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🐾 Artifice (The Silver Ships Book 12); by S. H. Jucha; narrated by Grover Gardner) - 3.0 Stars
🐾 Sojourn (The Silver Ships Book 13); by S. H. Jucha; narrated by Grover Gardner) - 3.0 Stars
🐾 Space Opera (by Catherynne M. Valente; narrated by Heath Miller) - 2.0 Stars
🐾 Frankenstein (by Mary Shelley; narrated by Dan Stevens) - 4.0 Stars
🐾 Dracula (by Bram Stoker; narrated by Steven Crossley, Alan Cumming, Tim Curry, Susan Duerden, Katherine Kellgren, John Lee, Graeme Malcolm and, Simon Vance) - 4.0 Stars
🐾 The Strain (The Strain Trilogy #1; by Guillermo del Toro; narrated by Ron Perlman) - 3.0 Stars
🐾 Song of Solomon (written and narrated by Toni Morrison) - 4.0 Stars
🐾 The Grapes of Wrath (by John Steinbeck; narrated by Dylan Baker - 4.0 Stars
🐾 Currently Listening to A Tale of Two Cities (by Charles Dickens; narrated by Anton Lesser)
I want to listen A Scarlet Letter (by Nathanial Hawthorne) and, I've listened a lot of samples but I can't quite land on any that sound like "it."
Has anyone here listened to the book and can make a recommendation (either positive or negative)?
And perhaps I should have waited a little longer before starting the next audiobook I had in my queue, Daisy Jones and the Six (by Taylor Jenkins Reid; narrated by a full cast including Jennifer Beals, Benjamin Bratt, Judy Greer, January LaVoy, Pablo Schreiber and Julia Whelan (I know I'm missing some people in there...) This is an oral history of a fictional rock band in the late sixties/early seventies who broke up at the height of their success. There was a lot of hype around this one: It's a best seller; was chosen by Reese Witherspoon for her reading club; and it has a pretty high rating on Litsy (90%)-- but it's not as much fun as I thought it would be. I'll still stick it out though and see if I can't blast through it this weekend. I was to get to the next audiobook on my list, Tom Jones (by Henry Fielding; narrated by Bill Homewood for the LT Category Quarterly Group Read!
It looks like a few of us are listening to Bill Homewood narrate Tom Jones for the group read. Nice. I do love to listen to long books. I wish A Suitable Boy was available in unabridged audio. I'd be thrilled it it was available in Kindle for US market. If I'm listening to the entire Sherlock Holmes in 6 parts I'm sure they could have done something with ASB. I still have Educated by Tara Westover going. It's been a bit rough for me to listen to, but I want to see where it's going.
>10 Tanya-dogearedcopy: I loved A Tale of Two Cities, but I read it, not listened. My library has the gorgeous Penguin clothbound classics copy with Madame Defarge's knitting on the cover.
>11 luvamystery65: Yeah, I wish A Suitable Boy was available on audio too! In my mind, I've cast Vikas Adam to narrate it... Sigh.
>11 luvamystery65: I love the Penguin Deluxe Editions! I currently only have a couple of the paperback editions though.
Also, I want the book of Penguin covers:https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01FRSZC6Q/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
>18 majkia: I listened to the first book a few years ago and never went back to them. This would make a great commute series.
>19 Tanya-dogearedcopy: I'm slowly making my way through Tom Jones. I'v been binge watching Netflix, but I'm starting my Assessment course so I'll get back to my audiobooks.
>20 Kristelh: Love Tracey Ullman!
As I said above, I'm still listening to Tom Jones.
In any case, I've started this one, anyway, so I'm listening to:
The Night Sister / Jennifer McMahon
Well this is fun! Bob in the twenty-first century is killed in Las Vegas and, per his wishes is cryogenically frozen. Fast forward three hundred years and he wakes up on a lab table-- not quite himself ;-) This is a science fiction romp through space, time and, pop culture references as Bob becomes legion. Ray Porter, the audiobook narrator, nails it :-)
I've put a small pause on Tom Jones this week. I'm listening to The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn and I've got Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke queued up for the weekend.
Next up for me is The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver, narrated by CJ Critt.
>44 Tanya-dogearedcopy: I do love a well done celebrity narration.
>45 DeltaQueen50: Beach Boys seem like a train wreck in real life.
>46 Kristelh: How was Trawl? I have an anthology of B.S. Johnson I keep meaning to get to.
>47 Tanya-dogearedcopy: Juliet Stevenson is so absolutely fantastic on audio. She doesn't put me to sleep, but she does relax me and I do find myself deeply invested in the story.
I'm still listening to The Woman in the Window. I'm not too sure about this one. How many times can merlot be used in the story? Yikes! Also listening to Bluebird, Bluebird which I am really into. I finished Storm Cursed the latest in the Mercy Thompson series. This is the first one I've listened to. I like the narrator, Lorelei King, but I do love reading them as that is the format I am used to. I have my own voices in my head for this series.
I forgot to report back here how much I loved the audible version of The Bean Trees, I was so taken with this story that I have already purchased the sequel, Pigs in Heaven also read by the same narrator, CJ Critt.
Currently I am listening to Huck Out West by Robert Coover and read by Eric Michael Summerer.
Now I'm starting The Jungle (by Upton Sinclair; narrated by Grover Gardner) . - I've read this one in print once or twice but it's time for a re-read! I know it's a hard going in a gut-wrenching way so I plan on listening to it in small doses. Hopefully I'll have finished it by the end of the Labor Day weekend.
UPDATE: I'm putting 'The Jungle' on hold. My head space just isn't in the right place for it right now. I need light and fluffy fare for a few days.
What ever happened to Jeff Woodman?
"A Case of Identity: A Short Story from Sherlock Holmes: The Baker Street Dozen" (by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; performed by John Gielguld, Ralph Richardson and, Orson Welles) - Mary Sutherland makes an appearance at the Baker Street apartments, begging Sherlock to find out what happened to her fiancé. Mary suspects foul play as the intended groom had boarded a closed carriage headed to the church; but when the doors were opened at the destination he wasn't inside! This is a radio play with Gielguld as Sherlock and Richardson as Watson. Welles presents but I'm not immediately finding out who played Mary. Vintage stuff and entertaining, though not one of my favorite Sherlock cases as the resolution is a bit too absurd!
Mad Mouse (John Ceepak Mysteries #2; by Chris Grabenstein; narrated by Jeff Woodman) - Taking place a few weeks after the events in Tilt-a-Whirl and over the Labor Day weekend, this follows Danny, the junior partner to Police Officer John Ceepak as they do their duty by the citizens and tourists of the resort town of Sea Haven, NJ. Someone is sniping at Danny and his friends with paint gun pellets and real-live bullets! Though Ceepak and Danny race against a deadline to discover who and why, this isn't really a Whodunnit. Light character development: We begin to see more of Ceepak as other than a cardboard cut-out figure and, Danny starts to mature. Jeff woodman narrates as Danny with ease though there are times he can't quite make up for some of the awkward writing.
