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WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with the firm named below, today announced a voluntary recall of the following consumer product. Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed. It is illegal to resell or attempt to resell a recalled consumer product.
Name of Product: Warn ATV and Utility Vehicle Winch Kits
Units: About 218,000
Manufacturer: Warn Industries Inc., of Clackamas, Ore. (manufacturer of the winch kits)
Hazard: A component of the winch kit, the eight-post contactor, can continue to pull current when in the "off" position, which can cause it to overheat and pose a fire hazard.
Incidents/Injuries: Warn Industries has received one report of a contactor failure resulting in excessive heat and melting damage to the contactor. No injuries were reported.
Description: This recall involves eight-post contactors used on certain 2,500 to 3,500 lb Warn ATV and Utility Vehicle Winch Kits. The black contactors were sold as a part of winch kits and have a "WARN" logo on the top and bottom of the contactor. Warn part number 62135 is printed on the bottom. Contactors are found on the vehicle attached to the power wires, between the battery and the winch. The contactor has four holes for securing it to the vehicle. A complete listing of winch kit part numbers involved in this recall can be found at www.warn.com
Sold by: ATV dealers, ATV accessory retailers, mail order catalogs, and Web retailers nationwide from May 2001 through September 2005 for $700.
Manufactured in: United States (contactors were manufactured in Japan)
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The Economic Development Power Allocation Board ("EDPAB")
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More:Background Briefing on Chen Guangcheng | Photographs -- Chen Guangcheng With U.S. Officials in Beijing
Today, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton spoke with Chen Guangcheng. Following their conversation, the Secretary released the following statement:
"I am pleased that we were able to facilitate Chen Guangcheng's stay and departure from the U.S. Embassy in a way that reflected his choices and our values. I was glad to have the chance to speak with him today and to congratulate him on being reunited with his wife and children.
"Mr. Chen has a number of understandings with the Chinese government about his future, including the opportunity to pursue higher education in a safe environment. Making these commitments a reality is the next crucial task. The United States Government and the American people are committed to remaining engaged with Mr. Chen and his family in the days, weeks, and years ahead."Editor's Note: You can also read the Secretary's statement here.
W.W. writes:
don't shoot don't shoot don't shoot I am Bocelli i am not Tobin Frost - and another man reached freedom without seeing liberty congratulation dude
W.W. writes:
Is he blind ? but how could he reach the embassy if he is blind ? with a dog ? where is the dog ?
Leon D. in Delaware writes:
US led (manipulated?) Chen to only decision he could make that allowed him to live with his family. Stay in Embassy & Chen's wife returns home to local thugs who just finished abusing her. If he asked 4 asylum only he leaves China and leaves his wife & kids to thugs. Forever split from family.
If stayed in China US told him China promised he would live as "normal citizen" free and to study law. Implication was US would somehow help make sure China would do this. No choice choice.
Chen gets out and his wife tells him his activist friends rounded up, arrested & she was tied to chair and threatened.
Naive stupid negotiators giving Chen no choice choice and getting him to say he is leaving of own volition.
China knows how to win these kinds of talks. It appears US had no idea of Chen's background story or just made incredible decision to trust China on this hero.
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H.E. Holmes in New Jersey writes:
Something is wrong here. How could any person working in that embassy not convince Mr. Chen to stay in what was the only safe place for him to be?
It appears that the smoothness of the Secretary's trip overruled decency to a blind dissident in harm's way.
This doesn't reflect very well on the United States. You did not "faciilitate" anything but a future full of torment for that man and his family. Why? Just so Secretary Clinton would have an easy time of it?
Eric in New Mexico writes:
He didn't have to see it to believe in it.
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@ Eric
His dream is to leave his country with Mrs.Secretary but his wife disagree...
time to say goodbye : andrea bocelli
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It is anyway the century of Illusion
Dan in Minnesota writes:
One life versus the cost of a cheaper iPad. That's what this boils down to.
John in Canada writes:
@ Dan in Minnesota - if it were only true that it was "just one life" - Truth -- its many, many more. But lets be real many nations screw their own people - not just China.(chuckle)
If China wishes to be taken seriously as a world power – the ideas of a one blind man and his family should not be a threat. Perhaps China needs to rethink its position and policies if Ideas frighten them.
How are their people going to innovate, if they are afraid -not only to think but to speak? If Chinese policy is so weak as to be threatened by thought – their policy and long term success -is doomed.
Come on China get with the new program – at some point those people that are viewed as a threat to the state – will be the ones that will save your state – or revisit the China from 30 years ago? I doubt thats an option because if China falls backward – everything the Chinese Government fears will come to pass.Continue with the same policies of fearing thoughts and Ideas – China will hit a wall.
Change is knockn on the red dragons door – How the dragon handles change will determine -its success or failure. If China expects to bring prosperity to the other 800 million Chinese – its time to set their peoples voice and minds free. Perhaps the Americans can help you with that – if they haven't forgotten.
Perhaps this is an opportunity for China to walk through a new door? Take it.
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Irfan Essa is the Associate Dean for Off-Campus and Special Initiatives in the College of Computing. He is also a professor in the School of Interactive Computing (IC) and an adjunct professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
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The author of more than 150 scholarly articles in leading journals and conference venues, Essa has received several best paper awards. He has been awarded the NSF CAREER Award and was elected to the grade of IEEE Fellow. Also, he has held extended research consulting positions with Disney Research and Google Research and was an adjunct faculty member at Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute.
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Interval Timing is a valuable technique for establishing a "basal metabolic rate" for the KSL Shot Cycle. It is important that the archer be able to shoot a complete, proper, and controlled shot sequence in a short enough period to avoid oxygen debt, shaking, wavering, and loss of muscle control. The archer must also take a long enough time for all steps in the KSL Shot cycle to be properly performed. For the BEST method, that is about 7 seconds according to what Kisik Lee has told me. This varies somewhat for compound archers.
Beginning archers have little concept of how long it takes them to CLICK, and even moderate and advanced archers benefit from an 8-second drill, where a timer counts down over and over, allowing them to try to focus on executing with proper form a BEST shot cycle. If you have a laptop, with this software you can have a customizable count-down timer.
Richard Hart is the innovative programmer that created this software and offers it to the archery community at large, for free. (see his excellent Tournament Timing software as well)
Setup is relatively straightforward and simple, and can be altered easily if you don't get it quite right the first time through.
Here is his writeup:
The CATT was developed to help any archer training under the B.E.S.T. method who is working on shot timing. At the center of the IT is a countdown timer that the archer can set to any value. At the end of time a buzzer sounds. This buzzer can be turned on or off. The timer also keeps track of how many ends have been shot.
