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8th May 2012, 01:28 AM | #1 (permalink) |
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| Weird Fiction I mentioned in the May Book Releases thread that The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories looked really good, if a little expensive for me. The introduction is available online and I thought it might make a good launching point for a general discussion of weird fiction. In searching for previously existing threads, the only relevant one I came across was on Borges who is represented in the anthology. While not a big fan of generic fantasy I do like some "weird" stuff and am interested in far more that I just haven't gotten around to yet but I'm not well-versed in the (sub?)genre, so I figured I'd mostly listen. But I will say that, while inclusiveness may be a good thing, the only apparent defect this anthology has is that it may be a little too inclusive. It seems like to me that, while I guess the extremes of everything connect to each other, SF would generally be antithetical to "the weird". SF is (quintessentially speaking) about the rational and natural and, while "weird" can be just a mood, that ought to be more "strange" or "whacked out" or something, and actual weird would be about incursions of irrationality and/or the supernatural. Things like Butler's "Bloodchild" and Tiptree's "The Psychologist Who Wouldn't Do Awful Things to Rats", and even Martin's "The Sandkings" are SF with maybe just an infusion of horror and not very "weird" at all. I mean, there are obviously some rules of exclusion if only to explain Poe not being "weird". Still, if selecting superb tales like these are the only "defect", then there's not much to complain about. (An actual defect in the intro concerning one of those stories is that Tiptree's real name is given as Ann rather than Alice, though.) Anyway - what do people who are already fans and better read think of the essay, the genre, and the great examples of it? |
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| Re: Weird Fiction I have noticed this on the bookshelves have had a flick through the contents. It does look pretty extensive in its overview of the (sub)genre containing samples coming from many of the great contributors to the field. One author missing from the introductory essay (but not from the collection) is Robert Aickman. I noticed that the collection contains his story "The Hospice" which if a good choice because, if I were to nominate a single story for someone to read that they might readily grasp the meaning of "weird fiction", that would probably be it. Aickman pretty much nailed it with that one. Anyway, some people might be interested to see the contents of this collection: Alfred Kubin, "The Other Side" (excerpt), 1908 (translation, Austria) F. Marion Crawford, "The Screaming Skull," 1908 Algernon Blackwood, "The Willows," 1907 Saki, "Sredni Vashtar," 1910 M.R. James, "Casting the Runes," 1911 Lord Dunsany, "How Nuth Would Have Practiced his Art," 1912 Gustav Meyrink, "The Man in the Bottle," 1912 (translation, Austria) Georg Heym, "The Dissection," 1913 (new translation by Gio Clairval, Germany) Hanns Heinz Ewers, "The Spider," 1915 (translation, Germany) Rabindranath Tagore, "The Hungry Stones," 1916 (India) Luigi Ugolini, "The Vegetable Man," 1917 (new translation by Anna and Brendan Connell, Italy; first-ever translation into English) A. Merritt, "The People of the Pit," 1918 Ryunosuke Akutagawa, "The Hell Screen," 1918 (new translation, Japan) Francis Stevens (Gertrude Barrows Bennett), "Unseen — Unfeared," 1919 Franz Kafka, "In the Penal Colony," 1919 (translation, German/Czech) Stefan Grabinski, "The White Weyrak," 1921 (translation, Poland) H.F. Arnold, "The Night Wire," 1926 H.P. Lovecraft, "The Dunwich Horror," 1929 Margaret Irwin, "The Book," 1930 Jean Ray, "The Mainz Psalter," 1930 (translation, Belgium) Jean Ray, "The Shadowy Street," 1931 (translation, Belgium) Clark Ashton Smith, "Genius Loci," 1933 Hagiwara Sakutaro, "The Town of Cats," 1935 (translation, Japan) Hugh Walpole, "The Tarn," 1936 Bruno