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Ecuador Builds Pyramid Of Roses In Attempt To Set A World Record Half a million flowers went into the structure, which is a replica of a pre-Incan pyramid.
An aerial view from Saturday shows a floral pyramid of more than 500,000 roses, an attempt to set a Guinness World Record in Tabacundo, Ecuador.
That installation was also covered in more than half a million flowers.
Half a million roses were placed in a replica of a pyramid located in Ecuador's Cochasqui archaeological park.
El Universal reports that the flower structure, located in the canton of Pedro Moncayo, is a replica of a pyramid located in Cochasqui archaeological park, also located in Pedro Moncayo. The pyramids in that park — also called ramp mounds or tolas -- pre-date the Incan civilization.
The massive floral structure is meant to boost tourism and promote the export of cut flowers from Ecuador, El Universal writes.
Ecuador is already the world's third-largest exporter of cut flowers, behind the Netherlands and Colombia.
Locals visit the floral pyramid in Tabacundo, Ecuador, on Saturday.
Update: The effort was successful.


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Mr. Squash and I are taking off tomorrow for a few days in Oregon. We plan to fish the John Day River for Smallmouth Bass with a guide on Wednesday. On Thursday we'll travel a bit farther to Canyon City, OR and visit with our friends, Otis and Teresa for a couple of days. If you've been reading my blog for a while you'll know that Otis married us 10 years ago in the Minam River. It was his first and only wedding ceremony - and we still feel honored! We love this part of Oregon - it is home to the Painted Hills and the John Day fossil beds - a gorgeous geological wonder! We'll be back on Saturday.
A few days ago I harvested the garlic! Last fall I planted a hardneck variety called Russian Chesnock Red. I love hardneck garlic as it is more flavorful and seems to keep longer. Here I tied them in bunches to get them ready to dry.
You can be assured that no evil will come to the Squash House with these bunches of garlic hanging from the trees near the patio - they say that garlic wards off evil!! I hang them for a few days, then peel off the dirty outer layer, shake off as much dirt as I can, then allow them to dry a little longer before I cut off the tops and store them for use!
Here is a clove I dried a while back. I was testing to see if they were ready to pick. This couldn't be a more perfect head! I smell a pot roast in our future! I make a recipe given to me by a friend most often. She says the first time she ever made pot roast, she thought a clove of garlic meant the whole head! But she said no one complained, so she's made it that way ever since!
I've been doing a lot of hand stitching lately. This square is almost completed. It's a pattern from Crabapple Hill and I only have 11 more to go - lol! I'm using distressed linens in different shades of tan for the stitcheries and for the main fabric shades of blue, brown tan and black. If it's anything like Winter Wonderland, I might finish the stitcheries by this time next year before I get to sewing it all together!
How totally neat!!! Love the pictures of this garlic. What a cool thing to walk by and see & smell in your beautifully giving garden.
Guided fishing sounds killer! You're sure to find some great spots. Yippie. Enjoy.
Ohh, my best to Sophie while you're away. Hugs, *karendianne.
Well, Happy Anniversary to you two! Have a fun time...there will always be time for gardening and sewing when you come back. Your garlic cloves came out so much bigger than mine. I think I need to try your variety next year. I am drying onions and maybe some garlic to make my own onion powder...I'll let you know how it goes. So far I can say I am glad I moved the dryer out to the green house!
That garlic is gorgeous!!!! I love garlic in everything. Those are just beautiful. I love to eat plain yogurt, cucumbers and garlic. Yum!! Scott is not a fan! LOL!
Your stitchery looks so sweet. I love the birds.
Have fun on your trip! I hope to see lots of pictures when you return!
The stitchery looks lovely, a perfect hand sewing project for evenings for a long time.
Have a nice fishing trip!
Have a terrific trip. Your garlic is gorgeous. We have been getting some in our farm basket and it has the long dried neck and fantastic cloves. Crabapple has such lovely designs. This will be another beauty.
Ooh what lovely garlic! And beautiful stitching.
Happy Anniversary. Have a great trip!
I love that stitchery. One of the owners of a quilt shop did in with the French General fabrics. It is gorgeous. I know yours will be too.
I planted some purple garlic this past fall and some elephant garlic which looks like an onion. I was told by the person I bought it from that I need to plant that bulb again and it should make cloves. So I will give it a try. We have decided to clear out some trees on our property so we can have a bigger garden. Can't wait.
I love the pictures of your garlic bunches! I can only imagine how earthy and fresh they should smell.
Your stichery is beautiful. I like your idea of using distressed linens for these desgins. Happy stitching!
Catch a million and have fun! I must say that bass fishing is my favorite.
Love that garlic. I plan to plant some in the fall too!
Enjoy yourselves and travel safely.
Here the tradition is to plait the stalks of both the onions and garlic and hang them to dry. They look quite pretty. You then just hang them in the kitchen and yank what you wish to use.
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Camping: The ultimate American melting pot
Tired of doing the same old thing every day, me and my family decided to pack up our car with tents, coolers, bathing suits and hot dogs and go off camping last weekend. To a campground. In a national forest. And, no, we didn't run into Cliven Bundy either. Thank God!
But we did meet a whole bunch of rednecks.
"So, Jane, how did that go?" you might ask, knowing me to be a leftie Berkeley liberal who actually believes all that psycho-babel nonsense that Jesus used to spout about being kind and all that other anti-NRA crap. Well, actually, it went really well. As long as we didn't talk about politics with our new camping neighbors, everything was great. I learned that a lot of rednecks were really nice people (and also that having beer for breakfast was an honored American tradition).
I also learned that rednecks suffer from unemployment just like the rest of us do -- and I also learned where to get an awesome tattoo. Their kids all played with my granddaughter Mena. They told us where the best hiking trails were. And I told them how pissed off I was that Yuppies are now taking over Berkeley -- and how I had been in Iraq with the Marines.
All those self-proclaimed "redneck" campers in the tents all around us were actually very nice. They made good camping neighbors. We had lots of common interests. We bonded over stuff. As long as we didn't talk about politics, we were good. They were Americans. I was American. There was lots of friendship material here to work with. It was like the Germans and the Brits having a Christmas truce in the trenches during World War I. We all really could get along if push came to shove.