Alien: River of Pain (Alien #3 or #4 depending on which index you consult) by Christopher Golden; performed by Anna Friel, Philip Glenister, Colin Salmon; Alexander Siddig, Marc Warren, Michelle Ryan and William Hope) - This is the back story of Newt-- so there wasn't much of Ridley in this installment of the Alien series. The Alien series is a trilogy of books that serve as interstitial tales between the movies. In this one, the colony on LV-426 is caught up in the fight for survival on a hostile moon and the corporation that has undue influence with the whole operation. Now, a Pandora's Box of xenomorphs has been opened... This audio drama is not as cleanly produced as the first one Audible Studios produced: A couple of odd pauses, alien sounds that don't quite terrify, Newt's brother inexplicably having an Irish accent, not being able to distinguish characters in a couple of places and, overall the pacing seems a bit off.
The Spinning Heart (by Donal Ryan; narrated by Wayne Farrell) - This is a lit-fic story set in a small town in Ireland after the housing bust there a few years ago. Events and characters are revealed through twelve different characters and show acts and people of quiet heroism and acts of desperation. Wayne Farrell deftly handles all the roles but I have to admit that I wasn't as impressed this time as I was when I first listened to this six year ago.
Next Up: The Thing About December (by Donal Ryan; narrated by Wayne Farrell - This is the story of an event and person referred to in The Spinning Heart. Though it takes place before TSH, it's really not a prequel so much as background. Told from a single POV this time and narrated by the same reader from TSH. I'm re-listening TSH and TTAD to refresh my memory before listening to A Slanting of the Sun; Stories which is set in the same time and place as the other two audiobooks.
Edit: and by "embarking" I mean "I read 2/3 of it on the train home on Monday and will finish it within the next month".
Edit: turns out it's a full-cast dramatization. Stephen Fry plays Pooh, which is an interesting choice because Stephen is so erudite and Pooh is a bear of very little brain.
I finished The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn and while I liked the narration well enough, I found the book a bit ridiculous. I'm back to listening to Tom Jones for the group read and I'm in the mood to listen to The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman again.
A Mother's Reckoning by Sue Klebold.
Right now, I'm stuck on Dark Life Book 1 (by Kat Falls; narrated by Keith Nobbs) - I meant to knock it out of the way and get on with The Thing About December (by Donal Ryan; narrated by Wayne Farrell) but I've really been struggling to get some decent listening time in recently. I need to finish it this week though so I can finish off Tom Jones (by Henry Fielding; narrated by Bill Homewood) on time!
>59 majkia: Sounds like a good one. Looks like it will be a trilogy. I listened to a sample. How is the narrator? I'm unfamiliar with him although I see he has narrated many books.
>61 LibraryCin: I really liked The Birds and I bet it was a really great dramatization.
>62 Tanya-dogearedcopy: I agree that BBC Radio does know how to do dramatizations well. I have about 10 hours left with Mr. Tom Jones.
After the collapse of the Eastern seaboard into the rising oceans, people start colonizing the ocean floor. With classic pioneer spirit, they attempt to forge a future with its unique challenges inherent to underwater life. Against this backdrop, fifteen year-old Ty loves to explore but comes across more than he bargained for-- including a Top Sider named Gemma, a dangerous outlaw who is more than he appears to be and, a political conspiracy! But overall, it was just okay. Though the settings and world-building are well-done, the plot itself does not offer any surprises.
Now I can turn my attention to the rest of Tom Jones (by Henry Fielding; narrated by Bill Homewood)!
I finished Tom Jones and I enjoyed it so much. I'm back to Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke. Now that I finished Tom Jones, I'll get back to Sherlock Holmes. I also have in my near future The Witch Elm by Tana French. It's my book club choice for November and I'm hosting. Trying to find something else creepy to listen to for October.
I then tackled The October Man (Rivers of London #7.5; by Ben Aaronovitch; narrated by Sam Peter Jackson - This was meant to be something of a palate cleanser as this urban fantasy series is known for its clever and fun writing; But this was definitely a miss for me. Set in Maintz, Germany, a wizard-detective on par to Peter Grant in London, is assigned to a case in which a a man is discovered has having suffocated by a very fast-growing mold. Vineyards and wine-making, river goddesses and revenants are all brought in but I never got a sense of the detective himself. Despite the short length of the audio (less than 4.5 hours) I somehow missed the wizard-detective 's name, description and background! Sam Peter Jackson sounds like a British narrator with excellent fluency in German--but I think I might have been better off reading this one rather than listening. 2/5 stars
Yesterday, I listened to Redshirts (by John Scalzi; narrated by Wil Wheaton) fit the bill! This is a satire of the Star Trek series: Its suspect science and technology, lazy plotting devices and, overall campiness. In a future time in a distant galaxy, five ensigns on a spaceship twig on to the fact that there's something very suspicious about the away team assignments! The whole adventure gets very meta (not the least of which is having Wil Wheaton narrate! :-D ) and is actually a lot of fun.
I suppose if I wanted to pay US prices for an Audible membership that would work, too. But, since without a membership I can no longer get Audible books for prices I am willing to pay, that doesn't work anymore (and Audible.ca does not work if I want to transfer my book to a different device, though Audible.com does work for that).
Publishers (apparently, from what someone at one site told me when I contacted them because I couldn't find the answer) apparently don't want to allow the transfer of books. I guess it's an agreement with the publishers (so they told me) that won't allow it.
Overdrive allows it for library books, so I keep hoping I'll find a site where I might be able to buy them that will allow it as well (you'd think if you paid for it, that would be more likely not less, but here it is...)
This Body's Not Big Enough for Both of Us (by Edgar Cantero; narrated by January LaVoy) - This a parody of the detective noir genre and features twins who are co-mingled genetically in the same body. It's all so weird and bizarre that I'm honestly a little uncomfortable when I laugh (am I supposed to find this or that part funny?) I just don't know what to make of the plot, the characters, the design and tone of the narrative.. so I'm not going to rate it for now. I do know that I am hesitant to pick up another book by this author so there's that strike against it. But on the audiobook side of things, January LaVoy!
I've finished Fated and it was a nice distraction for me while I was writing papers for school. I'm still listening to The Return of Sherlock Holmes and I'll likely listen to some Ray Bradbury next.
I'm trying to write two papers in two weeks so I may be absent next week. Keep our thread warm please! ;-)
I've started listening to The Long Walk (by Stephen King; narrated by Kirby Heyborne.) This is a story about one hundred sixteen-year old boys who sign up for a long distance walk. Apparently, the winner reaps great rewards but the losers get "ticketed out"-- a euphemism for being executed. This is one of the Bachman novels, early in King's career so the technology is a bit dated and voided by current computer developments but the good news is, is that it's not about the tech but the psychological aspects of the race. I'm also interested in seeing how the race came into being in the first place. The narrator sounds like a teenager, which is good for the narrative, but not so much as he reads the introduction written from King's POV. Also, this isn't really unabridged. All the quotes that serve as chapter epigrams have been removed. If you didn't know that that they were supposed to be there, you probably wouldn't notice the absence; but if you do know, then you can't help but feel the loss of the tone cues.
