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Winder, GA – Top business magazine Inc. has released its annual Inc 500/5000, which honors the fastest-growing private companies in the nation. Yet again, InkHead made the list by generating 115% sales growth over the last three years.
Inc., one of the nation's leading publications on business and entrepreneurship, creates the annual list based on revenue growth over the last three years, with a minimum yearly revenue of $2,000,000. InkHead's 115% sales growth in 2011 was enough for the company to make it to the list for the fifth consecutive time, coming in at 2217.
This year, InkHead made a major upgrade to the company website, and public response has been overwhelmingly positive. The company is looking toward the future by building a website designed to function on the latest-generation smartphones and tablet computers. "This is an incredibly exciting time for InkHead," says the company's VP of Sales and Marketing Jim Franklyn. "Our company is growing at a solid rate, and we are excited about what 2013 holds in store."
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New Delhi, Nov. 24(ANI): Sanjay Leela Bhansali has finally opened up about the much hyped box office clash between his magnum opus 'Bajirao Mastani' and Rohit Shetty's directorial 'Dilwale.'
The 52-year-old director said that both films belong to different genres and in today's time, with so many screens, both of them should do well.
He added that this clash should not be converted into a political campaign by discussing which flick would do better.
While Sanjay's flick stars Ranveer Singh, Deepika Padukone and Priyanka Chopra, Rohit Shetty's directorial will see Shah Rukh Khan, Kajol, Varun Dhawan and Kirti Sanon as its main leads.
Both flicks are slated to release on December 18. (ANI)

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In 2008, Dominic made his directorial debut when he helmed episode "Took" from the final season of his show The Wire.
In 2008, Dominic will play "Jigsaw" in The Punisher: War Zone.
Dominic grew up in a family of Irish Catholics.
From November 2006 to February 2007, Dominic appeared as "Jan" in Tom Stoppard's play "Rock & Roll" at the Duke of York Theatre in London.
As a teenager, Dominic attended Eton College, Berkshire, which is the same school as Prince Harry and Prince William.
In September 2006, Dominic fathered a daughter, Dora, with then girlfriend Catherine Fitzgerald.
Dominic West has appeared in movies such as Chicago, Diana & Me, Spice World, The Gambler, True Blue, Surviving Picasso, 28 Days, Rock Star, and 300.
Dominic West has appeared in movies with actors such as Mark Wahlberg, Jennifer Aniston, Julia Roberts, Julianne Moore, Sandra Bullock, and Patrick Stewart.
In 1995, Dominic West performed in the play The Plough and the Stars, in England.
The first movie that Dominic appeared in was Wavelength in 1995.
In 2004, Dominic played Ash Correll in the movie The Forgotten.
Dominic is 6 feet tall.
He had a long term relationship Polly Astor, a well known British journalist.
In 1995, he graduated from Guildhall School of Music and Drama in England.
The producers of The Wire almost didn't cast him because he thought his audition tape was "weird".
Although British born, his character on The Wire is American.
In July 2005, Dominic auditioned to be the new James Bond.
In December 1998, his daughter Martha was born.
As of 2006, he has never been married.
In 1993 he graduated from Dublin's Trinity College, with a B.A. in English literature.
In 1988, he spent four months as a cattle herder in Argentina just to do something different.
He is a 1995 graduate of Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
Dominic has brown hair and brown eyes.
Dominic West (about the amount of gay roles he has played): For a straight man, I seem to have to kiss an awful lot of men!
Dominic West (on why British work on American TV so much): I don't know why British actors are getting big parts in American TV shows. Maybe it's because we're cheap.
Dominic West: I think being British, you're either a villain, a drunk or a homosexual, and usually, all three.
Dominic West: I have many years experience of binge drinking. I always play drunks. I don't know why. But I always seem to get cast as drunks. And the nice thing about this one was that I'm usually a drunk jerk, and in this one I'm a drunk jerk, but he redeems himself and becomes a hero, you know. Usually, I play the drunk jerk who, you know, is sufficiently awful for the girl to dump him. So it was nice this time to actually end up being a hero.


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Not sure exactly what kind of patronage those patrons are providing, but I have more than a suspicion the original audience for this delightful poster were denizens of the demimonde.
UPDATE: I am reliably informed that this comes from Dark Horse Comics' series Devil Chef, which I must now keep an eye out for on Amazon.]]>
For those of you who, like me, find the entire Occupy Movement to be really well-intentioned, justified, and (indeed) not a moment too soon, but also somewhat dry (The General Assembly is the Filboid Studge of participatory democracy) we have some good news! Occupy Wall Street's Liberty Plaza General Assembly has taken a lesson from the mainstream media and spiced up its hard news Committee Reports section (is that Spokes? Or Tranches? Who can keepWall Street terminology straight anyway?) with some food-and-spirituality-related entertainment.
If you're at all like me (and who would admit it if they were?) you've got a stack of Self magazines head-high taking up the space where your life-size Aragorn used to stand proudly, and what have you got to show for it except an exhaustive knowledge of the phytochemical composition of any grocery item, the ability to perform a flawless plié squat, and about ten million pictures of Women Laughing Alone With Salad.
Well, now you can put that collection to practical use as the model for a cheap and un-constricting Halloween costume! Bonus cultural literacy points for timely meme reference that only about 25% of your friends will get, even if you're all on Tumblr.
If putting on and keeping on a happy face is too much for you, then you could always fall back on our suggestion of last year.]]>
30 days's worth of celery pills for the sake of your cartilage OR
Be honest. Who doesn't like a good wanton pork now and again?]]>
In 1936 the mayor rose up in anger against immigrants clogging the streets hawking wares from push carts. Your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore? Phooey. LaGuardia thought them positively unsanitary.
Today, in spite of all the specialty food online, push cart peddling has returned. With only an occasional foray to Citarella or Zabar's, Leyla manages to shop principally from farmers markets. Wednesdays and Sundays are Union Square. Saturday is Columbus Avenue beside the Museum of Natural History. Shlepping milk 80 blocks takes a lot of time and trouble, but her table is set with the freshest, tastiest foods.
It's all local – Ronnybrook Dairy milk and yogurt, artisanal sheep and goat cheeses, dark wintered-over greens, bosc pears, and apples of every description. Recently Mr. Henry has fallen in love with Quaker Hill Farm honey and eggs (goose eggs, no less).
When La Guardia insisted that push cart peddlers take up residence in covered market stalls, the grocery business began to consolidate into mom and pop stores run chiefly by Italians. These in turn consolidated into a few large chains. Then in the 1980's came the Korean-owned fruit and vegetable markets featuring salad bars, the go-to solution for harried office workers.
Now Fresh Direct trucks clog city cross streets, hardly an improvement over the push cart of yore. The very best fruits, vegetables and dairy can be found once again on sidewalk peddler carts. Weathered panel trucks with New Jersey and Pennsylvania plates sidle up and disgorge large ice chests of the most remarkable goodies imaginable. Sic transit gloria mundi.]]>
What does Christina Hendricks eat? Anything she likes, it seems.
On her divine frame those extra winter pounds find graceful placement.
While winter sinks its chill fangs deep into our bones, a fortunate few may take comfort in knowing they can sink their own teeth into a hearty meal without worrying too much about over-indulging.
In winter it's more difficult to find fresh vegetables with exciting flavor. More than in the warm months, meat dominates the menu, perhaps more than it should. The menu's balance shifts towards foods dense in calories and fats.
It's a great time for big red wines, a good digestive aid, but the craving for greens remains. Salads are a mainstay, and that's fine. But what do you do when even the lettuce is boring?
Parsley has intense chlorophyll. It's a natural cure for bad breath. Even the Henry's noble hound Pepper loves it. (By the way, it cures bad breath in dogs as well as in people.)
But when chopping parsley with a knife, sometimes the little leaves lose their appealing shape.
