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A FRENCH yacht was towed to safety by Cowes RNLI Lifeboat after suffering engine trouble yesterday (Sunday).
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A Cowes Lifeboat spokesman said the man and woman on board had planned to sail from East Cowes to Yarmouth but had changed their plan off Gurnard due to the strong westerly wind.
When they attempted to return to Cowes they could not start their engine.
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Return of Powerful Exotic Animals to Private Ownership in Zanesville Underscores Need for Ohio House to Pass Dangerous Wild Animal Measure
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March 13, 2012
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Citizens from across Tennessee participating in Humane Lobby Day 2012 assembled at the state house in Nashville to urge legislators to pass a bill to phase out the private possession of all species of primates.
January 25, 2012
Tigers and Other Exotic Animals Seized from Mississippi Roadside Zoo
Eleven exotic animals rescued from the Collins Zoo, an unaccredited roadside facility in Mississippi.
January 20, 2012
Victory in Battle over Monkey-Breeding Facility
Following a highly publicized battle, Puerto Rico's Supreme Court has ruled that Bioculture's monkey breeding facility in Guayamna was constructed illegally and cannot operate.
December 29, 2011
2011: Beautiful Victories for Animals in Laboratories
What do Botox, the Endangered Species Act, and biomedical research have in common? Find out about The HSUS's work to protect animals in laboratories in 2011.
December 1, 2011
Taxpayers Join The HSUS in Urging University Laboratories to Prohibit Severe Animal Suffering
The HSUS sent letters from 26,688 members of the public to 388 federally-funded colleges and universities, urging the schools to adopt a formal policy that would protect animals in their laboratories from severe pain and distress.
October 19, 2011
Great News! The U.S. Army Will Stop Using Monkeys in Harmful Training Courses
The U.S. Army has announced that live monkeys will be replaced with humane non-animal alternatives in future chemical warfare trainings. More than 1,000 HSUS supporters contacted the Army urging that the use of monkeys be stopped.
August 29, 2011
Leading the Way on Alternatives to Using Animals in Experiments
HSUS President and CEO Wayne Pacelle discusses developing alternative methods to replace animals in harmful research and testing.
August 22, 2011
Resolution Presented at International Forum Calling on Research Institutions to Develop Animal Testing Alternatives
A resolution calling for research institutions around the world to develop and publicize strategies to replace, reduce and refine their use of animals in experimentation is being presented for endorsement to attendees at a prominent scientific conference.
July 6, 2011
U.S. Senators Introduce Bill to End Trade in Primates as 'Pets'
The HSUS, Humane Society Legislative Fund and Born Free USA commend Sens. Barbara Boxer, David Vitter, and Richard Blumenthal for introducing the Captive Primate Safety Act, to prohibit interstate commerce of monkeys, apes and other nonhuman primates in the exotic pet trade.
June 10, 2011
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Wayne Pacelle, president and CEO of The Humane Society of the United States, released a statement in response to the news that two girls in Fremont, Ohio had been attacked by an escaped pet grivet monkey.
May 11, 2011
Animal Welfare Groups Call for Stronger Laws to Regulate Exotic Pets in Virginia
With the recent news of another person attacked by a primate kept as a pet, The HSUS and the Richmond SPCA call on Virginia lawmakers to address the issue of private possession of exotic animals.
March 29, 2011
The HSUS Applauds the U.S. Department of Agriculture for Launching New Database on Animal Welfare Enforcement
The HSUS applauds the USDA for launching a new database to increase public access to information regarding research facilities and other entities regulated under the Animal Welfare Act.
March 24, 2011
Animal Advocates Lobby Maine Lawmakers for Animal Welfare Legislation
Citizens from across Maine will meet with their lawmakers Thursday at the capitol and urge them to pass a variety of important animal welfare bills during Humane Lobby Day 2011. The HSUS and Maine Friends of Animals are sponsoring the event.
March 17, 2011
The HSUS Examines Animal Research Violations at Wake Forest University
In light of government reports showing that Wake Forest University has failed to follow minimal standards of care for animals in laboratories, The HSUS urges the university to adopt a policy to prohibit animals in its care from experiencing severe pain and distress.
February 24, 2011
Victory! NASA Cancels Plans for Monkey Radiation Experiments
On December 8, 2010, NASA announced that it had withdrawn its proposal to spend $1.75 million to expose male squirrel monkeys to high doses of radiation.
December 14, 2010
Congress Can Spare Taxpayers and Animals
President Obama's bipartisan deficit-reduction commission is making recommendations for reducing the deficit, and here at The Humane Society of the United States and the Humane Society Legislative Fund we are proposing a few cost-cutting measures for lawmakers to consider in getting the country's budget back on track.
November 23, 2010
Wild Monkeys Destined for U.S. Labs
Halfway around the world, wild monkeys destined for research laboratories in the United States are being captured, bred and sold as part of a brutal monkey trade on the island nation of Mauritius.
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July 22, 2010
The HSUS, HSLF Praise Illinois Governor for Signing Primate Pet Ban and Antifreeze Safety Bills
The HSUS and HSLF commend Illinois Gov. Quinn for signing bills to prohibit to private ownership of primates as pets and require the addition of a bitter flavor to antifreeze and engine coolant to prevent poisoning of children and animals.
April 30, 2010
The HSUS Applauds USDA Animal Welfare Act Enforcement Transparency
The HSUS applauds Thursday's announcement by USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service that it will resume issuing press releases on enforcement actions taken in response to violations of the Animal Welfare Act.
April 29, 2010
The HSUS Highlights Animal Research Violations at Virginia Commonwealth University
The HSUS obtained government reports showing that Virginia Commonwealth University has violated federal standards of care for animals in laboratories.
April 28, 2010
Animal Protection, Public Safety Measures Pass in Illinois
The HSUS and the Humane Society Legislative Fund commend the Illinois General Assembly for passing two important animal protection and public safety measures.
April 28, 2010
Article Explores Serious Animal Welfare Problems at Federally Funded Animal Research Facilities
A newly published article in a scientific journal reveals numerous instances of animal pain, suffering and death when research institutions failed to follow minimum legal standards.
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Set in a fictional Georgian-era-type society, Swordspoint: A Melodrama of Manners is a "fantasy of manners" or "mannerpunk" novel. In contrast to epic fantasy, where the characters are fighting with swords and the fate of the universe is often at stake, mannerpunk novels are usually set in a hierarchical class-based society where the characters battle with words and wit. There may or may not be magic or sorcery involved and, in many ways, this subgenre of fantasy literature is more like historical fiction that takes place in an imaginary universe. The focus is on societal structures and social commentary. Characters may not be changing THE world, but they're changing THEIR world. If you like Jane Austen and P.G. Wodehouse, mannerpunk may be just your thing.
In Swordspoint, the infamous swordsman Richard St. Vier is a tool of the upper class. Those who can afford his exorbitant rates may hire him to challenge a lover who's spurned them, kill off a rival, or just make a party more exciting. Perhaps Richard wouldn't have taken that last assignment if he'd known how the nobles were scheming before the next election. Now he's been dragged into their business, and it's quite a quagmire. On top of that, he has to deal with the eccentricities of his lover Alec, a university dropout. Meanwhile, playboy Michael Godwin is pursuing the widowed duchess, trying to evade the amorous intentions of an important councilman, and secretly pursuing his desire to be a swordsman like Richard St. Vier.
