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School of Education
Professor Mike Baynham
Professor of TESOL
I am Professor of TESOL in the School of Education. My professional background is in Adult ESOL and Literacy. Before I came to Leeds, I spent ten years in Sydney at the University of Technology, Sydney where I was Director of the Centre for Language and Literacy and before that I worked in London in Adult and Higher Education. My academic background is in sociolinguistics, but I have always been involved in and committed to Applied Linguistics.
Current Professional Activities
I was Chair of the British Association for Applied Linguistics (BAAL) for the period 2001-2003.
From 1996 to 2003 I co-convened with Mastin Prinsloo of the University of Cape Town of the International Applied Linguistics Association (AILA) Scientific Commission on Literacy.
From 2006-2010 I was co-director with Stef Slembrouck of the AILA Research Network on Language and Migration.
Research Interests
My research interests include oral narrative (my Phd [Reading 1988] was entitled "Narrative and Narrativity in the English of a First Generation Migrant Community). From narrative I developed an interest in speech representation in both narrative and non narrative contexts. Other areas of interest are socially situated perspectives on literacy, in particular academic literacies, classroom discourse, language and maths.
I am currently a co-investigator on the AHRC Translating Cultures project Translation and translanguaging: Investigating linguistic and cultural transformations in superdiverse wards in four UK cities (2014-2018)
I am currently developing a research interest in Lesbian, Gay Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) issues in Adult ESOL and am co-investigator on the ESRC Seminar Series "Queering ESOL@ towards a cultural politics of LGBT issues in the Adult ESOL classroom" (2013-2015) http://queeringesol.wordpress.com/ also consultant on the British Council Nexus Project "Exploring LGBT Lives in Adult ESOL https://esol.britishcouncil.org/exploring-lgbt-lives-and-issues-adult-esol (2013-2014)
Key Publications
(2009) The Future of Literacy Studies. Palgrave MacMillan.
"This book brings together authors actively involved in shaping the field ofliteracy studies, presenting a robust approach to the theoretical and empirical ...
(2009) Globalization and language in contact. Continuum International Publishing Group.
This book examines the impact of globalization on language in contact, including thestudy of linkages between the global and local, and transnational and ...
Journal Articles
(2011) "Stance, positioning and alignment in narratives of professional experience", Language in Society. 40: 63-74.
Language in Society is the premier international peer reviewed hjournal in sociolinguistics
This article examines narratives of professional experience in a corpus of forty interviews in which English to Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) teachers reflect on their professional life histories as well as their current teaching. The notion of "stance" emerged as a major theme: the teachers positioned themselves in relation to the policy environment, to learners, teaching and learning, and their sense of control in their working lives. Narrative was an important discursive resource for doing so and a range of narrative types (personal, generic/iterative, hypothetical, exemplum, and 'negated') are identified, each demonstrating performance features. Using Dubois's (2007) definition of stance, I examine the dynamic relationship between stance taking and discursive positioning, discussing the role of performance in these processes. Shifts into performance are shown to depend on participant roles and alignments in the interviews rather than on particular narrative types. Thus, the data contradicts some of Wolfson's (1976) observations on narratives in the research interview. The analysis contributes to our understanding of the research interview as a dynamically co-constructed speech genre rather than as a neutral locus for gathering data.
(2010) "Onwards and Upwards: space, placement and liminality in adult ESOL classes", TESOL Quarterly Roberts C; Burns A (eds.). 44.3: 420-440.
This is the leading international peer reviewed journal in the field of TESOL
The extensive literature on classroom-based second language learning makes little attempt to situate the classroom itself in social and multilingual sociolinguistic space, in the complex and iterative networks of encounters and interactions that make up daily life. Daily life is routinely evoked and "brought into" the classroom as a pedagogic and testing strategy, but how can we understand the classroom as just one of the sites in which daily life, including language learning and use, is played out? In this article we outline an approach to researching the spaces of language learning, and the identity positions that are routinely made available to English speakers of other languages (ESOL) learners, drawing on approaches from cultural geography and linguistic ethnography. We illustrate the discussion with data from a study investigating the placement practices by which ESOL students in England are placed and place themselves in particular types of educational provision (Simpson, Cooke, & Baynham, 2008), investigating why some may choose the identity of second language learner and others orient toward mainstream education opportunities. We conclude with a discussion of new identity positions, understood as spaces of becoming created by the levels and progressions of curriculum frameworks, drawing on Bernstein's (1999) notion of vertical and horizontal discourses.
(2006) "Agency and contingency in the language learning of refugees and asylum seekers", Linguistics and Education. 17.1: 24-39.
(2009) "'Just one day like today': scale and the analysis of space/time orientation in narratives of displacement", In: Collins J; Slembrouck S; Baynham M (eds.) Globalization and Language in Contact: scale, migration and communicative practices.. Advances in Sociolinguistics. London: Continuum. 130-147
(2008) "Elite or powerful literacies? Constructions of literacy in the novels of Charles Dickens and Mrs Gaskell", In: Prinsloo M; Baynham MJ (eds.) Literacies, Global and Local. AILA Applied Linguistics Series. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 173-192


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Food Intolerances That Cause Diarrhea Other Than Gluten
Posted 07 December 2010 - 02:53 PM
I find now that I have trouble with almonds, sometimes chocolate (even if it is gluten free), carrots, potatoes of all kinds, and fructose and high fructose.