The solution is to use a simple pair of kitchen shears. Wash and dry the parsley well before snipping so the leaves will be crisp enough to cut.]]>
Christmas holidays likewise bring forth a perpetual wellspring of objects seeking new ownership – apple corers, nutcrackers, scented candles in matched sets, cherry red windbreakers and frightful neckties.
Holidays also bear gifts of depression, indigestion, intestinal cramp, bloat and a throbbing gall bladder. Each year Mr. Henry swears he will leave for the holidays because too many around him take leave of their senses, and because despite his renowned self-control at the table, during holidays he abandons all sense of moderation and proportion.
Christmas tradition revives bad food habits from the storied Middle Ages, blithe era of famine, contagion, and dogma. Eggnog (vanilla nutmeg ice cream in a glass!), triple cream cheeses, bon bons wrapped in sparkly foil, preserved fruit, mincemeat, liqueurs, layer cakes, assorted chocolates with cream filling, and nuts roasted in peanut oil, palm oil, or coconut oil. Once upon a time, in a land far, far away, fat was a good thing.
Today these caloric gut-bombs serve as anti-depression medications self-prescribed to remedy seasonal affective disorder, better known as the blues and the blahs, horse latitudes of the soul.
What brings out the holiday nuts? After four scotches nutty Uncle Jack dressed in plaid jim-jams slips on the patio black ice and cracks his humerus. Ha! Not so funny now, Uncle Jack's funny bone.
Brother Clifford treats his seasonal disorders with sour green juice of fresh barley grass mixed with V-8. It puckers the gums mightily, but also promotes good digestion and cures bad breath.
Clifford subscribes to the philosophy of a ph-balanced diet, that is, eating foods that promote an alkaline environment in the blood. Contrary to expectations, preachers of the ph-balanced way do not necessarily extol foods that are themselves alkaline. Lemons and limes are recommended, for example. Wine and vinegar are forbidden, as is coffee. Leafy vegetables are encouraged. Meat is discouraged. It's hard to keep up. You'd better buy the ph bible.
Clifford claims it cured his incipient diabetes, chronic headache, chronic backache, and fatigue. If you add hoarseness, cottonmouth, snoring, dropsy, flatulence, hip pain and plantar fasciitis, you've got old age pretty much covered.]]>
What accounts for the ascendancy of this idea?
Is it wrong to dine upon the flesh of sentient creatures? Granted, the noble pig is clever. Like Mr. Henry himself, a pig can admire its image in a mirror. But what about the chicken, the sheep or the cow? What pull do they have on our heartstrings?
Ever since Mr. Henry watched a video in the Monterey aquarium documenting an octopus delicately tasting the arm of its beloved handler and then erupting in pulsating colored stripes of delight, he has foregone pulpo on the menu. What a glorious creature, the octopus, prince of invertebrates, capable of unscrewing a mason jar. Show me a pig that can do that.
Why can't people live in harmony with animals without resorting to the barbarism of slaughter?
The answer is time. While a pig has all day to root around for the tastiest tubers, modern persons like ourselves need to cook something dense with food value, get it done, and get going. It is damnably difficult to find satisfaction in vegetables alone if you are cooking in a hurry, unless you happen to be one of those raw-diet enthusiasts, in which case you and the pig share the same diet and possibly the same flavor profile (hence the South Seas nickname for tasty captives, "long pig").
And what can we say about the inevitable smugness that clings to vegetarians? It's maddening when a table guest announces that meat is vile succor. Perhaps South Seas cannibalism started right there. A local chief just had enough of that superior attitude.]]>
Overlooked, maligned, misused and abused, okra are African stepchildren still relegated in western cooking to a subservient role either smothered in fry batter or subsumed in spicy gumbo.
In fact okra is a versatile and appetizing vegetable, its flesh nutritious, its seeds rich in oils. Prepared whole it can be fried, grilled, broiled, steamed or cooked in a microwave. Sliced okra releases a unique mucilage that thickens and binds a braised dish with or without meat. Okra can be pickled or eaten raw. Even its leaves are edible.
Because certain valued family members, despite clear evidence to the contrary, insist okra to be disgusting, Mr. Henry usually cooks them for his own pleasure by nuking a single bowlful and eating them plain. Sometimes, however, he sautées whole ones or runs them under the broiler, a quick and foolproof method for cooking almost any vegetable.
Mr. Henry enjoys the interplay between oily, crunchy seeds and soft green flesh. Such elegant little nibbles, they even come with dainty stems ready-made to grasp between thumb and forefinger. (Might this be the origin of their nickname "ladyfingers?")
Along with sorghum, millet and watermelon, okra was one of man's first cultigens in sub-Saharan Africa. Okra is a staple food in India as well as in China, southeast Asia, and the Caribbean. Its curious stickiness creates a medium in which spices blend harmoniously.
Why, then, at the western table can there be no rôle for okra? Is there simply too much goo?
Baby okra can be eaten whole just as they are. For larger ones, take a paring knife and, without piercing the pod's interior, peel away the rough exterior of the cap. Then scrape away any little hairs along the ridges of the pod. If you want to use sliced pieces without drawing too much mucilage, slice the okra into rounds and let them dry in the air. The slices will seal themselves.
Courtesy of Nadia, here is a marvelous okra stew, a Tunisian recipe called Ganawiyeh after the Gnaoua, a Saharan brotherhood of itinerant musicians:
Okra stew Ganawiyeh
1 lb. London broil, skirt steak, flank steak or sirloin steak cut up for stewing.
1 medium onion, grated
2-3 cloves of garlic chopped or pressed
3 tbs paprika, 2 tbs dry coriander, 1/4 tsp cayenne, salt and black pepper
1/3 cup or less vegetable oil
1 cup strained Pomi (or any other tomato purée)
1 red pepper sliced in strips
Handful of pearl onions (optional)
2 or more cups okra (Fresh is better, but you may also use frozen.)
Place meat and oil in a stew pot
Pour onion, garlic and spices on top
Brown the meat well
Add tomato purée
Reduce for about 15 minutes
Add enough warm water to cover
Cook meat for 1 hour or more covered until almost fork tender
Add red pepper and onions
For the last 20 minutes of stewing, add okra
All told the meat should cook for about two hours.
This recipe serves four persons and should be eaten with bread.


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Lighting and image plane issues Hey Peeps
I have an issue with my lighting setup. I have a ground plane that uses the background color and my matchmove is the camera background. Between the these two I get a harsh shadow line. How can I get rid of it?
I have the GIjoe and three directional lights in the scene.One of the Directional lights cast a shadow, the others dont.


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Hi gunluvr,
Prices seem to vary on these depending on whether it has a synthetic stock or wood stock and the caliber the barrel is. On the auctions these rifles have been running at around $450 and up, depending on condition. Of course, whatever someone is willing to pay will determine the price. Myself, unless it was in a scarce caliber, I wouldn't pay much more than $500.
Pardon the nitpicking, but these aren't SIG Sauer rifles. They are pure SIG Swiss rifles and have no relationship with Sauer other than the company that imported them. The SIG 970 SHR is still in production and is a relatively popular rifle in some parts of Europe and of course Switzerland. Unfortunately SIGArms USA or whatever they are calling themselves now, discontinued importing these rifles several years ago. I believe they started importing them in 1997 or 1998, but need to check that. The American SIG Sauer company dropped support of these rifles a long time ago and parts and service are very scarce.
I don't know the reasons that importation and support were dropped and have tried on several occasions to get information from the American company, but they aren't giving out any details. In the period of 2000-2005 SIG in Switzerland was going through business adjustments and changes and the company was bought by two Germans, but production for Europe has continued and I don't know the ownership situation at this time.
The SIG SHR 970 is an interesting rifle because of the interchangeable barrels and manner of production. They are of very high quality even though they are mass produced, but honestly they are rather plain in finish. The ones I have are extremely accurate and they fit me well. Extra barrels are very scarce in the USA and only a limited selection of calibers was imported into the USA. The European selection was much better and had some really interesting metric calibers. Unfortunately, they are not being imported into the USA.