In the case where more than more than one archer is shooting the timer will keep track of which archer is up and shooting. The number of archers shooting along with the countdown time is programmed in the Setup screen. One addition is a warning timer to give the archer a selectable number of seconds to prepare before the countdown begins. During this sequence the timer will sound a tone for each second counted down and the display background will alternate between red and yellow. A different tone will sound when the warning period has expired and the countdown begins.
As always, suggestions are welcomed.
This product is designed for a display resolution setting of 1024x768. With this setting the timer will fill the entire display. Please go to "START, Control Panel, Display, Settings" to make this change.
If you are updating to a newer version of the timer it is recommended that you first remove the old copy. To un-install the timer program go to "Start – Control Panel – Add/Remove Programs". The current version is installed under "Interval Timer". Select the timer program and remove it first.
You should have a file named "MASSCATT.EXE ". This will install the timer program and supporting files. Periodically new versions will be released with new features. The timer program is written under Visual Basic 5 and needs to have .Net Framework installed in order to work. The installation program will look to see if .Net Framework is installed and if not it will attempt to download it from the Microsoft website. So to install this the first time it is a good idea to be logged onto the internet, preferably with a broad-band connection as opposed to "dialup". If you are running a current version of XP or Vista, more than likely you have .Net Framework on your computer already. You can also go to www.microsoft.com and download it manually.
To install the timer program do the following:
This program has been tested to ensure that it is bug free, but it is not a perfect world. I you do encounter any problems or have any suggestions please email: firstname.lastname@example.com with any issues.
These screenshots show the general appearance, with the files installed in the background. If you reset your screen's resolution as directed by Richard, it will exand to the entire screen for maximum visual impact. Sounds will sound better with an external powered PC speaker(s) as well. You can click on each image below for a larger image.
From author Richard Hart:
12/29/07: I thought of a couple of features for the cyclical timer that would make it easier for an archer to use in a practice session. I added a HOLD button. This freezes the timer so the archer can go retrieve his or her arrows. It does not reset the counts the way START and STOP do. But usually an archer will shoot a set number of arrows per end during a practice. So under the SETUP screen I added another selection. The archer can now select how many arrows he wants to shoot per end or "OFF" to disable this feature. The timer will count down the selected number of arrows and then automatically go into the HOLD mode. They can get their arrows then hit the HOLD button to continue. For the HOLD and START/STOP buttons I added the ability to just press the "H" or "S" key to activate them. Saves having to fiddle with the mouse.
12/30/07: I have increased the number of arrows setting for the AutoHold (so that the archer can go pull arrows). I also changed the counter screen to show "ARROW" instead of "END". This will allow the archer to set a "goal" of x number of arrows, and the software will keep track, pausing to allow pulls, of the total number shot along the way.
1/2/08: a optional METRONOMIC click with volume control has been added so that the archer can elect to hear an audible cue with each second passing. When using this software for SPT, this helps the archer to hold for the duration.
Download the software. (New version as of 1/2/08)
Your donation will be sent to the State Archery Association of Massachusetts for their scholarship fund.
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Highly educated whites and minorities are no more likely to support workplace affirmative action programs than are their less educated peers, according to a new study in Social Psychology Quarterly. Education does increase support for race-targeted job training, said Geoffrey T. Wodtke, a doctoral student in sociology at the University of Michigan, who wrote the study.
"I think that some of the values that are promoted through education, such as individualism and meritocracy, are just much more consistent with opportunity-enhancing policies like job training than they are with redistributive or outcome-equalizing policies like affirmative action."
While educated blacks and Hispanics are believed to be the most likely to benefit from affirmative action, they don't support it. They may feel stigmatized, speculated Wodtke.


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A collection of stories from individuals with disabilities, families, friends, and disability service providers in Tennessee
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Results related to: 6 to 13 years / Family / Autism
"Jackie's biggest fears concern Koby's transition into adulthood and his inability to get off of the waiting list sometime soon.
"The closest school and services in Mexico are a day long drive from where we lived. We would not be able to get the services for David if we went back to Mexico."
"There is a huge need for teacher training in educating children with autism, and this training is needed both for special education teachers and especially for general education teachers. Also, the State of Tennessee must start helping serve the needs
of individuals on the autism spectrum. It is shameful how little our State does to help people on the spectrum to live as full participants in their own communities."
"There should be strict laws for the day care centers to protect my child from being turned down because he has a disability."
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Available in every state and major market in the U.S., SmartStrand Silk with DuPont Sorona has been the fastest ramp-up in Mohawk history, according to Seth Arnold, residential brand director, Mohawk Industries.
The dealers FCW spoke to in March, agreed that shoppers are voting for SmartStrand Silk with their dollars. "We have been on board with SmartStrand since its introduction in 2004," said Marc Martorano, vice president of residential and commercial carpet at Avalon Carpet Tile and Flooring. "Our people understand it and that's why it's our No. 1 fiber system for the past three years in a row. They (consumers) usually go right for the softness, after that it's about the wear and the stain properties story."
SmartStrand Silk is the rare carpet that today's price conscious shopper will accept. Peter Messner, president of Messner Carpet, Pittsford, N.Y., reported, "I had a young woman come in with a budget and she had found some things she liked, but once she found and felt a Silk style, she bought it, even though it was $1 a square foot more than her budget," Messner said.
"Most consumers love it," agreed Lauren Voit, vice president at Great Western Flooring, Naperville, Ill. "I get calls that they can't believe how soft it is or that their kid slept on it the first night it was installed. SmartStrand is a very easy fiber type to sell due to the stain resistance and wear rating, so we very frequently turn to it."
SmartStrand Silk is also doing well at Raby Carpet stores in New Mexico, where shoppers are invited to feel the Silk difference, according to Phil Raby, company president. "We have a place in the showroom, where consumers can walk on it and we encourage them to take their shoes off. They like the way if feels barefoot after a tough day."
Whether having SmartStrand Silk is an advantage or not, "depends on who your competition is," stressed Voit. "I would say that being able to offer all of the premium fibers in our marketplace gives us an edge. SmartStrand and Silk only give us an edge as long as they aren't spread across the marketplace."
Martoran noted that while SmartStrand Silk is currently exclusive to specialty flooring retailers, some consumers may not distinguish between Silk and SmartStrand which is retailed at big boxes like Lowes.
Raby is happy to be one of the few dealers in his market that is offering SmartStrand Silk. All Raby's Silk styles are part of the Karastan brand and he is getting a better margin on Karastan Silk.
