback will be announced in the September Ansible, but early adopters can buy now through the official Then page and the Ansible Editions shop at Lulu.com.
10 August 2016 The first book edition of Then, Rob Hansen's history of science fiction fandom in the UK – much expanded and incorporating extensive new research since its long-ago fanzine incarnation – is on the brink of publication by Ansible Editions (where the book's official page is now up). Indeed it would be on sale even as I write, if I hadn't been persuaded to create a hardback version as well as the planned trade paperback. Soon, soon ...
1 August 2016 Well, this should have been posted on 1 August but comes later because things were complicated and I forgot. Ansible 349 reveals to a palpitating world that Ansible® is now a registered trade mark in the UK! Plus some perhaps less boring news on science fiction and the like.
21 July 2016 An unexpected freebie: Jonathan Coleclough's calligraphed UK SF/Fantasy Literary Map, made up from the names of writers in more or less appropriate locations. I'm hugely flattered to find myself plastered all over Reading.
1 July 2016 Here's Ansible 348.
22 June 2016 I'm finding the EU referendum both stressful and depressing. The Remain campaign has hardly scintillated, while Leave has been shameless in its use of demonstrable untruths and misleading figures which are never retracted no matter how often exposed. I'll be voting Remain because I believe it's the wiser option – and also because, if better and truer arguments on the other side should come along, there will always be another opportunity to make the irrevocable and possibly catastrophic decision to Leave. After a Leave victory, though, we won't be offered another chance to vote Remain.
17 June 2016 I hadn't really thought that anyone would notice my (involuntary) retirement as SFX magazine columnist; but #276 dated August 2016 just arrived, and right at the end of the letter pages ....
1 June 2016 Today is the first of flaming Ansible 347.
28 May 2016 Happy surprise in today's i newspaper: David Langford of Reading is listed as a winner of the recent Inquisitor crossword set by "Phi". I've won the traditional Inquisitor champagne prize (now prosecco, and henceforth chocolate) several times in the past, but had never before finished one of those extra-intimidating puzzles that start with an empty grid without numbers or bars. Or, in this case, any indication of answer lengths. It turned out to have a slightly science-fictional theme.
22 May 2016 Rob Hansen's THEN: A History of UK Science Fiction Fandom 1930-1980 – much revised, corrected and expanded from its original four-volume fanzine appearance – continues to progress towards an actual trade paperback. Today I added what I hope are the final 1970s photos of sensitive fannish faces to the POD working document. Just when it seemed to be finished, Terry Frost posted a New Worlds 9 (Spring 1951) ad for the 1951 "Festivention" that was too good not to squeeze in somewhere: see below. 2/6d admission! And lucky members got to see PROFESSIONAL CELEBRITIES! The current THEN is 428 pages long, without the yet-to-be-compiled index. Proof copies now awaited. I feel I've been working on this thing all my life. But of course all the real heavy lifting has been done by Rob Hansen.
18 May 2016 By popular lack of request, the expanded ebook edition of my 2009 mostly-nonfiction collection Starcombing.
29 April 2016 Hooray, hooray, it isn't the first of May, but Ansible 346 is out today! [Fix that scansion before you post – Ed.]
22 April 2016 Another momentous day of destiny: SFX #274 (dated July 2016) has arrived and contains the very last of the long series of Langford columns published in every issue since the first, dated June 1995. Am I downhearted? Yes, actually, but I've tried to cheer myself up with an expanded ebook of the first collection of these columns (1995-2005): The SEX Column and Other Misprints, first published 2005. More SFX columns, from 2005 to 2009, appear along with much other material in Starcombing, and all the rest should be collected (with a few extras to make 100 items in all) as The Last SFX Visions, now in preparation. A leading small-press publisher has expressed interest....
1 April 2016 Guaranteed free of tiresome April Foolery, here's Ansible 345. Yes, the paragraph about my SFX column being terminated is all too true. I thought I was safe for a few issues beyond #274 since I have formal commissions for three more columns, but the ultimate decision from on high was: "Tough shit, and we laugh at your pathetic suggestion of a kill fee."
23 March 2016 Since people have asked, this is my provisional Manchester Eastercon schedule. Thursday: stay home in Reading. Friday: stay home in Reading. Saturday: stay home in Reading. Sunday: stay home in Reading. Monday: stay home in Reading.
19 March 2016 At last I've determinedly taken a little time off other projects (mainly the ever-demanding SF Encyclopedia and the first trade paperback edition of Rob Hansen's UK fan history THEN, much expanded from its original fanzine incarnation) to rejig another Langford backlist title into ebook form. This is the big retrospective critical collection from 2003, Up Through an Empty House of Stars, as below; contents list here. The Ansible Editions site originally announced this for April 2016, but I got all excited and brought it forward to March. Buy it now! Act without thinking!
1 March 2016 Butting through the Channel in the mad March days, here comes Ansible 344. And God help all who sail in her.