Another rifle based on the same action is the SIG STR 970 which originally stood for SIG Swiss Target Rifle, but of course soon morphed into Swiss Tactical Rifle. I don't know if the original European version ever actually was imported into the States, but special stocks and heavy fluted barrels were available for a short time here in the USA and so occasional you will see a SIG 970 tactical or sniper on the auctions that are made up on the actions. The originals had an integral muzzle brake and the made up ones won't have this.
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The holidays are upon us, and what better way to celebrate the season than to zip up the warm jackets, pack the thermos with hot chocolate and take the family out to view holiday décor?
The weather's great, so head outside for a walk through beautifully lit displays. At Ethel M's holiday cactus garden in Henderson, visitors can wander down brightly lit paths from 5 until 10 p.m. through Sunday, January 1. For an even more elaborate tour, visitors can purchase 3D glasses to enhance the experience. Enjoy music by local choirs and say hello to Santa on select evenings.
At the Holiday Spectacular at the Springs Preserve through December 23, enjoy a family-friendly atmosphere with yummy treats, crafts, reindeer (pony) rides, photos with Santa and an ice-skating rink. Plus, enjoy nightly musical performances by local artists including Kid Fiddlers, Rage Time Entertainment, Beth Mullaney, The Rock Group and much more.
Through January 8, Venetian and Palazzo have been transformed into a winter wonderland for Winter in Venice. Get in the merry spirit as you surround yourself with brilliantly lit trees and festive music. Warm up with an eggnog cupcake and hot apple cider as you enjoy the nightly light show and performances. Also, tie up the skates to glide across the largest ice rink on the Strip.
Don't miss Opportunity Village's largest fundraiser of the year, the Magical Forest, for gorgeous light displays designed by local businesses. Take a ride on the Forest Express train through the two-acre forest, enjoy the kiddie rides and take a photo with Santa.
With miles of LED lights, the drive-through Glittering Lights at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway is sure to impress. Plus, soak in the breathtaking details in the Bellagio's Conservatory & Botanical Gardens, decked out for the holiday season with hundreds of seasonal plants, flowers, and festive decorations.
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Re: Novice problem in mathematica syntax : Function of a function
What I want to do is to : Plot Reflectivity:
Refelectivity is an expression ( or a function ) depending on nfilm which in turn depends on epsmodel( which in itself is a function of 3 parameters and a variable )
therefore :
epsmodel = f(a,b,c,d,x) (* result is a comlpex number *)
nfilm = sqrt[epsmodel]
reflectivity = ((nfilm - 1) / (nfilm +1))^2
I just want to plot reflectivity and see the variation in it when (a,b,c,x) varies ( using the Manipulate[] tool )
Please let me know how to do this in term of these functions ?
the exact formalism for which I got the error : variables are protected is shown below
epsmodel[w_, omega0_, gama_, epsinfi_, omegaP_] :=
epsinfi + (2 Pi*10^12 omegaP)^2/((2 Pi*10^12 omega0)^2 - (2 \
Pi*10^12*w)^2 + I*(2 Pi*10^12)^2 *gama*w);
nfilm[w1_, omega01_, gama1_, epsinfi1_, omegaP1_] :=
Sqrt[epsmodel[w1, omega01, gama1, omegaP1, epsinfi1]];
ReflectivityGaSb[w2_, omega02_, gama2_, epsinfi2_, omegaP2_] :=
Abs[((nfilm[w2, omega02, gama2, omegaP2, epsinfi2] - 1)/(
nfilm[w2, omega02, gama2, omegaP2, epsinfi2] + 1))^2];
Plot[ReflectivityGaSb[w20, omega020, gama20, omegaP20,
epsinfi20], {w20, 0, 300}, PlotRange -> {0, 1}], {epsinfi20, 2,
25}, {omega020, 0, 300}, {gama20, 0, 300}, {omegaP20, 0, 300}]
Thanking you
Prasad P Iyer
PS. feel free to reply to ppiyer at outlook.com
Hi, Prasad,
Your code worked on my machine (Math. 8, Windows XP) without problems. The only thing that might be questionable, just check: the order of the last two parameters of the epsmodel in the definition of the function nfilm seam to be written in the reversed order. I think you did not intend that.
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Friendly staff, clean and in a good location. Very pretty decor. Free breakfast would have been nice
Great staff! We had an issue with one of our rooms not being cleaned properly but the Front Desk was able to help handle the situation. Short Uber drive from main restaurants and bars.
Enjoyed my stay, staff was extremely friendly and helpful. Room was clean and welcoming. All and all a good experience
Check in time was at 3 PM I checked in at 6 PM, my room was not ready until 8 PM check-in staff offered me a $30 drink voucher for the inconvenience, after a 4 hour drive because of traffic all I wanted to do was get into my room to nap and could not do that. Front desk kept saying it was out of their hands because the rooms were not clean very bad communication between front desk and housekeeping... Hire more housekeepers for Christ Sake!!!
My hotel room did not have a remote control to the t.v. & the air conditioner didnt work that well. It was set at the lowest temperature of 65 degrees & did not even cool up the room at all. Plus it was the summer. Not too comfortable.
Not a bad hotel to stay at. Parking is $45 per night. No executive lounge. We stayed 2 nights but our room was not cleaned for the second day. Front desk offered $30 at the restaurant but we had already eaten. Then offered breakfast vouchers but we had those because no executive lounge.
Great location, friendly employees. Not crazy about extra charges for so many things like a refrigerator, microwave, or WiFi. Otherwise great place!
No wifi in the rooms without being charged an arm and a leg, no breakfast buffet/coffee provided(yet small no name hotels do provide this), overpriced meals, charged to print boarding pass for flights
The only negative thing about this hotel is that the internet access in the rooms is per pay. However, there is free internet in the lobby, and it was fast and reliable. Other than that, it's a very comfortable hotel within a few blocks from restaurants etc.
Hotel highlights
- Walking distance to Maritime Museum of San Diego and USS Midway Museum
- Onsite dining
- Outdoor pool
- 24-hour fitness center
Located in Columbia, Renaissance San Diego Hotel is a leisurely stroll from popular sights such as Maritime Museum of San Diego and USS Midway Museum. This 258-room, 4-star hotel has a restaurant along with conveniences like an outdoor pool and a 24-hour fitness center. Located centrally in San Diego, it's also close to San Diego Convention Center and Balboa Park.
Enjoy a bite to eat at Kelvin, the hotel's onsite restaurant. Savor a meal from the privacy of your room with room service, or get a pick-me-up at the coffee shop/café.
All of Renaissance San Diego Hotel's 258 air-conditioned rooms provide phones, ironing boards, and desks. Guests can expect WiFi and 37-inch LCD TVs with digital channels. Bathrooms offer hair dryers and designer toiletries, and pillowtop beds with Egyptian cotton sheets ensure a restful night. In-room massages are available.
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At Renaissance San Diego Hotel, guests enjoy features like an outdoor pool, a 24-hour fitness center, and a rooftop terrace. Valet parking is available for USD 47.00 per day, and there's also limo/town car service. Multilingual staff at the 24-hour front desk can assist with dry cleaning/laundry, concierge services, and luggage storage. Other amenities at this boutique hotel include WiFi in public areas, 8 meeting rooms, and a 24-hour business center.
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This seems to happen a lot here. Somehow old threads are started back up. I did not even notice that the original post was from April. :oops:
Fire off a full can of bear spray in your apartment and see how that goes? That would be fun to live in for the end of the lease, say goodbye to the security deposit
Or, since the OP said that he didn't wanna kill a bad guy, just forget the bear spray and take pictures as the BG rapes and kills your wife. Bear spray is a small price to pay vs. not doing anything at all if a BG broke into your home. I don't know about you, but the security deposit isn't worth anything close to the life of my wife, um.. most of the time. hehe
I actually had an almost identical question to the original poster, and was delighted to see this thread.
