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The massiveness of the nuclear is 'lightened' only by a catastrophe. The Earth is geophilosophically and geopolitically frustrating because it's an ongoing nuclear disaster (a great heat engine as James Hutton understood it) but one that is metastable while proving itself the ground of all production whether noetic or material. Whether the collecting of ferrite for magnetic strips on subway cards or providing the iron source of painting, the Earth is a geo-chemical and geo-physical graveyard of potency.
Part of this frustration is due to the fact that the fact of this complicity or continuity is difficult to represent given its absurd spatio-temporal stretch. This is a fairly wide spread notion these days in part functioning as a conceptual sidekick to the anthropocene. One can look at the Smithsonian project above or the various works of Kate Paterson. Paterson has recently coupled with numerous authors (including most recently Margaret Atwood) in planting a forest for a library to be produced in 100 years. Prior to this Paterson had attempted to represent deep time through her fossil necklace in which each bead represented a different epoch.
Previously I was critiqued for utilizing pop culture references to discuss the geophilosophical. A defense I had not considered at the time was not only that science fiction does a particularly interesting job of representing the geological, but simply that film is especially adept at representing informational microcosms of deep time and the strangeness of life emerging from the Earth. For instance, it's not surprising we are seeing a resurgence of monster films – these creatures index their own history (as coming out of mid-twentieth century nuclear traumas) which in turn make them ideal for embodying climatological disaster. The question remains however as to whether it is better to represent the disasters of the anthropocene in a series of cuts of its production by us.
A chemical explosion, to a flying particle, to a chain reaction, to a devastation. A scalar madness is etched in the brain and repeated by the creatures awakened. This is the indecision between continuity and complicity, in how much we take blame for 'awakening' the monsters but often seem forced to utilize the same technology, or other disastrous technologies, to combat them. Complicity is investigated by being scaled up and down. The scalar madness is folded outwards: we construct monsters to fight monsters. Nuclear solution twice over – reliable tech and nuking the breach in Del Toro's Pacific Rim.
The recent rebirth of Godzilla takes this logic to a certain absurdity.
In the film nuclear testing awakened, tried to destroy, and then is utilized once more to try to destroy Godzilla and other creatures. It is quite telling that the devastation of Godzilla and his opponents (massive unidentified terrestrial organisms or MUTOs) receive more attention of the camera than the battles between the creatures. More directly, the film references the connection between climate disaster and nuclear disaster through a nuclear meltdown in Japan as well as a visit to Yucca Mountain. Deep waste repositories such as Yucca mountain (which I've written about here) are the real-world and slowed down version of Godzilla and his fellow MUTOs. The sites bear the remnants of nuclear devastation whether or not that devastation occurred in its' intended' fashion ie whether or not weapons were used. Deep repositories are the 'slow violence' version of nuclear disaster propelled speculatively (and monstrously) into the future.
One serious limitation (of which there are many) is that the imaginary scaling up of the nuclear (which might be better represented as a intensification or contraction of deep time into a disastrous space) is that these disasters-as-monsters necessarily go tromping through cities and other populated spaces. Nuclear waste, and many other environmental disasters, of course happen in more isolated locations. This isolation is of course not only geophysical/geographical but also geopolitical. There is an interesting asymmetry between the geopolitical forgetting of environmental disaster in the global south in relation to the geophysical entombment of the nuclear in the north.
The strangest aspect of Godzilla is the sense that Godzilla represents god-as-nature, as a monstrous force which is capable of putting things 'back into balance.' What exactly the relation between devastation and balance is, how the contracted time scale into the space of disaster can be subsequently unfolded seems to be the interesting question.
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One of the core concepts of the neo-rationalist (and more broadly pragmatist) camp is that of boot-strapping – that certain capacities or processes, are capable of self-augmentation. While less colloquially discussed in terms of recursion (invoking a functionalist or mathematical context) boot-strapping indexes the material consequence of such activity or, in a related fashion, that a process can be recursively defined given it's self-evident productivity. One instance would be discussing thought as a process of thinking which produces thoughts wouldn't seem to get us too far except that we that this process engenders a massively complex chain of consequences for everything including itself.
Where boot-strapping indicates a metal act informing a self affecting physical act, a recursive definition seems to operate in one abstract realm yet, if this were the case, then recursion would be the same as circularity. But even in this abstract sense circularity can be avoided in terms of adding values and rules. Vicious circularity, or ill-defined self-recursion, can contain these elements but only produce nested recursion as in the case of a famous line by Hofstadter:
"This sentence contains ten words, eighteen syllables, and sixty-four letters"
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Being back stateside I finally have some time to reflect on some recent events in Europe. I already reported on the Berlin Summer school here but, following that, I was in Lisbon for one week for a great event organized by Margarida Mendes. The week-long summer school focused on geo-philosophy and mattering which addressed issues of climate change, design, architecture, physics in a broad sense. More specifically, aerosal distribution, geo-politics, non-scientific evidence, dark matter, and nuclear proliferation were topics covered. The event wrestled quite interestingly with the relations between the anthropocene, climate change, geopolitics, and philosophy in such a way that put emphasis on very particular issues which redraw what it means to engage with these massive complex problems without merely stepping back and calling them complex.
