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EVERETT — An investment firm's bid to build a passenger-jet terminal at Snohomish County's Paine Field would have to overcome a political split to get off the ground.
Propeller Investments needs the County Council's approval to move forward with any deal, like the two-gate passenger terminal the company pitched last week. Until talks evolve further, it's unclear what the proposed project would even look like.
Four of five council members are divided evenly over allowing commercial passenger flights at the county-run airport. A fifth says he's undecided.
"It sounds like it'll be coming to a head in six to nine months," said Councilman Brian Sullivan of Mukilteo, a staunch opponent.
The potential tie-breaker is Terry Ryan of Mill Creek, a pro-business Democrat with a background in commercial real estate.
A few months is a relatively short amount of time to wait for what could be the final bout in a decades-long fight. Events have intensified of late.
New York-based Propeller Investments entered the picture Monday when it asked county airport officials to discuss a plan to lease ground space to build and operate a two-gate terminal. A meeting has yet to be scheduled, both sides said Friday. The company has met informally with several county leaders.
At Paine Field, Propeller envisions four or five commercial flights a day to regional destinations.
That fits within the number of flights the FAA studied for its 2012 environmental assessment. The study concluded that noise, traffic and pollution from commercial jets would not harm nearby communities. As is, Paine Field handles about 300 daily flights for general aviation and aerospace manufacturing. The airport is running at about a third of its capacity.
"It's negligible," Propeller CEO Brett Smith said of the effect his company's plans would have.
The cities of Mukilteo and Edmonds, along with the Save Our Communities opposition group, challenged the adequacy of the FAA study during a hearing Wednesday before the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. A ruling from a three-judge panel could take months.
There's no legal reason Propeller would have to wait for the judges' decision to advance its plans at Paine Field.
There may be practical reasons, however, said County Council Chairman Dave Somers, who supports commercial flights. An FAA ruling in the opponents' favor could trigger extensive analysis.
"I would think it would delay it a year or more," Somers said.
The FAA study was based on about 160 flights per week. That's the combined total that Allegiant Air of Las Vegas and Alaska Airlines of Seattle had been proposing. Since then, Alaska has lost interest in establishing service at Paine Field, while Allegiant has been coy about its intentions.
Propeller isn't saying which carriers it has in mind. Smith said Allegiant is not a financial backer.
The county is obligated to negotiate in good faith when someone wants to lease vacant airport property for aviation, according to the FAA.
The county might be able to assert more control over the issue by building and operating its own terminal. In fact, the county drafted blueprints for such a building last year. With two gates, the projected cost is $9.7 million.
Prior to that design work, the county had estimated a terminal would cost about $3 million — the figure that over the years has surfaced most often in the debate.
It's not clear whether Propeller would pursue a similar design. Nor has anyone established who would own Propeller's proposed building — the county or the company.
"Until we sit down and start talking, we won't know," Smith said.
Though Sullivan opposes commercial flights at Paine Field, he'd prefer to see the county take charge of building any terminal — if it comes to that. That, he said, would ensure it meets county standards.
"They'll obviously not spend the $10 million that we would spend to do it right," he said.
The councilman has suggested that Everett or the Port of Everett could help shoulder the financial burden.
Somers said he's open to hearing Propeller's idea.
"They seem serious and credible," he said, "and our attorney who is advising the county on this is familiar with them and says they're credible."
Founded in 2008, Propeller has offices in Atlanta and Dublin, Ireland. It's been involved in developing an alternative to Atlanta's commercial airport, one of the busiest in the world.
The FAA's 2012 environmental study of Paine Field likely has a three-year shelf life, agency attorney Lane McFadden said during last week's court hearing. That would likely give Propeller, or any other party, through the end of 2015 to advance plans for commercial flights. After that, the FAA would have to perform a new study.
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Ericsson has reached an agreement to acquire Telcordia Technologies for US$1.15 billion, the company said on Tuesday.
The deal will reinforce and expand Ericsson's position in the operations support systems (OSS) and business support systems (BSS) sector. These systems are used for network optimization and real-time charging, according to Ericsson.
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Today, operators are looking for new ways to charge for their services, including mobile broadband, and the acquisition of Telcordia will allow Ericsson to help operators with that part of their business as well. Telcordia's systems will help monetize the traffic and products that operators sell, Ericsson said in a statement.
For Ericsson, it also means a bigger presence in the North American market, where it was recently announced that Clearwire is outsourcing the management of its network to Ericsson for seven years to cut costs.
The Swedish telecom equipment maker is acquiring 100 percent of the shares in Telcordia from Providence Equity Partners and Warburg Pincus, and the deal is expected to close in the fourth quarter, taking effect during the first three months of next year. Telcordia is based in Piscataway, New Jersey.
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Harlan Ellison
American writer (1934-2018)
Harlan Jay Ellison (27 May 1934 – 28 June 2018) was an American author (mostly of speculative fiction) and media critic.
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- You're so far out you'd have to masquerade to get back in.
- Deal from the Bottom (1960)
- Now he had form and substance.
He had become a personality, something they had filtered out of the system many decades ago. But there it was, and there he was, a very definitely imposing personality. In certain circles — middle-class circles — it was thought disgusting. Vulgar ostentation. Anarchistic. Shameful.
- Where did he get jelly beans?
That's another good question. More than likely it will never be answered to your complete satisfaction. But then, how many questions ever are?
- "'Repent, Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman" (1965)
- "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" (1967)
- Art was not reality—it was only the appearance of reality.
- Silent in Gehenna (1971), reprinted in Jerry Pournelle (ed.) 2020 Vision (1974), p. 73
- And thus I arrive at the foundation of my theory about art as a vehicle for dissent: the fury and purity of the creator's need to say something motivates the work, but he forms it from logic and craft and honesty and when the propaganda value has faded into last week's imperative, the art remains behind and stands on its own merits.
- Dreamers on the Barricades (1971), in Robin Scott Wilson (ed.), Clarion (pp. 44-45)
- Christmas is an awfulness that compares favorably with the great London plague and fire of 1665-66. No one escapes the feelings of mortal dejection, inadequacy, frustration, loneliness, guilt and pity. No one escapes feeling used by society, by religion, by friends and relatives, by the utterly artificial responsibilities of extending false greetings, sending banal cards, reciprocating unsolicited gifts, going to dull parties, putting up with acquaintances and family one avoids all the rest of the year...in short, of being brutalized by a 'holiday' that has lost virtually all of its original meanings and has become a merchandising ploy for color TV set manufacturers and ravagers of the woodlands.
- "No Offense Intended, But Fuck Xmas!" (1972) The Harlan Ellison Hornbook
- My philosophy of life is that the meek shall inherit nothing but debasement, frustration and ignoble deaths; that there is security in personal strength; that you can fight City Hall and win; that any action is better than no action, even if it's the wrong action; that you never reach glory or self-fulfillment unless you're willing to risk everything, dare anything, put yourself dead on the line every time; and that once one becomes strong or rich or potent or powerful it is the responsibility of the strong to help the weak become strong.
- The Harlan Ellison Hornbook, (9 August 1973)
- This is a test. Take notes. This will count as 3/4 of your final grade. Hints: remember, in chess, kings cancel each other out and cannot occupy adjacent squares, are therefore all-powerful and totally powerless, cannot affect each other, produce stalemate. Hinduism is a polytheistic religion; the sect of Atman worships the divine spark of life within Man; in effect saying, "Thou art God." Provisos of equal time are not served by one viewpoint having media access to two hundred million people in prime time while opposing viewpoints are provided with a soapbox on the corner. Not everyone tells the truth. Operational note: these sections may be taken out of numerical sequence: rearrange to suit yourself for optimum clarity. Turn over your test papers and begin.
- "The Deathbird" (1974) First lines.
- Posing the question: does the god of love use underarm deodorant, vaginal spray and fluoride toothpaste?
- Deathbird Stories (1975)
- I think love and sex are separate and only vaguely similar. Like the word bear and the word bare. You can get in trouble mistaking one for the other.
- Introduction of "How's the Night Life on Cissalda?" (1977) in Shatterday (1990)
- Heaven began to run at the edges.
- "Hitler Painted Roses" (1977)
- They did it wrong, Doc. They made mistakes. And they'll keep it this way, just because everyone wants to believe it. They don't want to know the truth, Doc. It's easier for everyone this way. If enough people believe the fantasy, well, then it becomes the reality. But we know, Doc. We know who belongs where, don't we?
- "Hitler Painted Roses" (1977)
- "Star Wars is adolescent nonsense; Close Encounters is obscurantist drivel; Star Trek can turn your brains to purée of bat guano; and the greatest science fiction series of all time is Doctor Who! And I'll take you all on, one-by-one or all in a bunch to back it up!"
