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A lot on display at sportsmen's show
There was a lot of headgear on display at the Sportsmen's Show at S&S Taxidermy in Springville Saturday. Bob Turk gave this columnist an invite to attend and check out the events. He and his son, Bob Jr., were on hand along with other official deer antler scorers from the New York State Big Buck Club. The Turks, along with Pete Labushesky and Don Haseley, took official measurements of deer antlers to see if the hunters' prized antlers measured up to be qualified in prestigious record books like the Boone and Crockett (guns) and Pope and Young (archery). The group also measured bear skulls to see if they qualify for their respective record books. Many readers may recall hunting season, when a reference will be made about the size of the deer rack being "green-scored" at around 145.
To become an official measurement, the antlers (or skull) must be kept intact and allowed to air dry for at least 60 days after the animal was tagged and taken from a field. The skull or rack cannot be frozen or stored in a freezer during that period. Then, after the mandatory 60-day drying period, the official scorers will measure the antlers using a strict regiment of instructions to arrive at a final score. To enter the record book, gun bucks must be a minimum score of 140 for a typical rack or 165 for a non-typical rack. For archery, the minimum scores are 120 and 145, respectively, and for muzzleloader, 145 and 165. Shed antlers also have their own division so non-hunters can also participate in seeking out a trophy of their own. By the time I left the event, one of the highest-scored set of antlers was a 160.1 rack taken during gun season.
I also got to meet Christian "Hoot" Gerling and his mom, Lynn. "Hoot" and his mom have undertaken a growing business manufacturing real fur hats. Gerling has been involved in the fur trade industry for 29 years while his mom has been a seamstress for most of her adult life. "Hoot" purchases raw furs , deer hides, and a complete line of trapping supplies as well as fur tanning products. A couple of years ago, "Hoot" thought it would be a good idea to wear a fur hat at fur auctions so he traded an Amish trapper for one he was wearing. It was a hit.
Lots of people asked him where they could get their own fur hat. Hoot took the hat home to his mom and asked if she could make her own hat, replied she could. Since that day the Gerlings estimate they have made, and sold, over 1,000 fur hats and the calls keep coming in. Most hats take between 2-4 hours to make. The hats vary in price with the most exotic one – the bobcat fur "mountain man" cap – the most expensive. The skunk hat is the most popular with red fox and beaver hats right behind. Opossum hats are also en vogue. Gerling commented that fur is now back in fashion with the Russian and Chinese market showing a large demand for real fur. Even Playboy and Sports Illustrated models have been featured recently displaying fur fashion.
For more information on Hoots Furs and fur hats, go to www.hootsfurs.com or call (716) 397-1315.
Just a reminder that New York State Opening Day of trout and salmon season is tomorrow.
The Southtowns Walleye Tournament is June 8-16.
The New York State Walleye two-day team event tournament, the AMARA-CAN, is scheduled for July 13-14.
The Jamestown Rifle Club will hold a pistol class April 28. You must be 21 years old and a resident of Chautauqua County. All classes begin at 1 p.m. and last around four hours each. Call Pat Hayes at 484-9301 for information.
There will be a hunter safety training course at the Northern Chautauqua Conservation Club on April 18-19. This is a mandatory two-day course that will run from 5-10 p.m. both evenings. This course is free.
There will also be a pistol course at the Northern Chautauqua Conservation Club on April 20. There is a $55 fee charged for this course which will run from 9:30 a.m. until 2:30 p.m. To register or for more information, call Gary at 366-3397.
The Westfield Fish & Game Club, located on Ogden Road, will conduct a hunter safety firearms class starting Monday, April 15 from 7 p.m. until 10 p.m., The course will resume on Saturday, April 20 starting at 9 a.m. until 4 p.m. Students must be at least 12 years of age and attend both days. For more information call 326-3218.
There will be a firearms hunter safety course at the Bear Lake Rod & Gun Club on Friday, April 12 from 6 p.m. until 10 p.m. returning on Saturday, April 14 from 8:30 a.m. until 2:30 p.m. Call Rich at 595-3917 for pre-registration.
The 20th annual State of Lake Erie Meeting will be held April 11 at the Southtowns Walleye Association Club House located at 5895 Southwestern Blvd., Hamburg. The meeting is scheduled from 7 p.m. until 9 p.m. Lake Erie Fisheries Unit Leader Don Einhouse will speak on the warm water species, while Senior Fishery Biologist Jim Markham will focus on the cold water species. Dr. Chris Pennuto will cover invasive species and N.Y. Sea Grant representative Helen Domske will be the moderator.The meeting is free and open to the public.
For details on the State of Lake Ontario meeting that was held earlier this week, go to dec.ny.gov/outdoor/27068.
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Personnel will apply lampricides to Cattaraugus Creek to kill sea lamprey larvae burrowed in the stream bottom. Tentative dates for application (weather conditions permitting) began last Tuesday and will run until April 5 in accordance with state permits. Application would be complete in about six days.
Gun Shows:
Little Valley Volunteer Fire Department will host their Sportsmen's Show at the Cattaraugus County Fairgrounds, Route 353, Little Valley, on April 13-14. Call 938- 6928 for information.
Lander, Pa.: Sportsmen's Show will be April 20-21. Call 814-757-9466 for information.
The Westfield Fish & Game Club will host its annual Ham & Steak Shoot on April 14 at their clubhouse located on Ogden Road. The event will be held rain or shine. All legal centerfire firearms will be permitted. Ammo supplied for birdshot and deer slugs. The .22 Caliber shoot, which will be held indoors, is a bring-your-own-ammo event.
Gene Pauszek is an OBSERVER outdoors columnist. Send comments to email@example.com.
The 18th annual Friends of the NRA banquet will be on Saturday, April 27 at the Samuel Derby Post in Frewsburg. For tickets and information, contact Tom Kelly at 736-4386
Setting your sights ahead for Youth Events:
The Northern Chautauqua Conservation Club Take-A-Kid-Fishing Day is tentatively set for June 8. 2013.
The Lake Shore Longbeards JAKES Day event is set for July 15. The Longbeards are looking for people that have a talent related to the outdoors or outdoor activities that they would like to share/display at this event. Call 934-4538.


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The Fredonia Village Board was presented with a possible method to invest in the area's economy at Monday night's meeting.
During the workshop session, Northern Chautauqua County Local Economic Development Committee Chair Jay Warren presented the group's local waterfront revitalization plan (LWRP) to the board.
Warren said the LWRP is intended to promote economic development along the Lake Erie watershed by taking advantage of natural resources available in the area while protecting them and reducing any environmental impact. Money awarded for the plan would go toward projects like dredging, waterfront restoration and water quality improvements.
