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Oscar Pistorius Murder Trial to Start in March
Chris SpillaneOscar Pistorius, the Paralympian gold medalist, was indicted today for murder and possession of ammunition after the shooting death of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp and was told his trial will start in March.
A judge in the North Gauteng High Court will hear the case from March 3 to March 20, Gerrie Nel, the prosecutor, said in Pretoria, the capital. There are 107 witnesses to be called during the trial, including Steenkamp's friends Gina and Kim Myers. South African criminal cases are heard by judges.
The track star, dressed in a charcoal suit and light blue shirt, was mostly composed as he prayed with family members and discussed his case for an hour before the start of the hearing, his first time in court since June. Steenkamp would have turned 30 today.
"Today should have been a celebration of her life, instead we mark it with a court appearance," Ian Levitt, a lawyer for the Myers family, told reporters after the hearing. Gina is listed as a witness for the trial.
"Always with you my Alfi @reevasteenkamp miss you infinitely," Myers, who sat a few feet behind Pistorius, posted on her Twitter Inc. account.
Pistorius has been free on 1 million rand ($98,000) bail since February after prosecutors charged him with premeditated murder for the shooting of Steenkamp on Feb. 14, Valentine's Day. The runner says he thought the model and reality television star was an intruder at his Pretoria home.
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The 26-year-old athlete "did unlawfully and intentionally kill a person" and illegally had .38 caliber ammunition without the appropriate permit or licenses, according to the indictment issued today in Pretoria.
Steenkamp, then 29 years old, locked herself in a toilet cubicle and Pistorius, armed with a 9mm pistol, fired four shots at her through the locked door, according to the indictment. The cause of death was given as multiple gunshot wounds.
"Some of the state witnesses heard a woman scream, followed by moments of silence, then heard gunshots and then more screaming," the indictment said. "The accused said to witnesses on the scene, that he thought she was an intruder. Even then, the accused shot with the direct intention to kill a person."
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The court returned Pistorius' passport and eased travel restrictions after his lawyers argued that he wanted to resume training and compete. Pistorius planned to restart his training on June 28, according to a statement posted on his website.
Known as Blade Runner for the prosthetics he wore to race, Pistorius was the first amputee runner to compete in an Olympic Games in 2012 in London. Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world and he won six Paralympic gold medals. He was born without fibulas and had both legs amputated below the knee at 11 months old.
Since his arrest, sponsors including Nike Inc., the world's largest sporting-goods company, and Luxottica Group SpA's Oakley have ended deals with Pistorius.


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This report describes the typical weather at the Cozumel International Airport (Cozumel, Mexico) weather station over the course of an average December. It is based on the historical records from 1991 to 2012. Earlier records are either unavailable or unreliable.
Cozumel has a tropical monsoon climate with short dry season. The area within 25 mi of this station is covered by oceans and seas (69%) and forests (30%).
The month of December is characterized by gradually falling daily high temperatures, with daily highs around 82°F throughout the month, exceeding 86°F or dropping below 76°F only one day in ten.
Over the course of December, the length of the day is essentially constant. The shortest day of the month is December 20 with 10:53 hours of daylight; the longest day is December 2 with 10:58 hours of daylight.
The earliest sunrise is at 6:08am on December 1; the latest sunset is at 5:19pm on December 31; the latest sunrise is at 6:24am on December 30; the earliest sunset is at 5:06pm on December 1.
Daylight saving time is observed in 2012 but it neither starts nor ends in December, so the entire month is in standard time.
The median cloud cover is 53% (partly cloudy) and does not vary substantially over the course of the month.
On December 16, a representative day, the sky is clear or mostly clear 11% of the time, partly cloudy 21% of the time, and mostly cloudy or overcast 19% of the time.
The probability that precipitation will be observed at this location varies throughout the month. Precipitation is most likely around December 1, occurring in 24% of days. Precipitation is least likely around December 31, occurring in 20% of days.
Throughout December, the most common forms of precipitation are light rain and moderate rain.
Light rain is the most severe precipitation observed during 50% of those days with precipitation. It is most likely around December 15, when it is observed during 12% of all days.
Moderate rain is the most severe precipitation observed during 34% of those days with precipitation. It is most likely around December 1, when it is observed during 9% of all days.
Either snow is exceptionally unlikely to fall at this location in December or this station does not reliably report precipitation types.
The relative humidity typically ranges from 64% (mildly humid) to 93% (very humid) over the course of a typical December, rarely dropping below 55% (mildly humid) and reaching as high as 100% (very humid).
The air is driest around December 28, at which time the relative humidity drops below 69% (mildly humid) three days out of four; it is most humid around December 14, rising above 88% (very humid) three days out of four.
Dew point is often a better measure of how comfortable a person will find the weather than relative humidity because it more directly relates to whether perspiration will evaporate from the skin, thereby cooling the body. Lower dew points feel drier and higher dew points feel more humid.
Over the course of a typical December, the dew point typically varies from 65°F (mildy humid) to 73°F (very muggy) and is rarely below 58°F (comfortable) or above 77°F (oppressive).
Over the course of December typical wind speeds vary from 0 mph to 15 mph (calm to moderate breeze), rarely exceeding 22 mph (fresh breeze).
The highest average wind speed of 8 mph (gentle breeze) occurs around December 29, at which time the average daily maximum wind speed is 15 mph (moderate breeze).
The lowest average wind speed of 7 mph (light breeze) occurs around December 1, at which time the average daily maximum wind speed is 14 mph (moderate breeze).


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Patent Troll Says Anyone Using WiFi Infringes; Won't Sue Individuals 'At This Stage'
from the a-well-thought-out-shakedown dept
There are various interesting things in the article worth commenting on. First is the smaller settlements/making it up in volume technique. While its initial lawsuits against coffee shops and restaurants did focus on the central corporations, with the hotels, Innovatio appears to be focusing on individual franchisees. Yes, the small businesses who own individual hotels and probably have no idea how to deal with a patent infringement lawsuit -- all because they dared to offer WiFi somewhere in their hotels. To make it "easy" of course, Innovatio's lawyers will let them settle for between $2,300 and $5,000. In almost every case, that's going to be cheaper than hiring a lawyer to just get started dealing with this -- which I'm sure is exactly what Innovatio intends.
The company is represented by the infamous law firm of Niro, Haller & Niro, which is the firm that originally inspired the term "patent troll." The lawyer representing the company, Matthew McAndrews, seems to imply that the company believes the patents cover everyone who has a home WiFi setup, but they don't plan to go after such folks right now, for "strategic" reasons:
"Innovatio has made a strategic and business judgment at this stage that it doesn�t intend to pursue [lawsuits on the basis of] residential use of WiFi," McAndrews said during a phone conversation last week.And while that certainly could change, you may be relieved (or probably not) to learn that McAndrews does not "perceive" such a "strategic" decision will change. However, later in the article, he seems to indicate otherwise:
Ultimately, he said, Innovatio�s "plan is to license this portfolio to the fullest extent possible. That would include anyone who's wireless networking."And then there's this:
"We want you to continue to use this technology, we just want our client to get his due share,� McAndrews said. �This is not a seat-of-the-pants, fly-by-night shakedown."I guess he means this is a well-planned, well-financed shakedown that's going to stick around for a while. Lovely.
