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The SFFaudio Podcast #545 – READALONG: Police Your Planet by Lester del Rey
Monday, September 30, 2019 Jesse Willis	Leave a comment
The SFFaudio Podcast #545 – Jesse, Paul Weimer, Maissa Bessada, Julie Davis, and Terence Blake talk about Police Your Planet by Lester del Rey
cobber, guv'nor, tinhorn, ex-firster, a contemptible person, the Australian etymology, comrade, a revolution book, profound and deep and amazing, not the greatest science fiction novel ever written, no illusions, leg-clining, leg cling is the best part, ridiculous, weirdness, Helen O'Loy, Nerves, shaping the paperback industry, in the mood for something like, dig deep to keep going, 1.2x speed, police yourself, eastern USA accent?, perfectly adapted to the novel, implacable, a bulldozer through the plot, a fast read, a sweet-spot for science fiction novels, the period, what he's doing, where this book fits in science fiction, The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress but on Mars with more Mickey Spillane, more like tar than noir, Julie likes Maissa's spirit, the same scenario over and over, Groundhog Day, shaking people down and breaking heads, a 15 page short story, Philip St. John was editor of several magazines, praising his own novel in the editorial, defending the novel against critics, fired from Future Publications, juggling everything, editorials, writing short stories and essays for four magazines, writing the novel while publishing it, a three part serial turns into four, people hate the serial, some people love them, he doesn't really know where its going to end, this is gonna be okay (and then it fell apart), noirish style, the same trick over and over again, cop tinhorn fighter, Mercury mines, a punched mealticket, what the repetition does, not a fan of security, maybe…, Honest Izzy, didn't pay-off, why did I get dragged through all this?, why you should be excited to buy this magazine, Van Lihn, a convincing picture of a planet, we were enjoying it, super-sloppy, not detail oriented?, its all getting done badly, apologizing, the height of the massive growth of science fiction magazines, as a product of that period, Dickens did that, he knew his prolific output, Elizabeth Gaskell, the motivation of Shelia, putting a gang together, why she attacked Gordon and was crying, in debt, sold as a slave, this is for what you did to Hilda, as a defense mechanism he hid all his soft feelings behind a tough mechanical exterior, a machine devoid of feeling, too much?, the fix-up, taking stuff in and take stuff out, chapter titles, chapter two is missing, police your prose, "Girl Gangs Of Marsport", John W. Campbell, appreciating Campbell, the Del Rey books, his fourth wife, he's a fucking liar, Erik Van Lihn, his Wikipedia entry, a professional liar, the closing editorial, "but it could happen", happy to see it's end, a darn fine yarn, doesn't anyone like it, terrible as a whole, fun bits, it doesn't overstay its welcome, it should have been about Mother Corey, pulpy, the agent of change is a ex-boxer ex-gambler ex-cop ex-whistleblower, a yellow journal, benign agency, a traitor, if you squint a bit or your sick its not that bad, Durance, prison planet, done RIGHT, Australia as prison colony experience, a gloss of paint rather than thinking about ideas, Jerry Pournelle's Co-Dominion, Sparta (prison planet), he could have done a lot more with this, less than the sum of its parts, what this podcast might be doing, what science fiction is, exploring the things Jesse's interested in, the South Pacific in the 1830s (without spaceships), set on Mars with rockets and domes and superchargers, not science fiction, an editorial in Science Fiction Quarterly, February 1957, Robert W. Lowndes, P. Schuyler Miller, "The Reference Library", good heavens!, Bridey Murphy, a suspense story, that's a crime busting tale, where is the science fiction, it didn't need to be set on Mars, gangs of New York, westerns, a lawless wild west story, almost no concrete ideas that are particularly speculative, something that Eric (Rabkin) taught Jesse, transformed language, The Teaching Company, an impression of the world in which you're living, Cuddles, he sands the dishes for her, pioneer stories, designed to give you an impression of a whole world in the background you don't see in the text, what makes it really science fiction is that it has ideas, so scattershot, he doesn't follow through, Olaf Stapledon, no characters, idea after idea after idea, what science fiction might be, science is ways of knowing, he doesn't know what he's doing when he starts, a Philip K. Dick trick: he makes it symmetrical, the plot and the beatings and the dome punching, goddamned communists!, how do revolutions happen?, interesting as an artifact, imperialism, why certain things look like, a Big Big World, continents and countries and resources, why are people doing X, Y, or Z?, geography and resources, WWII, why are things happening this way, that's where the oilfields are, like the game Settlers Of Catan, life outside of Marsport, Komarr, Lois McMaster Bujold, which is it?, changing from paragraph to paragraph, he's going to derail an already overly long book, heartland hinterland, the Canadian experience, the resources for the USA, branchplantism, car factories in Ontario, Canada as a the hinterland for the United States' heartland, the outsiders and the insiders, there's a dystopia on Earth that we don't get to see, a corrupt journalist who did a little too much actual journalism, something about his personality, he's not an upright guy looking for the truth, corrupt but not completely corrupt, the heroes are the agency, East Germany, everyone has a secret badge, we're gonna eat strawberries and cream, White Tiger (2012), this Jesus figure, t-34s, praying to the god of tanks, a very strange Russian movie, Duel (1971) TV movie, The Haunted Tank, why?, Ok?, The Killer Angels, two strange scenes at the end, a long scene with Hitler, the unconscious desire of Europe, is that the European psyche?, the audience?, equally baffling, unconditional surrender, talking about the food, the Russians bring in desert, what is this?, strawberries and cream, come the revolution we'll all eat strawberries and scream, the revolution has come, when the revolution comes, a downtrodden people, what the rich people always have, playing all these ideas out, why it is a weak science fiction novel, you're like Judas, they stuck in his throat, the methods used betray the ideals, that's what we like about Gordon: he uses all the wrong means, the thirty pieces, none of it makes any sense, he's busy in the kitchen and some things are burning, James Blish's review: it's naturalism but not realism, unpleasant matter, a normal sexual relationships, a bundling scene, they kiss, a normal reaction, goes nowhere, the naughty parts for a 1953 science fiction audience: salacious, Samuel Beckett, trance writing, humourless, the voting chapter, vote early and often, Alfred Bester could hold it together, the difference between a great writer and a medium writer, I'm expecting people to pick up…, roiling around, tossed salad and scrambled eggs isn't revolutionary, Les Misérables, about redemption?, building something together, a change of mind, it's horribly written, women's psychology in the fifties, lock this room for a week, how little depth it has, you seem alright in a way, your boots, arranged marriage, if a lady tries to stab you or breaks a bottle over your head she likes you, a book club, five hours like eons, Jesse made Wayne June read the 60 hour Jerusalem by Alan Moore, and Evan has already finished it, baseline science fiction, Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, picking vs. talent, don't even try to defend it, shotgun, the setup and the dome and the boots, and we're all spy, what about the drugs?, street drugs, they're all starving to death, social control, undercooked, ideas he doesn't do anything with, we should read Mockingbird by Walter Tevis, why books used to have chapter names, editing out the "this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain", editing, so amazing, first published in 1980, Julie's mom loves Alfred Bester, on Earth and so good, a nebula nominee, doable, electric bliss, Jesse has pirate powers, spoiled it!, plus five stars, The Rosie Project, The Man Who Fell To Earth, a book about chess, Squares Of The City by John Brunner, Jesse is the best ever.
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The SFFaudio Podcast #356 – READALONG: The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester
Monday, February 15, 2016 Jesse Willis	Leave a comment
The SFFaudio Podcast #356 – Jesse, Paul, and Marissa talk about The Demolished by Alfred Bester.
