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The regular season culminated in two wins on Senior Night for Georgetown College women's and men's basketball. The Tigers scratched the St. Catharine Patriots and sealed their respective fates in the upcoming Mid-South Conference tournament in Frankfort.
The women are the No. 2 seed. The two other times the Tigers (21-8) have been in this position – 2001-02 and 2005-06 – they won the tournament. The road to the title will begin with a rubber match meeting with Bluefield College. Tip is set for 6 pm Thursday.
The men are the No. 3 seed. The Tigers (22-7) will also get a team it split with this season when they tip off at 8 pm Friday against No. 6 University of the Cumberlands (19-11). This is also a rematch of the title game from a year ago.
Both teams will remain the late game on semifinal Saturday. The women would tip at 4 pm against the winner of the Campbellsville University and University of the Cumberlands game, while the men would play at 8 pm against the University of Pikeville and St. Catharine winner. Finals are set with women at 2:30 pm and men at 5:30 pm.
The Tigers split the regular season games with the Rams, getting the most recent win at home 84-72. Both teams bring a different style of play to the table and whichever can enforce its will should have the upperhand.
Bluefield relies heavily on Tequila McNeal and Ashley White. Georgetown brings a more balanced attack with Devon Golden, Kourtney Tyra, Andrea Howard, Lizza Jonas and Devanny King. In the past several games, Tiger coach Andrea McCloskey has really seen her bench production step up as well.
"We are going to need everyone as we enter postseason," McCloskey said. "Our depth was a factor in our run at the national tournament this past year. I'm pleased to see the minutes we've been getting recently from Lindsay (Fultz), Jessica (Foster) and Haley (Armstrong). It will be key for everyone to be ready."
Georgetown heads into the tournament on a five-game winning streak and spent much of this season learning to play on the road. At times the Tigers have looked more comfortable outside of Davis-Reid Alumni Gym, including this past week's double-digit wins over Campbellsville and Lindsey Wilson.
They finished off the solid regular season with a sendoff to seniors Golden and Fultz and a big win over St. Catharine to avoid any tiebreaker conversation for second place.
During these past four-seasons, GC has yet to win a first round conference game. Golden and Fultz are ready for that streak to end and are looking to start another run deep into postseason. Getting the second seed may be just the right start. The Tigers are 2-0 at winning titles when being second in the conference.
Of course if anything can be learned from recent tournaments and the final week of this year's regular season is that nothing is predictable in the Mid-South Conference. Once you get past Cumberland University at the top, only a handful of games separate No. 2 through No. 6.
"This tournament is a mini national tournament," McCloskey said. "Without knowing this week's rankings yet, we currently have four teams in the Top 25 and two more receiving votes. We could realistically have five teams in the national tournament in the coming weeks.
"But our focus is this tournament. We need to take it a game at a time MJ (Melissa J Baker) does a really nice job with her team. We all know the Rams will want to come to this tournament and make their presence known as a new member. Hopefully we've learned from the past few years in this tournament as well as our experience at the national tournament."
For the full MSC tournament bracket, click here.
This is the first time Georgetown has been the No. 3 seed. The Tigers typically have been the top two seeds, but have been as low as the No. 6 seed in the 2000-01 tournament. They have only once missed advancing to the finals – 2004-05.
"Every year the Mid-South Conference is one of the best leagues in small college basketball," said GC coach Chris Briggs. "Anybody can win on any given night. You have to come ready to play."
Case in point, the final night of regular season action saw Campbellsville University defeat No. 4 Lindsey Wilson College in Columbia as well as University of Rio Grande beat Shawnee State, which is receiving votes.
The Tigers will get rival UC right out of the gate and it was a game against them in early January that really has helped push GC since then. Georgetown was 1-4 in conference play after losing in Williamsburg, but have responded by winning 13 of the final 15 league games including a sweep of University of Pikeville.
Injuries and illnesses have plagued this team, but Briggs hopes all of those struggles have brought his guys closer.
"When we play determined and focused, we've shown what type of team we can be," Briggs said. "No better time to display that than in postseason. We have a lot that we want to accomplish and if we play like we have for the better part of the past two months, we will be fine."
In almost a reverse situation, the Patriots took a mighty tumble following that win at home. Cumberlands has gone 5-10 in that stretch, falling from No. 1 in the country to not even receiving votes in the most recent poll. Their leader Antonio Bumpus missed a handful of those games due to injury and Briggs has no doubt that all regular season standings can be thrown out the window when the ball goes up Friday.
"It's Georgetown verse Cumberlands," Briggs said. "Nothing else will matter once play begins. This is a long standing rival. Coach (Donnie) Butcher is a Georgetown alum and the game means a lot to him as well."
Butcher, coach of the Patriots, was a Tiger in the mid-80s under then coach Jim Reid. This is his 13th season at the helm for Cumberlands.
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Never let it be said that I'm not a sucker for bread products. If it's new and it's doughy there is a better than average chance that it will end up in my supermarket trolley.
A while ago, I noticed a new product from Freyas, "sandwich thins". At that point the Silver Fox and I were working steadily through our soup stockpile and I was looking for something to have with my soupy lunch that wasn't just ordinary bread. I'd had a bit of that already and fancied something a little different. Given that I have a preference toward round foods (cakes and pies are generally of this shape, it should be noted), it's no great surprise that we picked up a pack (in doing so overlooking the grammatically questionable claim of 40 per cent less carbs). If this bready stuff was less carby than normal bread, then that was nice too but it wasn't our main reason for purchasing it.
I was noshing over some soup for lunch earlier this week, and had the Freyas with me as I'd brought the last of the sandwich thins with me that day. I had been aware of a small asterisk on the packet where the reduced carby-ness was mentioned. So what was the catch, I wondered?
As it turns out, the catch is to compare the thing you're marketing with something that has nearly twice the mass of that thing. Basically Freya's sandwich thins (one rounded bread thing slice in two) weighs 45g. The 40 per cent difference is largely explained by it being not as big as two normal slices of Freya's bread which weigh in at 84g.
To illustrate what's going on here, I made a graph. Because I like graphs even though the maths required to make them can sometimes make me a bit grouchy.
Basically by weight a bread product with 40 per cent fewer carbs than our standard two slices, if it has the same composition, would weigh in the vicinity of 52g. If the 40 per cent claim is true then a 45g serving of sandwich thins actually has the carb equivalent of a heavier product. What that means is that the composition of sandwich thins is MORE carby than that of normal bread.
And if all that doesn't twist your noodle a bit then you've got a much stronger grip on things than I do. I've puzzled over this so hard I may have actually burnt carbs in the process (yay, me!).
Which actually explains why sandwich thins, to my tastebuds, had a slightly sweet flavour to them. It's probably because they have more sugar.
So, I guess what I'm saying is, if you want a lower-carb bready thing to have with your soup, you should just have one slice of bread instead of two. You will immediately be consuming 50 per cent fewer carbs with your lunch. A. MAZ. ING.
Look, I know marketers will always accentuate the perceived positive in any product but I find it a bit rich that a product that gives the impression it's low carb is actually the opposite. The main feature of this product isn't that it has fewer carbs, it's that it's smaller. End of story.
Is it just me or has Freyas been a bit douchey with its marketing here?
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Haha I'm surprised it's taken this long for the marketing teams to promote products like this. "We've halved the product so you get half the fat!" It's never half the price though...
Yep I was laughing out loud at this marketing genius the other day. I do like the product, I bought the wholemeal ones and they sort of tasted like wholemeal english muffins. Mmm tasty. But the 40% less bread = 40% fewer carbs point of difference was most definitely not lost on me. I didn't go as far as figuring out that it's actually higher in carbs by percentage weight, but I am not surprised....
And the FGC says that the health marketing claims made on food packaging doesn't need more regulation. Yeah Right!
Well-spotted, well-analysed, and well-explained. And I agree - douchetastic ad there, Freya's!
Reminds me of an item in Notes from a Big Country by Bill Bryson (the funniest book ever BTW) where some cake maker was saying "only 20 calories per serve!!!". Hidden elsewhere was a recommended serving size so small you would have problems trying to cut it.
Wouldn't buy again, not impressed.
Yeaahhhhh...but can you toast them?
Misleading for sure.
Its a bit like Coke. (Not sure if they do it here, but they do in the States and Canada).
