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Books, exhibitions, films, music, places – anything that inspires. Here so I don't forget.
Books, exhibitions, films, music, places - anything that inspires. Here so I don't forget.
Mary Oliver, 1935-2019: one wild and precious life
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Walking the Leeds-Liverpool canal
Lowry in Stockport
Paul Nash and World War One: 'I am no longer an artist, I am a messenger to those who want the war to go on for ever... and may it burn their lousy souls'
Marilynne Robinson's Gilead trilogy
Elizabeth Bishop: Brazil, January 1, 1502
Walking the canal: Liverpool to Bootle
Atrocities inflicted on suffragettes in Walton jail
Painting with scissors: Matisse's cut-outs at Tate Modern
Only in England: photos by Tony Ray-Jones and Martin Parr
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Who are we, if not a combination of experiences, information, books we have read, things imagined? Each life is an encyclopaedia, a library, an inventory of objects, a series of styles, and everything can be constantly reshuffled and reordered in every conceivable way.
- Italo Calvino, Six Memos for the Next Millennium
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Walking the ancient sandstone cliffs of the Mersey
It was our dog's second birthday and a bright winter's afternoon, so yesterday we decided to walk the first stretch of the Sandstone Trail, a path that follows the Central Cheshire Ridge – a range of sandstone cliffs which form a thirty-mile backbone running the length of the county.
The trail begins at Beacon Hill above Frodsham, and that's where we started. After crossing the golf course we descended the red sandstone cliffs at Dunsdale Hollow by the steep staircase of steps carved into the rock, known locally as Jacob's Ladder. The sandstone rocks were laid down in the Triassic, 300 million years ago, when Cheshire was a desert basin. These same sandstones outcrop elsewhere along the Mersey valley and again in many parts of Wirral. They also underlie Edge Hill in Liverpool, as anyone who has entered Liverpool by train through the deep cuttings there will know. In Dunsdale Hollow you can see the layers in the sandstone that record the varying stages by which the deposits were laid down.
The trail climbs out of Dunsdale Hollow by another series of rock steps, known as Abraham's Leap. Just beyond, the path opens out on the cliff edge at Woodhouse Hill to offer a stupendous panorama of the Mersey estuary from the Runcorn crossing down to Liverpool, with its two cathedrals visible on a clear day.
Looking east – towards Helsby crag and Ellesmere Port
Looking north – across the river to Speke and Hale
I had always been puzzled how a river of fairly modest size at Stockport, only 30 miles away, could have produced such a large estuary. The answer is provided by an information panel at the viewpoint: the Mersey estuary is a valley scoured and over-deepened by a glacier. Following the last glaciation, rising sea levels flooded the valley to form the estuary. The present outline of the estuary was established roughly 3,000 years ago. Occasionally along the way you will see large boulders, not of sandstone: these are erratics, deposited here by the retreating ice and identified as having originated in the Lake District and Southern Uplands of Scotland.
It is a tremendous view, though these days there is a constant roar from the endless traffic on the M56 motorway that, like the railway and Ship Canal, follows the level floodplain in the middle distance, with the industrial landscape of Ellesmere Port to the east.
View of the Mersey estuary from Woodhouse Hill
On Woodhouse Hill
But, from here the path turns away from the escarpment and the din of the motorway, entering Snidley Moor woods following the Ridgeway, an old sunken lane. There are three woods here on the sandstone escarpment – Snidley Moor, Woodhouse Hill and Frodsham Hill Wood, collectively managed by the Woodland Trust and forming the second largest continuous block of broad-leaved woodland in the county.
Areas of this woodland are recorded on the ancient woodland inventory, while and at Woodhouse Hill the remains of an Iron Age fort are visible, the most northerly of seven such forts strung out along the ridge through Cheshire – sites chosen for their commanding views over the plain.
Soon after entering Snidley Moor Wood there is an old, gnarled silver birch tree which is estimated to be at least 100 years old – a considerable age for a silver birch. Tucked into a crevice in the trunk is a book left by the Tree Officer, in which passers-by leave their thoughts and memories of the woodland, to be collect in a Tree Book.
Fortunately, this woodland is owned and managed by the Woodland Trust, so is under no threat from the government's plans to sell all English woodland along with nationally owned nature reserves. John Vidal, on his guardian.co.uk Environment Blog, noted the other day that until last week, barely any MPs – apart from Caroline Lucas of the Green Party – had shown great interest in the plans, despite more than 150,000 people having already signed the 38 Degrees petition, marches in the Forest of Dean and new protection groups setting up all over England.
A well-kempt forest begs Our Lady's grace;
Someone is not disgusted, or at least
Is laying bets upon the human race
Retaining enough decency to last;
The trees encountered on a country stroll
Reveal a lot about a country's soul.
A small grove massacred to the last ash,
An oak with heart-rot, give away the show:
This great society is going to smash;
They cannot fool us with how fast they go,
How much they cost each other and the gods.
A culture is no better than its woods.
– WH Auden, from Bucolics, II: Woods
Retracing our footsteps, we came to the edge of the woodland where, beyond a field of stubble, the condensation columns rose from Fiddler's Ferry power station. (By the way, head over to Kathleen Connally's always excellent photoblog, A Walk Through Durham Township Pennsylvania, for a proper photo of stubble)
As we reached the top end of the fairway again, we turned to look back the way we had come to see a fine sunset.
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NC, Ohio to celebrate 118th anniversary of first flight
A plane flies over the Wright Brothers Memorial in November 2019. Photo: Jennifer Allen
While Orville and Wilbur Wright completed the first successful heavier-than-air powered flight on the sands of Kitty Hawk on Dec. 17, 1903, their journey began years before in their home state of Ohio.
Three nonprofit organizations that celebrate aviation history joined together to celebrate the 118th anniversary of the first flight and launched Monday WrightRoute.org, an online resource connecting the legacy of aviation of North Carolina, "First in Flight," and Ohio, the "Birthplace of Aviation."
Outer Banks Forever, the official partner for national parks on the Outer Banks, National Aviation Heritage Area and First Flight Society have been working with the National Park Service at Wright Brothers National Memorial and Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park to link the Wright brothers' stories from North Carolina, Ohio and the states in between through virtual and in-person learning experiences.
"Our national parks and nonprofit organizations have been friends for many years, and we enjoy working together to tell the inspiring and important stories of how aviation has changed our world," said Jessica Barnes, Director of Outer Banks Forever, in a statement. "Our co-produced virtual event and the Wright Route invite everyone to learn about the Wright brothers' quest for powered flight in new ways."
Outer Banks Forever and National Aviation Heritage Area will jointly livestream ceremonies on Facebook the First Flight Society's celebration at the Wright Brothers National Memorial at 9 a.m. and Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park at 10 a.m., both Friday, on their Facebook pages.
WrightRoute.org was designed to show a more complete picture of the Wright brothers' lives and work and encourages aviation enthusiasts to travel between North Carolina and Ohio to explore the Wright brothers' legacy in a new way, officials said.
Major stops along the Wright Route are Dayton and Cincinnati, both in Ohio, Norfolk, Virginia, and Elizabeth City, Kitty Hawk, and Kill Devil Hills. Many of the activities are inspired by the Wright brothers such as biking, boating, camping, fishing, hiking, photography and more.
"Not only can you experience two ultimate aviation heritage tourism destinations on the Wright Route, but you can also discover the towns where the Wright brothers ate, rested and shopped for supplies," said Mackensie Wittmer, executive director of the National Aviation Heritage Area. "We are proud to combine our messaging for greater economic impact in Dayton, Kitty Hawk and all the towns in between."
The Wright Route also offers recommendations for museums and historical sites to visit as well as family-friendly experiences and excursions to have as part of the journey through the Wright brothers' story.
"We are thrilled to partner with these two terrific organizations," said Mike Fonseca, President of the First Flight Society. "It's vitally important to share the full story of the Wright brothers, from their childhood and early experiments in Dayton to their successful flights in Kitty Hawk and beyond."
Wright Route is neither associated with, sponsored by nor maintained by a travel agency or a tourism bureau. It is a free online resource for educational purposes.
