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Join the online community of Books and Beyond at 8:00 pm tonight, Wednesday October 10, to listen and learn about Jon Grayson, the host of Overnight America, based in St. Louis and heard on a number of stations throughout the U.S. How did this multifaceted program get its start? To whom does it appeal? Why is St. Louis the home base? Is it necessary that a show come from New York or Los Angeles? To what does Grayson attribute his success? Approximately 15 minutes prior to the event start time go to The Books and Beyond Room or, alternatively, select The Books and Beyond Room at: www.accessibleworld.org and enter your first and last name on the sign-in screen. If you are a first-time user of the Talking Communities online conferencing software, there is a small, safe software program that you need to download and then run. A link to the software is available on the Books and Beyond entry page.
Wednesday, October 10th at 7pm, author Peter Geye will be at Nicola's for a discussion and signing of his new novel The Lighthouse Road *, in which a young immigrant woman in 1890s Duluth, finds herself alone in a new country, abandoned and adrift. In the early 1920s, her orphan son, now grown, falls in love with the one woman he shouldn't and uses his best skills to build them their own small ark to escape. "Peter Geye has crafted another deeply moving tale of a misbegotten family shaped by the rough landscape in which they live--often at the mercy of wildlife and weather."
His first novel Safe from the Sea (in audio, nicely performed by David Aaron Baker), is "an archetypal story of a father and son, of the tug and pull of family bonds, (and) of Norwegian immigrant culture". Antique map-dealer Noah Torrs reluctantly returns from Boston to the lakeside cabin north of Duluth to spend time with his estranged father Olaf, who is dying. Once a curmudgeonly, headstrong ship's captain, and one of three survivors from the coal freighter Ragnarok that sank on Lake Superior, Olaf is still haunted after 35 years by the memory a friend he felt he could have saved and the catastrophic repercussions for his young family.
"Geye tackles the subjects of death, dying, and living with admirable insight and courage." For readers who enjoy David Guterson, Robert Olmstead , and Canadians Joseph Boyden and Stef Penney.
A Minnesota native, Peter Geye (webiste) received his Ph.D. from Western Michigan University , where he taught Creative Writing and was editor of Third Coast.
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Singer Andy Williams, who skyrocketed to fame with his dreamy rendition of the timeless love song Moon River, died last night in Branson, MO.
Born in Iowa in 1927, Williams and his three brothers performed all across America in the 30s and 40s as the Williams Brothers. After a brief break when two of the brothers were drafted during WWII, they regrouped in 1947 for another six years. In the early 1960s, Andy Williams began his own popular variety show on NBC -- it ran from 1962 until 1971and it included his widely watched Christmas specials. Always generous with his willingness to share the set with other singers, Williams is credited with launching the Osmond Brothers.
In 1961, Williams sang Moon River, written by Henry Mancini for the movie Breakfast at Tiffany's; it became his theme song.
In his 2009 memoir, Moon River and Me, Williams wrote movingly of his lifelong friendship with his ex-wife Claudine Longet and of his unwavering belief that her fatal shooting of her boyfriend, Olympic skier, Spider Sabitch, in 1976, was an accident.
During his 75 years in show business, Andy earned 17 gold and three platinum albums.
Williams, who was 84, had battled bladder cancer since late last year.
The library has a new children's language learning database called Muzzy. Currently there are 8 different languages to choose from: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Mandarin Chinese, Portuguese, and Russian. You can use it at home or at the library. The Muzzy animated story and games are a captivating way for kids to learn another language. It was originally a BBC program so those from Europe may recognize it. Learn more about this database here. We also offer the Muzzy multilingual series (it includes a choice of learning English, French, German, Italian, or Spanish) and the separate traditional Chinese language learning version for checkout.
If you're looking to brighten up this first cold grey day of the season, why not head over to Wolverine State Brewing for Bluegrass Night? You can sample their impressive selection of lagers which span the range from light to amber to very, very dark. Then kick back and enjoy the sounds of local artists Lindsay Lou and the Flatbellys, the unofficial Bluegrass Night house band who can be found there most Tuesdays. No cover and the band goes on at 8:30pm.
AADL has just received an influx of the best of French popular music. If you are a Gallophile, or simply a music buff, you may have heard of several of these musicians already. If not, check these performers out and discover some great music from across the pond.
Helena - This Portuguese-born media darling has been a model, actress, pop star, and now musician in the French-speaking parts of Europe.
Yann Tiersen - France's best known multi-instrumentalist, composer, and artist, Tiersen's melancholy, folk-inspired sound has made him a star in the soundtrack business. You may know him as the composer of the music in Amelie.
Élodie Frégé - She made her musical debut as a contestant on a French talent search reality-TV show. She may not have had the most powerful voice in the competition, but her soulful music won the title.
Raphael - Another multi-instrumentalist, Raphael's music is inspired by pop/rock legends like David Bowie and Bob Dylan.
Recently the NYT published For More Pianos, Last Note Is Thud in the Dump about the huge uptick in the disposal of pianos around the nation. No one, it seems, wants a piano anymore.
The 17th Leeds International Piano Competition is currently underway. Young pianists from around the world are competing for cash prizes and concert engagements. Amongst these young people are the classical pianist stars of tomorrow.
If you would like to listen to some of the competition it is being broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and BBC Four after September 10th.
Listen to some of the previous winners available from The Ann Arbor District Library and do your part to stop the horrible scourge of piano dumping!
Several selections are available from Murray Perahia, including the soundtrack from Immortal Beloved, Radu Lupu, Andras Schiff and Mitsuko Uchida.