I'm looking at a handgun for home/self defense for both myself and my wife to shoot. we are about the same height (5'10" and 5'8" respectively), are both very slender (we both hover around 135 so we are not big and strong by any reckoning) and both of us have small hands. I'm definitely gonna take the advice on this thread and not make any decision until we've spent some time at the range (neither of us has ever shot a gun), but I am interested as to what we should be looking at generally. price is an issue as far as purchase, but in the long run, I'd rather have a reliable weapon and am willing to spend more to get it. as well, I imagine we'll be shooting for pleasure at ranges, so a gun that is also fun to shoot that we can grow with is a good thing.
We're looking at semiautomatic, and I don't think we have the need for a subcompact but maybe a standard would be too much? 9mm seems to be the caliber that we'd be looking at, and I've been recommended the Glock 19.
thanks if anyone has any input, I sincerely hope I'm not being redundant.
as far as bear spray and all that (which did make me chuckle), she and I are both of the firm belief that you shoot to stop an intruder or assailant and never would either of us fire warning shots or attempt to "wound" someone like in the movies. hopefully neither one of us will ever have to use deadly force but if we were not comfortable with applying it if we had to we would not be considering a firearm.
thanks everyone!
edit: oh, also I saw biometric safes mentioned. are there models that allow more than one person to open them? I would not want to have it keyed to me (or whatever the terminology is, please excuse my ignorance) and then have her unable to open it if she is alone!
When I took my home defense course back in the pleistocene era, the instructor put it this way:
You do have to make the decision on whether you are willing to use the weapon to stop and potentially kill an intruder before you can safely keep a weapon for home defense. One of the benefits of making this decision and then practicing with the weapon itself and also thinking through home defense scenarios, is that if you keep it up and the time comes that you need to defend your home, you will react according to your training. You will hold the weapon confidently and with a steady aim. The intruder, provided that he or she is not totally gone on drugs, will see that and most likely retreat.
If, on the other hand, you do not prepare yourself and try to decide when confronted, your hand will be shaking, you will be making poor choices, you may be tempted to talk too much. If the intruder gets the idea that they have a good chance of carrying through what they consider to be their God-given right to attack you, they likely will. That's when the situation truly becomes do-or-die, and that's when you are most likely to have to kill them.
Your choice: be trained, think it through before there's a problem, and be less likely to actually have to shoot and kill somebody. Be untrained, react rather than think, and be more likely to either have to harm somebody or be harmed yourself.


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Clareville may have been named by AJ Small, developer of Avalon or Mr Stokes who built boats here in the early part of the twentieth century. Bordered by Newport to the south and Avalon to the north and east and to the west by the shores of Pittwater.
The Clareville area lies in part of two large grants which were made to the Catholic priest, Father John Joseph Therry in 1833 and 1837. This land extended across 1480 acres between present day Whale Beach and Newport. Smaller blocks of land were also granted to J Taylor, 30 acres at Taylor's Point, John Williams, 60 acres and T Warner, 50 acres at Stokes Pont. Settlement was based along the edge of Pittwater as access would have been primarily by water. Clareville wharf was visited by steamers early in the twentieth century. Before Avalon was named the ocean beach there was called Clareville ocean beach. In the early 1920s the area was subdivided and people purchased land to build holiday homes. After 1950 Clareville became a settled residential area.
In 1941 during World War II a naval torpedo firing range was set up at Taylors Point. It closed in 1983 and the wharf was dismantled in 1995.
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Yvonne Emery remembers her childhood
"My aunt, Jeanne Ratte, my father's sister built the cottage "Elise" at Clareville in about 1920/22. It was built to the same plan as the cottage next door, which was owned by Dr Harriet Biffen. I've always understood my parents, Prospere and Barbara Ratte, spent their honeymoon there in 1921. They travelled by train from St Leonard's to Brooklyn on the Hawkesbury River, and then by ferry to Pittwater and Padden's Wharf. In later years, a hired car took us to Clareville until we had our own car.
Bert Padden was a professional fisherman. He used to warn us children about the sharks around. I think it was his son who was a single scull champion. The remains of the old Padden's wharf are still there, the Avalon Sailing Club, now stands 15-20 metres north of this, with the reserve above. The first house next to the reserve replaced Dr Biffen's cottage and my aunt's is still there.
Gradually houses were built along the waterfront and on the hill behind us. The beach now referred to as Clareville, with the Post Office, was called Pearl of Pittwater, with Taylor's Point wharf to the south.
Robert Johnson, the artist, built a house in the area from local sandstone. In 1932, my brother Christopher and I, were playing on what was considered "our beach" when Heather and Brian Johnson arrived. After at first refusing them a ride in the canoe, we became firm friends and explored Pittwater together. We had canoes and then the Johnson's rowing boat and later my brother had a 12ft sailing skiff. We were quite fearless. I don't think most of the time our parents knew what we were doing. When sailing, if the boat capsized, there would be nobody to rescue us, there were very few boats around in those days. Mr Snape, the butcher from Newport, would sometimes row out to rescue us and was very cross with us. We would walk across to Avalon to surf. By then there was one store, later Wickhams, and not many people. Heather, Brian and Chris helped rescue a visiting Englishman who was caught in a rip and exhausted. There was a shed with a reel and belt but not always manned.
We would help fight bushfires when the houses were threatened. My earliest memories are of the Christmas holidays, no electricity, tank water, and my aunt or my mother cooking on a fuel camp oven stove. The clear water when the high Christmas tides covered the rocks and golden sands where we swam and played. Oysters were gathered from the rocks below the cottage and fish caught. There was plenty of native flora and fauna, including koalas. It truly was a paradise."
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"The RAN operated a torpedo range at Taylors Point from 1941 to 1983, to test the firing ability and the range of torpedoes before they were issued to submarines. 5059 torpedoes in total were fired from Taylors Point up Pittwater. Navy launches cleared small craft from the firing area, a large red warning flag was unfurled from the firing shed and a siren sounded.
Three pontoons were positioned in the water from which the speed and accuracy of the torpedo's course were registered and relayed back in the firing tower. The torpedoes were then retrieved by a patrolling launch. In 39 years only three of the torpedoes went awry, luckily with no human casualties. In 1983 the firing station and outer wharf were removed and the centre was converted to a diving and hydrographic school for HMAS Penguin."
Nan Bosler, The Fascinating history of Pittwater, Part two. 1998
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Nan Bosler, Fascinating History of Pittwater, Vol.2. 1998.
Clareville torpedo range
Joan Lawrence, Pittwater Paradise, 1994, Pittwater Pictorial History, 2006.
Historical and contemporary information.
Josephine McDonald, The Archaelogy of the Angophora Reserve Rock Shelter, 1992.
Excavation of Aboriginal site.
Jan Roberts, Avalon Landscape & Harmony, 1999.
History and artistic community.


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Submitted to: North American Journal of Aquaculture
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Publication Acceptance Date: 4/16/2007
Publication Date: 4/16/2007
Citation: Barrero, M., Small, B.C., Waldbieser, G.C., D'Abramo, L., Hanson, L., Kelly, A. 2007. Effect of carp pituitary extract and luteinizing hormone releasing analog hormone on reproductive indices and spawning of 3-year-old channel catfish. North American Journal of Aquaculture. 70:138-146. Interpretive Summary: One facet of the efficient use of broodstock in channel catfish breeding programs is the optimization of spawning success in young breeding populations. The objective of this study was to evaluate the potential to increase the incidence of spawning in young-adult catfish using commercially available hormone treatments, carp pituitary extract (CPE) and luteinizing hormone releasing hormone (LHRH). A significant increase in the incidence of spawning of young adult catfish injected with LHRH was observed, and suggests that the application of an LHRH treatment regime to older broodstock has the potential to realize a desired increase in overall spawning rates for the catfish industry. This potential merit combined with the efficacy of inducing spawning in young broodstock may ultimately translate into a reduction in the number of females that need to be held to supply the desired number of fertilized eggs and fry for the U.S. catfish industry.
