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Favourite Album of 2012
Favourite New Version of Old Song
Favourite New Song
Wettest Weekend of 2012Biggest Downer Of The Year
Geldof Award For Best New Song By An Artist Named Bob
"Onion" Award for Making the Judge Cry
"Samantha" Award For Rudest Lyrics
Best Traditional Song Played on a Kitchen Utensil
Best Cover Version of 90s Song By Lady With Turquoise Hair
Best Extended Solo On Funny Five Stringed Drum Thing
Favourite Live Gig
Special Award For The Live Performance Which Was, in the
Opinion Of the Judges, Most Special
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Next time someone asks you what the BBC is for, listen to Kirsty's reaction to Martin Carthy's story about Scarborough Fair, and then listen to Benjamin Zephaniah reading the House at Pooh Corner for the first time. You just don't get moments like this on the tellybox.
Cross Purposes
Can a place of work or a school have a dress code?
Ought a place of work or school to have a dress code?
Dunno. Depends on how extreme the code is and how good a reason for it there is. Asking people to wear hard hats on building sites, fair enough. Asking people to wear clowns hats in the office, not so much. Okay to ask men to wear a tie. Not okay to ban them from wearing trousers. Unless company in question was Jock McHamish's Kilt Emporium. Or the Perfectly Normal Transvestite Shop. Or, come to that, the Raunchy Nude Butler company. It's complicated.
Are you saying that dress codes aren't unreasonable in themselves, but a particular dress code might be unreasonable for some people under some circumstance?
It's complicated.
Is this a human rights issue?
We have to come up with a vocabulary and framework for talking about these things, and human rights seems to be the one we've decided. If they'd asked me, we'd have reserved "human rights" for the big stuff like torture and war crimes, but they didn't. When t.c Tony Blair talked about access to the internet being a human right, I started to think that "human rights" had become one of those phrases that used to have a meaning but now just indicate mild approval from the speaker, like "stakeholder", "zero tolerance", and "British".
Might this ever be a human rights issue?
If a prison or school or branch of Tescos had a policy of enforced nudity, then that would be a breach of someone's human rights, as well as an interesting premise for a porno movie. We should be careful of making assumptions about how different people from different backgrounds feel about modesty. If your culture tells you to wear a turban, what does it feel like to be caught with no turban? Is it more like "How incredibly embarrassing! I've come to work without putting a tie on"? Or is it more like "OMG my knickers have fallen down in public and everyone can see my arse!"? It's only a couple of generations since a woman walking down the high street without a hat would have caused a genuine scandal, after all.
If a place of work or a school has a dress code, should there be exceptions to it for people with strong religious convictions?
It depends on the importance of the original dress code and the importance of the religious conviction. I don't think that I should be exempted from wearing protective clothing at work because I happen to have decided that I feel like wearing my "Smile, Jesus loves you" tee shirt today. If a company has made a rule about wearing badges, then I am not sure that it makes any difference if the badge in question is a skull and cross bones or an icthus.
What are these strange "badges" of which you speak?
I believe that they are what foreigners would call "buttons". You may have become confused about the differences between "trousers" and "pants" several pages ago.
Is the law prohibiting Christians from displaying signs of their faith a breach of their human rights?
I don't know. But it seems pretty intolerant and mean spirited to me.
Is there, in fact, a law prohibiting Christians from displaying signs of their faith?
No. Of course not. Don't be silly. Just walk down your street and count how many cars have Christian fishes on them, and, for that matter, how many cars have those nasty little Darwin fishes on them.
Do some companies have a dress code which forbids the wearing of jewellery at work?
Apparently so.
Are people who want to wear crosses, stars of david or rosaries at work automatically exempted from the "no jewellery" rule?
Have you ever seen anyone wearing a rosary at work?
No. Of course not. Don't be silly.
Should there be an exception?
It depends on the importance of the rule and the importance of the jewellery. If you are working on a production line and jewellery is dangerous, then there should probably not be an exception. If you are putting books on shelves in a library and it's a very small and discrete cross, then there probably should be. If wearing a small cross is a compulsory element of your sect, then almost definitely.
Wouldn't that mean that Motorhead fans and members of the Liberal Democrats would suddenly decide that wearing small badges was a compulsory part of their faith?