There are a plethora of new and highly anticipated biographies coming out this fall. Let's start with those in the music industry...
Waging heavy peace is an autobiography by Neil Young: he discusses his life and career from growing up in Canada to his time with Crosby, Stills, & Nash to his continued success as a solo artist.
Who I am: a memoir: Listed #10 in Rolling Stone magazine's 100 Greatest Guitarists of all time, having written over 100 songs and rock operas with the Who and solo, as well as a being a noted literary writer, Pete Townshend gives the autobiography writing a go. With so much hush-hush about the contents prior to its release, it should be a fascinating read!
Cyndi Lauper a Memoir: Singer, songwriter, actress, Grammy award winner, and now book writer, the 80's phenomenon talks about growing up in Queens and her rise to stardom.
Gershwins and me: A personal history in twelve songs: entertainer, Michael Feinstein renders the life of the legendary musical family the Gershwins here through stories of 12 of their songs. Feinstein was lucky to have mentored with Ira Gershwin, so you can expect some personal touches to the stories. A CD is included with the 12 songs performed by him.
In the Pleasure Groove: Love, Death, & Duran Duran : If you know the 80s group, Duran Duran, then you know their heartthrob/ bass guitarist, John Taylor (what lovestruck fan doesn't!) This is his autobiography of the time with the band, the parties, & the lush (and lusty) MTV videos that made them famous (Hungry like the Wolf comes to mind).
John Lennon Letters: Here is a lifetime of letters and other correspondence from the the legendary John Lennon collected here for the first time.
Kicking and Dreaming: A Story of Heart, Soul, and Rock and Roll: Sisters, Ann & Nancy Wilson, of the rock band Heart share their story of 3 decades of being on stage together.
Luck or Something Like it: a Memoir: Although most notable for his country songs, Kenny Rogers has more than 120 hit singles across musical genres. Here he relates the story of his poverty stricken childhood to his award winning musical career.
Make up to Breakup:My life in & out of Kiss: founding KISS drummer Peter "Catman" Criss gives the group its dues.
Mick Jagger: another legend of rock gets the bio treatment here by Philip Norman who is known for the definitive rock bio, Shout: the Beatles in their generation. Let's see what he uncovers with this one.
Streets of Fire Bruce Springsteen in Photographs and Lyrics 1977-1979: A behind the scenes photographic collection of the Boss.
Spend this Labor Day weekend at the FREE 33rd annual Detroit Jazz Festival. Chill out in Detroit's Hart Plaza with big names such as Sonny Rollins, Wynton Marsalis, Pat Metheny, Chick Corea, and many others. Also, learn about Detroit's jazz history and meet the artists in the jazz talk tent.
An inexpensive shuttle bus service traveling from Ypsilanti to the Hart Plaza area will be offered through Eastern Michigan University all weekend; more information can be found on WEMU's website.
Scott McKenzie, forever tied to the unofficial anthem for San Francisco's 1967 Summer of Love, San Francisco (Be Sure to Where Some Flowers in Your Hair, died Saturday at his Los Angeles home.
His iconic song, written by John Phillips of the Mamas and the Papas, was a big hit at the 1967 Monterey International Pop Festival, which is the subject of Monterey Pop (1968), the first filmed rock festival.
McKenzie, who had been in fragile health for quite some time with Guillaine-Barre Syndrome and a possible heart attack, died at home at age 73.


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Manny Viray, managing partner of JS Entertainment Production in the Philippines, has come to Bahrain to develop the entertainment offering for Filipinos living in the Gulf, according to the Bahrain Tribune.
Viray intends to bring Filipino artists to the region and to plan the Filipino cultural show in June (National Day). Additionally, he wishes to promote Philippine's national hero, Jose Rizal's new film. He has stated that Bahrain is the cultural center of the Gulf making it the prime place to target the large Filipino population, especially the youth that attend the Philippine School.
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Chapter 1 - Unusual Village Visitor
Some may think I am some kind of stupid monster, not able to think by himself, and that only acts listening to his instincts. It may have a part of truth, who knows? I'm probably dumb, yes, but not as much as people think when they judge me only by seeing me. Of course, I'm a Gargun; I'm an eight foot tall bear-like beast with a barely human stature. I'm mostly made of strong muscles and I have big, deadly claws at the tip of each finger and toe. I can understand that some people just stereotype me as a mindless brute.
Though I'm more educated than a simple beast, and you have the proof by what I'm writing right now. I know how to write, I also know how to read and speak common language. I also speak Goliath, but that probably won't serve me often as I don't hang in the goliath territory often, or even my homeland where other Garguns live.
So basically, people are all giving me strange looks, like I expected. I'm not even angry at them, I'm pretty sure they are glad I'm not anyway. When I look at them, they look away, again pretty understandable considering their frail frame compared to mine. Some even run away in their house when they see me approaching, which kind of hurts thinking about it. I walk in the middle of the street, so people don't have to go away to avoid me.
I'm a knight after all, you could say I am Lawful Good and that I'm very kind-hearted, it's just that my appearance doesn't let people notice that at first sight. It's a shame really, I'd like some friends that would just try to get to know me instead of shivering in terror.
I'm not sure what I'm doing in this village... then I remember that I ran out of food a few hours ago, but also that I am completely broken. I put my paw in my bag, but I can't even find a copper. I am also completely armorless; I had to throw the remains of my previous body armor in my last battle. At least, if I don't encounter some powerful foe, my own body should suffice for protection right now. The thought makes me snicker as I continue walking by.
