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Every holiday season, my husband and I have hosted a get-together with friends. Sometimes, it is before Christmas; sometimes, it is after. We try to fit our party in around all of the other hustle and bustle and make it a time to just relax and enjoy the community of friendship. As the hostess with the mostess, I put together an elaborate buffet of appetizers. There have been upwards of 20 different kinds of nibbles and snacks spread across my kitchen for guests to come and go and nosh on as they please. Needless to say, this takes A LOT of preparation.
I usually rise early on the day of the party and hit the kitchen running. I mix and mash and scoop and stir. I simmer and bake and roast and roll. Slicing and dicing and whirling countless ingredients into edible munchies is a full day's work. And, I do it
This means that every spatula, spoon, knife, fork, pot, pan, bowl, plate, and platter has to be
I hate washing dishes. In non-holiday times, I have been known to put it off until there are no dinner plates left in the cupboard. I once owned a second set of mixing bowls just so that I wouldn't have to wash dishes during a large baking session. And, once upon a time, while prepping for my holiday party, I would leave all of the dirty dishes to wash at the end.
And then I was caught.
One holiday, I had been frantically cooking all day. I barely had time to shower and dress between sliding pans of dainty appetizers in and out of the oven. I had STACKS and STACKS of dirty dishes piled in the sink. And, suddenly, it was time. Guests were arriving, and I wasn't ready. I was caught. In a frenzy, I tossed Bacon Rollups and Roasted Garlic Dip into serving dishes, and as some shocked and amused guests watched, I stuffed dirty dishes into trash bags and stashed them in the basement.
It was quite the source of entertainment during that party, and I was more than a little embarrassed to be caught with such a disgraceful pile of dirty dishes giving away all the chaos of my day. After all, the party's host wants to appear calm and relaxed and as if the prep that just about killed you was just as easy as pie, right? We aren't supposed to be human, and we certainly aren't supposed to have garbage bags of dirty dishes hiding in our basement. That was when I learned the hard lesson of something so simple that you won't believe I didn't do it before.
Start all party prep with a sink full of the hottest, soapy water possible. Wash and rinse and dry as you go. Reuse the same (washed, and rinsed, and dried) spatula for every dish. Don't dirty another bowl; wash and dry the one you just used.
Of course, your guests will have to find another topic of interest when they don't see you stuffing the Hefty bags with pots and pans, but I think they can handle that. And you can handle (and enjoy) the party much better if you don't have any dirty secrets lurking in the basement. ;-)
And what to serve at this party where you have washed every pot and pan and spoon and measuring cup as you used it? How about Mini Ham Sandwiches with Honey-Mustard Dipping Sauce? They aren't anything fancy, but they certainly are cute, and fun, and tasty, and ALWAYS disappear when I serve them. Don't skip the sauce. It really is what makes the sandwiches. If dipping isn't in the cards for your event, spread some of the honey-mustard inside the biscuits before layering in the ham. (And, if you want to simplify it even further, skip baking the biscuits and use King's Hawaiian Rolls instead. Yummy.)
So...that's what I have for you; wash as you go and make some Mini Ham Sandwiches with Honey-Mustard Dipping Sauce. The rest is up to you, but I hope you have fun and enjoy your holiday season.
1 (12 ounce)can refrigerated buttermilk biscuits (the layer type doesn't work as well)
Stone Ground Mustard
2 chopped green onions
1/4 cup butter, softened
20 slices deli ham
3 tablespoons Dijon mustard
2 tablespoons mayonnaise
2 tablespoons honey
Heat oven to 400°F.
Cut each biscuit in half crosswise (to make 2 half-moon shapes); place on ungreased cookie sheet.
Spread a little stone-ground mustard evenly over tops of biscuits.
Bake for 10 to 14 minutes or until golden brown.
Place on wire rack to cool.
Meanwhile, in a small bowl, combine onions and butter, mix well.
Split each cooled biscuit; spread both halves with butter mixture.
Roll ham slices loosely and place on bottom biscuit halves; cover with top halves to make sandwiches.
In another bowl, combine dipping sauce ingredients; blend well. (Honestly, I never measure the sauce ingredients and just mix to taste.)
Transfer to small serving dish.
Serve the sandwiches arranged around the dipping sauce on a platter. (Yield: 20 mini sandwiches)


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Tyler Cowen is asked "which have influenced your view of the world:"
The books are in no intended order, although the list came out in a broadly chronological stream:
1. Plato, Dialogues. I read these very early in life and they taught me about trying to think philosophically and also about meta-rationality.
2. The Incredible Bread Machine, by Susan Love Brown, et.al. This was the first book I ever read on economics and it got me excited about the topic.
3. Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal, by Ayn Rand. This got me excited about the idea that production is what matters and that producers must have the freedom and incentives to operate.
4. Friedrich A. Hayek, Individualism and Economic Order. The market as a discovery procedure and why socialist calculation will not succeed. (By the way, I'll toss a chiding tsk-tsk the way of Wolfers and Thoma.)
5. John Maynard Keynes: The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money. Keynes is one of the greatest thinkers of economics and there are new ideas on virtually every page.
6. John Stuart Mill, Autobiography. This got me thinking about how one's ideas change, and should change, over the course of a lifetime. Plus Mill is a brilliant thinker and writer more generally.
7. Willard van Orman Quine, Word and Object. This is actually a book about how to arrive at a deeper understanding than the one you already have, although I suspect few people read it that way.
8. Reasons and Persons, by Derek Parfit. This convinced me that a strictly individualistic approach to ethics will not in general succeed and introduced me to new ways of reasoning and new ways to plumb for depth.
9. Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae. I don't think the ideas in this book have influenced me very much, but reading it was, for whatever reason, the impetus to start writing about the economics of culture and also to give a broader focus to what I write. Alex, by the way, was the one who recommended it to me.
10. Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Things Past. This is still the best book on interiority.
I'd also like to mention the two books by Fischer Black, although a) I cannot easily elevate one over the other, and b) I capped the list at ten. La Rochefoucauld's Maxims also deserves honorary mention, on self-deception and related issues. Plus there is Shakespeare — also for thinking with depth — although I cannot point to a single book above the others. Harold Bloom's The Western Canon comes to mind as well.
I would encourage other bloggers to offer similar lists.
Peter Suderman at The American Scene:
I'm not sure if the books below are truly the absolute most influential in my life, but they're certainly the ones that immediately stick out in my mind as having stuck with me over time.
Fahrenheit 451 — Ray Bradbury: I've always been a little perplexed by the book's reputation as a defense of free speech. It is, of course, but that's not its most important point by far. Instead, it's a novel about mental debilitation and loss of empathy induced by media overload — in particular, overload on shallow, visual, electronic media. It's also a novel about the love of stories, and the way written stories in particular can provide humans with meaning, purpose, and escape; by the book's end, the hero joins an outcast community in which individuals devote themselves not only to learning works of literature, but to immersing themselves in them, fusing their identities with these works and, in a sense, becoming them. For reasons that should be obvious, I've long found this wonderful and tremendously appealing.
Videohound's Guide to Cult Flicks and Trash Pics: Before the Internet, and thus before easy access to IMDB and the rest of the digital cinemaverse, cinephiles had to rely on incomplete reference books in order to familiarize themselves with back catalog films. For years, I poured over Videohounds' cult film guide almost daily, and its sensibility — a quirky mix of giddy, passionate, erudite, snarky, and critical — helped shape my appreciation of and attitude toward pulp ever since.
The Caves of Steel — Isaac Asimov: As an eight year old first reading the book, I loved Asimov's cleverly constructed murder mystery story, and as an already-devoted sci-fi geek (Star Trek was a staple in my household), I loved the intricate future world Asimov designed even more. But what stuck with me most was the slightly detached, slightly cranky, cerebral-but-not-stuck-up quality of both the detective protagonist, Elijah Baley, and the storytelling itself. As with most of Asimov's characters (and, as I understand, Asimov himself), Baley was a hyper self-aware invert somewhat vexed by people and social situations, but who solved problems by thinking them through as thoroughly as possible and accepting whatever results, often imperfect, came of this method. Perhaps to my detriment, I related to this quite a bit and found it a useful model for understanding human relations.
