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Issue date: Friday, January 25, 1963
Pages available: 16
Previous edition: Thursday, January 24, 1963
Next edition: Sunday, January 27, 1963
Publication name: Winona Daily News
Location: Winona, Minnesota
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Winona Daily News (Newspaper) - January 25, 1963, Winona, Minnesota Continued Cold, Snow Late Tonight Or Saturday WINONA DAILY NEWS TOMORROW SUN RISES SETS NEW MOON JAN. 25 108th of Publication WINONA, MINNESOTA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 25, 1963 TEN CENTS PER COPY SIXTEEN PAGES Senate Opens Cuban Arms Buildup Quiz Cold Clings to Much of Country Soviet Hold ___Strengthened, Aitkin States Crops in Deep South threatened i By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Winter's longest and worst siege of cold weather clung to much of the nation today, causing a sharp rise in the death toll and i Ihrcalening damage to crops in ithe Southland. The huge cold air mass cov-: c-red most of the country from Ihe! Rockies to the Atlantic Coast. It i j knifed deep into (he South, where I lowest temperatures of the cen-; liiry were recorded in some areas I Thursday. There was promise of moder- i atiug temperatures in some sec- lions of Ihe hard-hit midconlinent. [But another stream of cold air i hearted from Canada into north- ern Midwest regions. The coldest weather, with read- i ings ranging from zero lo 1G be- IOT, extended from northern Ten- nessee northeastward into the Northeast in Ihe Upper Jlississip. I pi Valley, northern sections of the j Middle .Mississippi Valley and in inoit of (he northern plains. Tem- peratures, generally, were not as low as Thursday morning, hull were far below normal levels in many areas. Since the outbreak of the cur- rent cold weather earlier Ihis week al least 112 deaths have been reported from exposure, as- phyxiation, over-exertion in snow, fires and in traffic accidents on ice-covered highways. bitter cold also has forced By ANTHONY WHITE t Yugoslavia. Turkey. Bulgaria and'the closing of thousands of LONDON' i killer parts of Ihe Soviet Union were bit j schools, the shutdown of some in winter, which already has laken more than 200 lives, showed signs WASHINGTON .Sen. Oorce IX Aikfii. R-VI.. afler a briefing j hy Secretary of Stale Dean Husk, said loday the Soviets have an "enor- i mously strong military and political base in Cuba" and it is growing stronger. Aikcn declined to discuss what Husk and John A. McCone, Central Intelligence Agency director had told a Senate Foreign Relations sub- i committee at the elosed-door meeting. Hut, lie said, "I think Russia Iniilt nn enormously strong mili- jlary and political base in Cuba, much stronger than it was six months FIREMAN OR SNOWMAN? Bob Douglas, who along with firemen of five city fire companies fought a fire in 10 below zero weather which destroyed the old Fose Marie restaurant in Bay City, looked more like a snowman than a fireman but probably didn't think it very humorous at the time. 'AP Photofax) Europe's Killer Winter Milder FIRST WITNESSES Secretary of Stale Dean Husk and Director John McCone of the Central Intelligence' Agency, pose today with senators before the slart of a hearing on whelher Cuba is slopping up mililary mighL The hear- ing is being held behind closed doors by Ihe Sen- ate Latin American Affairs Subcornmillec on For- eign Relations. From left are: Sen. Wayne Morse, IJ-Ore., subcommittee chairman; Sen. William Fiilbrighl. D-Ark., head of the full Foreign Rein- lions Committee; Rusk and McCone. (AP Photo- fax) De Gaulle's Doubt U.S. Would Aid Irks Kennedy "The strengthening of this lary-polilical fortress is continu- ing." President Kennedy has laid there ins been no new military buildup n Cuba. Bill despite this assertion by Ihe 'resident at his news conference Thursday, several Republican sen- ilnrs remain skeptical. And de- spite his renewed assumption of rcsixiiisihilily for failure of the j 1 Bay of Pigs invasion, there I s nn slowing of a Republican drive for an independent investi- gation of (be fiasco. Kennedy's appraisal of the state of Prime Minister Fidel Castro's irsennl rnnlradicls reports Sen. Kenneth B. Kraling, R-N.Y.. and nlliors say they have received. Tlic-ir claim is that Caslro has iceii getting additional weapons and is now militarily much strong- er than he was six months ago. These reports prompted Chair- man Wayne Morse, D-Ore.. lo call Rusk and Cenlral Intelligence Agency representatives before his Latin-American affairs subcom- mittee for closed-door testimony. In his session with newsmen, Kennedy dealt also wilh Ihe nag- ging question of whether air sup- of slackening its grip on parts of northern Europe. In Denmark, West Germany The southern fringes of Ihe il WBS warmer. tinent still reeled'under almosl lotall-v sno'.vboundj blizzards and intense cold thai left for more than a expected 'oro.aslers t fresh Irai) of floods, wreckage and death from the Atlanlic to the Black Sea. By JOHN M. WASHINGTON' HIGHTOWER (APi-President as winter's fury concentrated plants and a slump in soulh. business. Travel by train, plane, bus and aulo was disrupted. fl r. pots were started in the iroves of Florida after predicted possible ,u, u T IJJVllUUlr mill JLUl.lC.'di a slight thaw within 24 hours. freezlnS weather. However, it ap-1 TllpH prwjtlclrt Britons continued struggle with snow, ice, freezing fog, fuel peared that the icy air would not extend into the rich Everglades, farming area in (lie southern part j Kennedy was reported today lo have been deeply irritated by the accusation made by President Cbarlcs de Gaulle o! France lhat ithe llniled States cannot be de- jpcndcd upon to defend Western j Europe with nuclear weapons. a news con- ference Thursday that such an ar- gument "is inaccurate" and not really in the interest of Ihe West- ern alliance. He declared that the United States has "never had the slightest doubt that Gen. DC Gaulle would respond lo the needs of the alliance." and added sharply: "I would that our confi- dence in him would be matched by his confidence in us." Kennedy said that although ev- eryone might not U.S. commitment believe in to defend Dunlap Cites Question on School Problem Spain, Portugal, Italy, shortages, cuts in electricity Mrmmf; are; gas, and thousands of burst slale- majns It was freezing again in north Authorities planned a 4.000- j ern sections of Florida, truck coal lift during the weekend Jm Tallahassee and 27 in to get fuel from pitheads to almost out of The death toll in Britain from with 22 j fackson-) ville. Headings were rero to Si abnve in Kentucky and Tennessee! and 10 to in most other parts the cold stood unofficially at more of lne Southeast except Florida than 100. Yugoslavia reported 29iwnere temperatures in the north Chimney Blocked, Fumes Kill Pair By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS i freezing, in their (irelcss home rope, "1 believe that Chairman Khrushchev does, and I think he is To some at Ihe news confer ence, Kennedy seemed In display indignation as he asserted lha Ihe United Stales would "defen( Europe by whatever means are necessary." Informants said later that the President was deeply ir port had been exile invaders. planned for Ihe Greece 3 and Turkey ST. (API al rcdistricting and Congression- a slate law providing that no congressional district may have more than one member on the State Board of Ed- ucalion have apparently crested I wo vacancies on Ihe board. Sen. Robert Dunlap o[ Plainview chairman of Ihe Senate Commit- tee on Education, called attention to (he situation at a meeting of his committee lod'ty. The re- apnoinlment of L. Lyman llunlley for recommenda- 111 Li it Lg in: l Lit It ACXUUIIn. r -j -----i... _ ;ished in fumes from an ice-blocked jlures