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The SFFaudio Podcast #409 – AUDIOBOOK/READALONG: The Grove Of Ashtaroth by John Buchan
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The SFFaudio Podcast #409 – The Grove Of Ashtaroth by John Buchan, read by Mr Jim Moon. This is a complete and unabridged reading of the short story (1 hour 5 minutes) followed by a discussion of it (by Jesse, Mr Jim Moon, and Paul)
Talked about on today's show:
1910, obsession, kinda gross, fundamentally based on racism, Jewishness, troublesome, H.P. Lovecraft, a racist filter, horror as fear of the other, the same intellectual climate, racial theory, a sensitivity alarm bell, scare not offend, on the cusp, an off note, Sax Rohmer, yellow peril, Fu Manchu is the hero, the Escape audio drama adaptation, Harlan Ellison, Red Hook territory, uncomfortably of its time, its about race, his friend's changing disposition, the Saxon Mother vs. the "strong wine of the east", that logic is still in force, 1/64th Cherokee, if this was set in the highlands…, natural peace, a benevolent supernatural force, white hat vs. black hat, the theme of colonialism vs. race and heredity, imperialism, two-fisted adventure vs. poetry and philosophy and pathos, the landscape, the skyline, the love that Lawson has is reflected by Buchan himself
At midday it cleared, and the afternoon was a pageant of pure colour. The wind sank to a low breeze; the sun lit the infinite green spaces, and kindled the wet forest to a jewelled coronal. Lawson gaspingly admired it all, as he cantered bareheaded up a bracken-clad slope. 'God's country,' he said twenty times. 'I've found it.' Take a piece of Sussex downland; put a stream in every hollow and a patch of wood; and at the edge, where the cliffs at home would fall to the sea, put a cloak of forest muffling the scarp and dropping thousands of feet to the blue plains. Take the diamond air of the Gornergrat, and the riot of colour which you get by a West Highland lochside in late September. Put flowers everywhere, the things we grow in hothouses, geraniums like sun-shades and arums like trumpets. That will give you a notion of the countryside we were in. I began to see that after all it was out of the common.
beautiful writing, the sensual description of Lawson,
Being a fair man, he was gloriously tanned, and there was a clear line at his shirt-collar to mark the limits of his sunburn. I had first known him years ago, when he was a broker's clerk working on half-commission. Then he had gone to South Africa, and soon I heard he was a partner in a mining house which was doing wonders with some gold areas in the North. The next step was his return to London as the new millionaire — young, good-looking, wholesome in mind and body, and much sought after by the mothers of marriageable girls. We played polo together, and hunted a little in the season, but there were signs that he did not propose to become a conventional English gentleman. He refused to buy a place in the country, though half the Homes of England were at his disposal. He was a very busy man, he declared, and had not time to be a squire.
a bromance at the least, homoeroticism, nudity or flannels, naked on the veldt, the gorgeousness of the writing, T.S. Eliot, The Wasteland, The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock, a miniseries on Cecil Rhodes, the empire builder, Rhodesia, like Rhodes Lawson made his money in mining, Buchan knew Rhodes, a giant country estate, Buchan is the name of the unnamed narrator in the audio drama adaptation, biographies, First World War Hidden History blog,, at the center of spying and propaganda, Lord Tweedsmuir, use in a role playing game, Kim Philby, the old boy network, the revolving door policy, no longer conspiracy, no longer tin-foil hat territory, rewarded with the Governorship of Canada, nobility by appointment, "gone to the wall", with the riff-raff and the hoi-poloi, "gone to seed", a pun, the fertile and lush garden, the flower of his youth, a railroad from South Africa to Egypt, nursemaided by Rhodes, illness,
Then we went to work to cut down the trees. The slim stems were an easy task to a good woodman, and one after another they toppled to the ground. And meantime, as I watched, I became conscious of a strange emotion.
It was as if some one were pleading with me. A gentle voice, not threatening, but pleading — something too fine for the sensual ear, but touching inner chords of the spirit. So tenuous it was and distant that I could think of no personality behind it. Rather it was the viewless, bodiless grace of this delectable vale, some old exquisite divinity of the groves. There was the heart of all sorrow in it, and the soul of all loveliness. It seemed a woman's voice, some lost lady who had brought nothing but goodness unrepaid to the world. And what the voice told me was, that I was destroying her last shelter.
That was the pathos of it — the voice was homeless. As the axes flashed in the sunlight and the wood grew thin, that gentle spirit was pleading with me for mercy and a brief respite. It seemed to be telling of a world for centuries grown coarse and pitiless, of long sad wanderings, of hardly-won shelter, and a peace which was the little all she sought from men. There was nothing terrible in it. No thought of wrongdoing. The spell, which to Semitic blood held the mystery of evil, was to me, of a different race, only delicate and rare and beautiful.
poor spirit, parallel to an extinction, running away from the destruction of man, reading the story from Lawson's point of view, what is he doing there?, an alabaster moon, blood sacrifice, depleting life force, a lonely deity, The Call Of Cthulhu role playing game, a temple ruin, an abandoned mine, a tiki-fetish, some ancient horrible power, maybe we've done wrong here,
And then my heartache returned, and I knew that I had driven something lovely and adorable from its last refuge on earth.
the last doorway, the model for this tower, the Great Zimbabwe, where could I read up on that?, a country house with a mock temple: "the folly", druid orders, cheese rolling, a week later, keeping a secret, dropsy or yellow fever, the revenge of the land, disease, looking down on the tropics, three years, scarfe, natural beauty, that library, the moon of alabaster, the bird statuettes, turtle doves, green doves, auk-like bird carvings, everything is going extinct, the sin at the story's end, the two-fisted action, shotguns make short work, the birds on the pyre, salting the earth, the Punic wars, improve on Josiah, dynamiting a priceless ancient temple, a "land without history", purpose of visit: colonialism, sad but true, ancient ruins of Africa, ancient Greece, ancient Egypt, the character names all end in "son": Lawson, Isaacson, Jobson (the factor), the Hudson's Bay Company, the East India Company, wagons, more money than the Queen, Ming pots, a night watchman, the natives won't go to the temple, local folk, indemnification, Adamson, half-English, Biblical naming, The Skids, Richard Jobson, Travers, Lowson, H.P. Lovecraft's Supernatural Horror In Literature, building or rebuilding an ancestral home, The Moon Bog, The Rats In The Walls, they have the exact same structure, illness, lifted up into the sky, Ashtaroth the Moon goddess, Captain Norris, Magna Mater, Exham Priory, "what on Earth is going on here man?", Out Of The Earth by Christine Campbell Thomson (aka Flavia Richardson), standing stones, mummy fiction, atavism, reverting to ancestral type, seeing things backwards, the industries that allow you to work, an inversion, an environmental horror story, silver bark, a beautiful image, Ishtar -> Ashtaroth, male and female spelling, an interest in weird fiction, one of the big names, scant detail, The Golden Bough, To The Devil A Daughter (1976), Astarte, a punny title, if this is a true story…, the covenant, the "Call of Ashtaroth", the blood ritual, body horror, a psychic impasse, a taste, is there more than one force at work?, Of Withered Apples by Philip K. Dick, an apple tree, a bad farm, eating a withered apple is a bad move, the call of nature, it wants you, its using you, the last portal through, not of this Earth, a moonbeam, She by H. Rider Haggard, elegiac and wistful, a pleasure to read, layers and layers, old school weird fiction, layers of questioning and ambiguity, homages and reinterpretations, Neil Gaiman, Warren Ellis, Alan Moore, Michael Moorcock, no clear lines, ambiguity comes to the fore, vs. early 20th century polemic, it would be an amazing comic book, visually stunning, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the albatross of The Thirty-Nine Steps, literary highways and byways, The Moon Endureth, Christopher Hitchens essays,
"In a remarkable short story, 'The Grove of Ashtaroth,' the hero finds himself obliged to destroy the gorgeous little temple of a sensual cult, because he believes that by doing so he will salvage the health and sanity of a friend. But he simultaneously believes himself to be committing an unpardonable act of desecration, and the eerie voice that beseeches him to stay his hand is unmistakably feminine."
