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September 29th, 2012, 10:35 AM #1
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1950's SciFi
In the mid 1950's I belonged to a coffee mess book club that was dedicated to science fiction literature. We subscribed to several magazines and members contributed from their own reading.
I am looking for one containing a story about the world after homosexuals are accepted and they came to dominate society to the extent of having a special policing authority. In view of the pressure being exerted by homosexuals to be accepted as a normal lifestyle, I am interested in this, for me, seminal writing.
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I know of some similar stories from that period. There is A. Bertram Chandler's 'False Fatherland' [US - 'Spartan Planet']. There is John Wyndham's 'Consider Her Ways' that has an all-female society. Also Poul Anderson's 'Virgin Planet'.
October 7th, 2012, 11:00 AM #3
There's also Anthony Burgess's The Wanting Seed.


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Harrah's Las Vegas Restaurants
Offering tasty and playful food options, Harrah's brings the fun to Las Vegas restaurants.
Indulge in a juicy burger or Captain Crunch milkshake at KGB: Kerry's Gourmet Burgers or pile up your plate with international eats at Flavor, The Buffet. Whichever you choose, dining in Las Vegas just got more exciting.
With an array of creative and delightful dishes, the restaurants at Harrah's Las Vegas will make you jump for joy. Just make sure it's not after a big meal!
Fulton Street Food Hall
Fulton Street Food Hall is not a food court, but a chef driven marketplace offering a variety of selections made fresh throughout the day.
Ruth's Chris Steak House
Steakhouse restaurant serving the best prime steak, that's sizzling hot.
KGB: Kerry's Gourmet Burgers
Chef Kerry Simon's restaurant serves Las Vegas' best burgers customized to your liking, along with signature snacks, sides and milkshakes.
Flavors, The Buffet
Flavors is a Las Vegas buffet featuring live cooking stations, all-you-can-eat crab legs and gelato in one of the Las Vegas Strip's most diverse buffets.
Oyster Bar
Belly up to the Oyster Bar at Harrah's and reel in oysters, fresh caught fish, clam chowder, scallops and more at this longtime Las Vegas seafood favorite.
Ice Pan
This Harrah's Las Vegas restaurant serves ice cream custom-made made from dairy and soy bases combined with your choice of flavorings and mix-ins.
Starbucks has two Las Vegas locations at Harrah's Las Vegas, near hotel registration and on the second floor between Toby Keith's and Ice Pan. The lobby location is open 24 hours every day. The promenade location is open daily from 7am-2pm and Fri & Sat 7am-5pm.
Toby Keith's I Love This Bar & Grill
Live country music and down-home Southern favorites make Toby Keith's Las Vegas restaurant at Harrah's your kind of place.
More Las Vegas Restaurants
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Bur Oaks Camp Ground
Open all year, swimming and fishing, handicap access.
Alton Marina
A destination port on the Mississippi with picnic area's, playground, outdoor pool. Within a half of a mile to Alton's historic antique district and the Argosy Casino.
Sam Vadalabene Bike Trail
Extending 20 miles from Alton to Pere Marquette State Park, the Sam Vadalabene Bike Trail runs parallel to the Meeting of the Great Rivers National Scenic Byway along IL Route 100, as well as the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers. The route is completely paved and takes cyclists through the towns of Elsah and Grafton. Comfort stations are available at Piasa Park, Clifton Terrace Park, Elsah, Grafton Visitors Center, Grafton Harbor public restroom and Pere Marquette State Park. This is a great ride for cyclist of all ages, including families looking for a free day of fun!
Geocaching Programs
Geocaching is an outdoor treasure-hunting game in which the participants use a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver or other navigational techniques to hide and seek containers (called "geocaches" or "caches"). Several are located at the Rivers Project and interested individuals can attend this free 1 hour program on Saturdays, June through August,to learn more and get involved in geocaching.
Melvin Price Locks & Dam
Get the best view of Alton and the Mississippi River from eight stories in the air atop the Melvin Price Locks & Dam. Take a free guided tour and see towboats and barges as they push their way through this incredible structure. It's also a great spot to eagle watch in the winter.
Meeting of the Great Rivers National Scenic Byway
Cruise along the Meeting of the Great Rivers National Scenic Byway, where the Mighty Mississippi, Missouri and Illinois Rivers converge. The 33-mile byway begins in Hartford, leading you through Alton and bends along the forested river bluffs to its end point in Grafton, at Pere Marquette State Park.
Liberty Bank Alton Amphitheater
The 4,000 seat Liberty Bank Alton Amphitheater hosts a variety of events from community festivals to live concerts throughout the summer months. With the Mighty Mississippi River as a backdrop, bring your blanket and spread out for an evening under the stars. Check out our website for a list of upcoming events.
The Orchards
The Orchards offers an 18-hole golf course.
Yorktown Golf Course
Designed by golf legends Pete Dye and Bob Goalby, Yorktown offers an 18-hole lit par 3 golf course.
