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Xploquest bills itself as "perfect for a break between two game sessions" and that's exactly where I am right now: Regalia is very enjoyable and hitting the "tactical RPG" part of my brain, but it's not really suited for marathon play–it's the kind of game you chip away at for an hour or two and then put away for a few days until you feel like making a little more progress at it. Throne of Bhaal is…well, it's crappy, and you'll get my thoughts on that, don't worry. I need a palate cleanser; Xploquest fit the bill.
I love RPGs–you all know that, it's obvious going through my blog that RPGs are 90% of what I play. There's a lot going into that love–I tend to like playing fantasy games, I like games that are a little more story focused, and I love all the numbers and shit. I fell hard for the genre back when I was about 7, when I ended up with a copy of Dragon Warrior; that it was the kind of game that the jockier kids in my class hated only sweetened the deal. Dragon Warrior was a slow game, a game with a lot of reading, a game with numbers, a game you had to think about–a game that you wouldn't do well in if you were stupid. Now granted, I was still a little kid, I was only able to play the game with the help of the hint guide, but I was drawn to it, it was the exact game I wanted to play. It still is.
And, particularly as a kid, the trappings of RPGs were what sold me on them: I liked the idea of a large, sprawling world that the adventures took place in; Super Mario was still fun, was still a game I loved to play, but "here's a level, and when you're done with that here's another level, and when you're done with that here's another level" seemed kind of shallow compared to "explore this land and figure out, or read in the hintbook, where you're supposed to go next". And I've always loved wizards, and magic, and dragons, and I loved a game that was basically reading a story about wizards, and magic, and dragons. As an adult, Dragon Warrior has relatively little text, but as a kid, that little text was all I needed in order to fill in the blanks. I remember Alefgard as this living, breathing world with people going about their days, with secrets hidden in nooks and crannies, as this large thing where I was this tiny hero. If there is one thing from childhood that I wish I were still able to tap into–that, as a writer, I try to tap into, and sometimes vaguely succeed–it is this ability to be overwhelmed by a story.
I read Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud in college and what's stuck with me from that is his discussion of "the iconic" in comics. He describes a continuum with two dots and a line forming a smiley face — pure iconography — on one end and a photograph — pure realism — on the other.. The photograph represents one and only one person; the smiley face can represent just about every person. Drawings somewhere in the middle of that continuum have a weird power where they have enough details to narrow down the field a bit but they're abstract enough to still have a wide range. This allows us, McCloud argues, to project ourselves into the comic more easily than you can with a more realistic drawing style–more people recognize themselves in Charlie Brown than Mark Trail.
But I know I don't always project myself into a comic, even if the drawing style does lean heavily into the iconic. My enjoyment of Persepolis does not come from my identification with the Marjane Satrapi character–even as I might recognize character traits we have in common. Perhaps the iconic style helps mitigate what is a very specific, personal story–it cracks the door open a bit and makes it more accessible. But I find the iconic's true power to be related to something else McCloud talks about. Comics are, after all, static images often broken up by panels. McCloud uses the example of a comic about someone committing an ax murder (!) — one panel of the killer holding the ax above his head, the next of a shot of the cityscape with a scream ringing out. The actual murder is not depicted–it takes place in our minds, suggested by the scene transition. We essentially animate the scenes in our heads.
And just so, drawings that take place on the more iconic end of the scale require a little more work on our end–we fill in more details in our minds. Persepolis is describing real events which happened in real places to real people–when I read it, I cannot help but use the pictures as a guide to imagine what it all "really" looked like. Comics become one of those mediums which exist in a weird sort of collaboration between the cartoonist and my imagination, and as a result, they end up becoming weirdly personal to their readers*. My impression of Persepolis or Cerebus or The Sandman will have a lot in common with yours, but they won't be exactly the same–and, most poignantly, we won't ever be able to access each other's.
For me, Dragon Warrior hit that sweet spot on the iconic-realistic continuum–it was enough that it gave me the strokes of the world, but it was just sketchy enough that it encouraged me to fill in the blanks myself. Super Mario was a challenge, and a lot of fun, but Dragon Warrior? You know, when Betty Crocker introduced boxed cake mixes, they initially contained powdered eggs–it was a "just add water" thing–and the cakes still tasted as good as a boxed cake mix can taste, but people hated them until they came up with the idea to make you add your own egg in. The simple act of having people actually crack open an egg and stir it in gave a feeling of participation–just adding water wasn't doing any work, but if you added an egg, you felt like you actually baked something. Dragon Warrior was the first game I ever played that made me feel like I baked. You could do far worse to determine a necessary facet of role-playing games. It's right there in the name: You need to add yourself into the mix to give the game some ruach.
But Xploquest–the game I'm ostensibly writing about–is much, much further on the scale of the iconic, and I would suggest that it doesn't invite us to add an egg, so to speak–it is a pure plotless RPG and it doesn't need one. The game could be simple colored squares, or ASCII symbols, although the art is simple, boldly-colored, and, to my eyes, really pleasing. You're in a generic fantasy kingdom–or maybe not even a kingdom, as there is no castle–with several towns, all alike, and some generic terrains. You can buy some generic potions or some generic spells, purchase and upgrade some generic weapons, and whap some generic monsters in order to get XP and gold. The dungeons are literally all 10 fights, all the same. There's some caves with different layouts, but they're not mazelike in anyway. It is as stripped down of an RPG as you can get: Try to make a set of numbers–representing monsters–go down while trying to keep a different set of numbers–representing you–up; every so often, the numbers representing you become higher and you know you're progressing. An RPG stripped to its bare ludic bones.
And Xploquest was absolutely fascinating to me. I played for two straight hours one night, and three the next–at which point I was finished, and I don't think I could have taken it for much longer–but it was exactly the kind of numbery exercise that I liked. See, Throne of Bhaal is wearing on me, and the whole Baldur's Gate saga, my whole "let's beat every Infinity Engine game again" thing, it's a huge project and I am weary. And, as Ben Chandler pointed out in the comments (please comment, I love comments!), that weariness is part and parcel of playing epic games, and maybe even a nice bit of ludonarrative consonance–every hero is tempted to give up in the face of the enormity of the task, heroism is only meaningful if you push past it and win–but it still kind of sucks. I don't know why I do it sometimes.
But Xploquest reminded me that sometimes I just like to see a bunch of numbers go up in order to see how much fun I'm having. I've said that the big joy of RPGs is going back to the early areas and wiping the floor with the monsters, and Xploquest not only gives you that, it scales encounters to your level, and even does this nice thing where it decides certain encounters are beneath you, and also lets you face them anyway if you're feeling impish. It's balanced excellently. It even avoids the temptation to be a roguelike–it avoids the urge to bullshit us by pretending to have "infinite replay value because everything is random"–and features one and only one overworld map. The map is the way it is out of pure challenge–easier areas are here, and the harder areas are here, and you explore everything in vaguely this order, and oh man, why don't roguelikes understand that I'm probably not going to play their game 50 times, I'm just going to play it the once, so just figure out what the best map design is and just give me that?