27 February 2016 It hasn't been a good month, but I cheered myself up by improving that list of Josh Kirby Covers with many links to a new Josh Kirby Gallery (reusing some routines written for the SF Encyclopedia Picture Gallery in a simpler context). Good-quality scans of missing covers are welcome and will be credited.
1 February 2016 Here's this month's Ansible. It wasn't much fun to produce, I don't know exactly why. Maybe #350 later this year would be a good time to stop: that would take the count to 300 monthly issues without a break since the 1991 revival. Twenty-five bloody years!
23 January 2016 Another Great British Newspaper Headline to go down in history with the classic "Nudist Welfare Mans Model Wife Fell For The Chinese Hypnotist From The Co-op Bacon Factory" – from which, I now learn, the intended first word "Legless" was sadly cut for space reasons. Later: I've added a few more SFX columns to the vast online archive. Alas, the allowed word count shrinks with every redesign of the magazine, and it'll be a while before I can fill another book.
14 January 2016 Timeless sentiment from an old detective novel: "The crying need of this age is some means of protecting historic buildings from town councils." (R. Austin Freeman, The Mystery of Angelina Frood, 1924)
4 January 2016 Today, shyly peeping through the withered verbiage, comes the first Ansible of the year. Not without difficulties: after the usual slog into Reading town centre to get the paper edition printed, we found the one and only copy shop in a state of deep uncertainty about when the ailing photocopier would be cured of its New Year hangover. It seemed advisable to buy in some coloured paper and print Ansible at home: though braced for exorbitant costs on the order of £10 a ream at horrible old Ryman, I was taken aback by the actuality of six quid for 100 sheets (i.e. £30 per ream). Must invest in some emergency stock from an outlet with sane prices....
29 December 2015 Today a mystery parcel arrived, containing a bottle of Pinot Grigio and a box of Neapolitan chocs, both of the finest Marks & Spencer vintage. No indication of sender. Lots of thanks to whoever it was! [Later identified as my cousin Roger.] Further reading: Gilbert Adair's And Then There Was No One (2009), third of his "Evadne Mount" mysteries in the manner of Agatha Christie, or at least of her titles: the first two were The Act of Roger Murgatroyd and A Mysterious Affair of Style, both apparently more or less straight pastiche with crimes tackled by detective novelist Evadne Mount, who seems not a million miles distant from Christie's own fictional crime writer Ariadne Oliver. This third book gets all po-mo – which is indeed Adair's trademark – with Adair himself meeting Mount at a Sherlock Holmes festival in Meiringen, Switzerland (main tourist attraction the Reichenbach Falls). The event provides the opportunity for an inset Holmes pastiche, "The Giant Rat of Sumatra", before the inevitable murder. Literary gags and red herrings fly thick and fast; the story eventually heads determinedly up its own po-mo orifice. Quite fun actually.
25 December 2015 Merry Christmas (or seasonal festivity of your choice) to all. I hope 2016 will be less gruelling for me and Hazel than 2015. It's a long time since I posted any notes on books read. Anything relevant to the SF Encyclopedia tends to be stripped down to a bibliographic note, theme-entry example or correction of a John Clute misreading; although SFE house style is ruthlessly terse I've now written 477,000 words of the damned thing (passing Peter Nicholls's word count earlier this year despite his huge head start from many many entries in the 1979 and 1993 editions; I doubt I'll ever attain the two and a quarter million words by that man Clute). So, books. This fraught year has seen an awful lot of ebook comfort reading including a Kipling short-story binge, a dollop of Dickens, and – more embarrassingly – a survey of pretty well the entire canon of R. Austin Freeman's Dr Thorndyke medico-legal mysteries. (Spoiler warning: the ingenious vector for administration of arsenic in Freeman's 1928 As a Thief in the Night was picked up or perhaps independently invented by Terry Pratchett for Feet of Clay.) Some new discoveries: After Alice (2015) by Gregory Maguire of Wicked fame is yet another follow-up to Lewis Carroll, in which Alice's barely mentioned friend Ada follows her into Wonderland / Looking-Glass territory and has differently frustrating adventures leading to a revisionist finale. I liked the delayed-drop revelation of Ada's personal Jabberwock, but overall the story – though worthily written and even dealing in racial issues – seemed essentially unnecessary. Unknown Quantity: A Real and Imagined History of Algebra (2006) by John Derbyshire started with the handicap of not being by Ian Stewart or the late Martin Gardner – my favourite pop-maths writers – but won me over by telling a difficult story well, debunking dodgier bits of mathematical folklore (like Galois staying up all night inventing group theory before his fatal duel), and being agreeably lively throughout. Contrasting the Berlin and Göttingen styles of nineteenth-century German maths: "Weierstrass, of the Berlin school, could not blow his nose without offering a meticulous eight-page proof of the event's necessity. Riemann, on the other hand, threw out astonishing visions of functions roaming wildly over the complex plane, of curved spaces, and of self-intersecting surfaces, pausing occasionally to drop in a hurried proof when protocol demanded it." Coriolanus, the Chariot! (1978) by Alan G. Yates was a Novacon purchase from Brian Ameringen's Porcupine Books (whose final dealers' room appearance will apparently be at Novacon in 2016). The premise of far-future theatrical "plactors" who shapeshift into perfect representations of their roles seemed vaguely interesting, but rapidly moved into unpleasant territory. Once treated with the "ambiology" potion that permits