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  Whipping Star
Whipping Star is a science fiction novel by Frank Herbert.
In Whipping Star, Jorg X. McKie is a saboteur extraordinary, one of the chiefs of BuSab responsible for detecting, exposing, and correcting strains of violent or anti-sentient behaviour.
Now, a psychotic human with immense power has bound a Caleban in a contract that allows the Caleban to be whipped to death; when the Caleban dies, everyone who has used a jump-door (which is almost everyone) will die as well.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/wh/Whipping_Star.html   (177 words)

  
 Black hole belches fireworks to accentuate stellar duo's dance | www.azstarnet.com ®
ATLANTA - Gas from a massive star is being stripped by a fl hole and turned into high-speed jets that streak into space at one-fourth the speed of light, according to a new study of a bizarre double-star object.
SS 433 is a pair of stars that orbit a bright disc 16,000 light years away in the constellation Aquila.
He said the star is whipping around a fl hole in the center of the disc, and the gravitational force from the fl hole is stripping gas away from the star at a rate that would consume the entire sun in just 10,000 years.
www.azstarnet.com /sn/printDS/4743   (490 words)

  
 Whipping Star - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Whipping Star is a science fiction novel written by Frank Herbert in 1969.
After suffering under a tyrannous pure democracy which had the power to create laws so fast that no thought could be given to the effects, the sentients of the galaxy found the need for a Bureau of Sabotage (BuSab) to slow the wheels of government, thereby preventing it from legislating recklessly.
In Whipping Star, Jorj X. McKie is a saboteur extraordinary, a born troublemaker who has naturally become one of BuSab's best agents.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Whipping_Star   (388 words)

  
 DC Film Society: Screenings
They are the movie "whipping boys," the actors or actresses who serve as the source of complaints for critics, journalists, and cinephiles everywhere.
Many of his performances on the original "Star Trek" are filled with the bombast that we now associate with the actor.
Star Trek: Generations, while a mediocre film overall, showcased Shatner at his finest in his swan song as Captain Kirk.
www.dcfilmsociety.org /adamwhipping.htm   (873 words)

  
 Star Chamber. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
The court of the Star Chamber developed from the judicial proceedings traditionally carried out by the king and his council, and was entirely separate from the common-law courts of the day.
Wolsey also encouraged petitioners to use the Court of the Star Chamber as a court of original jurisdiction, not as a last resort after the common-law courts had failed.
The court remained active through the reigns of James I and Charles I. The traditional hostility between equity and common law was aggravated by the use made of the Star Chamber by the Stuarts as a vehicle for exercising the royal prerogative, particularly over church matters, in defiance of Parliament.
www.bartleby.com /65/st/StarCham.html   (323 words)

  
 Canings of criminals in Malaysia, May 2004 - CORPUN ARCHIVE myj00405
In mitigation, counsel Amer Hamzah pleaded to the court to pass a moderate sentence without any whipping on his client, saying that there was no evidence of physical or external violence to the victim, thereby not the worst case scenario of a rape offence.
A whipping demonstration in school is the latest in a series of moves by the authorities to keep the country's young on the straight and narrow.
ALOR STAR May 27 - Two padi farmers were jailed for between eight and 10 years and ordered to be given six strokes of the rotan each by the Sessions Court here Thursday for raping an underage girl four years ago.
www.corpun.com /myj00405.htm   (3854 words)

  
 Harrison Ford Wallpaper Pictures
While some of his most revered work is in the science-fiction category with the Star Wars films and the cult classic Blade Runner, he has said the latter was one of his least favorite roles and has yet to return to the genre.
Although Ford's star power has waned in recent years, after the financial failures of K-19: The Widowmaker and Hollywood Homicide, he intends to film a fourth Indiana Jones movie with George Lucas and Steven Spielberg, which is to be released in 2007.
In 2004, Ford declined a chance to star in the thriller Syriana, commenting that "I didn't feel strongly enough about the truth of the material and I think I made a mistake"; he was offered the role eventually played by George Clooney, who won an Oscar for the role.
www.scrup.com /buzz/HarrisonFord.htm   (483 words)