Hello lovely people! I'm still working on my final paper of the term. It's intense, but I see the light at the end of the tunnel. I've binged listened to the Alex Verus series by Benedict Jacka. It's an urban fantasy, modern fantasy series that takes place in the UK. They are the perfect listen right now. Kind of like junk food for my brain. Right now I'm finally listening to The Witch Elm by Tana French. It is this months selection for my book club. I love Tana French. This one is so different from her police procedural novels. Still it's good so far. Paul Nugent is the narrator and he is doing a great job.
I hope all is well for everyone.
Shall we keep this going for next year? I've enjoyed our recommendations and checking in on what everyone is listening to. If yes, I'll start us up in the new year instead of early like I did last year. We can keep this thread running until the end of the year.
I'm in the middle of Watership Down, by Richard Adams, narrated by Peter Capaldi. I've read the book before, so this is a re-read.
It's only been in the last year and a half or so that I've been listening to audio books. I started out by borrowing audio books on cd from my library system, but broke down and got a subscription to Audible when there was a really good deal this summer. It's rare that I only listen to a book (The Book Thief is a major exception) - I listen primarily in the car and it sometimes drives me crazy not to be able to continue with the story.
I'm currently listening to Bolt by Dick Francis, narrated by Simon Prebble.
>96 DeltaQueen50: The audios have been my saving grace this year Judy. I do believe I would have been so stressed out had I not been able to listen to books at the very least on my commute to work.
>97 LibraryCin: I don't listen to a lot of non-fiction on audio, but I do think I would probably enjoy it. I'm going to try to get more in next year.
>98 Tanya-dogearedcopy: Will do!
>99 Dejah_Thoris: Welcome! It's good to see you around these parts. I myself have been scarce, but this is probably the best place to find me.
I finished The Witch Elm by Tana French. Wow, she surely does not disappoint. I prefer her Dublin Murder Squad series, but she is such an incredible writer. Her ability to build tension and her group dynamics are so masterful. I've started back up with the latest Alex Verus novel, Fallen. I'm going to finish up the year with Sherlock Holmes and possibly something for Christmas. I'm thinking The Woman in Black by Susan Hill since it starts on Christmas Eve.
Anyone else have plans to read/listen to something holiday themed next month?
I would love to able to get Donal Ryan's A Slanting of the Sun in before the end of the year. We'll see...
But nothing holiday themed on my radar.
Listening to The Valley of Fear by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle when I'm able.
ETA: I did speed the narrator up, turning the speed to 1.25% and found that much better. I ended up loving this story!


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TEMPOROMANDIBULAR JOINT (TMJ)
The Temporomandibular Joint (TMJ) is one of the most amazing and complicated joints in the entire body. While many joints fit together tightly like the ball-and-socket of the shoulder, others have limited movements like the elbow to hold them in place. Unlike the others, the TMJ has no socket but merely a depression in the base of the skull in which the condyle of your mandible (lower jawbone) rests. Muscles and ligaments are all that hold it in place. The condyle also uses contours of the skull to slide in all directions. There is an Articular Disc between the bones to facilitate this sliding and rotating motion in all directions. The entire joint is encapsulated and under certain conditions, may be susceptible to problems. Because of this amazing joint’s multiple moving parts and its dependency upon muscles and ligaments for stability, diagnosing and treating TMD symptoms can be challenging.
First we must decide if it is a muscle or joint problem. Sometimes it is a muscle problem causing joint pain, and vice versa, joint problems causing muscle pain. The most common cause of problems is stress, which most people know through personal experience, is not easy to reduce. After a patient thoroughly fills out my TMJ exam questionnaire, has x-rays taken (when indicated), has a comprehensive TMJ exam performed, we can diagnose the most likely causes of the problem and treat accordingly.

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In The Flow
Workshops taught by Patrick Creelman
22nd – 24th November, 2013
R 1500 for full weekend, R 390 per individual session
Friday, November 22nd, 18:30-21:00
Follow Your Bliss – An essential ingredient to fulfilling life is to follow the bliss of our own experience while learning to adapt to new experiences. This practice is aimed at balancing familiar routines with a fresh twist to bring back an inspired light of bliss to our regular routine of Asana, and meditation. A carefully selected soundtrack of current and traditional music will accompany this practice. This flowing sequence combines all major categories of poses including standing poses, seated, twists and hip opening variations into arm balances.
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Sunday, November 24th, 14:00-16:30
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Sulgrave Manor, with the flags of Great Britain and the United States of America flying on opposite ends.
It seemed appropriate that our last outing to the English countryside, before we repatriate to America, would be to the ancestral home of the first president of the United States.
George Washington's forefathers were, of course, from England, but he was born in the colonies, in what is now the state of Virginia. His great-grandfather John Washington emigrated on a ship from England, bringing goods to the colonies since they weren't allowed to manufacture anything (really?). When the ship's manifest of tobacco, bound for England on the return journey, was lost, he was blamed. He sought refuge from a local landowner, Nathanial Pope, and ended up marrying his daughter and inheriting land near the Potomac River.
Thus was George Washington born in the United States, rather than at the family's ancestral home near Banbury on the edge of Oxfordshire.
Sulgrave Manor was built in Tudor times, and the original owner was Lawrence Washington, who married well twice and found himself in need of property fitting his social situation. The current house was modified over the years. Half of the original Tudor home burned sometime in the 17th century, leaving a house that's a bit of a hodgepodge, as English country estates typically are.
In 1914 the British Peace Centenary Committee purchased the manor to celebrate 100 years of peace between Britain and America, using funds raised on both sides of the Atlantic. It's now a historical property available for tours and weddings, with a special appeal for curious American tourists like us.
When we arrived, we were greeted by one of the Sulgrave tour guides. After paying our dues, I struck up a conversation with the woman, who mentioned that she was a Tudor historian. After learning I was from America, she told me that Americans must not learn as much history as the British do. I started to explain that we Americans focus on different histories, including the history of our individual states and the Americas, but then I let her go on thinking we were a bunch of ignorant savages. It's more fun that way, I've found: Never let yourself be overestimated by the natives.
Later on, as the tour started, I learned from another tour guide that George Washington actually was a general in the War of 1812! Not, as I'd always assumed, in the War of Independence, or rather, The War In Which The Colonies Broke Away From Their Cruel Overlords. I guess we are a bunch of ignorant savages, because I had no idea George Washington served in the American Army after he was president; indeed, after his death in 1799. We colonials learn something new every day here in the Motherland.
