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Based on a Longines model produced in the 1920s, the new Longines Avigation Oversize Crown lineup will be offered in time-only ($2,400), 24 hour ($3,100), and chronograph ($3,500) versions. These pieces are great additions to Longines' growing line of military remakes in the Heritage collection (did you see my review of the off-axis Longines Avigation A-7, by the way?). All models are 41mm steel case with the fine fluted bezel (bidirectional), black dials and gilt hands (a nice touch). Note also the great lug design. The oversized crown (not it is also on an elongated stem) is a functional element in a throwback to practical aviation use — easier for a pilot to handle with gloves on. I would like to have seen the time-only and GMT models done without date windows, but others might appreciate having this feature. I'd certainly be happy wearing the bi-compax chronograph, though.
The movement in this piece is the automatic mechanical ETA 2895. The manner in which the date aperture cuts-off the "6" is bothersome to me.
The GMT is powered by the ETA Valgranges A07.17 (based on the Valjoux 7750). Again the date aperture — sitting next to the "3" — bothersome to me.
The third and last model is my favorite — a monopusher chronograph powered by Longines' Calibre L788 (i.e. a rebranded ETA A08.L11 which is itself derived from the Valjoux 7750 with an added column wheel chronograph function).


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Directed by André De Toth
Collection of Second World War action dramas. In 'Play Dirty' (1969) Captain Douglas (Michael Caine) is sent to North Africa to lead a small group of mercenaries into the desert to knock out an enemy fuel reserve.
However, there is friction between the Captain, veteran Colonel Masters (Nigel Green) and Cyril Leech (Nigel Davenport), head of the hired mercenaries, as they disagree on how to successfully carry out the mission.
Things go from bad to worse when they find out that their assignment is a booby-trapped suicide mission, which threatens to end in pointless bloodshed.
In 'Submarine X-1' (1968) Commander Richard Bolton (James Caan) and his surviving crew members stagger to shore after being attacked by the German battleship Lindendorf.
Commander Bolton is then placed in charge of training a small team of experimental submarines assigned to attack and sink the enemy ship.
In 'Hornet's Nest' (1970) an American commando unit, who are dropped behind enemy lines in Italy, fail in their mission to blow up a strategic dam when all but their leader (Rock Hudson) are ambushed and killed.
He is given another chance to succeed in his mission when he reluctantly strikes a deal with a group of local youths who rescue him and offer their help in exchange for the soldier's assistance in dealing with the Nazi's invasion of their village.
In 'Beach Red' (1967) American assault crafts attempt to retake a Pacific island held by the Japanese and both sides discover that war is the closest thing to Hell on Earth.
In 'Attack On the Iron Coast' (1968) Lloyd Bridges stars as Major Jamie Wilson, who must train and then lead his troops in the D-Day invasion of Normandy, with the knowledge that most, if not all, will likely not return.
As he is haunted by former missions of a similar nature, matters are made worse for Wilson when he is teamed with a captain who opposes his plans but is tasked with the transportation of the troops.
Facing overwhelming odds of survival and battling a Nazi stronghold, will the major's plan be enough to save the lives of his soldiers?
In 'The Thousand Plane Raid' (1969) the American Army become increasingly frustrated with their ineffective night-time bombing missions.
As a result, an ambitious new plan put forward by Colonel Greg Brandon (Christopher George) is put into action by his superiors to fly 1000 bombers over Germany to attack in broad daylight.
Tensions increase as he tries to get his troops ready for the mission and as the date draws nearer the colonel even begins to lose faith in the likelihood of success.
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Create the perfect metro system in the ultimate public transport simulator.
NEW YORK – 14th October 2010 – Paradox Interactive has today released a brand new gameplay trailer illustrating the metro system in Cities in Motion, the forthcoming mass transportation simulator developed by Colossal Order Ltd and releasing on PC in early 2011. The Metro trailer gives a glimpse into one of several ways for players to transport the masses across one of four cities in the game, showing an underground subway mode as well as elevated track sections with trains travelling up above the city streets on their way to various destinations.
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Developed by Colossal Order Ltd, Cities in Motion sees players develop and operate their own public transport company building a travel network across Vienna, Berlin, Helsinki and Amsterdam using more than 30 different modes of transport including buses, trams, subway trains and water buses. As each city develops and grows the player must continue to meet the ever changing transport needs of its commuters, while at the same time ensuring it remains as profitable as possible. Featuring an in-depth campaign mode made up of 12 scenarios along with an open ended sandbox mode, an advanced map editor that allows players to create their own cities, plus much more, Cities in Motion will challenge players to create the perfect public transport system that has no cancellations, no delays and where the passengers are always happy!
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So how is Walker good at everything he ever tries?? I have talked about his bull riding before and now he is a racecar driver. Drivers practice hours and hours for a long time to get where they are but not Walker. The last time he 'raced' he was a teen and his car did maybe 55. But after being sabotaged Team Cherokee losses its driver and the team asks Walker to step in. After a few days he is driving like a pro and even pulls out the win. He is superman.
There is some real law enforcement going on with Carlos and Trent as they go after a child pornographer. This is one of the more touchy subjects that the show deals with and it was sad that it wasn't given more time by the whole team. This was actually the back story of the two episodes.
WAMMER: Alex talks about still loving the man that you are with even tough his job is dangerous it's part of him. Good advice and we know she was also talking about her and Walker.


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There are a lot of things going on these days that on the SURFACE seem like women have it made, as if men are getting the biggest raw deal of all time.
This is what I actually thought for a long time.
Things like men being expected to do all the work of approaching women, things like men being expected to pay for women on dates, and yet at the same time women demanding 'equality' when it comes to everything else. Basically, women getting SUPERIOR treatment is still in vogue just like the OLD days, but yet women want to ALSO have things like "equality" when it suits them.
