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Truss bridges are some of the earliest types of "modern" bridges. They are made up of connected triangles which bear stress from tension, compression, or both at once. Early truss designs were composed of wood and iron, and later have been built of steel. The roadbed may be below the structure, above (deck truss), or in the middle (through truss). There are many types of truss, notably the Pratt, Philadelphia (Petit), Waddell ("A" truss), Lenticular, Warren, and Whipple.
Examples: East 174th Street Bridge, Triborough Bridge (Bronx Kills)
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Cantilever bridges are a complicated type of truss bridge used for long spans. The cantilevered arms project outward, supported on only one end. They have been favored in certain locations because they don't require any falsework to be constructed, so don't restrict navigation.
Examples: Queensboro Bridge, Goethals Bridge
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Arch bridges have an arch shape which is supported by abutments on each side. Arch bridges have been built of stone, brick, concrete, iron, and steel, and have been used to carry aqueducts and canals as well as people. Supported deck arch bridges are designed with the deck on top, the weight supported by columns rising from the arch below. On suspended deck arch bridges, the deck hangs from the arch by cables or ties.
Examples: Hell Gate Bridge (suspended deck), Washington Bridge (supported deck), East 238th Street Bridge (supported deck), High Bridge
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Suspension bridges are designed with a deck that hangs on suspender cables attached to large main cables. The main cables are draped over towers and are secured to massive anchorages at either end of the bridge. Suspension bridges can be used to span the longest distance of any bridge type, as most of the weight is carried by the cables. Like cantilever bridges, no falsework is required to build them.
Examples: George Washington Bridge, Manhattan Bridge
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Cable Stayed
Cable stayed bridges consist of one or more towers (often called pylons) with cables holding up the deck. They are used in situations long enough that a cantilever would be very costly to construct, but not so long as to require a suspension span. There are two main types of cable stayed bridge. The harp design consists of nearly parallel cables attached at different heights going up the tower, and the fan design has all the cables at the same point at the top, fanning out to the roadway deck below.
Examples: Intrepid Museum Pedestrian Bridge, Rockefeller University Bridge
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Also known as beam or stringer bridges, this type of bridge consists of girders which are supported by abutments at the ends of the bridge. Early girder bridges crossed water by means of a simple wood plank deck resting on piers. Modern girder bridges are usually made of reinforced concrete or steel. Some common types are concrete slab, I-beam, T-beam, plate girder, and box girder bridges.
Example: Passaic Street Bridge, Eagle Avenue Bridge
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Movable bridges do just that: they move to allow passage below. They're far cheaper than fixed high level bridges and don't require the extra space for long approaches. There are several types:
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Bascules are the most common type of moveable bridge, and either have a single or double leaf deck structure. Each leaf's opening is balanced by counterweights. Single leaf bascule bridges are easily spotted by their huge counterweights and truss structure above the deck, while the weights and truss are under the deck in the double leaf variety. Most bascule bridges fall into two categories: Scherzer rolling lifts (which roll open into position), and trunnion bascules (which open on a fixed axle).
Examples: Roosevelt Avenue Bridge (double leaf), Bronx River Bascules (single leaf Scherzer rolling lift)
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Vertical Lift
Vertical lift bridges have a moveable center span which lifts straight up to allow water traffic to pass below. Most have two towers on either end of the span, with counterweights contained within. The operator's house may be located on the moveable span itself, or in the towers. The counterweights in vertical lifts have to weigh just as much as the deck (not more, as is the case with bascules), so they are often used for long spans which will carry a lot of weight.
Examples: Passaic River Bridge, Marine Parkway Bridge
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Swing bridges pivot on a central pier. They require no counterweights so can be much lighter than vertical lifts or bascules. However, the pier can be an obstruction to water traffic- it significantly decreases the navigable width of the waterway. The swing portion is a cantilever that needs to be strong enough to support itself on the pivot when the bridge is in the open position.
Examples: Macomb's Dam Bridge, Dutch Kills Swing Bridge
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There are only four retractile (or retractable) bridges left in the United States, and two are in New York City. The moveable portion sits on train wheels and slides back onto a piece of land adjacent to the bridge, pulled along rails by cables.
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recsel searches rec files for records satisfying a certain criteria. Synopsis:
recsel [option]... [-n indexes | -e record_expr | -q str | -m num] [-c | (-p|-P|-R) field_expr] \ [file]...
In addition of the common options described earlier (see Common Options) the program accepts the following options.
If no FILE is specified then the command acts like a filter, getting the data from the standard input and writing the result in the standard output.
The following global options are available.
The selection options are used to select a subset of the records in the input.
-n 0,2,4-9.
The output options are used to determine what information about the selected records to display to the user, and how to display it.
-p Name,Email
means to print the Name and the Email of every matching record.
If this option is not specified then all the fields of the matching
records are printed in the standard output.
Some special options are available to ease the communication between the recutils and other programs, such as lisp interpreters. Those options are not intended to be used by human operators.

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Opening DJ set at Balboa On The River 2011 (Brisbane, Australia). 23 tracks including music by Alix Combelle, Andy Kirk And His Twelve Clouds Of Joy, and Annie Ross.
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USA TODAY Sports' Scott Gleeson counts down to the start of the season, breaking down the projected field of 68.
The first word: Last season, Brigham Young guard Tyler Haws had little time to prepare for his sophomore college basketball season when he returned from the Philippines where he was completing a mission as part of his Mormon faith.
It didn't seem to matter much.
FULL COUNTDOWN: Projecting field of 68
Haws enjoyed a spectacular sophomore campaign, averaging 21.7 points and shooting a blistering 48.3% from the field. He was a big reason behind the Cougars' 24 win-season, which was capped off in the NIT semifinals after BYU had its stretch of six consecutive NCAA tournament appearances snapped.
Now with a full offseason under his belt — including time spent on Team USA for the U-19 World Championships — Haws is poised for an even better junior season, which means a BYU squad with plenty of key returnees is as well.
2012-13 in review: 24-12 overall (10-6 West Coast Conference), lost in NIT semifinals.
Path to the Dance: A conference tournament championship is always the goal so that there's no nail-biting on Selection Sunday, but should that route hit a road block, an at-large bid is still a possibility. It will be vital to win early in the non-conference schedule and avoid any major hiccups in WCC play against weaker opponents. Playing Stanford, UMass, Oregon and Iowa State should help in the RPI equation.
Conference outlook: The Cougars spent last February and March stuck on the NCAA tournament bubble, with little opportunity to significantly boost their résumé because of low-RPI conference foes. That and beating Gozaga at one point meant beating the No. 1 team in the country. The Zags will still be good again in 2013-14, make no mistake, but their stranglehold on the WCC has loosened, and BYU is a formidable challenger. Saint Mary's could take a hit with top player Matthew Dellavedova departing, but the Gaels are never a team to sleep on. Aside from the big three, San Francisco and San Diego could be in the mix.
STARTING FIVE: Top story lines for 2013-14
Tournament projection: No. 10 seed.
Coach's corner: Coach Dave Rose underwent surgery earlier this month in Salt Lake City to remove "cancerous spots" that were found during a routine cancer screening. Doctors expect Rose "to make a full recovery" and are optimistic he will be healthy by the time college basketball practice starts on Oct. 7.
Star watch: Haws will be the go-to player once again, contending with Gonzaga's Kevin Pangos for WCC Player of the Year honors. He won't be alone, though, with Kyle Collinsworth (who started in the Jimmer Fredette era) returning from a mission. Collinsworth could be a major difference-maker if he gets back to the level he was at two years ago. Matt Carlino joins Haws in the backcourt. The former UCLA player averaged 11.5 points last season and made 56 three-pointers.
X-Factor: Paint presence. Replacing three-year starter Brandon Davies will be difficult, and the Cougars will have holes in the middle. Nate Austin, a 6-11 junior, should see increased playing time to help fill that void. Eric Mika, a 6-9 230-pound freshman, might be the best fit to replace Davies as he's perhaps the best rookie in all the WCC.
Team strength/weakness: Can last year's role players grow up, and can newcomers peak early? The top three teams in the WCC (Gonzaga and Saint Mary's being the others) all lost key players. Establishing team chemistry through that adjustment period will be crucial. Last season, the Cougars were efficient in plenty of areas — ranking 18th in points per game, 29th in rebounds per game and 21st in assists per game nationally. Those numbers will need to be similar in 2013-14.
Tweet that speaks volume: Haws had a busy offseason...
Highlight reel: Heralded recruit Jabari Parker had BYU in his top four schools that he was choosing from before he picked Duke. As a recruiting pitch, this video was made. It's...interesting...
Basics: Brigham Young University is located in Provo, Utah, and the Cougars play their home games at the Marriott Center, which opened in 1971 and seats 20,900.
Trivia: Former NFL MVP and Super Bowl MVP Steve Young attended BYU.