Belle-Clair Fairgrounds & Exposition Center
Home to the annual St. Clair County Fair, several craft shows and monthly flea markets, the complex also includes the Belle-Clair Speedway, with stock car races and demolition derbies.
National Shrine of Our Lady of the Snows
The Shrine has 200 beautifully landscaped acres of gardens and devotional areas, including the Outdoor Amphitheatre, Shrine Church, Lourdes Grotto, Stations of the Cross, Millennium Spire, the Visitors Center with a restaurant and gift shop, and the Shrine Hotel.
Cahokia R V Parque
Swimming, fishing, boat rentals, RV and cabin rentals, tent camping.
The Prairies Golf Course
The Prairies offers an 18-hole golf course.
Far Oaks Golf Club
This par 72, Goalby-designed golf course has 18 challenging holes.
Laser Force Lazer Tag Zone
A 5,000 sq. ft. laser tag arena and a 2,500 sq. ft. game arcade is conveniently located by hotels and restaurants off I-64.
Grand Marais Golf Course
Grand Marais includes an on-site restaurant and pro shop.
Gateway Fun Park
Gateway features mini-golf, go-karts, an arcade, bumper boats, a kiddie track and Rudy's Restaurant.
Glidden Park
Home to newly added in-line hockey rink. Sitting on 30 acres, five tennis courts, soccer field and basketball court, walking track 4 to 10 mile.
Schnucks Park
One of the newest parks with over 9 acres of natural habitat. Sporting a new playground, small fishing pond and a wooden gazebo on its shore.
Woodland Park
50-acre wooded city park located in the heart of Collinsville. Amenities consist of picnic shelters, playgrounds, fishing lake, and softball diamond.
Splash City Family Waterpark
Surfing in Illinois? Yes! The FlowRider creates a perfect wave for surfing and body boarding. Water slides, a lap pool, the lazy river, a sandy play area and "Monsoon Mountain" make for a family adventure.
Metro East Park and Recreation District
More than 150-miles of trails line the rural, suburban, and scenic landscapes found throughout Madison and St. Clair Counties in Illinois. Put it this way, you will personally run out of fuel before you run out of trails! The interconnected system of trails that crisscross the region have been built utilizing partnerships and collaboration amongst multiple public agencies, but no contribution has been more significant than that of both Madison and St. Clair County Transit Districts. Each of the transit districts have made trail building a top priority, so new trails are always coming online. Be sure to check out MEPRD's online trail map to see the latest developments!
MEPRD Trailhead
The MEPRD Trailhead features dawn to dusk trail parking, parking lot surveillance, trail maps, air compressor, bicycle parking, picnic areas, drinking fountains, a pet drinking fountain, rest areas and most importantly, clean restrooms! Conveniently located in close proximity to I-55, I-70, I-255, and IL 157, MEPRD's Trailhead offers easy access to the regional trail system.
World's Largest Catsup Bottle
This 170-foot-tall bottle that resembles a Brook's Catsup Bottle served as a water tower for the catsup manufacturer after being constructed in 1949. A popular roadside attraction, it makes for a great photo op.


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Phoronix: NVIDIA, Red Hat Partner Up For New Graphics Project
Jerome Glisse has long been involved with open-source Linux graphics drivers, but in recent months he hasn't announced any major breakthroughs like in past years. However, at Red Hat they have struck up a partnership with NVIDIA to work on a new device-agnostic API for the Linux kernel that can benefit the graphics drivers...
I smell answer to Mantle. Since Nvidia cannot successfully set new API standard on the consumer front, due to AMD control of the console market, so they went for the enterprise. =)
Hopefully we come out with some nice new API after all that and not...
... has they did suck when it came to GPU.
Michael, I uploaded the videos 12 hours ago on youtube and updated the pages. However, for some strange reason, the web server doesn't implement caching properly so you may need to press F5.
Anyway, the videos for this talk are available at: http://www.x.org/wiki/Events/XDC2013...dressSpaceGPU/
If gallium decided to make the API used by state trackers as a stable ABI, and exported it so that game developers could use it directly, that would be something a bit more equivalent to mantle.
So its a kernelside answer from Nvidia(and probably Intel) to AMD's HSA?
AMD+AMD you get HSA, Nvidia+Intel you get this kernelside API? Or could AMD HSA be implemented using this kernel side API? (Im not sure how much HSA is done in hardware vs software)
I'm all for this project, it SOUNDS like a good project, I'm just trying to figure out where in the landscape it falls given AMD's HSA work which sounds very similar.
this also looks to remove a ton of over head seeing how its going to move even more code into the kernel also i see this adding better PRIME support
At any rate, the patchset that Jerome is working on is intended to provide what would be needed for both AMD and NV.