Listen, Xploquest is a little free game I found on Steam, I believe it's a port of a mobile game, it is not necessarily the kind of game that earns philosophical ramblings–but I'm still damn glad I played it, and I love RPGs, and I love talking about RPGs and all–and you know what? I said the game was iconic, meaning that I get to see a lot in it. This is, simply, what I saw when I was playing it. I baked.
* I'm flashing back to Existentialism and Literature by Jean-Paul Sartre which I read something like 10, 15 years ago and so don't have the fluency to discuss that well, but there's a bit where he's talking about literature in these terms: A book is just black marks on a page without a reader to understand and interpret them, and so, this blog post you're reading does not exist in itself unless someone is reading it–a tree does not make a sound if it falls in the forest without anyone to hear it. Contrast that to a movie–you put a movie or a TV show and you walk out of the room, it is still going to exist even if it does not have an observer. And now I'm also getting a flashback to a philosophy class I took where the professor began the very first class by asking "How do you read?", and every single answer anyone gave–"I look at the words on the page and I understand what they mean"–lead to another question–"How do you understand them?"–and every answer to the followup lead to another followup, and half of the class dropped out the next day. I miss philosophy classes but man, am I glad I'm out of school.


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I have been on the Slimming World plan for about 6 weeks now and today I am sharing with you my favourite ever discovery, and favourite recipe of all time. It is absolutely delicious and if you're craving that chinese takeaway this will 100% curb them with a super syn free dish that is perfect for the whole family.
4 large chicken breasts
half a tub of original smash
2 beaten eggs
mixed peppers (sliced thinly)
1 large onion
3 tbsp of dark soy sauce
1 tbsp of garlic granules/2 finely chopped garlic cloves
greaseproof paper
low calorie cooking spray
1. Take your 4 large chicken breasts and slice into strips creating mini fillets, I usually get about 8 strips out of each breast using Muscle Food chicken breasts, however if you're using supermarket chicken breast you may find it more beneficial to buy mini fillets already cut to size, to ensure you get the most out of the breast.
2. Evenly sprinkle a generous amount of smash granules onto a large plate, and pour your 2 beaten eggs into a wide bowl, preheat the oven to 190 degrees.
3. Take a strip of chicken dip in the beaten egg & roll onto the smash, make sure the chicken strip is evenly coated by the smash. Once battered add to a baking tray lined with greaseproof paper, repeat this step until all chicken is generously & evenly battered.
4. Cook your chicken until it appears to being going golden brown on the edges, this will take around 25 - 30 minutes.
5. Whilst your chicken is cooking, thinly slice one whole large onion and if not already done so, slice your peppers thinly too. I use ready sliced frozen mixed peppers, which is way cheaper & cuts out some of the preparatory time.
6. Cook the onions & peppers together in a wok in low calorie cooking spray on a low heated hob during the last 10 minute of the cooking time for the chicken, stirring regularly.
7. Once you are satisfied that your chicken is cooked through and appearing golden around the edges, remove from the oven and move chicken from the baking tray to the wok with onions and peppers slowly cooking.
8. To the wok add 2 pinches of salt, 1 tbsp garlic granules/2 cloves of garlic and dark soy sauce. Stir all the ingredients together until the chicken is evenly coated in soy sauce.
9. Stir and mix together the chicken, onions and pepper evenly until the onions and pepper are soft, serve with syn free egg fried rice (recipe here) or sweet potato wedges.
I hope you enjoy this recipe as much as I do, it is by far the best Slimming World meal in my opinion. If you would like anymore information or would like to see a particular recipe made Slimming World friendly, then just find me on social media or comment below and I will be happy to answer any questions or requests you may have. Enjoy!

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Unpleasant website subscription encounter with Network Solutions (Rev: 1.0)
I subscribed to Network Solutions (charge US$89.62 for 1 year plan) to setup a website on 23/4/2010. From 23/4/2010 (Friday) to 24/4/2010 (Saturday), I had problem securely transferring my files (using Ws_FTP Pro and Adobe Dreamweaver CS4) to their server using the Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) . Hence, I decided to cancel my subscription on 25/4/2010 (Sunday) by login to their website to submit my request (request no: #1-462076725).
Bernadeth001 from Network Solutions responded to my cancellation request on 28/4/2010 (Wednesday) requesting me to submit a pre-authenticated service request that required me to login to their website to submit the cancellation request again.
I did it on 28/4/2010 or 29/4/2010 (if I remember this date correctly as I successfully submitted online but did not received their acknowledgement email for that submission ?). I was still charged US$89.62 for the Network Solutions subscription on my credit card bill. Interest charge was imposed because I did not pay for the Network Solutions subscription on my credit card bill.
As I received no response from the Network Solutions, I email Network Solutions on their email address email@example.com on 7/5/2010 to ask about my cancellation status but the email failed because it is not an active email address. I realized that the only way to communicate with Network Solutions is either to login to their website and submit their online form, or call their support number which I did not try because of the oversea call charges.
Hence, I login to Network Solutions website again on 7/5/2010 to send my request for the update status of my cancellation request. 1 month plus had passed, I still received no response from Network Solutions.
"Our Customer Service Specialists will investigate your inquiry and send you a response within 1 business day." This "...response within 1 business day" promise from their acknowledge email seems like a joke to me.
Another unpleasant experience was that Network Solutions keeps sending their advertisement email to me despite that I had send my unsubscribe request online (http://www.networksolutionsunsubscribe.com/) twice to them.
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I am the delineation of pain,
I know how it feels to be at the bottom,
When people smile with you,
Drink and make merry,
Only to pull a Mary,
Surprise you with a kid you know nothing about,
Make no apologies,
Go on like nothing ever happened,
Make you a door knob,
Turn you at their convenience,
It's part of life,
Part of a greater experience,
When you know you are born to suffer,
Every odd stacked against you,
But I'm programmed to succeed,
I know and live pain,
But failure is a foreign concept,
Something I know nothing of,
I always look back,
But just to see how far I've come,
Never to see how far I have to go,
I curve out my destiny.
I sometimes hate rich people,
What did they have to offer that I didn't?
Or did they just stumble onto their wealth?
Did they spend sleepless nights?
Or their dreams were just more real?
I work myself off,
Burn the morning oil,
Simply because,
I'm working through the night,
Hoping that maybe one day,
I'll say I'm wealthy,
Not stinking rich,
Just enough for a comfortable life,
Not to be so concerned about tomorrow,
Know there is comfort in today,
And joy in leaving yesterday,
Because I map out my future.
I'm not a role model,
I play different roles,
Some as a model,
But never simultaneously,
They encourage me to be like Pablo,
Or better yet,
Maya Angelou,
Follow in their footsteps,
We are taught to be different,
Be special,
Not a copy of another,
But why compare me with them?
Give me similar tests?
Judge me based on your experiences?
Push me aside because I'm not you?
I'm I not supposed to be different?
Be perfect in my own skin?
Because I am,
Comfortable that I am a mini god,
It's only right,
I was created in the image of God, right?
I love myself for my mistakes,
What else would I love myself for?