Technical Abstract: The efficacy of carp pituitary extract (CPE) and luteinizing hormone releasing hormone (LHRHa) treatments to induce spawning in young-adult channel catfish undergoing first oogenesis just prior to the spawning season was evaluated in four commercial strains of channel catfish. Prior to injection of the hormones, oocyte development was monitored and average oocyte size in May (1624 'm), the typical start of spawning season, was smaller than that considered normal for mature oocytes (3000 'm) in this species. Priming and resolving doses of CPE, LHRHa, or saline were administered in early May. Plasma estradiol (E2) and testosterone (T) levels were measured prior to the priming (0-hour) and resolving (20-hours) doses and 4 hours later (24-hours). Oocyte germinal vesicle migration and cathepsin B, D, and L activities were assessed at 0- and 24-hours. At 20 hours, estradiol levels were significantly higher in CPE and LHRHa treated fish. For LHRHa treated fish, twenty-hour levels of T were also significantly higher. At 24-hours, cathepsin B and L activities were significantly higher in the ovaries of both CPE and LHRHa treated fish. No differences were observed among the strains evaluated for any of the measured parameters. As oocytes did not yet appear to have entered the final stage of maturation, the fish were returned to ponds with non-injected cohorts to evaluate spawning success. None of the fish injected with saline spawned. On average, 12.5% and 18.8% of those injected with CPE and LHRHa, respectively, spawned. Compared to non-injected fish, the LHRHa-injected fish had a 14% greater incidence of spawning. Fertilization rates were not significantly different among treatments. Of the treated fish, those that spawned had significantly higher plasma E2 concentrations at 20-hours. LHRHa injection of early-egg-stage channel catfish could serve to increase spawning rates of young-adult catfish without resorting to intensive strip-spawning.


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33.85 seconds hows that not hard he said 18 second was doing brilliantly
Not too bad once you get the drift I agree but - certainly initially, it is a bit taxing!
Maybe I was already too tired earlier - only managed about 22 or so!!! Age ya know! It's OK for young varmints!
20.813...seems theres a pattern to it...I'm just too jerky with the mouse
27.24 sec. ,does seem kinda jerky motion to it.
you all have way to much time on your hands, why don't you all go to the range and shoot a couple hundred rounds?
Soon be warming up - and I'll be down to the range - fear not :smile:


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I think I could get a speedingticket going up hill in a 3cyl metro!
Yup got busted again, I swear I attract cops... I was driving along to work making fairly good time, with Maine roads the speed-limit is never constant, on most roads in my area it goes from 45 to 40 down to 15 and back to 45 with out warning, I thought I was in a 45 and I was as in a 40 limit zone. I happened to see Lincolnvilles finest coming towards me. His radar clocked me at 56. I instead of being 11 over I was 16 over the limit, Im on a workers license from my last fiasco. It sucks because my commute to work is a 35 miles roughly round trip right now; its soon to be 50 roughly when I get transferred to customer assistance. I set up an appointment with a lawyer to see if anything can be done. I really doubt it but I need to be positive!
That is bad luck! Of course the best way to not get a ticket is to not exceed the speed limit. Its not fun, but you may have to go that route for a while to let your record clean up.
Have fun with the grannies!
56? How'd you get that thing going that fast?!?
He was stating that due to his many tickets, he is sure hed get one if he were doing that.
'96 900SE Turbo Stage 4 - RIP
'97 900SE Turbo - Gone
'98 900SE Turbo - Gone
'99 9-3 S - Underway
I feel your pain.
I had to get rid of my first Saab (1986 900s) because my (very crappy)insurance was about $4000 per year because the same bug bit me. I got a couple of breaks since some of the tickets didn't show on my record since they were out-of-state, but I got 8 tickets in under 3 years.
I bought an '83 Volvo 242 Turbo like this one and the cops left me alone. There is something to the rumor that certain cars get singled out by the police.
By the way, the 242 handled like a truck. Felt very heavy with a great deal of body roll. It was a four-speed with an overdrive gear that you engaged with a push button on top of the gear shift knob. Try moving your hand from the steering wheel to the shifter to do a quick downshift from 4th to 3rd without slapping the button and putting the car into overdrive -- it took some practice. On the plus side, the Volvo was a TANK. I felt like I could survive a nuclear war in it.
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Is it just me, or does that Volvo look amazing?!Back on topic, sorry to hear about your ticket... You'd figure they would give drivers a bit more leeway than that especially when one is following the flow of traffic.
I drive like 3 times the averadge person and i speed alot yet I have never got a speeding ticket, go figure
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I really feel your pain though. I have to constantly concentrate on the speed limit, cause as soon as I stop thinking about it on the highway, I catch myself at 90mph.
I've been using the cruise control a lot ot overcome this, but thats hard for you if the speed limits change all the time...
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Well... I would protect myself a little, why not acquire one of the following products?
Now the Scorpion is an active radar jamming device, costs about 1500 USD and might get you in jail - that said it's very effective
Or you could spend $330 for something perfectly legal (where you are at least ) and is similarly effective, although requires you to slow down.
Now I hear that a new product is coming out, this June, that is worlds better than the RX65 above, particularly for those of us that aren't supposed to have these devices (I hear it invisible to Spectre!).
And if they use LIDAR around you, get a Blinder
Probably good idea to check out around for any popular speedtrap locations around you http://www.speedtrap.org/speedtraps/...y.asp?state=ME too.
Why bother with tickets?
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The last time that I was pulled over it was for speeding. I was traveling to upstate New York in my Vert; I had just washed and waxed it. Don't Saabs always seem go faster when they are nice and clean and shinny? The cop that stopped me was a local and a Woman. I knew that she had me I was going 75 mph in a 55 mph zone. At that point it is just kind of a surrender thing as she is walking up along side the car. She asked me if I knew why I had been stopped. I said yes I was speeding. Then she says if there was any reason for me to speed. I answered by saying that I was just enjoying driving my Saab on this sunny day with the top down and I took my eye off the Speedo for a minute. She said "oh", and went back to her car to write me up. When she came back to hand me the ticket she told me to keep under the speed limit. Than she said that didn't write me for speeding but for making an illegal turn. I thanked her and was on my way.
Oh yes CaptBrandini sorry that it didn't work out quite as well.
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Sorry 'bout the tickets, that is rough man. I've been pretty lucky, I can admit that, but I have to knock on wood afterwards... If I'm speeding, I like to make sure I am pacing someone who's double to triple the normal following distance from me if possible. This way I can watch for his brake lights as he rounds each corner and slow down accordingly. Btw this also helps with avoiding the slow elderly and other road obstacles.
That 'brick is Excellent looking. My first car was an '81 240 GLT wagon, with the same shifter setup. as a new driver, I appreciated the 'H' pattern of teh 4=speed shift, and since it was my first car, I still drive so that my hand doesnt rest on teh top of the shifter. As much as I wished I had the turbo, looking back it was better to start out with a slow car (thing was geared like a lawn tractor, but I think the top end was a bit lower ) and move up.. Probably why I didnt actually get my first ticket till I was 20... Though I was pulled over once at 18...
Oh the great speeding tricks. Yes, probably I too should just slow down. But I'd rather think of an many ways to avoid cops as possible. Its like a sport. But, I really don't go much faster than say 15-20 over. It just isn't worth it as at those speeds, sometimes they don't actually need to get you on radar, so I've been told.
1. Radar Detector!!!! I have Passport Escort 8500. Works wonders.
2. Never be the fastest car on the highway. I find that it is much easier to "cruise" on the highway. There are more strict rules to the sport in those arenas. But if there is any way to make sure you'd be passed up for a bigger fish, then take that opportunity.
3. Don't weave/make quick movements. This would attract attention from a cop who may not be actually running speed tests.
4. Slow down in small towns. When the speed limit is like 50 for 30 miles, then it is 35 for a half a mile, odds are the cop will usually be right in that 35. I don't mean to offend any cops on here, but a lot of them aren't that smart. This typically does apply to small towns where there is only a single cop on duty at a time.