On the outside of the 593ml Coke bottle it says 5.6% of your daily calorie intake. Then if you read the back you will see that it contains 2.5 servings. I always wondered if Coke actually thought people bought a small Coke from a vending machine then drank it over three days...
I found the Thins to be quite doughy, like they weren't quite cooked thru. Wouldn't bother buying them again. Just stick to my toast bread
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So music's always been a huge part of your life.
That's correct.
You play it, you compose it, but you did other things, too, because in many cases, music and the arts don't always pay the bills.
Yeah, that's right. Initially, my primary interest was in writing music and I did earn an income of sorts by doing that. But I also discovered, and others discovered of me, that I had a certain talent for organizational-type stuff. So I was quickly catapulted into administrative or arts-administrative-type positions — promotion and marketing and event management and all that sort of thing. So that's kind of what put me in the not-for-profit sector, which I stayed in through many, many years.
I know Canadian Blood Services was one of them.
That actually was the last one. Executive Director at Manitoba Composers' Association would have been the first one. I was assistant to the Dean of the School of Music at the University of Manitoba. I was the Music and Touring Officer for the Manitoba Arts Council, and the next position then brought me to Brandon, which was in the Development Office at Brandon University where I worked as a development director. And just after that, I worked with Shari Decter Hirst in her company called Contract Solutions, which was in support of not-for-profits. Then I became involved with Canadian Blood Services and was there for a number of years. And now I work in a music store!
And how is that?
I love it!
Is it almost sort of the reward for slogging away — although you like the analytical stuff, too, you said — in jobs that didn't involve music as the primary focus? You're around music all the time now. I mean at Ted Good's, musicians congregate there, they learn there.
Yeah — I had sacrificed a lot doing all the other things and I don't regret that at all. I mean, it started out IN the arts and it was arts administration and I loved it and I recognized the need for it. I always felt torn because it took me away from what I always wanted to do myself artistically. But the skills are transferable — I think that once you do one thing in the not-for-profit sector, whether it be education, social, health, arts — you can move.
Well, you've proved that with all you've done! How long have you been at Good's?
It will be four years in August.
And do you teach, work in sales — everybody seems like they do everything over there.
I'm teaching an adult guitar course at Assiniboine Community College and I've been doing it for almost four years now through Continuing Education. And that has been a LOT of fun! And I think quite honestly I can say I learn as much from the students as maybe they learn from me. It's a real joy.
So at the store then you sell equipment, test it out, get to know it — all kinds of stuff?
Yeah — everything. Sales, service, repairs, rentals, and assisting with the teaching stuff when needed. But that doesn't happen too often.
Do you have a primary instrument or do you play a lot of them?
No — I would have to say my primary instrument is guitar, definitely.
I'd like to talk about your composing. Have you been doing it all along?
Well, I tried to almost, if you will, lead a sort of dual life for a long, long time. But once we started a family and as the kids were getting older, it became increasingly more difficult for me, just because that's my nature and personality — I can't throw a switch and be super-creative in an instant. So I let it slide and started getting involved in other things, which was fine. But I was never afraid that I would lose it in the sense that if I stopped writing, I wouldn't ever be able to write again.
I find, as a singer, that if I don't have a gig coming up, I don't really practice very much, if at all. But when something is in the offing, I really buckle down and get to work. So did you have other commissioned works? I was just intrigued that you offered to create this piece for the Brandon Community Orchestra.
I've composed some stuff for Fingal's Last Pint, the Celtic group that I play with here in town. And the two that I liked best I used for the orchestral pieces for the community orchestra.
So you approached the Brandon Community Orchestra or they approached you…?
Bill Robinson, the former owner of Ted Good Music, plays trumpet in the orchestra, and he was always in the store first thing Saturday morning warming up on his trumpet and then going off to community orchestra rehearsal. And we were just chatting one day, and I had just finished a project that kind of got me back to composition, so I was ready for an idea! And it just occurred to me while talking to Bill that that might be a possibility.
So I kind of threw it out there and he got quite excited about it and said that I should most definitely talk with Chris McConnell, the conductor. And that's what happened. I know Chris from my very first year at Brandon University because he was at the School of Music as well — one of the more senior students, whereas I was a new student.
So I contacted Chris — I don't know if he knew right away what it was all about, but we got together over a cup of coffee and we chatted about it and he listened to some of my music and took it from there.
That's great! Now why did you want to do this, and why for the community orchestra?
I hadn't written anything for an orchestra in quite a while, and one of the things I love doing — one of the things I've always loved doing when I was studying composition — was the orchestrating part of it. Because it's a lot like painting. You might have a picture, but what are you going to do with the colour in the picture and all that sort of thing? You have a palette in an orchestra which you just don't get in any other type of ensemble. So I really like that — I really get excited about that.
And then the second part of that would be over the years, especially when my kids were younger and taking lessons, I was writing pieces for THEM to play.
Cool! That's neat!
They were a bit beyond your usual educational-type repertoire and they did have some success in festivals and that sort of thing. So I always like that idea that there's all kinds of different musical things going on at all different kinds of levels. And your job as a composer is to be able to write a great piece, or as good as you can make it, for whatever that outlet is.
And the idea of the community orchestra, I thought was just great because a lot like my adult class at the college, here were people who get together every Saturday and work hard on learning pieces for concerts because they love it. So I wanted to take that same feeling and attitude and put it into writing something for them to play.
Wow! And you said the pieces for the orchestra were drawn from two of your favourite pieces that you'd written for your Celtic group?
Yes. The first piece is called 'Fingal's Last Pint' and the second piece is called 'Fingal's Awakening.'
I can only presume these were based on stories of some sort. Where did the ideas come from?
A friend of mine from Nova Scotia told me the story of a sleeping giant that was legendary in the Maritimes. The story, he said, was used to warn noisy children at bedtime to be quiet and go to sleep so as not to awaken the giant. The giant is Fingal, an Irish-Scottish mythical creature, who is cast as the guardian of good behaviour.
Will it be exciting for you to hear these pieces at the concert?
Yes — absolutely!
And why? Why is that a thing for a composer? Because you have no way of having it come to life — it's just notes on a page until you hear it?
Yeah — it breathes life into it, right? And the excitement of live performance, too. And they'll do a great job of it. Chris is so enthusiastic and he's been so supportive. I don't know if they've ever done this kind of thing before. So I hoped that he felt it would be kind of an achievement for him in his tenure with the orchestra.
Now will this be a springboard, do you think, to doing other things for other orchestras, or at least more for the BCO?
Absolutely. I don't think I'll ever stop wanting to write music. Time is obviously always a factor, of course. But right now, the timing was right for me to basically try and build my days entirely around all things related to music. And that includes writing.
So I'm just not sure today what the next project's going to be. But unlike previous times when I had written, I don't have the stressor of 'I need another commission' or 'I've got to meet this deadline' — that sort of thing. It's kind of a privilege to be able to write music knowing it's not your bread and butter entirely. Because honestly, I think everybody knows and appreciates that that's a very, very tough go.


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Dermalogica Ultracalming Super Sensitive Shield SPF 30+ (what a mouthful!) uses 9% Zinc Oxide and 7% Titanium Dioxide. For everyday wear (not sports or intensive UV exposure situations) this provides a reasonably good UVA and UVB cover, excellent photostability and safety profile. I would like to see most of the 16% as Zinc Oxide (it is the gold standard, is more photostable than Titanium Dioxide, and interestingly has less of a white cast) but I'm probably nit picking here. A good heavy duty sunscreen for sports I like to use when running is the Invisible Zinc 50+ 4Hrs Water Resistant Sunscreen (swatched below)
The Ultracalming Super Sensitive Shield sunscreen has a light fluid texture, which is quite easy to spread and sits well under makeup. There is a slight shininess after application, but once foundation is applied this is hardly noticable. There is a moderate amount of white cast on my light-medium skin, but again once foundation is applied this is not noticable. Overall a fairly elegant physical sunscreen formulation that works well as an everyday sunscreen.
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Since the Invisible Zinc 50+ version of their usual Water Resistant Sunscreen became available some time last year, it has become my go-to sunscreen for long runs. It's very similar to the original 4hr Water Resistant SPF 30+ in terms of formulation, skin feel, and performance on the skin- but with 27% Zinc Oxide, instead of 22%.
