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What do man and monkey have in common with guinea pigs? This not a trick question, so don't wrack your brain for the clever answer.
The answer is easier than ABC. In fact, it's just C.
Guinea pigs and primates are the only mammals known that do not manufacture vitamin C in their gut. Other mammals not only manufacture vitamin C (ascorbic acid), but do it on an as-needed basis. For daily maintenance they manufacture what would be equivalent to a 150-pound man taking 5 to 50 grams a day. Under the stress of disease or injury animals will put out the equivalent of hundreds of grams a day. Using these figures many doctors have argued in favor of mega-doses of vitamin C for all infectious diseases and cancer.
The established standard is that we need 60 to 95 milligrams per day until we get sick with a cold or flu, then we can have 250 mgs per day. Alternative doctors view those numbers as keeping us on the borderline of scurvy and cite bleeding gums and arteriosclerosis, easy bruising and susceptibility to colds and infections as proof.
Vitamin C works within the body's cells to make the precursor of collagen, a fiber in connective tissue giving strength to bones, teeth, ligaments, tendons, fascia supporting the organs and the tissue between cells. With scurvy, teeth fall out, bones are easily fractured, joints are painful and bruising happens with a touch as the connective tissue breaks down.
If you want to know whether you have adequate amounts of vitamin C for health, there are C-strips, blue strips of paper that turn white when exposed to vitamin C. They test the amount in the urine or in the tissue. Having vitamin C in the urine is not considered a waste, as its proponents say that it keeps the urinary system healthy. The minimum amount of vitamin C in urine should be 100 mg per 100 grams of urine. Below this amount, the experts recommend taking vitamin C. One has about 24 hours before coming down with something if there is no C in the urine. C-strips are available from Wholesale Nutrition, 800-325-2664 or nutri.com/strips .
There is an ongoing controversy over the amount of vitamin C needed. The advantages of the vitamin are that the side effects are minimal and can be corrected by taking less. One healthy man came down with diarrhea after taking 5 grams a day. Because he did not know this is the effect of being saturated with vitamin C, he took a lot of medications to cure it. When he finally reduced the amount of C, he was cured. When someone is under a lot of stress or has an infection or injury, large amounts of vitamin C will be used by the body. One person sprained his ankle very badly. Usually he would wrap it and go around on crutches for days. Staying off his feet and taking 1 gram of vitamin C every 45 minutes helped healed it within 36 hours.
Linus Pauling, famous chemist and Nobel laureate, wrote the popular book: "Vitamin C and the Common Cold," wherein he suggested everyone take 1 gram of C an hour at the first signs of cold or flu. Different studies have shown that it usually lessens the severity and duration of a cold. Since there is such a great variety of people, lifestyles and amounts of stress, it is difficult to make hard and fast rules.
My family doctor, Dr. William Coda Martin of New York City, made a small study with Dr. Morton Biskind on their patients. Using capsules containing equal parts ascorbic acid and citrus flavonoids on their patients, they found doses of 200 mg three times a day would clear up fevers and everything associated with them (except thick mucous) in 48 hours or less. This study appeared in The American Journal of Digestive Diseases, July 1954. It would seem that the bioflavonoids are synergistic with ascorbic acid.
There is so much more material on vitamin C both online and in books that it would take several columns to even make a dent. Norman Cousin's "Anatomy of an Illness" is a literary and philosophical take on alternative medicine illustrated with true, heart-warming stories, including his own healing based on humor and mega-doses of vitamin C.


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Surprise, surprise, surprise, David Wells and Ken Griffey, Jr. are on the DL.
Who could possibly have seen this coming?
Apparently not the Red Sox or Reds, who made a trade in March that sent pitcher Bronson Arroyo from Boston to Cincinnati in exchange for outfielder Wily Mo Pena. The rationale was clear: The Sox had too many starting pitchers and the Reds had one too many outfielders. The deal was made, no backsies.
Yes, it's true, the Red Sox had seven potential starters in spring training. But Jonathan Papelbon became the closer, Arroyo was dealt and then the 42-year-old, left-handed tub of goo suffered the latest in a long line of injuries that might have been avoided if he had any interest in taking care of himself. (Or has Wells found a doctor to tell him that carrying 50 extra pounds is good for your back and knees?) And this is how a team that supposedly had seven starters in spring training ends up having Lenny DiNardo make a start just two weeks into the season.
The Reds are probably having a lot less trader's remorse at this point, since Arroyo (2-0, 3.86) has gotten off to a good start and Pena looks bewildered in the Boston outfield. But, that said, Cincy dealt a 24-year-old power hitter for a 29-year-old pitcher who came into the season with 33 career wins.
It's too bad Boston and Cincinnati can't borrow a page from English soccer for the next couple of months. In the Premiership, teams regularly loan players to one another with the understanding that they are still under contract to their original team while they get valuable playing time for their temporary side. Arroyo could help hold the fort in Boston for the next two months until Roger Clemens and his Brinks truck arrive this summer. (The back-to-back calamities by Wells and Matt Clement last week brought me around right quick to the notion of the Rocket returning for what must surely be the twilight we heard about 10 years ago.) Pena, meanwhile, could provide some of the missing pop while Griffey convalesces from this injury and the inevitable one that will follow.
