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New AHA/ACC Guideline Will Help to Better Manage Cardiovascular Risk and Prevent Costly Disease Complications
11.15.13 | By Salvatore Alesci
The newly released American Heart Association (AHA) and American College of Cardiology (ACC) Guidelines on the Treatment of Blood Cholesterol and Lifestyle Management to Reduce Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Risk in Adults have received a great deal of attention over the last couple days and are certain to stimulate further discussion as physicians and patients alike integrate the new recommendations into treatment – and disease prevention – decisions. The AHA and ACC should be commended for their effort to review these guidelines, which were last updated in 2004.
While many of the media headlines to date have focused on the potential increase in statin use, looking beyond the headlines reveals the multi-faceted nature of the new guidelines, the breadth of potential positive implications for patients, and the main focus on better prevention. Key among these is the empowerment of physicians to utilize a more targeted approach to lowering LDL cholesterol (i.e., "bad cholesterol") by focusing on early therapeutic intervention in groups of patients most likely to benefit from it.
These groups include, for example, patients with Type 2 diabetes who are between 40 and 75 years of age. Such inclusion is very timely, if you consider the latest data just released by the International Diabetes Foundation (IDF) showing that diabetes cases hit a new record in 2013, with 382 million compared to 371 million cases last year. Added to blood sugar control, LDL control in the diabetes population based on the new guidelines could help better manage some of the complications of this epidemic disease which, according to IDF, will account for $627 billion in global healthcare spending by 2035.
A couple of other interesting elements in the guidelines are worth highlighting. First, the inclusion of stroke risk can go a long way to raise awareness of the seriousness of stroke, and the need to do all we can to prevent it. We have made progress in this area through the introduction of new medicines and a greater focus on prevention. In fact, in 2008, stroke dropped to the fourth leading cause of death after being the third for more than 50 years. But more can be done and we hope that this guideline - along with new innovation (currently there are 19 medicines in development specifically for stroke) - will contribute to continued progress.
Second, the inclusion in the risk assessment algorithms of gender and ethnicity -specific formulas, derived from large community-based cohort studies such as the Framingham Heart Study and the Cardiovascular Health Study, is significant. There is evidence that gender and ethnicity play a role in affecting overall cardiovascular risk, so the new guidelines provide an opportunity for a more precise and targeted approach to risk evaluation. In addition, they may provide a vehicle to build better awareness among populations disproportionately affected by cardiovascular diseases, such as African Americans, and reduce disparities in access to effective medical treatments.
Last but not least, the new guidelines also serve as a reminder of the importance of diet, exercise, and lifestyle changes, for which medicine should not be a substitute.
Altogether, better assessment of cardiovascular risk, lifestyle changes and earlier and/or more aggressive therapeutic intervention in high-risk groups should help to reduce disease complications and hospitalizations, promote better quality of life for patients, and contribute to lower healthcare costs.
The new guidelines build on significant progress in recent years to decrease cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. It is particularly encouraging that death rates from heart disease and stroke are falling. Thanks in large part to new medicines, deaths due to these two conditions decreased by 30 percent between 2001 and 2011.
Our member companies are dedicated to improving and saving the lives of those diagnosed with or at risk for heart disease or stroke. According to the Medicines in Development report issued by PhRMA in May, biopharmaceutical research companies are studying an impressive 215 medicines to treat these conditions. Together, we will continue to build on the progress to date and help patients live longer, healthier lives.
Click here to view the updated AHA/ACC guidelines.
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OAKLAND -- About 500 people gathered Thursday afternoon in downtown Oakland for a moment of silence for victims of police brutality and to remember Michael Brown, the teen whose fatal shooting by police has rocked a suburb of St. Louis, Mo.
The group gathered in Oakland fell silent at 4:20 p.m. for about 10 minutes, many with their heads bowed clutching a small lit white candle. The quiet was broken as dozens of people began raising their hands and chanting "Hands up, don't shoot," a refrain used by protesters in Ferguson, Mo, as they stood before police dressed in riot gear.
Signs at the rally called for justice for Michael Brown and for Oscar Grant, who was shot and killed by a BART police officer in 2009, and Alan Blueford, shot and killed by an Oakland police officer in 2012.
Blueford's mother, Jeralynn, told the crowd that Brown's killing had reopened emotional wounds she suffered when her son was killed.
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"(Michael Brown's) life mattered. I'm Mike Brown. I am Alan Blueford. You can't shoot these kids down with their hands up. ... None of these people deserved that."
The National Moment of Silence for Victims of Police Brutality, organized online, listed 90 vigils across the country that would participate with a moment of silence and solidarity.
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- C.L. Dye asserts that it was incorrectly reported that he solicited the sale of liquor in dry territory. Dye says that his name appears on advertising matter sent out by a local saloon, but he in no way endorses it.
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SANTA CLARA -- Jim Harbaugh's wife Sarah vowed last season to do something about the 49ers coach's pleated khakis, and she's hilariously accomplishing that feat.
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Two days after the 49ers' clinched a berth in last season's NFC Championship game, Sarah Harbaugh called into 99.7 FM and shared her dismay in her husband's daily choice of pants. "I will not take the blame for his outfits," Sarah said on the show. "I've thrown them away many of times. I've asked him: 'Please, pleats are gone. Wear the flat front.' He has a flattering body."
