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CFP: Revised Dates - Monumental Change: China's Transformation Since the 1980s
H-PRC is the H-Net presence of the PRC History Group, a network of scholars with interests in the history of the People's Republic of China. We define history broadly, to encompass a wide variety of disciplinary approaches, and we understand the history of the PRC to include eras prior to the official change of state power in 1949.
Hi folks,
I am looking for recommendations of published collections of PRC documents for a university library to purchase. I am interested in anything from elite politics on down to the grassroots.
Call for participation:
BPCS Postgraduate Workshop:
How to publish your first monograph or journal article on China
May 23rd 2017, 14:00-16:00, St Catherine's College, Ramsden Room, Cambridge UK
We are very pleased to announce that the latest issue of The PRC History Review is now available. This issue contains the third article in our Research Paper Series -- Joseph W. Esherick, "The CCP in the 1930s: The View from Defectors' Declarations ((脱离共党宣言)."
Please visit prchistory.org to read the new issue:
The University of San Francisco Center for Asia Pacific Studies is pleased to announce a call for papers for "Monumental Change: China's Transformation Since 1980,"
Someone asked us (via twitter) if any PRC historians have experience using Xinhua's PhotoMall. Can any H-PRC members respond?
If you're on twitter, you can reply @prchistory
You can also reply to this list, and we'll share any info with the questioner!
I just learned from a colleague who was informed by a China-based graduate student that the Foreign Ministry Archives have been reopend. Can anyone confirm this? If true, any information on actual scope of access, etc?
Many thanks,
Greetings folks,
I need to reproduce three images from the following sources (all from the mid-1950s) for an upcoming publication:
1. Times of India online database via ProQuest (advertisement)
2. Guangming ribao online database (photograph)
3. Archived personal papers (Newspaper photograph that I personally clicked at the archive)
Dear colleagues,
I am starting a project on socially-engaged art in the countryside and I am doing some background historical research. I was wondering if any of you had experience doing research in local archives on rural art during the Cultural Revolution. I would like to know what to expect before going back to China in the summer. Also, do you have any suggestion for secondary literature (in Chinese or English) on the topic?
Many thanks,
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I'm new here and had a 3 day FUE procedure on the 13th,14th and 15th of this month. On the 25th, which is 12 days after the transplant started but 10 days after it was complete, I suddenly had a lot of crust on my scalp and it was really itchy. Without thinking I stupidly decided to scratch my scalp and pat down the crusts and then noticed a few dots of blood on my scalp. A few days on the area is still slightly red but no more bleeding. I have attached a pic to illustrate what I mean. My question is, does this bleeding mean I've lost follicles in those areas and that they won't regrow? I'm so annoyed that I didn't stop myself and it could cost me dear!


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LOUISVILLE, KY (WAVE) - Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino heaped praise on one of his former assistant coaches at Pitino's weekly news conference Thursday afternoon.
Kevin Keatts is the head coach at North Carolina-Wilmington, UofL's next opponent. The Cards and Seahawks duke it out Sunday at the KFC Yum! Center at 6 p.m. in the 13th Annual Billy Minardi Classic.
Pitino said he expects Keatts to have a long and successful career, but this season might not be the time to start cconsideringhim for Hall of Fame induction.
"I think he's gonna take his biggest jump next year," Pitino said. "This year he's playing 17 road games. He can do nothing about that."
Pitino praised Keatts' recruiting abilities, among others, and said his protege made a smart move for a first-year coach taking over a young program.
"He's done a very smart thing by gathering transfers," Pitino said. "Kevin's gonna do a good job. He's one of the best assistants I've had."
The No. 4 Cardinals (8-0) also announced Thursday that their Dec. 30 game against Long Beach State has been moved up from 7 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Louisville's Belk Bowl game against Georgia starts at 6:30 p.m., so the move was made to allow UofL fans to be able to attend the home basketball game -- or watch on ESPN3 -- and get home in time to watch the football game on television.
The Belk Bowl is being played in Charlotte, N.C.
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~Trying to write a blog post using a tablet takes me way longer than I care to admit.
~Wishes still are not washing my dishes.
~Not getting an oil change for like 8 months may be the reason ones check engine light to come on. Or maybe not.
~The baby bird that left the nest just a week ago might actually miss us already. (He came for a visit and stayed for almost 36 hours!).
~Further to my last realization, there really is no place like home.
~I will never hear my Grampa tell the his story of the cat that ran out of gas again.If I could just hear him tell it just one more time...In loving memory of one of the funniest, sweetest people I have ever known, my Grampa- Dec 11, 1925~Nov 10th, 2012.
~It really could take me a good part of 2 days to sort through years of pictures and finally put them in albums. Yes, I did it....FINALLY!
~Regardless of how it feel sometimes, we are not given more than we can handle.


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The Ultimate First-Time Home Buyer's GuideBuying a home is one of the most expensive long-term investments you will make in life. The process can be lengthy, exciting, and sometimes stressful. It's tough to know where to start and how to proceed. Never fear. From the type of house you want, to the type of first-time buyer home loan you choose, we've put together the ultimate guide to home ownership.Start with Pre-approvalWe know this part can be intimidating, but it is very important to determine what first-time home buyer loan you can afford. The best part about this: Sellers often take a pre-approved buyer more seriously than those who appear like they're just shopping around.Find Hidden MoneyThere are so many options for first-time home buyer loans, grants, and down payment programs. Proper research could save you a lot of money when you take the time to explore your options and what you could qualify for. Some programs vary by state, so be sure to check what is offered in your area.Know Your Needs Before You ShopBefore you shop, determine what you need out of a house, versus what you can afford. Remember, location is one of the only aspects of a house you can't change. Make a thorough list of must-haves and really-wants by answering questions like: Based on location, what can I afford? A house, a condo, or an apartment? How many bedrooms and bathrooms do I want? What size yard can I manage?Find a Real Estate AgentPicking a Real Estate agent can be a challenge, but this is a necessary step. They're the ones who search listings, contact the sellers, set up appointments, and help you with all the closing paperwork. Try starting with referrals from your friends and loved ones (even hearing a negative review can be helpful in avoiding a bad choice).Let the Shopping BeginRemember that needs/wants list you made prior to shopping? This helps your Realtor immensely in narrowing down the possibilities. Even with your list, there may be lots of options to sift through. Keep track of each place with this checklist to help you remember all the pros and cons of properties. Having this list on-hand could also ensure you ask the right questions.The Closing ProcessYou've found the home of your dreams! Now it's time to make an offer. This part of the process can go back and forth for some time. Once an offer is accepted, it's time to get the house inspected, which can either finalize or derail the closing process (depending on what you find). The next step is filling out the closing paperwork. You'll also need to get the home appraised for the bank - your chosen lender will walk you through this process. Once this is completed, it's time to go finalize the financing details with your lender.Choosing a First-Time Home Buyer LoanAs a first-time home buyer, there are many loan options for you to choose from. This can be a tough, grueling process, so make sure you come prepared to the meeting with your Loan Officer. That includes bringing the necessary paperwork, detailed in our previous blog: Home Loans 101. Our Housing Buzz Staff understands that choosing the right home loan can be the hardest part of the home buying process. Our Specialists are here to help and trained to answer any questions you may have, or may not even know to ask.Get the first-time home buyer loan process going with our knowledgeable staff and contact one of our Housing Buzz Specialists today!
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Growing Liberia's Children's chairperson, Michelle Des Jardins, and intern, Matthew Hicks, recently returned from a trip to Liberia. While in Liberia, they visited St. Paul's school and met with teachers, administrators, students, and parents. One purpose of the trip was to explore the possibility of building a junior high school to serve the community. Presently, most children end their education after completing sixth grade because of the lack of a local junior high school and the inability to pay tuition. We at Growing Liberia's Children hope to address this challenge. Another purpose of this trip was to visit the proposed site for a farm to support St. Paul's school and provide agricultural training to the St. Paul's students. The development of this farm and two additional farms will be done in cooperation with Lima Rural Development Foundation, a South African non-profit organization. Intern Matthew Hicks is a photographer and videographer. In addition to having snapped many of the photographs on this website, he will be preparing a short documentary about Liberia's challenges following a devastating civil war and how GLC is meeting these challenges.
Projects in 2017
Over eight years ago, Growing Liberia's Children was able to re-open St. Paul's primary school in Liberia with a full staff of qualified teachers. Since that time, we have been providing quality education each year to more than 200 children in a community where only a small percentage of school-age children are attending school due to poverty and the destruction of the educational system during the war.