Wily Mo would no doubt welcome the brief respite from the year-round playoff intensity of Boston. His tape-measure shots had made him a fan favorite in Cincinnati, but his curious approach to fly balls in Boston has already made him a target of the Boston fans' derision. In his first week in right field while Trot Nixon recovered from his own all-too-predictable groin injury Pena dropped a Frank Catalanotto fly ball into the bullpen for a home run, misjudged a Raul Ibanez line drive into a ground-rule double and misplayed a Jose Lopez sinking liner into a triple. Is there such a thing as fielding for the cycle? Poor Wily Mo has already made so many gaffes in Fenway's expansive right field that the fans gave him a Bronx cheer on Monday when he successfully bent over and fielded a routine base hit.
Arroyo could be loaned back to Boston with the understanding that he would be flown to Cincy on short notice if the Reds were facing the Cubs' Glendon Rusch, who famously served up home runs to Arroyo in back-to-back starts. While Arroyo may not have been in Boston's long-term plans despite the three-year, home-team-discount contract they got him to sign the scrawny righty would certainly be a welcome sight in the short term. Over the last three seasons, right-handed batters have hit .228 against him with a .281 OBP and a .647 OPS. Boston fans could hardly be blamed for thinking about those numbers when Derek Jeter, Gary Sheffield and Alex Rodriguez are due up against DiNardo or, heck, even Wells next month. Starting May 1 the Sox and Yankees play 12 games in five weeks. Yikes.
Arroyo has never lost to the Yankees in six career regular-season starts. Okay, okay, he's never won either, but sometimes a six-inning no-decision is just what a team needs when it's going up against Hall of Famers' Row.
But, sadly, Arroyo won't be toeing the slab in Yankee Stadium for the Sox next month. No, he'll be pitching in increasingly inconsequential games as summer wears on and the Reds fade out of contention. Pena, meanwhile, will discover that his early baptism by fire was nothing compared to the heat of a pennant race in Boston. Assuming he continues to platoon with Nixon, Pena and his one strikeout every 2.8 at bats will be squaring off against Randy Johnson next month. Can you think of any other matchup less likely to produce a run with a runner on third and less than two outs? (Well, in fairness, Arroyo does strike out 58 percent of the time for his career, a stat Glendon Rusch refuses to believe.)
Don't get me wrong, I'm excited about Wily Mo. For next year. And the year after that. As for the here and now, it sure would be nice to have the hugely versatile rubber arm of Arroyo in the fold. The middle relief corps, of which Arroyo was pegged to be an indispensable member this season, looks like a looming disaster for Boston. David Riske was awful in spring training and worse in his single regular-season appearance before landing on the DL with a bad back. Rudy Seanez has been slapped around to the tune of a 10.80 ERA. The volcanic Julian Tavarez may have set some kind of record by serving a 10-day suspension before ever throwing a pitch for Boston. And now the pen's lone lefty, DiNardo, has been forced into the rotation by Wells's regularly scheduled trip to the DL.
Boy, the three-year, $12 million contract Arroyo signed before being dealt seems like a better deal than ever.
Seeing Boston's list of viable starting candidates reduced from seven to four and that includes the increasingly perplexing Clement in the span of less than a month inspired me to coin a new phrase. Ready? "You can never have too much pitching." I know it sounds radical never? but I think it might stick.

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Fishman Asterope Pro Stage Series cable
Quality cable, premium price
We're forever banging on about using quality audio cables, but there's always the fear that, in reality, they don't make any difference. Asterope is the latest name on the radar, and at £89.99 for a six-foot straight-jacked cable (a 30-footer is £169.99) it had better be good.
The result of "decades of research and development across a number of scientific disciplines", says Asterope, which is being distributed worldwide by Fishman, "the ultra-efficient signal flow increases bandwidth and harmonic response, and improves the overall sound of all audio electronics.
"Asterope delivers a broader bandwidth of sound than traditional cables, allowing the listener to actually 'feel' the difference. This phenomenon is referred to as hyper-sonics." Umm...
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Our first audio test was at the 2013 NAMM show with very tired ears, but compared with other high-end cables, we thought we could perceive some subtle additional clarity.
In a more scientific-like environment, yes, compared with a medium-priced big-name cable of the same length, the Asterope is noticeably clearer and slightly 'enhanced'- sounding, with more presence. You can definitely hear it.
This quality directional cable has plenty of scientific voodoo behind it, then, but, to our ears, it also has a noticeable audio improvement over a medium-priced quality cable. But then there's that bloomin' price, of course...
MusicRadar Rating
We can hear the difference!
Painful price.
Certainly, for audio use and for electro-acoustic players (it's now this reviewer's cable of choice), it's recommended. For heavily gained metallers, the advantages might be less obvious.
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Do you enjoy playing Tiny Tower? Then why not broaden your horizon by playing the newly released Pixel People?
Developed by LambdaMu and published by Chillingo, the gloriously pixelated Pixel People is a game that seems to answer the question, "What if Tiny Tower were about multidimensional world-building rather than mere vertical expansion?"
Formerly titled After Earth, Pixel People is mainly concerned with Project Utopia, an undertaking that seeks to rebuild the world following an apocalyptic event.
As mayor of the new world of Utopia, you're basically tasked to build new residences to get more clones.
Wait, what? Clones? Not Bitizens, as they're called in NimbleBit's hit building game?
If you can't see the video embedded above, please click here.
Yes, clones. You see, in Pixel People, you're also tasked to splice genes of residents and combine their skills to create new types of the titular beings.
Also, you have to ensure that your residents are assigned to the right place and the right job in order to better develop your city.
Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad running iOS 4.3 or later, Pixel People is available now in the App Store for free.
Just like Tiny Tower, Pixel People is a freemium game. And whereas Tiny Tower deals with Bux, Pixel People deals with Utopium. Of course, you can buy the game's special currency via in-app purchases or earn more of it through continuous play.