Voit explained that at Great Western Flooring, "We don't change our GP (gross profit) on our products. It's the same markup for everything. For Silk, our average sale goes up, which drives more revenue, but our gross profit is constant on these products."
Avalon's Martorano said, "I think some of it depends on your surrounding competition. With 14 locations, we are spread out and some of our competitors either don't want to make money or just choose to run it at lower margins to keep their lights on."
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Big boost for cancer center campaign
MARSHALL – The largest family donation to Avera's new cancer institute has pushed the initial phase of fundraising closer to the finish line.
Avera Marshall Regional Medical Center announced Wednesday that the Marshall-based Carr Family Foundation has donated $100,000 to the new cancer center, leaving the campaign less than $100,000 shy of reaching the groundbreaking goal.
"Our family knows that a cancer center is a great need in this region," Robert L. Carr said in a news release. "Our family wants to be a part of making this project a reality for families who must travel hours to receive care."
Avera Marshall has been working toward a goal of raising $5.45 million in time for a fall groundbreaking ceremony since February. Avera's funding plan includes a $7 million (plus interest) gift from the city previously set aside after the sale of the medical center from the city of Marshall to the Avera health system. The $7 million was earmarked for oncology program development when the change of ownership occurred three years ago.
The Carr Family Foundation joins a long list of major contributors to the project – both in Marshall and from area communities.
"It essentially wipes away half of what we needed to get to groundbreaking," said Marty Seifert, executive director of the Avera Marshall Foundation. "We're now over 99 percent to groundbreaking. We're now getting to that critical point of finishing phase one."
The $12.9 million cancer institute would offer resources like chemotherapy and radiation treatments for people in an eight-county area. Right now, undergoing radiation therapy means a drive to cities like Willmar or Sioux Falls, S.D. The center will also provide surgery, pharmacy, dietitian consultation, home medical equipment, an on-site CT and Magnetic Resonance Imaging.
The cancer center will be an addition to the existing medical center in Marshall. Seifert said more than 600 people in Lincoln and Lyon counties will be diagnosed with cancer in 2014. More than half of those cases would require radiation treatment.
The center's core service area would be Lyon and Lincoln counties but having cancer care options closer to home will benefit people from Lac Qui Parle County to Cottonwood County, and from Redwood County to the South Dakota border, Seifert said.
Seifert said money raised above and beyond the groundbreaking phase will go toward the center's equipment fund. Seifert said the hope is that that second phase gets wrapped up in 2014 and that an October groundbreaking is still planned. There had been some speculation of a groundbreaking ceremony in September, but October looks to be the new target. The construction period would run for approximately 11 to 13 months.
"We're anxious to get moving toward groundbreaking," Seifert said. "We've raised millions in essentially nine months, so we feel really good about where we're standing right now. We hope the community can rally around it to get us to groundbreaking in short order."
According to the American Cancer Society, southwest Minnesota leads the state in cancer mortality rates, and from 1975-2007, the region has the highest cervical center incidence rare and highest female breast cancer mortality rate in the state.


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Asics Target 26.2 - Previously lardy girl goes for a Boston Qualifier
Not sure the best way to train ? You're the expert who we're all looking up to and waiting for guidance ! How many of the 17 Creme Eggs are left ? (If you're worried that Ruth's going to read it then lie, say 25 !! )
Good luck for the 9 miler, that's 9 more than I'm doing this weekend.
Hiya RRR, sorry about delay in reading your post, busy old week and packing to go to London tomorrow Re. Thunder Run Solo target, really have no target yet, it will be a 'see how it goes' job I think! It is just one of my jaunts in order to complete 13 marathons in (20)13!
Evening PC91!
Eeek! Don't look at me … you're going to have to grovel to Marathon Coach Steve! I'm only on my 2nd marathon!! Probably the best advice I'd be able to give is: Use the portaloo while you've got the chance! J
There are about 5 crème eggs left … BUT I've been given a box of 12!! So am back up to 17 again!! Life is GOOD!!
Have climbed back into training again … although not into proper marathon training yet. Did 4 miles build up yesterday and a 4 mile fartlek today and will have a slow 9 miler through the country lanes tomorrow with a friend training for her first half marathon!!
You not back into running yet – having a well deserved rest?
Evening Brer Rabbit!
Good luck for London tomorrow!! Hope everything goes perfectly to plan!!
Fair enough with the Thunder Run plan! I'm pretty much the same … going to play it by ear and try and enjoy it as much as possible! I'm not going to kill myself doing it as I've got the New Forest Marathon 2 months afterwards and that'll be my main Autumn race really.
Wow!! 13 in 13!! What a cool target!! How are you getting on? Is everything going to plan and which have you done so far?
Bloody brilliant Derrick!!! You always said you wanted 3:30 so you were bang on!! Well done!!
Got a race report for us?! Have never run VLM so want to hear all about it!!
What were the best bits? Did you hit the wall? What was the congestion like?
Hooray!! Pics are working again!! Anyone got any of their race pics they want to post up??
Pics from Paris:
Just crossed finish line ... looking knackered and clutching poncho and race tee!
Mel walking up to the start
At about 7.30am ... the finish line in the background ...!!
First celebratory beer!
Me, Ady and Mel walking to the start with the Arc D' Triomphe in the background. Would like to reassure you that the ponchos say JOGGING not dogging.
The view of the finish line from the top of the Asics area ... such a gorgeous day!
The sun rising over the finish line ... with the Arc D' Triomphe in the background
Milling around at the start
Fab pictures!
Had an ace day in London, 3;34..bit gutted not to go sub 3:30 but too many people to weave around. But enjoyed it immensely. No. 4 of the year done, White Peak marathon in 4 weeks...just a little bit different to London!
Thanks! Was watching the video of us all crossing the Paris finish line yesterday too ... was a bit emotional!! Needed a creme egg after watching that!
That's a cracking time in London - ESPECIALLY as that was your 4th of the year ... wow!! How are you finding knowing you've got one every month? ... and then one?
Are you planning them in advance or just looking out for ones that really appeal? White Peak marathon ...? That sounds seriously hilly!! Where's that?
Lots of cheese and a video of us crossing the Paris Marathon finish line!
We may be a slightly bit happy in this ...!!! Video link here: video
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- Aerial tour: http://baytrailrunners.com/earth/coastal.php
- Distance: 33.9 miles
- Elevation gain: 5148 feet
- High point: 1812 feet on the Coastal Trail at mile 15.
- Low point: 105 feet on Miwok Trail and Muir Woods Road at mile 21.