The hour-long tour turned out to be two hours and counting, because the Tudor enthusiast I'd first met couldn't resist joining the tour and sharing every facet of Tudor life experienced in the manor house. I guess she felt it was her duty to educate us ignorant Americans, and I was grateful for that. My previous visits to Hampton Court Palace, Hardwick Hall, Basing House, and numerous other Tudor sites, as well as several history courses at Oxford, didn't include all those details about Tudor food. After all these ten year living here, I finally learned about all the uses for dead mice in Tudor times.
Seriously, I would have quite enjoyed the lengthy tour if we hadn't been in a hurry to leave, as we had to take care of pre-moving business later in the day. These last few weeks have been filled with moments like that: I realize I should be enjoying my last outings in this beautiful and historically rich country, but my mind has been filled with all the logistics of a trans-Atlantic move. I wish there were a shipping company like John Washington's who would just take me and my household goods and most importantly, my dog, straight across the Atlantic, with the impressed sailors from the colonies along to provide protection.
Oops. I was wrong about the origins of the War of 1812, which was started, as we were surprised to learn, because the "Americans wanted to go to war" after the White House was burned. Yep. We were a war-like bunch of colonials even then. The impressment of American sailors had nothing to do with it. Apparently.
Oddly, I noted that this was the only time I've ever heard the War of 1812 mentioned here, and when it was, they had the facts all wrong. (Notice the date for the burning of the White House, 200 years ago today, after the war of 1812 began in—wait for it—1812.) I suspect they don't study American history here.
And thus my last visit to a historical property here brought me full circle to my roots in my homeland, established by those who fled these shores either by duress or by the force of hope offered by a new land. (Or perhaps by a desire to never have to learn history.) I, too, am leaving under duress, yet I have budding hope that my life in what is my "old country" will be prosperous.
Or that, at the very least, I'll be able to manufacture my own textiles.
Some photos of Sulgrave Manor:
This emblem on the front wall of Sulgrave was, perhaps, the inspiration for the Stars and Stripes. Or perhaps not.
The Great Hall, a Tudor room that was uncovered when Sulgrave was restored.
Gilbert Stuart's portrait of George Washington, one of many that the artist reproduced.
"George Washington as a Younger Man" by Archibald Robertson
Some examples of Tudor and Georgian food on display in the Tudor kitchen
George Washinton's liquor cabinet
The garden at Sulgrave Manor
A last glimpse of the Union Jack flying at Sulgrave Manor

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AG: Well, let’s get on to the actual texts, finally. One line I liked (page 39 0f Selected Poems).. did any of you get to read any of this? in advance? – Raise your hand if you did. Anybody not familiar with it at all? Are these books unavailable or something? They were in the library, or two of them..
Student: No, they are walking off the reserve shelf.
AG: There is a back. You have to go in the back and look. It’s the same thing, except you go in the back. It’s dismaying, I don’t know why she (the librarian did that, but..
Student: Somebody took the..(rearranged the)..
Student: Philosophy, Psychology (section)..
AG: Ah, oh, it’s really hard..Well..
(So). At the end of a poem called “Intersection”, there’s one great line. (“my house in the cracks of the pavement !”) – A lot of this was very much influenced by grass. This.. the dates on these I’m not quite sure actually, let’s see if they’ve got them.. (19)48-(19)61 – Trance Ports, it’s called (the section of the book is called Trance – T-R-A-N-C-E – Ports, ports of call in trance, also transports – (a) pun. So this section of the book would be our own time, or there’s the time we’re studying, so I’ll just go through some of that section. It’s at the end of one poem, an earlier one – [Allen begins reading] – “I’m thinking then/ a chain of words/ breaking at the fistfall of words.. – it’s page 38 – “I’m thinking then/ a chain of words/ breaking at the fistfall of words/ I’m thinking green funnels of light..” – he’s high on grass – “I’m thinking green funnels of light/sifting white water/flown in blue/that cut a breast of honey to free the air/ Here/ take my breath/out of all the cities I haven’t seen/from quick pleasures I haven’t noticed/ from a room without doors I wouldn’t want to leave…” – So it’s very contradictory, the opposite of ..sort of funny negatives – “out of all the cities I haven’t seen…”…”..In a secret room I dream/ the eye of the father closing/the eye of the mother closing/ the eye of the daughter/ opened” – almost naturalistic, the old folks die, the young folks live, (it) could make sense if you wanted, or, it could just be Surrealist movies – “They look to the winter sun/ that lifted a golden reef into the clouds…”….”I’m thinking/ going down the street” – “going down the street” becomes Surrealist – “I’m thinking/ going down the street” – and there’s some kind of tea-high, grass head – “I’m thinking/ going down the street/not long to be seen/ not wide enough to be missed/ my house in the cracks of the pavement!” – that’s a very interesting image, the idea of, you know, somebody – everybody’s gotten high? – like your house is in the cracks of the pavement, that your attention is so microscopic that you get lost in the cracks in the pavement, you know – “My house is in the cracks of the pavement” – also, it’s like.. there’s a Whitmanic statement too, you could say, that my house… or “Saxifrage is my flower that splits the rocks”– or a (William Carlos) Williams statement – What would that mean? sort of like a free spirit, or American Indian spirit, or free spirit, not exactly a hobo spirit, but a spiritual spirit, that inhabits all places and goes everywhere and doesn’t have a home, doesn’t have a bourgeois home, doesn’t have a middle-class home, has no habitation but the cracks in the pavement – or it could be…It’s like “I pump him full of lost watches” – My permanent home is in the times cracking up the city. It could be..
Student: Saxi-frage means break-rock.
AG: Yeah, uh-huh. I didn’t know that – frag, yes, frag-ment.
Student: Sax is rock
AG: Sax. Is that Latin?
AG: What’s the noun?
AG: Saxum? And what’s the verb?
Student: Fractar – Infraction
Student: I think Frag you get Frago Frago or Fraga Fraga… Frago Fraga or Fractus
AG: Because Fragere (frangere) is the infinitive
AG: Saxifrage. That’s a line of Williams, you know. “Saxifrage – exclamation-point -is my flower that splits the rocks”. You know, the little things in the pavements of Rutherford, New Jersey, the little flowers. That’s probably earlier, and..
“Man is in Pain”. Now this one on page 48 was published in the first City Lights Journal. So now we’re beginning to catch up to the integration of all the groups.. The City Lights Journal was a magazine edited, I guess in (19)54, by.. it still continues, but the first issue was edited by Ferlinghetti and a fellow named Peter Martin who, until about a month ago, ran a bookstore called The New Yorker Bookstore up-town at 89th Street in New York City at Broadway.
Student: It went out of business?
AG: Just recently with the decline of the book business. What?
Student: (He) couldn’t hold the rent on that place.
