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Samurai and Other Stories
December 5, 2018 December 11, 2018 ~ marzaat	~ 2 Comments
Review: Samurai and Other Stories, William Meikle, 2018.
Cover by Ben Baldwin
If you're curious about the William Meikle's work and don't mind short fiction, this is a proper introduction to it. You'll find him operating in his usual modes and some new ones I hadn't seen before.
Meikle the Cthulhu Mythos writer has a couple of works that are some of the best in the book.
"The Havenhome" was probably the first Meikle I read when it appeared in High Seas Cthulhu, and it was good enough for me to remember his name. On re-reading it, I was struck by how there are no explicit references to the Mythos in it. In the year 1605, the Havenhome travels to the New World to find a European settlement wiped out, the bodies mysteriously frozen. Staying for the night, they realize something malevolent is at work and not just freak weather. I suppose you could see this as a takeoff on Clark Ashton Smith's "The Coming of the White Worm" or August Derleth's Ithaqua. Meikle often ends his stories with violent action which sometimes breaks up the mood he's established, but here he definitely gets the balance right.
I'd also read "Inquisitor" before in Historical Lovecraft put out by Innsmouth Free Press. In it, a Dominican inquisitor interrogates a shoggoth brought back by Spanish sailors in 1535. But he isn't prepared for the answers he gets. I was happy to revisit this one which I also remembered favorably from before. Continue reading "Samurai and Other Stories" →
"The Red Lodge"
May 2, 2018 May 3, 2018 ~ marzaat	~ 1 Comment
For this week's weird fiction, it's a return to a story I read about eleven years ago.
I remembered the title – just not the details.
Review: "The Red Lodge", H. R. Wakefield, 1928.
Wakefield's story is a haunted house tale. But these aren't the rattling chains sort of ghosts, but, "slimy aqueous evil" as H. P. Lovecraft noted in his Supernatural Horror in Literature.
It's all told in a somewhat jaunty, 1920s style that doesn't manage to convey much menace, and one wonders whether certain passages and references are there to pad out the word count or make some philosophical point lost to me.
Our narrator is a forty-year old artist, successful enough to rent himself a country house, The Red Lodge. With him, he brings his thirty-three year old wife and six-year old son. Continue reading ""The Red Lodge"" →
"The Whisperer in Darkness"
May 26, 2017 May 26, 2017 ~ marzaat	~ 6 Comments
The Lovecraft series continues.
Raw Feed (2005, 2013): "The Whisperer in Darkness", H. P. Lovecraft, 1930.
I recall that Lovecraft scholar S. T. Joshi at one point said this was one of Lovecraft's greatest stories. Upon the second reading, I'm inclined to agree.
It's not only a horror story, but it also has the feeling of a creepy sf story. Lovecraft's Cthulhu stories frequently boosted their verisimilitude with bits of science and history and literature, but Lovecraft is particularly skilled at that here.
He gives us the Outer Ones, an alien race conducting secret mining operations in the Vermont hills (sort of a predecessor to John Keel's Mothman), and he describes their biology as well as motives. They could conquor the Earth if they wanted but aren't about to bother unless we give them trouble. (Narrator Wilmarth and Akeley echo what must have been Lovecraft's disdain for real estate developers when they talk about how the rural hills of Vermont must not be inhabited.) A particularly brilliant move is equating the Outer Ones' home of Yuggoth (a favorite piece of fabulous geography in Lovecraft's oeuvre) with Pluto which was discovered in 1930, the very year this story was written.
Lovecraft talks about how Einstein's contention that faster than light travel is impossible is wrong. Oddly enough, he mentions the Outer Ones as flying through the ether with their wings when, of course, Lovecraft must have been aware that ether was disproved in the famous Michaelson-Morley experiment which laid the groundwork for Einstein's work. Continue reading ""The Whisperer in Darkness"" →
"Pickman's Model"
Raw Feed (2005, 2014): "Pickman's Model", H. P. Lovecraft, 1926.
This is the second time I've read this 1926 story, and I think it's a good, mid-level Lovecraft effort.
It's set in New England, Boston to be specific.
What I found most interesting on rereading this story was the narrator and Pickman's love of the macabre in art which places the very talented Pickman outside the pale as far as the conventional, conservative Boston art community is concerned. One gets the sense that Lovecraft considered the aesthetic of horror seriously, regarded it as a serious and worthy subject of art and disdained the conventional society that probably didn't agree. (It's hard to conclusively. Horror in the pulps was probably not too highly regarded because of its context, but I suspect there were well regarded "mainstream" horror events that society creatures and elite taste setters might have approved of). The taste seems to have extended to the visual arts since he mentions some not only Dore but Goya and also Lovecraft's friend, the visual artist Clark Ashton Smith (who was also a poet and fiction writer). He also mentions a couple of painters I've never heard: Angarola and Sime. [I've since seen some of their work, and Sime illustrated Lord Dunsany, William Hope Hodgson, and Arthur Machen.]
The narrator of the story, mirroring Lovecraft, remarks on the wonder and terror to be found in ancient places. Continue reading ""Pickman's Model"" →
Dreams of Fear
May 8, 2017 May 8, 2017 ~ marzaat	~ Leave a comment
Once upon a time I wouldn't have bothered reviewing a book of poetry.
If it's well-done poetry with elegant and compressed language, the reviewer will either leach the power of the language out by wordy restatements of actual verse or devolve into a technical discussion of interest to poets, maybe, but not necessarily poetry readers.
But I've violated that principle already.
Review: Dreams of Fear: Poetry of Terror and the Supernatural, eds. S. T. Joshi and Steven J. Mariconda, 2013.
First off, some of these poems are about the subject of horror and not horrifying or terrifying
Second, some are little more than memento mori. Well done memento mori but not necessarily terrifying or involving the supernatural.
Third, all the languages represented are, understandably but unfortunately, European. Specifically, Greek, Latin, French, German, and English.
Arranged chronologically by date of the poet's birth, the collection goes back all the way back in the Western literary tradition to Homer, and we get expected excerpts from Shakespeare's Macbeth and Hamlet, Dante's Inferno, and one of the classic bits of supernatural verse – Satan in Hell from Milton's Paradise Lost.
As you would expect, supernatural verse really took off with the Gothic and Romantic Movements with their love of the frission of terror and the sublime and weird ballads. Continue reading "Dreams of Fear" →
The Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith, Volume 5: The Last Hieroglyph
January 11, 2017 December 24, 2017 ~ marzaat	~ 2 Comments
The last of my series on Clark Ashton Smith.
I wrote up a much shorter review, but readers of these CAS postings seem to like the details.
Raw Feed (2010): The Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith, Volume 5: The Last Hieroglyph, eds. Scott Connor and Ron Hilger, 2010.
I heartily endorse this fifth and last volume of the series that collects Smith's fiction and presents it in the order of composition. Fans of Smith and those who have the rest of the series will definitely want it.
Those who are not Smith fans, though, will want to pass this one up. A Rendezvous in Averoigne: The Best Fantastic Tales of Clark Ashton Smith is a better introduction to Smith. This volume covers a much longer period of time than the others in the series. Its first story was finished in May 1933 and its last in July 1961. That period saw some of his best work but also a marked drop in the quantity and quality of his work after February 1935. Perhaps the demands of caring for his aging parents explain this decline or perhaps their death mitigated the need to sell fiction or the escape writing may have offered Smith.
Smith of beautiful, poetic prose is here as are entries in his Hyperborean and Zothique series.
"Introduction", Richard A. Lupoff — Lupoff notes that the three famous writers associated with Weird Tales – Robert E. Howard, H. P. Lovecraft, and Clark Ashton Smith – all led unconventional lives for men of their time. They were all alienated from normal family life and marriage and making a secure living. All turned, out of economic necessity, (I wasn't aware that Howard was also a poet) to writing for Weird Tales. Lupoff notes that, even for the standards of the time, the magazine paid poorly. For Smith, though, however much he chafed at it, it was the most friendly place for his unique stories. Lupoff argues, quoting a letter from Smith to R. H. Barlow, that Smith may have been the most alienated of all. He said of himself that, unlike Lovecraft, he was alienated not only from his time but his space. (This plays in with a notion of Brian Stableford that Smith's highest output in terms of quality and quantity came when he may have most urgently felt the need to escape the demands of supporting and caring for his parents.) Lupoff is certainly right in that one does not read Smith quickly or with distraction but slowly and with attention to the language.
"The Dark Age" — In the story notes, the editors talk of Smith's opinion of the story and quote an essay he did to accompany its publication in Thrilling Wonder Stories. Smith didn't care for it much other than the last paragraph with its swipe at the alleged benefits of science and technology and how man finds happiness without it. In the essay, he talks about how emotion and chance play a large role in history and the difficulty of maintaining science and technology after civilization collapses. The story, which, for Smith, is unusually set in a post-apocalypse setting, violates our expectations. It perhaps would violate fewer expectations at the time of its 1938 publication, but readers have seen many more post-apocalypse stories published since then, and, in its embrace of the notion that a primitive life can be happy and technology is unlikely to be easily restored after civilization's fall, it foreshadows George R. Stewart's Earth Abides about ten years later. The super citadel of Custodians set up, before the fall of civilization via war, doesn't achieve its purpose. Its original eight members can't keep their numbers up due to inbreeding and consequent sterility and their inability, and, later, unwillingness to have anything to do with the barbarian hordes around them. Atullo, for mysterious reasons leaves the Custodians. (At story's end, it's revealed that it was because he had adulterous attentions toward another Custodian's wife.) But he doesn't jump start technology again. As Smith points out, he lacks even the basic tools. Indeed, he spends a lot of his time just trying to mine the necessary metals. He dies without passing much on to his four year old son except an interest in his mysterious books and devices. The son, Torquane, doesn't end up with the young girl Varia after leading his tribe into defending the citadel – its force field no longer maintained because the equipment has finally broken down. Instead, through another case of misunderstanding and prejudice (as Smith has it in his essay), Varia and her father commit suicide when Torquane enters the citadel after defending it with his tribe. Science and technology don't come back. The dark age continues. Smith doesn't detail the problems of re-creating technology as much as he think he does (and the gunpowder bomb Torquane uses seems improbably powerful) but the story, despite what Smith said, is satisfying in its general technological, social, and psychological realism and pessimism.
"The Death of Malygris" — I liked this story even better the second time around. However, I found the ending with the coral viper familiar more ambiguous this time. Is Malygris final act of magic one last trick he plays or is his familiar the one doing the magic? I think the former interpretation is the right one. An excellent story.
"The Tomb-Spawn" — An effective, stylish Zothique tale about how two brothers fulfill the prophecy about how two brothers revive – and destroy (along with themselves) King Ossaru and demon (actually a being from outer space) Nioth Karghai. The plot was nothing special though the style was good.
"The Witchcraft of Ulua" — A story which Smith had some trouble getting placed due to its erotic content. Said content shown in the appendix with the erotic content being a more blatant declaration that Ulua wants to sleep with protagonist Amalzain. Ulua is the daughter of Queen Lunalia and King Famorgh who are also mentioned in another Zothique tale, "The Weaver in the Vaults".) It's amusing and well told, essentially a tale of Amalzain, a youth from the provinces, being warned about the traps of a decadent court.
"The Coming of the White Worm" — Nothing much more to say from the first time I read this fine story.
"The Seven Geases" — My remarks upon first reading this story still stand and are fairly insightful in linking the theme of cosmic indifference exhibited here to H. P. Lovecraft's
"The Chain of Aforgomon" — Upon reading this story the second time around, I was struck by its poetry in describing the longing of wizard Calaspa aka John Milwarp in our time for his dead love and the idea of a natural order violated by his reliving a lost hour from his past.
"The Primal City" — This story – three men tracking clues found in occult texts to a legendary "alien city" built by Earth's "primal inhabitants" and encountering strange, cloud-like beings who kill all but the narrator – strikes me as one of Smith's most Lovecraftian stories, and Lovecraft himself admired it. Smith said the story was based on a dream he had when younger. While the setting – a high mountain desert in South America – is completely different from Lovecraft's "At the Mountains of Madness", it is that Lovecraft story it most reminds me of. However, Lovecraft's tale is longer and filled with the sort of technological and scientific details that Lovecraft threw in not only, I suspect, for verisimilitude but because science and technologically generally interested him more than Smith. Lovecraft, writing this plot, would not only have described the location and geography of the city but also detailed the alien inhabitants and occult volumes that hint at the city's existence. Still, I thought this was an effective, atmospheric effort by Smith.
"Xeethra" — The editors see an autobiographical element in this story of Xeethra, a shepherd boy who, after entering the underground land of the god Thasaidon, develops the belief that he is actually King Ameros of the far off land Calyz. Specifically, they compare him and his feelings of strange exile to Smith, hailed as a young man as the "Boy Keats of the Sierras" (and when he went to San Francisco was one of the few times in his life he left his home of Auburn, California) with the exiled Ameros. The young man journeys far to arrive at Calyz – which turns out to be a dead kingdom whose former capital city is inhabited by lepers. There he makes another sort of bargain with an emissary of Thasaidon: he will relive all his life as a king. He then, back in time, becomes dissatisfied with his lot as king and wishes to be a shepherd again. Realizing he will be happy nowhere, he consents to permanently enter Thasaidon's realm. It is true, as the editors note, that there is a Faustian bargain of sorts in the plot, and it is perhaps possessing an autobiographical element of Smith maybe ruing the life he could have had, but there is also an element of the theme found in Smith stories like "A Star-Change". Here, though, the protagonist is not physically rendered incompatible with his environment, just psychologically and spiritually.
"The Last Hieroglyph" — A fine story about not so competent astrologer Nushain who sees, in some of his old books, evidence of his future fate. There is some wonderful imagery (with moving hieroglyphs) as Nushain, his black servant and dog, are guided through the realms of earth, water, and fire before meeting the god Vergama. The life of men, including Nushain, is compared to figures on a page. When the page is turned, their life is over. So Vergama tells them. The book with the hieroglyphs for the servant, dog, and Nushain is compared to destiny:
"Vainly do men seek to resist or evade that destiny which turns them to ciphers in the end. In my book, O Nushain, there is room even for a bad astrologer."
The three shrink out of existence. (The grotesquery of the large – whether always outsized or becoming outsized during the course of the story – is a common Smith theme – especially in his early stories.) At the end of the story, Nushain is just a hieroglyph on the page Vergama turns. A witty ending which, as usual with Smith being witty, is a puncturing of pretension, a mordant observation on life.