"Just to give an example, a plan was done for Chautauqua Lake that resulted in almost a million dollars worth of investment going into the community surrounding the lake," said Mark Geise of the Chautauqua County Depart-ment of Planning and Economic Development.
"The fact that they would guarantee the process up until state approval before we have to pay them says a lot about the plan to me," said Trustee Susan Mackay, who was involved with creating the LWRP the first time around in 2003, which was dropped after the Department of State told the committee it needed to be revised before consideration. "The work was done in 2003, and I don't think the area has changed too much in regards to the flood plain."
Mackay said the cost to the village in contributing to completing the plan would be $2,000.
She said she expects a resolution to approve the plan will be on the agenda within the next couple of board meetings.
According to Warren, eight out of the 12 local governments he has presented to around the area have passed resolutions to sign on to the project.
Last year, $15 million was awarded to 66 projects in New York state that were similar to the proposed LWRP. Communities that are awarded money are required to match the amount given to them for their projects.
"We're all looking for outside funding, and you don't see 50 percent project funding that often anymore … so we can all help and support each other in this project, whether it be tourism or infrastructure," said Chadwick Bay Regional Development Corp. Executive Director Kathy Tampio, who is helping with the LWRP. "A regional approach will fit a lot together."
Also during the workshop, Jeff Davis, a resident of University Park, presented a petition to the board to commence condemnation proceedings for an abandoned property at 28 University Park.
"There's been a large infestation of mold," said Davis. "It's just a liability to the neighboring properties and it certainly devalues the properties there."
"I agree with the condition, but the property is in the process of foreclosure," said Village Attorney Samuel Drayo.
Drayo said he will look into getting the Department of Health involved in the matter. He said it would be a long process to demolish the property, but it would be a matter of months, not years.
The board also passed a resolution to authorize purchase of a brand new custom pumper vehicle for the Fredonia Fire Department, costing about $500,000. The fire department provided a letter to the board, promising to pay for half of the total cost of the vehicle. Trustee Marc Ruckman was the only one to vote against the resolution.
The board also passed a resolution to accept a resignation letter from Ronald Johnson as acting Justice of Fredonia, effective immediately. Fredonia Mayor Stephen Keefe said Johnson would like to focus on running for the office of Chautauqua County executive.
As a result, the board appointed lifelong Fredonia resident Nancy Dietzen to replace Johnson, at the recommendation of Village Justice David Prince, until April. Dietzen has a private law practice in Fredonia.
The next regular meeting for the Fredonia Board is scheduled for June 24 at 7:30 p.m. in village hall.
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Andino singled and Manny bunted him to second. McLouth lined into a double play.
Johnson pitched a fine tenth.
Hardy struck out. So did Chavez. Jones flies out to right.
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Matt Wieters faces David Robertson to lead off the twelfth. He grounds out. Thome up. He grounds out. Mark Reynolds pops out. but they dropped it. In fair territory. Andino grounds out.
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Issue Brief #3777 on National Security and Defense
November 15, 2012
November 15, 2012 | Issue Brief on National Security and Defense
The Administration has now released a draft executive order (EO) on cybersecurity,[1] and with President Obama's recent re-election, the likelihood that the EO will be issued has only increased. Furthermore, Senate majority leader Harry Reid (D–NV) has promised to bring the similarly flawed Cybersecurity Act of 2012 up for another vote.
When the EO is issued, it is likely to be a significant step—and probably in the wrong direction. Republicans and Democrats in both the Senate and the House of Representatives rejected a regulatory approach to cybersecurity, but the new EO pushes a "voluntary" standard-setting model backed by existing regulatory authority, comparable to the Cybersecurity Act of 2012.
While the scope of the existing regulatory authority is ambiguous, the Administration has signaled its intention to push as far as existing rules allow—and perhaps further. Who, after all, will sue to stop the government from protecting against cyber threats? Backed by the threat of regulation and promises of further incentives and a federal procurement preference, this order will likely be very significant and very costly while not providing important cybersecurity solutions, such as effective information sharing.
Setting Ambiguous, Outdated Standards
The EO begins by giving the Secretary of Homeland Security just 150 days to identify critical infrastructure where a cyber incident "could reasonably result in a debilitating impact on national security, national economic security, or national public health and safety."
The defining word—debilitating—is highly ambiguous. Most of the legislative drafts for cybersecurity legislation that have been considered have used the words catastrophic or extraordinary to define the scope of harm that is to be avoided. Both seem to be intended to limit somewhat the ambit of government cyber regulation to those portions of the national infrastructure that are truly significant and national in scope. Both are much narrower than debilitating in what they connote.
The Oxford English Dictionary, for example, defines debilitating as "to render weak; weaken; enfeeble." That seems a fair bit short of "catastrophic" or "extraordinary" and suggests that the scope of the federal cyber regulation under the EO will be very broad indeed.
On the standard-setting side of the equation, the EO directs the director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to create something it calls the Cybersecurity Framework. NIST is highly regarded and has ample standard-setting authority already. On the other hand, the Cybersecurity Framework would be a "flexible and repeatable" approach intended to "help owners and operators of critical infrastructure identify, assess, and manage cyber risk and to protect privacy and civil liberties."
Such objectives are broad enough to encompass almost anything that NIST decides it wants to put in—which means, that, once again, no one has any idea what the U.S. is going to get at the end of the process. It could be amazingly expensive or totally toothless and costless. About the only thing that would not be in the standards is the specification of a particular technological solution.
NIST, however, would have only 180 days to publish a preliminary draft of the framework, with a final draft due to the Federal Register in a year. Creating major regulatory standards in one year is virtually impossible for the federal bureaucracy, but even at that pace, it is far too slow; by the time these rules are supposed to be finished and promulgated, computer speeds will have nearly doubled, meaning new threats and new vulnerabilities. A static approach to cybersecurity is necessarily ill-prepared to face these new cyber dangers.
"Voluntary" Standards
Beyond merely setting standards, the EO also makes three proposals in an attempt to coerce industry to follow these "voluntary" standards. After all, identifying critical infrastructure and standards is all well and good, but what if nobody follows the federal lead?
First, the Secretary of Homeland Security would encourage adoption of the framework by the owners of critical infrastructure. Exactly what incentives this would entail is completely undefined and left to the Secretary. Importantly, the EO has acknowledged that it cannot provide the one thing that private industry wants most: protection against liability if they suffer a cyber loss, notwithstanding the adoption of the framework.
The second part of the effort looks to have more teeth. Each sector-specific agency would be required to report to the President within 120 days on the extent of its existing regulatory authority to mandate cybersecurity for the industry for which it is responsible. The EO then says that within one year of the order being issued, agencies would be "encouraged" to propose regulations to mitigate cybersecurity risks. And when the President "encourages," the agencies will surely respond.