AG: No. And he was the nephew of Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Chairman of the Communist Party, or Secretary of the Communist Party and the son of Carlo Tresca, a famous Anarchist, killed by Mussolini, so he was like… you know Reds? ..he was like the next generation, direct bloodline of that group. So it’s interesting, there he was editing City Lights Journal, and publishing “Man is in Pain” – [Allen reads “Man is in Pain” in its entirety] – “Man is in pain/ ten bright balls bat the air/falling through the window…” …”ten bright spikes nailed to the door!” – “spikes” – this may have something to do with junk, and junk-pain and Christ, Christ-pain, the spikes. But also the tone of it is very similar to the Surrealist movies of Jean Cocteau, the movies of Dali’s, Chien Andalou, Jean Cocteau’s The Blood of A Poet were there making Surrealist appearances, like ten spikes suddenly appear on a wall or tennis-balls float backward into the air, back into the net, or.. all the images here, “the naval hook caught on the stone quarry” [“Man is in pain/with his naval hook caught on a stone quarry”] are all Surrealist images.
But then.. So this seems like just poetry or sort of, you know, dredging the unconscious, or combining the unconscious, or getting interesting allusive. But then, it gets almost cosmo-political or psycho-political – “Terror Conduction” – where you begin to get modern robotic.. he great fear, so to speak – [Allen reads Lamantia’s “Terror Conduction” in its entirety] – “The menacing machine turns on and off/ Across the distance light inflicters active infinities …”like icebergs/like music/like boats/like mechanical toys/ LIKE/ RAINING/ SWORDS!” – It’s sort of like an apocalyptic.. and the words that I was emphasizing, “LIKE/ RAINING/ SWORDS!” are all in caps on this, if you look, see the capitals. And he reads sort of that way.
Then the next is really good – “Put-down of the Whore of Babylon”, and that’s where, for me, Lamantia really came together, not merely as a Surrealist (“at the bottom of the lake, at the bottom of the lake”) but a really modern sociologic Surrealist, poet. So this is a “put-down of the Whore of Babylon”, which is to say, 20th Century mechanical heavy-metal culture – [Allen begins reading] – “Put down!” – so the title is “Put down!” or “A Hex”, a sort of magical hex, which, by this time, he’d be..”Put-down “High-voltage mires [sic] got into her jaw/ as she devoutly lit up her spine in front of Mammon/” – I think this is a misprint for “wires” actually – “as she devoutly lit up her spine in front of Mammon/…. “On the slopes of the Sierra Madre de Chihuahua/they dance night fires /cross themselves by mirrors” – you know, this is the Tarahumara Indians
Student: Is this Mexico?
AG: Yeah. Tarahumara and Chihuahua – that would be, I guess, Northern Mexico…
Student: Seventy-five miles or a hundred miles from Juarez?
AG: Lower, I think, maybe a-hundred-and fifty. There’s a.. No, actually, Chihuahua that could be.. no, actually, I was there a couple of months ago. That’s where the Tarahumara Indians are, and Antonin Artaud, the great French Surrealist poet, went on a Voyage au Pays Tarahumaras (Voyage to the Land of the Tarahumaras) and wrote a little book about that. The Tarahumara Indians take peyote, and have for centuries, and have rituals of gathering the peyote. So he went there to take peyote with them, in the early (19)30’s, I think.
AG: Antonin Artaud, yes. And in 1944, an English translation of his Voyage to the Land of the Tarahumaras was published in Transition magazine. and Transition magazine was a kind of carry-over, hold-over of the twenties and thirties avant-garde and James Joyce’s Ulysses and parts of Finnegan’s Wake, and Pound’s Cantos were published intermittently in Transition magazine
So later, there’s Artaud’s Voyage to the Land of the Tarahumara.. Artaud was a Surrealist, film-maker and film-actor also. Do you know Artaud? Have you heard of Artaud? Antonin Artaud – A-R-T-A-U-D
Student: I have that book, but it’s out now.
AG: Which was?
Student: I don’t know..
AG: Oh, Voyage To The Land of Tarahumara.. yes
Student: Well, I don’t know if it was that title. It just said something…
AG: Well, there’s an anthology put out by City Lights
Student: No, it was just a specific single book..
AG: Oh, okay
Student: …which gives (an) account of (him) eating peyote and..
AG: He was paranoid. So his problem was that he got to think that he.. (that) they were deliberately not showing him the rituals of how they went out and gathered the peyote. (probably because they thought this honkey can’t walk, or something! – because they have to walk hundreds of miles up and down)
But anyway. So.. that’s the source of this imagery, actually. Although, Philip had lived in Mexico City for a long time also, so he’d probably been around there too – “On the slopes of Sierra Madre de Chihuahua/they dance night fires/cross themselves by mirrors/blood shot emaciated men who – they themselves tell us/ FELL FROM HEAVEN! / dance – light fires – eat bitter earth fruit/in a sense like manna – O man! O man! -/ the spit of plant lice..” – “the spit the plant lice” – that’s directly from Artaud – “or black markets.in a pearl at the unheard sound..”…”NO!/NO!/NO!/not for this panic of idols coning our time/by flase angel clocks/but for the descended dove we make it to live!” – “We make it to live!” – So that was like a real manifesto, and reading, he was real vigorous and you’ve got these “NO! / NO! / NO”! – like attacking his nervous system..He’s Italian, very much Italian, from San Francisco. And also, the other part of his background is that there was this great Anarchist circle that Kenneth Rexroth, Robert Duncan, Thomas Parkinson (now Professor), Lamantia, Bill Everson, pacific-poet,printer, (Brother Antoninus), all had together in the thirties and forties, the forties in San Francisco, which led to what was called the Berkeley Renaissance, 1948, where Duncan, was studying Mediaeval history and symbolism and theology, and Timothy Leary was a young psychology student, who knew Jack Spicer, the poet (Spicer was there) and Harry Smith, the filmmaker-painter-archivist-anthologist was inventing the first machines that later turned, through Jordan Belson and Gerd Stern, turned into the light shows that later developed into the mixed-media multi-sensory thing that flourished in the ‘Sixties in San Francisco and then spread around the world.
Student: Will we still be (studying) some of this?
Student: Allen, What are those Artaud? Journals? or what?
AG: A book called Journey to the Land of the Tarahumaras — [editorial note: the translated title in English is The Peyote Dance]
Student: And City Lights just put it out?
AG: I don’t know who puts it out. I think it’s either in..
Student: I bought it in the Boulder bookstore.
AG: Right now? Is it available?
Student: I have it somewhere..
AG: No, what he needs to know..how to..
Student: Just go the Boulder Bookstore and ..
AG: You think they still will have it? after these years?