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ForzaItaliaPgh wrote:Anybody know that there is an Italian American history month? And guess when it is... October. Odd how you'd never know from watching TV. Even the History Channel can't seem to be bothered to recognize it. Seems like some other official history months get a lot more attention. Oh well, what did someone from Italy ever do that was important here in America... it's not like an Italian discovered America or anything
Anyone else annoyed by this or am I alone here?
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For the Lulu Guinness Cruise 12 Collection Lulu sought inspiration from her love of shoes to create a range of shoe box hand bags, purses and small accessories, which launched online today.
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For the Lulu Guinness Cruise 12 Collection Lulu sought inspiration from her love of shoes to create a range of shoe box hand bags, purses and small accessories, which launched online today.
October 29, 2012
A documentary on Diana Vreeland has been released on DVD today. The documentary takes a look at the life of the influential editor and fashion icon during her time at Harpers Bazaar 1936 and Vogue in 1962 who started the legacy of the Youthquake era during the 60's
October 26, 2012
Trick or treat? It's almost Halloween and the Lulu team would love to hear your fancy dress ideas and tips?
October 19, 2012
America's Next Top Model invited Lulu to appear as a 'Go See' judge on their current series. This evening's episode airing across America sees the remaining models visit Lulu in our LA showroom for a casting to win the opportunity to front a future campaign for the Lulu Guinness brand.
October 19, 2012
This weekend 'Lulu Loves' the new Hollywood costume exhibition at the V&A museum in London. This ground-breaking exhibition includes over 100 of the most iconic and unforgettable film characters from a century of Hollywood filmmaking…
October 11, 2012
'Lulu Loves' is the new edition to the Lulu Guinness blog, which will give readers a unique first glance at Lulu's current interests and inspirations every week. Presenting the lastest information from Lulu; including exhbitions; new restaurants; music, brands and events.
October 09, 2012
As we start to dig out the warm winter coats and the realisation of another winter dawns, we have put together this animation of Lulu in a bid to make things a little merrier.
September 17, 2012
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As I'm in the process of reacclimatizing myself to AARland, I'll confess that I haven't had the chance to read the AAR presently showcased. I'll rectify that oversight as soon as I can.
But what I really want to do is congratulate CatKnight for showing great initiative in resurrecting the original Weekly Showcase idea, and adding such a delightful twist to it by having the person honoured pass the baton, so to speak.


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We regret to inform everyone that the 2014 ASCS-National Tour have elected to not come to the
West Coast due to the possibility of bad weather. Events that were scheduled as National events will now change to regional events, with the exception of the May 17th event at Willamette Speedway. The May 17th event will change to Friday, May 23rd for the "Triple Track Showdown".
The Triple Track Showdown extended weekend will start with the 2014 race season kick-off starting at Southern Oregon Speedway on Thursday, May 22nd, then Friday, May 23rd at Willamette Speedway and Saturday the 24th & Sunday the 25th will be at Cottage Grove Speedway. You can guarantee that you will see some of the best Sprint Car action that the Pacific Coast has to offer on these dates with the ASCS-Northwest Region.
We are also EXCITED to tell you about the Passing Points Bonus added for this extended weekend. The top 3 drivers that compete in all 4 races of the Triple Track Showdown with the most passing points will receive a bonus. You must participate in all 4 race events to be eligible for this bonus. 1st - $600.00, 2nd - $500.00, 3rd - $400.00, 4th - $300.00, 5th - $200.00. The total combined eligible purses are over $50,600.00, so come on out and race to get your piece of this payout.
Teams are raring to go to open up the 2014 campaign and a good car count is expected to be on hand. Expect to see names like four-time and defending series champion Roger "The Rocket" Crockett, "HVD" Henry Van Dam, "Haulin'" Colin Baker, "Leadfoot" Logan Forler, and many more pilots from all over the region shred the clay in the state of Oregon.
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Uncommon Carriers
Transportation Week is observed annually in May to acknowledge the importance of transportation to our economy. What better time than Transportation Week could there be to recommend reading Uncommon Carriers by John McPhee?
McPhee is one of the best writers of nonfiction ever. He tackles diverse subjects with equal enthusiasm and aplomb and makes them all interesting. He has written about boats, ships and fish, geology, art, and oranges, and allows the reader to discover things about each that we did not know we wanted to know. An enduring image from Oranges is of people in the Caribbean who split oranges and clean floors with them, one half in each hand.
Uncommon Carriers is a hymn to the people of the industries that move goods around the world. McPhee accompanies a truck driver, a ship's captain, and engineers of a coal train on their long hauls to learn how materials are transported, how the vehicles and equipment work, how people navigate and maneuver, load and unload. It is a surprisingly engaging account, with a delightful dose of humor to boot.