Swordspoint is somewhat original considering that it's one of the first "mannerpunk" fantasies and features several bisexual characters (unusual for a book published in 1987). The book is highly recommended by Neil Gaiman and is part of his new Neil Gaiman Presents audiobook collection. For this reason, I guess, I was expecting more.
The story is diverting -- a nice enough way to spend a few hours -- but that's really about all I can say. All of the characters are unlikable, nastily plotting and scheming against each other, abusing each other, or being abused. Richard St. Vier could have been a great character, but his love for Alec was incomprehensible. Alec is boring, sullen, selfish, possibly crazy, and completely without any noticeable value other than his good looks. Why is Richard willing to kill anyone who messes with Alec, a man who's always trying to provoke situations in which Richard will be forced to fight a duel? Not a convincing love affair. I also didn't think that Swordspoint, supposedly a comedy of manners, which relies on witty and clever dialogue, was particularly witty or clever. The plot, though diverting, was not exciting or clever either.
In its favor, the book is well-written, with smooth prose and excellent pacing. I really liked Riverside, the low-class area where Richard lives. The storyline in which Michael Godwin leads Lord Horn on, changes his mind, and then tries to evade Horn's advances, is funny. I was just expecting more.
The audiobook version is narrated by Ellen Kushner herself (who you know, if you've heard her on NPR, has a nice voice) with the addition of a "full cast" who reads some of the dialogue some of the time (sometimes Kushner reads the dialogue). Kushner's tone is light and breezy and better with the narration than the dialogue. When she reads the dialogue, her breeziness and lack of variation in tone doesn't help her characters' personalities. However, the actors who occasionally do the dialogue (Dion Graham, Katherine Kellgren, Robert Faas, Nick Sullivan, and Simon Jones) are excellent. The sound effects that are occasionally added to the background are atrocious. For example, when the nobles are drinking tea from fine china cups and saucers, it sounds like they're in a downtown diner. Fires crackling and clocks ticking disturb the narration. It's ludicrous, but fortunately the sound effects are infrequent.
I'm eager to try one of Ellen Kushner's other mannerpunk novels. Swordspoint: A Melodrama of Manners was just okay, but I like Riverside and plan to try the sequel, The Privilege of the Sword, which takes place years later and features a female protagonist. It's also available from Neil Gaiman Presents and I've already purchased it. I'll let you know.
"Goodbye, Fafhrd and Gray Mouser!"
Originally posted at Fantasy Literature.
The Knight and Knave of Swords is the last collection of Fritz Leiber's LANKHMAR stories about those two loveable rogues, Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser. I had read all of the LANKHMAR stories up to this point but it took me a while to open this book because I just wasn't ready for it to be over. Neil Gaiman says something similar in his introduction to The Knight and Knave of Swords and I'm sure that most of Leiber's fans feel the same way. I know I can re-read these stories at any time, but it's just not the same thing. It's sad to know that Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser's adventures are over.
The Knight and Knave of Swords, which has also been titled Farewell to Lankhmar (sniff!), contains these previously published novellas and stories: "Sea Magic" (1977), "The Mer She" (1978), "The Curse of the Smalls and the Stars" (1983), "The Mouser Goes Below" (1987) "Slack Lankhmar Afternoon Featuring Hisvet" (1988). The stories take place at the end of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser's careers and, fittingly, are among Leiber's final works. The Knight and Knave of Swords was nominated for the 1989 World Fantasy Award for Best Collection.
Last time we saw the duo, they were on Rime Isle with their current (and last?) lady loves and the men they now command. They had left their beloved and decadent capitol city of Lankhmar and traveled to Rime Isle when their help was requested by two "nubile" girls who asked them to come to Rime Isle to fight off the invading Sea Mingols. The boys and their crews were successful, but Fafhrd lost his left hand in the battle. During his convalescence, they just kind of stayed on and settled down with the two women they met there. Not only is this homey sedentary life surprising to F & GM, who are starting to feel a little restless and bound, but it's very nearly scandalous! All of Lankhmar is talking about it:
"It is an old saw in the world of Nehwon that the fate of heroes who seek to retire, or of adventurers who decide to settle down, so cheating their audience of honest admirers — that the fate of such can be far more excruciatingly doleful than that of a Lankhmar princess royal shanghaied as a cabin girl aboard an Ilthmar trader embarked on the carkingly long voyage to tropic Klesh or frosty No-Ombrulsk. And let such heroes merely whisper a hint about a "last adventure" and their noisiest partisans and most ardent adherents alike will be demanding that it end at the very least in spectacular death and doom, endured while battling insurmountable odds and enjoying the enmity of the evilest arch-gods. So when those two humorous dark-side heroes the Gray Mouser and Fafhrd not only left Lankhmar City (where it's said more than half the action of Nehwon world is) to serve the obscure freewomen Cif and Afreyt of lonely Rime Isle on the northern rim of things, but also protracted their stay there for two years and then three, wiseacres and trusty gossips alike began to say that the Twain were flirting with just such a fate."
But it's not just people who are scandalized; the gods are, too. All sorts of deities, including Loki and Odin (I don't like the way Leiber tied Nehwon to our world that way), still have plans for the world's greatest adventurers and F & GM's retirement is not convenient for these selfish godlings. And so they send various trials and temptations that they hope will tear the guys away from their ladies. Thus, F & GM have to dodge beautiful (nubile) girls, assassins, stowaway princesses, and curses. They get tricked, captured, tied up, shaved, beribboned, and rescued. They even find out that they have children they didn't know of.
It's all quite fun for the first half of the book, but it starts to drag later as F & GM spend less time adventuring and more time reminiscing (again) about all the adventures they've had (even the "erotic" ones) and all the (nubile) girls they've known. One story ("The Mouser Goes Below"), in which Mouser gets buried under ice, goes on way too long and, regrettably, displays the kind of icky lechery I mentioned in my review of the previous collection, Swords and Ice Magic. It seems that the older Leiber got, the younger and more "nubile" became the girls in his stories. There are numerous mentions (mostly by Mouser) of budding breasts and girls playing erotically with each other while he watches. Just yuck.
Despite this, Fafhrd is one of my favorite fantasy heroes. He's a big barbarian with an open mind, an appreciation of beauty, a sense of wonder about the universe, a bent toward philosophy and a pretty way of saying things. We often see him wondering what's over the horizon, across the sea, or up in the sky. He's not formally educated, but he's observant like a scientist. In one scene he's on a ship and a companion mentions the stars disappearing in the daytime. But Fafhrd, who watches, knows the truth:
"The stars march west across the sky each night in the same formations which we recognize year after year, dozen years after dozen, and I would guess gross after gross. They do not skitter for the horizon when day breaks or seek out lairs and earth holes, but go on marching with the sun's glare, hiding their lights under cover of day."
As you can see, not only are Leiber's stories usually fun, but they're also a delight to the mind and ear.
"Legends travel on rainbow wings and sport gaudy colors… while truth plods on in sober garb."
I listened to the audio version of all of the LANKHMAR stories. These were produced by Audible Studios and narrated by one of my favorite readers, Jonathan Davis. He is at his very best in these productions and I highly recommend them in audio format. They are simply excellent. Each audiobook is introduced by Neil Gaiman (who also narrates his introductions).
Goodbye, Fafhrd and Gray Mouser. I'll miss you.
"Razo gets center stage"
3.5 stars. Originally posted at Fantasy Literature.
Shannon Hale writes excellent children's fantasy. River Secrets is the third book in her BAYERN series. It follows The Goose Girl and Enna Burning and focuses on one of readers' (and the author's) favorite characters from these books, Razo of the forest.