continued to grip Minnesota. In the Lower Rio j chimney and an ill Brainerd man; Two Willinar racji had n close Inched above 'e-v Texas, a cloud cover was j and his mother were found, near j brush with death earlier in Ihe day freezing in western Belgium, to give some protection Gaulle had made at a Paris news conference last week in support n( his decision that France must go on building its own .nuclear weapons force. In defiance of De Gaulle's stand for a French national nuclear announced inline he said, "H you are going to have United Slates cover, you might as well have a complete United States commit- cut, which would have meant a full-fledged invasion." He stressed that at no time did (he United Stales plan lo use its own planes lo fly missions over Hie invasion beach. What was talked about, Kenne- dy continued, was an air strike by nulmoded B2S bombers fldwn rilated hy the argument which DC by pilots not based in Ihe United Stales. This was delayed from Only One Ship Carried Arms, Kennedy Says By FRANK CORMIER WASHINGTON' "thc was a fnil. rests Dead at Starbuck were Mr. and illrs. Louis each 86 Pope i saKl lhnl Frcnch "re. and the responsibility County officials said 10 inches o! fwcil as "'hers would; wilh Ihe While House." See had formed around Ibe mela) i Kennedy's explanalinn failed lo leap of a tile chimney, trapping head the lask fnrce Kennedyidelei Scnale Republican Leader 1 fumes from an oil healer and as- Ambassador Livingslon T.; Kvcrcli M. Dirksen of Illinois in WASHINGTON' LivincIphyxialing the pair. Slcnson's body retirement. Mcr-lhis pursuit of an independent in- cost s. as mcasured nv the found in a chair, his wife's (ls.a undersecretary vesligalinn of the mailer. B l-' slalc m Lisrahnvi-cr admin- Dirksen nairt he Ihouglil il nec- flaly's Lebanon, N.H., -4 in Maine: -7 in Bing- Iry lay under more than three feel] hamlon, N.Y., and -4 in Provi- Tiadio reports from Bulgaria 'lf', dicaled a major crisis as Ihe conn-! of snow. 'deuce, H.I., and Worcester, Mass. i Chicago had its sixlh straight day Other Greek army units battled iol subzero cold, high winds and 10-fool snoiv drifts j Tiie weather was clear in most as they tried to open Greece's na-i sections of the country. However, lional highway, from Salonika to snow fell in Ihe Greal Lakes re- Athens. The Greek capita! a-vokc] jiion, southern New England, lhc lo its first snow in years, 4 inches of it. Dunlap said Huntley't reap- poiiitnicnt apparently would be il- legal because ledistricling put him and Brynolf Pelcrson of Ait- kin both in the 8lh District, Peter- son, whose term expires in 1965, formerly represented lhc Glh Dis- Iricl on Ihe board. Advised of this situation. Gov. i Elmer L. Andersen said thc effect j of redislricting on Ihe hoard had, been overlooked, but thai rcsludy turner! up another similar silua- i lion. This involves Walter 0. Lund- berg of Austin, who.se term ex- pires this year, and Frank .1. Pt-lrieh of Soulh St. Paul, both now in the 1st District. Pelrich's term expires in WEATHER FEDERAL FORECAST WIXOXA AND VIClNlTY-Most- ly fair lonighl. Variable cloudiness wilh scattered snow flurries urday, possibly beginning laic lo- nighl. lonight 5 tp 15 below, high Saturday zero. LOCAL WEATHER Official observations for (he 2 hours ending at 12 m. today: .Maximum 5: minimum, -H noon, precipitation, none. AIRPORT WEATHER (North Central Observations) _ .........rj Max. temp. 3 al J p.m. Tliurs- j from Cciba'n Prime Alini'sTcr Fidel about northern Plains anil Ihe northern Itockies. largest decline for any month I livity at Ihe Ed Xovoloey home, in four years. 1 Investigating officers found N'ovot- Reporting (his loday. H: bal'cl-v ahlc "awl lo menl officials caulioncd 'lucstions: wishes (or an early end lo news- Tribune ionc "l 'e Wl Kon': do know" paper .strikes Cleveland and jnoiine. gone lo hislon-: about wbal is going on in ruha. I New York. In the case of the. New cal are working m favor "Under our controlled news pol- York walkout, he hopes hr.th sides of Hie imiitralion of HVstern I-.ii-1icy." he added. "I think we are'will "reach Ihe compromise whieh rope m par.nersnip wilh the our intelligenceiuilimalcly they are goinn to reach cd Stalls. dors know" anyway." mar Thursday with R..I. Samuel son. employed by Weslern Fruil Kxprcss. lo gel pictures of ice bar- By JOE MCGOWAN JR. nn the orders of Dr. Benning MIAMI. Fla. (API Another Mi.ami whr) rotic Cuban refugees, many paie. from seasickness after a night on; loday i llhe vessel hot fond before leai'ing Cuba. "This is like emerging from The iwo walked onto an area covered hy windblown snow, un- aware thai lhc drifts covered a spot where ice had been harvested only the day before. Thc snow blanket had kept Ihe ice from j forming any but a Ihin layer and Whisenanl and S through il. and Samuolson plunged in the llniled States. American freighlcr j I-ykes brnught Ihem (o Port Ever- Cuba in exchange for she Bay of 'glades, Ihe porl of Fort Lander-i Pigs captives who were released which they had sacrificed all j A slalf of Red Cross nurses had Iheir material possessions. worked through the night adminis- Many were old. in poor lo the sick, most of whom lion, and lorn by conflicling emo- were stricken by seasickness, lie- lions, They were happy Ip escape cause her load was light, and she. jjj rolled badly in dungeon inlo fresh air." said Fe-! Nearby ice-cull ing cren.s res- The Shirley Lvkes brouoht the l'alour..I nnc of the two by extending long Lyxes brouaht lUe ..lhcrc ]s hllngcr in for jusl an Cuba and no freedom. We arc- going to them. lo lite anew in Ihe United! -m our trnzc aml vvc became numb while ruiuiinc Ibe Judo Expert Subdues Minneapolis Gunman cargo back in the which had been used lo deliver 7.090 lens r.f ransom supplies to numb while ruiuiinc ICO feet in our car." said nanl. N'eilher man suffered any ill effects after wiling warmed up and inlo dry clothes. Mosl ol the refugees were rela- tives of Ihe invasion prison- ers. They were decks in close, sjnelly holds from Iht lime of Iwardmn unlil afler the ship: THEY COULD reached Florida. I ATLANTIC CITY, S..I, Leaving Havana harbor, llicy single fallout shcllcr here is dcsig- asked repeatedly lo .be permillcd natcd for use by persons, a lasl glance al Ilieir native conn-'. The structure is the. city's Con .MLV.VKAPOLIS _ Two One Bar at that address on north- patrons, one of Iheni a judo ex- easl Broadway, peri, subdued a wmiliMjo holdup' man Thursday nigbl in a imilli-i m'n identified as Donald A. c.rsl Minncaiwli.! invern afler linnl up ibrrr riislnincr.s man, jumixxl Ccwk. wreslitvl him to the. door and held him until police could uct Ihere. Russell Krucger pistnl-whipiwd Ihe barlender.jani' ''f'ter Pikala, Ihe second man. Lawrence Jan- The robbery attempt ,illrr ordered Ihrm lo hand over all Ihe gunman "and an alleged part- lncir money, ner had robbed a cab driver and Afler lonling Ihe rcfji.stcrs the then driven lo (he tavern dro, '.'.1, remained in Hie cab as Cook entered the lavern but later drove avvny. He Police Shortly gave this 0 afler S day. min. -18 al 8 a.m. loday, noon Castro's Communist stale, hut sad j er pitched and J. High cloud overcast, Mind culm, leave Inch1 native land eWil-foot se.is lisihjjiiy 15 barometer S0.30 Some of the aged and ,he il! j The high ration of sickness was iryrhiir.he' request .he cab and unsteady, humidily 62 had walked aboard Ihe ship ai.ribu.ed lo the emoliowl stale, because of !he possibility nf dan-1 proved by Civil IMense officials as fJhbc.1 h.m Iliev "m- 'in were taken oft on slrctch-lof Ihe Cuoans and Iheir lack oligerous overcrowding of Ihe rails, a falloul shelter, jthcn drove lo Ihe- Ono Hundred in the! 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Given the rhetoric flying around my home state recently, I think the answer is no.