-Christopher Hitchens (The Atlantic Monthly, March 2004)
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The SFFaudio Podcast #336 – READALONG: A Voyage To Arcturus by David Lindsay
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The SFFaudio Podcast #336 – Jesse, Paul Weimer, and Bryan Alexander talk about A Voyage To Arcturus by David Lindsay
Talked about on today's show:
the original title Nightspore Of Tormance, colouring a reading, a really weird book, William Blake meets Gene Wolfe but Scottish, H.G. Wells in the 1960s taking acid, John Bunyan meets science fiction, The Pilgrim's Progress, do they leave the Earth?, the first five chapters, multiple resonances, future echoes, quasi-science fiction philosophy, a time travel book, a time loop, a Buddhist reincarnation story, everyone at the party, Krag, Surtur, and Shaping, a gnostic novel, re-reading the ending, Crystalman, a terrifying demi-god, a breathtaking thing, later Philip K. Dick, Galactic Pot-Healer is a happy version of this story, like the Epic Of Gilgamesh, profound and disturbing, the death-toll, The Odyssey, everyone who sails with Odysseus gets killed, Maskull is a killer, a freebooter, one half Conan, detailed set-up, energetic, furious, uncontrolled, coming to self-knowledge, the demi-urge we've been looking for, maybe the events are co-temperanous, the events on Arcturus vs. the events on Earth, time-travel, myth, mythic time is always happening, coming to awareness, pursuit of liberation, the point of process, the 1971 movie, black and white and low budget, hippie hair on Maskull, Mr. Hair, the medium, you are about to witness a materialization, isn't that clever?, Lindsay injected so much resonance, dream-like, everything that Nightspore says and does shows his experience level, All You Zombies, By His Bootstraps, Predestination (an adaptation of Robert A. Heinlein's All You Zombies), this book is about gender, female and male selves, the third gender, the Wombflash story, another version of Maskull, Joywind, a story about the human experience, Maskull = man-skull or mask-all, really profound!, like a religious text, explaining the conflicts with women, Oceaxe, Panawae, sacrificed for him, the Wikipedia chapter summaries, Starkness observatory, an observatory without telescopes!, The Crawling Chaos by H.P. Lovecraft, a house as a symbol for the body, climbing the observatory, he had three times the gravity, roll-up their sleeves, spitting on their wounds, this is a suicide story too, Joiwind, blood swap, blood brothers, quick sex, Crag spits on the blood, Steven Universe, naked wrestling, horseplay, matterplay, very 1960s, I Will Fear No Evil, Stranger In Strange Land, Mah-skuul, the voyage removes the masks, a total vision of the universe, explaining all of nature, Hindu reincarnation, a Promethean element, the fire of the gods, Fred Kiesche, the Ballantine publication, a sixties thing, the tower's levels, climbing the Karmic ladder, what has need got to do with it?, each window is a life, Tormance = torment + romance or to romance, a quasi-scientific romance, Tralfamadore, Tormance as a platonic version of Earth, Eric S. Rabkin's science fiction class, new senses, new organs, new colours, the sheer weirdness, a lake that is a musical instrument, like Ringworld, Carcosa, Jale and Ulfire (new colours), Mr. Jim Moon, The Night Land by William Hope Hodgson, a lack of rockets doesn't prevent travel to the stars, a torpedo, backlight, quasi-science fiction, Edgar Rice Burroughs, like John Carter's journey to Mars, like Superman under the yellow sun, a 19 hour journey, the profound understanding of the size and age of the universe, The Shadow Out Of Time by H.P. Lovecraft, deep time, massive space, the limitation of physics and limitations of matter, Violet Apple website (about David Linday), Oceaxe from Sycorax (from William Shakespeare's The Tempest), Harold Bloom's A Flight To Lucifer, C.S. Lewis was the first and only fan of the book, a complaint about the theology?, The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham, wanting to find meaning in a godless or evil-godded universe, the strict rules of realism, The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse, a post-apocalypse novel, a game of all of human knowledge, Siddhartha, Jesse is anti-realism, after reading A Voyage To Arcturus Jesse feels uplifted, it is all wrapped up in an H.G. Wellian style explanation, the greatest joke ever, the guy attending the seance is the guy who is called forth at the seance, The Red Room, bridging the gap between the ghost story and the real science fiction philosophy quest for the purpose of existence, Cavorite, a way to get to the thing that you want, a chapter about colour theory, art theory, Eric would be interested in Joiwind's eating habits, eating Gnallwater, philosophy of food, vegetarianism, raising animals for food, Hinterland Games' The Long Dark, as a WWI novel, the traumatic waste, the bonding of an individual to the will of a country, the Vietnam War, go out and kill people?, explaining the seance, the U.S. Civil War, 1920s and 1930s fiction, Mrs. Dolloway by Virginia Woolf, unseated and violent, this is a guy who went to war and didn't like what he saw, Robert Graves, Goodbye To All That, comparisons to J.R.R. Tolkien's textual texts, Lewis is more projective, Narnia, Lindsay and LEwis looking forward and Tolkien looking back, Middle Earth as the original history of Earth, Lewis looking forward, so much suicide, this book doesn't shy away from anything, homoeroticism, Anne Leckie's new exciting non gendered pronoun book, yeah well so does this 1920 novel, this book has everything, the third sex, gender swapping, how could this book ever make the mainstream?, Michael Bay production, Die Farbe (the German movie adaptation of The Colour Out Of Space), out on DVD-R, black and white and colour, colour changes, always travelling north, Maskull get on a train and go north to Scotland, back to Buchan, Olaf Stapledon, getting the cosmos, the universe becomes a character, The Last And First Men, Martian energy beings, Starmaker is like Edgar Rice Burroughs, massive issues of being, an ethical call to people, there's nothing quite like it to day in fiction, Hypnos by H.P. Lovecraft, astral projection, we'll go to the Moon, The Crystal Egg, working with the limited physics that is possible, Star Trek, Tsiolkovsky and Goddard, Star Wars, green corpuscles, the midichlorians, an airplane/submarine, Abaddon's Gate by James S.A. Corey, an echo of Verne and Wells, mundane science fiction, this is bullshit!, their all jobless!, this is not planetary romance, more like H.P. Lovecraft's dreamlands, dream rules apply, the experience of reading Gene Wolfe, mythic power with personal power, something is happening right around you.
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The SFFaudio Podcast #327 – AUDIOBOOK/READALONG: The Moon-Bog by H.P. Lovecraft
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The SFFaudio Podcast #327 – The Moon-Bog by H.P. Lovecraft; read by Martin Reyto courtesy of Legamus. This is an unabridged reading of the short story (24 minutes) followed by a discussion of it. Participants in the discussion include Jesse Willis, Seth Wilson, Jim Moon, and Juan Luis Pérez.
