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America the Great ... Police State
Posted on Sep 26, 2016
By Gore Vidal
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Let us accept the facts staring us in the face—that demonstrably we are no longer a republic. We are no longer governed by laws, only by armed men and force. This is just like the days of Billy the Kid. You have an armed man going down a dusty street and that is authority. And it has come to this for us.
If the media will ever become alert to real news, they will put paid to their universal cry that no matter what happens of a disagreeable nature in the streets or elsewhere in public, it is due to racial hatred. Both corporal and president made no attempt to clear this matter up. Arguably, you can say that everything is subject to it or tarred by it, but it was not true in this case. The young man with the gun seems to have been correct on these issues; he was training others like himself to put up with the lesser breeds, and to say that this was race-inspired because both the president and the professor were black—am I making too subtle a point?—is a serious, murderous mistake in a country like ours.
As I listened to the fallout from these stirring events, I wondered if this might be a moment when the media would reform themselves and only print actual news; for one thing, not all explosions of temper and so on are attributable to race. It would be nice if the media realized how dangerous they when they begin to falsify motives which, to be blunt, they have no authority to do. If a black person is in any way in a jam of any kind, it is because he is responding to racism or if a white person goes berserk over anything with anybody, racism drove him to it. This is a great, great red herring like some giant whale gliding across the pages of police dockets.
So let me mention the real issue. The real issue is class. We have the greatest divide between the very rich and the very poor of any country on Earth, surpassing even France. And this division gets wider and wider as financial disasters overwhelm us. We were already in pretty bad shape before things began to fall apart a year or two ago. We must acknowledge that our character, never much good in these matters, is now reprehensible, and the police seem to have taken it upon themselves to exact revenge for a full professor and his—plainly, in their view—insulting income, which they figure must be considerable. The days of greed through which we all lived now have not done us much good, nor have they taught us any lessons, but you cannot live long with such divisions, which in my view as an outsider overlooking the scene seems to be a nation of total liars. Everybody is lying. Television lies, candidates lie. And everyone says, "Oh they always have." I love that excuse. Well they haven't always done that. Sometimes lying to the people is a great mistake. And it is well-known that the rich will tell almost any lie to avoid paying taxes.
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By John Hanks, July 31, 2009 at 6:25 pm Link to this comment
All states are police states. Ask a policeman.
By jess, July 30, 2009 at 9:27 pm Link to this comment
The classes that really count are these:
1) People who claim the right to use violence to extort money (ie taxes) and to kill and imprison others. and
2) People who don't claim the right to use violence.
99.99% of all human conflict will end when we stop giving a group of people a monopoly of violence.
By Robert, July 30, 2009 at 8:16 pm Link to this comment
Racial profiling is not what most people seem to think it is. Racial profiling in the US is more about who is capable of legally defended themselves rather than who is a likely criminal. Racial profiling, is not racial it is fiscal. It is a measure of who can pay for a legal defence and of course a legal counter attack and who can be abused with impunity. Honestly do you think that officer what falsely arrested and abused that person if they had known who they were and the real access to the law hey had. So cop was thinking so poor old man, up to his eyeballs in a mortgage and can't afford to be seen 'equally' by the law ie. US law turns a blind eye on their legal rights making them a safe easy target for 'legal' criminal abuse.
By Mark Hillyard, July 30, 2009 at 1:12 pm Link to this comment
Vital Signs,
People get in trouble with police because they are in the wrong. Think about it! Do people really want to "hassle" the police? If they do they are asking for trouble and that's the way it is. "I'm bad to the bones!" I have a nephew who used to ask for it and he got it and always pulled up the "I'm mes'can and they are harrassing me" card. He is older and wiser now and doesn't do that anymore. He is also adopted to my family and from my view was always asking for it. He had an attitude, got adjusted and is now gainfully employed.
Don't feed me a junk food dinner. UN Vital.
Mark Hillyard
By Dave, July 30, 2009 at 12:06 pm Link to this comment
Did those of you who voted for Obama really think for one moment that a very leftwing democrat would undo and deconstruct the liberty crushing laws that were passed by Bush?
By PoeticJustice, July 30, 2009 at 9:57 am Link to this comment
Mr. Vidal,
Thought you might have an interest in this story…
By Maurice, July 29, 2009 at 10:59 pm Link to this comment
There are good cops and Bad, unfortunatley the bad outway the good. I live in a suburb of nashville, TN
By jc, July 29, 2009 at 9:08 pm Link to this comment
A bridge threatening the establishment, imagine the masses rising up what a concept. Mr. Vidal what a great job! I was not there, but it is a three-ring circus now, with Gates insisting an apology from local law enforcement community, and the Pres. speaking his mind, in the end beer/chips at the White-house with Media there for moral support. Cannot wait to see them on face-book. Caliber of folks crossing into the blue shield are not as bright as they used to be, or they are not receiving training that they used to receive in order to deal with ordinary folks. They have enough money to law enforcement but their training is not as good as it used to be.
Today heard 287(g) has even more teeth, law enforcement on steroids even more power and funds appropriated forgot how much. Prison guards can stop and detain foreigners who are not US citizens. While every other sector is receiving pink slips, law enforcement is getting larger not because there are 305 million of us.
By 2 Sides of The Coin, July 29, 2009 at 7:11 pm Link to this comment
The problem is Whites assume that NOTHING is racist and Blacks assume that EVERYTHING is racist. Until we see eye to eye and concede that the Police DO HAVE a history of racist behavior towards Black people and continue to promote their violence, hatred and negativity towards Black people and also concede that in this case, while the officer was wrong and Gates' anger is justified at how he was treated, he may have been treated that way because of his presumption by the officer that Gates was robber and not necessarily was being prejudiced by the fact that Gates is a Black person, we will continue to have these endless and often pointless debates. However, the officer is a mess…how likely is this older man breaking and entering into homes without a facial mask and in that neighborhood? He also did NOT have a weapon and was outnumbered. People on both sides need to stop and think.
By TRHS Mr H, July 29, 2009 at 3:34 pm Link to this comment
The guy clearly has no clue what he is talking about. Yes, the Cambridge case was bad, and the OFFICER who did it was bad, but it what he says here is ridiculous:
"So, we are a weirdly militarized citizenry governed by the worst elements in the United States, and something is bound to blow up, as I have felt for some time now. In my wanderings around the U.S., I talk to people without money, without power, ordinary voters, as well as nowadays, people maimed by war, or time, or life or whatever, and I am convinced more and more that this is a vicious country in which the police are allowed to run amok, absolutely independent of anyone, and that is why from time to time they are allowed to get away with murder. One surprisingly knew that a wrinkle has been discovered in the seamless surface of our troubled state. Policemen are seldom tried for their crimes, or indeed, held responsible for what they do, which disturbs the peace and causes distress among the orderly."
I realize the guy got injured in the war, so maybe he isn't oblivious to violent horror, but he is oblivious to the fact that police are at WAR every day, getting injured like him and killed EVERY DAY.
By bowwowboy, July 29, 2009 at 2:46 pm Link to this comment
What's more depressing?: the actions of the cop in this case, whose (deservedly) fragile little ego was crushed by Gates's not terribly original yo'-mamam's?
Words are breath and spit, not brickbats, and it is precisely this distinction that anyone mandated to keep the peace needs to keep in mind.
For the record, while living in Portland, Ore., in the early 70's , I was once pulled over for driving with a busted tail light and then arrested on the charge of driving with a suspended license. (The charge was subsequently dropped.) En route to the police station, in the bck seat of the patrol car I cussed out the two arresting officers (who were only doing their job) in language far more vivid that Professor Gates's. To their great credit, the cops simply ignored my outburst and I was deposited at the station intact with no additional charge of "disturbing the peaxe" or "resisting arrest."
In L.A., where I now live and where it seems like a (usually) black or Hispanic person gets shot by the LAPD every week or so, I never would have made it to the station in one piece.
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Job Overview
The Bureau of Indian Affairs is the lead agency for the United States in carrying on a government-to-government relationship with tribal nations. A challenging and dynamic place to work, it enhances the quality of life, promotes economic opportunity, and carries out the responsibility to protect and improve the trust assets of American Indians, Indian Tribes and Alaska Natives.
AMENDMENT #1 dated 01/29/14 - Amends Vacancy Announcement to read "Travel may be required". AMENDMENT #2 dated 03/03/14 - Amends Vacancy Announcement to add second cutoff date; update salary information.
AMENDMENT #1 dated 01/29/14 - Amends Vacancy Announcement to read "Travel may be required".
AMENDMENT #2 dated 03/03/14 - Amends Vacancy Announcement to add second cutoff date; update salary information.