5. Always come to a complete stop, don't run red lights, stop at crosswalks, etc. You never know who is watching, and getting stopped for this stuff is stupid. And it is extremely dangerous to you and other people to break these types of laws. At least with speeding, you won't broadside or run over and innocent person.
6. Speed up in corners, and coast through straights. Cops need considerable distance to get you on radar, so corners don't work well. And besides, corners are more fun!
But really, nothing will help you if you are blatantly speeding. Anything more than 20 over regularly is bound to get you cought at some point. And it is very dangerous.
So maybe these help from a relatively experienced sportsman!
sorry, but Maine speeds suck
Nice and empty when I was on them, but the speeds vary. Same with BackWoods Massachusetts.
20 over is a lot though, really anything more than 10 over is asking for trouble. I've been really trying to keep it to no more than 5 over, but it's so hard.
Sooo.....much......power....wants to be free.....release me.....NOW!!!
I just have teen speed syndrome at this point. I've actually watched my own standards of safety in traffic and otherwise go slowly downhill. Sort of scary. So I've decided to work on becoming a better driver. I wish I could have a "wake up call" but with the added security of knowing that it won't be fatal. I haven't had a deer/moose/toddler wander out in front of me for a while, and no scary moments in traffic either. Maybe the fates are building up for something big.
My teen speeding started to wear off a year and a half after I got my license when I spun my wrangler out badly on ice. Badly is really to harsh of a word, it was only a slightly bent bumper but it more the fact that I lost control so badly. I was only going 5 over the 35 speed limit and there were times I had done 100 on that road (they put a speed trap in just because of me ). Every since then I've really been trying to be good most of the time. Not that that's any guaruntee, I hit a deer 2 months ago while going the 40 mph speed limit. But seriously, speed kills, try not to.
Deer really are the most uncontrollable variable. I hit one a year or so ago. ouch. I was going about 85 (in a 35). I braked so hard the deer didn't touch the front bumper, grille, or headlights. It just hit the hood and bounced, a long ways. But now I am much more careful at night in the certain deer seasons.
yeah i got nabbed two weeks ago, it blows. 53 in a 25 he said, but it had just turned in to a 35 and i was under 50. this was in farmington, those jerks are always giving people tickets. from the tracks on the side of the road it looked like they had been pulling people over all day.
I go fast I won't say how much.
One thing about corners and hills.
If you are on a nice limited-access expressway - a rural one, where you can drive 388km/h (in a Koenigsegg of course ) there be dragons. However if you can see for miles and miles, there they not be. If there is a hill, and you cannot see over the hill - 90% chance they are right on the other side waiting. Same thing for curves as well.
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Troubled young runaway Aydee escapes her abusive home and stumbles across a bookstore called Lost Pages. After a series of bizarre encounters with a variety of creatures and divine beings, Aydee is befriended by Lost Pages' shopkeeper Lucas and his myriad pet dogs. Together with Lucas, Aydee works and grows up at Lost Pages while dealing with its peculiar customers and the strange books in stock. But far from being a peaceful haven, Lost Pages thrusts Aydee into an ancient conflict between old gods and monsters until she is forced to confront the uncomfortable reality of her own true identity. Continue reading
Best Erotic Fantasy & Science Fiction, Edited by Cecilia Tan and Bethany Zaiatz
The Best Erotic Fantasy & Science Fiction edited by Cecilia Tan and Bethany Zaiatz is a cohesive, balanced collection of stories that definitely live up to Circlet Press' goal to find new ways to break open the strictures and formulas of the science fiction and fantasy genres in tandem with breaking open the formulas of erotica. There is a little something for everyone as long as you keep an open mind and aren't shy about the s-word. As you might imagine this book is definitely all about SEX. But it's also about many other things, most especially love. Love in all its wild and varied forms, from first love, to unrequited love, to obsessive love, to downright strange love. Continue reading
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De Bodard, Narayan, Okorafor up for Nebula Award
The Science Fiction Writers of America (SFWA) have just announced the nominated works for their annual Nebula Awards. French author, and Apex Book of World SF contributor Aliette de Bodard is nominated for Best Novelette, with "The Jaguar House, in Shadow", from Asimov's, while the forthcoming Apex Book of World SF 2 Indian contributor Shweta Narayan is also nominated for Best Novelette, with "Pishaach" from the Beastly Bride anthology. And Apex Book of World SF 2 contributor, Nigerian-American writer Nnedi Okorafor, is nominated for her novel Who Fears Death.
The Apex Book of World SF 2 will be published later this year.
In addition, huge congratulations are due to our publishers, Apex Book Company, for having two stories on the ballot this year: Lebanese-Canadian writer Amal El-Mohtar's "The Green Book" (published at Apex Online) is up for Best Short Story, alongside Jennifer Peland's "Ghosts of New York" (published in Apex anthology Dark Faith).
This is probably the most diverse short-list in the award's recent history – congratulations to all the nominees and to the SFWA!
Tuesday Fiction: "Dance Dance Revolution" by Charlie Human
Today we have a short-short from South African writer Charlie Human.
Dance Dance Revolution
By Charlie Human
Special Forces secure the perimeter of the town and give us the green light to parachute in. Clearing hornet nests is something of a specialty of ours. Special Forces don't like us, but they're wise enough to keep their mouths shut.
We advance, Alpha Team in Swan Lake formation. The phosphorescent flares Special Forces have sent up make everything glitter with radiance. The town's populous wail and cry when they see us. A woman, gnashing her teeth and pulling her hair, throws herself at my feet. Navy Seals they spit at. Dancers they beg for mercy.
Our Killbots trundle next to us awaiting orders. I watch mine, Nureyev, drive over a fruitseller's stand with his heavy, spiked tracks. I smile. I have a suspicion that his programming has a few sadistic lines of code.
The insurgents engage us with a few exploratory rounds of rifle fire. I click my heels together. You're not in Kabul anymore, motherfuckers. I pirouette which sends a volley of heavy machine gun fire back. I know the hit is confirmed even before the green lights blink on Nureyev's back.
Alpha Team snaps into motion. Dance is an intuitive, responsive medium. We react to the attack without thinking about it. The machines are linked to us via biofeedback which translates our dance steps into destruction. My new tutu is lighter and more accurate at mapping my movements, based as it is on cutting edge motion-capture technology used in CGI movies. Heel-toe, Heel-toe and dip. Four men die without knowing they've been spotted.
The first forays into Military Dance Interface were predictably clunky, death by Fred Astaire 1.0, but things improved. It's easy to marvel at how far information interface has come in society; from the flipping and flicking of touchscreen devices to controller-free sports games which map human movement. This is just like that. Just with 50 calibre machine guns.
Beta Team moonwalk across my vision laying down a barrage of RPG fire. A round clips my shoulder and I see a sniper on a rooftop with my head in his crosshairs. I break formation to reach for the sky and shimmy. The insurgent dies in a hail of bullets. Disco has saved my life more than once.
Rounds ricochet off the wall behind me but I hardly notice. In this business you've got to dance like nobody is watching you through laser-guided scopes. The fighting has become close and Alpha Team switches to a Bollywood dance sequence. The Killbots respond by initiating close combat mode.
Clasping my hands together and lifting them above my head; Nureyev chainsaws through kevlar and flesh. Bobbing my head from side to side: Nureyev snaps necks with the passionless precision of machine jiu-jitsu. Delta Team scythes through opposition on our flank. For a second I pity the enemy. Those line-dancers are brutal.
We glide down an alley and straight into a trap. Nureyev is hit by a grenade and our link is severed. Dancers fall to gunfire all around me. One of them, Katya Illinova, teeters on pointed toes as bullets rip into her. She doesn't falter as she performs a last bow which initiates a kamikaze run by her Killbot. The explosion lights up the town like an orange sunset.