Glance at the dance: So far 27 teams have been selected to the USA TODAY Sports preseason NCAA tournament bracket. The seeding so far:
No. 16 seeds: No. 68 Robert Morris, No. 67 Charleston Southern, No. 66 Northwestern State, No. 65 Norfolk State
No. 15 seeds: No. 64 Georgia State, No. 63 Boston U, No. 62 Vermont, No. 61 Texas Southern
No.14 seeds: No. 60 Elon, No. 59 Manhattan, No. 58 Toledo, No. 57 Towson
No. 13 seeds: No. 56 Florida Gulf Coast, No. 55 Weber State, No. 54 Long Beach State, No. 53 Eastern Kentucky
No. 12 seeds: No. 52 Wright State, No. 51 Denver, No. 50 New Mexico State, No. 49 Louisiana Tech.
No. 11 seeds:No. 48 Boise State, No. 47 Indiana State, No. 46 Southern Methodist, No. 45 Arizona State.
No. 10 seeds: No. 44 San Diego State, No. 43 Maryland, No. 42 BYU.
Scott Gleeson, a national college basketball writer/producer for USA TODAY Sports, is on Twitter @ScottMGleeson.


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Towards A Better BlogHer
As someone who blogged last year about SwagHer, decrying Blogher '09's excessive swag and pushy promotions, I feel compelled to report on the atmosphere at BlogHer '10.
What a difference a year makes.
It's to BlogHer's credit that they actually practice what they preach – they listened to the community's feedback and implemented changes that vastly improved the feel of the conference and resulted in some noticeably greener changes.
Was it perfect? No. But as I told those who complained to me, BlogHer is not a green conference.
Here are just some of the improvements at BlogHer '10:
1. The water stations were clearly visible (much more so than last year), as were the water bottles. (Thanks, P&G).
I especially liked the bathroom rugs that the organizers placed under the water jugs to absorb the water overflow. I can't tell you how many times I've had discussions with event organizers about how to handle the "drip" problem. Bathroom rugs? That's a cheap, simple, green solution that anyone can implement. Now we just need P&G to figure out how to recycle those water filters, like Brita does — (thanks to the Take Back the Filter action campaign led by blogger Fake Plastic Fish!)
2. Sponsors were barred from accosting approaching conference attendees to ask, "Would you like my swag wonderful sample of ….?" "Can I interview you about how much you love my wonderful brand and how we will change the world?"
Of course, in the expo center, that kind of thing still went on at BlogHer '10. But if you choose to step foot in the exhibit hall, you need to expect that the exhibitors will approach you and try to entice you with swag, giveaways, contests, etc. That's the deal. If you don't like it, don't go to the exhibit hall.
3. A Swag recycling station (sponsored by P&G) was a big hit.
Even more swag could have been exchanged if it had stayed open a bit later (or if attendees had been warned that it would close up late Saturday afternoon).
4. I'm not sure if it was the conference lay-out or the way rooms were assigned, but there seemed to be far less of the "swag trick or treating" atmosphere that prevailed last year.
And as I've previously posted, I had a great time at BlogHer '10. I'm looking forward to returning to next summer's BlogHer '11 in San Diego. But I hope to see some further "greening" of the conference.
What improvements would I like to see at BlogHer '11?
1. I had a hard time swallowing the "BlogHer Goes Green" slogan when there was no effort made to offset the carbon footprint of the conference. Many (most) conferences I attend offer carbon offsets, and it's something BlogHer could easily explore and probably even find a sponsor to cover for the attendees. In fact, last year Michelin offset the travel for the attendees at the green session.
2. I'd like to see a diverse committee of BlogHer attendees offer a "swag vetting" service for BlogHer sponsors. (And yes, these women should be compensated for their time – not expected to volunteer). Through a swag vetting service, sponsors could get early feedback that a proposed giveaway would be a dud. Think of the time, money, and resources saved, as well as the improved blogger relations that would come from gifting a truly appreciated token rather than a spurned offering. Does the Salvation Army really need all those leftover Jimmy Dean alarm clocks? (But believe it or not, I brought mine home for my son to replace his broken Thomas alarm clock!)
3. On the same note, BlogHer should re-evaluate the all-conference giveaway bag. Frankly, that's where most of the discarded waste bound for some hapless homeless people came from!
4. BlogHer sponsors could run more experiential programs with attendees rather than offer gifts. Some sponsors excelled at this, notably Liberty Mutual Insurance and their PR agency Ketchum, which offered a media training program for bloggers; Ecco Shoes, which pampered attendees with free pedicures; and P&G with their hair styling and make-overs.
But there's still room for more creative experiential marketing programs with bloggers. How about a leisurely brunch for the late owls who could never make the 10 a.m. breakfast cut-off (including yours truly?) What about some fresh fruit or veggies at the Recharge Lounge? Or a goodbye brunch? How about keeping the dance floor pounding all night long? I didn't want Sparklecorn's dance floor to close at 11 p.m. – did you?
5. Sponsors would profit from exploring more sustainable gifts. There is an enormous variety of creative, upcycled, recycled and fair trade gifts which would be unique and appreciated by the conference attendees.
6. I'm hopeful that next year, with the conference in California, we'll see organic food and local, sustainable wines for conference goers to enjoy.
7. BlogHer could encourage sponsors to offer women an option of swag or donations to a crowd-sourced social change project or pet cause.Imagine the real impact of BlogHer if we were able to opt out of swag and reallocate those dollars to The Afghan Women's Project, Tutus for Tanner, The American Cancer Society or Breast Cancer Fund, Bloganthropy, or another cause dear to the BlogHer community? With 3500 attendees projected for Blogher '11, and an estimated $100 per person spent on swag (my own arguably conservative WAG), we could take funds otherwise spent on "sponsor gifts" and donate $350,000 to causes that make a real difference to our community.
After all – wasn't that the real message of the keynote? Did you not hear what Gloria Feldt and Marie Wilson said? Women have power. We have economic power. And our voices matter. So what are we doing with that power? Mr. Potato Head or a Crowd-Sourced Cause Donation? Think about it.
And for those who say it can't be all or nothing, fine. How about letting attendees opt in or opt out of swag from specific brands? That way those bloggers who take samples for review purposes are happy, brands' products continue to get exposed to new audiences, so they're happy, and we should all be happy because perhaps we could get to a near-zero waste conference – where we're not expending resources to ship leftover notebooks, plastic cups, alarm clocks, and paper – oh, the paper! – to the Salvation Army.
There was a lot of controversy about the Nestle sponsorship. It led to the boycotting of the conference by some speakers and attendees, and to silent action coordinated by PhDinParenting, who through her blogging, increased BlogHer community awareness of Nestle's violations of the WHO's International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes. I proudly wore one of the #NoNestle stickers that Crunchy Domestic Goddess handed me.
But to hold BlogHer's founders to that same standard is not realistic. BlogHer is not a private endeavor. It's not a B-Corporation. On the contrary, BlogHer is a rare example of a successful venture-capital funded start-up led by a female management team still comprised of the original founders. Jory des Jardins, Elisa Camahort Page and Lisa Stone don't air their business issues in public, but take it from me – someone who worked for venture backed tech start-ups for years – these gals must be under intense pressure to grow revenue and show profit. They can't turn away the big bucks that a company like Nestle offers to the conference.
Instead, BlogHer took Nestle's money and paid for incredible speakers and a wide range of progressive programming. But BlogHer's not a green or progressive conference, per se. And that's not all bad. Because while I admire my deep green blogging buddies, I don't want to spend my time preaching to the choir. I want to move people along the spectrum from light green to a deeper shade of green – and that's best done by mixing at a conference like BlogHer, which appeals to a very diverse group of women from across the spectrum of ideologies, income levels, religions, and races.
What did you think about BlogHer? Leave a comment and share!
— Lynn
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The Top 10 Things I Loved About BlogHer
I had a great time at Blogher. Some people in my circles asked why, given all the controversy about the Nestle sponsorship and the excessive, sometimes reckless consumption which marred BlogHer '09.
So here's why. Here's a list of the Top 10 Things I Loved About BlogHer.
- It's the only time I get to see my tribe: the members of the Green Moms Carnival and the many other bloggers whose work I respect so much. I tweeted that I was up "partying" with The Smart Mama, Condo Blues, Fake Plastic Fish, Mindful Momma, and The Soft Landing. But actually, we're a little nerdier than that. Sure we love to party. But you can do that anytime. Looking up municipal water tables and calculating the amount of time a glass of water stays fresh before bacteria breeds? I just can't do that with my friends at home in Bethesda!
Green LA Girl Siel, left; Jennifer Taggert of The Smart Mama and Yours Truly Relaxing After a Session
Ok, Ok, this pic was taken last year at BlogHer '09. Can you believe we don't have a group shot from this year?
2. I loved seeing all the women. It's a very special experience to be at a conference for women, by women, particularly if you've worked in fields, like I have, where there are few women on the conference circuit.