Harbaugh doesn't have any lines in the Dockers (no pleated pun, intended). But he did address his wardrobe in January following his wife's radio interview.
"They were making quite a bit of sport of me. But, problem solved there," Harbaugh said. "Well, the Levi's and the Nike and the Dickies makes a flat khaki so happy wife, happy life."
Harbaugh previously has worn Dickies khakis. Dockers are made by Levi's Strauss & Co., which owns the naming rights for the 49ers' new Santa Clara stadium. The 49ers' practice-field and game-day attire is sponsored by Nike.


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It's the sound of Jimmy Smith's "The Sermon" and Santana's "Soul Sacrifice" -- the sound of the Hammond B-3 organ, powerful like a pipe organ. It's as big as a casket, and weighing in at 425 pounds, it's not easy to schlep around.
"I'm too old to be doing this," said Pete Fallico, 66, the longtime Bay Area jazz radio DJ and a regular at KCSM-FM.
He is the heart of the region's thriving B-3 organ scene, a B-3 promoter and historian, a friend to organists far and wide -- and a full-service B-3 schlepper. "I would like to find somebody to match my enthusiasm. I don't want to sound pompous, but who the hell else is going to do it?"
When B-3 organist Wil Blades performs Wednesday in Oakland, and when Hammond specialist Wayne De La Cruz performs Thursday with singer Pamela Rose in Santa Cruz, they will play organs delivered by Fallico, who lives in San Jose's Willow Glen neighborhood. Though he isn't himself a musician, he owns six vintage B-3s and has devised his own dolly system for carting them around. "It's a lot of huffin' and puffin,' " he said.
The Santa Cruz show is a benefit for the Jazz Organ Fellowship, Fallico's nonprofit foundation, dedicated to upholding the B-3's legacy -- in the black church, in blues and jazz, in rhythm 'n' blues, even country and rock, too. The B-3 organ "sits there in that sweet spot where jazz and blues kind of meet up, and that's a happy thing," said vocalist Rose. "I love having that big lush sound behind me. It just kind of sets my nerve endings on fire."
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The Bay Area is one of the power centers for B-3 activity, from young turks Brian Ho in Sunnyvale and Blades in Berkeley to veterans John Turk in San Francisco and Roger Smith (of Tower of Power) in Sacramento. Gregg Rolie, who played the B-3 behind Carlos Santana on "Soul Sacrifice" and "Evil Ways," lives in the Bay Area, as do his key successors with Santana's band, Chester Thompson and Dave Matthews. (Thompson and Matthews also have played in Tower of Power.)
Fallico knows them all. Over 40 years, he has interviewed scores of B-3 organists on his radio shows and podcasts (at www.doodlinlounge.com). Through his Doodlin' Productions company, he has recorded 16 albums (for Doodlin' Records, his own label) and produced many concerts, often flying obscure B-3 artists to the Bay Area at his own expense and with little recompense.
His friends have included jazz organ legends: the late Jimmy Smith, Jimmy McGriff and "Brother" Jack MacDuff, who once tried teaching Fallico to play the B-3. (No luck.) When current B-3 master Dr. Lonnie Smith comes to town, he stays with Fallico and wife Joanne; he'll do it again this month.
"I've been there a million times," said Joey DeFrancesco, another B-3 legend. "We need about a hundred guys like Pete."
Fallico grew up in the South Bay and attended San Jose State University, where his father, Arturo Fallico, was a philosophy professor. Pete Fallico studied speech pathology and audiology, receiving a master's degree in 1971. He became a speech pathologist in the public schools by day, and played B-3 records on the radio at night, first on KKUP-FM in Cupertino, then on KUSP-FM in Santa Cruz, where his show "The Doodlin' Lounge" was a fixture for 28 years.
Sitting in his home office, Fallico expounded on the B-3's history: "The Hammond organ is an electromechanical device and it was invented by Laurens Hammond, who was a clockmaker. He also invented things like card shufflers and 3-D glasses."
How it works
The organ contains 91 "tone wheels" that spin past magnetized rods, generating an electric current, much like what happens in an automobile's alternator. The organist controls the volume of individual pitches and the strength of special effects -- vibrato and the throbbing "chorus" setting -- with banks of metal sliders, known as drawbars. He or she plays bass lines, too, by "kicking" at a rack of foot pedals.
The first Hammond organ, the Model A, went to market in 1934. Fats Waller bought one for his Manhattan apartment. In 1955, the B-3 was rolled out: hail to the chief! (Production ended in 1975.) It unleashed another crucial effect: the "percussion" feature, which adds overtones to sustained notes and chords, creating sounds that percolate, flutter and let the organist fly straight up to the mountain top, assisted by the B-3's partner, a giant Leslie speaker. (Housed in its own cabinet, the size of a small closet, it weighs another 200 pounds; more to schlep.)
When Jimmy Smith got hold of this instrument, a jazz revolution began, Fallico said. He sounded excited, but looked exhausted, having been up for nearly 24 hours. The night before, he had driven a B-3 to the Kuumbwa Jazz Center in Santa Cruz for a gig by Booker T. Jones. Yes, as in Booker T. & the M.G.s, the man who composed and recorded "Green Onions" in 1962.