shapeshifting, one can not only learn to do it oneself but may be remotely transformed by others who have sufficient will-power or whatever. The protagonist's first audition involves him being reshaped into a woman solely in order to be brutally raped. By and by he plays a nasty tyrant and throws himself into the part by committing an equally brutal rape. Offstage, with his will-power now boosted by such ordeals, he humiliates a unsympathetic instructor by causing him to grow such gigantic, muscular (yes) breasts that they burst through the fabric of this unfortunate's jerkin. Eventually, through further triumph of the will, our man breaks into the inner ring of dramaturges or "playtors" who run this nonsensically sadistic show, and it is indicated that he is no longer (if he ever was) a nice guy. All rather distasteful. A Sense of Reality (1963) by Graham Greene: a slim collection of four stories billed as more or less fantastic. The first and longest, "Under the Garden", looks back to a childhood memory of a secret place in the indicated location, inhabited by a vaguely Peake-ish or perhaps Ubu-ish grotesque; "A Meeting with Morin", whose narrator encounters the titular author of a once personally influential book, rather lost me in a Catholic haze of niceties of belief and unbelief; "Dream of a Strange Land" seems more irony than fantasy; "Discovery in the Woods" follows four apparently normal children a-blackberrying into a sad revelation that this is a post-holocaust landscape. An odd lot. The Annihilation Score (2015) by Charles Stross: in this latest Laundry tale of covert occult ops, our usual viewpoint character Bob is displaced by his partner Mo – her narrative voice being much the same – as the world continues to slide downhill to the Cthulhoid apocalypse coded CASE NIGHTMARE GREEN. The latest twist is that side effects of the increasing thaumaturgic noise level are generating assorted superhero figures who need to be bureaucratically contained. There is yet another finale in which a Dread Portal to Very Bad Things (this time around it's the King in Yellow) is unwisely opened in a more public place than ever before. Lively enough, but disbelief is frequently rather hard to keep suspended.
1 December 2015 Unlike this post, the December issue of Ansible was actually on time.
27 November 2015 The process of computer disaster recovery has been long and tortuous. Let's see whether I can update this page by the usual route....
19 November 2015 Two small items of good news are that I got safely home from Novacon and that the latest SF Encyclopedia site update took us past the once unthinkable milestone of five million words. Unfortunately the bad news happened in between: total failure of my main working computer and, until I've done a great deal of software reinstallation on the coming replacement, loss of access to my email archive and other tools of the trade. The usual email address is still working during the interregnum, but via a nasty web interface that makes it hard to keep track. Expect delays. I'll catch up eventually.
10 November 2015 Fun With Desktop Publishing, part 5,271,009. Like a good little small-press publisher I've been working on the latest instalment of Rob Hansen's expansion of his history of British fandom, covering the 1950s. No trouble with the Early 1950s and Mid-1950s chapters, but venturing too far into the Late 1950s invariably caused WordPerfect 12 to crash. I spent most of today researching this, gradually narrowing down the problem area (or one of the problem areas) to a single paragraph about the 1957 London Worldcon. Instant hangup whenever the text cursor entered this forbidden zone. Aha, I thought, the document is corrupt – I'll re-import the paragraph from clean HTML. The same thing happened. And again when I pasted it in directly as plain text. And even when I RETYPED IT FROM SCRATCH.... Apparently something to do with the particular combination of sf author/fan names which WordPerfect auto proofreading was trying to highlight as unrecognized words. Turned off auto proofreading and sanity was restored. I don't know when this enlarged edition of Rob Hansen's Then will become available. He still has the 1960s and 1970s sections to revise, but these probably need less work than the earlier parts (1930s-1950s) where research has unearthed so much more in the way of Astral Knowledge and True Facts.
30 October 2015 An early release for Ansible 340, which is officially the November issue. Pay no attention to the October behind the curtain.
16 October 2015 Writer on the Borderland, an October blog celebration of William Hope Hodgson and his heritage, took a strange turn today with a post plugging my tales of Dagon Smythe – that dauntless psychic investigator distantly inspired by Carnacki the Ghost-Finder. Time to turn on the Electric Pentacle and cower within as a terrible vengeful grunting begins to reverberate from the nameless Outer Spheres.... Also today, Martin Hoare took me down to Newport in his Great Big Red Van. By cunning texting en route I arranged for cousin Mark in South Wales to drop by – about 30 seconds after the van arrived – and help load it with all the remaining stuff from my mother's house that needed to come back to Reading. Two hours out, half an hour loading, two hours back again. Hazel was boggled by the swiftness of it all. I owe Martin many drinks, as usual. Next Wednesday, the professionals clear the rest of the furniture, with Hazel and I on guard to make sure they don't take brother Jon's piano. No idea what's supposed to happen to this in the long run: Jon doesn't want to part with it but the cost of shipping to Chicago doesn't bear thinking about. I hope this doesn't mean that Mark has to store it for the rest of his life ... his home in Pontypool is already bulging with Jon's other treasures from the Newport house. Anyway, this feels like progress. Or it would if the house buyer hadn't just dropped out and left the estate agents to start all over again.