I pirouette into a house to avoid any surviving snipers. Straight into the arms of the Dictator. I recognise him from intelligence photos; a handsome man with a long moustache, dressed in military uniform. We lock eyes. I hold out my hand and he takes it. We tango slow and sure. He smells faintly of explosives, sweat and vanilla, his hand on the small of my back, his breath on my neck.
He dips me and I bring my leg up to his shoulder. The military network satellite responds to my muscle command and dispatches several Tomahawk missiles to our location. We're still dancing as everything is obliterated.
Dance Dance Revolution (c) 2010 Charlie Human. First published in Chew Magazine.
Albedo One, #39, 2010
Albedo One bills itself as Ireland's longest-running and foremost magazine of the fantastic, and I'm happy to take their word for it. This issue, # 39, contains an interview with Mike Resnick, several reviews of new novels, and six short stories. Though remarkable in their breadth and diversity, all six stories probe in some way themes of time, death, and the transience of human life, and the more I consider it, the more I enjoy the subtle ways in which such seemingly disparate works overlap.
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Monday Original Content: The Multi-Chambered Nautilus
by Athena Andreadis; originally posted at Starship Reckless.
How well like a man fought the Rani of Jhansi,
How valiantly and well!
— Indian ballad
My opinion of steampunk is low. However, last week's lovely Google doodle by Jennifer Hom reminded me that I like at least one steampunk work. After I wrote my Star Trek book, I was asked why I did so. My reply was The Double Helix: Why Science Needs Science Fiction. Here is its opening paragraph:
The first book that I clearly remember reading is the unexpurgated version of Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues under the Sea. Had I been superstitious, I would have taken it for an omen, since the book contains just about everything that has shaped my life and personality since then. For me, the major wonder of the book was that Captain Nemo was both a scientist and an adventurer, a swashbuckler in a lab coat, a profile I imagined myself fulfilling one day.
I was five when I first read the novel. Unlike Anglophone readers, I was lucky enough to have the complete version rather than the bowdlerized thin gruel that resulted in Verne being consigned to the category of "children's author". Of course, 20,000 Leagues set me up for the inevitable fall. It prompted me to read most of Verne's other works, in which he's as guilty of infodumps, cardboard characters and tone-deaf dialogue as most "authors of ideas". Too, his books are boys' treehouses: I can recall two women in those I read, both as lively as wooden idols. Even so, Captain Nemo stands apart among Verne's characters, both in his depth and in the messages he carries.
Verne has Aronnax describe Nemo at length when he first sees him. It takes up more than a page — but even now I remember my frustration when I reached the end and found out Verne says exactly nothing about Nemo's build, hue, eye and hair color or shape. All he has told, in excruciating detail, is that Nemo looks extraordinarily intelligent and has a formidable presence.
However, my book copy contained several sepia-tinted plates from Disney's film version of the book (in lieu of Édouard Riou's engravings that accompanied the original editions). I had no idea who the actors were – I discovered that James Mason was British in my early twenties. On the other hand, several hints in the book, including the "liquid vowel-filled" language spoken by his multinational crew, coded the captain of the Nautilus as different. So in my mind Nemo was olive-skinned, black-haired. He looked like my father the engineer, like my father's seacaptain father and brothers, like the andártes of the Greek resistance. He looked like me.
He acted like the andártes, as well. He sided with the downtrodden, from helping a Ceylonese pearl diver to giving guns to the Cretans risen against the Turks. And when he lost companions, he wept. Yet he was not merely a warrior; he was also a polymath. Besides being a crack engineer, a marine biology expert and an intrepid explorer, he spoke half a dozen languages, kept a huge library, and was a discerning art collector and a talented musician. The Nautilus is the precursor of Star Trek's Enterprise: a ship of science and culture that can also wage war. Too, Nemo's conversations bespoke someone from an old civilization tempered by melancholic wisdom – not an insouciant triumphalist.
Then there was the Lucifer strain that appealed to me just as much, coming as I did from a clan of resistance fighters. Nemo embodies the motto by which I have come to live my life: Never complain, never explain. He's an evolved incarnation of the Byronic hero. His name is not only the Latin version of Outis (Noone) that Odysseus gave to Polyphemus; it is also a cognate of Nemesis (Vengeance). Today's security agencies would call Nemo a terrorist, even though he fights in self-defense and retribution after invaders massacre his family and occupy his homeland.
Since victors write history, the losers' freedom fighters become the winners' murderers. Beyond that, there's a fundamental difference between Nemo and fanatics like bin Laden: Nemo is not fighting to establish an Ummah, an Empire, a Utopia, not for power, riches, or glory. He's not a fundamentalist secure in celestial approval of his actions. He is deeply conflicted and feels grief and guilt whenever he exacts revenge.
In this, Nemo shares his creator's determined Enlightenment outlook. Verne was never apologetic about his heroes' secularism or love of political freedom. However, Pierre-Julien Hetzel, Verne's excessively hands-on editor, was acutely mindful of social and political conventions. As a result, Verne has Nemo go through a deathbed act of contrition in the vastly inferior Mysterious Island – something totally at odds with his character in 20,000 Leagues. Left to himself, Verne might have given a far darker ending to the first novel, as Disney did in his film version and as Verne later did with Robur, a coarsened power-obsessed Nemo clone.
Verne had originally conceived Nemo as a Polish scientist fighting against Russian oppressors. Hetzel did not want to alienate the lucrative Russian market. Also, neither Poland nor Russia are known for their naval prowess: a Russian-hating Nemo would put a serious crimp on the sea battle drama in 20,000 Leagues. So when Verne reveals Nemo's provenance in The Mysterious Island, he makes him an Indian prince, son of the Rajah of Bundelkhand. Lakshmi Bai, the Rani of Jhansi (a region of Bundelkhand), was one of the leaders of the Sepoy Uprising, the same uprising that cost Nemo his family and home. It makes me glad to think Captain Nemo, Prince Dakkar, may have been Lakshmi Bai's cousin – that they grew up together, friends and like-minded companions. I'm equally glad Nemo is free of the poisonous concepts of caste purity.
Who could animate Captain Nemo's complexities and dilemmas onscreen? Mason may have been ethnically incorrect, but he truly captured Nemo – both his torment and his charisma. The incarnations since Mason have been anemic and/or off-key. In The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Naseeruddin Shah did his best with the paper-thin material he was given, but the film was so unremittingly awful that I've wiped it from long-term memory. Besides him, I have a few other possibles in mind and I'm open to additional suggestions:
Jean Reno, real name Juan Moreno, the stoic ronin whose Andalusian parents had to leave Cadiz during Franco's regime; Ghassan Massoud, who wiped the floor with the other actors (except Edward Norton as the uncredited Baldwin) as Saladin in Ridley Scott's Kingdom of Heaven; Ken Watanabe, who left Tom Cruise in the dust in The Last Samurai; Oded Fehr, who made the screen shimmer as the paladin Ardeth Bey in The Mummy; in a decade or so, Ioan Gruffudd, whom Guinevere should have taken as a co-husband in Antoine Fuqua's Arthur; also in about a decade (provided he keeps lean), Naveen Andrews, the soulful Kip in Anthony Minghella's The English Patient.
It goes without saying that I have an equally long list of candidates who could embody Captain Nemo as a woman – but I'll keep these names for that never-never time when this becomes possible without the venomous ad feminem criticisms (some from prominent women) that greeted Helen Mirren as Prospero. Because gender essentialism aside, Captain Nemo was not someone I wanted to fall in love with, but someone I wanted to become: a warrior wizard, a creator, a firebringer.
Addendum 1: I received excellent additions to the Nemo candidate list. Calvin Johnson suggested Ben Kingsley, real name Krishna Pandit Bhanji, who needs no further introduction (Calvin and I also agreed that Laurence Fishburne in Morpheus mode would be great for the part). Anil Menon proposed the equally formidable Gabriel Byrne. Eloise Lanouette brought up Alexander (endless full name) Siddig who keeps getting better, like fine wine.