"It's the No. 1 organ hit of all time!" Fallico had shouted during the sound check before the show.
Later, Booker T. and his band played "Green Onions" for the crowd, making the organ simmer and burble. He nibbled at notes, teasingly, building his groove, then wailed on a series of sustained high notes to excruciating effect. And, oh, the cruelty of it, as he ramped the intensity up still more, clustering his chords to create that big throbbing B-3 sound explosion. Now, Jones was rocking behind the organ. His band was rocking, too, and so was the audience, which included Pete Fallico, who would rather listen to B-3 music than to any other music in the world.
Why? "Because it's the people's music," he said.
Contact Richard Scheinin at 408-920-5069, read his stories and reviews at www.mercurynews.com/richard-scheinin and follow him on Twitter at www.twitter.com/richardscheinin.
B-3 organists' Shows
Duende: Wil Blades, 9 p.m., Feb. 5, Duende, 468 19th St., Oakland, $10, duendeoakland.com
Kuumbwa Jazz Center: Wayne De La Cruz with vocalist Pamela Rose, 7 p.m., Feb. 6, 320-2 Cedar St., Santa Cruz; $22; www.kuumbwajazz.org (a benefit for Pete Fallico's Jazz Organ Fellowship Foundation)
Also: Tony Monaco, Feb. 13, Kuumbwa Jazz Center, Santa Cruz, www.kuumbwajazz.org. Dr. Lonnie Smith, Feb. 16, Douglas Beach House, Half Moon Bay, www.bachddsoc.org, and Feb. 17, Kuumbwa Jazz Center. Joey DeFrancesco, Feb. 20-23, SFJazz Center, San Francisco, www.sfjazz.org. Wil Blades, Feb. 27, Cafe Stritch, San Jose,www.cafestritch.org.


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Henderson and Transylvania public schools are on a two-hour delay because of icy roads. The National Weather Service is calling for highs to only reach into the upper 30s today with winds between 11 and 15 mph.
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Disk Inventory X is a disk usage utility for Mac OS X 10.3 (and later). It shows the sizes of files and folders in a special graphical way called "treemaps".
If you've ever wondered where all your disk space has gone, Disk Inventory X will help you to answer this question.
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Tip: you can use cmd+alt to drop a folder to its dock icon
Download link gives a powerpc version, the universal binary is here:
Scanning my 440GB of files used ~1,3GB of resident RAM and then hung the program :-/
The beta version is absurdly faster on Intel Macs, startup went from 1-2mins to as many seconds, drives with 850GB of stuff scanned in a minute, window resizes instantly (instead of 30 seconds of redrawing) - it's usable again!
The Folder-sidebar view is extremely useful (especially in conjunction with the block'y view - click a folder and it highlights it in the main view)
Universal version here:
is the something along the lines of disksweeper?
Removed the universal flag until next version comes out
Version 1.0 is not a universal binary, as the page suggests. A new, Universal version is in beta: http://www.derlien.com/dixforum/viewtopic.php?t=62
Call me a hater, but I found it to be very taxing on the eyes.
there's an app called "WhatSize" that does a very similar job
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Akil Bordelon caught a short pass from Lamont Smith and ran 15-yards to put the Yellowjackets up with 52 seconds left in the game, and Berkeley's defense did just enough to stop a late Dragons' rally and remain unbeaten in West Alameda County League play.
Bordelon's run-and-catch score capped a Yellowjackets' 12-play, 80-drive that began with 5:04 left in the game. The junior wide receiver also kept the Berkeley (4-4, 4-0) drive alive on a third-and-5 play, breaking two tackles in the backfield and registering a 9-yard gain with 1:39 remaining.
Bishop O'Dowd (6-3, 2-2 WACL) forced Berkeley's hand after scoring on a fourth-and-18 play in which quarterback Kevin King found De'zhon Grace for a 38-yard touchdown pass with 5:04 to play.
The Dragons had one last chance after Bryce Grandison's 15-yard run finished inside Berkeley's 25, but even with a dead ball flag on Berkeley after the play, the referees ruled that with no time remaining on the clock and Bishop O'Dowd out of time outs, the game was over, Dragons coach Hardy Nickerson said.


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- Sep 24:
- Raiders' Terrelle Pryor insists he's ready to play after concussion against Broncos
- Oakland Raiders secondary has no solution for Broncos' Peyton Manning
- Sep 23:
- Purdy: Raiders quarterback Terrelle Pryor provides glimmer of hope
- Oakland Raiders' Darren McFadden held in check by Denver Broncos
- By the numbers: Oakland Raiders vs. Denver Broncos
- Oakland Raiders lose to Denver Broncos 37-21
- Oakland Raiders notebook: Matt Flynn sees first action, leads late touchdown drive
Grading the Raiders' 37-21 loss to the Denver Broncos on Monday night:
Passing offense
Quarterback Terrelle Pryor was 19 of 28 for 281 yards, including a 73-yard touchdown pass to Denarius Moore, and had a passer rating of 112.4. Much of his work came in the pocket, where he is an improving passer. Matt Flynn came in after Pryor had a late concussion and promptly threw a 19-yard strike to Marcel Reece to the 1-yard line. Darren McFadden threw a 16-yard touchdown pass to Reece. Moore had six receptions for 124 yards.