1952, 1953, 1951, the serialization, a futuristic old book, purple and green with the big eye, The Stars My Destination, weird corporations, quasi-computer intelligences, Marissa didn't love it, dated elements, 1950s women, really funny, the deleted prologue (is very confusing), damn amazing, so much in so many pages, it doesn't baby you, many ideas per page, keeping track, not great as an audiobook, page play that can't be seen in the audiobook, the narration is great, playful with typography, SMS style talk, the Amazon reviews, @ symbols in the ebook, Jerry Chuch, he's an Esper 2, a textual clue to his nature, (lap)², the audiobook store, an illiterate society, paperbooks are extinct, a post-literate society, when you start listening to audiobooks…, shame for not reading textual books, reading aloud as entertainment, future societies, better as a paperbook on your first read, font size changes, the reader does a lot of the work, an amazing narration, dissension has begun, image of a laughing horse, more than one text version, the original serialization in Galaxy, the finished draft is the paperbook, changes between the text, Monarch vs. Sacrament, "enhanced books", the esper world, the best adaptation of of The Demolished Man is Babylon 5, terrible and yet essential, the Alfred Bester episodes of Babylon 5, The Lord Of The Rings in space, it's Dune, the Psi-Corp, "demolition", the character of Alfred Bester, a dark Powell, deliciously played by Walter Koenig, evil, powerful, charismatic, on Spaceland, The Hunger Games, an unreal world, Sinclair, rogue telepaths, what does it mean if psi-powers were real, the breeding program, marriage, mundanes and telepaths, the coming war, his girlfriend is in the freezer, D'Courtney was a latent telepath, Ben Reich's half sister, throat cancer, a psychic-scream, Powell and Reich (also in The Stars My Destination), Ben Reich = good money, Powell = power, Dishonest Abe (Lincoln Powell), Jerry Church (corrupted by the money), when telepaths make love, soooo Freudian, New York, sooo dated, demolishing the daughter, a sexy-father figure (super creepy), room for progression, who is Ben Reich's heir?, who is D'courtney's heir?, Powell now has all the power and all the money, he's the bad guy (if you squint), the reconstruction happens in Star Trek episode (to Uhura), Nomad, we misread the code too, an inverted detective story, how-done-it, how-to-catch-'em, a locked room mystery, adapting it to TV, a Philip K. Dick-style mindfuck, a hugh solipsist section, artificial personalities, false memories, no stars in the sky, Star Trek: The Next Generation: Remember Me, going back to the womb, back to the beginning, explosion, concussion, the man with no face, suddenly blood is on him, very Lady Macbeth, a premonition of his future, he's afraid of himself, The Prisoner's final episode, panettone, just 175 pages, the Hugo award, creepy stuff, the gilded corpse, ReDemolished, an essay by Bester on how novels are written, the book is dedicated to H.L. Gold (editor of Galaxy magazine), Astounding, Amazing, John W. Campbell, Jr., Scientology, ESP stuff, DARPA, remote viewing, one of Jesse's profs, premonitions, Slan by A.E. van Vogt, power fantasy, "fans are slans", the Minority Report thingy, no sense of the poor, in the Babylon 5 universe…, resentment of PSI, super-powerful, Babylon 5 is pretty amazing, The Best Of All Possible Worlds by Karen Lord, Julian May, tension, a caste system, psionic aliens, class struggles, Chooka Frood (the corrupt brothel-keeper), a role playing game character, ceramicly beautiful, a dream, a blind albino who plays gimpsters, "accident", Duffy Wyg&,
Eight, sir; seven, sir;
Six, sir; five, sir;
Four, sir; three, sir;
Two, sir; one!
Tenser, said the Tensor.
Tension, apprehension,
And dissension have begun.
Doctor Who, The Master, Jo's rhyme, Mary Had A Little Lamb…, jingles, Bester wrote radio dramas, strange observations, everybody is in the business, if you are at a psychic party…, a throwaway line about the old deaf mutes…, blackmail, no man is an island, "make your enemies on purpose", he's an awful man, William Edgars from Babylon 5, Donald Trump, how he earned his money, that embrace, their hugging, we are not ignorant but we aren't fully party to Ben's plans, eating candy, there was no bullet, an apache duster, the cover of Galaxy, "humans are weird", compact death, if we are paying very close attention we should be noticing all the details that aren't there, the missing bullet hole, the closer you read it the better it pays you, a million more themes, we go to Venus we go to Mars, written today it would be a 600 page doorstop that wouldn't do half the stuff, "I liked dishonest Abe", "absolutely scary", "let's foreground that", "I might marry you I'm not really sure about that", "punch me around", Coming Attraction by Fritz Leiber, a parody of Mickey Spillane, The Man Who Japed, "he shot her in the groin", there whole world is completely strange, New York, the future computer, typewriter hands and punch cards, glimpses into…, rushing towards demolition, Old Man Mose, "kittenish", they've turned over parts of their society to…, horrible but compelling, damaged or mean or weird, the game of Sardine, Smee by A.M. Burrage, party games, who ends up alone?, everyone is together and naked, a bunch of adults playing naked hide-and-seek, parallels to the fake solipsistic world, "here's how I did it", the delusionary world, he finally had to face the man with no face, I couldn't tell him the truth…, we were buying it the whole time!, skepticism, admissible evidence and objective proof, Powell looking at Ben, the mysterious parcel, it's a present for you Ben, clumsy hands, we're all of just nursemaids in this crazy world, Powell friend, "listen normals", we see the truth that you cannot see, mind to mind and heart to heart, Powell was the villain the whole time, William Edgars virus, "solve the telepath problem once and for all", something that Reich never does, a moment of self-awareness, he's a monster but at least he feels bad about it, Garibaldi's manipulation, revealing all on the train, Harlan Ellison, Powell is secretly evil, we're distracted by Reich, Inception (2010), the horror lies, tragic despair, D'Courtney's secret wish (he wanted to die), his son gave him what he wanted, on some level Ben Reich is a telepath, everything Powell says is a lie, the more you read it the better it is going to get, you need to go into analysis, unspool it, re-reading, one of the best audiobooks, Joe Dunlop, Isis Audiobooks, from 1989, still for sale as tapes, it totally worked with the story, a good sign of a good narration.
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The SFFaudio Podcast #346 – READALONG: The Man Who Japed by Philip K. Dick
Monday, December 7, 2015 Jesse Willis	Leave a comment
The SFFaudio Podcast #346 – Jesse, Paul, and Marissa and Luke Daniels talk about The Man Who Japed by Philip K. Dick.
When did Luke record The Man Who Japed?, a spate of Dicks, a good six months, generic knowledge, Dick's writing is like Jack Kerouac's, Now Wait For Last Year, Dick's favorite The Man Who Japed, not Marissa's favorite The Man Who Japed, post nuclear war, censorship and morality, the three-way war before Earth the Starmen and the Reegs, JJ-180, swimming through time, Eric Sweetscent, Alan Purcell, minor-Dick, it's a big jape, the novels blend together, classic Dick, Allen's ambivalence, it feels long for a short book, the corporate stuff, Dick's women are never "flat" they are either "dumpy or perky", girls and gals, full present or drugged up there's always a wife, they love each other, loyal and sweet, home development, something pedantic and yet timely, something you've never seen, what's happening in China at the time, living in a condo…, when I first moved into my conapt, a note under the door, "you have ruined my marriage", using new found powers to search for nude women, you teach a man how to fish he has sex with that fish, council meetings, gossip, condominium apartments, how do people live together, overpopulation world, his bedroom turns into a kitchen, she's putting her clothes in the oven, Billenium by J.G. Ballard, Make Room Make Room by Harry Harrison, Hokkaido is a radioactive wasteland, Newer York vs. New New York, drugs, how Dick writes the book, undercooked, free will, "it just happened", a former NHL enforcer, the psychiatrist, memory, A Scanner Darkly, his propaganda job, the juveniles (the robots), "inDickitave", a society running on fumes, extra-Solar colonies, you don't want to stand all the way do you?, the big jape, how Dick's vocab works, the title if it was written today "The Man Who Punked", the alternate reality, Talking Heads' Once In A Lifetime, the consequences here, the ending, the faces of the teenagers, as a narrator, what is Allen seeing in the faces of those teenagers?, Allen was always trying to protect people, immigration to Canada in 1988, how harsh the immigration officials were, skimming off the cream, oh you're an audiobook narrator… ok, a couple Brit narrators are up in the seed vault in Svalbard, The Prisoner episode "A Change Of Mind", unmutual, conforming drugs, writhing, adultery can get you kicked out of your lease, Mao as Major Streiter, The Three Body Problem, The Red Violin, juveniles -> Juvenal (the Roman satirist), teenagers as opposed to juveniles, the Cultural Revolution was pushed by kids, everything pulling toward the center, The Americans, the world "soviet" means committee, the cohorts (are kids), how Nazi Germany worked, Nazi youth in The Netherlands, kids acting like little-SS, witch hunts, more American than Dick admits, V, a very soft version, no-death camps, slave labour, nobody watches TV in the colony worlds, the spire and the statue of Major Streiter, Colonel Gaddafi character, General Washington and the Washington Monument, can you imagine state TV making fun of Ronald Regan, humour vs. the dictatorship, every authoritarian government, Mr. Whales is rewarded with another apartment, oomphalos, the center, the more morec you are, anti-morec, in anticipation of the big jape…, Dick japes the reader, active assimilation, the cultural revolution, like evil-BBC, the poll, this is the emperor's new clothes, Jonathan Swift, it's something Ronald Regan would do!, if it was good enough for the founding fathers…, if John Adams and the founding fathers were all cannibals, it was a different time, he was really good to his slaves (food), turning it into a joke, society is obsessed with propriety, is this the start of the fall of this society, dystopia, optimistic ending, when the cohorts arrived their reaction was to laugh, "Repent Harlequin!" Said The Tick-Tock Man by Harlan Ellison, like Metropolis, infected with laughter, this happens all the time in SF, science fiction like satire, Dick was going on and on about not being a Marxist, timelessness, a crapsack world, a tiller, The Space Merchants, that's Madison Avenue taking over society, food isn't really food anymore, the food is always in quotation marks, simulated "baked Alaskan", we have all the things he was writing about, an artificial meat, tofu has long been with us, simulant meat, Secret Army, 'Allo 'Allo!, this isn't real coffee, WWII is the really big start of all artificial foods, chicory coffee, after WWII Korea and Japan get Spam, Spam restaurants, Minnesota is the home of Spam, it reminds you of your youth, coming to love the crappy stuff that you have, we come to love the crappy worlds Dick creates, the radioactive island, Hokkaido is full of ideas, where's the government?, society is just kind of null, not total totalitarianism (bottom up), there isn't a death in the book, a surprisingly soft dystopia, busy-bodied woman, anything over 20mph is terrifying, milquetoast, The Coming Of The Quantum Cats by Frederik Pohl, a pro-Muslim Christian American theocracy, a prim 38mph, the Harvard Law review (on the Black Market), I The Jury by Mickey Spillane, "I Shot Her In The Uterus", The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson, Guy de Maupassant, "breasts like two cones of white marble", James Joyce, $10,000 for Ulysses, the sickness, The Grifters, Donald Westlake, how to advance your career in business by killing people, the mental health planet, an alternate world that's not real, "but I only have $50!", the missing 15,000 words, getting stuck in debt is a kind of dystopia, Mavis, taking care of cows, clean activities, soul sucking grinding horrible, the interrogation that happens there…, full of resentment, anonymous accusers, an open marriage, a c-class Dick novel, needs a little more spiced, not fully poached,
It is hard not to write Satire. For who is so tolerant
of the unjust City, so steeled, that he can restrain himself…
Pathic men that pretend to be moral exemplars are much worse than those who are open about their proclivities.
he's talking about Republicans, the "wide stance", puritanism, strider -> Streiter, making choices, that's what this book is about, just wing it, self-assured hubris, "he's an idea, not a man".