2 October 2015 Here's Ansible 339 (October 2015). The Vince Clarke fanwriting collection mentioned earlier is now available from the TAFF free ebooks page.
8 September 2015 Another ebook project: the collected fan writings of Vince Clarke. What have I missed that's important?
1 September 2015 Oh no, not again: Ansible 338 for September 2015.
17 August 2015 The late Joe Mayhew's cartoon for Ansible 147 (October 1999) seems curiously topical in these puppy-infested times.
15 August 2015 A worthy cause: "The EUVAT VATMOSS Campaign. Fundraising to attend a VITAL meeting". See the VATMOSS page at Ansible Editions for all too many background links. Including this: "Everything wrong with VATMOSS in one image".
31 July 2015 August comes earlier every year: here's Ansible 337, the August issue. Our printers close over the weekend, and I'd rather be a day early than wait until Monday 3 August.
14 July 2015 Another ebook (sorry, no POD edition this time) compiling mouldy old stuff from the Langford files – Don't Try This at Home: Selected Convention Reports. The cover photo shows nocturnal balloon activities at Loncon 3, the 2014 Worldcon. (This will never become any clearer.)
13 July 2015 Amazing Stories has reviewed my Crosstalk interview collection.
6 July 2015 Never expected to appear with brother Jon on a listicle of "44 real-life pop-culture siblings you (probably) didnt know were related": see 23-24. Thanks to Richard Bleiler for the link. Today, soon after passing 4.9 million words earlier this month, the SF Encyclopedia now has over 16,000 entries.
1 July 2015 What could make the current debilitating British heatwave seem even worse? Of course: Ansible 336.
23 June 2015 What, another Langford book? I'm afraid so. Crosstalk: Interviews Conducted by David Langford started as a quick-and-dirty addition to this free ebooks page; but people on Facebook called quite insistently for a printed version, so I overhauled the text to Ansible Editions standards for a POD paperback (with a modestly priced ebook alternative). Now I need to concoct a replacement for the freebies page – perhaps a collection of my convention reports from fanzines of long ago. Or would that be too embarrassing?
16 June 2015 It is very nearly the end of an era. After strenuous and still not entirely complete efforts to clear out the contents, the Ancestral Langford Home in Newport (Gwent) is on the market.
1 June 2015 Today is the first of flaming Ansible 335!
27 May 2015 The latest addition to that Free Ebooks Page is THEN, Rob Hansen's history of UK SF fandom from the 1930s to the 1980s. A monumental work of research – especially in the earlier decades – running to nearly 177,000 words.
20 May 2015 I have a tiny bit in the io9 symposium (well, more of a listicle) "10 Utterly Brilliant Novels That Have One Fatal Flaw", posted on 7 May without my noticing until now. I see I've had some past mentions there, including "10 Paranoid Science Fiction Stories That Could Help You Survive" and (a nice plug for Ansible Editions) "There is no snarking about books like Algis Budrys snarking about books".
18 May 2015 As light relief from preparing various Langford ebooks for sale, I made up some fannish freebies by various hands for a Free Ebooks Page now added to the TransAtlantic Fan Fund site. The Langford report of my 1980 TAFF trip is included: over 37,000 words of babble first published in booklet form in 1985.
8 May 2015 Another Ansible Editions ebook from the Langford backlist: an expanded version of my hefty 2004 collection Different Kinds of Darkness.
1 May 2015 Published at the end of an exhausting week: Ansible 334, reminding me that the works of the late great Thomas M. Disch (referenced therein) include both 334 and The Puppies of Terra.
18 April 2015 Busy, busy, busy. Concerning the current Hugo Puppy unpleasantness, there's a box of links on the Ansible site – including a long sequence of pointers to Mike Glyer's comprehensive coverage at File 770 (Mike has a stronger stomach than I).
2 April 2015 As noted by guest cartoonist Steve Stiles, April's Ansible 333 marks the dread Number of the Domestic House Pet. This month's Ansible Editions ebook release from my long-suffering backlist is The Silence of the Langford:
23 March 2015 Adventures in Newport house clearance: Hazel has been packing vast quantities of glass, china and bric-a-brac for the charity shops. Pausing to pour herself some orange juice in a randomly chosen glass, she discovered by practical experiment that a long-lost Langford family heirloom had come to light. The dribble glass! We'd found the box it came in, but the thing itself looks entirely innocuous: a cut-glass design ("Made in France") concealing invisibly tiny slits that go right through. Now carefully labelled. Meanwhile, it seems there is no artefact from the cobwebbed depths of the garage that's too rusty or indescribably filthy to be eagerly claimed via Freecycle.