Schulz, "Sanatorium at the Sign of the Hourglass," 1937 (translation, Poland) Robert Barbour Johnson, "Far Below," 1939 Fritz Leiber, "Smoke Ghost," 1941 Leonora Carrington, "White Rabbits," 1941 Donald Wollheim, "Mimic," 1942 Ray Bradbury, "The Crowd," 1943 William Sansom, "The Long Sheet," 1944 Jorge Luis Borges, "The Aleph," 1945 (translation, Argentina) Olympe Bhely-Quenum, "A Child in the Bush of Ghosts," 1949 (Benin) Shirley Jackson, "The Summer People," 1950 Margaret St. Clair, "The Man Who Sold Rope to the Gnoles," 1951 Robert Bloch, "The Hungry House," 1951 Augusto Monterroso, "Mister Taylor," 1952 (new translation by Larry Nolen, Guatemala) Amos Tutuola, "The Complete Gentleman," 1952 (Nigeria) Jerome Bixby, "It's a Good Life," 1953 Julio Cortazar, "Axolotl," 1956 (new translation by Gio Clairval, Argentina) William Sansom, "A Woman Seldom Found," 1956 Charles Beaumont, "The Howling Man," 1959 Mervyn Peake, "Same Time, Same Place," 1963 Dino Buzzati, "The Colomber," 1966 (new translation by Gio Clairval, Italy) Michel Bernanos, "The Other Side of the Mountain," 1967 (new translation by Gio Clairval, France) Merce Rodoreda, "The Salamander," 1967 (translation, Catalan) Claude Seignolle, "The Ghoulbird," 1967 (new translation by Gio Clairval, France) Gahan Wilson, "The Sea Was Wet As Wet Could Be," 1967 Daphne Du Maurier, "Don't Look Now," 1971 Robert Aickman, "The Hospice," 1975 Dennis Etchison, "It Only Comes Out at Night," 1976 James Tiptree Jr. (Alice Sheldon), "The Psychologist Who Wouldn't Do Awful Things to Rats," 1976 Eric Basso, "The Beak Doctor," 1977 Jamaica Kincaid, "Mother," 1978 (Antigua and Barbuda/US) George R.R. Martin, "Sandkings," 1979 Bob Leman, "Window," 1980 Ramsey Campbell, "The Brood," 1980 Michael Shea, "The Autopsy," 1980 William Gibson/John Shirley, "The Belonging Kind," 1981 M. John Harrison, "Egnaro," 1981 Joanna Russ, "The Little Dirty Girl," 1982 M. John Harrison, "The New Rays," 1982 Premendra Mitra, "The Discovery of Telenapota," 1984 (translation, India) F. Paul Wilson, "Soft," 1984 Octavia Butler, "Bloodchild," 1984 Clive Barker, "In the Hills, the Cities," 1984 Leena Krohn, "Tainaron," 1985 (translation, Finland) Garry Kilworth, "Hogfoot Right and Bird-hands," 1987 Lucius Shepard, "Shades," 1987 Harlan Ellison, "The Function of Dream Sleep," 1988 Ben Okri, "Worlds That Flourish," 1988 (Nigeria) Elizabeth Hand, "The Boy in the Tree," 1989 Joyce Carol Oates, "Family," 1989 Poppy Z Brite, "His Mouth Will Taste of Wormwood," 1990 Michal Ajvaz, "The End of the Garden," 1991 (translation, Czech) Karen Joy Fowler, "The Dark," 1991 Kathe Koja, "Angels in Love," 1991 Haruki Murakami, "The Ice Man," 1991 (translation, Japan) Lisa Tuttle, "Replacements," 1992 Marc Laidlaw, "The Diane Arbus Suicide Portfolio," 1993 Steven Utley, "The Country Doctor," 1993 William Browning Spenser, "The Ocean and All Its Devices," 1994 Jeffrey Ford, "The Delicate," 1994 Martin Simpson, "Last Rites and Resurrections," 1994 Stephen King, "The Man in the Black Suit," 1994 Angela Carter, "The Snow Pavilion," 1995 Craig Padawer, "The Meat Garden," 1996 Stepan Chapman, "The Stiff and the Stile," 1997 Tanith Lee, "Yellow and Red," 1998 Kelly Link, "The Specialist's Hat," 1998 Caitlin R. Kiernan, "A Redress for Andromeda," 2000 Michael Chabon, "The God of Dark Laughter," 2001 China Mieville, "Details," 2002 Michael Cisco, "The Genius of Assassins," 2002 Neil Gaiman, "Feeders and Eaters," 2002 Jeff VanderMeer, "The Cage," 2002 Jeffrey Ford, "The Beautiful Gelreesh," 2003 Thomas Ligotti, "The Town Manager," 2003 Brian Evenson, "The Brotherhood of Mutilation," 2003 Mark Samuels, "The White Hands," 2003 Daniel Abraham, "Flat Diana," 2004 Margo Lanagan, "Singing My Sister Down," 2005 (Australia) T.M. Wright, "The People on the Island," 2005 Laird Barron, "The Forest," 2007 Liz Williams, "The Hide," 2007 Reza Negarestani, "The Dust Enforcer," 2008 (Iran) Micaela Morrissette, "The Familiars," 2009 Steve Duffy, "In the Lion's Den," 2009 Stephen Graham Jones, "Little Lambs," 2009 K.J. Bishop, "Saving the Gleeful Horse," 2010 (Australia) |