In the previous books, Razo's friend Isi, who has wind magic, became queen of Bayern and his friend Enna, who has fire magic, helped Bayern win a battle with Tira. Now Bayern and Tira are swapping ambassadors and opening diplomatic relations. The people of Bayern are not popular in Tira because of what Enna, the fire mage, did to their army. Enna isn't happy about her role in the battle, either, so she asks to go to Tira with the ambassador, hoping to redeem herself by doing something constructive instead of destructive with her magic.
For some unknown reason Razo has been chosen by the captain of the Bayern guard to accompany the Bayern ambassador to Tira. This is surprising because Razo feels like he's only at court with Isi and Enna because he's their friend. He doesn't feel like he has any sort of skills or smarts that make him worthy on his own. Razo is kind of short, he has no magic, and he's not a great fighter, so his self-esteem is a little low when he compares himself to his accomplished friends. He has no idea what he can do to help his country.
When Razo, Enna, and the ambassador get to Tira, they encounter an entirely new culture. While Razo is trying to find his place in Tira, bad things start happening. Burned bodies are showing up around the capitol city, making it look like the Bayern fire mage is terrorizing Tiran citizens again. (They don't know that Enna is the fire mage.) The daughter of the Tiran ambassador is obviously keeping secrets. Razo is worried about both of these things because he's not sure that his friend Enna isn't the one burning bodies and he has a bit of a crush on the Tiran ambassador's daughter. Razo will try to solve the mysteries and solidify the peace before the Tiran people kill the Bayern ambassador and her entourage. In doing so, Razo may discover that he has his own particular talents and skills.
Anyone who liked the previous BAYERN books will almost certainly enjoy this one, too. Razo's a likeable boy with a nice personality, a good heart, and a pleasing sense of humor. He cares for friends and strangers alike. It's hard to imagine that young readers won't be drawn to him. He's also easier to relate to than Isi and Enna because he has no magical powers. In River Secrets we see him start a new clothing trend, become friends with a prince, navigate a royal court, confront terrorists, and deal with his own personal grief and doubts. Razo develops both physically and personally in this novel.
I liked River Secrets a lot better than I liked Enna Burning but not quite as much as I liked The Goose Girl. I thought Enna Burning was too dark and disturbing for a children's story. Some of that same darkness is in River Secrets, but it works better here because Enna is not the main character, and because she's trying to control her desire to burn by channeling it in appropriate directions. You could read River Secrets without reading The Goose Girl and Enna Burning first, but you would be missing some of the history.
The audio version of River Secrets is 7.5 hours long and narrated by a full cast. One or two of the narrators feel stilted at times, but most of them do a great job. I recommend this Full Cast Audio production.
"An early stand-alone Vorkosigan book"
Originally posted at Fantasy Literature.
Falling Free is an early stand-alone story in Lois McMaster Bujold's VORKOSIGAN SAGA. It takes place before the events we read about in the other books and tells the story of the Quaddies, those genetically engineered "mutants" who have four arms and no legs and who, therefore, make good workers for zero-gravity situations. They were created in secret by a corporation who is using them as free labor.
The story starts when Leo Graf, an engineer, is hired to train students on a distant planet. Leo doesn't know, and isn't told, that his new students are Quaddies, so he's quite surprised and repulsed when he first meets them. Despite their strange anatomy, though, the Quaddies are just as smart as other humans and their four arms makes them better at some mechanical tasks. Soon it becomes apparent that the Quaddies are really just children and teenagers who want to be as normal as they can and don't even realize that other humans would find them hideous. The corporation gives them no privacy and tries to keep them ignorant of other cultures, but the Quaddies have found ways to smuggle in trashy romance novels and videos. Leo struggles with the ethics of what the corporation is doing, but he initially decides not to rock the boat…. until a new technological advancement makes the Quaddies suddenly obsolete. Now Leo has to decide whether or not to help the Quaddies escape the fate that their owners have decided for them. If he does, he'll ruin his illustrious career.
All of Lois McMaster Bujold's VORKOSIGAN stories are fast paced, fun, and amusing, and Falling Free is no exception. On the surface it's an entertaining adventure that's often funny, such as when a Quaddie couple is trying to escape with their baby and worried about the trail of dirty diapers they're leaving behind like breadcrumbs. It's hard not to adore the Quaddies — they're clever and sweet — and it's easy to be outraged at their circumstances. The stakes are certainly high.
Falling Free is a story about revolution, and who doesn't love a good revolution story? It's also about the seduction of power, the difference between free time and freedom, what makes us human, how doing nothing can be morally wrong, and how just one person really can change the world.
Falling Free is not as wonderful as the other VORKOSIGAN books. The characters aren't nearly as well developed. Leo, the hero, has little personality and the villains are obvious and one-faceted. Bujold fans know that characterization is what the author does best and that is missing here. Also, the humor isn't quite as clever, which is disappointing because I love Bujold's sense of humor. But Falling Free is still a fun story that's worth your time, especially if you're interested in the history of the Quaddies.
Falling Free won the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1989. I listened to Bernard Setaro narrate the excellent audio version produced by Blackstone Audio. It's 8.75 hours long.
"Lots of backstory about Vlad"
3.5 stars. Originally posted at Fantasy Literature.
Taltos is the fourth novel in Steven Brust's series about Vlad Taltos, a human crime boss in the fantasy world of Dragaera, where humans are short of stature and lifespan compared to the species that rule the world. Taltos is actually a prequel to the previous novels (Jhereg, Yendi, Teckla) in which Vlad tells us about an incident that happened years ago while he was solidifying his reputation as a new crime lord. One of his lackeys tried to cheat him, so Vlad went after him instead of letting the guy get away because he didn't want to seem weak to his rivals. The man fled to Castle Black, an elusive floating castle owned by the Dragonlord Morrolan. Vlad followed. This is how he met some of the main characters who we already know from the previous novels, including Morrolan, the powerful sorceress Sethra Lavode, and the Dragon Heir Aliera. Together they have a grand adventure which involves stealing magical artifacts, walking the Paths of the Dead, and performing a dangerous bit of witchcraft.
While Vlad is telling us about this adventure, he also provides flashbacks which describe his childhood with his family, how he eventually left home to begin a career as another crime lord's minion, and how he rose in the organization by being clever and daring. We learn a lot about Vlad's father and grandfather, and the fact that Vlad doesn't know who his mother is (which is bound to be important later). In this timeline we also witness when Vlad met, for the first time, Kiera, the thief who is Vlad's friend, and Kragar, his current partner in crime.
Brust does a great job of interweaving these separate plot lines and giving us a lot of backstory about Vlad as well as much of the information about Dragaera that I felt like I had been missing so far. Also, the story gives us further hints about why Vlad, who's merely an Easterner human, may be important to the Dragaeran society.
Vlad Taltos has a great voice and he's a fun character, as is his familiar Loiosh, the jhereg. They make a great team and it's fun to listen to them banter with each other. Brust's prose is easily readable and each book I've read so far (the first four) are quick action-packed reads. I'm listening to the audio versions produced by Audible Studios. I love Bernard Setaro Clark in this role. He's got just the right voice and pace. The audiobook is 6.25 hours long.
You could easily read Taltos before reading the other novels. If you're the type of reader who would rather go in internal chronological order, I'd suggest picking this up first. Taltos is a must-read for fans of the VLAD TALTOS series because it gives us a lot of backstory while being just as much fun as the previous books.
"A Cinderella story about PTSD"
Originally posted at Fantasy Literature. Life's too short to read bad books!