- Strava data: http://www.strava.com/activities/56586551
- Olema: In the Miwok Indian language, Olema translates to coyote. The Gateway to the Point Reyes National Seashore. The "San Francisco Earthquake" epicenter was in Olema.
- The San Andreas Fault: A right-lateral strike-slip fault. Separates the Point Reyes Peninsula from the rest of mainland California.
- Bolinas Ridge Trail: 10.5 miles across coastal ranges, through high redwoods and stretches of open chaparral.
- Coastal Trail: At 17 miles it is the longest maintained trail in Marin County.
- Matt Davis Trail: Matt Davis was a paid trail builder, and contracted this one during the 1920s, while living in a small cabin on Mount Tamalpais.
- Pantoll Ranger Station: The main station for all of Mount Tamalpais State Park. Public restrooms and water available.
- Cardiac Hill: The apex of the famous Dipsea Race.
- Dipsea Trail: Stretches seven miles from Mill Valley to Stinson Beach.
- Miwok Trail: Coast Miwok people were believed to follow this route from inland areas to the ocean during peak fishing seasons.
- Tennessee Valley: Named for the SS Tennessee, which ran aground when the captain missed the entrance to the Golden Gate on March 9, 1853.
- Marincello Trail: Marincello was a failed development project (fortuitous for us trail runners) that would have placed housing atop the Marin Headlands.
- Student Conservation Association (SCA) Trail: Singletrack gold! Follow it down to the crossing of the Golden Gate Bridge and admire the views.
- From San Francisco: Take US 101 over the Golden Gate Bridge. Go 12 miles to San Anselmo exit. Go .5 miles and merge onto Sir Francis Drake Boulevard. Follow it until you see the entrance for the Bolinas Ridge Trail on your left.
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Lynn D Wilson, MD, MPH, FASTRO
Professor of Therapeutic Radiology and of Dermatology; Vice Chairman, Therapeutic Radiology; Clinical Director, Therapeutic Radiology; Clinical Program Leader, Therapeutic Radiology, Yale Cancer Center
Research Interests
Dermatology; Lung Neoplasms; Mycosis Fungoides; Lymphoma, T-Cell, Cutaneous; Radiation Oncology
Research Organizations
Cancer Center: Radiobiology & Radiotherapy
Research Summary
The T-cell receptor is encoded by a gamma-delta and an alpha-beta gene complex. As the T-cell matures, the first rearrangement occurs in the gamma-delta gene complex. If this initial rearrangement is successful in producing a non-host reactive protein, such cells develop into mature CD3+, gamma-delta+, CD4-, CD8-, lymphocytes. Some of these cells migrate to the skin and others circulate within the peripheral blood. When this primary rearrangement is unproductive, the alpha-beta T-cell receptor gene complexes then undergo rearrangement, to produce CD3+, alpha-beta+, CD4+, CD8+ cells. Such cells circulate in the blood in a ratio of approximately 2-3:1, and constitute approximately 70% of all lymphocytes. After exit from the thymus to the circulation, T-cells undergo further maturation; skin is one site where maturation occurs in the presence of a variety of cytokines and skin-specific cell adhesion molecules. Not all T-cells migrate to and differentiate in the skin, as only those with homing receptors for cutaneous vascular adressins will do so.
Several theories have been proposed to explain the pathogenesis of the disorder known as cutaneous T-cell lymphoma (CTCL), or mycosis fungoides (MF). The first of two leading hypothesis proposes that MF is a disorder of malignant helper CD4+ T-cells, with a single neoplastic clone present at the very start of the disease process. The second hypothesis postulates a two stage process: a phase of chronic antigenic stimulation which results in a benign polyclonal proliferation of T lymphocytes, in which one clone is mutated (by polymerase errors, exposure to endogenous oxygenating agents, or an exogenous mutagen) and dominates the T-cell infiltrate. Cells are stimulated to develop "malignant potential," and to proliferate freely in the skin subsequently producing lesions clinically consistent with CTCL.
Weiss et. al. clearly demonstrated that cutaneous T-cell lymphoma (Mycosis Fungoides) is a disorder resulting from an expansion of a neoplastic clone of T-cells with characteristic rearrangements in T-cell receptor genes. Therefore, it should be possible to determine whether a "clinical recurrence" derives from the original neoplastic clone or represents a different neoplastic clonal T-cell expansion (which would reveal a second primary) by comparing the T-cell receptors (and/or the genes which have been rearranged to produce the receptor) in the primary lesion and the recurrence. This is an example of one area of research which our group has pursued.
Girardi M, Heald P.W., Wilson L.D.: The Pathogenesis of Mycosis Fungoides. New England Journal of Medicine 350:1978, 2004)
Specialized Terms: Cutaneous Lymphoma; Lung Cancer; Total Skin Electron Beam Therapy
Selected Publications
- Wang EH, Corso CD, Rutter CE, Park HS, Chen AB, Kim AW, Wilson LD, Decker RH, Yu JB: Postoperative Radiation Therapy Is Associated With Improved Overall Survival in Incompletely Resected Stage II and III Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer. J Clin Oncol. 2015 Jun 22. pii: JCO.2015.61.1517
- Nath SK, Yu JB, Wilson LD. Poorer prognosis of African-American patients with mycosis fungoides: an analysis of the SEER dataset, 1988 to 2008. Clin Lymphoma Myeloma Leuk 14:419-23, 2014
- Lloyd S, Chen Z, Foss FM, Girardi M, Wilson LD. Acute toxicity and risk of infection during total skin electron beam therapy for mycosis fungicides. J Am Acad Dermatol 69:537-43, 2013.
- Wilson LD, Hinds GA, Yu JB: Age, race, sex, stage, and incidence of cutaneous lymphoma. Clin Lymphoma Myeloma Leuk 12:291-6, 2012.
- Yu JB, Blitzblau RC, Decker RH, Housman DM, Wilson LD. J Clin Oncol. 2008 Mar 20;26(9):1483-8. doi: 10.1200/JCO.2007.14.1374.
- Wilson LD, Detterbeck FC, Yahalom J: Clinical Practice: Superior vena cava syndrome with malignant causes. The New England Journal of Medicine 356:1862-1869, 2007.
- Lally BE, Zelterman D, Colasanto JM, Haffty BG, Detterbeck FC, Wilson LD. J Clin Oncol. 2006 Jul 1;24(19):2998-3006. Epub 2006 Jun 12.
- Smith BD, Smith GL, Cooper DL, Wilson LD: The cutaneous B-cell lymphoma prognostic index: A novel prognostic index derived from a population-based registry. J Clin Oncol 23:3390-3395, 2005.