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| Re: Weird Fiction That looks interesting. Some well-loved authors and stories in there for me. Saki's Sredni Vashtar; James' Casting the Runes; Bradbury; Kafka; Ben Okri; Joyce Carol Oates; Koja; Angela Carter. Daphne Du Maurier and Tiptree as well. Not buying much at the minute and I have several of these stories anyway, so I won't be going out to buy this. However, I like the list. Having enjoyed several of the stories included, I might go and look at some of the other authors, especially the more modern ones that I haven't got around to reading yet. Thanks for this, J-Sun and Fried Egg. |
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The inclusion of the Butler surprised me, but I could probably cook up a rationalization if not a rationale, so I'm curious to see what the Vandermeers say about it. Ditto Michael Shea's "The Autopsy," which is a terrific blend of s.f. and horror; again, I could come up with my own reasons, but I do stumble at the question, if this, why not "Who Goes There?" by John W. Campbell, Jr., which seems to me a sort of template for this story. There are definite tonal differences between the two, and I wonder if that's what the Vandermeers focused on. As for the Tiptree story. I haven't read that one, but I would nominate her "The Man Who Walked Home" as weird and, maybe, "The Girl Who Was Plugged In," the former providing, for me, that sense of cosmic awe (coupled with sadness) that Lovecraft spoke of and occasionally achieved, while the latter puts you pretty nearly in the mind of a delusional young woman. Randy M. | |
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| Re: Weird Fiction Some very good stories there. Nice to see some of the relatively lesser known foreign giants like Buzzati, Akutagawa, Cortazar, etc although I would have chosen different stories to represent them in a couple of cases. Also nice to see Borges there, whose vast contribution to weird fiction has long been ignored IMO. Some of the writers I've never heard of, which is always exciting. A few names that I would have added: Edogawa Rampo, Kobo Abe, Horacio Quiroga, Roland Topor, and Paul Bowles. Rampo and Bowles wrote two of the most powerful pieces of weird fiction I've ever read, though in both cases no supernatural element was present. Quiroga also wrote some exceedingly powerful and twisted tales, and was a big influence on the development of fantasy fiction in South America. On the subject of Tiptree, I've lately come to think of her as most definitely writing in the spirit of weird fiction, if not in the genre. Her short story, The Screwfly Solution, is quintessential weird horror with a science fictional veneer. Explanations are brought forward, but the threat that is faced is so overwhelming and so outside the natural experience of humankind as to evoke the starkest form of terror. Last edited by nomadman; 11th May 2012 at 02:13 PM. |
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I don't think horror is necessary for the story to be weird; weird is more often concerned with awe and wonder, from which fear sometimes stems. Randy M. | |
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| Re: Weird Fiction Ramsey Campbell has certainly made the distinction that not all horror is weird, and not all weird is horror. Lord Dunsany, for example, wrote some classic weird work, but it is not necessarily horror; while (to use his example) Thomas Harris' novels are horror, but definitely not weird.... Whilst I agree with him to a point, I think this is a modern take on what the very term "weird" means; for historically it has always carried the association with the uncanny, which is, by necessity, an idea which conveys suspense, discomfort, horror, and/or terror.... |
