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Page 11, 30 January 1926 — SAVING THE GARDEN OF ENGLAND
30 JANUARY 1926, Page 11
SAVING THE GARDEN OF ENGLAND
AT the very core of the Garden of England a battle of permanent historical importance is being engaged on behalf both of the beauty of the country and the health conditions of the coming industrial worker. No one is More closely and personally concerned than the Londoner, whose favourite seaside places are threat- ened by the opening of coal nits, that will find their market almost exclusively in London. Unless thoughtful care. is taken the whole of one of the loveliest and most historic closes . of England may, become a dirty and unlovely smudge, worthy of the name of the maimed of 'murdered forms that we have been forced to christen "the Black Country." Twenty-six coal pits and a multi- tude' Of iron Or steel mines are about to be " developed " within a small area rimmed by places familiar to the affections of all of us: Here are a few of the' names, in geographical order :. Canterbury, Whitstable, Herne Bay, Margate, Broadstairs, Ramsgate, Sandwich, , Deal, Walmer, Dover, Folkestone, Elliarn, Midge. In 4 the local authorities of forty-five districts have put then'. heads together to devise a_ means Of harnessing new ue and old beauty to the service of :social and industrial progress.... Aftei, all, the industrial revolution was Calamity On'becithse 'no' One had 'foresight enough to lino:gine: the effects of al huge new population or unselfishness enough to prepare_ for the social welfare of posterity: The co-operative endeavour of these forty- five districts,. aided by a group of noted archaeologists, arehiteeti, 'artists,' geologists; and industrialists, is the most Vital reformation ir. what may be called our home history that has been recorded for' half a century. milijOI-hugger.-Mugger --development of urban areas were not formally and officially recognized by Parliament until 1923, when an amendment was passed to the vaguer town-planning Acts dating from 1909. The Minister of Health was then given power to authorize a town-planning scheme for a built-up area, "where it appears . . . that on account of the special archi- tectural, historic or artistic interest attaching to a locality it is expedient to do so with a view to preserving the existing character and to protecting the existing features of the locality." This may be said to have consummated the permission to recognize the value of beauty.
Every detail in the prospective management of this new area touches the imagination of those who have any wish to build a new "Jerusalem in England's green and pleasant land." The very first step is to estimate the probable growth of population and housing needs. A rough calculation for East Kent is as follows :— 20 coal pits at 10,000 workers per pit . .
.. 200,000 Steel and kindred mining . . . . 28,000 "Consequential population" . . . . 72,000 Total . . . . .. 290,000 persons
The scheme for what is now generally known as "regional development" should therefore allow for nearly 100,000 houses plus parks and playing-grounds for the whole population. We may take it that merely in terms of hard cash the value of these old towns and popular seaside places exceeds by a good many million of pounds the value of the coal ; and therefore, even setting aside their incalculable artistic and historic value, it would be bad business, as well as bad morality, to blacken the reputation of Canterbury or Sandwich, of Margate or Folkestone. There is an entry in an existing guide- book, which records that the Keep of the Norman Castle at Canterbury "forms an admirable coal cellar for the gas works " ! We cannot, even for our pockets' sake, allow the face of the country to suffer the indignity of the interior of this old Keep. East Kent is not an admirable place for the deposit of coal dust or the crowding of miners' shacks.
The" blessed word," which more than any other proclaims the new science, is "zoning." The place of the pit mouths is known; as in other new towns, such as the Welwyn Garden City, the site of the factories is fixed. It is clear that within a near radius of that black centre only the most necessary buildings must be permitted. The workers must not be very far distant, but we can to some extent annihilate distance ; and the laying out of the workers' houses will depend very greatly on the regional ,survey, on the contour, the subsoil, even the view and the oppor- tunity for "gardens. An agricultural belt is desirable; and there should be capacious open spaces, laid out for recreation. East Kent is peculiarly important, because apart from the planning of the new town itself, it is necessary to consider the preservation of towns and villages planned a thousand years ago. Some of these are already grievously threatened by the builders of what Carlyle used to call "concrete mendacities " ; and since he wrote, his adjective has acquired an ominous double meaning. It is perhaps not too much to hope that the survey, already considerably advanced, for the regional planning scheme for East Kent, will bring into the open the crimes of the speculative jobbing builder. Town. planning is, of course, especially necessary where an indus- trial call summons a large new population ; but regional planning, if not strictly town -planning, is -a duty laid upon local authorities in a hundred districts. Hertfordshire has taken a certain lead in this respect. The object is first to protect the charm of the rural and suburban aren_q from those who erect what are called Dormitories for London, partly to encourage the decentralization of factories into pi actv-whe're-the workman may enjoy the health and charm of a country neighbourhood. Mafia& is faced by the proximity of a new town of 30,000 people, just as Canterbury by an industrial centre of 200,000 or more. But the importance of the East Kent scheme is pre-eminent, and has many features peculiar to itself. What happened, most grimly, by Durham or Birmingham- or Stoke, is happening along either side a line from Canterbury to Deal. Our task is to make sure that the. blessing of the discovery of wealth shall not be converted' into a social curse, that new history shall not wipe out old history, that industrial wealth shall not entail aesthetic poverty.
What has been done so far in East Kent is wholly admir- able. A thorough survey, based on real imaginative perception, has been carried through and published since the Kentish -local authorities met the Minister of Health in the Guild Hall at Canterbury, two and a-half years ago. That meeting may one 'day be taken as an historical crisis in the second phase of the English indus- trial revolution. We should perhaps be a little ashamed that our town-planning adventures have, hitherto, stirred much more enthusiasm in the United States than in Britain. Let us appreciate our own virtues, to the end of practising them more widely and more consciously.
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Browse > Home / Financial, News, Search / SLI Share Price: Headwinds for Search Evident
SLI Share Price: Headwinds for Search Evident
I read “SLI CEO Ryan Bemoans Low Share price, Says It Should Be $2-Plus.” This is a woulda, coulda, shoulda write up. Reality seems to ignore this somewhat lame mantra.
The write up says:
SLI Systems chief executive Shaun Ryan says the company’s share price is “significantly underpriced” and could be at least four times higher based on other public software-as-a-service valuations.
The write up included this bit of information:
The company today reported a loss of $7.1 million in the year ended June 30, widening from a loss of $5.7 million a year earlier. Operating revenue increased 27 percent to $28.1 million, in line with the $28 million guidance given in April, when it flagged that second-half sales would be lower than expected. Annualized recurring revenue (ARR), its preferred financial measure based on forward subscription revenue, rose 39 percent to $34.6 million.
SLI says its system
… helps you increase e-commerce revenue by connecting your online and mobile shoppers with the products they’re most likely to buy. SLI solutions include SaaS-based learning search, navigation, merchandising, mobile, recommendations and user-generated SEO.
Other publicly trade search vendors are struggling with their financial performance too. For example, Sprylogics, a Canadian vendor, sees it shares trading at $0.33. Lexmark shares are at $28 and change.
Search is a tough niche as Hewlett Packard and IBM are learning.
Stephen E Arnold, August 29, 2015
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Great Strides Made Yet Still Needed at Pulse
by Paddy Johnson on December 5, 2015
How do you infuse life into a zombie art fair? Ask Pulse Director Helen Toomer. She’s been in the unenviable position of having to clean up years of poor leadership at Pulse, and has miraculously achieved some success during her two-year tenure. The fair’s put together PERSPECTIVES, an impressive discussion series put together in partnership with Hyperallergic and has slowly but slowly pushing some of the long time, weaker exhibitors out of the fair. Meanwhile, Pulse has succeeded in bringing strong exhibitors into the fold like Monya Rowe, Yancey Richardson and Transfer. Great strides have been made.
But let’s be clear: the fair still has a lot of work to do.
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The Dangerous Cargoes Act, 1953
( ACT NO. V OF 1953 )
[ 15th April, 1953 ]
An Act to make further provision for the safety of ports in respect of the transit, working and storage of dangerous cargoes and matters incidental thereto. ♣
WHEREAS it is expedient to make further provision for the safety of ports in respect of the transit, working and storage of dangerous cargoes and matters incidental thereto;
It is hereby enacted as follows:-
1. Short title, extent and commencement
3. Measures for the safety of ports
4. Power to make rules
5. Declaration of emergency
6. Powers of the Chief of Naval Staff of the Bangladesh Navy
7. Delegation of powers by Chief of Naval Staff of the Bangladesh Navy
8. Powers of Deputy Conservator of a port
9. Contravention of this Act
10. Power to arrest without warrant
11. Savings as to order
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Thesis abstract ‘A Technological Analysis of Stone Artefacts from Big Foot Art Site, Cania Gorge, Central Queensland’
Home ⟩ Blog ⟩ Thesis abstract ‘A Technological Analysis of Stone Artefacts from Big Foot Art Site, Cania Gorge, Central Queensland’
Catherine Westcott
BA(Hons), Department of Anthropology and Sociology, The University of Queensland, October 1997
This thesis presents a technological analysis of the stone assemblage from one excavated square at Big Foot Art Site, a rockshelter in Cania Gorge, eastern central Queensland. The study was undertaken as part of the Gooreng Gooreng Cultural Heritage Project, a multidisciplinary study of the Burnett-Curtis region. Big Foot Art Site dates from 7923 cal. BP to 474 cal. BP and contains a variety of organic remains and stone artefacts of diverse lithologies. The aim of the analysis described here is to determine whether there is a change in the assemblage through time and, if so, to explain that change. Findings from sites to the north, south and west of Cania Gorge at Cape York Peninsula, southeast Queensland and the Carnarvon Ranges, respectively, suggest that changes could be expected during the mid- to late Holocene. The results from Big Foot Art Site indicate that there is a period of significantly increased artefact discard between 4400 cal. BP and 3200 cal. BP. Various artefact attributes are recorded and analysed in order to detect chronological changes in technology, including artefact size, raw material procurement, methods of core reduction, stages of reduction, use of excessive force and thermal treatment of stone. The change in the artefact discard rate cannot be accounted for by a corresponding change in technology. Nor does the evidence from the analysis support any other hypotheses considered in explanation of the change. Further study is needed to explain the processes resulting in the stone remains at this site and to place Big Foot Art Site in its regional context.
Authors: Westcott, C.
Title: Thesis abstract 'A Technological Analysis of Stone Artefacts from Big Foot Art Site, Cania Gorge, Central Queensland'
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Ottawa Trainyards – Buildings A B C & GOttawa, Ontario
Trinity Commons CenterCumberland, Ontario
The Athletic ClubKanata, Ontario
Mountain Equipment Co-Op Retail OutletOttawa, Ontario
Ottawa Trainyards – Buildings A B C & G
A retail complex composed of multiple buildings, CJE was involved in the design and construction review of approximately 230,000 ft2 of retail space located in the east end of Ottawa. The single storey retail center buildings were constructed to house multiple commercial tenants including retail stores and restaurants.
Trinity Commons Center
An 80,000 ft2, single storey retail center constructed to house multiple commercial tenants including retail stores and restaurants. Design accommodated for future mezzanine framing in multiple areas throughout the building.
The Athletic Club
An approximately 70,000 ft2, 2-storey commercial building located in the west end of Ottawa, Ontario, the Athletic Club building was composed of structural steel framing supporting hollow core precast slabs. The building was designed to house one gymnasium, 2 interior lap swimming pools, workout rooms, cardio rooms, and silent meditation/yoga rooms. Key design elements included long span framing which was required to control the vibrations of the end-users rhythmic activities.
Mountain Equipment Co-Op Retail Outlet
The 24,000 ft2, 2-storey store incorporated an extensive range of “green building” elements, including recycled structural materials (reused structural steel beams, joists and columns, salvaged boom logs, masonry and stone), locally sourced low-embodied energy materials, fly ash concrete, rainwater retention for grey water and irrigation purposes. It was the first commercial retail building in Canada to satisfy C-2000 energy requirements.
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Board index World of Blue Twin Peaks Movie, TV, Books Season 2 (1990-1991)
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Re: Episode 29
Postby mtwentz » Wed Mar 22, 2017 5:42 pm
Twin Peaks Podcast wrote: Hey all. Just released a audio commentary for this episode featuring 3 Twin Peaks experts. (Josh Eisenstadt, Brad Dukes and Scott Ryan) Previously we've done audio commentaries for every Lynch directed episode.
http://twinpeakspodcast.blogspot.ca/201 ... ntary.html
I'd say if you've seen the episode enough times, you can listen to this without watching along to the episode of the show.
Great podcast! I may be wrong but I always thought 'It's a boy' meant Dell Mibbler was going to be a father, (not the security guard). That's why Dell walks away from Andrew and Pete with a befuddled look on his face, as if to go to the phone to hear the news for himself.
"Dougie is COOPER? How the Hell is this!?"
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Postby Twin Peaks Podcast » Fri Mar 24, 2017 5:29 am
mtwentz wrote:
Wow, that would certainly be interesting! Probably his first great-great grandchild or something. Haha.
Postby mtwentz » Fri Mar 24, 2017 5:48 am
Twin Peaks Podcast wrote:
Well, when you think about it, not so unusual for Twin Peaks after Mayor Milford and Lana apparently got it on .
I do think it is ambiguous and open to interpretation, but I prefer old Dell was a lady's man right to the end.
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Postby Gabriel » Tue May 02, 2017 5:34 pm
LostInTheMovies wrote: Hm - I remembered there was a thread a while back and was able to dig this up: http://www.dugpa.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=2720. But I don't think anyone got too heavily into the question of why she disappears...
I assumed it was a different corridor and that the Lodge isn't internally consistent.
Postby Gabriel » Wed May 03, 2017 3:18 am
So, I've hit the grand finale in my pre-Showtime rewatch. It's still a tremendous episode – one that feels like it belongs in a different universe from what came recently before. The unsettling pulsating underscore runs along with what seems to be a dialled down colour scheme in the town, looking a little closer to the pilot. Kyle MacLachlan's Cooper is toned down a great deal compared with the previous episode where he was bordering on doing a Colin Clive impression at some points.
More than anything, this feels like an angry Lynch making the best, most surreal, deranged, terrifying 45 minutes of TV the network had ever seen. This feels one step off Wild at Heart, complete with fiery explosions, putting Cooper through an experience that, even if he had escaped, might have left his sanity shredded.
This is Cooper walking into the Cave of the Sibyl. Even if he leaves, who knows where he'll end up? It seems that time runs differently in the lodge too. Cooper seems to have been in there relatively briefly and yet 24 hours pass outside.
And, of course, we see the return of the Palmers and we get the curious repetition of the Heidi scene from the pilot, which, along with Norma's disinterest in Annie, implies something stranger is happening in the town; almost like a reset button is being hit.