My talk focused on how Schelling's naturphilosophie addresses the nature/culture split and how it applies to art and the concept of nature. More specifically, I talked about Smithson's obsession with entropy and life as a consequence of the inorganic and how the notion of unity is not naive but neither is it all-explanatory. The central Schelling quote for the talk was the following:
"[I]n all cases of the artistic impulse a certain identity between the products and the producing agent. The bee produces the material of its edifice from within itself; the spider and the silk- worm draw the threads of their webs from within themselves. Indeed, if we go even deeper, the artistic impulse merges completely with anorganic external deposits that remain in cohesion with the producing agent or animal. Such are the products of the polyps inhabiting coral, the shells of mollusks and oysters, indeed even the stonelike and hard coverings of some insects as well as of crabs, which therefore lack the artistic instinct, which in their case is lost completely in the production of that covering […] we can view these productions as the externally reverted skeleton of the lower animal forms. Only at the higher levels of organization does nature succeed in coercing this anorganic mass back toward the inside and subjecting it to the laws of the organism."
In Schelling's account humans reinvade nature with inorganic constructions because of our lack of automatic relation to it because of our species form. This account has interesting consequences for Schelling's account of the potenz as self-augmenting processes in nature that operate through us more than are operated on by us.
After Lisbon I headed to France to participate in the PAF Summer University and the philosophy week organized by Diana Khamis, Katrina Burch, and Amy Ireland. "Get Reassembled: Time, Intelligence, Acceleration" focused on the legacy of the CCRU, the difference between Nick Land's past and current work, the thought of Reza Negarestani, and, more generally, the relation between other contemporary strands of thought particularly out side of the context of purely academic philosophy. The whole week was a great experience and there was too much material too go over. Pete Wolfendale's lectures are available online here as is his discussion after the event here.
Like the Berlin Summer School (but in a quite different sense) the university struggled with the borders of rationalism particularly vis a vis art, politics, and the very nature of intelligence. These debates between the participants were reflected through the historical trajectory in terms of tracking the CCRU's trajectory. Basically what does it mean to go from Sadie Plant and Nick Land of the mid 90s to new rationalism, transmodernism, and the various splinters from the splitting of the always-already split edifice of Speculative Realism.
In reference to SR what's been interesting is these events have reaffirmed what labels mean as placeholders in a minimal sense but also as tools. It is strange to see SR talked about as if the term is self-explanatory when, for many, it was something between an escape hatch and a convenient way to label a broad set of concerns. It seems to be the case, and I wonder if this was always true, that labels are more for critics than their adherents. SR as a label was mostly so many of us could find each other…it was a signal flare not a structure…necessary to set us, however provincially, apart from other labels that had grown too fat (continental philosophy, materialism, etc). PAF, as space, indexes the importance of this well…it's a organization but only as much as it needs to be to host interesting things not defined beyond that. There's a passage in Schelling's Clara that weirdly describes PAF that I'll end with:
"Of the significance that these institutions once held, they have perhaps kept only the picturesque. However, one will find it easier and more agreeable to close down the institutions altogether than to restore them in accordance with their original aim in a way that would be appropriate for our times. When I see such a quiet cloister down below in the valley, or go past one on a hill from which it looks down, I have often thought to myself: if one day the time should come for all these monuments of a bygone time, please let at least one of our princes think to preserve one or two of these sanctuaries, to keep the buildings and their goods together, and to endow them to the arts and sciences."
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Holes, Caves, Lines, and Cameras
Jalal Toufic's recent piece in issue #55 of e-flux titled "A Hitherto Unrecognized Apocalyptic Photographer: The Universe" starts with an interesting problem: is it the case that photographer deceptively freezes the motion of the world while art, at its best, captures the uncapturability of motion as Rodin argues? Toufic writes against Rodin's assertion about time stopping that:
"I do not agree with his assertion that "in reality time does not stop." To disagree with this assertion, I do not have to invoke the freezing in dance and undeath, under silence-over; I can invoke relativity. The Schwarzschild membrane of a black hole is an event horizon not only because once an entity crosses it that entity can no longer communicate back with us this side of it, but also because from our reference frame the entities at the horizon do not undergo any events, being frozen due to the infinite dilation of time produced by the overwhelming gravity in the vicinity of the black hole. Was photography invented not so much to assuage some urge to arrest the moment, but partly owing to an intuition that it already existed in the universe, in the form of the immobilization and flattening at the event horizon?"