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Of course some aspect of the supernatural is often present in weird fiction, because it's the easiest way to evoke the strange, the outre or the incredible. But even that is not absolutely essential. Stories which play around with the reader's perception or which put them in the mind of a warped personality can achieve many of the same effects. Take Rampo's The Human Chair for example. No hint of the supernatural, not a sniff of the cosmic, just a very odd and obsessive individual who lands on a rather novel way to get close to the woman he loves... It works so well not just because it's a brilliant idea, but because it changes your perception of the everyday objects around you, and leaves you with a lingering uneasiness. Mainstream horror fiction, on the other hand, seems to aim primarily to horrify and repulse the reader, which can be done in a number of "everyday" ways, horrific murders, mutilations, child torture and so on, none of which is outside our general experience of the world, unfortunately. When the supernatural is involved it's generally in the form of unstoppable ravenous monsters, curses that result in death or calamity, and so on. Again, the intent is the same, to shock, horrify and repulse. | |
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| Re: Weird Fiction It's an amusing little conceit. I recall something of the same sort being done for sf in one of the Year's Best anthologies back in the '70s, I believe. Can't recall for certain who the writer was, though.... Of course, the actual etymology of the word puts both ideas quite out of countenance, as it meant fate or destiny. (It derives its adjectival meaning from the Norns or Fates, as in the weird sisters in Macbeth; eventually it became associated with that which was uncanny, etc.). |
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Biological interaction
Biological interactions are the effects organisms in a community have on one another. In the natural world no organism exists in absolute isolation, and thus every organism must interact with the environment and other organisms. An organism's interactions with its environment are fundamental to the survival of that organism and the functioning of the ecosystem as a whole.[1]
In ecology, biological interactions can involve individuals of the same species (intraspecific interactions) or individuals of different species (interspecific interactions). These can be further classified by either the mechanism of the interaction or the strength, duration and direction of their effects.[3] Species may interact once in a generation (e.g. pollination) or live completely within another (e.g. endosymbiosis). Effects range from consumption of another individual (predation, herbivory, or cannibalism), to mutual benefit (mutualism). Interactions need not be direct; individuals may affect each other indirectly through intermediaries such as shared resources or common enemies.
Interactions categorized by effect[edit]
Some types of relationships listed by the effect they have on each partner. '0' is no effect, '-' is detrimental, and '+' is beneficial. |
Terms which explicitly indicate the quality of benefit or harm in terms of fitness experienced by participants in an interaction are listed in the chart. There are six possible combinations, ranging from mutually beneficial through neutral to mutually harmful interactions. The level of benefit or harm is continuous and not discrete, so a particular interaction may have a range from trivially harmful through to deadly, for example. It is important to note that these interactions are not always static. In many cases, two species will interact differently under different conditions. This is particularly true in, but not limited to, cases where species have multiple, drastically different life stages.
Neutralism describes the relationship between two species which interact but do not affect each other. It describes interactions where the fitness of one species has absolutely no effect whatsoever on that of the other. True neutralism is extremely unlikely or even impossible to prove. When dealing with the complex networks of interactions presented by ecosystems, one cannot assert positively that there is absolutely no competition between or benefit to either species. Since true neutralism is rare or nonexistent, its usage is often extended to situations where interactions are merely insignificant or negligible.