Doppelgangers? It's been said that Alicia of The Soft Landing and I look alike. What do you think?
3. It was a better BlogHer than last year from a sustainability perspective. Would I call it a Green Conference? Or even say, "BlogHer Goes Green?" Uh….no. But it was a huge step in the right direction. And I'll have more to say on that in my next post.
4. Great speakers. My favorite this year was the ending keynote. When I listened to the beautiful 70-year old Marie Wilson of The White House Project and Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day, I was inspired. Her vitality made me think, "Wow, I've only just begun. I'm not so old after all. I have a lot yet to do and to give."
6. Great dancing. The dance floor rocked. How often do most of us get out dancing? Uh…never. (Except for my recent college reunion!)
7. Pampering.
8. Never being asked to stop tweeting.
9. Interesting people. The opportunity to strike up conversations is right in front of you all the time. Every woman there has a story. What's hers?
With Debbie Bookstaber, co-founder of Bloganthropy. (Thank you, Corolle dolls for your sponsorship of Bloganthropy!)
10. Wonderful venues. New York, of course, was amazing. So was Chicago last year (my first BlogHer conference). And next year, BlogHer '11 will be in San Diego. I'll be there. Will you?
— Lynn
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Craft knife
Pinking shears
Colored paper and magazines for cutouts
Glue stick or rubber cement
Trace your hand on paper and draw a 3"-long triangular cuff at the wrist. Cut out with craft knife; trim cuff with pinking shears.
Cut a 1 1/2" x 2" heart from folded colored paper with pinking shears. Leave heart folded and fold it again diagonally; snip about 1" at center of diagonal fold with pinking shears.
Glue to hand cutout.
Pencil in 2 bands across back, one 1/2" wide just below palm and the other 5/8" wide, near lower edge. Cut a row of X's along each band, leaving a tiny space between the X's at top and bottom. Slip a strip of paper through each band, leaving diamonds showing between X's on front. Cut a wedge in ends of strips.
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The new phone books are here!
Like many people who work (or worked ...) in the publishing industry, I developed the quaint idea that an "author" was a person who wrote articles or books - or maybe plays and movie scripts. Since the weblog explosion, it's easy enough to stretch the definition of author to include people who post items on their blog.
Battelle's venture seems to share this non-controversial definition, at least on the Federated Media (not the real one) website:
An FM site has influence not because its author is well known, but because the author has earned the trust of an influential community.
Good! So what are some of the top FM sites, as far as traffic?
Beyond the Boing Boing enterprise, the handful of popular sites include Fark, Digg, Metafilter, Newsvine, Reddit and PopURLS ... all sites based on either news links submitted by readers or robot-submitted news links.
In other words, where's that author again?
Battelle's name made its weekly Mainstream Media appearance in a June 23 article in the San Francisco Chronicle about Digg.com -- one of those "author" sites championed by the brave speculators at Federated Media.
I couldn't care less if Battelle's latest Bubble Machine sells ads for a Pat Robertson BBS or some pedophile picture-trading site run by Pentagon staffers, but it is simply dishonest to trumpet "authors" when your main business comes from selling ads on pornography message boards like Fark.


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Recipes I've Shared:
Most Amazing Tuna Salad
This is the best tuna salad I've ever eaten - really! And it is healthy too (if you're doing the 17 day diet, it is safe for Cycle 1)
Healthy Herbed Scrambled Eggs
Eliminate most of the yolks to keep this yummy, flavorful scramble healthy for your heart and your waistline!
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You won't believe our melamine dinnerware is plastic. Take them to a picnic, take them to your dining room. Our melamine tableware is really great. Our collections of plastic dinnerware are durable in feature and elegant in style. Find the latest melamine dinnerware below from designers like Kim Seybert, Le Cadeaux brands and many others.


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Thursday, September 02, 2010
When birthday parties are going away parties.
Buddha has officially celebrated two birthdays in our family. He had a good time with his little friend, loved his cake, enjoyed all his presents and went to bed late. My mother made him a wonderful quilt. I can't believe he's two. I want to see him be three and four and more. We're truly going to miss him. He leaves next week.
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- Rain Child said...
I am so sorry! I can't imagine how much sadness you must be feeling. My heart is with you!
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The other day I read a blog on another website that caught my eye. The blog is titled, "Is it Homophobia or "Heterophobia"? Tell Them That It's Human Nature, " and while it was very well written, I felt the need to respond and wrote the following comment to the author:
Extremely well written article....you had my 100% agreement UNTIL, you stated, quite erroneously, that there is funding for all HIV demographics except heterosexual black men.
I am a heterosexual white woman, infected with HIV in 2002 at the age of 48. Because of many of life's ups and downs, I stopped my meds, and have been living with AIDS (current viral load undetectable, but cd4 remains 175-225) since 2008. I have been excluded from studies because I'm not a "woman of color" done by Duke University (which had significant stipend for participating). My own case manager (mandated that we have one by Ryan White) has a support group for women...I AM excluded, because I'm not a woman of color.
I face the same challenges that my friends here in Winston-Salem....the major difference...even though I'm NOT compensated, I am essentially the ONLY open face of HIV/AIDS in our area.
I've been the "face" of our ASO, AIDS Care Services....and I LOVE being the face....but it's me, because others, all of color (with once in blue moon exception of 3), I'm the face because others refuse to openly come out as being HIV+...no matter what their gender/race/sexual preference.
You can find me every where as an advocate...
All these words are to say, if you look at ads in magazines, studies that seek participants....I've rarely, if ever, found any for a woman like me living with AIDS!
Thanks Wanda
the supplement looks interesting. Once again I'm not intending to stop but to hassle for lower dosage and accumulating evidence to fight for that. I misread your first blog thinking you'd been off meds and undetectable since 2008. There is growing evidence that approx 10% of the pos population will remain undetectable after a few years of taking ARVs provided they started early. Hey ho way to go!
Love and light
Hi Wanda
I like your style and am delighted to see a mature woman 'not of colour' being visible and heard. I like you am Caucasian and of a certain age, but not brave enough to come out in the open.
I'm interested in your medical story and would like to ask a few questions, I hope that's ok? What was your viral load when you started meds? What drugs did you take? Do you know of anybody else who has maintained 'undetectable' after quitting the drugs? Do you have any special supplements or routines to keep healthy? I'm not looking to stop meds altogether, just building up some evidence to support my plan to request that my dosage is lowered. I mean, why give the same dose to a 50 kg woman as you would to a male elephant, if you catch my drift.....
Hey keep on trucking, women like us still don't think we'll get caught!


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New John Carter Trailer!
Now this looks epic! Much more information than in the first trailer and a ton of decent looking special effects including a good look at Woola. He's a little too cute but not bad for Disney. The Tharks feature heavily in this trailer and they look alternatingly good and bad throughout. What I'd like to see is more of the white ape. He's freakin' huge!
Overall I like the new trailer though I'm a little concerned about the special effects. I'm sure this is not the final version and knowing they have until March to put on whatever finishing touches are left makes me feel a bit more optimistic.
What do you think of the new trailer? How about Woola?
YA Genre Fiction Month: End of Month Wrap-Up
"If you go back even 15 years there was definitely a tendency at that point to go from kids' books to adult books. The idea that people would be writing books aimed primarily at a teen audience is really cool and really new, and the idea of YA books being genre books is, again, cool and new." –Neil Gaiman (from the Spinoff Online blog)
The young adult literature movement is a newcomer in the history of literature, and only time will tell if it is one that will remain a permanent fixture into the future. While its popularity is certainly on the rise, as the shelf-space allotment in any bookstore will prove, is YA a movement with legs or is it just a fad? Even Wikipedia can't solidly trace its history earlier than the twentieth century.
I expect that the popularity of art aimed at young adults depends a great deal on how much the adolescent generation identifies itself with older generations, how strongly it either looks forward to assimilation into the world of adulthood or else seeks to form its own separate identity. Our time seems to be clearly one where the young desires separation more than assimilation, today as much as the revolutionary sixties. They want their own music, their own television programs, and their own fiction.
As with any youth-driven movement, YA fiction is full of energy, expectation and anxiety: Ender's Game exposes the often confusing and unfair relationship between children and adults, The Hobbit encourages even "little people" to be open to the call to adventure, and Harry Potter is a study of what happens to children of whom much is expected but who receive far too little support from their elders. Much of YA fiction is straight-up adventure fiction written at the appropriate age-level, often enough with adult protagonists. It's becoming more popular, however, to populate YA books with young adult characters—an inevitable evolution, I suppose. The fictional dream becomes stronger the more the reader is able to identify with its characters. The books nominated in the Locus YA Award bear out this observation, and that list contrasts quite sharply with David Brin's list of books with mostly-adult protagonists.
What does the future hold for the young adult literature movement? The almost absurd popularity of book series like Stephenie Meyer's Twilight and Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games ensures, at the very least, a continued exploitation of this market until trends move in some other direction. The existence of a YA market, though, is not (I think) as stable or certain as the children's and adult markets. I expect it to remain popular for decades to come, but only time will tell.