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The SFFaudio Podcast #152 – READALONG: The Comedy Is Finished by Donald E. Westlake
Monday, March 19, 2012 Jesse Willis	4 Comments
The SFFaudio Podcast #152 – Jesse talks with Trent Reynolds and Paul Westlake about the AudioGo and Hard Case Crime novel The Comedy Is Finished by Donald E. Westlake.
Is The Comedy Is Finished going to be the last Donald E. Westlake novel to be published?, Memory (and our discussion of it), Charles Ardai, Max Allan Collins, Mickey Spillane, getting paid is a priority for professional writers, the 1970s, Honeydew, USO tours, Bob Hope, the audiobook experience, Peter Berkrot's narration of the audiobook of The Comedy Is Finished, Koo Davis, Bob Hope as Red Skelton vs. Bob Hope as Gene Kelly, Alfred Hitchcock, Ricky Gervais, Koo Davis narrates his own POV in the present everyday tense sense, "Westlake is the master of sentence by sentence writing", "in the moment", "the god-damned Vietnam thing", "the real Americans", the redemption, healing vs. moving on, Ronald Reagan, "new normal", "the Carter malaise" and "festering wounds", Larry, Peter, Mark has daddy issues, Joyce, the Dortmunder gang if they were all psychotic, "doing a Westlake", why do Koo's boys not look like him?, the role of a father, the mirror scene, "genetics don't matter in fiction", fatherhood as a choice, leave the messages to Western Union, character arcs, Lindsey, A Sound Of Distant Drums, radio drama, "there are round characters and there are flat characters", "oh this is a Westlake", "Charo has become a bitter old woman", "a romantic writer", succinct description, taking plots from real life, The Score, "he can heist anything", The Mourner, The Stepfather, "that's pretty much how these work", three Dortmunder ideas, Kahawa should be an audiobook, California, Burbank, Santa Barbara, Elizabeth Taylor's biography, Under An English Heaven should be an audiobook too, Anguilla, an option has been taken out on Kahawa, the new Parker movie, Stephen King's filmography vs. Donald Westlake's filmography, The Hot Rock, Cops And Robbers (1973), The Split (based on The Seventh), Payback, Les Alexander, The Outfit, City Of Industry, The Sour Lemon Score, Made In U.S.A., the Criterion Collection, it's Clint Eastwood with internal monologue, a Dortmunder TV series, The Limey, Terence Stamp, Idi Amin, Uganda, "the coffee train", Enough, Ordo, A Slight Case Of Murder, A Travesty, it's very hard to be a Westlake expert, the sound a girl makes when you're kissing her, "it's just a weird name", Bob Hope was a knight!, Conrad Black, Baron Black of Crossharbour, Westlake's Science Fiction and Fantasy, Westlake's renunciation of SF, Anarchaos by Curt Clark, "Rolf Malone is a precursor to Parker", Theodore Bikel (the fiddler in The Fiddler On The Roof), The Risk Profession, Nackles (is great for kids!), The Twilight Zone, Harlan Ellison's screenplay for Nackles, the Starship Hopeful series (available on DonaldWestlake.com), Lawrence Block's fantasy story, SF is very allegorical (and that's not Westlake), Humans, Westlake's Smoke vs. Wells' The Invisible Man, "and everybody's an asshole", "everybody one way or another is a jerkoff", "Joyce goes crazy in the most wonderful way", a survivor of Chernobyl, "is God really an asshole?", "angels are assholes", Milton's Paradise Lost, The Sacred Monster, Get Real, ridicule in print, Money For Nothing, Westlake never lectured, interior thoughts that are so revealing about the shallowness of a character's nature, Washington, D.C., "moving up the ladder", "what does Ginger want?", "it's fun to play with fire", "I've got to have something", did Don hate rock and roll?, he liked classical and atonal jazz, "damn hippie", 99% of politics is pointless, talking to death, Jimmy The Kid (a Parker novel inside of a Dortmunder novel), kidnapping, Help I Am Being Held Prisoner, Patty Hearst, Gangway, Brian Garfield, Spider Robinson's Dortmunder homage, Lawrence Block, The Sour Lemon Score, Dashiell Hammett, Piers Anthony, Poul Anderson, Robert A. Heinlein, shiny spaceships, don't read by genre, read by author, the genre label, Jim Thompson, The Grifters, Trent's beef with Angelica Huston, a period piece, Paul had a problem with John Cusack, J.T. Walsh, Pat Hingle, Annette Bening, "I'll never look at a bag of oranges the same way", Donald Westlake: NYC Personified, The Violent World Of Parker website, Nick Jones, Westlake's bibliography at DonaldWestlake.com.
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New Releases: Miéville, Spillane/Collins, Anderson, London, Wells, Zamyatin
Wednesday, May 25, 2011 Jesse Willis	2 Comments
Here are six intriguing new releases that caught my eye and perhaps will yet catch my ears.
I haven't read Miéville yet, maybe this is the one, its all about communication – or at least that's the message I think this book is sending.
Embassytown
By China Miéville; Read by Susan Duerden
Digital Download – Approx. 12 Hours 30 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Random House Audio
Sample: |MP3|
China Miéville doesn't follow trends, he sets them. Relentlessly pushing his own boundaries as a writer—and in the process expanding the boundaries of the entire field—with Embassytown, Miéville has crafted an extraordinary novel that is not only a moving personal drama but a gripping adventure of alien contact and war. In the far future, humans have colonized a distant planet, home to the enigmatic Ariekei, sentient beings famed for a language unique in the universe, one that only a few altered human ambassadors can speak. Avice Benner Cho, a human colonist, has returned to Embassytown after years of deep-space adventure. She cannot speak the Ariekei tongue, but she is an indelible part of it, having long ago been made a figure of speech, a living simile in their language. When distant political machinations deliver a new ambassador to Arieka, the fragile equilibrium between humans and aliens is violently upset. Catastrophe looms, and Avice is torn between competing loyalties—to a husband she no longer loves, to a system she no longer trusts, and to her place in a language she cannot speak yet speaks through her.
Stacy Keach, the only narrator for this job…
Kiss Her Goodbye: A Mike Hammer Novel
By Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins; Read by Stacy Keach
7 CDs – Approx. 8 Hours [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Blackstone Audio
Mike Hammer has been away from New York too long. Recuperating in Florida after the mob shoot-out that nearly claimed his life, he learns that an old mentor on the New York police force has committed suicide. Hammer returns for the funeral—and because he knows that Inspector Doolan would never have killed himself. But Manhattan in the seventies no longer feels like home. Hammer's longtime partner, Velda, disappeared after he broke it off for her own safety, and his office is shut down. When a woman is murdered practically on the funeral's doorstep, Hammer is drawn into the hunt for a cache of Nazi diamonds that makes the Maltese Falcon seem like a knickknack and for the mysterious woman who had been close to Doolan in his final days. But drug racketeers, who had it in for Doolan, attract Hammer's attention as well. Soon he is hobnobbing with coke-snorting celebrities at the notorious disco, Club 52, and playing footsie with a sleek lady DA, a modern woman on the make for old-fashioned Hammer. Everything leads to a Mafia social club where Hammer and his .45 come calling, initiating the wildest showdown since Spillane's classic One Lonely Night.
I have no idea what this means:
"Poul Anderson's classic fantasy, The Broken Sword, knocks The Fellowship of the Ring into a cocked hat."—Guardian (UK)
That's a good thing right?
The Broken Sword
By Poul Anderson; Read by Bronson Pinchot
Thor has broken the sword Tyrfing so that it cannot strike at the roots of Yggdrasil, the tree that binds together earth, heaven, and hell. But now the mighty sword is needed again to save the elves in their war against the trolls, and only Skafloc, a human child kidnapped and raised by the elves, can hope to persuade Bölverk the ice-giant to make Tyrfing whole again. But Skafloc must also confront his shadow self, Valgard the changeling, who has taken his place in the world of men.