Talked about in this episode:
Title has a hyphen; published in Weird Tales in June 1926, but written for a St. Patrick's Day event; most critics dismiss the story; most characters are nameless; no Cthulhu mythos; Greek ties to Lovecraft's The Tree; H.P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast; thematic similarities to The Rats in the Walls and Hypnos; conflict between the bog goddess and her servants; frogs; moonbeams; Greek Pan pipes, not Celtic pipes; on the story's un-Irishness; competing models of colonization; Protestant work ethic; Pied Piper of Hamelin; surviving narrator motif similar to Ishmael in Moby Dick; departure from the traditional Lovecraftian narrator; the poetry of Lovecraft's prose, alliteration, etc.; Lovecraft's Supernatural Horror in Literature; spoiler in Weird Tales art; the joys of reading aloud; Lovecraft's Dunsanian story The Festival; architecture; Tolkien's Dead Marshes and the gothic symbolism of bogs, etc.; Lovecraft's descriptionn of cities in The Mountains of Madness and landscapes in The Dunwich Horror; The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and similar impressionism in film; The Quest of Iranon; unreliable narrators à la Edgar Allan Poe, especially The Fall of the House of Usher; laughing; bog draining and the curse of the Tiddy Mun; the city of Bath and the intersection of Roman and Celtic cultures; John Buchan's The Grove of Ashtaroth; this is actually a happy Lovecraft story!; Robin Hood and the defense of the land; humans destroy megafauna; Lovecraft's The Hound; American horror trope of the Indian burial ground; the lack of Celtic mythology; will-o'-the-wisps; how does one drain a bog? Ask the Dutch; disappointment in scientific explanation for stories; the ruins and the Gothic tradition.
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The SFFaudio Podcast #318 – READALONG: The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan
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The SFFaudio Podcast #318 – Jesse, Mr Jim Moon, Bryan Alexander, and Fred Himebaugh talk about The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan
Talked about on today's show:
1915, Blackwood's Magazine, a propaganda novel, the propaganda ministry, pro-empire, Buchan's later job, Hitchcock's The 39 Steps, the Orson Welles adaptation, Mercury Theater, Welles' propaganda pieces, Nazis invading Canada (Nazi Eyes On Canada), ultima thule, if Operation Sea Lion had worked…, Nazis in Antarctica, Kerguelen Islands, Isle de Crozet, the coolest island ever, Jules Verne, why does our hero go to Scotland?, veldcraft, Greenmantle, Richard Hannay, the comic, Brian thought it was a riot, a brisk read, elegant prose, the BBC Radio documentary on John Buchan, judging everything, "subjective", coincidences, sooo convienient, the human civilization, The Riddle Of The Sands by Erskine Childers, another sneaky German plot, the Patrick O'Brian books, the invasion novel genre, mining British harbours, u-boats, a shocking incident, Scapa Flow, Winston Churchill, Rogue Male by Geoffrey Household is the WWII version of The Thirty-Nine Steps, Constantine Karolides, war was inevitable, popular in the trenches?, Hannay eats well on the run, cliffhangers, Adrian Praetzelis, a semi-bald archaeologist, Jesse's dream theory, tired of London …. not enough exercise … lo and behold a murder plot… sleep and dream and wake, a Freudian sense of everything being really nearby, the climax became surreal, Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?'s fake police station, how to deal with those in between, The Prisoner Of Zenda, "honestly this is impossible", boys own adventure, James Bond, Dracula, how do these things work in detail, I'm pretty good with disguise, a sign of good writing, villain to do lists, don't lock the hero in a room filled with explosives, act like you belong there, the roadman scenes, the milkman was a precedent, disguise as psychology, ridiculous of imposture, the speaker at the liberal candidates meetings scene, Australia or free-trade, Asquith, Liberals, free-trade within the empire, as satisfying as a mortician, the eloquence of an emigration agent, a ripping speech Twizden, Hammond, something that always changes is the meaning of the title, the Black Stone (Schwartz Stein), when you're Lord Tweedsmuir…, Jonathan Harker, ordinance survey maps, the corridors of power, having the power of the British Empire at your back, the reward, doubt about British command, yesterday 100 years ago, the Gallipoli campaign, unilateral disarmament, the secret pact, the French are hyper-competent, playing along, just go over the top, your reward is to go to the Western Front, Greenmantle is the direct sequel, the supremely confident at veldcraft, the Germans had found a Muslim prophet, Islam as a powder-keg, the Mesopotamian campaign, a very personal battle while armies clash, a secret history, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke, The Duelists by Joseph Conrad, His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik, The Red Panda Adventures by Gregg Taylor, Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World, Captain Canuck, Declare by Tim Powers, Kim Philby, Brian's WWI kick, the Eastern front (Turkey vs. Russia), Duel For Kilimanjaro: Africa 1914-1918, Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, the opening antisemitism (an international banking conspiracy) is just a smokescreen, crazy conspiracy theories, you only believe the unbelievable tale, a wink to the audience, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, The United States Of Paranoia by Jesse Walker, the "stab in the back theory", conspiracies, the Black Hand, seeing the novel in its context, period magazines, stepping into a time machine, having perspective, don't have secret treaties with France, a landward in Asia, The DaVinci Code, The Grove of Ashtaroth, the Canaanite goddess, Rhodesia, clearing of the land, a weird fiction version of colonialism, Buchan wrote 101 books, Witch Wood (BBC Radio drama), big in to Buchan, Huntingtower, Mr Standfast, The Wasteland by T.S. Elliot, Lovecraft's parody "Wastepaper", a pre-modern guy, unthinking ideas, a moral victory over the enemy, panache or élan, Memory Hold-the-Door by John Buchan, Canada's current Governor General (David Johnston), Hillary Clinton's autobiography, "chloroform in print", Mark Twain, Fred's novel is in beta (The Devil's Dictum), wait fifty years and read the Wikipedia entry, our assessment of things, Shakespeare was too sad or too gory, why teach Julius Caesar? because it has no sex, the Hugos blew up, Ancillary Justice, changing the markets, Bowdlerizing the past, The Tempest, classic science fiction info dump, Miranda is falling asleep, Mr Jim Moon's take on The Thirty-Nine Steps, the mystery run-around, the Jason Bourne films, stalking on-the-run travelogue format, Ian Fleming, Dennis Wheatley, a British form of pulp, adaptations, North By Northwest, the 2008 TV adaptation the u-boat in a loch, Alfred Hitchock, The Man Who Knew Too Much, The Ring, the lack of women, adding women, shoveling women into adaptations, it's all for Fred's mom, there's a gun in the pram, Hannay has an afro in the 1978 adaptation, the ministry of espionage, Mr Memory, the comics adaptation, a bridge to far, The Private Life Of Sherlock Holmes, with access to itching powder…, expansive imagination, in the Twilight books the heroine is a complete cipher, WWI books, WWII books, Armed Forces Editions, the post war interest in H.P. Lovecraft, Jack Vance in the South Pacific.
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The SFFaudio Podcast #317 – AUDIOBOOK: The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan
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The SFFaudio Podcast #317 – The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan, read by Adrian Praetzellis.
This UNABRIDGED AUDIOBOOK (4 hours 2 minutes) comes to us courtesy of LibriVox.
The Thirty-Nine Steps was first published in 1915.