Grade: B
Rushing offense
Erase Pryor's 36 yards on four carries, including a 23-yard scramble, and the Raiders had 13 carries for 13 yards. McFadden had 12 carries and gained nine yards. The Raiders had two rushing first downs in a game where they had to stuff the Broncos to keep Peyton Manning off the field.
Grade: F
Pass defense
Manning was 32 of 37 for 374 yards and three first-half touchdowns. He had time to throw, and receivers broke free consistently. He also threw into tightly contested coverage and completed those passes as well. Cornerback Mike Jenkins got a finger on one pass and it ended up a 61-yard completion to Eric Decker (8 catches 133 yards).
Grade: F
Rush defense
With the Raiders tiring in the late going, Denver had little trouble controlling the action and gashing the Raiders with regularity. The Broncos had 164 yards on 35 carries with a long of 19 yards and the Raiders seldom got past the Denver line to do damage in the backfield. Ronnie Hillman had 66 yards on nine carries and Monte Ball 61 yards on 11 attempts.
Grade: D-minus
Special teams
Marquette King punted six times for a 52.5 average with a 43.5 net. Jacoby Ford attempted to run out the opening kickoff and only got as far as the 14-yard line. Trindon Holliday broke a 20-yard punt to aid Denver in its first scoring drive. The Raiders attempted no field goals and Denver had just one kickoff return for 8 yards.
Grade: C
Anyone else find it strange that Raiders coach Dennis Allen thought a Hail Mary into the end zone was a better chance play than a 68-yard field goal attempt by Sebastian Janikowski in the thin Denver air? Hoping for the pass interference, possibly. Really hard to imagine how coaching impacted this game. Oakland's players were simply beaten on both sides of the ball by better players on this night, both at the point of attack and at the skill positions.
Grade: C
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INCLINE VILLAGE, Nev. - This was the frontier, until President Jefferson sent Lewis & Clark to forage a new frontier. I highly recommend Stephen Ambrose's account of that expedition, "Undaunted Courage." The hardships those men and one woman endured for more than two years makes me feel like a cream filled clair, and this is where it all started, St. Louis - Gateway to the West.Unable to discover a discarded section of log-raft floating down the Mississippi like Huck and Jim once did, I purchased a ticket on the sternwheeler Becky Thatcher for a 21st century reintroduction to the Big Brown God. The Mighty Mississippi does not look as mighty as she did when I was out here in 1993. She's 53 feet lower in this draught than she was during the big flood.The joy for me revolves around revisiting the headquarters of a cub pilot named Sam Clemens when he was piloting the John J. Roe (or was it Row) back in 1859-61, the nadir of steamboat life on the Mississippi. Sam would return to this haven some 20 years later and lament, "I saw a drowsy St. Louis levee with half a dozen sound asleep steamboats where I used to see a mile of wide awake ones."The people here have always been honest, hospitable, inviting, and generous. When St. Louis morphed from steamboating to railroading following the Civil War, her young men could no longer get their exercise loading cargo on the levee, so they turned their attentions to sport. And today they love their sport all the more. When their reigning World Champion Cardinals are on the road and the boys cannot attend the games, they read the box scores. Have you ever seen anybody but a bookie read a box score in Nevada? Neither have I.The magnificent Arch takes one's breath away with its austere beauty. And the way this national emblem of opportunity plays light symphonies with the rising sun is simply awe inspiring. Wandering beneath the Arch in the morning sun moves one to compose a love song or a poem or something - anything. But then taking a tram to the top of the Arch has an opposite effect. The tram cars are so small that the five people cramped in a circle have to lock knees and refrain from speaking for fear the person directly across will busy herself counting your gold fillings. Then once you reach the 600 foot summit and exit the tram to witness the vast void that hangs beneath you, you only want to crawl back inside the tram and shout, "Yoohoo-Yoohoo, can we go back down now?"One old chestnut has it that an extreme sportsman once parachuted from the heavens to the top of the Arch, an amazing feat when you consider the summit is only 17 feet wide and only about the same width looking right and left before you start down a great and mighty slide. And that's where this celebrated swashbuckler's triumph took a turn for the worse, for as he was preparing a second shoot to make his final descent, a gust of wind started him to sliding, and well, let's just say that slide became his last big adventure.If you relish our country's history, and I know you do, then St. Louis is a delicious place for you to savor the past. And if you're comfortable in a good sports bar, you cannot find any more satisfying repose than in St. Louis, Missouri.- Learn more about McAvoy Layne at ghostoftwain.org.
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Flu season has yet to arrive in Alabama, but health officials expect it to hit hard once it does.
As many as 800,000 Alabamians, or 20 percent of the state's population, probably will get the flu this winter beginning in January and February, according to the health department.
For now, a flu-like respiratory virus and an intestinal virus are going around.
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30 November 2012
Locus 20th & 21st Centuries Poll
I'll post my choices after the jump here.