Just like the original, the SPF 50+ version uses mineral sunscreen blockers only- Zinc Oxide is the gold standard for broad spectrum UVA/UVB protection, photostability, and safety (no hormone disruption or sensitization which can be associated with certain chemical sunscreen ingredients). Because it has a higher Zinc percentage, the SPF and UVA protection is better than the original- but due to the heavier texture, it is very much a sports sunscreen.
This formulation is definitely not designed for every day wear- it has a noticable white cast, the texture is very thick (thicker than the 30+ version), and it has a shiny finish. None of these things matter when you're out for a run – all I want from my sunscreen is something that will go the distance (pun intended) and protect me the entire hour or two I'm sweating it out. And the Invisible Zinc 50+ Water Resistant sunscreen does the job easily and I don't have to worry about poor photostability at all. This stuff hangs on until you scrub it off in the shower with steel wool- or alternatively OCM and a washcloth 🙂
My next review will be the Dermalogica Ultra Calming Sensitive Shield SPF 30+ – which is a great everyday sunscreen. Stay tuned!
Dermalogica Super Sensitive Shield SPF 30+ (left) Invisible Zinc 50+ 4Hrs Water Resistant Sunscreen (right)
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Taking up where I left off with my sunscreen review series last summer, I want to share with you a product that I have been using almost daily since I first tried it. The Invisible Zinc UV Silk Shield is a stick foundation with physical (not chemical) blockers, from a company that is dedicated to producing safe and effective UV protection.
Interestingly I've recently found out that through some phone calls to Invisible Zinc that this product isn't marketed as a 'sunscreen' product, it's a cosmetic product with added SPF, which is why the percentage of Zinc Oxide is not listed anywhere on the packaging or marketing (took me dozens of phone calls and emails to get the exact percentage from the manufacturer). More on that further in the post.
Invisible Zinc says…
This natural finish foundation-meets-sunscreen is the new one-step, day-to-night make-up with award winning Invisible Zinc® SPF30+ environmental protection built in. Preventing photo-aging has never looked so good. Glides on in seconds (no liquids, powders or concealers) for all day, gym-proof, swim-proof perfect looking skin. Apply buildable coverage for a flawless complete crème to powder finish- your beauty routine just got very simple. Available in Light/ Highlighter, Medium and Tan.
Price: $42.00
Availability: Selected pharmacies, department stores, and www.invisiblezinc.com
The Invisible Zinc UV Silk Shield has approximately 13% micronised Zinc Oxide. Zinc Oxide gives broad spectrum protection and has excellent photostability (doesn't easily break down in presence of UV light), but due to the lower concentration of Zinc Oxide in this product compared with what I would recommend for daily use, it needs to be used together with another dedicated sunscreen for optimal UVA protection.
Like all Invisible Zinc products, the UV Silk Shield uses only physical blockers (staying clear of chemical filters) and does not contain petrochemicals, parabens, or photosensitizing agents (like Vitamin A derivatives and citrus family essential oils).
note: not sure about the difference between chemical and physical, UVA and UVB, and what SPF really means? go to my Sunscreen Lowdown Part 2.
Here is the excerpt from an email sent to me from the people behind Invisible Zinc products, which I thought I would pass on to you guys…
The UV Silk Shield feels like a matte- satin finish foundation. Unlike other stick foundations that I've tried, this one goes on easily and blends quite well into my skin without feeling dry or heavy. Impressive. To be completely honest, I never expected this product to work well on my dry skin- given that stick foundations generally make me look cakey, so I'm happy that this works so well on me.
This product works well over the top of other sunscreens, and will actually reduce some of the greasiness associated with certain sunscreen products.
The UV Silk Shield has virtually no white cast, however the colours matches are limited to 3 colours so that can be a potential problem for some.
On my skin, the Invisible Zinc Tinted Daywear doesn't sit nearly as nicely as the UV Silk Shield. It looks and feels quite greasy, even when I don't moisturise first. It comes as quite a surprise that for someone with dry skin- I much prefer the skin feel of the UV Silk Shield over the Tinted Daywear.
I know a number of people who love the Tinted Daywear, and I think it's probably all down to how the product interacts with each individual person.
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Pratima is a New York based skin care company with roots in Ayuverdic medicine, and their Neem Rose sunscreen is a popular product among sunscreen fanatics. Pratima only ships within the U.S. , but I really wanted to try it for my sunscreen review series-so I ended up getting it parcel forwarded along with a Sephora purchase. I'm glad I tried this because it's one of the most elegantly formulated Zinc Oxide sunscreens I've used.
price: $18.00 2fl oz/60ml
availability: www.pratimaskincare.com
The Pratima Neem Rose Sunscreen has 18.6% micronised Zinc Oxide which gives good UVA and UVB protection and excellent photostability (doesn't easily break down in presence of UV light). Not the highest % of Zinc Oxide out there (Marie Veronique Moisturising Face Screen, Soleo Organic and Invisible Zinc have 20- 22.4% ) , but 18.6% is still reasonable.
The Pratima only use physical blockers (staying clear of chemical filters) and does not contain petrochemicals, parabens, or photosensitizing agents (like Vitamin A derivatives and citrus family essential oils).
note: not sure about the difference between chemical and physical, UVA and UVB, and what SPF really means? go to my Sunscreen Lowdown Part 1.
The majority of physical sunblocks available are either greasy and heavy, or heavy and drying; Pratima is none of those things. The Pratima Rose Sunscreen is lightly moisturising with a creamy, lotiony texture and probably the most elegant formulation I've come across. It goes on silky and after application there is no greasiness on the skin, no shine, and no tackiness (which is BurnOut Physical Ocean Tested Sunscreen's achilles heel).
The Pratima Neem Rose sunscreen has virtually no white cast, much like the BurnOut sunscreens.
This sunscreen doesn't seem last long on the face when you're exercising, so it's more of an everyday sunscreen rather than a sports sunscreen.
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In the last few months I've been hitting the pool more regularly thanks to Healthy Summer 2011/2012 goals.
Here are a few things that I've learnt along the way about a) protecting my hair and skin from sun/chlorine b) waterproofing my makeup so even if I tend to look like a drowned rat in the water, at least I'll be a well groomed rat. This is especially crucial if I am at the beach and there are good looking lifeguards around 🙂
Makeup Forever Waterproof Eyebrow Corrector #4 (dark brown black)
price: RPP US $19.00 or, approx $39.00 from Australian stockists
Although not as exciting as the Chanel Illusion D'Ombres, or NARS lipglosses, this modest product is probably THE standout cosmetic item of 2011 for me. I have very light and sparse brows so I was thrilled to finally find a product that stays on my brows through intense cardio as well as long swims.
Becca Beach Tints:
price: RRP AUS $42.00, or US $24 at Apothica.com
Becca is an Australian brand with strong roots in beach culture, so it's not a surprise that they have some fantastic products to keep you looking cute in the water. I wouldn't necessarily bother with these for laps at the local pool, but I'd have a tube in my handbag (for those lifeguards we discussed).
The Beach Tints take 5 seconds to apply, and clings on to cheeks and lips through hours of swimming and frolicking.
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See guys if you look into it a little more it's not "the Devil" so much is it?? I'm not going to argue Mr. Reds point because he seems to know more than i do about welding and cutting as far as real life experience goes. Ican do both but nowhere near on a proffesional level. That being said, how important is acetylene welding? I run a fill plant and welding supply store and really don't know that many people who weld with acetylene. Most of my customers use stick, MIG, or TIG setups so this is an area I'm unfamiliar with. To be honest, yes i am working on becoming a distributor for this gas. That's not my intentions for posting as I've stated numerous times. I do want to learn about the product I plan to sell so it's nice getting more opinions and what features would be good points and what features would be drawbacks. And thanks to the guy who posted the link. I got deleted for that (not to argue i know there are rules) so maybe more will read on it and give me some feedback. By the way I got a call from Carbide Industries today. Ican have up to 4 tons the end of next week..........at DOUBLE THE PRICE I WAS PAYING!!!!!! That means I would have to jack my distributors up another $10 a hundred cf. And I still only break even. That trickles down to almost double the price for the end user and my direct sale/walk in customers!!!! They say that will continue for at least a year until they get their plant rebuilt. They are having to rely on overseas sources as well. But i made great progress in securing a decent load for myself and a few more producers like me in Illinois and other areas so maybe in a month I can give Airgas and Western a run for the money!!