The next SFFaudio Podcast will feature our discussion of it!
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The SFFaudio Podcast #306 – AUDIOBOOK/READALONG: The Fall Of The House Of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe
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The SFFaudio Podcast #306 – The Fall Of The House Of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe; read by Mike Vendetti. This is an unabridged reading of the story (49 minutes) followed by a discussion of it. Participants in the discussion include Jesse, Julie Davis, Bryan Alexander, and Mike Vendetti
Talked about on today's show:
LibriVox.org, Audible.com, a Reader's Digest version, a ponderous vocabulary, prolixity, Poe the hoaxer, the part of him that invented the mystery short story, a corpse flower, this is what Lovecraft does, "he's done his research!", words made by mad men, mapping the elephant's outline, the movies, the comics, the Wikipedia entry, The Haunted Palace by H.P. Lovecraft, the Roger Corman movie, the poem is the outline for the story, the history of the house of usher, dead trees with white trunks, New Jersey, the lutes well tuned law, porphyrogene – "born to the purple", synecdoche, a photo negative, upside down and inverted, golden banners, the fungi, The Tell Tale Heart, The Bells, a republic society in love with aristocracy and royalty, The Masque Of The Red Death is a dystopia, Hop Frog, "its beautiful … but horrible things happen", John Buchan, broken off pieces of themselves, Thomas A. Shippey, the Vatican astronomer, no titles allowed anymore, Queen Elizabeth II, Br. Guy Consolmagno, absentee royalty, a super-mix, "evil things in robes of sorrow", entombed, equating architecture and person, you can't separate Roderick from his sister, "I heard it man", why did he dare not speak?, buried alive, twins and twinning, the 1989 adaptation of The Fall Of The House Of Usher, why they can't just tell the story in adaptations, this is hospice care, was Roderick tormented by his twin sister?, I see a skull, the house is a skull, the trees are ribs or arm bones, a ghost, dying of old age, reason, rationality, Guy de Maupassant's Who Knows, the furniture represents the faculties, the end of The Life Of Pi, the miasma, an unhealthy atmosphere, in awe of Poe, Everything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O'Connor, the Usher stump, the stump of the tree of Jesse, a tottering mind, everything's lined with copper, a Frankenstein motif, a long family line of incest, "it had put forth no enduring branch", "so lain", viewing it as a story about incest, set in the location of Hammer Horror, Middle Lovecraft, seeing Lovecraft through Poe, a cyclopean vocabulary, H.P. Lovecraft's Favorite Weird Tales edited by Douglas A. Anderson, crazy complicated sentences, Walden by Henry David Thoreau, CraftLit, the prologue to The Scarlet Letter, reading Poe aloud, Supernatural Horror In Literature, oral cadence, the very summits of artistry, fictional miniaturists, Ligeia, another dead woman story, so Lovecraft, he loves his architecture, "sharing a single soul", the crack, "the eye of a scrutinizing observer", laughing out loud, the unnamed narrator is of the same class as Roderick, context for the story, science stories, buried alive stories, The Pit And The Pendulum, sense experience, again New Jersey, Italy, The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, weird fiction out to wazoo, why do they do that?, demented messed up stories, Young Goodman Brown, Rappaccini's Daughter, supernatural elements, sense experience, an utter depression of soul, the after dream of the reveler upon opium, the dropping of the veil, the veil of dreams, the after-dream is after the dream?, the veil is beautiful, a shout-out to Thomas de Quincey, crawling fungi, red-litten windows, "laugh but smile no more", coffin worms, creeping into the crypt to often, The Conqueror Worm, a foreshadowing, reasons for laughter vs. reasons for smiling, the hideous throng, Usher II by Ray Bradbury, premature burial, Buried (2010), The Death of Olivier Bécaille by Emile Zola, Weird Tales, Poe is a hilarious writer, punning and japing, Mad Trist by Sir Launcelot Canning, Dead Families 101, How To Repair Your Doomed House, The Man Who Collected Poe by Robert Bloch, wacky moments, The Cask Of Amontillado, deGrave wine, The Tomb by H.P. Lovecraft, Jervas Dudley as one of the Usher descendants, a lot more Poey, there are not a lot of sisters in Lovecraft, The Moon Pool by A. Merritt, The Moon Bog by H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Rice Burroughs, comparing Poe to Lovecraft, The Narrative Of Arthur Gordon Pym Of Nantucket, The Dreams In The Witch House, the novella (short story) vs. the novel, it starts off as a horror tale, What The Moon Brings, Ireland, a little bit ushery,
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Faster Computer Fix
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The most important thing about a computer store is to constantly read and update what we know and what we don't know. Every computer has a different problem and to know it all one has to read helpful articles like Iolo registry cleaner . We have customers who claimed that their friends/brother/brother in laws knows […]Read More..>>
Welcome Neighbor
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Well, if you haven't been opposite to Shackwacky, it's time to give them a visit. Shackwacky Arts and Photography is owned by a husband and wife team, Alice and Craig Ward. Both are not local but from Manitoba and moved to Yarmouth with their daughter, Hannah Ward. Not only are the things in the store […]Read More..>>
To Park Or Not To Park
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So the town is still debating on the parking situation downtown – and rightly so – but what surprises me are the people who are against free parking. It would definitely make downtown shopping a lot more friendlier with free parking no? after all Starrs Road is free parking everywhere too.
Downtown is dying fast and […]
New Movies This Week : 18 June 2013
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New movies available for rent today include:
Jack the Giant Slayer (DVD & Blu)
American Mary (DVD)
The Num8ers Station (DVD & Blu)
Stoker (DVD)
Movie 43 (DVD)
21 & Over (DVD)
Kung Fu Panda Good Croc, Bad Croc (DVD)
Blu Ray Sale
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Hundreds of used Blu-ray movies for $10 each or 3 for $25.Read More..>>
Rare PS1 Games
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Some much sought after and rare PS1 games in stock at the store – hurry in .Read More..>>
Rock Band Gear
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Rock Band 3 gear:
Keyboard – $60
Keyboard & game (x360) – $80
Midi-pro adapters – $30
Available and in stock now.
N64 Controller & Joystick
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New N64 controller joysticks – $10Read More..>>
New Movies This Week : 04 June 2013
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Big week for new releases, today we have:
A Good Day to Die Hard (DVD & Blu)
Identity Thief (DVD & Blu)
Warm Bodies (DVD & Blu)
Escape from Planet Earth (DVD Blu & Blu-3D)
12 Rounds 2 (DVD)
Area 407 (DVD)
Gifts From Customers
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We just recived some gifts for my kid and ourselves from a customer who just got home from lots of sun-tanning and beaches during our winter here. Kind of envious but they did get us a cigar gift and for the kid, they got her dresses and toys. It's definitely a bonus to have good […]Read More..>>

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As the days start to get shorter, we'll probably be thinking more about Autumn than looking ahead to Christmas. However, if you start thinking about your Christmas presents now, you'll save hassle during the festive month.
Stocking fillers are sometimes neglected but here at The Great Gift Company, we've got tons of gift ideas that will make fabulous stocking fillers!
Take a look at the following five presents that will make great stocking fillers for Christmas 2017. Buy them now and you'll be saving yourself the boredom of traipsing around shops come December, when you really want to enjoy the Christmas celebrations!
Great stocking fillers
Credit Card Tool (£9.00)
The best stocking filler for adults (that doesn't break the bank!), the Credit Card Tool is a multi-tool with 10 different functioning components.