Everyone loves me for my perfections,
I love them for their imperfections,
How else would I mirror my perfections?
Your future is in your hands.
I have a murderous mind,
Scratch that,
I have a Richard Trenton Chase mind,
Killed so many of my dreams,
Not randomly,
Creating a pattern,
A pattern that will hopefully lead me to success,
A success which only I understand,
They say one man's meat is another man's poison,
But at the end of the day,
It still is meat,
Not a vegetable or starch,
I therefore, see other people's failures,
Pain and stress,
As a motivation to go on,
I'll empathize,
But I won't sit with you to console you,
Healing is intrinsic,
And I'm healing my past,
As I forge ahead.


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April 17-19, San Jose, California
LMA President Nancy Lane and board member Tom Sly, VP Digital Revenue, E.W. Scripps Company, will attend a track at F8 that is designed for news publishers. This will include some off-the-record sessions designed to re-imagine what local news might look like on Facebook in the future.
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The verdict is in and all the esteemed judges agree: Douglas Green is worth its weight in solid (double) gold. In one of many excellent recent competition performances, pre-eminent South African producer Douglas Green has received high praise and global clout at the recent Michelangelo International Wine and Spirits Awards, winning two prestigious double gold medals – for the Douglas Green Chenin Blanc 2018 and Douglas Green Cabernet Sauvignon 2017.
The Michelangelo International Wine and Spirits Awards is one of South Africa's most authoritative and longest running annual wine competitions, having been established in 1997 as the only international wine competition in the country. The competition is unique in South Africa, in that all judges are hand-picked wine experts, representing all seven continents around the globe. The judging panel for this year's competition included highly respected wine personalities such as Amanda Barnes from Argentina, Austin Zhang from China, Bernard Schaefer from Germany, Jean-Luis Da Ros from France, and Winnie Bowman from South Africa, among others.
According to Lorraine Immelman, CEO and founder of Michelangelo, this wealth of international expertise among the judges has created an exceptionally high standard of judging.
This year's stellar results put the crown on a long run of fine performances at Michelangelo for Douglas Green. Jacques Roux, wine marketing director DGB, explains the winery's affinity for the competition. "We prefer competitions like Michelangelo where the tastings are done blind – unsighted tasting – allowing the style and the quality of the wines to be rated and not the brand's label or record and repertoire. We also really enjoy the input from international tasters who prefer a certain elegance and style – wines with excellent drinkability rather than heavy, overly showy wines".
The double gold-winning Chenin Blanc and Cabernet Sauvignon are both sourced from selected vineyard sites in Paarl, Breedekloof/Worcester and Robertson. According to Douglas Green winemaker Jaco Potgieter, the wines' success can be attributed to various factors. "Both the Chenin Blanc and Cabernet Sauvignon are blended from selected pockets of terroir across the Cape Winelands, and it is certainly a case of the sum being greater than the parts. We have been working hard on these respective vineyards for many years in a team effort with the growers in order to produce the type of quality that warrants the highest international recognition. So a lot of the credit has to go to our dedicated growers, with whom we have built wonderful relationships over the years."
Potgieter also notes that the 2017 and 2018 vintages yielded outstanding fruit, which resulted in beautifully expressive flavours and excellent mouthfeel in the wines. The Chenin Blanc shows vibrant passion fruit, peach and pineapple flavours, laced by notes of honeysuckle and citrus that carry through from mouth-watering entry to finish. The Cabernet Sauvignon is supple and accessible, with well-defined black fruit flavours supported by gentle oak smokiness and spice, as well as a lingering fresh aftertaste. The award-winning wines are available from the winery and at leading wine retailers while stocks last.


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James E. Gunn (writer)
James E. Gunn
Gunn in 2005
|James Edwin Gunn
July 12, 1923
Kansas City, Missouri, USA
|Pen name
|Edwin James[1]
|Professor of English, critic, fiction writer
|B.S., Journalism; M.A., English
|Alma mater
|University of Kansas
|Science fiction
|Isaac Asimov, history of science fiction
|Notable works
|Notable awards
James Edwin Gunn (born July 12, 1923) is an American science fiction writer, editor, scholar, and anthologist. His work as an editor of anthologies includes the six-volume Road to Science Fiction series. He won the Hugo Award for "Best Related Work" in 1983 and he has won or been nominated for several other awards for his non-fiction works in the field of science fiction studies.[3] The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America made him its 24th Grand Master in 2007[4] and he was inducted by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame in 2015.[5][6] His novel The Immortals was adapted into a 1969-71 TV series starring Christopher George.[2]
Gunn is a professor emeritus of English, and the founding director of the Center for the Study of Science Fiction, both at the University of Kansas.[7][8]
Gunn comes from a publishing family; his father was a printer, two uncles were pressmen, a third a proofreader, and a grandfather was a newspaper editor. Born on 12 July 1923, Gunn served for three years in the U.S. Navy during World War II. He attended the University of Kansas, earning a Bachelor of Science in Journalism in 1947 and a Masters of Arts in English from Northwestern University in 1951.[9]
By 1958 Gunn was managing editor of University of Kansas Alumni Publications.[9] He became a faculty member of the university, where he served as the director of public relations and as a Professor of English, specializing in science fiction and fiction writing. He is now a professor emeritus and director of the Center for the Study of Science Fiction, which awards the annual John W. Campbell Memorial Award for best novel and the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award at the Campbell Conference in Lawrence, Kansas, every summer.
He served as President of the Science Fiction Writers of America[10] from 1971–1972 and was President of the Science Fiction Research Association from 1980–1982. SFWA honored him as a Grand Master of Science Fiction in 2007.[11]
On June 12, 2015, Locus announced the selection of Gunn and four others for induction into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame, along with "a 'lightning-fast' fundraiser to cover [Gunn's] travel expenses so he can attend the June 27, 2015 induction ceremony in Seattle".[5][6]
Gunn became a professional writer in 1947 when he wrote a play produced by the University of Kansas, then wrote newspaper articles and radio scripts.[9] He began his career as a science fiction writer in 1949, making his first short story sale to Thrilling Wonder Stories.[11] He has had almost 100 stories published in magazines and anthologies and has written 28 books and edited 10. Many of his stories and books have been reprinted around the world.[8]
In 1948 Gunn wrote his first science fiction, ten short stories, and published nine from 1949 to 1952 as "Edwin James", a pseudonym derived from his full name.[9][8] The first two in print, "Communication" and "Paradox" (the first sale), were published in September and October 1949 by editor Sam Merwin in Startling Stories and Thrilling Wonder Stories.[1] Gunn's master's thesis, a critical analysis of the genre, was also published in a professional magazine.[9] His novels were first published by Gnome Press in 1955, Star Bridge, written by Gunn and Jack Williamson, and This Fortress World.[1]
Scribner's published Gunn's novel The Listeners in 1972[12] and it was runner-up for the first annual John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel.[3] Carl Sagan called it "one of the very best fictional portrayals of contact with extraterrestrial intelligence ever written."[citation needed] According to the publisher of a 2004 edition, "this book predicted and inspired the creation of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI)—the organization dedicated to the search for extraterrestrial life."[13]
In 1996, Gunn wrote a Star Trek novel that was a novelization of "The Joy Machine", an unproduced episode of Star Trek scripted by Theodore Sturgeon.[14][citation needed][clarification needed]
His stories also have been adapted into radioplays and teleplays.