As we look to 2017, we are excited to continue to help St. Paul's grow and prosper by providing student scholarships and financing teachers' salaries. We are also very excited to report several pending developments in 2017:
- Involvement with Lima, an agricultural non-profit rural development foundation. LIMA is proposing a strategic long-term farming initiative to promote sustainable agriculture livelihoods in the St. Paul's community, as well as build human capacity in technical agricultural practice and professions. This will allows the St. Paul's community to learn about farming and benefit financially from this project.
- We will also be partnering with a Liberian polytechnic college, Stella Maris, to provide internships through the agricultural projects LIMA and GLC are developing.
- In additional, GLC is evaluating the feasibility of adding a junior high to the existing elementary school at St. Paul's School. There are few educational opportunities beyond elementary school in the larger St. Paul's community, and as a result, few students in the area continue their education beyond the sixth grade. A junior high school at St. Paul's would enable more students to continue their education in order to provide a better future.
Together, we are making an enormous difference in the lives of the children in the st. Paul's community and the future of Liberia.
Coins for Education
Billy Hobson, a Senior at St. Augustine High School, is distributing and collecting coins for education for the Children Scholarship Fund for St. Paul's school. Lean more by getting involved here!
Thank You for Helping a Nation in Crisis!
Growing Liberia's Children wishes to thank you, our supporters, for making all of these efforts possible. Because of you, over two hundred children who may not otherwise be able to afford an education have been able to attend St. Paul's school since GLC began supporting it in 2008. And we have been able to lend a helping hand to other schools in need by providing school furnishings, books, and other supplies. Your ongoing contributions will help us continue to rebuild educational opportunities in Liberia.
GLC Provides a Helping Hand to School after Break-In
While schools remained shuttered to prevent the spread of Ebola, thieves broke into the Charles and Janet Memorial Institute, a small school serving preschool and elementary-school students in Brewerville, Liberia. The thieves stole all of the school's furnishings. Responding to an appeal by the school's principal, GLC provided funds to refurnish the school so that the children could return to school in February.
News From St. Paul's School
With the apparent containment of the Ebola outbreak, Liberia's Ministry of Education announced the commencement of the school year on February 16, 2015. Still reeling from the devastating effects of the Ebola outbreak, St. Paul's teachers and students were excited to get back to the classroom. Upon their return, they were treated to St. Paul's new look, compliments of a new roof and paint job as part of a grant from GLC.
And along with a new look comes a new program structure at the school. St. Paul's has announced that the school day will now be divided into morning and afternoon sessions. The morning session will consist of pre-school to fourth-grade classes while the afternoon session will consist of fifth through seventh-grade classes. The change will provide more room for teachers and students and contribute to a better learning environment. Looking forward, St. Paul's plans to add an eighth-grade class next year and a ninth-grade class in 2017.
Growing Liberia's Children Responds to Deadly Ebola Outbreak
In 2014, Growing Liberia's Children was looking forward to the new school year, but no child in Liberia would return to school in 2014, because Ebola had struck their country, claiming thousands of lives, and in an effort to control the spread of Ebola, the Liberian government had closed all schools. These measures significantly worsened Liberia's already fragile economy and exacerbated unemployment, which was over 80%. Out of work because of the government-imposed shut downs, many St. Paul's families and staff found it difficult just to put food on the table. GLC initiated an Ebola Relief Campaign through fundraisers and was able to provide two distributions of rice and palm oil to over one hundred families of St. Paul's school and church, and stipends for St. Paul's staff while school was closed.
Members of the St. Paul's community shared their gratitude for this assistance. "We sincerely thank and appreciate GLC and our good friends in the United States for the grant approvals related to the Ebola crisis, which struck a deadly blow to the already drowning Liberian economy," stated J. Sando Momolu, Chairman of the Aiding Liberia's Children Board of Directors, which oversees St. Paul's school. One recipient of food stuffs wept as she received a hundred-pound bag of rice, exclaiming that it was as if the heavens had open up to pour down these blessings on her family.


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Fair Share Dues - Probably No Change
Today, the United States Supreme Court issued a decision that strikes down the right of a public sector union to charge "fair share" dues from certain public sector employees in the State of Illinois. This decision focuses on a unique situation where state employees are represented by a union but most of their employment is actually controlled by an individual person who is receiving personal care services from the individual employee. The employees are subject to a labor agreement with the State of Illinois, but the purpose for the labor agreement is primarily to establish uniform wages for employees serving in this "personal assistant" position.
We do not think this decision changes the right of a public sector union to charge fair share dues to a regular, full-time/part-time employee of a local government unit. The Supreme Court in a 5-4 decision, made it very clear this decision only applied to the unique situation of these "personal assistant" employees. We will review this decision further to see if there is any direct impact on fair share dues requests for public sector employees, but we are doubtful that this would affect fair share dues in the police and fire setting.
If you have questions regarding the above, please contact any of the attorneys on the Local Government Focus Team, or the School Districts and Educational Institutions Focus Team of Ruder Ware: Steve Lipowski, Randi Osberg, or Mary Ellen Schill.


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6 reasons analogy is more persuasive than literal language
Metaphor is more persuasive than literal language: It's been proven in the lab.
Make that 41 labs over more than 50 years.
Or so say Pradeep Sopory and James Price Dillard. The two researchers reviewed 41 data-based studies on the persuasiveness of metaphor published between 1952 and 2006. Then they analyzed the studies to determine what made metaphors more or less persuasive.
Bottom line: Metaphors are more persuasive than literal messages, Sopory and Dillard found.
But why?
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Make Magic With Metaphor
Charm readers with compelling comparisons
It's tempting to call metaphor the magic spell in a writer's repertoire, the Penn and Teller of the page.
Metaphor has the power to persuade far better than literal language. It lets you say in five words what would otherwise take five paragraphs to explain. It makes readers' brains light up, helps them think more broadly about your message — even (ahem!) makes you look more attractive.
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At Master the Art of the Storyteller — our two-day creative-writing master class on Feb. 23-24, 2017, in Los Angeles — you'll learn how to charm readers with the magic of metaphor.
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MICHAEL SCHUMACHER will be a "silent member" of the F1 drivers' union GPDA, his spokeswoman said on Wednesday.
From his Swiss office on Tuesday, the 41-year-old's day-to-day manager Sabine Kehm confirmed that the seven-time world champion had reconsidered his earlier decision not to rejoin the Grand Prix Drivers' Association in 2010.
Kehm said in March that, with the German having played a leading role in his initial career until 2006, Schumacher now wanted F1's new generation to carry the baton.
It was rumoured that the Mercedes driver did not get along with the GPDA's chairman Pedro de la Rosa, who quit the association in protest after Schumacher's Monaco 'Rascasse' parking incident four years ago.
In Melbourne, Spaniard de la Rosa stepped down and was replaced as chairman by Mercedes reserve driver Nick Heidfeld.
But on Wednesday, Kehm denied that Schumacher's decision to rejoin the GPDA has anything to do with the Sauber driver.
She said: "Michael always supported the work of the GPDA, for many years as a director. After he retired the work had been successfully taken over by the younger drivers, and at first Michael was hesitant to join as he did not want to be involved again.
"But after some thoughts and discussions, mainly with Felipe Massa, he reconsidered this initial decision and will now be a silent member," added Kehm.
Schumacher's friend and former Ferrari teammate Massa, as well as friend and countryman Sebastian Vettel, are the new directors of the GPDA, replacing Mark Webber and Fernando Alonso.
Ferrari Downplays Claims Of Engine Reliability Dramas
FERRARI HAS DOWNPLAYED suggestions that last weekend's Malaysian grand prix highlighted a major engine reliability problem for the Italian marque.
After both his and Felipe Massa's engines had to be replaced before the race in Bahrain, Fernando Alonso then retired at Sepang last weekend with a smoky blown V8.
Pedro de la Rosa and Kamui Kobayashi's Ferrari-powered Saubers also failed in the Malaysian heat, even though their problems were not related to Alonso's.
Ferrari has now confirmed that the Sauber-spec engines failed due to "a malfunction of the electronic engine management". All electronic control units fitted to F1 cars are supplied by McLaren Electronic Systems (MES).
The Maranello based team also said Alonso's Sepang failure was sudden and isolated, and therefore not linked to the problems in Bahrain that were caused "by a momentary overheating".
Ferrari said Alonso's separate gearbox problem in Malaysia, where the Spaniard drove almost the entire race without a clutch, "could have caused some consequences for the engine".
"A more precise analysis can only be made when the engine is back at the works (factory) on Wednesday afternoon," added the team.


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So I kind of fell behind. By a lot.
But I tried. I'll give writing another go later this week, I think. May or may not end up with a lot to do, and I do have to start considering applications for a third job. I have no idea how that's going to work since both jobs have hours that die off during the summer, but there's still a shot at hours.