Later on he writes:
"From a local reference frame, an artistic rendering in the Rodin manner of the astronaut at the event horizon might very well be less conventional, more truthful, than a photograph of him; but from the reference frame of an outside observer, a photograph of the astronaut at the event horizon is less conventional than an artistic rendering of him in the Rodin manner, for at the event horizon not only is the person flattened, but also time is so slowed it comes to a standstill."
Toufic goes on to discuss the event horizon as a radical closure which the photograph captures the loss of the individual, its flattening into a thin pancake of data which after it has passed into the gateless gate of the black hole can no longer be recovered let alone detected. Toufic speculates on the experience of the astronaut who drifts through the gateless gate (setting aside the gravitational waves that would crush her instantly) he argues that, following Bergson, that the astronaut would suffer an instantaneous loss of memory because of losing touch with the pre-event horizon space-time.
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Recent and Forthcoming Events
Things having calmed a bit I will try and do more regular postings here.
The two lectures for the Congress of Pessimism seemed to well…I discussed reason as a kind of wandering insignificance – where the reasoner is a wayward figure stuck between the desert of reason and the ocean of nature. I hope to expand the work a bit especially as a critique of the romantic vision of the philosopher as a wanderer who is quaintly lost. Bucharest and the Bureau were lovely in their casual morbidity. Schemes are underway to spread some of the melodrama…
My paper at the True Detection event seemed to go well and many of the other papers were quite good as well. There is a publication in the works to collect and expand the talks given. My paper focused on a scalar bias which seems to exist regarding the way in which affirmation relates to outwards expression as opposed to pessimism.
My brief discussion with Vanessa Billy entitled Natural Abstraction went well and took place at La Foyer in Zurich. We discussed in varying terms what happens when the boundary between nature and culture breaks down but not in the more common sense that everything becomes culture or second nature but how do you actually determine something to be artificial?
For the rest of the month I'm based in Dublin, Ireland:
On May 16 I'll be talking with Teresa Gillespie around a non-anthropomorphic approach to horror that addresses the grossness of continuity.
On May 23rd I'll be participating in an all day workshop on accelerationism hosted by the University of Westminster in London. The workshop will be followed by a talk from Alex and Nick entitled Occupy the Future.
On May 29th I will be doing a roundtable with Teresa Gillespie and several other artists and theorists from the Dublin area. Details forthcoming.
Future events:
Steven Shaviro and Iain Grant will be talking on science fiction in Berlin on June 26. If others know of any events going on after that time in Berlin or nearby please let me know.
Several interesting events including several days on Land and Negarestani's work will be going on at PAF in August.
Rory Rowan and several others will be participating in AC2014 in August in the UK.
In September an impressive looking conference on the theme Philosophy after Nature will take place at Utrecht in September.
There is a CFP for the Aesthetics After Finitude conference which will take place early next year in Sydney Australia and will feature Mo Salemy and Reza Negarestani as keynotes.
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It is hard to review a book that you cannot explain or sum up but especially when it is not one that you can explain or sum up by saying you can neither explain it or sum it up. Michael Cisco's Member is a book that tests the limits of coherency without appearing to do that.
To get to brass tacks, Member is about a massive planetary-scale game called Chorncendantra that is 'the human game' but that involves multiple worlds both real and artificial. Our main character, Mr Thanks, is unexpectedly recruited into the game as a courier to deliver small cans of spells and prizes to a construction site. From there the small absurdities pile up but something at bottom refuses to topple over. It part it may be because the novel starts out as a train of thought but when it stops being that or starts again becomes a challenge to discern: "I will expand the dream to engulf what surrounds me" (7). The indiscernibility between things happening and things being thought pushes Mr Thanks to keep trying to play his part in the game "Relaxing my mind had only brought about a causeless, meaningless sadness" (16) even attempting to ignore the game is playing it. This is the frustation of being a human in the giant system/mechanism of Chorncendantra – one knows one is a human but that this means being a small part of the human machine but not being able to only be a part.
One of the most impressive aspects of Cisco's novel here is that this does not wander into immediate and obvious existential territory. Mr Thanks, carrying his heavy bag, is not a dreary eyed Frenchman in 1950s Paris: "'Don't imagine that you are the flaneur,' I tell myself, 'looking down on people, like you are the last human in a world of machines the passerby are all soulless robots and you're the only one who cares—that's high school shit'" (46). Mr Thanks is mostly just frustrated at the small things and couldn't know enough about the large things to feel so small simply because there are others that at least seem to know more (so called operationals and high rationals) – high rationals being those creatures that 'think things up'.