Auditorium monitors moved in, truncheons ready to club down anyone foolish enough to try jumping the lecture platform; and finally there was relative silence. And I heard scattered voices screaming from the back of the room, "Who? And I said, "Yes. Who!"
- Recalling an address to science-fiction fans, in his Introduction to Doctor Who and the Talons of Weng-Chiang (1977) by Terrance Dicks, p. vii
- Don't start an argument with somebody who has a microphone when you don't. They'll make you look like chopped liver.
- IguanaCon Guest of Honor speech, Phoenix, Arizona, (1978)
- "Hey, gang!" I squeaked in my terrifically accurate Mickey voice. "Everybody ready to shoot the ultimate Disney flick? The film that rips the lid off the goody two-shoes hypocrisy that lies sweltering beneath the surface of G-rated true-life adventures? Okay, you guys, let's get that hand-held Arriflex right down there between Minnie's legs! I wanna see closeups of quivering labia!"
- There are four billion people in the world. A world that has grown so complex and uncaring with systems and brutalization of individuals because of the inertia produced by those systems' perpetuation of self, that merely to live is to be assaulted daily by circumstances.
- The Man Who Was Heavily Into Revenge (1978), in Terry Carr (ed.), The Year's Finest Fantasy: Volume 2, p. 83 (originally published in Analog, August 1978)
- Scientology is bullshit! Man, I was there the night L. Ron Hubbard invented it, for Christ's sakes! … We were sitting around one night... who else was there? Alfred Bester, and Cyril Kornbluth, and Lester del Rey, and Ron Hubbard, who was making a penny a word, and had been for years. And he said "This bullshit's got to stop!" He says, "I gotta get money." He says, "I want to get rich". And somebody said, "why don't you invent a new religion? They're always big." We were clowning! You know, "Become Elmer Gantry! You'll make a fortune!" He says, "I'm going to do it."
- "The Real Harlan Ellison" in Wings (November-December 1978) p. 32
- He was just Ron and I kinda liked him, mostly because he wrote well, and I never felt he took all that Scientology nonsense seriously but knew how to make a good buck, and he liked me, and... well, he was a friend who died.
- Introduction to Angry Candy (1988)
- I used to think that television could be potentially the most powerful medium for the dissemination of knowledge that the world has ever known, it could be a very rich and rewarding thing if handled properly and that the problem was in the execution. I've now come, after ten years in the business, five years of which was as a television critic, to taking the very extreme view point. I think television itself is bad.
The idea of television, the act of watching television kills the imagination. It's not like radio, with radio you had to listen, had to make things, you had to build things in your mind. Movies do that. Television is something else again. Television lays it all out there in a very prescribed way and the bare minimum of imagination on the part of the viewer is needed and I really fear for all of us.
- Interview in 1979, quoted in The Online Copywriter's Handbook (2002) by Robert W. Bly, p. 19
- I don't know how you perceive my mission as a writer, but for me it is not a responsibility to reaffirm your concretized myths and provincial prejudices. It is not my job to lull you with a false sense of the rightness of the universe. This wonderful and terrible occupation of recreating the world in a different way, each time fresh and strange, is an act of revolutionary guerrilla warfare. I stir the soup. I inconvenience you. I make your nose run and your eyeballs water.
- Introduction to Shatterday (1980), p. 2
- What he wrote was this: The great tragedy of my life is that in my search for the Holy Grail everyone calls True Love, I see myself as Zorro, a romantic and mysterious highwayman — and the women I desire see me as Porky Pig.
- Grail (1981)
- I am anti-entropy. My work is foursquare for chaos. I spend my life personally, and my work professionally, keeping the soup boiling. Gadfly is what they call you when you are no longer dangerous; I much prefer troublemaker, malcontent, desperado. I see myself as a combination of Zorro and Jiminy Cricket. My stories go out from here and raise hell. From time to time some denigrator or critic with umbrage will say of my work, "He only wrote that to shock." I smile and nod. Precisely.
- Quoted by Stephen King in his book Danse Macabre (1981)
- I talk about the things people have always talked about in stories: pain, hate, truth, courage, destiny, friendship, responsibility, growing old, growing up, falling in love, all of these things. What I try to write about are the darkest things in the soul, the mortal dreads. I try to go into those places in me that contain the cauldrous. I want to dip up the fire, and I want to put it on paper. The closer I get to the burning core of my being, the things which are most painful to me, the better is my work. … It is a love/hate relationship I have with the human race. I am an elitist, and I feel that my responsibility is to drag the human race along with me — that I will never pander to, or speak down to, or play the safe game. Because my immortal soul will be lost.
- As quoted in Contemporary Authors New Revision Series: A Bio-Bibliographical Guide to Current Writers in Fiction, General Non-Fiction, Poetry, Journalism, Drama, Motion Pictures, Television, & Other Fields (1982) by Ann Evory
- Like the wind crying endlessly through the universe, Time carries away the names and the deeds of conquerors and commoners alike. And all that we are, all that remains, is in the memories of those who cared we came this way for a brief moment.
- Paladin of the Lost Hour (1985)
- You can't win, you can't break even, and you can't get out of the fucking game.
- Interview with Gary K. Wolfe (28 July 1987), quoted in Harlan Ellison : The Edge of Forever (2002), by Ellen Weil and Gary K. Wolfe
- Borrowing a common scientific joke expressing the laws of thermodynamics.
- For a brief time I was here; and for a brief time I mattered.
- His entire afterword to The Essential Ellison (1987)
- Also quoted in the death announcement made by his publicist (28 June 2018).
- Did you have one of those days today, like a nail in the foot? Did the pterodactyl corpse dropped by the ghost of your mother from the spectral Hindenburg forever circling the Earth come smashing through the lid of your glass coffin? Did the New York strip steak you attacked at dinner suddenly show a mouth filled with needle-sharp teeth, and did it snap off the end of your fork, the last solid-gold fork from the set Anastasia pressed into your hands as they took her away to be shot? Is the slab under your apartment building moaning that it cannot stand the weight on its back a moment longer, and is the building stretching and creaking? Did a good friend betray you today, or did that good friend merely keep silent and fail to come to your aid? Are you holding the razor at your throat this very instant? Take heart, comfort is at hand. This is the hour that stretches. Djam karet. We are the cavalry. We're here. Put away the pills. We'll get you through this bloody night. Next time, it'll be your turn to help us.
- "Eidolons" (1988)
- All writers in some insane place believe that to write is a holy chore — that what one wishes to do is speak to one's time, to make a difference, to say: "I was here. I was a force for good in some way."
- Statement in an interview of 1990, as quoted in "Harlan Ellison dies at 84; acclaimed science fiction writer was known for combative style" in The Los Angeles Times (28 June 2018)
- I go to bed angry and I get up angrier every morning.
- 1990 interview, as quoted in The New York Times (28 June 2018)
- Even the brightest star shines dimly when observed from too far away. And human memory is notoriously unreliable. And we live in ugly times when all respect for that which has gone before suffers crib death beneath the weight of youthful arrogance and ignorance. But a great nobility has at last, been recognized and lauded. Someone less charitable than I might suggest the honor could have been better appreciated had it not been so tardy, naming its race with a foe that blots joy and destroys short-term memory. But I sing the Talent Electric, and like aft the dark smudges of history, everything but the honor and die achievement remains for the myth-makers.
Alfred E. van Vogt has been awarded the Grand Master trophy of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. He is not the to first person to receive this singular accolade…given only to those whose right to possess it is beyond argument or mitigation.
Were we in 1946 or even 1956, van Vogt would have already been able to hold the award aloft. Had SFWA existed then and had the greatest living sf authors been polled as to who was the most fecund, the most intriguing, the mast innovative the most influential of their number, Isaac and Arthur and Cyril and Hank Kuttner and Ron Hubbard would all have pointed to the same man, and Bob Heinlein would've given him a thumbs-up. Van Vogt was the pinnacle, the source of power and ideas; the writer to beat. Because he embodied in his astonishing novels and assorted stories what we always say is of prime importance to us in this genre-the much vaunted Sense of Wonder.
Van Vogt was the wellspring of wonder. … That's how important he was. … And then came the dark years during which the man was shamefully agented and overlooked; and even the brightest star loses its piercing light if observed through the thickening mists of time and flawed memory.
Now it is lifetimes later, and the great award has, at last, been presented. To some, less charitable than I, something could be said about a day late and a dollar short, but not I. I am here to sing the Talent Electric, and it is better now than never. He is the Grand Master, A.E. can Vogt, weaver of a thousand ideas per plot-line, creator of alien thoughts and impossible dreams that rival the best ever built by our kind.
This dear, gentlemanly writer whose stories can still kill you with a concept or warm you with a character, now joins the special pantheon.