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J.J. Abrams Makes Surprise Appearance at 'Arrival' Premiere
Abrams surprised 'Arrival' stars Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner on the silver carpet.
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The crowd was out of this world with excitement for the arrivals of Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner at the Arrival premiere in Los Angeles on Sunday.
Both stars of the film made sure to take selfies with the slew of crazed fans standing by outside the film's silver carpet. And then it was Adams's and Renner's time to fan out once J.J. Abrams made a surprise appearance. The trio mingled on the carpet, laughing nonstop in between photographers trying to capture the unexpected moment.
Also unexpected — well, to Adams's character in the film — was the alien arrival that touched down on Earth, taking viewers on a mind-bending cinematic adventure. What's one thing Adams wouldn't want arriving in her backyard in real life? She joked to The Hollywood Reporter, "Black widows! They like to take camp in my backyard."
Final 'Arrival' Trailer Promises Aliens, a Mystery Weapon and Treason
But there's an arrival on set she'll never be afraid of. "We were so lucky to have him for this film," Adams told THR about her reunion with American Hustle co-star Renner. "He is a huge leading man, and he steps into the supporting role with a lot of grace and support. He's a really dear friend, and I value him very much."
One of the biggest fans of the duo's reunion was the film's producer, Shawn Levy, who told THR, "Hanging out with famous people and awesome actors is only a little bit fun." He added, "It's having the best talent available to bring our story to life. This started with us believing in the short story ["Story of Your Life" by Ted Chiang] that we found over five years ago. Seeing A-plus actors manifest these characters who were just in our heads — that's the best part."
The film was followed by an after party at Catch LA, where Renner and Adams chatted it up with Paramount CEO Brad Grey.
Arrival hits theaters on Nov. 11.


Here is the link to the Times article about pesticide exposure in the womb. Basically, 3 separate studies show that school-age children who were exposed to pesticides in the womb have lower IQs. Yet another reason to choose your food carefully and cook at home more often!
When cooking for my family, I realize the benefit of organic; but, it is not always available, in the budget, or as fresh as local produce. As the Times article suggests, I use the Dirty Dozen and Clean 15 lists put out by the Environmental Working Group (EWG) as a guide and my recipes reflect this. In addition to organic produce, I also recommend organic dairy, pasture-raised meats, and eggs from pastured birds whenever possible.
"A blueberry pincer grasp meets the World's Smallest Egg Sandwich"
Seems the last time I posted, peaches were in season–could that be right?
New blog rules. Less chatter, more recipes. Or maybe just recipes. And more for the finger-fooding, puree-smearing set.
Baby G is roughly 17#, nearly walking, and just sprouted her first tooth.
Her Mom receives roughly 5 consecutive hours of sleep per night. More than the President (I think), but less than her husband.
Gently mix the beef, oats, onion, garlic, milk, salt and pepper in a large bowl (using a clawed hand works best). Form into roughly 20 meatballs.
Heat the oil in a large saute pan over medium-high heat. Add the meatballs and cook on all sides until a deep brown, about 2-3 minutes per side; transfer to a plate. Remove excess fat from pan, leaving just a sheen behind. Add tomato puree, vinegar, Worcestershire and sugar, stirring up any brown bits from the bottom of the pan. Bring to a boil. Add the meatballs and stir to coat with sauce; reduce heat to simmer. Cook uncovered about 25 minutes, turning the balls every 5 minutes.
Test meatball's temperature on your lip before serving to an infant. Serve with some chopped up steamed vegetables.


The core sample from the oldest coast redwood tree ever found is a thin rod of wood the width of a pencil, a couple feet long, and densely scored at irregular intervals by dark brown stripes. In this compact package, exposed to the air and sitting on a table in front of me at the Humboldt State University Institute for Redwood Ecology, lies 1,500 years of history from a tree dating back to 328 CE.
Dendrochronologist Allyson Carroll hand-counted each of the 1,498 minuscule rings in this core. And not just this sample, but hundreds more; in all, Carroll has counted more than a quarter of a million coast redwood tree rings.
She does it because these little rings have immense power. In the labs of scientists, cores like this will have another life. Rings will be counted, measured, and combusted into vapor, and their elemental origins will be tallied, all in an effort to peer into the deep history of the earth.
Coast redwoods (Sequoia sempervirens) are famous for being the tallest trees in the world. Redwoods shoot up hundreds of feet into the air and hail from another age, their ancestors arriving in the fossil record over 200 million years ago. Yet the tiny spaces between the rings – spaces so small scientists peer at them with microscopes – tell big stories about the past that no human alive has seen, and a future we have yet to understand.
From the Bay Area, the route to the redwoods is straightforward. Highway 101, appropriately known as the Redwood Highway, heads to the heart of redwood country, punctuated by roadside attractions ("World Famous Grandfather Tree!" "Trees of Mystery!") that testify to the longevity and size of redwoods.
Humboldt State sits tucked between the northern California coast and the redwood groves of Arcata Community Forest. It's here that Allyson Carroll strung together the information from hundreds of thousands of tree rings to build a coast redwood timeline, a critical key to deciphering the historical climate information contained inside Sequoia sempervirens. Hers is the longest coast redwood chronology established to date, made through three years of work and funding from Save the Redwoods League's Redwoods and Climate Change Initiative, a groundbreaking long-term research project exploring how climate change will impact redwoods for the foreseeable future.
The Institute for Redwood Ecology operates out of a sunny office next to a lab reminiscent of high school wood shop, with tool-lined walls and stacks of circular wood slabs arranged like wedding cakes. Photos of living redwoods adorn the walls, while remains of dead trees lay scattered across the room. A massive slab, maybe three or four feet in diameter, sits on a table, like a specimen waiting to be dissected. A lone graduate student supervised by Carroll is in the lab over spring break in an otherwise deserted campus, measuring redwood samples that will eventually be dated using the chronology Carroll constructed.
In show-and-tell style, Carroll holds up a blue and silver increment borer, a tool that extracts tree cores from living trees. She turns it to show me the sharpened metal tip that's twisted into a trunk to extract the core, like a comically large corkscrew handle. This simple hand tool was the first step in rewriting the climate history of northern California.
The tools of tree ring study, like the increment borer, haven't changed much since the beginning of dendrochronology in the early 20th century.
At heart, dendrochronology (from the Greek for "tree" and "the study of time") is a down-to-earth science, grounded in things anyone can observe without the use of scientifically obscure machines.
It's common knowledge that each alternating light and dark band in a tree's cross-section is a testament to a year in its life, a record of the wood's natural growth during each season. Leonardo da Vinci reputedly observed as much in a painting treatise in the 15th century. But the so-called "grandfather of dendrochronology" A.E. Douglass developed a science of cross-dating, or a systematic search for patterns of variation of tree rings over specific years. The size of tree rings shrink and grow depending on things like how much water or light the tree is getting.
"Picture it like a bar code," Carroll says. She shows me the tiny pencil marks that cross the landscape of a tree core. Like bar codes that store and track information, patterns of wide and narrow tree rings store and track climate data. Pieced together and aggregated, cores can form a tree ring chronology, a map of the average width of tree rings for each year that can be mapped against known climate data and then extended into the far past.
Cross-dating only works if you can pinpoint which rings come from which years. It's simple with trees that predictably grow a ring every year, like giant sequoias, for which Douglass developed a 3,000-year tree ring chronology. But it took decades for the coast redwood chronology to be pushed back further than a millennium, let alone two.
Blame the unruly growth of coast redwood tree rings. Coast redwoods are notoriously tricky to cross-date, with plenty of skipped years, false rings, and wedging ("under the microscope, it almost looks like someone smushed them all together," Carroll says) to throw off all but the most diligent researcher. The oldest tree ring Carroll sampled skipped a whopping 186 rings. It is only by matching any given sample against a larger, more robust group of cores that dendrochronologists can tell whether rings have been skipped.
Several core samples are extracted from each tree at multiple heights, then taped and glued to wooden mounts for stability and sanded by hand. Carroll lays a dozen samples down on the frosted glass table to illustrate. In one sample, the rings disappear into a dark block. These are scars from fires, retained by trees and written into the physical record of their bodies. Carroll is looking for clues like these when she examines each ring in the samples, methodically marking out the years with a pencil and logging the data into a computer program.