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns — Frank Miller: I got my first copy of this at nine or ten years old, and I literally read and reread it until it fell apart (for a while I held it together with duct tape, but eventually I lost so many pages that it was no longer worth saving). Miller's fusion of gruff noir sentiment and comic book action helped define the way I think about pop art and genre storytelling; sure, it's low culture — frequently crude and base — but it's executed with such verve that it somehow makes it into the upper middlebrow (or near enough) anyway.
Ender's Game — Orson Scott Card: Speaking of hyper-cerebral! Scott Card's later books descend into a near-parody of the Asimovian worldview, with protagonists who presume (and act upon) an absurdly concrete and knowable understanding of human behavior. But while you can find hints of this in Ender's Game, it works anyway, in large part because of the young age of its heroes. These days, I prefer the first two sequels, Speaker for the Dead and Xenocide, both of which are more mature in their outlook. But the original is the one I've read most often, and the one I think of most.
The Catcher in the Rye — J.D. Salinger: Yes, another novel about a social outcast who spends too much time in his head. But it's a classic for a reason, and an enduring portrait of adolescent questioning.
American Pastoral — Philip Roth: Probably the finest work of prose in the bunch, and arguably also the most mature, it's one of those novels that's both impressive and gripping — not only do you admire it, but you can't stop flipping pages as you do.
He doesn't know me and I don't know him, but it seemed like an interesting idea, and I needed something to write tonight. Note that these books are some of the influential books in my life, not the most influential or the best books I've ever read. Like Tyler, this is top-of-my-head stuff, not a definitive list.
1. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams. This book (and the subsequent "trilogy" of five books — I haven't read "And Another Thing" yet, so I'm not sure if I consider it canon or not) defined my humor, my geekiness, my wit, my insight into our species and what a silly, messed-up set of creatures we are.
2. Dracula, by Bram Stoker. I bought an edition of this called "The Essential Dracula" back when I was a kid, and it got me into literary analysis long before I ever minored in English in college. Here was a pulp story about a supernatural villian told in an interesting way, but when I read the analysis on it, I realized it was actually a commentary on class and wealth, on Victorian sensibility and sex, and the proper modern balanced up against the great old evil myths of history.
3. The Dark Knight Returns, by Frank Miller. Batman was my favorite long before I read this book, but this series taught me about how you can deconstruct a legend, take it over, and place it in your own time. I remember reading that Miller wanted to write this because he was worried — Batman, to him, was always an old man figure, and Miller was rapidly approaching the age at which he imagined Batman had always been. So in this book, Miller pushes the clock back, and turns Batman into a guy who will always be the old grumpy bastard. Not to mention the Joker's death scene — just a perfect ending to that mythical relationship.
4. Jennifer Government, by Max Barry. I found this book later than the other books on this list so far, but it's one of my favorite books, and it's the first book that really convinced me that I could sit down and write a novel. Not only is it a cracking good and funny read, but it was written by Barry while he was working at HP — in short, he was like me, a guy stuck in a tech job and trying to write fiction in the evenings about the geeky stuff he knew. I still haven't come up with a premise or a book this good, but I am still working on it.
5. The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoevsky. My high school teacher told us that this was the best novel ever written, and though I didn't believe her at first, I reread it a few years later, and eventually came around to her point of view. It's not my favorite novel at all, but yes, in terms of voice and story and themes, it could well be the best novel ever written.
6. In the Hall of the Dragon King, Stephen R. Lawhead. There's nothing really special about this book — it's straight fantasy, with a kid who starts out humbly but eventually has to save the world with all of his magical buddies. But this was the first fantasy book I ever read, and so it was my introduction to the genre that I keep finding myself coming back to again and again. Nowadays, fantasy is super popular, and there are all sorts of subgenres and different takes, and it's much more of a commodity. But this book hearkens back to when it all started for me: a little pudgy kid who was pretty unpopular who found all sorts of magical worlds and wonder in the pages of a book.
7. Snow Crash, by Neal Stephenson. As if you didn't already know I was a nerd — it's cliche to like this book at this point. But still, this was my introduction to cyberpunk. Nowadays, I think that The Diamond Age is a very much superior book, and I think Neuromancer should be much more respected for its influence and role in the creation of the genre. But Snow Crash was the first one I read that really vibed with me — Neuromancer was always a little too intellectual when you compared it to Hiro Protagonist's pizza delivery adventures.
8. The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan. If you want to talk lifetime, this might not register quite yet, as it's only in the past year or so that this book has influenced me. Still, if you want to talk quality over quantity, this book is more or less responsible for all the thinking I've done in the past year about what I'm eating and how I'm dealing with food in general. There are quite a few factors that have influenced my changes in lifestyle over the past 16 months or so, but this book is a big one of them.
9. Gamma World, 4th edition by James M. Ward and Gary Jaquet. I'll come clean: my introduction to roleplaying games wasn't through D&D. I never actually played D&D much as a kid — I was in that weird spot where the few friends I had were too cool to concern themselves with video games or D&D dice. But I did buy this book somewhere and I poured over it for hours, reading up on character creation and various weapons and how to design settings for players this postapocalyptic world. I only remember playing this once with my brother, and he didn't have any interest in it at all (partly because I didn't really understand it myself, but mostly because he didn't really care), but I was so darn fascinated by the idea of it.
10. The Holy Bible. Let's be honest here — I would almost argue that anyone who says they weren't influenced by this one is lying. But even if you want to claim that this book isn't a part of your life, I'll admit that it's been a big part of mine. I don't mean to evangelize — personally, I have no real idea what exactly I believe right now, and that doesn't give me any position to tell anyone else what they should or shouldn't believe. I figure, as long as you're not hurting yourself or someone else, more power to you. But from "In the beginning" to "Amen," I would argue that there isn't a part of anyone's life this book hasn't influenced in some way. You can talk about quotes, you can talk about story (almost all of our stories involve some sort of messianic figure, and who's the most messianic figure you know?), you can talk about laws and politics and gender relations and wars, and you name it, this book's had a hand in it. And even if you want to get personal, I went to a Lutheran school — I know all the stories of Jacob and Esau (oh hi Lost) and Isaiah and Solomon and David and Jesus and Peter and Paul and so on. Like it or not, if you want to list influential books, I'm putting this one on there.
1. David Halberstam, The Best and the Brightest. My take-away from that book might be described as "The Exclusive Country Club Theory." He makes foreign policy in the 1950's and early 1960's in the United States sound as if it was the province of an exclusive country club of people with a certain temperament and background. Wall Street lawyers, mostly. I have to say that I have carried this model with me for a long time. To this day, I view the relationship among Treasury, the Fed, the New York Fed, and large financial institutions in Exclusive Country Club terms. These people vet one another, agree with one another, and support one another. They do not question whether their interests coincide with those of the rest of the country–they just assume that the country depends on their institutions and their class leadership.
2. George Goodman, aka 'Adam Smith,' The Money Game and Supermoney. He was the Michael Lewis of his time–a great storyteller who also understood the substance of finance. I think his books still read well, although I could understand it if others find the stories themselves too dated. These books sparked my interest in finance theory and in the temptation to both believe and refuse to believe in efficient markets.
3. Carl Shapiro and Hal Varian, Information Rules. Again, you may find that the examples seem old, but no better book has been written on the economic issues of the information-driven economy. Among other things, this book convinced me that Price Discrimination Explains Everything.
4. Ray Kurzweil, The Age of Spiritual Machines. At first, I did not buy it. However, I have mostly come around. It is now possible to evaluate his predictions for 2009 (made around 1997). He did score with this one (p. 190):
Computers routinely include wireless technology to plug into the ever-present worldwide network, providing reliable, instantly available, very-high-bandwidth communication. Digital objects such as books, music albums, movies, and software are rapidly distributed as data files through the wireless network, and typically do not have a physical object associated with them.
However, for the most part, his predictions are far too aggressive. He was about right on hardware capability, somewhat optimistic on software capability (he thought that functions like language translation would be pretty much mastered by now), clearly too optimistic on the emergence of applications (he predicted computer-controlled cars on main highways by now) and ludicrously optimistic about the speed at which education and health care will be transformed by technology.5. Amity Shlaes, The Forgotten Man. Folks on the left scorn this book, and it is not without its flaws. But ultimately, I think the left hates Shlaes not for what she gets wrong but what she gets right. What she gets right pokes huge holes in the high school book narrative of the Depression (Herbert Hoover sat back and did nothing, Roosevelt saved the economy). My takeaway from this book is the importance of the battle over historical narrative. We see that today in the determination of the left to blame the financial crisis entirely on "free-market ideology," even though that narrative is not such a good fit for the facts.