YA Genre Fiction Month: Goliath
Guest Blogger, Allie McCarn, reviews science fiction and fantasy books on her blog Tethyan Books which we featured in a previous post: Five SF/F Book Blogs Worth Reading. She has already contributed many great book reviews to WWEnd and has generously volunteered to write some periodic reviews for our blog. Be sure to check out her site and let her know you found her here.
Goliath by Scott Westerfeld
Published: Simon Pulse, 2011
Series: Leviathan Series: Book 3
**Spoiler Alert: I've been trying to keep clear of spoiling plot points, but, given that this novel has only been out for a couple of months, it might be a good idea to stop here if you don't want to be spoiled.
The Book:
"Alek and Deryn may have helped resolve the situation with the Ottoman Empire, but World War I is still escalating. Alek is determined that it is his destiny to end the war, since it was his parents' deaths started it. However, he's stuck aboard the Leviathan, which is heading further and further from the heart of the conflict, for reasons no one seems inclined to explain to him.
Deryn's secret—that she is a woman—is getting harder to keep, particularly now that she has fallen in love with her best friend Alek. She feels certain they could never be together, since he's the heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire and she's a cross-dressing soldier. What she doesn't know is how Alek will react if he ever learns the truth.
As the course of the Leviathan is diverted through Siberia, Japan, Mexico, and finally to New York City, Deryn and Alek will encounter new dangers, new people, and new hopes for an end to the war!" ~Allie
This is my final review for WWend's YA Genre Fiction Month. Once again, Goliath picks up right where Behemoth left off, and the first two novels are necessary reading before picking this one up. In most series, I can pick out the stronger and weaker installments, but the novels in the Leviathan trilogy are of remarkably consistent quality. Westerfeld has crafted an even, continuously exciting trilogy that has now come to a very satisfying conclusion.
My Thoughts:
As in the case of the previous two volumes, Goliath is packed with many of Keith Thompson's wonderful illustrations like the header image above. These are particularly good for showing off the many creative steam-powered machines and fabricated animals that Deryn and Alek encounter on their travels. This time around, the Leviathan airship journeys through many exotic locations, though none of them are nearly as fleshed out as Westerfeld's Istanbul. While there's still plenty of action, this is more of a character-oriented book than the previous two. It feels as though it is more focused on Alek and Deryn's personal stories, though they are still caught up in dramatic historical events.
Aside from the continuing cast aboard the Leviathan, a handful of characters from earlier in the story also make appearances in Goliath. The 'perspicacious lorises' from Behemoth are still around, and I feel like I can comment on their role in the story now. While the lorises are quite adorable, in pictures and in actions, they seem to exist solely to point out important clues to the characters (and readers). Considering they were Dr. Barlow's life work, I had hoped that there would be something more to them. The size of the novel's cast also swells from the addition of many new characters, some of which are based on historical figures. Though it's neat to see fictional representations of well-known people from history, I was a little concerned by the strong negative characterization of a certain famously eccentric scientist. I hope that younger readers will understand that while these characters are based on real people, a fair amount of artistic liberty is taken in their portrayal.
I think Goliath handles the budding romance between Deryn and Alek much more skillfully than the previous volume. The original 'falling in love' of Deryn seemed abrupt, but the development of their relationship seemed much more natural in Goliath. Deryn's constant angsting about her and Alek's relative social status got a little old, but I can't claim that her obsessing isn't realistic for someone caught in the grips of first love. I think the story involving Deryn's secret gender stretched credulity a bit, but I was mostly willing to just go along with the ride. While their romance took a much larger role in this novel, there's still quite a bit more to the story. Throughout their adventures, I enjoyed watching Alek and Deryn try to make sense of the chaotic world and their places in it.
I'm not aware of any way of connecting Thomas Hobbes to the title Goliath, so I'm going a little further back in time with this title. The obvious reference is to the biblical story of David and Goliath. However, I think Goliath has more to say than the usual statements about a small hero defeating a giant enemy through faith and intelligence. I think Goliath was intended to provoke discussions about morality of the David/Goliath situation. If it will end a war, is it moral to kill someone, as David did Goliath? If by violence, or threat of violence, you can protect the people you love and bring about peace, does that make your actions acceptable? Westerfeld does not provide a simple answer, but these are interesting questions to discuss against the events of Goliath.
My Rating: 4/5:
Goliath is consistent with the high level of quality I have come to expect from Scott Westerfeld's young adult novels. Deryn and Alek continue their adventures on the Leviathan, traveling to new and exciting locations. Many characters, new and old, show up along the way, and some of them are based on actual people. Goliath deals both with the small-scale story of Deryn and Alek's personal troubles and secrets, and the large-scale story of attempting to end World War I. I was pleased that Westerfeld did not choose, in the end, to give his readers an unrealistically happy ending. Overall, I think this was a highly satisfying conclusion to the Leviathan trilogy.
Philip K. Dickathon: The Game-Players of Titan
Guest Blogger and WWEnd Member, Charles Dee Mitchell, has contributed a great many book reviews to WWEnd and we've invited him to contribute to our blog. This is the latest in Dee's series of Philip K. Dick reviews that he started on his blog www.potatoweather.blogspot.com. We'll be posting one every week until he runs out of reviews or gets tired of Philip K. Dick books.
"Anyhow, Pete Garden, you were psychotic and drunk and on amphetamines and hallucinating, but basically you perceived the reality that confronts us…"
Philip K. Dick must have dreamed that any one of his five wives or several girlfriends would one day sit across the breakfast table and speak those words to him. I don't know that he was ever psychotic, that term was tossed around differently in the 1960's than it would be today. But drunk and on amphetamines? Yes. Hallucinating? During the time he was writing this novel PKD walked daily from his home to his "writing shack" about a mile down the road. In the blue, Northern California sky, he saw a gigantic malevolent face. "It was immense, it filled like a quarter of the sky. It had empty slots for eyes — it was metal and cruel and, worst of all, it was God." An Episcopal priest PKD consulted suggested it was a vision of Satan. Whatever the case, it didn't go away for days. So, I think that is another "yes" for hallucinating.
In The Game-Players of Titan, earth has been dealt a double blow. As per usual with Dick, there has been an atomic war, this one started by the Red Chinese using a new weapon developed in East Germany. (Nice period details, there.) The radiation released by the new weapon sterilizes the populations it is directed against, but wind currents being what they are, the Red Chinese have inadvertently almost completely sterilized the human race. To add insult to injury, beings from Titan, the largest moon of Saturn, have invaded and conquered earth. They are the Vugs, oversized amoebas that sound a bit like Al Capp's Shmoo. Humans find them irritating and keep Vug sticks on hand for pushing them out of rooms. But the Vugs are, in their way, benevolent landlords. Longevity drugs allow humans to live into their hundreds while never looking much over 30 or 40 years of age. With earth's population in the low millions, lucky humans are Bindmen, property owners whose properties include towns, cities, and vast swathes of the depopulated planet. If you are a Bindman you must also play the Titans' game.
The Titans' game seems like nothing more than a rudimentary board game, a simplified form of Monopoly but with all your landholdings at stake. Peter Garden's loss of Berkeley in the first chapter of the book sets in motion events that will involve murder, interplanetary travel, telekinesis, ESP, and large quantities of alcohol and amphetamines.
Along with Berkeley, Garden loses his current wife, but acquires a new one that same night. Another purpose of the game is to keep reshuffling human couples in hopes of finding those who can still "get lucky," the current term for becoming pregnant. Garden's spectacular bender that takes up much of the book occurs when he discovers that with his new wife he has gotten lucky for the first time and on their first night. He ingests every pill in the house and starts hitting the bars. What he discovers are conspiracies within conspiracies, Vug infiltration of his closest friends, and a offer to play the ultimate game to decide the fate of the earth.
The Game-Players of Titan is PKD really hitting his stride. It is a masterpiece of paranoia, where no one can be trusted to be who they claim to be, where rules are made to be broken, and the protagonist must bluff his way through a game that he knows is a deadly sham. And how do you go about bluffing if half the people in the room can read your mind? The fact that PKD works out a method implies that he had spent far too much energy in his personal life dealing with just barely more earthbound versions of these same issues. And remember that every morning, on his walk to his typewriter, he must endure the glaring, empty eyes of a malevolent god.
YA Genre Fiction Month: Foundation
"There were nearly twenty-five million inhabited planets in the Galaxy then, and not one but owed allegiance to the Empire whose seat was on Trantor. It was the last half-century in which that could be said."
Isaac Asimov's Foundation series is magnificently ambitious, inspired as it was by Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, but painted on a galactic canvas. After twelve thousand years in the stars, the human Galactic Empire is on the decline, and the psychohistorian Hari Seldon may be the only person who can prevent tens of thousands of years of barbarism and social decay. What's psychohistory, you ask? It's a science that Asimov invented solely for use in this series, one that merges psychology, history and mathematics to predict human behavior on a large scale over long periods of time.