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Nominated For 6 Academy Awards including
Best Picture,
Best Supporting Actor (Dev Patel and Actress (Nicole Kidman),
Best Cinematography,
Best Original Score and
Best Adapted Screenplay
Genre: Drama
Rating: PG 118' mild themes
Cast: Dev Patel, Rooney Mara, David Wenham and Nicole Kidman.
Director: Garth Davis
Writer: Luke Davies, based on the non-fiction book A Long Way Home by Saroo Brierley
Based on the true story of Saroo Brierley, LION was adapted for the screen by Luke Davies from Saroo's autobiography "A Long Way Home". At the age of five, Saroo was lost on a train which took him thousands of kilometers across India, away from home and family. Saroo survived alone on the streets of Kolkata, before ultimately being adopted by Tasmanian couple, Sue and John Brierley. Twenty five years later, armed with only a handful of memories, his unwavering determination, and the revolutionary technology Google Earth, he set out to find his lost family and finally return to his first home.
Reviews: "Kudos to Kidman, whose unglam, unguarded take on the role is emotionally powerful and true; her scenes with Patel provide just the right blend of grit and grace. Lion is one from the heart." – Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
"Loss and belonging are the themes of this incredible true story; it is the simplicity of the storytelling that brings it to life. Most crucial is the establishment of the Indian reality"
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Give Bees a Chance
New York, NY —
Give bees a chance -- so says a group of renegade beekeepers. They want the city to legalize beekeeping instead of fining people up to $2,000 for tending a hive.
Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer declared his support for beekeeping, which he says is a step toward a greener city.
STRINGER: Free the bees, create honey, create jobs, protect our environment and let's create a real buzz on what is going to be the new movement.
The City Council has yet to hold a hearing on the beekeeping bill, but its sponsor, Councilman David Yassky, says he hopes it'll get some traction in the next few months.


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Jewish Communal Service Association of North America (JCSA), National Conference of Jewish Communal Service, Spring 1969
Topic: Black-Jewish Relations, Social Justice, Communal Responsibility, Racism, Poverty
Name of Publication: Journal of Jewish Communal Service
Editor: Sherman, Sanford N.
Volume/Issue: Vol. 45/No. 3
Page Number(s): 267-273
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Coverage: St. Louis, Missouri , United States
Language: English
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IEA Exchange - Exchange of knowledge for Integrated Ecosystem Assessment
MOMICO - Implementation of a time-¬series MOnitoring programme on MIcrobial phylogenetic COmposition
Social transformations of marine social-ecological systems
Can pelagic gastropods be used to assess the impacts of ocean acidification?
Study of micronecton and macrozooplankton with a broadband echosounder
Developing species specific Heat Shock Protein (HSP) sequences for the invasive round goby to assess their environmental stress in the Baltic Sea
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IF YOU are given lemons, the saying goes, make lemonade. But what can you do with 400 million litres of raw sewage? As it turns out, plenty.
Brad McLean, business improvement manager at Werribee's Western Treatment Plant, says it is all a matter of perspective - disposing of human waste is not a problem but an opportunity. ''It's saying 'we have sewage, it's a resource. How do we make best use of that resource?','' he said.
The answer came in the form of electricity. Western Treatment Plant is being powered - for want of a better word - by poo.
In the early 1990s, hoping to reduce the number of odour complaints from nearby residents, the plant installed covers on its main sewage lagoon. They were very effective and also captured a large amount of biogas, Mr McLean said. So they took ''the gas'' to the market.
''The reality is we're good at sewage treatment and we needed a partner who was good at power generation,'' he said. By 1998, the plant had signed a contract with energy company AGL to harness the gas and produce electricity for the site.
''When we first set up we were probably producing around 10 per cent and then as we upgraded the treatment processes, added more components to it and brought more flow through the covered lagoons, we then increased our gas production,'' Mr McLean said.
The plant - which treats roughly half of Melbourne's sewage - now generates 95 per cent of its power from sewage biogas.
''We typically generate 7-8 megawatts of electricity,'' Mr McLean said, adding it was equivalent to powering 15,000 houses ''We can broadly balance out what we consume and what we generate.''
Works are now under way to replace old covers and expand the scale of the operation.
John Myers, the manager of design and development, said that when the project was finished in early 2014, 100,000 square metres of raw sewage would become a covered biogas farm.
''The cover is about 450 metres long by about 220 metres wide - the equivalent of four MCGs,'' he said.
The high-density polyethylene covers are being built in 11 compartmentalised segments so individual sections can be taken offline for maintenance or cleaning without affecting power generation or odour control. They will have a lifespan of 20 years.
Beyond the biogas success story, the plant is well-known as one of the most popular bird-watching sites in Victoria, and it is listed as a protected wetland, home to a range of endangered flora and fauna. It also produces 40 billion litres of recycled water each year.
For these reasons and more, Mr Myers says he's proud to work at WTP. It's surprising how giving raw sewage can be.
"One of our workers a few days ago found a $50 note in one of the lagoons," he said, "so there's some fringe benefits at times for the guys working on the job, if they're prepared to do it."


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Program Details
- Award: Bachelor of Fine Arts
- Credits: 120
- Delivery: Face-to-face where some online courses may be available or required.
- WIOA Certified
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- Ceramics, Credits: 28
- Photography, Credits: 24
- Drawing and Illustration, Credits: 24
- Painting, Credits: 24
- Printmaking, Credits: 24
- Sculpture, Credits: 24
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Channel 4's The Big Fish Fight has provided some very interesting viewing recently, although I'm not completely sure that it has convinced the public about exactly what they should and shouldn't be eating.
Fishmongers, supermarkets and restaurants are really going to have to address the question of what type of fish they are selling – and I imagine that some of them are going to be caught out with the wrong fish. Fish2fork (fish2fork.com) is a great campaigning guide for those who want to eat fish sustainably, pointing customers towards restaurants who care about the issue, and steering them away from those who don't give a flying fish about the ocean! At Selfridges, we are going to be working with the Blue Marine Foundation (bluemarinefoundation.com), the charity set up by the producers of the pioneering film The End of the Line. We will also be serving the Oyster and Fish House menu at Selfridges to give the whole campaign a bit of clout.
The potential problem with all of this is that we don't want it to backfire – I remember that nearly a decade ago we were all told to eat hoki instead of cod, and sadly by 2006 it was clear that hoki had been overfished and had become an endangered species!
Whiting ceviche
Serves 4
You rarely see whiting on menus as it's deemed to be a bit third-division and only fit for the cat bowl. Rather like mackerel, it hasn't got a great shelf-life once it's out of the water, compared to, say, a bass or a sole. However, it is perfect for fish and chips or goujons or chopped up fresh and raw like this in the form of a ceviche.
250-300g very fresh whiting fillet, skinned, boned and cut into approximate cm dice
Juice of 3 limes
1tbsp of soda or mineral water
1tbsp olive oil
Salt and freshly ground white pepper
2 plantains
Vegetable or corn oil for deep frying
For the garnish
Half a red pepper, seeded and finely diced
Half a red onion, peeled, seeded and finely diced
1 large medium spiced green chilli, seeded and finely chopped
2tbsp chopped fresh coriander
Preheat about 8cm of the corn or vegetable oil to 160-180C in a large thick-bottomed saucepan or electric deep-fat fryer. Meanwhile, slice the plantain lengthways (with the skin on) with a mandolin about a fifth of a centimetre thick. Deep-fry for about 3-4 minutes or until crisp, turning the plantains with a slotted spoon during cooking, then transfer on to kitchen paper; scatter with a little salt. Mix the lime juice with the soda water and olive oil and mix with the fish; season to taste. Cover with clingfilm and refrigerate for about 20 minutes.
Either mix the garnish ingredients together or serve in separate little dishes. Arrange the fish with the juice in individual bowls, or a large one to share, with the plantain in a basket; serve with the garnish.
Sardines with potato and cumin salad
Serves 4
Pilchard and sardine fishing is a part of Cornish heritage and the two names can be easily confused – in the UK, sardines are officially classified as small pilchards and sardines used to be called pilchards once they were canned. But Cornish sardines now enjoy protected food status and the word "sardine" (evoking Mediterranean holidays) is more appealing to the public than "pilchard" (which calls to mind the canned variety). Whatever you want to call it, the fresh sardine or pilchard can be cooked either whole or as fillets and served in the same way that you would a mackerel or herring.