If only our politicians and media would stop telling us how much we need to hate each other, I could see a way through. http://billmoyers.com/episode/ian-haney-lopez-on-the-dog-whistle-politics-of-race/
Rednecks. Blacks. Mexicans. Asians. We are all Americans now. And we should all learn to act like Americans too. And we all need to start working together to solve our mutual problems ASAP -- or else there is going to be no America left for us to fight over.
PS: The American Civil War of 1860 was the deadliest war ever fought by Americans. Ever. (That is, if you don't count the untold millions of men, women and children who died in the Native American holocaust)
According to my recent Google research project, "The Civil War was America's bloodiest conflict. The unprecedented violence of battles such as Shiloh, Antietam, Stones River, and Gettysburg shocked citizens and international observers alike. Nearly as many men died in captivity during the Civil War as were killed in the whole of the Vietnam War. Hundreds of thousands died of disease. Roughly 2% of the population, an estimated 620,000 men, lost their lives in the line of duty. Taken as a percentage of today's population, the toll would have risen as high as 6 million souls." http://www.civilwar.org/education/civil-war-casualties.html
That's approximately one-third more rotting dead bodies here on American soil than the number of Americans killed in Europe and the Pacific during World War II. Over 51,000 Americans were killed, wounded, captured or missing after just three days of battle at Gettysburg alone. 7,000 of them were just plain outright dead.
And how easily all that could be engineered to happen again. And it's already started happening, in fact.
PPS: "But illegals stole all our jobs!" the redneck at my picnic table might have said if I had asked him.
"No, that's not true," I might have replied if we hadn't all been camping and thus on neutral ground. "Our jobs were all stolen by huge corporations that outsourced all our jobs to Latin America, India and Asia. But also our jobs are being stolen by robots. Robots do our jobs better than we used to do. Plus robots aren't human, don't have to eat anything, don't have families to care for and don't complain." And also, if we are in the military, our jobs are also being outsourced to drones.
PPS: Hope you had a nice Memorial Day. Always remember our military dead -- and the humongous corporate profits they died for. http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/mike-whitney/56066/iraq-the-biggest-petroleum-heist-in-history
Capitalism, Socialism & my trip to the Maker Faire
What is capitalism? "Buy low, sell high," you might say. Well, yeah.
But, sadly, no "modern" definition of capitalism seems to include a morality clause too. Wherever money is involved, all of our normally decent human values that we are so proud of seem to fly straight out the door. Thus capitalism these days happily encourages the more greedy among us to follow the immoral examples of WalMart, Monsanto and Massey Coal without feeling even the tiniest twinge of conscience or guilt.
"It's just business."
But capitalism also strongly revolves around the idea that if one person or company is mass-producing a product, then that saves the rest of us from having to go to the time and trouble to individually produce this product ourselves too, down in our basements each night.
But, hey, isn't that also the definition of socialism too?
"Socialism is when the government owns the means of production," you might reply, "instead it being owned by capitalists". Yeah, but.... Whether the government supplies the product or whether capitalists supply the product, the most important result is the same -- that you yourself don't have to reinvent the wheel down in your basement each night. And to go it alone. Someone else is reinventing the wheel for you. And then manufacturing it too. All you gotta do is pay for it.
Both capitalism's and socialism's basic concepts revolve around the production of products -- be they flat-screen TVs or healthcare -- all being all bundled together to save us from individually having to re-create what we need. Because that would take each of us forever, right?
Thus, as I see it, the only true difference between capitalism and socialism is where the money ends up. With socialism, the wealth that is created by bundling together our resources and labor to make a product will then be spread around among all of us -- while in capitalism, the wealth created by bundling together our resources and labor to create a product is not.
There's a moral here somewhere. That you should hand-make everything that you need all by yourself? That it's okay for the government to make products if they don't charge too much but capitalists should be allowed to charge as much blood as they possibly can squeeze out of us turnips?
But the main point that I am trying to make here is that capitalism and socialism are both cut from the same cloth -- the human need to band together to survive and to thrive. And socialism seems to help us all thrive better -- whereas capitalism only helps a few to survive and thrive. So it's up to us to make our choice as to which one we like best. Or else to design a benevolent combination of the two where everyone wins.
And also we need to decide whether morality is important to us or not.
PS: Recently I went off to attend the 2014 Maker Faire in San Mateo -- me and approximately 50,000 others. Lately, I'd been hearing a lot about the so-called "Maker" movement and was anxious to go see what this was all about.
Basically, Makers are saying that they can replace large American factories and companies by once again bringing back the concept of cottage industries and making things on a smaller scale. Thanks to the internet, 3-D printers and such, inventors can roll out their products and sell them to us as easy as pie.
If this is true, then we won't have to rely on the huge manufacturing capacity of industrial monsters like General Motors in order for America to stay in the manufacturing loop, right?
Well, the Maker Faire was both interesting and fun, but I sure wouldn't count on some of these products to replace Hewlett-Packard or Boeing any time soon. The 3-D printers they had there were pretty much turning out costume jewelry and Lego wannabes. One booth had a Ford car on display, which got me totally excited. "You made this car with a 3-D printer?" I asked hopefully. No. Not even close.
And if you weren't a nerd, it was hard to sort out what all the exhibits at the fair were about. And I was not a nerd. So most of us non-nerds just focused on the two things that were focus-able-on: Food concessions and steam-punk booths!
Although I did enjoy the fair a lot and was glad that I went, don't be looking for America's new Makers movement to be replacing all those massive Chinese manufacturing foundries and factories any time soon.
PPS: I'm also currently reading Chris Anderson's book, "Makers," and he sez I got it all wrong -- and that the Maker type of production does involve more than just printing out glorified Legos on our Staples 3-D printers in our home office. "Countless micro-manufacturers will help drive the next big movement in the global economy" because, according to Anderson, "anyone with an idea can set assembly lines in motion." In motion in China?
PPPS: On a more local level, here in my home town of Berkeley, "Maker" seems to be just another word for "Developer" these days -- as our beautiful city is being systematically gutted to make way for all sorts of expensive new high-rises and condos. And to protect ourselves from these new "Maker" developers, we have started to put all sorts of voter-generated initiatives on the ballot.
