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Amazon removes incest-related erotica titles from store, Kindle archive
December 12, 2010 | 8:06 pm
By Chris Meadows
A discussion thread on Amazon's Kindle Community forum notes that Amazon has begun removing some previously-published books or stories from its store, and from the Kindle archives. Readers who have previously downloaded them to their Kindles can keep them there, but cannot re-download them (and will be refunded the price of purchase assuming Amazon can still find the purchase record).
The story whose removal sparked the discussion was an erotica title called Wicked Lovely by author Jess C. Scott. The tale dealt with incest, and involved a love scene between a 17- and an 18-year-old. However, Amazon would not tell Scott specifically what caused the removal of her novel. The only response she has received, after repeatedly trying to contact Amazon for more information, is a form letter:
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As stated in our content guidelines, we reserve the right to determine what content we consider to be appropriate. This content includes both the cover art image and the content within the book.
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Further down the thread, author Selena Kitt notes that Jess is not the only author to have had works removed.
Incest books (and they seem to be currently targeting incest – whether characters are eighteen or not in the book in question – all of my characters are eighteen or older and there is an explicit warning at the beginning of each book making that clear) are being pulled from Amazon as we speak. I've had three removed. Esmerelda Greene has had at least one pulled. There are several others that have disappeared as well.
A number of participants in the discussion compare this to the pedophilia how-to guide removal of last month, in which Amazon first said it would not be removing a book due to its commitment to principles of free speech—and then abruptly yanked it after all a couple of hours later.
On the other hand, I wonder how much this might have to do with the big news story that broke recently of a Columbia University professor being arrested for a three-year "consensual" sexual relationship with his 24-year-old daughter. If incest is a hot topic in the news right now, it might be that Amazon is trying to preempt complaints from people who might search for "incest" on Amazon and then be offended when they find it—or it could be reacting to such complaints from people who already have.
Amazon has done this sort of thing before, of course. The example everyone remembers is the improperly-sold George Orwell titles that were actually removed from Kindles as well as from the store, leading Jeff Bezos to apologize and promise not to do that again. But if you web-search "amazonfail", the top results point to a more apt example: Amazon's 2009 self-admittedly "embarrassing and ham-fisted" removal of 57,000 gay-and-lesbian-themed books from its sales rankings and search algorithms.
Jess C. Scott points out:
The content guidelines on Amazon do not have clear guidelines as to what is considered as "acceptable" in the erotica genre. I see other similarly-themed books still available for purchase, and see books with the subjects of rape, bestiality, etc, available for purchase (books that have not been deleted from Amazon's catalog). If underage sex is illegal, why is Vladimir Nabokov's "Lolita" still available for purchase?
Whatever your feelings are concerning incest, or its portrayal in fiction, every book in the entire "erotica" genre probably contains something that will be offensive to someone. And yet it is also one of the best-selling genres in electronic literature.
And Amazon's failure to define clear categories or to provide an explanation of where the bright lines are could have a chilling effect on writers similar to that of Apple's often-arbitrary app store rejections of the last few years on developers. How can you know whether any given story dealing with risqué issues will be considered acceptable?
Of course, Amazon is under no obligation to carry any title it deems offensive—it's only a violation of the First Amendment if the government or a government-connected body acts to prohibit speech—but hopefully it will provide some further explanation of what the grounds for rejection are.
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I have read several titles by Selena Kitt. She writes with exceedingly high literary standards and should not be judged as less than worthy because her subject happens to be erotica. I believe Amazon's decision to remove her books, and other books similar to hers, is small-minded and petty. I hope readers will raise enough of an outcry against this decision that it will be reversed.
Amazing. Another backlash against the permissiveness of the last few decades, or is Amazon.com just being overcautious? You can get a pretty good view of things here:
All of the "Product no longer available" entries are those which Amazon yanked.
As a librarian and a former bookstore manager I must point out that a bookseller has the right to choose what is offered for sale. Amazon is within its rights to drop the titles. They should however refund every customer for the dropped books. If a customer keeps records (I have all my receipts archived), even if Amazon has 'lost' the record they should quickly offer a refund.
I own several of Selena Kitt's novelas and short stories and she is an author who writes with depth and even a certain morality. She writes mostly erotica, true, but her books are well written. That said, I personally do not have any wish to read incest themed material, regardless of the age of the characters: including "Flowers in the Attic" by VC Andrews, which is not erotica, and is a popular print series.
As the article stated, freedom of speech deals with suppression by the government. The First Amendment should not be used as a threat to force an individual or business to act against conscience or even good business sense. We do hope it is still a free country. Find another venue.