At least there is some firepower arguing against Innovatio. After its first round of lawsuits, Motorola and Cisco went to court, asking for a declaratory judgment that its WiFi products do not infringe... and that Innovatio's patents are invalid. Hopefully that comes to pass or WiFi may get a hell of a lot more expensive.


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DAILY MANIFESTODeal With The DevilPosted on Thursday, March 2 @ 14:19:10 PST by Ben_Silverman
Quick, grab a ten-dollar bill and kiss it. You won't be seeing it again for a long time.
Why? Because of the vile illuminati at Microsoft, who today announced a new line of value-priced Platinum games for the Xbox. Dubbed the "Best of Platinum" line, these titles will forever more retail at the gleefully ghetto price of $9.99 a pop. That's cheaper than used. Now don't get all pissy and assume that "value" pricing means "value" games, which as we all know is PR code for "retarded" games, because the majority of these cheapos are actually pretty damn good. You can get a brand new, unscratched, totally functional version of Project Gotham 2, Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow, Soul Calibur II or, in what might be the steal of the century, The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind. That's about 400 hours of gameplay for 10 dollars, or 40 hours per buck. For the price of Ridge Racer for the 360, you can own all four of these awesome games and have 20 bucks left over for beer. Check out the full list. Given, many of these games have already taken residence on our shelves and aren't exactly fresh experiences. But they are good, reminding us that when it comes to cost-reward gaming, the next-gen's got nothing on the old guard. |
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Venue: His Holiness's Residence, Dharamsala, India
Date: April 14th, 2010
Duration: 2 minutes
Languages: Tibetan
His Holiness offers his condolences to the victims of the earthquake that struck Kyigdu (Chinese-Yushu) on the morning of April 14th, 2010. Webcast is in Tibetan Language only.
Venue: Rishikesh, India
Date: April 4th, 2010
Duration: 11 minutes
Languages: English
At the Interfaith Harmony Gathering His Holiness talks of the importance of protecting the environment on the occasion of the inauguration of the Ganga Cleanup Program.
Venue: Haridwar, India
Date: 3 April 2010
Duration: 15 minutes
Languages: English
His Holiness's Address at the Blessing ceremony of the Encyclopedia of Hinduism and Peace Message for the World from the Maha Kumbha Mela.
Venue: Haridwar, India
Date: April 3rd, 2010
Duration: 6 minutes
Languages: English
His Holiness meets briefly with the press on his arrival in Haridwar to participate in events associated with his commitment to promote interfaith dialog.
Venue: Bhopal, India
Date: 18 March 2010
Duration: 45 minutes
Languages: English
His Holiness meets with the press during his visit to Bhopal, India.
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Duration: 22 Minutes
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His Holiness's address at the concluding event of the year long Thank You India program commemorating the 50 years of Tibetans in exile.
Venue: New Delhi, India
Date: 19-21 March 2010
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Languages: English
His Holiness teachings on the first three chapters of Shantideva's "Guide" with an introduction to the ninth chapter. The event was organized by the Foundation for Universal Responsibility in New Delhi.
Venue: New Delhi, India
Date: 20 March 2010
Duration: 1:05
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His Holiness the Dalai Lama's talk to members of the Association of Indian Diplomats at the Vivekananda Foundation. There is a short question and answer session after the talk.
Venue: Bhopal, India
Date: 17 March 2010
Duration: 41 minutes
Languages: English
His Holiness delivers the keynote address at the Madya Pradesh Human Rights Commission event.
Venue: His Holiness's Residence, Dharamsala, India
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A trailer from the documentary about the struggle of independent bookstores to survive in a big box/internet culture... Paperback Dreams.
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Paperback Dreams is a co-production of Alex Beckstead, the Independent Television Service (ITVS) and KQED Public Television, with funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB).


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HARRISBURG (AP) — About two dozen mothers, grandmothers, nurses and small children are in the Pennsylvania Capitol to ask state senators to advance medical marijuana legislation.
Dana Ulrich of Lancaster County said Tuesday that they are asking senators to vote the bill out of the Appropriations Committee and pass it before leaving the Capitol for the summer.
Ulrich's 6-year-old daughter Lorelei suffers from severe seizures.
Ulrich and other advocates believe that marijuana oil extracts can save the lives of their seizure-wracked children while helping treat other ailments in children and adults, such as cancer or multiple sclerosis.
Gov. Tom Corbett supports a narrower legalization of marijuana oil extract for medical purposes, while leaders of the House Republican majority say they're opposed because the U.S. Food and Drug Administration hasn't approved it.


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Employment at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology is based on the ability to perform the services required with or without reasonable accommodations in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) (See Section 2.02 Americans with Disabilities Act). Work expectations and responsibilities will be explained by the supervisor during the interview process and also during employment.
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology is an equal opportunity employer. It is the Institute's policy to treat all employees and applicants equally according to their individual qualifications, abilities, experiences and other employment standards. Rose-Hulman will not discriminate against any employee, applicant for employment, student or applicant for admission on the basis of race, religion, sex, pregnancy, ethnicity, national origin (including ancestry), citizenship status, physical or mental disability, age, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status (including special disabled veteran, Vietnam-era veteran, or recently separated veteran), predisposing genetic characteristics, or any other protected category under applicable local, state or federal law, including protections for those opposing discrimination or participating in any complaint process on campus or within the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission or other human rights agencies.
The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), prohibits employers from discriminating against a qualified individual with a disability in the employment process. The Institute will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with known disabilities unless doing so would result in an undue hardship. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is charged with enforcing the employment discrimination elements of the ADA.
It is the policy of the Institute to expect its staff, while acting for or engaging in an activity affecting the Institute, to do so with loyalty to the Institute and maintenance of the highest standards of ethics and awareness of conflicts of interest, both in fact and appearance; to respect the rights of staff to engage in activities outside the normal scope of their role at the Institute, provided such activities do not conflict with or reflect adversely on the Institute's interest, or deprive the Institute of an appropriate measure of their time and effort (conflict of commitment); this policy shall not be construed so as to unreasonably or unfairly curtail the Institute policy on academic freedom. Every staff member will complete a written Conflict of Interest Disclosure form (See Appendix 15 Conflict of Interest Policy and Procedures) during new employee orientation and annually thereafter. Records will be maintained in the Institute's secured, confidential files in the Office of Business and Finance
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The policy also sets forth a distribution formula for royalties received by the Institute from technology/intellectual property licenses. Employees are requested to sign "Exhibit-A", Intellectual Property Agreement, during employee orientation to indicate compliance with the Institute's policy.
In accordance with Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Title IX, the Institute has established a Policy for Civil Rights Equity (See Appendix 4). Any employee who believes that he or she has been the subject of discimination, harassment or sexual misconduct (See Appendix 4 for definitions) should comply with the reporting procedures set forth in the Rose-Hulman Policy for Civil Rights Equity Complaint Resolution. A report of the discrimination, harassment, or sexual misconduct should be made promptly to one of the Title IX Coordinators, as stated in the attached policy. After appropriate investigation, any individual who is found to have engaged in sexual harassment will be subject to appropriate sanctions up to and including termination.