Vacancy ID: 994276
Forestry Technician (Fire), GS-0462-04
Southwestern Region, Southern Pueblos Agency, Northern Pueblos Agency, Laguna Agency, Jicarilla Agency, Mescalero Agency, Zuni Agency, Southern Ute Agency, Ute Mountain Ute Agency
The Open Continuous Announcement (OCA) allows acceptance of applicants throughout the year with eligible applicants being placed on the OCA register and referred for consideration as vacancies occur. The first Cut-Off date for receipt/referrals of applicants to be considered for available vacant positions was 01/31/14. The second Cut-Off date for receipt/referrals of applicants to be considered for available vacant positions will be 03/31/14. Other Cut-Off dates will be established based on the date requests for List of Eligibles are received to fill other vacancies. Applicants with 10-point Veterans' Preference who submit a complete application after a Cut-Off date but before the List of Eligibles is issued, will be considered and referred on the List, if qualified. Your applicant period of eligibility will be for six (6) months. The system automatically populates your Eligibility Begin Date when your application is rated and your Eligibility End Date is calculated based on the start of the 6-month period of eligibility. You must reapply to keep your application active.
This job announcement will be used to fill temporary seasonal wildland firefighter positions in the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA). Appointments to these position(s) are not-to-exceed 6 months (1039 hours) in a service year.
The position is located on a fire crew as a crewmember within the fire management organization. The purpose of this position is wildland fire suppression/management/control, as a skilled firefighter on an engine, helitack module or hand crew. Other wildland fire related duties involve fire prevention, patrol, detection or prescribed burning. The incumbent will be involved with the maintenance and repair of firefighting tools, equipment, and facilities and will receive fire training.
NOTE: This is an arduous position and is subject to drug testing, medical examination, and physical fitness testing
- Wildland fire related duties involve fire prevention, patrol, detection or prescribed burning.
- Serve as a skilled crewmember on an engine, helitack or hand crew.
- As an assistant on a wildland fire engine, works as a trainee engine operator driving the engine, operating the pump and making hose layouts under the direction of the engine foreman.
- Utilizes a variety of specialized tools, equipment and techniques while actively suppressing wildfires, such as a Pulaski, shovel, McLeod, ax and chainsaw to control the spread of wildfire.
- Provides assistance on a wildland fire engine, operating the pump and making hose lays under direction.
- As a helitack crewmember, loads helicopters determines weight calculations, competes crew manifests and may rappel from a hovering helicopter near ground level in remote area to construct helistops or to attack small fires, hotspots and spot fires.
- Performs basic fireline activities such as line construction, hose layout, operations of pumps and accessories, lopping and scattering of fuels using hand tools and holding, patrolling, monitoring, and mop-up operations. Moves dirt, chops brush, small trees, etc. to construct fire line. Is responsible for observing the rules of wildland firefighting safety. Applies practices and techniques to minimize resource damage.
- Independently carries out specialized assignments such as tree falling, backfire and burnout, mobile and stationary engine attack, construction of helispots specialized helitack operations and hover hookups.
- Serve on an organized crew during prescribed burns, monitoring and controlling the fire and collecting data on fire weather and fire behavior.
- Performs project work such as fuel inventory and hazard fuel reduction projects.
INDIAN PREFERENCE POLICY: Preference in filling vacancies is given to qualified Indian candidates in accordance with the Indian Preference Act of 1934 (Title 25, USC, Section 472). Verification Form BIA-4432 must be submitted with the application if claiming Indian Preference. Indian Preference eligibles not currently employed in the Federal service will be appointed under the Excepted Service Appointment Authority Schedule A, 213.3112(a)(7). Consideration will be given to Non-Indian applicants in the absence of a qualified Indian Preference eligible. Applicants not entitled to Indian Preference must be Federal civilian employees with competitive status or former Federal civilian employees with reinstatement eligibility and must submit latest Notification of Personnel Action, SF-50B, as proof.
Travel Required
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Michelle Welborn, PharmD
Michelle Welborn holds a Doctor of Pharmacy degree from Campbell University School of Pharmacy. She serves as President and CEO of Bravo Pharmaceuticals, a small start-up biotech company that will provide novel pharmaceuticals and first to market generic products for rare diseases, including intractable childhood epilepsy.read more
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ICE Alliance's Professional Advisory Board is a group of leading intractable childhood epilepsy, genetics, and drug development researchers from both academia and industry, clinicians who work with patients with intractable epilepsy, and experts from related fields.read more
James C. Cloyd III, PharmD
Professor and Lawrence C Weaver Endowed Chair- Orphan Drug Development Director, Center for Orphan Drug Research Co-Director, Epilepsy Research and Education Programread more
Dr. Helen Cross
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Andrew Escayg, PhD
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Three UC Student-Athletes Earn American Scholar Athlete Excellence Awards
Aug. 5, 2014
Three University of Cincinnati student-athletes, Olivia Dose (women's golf), Kaitlyn Good (women's indoor track and field) and Eric Lefeld (football) were named winners of the 2013-14 American Athletic Conference Scholar-Athlete Sport Excellence Awards by league's academic affairs committee and Commissioner Mike Aresco.
The Scholar-Athlete Sport Excellence Awards are given to one student-athlete in each American Athletic Conference-sponsored sport based on academic credentials, athletic accolades or performances and volunteer service to the community. Student-athletes who have attained junior academic standing and a minimum cumulative grade-point average of 3.00 are eligible.
Olivia Dose
In the classrooms, Dose's accomplishments have been arguably even more impressive. She has been on the Dean's List nine times, while also making the Athletic Director's Honor Roll every grading period from Fall 2010 through her final semester this spring. She was named to the BIG EAST All-Academic team in 2010-13, while also being named an All-American Scholar by the National Golf Coaches Association and Women's Golf Coaches Association three times (2012-14).
Dose does not limit her leadership to the golf course and classroom either, as she volunteers her time with numerous organizations. She takes part in annual events including Operation School Bell, Kids Zone, Adopt-a-Family and Playdate with the Bearcats. She has also been involved with the Sand and See event at Traditions Golf Club, Boone County Planting and City Gospel Mission.
Kaitlyn Good
She was a three-time selection to the BIG EAST Conference All-Academic squad and earned American Conference All-Academic recognition in 2014. Good, an economics major with a 3.913 GPA, made the dean's list and athletic director's honor roll during every grading period as a student-athlete and achieved a 4.0 GPA in five different semesters.
Her community activities include working with the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC), Gatorade Pong, an SAAC event that benefits Mothers Against Drunk Driving, volunteering at Cincinnati Children's Hospital, Girls on the Run and Adopt a Family.
Eric Lefeld
Strong in the classroom as well, Lefeld earned the football team's C-Club Strothman Award for Academic Excellence, earning Academic All-AAC honors as well as his undergraduate degree in marketing in April 2014. He is currently enrolled in a graduate business program.
Lefeld has been heavily involved with UC's Cats in the Community program, spending time at various community events, including the Forest Hill 5k and Playdate with the Bearcats in support of Mitch's Mission and also served food to the less fortunate at The Lord's Gym in downtown Cincinnati.


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I have an 03 focus SPI SOHC and I can't get it to start...it sat outside for a few months after it died randomly one day so there aren't any cel codes and I can't get the computer to throw any codes. I know for sure that it has spark and fuel. I'm not sure on the compression cause I don't have a compression tester at the moment but when I pulled the spark plugs there was a lot of oil on them...could this indicated a blown head gasket possibly??? Any help will be appreciated, thanks
Is it cranking?
If yes it is 1 of 4 things
Fuel, spark, air or compression
Dd you remove fuel line off injector rail to confirm fuel is making it to that point?
If so it could be fuel injectors get a mechanics stethoscope and listen to hear if you can hear injectors clicking. If you can, get a spark tester and connect to spark plug wire boots.
Then get back to us.
It cranks over fine. I confirmed that it was getting fuel by cleaning all the oil off of the plugs so they were dry and then I put all the plugs back in and cranked the engine over and pulled the plugs to smell them...they were all wet and smelt like fuel. I did use a spark tester so I know I do have spark.
I did a compression test a month ago and I didn't get any reading...so either that compression tester is bad or the rings are toast...has anyone had there rings go out on them while they were driving? If so can you explain what exactly happened when they gave out?
Have you checked for a broken timing belt? Depending on the position of the cam when the belt broke, it is possible that the valve train stopped at a position with at least one valve open on every cylinder.
An engine with a broken belt should spin quickly and freely. Remove the valve cover oil cap and watch the cam and valve train as you crank the motor. No movement of the cam = broken belt.
You checked every cylinder with a compression tester, right?
Yeah I checked every cylinder...I'll try that and get back to you. I am also gonna try a different compression tester just to rule out a possible faulty one
You should get something- even with a bad timing belt. I'd expect to see around 30-50 on one cylinder.