Seldon paints a bleak picture of the coming imperial collapse: "The Empire will vanish and all its good with it. Its accumulated knowledge will decay and the order it has imposed will vanish. Interstellar wars will be endless; interstellar trade will decay; population will decline; worlds will lose touch with the main body of the Galaxy. And so matters will remain…. The dark ages to come will endure not twelve, but thirty thousand years." This collapse, Seldon says, cannot be prevented, but its effects can be minimized and its length shortened to a mere one thousand years.
His solution is to set up two Foundations, colonies where the collected knowledge and science of mankind is preserved and protected, one on each end of the galaxy. The Foundation established on the planet Terminus is the one followed by the narrative, and it has no contact with the other. Every few decades a "Seldon Crisis"—an event of massive social upheaval—occurs in a way predicted by Seldon, and Terminus acts how Seldon needed them to act in order to maintain his plan.
One of the most difficult subjects for me as a young adult was history, particularly because it was so hard to find meaningful patterns in the larger scope of world events. It's not hard to poke holes in Gibbon's theories of history, but he certainly provided a rousing narrative that made sense of many historical data. Asimov likewise provides a narrative spanning centuries (actually, twenty thousand years if you include the entire expanded series), and while his ideas of how historical movements occur are perhaps a bit on the naïve side, they are full of enough imagination to make even the most skeptical student believe that history might not be so boring after all.
YA Genre Fiction Month: Behemoth
Guest Blogger, Allie McCarn, reviews science fiction and fantasy books on her blog Tethyan Books which we featured in a previous post: Five SF/F Book Blogs Worth Reading. She has already contributed many great book reviews to WWEnd and has generously volunteered to write some periodic reviews for our blog. Be sure to check out her site and let her know you found her here.
Behemoth by Scott Westerfeld
Published: Simon Pulse, 2010
Series: Leviathan Series: Book 2
Award Nominations: Locus Young Adult Award 2011
The Book:
"It is near the beginning of World War I, and the situation in Europe is spiraling out of control. After the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, battle lines have been drawn between 'Clanker' powers—whose technology involves mostly heavy machinery—and the 'Darwinists'—who rely on fabricated animals. A wild card in this scenario is the Ottoman Empire, which is currently maintaining fragile neutrality. After Churchill 'borrows' a warship bought by the Ottomans, diplomatic relations between the Ottomans and the Darwinists begin to worsen.
It is into this situation that the Darwinist Leviathan airship soars, carrying with it the adventurous midshipman 'Dylan' Sharp and the fugitive Clanker aristocrat Aleksandar. Dylan and Alek have forged a close friendship, though they both hold secrets. Alek may be the heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and 'Dylan' is actually Deryn, a young woman who has joined the military in disguise. They're going to have to work together to navigate the dangerous cultural and political tangle of the Ottoman capital of Istanbul!" ~Allie
This is the second of my reviews for WWEnd's YA Genre Fiction Month. (See my review for Leviathan here.) Behemoth picks up right where Leviathan left off, so it's absolutely necessary to read the series in order. Thus far, I have been happy with the way each novel concludes its individual arc, while still continuing the overarching story of the series.
On a side note, Westerfeld takes some slightly more subtle liberties with established history in Behemoth. I could see some readers being concerned that the trilogy's alternate history may obscure actual history for younger readers. I don't think this will be a problem, however, as Westerfeld helpfully includes an afterword in each novel that explicitly states which parts of his story are fact and which fiction.
My Thoughts:
Behemoth continues the adventure of Leviathan, and it is brought to life by many more of Keith Thompson's amazing illustrations like the one in the header above. While the story felt as exciting and action-packed as in Leviathan, it moves in a slightly different direction. Rather than traipsing around Europe in an organic airship, this installment focuses primarily on the situation in Istanbul, where Deryn and Alek spend a lot of time undercover. I enjoyed reading about the multicultural city of Istanbul, and the mixture of Clanker and Darwinist influences in their society. While much of the Ottoman technology could be considered Clanker, their machines tend to emulate animals or mythological beings from many cultures. Westerfeld's Istanbul expands his vision of this world, and the city has plenty of mystery and conflict to maintain the tension and excitement of the story.
Deryn and Alek are still incredibly active and resourceful protagonists, and they continue to find themselves in very dangerous and interesting situations. However, I was a little less than thrilled with the way their inevitable romantic subplot is handled. There's very little build-up, so it ended up feeling a little tacked on to the central story. Though Deryn's hidden gender mixed things up a bit, it still leaned a little too heavily on common young adult romance plot devices for my taste. While it wasn't a major focus in Behemoth, I feel fairly certain that the romance angle will continue into the third book, where I hope it will be more smoothly integrated and thoroughly developed.
In addition to Deryn and Alek, there are many notable minor characters. Two repeating characters—Alek's fencing master, Count Volger, and the Darwinist scientist, Dr. Barlow—get a bit more development in this installment. They are the schemers on Alek's and Deryn's sides, respectively, and I enjoyed learning more about their plans. A new addition to the cast is the mysterious creature Dr. Barlow carried through Leviathan. The critter is certainly adorable, but I'm not altogether fond of its role in the narrative thus far. Another notable new addition is the American reporter, Eddie Malone. I was glad Westerfeld did not go the easy adventure-story route and portray him as a simple annoyance to Deryn and Alek. These and other characters are beginning to widen the world that Leviathan introduced.
The title of the novel, Behemoth, once again has several meanings. Leviathan was a reference to gigantic whale-like airbeast, but I believe it was also a reference to Thomas Hobbes' work of the same name. The Behemoth is the companion beast to the Darwinist warship Churchill held back from the Ottomans, and it is also the name of another work by Hobbes. In Leviathan, Hobbes described an ideal government, and in Behemoth, he described the causes and effects of revolution. Hobbes believed that no good could come from rebellion, but Alek and Deryn's adventures don't altogether support that final conclusion. I think the story of Behemoth provides an opportunity to discuss what circumstances, if any, justify carrying out a violent revolution.
My Rating: 4/5
Behemoth lives up to the standard set by Leviathan. Alek and Deryn's adventures are more stationary, and more politically based, but no less exciting. Behemoth introduces several new and interesting characters, and shows the unique culture of fictional Istanbul. I did not think the typical YA romance was integrated particularly well into the story, though I hope the romantic subplot will be developed more deftly in the third novel. Like its predecessor, Behemoth brings up some interesting topics for discussion, and it contains more depth than just the surface adventure story. Behemoth answers many of the questions left from Leviathan, but, of course, the final conclusion of the story is yet to come, in the final volume, Goliath!
Anne McCaffrey Rides Away at 85
Anne McCaffrey, one of the most prolific writers in science fiction and fantasy, has died at age 85. She was one of the most celebrated and influential authors of her generation and has left behind an expansive body of work that amply demonstrates her mastery of her craft. Ms. McCaffrey was truly a master, garnering many awards and nominations for her short fiction and her novels. Her books have appeared on the ISFDB and NPR 100 Best SF/F lists, and were also recognized as Masterpieces by the Easton Press collection. Her early success in a male-dominated field earned her a spot on Ian Sales' SF Mistressworks list, and David Brin included two of her books in his list of recommended young adult books.
Here's what other early eulogizers have said about her:
io9 highlights her personal favorite story:
"Besides the Pern books, McCaffrey wrote the classic space-faring novel The Ship Who Sang, in which a severely disabled girl becomes the core of a starship, or Brainship, with her mind controlling all its major functions. McCaffrey's novel provided a startling new way to think about personhood and the nature of the mind/body connection, but also helped pave the way for a whole subgenre of posthuman space opera, in which heavily modified humans explore space."
From Wired:
"McCaffrey helped pave the way for women writers in fantasy and science fiction, and was both the first woman awarded a Hugo Award and the first awarded a Nebula Award. Even in her 80s she continued to write, and over her lifetime produced a prodigious number of books and short stories. She was still answering readers' mail on her website as of a few weeks ago."
From Publisher's Weekly:
"She introduced a generation of readers to both fantasy and science fiction, and was known for being gracious to her legions of fans. She will be greatly missed."
To my knowledge, there may be two books in her famous Pern series that have yet to be released. We are not yet done with Anne McCaffrey's rich universe.
Automata 101: Cyborgs and Androids
Rhonda Knight is an Associate Professor of English at Coker College in Hartsville, SC. She teaches Medieval and Renaissance literature as well as composition courses. This blog will outline her experiences teaching an Honors English Composition course about created entities, beginning with the golem of Jewish legend and continuing through cyborgs, robots, androids, and artificial intelligence.