Third, buried at the end of the EO is the single piece of news that is likely to be its most effective part. Within 90 days, the Secretary of Defense and the director of the General Services Administration are to report to the President on whether or not a federal acquisition preference can be granted to vendors that meet cybersecurity standards, presumably the EO's Cybersecurity Framework. If feasible, this preference would be a huge carrot to incentivize voluntary compliance for anyone doing business with the federal government. Since many large vendors have or strive to have federal business, voluntary compliance would become effectively compulsory.
Regulatory Unknown Versus Nimble Solutions
In short, even at this stage, it is still impossible to know the answers to most of the questions Heritage has been asking about cybersecurity:
What is known for sure, however, is that the EO and similar legislative proposals portend a massive expansion of federal responsibility for cyber networks even as the federal government continues to have many cybersecurity failures of its own.[3] Congress therefore should:
A Step in the Wrong Direction
The U.S. needs responsive, nimble cybersecurity defenses and policies that will not come from more regulations or government-set standards. The Administration and Congress should consider this before starting down the wrong path with either an executive order or legislation.
—Paul Rosenzweig is a Visiting Fellow in the Center for Legal and Judicial Studies and the Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy Studies, a division of the Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for International Studies, at The Heritage Foundation.
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[1]See Paul Rosenzweig, "Thoughts on September Draft Cybersecurity Executive Order," Lawfare, November 2, 2012, http://www.lawfareblog.com/2012/11/thoughts-on-the-september-draft-cybersecurity-executive-order/ (accessed November 7, 2012).
[2]See Paul Rosenzweig, "Cybersecurity Legislation: Questions That Need to Be Answered," Heritage Foundation Issue Brief No. 3685, July 30, 2012, http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2012/07/questions-on-cybersecurity-that-need-to-be-answered.
[3]See Paul Rosenzweig, "The Alarming Trend of Cybersecurity Breaches and Failures in the U.S. Government," Heritage Foundation Backgrounder No. 2695, May 24, 2012, http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2012/05/the-alarming-trend-of-cybersecurity-breaches-and-failures-in-the-us-government.


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we're amazed that America, which is so much like Europe, still has the death penalty.
The answer to that is pretty simple: we have far more fundamentalist Christians here than you do. Much of France, the Netherlands, etc., is Catholic. Of course the Vatican is agaisnt the death penalty. Southern Baptists, which make up the largest protestant population in the U.S., are for the death penalty. I grew up in a Southern Baptist church. Most of my family members are Southern Baptist. I know why they believe the way they do because I was raised to believe that way. I don't think they are bad or evil people because they believe that way. They are God-fearing people that believe that's what should be done.
Religion plays a much larger role in this than you realize. I know it's ironic - killing in the name of God. Well, look at Islam.
I do think we will one day abolish the death penalty in the U.S. The Republican governor of Illinois placed a moritorium on the death penatly not long ago. It just takes people a long, long time to evolve.


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I have been drinking all kinds of tea for many years but Pu-Erh? I have never touched it. I feel like there are are a number of barriers to entering the Pu-Erh world and breaking through them alone is very daunting.
1. Where to start? I think I'd like to start out with a small quantity of three or so diverse teas and branch out from there but how does a complete novice pick and what characteristics should I be looking for in different varieties?
2. Expense. Good tea generally isn't cheap but Pu-Erh seems especially not, and I don't even know what I like yet. Spending up on a cake of tea and finding I don't like it doesn't seem like much fun.
3. Accessibility. Can I buy good Pu-Erh in Australia or do I need to order online? Hunting around the web has me a bit saddened as most vendors either don't ship to Australia or charge high shipping rates ($40?!). Yunnan Sourcing looks ok for shipping at about $20 but I'd want to be somewhat certain I'm not going to be disappointed.
4. Brewing. Brewing in a Yixing pot sounds like a lovely ritual but adds to the upfront cost and seems to be a learning curve. I don't have a gaiwan either. Purchasing more teaware is something I'd like to look at once I know if Pu-Erh is for me or not.
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This pudding combo uses both rice and sweet Hawaiian bread (with a blast of blueberries, orange zest and juice) for texture and flavor, with evaporated milk for richness without the fat. You'd never know it was fewer than 300 calories per serving!
- 12 ounces sweet Hawaiian bread, cut into 1/2-inch pieces (about 10 cups)
- 1 1/4 cups fat-free evaporated milk
- 1 cup 2-percent milk
- 1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons sugar
- 1 1/2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
- Large pinch freshly grated nutmeg
- Kosher salt
- 2 large eggs
- 3/4 cup cooked wild rice
- 1 cup blueberries
- Nonstick cooking spray
- 1 tablespoon toasted, sliced almonds
- 1/4 teaspoon finely grated orange zest
- 1 tablespoon orange juice
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
Spread the bread cubes out on a baking sheet and bake until toasted and golden, tossing halfway through, about 15 minutes. Let cool.
Whisk together 1 cup of the evaporated milk with the 2-percent milk, 1/2 cup sugar, 1 teaspoon vanilla, nutmeg, a pinch of salt and eggs in a large bowl. Add the cooled bread cubes and wild rice. Toss to combine and set aside until the bread soaks up most of the liquid, about 30 minutes.
Stir the blueberries into the mixture and transfer to a lightly oiled 2-quart baking dish. Top with the almonds and bake until the bread pudding is set and golden, 30 to 40 minutes. Remove and let rest for a few minutes.
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The FAA will be required by law to reform and streamline its regulations for certification of Part 23 aircraft and components by Dec. 31, 2015 after President Barack Obama signed the Small Airplane Revitalization Act (SARA) Wednesday, Nov. 27.
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Border fence is a dividing line in immigration debate
I don't know about you guys (and gals), but building a complete fence... for the whole boarder would be a good "stimulant package". This would add jobs and insurance at least on the short term... and if it makes it harder to allow people to get across the boarder.. I say Go for it.
# Story Highlights
# Eight Democrats in Congress wrote Obama to halt building of border fence
# Border Patrol agents say fence has drastically cut number of border crossings
# Then-Sen. Obama voted to authorize almost $3 billion for building 670 miles of fence
# Critic says barrier has forced illegal immigrants to make riskier desert crossings
I say.. if they take a risk.. it's there risk to take. But some may say that it's our fault for making it difficult to get across
SAN LUIS, Arizona (CNN) -- The Yuma desert is below: San Luis, Arizona, to one side and San Luis, Mexico, to the other. On this clear day, the Colorado River is glistening, birds playfully circling over what any map defines as the U.S.-Mexico border in this area.
But from a helicopter above, the border is a steel barrier that stands out along the riverbank and against the desert sands, and is the dividing line that gets the most attention from those crying to cross illegally and those who believe recent efforts to bolster U.S. border security have been riddled with wrong choices.