It strikes me as odd that Amazon does not even have a rudimentary Adult switch in settings. Not that I suggest it is a silver bullet. More annoying to me is the blatant SEO abuse allowed by title manipulation. Do they even look at these things when updates are made? Example: Search "EA Sudoku" then be amazed that "Eric Culpepper" is not being hauled over the coals.
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I have not read and have no intention of reading the erotica in question, but in all fairness, if incest relationships are a forbidden topic, then the Bible should also be removed from sale.
Not having source material on hand I'm forced to rely solely on memory, but Noah (or someone) in the Bible does his daughters with no shame or condemnation. Maybe I should send an email to Amazon.
I have not read and have no intention of reading the erotica in question, but in all fairness, if incest relationships are a forbidden topic, then the Bible should also be removed from sale.
Not having source material on hand I'm forced to rely solely on memory, but Noah (or someone) in the Bible does his daughters with no shame or condemnation. Maybe I should send an email to Amazon.
Censorship is wrong–no matter the "why" of it.
Removing books that deal with incest from a library doesn't make the fact of incest go away.
What is that quote about ignoring are mistakes means we're destined to repeat our mistakes?
What is Amazon going to do about popular books by VC Andrews? FLOWERS IN THE ATTIC and the series that follows have been best sellers since the 80s and incest is certainly a main component of the story line. Does being a bestselling author make your use of an unpleasant topic more legitimate than that of a new author?
Davis is right. This is not about censorship. It is about an eRetailer being embarrassed into removing material because they fear being associated with anything with even the slightest 'negative' connotations. It is also about consumers and how they will feel about it.
As a consumer my response is … what else is Amazon not carrying that I might be interested in ? History books that reflect opinions Amazon don't agree with ? Political books about views that amazon find offensive ?
But in the end it is up to Amazon.
If I want to enjoy erotica, and I do, I can find it quite easily from independent eRetailers. Incest as a topic is a perfectly justifiable one to be explored in fiction considering it is a real issue in many societies around the world and fiction should be free to explore such human experiences. It is also far better for people to explore their responses to such explorations in book form that in real life I would submit.
What Amazon needs to do, as time goes past, is reflect on how much damage, or not, they may do to their sales figures if customers are pushed to visit independent eRetailers on a regular basis where they may well find a lot more eBooks of interest to them and start to visit Amazon a lot less.
This is a disturbing trend. Adults should be free to choose what they want to read, and I don't like the idea of the easily offended, vocal minority deciding what is moral for me or others. Why is it always sexual issues that are treated this way while violence and gore go ignored? Mind you, I don't want violence censored either, but it is a huge double standard.
It appears some other titles (gay BDSM vampires) have been deleted, too. Raev Gray's and mine "Blood Run Cold" has been removed from the Kindle store. They are published at the same place as Selena Kitt's books – I assume that was enough to presume guilt.
But after AmazonFAIL and deleting top reviewer Amos Lassen's five thousand reviews of GLTBQ books, I shouldn't be surprised. Well. I'll be shopping at the Book Depository until Amazon pulls its fingers out.
Alek, the book isn't banned. It's still there. It's still on excessica's Amazon DTP page as "live" – maybe you missed it in a search? But as of this writing, I found it here:
That's what people get for using Kindle – sorry to say. It's like television, you can't watch whatever you want to watch can you? It's all censored. Aren't you glad you forked out that money so Amazon could tell you what you can and can't read?
I'm not one for censorship either, but the question of whether it's wrong doesn't really enter into it. If you don't agree with censorship, then don't buy a Kindle, find something else to do besides watch t.v, etc.
You can't agree to their stupid terms and then afterwards say "Oh, that's so not fair."
You voice your disapproval of censorship by not buying a Kindle, not paying for cable, etc. in the first place. Anything after the fact is pointless whining.
@Greg M.: Thanks for your suggestion. I just wrote to Amazon thanking them for their initiative and asking them to remove all editions of the Bible that include incest from the Kindle Store. Will no one think of the children?
BTW, Amazon replied with "Thanks for your suggestion about deleting books with incest in it. Customer feedback…". They either do not pick up on sarcasm or are choosing to ignore me. Or I have made the situation worse. Oh dear.
Oh well, there goes my favorite novel of all time; Ada or Ardor by Vladimir Nabokov.
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Update on the original thread posting over @ Amazon:
Amazon Kindle Customer Service (AMAZON OFFICIAL) says:
Due to a technical issue, for a short window of time three books were temporarily unavailable for re-download by customers who had previously purchased them. When this was brought to our attention, we fixed the problem and those books were once again made available for re-download. We apologize for the inconvenience.
My Reply:
@ Amazon Kindle Customer Service: Thank you for the reply. I have one question: what are the titles of these three books?