I also received a palpitation-inducing… er, tantalizing thought-experiment from Kay Holt; namely, a film in which each of my candidate Nemos inhabits a parallel reality. Ok, I'll stop grinning widely now.
Addendum 2: I got e-mails expressing curiosity about my female Nemo candidates. So here's the list. Again, I welcome suggestions:
Julia Ormond, who radiates intelligence and made a tough-as-nails underdog hero in Smilla's Sense of Snow; Karina Lombard, who brought tormented Bertha Mason to vivid life in The Wide Sargasso Sea; Salma Hayek, the firebrand of Frida; Michelle Yeoh, who bested everyone (including Chow Yun Fat) in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon; Angela Bassett, who wore kickass Lornette "Mace" Mason like a second skin in Strange Days; last but decidedly not least, Anjelica Huston — enough said!
Great additional suggestions have come for this half as well: Lena Headey who made a terrific Sarah Connor, Indira Varma of Kama Sutra — both in about ten years' time. Sotiría Leonárdhou, who set the world on fire in Rembetiko. And, of course, Sigourney Weaver, the one and only Ellen Ripley.
Images: 1st, the Nautilus as envisioned by Tom Scherman; 2nd, Captain Nemo (original illustration by Édouard Riou; detail); 3rd, James Mason as Nemo; 4th and 5th, my Nemo candidates, left to right; 4th, the men — top, Jean Reno (France/Spain), Ghassan Massoud (Syria), Ken Watanabe (Japan); bottom, Oded Fehr (Israel), Ioan Gruffudd (Wales), Naveen Andrews (India/UK); 5th, the women — top, Julia Ormond (UK), Karina Lombard (Lakota/US), Salma Hayek (Mexico); bottom, Michelle Yeoh (Hong Kong), Angela Bassett (US), Anjelica Huston (US).
Athena Andreadis brief bio
Athena Andreadis was born in Greece and lured to the US at age 18 by a full scholarship to Harvard, then MIT. She does basic research in molecular neurobiology, focusing on mental retardation and dementia. She is an avid reader in four languages across genres, the author of To Seek Out New Life: The Biology of Star Trek and writes speculative fiction and non-fiction on a wide swath of topics. Her work can be found in Harvard Review, Strange Horizons, Crossed Genres, Stone Telling, Cabinet des Fées, Science in My Fiction, SF Signal, The Apex Blog, H+ Magazine, io9, The Huffington Post, and her own site, Starship Reckless.
SF in the United Arab Emirates
Over at the SF Portal, new bureau head Arafaat Ali Khan discusses What has science fiction meant to the UAE over the lat few decades?
It's difficult to put a finger on what constitutes science fiction in the United Arab Emirates. Difficult because the UAE has always been such an eclectic mix of nationalities that the culture has always consisted of a mix of Arab, Asian and European influences.
As a Pakistani growing up in the country, I never felt that there was a certain way of life that encompassed or dictated the form of entertainment that one would get accustomed to. In fact, one could say that it was the best of all worlds, being exposed to everything from European and American television shows, movies, and literature, to the more traditional forms of Arab entertainment.
Arab entertainment when it comes to science fiction came in the form of 'Arabised' forms of other cultures. People from the region have grown up with a love for giant robots and UFOs due to one simple animated series that surfaced in the early 80's Grendizer, more commonly know as Goldarak in Europe and Canada where it was also loved.
Grendizer was a common Japanese Anime about UFOs and robots fighting for good against the forces of evil in many shapes and sizes with one important twist: it was dubbed extremely professionally into Arabic. What this meant for those of us growing up in the region is that we adopted it as our own. This wasn't a Japanese show, no: it was an Arab show that touched the hearts of everyone who ever had the pleasure of growing up watching it.
And this was the kicker, the shot in the arm if you will that laid the groundwork for the dreams and inspirations of so many talented individuals in the region. Yes we had Doctor Who, Buck Rogers, Flash Gordon, Star Trek and Stars Wars (to name a few) as well as a plethora of available literature including Frank Herbert, Philip K. Dick, Ben Bova, and the res,t but I truly believe it was that short-lived animated show about robots and monsters that really planted the seed for what we are beginning to see in the region today.
It has taken a while, sure but the talent is starting to make itself heard. From the first fully animated CGI Science Fiction short Xero-Error (featured at Cannes), to an unnamed fantasy novel and the first original Arabic language Manga The Gold Ring, the seeds are starting to blossom. The UAE and the Middle East region as a whole is no longer content with importing their science fiction and genre entertainment, they are ready to take the world by storm!
The region has been fostering this with numerous film festivals such as the Dubai Film Festival and Gulf Film Festival, book fairs, and more hoping to find the next big name in science fiction, fantasy, and art.
The announcement of the first Middle East Film and Comic Con has done nothing but foster this nascent talent. April 29th and 30th of 2011 (www.mefilmandcomiccon.com) will be the time when the region will truly have a voice, a voice to shout about their love of science fiction, fantasy, and everything in between.
As one of the organisers of the event, it is with no exaggeration that I say it has been awe inspiring to witness the level of interest and talent that exists in this region. The show is set to feature the very first science fiction novel in Arabic, and the first stand alone Arabic language science fiction graphic novel to name a few. It will be the first time that the artists, authors, and fans in the Arab world will have a chance to meet some of the global legends in science fiction, comic books, and animation.
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Live Whisky Tasting
May 11, 2012
Last night, 7pm BST, the Walking With The Wounded Summit team and the Glenfiddich Pioneers participated in a world first … a LIVE whisky tasting from Everest base camp. The Team and the Pioneers were introduced by a London studio panel featuring presenter Monty Halls, WWTW Founders Ed Parker and Simon Daglish, Glenfiddich's Jamie Milne …
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Glenfiddich Whisky Tasting LIVE from Everest Base Camp
May 9, 2012
See the live broadcast here. Following the decision to postpone this year's Everest summit attempt, The Walking With the Wounded expedition team will be toasting their last day at Everest Base Camp by taking part in the world's highest ever whisky tasting. The live broadcast will take place on Thursday 10th May at 19:00 (BST) …
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The Doc explains the final preparation
April 27, 2012
The team has spent many months preparing for this challenge and Francis 'The Doc' Atkinson explains the final few things which need to be finalised prior to heading onwards and upwards to the top of Mt Everest.
The Nepalese Puja blessing
April 25, 2012
It is tradition that all who attempt to climb Mt Everest partake in a ceremony to bring luck to the expedition party and avoid angering the gods. Our team took part in this colourful and fascinating ritual and had various items of kit blessed, so as to ensure their safe and successful passage to the …
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Khumbu Ice Field Training
April 22, 2012
Martin Hewitt explain the process by which the team has set about preparing to tackle one of the most challenging parts of the journey to the top of Mt Everest, the Khumbu Ice Field. Being able to cross crevasses and manoeuvre across dangerous ice formations can quite literally be the difference between life and death. …
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Latest Video Update From Martin Hewitt
April 12, 2012
Martin Hewitt's latest update shows off the spectacular, yet imposing scenery surrounding Mount Everest. Martin explains the on-going acclimatisation process which enables the team to get accustomed to trekking at high altitude and assist in the production of vital red blood cells. Share this link with friends, family and colleagues to do your bit for …
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Video: Early wake up
March 31, 2012
Jaco Van Gass and Karl Hinett wake up at the crack of dawn for a flight to Lukla to begin their trek. Trouble seeing the video? Try visiting our Youtube channel here
Video: Jaco's amazing prosthetic
March 29, 2012
Jaco Van Gass talks to Dan Majid about the Everest team's kit prep and the features of this amazing prosthetic. Trouble seeing the video? Try visiting our Youtube channel here


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Inhabitants of northern Norway were treated to an amazing light show as a Russian ICBM test went awry. A spectacular spiral of light was visible for miles and was more impressive than any fireworks display. The Russians, however, were less sanguine about the failed test, the latest in a long line of failures for this experimental missile system: "Billions of dollars have been flushed down the drain."
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