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2006 Texas Rangers Baseball Preview
Texas Rangers Predictions – AL WEST
The Rangers desperately needed pitching in the off-season and
although they added some good throwers, they also let others,
such as Kenny Rogers and Chris Young, go. Do they have any hope
at being competitive in 2006?
New pitchers include Adam Eaton (11-5, 4.27 ERA) from San Diego, Kevin Millwood (9-11, 2.86 ERA) from Cleveland, and Vincente Padilla (9-12, 4.71 ERA) from Philadelphia. Those are the first three potential starters, followed by Kameron Loe (9-6, 3.42 ERA) and Juan Dominguez (4-6, 4.22 ERA). There isn't a left-hander among them.
Millwood is a good catch; his 2.86 ERA was tops in the AL last year, while Eaton may be poised for the best season of his career.
Converted set-up man Francisco Cordero is now one of the best closers in the business. Last season he posted 37 saves and held hitters to a .234 BA.
Last year's staff was one of the worst in the AL; they should show improvement this season, and if everything clicks, this team could start to rise from the ashes.
Homers-- 260. No other club in the AL had more round trippers. But Texas realizes that homerun blasts are not the be all and end all in winning.
No doubt about it, the Rangers have some quality hitters, including Mark Teixeria (.301 BA, 112 R, 43 HR, 144 RBI) and Michael Young (.331, 114 R, 24 HR, 91 RBI. Teixeria works hard on all aspects of his game and some feel he could be a Triple Crown winner some day, while Young has arrived as a premiere hitter, having won the batting championship last season.
Other dinger threats include those from DH David Dellucci (.251 BA, 29 HR), Ian Kinsler (.274 BA, 23 HR), Kevin Mench (.264 BA, 25 HR), Rod Barajas (.254 BA, 21 HR) and Hank Blalock (.263 BA, 25 HR).
If they can continue to produce runs and also add some timely hitting this season, the team from Texas will see their stock rise.
Along with pitching, this team also needs to improve in the area of defense. The team had 108 errors with a .982 FP, making them 10th in fielding. There have been some positive developments in this area.
Second baseman Ian Kinsler should be an improvement over Alfonso Soriano, who was traded to the Nationals, while right fielder Brad Wilkerson, who came from the Washington, D.C. team, has a sound outfield game.
At short, Michael Young is one of the best in the pros and first baseman Teixeira is a former Gold Glover. Good players occupy the other positions.
Catcher Rod Barajas is scrappy and calls an excellent game.
• Buck Showalter is a veteran manager with sound judgment
and, sometimes, a penchant for rubbing players and management
the wrong way.
• Owner Tom Hicks has been willing to take risks on players, offering substantial contracts.
• New G.M Jon Daniels, at 28 the youngest general manager in baseball, made some huge moves in his first two months.
• Showalter— it's his fourth year with the
team; traditionally this is the year he packs up and leaves.
• Rangers need to get hits rather than always trying to hit it out. The team was 24-29 in one-run games last season. Be patient at the plate!
• Totally revamped starting rotation looks great but hasn't a lefty amongst them.
Texas has spent a decent amount of cash and made some sound investments. This could be the most improved team in the AL. The Rangers have a good mix of novice and veteran, which includes an improved pitching staff. It's not inconceivable that this team could make a run at the division. Can they sustain such a run—only 162 games will tell?
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2006 Baseball Team Previews
We have listed all of the 2006 MLB baseball teams below. Each team link will give you a team preview of the respected club. The left side is all of the american league previews, and the right columns contains all of the national league previews. To return to the main page click the 2006 MLB Season Preview link at anytime.
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- Los Angeles Dodgers
- Milwaukee Brewers
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- Washington Nationals
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I did a small haul a while back from Feel Unique which is where I shared that I bought the Bahama Mama bronzing powder from theBalm (£12.50). I have never tried anything from this brand before and it is quite new to the Feel Unique website. I have heard quite a few good things about the brand so I was eager to get my mitts on some of their stuff.
I have really been loving this bronzing powder for contouring as the shade is a very deep brown and for me it just doesnt work as a bronzer. It it quite a deep muddy brown colour whith no orange-y tones through it, so if you compaired it against something like the Bourjois' famous chocolate bronzer, you will notice that the Bourjois bronzer has more of an oranger tone than the brown bahama mama.
For the more fair skintones you can easily get away with this bronzer for contouring if you use a fairly light hand and make sure to blend really well.
I am completely sold on the cute, novelty packaging with the almost pin-up styled hooler lady on the front, which the gorgeous sunset beach in the background. It just adds abit of character to and abit of fun to your make-up collection. I also love the fact that it has a mirror on the inside so it is very handy for taking in your make-up bag, also it shuts with a magnet to hold it closed so it will prevent any brown powder making a mess all over the place. I did find that when I do put my brush into the product there was a little excress powder so actually making a mess of the packaging is easily done.
I will be buying more products to try from theBalm as I think they are overall quite afordable and I really enjoy this product I am just intreged to see what the rest of their products are like.
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"They Have No Idea What's Going To Happen"
Perhaps as a cheeky nod to book readers who have now exhausted all of their source material, Game of Thrones teases us with a first look at upcoming season six.
The trailer doesn't offer any new footage, instead giving us quick glimpses of some of the series' most shocking moments, but there is a voice over from Brandon Stark and the Three-Eyed Raven which frames the season. We suppose John Snow rumors are still up for grabs, since technically there was no footage of the actor, but the teaser definitely tells us his story isn't finished, in one form or another.
As always, leave your comments below and let us know who you think is kicking the can this season.
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Newcastle entertain Southampton at St James' Park on Sunday with new manager Steve McClaren taking charge of the Magpies for the first time in a competitive match.
Former England boss McClaren expects a challenging match against the Saints, who finished seventh in the Premier League last season to earn a Europa League berth.
"Southampton had a good season last season and they got into Europe, but I think that will hinder them as the season goes on," McClaren said. "But does it at the beginning? I don't think so, because they have started their competitive games earlier and they have got into that rhythm.
"I think they were the surprise team of last year, not so much in where they finished but in the way they played the game, so there is no doubt we have got a tough start."
Newcastle preserved their Premier League status with a 2-0 home win against West Ham on the final day of the 2014-15 campaign. Despite keeping the Magpies in the top flight, interim manager John Carver was dismissed and replaced by the experienced McClaren, who narrowly missed promotion leading Derby County last season.
It was McClaren who persuaded the club to offer a contract extension to Fabricio Coloccini, who will be 34 in January. McClaren also confirmed the Argentinian centre-half is to retain the captain's armband at Newcastle.
Southampton tuned up for the start of the English domestic season in midweek with a 2-0 Europa League win at Dutch side Vitesse Arnhem for a comfortable 5-0 aggregate victory.
"We knew we had to perform well and the job was half-done, but we were very professional and managed the game well," midfielder James Ward-Prowse told reporters after the game. "It was just a case of doing things the right way for Sunday.
"There is a lot of competition for places and a lot of rotation with the amount of games we have to play. It's just a case of when you're in the team, do a great job. I think it is very difficult going to St James' Park especially as they have a new manager. We're looking forward to it."
However, the Saints may have to travel to Tyneside without manager Ronald Koeman, who ruptured his Achilles during a training session with his squad.
Newcastle have been busy in the transfer market and may hand debuts to summer signings Georginio Wijnaldum, Aleksandar Mitrovic and Chancel Mbemba.
Southampton will be without injured quartet Ryan Bertrand, Gaston Ramirez, Florin Gardos and Fraser Forster.
The Saints did the league double over Newcastle last season, winning 2-1 at St James' Park in January and 4-0 at St. Mary's in September. Graziano Pelle scored twice in the win on the south coast, with Jack Cork and Morgan Schneiderlin also netting.
Eljero Elia scored both goals for the Saints in their victory on Tyneside, with Yoan Gouffran netting for Newcastle.
The Saints have won a club-record three straight top-flight meetings with Newcastle, outscoring the Magpies 10-1 in those games.
Newcastle are just 1-1-4 in their last six Premier League meetings with Southampton. The lone win was a 4-2 victory in February 2013 at St. James' Park.
Southampton's recent success has given them the edge in the all-time Premier League head-to-head, winning 14 times to Newcastle's 11. There were five draws, with Southampton also edging the goals 50-48.
This match is the longest trip in England's top flight, with 281 miles separating the centre circles at St. Mary's and St James' Park.


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New and improved fire stations benefit Friendswood residents
Two more City of Friendswood bond-funded projects are completed. In November 2013, voters approved $6.565 million for two projects: improving, expanding and equipping Fire Station Number 4 (111 Woodlawn Drive), and designing, constructing, and equipping a new fire station next to the Public Safety Building on Whitaker Drive. Both projects were accepted by the Friendswood City Council at their July meeting.