Amensalism is a relationship in which a product of one organism has a negative effect on another organism.[4] It is specifically a population interaction in which one organism is harmed, while the other is neither affected nor benefited. Usually this occurs when one organism exudes a chemical compound as part of its normal metabolism that is detrimental to another organism. The bread mold penicillium is a common example; penicillium secrete penicillin, a chemical that kills bacteria. This is normally a competitive relationship, but can be amensalism where the bacteria does not compete with the fungus for the same resources. Another case of amensalism is where sheep or cattle trample grass. Whilst the presence of the grass causes negligible detrimental effects to the animals hoof, the grass suffers from being crushed.
Examples of bacterial interference:
- Bacterial interference can inhibit growth. For example, attine ants (which belong to a New World tribe) are able to take advantage of an amensalistic relationship between an actinomycete and the parasitic fungi Escovopsis. These ants cultivate a garden of a different fungal species, Leucocoprini, for their own nourishment. They also promote the growth of an actinomycete of the genus Pseudonocardia s., which produce an antimicrobial compound which inhibits the growth of Escovopsis, which would otherwise decimate their store of Leucocoprini.[5]
- New findings demonstrate another mechanism of bacterial interference called interspecific molecule synergy. This discovery is based on the evidence that there are molecules of different species which have a synergistic relationship and exert a bactericidal effect on a third species which neither has when acting independently. An example of this mechanism is the effects of the protein epiP, which is secreted by inhibitory strains of S. epidermidis which impair the formation of biofilms by S. aureus and can even destroy S. aureus biofilms. When working alone, however, the protein epiP has no bactericidal effect against S. aureus. But in synergy with hBD2 (human beta-defensin 2), a protein present in the human immune system, the two proteins working together kill S. aureus. S. aureus resides in the nasal cavities of many humans from where it can cause severe inflammation that can lead to diseases such as pneumonia, endocarditic and septicemia. Thanks to this cooperation mechanism between S. epidermidis and humans, the development of such disease can be counteracted.[4]
Competition is a mutually detrimental interaction between individuals, populations or species, but rarely between clades.[6]
Synnecrosis is a particular case in which the interaction is so mutually detrimental that it results in death, as in the case of some parasitic relationships.[citation needed] It is a rare and necessarily short-lived condition as evolution selects against it. The term is seldom used.[7]
In antagonistic interactions one species benefits at the expense of another. Predation is an interaction between organisms in which one organism captures biomass from another. It is often used as a synonym for carnivory but in its widest definition includes all forms of one organism eating another, regardless of trophic level (e.g. herbivory), closeness of association (e.g. parasitism and parasitoidism) and harm done to prey (e.g. grazing). Other interactions that cannot be classed as predation however are still possible, such as Batesian mimicry, where an organism bears a superficial similarity of at least one sort, such as a harmless plant coming to mimic a poisonous one. Intraguild predation occurs when an organism preys upon another of different species but at the same trophic level (e.g., coyotes kill and ingest gray foxes in southern California).
Ecological facilitation[edit]
The following two interactions can be classed as facilitative. Facilitation describes species interactions that benefit at least one of the participants and cause no harm to either.[8] Facilitations can be categorized as mutualisms, in which both species benefit, or commensalisms, in which one species benefits and the other is unaffected. Much of classic ecological theory (e.g., natural selection, niche separation, metapopulation dynamics) has focused on negative interactions such as predation and competition, but positive interactions (facilitation) are receiving increasing focus in ecological research.[8][9][10][11][12]
Commensalism benefits one organism and the other organism is neither benefited nor harmed. It occurs when one organism takes benefits by interacting with another organism by which the host organism is not affected. A good example is a remora living with a shark. Remoras eat leftover food from the shark. The shark is not affected in the process as remoras eat only leftover food of the shark which doesn't deplete the shark's resources.