Each of Mercedes Lackey's ELEMENTAL MASTERS novels is a stand-alone fairytale retelling. Some of the novels have overlapping characters, but you can read these books in any order. The fourth book, Phoenix and Ashes, is a mostly pleasant Cinderella story set in England during The Great War. Maya, the Indian doctor from The Serpent's Shadow, is a minor character. I listened to Michelle Ford narrate the audio version of Phoenix and Ashes (Audible Studios). She is perfect for this tale.
Unlike some of the other ELEMENTAL MASTERS stories, Phoenix and Ashes stays pretty close to the source material; you can tell this is a Cinderella story. Eleanor Robinson's father is killed during WW1 and Eleanor is left living in the house she grew up in with her socially-climbing evil stepmother and two stepsisters. They cast a spell on Eleanor and make her their slave while they attend teas and balls. Eleanor's "fairy godmother" is a local witch who helps Eleanor develop her own magical skills. Her helpful woodland creatures are the salamanders that usually accompany fire mages in Lackey's ELEMENTAL MASTERS books. Most interesting is Prince Charming — a young soldier who was sent home with "shellshock."
Lackey does a nice job of portraying the horrors, the deprivations, and the massive amount of death that The Great War caused. We see an England that is nearly devoid of healthy adult men within a certain age range. Women were running the farms and businesses. German submarine blockades of merchant ships meant that people were hungry. So many of the English soldiers never came home, and those who did were maimed and/or afflicted with PTSD, a brain disorder that people didn't believe in until recently. Lackey shows us the scorn that the military held for those who suffered from "shellshock" and also the way they were slow to adapt to the Germans' technological advances. A few times Lackey attempts to bring in some socialist opposition to the war, which could have been really interesting and informative, but this is dealt with so quickly and superficially that it was of no value.
As in the other ELEMENTAL MASTERS books, the evil villains are totally over-the-top sadists, making them seem like caricatures rather than real people. Eleanor's stepmother is so hilariously bad that it's hard to take her seriously. In contrast, the protagonists always display surprisingly modern ideas for their time. They're always progressive feminists who despise the class structure they were born into. A little more diversity and nuance to Lackey's characters would be nice.
Still, for a fluffy fantasy read, Phoenix and Ashes is mostly entertaining. It's easy to sympathize with Eleanor's plight, cheer when she manages to win little victories over her evil stepmother, and feel excited knowing that she'll triumph in the end. Unfortunately there is a long odd section in which Eleanor learns about passion, balance and responsibility from the creatures on Tarot cards in some sort of dreamland. This was bizarre and boring and didn't feel like it fit in an ELEMENTAL MASTERS novel since, I think, Tarot has not been mentioned as related to this magic system before. The ending of the story, when Eleanor gets revenge, was also abrupt and not especially satisfying. Sort of like my ending to this review.
"Strangely jumbled"
Originally posted at Fantasy Literature. Life's too short to read bad books!
The Wizard of London is the fifth of Mercedes Lackey's stand-alone novels in her ELEMENTAL MASTERS series of fairytale retellings. It's so loosely based on Hans Christian Andersen's "The Snow Queen" that you probably won't even notice the few similarities. There's an ice queen, but the theme of The Wizard of London (if there is one, which I doubt), has nothing to do with the theme of "The Snow Queen."
The story starts when a little girl named Sarah arrives from Africa (where her parents are missionaries) at a London boarding school that is known to educate and train the children of Elemental mages. There she finds an ethically and religiously diverse cast of excellent teachers and attendants. She also befriends a young street urchin named Nan whose mother is a neglectful drug addict. Together Sarah and Nan have various girlish adventures such as acting in plays, doing chores and school projects, visiting the country, solving little mysteries, acquiring avian familiars, practicing some magic, and producing a version of A Midsummer Night's Dream (a big nod to Rudyard Kipling's Puck of Pook's Hill here). Their headmistress, Isabelle, often has special tasks for them such as attending a séance to help debunk the local medium.
Eventually the story gets on with it and we meet the "Ice Queen." She is Cordelia, an Elemental mage who mentors David, the man who suddenly dumped Isabelle (the headmistress) without explanation years ago. Gradually we learn that Cordelia made a deal with an ice elemental and has certain disturbing magical skills that she uses to try to gain power over others, especially David. When she's not doing evil stuff, she is lamenting the fact that she's a woman and, therefore, forced to gain her power in such an unethical way.
The Wizard of London is marketed to adults, but a lot of the time it feels like a children's story since it frequently focuses on the two girls and is often simple and told in short cute episodes that end with the girls being praised for being nice, smart or brave. These parts of the story are quite sweet and childish. But then, as she does in every ELEMENTAL MASTERS book that I've read so far, Lackey throws in that super evil villain that reminds you that you're not reading a children's book. The story flip-flops between these two tones — sickly sweet and pathologically violent — and also can't seem to settle on a particular main character or story line. It jumps around all over the place. The disparate plot elements are also strangely jumbled. They don't feel like they go together organically or fit into the story of "The Snow Queen." I think I would have left out Robin Goodfellow, the Morrigan, the Wild Hunt, and Aleister Crowley completely, and I won't even mention the weird part where the headmistress (quite the proper lady) shows up garbed in merely a scrap of chemise and wielding a spear. That was really odd. It also seems to me that Lackey keeps changing the rules to her elemental magic system. It's never consistent.
As usual, all the protagonists are unfailingly wonderful all the time. They're smart, they're nice, they're brave, and all of their ideas are correctly 21st century American even though they live in Victorian England (all of Lackey's ELEMENTAL MASTERS protagonists are like this). The villains, or course, are all on par with Jeffrey Dahmer and Ted Bundy.
Michelle Ford does the narration for Audible Studio's version of The Wizard of London. Her voices are wonderful, but she has a few mispronunciations, including twice mispronouncing the word "sidhe" which she pronounces as "seed-hay" even after Nan misunderstands it as "she" and has to be told that how it's spelled.
"A Puss in Boots story"
Originally posted at Fantasy Literature.
Reserved for the Cat is the sixth stand-alone novel in Mercedes Lackey's ELEMENTAL MASTERS series of fairytale retellings. As the title might suggest, Reserved for the Cat is a "Puss in Boots" story and it's actually recognizable as such (unlike some of Lackey's other retellings that go too far afield from their sources).
Ninette, our heroine, is an orphaned ballet dancer who has lots of talent but is fired from her gig with a famous Parisian ballet company after inadvertently evoking the jealousy of the company's reigning diva. Unable to get more work in Paris, she is about to prostitute herself when a talking cat appears and promises to make her a superstar. The cat leads her to a seaside town in England where she impersonates a famous Russian dancer and joins a local troupe of entertainers. Things go well until she attracts the attention of the real Russian dancer whose body has been absorbed by a shape-shifting troll. Her new friends, including the cat, must defeat the troll.
Lackey's best fairytale retellings are the ones that stay close to the source material. It's fun to recognize elements from the original fairytales and admire how Lackey re-works them into a new, more modern, story. Reserved for the Cat is fun that way, but the characterization in this novel is weak. Ninette, while she is likable and easy to feel for, doesn't exhibit much of her own agency. This is, of course, mostly due to the Puss in Boots premise, but it doesn't make for an engaging heroine. Her personality is as small and delicate as her body. Unfortunately, the people in her supporting cast seem even paler and are nearly interchangeable.