In A Fleet of One, McPhee accompanies Don Ainsworth on a cross country drive carrying a hazardous substance to Oregon. Oregon is the only U. S. state that restricts speed by truck weight. At Cabbage Hill, on the Oregon Trail, they descend 2000 feet in ten miles, traveling most of that distance at a 6 percent grade. Ainsworth manages this going 18 miles per hour, based on his weight, without touching his brakes, thanks to his Jake Brakes (an air compressor-like retarder) and shrewd gear selection. Although escape ramps are available on this steep stretch, most truckers avoid using them because of the grooming fees the state charges.
Ainsworth is fastidious about maintaining his truck, which he says is the world's most beautiful, a 65-foot chemical tanker with 5 axles and 18 wheels. He washes and polishes it until it shines so clearly that you can part your hair in its perfect mirror-like reflection. But he only washes it in one of three places—Salt Lake City, the LA Basin, or Caldwell, Idaho—because there he can find reverse osmosis or deionized water, which produces the shine. He pays $60 plus $15 tip for a 2-hour wash job.
It is thanks to careful tank washings that he can deliver a load, clean, then take on another, different load in the same region, and head home, never returning with an empty tank. He uses an agent to coordinate his travel.
He carries a variety of substances, including WD-40, surfactant, parts degreaser for F-16s, a "secret ingredient" that goes into Spy Grease, soap used in bricks, weed killers, paint thinners, latex for plywood, dust suppressants. Haulers either carry food or chemicals, but very seldom cross over into the other territory.
Tank washing is hazardous work. If not handled carefully, a technician can lose his life falling in and being overcome with poisonous fumes.
Navigating truck stops, and what takes place there, is a fascinating experience. So is learning about who drives trucks—not who you might have thought. So is learning the lingo of the truck driver.
And this is just the first chapter. McPhee also takes us to ship-handling school at Port Revel in the French Alps, he guides us through UPS Air's distribution hub at Louisville International Airport, he hauls us up the Illinois River on a towboat pushing a triple string of barges, he takes a canoe up the canal-and-lock waterways traveled by Thoreau, and rides with the engineers of a coal train through the Powder River Basin of Wyoming.
For an entirely new appreciation of what makes this country run, read Uncommon Carriers and marvel at the skill it takes to operate these complicated vehicles. And next time you pass an 18-wheeler on a downslope, be sure to give the guy plenty of space before you cut over.
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I am so excited!!! Randy M. ...... get that list of yours out! lol I am so dying to see what is on your mind for reading during in this wonderful month of October!! :D I believe i always look forward to this time of year more and more!
The fall leaves, raking....cemetaries and ghouls!! hahahah!
After your list...I have a few things to mention, but shall wait and see!!
Buuuaaaahhh! :eek:
Please begin!! Can't you just feel it!!!;)
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PS: Thanx Hobbit!! I was waiting for you to let the ghouls out!!! :)
LOL. Can I tell you're excited about this, Shayna? :)
Randy will be along in a bit.... he's just hauling the tomes from the catacombs!
Hi, all.
Before I start I thought I should issue the standard disclaimers:
- I'm not an expert, I've just read a lot.
- I look forward to comments and discussion.
- Oddly enough, I also look forward to corrections. Sometimes I start typing and just get carried away. If I say something less than bright, let me know; the sound you hear will be me smacking my forehead.
- You will see a ton of short stories mentioned because I think the form suits the genre. But I won't ignore novels.
- You'll see titles repeated for two reasons:
- Stories are more than just one thing;
- I've read a lot, but not everything!
- I'm probably weakest with newer works, so you'll see a lot of older works mentioned. Still, there will be some newer books and stories mentioned.
And I think that's it. I need to make a couple of corrections to some of what I've written about ... Ray Bradbury, and I'll send it off the first list as soon as I can.
Randy M.
- The October Country (1955)
- "The Crowd"
- "The Small Assassin"
- "Homecoming"
- Something Wicked This Way Comes (1962)
- The Halloween Tree (1972)
The plaudits earned by The Martian Chronicles (1950) – particularly the praising review by Christopher Isherwood – followed by the success of Fahrenheit 451 (1953) propelled Ray Bradbury's career to a level beyond that of any other writer who came to maturity in the s.f./fantasy pulps: Best-seller status and critical acclaim. At the height of his renown, Bradbury was thought of as one of America's premier s.f. writers.
Which seems a bit odd now considering a good deal of Bradbury's early work was published in Weird Tales magazine and his first book, Dark Carnival, appeared from Arkham House, the small publishing house best known for preserving the works of H. P. Lovecraft. Bradbury himself has said that he was a fantasist and over the years this view has become more prevalent among readers. Certainly the science in his writings is thin, the technology mainly the furnishings around which he wove his true stories which were about aspects of love, about family, about growing up and what is lost and what is gained in the process.
While other writers have written about autumn and even about Halloween, for 3 generations of readers Ray Bradbury's name has been indelibly linked to the season. Starting with the story "Homecoming" – my nomination for the great American short fantasy of the 20th century – Bradbury returned time and again to the season, to the sense of aging and mortality that the season inspires, and to the theme of loss. The October Country incorporates several of the stories from Dark Carnival and pulls in others, and hovering over all of them like the shadow of Uncle Einar is that melancholy, that apprehension of decay and of loss of the fecundity and energy of summer; there is in these stories a sense of turning inward.