Are these sensitivites somehow related - when you find you now have one - that others follow? What sources of food intake bothers you?
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Posted 07 December 2010 - 05:38 PM
I've also heard that corn products are a big one as well.
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Soy free, MSG free, mostly Dairy free. Endoscopy shows blunted Villi which dr states as gluten sensitivity, so goin back to being gluten free
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Son (age 7)- positive for celiac gene, history of digestive problems, IGA deficient, scope on 4/15/11 was negative, failed gluten challenge
My celiac panel was negative
Husband still needs to be tested
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"Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted." - Albert Einstein
"Life is not weathering the storm; it is learning to dance in the rain"
"Whatever the question, the answer is always chocolate." Nigella Lawson
Caffeine free 1973
Lactose free 1990
(Mis)diagnosed IBS, fibromyalgia '80's and '90's
Diagnosed psoriatic arthritis 2004
Self-diagnosed gluten intolerant, gluten-free Nov. 2007
Soy free March 2008
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Posted 22 December 2010 - 07:24 AM
What other intolerances do you find you have when you have a sensitive intestinal track?
I find now that I have trouble with almonds, sometimes chocolate (even if it is gluten free), carrots, potatoes of all kinds, and fructose and high fructose.
Are these sensitivites somehow related - when you find you now have one - that others follow? What sources of food intake bothers you?
Most chocolate has soy in it, so you might be reacting to that. I have trouble with carrots and nightshades (potato, tomato, peppers) among others. Tree nuts I am not decided about but have had a few experiences recently that make me wonder about them, especially walnuts.
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Thyroid cyst and nodules, Lactose / casein intolerant. Diet positive, gene test pos, symptoms confirmed by Dr-head. My current bad list is: gluten, dairy, sulfites, coffee (the devil's brew), tea, Bug's Bunnies carrots, garbanzo beans of pain, soy- no joy, terrible turnips, tomatoes, peppers, potatoes, and hard work. have a good day! :-) Paul
Posted 22 December 2010 - 07:53 AM
I found that with the 20 some food allergies that I tested positive to, a large percentage of them caused me GI problems when I tried re-introducing them after eliminating them for a period of time.
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Son: ADHD '06,
neg. CELIAC PANEL 5/07
ALLERGY: "positive" blood and skin tests to wheat, which triggers his eczema '08
ENTEROLAB testing: elevated Fecal Anti-tissue Transglutaminase IgA Dec. '08
Gluten-free-Feb. '09
other food allergies
Posted 22 December 2010 - 08:18 AM
I met someone earlier this year who couldn't eat anything that had red food coloring in it. It can be frustratingly random when you're trying to pinpoint the root of your problems.
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Positive blood test & endoscopy / Gluten-free 10-07-10 / Dairy-free / Soy-free
Posted 22 December 2010 - 08:23 AM
It's not a gluten pain like I get in my stomach but it is an immediate "go not pass go, do not collect $200" emergency.
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Posted 22 December 2010 - 08:52 AM
True IMHO.
Can't any kind of food intolerance theoretically cause diarrhea? There aren't really any set symptoms for an intolerance. Just look how variable Celiac symptoms can be. Some get D, some get C, and some get neither.
Some people get hives with the allergies we have, but my son and I seem hard wired for nasal symptoms and GI symptoms for me and eczema for him. Multiple triggers for each kind of symptom for us.
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Son: ADHD '06,
neg. CELIAC PANEL 5/07
ALLERGY: "positive" blood and skin tests to wheat, which triggers his eczema '08
ENTEROLAB testing: elevated Fecal Anti-tissue Transglutaminase IgA Dec. '08
Gluten-free-Feb. '09
other food allergies
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Fructose Malabsorbtion
Eggs are super bad for me.
Soy Intolerance
Celiac Disease
oh and don't forget lactose intolerance
that's all I believe I have atm -.-
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Gluten Free since Xmas 2010
Current Auto Immune Diseases:
Celiac Disease, Interstitial Cystitis, IBS, Dermatitis Herpetiformis, I'm playing life on Hard Mode.
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"Life is not the way it's supposed to be. It's the way it is. The way we cope with it makes the difference." Virginia Satir
"The strongest of all warriors are these two - time and patience." Leo Tolstoy
"If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else" Booker T. Washington
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Misdiagnosed for 25+ years; Finally Diagnosed with Celiac 11/01/10. Double DQ2 genes. This thing tried to kill me. I view Celiac as a fire breathing dragon --and I have run my sword right through his throat.
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Posted 04 February 2011 - 01:51 PM
When I ingest something that I have an intolerance to about 80% of my reaction is neurological and 20% digestive issues
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Gluten free Oct/09
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Torgerson begins by discussing God's transcendence and immanence and showing how church architecture has traditionally interpreted these key concepts. He then traces the theological roots of immanence's priority from liberal theology and liturgical innovation to modern architecture. Next, Torgerson illustrates this new architecture of immanence through particular practitioners, focusing especially on the work of theologically savvy architect Edward Anders Sovik. Finally, he addresses the future of church architecture as congregations are buffeted by the twin forces of liturgical change and postmodernism.
