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When a geologist leads an expedition to the Antarctic plateau, his aim is to find rock and plant specimens from deep within the continent. The barren landscape offers no evidence of any life form - until they stumble upon the ruins of a lost civilization. Strange fossils of creatures unknown to man lead the team deeper, where they find carved stones dating back millions of years. But it is their discovery of the terrifying city of the Old Ones that leads them to an encounter with an untold menace.
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- Steve
- 16-07-14
Classic horror by the master!
This is the longest of lovecrafts stories and the best example of how his tales build tension, and the atmospheric horror he was famous for. Told in a first person perspective, at the mountains of madness recounts a failed expedition to the vast unexplored lanscapes of Antartica. Shortly after arriving at their campsite, one of the group sets out on a solo trip in one of the planes. He sends word to the rest of the party that he has made several amazing discoveries, discoveries that defy belief. He relays several updates back to excited camp and informs them of large fossils which he has managed to make ready for the return flight, but which seem to set the huskies on edge.
Soon after the contact stops, leaving the party no choice but to set out on a rescue mission. As the two man rescue party finally spot the landing site of their missing member and land the plane, they are met with a scene of disturbing signs.
From this point on, Lovecraft builds the terror expertly but never shows the creature or presence that is overshadowing every step the explorers take. The setting of Antarctica is used as one of the characters in this tale to great effect. Lovecraft uses the isolation as a sharpening stone to the growing paranoia of the explorers.
This is a master of atmospheric horror at his best!
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- Nephrite
- 15-02-15
An Excellent Introduction! Madness Indeed!
Where does At the Mountains of Madness [Blackstone Edition] rank among all the audiobooks you've listened to so far?
I am not sure if I can honestly answer the question having listened to many audiobooks, almost none of which were horror. Despite the only exception being the Audible edition of the Dracula novel I believe this is one of the best in my collection. Brilliant world-building and nightmareish atmosphere turn this story into one of exquisite terror I could hardly put down!
What was one of the most memorable moments of At the Mountains of Madness [Blackstone Edition]?
I will try my best not to spoil any major story elements for new listeners as I was but I will say that my favourite part would be during the major storm and immediately afterwards. And also...the chants at the end. Horror itself.
What about Edward Herrmann's performance did you like?
The performance I originally found somewhat unusual due to the fact that it sounded much like a classical radio broadcast. However given the age of the original source material it fits. I particularly enjoyed the sense of overcoming dread that the quiet gentle nature of the narration gave the performance. There were moments where - 80 plus years on - I could sense the abject fear on the page and in the character's minds as well as the scientific curiosity. Bravo Mr Herrmann.
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
Yes! Yes! A thousand times yes! I highly recommend this book. Buy it as soon as you can.
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- Guðrún Pétursdóttir
- 01-11-18
Absolutely fantastic
One of Lovecrafts best stories and apparently the longest. It is very captivating and the narrator does an excellent job reading the story.
- BennySaysRelax
- 14-03-18
Would you consider the audio edition of At the Mountains of Madness [Blackstone Edition] to be better than the print version?
What was one of the most memorable moments of At the Mountains of Madness [Blackstone Edition]?
Finding the remains of the party that ventured to the Mountains first.
Which scene did you most enjoy?
Not necessarily a scene but the descriptions of the Plateau were fun.
If you made a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?
Respect Your Elders
Any additional comments?
Lovecraft's literary skills are widely understated. If his subject matter were romance or classic adventure, he would no doubt be a household name. He is in his field, and slightly wider so, very famous and undoubtedly one of, if not the most influential writer and author.
Somehow this doesn't feel like it does him justice. If he had written a "King Solomon's Mines" he might have reached new heights of notoriety. It is his subject matter that means children don't read him in school and people don't study him en masse. This is a huge shame. A shame because people won't read sentences like:
"...I felt myself on the edge of the world; peering over the rim into a fathomless chaos of eternal night..."
"...Who knows the end? What has risen may sink, and what has sunk may rise. Loathsomeness waits and dreams in the deep, and decay spreads over the tottering cities of men..."
Maybe this is a good thing because he writes about his world, his mythos and his creations and it's his subject's niche market that both makes him outstanding and it unique.
"....Heaven knows where I'll end up - but it's a safe bet that I'll never be at the top of anything! Nor do I particularly care to be...." H.P.L
- Brian
- 08-09-15
Polar petrification!
Lots of fun to listen to and very well read - sure it's a bit repetitive, overly long (though it's not even a full novel) and old HP loves telling you something is "terrifying" "ghastly" "eldritch" etc without actually then describing what it is but I thoroughly enjoyed it.
- Miko
- 10-02-15
Boring. Reads like a world-building summary...
This is the first H.P. Lovecraft I've listened to and it will be the last. In fact, as soon as I'm finished this review, I'm going to take advantage of audible's lovely refund policy.
This came across like an author's world-building notes rather than a story. It focused almost entirely on detailed descriptions (down to minute level, which often made it feel like a science textbook), lacked any sort of character building (no character interaction or insights, zero dialogue), and relied on the protagonist's occasional declaration of feeling (e.g. 'it was terrifying') to establish any sort of atmosphere and even then it was minimal. I found it terribly dull.