Just this past week, eight Democrats in Congress wrote President Obama urging him to halt any further construction of the fence, one of the many border- and immigration-related political debates that have carried over from the Bush administration.
To the Border Patrol agents stationed in Yuma Sector, there is no debate. To them, the fence is a success story. From a Vietnam War-vintage Huey helicopter, pilot Chad Smith points across the border to Mexico's Highway 2 and then to the barriers that help stop illegal immigrants from making a sprint into southern Arizona.
"You can see the triple-layer fencing," Smith tells us as he lowers the helicopter and hovers over what was once a major crossing point for illegal immigrants and drug smugglers. "Steel fence right on the border, the pedestrian fence about 90 feet north of that, and then the chain-link fence with the barbed wire."
The fence has three layers in areas where there is an urban neighborhood on the Mexican side. Smith is among those who say their flights are less hectic now because while you can still clearly see the trails in the sand and in some hilly areas below, there is considerably less traffic.
"I've flown before and come back and had 70-plus [illegal immigrants logged in a tracking book]," Smith said. " I know guys who have gone on a flight and come back with 100-plus illegals in their logbook. Now it is in single digits, typically."
It is a fascinating view from above: Old trails in some places, and the remnants of newly placed white sandbags in others.
"It forms a pretty good bridge for them to drive across." Smith says of the sandbags. When they are spotted from above, Border Patrol agents on the ground are called in to destroy the makeshift crossings.
Congress in 2006 -- with then-Sen. Barack Obama's support -- authorized nearly $3 billion for 670 miles of fencing stretching from California to Texas. There are more lights, sensors and cameras, and there are also more agents like Mike Lowrie driving patrols and chasing tips called in from colleagues monitoring the camera feeds at the Yuma Sector headquarters.
Standing alongside the steel barrier at a point in which there is just one layer of fencing, Lowrie shakes his head when told that some in Washington want to stop additional construction in other areas.
"This used to be a very high-trafficked area, and now it is not," Lowrie told us.
Asked to define "high traffic," Lowrie says, "In the Yuma Sector, we would get about 800 a day. Now, 25 maybe, or 10."
Nodding toward the barrier, he continued: "Numbers don't lie. We didn't have it three years ago, and we were getting massive numbers of illegal entries. We have it now, and we don't."
But there are voices on both extremes of the immigration debate that say the role of the fence is exaggerated, or that say the barrier's benefit in slowing illegal traffic is offset by other costs.
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, whose tough stance against illegal immigrants has earned him global media coverage, says the fence is fine, but: "We just arrested 150 in the past 14 days. They're still coming."
And Father John Herman, a Roman Catholic priest whose Spanish language Masses are packed with illegal immigrants, blames the fence for more risky crossings in less-populated desert areas.
"We know that the way enforcement has gone has driven many people into the desert and caused more deaths. Needless deaths. If we could only get together and work for comprehensive immigration reform."
They should have done it years ago.
The only criticism I've heard of this fence is that it's not going to stop all illegal border crossings. Well of course it won't, but it will stop a big percentage of them.
I've never understood the arguments against this fence. It's as logical as locking your doors at night to keep out burglars. Of course, locking your doors is not going to stop every attempted burglary, but how dumb would it be to sleep with all the doors to your house wide open every night? That's exactly what we're doing as a nation without that border fence.
Imagine how few would cross if we could protect our borders like we protect our household?
If you break into my house... well.... I think you know where I'm going with this :Whistle:
Ever see the movie Doomsday.. they walled up an infected Glasgow and placed armed turrets all around... now that may be a little extreme..but maybe just for the Northern Boarder...
This is the part that REALLY bothers me....
"We know that the way enforcement has gone has driven many people into the desert and caused more deaths. Needless deaths. If we could only get together and work for comprehensive immigration reform."[/QUOTE]
Why do we need immigration reform?
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About the Author: Mireille L. Zieseniss serves as Assistant Information Officer at U.S. Embassy Kabul.
On July 8, 2010, U.S. Ambassador Karl Eikenberry and ISAF/NATO Commander General David Petraeus hosted a Town Hall meeting at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, with more than 500 U.S. Mission employees in attendance. It was the second time in five days that the Ambassador and the General met with Mission staff at the U.S. Embassy to emphasize their commitment to civilian-military, international, and Afghan partnerships.
Ambassador Eikenberry pledged the support of the entire U.S. Mission -- in Kabul and in the field -- for the efforts of General Petraeus and the military commands. He cited the General's civilian-military efforts in Iraq as evidence of his belief in unity of effort. "You have our full commitment as teammates," the Ambassador vowed.
General Petraeus in turn stated, "One thing I know is that we must have unity of effort among all partners, not just U.S. civilian-military, but also with our international and Afghan partners." He added, "We need to make sure we get the big ideas right, the right concepts, and the right plans…. I pledge to you: what's ours is yours. We are serious about partnering with you to do everything we can to support the Afghan people."
Visit the Embassy's website and Flickr page for photos of the event.
Donald M. in Virginia writes:
July 8, 2010
A salute to the top General and say the United States will be behind him all the way. I hope the US Army will incorporate my idea for Emergency Escape Pods, this would be ideal for those Helicopters the Army uses on the battle field. Anytime a soldier can evacuate safely from a crash and survive, its a good day! Our thoughts, prayers are with the US Army and all those that protect Freedom! The Hunt for Osama bin laden continues until his networks are abolished. Let it be known that everything is being done to help our forces combat the terrorist in the world. What was the favorite quote by John Paul Jones, "I have not yet to begun to fight" and one other quote: Patrick Henry from Virginia said, "give me liberty or give me death" Those who control the water in Afghanistan will survive. Gobless and stay safe!!!
Patrick W. in Maryland writes:
Hello, Mireille Zieseniss and DipNote..)
well, My thoughts on the new leader of progress in Afghanistan.
He is more of a people person, which i like about Gen. Petraeus..:). I think he's right
about more of a joint mission approach too,
the war in Afghanistan. I think Russia could be a big help there, sense they've been there before. This would also bring our countries closer together, in the fight against Terrorism. Which is a problem for everybody.
Well,Anyways, I am thankful too,all the countries working to solve the problems that
effect the Citizens of our World.


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Campbell, Ramsey
Campbell, Ramsey 1946-
(Full name John Ramsey Campbell; has written under the pseudonyms Montgomery Comfort, Carl Dreadstone, and Jay Ramsey) English novelist, short story writer, critic, and editor.