So… it's been a while. My jet-set life as an English professor has kept me from writing. In October, I attended the Popular Culture/American Culture in the South conference in New Orleans and the Blackfriars Conference at the American Shakespeare Center in Staunton, VA. The Popular Culture conference offered papers on many science fiction and horror television shows, such as Doctor Who, Lost, Torchwood and everything in the Whedonverse, and fantasy and science fiction authors, such as Susanna Clarke, Kurt Vonnegut, Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman, Nalo Hopkinson, Michael Chabon, and George R. R. Martin. One of the best papers I heard was on how Fox used trailers to react to the fandom of their Fringe Fridays.
While I was away hearing such papers and giving one on mystery novelist Martha Grimes, my students were reading and writing and thinking about Marge Piercy's He, She and It. This novel was a good hinge point for the semester because it effectively combines our golem exploration with our robot exploration.
For those of you who don't know, the book is set in a near post-apocalyptic future in which the world is run by corporate cities, called multis or enclaves, that exist inside protective radiation barriers. The bulk of the novel's action takes place in one of the few independent towns, Tikva. It is a Jewish enclave of computer programmers who create security programs for the multis. Their skill allows them to leverage freedom. Shira, a disfavored employee of a multi, returns to her hometown of Tikva to help Avram, a cyberneticist, train his illegally-created cyborg, Yod, to appear more human. Yod's purpose is to protect both the real and virtual borders of the town.
This future narrative is interpolated with a "bedtime story" that Malkah, Shira's grandmother, tells the cyborg, Yod. This story is about Rabbi Judah Loew and the sixteenth-century golem of Prague and draws parallels between Yod's role and that of Joseph, the golem in Malkah's story. I used these parallels as a starting point to discuss the role of Jews in Western history. I explained to the students the ways that medieval Christians created ghettos and forced Jews into the occupations of moneylenders and bankers. We then compared Tikva to a neo-ghetto in which the Jews are allowed to live free in order to provide the dominant culture with specific services. In addition, we compared the super-human traits of Joseph the golem, strength and healing ability, with those of the cyborg. One of the most interesting parallels that Piercy presents is the similar attitudes that the creators, Avram and the Rabbi, hold towards their creations. To them, the golem and the cyborg are tools that can be sacrificed, while the other characters view them as humans.
Our ability to question the human status of the golem and the cyborg gave us the opportunity to explore the "humanity" of many of the other characters. Now, when I say humanity here, I'm not thinking about the characteristics of being a good person, such as kindness, empathy, etc. Instead, I am thinking about humanity as informed by post-human studies. I recently read a book Cyberculture, Cyborgs and Science Fiction: Consciousness and the Posthuman (2006) by William S. Haney II. This book cited another author Katherine Hayles, who wrote How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature and Informatics (1999). Haney uses two passages from Hayles' book to define the posthuman. I pulled those two passages to guide our discussion. The first is "the posthuman view thinks of the body as the original prosthesis we all learn to manipulate, so that extending or replacing the body with other prostheses becomes a continuation of a process that began before we were born" (Haney 2). The second is "[i]n the posthuman, there are no essential differences or absolute demarcations between bodily existence and computer simulation, cybernetic mechanism and biological organism, robot teleology and human goals" (Haney 2).
The first passage is particularly relevant to He, She and It because most of the humans are technologically enhanced for cosmetic or occupational reasons. Shira tells Yod: "We're all unnatural now. I have retinal implants. I have a plug set into my skull to interface with a computer. I read time by corneal implant. Malkah has a subcutaneous unit that monitors and corrects blood pressure and half her teeth are regrown" (Piercy 150). The most interesting character is Nili, who is human but her body is so heavily modified with implants, sensors and lasers that upon meeting her the characters think that she is a cyborg. Her actions and lack of emotion continue to make her seem more robotic than Yod. Serving as a foil for the cyborg, Nili fueled our conversation about what makes one human, biology or actions. The students saw the enhancements that Shira discussed above as very sci-fi. However, I quizzed them about how nose jobs, breast implants, lasik eye surgery, pacemakers, and artificial limbs might relate to the first passage. We referred back to Asimov's The Bicentennial Man and wondered if humans might one day begin a process that is the reverse of Andrew Martin's so that we become less and less organic. This, of course, led us to mention the woman who's had so many plastic surgeries.
The second passage allowed us to touch on many subjects that are contemporary. In He, She and It the characters work and play through a virtual interface where they appear as avatars and are able to manipulate their environment. The septuagenarian, Malkah, maintains several virtual relationships in which she represents herself as both males and females with various ages and sexual preferences. This led us to all sorts of conversations about online dating, Facebook (especially the social games), Second Life, and other cyberworlds we can enter. We thought about the possibilities of becoming someone else in a cyberworld. These changes of identity are always seen as the moves that a pedophile or stalker uses. We tried to think about more benign reasons for adopting cyber-identities, because society is getting to the point in which one could live a complete cyber-existence by telecommuting and by using online banking, shopping and social networks. Someone brought up Lt. Barclay's holodeck obsession on Star Trek: The Next Generation as an example of a type of mental illness that could be developing because of our cyber-existences.
Like all good literature, Piercy's book poses several big questions throughout the plot, but those questions relate to her readers and our world as well as the world she created. The students, for the most part, found this book interesting and relatable.
YA Genre Fiction Month: Ender's Game
"Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth."
Orson Scott Card's first story about Andrew "Ender" Wiggin has remained one of the most popular science fiction stories for young audiences ever since its publication as a novel in 1985. Considered to be one of the best Young Adult science fiction novels, Ender's Game is far better even than Card's own sequels to the novel. The story is simply told—a bragging point for Card in his introduction to the 1991 revised edition, against those who "play the game of literary criticism"—and its protagonist begins the story at the age of six, making the novel doubly appealing to young readers. It also presents a detailed and believable space-dwelling society, describing simply but thoroughly how life outside our planet might look.
The story, for those who don't know it, revolves around the ongoing war with the only known sentient alien species, termed the "buggers" because of their insectoid appearance. After the buggers' second invasion almost wiped out Earth's military forces, with the humans just barely pulling a victory, the government begins genetically manipulating children in the hopes of creating a military leader strong and intelligent enough to defeat the buggers once and for all. Ender is the third child of his family to be grown this way, leaving him with siblings who are exceptional, but flawed for the military's purposes. Only Ender has the mixture of strength, genius, and compassion needed to make their plans work, so he is chosen as a mere child to begin training at the extra-terrestrial Battle School. It is there that his teachers make him into a weapon to save the Earth.
Of particular interest are Card's predictions of future technologies that are surprisingly similar to what we see around us today. The most obvious is the anonymous method of written communication over "the nets." Two characters in particular make careers for themselves through pseudonymous writing on the public and electronic discussion groups. The only part of this prediction that seems unrealistic today is the belief that online discussions would ever be taken seriously by politicians. The other prediction is in the immersive electronic Game played by the Battle School children in their free time. Using an avatar to travel around a three-dimensional and fantastic world, solving puzzles and fighting battles in the meanwhile, their Game might as well be a version of World of Warcraft.
Ender's Game is not beyond criticism. The novel's plot feeds the natural but immature narcissism of young people by presenting a world that revolves around a brilliant young person rather than insisting on the need for young adults to assimilate themselves to the society which is much older and stronger than they are. (To be fair, this is a common problem in Young Adult novels, possibly the most common.) Even worse, it encourages a deep distrust of adults as cynical overlords who use children—the bright and perfect children—for horrible purposes. As Ender thinks to himself at one point, "The most important message was this: the adults are the enemy, not the other armies. They do not tell us the truth." The real world provides enough tension between generations without novelists stirring up further hatred and distrust. Somewhat less annoying is Card's blatant distaste for literary criticism and "encoded fiction," which unfortunately serves to make the novel unmemorable aside from its plot and emotional content, as there is no reason ever to go back and enjoy any beautifully-written passages. There's a fine line between wanting to write a straightforward story and being lazy and unimaginative.
But despite my reservations, Ender's Game is still one of the most memorable science fiction novels of the last few decades, and its flaws have not prevented its success. It is certainly the best of Card's novels that I've read, and it was clever enough that I didn't even suspect the twist ending until it hit me. A quick read that will never leave you bored, and might even make you think, Ender's Game will undoubtedly remain a Young Adult genre classic for years to come.
Philip K. Dickathon: Dr. Bloodmoney
Guest Blogger and WWEnd Member, Charles Dee Mitchell, has contributed a great many book reviews to WWEnd and we've invited him to contribute to our blog. This is the latest in Dee's series of Philip K. Dick reviews that he started on his blog www.potatoweather.blogspot.com. We'll be posting one every week until he runs out of reviews or gets tired of Philip K. Dick books.
Thank God for editors. PKD proposed two titles for this post-nuclear apocalypse novel: In Earth's Diurnal Course and A Terran Odyssey. Donald Wolheim at Ace came up with Dr. Bloodmoney: or How We Got Along After the Bomb. Wolheim's title might have been a flagrant effort to cash in on Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove: or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, but at least it did not include the word "diurnal," and it did give some hint to what the book is about.