"Necromancy in Naat" — A masterful story, a Zothique tale, from Smith with a sardonic and beautifully worded ending. Yadar, a nomad prince, goes on a quest to find his true love, Dalili, who has been taken by slavers. Eventually, following her trail, he sails on a ship that follows a current, the Black River, to the Isle of Naat also known as the Isle of the Necromancers. After his ship is wrecked, he is saved in the surf by a beautiful woman who turns out to be Dalili. But she doesn't recognize him. Like most of the inhabitants of the island, she is a lich, one of the revived dead, revived by the sorcerer Vacharn and his sons Uldalla and Vokal. Every month a particularly worthy individual is sacrificed to a familiar of Vacharn's after they spend a month in a magically induced state of lassitude. After seeing such a sacrifice, Yadar realizes he's going to be next month's victim so, when Uldalla and Vokal ask him to help them murder their father, he is ready to do so. The act goes horribly awry and is told in a horrifying and slightly farcical way. Yadar is cut down immediately by Vacharn and sees the whole murder while dying. There is much description of Vacharn dancing about with blood gushing from his neck, his head still attached to his body by a narrow strip of flesh. He eventually dies, but his familiar kills Vokal. Yadar becomes another of the island's lichs. Now by himself, Uldalla goes mad and kills himself. After his death, the reanimated dead go about their somnolent return (rather like the lassitude, mechanistic state of Yadar as he waits to be sacrificed. This is another Smith story where the idea, used in his Martian tale "The Vaults of Yoh-Vombis" and other stories where people are under magical compulsion, of mechanistically awaiting your fate is present). Yadar gets a shadow of his desire (evidently, this was not the originally published ending but Smith's preferred one) as the story ends (in perhaps the best story ending of Smith's since "The Uncharted Isle"):
The quick despair that had racked him aforetime, and the long torments of desire and separation, were as things faded and forgot; and he shared with Dalili a shadowy love and a dim contentment.
It is a wonderfully worded, sardonic violation of a reader's hopeful expectations. The editors (with no actual proof for the contention however likely it sounds) suggest the ending is Smith's wry refutation of the end of Andrew Marvell's poem "To His Coy Mistress": "The grave's a fine and private place/But none, I think, do there embrace."
"The Treader of the Dust" — A fine, effective story with its main feature, the "god" Quachil Uttaus aka the Treader of the Dust, being particularly inventive since he brings dusty decay with him. It's the fate of being turned into dust that befalls protagonist John Sebastian after merely reading about Quachil Uttaus in the book of the Necronomicon-type library introduced here: The Testaments of Carnamagos.
"The Black Abbott of Puthuum" — Another good Zothique story that reminded me, with its tale of two warriors being sent on mission by their kind (here to pick up a concubine) and an underground secret. Here the original abbot of Puthuum, Uldor, has been rotting to death for almost a 1,000 years under the monastery – a fate decreed for him by Ujuk, the Black Abbott, who is his offspring by way of a succubus. In a story of sexual predation, it was amusing to see the concubine pick her own mate after the soldiers gambled for her.
"The Death of Ilalotha" — Smith himself referred to this tale, approvingly, as "poisonous" and, indeed, it is in a literal sense. Queen Xantlicha poisons her lover and may have poisoned Ilalotha, former lover of protagonist Thulos, before he took up, under compulsion given her reputation as a poisoner, with the Queen. It is also erotic at beginning and end with Smith's poetic language hinting at erotic debaucheries at Ilalotha's funeral and the ecstasy the dying body of Thulos exhibits when, under magical compulsion, perhaps from kissing the corpse Ilalotha's lips or some other charm of hers,. (Thulos, ), visits her burial. (At one point, Thulos is said to have no interest in love potions and charms apart from the charms already given women by nature.) Xantlicha, after Thulos misses a midnight appointment with her, discovers a hideous, half-woman, half-demon like creature being caressed by the dying Thulos. The Queen is driven mad. This fine story, in the physical description of the graveyard and its cypress trees, has what I take to be a Southern flavor (though, like Smith, I've never visited the Deep South) The opening epigraph, allegedly from an letter to Thasaidon, makes this a Zothique tale. This story also marks the diminishment of Smith's writing. Not in its quality, yet, but in his output. Smith finished it in February 1937, two years after he had finished his last story. The editors quote a letter from Smith to Robert Barlow in which Smith remarks on his dying father and his dolorous and terrible circumstances which make writing hard.
"Mother of Toads" — An erotic horror story, part of Smith's Averoigne series. Basically, an apothecary's apprentice resists the sexual advances of a witch and discovers that she is, as the story indicates, the "mother of toads" with a grotesque conflation of breasts and toad anatomy.
"The Garden of Adompha" — This seems, because of the reference to Thasaidon, another Zothique tale. It features several elements of Smith's best grotesque, decadent tales no matter where they are set: bored King Adompha (rather like the titular sorcerer of his "The Maze of Maal Dweb") has lovers and courtiers who annoy or bore him furnish some of their body parts, on their murder, to the very-Smith human-plant hybrids that furnish his garden. (Maal Dweb turned people into statues.) Said plants, that feature the breasts and other parts of old lovers, are described in erotic terms. Eventually, the king murders the sorcerer Dwerulas who has been the one to actually create this fantastical garden and the only one to know about it other than the king. Eventually, he wonders into the garden and is attacked by the human-plant hybrids (led by Dwerulas) made from the parts of those determined to have their revenge on the king.
"The Great God Awto" — Smith in his satirical mode, specifically against the automobile. (This story was written in 1937, so it is after the 1928 publication date of David H. Keller's "The Revolt of the Pedestrians".) This is one of that sub-genre of stories where future archaeologists completely misunderstand contemporary society. (It's a sub-genre that, in some ways, goes back to Edgar Poe's "Mellonta Tauta" though, strictly speaking, that story does not feature archaeologists since the discipline was still in its infancy.) Here a professor of "Hammuriquanean Arechaeology" postulates that we Americans worshiped the great god Awto ("an abstract principle of death and destruction") as evidenced by temples ("grahages"), priests ("mekniks" – the best bit of the story is the mention made of several mummified remains in "sacerdotal raiment blackened by the sacred oil", and sacrificial victims (auto accident victims). The story ends on a note of punctured modern smugness when the professor is killed in a "stratosphere ship" accident.
"Strange Shadows" — The editors speculate that Smith wrote this story for Unknown magazine. (It was never published in his lifetime.) It concerns a businessman who suddenly gets the ability to see strange shadows cast by people and animals. Those cast by people are often bestial, never complimentary. Those cast by animals are often like people. The shadows (the protagonist's shadow is rather like a satyr or gargoyle in appearance) reveal true natures, hidden events (the affair the protagonist's secretary and business partner are conducting with each other), and prophesy hidden events such as the protagonist's girlfriend cheating on him or the embezzlement of his business partner and secretary. Ironically, at story's end, the knowledge doesn't do him a bit of good. In an alternate version published in the appendix, the embezzlement is thwarted by the protagonist's shadow killing his partner and becoming a "black and bestial doppleganger".
"The Enchantress of Sylaire" — Smith's last Averoigne tale. In it, Anselme, a man who has lived as a hermit for thirteen months after being snubbed by Dorothée, encounters Séphora, an enchantress of strange realm. However, Anselme is warned that by one of her ex-lovers, now a werewolf, that Séphora's true form is hideous. He is given a magic mirror to see that true form. While he hands it to Dorothée so she can see some unpleasant truth about herself, he refuses to view Séphora with it, saying "I am content with what my eyes tell me … ". This theme of deception, especially self-deception, as a basis of romantic coupling and staying together is typical of Smith, especially the end of his "The White Sibyl".
"Double Cosmos" — Another one of his not entirely successful sf tales which involves a wonderous drug. Here a man gets involved with his double in a twin dimension. Eventually, he communicates mentally with his double who tells the narrator that his is the superior mind because he inhabits one more dimension. He will commit a series of acts which compel the narrator's death. However, this other being says that he can go in and out of a vacuum dimension where the laws linking the events in the two beings' lives are inoperable. One being, in our world, the narrator, will die. The other, now forever free from the twin life which will compel his death, plans on immortality. However, this scheme is in doubt (and the story ends without a resolution – Smith never published it in his lifetime) since this extra power, supposedly derived from existence with a higher dimension than our world, may be leaking into the narrator who might be able to turn the tables.
"Nemesis of the Unfinished" — Though it only says it in the editors' notes, this is the only case of Smith collaborating with someone on a story – his neighbor Don Carter. It seems that the idea and setting for this story – a pulp writer's cabin filled with unfinished manuscripts – was inspired by Smith's cabin. Rather like the fairy tale "The Tinker and the Elves", the pulp writer awakes one night and hears strange voices. The next morning he comes across well written, finished manuscripts. However, the style doesn't match his and the stories are poetic jewels of triumphant evil. At story's end, the writer feels strange powers and is attacked by the manuscripts and found dead under them. It was a bit of a jokey story.
"The Master of the Crabs" — Zothique story about two competing sorcerers going on a hunt for a pirate's treasure. The story ends on a grim joke as the crippled sorcerer Sarcand thinks to use his magical mastery of the crabs to survive while his leg mends. They will kill the narrator and his master, another magician. In a straightforward response, he is not defeated by magic but by a well thrown knife. Shorn of his hand and its magical ring, he no longer controls the crabs who kill and eat him. The story ends on a morbid joke when the victorious sorcerer tells his servant to prepare some crabs – but make sure they are fresh from the sea and haven't fed on his competitor. The editors' notes remark that this story has the distinction of making a slight contribution to Wiccanism. Its founder, Gerald Gardner, took the name of the sacred daggers in Wiccan ceremonies – athame – from the knives the narrator and his master use – described as arthame (for some reason Gardner dropped the "r") – in this story.
"Morthylla" — Another lamia story from Smith, this time part of the Zothique series. It's also another repetition of Smith's theme that "in all love there is more or less deception". Valzain, a famous poet suffering from ennui from his many debaucheries, is interested in the legend of the lamia Morthylla. He goes to a graveyard she is said to frequent, and he meets Morthylla there. The two rapidly fall in love though their love can not be consummated says the lammia. However, Morthylla turns out to be a woman of many lovers. Another woman, Beldith, seeking solitude from "carnal pleasures" in the cemetery – recognizes the poet and decides to impersonate Morthylla. When Valzain finds out, he is crushed, eventually kills himself, and returns as a spectre (who has forgotten he has died) to the cemetery where he meets the real Morthylla.
"Schizoid Creator" — Smith's satire on Freudianism. A crazy psychoanalyst stumbles on the truth – Satan and God are simply personalities of the same entity.
"Monsters in the Night" — Short, about 1,100 words according to the notes, story with a central gimmick what at first seems a werewolf attacking a human turns out to be a futuristic tale of a werewolf attacking a robot. This one does not have Smith's poetic language. Written for the Anthony Boucher edited Fantasy & Science Fiction, (Boucher was an admirer of Smith's best, poetic stuff but told him the market had changed and readers no longer liked it), this is evidently one of Smith's most anthologized stories. It was written in 1953.
"Phoenix" — No new reactions upon reading this story the second time.
"The Theft of the Thirty-Nine Girdles" — This is Smith's last Hyperborean story. It features Satampra Zeiros of Smith's earlier story "The Tale of Satampra Zeiros" – where he loses a hand to the Smithian addition to the Cthulhu Mythos – Tsathoggua. (I didn't detect any reference to him only being one-handed here, but Smith was never all that concerned with internal chronology – especially in two stories written so far apart. Essentially, this is a slightly humorous heist story where Zeiros is double-crossed by one of his confederates. Because it didn't have any fantastical elements, it was not published in Smith's lifetime.
"Symposium of the Gorgon" — Anthony Boucher rejected this story for Fantasy & Science Fiction. He considered it too divorced from reality for his readers – evidently they liked their stories to have some tie to their world. It's sort of a joke story – the narrator is unaccountably transported to a world of Greek mythological figures. He meets Medusa and is transformed partly by her gaze. He then ends up on a modern island of cannibals where, due to the immunity Medusa's changes have wrought on him, he is a god.
"The Dart of Rasasfa" — This is the last story Smith wrote, finished in July 1961. And, as the editors note, it's not very good though Smith may have conceived it as a satire on a type of story. Essentially, it trivializes the notion of space travel and makes it seem as routine as an auto trip with repairs easily done as well. A couple have a broken down spaceship that forces them on to a planet where they encounter hostile natives who they escape from and continue on their way. It was rejected by an editor on August 15, 1961 – the day after Smith died.
The Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith, Volume 4: The Maze of the Enchanter
The Clark Ashton Smith series continues with an actual retro review from 2010.
Sorry, I made no real notes on volume 3.
Review: The Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith, Volume 4: The Maze of the Enchanter, eds. Scott Connors and Ron Hilger, 2009.
Clark Ashton Smith is undergoing something of a revival these days. As well as an amateur artist who even illustrated some of his stories for Weird Tales, he was also a superb poet of the fantastic. (The Last Oblivion: Best Fantastic Poetry of Clark Ashton Smith is an affordable, excellent introduction to that side of his talent.) [Or you can just go the site with all things CAS: The Eldritch Dark.]
And, of course, there are the stories. Smith was not as good a writer as poet, but he could still be very good. This series collects his stories in the order Smith wrote them with the editors working very hard to present Smith's preferred versions and alternate versions as well as Smith's opinion of those stories as well as that of his famous friends, H. P. Lovecraft and August Derleth. This volume's stories were written in 1932 and 1933 and have Smith working in the many universes he had already established or writing sequels to his popular past stories. In all cases, the stories stand alone even when part of a series.
Smith's greatest and most influential creation, the decadent, magical, grotesque far future of Zothique, Earth's last continent, is the setting for many stories here. Showing the influence of Smith's idol Edgar Poe at several points, "The Isle of the Torturers" has a king and fellow sparse survivors of a plague ending up on said island, a place given to the sadistic pleasure of all kinds of torture. "The Charnel God" has a young nobleman braving the temple of Mordiggian to rescue his dead wife from its priests. (She only seems dead, more shades of Poe.) "The Dark Eidolon" is Smith at the top of his form with a sorcerer determined to avenge an injury he suffered, when still a beggar boy and not Zothique's most feared man, at the hands of a future emperor. And there's a god who has his own ideas of justice. A poetic, dark tale of two unpleasant men marred only by a misstep in final imagery. "The Voyage of King Euvoran", obsessively undertaken to recover a royal symbol and right a slight, ends up in a satisfying, wry conclusion. "The Weaver in the Vaults" has three soldiers sent on a mission to recover a royal mummy so it can be ground up for magical potions. They encounter a strange, vampiric creature underneath a city "where Death has made his capital". Continue reading "The Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith, Volume 4: The Maze of the Enchanter" →