The story includes a couple of Lackey's over-the-top sadist villains, her usual man-hating cynical commentary about women's roles in 19th century European societies and the deplorable state of orphanages, some sloppy plotting, and a quick and unsatisfying ending. I have no idea why all of the characters except Ninette are told who the cat actually is. And why, if the villain is such an awesome mage, is it so hard for her to kill Ninette? She's like a James Bond villain; she keeps constructing these elaborate traps for Ninette instead of just finding and killing her. It wouldn't be that hard — Ninette is on a public stage every day and the villain is a shapeshifter. Duh. And why are Ninette's own powers inconsistent, random, and convenient? And why is the magic system never consistent among the ELEMENTAL MASTERS books? Oh well. I did like the cat.
The audio version of Reserved for the Cat is 11 hours long and nicely narrated by Mirabai Galashan.
"It's more about the journey than the destination."
3.5 stars. Originally posted at Fantasy Literature.
This review will contain a few spoilers for R.A. MacAvoy's previous book, Lens of the World. You'll want to read that book before beginning King of the Dead.
King of the Dead is the second story in R.A. MacAvoy's LENS OF THE WORLD trilogy about Nazhuret, a man who is writing his life story for his friend, the king. When we met Nazhuret at the beginning of Lens of the World, he was an ugly orphan who had been raised in a government military academy. Upon reaching his majority, he left and became an apprentice to Powl, a man who is much more than the lens grinder he pretends to be. Powl thoroughly educated Nazhuret in a multitude of subjects and disciplines. Only toward the end of that first book do we realize why Powl took an interest in an ugly orphan — he recognized Nazhuret's unknown bloodline and realized that the orphan has an important destiny. At the end of the book, Nazhuret and Arlin (the girl he loved as a child who ran away from home and has been masquerading as a man) perform a noble deed that earns them the love and trust of their king forever.
King of the Dead begins a few years later when Nazhuret and Arlin are living in obscurity because Nazhuret is the rightful heir to a duchy that was conquered when his parents were killed. Nazhuret has no wish to rule, but he needs to stay out of the way of the current duke. When someone sends an assassin to kill Nazhuret, Arlin, and their unborn baby, they are uprooted and thrown into the midst of political turmoil. Can they, once again, use their special skills, wits, education, and family ties to save their kingdom from invasion?
Readers who enjoyed the slow leisurely pace and the beautiful prose of Lens of the World will enjoy King of the Dead for the same reason. Readers who are in the mood for lots of fast-paced action should look elsewhere. This is a slow moving story in which not a lot actually happens. It's more about the journey than the destination. We spend a lot of time in Nazhuret's head — he's introspective, curious, and thoughtful. He has interesting observations about the world and the people who inhabit it. We might spend a week with Nazhuret as he's riding a horse across a barren wasteland, but somehow he manages to keep us entertained just with his thoughts. A lot of this has to do with R.A. MacAvoy's writing style. It's so lovely and absorbing that I hardly notice that nothing is happening. This is a story for readers who like to linger over a sentence and admire its construction, for every single sentence in King of the Dead is lovingly crafted.
It's hard to compare this series to anything else you may be familiar with because it's unique, but the best comparison I can make is to Robin Hobb's FARSEER series. There's a lot less plot here, and the characters aren't as endearing (and there are few of them, especially women), but its protagonist is similar (an introspective coming-of-age young man who isn't what he seems and is completely misunderstood) and there's a similar sense of tragedy and cosmic injustice. Also, the writing styles are comparable — first person POV with elegant but succinct sentences. I'd recommend the LENS OF THE WORLD trilogy to Hobb fans who love her style and wouldn't mind a fairly slow plot.
The audio versions are produced by Audible Studios and narrated by Jeremy Arthur. I thought he was the perfect narrator for this story. King of the Dead is 9.5 hours long.
"A slow, deliberate, contemplative work"
3.5 stars. Originally posted at Fantasy Literature
The Belly of the Wolf is the third book in R.A. MacAvoy's LENS OF THE WORLD trilogy. My review will spoil some of the events from the first two novels, Lens of the World and King of the Dead, so you might not want to read it before reading those books. If you have already read and enjoyed those two previous novels, I feel certain that you'll like The Belly of the Wolf, too. It's similar in style and tone and there's a little bit more action in this one.
It's been many years since the events of King of the Dead, in which Nazhuret and Arlin (again) saved their country from tragedy. Now Nazhuret is 55 years old, Arlin is dead, and their daughter Nahvah is a grown woman with a fascination for pistols. Father and daughter are living a quiet life in a university town where Nazhuret practices as an optician and a teacher and Nahvah studies medicine. But world events just can't leave them alone, especially after someone has published Nazhuret's philosophies without his permission, and the author wasn't even accurate about Nazhuret's ideas. Now everyone knows about Nazhuret the philosopher.
When Nazhuret learns that his friend King Rudof has died, he is once again forced to engage in the political drama and turmoil of their country. This involves assassination attempts, a duel, a voyage on a ship, an elusive sea monster, Nazhuret having his portrait painted, several extremely surly servants, lots of dreams and visions in which Nazhuret gets advice from his dead wife, an igloo, a rebelling duchy, a man who attempts to seduce him (Nazhuret is still a little confused about his sexuality), a horse that's more like a ghost, and a wolf that's more like a ghost. A few of these events feel a bit vague and random and the story is a little dreamy at times, but eventually they work out to a satisfying conclusion.
Once again R.A. MacAvoy give us a pensive reluctant hero on a quest to make things right in his world not with a sword (though sometimes he must wield one), but through negotiation and reason. Though Nazhuret is on the move and must attempt to beat back a rebel army in this last installment, he spends more time philosophizing than fighting. I expect this ratio of philosophy to fighting is why these books have received little attention in the fantasy community. They're slow, deliberate, contemplative works. In a couple of years I'm probably not going to remember much of the plot of the LENS OF THE WORLD trilogy, but I will remember that R.A. MacAvoy's prose is a joy to read and makes up for the lack of riveting action. As I keep mentioning, the prose is lovely yet economical, a style that very much appeals to me and makes me put MacAvoy on my must-read author list. I look forward to reading more of her work soon.
Audible Studio's versions of the LENS OF THE WORLD trilogy are excellent. Jeremy Arthur, the narrator, does a wonderful job with Nazhuret. The Belly of the Wolf is 6.75 hours long.
"Another cool SF novella from Sanderson"
Originally posted at Fantasy Literature.
"I'm not crazy. I'm compartmentalized."
Legion: Skin Deep is the second novella in Brandon Sanderson's series about Stephen Leeds, a man whose psyche has spawned a "legion" of extra personalities that he thinks of as "aspects." Stephen is the only person who can see his aspects — each is a separate personality who lives with him and can follow him around and help him solve problems. Everyone else thinks Stephen has schizophrenia or multiple personality disorder, but it's not the same thing. Stephen doesn't know why he has all these aspects or why he creates new ones when he learns something new. There's one woman (Sandra) who can help him understand, but she has disappeared.
When we met Stephen in the first LEGION story (simply called Legion), he was helping a client find a camera that can take pictures of past events. This had interesting ramifications for politics and religion. In Skin Deep, Stephen and his aspects have been hired to find a missing corpse that contains some innovative biotechnology — part of the body might have been used to store some deadly data. If the body is not recovered and cremated soon, that information might get into the wrong hands and could cause a worldwide epidemic.