In the opinion of many leading critics of supernatural fiction, Campbell is the most prominent contemporary successor to a literary tradition which began with the eighteenth-century Gothic novel and later comprised the works of Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Machen, M. R. James, and H. P. Lovecraft. Contrasting with the majority of modern works of horror and the supernatural, which have their closest artistic analogies in popular movies, television shows, and comic books, Campbell's fiction displays an artistry and imagination that is often compared to the classics of Gothic literature. Moreover, few contemporary horror writers have been as highly praised for their power and acuity in portraying what Jack Sullivan has termed, apropos of Campbell's work, the "grey and grubby modern world."
Biographical Information
Campbell was born and grew up in Liverpool; the impersonal, dreary industrial landscape of that city serves as the background for much of his best work. His parents' relationship was marked by discord, and though Campbell's mother sought a divorce, she was denied permission by the Roman Catholic Church. His father continued to live with the family but contact with him was severed. Campbell's father made every effort for his comings and goings to pass unobserved and, when at home, he remained in his closed room. Thus, for twenty years Campbell virtually never saw or spoke with his father though they shared the same residence. In addition, Campbell's mother suffered paranoia and delusions, and her resulting erratic behavior sometimes overwhelmed Campbell. Campbell began to write when he was eleven and published "The Tower from Yuggoth," a Lovecraftian pastiche, when he was sixteen. In 1962 he left school to work in a tax office and in 1966 began working for the Liverpool Public Libraries. He wrote the stories for Demons by Daylight in 1968 and, soon after the book was published in 1973, began writing full time. In 1978 Campbell's story "In the Bag" received the British Fantasy Award for best short story. That year he was also honored with the World Fantasy Award for best short fiction for "The Chimney" and again in 1980 for "Mackintosh Willy." Campbell resides in Merseyside, England.
Major Works of Short Fiction
Collected in The Inhabitant of the Lake, and Less Welcome Tenants (1964), Campbell's first published pieces represent his effort to perpetuate H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos, a term coined by Lovecraft admirers that refers to his tales of cosmic legend. In this first volume, Campbell transplants the horrific elements of Lovecraft's stories to a fictional English setting while Maintaining essentially Lovecraftian characters and supernatural phenomena. In the collection Demons by Daylight, such tales as "The Old Horns" and "The Sentinels" combine the banality of ordinary life and human relationships with the dreamlike quality that forms the basis for the masterpieces of supernatural fiction. This is achieved in Campbell's fiction by various means, most conspicuously through the perspective of extreme subjectivity from which his stories are narrated. By relating the incidents of a narrative from the most intimate level of his characters' consciousness, Campbell magnifies the natural doubts, dreams, and fears of human existence to the point where they merge with the supernatural. In "The Interloper," for instance, a schoolboy's fear of his instructor ultimately attains a fantastic dimension in a scenario of doom that is convincing more in the manner of a nightmare than in the mode of realistic fiction. This technique is heightened in effectiveness by a metaphorical prose style that sustains an atmosphere of poetic delirium. Such stories as "Ash" and "Litter," which appear in Campbell's third collection, The Height of the Scream (1976), and "The Chimney" and "Mackintosh Willy," from Dark Companions (1982), are particularly successful studies of the menacing universe inhabited by his characters.
Critical Reception
Campbell is considered among the first practitioners of the modern horror story. With the collection Demons by Daylight, Campbell drew away from Lovecraft's influence and revealed a manner of storytelling that was an unexpected leap both in his personal evolution as a writer and in the history of supernatural horror fiction. Although supernatural writers of the 1950s and 1960s attempted to adapt the fundamental plots and themes of Gothic literature to a modern milieu, Demons by Daylight is recognized as the first book to realize this ambition without sacrificing the intensity and imaginative richness of traditional Gothicism. The tales in Campbell's first work, The Inhabitant of the Lake, and Less Welcome Tenants, several of which were reissued in the collection Cold Print (1984), are considered to be among the best evocations of Lovecraft's work. In addition to his short story collections, Campbell has written several novels of the supernatural. Critics have generally perceived his novels to be less striking than his short stories, although this opinion is offered with the understanding that shorter fictional forms are more suited to expressing the tenuous and often intense effects of supernatural horror and that the supernatural novel is seldom more than a qualified success. Nevertheless, Campbell's novels are praised for the same qualities of style and imagination which distinguish his short stories.
Principal Works
Short Fiction
The Inhabitant of the Lake, and Less Welcome Tenants 1964
Demons by Daylight 1973
Slow written in 1975; published in 1985
The Height of the Scream 1976
Dark Companions 1982
Cold Print 1984
*Crypt of Cthulhu, Vol. 6, No. 1, 1986
Scared Stiff: Tales of Sex and Death 1986
*Crypt of Cthulhu, Vol. 6, No. 8, 1987
Dark Feasts: The World of Ramsey Campbell 1987
Needing Ghosts 1990
Waking Nightmares 1991
Alone with Horrors: The Great Short Fiction of Ramsey Campbell 1961-1991 1993
Two Obscure Tales 1993
Other Major Works
The Doll Who Ate His Mother (novel) 1976
The Bride of Frankenstein [as Carl Dreadstone] (novel) 1977
Dracula's Daughter [as Carl Dreadstone] (novel) 1977
The Wolfman [as Carl Dreadstone] (novel) 1977
†The Face That Must Die (novel) 1979
‡The Parasite (novel) 1980
The Nameless (novel) 1981
§The Claw [as Jay Ramsey] (novel) 1983
Incarnate (novel) 1983
Obsession (novel) 1985
The Hungry Moon (novel) 1986
Medusa (novel) 1987
The Influence (novel) 1988
Ancient Images (novel) 1989
The Count of Eleven (novel) 1991
Midnight Sun (novel) 1991
*Special issues comprising Ramsey Campbell stories. The issue published in 1987 prints Ghostly Tales, a collection that he wrote as a youth.
†Contains the autobiographical essay "At the Back of My Mind: A Guided Tour," in which Campbell discusses his dysfunctional family life and his mother's paranoia.
‡Published in England in 1980 as To Wake the Dead.
§Published in 1985 asNight of the Claw.
T. E. D. Klein (essay date 1974)
SOURCE: "Ramsey Campbell: An Appreciation," in Nyctalops, No. 13, 1977, pp. 19-25.
[Klein is an American author of horror fiction whose works include the novel The Ceremonies (1984) and the novella collection Dark Gods (1985). In the following excerpt from an essay originally written in 1974, he examines the stories in Demons by Daylight and attests to the marked influence that the collection has had on the modern horror story.]
This is the story of how a young man crawled out from under H. P. Lovecraft's shadow, saw the sun, and wrote Demons by Daylight . . .