Previously, Council voted unanimously to name the new facility the "Kenneth M. Camp Fire Station." Mr. Camp served on the first Friendswood City Council (1961) and was elected Mayor the following year. He was also City Fire Marshal and Civil Defense Director. He joined the Friendswood Volunteer Fire Department (FVFD) in 1959 and served in numerous roles, including Assistant Fire Chief, Fire Captain, EMS Captain, and President, before his retirement from the FVFD in 2006. He passed away in July 2015.
Groundbreaking for the 20,000 square foot facility happened in April 2016. Compared to the Station 1 (between City Hall and Stevenson Park) it is replacing, the Camp Fire Station 1 was built for FVFD now and decades into the future. It has areas designed to withstand severe weather, sheltering more fire and EMS staff safely. It also contains an extra indoor bay, allowing more Fire Department and EMS vehicles to be parked inside, extending their lifespan. Larger, modern areas allow increased training capacity and resident services.


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I just fell in love with this, isn't it a super cute save-the-date idea!! There are alot of different ideas floating around & so it can become a little over whelming for us to decide which to use.. Not only when choosing a save-the-date idea but in all aspects of planning & organising your wedding. In all this crazyness choosing what theme, colours, decor' we are with you every step of the way, making the whole process fun, exciting & more importantly stress-free:)
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*This is the sickest story to hit the news since the guy in Austria that raped his daughter and fathered all of her children while keeping them all confined in a makeshift dungeon.
This sick man in Argentina fathered 10 children by his own daughter and raped her for 30 years. The situation was so awful that the oldest of the children committed suicide after finding out his grandfather was his father, according to CNN. (more…)


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With today's Royal Wedding, in less than an hour from beginning, I decided to make two cards with a lovey-dovey theme. Prince William & (soon-to-be) Princess Kate aren't the only ones in love, but thought I would take this day for a little romantic reflection. And don't expect the "traditional love" theme here... I opted for colors & designs more off-the-love-radar, so to speak.
The first card is actually for this week's Penny Black Saturday Challenge: Happily Ever After. Which allows for not just wedding themed, but love related theme for their challenge this week. Using little miss Betsy Bluebell, I thought I'd take a chance to add a special message in the balloons she's carrying. With the help of a alpha stamp set, she's all about love now!
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2013 New Year's Resolutions
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2. Update and maintain blog.
Hi everyone.
I've been putting off this blog for some time and for a whole slew of reasons, but no longer! I would make a few lame starts, fumble at it for a while, feel disgusted about the whole thing, and then abandon the endeavor in embarrassment. Just getting this first post published will be a big step forward, and I hope that with continued practice, this blog will become less 'awkward teenage romance' and mature into something a little more sexy and fun. Admittedly, the content matter won't be terribly deep – this will just be a place for me to share some of the things I like and think about.
Hope you're all making fine progress with your own resolutions so far! It's early yet, so even if you've already slipped up, there's still plenty of time to get back on track. Good luck! Can't wait to see where the next twelve months takes us all.


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Miracle of all miracles we heard from the satellite installer over the weekend!!!! BUT – he "SAYS" he will be back in town in two weeks and will contact us then….Yah – we've heard that before. Time will tell.
Yesterday was cold, cloudy and raining off and on all day. What happened to our beautiful spring weather – oh yah that's right we live in Indiana. So any way it was a good day to cook. Made pineapple upside down cake – actually two of them (one box) – and one is gone already. Also used up the left over ham from Mother's Day and made Ham and Lentils. Yummy. We had company for dinner too. So we don't have too much left over.
We all watched the NASCAR race in the afternoon and Kyle WON – yippee. He also won the Saturday Nationwide race and led 179 of the 200 laps in the Truck race Friday night – until he RAN OUT OF GAS!! Didn't he hear me yelling at him that he needed gas? Geeze. Guess he is getting his Mojo Back.
We have guests at the house. A couple of tiny birds built their nest in the garage and now they have babies. So we have to make sure to only close the garage when necessary – just before going to bed at night and to open it as soon as we get up in the morning. We've watched them bringing food into it and can hear the excited peeping when mom shows up. See it in the corner above the door
A little closer look
I know its blurred but you can see the opening to the nest - so neat.
Still Monday early afternoon
It is so ugly out today - been drizzling all day and cold and damp. Been doing the Monday chore of laundry so have been staying downstairs. Decided to sew for a while. I drug out the quilt I'd started last summer for our bedroom - forgot I had the whole top made. Wow. So today I've been working on the pillow shams. I have the tops done and have started to quilt them. Forgot how fun it was to see something come into being. Need to go buy more padding before I can quilt the bed top. And the material I bought in Mexico that I was so sure matched what I was using is not even the same color let alone the same design - sigh! So will try to get more at JoAnn's or will have to make a change in how I was going to finish the top.
Bill is laying down - he was pulling around sacks of cement the other day and his back is hurting again. Sure hope it's just muscle pulls not anything serious again.


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ASX-listed Chinese developer BHL has entered the Australian pub scene with the purchase of Colin Parras' Peachtree Hotel Penrith.
Boyuan Holdings Limited (ASX: BHL) is a Chinese property development company with growing interests in both residential and commercial development in Australia.
As part of its strategy to invest in opportunities across complementary sectors, through its Integer Securities Ltd BHL has acquired the big-block Peachtree Hotel – The Peachy – sitting on a 10,055m² lot near the Penrith CBD.
Parting with The Peachy after a decade and a half, Colin Parras told PubTIC he is delighted, but not out of the game yet.
"Very happy with the sale, we will continue to be involved in other ventures within the industry," he said.
The pub was sold off-market through CBRE Hotels' Daniel Dragicevich and Ben McDonald, marking the company's twentieth freehold going concern sale* in the past year.
"The Parras family are well-known hoteliers and have built a truly landmark asset in the Peachtree Hotel during their 16 years in Penrith," offered McDonald.
"The local area is attracting significant interest from a wide range of stakeholders that will underpin population growth and employment opportunities over the medium term – not limited to the large-scale Thornton development by St Hillier's on the Peachtree's doorstep."
BHL last month announced the $63m acquisition of two lifestyle living development sites, but the Peachtree represents an asset prior to development that is generating ongoing revenue rather than sitting idle.
Unlocking potential in a venue such as The Peachy takes a specific skillset, and BHL has disclosed it is in final discussions with "an experienced Sydney hotel operator" to take on as a management partner. Citing Peachy upside of potential upgrades and development opportunity, BHL says it has plans for a "significant portfolio" in coming years.
"As BHL continues to progress our property developments in the growth corridors of western and south-western Sydney, we are now widening our scope and actively pursuing investment opportunities in key sectors that enhance our current asset base."
This bolsters comments from CBRE national director Dragicevich, who suggests this type of investor bodes well for the industry.
"BHL is a new entrant to the hotels sector, which in itself is a vote of confidence in the attributes of the asset class as well as the long-term investment outlook.
"The high-quality Peachtree Hotel is the perfect cornerstone asset, combining a well-balanced, high cash flow revenue base with strong underlying property fundamentals."
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How to Attract White-Crowned Sparrows
Intro: White-crowned sparrows look similar to house sparrows, but they have a prominent white and black stripe on the head. The rest of their bodies are gray or light brown, and they have an orange-yellow beak. These wild birds are much less common at bird feeders than house sparrows, but they may visit your balcony garden when hungry in the winter. They eat insects, including caterpillars and beetles, in the summer, and mainly eat birdseed during the winter. White-crowned sparrows from different regions have slightly different colors, and because their songs are learned, there are also regional song dialects. There are several white-crowned sparrow subspecies.
Keeping Rats Out of the Garden
Sometimes rats and mice can discover paradise near humans. Container gardens, especially those with birdfeeders, can invite these little rodents. Our job as balcony container gardeners is to be stewards to nature, so natural remedies for ridding ourselves of unwanted creatures are always better than traps and poisons. Here are some hints that you may have a rat neighbor and some ways to drive that neighbor away.
Ants: A Garden Pest
Ants can spark a debate with gardeners. Some will say that they're harmless and that they'll actually help pollinate your flowers. But other gardeners have had definite problems with these little insects.
The Benefits of Attracting Birds
Balcony birdwatching is a rewarding hobby, and it gives you an excuse to stare out the window at your balcony garden. Wild birds will eventually become so used to you that they will learn your habits and wait for you to fill up the birdfeeder. Some may be brave enough to feed or hang out on the balcony while you're working in on your garden's container plants. If you have a tree just beyond the balcony, you may be rewarded with seeing courting rituals (maybe you will even see a nest), hearing beautiful calls at all hours of the day and spotting beautiful new species visiting your feeder.