The three stories mentioned above are among the most well-known of the stories in The October Country, itself a true cornerstone of 20th century American fantasy. "The Crowd" is a rather (Fritz) Leiber-esque story observing something we've all seen in cities and finding the sinister in it – where do the crowds at accidents come from? Who are they? What do they want? "The Small Assassin," arguably Bradbury's most effective horror story, concerns what should be the happiest time in a married couple's lives, the birth of their first child. "Homecoming," not really horror but a story that uses the furniture of the horror story as backdrop, recounts events leading to and during a family gathering, a family composed of werewolves and vampires, men with wings and great-great-etc grandma, who is a mummy, and Timothy, who is none of those things, and in the process evokes the nature of family and familial love, the sense of belonging or not, the feeling of late Fall, the magic of Halloween, and the curse and blessing of mortality like no other story I know.
I'll add some thoughts on Something Wicked This Way Comes presently, but first a brief note about The Halloween Tree: I read it about ten years ago and no longer recall details. I do remember thinking it was a variation on Something …, but with less emphasis on the truly scary and greater emphasis on the weird and eerie and the adventure of it. As with most of Something… it is written from the viewpoint of young boys, or more precisely of the young boys of Bradbury's mid-west youth. Like, say, Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea books, it was a Young Adult title before there was a Young Adult category, and for me it seemed like a drawn-out short story that pulled its punches a bit for the perceived audience. Which is not to say I disliked it. I would recommend giving it a try.
Something Wicked This Way Comes is, arguably, Bradbury's greatest achievement at novel-length, a story about coming of age, of facing mortality, of love between friends and between father and son. The catalyst for this is the arrival of Mr. Dark's carnival in town. The carnival is supernatural, battening on the souls and hopes and dreams of unwary and gullible townspeople, using their desires and needs and vanities against them.
While the narrator is anonymous, the narrative voice is exuberant and aware of the vistas of possibility before the two young boys who are the center of the story. The narrative voice is also aware of the misgivings and fears of the father of one of them, and that discordance is what gives the book much of its power: The worries and frets of an aging man contrasted to the joy in life of his son, which in turn is contrasted to the worries and needs of his best friend, all held together by their mutual love and respect.
Something Wicked This Way Comes is part The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and part The Circus of Dr. Lao but it is mostly pure-quill Bradbury, flawed by lapses into sentimentality, descriptive passages that go over the top (often connected to pitch perfect passages), and moments where the consequences of decisions and actions or inactions are not quite as rigorously worked out as maybe they should be. Yet the essential optimism of the work, its celebration of friendship and of the energy and possibilities of youth, its careful detailing of an older man's coming to terms with decay and mortality, its recognition of what is bad in the world and the power evil can exert over us raise it above its flaws. I know of nothing quite like it in American literature and though my critical faculties rebel at parts of it, that I've read it at least five times must mean it speaks to me at some level beyond the intellectual, even if I can't quite figure out what level that is.
Lastly, even in old age Bradbury hasn't abandoned autumn and Halloween. From the Dust Returned (2001) gathers together his stories about the Family, first depicted in "Homecoming." I haven't read it yet because I've heard he rewrote the stories and I'm not sure I like that. Those stories are old friends and I'm not sure I want even their author messing around with them. Still, I expect I'll give in and read it eventually.
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Randy - I read a lot of Bradbury's short stories when I was younger. Only a couple have stayed with me and "The Small Assassin" is one, but unfortunately because I remember thinking it was was ridiculous to the point of hilarity. I'm not sure that Bradbury achieves the suspension of disbelief necessary to get the reader to accept a newborn might be trying to murder its parents. And the doctor's acceptance of this idea based on what, I recall, to be flimsy evidence also beggared belief. Now I'm the father of a 3 month old maybe I should read it again - or maybe not - It would be horrible to think I could empathise with the story more now!
Another Bradbury story that I remember vividly is "The Man Upstairs", and I think this one is much more effective. This is probably one of my favourite short stories. Bradbury's wonderful descriptive powers are at their height in this tale and used to create an atmosphere of growing suspense and terror. The opening description of the chicken being gutted is so beautiful and disturbing it really has stayed with me since I was a kid.
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Another Bradbury story that I remember vividly is "The Man Upstairs", and I think this one is much more effective. This is probably one of my favourite short stories. Bradbury's wonderful descriptive powers are at their height in this tale and used to create an atmosphere of growing suspense and terror. The opening description of the chicken being gutted is so beautiful and disturbing it really has stayed with me since I was a kid.
By the way, another story I meant to mention (not in TOC) and didn't was "Black Ferris" (believe that's the correct title; I'll double-check when I can) which was an early run at Something Wicked This Way Comes.