6. George Gilder, Microcosm. This was his history of the microprocessor. My guess is that it will not read well today, but at the time his emphasis on the relative unimportance of the materials in computers (he refers to silicon as "sand") stimulated me to focus on intangibles in the modern economy.
7. Thomas Sowell, The Vision of the Anointed. This book got me started thinking about the origins of the differences between the left and the right. I do not think anyone has fully satisfactory answers, but it is a fascinating question.
8. Amar Bhide, The Origin and Evolution of New Businesses. He breaks down the business ecosystem into two dimensions–degree of capital intensity and degree of ambiguity, and he gets remarkable mileage out of the resulting matrix.
9. Bill James, The Baseball Abstact, 1987. Others can be equally analytical about baseball. What is striking about Bill James is how well he wrote–when he cared. If only Amar Bhide wrote this well…
10. Ernest Graham, The Wind in the Willows. The character of Toad is brilliantly drawn and offers great insights.
11. Neal Stephenson, The Diamond Age and Snow Crash. How I came to understand nanotechnology and competitive government, respectively.
1. Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell. For me it all started with Sowell. In hindsight what intrigued me about the book was not the economics, but Sowell's ability to use human reason to understand the world, but in a concrete way. Call it empirical philosophy.
2. Moral Theory by David Oderberg. A defense of natural rights morality against Peter Singer and other utilitarians, but this also inspired by interest in philosophy.
3. The Myth of Monogamy by David Barash. The first work of sociobiology that I'd ever read and it opened my eyes. Interestingly enough, it also removed the last glimmer of the belief that Judeo-Christian sexual morality was an obselete relic of the past. It is about creating peace in the war between the sexes more than avoiding out of wedlock childbirths.
4. Civil Rights by Thomas Sowell. I still think this is Sowell's best book. Takes a birds eye view of culture and cultural values and shows why it matters.
5. Reasonable Faith by William Lane Craig. I used to be an atheist and began my walk with God with a very shaky and weak faith. This strengthened me.
6. Microeconomics by Samuel Bowles. Let me slough off my neoclassical chains and learn some real economics, and made me appreciate the need for social norms and cultural models of "life strategies".
7. Luxury Fever by Robert Frank. A lot of this book was fluff, but the crucial insight of people in an arms race with each other for relative rank (social status) reoriented my thinking about incentives and taxes. I now realize that it brought me to the economic center.
8. Choice Theory: A Very Short Introduction by Michael Allingham. Opened up the world of political philosophy.
9. The Blank Slate by Steven Pinker. I knew a lot of the material already but the section on children and behavioral genetics opened my eyes. Culture > family.
10. Herbert Gintis' Amazon Book Reviews. Ok, I'm cheating a bit. If I wanted to conform to the challenge then I could put his book The Bounds of Reason, but after reading all of his book reviews a couple times I'd already been acquainted with the major points he'd made. Opened my eyes to really good work in the social sciences.
E.D. Kain at The League:
I have thought about this some, and come to the decision that the books I read as a child were by far the most influential – far more influential than anything I read later as a college student or the ones I read nowadays. So here's a list, from memory, of the most influential books I read as a child.
The Lord of the Rings – This one is the obvious choice for a fantasy reader, I suppose. I read it in fourth grade for the first time and loved it, and have read it several times since. It is still the definitive work of epic fantasy, I believe. The only downside is that so many people attempted to imitate Tolkien when they should have been writing their own ideas.
The Prydain Chronicles – Lloyd Alexander was never as well known as Tolkien, but his Prydian books were wonderful young adult fantasy novels steeped in Welsh myth. So while some of the characters mirrored those in Tolkien's Middle Earth, the stories themselves were unique and interesting and lively. I read these ones countless times.
The Dark is Rising Sequence – This series taps into the old Welsh and British mythology fairly heavily, mixing the modern world and Merlin and time travel together in an epic clash between good and evil. One of many books I read and loved that transports us from the mundane world into one much darker and more fierce.
A Wrinkle in Time – This was one of those books that really stopped me in my tracks. Free will, conformity, and the seduction of evil are all present here.
The Giver – Another glimpse into totalitarianism and conformity and the dangers of 'sameness' and ignorance of history. Less fantastical than my typical childhood read, but sort of shocking also.
The Bridge to Terabithia – They made a movie about this book recently. Please don't watch it. Sometimes movies can enrich the book experience, but not when they are mangled by over-Disneyfication. Terabithia helped me understand tragedy and loss better.
The Castle in the Attic – To be honest, I can barely remember this book, but like Narnia it helped transport me into another world – something I did a lot of as a kid.
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court – This was a good, funny, cynical take on the King Arther stories. Very helpful to round out all that heroism and chivalry with some good, honest, witty realism.
Narnia – Like the Lord of the Rings, these books are simply staples of young adult fantasy.
King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table – I have read so many King Arthur books at this point I can barely keep track of them. This was one of the first.
I Am the Cheese – This was far more dystopian a tale than I typically read as a child, and still sort of haunting whenever I think about it.
Some honorable mentions:
Watership Down, Lord of the Flies, Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh, The Wind in the Willows, The Last Unicorn, the Redwall books, the books of Roald Dahl and many others…
So my list in no order:
— 1. Derick Parfit, Reasons and Persons: This is my alternative to a theological system or religious belief, the set of preposterous-to-those-who-don't-believe-it-yet ideas that underlies how I think about morality, who we are, and what it all means.— 2. Friedrich Nietszche, On the Genealogy of Morals: I first picked up Nietszche because his image has a kind of appeal to smart, pretentious, angry, lonely teenage boys. But this is a really important book! The fact that Caplan "ultimately didn't learn much of substance" from Nietszche except the value of being arrogant strikes me as telling.
— 3. Daniel Dennett, Consciousness Explained: The precise content of Dennett's ideas about human consciousness isn't important to me, but the practical methods at work are. I'm drawn to Wittgeinstein's thing about how you need to "show the fly the way out of the flybottle" rather than "solve" these timeless dilemmas, but I find Wittgeinstein almost impossible to read and didn't understand what he was saying at all when I tried. Dennett I think gave me an example of the shewing.
— 4. William McNeil, Plagues & Peoples: This had a kind of revelatory quality to me, the idea that everything you thought was important about history was actually kind of trivial and the real determinants of human destiny are something else entirely. Guns, Germs, and Steel is arguably the better book in this genre, but I only ever read it because I'd read P&P first so I'm giving McNeil the nod.
— 5. Maxine Hong Kingston, Tripmaster Monkey: For two reasons. One is that I used to be the kind of jerk who thought education was being ruined by PC demands to represent more women and minority writers. Then I wound up randomly assigned freshman year to a class that was all about women and minority writers. And damnit, if some of the books weren't really good! Turns out I didn't have it all figured out when I was 18. This was my favorite of the bunch, and from it I acquired my love of pastiche. If you like "Miley Cyrus and American Exceptionalism" you have Kingston to thank.
— 6. Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes From Underground: The very beginning from "I am a sick man" to "I will talk about myself" is the greatest stretch of prose in human history. Dostoevsky is also an illustration of the power of great writing to convey radically unsound or even totally nonsensical ideas. And at the end of the day, coming to grasp the difference between the true, the right, and the beautiful is hugely important. Many if not most of the most compelling artistic visions are espousing somewhat crazy ideas, and sober thinking about big issues is boring.
— 7. Richard Rorty, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature: This books is ultimately why I stopped trying to get good grades and go to grad school. Most people, of course, don't suffer from the "might want to be a professional philosopher when I grow up" problem and don't necessarily need to be un-bewitched about the nature of the enterprise. But Rorty more generally is the summation of a whole series of thinkers on the Hume-Wittgeinst-Quine-Sellars trajectory who teach a deflationary way of approaching problems.