- NBC Radio's X Minus One – "Cave of Night", February 1, 1956
- Desilu Playhouse's 1959 "Man in Orbit", based on Gunn's "The Cave of Night"
- ABC-TV's Movie of the Week "The Immortal" (1969) and an hour-long television series The Immortal in 1970, based on Gunn's The Immortals[8]
- An episode of the USSR science fiction TV series This Fantastic World, filmed in 1989 and entitled "Psychodynamics of the Witchcraft", was based on James Gunn's 1953 story "Wherever You May Be"[15]
- Mystery drama If the bride is a witch (Russia, 2002) based on "Wherever You May Be"
- Star Bridge, Gunn and Jack Williamson (Gnome Press, 1955)
- This Fortress World (Gnome, 1955)
- The Joy Makers (Bantam, 1961)
- The Immortal (Bantam, 1970) – novelization from the TV series The Immortal[1]
- The Listeners (Scribner's, 1972), stories[12][13] – October 1972 collection of six novelettes, five previously published (September 1968 to September 1972); "The 'Computer Run's between each story average 8 pages long"[16]
- The Magicians (Scribner's, 1976) – expanded from a novella, "Sine of the Magus" (Beyond Fantasy Fiction, May 1954)[1]
- Kampus (Bantam, 1977)
- The Dreamers (Simon & Schuster, 1981)
- Crisis! (Tor Books, 1986) – fix-up of six stories published 1978 to 1985[1]
- The Joy Machine (Star Trek, Book 80) (1996)
- The Millennium Blues (e-reads.com, 2000; Easton Press, 2001)
- Human Voices (Five Star Books, 2002)
- Gift from the Stars (Easton, 2005)
- Transcendental (Transcendental Machine #1) ISBN 9780765335012 (Tor, 2013)[11]
- Transgalactic (Transcendental Machine #2) ISBN 9780765380920 (Tor, 2016)
- Transformation (Transcendental Machine #3) ISBN 9780765386663 (Tor, June 2017)
Short fiction[edit]
- Collections
- Station in Space (Bantam Books, 1958), stories
- Future Imperfect (Bantam, 1964), stories
- The Immortals (Bantam, 1964), four stories; revised and expanded ed. comprising five stories, Pocket Books, 2004[1]
- The Witching Hour (Dell, 1970), stories
- Breaking Point (Walker & Co., 1972), stories
- The Burning (Dell, 1972), stories
- Some Dreams Are Nightmares (Scribner's, 1974), stories
- The End of the Dreams (Scribner's, 1975), stories
- Stories[17]
|First published
|Gunn, James (September 2014). "Patterns". Asimov's Science Fiction. 38 (9): 18–23.
- Anthologies (editor)
- Nebula Award Stories 10 (Gollancz, 1975)
Gunn's other anthologies include The Road to Science Fiction, six volumes 1977 to 1998. The first four volumes, published by Mentor New American Library from 1977 to 1982, are organized chronologically and cover Gilgamesh to 1981 or "Forever" (volume 4, From Here to Forever). The last two volumes, published by White Wolf, Inc. in 1998, feature "The British Way" and "Around the World".[1]
- Alternate Worlds: The Illustrated History of Science Fiction (Prentice-Hall, 1975), ISBN 0-89104-049-8 – winner of the Locus Award and Worldcon Special Award[3]
- Isaac Asimov: The Foundations of Science Fiction (Oxford, 1982); revised ed. (Scarecrow Press, 1996), ISBN 0-8108-3129-5[18] – Hugo Award winner[3]
- The New Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, editor (Viking Press, 1988), 067081041X – Hugo finalist[3]
- The Science of Science-Fiction Writing (Scarecrow Press, 2000), ISBN 1578860113 – "reflects on the science fiction process and how to teach it"
- Speculations on Speculation: Theories of Science Fiction, by Matthew Candelaria and Gunn (Scarecrow Press, 2005)
- Inside Science Fiction (Scarecrow Press, 2006)
- Reading Science Fiction, by Gunn, Marleen S. Barr, and Matthew Candelaria (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008)
- Gunn, James (July–August 2011). "Science fiction imagines the digital future". Analog. 131 (7&8): 98–103.
- — (2013). Paratexts : introductions to science fiction and fantasy. Lanham, Md.: The Scarecrow Press.
- Star-Begotten: A Life Lived in Science Fiction (McFarland and Company, Inc., 2017)
- Modern Science Fiction: A Critical Analysis: The Seminal 1951 Thesis, with a New Introduction and Commentary (McFarland and Company, Inc., 2018)
- 1976 Science Fiction Research Association Pilgrim Award for lifetime achievement in science fiction scholarship[3]
- 1976 Worldcon Special Award for Alternate Worlds: The Illustrated History of Science Fiction[3][19]
- 1976 Locus Award for Associational Item, Alternate Worlds: The Illustrated History of Science Fiction[3]
- 1983 Hugo Award for Best Non-Fiction Book, Isaac Asimov: The Foundations of Science Fiction[3][18]
- 2007 Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award for lifetime achievement in science fiction and fantasy[3][4]
- 2015 Inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame[5][6]
Gunn's 1972 novel The Listeners was runner-up for the 1973 Campbell Memorial Award.[3]
See also[edit]
- ^ a b c d e f g h James E. Gunn at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (ISFDB). Retrieved 2013-04-05. Select a title to see its linked publication history and general information. Select a particular edition (title) for more data at that level, such as a front cover image or linked contents.
- ^ a b "Fiction Book Review: The Immortals by James Gunn, Author Pocket Books $21.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-671-53486-8". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved April 27, 2019.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "Gunn, James". The Locus Index to SF Awards: Index of Literary Nominees. Locus Publications (locusmag.com). Archived from the original on October 16, 2012. Retrieved April 5, 2013.
- ^ a b "Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master". Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (sfwa.org). Archived from the original on March 8, 2013. Retrieved April 5, 2013.
- ^ a b c "2015 SF&F Hall of Fame Inductees & James Gunn Fundraiser". June 12, 2015. Locus Science Fiction Foundation. Retrieved 2015-07-16.
- ^ a b c "James Gunn: The "triple threat": author, scholar, and teacher of science fiction" Archived June 24, 2016, at the Wayback Machine. Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame. EMP Museum (empmuseum.org). Retrieved 2015-09-10.
- ^ "James Gunn: CSSF Founding Director". Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction (CSSF); University of Kansas (sfcenter.ku.edu). Updated December 2, 2014. Retrieved 2015-07-17.
- ^ a b c d Niccum, Jon (April 11, 2008). "Top Gunn: Renowned science fiction author finds fresh ways to cultivate genre". Lawrence Journal-World. Lawrence, KS. Retrieved August 17, 2013.
- ^ a b c d e "Editor's Report". If (editorial). June 1958. pp. 3–5.