I was searching for an inn mostly, so I can get some supplies, even though I am already convinced I'll be refused if I can't even share a copper... I wander in the street, feeling quite discouraged, when suddenly I feel something hit me quite hard, even if I don't flinch the least bit. I hear some gibberish I cannot understand, so I look down and see an elf, or something I believe to be one.
"What? I'm sorry, I can't understand you." I tell him patiently.
He looks up at me, and as expected, his eyes grow wide with surprise as he sees my frame.
"I... hum..." he tries to start, but then three other elves, to me at least, arrive near us with unfriendly faces.
I can see a big difference between them and the one that bumped into me. For starters, the latter has dark skin and white hair, while the others are pale skinned with brown hair. I then notice that the dark one had scurried behind me.
"What is happening?" I ask them, unaware of the situation these elves were in.
"None of your concern, beast. Just get away from the Drow and don't interfere." one of them answers me.
I look at the other one, a Drow it seems. He looks back at me with a pleading look, but doesn't say a thing. Then I hear an unsheathing noise, and all my senses go into alert. The elves had drawn their short swords.
I stare at them with an intimidating look, and they seem to hesitate for a moment.
"What has he done to you? I'm sorry, but I can't leave that be if you don't have a good reason."
One of the three takes a step forward and gives me a disgusted look.
"I said that was none of your business. Drows shouldn't be allowed here, this demon is evil."
"It's a lie!" answers the dark elf with anger. "What do you half-elves even know?" he adds, even angrier.
"I'm sure we can settle this pea-" I start, but am cut short as one of the half-elves does the worst mistake he could have ever made; he swings his sword at me.


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(1.) Lev. 11:35. Probably a cooking furnace for two or more pots, as the Hebrew word here is in the dual number; or perhaps a fire-place fitted to receive a pair of ovens.
(2.) 2 Kings 11:8. A Hebrew word is here used different from the preceding, meaning "ranks of soldiers." The Levites were appointed to guard the king's person within the temple (2 Chr. 23:7), while the soldiers were his guard in the court, and in going from the temple to the palace. The soldiers are here commanded to slay any one who should break through the "ranks" (as rendered in the R.V.) to come near the king. In 2 Kings 11:15 the expression, "Have her forth without the ranges," is in the Revised Version, "Have her forth between the ranks;" i.e., Jehoiada orders that Athaliah should be kept surrounded by his own guards, and at the same time conveyed beyond the precincts of the temple.


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Dame Dash and the good folks at CreativeControl head to Jamaica to chop it up with Sizzla; who is signed to the Dame Dash Music Group. This dude Dame is rounding up just about everyone haha.
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yeah hopefully he gets them all out
and where is 24hr karate school?
this nigga Dame looks like my dad back in the early 90s with them safety goggles on lol
^LOL. Dame is really on his grizzly. hes about to be a problem again.
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Sizzla has been signed with Dame for at least 5 years!!! I remember him mentioning it when Free & AJ were still the hosts of 106. Keep waiting....
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i'm a(still smokin hot) 40 year old retired model. i have owned my own businesses and properties. looking for a lovely conservative place, gun friendly, maybe a college to finish my degree.
somewhere to hunt and fish and publically hang wrongdoers.
somewhere with no smogtests for my vintage car, and a place where i dont have to register my home garden. a home that willa allow me more than 3 chickens and a nice rooster.
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a place where i can buy local milk, beer, wine, and moonshine.
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HAPPY - Kamdon Wayne Yowell, infant, died Tuesday, June 5, 2001.
Private services will be held with the Rev. Curtis House, pastor of First Methodist Church of Happy, officiating. Arrangements are by Brooks Funeral Directors of Happy.
Survivors include his parents, Kelly and Dee Ann McCarley Yowell of Happy; two sisters, Lee Ann and Carlie; and a grandmother, Lynne James of Happy.
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The boss is named Mr. B. and he walks around with a dead cigar stuck in his face, pleading "Wash the cars! Wash the cars!" But that's the last thing they get around to in "Car Wash," a sunny, lively comedy.
The movie covers a day in the life of the DeLuxe Car Wash, down from the Strip in Los Angeles, and by actual count only three totally sane people stop by all day. We meet the rest in a dizzying, nonstop kaleidoscope of cars, soul music, characters, crises, crazy kids on skateboards, hookers, television preachers, and lots of suds and hot wax -- not to mention the Mad Pop Bottle Bomber, whose bottle turns out to be a cruel disappointment. The movie's put together with a manic energy, we never even quite get introduced to half the people in the cast, but by the movie's end we know them, and what they're up to, and we like them.
We meet the employees of the car wash in the locker room, as they're putting on their work clothes. Floyd and Lloyd enter doing their James Brown imitation. T.C. is convinced he'll be the lucky caller to win the free concert tickets in a radio station giveaway. Lindy, probably the first drag queen employed full-time by a car wash, corrects his makeup. Lonnie, the straw boss, provides an element of sanity, but he's outnumbered.
Sooner or later during the day, everyone seems to come through the car wash. While Floyd and Lloyd, as the steam men, practice their stage act on astonished customers, we watch the parade go by. George Carlin plays a bewildered taxi driver. Professor Irwin Corey is briefly mistaken for the Mad Pop Bottle Bomber. A limousine a yard long wheels up and discharges Richard Pryor, as Daddy Rich, the famous television evangelist. He has his backup singers with him: the Pointer Sisters, who do a number right in front of the gas pumps.