Dot by dot, Carroll counted her way into the deep past. "I set out a grid of marks, just using a number 2 pencil." In the end, she pieced these dots together into a coast redwood chronology stretching back 1,685 years that can now be used to date other trees and samples.
And yet the tedium, the kind of persevering research so little mentioned when we talk about science, pays off. In the case of dendrochronology, cross-dating has been used variously to date a Stradivarius violin, aid in the manhunt for Ted Bundy, and unravel the nearly 300 year old mystery of a Japanese "orphan tsunami" in 1700 that was, finally, traced to a magnitude-9.0 earthquake in the Pacific Northwest.
But this is only part of the story told by the tree rings. To continue the story of deep time of Earth's climate history, we have to zoom down into world invisible to human eyes. The thread continues in ever smaller spaces contained within these giant trees, past even the resolution of microscopes, at the level of atoms and isotopes.
Just as dendrochronology deciphers the climatic history of our world by reading the cross-sections of its oldest living inhabitants, isotopic analysis does so by peering deep into their atomic structures.
Todd Dawson has done a lot to advance this science. He's enjoyed a decades-long professional love affair with redwoods, and his work, like Carroll's, has been funded under the Redwoods and Climate Change Initiative.
Dawson's intellectual fascination with redwoods has spanned a career – closer to a lifetime, actually. The first spark of interest ignited as an undergrad at UC Santa Cruz, a campus home to dozens of majestic, towering trees that Dawson passed every day on his way to class.
Add to that bucolic setting the tinder of a pivotal ecology class led by legendary botanist Jean Langenheim, who didn't lecture merely about what was currently known about redwoods. She took one step further and explained all the gaps in knowledge that remained from a full scientific understanding of these stately giants.
"I thought, gosh, we don't know very much about what fog does, or what their physiology is, things like that," Dawson says.
After he received his PhD Dawson returned to California as a professor at UC Berkeley, and to the subject that had sparked his interest decades ago, to build a research program around redwood ecology and particularly isotopic analysis of redwoods.
Fifteen years ago, Dawson realized that redwoods absorb water directly through their leaves – a scientific "game changer," as he calls it. In the summer, redwoods can get up to 45 percent of their water from fog in the absence of rain, as their needles collect and condense the moisture. But other species also benefit from these foggy interactions, like sword ferns, some of which get all their water from the dripping leaves of their looming neighbors.
Dawson can pinpoint exactly how much fog coast redwoods have absorbed in a given year by measuring the isotopes in their tree rings. Isotopes are atoms of the same element that have different numbers of neutrons. Take carbon, for example, the building block of life on our planet. The most common isotope, carbon-12, carries 6 protons and 6 neutrons. But naturally occurring carbon-13 has an extra neutron that makes it slightly heavier. Trees that are stressed will have more of the heavier carbon-13. Likewise, fog water has higher levels of the oxygen-18 isotope. It's a small difference in weight, but an important one.
In a recent, yet to be published research project, Dawson paired up with Utah State University's Steve Voelker and Southern Oregon University's John Roden to reconstruct past climate based on coast redwood tree ring widths and isotopic analysis.
Voelker, a dendrochronologist, cut slabs from fallen trees along Highway 101 and cross-dated them. Barred from using a chainsaw because of the breeding season of the threatened marbled murrelet, he used an old cross saw salvaged from a defunct redwood sawmill – one likely used to log hundreds of redwoods some hundred years ago, now pressed into the service of redwood conservation.
With these slabs and another from HSU's Institute for Redwood Ecology by way of Allyson Carroll, Voelker compiled a dendrochronology that went back to the year 900 CE, which, paired with isotopic analysis, gave more clues – and a surprising revelation – to our current story of past climate.
"We can go way, way, way back in time," Dawson says.
One thousand, one hundred some years is both a long time, and not.
By one measure, this doesn't even begin to touch geologic time, the scale against which the births and deaths of mountains are counted – known as deep time. Scottish geologist James Hutton fathered the concept when he intuited that striations in rocks pointed to a much longer history of the earth than previously accepted.
Deep time is on the scale of millions of years. Yet to humans, with our inherent century-long expiration dates, such a time becomes nearly mythological, on the scale of Noah's 950 years in the Book of Genesis.
But where it gets interesting is where one thousand, one hundred some years overlaps with our time scale. This amount of time can be thought of in terms of generations lived, empires risen and fallen, or knowledge gained and lost.
Or the lives of old redwoods.
It is thanks to the longevity of redwoods, both in lifespan and in physical building material, that such a metaphoric library even exists. The rich auburn heartwood that gives redwoods their name is notoriously resistant to the rot and decay of the descending years, even after the tree has died. This is why coast redwoods make such excellent records, giving scientists the ability to peer back thousands of years in time while weather records in California stretch back only a century and a half.
Californians sometimes hold onto an illusory assurance of knowing what "normal" is. Unfortunately, periodic drought, flood and fire may actually be hallmarks of the natural landscape, says urban theorist Mike Davis. Short-sightedness and lack of long-term data, Davis writes in The Ecology of Fear, coupled with a desire to "get on with things," spell periodic and yet inevitable disaster for Southern California and a public unprepared for the intervals of severe climate events.
The rest of the state shares in this fate, as Dawson and Voelker's team would find out.
Californians are too familiar with the state's recent five-year exceptional drought. But the redwood tree records seem to be saying that this is the new normal. Dawson and Voelker uncovered evidence of long-term climate cycles that unfold over decades or even centuries. The longest of these occurs on a period greater than the average human lifespan, yet touches the lives of all Californians today.
Embedded in the tree ring data is evidence of not one but three distinct cycles ranging from the yearly to the centennial. The most familiar, the El Niño-La Niña cycle, takes place over a few years and involves dramatic changes to the pattern of winds and water temperatures across the Equatorial Pacific. The Pacific Decadal Oscillation is a decades-long cycle in the Northern Pacific in which the waters off the West Coast fluctuate between warmer and cooler surface temperatures. The longest cycle the team found spans over a century and potentially involves wind patterns that connect the North Pacific with the North Atlantic.
Dawson says the redwood cores hold the first record of all three cycles. The tree ring records show that California is caught in the middle of climatic cycles that are so long, we've been ignorant of them until recently. What it also means is that the worst drought we've seen may actually be the norm when taking the long perspective.
The recent drought, says Dawson, seems to line up perfectly within the century-long drought cycle his team found. And they also have evidence of a twenty-year long drought in the mid-8th century, when they suspect that all three drought cycles may have converged at the same time. Drought is looking like an unavoidable part of the landscape. And that's a problem for Californians.
Paleoclimatologist Lynn Ingram believes that the state is currently overdrawn on its water reserves because of a fundamental overestimation of water reserves, arising from the partial weather records collected by the state that go back only to the year 1850.
A long view of the climate record is full of surprises. Using records like tree rings, lake sediments and other forms of proxy data, paleoclimatologists discovered centuries-long droughts in the past. The Medieval Climate Anomaly from around 900 CE to 1300 CE saw two such megadroughts that offer a bleak possible vision of the future. Yet, the recent past saw relatively benign climate – a mixed blessing that led to rapid development of California's water resources and growth in population.
What will happen in the future, when these long-term climate cycles meet man-made climate change, is anybody's guess. It's not just that climate change may be causing severe droughts. Rather, it's that we didn't even understand our climate baseline to begin with. And now humans are changing it in ways we simply don't understand.
The world has recently crossed a new and dubious threshold, one where CO2 levels in the atmosphere have passed and are likely to stay past 400 parts per million (ppm), more than the 350 ppm level deemed safe by some. Until last year, the world hadn't seen these levels since 4 million years ago.
Humanity's mark on the earth is undeniable. Sitting up in an airplane, thousands of feet in the air, Dawson can't help but notice all the landscape changes humans have wrought – swaths of crop fields, wrapped by snaking lines of roads.