12 March 2015 Goodbye, Terry. Chris Priest wrote the Guardian piece; I don't feel like writing anything but must very soon deliver a column marking 20 years of SFX magazine. I'd forgotten that I reviewed the paperback Soul Music in the first issue. So many more books since then, but still not enough ... Later: a compendium of links in the SF Encyclopedia memorial post.
3 March 2015 It seemed silly to keep adding links to the VATMOSS horror editorial at the bottom of Ansible 329, so I've now given this thing a page of its own.
2 March 2015 Just as in February (where does the time go?), a new Ansible and a new ebook: Ansible 332 and The Complete Critical Assembly.
2 February 2015 New today: not only Ansible 331 but the first ever ebook release of my 2003 parody/pastiche collection He Do the Time Police in Different Voices.
5 January 2015 A little delayed by New Year excesses: Ansible 330.
1 January 2015 Happy New Year to all. Here's how Ansible Editions is coping with the new and horrendous VATMOSS regime. (Short answer: not very well.)
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Have never seen a trial. Aren't trials a direct competition with actual winners? If one wished to introduce money into the equation, couldn't one start a calcutta at a trial? (Surely some of that takes place). Have photographed many team ropings where they ran calcuttas. Seems pretty common in that sport. One could also point out that amateur rodeo makes the dog game look like a poor man's sport (and few dog gamers incur emergency room fees or life altering injuries). All sports have their costs. Very few people involved in any sport are good enough to earn enough to make their participation pay. What do folks pay to play golf? How many Tiger Woods are out there?
As for me, can't afford to play even in the HT game, and am not really interested in that anyway. I have gotten my dogs (one at a time) to be my buddies and hunting companions, and have trained them myself (that's where the personal satisfaction comes in) and have enjoyed having them work with me in the field. (NO ribbons, no applause, a few handshakes from hunting buddies, and wouldn't have it any other way).


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Yesterday I helped escort a group of fifth graders to see the Portland Youth Philharmonic in downtown Portland. That was an experiance!
My only problem was that I would get so envolved in the
music that I would start to ignore the kids. Every now and
then one of the teachers would come and disciplane a kid
sitting near me, and I would be thinking "yea, I was going
to do that."
Tonight I am going to help out with a USB presentation at the Portland Linux Users Group meeting. (But first I need to get USB up on my laptop so I can show off some stuff.)


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Ironbuds from Acoustic Forge - under $50 ecobuds
" I am tired of: throwing away earphones, wasting money, and destroying the environment. Ironbuds promised to be an answer to all three - imho they've cracked it. What is surprising is how good they sound. Been waiting a year for Acoustic Forge to release these. I posted in the forums about 8 months ago about them - but Thomas (the CEO) announced they were having some difficulties..." --intelegant
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" HERE IS MY FULL REVIEW ON THE TEKFUSION TWINWOOFERS Note: I'm not much of a reviewer, but i had to review these In-Ear Headphones because they are so special to me, and to my collection, so couldn't resist but give you guys some of my views. Hope you like it. Also, if you don't like my review, forgive me for taking your time but i think you won't INTRO Tekfusion Twinwoofers is a..." --audiophilic0


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Michael Ryder raises his arms in celebration after scoring one of 16 goals he's tallied for the New Jersey Devils so far this NHL season. Since breaking into the NHL with the Montreal Canadiens in the 2003-04 season, the Bonavista native has scored 229 times — the most of any Newfoundlander.
©— Photo by The Associated Press
Joe Micheletti, perhaps gaining more notoriety these days as an analyst on U.S. hockey broadcasts than for his work as a journeyman defenceman in the old World Hockey Association and later the National Hockey League, recalls a story Claude Julien sometimes shares.
It involves Michael Ryder, the New Jersey Devils' right-winger, a player about whom Julien knows a thing or two.
First in a six-part series.
Tomorrow: Ryane Clowe
The Telegram — NEW YORK
Julien was Ryder's first junior hockey coach, when the latter arrived in Hull, Que., a 17-year-old recruit from rural Newfoundland who didn't say much, but sure could shoot the puck.
Ryder would play three years under Julien while in Hull, including a trip together to the 2000 world juniors. When the two turned pro in the Montreal Canadiens system, it was Ryder and Julien together again in Hamilton, Ont., with the American Hockey League's Bulldogs.
Then, when Julien was promoted to the Canadiens after Michel Therrien was fired from his first go-round in Montreal, Ryder cracked the Habs' lineup and made a bang with a 25-goal rookie season, good enough to make him a finalist for the Calder Trophy.
A few years later, the duo hooked up again in Boston and won a Stanley Cup in 2011, with Ryder, the pride of Bonavista, among the Bruins' top performers that spring.
So, in a nutshell, Julien can speak with authority when it comes to Ryder, which makes Micheletti's recount all the more amusing.