My wife had a 2007 Honda Fit with 250,000 miles. Around this time, her car started to develop an idle stutter.
It seemed that one or two cylinders would miss a beat at idle, while stopped at a stop light. It did not matter whether the car was cold or warmed up. It seemed to get worse with the AC on, and was steadily getting worse over time.
My wife and I looked at numerous on-line forums, looking for any information we could find regarding the idle stumble.
My wife and I decided to replace all four coil-overs at this point for $170.
The car stumbled at idle. First thought was a lack of fuel because poor ignition can cause a mis-fire at higher throttle setting/engine loads, not at idle as we see here, thus I was thinking poor fuel control.
The injectors could not be heavily plugged because the car accelerated fine on the interstate ramps.
However, getting access to injectors required disassembly of quite a bit of hardware to get access to them. This made it an easier choice to instead get new ignition coils.
Putting new coils on the car *did* fix the idle stutter.
Two of the old coil packs had a discoloration of the rubber section (center). I cut one of these coils apart to examine what it looks like inside.
It may be hard to see in this picture, but the center rubber portion used to be gray in color, and turned into a greenish tint. Just my opinion, but I wonder if heat from the poor internal connections caused the rubber to heat up and discolor?
Here is the same coil pack with the rubber connector rotated, to allow visibility inside.
As one can see from the picture below, the coil pack has three main components. The white piece looks to me like a ceramic resistor, but I did not bother testing this component.
Here is a picture looking inside the connector end of the coil pack. Notice how "dry" this metal surface looks. It is apparent that there is some type of build-up, which could reduce electrical contact.
One can see a build-up of residue on the left side of the spring (and resistor), which comes in contact with the coil contactor point.
If one can get the rubber connector off of the coil pack, then these various electrical contact points can be cleaned and/or "oiled" to maintain a clean contact point in the future. Similarly, I provide routine maintenance on the battery terminals in the car with a small spray of WD-40, and have never seen the accumulation of white powder on the battery terminals.
My hope is that this posting will help those who have an idle stutter to, diagnose the problem and fix it, by taking apart their coil-overs and making the necessary repairs. This will save large amounts of cash in the process, by not having to replace expensive coils.
I also hope that this coil dissection post will become a focal point in web searches, to help others that have some sort of idle stumble, and a possible way to fix it.
Right after we replaced the coil-overs, something in the transmission broke, leaving us stranded for a short time. If you have a Honda Fit with this many miles, you may want to start looking for a replacement. The car had been super-reliable up to this point, and I feel like we got our money's worth from it. By the way, the engine still started and ran great, with no burning of oil, using oil, leaking oil, etc.
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Yeah, bad coils are a known first-gen problem.
Had to do the ones in my wife's 07 at ~120k miles.
Then she had bad stumbling at idle to the point of dying at around 175k, the EGR wasn't fully closing. A new one for $75 and she was off and running again.
As samwichse says, it's one of the only issues the first gen Fit is known to have. At least they're not terribly expensive.
I fixed a 2007 Fit with a cold stalling issue. Badly in need of a valve adjustment! The coils were relatively new, so I didn't suspect them.
I forgot to mention above in the original post, that I adjusted the valves, and did not make any difference regarding the idle stumble.