The ol' "have your cake and eat it too" thing. All that stuff sounds pretty "unjust".
But guess what?
You can turn all this AROUND to work in your FAVOUR!
Now, for a moment, before I get into HOW to do this, I want to make it clear that I am not into the idea of taking ADVANTAGE of women. In fact, I believe that when women suffer, men suffer as well, because any relationship is only as strong as its weakest link. When women are emotionally strong and healthy, it's only a good thing for men too. And the irony is that I believe that the current state of our culture is actually HARMFUL FOR WOMEN, even more so than it is for men, and of course this is not good for men.
The harmful things I am talking about are not positive things like women having the vote, etc, obviously that's a good thing - what I am talking about has to do more with trends like women entirely abandoning concepts like genuine modesty and restraint. Women used to be the gatekeepers of a lot of good values, but no longer. In their race to be like men, women have abandoned the baby with the bathwater and totally renounced EVERYTHING from the past except the idea of men kissing up to them. A great book on this is A Return To Modesty by Wendy Shalit.
I just don't believe that men and women should try to BE each other, which is what you have going on today, with women trying to tout equality to mean that they can get as stoned, burnt out from partying, and messed up as any dumb guy could ever get himself stoned and messed up, and also with many men trying to become as effeminate as any woman could.
Most of the modern changes in culture have also created more problems for women by confusing the hell out of them in terms of values, so what tends to happen is that girls are torn apart by conflicting values- they are told "be free to party and get stoned and drunk" and yet they also know that guys don't want sluts for girlfriends. Then they are told "be a career woman", and to be 'independent' but then they also know it's "family first". They they are told "individuality counts the most" and that all guys are evil pricks who just want to control women, until women find themselves in rotten relationships or constantly single because of their overblown egos of individuality, the result of their female peers pressuring them to be 'independent' aka single and miserable like they are, and believe all kinds of insane stuff about all guys, or because they chose the "cool" guy that was "uncontrolling" and who let them party and be 'independent', only to find out the only reason he lets them party is because HE is unfaithful and partying and sleeping with other girls himself.
By the time many women mature, if they mature, they have been clinically depressed, taken at the very LEAST psychologist-prescribed anti-depression medications and have often taken more illegal drugs "just for fun" than you could imagine, plus their looks are going out the window, and only THEN do they realize, IF they even realize, what most GIRLS knew at 16 when they were still hot, just a few generations ago:
To CAREFULLY choose a good man, EARLY, and to treat him with respect in order to keep him.
But the fact of the matter is that era is GONE.
LOGIC is completely gone.
Women WILL continue to actually FIGHT to maintain a value system that is quite absurd.
But what if you could MAKE ALL THIS WORK IN YOUR FAVOUR??????
Imagine, you can turn this all AROUND to work in your favour so MASSIVELY, that I believe it puts MEN in an incredibly SUPERIOR position overall, but almost no woman will ever have the guts to come out and say that things actually made more sense, overall, a hundred years ago!
Let me give you a few examples of how all this modern stuff has made things EASY for men. And, keep in mind how ALL this stuff works not on logic, but on FUELING a woman's EMOTIONS. Logic is no longer a force to rely on, you must COMPLETELY turn all power sources over to the realm of emotion.
Here we go, with some prime examples:
This is actually an AWESOME thing, because it means that that you, as a man, can CHOOSE whichever woman you wish to approach!!!!
I mean, think about it, the world is your oyster! If you know how to do this stuff, your choices are INFINITE.
Even the HOTTEST woman does NOT have this power. She can only do her best PASSIVELY to try to get the attention of a guy she likes. Very, very few women ACTIVELY pursue a guy they don't even know at all, and for good reason- they know that most men will be weirded out by it and plus most women would feel weird themselves about doing this.
It's just not the way women have been cultured.
You see, women EXPECT you, as a man, to do the approaching.
In fact, women tend to ENJOY it when a guy does the approaching, when he does it RIGHT. It's the stuff she's been weaned on since childhood in the sense of all the romance novels and movies she's ever read or been exposed to.
And the reward you get for this is that you have tremendous ACTIVE power, instead of just being like a woman and sitting there looking as good as you can and HOPING that a cool guy will do the approach. And 9 times out of ten, when a guy finally does approach her, it's usually a total jerk off or drunk who she just finds ANNOYING or it's some weirdo who is equally undesirable.
If good guys just realized their power as a man, they would be doing a HUGE FAVOUR for women by helping them out so that women had some other choice besides the drunk dude and the jerk off.
Some guys feel they have lost some power because of this "equality" business. I made a big realization that this was actually nonsense because with women having jobs and being everywhere at all times, it means that not only can women can pay for stuff for me lol, but more importantly, it means that women ARE EVERYWHERE. It's not like the old days where women were only at home, women are everywhere all the time. The restaurant, mall, club, hair salon, it's crazy. And because of all this equality stuff, I love to tease women into paying for things for me, although I never act like a cheapo, it's hilarious to play on this one, as women love the idea of having independence and power, so I get to not only pick them up, but have them buy me my coffee or whatever and they LOVE it!!!!
It's great also for using this idea to help prevent yourself from getting taken for a ride – you don't have to PURSUE women by buying them things like in the old days.
The Peer Pressure Of Other Guys Who DO Kiss Up To Women
This is really fantastic. Because the more that guys kiss up and act submissive toward women, the more it makes a guy STAND OUT by NOT being that way. I remember having girls argue with me that their LAST boyfriend bought this and this for them, and blah blah blah. To me, I just laugh at this stuff, because I know that what REALLY counts is simply making sure that women have an awesome time when you're with them, and that doesn't come from buying them things. I might say something like this, with a smile: "So, he bought you all these things, and where is he now? Poor dude, he's probably working a third job saving up to get you something right now!!" And of course she'll laugh at this. End of argument.