The narration was without fault; unfortunately it couldn't save the book.
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- Brian
- 03-02-14
First Lovecraft
This was my first experience with a Lovecraft story, and I was not disappointed. I'm not usually interested in horror books or movies, but I've enjoyed other books that reference Lovecraft's stories, so I gave this a try when it was up as a Daily Deal here at Audible.
It is a horror story, there's no doubt about that. However, it's very different from the modern sort of horror. This is not a story that's scary from the start, moving from one terror to another. Instead, this is a slow build up of expectation of terror, leading up to the one moment of true horror.
Which even that wasn't all that terrible for me as a modern reader, having been exposed science fiction.
That said, I was aware of the era that book was written, and can imagine what this might have been like to read in that era.
I wasn't looking to be terrified, I was looking for a good story, well told by a great narrator.
I would recommend this book.
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- Dana
- 10-11-13
excellent reading
This book is vintage, if lengthy, Lovecraft of course. But the narration is a true masterpiece of the craft. Edward Hermann's sense of diction, stress and the sheer literal meaning of the sentences enhances Lovecraft's heavy prose. Excellent.
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- Jeffrey
- 17-11-13
Not for everyone
There is a great deal to this little story, including great description, what I'd call sublime horror, and a rather large dose of social commentary on the time it was written.
Be advised, however, that this story was written in the early 1930's using the literary style of that period. It was a time of great social change, and the concept of science not being able to solve all problems was really being driven home. Fear that the world was becoming a darker place was growing and the future was looked upon with gathering dread. With older works of art, one should recognize that fears tend to change somewhat. Yet Lovecraft knew about the kind of fear that never ends, that corrodes the soul, that destroys lives.
Listeners who wish easy prose and fast action should probably pass on this.
Yet if you appreciate very well written, thoughtful, and suspenseful in the classical sense sort of prose, this little novella is for you.
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- Jefferson
- 18-03-14
"Such things did not happen in any normal world"
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-monstrous forbidden books
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-imminent marvels
-secrets beyond human penetration
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-curious configurations of dots
-tentacles, wings, and obscene odors
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-an appalling account of the creation of life on earth
-a pre-human megalopolis
-disturbing gigantism
-alien geometry
-blasphemous antiquity
-communicative bas-reliefs
-cosmic beauty and cosmic horror
The novella is the attempt by Dyer, a professor of geology at Mistaktonic University, to dissuade future scientific expeditions to Antarctica by telling what really happened to the disastrous one he led there in 1930. Dyer begins with practical details about supplies, personnel, and goals, scientific facts about longitude, latitude, temperature, and geology, and generally benign poetic impressions: "Distant mountains floated in the sky as enchanted cities, and often the whole white world would dissolve into a gold, silver, and scarlet land of Dunsanian dreams and adventurous expectancy under the magic of the low midnight sun." However, after his party reaches "the great unknown continent, and its cryptic world of frozen death," things start getting creepy: "On the barren shore, and on the lofty ice barrier in the background, myriads of grotesque penguins squawked and flapped their fins." And when Lake, a Professor of biology, finds a fossil footprint of some advanced life form from a period of earth's history when no advanced life forms existed and becomes obsessed with finding more, things become horribly strange.
Lovecraft's writing may at times strike one as overwrought, with absurd names like Yog-Sothoth, over-used words like mad/ness (34 times in this novella), horror/s (31), strange/ness/ly (29), primal (24), and nameless (21), and plenty of excess verbiage. And those bas-reliefs are too conveniently comprehensible. Nevertheless, if you get into his rhythm, Lovecraft builds a disturbing intensity as Dyer provides more details, leading us through a series of gateways into the ineffable alien past of earth. I found myself writing down whole passages, amused by their outré quality and awed by their rhythm and imagery. At the Mountains of Madness is an excellent story because it builds terror through gradual revelation, so that, though we guess much of what's going on much earlier than Dyer tells us, the point is that he has to nerve himself up to be able to say what he has to say. It's difficult for him. He doesn't want to inflict spiritual torment on humanity and doesn't want to relive his own Rubicon crossing into the madness lurking in the inner reality of life and the world, which "marked my loss, at the age of fifty-four, of all that peace and balance which the normal mind possesses through its accustomed conception of external nature and nature's laws." If you stay patient and journey with him through his past expedition, you may experience, if not the same hair-graying terror that Lovecraft is trying to evoke, a compellingly beautiful, disturbing, and strange experience: science fiction horror sublime. (Only Lovecraft could make into figures of horror that comment on the human condition six-foot tall, albino, eyeless penguins living in tunnels leading to the abyss.)
If you become irritated when characters in horror movies enter places they should know better than to enter, Dyer and Danforth may drive you crazy, but they do what they do because of curiosity, and this novella is largely about that human trait: "Half paralyzed with terror though we were, there was nevertheless fanned within us a blazing flame of awe and curiosity which triumphed in the end." Ah, Dyer should know that the more he tries to convince scientists not to explore Antarctica by telling them of his experiences, the more they will flock there.