Because I did the poll at the last minute, the choices were as much impulsive as rational. I'm not much interested in differentiating science fiction and fantasy, so I paid only the barest attention to categorization. For lengths, I used the lists Locus posted or what I could find on ISFDB, and for the few items not on either, I just relied on my own memory and guessing.
Were I to write the lists now, or tomorrow, or next week, they would be different, both in content and order. Such is the nature of these things. Only a few items are absolute for me (e.g., Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand is the best science fiction novel ever written). Many of the choices are there not because I think they are Eternally & Canonically Important (though many are) but because they remain vivid and powerful reading experiences for me. Also, some things didn't make it on because I would need to reread them to decide — for instance, I couldn't pick one of the novellas from Le Guin's Four Ways to Forgiveness, because though I'm fairly sure one of them belongs on the list, I haven't read the book recently enough to decide between them. M. John Harrison's Viriconium probably belongs on there, too, but I couldn't decide on one of the books in particular, wasn't sure if the big collection would count as a single novel, and in any case had The Course of the Heart on there already (it's another absolute for me — no list of best 20th century fantasy novels is complete without it). And then there are things that probably belong on such a list, but I've never read them, such as Gormenghast. And then there are the obvious items I forgot and will be chastising myself for tomorrow.
I know of lists from a few other folks: Niall Harrison, Cheryl Morgan, Ian Sales. Once Locus publishes the results from the poll, I'll put a link here.
Finally, I am perfectly aware that I will be the only person voting for quite a few of these.
(Note: Because I cut-and-pasted these into the Locus poll form, I deliberately removed diacritical marks and any other punctuation that might mess up the tally. And I'm being lazy here and just pasting my master list in.)
20th century science fiction novel
1. Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand by Samuel R. Delany
2. Ubik by Philip K. Dick
3. 1984 by George Orwell
4. China Mountain Zhang by Maureen McHugh
5. 334 by Thomas M. Disch
6. Perdido Street Station by China Mieville
7. Wild Seed by Octavia E. Butler
8. The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
9. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
10. Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban
20th Century Fantasy Novel
1. The Castle by Franz Kafka
2. The Unnamable by Samuel Beckett
3. Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany
4. Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee
5. The Course of the Heart by M. John Harrison
6. The Affirmation by Christopher Priest
7. Explosion in a Cathedral by Alejo Carpentier
8. Neveryona by Samuel R. Delany
9. Mickelsson's Ghosts by John Gardner
10. Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
20th Century SF/F Novella
1. The Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka
2. Empire Star, by Samuel R. Delany
3. The Stains, by Robert Aickman
4. Great Work of Time, by John Crowley
5. Souls, by Joanna Russ
6. Pastoralia, by George Saunders
7. Pork Pie Hat, by Peter Straub
8. R&R, by Lucius Shepard
9. The King's Indian: A Tale, by John Gardner
10. Mr. Boy, by James Patrick Kelly
20th Century SF/F Novelette
1. Invaders, by John Kessel
2. The Man Who Painted the Dragon Griaule, by Lucius Shepard
3. The Asian Shore, by Thomas M. Disch
4. The Hell Screen, by Ryunosuke Akutagawa
5. The Hospice, by Robert Aickman
6. A Little Something for Us Tempunauts, by Philip K. Dick
7. The Juniper Tree, by Peter Straub
8. Solitude, by Ursula K. Le Guin
9. Bloodchild, by Octavia E. Butler
10. Sea Oak, by George Saunders
20th Century SF/F Short Story
1. A Country Doctor, by Franz Kafka
2. Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius, by Jorge Luis Borges
3. The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas, by Ursula K. Le Guin
4. Day Million, by Frederik Pohl
5. The School, by Donald Barthelme
6. Your Faces, O My Sisters! Your Faces Filled of Light!, by Raccoona Sheldon
7. Or All the Seas with Oysters, by Avram Davidson
8. The Terminal Beach, by J.G. Ballard
9. Abominable, by Carol Emshwiller
10. One Ordinary Day, with Peanuts, by Shirley Jackson
21st Century SF Novel
1. Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon
2. Light by M. John Harrison
3. Liberation by Brian Francis Slattery
4. Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders by Samuel R. Delany
5. Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor
21st Century Fantasy Novel
1. Shriek: An Afterword by Jeff VanderMeer
2. The People of Paper by Salvador Plascencia
3. The City & The City by China Mieville
4. Oh Pure & Radiant Heart by Lydia Millet
5. One for Sorrow by Christopher Barzak
21st Century SF/F Novella
1. Tainaron, by Leena Krohn
2. A Crowd of Bone, by Greer Gilman
3. Magic for Beginners, by Kelly Link
4. Near Zennor, by Elizabeth Hand
5. Memorare, by Gene Wolfe
21st Century SF/F Novelette
1. Stone Animals, by Kelly Link
2. Only Partly Here, by Lucius Shepard
3. Yellow Card Man, by Paolo Bacigalupi
4. The Empire of Ice Cream, by Jeffrey Ford
5. Revenge of the Calico Cat, by Stepan Chapman
21st Century SF/F Short Story
1. There's a Hole in the City, by Richard Bowes
2. Cold Fires, by M. Rickert
3. Abraham Lincoln Has Been Shot, by Daniel Alarcon
4. Delhi, by Vandana Singh
5. Safe Passage, by Ramona Ausubel
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In spite of it being ridiculously early in the century to pick a 'best of' list you have an interesting reading list here. Title's I know and enjoy and titles I've not heard of before now. I assume those will be the ones only your are voting for. I'll have to take a look at the master list at Locus. Thanks for posting this.ReplyDelete
Any list with Avram Davidson and Donald Barthelme on it is all right by me.ReplyDelete
The whole 20th century is too much for me to handle, but I was thinking of taking a crack at the 21st century list. You might have already nailed it, though.