And of course, as you all know, I learned all this the HARD WAY, because I used to be the most incredibly appreciative guy on the planet, but women simply CANNOT appreciate an appreciative guy before they even know they WANT YOU. Once you have a woman attracted, it's okay to do some "nice" stuff for her once in while, IF SHE IS A HIGH SELF ESTEEM WOMAN who believes she is worthy of it. This is a whole other topic in itself, but let me just quickly add that if you are dealing with a low self esteem woman, any good stuff you do for her will quickly be forgotten and interpreted as a sign of YOU being low value, because in her mind she feels she IS OF NO VALUE, so any guy that LIKES her, in her mind, is unworthy himself.
For example, these days women are not so concerned as they used to be with CONCRETE matters of survival, they are far more into exploring their "options". And now that women have been brainwashed to believe in entertaining FANTASIES more than ever, guess what one of the BIGGEST FANTASIES they have is?????
Yup, it's getting SWEPT OFF THEIR FEET by a TOTAL STRANGER.
Goodbye logic, hello fantasy.
And that means by FEEDING into that fantasy, by approaching a woman and giving her the fantasy, she will be SO MASSIVELY IN LOVE WITH THE IDEA, that she will HELP YOU ALONG IF YOU JUST DO IT RIGHT, simply because of her massive wishful thinking that it's happening to her just like in the novels she read or the dream she had.
Yup, I'm serious about this.
And if you want to learn how to *BE* the man she is dreaming of, I can think of no finer way than to take one of my highly specialized live programs. You will graduate from these programs a different man, who is able to turn EVERYTHING into his favour with women, no matter how challenging it may seem to others.
The first step to getting this ability under your belt is to soak in the information in my eBook, The Dating Wizard: Secrets to Success with Women. Inside the book, I go into full detail EXACTLY how to become the type of man women are universally attracted toward. You will find out all about the TRUTH of your inner state and exactly how to build it up to where it needs to be. And of course I go into exactly how to approach women, how to get physical, and how to deal with the tests that women MUST give men.
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The most recent target of US copyright enforcement efforts is Kim Dotcom, the founder of Megaupload.com, a Hong Kong-based company that operated an "Internet locker" service. Users could anonymously store and transfer huge amounts of data, including movies, software, and other media files – many of which the US says are illegal copies. Mr. Dotcom was arrested last Friday in his Auckland, New Zealand, mansion on charges of racketeering and copyright infringement in the US.
The indictment says that Dotcom and Megaupload are responsible for $500 million in damages to copyright holders and earned $175 million in ad sales and subscriptions to the locker service. Dotcom, who says he is innocent, could face 20 years in prison if convicted.
Dotcom, born Kim Schmitz in Germany, is a colorful character who built up his own reputation as an Internet "bad boy" through YouTube videos of his extravagant, and sometimes illegal, behavior. Dotcom's videos, now unavailable, featured him racing sports cars on public streets, cavorting with bikini-clad models, and enjoying other luxuries, writes tech news site CNet. But his "bad boy" act is not necessarily bravado; in 1998, he was convicted of fraud and hacking charges in Germany, and in 2002, he was convicted of insider trading, also in Germany.
A New Zealand judge denied bail to Dotcom, expressing concern that he might flee to Germany, a country with no extradition treaty with the US.
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This July, the lingering question will be answered in ORIGINAL SIN #6 – who shot the Watcher? From the very beginning, fans have waited, wondered and speculated who was responsible for Uatu's untimely death. Now, Jason Aaron and Mike Deodato peel back the curtain on the person pulling the strings as Original Sin races toward it's heart-stopping conclusion.
Though the Watcher's killer stands revealed, the knowledge Uatu kept cannot be put back in its bottle. The heroes' most closely guarded secrets are now weapons in the hands of a terrifying enemy.
"It's time for the shooter to come clean and to stand revealed—though this revelation will only lead to greater conflict for Marvel's heroes," says Marvel SVP Executive Editor Tom Brevoort. "It's difficult to imagine a more dangerous opponent than the person who stands before them now."
How can the heroes of the Marvel Universe cope with a threat that knows their each and every weakness? And who has been manipulating the actions of hero and villain alike? Prepare yourselves as Original Sin kicks into high gear and builds to a game-changing finale that will have everyone talking! No fan can afford to miss the twists and turns of ORIGINAL SIN #6 when it explodes into comic shops this July!
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Funny coincidence: The other day, I watched Day of the Dolphin for the first time in, oh, 25 years. Maybe longer. (Wow—how does that happen?)
A little dated, but…still great!
So…if you live long enough, it seems, most science fiction becomes true.
New Scientist reports on the invention of a computer that divers can wear which translates dolphin clicks into English and allows for the human to respond.
A diver will carry the computer in a waterproof case worn across the chest, and LEDs embedded around the diver's mask will light up to show where a sound picked up by the hydrophones originates from. The diver will also have a Twiddler – a handheld device that acts as a combination of mouse and keyboard – for selecting what kind of sound to make in response.
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Samuel R. Delany may have dropped out of college at nineteen, but he's become the darling of the academy — not to mention a literary superstar with a cult following, critical acclaim and over thirty books to his name. A true product of the sixties, he lived on a commune in the East Village, maintained a merrily promiscuous gay sex life (he and lesbian poet Marilyn Hacker were married for a time, but divorced in 1980) and emerged as a force in science fiction, dominating the major awards and commanding unprecedented advances. In 1974, he published Dhalgren, an epic novel whose graphic descriptions of homosexual, polysexual and sadomasochistic relationships alienated many of his supporters within the field, but enthralled mainstream audiences to the tune of a million copies sold.