The movie looks like joyful chaos on the surface, but there are several stories running through it. One involves Bill Duke as a young Black Muslim with fierce resentments. Another -- delicately handled -- involves a young black hooker who changes clothes in the rest room and then hangs around the corner all day lonely and lost. Another is the relationship between Mr. B. and Lonnie -- Mr. B. tense and worried, Lonnie filled with ideas he can't get an audience for.
The car wash seems almost a natural gathering place. The kid on the skateboard whizzes past on a regular schedule. Wives and girlfriends of the workers stop by for brief sessions of fighting and making up. A guy named Kenny, who looks like he stepped out of the fashion ads, stops in and gets a date with the office girl. A man in a head-to-toe cast goes through the wash, considerably shaken. So does a little boy who first throws up on his mother's Mercedes and, when it's been washed, throws up on her.
All of this is held together by the music, which is nearly wall-to-wall, and by the picture's tremendous sense of life. It's one thing to have an idea like this -- a zany, sometimes serious day in the life of a car wash -- and another thing to make it work. But the screenplay and the direction juggle the characters so adroitly, this is almost a wash-and-wax "MASH."
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So after weeks of research, I finally found my first brew. I am going to try a Mirror Pond Pale Ale. I have read a bunch of threads about these clones to get started. I went to the Deschutes Brewery webpage and found this information: Recipe type: All grain Batch size: 5 U.S. gallons Original gravity: 1.050-1.055 Final gravity: 1.012-1.015 Boil time: 90 minutes Fermentation temp: 65° F Yeast type: English Ale Malt NW 2-row Pale Malt Crystal Malt Dextrin Malt Hops 100% Cascade I put all the grains and hops into Promash and it tells me 8# Pale malt, 1# each of crystal and dextrin @ 75% efficiency will give me 1.053 SG. I was going to use 2 oz total of cascade-1.25 @ 60 min, 1.25 @ 15 min, and .5 dry in fermenter. This should give me 40.1 IBU. Does this sound right to all you pros? Does it matter that I will be doing BIAB? And do you think that this requires a secondary ferment?
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WILMINGTON -- Investigators say no arrests have been made in the Friday morning murder of 22-year-old Geoffrey Graham in New Hanover County.
But the investigation continues.
Early Friday morning Graham was shot dead in his home in the 2500 block of Bradfield Court.
Graham's girlfriend found him bleeding on the living room floor and called 911.
Investigators say Graham died before they reached the scene. Neighbors say the community is normally a safe one.
Cal Ray is the victim's neighbor. Ray said, "You never see anything like that around here. Nothing like it."
Detectives say the murder may have been drug-related, but Graham's sister says that's not true. Kourteni Martin said, "They've made comments about traffic in and out of his house. This is his first house. Of course he's going to have people over and friends over and parties. I mean it's normal that's what 22-year-olds do."
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For all we know this is just something that the necklace does on its own, it's not necessarily Yamato's technique. Isn't this listed in the necklace's page already? Omnibender - Talk - Contributions 23:42, November 21, 2010 (UTC)
- Yeah but didn't Inoichi ask if Kakashi and Yamato didn't put a sealing technique on the necklace after Naruto transformed during Pein's Invasion?--Cerez365 (talk) 23:51, November 21, 2010 (UTC)
- I remember Inoichi saying something about Kakashi and Yamato using a sealing technique, yes, but I don't remember the necklace being mentioned in that talk. Omnibender - Talk - Contributions 23:54, November 21, 2010 (UTC)
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Author | Roger Zelazny |
Cover artist | Howard Bernstein |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Genre | science fiction novel |
Publisher | Doubleday |
Publication date | 1967 |
Media type | Print (Hardcover & Paperback) |
Pages | 257 pp |
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Cover of first edition (hardcover) | |
Author | Roger Zelazny |
Cover artist | Howard Bernstein |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Genre | science fiction novel |
Publisher | Doubleday |
Publication date | 1967 |
Media type | Print (Hardcover & Paperback) |
Pages | 257 pp |
Lord of Light (1967) is a science fiction/fantasy novel by American author Roger Zelazny. It was awarded the 1968 Hugo Award for Best Novel,[1] and nominated for a Nebula Award in the same category.[2] Two chapters from the novel were published as novelettes in the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in 1967. Zelazny's close friend and fellow science fiction/fantasy author, George R. R. Martin (who later reused the names "Lord of Light" and "Sam" for major characters in A Song of Ice and Fire), describes in his afterword to Lord of Light how Zelazny once told him that the entire novel sprang from a single pun: Then the fit hit the Shan.
The context of the novel – modern western characters in a Hindu-Buddhist-infused world – is reflected in the book's opening lines:
His followers called him Mahasamatman and said he was a god. He preferred to drop the Maha- and the -atman, however, and called himself Sam. He never claimed to be a god, but then he never claimed not to be a god.
Zelazny noted, "Lord of Light was intentionally written so that it could be taken as a science fiction or a fantasy novel. On the one hand, I attempted to provide some justifications for what went on in the way of the bizarre; on the other, I employed a style I associate with fantasy in the telling of the story. I wrote it that way on purpose, leaving some intentional ambiguity, because I wanted it to lie somewhat between both camps and not entirely in either. I did this because I did not see much stuff being written at that time which fit that description; because I wanted to see whether I could do it; and because I was curious as to how such a book would be received." [3]
Lord of Light is set on a planet colonized by some of the remnants of "vanished Urath," or Earth. The crew and colonists from the spaceship Star of India found themselves on a strange planet surrounded by hostile indigenous races and had to carve a place for themselves or perish. To increase their chances of survival, the crew has used chemical treatments, biofeedback and electronics to mutate their minds and create enhanced self-images, or "Aspects," that "strengthened their bodies and intensified their wills and extended the power of their desires into Attributes, which fell with a force like magic upon those against whom they were turned." The crew has also developed a technology to transfer a person's atman, or soul, electronically to a new body. This reincarnation by mind transfer has created a race of potential immortals and allowed the former crew members to institute the Hindu caste system, with themselves at the top.