I put my Locus poll on my blog and I'm pleased to say we have some overlap. I'll be mining your list for reading.ReplyDelete
A fascinating collection of lists. I'm sad or happy to say I've not read the large majority of the items on them. I missed the deadline, but if I hadn't my lists would all have had fewer items than called for, if any at all. I love you more than a little for having so many Delany titles on your lists. Stars in My Pocket wouldn't make it onto any of my lists, nor Delany's for that matter; though his opinion of it has warmed considerably in recent years, for a decade-long stretch there he considered it hands down the worst novel he'd ever written. I could see the Prologue to Stars in My Pocket being a good candidate for greatest SF novella ever written, but the novel as a whole? Never. Besides, the greatest SF novel ever written is without a doubt Engine Summer, I'm in complete agreement with Connie Willis on that score. Dhalgren a great fanstasy novel? Bless you! I had it second on the SF list. You are a rebel, sir. A damn smart one too. I haven't read Against the Day but I could readily see Mason & Dixon on the Fantasy list. I concur with you on Neveryona and "Great Work of Time". I would include Swanwick's "Trojan Horse" among the SF novellas or novelettes. And so on. Not much else from me -- so little qualifies, or the things I hope might qualify I feel unqualified to determine, even for myself. Or I can't remember what I've read, it's mostly that really. From KSR, it would be "A History of the 20th Century, with Illustrations". I'd put Tours of the Black Clock on some list or other, so too Kate Horsley's The Changeling of Finnistuath.ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks, Ron! (And that reminds that I've been meaning to reread Engine Summer for far too long, because I think I was about 18 when I last read it. But I've just decided to go through the whole Aegypt cycle, which I've been putting off for a while now, so that's the Crowley I'm working on at the moment.)Delete
I debated Mason & Dixon actually, wondering if it fit as fantasy -- certainly, it's as much fantasy as Against the Day is SF, and is my favorite Pynchon novel (must admit I've not yet been able to finish Gravity's Rainbow), so I probably should have included it. Ahh well, all lists contain their own self-destruct mechanisms.
I decided a year or two ago that I was just going to buckle down and decide once and for all that Stars in My Pocket is The Best Science Fiction Novel, because that way when people ask, I have an answer ready at hand. (So many other people say Dune. Pah!) My criteria are idiosyncratic and mostly go back to my feeling that it sums up a certain tendency in the history of SF from roughly July 1939 to its publication, and so it stands as a kind of end point of that classical SFness -- taking it about as far as it can go, exploding a lot of its assumptions, and leaving us with a complete incompleteness. Since then, SF seems to have been working its way back toward 1939, so I expect the next iteration of the Greatest Science Fiction Novel to be published in 2029 (as Stars in My Pocket was published 45 years after 1939). I recognize that mine is perhaps a minority opinion... (Although Carl Freedman, at least, also sees it as among the great SF novels, and in his introduction to the Wesleyan edition says it is the book "that, more decisively than any other, has defined for me just what science fiction is capable of and why it is worth bothering about." So there are two of us in the world!)
I had never until this moment even heard of The Changeling of Finnistuath, so I am thrilled to have a new book to seek out! (Tours of the Black Clock I actually have a copy of but, as with so many other volumes littering the house, have not yet gotten to read it.)
I also did the poll at the very last minute: I discovered it only a couple of hours before its conclusion. I have mainly limited myself to works from the mainstream of English f/sf/h as I see it - broadening it to other traditions or approaches to the fantastic would have enlarged the field of possible choices too much.ReplyDelete
So no Bruno Schulz or Coetzee, no Donoso or Tournier, no Cortázar or Manganelli or Monterroso, no Janet Frame or Muriel Spark, to name but a few favorite authors who could have fit in. Some less orthodox choices managed to sneak in while I wasn't looking, however.
On rereading I would probably rearrange many positions; apart from the first 2-3 places the order is generally fluid. I should have found some place for Sheckley and Cordwainer Smith.
My Lists:ReplyDelete
20th century science fiction novel:
1: Russell Hoban, Riddley Walker
2: Joanna Russ, We Who Are About To...
3: Thomas Disch, 334
4: Jack Womack, Random Acts of Senseless Violence
5: Karen Joy Fowler, Sarah Canary
6: John Crowley, Engine Summer
7: Raphael Carter, The Fortunate Fall
8: Stanislaw Lem, His Master's Voice
9: Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, The Final Circle of Paradise
10: D. G. Compton, The Unsleeping Eye
20th Century Fantasy Novel
1: M John Harrison, The Course of the Heart
2: Alan Garner, The Owl Service
3: John Crowley, Little, Big
4: Anna Maria Ortese, L'iguana (The Iguana)
5: Barbara Comyns, The Vet's Daughter
6: Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle
7: Mervyn Peake, Gormenghast
8: Stella Benson, Living Alone
9: Flann O' Brien, The Third Policeman
10: Russell Hoban, Kleinzeit
20th Century SF/F Novella
1: James Tiptree Jr, Houston, Houston, Do You Read?