Could have had a valve drop! Easy way to see if the timing belt it ok is to have someone crank the car with the oil cap off, you should see the rocker arms moving, if they are and you have no compression either the timing jumped (doubt it) or you dropped a vlv seat which runined the head/pistons.
The focus is actually a friend of mine...I asked her to explain what happened to it and she said she started it up and started fine. she started driving up the hill on her street and she said it just died. It didn't shake or make any noises or nothing, it just died...I'm not in the same state as the car is right now but I'll be taking another look at it in early march and let everyone know if the cams are moving when I crank the engine over. I'm also gonna buy a new compression tester set instead of renting one that might not even work. Does anyone have any suggestion on a certain brand? I was thinking of just getting a craftsman set.
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text: Arts Notes: Sept. 1, 2013 By Judy Hamilton August 31, 2013 Story Share The Art StoreCHARLESTON, W.Va. -- The Art Store opens the exhibition "DutchHammer + Kadish" Sept. 7 with an artist talk at 5:30 p.m. followed by a reception ending at 7:30 p.m.West Virginia artists Chris Dutch and Robin Hammer, collectively known as DutchHammer, have spent the past 24 years producing freestanding and wall sculptures as well as unique custom furniture.Dutch's background includes a bachelor's degree in civil engineering. Hammer received a BA from the Memphis Academy of Arts. They use their individual specializations in stained glass and painting, respectively, to construct objects of wood, glass, paint, mosaic and metal characterized by bursts of color, shape and whimsy.Ohio painter and printmaker Katherine Kadish has been exhibiting in solo and group shows throughout the United States and abroad since 1973. Kadish holds a bachelor's in painting and design from Carnegie Mellon University and master's in art history from the University of Chicago. She is known for her soft botanical images in vivid hues."DutchHammer + Kadish" will be on display through Oct. 4. For more information, contact Adrian Blackstock at 304-345-1038 or www.theartstorewv.com.Art around WheelingWHEELING, W.Va. -- From 5:30 to 8 p.m. Sept. 6, The North Gallery at the Artwork Gallery, 2200 Market St., Centre Market, Wheeling, will present works by Ohio painters Kathryn "Kit" Edwards Dailey and Judy Anderson. The artists are known for their colorful and whimsical images. The public is invited to meet the artists and to enjoy light refreshments.The Artwork Gallery will also feature plein-air paintings from this year's Paint Historic Wheeling and the past seven Paint Oglebay events. The term "plein air" means to paint outside in the open air. For additional information about Artworks First Friday shows, contact Judy Minder at 304-233-0780.Carnegie HallLEWISBURG, W.Va. -- On display Sept. 2 through Oct. 26 in the Museum Gallery at Carnegie Hall in Lewisburg is Sandra King's "Windows in Time" exhibit in water media and pastel. The artist will hold a free reception open to the general public from 5 to 8 p.m. Sept. 6.King resides on a 50-acre farm in Clay County and is inspired by the constantly changing seasonal color, brilliant night skies and dramatic sunsets in the surrounding hills. The paintings are described as capturing the timeless landscape to the outer reaches of the universe.She is a retired art teacher from Clay County High School and continues to teach private classes in her studio. She is president of Allied Artists of West Virginia.The galleries at Carnegie Hall are open and free to the public Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and Saturdays from 1 to 4 p.m. To find out more about the exhibit, call 304-645-7917 or visit www.carnegiehallwv.org. Digital photo workshops CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Photographer Thorney Lieberman is offering digital photography workshops from 3 to 5 p.m. Sept. 8, 15 and 22. He will teach how to get the most out of your camera, introduction to Photoshop and Photoshop Elements, shooting in raw format and using Adobe Lightroom, lighting for portraits, shooting panorama, tips and tricks to getting much better photos.The classes will take place in his studio at 1514 Virginia St. E. The fee is $150 for the three sessions. For further information, contact Lieberman at 304-342-1842, email@example.com or www.thorneylieberman.com.WVU Art MuseumMORGANTOWN, W.Va. -- WVU will have a groundbreaking ceremony for the Art Museum at 1:30 p.m. Sept. 10 at the Museum Education Center, Evansdale Campus. All are welcome to attend. Free parking will be available. At 5:30 p.m. an "Art Up Close!" program featuring Cindy Persinger will be featured.For additional information, email firstname.lastname@example.com or 304-293-2141, ext. 2.Birke Art Gallery HUNTINGTON, W.Va. -- Amanda Burnham will be featured in a solo exhibition at the Birke Art Gallery at Marshall University. The show runs through Oct. 11.The exhibit will feature large-scale wall drawings. Burnham earned a BFA in painting and printmaking from Harvard University and an MFA in visual and environmental studies from Yale University. She has exhibited her work in venues nationally and internationally.Admission to the gallery is free and open to the public from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday and 6 to 8 p.m. Mondays.Miniatures exhibitionHUNTINGTON, W.Va. -- The Renaissance Art Gallery will host the 13th annual National Miniature Exhibition in November. The show is open to all artists 18 and older.The show prospectus is available at the gallery or for download at www.orgsites.com/wv/renaissance. The miniatures show accepts all fine-art media, including encaustic, except photography.The gallery is planning workshops in September for anyone interested in working small or working with encaustics. Sept. 7 will be a day for working small with demonstrations for Art Trading Cards. For more information, contact Sue Tschantz at 304-552-2006. The gallery is planning an encaustic workshop for Sept. 29. For more information, contact Fern Christian at 304-453-3187.Renaissance Art Gallery is at 900 Eighth St., Suite 20, Huntington.'Streams of Light'POINT PLEASANT, W.Va. -- The Gallery at 409 presents "Streams of Light," an exhibition by Sue Grim-Langert, through Sept. 30. The artist is known for her paintings of land and seascapes, vineyards, flower fields and floral still lifes, which are presented in classical impressionism using oil and acrylic media.The Gallery at 409, located in the historic Lowe Hotel, 409 Main St., Point Pleasant, is dedicated to bringing fine art to the community and facilitating creativity in youth and adults. For additional information, email firstname.lastname@example.com or call 740-339-0520.Docent open houseHUNTINGTON, W.Va. -- The Huntington Museum of Art invites anyone interested in volunteering to be a docent to an open house from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Sept. 3. Admission is free. Refreshments will be served.A docent is someone who volunteers time to lead schoolchildren and museum visitors on guided tours. No prior experience or background in art is required. The museum states that if you like art of any kind, enjoy sharing your knowledge, and can spend 90 minutes a week getting free instruction about art, this could be the program for you. 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Brian Aldiss
|Brian Aldiss
Aldiss at Interaction in Glasgow, 2005
18 August 1925
East Dereham, Norfolk, England
|Pen name
|Jael Cracken, Dr. Peristyle, C. C. Shackleton
|Writer, editor, artist
|1954–present (as writer)
|Science fiction
|Notable works
|Helliconia trilogy, "Super-Toys Last All Summer Long"
Brian Wilson Aldiss, OBE (/ˈɔːldɪs/; born 18 August 1925) is an English writer and anthologies editor, best known for science fiction novels and short stories. His byline reads either Brian W. Aldiss or simply Brian Aldiss, except for occasional pseudonyms during the mid-1960s. Greatly influenced by science fiction pioneer H. G. Wells, Aldiss is a vice-president of the international H. G. Wells Society. He is also (formerly with the late Harry Harrison) co-president of the Birmingham Science Fiction Group. Aldiss was named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America in 2000 and inducted by the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2004. He has received two Hugo Awards, one Nebula Award, and one John W. Campbell Memorial Award.[1] He wrote the short story "Super-Toys Last All Summer Long" (1969), the basis for the Stanley Kubrick-developed Steven Spielberg film A.I. Artificial Intelligence. Aldiss was associated with the British New Wave of science fiction.[2]
Life and career[edit]
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Aldiss's father ran a department store that his grandfather had established, and the family lived above it.[3] He started to write stories as a 3 year old which his mother would bind and put on a shelf.[4] At the age of 6, Brian was sent to board at West Buckland School in Devon, and then on to Framlingham College.[3] During World War II in 1943, he joined the Royal Signals,[5] and saw action in Burma;[6] his Army experience inspired the Horatio Stubbs second and third books, A Soldier Erect and A Rude Awakening[citation needed].
After the war, he worked as a bookseller in Oxford.[7] He wrote a number of short pieces for a booksellers' trade journal about life in a fictitious bookshop, which attracted the attention of Charles Monteith, an editor at the British publisher Faber and Faber. As a result, Aldiss's first book was The Brightfount Diaries (Faber, 1955), a 200-page novel in diary form about the life of a sales assistant in a bookshop. About this time he also began to write science fiction for various magazines. According to ISFDB his first speculative fiction in print was the short story Criminal Record, published by John Carnell in the July 1954 number of Science Fantasy.[8] Several of his stories appeared in 1955 including three in monthly issues of New Worlds,[8] a more important magazine also edited by Carnell.