- ^ The End of the Dreams, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, Book Club Edition, 1975 (jacket cover).
- ^ a b c Burnes, Brian (August 16, 2013). "For James Gunn, science-fiction's golden age has lasted eight decades". The Kansas City Star. Kansas City, MO: The McClatchy Company. Archived from the original on August 21, 2013. Retrieved August 17, 2013.
- ^ a b "The listeners" (first edition). LC Online Catalog; Library of Congress (catalog.loc.gov). Retrieved 2015-07-16.
- ^ a b "The listeners" (1st BenBella Books ed., 2004). LC Online Catalog. Retrieved 2015-07-16. With linked publisher description.
- ^ [1][dead link]
- ^ (in Russian) State Fund of Television and Radio Programs Archived September 27, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ The Listeners (first edition) publication contents at ISFDB. Retrieved 2015-07-16.
- ^ Short stories unless otherwise noted.
- ^ a b "Isaac Asimov Novel Wins a Hugo Award". The New York Times. Associated Press. September 6, 1983. Retrieved March 29, 2010.
- ^ "The Long List of Hugo Awards, 1976". New England Science Fiction Association (nesfa.org). 1976. Retrieved August 17, 2013.
- Tuck, Donald H. (1974). The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Chicago: Advent. p. 195. ISBN 0-911682-20-1.
External links[edit]
|Wikisource has original works written by or about:
James Gunn
- Works by James E. Gunn at Project Gutenberg
- Works by James E. Gunn at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
- James E. Gunn at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Essays by Gunn and others, directory at CSSF
- James Gunn's "Cave Of Night", February 1, 1956, episode of X Minus One at Archive.org
- James E. Gunn at Library of Congress Authorities, with 33 catalog records
- 1923 births
- 20th-century American novelists
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In The Supreme Court
Key Corporate Capital, Inc., National Tax Assistance Corporation, TransAm Tax Certificate Corp. d/b/a Destiny 98TD, Advantage 99TD, TA Escrow 97 and Destiny 98, Respondents,
County of
Beaufort, Treasurer of Beaufort County, and Tax Collector of Beaufort County, Petitioners.
Appeal From
Thomas Kemmerlin, Master in Equity
Opinion No. 26302
Heard December 7, 2006 - Filed April 9, 2007
David S. Black, and Mary B. Lohr, both of Howell Gibson & Hughes, of Beaufort, for Petitioners.
James H. Ritchie, Jr., of Holcombe, Bomar, Gunn & Bradford, of
Spartanburg, for Respondents.
JUSTICE WALLER: We granted a writ of certiorari to review the Court of Appeals' decision in Key Corp. Capital, Inc. v. County of Beaufort, 360 S.C. 513, 602 S.E.2d 104 (Ct. App. 2004). We reverse.
In 1998 and 1999, respondents Key Corporate Capital, Inc., National Tax Assistance Corporation, and TransAm Tax Certificate Corporation purchased several properties at
The parties stipulated to the following facts: (1) the tax sales were voided because the Treasurer discovered "errors, oversights, and/or miscommunications within the Beaufort County offices;" (2) the tax sales were not voided "due to any actions or inactions on the part of" respondents; (3) the tax sales would have been set aside by a court if the Treasurer had not voided them; (4) the County retained the purchase price on each property for at least 28 days, and for three of the properties, the funds were held for over a year; (5) the Treasurer's Office refunded the full purchase price to respondents; and (6) the County earned a 6% rate of interest on respondents' funds with an actual earned amount of $28,010.93 in interest.
Seeking the interest their money earned while in the County's possession, respondents brought suit against the
The Court of Appeals affirmed. Key Corp., supra. First, the Court of Appeals found that section 12-51-150's silence on the subject of interest did not "entitle[] the County to retain the interest." Key Corp., 360 S.C. at 516, 602 S.E.2d at 106. The Court of Appeals then reasoned that because other sections within Chapter 51 specifically address interest,[2] the Legislature's omission regarding interest in section 12-51-150 required that the rules of equity be applied. Like the master-in-equity, the Court of Appeals found "it would be unjust to allow the County to keep the interest on the purchase prices of tax sales that were voided due to the County's own errors and omissions;" therefore, the Court of Appeals concluded that respondents were entitled to the interest actually earned while in the County's possession.
Did the Court of Appeals err in affirming the award of interest to respondents?
Petitioners argue that the Court of Appeals erred in not following the plain and unambiguous language of section 12-51-150 which, at the relevant time, provided only for a return of the "amount paid" to the successful bidder when a tax sale is voided. Petitioners further contend it was error to apply the principles of equity because the statute provided an adequate remedy at law, i.e., the refund of the purchase price paid by the bidder. We agree with both these arguments.
The sale of the property of a defaulting taxpayer is governed by statute.
We need not go any further than the plain language of section 12-51-150 to determine that it was error to award respondents the earned interest. At the time in question, this statute provided a clear remedy if a tax sale was voided - a "refund" of "the amount paid" to the successful bidder. If the Legislature had intended the County to earn and then refund interest, it could easily have specified these requirements in the statute as it did in sections 12-51-100 and 12-51-130. See footnote 2, supra.
Indeed, the Legislature amended this section just last year to expressly provide that when a tax sale is voided, the purchaser would be provided a refund plus actual interest earned. Section 12-51-150 now reads as follows, in pertinent part:
If the official in charge of the tax sale discovers before a tax title has passed that there is a failure of any action required to be properly performed, the official may void the tax sale and refund the amount paid, plus interest in the amount actually earned by the county on the amount refunded, to the successful bidder.
S.C. Code Ann. § 12-51-150 (Supp. 2006) (emphasized language effective June 14, 2006).
We have long acknowledged the presumption that in adopting an amendment to a statute, the Legislature intended to change the existing law. See
We see no reason not to apply this presumption and therefore conclude that the Legislature's amendment to section 12-51-150 sought to effect a change in the law. Because the amendment materially changed the terminology of the statute, a departure from existing law clearly was intended, rather than a clarification of original intent. See North River Ins. Co. v. Gibson, supra. In fact, to hold otherwise would indicate that this amendment essentially was a futile act, which we are disinclined to do. See Denene, Inc. v. City of Charleston, 352 S.C. 208, 212, 574 S.E.2d 196, 198 (2002) ("The Court must presume the legislature did not intend a futile act, but rather intended its statutes to accomplish something."); TNS Mills, Inc. v. S.C. Dep't of Revenue, 331 S.C. 611, 503 S.E.2d 471 (1998) (same).
Accordingly, we hold that the plain language of the prior version of section 12-51-150 clearly limits respondents' remedy to a refund of the purchase price without interest.
Moreover, we find it was error to fashion an equitable remedy in this case. While equitable relief is generally available where there is no adequate remedy at law, an adequate legal remedy may be provided by statute. Santee Cooper Resort, Inc. v. S.C. Pub. Serv. Comm'n, 298 S.C. 179, 185, 379 S.E.2d 119, 123 (1989). Indeed, a "court's equitable powers must yield in the face of an unambiguously worded statute."