Back in 1969, after Arkham House had exhausted its supply of Lovecraft fiction and had run through three volumes of miscellaneous "Lovecraftiana" (juvenile efforts, fragments, "Lovecraft as Mentor," "Lovecraft in Providence," "Lovecraft and the New England Megaliths," et al), it dipped still further into the barrel and came out with Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos, a collection of pastiches in the Lovecraft tradition. . . .
[The] best of the pastiches—i.e. the most faithful—were unaccountably the worst. One might almost conclude, in fact, that, as a literary form, the pastiche is really a close cousin to the translation (if temporal rather than spatial) and that it is, therefore, in the words of the adage, like a woman: the more beautiful, the less faithful; the more faithful, the less beautiful.
It isn't so surprising as it might seem, then, that of all the Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos, the most effective were those that departed most radically from the original Canon. The best of the lot—and certainly the most haunting—was a short piece called "Cold Print." The title itself, in its very understatement, stood out in contrast to all the Dwellers in Darkness, the Shadows from the Steeple, and the Shamblers from the Stars that proliferated throughout the book; and the story stood out even more.
It began, it's true, with one of those portentous epigraphs from a Forbidden Work—in this case something called the Revelations of Glaaki, Volume 12 (certainly the most unsavory title since De Vermis Mysteriis)—and, in fact, the quotation itself was even more portentous than most, claiming as it did that "even the minions of Cthulhu dare not speak of Y'golonac"—rather an arrogant assertion for a relative newcomer to make, reminding one of those billboard ads that heralded the movie Mighty Joe Young: "Mightier, More Terrifying Than King Kong!!!"
Happily, though, this unholier-than-thou air was dispelled by the story's opening sentence, in which a young schoolmaster with the disreputable name of Sam Strutt "licked his fingers and wiped them on his handkerchief." The tale went on to include such untraditional elements as sexual frustration, loneliness, and outright horniness; pornography of the kind known euphemistically as "discipline"; hints of homosexuality and pedophilia; allusions to Burroughs, Robbe-Grillet, Hubert Selby, Jr., and B-movies .. . ; but the commercialization of Christmas, and the despair that only a holiday can breed; throwaway images both comical and bleak ("Once he met the gaze of an old woman staring down at a point below her window which was perhaps the extent of her outside world. Momentarily chilled, he hurried on, pursued by a woman who, on the evidence within her pram, had given birth to a litter of newspapers ...") ; to an obscure dabbler in the occult named Roland Franklyn ; to say nothing of such un-Lovecraftian details as bus fumes, slush, snot, and dogshit; all capped by one of the most breathtakingly gruesome endings I have ever read.
Save for that memorable finale, and the fact that the story was miserably proofread, this was hardly the kind of thing one would expect to find in a volume of Lovecraftiana. It was much too good. It seemed a product of that lonely land somewhere between New Grub Street and the "New Town" of Jubb (two of the dozen or so indispensable British novels); it was a tale Lovecraft might have written if he'd had the benefit of an excellent editor, if he'd survived into the fifties—and if he'd been far, far more honest about himself.
The tale's author, one J. Ramsey Campbell, was listed in the back of the book. It was noted with old maidish redundancy, that he had "the same background as the popular Beatles—Liverpool, England," and that he had been born in 1946. . . .
The note went on to mention two books of Campbell's; one, The Inhabitant of the Lake and Less Welcome Tenants, was, it declared, "published by Arkham House when he was but 18" . . . and the other, Demons by Daylight, was forthcoming. . . .
The former proved something of a let-down. Like Frank Utpatel's rather cartoony cover and end-paper maps, the tales seemed too eager to spell everything out. They told too much. So did the introduction, in which the young author announced, with bold naivete, his intention to create a new setting for the Cthulhu Mythos, the Arkham area having been "saturated." (God knows he was right about that!) He went on to describe each imaginary city in considerable detail, as well as the "esoteric volume" he intended to quote from—thereby saving readers much work, but also much pleasure, a mistake he was never to repeat. The effect was as if the bravado of "Cold Print'" s epigraph had found its way into the text. That story had been searingly honest about the secret urges of its protagonist; here, unfortunately, the Campbell of an earlier day was proving all too candid about his own authorial ambitions.
Throughout the book one was conscious of a deliberate striving after a Lovecraftian corpus, a deliberate dropping of names, a deliberate setting up of the horrors. Except for one understated little piece called "The Will of Stanley Brooke," done largely in dialogue, the stories seemed filled with artifice; Campbell hadn't yet learned to cover his tracks.
That it was an extraordinary work for an 18-year-old boy to have produced was, of course, obvious in every line; but obviously, too, this was the work of a writer still laboring in Lovecraft's shadow. . . .
In succeeding years other Arkham House editions were sent for, as finances and enthusiasms dictated. One by one the Derleth anthologies arrived, each with its spurious "unpublished Lovecraft" tale written by Derleth himself, testifying less to his modesty than to his marketing sense; and, each time, the first thing I looked for was the Campbell offering. He made, I believe, every volume.
They were a mixed bag. If no story ever excited me quite as much as "Cold Print," largely because of that one's unusually evocative atmosphere, they were nevertheless far superior to those tales in the Inhabitant volume. "The Church of High Street" was, to be sure, an example of Early Campbell, bearing that period's distinguishing feature, the over-explicit first-person narrator; it seemed, in fact, to belong more to Inhabitant than "The Will of Stanley Brooke," and no doubt preceded that tale. "The Stone on the Island" seemed heavy-handed, too, but the story did offer pleasant hints of things to come: a protagonist desperately alone, his alienation seeming to distort the workday world around him, rendering it surrealistic, dismal, absurd; the half-hearted passes at girls in the office; the office itself, convincingly dull, filled with obtuse people doing trivial things; and the conclusion, whose grisliness made up for whatever lapses the plot may have had.
"The Cellars," "Napier Court," "The Scar" (in a non-Arkham anthology)—the tales grew better and better with each new volume, more subtle and more difficult. "Cold Print," I began to realize, had been a kind of Campbell Primer, containing nearly all the elements that distinguished these later stories. The Early Campbell was gone, and so was the corpus he'd tried to create; at last we were witnessing the formation of a genuine body of work, unified not by mere intention but by vision.
That observation, of course, is one calculated to embarrass any writer, and to Campbell himself I apologize for it; it sounds entirely too grandiose, too pretentious. Yet a vision there was, a sustaining one; and now that Demons by Daylight has at last been published, we can see that this vision of the universe—paranoiac, often confounding, always haunting, dreadful, unique—has been sustained throughout an entire book. . . .
One of the first things that strikes one about Campbell's stories in this new collection is that—following the trend of his earlier pieces—they are extremely difficult. . . .
Still, being "difficult" is not necessarily a fault; and for horror, in fact, it is almost always a great virtue. Several years ago, when I was teaching school, a fellow teacher was charged with being "too difficult" for the students; the material he presented was, it was argued, "over their heads." I recall his reply: "I think it's important to give them a little more than they can handle," he said. "I like to remain a little beyond them."