2: John Crowley, Great Work of Time
3: Gene Wolfe, The Fifth Head of Cerberus
4: Joanna Russ, Souls
5: Arthur Machen, The White People
6: Tommaso Landolfi, Cancroregina (Cancerqueen)
7: Michael Bishop, Death and Designation Among the Asadi
8: C L Moore, Vintage Season
9: Samuel Delany, The Tale of Gorgik
10: Gardner Dozois, Chains of the Sea
20th Century SF/F Novelette
1: Joanna Russ, The Second Inquisition
2: James Tiptree Jr, The Girl Who Was Plugged In
3: Thomas M. Disch, The Asian Shore
4: Avram Davidson, The Sources of the Nile
5: Henry James, The Friends of the Friends
6: M John Harrison, Gifco
7: M John Harrison, Egnaro
8: Robert Aickman, The Hospice
9: Robert Holdstock, Mythago Wood
10: Steven Millhauser, The Barnum Museum
20th Century SF/F Short Story
1: Thomas M. Disch, Angouleme
2: James Tiptree Jr, The Man Who Wouldn't Do Bad Things To Rats
3: Pamela Zoline, The Heath Death of the Universe
4: Elizabeth Bowen, The Demon Lover
5: Shirley Jackson, One Ordinary Day, with Peanuts
6: John Sladek, A Report on the Migration of Educational Materials
7: Karen Joy Fowler, The Elizabeth Complex
8: Richard McKenna, Casey Agonistes
9: R. A. Lafferty, Old Foot Forgot
10: Carol Emshwiller, Abominable
21st Century SF Novel
1: M John Harrison, Light
2: Gwyneth Jones, Spirit
3: Jan Morris, Hav
4: Jon Courtenay Grimwood, Pashazade
5: Christopher Priest, The Separation
21st Century Fantasy Novel
1: Alan Garner, Boneland
2: Nicola Barker, Darkmans
3: Hilary Mantel, Beyond Black
4: Russell Hoban, Angelica Lost and Found
5: Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
21st Century SF/F Novella
1: Kelly Link, Magic for Beginners
2: Elizabeth Hand, Illyria
3: Greer Gilman, A Crowd of Bone
4: Leena Krohn, Tainaron
5: Paul Di Filippo, A Year in the Linear City
21st Century SF/F Novelette
1: Kelly Link, Stone Animals
2: Cristopher Rowe, The Voluntary State
3: Rachel Swirsky, Eros Philia Agape
4: Glen Hirshberg, Struwwelpeter
5: Laird Barron, Strappado
21st Century SF/F Short Story
1: Karen Joy Fowler, What I Didn't See
2: Maureen McHugh, Useless Things
3: Karen Joy Fowler, The Pelican Bar
4: Ian R. Macleod, Isabel of the Fall
5: Eleanor Arnason, The Grammarian's Five Daughters
- Mark Short1/01/2013 3:09 AM
Hi Matthew,ReplyDelete
I was going over your very interesting lists and noticed that you have included Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders by Samuel R. Delany. According to Locus' rules, this is invalid because it was first published in 2011: you were supposed to choose works first published in 2001–2010. I don't know whether you would like to replace this work with a valid one or not (for the benefit of your readers, not for the Locus poll!).
Thanks, Mark -- I missed that rule (obviously). But no, I like being invalid, so I'll keep it!ReplyDelete


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A renewal levy in the Switzerland of Ohio failed at the ballot Tuesday. The proposed three-year, 2.5-mill tax levy would have funded permanent improvements, including textbooks, computers and buses and raised $600,000 a year for the district.
In Monroe County, 1,509 voters, or 47.66 percent, voted for the levy and 1,657 voters, or 52.34 percent, voted against it.
In Noble County, 45 people voted for the levy and 65 voted against it.
In Belmont County, 375 people voted for the levy and 546 voted against it.
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Two separate proposed tax levy renewals for the Morgan County Board of Developmental Disabilities were approved by voters there.
One is a 1.28-mill, six-year levy, while the other is a 1.97-mill, five-year levy.
"The 1.97 (mills) was originally passed for tax year 2002 and it generates $424,000 a year and (for) a $100,000 home is $45.46 a year," said Morgan County Auditor Gary Woodward. "The 1.28 (mills) was originally passed for tax year 2006 (and) it generates $294,000 a year and (for a) $100,000 home is $32.74 a year."
The 1.28-mill levy is "for the purpose of providing programs and services for persons with mental retardation and developmental disabilities and provide for the acquisition, construction, renovation, financing, maintenance, and operation of mental retardation and developmental disabilities facilities operated by or contracted through the Morgan County Board of Developmental Disabilities," according to the ballot.