- In recognition of van Vogt receiving the Grand Master designation in 1996, in The Nebula Awards Vol. 31, as quoted in SF Authors Remember A.E. van Vogt (2000)
- Alfred E. van Vogt, since the appearance of his first two stories — "Black Destroyer" and "Discord in Scarlet" (Astounding Science Fiction, July and December 1939) the most memorable debut in the long history of the genre — has been a giant. The words seminal and germinal leap to mind. Sadly, at this juncture. the words tragedy and farewell also insinuate themselves. … Van is still with us, as I write this, in June of 1999, slightly less than fifty years since I first encountered van Vogt prose in a January 1950 issue of Startling Stories, but Van is gone. He is no longer with us. … Because the great and fecund mind of A.E. van Vogt has fallen into the clutches of that pulp thriller demon, Alzheimer's. Van is gone. … Anyone's demise or vanishment is in some small way tragic but the word "tragedy" requires greater measure for its use. … Van' s great mind now gone. Tragedy.
The ultimate tragic impropriety visited on as good a man as ever lived. A gentle. soft spoken man who was filled with ideas and humor and courtesy and kindness. Not even those who were not aficionados of Van's writing could muster a harsh word about him as a human being. He was as he remains now, quietly and purposefully, a gentleman.
But make no mistake about this: the last few decades for him were marred by the perfidious and even mean spirited and sometimes criminal acts of poltroons and self-aggrandizing mountebanks and piss-ants into whose clutches he fell just before the thug Alzheimer got him. … I came late to the friendship with Van and Lydia. Perhaps only twenty-five or so years. But the friendship continues, and at least I was able to make enough noise to get Van the Science Fiction Writers of America Grand Master Award, which was presented to him in full ceremony during one of the last moments when he was cogent and clearheaded enough understand that finally, as last, dragged kicking and screaming to honor him, the generation that learned from what he did and what he had created had, at last, fessed up to his importance.
Naturally, others took credit for his getting the award. They postured and spewed all the right platitudes. Some of them were the same ones who had said to me — during the five years it took to get them to act honorably — "we'd have given it to him sooner if you hadn't made such a fuss." Yeah. Sure. And pandas'll fly out of my ass.
- NO ONE GETS OUT OF CHILDHOOD ALIVE. It's not the first time I've said that. But among the few worthy bon mots I've gotten off in sixty-seven years, that and possibly one other may be the only considerations eligible for carving on my tombstone. (The other one is the one entrepreneurs have misappropriated to emboss on buttons and bumper stickers: The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
(I don't so much mind that they pirated it, but what does honk me off is that they never get it right. They render it dull and imbecile by phrasing it thus: "The two most common things in the universe are..."
(Not things, you insensate gobbets of ambulatory giraffe dung, elements! Elements is funny, things is imprecise and semi-guttural. Things! Geezus, when will the goyim learn they don't know how to tell a joke.
- Introduction to Blast Off : Rockets, Robots, Ray Guns, and Rarities from the Golden Age of Space Toys (2001) by S. Mark Young, Steve Duin, Mike Richardson, p. 6; the quote on hydrogen and stupidity is said to have originated with an essay of his in the 1960s, and is often misattributed to Frank Zappa, who made similar remarks in The Real Frank Zappa Book (1989): "Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe."
- I don't own a computer, or a modem, or anything like that; I still work on a manual typewriter, by choice, and to those who consider me a Luddite I say: Fuck you and yo mama. I operate at the level of technology that best suits my needs. And I type at 120 words per minute — two fingers — I make no mistakes, and my manuscripts are real. You can pick them up and hold them. My typewriter doesn't dump its memory — I don't lose a book.
- Everybody has opinions: I have them, you have them. And we are all told from the moment we open our eyes, that everyone is entitled to his or her opinion. Well, that's horsepuckey, of course. We are not entitled to our opinions; we are entitled to our informed opinions. Without research, without background, without understanding, it's nothing. It's just bibble-babble. It's like a fart in a wind tunnel, folks.
- Art is not supposed to be easier! There are a lot of things in life that are supposed to be easier. Ridding the world of heart attacks, making the roads smoother, making old people more comfortable in the winter, but not Art. Art should always be tough. Art should demand something of you. Art should involve foot-pounds of energy being expended. It's not supposed to be easier, and those who want it easier should not be artists. They should be out selling public relations copy.
- He had writer's block once. It was the worst ten minutes of his life.
- About Isaac Asimov – quoted in Page Fright : Foibles and Fetishes of Famous Writers (2009) by Harry Bruce
- Variant: Most writers hate to write, and will grasp any excuse to do something else … There are exceptions. Isaac Asimov actually was never happier than sitting at a keyboard — first, his old typewriter; then, the TRS-80; and later, a more conventional PC. But then, Isaac was unusual, and his experience with writer's block was the worst 10 minutes of his life.
- Jerry Pournelle, in "Chaos Manor: Is there an Upgrade in your future?" in Dr. Dobb's Journal : Software Tools For The Professional Programmer (2005), Vol. 30, Issues 374-379, p. 9
- The trick is not becoming a writer. The trick is staying a writer.
- Voices of Vision: Creators of Science Fiction and Fantasy, page 182 [1]
- Writing is the hardest work in the world. I have been a bricklayer and a truck driver, and I tell you – as if you haven't been told a million times ALREADY – that writing is harder. Lonelier. And nobler and more enriching.
- If I had to pick a religion, I'd pick Buddhism. Buddhism is a kindly religion. It says you got a chance... it's got humor, it's got wisdom, it says to be nice to each other. All the rest of them have gods that want to beat the crap out of you if you defy the rules.
- And my mother said—and I remember this as if it were yesterday—my mother with a washcloth in her hand and me standing at the sink, she said, "You must have said something to get them angry." And it was an icicle just jammed into my chest. That my own mother—and with cause! It was not as if I was the greatest kid in the world. I was a troublemaker! I was a brat! I was a big-mouth pain in the ass! But that my own mother would not understand—at that moment I had what, now at age seventy-two I understand, was an enormous epiphany, which is: I really cannot support it, I cannot bear it, when people laugh at me.
- Dreams with Sharp Teeth (2008) (documentary), at about 28:10.
- About being beaten up by bullies as a child.
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- "Heaven is what you mix all the days of your life, but you call it dreams. You have one chance to buy your Heaven with all the intents and ethics of your life. That is why everyone considers Heaven such a lovely place. Because it is dreams, special dreams, in which you exist. What you have to do is live up to them."
"I—" started Griffin, but the wizard cut him off with a blink.
"No, listen, please, because after this, all the magic stops, and you have to do it alone.
"You create your own Heaven, and you have the opportunity to live in it, but you have to do it on your own terms, the highest terms of which you are capable. So sail this ship through the straits, navigate the shoals, find the island, overcome the foam-devil that guards the girl, win her love, and you've played the game on your own terms."
- Griffin stood silently, watching the waterfall, sensing more than he saw, understanding more than even his senses could tell him. This was, indeed, the Heaven of his dreams, a place to spend the rest of forever, with the wind and the water and the world another place, another level of sensing, another bad dream conjured many long times before. This was reality, an only reality for a man whose existence had been not quite bad, merely insufficient, tenable but hardly enriching. For a man who had lived a life of not quite enough, this was all there ever could be of goodness and brilliance and light. Griffin moved toward the falls.
The darkness grew darker.
- Empty winds howled down out of the tundras of his soul. This was the charnel house of his finest fantasies. The burial ground of his forever. The garbage dump, the slain meat, the putrefying reality of his dreams and his Heaven.
Griffin stumbled away from her, hearing the shrieks of men needlessly drowned by his vanity, hearing the voiceless accusation of the devil proclaiming cowardice, hearing the orgasm-condemnation of lust that was never love, of brute desire that was never affection, and realizing at last that these were the real substances of his nature, the true faces of his sins, the marks in the ledger of a life he had never led, yet had worshipped silently at an altar of evil.
All these thoughts, as the guardian of Heaven, the keeper at the gate, the claimer of souls, the weigher of balances, advanced on him through the night.
- When they dug the body out of the alley, it made even the hardened construction workers and emergency squad cops ill. Not one bone was left unbroken. The very flesh seemed to have been masticated as if by a nation of cannibal dogs. Even so, the three inured excavators who finally used winding sheets and shovels to bring the shapeless mess up from its five-foot grave agreed that it was incredible, totally past belief, that the head and face were untouched.
And they all agreed that the expression on the face was not one of happiness. There were many possible explanations for that expression, but no one would have said terror, for it was not terror. They would not have said helplessness, for it was not that, either. They might have settled on a pathetic sense of loss, had their sensibilities run that deep, but none of them would have felt that the expression said, with great finality: a man may truly live in his dreams, his noblest dreams, but only, only if he is worthy of those dreams.