Mutualism is an interaction between two or more species, where species derive a mutual benefit, for example an increased carrying capacity. Similar interactions within a species are known as co-operation. Mutualism may be classified in terms of the closeness of association, the closest being symbiosis, which is often confused with mutualism. One or both species involved in the interaction may be obligate, meaning they cannot survive in the short or long term without the other species. Though mutualism has historically received less attention than other interactions such as predation,[13] it is very important subject in ecology. Examples include cleaner fish, pollination and seed dispersal, gut flora and nitrogen fixation by fungi.
Interactions classified by mechanism[edit]
The term symbiosis (Greek: living together) can be used to describe various degrees of close relationship between organisms of different species. Sometimes it is used only for cases where both organisms benefit, sometimes it is used more generally to describe all varieties of relatively tight relationships, i.e. even parasitism, but not predation. Some even go so far as to use it to describe predation.[14] It can be used to describe relationships where one organism lives on or in another, or it can be used to describe cases where organisms are related by mutual stereotypic behaviors.
In either case symbiosis is much more common in the living world and much more important than is generally assumed. Almost every organism has many internal parasites. A large percentage of herbivores have mutualistic gut fauna that help them digest plant matter, which is more difficult to digest than animal prey. Coral reefs are the result of mutalisms between coral organisms and various types of algae that live inside them. Most land plants and thus, one might say, the very existence of land ecosystems rely on mutualisms between the plants which fix carbon from the air, and Mycorrhyzal fungi which help in extracting minerals from the ground. The evolution of all eukaryotes (plants, animals, fungi, protists) is believed to have resulted from a symbiosis between various sorts of bacteria: endosymbiotic theory.
Competition can be defined as an interaction between organisms or species, in which the fitness of one is lowered by the presence of another. Limited supply of at least one resource (such as food, water, and territory) used by both usually facilitates this type of interaction, although the competition may also exist over other 'amenities', such as females for reproduction (in case of male organisms of the same species).[13] Competition is one of many interacting biotic and abiotic factors that affect community structure. Competition among members of the same species is known as intraspecific competition, while competition between individuals of different species is known as interspecific competition.
Interspecific competition is normally not as fierce as intraspecific competition, unless in case of a sudden drastic change. However, it is the most conspicuous competition in grasslands, where, for example, cheetahs and hyenas are often killed by lion prides. Competition is not always a straightforward, direct interaction either, and can occur in both a direct and indirect fashion.
Competition between species at the same trophic level of an ecosystem, who have common predators, increases drastically if the frequency of the common predator in the community is decreased by a large margin. The magnitude of competition therefore depends on many factors in the same ecosystem.
According to the competitive exclusion principle, species less suited to compete for resources should either adapt or die out. According to evolutionary theory, this competition within and between species for resources plays a critical role in natural selection.
See also[edit]
- ^ Elton, C.S. 1968 reprint. Animal ecology. Great Britain: William Clowes and Sons Ltd.
- ^ Charles L. Nunn, Vanessa O. Ezenwa,Christian Arnold and Walter D. Koenig (2011). "Mutualism or parasitism? phylogentic approach to characterize the oxpecker-ungulate relationship". Evolution 65 (5): 1297–1304. doi:10.1111/j.1558-5646.2010.01212.x
- ^ Wootton, JT; Emmerson, M (2005). "Measurement of Interaction Strength in Nature". Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics 36: 419–44. JSTOR 30033811.
- ^ a b Willey, Joanne M.; Sherwood, Linda M. and Woolverton Cristopher J. (2011). "Microbiology". Prescott's, 30: 713-738.
- ^ Tadayuki Iwase, Yoshio Uehara, Hitomi Shinji, Akiko Tajima, Hiromi Seo, Koji Takada, Toshihiko Agata Yoshimitsu Mizunoe (2010). "Staphylococcus epidermidis Esp inhibits Staphylococcus aureus biofilm formation and nasal colonization". Nature 465 (7296): 346–349. doi:10.1038/nature09074. PMID 20485435
- ^ Sahney, S., Benton, M.J. and Ferry, P.A. (2010). "Links between global taxonomic diversity, ecological diversity and the expansion of vertebrates on land" (PDF). Biology Letters 6 (4): 544–547. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2009.1024. PMC 2936204. PMID 20106856.