At Carroll's suggestion, I drive to the redwood groves at Bull Creek Flats in Humboldt Redwoods State Park. Old growth forests like this one call to mind not just to the past, but the future too. According to research from the Redwoods and Climate Change Initiative, old growth redwood forests are the biggest sequesters of carbon, storing three times as much as other forests.
I'm thinking about all this when I pull up into the nearly deserted parking lot off a dirt road. The trail I follow meanders through redwoods of all sizes and their attendant ferns, ubiquitous moss and hanging lichen – an excessive display of all the different greens nature can devise, from chartreuse and viridian to deep emerald.
My walk is an exercise in trying to pick out signs of deep time. I breathe in, deliberately trying to attune myself to a different time scale. It helps that there's not a sound to be heard, except when I'm near the creek. I press myself to discern some sort of primordial significance lingering in the air, but mostly I just sense the heavy humidity and fog drippings collecting on the moist earth. Unlike Vonnegut's Tralfamadorians, I'm stubbornly stuck in the present.
That's why I find the idea of the "deep present," coined by Oakland geologist Andrew Alden, so appealing. Like a type of geologic mindfulness, it combines the wisdom of the deep past with an appreciation of exactly where we are in time.
If the impeding threat of climate change is, at least partially, a problem of compressed time and myopic vision – when the breakneck pace of greed outstrips our means to understand – could old redwood trees serve not only as a source of scientific data, but as a reminder of the deep present? I think so.
Old growth redwood forests are archives of collective time, accruing in certain protected pockets of northern California. The lifetimes of the trees here could encompass dozens of ours and tell us much in an era when geologic time and human time are colliding catastrophically in climate change. The story told in coast redwood tree rings tell of a nature that is far older and bigger than us.
The deep present involves placing the current era inside that story, within the great span of geology and long cycles of climate. It's seeing the past, reconstructed using tree rings and other paleoclimate records, as an active part of the present, in the hopes of adapting to a future we're in the midst of creating, but can never fully see.
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Awesome, Dear Boy: Once the T-X was established as female, the nouveau role of a female Terminator became incredibly coveted, with about 10,000 actresses auditioning for it.
B-Team Sequel: To James Cameron's Terminator 2: Judgment Day. Cameron refused to return, saying he'd finished the story he set out to tell.
Dawson Casting: Nick Stahl was actually 23 when playing 19-year-old John.
Deleted Scene: There were a lot of them, including the notorious Sgt. Candy scene explaining the origin of the T-800 series. Most other deleted scenes hadn't been released, though.
Disowned Adaptation: Again, this film is one of the three Terminator movies that is completely turned away by James Cameron after Terminator: Dark Fate's production. He personally did enjoy the movie a lot back in 2003 and his opinion stayed that way until Salvation arrived, then he changed his mind and he felt only his first two Terminator movies should be canon.
Distanced from Current Events: Kate's fiancé was originally named Scott Peterson. However, during production, a real Scott Peterson murdered his pregnant wife , so the character was renamed Scott Mason. Despite this, he is still listed as Scott Peterson in the credits.
Doing It for the Art: During the car chase, the T-X attempts to shake the T-850 from the crane's hook by smashing the crane through a building. The studio didn't want to shoot the scene because it was too expensive, so Arnold paid for it himself at a cost of $1.4 million.
Dyeing for Your Art:
Arnold Schwarzenegger worked out for six months, about three hours a day, before shooting started, by which time he said he had the exact same body weight and muscle measurements as he had 12 years previously while shooting the second film.
Kristanna Loken put on 15 pounds of muscle to fit her role of the T-X. She also took a mime class to prepare for her part. Because her character has so few lines, she had to learn to communicate through facial expressions and body gestures.
Flip-Flop of God: Although he admits that T3 isn't the direction he would have taken the films, James Cameron actually enjoyed the film. Considering what he had to say about another sequel to a movie of his, that's quite an accomplishment. But after the arrival of Terminator Salvation, however, he changed his mind and heavily criticized all the sequels after ''T2'', especially this film. As of Terminator: Dark Fate, he's also called this movie "a bad dream", so it's no surprise that Dark Fate ignores the events of Rise of the Machines and acts as the sequel to T2.
Money, Dear Boy: Arnold Schwarzenegger initially refused to make Terminator 3 unless James Cameron directed it. In the end, $30 million (and reportedly Cameron himself) convinced him to make it anyway. As the Doing It for the Art and Dyeing for Your Art examples above indicate, he definitely earned his paycheck.
Never Trust a Trailer: When the T-X is blasted through shutters and down a lift-shaft, the T-850 says, "She'll be back." In the trailer, he turned back from the shutters to say this. But in the movie, he said it while still peering down the shaft.
The Other Darrin: Edward Furlong was originally supposed to reprise his role as John Connor, but he was dropped from the film, allegedly due to a substance abuse problem. Enter Nick Stahl.
The Other Marty: Sophia Bush of One Tree Hill fame was originally cast as Kate Brewster but was replaced by Claire Danes a week later as Jonathan Mostow felt that she was too young for the role.
Permanent Placeholder: After the funeral battle, when the T-X scans its damaged weapons arm, the diagnostics text is an obvious placeholder (and reused for all of the weapons!). Click to read. "TEXT regarding the current weapon being displayed in XPG 40 weapon sub window. Important information regarding this weapon is being displayed here. 679098-8"
Technology Marches On: Cruelly used in the last few minutes. After the heroes arrive to blow up Skynet's mainframe, they discover that due to all the changes they've made to the timeline in previous films, this current iteration of Skynet is actually a distributed computing network spread all throughout the Internet and thus impossible to destroy, just as its military creators intended.
What Could Have Been: See the franchise's page.
The Wiki Rule: The Terminator Wiki .
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Nationwide pulls lower customer ratings than our top picks. The company scored an 88 from Consumer Reports (putting it in 22nd place out of 27 companies), and an "average" rating from J.D. Power. In other words, Nationwide doesn't knock it out of the park for either customer service or claims process — which are both crucial for a great insurer. It also missed our financial stability benchmark by a hair, with S&P Global and Moody's ratings just below the "very strong" or "excellent" benchmarks that we look for.
"Many companies offer discounts for good grades and for completion of an approved driver's education or defensive driving course," continued Doreen Haughton-James of 123 Drive! Driving Academy. "Some also have their own discount programs. State Farm, for example, has a program called 'Steer Clear' where students receive discounts for logging driving hours and completing a program."
Liberty Mutual just dropped my family because of two claims that were made on my daughters car. She had her car at school freshmen year and It was parked and hit on the rear corner closest to the road. It wasn't her fault and no one came forward to admit to the accident. She no longer has a car at school, and drives rarely when she's home. The second accident was when she was pulling out of the carport and her front bumper caught a wooden railing when she was backing out. That was her fault, but an accident. Isn't that why we have insurance????? Before I got this letter from Liberty mutual, I sang their praises. I will loudly have bad things to say from now on. Don't count on Liberty Mutual
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We first looked for companies that received an "A-" or better ("strong") from A.M. Best, a rating agency specifically focused on the insurance industry. Then, because the III recommends getting ratings from more than one agency, the best needed to earn at least an "AA-" ("very strong") from S&P Global or an "Aa3" ("excellent") or higher from Moody's.
Any car insurance comparison tool you look at should have your state's minimum car insurance requirements pre-loaded into its options. States requiring PIP or medpay are generally referred to as "no-fault" states, meaning that when injuries occur, each driver in a crash makes a claim with their own insurance company to pay for them. Beyond the PIP or medpay limit, the at-fault driver's liability insurance kicks in to cover the rest.
Results: Nerdwallet returned three quotes ranging from $154 per month to $315 per month and six "estimated rates" ranging from $153 per month to $330 per month, from mostly name-brand insurance carriers. Each quote/rate included a little information about the company, a company rating, and a summary of Nerdwallet's review (accessed by clicking on the "view details" link). The quotes had a button to click in order to buy the policy over the phone, but only one quote offering the option to purchase online. The estimated rates included a button to click to access the company's website and get an actual quote from them.