Like the first LEGION story, Skin Deep is creative and exciting. In this case, it's cool to think about the capabilities (and security risks) of biotechnology as scientists work to find more efficient and flexible ways to store large amounts of data. What would happen if we started using the body's DNA, which naturally holds a vast amount of information, as basically a really big flash drive? Sanderson uses the opportunity to briefly discuss topics such as Open Source and Wetware.
Skin Deep is also partly a mystery — who stole the corpse, and how did they do it? Where is the keycode? I was in the dark until the last pages, though Sanderson gave me a few clues that I missed (I love it when that happens).
I mentioned in my review of Legion that the shortness of these stories means that we don't get to know Stephen's aspects very well, but in Skin Deep we get to spend a lot of time with three of them — Tobias is a historian, Ivy is a psychologist, and J.C. is an ex-Navy Seal. Ivy and J.C. have an on-again-off-again romance which adds some humor and some extra weirdness. J.C. doesn't want to admit he's not real, so he thinks of himself as an inter-dimensional time traveler who comes to help people in need. (Each of the aspects has their own personality quirks and maybe even mental illnesses.) The aspects can eat, go to the bathroom, and talk to each other on imaginary cell phones. I'm not really sure it always works, but it's entertaining and it does solve the problem for Sanderson of how to make his hero have so much knowledge and skill without making him seem like a god.
There's so much more that Sanderson can do with Stephen and his "friends" and it seems clear that more LEGION stories are planned. I'm glad. The print versions are being published by Subterranean Press and the audio versions are produced by Audible Studios. I have and can recommend both. As I write this, the audio version of Skin Deep is free. Oliver Wyman does a great job with the narration.


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Had an awesome time doing two Halloween shoots in one last week! Dead Girl featuing Spadgerina & Mary Choppins featuring Rosie & Robyn! Happy Halloween!
I've been doing an awful lot of client work lately, and thats lead to a dramatic decrease in the amount of images I've been sharing. Not because I can't share the shots, more because… where does time even go? My lady & I put an end to that last night by having a few hours of […]
She & I spent a few days at the cabin in the woods over the weekend. In between coffee on the balcony & trips to the beach we made some time for a few photos.
Well 2013 has been an interesting year to say the least. Ups & downs, back & fourths… you know how it's been. I'm not big on New Years resolutions, I never have been, but for 2014 I am going to try to enjoy the little things more.
My friend Daniel is a pretty awesome illustrator, the kind of illustrator that likes to draw axes & beards as well as beards & axes. At the end of last month I did a quick promo shoot for him in the attic of our favourite local independent coffee shop.
"There's a smoke machine in the other room if you want to use it?" Erm… yes! Yes I do want to use it! I want to take a photo in the dark! With lights & candles & drama & aweomeness. So we made this.
Shooting in extremely bright midday sunlight is always a challenge, harsh shadows & ever-changing lighting don't help the situation. It's even more ambitious when you want to balance/fight the sun by adding a flash or three. I wanted to get a super bright, almost dreamy, backdrop so I wanted to shoot from a shaded area with a few trees for framing & then use strobes to even that out with the rest of the scene.
Final couple of shots from when I shot Leah (See the previous shots here & here). Went super gritty/dirty/noisy here. Mmmmm good.
Another small set of Leah from yesterdays shoot, but with a really different feel. I used two softboxes almost paralel to the wall, this gave me a really large spread of soft light. I then shot along the wall to get a profile with lots of depth & contrast. That helped to bring out a lot of detail & give the location some verticality.
It's been a few weeks since I've done a lit portrait, so I text my friend Leah & arranged something for today. I've had this location in mind for a while but hadn't had the chance to use it. It was a good job I had a torch with me because we couldn't see a thing in there. We were pretty much shooting in pitch black, it made focusing a challenge but I still got a bunch of nice shots out of the evening. Enjoy these two, I've got some more to edit & I'll post later this week.


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Msg#: 4684820 posted
1:04 pm on Jul 3, 2014
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Yesterday I received a phone call from Chase and the representative told me she had a customer on the line that did not recognize a charge from my company and asked to 3 way her in to find out more details because the customer thinks it was fraud.
Once the customer was on the line, I asked her for the last 4 digits of the card. I looked up in our system and it showed she had placed 3 orders. She said she placed the first two orders but not the third.
I looked at the order details and the shipping address matched the billing address. I then checked the tracking status and it shows it was delivered 7/2 at 11:00 AM.
She said she did not know who would of done that it was fraud.
She said she had not received the package. I asked her if she was home at the time time of delivery and she said no.
She said her mother was home though. I started to explain that the order was placed using the same account as the other orders. I read off her account username and password and stated it was shipped to the same address as the previous orders that also match the billing address.
Then she started changing her story and saying that maybe her mother ordered the stuff. Then started saying that her birthday is coming up and maybe it was a surprise birthday gift for her.
Really? What a waste of everyone's time.
Msg#: 4684820 posted
6:55 pm on Jul 3, 2014
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I can't stand all these cheaters anymore...
Msg#: 4684820 posted
7:49 pm on Jul 3, 2014
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and maybe it was a surprise birthday gift for her
Oh, how thoughtful. So the premise is that mom used
daughter's credit card
to buy a gift
for daughter
With parents like that, who needs children? :)
Msg#: 4684820 posted
3:08 pm on Jul 4, 2014
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In the early days of the web I went to a seminar on internet fraud and at that time the two most common sources of chargebacks were:
1. Other family members using the card
2. Husbands denying that they had downloaded dirty photos after the wife saw the credit card bill
Msg#: 4684820 posted
10:23 pm on Jul 5, 2014
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Thank you for the replies. That strange part is that she suggested maybe her mom used it to buy her a birthday present.
I would not use my mom's credit card to buy HER a birthday present.
Msg#: 4684820 posted
10:47 pm on Jul 5, 2014
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Such commentary is called
"arrgh! find an excuse as quick as possible and I can't think of one so blame..."
and therein lies many of the odd excuses those attempting fraud come up with.
One reason why my ecommerce sites say "NO REFUNDS" and I mean it. I force these tricksters to PROVE there as been fraudulent use of their cards.
Msg#: 4684820 posted
11:00 pm on Jul 16, 2014
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You are lucky that they called Chase and that Chase called you. Most of the time you are just stuck with a chargeback and mom gets away with it. Chargebacks are a tough thing to deal with at times. Well played.
Msg#: 4684820 posted
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Yesterday I received a phone call from Chase and the representative told me she had a customer on the line that did not recognize a charge from my company and asked to 3 way her in to find out more details because the customer thinks it was fraud.
Sadly this situation is often caused by:
1. Sites that use merchant accounts with a different name than the site name.
2. Domains with privacy protection
3. Lack of phone #s in the billing information on the CC bill
4. Lack of easily found contact information and return/refund policies on the site
If your billing name isn't the same as your site name, that's a recipe for disaster and chargeback hell. People will try looking up "Widget Consulting" or whatever the billing shows when the site might be "Widget World" or "Example.com". Then they go back and find that the place they purchased from doesn't have a phone number, the whois lookup shows a privacy registration, etc. and they quickly end up calling the credit card company because things suddenly aren't passing the sniff test and they become frustration.
Sure, some of it's fraud, I've run into that too, but a lot of this is because the site is friendly to purchase but not friendly to do returns or refunds.
If you don't want chargebacks make sure your refund policy is on the website, a copy is placed in the order, there's a phone # easy to find, and the merchant account name that shows on the CC bill has the same name or domain name and a phone # so they can easily reach you from the CC bill itself. When possible, leave real contact info in your domain registration as many people surprisingly look there when trying to contact people.