Lynch also pulls real strong emotion out of the actors. His talent of pitching emotion just shy of comic melodrama cuts through once more. Donna's 'You're my daddy!' is the first time I've cared about the character in a long time. Doc Haywood losing his temper after Sylvia's arrival and becoming violent is shocking. Nadine's despairing wail of 'Why is she here?' and the defensive 'Where are my drape runners?! almost make the viewer feel ashamed for laughing at her stunts over the last 20-odd episodes. It cuts deeply.
Also, the direction and lighting in both the town and the Lodge is on a different level from previous episodes. You can see this is the work of someone who is a level above all the other directors.
It's a tremendous end to the network incarnation of the show. Only Lynch, back then, could have put something that wild on to a mainstream network. It's a hell of a fiery way to go out.
I remember the frustration of watching the episode for the first time. I kept on looking at the clock on the VHS machine thinking 'Come on! There isn't much time left!' I didn't want to leave the show on that note.
Obviously FWWM came out subsequently and only increased my frustration. I love that film. I saw it on day one of release and while there are many surface differences, its beating heart is unquestionably Twin Peaks. I wanted more and I've never understood the hostile reactions to it. I can understand someone might not enjoy it, but to see reviews comparing it to Plan 9 from Outer Space... there was some sort of agenda there.
This is the first time I've seen the episode in the knowledge that there's definitely more to come; that we're going to see many of these characters again; that Cooper's head hitting the mirror isn't the end. For all the knowledge that the new show is less than three weeks away (I move home three days before) there's still the anticipation of finding out how things will come out in the wash.
Crazy as it sounds, aged 16, this episode threw me into a funk and, 26 years later, I still feel that unscratchable itch. Whatever happens next, I'll be there waiting with the utmost anticipation.
It's strange to be able to say 'What a great end to the season!' instead of 'What a great end to Twin Peaks!'
Postby morgue » Tue May 09, 2017 7:33 pm
Hello hello, long time lurker, first time poster. I've been curating (& contributing to) a series of essays about Twin Peaks in advance of the new series, for New Zealand culture website The Ruminator. We've just hit the article for episode 29, which I cowrote with a friend, and as we talked about it I had a thought that felt like it might be worth sharing here. (Relevant link: http://ruminator.co.nz/peak-peak-rumination-17-wow-bob-wow/)
In the Red Room sequence, we see Bob take Windom Earle's soul in a flash of fire. Then, almost immediately after, we see the evil Cooper appear behind the curtain and come into the room.
It suddenly seems clear to me that this timing is not coincidental. Bob took Windom's soul and used it to make the evil Cooper.
Windom is already a "shadow self" of Cooper, as another mystically-inclined FBI agent, so this transfiguration feels very much in tune with the Lynchian dream logic at work. Having Bob take Earle's soul and put it to use removes the sense of anticlimax that hangs over the Earle storyline, by subsuming the Cooper vs. Earle dynamic into the greater Cooper vs. Bob/Red Room structure that is at the heart of the TV series.
I know this doesn't really explain much about what's happening in the Red Room - what difference does it make to what happens to Cooper? What would that imply about the other doppelgangers? - but thematically it seems very satisfying to me...
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Postby Wonderful & Strange » Fri May 12, 2017 10:58 pm
I notice people sometimes ask why does Cooper/Bob smash his head into the bathroom window at the end?
It appears to be an allusion to his last action inside of Leland, banging his head against the prison wall to murder him.
The suggestion is that Bob plans to put Cooper through the wringer while he has control of him. He's going to damage him mentally and physically as much as possible.
This implies to me that if Bob has possession of Cooper for 25 years, by the time the new show opens, Cooper is going to be a mess.
A major ambiguity of course is whether Cooper is actually possessed, or if the Coop we see here at the end is a doppleganger. Is Coop's soul trapped in the Black Lodge or is his body trapped too?
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Postby TwinPeaksFanatic » Sat May 20, 2017 1:58 pm
Who do you think is channeling through Sarah Palmer when she tells Major Briggs, "I"m waiting for you,"? It sort of feels like those who are "gifted", meaning they have certain abilities to "see" the true faces of the doppelgangers or into the future, are being collected by the spirits of The Black Lodge, thus also making them the, "damned." I wrote a recap for this episode here --- > http://twinpeaksfanatic.blogspot.com/20 ... de-29.html
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Postby Endangered_Wulf » Sun Jul 16, 2017 2:02 pm
This may have been covered previously on this Twin Peaks forum but what is general consensus on Donna Hayward actually being Donna Horne ?
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Postby Mr. Reindeer » Sat Apr 21, 2018 9:51 am
One of the funniest things in this episode, that I don’t believe I’ve ever seen someone mention, is that Audrey and Andrew have a very polite, sweet interaction and she then lets him pass — neither one realizing that she is in fact protesting HIS development! It’s a nice bit of subtle irony that I didn’t catch for a long time.
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Postby mtwentz » Sun Apr 22, 2018 7:39 am
Mr. Reindeer wrote: One of the funniest things in this episode, that I don’t believe I’ve ever seen someone mention, is that Audrey and Andrew have a very polite, sweet interaction and she then lets him pass — neither one realizing that she is in fact protesting HIS development! It’s a nice bit of subtle irony that I didn’t catch for a long time.
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Postby meadowlark » Sun Jun 10, 2018 1:28 pm
TwinPeaksFanatic wrote: Who do you think is channeling through Sarah Palmer when she tells Major Briggs, "I"m waiting for you,"? It sort of feels like those who are "gifted", meaning they have certain abilities to "see" the true faces of the doppelgangers or into the future, are being collected by the spirits of The Black Lodge, thus also making them the, "damned." I wrote a recap for this episode here --- > http://twinpeaksfanatic.blogspot.com/20 ... de-29.html
In light of Season 3, it may well be Judy who is speaking through Sarah Palmer! An evil creature entered into Sarah as a girl, but lay dormant for many years. After Leland has died, the evil force seems to wake up, and use Sarah to speak through. The voice says:
"I am in the Black Lodge with Dale Cooper. I am waiting for you."
It seems that Judy is a demon, hence a creature of the Black Lodge. Why speak to Maj Briggs? Well, as part of his work for the government, he has been searching for Judy. She seems to want to lure Briggs into the Lodge, to bring about his demise. Instead, he goes into hiding in another dimension! It makes sense to me. Do other people find this convincing?
Postby baxter » Sun Jun 10, 2018 2:47 pm
Yes! I rewatched E29 the other night and, funnily enough, the same thought occurred. I can't think of anyone else who would be speaking.
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Postby kitty666cats » Wed Aug 08, 2018 7:12 pm
I figured it's Earle speaking through Sarah. Sarah was a beacon for Judy because of the frogbug, but I don't think she became possessed until the creature (Judy, probably) escaped from the glass box
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Postby marchug » Mon Mar 23, 2020 7:47 am
Does anyone have any thoughts of the section from the Missing Pieces that directly ties in with episode 29? I am curious about a few things. I am assuming that they reshot the DoppleCoop+Bob in the bathroom scene, right? Any thoughts on the LMFAP and RegularCooper's scene together back in the Red Room talking about the ring? I like that it is sandwiched between Annie arriving at the hospital and the DoppleCoop+Bob mirror smashing scene. It gives just a little more oomph to episode 29. For me anyways.
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Book vs Movie “The Color Purple”
Podcast February 21, 2020 by Margo Donohue
Book Vs Movie (Replay)
The Alice Walker Pulitzer-Prize Winning Novel Vs the Steven Spielberg Multi-Academy Award Nominated Film
The Margos finally take on the Alice Walker classic The Color Purple which won both the Pulitzer Prize for fiction and the National Book Award in 1983. It went on to be adapted into a film by none of than Steven Spielberg who has appeared on this show several times so we may just have to change our name to the “Steven Spielberg Presents” show soon! (Kidding!)
Celie Harris is our lead character who is African American, poor, uneducated and being raised in America’s south in the early part of the 20th century. Her entire life she is abused by men including her stepfather (from whom she has two children) and then eventually her husband who is only referred to as “Mr” in the book and leaves his three wild children for her to raise.
Celie’s sister Nettie is sent away with a religious couple to a mission in Africa after almost being raped by Mr and the letters they exchange to make up the telling of the rest of the novel.
Spielberg’s movie is sort of the PG-version of what happens in the book with major subplots about lesbianism and the colonialism in Africa barely being hinted or discussed. However, the performances are next-level amazing which counts for its multiple Academy Award nominations.
So what are those changes? Which version did the Margos like better? Check out the link below to hear for yourself!
The interesting history of the author Alice Walker including years of feminist activism and her controversial political views these days.
How the novel is told in an epistolary form and how it makes it challenging to read at times
The road to the adaptation by Steven Spielberg and his rather restrained choices about racism, sexism, child molestation, and adult sexuality
The cast of the movie including Whoopi Goldberg (Celie Johnson,) Danny Glover (Albery “Mr” Johnson,) Margaret Avery (Shug Avery,) Oprah Winfrey (Sofia,) and William E. Pugh (Harpo Johnson)
The controversy over how the African American male characters are depicted
Clips Featured:
The Color Purple (original trailer)
Whoopi Goldberg wins the 1986 Best Actress Golden Globe Award
Alice Walker gives her opinion on the film adaptation BBC Desert Island Discs May 19, 2013
Sofia confronts Celie
Celie meets her children for the first time as adults
Outro music Miss Celie’s Blues vocals by Tata Vega
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Tags: "Steven Spielberg", Book Vs Movie The Color Purple, Book vs. Movie, Book Vs. Movie podcast, Oprah Winfrey, Whoopi Goldberg
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PhD Position @UF: Experimental Landscape Ecology
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NB: position filled, but leaving up for the lab archive.
We are seeking a highly motivated Ph.D. student to start at the University of Florida in Fall 2017. This student will work as part of a
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collaborative research group on a project investigating the role of on habitat loss, habitat fragmentation, and matrix quality on the population and community dynamics of insect herbivores. The project includes field work at the nearby Ordway-Swisher Biological Station, including experiments manipulating habitatand matrix types, using prickly-pear cactus and their associated species as a model system (see, e.g., Fletcher et al. 2011, 2013, 2014). The
project includes four years of full support for the student (approximately $22,500/year, plus health benefits; pending final
approval), funds for field work, and support for some travel to meetings. An additional year of support may be available to outstanding
candidates from the graduate program via which the student matriculates (see below).
The student will be co-advised by Dr. Robert Fletcher and Dr. Emilio Bruna. Other collaborators on the project include Dr. Bob Holt and Dr. Brian Reichert. Preferred applicants will be highly motivated and have a background in ecology, entomology, or other relevant field, field experience, strong quantitative skills (preferably in population or spatial ecology), and an ability to work well both independently and with as part of a diverse team. Interested students should send a (1) a letter of interest describing your educational background, research experience, and career goals, (2) a Curriculum Vitae that includes GRE and TOEFL/TSE scores (if relevant) and GPA (3) an unofficial copy of transcripts and (4) contact information for three references by email to Dr. Robert Fletcher (email: robert.fletcher@ufl.edu). The deadline for submitting materials for review is February 1, 2017. Interested applicants should also apply to the Graduate Programs in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation and the School of Natural Resources and the Environment, both of which accommodate students studying a broad diversity of topics in ecology and conservation. Students to these programs may also apply for an additional year of stipend and tuition support. More information is here.
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Situated in the rolling countryside of north central Florida, Gainesville is much more than a stereotypical college town. Home of the University of Florida, seat of Alachua County’s government and the region’s commercial hub, it is progressive, environmentally conscious and culturally diverse. The presence of many students and faculty from abroad among its 99,000-plus population adds a strong cross-cultural flavor to its historic small-town Southern roots. Its natural environment, temperate climate and civic amenities make Gainesville a beautiful, pleasant and interesting place in which to learn and to live. Gainesville has been ranked as one of the best cities to live in the United States.
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Summer Transfer Window
Author Topic: Summer Transfer Window (Read 187899 times)
Re: Summer Transfer Window
Quote from: Juan on July 07, 2012, 01:52:17 PM
The Telegraph are reporting we are close to signing Fabio Borini. Dont know anything about this guy either. You would question though why either of the two italian teams who co own the guy would let him go for 7 million if he was any use.
The Telegraph are way behind events on this. Parma and Roma did have joint ownership but they had a blind auction each for the remaining 50% they didn't own. Roma won it bidding €4.9M to Parma's €4.26M. The result was announced on June 23rd.
Roma have no intention of selling whereas Parma would have sold to us after letting Borini go out on loan to Roma last season.
been watching that Telegraph article since it was published last night.
The comments below must have the writer and the Telegraph staff and owners totally embarrassed and soiling their trousers.
The comment writers (i.e. Liverpool fans) clearly know far more than the Telegraph journalist, about the Borini story. Cringeworthy.
The type of lazy rubbish *journalism* that newspapers got away with for decades is now gone. There are too many specific forums out there now, not to mention twitter and facebook, that quickly allow fans to be kept well ahead of the papers on stories.
The story wasn't written by the usual journo who covers LFC - Chris Bascombe. He's probably on holiday. It's like stories in the Mirror. Unless they're written by David Maddocks I pay no attention.
totally agree, Ray.
Bascombe and Maddock are journalists with sources, thus one always takes their stories as near gospel.
Bascombe and Maddock are the two worst Liverpool news journos in the media. Bascombe is an idiot who sold his soul to News of the World and hated Rafa and Maddock continually gets things wrong and basically has no clue.
Only LFC journos I trust and so should you are Tony Barrett and Rory Smith from the Times and Ben Smith from BBC.
Interesting to hear opinions from the inside. It was a pity Rory Smith jumped ship from the Telegraph and of course now that The Times is behind a paywall very few get to read their stories.
Of course we have our own source within the club. Got anything to tell us Edward?
The lad Borini...c'mon 21 hardly someone to wet the knickers over! Granted
he appears in the poacher mould, something it could be argued we need a bit of
but ffs it's not like we're being linked with Fernando Torres here.
Dunno if the brief is, sign cheap (gems depending on your opinion) talent to plug gaps
in the squad. Bit risky imo 'cos it kindof ties these signings to the managers' vision of
things which leaves us a bit high and dry (or on the pig's back) depending. We all
remember Hodgson's gap fillers...
Anyway, s'pose we should give the gaffer his head and wait for him to be proved wise
after the fact. My worry is that if you stock the squad with mediocrity, then you end up
with mediocre results, what i expected was a 2nd wave of investment to complement
last Summers work, somewhere along the line it appears i missed a memo or two...
Quote from: Ed on July 08, 2012, 03:22:02 AM
Likewise Ed I expected another wave of investment. It still might come this summer but as I said in another post I get a different vibe from the owners this summer. I dont think there will be anymore splash outs. I was never expecting Man City or Chelsea style transfer fees being paid but quality costs. If the club are not willing to follow up signings like Suarez with players of the same type of quality I dont know how we will compete long term. The owners have spent 40 million net over 3 transfer windows and we are now into transfer window 4. The top clubs are paying that for one player in every transfer window.