In some regards Cisco could be seen as entering the territory of either William S Burroughs or the graphic novelist Charles Burns – where one quickly leaves 'this world' and enters somewhat unreal worlds (interzones and dreamspaces) that are however still attached to this world. And yet Cisco holds the reigns tighter than this. It is the rules of the game or the world themselves that seem parasitic yet completely natural. The attempt at thought to think a world only appears to add to the problem of probing the layers of rules added upon rules till the point that one is not even sure where one is and, for that matter, it is not even clear if the narrator is any more or less sure of what he is doing that what the reader is reading about him.
And of course the wonderfulness of Cisco's descriptions which are present throughout. For example:
"Perched there, he aims carefully at something I have trouble making out. It's a large, solid object that seems to be browsing along the sidewalk in its own special darkness; not a blob of shadow exactly, more like a dead, uninteresting haze of grey smoke that collects around it and projects out of it in a reverse spotlight. In overall shape, it resembles a human liver, all covered in imbricated scales. A felty, transparent caul seems to envelop the entire thing, and ripples out wrinkles and folds to palpate its surroundings, making the emitter seem both solid and liquid at once" (44-45). The descriptions shift from weird tale type above to bordering on the romantic: "In that faint, brief light, I see the tendrils of smoke from each little candle immobilized like ectoplasm calligraphy, trailing from the cake" (93-94), to the downright silly: "Somebody left a salad out on the curb, with no bowl around it" (332).
The question becomes less 'what is happening?' to 'why is it that this seems normal?' The novel flirts again and again with the weirdness of games, of playing them without reasons (170), that the problem is that we enter the game from somewhere or as something not of it (142), that thinking and playing is just a headlong plunge into various kinds of darkness more or less familiar (226). The novel's restrained but seemingly unrestrained insanity mirrors the very weirdness of belonging to one odd bureaucracy after another. Any attempt of pulling out seems like a childish time out: "That's what I want: a place in which I have no part. I want to ride through space like wind in wind and sleep on the void, and be a go-between with nothing but between" (258). In so much sci-fi, horror, and weird fiction there is the moment when the narrator passes into the strangeness, where the mundane becomes not the mundane, when you (as the reader) know that they are on a trajectory which ends in death, madness or, optimistically, some small share of triumph. But in Member Cisco's point is no such prologue exists because of the incessant nature of thought that barrier cannot be recognized – it can only be supposed after the fact when it is already too late. There is no cutting loose.
And while bits of philosophy appear throughout (Spinoza (47), ancient Chinese thought, moments that smell like Heidegger and Deleuze) it would be distasteful to call this a thinker's or philosopher's novel (whatever the hell that may mean) but only that, unlike many novels, Member makes a show of when it is pushing at its own limits or trying to catch its own tail. Every practice has its reasons and the reasons do not seem to matter other than to give you a location for your forthcoming injuries. Or, in other words, any attempt at closed precision is absurd..except for that one.
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In "Submarine," the directorial debut of British comedian Richard Ayoade, newcomer Craig Roberts turns intense discomfort into fine art. Playing the 15-year-old Oliver Tate, Roberts holds his deer-caught-in-headlights stare from start to finish. Equally intent on landing a girlfriend and saving his parents' marriage, Oliver lives in a frantic universe built from his constant phobias. That's hardly a groundbreaking achievement for the coming-of-age genre, but Ayoade's bittersweet tale is consistently endearing and distracts from its derivative core.
Broken into three parts, "Submarine" takes its cues from Oliver's voiceover as he guides viewers through the details of his life. When not engaged in activities like reading the dictionary by the beach, he yearns to woo his snarky classmate Jordana (Yasmin Paige) in a desperate bid lose his virginity. But that task runs second to a lingering fear that his mother (Sally Hawkins) has been cheating on Oliver's mopey father (Noah Taylor) with her first lover, the laughably self-centered New Age life coach Graham T. Ourvis (Paddy Considine, the most flimsy character in an otherwise impressive ensemble).
These conundrums come and go with scant dramatic payoff. However, Ayoade's engaging stylistic approach maintains the illusion of intrigue by inhabiting Oliver's subjectivity. It's hard to say what type of filmmaker Ayoade may turn into over time, but Oliver is a different story: The character imagines a movie based on his life that "will only have the budget for a zoom out," at which point the camera dutifully zooms out. He envisions "the Super-8 footage of memory," where his favorite moments from his relationship with Jordana continually play out. These restless techniques, which reflect Ayoade's experience directing music videos, effectively create the sense that "Submarine" itself takes place entirely within the constraints of Oliver's mind.
As a feature-length conceit, it moves along at a breezy pace that makes it stand out from the current comedy standard. Where "Bridesmaids" has plenty of solid gags, it's not much to look at; "Submarine" always has something impressive to watch even when its plot is on autopilot. Based on Joe Dunthorne's novel, the movie's structure translates written prose into cinematic language, from the persistent narration to the reliance on chapters to sustain its progression.