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What's the most recent miracle to hit the Gorman household? The beloved concept of a trifecta of naps, that is, a heavenly 2-hour block of time when Deirdre, Bernadette and Mom are all sleeping at the same time. Wow! Is it fabulous or what, not to mention quiet!
When I was pregnant with Bernadette, I recall dreaming about this notion - the kids and I would synchronize our watches, crawl into our beds (or cribs or what have you), and close our eyes all at the same time. And now that we've done it several times, it really IS a dream come true. Not sure how long it will last - but we'll enjoy it while it does.
During that first year or two with Deirdre, many people asked how I'd managed to make our naps correspond. Had I changed my schedule around to match Deirdre's, or had I made her naps match mine? Truth is, it was probably a little bit of both. I remember Johnny's grandmother being so complimentary in saying that I'd done such a good job getting Deirdre to sleep when I needed to, but I wasn't so sure. I mean, I did move my nap a good hour or two earlier to match her naptime. But she was right to some degree - I was very strategic in my efforts to make the hours between 2 and 4pm a sacred time in our house every afternoon, regardless of what Deirdre had in store.
And now with Bernadette - I'm starting to turn on the strategic machine again. I've been feeding her right before we all go down for a nap, and it's worked like a charm! The most important aspect, of course, is that I'm making my nap a priority, too, not just the girls' naps. They're not the only two that need beauty rest!
So I'll continue to massage little Bernadette's schedule to work with our current routine, but if we need to move things around a bit to make things work with the three of us - so be it. I've never been one to shy away from a new and different way to fit in a nap!


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Scientists at Mississippi State University have been working to find an inexpensive, attractive way to keep the sand on the 26 miles of manmade beach between Biloxi and Pass Christian, and Hurricane Isaac tested their experimental site.
As the researchers expected, all of the vegetation at the site is still intact and will regenerate. The sea oats that created the foredunes, or the line of sand dunes closest to the water, were flattened by the storm surge but not destroyed.
"The foredunes took the brunt of the hurricane's storm surge, but root and stem parts of the sea oats were still embedded in the beach from when they were originally planted in July 2009. They will grow back and recreate the dunes," said Pete Melby, a professor in MSU's Department of Landscape Architecture. "One of the purposes of sand dunes is to serve as a sacrificial formation to protect the mainland from tropical storm wave erosion."
The dunes on the upper beach were largely intact, with some erosion at their southernmost edge.
Most encouraging was that the one-year-old salt marsh was unaffected by the storm.
"We were elated to see that the salt marsh had survived the storm," Melby said. "That is a big deal because once the marsh is established, it is very beneficial to the rest of the beach.
"The root structure of salt marsh grasses is 90 percent of the plant's biomass, and one of its main purposes is to protect the beach edge from erosion. The marsh creates much more stability for the beach and contributes to the overall health of the water's ecosystem."
Mississippi's Gulf Coast has faced the challenge of keeping sand on the beach for decades.
"The erosion of the beach since its creation in the 1950s has been relentless. Stopping it is beyond the capacity of individual cities," said Thomas Cathcart, agricultural and biological engineering professor and Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station researcher. "All cities can do is replenish the beach using dredged sand, and that costs about $9 million each time."
Since 1995, Cathcart and Melby have researched a sustainable landscape system designed to hold beach sand in place, reducing the frequency with which it has to be replaced. The sand protects Highway 90, which runs parallel to the beach, and the residential and commercial areas on the north side of it.
At the experimental site -- a 3-mile stretch of land donated by Harrison County to the Biloxi Bay Chamber of Commerce -- Cathcart and Melby planted native grasses, shrubs and trees on the upper and mid portions of the beach that are adapted to the environment.
"Compared to the conventionally managed site, the experimental site has experienced much less wind and rain erosion," Cathcart said. "The plants effectively create a natural sand dune by catching the windblown sand before it reaches the road. Before Hurricane Isaac, the dunes had grown to become the highest point between Biloxi and Pass Christian. Before planting it was the topographical low point. Over time the dunes naturally will rebuild."
Cathcart and Melby estimate the dunes will reestablish themselves within two to three years.
The experimental site will now be referred to as the sustainable beach because of the landscaping'ssuccess at withstanding Isaac's storm surge.
"This is a system that will work," Melby said. "It will save money on highway sand clean-ups and on replenishment. It will also be better for the Mississippi Sound and its sea life."


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Michael Faust
Birth Date: | 07/15/1981 |
Height: | 5-9 |
Hometown: | Sydney, Australia |
High School: | Cranbrook School |
Previous College: | BYU |
Played No. 5 and 6 singles last season at BYU.
Played No. 5 and 6 singles last season at BYU.
High School
Attended Cranbrook School where he went undfeated at No. 1 singles...His team won the league championships in 1998...Also ran cross country.
Parents are Warren and Judi Faust...Major is undecided but is interested in becoming a sports agent...Lists Andre Agassi as his favorite athlete...Born July 15, 1981 in Sydney.


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New Bremen makes quick work of LTC
LIMA - The second-seeded New Bremen Cardinals used a huge second quarter on both ends of the court to overcome a sluggish start and rolled to an 82-27 drubbing of the Lima Temple Christian Pioneers in the opening round of the Division IV sectional tournament at Bath High School.
The Cardinals will take an 11-10 mark to the sectional finals on Saturday at approximately 8 p.m. against the Ada Bulldogs while Lima Temple Christian ends its season at 4-17.
After shooting just 3-for-15 from the floor and leading just 8-6 after the first eight minutes, New Bremen cranked up its pressure defense and outscored the Pioneers 31-7 in the second period to turn the game into a rout.
On the defensive end, the Cardinals held Lima Temple Christian to just 3-of-8 shooting and they forced 12 turnovers in the period. New Bremen converted the miscues into 21 points.
On the offensive end, New Bremen hit 11-of-19 shots from the floor in the period and they added 9-of-10 from the free-throw line.
The Cardinals turned the ball over just once in the period as Stacy Timmerman led the way in the period with 12 points.
For the game, Lima Temple Christian turned the ball over 39 times and shot just 32 percent from the floor.
"It is tough to play a game like we played and have it be pretty because if you don't come in focused you look bad like we did at the start of the game. If we play our game, which is a fullcourt game and a run-and-gun, which we were able to play in the second period, then it looks like we are being bullies, so this was a tough game for us to play," said New Bremen boss Dave McFeely. "We moved a couple of extra players up, including a couple of freshmen so that we could have more depth and rotate people in and out more.
"We only had 14 turnovers and I venture to say that a majority of them came in the first quarter," continued McFeely. "Early in the first period I got mad and took out the first unit and put the second group in and that kind of refocused them."
With the game in hand at the half, McFeely called off the dogs as he allowed all 13 players on the roster to play and he was rewarded as 12 of the players dented the scoring column.
"Our goal was to come in here, get our starters some work and get our backups some work too, get used to the floor and do a lot of rotating at the end," said Mc Feely. "We played 10 of the 12 in the first half and we got all 12 in during the second half.