Hey, we are becoming "Makers" too! http://berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2014-05-16/article/42105?headline=Berkeley-Citizens-React-to-Council-s-Inaction-on-Minimum-Wage--By-Becky-O-Malley
God, Mothers Day & the Yosemite Rim Fire
To celebrate Mothers Day this year, my wonderful children drove me up to visit the north rim of the Yosemite National Forest. It was the perfect road trip -- not too long of a drive, yet exotic enough for us to know that we've Been Somewhere.
First we drove across California's great central valley, and then up Highway 120 via Old Priest Grade, past Groveland and Buck Meadows, to the scene of last year's horrific Yosemite Rim Fire. It was an awesome sight -- and actually quite beautiful in a sort of post-apocalypticical way.
At a vista point called "Rim of the World," overlooking the ghostly outlines of thousands of dead trees, we read a sign that told us how many square miles had been burned (400!) and that the cost of putting out the fire alone had been 127 million dollars -- not to mention the amount of property and natural resources that had gone up in smoke as well.
Someone we met at the vista point also informed us that, "Aside from high drought conditions last year, one of the chief causes of this area's extreme vulnerability to fire had been that the 2013 federal Sequester had cut the National Forest Service's land-management budget by over $115 million." And that information really pissed me off -- that in order to save $115 million, we had lost $127 million instead.
But what pissed me off even more was the obviously-inebriated pseudo-Christian standing next to me at the Rim of the World, who was loudly proclaiming, "This was God's will!" No it wasn't.
It was the will of those idiotic and greedy RepubliDem/Tea Party idiots in Washington who came up with that dumb Sequester budget idea in the first place -- and it was also the will of those surly international corporate thugs who are currently killing our planet on such a grand scale due to climate change. Is climate change caused by God's will? Really? I thought it was just caused by greed. http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-right/republicans-deadly-political-strategy-damage-country-and-you-damage-democratic
Then my family and I went for a walk in a nearby grove of woods, in a magically-wonderful place where the trees had been saved.
"This is God's blessing," said yet another "born-again" tourist we met. No it wasn't.
It was the blessing of approximately 5,000 firefighters risking their lives that stopped this rapacious fire, no thanks to the "Christian" wingnuts who cut our national park budgets right and left so that corporations won't have to pay taxes and the Pentagon can fight Endless Wars on our dime instead. http://www.palestiniandiaries.com/node/9
It was a perfect Mothers Day for me, however. "Thanks, kids!" The view from the vista point was so spectacular that we could have sat there for hours just drinking it in. Plus I was given even more political insights to write about for my blog. A win-win situation.
PS: I really really like the idea of a benevolent universe/higher power that rejoices whenever Mankind finally manages to do something good -- and that also views with alarm whenever Mankind screws up and resorts to greed and war. http://www.middleeasteye.net/columns/navigating-syria-impossible-indispensable-mission
But to say that "God" smiles down on idiots like, say, Cliven Bundy or Michele Bachmann as they completely lose touch with such concepts as "Do unto others as you would have others do unto you" -- or who smiles down on the good "Christian" violence-obsessed militarists in Washington who pay hundreds of billions of our hard-earned dollars to support Islamist fanatics who behead people in Syria, to support military juntas who hang protesters in Egypt, to support neo-fascists who burn people alive in Ukraine and/or to support drug lords who import crack-cocaine from Latin America and heroin from Afghanistan? http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/05/12/look-whos-calling-voting-divisive-and-illegal/
That's stretching my credibility way too far. That's far too much for me to believe.
PPS: And speaking of higher powers, exactly what kind of God allows Auschwitz and Hiroshima and the Nakba to happen?
And how can God possibly agree to smile down on America, a country founded on slavery and genocide?
How come God hates Muslim prisoners in Guantanamo but loves the Islamic inquisitionists that America's War Street gleefully pays whatever it costs to behead Christian civilians in Syria?
How come God used to hate the Nazis in Hitler Germany but now loves American-sponsored neo-fascists Cossacks currently rampaging through Ukraine and burning people alive on the Odessa Steps? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3C7Pu-3JzjA
How come God frowns on organic farmers but blesses the spilled blood of Monsanto?
I just don't get it -- unless of course Wall Street and War Street now have the hubris and chutzpah to set their own selves up as God.
Lynne Stewart & her not-so-free "Get out of jail" card
I can't believe that the famous civil rights attorney Lynne Stewart was actually in Berkeley this week!
Berkeley used to be so very cutting-edge modern -- but thanks to our current mayor and city council, my beloved city has degenerated into just one more developer's paradise and wannabee suburb. So it did my heart good to see Lynne Stewart visiting our town. http://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2014-03-21/article/41950?headline=Suing-Self-is-Senseless-and-Silly--By-Councilmember-Kriss-Worthington
Stewart, if you remember, was given an unusually harsh sentence in a Texas jailhouse by a Bush administration kangaroo court for doing what she has done best for the last 50 years -- representing people who have no one else to represent them (even people who took scurrilousness advantage of her representation). And she was only released from this stiff jail sentence when it became clear that she was dying of cancer while incarcerated.
And now here she is, about to give us a talk on the trials and tribulations one has to go through in order to stand up for the underdog these days. And as we sat there waiting for the event to begin, someone who didn't know what Stewart looked like came up to her and said, "Would you like to sign my fair-housing petition? Do you live in Berkeley or Oakland?"
"I live in Brooklyn!" Stewart happily replied. And that's how we met her. Fragile but still tough.
Then another person started making small talk with Stewart about the food that being served at this pot-luck brunch. Really? You get a chance to talk to one of the greatest civil rights attorneys of the American century and you want to discuss recipes? Well, I wanted to discuss recipes too! "What was prison food like?" I asked her.
"Terrible."
"Any vegetables served?"
"They gave us tough stalks of broccoli -- which in an aging prison population with no teeth, this was a problem." Then Lynne smiled. No bottom teeth.
"Mass incarceration needs to be forced off the map," said the speaker who introduced Stewart. "We are so happy that you are here." Me too. I was so pleased to see that Stewart was healthy enough to make it to Berkeley -- and then make it up the stairs to the second floor of the Unitarian church, which was almost more than I could do.
"There are so many things going on in the Bay Area right now, that I'll be glad to finally go back to Brooklyn where it is quiet. But I am here on a mission of gratitude, because it was people like you who got me out of jail. And while I'm not exactly a Luddite, I'm not at home in the electronic world either -- but so many of you went online for me. You downloaded petitions and had people sign them. Over 50,000 people signed petitions to bring me home."