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South Carolina Annual Report Filing Instructions
What is the cost to file the South Carolina Annual Return and Annual Renewal?
How to keep your business in compliance in South Carolina:
Corporations and LLCs in South Carolina do not have annual report requirements with the SC Secretary of State. However, the South Carolina Department of Revenue has annual returns to file and the Secretary of State will dissolve your corporation if you become delinquent with the SC Department of Revenue (DOR) filings.
Does South Carolina require an Initial Report?
SC Corporations, PCs and Nonprofits, domestic and foreign, are required to file the Initial Annual Report of Corporations, CL-1 at the same time as their initial formation/registration with the Secretary of State. There is no grace period. Your documents will be rejected if form CL-1 is not included. The filing fee for the initial report is included with the fee for the articles incorporation or the application for foreign authority. This registers your new company with the SC Department of Revenue.
When is South Carolina Annual Tax Return Due?
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Getting There
Covering transportation in the Capital Region and beyond
By Tim O'Brien | About Getting There | Fix-it Map
Monthly Archive for February, 2010
Section of Schenectady's Albany Street to close Monday
Work to repair a sewer lateral will close Albany Street between Robinson and Henry streets to all but local traffic beginning at 7 a.m. Monday for a two day period, according John P. Coluccio, signal superintendent of the Department of Utilities & Facilities. Westbound traffic will be detoured over Henry Street to State Street, while […] [Read More]
Walk to St. Peter's Hospital shouldn't lead to the saint himself
Q: I travel north on South Manning Boulevard every morning and there used to be a sign in the crosswalk in front of St. Peter's Hospital alerting cars to stop for pedestrians. Without this sign, cars do not stop at all. Even when I am stopped for pedestrians that have started to cross, cars traveling […] [Read More]
Forecast calls for canceled flights
The forecast of another storm is affecting flights from Albany International Airport. Business Editor Eric Anderson has the story. Has this late outbreak of winter caused a change of travel plans for you or increased your desire for a sunny getaway? [Read More]
Snow derails travel plans
Amtrak will be canceling some trips due to the need to clear the snow-covered tracks. Read more here. [Read More]
Get a peek at plans for Exit 6
The state Department of Transportation will hold a meeting Monday to discuss the upcoming start of major construction work at the Northway's Exit 6. The meeting will be held at 6 p.m. Monday, March 1, and in the auditorium of Forts Ferry Elementary School, 95 Forts Ferry Road in Colonie. How to get there: Take I-87 to […] [Read More]
Schenectady: Stay off the road!
Schenectady is asking drivers to stay off its roads. Both the Electric City and Albany have declared snow emergencies. [Read More]
How's the driving out there?
Or are you just staying at home, curled up with a good book or building a snowman with the kids? Let us know how the roads are in your neighborhood, and feel free to send along some of your own photos. [Read More]
Watch live video from our snowy roads (off line now)
The live video streaming is done for today. Our photographer Skip Dickstein will be back out on the roads in the snow tomorrow morning. Follow him on the above video. If you have photos of the weather conditions on roads near you, please feel free to send them to us at firstname.lastname@example.com [Read More]
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Daily Eye Wonder February 2013
A collection of some beautiful, strange, interesting, and fascinating pictures of weather, environment and space that might let you wonder.
Russian Meteorite
Imagine driving around town and seeing this! People in Russia got quite a shock when a meteorite flew by. Just before a sonic boom, dashboard cameras caught images of what appeared to be a fireball in the sky.
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Review of The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane
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The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane
By Robert E. Howard; Narrated by Paul Boehmer
Publisher: Tantor Audio
[UNABRIDGED] – 12 hours, 30 minutesThemes: / pulp / fantasy / hero / short stories / Publisher summary:
With Conan the Cimmerian, Robert E. Howard created more than the greatest action hero of the twentieth century—he also launched a genre that came to be known as sword and sorcery. But Conan was not the first archetypal adventurer to spring from Howard's fertile imagination.
He was…a strange blending of Puritan and Cavalier, with a touch of the ancient philosopher, and more than a touch of the pagan…. A hunger in his soul drove him on and on, an urge to right all wrongs, protect all weaker things…. Wayward and restless as the wind, he was consistent in only one respect—he was true to his ideals of justice and right. Such was Solomon Kane.
Collected in this volume are all of the stories that make up the thrilling saga of the dour and deadly Puritan: "Skulls in the Stars," "The Right Hand of Doom," "Red Shadows," "Rattle of Bones," "The Castle of the Devil," "Death's Black Riders," "The Moon of Skulls," "The One Black Stain," "The Blue Flame of Vengeance," "The Hills of the Dead," "Hawk of Basti," "The Return of Sir Richard Grenville," "Wings in the Night," "The Footfalls Within," "The Children of Asshur," and "Solomon Kane's Homecoming."
I don't normally seem to enjoy older works of Sci-Fi and Fantasy, and unfortunately, things were no different here. I was never a Conan fan growing, so I'd never read any of Mr. Howard before. The audiobook collection stars with an obituary or memorium written by H.P. Lovecraft with whom Mr. Howard apparently corresponded.
Mr. Howard is probably best known for his character Conan, but Solomon Kane is often credited as the first "Sword & Sorcery" character.
In this collection of stories Solomon Kane fights Pirates, Ghosts, Vampires, Sorcerors, Harpies and more. Solomon Kane wields daggers, pistols a sword, and in later stories, a magical staff. Sounds like it would be great! Unfortunately I was mostly bored. The best story of the bunch for me was The Children of Asshur, which was only a fragment and therefore ends somewhat abruptly. I would have liked to see where Mr. Howard intended to go with that story.