Edward Hermmann's clarity, restraint, gravitas, and deep, rich voice render Lovecraft's most outlandish names, exotic terms, frustrating delays, and pet words convincing. In a brilliant touch, his moment of greatest emotion comes when Dyer feels some cross-species sympathy: "Poor Old Ones! Scientists to the last--what had they done that we would not have done in their place? . . . Radiates, vegetables, monstrosities, star spawn--whatever they had been, they were men!"
I'd only read a few H. P. Lovecraft stories, ignorantly scorning his work for its pulpy purple prose, nameless, eldritch obsessions, and phobias about size, age, and tentacles. I figured that the worst evil in this world is done by human beings, not by lurking protoplasmic blasphemous alien entities. I only bought the Blackstone audiobook version of At the Mountains of Madness (1931/36) because I could get it cheaply after buying a cheap kindle version. And the novella knocked off my soul-socks, and made me keen to read all of Lovecraft's stories.
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- David
- 19-02-14
Classic story of pulp horror and penguins
Either you dig Lovecraft or you don't. The guy had issues and his prose was the purplest, like most pulp writers of his time. But all American fantasy and horror written since the 1930s has been influenced by Lovecraft. Lovecraft himself was heavily influenced by others, of course, and At the Mountains of Madness, one of his most famous works, made explicit reference to Edgar Allen Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym.
This is a novella about a scientific expedition to Antarctica. The Antarctic was even more mysterious and unknown in the 1930s, so it was a perfect place for Lovecraft to situate an ancient, alien city. His narrator, in recounting his perilous journey from which only he and one other explorer/scientist returned, is attempting to discourage others from following in their footsteps, lest they too unearth Things Man Was Not Meant to Know.
All the classic Lovecraft tropes are here — alienness incomprehensible to human minds, non-Euclidian geometry, sanity loss, and awful truths about prehistory revealed. The city the scientists discover in the South Pole was once inhabited by a race of creatures from another star, known only as the Old Ones. The Old Ones were scientifically and culturally advanced, and created servants to help them build their great cities. These servants, awful, intelligent monstrosities known as Shoggoths, eventually rebelled against their creators, making this ancient story literally older than mankind.
Surprisingly to me, given Lovecraft's usual xenophobia and characterization of the alien as unknowable and inimical, his narrator displays an almost touching compassion and understanding for the Old Ones, observing that they were simply "men of another age, albeit alien."
In the climax, the awful truth is revealed, there is much slime and carnage, and the narrator narrowly escapes from the terrible underground tunnels of the ancient city of the Old Ones.
You will never see penguins the same way again. Tekeli-li!
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- David S. Mathew
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Essential Lovecraft
This is the only novel Lovecraft ever wrote and while a short read it's also a great one. Knowledge of the Lovecraft mythos isn't required, but for newcomers I would still recommend reading a few of his short stories first, specifically Call of Cthulhu. Also, the narration is spot on. Download it now!
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- Ryan
- 25-01-14
Into the foreboding, alien unknown
H.P. Lovecraft was a decidedly pulpy writer, but his best stories still maintain their delicious, vintage creepiness. This one is no exception. Written in the 1930s, it builds from a premise that would no longer work in the 21st century, the idea that one of the last unknown regions of the world might contain great and terrible things.
However limited Lovecraft's storytelling and characterization gifts were, it's hard to fault his imagination. He succeeds in creating a vivid sense of an Antarctic waste in which explorers encounter a never-before-seen chain of towering mountains, under whose shadows they unearth some strange fossils. Soon, horrific disaster befalls part of the team, and the narrator (who is writing his recollections from a few years hence) and a companion decide to take one of their planes and explore beyond the mysterious mountains in search of answers.
What they find -- and what the narrator has told no else of -- is a vast, abandoned city millions of years old. Who (and what) were the inhabitants? Where did they come from? Where did they go? Is there some unspeakable evil that still lurks in the depths? (Well, duh -- it's Lovecraft.) You'll just have to read to find out.
If the ending is a little anti-climactic and Lovecraft has an annoying tendency to lead the reader, most notably by having the the protagonist discern a detailed historical narrative from stone reliefs on the wall (how helpful of the artists to have gotten all that information in there), the slow, eerie build-up is worth it. One can hear the footsteps echoing in the dust of long-abandoned, cyclopean halls, as the polar winds howl in the crags beyond. Is there a warning about humanity's own course in this frightening place? Will we heed it? An interesting question for Lovecraft to have asked, considering all that has happened since the 1930's. It's a shame that plans for a Guillermo del Toro film version seem to have gotten canned -- that would have been really cool.
Definitely a book I'm glad to have found on sale for a couple bucks -- and listened to during a freak winter thunderstorm. The British-accented audiobook reader works just fine as a middle-aged scientist.
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- Dan Harlow
- 08-10-13
Only madness awaits us ahead
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Only 10 years after the publication of this book Europe had been nearly completely destroyed, the Soviet Union controlled most of the east, America controlled the rest, the atom had been split, and the technology needed to take men to the moon only needed perfecting. Computers, radar, jet engines, women in the workplace, a Jewish state inside Palestine, the neutering of any meaningful monarchies in England and Japan ... a total change in civilization. All within about 10 years.