Christine Schwartz led New Bremen with a game-high 17 points and Timmerman chipped in 16 while Jaclyn Dabbelt added 10.
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Grieve back as Comox Valley Regional District chair
Edwin Grieve will be the chair of the Comox Valley Regional District for the second straight year, the CVRD board voted Tuesday.
Patti Fletcher was voted in as a vice-chair.
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Couns. Starr Winchester, Manno Theos and Jon Ambler of Courtenay will also sit on the board, as will Couns. Tom Grant and Fletcher of Comox.
Cumberland will be represented alternately by Couns. Gwyn Sproule and Roger Kishi. Sproule will represent the Village at the CVRD board and sport commission meetings while Kishi will attend solid waste and hospital board meetings.
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We got a chance to interview Jason Bateman recently, and he talked a little bit about the highly anticipated Arrested Development movie and whether we're ever going to see it. If you're a fan, prepare to be surprised.
We also interviewed Bateman about his role in the upcoming Mike Judge comedy Extract, and he was in top form as he hilariously answered our questions about the long-awaited new film from the director of Office Space.
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Angelina Jolie herself admitted she still has "a dark side," and her partner, Brad Pitt, says he likes it.
"She's still a bad girl," a grinning Pitt, 48, said Monday on CBS This Morning. "Delightfully so. It's not for public consumption."
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More than 70 acres of sensitive habitat in the North County will be preserved, under a joint purchase announced today by the San Diego Association of Governments and county of San Diego.
The agencies paired up to buy 40 acres along Escondido Creek south of San Marcos, and SANDAG purchased 32.5 acres of the Del Mar Mesa Preserve.
The Escondido Creek property, known as Mendocino, was bought for $2.3 million as part of a mitigation plan for freeway projects elsewhere in the county. It's near Sage Hill, a 234-acre parcel acquired previously for the same purpose.
The $2.6 million purchase of Del Mar Mesa Preserve headed off a proposal to build homes at the site, which includes vernal pools, old growth chaparral and oak tree stands.
"Working as a team, we have been able to achieve the SANDAG goal of preserving open space as mitigation for highway and local road construction, while at the same time expanding the county's park system for use by the public," said Jerome Stocks, SANDAG's first vice chairman and a member of the Encinitas City Council.
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Max Irons may be being compared to Robert Pattinson but the Red Riding Hood star reckons R-Patz has been "gifted and cursed" with fame.
The son of acting couple Jeremy Irons and Sinead Cusack hit the red carpet in Hollywood to premiere the new thriller in which he plays Amanda Seyfried's love interest.
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Memory Wire (1987)Edit
- All page numbers from the first edition mass market paperback published by Bantam Spectra Books
- "You think Wexler is lying?"
"I think he's fallible," Byron had replied.- Chapter 2 (p. 20)
- It was amazing how these events lost their impact, translated through the flat gaze of a video screen.
- Chapter 4 (p. 33)
- He had come out of the war twice-decorated and with a thoughtful respect for the horrors of combat. He had seen terrible things, participated in terrible things...but that was the nature of war, and it was not something you could enter into halfway. War was a state of mind, war was all or nothing.
- Chapter 15 (p. 134)
- There were times when his life had seemed to him like one prolonged act of sleepwalking.
- Chapter 16 (p. 142)
- They allow us access to the experience of the past—the only kind of time machine we are ever likely to have.
- Chapter 18 (p. 160)
- For them, the idea of forgetting was indistinguishable from the idea of death. To pass out of memory was to pass out of the world. To conserve memory was to confer immortality.
- Chapter 18 (p. 161)
- The past was gone, the dead were dead and did not speak, and everybody dies; one day Oberg would be dead and silent, too, and that was as it should be: the broad and welcoming ocean of oblivion. It made life bearable. It was sacred. It should not be tampered with.
- Chapter 20 (p. 179)
- He was not accustomed to thinking about these things so bluntly, but the facts were as obvious as they were painful.
- Chapter 21 (p. 181)
A Bridge of Years (1991)Edit
- All page numbers from the first edition mass market paperback published by Bantam Spectra Books
- "There's no forgiveness built into the system. I told Barbara so, dozens of times. She was always marching off to save the whales, save the trees, save some goddamn thing. It was endearing. But in the back of my head I always heard Dad's voice: 'This is only a holding action. Nothing is ever really saved.' Barbara thought the greenhouse effect was like a virus, something you could stop if you came up with the right vaccine. I told her it was a cancer—the cancer of humanity on the vital organs of the earth. You can't stop that by marching."
"Isn't that a little like giving up?"
"I think it's called acceptance."
Archer stood and walked to the door, where his silhouette obscured the motion of the trees.
"Very bleak attitude, Tom."
"Experience bears it out."- Chapter 3 (pp. 52-53)
- "Must be a full moon," she said."Lawrence is turning into an asshole."
- Chapter 8 (p. 143)
- Now as ever, he was startled by the wild exuberance of the twentieth century. All these lights! Colored neon and glaring filaments, powered, he had learned, but mechanical dams spanning rivers hundreds of miles away. And most of this—astonishingly—in the name of advertising.
- Chapter 9 (p. 148)
- What was time, after all, except a lead-footed march from the precincts of youth into the country of the grave? Time was the force that crumbled granite, devoured memory, and seduced infants into senility—as implacable as a hanging judge and as poetic as a tank.
- Chapter 11 (p. 177)
- "Time is a vastness," he said finally. "We tend to underestimate it."
- Chapter 13 (p. 244)
Darwinia (1998)Edit
- All page numbers from the trade paperback edition published by Orb Books (ISBN 978-0-7653-1905-0)
- Guilford thought he knew what science was. It was nothing more than curiosity...tempered by humility, disciplined with patience.
Science meant looking—a special kind of looking. Looking especially hard at the things you didn't understand. Looking at the stars, say, and not fearing them, not worshiping them, just asking questions, finding the question that would unlock the door to the next question and the question beyond that.- Prologue (pp. 10-11)
- A lot of people have made political careers out of religious piety and the fear of foreigners, but that won't last. Not enough foreigners or miracles to sustain the crisis.
- Chapter 7 (p. 77)
- After a gaudy sunset that land became an immense, limitless darkness. Too large, Guilford thought, too empty, and too plain a token of the indifferent machinery of God.
- Chapter 8 (p. 80)
- I won't put my ignorance on an altar and call it God.
- Chapter 15 (p. 136)
- But really, who do you think we're working for? Not some Sunday school god, not the proverbial loving shepherd. The shoving leopard, more like.
- Chapter 20 (p. 174)
- He was as alone as he had ever been, frighteningly alone, in a borderless land of shaded forests and rocky, abyssal gorges. But that was all right. He didn't much mind being alone. It was what happened when people were around that worried him.
- Chapter 24 (p. 195)
- The essence of life is change, he said, and the essence of eternal life is eternal change.
- Chapter 25 (p. 209)
- I gather we're not the most craven species in the galaxy, but we're not the most angelic by a long shot.
- Chapter 25 (p. 211)
- "Maybe you were better off not knowing."