The 1.97-mill levy is for the purpose of funding programs and services and for the acquisition, construction, renovation, financing, maintenance and operation for Mary Hammond Programs, according to the ballot. The first levy passed with 59.03 percent of the vote, with 2,836 people in favor of it and 1,827 against it. The second levy passed with 58.28 percent of the vote, with 2,800 people in favor of it and 1,864 against it.
Noble County issues
A levy that would have provided funding for the Ohio Cooperative Extension Service failed with 2,525 people voting for it and 2,255 people voting against it. The proposed 1-mill, five-year tax levy would have gone toward activities and programs related to 4-H, agriculture, natural resources, home economics and economic development. Voters approved the continuation of a 911 user fee that adds 50 cents a month to the phone bills of county residents. In favor of the fee were 3,478 people, while 1,298 people voted against it.
A tax levy for the Noble Soil and Water Conservation District failed, with 1,977 people voting for it and 2,750 people voting against it. It was a renewal of a three-tenths mill levy, which would have been in place five years, and would have cost the owner of a home valued at $100,000 a total of $10 a year.
The proposed tax levy for senior citizens services was approved, with 3,246 people voting for it and 1,483 people voting against it. It was a renewal of a four-tenths mill levy. It will be in place five years and raise almost $80,000 a year, according to the county auditor's office. The owner of a property valued at $50,000 will pay about $5 a year.


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In trying to get over the trauma of my childhood Lent pizza, I decided to take it on the Mags way and see what I could come up with. This pizza uses a white sauce instead of the traditional tomato sauce and lots of flavor is added with wild mushrooms, garlic, thyme and just a hint of heat with some crushed red pepper flakes. Truth be known, I was just going to use a can of Campbell's mushroom soup but found none in the pantry. Now I'm glad I was out of it.
The real prize for me was in finally coming up with the perfect pizza dough recipe to use with this pizza. I will post that recipe at another time, so feel free to use any pizza dough recipe you like. One pound of dough and the sauce and toppings listed below will yield two 12" pizzas.
1/4 ounce dried mushroom blend
1 cup chicken broth
1 TBSP butter
2 TBSP olive oil, divided
2 cloves garlic, minced
1/4 tsp onion powder
1/2 tsp dried thyme, divided
pinch of crushed red pepper flakes
2 TBSP flour
1/2 cup half & half (I would have used whole milk but I was out)
salt and pepper
2 TBSP grated parmesan cheese
8 oz white button mushrooms, sliced
1 onion, diced
2 cans of tuna, drained
3 cups shredded mozzarella cheese
Remove pizza dough from refrigerator one hour before making the pizza. Divide dough into two equal balls. Spray cooking spray on countertop then place dough there and cover loosely with plastic wrap.
About a half hour before planning on baking the pizza, place baking stone in oven on middle rack and preheat oven to 500 degrees.
Heat chicken broth to boiling. Add dried mushrooms and let soak for at least 15 minutes. Drain mushrooms, reserving the liquid. Finely dice the mushrooms, discarding any rubbery pieces or stems.
Heat butter and one TBSP of the olive oil in a large skillet. Add the soaked/diced mushrooms, garlic, onion powder, 1/4 tsp of the dried thyme and crushed red pepper flakes. Saute for a minute or two then sprinkle in the flour. Cook and stir the mixture for two minutes, making sure that the flour doesn't burn, then slowly add in the reserved mushroom/chicken broth, whisking constantly until smooth. Add the half & half and remove pan from heat. Stir in the grated parmesan cheese. Set aside.
In another skillet heat remaining TBSP of olive oil. Add the sliced button mushrooms and onions. Season with salt, pepper and the remaining 1/4 tsp of dried thyme. Saute until onions have softened and the mushrooms have given up their moisture. Set aside.
Spray a piece of parchment paper with cooking spray. Gently work the dough into a 12" circle (or oblong as mine ended up.) If the dough resists, just let it rest for a few more minutes before trying to stretch it again.
Using a pizza peel, transfer parchment paper/pizza dough to baking stone. Bake for 5 minutes. Remove pizza from oven and top with 1/2 the sauce, followed by half the mozzarella cheese, one can of drained tuna, and then half of the onion/mushroom mixture. Return pizza to oven and bake for an addition 7-9 minutes or until cheese is bubbly and crust is browned around the edges.
Repeat above instructions for the other half pound of the pizza dough.


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Private Equity to Help Boost China's Media Sector
Around 370 million households in China have a television set, just over three times more than in the U.S., so it comes as no surprise that some private equity firms are establishing funds that will solely invest in Chinese media-related companies.
One such player is the Phoenix Media Fund, which is currently raising a debut dollar-denominated fund, with a first close slated for later this year, said Partner Peter Schloss. Hong Kong-listed broadcaster Phoenix TV–which counts as a shareholder News Corp., owner of Dow Jones & Co. –is Phoenix Media Fund's co-general partner.
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Mr. Schloss is no stranger to the media world, although a lawyer by profession, he previously worked for STAR TV, which is now owned by News Corp.'s founder Rupert Murdoch, as a general counsel and in senior management. Many of Phoenix Media Fund's investment professionals hail from yuan-denominated fund manager Hao Kai, a spin off from Hao Capital, a Beijing-based private equity firm that manages dollar vehicles.
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