There's a scene near the end of this book that stood out for me more than almost any other and that is when they first hear and them come upon those albino penguins. The image is at first somewhat comical, then a little sad, too. The scene stood out for me because those penguins seemed to make for a wonderful metaphor for our own existence - blind, pale, helpless, easily frightened chattel to be trampled over by far, far greater powers. The birds were totally indifferent to their surroundings, utterly incapable of comprehending their fate or that anything of any greater importance was going on around them, aside from the inconvenience of being disturbed.
I felt as if Lovecraft had somehow felt the pulse of the times and was able to create a vision of what we as a species were about to do to ourselves during the late 1930's and into the 1940's. That dread that is on every page of the book is palpable and captures what some, but not nearly enough people, must have felt when visiting Nazi Germany or Stalin's Russia before war broke out: a terrible helpless feeling of unease all around that nobody could escape from and a feeling that tragedy was about to happen again.
And the book's warning to all future adventures to leave well enough alone and to not explore to deep into regions that are best left unexplored, though a theme that crops up in science fiction very often, is more than just a trope here. Lovecraft seems to be intuiting the dangers of man meddling with things he can't control by foreshadowing nuclear war with those terrible visions beyond the mountains. Lovecraft is saying that the old way of life will forever change if man proceeds on its current course, that poking our noses where they don't belong will, though not unleash the darkest horrors of the ancient universe, somehow corrupt us from within.
Lovecraft is saying that science and reason can only take us so far before we get lost in a labyrinth of confusion, causing us to splinter as a society and species, forcing us from one extreme to the other, slowly eroding our own sense of self and art and culture, that all the greatest learning will eventually lead to an even greater forgetting; a forgetting of ourselves. Lovecraft seems quite content to stay put, to not pass that terrible boundary we charged right over in the 10 years after this book was written.
It's very pessimistic in its conclusion, however, I can't say I blame him either; he knew which way the wind was blowing. And I should be careful in reading too much into this book because after all he was trying to just write a damn entertaining page turner with some first-rate horror that Hollywood is still trying to copy to this day (either great films like Carpenter's 'The Thing' and Darabount's 'The Mist', or failures such as Ridley Scott's beautiful but deeply flawed 'Prometheus'). Yet the best stories, the ones that resonate with each generation are more than just fun reads, there does have to be something more to the pie than just a pretty pie crust.
Lovecraft writes very simply, clearly, and is a master at teasing out splinters of information at just the right time as to build the for boding. And even when there is really not much actually happening, he still manages to fascinate, such as the telling of the strangeness of the Old Ones and their life on early, ancient Earth. He doesn't bog us down with needless emotional scenes, rather, he uses Danforth as the emotional sounding-board to juxtapose with Dyer's cool, clinical, detachment. The rest is all supreme imagination and, honestly, horror so well written that I was genuinely scared and kept looking over my shoulder. It's really quite uncanny.
But there is much more here than a writer's wonderful imagination creating a mythos just for fun, Lovecraft has tapped into a vein that still resonates because he not only knows how to write a great story, but also because he knows what frightens us and because he intuited so much of what was just about to happen to the world in the coming years. Lovecraft is sort of a mile marker, a sign post, a line in the sand on which one side is all that came before and on the other is all that he warned humanity not to cross over less it destroy itself.
And so here were are looking back at a base camp we can never return to; only madness awaits us ahead.
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- Zach Titze
- 23-05-16
A bit slow
I found this book good but a little slow. Edward Herrmann does an excellent job of reading like a college professor telling his own personal story.
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- Toisach
- 04-02-16
Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
Hell yes!
What did you like best about this story?
Not for the faint-hearted, Lovecraft's flawed classic is just that. While Lovecraft has recently undergone the joys of a post-mortum Purge at the hands of the ever-viligant People's Commissars of Political Correctness, he nonetheless still holds an important place in the development of horror and science fiction and has been and is still a major influence, despite his public denunciation and current "non-person" status.
"Mountains of Madness" is, in some ways, his "Heart of Darkness," a first-person narrative of the psychological and perceptual unraveling of the narrator when confronted with primordial dread. Whereas Conrad accomplishes feats of sparsity, Lovecraft is wallowing in a prolixity which has caused most "literati" to dismiss him utterly. They miss the effect produced by his approach however, especially when read aloud, and Herrmann captures it masterfully.
What does Edward Herrmann bring to the story that you wouldn't experience if you just read the book?
Herrmann is the ideal narrator for this story. His inflection and delivery are the very incarnation of that Lovecraftian ideal of New England hauter and unflappability, while he also perfectly encompasses the cold, rational, scientist faced with a reality that utterly undermines his rational world-view.
Herrmann, as we know, was an educated man, and he effortlessly delivers Lovecraft's cyclopean, eldritch prose convincingly--no small feat in itself--and does so in a perfectly natural, fluid, and believable way that is really remarkable.
The combination of his many talents makes his over-all performance of what is, at best, a complex, difficult and at times tediously labored story, engaging and psychologically effective.
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In 2265 Starfleet believed that the ESP capacity in Humans was always quite limited, although it had been proven that some Humans could sometimes sense future happenings, read the backs of playing cards, see through solid objects, and cause fires to start spontaneously. There was controversy about the limits of such abilities as, despite such apparent evidence, Starfleet psychiatrist Dr. Elizabeth Dehner claimed that espers (those who exhibit ESP abilities) are "simply people with flashes of insight."