Take, for example, the public reaction of the NCAA. NCCA President Mark Emmert says "We are especially concerned about how this legislation could affect our student-athletes and employees." He went on to promise, "Moving forward, we intend to closely examine the implications of this bill and how it might affect future events as well as our workforce."
That's all well and good, until you consider that, of the 14 sites where this year's tourney is being played, 10 of them are in states with RFRA (Religious Freedom Restoration Act) provisions in state law or religious freedom provisions in their constitutions that require strict scrutiny. And if you're going to move the Final Four out of Indy because of RFRA, you'd probably better make new plans for 2016 too, because Texas has an RFRA statute too. Come to think of it, of all the sites selected for the Final Four between 2017 and 2021, only Georgia doesn't protect religious freedom behind a wall of strict scrutiny.
Dear NCAA, if you're so "especially concerned" about RFRA passing in Indiana, why did you book "future events" in places that already had RFRA provisions?
And don't get me started about GenCon threatening to pull their convention out of Indy. Where exactly is GenCon headquarters? They've been based for years in a state whose constitution has been interpreted by their state courts to protect religious freedom by the same standards Indiana's RFRA enacts.
My point: these aren't honest objections. If they were, trust me, the NCAA wouldn't be spending so much time in Texas. These are public relations campaigns.
Please don't misunderstand me. I'm not taking sides in this debate. (Or maybe I am, you'll have to read and find out.) Both sides of the argument over RFRA are lying to you. Both sides need to step up to the plate and be honest. For example,
1) Requiring Businesses that Accommodate the Public to Accommodate the Public is not Religious Persecution.
As a pastor, I'm privy to some of the drivel mailed out by right wing political action organizations. I can't tell you the number of letters I've received asking me to mobilize my members (and send a check!) on behalf of RFRA. Why? Because if I don't, next thing I know the government will be jailing me for not performing gay weddings, I'll have to rent out my fellowship hall to the local madrassa and there will be male sexual predators dressed up like women hiding in our women's restrooms. And no, that's not really much of an exaggeration. What isn't an exaggeration is that every piece of mail I've received has argued that requiring business owners to accommodate the public regardless of their sexual orientation amounts to religious persecution.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, on a scale of religious persecution that includes things like the slaughter of the innocents (in Matthew 2) and the slaughter of the innocents (at the hands of ISIS), getting paid to bake a cake for a gay couple's wedding doesn't even register. To call that religious persecution is to make mockery of what our brothers and sisters in Christ are facing around the world every day. If you turn a profit from accommodating the public, the public has a right to expect to be accommodated. And yes, in my book, that even applies if you are officiants-for-hire running a for-profit wedding chapel in Idaho.
Of course, the other side is lying too…
2) RFRA does not protect your right to discriminate.
Have you read the law? The real crux of the law (Section 8) states:
(a) Except as provided in subsection (b), a governmental entity may not substantially burden a person's exercise of religion, even if the burden results from a rule of general applicability.
(b) A governmental entity may substantially burden a person's exercise of religion only if the governmental entity demonstrates that application of the burden to the person:
(1) is in furtherance of a compelling governmental interest; and
(2) is the least restrictive means of furthering that compelling governmental interest.
In other words, if the state can argue that it has a compelling governmental interest, it can burden a person's free exercise of religion (be they a person in the normal "I think therefore I am" sense, or in the legal "If I'm not happy, I'm allowed to sue you" definition by which coorporations have become people too).
And here's the rub: every time someone has attempted to use RFRA in defense of their right to discriminate against gay couples, the courts have ruled preventing discrimination is a compelling governmental interest.
Every time.
Remember "Elane's Photography," poster child for RFRA proponents? She was in New Mexico, one of the states that has an RFRA law almost identical to Indiana's. State courts ruled, and the Supreme Court appears to agree, that preventing discrimination is a compelling governmental interest.
How about Baronnelle Stutzman, owner of Arlene's Flowers, in Richland, Washington? Washington State constitution protects religions freedom with these words, "Absolute freedom of conscience in all matters of religious sentiment, belief and worship, shall be guaranteed to every individual, and no one shall be molested or disturbed in person or property on account of religion," words, by the way, that have been interpreted by state courts in ways very similar to Indiana's RFRA laws. Yet Washington state courts have upheld the state's anti-discrimination laws as a compelling interest. This case is still in appeals, but to date the courts have found that the state's right to prevent discrimination trumps an individual's right to conscience.
Or what about Hands-on-Originals, the Christian T-Shirt company penalized by a local Human Rights Commission for discrimination when they refused to print T-Shirts for a gay pride event? That case is still in the courts, but until it is overturned, anti-discrimination ordinances are being enforced in Kentucky, another RFRA state.
As I said, to date, every time RFRA has been used in defense of discrimination, anti-discrimination laws have been upheld as a compelling governmental interest.
So how has RFRA been used successfully to defend religious freedom?
At Guantanamo Bay, a Muslim prisoner was allowed to keep the beard his captors were trying to force him to shave.
In Minnestota, the Amish were not forced to violate their beliefs about simplicity by a law requiring them to hang fluorescent orange triangles on their buggies. Instead courts ruled that reflective silver tape and lanterns were a less restrictive means to accomplishing the compelling governmental interest of public safety.
And in the famous Hobby Lobby Supreme Court case, the court ruled that since the government had already found a way to provide contraceptive services to employees of non-profits without burdening the religious freedom of their employers, the government could use the same work-around to provide free contraceptives to employees of closely-held for-profit business as well. (Don't buy the lie that that case was about keeping women from getting contraceptives. That's a-whole-nother lie perhaps we should talk about.)
Why are we, the public, regardless of our position on RFRA, so quick to eat up the lies people are feeding us?
It's because we're afraid.
We're afraid the government is going to throw our pastor in jail for refusing to officiate at a gay wedding.
Or we're afraid our gay friends will be run out of the restaurant the next time they try to buy a pork tenderloin at the Backwood's Diner.
The object of our fears might be different, but the fear itself is the same. We're gullible because we're afraid.
It reminds me of the slaughter of the innocents story in Matthew. Magi show up with a report of a newly born "King of the Jews." This news threatens him. King Herod is disturbed. In much the same way, RFRA has powerbrokers in our day and age disturbed. The lobbyists and political action committees on both sides of the issue who see this as an opportunity to send out fundraising letters and get the grass roots to send in even more money are worked up over this. King Herod is disturbed.
The real tragedy in Matthew 2 is that all of Jerusalem is disturbed with him. A new king of the Jews? Most of the people in Jerusalem in Herod's day were eager, desperate even, in their hopes for a new king of the Jews. But when the magi show up with news of the very thing they were hoping for, they don't hear that part of the story. All they know is that the Magi have Herod upset. And when Herod's upset, he makes life misreable for everyone else. So when Herod was disturbed, all Jerusalem was disturbed with him.
In much the same way, the common people, for whom RFRA is good (if poorly written) news, are allowing the Herods of our day to get us all worked up. We want to see the rights of minorities protected. We get offended when oppressive government captors trample the religious freedoms of Muslim prisoners. We don't take kindly to bullying the Amish into orange signs either. But in all this talk over RFRA we don't see that.
Instead we hear that Herod is disturbed. And we let Herod disturb us in the process. We buy his lies.
Simply put, they are fear mongering. And we're letting them punch our customer loyalty cards by buying it up one more time.
I say we change that. I say we say, "No more."
If we're going to boycott, let's boycott something worth driving out of business. How about a new hashtag: #boycottFEAR.
While you're at it, would you like a good, balanced, non-fear based analysis of the RFRA situation in Indiana? Check this out: What the 'religious freedom' law really means for Indiana by Stephanie Wang in the Indy Star.


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The icons used are free, meaning that I can use what I draw
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so I have a road bike. still considered new about 100 miles on it. what kind of lube should I be using. or is there a better lube fore break in period compared to normal maintence lube. also is there different types for summer hot heat and winter
so I have a road bike. still considered new about 100 miles on it. what kind of lube should I be using. or is there a better lube fore break in period compared to normal maintence lube. also is there different types for summer hot heat and winter
There is not a correct lube for every part of the bike. For bearings (headset, bottom bracket, hubs, pedals) you need bearing grease. Some types of bearing assemblies are sealed and cannot be greased.