8-12 sardines or pilchards, filleted
A little flour for dusting
A little vegetable or corn oil for frying
For the potato salad
3 medium shallots, peeled, halved and finely chopped
One-third of a tsp ground cumin
1tsp cumin seeds
100ml chicken or vegetable stock
30ml cider or white wine vinegar
400g large new potatoes, peeled cooked and cut into cm slices
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
1tbsp parsley, finely chopped
30-40ml olive or rapeseed oil
First prepare the potatoes: in a pan, simmer the shallots, ground cumin and seeds, two-thirds of the vegetable stock and the white wine vinegar until almost completely reduced.
Add the sliced potatoes and the rest of the stock, stir well, cover and cook gently over a low heat for another 4-5 minutes, giving an occasional stir. The liquid should have almost disappeared and the potatoes should be falling apart a little. Stir in the olive oil and parsley and replace the lid to keep warm.
Heat a little vegetable oil in preferably a non-stick frying pan, season the sardine fillets and very lightly flour the skin. Fry the fillets for a couple 0f minutes on the skin side on a medium heat until crisp, then flip them over and finish cooking for 30 seconds or so; then remove from the pan and drain on some kitchen paper. To serve, spoon the potato salad on to warmed serving plates and arrange the fillets on top.
Megrim sole with brown shrimps and capers
Serves 4
I've been serving megrim sole for years and the big question is whether it's going to become the new lemon sole. In France, you will find it on the fishmongers' slabs as cardine and in Spain it's known as gallo; over there it's as popular a fish as our Dover and lemon soles. Megrim is certainly in abundance in the West Country (along with Torbay and witch soles) but on restaurant menus I think it will take a little time for it to gain popularity with diners. It can be treated in exactly the same way as other soles and it will almost certainly cost a fraction of the price.
4 megrim soles weighing about 250-300g with the fins and black skin removed
Plain flour for dusting
A couple of tablespoons of vegetable or corn oil
100g unsalted butter
80g peeled brown shrimps
2tbsp capers, washed
Juice of half a lemon
2tbsp finely chopped parsley
Salt and freshly ground white pepper
Season the soles and lightly flour the white skin side. Heat some vegetable oil in a heavy or non-stick frying pan and cook the soles with the skin side down – first for 3-4 minutes on each side on a medium heat, adding a knob of butter for the last couple of minutes of cooking, until they are golden. You may need to cook the soles in a couple of batches, depending on your frying pans.
Once the soles are cooked, heat the rest of the butter in a small frying pan until it begins to foam and stir in the shrimps, capers, parsley and lemon juice and remove from the heat.
To serve, lay the soles on warmed serving plates and spoon the shrimps and butter over.
Crispy coley, bacon and horseradish salad
Serves 4
I've served coley at formal dinners for 100 people: it turned into a real talking point.
A piece of streaky bacon, or pancetta weighing 200-250g with the rind removed
200-250g coley fillet, skinned and boned
Vegetable or corn oil for deep frying
2-3tbsp Dove's Farm gluten-free self-raising flour
A handful of small salad and herb leaves such as watercress, rocket, chives, chervil, flat parsley etc
1tbsp freshly grated horseradish
For the dressing
1tbsp cider vinegar
2tsp Tewkesbury or Dijon mustard
2tbsp rapeseed oil
2tbsp corn oil
Put the bacon into a pan of cold water, bring to the boil and simmer gently for about 45 minutes to an hour, or until tender, then leave to cool. Once cool, cut into 2cm cubes. Whisk the ingredients together for the dressing and season.
Preheat about 8cm of oil to 160-180C in a large thick-bottomed saucepan or electric deep-fat fryer. Heat a little vegetable oil in a frying pan and cook the bacon on a medium heat for 6-7 minutes, turning the pieces as they are cooking, until crisp; drain on kitchen paper; keep warm. Cut the coley into similar-sized chunks to the bacon. In a bowl, mix the flour with enough cold water to make a batter and season well. Mix the pieces of fish with the batter and deep-fry in a couple of batches until crisp, then drain on some kitchen paper. Arrange the leaves, bacon and coley and top with the grated horseradish on serving plates; spoon over the dressing.
See the Marine Conservation Society ( mcsuk.org), the Marine Stewardship Council ( msc.org), Fish2Fork ( fish2fork.com)
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1 man dead after long standoff at NM apartment
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Authorities say a man is dead after a more than four-hour standoff at an Albuquerque apartment complex.
Albuquerque police officers went to the apartment in the far Northeast Heights on [auth] Tuesday morning after receiving information that a man who fired shots at officers Sunday night was there.
SWAT teams from New Mexico State Police, Albuquerque police and the Bernalillo County Sheriff's Office shot numerous tear gas canisters into the apartment as two men refused orders to come outside.
The Albuquerque Journal says one of the men surrendered after authorities fired an initial volley of gas into the apartment.
Hours later, authorities say the second man exited the apartment holding a gun.
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A few weeks back we spoke with Intel's Walter Shands on using Intel VTune Amplifier 2013 to optimize HMMER, a molecular biology package, written in Fortran. The main point outlined in Shand's Intel webinar October 16: VTune Amplifier can significantly improve multicore performance of algorithmically complex, purpose-specific code while guarding against the introduction of errors — even where the science (and algorithmic fine points) might be obscure to the person doing the optimizing.
This 'black box' notion of performance optimization is pragmatic and economically efficient in a global scientific and engineering computing milieu where good code has legs, gets broadly shared, and access to original authors and maintainers may be limited. Recent news (see below) hammers home the point — much of the juice in HPC and multicore – whether we're talking about optimizing in code or in hardware — needs to be squeezed out at levels remote from code semantics.
Disk I/O Slows Performance
In the process of optimizing HMMER, though, Shands hit a wall about as remote to code semantics as it gets; he determined that HMMER's main loop was I/O bound. No matter how much he optimized the object code with VTune, performance was gated by how fast test data could be loaded from disk. In our pre-webinar interview, he predicted developers and implementers would increasingly encounter this limitation as products like Xeon Phi make it easier to bring 'big' scientific and engineering applications to more affordable platforms.
That's yet another reason to like Intel's recent announcement of a new generation of Solid State Disk (SSD) drives, aimed at HPC (high-performance computing) and 'big data' applications. The new Intel SSD DC S3700 series is a 6GB/s SATA-compatible drive, available in 2.5" footprints up to 800GB and 1.8" up to 400GB, able to read from sequentially at 500MB/s and push out 75,000 4K blocks on random reads, and about half that on random writes (75000/36000 IOPS). Intel has engineered the drive to overcome cost vs. performance issues historically associated with solid-state – using 25nm process Multi-Level Cell (MLC) technology for high storage density, faster writes, reduced error rates and to extend endurance to an impressive ten full content-writes per day over a projected five-year device service lifespan – ideal for enterprise and scientific apps.
NAG Update for Multicore
The idea of long code provenance is well reflected in two other news items. First, Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG) has just released a version of the NAG Library for SMP and Multicore for the 60-core Xeon Phi. This library, founded in 1970 to compile inter-university work in numerical algorithms, incorporates contributions from several generations of mathematicians. The history of NAG and its contributors is deeply linked, well worth reading, and reminds us that the term 'legacy' – often used in computing as a swipe against outmoded code or hardware — can also have very positive associations.
SC12 Kickoff, Student Cluster Competition
The second item: this week kicks off the Supercomputing (SC12) show in Salt Lake City – one highlight of which (both for participants and their sponsoring vendors) is the Student Cluster Competition. Over several days, six-person teams from colleges around the world will compete to assemble and configure their best designs (submitted for approval in April) for a high-performance/low-power-drain cluster, install software and run benchmark datasets against four well-known scientific computing packages – shooting for optimal throughput within the contest's 26W energy budget.
Though student teams had some pre-contest support of HPC specialists from the institutions (e.g., Oak Ridge National Laboratory) supporting the packages, once the contest begins, they are on their own. So this is a nice portrayal – over several long, and no-doubt, harrowing, days – for how platforms can and must be engineered and optimized around black-box codes. Good luck to all participants – we'll talk about the winners when they're announced.