And speaking of the internet, I just can't resist pointing out that the loss of net neutrality will be (yet another) huge blow to democracy and freedom everywhere. And all those lies that neo-cons can't resist telling us will continue to go unchallenged -- And we would never have have become aware that Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Gaza, Ukraine, etc. have all been just one gigantic Pat Tillman scandal after another -- only writ large. "I am not a crook" just doesn't wash any more, thanks to the internet! http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article38413.htm But I digress.
However it wasn't until Stewart got cancer, changing the conversation away from her being a political prisoner to being more about her personal story, that she was allowed to be released. Yet the issue of political prisoners is still dear to her heart.
"Being imprisoned has made me impassioned to work for both political prisoners and for women prisoners too -- those who have no one to protect or represent them. All they have is four walls."
The folks who put her in jail in the first place were all worried about what Stewart would do when she got out. "So they wanted me to sign a 'remorse' letter, saying I was sorry. And I wrestled with this because I did want to get out, to see my grandchildren. But my husband Ralph said that he would back me regarding whatever decision I finally made. 'You do what you need to do'. But in the final analysis, I didn't sign it. I just couldn't let all the people who supported me down."
How could she say to all the young lawyers who looked up to her, "Oh I didn't really mean it, didn't really stand up for my rights."
Then Ralph Poynter spoke. "I was flying down to Texas for a New Years Day visit and I got this call while waiting in line at the rental car counter. 'Lynne is free! She's waiting for you in the parking lot!' And I was so excited that I couldn't even start my rental car and couldn't even remember where the jail was!" And then he changed up his rental Ford for a Cadillac.
Poynter then talked about his own battle to get Stewart released. For months on end he had stood in front of the White House, and had collected signatures from across the world on her behalf. "Lynne has worked for 50 years, helping people in need -- battered women, gays, victims of civil rights violations -- so it was easy to get people to help her too. All of you have saved her life. And it has been a race to save her life. The poor-quality medical care she received in prison? They tried to kill her!
"But when Lynne started getting over a hundred letters a day, the pressure to have her released became serious. And when Lynne finally came home, she didn't have MediCare. She had planned to go to Sloan-Kettering, but her MediCare had been cancelled while she was in jail because she had become 'inactive' and she would have had to wait eight months for her enrollment period to come around again." Eight more months without treatment would have killed her for sure.
Finally, after two months spent solely on trying to cut through bureaucratic red tape, Stewart finally got Medicaid.
"I started right in with chemo," she told us, "once we got my prison medical records sorted out. The prison doctors never talked to the outside specialists in Texas and it was all a big mess. 'Why does everything take so long,' my New York doctor asked when he finally saw my prison records. And because of this lack of communication, many women in prison die as a result."
When she was in prison, Stewart tried to help her fellow inmates as much as she could. "And I still try to help them now. And it hurt then and it hurts now -- to see them suffer. I still send them books that I think they will like. No note. But they know who it is from." All prison mail is censored.
"People now say to me, 'Lynne, you look so good! I thought you were dying!' but I am still as bad as I was -- except now I have liver cancer as well. But with cancer, there are so many things you can still do, so right now I am active. Good cancer doctors always say, 'If you think you can do it, then do it!' And I wanted to take this chance to see all the people who helped me for so many years." Her activism gives her a great reason to fight to stay alive.
"And what about lawyers these days," Stewart then asked. So many people are being arrested -- and then they all sink below the waves. The quality of defense lawyering for the women she met in prison sucked eggs. "They lied and they were corrupt."
"There used to be a raft of activist lawyers. Now there are none. It's appalling. I myself have been disbarred. I can't even work in a law office now, not even to do filing. Someday I hope to get my law license back."
Then Stewart read a short poem by Bertolt Brecht entitled "And I always thought":
And I always thought
The very simplest words
Must be enough.
When I say what things are like
Everyone's heart must be torn to shreds.
That you'll go down if you don't stand up for yourself.
Surely you see that.
PS: Stewart's audience at the church was composed mostly of older white people such as myself -- we were all survivors from The Greatest Generation, the horrible McCarthy era and the hopeful reforms of the 1960s. We in the audience were all idealists with hope for a better world, bravely still fighting against the mish-mash of greed, unnecessary war, pollution and election fraud that the world is stuck with right now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCS-g3HwXdc
Which leads me to my next question: How come we, like Lynne Stewart, became such hopeful idealists -- while the rest of our generation became just a sad bunch of useless couch potatoes, mindlessly cheering on racism, sexism, fascism, and various lies from Fox News? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tly9JqU0Lfw
If anyone ever wants to hire me on as a travel writer (or war correspondent), "Have laptop, will travel!" And I would really like to go back to Iraq to see how things are now. Or to Timbuktu. Never been there. Or Ukraine or Syria -- or Oklahoma, Hawaii or Milwaukee. Never been there either. But can't afford to go on my own. PS: Here's a great GX tour of Oklahoma on July 6 that I would love to go on: http://www.globalexchange.org/reality-tours#id=the-radical-tour-of-oklahoma
Camping: The ultimate American me...
Capitalism, Socialism & my trip to...
God, Mothers Day & the Yosemite Rim...
Lynne Stewart & her not-so-free "...


This blog post will show the use of the Carousel widget in mgwt. The widget can be used to display different content in a horizontal row. Users can access the content by swiping to it.
The complete code example can be found here. If you want to see the widget in action, take a look into the showcase.
Thanks, the Carousel is almost what I need.
The thing is that I need a circular carousel (i.e.
where after the last page, the first page comes again).
a free mobile tracker has many uses, and should not be ignored. You should locate a free www.bestmobilenumbertracker.com/dnd-check/ well in advance of needing one so that you are familiar with the site and how it works.


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The Amazing Spider-Man 2: Rise of Electro (2014)
Date: April 18, 2014Author: Mr. Movie 5 Comments
His greatest battle begins.