— 8. Susan Moller Okin, Justcie, Gender, and the Family: I think that to a lot of heterosexual left-of-center men, distinctively feminist ideas can easily seem to be either trivial or else censorious and annoying. I know some men who say their thinking about this was changed when they had a daughter, which makes sense. For me, though, it was Okin that showed that there were intellectually important claims here and that the feminist revolution is likely to continue to challenge the status quo in important ways for years to come.
— 9. Gregory Clark, A Farewell to Alms: I feel like this book is too new and non-classic and I read it too recently for it to deserve a place on this list. But I'm constantly hearing or reading things that remind me of it, and wanting to tediously explain Clark's whole thesis to people. It's certainly not convincing in all respects, but I think it's the model of how to frame a big question and attack it.
— 10. Thomas Kuhn, The Copernican Revolution: I actually find Structure a bit obscurantist in certain respects that encourages misreadings. Certainly it's an important classic, but I think I think I would have found it totally unconvincing had I not read Kuhn's earlier and more accessible book first (and thanks to Michael Rescorla for structuring the tutorial that way). Suffice it to say that the story you think you know about how a diligent empiricist looked at the stars and debunked religious superstition about planetary orbits is totally wrong.
Tyler Cowen has a list of bloggers who have participated
Jason Kuznicki at The League:
Following the meme, here are the ten books that changed my life the most.
- The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand. This book de-Catholicized me, or at least it began the process. It set me on the path to libertarianism, after I'd read Atlas Shrugged. It offered a sense of life, and a lifelong obsession. I still live here a lot of the time.
- The Once and Future King by T. H. White. The most insightful book about government ever written for young people. It taught me that government is a nasty business, even at its best. I have never since been able to see government as noble in the way that I think most people do.
- Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution by Simon Schama. Sparked another lifelong interest — the French Revolution, which was also a nasty business, but an instructive one. After years of reading in French history, I have all kinds of complaints with this book, but it's still a great read.
- Candide by Voltaire. I pick this one out of Voltaire's many short stories both because it's one of the longer ones — plausibly, it really is a book — and also because it's familiar. Voltaire's style, his absurdism, and his sense of justice have always appealed to me.
- The Book of Predictions by David Wallechinsky, Amy Wallace and Irving Wallace. Published in 1981. Obscure but fascinating; its influence would be hard for me to overstate. Every year on New Year's Day I revisit this book to see what various people got right and wrong about the future, which I've been lucky enough to live to see. Patterns have emerged over time, and these patterns have deeply influenced how I think about society.Lesson one: psychics are never worth your time. The most accurate forecaster in the book is F. M. Esfandiary, by a landslide (yes, that guy). He got many things wrong, but it's clear that he was in another league from all the rest.The biggest mistake made by nearly all forecasters (though not so much by Esfandiary) is to think that the future would be controlled by a central agency or authority. No one imagined how decentralized we would be in 2010. We were blindsided by a mostly libertarian, decentralizing technological revolution. This is a tremendously good thing. Most predictors were pessimists, and they were mostly wrong.
- Island by Aldous Huxley. It's hard to read or understand this book without Brave New World, but Island is a positive statement of Huxley's beliefs, not a negative one, so what he really thinks comes across more clearly. It's also the only utopian society in fiction that I'd ever really want to live in. The others either leave me cold or make me want to run away as fast as I can. I'd have some problems with Huxley's utopia, but I think I could live in it.
- Discipline and Punish by Michel Foucault. Sort of a stand-in for all of his other works. Didn't dare cite The Order of Things because that one's so hard to understand that I'm not sure whether it's had an influence on me. Whenever I try self-consciously to "be" a libertarian in my writing, I often end up sounding like Foucault.
- Virtually Normal by Andrew Sullivan. Andrew would do better to blog less and to write more in print. He's an extraordinary prose stylist, and maybe among the best of all time, when he slows down. When he blogs, he's repetitive and formulaic. I learned to write by reading Virtually Normal. It was also the first book I ever read about gay politics, and it seemed just so clear, so right, and so wise.
- Darwin's Dangerous Idea by Daniel Dennett. This is the closest I've ever read to a convincing theory of everything. The book is too modestly titled, however, because while Darwin is certainly the key to the story, we also get Diderot, Hume, Leibniz, Popper, Gould, Penrose, and a host of others. It's an intellectual tour de force, and especially remarkable for its linkage of biological evolution to a theory of mind.
- Revolution and Rebellion in the Early Modern World by Jack Goldstone. This book nearly destroyed my faith in non-quantitative historical methods. I take it as a reminder that while philosophy may be a tyrant, she is a tyrant with short, pudgy little arms.
I've written this sort of thing before. The mainstays on my list are John Steinbeck's "Grapes of Wrath," Tom Geoghegan's "Which Side Are You On?," Abraham Joshua Heschel's "Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity," Richard Ben Cramer's "What It Takes" and maybe a handful of others.
But I always feel like a fraud.
These books meant a lot to me, but they were much less influential in my thinking — particularly in my current thinking — than a variety of texts that carry consider less physical heft. Years spent reading the Washington Monthly, American Prospect and New Republic transformed me from someone interested in politics into someone interested in policy. So, too, did bloggers like, well, Matthew Yglesias, Kevin Drum and Tyler Cowen. In fact, Cowen, Brad DeLong, Mark Thoma and a variety of other economics bloggers also get credit for familiarizing me with a type of basic economic analysis that's consistently present in my approach to new issues.
Much of my emphasis on the institutions of American government and the processes by which they work (or don't) came from my relationship with Mark Schmitt, first through his blog and then through his editorship at the American Prospect. That was cemented, of course, by reporting deeply on health-care reform, which is an opportunity that TAP gave me but that few other outlets would've been even mildly interested in letting me pursue. I consider reading the blogger Demosthenes use the word "props" in relation to politics as something near to an epiphany; it was the first time I realized that I could speak about Washington in a language I recognized.
1. Clive James, Visions Before Midnight or The Crystal Bucket. His TV criticism. I think I read one or other these when I was twelve or thirteen, having bought them on holidays somewhere. Not exactly Leavis or Empson, I know. But it taught me a lot about how to write, encouraged me to pretend I knew about the literary stuff James habitually referred to in passing, and I'm pretty sure helped make me an insufferable teenaged shit.
2. Steven Vogel, Life's Devices. Another random bookshop discovery. This is a book about biomechanics but also, and more importantly, a terrific introduction to what is means to do science. A lot of it went past me when I read it first, but it was still irresistible in part because (as I remember) it's written with this quiet wit right the way through. Chock full of trivia that isn't really trivia. Strangely enough, I think Vogel still teaches here at Duke. I should thank him personally for writing such a great book.
3. Bernd Heinrich, Ravens in Winter. Another book by a biologist. (Are you seeing my imagined career path here?) Another classic book on the practice of science. Heinrich follows ravens around in Vermont, trying to figure out why the hell they would share carrion they find. I'd recommend this book to anyone.
4. Thomas Schelling, Micromotives and Macrobehavior. So clever, so unassuming, so it made me want to be an economist. Then I took some economics and it wasn't much like Schelling at all.
5. Mary Douglas, Purity and Danger. I think this book made me want to do sociology. Bluntly creative. Briskly suggestive. Deeply frustrating.
6. David Warren Sabean, Power in the Blood: Popular Culture and Village Discourse in Early Modern Germany. I don't know a damn thing about medieval German history, but I had to read this book very, slowly, carefully and repeatedly as part of a Sociology of Community course as a third year undergraduate. I learned a tremendous amount in the process. The cases are fascinating: a girl branded as a witch, a man who refused to say his prayers, the ritual burial of a bull at a crossroads. The analysis is subtle: Sabean is excellent on the fine grain of relations between the State and the peasantry, and how religion and cultural meaning generally express these relations. But for me it was the first academic monograph I really grasped and, in the process, came to understand how hard it must be to write a book that good.
7. Pierre Bourdieu, Outline of a Theory of Practice. I had to read chunks of it as a postgrad in Ireland, and as my reaction was one of constant irritation at Bourdieu's writing style coupled with the feeling that he was getting at something important. I reread the first few chapters recently and was struck by how direct (and properly documented) its engagement with the literature was in comparison with much of the rest of his work, so I guess professional socialization has had its effect on me. But I was also surprised that it was as compelling as I remembered.
8. Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray, The Bell Curve. This came out the year before I moved to the U.S. for graduate school. The book and the ensuing controversy around it taught me a lot about American academia, the wider world of the chattering classes in the U.S., the institutional structure that supported them, and the American public sphere generally. It wasn't a pleasant lesson. As a piece of social science the book was terribly executed and written in transparently bad faith; the social sciences in general and sociology in particular botched their response; the pressure of media narratives flattened people into parodies of themselves; and many people who I'd thought might have known better turned out to have a healthy appetite for eugenic tripe, as long as it was presented more in sorrow than in anger.
9. William S. Cleveland, Visualizing Data. "This book presents a set of graphical methods for displaying data". Does it ever. Tufte gets the Presidential Commissions and the high media profile, and deserves all that, but Cleveland shows you how it's done in practice and wrote the software that lets you code it yourself. For me it opened up the world of serious thinking on data and model visualization for quantitative data.
10. Richard Titmuss, The Gift Relationship. Reading this wasn't a transformative experience in some existential sense, but it obviously left a mark seeing as I ended up writing a dissertation and a book that revisited its main questions.
1. The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster and Jules Feiffer. This book made me realize that it is possible to play with words and ideas. I can't even remember much of the story now. (Is it Milo?) What I remember is the revelation that it is possible to get a thrill from manipulating ideas and the words that express them.
2. Dune by Frank Herbert. The Dune books connected with me deeply as a teenager. They appealed, I think, to the sense that people have profound untapped powers that discipline can draw out; e.g., Mentats, Bene Gesserit. Also, it appealed to the fantasy that I might have special awesome hidden powers, like Paul Atreides, and that they might just sort of come to me, as a gift of fate, without the hassle of all that discipline. I think this book is why I was slightly crushed when I turned 18 and realized that not only was I not a prodigy, but I wasn't amazingly good at anything. I sometimes still chant the Litany against Fear when I'm especially nervous or panicking about something.
3. The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller/The Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. I'm cheating on this one, since these came out about the same time and had a similar effect on me, and I don't know which one to pick. Superhero comics can give a kid a pretty comprehensive mythology, a well of types and tropes and quests to draw from in the effort to make sense of the world. Miller and Moore/Gibbons convinced me at a vulnerable, self-conscious age that superhero mythology was not necessarily kid's stuff, and that even superhero comics could be real art. So I planned to become a comics auteur, like Frank Miller.
4. A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking. This book ordered and amplified my awe at the natural world. The fact that I could more or less understand it made me feel confident about being smart.
4. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. I read this at nineteen while working at the Joseph Smith Historic Center in Nauvoo, IL for the summer. I was just getting a strong sense of myself as a person apart from my family and hometown friends. I'd been excited by Bill Clinton in the 1992 Democratic convention and was toying with voting for him. Then I read Atlas Shrugged. I began reading the libertarian canon and I voted for Andre Marrou that Fall. I started paying more attention to my philosophy classes than my art classes. Ayn Rand is why I almost became an academic philosopher, why I became a libertarian, and why I work at Cato. She also all-but destroyed my interest in making art, since I could not at the time I was under her influence square her ideology of art with my own creative impulses. I still suffer from this.
5. The Bell Curve by Charles Murray and Richard Herrnstein. This is the first intellectual book I ever reviewed in print. I gave it a mixed review in the Northern Iowan. (I think I had some misgivings about some of the race and IQ stuff, but I understood that it was not a book about race.) A sociology professor either sent me an email or wrote a letter to the editor (I don't remember which!) condemning me for not condemning the book for being racist. This was my first taste of the excitement and frustration of participating in public intellectual life. I was impressed with Murray's fortitude and grace in the face of what seemed to me to be outrageously unfair, truly scurrilous attacks. And it helped me understand the difference between trying hard to honestly think through tough social problems because you care and mouthing comfortable pieties in an effort to get credit for caring.
6. The Geneology of Morals by Friedrich Nietzsche. Morality has a history and its value is open to question. Our deepest intellectual commitments reflect deeper psychological needs. If this book (or Nietzsche generally) doesn't make you wonder why you really believe what you do, then you are a clod. If I am hungry for the buzz of illumination, I go back to Nietzsche.
7. Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle. The best class I had as an undergraduate was a grad seminar on the Nicomachean Ethics taught by a Straussean. This is one of the best books ever written (or best set of lectures compiled) by one of the best minds ever. The paper I wrote for this seminar on what it means to have a stable disposition to action sparked my interest in moral psychology.
8. Law, Legislation, and Liberty by F.A. Hayek. Rand made me a libertarian. Hayek made me a liberal. I don't know how much of what I believe comes from Hayek, but it's a lot.
9. Tractatus Logic0-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein. Still dominates how I think about modality and the bounds of what may sensibly be said. There is no book more like great architecture.
10. Universals: An Opinionated Introduction by David M. Armstrong. Initiated my love of metaphysics and Australian realism, though Armstrong never did argue me out of nominalism.
11. In Praise of Commercial Culture by Tyler Cowen. This book angered my inner Randian, but delighted my native sensibility. When I got home from my first IHS seminar, Tyler Cowen lecture in mind, free Tyler Cowen book in hand, I went straight to my computer to begin writing a furious denunciation, which I never finished. But I'm still curious about folk art and foreign cuisines and have since repeated Tyler-like arguments to so many people so many times that I forget what I ever thought was wrong with them.
12. Morals by Agreement by David Gauthier. This book was the key that unlocked the contractarian treasure chest for me. Made me understand at a much deeper level the point of moral constraints on self-interested behavior, and why they would be impossible if we were well described by stripped-down models of instrumental rationality.
13. A Theory of Justice by John Rawls. I dug into this book with the intention of saying what was really, really wrong with it. Instead, I ended up feeling like I understood political philosophy.
So I guess I'll throw out my ten books. But just to be ignorant, I'm going to list eight1.) Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neal Hurston–I always hated the exhibitionism of Native Son. I felt like Richard Wright was basically using black people as a prop to make a point to white people. Their Eyes, on the other hand, struck me as the best aspects of the Afrocentric idea, and certainly that part of it which I carry with me today–the notion of writing, and thus existing, on your own terms.2.) The Orgins Of The Urban Crisis, Thomas Sugrue–A brilliant corrective to the whole "Negroes and Coleman Young ruined Detroit" myth. Sugrue debunks Detroit's golden age by depicting the city's deep-seated institutional racism, and illustrates the complexities of white flight, and effectively argues that the exodus began almost two decades before the 67 riots.3.) When And Where I Enter, Paula Giddings–This is just masterful and colorful history of black women in America. It was the first place I really learned about Ida B. Wells, feminist, militant, and later Garveyite, packing a pistol while investigating lynchings. Beautiful book, and in no small measure the reason for my son's very existence.4.) Battle Cry Of Freedom, James MacPherson–They need to make people read MacPherson's history of the Civil War in order to vote in this country. I don't think I've read an 800plus page book that moved so smoothly. This is the greatest work of history I've ever had the privilege of reading.5.) The Country Between Us, Carolyn Forche–Heh. I spent much of college trying to ape this book. Once I realized I would never write anything as beautiful as "The Return," I gave up poetry.6.) Ragtime, E.L. Doctorow–I think about this book almost once every day. Books like Ragtime really define, for me, how writers should deal with inserting the politics into books. Doctorow's pinko-commie leanings definitely shine through, but the book is so damn beautifully written that you almost don't notice. On another note, this book–weirdly enough–was actually a guide for me when I went to write my memoir.7.) Crabgrass Frontier, Kenneth Jackson–Much like Sugrue's book, Jackson's history of American suburbs is just a superb take-down of much of the mythology surrounding the fall of the American city in the 70s and 80s. I think Jackson's greatest contribution is how he outlines the distorting effects of red-lining on black people, and on cities themselves. I'm waiting for someone to write an entire history of housing segregation, covering red-lining, restrictive covenants, the whole gamut. This is the closest that I've seen to that.8.) Drown, Junot Diaz–Much like Their Eyes, Drown was a book that really convinced me that that your voice, the one native to your neighborhood, was OK. There's a story in there called "No Face," about a kid whose face is so mangled that he wears a mask. But, a'la M.F. Doom, No Face has super-powers (or imagines himself having super-powers) that allow him to avoid the neighborhood bullies. I can't recall the line, but at the end of the story, the boy comes home to his little brother who says something like, "Where have you been all day?" And the boy just says to him, "I've been fighting evil."