At that time Starfleet also had standardized tests to measure the aperception quotient (or "esper rating") of Humans to determine the degree of extrasensory perception present in an individual. Starfleet service records of the era included aperception quotient ratings.
Known Human contact with the galactic barrier (by the SS Valiant in 2065 and by the USS Enterprise in 2265) has resulted in significant augmentation in ESP abilities in those who already had a very high aperception quotient. Those whose esper rating was high but not extraordinarily so were injured by the contact, but not augmented. Later contacts with the Barrier in 2268 by the USS Enterprise did not result in any identified injury or augmentation. (TOS: "Where No Man Has Gone Before")
In the 24th century, according to his medical records and psychological profile, the Betazoid Tam Elbrun rated high on the ESP scale. The rating indicated he might be a prodigy, with his telepathic abilities swtiched on at birth as opposed to other Betazoids who developed this ability at adolescence. (TNG: "Tin Man")

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Journalist Wants Charge Dismissed in Lowell Wind Project Case
NEWPORT – A motion hearing was held Thursday morning on the case of the journalist who was arrested while covering a protest on Lowell Mountain. Attorney Phil White representing Chris Braithwaite, Publisher of the Barton Chronicle, had filed a motion to dismiss.Judge Robert Garety, Jr. asked both parties if either had come across a case with similar circumstances so that he could review what the other judge's thoughts were on the matter in helping with his decision. Neither party had come across any similar cases.Braithwaite was on private property that Green Mountain Power (GMP) is leasing to construct 21 industrial size wind turbines. Protesters of the project had gathered on the construction site as an act of civil disobedience. The protesters knew they could be arrested and chose not to leave when asked to do so. Braithwaite, who was covering the protester's activities, was also asked to leave by police who had responded to the scene.Braithwaite moved away from the construction area and stood on a large stump to photograph the arrest and make sure it was handled properly, White told the court. But Braithwaite was still on what is considered GMP's property and he was arrested.If he moved all the way off the property, he couldn't have photographed the event, and his plan was to move immediately following the arrest of the protesters, White said.White asserted the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment rights and Vermont Constitutional rights for his client. He said the press should be allowed to cover protests and the government's response on private property. White noted that on many occasions law enforcement brings the press to places where it is going to make arrests, to allow reporters access. White argued that that the state shouldn't prosecute Braithwaite as he was not a protesters and was doing a service for the public. He also noted the court has limited resources at this time to pursue such a case.Deputy State's Attorney Sarah Baker said that GMP would drop the changes if the case was burdensome. She said it was not at this point. Baker argued that the press does not have any more privileges than anyone else. As an example, Baker said that if the police were responding to a domestic incident, the press would not have the right to go into the home to cover the event.Safety was raised as an issue by the state, and the judge said that safety is a legitimate concern.White noted that if safety of the people was the concern, why did work continue with the protesters on the property, none of whom had safety equipment on? GMP was aware that a journalist was covering the event and no one offered him safety equipment at that time, White stated.Since Braithwaite's arrest, GMP has invited Braithwaite to come back any time he wants, as long as he contacts them in advance, and they will provide him with the appropriate safety gear.The judge asked for supplemental memorandums by February 10 from the defendants, to include information on any similar cases, and a response from the state by February 17.


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Clive Palmer has extended an olive branch to Tony Abbott on his paid parental leave scheme, flagging he could support a compromise deal put forward by Nationals Senator John Williams.
In the first sign of compromise from Mr Palmer, who has been a trenchant critic of Mr Abbott's $5.5 billion scheme, the Palmer United leader gave qualified support to Senator Williams' proposal, potentially offering an end to the Senate impasse.
Privately, many government MPs are uncomfortable with Mr Abbott's scheme because of its generosity while the government is claiming a "budget emergency" and because the expensive scheme is funded by a tax on business. Some government MPs have warned they could cross the floor and vote against it.
On Monday, Fairfax Media revealed a compromise proposal put forward by Senator Williams that would see the current Labor scheme - which pays the minimum wage for 18 weeks - extended to 26 weeks. The scheme proposed by Senator Williams would also include superannuation payments.
Mr Abbott's proposal pays women their full replacement wage for 26 weeks, capped at a maximum payment of $50,000 and includes superannuation.
Mr Palmer confirmed on Monday his four allied senators would vote against the current Abbott plan but said he could support Senator Williams' plan but added another caveat – the payment should be made equally to all new mothers who had a child.
"It should be 26 weeks and it should be the same benefit paid to all citizens," he said.
"It [Senator Williams' plan] is fairer, providing everyone can be eligible for it. It shouldn't depend on whether women are working or not," he said.
"I don't think he [Mr Abbott] will accept this change, but we don't support any scheme that doesn't treat all Australians equally."
Labor has vowed to vote against Mr Abbott's scheme in the Senate on equity grounds, so to steer the laws through the new Senate after July 1, the government needs to keep all its 33 senators onside and persuade the Greens to back it, or to win support from six of the eight cross bench senators to reach a majority of 39 votes.
Securing support from the Palmer bloc of four means two more of the four independents Nick Xenophon, John Madigan, Bob Day and David Leyonhjelm will be needed to pass the laws.