"Submarine" owes much to the complex portrait of its leading man: While the movie externalizes his thoughts, Oliver's plucky naivete means that even he can't fully understand the world as he sees it. Sympathizing with his father, a soft-spoken marine biologist who's equally uncomfortable in his own skin, Oliver apparently sees a future version of himself. However, he never says as much, possibly because he hasn't recognized it yet. If "Submarine" burrows into Oliver's thoughts, it also keenly dissects them.
HOW WILL IT PLAY? A festival favorite since it premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival last year, "Submarine" should do decent business in limited release thanks to strong reviews and will forward the emerging career of its star.
criticWIRE grade: B+

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FOXBOROUGH, Mass. -- For the second consecutive week, the Patriots began their on-field preparations with a walk-through practice, and cornerback Ras-I Dowling, safety Steve Gregory, running back Brandon Bolden and linebacker Tracy White were the only four players not spotted Tuesday.
White (foot), Gregory (hip) and Bolden (knee) were all inactive for the team's Week 7 game against the New York Jets, while Dowling left the game with an apparent injury. Earlier Tuesday, Gregory indicated to reporters that he is getting better but does not yet know if he will travel with the team to London this weekend.
Free agent linebacker Mike Rivera, who was spotted in the locker room earlier in the day, was not on the field for the start of the walk-through. It remains unclear if the team has plans to sign him to the active roster.
Given the amount of injuries the team is dealing with, as well as the extensive travel it has undertaken in recent weeks plus the pending trip to London, it's possible that head coach Bill Belichick conducted a walk-through practice to buy his team some rest. He said during his Tuesday press conference that his team is treating today like a typical Wednesday, adjusting its schedule because of the long trip ahead.


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Sex-Related Personality
We must throw open the debate to anyone who wishes either in
jest or in earnest to raise the question whether female human
nature is capable of sharing with the male all tasks or none at all,
or some but not others.… If it appears that the male and the
female sex have distinct qualifications for any arts or pursuits, we
shall affirm that they ought to be assigned respectively to each.
But if it appears that they differ only in just this respect that the
female bears and the male begets, we shall say that no proof has
yet been produced that the woman differs from the man for our
purposes, but we shall continue to think that our guardians and
their wives ought to follow the same pursuits.
—Plato, Republic
No one can safely pronounce that if women's nature were left to
choose its direction as freely as men's, and if no artificial bent were
attempted to be given to it except that required by the conditions
of human society, and given to both sexes alike, there would be
any material difference, or perhaps any difference at all, in the
character and capacities which would unfold themselves.
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I'm having trouble with boy names! I'm due April 1st but would like to have a name for my little wiggler.
We would like to stick to 4 letters, as we and our other child only have 4, but if i can't find something that might not happen. So far we like Roan or Owen, but are still looking. My husband likes the middle name Martin, which i HATE, and i like Elijah but am not to attached to it either. Our last name is Ulrich... (pronounced Olrick).
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The University of Montana Western's 117th graduating class included students graduating in summer and fall 2013, and
in spring and summer 2014. Commencemet took place May 10, 2014, on the Montana Western campus.
Montana Gov. Steve Bullock gave the commencement address.
Montana Western expects to graduate 351 students this year with two- and four-year degrees and certificates.
Montana residents make up 68 percent (237) of
the graduating class while six percent (20) are from Washington state, followed by five percent (18)
from Idaho.
Other states represented include Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Maryland, Maine, Nevada, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Wisconsin and Wyoming.
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Looks like that Wu-Tang + The Lox project is coming to fruition, with the first single from the joint released today.
LISTEN: Ghostface + Raekwon + The Lox – "Wu-Block" (prod. RZA)
Please dont BS and actually make the album.
That picture is the truth…
This was nice! Hope you do get the album cause if it's coming together like this? Fire! RZA beats? good to see him making some Hip Hop again… So hope RZA really has been listening to LPs like OBFCL2 and Legendary Weapons to realize that the fans want that old sound back! I know RZA has it in him to make a comeback and create some old crusty dusty sample heavy shaolin beats!
woah… this is a banger, no doubt. I felt like breaking/popping and wilding out to this. Is this RZA? Man, I didn't think that I would be giving him props ever again. When Jada hit this beat it was a wrap
I truly hope this is a new beat and not something they had sitting in the vault because it gives me a renewed confidence in the RZArector.
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Astros Caravan notebook: Uniform change remains a possibility
Even though new Astros owner Jim Crane decided against changing the name of the team, he said on Monday the possibility remains of a logo and uniform change.
"It's got to be approved by (the MLB)," Crane said at the Astros Caravan. "If so, it's natural we would do it next year."
The Astros move to the American League in 2013 as part of Crane's agreement to buy the team this offseason. Houston has been a member of the National League since the city received an expansion franchise in 1962.
Crane initially pitched the idea of changing the team name, but 80 percent of fans polled said they did not want to change it. The Houston franchise was known as the Colt .45s until the team moved to the new Astrodome in 1965.