This is one of the dozen or so novels PKD wrote in 1963/64, but due to the build up of back inventory, it was not published until 1965. It is surprisingly idyllic given the subject matter and the amount of amphetamines the author was ingesting at the time. There had been two post-nuclear bestsellers in the late 1950's, Pat Frank's Alas, Babylon — still, I understand, a favorite for middle school book reports — and Neville Shute's On the Beach, which as both a novel and film seemed determined to prove just how tedious it would be to wait for death from radiation poisoning. PKD gets in a sly dig at the latter in his own novel. Walt Dangerfield, a would-be Martian colonist stuck in eternal earth orbit, broadcasts music and readings for survivors on Earth. One of their most requested songs is Waltzing Matilda, the traditional Australian ballad that served as theme music to On the Beach.
As is his habit, PKD has little interest in what might be the actual effects of an atomic war. His characters go about their lives in Marin County pretty much as they would pre-holocaust. They hold town meetings, they have affairs, they gather mushrooms. They have a resident psychiatrist. They mostly walk or ride bicycles rather than use wood-burning or horse-drawn automobiles. As a community they are insular and suspicious of outsiders, but they should be since jealous outsiders might want to "nap" some vestiges of the good life they maintain. They are also blessed with the best handyman around, Hoppy Harrington, a "phoce," a diminutive for phocomel, those with a congenital deformity that produces flipper-like arms and legs. But Hoppy more than makes up for his shortcomings with his mobile machine and some very special powers. In an early scene, he fixes a turntable by healing it. He gets more dangerous later on.
I just finished this book yesterday, and I am trying to remember if it has a plot. I don't think it does. It really is a sort of pastoral — with mutants. Rats have learned to play the nose-flute. Cats have developed their own secret language, and dogs make a pitiful attempt at speaking English. By the novel's end, mail routes are opening again, and some of the characters feel the lure of the big city. They plan to go into the cigarette manufacturing business.


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TROTWOOD, Ohio (WDTN) – An effort to save the Trotwood Target store from closing takes place Saturday.
In early January, Target announced it will close its stores in Trotwood and Middletown come May 3. In Trotwood, the community is fighting back. More than 1800 people have signed a petition to try and change Target's plan.
A shop-in is planned for Saturday, February 1 to encourage anyone shop and spend money at the Shiloh Springs Store.


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Deputy Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos weighed in on Darren Dopp, saying his return to the payroll would be "another poor decision" by Gov. Eliot Spitzer.
Full statement on the jump.
"From the beginning, the Spitzer administration's misuse of the State Policer for partisan, political purposes has demonstrated the governor's poor decision-making and a complete lack of accountability to the public. New Yorkers have a right to know the depth of the abuse of our State Police and, without first reviewing all government and personal email correspondence relating to this matter and interviewing all involved individuals under oath, the truth will remain elusive.
"By returning Darren Dopp to a high-paying position within his administration before the ongoing investigaitons are completed and the matter is thoroughly resolved, Gov. Spitzer would be making another poor decision and further compromise both the intergrity of his administration and the public trust. The governor retains the ability to restore public's confidence in his administration. He must provide investigators with every email and direct all those involved to testify under oath about their actions. Anything less will reinforce the public's perception that the governor is willfully denying New Yorkers their right to know the truth."


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Handsome Hunky Troubled Bear Shifter
A Fated-Mate Left Behind
Can Love Prevail
Book 2 Of The Bear Rescue Series
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A couple of weeks ago they did a house in Rose Hill, not far from me. Since then there has been lots of complaints that they didn't deserve it that the writers of the complaints thought they were needier. I was wondering if this has happened in other areas. It really disgusts me that so many are complaining. Obviously, they are jealous, but it seems to me it's just sour grapes. The people whose place they picked had their house blown up from a gas leak or something while they were gone, luckily. It really was completely destroyed and those people had been down to LA. helping the hurricane victims. I don't know when the show will be aired. I also hadn't realized how many local people and businesses were involved in donating and helping. Thousands.
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OK, I didn't notice that #401570 was already fixed; closed. However, #406583 remains in sid. I assume that you acknowledge that it is an important eclipse bug, but it seems from your downgrade of #401819 that you wouldn't consider it serious. Is that right, and if so, why? It looks like a serious policy violation to me.Filipus Klutiero writes:Did this hesitation include making sure that #401570/#406583 is not a serious eclipse bug?both bugs are reported against swt-gtk and still open; it's fixed in the pkg-java svn.


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Dynavin are a leading brand producing some of best quality bespoke cameras on the market.
Once correctly installed, the VC-AU01 will automatically power on as soon as the vehicle is put into reverse delivering a PAL video signal via the included 6 metre RCA video cable signal to any monitor with an RCA reverse camera input. All Dynavin head units have an RCA reverse camera input and are fully compatible with the VC-AU01.
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There Will Be No Jake Plummer Comeback – DeadSpin
Jake Plummer joined KKFN in Denver to talk about him throwing the football around in Denver earlier this week, on the fans reaction to him throwing the other day, what kind of shape he is in, whether he gets an inkling where there is some percentage of him that wants to return to the NFL, if he is over the issues in the past with Mike Shanahan, and what bugs him about Tim Tebow.
PLAY BALL by Tony Villiotti – Draft Metrics
With the opening of baseball season upon us, DRAFTMETRICS got to thinking about the NFL draft in baseball terms. In this article the first three rounds of the drafts from 2002 through 2011 were reviewed and each player was placed into one of six categories (Home Run, Triple, Double, Single, Out, Too Soon to Tell). The focus was on the first three rounds because draftees from those rounds started 58% of NFL games from 2002-2011.
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Six years later, Mike Shanahan's draft secrecy has disappeared – Denver Post
The last time Mike Shanahan was on the hunt for a franchise quarterback, he didn't tell anybody outside of team headquarters.
Peyton Manning majoring in language arts while learning Denver Broncos' playbook – Denver Post
Peyton Manning already is one of the all-time great quarterbacks, not that his past has done the Broncos any good.
Peyton Manning blew off surprise visit by Seahawks coach Pete Carroll – Indy Star
The courtship of Peyton Manning gets an exhaustive look from Peter King in the next issue of Sports Illustrated, and might leave Pete Carroll blushing.
Nike sues Reebok in NYC over Tebow apparel – Denver Post
Nike went to court Wednesday to prove that Reebok is no shoo-in to promote New York Jets quarterback Tim Tebow on apparel.
Denver Broncos Blogs
Ryan Clady Contract: Broncos, Tackle Expected To Talk Extension Over Summer – SBNation
The Denver Broncos have had a rock at left tackle since the 2008 season: Ryan Clady. He's started in 64 out of 64 possible regular season games and two playoff games. That's even after partially tearing a patellar tendon in April 2010, which put the start of that season in jeopardy (he proved a fast healer).
Peyton Manning, John Fox and the Offense of Benign Neglect – Huffington Post
If Denver's John Fox were a woman, some folks would be wondering what, um, favors he provided in order to get another head coaching job. As it is, one assumes that he gives the greatest interview on the planet.
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Denver Broncos cheerleader Toni Damico has been picked as the 2012 face of Angela King Designs' AKD and Go Wild! Wear. Nearly 200 college and pro-sports dancers and cheerleaders from across the United States and Canada had applied.
Rating the Current Roster: A 5 Star Review – Part 1: Offense – MileHighReport
It feels like we've been out of football for an eternity already, yet it's actually been less than two months since the Giants upset the Patriots… again.
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Greg B from Denver wants to know what the Tracy Porter signing means for Denver second-year cornerback Chris Harris.
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Although Korea's cultural connections with China and Japan form a crucial part of its history, Korea also has a visually rich and technically sophisticated artistic tradition that is separate and distinct from that of its larger East Asian neighbors.
This publication introduces Korea's artistic achievement and places it in the context of its history and religions. Works from the Museum's permanent collection form the core of the discussion and are used to illustrate the diversity and beauty of Korean art. These include Buddhist paintings, celadon wares and white porcelain vessels, inlaid lacquerwares, and traditional musical instruments. The boxed set also provides useful teaching tools for the classroom, including maps, an illustrated timeline, a chronology, a glossary, lesson plans, questioning strategies, cross-cultural comparisons, and two large posters. In addition, there are bibliographies for educators and students as well as lists of relevant websites, cultural resources, and film and video resources.
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97 nissan maxima 3.0 parked it came back 2 hrs later all the fuel had pumped out the exhaust in the parking lot? Chnged plugs, oil, water, maf, crnk sensor, fuel pump relay? My wife had jump started a guy earlier that day? Any ideas?