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Other things in Carrara that probably won't work would include the fire and fog primitives and similar objects.


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Wow who i would like to date. HMMM tough question. I just want someone who i can hang out with, go different places and relax. I like to travel to many places including Catalina and other cities and just hang out and enjoy what life has to offer. I love watching different shows among the favorite.. "Breaking Bad and "The Walking Dead" and some reality TV like Americas Got Talent and the Voice. If ur the type of girl that will say okay lets go to Vegas in a hour and come back the next day..."Lets DO IT" lol.... also if ur a girl that will go to a dodger game wearing a dodger shirt and hat, you got it made.
Camping , Coffee and conversation , Dining out , Fishing/Hunting , Movies/Videos , Museums and art , Music and concerts , Nightclubs/Dancing , Playing sports , Shopping/Antiques , Travel/Sightseeing , Volunteering , Watching sports , Wine tasting
Auto racing / Motorcross, Baseball, Basketball, Billiards / Pool, Bowling, Cycling, Football, Golf, Hockey, Running, Soccer, Walking / Hiking
I exercise 3-4 times per week.
I have Fish
I like Dogs
Middle of the Road
Hot Spot---Vegas. But a nice restaurant or hole in wall bar is always nice. I like going to places and learning new things even if its a museum or some sort of exhibit. I love the outdoors going to places like Santa Barbara, San Francisco or SD.
I have netflix where i get movies sent to me via mail...so i like to just lay in bed late at night and watch the movies that come to me. Love getting movies that I have not seen.. Hooked on The Walking Dead
I love to travel, love sports, gotta go see my dodgers play Amusement parks (Have a pass to d-land) or just sitting at home watching a DVD when the need calls for it. Vegas is always one of the first on the list, not a big gambler though.
Hmm the last book I read was for school and that was Organized Crime.. Was pretty interesting .. the good ole Mafia.
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First tried it in college on a bicycle. Had a leak, fixed it. Clogged the valve stem once (drilled it out to fix it, remove core, insert power drill, yes it works). Worked until the tube literally blew inside the tire. Garden hose washed out what was left.
Few years later got an old truck. Didn't know much about tires and they started leaking. No obvious leaks so I slimed them. They shook bad at 30 MPH for the first few miles until the slime spread around. They did an OK job of masking the real problem, dry rotted tires delaminating. When it popped (parked in the driveway) it looked like it sprayed boogers all over the garage door. This was on the one and only time I ever used slime on a high speed tire.
For wheelbarrows, bicycles and other stuff prone to holes and no need to have balanced, I use it after the first leak as a repair and future preventative. Bicycle note, I don't have any of these new fancy high dollar lightweight bikes. I still run a good old fashion 20 year old heavy weight bike.
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Coffee and conversation , Cooking , Dining out , Movies/Videos , Music and concerts , Exploring new areas , Nightclubs/Dancing , Performing arts , Playing cards , Travel/Sightseeing
Basketball, Bowling, Dancing, Yoga
I exercise 1-2 times per week.
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Must like animals...or at least not dislike them! We have a small petting zoo...
Middle of the Road
Siesta Key, Sarasota One of my favorite places. Downtown Woodstock, The Hudson Valley. I like to travel and have been to many places. It's time and opportunity that seems to be the tricky thing.
Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA
Having a meal/drink and good conversation with a friend, live music, people watching, going to a festival or wandering a little downtown area, traveling, seeing a play or musical, taking a walk or drive. Cooking, with a partner.
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How dare you accuse me of such vitriol. I'm not well educated either, well at least not anymore after being on this site for the last few months!
Sorry been out suit struttin for a few hours, missed all the fun.
Phark Gaz, what are you doin right now Eggy, I wanna know what you're wearing too you big sexy grizzly bear. Don't be thinking I ride bikes for fitness, I ride just to be near you good lookin. Seriously I've had a few say to me "can you stop talking about egan so much, ain't you the customer?" To which I retort, ya just don't understand, there is no customer, there's just the EGGMAN
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When filmmaker Jarrett Schaefer took the stage at Park City's Prospector Theater this morning for a question-and-answer session after a screening of his debut film, Chapter 27, a glimpse into the deranged mind of Mark David Chapman — played by a plumped-up Jared Leto — during his days in New York prior to the murder of John Lennon, there was an obvious thing to ask. Where were you when John Lennon was shot? "I was 1," he said. "My dad said I was watching football." The audience laughed. It was the first laughter heard in the last 90 minutes.