"Ignorance is not bliss."- Chapter 29 (p. 245)
- Last week the doctor at the Tilson Rural Clinic had shown him his X-rays, the too-easy-to-interpret shadows on his liver and lungs. Guilford had declined an offer of surgery and and last-gasp radiation therapy. This horse was too old to beat.
- Epilogue (p. 316)
- He hated the idea of eulogizing himself. Some tasks are best left to others, surely including obituaries.
- Epilogue (p. 318)
The Perseids and Other Stories (2000)Edit
- All page numbers from the trade paperback edition published by Tor Books
- Ziegler said, "You know the story in the Bible, the story of Abraham and Isaac?"
"Of course."
"God instructs Abraham to offer his son as a sacrifice. Isaac makes it as far as the chopping block before God changes his mind."
Yes. Jacob had always imagined God a little appalled at Abraham's willingness to cooperate.
Ziegler said, "What's the moral of the story?"
"Hardly," Ziegler said. "Faith has nothing to do with it. Abraham never doubted the existence of God—how could he? The evidence was ample. His virtue wasn't faith, it was fealty. He was so simplemindedly loyal that he would commit even this awful, terrible act. He was the perfect foot soldier. The ideal pawn. Abraham's lesson: fealty is rewarded. Not morality. The fable makes morality contingent. Don't go around killing innocent people, that is, unless you're absolutely certain God want you to. It's a lunatic's credo.
"Isaac, on the other hand, learns something much more interesting. He learns that neither God nor his own father can be trusted. Maybe it makes him a better man than Abraham. Suppose Isaac grows up and fathers a child of his own, and God approaches him and makes the same demand. One imagines Isaac saying, 'No. You can take him if you must, but I won't slaughter my son for you.' He's not the good and faithful servant his father was. But he is, perhaps, a more wholesome human being."- The Fields of Abraham (pp. 21-22)
- The attacking piece displaces its victim. The vanquished piece leaves the plane of the board entirely. But it does not, in a higher sense, cease to exist.
- The Fields of Abraham (p. 37)
- To capture the pawn, threaten the queen.
- The Fields of Abraham (p. 37)
- "Goddamn you," Jacob said.
"There's no damnation, Jacob. No Heaven but the forest and no God but the hive."- The Fields of Abraham (p. 37)
- Ecstasy hates company.
- The Inner Inner City (p. 72)
- We contrast the urban and the natural, but that's a contemporary myth. We're animals, after all; our cities are organic products, fully as "natural" (whatever that word really means) as a termite hill or a rabbit warren. But how much more interesting: how much more complex, dressed in the intricacies and exfoliations of human culture, simple patterns iterated into infinite variation. And full of secrets, secrets beyond counting.
- The Inner Inner City (p. 74)
- You have a knack for turning your eyes inside out, so you see them. And they see you. And you're afraid, because they're from the uncreated future, from a place, I think, where the human race has reached its last incarnation, from the end of the material world. Perhaps the end of all worlds. And they're sad—melancholy is the better word—because you're like an angel to them, the angel of the past, the angel of infinite possibility. Possibility lost. The road not taken.
- The Observer (p. 111)
- One doesn't have to understand in order to look. One has to look, in order to understand.
- The Observer (p. 112)
- I understand so very little. But I am not afraid to look: I am a good observer at last. My eyes are open, and I am not afraid.
- The Observer (p. 113)
- Does it strike you, Mr. Keller, that we live every day in the science fiction of our youth?
- Divided by Infinity (p. 172)
- Don't despise life.
- Divided by Infinity (p. 173)
- "Ah, books." Ziegler, smiling, came up behind me. "They bob like corks on an ocean. Float between worlds, messages in bottles."
- Divided by Infinity (p. 179)
- "Don't tell me. It changed your life." I was smiling.
She smiled back. "It didn't even change my mind."- Divided by Infinity (p. 180)
- And death?
I don't fear death.
I dread the absence of it.- Divided by Infinity (p. 195)
- "Consciousness," according to current scientific thought, was something the higher mammals had evolved in order to help them reproduce, much the way a garden slug secretes slime. It had no special ontological status. The "self" was a genetically modulated and biologically useful illusion.
- Pearl Baby (p. 211)
- The Mysteries are the Mysteries, and ultimately personal—maybe the most personal thing in the universe. Evangelism, in my opinion, is a failure of the imagination. Beware of prophets: the best visions are the ones they leave in the desert.
- Afterword (p. 220)
The Chronoliths (2001)Edit
- All page numbers from the mass market paperback edition published by Tor Books
- Kait was immediately bored. Children Kaitlin's age possess no context; one video event is much like another.
- Chapter 3 (p. 32)
- Personally, I don't believe in anything more supernatural than what you read about in the Bible, and I only believe that one day out of seven.
- Chapter 8 (p. 112)
- Try to imagine that Minkowski cube, Ray said, as a block of liquid water freezing (as contrary as this seems) from the bottom up. The progression of the freeze represents at least our human experience of the march of time. What is frozen is past, immutable, changeless. What is liquid is future, indeterminate, uncertain. We live on the crystallizing boundary.
- Chapter 9 (pp. 114-115)
- Children wear their natures like brightly-colored clothes; that's why they lie so transparently. Adulthood is the art of deceit.
- Chapter 13 (p. 156)
- The most fundamental parental urge is the urge to nurture and protect. To grieve for a child is to admit ultimate impotence. You can't protect what goes into the ground. You can't tuck a blanket around a grave.
- Chapter 13 (p. 156)
- I suppose every decade gets the music it deserves.
- Chapter 14 (p. 175)
- I suppose he could have said this more gently, but what would be the point?
- Chapter 15 (p. 189)
- Sometimes the conscience makes demands that are non-negotiable. Courage has nothing to do with it. We weren't here because we were brave. We were here because we had to be here.
- Chapter 15 (p. 189)
- There's no point living if you can't, at least occasionally, live.
- Chapter 18 (p. 224)
- When does loyalty become martyrdom?
- Chapter 19 (p. 240)
- It was possible at last to hear the silence—to appreciate that there was a silence, deep and potent, out there beyond the pretension of the light.
- Chapter 23 (p. 272)
- I want them not to forget. Which is, I suppose, what all aged veterans want. But they'll forget. Of course they will. And their children will know less of us than they do, and their children's children will find us barely imaginable.
Which is as it should be. You can't stop time.- Chapter 28 (pp. 314-315)
Blind Lake (2003)Edit
- All page numbers from the mass market paperback edition published by Tor Books
- Times like this, with the wind moving the grass and curling around her like a huge cool hand, Tess felt the world as a second presence, as another person, as if the wind and the grass had voices of their own and she could hear them talking.
- Chapter 2 (p. 23)
- If you understood the facts they needed no embroidery: all the wonder was already there, the more spellbinding because it was true.
- Chapter 7 (p. 69)
- Nobody wants to conduct an autopsy on a dead saint.
- Chapter 10 (p. 116)
- Promises were like bad checks, easy to write and hard to cash.
- Chapter 15 (p. 179)
- "Wow," Sue said. "You actually stole this?"
"We don't use that word," Elaine told her. "Chris has an unnamed high-level source."- Chapter 20 (p. 238)
- His heart was in the right place. He wanted a religion that could plausibly comfort widows and orphans without committing them to patriarchy, intolerance, fundamentalism, or weird dietary laws. He wanted a religion that wasn't in a perpetual fistfight with modern cosmology.