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dukedom_enough and his 2012 reading
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Books read
The Caryatids by Bruce Sterling
A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Available Dark by Elizabeth Hand
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Currently reading:
Under the Moons of Mars by Sam Moskowitz
By Light Alone by Adam Roberts
After the Apocalypse by Maureen F. McHugh
Happy New Year to all, and to another edition of Club Read!
I gave some thought to naming this thread "dukedom_enough under the moons of Mars," to note the centenary of Edgar Rice Burroughs' "Under the Moons of Mars," later A Princess of Mars. This is the source for the upcoming movie, John Carter. Also, the Library of America is publishing a nice edition of the novel with a Junot Diaz introduction. But, after considering the racist and imperialist associations of Burroughs' book, I decided not to use the title. I do expect to take the opportunity to reread it, if only to have things to say about the movie when it comes out in March.
I have a number of books that I'm in the middle of, and will try to keep an up to date list of those, if only to keep my post count up!
Thank you!
Finished The Caryatids, no review yet.
>2 dukedom_enough: - feel as if I should read a Burroughs for his centenary but not quite sure what to choose - common sense suggests it should either be A Princess of Mars or Tarzan of the Apes but I've always had a soft spot for his lost world novels.
And life's too short to try to reread everything. If you want to be up to date when John Carter comes out, Princess would be good, but of course it's good to read what you liked, too.
The Carytids by Bruce Sterling
Women hold up half the sky. But what if the sky is something to fear?
Once, there were seven of them, seven identical sisters, all clones of their sinister mother, being raised to wield power in the mid twenty first century. One of the many, bloody conflicts stemming from the world climate crisis killed three, and scattered the remaining four across the globe, while their mother retreated to an orbital habitat. As we meet each, we see another view of the high-tech, devasted world of 2065, a decade after their parting.
Vera has joined a project to reclaim, from environmental damage, the Adriatic Sea island where she and her sisters were raised. She works with intrusive neural technologies that enhance people's capabilities while leaving them no privacy. Radmila has married into a wealthy, civic-minded Los Angeles show-business dynasty, selling distraction to the global media. Sonja has lived in China, Earth's last true nation-state, working to rescue the survivors of terrible droughts and other disasters. Biserka - well, Biserka causes a great deal of trouble for the other three.
All Sterling's usual interests are here: the strangeness of social and technological trends we take for granted, the contrast beween how things work and how we think about them, the possible forms posthumanity might take, the ferocious consequences of ignoring climate change, the love of a good one-liner:
Radmila walked the artificial beach, vamped before the floating cameras, and gazed into the sun-glittering Pacific. Six lunatics were surfing out there. For the life of her, Radmila could not understand surfers in Los Angeles. Obviously riding on a wave was a nice stunt performance, but inside the ocean? There were whole chunks and shoals of broken China bobbing around out there, all glass, nails, slime, and toxic jellyfish.
Radmila was looking sexy today, as contractually required. Looking sexy was a basic theatrical craft. [...]
Certain men direly wanted to have sexy sex with professionally beautiful women: sex with the stars. Those men were delusionary. Sex with a star was an awful idea, like having sex with a rosebush. You were not supposed to get in bed with a rosebush.
Environmental terror and a witty observation in one short passage. For an observation on posthumanity, take this exchange between Radmila's husband and Vera, who, like everyone in her project, voluntarily wears a brain-scanning helmet for operating machinery and monitoring herself and others:
Montalban looked at her soberly. "You really look a lot prettier without that canteen on your head."
"Scanning helps me. It is a powerful tool."
"That," said Montalban, "is why that tool has been restricted to a very small group of users in an otherwise hopeless situation."
She could see that her tears were affecting him strongly. His face had grown much softer. He looked thoughtful and handsome, truly sympathetic. He looked at her as if he loved her more than anything in the world.
"If you never scan your own brain," said Vera, wiping at her cheeks, "how do you know what you feel about all this?"
I'm not sure if Sterling means this as satire. We do misunderstand our own motivations, and maybe that'd be harder with a continuously updated display of what major brain centers show about our emotions. Here as always, Sterling is brilliant on envisioning the profound (or are they?) changes wrought by technology.
But the focus of the novel remains on the women, who are all, really, unreliable narrators. Just behind them, a bit out of focus but present, is a world in which the population of China has dropped by half over twenty years, and all our technology still leaves the issue of human survival in doubt.
If you've never read Sterling, I suggest Distraction for a first try, but this novel well displays his talents.
Nice review of what sounds like an intriguing book! Is he doing anything in particular with gender here? ...Clearly he is, but is he saying anything in particular? (like: awful warning of scary, uppity women)
Excellent review of The Caryatids by Bruce Sterling. He is such a smart writer with all those wise cracks, but as you say you are never quite sure where he is coming from.
Somewhere a character notes that women generally do better as refugees, because they cooperate, instead of fighting stupidly as men do.
He's very concerned by the environment, but seems to think that quips are more effective than sermons in getting his point of view across.
A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
I noted at the start of the year that I planned to reread at least some of Edgar Rice Burroughs' Mars novels, because this is the centennial year of the appearance of Under the Moons of Mars, later retitled A Princess of Mars, and because of the impending release of the film version, John Carter.
In Princess the never-aging, fabulously gallant warrior, John Carter of Virginia, travels to Mars in the year 1866, via some sort of astral projection, to become Mars' greatest warrior, and the husband of the incomparable Dejah Thoris, Princess of the city-state Helium.
I first encountered this book with the 1965 Ballantine reprint whose cover is shown. I strongly suspect that this book has been available in print for the majority of the century since its appearance (first book publication in 1917). I can't add much to the vast literature on Burroughs and on his Mars. The Library of America will soon publish an edition of the book with an introduction by Junot Diaz, which will undoubtedly be worth a look. Meanwhile, some thoughts.
Princess certainly shows that Burroughs did not leave behind his era's racist, sexist, and imperial ways of seeing the world. His tale does include a degree of reconciliation between the warring red and green Martians - but then Kipling wrote "The Ballad of East and West;" this sort of story fits into imperialism well enough. Geoff Ryman, in his excellent short story "The Film-makers of Mars," has a character note that Carter is "a warrior for slavery and an Indian fighter; the opening of the book swiftly combines all of America's racial catastrophes."
Maybe someday this story will have no power to move readers, but Burroughs' propulsive storytelling puts that day far off, and, for me, holds up well enough. Here, the fierce, green Martians are fourteen feet tall and have four arms, and thoats are eight-legged mounts standing ten feet at the shoulder; on a dying planet, a group is traveling across the bottom of a sea that dried up ages ago:
We made a most imposing and awe-inspiring spectacle as we strung out across the yellow landscape; the two hundred and fifty ornate and brightly colored chariots, preceded by an advance guard of some two hundred mounted warriors and chieftains riding five abreast and one hundred yards apart, and followed by a like number in the same formation, with a score or more of flankers on either side; the fifty extra mastodons, or heavy draught animals, known as zitidars, and the five or six hundred extra thoats of the warriors running loose within the hollow square formed by the surrounding warriors. The gleaming metal and jewels of the gorgeous ornaments of the men and women, duplicated in the trappings of the zitidars and thoats, and interspersed with the flashing colors of magnificent silks and furs and feathers, lent a barbaric splendor to the caravan which would have turned an East Indian potentate green with envy.
The enormous broad tires of the chariots and the padded feet of the animals brought forth no sound from the moss-covered sea bottom; and so we moved in utter silence, like some huge phantasmagoria, except when the stillness was broken by the guttural growling of a goaded zitidar, or the squealing of fighting thoats. The green Martians converse but little, and then usually in monosyllables, low and like the faint rumbling of distant thunder.
Not as enthralling as when I was an adolescent, but not clunky either, at least to my ear. A lot of popular fiction from the era reads as very slow and clumsy now, but Burroughs could keep that plot moving. The incomparability of the red-Martian Dejah Thoris is also a factor:
Her face was oval and beautiful in the extreme, her every feature was finely chiseled and exquisite, her eyes large and lustrous and her head surmounted by a mass of coal black, waving hair, caught loosely into a strange yet becoming coiffure. Her skin was of a light reddish copper color, against which the crimson glow of her cheeks and the ruby of her beautifully molded lips shone with a strangely enhancing effect.