Some of the ones mentioned on this thread were:
1) Wicked Lovely (Jess C Scott)
2) Under Mr. Nolan's Bed (Selena Kitt)
3) Mindy's Family (Esmeralda Green)
Did these books experience a technical glitch too? If so, when will these books be made available again for re-download? They (and many other self-published erotica books) are not available at the Kindle store at the time of this posting.
Link to Amazon's Reply: http://www.amazon.com/tag/kindle/forum/ref=cm_cd_et_md_pl?_encoding=UTF8&cdForum=Fx1D7SY3BVSESG&cdMsgNo=161&cdPage=7&cdSort=oldest&cdThread=Tx2QG9BWA19KO4O&displayType=tagsDetail&cdMsgID=Mx1R06EV4B15ZFQ#Mx1R06EV4B15ZFQ
Link to my reply: http://www.amazon.com/tag/kindle/forum/ref=cm_cd_et_md_pl?_encoding=UTF8&cdForum=Fx1D7SY3BVSESG&cdMsgNo=166&cdPage=7&cdSort=oldest&cdThread=Tx2QG9BWA19KO4O&displayType=tagsDetail&cdMsgID=Mx1RTECSUGA8X5R#Mx1RTECSUGA8X5R
@ Fawn Neun, thanks for your support + featuring my work on Vagabondage Press (:!
Update on the original thread posting over @ Amazon:
Amazon Kindle Customer Service (AMAZON OFFICIAL) says:
Due to a technical issue, for a short window of time three books were temporarily unavailable for re-download by customers who had previously purchased them. When this was brought to our attention, we fixed the problem and those books were once again made available for re-download. We apologize for the inconvenience.
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@ Amazon Kindle Customer Service: Thank you for the reply. I have one question: what are the titles of these three books?
Some of the ones mentioned on this thread were:
1) Wicked Lovely (Jess C Scott)
2) Under Mr. Nolan's Bed (Selena Kitt)
3) Mindy's Family (Esmeralda Green)
Did these books experience a technical glitch too? If so, when will these books be made available again for re-download? They (and many other self-published erotica books) are not available at the Kindle store at the time of this posting.
Link to Amazon's Reply: http://www.amazon.com/tag/kindle/forum/ref=cm_cd_et_md_pl?_encoding=UTF8&cdForum=Fx1D7SY3BVSESG&cdMsgNo=161&cdPage=7&cdSort=oldest&cdThread=Tx2QG9BWA19KO4O&displayType=tagsDetail&cdMsgID=Mx1R06EV4B15ZFQ#Mx1R06EV4B15ZFQ
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Ah cannot make up my mind as to whether banning of incest books by Amazon is objectionable; ah would much rather read a true-life book about President Obama's closet homosexuality and membership in the "Man's Country" gay bath house of Chicago. But ah would like to relate how Amazon has really annoyed me in the past. Years ago, ah tried to review a book, but Amazon first insisted that ah had to become a registered user. So ah complied, giving away my e-mail address and accepting an identifying cookie on mah hard-drive. Having duped me, Amazon then informed me that it was not enough to sign up as a registered user; ah had to buy a book first, before they would let me register.
Jess C. Scott Wicked Lovely is available at Barnes & Noble for 99 cents, but that won't help Kindle users will it.
So are they going to remove the bestselling Flowers in the Attic series by V.C. Andrews and the entire bestselling Mayfair Witches series by Ann Rice, too? Those books also deal with incest. Or is Amazon only censoring digital books? I'm guessing the latter. Hypocrites.
I have a lot of books by Selena Kitt and I love them. Personally if incest isn't your thing, then don't buy them. There is a huge variety of erotica books out there and some of it's going to bother people while some of it wont. Everyone has different taste and we should be able to write and to read what we want! I have amazon on PC but if they're going to start unselling certain books I definitely wont be buying a kindle.