How I know this is one of my domains HAD my home phone # listed, now it's a business line. We got several calls a month from people wanting to know what this charge was on the CC bill.
Now here's and example of how it all goes to hell; the husband buys something and doesn't tell the wife and she's the one paying the bills and reviewing the charges and if she doesn't recognize the charge, she tries to find out what it is. If you don't make it easy for her to find out, you're facing a chargeback.
That's not fraud, that's simple lack of communication but the vendor takes it in the shorts if the vendor doesn't make it as easy as possible to be contacted.
Plus, I do monthly recurring charges and for several months the same guy kept calling that couldn't remember what the charge was for in the first place. Had I not make it easy to contact our company from the CC bill it most surely would've ended up as a chargeback.
The point is before you think every chargeback is a fraud, which many are, make sure you've covered all your bases so that a reasonable person with a reasonable question about a charge on a CC bill can easily find someone that can quickly give them a reasonable answer.
Otherwise brace for the inevitable >!GNIHCAK!<
That's >KACHING!< in reverse, aka the chargeback.
P.S. I used real world examples as you can't make this stuff up, really.
Msg#: 4684820 posted
10:26 am on Jul 17, 2014
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One reason why my ecommerce sites say "NO REFUNDS" and I mean it. I force these tricksters to PROVE there as been fraudulent use of their cards.
You can say what you like on your site, it won't stop a chargeback.
Sites that use merchant accounts with a different name than the site name.
That isn't just a web issue. Several times over the uears I have been reaching for the phone to query a charge before remembering filling the car up for that amount when "village filling station - smallville" appears on the statement as "example plc - metropolis"
Msg#: 4684820 posted
11:53 pm on Jul 17, 2014
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That isn't just a web issue.
That's right - it's a doing business smart to keep your money for web or B&M, make those charges easy to understand or you'll eat them.
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its own magnetosphere consisting of a hot (million degree KeIvin)
magnetized plasma wind (the solar wind) that extends beyond the
orbits of the planets and fills interplanetary space, forming a dis-
tinct cavity in the nearby interstellar medium the "heliosphere."
Using knowledge gained over the past 25 years, we can now
begin to identify some of the physical mechanisms linking the
Sun to our near-Earth environment. For example, motions in the
convective layers of the Sun are believed to generate the solar
magnetic field and solar wind variations; these in turn affect the
Earth's magnetosphere and regulate the amount of plasma energy
incident on the Earth's polar caps. Associated magnetospheric
activity drives strong winds in the upper atmosphere and may in-
fluence the dynamical and chemical composition of the mesosphere
and stratosphere as well. The upper atmosphere, in turn, is the
major source of heavy ions in the magnetosphere. Further, current
research suggests that small percentage changes (about 0.5 per-
cent) in the total energy output of the Sun (the solar "constant")
may influence short-term terrestrial climate. These and other
speculative suggestions should be addressed as part of a compre-
hensive research program in solar-terrestrial physics because of
their potential importance for the Earth. Indeed, the Earth and
its space environment contain coupled phenomena and need to be
studied as a system from the Sun and its plasma environment to
the Earth's magnetosphere, atmosphere, oceans, and biota.
Discoveries in solar and space physics over the past 25 years
have inspirer} a number of developments in theoretical plasma
physics. Concepts in charged particle transport theory, developed
to describe the behavior of energetic particles in the solar wind
and magnetosphere, are routinely used in studying extragalactic
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radio sources and laboratory plasmas. Magnetic field reconnection
Convolving the explosive conversion of electromagnetic energy into
particle energy), collisioniess shock waves, electrostatic shocks,
and hydromagnetic turbulence are also among the fundamental
plasma phenomena first studied and elucidated in analyses of solar
and space plasmas.
Subsequently, these and other concepts have found application
to related branches of plasma physics, such as nuclear fusion. The
development of space plasma physics since the 1960s has influenced
nuclear fusion research. Pitch-angle scattering and magnetic re-
connection are now took of laboratory plasma theory, while ideas
developed in fusion work have influenced space plasma science
in unportant ways. Thus, the language of plasma physics links
two very important scientific endeavors: the search for a limit-
less supply of clean energy through thermonuclear fusion and the
exploration and understanding of our solar system environment,
most of which is in the plasma state.
New concepts developed in studies of solar and space plasmas
find important applications to astrophysical problems as well as
to laboratory plasmas. For example, the structure of collision-
less shock waves can be resolved only by spacecraft instruments.
Such shocks are invoked In some current models of star formation.
Furthermore, the study of propagating interplanetary shocks has
contributed to understanding and modeling of acceleration of cos-
rnic rays by shocks. Particle acceleration via direct electric fields,
observed in the Earth's magnetosphere, has been invoked in accel-
eration models of pulsar magnetospheres. The subject of cosmic-
ray transport owes much to detailed in situ studies of the solar
wind. Some stellar winds are thought to be associated with stars
that, like the Sun, have convective outer layers, while winds of
more massive stars are driven by racliation pressure. Explanations
of physical phenomena in astrophysical objects that will remain
forever inaccessible to direct observation rest heavily on insights
obtained through studies of solar system plasmas accessible to in
situ observations.
Even though space plasma physics AS a mature subject, new oh
servations continue to reveal facets of the physics not recognized
previously. For example, observations of "spokes in Saturn's
rings seemed to highlight the importance of electromagnetic forces
On charged dust particles. Similarly, the interaction of dust and
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plasma in comets is thought to be a central element in understand-
ing the formation of comet ion tails. Such observations have given
rise to the study of "gravito-electrodynamics~ in dusty plasmas,
which in turn has important applications to the understanding of
the formation and evolution of the solar system, as pointed out by
Alfven some years ago.
The unclerstand~ng of the near-Earth space environment is
not only a basic research enterprise; it also has extremely impor-
tant practical aspects. Space is being used increasingly for many
different scientific, commercial, and national security purposes.
Well-known examples include communications and surveillance
satellites and such scientific platforms as the Space Telescope and
the Space Station. These space vehicles must function contin-
uously in the near-Earth environment, subject to the dynamic
variations of the heliosphere, the magnetosphere, and the upper
atmosphere. It is well established that many spacecraft systems
and subsystems exhibit anomalies, or even failures, under the influ-
ence of magnetospheric substorms, geomagnetic storms, and solar
flares. Processes such as spacecraft charging and "single-event
upsets" (owing to highly ionizing energetic particles) in processor
memories make the day-to-day operation of space systems diffi-
cult. Finally, these aspects of the near-Earth environment become
particularly important in view of the planned long-term presence
of man in space. The complement of programs outlined in this
report will allow us to mode! the global geospace environment and
will thus allow us to develop a global predictive capability. This,
in turn, should permit substar~tial improvements in our abilities
to operate all space-based systems in the near-Earth region.
We have advanced well beyond the exploratory stages in solar
and space physics, with some notable exceptions the solar inte-
rior, the environment near the Sun where the solar wind is accel-
erated, the atmospheres of some of the planets, and the boundary
of the heliosphere. The phenomenological approach appropriate
to a young science still in its discovery phase ho progressed to a
more mature approach where focused and quantitative investiga-
tions are made, interactive regimes are studied, and theory and
modeling play a central role in advancing understanding.
The future solar and space physics program will require tools
and techniques substantially different from those of the past. Con-
tinued progress will require development of complex, multifaceted,
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experimental and observational projects that will be technologi-
cally challenging. The task group believes that the anticipated
scientific contributions fully justify the proposed undertakings.