The novel covers great spans of time. Eventually, the crew used their now-great powers to subjugate or destroy the native non-human races (whom they characterize as demons) while setting themselves up as gods in the eyes of the many generations of colonist progeny. Taking on the powers and names of Hindu deities, these "gods" maintain respect and control of the masses by maintaining a stranglehold on the access to reincarnation and by suppressing any technological advancements beyond a medieval level. The gods fear that any enlightenment or advancement might lead to a technological renaissance that would eventually weaken their power.
The protagonist, Sam, who has developed the ability to manipulate electromagnetic forces, is a renegade crewman who has rejected godhood. Sam is the last "Accelerationist": He believes that technology should be available to the masses, and that reincarnation should not be controlled by the elite. Sam introduces Buddhism as a culture jamming tool and strives to cripple the power of the gods with this "new" religion. His carefully planned revolt against the gods takes place in stages: "An army, great in space, may offer opposition in a brief span of time. One man, brief in space, must spread his opposition across a period of many years if he is to have a chance of succeeding."
In many ways, the story of Lord of Light mirrors that of the novel Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse.
(for characters, see descriptions below)
The novel has a range of major and minor characters, each with a backstory which, in some cases, is deliberately vague with the intent of intensifying a sense of mystery. While many of the characters bear the names of Hindu gods, wear similar clothing, and carry items that the gods are traditionally depicted with (such as Kali's necklace of skulls), they are never intended to be interpreted by the reader as Hindu gods; they are humans masquerading as gods in order to secure power. To devout Hindus the novel may appear to be blasphemous, but Zelazny was respectful of Hinduism and had clearly read widely in the subject.
The gods live in Heaven, an artificial plateau in the polar regions "where only the mighty might make their home." It is covered by a giant dome for defense and weather control. Heaven is divided into the Celestial City and the Forest of Kaniburrha.
In 1979 it was announced that Lord of Light would be made into a 50 million dollar film. It was planned that the sets for the movie would be made permanent and become the core of a science fiction theme park to be built in Aurora, Colorado. Famed comic-book artist/writer/editor Jack Kirby was even contracted to produce artwork for set design. However, due to legal problems the project was never completed.
Parts of the unmade film project—the script and Kirby's set designs—were subsequently acquired by the CIA as cover for the "Canadian Caper": the exfiltration of six US diplomatic staff trapped by the Iranian hostage crisis (in Tehran but outside the embassy compound). The rescue team pretended to be scouting a location in Iran for shooting a Hollywood film from the script, which they had renamed Argo.[4][5] The story of the rescue effort was later told in the 2012 film Argo.


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NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Although not incredibly painful, investors are scratching their heads over the market's early struggles heading into 2014. Thursday hasn't provided any relief, with the S&P 500 giving up its early gains.
TheStreet's Jonathan Marino noted that European stocks were holding up well, while Asian shares were slipping. The Nikkei was down 1.5%.
Bed Bath & Beyond (BBBY) was getting hit, its shares down 13%, Marino said. The company, which reported earnings on Wednesday, missed on both the top and bottom lines and provided lower-than-expected guidance.
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Bouvet Island | ||||
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Orthographic projection of the world centered on Bouvet Island. | ||||
Government | Dependent territory | |||
- | Monarch | Harald V of Norway | ||
- | Administration | Ministry of Justice and the Police | ||
Dependency of Norway | ||||
- | Claimed | 1 December 1927 | ||
- | Annexed | 23 January 1928 | ||
- | Dependency | 27 February 1930[2] | ||
- | Nature reserve | 17 December 1971[1] | ||
Area | ||||
- | Total | 49 km2 19 sq mi | ||
- | Glaciated | 93% | ||
Population | ||||
- | census | Uninhabited | ||
Time zone | (UTC+1) | |||
ISO 3166 code | BV | |||
Internet TLD | .bva | |||
a. | Not in use. |
Bouvet Island | ||||
| ||||
Orthographic projection of the world centered on Bouvet Island. | ||||
Government | Dependent territory | |||
- | Monarch | Harald V of Norway | ||
- | Administration | Ministry of Justice and the Police | ||
Dependency of Norway | ||||
- | Claimed | 1 December 1927 | ||
- | Annexed | 23 January 1928 | ||
- | Dependency | 27 February 1930[2] | ||
- | Nature reserve | 17 December 1971[1] | ||
Area | ||||
- | Total | 49 km2 19 sq mi | ||
- | Glaciated | 93% | ||
Population | ||||
- | census | Uninhabited | ||
Time zone | (UTC+1) | |||
ISO 3166 code | BV | |||
Internet TLD | .bva | |||
a. | Not in use. |
Bouvet Island (Norwegian: Bouvetøya,[1] previously spelled Bouvet-øya[2]) is an uninhabited subantarctic volcanic island and dependency of Norway located in the South Atlantic Ocean at 54°25.8′S 3°22.8′E / 54.4300°S 3.3800°ECoordinates: 54°25.8′S 3°22.8′E / 54.4300°S 3.3800°E. It lies at the southern end of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and is the most remote island in the world, approximately 2,600 kilometres (1,600 mi) south-southwest of the coast of South Africa and approximately 1,700 kilometres (1,100 mi) north of the Princess Astrid Coast of Queen Maud Land, Antarctica.