Chapter 27 is a serious and terrifying film. But Lennon fans have been skeptical of Schaefer's motives. Is he trying to show Chapman in a sympathetic light? Does he think Lennon's killer should finally be paroled? "Jarrett received some hostile questions at last night's screening," said Anthony Marinelli, the film's composer, just outside the auditorium doors. "They want to know what Yoko Ono thinks. I think this screening was warmer." Schaefer gets the Yoko question a lot. "I'm not going into that," he said, sitting in a snack bar later. Will some people always criticize him for showing Chapman as something other than entirely evil? Schaefer gave the shortest response of the festival. "Yes." —Steve Ramos
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There is no better overnight layover to have than SFO, now that we have a free SF style trolley-bus from most of the airport hotels to our two great shopping streets. Burlingame Ave has all the upscale staples: Gap, J Crew, Chico's, Banana, as well as lots of amazing restaurants and great smaller shops. Broadway Ave has many smaller family shops and holes in the wall. Flight crews especially love to take advantage of an afternoon for shopping here, why don't you? Here's the trolley L.D.
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This shuttle runs between the hotels along Airport Blvd and Bayshore to shopping areas along Broadway and Burlingame Avenues seven days a week.
Runs seven days a week from 12:00 noon to 9:45 p.m. with a break during the 3 o'clock hour, serving both the Burlingame Avenue and Broadway shopping areas and Airport Hotels. On Fridays, Saturdays and holidays, the service continues with extended evening hours until 11:15 p.m. The shuttle stops at the lobbies of the hotels.
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After Lady Gaga spent the 2011 Video Music Awards in Jo Calderone's plain attire, you'd be forgiven for thinking that she went a step further for the October 2011 cover of Harper's Bazaar, appearing as Stefani Germanotta. Of course, it's never so simple for Gaga, who would insist that appearing as "herself" would be a betrayal of appearing as her self. Though, as Laura Brown's interview explains, the "basically barefaced Gaga is very deliberately dressed down," this, to Gaga, is just as artificial as any other way she has appeared:
Don't you think that what's on the cover of a magazine is quite artificial? There's this idea that it's all natural, but everything's been staged to look natural. It is also an invention. It's just that my inventions are different. I often get asked about my artifice, but isn't fashion based on the idea that we can create a fantasy?
Gaga's point here gets some support from the magazine itself, when a caption in its online Gaga gallery offers the advice, "To get Lady Gaga's no-makeup look, try Studio Sculpt SPF 15 Foundation ($29.15), Prep + Prime Highlighter ($23), Brow Gel ($15) and Prep + Prime Lash ($15). All M.A.C."
As tiresome as Gaga's didactic nature can sometimes get?and she indicates in the interview that she's revisiting the works of Bertolt Brecht, so we've got that to look forward to?her point about the "natural" cover photo is on the mark. Her claim that "artifice is the new reality" is no less true for its grandiosity. She challenges "the perception that I 'put it on' every day," which she toyed with during her opening monologue as Calderone at the VMAs. Certainly Gaga is more conscious of how she presents her self, but she's right that it's hardly more put-on than anyone's "natural" look.
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Just posting flyers or promoting your latest product on blogs is not a good look. At all. For this one I am willing to make an exception though since it cracked me up. Dirty shit.
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Mike Russo, Saratoga Springs --5,484
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Roy McDonald, Saratoga --8,779
Ray Seney, Nassau --1,507
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Kim Stanley Robinson's next novel AURORA is coming out in hardcover (+ ebook, audiobook) in the USA/Canada on July 7 2015 (July 9 for UK, July 14 for Australia). 480 pages.
The book synopsis from Orbit Books:
A multi-generational starship travels out of the solar system for the
first time in humanity's history. Its destination is a planet in the
Tau Ceti system, 12 light-years away, that they have dubbed Aurora,
after the Roman goddess of the dawn. Will this be a new dawn for
humanity or the dusk that will encompass us all?
Editor Tim Holman says, "Are you looking up at the stars? Kim Stanley
Robinson is an incredible individual, a visionary and a truly wonderful
writer. Aurora is about our future, but it is what this novel
tells us about the present that really matters. A must-read for fans of
SF, and a fantastic voyage of discovery for anyone unfamiliar with the
One of science fiction's most powerful voices, Kim Stanley Robinson
has won multiple Hugo, Nebula, and Locus awards and has published more
than 20 books, including the award-winning Mars trilogy and the New York Times bestseller 2312.
Aurora cover in super-HQ here.
It's been more or less two decades now that the Mars trilogy has been out there. It is recognized as a classic of the genre, and has helped shape the imagination and the mental mapping of the future of many a reader. Today, with so much more of the real Mars explored with robot probes, our better knowledge of the planet makes the project of a long-term human colonization and terraforming a much more challenging one -- plus some Earth issues have become much more pressing, like climate change and building a social-economic-environment system that is sustainable. See and listen to Kim Stanley Robinson reminisce on his Mars books and sharing the rough truth on our priorities as a global civilization:
Shelf Awareness has a short, to the point interview with Stan. Read about his favorite authors and books, what he's reading now, books he takes when backpacking, books read most often, all kinds of books!
Book(s) you're an evangelist for:
A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth and Air by Geoff Ryman.