There are certainly things to like here. The writing isn't bad and the adventures are certainly varied enough, but it just seemed like not much really happens most of the time. And then there is the racism. You can pull out the usual excuses, when the book what written, or the fact that the racism portrayed is probably accurate to the characters themselves. That doesn't change the fact for me that it kept pulling me out of the stories. It's not in every story, but is present in most, especially those where Solomon Kane travels to Africa. Many times it seemed like an unnecessary aside, rather than an important plot point for or character motivation.
All in all, as I believe these stories are in public domain you might be better off picking one or two to check out rather than the whole collection. I think the best complete story was The Hills of the Dead, where Kane first gets his magic staff and fights a horde of vampires.
Review by Rob Zak.
The SFFaudio Podcast #237 – A PODCAST ABOUT PODCASTS
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The SFFaudio Podcast #237 – Jesse, Tamahome, Julie Davis, Seth, and Jimmy Rogers talk about podcasts.
Talked about on today's show:
Jimmy's Synthetic Voices, Jenny's Forgotten Classics and A Good Story is Hard to Find, podcasts are a house of mirrors, we have reached the podcast singularity, Julie's podcast highlight feature, Edgar Allan Poecast, Dickens and Hawthorn podcasts on Julie's wishlist, Jimmy's podcast group meetup, Washington Science Fiction Association, Jimmy's segment on StarShipSofa, the value of curated podcasts about podcasts, Luke Burrage's geek Venn diagram (see below), Julie on the intimate nature of podcast listening, Jesse on the rarity of finding people who speak like they write, podcasts invite listeners into the conversation, "Tam listens to all podcasts", SFSignal, Sword & Laser, mainstream podcasts, Security Now, ABC News, Agony Column, Jesse wants to hit Margaret Atwood again, 99% Invisible funded by KickStarter, Julie scans the new releases section in iTunes, KCRW's DnA and Martini Shot, Inside the New York Times Book Review Podcast, NPR's Car Talk, Wait! Wait! Don't Tell Me!, Nature podcast, Science Update, Encounters, 60 Minutes is tightly edited (and that's how it is!), Vice podcast (HBO show tie-in) and Dennis Rodman, Freakonomics, Day 6, Dan Carlin's Common Sense and Hardcore History, CBC embraces podcasters, Garrison Keillor's Writer's Almanac makes Seth sound smart, audio drama, the Lovecraftian Welcome to Night Vale, Nerdist podcasts, Twin Peaks, Wormwood, Decoder Ring Theatre's shows, Julie Hoverson's 19 Nocturne Boulevard, Leviathan Chronicles, podiobooks, Scott Sigler's BloodCast and Rookie series, J.C. Hutchins, Mur Lafferty's Heaven series, We're Alive zombie podcast, Julie educates us on the Texas definition of "fine", The Monster Hunters is zany UK comedy (not related to Larry Correia's Monster Hunters International), Plants vs. Zombies, HG World (not related to H.G. Wells), Ace Galaksi features Douglas Adams humour, meritocracy in podcast recommendations, "podcasting makes anyone a celebrity", so does blogging (Julie's Happy Catholic blog), Seth is the new intern (but can't afford the Night Vale intern shirt), CromCast discusses Robert E. Howard whilst eating Chinese food, the nature of an author's writing informs the nature of podcasts about them, H.P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast, Philip K. Dick Philosophical Podcast (not just on Facebook anymore), the importance of a well-researched podcast, Mr Jim Moon's Hypnogoria, Peter Kushing, Chop Bard Shakespeare podcast, Julie challenges Jesse to do a podcast on The Tempest, SFFAudio's Odyssey podcast series, Julie's Genesis podcast series (based on Robert Alter's translation and commentary), Uncle Tom's Cabin, Born Yesterday history podcast featuring an objective history of the gay bar, History According to Bob, British History Podcast, History of Philosophy without any gaps, Mike Duncan's History of Rome and Revolutions podcasts, When Diplomacy Fails, alternative iOS podcast apps, Stitcher, Swell Radio is Pandora for podcasts, Downcast ($0.99) is chock full of functionality, Huffduffer creates custom podcast feeds, if you don't have RSS it's not a podcast!, Free MP3 Downloader, fiction podcasts, Escape Artists Network (Escape Pod for SF, PodCastle for fantasy, and PseudoPod for horror), StarShipSofa's Tales to Terrify, Clarkesworld Magazine, John Joseph Adams's Lightspeed Magazine, Nightmare Magazine, DrabbleCast, different approaches to horror narration, Night of the Living Dead, don't listen to horror before bed, Journey Into podcast, Seeing Ear Theatre on archive.org, Jimmy and Tam like to support creators of new content (but, asks Jesse, is new necessarily better?), CraftLit is way more than just knitting, podcasts about writing (Jesse hates them), Mur Lafferty's I Should be Writing, Writing Excuses (Brandon Sanderson, Howard Tayler, Dan Wells, Mary Robinette Kowal), NaNoWriMo, Neil Gaiman on writer's block, writing podcasts offer writers a sense of community, Adeventures in Science Fiction Publishing, Terry Pratchett "just makes things up", the importance of writers reading classic works, Jimmy argues that 'short stories offer writers more opportunity to extemporize and gives readers a sense of immediacy', writing for deadline, Adventure magazine, Lord of the Rings, Tolkien Professor Podcast, J.R.R. Tolkien, Jane Austen, the Budweiser frogs, advertising as a source of drama, commercialization and ownership of brands, Jimmy on how podcasts build community, an intense debate about layering spoken word audio over music, This Week at NASA, DribbleCast is a fan spin-off of DrabbleCast, The NoSleep Podcast just won Parsec Award for Best New Podcast, Classic Tales Podcast (links are ephemeral), we all love podcasts–surprise!, Warrior Queen of Mars by Alexander Blade, if Doctor Who were a podcast the audience could request an episode with tribbles, Rappuccini's Daughter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Cricket on the Hearth by Charles Dickens, podcast production has left overhead than traditional media offering greater flexibility and responsiveness.