Amazon has Anais Nin's Delta of Venus, which contains child rape, necrophilia, child molestation, beastiality, scat, and many others I can't even think of what to call it. But, they will NEVER pull it. These books that are being pulled are NOT the results of Amazon's prudishness. There is a group of people, church goers, who are tagging everything related to sex as "inappropriate" to get Amazon to pull them. Amazon will cave in to this BS, and delete even the Bible, which contains incest, rape, murder, beastiality, and many more things. Certainly, Amazon has the right to do so; it is THEIR proprietary system, software, and ebook store. It is truly ashamed that Amazon, the biggest of them all, will allow other to tell them what they can publish. Barnes and Noble, Kobo, Smashwords, Ebookmall, Diesel, and many others are gaining in popularity, and Amazon will suffer from their actions. The ONLY recourse, legally, is to notify Amazon that pulling the titles constitutes a violation of terms of agreement; Anais Nin's book were available from the beginning, and therefore, the terms must allow such content, so the content pulled is NOT a violation of said agreement. That is my copyright attorney's take on it, and we have indeed, sent Amazon constructive UCC 1-308 notice of the fact. I write erotica, and have done so since 1977. I have sold over five thousand stories, novels, and articles relating to erotica, along with many other genres. I own six publishing companies of my own; I buy manuscripts. I have ten employees. I am not a fly by night independent publisher selling trash. I let Amazon know this, in extremely explicit terms, after one of my titles was pulled for being 'inappropriate.' I sent them a copy of Delta of Venus, letting them know that if THAT is 'appropriate' then my title also was. I replaced the title, and let them know that I did. I sent them notice that I will attach all their receipts, by registered, certified mail, that unless they abide by UCC 1-308, I will send notarized failure of specific perfomance. My titles have not been removed, but they likely will be. Then, I will attach their receipts.
Bravo, Mr. Wainwright for stating things so persuasively. I also am an erotica writer, so I am familiar with these issues.
The underlying problem is that opening the floodgates to self-publishing makes it easier for tasteless crap to be published by amateurs and bought and sold through ebook distribution channels. The works in question don't seem to be tasteless, so I don't know what's up with Amazon.
The underlying problem is that corporations are uncomfortable with selling sexually-oriented material without having a gatekeeper to make sure it is "literary enough." If Olympia Press or Black Cat press does it, at least there is some commercial entity behind it. But what if it's just a lone writer who has published it? Has it been vetted or edited? I'm not talking about the content itself, but whether it is an original work or well formatted or editorially complete. Amazon has a stake in making sure that self-published books meet some minimum standard. They probably are more sensitive to the concerns of NY publishers than say Smashwords.
Chris Meadows is right that there are no flags for adult content, and that is a problem. It should be an "opt-in" feature to have adult content appear in search results.
I don't think Amazon was trying to keep out these specific titles. At the same time, I think Amazon is having trouble dealing with adult-themed content being mixed in search results with literary classics by people such as Glen Beck and Ann Coulter.
Hello it's Christopher Benchley & I am just publishing a 73 000 word book Inside The Agency, a true story of five years of running an escort agency. If you look at Amazons restrictions on erotica it talks about no explicit descriptions of acts of sex or of pornograhic content, which means they can throw most of the books on the site in one socking great bin. I contacted them in advance of printing & they told me they wanted the words "Contains Explicit Material" on the cover. This must be an effective safety catch because any one who could read the book would know whats inside it. Its a good idea & avoids that painful moment when Granny eyes your book while you are out & noting a picture of a nice young lady on the cover, reads it then drops dead of shock!


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While the chicken is simmering, toast the peanuts in a small dry sauté pan over medium heat until golden brown and fragrant. Let cool, then grind 1 cup of the toasted peanuts in a blender to a smooth paste. Set aside.
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HELSINKI – IN A warehouse outside of Helsinki hundreds of buyers gathered to bid in a three-day auction of mink, fox and other furs just before Christmas.Any worries about the ailing global economy, the threat of global warming, or the fading popularity of fur as fashion were firmly left outside to chill in the snow.
Bidding was brisk, and by the end of the auction all pelts were sold. Organisers said sales roughly tripled to 39.5 million euros (S$79.6 million), with prices sharply up – by a third on average – since an auction in September.
'Demand and supply are in a good balance, and there is maybe slight overdemand, which supports price levels,' said Chief Executive Pertti Fallenius of Turkistuottajat, which says it is the world's only publicly listed fur auctioneer.
While the fur market looks to be challenging in the coming years, weighed by a variety of factors including increasing social pressure against its use, the auction clearly showed that any talk of fur's death is greatly exaggerated.
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FALLENIUS said one reason behind the recent uptick in the market has been a cut in output from China, which since early 2000 had sharply hiked fur production, pressing prices.
He said China in the past two years has halved its annual mink production, while fox is down by three quarters. The country is the world's second-largest fur producer after Europe.
'Cheap labour costs won't get you far in this business. The international textile trade has… been less and less willing to accept fur skins produced in China,' Fallenius said.
Denmark is the world's top supplier of mink pelts, while Finland has some 1,300 fur farms, and last year Europe produced some 32 million mink and fox pelts.
But while recent demand has been strong, helped by markets like China where fur is less taboo and more of a novelty, global output peaked in 2007 and has fallen the last two years.
The European Fur Breeders' Association said 2009 fox and mink production globally was some 50 million pelts, down from the high of 65 million in 2007.
After Austria banned fur farming more than a decade ago, the much-debated trade has been entirely or partly phased out in countries like Britain, Holland and Denmark as stricter regulations come into force in the European Union.