- This last line has often been paraphrased: "You can live in your dreams, but only if you are worthy of them."
Autograph profile (2010) Edit
- Quotes from a student question and answer session reported in Autograph Magazine (2 January 2010)
- It is my hope that all of you who walk down the street with an iPod plugged into your head are hit by a Seven Santini Brothers moving van. I look down on a lot of you … not because you're not terrific people, but because you're not stupid, you're ignorant. Big difference. Ignorance is never having seen a film by Akira Kurosawa. It's not knowing who Guy de Maupassant is. …By the way if I miss, during the evening, saying something offensive to you, insulting your sexual proclivity, your physical disability, your race, your religion, your sex, anything, please, raise your hand. I'll get to you, I promise. I'll say something really nasty.
- I've been on my own since I was 13. I grew up having to use my wits. My parents were not wealthy. We weren't poor, but we had a lot of meals with noodles. I was born during the Depression. My parents died pretty much penniless. Every dollar I've ever made I earned myself. I don't believe in luck. Louis Pasteur said, "Chance favors the prepared mind." The smarter you are, the more you know, the better. I was the only Jew in town and I was my generation's Bart Simpson. I knew the world could be mine.
- I go to bed angry every night, I wake up angry every morning. There are certain injustices in this life you've got to do something about. You can't just say that you can't fight it, or it's too much trouble, or that you don't have the time or the effort, or that you can't win. Forget all that. Fight them all! I fight them all because you never know which one is the big one. You never know which you give up and then it will come back and bite you in the ass. You never look away from a mountain lion, you lock eyes and you don't let him get behind you.
Misattributed Edit
- If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.
- Don Marquis, as quoted in Kiplinger's Personal Finance, Vol. 12, No. 2 (February 1958), p. 48; this has sometimes been attributed to Ellison, as well as to George Bernard Shaw.
Quotes about Ellison Edit
- Harlan is a giant among men in courage, pugnacity, loquacity, wit, charm, intelligence — indeed in everything but height.
- Isaac Asimov in the introduction to Dangerous Visions (1967) edited by Ellison
- Harlan Ellison was a major influence, particularly his short story collection Dangerous Visions.
- 1997 interview in Conversations with Octavia Butler
- I had one very good teacher who is also a writer, Harlan Ellison. He gave me a lot of help and a hard push or two when I needed them. It so happens that he writes a lot of fantasy and science fiction and was able to give me the kind of help I wouldn't have received from some English teacher.
- 1980 interview in Conversations with Octavia Butler
- I remember getting into Harlan Ellison's class and at one point having him say, science fiction fans read too much science fiction; and he was no doubt right, but as an adolescent that was all I read except for school work.
- 1990 interview in Conversations with Octavia Butler
- I was in classes sometimes where I was the only Black person and tend to either get ignored or get petted on the head a lot. Neither is in the slightest useful so I was eager to get away from that and Harlan was not interested in doing either.
- 1994 interview in Conversations with Octavia Butler
- Ellison was immensely talented, immensely argumentative and immensely controversial, all in equal measure. … Loved or loathed, he was undeniably one of the great figures in science fiction.
- He is…colorful, intrusive, abrasive, irritating, hilarious, illogical, inconsistent, unpredictable, and one hell of a writer.
- Theodore Sturgeon, in his introduction to "I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream"
External links Edit
- Ellison Webderland (official website)
- Harlan Ellison Islets of Langerhans
- Radio Interview on Comic Zone
- Guest speaker at Parcon, an SF convention in the Czech Republic
- Darkhorse comics titles
- Harlan Ellison on IMDb
- Urban Legends Reference Pages: Disney (Harlan Ellison)
- Obituaries
- "Harlan Ellison dies at 84; acclaimed science fiction writer was known for combative style" in The Los Angeles Times (28 June 2018)
- "Harlan Ellison, Science Fiction Master, Dies at Age 84", in The New York Times (28 June 2018)
- "Writers, Other Notables React to the Death of Harlan Ellison" in The New York Times (28 June 2018)
- "Harlan Ellison Dies at 84; Prolific, Irascible (Science) Fiction Writer" by Richard Sandomir in The New York Times (29 June 2018)
- "Harlan Ellison, prolific and pugnacious writer of science fiction, dies at 84" in The Washington Post (29 June 2018)


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Saturday, July 25, 2009
A Secret
76 comments:
I am so sorry about your accident.ReplyDelete
When you post, it really makes my
day. I know that you don't know all of us, but we know you and love your art. Yesterday, I was chasing a lovely butterfly all over the yard. Finally got a picture, but he or she just wouldn't cooperate. Sure am glad
I didn't pull a branch down. ha.
Hope you're back soon, Mary Ann
OH MY ! Well, girl, ya got to stop pruning trees! I am so sorry that you had to go through all that...but I guess getting a nose job out of it was okay! ha! Hope you get t ofeeling a lot better very soon!ReplyDelete
The bright side: maybe you will paint girls with crooked noses to match their crooked grins :+)ReplyDelete
I wish you a speedy recovery...Lisa
Awwwww...so sorry!! I'm sure your all bruised up, but this too shall pass!! Glad you got your nose fixed and I hope you don't start snoring...it happened to my darling hubby when he had nose surgery - never even a wisp out of him, now he can raise the dead - it's awful!!!!ReplyDelete
Hope you're better soon, love your blog and love your art...thanks for sharing.
Sharon, so sorry to hear about your accident! I wish you a speedy recovery!ReplyDelete
Sharon, I have 'missed' you the last few days and wondered how you were doing. I'm sorry to hear of the mis-hap- I'm sending you healing thoughts and . . . I will expect to see you soon I hope.ReplyDelete
I don't know that I've ever commented before, but I read your blog regularly-I always look forward to it! Hope you get better soon!ReplyDelete
take care
I hope by now you are feeling better. I look forward to seeing your new nose sometime in the near future. take care of yourself.ReplyDelete
Feel better!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 25, 2009 7:49 PM
girrrrl, if you needed some attention you coulda just asked!seriously though, i'm so glad you got all of that taken care of and that nothing worse happened. you are loved, sharon, and you know i'll be praying for your full recovery!ReplyDelete
Oh...you poor thing. So sorry to hear about your accident. Rest up and get better soon. I love your posts.ReplyDelete
Happy thoughts
Wow, Sharon. So sorry to hear that. You are in my thoughts and prayers. Get well soon.ReplyDelete
Ouch!! Glad you are on the mend!ReplyDelete
You look great!
Thank Goddess you're all right! Take care.ReplyDelete
No more tree pruning for you!! :)ReplyDelete
So glad it was not worse, and that you are on the mend. Too bad Mary Ann can't send you over one of her margaritas!! :)
wishing you a speedy recovery!ReplyDelete
OH Sharon I am sooooo sorry to read you had this accident....it's a hell of way to deal with a crooked nose though - there are other less traumatic ways. ha! (sorry, just trying to make you laugh)ReplyDelete
I truly hope you are feeling better and will be on the mend very soon. I am assuming that no more photo means you may look a bit "colorful"....?
(again, going for the humor factor)
I think after the accident on the "think tank" that time and now this pruning accident...you may want to hire out the yard work! It would be much safer and we like you in one piece!!!!
Lots of healing hugs,
I'm sorry about your accident. Hope you're back soon! I love your blog, thanks. Blessings to you.ReplyDelete
I hope you feel better soon!ReplyDelete
Hi Sharon---oh goodness me---I hope all is well and with a beautiful new straight nose! Bad way to have to get a nose job but hopefully you will be creating again really soon. I look forward to what you are going to do next.ReplyDelete
I am sending healing thoughts ur way. Please be careful, u r very valuable and precious to so many, u have know idea. I so look forward to seeing ur new work and reading each post. when u started filming tutorials it made me so happy. I think of u as a dear friend. with the world going just plain wonky right now, i come here and just let the stress fall right away. u have inspired and cheered me more times than i can count. so please be more careful, for u r a precious and rare gift that we greedily want to keep safe and whole for as long as we can. Thank u for being u, LaReplyDelete
Oh my goodness...that must have hurt like you know what...Glad you are on the mend. I love your art. Hugs, DianeReplyDelete
Sharon, you and that garden...pruning trees, mowing lawns, you are soooo busy. Looks like this has stopped you in your tracks though.ReplyDelete
Sorry to hear about your mishap and I hope you are feeling much better now. What an unexpected positive... you have been able to get your crocked nose fixed!
Take care and look forward to when you are feeling 100% again.
Jacky xox
Oh my, that could have been very nasty. Glad it is all taken care of now and that you are well on the way to recovery. Take care and hope you find some time for art soon.ReplyDelete
Anyway you look beautiful.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 26, 2009 6:50 AM
The Hubbs is in landscaping...