Here, Delany discusses the history of sex in science fiction — from the heros of the pulps to the wild experimentation of the sixties and seventies — and explains how his literary creations reflect his own legendary sexual life. — Scott Westerfeld, guest editor of Speculative Sex: The Science Fiction Issue.
SW: You've written about alien anal sex, kinky threesomes, shit-eating and pedophilia — unusual topics for science fiction. What are the experiences in your own life that inform the sex in your writing?
SD: I'm a gay man on the verge of sixty. That means I lived the first twenty-seven years of my life before Stonewall, and I have nothing but good to say of the gay rights movement. Still, paradoxically, there were far more opportunities for sex among men before Stonewall than since. When I was writing my early science fiction novels and living on the Lower East Side in the early sixties, I could get up in the morning, work until noon, then take a walk a few blocks down to the Second Avenue subway station, in the bathroom of which I would have sex with, say, three different guys. Then I'd grab a sandwich across Houston Street at Katz's and be back home by quarter past one. I'd get back to work till five. Then I'd take a stroll up to Tompkin's Square, in the men's room of which I'd have some sort of sexual encounter with, say, another five guys. And I'd be home by six-thirty. At about eight-thirty, I'd take another walk down to the Williamsburg Bridge, where I'd hang around for maybe an hour and half or two hours, and have sex with another six men.
Now, on that day, I'd gotten in a full day's work — ten hours worth. So if you asked me what I'd done, I'd tell you: I worked all day. I mean, I haven't even mentioned the docks — where, nightly, orgies went on from sunset to sunrise, involving a hundred or more men (three or four hundred on a holiday weekend) — or the baths or bars like the famous Mineshaft. But that's the kind of sexual availability I grew up with — that I had available to me from age nineteen to, say, twenty-eight or twenty-nine.
I was married at nineteen to Marilyn Hacker. But it was very easy to combine a highly satisfactory gay life with married life, since my wife was aware that I was gay. As long as my gay activity didn't interfere with our domestic situation, there wasn't any problem. And because of its all-but-ubiquitous availability (my general perception was that, within the confines of New York City, I was rarely more than twenty minutes away from an orgasm with another man, whenever I wanted one), it didn't.
SW: It's curious that you were devoted to science fiction, a genre that had such sexually repressed roots, historically speaking. Sf really became a genre in the '20s and '30s with the advent of pulp magazines. The pulps were pretty clearly divided between the Amazing Science Tales genre and True Detective. How come the gumshoes got the sex and gore, but sf wound up so chaste?
SD: Many of the early greats of sf — Hugo Gernsback (publisher of Amazing Stories) in particular — saw themselves as educators. The didactic thrust of science fiction got the genre initially pegged as children's fare. It was seen, at its best, as an extension of school and, at its worst, as teenage wish fulfillment.
The pulp hero, though he may be a renegade, is a guy who doesn't feel. Anything. Ever. And for the adolescent male — pummeled by emotions left and right, whether arising from sexuality or resulting from his necessary encounters with authority — this hero is a blessing, a relief and a release. The world he lives in, where feelings are totally under control, looks to the adolescent boy like heaven! This hero's lack of feeling — like Star Trek's Spock — is what allows him to be a genius, or allows him to shoot the bad guys and/or aliens, without a quiver to his lip.
But what starts as a relief and a release, you eventually recognize as a distortion: it doesn't reflect the real world. Precisely what gave you a certain pleasure is also a restraint. Thomas Mann said that every philosophical position exists to correct the abuses of the previous one, often to the other extreme. You could make a reasonable argument that it is the alien Spock who carves out the space of desire that is eventually filled with sf's explicitly erotic characters — everyone from my own Kidd in Dhalgren to Maureen F. McHue's gay character, Zhang, in her extraordinary China Mountain Zhang, not to mention all the Kirk-slash-Spock fiction.
SW: "Slash" fiction is surely the opposite extreme from the logical alien.
SD: Yes — Kirk-slash-Spock fiction, written by fans of Star Trek, is usually gay pornography in which Kirk and Spock and other members of the Enterprise crew get it on.
SW: Or relative newcomers like the X-Files' Mulder/Scully (or Mulder/Skinner) — also hyper-competent characters who rarely show their emotional side. Science fiction's ur-audience is adolescent males, but slash fiction is generally written and read by women, is it not?
SD: Slash is usually written by straight women, yes, and I think it appeals to straight women in the same way lesbian sequences in commercial pornography appeal to straight men. I always say that if gay men and women didn't exist, straight men and women would have had to invent us.
SW: So the emotionless, sexless pulp hero of the '30s personifies sf's celibate period. How did that come to an end?
SD: Take a story like "The World Well Lost," written by Theodore Sturgeon in 1950. Two alien lovers come to Earth, one larger than the other, and everyone assumes that they're male and female. The story is told from the point of view of two security men who guard their starship, themselves close friends. Eventually, the guards discover that the aliens are both male, and indeed are gay. They've taken flight from their home planet because of terrible homophobia there. One guard, a typical 1950s Earth male, is disgusted by this and doesn't know what to do, he even suggests killing the aliens. But the other talks him out of it. At the end of the story, the first guard goes to sleep back in their quarters. His friend remains awake, looking at him, and we realize that he's in love with him.
I read it in an anthology when I was about fourteen or fifteen and broke out crying, exactly as I was supposed to. I was quite touched by it, and it certainly helped make it possible to talk about those things later on in my own work, like the gay, human characters in the story, "Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones." Historically, I guess that's how science fiction works: you start by using aliens to think the unthinkable — and then, eventually, another writer, having grown a little more comfortable with the earlier notion, brings it into the human.