Insurers raise rates for a variety of reasons, many of which are beyond the control of consumers. Companies will often hike insurance rates to account for increased losses, which is the amount of money that these companies pay out for claims. If losses go up—because of an increase in claims frequency or costlier auto repairs for example—your insurer may raise your car insurance premiums.
Customers aren't very impressed by Liberty Mutual's claims process or payouts. It's ranked among "the rest" in J.D. Power's survey, which falls at the bottom of the scale. It also earned a relatively low Consumer Reports score of 88 (or 23rd place out of 27 companies scored). Finally, Liberty Mutual didn't quite meet the bar we set for financial stability. Its "A" from S&P Global and "A2" from Moody's come up a little short of our requirements. These scores are still respectable — indicating an ability to pay out on claims — but mean that Liberty Mutual has a slightly poorer credit outlook in the event of a financial downturn.
Want to know how much a particular model car costs to insure in your state? The car insurance comparison by vehicle tool will tell you. It provides average car insurance quotes for approximately 3,000 models. This tool is a great way to compare insurance quotes on various vehicles before making a decision on which one to buy. Knowing the cost of insurance is a vital part of the car-buying process because it affects your overall car budget.
I LOVE USAA! I am surprised it's not higher on that list. I had Allstate and they never fought for me or my family even though we were paying more than we are paying now. Over where we are at, the speed limit for the highway is 70. There was hardly anyone on the road so my husband drive on the far left since there is a lot of exits in the far right lane. This woman pulled out in the far left lane doing 20. My husband didn't have time to break because she pulled out right in from God us with no turn signal. But Always was already assuming it was his fault even though they can review the car to see how fast he was going and who was in the wrong. I am glad we dropped them and moved to USAA. They are the best!
Results: The final page offered five quotes ranging from $141 per month to $215 per month, and three links to other websites that I could use to get additional quotes. Unlike the other comparison websites, the quotes weren't in any order (the others sorted their results from smallest to largest). Each quote included a company rating, policy features and a button that would either take you to the company's website or allow you to compare it with another company. A list of options on the left side of the page allowed me to check off the features that I wanted to include, and eliminated companies not offering those features.
Hi Stephen – I think you're doing the right thing – as long as the premium continues to be reasonable compared to the competition. Even though we obsess on low rates, quality of service matters. It does little good if you get the cheapest policy, then they stick you when you have a claim. With must auto claims there's going to be a human error factor (especially with new drivers), and you can't be with companies that will hold that against you to such a degree that it seems like they no longer want your business.
What makes the AARP's program with the Hartford our selection for best car insurer for older drivers? The many special and thoughtful benefits that accommodate for the lifestyles of adults 50 years old and above, such as RecoverCare and longer locked in rates. RecoverCare is a program that eases the transition back to a normal life after a car accident. Insureds can see up to $2,500 of costs covered for getting help with daily tasks such as buying groceries, cooking, housekeeping, and gardening. We like that AARP is also cognizant that its members receive fixed pensions and retirement income, and has worked with the Hartford to lock in annual rates so seniors can better plan their budgets. With such considerate care and attuned attention to its members' needs, it is no surprise that the AARP is our choice for best company for older drivers.
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Being in the business for a very long time, I have found that most people are clueless about insurance, even most agents who sell them. I will agree that their rates are cheap. But I wouldn't recommend them. Inexperienced adjusters. They do not fully investigate. The policy does not cover like, kind, and quality which is bad if you have a new vehicle.
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Shaila Miranda discusses Social Analytics: Network and Text Methods with NodeXL and R
Summary: Miranda discusses the value of data analytics for businesses and students, especially social analytics. She shares pedagogical tools to engage students. Her book helps students overcome challenges such as fear of technology. Students discover business insights from unstructured data, including social media and other digital media. This video also includes behind-the-scenes stories about the development of the book and ends with a positive message about being a woman in Information Systems.
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Transcript: Shaila Miranda on Social Analytics
Everything that we do in business these days is evidence-driven. We are constantly refining our decision models based on the latest evidence on hand. From recruiting new employees, to managing within the organization, to managing brands, portfolios, hospitals, everything is evidence-driven these days. So analytics is just a really important skill to get students involved with.
In fact, we are pushing our analytics curriculum down into the undergraduate program because we think even our undergraduate students to some extent should be exposed to analytics.
Social analytics. So, what sells this course to students usually is the social media data. But I think its much more about truly unstructured data. There is rich information in text, and if we are not analyzing that, if we are only analyzing things that have already been quantified, we are losing a lot of insights available to companies. More than social media, it is that type of unstructured data it is really important for students to be exposed to.
If brands are to be aware and proactive about their management, then definitely you need to be not just social media savvy, but digital media savvy. Websites, any kind of digital location.
How do you engage students?
The best way to get them hooked really is to have them work with data. Oftentimes telling people about topic modeling sounds very intimidating. But you get them doing topic modeling and it's like "oh, that's what I did?" and it doesn't seem like that big a deal because you had them work through it and then they are more focused on the insights instead of worrying "well maybe I couldn't have done this."
I'm very much into experience. Through experience you learn what you are capable of, and you also discover what the data can tell you.
Typically what I will do is have them organize into teams. So I'll have a team of three with one data set and another team of three with a related data set. Then individually they'll analyze those data sets, compare outputs and insights within the smaller group of three, put it together with the full group.
So for example I had one group look at Twitter data on Bitcoin, and another group of three look at Twitter data on blockchain. So they look at related topics and how those come together.
What are some of the major student challenges?
Some are really intimidated by technology. That was also the objective of saying let's go with something familiar, like Excel. You know, NodeXL is just sort-of an overlay on that familiar tool. Then we'll go to R, which seems more intimidating to people because if you haven't used R there's really no getting off the floor with it.
But then when we get to R, I give them code. Let's run it against a data set that I give you. The code matches the data set, and then you look at the results. Then let's swap out the data set so you have to change a few of the variable names, or you have to make a few tweaks in the code. So it is incremental learning. Similar code, different data sets, then let's tweak it a little bit more. Let's do something a little bit different, maybe combine that with something you've done before. I give them something that works right off the bat to minimize the frustration that would otherwise be there.
The other thing I wanted to do with my life was be a musician. I started playing violin. My daughter plays violin. We both learned the Suzuki method. It's the one where you start when you are really little, you have all the songs. Yeah, so you start with music you actually want to play because who wants to play scales?! So Suzuki kids start by playing songs that they hear, they sing. It's the same philosophy.
I give them the code to solve a big problem, and then they're hooked, right? This is not "Hello World," which which MBA or Master's students wants to write code for, but if I give them the code to actually analyze a twitter or Facebook data set, this is a sizable problem. Then we work through how we get the nuances if we change the data set, kind-of like if we change the key. I know the song, now I can do the transposition and it's not that hard.
Tell me about an unusual student insight.
This one student somehow got data on ship logs from the 17th and 18th century. He analyzed trade routes based on those ship logs, so he has this amazing social network based on the movement of trading ships for that time period. He looked at the networks of ports visited at different times of the year and came up with insights about how weather changed trading routes over seasons.
In Search of Meaning...
[Abby] The header on your website, "In Search of Meaning..." Tell me more about how this relates to your work!
[Shaila] Ultimately, analyzing social space, analyzing what people are talking about, is about trying to make sense of how people see the world, what they find meaningful. That cover picture for example, that tells us what different topics people are talking about related to the #wheresrey merchandise. So looking at the book, there are five different groupings, so very quickly I get a sense of the five major topics, the ideas that people are putting together.
How did you hear about the #wheresrey example?
I have a now fifteen-year-old, who was probably 10 or eleven back then, and we were into Star Wars, and this was the first female character, so holiday time, looking for the obligatory gifts, this was really an opportunity. Then I started to notice really in mass media first, with some lag. It started showing up in social media only around December. But as far back as October, parents were saying, "hey, where's all this merchandise? You have this neat character, showcasing a strong female role in the Star Wars series for the first time, how come merchandise isn't available?" And it was months before the various companies involved started to respond to that.
There was a nine-year-old who wrote a letter saying, "Hey, I want to be able to play with these toys! How come you aren't making them available?" And then one of the representatives of the company wrote back, and then we started to see this moving out onto the shelves. This was two months of delay before they even entered the conversation. We wouldn't see that now. I think companies are much more responsive to what's happening on social media. But that was like, huh, how could they have missed this for so long?