In 1954, The Observer newspaper ran a competition for a short story set in the year 2500, Aldiss's story Not For An Age was ranked third following a reader vote.[9] The Brightfount Diaries had been a minor success, and Faber asked Aldiss if he had any more writing that they could look at with a view to publishing. Aldiss confessed to being a science fiction author, to the delight of the publishers, who had a number of science fiction fans in high places, and so his first science fiction book was published,[citation needed] a collection of short stories entitled Space, Time and Nathaniel (Faber, 1957). By this time, his earnings from writing matched his wages in the bookshop, so he made the decision to become a full-time writer.
Aldiss led the voting for Most Promising New Author of 1958 at the next year's World Science Fiction Convention, but finished behind "no award".[1] He was elected President of the British Science Fiction Association in 1960. He was the literary editor of the Oxford Mail newspaper from 1958 to 1969.[7] Around 1964 he and his long-time collaborator Harry Harrison started the first ever journal of science fiction criticism, Science Fiction Horizons, which during its brief span of two issues published articles and reviews by such authors as James Blish, and featured a discussion among Aldiss, C. S. Lewis, and Kingsley Amis in the first issues, and an interview with William S. Burroughs in the second.
Besides his own writings, he has had great success as an anthologist. For Faber he edited Introducing SF, a collection of stories typifying various themes of science fiction, and Best Fantasy Stories. In 1961 he edited an anthology of reprinted short science fiction for the British paperback publisher Penguin Books under the title Penguin Science Fiction. This was remarkably successful, going into numerous reprints, and was followed up by two further anthologies, More Penguin Science Fiction (1963), and Yet More Penguin Science Fiction (1964). The later anthologies enjoyed the same success as the first, and all three were eventually published together as The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus (1973), which also went into a number of reprints. In the 1970s, he produced several large collections of classic grand-scale science fiction, under the titles Space Opera (1974), Space Odysseys (1975), Galactic Empires (1976), Evil Earths (1976), and Perilous Planets (1978) which were quite successful. Around this time, he edited a large-format volume Science Fiction Art (1975), with selections of artwork from the magazines and pulps.
In response to the results from the planetary probes of the 1960s and 1970s, which showed that Venus was completely unlike the hot, tropical jungle usually depicted in science fiction, he and Harry Harrison edited an anthology Farewell, Fantastic Venus!, reprinting stories based on the pre-probe ideas of Venus. He also edited, with Harrison, a series of anthologies The Year's Best Science Fiction (Nos. 1–9, 1968–1976).[10]
Brian Aldiss also invented a form of extremely short story called the Minisaga. The Daily Telegraph hosted a competition for the best Minisaga for several years and Aldiss was the judge.[11] He has edited several anthologies of the best Minisagas.
He traveled to Yugoslavia, where he met Yugoslav fans in Ljubljana, Slovenia; he published a travel book about Yugoslavia entitled Cities and Stones (1966), his only work in the genre;[12] he published an alternative-history fantasy story, "The Day of the Doomed King" (1968), about Serbian kings in the Middle Ages; and he wrote a novel called The Malacia Tapestry, about an alternative Dalmatia.
In addition to a highly successful career as a writer, Aldiss is also an accomplished artist. His first solo exhibition The Other Hemisphere was held in Oxford, August–September 2010, and the exhibition's centrepiece 'Metropolis' (see figure) has since been released as a limited edition fine art print.[13](The exhibition title denotes the writer/artist's notion, "words streaming from one side of his brain inspiring images in what he calls 'the other hemisphere'.")[13]
Awards and honours[edit]
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1990.[14]
Aldiss was the "Permanent Special Guest" at the annual International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts (ICFA) from 1989 through 2008. He was also the Guest of Honor at the conventions in 1986 and 1999.[15]
The Science Fiction Writers of America made him its 18th SFWA Grand Master in 2000[16] and the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame inducted him in 2004.[17]
He was awarded the title of Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to literature in Queen Elizabeth II's Birthday Honours list, announced on 11 June 2005.[18]
In January 2007 he appeared on Desert Island Discs. His choice of record to 'save' was Old Rivers sung by Walter Brennan, his choice of book was John Heilpern's biography of John Osborne, and his luxury a banjo. The full selection of eight favourite records is on the BBC website.[19]
On 1 July 2008 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Liverpool in recognition of his contribution to literature.[20] The Brian W Aldiss Archive at the University holds manuscripts from the period 1943–1995.[21]
In 2013, Aldiss was recipient of the World Fantasy Special Award at the World Fantasy Convention in Brighton, England.
Aldiss sits on the Council of the Society of Authors.[22]
- The Rain Will Stop The Pretentious Press (2000), written in 1942
- The Brightfount Diaries Faber (1955)
- Space, Time and Nathaniel Faber (1957), Four Square 1496 (1966), Panther (1979), collected short fiction — all of his science fiction published to date, including "T", his first published story, and "Not For an Age" (thirteen stories) plus one story hurriedly written to fill out the volume[citation needed]
- Non-Stop Faber (1958), Digit (1959), Pan (1976), Millennium (2000), US title Starship Signet S1779 (1960), Avon V2321 (1969) — A member of a culturally primordial tribe investigates the dark, jungle filled corridors that surround him to ultimately uncover the true nature of the universe he inhabits.
- Equator ( serialized 1958), Digit R533 (US title Vanguard from Alpha Ace (1959)
- The Canopy of Time Faber (1959), Four Square 821 (1963), collected short fiction. (The US title Galaxies Like Grains of Sand Signet S1815 (1960), Panther (1979), was a different version, which Aldiss preferred)
- No Time Like Tomorrow Signet S1683 (1959), collected short fiction (contents: T, Not for an Age, Poor Little Warrior!, The Failed Men, Carrion Country, Judas Danced, Psyclops, Outside, Gesture of Farewell, The New Father Christmas, Our Kind of Knowledge)
- The Interpreter Digit R506 (1960), Four Square 1970 (1967); US title Bow down to Nul Ace D-443 — A short novel about the huge, old galactic empire of Nuls, a giant, three-limbed, civilised alien race. Earth is just a lesser-than-third-class colony ruled by a Nul tyrant whose deceiving devices together with good willing but ineffective attempts of a Nul signatory to clarify the abuses and with the disorganised earthling resistance reflect the complex relationship existing between imperialists and subject races which Aldiss himself had the chance of seeing at first hand when serving in India and Indonesia in the forties.
- The Male Response Beacon 45 (1959), Four Square 1623 (1961)
- The Primal Urge Ballantine F555 (1961), Sphere (1967), Panther (1976)
- Hothouse Faber (1962), Four Square 1147 (1965), Panther 1979) published in abridged form in the American market as The Long Afternoon of Earth Signet D2018 (1962)— Set in a far future Earth, where the earth has stopped rotating, the Sun has increased output, and plants are engaged in a constant frenzy of growth and decay, like a tropical forest enhanced a thousandfold; a few small groups of elvish humans still live on the edge of extinction, beneath the giant banyan tree that covers the day side of the earth. This assemblage of stories won the Hugo Award for short fiction in 1962.[1]
- The Airs of Earth Faber (1963), Four Square 1325 (195) US title Starswarm Signet D2411 (1964), collected short fiction
- The Dark Light Years Signet D2497 (1964), Faber (1964), Four Square 1437 (1966), Panther (1979) — The encounter of humans with the utods, gentle aliens whose physical and mental health requires wallowing in mud and filth, who are not even recognised as intelligent by the humans.
- Greybeard Harcourt, Brace & World (1964), Faber (1964), Signet P2689 (1965), Panther (1968) — Set decades after the Earth's population has been sterilised as a result of nuclear bomb tests conducted in Earth's orbit, the book shows an emptying world, occupied by an aging, childless population.
- Best SF stories of Brian Aldiss Faber (1965); US title Who Can Replace a Man? Harcourt, Brace & World (1965), Signet P3311 (1967)
- Earthworks Faber (1965), Four Square (1967), Signet P3116 (1967), Panther (1979), Avon (1980)
- The Impossible Smile (1965), previously a Science Fantasy magazine serial under the pseudonym "Jael Cracken"
- The Saliva Tree and Other Strange Growths Faber (1966), Sphere (1968), collected short fiction — Title story "The Saliva Tree" was written to mark the centenary of H. G. Wells's birth, and shared the Nebula Award for the best novella of 1964.[1] While set in a Wellsian milieu, it contains two plot elements also found in the stories of H.P.Lovecraft: an object from space which causes crops and livestock to grow prolifically, but be unpalatable (The Colour out of Space); and a monster which is visible only when sprayed with an opaque powder (The Dunwich Horror).