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Dreamers in Des Moines demand immigration reform
People like Esperanza Pintor are known as "Dreamers," immigrants brought to the United States illegally as children.
"I can obviously speak English," Pintor said. "I grew up here, and just because my parents wanted a better future for me doesn't mean that I should be penalized and not be given the opportunity that so many people are."
Federal legislation passed in 2012 allowed many Dreamers to stay in the country; however, reform supporters want more sweeping legislation that would overhaul the entire immigration process.
"Currently, under the law the way it is, there's no real path for people to come legally," said Sandra Sanchez, immigrant rights program director at American Friends Service Committee. "It takes too many years of waiting for a visa in order to do it legally."
On Tuesday, the U.S. Senate voted to move forward with a bipartisan bill that creates a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants and strengthens border security.
President Barack Obama said he wants the bill on his desk by the end of summer.
"It'll all be a matter of people actually wanting to listen and understand and leave bigotry and racism and discrimination aside," Pintor said.
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HYDERABAD, India, Aug. 21, 2013 – Expanding its integrated science capabilities at the DuPont Knowledge Center in Hyderabad, India, DuPont today opened an Application Development Center focused on integrating advanced material science with other scientific disciplines for the automotive industry, enabling solutions for light-weighting, engine performance, comfort and safety. These capabilities also are relevant to other industries such as railways, electrical / electronic components, food processing, agriculture, irrigation, textile and many more. At the Application Development Center, DuPont's integrated science brings value-added solutions to customers in these industries enabling better, safer and sustainable products for consumers.
"The integration of scientific disciplines in advanced materials, such as high-performance polymers and elastomers, are critical to developing cost-effective and sustainable solutions to some of the big challenges that our company is focusing on, for example, reducing our dependence on fossil fuels," said DuPont Performance Polymers President Diane H. Gulyas. "Materials are only part of the story. The application development process is how we work with customers to get ideas into the market cost effectively. It is the engine of innovation for the polymers business and centers such as this new one in India help customers innovate and find more sustainable solutions in collaboration with DuPont scientists and engineers".
"This latest expansion at the DuPont Knowledge Center reflects our strong commitment to deliver integrated science-powered solutions and innovations that meet market needs, in collaborations with our local customers and partners. This new facility is part of the global DuPont community of 10,000 scientists and engineers around the world, thus connecting our global science capability to local market needs. I am confident this will enhance our ability to serve customers in India and South Asia," said Rajeev A. Vaidya, president – South Asia & ASEAN, DuPont.
The new Application Development Center at the DuPont Knowledge Center (DKC) houses thermoplastic and elastomer processing and testing equipment and leverages existing analytic equipment shared with several DuPont science disciplines. It complements the manufacturing facilities in Savli, Gujarat, and the DuPont India Innovation Center in Pune. It expands their capabilities to support predictive engineering, including computer-aided engineering (CAE), 3D surface computer-aided design (CAD), mold-flow, warpage, structural, impact and NVH (noise, vibration, harshness) analysis. By connecting with DuPont scientists and engineers at key automotive-based laboratory sites in the United States and Europe, this new center can build on the current predictive engineering power of CAE capabilities with speed-to-market excellence to advance the growing market in India.
"Taking full advantage of the lightweight nature of plastics requires more than just metal replacement," said Homi Bhedwar, technology director, South Asia and ASEAN. "Engaging us early in the design stage helps take advantage of integrated science opportunities to reduce cost and complexity in many vehicle components. Our aim at the Application Development Center is to work closely with customers visiting the Innovation Center in Pune, network with DuPont technical experts globally, offer products and solutions tailored to local needs, and bring them to market faster."
The DuPont Knowledge Center is one of the four regional R&D centers of DuPont and undertakes research as well as applications development focused on science-based solutions that meet the society's needs for more and better food, access to reliable and uninterrupted energy, better mobility and protection of people and the environment. In total, DuPont has more than 150 R&D facilities around the world.
DuPont Performance Polymers is committed to working with customers throughout the world to develop new products, components and systems that help reduce dependence on fossil fuels and protect people and the environment. With more than 40 manufacturing, development and research centers throughout the world, DuPont Performance Polymers uses the industry's broadest portfolio of plastics, elastomers, renewably sourced polymers, filaments and high-performance parts and shapes to deliver cost-effective solutions to customers in aerospace, automotive, consumer, electrical, electronic, industrial, sporting goods and other diversified industries.
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Eyewitness Booze Investigation: El Jimador Premixed Tequila Cocktails
I used to believe in drinking seasonally—cold gin in the summer and hot whiskey in the winter—but I learned better in 2003 when I started going to the first bar I ever loved, the Kinsale Tavern on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Like the rest of the very best bars, the Kinsale's charm is hard to summarize, but I can say that for me, little of the allure was found in the extensive beer list. The Kinsale is full of the pale, stale Euro-bait that is either too subtle for my oafish palate or, just maybe, shitty beer. So after a frustrating lap around the taps convinced me that I would never like any of the various Skunkenhoffs and Dinkelsomethings favored by the Kinsale's otherwise exemplary staff of full-time day-drinkers, I settled on Guinness. Some people think it's strange to drink dark beer in the summer, but I've found that the position of the earth in relation to the sun has very little bearing on my taste buds.
I find the idea of seasonal drinking to be too restrictive, but I understand that some of you get off on being disciplined, so if your calendar prohibits certain drinks at certain times, then you are surely relieved that today, Tres de Mayo, marks the beginning of margarita-shopping season.
My esteemed colleague Paul Clark wrote a column last month titled "When Bad Things Happen to Good Drinks" that started a discussion about which classic drinks are most commonly killed by shoddy preparation. I'm not nearly as well-drank as Paul and the other real booze writers on this site, but I still feel qualified to say that the worst of them all has got to be the margarita. My whole life has been an elaborate series of shortcuts and weasel-outs, but even I get pedantic when it comes to assembling a proper margarita. You need to use real fruit!!! And if you're not going to spring for Cointreau or Grand Marnier, just skip that step. Don't wreck your nice tequila and your real citrus with cruddy $7-per-liter triple sec: Squeeze in a little shot of orange juice and an extra sip of tequila and you're all set—so long as you remember to call it something other than a margarita when the inspector comes calling.
But since even my pedantry is rimmed with laziness, it should come as no surprise that I'm not dead set against the idea of premixed cocktails. I can't say I've found many that I actually like, but I have no problem with the idea of cracking open a cold can of whatever you want to put into a cold can. The makers of El Jimador—my favorite low-end 100-percent agave tequila—have recently decided to take a swing at premixed tequila drinks with a lineup headlined by a can of margarita. They sent me a few samples.
El Jimador Tequila Cocktail: Margarita claims to be "tequila, triple sec, and natural flavors." The tequila's a good start, because a lot of premixes are based on grain alcohol imitating whatever spirit you're supposed to think you're drinking. And triple sec, eh, that's fine, at least it's alcohol. But then come the natural flavors. That's where they always get you. The other red flag is the low alcohol content that mars most premixes. This one's the standard 5 percent, which means there's got to be a whole hell of a lot of natural flavors around to dilute the ounce-ish of tequila in the 12-ounce can.
But for all that, I have to say it tastes fine. Of course it's nothing like a real margarita, but sometimes you've got to drink out of a paper bag or under similar duress. You ever try to make fresh sour mix on the subway? Me too, and we both know it's barely worth the effort unless you're going all the way to the airport or something. The El Jimador premixed margarita is Gatorade-colored and has fizz where the froth's supposed to be, and just seeing the gaudy multigreen can makes it taste like Mountain Dew, but I would happily drink eight of these on an inflatable raft if the situation arose.
I can't say the same for the Paloma and Spicy Mango Margarita flavors, though I could fight my way through a few of the Paloma if I had to. It tastes like slightly skunked Fresca and I'm a sucker for anything with grapefruit or alcohol, never mind both. But the mango number is unbearable. This one's lying on all counts: It bears no resemblance to a mango or a margarita, and I'm pretty sure "disappointment" isn't a spice.