Well I have changed oil, coolant, maf sensor, crank sensor, fuel pump relay, plugs, just about everything? My wife had given a guy a jump right before she parked and went into the mall, came out and 1/2 tank of gas had pumped out the tail pipe in the parking lot? Crazy huh lol
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Whole roasted pig, known in the Philippines as lechon, is one of the favorite dishes of Filipinos. During fiestas, birthdays, weddings, Christmas parties, or any other celebration, it is common to see this dish. It is, in fact, the highlight of most celebrations. There are even times when we crave lechon on ordinary days.
In Cagayan de Oro, which is known to be where some of the country's best lechon are found, there is good news. The city's first and currently only restaurant that offers eat-all-you-can lechon buffet (with other delicious Pinoy dishes)—the House of Native Lechon—is now open. Before you head off to enjoy their buffet, you may want to check out some tips on how you can best enjoy the lechon experience.
Most Flavorful Parts
Many people would agree that the most flavorful parts of a lechon are the skin, the ribs, and the belly. Here are the reasons most commonly given on why people love these three parts of a lechon:
- Skin – People love the crunchy goodness of lechon skin, and it helps that the layer of fat that typically clings to the skin adds to its flavor. The skin is especially good when the pig that is roasted is just a few months old (about four to six months) and has just a thin layer of fat. Sometimes there are even strips of meat that get roasted onto the skin, and these are very flavorful as well; these strips of meat make you enjoy lechon skin even more.
- Ribs – Among the things that make CDO lechon one of the best in the country (in the world, even) are the spices used by CDO lechoneros. These spices are typically stuffed inside the pig's belly prior to cooking, which is why the rib area is one of the best parts of a lechon; it has soaked up all the flavors and is therefore mouthwateringly good. And nibbling the meat from the bone is also a fun experience!
- Belly – Just like the ribs, the lechon belly part right next to it is also full of delicious flavors, having soaked up the goodness of the spices stuffed into the pig prior to roasting. Plus, the fact that the belly is all meat and no bone makes it the best part of a lechon for those who do not care much for nibbling on bones. Yes, you'll have to wait a while to get to that part, but it sure is worth the wait.
Enjoying Lechon
Lechon is enjoyable enough as it is, but there are ways for you to maximize your enjoyment of this all-time favorite Pinoy dish. Of course, each person has a different take on how one can best enjoy a serving of lechon, but where we are concerned, here are the best ways to optimize the lechon-eating experience:
- Eat with your bare hands. Yes, indeed. Kamayan is the way to go when you're eating lechon. Sure, it will taste just as delicious when you eat it using utensils, but the experience of going kamayan when you're eating lechon is unbeatable!
- Eat it with plain steamed rice. When there's lechon, it definitely is NOT the time to go on a no-rice diet. There's just something about the lechon-steamed rice combo that makes it oh-so-good. Try pairing lechon with any other food—fried rice, pasta, egg noodles—and you'll be sure to agree that plain steamed rice is the way to go.
- If you're one of those who love lechon skin, here's a tip: Look for the parts with the bubbles; these are usually the crispiest parts. Its crispiness is one of the reasons why people love lechon skin, so it's only logical for you to choose the crispiest part.
- If the layer of fat clinging to the skin is a bit thick, scrape it off. Yes, it adds to the skin's flavorful goodness, but it can also cause umay (nausea), which destroys the whole lechon experience. Give yourself the chance to eat more of your favorite lechon skin by doing away with the excess fat.
- Get the ice-cold cola out. Yes, you can eat lechon with any other drink, cold or otherwise. But once you try it with ice-cold soda, you probably won't want any other combo in the future. There are few things more satisfying than that burp you make after enjoying a lechon/steamed rice/ice-cold cola experience.
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State of the Union: Highlights from Obama's address
Some highlights from Obama's proposals.
Some highlights from Obama's proposals.
President Obama heads to KU on Thursday.
Republicans find little common ground with the President.
Text of President Obama's State of the Union address, as prepared for delivery and provided by the White House.
Highlights of the President's 6th State of the Union Address
Nino Williams recorded a career-high 22 points in a losing effort at Iowa State.
Area teams battled in mid-season tournaments including the Tonganoxie Invitational and Flint Hills Shootout.
Three deaths in as many weeks have officials warning of dangers
No injuries reported in the incident, but marijuana was found in the vehicle
Senate Majority Leader Terry Bruce criticized the bill, saying its proposed punishments were excessive.
KSNT News was there as the first tickets were given away.
The Topeka Police Department is currently looking for a suspect involved in an attempted abduction last Tuesday.
Putting his future with the franchise in doubt.
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Sporting Kansas City parted ways with forward Claudio Bieler on Tuesday after two seasons.
Accused of dousing her newborn daughter with accelerant, setting her on fire and leaving her in the middle of a road
Authorities say video captured her kicking a 16-month-old girl several times.
Will Republican-controlled Congress work with President Obama on any of his State of The Union goals?
Are reassuring state lawmakers that they will not be forced to cut projects, despite major drops in funding.
The charred multimillion-dollar mansion near Maryland's capital is the focus of the search for the six missing family members.
Oh, how the big night has changed.
For reducing the state's annual payments for public pensions would increase long-term costs by $3.7 billion.
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The timezone in Tri-City Golf Course is America/Whitehorse
Sunrise at 06:53 and Sunset at 17:28. It's light
Latitude. 46.2178°, Longitude. -119.1442°
Weather near Tri-City Golf Course; Report from Pasco, Tri-Cities Airport, WA 7.5km away
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Temperature: 1°C / 34°F
Wind: 5.8km/h Northwest
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Temperature: 1°C / 34°F
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- school;
- building(s) where instruction in one or more branches of knowledge takes place.
- Westgate Elementary School (1.5km)
- Mark Twain Elementary School (1.5km)
- Saint Josephs School (2km)
- Hawthorne Elementary School (2.1km)
- Fruitland School (2.2km)
- Kamiakin High School (2.3km)
- Park Middle School (2.6km)
- Tri-City Junior Academy (2.6km)
- Kennewick High School (2.7km)
- Southgate Elementary School (3.2km)
- Highlands Middle School (3.2km)
- Bethlehem Luthern School (3.3km)
- Mark Twain School (3.4km)
- Stevens Junior High School (3.5km)
- Tri-City Junior Academy (3.6km)
- Lincoln Elementary School (3.8km)
- Emerson Elementary School (3.8km)
- Kamiakin High School (3.8km)
- Edison Elementary School (4.1km)
- Saint Patrick School (4.1km)
- Robert Frost Elementary School (4.4km)
- Washington Elementary School (4.4km)
- Longfellow Elementary School (4.4km)
- Local Feature;
- A Nearby feature worthy of being marked on a map..
- Tri-City Golf Course (0km)
- The Highlands Center (1.4km)
- Midtown Plaza (1.6km)
- Kennewick Plaza (1.6km)
- Tri-Cities Center (3.4km)
- Court Street Plaza (3.9km)
- West Side Shopping Center (3.9km)
- Griggs Shopping Center (4.2km)
- Port Of Pasco (4.3km)
- Iglesia Bautista de Riverview (4.3km)
- park;
- an area, often of forested land, maintained as a place of beauty, or for recreation.
- Hatfield Park (0.9km)
- Underwood Park (1.7km)
- Fruitland Park (1.7km)
- Sanders Field (2.2km)
- John Day Park (2.7km)
- Keewaydin Park (2.7km)
- Layton Park (3.7km)
- Edgar Brown Memorial Stadium (3.8km)
- populated place;
- a city, town, village, or other agglomeration of buildings where people live and work.
- Kennewick (1.1km)
- Pasco West (2.2km)
- South Highlands (3.2km)
- West Highlands (3.2km)
- Riverview (3.2km)
- Port Of Kennewick (4km)
- Riverview (4.1km)
- tower;
- a high conspicuous structure, typically much higher than its diameter.
- KORD-AM (Pasco) (2.1km)
- KOTY-FM (Richland) (4km)
- KTCR-AM (Kennewick) (4km)
- KGDN-FM (Pasco) (4km)
- KOLU-FM (Pasco) (4.2km)
Accommodation around Tri-City Golf Course
- cemetery;
- a burial place or ground.
- Riverview Heights Cemetery (2.3km)
- Columbia Memorial Gardens (2.5km)
- Desert Lawn Memorial Park (3.6km)
- island;
- a tract of land, smaller than a continent, surrounded by water at high water.
- Clover Island (2.7km)
- Wade Island (3km)
- valley;
- an elongated depression usually traversed by a stream.
- Zintel Canyon (2.2km)
- airport;
- a place where aircraft regularly land and take off, with runways, navigational aids, and major facilities for the commercial handling of passengers and cargo.
- dam;
- a barrier constructed across a stream to impound water.
- Columbia Park Dam (0.5km)
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- Tri-Cities Airport (Washington) airport airport
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- Wallula Gap
- Fast Flux Test Facility landmark nuclear faci
- Columbia Generating Station landmark building
Airports close to Tri-City Golf Course
Grant co international(MWH), Grant county airport, Usa (127.5km)
Fairchild afb(SKA), Spokane, Usa (220.9km)