- An Age Faber (1967), Sphere (1969), Panther (1979), US title Cryptozoic! Avon (1969), Panther (1978), a dystopic time-travel novel
- Report on Probability A (serialized 1967), Faber (1968), Sphere (1969). Doubleday (1969), Lancer (1970), Avon (1980)
- Intangibles, Inc. Faber (1969), Corgi (1971). Collection
- Barefoot in the Head Faber (1969), Doubleday (1970), Ace (1972), Corgi (1974), AVON (1981), Gollancz VGSF Classics (1990)/ Perhaps Aldiss's most experimental work, this first appeared in several parts as the 'Acid Head War' series in New Worlds. Set in a Europe some years after a flare-up in the Middle East led to Europe being attacked with bombs releasing huge quantities of long-lived hallucinogenic drugs. Into an England with a population barely maintaining a grip on reality comes a young Serb, who himself starts coming under the influence of the ambient aerosols, and finds himself leading a messianic crusade. The narration and dialogue reflects the shattering of language under the influence of the drugs, in mutating phrases and puns and allusions, in a deliberate echo of Finnegans Wake.
- The Moment of Eclipse Faber (1970), Doubleday (1972), Panther (1973), collected short fiction — British Science Fiction Association (BSFA) Award[23]
- Neanderthal Planet Avon (1970), collected short fiction
- Horatio Stubbs (omnibus edition, The Horatio Stubbs Saga Panther (1985))
- The Hand-Reared Boy Weidenfeld & Nicolson (1970), Signet T4575 (1971), Corgi (1971)
- A Soldier Erect Weidenfeld & Nicolson (1971), Corgi (1972)
- A Rude Awakening Weidenfeld & Nicolson (1978), Corgi (1979)
- The Book of Brian Aldiss DAW 29 (1972), UK title The Comic Inferno New English Library (1973), collected short fiction
- Frankenstein Unbound Jonathan Cape (1973), Random House (1974), Fawcett Crest (1975), Pan (1975)— A 21st century politician is transported to 19th century Switzerland where he encounters both Frankenstein and Mary Shelley. It was the basis for the 1990 film of the same title, directed by Roger Corman.
- The Eighty Minute Hour Jonathan Cape (1974), Doubleday (1974), Leisure (1975), Pan (1975) — A weird and ambitious "space opera" whose characters actually sing. The world is in chaos after nuclear war causes time slips and even those that believe they rule the world have trouble knowing where and when they are.
- The Malacia Tapestry Jonathan Cape (1976), Harper & Row (1977), Panther (1978), Ace (1978), Berkley (1985)
- Brothers of the Head Pierrot (1977), Panther (1979) — A large-format book, illustrated by Ian Pollock, tells the strange story of the rock stars Tom and Barry Howe, Siamese twins with a third, dormant head that eventually starts to awaken. Adapted into a 2006 film by Keith Fulton and Lou Pepe.
- Last Orders and Other Stories Jonathan Cape (1977), Panther (1979). Collection
- Enemies of the System Jonathan Cape (1978), Harper & Row (1978), Panther (1980), Avon (1981)
- Pile (1979) Poem
- New Arrivals, Old Encounters Jonathan Cape (1979), Harper & Row (1980), Avon (1981). Collection
- Moreau's Other Island Jonathan Cape (1980), Panther (1982), as An Island Called Moreau Simon & Schuster (1981), Timescape (1981)
- Squire Quartet
- Life In The West Weidenfeld & Nicolson (1980), Corgi (1982)
- Forgotten Life Gollancz (1988), Atheneum / Macmillan (1989), Mandarin (1989)
- Remembrance Day HarperCollins (UK) (1993), St. Martin's Press (1993), Flamingo (1994)
- Somewhere East Of Life Carroll & Graf (1994), Flamingo (1994)
- Helliconia trilogy
- Helliconia Spring Atheneum (1982), Jonathan Cape (1982), Berkley (1983), Granada (1983)— BSFA Award;[23] Campbell Memorial Award;[24] Nebula Award finalist[1]
- Helliconia Summer Atheneum (1983), Jonathan Cape (1983), Berkley (1984), Granada (1985) — BSFA finalist; Locus Award, fourth place[1]
- Helliconia Winter Atheneum (1985), Jonathan Cape (1985), Berkley (1986), Granada (1986) — BSFA;[23] Nebula finalist; Locus, fifth place[1]
- Helliconia (omnibus) Gollancz SF Masterworks (2010)
- Seasons in Flight Jonathan Cape (1984), Atheneum (1986), Grafton (1986), Ace (1988)
- Courageous New Planet (c. 1984)
- The Year before Yesterday (1987) Franklin Watts (1987), Kerosina (1987), St. Martin's (1988), New English Library (1989). Fix-up of Equator (1958) and The Impossible Smile (1965)
- Ruins (1987)
- Man in His Time Atheneum (1989), ISBN 0-689-12052-4, Collier (1990)
- A Romance of the Equator: The Best Fantasy Stories Gollancz (1989) Atheneum / Macmillan (1990) ISBN 0-689-12053-2
- Dracula Unbound HarperCollins (1990), Graftton (1991)
- A Tupolev too Far HarperCollins (UK) (1993), St. Martin's (1994)
- The Secret of This Book HarperCollins (UK) (1995), US title Common Clay: 20-Odd Stories St. Martin's (1996)
- White Mars or, the Mind Set Free Little, Brown UK (1999), St. Martin's (2000), by Aldiss and Roger Penrose
- Super-Toys Last All Summer Long and Other Stories of Future Time Orbit (2001), St. Martin's (2001), collected short fiction — Title story "Super-Toys Last All Summer Long" was the basis for the Steven Spielberg film A.I.: Artificial Intelligence
- Super-State Orbit (2002)
- The Cretan Teat (2002)
- Affairs at Hampden Ferrers (2004)
- Cultural Breaks (2005), collected short fiction. Tachyon Publications.
- Jocasta Rose Press (2005). A re-telling of Sophocles's Theban tragedies concerning Oedipus and Antigone. In Aldiss's novel, myth and magic are vibrantly real, experienced through an evolving human consciousness. Amidst various competing interpretations of reality, including the appearance of a time-travelling Sophocles, Aldiss provides an engaging alternative explanation of the Sphinx's riddle.
- Sanity and the Lady PS Publishing (2005)
- HARM del Rey (2007), Duckworth (2007) — Campbell Award nominee[25]
- Walcot Harper Voyager (2010) — Family saga spanning the 20th century
- Finches of Mars (2012)[26]
- Comfort Zone (2013)[6]
- Home Life With Cats (1992)
- At The Caligula Hotel (1995)
- Songs From The Steppes Of Central Asia (1995)
- A Plutonian Monologue on His Wife's Death (The Frogmore Papers, 2000)
- At A Bigger House (2002)
- The Dark Sun Rises (2002)
- A Prehistory of Mind (Mayapple Press, 2008)
- Mortal Morning (2011)[27]
- Cities and Stones: A Traveller's Yugoslavia (1966)
- The Shape of Further Things: Speculations on Change (1970)
- Item Eighty Three (1972), by Brian and Margaret Aldiss — A bibliography of Aldiss's published works, this book being number 83
- Billion Year Spree: The History of Science Fiction (1973) — BSFA special award[23]
- Hell's Cartographers (1975), co-edited with Harry Harrison — A collection of short autobiographical pieces by a number of science fiction writers, including Aldiss. The title is a reference to Kingsley Amis's survey of science fiction, New Maps of Hell.
- This World and Nearer Ones: Essays Exploring the Familiar (1979).
- Trillion Year Spree: The History of Science Fiction (1986), by Aldiss and David Wingrove — A revised and expanded version of Billion Year Spree and winner of the 1987 Hugo Award for the year's best nonfiction.[1] At the 'Conspiracy 87' ceremony, Aldiss began his acceptance speech by holding the Hugo aloft and proclaiming, to general approbation, "It's been a long time since you've given me one of these, you bastards!"[28]
- The Pale Shadow Of Science (1985), collected essays
- ... And the Lurid Glare of the Comet (1986), articles and autobiography
- Bury My Heart at W.H. Smith's: A Writing Life (1990), autobiography
- The Detached Retina: Aspects of SF and Fantasy (1995).