- Smith BD, Glusac EJ, McNiff JM, Smith GL, Heald PW, Cooper DL, Wilson LD. Primary cutaneous B-cell lymphoma treated with radiotherapy: a comparison of the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer and the WHO classification systems. J Clin Oncol 22:634-9, 2004.
- Girardi M, Heald PW, Wilson LD: Medical Progress: Pathogenesis of Mycosis Fungoides. The New England Journal of Medicine 350:1978-1988, 2004.


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In short: Well organisedIn full: Well organised as ever but why weren't the results posted on UKA as they usually are?Date of review: December 9, 2013
In short: Decent race but depends on conditionsIn full: Running on an airfield isn't everyone's cup of tea but at least it's flat! Trouble is, as with this year, there was a strong headwind going in and going out which ruined my time. Well organised though - weather isn't their fault!! No entries on the day so you have to take a chance with the wind.Date of review: December 9, 2013
In short: Excellent race - one of the bestIn full: If you want one of those eyeballs-out ultra fast races which are often in dull boring scenery [Bath, surprisingly, springs to mind]then don't come here. There are hills, oh yes. But there is excellent organisation, lovely atmosphere and scenery to die for [and I felt as if I was close in places!]. The weather was perfect - in fact just about everything, apart from my time, was perfect. I'm glad its future has been secured but I hope BHF don't spoil it.For example, lousy T shirt - thin and garish - went straight to recycling; Nationwide's was much better.And they're bound to hike the entry fee. We'll see. For the moment, great - a kick in the teeth for those who keep knocking Swindon.Date of review: October 17, 2012
In short: Potentially fast end of year runIn full: No problems finding it if you look at the website. Largely flat course apart from one slight climb. Finishes in industrial estate with quite a walk back to church hall but no complaints - quite glad I went. No medals/mementoes but got home in time for footie results [duh].Date of review: January 16, 2012
In short: Great race - well organisedIn full: It can get windy up there but best conditions yet this year. Can't understand anyone griping about a 300m jog to the start or a few metres of grass at the finish - come on!! Excellent race but get there early cos of parking.Date of review: November 28, 2011
In short: Idyllic scenery but...........In full: OK, the Cotswolds may be pretty but they ain't flat! This was a very enjoyable race. Lovely views [if you can spare the time]. Ford at around 7k had little water in it but could of course be worse. Hill immediately following is a bad one and any good time up to then will go out the window. Nice atmosphere, plenty of parking on site but don't expect a PB!!Date of review: November 28, 2011
In short: Not for the feint-hearted!In full: Superb setting in grounds of Blenheim Palace. Metalled paths. Excellent organisation. Trouble is, 2 medium-sized hills and one big long one - and that's in one lap! If you had a Half with six medium hills and three big ones, you'd call it seriously hard. Glad I did it [I think!] but doubt if I'll be back. Pity they couldn't somehow find an extra mile as 12.1 isn't likely to attract an awful lot of runners.Date of review: September 21, 2011
In short: Flat!!!!!!In full: They seriously need to look at the car parking which was dreadful but an idyllic start/finish spot on village green.Date of review: July 17, 2011
In short: Good race-worth looking out forIn full: Definite PB material but shame about the wind! Great organisation.Date of review: August 18, 2009
In short: Windy!!In full: This is an excellent venue for a race. Organisation and atmosphere were excellent. Loads of parking and toilets, which makes a change! Perhaps a wind like that wouldn't slow down Button and Hamilton on Hangar Straight but it did me and I doubt if many people ran fast times this year. Will be all the more interesting to watch the British GP this July. Hey - I changed in those pits!!!Date of review: May 6, 2009
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Aldiss, Brian W(ilson)
Brian W(ilson) Aldiss 1925-
(Has also written under pseudonyms of Peter Pica and C. C. Shackleton) English short story writer, novelist, critic, historian, editor, autobiographer, nonfiction writer, travel writer, and poet.
An author who has experimented with a variety of literary forms and styles throughout his career, Aldiss is best known as a prolific and popular author and critic of contemporary science fiction. His major contribution to the science fiction field has been to develop a more thoughtful and humane literature that challenges the standard assumptions and beliefs of its audience. In his fiction Aldiss usually focuses on perceptual ambiguities, dualities, and paradoxes not generally addressed by other science fiction authors. Although some critics consider Aldiss's stories pedantic and his characters unconvincing, he is generally praised for his confident, energetic style and the depth and scope of his ideas. Aldiss is also regarded as an observant critic of the science fiction genre, and has published numerous essays, reviews, and columns both under his own name and under the pseudonym of C. C. Shackleton. His Billion Year Spree: The History of Science Fiction (1973) is considered a definitive study of the genre, serving as both an introduction to the field and as a reference volume for enthusiasts.
Biographical Information
Aldiss was born in East Dereham, Norfolk, England, the only son of Stanley and Elizabeth May Aldiss. Aldiss's experiences as a soldier in the Far East during World War II have had a strong impact on his fiction. Jungle settings and the sense of exile he felt upon returning to post-war England are reflected in much of his work. Aldiss began his career by writing what he termed "ordinary fiction," but he soon became interested in a variety of genres, including moralistic comedy, poetry, occult literature, detective fiction, and science fiction. His first mainstream book, The Brightfount Diaries (1955), written under the pseudonym of Peter Pica, is a collection of interrelated short stories about the domestic life of a bookshop assistant.
Major Works
Aldiss is known for his continual innovations in literary form, style, and content. Much of Aldiss's early science fiction originally appeared as short stories in various magazines. Aldiss received a Hugo Award for most promising new author for the collection The Canopy of Time (1959; published in the United States as Galaxies Like Grains of Sand). This book contains his most popular and widely anthologized short story, "Who Can Replace a Man?," which chronicles the end of humanity and the ascendance of machines. Aldiss received a Hugo Award for best short fiction for the short stories he later revised as the novel Hothouse (1962). This work, which is set in a jungle of giant plants and insects, relates the adventures of dwarfish humans attempting to survive in a hostile environment. Aldiss also won a Nebula Award for best novella for The Saliva Tree, the title story of The Saliva Tree and Other Strange Growths (1966). In this tribute to H. G. Wells, a space machine arrives on an English farm in order to fatten animals and humans for alien consumption. The Moment of Eclipse (1972), another of Aldiss's well-regarded collections of short stories, is a diverse blend of science fiction, comedy, horror, and mainstream literature. In the dystopian short novel Enemies of the System: A Tale of Homo Uniformis (1978), a futuristic military elite is faced with an impending need for evolutionary adaptation and must decide whether or not to defy the fixed beliefs of their totalitarian system. The stories in Aldiss's Last Orders and Other Stories (1977), including "Live? Our Computers Will Do That for Us" and "The Aperture Moment," are experimental in both style and content, focusing on subjects not commonly addressed in science fiction, including human emotion, psychology, and art. In his 1993 collection, A Tupolev Too Far, Aldiss continues the literary experimentation he began in Last Orders; the stories include "Better Morphosis," in which a cockroach is transformed into Franz Kafka, and the title story, in which a Russian airplane enters another timeline.