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Generally spiders are good for a garden, as they normally catch unwanted garden pests and eat them. So expect to encounter some spiders (and, consequently, spider webs) in the balcony garden. Some spiders are dangerous, such as the black widow spider, so if you're squeamish, scared or curious about the spiders that may visit your balcony container garden, try to identify the spiders you see, and research if they are beneficial or harmful.


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Djeco vis-animo is a fun dexterity toy that improves children's fine motor skills. The set consists of four colourful 3 piece animals to assemble - a cow, rabbit, cat and dog. Screw together the body parts in the correct order or mix them up to create your own crazy animals. Pre-school children learn through play as they screw and unscrew the interchangeable parts. This fun wooden screwing toy aids the development of hand-eye coordination and problem solving skills.
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The SFFaudio Podcast #352 – TOPIC: Doors, Gates, and Portals (and Rubicons)
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The SFFaudio Podcast #352 – Jesse, Mr Jim Moon, and Prof. Eric S. Rabkin talk about doors, gates, and portals (and rubicons)
Talked about on today's show:
thinking about doors, individual phenomena, a phenomenological way, white and purity, water, Edmund Husserl, an intensional act of consciousness, the conquistadors, when did WWII happen?, what kind of a phenomenon is a door?, doors are artificial, Narcissus and the lake, a boundary, passages for the whole body, windows, two-way passages, quicksand, horizontal movement, four qualities, the story of Oedipus, the riddle of the Sphinx, man -> mankind, the founding myth of Western culture, Aristotle, from one world to another, Eric in his professorial mode, the word world, were = man, the age of Man, in the world of…, the social domain that human beings create for themselves, prisons, doors as phenomena are artificial boundaries between two different worlds, social changes from one side of a door to another, doors as a phenomenon represent changes from consciously defined worlds, outdoors vs. indoors, inside and outside the gingerbread house, the morning thesis, the idea for this show, windows as opposed to doors, The Wonderful Window by Lord Dunsany, wanting to turn windows into doors, a rich example, sliding doors vs. sliding windows, in Science Fiction…, Robert A. Heinlein, defining the writing style of Science Fiction, the ideal Science Fiction sentence, Beyond This Horizon, "The door dilated and a voice from within said 'Come in Felix.'", wasting energy, one little change makes it a Science Fiction world, Heinlein invented the word "slideway", Friday, from the reader's armchair world it the fantastic world, folklore, liminality, crossing rivers, wandering into the forest, a wild world with gods and monsters, agrarian rural society -> industrial living, the wardrobe, The Door In The Wall, The Gable Window by H.P. Lovecraft and August Derleth, Dreams In The Witch-house, a locked-room mystery, The Secret Garden, a Wellsian door in the wall, what's behind the door could be anything, mythical monsters, vampires need your permission to cross your threshold, Dracula comes in through the window, defying gravity and the phenomenology of windows, an instant subliminal marker, ho ho ho, Murders In The Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe, the lore of changelings, leaving the house by the chimney, Little Red Riding Hood, "dispatched by typical female means" (cooking), Alice In Wonderland and Through The Looking Glass, Alice is fantasizing before she leaves the bank of the river, the river side is a liminal domain, dazing, daisies, crossings, protective imagination, opening the door for a sequel, Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman, a girl named Door, London's underclass, being homeless is living outdoors, a hunter named Hunter, Door's father is Lord Portico, a door back into Heaven, another rich text, worlds within worlds, the word hinge, ideas hinge upon something, stiles aren't like doors, stiles don't have hinges, lichgates and side doors to churches, the dead enter the church through a different door than the living, The Superstitious Man's Tale by Thomas Hardy, shades of everybody, fourteen saints, a holiday in Germany, the blood of a sacrificial lamb, Exodus, keeping death from the door, all saints day, Jack-O-Lanterns scare off the returning dead, nature, walking through a gate, spirits pass through, how do gates function in keeping out the spirits of the dead, gates as territorial boundaries, "you come in through here", the laws of territoriality, a keeper of the gate, the gate is the cover of the book, the door is what we cross "Once upon a time…", "the second page of the first paragraph of a famous book", why round?, why the exact center?, why green?, Eric's eyes are green, The Door In The Wall has a green door, magic doors are often green,
The Magic Door The Green Door (aka The Little Green Door) by Mary E. Wilkins-Freeman, horrible and messy and smelly, fundamental jokes in the Shrek series, Shrek is green too, kids love farts, About Time (2013), Domhnall Gleeson going through doors, "doors are amazing", The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster, the Chinese Scholar's garden at Snug Harbour cultural center, moon gates, gates post signs, gates offer viewpoints, from The Haunted Palace by Edgar Allan Poe:
And all with pearl and ruby glowing
Was the fair palace door,
Through which came flowing, flowing, flowing
And sparkling evermore,
A troop of Echoes, whose sweet duty
Was but to sing,
In voices of surpassing beauty,
The wit and wisdom of their king.
But evil things, in robes of sorrow,
Assailed the monarch's high estate;
(Ah, let us mourn!—for never morrow
Shall dawn upon him, desolate!)
And round about his home the glory
That blushed and bloomed
Is but a dim-remembered story
Of the old time entombed.
And travellers, now, within that valley,
Through the red-litten windows see
Vast forms that move fantastically
To a discordant melody;
While, like a ghastly rapid river,
Through the pale door
A hideous throng rush out forever,
And laugh—but smile no more.
the mouth as a door for voice and wisdom (and later a gate for flies and maggots), orifices, doors are artificial, eyes as windows, windows as natural, calm water as a window, the night sky as a window into the universe, window = wind and eye, a metaphor switching meaning, a heart is like a pump and a pump is like a heart, Babylon 5, star-gates, the Twilight Zone show inside Futurama: The Scary Door, Fredric Brown: "The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. there was a knock on the door.", William F. Nolan's the door problem, a seventy-foot bug, the imagination trumps revelation, film, Shiley Jackson's The Haunting Of Hill House (in the book and the film), banging vs. knocking, the unopened door, the end of The Monkey's Paw by W.W. Jacobs, The Psychoanalysis Of Fire by Gaston Bachelard, "fire: fine servant, horrible master", poor little rich boys, the ultimate irony: Arbeit Macht Frei, an open gate, the phenomena interpenetrate, Rubicon (lost and found), The Cold Equations by Tom Godwin, "h amount of fuel will not power an EDS with a mass of m plus x", uni-directional time travel as a kind of rubicon, Julius Caesar's crossing, Alea iacta est ("The die is cast"), suicide, Jean Paul Sartre, Rip van Winkle, rubicons are natural, driving in Los Angeles county, counties and shires divided by rivers, the mouth as a (mostly) one way door into the body, Protector by Larry Niven, the tree of life root is a one way door (a rubicon), The King In Yellow by Robert W. Chambers, The Ring, the River Styx, ancient heroes and gods crossing back and forth across the river Styx, biological machines, Jesus Christ's tomb door, a locked room mystery, doubting Thomas, The Cold Equations as a demarcation between materialist SF and all other kinds, rejecting the premise of the story, two kinds of laws, "Marilyn willingly walks into the airlock and is ejected into space.", myth vs. hard Science Fiction vs. soft Science Fiction, The Hitch-Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams, a few examples in literature, The Pied Piper of Hamelin, seven gates to Hell in Pennsylvania, Hell, Michigan, Audie Murphy's To Hell And Back, a rubicon as an irrevocable choice, The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman, Will cutting portals to other realms, "the ability to create portal given to someone on the cusp of puberty", age 21 (given the key to the door), Key to the city, garter -> gate, barbicans, walled homes in the northern Mediterranean, doors within doors, protected by the laws of the city, the freedom of the city given to military units, Janus -> January, a two faced god and the god of doors, the doors to the temple of Janus are closed, open cities, Brussels, the locking of doors, growing up in New York you're never fully at peace, living in Strawberry Point, Iowa, wifi open vs. wifi encrypted, wardriving, keeping the door open, the subspecies, dutch-doors, squeaky hinges, a door that opens up, China Mountain Zhang by Maureen F. McHugh, "falling backwards into a world in which a consciousness extends infinitely in all directions", "the phenomenology changes the epistemology", ontological differences, The Star Rover by Jack London, a portal to other places and times via astral projection, even in confinement one can find ways out,
The Demolished Man The Stars My Destination, Hypnos by H.P. Lovecraft, the restriction of the coffin of the body, jaunting, The Count Of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, The Twilight Zone episode The Hunt, a country bumpkin -> a rural American, all dogs go to heaven, gatekeepers and doorkeepers, porter, the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, wine drinkers and beer drinkers, the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, was anything down that hatch on Lost?