- The Twinkling of an Eye, or My Life as an Englishman (1998)
- When the Feast is Finished (1999), by Brian and Margaret Aldiss
- Art After Apogee: The Relationships Between an Idea, a Story, a Painting (2000), by Aldiss and Rosemary Phipps
- An Exile on Planet Earth: Articles and Reflections (2012), articles and autobiography
Anthologies edited[edit]
- Penguin Science Fiction (1961)
- More Penguin Science Fiction (1963)
- Yet More Penguin Science Fiction (1964)
- Nebula Award Stories Two (with Harry Harrison) (1967)
- The Year's Best Science Fiction No. 1 (with Harry Harrison) (1968)
- The Year's Best Science Fiction No. 2 (with Harry Harrison) (1969)
- The Year's Best Science Fiction No. 3 (with Harry Harrison) (1970)
- The Year's Best Science Fiction No. 4 (with Harry Harrison) (1971)
- The Year's Best Science Fiction No. 5 (with Harry Harrison) (1972)
- The Year's Best Science Fiction No. 6 (with Harry Harrison) (1973)
- The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus (1973)
- Space Opera (1974)
- Space Odysseys (1974)
- Decade: the 1940's (with Harry Harrison) (1975)
- Decade: the 1950's (with Harry Harrison) (1976)
- Decade: the 1960's (with Harry Harrison) (1979)
- Evil Earths (1976)
- Galactic Empires, Volume 1 (1976)
- Galactic Empires, Volume 2 (1976)
- Mini Sagas from the Daily Telegraph Competition (1998) ISBN 978-0-7509-1594-6
- Mini Sagas From the Daily Telegraph Competition 2001 (2001) ISBN 978-1-900564-77-9
- A Science Fiction Omnibus (2007) ISBN 978-0-14-118892-8
- "Umwelts for Hire", Doctor Who Brilliant Book 2011 (BBC Books, 2010, ISBN 978-1-84607-991-7), a Doctor Who short story
- "The Small Stones of Tu Fu", Asimov's Choice: Comets & Computers (Dale Books, 1978, ISBN 0-89559-022-0)
See also[edit]
A song about Aldiss entitled "Brian Aldiss" was released by the electronic pop duo Echoes In Rows in 2010.
- ^ a b c d e f g h "Aldiss, Brian W." Archived 5 August 2011 at the Wayback Machine. The Locus Index to SF Awards: Index of Literary Nominees. Locus Publications. Retrieved 2013-04-02.
- ^ Scholes, Robert; Rabkin, Eric S. (1977). "Bibliography I: History and Criticism of Science Fiction". Science Fiction: History, Science, Vision. London: Oxford University Press.
- ^ a b Brown, Andrew (16 June 2001). "Profile: Brian Aldiss". The Guardian. London.
- ^ Cooper, Charlie (13 April 2013). "My Secret Life: Brian Aldiss, 87, author". The Independent. London.
- ^ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/authors/The-World-Of-Brian-Aldiss/
- ^ a b https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/dec/13/brian-aldiss-science-fiction-author-review
- ^ a b https://www.theguardian.com/books/2001/jun/16/sciencefictionfantasyandhorror.artsandhumanities
- ^ a b Brian Aldiss at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (ISFDB). Retrieved 2013-04-22. Select a title to see its linked publication history and general information. Select a particular edition (title) for more data at that level, such as a front cover image or linked contents.
- ^ 'Short Story, Ballot' The Observer; Jan 16, 1955 page 9;
- ^ http://www.locusmag.com/2000/Issues/08/Aldiss.html
- ^ "Your chance to enter the Daily Telegraph Mini-saga Competition 1999". The Daily Telegraph. London. 27 April 1999.
- ^ http://brianaldiss.co.uk/writing/non-fiction/non-fiction-a-p/cities-stones/
- ^ a b "wire-frame • giclée prints". Wire-frame fine art publishing (wire-frame.net). Retrieved 2013-04-18.
- ^ http://rsliterature.org/fellows/current-fellows/
- ^ "Past ICFA Guests". International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts. Retrieved 2013-01-24.
- ^ "Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master". Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA). Retrieved 2013-03-26.
- ^ "Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame" Archived 21 May 2013 at the Wayback Machine.. Mid American Science Fiction and Fantasy Conventions, Inc. Retrieved 2012-04-25. This was the official website of the hall of fame to 2004.
- ^ "The London Gazette". 2005-06-11. Retrieved 2014-05-03.
- ^ "Desert Island Discs – Castaway : Brian Aldiss". BBC. Retrieved 2013-04-18.
- ^ "University of Liverpool announces 2008 honours". Retrieved 2009-02-02.
- ^ http://archiveshub.ac.uk/features/jan05c.shtml
- ^ http://www.societyofauthors.org/about-us/council
- ^ a b c d "BSFA Awards: Past Awards" at the Wayback Machine (archived 19 May 2011). British Science Fiction Association. Archived 2011-05-19. Retrieved 2013-04-25.
- ^ https://literature.britishcouncil.org/writer/brian-aldiss
- ^ "John W. Campbell Memorial Award Finalists". Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction (sfcenter.ku.edu). Retrieved 2013-04-18.
The Award recognises second and third-place runners-up. Recent lists of finalists are long, 14 in 2008.
- ^ http://www.harpercollins.co.uk/Titles/75944/finches-of-mars-brian-aldiss-9780007478927
- ^ "Mortal Morning by Brian Aldiss". Flambard Press. Retrieved 2013-04-18.
- ^ David Langford, The Sex Column and Other Misprints, Cosmos Books, 2005, p. 82. The quotation may not be reported exactly.
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- Guardian newspaper profile
- Brian Aldiss's online fiction at Free Speculative Fiction Online
- 'Metropolis' limited edition fine art print by Brian Aldiss
- "Supertoys Last All Summer Long" story by Brian Aldiss (Jan 1997)
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A non-profit and charitable organization in Alachua has become the victim of thousands of dollars in theft for the second time in a year.
Eighty three year old Pete Gregory and his wife Mary have given horses with no place to go a permanent home since 1984.
The Retirement Home for Horses in Alachua is home to over 100 horses who enjoy 265 acres of green pastures to live on.
The nonprofit depends of volunteers who give their time for free to care for the animals.
It's a lot of land to cover on foot, and horse feed and hay is no light load to carry, so the facility uses golf carts to get around.
Earlier this week two of their carts were stolen from their grounds.
Alachua County Sheriff's Office believes the carts were taken by someone familiar with sanctuary, because of their remote location.
Anyone with information is asked to call law enforcement.
For more information on the sanctuary and how you can donate or volunteer visit Retirement Home For Horses Inc.
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Carrie Underwood, Jack White & The Lumineers To Perform At Grammys
Billboard reports that several performers have been announced for the Grammy Awards on February 10 at the Staples Center. These include Carrie Underwood, the Lumineers and Jack White.
There will also be duets of the year between Ed Sheeran and Elton John as well as Dierks Bentley and Miranda Lambert. Sheeran is nominated for song of the year and Bentley is nominated for best country solo performance. Lambert's Four the Record is up for best country album.
They join the previously announced Black Keys, fun., Mumford & Sons, Rihanna, and Taylor Swift.
White has three nominations this year including album of the year, best rock album (Blunderbuss) and best rock song ("Freedom at 21"). The Lumineers are up for best new artist and best Americana album. Underwood is up for best country solo performance for "Blown Away".


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The Story (continued)
Dr. Strangelove, Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb (1964)
Back in Ripper's office with gunfire sounding in the background, General Ripper puts a comforting - and menacing - arm around a worried Mandrake's shoulder, revealing his completely paranoidal, psycho-sexual, psychotic lunacy. As Mandrake realizes he is speaking face-to-face with the real enemy and is literally being gripped by him, he nervously fingers and folds a piece of chewing gum in his fingers in front of him. According to the nutty, obsessed General who has found a scapegoat for his own sexual inadequacies in the Russkies, Commies are unaffected by the plot to pollute the water of the world because they drink vodka:
Ripper: Mandrake?
Mandrake: Yes, Jack?
Ripper: Have you ever seen a Commie drink a glass of water?
Mandrake: Well, I can't say I have, Jack.
Ripper: Vodka, that's what they drink, isn't it? Never water?
Mandrake: Well, I-I believe that's what they drink, Jack, yes.
Ripper: On no account will a Commie ever drink water, and not without good reason.
Mandrake: Oh, eh, yes. I, uhm, can't quite see what you're getting at, Jack.
Ripper: Water, that's what I'm getting at, water. Mandrake, water is the source of all life. Seven-tenths of this Earth's surface is water. Why, do you realize that 70 percent of you is water?
Mandrake: Good Lord!
Ripper: And as human beings, you and I need fresh, pure water to replenish our precious bodily fluids.
Mandrake: Yes. (he begins to chuckle nervously)
Ripper: Are you beginning to understand?
Mandrake: Yes. (more laughter)
Ripper: Mandrake. Mandrake, have you never wondered why I drink only distilled water, or rainwater, and only pure-grain alcohol?
Mandrake: Well, it did occur to me, Jack, yes.
Ripper: Have you ever heard of a thing called fluoridation. Fluoridation of water?
Mandrake: Uh? Yes, I-I have heard of that, Jack, yes. Yes.