- ^ Lidicker W. Z. (1979). "A Clarification of Interactions in Ecological Systems". BioScience 29: 475–477. doi:10.2307/1307540. JSTOR 1307540.
- ^ a b Stachowicz, J. J. 2001. Mutualism, facilitation, and the structure of ecological communities. BioScience '51': 235-246.
- ^ Boucher, D. H., S. James, and K. H. Keeler. 1982. The ecology of mutualism. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 13: 315-347.
- ^ Callaway, R. M. 1995. Positive interactions among plants (Interpreting botanical progress). The Botanical Review 61: 306-349.
- ^ Bruno, J. F., J. J. Stachowicz, and M. D. Bertness. 2003. Inclusion of facilitation into ecological theory. TREE 18: 119-125.
- ^ Tirado, R. and F. I. Pugnaire. 2005. Community structure and positive interactions in constraining environments. OIKOS 111: 437-444.
- ^ a b Begon, M., J.L. Harper and C.R. Townsend. 1996. Ecology: individuals, populations, and communities, Third Edition. Blackwell Science Ltd., Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
- ^ Surindar Paracer and Vernon Ahmadjian, "Symbiosis: An Introduction to Biological Associations" Oxford University Press. 2nd Ed. 2000. ISBN 0-19-511806-5
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Welcome back and a core if we have Lee Greenwood hair -- is you reforms -- the -- but we are talking actually about.
His new book so welcome thank you very much and that very fittingly played that -- because the title of your new book to god still bless the USA.
A -- for a better America itself.
This is your first look great first -- so tell us about it and what inspired you to write this now.
-- as you know god bless USA has been such an anthem for the last well going to be thirty years next year that I wrote in 1983.
And it's -- have a life of its own.
It does pose the statement god does bless the USA.
However the book I decide to ask the question.
Are -- so Christian nation are we changing so much that we're not be the same people as we used to be.
And lots of facts and details in the book about who we are where we came from to a kind of support the theory that christianity was born in the nation -- -- patriots.
And also I was asking so you say it's an inspirational work examining America's challenges.
And future.
So whereas some people you know they're writing they're they're expressing their season and everything in the book.
Do you hope this inspires what do you hope that is that readers take away from it.
Well first I hope it -- unity I mean I hope -- awakens the patriots of America who.
Believe that that we are still Christian nation and if you go somewhere in another part of the world -- in Europe -- wherever.
You're gonna see different faiths but when I always believed that we were Christian nation from the beginning.
It's gonna ask the question but I I don't get the answer and I just -- coming over here today.
Maybe -- -- get your viewers to poll if I can pull your viewers and have them go ahead and email you an email me at my website -- in the dot com tell me what you think.
Give me a yes or no is god still important in the United States or in real irrelevant like some people think so.
Sure and if they let him answer on the live chat right now -- happy to continue the conversation here.
Or on your website as a patriarch and now there's more personal thing about the endorsements so far this book you gotten some great comments.
Yeah and about yeah.
Where unsolicited you know I I I think President Bush.
Senior who is.
I've worked on his campaign you know over the lot -- -- put them at the White House Reba McEntire who was on the label -- that MCA for fourteen years.
Have an unsolicited she is -- she -- -- she heard about to have Chuck Norris a good friend of mine.
Who has a wonderful ranch in Texas where he helps kids it.
You know -- his program kicked drugs out of America for so so very important and -- -- over 600 children so have endorsement from him Michael W.
My pastor.
And so I think there's there's some.
There's some just the people that I thought an at large broad walk of life that it may be saved this book is relevant.