Student: I bought mine about three years ago or something
AG: So, it’s not likely they’ll still have it. So what I was suggesting is, there is a large book of translations of Artaud by Helen Weaver, Kerouac’s old girlfriend of 1957, about the time he was writing that poem on Heaven, published about five years ago by.. what’s the Catholic company?..Farrar Straus, I think ..(the) Farrar Straus anthology of Antonin Artaud, it’s about five hundred pages and it may have that in it also. [Allen turns to Student again] – You don’t remember the publisher of your pamphlet?
Student: It was a book, I don’t know.
AG: A book? A big thick book?
Student: Yeah, I have it in my box….I can go through it, or I can go to the Boulder bookstore
AG: That might be Helen Weaver…That might be Helen Weaver’s book …if it’s a hardcover?
Student: A paperback, a nice pretty psychedelic. yellow cover
Then there is.. So anything of this period of Lamantia is very thick and rich like a plum pudding, with this kind of [Allen begins reading].. ‘Mild below Saturn..shades in the meadow enlighten the cows…sea.. dogs howled… undeciphered glypghs.. blue and gold.. – very sort of interesting poetic images. Then there’s the famous “Morning Light Song”. The.. This poem (“Morning Light Song”) is maybe, for this period, his most vigorous and energetic run, in terms of a continuous stream of energy coming to a climax, just like that – “NO NO NO” – but it’s like a little orgasm in the poem, it just builds and builds and gets to be a blow-out – You’ve heard this haven’t you?
AG: Oh you never heard it? – well, it’s a great.. As he read it, it was really interesting, I’m reading more or less in.. not so much in his voice but in the rhythmic style.
Around this time he was moving into a.. a period of Christ-adoration, I would say. As an old Catholic coming off junk and going into (the) chaos of the poetic scene. he was.. (he was one of the readers.. he did share with us, during that period, before the Catholic phase (and junk phase probably later, for a while), in Mexico and Spain, he was part of that community that read with (Kenneth) Rexroth and (Philip) Whalen and (Gary) Snyder and myself and (Michael) McClure. So that in San Francisco there was this really interesting brotherhood, McClure and Lamantia – John Wieners around at that time too. And, like, there was quite a bit of converse between us (also)
Oh, before we get to that, there’s a very strange.. well, they’re so good.. (we) don’t really have much time, I hate to… but there’s some memorable phrasing in the one (“For Real”), before it (“Black Tom kills if you snitch on him..”). But there’s one phrase (which) I like the best (which) is – “I came with Thee, anointed One into mechano hells”..”into mechano hells at/ desecrations of the Lily”..”mechano hells” – “I came with banquet of lovers at ruins of Tenochtitlan/ swam the Hellespont of antique mystery/ landed on shores of Mu Atlantis Babylon/made fast for pool of the underworld..” and so forth…”(I) ate at tables..”, “(I) ate from tables of undersea gardens..” – sort of classical Surrealist poetry stuff
“In the silence of holy darkness, I’m eating a tomato” (like the tomato becomes a Surrealist object in the middle of this) – [Allen resumes reading] – “In the silence of holy darkness…”.. “Saint Dionysus reminds us of flight to unknowable Knowledge/the doctrine of initiates completes the meditation!”
completely, like somebody excited, you know, it’s really on (I don’t know what he was on, actually, there – but on anyway!) – This is “There is this distance..” Page 60 Selected Poems, Philip Lamantia, City Lights, 1967, First Printing
AG: Ok – (then) that book, Don Allen book, in Philip Lamantia is very lacking, because it doesn’t have all these really great poems. These are really amazing poems and they’re not in any anthology and they will blow any high school kid’s mind if he got to check them out. What?
Student: Are you talking about the..
I will not be involved with people I call true distance,/ I invite you only to the door of horror/Laughter/ I keep stoning you with black stars” – (I) keep stoning you, throwing black stars at you…”.”Christ is superior to Apollo/bodhisattvas are drunk with being God/ he who is living lives only the living live/ I will hate and love in the Way..” – the Taoist way – and this – “A theater of masked actors in a trance/according to the virtues of sacred plants” – so this is all based on getting high – [Allen resumes reading the poem] – “There are those dying of hunger/mankind is sanctioned crime/ men should not die of hunger..”…”the Bomb/ in its mushroom flower actions round a dumb Black Angel cloud” – That’s really tremendous, prophetic, cutting to the heart of the whole “Meccano hell” Capitalism/Communism …“Ranka uraniku bahaba” [Allen attempts the sounds again] – “Ranka uraniku/ bahaba hi olama/sancu pantis droga/harumi pabunaka”….
Student: Is that him speaking in tongues?
Student: Yes, I think so.
AG: There’s a tortoise going so slow, you know, that half the time, half, cutting space in half, by-half-by-half-by-half, so you never get there. Zeno, the Eleatic.

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Protein Linked to Inflammation May Be Promising New Treatment Target
A protein that triggers a form of cell death driven by inflammation is present at high levels in the skin of patients with scleroderma, and this suggests it may play a role in the development of the disease, according to a new study.
Researchers also observed that the skin of mice lacking the protein, called gasdermin D or GSDMD, grew less scar tissue and housed fewer immune cells than the skin of control (wild-type) mice when the mice were given bleomycin — a chemical that causes DNA to break, resulting in inflammation.
The findings may set the ground for using “GSDMD and its related molecules as potential therapeutic targets,” the researchers wrote.
The study, “Pyroptosis executor gasdermin D plays a key role in scleroderma and bleomycin-induced skin fibrosis,” which was conducted by a team of researchers in China, was published in the journal Cell Death Discovery.
Localized scleroderma is an autoimmune disease that makes the skin harden and tighten, which may cause pain and stiffness. Another type of scleroderma, called systemic scleroderma, also involves the internal organs. In both types, early inflammation appears to be dialed up.
Studies have shown that inflammasomes play a role in a number of autoimmune diseases, including scleroderma. An inflammasome is a complex of proteins inside a cell that can sense bacteria and other invaders or dangers. It works by making the cell release chemicals called cytokines that signal the need for the body to mount an inflammatory response. It also switches on GSDMD.
To be switched on, GSDMD needs one of its extremities to be trimmed away. Only then can it move to the cell’s border (membrane), where it forms pores and promotes the release of cell contents. This form of cell death, driven by inflammation, is called pyroptosis.
The researchers already knew that one inflammasome in particular, called NOD-like receptor family pyrin domain containing 3 (NLRP3), is present at high levels in skin lesions of patients with scleroderma, as are the cytokines it helps release.
Now, they focused their attention on GSDMD — and whether it is present and switched on in skin lesions of scleroderma patients. They used 15 samples of healthy skin versus 18 samples of skin lesions from patients.
First, they watched for differences in the levels of RNA — a molecule that serves as a blueprint of the gene that contains the instructions to make GSDMD. They found that the levels of RNA were higher in patients with scleroderma than in healthy individuals.
Next, the researchers looked for the trimmed (active) version of GSDMD in samples of skin tissue. Some of the patients with systemic scleroderma had active GSDMD in cells located around blood vessels. These patients had the disease for less time than those without active GSDMD, and most had early-stage lesions marked by redness or swelling.