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Q: How do I add more model predictions after using gather_predictions()? I used gather_predictions() to add several predictions to my data frame. Later on, perhaps after doing some visualizations, I want to add a new model's predictions. I can't seem to figure out how to do this.
I tried using add_predictions() and gather_predictions() but they added entirely new columns when I just want to add additional rows.
library(tidyverse)
library(modelr)

#The 3 original models
mdisp = lm(mpg ~ disp, mtcars)
mcyl = lm(mpg ~ cyl, mtcars)
mhp = lm(mpg ~ hp, mtcars)

#I added them to the data frame.
mtcars_pred <- mtcars %>%
  gather_predictions(mdisp, mcyl, mhp)

#New model I want to add.
m_all <- lm(mpg ~ hp + cyl + disp, mtcars)

A: It seems like there are two options.
1: Restructure your code so that gather_predictions() is used at the end
library(tidyverse)
library(modelr)

#The 3 original models
   mdisp <- lm(mpg ~ disp, mtcars)
   mcyl <- lm(mpg ~ cyl, mtcars)
   mhp <- lm(mpg ~ hp, mtcars)

# New model
   m_all <- lm(mpg ~ hp + cyl + disp, mtcars)

# Gather predictions for all four models at the same time
   mtcars_pred <- mtcars %>%
     gather_predictions(mdisp, mcyl, mhp, m_all)

2: Use bind_rows() plus another call to gather_predictions()
library(tidyverse)
library(modelr)

#The 3 original models
  mdisp <- lm(mpg ~ disp, mtcars)
  mcyl <- lm(mpg ~ cyl, mtcars)
  mhp <- lm(mpg ~ hp, mtcars)

# Get predictions from the first three models
  mtcars_pred <- mtcars %>%
    gather_predictions(mdisp, mcyl, mhp)

# New model
  m_all <- lm(mpg ~ hp + cyl + disp, mtcars)

# Get the new model's predictions and append them
  mtcars_pred <- bind_rows(mtcars_pred,
                           gather_predictions(data = mtcars,
                                              m_all))

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Mutual of America Honors CDLRE with National Community Partnership Award
The WCS Center for Driver's License Recovery and Employability (CDLRE) was honored to be one of three programs across the country that was recognized by Mutual of America (MOA) with a 2019 Community Partnership Award. On November 13th, a delegation from Milwaukee representing Legal Action of Wisconsin (LAW), the City of Milwaukee, Milwaukee Area Technical College (MATC) and Wisconsin Community Services, Inc. (WCS) was in New York City to accept the award which recognizes excellent partnerships between non-profit organizations and public, private and other social sector organizations. Since its inception in 1996, the MOA Community Partnership Award has recognized 240 partnerships from cities and towns across the United States.
The other two national award winners were the Mobil Dental Unit program, operated by the West Virginia Health Right, Inc., and the Survivor Advocate Program, based in Los Angeles. As part of the Community Partnership Award, WCS received a program grant of $25,000. MOA will host a Hometown Luncheon in Milwaukee on March 19th, the event will recognize the significant accomplishments of CDLRE and the ongoing work of staff and partners.
For more information on this exciting award, CLICK HERE to visit MOA's website!
From left to right; Thomas Gilliam, Executive Vice President and CEO of the Mutual of America Foundation; Clarence Johnson, WCS Executive Director; LaDoverick Huggins, Senior Field Vice President of Special Markets, Mutual of America; John R. Greed, President and CEO of Mutual of America