  
 Sun.Star Cebu - ALUNAN:The whipping boy
So to show that they did wrong and needed punishment, they invented the role of whipping boy, a person as close to the age of the royal highnesses.
The whipping took the punishment for the prince or the princess for any major or minor scrapes children naturally get into, royalty or not.
The whipping boy may come from among the poor.
www.sunstar.com.ph /static/ceb/2002/06/16/oped/merlie.m..alunan.html   (957 words)

  
 A Range of Options | Departures   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The hands-down winner was the Blue Star, which I might have expected, given its 18,000-BTU burner; it took only 17 minutes and 50 seconds to bring the water to a boil.
Moreover, only the Blue Star and Viking were able to maintain the initial heat; after reaching the target temperature, the oil in the saucepan on the Viking range rose quickly to 390 degrees before dropping slightly, two minutes later, to 380 degrees, where it held steady.
In fact, the quality of the steak that emerged from the Blue Star test (at 18,000 BTUs) and the DCS test (at 17,500 BTUs) was shockingly different from that of the steak cooked over 15,000 BTUS on the Viking and Jade ranges.
www.departures.com /ad/ad_1103_cookranges.html   (4200 words)

  
 Whipping Boy MP3 Downloads - Whipping Boy Music Downloads - Whipping Boy Music Videos
Irish group Whipping Boy came to prominence in the mid-1990s with their tales of everyday life and love, seen through the world-weary and cynical eyes of frontman Ferghal McKee.
Originally named Lolita and the Whipping Boy, the name was shortened when their female guitarist found religion and left the group.
Whipping Boy\'s major label debut, Heartworm, appeared in 1994 and was greeted with glowing reviews.
www.mp3.com /whipping-boy/artists/119566/summary.html   (399 words)

  
 Star Wars vs Star Trek Hatemail: Virus-X Debate, Round 1 (his first post)
In the episode "Rise" (Star Trek: Voyager, episode 60, teleplay by Brannon Braga, story by Jimmy Diggs, directed by Robert Scheerer), it was stated quite clearly that Voyager's firepower was more than adequate to destroy the asteroid, and it was treated as a mystery as to why they didn't.
Commonly, Star Wars zealots fail to point out that the concentration and heat of vaporization of triatium is completely unknown, and, is quite probably fairly high.
This is further evidenced by such dismissive insults as "...not with the unreasonable extrapolations derived from optimistic interpretations of dialogue that are common to wild-eyed Trekkie fanatics...", which is merely an attempt to pre-emptively discredit and dismiss perfectly valid points.
www.stardestroyer.net /Empire/HateMail/Virus-X/Debate-1.html   (3264 words)

  
 Mystery of bizarre double star unraveled - Space News - MSNBC.com
The fl hole pulls material from the star, and that material whirls into a disk (shown in white) surrounding the fl hole.
ATLANTA - Gas from a massive star is being stripped by a fl hole and turned into high-speed jets that streak into space slightly less than the speed of light, according to a new study of a bizarre double-star object.
SS 433 is a pair of stars which orbit a bright disc 16,000 light-years away in the constellation Aquila.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/3882121   (724 words)

  
 The Daily Star Web Edition Vol. 5 Num 845   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The well marked low over the east central Bay of Bengal has weakened into a low pressure area moving into the north Bay, whipping up squally winds in the sea prompting the met office to ask the maritime ports to hoist local cautionary warning signal number three replacing the signal number one from yesterday morning.
All fishing boats and trawlers over north Bay have been advised to remain close to the coast and warned not to venture into the Bay until further notice, a special bulletin of the met office said.
As rains slowed down the heat and humidity have risen across the country which is likely to continue so long the low pressure remains in the Bay, the met sources said.
www.thedailystar.net /2006/10/10/d61010061584.htm   (246 words)