Of 1970s sf, The Female Man by Joanna Russ left the biggest impression on me. It's a three-panel portrait of the female condition: Jeannine, Janet (everyone's favorite) and Jael — three women who share the same genes but each of whom has been raised in an entirely different environment, who summate to create Joanna. That's the first time I remember reading anything in sf that talked about the terror of sex. It foreshadowed the terror of rejection, something that writing about sex must talk about, or it becomes mere wish fulfillment. That terror is such a large part of people's sexual lives. It is why we don't go up to perfect strangers and say, "Hey, you're gorgeous, let's go to bed." To put that part of you out there makes you very vulnerable. Russ' book gave me the permission to focus on fear of rejection in Trouble on Triton and the Neveryon series, in which "The Tale of Memory and Desire" is really my homage to The Female Man.
SW: Do you think the alternate worlds of science fiction create a space for alternate sexualities?
SD: I think that's a question that, even in its formation, pretty much answers itself — that is to say, the question acknowledges that one's sexuality is, indeed, part of one's reality. The late John Preston wrote an essay in which he goes to an SM function, and there encounters many of the same people he's seen previously at sf conventions. There's a certain kind of person who wants to be in a rich semiotic environment that talks about what you desire, rather than an impoverished semiotic environment. In the "real world," all you get is a yellow handkerchief to show what you want.
SW: Hell, straight people don't even get that. I was recently at Norwescon in Seattle, and there was a huge showing of latex, leather, fairy wings and slave gear among the broadswords and Klingon costumes.
SD: SF cons are places that are just saturated with signs about what you are — or what you could be. There's all this stuff that makes it easier to express desire, and attendant narratives that anchor you socially.
SW: Can you think of another way to say "rich semiotic environment"? The Nerve editors are nervous about this sounding jargon-y.
SD: Oh, a little jargon will do them good.
This is what my book Times Square Red, Times Square Blue is about, organizing places for desire. Until a decade ago, Times Square porn theaters were spaces organized around gay male sexuality. The cascade of symbols on the movie screen created an environment of sexual signs.
Part of this, I think, is good. But there's also the fact that that's not the way the world is structured ordinarily. Do you have to create this artificially saturated space in order to deal with sexuality, or can you deal with it in the real world? Can you come out and simply say, "I have a difficult question to ask you: I'd really like to take you back and tie you up and leave small red marks just between your third and fourth vertebrae," and not to be absolutely crushed if you get the somewhat common negative response?
SW: But ideally, the of convention or porn theater, or the alien in sf literature, serves as a way to make the strange a bit more familiar — a bit less terrifying, don't you think?
SD: When I went to my very first sf convention, which was Worldcon in 1966, I'd already published six or seven novels. A very young man came up to me and said, "You wrote a book called Babel-17?" I said "Yes, indeed I did." He said, "That stuff, where three people get together and they all do it at once . . . is that possible?" I said, "Yes." And he gave an immense sigh of relief and turned around and walked away.
At which point I thought, "I am doing something right." This relationship between fantastic literature and real world desire has been around for a while. Christina Rosetti's "Goblin Market" is a book-length Victorian poem about two sisters who find a heap of fairy fruit. They roll around in it, and then they lick each other clean. And it has lines like, "And she licked and licked and licked and licked and licked and licked and licked."
SW: Porn does love repetition. But that fantastic element provided a space for sexuality, given that we're talking about a poem published in the 1870s. The fairy fruit is an excuse, like "I was drunk."
SD: Yes. That's what is liberating about alternative or alien sexualities — they are new and fantastic. And in the same way that young man found Babel-17, I'm sure that many Victorian — and more recent — readers have found that poem and thought, "A-ha, so anything is possible."
Scott Westerfeld and Nerve.com


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It's also been one steep, long upward climb of a learning curve (and I can't even see the top yet). But I thought I'd share the view with you, so these are some of the things I have learnt in my mothering a teenage boy journey so far.
1. One day, you will walk into their bedroom and you will find yourself gagging on the smell. Even a clean boy, it seems, can create this stench. With window firmly shut and curtains closed, the whiff has plenty of time to become a stuffy, 'hold-your-breath-or-you-will-pass-out' stink, occasionally masked by the over the top spraying of Lynx. I have no idea where this smell comes from, but it certainly lingers.
2. It's not ok to use the same jargon as your teenage son. Ever. So, you will find yourself using it more and more just to have a little giggle with yourself. I know, right. I'm so down with the kids blud.
3. As his crackly voice wavers up and down, you must resist the temptation to copy. And do not, under any circumstances, encourage his younger brothers to copy too. This can have devastating consequences.
4. Talking of his voice, here's a small note (can't resist) of interest. The deeper it becomes, the less able he seems to be of controlling his volume. You thought babies were loud? Expect booming and you won't be disappointed.
5. Food. Make sure your cupboards do not become like Old Mother Hubbard's. A hungry teenage boy is a grumpy one. And he is hungry every five minutes or so.
6. You will long for the days of the 7pm bedtime. Evenings are no longer your own. The remote control is no longer your own. Peace and quiet is no longer your own. Not in the evenings anyway. That big booming voice will reverberate around the house for HOURS until you plead with him to put away his phone, his tablet, his homework, his music and his x-box (all at the same time - who said men can't multi-task?) and go to bed. (Actually its not this bad in my house, but I shudder at the thought of how it would be if we had no boundaries).