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Wages, profits & investment In Greece
June 26, 2015 Socialist Economic Bulletin Uncategorized
Wages, profits & investment In GreeceBy Michael Burke
The IMF has placed a road-block in the way of a deal with the Greek government and it remains unclear whether any agreement can be reached. The prior agreement which the IMF rejected was itself already very onerous. But the IMF wants to shift the burden of paying for the crisis away from taxes on business and the better-paid towards more cuts in social protection. This is an insupportable burden as net median household incomes are already below €8,000 a year. Many multi-member households without work subsist solely on state and public sector pensions.
The IMF argues that taxes on business will hamper growth, as business profits are needed to fund investment. This argument is an important one and should be addressed. It can be demonstrated that it is false argument. In demonstrating that, it is also possible to identify a way out of the crisis.
In general, in a commodity producing economy profits are the decisive factor in determining the rate of growth. In a capitalist economy it is the profits of the private sector which predominantly fund the accumulation of productive capital via investment.
But if profits alone were sufficient, then there would no crisis at all in Greece. Greece has the highest profit share (profits as a proportion of national income) in the whole of the OECD. The Greek profit share was 52.4% in the most recent data. This is substantially greater than many other countries in the OECD and as a consequence the labour share of national income is also the lowest in the OECD.
Table 1 below shows the profit share and the wage share in selected OECD countries. In effect, the IMF prescription is that those who are least able to pay should bear the burden of the crisis.
Table 1 Profit Share & Wage Share of National income in Selected OECD Economies
Source: OECD, based on Gross Operating Surplus &
Compensation of Employees as a proportion of GDP, data for Q1 2015.
Does not sum to 100% because taxes on production omitted
It should be noted that the crisis countries of the EU in general have the higher levels of profit share but Greece leads the pack. The trends in Greek profits and wages are shown in Fig. 1 below.
Fig.1 Greek profits and wages
There are already ample funds in Greece for productive investment in the form of the profit share of the business sector. The crucial point- and the driving force behind both the structural and cyclical crises of the Greek economy- is that Greek businesses are not investing, but are hoarding capital instead.
Providing businesses with a shield against austerity while cutting social protection will not provide the investment needed. This is because Greek businesses are unwilling to invest. The level of profits in Greece and the level of investment (Gross Fixed Capital Formation, GFCF) are shown in Fig.2 below, as well as the gap between the two.
Fig.2 Greek Profits and GFCF
In the most recent full year the nominal level of Greek profits was €95bn while the level of GFCF for the whole economy (including government and households) was just under €21bn. It is this level of uninvested profits which is the main cause of the crisis in Greece.
Table 2 below compares the profit share and the rate of investment. Using OECD data it is also possible to show what proportion of that investment is actually made by the business sector itself.
Table 2 Profit Share, Investment Share & Uninvested Profits Share of National income
In Selected OECD Economies
Source: OECD, * Most recent year 2013 or 2014
There are of course many other calls on the Gross Operating Surplus other than investment, such as taxes and social contributions, but in the case of Greece all these taken together amount to no more than 5.8% of national income. The net savings of the business sector are far larger, at 9.2% of national income, along with another 2.9% distributed to shareholders.
In a certain sense the situation in Greece is just an extreme case of the general trend in the Western economies, where the profit share has been rising and yet the investment share has been falling. It is the extremely high level of uninvested profits which is the cause of the crisis. There is nothing to prevent the business sector investing all of its profits and more, via borrowing. This frequently occurs in economies where growth is strong. But in the OECD as a whole the business sector is hoarding capital. Greece is an extreme case because this has been the case over decades, and deteriorated further during the crisis.
These savings are not being held in Greek banks, which is a factor contributing to their precarious state. Bank of Greece data show that deposits by Greek firms fell by €8bn (equivalent to 4.5% of GDP) in the year to April 2015 even though both profits and savings were substantial. This amounts to looting the country; extremely high rates of exploitation combined with minimal investment and spiriting away the resulting savings and shareholder dividends to overseas banks.
It is precisely these idle resources of the business sector, especially the Greek oligarchs which should be tapped. This is not simply to shield workers and the poor from further austerity, as important as that is. But these idle resources could be deployed to fund an investment-led recovery that would regenerate the economy. It is precisely taxes and levies on the business sector which are required, and perhaps stronger measures such as nationalisation, in order to tap these resources. They are also the measures that provoke the fierce hostility of the international institutions led by the IMF.
The argument that this will curb the investment of the business sector does not stand up. Despite claiming 52.4% of national income the business sector's investment is equivalent to just 4.4%. The bulk of investment in the Greek economy comes from households, mainly on house building and repair. Business investment is just a fraction of the level of uninvested and profits and savings. This remains the source of the Greek crisis, which cannot be resolved without state-led investment.
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The magazine will relaunch in March 2016 with a new look to match its new editorial strategy – more long-form articles and closer ties with its online channels.
VICE will relaunch its print magazine next year as part of what it is calling "the first holistic global redesign of Vice's flagship product" since the magazine began in 1994.
VICE magazine editor in chief Ellis Jones is leading the redesign and is understood to be working with an in-house team and consultants Inkubator.
Inkubator has worked on VICE's art direction and print layout for many years and is now working with VICE's executive design director Matt Schoen alongside an editorial team led by Jones.
The redesigned magazine will accommodate a new editorial direction which includes long-form print reporting and more first-person articles on topics ignored by mainstream media.
VICE says coverage featured in the redesign will remain varied to reflect its international audience and is set to include everything from news reports by VICE's reporters stationed abroad to "mainstay music culture" features.
The magazine relaunches in March 2016 and will aim to build a closer link to VICE'S 11 digital channels, where the likes of music, fashion and food are covered.
VICE, which has been running for 21 years, began as an independent magazine in Montreal and now operates from 30 countries. Today it is published by Vice Media, which is partly owned by 21st Century Fox.


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Washington Supreme Court strikes down state's death penalty
By Pete Williams with NBC News U.S. News • Updated: 12/10/2018
Justices on the Washington state Supreme Court listen during a hearing in Olympia, Washington on Sept. 7, 2016. - Copyright Ted S. Warren AP file
Washington became the 20th state to do away with the death penalty, when the state's supreme court ruled Thursday that the way the punishment is carried out violates the state constitution.
The court ruled that the death penalty is applied unequally, depending on where the crime took place, the race of the defendant, and the budget available to county prosecutors at any given time.
"The death penalty, as administered in our state, fails to serve any legitimate penological goal," the court said.
Governor Jay Inslee praised Thursday's decision. "This is a hugely important moment in our pursuit for equal and fair application of justice." He imposed a moratorium on capital punishment in 2014, concluding that it was not uniformly applied and was unnecessary given the option of seeking a sentence of life without parole.
Thursday's ruling came in the case of Allen Eugene Gregory, who was convicted of raping and murdering a woman in 1996. The court did not overturn his murder conviction, but his death sentence and those of seven others on Washington's death row were converted to life sentences by the court's action.
Washington has carried out five executions since 1976, when the US Supreme Court struck down the death penalty nationwide then allowed states to reimpose it under revised trial procedures.
After peaking in 1999, the number of executions carried out nationwide has steadily dropped, partly as a result of the concern about wrongful convictions prompted by the progress in using DNA evidence.
Executions and the imposition of new death sentences remained near historically low levels in 2017, and public support for the death penalty fell to its lowest point in 45 years.
The ACLU had urged the Washington court to strike down capital punishment. "There is nothing unique about the role racism played in Washington's death penalty. What is rare is the supreme court's willingness to call out the truth that has always been there," said Jeff Robinson, an ACLU attorney.


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"""Include functions used in command bin/bmlingam-coeff.
"""
# Author: Taku Yoshioka
# License: MIT

from argparse import ArgumentParser
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np

from bmlingam import load_pklz, MCMCParams, infer_coef_posterior

def parse_args_bmlingam_coeff(args=None):
    parser = ArgumentParser()

    # Positional arguments
    parser.add_argument('optmodel_file', type=str,
                        help='Optimal model file.')