I do not do trees, however, he will willing climb them with his special trousers and chainsaw in tow and make quick work of it...
Feel better and glad the snozola is straightened out! Breath deeply and stick to arting. (smile) Gina
Never noticed you had a crooked nose! You don't look too much like you just had surgery either, maybe just a bad headache. You look pretty darn good, girl, for what you've been through!!ReplyDelete
Can't wait til your back chasing and painting butterflies!
I'm sorry about your accident, Sharon, but glad your surgery went well and am sending positive thoughts that you will mend rapidly and without any problems. Take care of yourself! :)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 26, 2009 9:28 AM
My heavens, I was stunned when I saw the posting and saw you photo first. I do realize that is a serious thing from things that have happened to daughters in long past years.ReplyDelete
I am sure your face is vivid colors that will take time to go away. You will be patient I am sure.
I had done a painting and the shadows had that look and I hat to
change it as it bothered me a lot.
One time having novacaine at the dentist, he brok blood vessels and I had a serious bruised look, it
was disturbing to me that in public people didn't ever make eye contact with me upon seeing my face.
My best thoughts for recovering are with you.
Sunny and cool up north
Oh, you will be bouncing... it will just take a little time to get to it. What happened to you just shows how fragile we all are and that in one second things can change dramatically. I hope that the worst is over and that you are getting better... hurry up - I have Norah painting withdrawals. xoxoxoxoReplyDelete
Good grief lady!!! No more pruning. I'm so sorry that you were hurt. Take care and I hope you're back to normal soon. Speedy recovery...ReplyDelete
Goodness, So sorry to hear about your accident....Hope you will be back to normal very soon..ReplyDelete
wishing you a very speedy recovery!! :)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 26, 2009 2:27 PM
Wow Sharon, I didn't expect you to share this. I know you well enough that you will bounce back and rejoin life as you know it. I can only imagine the colorful palet now going on in your healing. Maybe those colors will inspire you - I will expect it :)ReplyDelete
Oh dear, I am so glad that you are on the mend! I can imagine the swelling and black and blue. I expect you are glad to be on the recovery side of the whole mis-adventure. God bless you and prayers for a speedy and complete recovery.ReplyDelete
Best wishes on a speedy recovery!
I see the beginnings of a black eye in the picture....you are probably some very gorgeous colors right now! ;-) Hope you are starting to feel better. You've been missed!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 27, 2009 7:15 AM
So sorry to hear about your accident! You'll be bouncing soon enough.ReplyDelete
I'm so sorry that branch decided to clobber you! Here's wishing you a speedy recovery!ReplyDelete
I had a thought that you are now like one of your gorgeous painted girls; bits and dabs of blended colors morphing back into a beautiful face and all with a new nose!
Oh, my gosh...my friend! What has happened to you! I'm so sorry you got bonked on the nose. That must have been so very painful. Hope you're on the mend and back to normal very soon...ReplyDelete
my gosh!ReplyDelete
goes to show how fast change can happen
glad he fixed you though!
i had no idea of this problem...
see all the things we learn from each other!
mend fast...
So sorry to hear this news Sharon. I know how you feel...I have had a few sinus surgeries and it's no fun.ReplyDelete
Last year the think tank, this year...attacking trees. Who knew a yard could be so dangerous. I am sending you my helmet!
Feel better soon!
oh no!!! did it hurt like crazy???.. it sure sounds like it must have..ReplyDelete
well, here's a sweet little kiss for your nosey and hope you are mending nicely and your nose will be happy into art soon. because we expect more soon!
linda drake
- AnonymousJuly 27, 2009 5:57 PM
Oh, Sharon! Ouch!!! At least it wasn't your eyes. I trimmed trees this past Saturday; didn't realize it could be so dangerous. Wishing you all the best for a speedy recovery on your lovely new nose!ReplyDelete
Sherry in Little Rock
Oh, I could cry! Took me a couple of days to find out about this because katie came down for a visit. She'll be so sad too. Branches and dead limbs aren't called "widow makers" for nothing. You look real good in the picture; sending prayers for fast healing and better days to you. Doggone!!ReplyDelete
Sharon, I saw your post on Sat. and meant to send you well wishes then. I hope that you are recouping and feeling okay. These things can always set us back more than we think. Surgery is no laughing matter.ReplyDelete
Take care, take time for you and we'll anxiously await your return with more beautiful inspirations for us all.
hugs, SueK
Oh my goodness....we can't let you out in the yard alone....LOL!!! Glad there was some good to come of it though! Looking forward to seeing your new nose:) Glad you are still spunky! hugs, LindaReplyDelete
I hope you are recovery nicely from your accident. Watch out for those branches..I know you are going to create all kinds of art from this..SmileReplyDelete
Oh, Sharon, I feel so bad you got hurt! Sure hope you get well very soon and back to "normal." I'll be thinking about you!! patReplyDelete
Oh, I'm so sorry to hear about your accident. I hope you are feeling better. Praying for a speedy recovery for you.ReplyDelete
- Cindy In CarolinaJuly 28, 2009 8:28 AM
Girl, you better take care of yourself. I hope you are back up and around creating soon. I love your work sooo much.ReplyDelete
SHARON! I hope that you are feeling better. We never know what in the world is going to happen to us, do we? Well, the bright side is - that you got your crooked nose fixed, huh?ReplyDelete
Be well quickly!
Hey again.ReplyDelete
Just hope you are getting better. Whish you well ;-)
Just checking in on you again Sharon....hope that nose is healing and you are starting to feel better!ReplyDelete
Sharon just got back to reading blogs today and saw the one about your accident. I hope you are well and bouncing again soon.ReplyDelete
so sorry to hear this! i do hope you heal quickly and are back doing what you love to do...art!
keep us posted!
healing hugs to you...kathy
Oh... i am so sorry!ReplyDelete
Hope you're back soon!
All the best,and take care!
Inger Bente.
- RochelleJuly 29, 2009 6:37 PM
Hope you are feeling better soon!
oh goodness ... i don't check in for a few days and look what happened!ReplyDelete
feel better fast ....
Oh Sharon, I hope you are doing better today:-) 'Chasing Butterflies' is such a lovely mental picture, I hope you can still chase them in your dreams.ReplyDelete
Wow Sharon! Glad you are okay, but you better be careful about that kind of pruning! I am glad you saw the bright side~a new nose =)ReplyDelete
Take care~
- AnonymousJuly 30, 2009 2:00 PM
Bouncing is not expected, but I miss you and hope that you are well. Please update and just say so...ReplyDelete
Hugs and EXPECTING a sign, lol!
This is no way to get a nose job Dear Sharon....ReplyDelete
I hope this has found you feeling much better. Soon you will enjoy all your art, and we will be here.
Take care of You, Hugs, Mary
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Hi Sharon,ReplyDelete
I am sending a healing wish for a swift recovery and lots of energy for getting back to your art!...
The reason for the accident, what are you not seeing in your life that is rioght in front of your face?...xxx
So sorry to hear about your accident Sharon, I hope you are on the mend and back to painting your lovely ladies again.ReplyDelete
Me again, just wanting to say I hope you're feeling better and that nose has settled down. I know I've left a comment before...but just wanted to wish you a speedy recovery.ReplyDelete
Take care,
Jacky xox
Well wishes to you! Thank you for stopping by and get well soon.ReplyDelete
Oh Sharon, so sorry you had an accident. I hope you recover quickley and back to what you enjoying most "your art creating".ReplyDelete
Please get well soon, we think you are an awesome lady !!!!
Thinking of you and best wishes.
Hugs Laura.
Thanks for visiting my blog, made my day !!
- AnonymousAugust 02, 2009 1:06 PM
This is my 4th time back and still "EXPECTING" you...hope that all is well and your näsan" is on the mend!ReplyDelete
I miss you! Hope you are feeling better.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 03, 2009 2:42 AM
Oh my goodness! You take extra special care of yourself huh? Sending careful hugs from the land down under...ReplyDelete
First the tractor incident and now this!!!!! Oh!!! do be careful. If this had happened to me I would have asked to have my nose made smaller...not as small as Michael Jackson's but just a bit smaller.ReplyDelete
All kidding aside...I am late here...had a bit of a turn myself...I hope that by now you are fully mended and the bruises all gone or at least in the yellow stage.
I am going to An Artful Journey in Feb. of 2010...taking a class from DJ Pettit. I was looking at photos of you and Zorana in your matching aprons...you both look lovely. I bet you had a good time together.
Do let us know how you are doing.