"Get Claude to tell you," laughs Micheletti, the New York Rangers' colour guy, before the recent Rangers-Devils outdoor game at Yankee Stadium. "Claude would say to him in the morning skate, 'You know Michael, we got a game tonight, right?'"
Those who don't know Michael Ryder won't get it. For those who do, well, Micheletti's little narrative is bang on.
"Oh yeah," smiles Adam Henrique, Ryder's centre on the Devils, "that's Rydes. He's a loose guy. Not a lot bothers him."
It's safe to say stress will never get the better of Michael Ryder, now in his 14th winter of professional hockey. You might even suggest he marches to the beat of his own drum, which probably helps his approach to each game of the 82-game grind that is the NHL schedule.
It's that laissez-faire attitude that might also help Ryder get through the lean times. And as a notorious hot and cold scorer, Ryder has languished through his share of scoring slumps over the years.
"That probably may be the case," Henrique says. "He doesn't seem to worry about a lot of things, and I guess you could say he's carefree.
"But I'll tell you," adds Henrique, the smile slipping from his face, "when it comes time to play, he's ready. Rydes wants to be out there a lot, he wants to be on the ice at key points in the game.
"He's a scorer and he wants the puck."
During the Bruins' Cup run — when Ryder had eight goals and 17 points in 25 springtime games — his new golf clubs on order arrived at his downtown Boston condo.
To hear his mother, Debbie, recount the story to The Telegram's Brendan McCarthy, Ryder was the proverbial kid in the candy store with the new sticks.
Ryder laughs when the subject comes up, probably because it's half true. Anyone who knows the player knows golf ranks just below breathing on the scale of his priorities.
But that's not to say hockey's getting old. Granted, he's done just about all there is to do. He'll retire as the highest-scoring Newfoundlander to play in the NHL, he has a Stanley Cup ring, played for two Original Six franchises and — wait now, let's see … oh yes — he has earned just over $27 million so far in his career, with another $3.5 million to come next year with the Devils.
No, even today, just over a month away from his 34th birthday — getting on in years if you happen to be a pro athlete — Ryder still gets excited coming to the rink.
"Oh geez, yes, obviously," he says. "I wouldn't be doing it if I wasn't.
"I've been playing hockey every day of my life since I was a kid, and I still get excited to do this very day.
"I'm not getting any younger, but I still love playing the game. I still love competing and I love winning. I hate losing, and that goes for anything ... golf, whatever."
Things are changing for Michael Ryder. There's the new team, of course, after the Devils signed him to a two-year, $7 million free agent contract last summer. Away from the rink, perhaps the biggest change is forthcoming, as his girlfriend, Caroline Mulcahy, will have the couple's first child.
On the ice, however, it's business as usual for Ryder. He may be hot and cold — which has a tendency to drive coaches batty — but he's money in the bank for 20 goals every year.
Consider this: since becoming an NHLer, his yearly goal totals read: 25, 30, 30, 14 (under Guy Carbonneau, a long story), 27, 18, 18, 35 and 16 (in lockout-shortened 2012-13 season).
With 16 so far for the Devils, Ryder is well on his way to another 20-goal campaign.
But what is it with him that makes it look so — dare we say it — darn easy?
Well, it is, in a word, his shot. It's among the most lethal in all of the NHL, a single facet of his game that's made him a ton of money.
Ryder is not a bad skater, but he's probably not up there with the game's elite. He's not a drop-the-gloves tough player, but he will venture into the dirty areas of the ice, from the corners to the front of the net.
But it's his shot, lightning quick and deadly accurate, that sets him apart from others.
"He's a pure goalscorer, plain and simple," said Henrique, who centres a line with Ryder and another Newfoundlander, Ryane Clowe of Fermeuse. "When we're working down low, we know he's going to find a little hole in the slot and if we can get him the puck, we have a great chance at scoring.
"We're trying to find that loose area where we know Rydes will be."
Circling around the ice, helmet low to his brow, almost shielding his eyes from opponents, Ryder is like a predator waiting to pounce, only in this instance, the bait is the puck and opposing goaltenders his prey.
And, in most cases, he needs only a split second to make the kill, or get the shot off, as it were.
"I was always shooting pucks, balls, whatever, when I was younger," he recalls. "I'd be down in the basement shooting all the time. Then I'd be out in the driveway.
"There were puck marks all over the door downstairs, so my parents finally got me a net for Christmas.
"Then I was shooting at that all day long."
Ryder has entered the Olympic break on a lengthy scoring skid, empty in his last 13 games. Before that, though, there were five goals in six games and earlier this year, four goals in five games. That came after an 11-game goalless streak.
Of course, that's been Ryder's M.O.
But when he's on, he can be lethal.
"When he's hot," Henrique said, "he can carry a team."
"He's just gotta keep shooting," New Jersey coach Pete DeBoer said. "There are a lot of streaky guys in this league. (Ex-Devil) David Clarkson was a similar-type guy. They score in bunches and when the pucks go in, they go in. And when they don't, they don't.