The tool will fit in your wallet or purse, and ensure you will be there to save the day when those impossible situations arrive.
A similar concept to the Swiss Army Knife, the Credit Card Tool features a saw blade, a bottle opener, a ruler, a screwdriver, a position wrench, a butterfly wrench and more. Brilliant!
Jungle Pal Stationary Set (£15.00)
The ideal gift for school goers, they'll go wild for the Jungle Pal Stationary Set. The set contains a pencil case decorated with animals and a glitter gel filling, as well as three animal pencils, a giraffe ruler and mini jungle animal erasers.
Back Seat Driver Mug (£12.00)
An excellent gift for that person in your life who can't simply sit still and keep quiet when you are driving them about, the Back Seat Driver Mug is witty and nostalgic, celebrating those "helpful" backseat drivers who simply have to offer their motoring wisdom when riding as a passenger.
Scrabble Cookie Cutters (£10.00)
We love the Scrabble Cookie Cutters here at The Great Gift Company! Not only are they totally unique, they're a fabulous gift for all ages.
They'll make a change from the Christmas themed cookie cutters and they may even help young children learn their letters whilst baking.
Spell out what you want with the 26 cookie cutter moulds, in the style of traditional Scrabble letter tiles. How many points will you get for spelling out "Merry Christmas"?
5-a-day Chocolate Vegetables (£10.00)
Forget one of the mass-produced selection boxes from the supermarket and opt for the 5-a-day Chocolate Vegetables from The Great Gift Company.
They're handmade from a combination of velvet-smooth Belgian milk, dark and white chocolate. Delicious!
Looking for more stocking fillers?
We've got lots more stocking fillers available here at The Great Gift Company, go on, fill your boots (or should we say, stockings!). For more information on any of our unusual Christmas presents, please feel free to contact us online today. Alternatively, call one of our specialists directly on 0845 6531048.


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Dr. Ketel Trailer (2011)
17 September 2011 Thriller 80 mins
Berlin's notorious Neukoelln district. The near future. A time in which the health system has collapsed. A man works in the shadows and without license as a doctor. He has no practice, no appointments system. He treats people in the courtyards and streets – everywhere he's needed, stealing medicine from pharmacies. Nobody knows his name or that by day he's the caretaker of a shabby tenement building. He pushes boundaries and suffers defeats that cost him the last of his strength. Forced to adopt the role of a shadow, an outlaw, he is confronted with the question as to whether he really is a doctor.
Watch the official Dr. Ketel 2011 trailer in HD below or find more Dr. Ketel videos on Vidimovie.


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We are going through a period of abnormally hot weather.I got an email that a Rain Skip was applied based on the upcoming forecast.I am using a PWS within 6.0km and it regisitered no precip.The forecasted precip (13.0mm) didn't not happen at all (0mm) so I assumed that Rachio would replace the skip with another cycle.Can someone explain why this did not happen as it doesn't make sense to me?Thanks
Anybody?Or should I have put Ants in the title?
It worked for me What schedule are you running?
Flex Monthly. Built it before the recent changes.
@Luv2SkiPow Ants in the title usually wins
Flex monthly will not correct itself it a forecasted event does not materialize. One of the current limitations.
If you'd like to try flex daily, it does compensate and shift accordingly.
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Peter Sallis, who is best known for voicing Wallace in the animated Wallace and Gromit movies, has passed away at the age of 96.
He died on Friday at his home in the U.K. and reportedly died peacefully. With more than 150 acting credits, it wasn't till late in his career that he landed the voice role of Wallace, a stop motion character in a British short film. The shorts went on to win Oscars and even became a feature length film. Peter Sallis was very happy to have a role that brought so many joy so late in his career.


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Prof Samuele Bacchiocchi is one of the Adventist Church's leading scholars. Recently he has written a response to the papal encyclical Dies Domini (The Day of the Lord). In this essay I have responded briefly to some of his claims. I have not done an exhaustive study on the matter, as time does not permit that. Perhaps that will come in time.
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A blog post from the Jack Craver of The Capital Times in Madison struck a familiar chord for me.
Craver writes about Graeme Zielinksi, spokesman for the Democratic Party of Wisconsin and master of incendiary hyperbole.
Zielinski, Craver notes, has referred to Marquette Law School pollster Charles Franklin as a Republican hack, and cites supposed claims from several former students of Franklin's, that he boasted about consulting for GOP groups. Craver points out that Franklin says he's never worked for any party or partisan organization – and that Zielinski's not buying it.
"If he denies, this, we don't believe him," Zielinksi concluded in an e-mail.
Back up a couple of weeks ago and you'll see a remarkably similar line of, ahem, "reasoning" from someone on the opposite side politically from Zielinksi – Republican National Committee Chair Reince Priebus talking about his favorite bugaboo, widespread voter fraud in Wisconsin.
"I'm always concerned about voter fraud, you know. Being from Kenosha, and quite frankly have lived through seeing some of it happen. Certainly in Milwaukee we had plenty of it, and I think it's been documented. I reject any notion that it's not the case."
That was Priebus, on a conference call with reporters. The most thorough investigation of voter fraud in Wisconsin, conducted by the Voting Fraud Task Force formed in 2008 by Republican Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen and Democratic Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm, led to about 20 prosecutions for various forms of fraudulent voting.
You can draw your own conclusions as to whether 20 cases constitutes widespread voter fraud, and whether unsubstantiated allegations by unnamed individuals are sufficient grounds for a partisan hatchet man to label someone else as a partisan hack.


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Tourism, fast becoming the largest global business, employs one out of 12 persons and produces $6.5 trillion of the world's economy. In a groundbreaking book, Elizabeth Becker uncovers how what was once a hobby has become a colossal enterprise with profound impact on countries, the environment, and cultural heritage.
This invisible industry exploded at the end of the Cold War. In 2012 the number of tourists traveling the world reached one billion. Now everything can be packaged as a tour: with the high cost of medical care in the U.S., Americans are booking a vacation and an operation in countries like Turkey for a fraction of the cost at home.
Becker travels the world to take the measure of the business: France invented the travel business and is still its leader; Venice is expiring of over-tourism. In Cambodia, tourists crawl over the temples of Angkor, jeopardizing precious cultural sites. Costa Rica rejected raising cattle for American fast-food restaurants to protect their wilderness for the more lucrative field of eco-tourism.
Dubai has transformed a patch of desert in the Arabian Gulf into a mammoth shopping mall. Africa's safaris are thriving, even as its wildlife is threatened by foreign poachers. Large cruise ships are spoiling the oceans and ruining city ports as their American-based companies reap handsome profits through tax loopholes. China, the giant, is at last inviting tourists and sending its own out in droves. The United States, which invented some of the best of tourism, has lost its edge due to political battles. Becker reveals travel as product. Seeing the tourism industry from the inside out, through her eyes and ears, we experience a dizzying range of travel options though very few quiet getaways. Her investigation is a first examination of one of the largest and potentially most destructive enterprises in the world.
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Why: Your $25 ticket buys you performances by Washington Ballet, City Dance, Step Afrika, Karen Reedy, Bowen McCaulay, Coyaba Dance Theater and more… you can't beat it for a chance to sample DC dance. This showcase is part of the 2010 DanceUSA National Conference, hosted this year by Washington, D.C.