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Review of Tales of the Red Panda: The Crime Cabal
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Tales of the Red Panda: The Crime Cabal
By Gregg Taylor; Read by Gregg Taylor
Publisher: Audible
Release Date: October 17, 2012
Playing time: 5 hours 53 minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Themes: pulp / heroes / depression era / gangs / zombies / bombs / hypnotism / secret identities / roof tops / grapnel guns
Depression-era Toronto is the setting for Gregg Taylor's pulp hero The Red Panda and his sidekick The Flying Squirrel. The novel opens with the last of the big gangs in the city being brought to Justice; Police Chief O'Mally railing against the masked vigilantes at loose in his city. While the Press love the hero: defender of the weak, the poor and the downtrodden of society.
Out from the ashes of the many gangs that our hero's have crushed rises a new gang, The Crime Cabal. This new gang knows that for them to flourish, they must deal with The Red Panda once and for all. But there is more behind the Cabal than a simple gang. When the hulking enforcers of the gang turn out to be zombies it's clear that this is no ordinary gang.
The Tales of the Red Panda: The Crime Cabal is the first novel set within the same setting as the podcast audio dramas, also written and produced by Gregg Taylor under the Decoder Ring Theatre banner. There is continuity between the podcast and the novel, but the novel does stand on it's own, even providing an origin story for one of the long running supporting characters. The setting and characters are all introduced with enough background and flare to be fully formed within the novel alone.
Gregg Taylor does a commendable job with the narration and the characters. Of note are the character voices especially as I've listened to the audio dramas for some years. Taylor captures the essence of the voices of the characters as they have been portrayed by other actors. For several years in some cases. So, even if you have listened to the podcasts you won't be disappointed by the the portrayal of familiar characters, and if you haven't then they come out fully formed characterizations.
My only niggle is that in the first few chapters the narration feels just a little rushed in places, but this passes.
Posted by Paul [W] Campbell
Review of The Adventures of Doc Savage
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The Adventures of Doc Savage
Adapted from novels by Lester Dent
Starring Daniel Chodos as Doc Savage
8 Hours – [AUDIO DRAMA]
Publisher: RadioArchives.com
Published: 2010
Themes: / Science Fiction / Hero / Adventure / Pulp / Audio Drama / Skeletons / Chemistry /
Doc Savage is the strongest, smartest, most resourceful, best-looking guy you'll ever meet. And he fights crime. Born in pulp magazines in the 1930's, he's also the subject of 181 novels, and a movie.
The Adventures of Doc Savage contains 13 half-hour episodes of audio drama that were originally broadcast on NPR in 1985. These episodes tell two complete stories that were adapted from novels written by Lester Dent. "Fear Cay" was published in September 1934 and "The Thousand Headed Man" in July 1934. The scripts were written by Will Murray and Roger Rittner.
Having never read a Doc Savage story, I was interested for historical reasons. I've run across these novels regularly over the years, but the pulp hero never caught my reading eye. I'm very happy, though, to have heard these audio dramas. They are very well done. They're action packed, thoroughly entertaining, and as full of camp as you'd hope.
With the opening of "Fear Cay", I learned that Doc Savage doesn't work alone. He's got a team around him that reminds me of Buckaroo Banzai's crew. (Now, why was Jeff Goldblum wearing that ridiculous cowboy outfit again?) I now realize that Buckaroo had to have been influenced by Doc Savage. Savage also has a diverse team around him – from physical strength to electronic genius – and there's nothing they can't handle.
Still, Doc Savage is the best of them all. He's not among equals. He can overpower multiple men at once, but he's just as apt to talk himself out of a situation. And he's got gadgets and/or chemical formulations for everything else that occurs.
In short, I had a great time listening to these dramas. They're fun.
Find them over at RadioArchives.com.
Posted by Scott D. Danielson
Review of The Land That Time Forgot by Edgar Rice Burroughs
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The Land That Time Forgot
By Edgar Rice Burroughs; Read by Brian Holsopple
3 CDs – 3.5 hours – [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Audio Realms
Themes: / Science Fiction / Pulp / Ju-jutsu /
Repeat after me: Pulp is a great genre, but not all pulp is great. And some of it isn't very good at all, I'm afraid.
I lead with this because I've noticed that pulp often gets a free pass from its advocates. Fans will leap to the defense of poorly plotted, boring, or otherwise not well-written stories and pulp-inspired films with a simple, "well, it's pulp"–as if this fact somehow makes the genre above criticism.
Now, I happen to be a big fan of pulp, but I can also recognize a flawed example when I see it. Even when its written by Edgar Rice Burroughs, one of pulp's grand masters (see many of his wonderful Tarzan and John Carter stories).
I'm sorry to say that Burroughs' The Land that Time Forgot is not very good. It's not as bad as, say, Magic Kingdom For Sale: Sold, and I've read worse, but when compared to the best pulp has to offer–i.e., almost anything written by Robert E. Howard–The Land that Time Forgot simply does not measure up.