For an English instructor this may or may not be true; but for a horror writer, it should probably be the rule. Writing horror stories must be rather like playing the Pied Piper; if the tune one pipes is too fast or difficult or subtle, the reader grows bored and drops out of the dance. If, on the other hand, the tune is too plodding and predictable, the reaction is the same: boredom, loss of attention. The trick, apparently, is to dance just a little ahead of the reader, teasing him, leading him on.
The risk, of course, is considerable: if one balks at making the slightest concession to the reader, one may end up with a kind of "horror tale as minimal art," akin to the most progressive of progressive jazz, the most abstract of abstract painting. In that case, as Kirby McCauley has pointed out, one runs the risk of writing stories for oneself alone; even if other readers might have the means to decipher them, no one will care to try.
Yet the other extreme presents an even graver danger: write a tale too easy to grasp and you allow the reader to realize he is more intelligent than the writer—something that, inexplicably, a brilliant man like Derleth permitted in his own dismayingly predictable Lovecraft pastiches.
Campbell, fortunately, seems to have mastered that trick of dancing just beyond our reach. Most of his stories have a hazy, dreamlike quality in which events are comprehensible when taken by themselves as discreet units, but in which they are piled upon one another so frantically that one gets lost in the swirl. Take, for example, the mad rush of images that we find at the beginning of "The Lost":
It was in Rudesheim that I had my first important insight into Bill's character. The previous night, outside Koblenz, we had caught a bus in an unsuccessful attempt to find the town centre and when our three marks fare ran out had been...
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Alan Ryan (essay date 1982)
SOURCE: "Rustlings and Slitherings in the Shadows," in Book World—The Washington Post, April 25, 1982, p. 9.
[Ryan is the author of short stories and a horror novel. The Kill (1982). In the following excerpt, he praises Campbell's Dark Companions.]
Stand in a bookstore, near a display of horror fiction, and you're very likely to hear readers exercising the single most compelling literary criterion for the genre. "Is it scary?" they want to know. There are other, and perhaps more dignified, standards to be applied, but "Is it scary?" is the bottom line.
Ramsey Campbell's stories are scary. He has been writing them, and building his reputation...
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Peter Cannon (essay date 1985)
SOURCE: A review of Cold Print, in Crypt of Cthulhu, Vol. 4, No. 8, Lammas, 1985, pp. 42-3.
[In the following excerpt from a review of the retrospective collection Cold Print, Cannon expresses a preference for Campbell's later stories over his earlier ones, finding them more effective and characteristic of the author.]
Britisher Ramsey Campbell stands today as one of those rare horror writers (of which T. E. D. Klein is perhaps the leading American exponent) who follow in the classic tradition of H. P. Lovecraft, not by adapting the superficial trappings of the Mythos, but by focusing on the creation of mood and atmosphere, through the use of a...
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Ramsey Campbell (essay date 1986)
SOURCE: "Dig Us No Grave," in Fantasy Review, Vol. 9, No. 3, March, 1986, pp. 35-6.
[In the following essay, Campbell discusses the current state of the horror fiction genre.]
The tale of supernatural terror often deals with the cyclical nature of things: the ghost that always returns, the events that are repeated from generation to generation, the personalities that are reborn. As well as dealing with the cyclical, the genre suffers from the process too. Perhaps it should: we shall see.
"I believe ghost story writing to be a dying art. It's just possible that another Montague Rhodes James may appear one day, but I profoundly doubt it." So wrote H....
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Clive Barker (essay date 1986)
SOURCE: "The Bare Bones: An Introduction," in Scared Stiff: Seven Tales of Seduction and Terror by Ramsey Campbell, Warner Books, 1987, pp. ix-xii.
[Barker is an English short story writer, novelist, playwright, screenwriter, and film director known especially for the horror stories published in his popular six-volume collection, Clive Barker's Books of Blood (1984-86). In the following excerpt from an essay that was written in 1986, he commends Campbell for his ability to blend sex and horror in Scared Stiff.]
Death and the Maiden.
It's an eternally popular subject for painters, and in a sense for writers and filmmakers too. What does the...
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Kim Newman (essay date 1988)
SOURCE: "Campbell Is Coming," in New Statesman, Vol. 115, No. 2974, March 25, 1988, p. 28.
[An English critic and playwright, Newman is the author of Nightmare Movies (1985), a critical history of horror film since 1968, and coauthor of Ghastly beyond Belief (1985), a celebration of the most ridiculous moments from science fiction books and movies. In the following excerpt, he finds that Campbell's most affecting stories in Dark Feasts combine "almost surreal ghastliness and almost too-real urban decay. "]
Campbell's importance as a force in modern British horror is . . . demonstrated Dark Feasts, a representative selection from the first 25...
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Jack Sullivan (essay date 1988)
SOURCE: "Ramsey Campbell: Dark Feasts," in Horror: 100 Best Books, edited by Stephen Jones and Kim Newman, Carroll & Graf Publishers, Inc., 1988, pp. 216-18.
[An American educator and critic, Sullivan is the author of Elegant Nightmares: The English Ghost Story from Le Fanu to Blackwood (1978) and has edited Lost Souls: A Collection of English Ghost Stories ( 1983) and The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural (1986). In the following essay, he states that Campbell's strength as a writer lies in the suggestive quality of his fiction, which creates in the reader the realization that "something lurks in the corner of the page even more chilling...
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Gary William Crawford (essay date 1988)
SOURCE: "The Lovecraftian Tales" and "The Tales of Illusion," in Ramsey Campbell Starmont House, Inc., 1988, pp. 11-15, 16-25.
[A short story writer, poet, and critic, Crawford is also the editor of Gothic, a journal of Gothic literature studies. He has published essays on such Gothic writers as Robert Aickman, J. S. Le Fanu, Walter de la Mare, and Oliver Onions, and contributed to Horror Literature: A Core Collection and Reference Guide (1981). In the following excerpt, Crawford surveys Campbell's short fiction.]
As Campbell remarks in his introduction to Cold Print, . . . his collection of Lovecraftian stories, "The first book of Lovecraft's I read made...
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Ramsey Campbell (essay date 1990)
SOURCE: An introduction to Waking Nightmares, Tom Doherty Associates, 1991, pp. 1-6.
[In the following essay, which was written in 1990, Campbell discusses the intent and sources of inspiration for the stories collected in Waking Nightmares.]