'Fur right now… doesn't make the top-10 list of anybody's fashion needs,' says Milton Pedraza, head of New York consultancy The Luxury Institute.
'It's not that consumers, particularly women, don't like fur – they do. But they see the social pressure that continues to exist against consuming fur. It's high-end, so they love it, but on the other hand they can do without it. The pain outweighs the pleasure right now of wearing fur,' Pedraza said.
Pedraza said the global economic slowdown would also hurt the industry.
'I don't think fur will ever go away for sleeves and colours and some decoration, but a full mink coat?,' he said, noting young people were not likely to 'flock' to fur – not even vintage – anytime soon.
Harald Ullmann, spokesman of the German branch of animal rights group PETA, said that in the next 10-15 years fur would likely disappear from the streets.
'Even if people say fur is back – and that's what the industry wants us to believe – I don't think this is really the case,' Ullmann said.
'Fur has nothing to do with luxury products. It is a product from the stone age and it belongs in the history books and not on somebody's back,' he said. — REUTERS


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Rogheta is about 400 mq. wide and can be fully rented by families or groups up to a maximum of 16 guests.
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A confortable dining room with tables and chairs for up to 30 people and a big fireplace
A Kitchen with cosy furniture apt to the use and a professional stove
A big recreational/ sport room furnished with chairs
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The sacred cave with a small wine cellar for those who appreciate wine properly
6 charming bedrooms (a double room, 4 double rooms with divan bed for two in addition, one room with 3 bunk beds that can keep up to 6 people). All double beds can be separated.
6 bathrooms (4 furnished with shower, one with bathtub, one with no shower and no tub).
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|Dishwasher, Cooker, Microwave, Fridge, Freezer, Washing machine
|6 bedrooms, 7 bathrooms of which 6 Family bathrooms and 1 En suites, Solarium or roof terrace
|4 Sofa beds, Double beds (5), Single beds (8), Dining seats for 34, Lounge seats for 6
|Linen provided, Towels provided
|Private outdoor pool (unheated), Balcony or terrace, Private garden, BBQ, Bicycles available
|Parking, Not suitable for wheelchair users
|Further details indoors
...nothing is amiss in this kitchen provided with the most recent cooking tools and appliances: a wide fridge, a freezer, industrial dishwasher, microwave oven, even an espresso machine.
The tableware is for 36 people (list available on request).
Guests can dine or breakfast comfortably in the dinner room next to the kitchen or outside on the wooden terrace with a splendid view on Monterufoli's reserve up to the sea.
At your disposal is also the wood-burning oven to bake bread or pizza and a barbecue
Services: Catering service
On request:
At Rogheta we can offer you a cooking service cared in all details with a cook on the place who will fulfill any requirement, coming on call for a single meal or for the entire period of your staying. Our cook can prepare a wide range of dishes, from tipical Tuscan meals to vegetarian and vegan cooking.
You can apply to the owners for ordering dinner on your arrival day or breakfast for the next day.
Services: Recreational conference room
This is the ideal place to practice sport, yoga, meditation as well as holistic activities (20 mats are available if needed). The room is also equipped to welcome little groups for business meetings or conferences by offering the following services:
Seats for up to 40 people
Audio-video equipment
A blackboard
A video-projector
Internet connection
Stationery supply
|Further details outdoors
Mountain Bike rental to discover the wood and the small medieval villages surrounding Rogheta.
...For people who love nature, there is always the possibility to arrange trekking tours, birdwatching, orienteering courses as well as anything the forest can offer to those who wants to discover it, even through the assistance of qualified guides.
Also, Italian language courses for individual or small groups, kept by an experienced qualified teacher.
Tipical Tuscan cooking lessons
Parking area next to the house.
|Further details
The fees are all-inclusive and comprehend:
The personal welcoming of Francesco and his wife Maria or their best staff who will be there on your arrival to see that everything is perfect!
Courtesy set in the rooms
Table cloth and kitchen linen with weekly change
Kitchen with professional stove, dishwasher, oven, freezer, microwave, espresso machine (kitchenware list on request)
Satellite plasma television
Dvd player
Internet wi-fi connection
A swimming pool accessible from the end of May until middle September (weather permitting)
Swimming pool daily maintenance
Park and green spaces maintenance
A tea corner with kettle and herbal teas
Welcome kit of wood and charcoal for the stoves and the barbecue
Board games
Washing machine
Ironing board and iron
Water, gas, electricity supply: Rogheta is within a natural reserve where there are no connections with the national water and electricity network. We obtain water from an artesian well and our modern gas co-generator simultaneously produces hot water and electricity. We expect our guests the utmost respect for the environment and of course for consumption. We verified that 200 litres of gas a week covering the needs of aware guests.