A collection of eight of Jack London's best short stories – if you haven't read the title story then you're missing out on a great proto-Hard SF story! Awesomeness.
To Build A Fire And Other Stories
By Jack London; Read by Patrick Lawlor
Sample |MP3|
"To Build a Fire," the best-known of Jack London's many short stories, tells the tale of a solitary traveler on the Yukon Trail accompanied only by his dog as they endure the extreme cold. A classic narrative of a battle for survival against the forces of nature, "To Build a Fire" is London at his best. Also included here are "The Red One," "All Gold Canyon," "A Piece of Steak," "The Love of Life," "Flush of Gold," "The Story of Keesh," and "The Wisdom of the Trail." A vital collection of works by one of the greatest short-story writers in American literature, this edition is sure to delight audiences of all ages.
I sense a serious but coming.
I Don't Want To Kill You: Book 3 in the John Cleaver series
By Dan Wells; Read by Kirby Heyborne
8 CDs – Approx. 10 Hours [UNABRIDGED]
John Cleaver has called a demon—literally called it on the phone—and challenged it to a fight. He has faced two of the monsters already, barely escaping with his life, and now he's done running; he's taking the fight to them. But as he wades through his town's darkest secrets, searching for any sign of who the demon might be, one thing becomes all too clear: in a game of cat and mouse with a supernatural killer, the human is always the mouse. In I Am Not a Serial Killer, we watched a budding sociopath break every rule he had to save his town from evil. In Mr. Monster, we held our breath as he fought madly with himself, struggling to stay in control. Now John Cleaver has mastered his twisted talents and embraced his role as a killer of killers. I Don't Want to Kill You brings his story to a thundering climax of suspicion, mayhem, and death. It's time to punish the guilty. And in a town full of secrets, everyone is guilty of something.
Grover Gardner thinks this is the first time the book will be available in audio – I think he's right!
By Yevgeny Zamyatin; Read By Grover Gardner
Set in the twenty-sixth century A.D., Yevgeny Zamyatin's masterpiece describes life under the regimented totalitarian society of OneState, ruled over by the all-powerful "Benefactor." Recognized as the inspiration for George Orwell's 1984, We is the archetype of the modern dystopia, or anti-Utopia: a great prose poem detailing the fate that might befall us all if we surrender our individual selves to some collective dream of technology and fail in the vigilance that is the price of freedom. Clarence Brown's brilliant translation is based on the corrected text of the novel, first published in Russia in 1988 after more than sixty years' suppression.
The SFFaudio Podcast #106
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The SFFaudio Podcast #106 – Jesse and Tamahome talk about audiobooks, books, comic books, movies and technology.
Scott is away, Warrior Race by Robert Sheckley, the guilt tactic, Robert Sheckley's The Victim From Space, M. Night Shamylan, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Star Trek: The Next Generation, the limits of sympathy and empathy, Lethal Weapon, civil disobedience, Ghandi, Ahisma, Gregg Margarite, Lauren Bacall, the future of self-published ebooks and curation, SFsignal's anthology reviews, novels vs short stories, LibriVox, rating systems, Gil T. Wilson, SFSite, Avatar, Coraline, The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman's narration, William Gibson, Where is the Neuromancer audiobook?, The Matrix, What is noir in film or books?, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Memento, a podcast about noir films (Noircast.net), Limitless aka (The Dark Fields) movie vs book, director Neil Berger, The Illusionist, The Prestige, Christopher Priest, Existenz, WWW: Wake, WWW: Wonder, Robert J. Sawyer, many spoilers in this podcast, Sawyer's next novel is Triggers, research then write, the Webmind, Jesse doesn't like series (usually), the 'talking Dinosaur' series (the Quintaglio Ascension series), is the WWW series YA?, Cory Doctorow, characters, Golden Fleece is a murder mystery in space, more dino, would anyone make the dinosaur series into a 3D animated film?, Robert J. Sawyer's Rollback was on CBC Radio One's Between The Covers podcast, Galileo's Dream, Red Mars, Michio Kaku, futurism, climate change, Pacific Edge by Kim Stanley Robinson, can a domestic story be thrilling?, Austin Powers, "one million dollars!", the trap of inflating the stakes, Tim Pratt on Dragon Page podcast (7½ minutes in), the 'speech thriller', what's in the suitcase?, Kiss Me Deadly, "make each sentence do two things", Midnight Riot (aka Rivers Of London), British lingo, "snog", series and trends at bookstores, Peter Watts's openness, Flashforward TV show, The Gong Show, bring back the hook, Crysis 2: Legion the novel and the game, the economics of hard covers vs ebooks, Kindle openness, the VLC app was removed from the iTunes App store, the Android OS, Embedded, ROM person, the Comics Code Authority repealed!, Mark Millar, Nemesis, The Ultimates, Ex Machina, Chronicles Of Wormwood, Garth Ennis, Howard The Duck, death of superheroes, Superman left America (Action Comics #900), "truth, justice, and the American way", Superman: Red Son, Battlefields, The Boys, The Punisher with the guy from Hung (Thomas Jane), Warren Ellis wrote a novel (Crooked Little Vein), can we make Peter Watts audiobooks?, synthesized voices on archive.org, Linux for all e-readers, Philip K. Dick, The Electric Ant comic, Tom Merritt, Sword and Laser, TWIT, Munchcast.
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Abstract: An infusion or decoction of the aerial parts of Fabiana imbricata (Solanaceae) is used in traditional medicine in Chile and Argentina as a digestive and diuretic agent. The main sesquiterpene of the plant was identified as 11-hydroxy-4-amorphen-15-oic acid. At doses of 25, 50 and 100 mg/kg, the compound showed a dose-dependent gastroprotective effect in HCl/EtOH-induced gastric lesions in mice reducing the lesions by 68% at 100 mg/kg. Seven derivatives of the terpene were prepared and their gastroprotective effect was assessed in HCl/EtOH-induced gastric lesions in mice. The cytotoxicity of the products was evaluated in fibroblasts and AGS cells. At 100 mg/kg, 11-hydroxy-4-amorphen-15-p-toluidinamide presented the best gastroprotective effect reducing the gastric lesions by 80%, showing a similar effect to lansoprazole at 20 mg/kg. The compound, however, presented higher cytotoxicity than other derivatives with the IC50 ranging between 110 and 145 µm in AGS cells and fibroblasts, respectively. Most compounds proved to be non-toxic showing cytotoxicity values higher than 1000 µm. The spectroscopic data of six 11-hydroxy-4-amorphen-15-oic acid derivatives are presented here for the first time.
Description: Reyes, M.; Schmeda-Hirschmann, G.; Razmilic, I. Laboratorio de Productos Naturales, Instituto de Química de Recursos Naturales, Universidad de Talca, Casilla 747, Talca, Chile. Theoduloz, C.; Yáñez, T.; Rodríguez, J. Departamento de Ciencias Básicas Biomédicas, Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad de Talca, Casilla 747, Talca, Chile.


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This especial model is scaled up from the Meares 6 string bass viol. It could be used in all gut D tuning as a consort bass. It is an ideal instrument for 8 ft bass lines. Gibbons wrote 14 pieces where you'll need a "dooble bass". This is the instrument for those pieces.
The model is ideal in G tuning. It fits well also for rapid passages, since the string is only 89 cm long. The corpus is too small to use the low D tuning.


Skinnerz forces use a variety of flatbed transports to convey their troops around the battlefield.
This modular flatbeds set comes with 4 top halves, and 4 lower halves, which can be combined to make 16 possible combinations of flatbed transport vehicle.
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Five unique ways AI is being used to promote health
Here's a look at how organizations are deploying artificial intelligence and machine learning for use cases ranging from doctor's assistants to social media and more.
By Laura Lovett
Artificial intelligence is no longer just a futuristic technology. It is now being applied throughout the healthcare arena from imaging to triaging patients. But outside of the mainstream hospital uses, the technology is also be deployed in apps, wearables and trackers.
Here is five of the cutting-edge ways AI is being used by health professionals today.
1) Doctor's assistants
One problem that innovators are looking to tackle with AI is paperwork. Doctor's assistants are becoming more and more common to help out with this issue.
Doctor's assistant Notable AI combines voice-powered AI and wearable technology. It can pick up on dictations and orders, and can recommend the appropriate billing codes. Then the data from the visit is automatically entered into the EHR using secure robotic processing automation.
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"We put AI to use eliminating jobs people don't want to do first," Pranay Kapadia, Notable CEO and founder told MobiHealthNews. "We look at it as how do we simplify the business encounters of healthcare by putting encounters and relative data collection on autopilot."
In addition to just capturing information from patient visits the system also learns about provider habits and helps them to fill out documents.
"Notable [is] proactively learning the physician's behavior and the practice's behavior so that it can actually predict what they would do when a patient comes in," Kapadia said. "So when we go live we actually go in and study their past patterns and look at how do they tend to practice, where do they send orders, what patient instructions do they tend to pop in — so that we can put that all on autopilot."