With only a decade separating Sam Raimi's Spider-Man 2 (2004) and Marc Webb's The Amazing Spider-Man 2, one can't help but get that feeling of déjà vu. In order to differentiate the titles for the 'dim-witted' public, the executives at Sony have insultingly added 'Rise of Electro' to the title, so that patrons don't get the pictures muddled up; low blow Sony. Alas, given the short time lapse between the two sequels, avoiding comparisons is almost impossible. As most are probably already aware, Webb's Spider-Man series has taken its cues from Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight series, delving into slightly murkier territory opposed to Raimi's comical-action interpretation.
Similarly to Raimi's Spider-Man 3 (2007), The Amazing Spider-Man 2 shares multiple plot lines but primarily focuses on Peter Parker's (Andrew Garfield) struggle as Spider-Man and his conflicting feelings surrounding Gwen Stacy (Emma Stone), particularly after the promise he made to her dying father — a vow which literally haunts him daily.
Electrifying action!
Secondly, the picture deals with the tragedy of the lonely and ignored OSCORP technician Max Dillon — brilliantly played by an unrecognizable Jamie Foxx, Django Unchained (2012) — which brings to light the film's major issue. As viewers come to understand that Max strives to be noticed and accepted, one can't help but feel for the guy, even after he undergoes his shocking transformation into Electro — pun intended — and uses his power to attain recognition. Ultimately a misunderstanding with Spidey pits the two against one another, but our hero's motives are rather sketchy, whereas Electro has already gained our affinity and comes off as the character one should be rooting for.
Next up the picture explores the succession of Peter's childhood friend Harry Osborn — played by relative newcomer Dane DeHaan, Chronicle (2012), who gives an unnerving performance — and his rise to the OSCORP Industries throne. As the 'king of the castle' Osborn must deal with the dirty politics involved in the million-dollar experimental science, military research and cross-species genetics organization. Meanwhile Osborn begins to deteriorate and disfigure due to a genetic condition inherited from his dying father, which leads him on a desperate search for a cure that seemingly only Spider-Man can provide. When Spidey doesn't comply with Osborn's demands, it's tough comprehending our webbed star's judgment, given that his friend is literally falling apart and, I for one, found myself somewhat empathetic towards our villain. Be that as it may, the picture's protagonists are rather alluring, which possibly shouldn't be the case for a film of this magnitude — maybe this was Sony's intention all along, as next up they plan to expand the Spider-Man universe with the Sinister Six.
Finally The Amazing Spider-Man 2 delves into the true story of Peter's parents, who in a pre-credit sequence, are shown fighting an OSCORP assassin in a Learjet. After Parker's sly detective work, the true motives of his parents come to light opening up an array of possibilities for future installments.
Gears are already in motion for Spidey 3!
As one might expect, Sony spared no expense in the production and marketing of the film with most of the high-flying action sequences and effects possibly setting a new benchmark for the Spider-Man franchise. The 3D effects are impressive and immersive, particularly when Spidey is swinging around New York City or battling formidable foes. The film's soundtrack by Hans Zimmer, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003), and The Magnificent Six featuring Pharrell Williams and Johnny Marr is especially distinctive and adds an offbeat vibe to the picture, which surprisingly works in its favor, as it's one of the most unique scores for a Marvel super hero feature to date.
Acting is generally solid across the board with Andrew Garfield, The Social Network (2010), portraying Peter Parker as a more confident character opposed to the Parker in Raimi's trilogy — albeit slightly too arrogant in some instances — while his co-star Emma Stone, Easy A (2010), is feisty and advantageous sharing an effortless chemistry between our hero, paving the way for a rather hard-hitting final act. Garfield's history/ friendship with DeHaan is also much stronger than that of Tobey Maguire and James Franco, who played Parker and Osborn in Raimi's series. Osborn's transformation into the Green Goblin is also better handled this time around as it derives from Harry's fight for survival and Spider-Man's unwillingness to fulfill Osborn's demands, opposed to the 2007 film's fortuitous misunderstanding. Paul Giamatti, Sideways (2004) — complete with a hammy Russian accent — is over-the-top in his limited scenes as the criminal Aleksei Sytsevich, who eventually becomes the Rhino.
'You better not screw your scenes up Foxx!'
After the fairly ordinary start for Webb's series back in 2012 with The Amazing Spider-Man coming off as a rip-off Raimi's series rather than something fresh, it's fair to say that Webb's finally begun to make a name for himself and his series as this sequel lays out proper groundwork for future installments, creating a universe that can withstand potential storylines while succeeding as an individual picture. Running at 142 minutes, this is the longest Spider-Man film thus far, but fear not, it's filled with enough emotion and solid humor to keep audiences engaged, most importantly though, The Amazing Spider-Man 2 is not as overstuffed or lackluster as some may have feared.
The Amazing Spider-Man 2: Rise of Electro is released through Sony Pictures Australia
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caragale says:
Nice review! Sounds like we feel very similarly about this one. Fun film with maybe a bit too much going on, but not so much that it's ruined. Love Garfield, Stone, and DeHaan in it, that's for sure. 🙂
Mr. Movie says:
I read your review the other day, I agreed with what you had to say! I'm just curious where Sony will take the series from here on in!
Yeah I'm curious, too! I sure wish they'd sort something out with Marvel and let Spidey be in The Avengers…
Sadly that'll never happen, well not in the near future anyway. Sony are expanding on the Spider-Man universe so they can squeeze more cash out of the series, I can't see them giving up the rights any time soon!
Booooo. Can't everybody just cooperate?! I feel like it's what the superheroes would want. Lol.


Steelhead fishing is in full swing on the North Umpqua river, pardon the pun, and Stew at Stillwater has been pretty much living on this mythic Oregon Steelhead river lately. Winter steelheading with a fly rod requires patience, iron will and the proper gear. Stew was kind enough to put together a list of the gear that he is currently using to stay warm and upright. Spey fishing in the foul weather, high water environment that epitomizes Winter steelhead fishing means that quality gear matters. So without giving away any secret spots or flies, this is what gear Stew is using.
Primarily I have been using a Sage Method 9119-4. If the side of the river allows and I am swinging a wider run I will use my R.B. Meiser 1389MKS-4. Both of these rods are 9wts to allow for casting the heavier sink tips and heavy flies that the river demands to be successful this time of year.