Finally, as to respondents' argument that an equitable remedy is justified by the Court of Appeals' opinion in H & K Specialists v. Brannen, 340 S.C. 585, 532 S.E.2d 617 (Ct. App. 2000), we simply disagree. In H & K Specialists, the Court of Appeals held that section 12-51-100[4] applied to the case because the tax sale was set aside in a later court action. The Court of Appeals deemed the master-in-equity's return of the property to the delinquent taxpayers "as the ultimate redemption" thereby triggering section 12-51-100's remedy of the return of the purchase price plus interest to the successful bidder.
In sum, we hold that the version of section 12-51-150 in effect at the relevant time only required the County, upon voiding the tax sales, to refund the purchase price, and not the interest, to respondents. Therefore, the Court of Appeals' opinion is
MOORE and BURNETT, JJ., concur. TOAL, C.J., dissenting in a separate opinion in which PLEICONES, J., concurs.
CHIEF JUSTICE TOAL: I respectfully dissent. I would affirm the court of appeals' decision, but remand the case for a determination of the appropriate amount
A court may grant equitable relief where there is no adequate remedy at law. Santee Cooper Resort, Inc. v.
"Restitution is a remedy designed to prevent unjust enrichment." Stanley Smith & Sons v. Limestone College, 283 S.C. 430, 435 n.1, 322 S.E.2d 474, 478 n.1 (Ct. App. 1984). To recover on a theory of restitution, the plaintiff must show that: (1) he conferred a non-gratuitous benefit on the defendant, (2) the defendant realized some value from the benefit, and (3) it would be inequitable for the defendant to retain the benefit without paying the plaintiff for its value. Sauner v. Pub. Serv. Auth. of
The majority finds that S.C. Code Ann. § 12-51-150 (2000) provided the Respondent's with an adequate remedy at law. Although I agree that the statute provides some remedy for the Respondents, I do not find the remedy adequate because it is neither practical, complete, nor efficient. While the statute mandates the return of the amount paid by the bidder, the statute fails to provide complete relief to the Respondents who, through no fault of their own, have been denied the use of their funds. The interpretation propounded by the majority provides little incentive for the County to resolve its mistakes in a timely fashion, and instead, encourages the County to indefinitely hold funds which rightfully belong to the bidder.
Here, the Respondents gave the County money in exchange for the title to real property. Although the County failed to deliver title for the real property to the Respondents, the County retained the money and utilized the funds to earn interest. Clearly, this constitutes a non-gratuitous benefit for which the County received some value. Surely it is inequitable for the County to retain these benefits without compensating the Respondents for their value.
The County argues that no inequity occurred because the Respondents had actual notice that interest would not be given in the event the tax sale was voided. However, in my opinion, the notice provided to the bidders refers to the statutory interest payments bidders normally receive if a property is redeemed by the taxpayer, see S.C. Code Ann. § 12-51-100 (2000), and not the interest the County earns on the funds through a deposit account or other similar investment. While it is reasonable that the County should not pay statutory interest that it has not received through redemption, it is unreasonable and inequitable to allow the County to retain interest earned on funds which rightfully belonged to the Respondents.
Additionally, the majority holds that the legislature intended to prohibit the return of any interest earned on bid money retained by the County because the statute is silent on the issue of interest and the legislature could have included such language in § 12-51-150 as it has in other statutes. I disagree.
First, I would find that the statute's silence regarding the return of interest is ambiguous and does not clearly demonstrate legislative intent to prohibit the return of such interest. This Court has acknowledged that "subsequent legislation may be of service as indicating the construction given to the former by the legislature itself." Abell v. Bell, 229 S.C. 1, 5, 91 S.E.2d 548, 550 (1956) (internal citations omitted). Furthermore, this Court recognizes:
the rule of construction that the adoption of an amendment which materially changes the terminology of a statute under some circumstances indicates persuasively and raises a presumption that a departure from the original law was intended. However, like all rules of construction, the presumption is merely an aid in interpreting an ambiguous statute and determining the legislative intent. The presumption is strongest "in the case of an isolated independent amendment. . . and. . . is of little force in respect of amendments adopted in a general revision or codification of the laws."
North River Ins. Co. v. Gibson, 244 S.C. 393, 398, 137 S.E.2d 264, 266 (1964) (holding that the legislature's modification of language in a statute accomplished by general revision of the laws indicated the legislature's intent to clarify the existing law and not to materially change the existing law).
The legislature recently revised § 12-51-150 to include additional language requiring a county that voids a tax sale to also relinquish the amount of interest actually earned on the amount paid by the bidder. See Act No. 386, 2006 S.C. Acts 3077. Like the statute at issue in Gibson, §12-51-150 was modified through an act which provided a general revision to many statutes in our Code of Laws. Because the modification of the statute was accomplished through an act of general revision and not an isolated independent amendment, I would hold that the revision by the legislature indicated its intent to clarify the statute as opposed to an intent to materially modify the law.
Second, I find the majority's reliance on the fact that the legislature could have included language requiring the return of interest in § 12-51-150 as it had in other statutes inconsequential. Both §§ 12-51-100 and -130 refer to situations distinctly different from the one at hand. As I have discussed, § 12-51-100 clearly refers to the statutory interest provided by § 12-51-90. Section 12-51-130, on the other hand, allows the County to retain interest earned on money which it rightfully possesses due to the failure of the defaulting taxpayer or owner of record to claim the funds in a timely fashion. Therefore, in my opinion, the legislature's discussion of interest in these statutes provides no indication of its intent to prohibit the relinquishment of interest pursuant to §12-51-150. These statutes simply address interest in different contexts.
For the foregoing reasons, I would affirm the court of appeals and allow the Respondents to maintain an action against the County for restitution. However, in recognition of the unintentional nature of the County's mistake and the costs associated with carrying out these types of transactions, I believe that the equitable remedy of restitution only allows the Respondents to recover the amount in which the County was unjustly enriched. Therefore, I would remand the case to the trial court with instructions to determine the amount of unjust enrichment the County must disgorge.
PLEICONES, J., concurs.
[1] The version of section 12-51-150 relevant to the instant action states as follows:
In the case that the official in charge of the tax sale discovers before a tax title has passed, the failure of any action required to be properly performed, the official may void the tax sale and refund the amount paid to the successful bidder. If the full amount of the taxes, assessments, penalties, and costs have not been paid, the property must be brought to tax sale as soon as practicable.
S.C. Code Ann. § 12-51-150 (2000) (emphasis added). As will be discussed infra, this statutory section was recently amended to also provide to the successful bidder any interest earned on the purchase price. See 2006 S.C. Act No. 386, effective June 14, 2006.
[2] See S.C. Code Ann. § 12-51-100 (where the defaulting taxpayer redeems the property, the successful bidder at the tax sale is entitled to be "refunded the purchase price plus the interest"); S.C. Code Ann. § 12-51-130 (County is directed to invest amounts paid at a tax sale that exceed the amount owed by delinquent taxpayer in a separate account "so as not to be idle," and if taxpayer does not claim the overage within the specified time period, County is entitled to both the overage and "the earnings for keeping the overage").