Plus, an interview from 2014, in a longer feature for Studio 360, "Will Sci-Fi Save Us?":
What does today's sci-fi mean for our real-life future? Cyberpunk
author Neal Stephenson argues that it's time to get over our love of
dystopia. A class at MIT searches sci-fi classics for technologies they
can invent right now, although maybe they shouldn't. Geoengineers take a
tip from Carl Sagan – who saw a green future for Mars – to see if we
can save Earth. And we meet some scientists who think that if we ever
want to see the stars, we'd better start building the starship.
Some upcoming appearances:
More coming as we gear up to the release of Aurora!
Let's kick off 2015 with a KSR-inspired video: Wanderers, by Erik Vernquist. Make sure to watch full screen!
It is really rare to find an optimistic and human-centered visual depiction of space exploration -- short films and videos are usually centered around either technological gimmicks or on something going tragically wrong, instead of the pure adventure and awesomeness of humanity expanding beyond the terrestrial frontier. For anyone that has read KSR (the Mars books and 2312 in particular), this really looks like it could be...a trailer for an on-screen adaptation of his books! According to Vernquist:
The film is a vision of our humanity's future expansion into the Solar
System. Although admittedly speculative, the visuals in the film are all
based on scientific ideas and concepts of what our future in space
might look like, if it ever happens. All the locations depicted in the
film are digital recreations of actual places in the Solar System, built
from real photos and map data where available. [...] As some may notice I have borrowed ideas and concepts from science
fiction authors such as Kim Stanley Robinson and Arthur C. Clarke, just
to name a few.
Coming in 2015 is Kim Stanley Robinson's next novel: AURORA!
After taking us 300 years in the future with 2312 and 30,000 years in the past with Shaman, KSR extends further in the future than he's ever been with the generation ship-themed Aurora!
It will be published in May 2015 (hardcover, digital, audiobook). 480 pages. Book description:
A major new novel from one of science fiction's most powerful voices, AURORA tells the incredible story of our first voyage beyond the solar system.Brilliantly imagined and beautifully told, it is the work of a writer at the height of his powers.Our voyage from Earth began generations ago.Now, we approach our destination.A new home.AURORA.
The cover was revealed by Orbit Books, but click the above image for higher quality.
Also coming in 2015:
End of September 2014, a group of people passionate about wilderness and writing gathered to ascend and name a peak in the Sierra Nevada of California "Mount Thoreau" -- after the famous 19th century transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau, writer of Walden and such essays as Civil Disobedience and Life Without Principle. Very appropriately, this peak is opposite Mount Emerson -- after Thoreau's close friend and intellectual sparring partner Ralph Waldo Emerson! This is an unofficial name, as this does not follow USGS procedures -- and so a little act of civil disobedience -- but it was a moment to collectively live in the wild and remember Thoreau.
Kim Stanley Robinson was among them -- also poet and writer Gary Snyder, Tom Killion (whose woodblock print of the Sierra illustrates Robinson's collection of Rexroth poems Rexroth in the Sierras), writer Paul Park, and other friends of Robinson's, about 20 total. Robinson wrote an extensive piece on the event, the experience and generally on Thoreau: The Actual World, "Mount Thoreau" and the naming of things in the wilderness. You can read it here, along with photos from Christopher Woodcock and others. Some extracts:
[...] nothing up there is named
after Henry David Thoreau, the great American nature writer, the man
whose books inspired John Muir and helped create the preservation
movement that saved the Sierra Nevada as wilderness. This seemed an
oversight, a mistake, a little crime. And an opportunity.
Because there is already a Mount Emerson up there, named by John Muir himself, after a trip to the area in 1873. [...] Peak 12,691 is somewhat lower than Mount Emerson, but much more gnarly
and interesting; the two peaks have much the same relationship that
Emerson and Thoreau had, not just in size and aspect but in position,
being close to each other but separated by a huge gulf of air. [...]
Once you give up on the idea of sleeping during a night in the
mountains, it can be very restful. If it is clear and not too windy, I
dispense with a tent and sleep out. At 11,000 feet above sea level, the
stars are simply incredible. I watch them, don't try to sleep, and thus
often sleep pretty well. Awake or asleep, in tent or out, a mountainous
peace fills me. [...]
We were also continuing a long tradition of meeting in the Sierra to
celebrate its art. In the early Sierra Club summer trips, John Muir or
Ansel Adams might tell a story by the fire or Cedric Wright play his
violin. Here we were doing it again, awake in the dark and the wind. The
feeling of that moment resists expression, has no name. It was the kind
of party even Thoreau might have liked.
[...] in this case I think the honor of the name is worth the loss of the
unnamed. Emerson and Thoreau were friends, and together they changed us.
Now their two peaks form a gate like the Pillars of Hercules, marking a
way into a certain kind of American reality, as well as a bit of Sierra
backcountry. In wildness is the preservation of the world.
The event was also covered by the New York Times, including an audio report!
(Photo: "Mount Thoreau" from the north, by Kim Stanley Robinson)
From the recent LonCon3 in August comes Kim Stanley Robinson's latest talk, "Time in the Novel". An exploration of literary techniques and of how different writers have written time passing, from the super-slow Proust to the super-fast Stapledon, addressing Virginia Woolf's and Olaf Stapledon's correspondence, the "show, don't tell" convention, the García Márquez revolution, the literary experiments of Virginia Woolf, William Golding and Patrick O'Brian, and the time passing per page metric, this is a massively enjoyable lecture from a lover of literature!