- Chapter 22 (p. 255)
- We live in an enlightened age, however, an age that has learned to see and to value other living things as they are, not as we wish them to be. And the long and creditable history of science has taught us, if nothing else, to look carefully before we judge—to judge, if we must, based on what we see, not what we would prefer to believe.
- Chapter 22 (p. 258)
- Understanding is better than ignorance. Ignorance, unlike life, unlike narrative, is static. Understanding implies a forward motion, thus the possibility of change.
- Chapter 22 (p. 263)
- This would have been less annoying had it been untrue.
- Chapter 32 (p. 347)
- His fertility cycles meant little to him. In his lifetime, he knew, he might make only one or two real contributions to the City's genetic continuity, his viral gametes combining with others in the bodies of the night feeders to become morphologically active. It was abstractly pleasing, though, to realize he had cast his own essence into the ocean of probability, where it might come floating back unknown to him, as a fresh citizen with new and unique ideas and odors.
- Chapter 33 (p. 358)
Spin (2005)Edit
- All page numbers from the mass market paperback edition published by Tor Books
- Everybody falls, and we all land somewhere.
- p. 1 (opening words)
- Along with a dozen other students I had dissected a human cadaver and sorted its contents by size, color, function, and weight. There was nothing pleasant about the experience. Its only consolation was its truth and its only virtue was its utility.
- p. 59
- The world is what it is and won't be bargained with.
- p. 62
- He's exactly what she wants. He's the last thing she needs.
- p. 72
- "We might have destroyed ourselves, but at least it would have been our own fault."
"Would it, though? Whose fault exactly? Yours? Mine? No, it would have been the result of several billion human beings making relatively innocuous choices: to have kids, drive a car to work, keep their job, solve the short-term problems first. When you reach the point at which even the most trivial acts are punishable by the death of the species, then obviously, obviously, you're at a critical juncture, a different kind of point of no return."- p. 128
- The suicidally disgruntled were legion, And their enemies included any and all Americans, Brits, Canadians, Danes, et cetera; or, conversely, all Moslems, dark-skinned people, non-English-speakers, immigrants; all Catholics, fundamentalists, atheists; all liberals, all conservatives...For such people the consummate act of moral clarity was a lynching or a suicide bombing, a fatwa or a pogrom. And they were ascendant now, rising like dark stars over a terminal landscape.
- p. 191
- It was the kind of experience, Molly said, that would grow calluses on an angel's ass.
- p. 204
- I don't believe money is evil, but it can be terribly corrosive.
- p. 225
- I loved Molly. Or at least I told myself I did. Or, if what I felt for her was not love, it was at least a plausible imitation, a convincing substitute.
- p. 248
- An honest book is almost as good as a friend.
- p. 261
- He rolled his eyes. "Those are things people say, Tyler. Talking about multilateralism and diplomacy is like saying 'I love you'—it serves to facilitate the fucking.
- p. 306
- All the brands and flavors of Big Salvation. At the last minute we would devise a technological fix and save ourselves. Or: the Hypotheticals were benevolent beings who would turn the planet into a peaceable kingdom. Or: God would rescue us all, or at least the true believers among us. Or. Or. Or.
Big Salvation. It was a honeyed lie. A paper lifeboat, even if we were killing ourselves trying to cling to it. It wasn't the Spin that had mutilated my generation. It was the lure and price of Big Salvation.- p. 340
- "When was it obvious she was ill?"
"Weeks ago. Or maybe—looking back on it—well—months."
"Has she had any kind of medical attention?" Pause. "Simon?"
"Why not?"
"It didn't seem necessary."
"It didn't seem necessary?"
"Pastor Dan wouldn't allow it."
I thought: And did you tell Pastor Dan to go fuck himself?- p. 363
- His eyes were closed, shut tight on whatever battle his common sense was conducting with his faith.
- p. 377
- "It never fails to astonish me," Carol said. "The tenacity of love."
- p. 403
- Don't be upset. The world is full of surprises. We're all born strangers to ourselves and each other, and we're seldom formally introduced.
- p. 438
- We'll do what life always does—defy expectations.
- p. 451
Axis (2007)Edit
- All page numbers from the mass market paperback edition published by Tor Books
- "You learning anything from this?" Tyrell asked.
Turk stood up and brushed his hands. "Yeah. I'm learning that I know even less than I thought I did."- Chapter 3 (p. 36)
- [There was] only one news channel, overseen by a bland and complexly multicultural board of advisors. It broadcast in fifteen languages and was, as a rule, interesting in none of them.
- Chapter 4 (p. 40)
- There's no drug that'll make a stupid man smart.
- Chapter 6 (p. 81)
- Fortune had done him few favors in the past, and he wasn't sure he trusted it.
- Chapter 7 (pp. 92-93)
- What we cannot remember, we must rediscover.
- Chapter 7 (p. 100; repeated on p. 355 at the end of the book)
- Average people seldom talked about anything interesting and often hurt each other savagely.
- Chapter 8 (p. 107)
- The village muezzin called the faithful to prayer. Diane ignored the sound.
- Chapter 11 (p. 149)
- We spent a lot of time discussing cosmology first. I think that was your father's unique way of evaluating people. You can tell a lot about a person, he once said, by the way they look at the stars.
- Chapter 19 (p. 235)
- I believed there were no Hypotheticals in the sense of consciously acting agents—conscious entities. There was only the process. The needles of evolution, endlessly knitting.
- Chapter 35 (p. 348)
Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America (2009)Edit
- All page numbers from the hardcover edition published by Tor Books
- These movies belonged to the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries—that period of great, unsustainable, and hedonistic prosperity, driven by the burning of Earth's reserves of perishable oil, which culminated in the False Tribulation, and the wars, and the plagues, and the painful dwindling of inflated populations to more reasonable numbers.
- p. 29
- You must not make the mistake of thinking that because nothing lasts, nothing matters.
- p. 35
- Evolution can't be predicted, Julian used to tell me; it's a scattershot business; it fires, but it doesn't aim.
- p. 57
- The Dutch at close proximity looked much like Americans, apart from their peculiar uniforms, and so it was their uniforms I fired at, half convinced that I was killing, not human beings, but enemy costumes, which had borne their contents here from a distant land; and if some living man suffered for his enslavement to the uniform, or was penetrated by the bullets aimed at it—well, that was unavoidable, and the fault couldn't be placed at my feet.
The private charade was not equivalent to Courage, but it enabled a Callousness that served a similar purpose.- p. 109
- To fire a bullet into the heart or brains of one's fellow man—even a fellow man striving to do the same to you—creates what might be called an unassimilable memory: a memory that floats on daily life the way an oil stain floats on rainwater. Stir the rain barrel, scatter the oil into countless drops, disperse it all you like, but it will not mix; and eventually the slick comes back, as loathsomely intact as it ever was.