If you are riding in a humid climate like Georgia, I recommend an oil based "wet" lube for the chain. There are many bike specific chain lubes available. I use a "home brew" chain lube made of 3 parts mineral spirits with 1 part synthetic motor oil. I think it's one of the best.
new chains come with a heavy chain lube. When it is dirty and you think you need to lube your chain I strongly suggest you remove the chain and entirely strip that heavy grease lube. If you have dirt in the chain, adding chain lube won't remove that dirt from inside the chain. take the chain off, soak/shake in a good degreaser, wash, rinse, dry, then lube the chain with a thick oil for wet conditions or a thin oil for dry conditions. repeat as needed. lube is more a wet/dry consideration than a cold/hot consideration. When it's really cold you may prefer to avoid thick oils entirely as they may not work well when it's below freezing.
synthetic motor oil can be something like 10W30, but it's toxic and carcinogenic, so do remember to wash hands if you get any on your skin.
Food for thought: if you aren't dead by 2050, you and your entire family will be within a few years from starvation. Now that is a cruel gift to leave for your offspring. ;)
To add to what others have said, but consider the source. I make chain lube so am biased on the subject.
1- washing chains. Before removing a chain for a thorough wash, try cleaning it by running it through a rag dry, or with a bit of solvent to clean the outside while leaving the factory lube inside in place. This is quicker and simpler, and will help you get the most out of the quality lube factories put into their chains. But f you choose to wash it with water and detergent, be sure it's completely dry inside and out. This can fool you because the chain will appear dry but still retain water trapped by capillary action is a way similar to what happens when it gets under a glass table top. On the bike use a heir dryer, and off the bike pop it in an oven at 200 for 10 minutes or so.
2- while most folks consider using different oils depending on conditions, the reality is that inside the chain where the lube does it's job, it's always the same regardless of what's happening outside. For very dusty conditions it might make sense to sacrifice some lubrication in order to attract less dust, especially for Mtb, but you'll need to be attentive to a short lubrication interval. Otherwise, wet oil lubes provide greater lubrication with performance depending on the properties and additives of the various choices. When using a oil lube, be sure to wipe excess off the outside since it has no purpose there, and will only attract dirt.
3- the temperature band that bikes operate in is very narrow and shouldn't make a significant difference on oil's performance, but be sure to re-lube at room temperature because a thick oil may not wick in effectively when cold.
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An ounce of diagnosis is worth a pound of cure.
Never argue with an idiot. He will only bring you down to his level and beat you with experience., George Carlin
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All I can say is irregardless of what type of lube be it Homebrew, Chain-L, Phil wood, 3-in-1 oil, tears from a baby angel... keep to the "Lube little, But Lube Often" adage.
At the end of the day, a chain is a consumable. Replace them every 2yrs or 2000km. YMMV.
All good advice. This is a hot topic as opinions vary. My opinion is similar to above. I lube my chain every 250 miles and clean and lube it every 500 miles with wiping the chain after every ride using a paper towel. If you want to postpone lubing until cleaning at 500 miles.
Only use a wet lube, not dry.
My preference is Pedro's Synlube but it's thick so I don't use it in colder weather. I then switch to BoShield T-9. I've also used ProLink which I like. I've used Diamond Tech and Rock 'n Roll and some others and as they are good, the formers I like better, Pedro's SynLube, Bo-Shield T-9, and ProLink. I've also used synthetic motor oil for quite awhile, both diluted and undiluted and prefer it undiluted. I see nothing wrong with using synthetic and still use it on my older friction shifter Schwinn 10 speed (2x5) and my MTB.
The main point to remember about chain lubing is to pay attention to it. That's probably 90% of what's important. As long as you do that--and deal with dirt as you find it--your bike will be in decent shape.
As far as other parts go, you might need to put a drop of oil on brake pivot points and threading of barrel adjusting ferrules; anywhere else there might be bits of friction. Bearings depend on the wear they've had, not so much on the climate or temperature changes.
One thing you can do to help keep the lubed parts in good working shape is keep your bike clean, giving it a good wash on a regular basis. Keeping grit from getting in the chain, in the bearings, around brake parts and into cable housings will do a lot to simply keep the lube on your bike working well. On automobiles and motorcycles, one must do regular motor oil changes in order to flush out the accumulated dirt and scum in the oil. Same concept applies to bicycles--if you keep the lube clean, it'll keep working.
The lube on a new chain is the best it will ever see. Until you have 1000 miles on it just wipe off the black crud that comes from metal wear inside the chain. Always remove the chain to clean it. You can dry it and remount it to relube it. I use a mix of 4 parts unscented mineral spirits to 1 part chain saw bar oil from Ace hardware. I just replaced an 8 speed chain with 13,000 miles on it.
For the bearings I use Lubriplate EMB grease, but any quality automotive grease will do an excellent job.


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Missing doses of metformin?
I've been on metformin for 4 months now, I didn't have any of the nasty side effects (thank god!), lost 20 lbs, and my period started with in days & was NORMAL!!! (used to 5 month long periods) it came on time the next 2 months, the 21st Feb & March. I missed 2 or 3 days of the metformin. Then started right back taking it, but my period hasn't came this month, Would missing 2 or 3 days throw it back off track, or could I be pregnant? I know I need to take a test but they break my heart every time lol Thanks in advance and good luck to all!
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I took metformin for about a year with no result ie it did not help me ovulate/get pregnant. However there is not one type of PCOS and it manifests itself in all different ways. I was never very overweight with PCOS, but I have all the other symptoms. Metformin will help if you are insulin resistant which I am not (at least not severely). Most doctors on the NHS won't do a fasting insulin test, so you may need to find this out privately. It DID make me lose weight, probably because it makes you slightly nauseous all the time and causes gastrointestinal upset. You do get used to it (I went up to 2000mg) but doctors really are divided about whether it is beneficial or not. Thanks to the method from http://pregnancyhours.com that helped me to get pregnant and have a healthy pregnancy. Good luck ladies!posted 02/21/2015 by a BabyCenter Member
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Bitter tennis rivals Riley and Jaime just can't get away from each other, training at the same academy and frequently contesting big matches. The hatred comes to a boil in an acrimonious encounter in the academy's locker room, where they learn that a tennis racquet can be used for more than just hitting balls... Warning: for adults only! Contains rough, rage-induced lesbian sex, spanking and oral. 4676 words.
At the end of training, Riley made her way to the girls' dressing rooms. It was the peak of summer and she felt totally gross, the sweat pouring down her slender, tanned body and her clothes sticking to her skin uncomfortably. She waltzed inside, placed her bag on a bench and began to undress, eager to get under some cold water.
She was a little surprised to see someone else was showering in one of the stalls. Normally she trained until later than the rest of the girls - that's just how dedicated she was. Now naked, Riley smiled and sauntered over to see who it was. She immediately regretted her decision when Jaime's figure appeared before her: nude, wet and soaped up. Her eyes were closed as the water poured down over her face, sending streams of soap down her fit body and to the floor.
Riley paused for a moment, trying to decide if she should say something or just turn around and leave it be. Before she could, though, Jaime opened her eyes. She immediately frowned when she saw Riley looking at her.
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"Nothing," Riley smiled wickedly. "Just looking."
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Riley's eyes drifted over Jaime's nudity, scanning her tits, the nipples erect from the cold of the water, and then moving down to her pubis, which had clearly not been shaved for a couple of days.
"Nothing you don't already know," Riley smirked.
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Riley could feel her rage coming to a steady boil as Jaime spat the frankly uncharacteristic tirade in her face. That she had still not gotten into the shower only made it worse - she was hot and fucking angry. Moreover, she didn't at all expect Jaime to come back at her so scathingly. She furrowed her eyebrows menacingly but couldn't quite come up with a response, instead standing there in inept speechlessness.