Part of my problem with this book may be the fact that I listened to an audio recording produced by Audio Realms, delivered in uninspired fashion by narrator Brian Holsopple. Audio Realms is also responsible for producing the fantastic series The Dark Worlds of H.P. Lovecraft, read by Wayne June (who is a terrific narrator), but I found this particular entry in their catalogue rather poor.
To be fair, Holsopple doesn't exactly have Lovecraft at the top of his game to work with. Some of the dialogue in The Land that Time Forgot is so stilted and cornball that I found myself literally cringing behind the steering wheel while driving into work. Here's one less-than-stellar example:
"You have evolved a beautiful philosophy," I said. "It fills such a longing in the human breast. It is full, it is satisfying, it is ennobling. What wonderous strides toward perfection the human race might have made if the first man had evolved it and it had persisted until now as the creed of humanity."
"I don't like irony," she said; "it indicates a small soul."
"What other sort of soul, then, would you expect from 'a comic little figure hopping from the cradle to the grave'?" I inquired. "And what difference does it make, anyway, what you like and what you don't like? You are here for but an instant, and you mustn't take yourself too seriously."
She looked up at me with a smile. "I imagine that I am frightened and blue," she said, "and I know that I am very, very homesick and lonely." There was almost a sob in her voice as she concluded. It was the first time that she had spoken thus to me. Involuntarily, I laid my hand upon hers where it rested on the rail.
I mean, this stuff makes the lines delivered in Days of Our Lives seem like John Keats in comparison.
The Land that Time Forgot tells the tale of Tyler Bowen, an American on a merchant vessel whose ship is attacked by a World War I German U-boat. Bowen survives and with the help of some British sailors manages to overpower the U-boat's crew. Bowen is eventually betrayed by one of his own men who smashes the U-boat's instruments in an attempt to doom the ship's crew. When Bowen finally learns who his betrayer is, the man on his deathbed reveals his secrets like an unmasked villain from Scooby-Doo:
"I did it alone," he said. "I did it because I hate you–I hate all your kind. I was kicked out of your shipyard at Santa Monica. I was locked out of California. I am an I. W. W. I became a German agent–not because I love them, for I hate them too–but because I wanted to injure Americans, whom I hated more. I threw the wireless apparatus overboard. I destroyed the chronometer and the sextant. I devised a scheme for varying the compass to suit my wishes. I told Wilson that I had seen the girl talking with von Schoenvorts, and I made the poor egg think he had seen her doing the same thing. I am sorry–sorry that my plans failed. I hate you."
And he would have succeeded if it wasn't for you meddling kids.
Lost at sea and low on food and water, Bowen and his men land on the island of Caprona, a literal island that time forgot. It's inhabited by dinosaurs of every age as well as ice-age beasts and men in various stages of evolution. Bowen then spends the rest of the book rescuing a stranded damosel from the hands of lustful Neanderthal men and hungry dinosaurs, as well as kicking the crap out of primitive men. Oh, I didn't mention that Bowen happens to be a physical specimen and a master of judo? Here's my favorite passage:
Three of the warriors were sitting upon me, trying to hold me down by main strength and awkwardness, and they were having their hands full in the doing, I can tell you. I don't like to appear conceited, but I may as well admit that I am proud of my strength and the science that I have acquired and developed in the directing of it–that and my horsemanship I always have been proud of.
And now, that day, all the long hours that I had put into careful study, practice and training brought me in two or three minutes a full return upon my investment. Californians, as a rule, are familiar with ju-jutsu, and I especially had made a study of it for several years, both at school and in the gym of the Los Angeles Athletic Club, while recently I had had, in my employ, a Jap who was a wonder at the art. It took me just about thirty seconds to break the elbow of one of my assailants, trip another and send him stumbling backward among his fellows, and throw the third completely over my head in such a way that when he fell his neck was broken.
"Californians as a rule are familiar with ju-jutsu?" "I am proud of my strength and the science that I have acquired and developed in the directing of it?" "A Jap who was a wonder at the art?" Man, if this isn't Mystery Science Theatre 3000 material than I don't know what is.
About the only thing that The Land the Time Forgot has going for it is that it isn't entirely boring, if you like one mindless action scene strung together after the next. But, in summation, if you're looking for a good representative of the pulp genre, look elsewhere.
Posted by Brian Murphy
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Michael Bekemeyer of Scatterpod has started a new themed series for the show called Scatterpod: Dark. As you can imagine these tales concentrate on the darker side of human nature. Some of the shows are non-fantasy horror stories, but they often have a fantasy element.
The third and most recent installation features a Science Fiction story called Ice Planet written by Michael. The story is read by none other than myself, The Time Traveler. Although I host my own show, but with the exception of one short flash fiction, this is my first tour of duty as a narrator. When Michael sent me the story, I couldn't refuse. It was reminiscent of the kind of stories that appeared in the pulp magazines like Planet Stories (with some added expletives).
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WVU and Oklahoma State Meet on ESPN2
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. - West Virginia takes on Oklahoma State on Saturday at the WVU Coliseum looking to get back above .500. The game will tipoff at 2 p.m. and will be televised nationally on ESPN2.
The Mountaineer Sports Network coverage begins with the Coliseum Countdown at 1:30 p.m.
Game Information
DATE: Saturday, February 23, 2013
LOCATION: WVU Coliseum (14,000) in Morgantown, W.Va. TIPOFF: 2:00 p.m.
SERIES: Series tied 1-1
TV: ESPN2 (Jon Sciambi and Fran Fraschilla)
RADIO: MSN (40 affiliates) Tony Caridi, Jay Jacobs and Kyle Wiggs
OFFICIALS: Announced on game day
Quick Hitters
• Saturday's game will be televised nationally by ESPN2. The MSN Radio broadcast can be heard on Sirius 91 and XM 91.