Hello! You stopped by my blog and left such a lovely comment, I just had to pop over and see who this delightful person was. Well, looky here, you got all smashed up from chasing butterflies! Most people do that after a few drinks or if they've been on the hard stuff, lol!ReplyDelete
Well, you are a nice discovery. I think your art work is absolutely delightful and stunning all at the same time.
Get better soon,
Oh, ouch! I'm sorry this happened to you but glad that you're on the mend.ReplyDelete
Glad you are all up and better and cleaning your studio.
Love Renee xoxo


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Timeline of Osama Bin Laden's life, attacks, end
Osama bin Laden has been killed in a mansion outside the Pakistani capital Islamabad and his body has been recovered by U.S. authorities, U.S. officials said on Sunday.
Timeline of Osama Bin Laden's life and attacks:
1957: Born on March 10 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Osama bin Muhammad bin Awad bin Laden was the 17th of 52 children Muhammad Awad bin Laden, a wealthy businessman with close ties to the Saudi royal family, had.
1976: Studied economics and business administration at King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah. Some reports suggest he earned a degree in civil engineering too in 1979.
1979: Bin Laden joined Palestinian Sunni Islamic scholar Abdullah Azzam to fight the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan. He became the chief financier of the organization, which evolved into al-Qaeda.
1984: Bin Laden established Maktab al-Khadamat, which funneled money arms and Muslim fighters from around the Arabic world into the Afghan war.
1986 - Bin Laden moved to Peshawar, began importing arms and formed his own brigade of volunteer fighters.
1988: Bin Laden had split from Maktab al-Khidamat and established al-Qaida, an organization of ex-mujahedeen and other supporters. The main reason behind spilt from Maktab al-Khidamat and establishes al-Qaida was Azzam's insistence that Arab fighters be integrated among the Afghan fighting groups instead of forming a separate fighting force.
1989: Bin Laden returned to Saudi Arabia to work for the family construction firm after the Soviets pull out of Afghanistan. There he used his network to raise funds for veterans of the Afghan war.
1991: Bin Laden expelled from Saudi Arabia as he continued to speak publicly against the Saudi government for harboring American troops.
Feb 1993: The first World Trade Center attack and the first al-Qaeda terrorist attack on America was carried out killing six and injuring hundreds. Six Muslim radicals, whom the US officials suspect have links to bin Laden, are eventually convicted for the bombing.
1994: The Saudi government revokes bin Laden citizenship and freezes his assets after he issued fatwas, or Islamic religious pronouncements, denouncing both the royal family and the United States.
Nov 1995: A truck bomb exploded near the Saudi National Guard Communications Center in central Riyadh, killing five American soldiers and two Indian police. The attack is attributed to bin Laden's group, which did not claim responsibility but made clear its support for those responsible.
June 1996: A truck loaded with explosives destroyed a building at the US military base of Khobar in Saudi Arabia. Nineteen American servicemen were killed and 386 were wounded.
August 1996: Bin Laden formally declared a holy war against the US forces.
August 1998: Suicide bombings on the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania kill 224 people including 12 Americans. The United States indicted bin Laden for role in embassy bombings.
2000: The destroyer U.S.S. Cole was attacked while refueling in Yemen. Seventeen sailors were killed.
Sept 11, 2001: Two hijacked US airliners crashed into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York and a third hijacked plane crashed into the Pentagon outside Washington, killing more than 3,000 people.
Sept 13, 2001: the US government named bin Laden as a principal suspect for coordinating the attacks in New York and Washington.
Dec. 26, 2001 - Bin Laden said in a video that the 9/11 suicide attacks were intended to stop the US support for Israel.
Nov. 2002 - Al Qaeda claimed responsibility for three suicide car bombs which blew up the Mombasa Paradise resort hotel full of Israelis, killing 15 other people and wounding 80.
2003-2007: Al-Qaeda continued to release time-sensitive and professionally-verified videos demonstrating Bin Laden's continued survival as recently as August 2007.
September 2007: Osama bin Laden appeared in his first videotape in nearly three years, to mark the sixth anniversary of the September 11 attacks on the United States.
Jan. 24, 2010 - Bin Laden claimed responsibility for the failed Dec. 25 bombing of US airliner in an audio tape and threatened more strikes on US targets.
Aug. 2010 – US gets initial lead on Osama's hideout in Pakistan and President Barack Obama ordered an all-out mission to capture him alive or kill him.
May 1, 2011: President Barack Obama announced late night on Sunday that Osama bin Laden was killed in a firefight with U.S. forces in Pakistan and his body was recovered.
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The News
by Forest Fire on FatCat RecordsReleased 11/10/2011
'The News' is the first single to be taken from Forest Fire's electrifying new full-length, Staring At The X. Their FatCat debut (following 2008's Survival, released in the UK on Broken Sound Records), the new album rejects the 'what's next' attitude plaguing so many of the NYC/Brooklyn scene, innovating at their own pace while maintaining a traditionalist's focus on songwriting.
Survival's "cosmic Americana" acquired favourable comparisons to Fleet Foxes and Bon Iver, and – as acknowledged by the Guardian's Paul Lester – demonstrated "a general air of beat-poet cool and a careless articulacy to the lyrics that heightens the impression of the band as quintessential SoHo bohos." Staring At The X, and its singles, however, are already trailed with references to Television, Pink Floyd and Velvet Underground as well as to the band's existing contemporaries: Forest Fire renew the focus on instant-classic hooks and lyrics that bring to mind the Walkmen or Phosphorescent, but bring a new complexity to their sound. Singer / songwriter Mark Thresher explains: "This record is our attempt to be more of an ambitious songwriter/rock band, rather than a weird folk band."
This new ambition pays dividends. Staring At The X brings together swaggering, guitar-led breakdowns that recall the aforementioned NYC-pop/noise innovators (the band's recent live performances, especially, bring to mind the Velvets with long-form, restless "Sister Ray"-style extended jams) and romantic, darkly insistent British new-wave-styled pop.
'The News' is backed with non-album cut 'To Be Honest', taken from the same recording sessions.
Forest Fire (Thresher, guitarist/multi-instrumentalist Nathan Delffs, bassist/multi-instrumentalist Natalie Stormann, drummer Robert Pounding, and producer/keyboardist Adam Spittler) were originally discovered by tastemaking blogger Ryan Catbird after he randomly downloaded some of their music on a filesharing site because he liked the band name. He released their debut album, Survival, on his own label in 2008; Infinite Best reissuing it in the US in 2009 with Broken Sound and Talitres handling Europe. La Blogotheque declared Survival its top record of the year in 2008, calling it "raw and powerful… like a drug-hazed stroll through the history of song." FatCat plan to reissue Survival in early 2012.
Forest Fire has spent much of the time between releases touring, crossing Europe three times last year – once supporting Phosphorescent, and twice headlining their own shows and playing festival dates, including End Of The Road and France's Route Du Rock. They've shared stages with the likes of Sharon Van Etten (who contributed guest vocals to Survival), Xiu Xiu, Papercuts, Gang Gang Dance, Psychedelic Horseshit, Anna Calvi, Julianna Barwick and Cass McCombs, among others.


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REUTERS: A huge archive of letters, papers and photographs that shed new light on Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi and his time in South Africa will be auctioned in London next month and is expected to fetch 500,000-700,000 pounds ($800,000-$1.1 million).
The documents, numbering several thousand and arranged in 18 files, belonged to Hermann Kallenbach, who became arguably Gandhi's closest friend after they met in Johannesburg in 1904.
Although relatively few are in Gandhi's own hand, the wealth of material from family, friends, associates and Kallenbach himself make the collection a key biographical source for one of the 20th century's most revered figures.
"The vast majority of this is unknown and unpublished, and has not been used by scholars in the last generation or two," said Gabriel Heaton, a books and manuscripts specialist at Sotheby's auctioneers which is selling the archive.
"It is very much material that will be adding to our sum knowledge of Gandhi and his life," he told Reuters.
The documents will go under the hammer as a single lot on July 10 at the English Literature and History sale. Sotheby's also handled the sale in 1986 of the main series of Gandhi's letters to Kallenbach, when they raised 140,000 pounds. Together, the two batches represent the vast majority of the Kallenbach family's Gandhi collection.
"He is one of the towering figures of the 20th century," said Heaton, when asked to explain Gandhi's appeal to collectors and historians.
"There is only a tiny handful of individuals who have had such an enormous effect on world history ... Unlike most other comparable figures he never had an army at his disposal, which makes him unique in that way."
The appetite for Gandhi memorabilia has shown few signs of abating over time.
In one of the more bizarre sales in recent years, samples of soil and blades of bloody grass purportedly from the spot where Gandhi was assassinated in 1948 sold for 10,000 pounds at a British auction in April, while a pair of his glasses fetched 34,000 pounds.