But notable isn't the only doctor's assistant on the market. Robin Healthcare launched a voice-enabled AI device that aims to help doctors and clinicians write clinical notes. The device, which looks like an Amazon Alexa or Google Home voice assistant, will sit in a doctor's office and draft notes from doctors' spoken conversations.
2) Mental health apps
It's no secret there is a shortage of trained mental health professionals in the US and Europe. As the healthcare industry scrambles to come up with solutions for the pressing issue, more and more innovators are turning to technology. While some like Silver Cloud have set programs for users, others have turned to AI.
One company that is employing AI is Woebot. The chatbot works through a messenger system, but instead of a person at the other end of the messages, the user will be put in touch with an AI that is programmed to help users talk through their mental health using cognitive behavioral therapy principles. Although the tool is not yet FDA cleared, it is designed to walk users through their depression and anxiety symptoms.
Another chatbot, Wysa, also uses AI and CBT. It also engages users in meditation, breathing yoga and aims to help people build resilience skills.
3) Female Health
Many companies are also employing AI in fertility and period tracking.
One of the notable companies in this space is Flo Health, which started off using AI to help women predict their menstrual cycle. But eventually the platform morphed and now includes a period and ovulation tracker, graphs about the user's health and mood, daily health insights and birth control reminders. The tool also has a pregnancy and post-pregnancy mode that lets expecting and new moms view the development of their baby.
Recently Mira released a new fertility monitor that employs AI to analyze users' home fertility test kits and tell them whether or not they are fertile. The test kit is made up of three components: a disposable wand that a user can urinate on, an oval analyzer into which the wand is inserted and an AI that tells the user how fertile she is.
Ava also uses an algorithm to give women insights about their menstrual cycle, as well as sleep and wellbeing. That technology works through a wearable that the woman wears to sleep. The next morning she can sync it with her smartphone.
4) Physical Therapy
With 'physical' in the name, most would assume that this type of treatment could only be given in person. Now, however, some developers have implemented AI as a way to administer physical guidance remotely.
Sword Health's platform Phoenix uses AI to understand each patient's physical needs, provide responsive feedback during treatment and offer remote guidance from clinical teams. The platform also has a clinical portal where care teams can get in-depth analysis of patients.
But Sword isn't the only company working on this problem. Physitrack, a digital physical therapy, telehealth and patient engagement company launched a new AI tool that lets providers collect and manage physical therapy data from the corresponding PhysiApp 2.0, a patient facing physical therapy app.
5) Social media
The uses of AI are also creeping into social media. The technology has been employed to help with public health initiatives and to spot risky behavior.
In January the Canadian government teamed up with AI firm Advanced Symbolics in order to use AI to track social media posts that could identify someone at risk of suicide. As part of the deal the AI company agreed to give the Canadian government a final report summarizing the findings. That report will include at-risk demographics by age and gender, and how changes in patterns impact risk and protective factors.
Facebook has also been joining the conversation around suicide concerns. In November of 2017 the social media giant began to use its AI to identify suicide threats or high-risk postings. The technology can flag those posts and then prioritize the content so that the Community Relations team can address the immediate danger first. Additionally, the AI system can help the Community Relations team access if they need to call a first responder to assist the user.
"Over the last month, we've worked with first responders on over 100 wellness checks based on reports we received via our proactive detection efforts," VP of Product Management Guy Rosen wrote in a blog post, shortly after the initiative was launched. "This is in addition to reports we received from people in the Facebook community. We also use pattern recognition to help accelerate the most concerning reports. We've found these accelerated reports — that we have signaled require immediate attention — are escalated to local authorities twice as quickly as other reports. We are committed to continuing to invest in pattern recognition technology to better serve our community."
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Which is more important, the planets or the Sun?
I've had a lot of fun writing this.
We can't help but get excited for these next couple of weeks.
But for now, here's the quick summary.
I'm still not entirely sure if I'm going to write about this topic again, but I've been thinking about it a lot.
As a scientist, I don't have to be afraid to say that it's possible to understand the physical processes that are driving our universe without having a scientific theory, but there are some fundamental laws of physics that we do need to understand.
So what I'm trying to do is try and make that point with some concrete examples.
So we'll see.
I have a series of articles to look at some of the more basic physics of the solar system, and the planets, but that's not really my focus right now.
I think it's good to look back at some things we learned from the Big Bang and the history of science, and to try and see if we can use those lessons to understand how we can understand our own solar system and other planetary systems.
And I think we can.
So in this article, I'm looking at the first step in the solar formation process.
In fact, it's the same process that goes on throughout the universe.
And what I mean by that is, the big bang created a huge amount of material, and as that material was cooled down it was condensed to form stars and planets.
That's the first thing we learn about, and that's where we start our understanding of the formation of stars and planetary systems and our own planet.
In a sense, we're not completely sure how the process works, but we know that the Sun was the first star to form, that the planets are formed from water, that a bunch of gas molecules have been kicked around by gravity, and so on.
So all these things are happening at the same time, but they are different events.
This is how the solar nebula is formed, and we know how that happens.
So the next thing we look at is how this process works at the surface of the Sun, which is a lot like the outer planets.
It starts out with a very small and bright star, and it slowly gets bigger and bigger.
Eventually it gets very hot, and then it begins to lose energy.
Eventually, the star stops producing the stars it's producing, and its actually going to start collapsing, and eventually the Sun will explode in a supernova.
This means that the stars and gas are actually collapsing, which creates the planets.
As the stars collapse, they will be spinning very rapidly, and they'll begin to form clouds of material.
As they form these clouds, they can expand in their orbit around the Sun.
As we see from our current view of the Solar System, the Sun is spinning quite rapidly, spinning very fast.
At this point, the gas is starting to escape from the star, which means that some of it will become visible to the naked eye.
As these clouds form, they become part of the inner solar system.
They are called planets.
Now, the first planets are a little bit hard to see, because they are so small, and their orbits are so elliptical.
But it's not quite like that.
As you can see from the image above, the outermost planet, the Proxima b, orbits around the sun at a speed of 1,200 kilometers per second.
That means that Proximae b is spinning faster than the other planets at the Sun's position.
And this is what is happening at Proximal, the nearest planet to the Sun: At this particular moment, it is spinning at the speed of about 5,000 kilometers per hour.
So that means that at this time, there is at least one planet at Prozammus b.
But there are more than just Proxims in our solar system!
This is where things get really interesting.
We know that at least three planets orbit around Proxammus, and this is because of the orbits of the planets that are currently forming.
This image above shows the orbit of the planet Proxamma b, which was first spotted by a telescope.
The orbits of Proxams are like the orbits around planets that were discovered by the Kepler space telescope.
As I mentioned earlier, we know from the Sun that the star that created Proxamina was about the size of our sun, but the star also had some kind of ring around it.
The ring was the same shape that the planet orbits around, so that means the planet was spinning quite fast at the time.
This rings the planet with a kind of pressure called a magnetic field.
And as you can clearly see in the image, the atmosphere is getting thinner as the pressure gets thinner.
This makes it so that the atmosphere has a lower density.
But this doesn't mean that the pressure is getting smaller.
It's just that the density is decreasing.
So, as the atmosphere gets thinner, the pressure
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Dragon where have been all my life?
The Dragon's reply…In plain site for no one see's the shadows…..
A Dragon of the shadows sits on a wall staring at the full moon. Mumbles "I wonder if she sees the same moon as I do from her distant land???" He still mourns the death a tiny cry echo's against the stone of the castle walls. A scream is heard from time to time. A petulant rant form a scared little boy. Raymond screams "The dreams scare me the ghost keep me awake." Raymond's rant is never-ending " The Dragon GOD that thinks of no one but him self…". The child's words cut at him cut deeper than any sword ever could. The touch that would quell the child is no longer here. As the Dagon is lost with voices and echo's he does not here the approach of second Dragon A indigo blue mountain dragon. The mountain Dragon Speaks " So will this be a long painful morning, you could just kill your self or better yet you could take what you learned and Live. You need to make a choice because you can't do all three" and silently wings away. The Shadow Dragon whispers " I truly hate you". The mountain Dragon circles and roars back " I know' that's why we are always there for each other. The Shadow Dragon taps a Claw thinking. Looks at the moon again. A tear rolls down his cheek. And off in the distance is a dark light messages are dropped and sent back. maybe its time to see what's out there. A Shade of beauty and change. They say they like the Dragon. Want to message the Dragon and maybe talk to the Dragon. . and the winters chill seems to break a little. A slight smile can be seen on the Dragon face. Till the screams and voices and echo's return but they seem not as loud………………..


Lindsay Lohan's Instagram is an interesting place to keep up with the former superstar. Despite only being in her early thirties, Lindsay's been in the spotlight for more than half of her life. She rose to fame as a child star and became a massive star thanks to films like "Mean Girls" in the early '00s.
At the height of Lindsay Lohan's fame, social media was not yet a phenomenon. For that reason, Lindsay doesn't have as impressive of a following as you'd expect. But there are still plenty of reasons to keep up with this famous face's Instagram account.
These days, Lindsay Lohan's Instagram documents a new era in her career. Though she's not starring in huge blockbuster films, she's still living a very exciting life. And her 7 million followers are all tuning into this new chapter.