Dalglish was very unlucky losing Lucas last season. Suarezgate didnt help either but if we lose that bit of top quality we have for any length of time during the year our squad is no better than the also rans.
We are being linked with a 6 million pound move for Clint Dempsey. Im yet to see much evidence of Henrys vision of buying top young talent. I wonder if he realised when buying the club that top young players command heavy transfer fees too.
Chelsea seem to have done some great business already 32 million for hazzard, I accept we could never pay that but they also bought Marin for 7 million from Bremen.
Agree. There doesn't appear to be a coherent vision (is it any wonder with baseball owners
& Ian Ayre in charge).
Worst case scenario, we bring in (for arguments sake call them) mediocre-ish players on
4 year contracts, fail to qualify for the Champions league and then tbh i'd begin to wonder
about the ambition of our senior/star players if they weren't hightailing it out of the club
next Summer leaving us with the mediocre players...
I've said it several times in the past that my worry was that there would be that initial investment that was supposed to see us qualify for the CL, then the extra money from that would see us cement our place there by adding one or two quality signings each year.
But my worry after last Summer was that Dalglish had spent that initial investment, it hadn't worked out and there'd be no more this Summer.
I am starting to be concerned that either that is the case or that Rodgers will have to 'prove himself' in the transfer market this Summer before being 'trusted' with more money next Summer, as the owners have been 'spooked' by Dalglish and Commoli's lavish spending on mediocrity.
The thing the owners really need to understand is that there is no cheap option in football. In American sport things are arranged in such a way as to try and even things out as much as possible and if the owners aren't bothered about winning in a sporting sense, they can at least win in a financial sense.
Quote from: Tes on July 08, 2012, 10:26:00 PM
Agree Tes.
Rafa insisted on quality (expensive signings) got some bargains Arbeloa (£2 million) and signed some dross.
I would be wary of moving too far from that formula if the idea is to compete in the upper echelons of the league.
Certainly the policy of signing young (early 20s) talent for relatively inexpensive sums is a sound policy but requires a
seriously kick ass scouting set up. Again the academy should be contributing to this model going back even
further to the development of 14/16 year olds. My point is that it takes years to implement these ideas and
wonder whether they sit comfortably with the short term goal of CL qualification. The likes of Reina, Skrtel, Agger,
Johnson, Lucas and more recently Suarez are perhaps entitled to feel (if we don't get CL) heading into a WC
year that the project at LFC doesn't fit their career ambitions and because Ayre, Werner are such idiots it's
basically down to the cult of personality of the manager to avoid a mass exodus. Basically Rodgers has to hit
the ground running and take a team that finished 8th and break into the top 4 in his first season in charge.
My fear is we could end up like O'Neill (another energetic Northern Irishman) under Lerner at Villa and hit a perennial
glass ceiling of 6th
If the American owners felt a 40 million investment in transfers would guarantee a return to the Champions League then they must have been very badly advised by someone before they bought the club.
The scary thing about it is I dont think theres a figure anymore that can be thrown at a squad that will guarantee anything in this league or Europe for that matter. Look at how long and how much it took Chelsea to win the Champions League. Likewise look how much it cost Man City just to get into the Champions League places.
I suppose we'll just have to wait and see if your concerns over this summers transfer kity will come to fruition Tes or whether the owners will make good on their promise that there is always money available for top young talent. In fairness Spurs looked to be having an awful time last summer and at the very end of the window they signed Parker and Adeybeyor.
I think what the likes of O'Neil and even Wenger prove is that a manager can only take a team so far, as you say Ed a glass ceiling of 6th for Villa under O'Neil and at the moment 3rd/4th for Arsenal under Wenger. Its very hard to break that plateau without the addition of some real quality after that. Even a team like Barcelona who have produced so many top talents at their academy have consistently needed to add real quality to the team from outside the club season after season.
« Last Edit: July 09, 2012, 11:12:09 AM by Juan »
The Ramirez deal seems to be very much agent driven. There doesnt seem to be any real interest anymore from our side.
Clint Dempsey is not apparently a target either.
Aquillani could be on his way to Turkey too.
http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/sport/liverpool-fc/liverpool-fc-news/2012/07/09/99623-31353811/
Interesting press conference with Rodgers today. We look to be signing an "exciting" young player in the next few days. Theres even the possibility of a second signing this week. I wonder if it will be Ramirez, Borini, Granero or any of the other players recently linked.
Dont get too carried away with the possibility of any world class talent going through the doors of Melwood in the next few days though because Rodgers also confirmed what we have being suggesting that there is not much money available in this transfer window so it seems the owners are letting Rodgers make do with whats available to him in the squad already.
Rodgers also seems to be coy over Andy Carroll, theres been no bids for him but hes not saying one way or the other whether the player is going to be an integral part of his set up. It sounds a possible case of watch this space.....
http://www.standard.co.uk/sport/football/liverpool-near-to-exciting-new-signing-7924663.html
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Land Degradation / Land Rehabilitation / Natural Resource Management / Rural People / Small Farmers / Solutions / Sustainable development Goals SDG / Trees
Pause, reflect, learn, adapt
by May Muthuri · July 4, 2019
A landscape view of Asgede Tsimbla Woreda in Tigray region. Photo: World Agroforestry/ May Muthuri
Land restoration targets and commitments have been set at global, regional, national and local levels. The UN General Assembly in New York declared on 1 March 2019 that 2021–2030 is to be the decade of land restoration. Funds have been disbursed to major restoration initiatives in Africa and other parts of the developing world. There are reports of billions of trees being planted by hands and drones. But for whom and why?
We need to take a step back and reflect on the land-restoration technologies and approaches we are promoting and for whom we are promoting them. Great ideas are in place, yes, but are these what farmers want and need? Will these help us realize multiple objectives that help us heal degraded lands, sequester carbon and bring benefits to millions of poor farmers who are largely dependent on such natural resources? Or are we too focused on the end game of meeting donors’ expectations and targets, offsetting the carbon footprint from industrialized countries, while forgetting that it’s as much about these issues as it is about farmers’ livelihoods, social justice and equity today and years to come? Being complacent should never be an option as long as a majority of farmers in developing countries are still battling food insecurity and inadequate nutrition, lack of access to water, clean and sustainable energy and inadequate incomes to meet their needs.
The Regreening Africa programme, funded by the European Union, has ambitious targets yet is determined to circumvent the cycle of past interventions in a bid to ensure the envisioned impacts are realized, equitable and sustainable.
Dr. Chomba encouraging farmers to keep up the good work. Photo: World Agroforestry/ May Muthuri
‘Someone once said you cannot do the same thing over and over again and expect different results’, said Susan Chomba, Regreening Africa’s manager. ‘It is time to do research and development differently. Research needs to be informed by real development needs and development interventions need to be informed by evidence. We are not doing our communities, who are the subjects of research and development, any justice by operating in silos’.
With just a year and half gone by, the Regreening Africa team decided to pause and assess what the project had achieved in Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Mali, Niger, Rwanda and Senegal, and provide coordinated technical support to implementing partners through a joint reflection and learning process. These visits formed part of a five-day learning and sharing event intended to ensure effective expansion of the scale of regreening practices at both community and individual levels.
‘A main feature was to identify interventions that work to promote contextually relevant regreening practices and once evidenced, encourage others to take those up’, said Karl Hughes, head of the programme’s Monitoring Evaluation and Learning component. ‘Regreening Africa should be supporting the implementing partners to develop, refine and evidence these interventions, which are as much, if not more, social and institutional as they are biophysical’.
So, what still works? For whom? Where? When? And how? What about that which doesn’t work? Is it too late to propose alternative pathways? These and more difficult questions guided interactions with leading farmers, community members and district officials, spearheaded by World Agroforestry (ICRAF) and implementing partners World Vision, Catholic Relief Services, Care, Oxfam and Sahel Eco.
Prof. Mitiku Haille of Mekelle University, Ethiopia, explaining to farmers the ideal tree species to retain near bee hives for maximum results. Photo: World Agroforestry/ May Muthuri
Different settings, coupled with rough or smooth terrain, scorching sun or blessings from above in the form of rain, shade under the trees or in offices, provided opportunities to gain different perspectives to successes, barriers, gaps and opportunities, from the old and young, educated or not, that will fuel regreening.
Throughout the process, an ‘options by context’ approach has been applied to ensure proposed changes and solutions suit the intended beneficiaries and were fit for the social and ecological contexts within which they were being applied. Across seven countries, it was evident that farmers knew the benefits and importance of trees, but they still cut them down for household use and commercial purposes.
A farmer watering tree seedlings at World Vision Niger Nursery. Photo: World Agroforestry/Gilberte Koffi
‘The practice has always been to cut down trees to have a farm’, said Mohamed Haji, European Union Delegate to Somalia. ‘This is what we need to undo if we are to achieve restoration targets. There is an urgent need to create awareness for a change in mindsets.’
It was palpable that sustainable value chains needed to be integrated and strengthened if the efforts to expand the scale of restoration were to bear fruit. Value chains offered economic incentives by matching farmers’ needs to markets for fruitful outcomes in years to come. Moreover, short-term interventions by diversifying household income generation would help address the need for firewood and charcoal and bridge the void created when the gospel of delayed gratification is spread, as trees may take long to mature before benefits are enjoyed.
‘Value chains based on regreening activities must include farmers as partners so as to promote re-investment and wealth creation for land restoration’, said Sammy Carsan, head of the programme’s Value Chains component.
Farmers were extremely keen to integrate diverse tree species on their farms especially those that bear real as well as economic fruit.
‘Interactions with the Regreening Africa team and World Agroforestry as a whole has inspired us as an organisation to expand our interventions to include fruit trees, indigenous tree species, as well as agroforestry species such as Faidherbia through on-farm tree planting or enrichment planting under farmer-managed natural regeneration’, said Raphael Kinoti of Farming Systems Kenya.
Community members in Garu Tempane District, Ghana, having discussions under a majestic tree. Photo: World Agroforestry/ May Muthuri.jpg
Gender intergradation at all levels of the project was discussed at length as issues pertaining to land and tree tenure and value chains will have an overall differentiated effect on men, women and youth and therefore affect equity outcomes in the ambitions to restore degraded landscapes.
‘For women to have a voice, they need to seat at discussion tables’, said Ibrahim Warab of Care Somalia. ‘Money has a role in this, and through village savings and loans associations, women can easily be empowered. This way, gender equity can be enhanced at the local level. Gender integration must start at project level. If recruited staff are mainly male, it will be difficult to get female farmers on board for discussions and implementation processes. Gender balance must start with us to ensure regreening impacts across the board’.
Robert Kipyego of World Vision Kenya taking lead farmer Mr. Olimo and two young farmers through the Regreening Africa App. Photo: World Agroforestry/ Leigh Winowiecki.jpg
The need to strengthen co-learning between partners and other stakeholders, and taking up indigenous knowledge by farmers, will help expand the scale of regreening interventions beyond the project’s sites and influence changes in policies and governments’ budgetary allocations.
‘Working across sectors, organisations and people and incorporating evidence both into planning and the way we communicate will support massive and sustainable scaling’, said Mieke Bourne of World Agroforestry.
‘Land restoration is not going to happen in conferences and workshops’, said Alexander Mueller, managing director of Think Thank for Sustainability. ‘It is going to happen on smallholders’ farms and other degraded land’.
Chomba concluded by stating that Regreening Africa is part of a movement to restore degraded land and should be mainstreamed into other projects on crops and livestock. She encouraged county governments to channel resources towards tree nurseries, farmer-managed natural restoration and other restoration activities.
About Regreening Africa
Regreening Africa is an ambitious five-year project funded by the European Union that seeks to reverse land degradation among 500,000 households, and across 1 million hectares in eight countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. By incorporating trees into croplands, communal lands and pastoral areas, regreening efforts make it possible to reclaim Africa’s degraded landscapes.
World Agroforestry (ICRAF) is a centre of science and development excellence that harnesses the benefits of trees for people and the environment. Leveraging the world’s largest repository of agroforestry science and information, we develop knowledge practices, from farmers’ fields to the global sphere, to ensure food security and environmental sustainability.ICRAF is one of the 15 members of the CGIAR, a global research partnership for a food-secure future. We thank all donors who support research in development through their contributions to the CGIAR Fund.
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Ask The Champ Mailbag Vivian Harris
By Vivian Harris
How stupid do you feel now for not taking the Hatton fight for the biggest purse of your career?-Lefthook
The Champ's Response: I don't feel stupid at all for it. I do not regret not taking the fight. I don't even want to hear about the Ricky Hatton fight, it's not possible now so let's move on. I don't think it would've happened anyway and the money wasn't coming to me. How stupid do you feel for wasting your question with a world champion with that nonsense?
Has Bob Arum finally made you an offer to fight Miguel Cotto? What did you think about Morales-Pacquiao? And who are you planning on fighting next and when? Peace, -Capone
The Champ's Response: That was a wonderful fight, Pacquiao has a lot of heart. Both he and Morales are willing to fight the best out there they're both two great champions. Bob Arum never made an offer to me at all. We're still waiting for Arum to make his first offer to me.
Congrats on two SOLID wins over a tough hombre in Oktay Urkal. I do think however that you made a huge mistake not taking the fight with Hatton, who I think Is tailor made for you to easily defeat. I think you would have made easy work work of him and done it on a big stage. Where else are you going to fight in front of 20,000 people and showtime at the same time? None of the money fighters have anything to gain by fighting a dangerous guy who could easily be a welterweight. Fight Junior Witter, and hold on to your title, right now it's bigger than you are (but that will chnge in the long run if you just keep winning.)
The Champ's Response: Definitely. Thank you. I don't have no regrets by not taking the fight. I think it was a business move. I would love to fight Witter and if that fight could be made I'll definitely do it. I'm only interested in fighting the best out there. I'm coming back to fight on TV America and pretty soon I'm going to be the one filling up the arena with 20,000 people.
Vivian, I was there live in Houston's Reliant Area when you TKO'ed Diosbelys, before that the beef started at the weigh in when you got in his face and punched him in the mouth. I was right next to ya when chair's started to fly! LOL...Anyhow I was there to see the local cats (Rocky & Juan) but came out wanting to see you fight more! You made me a believer then BUT would like to see you lace them up more often, three times since 10/02 Houston you've fought but with no T.V. shows in U.S. Seems like your starting to fade away in the public's eye kid! Punch your way back to the seen soon!
The Champ's Response: I'm definitely working on that. That's what I'm taking really short money to fight on the co-feature to Gatti-Mayweather. I'm taking the short money so my fans like you have the opportunity to see me fight on national TV in America.