The Tuscany region
Pisa lies at the junction of two rivers, the Arno and the Serchio, which form a laguna at the Tyrrhenian Sea. The origin of the name, Pisa, is a mystery. While the origin of the city had remained unknown for centuries, the Pelasgi, the Greeks, the Etruscans, and the Ligurians had variously been proposed as founders of the city. Archeological remains from the 5th century BC confirmed the existence of a city at the sea, trading with Greeks and Gauls. The presence of an Etruscan necropolis, discovered during excavations in the Arena Garibaldi in 1991, clarified its Etruscan origins.
Ancient Roman authors referred to Pisa as an old city. Servius wrote that the Teuti, or Pelopes, the king of the Pisei, founded the town thirteen centuries before the start of the common era. Strabo referred Pisa's origins to the mythical Nestor, king of Pylos, after the fall of Troy. Virgil, in his Aeneid, states that Pisa was already a great center by the times described; the settlers from the Alpheus coast have been credited with the founding of the city in the 'Etruscan lands'.
While the Leaning Tower is the most famous image of the city, it is one of many works of art and architecture in the city's Piazza del Duomo, also known, since 20th century, as Piazza dei Miracoli (Square of Miracles), to the north of the old town center. The Piazza del Duomo also houses the Duomo (the Cathedral), the Baptistry and the Camposanto Monumentale (the monumental cemetery).
Other interesting sights include:
Knights' Square (Piazza dei Cavalieri), where the Palazzo della Carovana, with its impressive façade designed by Giorgio Vasari may be seen.
In the same place is the church of Santo Stefano dei Cavalieri, also by Vasari. It had originally a single nave; two more were added in the 17th century. It houses a bust by Donatello, and paintings by Vasari, Jacopo Ligozzi, Alessandro Fei, and Jacopo Chimenti da Empoli. It also contains spoils from the many naval battles between the Cavalieri (Knights of St. Stephan) and the Turks between the 16–18th century, including the Turkish battle pennant hoisted from Ali Pacha's flagship at the 1571 Battle of Lepanto.
Also close to the square is the small church of St. Sixtus. It was formally consecrated in 1133, but previously used as a seat of the most important notarial deeds of the town, also hosting the Council of Elders. It is today one of the best preserved early Romanesque buildings in town.
The Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies of Pisa or Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna is a special-statute public university located in Pisa, Italy, emerging from Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa and operating in the field of applied sciences, (Superior Graduate Schools in Italy i.e. Scuola Superiore Universitaria)
Located at: Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, P.zza Martiri della Libertà, 33 - 56127 - Pisa (Italia)
The Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa i.e. Scuola Normale or Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, was founded in 1810, by Napoleonic decree, as a branch of the École Normale Supérieure of Paris. Recognized as a "national university" in 1862, one year after Italian unification, and named during that period as "Normal School of the Kingdom of Italy". (Superior Graduate Schools in Italy i.e. Scuola Superiore Universitaria)
Located at: Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa - Piazza dei Cavalieri, 7 - 56126 Pisa (Italia)
Rogheta is Monterufoli-Caselli's Natural Reserve pearl, both for its history and its view on the sea. The landscape sourraunding Rogheta is a huge wonderful forest over 2,500 hectares wide, that arises intense feelings and emotions by awakening all our senses with its natural beauty.
The natural reserve of Monterufoli-Caselli is crossed by 15 km. of beaten tracks easy to follow and shadowed even in the hottest days, ideal for walking and biking.
For further information on the Natural Reserve you can visit these sites: Comunita' montana alta val di Cecina and riserva naturale.
Medieval villages on the Etrurian Coast: Bibbona, Bolgheri Castagneto Carducci, Casale Marittimo: 30 km - 40 km
Volterra: 30 km; Famous for alabaster's extraction and modelling, it has a beautiful Etrurian historical centre of the town.
San Gimignano: 60 km; Due to its characteristic medieval architecture of its historical centre, it has been declared mankind property by Unesco.
Livorno: 54 km; Placed alongside the Mar Ligure's coast, Livorno is one of the most important Italians port, both commercial and turistical.
Siena: 80 km; The city is universally known for its artistic heritage and for its substantial presence of medievel architectural elements as well as for its famous Palio; the town centre is also have been.
Pisa: 92 km; A legend reports that Pisa has been founded by some Trojan refugees coming from a Greek toown bearing the same name, and placed near the Alfeo river.
Firenze: 105 km; Declared as menkind property by the Unesco, is the town where reneissance had its origin and it is considered one of the most beautiful towns in the world.