7. Grunts and noises. There will be times when you have concerns that your boy is losing his ability to speak. Your once little chatterbox of a boy will sometimes be totally unable to speak in human language. You need to be able to interpret the grunts. Failing that, ask him to speak properly. (I let the gruffalo noises go unchallenged in the mornings but later on in the day he needs to use the language we all understand.)
8. He actually becomes quite useful. In physical terms, he can now do lots of things that an adult can do. So, when heavy baskets of wood need collecting in or bathrooms need cleaning or little brothers need looking after, you have another pair of hands. Sometimes that pair of hands might need a small amount of encouragement, but the basics are there and ready to be
9. He is fun to be around. The jokes and banter are actually enjoyable. He is good company and you can laugh together about the same jokes rather than pretending you find armpit farts hilarious. (Anyone else have to do that? Or just me?)
10. He still needs a mum. There may be lots of friends and even girls to contend with, but at the end of each day (or even during the day) he needs to be able to snuggle up to his mum. If you keep the physical affection going and don't let them stop (see my previous post on the wisdom of friends for this http://letboysbeboys2.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/the-wisdom-of-friends.html), you will find that the hugs become even more precious. And when you are having a bad day and they pick just the right time to give you a hug and say 'its going to be ok mum'? That is the absolute best.
One day, when I have survived three teenage boys, I may be able to dole out wisdom. Until then, I just have to laugh.


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It's the small things that will make you go crazy for the girl you love, like when she wears your t-shirt outside of the apartment. And even when you can't leave her after you get in a fight, you know there's something that goes far deeper than you thought. North Carolina artist DRE is familiar with this feeling, and he's only 18. On his new single, How I Fell In Love, DRE doesn't so much go step-by-step as to how he fell head over heels for a girl, but rather goes through the signs that he started to notice that made him realize that she was "the one." If you've never fallen in love or have given up, just let the groovy beat and DRE's words give you hope. While you wait for his next untitled project, due out this summer, check out his last album, The Boy Grown, available for free as of February.


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It's hard enough being a rookie golfer trying to make it big on the pro circuit — but Daniela Holmqvist had much bigger things to worry about on Tuesday at an Australian Open pre-qualifier.
The 24-year-old from Sweden was playing on the Yarralumla course, when she suddenly felt a sharp pain, according to Golf Digest. When Holmqvist looked down, she saw what looked to be a black widow spider on her ankle. But wait, it gets better.
"When I told the local caddies in my group what had happened, they got very upset and said it was a black widow, and immediately started looking for their phones to call the medics," she told Svensk Golf, translated by Golf Digest.
Holmqvist didn't wait for medical help. That would be letting the spider win. As the pain intensified, she found a golf tee in her pocket, cut around the bite mark, and drained the venom herself.
"It wasn't the prettiest thing I've ever done, but I had to get as much of it out of me as possible," she said, adding. "It still hurts. I don't recommend getting bitten by a black widow."
Holmqvist shot a 74 but did not qualify, despite being shadowed around the course by a medic. She should probably petition the LPGA to create a special "black widow exemption" for future golfers. At least in places where there are gigantic spiders.


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I too have thought about F class and already have the rifle and scope, just need to get off my a ah er rump.
Remington 308 LTR with 30 mm dia Leopold target scope. I've shot this rifle at a any rifle any sight 600 yard match. Did OK but using the bi pod would have been better.
Having good glass is important. Shooting 600 yards is not at all like shooting at 1 or even 200 yards. If it's a calm day, then it's not too big of deal. A puff of wind comes along and suddenly you just shot the target next to you. Not saying you need to spend $1k but good glass isn't going to be found on your deer rifle. Buy once, buy smart.
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Yes, your body is a wonderland, but is it minty fresh?
Based on the demands in his backstage rider, John Mayer (below) seems deeply committed to oral hygiene and crunchy kids' cereals, and not necessarily in that order. Thesmokinggun.com found several mouth-cleansing products and other odd items the singer-guitarist has requested on his John Mayer Trio tour, including:


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It's shaping up to be the year of the dynamic duo in the NHL.
Sharks' Patrick Marleau and Joe Thornton have as many goals between them (12) as the Kings and Predators heading into Saturday's schedule. Sabres' Thomas Vanek is on a Gretzky-like pace at 6-9-15 totals in just six games with linemate Jason Pominville just three points back. And then there is the Lightning's Steven Stamkos and Martin St. Louis who, after another big game on Friday against Winnipeg, have joined the other four among the NHL's top seven scorers.
We point this out only because, with the exception of Stamkos, none of these players was a first-round pick in the majority of fantasy pools last month and no doubt there are owners out there with two, three or maybe even four of them on their rosters … and likely looking down at everyone else in the overall standings.
In a 10-team Yahoo! league I am in, the runaway first-place team drafted Thornton in the fifth round and Marleau in the eighth (he took Claude Giroux, Rick Nash and Tuukka Rask in the first three rounds. More surprising, perhaps, is that the leader in our 14-team FleaFlicker pool wound up with Stamkos (1st round), Thornton (4th) and Vanek (6th).
So, do we hand them the titles, right now? Of course not. Marleau is scoring on an unsustainable 33% of his shots and we still figure the toll of the compressed schedule is eventually going to take its toll on he, Thornton and St. Louis — all well into their 30s. Vanek and Pominville will cool off, as well, though seeing both still finish among the top 20 scorers is not unrealistic. That leaves only Stamkos likely maintaining his top-10 status by season's end.
— Tucked in with those three duos in the top seven scoring is Red Wings' Henrik Zetterberg who, of course, is part of a terrific twosome himself with Pavel Datsyuk. However, the Wings once again have split them up, replacing Datsyuk with the bigger bodied Johan Franzen on the left side of Zetterberg and rookie Damien Brunner.