Whassup Vivian, If you're in need of a fight why don't you call out Junior Witter cos like you he's calling everyone out but nobody wants to fight him. Trust me, this is want fight fans want so forget Mayweather, Hatton and Tszyu and take on Witter. He's now promoted by Golden Boy and I think there would be plenty of interest in the fight so there would be $$$ incentive too. You know these other guys don't want any part of you so why not fight Witter? Good luck.-Tim Austen UK
The Champ's Response: You're right the other guys don't want no parts of me. I'm definitely going to start calling him out but Witter is not a name like that sticks out in my mind. He's not a guy that I see on TV either and I'm not trying to disrespect him but his name doesn't ring bells like the other cats. But since the fans want to see that I'll definitely look forward to fighting him. If they came with better money for the June 25 date I'd definitely fight Witter on the undercard of Mayweather and Gatti.
I am a very big fan of yours, and I am from Georgetown Guyana! I was just wondering where you were from in Guyana? And do you plan on moving up in weight if you cant get one of these scared asses to fight you? You look too big for them anyway! I think that's why they are scared! Vivienne Galasso-Alexander
The Champ's Response: That's why they don't want to fight me to. They're trying to get me to move up but I could make my weight easily. I'm from Georgetown, Guyana the south. I'm going to be staying right here at 140 because at some time they're going to have to fight me. Guys like Cotto will be forced to move up before I am.
Ihave 2 questions for Vivian: 1. When and where will he fight next on cable for everyone to see 2. If he cant get anyone to fight him at 140 would he consider moving to 147 and get in the Zab sweepstakes or against Mosely, DLH etc.
The Champ's Response: On June 25 I'll be fighting as the co-main to Gatti and Floyd and I'm hoping to get the winner of that. I would definitely consider it but right now I'm not a welterweight so I'm thinking about controlling 140. I'm only 26 years old and I see myself being able to rule this division for a long time. Viv,
How does it feel to be sooooo good that fighters that claim to be pound for pound the best wont fight you even though you have a belt. I seriously believe that Floyd Mayweather sleeps well at night because he can use that lame excuse about not knowing who you are.
The Champ's Response: Hahaha, that's what I think too. I always knew I was going to be the world champion but I never knew the top of the division would be scared of me. It's a good feeling but it's a bad thing because I'm not making as much as I want to take care of my family. I'm just praying everyday that one day you the fans and the media make these guys have to fight me.
viv, why did you look so scared when you challenged Tszyu on national TV at the Tszyu vs Mitchell 2 fight???? Or were you just camera shy???
The Champ's Response: I think I was camera shy, because I'm never scared. You must be a Kostya Tszyu fan, I'm calling everyone out to fight me, I'm never scared I'm from Georgetown, Guyana and then coming to Brooklyn, NY just made me more ruthless. Why would I be scared, when I got gun-shots flying behind my head everyday.
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Casino Royale (PG-13)
Reviewed by Timothy Lawrence on June 30, 2019
“Bond, James Bond” is one of the most ubiquitous names in modern western culture – a name that has become synonymous with a particular brand of lightweight sensuality. The last fifty years have seen the release of over twenty James Bond movies, and even those who have never seen one know exactly what they are all like. The British gentleman spy’s perennial attempts to save the world from some mad scheme or other are tacitly accepted as a thin justification – a license, if you will – for adventures redolent with sex and violence, those two most reliable of box office draws, typically delivered with superficial variation under a veneer of droll quips, exotic locales, and (swiftly outdated) gadgets. While undeniably shallow, the formula has proved enduring, though I would wager the average viewer cannot recall more than a few particulars about any of the films.
Given the open arms with which the franchise has been accepted as a harmless staple of popular culture, a serious critique of James Bond is doomed to seem silly at best and puritanical at worst. Even so, allow me to voice a little ambivalence. In Sexual Desire: A Philosophical Investigation, Roger Scruton distinguishes pornography from erotic art thus:
Serious erotic art, which moves by suggestion, and by the interposition of thought between audience and object, is hostile to surrogates. It is concerned to excite an imaginative involvement in a genuinely erotic predicament, but not to present fantasy objects for sexual gratification. The response to erotic art is an imaginative identification with the sexual activity of another. Hence although, in a sense, it involves the invocation of fantasy, the fantasy is controlled by the artistic medium and made continuous with, and an example of, genuine sexual feeling.
For Scruton, the distinction between erotic art and pornography is staked in the presence, or absence, of “interpersonal intentionality.” Genuinely erotic desire is other-directed, pursuing a paradoxical union with the perspective of a person who is radically different from oneself. When it strays from this end, failing to dignify the personhood of the other, becoming self-gratifying fantasy, eroticism is rightly described as perverse.
Though every Bond film includes a(t least one) heroine for the hero to bed, very few Bond films could reasonably be described as love stories, for they rarely evince more than a token interest in the interiority, the personhood, of the characters who populate them. Put another way, the people in Bond films almost never feel like real people, and this suggests a strain of something inhuman (or at least materialist) in the very fabric of the franchise. The violent and sexual spectacle that Bond films characteristically indulge in tends to reduce humans to bodies, or at least to identify humans principally with their bodies. As a general rule, Bond films paper over this vacancy (emotional, moral, or spiritual) with a wink. James Bond kills scores of indistinguishable villains and sleeps with scores of similarly indistinguishable women, but this is all make-believe, and can be accepted and enjoyed as such. Yet one wonders if implicit acknowledgement of the films’ fantastical nature is truly better; it may, in fact, be worse. To refer again to Scruton:
The genuinely erotic work is one which invites the reader to re-create in imagination the first-person point of view of someone party to an erotic encounter. The pornographic work retains as a rule the third-person perspective of the voyeuristic observer.
Scruton’s observations are couched in the medium of literature and cannot be precisely applied to film, which is characteristically (even necessarily) less concerned with a character’s internal perspective. I am not making any claim so audacious and sweeping as, “James Bond movies are no better than pornography.” Nevertheless, no one ever emotionally identifies with James Bond or any of his bedmates. The result is that one is removed to the outside perspective of a voyeur, not privy to the inner lives of those he is watching. Lust dehumanizes both subject and object, reducing persons to recipients or purveyors or sensual pleasure, and because they emphasize the bodily nature of human beings while correspondingly deemphasizing their moral or spiritual nature, James Bond films often resemble pornography more nearly than erotic art even though they contain no overt nudity and never explicitly depict sexual acts.
These, at least, are the general observations that must preface my take on 2006’s Casino Royale, the rare James Bond movie that takes seriously what others wink at. It sacrifices few of the thrills that characterize the franchise – even if considered simply as an action movie, it would still be a remarkable effort – but understands and commits to one crucial fact: Any James Bond film that attempts an authentic moral interrogation of its hero must inevitably become a tragedy.
Casino Royale’s cross-examination of its hero’s emotional callousness returns to the distinctions discussed above. For someone in James Bond’s line of work, of course it is “considerably” easier to view the world through materialist eyes, to see human beings as merely bodies in motion, but this understanding necessarily entails reduction and loss. Accordingly, Casino Royale is the story of how James Bond loses his soul. More precisely, it is the story of how James Bond chooses not to have a soul because having one hurts too much.
This is all staked in the destructive disuniting of sex and intimacy, the unexamined lynchpin of the entire Bond series. James Bond can have sex with any woman he meets, but he cannot trust any of them. He can unite with them bodily, but must always remain isolated from them emotionally. In a very real sense, he cannot love any of them. Casino Royale is constructed around this perversity and the anxiety that accompanies it.
In Casino Royale, Bond, who must always withhold his true self from women, falls in love with a woman who withholds her true self from him. He gives himself to Vesper Lynd (Eva Green), to be possessed by her, but fails to possess her in return. Bond and Vesper’s love is frustrated, denied its proper end; they are physically united, but cannot overcome their spiritual separateness. What makes Casino Royale erotic art, rather than pornography, is its attention to Bond’s emotional interiority; what makes it great erotic art is Bond’s preoccupation with (and anguished inability to grasp) Vesper’s emotional interiority. It is a real love story, and a tragic one – nearly a Hitchcock-level treatise on the sad fate of eros in the modern world, where all relationships are haunted by the absence of a stable framework in which trust might flourish. To refer again to Scruton’s distinction, Casino Royale is by no means concerned with evoking a fantastic gratification; instead, it is a persuasive depiction of a genuine erotic dilemma.
Intimacy is vulnerability; the one who desires another is necessarily compromised by that desire. Much of the film takes place in a casino, and the prominence of gambling and gaming expands on the theme. Poker – like espionage, and like adultery – hinges on concealing one’s true self from others in order to win. Vesper, who has no tell, is cheating on Bond the whole time, in multiple senses of the word.
Moreover, lust implies exposure – a shameful unveiling of what should be hidden, dangerous to both the looker and the looked-upon. The scene in which a woman emerges from the water in a bathing suit is a James Bond staple, dating all the way back to 1962’s Dr. No. Casino Royale returns to this familiar scenario early. When Le Chiffre (Mads Mikkelsen) looks at the woman with lust, his eyes start to bleed. Le Chiffre does not believe in God, and he waves away his sin with a material explanation: a deformation of the tear ducts, “Nothing sinister.” (Le Chiffre’s bleeding eyes also twitch, a tell that seems to give him away to Bond at the poker table, but Bond is himself blinded by love for Vesper, who betrays him for a one-eyed man.)
When Bond seduces the wife of a man he is trailing, the information she gives him leads him to “Body Worlds,” an anatomically themed museum exhibit where the human body is displayed in various states of carnal nakedness. Clothes are stripped away to reveal skin, skin is stripped away to reveal muscles, and muscles are ripped away to reveal skeletons. To further drive the point home, when Bond returns, the woman is dead because she slept with him. In other words, she is mere body, sans spirit. Thus begins the film’s association of sex with death. One hardly needs crack open a volume of Freud to understand why the film’s climactic torture scene, in which Bond is threatened with genital mutilation, is so terrifying, but the horror is not merely or simply sexual in nature.
“If you do not yield soon enough,” Le Chiffre tells Bond, “There will be little left to identify you as a man.” The torture hinges on the fact that Bond’s identity is bound up in his embodiment as a sexual being, but sexual horror is a doorway to deeper horror, for sex uniquely reminds us that we are bodies, which will inevitably die. “You’ve taken good care of your body. Such a waste,” taunts Le Chiffre. If man is body, life is waste; that much is mathematically certain. Per Scruton, the sensation of obscenity is derived from this abysmal knowledge, for obscenity “divorce[s] the sexual act from its interpersonal intentionality… In the experience of the obscene the person is, as it were, eclipsed by his body… I no longer find the person whose embodiment enticed me: only the body which, in its frightful dissolution, its character as melting flesh, fascinates and also repels me.”
When Casino Royale returns, in its coda, to the image of the woman emerging from the water, it is no longer titillating, only sorrowful and empty. Bond is carrying Vesper out of the water; more precisely, he is carrying her body out of the water, because she has drowned. When he performs CPR on her unresponsive corpse, it is a sad parody of a lover’s embrace. The death of Vesper’s body corresponds to a deeper bereavement, for Bond has just discovered her infidelity. (Paul tells us that he who joins to a harlot is one body with her; it is no accident that Vesper wears a scarlet dress when her infidelity is revealed.) In one sense, the real Vesper is now absent; in another sense, she was absent all along. Bond’s physical union with Vesper is sundered and revealed to be a sham that never truly resulted in spiritual union – and insofar as Bond united his soul to Vesper’s, it is gone along with hers. Given the opportunity to confront his grief, Bond refuses. Instead, he chooses to repudiate his love for her: “Why should I need more time? The job is done and the bitch is dead.”
None of this is to imply that Casino Royale is straightforwardly didactic; it is a great and challenging film precisely because it is both convincingly tragic and genuinely exciting, torn between critique and celebration. It captures the deepest heartbreak and then smoothes it over with a catchphrase and a theme song. By the film’s end, James Bond is only a shell of his former self, but it is precisely this shell that moviegoers know and love – if “love” is not too strong a word.
Timothy Lawrence
A graduate of the Torrey Honors Institute at BIOLA University, Timothy Lawrence teaches great books through Emmaus Classical Academy in Southern California. He writes essays and fiction and counts the Coen Brothers and George Lucas among his personal heroes.
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The shifting global economic and political landscape
Simon Wait
Understanding the current environment is one thing; understanding how it happened is something else.
Delegates at IBIS USA were exposed to a thought-provoking history lesson by Professor Michael Cox, director of LSE Ideas and Emeritus professor of international relations at London School of Economics, who helped shed a light on the major socio-economic events of recent times that have helped shaped global industry.
He began his session, titled ‘The shifting political and economic landscape,’ by looking at globalisation. He said that while immigration was not new, the scale of it now was accelerating and posed a genuine challenge.
Its benefits include wealth creation in some of the poorer parts of the world, he said, saying it was the only way to provide governments with the means to combat poverty: money for schools, hospitals and welfare.
However, he said support of globalisation was decreasing in the west, with some saying it imported competition, increased inequality and had no impact on purchasing power, despite pay checks increasing.
The professor then discussed the financial crash of 2008 as a cause for turning opinion against globalisation. Since then wages have been depressed for 85% of the workforce, leading to a rise in income inequality in the USA.
Apart from the financial fall-out, there has been moral outrage as the ‘financial overclass responsible for the crisis not only got off scot-free but was also getting richer in the bargain.’
That fury, argues Professor Cox, is partly what carried President Trump to the White House.
‘It’s a global power structure that is responsible for the economic decisions that have robbed our working class, stripped our country of its wealth, and put that money into the pockets of a handful of large corporations and political entities,’ the President claimed, attacking what he called ‘the false song of globalism. Globalisation has made the financial elite who donate to politicians very wealthy. But it has left millions of our workers with nothing but poverty and heartache.’
Professor Cox also suggested China’s unprecedented rise has raised questions in America over which country will dominate the 21st century.
In terms of numbers, he said that global migration was 173 million in 2000, 220 million in 2010, and 258 million in 2017. Of the 85 million extra migrants since 2000, 64 million have moved to high income countries.
An unintended consequence has been a rise in populism, but while it appeals to many people it does not, Professor Cox says, have any economic solutions.
He said, ‘What might we expect from a world economy run by populists? How might markets react? One way of looking at this is to think of populism as a reversal of globalisation. Envisage a world economy with far more restrictions on trade and labour mobility.
‘In such a world, we would expect global trade and growth to be weaker as barriers cut off opportunities. Rather than reaping the benefits brought by specialisation and economies of scale, industries would shrink back to their domestic economies. Productivity, which has benefited from the opening up of competition, would slow even further.
‘The corporate sector would be at the sharp end of this, facing greater challenges in sourcing labour and importing inputs. Wage growth would likely be stronger, putting pressure on company margins.’