"If you were running for office and you could get 80 percent, you're in pretty good shape," Crane said. "So, we immediately came back and said we weren't going to change the name and we'd take a look at the uniforms and the logo next year when we go to the American League."
Astros outfielder J.D. Martinez said the move to the AL in 2013 is more like starting over.
"Baseball-wise, I say it's different just because it might be tougher at first because we have already faced our pitchers … and now you're facing pitchers that you have never seen before," he said. "So, it's like kind of starting from scratch again. It's like the demo run before the next year when you start getting your book on guys."
Right-hander David Carpenter when asked about not facing Albert Pujols or Prince Fielder this season late in games added that the Astros will regularly play the Angels and Pujols in 2013. The Astros will eventually get a small dose of Fielder, who recently signed with Detroit.
"To go and have them out of the league for a year, it's nice to have that cushion for a year," he said. "But then the following year we go to the American League and we're right back into contention every few weeks with the Angels, and Albert is going to be there.
"Do we look at it as we need to run and hide? Absolutely not."
For Carpenter, Monday's caravan was a return to Oklahoma City, where he threw 19 scoreless innings in 19 appearances last season.
"I really had a lot of good memories being here," he said. "It's hard to say that I had any bad memories here, I didn't give up any runs so that's definitely a plus. Coming back to see a lot of familiar faces is a nice thing."
Second baseman Jose Altuve logged nearly 900 at-bats last year between Class A-Advanced Lancaster, Double-A Corpus Christi, Houston and the winter leagues.
Altuve, though, looks at that as possibly an advantage while monitoring the fatigue factor.
"A little bit of both," he said. "I got tired at the end of the year. I took, like, three months off and I think that's enough to get ready for spring training."
"You would have thought I ran over two grandmothers," — Crane on reaction from fans after considering changing the team name.


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This is a really nice blend that offers the calming impact (for me a sophoric)of Jasmine with the cleansing and refreshing impact of mint blended so both are muted to create something that is deeper and sweeter and fresher, over a creamy slightly smoky sweet green tea with hints of spinach which creates a nice mouth feel and adds depth. The tea has a really nice body and the flavours blend nicely. The second steep still has a nice creamy body with the jasmine a little more prominent but the flavours still compliment and blend nicely. The scent of the dry tea at first reminds me a little bit of graveyard blend which is ironic as their is no licorice root either in the blend or the flavour. Their is a mix of green teas including some with really beautiful long twisted blades and the tea brews to a light saffron colour. I'm off to enjoy a third steeping.
This tea brews to a blush pink / beige colour with a scent of citrus accents over sharp berry floral and something slightly earthy that
gives the tea some depth. There is a sweet almost minty undertone followed by lemon verbena and a slight tartness. There is also a sweet fruity floral with a bit of slightly deeper tang as a result of the citrus peel, rosehip, and hibiscus. The oolong lends a fruity sweetness to the tea and smooths out the base and gives the tea a slightly thicker creamier body. It has a pleasant tastes almost like a well balanced herbal that leaves you with a feeling of pleasant alertness. The floral taste is almost like the scent of yarrow and leaves a slightly earthy aftertaste, so it reminds me of sunny days and picnics in the countryside. I re-steeped this tea four times. This tea tastes a little bit like sumac lemonade if you've ever had that.
I am trying to rate and review some of the teas I've had for a while before opening new ones. I've had this one for a while now and while it is enjoyable I still find myself making my own chai when I want spice rather than drinking my chai influenced blends so I am better off not buying them. Saying that this is a nice representative of it's genre.It brews to a copper colour and has a scent that reminds me of graham crackers mixed with gingerbread cookies. It smells of cloves and nutmeg and a biscuit tone with a hint of ginger over something sweet with a hint of vanilla. It smells closer to the store bought pumpkin pie I've had rather than the homebaked ones in my family which usually smell brighter in someway.
The tea has a smooth slightly sweet and refreshing base over laden with cinnamon, then the deeper tones of nutmeg cloves and vanilla mixed with vanilla that remind me a little bit of cream followed by a bittertone from the base tea mixed with hints of sweet pumpkin. There is an aftertaste of cream, spice and sweet tea and pumpkin.
The spice especially the cloves are not overwhelming as they can be in this type of blend. However this blend still makes me think more of graham crackers mixed with a slightly stronger bite of ginger and cinnamon rather than pumpkin pie for some reason. It re-steeps decently well, maintaining a decent body and has a nice spicy flavour.
This is the second straight Keemum I've tried. The first I tried (Zen teas) was a little picky if over leafed or steeped too long it was very smoky but when you got it right it had a nice body and an interesting mix of flavours but it isn't something I drink on a regular basis.