Mr Day agreed with Mr Palmer, telling Fairfax Media he wanted all women to receive the same payment. Mr Leyonhjelm said he did not support the scheme, while Senator Xenophon said the government should tackle the cost of childcare first.
Speaking to reporters in Canada, Mr Abbott said he expected the government's mandate to be respected.
"Let's not forget that this is a policy we took not to one but to two elections and let's not forget that this is fundamentally a matter of justice for the women of our country," he said.
Labor families spokeswoman Jenny Macklin said on Monday that Senator Williams had essentially argued to extend Labor's scheme, which costs about $1.7 billion annually at the moment.
James Massola is south-east Asia correspondent based in Jakarta. He was previously chief political correspondent, based in Canberra. He has been a Walkley and Quills finalist on three occasions, won a Kennedy Award for outstanding foreign correspondent and is the author of The Great Cave Rescue.


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Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) supremo Sharad Pawar on Monday came out openly in support of the banned mining industry in Goa.
Pawar, who is in Goa on a day's visit to oversee party affairs, met members of the pro-mining lobby who have been protesting for a week against the ban. He told reporters that there should be "no war between development and environment".
"Mining is a global phenomenon. Goa cannot turn its back on the industry. We do not support illegal mining, but there should be legal mining. It was in our manifesto. The ban is unfortunate," Pawar said.
"My efforts will be to speak to the union mines and environment ministries to ensure that the mining issue in Goa is sorted out at the earliest," Pawar said.
Mining has been banned in Goa for over two months now, after the Supreme Court, hearing a petition filed by activist lawyer Prashant Bhushan, announced a probe by a central empowered committee.
The petition followed the revelation of a Rs.35,000 crore illegal scam exposed by a judicial commission headed by Justice M.B. Shah, which said that top mining companies, politicians as well as bureaucrats were beneficiaries of the scam.


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Mould for Rectangle Plate
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Drape Moulding:
Today moulds are generally made of plaster, but the traditional materials
were wood and bisque-fired clay. (Plaster has two disadvantages, in that
if flakes of it get into clay they can blow up when fired leaving a hole,
or worse, a shattered pot, so be careful and clean up well when using
plaster mould, and it is more breakable than clay or wood)*. Drape moulding
achieved special prominence in the diverting, idiosyncratic Oribe-ware
food vessels of the early seventeenth century, and the irregular shapes
made possible with drape moulding process continue to be much admired in
(using hexagon mould as
The surface of mould
is powdered with corn starch filled in a piece of cloth
to keep the slab from sticking onto it. Then roll a slab of clay
into uniform thickness over a piece of cloth and powered with corn starch. Carefully lift the cloth and place it over the mould.
The slab is
gently press down with hands. Then use a wooden paddles or small
rolling pin close the gaps between slab and mould.
Remove the cloth
and use the yumi to trim off the excess clay from the mould.
From the leftover slab piece, put it over the foot template and use
the yumi to cut both side of the edges to the same angle as the foot
Use a ruler to
mark the clay to equal width which will become the height of the
foot. Then, cut the clay into equal pieces with the yumi. Lay them
down on the mould and put marks on the slab.
Use the comb to
scoring the feet and the form where they will go, applying slip and
attach the feet to the form by pressing them. Let the form to dry
for 30 to 50 minutes (depends on the humidity). Then, place a
piece of cardboard over the form against the feet.
Hold the handle
with one hand and press the cardboard with other hand. Turn the form
and mould over, put the form on the table and lift up the mould. The
form should be separated from the mould freely. Clean up the rim
with knife and then finished with a moistened chamois.
Using two of
more stained clay to create mosaic:
Roll out two or
more pieces of stained clay slab and lay them on top of one another.
Then roll them into coil and make them into square or triangular
shape. Use the yumi to cut them into equal length pieces. Lay them
down on a piece of cloth and slightly press them together with
fingers. Cover the surface of mould with a piece of cloth. Lift up
the slab by holding the cloth and put it over the mould. The slab is
gently press down with hands. Then use a wooden paddle to paddle
them evenly.
Remove the cloth
and check if all the slab pieces are stick together. Use fingers to
press them together if there is still gaps between pieces. Put the
cloth on and roll it gently with a small rolling pin.
Remove the top
cloth and use the yumi to trim off the excess clay from the mould.
Make the foot same way as above. Let it dry for 30 to 50 minutes.
Turn it over and remove the cloth. Clean up the rim with knife and
then finished with a moistened chamois.
different shapes:
You can use a
piece of steel such as a cookie cutter to cut the form before remove
from the mould to create different shapes.
Use objects
to create a lot of patterns:
There are a lot
of objects that you can put on the mould to create a lot of patterns.
Example: plastic table lace; lace curtains; wall paper; leaves;
ropes; buttons; keys; foam etc... Cut out the pattern you
like with paper cutter.
Attach them on
the mould with non-water soluble glue, since water in clay slab may
dissolve the glue and remove the object. Use a lot of dry clay so
the form will be easily separated from the mould.