Kallenbach met Gandhi in 1904 in South Africa, where the Indian leader spent more than 20 years of his life before returning to India permanently in 1915.
Gandhi's time in Africa, ostensibly as a lawyer, had a profound influence on his thinking as he joined the struggle to obtain basic rights for Indians living there.
Kallenbach, a German-born Jewish South African, was an architect who fell under the influence of Gandhi and his ideas, and the two men became lifelong friends.
"So many of the letters refer to the importance of this relationship and how Kallenbach was able to support Gandhi in a way few others could," Heaton explained.
He gifted a large piece of land to his mentor which he named Tolstoy Farm, in honor of Russian author and philosopher Leo Tolstoy whose ideal of peaceful resistance influenced Gandhi.Among the most illuminating of the documents on sale are the dozens of letters written by Gandhi's sons which provide details of Gandhi's life in India, particularly after his return when he lived in relative obscurity.
"Father is becoming more and more awful," read one incomplete letter probably written by Harilal, his eldest.
"It would not be strange if a time may come one of these days when either those who are living with Father might have to go or he might leave us all not being able to stand our life."
Heaton believed Gandhi's family felt able to speak more freely to Kallenbach than just about anyone else.
"They are writing to someone who's essentially a close family friend and also someone they knew understood their father as a man and not just a political head."


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Even those of us who have been to Walt Disney World a bunch of times still have our favorite Walt Disney World vacation memories. It may be the time that your husband proposed, or the time your baby had her first Mickey ice cream bar. Maybe it was one of those vacations you took after a rough time at work or at home, and you just really enjoyed being able to get away from the worry and stress at home and relax as a family on vacation.
Now, imagine your rough time at home was your child being diagnosed with a life threatening illness. Imagine the rough time included a prognosis so grim, you could barely get through a day, or even an hour, without crying. Your days have been filled with trips to doctors and stays in hospitals, watching your child, sick with both illness and exhaustion, battle valiantly against a serious health crisis. Even if you have good health insurance, there are overnight stays at hotels because you've had to go out of state and away from family and friends to seek medical treatments. There are meals in hospital cafeterias, and babysitters to pay back home for watching your other children until Dad can pick them up after work. Even if the stars aligned and things fell into place to take a vacation, there wouldn't be money to spare to take one.
This is where Give Kids the World steps in. More than 120,000 families have walked through the doors of the villas at Give Kids the World, surrounded by love and comfort for a blissful week of vacation that money could never buy. Instead of the focus being on medicine, it's on magic, as children get to recapture a piece of childhood that has been ripped away by being sick. Visits to theme parks, bed time tuck-ins by whimsical characters, swimming and laughter – and ice cream for breakfast if they want it – and all at absolutely no cost to these families.
Give Kids the World is all about making the most magical memories for families at a time when they most need smiles and happiness. They bring Christmas to the children who may not have the luxury of waiting for December, and they give the gift of wonderful vacation memories to families who aren't sure they will have the opportunity in the future to have this type of experience.
When you see the smiles on the faces – and the stars on the ceiling (each child who comes to the Village gets a star) – you know this is where happiness – and hope – can be found, even in the most desperate of times. That's why myself and a group of amazing and wonderful Disney Loving Moms join together through the spring and summer to raise money to send children to this wonderful place.
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The Case for Cold Coffee
If you want rich, flavorful coffee that's low in acid and caffeine, unplug your coffeemaker. Instead, use cold water to extract the flavor from beans, and create a brew that the National Coffee Association says has two-thirds less acid and a fraction of the caffeine as hot-brewed java.
The technique is simple: Steep coarsely ground beans in cold water for at least 12 hours, then strain the grounds. The resulting concentrate brings out coffee's smooth characteristics and has a sweet, espresso-like taste. Add as much hot or cold water, or milk, as you like.
Commercial cold-brewers, such as one from Toddy (toddycafe.com), simplify the process. For a sample, try your local coffeehouse, which may already serve drinks made the chilly way.


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Why my next computer will be the first laptop I have ever owned:
1) Desktops generate a LOT of heat. I share a small room (6 feet by maybe 12 feet) with my husband that we use as an office. He has TWO laptops that usually run 24/7. The only time that room starts getting really warm is when my desktop has been on for a little while. We even purchased blackout blinds for the window in that room to keep out the heat from the sun. The extra warmth is fine in the winter but in the summer, that room has gotten so hot (upwards of 83+ degrees - we have a thermometer in that room) I have had to turn off my computer and physically leave the room. Which brings me to my next point....
2) If the space your computer is in becomes unconducive to working, you can pick up your computer and move elsewhere in your own home. Like I stated in the point above, the room could be at an unsuitable temperature. Or maybe someone else in the room has taken to chomping their gum loudly & you can't focus. Whatever the reason, you can pick up and move to the dining room table if you need to. Likewise, if you have children that insist on playing in the living room instead of right outside the office door, you can pick up and move to be near them.
3) Laptops can require less space, which costs less money. I know many people set up a laptop just as they would a desktop, and place the laptop in a permanent location, such as a desk in an office area. But, you don't have to do that if you don't want to. In an ideal world, I would have no paperwork and everything would be electronic. While I do have very little paperwork, if the aforementioned situation were really true, I would just need a space to sit my laptop on when I needed it (I am not one of those people that has to be online for hours on end). That space could be the kitchen table. It could be the coffee table. But, if I didn't want a desk, I would not HAVE to have one. If I didn't have a desk, I would not need the space required for a desk, i.e. either a wall of a larger room or an extra bedroom used as an office. Less space required for me to live in = less rent or mortgage I need to pay. Does this point seem like a bit of a stretch? Kind of, but think about it. I have seen many people buy a house with one more bedroom than they need so that room could be converted into an office. If they didn't need that extra bedroom, they could buy a smaller, more affordable house.
In the past, I have seriously resisted buying a laptop because it was more expensive and I felt like there was nothing I was lacking by getting a desktop. Now that I have realized the points above, when my desktop finally goes (knock on wood - the thing has lasted me at least 5 years and keeps on truckin'), I will be buying my first laptop with a huge smile on my face.


text: Public companies may need to look more closely at their exposure to cyberattacks after new guidelines were released this week by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.The guidelines, from the SEC's division of corporation finance, aim to help companies determine when they need to disclose cyberattacks or the amount of risk they pose to a business.In general, public companies in the U.S. are required to disclose incidents that could have a material impact on their business. While the current regulations don't specifically mention cyberattacks, the new guidelines say they need to be reported in some cases.Companies should disclose the risk of cyber-incidents "if these issues are among the most significant factors that make an investment in the company speculative or risky," say the guidelines, issued late ThursdayTo determine that, companies need to look at factors such as how likely it is they will be targeted by an attack and what the cost of an attack might be, in terms of disruption to operations or loss of sensitive data.They may also be required to give details about hacking incidents that took place in the past."For example, if a registrant experienced a material cyberattack in which malware was embedded in its systems and customer data was compromised, it likely would not be sufficient for the registrant to disclose that there is a risk that such an attack may occur." Instead, they would probably be required to reveal specifics of the incident, the SEC said.The guidelines come in a year that has seen numerous high-profile hacking incidents, including a massive attack on Sony that forced it to take its PlayStation Network offline for more than a month.The risk of cyberattacks has always been a potential disclosure issue, but the SEC guidance "really highlights the issue and brings it to the fore," according to David Navetta, a founding partner of Information Law Group, which provides legal services related to IT matters.Even so, he wrote in a company blog post, "materiality is still going to be a big issue, and not every breach will need to be reported as many\/most will not likely involve the potential for a material impact to a company."One interpretation of the guidelines is that "companies internally are going to have to more carefully forecast and estimate the impact of cyber incidents and the consequences of failing to implement adequate security," Navetta wrote."This analysis will go well beyond privacy-related security issues where most companies have focused (due to various privacy laws and regulator activity), and implicate key operational issues impacted by security breaches," he said.James Niccolai covers data centers and general technology news for IDG News Service. Follow James on Twitter at @jniccolai. James's e-mail address is email@example.com


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Google made news over the last year by butting heads with MPEG-LA with their royalty-free and open-sourced video codec: WebM. The hope was to provide an alternative to H.264 which was on a temporary royalty-free basis to end-users wishing to encode videos in the format (it has since been changed to a perpetual royalty-free license for end-users, 3 months after WebM's release). WebM was mostly received with open arms from vendors, especially of free and open-sourced software such as Mozilla, and really shook up the industry. Google is now hoping to catch lightning twice by releasing a similar project for still images to replace the aging JPEG format. Mozilla's response is suggesting that Google might just end up burnt by this experience.