The island has an area of 49 square kilometres (19 sq mi), of which 93 percent is covered by a glacier. The centre of the island is an ice-filled crater of an inactive volcano. Some skerries and one smaller island, Larsøya, lie along the coast. Nyrøysa, created by a rock slide in the late 1950s, is the only easy place to land and is the location of a weather station.
The island was first spotted on 1 January 1739, by (and was later named for) Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier. He recorded inaccurate coordinates and the island was not sighted again until 1808, when the British whaler captain James Lindsay named it Lindsay Island.[3] The first claim of landing, although disputed, was by Benjamin Morrell. In 1825, the island was claimed for the British Crown by George Norris, who named it Liverpool Island. He also reported Thompson Island as nearby, although this was later shown to be a phantom island. The first Norvegia expedition landed on the island in 1927 and claimed it for Norway. At this time the island was named Bouvetøya, or "Bouvet Island" in Norwegian.[4] After a dispute with the United Kingdom, it was declared a Norwegian dependency in 1930. It became a nature reserve in 1971.
The island was discovered on 1 January 1739 by Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier, commander of the French ships Aigle and Marie.[5] This was the first time that land had been spotted south of the 50th parallel south. Bouvet, who was searching for a presumed large southern continent, spotted the island through the fog and named the cape he saw Cap de la Circoncision. He was not able to land and did not circumnavigate his discovery, thus not clarifying if it was an island or part of a continent.[6] His plotting of its position was inaccurate[7] leading several expeditions to fail to find the island again.[8] James Cook's second voyage set off from Cape Verde on November 22, 1772 to find Cape Circoncision, but was unable to find the cape.[9]
The next expedition to spot the island was in 1808 by James Lindsay, captain of the Samuel Enderby & Sons' (SE&S) whaler Snow Swan.[10] They reached the island and recorded its position, though they were unable to land.[11][12] Lindsay could confirm that the "cape" was indeed an island.[6] The next expedition to arrive at the island was American Benjamin Morrell and his seal hunting ship Wasp. Morrell, by his own account, found the island without difficulty (with "improbable ease", in the words of historian William Mills)[11] before landing and hunting 196 seals.[6] In his subsequent lengthy description, Morrell does not mention the island's most obvious physical feature, its permanent ice cover.[13] This has caused some commentators to doubt whether he actually visited the island.[11][14]
On 10 December 1825, SE&S's George Norris, master of the Sprightly, landed on the island,[6] named it Liverpool Island and claimed it for the British Crown and George IV on 16 December.[15] The next expedition to spot the island was Joseph Fuller and his ship Francis Allyn in 1893, but he was not able to land on the island. German Carl Chun's Valdivia expedition arrived at the island in 1898. They were not able to land, but dredged the seabed for geological samples.[16] They were also the first to accurately fix the island's position.[15]
Norris also spotted a second island in 1825, which he named Thompson Island, which he placed 72 kilometres (45 mi) north-northeast of Liverpool Island. Thompson Island was also reported in 1893 by Fuller, but in 1898 Chun did not report seeing such an island, nor has anyone since.[16] However, Thompson Island continued to appear on maps as late as 1943.[17] A 1967 paper suggested that the island might have disappeared in an undetected volcanic eruption, but in 1997 it was discovered that the ocean is more than 2,400 metres (7,900 ft) deep in the area.[18]
In 1927, the First Norvegia Expedition – led by Harald Horntvedt and financed by Lars Christensen – was the first to make an extended stay on the island. Observations and surveying were conducted on the islands and oceanographic measurements performed in the sea around it. At Ny Sandefjord, a small hut was erected and, on 1 December, the Norwegian flag was hoisted and the island claimed for Norway. The annexation was established by a royal decree on 23 January 1928.[15] The claim was initially protested by the United Kingdom, on the basis of Norris's landing and annexation. However, the British position was weakened by Norris's sighting of two islands and the uncertainty as to whether he had been on Thompson or Liverpool (i.e. Bouvet) Island. Norris's positioning deviating from the correct location combined with the island's lack of a natural harbour and small size made the UK accept the Norwegian claim.[19] This resulted in diplomatic negotiations between the two countries, and in November 1929, Britain renounced its claim to the island.[15]
The Second Norvegia Expedition arrived in 1928 with the intent of establishing a manned meteorological radio station, but a suitable location could not be found.[15] By then both the flagpole and hut from the previous year had been washed away. The Third Norvegia Expedition, led by Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen, arrived the following year and built a new hut at Kapp Circoncision and on Larsøya. The expedition carried out aerial photography of the island and was the first Antarctic expedition to use aircraft.[20] The Dependency Act, passed by the Parliament of Norway on 27 February 1930, established Bouvet Island as a dependency, along with Peter I Island and Queen Maud Land.[2] The eared seal was protected on and around the island in 1929 and in 1935 all seals around the island were protected.[21]