    # Positional arguments
    parser.add_argument('--plot_figure',
                        dest='is_plot_figure', action='store_true',
                        help="""If this option is choosen,
                                a plot of the posterior samples
                                will be plotted.""")
    parser.add_argument('--no_plot_figure',
                        dest='is_plot_figure', action='store_false',
                        help="""If this option is choosen (default),
                                a plot of the posterior samples
                                will not be plotted.""")
    parser.set_defaults(is_plot_figure=False)

    parser.add_argument('--save_figure',
                        dest='is_save_figure', action='store_true',
                        help="""If this option is choosen (default),
                                a plot of the posterior samples
                                will be saved into a file.""")
    parser.add_argument('--no_save_figure',
                        dest='is_save_figure', action='store_false',
                        help="""If this option is choosen,
                                a plot of the posterior samples
                                will not be saved.""")
    parser.set_defaults(is_save_figure=True)

    parser.add_argument('--save_posterior',
                        dest='is_save_posterior', action='store_true',
                        help="""If this option is choosen (default),
                                the posterior samples
                                will be saved into a file.""")
    parser.add_argument('--no_save_posterior',
                        dest='is_save_posterior', action='store_false',
                        help="""If this option is choosen,
                                the posterior samples
                                will not be saved.""")
    parser.set_defaults(is_save_posterior=True)

    parser.add_argument('--figtype',
                        dest='fig_ext', type=str,
                        choices=['pdf', 'png'],
                        help="""Figure file type (pdf or png).
                                Default is png. """)
    parser.set_defaults(fig_ext='png')

    # Get default setting
    default = MCMCParams()

    parser.add_argument('--n_mcmc_samples',
                        default=default.n_mcmc_samples, type=int,
                        help="""The number of MCMC samples (after burn-in).
                                Default is {}.
                            """.format(default.n_mcmc_samples))

    parser.add_argument('--n_burn',
                        default=default.n_burn, type=int,
                        help="""The number of burn-in samples in MCMC.
                                Default is {}.
                            """.format(default.n_burn))

    parser.add_argument('--seed',
                        default=default.seed, type=int,
                        help="""Specify the seed of random number generator used in
                                posterior sampling by MCMC. Default is {}.
                            """.format(default.seed))

    parser.add_argument('--seed_burn',
                        default=default.seed_burn, type=int,
                        help="""Specify the seed of random number generator used in
                                the burn-in period of posterior sampling.
                                Default is {}.
                            """.format(default.seed_burn))

    args_ = parser.parse_args(args)

    params = {
        'optmodel_file': args_.optmodel_file,
        'mcmc_params': MCMCParams(
            n_mcmc_samples=args_.n_mcmc_samples,
            n_burn=args_.n_burn,
            seed=args_.seed,
            seed_burn=args_.seed_burn,
        ),
        'is_plot_figure': args_.is_plot_figure,
        'is_save_figure': args_.is_save_figure,
        'is_save_posterior': args_.is_save_posterior,
        'fig_ext': ('.' + args_.fig_ext)
    }

    return params

def bmlingam_coeff(
    optmodel_file, mcmc_params, is_plot_figure, is_save_figure,
    is_save_posterior, fig_ext):
    """Estimate posterior distribution of regression coefficient.

    The bmlingam model is specified with optmodel_file.
    """
    # Load optimal model info
    print(optmodel_file)
    optmodel = load_pklz(optmodel_file)
    xs = optmodel['xs']
    hparams = optmodel['hparams']
    causality_str = optmodel['causality_str']
    varnames = [optmodel['x1_name'], optmodel['x2_name']]

    # Plot parameters
    plot_figure = is_plot_figure or is_save_figure
    show_plot = is_plot_figure

    # Infer posterior
    trace = infer_coef_posterior(xs, hparams, mcmc_params, varnames,
                                 causality_str, 1, plot_figure, show_plot)

    # Save plot
    if is_save_figure:
        fig_file = optmodel_file.replace('.pklz', fig_ext)
        plt.savefig(fig_file)
        print('A figure of the distribution of the posterior samples' +
              'was saved as %s.' % fig_file)

    # Save posterior samples (MCMC trace)
    if is_save_posterior:
        csv_file = optmodel_file.replace('.pklz', '.post.csv')
        np.savetxt(csv_file, trace, delimiter=',')
        print('Posterior samples was saved as %s.' % csv_file)

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Q: read multiple txt files python I have 6000 txt files to read in python. I am trying to read but all txt files are line by line.
Subject: key dates and impact of upcoming sap implementation
over the next few weeks , project apollo and beyond will conduct its final sap
implementation  ) this implementation will impact approximately 12 , 000 new
users plus all existing system users . sap brings a new dynamic to enron ,
enhancing the timely flow and sharing of specific project , human resources ,
procurement , and financial information across business units and across
continents .
this final implementation will retire multiple , disparate systems and replace
them with a common , integrated system encompassing many processes including
payroll , timekeeping ...

So python seperate it to rows when I read files one by one(I know thats ridiculos). In the end, 1 mail dividing multiple rows. I have tried read_csv all txt files but python give error that ValueError: stat: path too long for Windows . I don't know what should I do from now.
I tried this:
import glob
import errno
path =r'C:\Users\frknk\OneDrive\Masaüstü\enron6\emails\*.txt'
files = glob.glob(path)
for name in files:
    try:
        with open(name) as f:
            for line in f:
                print(line.split())
    except IOError as exc:
        if exc.errno != errno.EISDIR:
            raise

['Subject:', 'key', 'dates', 'and', 'impact', 'of', 'upcoming', 'sap', 'implementation']
['over', 'the', 'next', 'few', 'weeks', ',', 'project', 'apollo', 'and', 'beyond', 'will', 'conduct', 'its', 'final', 'sap']

I need this email by email but it seperated line by line. So what I want is each row represented by one email.

A: You can read the whole text file into a variable and later manipulate however you want. Just replace for line in f with data=f.read().So, below I read each txt file into data variable and later I split to get words separated by " ". Hope this helps.
for name in files:
    try:
        with open(name) as f:
            data = f.read().replace("\n","")
        print(data.split())
    except IOError as exc:
        if exc.errno != errno.EISDIR:
            raise

Output would look like this:
['Subject:', 'key', 'dates', 'and', 'impact', 'of', 'upcoming', 'sap', 'implementationover', 'the', 'next', 'few', 'weeks', ',', 'project', 'apollo', 'and', 'beyond', 'will', 'conduct', 'its', 'final', 'sapimplementation', ')', 'this', 'implementation', 'will', 'impact', 'approximately', '12', ',', '000', 'newusers', 'plus', 'all', 'existing', 'system', 'users', '.', 'sap', 'brings', 'a', 'new', 'dynamic', 'to', 'enron', ',enhancing', 'the', 'timely', 'flow', 'and', 'sharing', 'of', 'specific', 'project', ',', 'human', 'resources', ',procurement', ',', 'and', 'financial', 'information', 'across', 'business', 'units', 'and', 'acrosscontinents', '.this', 'final', 'implementation', 'will', 'retire', 'multiple', ',', 'disparate', 'systems', 'and', 'replacethem', 'with', 'a', 'common', ',', 'integrated', 'system', 'encompassing', 'many', 'processes', 'includingpayroll', ',', 'timekeeping', '...']```