"If the chances start to dry up, I'll be really concerned, but I think he's getting quality looks."
"You just try to find the right areas where you're going to get a shot off," Ryder says. "You have to think when you're on the ice, where is the best place to get a shot off? Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't.
"It's hard to explain. You just read the play and try to anticipate what's going to happen and get to that spot. Then when I get a chance to shoot … I just use my shot. It's my bread and butter."
And for years, he's feasted on it.
Robin Short is The Telegram's Sports Editor.
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Phase II of the Health and Medical Research Strategic Review
13 December 2012
The discussion paper has been released and concludes phase II of the Wills Review. We are inviting a third round of submissions in response to the discussion paper by 21 January 2012.
We will also continue face-to-face interviews with invited stakeholders and will be facilitating additional consultation workshops.
The discussion paper and further information about the review can be found on the review website.


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Flash mob raises awareness about domestic violence
One Billion Rising is global movement against domestic violence
MADISON, Wis. - A movement to end domestic violence has people moving to music around the globe.
Already flash mobs have popped up in India, Brazil and New Zealand, and on Thursday, the event came to Madison.Flash mob raises awareness about domestic violence
They're part of "One Billion Rising," a call to action based on the fact that 1 billion women worldwide will be abused in their lifetime.
A boombox and interpretative dancers breathed sudden life into the usually quiet Hilldale Mall on Thursday, and the flash mob was over just as quickly. But it grabbed people's attention, as have recent news headlines about domestic violence incidents.
On Thursday, South African's beloved Olympian nicknamed "Blade Runner" was arrested, accused of shooting his girlfriend to death. In India, five men accused of gang-raping a woman who would die from her injuries are on trial.
Organizers said the flash mob at Hilldale Mall is bringing awareness to domestic violence that knows no borders.
"It's what I do on a daily basis and it's my way of healing after the loss of my sister Tracy and my niece Deja," said Lisa Blanchard, who usually speaks out about the 2009 Madison slayings, but silently stood watching the flash mob.
"I just to come and show my support with everything we've been through and to kind of give back support I've received," Blanchard said.
Another woman and her daughter died that day before the killer shot himself.
In January, a Madison husband killed his wife and then himself the night before they were set to finalize their divorce in Dane County court.Flash mob raises awareness about domestic violence
"Maybe because it's so ubiquitous we don't think about it as much because it has become so commonplace, but we need to really rattle our cages," said Patti Seger, executive director of Wisconsin's Coalition Against Domestic Violence.
The worldwide dancing is doing just that. One Billion Rising may be just a day-long movement, but it has a lifelong goal -- "a way to draw attention and celebrate the positive empowerment of women and girls and to not see us as victims, but as survivors," Seger said.
One Billion Rising is a first-of-its-kind event. And while most of the day's events are over, people can still sign up for next year, volunteer their services or donate to local agencies that help domestic violence victims.
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If a real #1 WR who is a playmaker doesn't convince you that this is our #1 need, after witnessing the game today, then nothing will convince you.
With some real playmakers in the passing game the dolphins win this game easily, against the worst road team in the NFL over the past several years... instead of coming an inch from losing and getting killed in total yardage and playmaking plays
Good luck with this WR & TE corps going up against real playoff defenses like Baltimore (see 2008 playoff game when miami got annihilated & embarrased with Ricky, Ronnie, Fasano, Bess, Martin, and Ginn).. or Houston (a team miami's offense only scored 3 pts on THIS SEASON) , or trying to keep up with the Patriots scoring ability in a playoff game
the dolphins would get annihilated and embarrassed in any playoff atmosphere against said teams when the intensity & gameplanning is turned up 2 notches. . Miami desperately needs some real playmakers at the TE and WR positions now that we have a QB.


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Crystal L. Burgess-Banfield
Crystal L. Burgess-Banfield, 44, of Platteville, died on Monday July 1, 2013 at home, with her family by her side, after a long battle with cancer.
Funeral services will be 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, July 9, 2013 at the Melby Funeral Home & Crematory, Platteville. Rev. Eric Erickson will officiate. Burial will be at Graceland Cemetery, Mineral Point. Friends may call from 4:00 – 8:00 p.m. on Monday, July 8, 2013 at the Melby Funeral Home & Crematory, or from 9:30 a.m. until the time of service on Tuesday. Memorials may be made to the Crystal L. Banfield Memorial Fund.
Online condolences may be made at www.melbyfh.com.
Crystal was born on March 30, 1969 in Dodgeville, Wisconsin, the daughter of Francis and Donna (Nelson) Burgess. Crystal enjoyed cross stich, crochet, knitting, riding motorcycles, and playing pool. She was the secretary and treasurer of the Platteville Pool League. She also enjoyed spending time with her grandkids and special friend.