My reels are probably one of the most important pieces of gear that I use. Both of the reels that I use have high line capacities with smooth drags. Conditions dictate that a reel must be extremely durable because of the weather and terrain. The reel that I use most is the Bauer Rogue Classic #6 that has a custom color scheme of orange and black. My other two reels are a Tibor Signature 9-10 and a Galvan Torque #10. Both of these reels are tough with great drags that have slow start up torque, just like my Rogue Classic. None of these reels have ever failed me or caused me to lose a fish, which is super frustrating to have happen when it takes several hours just to hook a steelhead.
As important as the rods and reels that I fish are to hooking a fish in the deep, cold runs of the North Umpqua, the fly lines and sink tips I use are probably the most important piece of the trio. Personally I like bright backing that I can see in low-light conditions. That is why I have Cortland 30lbs Dacron Braided backing on my reels. I can see it well in the dim early morning and dusk light conditions, as well as in the water.
Rio Spey ConnectCore & Gripshooter 50lbs running lines shoot easily when integrated with the Airflo Skagit Compact Intermediate Fly Line. I use lines from 570gr to 600gr depending on the weight of the sink tip I am using. This time of year I use a T-11 sink tip quite often and the ConnectCore and Gripshooter match up well the weight of this tip. The key to two-handed casting is to make sure your line grainage matches your rod action and your own personal casting style, I can't underemphasize the later more.
Waders to stay warm and dry. Boots to stay upright. My boots are Simms G3 Guide Boots with a liberal dose of Harbite studs and Alumibite Star Cleats sprinkled across the Vibram soles. This gives me not only a super grip on the legendary slick N. Umpqua slabs of rock but helps me climb up and down the steep banks and trails easily. My Simms G3 Guide Waders are continually tested by the blackberries and brambles that are endlessly trying to puncture them. Leaks are so rare that when I have had one that I usually don't have a patch kit around because leaky waders are an afterthought.
Staying warm is difficult in the all too common drizzle that plaques the river canyon. The base layer is the most important part of the equation. I start with great Merino wool socks. Merino wool is expensive and under-appreciated and has become integral in keeping my feet warm.
The Simms Guide Bibs are the key to my overall comfort though. Maligned as ugly by those who have never worn them, these ultra-warm one piece base layers have kept me in the water on the worst of days when others have sat in the truck.
I have two jackets that I like. The Sitka Coldfront Jacket is worn if it is so cold that there is ice in my rod's guides or it is snowing. My Coldfront can't be worn if the temperature is over 40°, it is just too hot. That is when I go to my other jacket.
The Simms Kinetic Jacket allows for easy freedom of movement while keeping me warm in all types of weather. It is amazingly wind proof for such a light insulated shell. I wear this coat far more than any other jackets or shells I own combined.
There are so many factors that can't be controlled when chasing steelhead in the winter time. Weather, water levels and the size of the runs are in the hands of the gods. Controlling factors like your comfort, casting and line retrieval (with or without a fish on your fly) will directly contribute to your success and enjoyment when winter steelhead fishing.


Since many people still ask for how to do a small game loop I thought I would start a thread to compare how different people are doing there game loop.
Here is the source for minimal game loop. If any one has a better method feel free to post improvments.
I'm curious as to what you mean by this? the Runnable interface does not define any such method.
Also, depending on your definition of exactly what your stop() method should do - your implementation maybe incorrect.
However, this is all irrelevant as there is no need for storing the game Thread as a member variable - it is unnecessarily bloating.
The only function of member variables in an optimal 4K app. is for communication between the event dispatch thread, and the game thread.
As such, you should need only *one* member variable.
This will typically be either an int, or a boolean - depending on preference, and exactly what you are doing with your user input.
No problem I guess I did not specify the problem very clearly. I will restate the challenge.
Produce smallest compiled game loop that does the following.
exits cleanly on either window close or escape or both.
If you do post an alternative please show the compiled class size and compressed jar size as in my example.
Its better to use new Color(0x000000) etc all over the place.
Thats 1.5. You cant use it for this year's compo.
Sorry your loop is larger you removed one method but then had to create an instance and dereference it to make the calls. You came out 40 bytes larger before jaring.
I do not understand the comment about recycling the graphics object. I get a reference to an object and use it as long as I wish. There should be no need to recreate one every time. There also should be no need to dispose of it as when I am done with it the program exits.
Since you're not forcing the BufferStrategy into any particular mode, this change could happen just because someone else's PC is different. Or the user might minimize and restore the window, and the OS decides to release and recreate its graphics context. Or the OS could decide to provide a mapped area of page flipping memory that it's using (apparently Mac OS X is now VSynced) causing the context to change every frame.
In short: What you're doing is BAD. It's almost guaranteed to cause problems, even if it works on your machine. All you need to do to fix it is to move the "g = (Graphics2D)b.getDrawGraphics();" into the loop. It shouldn't cause any new overhead in the file size, and your code will be much more compatible and portable.
>You came out 40 bytes larger before jaring.
Before compression is irrelevant. Often it was like 200 bytes smaller before compression, but 100 bytes bigger after compression.
>I get a reference to an object and use it as long as I wish. There should be no need to recreate one every time.
Thanks for the lesson on graphics object I will change that. oNyx is also correct about the use of Color It save 22 bytes if a new is done in the loop and 15 is a color variable is created outside the loop. Markus loop was larger both before and after jaring. I have edited the original post to reflect the comments received.
So will be this code correct and small enough or it's better to change the way Markus_Persson said ? I wonder if the 'extras' "m." could penalize what's gained from keeping all in the main method.
You would do well to refactor the fps managing code so it doesn't rely on floats.
The extra m. references do cost more.
I did not include the code to do the fixed frame rate as I thought the resolution of the timer is too low. That is it is normally only good to 10 to 20 millsec. I just wait 10 millsec so that on fast machines the game does not go to fast. On slow machines sure it would be good to take into account how long it took in the loop and only wait 10 - time taken. But can we actually measure the time taken to less than 10 millisec accuracy? I guess by using the rolling average as suggested we can get a better idea of the time taken but I think the extra bytes are not worth it. Slow machines will just run a little slow.
I don't think it makes a blind bit of difference whether your game code is in the constructor, or in main(...).
The default constructor exists whether or not you define it, so there is no saving by moving stuff to your main.
Equally, referencing methods declared in the class is no more expensive with either approach.