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The SFFaudio Podcast #345 – READALONG: Star Maker by Olaf Stapledon
Filed under: Podcasts
The SFFaudio Podcast #345 – Jesse, Paul Weimer, Bryan Alexander, and Professor Eric S. Rabkin talk about the Star Maker by Olaf Stapledon.
Talked about on today's show:
1937, Jesse has a radical thesis, is this book a true story?, I'm not really happy I just think that I am, Alice In Acidland, drugs, what do we mean by true?, arachnoids and ikthyoids, a summary of Last And First Men, the unnamed narrator, astral projection, the contents of this book, not history but a personal experience (of imagination), standing on a hill, an interesting fantasia, considering the size of the universe, Star Trek with Nazi costumes is possible and perhaps even inevitable, The Truman Show, the nature of infinity, an Italian who would be perfectly happy to use the word true about this book, "Midway upon the journey of our life I found myself within a forest dark.", bitterness, Dante Alighieri, a lyric poem, Olaf Stapledon was a philosopher, a blazing panoply, an image of the rose, OS, "One night when I had tasted bitterness I went out on to the hill.", an abiding faith, the original meaning of comedy, comedies end in marriage, sitcoms, both narrators acknowledge their psychological state, an exponential rhythm, overhead obscurities in flight, a Doppler shift, the other Earth, Bvalltu, a composite character, planets – > solar systems -> galaxies, a fractal experience, an encompassing wisdom, marriage as a small atom of community, spirit inhabited rock, a World War I novel, 1986, Eric taught Star Maker to Bryan, memories imbricated upon each other, the preface, Stapledon was an ambulance driver in WWI, looming WWII, militarism, seeing the sunny side of a ruined planet, Merseyside, too smashed up to really be alive, a 1930s novel, fascism vs. communism, how to organize the self and society, a secular myth, a shock to civilization, the cycle of mechanization, terrible mutations, the onset of the tank, a sense of horror, WWI and WWII as two different episodes, the Spanish Civil War, shaking off colonialism, materialistic industrialization, the only wait out is an act of faith, how can we not think of the Star Maker as a monster, "struck dumb with shame", limitations of the audio medium, Bryan's keyboard, C.S. Lewis, why C.S. Lewis didn't like Star Maker, a Lewis-nemesis, crusades, the Great War on Terror (2 decades old), mindless religious violence, anticipations of subsequent Science Fiction, The High Crusade by Poul Anderson, two 20th century philosophies, Freud and Marx, neurosis and sublimation, genitals with sense organs, radio pornography, the feelies from Brave New World, crisis of labour, ideologies as philosophical artifacts, not Dave Singer, separated by space and time, supplementary parentheses, adduction of Christianity, three linked universes, playing for the souls of the creatures, a timeless heaven and a timeless hell, Earth, Mars, and Venus in C.S. Lewis' Space Trilogy, suffering for the redemption of the Earth, explicitly not a Christian view, C.S. Lewis' Space Trilogy as a response to a paragraph in Star Maker, all the Christs of all the worlds, "a basket of Christs", this is Arthur C. Clarke, a tour of Science Fiction in the future, this is The Mote In God's Eye, The High Crusade, the novel itself is a universe, cosmos vs. universe, Jesse's theory about the Game Of Thrones universe in the TV show, what Clarke does this in slight watercolours Stapledon paints in bold oils on a massive canvas, Arthur C. Clarke's life changing moment, copying out the scales of magnitude, Bryan's son, encapsulating, it is Stapledon, Dante is Dante in The Divine Comedy, The Divine Comedy as political revenge, Niven and Pournelle's Inferno, Stapledon is not a punishment guy, when Lovecraft looks out of the universe…, when Stapledon looks at the same vista he's not as melancholy about it, The Cats Of Ulthar, contemporaries, philosophical horror, long distance psychology, like Poe, fairy tales, handling fears, we get to feel, this is an education effort, quite special, a genre issue, the roller-coaster moment, looking at the vocabulary, eldritch and ichor, lucidity, feeling, the etymology of the word "vermin",
I reflected that not one of the visible features of this celestial and
living gem revealed the presence of man. Displayed before me, though
invisible, were some of the most congested centers of human population.
There below me lay huge industrial regions, blackening the air with
smoke. Yet all this thronging life and humanly momentous enterprise had
made no mark whatever on the features of the planet. From this high
look-out the Earth would have appeared no different before the dawn of
man. No visiting angel, or explorer from another planet, could have
guessed that this bland orb teemed with vermin, with world-mastering,
self-torturing, incipiently angelic beasts.
the stellar wars, too lucid for more tribal patterns, sympsychic partnership, angelic vermin, more real than all the stars, like two close trees grown together, difference can be strength, the Orson Welles radio version of The War Of The Worlds, versus the Martians our differences don't make a hill's worth of difference, The Lord Of The Rings, looking for the Ents and the Entwives, there are Ents in Star Maker, the holy sex transmission that never got off, the ships worlds,
It was a strange experience to enter the mind of an intelligent ship to
see the foam circling under one's own nose as the vessel plunged through
the waves, to taste the bitter or delicious currents streaming past
one's flanks, to feel the pressure of air on the sails as one beat up
against the breeze, to hear beneath the water-line the rush and murmur
of distant shoals of fishes, and indeed actually to hear the
sea-bottom's configuration by means of the echoes that it cast up to the
under-water ears. It was strange and terrifying to be caught in a
hurricane, to feel the masts straining and the sails threatening to
split, while the hull was battered by the small but furious waves of
that massive planet. It was strange, too, to watch other great living
ships, as they plowed their way, heeled over, adjusted the set of their
yellow or russet sails to the wind's variations; and very strange it was
to realize that these were not man-made objects but themselves conscious
and purposeful.
Sometimes we saw two of the living ships fighting, tearing at one
another's sails with snake-like tentacles, stabbing at one another's
soft "decks" with metal knives, or at a distance firing at one another
with cannon. Bewildering and delightful it was to feel in the presence
of a slim female clipper the longing for contact, and to carry out with
her on the high seas the tacking and yawing, the piratical pursuit and
overhauling, the delicate, fleeting caress of tentacles, which formed
the love-play of this race. Strange, to come up alongside, close-hauled,
grapple her to one's flank, and board her with sexual invasion. It was
charming, too, to see a mother ship attended by her children. I should
mention, by the way, that at birth the young were launched from the
mother's decks like little boats, one from the port side, one from the
starboard. Thenceforth they were suckled at her flanks. In play they
swam about her like ducklings, or spread their immature sails. In rough
weather and for long voyaging they were taken aboard. At the time of our
visit natural sails were beginning to be aided by a power unit and
propeller which were fixed to the stern.
nothing like this in Science Fiction, Lloyd Abbey's The Last Whales, an elegiac book, another sub-genre of Kindle based pornography, much of William Wordsworth's poetry is admired too simply, Eric reads Lines Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, the houses with windows like sleeping eyes, watching the lives of dreams, the houses are sleeping not the people within them, the smokeless air, lying still, what makes the beauty, The World Is Too Much With Us, a cry for God, Fungi From Yuggoth (IX): The Courtyard by H.P. Lovecraft:
It was the city I had known before;
The ancient, leprous town where mongrel throngs
Chant to strange gods, and beat unhallowed gongs
In crypts beneath foul alleys near the shore.
The rotting, fish-eyed houses leered at me
From where they leaned, drunk and half-animate,
As edging through the filth I passed the gate
To the black courtyard where the man would be.
The dark walls closed me in, and loud I cursed
That ever I had come to such a den,
When suddenly a score of windows burst
Into wild light, and swarmed with dancing men:
Mad, soundless revels of the dragging dead—
And not a corpse had either hands or head!