— The re-signing of P.K. Subban will likely affect the fantasy value of Raphael Diaz and Tomas Kaberle the most on the Habs blueline. Diaz, like Subban, is a right-handed shot and will be the one Subban replaces on the first power-play unit opposite the lefty, Andrei Markov. Kaberle, being the fourth offensive-minded rearguard, will probably be the odd man out now.
— Speaking of the Habs, it's rare, but not unheard-of, that a team's top scorer is a defenceman. But can't remember when, if ever, D-men were 1-2 atop a club's points table as Markov and Diaz were with eight points apiece, three up on the top forwards, heading into Saturday's game with Buffalo.
— LW Zach Boychuk bears watching now after being claimed off waivers from Carolina by the Penguins on Thursday. The 2008 first-rounder, who played just one game for the Canes this season — the opener on the top line — could be the next in line to see if he can mesh with Evgeni Malkin and James Neal … another top twosome, by the way, still waiting to break out.
— More Line Changes: Lost in the torrid start of the Sabres top line is the fact that the trio of Drew Stafford, Tyler Ennis and Marcus Foligno has been quietly split up. This after after combining for 20 goals, 44 points and a plus-34 in just 11 games last March. Steve Ott has replaced Foligno … Looking for more size on the top line, the Bolts replaced eye-opening rookie winger Cory Conacher with Teddy Purcell … Cody Eakin has taken over for Tom Wandell as the Stars' second-line centre between Jaromir Jagr and Ray Whitney … Rickard Rakell is the Ducks' latest second-line centre but, despite playing with Teemu Selanne and Bobby Ryan is a show-me-something-first fantasy prospect.
With fantasy rating out of 5
Matt Frattin, RW, Maple Leafs
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Any third-liner can get hot, but that may not be the case here. All four tallies over his first four games have been classic goal-scorer's goals — the product of timing, determination and, most importantly, quick hands around the net. He won't keep this up, but has the look of a consistent 20-goal forward down the road.
Derek Dorsett, RW, Blue Jackets
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Viktor Fasth, G, Ducks
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If the Ducks were nervous putting faith in a 30-year-old rookie goalie, they aren't any more, not after he stopped 45 of 48 shots — starting two of the past three games, which were spread out over seven nights, so it's not like Jonas Hiller needed the rest.
Derek Morris, D, Coyotes
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Mike Zibanejad, RW, Senators
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With Kris Versteeg (groin) returning this past week and Stephen Weiss (groin) slated to suit up Sunday, the Panthers should have their top line intact for the first time this year … Derek Roy (groin) is practising and likely to return Monday night … Ryan Callahan's shoulder injury is not as serious as first feared and he'll miss two weeks max … Patric Hornqvist (leg) will be out most of Feburary … Less than a week after undergoing an appendectomy, Max Pacioretty (right) was skating Friday and may be out only another week … Dustin Byfuglien (lower body) missed Thursday's and Friday's games but should be back next week … Ian White (leg laceration) is targeting Tuesday to return … The Jackets now figure Cam Atkinson's sprained ankle will keep him out for another couple of weeks.
Forwards the past week
Cory Conacher TB
3 GP, 3-2-5, plus-4
Johan Franzen DET
3 GP, 1-4-5, plus-4
Frans Nielsen NYI
3 games, 5 assists
David Backes STL
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General overview
There was not anything unexpected for the pound last trading day- the Bank of England left its interest rate unchanged at a minimum 0.5%, while the total amount of retained bond purchase program stayed at 375 billion pounds. This is in line with expectations and the market barely reacted to it. Nevertheless, the British pound rose against the dollar on the day, the impulse to buy sterling for the "dollar" was created by ECB decisions mood, but also enhances the view that the BoE will start tightening policy sooner than expected. The published news has indicated that the "boom" in the Britain housing market continues.
The resistances break 1.6765 was accompanied by a strong pound growth against the U.S. dollar. The growth rates fell straight to the downward trend line 1.6820.
The price is finding the first support at 1.6730, the next one is at 1.6670. The price is finding the first resistance at 1.6800, the next one is at 1.6860.
The price is in the Cloud and above the Chinkou Span. The Kijun-Sen is directed upward. The Cloud is descending. The downward movement will be continued as long the price is in the Cloud.
The MACD histogram is in negative area. The indicator is growing.
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I'm currently growing a moustache to raise money for various charities associated with men's health — or 'doing the Movember thing', to use the official terminology. I'm not enjoying the experience. I was a blond child and what's left of my hair is mousy brown, but my moustache is ginger. That's right, ginger. I look like a lower-middle-class spiv, circa 1948.
To make matters worse, I can't persuade anyone to sponsor me. So far, I've raised a grand total of £60, but even that paltry amount means I can't shave it off until 30 November. As Caroline said, 'Wouldn't it have been easier to just donate £60 to a prostate cancer charity and not bother with the moustache?' She then added, 'You do realise I'm not going to kiss you for a month?'
God knows what possessed me to do it. Part of it was vanity. I somehow convinced myself that I might actually look better with a moustache. It's the same flawed judgment that prompts men to buy some absurdly flamboyant item of clothing only to be laughed at by all their mates the moment they wear it out. The difference is, they can take it back to the shop the next day, whereas I'm stuck with this lip weasel.
Peer pressure must have been a factor, too. It sounds pathetic — no, it is pathetic — but reading about all the celebs who are growing moustaches for the month of November and seeing them on telly unquestionably had a subliminal effect. Monkey see, monkey do.
Then there's the desire to advertise just what an upstanding Christian fellow I am. Movember must be the least anonymous form of charitable giving known to man — worse, even, than having an athletics stadium named after you at your alma mater. It's like hanging an enormous sign around your neck saying, 'I'm raising money for a good cause.' Subtext: I'm a bloody nice guy.