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I'm pretty sure "The Man Upstairs" was in The Small Assassin short story collection if you have that.
EDIT: Oh, and to be fair, "The Small Assassin" is one of Bradbury's better known and loved short stories, so your opinion is probably more relevant to others than mine.
Before writing about Bradbury I pulled TOC out and reread a few stories, but not this one. I'll reread this one before much longer.
I wouldn't go that far, especially after the gaff I just made. But this is one of the aspects of horror that parallel humor: Some people find certain things funny or scary, and the person next to them wonders what the fuss is about. Wait until I start discussing Lovecraft -- some readers are mesmerized by his writing, others can't stop laughing long enough to get scared (Brian Aldiss, for one).Quote:
EDIT: Oh, and to be fair, "The Small Assassin" is one of Bradbury's better known and loved short stories, so your opinion is probably more relevant to others than mine.
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My favorite Ray Bradbury story is "Pillar Of Fire". It's perfect reading for this time of year. You can find it in his collection " S Is For Space".
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a. The Night Country by Stewart O'Nan (2004)
b. Dark Harvest by Norman Partridge (2007)
c. A Night in the Lonesome October by Roger Zelazny (1994)
d. "Mr. Dark's Carnival" by Glen Hirshberg
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f. Coraline by Neil Gaiman (2002)
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Ray Bradbury's influence has been widespread, and his October and Halloween stories have inspired works by many other writers in and out of genre.
Stewart O'Nan's The Night Country recounts the events on Halloween one year to the day after a car accident killed several high school students; it is told from the perspective of the students' ghosts as they revisit the town in which they lived and died. While O'Nan dedicates his novel to Bradbury, neither the concept of the novel nor O'Nan's prose seem particularly Bradbury-like. Even so, as in Bradbury, O'Nan instills the quiet winding-down of autumn with a pervading melancholy, a growing sense of something dire soon to happen, and even a Bradbury-esque empathy from the narrator for the living characters being observed. O'Nan's novel leisurely reveals the actions and motivations of his characters, and gradually unveils the mystery surrounding the accident and the reasons for the return of the ghosts.
By contrast with O'Nan's novel, both Roger Zelazny in A Night in the Lonesome October and Norman Partridge in Dark Harvest approach Bradbury-like material with an adventure story sensibility, but diverge drastically from there. Zelazny takes an idea similar to Bradbury's the Family: What if the monsters we know from books and movies, and even one from real life, were conspiring to either save or destroy the world? Like most of Zelazny's work that I've read, the narrator is the protagonist and while not flawless, he is intelligent, knowledgable, loyal and courageous. Unlike those other Zelazny works, the narrator is also a canine, the companion of a man simply known as Jack. Zelazny, completely aware of the not-so-latent silliness of his premise, draws the reader in mainly through making his hero sympathetic and with writing that is sharp, concise, straight-faced and mischievously funny. And it is that sense of humor and having fun with genre materials that most distinguishes Zelazny's novel from Partridge's.
Partidge's Dark Harvest posits a mid-west town with an unbroken streak of fine weather, good crops and great yield at harvest. And the secret for this success is revealed as the novel follows a young man transformed into … well, that would be telling; Partridge's depiction of young people in their late teens trying to break away from the conventions and expectations of their particular town is convincing. While the setting and some of the description is Bradbury's mid-west, Partridge's view of small town life is closer to that of Thomas Tryon in Harvest Home, and his narrative voice is drawn from noir, less akin to Bradbury than to Dashiell Hammett or Fred Brown. This is the only one of the novels listed above that I would call an outright horror novel, and a well-constructed, entertaining one.
Arguably a bit closer in tone, theme and setting to Bradbury, the title of Glen Hirshberg's novella, "Mr. Dark's Carnival," (The Two Sams; 2003)) refers directly to Something Wicked This Way Comes. In this story a professor and his lover visit a recently arrived carnival and learn things about themselves they hadn't known. The story is distinguished by loving, longing and loss.
I cannot recommend these three novels and novella strongly enough. While not Bradbury, they take us near Bradbury territory and do so to some effect.
Not set on Halloween, Blind Voices is a first novel by by Tom Reamy, who died before seeing it in print. Reamy evokes a similar mid-west setting to Bradbury's; his characters would not seem out of place in a Bradbury story, and early on Reamy's well-phrased descriptive prose brings a similar flavor to the novel. As in Something Wicked This Way Comes a travelling carnival comes to town, exciting the townsfolk with its acts: a Snake Goddess, a gorgon, a minotaur, and others. These aren't quite Mr. Dark's soul-sucking entertainments, though, and Reamy's attempt to explain them in a science fictional manner undermines the book's overall effect; further, since his plot does not spring as fully from character as Bradbury's does, a good deal of narrative energy is lost in just getting the plot to work. All-in-all, this is a good first novel, but it's still only a shadow of the book that inspired it.