Should this result in a trade war between USA and China, the IMF found that global GDP output would fall by 0.8% in 2020 and ‘inflict significant costs to the global economy, especially through its impact on confidence and financial conditions.’
For America specifically, a weakening of its global leadership position would invite other countries to push their own policy priorities more confidently. It could be argued this is already happening.
The US National Security Strategy, 2017, said, ‘China and Russia challenge American power, influence, and interests, attempting to erode American security and prosperity. They are determined to make economies less free and less fair, to grow their militaries, and to control information and data to repress their societies and expand their influence.’
Globalisation, Professor Cox said, was on a ‘shaky path’.
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Ewigkeit – DISclose (D.T.M. Productions)
Sunday, 3rd March 2019 By David E. Gehlke
The increasing ubiquity of British multi-instrumentalist/vocalist James Fogarty is certainly not a bad thing. He’s in Norwegian avant-garde progenitors In the Woods for a reason — he’s an excellent singer with a wide, if not uncanny range, not to mention the understanding and grip on odd, weird metal, which is where his one-man Ewigkeit project comes into focus. It’s not metal for everyone, but it can appeal to almost anyone if that makes sense. Such is the manner in which he tackles the band’s ninth studio album, the conspiracy-laden DISclose.
One can still somewhat remember when Fogarty (who goes by Mr. Fog here) was tinkering with black metal in Ewigkeit’s early days, something that occasionally pops up across the album’s seven songs, but by and large, this is more of a boulder-sized glob of mutating metal than any one singular style. Fogarty treks all over the place, from soaring epochs “1947,” anthemic sprawls “Disclosure,” to cloaked-in-eeriness jaunts “Oppenheimer’s Lament.” These cuts comprise the first half of the album, which, frankly, is good enough to bring the whole thing home, especially “Disclosure.” But, easy, but effective riffing comes to the fore on “Guardians of the High Frontier,” where Fogarty’s clean vocals let ‘er rip among a bevy melodies, while the twisting, turning “KRLLL” goes at it with BM gusto.
Fogarty throws a lot out here, sort of like he’s rapidly emptying a bag of tricks in the manner of a magician. There’s no trickery or tomfoolery here; DISclose is a highly engaging, sometimes caustic, but always memorable listen, straight from the mind (and heart) of a man whose creativity is strong enough for two of the underground’s most uncanny bands.
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Review: Strong Bad’s Cool Game For Attractive People: Episode Two: Strongbadia the Free (PC)
Alex Lucard | September 17, 2008 | Archive, PC Games, Video Game Reviews | No Comments
Strong Bad’s Cool Game For Attractive People: Episode Two: Strongbadia the Free
Publisher: Telltale Games
Last month, Telltale Games debuted the first in its series of stand alone episodic adventure games featuring the cast and crew of Homestar Runner. The first game, Homestar Ruiner, was a lot of fun and was a perfect blend between the cartoon characters, the world they live in, and point & click fun. Strongbadia the Free is a very similar game and clocks in at only two and a half hours, compared to the four or so of Episode One. Does Episode Two manage to start a streak of quality for the series, or does the Homestar Runner cast experience a sophomore slump?
Let’s Review
1. Story
In this month’s episode, the King of Town implements a tax on emails. One delicious snack cake per email. Strong Bad, whose entire schtick at this point revolves around reading emails ends up missing this proclamation as it went into his idiot filter, ends up being placed under house arrest for ignoring the law. After escaping the device around his head that will blow him up if he tries leaving the house (which is your first big puzzle), Strong Bad declares war on the King of Town and secedes into his own independent nation of Strongbadia. Of course, everyone in town does the same thing and so now the game is a mini cluster of territories which Strong Bad spends the rest of the game uniting under his rule, either through diplomacy or burnination. At the end, you get not one, but two Machiavellian plot twists, and everything is returned to the status quo.
I have to admit, the story here suffered from a drastic drop in quality from Episode One. There I was laughing out loud constantly. Here is was merely a chuckle or two. The situations are forced, the dialogue is nowhere as witty, and the game plays more like a straightforward generic Adventure game with a half-hearted Homestar Runner feel. I was glad to seel Strong Mad and The Cheat receive more of a presence in the game, but everything felt forced and well, not funny.
Strongbadia lacked the out and out surreality of the previous installment and although there were a few comedic moments like the subquest to set everything you can on fire, Episode Two was a pale mockery of Episode One.
Story Rating: Decent
2. Graphics
As with the last episode, the graphics are ripped straight out of the Brothers Chap’s cartoons. Everyone looks exactly like they would in a normal Homestar Runner episode, and the background are bright and detailed, fitting the mood of the game perfectly. However, the graphics are by no means up to the level of this generation of games, and especially those generally found in Adventure games.
There is an improvement over the last episodes visuals however, as the jaggies I encountered last time are nonexistent in this go-around. Movements are a bit more fluid and cartoon like rather than bad video game rendering, so this is one area that has improved since last time.
For the most part, Strongbadia the Free looks and feels the same as Homestar Ruiner, but with a noticeable (albeit slight) upgrade.
Graphics Rating: Above Average
This is easily Episode Two’s strongest area. All of the actual Homestar Runner characters are back, all voiced by the same people that do them for the cartoon. Although the script is decidedly off, the actors have brought their A game and it’s a lot of fun to hear all the lines of dialogue being acted out rather than just read.
The music is the game is highly enjoyable. From the music you encounter during a lightswitch rave to the end credit song about the King of Town, the score fits the game perfectly and really adds to the overall mood of the game.
You can’t ask for better in this category for this particular game, and you certainly wouldn’t be able to achieve it.
Sound Rating: Unparalleled
4. Control and Gameplay
Like all adventure games, Strongbadia the Free involves using your mouse to move around, pick up and use items, and enter into conversation with other characters. Like the last game, the controls for moving aren’t the best as sometimes the game interprets your click to go right as “go as far left as you possibly can,” but thankfully this time this control error appears limited to Strong’s bad house, which you are rarely in. So the issue persists and Telltale REALLY needs to fix this, but it’s less apparent and thus less annoying is this game over the last one.
Much like the plot of this game, the puzzles have dropped in quality this time around. This time they are hand-holdingly easy and far less bizarre then in the last game. Many of them feel like they could be puzzles in ANY adventure game rather than Strong Bad specific. I just really wasn’t impressed by any of them. I mean giving The Cheat a set of pilot wings to get him to join your country? Moving items around on the model UN so as to affect the draft wheel? Picking the correct drink and adding a glowstick to get Pom Pom to join you? None of it was anywhere as amusing as say, Making Pom Pom fail a drug test so he couldn’t compete against you in a race, or outright destroying Homestar Runner’s life in the last one. Even the end game puzzle which was an Axis and Allies-like boardgame bored the tears out of me. All that innovation, humour and flavour from the Homestar Runner universe was missing.
Even the extras were of a much weaker quality. Last time we got the hilarious Snake Boxer V. This time? Math Fighter featuring the Alge-bros. It was a distinctly lamer game, especially when Trogdor is out there for the playing! Even the “Make your own Teen Girl Squad” bit was nowhere as amusing as last time.
Pretty underwhelming for an Adventure game this time around. Some of the control and gameplay issues of actually playing the game were fixed (or hidden) but the puzzles and overall funny atmosphere took a hit making episode two feel like a mediocre generic adventure game instead of journey into the outright weird and retarded world of Homestar Runner
Control and Gameplay Rating: Poor
Most Adventure games are a one shot. Thankfully, each of the Homestar Runner games so far have included an extended play mode allowing you to finish the subquests that you may not have completed in the main story runthrough. Here you can dress up Strong Bad in stupid outfits, collect flags from all the new nations, replay the awful and boring board game from the endgame, playing more of the boring retro-esque Math Fighter, make new Teen Girl Squad comics, and improve your overall score/ranking in the episode. So although the extended play options are there for you this go around, it is a weaker overall affair then last time.
Also, as a hint, if you don’t get all but one of the Strong Sad insults in the main mode of the game, you won’t be able to 100% it in extended play. Sorry.
Better than the average adventure game in this area, but not by much, and nowhere as well done as Episode One.
Replayability Rating: Poor
6. Balance
Often a complaint about adventure games is that the puzzles can be quite hard and somewhat lacking in obviousness about what to do. Not so with Strongbadia the Free. This game plays like “Baby’s First Point and Click” with every puzzle being amazingly easy and blatant in regards with what to do next. If, by some strange occurrence, you find yourself stuck, you can just change the frequency with which the game gives you hints and Strong bad will outright tell you what you have to do next. I found this to be a bit sad as Episode One could be a bit on the tough side as the solutions and extras were pretty wacky. Probably the most out there solutions to the game involved the locations of the hidden Teen Girl Squad cards.
Episode Two was just a bit too simplistic and far too easy for my tastes. As Telltale is trying to bring new fans into this genre of gaming, this utter lack of difficulty will help people discover adventure gaming, but that should have been done with Episode One, instead of making the second one a lot easier. It’s just…common sense.
Balance Rating- Above Average
As stated earlier, a lot of Episode Two feels generic and nowhere as imaginative as the previous installment. There’s a degree of charm and weirdness to the game, but the game lacks the it factor the previous one had. All of the puzzles are ones you encounter in practically every other adventure game ever released and the running time was nearly half that of the previous game, giving you less madcap antics and crazy schemes.
I enjoyed the new subquests, like flag collecting, burninating, and the insulting Strong Sad, but there just wasn’t enough here to keep the game from feeling like a fan fic adventure game made my some kids in college rather than a product I paid money for.
Originality Rating: Bad
8. Addictiveness
The game was shorter than a Lord of the Rings movie, so it’s no surprise it held my attention from beginning to end. It was enjoyable for what it was, but if a game had similar puzzles and lacked the Homestar Runner characters, I’d have probably bashed it something fierce for being boring and predictable. I guess this shows the power of using a license properly.
It was a lot of fun finding all the items, collecting all the bits and trying every possible dialogue combination. When it was all over I was shocked at the shortness and suffered from disappointed as it was a distinct drop in quality from the first game, but I still whipped through the game without the slightest pause whereas the first one was longer and thus I took a break for food and making with the bowel movements, so it will hold your attention proving even a lesser game starring Strong Bad is better than one without him.
Addictiveness Rating: Good
9. Appeal Factor
From my previous review:
Homestar Runner has a huge fan population. Sales will surely reflect that and fan boys with a less critical eye will rave about the game, ignoring the many obvious glitches in the game because, hey, you can play as Strong Bad!
Even with the glitches though, gamers will enjoy the game because of the ease of controls and the hilarious antics of these weird ass characters. This is probably going to be the best selling Adventure game of the year when all is said and done, which says more about how gamers have chosen to be ignorant about the genre, then the quality of the game.
I’ll knock the score down a little here due to the drop in quality and comedy, but it’s still going to delight the majority of Homestar fans who pick it up. It’s not as accessible to newcomers as the first game, which is odd considering it is shorter and easier.
Appeal Factor: Good
Strongbadia the Free proves my worries about episodic content to be valid. This was shorter, weaker, and nowhere as funny as the first. It felt more like a bad sitcom than an episode of Homestar Runner and it worries me that each episode will simply be trying to squeeze blood from a stone instead of giving a quality product the Homestarmy deserves.
Episode Two is by no means a bad game. In fact it’s an above average one, but two and a half hours for nine bucks (Thankfully I picked up the season pass so it was more like $7.50 for me) is about what one would expect to pay for a ticket at your local movie theatre. That sounds pretty good, right? Well considering most adventure games released in 2008 are about ten hours long and go for $19.99, and the actual content for your dollar is less than a quality product like The Lost Crown from Got Game or Dracula: Origin from The Adventure Company.
In the end, the first episode of Strong Bad’s Cool Game For Attractive People, with all its extras, plot, and zany case was well worth my money. Episode Two however, left me unimpressed and feeling a little ripped off. It’s a better adventure game then Dracula 3 or Murder in the Abbey, but it’s not a title I’d recommend picking up as a stand alone.
Miscellaneous Rating: Decent
Story: Decent
Graphics: Above Average
Sound: Unparalleled
Control and Gameplay: Poor
Replayability: Poor
Balance: Above Average
Originality: Bad
Addictiveness: Good
FINAL SCORE: Above Average Game
Short Attention Span Summary
While Strongbadia the Free is nowhere as good as Homestar Ruiner, this second episode in the Strong Bad’s Cool Game For Attractive People line will no doubt make fans of the Homestar Runner series happy. If you’re going to play it, I suggest picking up the season pass so you can get all five games and thus will get to play the first game, which uses the characters better and is hilarious where this is merely cute. Next month comes Baddest of the Bands whose preview teaser alone had me laughing out loud, so let’s hope Episode Two is merely the slump for the series.
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Alexander Lucard
Alexander Lucard was the Editor-in-Chief of Diehard GameFAN and Director of Operations for the InsidePulse network. He has since retired from writing, but clearly shows up now and again. He has worked in video game journalism since 2002 and was also a paid consultant for Konami and The Pokemon Company. Alex has previously written for Tips N Tricks, Gamespot, White Wolf, TSR, Wizards of the Coast, Eden Studios, 411mania, Not a True Ending and more. His writing could also be found in the monthly periodicals Massive Online Gamer and Pokemon Collector Magazine.
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Integral Post-Metaphysical Spirituality
Participatory Spirituality for the 21st Century
Horror, Spirituality, and the Integral Suburbs
Posted by Balder on January 3, 2011 at 3:20pm in Open Forum
On David Marshall's Integral Archipelago forum, a member there named Shashank recently posted a blog (and initiated a discussion) on the relationship between horror and fantasy literature and spirituality that I am quite enjoying. I invite
you to read it, if you're interested. Here, I wanted to open a related
discussion, based on some of my comments to Shashank, particularly if
any of you enjoy the horror or fantasy genres. (I wish I had time to
compose something nice, but I don't, so here are a few jotted notes).
I no longer read fantasy or horror, but I used to read and write quite a lot of both, and I still enjoy an occasional horror or fantasy film. In my conversation with Shashank, we were discussing the respective approaches of Clive Barker and H.P. Lovecraft. I was noting that Barker tends to see "order" behind the terror and horror, and redemptive or transformative potential in the encounter with darkness and evil, whereas Lovecraft attempts to present a vision of reality as ultimately alien, containing dimensions which are wholly other -- realms and beings that are wholly unassimilable, human contact with which can only result in madness or destruction. In other words, absolute limit conditions.
In my reading, Lovecraft's Otherness is an Otherness that must remain Other for the human center to hold, and for our higher ideals to flourish (though those who encounter it now come to see those ideals largely as flimsy defenses in the face of a vast, menacing, terrifyingly alien realm). If I had to place Lovecraft along the values line, I'd say he was a Modernist -- writing for a genteel Modern audience, many of whom were likely in hard flight from "animal nature." This is revealed, I think, in his preference for pre-human, visceral images to represent the Other: slime, gelatinous substances, crustacean or invertebrate anatomy, etc.