... Also Montecatini Val di Cecina, renown for its mines and for the wine production; Montescudaio beautiful tuscan hamlet, whre a very fine wine is produced; Cecina Mare with its pine-wood 12 km. long; Pomaia where the most important buddist monastery is placed; Rosignano Marittimofamous for its white beaches; Populonia ancient and quite important Etrurian site on Baratti's Gulf.
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John McClure
My research interests centre around several areas of social judgment: Causal attributions (folk psychology); helplessness and fatalism; biases such as unrealistic optimism; and risk judgments. Currently, my projects focus on the following questions:
(1) How do people's risk judgments, optimism, and attributions for events influence their fatalism about those events and their willingness to take preventive action?
(2) How do people explain the actions of individuals with invisible conditions that affect behaviour, such as brain injury?
(3) How do people perceive and explain intentional actions?
Primary Interests:
- Applied Social Psychology
- Causal Attribution
- Judgment and Decision Making
- Motivation, Goal Setting
- Person Perception
- Social Cognition
- McClure, J. L. (1991). Explanations, accounts and illusions: A critical analysis. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Journal Articles:
- Boyd-Wilson, B., Walkey, F., & McClure, J. (2000). Do we need positive lllusions to carry out plans: Illusions and instrumental coping. Personality and Individual Differences, 29, 1141-1152.
- Hilton, D. J., McClure, J., & Sutton, R. M. (2010). Selecting explanations from causal chains: Do statistical principles explain preferences for voluntary causes. European Journal of Social Psychology, 40, 383-400.
- McClure, J., Densley L., Liu, J. H, & Allen, M. (2001). Constraints on equifinality: Goals are good explanations only for controllable outcomes. British Journal of Social Psychology, 40, 99-115.
- McClure, J., Devlin, M. E., McDowall, J., & Wade, K. (2006). Visible markers of brain injury influence attributions for adolescents' behaviour. Brain Injury, 10, 1029-1035.
- McClure, J., Hilton, D. J., & Sutton, R. M. (2007). Judgments of voluntary and physical causes in causal chains: Probabilistic and social functionalist criteria for attributions. European Journal of Social Psychology, 37, 879-901.
- McClure, J. L. (2002). Goal based explanations of actions and outcomes. European Review of Social Psychology, 12, 201-235.
- McClure, J. L. (1998). Discounting causes of behavior: Are two reasons better than one. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 74, 7-20.
- McClure, J. L., Allen, M. W., & Walkey, F. H. (2001). Countering fatalism: Causal information in news reports affects judgements about earthquake damage. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 23, 109-121.
- McClure, J. L., & Hilton, D. (1998). Are goals or preconditions better explanations: It depends on the question. European Journal of Social Psychology, 28, 897-911.
- McClure, J. L., & Hilton, D. (1997). You can't always get what you want: when circumstances are better explanations than goals. British Journal of Social Psychology, 36, 223-240.
- McClure J. L., Hilton, D. J., Cowan, J., Ishida, L., & Wilson, M. (2001). When people explain difficult actions, is the causal question how or why? Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 20, 339-357.
- McClure, J. L., Walkey, F., & Allen, M. (1999). When earthquake damage is seen as preventable: Attributions, locus of control and attitudes to risk. Applied Psychology: An international review, 48, 239-256.
- McClure, J., Sutton, R. M., & Sibley, C. (2007). Listening to reporters or engineers: How different messages about building design affect earthquake fatalism. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 37, 1956-1973.
- Price, J., McClure, J. L., & Siegert, R. J. (2000). What might have been and why is wasn't: Counterfactual thinking and attributions in competitive tennis players. New Zealand Journal of Sports Medicine, 28, 25-34.
- Spittal, M., McClure, J., Walkey, F., & Siegert, R. (2008). Psychological predictors of earthquake preparation. Environment and Behavior, 40, 798-817.
- Sutton, R., & McClure, J. (2001). Covariational influences on goal-based explanation: An integrative model. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 80, 222-236.
Courses Taught:
- Applied Social Psychology
- Personality & Social Cognition
John McClure
School of Psychology
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MEMPHIS (AP) – The United States was still a young nation when three major earthquakes rocked the central Mississippi River valley in the winter of 1811-1812.
Chimneys fell, the earth heaved and church bells rang hundreds of miles away, set off by the powerful vibrations from what is now called the New Madrid Seismic Zone. As farmland rolled and shuddered, the shock waves spread as far as New York and the Carolinas.
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He stood here centuries ago. Atop his ceremonial mound, his fortress center, he surveyed his world. The centuries have altered that view, but the majestic, sweeping turn of the great river before him must have commanded his eye as it commands ours today. Life and death for his people would come from that river, and he could literally see it coming from here.