Materials from :
Inside Japanese Ceramics by Richard L. Wilson 1995
The World of Japanese Ceramics by Herbert H. Sanders
The Craft of the Potter by Michael Casson 1977
Shoji Hamada, A Potter's Way and Work by Susan Peterson
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My family of four has been living with a limited income for over three years (ever since I had kids) and I would like to think I've become a bit of a pro at it. On our single income we have managed to pay off all my medical bill debt, buy a new house, a new car, and take the family on a nice vacation each year. It was hard work, but these days it seems so simple. Prior to becoming a one income family my boyfriend and I were both working full time and had no debt whatsoever. Daytrips to Seattle and Portland were normal, and buying new clothes for myself with each paycheck was a must.
The hardest thing for us was building a savings account for emergencies. We are still adding to that fund, but we have a full mortgage payment, and car payment saved up. Most importantly we need some extra money for medical bills. We are not married, so I am not covered on his insurance. Thankfully I've only had to go to the doctor once, but for strep throat it was $120, plus another $40 for the prescription!
I started out couponing when my son was first born. I was completely overwhelmed with all the coupons, and had no clue what I was doing. It took me a year before I mastered it. I'm no "extreme" couponer, but most things I buy are on coupons. I found it easiest to find a few blogs that follow coupon deals and every few days check in on them to see if there are new deals posted. I've managed to cut our grocery bill in half this way. We started shopping at the bread outlets, and buy a few loaves at a time and stick them in the freezer. I buy meat when it's reduced for quick sale and package it up for the freezer when we get home.
One thing that took me a long time to understand was just because it's a really good deal, doesn't mean you should buy it. Do my kids need every single little people play set just because I can get them for $5 at a consignment store? No. I am just now getting rid of all the unnecessary toys in my house. It's hard! I have made lists of what the kids will need, and how many presents they will get for Christmas, and I stick to it. I shop the Target toy clearance, usually in August, and in late January/early Feb. I buy clothes a season ahead of time when stores are starting to clear out merchandise for the next season.
Since we have become a one income family my priorities have really changed a lot. No more fancy coffees for me. If I don't need new clothes I don't buy them. We cut down our cable bill by getting rid of the extra add on package we don't need. We switched to a pay as you go cell phone, since we don't really use it on a regular basis. This has allowed me to use the extra cash on more important things such as: Preschool for my son, Tee Ball, and our family vacations.
Living on a limited income has been a challenge, but I've managed to control my spending, and budget the important things in with a little work. Anyone can do it, it's hard to get started but I think it's important.
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New York's governor has declared a health emergency over a flu epidemic that has hit more than 19,000 people, and in an exceptional measure, cleared pharmacists to immunize infants and children.
To try to curb the spread of the potentially lethal virus, Governor Andrew Cuomo said it was critical to suspend, for the next 30 days, a restriction that only allows New York pharmacists to administer flu vaccines to patients 18 or older.
His statement on Saturday came amid a nationwide epidemic expected to last several weeks.
"We are experiencing the worst flu season since at least 2009, and influenza activity in New York State is widespread, with cases reported in all 57 counties and all five boroughs of New York City," Cuomo said. "Therefore, I have directed my administration, the state health department and others to marshal all needed resources to address this public health emergency and remove all barriers to ensure that all New Yorkers — children and adults alike — have access to critically needed flu vaccines."
Already on Wednesday, Boston Mayor Thomas Menino had declared a public-health emergency in the city after local health officials confirmed 700 cases of flu — 10 times the number for the entire flu season last year.
So far this season, 20 children have died from the flu, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). While there have been at least 28,747 cases reported across the country, the true figure is likely far higher because many who fall ill do not go to the doctor to get tested, it added.
In New York State alone, 19,128 cases have been confirmed this season, a jump from the total of 4,404 during the 2011-2012 flu season.
The New York Health Department is launching a large-scale campaign to promote immunization, using the media, dedicated Web sites and social media sites, such as Facebook and Twitter.
Cuomo urged non-immunized New Yorkers to receive a flu shot.
"It is NOT too late to get a vaccination," he stressed.
Relatives and caregivers who regularly come into contact with young children or people at high risk should get a shot against the flu virus, he said. The virus spreads through coughing or sneezing.
It poses an increased risk for infants and toddlers under the age of two, people over 50, pregnant women and those with weakened immune systems or chronic medical conditions.
Flu strikes every year across the US, bringing chills, sore throats, fever, coughing, aches and congestion to millions. The number of annual deaths has ranged from a low of 3,000 to a high of 49,000 since 1976, according to the CDC. Most of those deaths were among people aged 65 and older.
Meanwhile, Massachusetts has had 18 flu deaths so far this season, according to the state Department of Public Health.
The hospitals in Boston have been overwhelmed.
Jim Heffernan, chief of primary care at Boston's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center said the emergency room at his hospital was "overflowing because there aren't enough places to put people. It just snowballs."
Last Monday, Beth Israel got 400 more calls than normal to its urgent-care hotline.
"We had to open a new unit to accommodate all the patients," hospital spokeswoman Kelly Lawman said.
Influenza was also rampant across in New Jersey.
"It's here. Big time," said Thomas Birch, president of the medical staff at Holy Name Medical Center in Hackensack, New Jersey. "When the virus comes into a community with susceptible individuals, it will literally spread like those wildfires in California that burn everything in their path."