  
 AXAF looks for pulsars living in the fast lane
Pulsars are pulsing neutron stars, discovered by radio astronomers in 1967 and since observed in virtually every part of the electromagnetic spectrum.
Neutron stars are the only stars with a solid surface, a crystalline lattice of neutrons about 200 m (660 ft) thick (left, 1296x781-pixel, 229K JPG).
The neutron star is still there spinning, but the magnetic dynamo that made all the uproar is expended, and the magnetar husk spends the rest of eternity cold, dark, and unnoticed.
science.nasa.gov /newhome/headlines/features/ast21sep98_1.htm   (1707 words)

  
 EURweb.com - Black Entertainment | Black News | Urban News | Hip Hop News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
If we are going to protest the freedom of speech of Buck and Star, why not protest the majority of hip-hop for the lyrics which promote crime and violence, premarital sex, drug and alcohol use, and general disrespect.
As far as the Star issue he should have been off the air a long long long time ago even before he made that crude joke but it took him to show the world how truly ignorant he could get before anybody could see it.
Ever since Hot 97 put the Star and Bucwild show on they lost a listener in the morning on my behalf because half of the stuff they say is not fit to tell a dog.
www.eurweb.com /interact/commentview.cfm?id=3921   (1614 words)

  
 Whipping star - Amazon.com: Whipping Star: Books: Frank Herbert   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Whipping star; a science fiction novel by Frank Herbert
I see that Whipping Star is mentioned at the beginning of Dosadi, should I read WS Whipping Star by Frank Herbert: Science Fiction Inventions and Ideas
Whipping Star Whipping Star is a science fiction novel written by Frank Herbert in 1969.
adenine.okeysearch.com /?q=adenine-whipping-star   (224 words)

  
 The Daily Star Web Edition Vol. 5 Num 496   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Rahman would congratulate The Daily Star for its 'bold and uncompromising expose of AL misdeeds'.
On several diplomatic receptions he took this write by the arm and introduced The Daily Star to any new ambassador, diplomat or UN personnel in town as 'the best example of courageous journalism'.
Well, they were opposition leaders then and are ministers now, on the buttered side of the bread, so to speak.
www.thedailystar.net /2005/10/17/d5101701044.htm   (1175 words)

  
 Whipping Star Study Guide by Frank Herbert
4 pages of summaries and analysis on Whipping Star by Frank Herbert.
Each guide is written by a subject expert, professional educator, or scholar of the work.
Whipping Star from Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction and Beacham's Guide to Literature for Young Adults.
www.bookrags.com /shortguide-whipping-star/?ref=fbn   (64 words)

  
 Whipping Star by Frank Herbert - Book
The premise of the book is that the richest women in the universe (Miss Abnethe) is a Sadist who has been operated on by the authorities so that she cannot inflict pain or bear to witness pain being inflicted.
She gets around this by finding a victim for whom the concept of pain or suffering is outside their reality, by whipping a star.
Herbert is exploring the concept of consensual S&M where the masochist does not ‘suffer’ and the Sadist knows this and is therefore able to cross beyond the limits of society's morality that hold back a normal person from such actions.
www.sffworld.com /book/1144.html   (912 words)

  
 Kansas City Star | 08/16/2006 | Whipping cream   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Many recipes instruct the cook to whip cream to either soft or stiff peaks.
Cream whipped to soft peaks will droop slightly from the ends of the beaters.
Cream whipped to stiff peaks will cling tightly to the ends of the beaters and hold its shape.
www.kansascity.com /mld/kansascity/living/food/15278923.htm   (80 words)

  
 Frank Herbert
Other notable works by Herbert include Whipping Star (1970), The Dosadi Experiment (1977), as well as his classic Destination Void (1966).
His influence was felt by his peers and even by other artists working within the sci-fi genre.
Filmmaker George Lucas credited Dune as a major influence on Star Wars -- the desert world of Tatooine, the dynastic houses, and the intergalactic power struggles, all were inspired by Herbert's Dune.
www.nndb.com /people/717/000023648   (1396 words)