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Thursday, January 31, 2013
1985 - Moon Knight - Fist of Khonshu #1
June 1985
Writer: Alan Zelenetz
Artists: Chris Warner/E.R. Cruz
The first Moon Knight series was cancelled in July 1984 and almost a year later, a new series, Moon Knight: Fist of Khonshu, hit the stands and was an attempt to rebrand the character. Moon Knight writer Alan Zelenetz stayed on as the new writer, kicking off this new direction.
Marc Spector had retired as Moon Knight and discarded his Steve Grant and Jake Lockley alter-egos. Unfortunately for Spector, the Egyptian moon god, Khonshu still had a need for him. Khonshu's rival Anubis had himself an avatar and he set in motion a plan to strike at Khonshu. Of course, that introduced conflict between Spector's lady-friend Marlene and led to their break-up.
Spector, haunted by nightmares and visions of Khonshu and Anubis, made his way back to the Valley of Kings where his journey as Moon Knight began years ago. Despite his initial attempts to refuse his role, the priest of Khonshu convince him that he was their man and Spector is reborn as a new Moon Knight with assortment Egyptian weapons that would make Batman proud. And there were modifications to his new costume giving it a bit more of an Egyptian feel, and new powers allowing him super-human strength when the moon is out.
Moon Knight then took up the battles against the avatar of Anubis and defeats him. The victory restored Spector's faith in his role as Moon Knight and in Khonshu.
One of my great comic book memories of the late 1970s was reading the Marvel Classics Comics, retelling classic stories like Time Machine, Treasure Island, She, and The Prince and the Pauper. E.R. Cruz was one of the artists that contributed to that series and to see him inking Warner's art was a nice touch. This issue had a great Indiana Jones pulp feel to it and was a dramatic and refreshing change from Moon Knight's usual urban city setting.
Unfortunately, the concept wasn't terribly well executed and the series would be canceled after only 6 issues and several creative shufflings. I think that if Marvel had tried to give Moon Knight more of an international setting with global emergencies and villains, it might have been more successful. But, they simply returned Spector to New York with his new powers and costume, and went back to the status quo, abandoning the high concept of that first issue. Perhaps even something as simple as continuing the rivalry between Khonshu and Anubus, having Anubus choose another avatar and have him plague Spector's life, might have keep that new concept alive and caught readers' attention.
Posted by Jason Shayer at 12:09 AM
Labels: 1985, Alan Zelenetz, Anubis, Chris Warner, E.R. Cruz, Marc Spector, Moon Knight, Moon Knight Fist of Khnoshu
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- AnonymousJanuary 31, 2013 at 12:10 PM
I loved this series and concept. I was much younger at the time and was confused as to why it stopped. I loved the golden, Egyptian weapons and how his strength was connected to the moon. This has always been my favorite version of Moon Knight. They have never really come close to this since. I sure don't like the current version. I liked your comparison to Indiana Jones. I loved that series as well around the same time. At least the early issues of that series. Thanks for your review.ReplyDelete
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Welcome to Women in Horror Month at We Who Walk Here, Walk Alone! Throughout February, we will be celebrating the women who make horror the spooky, scary, and sublime genre that we all love. I spend the majority of my time here talking about horror in movies and on television, but there is so much … Continue reading Random Recommendations: Women in Horror Month Edition
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As a native of the northern tier, Bill Wadell is excited to return to NEPA as a reporter based in the Wyoming Valley Newsroom in downtown Wilkes-Barre.
Bill joined the Newswatch 16 team in December 2012.
Born and raised near New Milford, Bill attended Blue Ridge High School and contributed to the crime beat for the Susquehanna County Transcript.
After packing his bags and moving 350 miles across the state, Bill attended classes at California University of Pennsylvania, where he spent plenty of time as the executive editor of the Cal Times newspaper, as well as reported and anchored the weekly student newscast CUTV NewsCenter.
Splitting the difference after graduating, Bill relocated to State College in 2009, where he spent three years as a reporter and fill-in anchor at the Centre County bureau for WJAC-TV.
While working in Happy Valley, Bill covered crime, courts, dairy farming, the emerging Marcellus Shale natural gas industry and travelled with the Nittany Lions to Tampa Bay for the Capitol One Bowl in 2010.
During his final year in State College, Bill was on the frontline as the Jerry Sandusky scandal quickly surfaced and unraveled, leading to the arrest and trial of the former defensive coordinator.
Bill also covered the firing, death and public memorial of legendary head football coach Joe Paterno, as well as the lingering fallout on the University Park campus and in the neighborhoods surrounding Penn State.
Over the years, Bill has also interned at WBRE and WIVT in Binghamton, NY, as well as spent some time as a freelance multi-media journalist for HSTV in Uniontown, PA and freelance videographer for WPXI in Pittsburgh.
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Manual on paediatric HIV care and treatment for district hospitals
Addendum to the Pocket book of hospital care of children
HIV/AIDS affects the health and welfare of children and undermines hard-won gains in child survival in some of the highly-affected countries. The 'Manual on paediatric HIV care and treatment for district hospitals' aims to help improve clinical skills among health workers in resource-limited settings. It is intended for use by doctors, middle-level practitioners such as clinical officers and senior nurses in the management of HIV-exposed and -infected infants and children at district hospital levels.
The manual consists of two parts. The first part deals with the management of HIV-infected children when they present with common illnesses and opportunistic infections: cough or difficult breathing, diarrhoea (acute and persistent), fever and malnutrition, anaemia and other haematological manifestations. The second part of the manual covers HIV specific management including diagnosis of HIV infection in infants and children, routine care of HIV-exposed and -infected children, antiretroviral therapy, nutritional support, pain management as well as disclosure and psychosocial support.


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Though a staple in high school English classes, Julius Caesar is not a simple play. Seemingly irreconcilable forces are at work: fate and free will, the changeableness and stubbornness of ambitious men, the demands of public service and the desire for private gain. Drawn from history as recorded by Plutarch, the major characters-Caesar, Brutus, Cassius, and Mark Antony-are complex, as are the twists and turns of their fortunes. What kind of man rises to power? What price does he pay when he becomes a politician? These questions raised by Shakespeare are relevant in every age, whether ancient Rome, Elizabethan England, or even in our own day.
About the Editor: Joseph Pearce is the author of many acclaimed biographies of major Christian literary figures. He is Writer in Residence and Associate Professor of Literature at Ave Maria University in Florida, editor-in-chief of Sapientia Press, as well as co-editor of the Saint Austin Review (or StAR), an international review of Christian culture, literature, and ideas. His two books on Shakespeare, The Quest for Shakespeare and Through Shakespeare's Eyes, are published by Ignatius Press, and he has edited the Ignatius Critical Editions of The Merchant of Venice, Hamlet, Macbeth, King Lear, and Romeo and Juliet. He has also written and hosted two television series on the life and works of Shakespeare for EWTN.
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Ah, late August. Generally speaking, the hottest time of the year for the US. So what better way to spend that time then to drive for almost 10 hours down to the middle of a notoriously hot desert? Count us in!
This gave us an opportunity to break in our new Mitsubishi, sporting its fresh vinyl, for it's first true long-distance trip. Despite the surprisingly good mileage for an AWD SUV, there were a fair number of gas stops. Hey, if you're gonna drive almost 1,200 miles, you're gonna use plenty of gas.
This gave us the opportunity to get really comfortable with the Outlander Sport and learn all the little things about it. For an example, apparently the radio is rather impatient about hooking up your iPhone or iPod to the USB port.
Of course, the car wasn't the only thing that needed fueling up. As we left right after work on Friday afternoon near 7 PM, we had to grab some dinner for the long drive ahead. Sonic slushies anyone?
After several hours driving, there were a few subtle signs letting us know we were getting closer. As the clock hit 2 AM, we took a quick glance at the outside temperature. Over 90 degrees in the middle of the night? Yup, we're getting close. We eventually arrived at 4 AM, checked into our room and passed out.
The next day we drove out to the track where we were greeted by the oven-like heat we had been expecting. The temperatures hit near 110 degrees, though standing over the black asphalt, it wouldn't be surprising if the real temperatures were even higher. Unfortunately, our poor iPad that we used to check in entries for our Slammed Society Showcase couldn't handle the heat, so we used the Outlander Sport's great AC to keep the iPad cool down, as well as ourselves!
The following day, after spending a few hours on the strip and a little time at the pool, we took off to head home.