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MISCELLANEOUS ARRIVALS Natal Mercury 2 October 1875
Hannah Nicholson, Actaea, Natal, Zulu, Umkomanzi, Adonis, Elizabeth Martin, Kafir, Lady Selborne, Florence
Sept 3 - Hannah Nicholson, barque, of Adelaide, 252 tons, Farquhar, from Adelaide, sailed July 16. Cargo: flour.
H and T McCubbin, agents.
Sept 7 - Actaea, barque, of London, 300 tons, A Walker, from Calcutta and Mauritius, sailed from Calcutta, July 11. Mauritius, Aug 25. Cargo: general.
Mrs and Miss Maingard
Mrs Porley and four children
Mr and Mrs S Guillaman and three children
Mr Nicholas and four children
E Snell and Co., agents.
Sept 7 - Barbara Taylor, 3-masted schnr, of Greenock, 252 tons, Taylor, from London, sailed June 12. Cargo: general.
Bullard, King and Co., agents.
Sept 7 - Surprise, barque of Norway, 454 tons, Wagner, from London, sailed June 1. Cargo: general.
Steel, Atkinson and Co., agents.
Sept 8 - Natal, RMS, of Southampton, 587 tons, JC Gilbert, from Capt Town and intermediate ports. Cargo: general.
From Southampton
Mrs King and 4 children
Lieut de Hoghton
E Escombe
5 men, 2 women, and 5 children.
From Cape Town
Mrs H De la Cour Travers, child, and servant
Messrs Pretorius
C Fleek
G Bocca
J Noeman
H Thomas
A Fisher
C Kirsten
J Domon
R Cook
From Algoa Bay
Mr and Mrs Railie
Dr Barbour
Mr L Bamball
W Reigg
Left Cape Town at noon on the 3rd Sept., experienced light variable winds till midnight, then the wind freshened to NW and increased till morning. During the 4th strong gale; at midnight heavy gale with violent squalls, wind, hail and rain, thunder and violent lightning. Arrived Algoa Bay 5th, at 1 p.m. Off Cape. St. Francis, on the morning of the 5th passed RMS Kafir bound to the westward and a brigantine running. Left Port Elizabeth on the 6th at 3.20 p.m., anchored off East London next morning at 7; left again at 11.20 a.m. From Port Elizabeth to Port Natal, light easterly winds and fine.
Escombe and Co., agents.
Sept 11 - Annie, schooner, of London, 40 tons, Le Clercq, from East London, sailed Sept 8. Cargo: general.
S Crowder and Co., agents.
Sept 11 - Zulu, RMS, 678 tons, H de le Cour Travers, from Zanzibar and intermediate ports. Cargo: general.
Alex Turnbull, Esq., MD, Staff-Surgeon HMS London,
Mrs and Miss Samuel
17 Naval invalids
Left Natal August 19, 9 a.m., arrived Mozambique August 25, 3.15 p.m.; arrived Zanzibar August 28, 9.15 a.m. From Natal to 26° S experienced heavy NE gale and very high sea; thence to Zanzibar moderate fair winds and strong adverse currents. Left Zanzibar August 31, 3.15 p.m. arrived Lindi Bay September 2, 8 a.m.; sailed at noon same day; arrived Mozambique September 4, 7.30 a.m.; left 3.15 p.m. same day; arrived Delagoa Bay September 8, 2.30 p.m.; sailed September 9, 11.45 a.m., arrived Natal September 11. From Zanzibar to Cape Delgado experienced light SW monsoon and strong adverse currents, thence to 21° S light fair winds, but no current; thence to C Corrientes similar weather; Delagoa Bay to Natal, strong gale and heavy head sea.
Escombe and Co., agent.
Sept 12 - Umkomanzi, barque, of Aberdeen 397 tons, Airth, from London, sailed June 29. Cargo: general.
Mrs Bachan and seven children
Steel, Atkinson and Co., agents.
Sept 12 - Adonis, of Amsterdam, SS, 80 tons, Thompson, from Scottburgh, sailed Sept 12, not having effected a landing. Cargo: sundries.
Mrs Collingham and three children
S Crowder and Co., agents.
Sept 15 - Elizabeth Martin, CMS, of Leith, 1500 tons, Duncan, from London and Cape ports. Cargo: general.
Sailed from London, August 4th; arrived at Cape, Sept 2nd, left 5th; arrived Mossel Bay, 6th, left 7th; arrived Algoa Bay, 8th, left 10th; arrived at Kowie, 11th, left 13th; arrived East London, 13th, left 14th; arrived Natal, 15th.
Black, Baxter and Co., agents.
Sept 15 - Eastern Star, brig, 208 tons, GW Arnot, from London, sailed Jan 10th. Cargo: general.
Steel, Atkinson and Co., agents.
Sept 22 - Kafir, RMS, of Southampton, 900 tons, Garratt, from Cape ports. Cargo: general.
From Southampton
Mr and Mrs Topham, four children, and nurse
Rev., Mrs and Mr AJ Abrahams
Mr G Woodley
Mr Krafer
Miss Nickse
Mr Dowse
Mr Hooper
Mr RG and Mr G Hooper
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Mr Thomas Kirkwood
Mr T Hastings
A Nelson
J Leis
Robert Hunter
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