Critical Reception
Aldiss's literary experimentation has at times been poorly received by critics, who have castigated him for treating what they characterize as tasteless, nonliterary subjects, and have faulted him for focusing too heavily upon stylistic concerns to the exclusion of fully developed narratives and characters. Tom Hosty, for example, has judged some of the stories in Last Orders self-indulgent and prone to "the final, sterile triumph of mere expertise, of technique over matter." Despite such criticisms, Aldiss is widely respected as an author who is unafraid to explore new ideas rather than continue to write according to reliable literary formulas. Richard Matthews has admired Aldiss's "unique and challenging imagination," and David Wingrove has asserted that, in his works, Aldiss "has omitted the once statutory pages of clinical nuts-and-bolts description of 'process' and instead gives us the poetic 'meaning': dense, compact and lacking any superficial cluttering of the old [science fiction] genre. The 'sense of wonder' remains in that brief and vivid description, refreshing because of its lack of explanation."
Principal Works
Short Fiction
Space, Time and Nathaniel 1957
* The Canopy of Time 1959
No Time Like Tomorrow 1959
The Airs of Earth 1963
Starswarm 1964
† Best Science Fiction Stories of Brian Aldiss 1965
The Saliva Tree, and Other Strange Growths 1966
Intangibles Inc., and Other Stories: Five Novellas 1969
Neanderthal Planet 1969
The Moment of Eclipse 1971
‡ The Book of Brian Aldiss 1972
Brothers of the Head (novella) 1977
Last Orders and Other Stories 1977
Enemis of the System: A Tale of Homo Uniformis (novella) 1978
New Arrivals, Old Encounters 1979
Foreign Bodies 1981
Seasons in Flight 1984
Best SF Stories of Brian W. Aldiss 1988
Science Fiction Blues: The Show That Brian Aldiss Took on the Road 1988
Man in His Time: The Best Science Fiction Stories of Brian W. Aldiss 1989
A Tupolev Too Far 1993
Other Major Works
The Brightfount Diaries (novel) 1955
§ Equator (novel) 1958
‖ Non-Stop (novel) 1958
Bow down to Nul (novel) 1960
** Hothouse (novel) 1961
The Male Response (novel) 1961
The Primal Urge (novel) 1961
The Dark Light Years (novel) 1964
Greybeard (novel) 1964
Earthworks (novel) 1965
Cities and Stones: A Traveller's Yugoslavia (nonfiction) 1966
††An Age (novel) 1967
Report on Probability A (novel) 1968
Barefoot in the Head: A European Fantasia (novel) 1969
The Hand-Reared Boy (novel) 1970
The Shape of Further Things (nonfiction) 1970
A Soldier Erect (novel) 1971
Billion Year Spree: The History of Science Fiction (criticism) 1973
‡‡Frankenstein Unbound (novel) 1973
The Eighty-Minute Hour: A Space Opera (novel) 1974
Science Fiction Art (nonfiction) 1975
The Malacia Tapestry (novel) 1976
A Rude Awakening (novel) 1978
Pile: Petals from St. Klaed's Computer (nonfiction) 1979
This World and Nearer Ones: Essays Exploring the Familiar (essays) 1979
Life in the West (novel) 1980
§§Moreau's Other Island (novel) 1980
Helliconia Spring (novel) 1982
Helliconia Summer (novel) 1983
Helliconia Winter (novel) 1985
The Pale Shadow of Science (nonfiction) 1985
. . . And the Lurid Glare of the Comet (nonfiction) 1986
Trillion Year Spree: The History of Science Fiction [with David Wingrove] (criticism) 1986
Ruins (novel) 1987
The Year Before Yesterday: A Novel in Three Acts (novel) 1987
Forgotten Life (novel) 1988
Dracula Unbound: A Novel (novel) 1991
Remembrance Day (novel) 1993
Somewhere East of Life (novel) 1994
*Published as Galaxies Like Grains of Sand, 1960.
†Revised edition published in 1966 as Who Can Replace a Man?
‡Published in 1973 as Comic Inferno.
§Published in 1959 as Vanguard from Alpha.
‖Published in 1959 as Starship.
#Published in 1961 as The Interpreter.
** Published in 1962 as Long Afternoon of Earth.
†† Published in 1968 as Cryptozoic!
‡‡ Adapted as a radio play of the same title in 1974 and broadcast on BBC radio.
§§ Published in 1981 as An Island Called Moreau.
Brian Aldiss (essay date 1976)
SOURCE: "On Being a Literary Pariah," in Extrapolation, Vol. 17, No. 2, May, 1976, pp. 168-71.
[In the following essay, Aldiss comments on his innovative and often controversial view that science fiction is "only a department of fantasy" fiction.]
And of course literary pariahs don't hang around the perimeter howling to be let in. They're daring everyone inside to come out . . .
Science fiction does not form the future; it is the future which forms sf.
A truism to begin with, to lull everyone into a false sense of security. All is change—an eternal truth always having to be relearned, often with tears, and re-emphasised in this present decade with the shifting power-balances of the world, such as the enormous growth of Soviet military power, the steady ascendancy of China, the Power Crisis (linked with the new-found political consciousness of the Arab World), the events in Africa, the rise of Brazil, coupled with the slow decline of Europe. None of these events was exactly predicted by sf, but they will shape its future.
Science fiction reflects the present.
It reflects the past also: a task of digestion undertaken by all literature. It is unique in that, still being in part magazine-based, it reflects its own past. The spaceships and telepathic powers which rattle around in the fiction of 1976 are no different from the same symbols rattled round decades ago. While some of the new authors write just as gracelessly as ever John Taine did.
In Extrapolation for December 1975 David Samuelson has an article, "The Spinning Galaxy: A Shift in Perspective on Magazine SF." In it he takes what is always a courageous step for a critic or anyone else and confesses that he was wrong. Well, slightly wrong. He no longer thinks that the sf magazines with their didactic 'hard core' are so central to the tradition of science fiction as once he did. It appears that Billion Year Spree helped to change his mind.