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E-reading still quite feasible without steady power supply, Paul Biba reports
November 13, 2012 | 10:15 pm
By Chris Meadows
One of the most common complaints about e-books is that you can't do as much with them when the power goes out. Well, our former editor Paul Biba has been caught without power in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, and has found that, within limits, e-reading can work just fine without a steady source of electricity. (Hat tip to Nate Hoffelder for pointing this post out to me in e-mail.)
While he limited himself to paper book reading during the day, Paul found he could read from his Kindle PaperWhite after dark with the light on very easily. He reported reading every night for two weeks and ending up using only half of the battery.
Happily, Paul now has power again, and soon hopes to have landline Internet and cable service back as well.
Paul's isn't the only story of surviving the outages on limited hardware I've seen lately, though the other one pertains more to e-writing than e-reading. CNet reporter Seth Rosenblatt recounts his experience stuck with a Samsung Chromebook as his only Internet surfing and writing tool for the week following Sandy. Rosenblatt reported that the cloud-based netbook let him get by for the most part, but that Chrome's tendency to balk at having more than a dozen or so tabs open at one time was a real drawback for a busy writer who also follows personal social media.
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BookDrop: Email ebooks to your Kindle from Dropbox—even ePubs and other formats not normally supported
This is why I think eInk remains not only a viable choice, but the choice for people who are looking for a book reader. The ability to be able to read for days or even weeks without access to power should be a big deal. After all, few of us are in areas that never experience power outages and for some of us, they can be expected a couple of times a year.
I spent four days without power here. A tree was sitting on my car and we don't live within walking distance of any free Wi-Fi location so I was pretty much stuck, (I doubt they would have been working anyway). I kept my KK wireless turned off except for the minute it took each morning to download the NYTimes. With no heat and no light, I spent most of those four days snuggled on the sofa wrapped in blankets and ended up reading for 10-12 hours a day…sunlight during the day, candlelight by night.
When the power finally came on, I had about 1/2 battery power left.
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I bought a solar panel a year or so ago at Costco (forget the name). It didn't come with a battery pack but does have a USB port so you can plug a third-party battery into it. I've used it to charge my Richard Solo battery for use with my iPhone.


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Toshiba Satellite P100-426
SpecificationsNotebook: Toshiba Satellite P100-426
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo T5600
Graphics Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GS 512 MB
Display: 17.1 inch, 16:10, 1440x900 pixels, glossy: yes
Weight: 3.2kg
Price: euro
Average of 1 scores (from 1 reviews)
Reviews for the Toshiba Satellite P100-426
Source: PC Games Hardware DE→EN
Single Review, , Length Unknown, Date: 02/20/2007
Rating: Total score: 89% price: 80% performance: 80% display: 50% mobility: 80%
NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GS: This is the smaller version of the 7900 GTX with less shader- and vertex-pipelines and less current consumption. Nevertheless it is not apt for small notebooks. The performance is near to the 7800 GTX, but needs clearly less energy. It was used in 17" notebooks, because of heat issues.
Non demanding games should be playable with these graphics cards.
» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Graphics Cards and the corresponding Benchmark List.
Intel Core 2 Duo: This is the Core Duo and Core Solo successor with a longer pipeline and 5-20% more speed without more power consumption. As an addition to the Core Duo design there exists a fourth decoder, an amplified SSE-unit and an additional arithmetical logical unit (ALU).
The Core 2 Duo for laptops is identical to the desktop Core 2 Duo processors but the notebook-processors work with lower voltages (0.95 to 1188 Volt) and a lower Frontside bus clock (1066 vs 667 MHz). The performance of equally clocked notebooks is 20-25% lower than Desktop PCs because of the lower Frontside bus clock and the slower hard disks.
Slow clocked dual core processor based on the Merom core featuring virtualization functions VT-x.
» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.
17.1": Meanwhile the 17 inch display size is a more frequently offered standard format for desktop-replacements. The DTR-laptops can't be carried easily, need much energy but on the other side texts can be read easily and high resolutions are no problem. DTR mainly are intended for stationary usage on desks, where the weight and the energy need are unimportant.
» To find out how fine a display is, see our DPI List.
3.2 kg: This weight is average for notebooks. Therefore the numerous mass of laptops with 15 inch display fits in this class of weight.
Toshiba: Toshiba Corporation is a multinational conglomerate manufacturing company, headquartered in Japan. The company's main business is in Infrastructure, Consumer Products, and Electronic devices and components. Toshiba-made Semiconductors are among the Worldwide Top 20 Semiconductor Sales Leaders. Toshiba is one of the biggest international notebook-manufacturer. There exist many reviews for Toshiba models.
89%: This is a good rating above average. Nevertheless you should not forget, that 10-15% of all notebook-models get a better rating.
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