• West Virginia has a 128-32 (.800) record against teams in their first visit to the Coliseum.
• West Virginia is 67-17 in the WVU Coliseum under Bob Huggins, including a 35-16 mark in league games at home.
• WVU is 476-137 (.779) all-time at the WVU Coliseum and 97-20 at the WVU Coliseum in the last eight seasons.
• Under Bob Huggins in the WVU Coliseum, WVU is averaging 74.8 ppg, while holding its opponents to 61.5 ppg.
• WVU's average margin of victory at the WVU Coliseum under Bob Huggins is +13.3.
• The Mountaineers have won 49 of their last 68 conference games at the WVU Coliseum.
• Bob Huggins coached in his 1,000th game at TCU on Feb. 9, a 63-50 Mountaineer victory.
• Bob Huggins, with 723 career wins, needs one win to tie Ray Meyer for 18th place on the NCAA Division I all-time winningest coaches list. Huggins recorded win No. 700 against Missouri State on Dec. 22, 2011. Huggins became the 20th Division I head coach to win 700 career games. Huggins' record now stands at 723-280 in his 31st season as a head coach.
• Bob Huggins is the third-winningest active coach behind Mike Krzyzewski and Jim Boeheim.
• Bob Huggins has wins over 20 ranked teams since he has been the head coach at West Virginia, including eight over a Top-10 ranked team in the last six seasons.
• West Virginia is playing its first season in the Big 12 Conference in 2012-13. The Mountaineers were members of the Big East Conference for the previous 17 seasons.
• Bob Huggins is 16-13 in Big 12 Conference games. He is 6-7 at WVU, and his Kansas State team posted a 10-6 Big 12 record in 2006-07. The Wildcats finished fourth in the Big 12 in 2007.
• West Virginia is 60-43 under Bob Huggins in conference regular season games.
• WVU has started 12 different players this season with 11 different starting lineup combinations.
• Freshman Eron Harris leads WVU in scoring in Big 12 Conference games at 11.5 points per game. He has started the last 11 games and has posted double figures in nine of his last 11 games.
• Senior Deniz Kilicli is averaging 20.5 points in his last two games. He leads the conference in field goal percentage at 57.1 percent (league games only).
• Sophomore Juwan Staten leads the Big 12 in assist-to-turnover ratio (conference games only) at 2.76. In his last three games, he has 17 assists and three turnovers.
• Freshman Terry Henderson is second in the Big 12 (conference games only) in 3-point field goal percentage (46.5 percent).
• West Virginia has made at least one 3-point field goal in 449 consecutive games. The last time WVU did not make a 3-point field goal was against Robert Morris on Nov. 27, 1999.
• WVU is predicted to finish sixth in the Big 12 Conference poll. In eight of the last 10 seasons, the Mountaineers have finished higher or equal to their preseason prediction.
• WVU has made nine straight postseason appearances: 2012 NCAA Second Round, 2011 NCAA Third Round, 2010 NCAA Final Four, 2009 NCAA First Round, 2008 NCAA Sweet 16, 2007 NIT champions, 2006 NCAA Sweet 16, 2005 NCAA Elite
Eight and 2004 NIT Second Round.
• Bob Huggins has led WVU to the NCAA championship in each of his first five seasons. The last time WVU made five consecutive NCAA appearances was from 1955-60, when the Mountaineers went six consecutive years to the NCAA tourney.
• West Virginia has won 67 of its last 82 games when holding its opponents to 69 points or less.
• West Virginia is 39-1 under Bob Huggins when shooting 50 percent or better from the field.
• West Virginia is 108-21 under Bob Huggins when leading at halftime.
• West Virginia is 115-14 under Bob Huggins when leading by 10 or more points in a game.
• West Virginia is 107-6 under Bob Huggins when posting a higher shooting percentage than its opponent.
• West Virginia has won 73 of its last 84 games when scoring 70 or more points in a game.
• The Mountaineers are 96-14 under Bob Huggins when scoring 70 or more points in a game.
• West Virginia is 110-27 under Bob Huggins when outrebounding its opponent.
• West Virginia has allowed its opponent to shoot 50 percent or better only 34 times under Bob Huggins (202 games).
• Twenty-four of the last 25 senior members of the men's basketball team have graduated on time or early since 2004.
• Bob Huggins has posted 25 conference road victories in five-plus years at WVU. WVU has three Big 12 road wins this year.
• Sixty six of Bob Huggins' 133 victories have been away from the WVU Coliseum.
• WVU has won 95 of its last 121 games against unranked teams, including 49 of its last 54 at the WVU Coliseum.
• WVU is 19-8 all-time on Feb. 23. The Mountaineers are 502-382 all-time in the month of February.
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New shares of listed equity investor Centum started trading on Tuesday, offering shareholders a chance to realise some value on their investments after the firm adopted a no dividends policy two years ago.
The listing of the 55 million shares follows the approval of a bonus of one share for every ten held as the company moves to build its capital base without being distracted by dividend pay-outs until 2014.
"We opted to pursue a no - dividend policy so that we would retain as much funds as possible to fuel growth by taking advantage of the numerous investment opportunities available locally and in the regional markets," said Centum chief executive James Mworia.
The commencement of trade on the additional shares would enable the shareholders define their own dividend policy by either selling the shares or choosing to hold them.
Centum embarked on a capital build up strategy by suspending dividend payout, at least till 2014, since retained earnings formed the cheapest source of capital at the company's disposal.