Jaime chuckled. "Now go away." She turned around again.
Riley's rage, though, wouldn't let her just skulk off in defeat. She stepped into Jaime's shower stall and promptly gave the blonde a decisive shove, sending her stumbling onto the wall. Jaime turned around again, her eyes raging. She was about to speak but Riley instantly shoved her again, pushing her two hands onto her tits. Jaime scowled, but backed up to the wall as Riley advanced on her.
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This flexible, yet structured, approach revealed how individuals construct meaning around information about specific NFTs. A rich dataset of 42 'deliberate discourse' and 42 postdiscourse transcripts was collected. Data analysis encompassed three stages: an initial descriptive account of the complete dataset based on the top-down bottom-up (TDBU) model of attitude formation, followed by inductive and deductive thematic analysis across the selected technology groups. The hybrid thematic analysis undertaken identified a Conceptual Model, which represents a holistic perspective on the influences and associated features directing 'sense-making' and ultimate evaluations around the technology clusters. How individuals make sense of these technologies is shaped by: their beliefs, values and personal characteristics; their perceptions of power and control over the application of the technology; and, the assumed relevance of the technology and its applications within different contexts. These influences form the frame for the creation of sense-making around the technologies. Internal negotiations between these influences are evident and evaluations are based on the relative importance of each influence to the individual, which tend to contribute to attitude ambivalence and instability. The findings indicate the processes of forming and changing attitudes towards these technologies are: complex; dependent on characteristics of the individual, technology, application and product; and, impacted by the nature and forms of information provided. Challenges are faced in engaging with the public about these technologies, as levels of knowledge, understanding and interest vary. 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The defining characteristics of alternative food initiatives in Ireland: a social movement battling for an alternative food future? http://hdl.handle.net/10468/2081 The defining characteristics of alternative food initiatives in Ireland: a social movement battling for an alternative food future? Murtagh, Aisling Alternative food initiatives (AFIs) have been described as an attempt to change and improve aspects of how the food system operates. They are focused around more traditional, local and sustainable food production and circulation. AFIs such as farmers' markets, allotments and community gardens, share a desire to reduce the number of steps food goes through from production to plate. The role of these initiatives in the food system, and their potential to impact real change, has however been questioned. Working to better understand this issue is a central concern of this research. To do this a two tier analysis has been deployed. The first tier involves identifying the characteristics and general dynamics of AFIs. Bourdieu's theory of practice, and the theories of field and capital, are the concepts applied. The research then uses these findings in the second tier of analysis concerned with relating AFI characteristics and dynamics back to their key traits, positive and negative, as well as arguments made about AFI's role identified from previous research. Another part of this second tier of analysis is exploring if AFIs, the producers, consumers, organisations and groups that make up this phenomenon, can be considered a social movement. AFIs can be referred to collectively as a social movement, but are not often explored theoretically from this perspective. AFIs in Ireland provide the empirical context for this research. A series of qualitative interviews in four areas of Ireland, as well as evidence from primary and secondary sources are analysed. The research finds that AFIs can be understood as the potential beginnings of a lifestyle social movement. Leaders are of central importance to its development. It is also found that an important role of AFIs is revitalising, supporting and contributing to food culture. 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The relationship between rural livelihoods and livestock keeping: the case of Sidama Zone, Southern Ethiopia http://hdl.handle.net/10468/2015 The relationship between rural livelihoods and livestock keeping: the case of Sidama Zone, Southern Ethiopia Woldeyohannes, Bezalem Sinote This study examines the relationship between rural livelihoods and livestock keeping in Sidama Zones, southern Ethiopia. The livelihood context, assets and strategies of households are the key features of rural livelihoods considered in the study; while households' livestock ownership, dependence on livestock and livestock management are the main aspects of livestock keeping examined. The study used the sustainable livelihood approach as a framework for data collection and analysis. Describing the main features of rural livelihoods and livestock keeping, and the general pattern of relationship between them, this study mainly aims at identifying the main livelihood factors that determine livestock keeping in the study area. Descriptive statistics, pair wise correlations, mean comparisons and analysis of variance were used to describe rural livelihoods and livestock keeping as well as the relationship between them. Tobit regressions were used to examine the effect of the various livelihood factors on households' livestock ownership and dependence; Poisson regressions are used to investigate the factors that influence the intensity of livestock management measured by the use of different technologies and inputs. The findings indicated that a number of livelihood factors - assets, livelihood strategies, livelihood shocks and institutional supports - significantly determine the different aspects of livestock keeping. These include: human assets such as age, education and family size; social assets such as membership to social groups; financial assets such as credit; natural assets such as land, and household physical assets; and livelihood strategies such as diversification into farm and nonfarm activities, and coping mechanisms. In addition the livelihood vulnerability context such as shocks and institutional support are among the main determinants of livestock keeping. The results, by and large, matched the findings of previous studies, and it is concluded that households livestock keeping depends on their livelihoods. Accordingly, it is recommended that policies aiming at livestock asset building and productivity improvement should take the livelihoods of rural households in to consideration. As such the study contribute to scholarly works in the area of rural livelihoods, in general, and livestock keeping, in particular. 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Third, it investigates farmers' potential engagement with a hypothetical cattle insurance decision and their intensity of participation. Factor analysis is used to analyse risk sources and risk management, multiple regressions are used to identify the determinants; a Heckman model was used to investigate cattle insurance participation and intensity of participation. The findings show different groups of farmers display different risk attitude in their decision-making related to livestock farming. Production risk (especially livestock diseases) was perceived as the most likely and severe source of risk. Disease control was perceived as the best strategy to manage risk overall. Disease control and feed management were important strategies to mitigate the production risks. Disease control and participation on safety net program were found to be important to counter households' financial risks. With regard to the hypothetical cattle insurance scheme, 94.38% of households were interested to participate in cattle insurance. Of those households that accepted cattle insurance, 77.38% of the households were willing to pay the benchmark annual premium of 4% of the animal value while for the remaining households this was not affordable. The average number of cattle that farmers were willing to insure was 2.71 at this benchmark. Results revealed that income (log income) and education levels influenced positively and significantly farmers' participation in cattle insurance and the number of cattle to insure. The findings prompt policy makers to consider livestock insurance as a complement to existing risk management strategies to reduce poverty in the long-run. 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z


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The SFFaudio Podcast #350 – Jesse, Scott, Jenny, and Tamahome talk about new audiobook releases and recent audiobook arrivals.
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The SFFaudio Podcast #324 – This Crowded Earth by Robert Bloch; read by Gregg Margarite. This is an unabridged reading of the novel (3 hours 30 minutes) followed by a discussion of it. Participants in the discussion include Jesse and John Feaster.
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the only public domain novel by Robert Bloch, a member of the Lovecraft circle, fans of Lovecraft vs. the public at large, The Shambler From The Stars, a sense of humour, Leffingwell = livingwell, a Nazi-esque character, Paul F. 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Kornbluth, breeding a crazy man, West End Games, Paranoia, the crappy text adventure games (that were fun to play), walking off to the unmapped areas, what about this bugbear?, in a future where cows are caviar, "bring your wife, we'll have a party", I'll bang off something for Planet Stories, Psycho, 1959 and 1960, John defends Psycho, Bloch's Star Trek script "Wolf In The Fold", Bloch's obsession with Jack The Ripper, Richard Matheson's Night Gallery episode, Time After Time, a future thrill kill story [sounds somewhat like The Roller Coaster by Alfred Bester], before The Silence Of The Lambs, Hannibal, charismatic serial killers is a trope now, Ed Gein, H.H. Holmes (not H.H. Munro), the Chicago murder castle, a writer re-writing and thinking about an idea over and over again, serial writers must do it again, to "recreate it", seeing a writer writing outside of his main genre, Stephen King's The Dark Tower series, it's a little 15-year old, simply written to pay a bill, finally Scotty gets his own episode, I canna remember, Star Trek with a serial killer is weird, That Hellbound Train, The Gold Key The Twilight Zone comics, an EC Comics knockoff, I'm being published for crappy reasons, nobody's going to read this in two weeks so read it now, this story is a bird-house made by a talented mechanic, a giant truck that is the internet, 60s and 70s era Robert Bloch are sealed up outside of the trunk that is the internet, accept it within its boundaries, a character from the 1950s in a crazy 1950s future, how does the story affect you?, a Rorschach test, it doesn't care about you, this story is a friend of yours off in the corner playing with LEGOs and the only thing you can do is criticize what he's building.