In 1955, the South African frigate Transvaal visited the island.[22] Nyrøysa, a rock-strewn ice-free area, the largest such on Bouvet, was created sometime between 1955 and 1958, probably by a landslide.[23] A scientific landing in 1978 measured the underground temperature at 25 °C (77 °F).[24] The island was visited by the British naval ship HMS Protector in 1964. In addition to scientific surveys,[16] a life raft was found at Nyrøysa, although no people were found.[24] The entire island and its territorial waters were protected as a nature reserve on 17 December 1971.[1]
Since the 1970s, the island has been frequently visited by Norwegian Antarctic expeditions. In 1977, an automated weather station was constructed, and for two months in 1978 and 1979 a manned weather station was operated.[20] The Vela Incident took place on 22 September 1979 in the sea between Bouvetøya and Prince Edward Islands when the American Vela Hotel satellite registered an unexplained double flash, variously interpreted as a nuclear test, meteor, or instrumentation glitch.[24][25][26][27]
In March 1985, a Norwegian expedition experienced sufficiently clear weather to allow the entire island to be photographed from the air, resulting in the first accurate map of the whole island, 247 years after its discovery.[28] In the mid-1980s, Bouvetøya, Jan Mayen, and Svalbard were considered as locations for the new Norwegian International Ship Register, but the flag of convenience registry was ultimately established in Bergen, Norway in 1987.[29] Several amateur radio DX-peditions have been conducted to the island.[30][31] The Norwegian Polar Institute established a 36-square-metre (390 sq ft) research station, made of shipping containers, at Nyrøysa in 1996. On 23 February 2006, the island experienced a magnitude 6.2 earthquake whose epicentre was about 100 km (62 mi) away[32] (originally reported as magnitude 5.5), weakening the station's foundation and causing it to be blown to sea in a winter storm.[33] In 2007, the island was added to Norway's tentative list of nominations as a World Heritage Site as part of the transnational nomination of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.[34] A new research station was sent from Tromsø in Norway, via Cape Town, to Bouvet in 2014. The new station is designed to house six people for periods of two to four months.[35]
Krill fishing in the Southern Ocean is subject to the Convention for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources, which defines maximum catch quotas for a sustainable exploitation of Antarctic krill.[36] Surveys conducted in 2000 showed high concentration of krill around Bouvetøya. In 2004, Aker BioMarine was awarded a concession to fish krill, and additional quotas were awarded from 2008 for a total catch of 620,000 tonnes (610,000 long tons; 680,000 short tons).[37] There is a controversy as to whether the fisheries are sustainable, particularly in relation to krill being important food for whales.[38] In 2009, Norway filed with the UN Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf to extend the outer limit of the continental shelf past 200 nautical miles (230 mi; 370 km) surrounding the island.[39]
The Hanse Explorer expedition ship visited Bouvet Island on 20 and 21 February 2012 as part of «Expédition pour le Futur». The expedition's goal was to land and summit the highest point on the island. The first four climbers (Aaron Halstead, Will Allen, Bruno Rodi and Jason Rodi) were the first humans to climb the highest peak. A time capsule containing the top visions of the future for 2062 was left behind. The next morning, Aaron Halstead led five other climbers (Sarto Blouin, Seth Sherman, Chakib Bouayed, Cindy Sampson, and Akos Hivekovics) to the top.[40]
Bouvetøya is a volcanic island constituting the top of a volcano located as the southern end of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge in the South Atlantic Ocean. The islands measures 9.5 by 7 kilometres (5.9 by 4.3 mi) and covers an area of 49 square kilometres (19 sq mi),[21] including a number of small rocks and skerries and one sizable island, Larsøya.[41] It is located in the Subantarctic, south of the Antarctic Convergence,[42] which, by some definitions, would place the island in the Southern Ocean.[43] Bouvet Island is the most remote island in the world.[44] The closest land is Queen Maud Land of Antarctica, which is 1,700 kilometres (1,100 mi) to the south,[8] and Gough Island, 1,600 kilometres (990 mi) to the north.[45] The closest inhabited location is Cape Agulhas, South Africa, 2,200 kilometres (1,400 mi) to the northeast.[21]
Nyrøysa is a 2 by 0.5 kilometres (1.2 by 0.3 mi) terrace located on the north-west coast of the island. Created by a rock slide sometime between 1955 and 1957, it is the island's easiest access point.[28] It is the site of the weather station.[46] The north-west corner is the peninsula of Kapp Circoncision.[47] From there, east to Kapp Valdivia, the coast is known as Morgenstiernekysten.[48] Store Kari is an islet located 1.2 kilometres (0.75 mi) east of the cape.[49] From Kapp Valdivia, southeast to Kapp Lollo, on the east side of the island, the coast is known as Victoria Terrasse.[50] From there to Kapp Fie at the southeastern corner, the coast is known as Mowinckelkysten. Svartstranda is a section of black sand which runs 1.8 kilometres (1.1 mi) along the section from Kapp Meteor, south to Kapp Fie.[51] After rounding Kapp Fie, the coast along the south side is known as Vogtkysten.[52] The westernmost part of it is the 300 metres (980 ft) long shore of Sjøelefantstranda.[53] Off Catoodden, on the south-western corner, lies Larsøya, the only island of any size off Bouvetøya.[41] The western coast from Catoodden north to Nyrøysa, is known as Esmarchkysten. Midway up the coast lies Norvegiaodden (Kapp Norvegia)[54] and 0.5 kilometres (0.31 mi) off it the skerries of Bennskjæra.[55]