But while Lovecraft is primarily a modernist (as opposed to Barker's more postmodern approach, where otherness is a functional limit condition of particular stages of development or perspectival frames rather than a concretely identified, metaphysical "thing" or "realm"), I still find his work offers something interesting to consider, particularly in the context of Integral spirituality: he presents a powerful challenge to complacency and a "comfortable" anthropocentric view of the universe, a view that honestly I sometimes feel marks much New Age and even Integral discourse and thought. I don't think Lovecraft is an Integral thinker (as I said, I view him as essentially a Modernist, though some post-metaphysical materialist writers find kinship with him as well), but I think he makes a kind of move -- a firm presentation of That which intractably challenges and disturbs present boundaries and narratives -- that we could use more of in Integral circles, in my opinion. With talk about "making sense of everything" in Integral marketing, and even in the popularized use of phrases like "swallowing the whole universe in one gulp" (assimilating it in its entirety to the "known"?), I feel there is a move towards what we might call the suburbanization (or urbanization) of the Kosmos. No spooky corners left, no pesky unknowns, no threatening or destabilizing shadows. (This is why King, Barker, Lovecraft, etc, are so powerful: they bring the 'unknown,' the terrifyingly alien and powerfully Other, back into our comfortable suburban back yards).
So, I guess what I'm groping toward is the question, What is an Integral nightmare? What, in its appearance or irruption, would deeply disturb, even terrify, Integral consciousness? What are the boundaries of our (often comfortable, suburban) narratives, and what has the potential to shred them?
I enjoy and appreciate this topic because I think wrestling with, encountering this sort of "dark" or Otherness, is both humbling and chastening (something Lovecraft cultivates through his shocking, chthonic vistas) and potentially transformative (a la Barker). I am thinking here of several things: Rilke's terrible angels, which perhaps show up in modern popular form in something like Strieber's Communion series (where the Other is a vastly more evolved and powerful entity, an entity that has a disturbing, inscrutable agenda for us); and which showed up for me, in a wilderness visionary experience many years ago, as powerfully disturbing -- even terrifying -- entities who I associated with Krishnamurti and who put me through a mind-blowing (and humbling) ordeal. And I think also of the "darker" aspects of Tibetan practice, which I explored when studying with Dzogchen teachers: practicing ch'od, for instance, or purposefully going to graveyards or other frightening places in order to practice. But even doing that, I also was aware of bumping up against worldview differences: not all of the images cultivated in traditional Tibetan practice were really terribly disturbing for me, and I recall wondering at the time what a modern equivalent could be -- how could the practices be made more challenging and relevant for our time?
What would scare the bejeesus out of the Integral community? :-)
Permalink Reply by Edward theurj Berge on January 5, 2011 at 12:11pm
Timothy Leary was infamous for his communications with super-evolved beings from Sirius (I think?), which led him to his formulation of the 8 circuits of consciousness, the last 4 being extraterrestrial and implanted by said ETs when they seeded earth. Our ultimate goal is to realize these circuits in preparation for our space journey home to Sirius. This link explores these themes in Leary's book Exo-Psychology, as well as many of other themes relevant to consciousness studies. I had opportunity to hear Leary speak on this at ASU many years ago and this, with RA Wilson's writings, "converted" me and led to my eventual induction in the Golden Dawn and personal experience with the "ancient ones."
Permalink Reply by andrew on January 5, 2011 at 11:50pm
a little off genre but i went to see the black swan with one of my daughters over the holidays, and i'll be damned if i didn't walk out of there feeling dissociated and in a somewhat diffused state of consciousness. damn aronofsky! it took me about 15 minutes of concentrated breathing, a couple of clove ciggie's, and a matcha latte and nanaimo bar to feel grounded again...i asked my eldest if she'd had any feelings after watching it previously and she said she had similar feelings walking out......on a more positive note: i recently went to a viol concerto with my honeygurl and had a marvelous transcendent peak experience.......
um, my vote would be for sheldon from the big bang theory tv show as being an all time nightmare:)
happy roman new year to ya'all..........
Permalink Reply by Edward theurj Berge on January 6, 2011 at 6:39am
Actually Black Swan is right on topic, being a horror story of transcendence which includes madness and dark shadow. Excellent film, deeply disturbing and most illuninating of that deep, dark passion that looms forever below the surface, and what happens when it's brought to the surface. The choreographer brings the black swan out of her and it is truly transformative on so many levels. And while beautiful it is also oh so ugly.* This genre calls into question religious (and spiritual) notions that transformation is all about sweetness and light, love and compassion. Well worth a second and third viewing.
* I want your ugly, I want your disease, I want your love. --Lady Gaga
Permalink Reply by Mary W. on January 6, 2011 at 11:41am
Black Swan is truly an incredible movie, powerfully drawn and acted -- and downright difficult to watch at points. (Those fingernail clippers!!!) I'm not sure it's a story of transcendence, however. Repressed (sub/un)-conscious material bursting into awareness is not necessarily "transformative;" it might instead lead to de-formation or disintegration -- even if such aspects perform "transcendently." This movie reminded me somewhat of Polanski's Repulsion -- a (mostly) first-person p.o.v. depiction of obsession and madness.
My own religious heritage has never taught me that transformation is "all about" sweetness and light -- unless one considers dark nights, suffering, rejection, and crucifixion (now there's a horror story!) as pleasant walks in the park.
Speaking of crucifixion, I presume Jesus knew what would happen with his acts of defiance, that it would lead to this end, and that such suffering was required to ascend into heaven? (I wonder if Jesus had self-cutting behavior as a child?) Metaphor or otherwise I see this same process with the heroine of Black Swan; through her self-destruction she experienced the creation of "perfection." I see it no more or less de-formulating or disintegrating than the crucifixion but rather a contemporary tale of it. Except perhaps that religious ascension is reserved for only "the one" in some stories, not the gifted but earthly person that makes herculean sacrifices? The latter can only disintegrate, not being divine by birth?
Permalink Reply by Mary W. on January 6, 2011 at 7:46pm
Another possibility: Jesus (both "earthly" and "divine") has a hunch but does not fully know what end will occur, and his suffering is not a set-in-stone requirement but a self-emptying choice made in/for other-directed love & reconciliation/union, the "kingdom of heaven."
Any "earthly person's" transformation could be toward either disintegration or wholeness. It depends on context and on circumstance. I do think Black Swan's crucifixion could be seen as a dark version of some kind of sacrificial "salvation." But I'm looking at it on a more mundane level, I guess. The main character cannot distinguish her inner monsters from outer reality. Despite her brilliant performance, she remains at the mercy of her imaginings. Her transformation, IMO, is into something fragmented and split-off, not toward kenosis and union.
Permalink Reply by Edward theurj Berge on January 6, 2011 at 7:57pm
I guess I don't see that we can cleanly differentiate fragmentation from kenosis, disintegration from wholeness. C'mon, even Jesus went nuts, talking to God, thinking he could literally raise from the dead, live without a physical body...
Aronofsky said in this review:
"When I started thinking about Swan Lake a dancer, I think Julie Kent, said to me that the story is really about a girl who gets caught by an evil magician who turns her into a swan during the day and a half-swan, half-human at night. It popped into my head, 'Oh, a were-swan.' And I realized I was making a werewolf movie ."
Permalink Reply by Mary W. on January 6, 2011 at 10:06pm
Yes, it might be difficult to differentiate while in the midst of the process of changing. The movie's ending is ambiguous; we as viewers are not sure ourselves . . . Liminality, bright and dark.
In this interview Portman says of her character:
"But it was absolutely a case of obsessive compulsive behavior. The scratching. The bulimia, obviously. Anorexia and bulimia are forms of OCD and ballet really lends itself to that because there’s such a sense of ritual — the wrapping of the shoes everyday and the preparing of new shoes for every performance. It’s such a process. It’s almost religious in nature. It’s almost like Jews putting on their tefillin or Catholics with their rosary beads and then they have this sort of godlike character in their director. It really is a devotional, ritualistic, religious art which you can relate to as an actor, too, because when you do a film you submit to your director in that way. Your director is your everything and you devote yourself to them and you want to help create their vision. So all of that, I think the sort of religious obsession compulsion would be my professional diagnosis."
Permalink Reply by Balder on January 8, 2011 at 12:56pm
Shashank, on the blog that inspired this thread, has just posted an excellent interview with Clive Barker that is worth checking out. Here's a link to Shashank's blog comment, which contains the video.
Permalink Reply by Edward theurj Berge on January 10, 2011 at 7:36pm
I found William James' The Varieties of Religious Experience online at this link. The following excerpt from Lectures VI and VII, "The sick soul," is relevant here:
"At our last meeting, we considered the healthy-minded temperament, the temperament which has a constitutional incapacity for prolonged suffering, and in which the tendency tosee things optimistically is like a water of crystallization inwhich the individual's character is set. We saw how this temperament may become the basis for a peculiar type of religion, a religion in which good, even the good of this world's life, is regarded as the essential thing for a rational being to attend to. This religion directs him to settle his scores with the more evil aspects of the universe by systematically declining to lay them to heart or make much of them by ignoring them in his reflective calculations, or even, on occasion, by denying outright that they exist. Evil is a disease; and worry overdisease is itself an additional form of disease, which only adds to the original complaint. Even repentance and remorse,affections which come in the character of ministers of good, maybe but sickly and relaxing impulses, The best repentance is to upand act for righteousness, and forget that you ever had relations with sin.
"Now in contrast with such healthy-minded views as these, if we treat them as a way of deliberately minimizing evil, stands a radically opposite view, a way of maximizing evil, if you please so to call it, based on the persuasion that the evil aspects ofour life are of its very essence, and that the world's meaning most comes home to us when we lay them most to heart. We have now to address ourselves to this more morbid way of looking at the situation.
"This question, of the relativity of different types of religion to different types of need, arises naturally at this point, and will become a serious problem ere we have done. But before we confront it in general terms, we must address ourselves to the unpleasant task of hearing what the sick souls, as we may call them incontrast to the healthy-minded, have to say of the secrets of their prison-house, their own peculiar form of consciousness. Let us then resolutely turn our backs on the once-born and their sky-blue optimistic gospel;... Let us see rather whether pity, pain, and fear, and the sentiment of human helplessness may not open a profounder view and put into our hands a more complicated key to the meaning of the situation."
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Yesterday I came down with what was probably Swine Flu and shortly began thinking and speaking almost entirely in Korean, which did not help me a great deal when I happened to find myself listening to the pronouncements of a Korean doctor late that afternoon, hiding my gaping mouth (through which I was gasping, slack-jawed, like an inbred country boy) behind a hospital-provided medical mask; lucky for me this doctor spoke flawless English, which she revealed by translating my high temperature from Celsius to Fahrenheit without being asked. I was running a fever of about a hundred and one.
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H1N1 one year on
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It’s almost a year since the H1N1 virus, widely known as swine flu, was the feared pandemic that swept across the world. In North Korea the estimated death rate per infection is estimated as hundreds of times greater than those for South Korea. This glaring example of two extremes owes much to the medical advantage that the south has over the north. What is perhaps even more interesting is that South Korea has been able to gain a measure of infection control better than the UK. (information extrapolated from http://www.flucount.org/ ).
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Question from a reader: your rights and the swine flu
Wed, 11/04/2009 - 10:52 - oneweirdglobe
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A reader writes in with a question many teachers have been wondering about: the swine flu and our rights.
Do you have any idea about what are our rights when it comes to swine flu? Like for example, my friend got sick, and her school made her go to the hospital, where they injected her with multiple things--she has no idea what--and then gave her several unknown drugs to take. A week or so later, she still had a cough, so they made her go back to the hospital, where they gave her Tamiflu, and her school ordered her to take it. I'm not sure how much you know about influenza or Tamiflu.....but that was the most illogical move imaginable. She even got tested for swine flu, and the test says she doesn't have it!
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Daily dose of Korean news
Tue, 09/22/2009 - 09:07 - oneweirdglobe
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From across the K-blogosphere comes news, views, and other information you might wish to intake.
The Joongang Daily (HT to ROKDrop for first post) tells us about how much police time is spent on drunk people:
According to the Busan Metropolitan Police Agency, officers at the city’s
58 police precincts handled 54,925 cases of drunk pedestrians between January
and May, or some 364 cases per day. Handling drunks can take up a third of the
task of an average officer. Police precincts that handle Busan’s most crowded
and busy areas - Seomyeon, Yeonil, Jeonpo - complain that there are so many
drunks that they completely clog up their daily tasks.
The Busan police department estimates that the nation’s police spends at
Kimchi's not working - 10,000 plus Koreans have the swine flu
Thu, 09/17/2009 - 09:05 - oneweirdglobe
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Out of the estimated 50,000,000, at least 10,000 Koreans have the swine flu, according to one recent estimate (HT to gangwonnotes for beating me to the story on the Chosun Ilbo):
With the eighth death linked to H1N1 flu reported on Tuesday, the number of
patients infected with the H1N1 virus exceeded 10,000 in Korea about four months
after the first case of the infection occurred here.
The Ministry for Health, Welfare and Family Affairs on Tuesday said a
64-year-old woman in Gangwon Province was hospitalized with pneumonia on Aug.
27. She tested positive for the H1N1 flu virus and died early Tuesday morning.
As of Sunday, the number of patients infected with the H1N1 virus was
9,968, with 3,765 new cases of infection confirmed over the last week, the
French kisses out?
Mon, 09/14/2009 - 11:38 - oneweirdglobe
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It's one thing to cancel a festival - even a kimchi festival! - but it's not nearly as drastic-sounding as this move from France:
Hands get shaken; hands get kissed. And the light cheek-to-cheek peck, known as "la bise," is a social greeting, woven in at the very youngest age.
Some observes joke that before the French could ever give up such social graces, pigs would fly.
But then ... swine flu.
With official publicity campaigns about the H1N1 virus, to directives on avoiding practically any close encounter of the corporal kind, the country has been put on alert as the flu season gets under way.
Korean government issues new swine flu rules
Earlier today, the Korean government issued a number of new directives aimed at making people aware of the swine flu. Despite many recent stories in the Korean media about the swine flu outbreak, some people are apparently still unaware of what to do. Now translated into English, the first few regulations for Koreans have been summarized as such:
Avoid foreigners as much as possible, since they don't eat kimchi, and all Koreans know kimchi cures the swine flu.
Be sure to read the 'washing hands' chart - just before you check your hair and leave the bathroom. If you do wash your hands, be sure to use as little water as possible - and never use soap. Most bathrooms don't have soap anyway.
If your employer requests it, submit to a health check. Have your temperature taken by the same thermometer as everyone else in your office.
Be sure to cover your cough. Cover your mouth with your hands, then shake the hands of your boss.