So what kind of things does Lindsay Lohan's Instagram include? We'll round up what posts you should expect to see if you decide to follow Lindsay's account. Let's get started!
Want to keep up with Lindsay Lohan? Then you better follow her. Lindsay seems to adhere to the trend of scrubbing her Instagram every so often.
This is a new fad, used by some celebrities like Miley Cyrus and Blake Lively. It involves periodically deleting all of your Instagram posts. Lindsay seems to be doing just that, as only posts from the last few months currently appear on her profile.
And there's no rhyme or reason as to why she chooses to delete or keep certain posts.
Take this short video for instance. The caption is a little confusing, reading, "Good look? #lohanislanddubai" and even as you rewatch the video you're not quite sure what you're looking at.
So why would Lindsay choose this post to keep? Your guess is as good as ours!
If you really want a steady stream of Lindsay Lohan photos in your life, it might be best to follow one of her fan accounts.
Fan accounts are a great way to stay tuned to what a star is up to. They post both old and new content.
If you're a huge fan of a celebrity, it's also a good way to find other fellow fans.
But for those looking to see content straight from Lindsay herself, we definitely recommend following her — because you never know when her posts will disappear! Make sure you see them in real time.
Lindsay Lohan hasn't been on the big screen in quite a while. She also left the United States of America a few years ago, and currently lives overseas. Despite her exotic new locale, Lindsay Lohan will actually be popping up on your small screen in January 2019.
Those that follow Lindsay Lohan's Instagram caught a glimpse of her new ventures — a reality show. Yep, that's right. The former movie star will now be moving into the reality television world.
In December 2018, Lindsay Lohan's Instagram shared a photo of her new MTV reality show — which will be called "Lindsay Lohan's Beach Club." It also listed the new show's premiere date, listed as Jan. 8, 2019.
Along with the announcement, Lindsay also tagged the show's Instagram account. There you can see tons of little video snippets from Lindsay and the show's cast.
The show will likely be a huge hit, with many fans of Lindsay eager to see what she's been up to these days.
Lindsay Lohan's Instagram is a revolving door of content, thanks to her tendency to delete old posts. But one thing is for certain: she loves her family.
Previously, Lindsay has shared sweet posts celebrating the birthdays of family members. Currently on her page? Multiple shoutouts to her sister, Aliana Lohan.
First, she posted a black and white snap of her sister.
Lindsay Lohan's Instagram included another post for little sister Aliana Lohan. This time it was in the form of a video.
Lindsay Lohan, wearing a face mask, tells her sister Aliana that she misses her in the short video. It's a sweet gesture, making it clear that these days Lindsay is all about family. Just like her previous caption stated, "family is everything!" to the Lohans.
Lindsay Lohan has been known to post a throwback or two. Typically it's to the days whne she dominated Hollywood. Most recently she shared a snap alongside Hollywood heavyweights Meryl Streep and Angelina Jolie.
It's clear Lindsay Lohan realizes how lucky she was to be in the company of these very famous women. She captioned the old photo alongside the superstars, "What a blessed moment" when she shared it.
Though Lindsay Lohan is often removing her Instagram posts, there's one place you can catch extra content from the star. Lindsay is often posting in her stories.
Lucky for fans, she also saves them on top, in her highlights reels. There are numerous highlight reels, all containing different posts from Lindsay in the past.
From cooking to time in Thailand to one about her life in Dubai, it's a great place to see posts from Lindsay that likely won't be disappearing from the social media platform anytime soon.
Lindsay Lohan's Instagram is a great place to keep up with the former child star. Since she lives such an exciting life these days, it's smart to give her a follow so you can keep tabs.
Since Lindsay often deletes Instagram posts, that's the only way to make sure you see what's she's posting before it fades away. Whether you're likely going to be tuning into her new show or simply want to see what the star of one of your favorite flicks is up to these days, Lindsay Lohan's Instagram is an interesting follow you won't regret.


With so many types of meat stuffed between two slices of bread, indecision at Lardo is inevitable. We'll call it for you—go for the banh mi ($11). It's what owner-chef Rick Gencarelli wanted to make the first day he fired up the grill in his food cart before growing into a brick-and-mortar. Inspired by his love of Vietnamese street food, the sandwich is a spin on the classic with its pork-pickled vegetable essence. Don't forget Lardo's fries ($5-$10). Gencarelli uses Kennebec potatoes (the same kind as In-N-Out) soaked overnight, blanched, fried with herbs and then topped with Parm.


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Saw this yesterday...impressive, but my least fav. of the IM movies.
Looks very nice. Im probably not getting this.
I love the design, and had it in my cart for a bit, but....yeah the price isn't too nice. I get that Die Cast is neat and such, but I'd be happy with plastic if it meant $150 less.
This is a sick piece but I detest the price tag. The price also received a lot of woes on sideshows facebook. One user said that the process and materials in which to create die cast figures have been blown out of proportion exponentially. Essentially he was saying that die cast is another gimmick like 3D movies where it just gives distributors an excuse to up the price tag. Thoughts anyone?
I dunno...I could see that being the case. I'd need more data before passionately spitting at them about it though.
I've preordered the other 3 DIECAST Iron Man figures being released (the mark 42, Iron Patriot & War Machine), the DIECAST is what appealed to me but they were still far cheaper than this figure is..., I like the idea of not using plastic but with price tags like this one has I think maybe it should be used on the actual Iron Man suits where they can use it again & thus keep price increases down a bit more easily.
Is DIECAST more of a durability and a feel rather than a look? Honestly I can't tell a difference between the plastic and DIECAST 1/6 figures from a visual perspective. I'm assuming most of these are for display purposed only so I don't see why they would need to 'feel' any stronger. I could venture to say more complicated pieces might require DIECAST simply to make it more durable because of complex parts would be necessary but several DIECAST pieces released have been far from complex.
The reason Hot Toys gave for the metal materials being used was to make the figures more authentic..., Iron Man is made out of metal after all, so that's basically the reason they've decided to go down this route..., they aren't doing it with all of the figures though so I guess it's just a mix & match for now to see if the metal figures go down well?!? It was certainly appealing to me BUT not when the prices keep increasing with each figure though, thinking the 3 I've preordered may be the only 3 DIECAST figures I'll buy.


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CONFERENCE GUESTS
NANCY ALCORN
Nancy is the Founder and President of Mercy Multiplied, a nonprofit Christian organization that equips people to find freedom and experience lasting transformation through Jesus Christ. For over 30 years, Mercy Multiplied (originally named Mercy Ministries) has been helping young women around the world break free from life-controlling issues and situations, including anxiety, depression, sexual abuse, eating disorders, self-harm, addiction, unplanned pregnancy and sex trafficking.
J. JOHN
J. John is a sought-after communicator from Hertfordshire, England with an engaging, humorous style that transcends age, race and culture. His much-loved art of storytelling helps people to discover spiritual meaning in a way that makes sense of everyday life. J. John's passion for evangelism, the local church, and resourcing others has led him to author over 50 books, totalling over a million copies of his books in print in thirteen languages.
JACKIE HILL PERRY
Jackie Hill-Perry is a writer, speaker and artist whose work has been featured in The Washington Times, The 700 Club, The Gospel Coalition and other publications. At age 19, Jackie walked away from her homosexual lifestyle after coming to know Christ in a powerful way. Ever since, Jackie has been compelled to share the light of gospel truth through teaching, writing, poetry and music as authentically as she can. She released her debut album "The Art of Joy" in 2014, and in 2018, she released her newest album, "crescendo" as well as her book, Gay Girl, Good God: The Story of Who I Was and Who God Has Always Been.


BELIZE CITY, Thurs. Mar. 5, 2015–Belize City Mayor Darrell Bradley was returned to office today, having garnered a higher percentage of the mayoral vote than he did when he was first elected to serve as the City's mayor back in 2012. This time, he received 11,833 votes – 63% of the mayoral votes, up from the 56% portion he received three years ago.
Bradley ran unsuccessfully back in 2003, when the slate of the Opposition People's United Party led by David Fonseca, was returned to City Hall. Although he was the second most popular UDP candidate in that election, Bradley did not join the UDP slates of 2006 and 2009. It was not until 2012 that he offered himself for municipal office again, setting for himself a track record that saw him emerge victorious at the end of Wednesday's poll.
He expressed his thanks not only to his party colleagues who helped him to garner the win, but also to the staff of the Elections and Boundaries Department and to the public officers assigned to work on election day, for conducting professional elections.
Mayor Bradley also spoke well of his rivals, Yolanda Schakron of the People's United Party and Ernesto Torres, an independent candidate, who, he said, conducted themselves with a great degree of civility and political maturity during the process.
We caught up with all three mayoral candidates for Belize City on voting day yesterday. We spoke with Bradley after he voted at the YWCA, and he told us that he was "quite optimistic" about being returned to office.
What is different this time around? Bradley said that the first time he ran for mayor, the UDP had challenges because of problems stemming from previous administrations of the UDP City Council. He said that this time, he ran on his own track record, and he noted that character and integrity have been the seal of his office for the last three years.