The destination for our dinner on the way back was the Mad Greek Diner, which had some pretty darn good falafels.
As it was just down the road, we couldn't help to take a quick visit to the Alien Fresh Jerky store. What's a road trip without the occasional tourist traps? Besides, their jerky was pretty good.
Their jerky wasn't the only thing that had an outer-space theme to it!
Our last gas stop. Even though we averaged 25 mpg, we'll miss the low gas prices. Despite it's small size though, the Outlander Sport was surprisingly roomy for 4 people and their luggage. The seats were sufficiently comfortable and didn't give us any aches after the long stretches of driving. Next time it'll see Vegas should be SEMA. Hopefully we'll have it spiced up a bit before then.


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Note: I am using ActionScript 2 as this is the language that we chose to develop our game in.
So the first thing youll want to do is grab the music file you want to play. If you dont have one you can download the track along with the project file for this tutorial here. The format of your audio track should be a .mp3 with a maximum bitrate of 128kbps. If you need a converter for your audio track I would suggest using Super ©. Its super powerful, has a ton of features and best of all its free.To import your audio track to your flash project, simply click File -> Import -> Import to Library, browse to your audio file and then click OK. You should now see your audio file in your project library. After that, in your library, go ahead and right click on your newly added audio track and click properties.
This will bring up the above dialog box. Click the check box that says Export for ActionScript Then in the identifier box type a name that will represent this audio track. I have chosen Disco. This allows us to call upon our audio file whenever we choose.
For our next step go ahead and create a new layer by clicking on the New Layer button in the bottom left hand side of the Timeline box. Next double click on the name of the new layer and call it Actions. Then select the first frame on the Actions layer by left clicking once on your mouse. Finally press F9 to bring up the Actions box. Here we will write the three lines of code that will allow us play our previously added audio track.
Now if I scared you with the word code, dont worry. As you can see there are only 3 lines. Its nothing you cant handle. Although if youre using this for a Flash game I would expect that you already have some basic experience with ActionScript. The first line creates a new Sound object called myMusic. On the second line we then attach the audio clip with the identifier name Disco. After this has been done the audio track is ready to go. As a final step, myMusic.start() will cause the music to play.
Thats all there is to it! There isnt as much flexibility is AS2 as there is in AS3 however it still works just fine for small games. Listed below are some more methods that you might find useful.
myMusic.setVolume(100); // Takes a number between 0 and 100 myMusic.stop(); // Stops the Sound Object
Ive learnt a lot in the course of making this game, and I want to share more with everyone. If youve enjoyed, learnt anything, or have some suggestions for our readers please feel free to leave a few comments at Blackbunny Thanks for reading!


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The firmware upgrade to version 1.03 contains the following improvements:
- Supports higher camera autofocus speeds
- Addition of compatibility with the 'Phase Detection AF' function
The firmware upgrade to version 1.03 contains the following improvements:
Please make sure that your camera has the latest firmware version installed. If this is not the case, it is possible that the camera may not recognise the firmware upgrade for ZEISS Touit lenses . Please visit the camera manufacturer's website to check whether the firmware version in your camera is up-to-date and find possible upgrades.
1.) Please format a memory card in your camera. This will be required for upgrading the firmware. Please note that formatting deletes all data already present on the card, including protected files.
2.) Insert a fully-charged battery into the camera or use an external power source (AC adapter) recommended by the camera manufacturer.
3.) Mount the Touit lens on the X-bayonet mount of the camera.
4.) Please read the licence agreement carefully before you start.
6.) Now copy the file to the previously formatted memory card. Please make sure that you do not change the file names in any way as this would otherwise prevent the recognition of the firmware upgrade by the camera.
7.) Insert the memory card with the firmware upgrade into the card slot of your camera.
8.) Press and hold down the (DISP/BACK) button while turning on the camera.
9.) This screen view appears whether an AC adapter is connected or not. When this screen view appears, press the (OK) button.
10.) Select the menu item (lens) to upgrade the ZEISS Touit lens and press the (OK) button.
11.) Press the (UP) button to select 'OK'.
12.) Press the (OK) button. Leave the battery in the camera, or keep the camera connected to the external power source. Failure to do this could possibly lead to the loss of lens functions.
13.) Press the (OK) button.
14.) The firmware upgrade has been started. The firmware upgrade installation takes approximately 30 second to complete.
15.) This screen view appears when the firmware upgrade is successfully installed. Turn the camera off.
16.) Reformat the card you used for the firmware upgrade before using it for storing pictures.
17.) Insert a formatted memory card in the card slot of the camera.
18.) Press and hold down the (DISP/BACK) button while turning the camera on.
19.) The current firmware version displayed must now be 1.03.
20.) Turn the camera off after checking the firmware version.
No memory card in the camera.
Insert the card containing the firmware upgrade in the card slot of the camera.
The camera cannot read the card because it is not formatted.
Format the memory card in the camera, remove it and copy the firmware upgrade to the formatted card.
The camera cannot read the memory card.
The memory card or the camera may be defective. Please try another memory card or contact an authorised Fujifilm Service facility if the camera is the problem.
The memory card in the camera does not contain the firmware upgrade file.
Copy the firmware upgrade to the memory card and reinsert it in the card slot of the camera .
The camera cannot read the firmware upgrade file from the memory card.
Repeat the download of the firmware upgrade from the ZEISS website and copy it to the memory card. Reinsert the memory card with the firmware upgrade in the card slot of the camera.
The firmware upgrade on the memory card is older than the firmware in the lens.
The currently installed firmware version is the latest version. No upgrade is required.
The firmware upgrade on the memory card does not correspond with the lens attached to the camera.
Download the correct firmware upgrade for the lens attached, copy it to the memory card and insert the card in the card slot of the camera.
The external power source (AC adapter) for the camera is not connected.
Connect the external power source to the camera before starting the firmware upgrade.
The firmware upgrade was unable to be completed.
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I-Dog Clip Giveaway
For my second pre-holiday giveaway, I'm featuring the I-Dog Clip -- the only portable music speaker with waggable ears. How cute is that? One lucky winner gets to find out, with their very own I-Dog Clip. Here's how to enter:
* Visit the I-Dog website and check out the whole menagerie of I-Dog products.
* Leave a comment at this post -- tell me which one(s) you like best. Don't forget to include your email address so I can contact you.
* For an extra entry, blog about this giveaway on your own blog and include a link to this post. Leave an extra comment with your name, email address and a link to your blog.
I'll draw a winner at random on November 18, 2008. For the full giveaway rules, click here. Good luck!
(PS: My I-Dog Dance giveaway is still open; you can still comment here for a chance to win! And in 4 days, I'm giving away a Russ Seapals stuffie....)
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- hondaray6 on November 9, 2008 at 8:03 AM said...
How cute is that? I just love the I Dog Amp'd! Thanks so much for the chance to win and for sharing this site!
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- Judie on November 9, 2008 at 10:09 AM said...
I love them all, but the soft pink speaker and the penguin are my favorites. if I don't win one of these critters, I'm going to have to buy one. Judie
- Tim on November 9, 2008 at 3:52 PM said...
I lke the I-DOG AMP'D. Thanks for the giveaway.
- exotic1 on November 9, 2008 at 3:57 PM said...
My son would love this to go with his I-Pod shuffle. The color even matches his I-Pod as if they were a set. I like I-Dog Dance and I-CY myself for me but My son would love the I-Dog Clip the best. He told me to tell you he got all good grades on his report card Friday lol (Kids ya got to love them~!) I told him I didn't think telling you that would do him much good but he said "those good grades have got to be good for something" lol lol Thanks for caring and for sharing.
- exotic1 on November 9, 2008 at 4:10 PM said...
I blogged about your site and your great giveaway and left a link in my side bar for an extra entry and again thanks for sharing such a cute adorable item.
- Charlene on November 11, 2008 at 8:45 AM said...
Woof, woof, sit BooBoo. There is room for this great prize under our Christmas tree. Happy Holidays! KennCharCorner
- Mama Zen on November 14, 2008 at 9:37 AM said...
They have a dalmation! That is the cutest thing ever!
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- Anonymous said...
I like the I-DOG Chill Blue Set
- Anonymous said...
I love the I-DOG AMP'D (Pink Butterfly). Thanks for the great giveaway.