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Virginia Political Blogs
January 5, 2014 January 5, 2014 ~ R. Stanton Scott
Over at Bearing Drift a few weeks ago Shaun Kenney said this about MSNBC:
"Let's be very honest about it. MSNBC caters to probably the most hateful, unintelligent, mean-spirited, and closed minded of the American left. The smugness and arrogance of the blathering idiots are perhaps only punctuated by the occasional bright light offered by Rachel Maddow, but beyond this are nothing but the vapid darkness of a fanatic who won't change their mind and rarely changes the subject."
"They really do hate us," says Mr. Kenney (emphasis in the original), and it's this hate that irks conservatives. This makes MSNBC a "perfect caricature of what liberals think Fox News must be" (emphasis again from the original).
Mr. Kenney goes on to quote Paul Spiliakos of First Things to make a case that Keith Olberman created the demagoguery at the network, and Charles C. W. Cooke at National Review Online to argue that MSNBC reflects "current events in parallel America II — a rather silly place in which the political center of gravity and all things Good are defined by the preferences of the faculty at Berkeley and the comments section of the Daily Kos and in which anyone who dissents from this position is believed to possess two heads, a black heart, and a pocket copy of Mein Kampf."
Now I watch a lot of cable news, and there can be no doubt that MSNBC leans left. It should surprise no one that at least one of the three major cable news networks tried to capture the left end of the political news market after Fox grabbed the right. But MSNBC broadcasts Morning Joe's beltway insiderism, and while discussions there are certainly vapid enough, they don't express hate for conservatives. There is no equivalent program at FNC.
I would also suggest that liberal viewers watching FNC get their share of vitriol and hate, but of course your mileage may vary.
And while Ed Shultz and Al Sharpton can demagogue right along with the best Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly have to offer, MSNBC hosts like Steve Kornacki, Chris Hayes, and Melissa Harris-Perry manage to present very insightful public policy discussions. They certainly approach this from a liberal perspective, but they invite genuine alternative viewpoints to the roundtables on their shows, something Fox hosts rarely, if ever, do. In any event, I would invite readers to watch video from both MSNBC and Fox News and then come to their own conclusions.
More interesting for my purposes here is that Mr. Kenney goes on to ask:
"…whether or not American public discourse deserves better. Even more than that, where would we even find this sort of intellectual give-and-take on the mainstream left nowadays when everything outside of the pale of acceptable nee leftist opinion is considered either reactionary or borderline fascism?"
The he suggests we "Look around the Virginia blogosphere" and wonders "Where is the left-wing equivalent of Bearing Drift?"
It seems to me that Blue Virginia provides an intellectual counterpart for Bearing Drift. Both offer an interesting mix of Virginia political analysis and strident partisan attacks, as a quick look at each home page right now shows. Mr. Kenney might also want to take a look at The Richmonder and Not Larry Sabato (the latter especially for some very solid electoral analysis from a Democratic Party perspective).
And if Mr. Kenney is worried about the state of public discourse he may want to take a look at some of the blogs on the conservative side. I met with more hate and vitriol in two comment threads at novatownhall in recent days than MSNBC produces.
Anyway, I plan to see if I can supply some of the "intellectual give and take" Mr. Kenney seeks. We'll see if the folks at Bearing Drift and other conservative blogs in Virginia can respond in kind.
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Free Speech and Online Abuse: Why the Uproar?
CPS have announced new guidance aimed at bringing in more prosecutions for those that break online hate speech - but why is this controversial?
By Dan Schmeising -
Writing in the Guardian, Director of Public Prosecutions Alison Saunders announced that the Crown Prosecution Service would be doubling down on its fight against online abuse. The updated guidance, readable here, makes specific reference to hate speech directed at bisexual people for the first time – until now, the focus was much more general. Saunders herself said that they would handle cases with the same "robust and proactive approach used with offline offending". Clearly, CPS are not messing around here. Given the recent epidemic of online attacks, including, amongst other things, the shocking abuse faced by some prominent politicians, this should be welcome news.
Certain enclaves of the internet, however, are seething.
This is nothing new in and of itself. Whenever someone breaches the topic, the internet cries havoc, and lets slip the anonymous accounts of absolute free speech defence. Butchered Voltaire quotes and slippery slope fallacies fly thick through the air. Commentators bemoan "generation snowflake" and screech about thoughtcrime. No doubt CPS do not want to protect people from online abuse that, if shouted in their face in the street, they would be taking the abuser to court for. No, this is the globalist cabal pushing through its PC agenda.
You get the distinct impression that these people haven't ever actually fallen foul of hate laws. Or, for that matter, online abusers. Their anger seems to come from something we recently saw on display in Charlottesville – of course, I'm not accusing these people of being Nazis. That said, they do seem keen on defending them in the name of "free speech". We need to discuss what free speech is and is not.
Free speech is a cornerstone of our democratic society that gives you the right to air your views, whatever they are. What it does not protect you from is the consequences. Accordingly, Twitter banning you for calling Diane Abbott an n-word is perfectly fine. If people tell your boss you were at a white supremacist march, then your inalienable rights remain unviolated. The point is, you have the right to say what you want. However, those listening are just as free to respond in kind and so being told what you said is unacceptable is still free speech.
In any case – hate speech laws exist for a reason. Unlimited liberty is a self-defeating concept, as you give those that would abuse this the power to take it away from their peers. Absolute free speech hurts the very people it is supposed to protect. It is better, surely, to put in place limits that no decent human being will ever fall foul of? People are absolutely right to be wary of giving others power over what they can and cannot say; but this draws dangerously close to putting ideology above the rights of others.
The counterarguments to measures to crack down on online hate speech are usually "sticks and stones, toughen up". But that misses the point of the exercise. Yes, name calling, however horrendous, is just name calling. To a certain extent it can and should just be ignored (looking at you, people who make things personal when they're disagreed with on politics). But this is different. Inactivity is empowerment. What starts off as name-calling online escalates to abuse hurled in the streets, which escalates to episodes like Charlottesville. "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
So no, I don't believe we have to listen to Nazis. Or Klansmen, for that matter, or radical jihadis, and I welcome CPS' new guidance. We mustn't over-do the defence of free speech. The police aren't hauling people off for criticising the government; we are pushing back against advocates of genocide. We cannot allow these people to hide behind freedom as an excuse, when they want to take that freedom away. Defending Nazis is like jumping into the creek to feed a starving alligator. Compassion alone will not stop it, nor them, from eating you.
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Error sparks ire in fertility clinic
By - The Washington Times - Wednesday, July 10, 2002
LONDON A British woman has given birth to the twins of a stranger as the result of a mix-up at a government-run in vitro fertilization clinic, prompting an outcry against the country's National Health Service.
The woman, who is white and cannot be identified because of legal reasons, is reported to have declared her intention to keep the children, who are black, saying she "bonded with them" during the pregnancy.
But newspapers here see the potential for a precedent-setting legal battle.
A source at the fertility clinic where the mix-up occurred told Britain's top-circulation tabloid, the Sun, "It is something that we have dreaded happening all along, and now it has. It is an absolute nightmare for all concerned."
Leading sex-selection specialist Dr. Alan Rose said the dream of parenthood need never have turned sour if the clinic had used disposable equipment, a safeguard used by two private clinics that he once supervised.
The former medical adviser to the London Gender Clinic and the Hong Kong-based Gender Choice Center said they had always used disposable equipment.
"When prospective parents have asked us if there's any chance of getting the wrong baby, we tell them, 'No, because we use disposable test tubes and we never have two samples of sperm on the premises at the same time.'"
An insufficiently cleaned test tube was found to be the cause of a similar incident in the Netherlands. Wilma Stuart, 40, had one black and one white twin in 1993. It took a year before DNA tests proved that a hospital had mixed sperm from Mrs. Stuart's husband with that of a black man from the Netherlands Antilles.
But today's case is the first case of its kind at a British fertility clinic.
The white parents were among the 27,000 couples a year who use the test-tube-baby procedure for free in the National Health Service. Others pay $4,500 at private clinics.
The case could make legal history if it gets to court.
The Sun quoted a legal expert as saying: "If it is the sperm of a black man which has been mixed with the white woman's eggs, he could claim to be the biological father."
In 1993, two women took legal action after having abortions when they discovered they had been implanted with the wrong embryos.
And two years ago, frozen embryos belonging to 80 couples were reported to have disappeared from a clinic in central England.
A third case of a black child being born to a white mother was reported in New York four years ago. An embryo mix-up at the clinic was blamed, but a judge ruled that the child had to be handed over to its biological parents.


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The Man Picked Up By the Gods (Reboot)
Chapter 252.2 - A Peaceful Afternoon (2/2)
Chapter 252: A Peaceful Afternoon (2/2)
On the way.
"…It's so much cleaner around here now." [Bell]
Bell-san said quietly as we approached the venue.
"Have you been here before?" [Ryouma]
"Yes, though just for church business, so not frequently." [Bell]
"I see." [Ryouma]
The area we were going through might not look much different compared to the residential district, but this is actually already the former slums. Bell-san's surprise is likely because of all the progress the government and I have made with the land readjustment project, and the construction of new houses and road.
When I explained that to her, she asked me anxiously.
"I beg your pardon, but what is a land readjustment project? What happened to the people living here?" [Bell]
"Please don't worry. We didn't drive them out of their homes. We spoke through Revel-san, the person in charge of the slums here, to reach out to the residents in advance. The people living here can be largely divided into three groups." [Ryouma]
Group one would be the people that don't have a house even in the slums, as well as those that used to live in the streets and in the abandoned houses. These people have been moved by the government to a housing complex.
Group two consists of people with houses in the slums willing to be moved. These people have been asked to cooperate with the land readjustment project and were moved to a new location. This is similar to the 'replotting' that was done in the land readjustment project during the last era.
Finally, for group three, the people that refused to be moved no matter what, their houses were just rebuilt.
Of course, there were some arguments here and there, but Revel-san and the government office worked together to resolve everything.
Some of these residents had issues like their legs being bad, so they couldn't be moved to a place with a lot of slope. There were various reasons why they didn't want to be moved, so the government had to hear them out individually and find a point where they could compromise.
To that end, the government office prepared a special department to process their complaints and adjust the plans accordingly. This move was met positively, as people claimed that their new house to be more convenient than the old.
"That's good to hear. But if that's the case, then won't a new house soon be built in the venue we're using for the soup kitchen today?" [Bell]
It's true that today's venue is vacant due to the land readjustment project, but…
"Perhaps in the future, but there are no plans for now. It would be problematic if all the vacant land is made residential, and there's also a priority in what and which to construct, so there's actually a number of vacant lots with nothing planned for. The venue today is one of those, so there won't be any problems using it as the venue for the church's soup kitchen." [Ryouma]
Also, in order to carry out the land readjustment project, the ownership of all the land had to be centralized under my name via a temporary purchase, so there won't be any problem using the vacant lot as a venue either.
Before long we arrived at the venue.
The members of the Macho Squad that arrived earlier have already started setting up the venue. From the looks of things, the kitchen was already ready, so we decided to start cooking right away.
"Bell-san, where shall we start?" [Ryouma]
"We'll be making a large batch of potato and bean soup, so we won't be do anything too difficult. We'll be washing the potatoes, then peeling them and cutting them into pieces, and then cooking them with the beans. After that the thinly sliced salted meat can be added. Cook everything into a stew to remove the harsh taste, and then all that's left is to season to taste." [Bell]
"In that case, I'll go ahead and wash the potatoes." [Yurdum]
As Yurdum-san said that, he took several bags of potatoes and headed for the watering hole. One of the helping girls saw that and ran up to help, but he refused her, saying that her hands would get rough.
Being able to do that so naturally might be gentlemanly, but the way one of the boys is looking at Yurdum-san and the girl is a bit… Maybe it's p.u.b.erty. The girl and the boy are both older than me, after all. Whatever, let's just leave them alone.
"Oh, right. I made that thing I mentioned before, so can you take a look at it?" [Ryouma]
"You mean that convenient tool you were talking about?" [Bell]
"Yes." [Ryouma]
As the children jumped for joy, Bell-san approached me.
"Thank you for being considerate of the younger children." [Bell]
"Don't mention it, I just happened to know something that would be useful." [Ryouma]
According to the rules of the mother church of the orphanage, the orphans are supposed to partic.i.p.ate in charity activities like this soup kitchen as much as possible.
But there are things that the younger children can't do. Things like handling knives or working the fire.
Of course, there are other jobs too, like carrying ingredients or drawing water, but the younger children can only carry so much.
Because of that there are some children that can't help even though they want to once the cooking starts.
When I heard that and remembered the slicer, I decided to recreate it in this world, and today, the finished product has finally been unveiled.
I'd talked about it with Bell-san beforehand, but it's good that she agreed to let the children use the tool and help out.
Thanks to that the children could happily use the slicer and help out with prepping the ingredients.
It took a bit of work, but seeing the smile on everyone makes all that work worthwhile.
Now then, it's about time I got to work too.
With that in mind, I headed over to where Yurdum-san was and helped wash the potatoes.
There has been a lot of troubling things lately, or no, rather it's precisely because there's been a lot of troubling things lately that I should treasure peaceful days like today.