He labels this previously held opinion a geocentric view of sf, and then instances various heliocentric models, with different theories which might be substituted for the sun. Naturally, we find this interesting, but surely no model for a literature can be rigged to imitate a solar system. May I suggest that we abandon the idea of some one principle presiding over all science fiction? The solution to Dr. Samuelson's problem lies in non-conformity, not conformity. If you must think of the whole bag of tricks as a solar system, then pretend you are an astronomer and ask, "What sort of pleasure do I get from the whole starry expanse?"
In other words, it may be more valid to regard sf by its results. What pleasure do we get from sf (apart from arguing about it as if it were already respectably dead but had left no will)?
Obviously the pleasure that most readers derive from sf is an imaginative pleasure, whether what they are reading is hard-core (when the scientific detail, whether authentic or pure homespun phoney, will largely pass over their enraptured heads), or whether it is about Anne McCaffrey's telepathic dragons ridden by men of blue-blooded ancestry. There are degrees of imaginative response, varying from those who can see a world in a grain of sand to those who could hardly see a world if it were served piping hot and stuffed up their left nostril. All the big plonking Wonders of the field have, on the whole, been invented and perpetuated for the latter class of reader. In any other neck of the woods, they would be branded Sensationalism.
My emphasis in Billion Year Spree on the Gothic tradition in sf was placed in order to make it clear that sf is not some weird species which suddenly manifested itself on Earth in the Year of Our Lord Gernsback 1926, a creature without heirs and presumably unable to bequeath heirs.
It is a far more living and pervasive thing than that; equally, it is only a department of fantasy. Billion Year Spree—like much of my fiction, to which it is inevitably related—is an attempt at balance. I felt that a mechanistic view of sf had too long held sway—the view that justifies sf because an occasional one per cent becomes in some dubious way 'true,' or because chaps who read it get so brainwashed that they grow up to work in some lousy laboratory in California, or because it accustoms us all to change in our lives (a shibboleth exploded, or whatever shibboleths do when kicked with contraterrene force in the anal region, when we saw what asses established sf writers made of themselves in the 1960's, when younger ones changed by about five per cent and a dash of William Burroughs the game their elders and betters had hitherto been playing). Science fiction, I feel,...
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Richard Mathews (essay date 1977)
SOURCE: Aldiss Unbound: The Science Fiction of Brian W. Aldiss, Borgo Press, 1977, 64 p.
[In the following excerpt, Mathews examines the thematic and stylistic characteristics of Aldiss's major works, including the author's use of satire and irony.]
[Aldiss] finds the boundaries of simple popularity a limitation, and clearly wishes to venture beyond these limits into the uncharted waters of the experimental and esoteric.
Like any prophet, or any writer, he is concerned with the language he uses to communicate—with words that shift and play games, with words that challenge and reveal. Committed to growth and change, he also steadfastly and painfully...
(The entire section is 4865 words.)
David Wingrove (essay date 1979)
SOURCE: "Thinking in Fuzzy Sets: The Recent SF of Brian W. Aldiss," in Pacific Quarterly, Vol. IV, No. 3, July, 1979, pp. 288-94.
[In the following essay, Wingrove examines several of Aldiss's works from the middle to late 1970s, including Enemies of the System and several short stories, and illustrates how Aldiss departs from the mainstream of science fiction and creates a more "literary" subgenre.]
Whilst the mainstream has shuffled gently away from the secure paths of 'romantic' realism and now draws from the armoury of sf visions for its literary weaponry, several of sf's tried and truest practitioners have made their presence known in the mainstream. The...
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Thomas M. Disch (review date 1980)
SOURCE: A review of New Arrivals, Old Encounters, in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Vol. 59, No. 1, July, 1980, pp. 44-52.
[In the following excerpted review of New Arrivals, Old Encounters, Disch offers a mixed assessment of the stories, arguing that the quality of Aldiss's writing is uneven and the stories in the collection range from very good to extremely poor.]
[Of the twelve stories in Brian Aldiss's New Arrivals, Old Encounters], three are among his most accomplished, another three or four are middling-to-good, a few are only so-so, and one, "Space for Reflection" is godawful—full of lame jokes, woozy philosophizing,...
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Philip Smith (review date 1982)
SOURCE: A review of Foreign Bodies, in Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Review, No. 7, September, 1982, p. 16.
[In the following review, Smith notes the Asian emphasis in Foreign Bodies, and maintains that the collection is comprised of "minor stories from a major writer. "]
Brian Aldiss claims that he is the first person to introduce the East into SF. Since his service in Asia during World War I, he has had a passionate interest in the region which he has expressed not only in his SF but also in two of his three novels about Horatio Stubbs, A Soldier Erect (1971) and A Rude Awakening (1978). The latter novel, Aldiss says in an author's note...
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Michael R. Collings (essay date 1985)
SOURCE: "Brothers of the Head: Brian W. Aldiss's Psychological Landscape," in Spectrum of the Fantastic: Selected Essays from the Sixth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, edited by Donald Palumbo, Greenwood Press, 1985, pp. 119-26.
[In the following essay, Collings analyzes the novella Brothers of the Head, revealing the psychological elements of the narrative and lauding the book's structure and treatment of the human condition.]
In a 1968 letter, Brian Aldiss described the declining state of the West:
It's a curious climate over here at present—people very uneasy, with devaluation and now the...
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Michael R. Collings (essay date 1986)
SOURCE: "The Short Fiction," in Brian Aldiss, Starmont House, 1986, pp. 78-82.
[In the following essay, Collings surveys Aldiss's short fiction, discussing the author's approach to and handling of the various settings, themes, and subjects in his works.]
While much of Aldiss' energy has been directed toward novels, he has also published over three-hundred short stories, making him one of the most prolific authors in the field. While many of his short stories are inaccessible to most readers (for example, a number appeared in the British New Worlds SF, which is quite difficult to find), Aldiss published others as parts of collections. Beginning with Space,...
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Rosemary Herbert (review date 1986)
SOURCE: "Anecdotes and Self-Satire," in The Bloomsbury Review, Vol. 6, No. 3, February, 1986, pp. 13-15.
[In the following analysis of The Pale Shadow of Science and Seasons in Flight, Herbert praises Aldiss's writing, which she characterizes as "exciting, mature, insightful, and filled with welcome surprises."]
Although one is nonfiction and the other a collection of short stories, Brian Aldiss' latest books will satisfy a common appetite. Both volumes offer a feast for those who have a taste for highly inventive language and a clever turn of phrase blended with clear prose that makes thought-provoking sense. Sometimes the fare is so delicious...