For one night only, see 10 Metro DC dance companies share the stage in DANCE: Yes We Can! Includes The Washington Ballet, CityDance Ensemble, Urban Artistry, Karen Reedy Dance, Janaki Rangarajan, Gesel Mason Performance Projects, Coyaba Dance Theatre, Bowen McCauley Dance, Dakshina/Daniel Phoenix Singh and Step Afrika!, with a dance film by Cross Roads Dance featured in the lobby.
Tickets: $25, Lansburgh Theatre box office, (202) 547-1122 or www.shakespearetheatre.org.


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2017 Shows and Events
April 28-30, 2017
National Rifle Association - Annual Meeting
Georgia World Congress Center
Booth #1664
Atlanta, GA
Open to the public - The Annual Meeting is NRA's largest celebration of the year, regularly drawing more than 75,000 attendees. For most, however, the main attraction is the spectacular consumer show. More than 500 exhibitors — including every major firearms manufacturer — display guns, knives, gear and accessories.
May 9-11, 2016
National Hardware Show
Las Vegas Convention Center
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Las Vegas, Nevada
Open to industry professionals, closed to the public.
June 2-4, 2017
The Blade Show
Cobb Galleria Center
Atlanta, Georgia
The show is one of the largest knife collectors shows in the USA. Scott Campbell and Kim Campbell will be in attendance. Members of the Owners Club who stop by the Gerstner Booth will be offered a special purchase discount during the show.
June 9, 2017
Gerstner Owners Club Day - Only open to Members
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Members may bring guests for a $15.00 fee per guest.
Guests will be allowed to purchase items and participate in activities.
Location: H. Gerstner & Sons - Dayton, OH.
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June 16-17, 2017
Gerstner's 37th Annual Spring Sale
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The YMCA of Grays Harbor's Strong Kids Campaign has well-exceeded it's goal of raising 160-thousand. In the last 5 weeks, 77 campaigners raised 227,637.50 for the annual campaign that helps provide scholarships and funding for local youth. It also supports programs like the clubhouse, Camp Bishop, and Goldberg Family Discovery Center.
It's never too late to pledge, visit ghymca.net for details.
Help the YMCA Help Others
The theme for the Strong Kids campaign this year is "Pass It On". As a child you don't realize what impact positive role models have in your life. Now looking back, if it was not for the right people influencing our lives and encouraging us, we may have ended up with a completely different life. With the economy and ever changing circumstances there seems to be less we can depend on. It is in times like these that we have to ensure kids have a safe place to be and positive programs to attend. Kids need something they can count on and know it will always be there for them when they need it.
We can ensure those role models and words of encouragement are here for kids today. Our involvement with the YMCA as members, board members and Strong Kids campaigners has given us the opportunity to see the difference the Y makes for the kids in our community. "Pass It On", the theme for this year's campaign, is fitting because we want to pass on the positive experiences to the next generation. Through supporting the Strong Kids campaign we can make that happen. The Strong Kids Campaign ensures the Y can continue to award scholarships for memberships and programs. It also supports programs such as the clubhouse, Camp Bishop, and Goldberg Family Discovery Center which provides positive role models and a safe place for kids to go after school.
This year, we ask that you please join us by giving to the Strong Kids Campaign so you too can help "Pass It On" to the kids in our community.


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The Public Interest Lawyers League (PILL) yesterday called a "joke," the 2012 National Honours List published by the federal government.
In a public statement signed by its President, Abdul Mahmud, PILL said that President Goodluck Jonathan would find it difficult to justify the names put forward by his government, and wondered why the nation's cultural icons are not it instead.
"From discredited entrepreneurs whose stars faded as their enterprises, dubious politicians who fail democracy and the people, puny public servants, with no sense of service or commitment, who make governance what it is in our country today, to the everyday jesters who walk the quarters of political governance, they remind us that ours is Kamuzu Banda's country," PILL said.
Calling on President Jonathan to end the joke, the group argued that National Honours are not about conferring honours on patronage-seekers and bootlickers.
"It is about giving recognition to individuals who commit their lives of service to the community; and it is about recognising the stellar patriots among us," the statement said.
The lawyers warned that such honours are not supposed to be part of the complex networks of the patronage system that successive governments have made it, and are not cash instruments a patron president deploys to secure clientele-loyalty.
"They are what they are: honours," PILL said. "Sadly, the 2012 Honours list, like others before it, names debtors and thieves as patriots, dubious enterprise moguls as the exemplars of the New Nigerian entrepreneurial utopia."
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Bucharest, Romania (PressExposure) July 12, 2011 -- Techs Store announces Fast Camera MPEG4 Streaming System
Techs Store has issued new program - Record and supervise with face detector.
This invention has internet interface with the same look and functionality on the local and remote workstations.
Users see MPEG-4 coded video and have complete management of the program using network that surveillance station can be run with no monitor, keyboard, and mouse connected.
The software does simultaneous video playback for event examination from many webcams simultaneously.
Also recorded files can be searched by date, time or by face detected. All recorded files can be secured and password protected.
The program has pre-event and post-event recording.
Playing back captured video is fairly simple and performs on the surveillance workstation as well as on apart pc through Internet interface.
Software`s modular configuration significantly increases reliability because all units act as independent applications.
If one module freezes, other components keep on working.
For instance if the `record` module fails, `watchdog` restarts it instantly that users don`t note anything because they are watching picture using a `playback` unit.
The program has been created as universal product for security hybrid platforms running simultaneously with wireless and wired IP cameras, TV-cards, capture cards, power-line, and USB webcams.
It has web interface with the same look and controls on the local and distant workstations. Users see MPEG-4 coded picture and have full control of the program through net that surveillance station can be run without monitor, keyboard, and mouse connected.
The program makes "cyclic" recording that the "hard drive full" situation never appears. The recording can be non-stop or it can be activated by movement, human face detection, or by schedule.
Fast Camera MPEG4 Streaming System program can be downloaded for free from the Techs Store website at: http://Techsstore.webpromooffer.com/stores/Techsstore/66268pgabout.html


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She is a PETA model.
Rozlyn Khan Filmography
Year Movie Name
- 2013 Savita Bhabi
- 2012 Dhama Choukdi
A lady who co-incidentally looked like model Rozlyn Khan had taken benefits of her looks and happened to run an on-line sex in the identity of the model.
The issue came into mild when model Rozlyn Khan began getting offers from unknown individuals on her social networking sites accounts to have sex with her in gain of income.
A web-site was developed by the 21-year old accused that utilized a blurry image and built a user profile in the identity of Rozlyn Khan.


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". . .big, beautiful speakers that produce a big, beautiful sound."
enture Audio holds a special place in my audio consciousness. I will be attending my eighteenth consecutive CES in early January, and at more than half of them, I'm sure, a system with Venture speakers has been among the very best I heard. Perhaps even more impressive, I've heard Venture speakers driven with high-power solid-state amps (sometimes also with the Venture name), low-power tube amps, and amps that fall between these extremes. Such a track record, one would think, would lead to a high profile in the market, if not in the US then elsewhere in the world. While the Venture Audio name isn't exactly obscure, it's not omnipresent either -- even with all of that CES success behind it.
Some of this may be due to the company itself. Venture has two headquarters -- in Singapore and Belgium -- and there is absolutely nothing about its products that lends itself to mass production. Drivers are designed and manufactured in-house, and the cabinets, with their glossy veneered finishes, are sandwiches of hardwood and damping materials, not the ubiquitous MDF. And then there's the expense. Even a mid-sized pair of Venture speakers requires some heavy thought and a hefty bank account.