Credit goes to:
Lecture by Kim Stanley Robinson at LonCon 3, the 72nd World Science
Fiction Convention, Literature Talk 1477, Thu 14.08.2014 19:00 BST in
Capital Suite 14, recorded by Martin Stricker http://www.martin-stricker.de/ for the Phonothek of the Science Fiction Club Germany e. V. http://www.sfcd.eu/
You can download a recording of the lecture [here] -- this is a KSR.info + SFCD exclusive!
Image credit: Book cover design for Virginia Woolf's "To The Lighthouse" by Melanie Smith
While the Worldcon is on -- and there are various KSR happenings there, more later! -- here is some more material to get your teeth and brains on!
In the previous update I was mentioning "The Future Is Here" festival by the Smithsonian magazine. Along with everybody else's, KSR's talk is now online: "Humanity in the Solar System". Watch Stan guide you through the solar system, à la 2312!
In an interesting interview for Nautilus by astrobioligist David Grinspoon -- and some great KSR & 2312 illustrations by Kyle T. Webster! -- KSR goes over our main challenges as a civilization today and long-term alternatives that have been described in science fiction and in his 2312.
We need a global economic system that is designed specifically for
sustainability. We already have a global economic system in the form of
institutions like the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.
Together, their agreements make up a comprehensive system. But right
now, this system cheats future generations by systematically
underpricing the true costs of our exploitation of the biosphere. It
sets the prices of the Earth's natural resources by establishing what is
basically the aggregation of supplies and demands. But this process is
biased toward pricing things lower and lower, because of pressure from
buyers and the need for sellers to stay in business. As a result,
sellers sell their products for less than they cost to make, which
should lead to bankruptcy for the seller, but it doesn't because parts
of the costs have been shifted onto future generations to pay. When
practiced systematically it becomes a kind of multi-generational Ponzi
scheme, and leads to the mass extinction event of the early
Anthropocene, which we have already started.
[...] we have to alter the system we already have, because like an animal with
evolutionary constraints, we can't change everything and start from
scratch. But what we could do is reconstruct regulations on the existing
global economic system. For this, we would need to wrench capitalism so
that the global rules of the World Bank, etc., required ecological
sustainability as their main criterion. That way, prices would shift to
match their true costs.
[...] In my novel, 2312, the economy is in some ways a funhouse mirror
portrayal of our world. One of the civilizations—called the Mondragon
after the Basque city in Spain that runs its economy as a set of nested
co-ops—provides for everyone's basic needs as a kind of public utility
district service. Then there is a more free-market capitalist world of
exchange of luxuries; these arrangements are loosely grouped as "above
and beyonds." That's one image of a possible future, sustainable
economy. However, if you include all the civilizations on Earth and in
space in 2312, there remains a steep inequality gradient with most of the poor on Earth.
The format of 2312, with the different types of narration mixed in small chapters, comes from John Dos Passos' "USA Trilogy".
Robinson talks about the novelty of Dos Passos' approach and how he
managed to give a comprehensive view of 1920s-30s USA in a short interview for To The Best Of Our Knowledge.
KSR wrote an excellent article on Isaac Asimov's predictions for the future from the 1964 World Fair, so 50 years ago, a very interesting article that looks back at the science fiction of the time, the expectations for the future of a generation or two ago, how all that compares to today, and also interestingly what have been the successes of the predictions, the consistently reliable trends of our societies.
What did Asimov fail to see in the future? Many things, inevitably; but
he did not miss the biggest problem that would be facing us in 2014,
which is building a sustainable civilization. That is his article's
greatest achievement.
[...] he describes the Malthusian scenario of unchecked population growth
resulting in a super-crowded "World Manhattan," but he notes immediately
that this scenario (which in his Foundation
series was the city-planet Trantor) is ecologically impossible
[...] he writes, "there will, therefore, be a
worldwide propaganda drive in favor of birth control by rational and
humane methods," and he predicts that by 2014 we will have "lowered the
birth rate."
To an extent these things have happened, and yet this is one of the
great unsolved issues of our time. The human population is still rising
at a rate of about 75 million people every year, and this is adding to
the immense pressure we are putting on the Earth's biosphere, our
irreplaceable support system. So as Asimov pointed out, all is not rosy.
[...] He speaks of boredom as a result of this unemployment, because he is
assuming that the postwar social security system will continue to give
unemployed people economic support. He fails to imagine the breakdown of
the postwar social contract, and a global economy where unemployment
leads not just to boredom but to desperation and misery. He fails to
imagine a society as brutal as we have become.
[...] Maybe that's my prediction for the World's Fair ("the world is fair")
of 2064. We'll have different machines, we'll have medical advances, a
warmer and wilder climate, immense environmental stresses, more people
(about 9.5 billion). Will we have universal women's rights? Will we
have full employment? We'd better! It'll be that or catastophe.