But by far the most embarrassing motive — and I'm guilty of this, too — is the impulse to compete with women when it comes to victim status. I -imagine it was envy of women's pitiable condition on account of all their 'health issues' that prompted the men behind Movember to start the charity in the first place. They'd had enough of all these famous women going on and on about breast cancer and ovarian cancer and thought, 'Right, time to get in on that gender-specific -disease action. Men are victims, too, you know.'
It's the same anti-macho posturing that lies behind the men's liberation movement. It must have come as a shock to the pioneers of modern feminism — women like Betty Friedan and Helen Gurley Brown — to discover that some men believe it's just as difficult being a man as it is a woman. These feisty Amazonian warriors hoped to engage men in a battle of the sexes, only to find their opponents withdrawing from the fray and complaining of man flu.
Personally, I'd prefer to die on the battlefield with my testicles in my mouth than respond to the feminist challenge by bursting into tears about the masculine condition. It's a form of passive aggression that no self-respecting man should engage in. And it's embodied by this idiotic little toothbrush nestling on my top lip.
If I had more time, I'd write a monograph called 'The Decline of the Moustache as a Symbol of Masculine Virility' and link it to men's complete surrender in the gender wars of the 20th century. First, we allowed this masterpiece of male grooming to be co-opted by gays, thereby making it impossible for any red-blooded heterosexual male to wear one. Then, in an act of grotesque self-flagellation, we allowed it to become the centrepiece of a men's lib charity set up to out-pathetic women.
The upshot is, it's now socially acceptable for men to have moustaches again, but only in the month of November and only on the strict understanding that they're intended to be a joke. Believe me, I have yet to meet another man doing 'the Movember thing' who hasn't been at pains to establish that he doesn't normally wear one. God forbid that anyone should think he's so unsophisticated he actually believes it's cool to look like a man. In other words, it's an ironic moustache — a symbol of neutered masculinity.
Maybe I'm making too much of this. If I had miraculously sprouted a full-on Tom Selleck paintbrush, instead of this Simon-Pegg-without-the-beard affair, perhaps I'd feel differently. But I doubt it. I've allowed myself to become a quisling in the fight against the femi-Nazis and I hate myself for it.
Toby Young is associate editor of The Spectator.
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"We are having a great time collaborating and this is truly a shared recital," Hahn said. "The piano is integral to most of the pieces, not simply accompaniment to the trumpet."
The duo will perform a variety of pieces ranging from the Baroque period through the present. The featured piece will be Eric Ewazen's Sonata for Trumpet and Piano. "It is a beautiful piece that evokes moods from contemplative to exciting," Hahn said. Ewazen's music is influenced by folk music from the western United States.
Other pieces Hahn and McKirdy include composers Giovanni Viviani, Joseph Turrin, Richard Halligan (formerly of the band Blood, Sweat, and Tears), and cornet virtuoso Herman Bellstedt.


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Saturday, December 8, 2007
PROBAR...it's good!
Last year around this time i went to a Vegan Holiday Festival and had a great time eating lots of samples of good and not so good things. At the fest i signed up to join NW Veg club (honestly, mostly get the free subscription for VegNews) and also with joining you got a bag of goodies. Most of those i still have at my house b/c for some reason i left them in the bag and put it in the corner, therefore forgetting about it and all the goodies it contained.
So while cleaning a couple weeks ago i found it and came across the PROBAR i had gotten. They're pretty new, i believe. I tried some of them at the fest but not much since i wasn't in the mood for a bar. In my bag i got the Apple Cinnamon Crunch flavor, which actually kinda made me sad since it's not the flavor i would pick. So for awhile i've been carrying it around in my purses in case i got hungry. I was finally hungry on Tuesday and opened it. It was delicious! I really enjoyed it. Not sure how many of you have had Bumble Bars (which in spite of the name doesn't actually have honey in them.....right? someone can correct me if i'm wrong), but that's what this bar reminded me of, but way better. It was thicker than a Clif bar, kinda the size of a Ritter Sport. And it was seedy deliciousness. It had great texture and it wasn't like a normal bar that has some kind of protein powder type taste to it. I like Clif bars, but it's not the same kind of thing. I look forward to tasting the other flavors.
4 comments:
- Clara said...
"I was finally hungry on Tuesday..." That line made me laugh, whether it was supposed to or not. :)
There are several different Phoenix coffeehouses around town. John doesn't work at the one we took you to though. John says, "Feliz navidad"!
One of the women at my store is vegan and I sent her your blog for inspiration....as you know, there aren't as many vegan options in Cleveland.
- December 10, 2007 at 5:21 AM
OMG if I had joined NW Veg at the festival I would have gotten a free subscription to VegNews? bummer!
The problem I have with bars like that is that I hate buying them. For some reason I can't bring myself to buy small food items like that b/c I feel like I have enough stuff at home for a snack. I guess I hate feeling like I am nickel and diming the hell out of my fundage. The bars sound good though and I would totally try it if I got one for free.
- December 14, 2007 at 9:38 PM
I picked up a box of these at costco for a good price.
- December 25, 2007 at 9:10 AM
- kendall said...
@anonymous - not sure how Costco got them cause PROBAR won't sell at Costco. They prefer to sell through independent shops and health food stores.
@K.E.N. - thanks for the post about PROBAR. If they are that good after a year of sitting around in your apt/house I'm sure you'll love them a couple of weeks off the production line. (They do have a no preservative 12 month shelf life).
If you'd like to test the other flavors, drop me a line and I can make it happen. kendall AT the probar DOT com
- January 21, 2008 at 5:23 PM