She was as destitute of clothes as the green Martians who accompanied her; indeed, save for her highly wrought ornaments she was entirely naked, nor could any apparel have enhanced the beauty of her perfect and symmetrical figure.
In 1965 I was a 14-year-old, straight, cis boy, and I approved this message - sexist though it certainly is. Don't type "Dejah Thoris" into Google image search at work, even with safe-search on. Despite looking perfectly human (and humanly perfect!) the red Martians reproduce, not by live birth, but via eggs that hatch after several years outside the mother's body. It's almost worth reading this book just to get to the scenes where Carter and his bride Dejah gaze fondly at the royal incubator, wherein their progeny egg is developing.
This novel is the prototype planetary romance. For a century since, tough men and daring women have bravely ventured into the cities and wild places of strange, yet sufficiently Earthlike worlds. Writers such as Ursula K. Le Guin have shown ways to free this story type from its racial, sexual and imperial roots. However, the popularity of the Avatar movie shows that we still have a long way to go.
Great review! (though I suspect I find your review far more interesting than I would the book)
>12 dukedom_enough: - my guess is that scene will not be replicated in the forthcoming film although if it is I forecast lots of 5-star reviews from 14 year-old boys.
Gotta love the cover for A Princess of Mars. Reminds me of a Charlton Heston movie poster.
Great review dukedom of A princess of Mars It is available for free on Project Gutenberg. I can hardly wait to download it to take that trip down memory lane.
As part of the Edgar Rice Burroughs celebration I feel I should track down the Kevin Connor/Doug McClure films of the 1970s - The Land That Time Forgot, At the Earth's Core, The People That Time Forgot & Warlords of Atantis. (I know the last one isn't a Burroughs adaptation but it feels like one - and I loved it when I saw it at the cinema). Who needs a $200m film when these already exist?
Jargoneer >14 Jargoneer:,
The trailer shows Dejah well-clothed. It is a Disney film, after all. John Carter is not wearing much, so maybe they're going for the 14-year old girl vote.
Nickelini >15 Nickelini:,
The Planet of the Apes director probably knew Burroughs' work. Heston would've been perfect for Carter.
The cover artist was Robert Abbett, who's apparently better known for outdoor subjects. I know that from this article on the TOR site, which has a bigger view of the Burroughs cover. We can think of Abbett doing this in between assignments for Don Draper of Mad Men.
baswood >16 baswood:,
Project Gutenberg says they've had just 8731 downloads of Princess. I would have thought more. Of course, one of those was to the Apple iBooks store, which is where I got it; if one could count the second-tier downloads the number would be higher.
Jargoneer >17 Jargoneer:,
>18 dukedom_enough: That's funny, I was just thinking how like Tarzan (speaking of Burroughs) "Mad Men" is (of course, here I am remembering the movies, not the books) :-)
As I said on the currently-reading thread, I'm about halfway through By Light Alone by Adam Roberts. It started as a sort of anti-Downton Abbey: rich people treating the help very badly, but perhaps they're Learning a Lesson.
...and, interrupted Roberts to read Available Dark by Elizabeth Hand. Review to appear in Belletrista. Thrillers aren't usually my thing, but I enjoyed it.
Hmph. Am I the last to hear about this?
For the Melville readers: it's apparently going to be a YA take on Moby-Dick.
Also: my review of Available Dark will be in the next Belletrista. FYI.
>23 dukedom_enough:: I hadn't heard of it. But I want to read it now! (Although I still need to read Kraken and Embassytown yet... That man writes too fast! Not that I'm actually complaining.)
One book a year, for a while now. I'm hoping this will be like Un Lun Dun - that was a lot of fun.
I suggest Embassytown before Kraken.
>26 dukedom_enough:: I already have a copy of Kraken, though, and have yet to acquire Embassytown, so I fear it will be the other way around. And I really do need to pick up Un Lun Dun sometime, too.
I thought Kraken was fine, but had maybe a bit too much sheer stuff in it, as though he needed to clear out his notebooks. Fun, but didn't cohere like the other books.
My review of Elizabeth Hand's Available Dark is now at Belletrista. Thrillers aren't usually my thing, but I liked it.
Oh, and the turntable is a Philips 312. I'm older than Hand, mine was a 212.
Have you gone to see John Carter? The critics have been particularly virulent but I've been told it isn't as bad as they made out, not a masterpiece but better than some recent blockbusters. Unfortunately it looks like it is going to cost Disney $200m although they may make all that back on DVD and TV sales. Looks like the curse of Mars strikes again - every time a film references Mars it seems to lose a fortune now.
I read some of the Mars books as a kid and remember them reasonably fondly - and I'd rather Hollywood keep its sticky fingers off the landmarks of my childhood. So actually I'm kind of pleased that it's flopping, and intend to contribute by staying away from the theater. I'll get the disc when it comes out.
Burroughs wasn't that big a deal for me, really. Now if anyone ever does Slan or The Stars My Destination or Galactic Derelict or "The Star Pit" or "No Truce With Kings", they'd better be perfect or ELSE! :-)
Interesting: an obit for a woman SF writer I don't think I've ever heard of.
OK, this is amazing: a jumping robot:
By now everyone must have a fair idea of The Hunger Games. Twenty-four teenagers must fight to the death, in a televised spectacle meant to remind subjugated Districts of their submission to a ruling Capitol. Katniss Everdeen, 16, sees her baby sister selected by lot for this nightmare, and volunteers to take her place.
Collins' book is smart, making good choices everywhere. Of course the games would be televised. Of course the games' producers would supply their audience with appealing personal vignettes, and engaging storylines about the contestants. Katniss' woodcraft and level head are more important to her survival than her aim with a bow; finding water and food is as important as the climactic battles.
And that the rulers keep the districts in line by openly murdering their children might not be politically entirely realistic - bound to stir up unnecessary trouble - but it has a brutal, emotional rightness about it that convinces. Collins strikes a note perfectly attuned to the insane moment we live in.
The story is told in the strictly first-person voice of Katniss who, after all, hasn't much needed storytelling skills yet in her life. This is both strength and weakness. It provides a relentless pace that held my attention - Katniss doesn't get time to catch her breath, and neither does the reader. It makes Katniss potentially an unreliable narrator - we can speculate on what she does not see or understand. However, it also makes for a degree of flatness in the prose, a uniformity of tone in describing both table settings and murders. Reading from Katniss' point of view, we should be getting more showing and less telling than we do.
Some complaints: I was bothered by a general issue of scale. District 12 has a population of 8,000 - a good number to fit into a town center, for the lottery than sends Katniss to the Capitol, and a number that means everyone must fear that they or their children will be "reaped". But if that number's typical, we have only about 100,000 people in the Districts, supporting a Capitol population that seems to be in the millions. The nation of Panem sprawls at least from the Appalachians to the Rockies, and sustains high tech and a sophisticated, modern media industry; it ought to have a population at least in the tens of millions. District 12 mines coal. The coal industry in the modern USA employs about 80,000. There are too few Districters by one or two orders of magnitude.
And on the very second page, Katniss puts her boots on before she puts on her trousers. Where was the copyeditor?
But these are minor problems. As I write, The Hunger Games is LT's most-reviewed book, with an average rating of 4.49. Much of this stems from its being the current hot book at a time when LT has grown so large, but I think Collins has found a generational touchstone. When I was young, I was reading lots of stories involving nuclear war. Now, I hear about puzzled complaints from commentators who wonder why dystopian stories like The Hunger Games are so popular. But it's so simple: every generation betrays its children - because no generation has ever given all of them the safe, nurturing world that we all need. Young readers see that and respond. I see that my generation is doing especially badly, leaving an environmentally and politically damaged planet for today's kids, and I wonder why they ever read anything but dytopias.
I see that my generation is doing especially badly, leaving an environmentally and politically damaged planet for today's kids, and I wonder why they ever read anything but dytopias.
Perceptive and sad, but I would think there is also a need for escape fiction, whether of the commercial kind or of the more literary kind (i.e., something long, absorbing, and very far away in time and place). And aren't kids still interested in sex and love?
That review of Hunger Games completely confirms to me that I'm a skim reader and not a deep reader at all!
I didn't spot the population size of the districts being odd but I did find the whole way through the book I wondered where the boundaries of the districts are across the USA. http://ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com/67583769.html was the best I found as it gave justifications for the choices and locations. Apparently Denver-onians are the "bad guys" in the Capitol!