Kim Stanley Robinson's introduction to "The Very Best of Gene Wolfe", titled "A Story" (a very 5HC-type title), is now online at the New York Review of Science Fiction. This can only be found in the rare "Very Best Of", not in the more widely available "Best Of", and is even a corrected/edited version of that "Very Best Of"! Some favourite extracts below:
A genius in Wolfe: and if there are any fellow postmodern materialists
reading this and groaning at the idea of there being anything unusual
inside an artist or anyone else, anything beyond the workings of the
brain, I will agree immediately, but point out that the latest news from
brain science makes it clearer and clearer that saying "only the brain"
is not much of a delimiting statement. The brain is not a clockwork,
nor a steam engine, nor a binary or digital computer, nor any of the
machines we conceptualize it to be with our simple metaphors based on
our own feeble handiwork, as if the brain could only be as complex as
something we ourselves could make. Very much not the case. The brain is a
kind of pocket universe. The mind is huge, and consciousness a small
part of it. The unconscious may well be inhabited by "subroutines," as
the computer people would have it, processes that may actually be more
like characters. Maybe they are like Jungian archetypes—a shadow seems
likely, perhaps an anima or animus—but who knows. Very
probably the brain consists of organizations even stranger and more
various than that. It may be a kind of library of stories all telling
themselves at once. And by way of stories written down, one unconscious
mind communicates with other unconscious minds.
[...] I have been coming at Wolfe's stories from a variety of angles here,
like the magpies in my back yard banging on the black walnuts on the
ground to break them open. The magpies are not getting very far, but
it's March, and they are persistent. With these stories, no matter what
angle you take on them, no matter how hard you whack them, they stay
whole and unexplained. I suppose that suggests we have come to the
moment to try to speak about what these stories mean: but no. I decline.
I'm not saying it's impossible, but it would be hard. To do justice to
that project would require some kind of ongoing Talmudic wiki that
considered each story in turn, by itself and in relation to others. I
have no doubt the Wolfeish community has already begun this discussion
and will continue with it for ages to come. It is also true that
sometimes the meaning of any given story is perfectly straightforward;
in the later dialogues particularly, characters sometimes try to say
things about life that are as plain and wise and interesting as you
could want.
But more often it isn't that simple. Wolfe's meanings are
complex. That's part of his point, I take it: life is complex. There are
values in life, these stories say, there is good and bad, and all kinds
of other values, but they are not often simple to tease out or apply.
Indeed it's precisely where these matters are not simple that Wolfe is
interested and finds his stories.
[...] I am proud to know him even a little, and speaking with full confidence
for the science fiction community, which is like a small town scattered
over the face of the earth and across time too, I'll say: we are proud
of Gene Wolfe. We have published him, we read him with joy, we celebrate
him; we will always have reason to be proud of that. Gene shows that
literature can be everything, a game, a mystery, a religion, a dive into
the deepest depths. Read on and see what I mean and rejoice. Life means
In another short radio interview, KSR and an astrobiologist discuss Frank Herbert's "Dune" in the SciFri Book Club. Hear about the classic novel's ecological themes, the 1960s cultural revolution, the parallels to the oil industry, and more.
Finally, something not covered before: Robinson contributed to Jeff VanderMeer's "Wonderbook", "The
Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction", a most amazing and
creative endeavour mixing essays, visual aids and lots of humour in an
unconventional publication for a writing companion! Head over to this table of contents and illustrations, this interview of VanderMeer and this fuller table of contents
to marvel at it. Robinson's essay is between those of Nick Mamatas and
Ursula K. LeGuin. An excerpt of Robinsons' essay can be found here:
"Thoughts on Exposition" by Kim Stanley Robinson
Am I advocating a return to the Encyclopedia Galactica? Yes. Its entries were always (at least potentially) bits of Stapledonian
prose poetry, soaring like phoenixes out of their stories. Face it:
sometimes the world is more interesting than we are. Even if the
interest is always human interest.
So: "The door dilated"? That's now the story's title. We'll jettison
the long-forgotten plot (I bet it had danger and a chase) and focus on
what always mattered: that door. We begin with the door's manufacturing
and installation instructions, badly translated from an unknown
language. Next a Wikipedia article about it, apparently mangled in a
fierce editing war that left certain ambiguities. Technical details
about the door's pupil mechanism (or, as it turns out, organism, for
most are made from vat-grown squid siphons) are followed by a discussion
of the door's uses, maintenance problems, operating quirks, and notable
breakdowns. We learn that dilating doors are installed where the air
pressure on one side of the door is higher than on the other, but there
is not the space to install a sliding door. An ordinary door between
such pressure differentials either won't open or opens much too fast,
both dangerous; in fact, some people got killed by a conventional door
opening too fast, including a person with the same last name as the
dilating door's inventor. But there have also been cases where dilating
doors killed people, sometimes in malfunctions not explained in the
accident investigations. Graphs and charts display information about
these cases. What's going on here? Will the reader have to evaluate the
data in a forensic process, and imagine what happened? Yes. Because
that's how stories always work.