To determine which type of cells had active GSDMD, the researchers looked at samples of skin lesions from six patients with localized scleroderma. They were able to map active GSDMD, as well as high levels of NLRP3, down to macrophages — a type of immune cell involved in inflammation.
“Macrophages can participate in tissue fibrosis [scarring] by secreting a variety of cytokines,” the researchers wrote.
Next, the researchers turned to an animal model in which fibrosis is induced by injecting bleomycin under the skin. For this experiment, they used mice lacking GSDMD. As controls, they used wild-type mice.
They found that the levels of GSDMD went up days after injection of bleomycin, as did the levels of two important cytokines — interleukin-1beta and interleukin-18. Moreover, active GSDMD was present in samples of skin from bleomycin-injected mice, but not in those from mice given a control (saline) solution.
In addition, when injected with bleomycin, mice lacking GSDMD grew less scar tissue than wild-type mice. Their skin was thinner and had fewer collagen-producing myofibroblasts and inflammatory cells such as macrophages.
The mice lacking GSDMD also had lower levels of interleukin-17A, a cytokine that is produced by helper T-cells — a type of immune cell that helps other cells of the immune system.
“GSDMD may promote the process of fibrosis by changing the immune response of Th17,” the researchers wrote. Th17 cells are a subset of T helper cells that are defined by their production of interleukin-17A.
“These findings provide the first demonstration that GSDMD related pyroptosis plays an important role in scleroderma,” they concluded.


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What Is Reality?
1974 HFP, Volume 6 Number 3
Is peace a reality? This was the question posed by our main article in this issue. The war in Vietnam was technically at an end and President Ford was offering amnesty to those who escaped to Canada, but violence and fighting continued in Pakistan, Portugal, Argentina, the Netherlands, Spain, you name it. No one was doubting the reality of war, certainly no one who had received letters from a scared brother or friend in Vietnam, or worse, had a brother or friend shipped home from Southeast Asia in a flag-draped box. But what about peace? Peace outside ourselves, in the world, was anybody's guess. But peace inside, that was a different matter, and we knew Who could give you that.
It was hard to believe, but just before this edition went to press, the Hollywood Free Paper celebrated its fifth birthday. Our founding editor Duane Pederson wrote that after traveling to Scandinavia and east Asia, "the streets around the world seem almost as familiar to us as Hollywood Boulevard, where it all started." Some old friends weren't around anymore (Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison), while others had been changed so much by their encounters with Jesus that they seemed like entirely new people, and in the ways that really counted, they were.
Requests were still coming in for copies of the HFP from street ministries, college campuses, soldiers, and increasingly, from prison. We printed letters from a young Marine serving in Nam Phong, Thailand, and a prisoner doing time in Vacaville, CA.
The two photos at right and below right show young people interacting at the International Jesus People Gathering in Los Angeles.
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''A noun, a verb and 9/11''
Giuliani has plenty more words for Biden
The claws came out Tuesday night when Democratic presidential candidates debated in Philadelphia. But one unexpected spat was between a Democratic senator who trails in the polls and the front-runner in the Republican nomination race.
Delaware Sen. Joe Biden drew laughter and applause when he ridiculed former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani during the debate at Drexel University. In response to Giuliani's comments that no Democratic candidate has enough executive experience to lead, Biden called Giuliani 'the most under-qualified man since George W. Bush to seek the presidency.'
'There's only three things he mentions in a sentence: a noun, and a verb and 9/11,' Biden said.
Giuliani's communications director, Katie Levinson, issued a scathing response.
'Sen. Biden has never run anything but his mouth,' she said. 'Such a desperate attack from Sen. Biden is to be expected, considering I - Katie Levinson - have a better chance of becoming president than he does.'
Biden isn't the first to mock Giuliani for often mentioning the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. The satirical newspaper The Onion ran a headline in February that said Giuliani was running for president of 9/11. The Daily Show's Jon Stewart said Giuliani suffers from '9/11 Tourette's,' referring to the disorder that causes nervous tics that make people stammer, repeat words or insert unrelated words into their sentences.
Last month, Sen. Chris Dodd, a Democrat who won the endorsement of the International Association of Fire Fighters, lambasted Giuliani when word got out that a California supporter was holding a fundraiser where participants were encouraged to donate $9.11 to Giuliani.
'Exploiting the Sept. 11 attacks for fundraising purposes is absolutely unconscionable, shameless and sickening,' Dodd said in a statement. He called on Giuliani to refuse any money raised from it.
A Giuliani spokeswoman said the campaign didn't know about the fundraiser or its theme. The campaign also returned any money raised in $9.11 increments, she said.
But Biden's comments at the debate were the first time a presidential contender had so directly attacked Giuliani, who leads the Republican candidates in most national polls. Giuliani has focused on attacking Democrats, specifically New York Sen. Hillary Clinton, throughout his campaign, preferring to draw distinctions between himself and Clinton, rather than his Republican rivals.
At the debate, moderator Brian Williams asked both Clinton and Illinois Sen. Barack Obama to respond to Giuliani's criticisms that the Democratic candidates are inexperienced for the presidency. No one lashed out at Giuliani until Biden spoke. The 9/11 remark was the most memorable, but Biden also took on Giuliani's record in New York.
'Here's a man who brags about how he made the city safe,' Biden said. 'It was the Biden crime bill, that became the Clinton crime bill, that allowed him to do that. They wipe it out; he's remained silent. The 9/11 commission comes along and says the way to keep your city safe is to do the following things. He's been silent. He's been - done nothing.'
Levinson's response recalled an embarrassing piece of Biden's past: He dropped out of the 1988 presidential campaign amid accusations that he plagiarized a speech by a British politician.
'The good senator is quite correct that there are many differences between Rudy and him,' Levinson said. 'For starters, Rudy rarely reads prepared speeches, and when he does, he isn't prone to ripping off the text from others.'
The Biden campaign accused Giuliani of dragging 'this race into the mud where the Republicans like to wage their campaigns.'
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Just when there seemed to be light at the end of the tunnel regarding the Shaun Edwards saga, another spanner has been thrown in the works, as it has been confirmed that he will be leaving his post with the Wales team after the World Cup.
The former rugby league superstar has been deputy to Warren Gatland and has served as Wales defence coach for over a decade, winning three Grand Slams, but will be leaving alongside Gatland at the end of the year.
Rumours emerged recently that he was going to continue in his post with Wales, working with incoming coach Wayne Pivac and in tandem with Byron Hayward as one of two defence coaches. This was a proposal that was not particularly well received, despite the vast majority of Welsh fans wanting Edwards to remain in charge on the national team in some capacity.
“When Shaun’s availability post RWC recently became apparent we worked with him to offer him a new contract which he was happy with and for him to be part of the new look coaching team going forward,” explained incoming head coach Wayne Pivac.