Ripper: Well, do you know what it is?
Mandrake: No, no I don't know what it is, no.
Ripper: Do you realize that fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous Communist plot we have ever had to face?
Machine-fun fire rips through Ripper's office, shattering his window, and knocking down his overhead fluorescent light unit. Ripper strides to the window and shouts: "Two can play at that game, soldier!...That's nice shooting soldier!" Then, he takes his own machine gun from a golf bag in his closet, sweeps his desk clear with the gun barrel, and mounts the gun on his desk, asking Mandrake to help feed the ammunition belt of cartridges (taken from the golf bag ball compartment) into the machine.
Ripper, believing that Commie soldiers, disguised in US uniforms, are fighting their way into the base, wishes to "play in this game." He orders Mandrake to help him fend off the invading army: "In the name of Her Majesty and the Continental Congress, come here and feed me this belt, boy...The Red Coats are coming." On the couch, Mandrake begs off by gasping that he has a "gammy leg" from an old war injury and that he can't get up.
In the echoing chamber of the War Room, the Russian ambassador describes the effects of the lethal, automatic Doomsday Machine if triggered by a nuclear bomb attack inside Russia. It would destroy all human and animal life on Earth and enshroud the planet in a 93-year radioactive cloud, and it could also go off if any attempts are made to disengage it:
When it is detonated, it will produce enough lethal radioactive fallout so that within ten months, the surface of the Earth will be as dead as the moon!...When they are exploded, they will produce a Doomsday shroud. A lethal cloud of radioactivity which will encircle the earth for ninety-three years!...It is not anything a sane man would do. The Doomsday Machine is designed to trigger itself automatically...It is designed to explode if any attempt is ever made to untrigger it...
Although Turgidson calls the machine "a load of Commie bull" and "an obvious Commie trick" (He walks backwards toward the Big Board, falls over backwards, somersaults, and lands back on his feet!) and the President labels it "absolute madness," the Ambassador also explains the economic considerations for its construction:
There were those of us who fought against us. But in the end, we could not keep up with the expense involved in the arms race, the space race, and the peace race. And at the same time, our people grumbled for more nylons and washing machines. Our Doomsday scheme cost us just a small fraction of what we'd been spending on defense in a single year. But the deciding factor was when we learned that your country was working along similar lines, and we were afraid of a Doomsday gap...Our source was the New York Times.
Muffley then consults with a wheelchair-bound German nuclear scientist (an ex-Nazi "kraut" who changed his name from Merkwuerdigich-liebe, literally meaning "strange-love" to Strangelove when he became a citizen) and U.S. weapons strategist, Dr. Strangelove (Peter Sellers in his third role). Strangelove whines with a German accent: "A moment please, Mr. President."
[Inspirations and/or resemblances for the doomsday character of Dr. Strangelove were:
- former Nazi rocket scientist Wernher von Braun, who developed the V1 and V2 rockets, was given amnesty by the US after the war, and aided the U.S. with early space rocket programs
- evil inventor/scientist Rotwang with a mechanical, black-gloved hand in Fritz Lang's Metropolis (1927)
- Hungarian physicist and father of the H-bomb at Los Alamos, Edward Teller
- Henry Kissinger, a former Harvard professor (who wrote about nuclear strategy), who served as Secretary of State for Presidents Nixon and Ford
- nuclear war theorist Prof. Herman Kahn, author of On Thermonuclear War (1960), an early employee at the Rand Corporation think tank - set up by Gen. "Hap" Arnold to study nuclear war; Kahn recommended the creation of expensive civil defense fall-out shelters
- and computer pioneer and patriotic jingoist John Von Neumann, a brilliant game theorist, who also developed the explosive lenses (and supporting mathematics) for the first atomic devices; wheelchair-bound Von Neumann frequently visited the Eisenhower White House in the 1950s]
Dark-shaped, he wheels his chair into view. He confirms the validity of the Doomsday Machine and explains a US study that considered the Doomsday Machine for America. Based on findings of a report conducted by the Bland Corporation [a take-off on the RAND Corporation] and commissioned by Strangelove, the US abandoned its own plans for a Doomsday mechanism:
My conclusion was that this idea was not a practical deterrent, for reasons which, at this moment, must be all too obvious.
With thick dark sunglasses, Strangelove, director of weapons research and development, also has a black-gloved mechanical, robotic right hand which shakily holds his cigarette: "The technology required is easily within the means of even the smallest nuclear power. It requires only the will to do so." The essence of the Doomsday Machine is that it is "triggered automatically" and also "impossible to untrigger." With fervent, Nazi-like ardor, he theorizes:
It is not only possible - it is essential. That is the whole idea of this machine, you know. Deterrence is the art of producing in the mind of the enemy the fear to attack. And so, because of the automated and irrevocable decision-making process which rules out human meddling, the Doomsday Machine is terrifying. It's simple to understand. And completely credible and convincing.
Turgidson says dreamily: "Gee, I wish we had one of them Doomsday Machines, Stainsey." According to Strangelove, the Doomsday Machine is automatically triggered by "a specific and clearly defined set of circumstances" programmed into a "deep memory bank" of a "gigantic complex of computers" - it automatically triggers world destruction if an H-bomb falls on Russia. Strangelove demands to know why the Russians kept the machine a secret, because "the whole point of the Doomsday Machine...is lost...if you keep it a secret. Why didn't you tell the world, eh?" In a dignified voice, the Russian envoy divulges its announcement:
It was to be announced at the Party Congress on Monday. As you know, the Premier loves surprises.
Back at Burpelson Air Force Base, General Ripper is exchanging gunfire with the attacking troops - his office is in shambles with glass flying in all directions. He continues his discussion about his concerns with fluoridation while Mandrake is feeding the machine gun:
Mandrake, do you realize that in addition to fluoridating water, why, there are studies underway to fluoridate salt, flour, fruit juices, soup, sugar, milk, ice cream? Ice cream, Mandrake? Children's ice cream!...You know when fluoridation first began?...1946. 1946, Mandrake. How does that coincide with your post-war Commie conspiracy, huh? It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way a hard-core Commie works.
He first developed his theory and became aware of the international Communist plot during a strenuous bout of physical love-making in which he felt sexual anxiety. He blames his male impotency and sexual inadequacy on the Russian conspiracy. From then on, he hoards his bodily fluids (his "life essence") and keeps them for himself [Ripper will not or cannot ejaculate during sex]:
I-I first became aware of it, Mandrake, during the physical act of love...Yes, a profound sense of fatigue, a feeling of emptiness followed. Luckily I-I was able to interpret these feelings correctly. Loss of essence. I can assure you it has not recurred, Mandrake. Women, er, women sense my power, and they seek the life essence. I do not avoid women, Mandrake. But I do deny them my essence.
General Ripper's defending troops surrender Burpelson. Mandrake still thinks there's time to "recall the wing." But Ripper strides through the debris in his office, using his machine gun as a crutch, to a chair where he sits and moans: "Those boys were like my children, Mandrake. Now they let me down." Symbolically, his cigar has gone out, hanging limply in his mouth. Man to man, Mandrake consoles Jack with talk of his own water-drinking habits and resultant virility.
Do I look all rancid and clotted? You look at me, Jack. Eh? Look, eh? And I drink a lot of water, you know. I'm what you might call a water man, Jack - that's what I am. And I can swear to you, my boy, swear to you, that there's nothing wrong with my bodily fluids. Not a thing, Jackie.
General Ripper asks Mandrake about his experience as a POW facing torture. Worried about the passing time, Mandrake quickly recalls his torture by the Japanese [reminiscent of the plot of The Bridge On the River Kwai (1957)]: "They got me on the old Rangoon-Inchinana railway. I was laying train lines for the bloody Japanese puff-puffs, eh...The strange thing is they make such bloody good cameras."
In a confessional scene, Ripper mumbles about his fear that he'll be tortured to divulge the code: "You know those clowns outside are gonna give me a pretty good going over in a few minutes - for the code...I don't know how well I could stand up under torture." Mandrake, realizing his opportunity, cajoles and advises that Ripper could confide in him and divulge the code:
Well of course, the answer to that is, boy, no one ever does. And my advice to you, Jack, is to give me the code now. And if those devils come back and try any rough stuff, we'll fight 'em together, boy, like we did just now, on the floor, eh? You with the old gun, and me with the belt and the ammo, feeding you Jack! Feed me, you said, and I was feeding you, Jack.
Ready to commit suicide, the despondent General expounds his belief in the afterlife: "I happen to believe in a life after this one. I know I'll have to answer for what I've done." As Mandrake follows him to the washroom, playing a guessing game of "guess what the code is...," Ripper calmly blows his brains out inside the bathroom with his loaded pistol and falls against the closed door. Mandrake is unable to push open the door from the outside.