We have heard criticisms levied at Bradley's administration, claiming that his Council had largely neglected the Southside of Belize City; however, the UDP slate won in most of the Southside constituencies, some by as many as 5 times the slate of the Opposition People's United Party.
Bradley said that any claim that his Council has neglected the Southside is nothing but a "political gimmick," as he can point to significant infrastructural works on Central American Boulevard, as well as East and West Collet Canal. He said that they also painted and refurbished homes, and a lot of streets were fixed in the Lake Independence division, between Mahogany Street and the Haulover Creek.
These works notwithstanding, Lake Independence voted for Schakron and the PUP slate. The ground commander in that division was Cordel Hyde, PUP standard bearer for Lake Independence, who party leader Francis Fonseca said proved what the PUP knew – that Hyde is the champion for Lake Independence.
In that division, Schakron and her slate received more votes than Bradley and his slate. We met the PUP mayoral candidate on the ground in the Pickstock electoral division, adjacent to Lake I.
Schakron said that the toughest part of her campaign was seeing the great challenges people are facing, some of them because of joblessness. She believes that the Council should be more involved in addressing the crime situation in the City, especially on the Southside, and that counseling as well as more positive outlets should be provided for the youth.
The youngest member of Schakron's team is Micah Goodin, 21, a student of Galen University, who has interest in both law and education. Goodin was assigned to the Fort George electoral division, and we caught up with him near St. Mary's Primary School, one of the polling stations in that division. At the time, the division was showing a very dismal voter turnout – in fact, the most dismal for the City, at 41%.
We watched Goodin as he negotiated with a 39-year-old entrepreneur who had no intention of going out to vote. This was not a cash negotiation. Goodin convinced the voter, a father, to support him because his intention was to change the status quo for the benefit of young people, like the voter's children. The voter was in fact offended by the pittance he says voters are given for their votes by persons who tend to exploit their office for a lot more.
He said that he would hold Goodin accountable: "He made promises to my children that he will make certain things happen and I am going to hold him to that," the voter said. "If he does not, when the time comes again, don't come knocking at my door," he added.
Goodin won't get that chance—at least just yet, since his slate was not elected to office on Wednesday. However, he seemed to us to be genuinely committed in continuing to seek public office. Goodin was previously set to challenge the UDP's Patrick Faber in Collet – another division in which the slate of the ruling United Democratic Party won by a substantial margin over the PUP slate.
All indications are that he will be back on the ballot. Schakron told us that she also does not intend to give up.
"I really believe we need change, and I really want to be a part of that change," Schakron said.
Ernesto Torres, an independent candidate for mayor, told us that many voters pledged their support for him. He expected to make a better showing at the polls than he did the last time, but he again got about 2% of the mayoral votes cast by city residents.
Bradley and his party have been asking voters to support them as they continue the infrastructural transformation of the City and other parts of the country.
Bradley acknowledges the need for the City to give attention to more streets, as well as proper drainage. He said that voters have seen that they have built 140 streets and they are hopeful they will get additional work done.
When we spoke with the mayor today, on the first day of his second term as mayor of Belize City, he told us that he was back at work this morning—even after a late night waiting for the election results—continuing to tackle pressing matters. The Council is faced with a $2 million debt judgment for sanitation, and Bradley said that this is something they will have to deal with come Monday.
Elected with Bradley are UDP councilors Hyacinth Latchman-Cuellar, Alifa Elrington-Hyde, Jason Edwards, Dr. Alain Gonzalez, Dion Leslie, Bernard Q.A. Pitts, Jr., Dean Trevor Samuels, Kevin Vincent Singh, Michael L. Theus, and Philip Willoughby – who received the most votes for the UDP, with 12,905 casting their X's for Willoughby.


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David Adams is the Co-Founder and General Manager of Vigil Games, a subsidiary of THQ. David oversees both the technical and creative development of all Vigil Games projects, including Darksiders.
In 2000, David founded Realm Interactive and built an all-star team of artists, programmers and designers in order to build Realm's first title, the MMO Exarch. At Realm, David served as Team Lead, Lead Programmer and Lead Designer. In 2003 NCSoft acquired Realm, after which David joined NCSoft's 3rd party team and was responsible for researching and developing prototypes for next-gen technology and titles. Prior to his time at Realm, David served as Technology Director for Learning Productions, LLC where he was responsible for designing and building the company's trademark online multimedia business simulation.


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Sioux Falls Get Out There Campaign
Dave Roberts Published: June 30, 2020
Terry Jacobs TSM
It's no secret to residents and longtime business owners in Sioux Falls that life is really good here. Just look around at the growth we've experienced in the last 5,10 and 20 years. With the developers who have an eye for the future of this city and to jump-start, the economy in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, the Sioux Falls Chamber of Commerce is ready to launch a new campaign.
Dakota News Now (Used with permission)
Dakota News Now is reporting that the Sioux Falls Area Chamber of Commerce has announced a new marketing campaign aimed to help businesses dealing with the ongoing effects of the coronavirus pandemic: "Be Smart. Be Safe. Get Out There."
Through this entire period of self-quarantine and self-isolation, working from home, the need to wear a face mask, and the constant reminders of proper hygiene in washing our hands, has made us more aware of our surroundings. We distance ourselves from others. Send our spouse to the grocery store. And only wave to our neighbors.
But the business community has struggled like never before. Employee layoffs closed doors and finding new opportunities. Just like one Minnesota based company.
Recently as reported by SiouxFalls.Business, a Minnesota-based business of more than 30 years that was destroyed by rioters, declared he would rebuild his manufacturing company. But not in Minnesota. Kris Wyrobek the owner of 7-Sigma a manufacturer of industrial products such as rollers for printing presses and mannequins for medical training, is bringing his company with 50 jobs to Sioux Falls.
So let's help Sioux Falls shine as we always have. Be Smart. Be Safe. Get Out There.
Falls Park
Source: Sioux Falls Get Out There Campaign
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Canonical is set to release Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) this month, and the first Beta is now available as an installable image.
I've been running various flavors of Linux for many years as my primary operating system, and am impressed with the ease of use and stability of Ubuntu. I particularly appreciate the lack of viruses, trojans and other malware for the OS, and have switched over a couple of the machines that the wife and kids use without any complaints.
If you're curious to try out the newest version of the popular Linux-based operating system, you might want to try installing and running it in a virtual environment such as VirtualBox.
In case you haven't encountered it previously, VirtualBox is an open-source x86 emulator. Using VirtualBox, you can create a virtual environment on your current system and run a complete, self-contained operating system within. Your host system can be Linux, Windows, OS X or Solaris, and the guest system can be any number of operating systems such as Windows, DOS/Windows 3.x, Linux, Solaris, OS/2, OpenBSD, etc. The advantage of running a guest operating system is that it is entirely sand-boxed off from the host OS, so your primary working environment is perfectly safe.
Ubuntu's new Unity interface is heavily reliant on 3D rendering, so the points about enabling 3D acceleration for the virtual machine and installing the VirtualBox guest utilities are critical. Those things need only be done once and are quite easy, so this is a pretty painless way to get going.
Once you have things set up, you can play with the 11.04 Beta and its controversial new Unity interface. I've previously used Unity on a netbook, and find that it took some getting used to, but I eventually grew to appreciate it. If you absolutely despise Unity, it's still possible to revert to a more classic Gnome interface – just select "Ubuntu Classic" from the options menu before you log-in to the OS next time.
A full description of the changes in 11.04 is available here.
Note that you may encounter some glitches with the 11.04 Beta, since it is a beta version after all. At the moment, it seems slow to start up on VirtualBox, and there is an error about Compiz dying when you first boot up. Aside from those startup glitches, everything seems to work pretty well though.


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EAA & BCAA - A Full Amino Acid Explainer
Amino acids are the "building blocks" of protein, and amino acid supplements are some of the most popular products on the market.
Despite their popularity, many consumers may not fully understand what purpose amino acids serve or the differences between one amino acid supplement and another one.
That's where this article comes in. We'll help discuss the most important amino acids as well as discuss the differences between the two most common types of amino acid supplements on the market (EAAs and BCAAs).
Best Tasting Aminos
EAA Max is a delicious-tasting essential amino acid supplement that supplies all nine EAAs required for protein synthesis, including 5g 2:1:1 BCAA..
Two Types of Amino Acid Supplements
As we mentioned above, the two predominant forms of amino acid supplements on the market are ones containing essential amino acids (EAAs) and those containing branched-chain amino acids (BCAAs).
What are Essential Amino Acids?
Amino acids are grouped into two main categories -- Essential Amino Acids (EAAs) and nonessential amino acids.
EAAs are dubbed "essential" because the human body cannot produce them on its own, meaning they must be obtained through the diet (food or supplements).
Nonessential amino acids, on the other hand, are amino acids the body can generate from other amino acids, carbohydrates, and fats.
There are a total of nine essential amino acids. Those nine EAA's are:
Why are EAAs Important?
Simply put, EAA's are required for protein synthesis, meaning that if you're lacking in any one of the nine essential amino acids, your body won't do much in the way of protein construction, muscle repair, or muscle building. While protein synthesis is absolutely critical for your fitness goals, that only begins to scratch the surface of the many roles and functions EAA's perform in the body.