And also -- your white.
Forgive me here she helped you with the book let's talk about that what's also good in this book thanks to her.
Thank you -- I've been married twenty years now she's gorgeous woman she was.
-- Tennessee and she.
Had that I have big hands initially my senior editor as she was the -- -- had a double major in college so she's very well qualified.
-- help me structure my thoughts and we pored over the sentences and paragraphs and you know to make sure that we had said the right thing tiger a lot of credit.
If you look at the back of the book their prayers and the patriot a thirty day calendar which she wrote herself.
And and my co author -- tape from Oklahoma a biblical scholar.
Helped us through Bible verses reinforce every -- prayer so if you need that going back and I find that.
And -- also thought.
To sons and we're proud of of course I've got four different recordings of god bless the USA.
And I decided to have one of my own and that take publishing -- please put it in the -- source -- well I will feel let me put an additional song.
So I put -- praise and worship song called show me the way that I wrote last month and so it's included in the book if you buy the book you can download both for free there's a code that you can get.
And thank god bless the USA obviously.
Such a recognizable song do you use still enjoy it performing at now as much as ever anyone -- the reaction then you get when you would start playing out of the show.
What you know when the song for start.
That and I think the strange and there's a little bit kill it that that goes on my back because I I remember we first.
Recorded it and and we first put on stage I remember every tour of -- for the US so I remember every event that may it was baseball football game NASCAR.
You know aunts and just small places that I've sang it.
How much it means to so many people and and I always -- to do the best I possibly can and I never get -- And let's talk I know I have -- -- gets sent up that there is a new album coming out.
So let's talk about that when in fact coming out and what's included on there and I know that you kind of -- -- you re playing the saxophone honest to.
He had little bit of everything.
It follows a book by a month will be out again it's called I wanna be your world and -- wrote three songs on the album which.
Actually go to gives us it's the three decades.
Which wounded heart I wrote.
Ten years ago and I and here comes -- there goes my heart twenty years ago.
The title song I wanna be in your world is I wrote just about 34 months ago.
There's also a song that was written by Michael McDonald and Kenny -- which I think and Michael commend the city and -- for me in Franklin where we live kind of cool.
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Mon, Sep 02, 2013 | 03:33 BST
Whore of the Orient title sparks potential Human Rights Commission complaint
City of Monash councillor Jieh-Yung Lo has called for Team Bondi to change the title of its next game, Whore of the Orient, and will take the matter to the Human Rights Commission if necessary.
Mon, Sep 02, 2013 | 03:26 BST
Whore of the Orient leaked gameplay footage emerges
Although its future has been in doubt for a while now, leaked gameplay footage for Team Bondi's Whore of the Orient has popped up online.
Fri, Jun 21, 2013 | 14:20 BST
Whore of the Orient receives $200,000 in funding from NSW Interactive Media Fund
Whore of the Orient, the Team Bondi game which has been in limbo since a rumored round of lay-offs and the inability to find a publisher, has received a round of government funding.
Thu, Apr 18, 2013 | 10:22 BST
LA Noire developer shuttered – rumour
Multiple reports suggests the development group formerly known as Team Bondi has been let go after the LA Noire studio was unable to find a publisher for new project Whore of the Orient.
Wed, Nov 14, 2012 | 23:11 GMT
Whore of the Orient job ads show 2015 completion date
Whore of the Orient, the new game from the team behind L.A. Noire, is apparently expected in 2015.
Thu, Aug 30, 2012 | 14:37 BST
Whore of the Orient: LA Noire team's new PS4, Xbox 720 game detailed
Whore of the Orient is the next game from LA Noire developer Team Bondi. It's heading to next-gen consoles. The team has also revealed the game's first screenshot.
Mon, Nov 28, 2011 | 10:20 GMT
L.A. Noire creator's next game is Whore of the Orient
Kennedy Miller Mitchell Interactive will develop Brendan McNamara's next game, Whore of the Orient.