“Shaun has decided not to take that contract, which we must respect and we wish Shaun the very best in what lies ahead for him post Wales.”
In light of this news, many fans have turned on the Welsh Rugby Union on Twitter, deriding them for spurning the opportunity to keep one of the most esteemed defence coaches in the game. Edwards had given plenty of messages suggesting he wanted to remain with the WRU, and the fans feel perplexed as to why it has not happened.
With other mishaps such as the now-abandoned proposal of merging the Scarlets and the Ospreys, the WRU have come under fire from fans in recent months, and this only adds fuel to the fire.
That will be a mistake the Wru will forever regret.
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The future seems uncertain for Edwards, as he has already reneged on a move to Wigan that looked confirmed this time last year. He has been linked with jobs with both England and France, as both teams would gladly take him.
He has equally been linked with a return to club rugby, although his return to Wasps, with whom he won two Heineken Cups and four Premiership titles, has been denied by head coach Dai Young.
Fans of Wasps’ rivals Leicester have also called for him to join them to improve their fortunes, and while that would be a long shot, nothing can be ruled out in this ongoing Edwards story.
Wales head coach Gatland meanwhile is focussed on the task at hand, the World Cup in Japan.
“Shaun has been an important part of the Wales set up over the past 11 years for what has been a hugely rewarding time for Welsh rugby,” he said.
“It is pleasing that we can draw a line under the speculation regarding Shaun’s future with this announcement and we can look forward to preparing the squad for the RWC and the tournament itself in Japan later this year.”


Leveson Inquiry: Decision time approaches
After months hearing about the problems of the press, it is time for Lord Justice Leveson to come up with some solutions.
He begins with an entire module of his inquiry dedicated to mulling the future of press regulation.
But the judge can only recommend. Politicians will make the final decisions.
The comments of MPs, the press and the judge himself all give indications as to what the future may hold.
The Press Complaints Commission is doomed
Lord Justice Leveson has encouraged the papers to press ahead with their own proposals, and they have grasped the opportunity.
A long detailed submission from the chairman of the PCC's funding body, Lord Black , recommends a new body with the power to launch investigations and levy fines of up to £1m.
The plan would preserve self-regulation - albeit with a bigger role for the public - and rely on contracts to bind publishers to the new system.
Whether or not the judge and the politicians are impressed with this plan, it is very difficult to imagine a new structure less stringent than the one proposed by the industry itself.
Direct press regulation by government is not going to happen
Rarely has a day gone by at the inquiry without someone, often Lord Justice Leveson, insisting on the importance of a free press.
Prime Minister David Cameron has ruled out direct regulation by ministers, or any new privacy law, and dismissed talk of forcing papers to separate news and comment.
The very worst fears of those who imagine politicians wielding a censor's pen will not be realised.
Laws may still have to change
The central sticking point is ensuring that every paper is involved.
The publisher of the Express and Star titles - Northern & Shell - withdrew from the Press Complaints Commission in 2010, and there wasn't anything the PCC could do about it.
Lord Black's submission says these papers would be part of the new system.
It has been variously suggested those who decline to take part in a new system could be denied access to official press cards, the Press Association news wire and "lobby" accreditation for Downing Street briefings.
The judge, though, may decide a new law is needed to force everyone to participate, and to give an independent regulator teeth.
Any attempts to pass a bill like that would make many in the press and some in Parliament nervous; not least for fear it would be amended to add more draconian powers.
Education Secretary Michael Gove told Lord Justice Leveson: "The case for regulation needs to be made very strongly before we further curtail liberty."
The new system will have to protect the public
It is the testimony of those like the McCanns and the Dowlers that will stick in the public mind.
David Cameron said the test for a regulator would be whether it protected ordinary families caught in media maelstroms.
The question is: how?
There is enthusiasm for a body that could arbitrate between journalists and the public. Both have an interest in resolving disputes without the expense of a day in court.
But would the papers agree to print prominent apologies on the say so of a mediator, and could wealthy complainants not bypass the new system and carry on suing the press?
Lessons will be learned from Jeremy Hunt's embarrassment
There has been little applause for a system that saw a young special advisor play a central and largely unmonitored role in handling a "quasi-judicial" decision.
Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt has suffered serious political damage for his advisor's informal communications with a News Corp lobbyist as the minister pondered the company's BskyB bid.
David Cameron has suggested politicians should be removed from making decisions about media takeovers.
He is consulting the adviser on the ministerial code Sir Alex Allan about training for handling quasi-judicial proceedings and making sure special advisers are properly prepared.
A threat to Rupert Murdoch remains
Labour's leader Ed Miliband told the inquiry that News International was too big, and suggested limits should be set on how much of the newspaper industry, or the broader media market, one publisher should control.
He said he was not out to stifle one organisation or another, but his comments clearly threatened Rupert Murdoch's interests.
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg asked whether a Competition Commission investigation might be prompted by a single media organisation growing too big.
Issue remains politically charged
There is much talk of reaching a political consensus on the future.
But no one at Westminster has forgotten Mr Miliband's success in calling for the Leveson Inquiry, or the culture and media select committee's party political split over its phone hacking report.
A certain amount of dignity and deference is required in Lord Justice Leveson's court room.
Discussions about its conclusions will be more robust and, perhaps, more unpredictable.


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Shell Donates Two Million Dollars To Help Sage Grouse And Sublette County
Pinedale, Wy – Shell Oil Company is donating two million dollars to establish a pair funding projects through the Wyoming Community Foundation. One is a Community Endowment that will benefit towns in Sublette County and the other will be a fund that will be used to help Sage Grouse. Gordy Bannister of Shell says the idea came about as the company stepped up its drilling activities near Pinedale. He says officials met with community leaders to see what could be done to help area towns. Bannister says the donations appeared to be the best way to help.
The Wyoming Community Foundation will manage both projects, and help administer the community endowment. The Sage Grouse Fund is being named for Former Game and Fish Employee Tom Thorne.

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Since the election if that's really what it was media pundits have been telling us that "moral values" put George W. Bush over the top. To which I say: Bullshit!
Where were moral values when Donald Rumsfeld signed off on the use of torture at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo? Is torturing people a moral thing to do? And where were the moral values of this administration when it lied to the American people about why we were going to war with Iraq? There were no weapons of mass destruction in that country and no ties to al Qaeda either.
Is lying about why more than a thousand Americans have lost their lives-not to mention the 100,000 Iraqi men, women and children who have perished-a sign of moral values? Or is it only the unborn who have the right to life? And if we're going to insist that abortion is immoral, shouldn't we make sure that children are cared for after they're born, rather than defund their health care and social safety net?
I could go on, but I think the point is made: Waving a cross and yelling the name of God or Jesus does not make a person moral. A person's morality should be judged solely through his actions. Based on Bush's actions, I'd say the President has no solid claim to moral values.