[3] But see Stuckey v. State Budget and Control Bd., 339 S.C. 397, 401, 529 S.E.2d 706, 708 (2000) ("A subsequent statutory amendment may be interpreted as clarifying original legislative intent.").
[4] This section, entitled "Cancellation of sale upon redemption; notice to purchaser; refund of purchase price," states:
Upon the real estate being redeemed, the person officially charged with the collection of delinquent taxes shall cancel the sale in the tax sale book and note thereon the amount paid, by whom and when. The successful purchaser, at the delinquent tax sale, shall promptly be notified by mail to return the tax sale receipt to the person officially charged with the collection of delinquent taxes in order to be expeditiously refunded the purchase price plus the interest provided in Section 12-51-90.
S.C. Code Ann. § 12-51-100 (2000).
[5] The County failed to provide the delinquent taxpayers with proper notice, which led to the tax sale being set aside by the master, and then erroneously refunded the purchase price to the delinquent taxpayers instead of the successfully bidder.


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FS Maillé Brézé
FS Maillé Brézé was a French ship, a Vauquelin-class destroyer of the French Navy named after a Grand Admiral of the 17th century, which was destroyed while at anchor in the Tail of the Bank off Greenock.
On April 30, 1940, at 14:15 local time, an armed torpedo was launched on to the vessel's deck when a torpedo tube malfunctioned. The resulting explosion set fire to the fuel tanks and the forward magazine which, fortunately, did not immediately explode.
The ship had been launched at St Nazaire on November 9, 1930, and entered service 3 years later. The ship was a large contre-torpilleur destroyer having a displacement of 2441 tons, fitted with seven torpedo tubes, and mounted with five 5.5-inch guns. The destroyer had just returned to the Clyde for maintenance after escorting the battleship Bretange and the cruiser Algerie across the Atlantic, where they had delivered the French gold reserves for safe keeping in Canada.
The destroyer had been lying in the crowded anchorage when there was an explosion on board followed by fire. The aircraft carrier HMS Furious was anchored nearby, and Lieutenant DS Johnston led a rescue party from the carried, including a doctor and a sick berth attendant. The party climbed the Maillé Brézé's anchor chain to get on board, despite being told by a French sailor who had been blown off the ship into the water, that the forward magazine was not flooded. The party found a group of men trapped in the forecastle - the initial explosion had badly damaged the bow hatch, they were cut off by the resultant faire. The rescuers could do nothing to free the men, and the doctor is reported to have administered doses of morphine to all who get their arms out of the portholes. When the deck became too hot for the party to remain, the doctor passed the syringe and the remaining doses of morphine through one of the portholes.
All the small boats in Albert Harbour, next to the naval headquarters, were sent out to assist.
HMS Barfield, a boom defence vessel, raised steam and headed towards the Maillé Brézé. The tried to get alongside with their fire hoses at the ready, but were driven off by large explosions.
By this time, shells were raining down all around the area, and the anchorage was in chaos as warships, tankers, and other ships tried to get away from the danger, most leaving the buoy jumpers sitting astride their buoys.
By 16:00, all the ready use ammunition had exploded and there was nobody left alive on board.
The tug Marauder took the damaged vessel in tow, still afloat despite the damage. The tug had to drop the tow as the bow compartments had become red hot in the fire, and the forward magazine was still in danger of exploding.
Five and a half hours after the first explosion the Maillé Brézé sank by the bow, settling on a sandbank which was clear of all the navigation channels.
Accounts vary as to the number of casualties. John D Drummond in "A River Runs to War", 1960, states that 6 died on the upper deck, 30 trapped in the forecastle died, and a further 47 were hospitalised.
Osborne and Armstrong, in "The Clyde at War", 2001, state that a total of 28 died with 7 bodies recovered and buried in Greenock Cemetery, while the remaining fatalities were those trapped in the forecastle.
As regards the cause of the fire, the accepted account describes how a torpedo tube had been turned inwards for maintenance, and a live torpedo accidentally fired inwards and downwards to the heart of the ship. Other accounts state that an accident happened while a live torpedo was being moved, and exploded after being dropped.
In 1954, the wreck of the Maillé Brézé was raised and taken to the Ardmore sandbank. The remains of the crewmen trapped in the forecastle were removed in August 1954 with full naval honours, after which a requiem mass was held in St Lawrence's Church in the east end of Greenock. The remains were then taken to France for burial, and the ship was taken to Smith & Houston's breakers yard in Port Glasgow.
There appears to be some confusion reported regarding the purpose of the Free French Memorial which sits above Greenock on Lyle Hill, and overlooks the Tail of the Bank. This is sometimes either wrongly attributed to the Maillé Brézé, or queried regarding the absence of any reference to the accident on the monument.
It seems that the Free French forces, to which the memorial is dedicated, did not come into being until a few months after the sinking of the destroyer,
There is a memorial to those who died in the sinking of the Maillé Brézé, at Brookwood Military Cemetery, Surrey, England.[1]
1 ⇑ Maille Breze Memorial - WyrdLight Retrieved April 10, 2013.
- A River Runs to War, John D Drummond, 1960.
- The Clyde at War, Brian D Osborne & Ronald Armstrong, 2001.
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It has been a relatively quiet winter for us after what seemed like a crazy, busy, stress-filled Summer and Autumn. I am not even sure I really remember much of it! We raced to get the house ready for the coming Winter, and work suddenly screeched to a halt as our funds dwindled along with our energy and stamina. We have picked up working again and are almost ready to paint the upstairs, but the list of things still to be done is daunting. We are looking toward Spring with a mixture of excitement and dread- excitement for all the things that we want to happen, and dread for the work that it will take to make them happen! We have had a fair amount of time this Winter to reflect on the past year, and it still amazes me that we have gotten this far with our sanity somewhat intact! We try not to dwell too much on what we find ourselves missing- but we are acutely missing our 'family' that we made while in West Virginia. It has been hard here, to carve out a life for ourselves, build a house, and raise two small children without the support of those around us. We feel somewhat isolated and alone, which makes the stress of everything we are doing that much more intense. We take comfort in knowing that when we finally have our home completed, and begin building up our farm, we will have such an amazingly strong and tight-knit family. We also know that once we are back out at our property full-time, we will be able to become more involved in our community. This will help us to begin to build the strong ties that make a place become a home.
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Farming in Laos
Khao niaw, sticky rice. It's the lifeblood of lowland Laos. The Lao phrase "to eat" specifically implies eating glutinous rice. To some, sticky rice is an integral part of national and ethnic identity.
Many Laotian meals are designed around glutinous rice, which is taken with the right hand and formed into little balls for dipping into sauces, salads, soups and stews. Most basic, most pertinent to the Lao table are jaeow—a pounded chile paste with endless varieties of herb and spice combinations—and padaek, fermented fish paste, a staple ingredient of many dishes.
In the highlands, it is mountain rice that sustains the farmers who plant steep slopes in an array of grains, ranging in color from red to brown to purple. Laos maintains one of the world's highest per capita consumption rates of rice: somewhere between 247 pounds and 395 pounds a year, depending on the study and its methodology. More than 70 percent of Laotian families grow their own rice. In Laos, dinner depends on the land close to home.