How has being a woman impacted your career?
I think I've been very lucky. Right out of my PhD program I had a few offers and I heard that Carol Saunders, she wasn't yet faculty at Florida Atlantic University, but she was going to be department chair. When I heard that I said "Okay, I accept." So I ended up going there, and I owe her a lot. You have a strong woman role model, mentor, it's not just that it opens opportunities, but it gives you a view of what life can be like that you don't necessarily have without someone like that to model.
Here too we have a strong group in terms of females. So right now we have Radhika [Santhanam], very strong female character, Teresa Shaft, and Alex Durcikova, two more very strong women, so we have some great women here. So I don't feel like I'm female here. It's just, I'm a member of the faculty. And I think that is what's ideal, where it's not really about your gender.
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The μSFA is a new, compact, microscope-ready SFA for measuring the normal forces between surfaces and other interfacial phenomena. The μSFA is shown here in an Olympus inverted microscope. Just as with the SFA 2000, the μSFA is designed to be used with the FECO (Fringes of Equal Chromatic Order) multiple-beam interferometry technique to measure forces between two surfaces with a sensitivity of a few nN and a distance resolution of 1Å (0.1 nm).
Surface separation is controlled using four different distance control mechanisms: coarse micrometer, medium micrometer, fine micrometer and extra-fine (piezoelectric tube) control. Unique to the μSFA, the FECO white-light source is provided by the microscope itself. The shapes of the interacting surfaces and the separation between them are measured by analyzing the optical interference fringes (FECO fringes) produced when white light passes through the two surfaces.
The compact chamber accommodates typical short focal length, large diameter, objectives needed for fluorescence, confocal and other common high magnification microscopy techniques. The μSFA also accepts the same dove-tail disks as available in the SFA 2000 for the transfer of surfactant / lipid bilayer, polymer- or protein-coated surfaces into the apparatus without exposure to air.
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Bad news for the drink sector (excluding wines and champagnes) distributed in the HORECA sector. According to a study by Nielsen On Trade, the sector has registered a decline of minus -1.9% in volume and is only growing by +0.5% in value over the first 6 months of the year. This could be explained by bad weather and social troubles characterised by many strikes. The most impacted segment is waters, declining by -4.1%. Soft drinks sales also suffer and contribute to a loss of 38% on the semester. They are mainly affected by the decline of colas (-3.5%) and fruit juices (-3.3%).
On the spirits' side, while Rum (+3.2%), gin (+20.5%) and vodka (+0.2%) are on the rise, they weren't sufficient to counterbalance this category which registers on a whole a decline of -0.8%.
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Join the crew of the Starship Enterprise NCC-1701E on her maiden small screen voyage, battling the mighty Borg in the eighth amazing motion picture to come to DVD, STAR TREK: FIRST CONTACT SPECIAL EDITION.
The adventure spans the centuries as Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart), First Officer Will Riker (Jonathan Frakes) and their shipmates travel back from the 24 th Century to the devastated remains of 21 st Century Earth. This 2 disc special edition contains over three hours of newly created extra features including seven featurettes.
The even-numbered STAR TREK movies are often regarded as the finest in the series, and FIRST CONTACT is no exception. Series star Jonathan Frakes brings the full weight of his knowledge of Star Trek: The Next Generation to the screen as he directs his debut movie with a sure hand, combining action, humour, intrigue, stunning special effects and keen character observations into a package that constantly delivers.
STAR TREK: FIRST CONTACT SPECIAL EDITION DVD is presented in anamorphic widescreen re-mastered in Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound. With previously unseen extras, highlights include commentaries by director Jonathan Frakes and screenwriters Brannon Braga and Ronald D. Moore. FIRST CONTACT SPECIAL EDITION DVD will be an essential purchase for all fans of Star Trek and science fiction cinema.
DVD EXTRAS
UK DVD Release Date: 6 June 2005
UK Certificate: 12
Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound
Text commentary by Michael Okuda & Denise Okuda
Audio commentary by director & actor Jonathan Frakes
Audio commentary by screenplay writers Brannon
Braga & Ronald Moore
Jerry Goldsmith: A Tribute
The legacy of Zefram Cochrane
First Contact: The possibilities
The Borg Collective: Unimatrix One
The Borg Collective: The Queen
The Borg Collective: Design Matrix
Making First Contact
The art of First Contact


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2020 SFWA Officer Election Results
Posted on April 27, 2020 by Mike Glyer
Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) have released the outcome of the latest officer elections, however, not the vote counts.
The results as certified by the Elections Committee and the Executive Director are as follows. For the Director-at-Large positions, runner-ups have been listed in alphabetical order.
Vice President: Tobias S. Buckell
Chief Financial Officer: Nathan Lowell
Director-at-Large thru 2021:
(W) James Beamon
Lou Antonelli
Tobias S. Buckell
Traci Castleberry
N.K. Jemisin
Monica Valentinelli
Director-at-Large thru 2022: 2 Open Positions (winners and runners-up listed alphabetically)
(W) Phoebe Barton
(W) Monica Valentinelli
Lou J. Berger
Jonathan P. Brazee
Brenda Clough
Arinn Dembo
John Forrest
Esther Friesner
Charles E. Gannon
Clayton E. Kroh
Craig Martelle
Steven H Silver
Chuck Tingle
Jeremiah Tolbert
William Alan Webb
Walter Jon Williams
Christie Yant
SFWA's Board for the 2020-2021 term, starting July 1st, 2020 will consist of:
President: Mary Robinette Kowal
CFO: Nathan Lowell
Secretary: Curtis C. Chen
Directors-at-Large (term ending 2021):
Sarah Pinsker
Jeffe Kennedy
James Beamon
Phoebe Barton
That one of the directors-at-large seats for the term ending 2022 was filled by a write-in candidate can be inferred from Lou Antonelli's statement that there had been only one candidate for those two seats and his appeal for SFWAns to write in his name.
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Posted on October 17, 2019 by Mike Glyer
(1) SFF FIGURES PART OF TAROT ART EXHIBIT. The KEEP Contemporary in Santa Fe, NM is hosting "Readings", a group exhibition of four artists "whose work has been inspired by the guiding wisdom, karmic narrative and spiritual symbolism of Tarot cards."
Featured artists include guest curator and illustrator Elizabeth Leggett along with other notable illustrators and painters including Lee Moyer, Sienna Luna and Reiko Murakami Rice. Exhibiting artists blend themes from Tarot with ideas from short stories, speculative fiction and fantasy writing in their own unique interpretation of the show's theme.
John Scalzi purchased the card art about him:
TFW an artist makes a portrait of you for his current gallery exhibition, and it is ON POINT. The artist: @LccMoyer, and you can see more examples at the gallery site: https://t.co/15KaWhkT2W pic.twitter.com/Mfj8ZOGn8t
— John Scalzi (@scalzi) October 17, 2019
(2) SFWA OFFICER TURNOVER. Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America has chosen James Beamon to take the place of a departing Director-at-Large. President Mary Robinette Kowal shared the news in "A Change in the Director-at-Large at SFWA".
On October 2, Andy Duncan officially announced his resignation as Director-at-Large. He had told me some weeks earlier, but I asked him to stay on while we deliberated on a new officer. Andy has been invaluable to the board of SFWA. He has been a voice of reason and a well-spring of knowledge about the field of SFF.
I recruited him when I was on the elections committee and am very sorry to see him go. At the same time, I am deeply respectful of the need to take a break. I'm just grateful that he's still willing to let me ask him questions.
Fortunately, SFWA had a robust field of people interested in running for office. The board unanimously voted to add James Beamon, who was one of the runners-up, to the board. James has agreed to serve the remainder of Andy's term. James is both an indie novel author and writes short stories that have appeared in places such as Fantasy & Science Fiction Magazine, Apex, and Lightspeed.