She is survived by her three sons, Brandon Loken of Platteville; Dylan (Ashley Adams) Banfield of Platteville; Dalton Banfield of Platteville; and their father, Steven Banfield; grandchildren, Avayah Loken and Landon Banfield; parents, Francis and Donna Burgess of Mineral Point; two sisters; Emily (Jerry) Moon of Platteville; April (Buddy Simons) Giesen of Platteville; father-in-law, Denny Banfield; brothers and sisters-in-law; Roxanne Burgess of Lancaster; Denny (Paula) Banfield Jr.; Tina Banfield; Holly (Ted Ogden) Banfield; Mark (Shelly) Banfield; Tracy (Dan Hentrich) Banfield; Ryan (Darcy Kastner) Banfield; and many nieces, nephews, and cousins. She was preceded in death by her grandparents, Albert and Mary Lois Burgess; Amos and Bessie Nelson; brother, Corey Burgess; mother-in-law, JoAnn Banfield; nieces, Tilah Page and Destiny Burgess; and cousin, Jody Jackson.


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Need a different pizza flavoring for a get-together, try sauerkraut! It makes such a delicious combination.—The Fremont Company
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- 1 tube (13.8 ounces) refrigerated pizza crust
- 1 to 1-1/4 pounds Jones Dairy Farm All Natural Pork Sausage Roll
- 1 cup chopped onion
- 1-1/2 teaspoons fennel seed, divided
- 1 teaspoon dried oregano
- 1 teaspoon dried basil
- 1 garlic clove, minced
- 2 cups (8 ounces) shredded mozzarella cheese, divided
- 1 can (15 ounces) pizza sauce
- 1 can (14-1/2 ounces) Italian diced tomatoes, drained
- 1 can (14 ounces) sauerkraut, well drained
- 1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese
- Press pizza dough onto a lightly greased 14-in. round pizza pan. Bake at 450° for 4 minutes; set aside.
- In a large skillet, cook the sausage, onion, 1 teaspoon fennel seed, oregano, basil and garlic until the sausage is no longer pink and onion is tender; drain.
- Sprinkle crust with 1/2 cup mozzarella cheese. Spread with pizza sauce, sausage mixture, tomatoes, sauerkraut and remaining fennel seed and mozzarella. Sprinkle with Parmesan cheese.
- Bake at 450° for 18-20 minutes or until golden brown and bubbly. Let stand for 5 minutes before cutting. Yield: 6 servings.
Originally published as Sauerkraut Pizza in Country Woman September/October 1997, p40
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Reviewed Apr. 30, 2010
"Very good. I didn't use the canned tomatoes, just the sauce. Also, I used ground turkey instead of pork. It was still very good."
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"My family LOVES this pizza. Also try with Canadian bacon instead of sausage. Delish!"


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Despite just shooting 52 percent (14-27) from the free-throw line, the Pirates found a way to extend their record to 7-2 on the season in front on their home fans inside Minges Coliseum.
ECU led 61-59 when Tashan Newsome was fouled by Shamarr Bowden with two seconds remaining. After making the front end of a one-and-one, Newsome missed the second to seal the Runnin' Bulldogs fate.
Maurice Kemp was a rebound short of a double-double while scoring a game-high 22 points while Robert Sampson finished with 6 points and 15 rebounds.
The Pirates led for the vast majority of the game, but with 6:14 left in the second half, Donta Harper dunked on a fastbreak to give Gardner-Webb its first lead at 55-53.
The Runnin' Bulldogs were able to stay close and competitive by shooting 50 percent (9-18) on three-pointers. Harper led the team in scoring with 14 points while sharpshooters Kevin Hartley and Max Landis finished with 12 points.
Another factor that helped the visitors was turnovers. The Pirates raced out to a 20-8 in the first half when they uncharacteristically began giving the ball away. The Runnin' Bulldogs went on a 8-0 run and were able to stay within striking distance from that point on. At halftime, ECU had 11 turnovers and finished with 16.
The Pirates will go on the road to face a very talented Massachusetts team on Dec. 22 before returning home Dec. 29 to host NCAA bracket-buster Norfolk State.
Gardner-Webb drops to 7-6 on the season and will return home to entertain Spalding on Saturday.


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By NEMS Daily Journal
TUPELO – The Tupelo Social Security office will be open to the public Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. – a reduction of 30 minutes each weekday, starting Nov. 19.
In addition, beginning Jan. 2, the office will close to the public at noon every Wednesday.
While agency employees will continue to work regular hours, this shorter public window will allow them to complete face-to-face interviews and process claims without incurring the cost of overtime. The significantly reduced funding provided by Congress under the continuing resolution for the first six months of the fiscal year makes it impossible for the agency to provide the overtime needed to handle service to the public as it has done in the past.
In addition, all Social Security field offices will be closed to the public the day after Thanksgiving, Nov. 23. Employees working that day will focus on reducing backlogged workloads.
Most Social Security services do not require a visit to a local office, according to an office spokeswoman. Many services, including applying for retirement, disability or Medicare benefits, signing up for direct deposit, replacing a Medicare card, obtaining a proof of income letter or informing the office of a change of address or telephone number are available at www.socialsecurity.gov or by calling (800) 772-1213.


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