Bonus shares
Through the bonus shares, the company would sooth away investors' thirst for a tangible return if they elect to sell the additional shares without cutting back on the number of shares owned though this will reduce the eventual stake owned in the company.
The company has undertaken to spruce up its capital base in readiness for new investments in the real estate sector, and has since raised Sh2 billion from a syndicated loan that it is yet to use.
Already, the company has identified two mega-housing projects that it seeks to invest in as it eyes a Sh2.5 billion holding out of the almost Sh10 billion its assets are currently worth.
A rally in the stock market last year and a stellar performance on its investments in private equity more than doubled the company's net earnings for the period ending March 2010, to Sh1.1 billion from the Sh476 million reported last year.
Centum however prefers the net asset value per share approach as a measure for its performance, which rose to Sh16.50 up from Sh10.70 last year, in line with global benchmarks for investment companies.
Analysts point out the high profitability last year and the full dividend retention policy as the main drivers for the company's share performance at the Nairobi Stock Exchange making it among the top five stocks in capital gains since the beginning of the year.
"The stock's price rally is a factor of the investment strategy that the company has assumed which has enabled it to generate high returns," said Robert Munuku, an investment analyst at Drummond Investment Bank.
The stock opened trade at the beginning of the year at Sh11.30 rising to the Sh25 that it opened yesterday's trade at, analysts do not expect much price dilution because the information on the bonus issue has been factored in by the market.
Shareholders' approval for the stock to cross-list at the Uganda Stock Exchange is expected to offer a new impetus for price appreciation because of the exposure to a wider investor spectrum.
Mr Munuku says that the USE is thirsty for new listings looking at the limited number of listed companies and Centum's entry is likely to catapult its share price.
"The Uganda bourse is thirsty for new listings which should translate to high demand for its shares when they are cross-listed," said Mr Munuku.


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text: on May 22, 2013 @ 12:45 PMMay 22, 2013 @ 12:45 PM Published Man killed by FBI links Tsarnaev to triple murderA friend of Tamerlan Tsarnaev implicated himself and the Boston bombing suspect in an unsolved triple homicide before FBI agents killed him in a violent altercation Wednesday, local media reported.The Federal Bureau of Investigation said the man initiated a "violent confrontation" during questioning in Orlando, Florida and was killed, and that an FBI agent suffered "non-life threatening injuries."The man, identified by the Orlando Sentinel newspaper as Ibragim Todashev, 27, was being questioned by the FBI agent, two Massachusetts state troopers and other law enforcement personnel.Todashev attacked the FBI agent with a knife just as he was about to sign a confession that he had played a role in the triple murder, local media cited investigators as saying.The triple murder took place on September 11, 2011 -- the 10-year anniversary of the deadly attacks on the United States -- in the Boston suburb of Waltham, according to local media.All three bodies were found nearly decapitated, covered with marijuana and thousands of dollars in cash.Local NBC television affiliate WESH said Todashev and Tsarnaev killed Brendan Mess, 25, Raphael Teken, 37, and Eric Weissman, 31, after ripping them off for drugs because they did not want the men to later identify them.Tsarnaev, 26, and his 19-year-old brother Dzhokhar are alleged to have carried out the April 15 bombings at the Boston Marathon, which killed three people and wounded more than 260.Tamerlan Tsarnaev was killed in a shoot-out with police after the bombings, while his brother was captured and is in custody.A probable cause hearing for the younger Tsarnaev, currently being treated at a medical detention center outside of Boston for wounds sustained before his arrest, is scheduled to ttake place on July 2. It would mark his first public appearance since the attacks.Federal prosecutors have charged him with using and conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction, as well as with the malicious destruction of property by means of deadly explosives.He could face the death penalty if convicted.Todashev was not suspected of playing any part in the bombings, NBC reported. But his friend Khusn Taramiv told WESH that the FBI had expressed interest in him since the bombing.They had both lived in Boston and were mixed martial arts fighters,Tamariv added that Todashev spoke briefly by phone with Tsarnaev last month."He felt like there was going to be a set-up, bad set-up against him," Taramiv said, noting that the FBI interviewed him and Todashev for nearly three hours. "He told me they are making up such crazy stuff, I don't know what they are doing."bur-mar/oh/jm


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Party Like It's 2014: Baltimore Rings In The New Year A Multitude Of Ways
The New Year is being celebrated all over the city in a lot of different ways.
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New Year's Eve revelers in Hagerstown are sweetening their celebration with a doughnut drop.
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Kwanzaa celebrations are now in full swing, and we're learning more about the origins of the holiday from the man who created Kwanzaa almost five decades ago.
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| Code: C50a
Price: $5.95
By: Moazzam Zaman
Pages: 22
Binding: Hardback
Size: 8x5" (20.3x12.7 cm)
Format: Full Color
Publisher: Dar-us-Salam
Shipping Weight: 0.61 lbs
|Inventory: ~8 in stock
The "Prophets sent by Allah" series is a collection of 15 delightful rhyming storybooks for younger readers. A wonderful introduction for impressionable young minds to get to know and love the major Prophets mentioned in the Qur'an. Simple full-colour illustrations accompany the rhyming poetry which is fun to read and surprisingly easy to remember. Each book is loaded with Islamically accurate information and contains +an "Islamictionary" (a simplified children's glossary) to explain Arabic and Islamic words and concepts. Kids of all ages will love to read these morally uplifting books over and over again.
Each book has hard durable full color pages with pictures on the left side and text on the right. Each book is 8x5" and 3/4" thick.
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