- pp. 110-111
- Julian read the Bible as if it were a work of contemporary fiction, open to criticism or even revision. Once, when I queried him about the purpose of his unusual reinterpretations, he said to me, "I want a better Bible, Adam. I want a Bible in which the Fruit of Knowledge contains the Seeds of Wisdom, and makes life more pleasurable for mankind, not worse. I want a Bible in which Isaac leaps up from the sacrificial stone and chokes the life out of Abraham, to punish him for the abject and bloody sin of Obedience. I want a Bible in which Lazarus is dead and stubborn about it, rather than standing to attention at the beck and call of every passing Messiah."
- pp. 126-127
- The rooms were confining, the windows minuscule, the ceilings perilously low. She could not have spent much money on the furnishings, which were shabby, threadbare, nicked, and splintered—I had seen better furniture abandoned at Montreal curbsides.
But if her book-cases were humble, they were bowed under the weight of surprisingly many books—almost as many as there had been in the library of the Duncan and Crowley Estate back in Williams Ford. It seemed to me a treasure more estimable than any fine sofa or plush footstool, and worth all the rough economies surrounding it.- pp. 146-147
- "Truth is a perilous commodity," Julian admitted, "but so is ignorance, Adam—more so."
- p. 200
- If I am an agnostic, Calyxa, it's because I'm also a realist.
- p. 216
- I would confront the thieves, I thought, and the self-evident justice of my case would cause them to crumble before me. I don't know why I expected such extravagant results from the application of mere justice. That kind of calculation is seldom borne out by worldly events.
- p. 217
- I suppose the pursuit of fashion has always carried a price, monetary or otherwise.
- p. 234
- "Perpetual peace is a dream," he said, "as much as we may yearn for it—but war! War is an integral part of God's ordering of the universe, without which the world would be swamped in selfishness and materialism. War is the very vessel of honor, and who of us could endure a world without the divine folly of honor? That faith is especially true and adorable which leads a soldier to throw away his life in obedience to a blindly accepted duty, in a cause he little understands, during a campaign of which he has little notion, under tactics of which he does not see the use. On the field of battle, where a man lives or dies by the caprice of a bullet or the verdict of a bayonet, life is at its best and healthiest."
- p. 246 (spoken by the tyrannical president Deklan Comstock)
- "Bloody indeed," the President said. "But we're not a nation that flinches at blood, nor are we a people constrained by feminine delicacy. To us all is permitted—even cruelty, yes, even ruthlessness—for we're the first in the world to raise the sword not in the name of enslaving and oppressing anyone, but in the name of freeing them from bondage. We must not be miserly with blood! Let there be blood, if blood alone can drown the old secular world. Let there be pain, and let there be death, if pain and death will save us from the twin tyrannies of Atheism and Europe."
- pp. 247-248 (spoken by the tyrannical president Deklan Comstock)
- Since Deacon Hollingshead's arrival in town last July the Dominion had been hard at work, cleansing New York City of moral corruption.
"Corruption" is a popular word with the enthusiasts of the Dominion, usually uttered as a prelude to the knife, the docket, or the noose.- p. 317
- Later Julian would give me another book he had culled from among the Archival duplicates, a short novel called The Time Machine by Mr. H. G. Wells, about a marvelous but apparently imaginary cart which carried a man into the future—and it fascinated me—but the Archive itself was a Time Machine in everything but name. Here were voices preserved on browning paper like pressed flowers, whispering apostasies into the ear of a new century.
- p. 332
- "But you're a Philosopher!" Julian exclaimed at one point. "This is Philosophy, not Religion, since you rule out supernatural beings—you know that as well as I do!"
"I suppose it is Philosophy, looked at from one angle," Stepney conceded. "But there's no money in Philosophy, Julian. Religion is far more lucrative as a career."- p. 338
- A man who submits himself wholeheartedly to God might handle them and not be harmed. That was the faith my father had professed. Certainly he trusted God, in his own case, and believed God manifested Himself in the rolled eyes of his congregants and in their babble of incomprehensible tongues. Trust and be saved, was his philosophy. And yet in the end it was the snakes that killed him. I wondered which element of the calculation had ultimately failed him—human faith or divine patience.
- pp. 355-356
- You never stop being a parent, Adam, no matter how old or wise your child becomes—you'll see.
- p. 356
- Do you want to tell the truth, or do you want to tell a story?
- p. 361
- Is there any evidence to the contrary? I don't need certainty in order to act on a well-founded suspicion.
- p. 368
- "Sometimes he wears the crown," Magnus Stepney once remarked, "and sometimes, by the grace of God, he takes the damned thing off."
- p. 377
- Some pious men may find this truth unorthodox and bitter:
But Nature, Chance, and Time ensure survival of the fitter!- p. 389
- Deacon Hollingshead: "The history of the world is written in Scripture, and it ends in a Kingdom."
Julian Comstock: "The history of the world is written in sand, and it evolves as the wind blows."- p. 404
- The afternoon is too tempting to be denied. It isn't Paradise here, or even close, but the mimosa is in bloom and the air from the sea is cool and pleasant. On days like this I think of poor old Magnus Stepney's evolving Green God, harking us all up to Eden. The Green God's voice is faint enough that few of us hear it clearly, and that's our tragedy, I suppose, as a species—but I hear it very distinctly just now. It asks me to step into the sunshine, and I mean to do its bidding.
- p. 413 (closing words)
Vortex (2011)Edit
- All page numbers from the hardcover edition published by Tor Books
- Sandra had spent her days rendering pass/fail verdicts over troubled minds, applying tests most functional adults easily passed. Is the subject oriented to time and place? Does the subject understand the consequences of his actions? But if she could give the same test to humanity as a whole, Sandra thought, the outcome would be very much in doubt. Subject is confused and often self-destructive. Subject pursues short-term gratification at the expense of his own well-being.
- Chapter 1 (p. 16)
- Some things are taken away from you, some you leave behind—and some you carry with you, world without end.
- Chapter 2 (p. 31)
- She gave me a disdainful look. "Please don't make facile judgments about things you don't understand."
- Chapter 2 (p. 33)
- To whom had he retailed his conscience, Sandra wondered, and what was the going price these days?
- Chapter 9 (p. 118)
- It was sad but completely understandable. Ten billion human beings without any cortical or limbic augmentation had simply acted to maximize their individual well-being. They hadn't given much thought to long-term consequences, but how could they? They had no reliable mechanism by which they could think or act collectively. Blaming those people for the death of the ecosphere made as much sense as blaming water molecules for a tsunami.
- Chapter 10 (pp. 126-127)
- The problem was the Voxish prophecies. Our founders had written them into the Coryphaeus as unalterable axioms—embedded truths, permanently exempt from debate or revision. That hadn't mattered when the rapture of the Hypotheticals was a distant goal toward which we moved in gradual increments. But now we had come to the blunt end of the question. Prophecy had collided with reality, and the obvious inference—that the prophecies might have been mistaken—was a possibility the Coryphaeus was forbidden to consider.
- Chapter 22 (pp. 227-228)
- What had been released into the desert vacuum and starry oases of the galaxy was the inexorable logic of reproduction and natural selection. What followed was parasitism, predation, symbiosis, interdependency—chaos, complexity, life.