Teacher fired after getting the swine flu
Sat, 08/29/2009 - 14:21 - oneweirdglobe
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Now here's a story that makes us scratch our heads. Brian in Jeollanam-do broke the story, and the Midnight Runner has done an excellent podcast with the teacher supposedly affected.
The Canadian teacher, only identified as 'Mark' had been on vacation in Thailand, then returned to Korea. He began feeling sick about 4-5 days after returning to Korea (though 'Mark' never mentions having a week of quarantine, which has quickly become standard procedure for most schools too worried about foreign teachers getting sick). From the podcast, his hagwon asked him to come into work even though they knew he was sick.
"Seoul to Vaccinate 10 Mil. Against Influenza A"
Fri, 08/28/2009 - 17:11 - oneweirdglobe
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So says the Korea Times:
South Korea plans to vaccinate 10 million people against influenza A by the end of this year to stem the rapid spread of the disease that has so far claimed three lives in the country.
Health and Welfare Minister Jeon Jae-hee said of the 13.3 million people, including young children and pregnant women, who are most at risk, about 75 percent will be vaccinated by December.
She said Seoul has contacted Britain's GlaxoSmithKline and secured an order for 10 million doses of an anti-viral vaccine, with more to be bought next year.
Jeon said full-scale vaccinations will begin in November with 27 percent of the country's 48 million population to receive protection by February 2010.
I don't have the Swine Flu. Leave me alone
Mon, 06/01/2009 - 08:18 - Bobby from Busa...
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BLOODY HAMMERS Unleash First Track & Music Video Off Of Upcoming Album
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BLOODY HAMMERS unleashed the exclusive music video premiere for their new song “The Reaper Comes”. The black and white video embraces minimalism and an old-school horror aesthetic to create something haunting.
BLOODY HAMMERS are a duo who hail from the mountains of Transylvania County, NC. The project and first self-titled release was originally formed as a studio only project with vocalist/songwriter, Anders Manga producing and recording all instruments. Soon Anders decided to take the project from the studio to a real band by recruiting his wife Devallia to play keyboards and other local musicians for live shows.
“This album is certainly the darkest album I’ve ever recorded”, states BLOODY HAMMERS mastermind Anders Manga, who stays on the dark path of the nether worlds and opens the gates to a Lovely Sort Of Death.
The brand new album “Lovely Sort Of Death” by Dark Occult Rockers BLOODY HAMMERS, will see the light of day on August 5th via Napalm Records.
The music video for the track “The Reaper Comes” can be seen below.
Read what the band has to say about their new video:
Anders Manga:
“Many times a band will release the fastest, most in-your-face track they have as a first single. “Lovely Sort of Death” has some fast tracks, but it is also more versatile than that. I decided to do something different and go with ‘The Reaper Comes’ because it accurately portrays how I was feeling at the time the album was written, while snowed in at the top of a mountain.”
Devallia:
“The video was shot along the Blue Ridge Parkway near Asheville. People kept stopping by while we were shooting, only to be horrified. Eventually we were tired of trying to hide the scythe. We would just smile and wave, and tell them don’t fear the reaper.”
BLOODY HAMMERS fourth effort haunts the listeners with heavy guitar fuzz tones and dark occult heavy tuning in these days. This is the perfect soundtrack for your next favorite horror movie ouija session! Till death do us part!
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Steve Jobs’ 313 Apple Patents
Steve Jobs, Apple’s hands on CEO known for his attention to detail, is credited as inventor in 313 USPTO patents. Includes Apple Store glass stair case!
Steve Jobs, Hands On CEO, Inventor
On Apple co-founder’s legendary hands on approach, New York Times:
Mr. Jobs’s say over the minute details of Apple’s products is legendary in Silicon Valley. A look at the patents that carry his name, for these products and others, offers a glimpse into the range of his influence at Apple. And it paints a picture of a roll-up-your-sleeves chief executive whose design choices reached into every corner of the company…
Mr. Jobs appears as the principal inventor or as one inventor among several on 313 Apple patents. Most are design patents that cover the look and feel of a product, rather than utility patents, which may cover a technical innovation like a software algorithm or computer chip.
The patents range from 1980s to present, including early Macintosh design, iPod, iOS devices (iPhone, iPod touch, iPad), laptops, iMac, product packaging, Apple Store glass stair case, keyboards and mice, monitors, Macintosh operating system (user interface elements in Mac OS), NeXT, power adapter, and Apple TV.
In contrast to founders of other large tech companies, Steve Jobs’ 313 patents beat them hands down:
Just nine Microsoft patents carry the name of Bill Gates, who was a co-founder of the company and its chief executive for more than two decades before stepping down in 2000. And little more than a dozen Google patents carry the names of co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, according to a search of the United States Patent and Trademark Office Web site.
On Steve’s collaboration with Jony Ive, head of Apple industrial design, Macrumors reports:
More than 200 of the patents attributed to Jobs also list Apple design guru Jonathan Ive, indicating the close collaboration between the two in creating the vision for Apple’s products.
Illustration with ObamaPacman selection of some of the Steve Jobs patents: original Mac, current Apple MacBook Pro laptop, iPod, iPhone, Apple packaging, iTunes, and touchscreen user interface.
Collection of the Steve Jobs patents can be viewed on an NYT interactive feature.
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iET launches video for new single 'Hold On Tight'
Debut album 'So Unreal' released 16th June
by Chris Bound: June 9, 2014
Music Feed, TV
iET Says, "Hold on Tight is about pursuing your dreams but also about letting go. Sometimes in life we pursue things to obsessive lengths instead of enjoying the process and journey and being in the moment. It's good for an artist to remember that when you make music you are living your dream, doing what you love the most instead of focussing on achieving major success with it. The song is very much about a personal feeling but it is a common feeling for everybody that has a dream. Holding on Tight is also about visualizing your dream... dreaming about what you want to accomplish and then going for it and not giving up."
She goes on to add, "The sound of the track is very much inspired by the dance music of the 70s and 80s: Funk, Soul, Disco and a little Breakbeat and Reggae-Dub. A soulful funky disco riff, some dub effects and a breakbeat give drive and an uplifting feeling that enhance the uplifting character of the song. The breakdown is more psychedelic and symbolizes the moments of doubt and confusion along the way."
Watch the new video in the player below.
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Posted on 29th September 2016 by Tim Cundle
Doctor Who: Doom Coalition 3
Doctor Who: Doom Coalition 3 – Starring Paul McGann, Nicola Walker, Hattie Morahan, Alex Kingston, Jeremy Clyde, Ian Puleston-Davies, Richard Hope, Anna Acton, John Shrapnel, Kasia Koleczek, Glen McCready, Emma D’Inverno, Tin McMullan, Janie Dee, Robert Bathurst, John Heffernan, Nicholas Woodeson & Written by John Dorney & Matt Fitton – 5xCD/Download (Big Finish)
Well, where shall I start with the latest chapter of the Doom Coalition saga? Let’s dive straight in and talk about River! She’s back! And here she plays a much bigger part than she did in her appearance toward the end of Doom Coalition 2. Alex Kingston has settled into the world of Big Finish fantastically and is just as good on audio as she is on television. River works very well alongside The Doctor, Liv and Helen and creates an incredible sense of fun as she finds interesting ways to hide her true identity from her future husband and then there’s the nun with a big gun thing which…Wait, I’ve said too much. Forget the last bit, it’s time to move on to the story…
Split into four parts Doom Coalition 3 is a wild ride that takes its audience through the fifteenth, twentieth and twenty first centuries by way of a Time Lord super weapon. The first part Absent Friends is a haunting story centred around a barrage of mysterious phone calls and Helen’s experiences, in particular, during this story are deeply moving. The Eighth Piece splits up the TARDIS team and it’s in this part of the adventure that the Doctor comes face to face with one of the most fanatical extremist’s in British History; Thomas Cromwell. Liv meanwhile investigates the strange Clockmaker in fifteenth century Prague and Helen seeks the Eighth Piece in present day Rome. The Doomsday Chronometer follows seamlessly, as each member of the crew discover more about who, and what, is behind the events taking place when the enigmatic Clocksmith shows his hand. Finally in The Crucible of Souls the Doctor and River set out to save the universe while Liv and Helen are left to deal with an imposter. All the players are eventually reunited aboard the aforementioned Time Lord super weapon as the Eleven once again rears his noisy, over crowded head. Can The Doctor and company save the universe, and the future, before it’s too late?
Doom Coalition 3 is a more than worthy entry in this ongoing series. It starts off well with the atmospheric and emotional Absent Friends, but lags slightly in the middle before picking up again in The Crucible of Souls. As always the main cast are superb, with Paul McGann leading the way effortlessly, and both the Clocksmith and the Eleven, the villains of the piece, are suitably manic and bonkers. It’s a dark, tense, set of adventures with one hell of a cliff-hanger that’ll leave you screaming at your PC / Stereo / Ipad etc. for Doom Coalition 4 to hurry up and arrive! Nath Rixon
Tagged Alex Kingston, Big Finish, Doctor Who, Doom Coalition, Doom Coalition 3, John Dorney, Matt Fitton, Nicola Walker, Paul McGann, River Song, Tardis, The Eighth Doctor, The Eleven
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Eve of Tomorrow
Posted on Jan 21, 2021 Jan 21, 2021 by Michelle Lynn
Eve of Tomorrow The British are coming Eve of Tomorrow brings to a conclusion the story of Gabby and Dawn two English sisters thrust into the forefront of rebellion in the new world Set in a distant future laid wast
The British are coming.Eve of Tomorrow brings to a conclusion the story of Gabby and Dawn, two English sisters thrust into the forefront of rebellion in the new world Set in a distant future laid waste by change and conflict, Gabby and Dawn discover their parents among the Americans and pledge to fight alongside their countrymen seeking safety and freedom.The Republic ofThe British are coming.Eve of Tomorrow brings to a conclusion the story of Gabby and Dawn, two English sisters thrust into the forefront of rebellion in the new world Set in a distant future laid waste by change and conflict, Gabby and Dawn discover their parents among the Americans and pledge to fight alongside their countrymen seeking safety and freedom.The Republic of Texas has been defeated, but its doomsday weaponhas fallen into the wrong hands At first, warriors by circumstance, but now warriors by choice, Gabby and Dawn have a new mission to destroy the weapon before it can destroy their future.
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Michelle Lynn says:
Happiness is simple just decide to enjoy life no matter what it throws at you I m a pretty simple person I like to write, I spend way too much time reading, and I love hockey I tend to laugh at inappropriate times and talk than anyone should I ve been given a lot of challenges in my life I have a disabling illness that leaves me unable to do most thing But through books, I can do everything I m a sucker for romance and get a little bored if the book doesn t have even just a little bit of it I love YA fiction because the style is so completely cinematic and exciting I review most everything I read, unless I can t justify giving a book at least 3 stars Some may call me a softy, but as an author myself, I know how that feels I just can t do it to someone I love the author community and can t imagine myself without it I ve made so many good friends who are brilliant writers It s truly a joy
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Patrick Hodges
You know that feeling you get after you ve ridden a particularly vigorous roller coaster five times in a row That s how I felt after finishing Eve of Tomorrow.This book, and indeed the entire Dawn of Rebellion series, was a non stop thrill ride, filled with action, drama, action, adventure, action, action, and action And at the center of it was Dawn and Gabby, two teenage sisters thrown headlong into a world of chaos, a world that they will ultimately reshape for the better, growing as characte [...]
Kayla Howarth
Okay, wow.So much action This book has so much action I was starting to feel exhausted for poor Dawn and her sister Gabby for what they were going through In a good way, I should add I was glued to this, just as I was to the first two books in this series.The main focus of the story is to prevent a biological weapon from being released, killing everyone in its way But so many obstacles occur in Dawn and Gabby s way Dawn has grown significantly since the last book and has become brave, strong, an [...]
Source I received a free copy of this book from the author, thank you Michelle Lynn Cost Free Title Eve of Tomorrow Series Dawn of Rebellion 3 Author Michelle Lynn Overall Rating 5 starsThe term, Saving the best for last, comes to mind with this book It picks up where the second leaves off and immediately, your heart in pounding with the action that consumes Gabby and Dawn s life as the try their best to protect their people from a bio weapon that could destroy everything But the cost that this [...]
G.K. DeRosa
Wow what an ending to a phenomenal series Eve of Tomorrow is a super action packed end of the gut wrenching story of Dawn and Gabby, two sisters caught up in the middle of a rebellion and forced to become unlikely heroes This last book had of everything I ve come to love from author Michelle Lynn The story was non stop and kept me at the edge of my seat, turning page after page and never wanting to put the book down It really seemed like the sisters came full circle in their character developme [...]
John Hennessy
Now let s get something out there For me, dystopian novels meant George Orwell s Nineteen Eighty Four There probably won t be a better novel released in that genre in my lifetime or ever , and I was as surprised as anyone when I picked up a YA dystopian novel a few years ago, starring someone from District 12.So with Michelle Lynn s series, it would be easy to be dismissive, to say this is a fluffy YA dystopian, no one will care what happens Not true And with each book, the story has evolved int [...]
Lauren Mayhew
It took me a lot longer to read this than I wanted I would happily have read this in one day, it was that good This one didn t have a cliffhanger ending which I m grateful for and Michelle Lynn did a great job of finishing this book I have read so many books where the minor characters are forgotten about in the conclusion of the story, but in Eve of Tomorrow, we get to learn what happened to them all If they survived til the end, that is War is evil There is no other way to put it and although I [...]
Michelle Bryan
Just finished Eve of Tomorrow, book 3 of the Dawn Of Rebellion Trilogy Man, what an adventure The story of the two sisters, Dawn and Gabby, pick up right where the second book leaves off and it is just as spellbinding as the first two They are no longer the innocent, na ve teenagers we meet in book one however They are now bad ass rebel soldiers on a mission to stop a terrible weapon from wiping out what is left of humanity Michelle Lynn creates her characters with such depth and range of emotio [...]
Wow What a sequel There was so much going on in this book, I m not even sure where to begin It was action packed, it was heartbreaking, and it was suspenseful The transition into Eve of Tomorrow was flawless, and once again, I was pulled into the story from the beginning What I loved about this series was how much the characters grew And not just the sisters, but all of them They suffered so much and to see how they persevered through each tribulation was exciting to read But then the dose of re [...]
I feel save the best for last really fits this trilogy Just like the first two books the action amazed me, to be honest I began to feel quite exhausted keeping up, which is a good thing.There are always so many twists and turns, unlike most stories, you really don t know what s going to happen next Then, of course, the family dynamic and all the character development which has continued throughout the book makes everything all the believable.I m trying to be as conserved as I can here, be ause [...]