This one is quite nice. It is very sweet and refreshing and the smoke takes a back seat. I brewed this tea in a western style according to the instructions on Whispering Pines website. 1 tsp per cup for 3 minutes at boiling water. It brews up to a maple colour hinting at copper. The tea smells of smoke, mint, sweet caramelized potato and plum hinting into cherry with a hint of lemon.
At first sip it tastes of caramelized burnt sugar and sweet potato, opening into a fresh smoky and slightly minty flavour, underneath a slightly sour sweet plum taste with a hint of artichoke. The tea is pretty refreshing and might make a nice ice tea. Later sips reveal floral notes of rose as a top note. It is a fairly smooth tea with little astringency and a thin to medium body. There is an aftertaste of burnt sugar/ dark honey, with sour stone fruit notes. This tea is a nice mix of sweet and sour and refreshing. The mint might be the result of contamination from a tea it was shipped with or might be how I detect the pine notes this tea is supposed to have, but it actually is a nice addition to the tea if it is. This is a nice everyday tea.
This is a strong tasting and very fruity version of a high mountain Jin Xuan that has not been flavoured. It is quite resilient and can last well over 10 steeps with strong and pleasant flavours. Throughout a brewing session there are dominant flavours notes of pineapple, peach, cream, and gardenia with notes of peaches and cream corn, clover, hay, lemon, artichoke and grass appearing through out the brewing process. The tea retains a relatively thick and creamy mouth feel for about half of the brewing session. This tea would probably be enjoyed by those who love fruity green oolongs, the floral notes are present but remain mostly in the background blending into the cream. On taste alone I would probably rate this tea around 95. However at $38.00 per 150g it is hardly the most affordable Jin Xuan available. Mountain tea's option is $13.00 for around the same amount and Teavivre's would cost around $17.20 for the same amount. I am curious to compare this to Mountain Teas once I open it and will probably adjust my ratings then.
Below are more detailed notes
Dry leaf – lime to spruce green tightly coiled leaves, with a fruity, peach, pineapple, cereal/hay scent.
steeped at 60s, 40s, 50s, 60s, 65s, 80s, 85s, 90s, 95s, 105s with water temperature between 85-95 degrees Celsius (increased for later sessions)
Tea consistently brewed to a bright green gold yellow colour.
60s scent – sweet pineapple peach, cream, hint of gardenia and corn.
taste – pineapple tempered by warn peach, hint of cream, hint of gardenia hint of hay, smooth, medium to thick bodied, light freshening feeling at front of mouth. Aftertaste of pineapple and hay.
40s scent – pineapple peach, hay, cream faint floral notes
flavour – stronger vegetal notes of hay ,and floral spice of gardenia, still strong notes of pineapple and peach, creamy buttery mouth feel with stronger hints of cooling at top and front of mouth. Aftertaste is similar to original with slight floral notes.
50s scent – cream, peach pineapple faint hay
taste – gardenia mixed equally with peaches and cream with a hint of pineapple over a faintly bitter vegetal note. Slightly thinner body but still creamy.
60s scent – same
flavour – fruit/gardenia and hay thinner and slightly more astringent, clean feeling in mouth including back of mouth, aftertaste of eating peaches with clover. sweet and slightly spicy.
65s scent – fruit and gardenia and cream
taste – cream, peach mixed with gardenia and faint artichoke, slightly less sweet, and more vegetal with a hint of bitterness.
80s cream gardenia and faint fruit taste consistent with smell plus a hint of hay and a vegetal bitterness. slightly more astringent aftertaste of peach and pineapple and clover.
85s scent – same as above with a hint of lemon.
taste – thinner still with a light creamy floral note over peaches over a now stronger bitter artichoke note and a hint of grass. mildly astringent.
90s smell – sweet cream with a hint of floral
same taste touch thinner with slightly more grassy aftertaste.
95s same scent
taste – more sweet fruit with a hint of floral spice mixed with artichoke.
105s scent – corn, cream and a hint of peach with floral note
taste – sweet green tea with fruit and cream tones followed by bitter tones followed by spicy floral notes with a slightly grassy aftertaste with a hint of lemon.
spent leaves – fairly large with hints of brown along the edges.
Kusmi's St Petersburg reminds me on some sips of a monks blend with its mix of vanilla, from the caramel, and red fruit, but as I drink further on you get a more dominant tang and a hint of floral from the bergamot.
The caramel is buttery and creamy with a hint of vanilla and I can see why people love Kusmi's Caramel tea. Later on in the cup, I smell the red fruit more than I taste it. There are hints of cherry and currant and blackberry.
The base is quiet and unassuming, it is quite smoooth and sweet but it doesn't seem to have a great deal of complexity. There is a touch of bitterness that adds a bit of depth to the tea but otherwise is fairly thin. The flavour of this tea is fairly subtle it is not strongly sweet or creamy.