More successful, I think, and great fun are Neil Gaiman's two Bradbury-esque Young Adult novels, Coraline and The Graveyard Book. The former tells of a young girl who feels neglected and ignored by her mother and father as they move to a new house and try to balance working from home with raising a precocious and inquisitive daughter. The latter tells of a young boy lost in a graveyard and brought up by ghosts and a vampire. Again these are adventure novels of a sort, Coraline Gaiman's attempt, I believe, to provide his own daughter with something to read like Bradbury, in whose books young girls seem noticably scarce, and The Graveyard Book another attempt to write something along the lines of Bradbury's Family stories.
Lastly, Alice Hoffman's prose in Practical Magic is the most like Bradbury's in tone of any of these works, flowing ebulliently and springing on the reader appropriate and sometimes startling, sometimes delightful imagery in this story about two sisters, witches, and how they nearly destroy themselves and how they fight for each other. I think, like Gaiman, Hoffman was looking to give female readers the heroines Bradbury did not in a story like those Bradbury wrote for boys and men. Certainly, when writing about love, particularly familial love, approaching it like Bradbury seems to work. (One note: avoid the movie based on Practical Magic; good cast, but the filmmakers went for a lowest common denominator plot.)
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Not sure it fits some of the criteria Randy is thinking of, but when it comes to Bradbury, 'the Emmissary' is one that always sticks out in my mind - chilling ending.
This collection comes highly recommended by me http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ray-Bradbury...6211564&sr=8-3


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-- i guess you observe that IAP behavior in test mode. In live mode you should be able to buy the same item multiple times. Here live mode means application id is not the default value '000000' - six zeroes but a value assigned by Store during publishing process. That mess in behavior can be considered as a bug. To avoid it just follow IAP developer's guide recommendations:The second time it gives callback that this is already purchased.
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by DeFilippis78 » 01 Mar 2010, 21:01
johnnyonthespot wrote:Interesting stuff.
I can't help but wonder - let's say that my great-grandfather left behind property in Italy which is now worth, oh, I don't know, a few million euros. (Hey, I can dream!)
So, who would that property go to - the first one who shows up to claim it? Or, would the title have to be transferred to all known descendants?
The first hardly seems fair; the latter hardly seems realistic...
by DeFilippis78 » 02 Mar 2010, 01:10
by PeterTimber » 02 Mar 2010, 13:29
by Italysearcher » 02 Mar 2010, 13:52
by DeFilippis78 » 02 Mar 2010, 14:11
by johnnyonthespot » 02 Mar 2010, 14:23
Italysearcher wrote:Italy has 'squatters rights' laws like other countries. If your ancestors abandoned the land and others started using it then claimed it. It would cost more than it is worth to claim it back.
In my husband's family they owned a small property that they allowed a poor family to live in the house and pay no rent. When they went to claim it back they were told it would cost more than it was worth.
Property here is divided equally among the heirs even when a will would leave everything to one member of the family. Given the number of children common to Italian families a century ago the 'portion' remaining as an inheritance is likely to be very small.
by DeFilippis78 » 02 Mar 2010, 14:32
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by italianlaw » 04 Mar 2010, 08:37
JamesBianco wrote:I once heard from my Uncle (who was born in Italy and came here as a teenager) that abandoned land after a time will be confiscated if unclaimed. Now whether that is by the next of kin or the government I am not sure, most likely by anyone who started paying taxes on the land. I know that my uncle's father was nearly beaten to death on one occasion by several towns people for returning just short of the deadline.
This was for San Michele, Catanzaro (Calabria).
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Carols of Middle-earth
1. 'Twas the Night Before Yuletide
'Twas the night before Yuletide, and in Ost-in-Edhil,
Not a creature was stirring; the smith-shop was still.
The hammers were hung from the forges with care,
In hopes that Lord Annatar soon would be there.
The Mírdain were nestled all snug in their beds
While visions from Lórien danced in their heads.
My work set aside I gave thanks to the West
And laid myself down for a short night of rest.
When out in the streets there arose such a clatter,
The luminous dream I was having did shatter.
Away from my tangling bedsheets I thrashed,
Sprang to my feet and to the window dashed.
And what to my wonderment came on and on,
But a jewel-bedecked carriage by eight horses drawn!
With a beautiful driver who shone like a star,
I knew right away that it was Annatar.
More rapid than eagles his coursers became,
When he laughed and with jubilance called them by name:
"Now Daeôl, now Turglin, now Mortûr, now Daethir,
On Morgil on Daewen, on Morlas and Arthir
To the home of the Mírdain, to Celebrimbor's hall,
Dash away, dash away, dash away all."
So up to the front porch the coursers they flew,
With their load of bright jewels, and Lord Annatar too.
And then in a twinkling they were at the door
Their sound of their hoofs like a musical score.
All shrouded in robes that were bristling white,
His costume was covered with jewels sparkling bright.