None of this is anything new for high-end audio -- the most refined products don't come cheap -- but almost universal success at shows surely is. When I first heard the Ultimate Reference at the 2011 CES, I was smitten. Big, pricey speakers are all over Las Vegas in early January, but the Ultimate Reference was one to remember, filling a big upper-floor room at the Venetian, but able to morph with the music, sounding diminutive or full-bodied, pure and unfettered, sometimes all within the same cut. I talked with the Venture people then and there, but it took some time to procure for review what was the only pair of the speakers in the US. Little did I know when those two huge flight cases showed up how much work and pleasure were ahead of me.
Venture is the product of Hoo Kong Njoo, who goes by the nickname Didi. He is a trained scientist, holding a masters degree in physics from the University of Frankfurt, who has done research in cryogenics and super conductivity. He's also friendly and jovial; at shows he seems genuinely pleased that you have stopped by his room to hear his speakers and electronics.
His goal from the very beginning of Venture Audio, which was founded in the mid-1980s, was to produce the most advanced, highest-performing loudspeakers, which naturally also means among the most expensive. Venture's current lineup is topped by the Xtreme, which costs over $200,000 per pair. The Ultimate Reference is the penultimate Venture speaker, almost all of which are floorstanders of moderate size. This does not apply to the Ultimate Reference, however, as you'll read in a bit.
Venture has designed and manufactured its own drivers since early in the new millennium, the cones using a composite substrate embedded with graphite particles to virtually eliminate resonances that translate to unwanted noise in the speaker's output. Venture makes two different types of drivers based on these principles: Carbon Fiber Graphite Composite (CFGC) and Abaca Graphite Composite (AGC). Each is used strategically within Venture speakers, including 7" or 9" woofers, 5" or 7" midrange drivers, and a 2" tweeter. The CFGC drivers use individual carbon fibers that run through a resin cone in a proprietary pattern, which provides stiffness and helps minimize the cone's weight. AGC drivers have a cone that is made up of abaca pulp with abaca fibers for stiffness. These come from the stems of abaca-tree leaves.
The Ultimate Reference uses a 2" AGC tweeter, a 7" CFGC midrange, and four 9" CFGC woofers. Crossover points are 3000Hz and 400Hz, both of which reflect the confidence of the designer to adequately cover wider-than-normal frequency ranges with the drivers. Impedance is quoted at 6 ohms and sensitivity as 92dB, which make the Ultimate References suitable for a wide range of amplifier technologies and powers.
Cabinet shape is also very important, with all Venture speakers using a rounded V-shaped cabinet, the narrowest part of which is the front baffle. Interestingly, the Ultimate Reference has a pair of rear-firing ports located near the top of the cabinet instead of the bottom. They almost look like a car's exhaust system. Smartly, the binding posts are located near the bottom of the cabinet, with a pair of handles making small movements easy. They also let you do so without having to touch the cabinets, which have a gleaming finish that shows smudges well. In their proportions and shape, the Ultimate References are sumptuous speakers, looking appropriately expensive.
've had a number of big, expensive speakers in my listening room -- and even more smaller, reasonably priced ones. The room has some built-in advantages for big speakers, including sheer size (it's 20 feet wide by 29 feet long with a ten-foot ceiling) and a relatively neutral character. It's neither lively nor dead, residing somewhere between these extremes, and while many speakers have generated impressive low bass, the room releases bass frequencies so they don't pool like water and become a problem.
While it's never a matter of hitting the nail on the head the first time when it comes to positioning speakers in my room, it has rarely been an ordeal. Some -- such as Thiel CS7.2 and Magnepan MG20.1 -- were more work than others, but in the end I -- or company representatives -- have always been able to find the right spots for any speakers, the process of doing so revealing useful information along the way.
I had no reason to believe that anything would be different with the Venture Ultimate Reference, but I should have known better. First, these are imposing speakers to unpack, because they are big and gorgeously finished. I absolutely did not want to mar their high-gloss macassar ebony finish, a goal that their size (58 1/4"H x 15 3/4"W x 24"D) and weight (265 pounds each) made infinitely more difficult. They also come shrouded in velvet body bags that cinch at the bottom, protecting the finish but also making the speakers more difficult to grasp and move.
Once out of the flight cases in which they are shipped and stripped of their protective coverings, the speakers' broad platforms slide relatively easily on carpet, making positioning and repositioning a workout but not an ordeal. What was an ordeal was getting coherent sound from the big Ventures. The speakers are two feet deep, which means they must be out into the room more than others, but no matter how close or far they were from the wall behind them, the sound just didn't come together. It was as though each driver was discrete, making its own music instead of contributing to a whole, complete presentation. There was also a phasey quality to the sound, images lacking not just outlines but any anchoring point within the soundstage. No matter where I moved the speakers, they never came close to scaling the heights they had at CES. I began to wonder if some damage had occurred in transit, although I could see no sign of it.
After spending a day and a half moving the speakers and listening, I received a break: Venture's US distributor, Mike Slaminski, called to ask how things were going. Mike is kindly and soft-spoken, and when I told him about the troubles I was having, he let out a knowing chuckle, then proceeded to explain the problem. "You need to sit at least fourteen feet from the speakers," Mike told me right off the bat. While my room is big, I generally sit about ten feet from any speakers, as this has given the best balance between the equipment's and room's sound. "Then," Mike went on, "you need only six degrees of toe-in." This seems like almost no toe-in at all, but when you're "at least fourteen feet" from the speakers, it's actually quite a lot.
So I moved my listening seat back four or five feet and guesstimated the toe-in. Eureka! The phasey, muddled soundstage was replaced with one that was focused and precise in instrumental placement. Most of all, the drivers coalesced, and the speakers' tonality had top-to-bottom balance. I continued to experiment with listening distance and toe-in, and I gained a bit more focus and coherency, but without Mike's sage advice, this review may very well have been completely different. Mike is not just a distributor but also a dealer, and I for one would be very appreciative of his setup advice, whether over the phone or in person. The guy really knows his stuff.
ave you ever seen one of those pictorial spreads that show how some people look like their pets, spouses or even cars? You see a picture of a bulldog, for instance, next to a picture of the guy who owns it, and the resemblance is uncanny. Well, you now have an idea of what it's like to sit down in front of a pair of Venture Ultimate References. These are big, beautiful speakers that produce a big, beautiful sound -- not unrealistically big, not cloying or syrupy, just spatially immense and seductive.
Perhaps as a function of sitting so far from them, these speakers cast massive images -- trumpeters or bass players that seem to be standing, pipe organs that sound like buildings from afar, scale that's truly life-size, even with mono recordings like R.L. Burnside's First Recordings [Mobile Fidelity UDSACD 2026] on SACD or a recent ten-cent LP find of Leon Fleisher playing piano works by Liszt and Weber [Epic LC 3675]. Fleisher has had a storied career, punctuated by a neurological condition that saw him lose movement in his right hand, forcing him from performing and into teaching. Then over time he relearned to play, and in the 2000s returned to recording and eventually the concert stage. His story proves that in the right body the human sprit really is indomitable.