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The SFFaudio Podcast #321 – READALONG: Solar Lottery by Philip K. Dick
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The SFFaudio Podcast #321 – Jesse, Paul, and Marissa talk about Solar Lottery by Philip K. Dick
Talked about on today's show:
Philip K. Dick's first published novel, The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester, the Psi-Corps, a solar empire, getting away with murder, raw power, a telpath's guild is a logical consequence, a 1950s idea, Dune, the John Preston sub-plot, Prester John is middle age superhero fan fiction, Marco Polo, Robert Silverberg, "the cynicism of later Dick", the quizmaster bodyguard plan, Dickian action sequences, the conclusion on Mars, Batavia, that's the cover too, androids on the Moon, Ace Books, how do you explain the guy not in the space suit, the protagonist, Doctor Who, the culture, androids, surprisingly little info-dumping, minimax (game theory), there's so much going on, loyalty oaths, corporate feudalism, cheap Chinese goods, fealty to corporations, Total Recall, Johnny Cab!, distinguishing between male and female, imagine how difficult it will be for robots to determine gender, an elegant solution, the world is amazing, The Golden Man, nuclear war, post nuclear war, Indonesia, Batavia, no mention of the USA at all, such an ambitious book, it gets better in the re-reads, everyone's obsessed with good luck charms, a metaphor for the whole society, stifling progress, very The Man In The High Castle, The Price Is Right, sell more goods, increasing demand for supply, pacifying the population, what does the quizmaster actually do?, lingering through the subways, algae growing on the bathroom pipes, a literal channel, a metaphorical channel, Channel M, Ted Bentley, his favourite bedgirl agency, the McDonalds of prostitution, virgin's milk and boiled owl spit, all of his psychological problems were solved for the day, bare breasted, quivering breasts, his interests coming to the fore, cheating may or may not be legal, cynicism, the public service, bio-chemical engineering, secretaries, a minimum quality of life for everyone, defeating corruption by subverting competition, power cards, p-cards, figuring out how the lottery actually works, The Library Of Babylon by Jorge Luis Borges, the lottery starts as something for the lower classes, an interplanetary society, it just so happens that this story is in the the public domain, the 1962 English publication of The Library Of Babylon, great minds think…, I'm not playing this game, defeating corruption, avoiding cynicism, a total inversion of meritocracy, how the assassin as an anti-corruption measure, corrupting the anti-corruption measure, crackpots in power, the cynicism of Glory Road by Robert A. Heinlein, fatalism, am six year old wife, France, the premise of Glory Road, a sense of futility, SFF writers for and against the Vietnam War, International Science Fiction Magazine, a response to America 1950s, getting out of the system somehow, when do you not obey the law, so not full of philosophy, courtroom drama, Marissa needs to expand this book, "cluttered", Dick's later works are meditations, René Descartes, what the hell is the Flame Disc?, John Prester wrote four books, Prester is dead on Earth, Prester is dead in a bottle, what does 2 plus 2 equal?!, a buoy, Sky Captain And The World Of Tomorrow, unanticipatable, keep cooking that idea, looking for the 10th planet, bedgirls working in the mines on Mars, work-camps, random punishments, very Borgesian, neo-colonialism, Call Me Joe by Poul Anderson, Avatar, Desertion by Clifford D. Simak, just like in Avatar, him and his dog, escaping reality, A Princess OF Mars and Glory Road, let's go live in this book, The Peripheral by William Gibson, time travel, computer simulations of historical characters, Socrates is a troll, Socrates trolls Francisco Pizarro, Keith Pellig has the bomb, another android with a bomb, Imposter by Philip K. Dick, Impostor, Astounding Science Fiction, it's not terrible at all.
Posted by Jesse Willis
Review of The Peripheral by William Gibson
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The Peripheral
By William Gibson; Narrated by Lorelei King
Publisher: Penguin Audio
Publication Date: 28 October 2014
[UNABRIDGED] – 14 hours, 5 minutes
Themes: / future / time travel / drugs / veterans / crime /
Publisher summary:
Where Flynne and her brother, Burton, live, jobs outside the drug business are rare. Fortunately, Burton has his veteran's benefits, for neural damage he suffered from implants during his time in the USMC's elite Haptic Recon force. Then one night Burton has to go out, but there's a job he's supposed to do – a job Flynne didn't know he had. Beta-testing part of a new game, he tells her. The job seems to be simple: work a perimeter around the image of a tower building. Little buglike things turn up. He's supposed to get in their way, edge them back. That's all there is to it. He's offering Flynne a good price to take over for him. What she sees, though, isn't what Burton told her to expect. It might be a game, but it might also be murder.
Reading a new William Gibson novel is both delightful and exciting. He delights with the cool, sardonic yet imaginative visions of the present and future. He excites with his uncanny glimpses of the future, grounded in canny selections from our time.
The Peripheral offers another pleasure, that of Gibson trying something new. His recent brace of novels looked at the very near future, each following a normal linear path. His classic cyberpunk or Sprawl trilogy envisioned a medium-term future, also tending to thriller linearity.
But in The Peripheral we see a very different conceit and narrative structure. This novel relies on two timelines, one in the near-to-medium term future, and one almost a century away. At first we follow these in parallel, trying to infer connections. Then we learn that the further-along future has discovered a form of time travel – well, information exchange with the past, to be precise. The far-future signals the closer-to-us future, and has a proposition. Or two. Then more, which aren't propositions but assassinations.
This dual-track time-travel-ish idea owes much to Gregory Benford's 1980 novel Timescape. Other parallels appear; see spoiler section at the bottom of this post.
The future-near-to-us characters are also the more sympathetic. They focus on a young, poor Southern woman, Flynn Fisher, and her family. They live in a postwar backwater, where the economy barely exists apart from illegal drug manufacture. Flynn helps her vet brother, Burton, with an online job and witnesses what seems to be a strange murder. In the future-farther-away we see a PR flack, Wilf Netherton, working with a Russian crime family and their staff. Wilf has made an unspecified bad move, and is trying to improve his situation.
The plot ratchets up slowly and steadily to climax in a party, where multiple schemes intersect. Some, not all, is revealed, and the Fishers end up alive, very rich, and with a powerful edge on their present. Wilf somehow survives, and ends up in a relationship. This is too brisk and cursory a summary, but will do for now.
One of the pleasures of reading William Gibson is tracking his experimental words and phrases. These are concentrated projections of a possible future. Let me list some that caught my eye: klepts, artisanal AIs, battle-ready solicitors, court-certified recall, the viz, hate Kegels, autonomic bleedover, continua enthusiasts, drop bears, period trains, neo-primitivist curators, quasi-biological megavolume carbon collectors, heritage diseases, directed swarm weapons, a synthetic bullshit implant, surprise funeral, mofo-ettes, and a neurologer's shop. One near-future treat is the "freshly printed salty caramel cronut".
Some of today's words mutate in these two futures. For example, poor folks don't cook, but build drugs with some form of 3d printers. "Homes" refers not to homies or residences, but to Homeland Security. A very bad crisis happened between now and 2025 or so. People afterwards refer to it as the Jackpot.
Some of the language is simply cute. One character has her name changed slightly, and refers to it as "amputating the last letter of her name." Another speaks of "cleaning up the afterbirth of Christmas ornaments". The Fisher family shops at a Hefty Mart.