Essential amino acids also support energy production, cellular repair, and aid in nutrient digestion and absorption.
Additionally, EAAs help protect the mitochondria of each cell in your body. Remember, mitochondria are the "mini power plants" inside of each cell to produces ATP.[1]
Without EAAs your body does not have the raw materials needed for basic human function, let alone building lean muscle.
This is why consuming sufficient amounts of EAA's is absolutely critical for everyday life.
For bodybuilders, athletes, and even recreational lifters, the requirement for EAAs is significantly greater than sedentary individuals due to the increased wear and tear their bodies are subjected to on a daily basis from weight lifting.
While you could get all the EAAs you need from your diet alone, oftentimes, a person's diet may lack diversity (or they may have a low appetite), setting them up for certain amino acid deficiencies.
This is when it's beneficial to have an essential amino acid supplement.
What are BCAAs?
BCAAs stand for "branched-chain" amino acids. They are a subset of the essential amino acids that make up about one-third of muscle protein and are comprised of:
BCAAs are some of the most well-researched of all the amino acids, due to their ability to activate the mechanistic target of rapamycin (mTOR) pathway. The mTOR pathway is the intracellular signaling pathway that drives muscle protein synthesis in the body.[3]
Additionally, the three BCAAs are also metabolized a bit differently in the body than the other essential amino acids.
Upon ingestion, BCAAs bypass metabolization in the liver and are transported to your muscles. Inside skeletal muscle, they are converted into branched-chain oxo acids (BCOA), where they serve as a source of fuel for the production of ATP (the "cellular currency" of energy production).
Now, the fact that BCAAs can serve as an energy substrate in skeletal muscle is noteworthy, as it means they may help to limit muscle protein breakdown as well as glycogen depletion during prolonged exercise.[14]
Additionally, BCAAs may also help improve mental and physical performance by reducing fatigue as leucine competes with tryptophan for uptake into the brain.[14,15]
In case you weren't aware, tryptophan is the amino acid used by the body to produce serotonin. Increases with serotonin are linked to increased central fatigue. Therefore, supplementing with BCAA (primarily leucine) may help limit production of serotonin, and help reduce perceived exertion and the onset of fatigue, allowing for greater performance.
Overall, the main attributes of BCAAs are:
Stimulate mTOR pathway and muscle protein synthesis
Limit muscle protein breakdown
Spare muscle glycogen
Serve as an energy substrate for skeletal muscle
May help limit CNS fatigue
Now, if the branched-chain oxo acids are not immediately required for energy, they are sent back to the liver for oxidation and energy production.
Muscle Protein Synthesis and Amino Acids
In order to build protein, your body requires all nine essential amino acids be present in sufficient amounts.
BCAAs (particularly leucine) can stimulate muscle protein synthesis via activation of the mTOR pathway in the body, and they may also help limit muscle breakdown during periods of low-calorie intake when muscle is at a heightened risk of breakdown.
But, to complete the protein building process, the other six amino acids also need to be present.
This is why we prefer to supplement with EAAs.
EAA supplements provide all nine essential amino acids that the body requires to synthesize muscle protein. Plus, EAA supplements include BCAAs as the three branched-chain amino acids are a subset of the EAAs.
So, when using an EAA supplement (like EAA Max), you're getting all three of the BCAAs plus the other six essential amino acids needed to support muscle growth and recovery!
Benefits of Essential Amino Acids (EAAs)
Increased muscle protein synthesis
Reduced muscle protein breakdown
Improved metabolism and energy production
Accelerated recovery
Better muscle growth
Enhanced mitochondrial function
Essential Amino Acid Breakdown
Ok, so EAA's are essential, but do you know what each one actually does in the body?
Yes, they're involved heavily in building proteins and muscle, but each mighty little amino has something else to bring to the party too!
Let's take a deeper look at each individual essential amino acid, beginning with the "king" of aminos in:
The best known, most studied, of the amino acids is Leucine. It's also the primary reason BCAA's have gotten so much hype over the years.
Leucine is a potent stimulator of the mechanistic target of rapamycin (mTOR).[2] FYI, mTOR previously stood for mammalian target of rapamycin.
mTOR is a cellular signal pathway that functions as the main regulator of cell metabolism, survival, growth, and multiplication.[3] There are several different mTOR pathways in the body, but the one we're primarily interested in when discussing muscle growth is mTOR1. This particular pathway is the driver of muscle protein synthesis (i.e.muscle building).
Leucine is also beneficial for combatting catabolism too, making it extremely useful for staving off excessive muscle protein breakdown during training.
Leucine's weaker "younger brother", Isoleucine can also stimulate protein synthesis in the body, but not to the degree that Leucine can. Isoleucine really shines in its ability to enhance glucose uptake and utilization use during intense exercise, such as weightlifting or high intensity interval training (HIIT).[4]
The third leg of the BCAA triumvirate is Valine. While it hasn't been as heavily studied as Leucine, Valine has been well documented to improve glycogen synthesis in skeletal muscle, prevent catabolism, and support energy production.[4]
Histidine is a precursor to histamine and essential for cognitive function and wakefulness, as it's required for the production and maintenance of the myelin sheaths that envelop nerve cells.[9] Histidine also supports the signal transmission from the brain to the various regions of the body.
On top of that, this essential amino acid also aids carnosine production[10], a powerful intracellular buffer. Histidine binds to beta alanine to form carnosine, which enhances your ability to remove metabolic waste products, such as lactic acid, during training, allowing you to train longer before succumbing to fatigue.
L-Lysine is best known as an amino that enhances calcium absorption and recovery from injury, most likely due to its role in protein construction.[5] It's also required for carnitine production, making it essential to fat metabolism. Remember, carnitine is a substance that aids the conversion of fat into useable energy.
One other thing to note about lysine is that it is a key player in the formation of cartilage, collagen, skin, and tendons.
Like all of the other EAAs, Methionine is involved in countless essential functions in the body, but the most well-known of these is as a lipotropic -- a compound that aids fat digestion in the liver. Methionine also serves as a precursor to the amino acid / antioxidant L-Cysteine, which the body uses to combat free radicals and oxidative stress that can accumulate as a byproduct of exercise.[11]
Phenylalanine is key to proper Central Nervous System (CNS) function. Upon entering the body, phenylalanine crosses the blood-brain barrier (BBB) where it's used to synthesize important neurotransmitters including adrenaline (epinephrine), noradrenaline (norepinephrine), and dopamine.[6] These three neurotransmitters govern how you view and interact with everything around you. Plus, these three neurotransmitters also enhance mood, energy, and focus, three key factors for a productive workout.
The last amino acid to be discovered was Threonine.[6] As one of the EAAs, threonine is necessary for protein synthesis, but more specifically, it's used to produce glycine and serine, which drive muscle protein synthesis in the body. Also worth noting is that threonine works alongside aspartate and methionine to support fat digestion in the liver, a process also known as lipotropic function.
L-tryptophan is the lone precursor to serotonin, a key neurotransmitter for behavior, mood, and cognition.[7] Unfortunately, tryptophan is the least plentiful amino acid in the body, which makes supplementing with it that much more important.[8] Without adequate tryptophan you can suffer from serotonin deficiency, setting you up for some serious bouts of depression!
EAA Max -- Your EAA Solution!
EAAs are essential for protein synthesis, muscle growth, and optimal day-to-day function. They're also an ideal choice for peri-workout (intra workout) nutrition, which is why Primeval Labs has created EAA Max. Each scoop of EAA Max provides your muscles with all nine EAA's required for muscle repair and growth, including a full 5g of 2:1:1 BCAA's!
And don't worry about the typical "off" flavor that amino acid products usually have. Primeval Labs has sourced the highest quality aminos so you'll never get that "amino funk" when drinking EAA Max. Premium quality, superior formulation, and industry-leading taste make EAA Max the best EAA supplement on the market!
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If there's one thing Americans love to do, it's throw a theme party. From toga to black light to bring your own potato dish, if it can be turned into a reason for a celebration, chances are it will.
Overseas, people are drawing on inspiration from America's partying ways to throw bashes of their own. The Instagram photos from these get-togethers give us an interesting glimpse into how we might be portrayed overseas.
There is one constant in every American-themed party, and that is red plastic cups. Of course, country singer Toby Keith infamously released the uber-catchy "Red Solo Cup," but the plastic cylinders were popular at parties long before then. It might be because the cups can conspicuously conceal any liquid from the casual observer. The cups are also cost-effective and can hold a decent amount of liquid.
Regardless, the perception exists that Americans love to employ red cups partying, whether it be for drinking, pyramid-building, or playing a game of flip cup.
Another common thread in these parties held overseas is the food spread. A lot of popcorn is served at American-themed socials. In addition, marshmallows, cupcakes, and sloppy joes all make the menu for these bashes.
Finally, overseas revelers slightly alter their wardrobes before appearing at the party. Shirts with logos and phrases printed on them are popular. Some even bust out their favorite baseball hat or basketball jersey. I guess if you're feeling extra American, you dress up as Marge Simpson.
Red cups, popcorn, the Simpsons. … I suppose we could be known for worse.