- Chapter 32 (p. 304)
- From this new point of view, the universe I had inhabited became an object I could perceive in its entirety. It was a hypersphere embedded in a cloud of alternative states—the sum of all possible quantum trajectories from the big bang to the decay of matter. "Reality"—history as we had known or inferred it—was only the most likely of these possible trajectories. There were countless others, real in a different sense: a vast but finite set of paths not taken, a ghostly forest of quantum alternatives, the shores of an unknown sea.
- Chapter 32 (p. 327)
- What is inevitable is not death but change. Change is the only abiding reality. The metaverse evolves, fractally and forever. Saints become sinners, sinners become saints. Dust becomes men, men become gods, gods become dust.
- Chapter 32 (p. 327)


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The Whiteboard: Learning from the worst examples of branding: Anybody wanna ride the trolley?
Every morning, on my way to work, I pass a small, yellow sign tacked to a telephone pole. It simply reads: "Affordable Health Insurance" with a phone number — all handwritten in some kind of permanent ink. (I hesitate to even suggest a pen or marker brand name in association with this sign.)
It is quite possibly the worst example of branding I can imagine. Who would call this number expecting anything less than a scam?
On a local basis, horrifically bad branding takes place all too often. I have never forgotten an area funeral home that for years had a large sailboat parked in its lot. While this appeared to boast of perhaps a little too much success, naming the boat "The Grim Reaper" was over the top for a service as serious as this one.
I have received multiple mailings from printing companies promising "quality printing services" where the mailer was crooked, smudged, offsetting on the page in front of it or rife with spelling and grammar mistakes.
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Once, when I received an email from a regional retailer for which I'm a customer, I pointed out to the sender that "anniversary" was misspelled in the subject line. "Thanks," the sender wrote back. "I seen it too the second it went out." Sigh.
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In the Seattle metro area is a section known as South Lake Union. The powers that be decided to build a trolley, which had its supporters and detractors. Then they decided to name it the South Lake Union Trolley, which — you are probably waaaay ahead of me — forms a rather unfortunate acronym.
What to do? Why not take it even further?
Which is exactly what they did by coming up with the slogan — emblazoned on T-shirts, fliers and posters — encouraging locals to "Ride the S.L.U.T." (Seriously, Google it, if you dare, and then wash your hands and clear your browser's cookies.)
And they have a Facebook page. It has 249 likes since it launched in 2010. Who is the target audience for this sophomoric brand name and promotion? Hold on, I think I just answered my own question.
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President Obama's signature legislation, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, has been nicknamed Obamacare by both supporters and detractors. And while I personally believe that providing a system of health care coverage for everyone is the right idea, this has turned into the worst way to sell it. If there was one great fear about Obamacare, it was that government would find a way to screw it up, and it got off to a horrendous start with a mega-size website that mega-crashed on its mega-servers.
At about that time, the president's promise that "if you like your health care plan, you can keep it" also was undercut by a relative few, but loudly trumpeted, cancellations of policies that providers terminated rather than meet the terms of the new legislation.
Of course, if Obamacare were a for-profit brand trying to compete in the private sector, it would likely be dead on arrival. The next two years will prove whether it can improve its tarnished and politically charged image. But, for all the effort that was put into building and passing the legislation, you would think that somebody, somewhere, would have said, "Make sure that website is working before we launch it, dude." Like maybe the guy whose name is on it.
If there is a lesson in these extreme examples of bad branding that goes beyond the obvious ones of avoiding grossly bad judgment and junior high humor, it may be this: Even a little bit of a false note can go a long way toward hurting your brand.
Kenneth Cole sparked a huge backlash in 2011 by joking that the riots in Cairo were about its spring collection sale. Motrin got it thrown back in its Facebook when it suggested in a short video that its product solved an annoying back pain problem for moms carrying their infants in strap-on baby carriers.
That both of those brands took their missteps on social media is no coincidence, given the tendency of that medium to reflect the personality of the individual who does the posting rather than the broader image of the brand.
But be careful, because what one funeral director or marketing manager or Web developer thinks is funny, good quality or acceptable performance may end up being an example of what not to do.
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My trip to Nicaragua last
week was short and sweet. I was there for the Nicaraguan Cigar Festival
and file a story for Cigar Aficionado (you'll read more about that
soon). You saw my visits to tobacco fields, but I also took the time to
visit two very different cigar factories in Estelí, the town in
northwestern Nicaragua where most of the country's cigars are made.
The first time I
visited a cigar factory in Nicaragua (back in 1999) I was surprised by
its relative silence. I was five years into the job at that point and
had visited several factories in the Dominican Republic. Dominican cigar
factories are quite festive. Loud music often plays and cigar rollers
converse loudly with their fellow workers as they go about their
Not so in Central
America. The factories aren't quite silent, but the workers tend not to
chat as they roll or bunch. You hear noise of course, but that tends to
be the slap of chavetas on rolling tables,
the squeak of chairs moving as people get up to move to cigar presses,
the closing of doors—that sort of thing.
Nicaraguan factories
make phenomenal cigars, and I had the pleasure to visit two very nice
ones on this last trip. My first stop was at one of the mid-size
factories in Estelí—Tabacos Cubanica, owned by the Padrón family. This
is where all Padrón cigars are made. (Padrón once made some of its
cigars across the border in Honduras.)
At this facility,
which makes around 5 million cigars a year, the workers are divided
between rollers and bunchers, with the rollers (all female) sitting in
front, and the bunchers (all male) sitting in back. They make everything
from Padrón 2000s to Padrón Family Reserves here, using dark, rich
tobaccos. The cigars from this relatively modest cigar factory have won
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look inside.
The second factory I
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My Father brand is made here, along with Tatuaje Havana VI, Jaime Garcia
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side. The rolling gallery is also much larger. Take a look.
Two factories in
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Any reason why the Padron factory has only female rollers and male bunchers? Whatever the reason, it is working quite well. Nicaragua, makes some of my favorite cigars, Padron, My father, Tatuaje.... Nice write up and we always love those videos Dave.
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Graves of the Captains, 1876
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Artist Charles Frederick Kimball depicts the graves of Lieutenant William Burrows, captain of the USS Enterprise, and Captain Samuel Blyth, commander of the HMS Boxer.
Both were killed when their ships engaged in battle off the coast of Portland on Sept. 5, 1813.
After the battle, which the Enterprise won, an elaborate funeral was held in Portland for the two captains, and they were interred side by side in Eastern Cemetery. Two years later, a sailor from the Enterprise died from wounds received during the battle and was buried next to the captains. All three graves eventually received monuments.
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- Title: Graves of the Captains, 1876
- Creator: Kimball, Charles Frederick
- Creation Date: 1876
- Subject Date: 1876
- Town: Portland
- County: Cumberland
- State: ME
- Media: Painting
- Dimensions (cm): 67 x 94
- Local Code: A86-843
- Object Type: Image
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Burrows, William, 1785-1813--Tombs
Burrows, William, 1785-1813--Death & burial
Naval warfare--Maine
Blyth, Samuel, 1784-1813--Death & burial
Eastern Cemetery (Portland, Me.)
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Monuments & memorials--Maine--Portland
Blyth, Samuel, 1784-1813--Tombs
Campaigns & battles--Maine--Monhegan Island
United States--History--War of 1812
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