The purpose of this report is to develop an overall program of
space research that will address the most significant topics in this
discipline, that will clearly define the priority of investigations,
and that will be affordable by NASA.
Several other National Research Council reports that are re-
lated to this document have appeared in recent years. The Colgate
report (Space Plasma Physics: The Study of Solar-System Plas-
mas, 1978) reviewed the status of the field and concluded that
"space plasma physics is intrinsically an important branch of sci-
ence." The Kennel report (Solar-System Space Physics in the
1980~: A Research Strategy, 1980) laid out the scientific goad and
objectives for the field. Other reports (Solar-Terrestrial Research
in the 1980s, 1981; National Solar-Terrestrial Research Program,
1984) integrated the ground-based segment of the field and stated
priorities for its unplementation. The Physics of the Sun (1985)
reviewed the scientific content of solar physics and described future
research directions. A Strategy for the Explorer Program for Solar
and Space Physics (1984) emphasized the need for a revitalized
Explorer program for solar and space physics and outlined several
specific examples of scientific investigations. An Implementation
Plan for Priorities in Solar-System Space Physics (1985) updated
the scientific goals and objectives of solar and space physics re-
search from the Kennel report and developed the prioritized im-
plementation plan for NASA that would accomplish these aims.
Chapter 2 of the task group's report reviews those scientific
objectives, and Chapter 3 describes the status of solar and space
physics expected in 1995, assuming a number of space programs
proceed according to present plans.
In Chapter 4, a variety of new programs intended for imple-
mentation after 1995 are identified that will employ new techniques
for the investigation of outstanding scientific questions, will ad-
dress new questions that arise as natural extensions of previous
studies, and will allow the pursuit of new topics that we cannot
address at present. This chapter also describes the developments
in technology that will be required for the era after 1995; Chapter
5 summarizes the technology needs.
This report also contains a number of appendixes—reports (or
excerpts of reports) of workshops that were conducted by NASA in
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support of this study. The workshops brought together scientists
from diverse backgrounds to explore new ideas and technologies
for space science research. Those efforts were an important part
of the study they were largely responsible for some of the new
initiatives proposed in Chapter 4.


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You're doing away with your roller furling??? Because you fear it is weak and unsafe... and subjecting yourself to the risks foredeck work in heavy weather??? And then you are weakening your backstay by insulating it?
I don't understand your thinking...pls. explain further. Not criticizing...you may have good reasons...just comes across as wierd.
Roller furling is fundamentally a trade-off, and has a record of failures in certain conditions, which is why the prudent sailor strips off the furler ahead of heavy weather. My new-to-me boat has a beefy ProFurl, and while I like it fine, I am far more familiar with hank-on sails (the new boat's staysail is hank-on, by the way).
On certain boats, going forward can be wet, obviously, but needn't be particularly dangerous. I have an "anchor well" that means when I'm working forward I am surrounded by a cage of pipe and can stay low and clipped on.
Hank-on sails can also be reefed and oceanic foresails usually have reef points for this purpose. If you have the space (which, admittedly, many don't or don't wish to surrender a bunk and an 'orderly' saloon for), you can carry five or six sails that will give you an enormous ability to keep sailing...and if one shreds, you have plenty of back-up.
Hank-ons can be dropped in seconds with a downhaul, and it can be done from either the mast or the cockpit. Folding wet foresails in a blow isn't fun, I'll confess, but neither is expecting to get any sail power from a 2/3rds rolled-up yankee on a furler.
Like everything else, it's a choice and it's a compromise. I'll keep the furler until it breaks...because I know and am comfortable with hank-ons.
But regarding the backstay insulator...I totally agree. There are many options for rigging SSB antennas that don't deliberatly involve installing potential failure points.
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Education and training in building construction and the hazards of truss construction were keys to firefighter safety at a suspicious three-alarm commercial fire in the City of Newburgh, NY. Incident commanders recognized hazardous conditions and withdrew interior crews before a truss collapse occurred 19 minutes into the fire.
The Nov. 15, 2006, fire destroyed the Active Ventilation Products Company, an L-shape building of ordinary and non-fire-protected steel truss construction that was built in 1924. The building was comprised of a 120-by-100-foot two-story warehouse and a 77-by-160-foot, one-story attached factory. The warehouse had a four-on-12 pitch rubber roof, while the manufacturing area had a flat rubber roof. The building was equipped with a six-inch dry sprinkler system.
The Newburgh Fire Department received Municipal Fire Alarm Box 245 at the corner of Liberty and Clinton streets at 1:12 P.M. Engines 1 and 3 and Ladder 1 responded with nine firefighters under the command of Assistant Chief Robert Bain in Car 4. Upon arrival, companies found heavy smoke pushing from the warehouse with flames visible in the upper-east-side gable windows. An employee advised units that all occupants were out of the building, but Fire Chief James Merritt and Deputy Chief Glenn Burres removed one of the company's owners who had reentered the rear of the building.
Engine 1 laid 350 feet of four-inch supply line from a hydrant on Liberty Street to the 3-4 corner of the building on Liberty Street. Engine 3 laid the same amount of four-inch line from a hydrant at the corner of Grand and Clinton streets to a position on Clinton Street. Firefighters hand-laid 100 feet of three-inch line from Engine 3 to a hydrant at the corner of Liberty and Clinton streets for a water supply. Ladder 1 was positioned on Liberty Street (side 4). The crew from Engine 1 advanced a 250-foot 2½-inch line to a door on Liberty Street and operated from this position. That engine also pumped two 50-foot three-inch lines to the building's fire department connection. It was later found that the building's sprinkler system was not in operation. The crew from Engine 3 advanced a 250-foot 2½-inch attack line to a large overhead door on Clinton Street. The engine's pre-piped Stang gun was also placed into operation into large windows along that side of the building.
Bain requested a second alarm at 1:16. Newburgh Engine 10 and Truck 10 responded with eight firefighters. Engine 10 laid 600 feet of five-inch supply line from a hydrant on Liberty Street to the intersection of Liberty and Clinton streets. Truck 10 was positioned at the 1-2 corner of the building on Clinton Street. Bain then called for mutual aid from several area fire departments. Five firefighters from the Stewart Air National Guard Base responded with Engine 371; the Cornwall Volunteer Fire Department responded with Ladder 402 and six firefighters; and the Goodwill Volunteer Fire Department from the Town of Newburgh responded with Engine 312 and a six-member crew. Responding to Newburgh Fire Headquarters for standby were Orange Lake Volunteer Fire Department Engine 327 and five firefighters and Coldenham Volunteer Fire Department Tower 205, also with a crew of five.
Merritt ordered all firefighters out of the building at 1:22. After all firefighters were accounted for, defensive operations were initiated. Engine 1 supplied two 100-foot three-inch lines to feed the fly pipe on Truck 1. As the fire conditions worsened, a 250-foot 1¾-inch handline was used to cool Engine 1 and Truck 1. Bain requested a third alarm at 1:28. Newburgh Engine 11 responded along with all off-duty Newburgh firefighters.
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My oven will not turn on for at least 30 to 60 minutes. The stove tops work. I have had the lower oven bake element checked, and was told it was OK. Any suggestions for parts replacement or repairs? Related Models |
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The broil element does not work either. I press the bake button, and set the temperature. The digital display then shows on, and the temperature stays at 100 degrees. I check the elements which do not get even warm. Maybe after 30 to 60 minutes the bake element finally heats up. As of last nite and tonite, we have given up waiting over an hour with no heat.
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