A market vendor sells fritters in Phonsavanh, Laos.
If you are in New Mexico, please join us Friday for a special celebration of Lao food and farming, hosted by Slow Food Albuquerque. (Click on the link to RSVP.) Festivities begin at 6:30 pm at the Center for Peace and Justice. We'll have sticky rice, jaeow and a spread of Laotian foods for you to try (as well as a very special variety of tea).
Many people ask me how Lao food compares to Thai food, which is better known in this country. It's similar… but not.
Most every Lao meal includes chiles—fresh or pounded, in sauces and pastes.
Lao food is typically less sweet, often spicier, sometimes bitter (bitterness can connote nutritional and health benefits), typically herbal and earthy. Traditional country food is home-grown (or hunted or foraged), hand-picked and freshly prepared. In Laos, a soup or stew will often come with a mound of fresh herbs, as we might see spinach or lettuce piled high in our own kitchens.
Fresh herbs and lime accompany many Lao dishes.
Please come—we'd love to share this food with you. Take a plate, then watch and listen for a while as we give a multimedia presentation on Lao farming and the long-term effects of war on the land. If you've been reading this blog or my other writings for a while, you probably already know the numbers: between 1964 and 1973, in an offshoot of the Vietnam War, US forces flew more than 580,000 bombing missions over Laos. Millions of pounds of bombs were dumped across the country in the equivalent of one bombing raid every eight minutes for nine years. Today, millions of unexploded bombs remain, making farming a risky endeavor.
Perhaps you have already seen one of our slideshow presentations on unexploded bombs in Laos. This will be different—more food photos, more color, more flavor.
We would love to see you on October 17.
A typical Lao assortment: pounded fragrant mushrooms with herbs and chiles, served with cabbage and boiled greens, to be eaten with sticky rice.


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"The Legislative Subcommittee expressed concerns about SB1064, introduced by Sen. Elaine Kontominas Alquist of San Jose. The bill would alter the management structure of CIRM in ways the subcommittee suggested the Senator and her staff did not fully understand. Acknowledging that CIRM is not perfect the committee did not recommend embracing or rejecting the bill, but rather to seek a vote in the legislature to move the bill to 'interim study' to give CIRM staff time to educate members of the legislature and their staffs about the related issues.
"Moving the bill to interim study not only involves allowing CIRM to educate the legislature on our progress but also allows the committee chair to call a hearing after the legislature adjourns to provide substantive oversight to review the progress that CIRM has made on all the issues raised by the Little Hoover Commission and the Controller's Financial Accountability Committee and verify the transparency we all support. In short, we are welcoming legislative oversight and looking forward to the outside scientific review that President Trounson has been putting together for later this year.
"The subcommittee also voted to seek further study of the impact of AB52, introduced by Assemblyman Anthony Portantino of Pasadena. That bill would move from the Department of Public Health to CIRM the previously legislated authority to receive fee surcharges from birth certificates to fund the collection and oversight of public banking of umbilical cord blood in California. This study would be internal with the CIRM Science Office directed to look at issues around the science, logistics, and liabilities of such a service with the help of appropriate outside experts."


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text: On 29/05/2012, at 3:25 AM, Thomas Lindgren wrote: > BEAM docs are not needed to produce a second source implementation, as shown by several examples. (1) People were not asking for BEAM documentation in order to produce a second source implementation. That's a red herring. People ask for BEAM documentation in order to understand and perhaps revise the main implementation. One thing that Open Source is about is about community contributions and it is awfully hard to contribute to something that is under-documented. > > Also, there has so far been little practical interest shown by Erlang users in such a second source. So implementation efforts may be in vain. (3) Again, the red herring. This is *NOT* about second implementations. All of the additional implementations I've ever heard of used their own back end, *not* BEAM, and would *not* have received any great benefit from BEAM being documented. There is detailed documentation available for Lua and Icon and the WAM and several other VMs around, so there's not even any great advantage in learning about VMs from BEAM. > My personal view, at least, is that most of the difficulty in "keeping up with The Real Thing", Erlang/OTP, would be not in reproducing BEAM but in writing a fully compatible implementation tracking the rest of the runtime, ERTS. (2) Well, not _just_ that, but that's a big part of it. > So, is there a _practical_ case for doing these docs? In particular, will the effort result in useful external contributions that outweigh time spent? Not at all clear to me. Bearing in mind that "BEAM documentation" and "second system implementation" are about as irrelevant to each other as any two topics about the same language can be, what _might_ we realistically expect from BEAM documentation? (1) There are now several languages implemented on top of Erlang. Some are interpreted in Erlang, some are compiled to Erlang ASTs, and some are compiled to BEAM. Compiling to the BEAM is *much* harder than it needs to be because of the current undocumentation. This isn't *replacing* Erlang/OTP but *augmenting* it. (2) I've proposed a number of minor but handy extensions to Erlang syntax that lack a reference implementation because I have no idea what the compiler should generate for them; these could use the existing BEAM. (3) There are existing things that could be compiled more efficiently. I'm thinking here in particular of list comprehension. I'm not sure if the improved translation can be done with the existing BEAM or if minor extensions would be needed, because the undocumentation for the BEAM does not make clear any range limits or other restrictions on BEAM instructions. (4) There are even bigger changes, like frames, where even estimating the scope of the changes is hard because of the undocumentation. But above all you are making an assumption which I utterly reject, namely that documentation is a COST and ONLY a cost, that producing documentation provides no DIRECT benefits to the people writing the documentation. On the contrary, - you may find defects as you document - you may be able to structure the documentation so that test cases can automatically be extracted - you may in the very act of explaining a limitation see how it can be overcome - you may be able to extract parts of the implementation automatically from the documentation and I could go on. There's a slogan I learned from a business textbook: find the indispensable man and fire him! There was something I found unsettling: we were told in this thread that there wasn't any need for documentation because the Erlang/OTP maintainers had enough people who _knew_ this stuff. One of my colleagues here was managing a software project once; a key employee went on holiday and was murdered in a far country. A former student of mine was starting up a new company with me as a consultant, and being a worse driver than he thought, drove at speed into a tree. The tree survived. One of my former colleagues, a very intelligent and likable guy, was cycling down a Melbourne street and got knocked over by a hit-and-run driver. The result was head injury and someone who could dress himself but couldn't program if his life depended on it. When I was at Quintus, the founder who wrote the compiler and was the only person who really understood it quit and was never heard from again. Fergus O'Brien supervised an MSc on "Organisational Forgetting" and the fact of organisational forgetting has haunted the fringes of my mind ever since. People die. People get head injuries. People quit. Documents get lost. (If you ever find an architecture- of-the-ICL-2900 manual, I'd like to see it.) Even if things _are_ written down, organisations forget _where_. If they aren't written down, they WILL be forgotten sooner or later. People Well, my colleague Andrew Trotman once had a key employee We > > Hope it helps. > > > Best regards, > Thomas >


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