A stereo recording of a solo piano infrequently sounds as convincing to me as one in mono, likely due to the use of two microphones that put individual parts of the piano's range in each channel and makes the instrument sometimes sound like two. With the Fleisher recording in beautiful mono, the piano had such stature that it sounded like it was from a stereo recording, with detail that rang with life, spreading through the room. JVC used to call this effect "big mono" when applied to its XRCDs, but the right analog recordings are even more impressive at achieving it, with the Ultimate References presenting the grandest of instruments with a grand sense of scale.
With power music like "Words of Wonder" from Keith Richards' Main Offender CD [Virgin V2-86499], the Ultimate References sounded gritty and rowdy, launching drum strikes with whip-crack intensity, bass-guitar lines having presence and a touch of purr. These were speakers that didn't favor one kind of music over another, with solo guitaritsts and symphonies carrying themselves with equal verisimilitude. The midrange of these speakers does overshadow what happens above and below, but not only is that not a bad thing, it may be what convinces certain listeners to become owners. It's not that the mids seem overly prominent, due to a hump somewhere between 1kHz and 5kHz for instance, but rather an inner illumination, a glow that seemed to emanate from the center of each note. I know this sounds more than a little new-agey, but it's the best way to describe it.
The Ultimate References really brought voices to life, especially with well-recorded material like Diana Krall's All For You LP [Original Recordings Group ORG 006]. TAB writer Ken Choi put it well in his recent review of the Wyetech Ruby P-1 phono stage: "I suppose Krall has become an audiophile cliché, but I enjoy her music and the production values of most of her albums." Amen, Ken. This album, a tribute to Nat "King" Cole, has both musical and sonic values to spare, and it was a true happening with the Ultimate References, Krall's singing and playing on any of the cuts having equal ability to disarm critical functions and heighten involvement. And the Ultimate References did this with an array of amps, both tube and solid state, proving again the special qualities of the speakers with each change.
Listening farther away from the speakers than I was used to took some adjustment at first, but imaging proved to be pinpoint in its placement, both side to side and front to back. The speakers layered the soundstage especially well, though this will have something to do with placement within the room. With the speakers near the front wall, the illusion of depth was reduced, the soundstage flattening between the speakers instead of materializing around and behind them. These are big speakers for a big room -- no, make that a huge room. You would honestly be better off with another smaller Venture speaker, even if you can afford the Ultimate References, if your room is not suited to them. But when they have the space around them and, more importantly, the needed fourteen feet to the listening position, the Ultimate References fill more of the listening room with music than even some larger, more expensive speakers, perhaps because more of the room is devoted to them.
In terms of image density, the Ultimate References sound slightly lean -- not what's immediately considered beautiful for sure -- but they still impart great presence because of the three-dimensionality they convey. They are truly easy to listen to. They don't challenge, require careful matching with electronics, are best served only by the best recordings, or are only able to shine with certain kinds of music. Setup is critical -- more so than with any speaker I've had in my room, in fact -- but once that's taken care of, you simply connect them to the rest of the system and off you go. They make up for the fussiness required in their setup with an unfussiness in every other way. If you like the idea of having both tube and solid-state amps, alternating between them on a whim, few speakers will do justice to both of them as well as the Venture Ultimate References.
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Fragrance Dunhill Edition cologne for Men by Alfred Dunhill was introduced in 1984. Alfred Dunhill Dunhill Edition is classified as Aromatic Fougere fragrance. Scent notes of Dunhill Edition Alfred Dunhill include top notes of citrus bergamia, lemon, lavender, nutmeg, mace, middle notes of carnation, cyclamen flower, geranium, jasmine, woodland lily, clary and base notes of amber, tonkin beans, cedar wood, fir, oak moss, vetiver. Alfred Dunhill Dunhill Edition fragrance composition is a creation of Alain Astori. The bottle is a design by George Sakier.
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Date Added: 07/05/2017The worst fragrance I have ever had, if you mix up some lemon juice and cinnamon at home, you will end up having the same scent and even better longevity and sillage. I can really understand exaggerate flattering t it. I'm not an expert of perfumes but I developed my own taste from hobby of perfume collecting and I can tell you a piece of advice, any popular fragrance is either a uniform (not special) just like Brute, Lapidus, Joop, Eternity, CK, Hugo Boss, GIO and Fahrenheit or extremely shitty. The only real good scents you can get out of Dunhill is X-Centric and Iconby Mahmoud Masad
Date Added: 01/01/2017i have used Dunhill EDT and aftershaves for about 40 years. The original produced and distributed by The Alfred Dunhill company was a unique and delightful product. Dunhill decided to get out of perfumes and sold on these products with the right to use their name. Big mistake as the brand first became unavailable when the first buyer couldn't make a go of it. Then it was reintroduced to the market by a further organisation. For those of you who never experienced the original product it would be difficult to appreciate the significant difference between the new and old product. The 'new' Dunhill lacks aromas, intensity and longevity and is a shadow of its former self. i am surprised that The Dunhill Company, a high end brand name, are prepared to allow their brand name to be continuously used on such an inferior product.by Old timer
Date Added: 08/04/2016This is by far my favorite scent. It really isn't similar to any other product out there. It's understated while still being quite to the point. I smell lime instead of lemon but the mixture of citrus and spices are a true winning combination. I discovered this scent in the 80s and it is still my favorite. I don't wear it everyday but it is in invaluable asset to my Arsenal.by Scort
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First Reading: Exodus 34:29-35
29 And when Moses came down from the mount Sinai, he held the two tables of the testimony, and he knew not that his face was horned from the conversation of the Lord.
30 And Aaron and the children of Israel seeing the face of Moses horned, were afraid to come near.
31 And being called by him, they returned, both Aaron and the rulers of the congregation. And after that he spoke to them.
32 And all the children of Israel came to him: and he gave them in commandment all that he had heard of the Lord in mount Sinai.
33 And having done speaking, he put a veil upon his face.
34 But when he went in to the Lord, and spoke with him, he took it away until he came forth, and then he spoke to the children of Israel all things that had been commanded him.
35 And they saw that the face of Moses when he came out was horned, but he covered his face again, if at any time he spoke to them.
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5 Exalt ye the Lord our God, and adore his footstool, for it is holy.
6 Moses and Aaron among his priests: and Samuel among them that call upon his name. They called upon the Lord, and he heard them:
7 He spoke to them in the pillar of the cloud. They kept his testimonies, and the commandment which he gave them.
9 Exalt ye the Lord our God, and adore at his holy mountain: for the Lord our God is holy.
Gospel: Luke 10:38-42
38 Now it came to pass as they went, that he entered into a certain town: and a certain woman named Martha, received him into her house.
39 And she had a sister called Mary, who sitting also at the Lord's feet, heard his word.
40 But Martha was busy about much serving. Who stood and said: Lord, hast thou no care that my sister hath left me alone to serve? speak to her therefore, that she help me.
41 And the Lord answering, said to her: Martha, Martha, thou art careful, and art troubled about many things:
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19 And many of the Jews were come to Martha and Mary, to comfort them concerning their brother.
20 Martha therefore, as soon as she heard that Jesus had come, went to meet him: but Mary sat at home.
21 Martha therefore said to Jesus: Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died.
22 But now also I know that whatsoever thou wilt ask of God, God will give it thee.
23 Jesus saith to her: Thy brother shall rise again.
24 Martha saith to him: I know that he shall rise again, in the resurrection at the last day.
25 Jesus said to her: I am the resurrection and the life: he that believeth in me, although he be dead, shall live:
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Concern has grown for an estimated 250-thousand people trapped by a government offensive against rebels who now control only 300 square kilometers of territory in the northeast.
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