The second and third steeps are more bergamot and red fruit, with the caramel fading and the bergamot leaving a tingling on the tongue and it tastes at times slightly metallic.
The kusmi tins are certainly useful and fairly beautiful and the tea comes wrapped in folded plastic inside with a nice presentation.
This is a pleasant tea that makes a nice afternoon tea especially for those who may appreciate a lighter bergamot earl grey with deeper fruit tones. I think I still prefer a tea that has a stronger more flavourful base underneath it.
This tea in a some ways reminds me of starburst orange candies and orange milkshakes and a little bit of childhood. It makes a nice creamy orange rooibos honeybush blend for someone who wants one that is neither tart, overly sweet, or that is not a chai.
The tea brews up to a beautiful peachy deep orange tone. With an orange, vanilla and peach scent over a slightly powdery sweet tone from the base.
The flavour is a nice blend of fruit and vanilla. Orange is the top note followed by peach settled in vanilla. The base is pretty well hidden by the flavouring. The vanilla makes the tea taste fairly creamy and the peach acts to sweeten the tea and temper any tartness and bitterness from the orange. The vanilla is nice, it is not syrupy nor is it a cool vanilla. There is a faint powdery aftertaste from base, but it is not medicinal and is partially hidden by the tang of orange peel. The aftertaste is of creamy orange. The tea re-steeps pretty well. It looses most of the vanilla but the fruity tones remain strong. This tea would probably be really nice with cream or milk and might make nice popsicles in the summer as it tastes pretty nice when cooler. When cooler the peach comes out a little more.
Altogether this was a nice introduction to LuxBerry Teas for me. It is much more a fruit tea than you would expect from its name.
I really don't have much information on this tea the Company name I gave above is the only thing written in English on the packaging. I don't know where the provenance of this tea is, so I don't know if it was produced in traditional regions known for biluochun or whether it was grown in Yunnan and made in the style of this type of tea.
The dry leaf is fairly tightly coiled with about 25% of the leaf showing the creamy yellowish hairy bud and the rest being a sage to spruce green colour. The dry leaf smells of wood smoke, and a spicy fruity green scent.
This tea is quite resilient and can easily brew up 6 or more times starting at 40s and going up by 5 second intervals if one is careful with water temperature. I was told to use a slightly cooler water temperature than I normally use for greens in order to bring focus to the fruity tones of this tea.
This tea brews up to a pale golden yellow and smells of grilled peach with a hint of pineapple mixed with smoke, salt, and a nutty tone blended with a sweet floral note.
It tastes of grilled peaches and smoke, creamed chestnut, the sweet tone of artichoke blended with the robustness of spinach, salt, and a slightly sweet at times lemony floral note. There is a light astringency at the front of the mouth though the tea tastes creamy with a medium to thick body.
The tea remains quite consistent in flavour throughout the steeping though the smoke looses it's dominance and the tea does become a little lighter, brighter and lemony in later steeps.
This is a pleasant rather full bodied green tea that I will enjoy drinking.
I was excited to get the chance to try this Earl Grey because Assams, or an Assam rich blend are my favourite bases for this type of tea, mainly because of the chocolate, or biscuity tones that they often have that nicely support the citrus notes and secondly because they usually have a thicker body to them that I feel better supports the Strong Bergamot Earl Greys which are most often my favourites.
In Silky Earl Grey, Teajo comes close to creating my ideal earl grey. It has a really lovely Assam Base, paired with a heavier sweeter bergamot. I would like just a bit more of a spicier bergamot to create my ideal Earl grey.
Dry Smell
- fairly strong , spicy and sweet bergamot, hint of lemon rind and cocoa.
Brew Colour
– nice, clear, classic amber colour.
- Tastes quite smooth at first, finishing with a drying effect at the front of the mouth. The tea has a medium bodied mouth feel.
Flavour – A nice balance between a sweet bergamot baked goods taste, sweet red fruit in the tea base, and chocolate undertones. The base tea has enough depth to support the strong flavouring. The re-steep contains a flavour consistent to the first steep, with just a little bit more malty, chocolate tones shining through the lemon pound cake with custard smell and taste. The third steep was sweeter with less citrus notes but still a rich flavour.
Aftertaste – lemon(the taste you get when you drink lemon in hot water), lavender, with bitter sweet chocolate notes and a hint of malt.
This is a really nice strong and fruity Earl Grey with a great deal of flavour and a natural sweetness.
Thanks Piccolo for the chance to try your tea! It has a really lovely base and I look forward to trying some more once I make some room in my cupboard.


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Success!! The loan was 100% repaid
- Repayment Term
- 7 months (Additional Information)
- Repayment Schedule
- Monthly
- Pre-Disbursed:
- Mar 22, 2012
- Listed
- Mar 29, 2012
- Currency Exchange Loss:
- Possible
- Ended:
- Sep 15, 2012