deemed unfit, body horror, Robert E. Howard, M.R. James, ever more capacious mentalities, being taught by groups, the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode The Inner Light, The Horla by Guy de Maupassant as a horrible version of this, Passengers by Robert Silverberg, Boneland by Jeffrey Thomas, from a microscopic perspective, these things pass, bodyless timelords, a swarm of locusts, eugenics, Chapter 9, cultural and eugenical means, The King In Yellow (The Repairer Of Reputations) by Robert W. Chambers, the lethal chamber, Futurama, Providence, Alan Moore, criticism of Moore, turning everything Lovecraft hates into love, Last And First Men was a bestseller in 1930, the fifth generation, the Martian hive-mind, what is the moral ideal that Stapledon hopes that we move toward?, individuality in community, a literary allusion, a race on Venus, from epoch to epoch, that scaling thing again, the problem with fascism, fasces, is this a Darwinian book?, parasitism, symbiosis, evolution, Marx dedicated Capital to Darwin, getting rid of Harper, mutual aid, The World, the Flesh & the Devil by J.D. Bernal, astronomy, Peter Kropotkin (Mutual Aid: A Factor Of Evolution), mutual slaughter, profit in fraternization with the enemy, like Rod Serling The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street, gentleness as a religion, the entangled bank (in Origin Of Species), functional stability arising out of local possibilities of violence, virtue in the creator is not the same of virtue in the creature, a third position, the sense experience of a star, in the center of this paragraph, free will and determinism are compatible, always bigger, a selfless star, the normal voluntary motor activity of a star, if you empty your ego and just feel others, perfect selflessness allows entrance into perfect community, getting your karma clean, dark matter, the science is pretty damn good, the key word is "lucid", the vast emptiness enables the insight into the stars, rubies lay behind me, the sky's familiar diamonds, all possible light, watch Steven Universe, ageless like Star Maker, the tag cloud, world and worlds, Oswald Spengler, growth -> change -> decay, the myth at the end, the course of empire paintings, The Decline Of The West, Arnold J. Toynbee, future histories, we could see if we were lucid, a great Götterdämmerung moment, the Russian civil war, The White Goddess, The Golden Bough, subsequent Science Fiction, for those who haven't yet read the book…, the most disliked and most liked book, what kind of a novel is this?, an epic poem crossed with a lyric poem, erroneous expectations, feel better about your fishwife and your step children, back to Lovecraft, a writer of ideas, Odd John and Sirius are more like regular novels, Jack London's Star Rover, more swords fewer wives, Frank Herbert, God Emperor Of Dune, when you frame it that way…, Accelerando by Charles Stross, full time IT professionals writing SF, Ted Chiang and Cory Doctorow, Ted Chiang can do anything, lapidary, Jorges Luis Borges wrote an introduction for Star Marker, A Story Between Jest and Earnest, Love and Discord.
Posted by Jesse Willis
Providence by Alan Moore and Jacen Burrows
Filed under: Commentary
Yesterday I read the first publication of the first issue of a planned twelve issue comic book series entitled Providence.
Written by Alan Moore, and with art by Jacen Burrows, this is capital L literature in comic book form.
This is the Shakespeare of comics – with depths of horror and pathos virtually unparalleled, and exquisitely rendered.
Unlike great prose or even the magic of great poetry, comics allow for visual symbols, that, like the iconic images of film, can wordlessly move you, haunt you.
You will die soon. Your being is fragile. You have a very tenuous grip on this mote of dust, itself in orbit around a very dim candle, in an abandoned cathedral of stars spinning meaninglessly meaninglessly alone, and yet amongst all these billions of others alone in a vast universe of darkness, and though our ever-weakening grip on an existence that we, deep down, know will not last, there is a certain pleasure in seeing that doomed life reflected in great fiction.
I count myself lucky to live in a time when the great works of literature are as accessible as they are. And despite all the grey dross we must wade through to find that which we seek, there is something wonderful that happens when a work of such depth of quality is published within one's own lifetime.
I urge you – do not miss the opportunity to experience Providence for yourself.
Below you will see that I have compiled a series of images from the first issue of Providence. In so doing I am picking up just one visual pairings that, when I noticed it, multiplied my depth of appreciation for this work of art.
There are many many others.
Posted by Jesse Willis
The SFFaudio Podcast #297 – NEW RELEASES/RECENT ARRIVALS
Filed under: New Releases, Podcasts, Recent Arrivals
The SFFaudio Podcast #297 – Jesse, Jenny, and Tamahome talk about NEW RELEASES and RECENT ARRIVALS.
Talked about on today's show:
Lowball : A Wild Cards Novel edited by George R. R. Martin and Melinda Snodgrass, The New Annotated H. P. Lovecraft edited by Leslie S. Klinger, a reference book readalong?, Marked: Servants Of Fate, Book 1 by Sarah Fine, conflict of interest, Until The End Of The World by Sarah Lyons Fleming, Until The End Of The World (movie), The Dark Thorn by Shawn Speakman, the Seattle underground, Entangled: The Eater of Souls by Graham Hancock, lots of research, Half-Off Ragnarok (InCrytpID Book #3) by Seanan McGuire, V Wars: Blood and Fire: New Stories of the Vampire Wars edited by Jonathan Maberry, a dime a dozen, Wildalone by Krassi Zourkova, At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft, didn't Southpark adapt this?, annotations, pdf of original story with illustrations hosted by Sffaudio, Kaiju Rising: Age of Monsters (editor?), not inspired by Pacific Edge by Kim Stanley Robinson, similar short story overdose, The Playground and Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury, Richard Matheson, killer baby, Tam remembers the Good Story Episode (#21) on Something Wicked, Ray Bradbury storytelling festival, Something Wicked vs The Night Circus, or maybe Good Omens (which is a BBC radio audiodrama now), "@DirkMaggs:
#GoodOmens we are thrilled that the series has been so enjoyed. The CD/Download version released in January runs nearly 50mins longer in all" (RT'd by @SDDanielson), British tests, Hypnobobs podcast on Christmas Annuals, The Strange Library by Haruki Murakami, The Maker Of Moons by Robert W. Chambers, The True Detective tv series, The Last American Vampire by Seth Grahame-Smith, the picture of the navy guy kissing the woman, ATLAS by Peter Berkrot, Mech Warrior game, The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu and translated by Ken Liu, the three-body problem explained, (Ken Liu is a lawyer and programmer, Jenny), David Brin gave it 5 stars on Goodreads, The Jesus Incident by Frank Herbert and Bill Ransom, Carbide Tipped Pens: Seventeen Tales Of Hard Science Fiction edited by Ben Bova and Eric Choi, that's hard!, The Year's Top Ten Tales Of Science Fiction 6 edited by Allan Kaster, The Cosmic Puppets by Philip K. Dick, Lock In by John Scalzi, why two audio versions??, The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury, |Listen to our readalong|, Proxima by Stephen Baxter, but Jenny wants to know the plot, Fahrenheit 451 (narrated by Tim Robbins), Plague Year by Jeff Carlson, The Long Dark game, two more quickly, WHITE PLAGUE: A Joe Rush Novel by James Abel, and Near Enemy: A Spademan Novel by Adam Sternbergh
Posted by Tamahome
The SFFaudio Podcast #259 – NEW RELEASES/RECENT ARRIVALS
Filed under: New Releases, Podcasts, Recent Arrivals
The SFFaudio Podcast #259 – Jesse, Scott, Tamahome, and Seth talk about NEW RELEASES and RECENT ARRIVALS.
Talked about on today's show: a vintage podcast with Scott, R.I.P. RadioArchive.cc, Radio Downloader app, audio drama, Brad Lansky and the Alien at Planet X is full of sound, it's like Ruby, Richmond Smokes a Joint, The Cleansed, are movies the most respected art form?, Pacific Rim: The Official Movie Novelization by Alexander Irvine, postmodernism, Death of the Author by Roland Barthes, The Best Horror of the Year, Vol. 4 edited by Ellen Datlow, Murder of Crows by Anne Bishop, a group of crows is murder, Night Watch #2 and #3 by Sergei Lukyanenko, the Night Watch series discussed on A Good Story Is Hard To Find #57 podcast, "a three volume novel", Dickens serial novels, Blood Oranges by Kathleen Tierney, what Michael Jackson says at the end of songs, The Line by J. D. Horn, Jenny is studying Turkish, Sky Raiders by Brandon Mull, kids at schools love him, Raising Steam (Discworld #40) by Terry Pratchett, regular narrators for series, The Companions (The Sundering #1, Legend of Drizzt #24, Forgotten Realms) by R. A. Salvatore, Dungeons and Dragons, many Dragonlance books by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman, Jesse read them!, what is your D&D Alignment??, vs the Ultima eight virtues, "he's got cool eyes", Magic's Promise by Mercedes Lackey, William Shakespeare's The Empire Striketh Back by Ian Doescher, purists won't like it, more alignment talk, Z 2135 (Z 2134 #2) by David Wright and Sean Platt, Fractured by D.J. Molles, Little Fuzzy by H. Beam Piper, The Rift by Bob Mayer, The Runestone Incident by Neve Maslakovic, To Honor You Call Us by H. Paul Honsinger, The Folklore of Discworld by Terry Pratchett and Jacqueline Simpson (a folklorist!), The Age of Radiance: The Epic Rise and Dramatic Fall of the Atomic Era by Craig Nelson, Lockstep by Karl Schroeder, who was on Geek's Guide #106, can't find it in my local bookstore, was serialized in Analog, His Share of Glory: The Complete Short Science Fiction of C. M. Kornbluth, Pickman's Model by Lovecraft, guess who had that made?, H.G. Wells's The Time Machine's missing chapter, The True Detective was inspired by The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers, Galveston: A Novel by Nic Pizzolatto (creator of True Detective), Words Of Radiance by Brandon Sanderson is longer than all of C.M. Kornbluth's work, Terpkristin gave it five stars on Goodreads, Luke's alignment, Brian K. Vaughan's Saga comic with the Lying Cat, Mask Of The Red Panda graphic novel, it's an audio drama podcast too at Decoder Ring Theatre, Julie's alignment, Martians Go Home by Frederic Brown, Screaming Mimi and Honeymoon In Hell as well, The Frightened Fish (Doc Savage) from radioarchives.com, Doc Savage is a comic from Dynamite too, "hair is like a helmet", Haldeman's Forever Peace, Work Done For Hire, Haldeman's quote about "write what you know", Haldeman's Star Trek novels, Jesse thinks he's f'ing awesome, Seth likes Neal Stephenson, Project Hieroglyph, Robert J. Sawyer's WWW trilogy, in the optimistic axis, The Woman In Black by Susan Hill (and original film)
Posted by Tamahome
The SFFaudio Podcast #255 – AUDIOBOOK/READALONG: The Repairer Of Reputations by Robert W. Chambers
Filed under: Podcasts
The SFFaudio Podcast #255 – The Repairer Of Reputations by Robert W. Chambers; read by Mark Turetsky. This is a complete and unabridged reading of the short story (1 hour 25 minutes) followed by a discussion of it. Participants in the discussion include Jesse, Mr Jim Moon, and Mark Turetsky!