(3) LIBRARY STRIKES BACK. Publishers Weekly reports a "Major Public Library System Will Boycott Macmillan E-books". The King County (WA) Library System, which is the nation's top digital-circulating library, will stop buying new release Macmillan e-books once the publishers' two-month embargo begins next month.
…In her note, [Librarian] Rosenblum acknowledged differing opinions among public library staff around the country on whether to boycott Macmillan e-books, and said King County's decision was ultimately driven by two reasons: one "pragmatic" and the other "principled."
As for the pragmatic side, Rosenblum explained that King County has pledged to readers to limit the wait time for any title to around 3 months. "Not allowing us to purchase multiple copies of an e-book for two months artificially lengthens the queue, triggering more of the same title to be purchased than would have occurred if we had been allowed to buy for the first two months," she explains. "With an ever-increasing demand to buy a wide variety of digital titles, we do not think this is the best use of public funds."
Rosenblum says the library will continue to buy print copies of Macmillan new releases (something Macmillan CEO John Sargent suggested libraries do in his memo announcing the new embargo policy) as well as new audiobooks (which are not embargoed), and perhaps even additional copies of e-books the library already owns, as needed. "My mantra has been if it is not embargoed, buy it," Rosenblum said, when asked for comment by PW. "Our focus is not to punish Macmillan [when the publisher] provides us with timely access to [digital] materials," she explained, "it is to address their embargo of new digital materials."
The "principled" argument, Rosenblum says, is to send a message to other publishers that public libraries cannot accept limits on basic access. To do so, she writes, would "profoundly" change the public library….
(4) FUNNY HORROR NOVEL NEWS. Dark Moon Digest editor Max Booth III, in "Supernatural Crime Fiction—Is It Allowed To Be Funny?" on CrimeReads, lists ten funny horror novels and collections he likes, including works by Joe Lansdale (and his daughter), Elmore Leonard, and Sarah Gailey.
Sarah Gailey, Magic for Liars (2019)
Much to the disappointment of every other person with a Twitter account besides myself, I've never been a fan of the Harry Potter series. Any story utilizing the "chosen one" trope quickly puts me to sleep. There are better ways to plot a novel than relying on boring ol' destiny. But, with that said, I've always been fascinated with the world-building in those books, and wondered how it would play out in more…realistic settings. Surely a high school for wizards would be occupied by a much larger majority of dickheads. The kinda dipshits who would use graffiti magic to permanently etch phrases like "SAMANTHA IS A SLUT" across lockers. But also: how would this world look under a noir lens? Something that sort of mashes together Harry Potter and Rian Johnson's Brick? Thankfully, Sarah Gailey was kind enough to answer these questions of mine with her wonderful debut novel, Magic for Liars. Close your eyes and picture Chuck Palahiuk's Philip Marlowe taking on a murder case inside Hogwarts. If you aren't already trembling with excitement, you might be a lost cause.
(5) FOURTH AND FINAL. The Man In The High Castle returns for Season 4 on 11/15.
The final season of The Man in the High Castle will be rocked by war and revolution. The Resistance becomes a full-blown rebellion, driven by Juliana Crain's (Alexa Davalos) visions of a better world. A new Black insurgent movement emerges to fight the forces of Nazism and imperialism. As empires teeter, Chief Inspector Takeshi Kido (Joel De La Fuente) will find himself torn between his duty to his country and the bonds of family. Meanwhile, Reichsmarschall John Smith (Rufus Sewell) will be drawn towards the portal the Nazis have built to another universe, and the tantalizing possibility of stepping through a gateway to the path not taken.
(6) TODAY IN HISTORY.
October 17, 1937 — Huey, Dewey, and Louie first appeared in a comic strip.
October 17, 1937 — The Shadow radio program aired "Murder By The Dead." Orson Welles starred as Lamont Cranston and of course The Shadow. Welles stayed with the show for just a year. Agnes Moorehead was also in the cast as Margo Lane. You can hear it here.
October 17, 1987 — The Ferengi were "born" on this date when Star Trek: The Next Generation's "The Last Outpost" aired in syndication. This was Shimerman's first appearance as a Ferengi though he had appeared on the series previously.
(7) TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS.
Born October 17, 1886 — Spring Byington. I like reaching back into the early years of cinema. Her appearance in Werewolf of London as Miss Ettie Coombes in 1935 is of that era. She would also appear in Batman as J. Pauline Spaghetti in "The Catwoman Goeth" and "The Sandman Cometh" episodes. (Died 1971.)
Born October 17, 1913 — Robert Lowery. Batman in 1949's Batman and Robin. You can see the first part here. And he popped up in an episode of the Adventures of Superman. (Died 1971.)
Born October 17, 1914 — Jerry Siegel. His most famous creation was Superman, which he created in collaboration with his friend Joe Shuster. He was inducted (along with the previously deceased Shuster) into the comic book industry's Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 1992 and the Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in 1993. (Died 1996.)
Born October 17, 1921 — Tom Poston. One of his acting first roles was The Alkarian (uncredited at the time ) in "The Mystery of Alkar" episode of Tom Corbett, Space Cadet in 1950. He much later had the recurring role of Mr. Bickley in Mork & Mindy. (Died 2007.)
Born October 17, 1926 — Julie Adams. Her most famous role no doubt is being in the arms of The Creature from Black Lagoon. She also been on Alfred Hitchcock Presents three times, The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. The Night Gallery, Kolchak: The Night Stalker, The Incredible Hulk and Lost all once. (Died 2019.)
Born October 17, 1934 — Alan Garner, 85. His best book? That'd be Boneland whichtechnically is the sequel to The Weirdstone of Brisingamen and The Moon of Gomrath but really isn't. Oh, and The Owl Service is amazing!
Born October 17, 1946 — Bruce McAllister, 73. He's a superb short story writer as you can see in The Girl Who Loved Animals and Other Stories that Golden Gryphon published originally and which Cemetery Dance has now in an ePub edition along with his two novels. His Dream Baby novel is an interesting if brutal take on the Vietnam War.
Born October 17, 1948 — Margot Kidder. Lois Lane in the Superman film franchise that starred Christopher Reeve. Her first genre role however was Marcia Curtis in The Reincarnation of Peter Proud. I think her take as Kathy Lutz in The Amityville Horror is a much meatier acting role than her Superman role is. Speaking of horror, she'll show up in Halloween II as Barbara Collier. She did some of the usual genre one-offs in TV (Tales from the Crypt, The Hunger and The Outer Limits to name but three) but her major role was voicing Rebecca Madison, the villain, in the animated Phantom 2040 series. (Died 2018.)
Born October 17, 1948 — Robert Jordan. He is best known for the Wheel of Time series, which comprises fifteen books including a prequel novel. I must confess that so far I've resisted the urge to read this series, so put forth an argument as to why I should do so, please. It's certainly considered a major work of fantasy. (Died 2007.)
Born October 17, 1949 — Barclay Shaw,70. He has been nominated five times for the Hugo Award for Best Professional Artist. He has painted more than 500 book and magazine covers, and his work includes more than 20 cover paintings for The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. The artist credits Ellison for giving him his start in the business when he invited him to paint cover illustrations for 16 paperback editions of his books
Born October 17, 1968 — Mark Gatiss, 51. English actor, screenwriter, director, producer and novelist. Writer for Doctor Who; with Steven Moffat, whom Gatiss worked with on Doctor Who and Jekyll, he also co-created and co-produced Sherlock. As an actor, I'll noted he does Vogon voices in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and is Mycroft Holmes in Sherlock.
(8) EATING THE FANTASTIC. Scott Edelman hopes listeners are ready to head to Dublin for brunch with Maura McHugh in Episode 107 of the Eating the Fantastic podcast.
Maura McHugh and I first met during the 2007 Yokohama Worldcon, where I was introduced to her by former guest of the podcast Ellen Datlow as one of the students she'd met at Clarion West, which Maura had attended after receiving the Gordon R. Dickson Scholarship. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in Jabberwocky, Doorways, Paradox, Goblin Fruit, and other magazines. She also writes comics, the most recent of which was The Dead Run, a five-issue Judge Anderson: PSI Division story for Judge Dredd Megazine. In 2015, she won Best Irish Writer of comic books in The Arcade Awards. She also published a book on Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me through the Midnight Movie Monograph series from Electric Dreamhouse Press and PS Publishing. Her most recent short story collection The Boughs Withered (When I Told Them My Dreams) launched at the Dublin Worldcon.