On board the airborne B-52 bomber, Lieut. H. R. Dietrich, D.S.O. (Frank Berry) reports to Captain Kong about an "unidentified radar blip" - a missile at MACH 3 speed is tracking them, first at a distance of sixty miles. [The information provided to the Russians by the President has evidently been utilized.] The D.S.O recommends commencing evasive action to the right as the missile's range approaches closer and closer, tracked in a realistic sequence on a radar screen. Major Kong initiates evasive actions, but the missile continues to close in "true and steady." The missile detonates at a range of one mile from the plane, sending a shockwave through it and nearly knocking the plane out of the sky. Smoke from fires and debris from the explosion fills the plane, but it is only damaged - fires are extinguished and the aircraft is quickly brought under control to continue on course.
In Ripper's office at Burpelson Air Force Base, Mandrake studies doodles on a notepad left on Ripper's desk - the jumble of words that filled Ripper's mind in his last few hours make the code's discovery difficult - P e a c e O n E a r t h and P u r i t y O f E s s e n c e form interlocking, crossword-like patterns. Arbitrarily, Mandrake whispers the letters: "O P E." They are twisted permutations of the recall code.
Shots destroy the lock on the office door. Colonel "Bat" Guano (Keenan Wynn), the gun-happy leader of the attack forces, enters brandishing an M-1 rifle. Guano orders Mandrake to put his hands over his head and then inspects his uniform: "What kind of suit you call that, fella?" Offended by the insult, Mandrake indignantly replies: "This happens to be an RAF uniform, sir. And I am Group Captain Lionel Mandrake. I am General Ripper's Executive Officer."
Although Guano wants to question him about Ripper and take him prisoner, Mandrake is anxious to call SAC and urgently pleads with him to phone the President and try a recall code based on the POE patterns in Ripper's doodles:
I've got a very good idea what the recall code is and I have to get in touch with SAC headquarters immediately...May I tell you that I have a very, very good idea, I think, I hope, I pray, what the recall code is. It's some sort of recurrent theme he kept repeating. It's a variation on Peace on Earth or Purity of Essence. EOP. OPE. It's one of those...Don't you know that General Ripper went as mad as a bloody March Hare and sent the whole Wing to attack the Soviets? Don't you know that?
Both of Ripper's phones are inoperable (one was blasted away during the fighting, the other lacks a phone cord).
Back in the B-52 as the plane settles back on course, Goldberg reports on missile damage to the CRM-114 mechanism, demolished by its own self-destruct system: "All the radio gear is out, including the CRM-114. I think the auto-destruct mechanism got hit and blew itself up." The communications system aboard the plane is also inoperable. The navigator reports their fuel loss: "I've worked out our rate of fuel loss at approximately one six two per minute. This gives us a radius of action sufficient to take out primary and secondary targets. But we will not, repeat, not be able to make it back to any base or neutral country." Satisfied for having outfoxed the missile, Kong reassures his crew with his twangy Texan accent:
Now, boys, we got three engines out; we got more holes in us than a horse trader's mule; the radio's gone and we're leakin' fuel, and if we's flying any lower, why, we'd need sleigh bells on this thing. But we got one little budge on them Rooskies, at this height, why, they might harpoon us but they dang sure ain't gonna spot us on no radar screen.


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My 97 STS's passenger side blend door actuator seems to be working ok, moving the arm in and out according to heat/cool (I've watched it), but still always blows hot on the passenger side with dual zone off, and cool air blowing on the driver's side appropriately.
I've read some say that this indicates the AC coolant needs to be topped off, but the pressures look ok, and it happens whether AC is on or off (with AC Off per the display) so that it only blows cool air from outside temp, 50 degrees).
When I remove the arm from the actuator, and move it all the way to the right (beyond where the actuator stops it) it then blows warm air on the driver side, even with the temp set to 60). The interior temp is +/- 80 degrees, so it shouldn't be sensing that it needs to warm the interior in order to get to 60, and it does blow cool on the driver's side when the actuator arm is reattached.
I'm not inclinded to think the door is broken, I can hear it open and close when I move the arm manually, however:
Error - ACM B1341 - Air mix door 2 movement fault
I have also disconnected the battery for 30 minutes, then turned the ignition to on for 2.
What am I missing?
Thanks in advance.


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How to Clean Your Plenum
Updated: 02.27.04
Discuss (5)
My original idea for cleaning my plenum came from cleaning my throttle body.....while spraying cleaner into it, I noticed a lot of black gunk coming out of the plenum that never seemed to end. I eventually got around to getting a plenum gasket and got to work.
- 1 can of Throttle Body (or Carb) cleaner
- Degreaser (I used Greased Lightning)
- Plenum gasket set (you may also need a Throttle body and EGR gasket while you're at it)
- Garden Hose
- Towel
- Small wire brush or toothbrush (the stuff isnt just gonna all fall off)
- Pliers
- A metric socket set (you'll need a 10 and 13mm socket w/ extensions, and probably some other tools)
- If you're replacing the EGR and TB gaskets, you may need a razor blade or scraper
How To Do It
Step 1
Disconnect negative battery cable- (I didnt do it since i'm lazy, and I didnt get electrocuted, but you aren't dealing with electrical stuff so it doesnt matter, I just wanted to get it off my chest so if you get electrocuted it's your fault hehe)
Step 2
Remove the Throttle Body
- Remove whatever intake setup you have all the way to the throttle body.
- Disconnect the vacuum lines to the TB
- Using the 13mm socket, remove the 2 bolts holding the TB onto the plenum Once you have that loose, you're done with the throttle body. Don't worry about the cables, they wont get in the way
Step 3
Remove the EGR valve- I have done this on a 2.8 with a vacuum controlled EGR and a 3.1 with a Digital EGR. They are both easy to remove. The older one has 3 bolts holding it onto the plenum. Remove those and it should be free. For the digital EGR, you have 1 bolt and 2 Nuts. Remove the bolt first, then the nuts. I used a wrench to get the one in the corner loose. Once you loosen them a little, you can turn them with your fingers. You may need to pry it off the plenum with a screwdriver if the gasket is bad.
Step 4
Disconnect the brake booster vacuum and rear supports- This is a little more complex. The brake booster vacuum is a hose that clamps on to a metal hose. Using pliers, move the clamp out of the way and pull the hose off. The next step is to remove the nuts on the back of the plenum. I don't really remember how many there were, just remove the ones that attach to it. There should only be a few. The metal pipe coming out of the plenum can stay...its not a problem.
Step 5
Removing the plenum bolts and the plenum- There are a total of 9 bolts holding the plenum onto the lower intake manifold (IM). Remove these with a 10MM socket. On my 2.8 there wasnt a problem, but on the 3.1, there were rubber boots that went around the bolts. It's strange, just dont break them. Remove the bolt and then the boots. Once you have them all out, you can remove the plenum. On the 3.1's you have to remove the PCV valve under the plenum. Use some pliers and remove it just like you did the brake booster vacuum. Once that is done, remove the plenum.
Step 6
This is the fun part. When I first did mine, I wasted a whole can of TB cleaner, just to remove a little of the dirt (see pic). I then switched to degreaser and a garden hose, which was far more effective. Just spray it in, let it sit for a second, and blast it out with the hose. It will take a while, but make sure you get it all out. I sat mine up so I had 3 ports on top and 3 on the bottom, so the stuff would flow out the bottom. Alternate around to make sure you get it nice and clean. Also spray from the side where the TB and EGR attach. There was some carbon buildup where the EGR was, I scraped that out with a screwdriver. Use your old toothbrush or wire brush the scrub the ports where the black stuff won't come off, you can also use your finger to get where the toothbrush can't go.
Step 7
Once you get done cleaning it to your satisfaction, dry it off (make sure the inside is good and dry). If you'd like, spray some TB cleaner into the lower manifold ports, but dont use too much as it has nowhere to go but down. Replace the old gasket with the new one, put it all back together, and fire it up. It may have trouble starting, but give it some gas and run it for a bit until all the cleaner gets burnt up.
Step 8
Note- Make sure the gaskets are IDENTICAL!!!! the gasket on the 3.1 was slightly different (it had a raised border where the ports were and we had no vacuum.....we had to take it all apart and reuse the old gasket). You may or may not have to use a new gasket, its your call. If you start it up and it runs like crap and doesnt improve, the brakes barely work, or you have an SES light, you have a vacuum leak. Check your vacuum hoses. If they are fine, the gasket is most likely not aligned correctly or is the wrong one.
Step 9
And that about it! Take it for a drive and see if you notice a difference. I noticed a 5-10HP increase in my mid RPM range, just by cleaning this thing! And, no, dont bother removing the lower IM...you have to remove the lifters and pushrods and stuff to get to it.


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