WebP was requested to Mozilla Firefox's bug tracker, Bugzilla, late last September as an enhancement request for Firefox. Since then, Mozilla closed the bug with a status of "RESOLVED WONTFIX" and a statement that they would not accept a patch for it but will re-evaluate their stance in the future if the format changes.
So for the near future it is looking like Jpeg, GIF, and PNG will reign Kings of the web. Mozilla's Jeff Muizelaar goes into quite a bit of detail about their complaints with WebP in their personal blog. If you are a web developer you do not need to rush out and re-encode your images yet; however, you also do not have the option to if you still wish support the majority of web browsers. Typically that is a desire that web designers have.


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[Intro (Nas talking)]
Yo, it's like waking up from a bad dream (Americaaa)
just to figure out you wasn't dreaming in the first place (Nooo...)
[Verse 1]
If all I saw was gangsters
Coming up as a youngster
Pussy and money the only language I clung to
Claim to, unrolled myself up to become one
Ain't ya happy I chose rap? I'm amongst the
Streets deceiving
Can't believe my achievements
Cultural strata
Persona's that of a non-needer
Because I don't need nada except for Prada beaver
For cold winters, tattoos got my summer's sleeveless
To my G's on the flee from the coppers (coppers)
Stiff bodies on freeze in funeral parlors (parlors)
From the slums I come up a phoenix
Caked up, tryin' to take what I'm eating
Came up a dismissive kid (kid)
You lucky if you allowed to witness this
Savvy mouth
While hardly a man's man
Who woulda knew the beach houses and wild parties
Jezebel's and Stella McCartney's?
For years, all that
How could I not be dead?
This old German
Said I was a thug with a knotty head
Looked at my Benz and called that a Nazi sled
With a face like he wonder where I got my bread
Probably all these stones he see
From my shows overseas
From crime to rhyme
My story is I'm from the home of the thieves
[Chorus 1]
America (America), pay attention
Wake up (America)
This is not what you think it is
America (America), pay attention
Wake up (America)
This is not what you think it is
[Verse 2:]
The lord is a G, he gotta be
Who's the God of suckers and snitches?
The economy
Lipstick from Marilyn Monroe
Blew a death kiss to Fidel Castro
He'd want me to spit this
Only the strong survive
Nas bear witness
The hypocrisy is all I can see
White cop acquitted for murder
Black cop cop a plea
That type of shit make me stop and think
We in chronic need of a second look of the law books
And the whole race dichotomy
Too many rappers, athletes, and actors
But not enough niggas in NASA
Who give you the latest dances, trends, and fashion?
But when it comes to residuals, they look past us
Woven into the fabric, they can't stand us
Even in white tee's, blue jeans, and red bandannas
[Chorus 2]
America (America) pay attention
Wake up (America)
This is not what you think it is
America (America)
Pay attention (America)
This is not what you think it is
America (America)
(This is not what you think it is)
[Verse 3:]
Diplomatic relations
Killed indigenous people
Built a new nation
Involuntary labor
Took a knife split a woman naval
Took her premature baby
Let her man see you rape her
If I could travel to the 1700's
I'd push a wheelbarrow full of dynamite
Through your covenant
Love to sit in on the Senate
And tell the whole government
Y'all don't treat women fair
She read about herself in the bible
Believing she the reason sin is here
You played her, with an apron
Like, "Bring me my dinner, dear."
She the nigger here
Ain't we in the free world?
Death penalty in Texas kill young boys and girls
Barbarity, I'm in the double-R casualty
Bugging how I made it out the hood, dazzle me
How far we really from third world savagery
When the empire fall, imagine how crazy that'll be
[Chorus 3]
America (America, America)
America (America)
(This is not what you think it is)
America (America ohhh)
This is not what you think it is
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Beautiful Regret (Book 3)
Bounty Hunter Series:The Marino Bros.
MJ Nightingale
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Lisa Rasmussen, formerly Lisa Raphael, has had enough of her manipulative abusive husband. He has forced her to his will, tortured her both physically and psychologically, and she wants out. Her sham of a marriage to Albert, son of the blue blooded Rasmussen's of Manhattan, has to end. But, Albert has vowed to never give Lisa her freedom. He owns her. Body and soul. Her plans to blackmail him to get out, will not go unpunished. Albert will strike first.
Gio Marino knows Lisa. He knows of Albert. After all, Lisa left him to marry the son of the luxury classic car dynasty. So when Lisa calls him begging for help, he is floored. Not only because she called him, but because of what she has been accused of. Attempted murder! She had meant everything to him, but after what she did nearly a decade ago, he knows not to trust her, but the temptation to see her in an orange jumpsuit is just too hard to resist.
Lisa is full of regret. She has a lot to feel guilty about. But, she doesn't have any one else to turn to. She needs Gio. He is the only one she can trust even though he might never be able to trust her again.
The minute he walks into Riker's and sees her, he knows he has made a big mistake. The emerald eyes, the flawless skin, the fiery hair, bring it all back. Especially the regret. Can he help her? Does he want to? And why, after all these years, does he find her beauty so hard to resist?
Beautiful Regret is the third book in The Bounty Hunters - The Marino Bros.
Suspenseful, erotic, and romantic, these books are packed with passion, sex and characters you will love. What more could you want?
The old man dropped his hand from Gio's arm, and looked wistfully up the block towards his own house, just eight up from Gio's.
"I used to watch her, Lisa, run to your house every day, in high school. She was in love you know. Back then, I thought it was a passing fancy." He closed his eyes at the memory. "I remember her telling me she was going to marry you one day. She was fourteen when she said it, and I laughed. Then you kids had all those fights, and I took them so seriously. You boys, good boys, I know that now, but you had your share of scrapes in the neighborhood. I was a father of all girls. What did I know? I worried. I heard stories. But I didn't keep in mind that you were just kids."
"Sir, I don't understand what you are trying to say?" The old man was rambling and Gio knew he was trying to make a point. He wanted to move him along.
"I should have never allowed her to marry that man. I should have not even considered it. But I was going to lose everything, and the Rasmussens, I owed them too. They were a good family I thought, so rich, respected. When Albert's father approached me, it was a business deal. I did not think. I thought it was a step up, but I was wrong. I saw bruises on my daughter's arms once and I almost killed myself."
Gio stood back, shocked, and the old man's words grew harsher. He was practically spitting the words out. Still he remained silent hearing the man out.
"That was about two years after Lisa married. But Celia, I could not tell her. I was mortified, and so ashamed. I am not a man. Then as Johnny grew up, and I recognized he was your son . . ."
"You knew?" Gio interrupted.
"How could I not? I watched you grow up son, and I was even more ashamed of myself." He went on. "I never spoke my suspicions out loud. Celia, she was mad enough already at me for my gambling. To know her daughter was married to a man who beat her, had the son of her former lover, who she still yearned for, but had done this to keep a house over our heads, that was enough to bear. I could not tell her my suspicions." The man held his hand up to his heart.
Gio was afraid the man would have a heart attack. He had to stop him. "Mr. Raphael. We all have our regrets. I have mine too. I know I wasn't perfect. I made mistakes." He sighed trying to think of what to say next. "I think we all need to just put the past behind us. Focus on the here and now." He looked towards his house, where Lisa and Johnny played and laughed inside with family, and something clicked inside him. "We have all lived our lives for too long with regret. I think we need to stop regretting the past, and move on. What do you say?" he held out his hand and Mr. Raphael took it with tears in his eyes.
"Son, thank you. That would mean a lot. As many mistakes as we, I, have made, that would do my heart good. I love my daughters and my grandson. Your son. I am glad he is yours."
"He is a fine boy. I'm glad too."
"And son, one more thing." He took hold of Gio's arm once more as he was about to turn and head back inside. "You say you were not perfect, but you are. Perfect for my Lisa anyhow. I wish I had seen that earlier."
The old man was smiling at him with tears still in his eyes. "You old fool," Gio swiped the tears that had sprung from his own eyes, and pulled Mr. Raphael into his arms, and gave him a quick hug. The man was crying and laughing at the same time.
"Let's get inside. I miss my family."
"I do too, son. I do to."
MJ Nightingale has been a teacher for over two decades. Writing is her new career, and something she has wanted to do for a very long time. But reading has been a part of her life since she was a child. She has been an avid lover of romance novels, and they have always held a special place in her heart. When not working, or writing, or spending time with her children, she devours books all summer long, and any type of fiction; thrillers, crime, suspense, contemporary, and drama.
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This was another action adventure romance, that anyone who loves action will definitely love. Go is just like all the brothers Alpha who love to be in control. He is also a very loving man, once he opens his heart. Once I learned of what Lisa had gone through for years, I understood what she did. She may have been wrong on some instance, but she did what she thought was right at the time. Lisa loves her family and will do anything for them, even giving up her happiness for them. Another great ride from the Marion Brothers.
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