OMG The author has saved the best for last with this third and final book in the Dawn of Rebellion series.I found all three books easy to read with each chapter titled with the name of the character who is telling the story Drew was my favorite but I think Lee has now surpassed him Ms Lynn has done a wonderful job of bringing these young brave characters to life.So much happens in this one It carried me along throughout the emotional ride and I m not ashamed to admit it had me in tears near the [...]
Angela Lockwood
Eve of Tomorrow is the third and last book in the Dawn of Rebellion series And what a cracking end to the series it is Quite a number of surprises and I dare you not to shed a tear What I liked most about the series is seeing the two girls Dawn and Gabby grow from London street urgings into not to be messed with strong woman, without losing their core characters Gabby remains mouthy and defiant, while Dawn keeps her softer caring side.Book 2 was rather dark and serious, and while things are grim [...]
What a book, brilliant ending This has to have been the best series I ve ever read The power in the words were so emotional and I cried so much through it feeling what they were all going through As with the other books each chapter is a different character, the main ones Gabby, Dawn, Drew and Lee are the main ones throughout the book and series, but you do get the view from others too which only adds to it.I never thought I would get drawn into a series as I was with this one All along you are [...]
Eve of Tomorrow is by Michelle Lynn It is book three of her series It is a science fiction which is set in the future The setting is what used to be the United States It is now divided into sections controlled by various groups The characters are realistic and you get attached to them The plot is one which unfortunately could be plausible in the future, although I certainly hope it will never be The book is gripping and I found I could not put it down Luckily it reads quickly so it didn t take m [...]
Tito Barberi
Eve of Tomorrow is a sobering and sometimes cruel reminder that war can be just as devastating when fought by experienced, highly trained soldiers or a young, ragtag collection of freedom fighters.When we first met the sister duo of Dawn and Gabby in book one Dawn of Rebellion , Dawn was a shy, insecure, but likable girl living under the large shadow that her popular, pretty sister casts upon her For her part, Gabby was a mischievous, shallow, self conceited girl that I honestly found hard to li [...]
Mike Billington
Eve of Tomorrow is the final chapter in author Michelle Lynn s excellent Dawn of Rebellion trilogy and, as she did in her first two books, she has crafted a wonderful novel that is so very much than a simple dystopian adventure story.Writing in her trademark style of short, punchy chapters, Lynn skillfully uses her characters to examine just what it means to be truly human in the context of an exciting adventure novel that has enough great fight scenes to keep even the most jaded readers on the [...]
L.J. Higgins
Wow I couldn t put this book down I ve been so excited to finally read the final installment of the Dawn of Rebellion series, Eve of Tomorrow, and I was not disappointed I really enjoyed watching Dawn grow into a strong, independent, young woman, while I felt Gabby softened throughout the book with the help of her new love interest, which was a welcome change from her harsh attitude in Book two Eve of Tomorrow is packed full of action which makes it hard to stop reading, and it was easy to get s [...]
I m heart broken This wonderful amazing trilogy has come to an end, and what an ending it is Action, explosions, torture, love, conspiracy and friendship all aplenty to make this a truly fitting finale to this trilogy Michelle has a real gift for character creation, she brings them to life in such an amazing way I loved our little band of warriors and heroes, I cried when they fell, hurt when they suffered and rejoiced in their victories Michelle has written a powerful dystopian trilogy and I ca [...]
Lena Belle
Eve of Tomorrow is the third and final installment in the Dawn of Rebellion trilogy Sisters Dawn, and Gabby find themselves in a race against the clock to find and destroy, a doomsday weapon fallen into the wrong hands This book is action packed dystopian adventure The author is master at character development, as well as making the words come to life I hope to see from Michelle Lynn.I very much enjoyed this book and this series and would recommend it to anybody.
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Hipster Archaeology
Curator's Note
The Atari video game burial is a central urban legend of video gaming culture. Popular belief has it that in September 1983, faced with the resounding failure of their adaptation of the blockbuster film E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial, the Atari corporation drove somewhere between 10 and 20 truckloads of merchandise, including but not limited to a massive collection of unsold and returned E.T. cartridges, to a landfill in Alamogordo, New Mexico, buried this material, and paved over it with concrete.
The burial strikes me as a useful ground zero, both literally and figuratively, for a media archaeology of digital culture. Jussi Parikka and Erkki Huhtamo describe media archaeology as concerned with recovering “alternate histories of suppressed, neglected, and forgotten media that do not point teleologically to the present media-cultural condition as their ‘perfection.’” In the case of the burial, the usually metaphorical valence of media archaeology as a critical rubric is tantalizingly literal: what remains to be unearthed here is not merely a lost history of digital things, but indeed the lost things themselves—not only the economic and cultural failure of the E.T. game, but also its material detritus.
What might this sedimentary burial in the desert have to tell us about materiality, capital, circulation, labor, play, and waste within digital culture? How might we recover the history of a media object that seems to refuse physical recovery? What might it mean to construct history, memory, and/or nostalgia around an object that may not even exist to begin with? In their video for “When I Wake Up,” the band Wintergreen addresses these questions, yet their narrative of retrieval and recovery domesticates the uneasy materiality of the Atari burial, playing upon hipster nostalgia for the 8-bit culture of early video gaming. Bored with playing E.T. in their living room, the band drives out to the middle of the desert and uncovers a trove of E.T. cartridges, claiming the past on behalf of the present in a directly material fashion. Yet in remaining out of sight, the Atari landfill poses a relation between technological materiality and temporality that complicates the retro chic of Wintergreen’s archaeological expedition. Present through its absence—nothing more and nothing less—the burial’s Borgesian lost library of trash is an archive that is itself a gap in the archive, a phantom memory produced through secrecy, sedimentation, and the fluctuations of the technological market.
Media Nostalgia
media archeology
media archaeology
An underexplored topic
By Andrew Seroff
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Monday, August 27, 2012 — 7:05 pm
Thanks for this piece, it really made me think about video game nostalgia in a more structured way. Tacking on to your specific example, the Atari burial - it makes a great appearance in 'Lucky Wander Boy' - an essential read for the genre/topic. I'd also bring in 'Ready Player One' as a popular take, yet constructive form of video game nostalgia - that addresses the possibility of near-physical recovery of intangible media. In it, classic nostalgia 8-bit titles are reborn as minigames in a virtual reality world. Video game hipsters (the usage here meaning more "otaku" than "fashionable") receive rewards for comprehensive knowledge of retro games that exist outside of those games - like X-Box's "Achievements" or PS3's "Trophies," but of actual significance and meaningful clout instead of in frivolous title alone. To consider a serial connection that exists beyond game series alone implies a textual meaningfulness that otherwise escapes video games beyond Nintendo titles and the Konami code. But I digress. ET may exist as a relic and a myth, but long gone are the days where video game development can fall through the cracks. The digitality of our current culture, combined with the rise of the industry's popularity means the era of lost video games are over. But the new area in danger of being lost to insufficient archiving is the current trend of 'timeline' media applications. Realtime distribution like Twitter and its many imitators have countless exceptional applications, but we lack the digital infastructure to sort through the noise or to take accurate snapshots. I've actually faced this problem professionally - the last part of development of any product is the ability understand it. Tools are being made for digital media that are a step in the right direction, but the macro scope and independently curated content make a comprehensive record near impossible. The sand is piling up in the social media desert, and it won't be nearly as easy to dig through.
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Scale of Archive, Scale of Access
By Paul Benzon
Tuesday, August 28, 2012 — 2:12 am
Thanks for this response, Andrew -- you're right that Lucky Wander Boy and Ready Player One are both key intertexts for this project, and ones that I'll definitely have to think about more as I continue working on it. And I'm intrigued by the parallel you draw between something like the lost materiality of the Atari burial and the timeline applications that play such a powerful role in so many people's daily technological experience. There's a strange irony in that those applications are in many ways self-archiving tools, yet the archives they produce are often out of reach, perhaps both to the layperson enduser and to the scholar who might seek to trace or study them. But I think that those issues play out in the earlier digital moment of the burial as well. Like the social sand you invoke at the end of your comment, those cartridges in the desert are there, but out of reach, finite in number but massive enough to dwarf (or at least be daunting to) human comprehension -- how much easier is a stockpile of five million identical cartridges to count, catalog, and comprehend than the content of a given hashtag or timespan on Twitter?
That's the kind of question I had in mind in invoking Borges in my post. There's a multilayered forensic problem present in those cartridges that very quickly descends down a kind of rabbit hole of materiality: which of them have been played? How many, and for how long? To what stage of completion in the game? How many were never shipped to retailers, how many returned from retailers unsold, how many returned from buyers unopened, how many opened but unplayed? What techniques and techologies of retrieval, restoration, and emulation would it take to find out? Obviously there's a certain kind of absurdity to questions along those lines, but I think there's also validity to the fact that past a certain point, both of the archives you've mentioned become equally difficult to comprehend.
History Still Exists
By Mark Sample
I'm very skeptical of the notion that "long gone are the days where video game development can fall through the cracks." The Preserving Virtual Worlds reports are full of concrete and anecdotal evidence that retro and contemporary videogames alike are every bit as likely to disappear as an Atari cartridge buried in the desert--though perhaps not as dramatically. I also recommend James Newman's new book Best Before, about videogames and obsolescence.
Tuesday, August 28, 2012 — 5:32 pm
After posting my comment, I regretted that particular dramatic word choice - for one, I thought of indie & small-scale games that never break into the spotlight, and are accordingly more vulnerable to be lost into obscurity. I guess I was just thinking about a large-scale, high-profile publisher deal like "E.T." somehow falling through the cracks - the video game audience is one of the most industry-aware consumer bases. The other reason for regret being that such a blanket statement has no place in academic thinking. Thanks for the book rec.
folk historiography?
By Michael D Dwyer
Thanks Paul, both for your post and for kicking this week's entries off.
One of the things that caught my attention in your post is the persistence of the urban legend. What is it about this story that makes it so appealing to gamers? Does circulating the story display cultural capital? Is it a reflection on the state of contemporary gaming? Does it reflect a desire for alternative histories that don't lead us teleologically to Sony, Starcraft and Steam? To put it in a different way, if the band is so bored with playing the game, why are they so visibly stoked to find 500 copies of it in the desert?
You raise a great tension in your last question about the band here, Michael. Their excitement at finding a mass grave of copies of a game they're already bored with echoes the way the myth of the burial circulates in culture at large. While whatever is buried has never been found or uncovered, the game itself is far from lost: it's readily available on eBay, and you can play it on a computer emulator (a different platform, admittedly, but still a point of access to the game). So I think the allure of the myth comes from the aura of the burial itself in particular, both in the Benjaminian sense of such a unique accumulation of media objects (so much reproduction that it becomes effectively unreproducible, as it were) and in the more general sense of the secreted, clandestine events surrounding it. But there's still a question of motivation there -- where and how do we distinguish among the "desire for alternative histories" you mention, a more reactionary nostalgia, and a kind of "so-bad-it's-good" kitsch fixation with a game that's infamously bad by conventional standards?
Thanks for your response -- I'm looking forward to your post later this week!
so bad it's bad, maybe?
Yeah, well one of the things that's interesting about the video is that by the time the video's narrative begins the "so bad it's good" factor is failing to pay off for them. So why go through the trouble of finding more? It seems like one of the things the legend suggests is that the gaming industry has tried to obscure (literally "bury") the history of their failures, and one of the way gamers can assert control over gaming culture is to circulate different stories than the industry does. Hence all the Virtual Boy emulators, even though very few actually liked Virtual Boy. So one of the reasons to search for that archive is not because it's so bad it's good, but rather because it's so bad it's bad! I'm sort of thinking of Rob Craig's idea that emulators are important to preserve the history of games that have no commercial or aesthetic value for their producers.
To chime in here - I think
To chime in here - I think the video game culture has a built-in predisposition to what you call the "unique accumulation of media objects". Ever since the first Easter Egg in 1980's 'Adventure', the accumulation of secret cheat codes, mystery unlockables, and other hidden rewards have pulsed through video game audiences. A unique characteristic of the medium - the endless possibility of sidetracking for a secret experience around every corner, in a way that print or A/V media can hardly utilize. I feel you can attribute a lot of the obsessive accumulation and the devouring of mythology and lore to that obsessive pulse for the extra tier of experience, and status as well - to say your cartridge was buried by Atari in the desert is a supplementary paratextual reward, but a reward nonetheless.
Why E.T.?
What always strikes me most about this urban legend is the detail that the game ROMs buried in the desert were unsold cartridges of E.T.
The 9/25/83 newspaper article in the Alamogordo Daily News that inspired the urban legend makes no mention of specific games. But somehow E.T. is always mentioned as the game being dumped into the landfill. I don't think this is an insignificant detail. But what does it mean?
Is the insistence upon E.T. a reaction somehow to the schmaltz of the movie? Is it a reaction of gamers, desperate to separate their emerging medium from the predominant medium of film? Is it wish fulfillment about the future of franchises and marketing tie-ins? Is there a bit a schadenfreude to the urban legend? And would the urban legend be so persistent if it were another Atari VCS game from 1982--say, Berzerk--that was the central detail of the story?
et game -> sign of changes in 1980s entertainment industries?
I wonder if it's less about the schmaltz of the movie and more about E.T. being one of the early super-merchandized products of synergy-obsessed 1980s Hollywood. As a kid I definitely had an ET bike, an ET storybook record (with a weird poster of ET with Michael Jackson), an ET halloween costume, ET dolls (ugliest things of all time)...
E.T. Historiography
I think one thing worth underscoring about all of these explanations for "why E.T.?" is that they're all post facto -- as with the Daily News article Mark cites, The New York Times is equally nonspecific, and I haven't seen any material from the time of the burial that mentions E.T. as directly and specifically as the recent recountings do. So I think to really understand how the game got attached to the event, we'd have to know the history of the myth's circulation more thoroughly. Most recent accounts (on retro gaming sites, for example) tie the burial very closely to the video game industry crash of 1983 -- so does the NYT, but I tend to doubt that that kind of industry awareness was widespread in the gaming population in the early 80s. I'd be interested to see when and how all these threads (the failure of E.T., the industry crash, the burial) got tied together in the public imagination.
If we take that retrospective explanation into account, then, I think there's an element of industry critique (the schadenfreude Mark mentions) in the myth's focus on E.T. as the sole content of the landfill -- while it wasn't the first film tie-in (Montfort and Bogost note a copyright infringement on Jaws and a highly playable adaptation of Raiders of the Lost Ark as predecessors), it was perhaps the first time a game was part of a larger Hollywood synergy, as Michael's list of E.T. merchandising suggests. There's also the factor that tying the myth to a blockbuster film makes it accessible to people outside of gaming culture in a way that something like Berzerk wouldn't. In that sense, then, perhaps the myth fixates on the failure of E.T. in order to register a larger shift in productization and media markets rather than just reflecting on the gaming industry.
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