Horror fiction can be many things. The field includes the ghost stories of Sheridan Le Fanu and M. R. James, not to mention the best tales of Russell Kirk. It ranges from the psychological terrors of John Franklin Bardin to the philosophical terrors of Samuel Beckett's The Unnamable and Not I. It embraces both the supernatural visions of Algernon Blackwood at his best—"The Willows," 'The Wendigo"—and the...
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Michael A. Morrison (essay date 1991)
SOURCE: "Patterns, Demanding to Be Read . . . ," in Necrofile: The Review of Horror Fiction, No. 2, Fall, 1991, pp. 4-6.
[In the following excerpt, Morrison celebrates Waking Nightmares and Dark Feasts as evidence of the continuing development of Campbell's skill as a writer.]
If you're a Campbell enthusiast, you already know you want [Waking Nightmares]; if not, I recommend it as an introduction to his recent work. Read in conjunction with the thirty stories in his twenty-five-year retrospective Dark Feasts (1987), these nineteen tales, all published during the Eighties, confirm his continuing growth and mastery.
The first...
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Ramsey Campbell with Stefan Dziemianowicz (interview date 1992)
SOURCE: An interview in The Count of Thirty: A Tribute to Ramsey Campbell, edited by S. T. Joshi, Necronomicon Press, 1993, pp. 7-26.
[The interview was conducted primarily in July 1991 and updated in December 1992. In the following excerpt from the interview, Campbell talks about the beginning of his career, focusing on his short fiction.]
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S. T. Joshi (essay date 1993)
SOURCE: "Alone with a Master," in Necrofile: The Review of Horror Fiction, No. 8, Spring, 1993, pp. 6-8.
[An American editor and critic, Joshi has written extensively on authors of weird fiction and is the leading figure in the field of H. P. Lovecraft scholarship and criticism. He is also the editor of The Count of Thirty: A Tribute to Ramsey Campbell (1993). Here, Joshi reviews Alone with the Horrors and examines Campbell's appeal as a short story writer.]
I am on record as saying that Ramsey Campbell is the most significant weird writer of our time, and perhaps the most significant since Lovecraft. [Alone with the Horrors: The Great Short Fiction of...
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S. T. Joshi (essay date 1993)
SOURCE: "Ramsey Campbell: Before and after Lovecraft," in The Count of Thirty: A Tribute to Ramsey Campbell, edited by S. T. Joshi, Necronomicon Press, 1993, pp. 27-31.
[In the following essay, Joshi traces the influence of H. P. Lovecraft in Campbell's short fiction, noting that Campbell developed his own distinctive literary style in Demons by Daylight.]
Although he does not have even a fraction of the popular following of Stephen King and Clive Barker, there seems to be general agreement amongst critics in the field that British writer Ramsey Campbell is the leading weird fictionist of our time. But like Lord Dunsany and Algernon Blackwood, Campbell has more often...
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Simon MacCulloch (essay date 1993)
SOURCE: "Glimpses of Absolute Power: Ramsey Campbell's Concept of Evil," in The Count of Thirty: A Tribute to Ramsey Campbell, edited by S. T. Joshi, Necronomicon Press, 1993, pp. 32-37.
[In the following excerpt, MacCulloch explicates Campbell's concept of evil as illustrated in the story "The Guy. "]
He believed that the worst murders were inexplicable in terms of the psychology of the criminals. One of the criminals he'd interviewed had described a sense of being either close to something or part of something which the act of torturing had never quite allowed him to glimpse—a sense that he was trying to assuage a hunger which was larger than he...
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Further Reading
Crawford, Gary William. Ramsey Campbell. Mercer Island, Wash.: Starmont House, Inc., 1988, 74 p.
Critical survey of Campbell's works, mainly his novels. Crawford provides primary and secondary bibliographies and a concise account of the author's life.
Dziemianowicz, Stefan R. "The Illusion of Control: An Appreciation of Ramsey Campbell." Tekeli-li!: Journal of Terror, No. 3 (Fall 1991): 25-8.
Asserts that Campbell's short fiction, beginning with the collection The Inhabitant of the Lake, depicts horrors originating in the human psyche.
Mariconda, Steven J. A review of Needing Ghosts....
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Medela knows that good beginnings are important, and that breastfeeding is learned behavior. Getting the baby comfortably latched on to the breast is the key to successful and enjoyable breastfeeding. The next section will describe how to latch the baby to the breast, but nothing replaces good, hands-on assistance. Be sure to contact a breastfeeding specialist or a La Leche League Leader or Nursing Mothers Counselor if you experience painful breastfeeding.
Step 1
If mother is not comfortable, baby will not be comfortable. Sit in a chair or lie in bed in a position that feels good to you. Use pillows if you need extra support. A footstool to slightly raise your knees helps prevent back strain. The NursingStool® from Medela is designed to be just the right height for breastfeeding. If you don't have a stool, use a thick phone book or firm pillow.
Step 2
Look at your breast to see where the nipple is located. Don't try to stretch your breast over to where the baby is lying.
This mother is 'chasing' the baby with her breast. Notice how the baby is tangled up in the blankets.
Instead, unwrap the baby and move the baby's body so that he faces in toward you and can easily reach the nipple.
Some mothers need to support their breasts when the baby is tiny.
Breasts come in different sizes and shapes. For some women, using a pillow to raise the baby up will help the baby reach the nipple. For others, the baby will need to be lowered.
This mother must tuck her baby slightly under her breast to help him reach the nipple.
Step 3
To latch the baby, line him up with his nose opposite your nipple. Support your breast and gently stroke his lips with your nipple.
Aim the nipple to the roof of the baby's mouth. Support the baby's head at the neck and shoulders so that the head is free to slightly tip back as you bring the baby onto the breast. This pushes the chin into the breast and keeps the nose clear so baby can breathe easily.
When well attached, some of the dark areola tissue will show above the upper lip. Baby's lower lip will cover the base of the areola and baby will have a deep mouthful of breast. The cheeks and chin will be close to the breast, and the nose is tipped away.
Breastfeeding should feel comfortable and you should be able to hear sounds of swallowing. When the baby comes off the breast, the nipple should appear round, not pinched up into a shape that looks like a new tube of lipstick.
Be sure to hug the baby's hips in close to your body. This helps stabilize the baby in a comfortable position for breastfeeding.
Side lying position allows mom and baby to rest while breastfeeding.
Be sure to break suction between the gums, not the lips, when you take the baby off the breast to re-latch if the feeding is uncomfortable. This will prevent nipple damage.
Positioning Styles
Proper positioning is important for prevention of sore nipples.This is a example of the transverse/crossover hold.
The proper way to hold the baby is chest-to-chest, at the level of the breast. Baby's head should be in the crook of your arm and your hand should hold baby's buttocks.
The football hold is a good position for latch-on problems, or for premature or Cesarean birth babies.
The lying down position is especially useful after a Cesarean birth.
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