In a sense The Peripheral is Gibson's gloomiest novel. Like the recent film Interstellar (my notes), this story begins in a bad situation, then gets worse. The Fishers are poor and ill (the brother has seizures, the mother seriously ailing) in a society that clearly doesn't care for them at all. Their story reads like something from a late 19th-century Southern backwater, or like today's worst countryside. Characters have little help for the future. What we learn about the Jackpot not only makes things horrible, but sets up a future that's inhumane. Across all of these times looms the specter of vast economic inequality, of a society caring only for the <1%.
There is a powerful sense that the far-future is a kind of 1% taken to an extreme: a lonely elite, casually breaking off temporal worlds as a hobby, easily committing murders. Our lack of information about the world around London's far-future elite disturbs me, the more I think of it. Conversely, the far-future world is situated in such total surveillance that they see our/Flynn's sense of surveillance as charmingly antique.
Overall, The Peripheral offers solid future thought in an engaging narrative. Recommended.
I didn't read this one, but listened to it on audiobook. Lorelei King was the reader and did a fine job, with the whole file running a touch over 14 hours. King does different nationalities well, which matters in the kind of multinational world Gibson loves. She reads with the right level of cool, too – not a thriller's burning pace, but with a kind of observation acuity that I always associate with Gibson.
Here I reveal mysteries of the novel. Do not read any farther if you wish your brain to remain unsullied.
Here they come:
First, more on the plot: one agency in the far-off future is manipulating the past for its own reasons, and hires the Fishers as proxies. Another far-off-future group hires others to kill the Fisher family. Ainsley Lowbeer, a London cop, or something like that, appears in the far-future, with unusual connections to the Fishers' time. Flynn and Burton are able to interact with their far-future employers via telepresence robots, the titular peripherals. Wilf explains the Jackpot to Flynn, describing a series of interconnected, overlapping crises that killed the majority of humans:
droughts, water shortages, crop failures, honeybees gone like they almost were now, collapse of other keystone species, every last alpha predator gone, antibiotics doing even less than they already did, diseases that were never quite the one big pandemic but just big enough to be historic events in themselves…
Flynn also learns that by intervening in her time, the far-future team has effectively broken off her world from the stream of time, creating a "stub" which can't affect their future, and avoiding neatly some classic time travel problems.
Second, how does this gloomy novel end, then? Ah, it's a happy ending, pretty much, although we don't learn enough about what happens in the future. We – well, the Fisher stub – get to avoid the Jackpot. Whew!
But Gibson doesn't want us to relax. Note his comments in a Tor interview:
there may be readers who get to the end and they go, "oh, well, that's okay, everything worked out for them!"
… But these guys had an immensely powerful—if possibly dangerously crazy—fairy godmother who altered their continuum, who has for some reason decided that she's going to rake all of their chestnuts out of the fire, so that the world can't go the horrible it way it went in hers. And whatever else is going to happen, that's not going to happen for us, you know? We're going to have to find another way. We're not going to luck into Lowbeer.
Worse, the Fishers seem like good folks. But what will keep them (or their inheritors) from becoming klepts, with their vast power and advantages?
So this book ends up as a cautionary tale, a huge warning, and a goad to get us hauling ourselves away from the Jackpot.
Third, I mentioned earlier that The Peripheral has links to Benford's Timescape. Benford's future world is facing an existential crisis, due to events occurring in the past, so they reach out to communicate with the past to get them to change their ways. Gibson's far-future has already experienced the Jackpot, but some of the survivors want to change the past to mitigate the experience. I dimly recall Benford's future coming to an end, somehow, and the past branching off into a new, better world. This recalls Flynn's world cutting its way into a different, hopefully non-Jackpotted world.
Posted by Bryan A.
The SFFaudio Podcast #289 – NEW RELEASES/RECENT ARRIVALS
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The SFFaudio Podcast #289 – Jesse, Jenny, Tamahome, and Paul Weimer talk about NEW RELEASES and RECENT ARRIVALS.
Talked about on today's show:
A $10 bounty on The House by Fredric Brown, a $10 bounty on The Last Druid by Joseph E. Kelleam, Thomas Pynchon's masterpiece Gravity's Rainbow finally in audio, compare Samuel R. Delany's Dhalgren, William Gibson's The Peripheral, we bet Fred Kiesche has read it, The Fire Seekers by Richard Farr, Time's Edge by Rysa Walker, reminds Paul of Charles Stross's Merchant Princes books, Tad Williams's Otherland series (a favorite of Paul's), compare to Vernor Vinge's True Names, Second Life, Otherland has some disabled characters — Special Needs In Strange Worlds, Nnedi Okorafor's Goodreads Otherland review, Jesse's not a series guy, The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber, Mary Doria Russell's The Sparrow, the spoiler horn, Willful Child by Steven Erikson, not Paul's favorite, The Enemy of an Enemy by Vincent Trigili, the description is missing the "but", Horatio Hornblower type series, The Night Terrace (Audio Drama) Nightterrace.com, Spark by John Twelve Hawks, Cotard's syndrome makes you a good assassin, origin of his pen name, Hawks's nonfiction Against Authority, Chimpanzee by Darin Bradley, possible mashup?, China Miéville's New Crobuzon series, The Slow Regard Of Silent Things by Patrick Rothfuss, is his prose like dark chocolate like a fan said on The Geek's Guide To The Galaxy podcast?, Heraclix and Pomp by Forrest Aguirre, combining two reviews, Dead But Not Forgotten by Charlaine Harris (Editor), the True Blood tv show, "small town fantasy", Shadow of the Ancients by Pierre Grimbert (translated from French), genre books from other languages are cool, Tam likes French comics (Moebius), Visitors by Orson Scott Card, not a Pathfinder tie-in, Pathfinder vs. Dungeons and Dragons explained by Paul, Of Bone and Thunder by Chris Evans, Shaman, Healer, Heretic by M. Terry Green, Scalped comic was a bit grim, The Snowden Files by Luke Harding, Snowden's politics, Collapse by Jared Diamond, societies ending, The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H. P. Lovecraft, The Statement Of Randolph Carter Sffaudio readalong, The Vines by Christopher Rice, Rice's photo gallery, Anne Rice's son, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne, Jesse's not that into it, The Island Of Doctor Moreau audiodrama, Robert Sheckley audiobook releases, The Story of English In 100 Words by David Crystal, G. Willow Wilson's Ms. Marvel No Normal is in Jersey City
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The SFFaudio Podcast #276 – READALONG: Angelmaker by Nick Harkaway
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The SFFaudio Podcast #276 – Jesse, Tamahome, and Fred discuss Angelmaker by Nick Harkaway.
Today's podcast is sponsored by Downcast, a terrific podcast app for iPhone and iPad.