>36 rebeccanyc: - And aren't kids still interested in sex and love? I thought all the violence was designed to stop them being interested in them. Sex and love could lead to a really bad sin, like having a baby: better to have them shoot their classmates.
>35 dukedom_enough: - in the UK there has been some questions about the novel's originality - it does have some strong similarities to Battle Royale.
Completely agree with your review - especially the comments about Katniss' voice. Will you be reading the next two?
Excellent review, Dukedom! (no one can call me objective though)
>38 Jargoneer: I don't think the story is all that original (I immediately thought of Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery," which so many of us of roughly the author's age had to read in school), but it puts together various things in just the right mix to hit that magic formula to create a piece of fiction that speaks to a specific time (And thus becomes a blockbuster. I just read a book on Bestsellers :-)
I also don't think violence is replacing sex (see: the last YA blockbuster: the Twilight saga).
rebeccanyc > 36,
OK, I'm being hyperbolic. And I read plenty of happily-ever-after stories back then, too. And there is a romantic part I didn't mention. Katniss and the boy from her district, Peeta, are perceived to be in love, and maybe even are, and that influences the games. Collins has a Twilight-like romantic triangle developing for the sequels, I suspect (haven't read them, though they're out).
Well, it's a nitpick, really, but we'd all be better off if everyone thought about numbers in the news more carefully. (Grumble.)
Jargoneer >38 Jargoneer:,
I'm vaguely aware of the Battle Royale question, but haven't seen the movie. Is it good?
As I'm sure you know, SF stories have featured gladiatorial combat in the past. I especially remember a Mack Reynolds story from the 1960s where the games were televised as bread-and-circuses for the masses, very like the Collins book.
wandering_star >39 wandering_star:,
I may read them, but will likely wait for the movies. I already have another YA to read this year when China Mieville's Railsea is published.
avaland >40 avaland:,
Right, you're not objective. :-)
>40 avaland: - I thought the point of the Twilight saga was not to have sex.
The Lottery is a genuinely creepy story. Just finished Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House which is an interesting take on the ghost story; surprised how closely the (excellent) film stuck to the novel.
>41 dukedom_enough: - I've seen the first two Battle Royale films. The first is surprisingly good but brutal - not one for the faint-hearted viewer. Watching it reminded of a story that Hammer Studios used to add more gore for the Japanese market. (The second one is mediocre).
I don't remember that Mack Reynolds one (but then he did write dozens of novels) - I always liked his work, perhaps not the best written but usually intelligent and interesting. I used to pick his novels up in Woolworths who used to sell remaindered US paperbacks for next to nothing - the covers always promised non-stop action and Reynolds delivered politics and sociology.
>42 Jargoneer: That may have been the point, but it's still a book about sex... :-)
The beginning of the HG movie seems right out of The Lottery, with everyone carefully dressing up...etc.
>41 dukedom_enough: I remember an SF book, Hand of Prophecy by Severna Park where the main character was enslaved and fought in the gladiatorial arena. http://www.amazon.com/Hand-Prophecy-Severna-Park/dp/0380791587/ref=sr_1_3?s=book...
Just catching up with this thread.
Re #12 and Princess of Mars/John Carter
Hilariously, I have the very same false memory of reading Princess of Mars as a small-sized Ace "F" paperback. And while several of the Barsoom books were in Ace "F", I don't think Princess was one of them. (The copy you show at #12 is also an edition I recall, but that's the similar-vintage Ballantine. (And let's pause a moment to recall that the small F-series paperbacks were forty cents....))
When the hype for the Disney "John Carter" movie started, I saw the TV spot and remarked to my family:
"I spent about ten hours with the Barsoom books nearly half-a-century ago - and just about ALL I remember about them are that Dejah Thoris had red skin, laid eggs, and she makes her entrance naked. I can't say that I'm optimistic about Disney getting her right."
(I then dug up the Ballantine Princess and read them the very same passage describing Dejah Thoris' entrance that you quoted at #12.)
That said, one of my kids recently MADE me go see the movie in the theater, and I found nothing significant to object to. They got an awful lot of Barsoom right: and even managed to leave behind most of 1912's racism and sexism.
Whoops, mine wasn't a false memory, but a typo - that is indeed the Ballantine edition I show above. Corrected.
We'll probably watch the DVD when it comes out.
An interesting review of the Hunger Games film, going into more detail on its good fit with the Zeitgeist.
>46 dukedom_enough: Actually, I think he goes overboard in his comparative analogy beginning around paragraphs 4 and 5. He's reading a bit too much into it, imo (and didn't I say that the author's experience writing for television had a lot to do with the novel/story---that I think he got right).
I don't know; if I were an unemployed twenty-something, crushed by student loans and living in my parent's basement, I might read the story's Capitol as parallel to the older generation and our catastrophic mismanagement of the economy.
Just now catching your thread. Amazing how many places I hear about The Hunger Games. I don't normally talk about books in RL. But, yet, people I barely know tell me I must read this series, and then a few days later ask me if I've gotten to it yet.
Unlike some books that catch on widely, it's reasonable well-written and smart. Maybe I love the idea of it more than the actuality, but the actual book isn't bad.
The Testament of Jessie Lamb by Jane Rogers has won the 2011 Arthur C. Clarke award for science fiction.
>51 dukedom_enough: Yay! for Jane Rogers... a thought-provoking book.
>51 dukedom_enough: LOL! It won the 20112 award? That somehow seems appropriate...
>53 kidzdoc:,
Caught me. Fixed.
Rats. I liked 20112 better. ;-)
ETA: Have you read Jessie Lamb? I know that avaland and I have very different opinions about it.
Haven't read it yet; I do intend to.
I really don't have time to be reading even a short novel right now. But I got persuaded to start an ARC of Railsea, brought home by a certain someone. Wow, China Mieville is good.
Just pulling your thread up, dear. I know you are reading even if you don't post here: many selected short stories, poetry, articles and varied blog posts... Yeah, LT favors the cover to cover type of reading, another title for the annual list, but we all know reading can be completely 'free range' too.
Have I mentioned lately how much I love being hooked up/married to a reader, someone who understands only too well, my attachment to books, reading, the smell of paper, the feel of a book in my hands, the difficulty of sometimes letting them go...etc? 14 years of accumulating, collecting and dispensing of books together, and of reading in the same house (occasionally even the same book - but not at the same time). Happy Anniversary.
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Re: Applying function to nested lists
Kerry Kim wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm trying to get Mathematica to do the following:
> Suppose
> x = {{1,2,3},{{4,5,6},7,8},9}
> f = some function
> How can I get f applied to each element of x but with the list structure
> intact? I.e. I want something that generates:
> {{f[1],f[2],f[3]},{{f[4],f[5],f[6]},f[7],f[8]},f[9]}
> Thank you!
> -Kerry Kim
The problem here is that not all your numbers are at the same level with
respect to the lists (otherwise, you could just use Map with a suitable
levelspec), so one solution is to let f apply everywhere and then prune
out the cases where f is applied to a list:
Map[f,x,\[Infinity]]//. f[x_List]->x
If f is actually a function that does something, use a function g that
has no definition, and then replace g with f.
This will work fine providing the data in your nested lists is simple
numbers or variables, but if you might have algebraic expressions in
there, then you would need a more complicated approach to avoid
inserting f inside the expressions.
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The Windt family arrived here before the team, and Joe received an excited phone call from Mike saying he was no longer coming. Windt told his dad that after the Bengals cut their struggling long snapper Brad St. Louis, former UC punter Kevin Huber had convinced the team to give Mike a tryout. He went on to say that it went so well, that he was turning pro and joining the Bengals immediately.
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Nice Big Clock Widget for Symbian^3 smartphones
Check out this nice Big Clock Widget for Symbian^3 smartphones developed by D13. Nothing new here, just a nice simple widget that displays current time / date and changes color according to the selected theme.
Big genuine home screen widget. It displays current time and date. The text color depends on the selected theme. Tapping on the clock opens default clock application, while tapping on date opens default calendar. After installation place the widget on the home screen from the widget catalog.
Big Clock Widget for Symbian (Paid)
Impossible to download, nokia app store keeps saying payment process failed, I tryed 4 times.
This is some kind of custom firmware on pic #3? Which one?
Pls.. name of the third theme?