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Philip E. Smith II (essay date 1986)
SOURCE: "Last Orders and First Principles for the Interpretation of Aldiss's Enigmas," in Reflections on the Fantastic: Selected Essays from the Fourth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, edited by Michael R. Collings, Greenwood Press, 1986, pp. 69-78.
[In the following essay, Smith explains how Aldiss's "Enigma" stories in Last Orders provide insight into his theories of science fiction.]
Brian Aldiss writes himself into the last part of "Journey to the Heartland," the concluding story in Last Orders, as the subject of the third interview with characters and author about the story. As Author, he offers a pair of...
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Gary K. Wolfe (review date 1993)
SOURCE: A review of A Tupolev Too Far, in Locus, Vol. 31, No. 4, October, 1993, p. 57.
[In the following excerpt, Wolfe praises A Tupolev Too Far, commending Aldiss for taking literary risks and experimenting with style and content.]
Ask a successful novelist why he or she spends time and energy on far less lucrative short stories and you'll likely get a string of high-minded sentiments about how this is an opportunity to experiment, explore new techniques, and escape the constrictions of the mass market. Everybody says this, but Brian Aldiss actually does it. Readers who fear that Forgotten Life and Remembrance Day—both fine,...
(The entire section is 647 words.)
Further Reading
Aldiss, Margaret. The Work of Brian W. Aldiss: An Annotated Bibliography and Guide. San Bernardino: Borgo Press, 1992, 360 p.
Book-length, annotated bibliography compiled by Aldiss's wife, which includes two autobiographical essays by Brian Aldiss.
Herbert, Rosemary. "Brian W. Aldiss: Maverick." The Bloomsbury Review 6, No. 3 (February 1986): 12-14.
Provides biographical details about Aldiss's life.
Griffin, Brian, and David Wingrove. Apertures: A...
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""How many leaders actively seek out and encourage views alien and at odds with their own? All too few...Who in your organization serves as your Challenger In Chief? Interrogating the choices you are considering making? Making you consider the uncontemplated, the unimaginable and that which contradicts or refutes your position? And also challenging you?""
The Cocktails of James Bond: The Vodka Martini
I can recall being mesmerized when I was younger by the sight of more sophisticated bar patrons ordering a martini. There was just something about the simple yet elegant look of the clear liquid swirling around in the classic stemmed glass, and about hearing people ask for their beloved cocktail in such detail. While most bar clientele needed only to specify bottle or draft, the martini drinker would request "a medium-dry Boodles martini, straight up, and a little dirty."
What is a martini?
James Bond orders a vodka martini and so do many others these days, but the traditional drink is made from gin, with dry vermouth added as a flavoring. Vermouth is a perfect complement to the herbal qualities of gin. As Bond's iconic phrase–"shaken, not stirred"–implies, the traditional martini was stirred. Think back to those classic black-and-white films where impeccably dressed characters would announce that they were going to "mix a batch" of martinis. The shaken vs. stirred debate still rages today.
Preparing a martini
What started as a simple drink has evolved over time. Every martini enthusiast will ask for his cocktail to be made to certain specifications. A seasoned martini drinker might boldly order, "A medium-dry Bombay Sapphire martini, straight up, with olives."
Here are the questions you need to address when preparing a martini:
Gin or vodka? These days, a bartender can no longer assume that a request for a martini implies gin.
Which brand? While it's wise to always use quality liquor, there are some simple cocktails where the bartender can get away with grabbing whichever no-name booze resides in the speed-rack; the martini is not one of them. Any time you are preparing a cocktail where the spirit is the primary ingredient (and I can think of no better example than the martini), you need to stick with quality liquors, and your martini drinker will likely have a preferred brand.
How dry? The "dryness" of a martini refers to how much dry vermouth goes into it. The more "dry" the martini is to be, the less vermouth you need. For a medium-dry vodka martini, I use a dash of vermouth, while "dry" may mean one or two drops. If guests request "extra-dry" or even "extremely dry," I take this as an indication that they really want no vermouth at all, especially for a vodka martini. If they prefer ice-cold vodka in a chilled glass, that's fine by me.
Shaken or stirred? Whether shaking a martini will actually "bruise" the gin is an argument for another day. In any case, leave it to James Bond to change the landscape of cocktails forever. Because of the phenomenon caused by his "shaken, not stirred" requests, most bartenders today will shake a martini instead of stirring. Which method is better? It depends on the spirit; I stir gin martinis and shake vodka martinis.
Which garnish? While modern martini culture may be embracing many new and exciting garnishes, I always remind my young bartending students to simply recall the book, Oliver Twist. To a traditional gin martini, add a few olives; to a vodka martini, add a slice of lemon peel. I think you'll find these to be the perfect complements.
1. Fill a cocktail glass with ice. Set it aside.
2. Fill your cocktail shaker (or a pint glass) about ¾ with ice.
3. Add three ounces of vodka or simply add vodka to the top of the ice. (Bartenders' trick: fill the glass with water, then pour the water into your ice-filled shaker. This will determine your "fill line.")
4. Add vermouth. A quarter-ounce splash should give you a medium-dry martini.
5. Place the top onto your shaker (or your Boston-style shaker over your pint glass) and shake vigorously until frost forms on the shaker.
6. Empty the ice from the glass and strain the martini into it.
7. Garnish with a lemon twist and enjoy.
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About the Author: Angela Stephens serves as an Information Officer with the U.S. Agency for International Development.
Most U.S. food assistance to Sudan is "in-kind" aid -- food that is grown by farmers in the United States, purchased on the open market, then shipped to Sudan. Voucher programs, on the other hand, offer an alternative and complementary approach that gives families access to foods they are already familiar with and boosts local economic activity. Recently, USAID awarded its first grant for a food voucher program in Sudan, a landmark initiative that will nourish hungry families by lowering the cost of life-saving foods already available in local markets.
This grant, awarded to the World Food Program (WFP), provides more than $2.25 million for food vouchers that will be distributed to 129,000 people affected by drought in North Kordofan and North Darfur through the end of the year. Using vouchers worth $8 to $20, families can select a minimum of three food items from approved merchants, alleviating some of the hardship brought on by seasonal drought.
Overall in 2010, USAID has provided $404 million in food aid to 6.1 million food-insecure people in Sudan.
Editor's Note: This entry also appears on USAID's Impact Blog.
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Instead of turning a blind eye to acts of rape, torture, and ruthless killing, famine, and starvation, there's this new film Attack on Darfur that demands your eyes to be duct taped open and burns images in your head that are hard to forget. It comes out on DVD on Oct. 26th. This film NEEDS to be seen if you're serious about doing something to stop the terrible things going on in Darfur.