"this.methodName()" evaluates to exactly the same bytecode as "m.methodName()"
The only difference I can think of, is when placing your game code in the JFrames constructor, you get a reference to 'this' stored in local variable 0 'for free'.
Now, if this is where you want 'this' to be located, then all is well - and you have saved yourself 1 byte.
However, typically you will want 'this' to be stored in a high index local variable, as you rarely make sufficient references to it for it to be worth-while occupying one of the quick access local variables.
Therefor, you end up inserting 3 extra bytecodes to push it back onto the stack, and pop it into a high order local variable.
This reverses your benefit, making main() the best place to put your game code!
To summarize, in some very limited circumstances putting your game code in the constructor will save you *one* byte, but generally it is best to place it in main.
It realy is irrelevant though, the alteration to the compressability of your code, by re-ordering your bytecode will make a far bigger difference.
Hence, any bytecode optimisation that saves you less than 50 bytes is generally not worth even thinking about.
>Slow machines will just run a little slow.
No, it runs *very* slow and thats despise the fact that the machine is good enough to run the game just fine.
Say you sleep for 20msec and it takes only 1msec to draw everything... so you end up with 21msec per frame, which results in ~48 fps. And now imagine there is some machine which needs 20msec per frame - it could run it at the same speed, but instead you end up with 40msec per frame, which means the framerate is halved for no reason.
This rolling average adaptive yield thingy works pretty well, if the time per frame doesnt fluctuate too much. In fuzetsu the difference between maximum and minimum is pretty huge (from zero bullets to 1500 bullets + 300 particles), but the changes from one frame to the next are pretty small (dont be misleaded by the speedup after killing... thats intentionally for clearing the screen quickly).
It works pretty well. Even if you cripple the resolution of the timer to the win9x level (50-55msec). Thanks to averaging of the last 10 frames we get a pretty good idea how much time we spend per frame... well, on average that is. So, you get some delay on adjustments and it will over/understeer if the difference from the current yield count to the desired yield count is... how should I put it... extreme. Like if you have a very slow machine and start with a gigantic yield count of 50k it will be too slow for a second, then too fast for another second and finally it will run at the right speed with say 400 yields. Since the adjusting is proportional (with damping) it draws near a good value quickly.
I used linear (+/-1) adjusting before without any damping. That worked sorta alright and the adjusting on slow machines was also pretty quick (since the yield values were pretty small), but it wasnt that smooth and it didnt cope that well with game-typical time-per-frame-changes.
You can also use delta timing, but that effectively means ~20 (different) fps on win9x and it makes everything unnecessarily complicated.
I tend to agree. But the difference in size between the two posted versions is 40 bytes before jaring and 13 bytes after.
I guess part of the difference is in the extra local variable to hold the reference to the class and the need to make the keyboard input array static when running in main.
I have tried both methods in a full game and the Code in constructor came out smaller there as well.
Using the Main method is smaller if you need to throw an exception. If you use the constructor, you have two separate methods throwing the exception. (Or one method throwing the exception, and the other one trapping it.) With just the main method you only have one method throwing the exception.
Good point I tried it out and here are the results. Note the code in constructor is still smaller by the same 13 bytes. But while the throw is larger than the catch uncompressed the throw saves an additional 10 bytes once compressed over the try catch.


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COPD a Growing Threat
By Armen Hareyan G+ Dec 21 2005 - 2:45pm
Smoking and COPD
It's the fourth leading cause of death in the United States and many people haven't even heard of it. About 24 million Americans have been diagnosed with some form of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and about 120,000 or 43 out of every 100,000 people die from it annually. In 2000, more women than men were hospitalized for it and had more deaths from it than men for the first time.
What is it? As the name indicates, it is a long-term lung disease which blocks air movement. There are three classifications, depending on the cause. First, some basic anatomy. The lungs consist of tubes called "bronchi" which carry air down to tiny air sacs or alveoli which allow oxygen to cross through into the blood and carbon dioxide to leave in the breath. The bronchi are lined with a mucus-producing tissue that traps dust and germs and carries it out of the lungs. The alveoli have immune system cells to kill bacteria which may find their way into the lung.
Chronic bronchitis is characterized by inflammation in the air passages with excessive mucus production. The persistent inflammation eventually causes impaired airflow due narrowing of the airways. It becomes increasingly difficult to get air into and out of the lungs, resulting in a chronic cough and shortness of breath. The accumulation of mucus traps bacteria which can lead to recurrent lung infections which make the problem much worse. As the disease progresses, more air passages clog and breathing becomes increasingly difficult.
Emphysema is a disease lower in the lungs in the air sacs. Chronic inflammation damages the thin walls of the air sacs causing them to rupture. As more air sacs break apart, large segments of the lung are rendered nonfunctional. Air gets in but does not exchange oxygen for carbon dioxide and it stays trapped in the dilated spaces, effectively rendering these areas useless. As the damage progresses, the lungs become less able to do their job and shortness of breath gets worse. There can be components of chronic bronchitis and emphysema in the same person.
Asthma is a form of COPD due to inflammation of the airways, but most asthma comes from the immune system reacting to things in the air, such as pollen and dust. The inflammatory reaction causes the airways to constrict in addition to producing more mucus. This narrowing reduces the ability to get air in and out of the lungs. Asthma is called a "reversible" airway disease because the inflammation and constriction can be reversed with drugs that dilate the airways. However, longstanding inflammation in asthmatics can lead to the development of chronic bronchitis.
Why is COPD so prevalent and why are women developing it and dying from it in greater numbers? In a word: smoking. It takes decades to develop COPD and we now are seeing the effects of smoking on women who started smoking in the 1940s to the 1960s. Female smokers are 13 times more likely to die from COPD than nonsmokers. About 80 percent of COPD is from smoking.
Environmental pollution and second-hand smoke can be a factor in nonsmokers who develop COPD as can industrial factors, such as coal dust in the case of black lung disease. Genetics play a part also in how severe COPD becomes. One form of emphysema is caused by a deficiency of an enzyme, alpha1 antitrypsin, which inhibits enzymes designed to help us fight off bacteria. Unchecked, the enzymes attack the air sacs and destroy them. Alpha1 antitrypsin deficiency is inherited and can be detected through a blood test.