Talked about on today's show:
Fredösphere's (Fred Heimbaugh's) choice, the Ann Arbour Science Fiction And Fantasy Literary Discussion Group (founded by Eric S. Rabkin), the audiobook, the confusing and scatter first half of the book, the audio version, Daniel Wayman is one of the best narrator's Fred's ever heard, A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick (read by Paul Giamati), some books are better as audiobooks and some are better as textual books, Anathem by Neal Stephenson, Tony C. Smith, StarShipSofa, the glossary takes 30 minutes, Angelmaker is 18 hours, you have to pay close attention, do you listen to podcasts?, our SPONSOR: Downcast, the new iOS, Apple's Podcasts App sucks, Downcast allows you to ultra-customize your podcast feeds, Levelator, volume booster for podcasts are too quiet, Protecting Project Pulp, Dan Carlin's Hardcore History and Common Sense, noisy environments, the Downcast app is $3, updating feeds on the go, a podcast queue, if it isn't in the iTunes store …, your custom HuffDuffer feed works great with Downcast, the SFSignal Three Hoarsemen Podcast, Tamahome uses Downcast, back to our regular programing, Jesse has no opinion about Angelmaker, this is Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere by somebody else, the Neverwhere BBC TV adaptation, Nick Harkaway's writing voice and actual voice are similar to Neil Gaiman's, a completely undisciplined novel, a meandering through-line, the prose was "too plummy", an editor with a strong whip-hand, Harkaway is enamored with great ideas, Goodreads has angry and bitter four and five star reviews for Angelmaker, unfinished novels don't often get reviewed, books take a lot of time, why is it present third person every day tense?, breezy and informal sixteen-hour shaggy dog story, really really good writing, Ted Chiang, just because it's old doesn't mean it's good, Tam is surprised, history and science, Neil Gaiman's wild son?, talking about interesting things in interesting ways with interested characters, sexually aggressive women, a pulp fiction novel, Fred lays out the plot, Joe Spork, Matthew "Tommy-Gun" Spork, the grandfather, clockwork bees, a doomsday device, a female James Bond, the evil Asian mastermind, absurdly competent, Remo Williams, the Opium Khan aka Shem Shem Tsien, a brilliant French scientist (a Hakote), the "Apprehension Engine", fundamentally transform human consciousness, waves, "step one: steal underpants", instantly intuit the truth of reality, Nick Harkaway is interested in interesting things, the throwaway ideas, Project Habakkuk, a WWII project in a WWII setting, an aircraft carrier built out of ice, the u-boat service, cool and interesting, the frozen submarine and the frozen air-craft carrier, if Jesse wrote fiction…, a submarine and an elephant in the same sentence, this book has dream-logic, Harkaway wanted the submarine encased in ice and didn't care if it was implausible (a rumour), torture, sex, a Saint-Crispin's speech, an adventure book, humour?, funny?, a romp?, silly?, allusions, The Gone-Away World, Tigerman, steam-punk, clock-punk, the etymology of the word "punk", coming from the street, about the visual, about the body, Neuromancer, looking and acting like a punk, steampunk is about dressing up, form and colour over function, Hayao Miyazaki, an obsession with body parts, an obsession with torture, "fingers getting cut-off", one of the Goodreads reviews, the toe obsession, Polly's sexy and knowledgeable toe, this book is a thousand Chekhov's guns, the toothless dog, the Snowy of this novel, Tin Tin, Tam should read Tin Tin, Angelmaker would be a really good HBO show, the names, Spork, Friend, Cradle, realism is not being strived for, a word cloud for Angelmaker, what words are being used, over description, the main character looks at himself in a mirror, not a mirror but polished brass, very clever Nick Harkaway, René Descartes, a steam-punk pulp adventure spy thriller, Robert E. Howard's muscular description of colour, Howard wrote short, a serious issue, very interesting and difficult reading, the tense, Nick Harkaway is Neal Stephenson by way of P.G. Wodehouse, people drowning in a world of epic fantasy, Grimm's Fairy Tales characters are puppets, over-description, Joshua Joseph Spork embraces his gansterhood, Luke Burrage's complaint about American Gods, the character arc, false or indulgent, decapitating the evil mastermind, the Thompson sub-machine gun, aggressively turning off a large portion of one's brain, Ada Lovelace, trains are cool, cheap complaints, an unplugged wild adventure book, Blood Music by Greg Bear (short story and novels), what is he trying to say here?, science fiction writers, Eon, The Wind From A Burning Woman is an amazing author collection, despite the caveats, the "grey goo problem" and the nature of consciousness, is it the case we are not seeing the world directly?, medium sized objects, trucks and trees, Jesse found it very frustrating, the movie people, a comic booky plot, animation?, John le Carré, paging Dr. Freud, no editors, do editors even exist any more, Marissa Vu works for the author, enjoy a ride and live in a world and drown in an environment, the reader makes an investment in the world building, Darkon (2006), LARPing (live action role playing), Cory Doctorow, Jim Butcher, regular people, Elidor and Aquilonia, more fun to play than to watch, Dungeons & Dragons, more word-play and less shield-taping, escaping from a horrible day job, Thomas Jefferson's idea for state-names, Fred's novel, "you're not like most people you read books", to each there own, make it shorter and better, a unit of Jesse (7 hours), Ivanhoe, Sir Walter Scott, the modern medieval romance, Game Of Thrones, why Fred fully forgives Angelmaker's failings, scenes that don't just advance the plot, when Jesse wrote fiction it was terrible, being blind to your own faults, self-blindness, the four boxes, incompetent but self-aware, the inevitable decline, Elmore Leonard, Rum Punch, Stephen King, William Gibson, Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan, early success, an overflowing fountains of ideas, Tam and Jesse were obsessed, enormous fun, Jesse doesn't read books for fun but rather for edification, Mike Resnick, instinctual writers, Dean Koontz, Lawrence Block, Donald E. Westlake, writing the same novel over and over again, Neil Gaiman is a discovery writer, sprinkling plot points, Jesse shouldn't try writing, Jesse's curation #PUBLICDOMAIN fiction, The Wonderful Window by Lord Dunsany is basically a guy watching Game Of Thrones, like everybody else on Goodreads "this is the worst five star book I've ever read", needs taming, layering done well, The Graveyard Book is a retelling of The Jungle Book, this novel should have spent a few days in the dungeon, rallying the underworld, Angelmaker would make a great Broadway musical.
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Thursday, 13 February 2014 | MYT 7:25 AM
One of the possible adventures you can win courtesy of Contiki. – Screenshot
The adventure travel company will be giving away a trip each week throughout an exciting eight-week campaign.
LIFE is meant to be lived to the fullest, an adventure taken on with passion and looked back on with absolutely no regrets. Sampling exotic tastes in Thailand and Spain, diving into the open waters of the Galapagos and speed-boating through canyons in New Zealand – the world is home to countless adventures waiting to be explored.
As the original adventure travel company, Contiki (www.contiki.com) wants to give 18-35's the chance to live out their own unforgettable adventure with their new campaign, the #NOREGRETS Adventure Challenge (www.contiki.com/adventurechallenge).
Starting Feb 17 and running for eight weeks, Contiki's #NOREGRETS Adventure Challenge takes young travellers on an epic adventure around the world, each week unveiling a new video highlighting a feature destination. Hosted by a variety of Contiki ambassadors from pro Billabong surfer Felicity Palmateer to influential YouTube vlogger Alli Trippy, each video will showcase original content that tells the story of incredible Contiki adventures around the world.
With a challenge question in each video, followers can then enter to win that week's trip to the featured destination. Eight weeks mean eight trips being given away, making this Contiki's biggest contest campaign to date, and a challenge too good to pass up!
Hiking the Inca Trail in Peru, seeing the wonders of Machu Picchu and bungy jumping in New Zealand to wandering the local food markets in a foreign city – adventure comes in many forms. More than just a giveaway, the #NOREGRETS Adventure Challenge tells Contiki's adventure story through the authentic, first-hand experiences of young travellers, like Canadian YouTuber Andrew "Gunnarolla" Gunadie and New Zealand TV host Connor Nestor, who have explored the world on actual Contiki trips, meeting new people and sharing life-changing moments together.
So, are you ready for the adventure of a lifetime? Don't forget to follow along on Facebook as well for more fun prizes to be won.
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A couple of weeks ago, news out of San Francisco broke about a man who was stashing cash around the city for people to find. Tweeting out clues to each location, @HiddenCash created a flurry of people on the hunt for free money, up to about $1,000 each day. The anonymous benefactor claims to be a man who made a fortune in real estate and wants to pass his good fortune on to others. He announced that his project would go national, next tackling Manhattan.
Since @HiddenCash made its debut, envelopes stuffed with money have been popping up in Milwaukee, Chattanooga, Wichita, Dallas, Chicago, St. Louis, Oklahoma City and now Louisville.
@HiddenCashLou is the newest of these anonymous accounts to pop up. The bio states that it is "Inspired by @HiddenCash," and is probably not by the original San Franciscan. So far, the account has racked up over 240 followers, but has only tweeted six times – none of them clues leading to any cash reward.
Nevertheless, people are anxiously awaiting their chance to snag a couple extra bucks. Check out the account if you want to #payitforward.


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