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At the risk of overloading you with information, it's time to push this forthcoming show. The haphazard, leaky vessel that you have come to know and love as Broken Biscuits has been thrust into uncharted territory and somehow we will deliver. Brighton Fringe's The Warren is a pretty big deal for any performer in the UK, and we've been given a showcase night at The Main House (the biggest of their four stages) on Weds 31st May. Yes, it's scary and yes, it's cost eye-watering amounts to get us where we are, but we've got a great product and it's time to put it out there. And with your help and support, we'll do just that. If you've not yet been to one of the shows (or even if you have), now's the time. Seriously.
For this one, the line-up is wonderful: the two Jennys (Vegas & Lockyer) are on board and, as you will already know from previous posts, absolutely superb. We're also lucky beyond language to have Joanna Neary with us, one of the finest character comics of our time. The inimitable Kate Tym is back as compere with, no doubt, some accompanying kick-ass poetry. And father/son combo Joss Perring & Nick Hollywood will once again cast their audio/visual spell and transform the space, as they already have done with us twice at Komedia. Dan Laidler's Windy's Farm will get its biggest ever screening too! All in all, it's going to be quite spectacular.
I'll not bang on: there's still heaps to do and nine days left. But if we could just ask you to like and share, spread the word etc… we'd be more than grateful. There's some radio promo coming on Juice FM this Friday (airs Sunday) with Brighton's very own Boogaloo Stu, and you may see a zombified insomniac trawling the Laines with flyers and that as the day approaches. If you do, you know the drill x
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Odell Crespo, Jr., 28, our beloved son, passed away suddenly on Saturday, January 11, 2020. Born in Lancaster, PA he was the son of Odell Crespo, Sr. and Tonya Washington.
He was a graduate of Penn Manor High School. A true sports enthusiast, Odell loved watching and playing lacrosse, basketball, baseball, and football. You could always find him cheering on his favorite football team - the Baltimore Ravens. Odell worked in warehousing and enjoyed being a forklift operator.
Odell is survived by both parents, Odell, Sr. and Tonya Washington (Stephen), his loving son Camden; his two sisters, Alexandra and Danielle; his grandmothers, Rose Bland and Elizabeth Crespo (Israel); grandfather David Washington; and a host of aunts, uncles, and cousins.
He was preceded in death by his grandfather John Bland and grandmother Thomasina Washington.
A Funeral Service will be held on Friday, January 17, 2020 at 12:00 Noon at Bright Side Baptist Church, 515 Hersey Ave., Lancaster, PA 17603. The family will greet friends beginning at 10:00 a.m. for the viewing until the time of service. Interment will immediately follow the service at Mellinger Mennonite Cemetery.
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Home > Sport > World > Country > USA
Sport in the USA
The United States have been a powerhouse in world sports for a long time. Americans take great pride in their sporting accomplishments, and sports are an important part of their culture. There's no doubt, United States rule in well-known sports such as basketball, baseball and their home grown sport of American football. See a list of the 10 top sports in the USA.
We may consider baseball as their traditional sport for it started in the 18th century, with a semi-pro National Baseball Club in the 1860's and from that point on, baseball became the "national past time" of Americans. Nowadays, the most played sport in United States is football. Let us not forget that basketball also started in the U.S. in 1891. YMCA had a major role in spreading this sport globally. The first training ground for basketball is in YMCA and these students had disseminated across the globe. The United States also have hosted quite a number of Olympic Games from 1904 (St. Louis, Missouri) to 2002 (Salt Lake City, Utah), and will again in 2028 in LA. They have also won more than the average Olympic medals in virtually all sports.
With all these in mind, we also have to mention the long list of great athletes that the U.S. had produced starting with Mike Trout, the famous slugger of today's baseball season. With 49 stolen bases, leading the league with a 10.9 WAR, he unanimously won the American League and still plays outstandingly from his breakout season up to now. On the other hand, football has Tom Brady. This quarterback led his team, Patriots, to more division titles than any other team in NFL history.
American Football, a unique USA sport
Speaking of popularity, no one ever came close from the Michael Jordan. This man popularized NBA to the world in the 1980s to 1990s. He also was the most well-rounded and marketed athlete of his generation. No wonder, every basketball player looks up to him.
Below are details of sports, sporting events and sports people related to the USA.
See also the list the most popular internet searches for "sports" in the US.
Major / Popular Sports of the USA (see more)
Football (gridiron), basketball, baseball, ice hockey, tennis, soccer, golf, motorsports, martial arts, boxing.
USA Sporting Success
Too numerous to mention!
Athletes from the USA
Michael Phelps (swimming)
Lance Armstrong (cycling)
Mark Spitz (swimming)
Jesse Owens (athletics)
Michael Jordan (basketball)
Tiger Woods (golf)
Andre Agassi (tennis)
Marion Jones (athletics)
Jim Thorpe (athletics)
Tom Brady (American Football)
USA Sports trivia
Professional baseball started in the US way back in 1869.
Basketball was invented in Massachusetts by the Canadian-born James Naismith.
A team from the USA won gold when Rugby was played at the Olympic Games in 1924.
Cricket used to be the most popular sport in America during the 1700s, 1800s and early 1900s, with a USA v. Canada cricket match in the 1840s being the oldest international sporting event in the modern world.
USA at major events
USA at the Summer Olympics
USA at the Winter Olympics
USA at the FIFA World Cup
USA at the Rugby World Cup
USA women's football team at the FIFA Women's World Cup
Some past sporting events hosted in the USA
1904 Olympic Games Summer in St Louis
1932 Olympic Games Summer in LA
1932 Winter Olympic Games Lake Placid
1960 Winter Olympic Games Squaw Valley
1984 Olympic Games Summer LA
1984 Paralympic Games in New York & Stoke Mandeville
1996 Olympic Games Summer Atlanta
1996 Paralympic Games in Atlanta
2002 Winter Olympic Games Salt Lake City
Upcoming sporting events in the USA
2022 World Games in Birmingham.
2022 World Athletic Championships, in Eugene, Oregon USA
2023 Winter Universiade in Lake Placid.
2024 T20 Cricket World Cup co-hosted with the West Indies
2025 World Police and Fire Games, Birmingham
2028 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games in LA
2031 Men's Rugby World Cup
2033 Women's Rugby World Cup
Annual sporting events held in the USA
Football Super Bowl
Basketball NBA Finals
Baseball World Series
Golf Masters, US Open and US PGA
Tennis US Open
Marathons: New York, Boston, Chicago
Indy 500 — motorcar race held during Memorial Day at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway
Elite Training Centers in the USA
U.S. Olympic Training Centers
Native American Recreation & Sport Institute
The National Institute for Fitness and Sport
Sporting Stadiums in the USA
Beaver Stadium State College, Pennsylvania
Darrell K. Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium, Austin, Texas
Michigan Stadium, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Neyland Stadium, Knoxville, Tennessee
Ohio Stadium, Columbus, Ohio
more USA stadiums
largest USA stadiums
Sport Science Study Institutions in the USA
Sports videos about the ' USA '
American Sporting Role Models
Workplace Assessments for departments in the USA
Is there something missing? If you know of something that should be listed here, please let me know.
List of the most popular sports in the USA
Unusual Sports from the USA
What do they call football/soccer in the USA?
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