Talked about on today's show:
The King Of Yellow, 1895, novelette, the connections between the stories, Cynthia, the coda, The Mask, Paris, the lethal chamber (a suicide booth), the Fates, revision of judgement, questioning the reader's sanity, The Yellow Sign, Hildred Castaigne, the future setting (or lack thereof), the statue of Garibaldi (at Washington Square Park), the Carcosa Mythos, weird tales, weird romances, New York City, Mr. Wilde, Hawberk, Dr. Archer, the geography of Washington Square, the elevated train, a subway entrance (as a death chamber), the Wikipedia entry, Futurama (and New New York), a bohemian place, NYU, why is everything militarized?, what's with the jingle of metal?, the expansion of the American Empire, "citation needed", dragoons, hussars, lancers, the Prussian style, New Jersey, the texture of the fantasy future, a courtly atmosphere, colouring psychosis, a Napoleonic fascist sate, the meta-fictional nature of The King In Yellow, the Cthulhu Mythos vs. the Yellow Mythos, a surrealist existential nightmare, a fall from a horse, "he's in the biscuit box", it's not horror, weird fiction, Ambrose Bierce, Science Fiction, science, the pinnacle of technology is a dreadnaught, The Structure Of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn, Copernicus, Ptolemy, Galileo, the Moons of Jupiter, we're living in a paradigm, a time of scientific flux, modern atomic theory (and The Mask), H.P. Lovecraft's cosmicism, Steve Job and the "reality distortion field", a social reality, Mr. Wilde's career is the ability to distort social reality, "Napoleon, Napoleon, Napoleon", Charlemagne, George Bernard Shaw: "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.", Emperor Norton, California, Ambrose Bierce, "A sure sign of a genius is that all of the dunces are in a confederacy against him.", the Hawberk (aka the Duke of Avonshire), the Metropolitan Museum, why does Louis visit Hildred?, the lethal chamber is central to the action, under the thrall of the Yellow Sign, Who Knows? by Guy de Maupassant, insanity and isolation, how is Hildred employed?, how Schizophrenia works, going along with the delusion, what is the significance of the cat?, the crisis comes when the cousin has to move, the crush on Constance, the anti-story nature of the work, the unreliable narrator (not Mark!), "suspension of disbelief", Samuel Taylor Coleridge (and the old romantic poets), a reaction against science, are the ships real?, aren't the ships and cavalry set up as a Chekov's Gun that will go off?, internal inconsistencies, how old are the characters?, Hildred vs. Louis, the statue of General Sheridan, Académie Julian, artists and prostitutes and models, The Mask by Robert W. Chambers, what photography did to painting, impressionism, disruptive ideas, the homunculus, the missing fingers, the damaged ears, Mr. Wilde's manuscript is the story we're reading!, is the Chamber is a reference to Chambers himself?, The Street Of The First Shell by Robert W. Chambers, the siege of Paris (during the Franco-Prussian War), Two Fishers by Guy de Maupassant, the Benedict (80 Washington Square East), HBO's True Detective and the connections to The King In Yellow by Robert W. Chambers, detecting reality (and identity), the purple ears vs. pink ears, how does repairing reputations work?, Hildred's reputation, a Strangers On A Train-esque clearing house for murder, Scandal (we haven't seen it), Osgood Oswald Vance, crouching, who killed Mr. Wilde?, the cat did it!, the cat must be symbolic, Oscar Wilde and The Yellow Book, a web of fantasies, "folie à deux", 'don't make fun of crazy people because their folly lasts longer than our own', we don't have perfect access to reality, WWI, a social reality vs. a harsh physical reality of artillery, madman vs. a fool, craziness vs. folly, Omar Khayyám, Act 1, Act 2 will make you insane, densely packed with world and incidence, revolutionary science, speculation, no Shyamalan twists please, Cohle and Hart, precedents for a twelve year gap, Battlestar Galactica, Vikings, Rome, Lost, it won't be a happy ending, suicide is hugely important in both stories, 'death is not the end', back to the cat, The Street Of The Four Winds by Robert W. Chambers, cats, dark magic, evil omens, The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe, No mask?, Stefan Rudnicki talking about The King In Yellow, the "pallid mask", is it a skull?, Boris, the face in the fates, the bird on the statue, a jigsaw puzzle, "the long arm of The King In Yellow reaches forward and backward in time and space", David Lynch's Lost Highway, is Mr. Wilde real at all?, a very readable book, stylistically it's surprising modern, the artisty milieu, a freshness, "beware of The King In Yellow".
Posted by Jesse Willis


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It's been a long road since I pledged to the Friday The 13th Kickstarter, after deciding to add a single player campaign the release of the game was delayed by nearly seven months. The game's release has been, well, not to sugar coat it, but it's a bit of a let down. The match making servers are atrocious over every format and multiple bugs have hindered the experience. Players dropping in and out of games is also a nuisance, making games end instantly if Jason leaves, or kicking everyone when the host leaves.
The game play is simplistic yet entertaining, as Jason you must chase down the councillors and murder in a number of entertaining ways. As one of the councillors you need to find a way to escape one of three locations by either calling in the police or by fixing a car or boat. You can find weapons to defend yourself, set traps and set up distractions to keep Jason off your back, or just hide under the bed and hope you don't get spotted.
The single player isn't out yet but is due as a free update at the end of the summer. The quick play is the only real option right now, and it is far from quick. Getting stuck waiting for servers for up to twenty minutes, I gave up after that. I did have a good session earlier today though, playing multiple games, completing three and having people drop out of about six games.
Right now the game is in an annoying state as it's hard to get a game, but when you do get in with the right group it's great fun. I enjoy both game types; hunting people as Jason is great fun, when you get locked in a duel with a wily player locking doors escaping through windows and the such it's a great thrill. I've not been as lucky as the councillor, as I've been brutally murdered the three times I've bumped into Jason. I've not actually escaped escaped with out Jason leaving the session, which has happened about six times.
Final Rating is a 5/10, right in the middle. The score would easily be a 7 if it wasn't for the bugs and the ridiculous wait times. Some of the graphics on the councillors is a bit silly, but it doesn't take away from the game. The music and sound effects are great, with the classic Jason theme really freaking me out. So once the servers are sorted this is gonna be great fun for solo players and friends alike. Richee


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Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Wordless Wednesday, Oct 27, 2010
I took a break from painting our bathrooms
to play in the leave with the kids.
Some of the leaves were HUGE!
All of the kids are gorgeous!
Wordless Wednesday
Wordless Wednesday
Labels: Children, Fall, Wordless Wednesday
5 comments:
- Busy Working Mama said...
Looks like you all are having a wonderful fall! I love this time of the year. Happy Wednesday :)
- October 27, 2010 at 6:10 PM
- freddie said...
This is great, I bet the kids enjoyed leaves with mom! beautiful yard...Love you all!
- October 27, 2010 at 6:59 PM
- Just A Mom (Call me JAM for short) said...
Who would ever think that leaves could cause such big smiles! Beautiful pic... and Happy WW!
- October 27, 2010 at 7:59 PM
- ArtSnark said...
wow! That would make a great mask. Happy WW
- October 27, 2010 at 10:42 PM
- Mrs.Mayhem said...
Looks like fun! I love those huge leaves - they're beautiful.
- October 28, 2010 at 12:06 PM
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