Maura and I discussed how the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers' Workshop sometimes makes people realize they shouldn't be writers (and why that can sometimes be a good thing), how having lived in both Ireland and the U.S. affected her life and her writing, whether her attraction to dark fiction was ever a choice, what it was like getting to create comics in the Judge Dredd universe, how she decides whether ideas that pop into her head get transformed into comics or prose, her recent art project inspired by the works of Simone de Beauvoir, why she doesn't speak much about works in progress on social media, what she learned pulling together the selections for her first short story collection, why Twin Peaks fascinated her so much she wrote a book about the show — and much more.
(9) AN UNXPECTED PARTY. The New York Times observes, "Peter Jackson Has a Lot of Power in New Zealand. Some Say Too Much."
Peter Jackson, the film director behind the "Lord of the Rings" series, is a towering figure in his native New Zealand, admired as both a down-to-earth titan of the box office and a one-man income generator for the country's moviemaking and tourism industries.
But Mr. Jackson now finds himself at the center of a debate over how he has exerted that influence. This week, he helped catapult to victory a mayoral candidate who shared his opposition to a proposed development project near his studios, an unheard-of local political intervention in a country where money, fame and power are most often wielded lightly.
Mr. Jackson had been embroiled for months in a fight with Justin Lester, the first-term mayor of Wellington, the capital of New Zealand, over plans to build houses on a rugged peninsula in the city's harbor. His opponent, Andy Foster, who had polled only in the single digits in previous mayor's races, beat Mr. Lester by 503 votes on Saturday after receiving Mr. Jackson's political and financial backing.
(10) NOT READY FOR PRIME TIME. "Google and BBC scrap VR projects".
The BBC has disbanded the team it created to make virtual reality (VR) content, saying its funding has ended.
It comes as Google halts sales of its Daydream View headsets, admitting it does not see a future for smartphone-based VR.
There have been questions over the long-term future for the technology which has failed to become a mass market product.
One analyst said it could be several years before VR lived up to its hype….
…According to research firm IHS Markit, there will be 51 million consumer headsets in use around the world by 2023.
"Compared to mobile devices, this represents a niche audience so it is understandable the BBC is reconsidering its VR content strategy," said analyst Piers Harding-Rolls.
(11) HALLOWEEN LIGHTS. Los Angeles' Museum of Neon Art's periodic Neon Cruise event on October 26 will be dubbed the Haunted by Neon Cruise.
Crawl aboard our double-decker "hearse" for a haunted ride as we explore the darker side of LA history…
Costumes are encouraged, so dress in your Halloween finest for a wickedly good time!
That will be in addition to the usual features —
Saturday Nights! JOIN US for a nighttime bus tour of neon signs, movie marquees and permanent installations of contemporary neon art through Downtown and Hollywood.
Developed by MONA beginning in 1985, this narrated tour points out neon's aesthetic dimensions, placing them firmly within the context of 20th century Los Angeles cultural history. From the classic movie marquees of downtown Los Angeles' theater district to the glittering lights of Hollywood and the glowing pagodas of Chinatown, you will see outstanding examples of contemporary neon art as well as innovative electrical advertising on this award-winning tour.
Jump on board the top deck of a convertible British bus and let your knowledgeable guide delight you with history and anecdotes about the urban electric jungle of L.A. Now in its 17th consecutive year, the Neon Cruise begins in the Historic Corridor of Downtown.
(12) A MILESTONE EVENT. NPR says "NASA's First All-Female Spacewalk Set For Friday".
The first all-female spacewalk in NASA's 61-year history is finally happening and will even take place a few days ahead of schedule.
Astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir, who were initially supposed to venture beyond the International Space Station on Oct. 21, are now slated to make their historic excursion this Friday. NASA announced the scheduling and other changes this week in light of issues with the space station's battery charge-discharge unit, which Koch and Meir will replace. The International Space Station's Twitter account tweeted Tuesday evening that the spacewalk will take place "no earlier than Friday," updating NASA's earlier announcement that it would happen either Thursday or Friday morning.
"We do anticipate that will stick," NASA spokesperson Stephanie Schierholz told NPR in an email.
Friday's spacewalk is set to begin at 7:50 a.m. EDT and last about 5 1/2 hours, according to NASA. The two astronauts will replace the faulty power regulator, which has been in operation since 2000 and failed to activate after new lithium-ion batteries were installed on the space station last week. NASA said the unit failure did not pose risks to any of the station's operations, crew members, laboratory experiments or overall power supply. Still, the faulty unit prevents the new lithium-ion batteries from providing additional power to the station.
(13) VIDEO OF THE DAY. in "Bless You!" on Vimeo, Paulina Ziolkowska explains the consequences of sneezing.
[Thanks to JJ, Mike Kennedy, Chip Hitchcock, Cat Eldridge, Martin Morse Wooster, John King Tarpinian, Scott Edelman, Michael Toman, and Andrew Porter for some of these stories. Title credit goes to File 770 contributing editor of the day Ingvar.]
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I have no words to assert my experience at JIFF ~ Kaushik Chakraborty
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JAIPUR | 32 films from 15 countries were screened offline on the fourth day of Five days going Jaipur International Film Festival, and filmmakers shared ideas about a variety of subjects. They all expressed their enriching journeys of filmmaking.
I come to India to explore the world of PLANETS ~ Jeanette Groenendaal
"I have come to India for the first time 35 years ago, and since then I have been exploring the mysteries of the Planets", said Jeanette Groenendaal, a filmmaker from the Netherlands. Wearing a smile on her face, Dramayama film director Jeanette asserts that she was fascinated with the planets when she was hardly four years old and this fascination brought her to India. She has spent such a long time in the Navagraha temples of South India, that now she understands them so well, that she can even tell about the history of those temples to tourists and local people.
Jeanette mentions the mysterious history of 'Maya Temples', which are gradually disappearing from the world, and western people are speculating about it. Further, Jeanette says that through Jaipur International Film Festival and such platforms, she wants to establish a bridge between India and Netherlands, so that cinematic pieces can be exchanged between the two countries. There is a sparkle in her eyes when she mentioned Hindi Cinema and happily tells that she loves Indian Films, as they 'move' you emotionally and psychologically.
An actor from Kolkata, Kaushik Chakraborty felt short of words when he started appreciating Jaipur International Film Festival. Playing the lead actor in the film 50th Anniversary, Kaushik says that his experience at the film festival is amazing and beyond words. Despite the dangers of the approaching third wave of COVID, the beautiful way JIFF has been organized is worth praising. Kaushik said that he enjoyed the screenings of many films here and his favorites have been Oriya film Daal Cheeni and Polish film Leader.
It was a big challenge to shoot at a highway in bone-chilling cold ~ Shishir Kumar Sahu
Sharing about their film Dal Cheeni, Peenaki Singh and Shishir Kumar Sahu said that it has been a film of adventures. Remembering the experiences of shooting, Shishir mentions that Dal Cheeni is a travel story, and the film was shot at highway and that too in bone-chilling cold, which was incredibly difficult. Shishir mentioned that it is not easy to make a film in regional language for an independent filmmaker, but they somehow managed to do it. On the other, Peenaki tells that she felt super delighted to have her film screened at Jaipur International Film Festival, and such festivals are big hopes for filmmakers like them.
Stop worrying about resources and tell your story to people ~ Ravindra Kelkar
"If you want to make a film or share a certain story, then make the film without worrying about resources", these were the words of Ravindra Kelkar, Producer of the film A Nomad River. Directed by Aditya Patwardhan, A Nomad River is a film about climate change and river water crises in India.
Ravindra tells that this documentary feature film was very interesting to be made as they traveled the whole of India in the company of Sadguru Jaggi Vasudev. Mentioning JIFF, Ravindra asserts that he has come to JIFF for the third time continuously and here he got an opportunity to interact with national and international filmmakers, producers, and cinema specialists, which is such an enriching experience.
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