93 percent of the island is covered by glaciers, giving it a domed shape.[28] The summit region of the island is Wilhelmplatået, slightly to the west of the island's center.[16] The plateau is 3.5 kilometres (2.2 mi) across[56] and surrounded by several peaks.[16] The tallest is Olavtoppen, 780 metres (2,560 ft) above mean sea level (AMSL),[28] followed by Lykketoppen (766 metres or 2,513 feet AMSL)[57] and Mosbytoppane (670 metres or 2,200 feet AMSL).[58] Below Wilhelmplatået is the main caldera responsible for creating the island.[16] The last eruption took place 2000 BC, producing a lava flow at Kapp Meteor.[56] The volcano is presumed to be in a declining state.[16] The temperature 30 centimetres (12 in) below the surface is 25 °C (77 °F).[28]
The island's total coastline is 29.6 kilometres (18.4 mi).[59] Landing on the island is very difficult, as it normally experiences high seas and features a steep coast.[28] During the winter, it is surrounded by pack ice.[21] The Bouvet Triple Junction is located 275 kilometres (171 mi) west of Bouvet Island. It is a triple junction between the South American Plate, the African Plate and the Antarctic Plate, and of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, the Southwest Indian Ridge and the American–Antarctic Ridge.[60]
The island is located south of the Antarctic Convergence, giving it a marine Antarctic climate dominated by heavy clouds and fog. It experiences a mean temperature of −1 °C (30 °F),[28] with January average of 1 °C (34 °F) and September average of −3 °C (27 °F).[45] The monthly high mean temperatures fluctuate little through the year.[61] The peak temperature of 14 °C (57 °F) was recorded in March 1980, caused by intense sun radiation. Spot temperatures as high as 20 °C (68 °F) have been recorded in sunny weather on rock faces.[28] The island predominantly experiences a weak west wind.[45]
Climate data for Bouvet Island | |||||||||||||
Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
Average high °C (°F) | 3 (37) | 4 (39) | 3 (37) | 2 (36) | 1 (34) | 0 (32) | −1 (30) | −1 (30) | −1 (30) | 0 (32) | 1 (34) | 3 (37) | 1.2 (34) |
Average low °C (°F) | 0 (32) | 0 (32) | 0 (32) | 0 (32) | −2 (28) | −4 (25) | −5 (23) | −5 (23) | −5 (23) | −3 (27) | −2 (28) | −1 (30) | −2.2 (27.9) |
Source: [61] |
The harsh climate and ice-bound terrain limits vegetation to fungi (ascomycetes including lichens) and non-vascular plants (mosses and liverworts). The flora is representative for the maritime Antarctic and is phytogeographically similar to the South Sandwich Islands and South Shetland Islands. Vegetation is limited because of the ice cover, although snow algae are recorded. The remaining vegetation is located in snow-free areas such as nunatak ridges and other parts of the summit plateau, the coastal cliffs, capes and beaches. At Nyrøysa, five species of moss, six ascomycetes (including five lichens), and twenty algae have been recorded. Most snow-free areas are so steep and subject to frequent avalanches that only crustose lichens and algal formations are sustainable. There are six endemic ascomycetes, three of which are lichenized.[46]
The island has been designated as an Important Bird Area by BirdLife International because of its importance as a breeding ground for seabirds. In 1978–79 there were an estimated 117,000 breeding penguins on the island, consisting of macaroni penguin and, to a lesser extent, chinstrap penguin and Adélie penguin, although these were only estimated to be 62,000 in 1989–90. Nyrøysa is the most important colony for penguins, supplemented by Posadowskybreen, Kapp Circoncision, Norvegiaodden and across from Larsøya. Southern fulmar is by far the most common non-penguin bird with 100,000 individuals. Other breeding seabirds consist of Cape petrel, Antarctic prion, Wilson's storm petrel, black-bellied storm petrel, subantarctic skua, southern giant petrel, snow petrel, slender-billed prion and Antarctic tern. Kelp gull is thought to have bred on the island earlier. Non-breeding birds which can be found on the island include the king penguin, wandering albatross, black-browed albatross, Campbell albatross, Atlantic yellow-nosed albatross, sooty albatross, light-mantled albatross, northern giant petrel, Antarctic petrel, blue petrel, soft-plumaged petrel, Kerguelen petrel, white-headed petrel, fairy prion, white-chinned petrel, great shearwater, common diving petrel, south polar skua and parasitic jaeger.[46]
The only non-bird vertebrates on the island are seals, specifically the southern elephant seal and Antarctic fur seal, which both breed on the island. In 1998–99, there were 88 elephant seal pups and 13,000 fur seal pups at Nyrøysa. Humpback whale and killer whale are seen in the surrounding waters.[46]
Bouvetøya is one of three dependencies of Norway.[62] Unlike Peter I Island and Queen Maud Land, which are subject to the Antarctic Treaty System,[63] Bouvetøya is not disputed.[59] The dependency status entails that the island is not part of the Kingdom of Norway, but is still under Norwegian sovereignty. Specifically, this implies that the island can be ceded without violating the first article of the Constitution of Norway.[62] Norwegian administration of the island is handled by the Polar Affairs Department of the Ministry of Justice and the Police, located in Oslo.[64]
The annexation of the island is regulated by the Dependency Act of 24 March 1933. It establishes that Norwegian criminal law, private law and procedural law apply to the island, in addition to other laws that explicitly state they are valid on the island. It further establishes that all land belongs to the state, and prohibits the storage and detonation of nuclear products.[2] Bouvet Island has been designated with the ISO 3166-2 code BV[65] and was subsequently awarded the country code top-level domain .bv on 21 August 1997.[66] The domain is managed by Norid but is not in use.[67] The exclusive economic zone surrounding the island covers an area of 441,163 square kilometres (170,334 sq mi).[68]
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