These diseases are diagnosed based on history of symptoms, an examination and a pulmonary function test. Treatment consists of inhaled and oral drugs to dilate the airways and reduce inflammation. In worse cases, supplemental oxygen can make daily living more comfortable and enable those affected to carry on normal activities. While symptoms can be improved, there is nothing to stop the disease progression, making avoidance of smoking critical. Waiting until symptoms develop to quit smoking is not a wise decision.
Quitting smoking now is the best way to prevent COPD. For current or former smokers who have a chronic cough or for whom modest exertion causes huffing and puffing, an examination and pulmonary function test can diagnose if COPD is contributing. Treatment can improve one's ability to function.


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NJ Health Officials Confirm 2 More Hepatitis A Cases
By News Desk on January 2, 2015
On Thursday, health officials in Hamilton, NJ, confirmed two more cases of Hepatitis A in the township about a month after a food service worker at Rosa's Restaurant and Catering in Hamilton first became infected with the virus. Health officials said that an employee of the Hair Port Salon in Hamilton had been diagnosed with Hepatitis A infection. The employee has been released from the hospital and is recovering at home, they added. Staff and customers who visited the salon between Dec. 4 and Dec. 30 may be at risk of contracting the virus and should be vaccinated if they have not already done so, officials said. Hepatitis A was also confirmed Thursday in a fitness instructor at a Hamilton-area YMCA. The instructor is recovering at home, official said. Anyone who visited any of those locations between Dec. 5 and Dec. 29 may be at risk. Officials confirmed during routine questioning that both individuals had eaten at, or from, Rosa's during the first illnesses, but they were not certain that the subsequent cases were related. They planned to hold a press conference Friday at 2 p.m. EST at the HamStat Call Center Training Room at 5 Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. Way in Hamilton to provide information and answer questions from the community and the media. Health officials urged anyone with concerns or who develops symptoms to call a doctor. The symptoms of Hepatitis A infection include mild fever, loss of appetite, nausea, fatigue, vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain, dark urine and yellowing of the skin or eyes. The disease varies in severity, with mild cases lasting two weeks or less and more severe cases lasting four to six weeks.
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Diljit Dosanjh's music video slammed for promoting cruelty to dogs, public apology demanded
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Union Cabinet Minister for Women & Child Development, Maneka Gandhi, was quoted in Daily Mail as saying, "I have been aware of this issue for three years now. On a page started by the animal rights activists on Facebook, titled, 'Exposing Animal Fights In India', a post reads, "#BoycottDiljit till he apologies for glorifying dog fights. "We demand an unconditional apology from Diljit Dosanjh, Kamal Grewal for promoting dog fights, they should come forward and condemn the cruel sport," wrote the activists on the page which have more than a 100 videos on animal cruelty being promoted in India. What are dog fights? The two are being slammed on social media for illegally using animals in the videos. The dog bouts take place in secret and take place in Punjab and outskirts of Delhi. #BoycottSuperSingh." The activists are seeking a public apology from both Diljit and Kamal. Usually these fights take place in farm houses and the irony is that police officials are informed in advance."
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© IE Online Media Services Pvt Ltd Lakhs are spent on training Pittbulls, bull dogs, Indian mastiffs etc for the fights. Diljit hasn't come out with his apology or clarification yet but his many fans are disappointed with their superstar's inhuman act. The dogs are starved, beaten and brutally treated. 2017-06-15T12:08:30+00:00″>
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IIFA 2017: Saif Ali Khan, Karan Johar and Varun Dhawan are all set to host. "Punjabi singer Diljit Dosanjh and Kamal Grewal and others are encouraging dog fights through their songs, did they obtained a no objection certificates from Animal Welfare Board Of India for using dogs in their videos? Singer Kamal Grewal has also come under the scanner for promoting animal cruelty in his latest albums' songs and videos. Here's what you should expectThe Kapil Sharma Show: Diljit Dosanjh promotes Super Singh amid laughter, see photosDiljit Dosanjh on his Kylie Jenner obsession: I love her very much but she hasn't repliedJust a day ahead of the release of his next superhero film, Super Singh, Diljit Dosanjh might find himself in legal trouble. It is being said that the Punjabi rockstar has been glorifying dog fights in his songs. And, he is not the only one who is being slammed. Their songs and videos should immediately be banned with penalties on the singers," said another post on the page. Pedigree dogs are made to fight each other, sometimes to the death. The losing ones are either killed or tied with chains to drown in canals. The dog lovers have uploaded the videos of the above-mentioned songs and want them to be banned right away. The songs which have lead to the outrage are Diljit Dosanjh's "Pitbull" with the lyrics, "Rakhe fight nu vi Pitbull chaar ni (Have kept four pitbulls for fighting)," and Kamal Grewal's, "Sarkari Ban" which says, "Petbull'an da chalaya yaaran ne hai daur ni (Friends have begun the trend of pitbull fighting)." In the video of the song, we also see Kamal handling the dogs with mouth-guards and making them fight.
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Today is the one year anniversary of the My Writing Nook iPhone app. The past year has been very satisfying - it's great to see that so many of you are enjoying the app. Thanks for your support and encouragement throughout the last year - you've helped to make My Writing Nook the best novel writing app on the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.
I'd also like to announce that the 1.0.7 release of My Writing Nook for iPad is now available in the App Store. This release includes the same delete synchronization and document conflict resolution features that I described in my previous post about the latest release for the iPhone/iPod touch. Enjoy the silky smoothness of the latest release.


This week brought two books – one I bought for the Women of Science Fiction Book Club (and will be reading very soon since it's for this month) and a finished copy of a book I already read as an ARC. Since I already posted about the ARC when I got it and will be posting the review very soon (probably tomorrow), I won't include the description here. The finished copy I received is The Sea Thy Mistress, the third book in Elizabeth Bear's Edda of Burdens trilogy. I was thrilled to receive it – I loved this book and want to reread the whole trilogy someday. Plus the hardcover is beautiful and matches the other two books very nicely.
On to February's Book Club selection.
Thanks to the Women of Science Fiction Book Club, I am going to finally read a book I've been wanting to read for a while. This has always looked like the most intriguing of Le Guin's books to me – perhaps it's the subtitle "An Ambiguous Utopia" or the fact that it's won the Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy Award, and the National Book Award. In any case, I'm looking forward to finding out more about the utopia and how the main character challenges its conventional ideas and tries to change their way of life.