(Illustration on top by Kyle T. Webster)


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I'm out on the quirky side of the spectrum and can't really be pinned down. I love everything and am still discovering more about myself and the world. I'm often off daydreaming or exploring around the city from old buildings to museums and hole in the wall kind of places. I love thunderstorms, hate politics (though I try to stay in the loop), and value small things. I have a strong sense of adventure and will take up any opportunity to go some place new and exciting. Love camping and swimming and have a scuba diving license (if you know of an awesome place, do tell!!!) though I haven't gone in a long while. Lately, I've been more into trying to get healthy and doing more exercise and trying out new kinds of ways to stay active. I have an old rusty bike that I sometimes take out to trails and love picnics. I'm a dreamer and creative at heart so I love baking, sewing, drawing, and all sorts of artsy fartsy stuff. I do them when I can though. Honestly though....You probably won't notice any of this at first. I can be quite shy, but flourish to a very bubbly, talkative person once I warm up. I'm quite naive about the world, but hey, I still have quite a while to dig my nose into all sorts of trouble and learn more about my surroundings. I just recently graduated from the University of Maryland with a BFA in Fine Art and I'm currently working on my Bachelors degree in biologychemistry. Not sure where I want to be in my career yet, but I'm just having fun in discovering that as well. I love performing arts and watching musicals, Broadway shows, symphonies and anything along those lines are one of my favorite things to do! I have traveled far a good show too. I'm looking for someone who can be my best friend and partner. Someone who you can spend a moment with in quiet with and not feel awkward. Of course there are the basics of any good relationship like honesty, faithfulness, love, passion, and trust, but with the right person, those guys are like self aligning tetris blocks. I love to laugh and anyone with a good sense of humor is a winner for me too.
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I exercise 1-2 times per week.
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I love anime! I have so many favorites to list here but you can definitely add some of the well known ones. Don't really have a favorite cuisine but not a fan of Italian food. For music, I'm all over the spectrum. One favorite is Foster the People.
Love checking out new and old museums from the classics (the Smithsonian's of course) to less unheard of ones (couple of small art galleries). Am an avid crafter so I like to sew and cook up some dishes once in a while.
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HI guys,
I have been confused by the sheer number of brands and ratings on the back of the bottles.
They all can't be the best as they claim so what is based on experience?
I just bought 3 quarts of CASTROL Import Multi-Vehicle Automatic Transmission Fluid (ATF)
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its was pretty cheap at Walmart of all places. I thought I would do the half drain and fill method but a Volvo mechanic told me not to waste my money. He said its best to replace the oil all at once and replace that in a few months if I liked, but doing 50%, 75%, 87.5% was like Homeopathy.


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A wife comes home late one night and quietly opens the door to her bedroom. From under the blanket, she sees four legs instead of just her husband's two. She reaches for a baseball bat and starts hitting the blanket as hard as she can. Once she's done, she goes to the kitchen to have a drink. As she enters, she sees her husband there, reading a magazine. He says, "Hi darling, your parents have come to visit us, so let them stay in our bedroom. Did you say hello?"
Q: How do you make a tissue dance?
A: Put a little boogie in it.
There are five cows on a farm, one mamma cow and four baby calves. The first baby walks up to the mom and asks, "Momma, why is my name Rose?" The mommy cow replies, "Well honey, a rose petal fell on your head when you were born." The next calf comes up and asks, "Momma, why is my name Lily?" The mother replies, "Because honey, a lily petal fell on your head when you were born." The third baby comes up and asks, "Momma, why is my name Daisy?" The momma cow again replieds" Well, when you were born a daisy petal fell on your head." The final baby walks over and says, "Duh huh guh nuh!" The momma cow says, "Shut up, Cinderblock."
Dad: "Can I see your report card, son?"
Son: "I don't have it."
Dad: "Why?"
Son: "I gave it to my friend. He wanted to scare his parents."
A father passing by his son's bedroom, was astonished to see the bed was nicely made, and everything was picked up. Then, he saw an envelope, propped up prominently on the pillow. It was addressed, "Dad." With the worst premonition, he opened the envelope and read the letter, with trembling hands...
"Dear, Dad. It is with great regret and sorrow that I'm writing you. I had to elope with my new girlfriend, because I wanted to avoid a scene with Mum and you.
I've been finding real passion with Stacy, and she is so nice, but I knew you would not approve of her because of her piercings, tattoos, tight motorcycle clothes, and because she is so much older than I am.
But it's not only the passion, Dad. She's pregnant. Stacy said that we will be very happy. She owns a trailer in the woods, and has a stack of firewood for the whole winter. We share a dream of having many more children.
Stacy has opened my eyes to the fact that marijuana doesn't really hurt anyone. We'll be growing it for ourselves, and trading it with the other people in the commune, for all the cocaine and ecstasy we want.
In the meantime, we'll pray that science will find a cure for AIDS, so Stacy can get better. She sure deserves it!
Don't worry, Dad. I'm 15, and I know how to take care of myself. Someday, I'm sure we'll be back to visit, so you can get to know your many grandchildren.
Love, your son, Joshua.
P.S. Dad, none of the above is true. I'm over at Jason's house. I just wanted to remind you that there are worse things in life than the school report that's on the kitchen table. Call when it is safe for me to come home!