The Greenpeace weblog (Free subscription) | 11/06/2008
Some other stories from the nuclear industry you may have missed: The Star: Energy board slams nuclear bill âThe province's energy watchdog says Ontario Power Generation is spending far too much to operate its Pickering A and B nuclear stations...
Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | 11/16/2008
Rob Silver and Tim Powers square off over the latest Liberal squabble
BYU NewsNet (Free subscription) | 11/10/2008
The BYU swim and dive team returned from UC Irvine with a number of successful results at the Anteater Shootout. The women performed well, beating five of the six teams in the competition. The Cougars lost to Stanford, what head coach Tim Powers calls a 'tough competitor,' While the men beat out the Air Force Academy, but lost to UNLV and Hawaii.
Scotto's Wall Scrawls (Free subscription) | 11/11/2008
Does someone ruin a hand or at least lose fingers in *EVERY* one of Tim Powers ' books? Stress of Her Regard - Yup (still reading) Declare - mm-hmm. Earthquake weather - yup On Stranger tides - yes Last call - yup. Those are just the ones I've read. ---- bro has a tri-rail ticked on file for 10/31. neat trick, since he has been in jail since june. someone using his ID, or just a really slow...
Uncertain Times (Free subscription) | 11/05/2008
(video link) An excellent 1994 BBC documentary, including interviews with Tim Powers, James Blaylock, Thomas M. Disch, Kim Stanley Robinson, Brian Aldiss, Terry Gilliam, an assortment of ex-wives, friends and associates, as well as PKD himself. I liked how this film riffs on Ubik , a favorite of mine, which is probably his most lucid and complete work. Interesting note: Tim Powers was...
Emdashes (Free subscription) | 11/05/2008
Scott McLemee has asked some smart folks to help him compile a reading list for the new president. The suggestions include Thucydides, Henry Adams, my dad's old boss Herman Kahn.... so ponderous ! I think President Obama will be in need of some good beach reads to let him unwind, so I'd recommend Kate Atkinson or Tim Powers. And Behind the Candidates is a brilliantly designed website that will...
SF Signal (Free subscription) | 10/30/2008
... " by Eugie Foster, read by Cori Samuel PS Publishing announces Secret Histories , an exclusive Tim Powers bibliography by John Berlyne. Taral Wayne is winner of this year's Rotsler Award , honoring artistic achievement in amateur SF publications. [via Locus Online and File 770 ] Over at Publishers Weekly 's Genreville, Mindy Klasky talks about Genre Hopping, or From Fantasy to Romance and...
Win Eckert's Wold Newton Wanderings (Free subscription) | 10/25/2008
Was on my first panel tonight , sat right next to Connie Willis; Tim Powers was one seat down. Daunting. My reading was scheduled against the opening ceremonies. No one showed for the reading. Duh. I was relieved. Tomorrow is my Myths for the Modern Age /Wold Newton presentation and then I'm on a late night panel about writing sex in genre without it seeming like porn. More on Sunday. I picked...
Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | 10/21/2008
... unprotected penetrative sex" despite having been given a mountain of information about the risks.Tim Power told the jurors that beginning in January of 1997, a month after having tested positive for the virus, Mr. Aziga was repeatedly "warned of the dangers of infecting others ... told of his responsibilities to disclose his HIV status to future partners and the need to use condoms."Yet,...
Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | 10/22/2008
... died in October, 2002, and August, 2003.In his opening statement earlier this week, prosecutor Tim Power quietly and in careful language painted Mr. Aziga's conduct as callous, cold and deliberately duplicitous.He said Mr. Aziga not only failed to disclose his HIV status, but also directly lied about it to several of the women, telling one who asked about it that he was fine (reassured,...
MSNBC.com (Free subscription) | 10/21/2008
... said were HIV-related cancers."One may immediately think of a violent rape scenario," prosecutor Tim Power told the three-woman, nine-man jury. "That is not what this case is all about."Rather, Power said in his opening statement, Aziga put his partners at risk of serious bodily harm without their knowing, even having sex with one woman on the morning of his arrest in August 2003.Johnson...
CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 10/20/2008
Among the most compelling evidence Crown lawyer Tim Powers plans to present during the course of the trial is audio and videotaped testimony by the two Toronto women Aziga is alleged to have had unprotected sex with. Both died of AIDS-related complications, one in December 2003 and the other in May 2004.
atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 10/21/2008
... from an AIDS-related death.He spread his seed wide over a period of several years, Crown attorney Tim Power told the court in his opening statement, outlining the anticipated evidence: Seven women purportedly contracting the HIV virus from Aziga, two of them dying from AIDS-related lymphoma, four others who have tested negative but exposed to the risk without knowledge.The Crown will argue...