I fled from the window and to the forge ran
But when I arrived he'd already began.
A bag full of gems he had lain at his feet,
And from every pocket spilled out gold like wheat.
His eyes-how they twinkled! How bright and how sage,
His cheeks were pale roses, his face showed no age,
From all of his being did warm light outspill,
His glorious hair was as bright as mithril.
Caught in his gaze by those eyes sharp and keen
I caught a brief glimpse of great power unseen
How fair and how wise, like a lord of the West,
I trembled to see him, I was so impressed.
His garb was majestic, his bearing was proud,
But his good-natured smile broke through that cold shroud.
With a wink of his eye all my fearfulness fled,
And I knew that Annatar was nothing to dread.
He spoke not a word, but turned straight to his duty
Draping the anvils with gems of great beauty.
And spreading the last of his cache all about,
He swept from the forge to his carriage without.
He sprang to his coach and called out to his team,
And into the night sprang away like a dream,
But I heard him exclaim as he drove out of sight,
"Merry Yuletide to all, and to all good night."
A/N - Alas, how easily even the greatest are swayed by fair form and great gifts!
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No, it's sad having to use proprietary drivers.
Nvidia, enjoy re-implementing the wheel.
Phoronix: NVIDIA Talks Of Optimus Possibilities For Linux
A NVIDIA Linux engineer is trying to work on code that could lead to official Optimus support under Linux, but there's a catch... And it falls outside of NVIDIA Corp as the fate of this multi-GPU notebook feature could now fall with the Linux kernel developers...
No, it's sad having to use proprietary drivers.
Nvidia, enjoy re-implementing the wheel.
Intel: GMA45, HD3000 (Core i5 2500K)
That "patch" was cute.
It amounted to a license change of the code (symbol) in question because an nvidia engineer thought this license to be better.
Isn't that mean DMA-BUF may be used in Intel, nouveau and R600g drivers for implementation Optimus and AMD Dual Graphics in FOSS drivers?
It's meant for sharing dma-able memory between drivers. That could be muxless hybrid laptops, zero copy video between v4l and drm, etc.
"but we for better or worse can't share much infrastructure like DRI."
I don't understand why they can't do that ?
They can't share the user space OpenGL driver, I can understand, but why the DRI ?
The DRI part could be split from the user space OGL driver and could live in the kernel space, I believe that a number of SoC vendors already behave like this.
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Should read as:Alan Cox is one of the developers objecting to the change.
Fuck Linux as a viable gaming platform.
Fuck desktop Linux.
We are quite content with semi-working dead slow open source drivers for ATI/NVIDIA (which don't support well power saving features thus no sane laptop user should ever use them).
With such an attitude Linux will always have 1-1,5% market share. And don't even get me started on Stable API nonsense and lack of real backward libraries compatibility (it's just not there).
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Osho,What is meditation?
It is the most important question as far as my religion is concerned.
Meditation is the very center of my whole effort.
It is the very womb out of which the new religion is going to be born.
But it is very difficult to verbalize it. To say something about meditation is a contradiction in terms. It is something which you can have, which you can be, but by its very nature you cannot say what it is. Still, efforts have been made to convey it in some way. Even if only a fragmentary, partial understanding arises out of it, that is more than one can expect.
But even that partial understanding of meditation can become a seed. Much depends on how you listen. If you only hear, then even a fragment cannot be conveyed to you, but if you listen.. Try to understand the difference between the two.
Hearing is mechanical. You have ears, you can hear. If you are getting deaf then a mechanical aid can help you to hear. Your ears are nothing but a certain mechanism to receive sounds. Hearing is very simple animals hear, anybody who has ears is capable of hearing - but listening is a far higher stage.
Listening means: when you are hearing you are only hearing and not doing anything else - no other thoughts in your mind, no clouds passing in your inner sky - so whatever is being said reaches as it is being said. It is not interfered with by your mind; not interpreted by you, by your prejudices; not clouded by anything that, right now, is passing within you - because all these are distortions.
Ordinarily it is not difficult; you go on managing just by hearing, because the things that you are hearing are common objects. If I say something about the house, the door, the tree, the bird, there is no problem. These are common objects; there is no need of listening. But there is a need to listen when we are talking about something like meditation, which is not an object at all; it is a subjective state. We can only indicate it; you have to be very attentive and alert - then there is a possibility that some meaning reaches you.
Even if a little understanding arises in you, it is more than enough, because understanding has its own way of growing. If just a little bit of understanding falls in the right place, in the heart, it starts growing of its own accord.
First try to understand the word meditation. It is not the right word for the state about which any authentic seeker is bound to be concerned. So I would like to tell you something about a few words. In Sanskrit we have a special word for meditation, the word is dhyana. In no other language does a parallel word exist; that word is untranslatable. It has been recognized for two thousand years that this word is untranslatable, for the simple reason that in no other language people have tried it or experienced the state that it denotes; so those languages don't have that word.


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