  
 SPACE.com -- U.S. Air Force Takes a Look at Teleportation
It seems that mere stealth technology is not enough; the United States Air Force wants to get from here to there without even traversing the space in between.
Even though I was disappointed with the outright dismissal of Star Trek-style teleportation (sheesh!), I was briefly encouraged by the fact that he offered solutions that meet the definition of vm-teleportation:
Will Smith stars as a detective who believes a robot is responsible for a murder.
www.space.com /businesstechnology/technovel_teleport_041103.html   (623 words)

  
 Personal Chef Ara - Main Courses   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The coconut curry sauce is made with mirin, lemongrass, fresh ginger, dry white wine, whipping cream, unsweetened coconut milk and red curry paste.
It is served with mushrooms flavored with rosemary and a cream cheese-chive sauce, onions and fish stock.
Included are whipping cream, soft fresh goat cheese, dried cranberries, ground fl pepper, butter, pine nuts and fresh basil.
www.personalchefara.com /main.html   (3784 words)

  
 Whipping Star by Frank Herbert Book Reviews
"Whipping Star" is the first novel length adventure starring Herbert's favorite creation of his, his Sabotour Extraordinary Jorj X. McKie!
Baisically a rich socialitte with mental problems hires this mysterious being who allows sentient beings to "fold" space, a la guild from Dune, to be whipped.
Her companion, a psychotic sentient suffering from an unusual paranoia about his person which makes him fear baisically anything that may have any amount of control over him.
www.sffworld.com /brev/bi1144p0.html   (730 words)

  
 Your Party: Public Whipping Europe   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
And: The Stationery Office-hosted Early Day Motions site records those notices of motions given by MPs that aren't expected to be debated in the UK parliament.
One of the things MEPs most often get complaints about is the lack of time they spend with constituents.
The three countries that get a gold star have attendance rates of 89% - just 6% higher.
rodcorp.typepad.com /your_party/2004/01/public_whipping.html   (1397 words)

  
 Cajun Chicken Pasta - QuickMeals   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
An explosion of flavor in ingenious Arabic-Mediterranean recipes from Chef Ana Sortun, StarChefs.com's 2003 Boston Rising Star and James Beard Award-winning chef of Oleana in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
After chicken is browned on all sides, drain all grease from skillet.
When drained, add heavy whipping cream to chicken.
www.starchefs.com /recipes/quick_meals/qmsearch.php?id=3503   (141 words)

  
 JournalStar.com - Lincoln, Nebraska - Savor
Cut ½ cup cold butter into small pieces and work it into the dough with your fingers or a pastry cutter until the dough is crumbly and evenly combined but not pasty.
Combine the egg yolk, one-half teaspoon vanilla and 2 to 3 tablespoons whipping cream.
Combine the remaining whipping cream, the remaining vanilla, the eggs and ¼ cup of sugar.
www.journalstar.com /articles/2004/07/20/savor/10052337.txt   (473 words)

  
 Star Wars Origins - Frank Herbert's Dune
Herbert innovated in one other major way: in his day, science fiction was seen mostly as a way to express mind-expanding ideas through story, but the idea was the star, and the story itself was mostly seen as a "coat hanger" for the idea to hang on.
The Caladan-is-based-on-Caliban theory is reinforced by Herbert's invention of the Caleban aliens in his subsequent novel Whipping Star.
It's no coincidence that so many major sources for Star Wars were influenced by Shakespeare: Dune, The Lord of the Rings, Forbidden Planet and Kurusawa (Kurosawa's Ran, 1985, was a remake of King Lear).
www.spookybug.com /origins/dune.html   (10050 words)

  
 Recipe for Key Lime Pots de Creme
If you are using the whipping cream garnish, prepare the cream.
As an alternative (or in addition) to whipping cream; you can top each pots de creme with a knot of lime peel.
Use a lemon zesting tool (or a small sharp paring knife) and pare off a 2 to 3 inch strip of peel.
www.gourmetsleuth.com /recipe_keylimepdc.htm   (813 words)

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