Almost certainly. If you say that "literary merit" is a defence against a charge of indecency or obscenity then every publisher in the country is going to claim that his top shelf magazine is a work of serious literature.
Are there, in fact, any Christian sects for whom wearing a cross at all times is compulsory?
So how did "the human rights court is deciding if companies should be legally obliged to waive their dress codes for Christians who want to wear jewellery to work" become "the human rights court is deciding if Christians should be banned from wearing crosses in public"?
See under "Eric Pickles", above.
Why does he think its such a big deal?
It isn't quite clear. He doesn't think that people should be allowed to wear crosses because everybody should have the same freedom as everybody else and subject to that as much freedom as possible; he thinks that people should wear crosses because Faith is a good thing and we want more of it. It doesn't matter too much in what. But he has a purely instrumental view of this Faith stuff. He doesn't think Faith is a good in itself; he thinks it's a good because "it provides a clear moral compass and a call to action that benefits society as a whole", whatever that means.
So he really cares about "society as a whole" and sees Faith as a means to an end?
That's what I meant by "instrumental", yes.
So, in fact, he worships "society" rather than God?
Yes Socrates; that is indeed the case.
Is that roughly what you would expect a member of discredited right wing government to do in a country where the dominant folk religion has always been a sort of Christian tinged secular pelegianism?
Oh, Socrates, you are so much cleverer than us!
Would the world be a happier place if I refrained from reading the Daily Telegraph even when someone has left a copy of it on my table?
Very probably.
What's the difference between analogy and allegory?
Analogy is when strawberries being you out in spots. Allegory invented the internet.
Labels: God, RELIGION
Loose Ends (5)
C.S Lewis's "trilemma" was never intended to be a proof of the existence of God. Again.
The radio broadcasts were never aimed at atheists. There weren't any atheists in England in 1940, and if there were they didn't listen to religious talks on the wireless. They were specifically commissioned to appeal to those who "on whom church membership sits lightly." Lewis's target audience are people who may think that "cardinal sins" are the kinds of sins committed by Roman Catholic cardinals and that the "begotten, not created" bit in the creed has something to do with the virgin birth. People who don't know but want to know, or who are prepared to listen. Translating big ideas for the benefit of the Common Man who is certainly not stupid but is almost completely uneducated. His attitude can certainly seem incredibly patronising, as indeed can everything else that the BBC did between 1922 and 1984; but they were wildly, wildly popular, turning Lewis into an instant celebrity and cult figure.
I therefore become exasperated in a not at all mean spirited way when people just repeat the old saw that Lewis was a bad or dishonest polemicist because the "aut deus aut malus homo" argument is merely a "dodgy rhetorical flourish". He is directing the argument at people who think of themselves as Christians, but who honestly don't know what kinds of claims are put into Jesus' mouth in the New Testament; who honestly believe (because generations of dishonest clergymen and schoolteachers have told them so) that the Jesus of the Bible was a moral teacher and nothing more; that to be a Christian means "to be good"; that the expression "Son of God" means "person whose moral teaching we agree with". Lewis is showing why this doesn't work. It obviously doesn't work.
The aforementioned Francis Spufford gives the trilemma very short shrift, as I mentioned in the review. He argues, very interestingly, I think, that the mystical transcendent sense of being in contact with God can be very emphatic even for very ordinary believers; so it would have to be utterly overwhelming for a remarkable and holy man such as we must suppose "Yeshua" to have been. Believing that you are God is a perfectly imaginable response to such an extreme experience. If human experience is such that perfectly sane people can come to believe that there is a God, it's possible to see how a perfectly sane person could come to believe that he is God.
Of course, Dawkins has sufficiently poisoned the discourse that most people probably don't think that it is possible for a sane person to believe in God: me and Jesus and Rowan Williams and the Vicar of Dibley are mad and bad by definition, so the whole argument is rather moot.
While Spufford is, in my opinion, a bit harsh on Lewis, he is very good about the whole scholarly debate about the New Testament documents and the "historical" Jesus. The Gospels are clearly stories, not news reports, and have to read as such, something which Lewis, curiously, never really came to grips with. On the other hand the, the populist notion that the stories depict a sweet Lennonist moral sage and nastybadjewish St Paul perverted them into a religion about a deified saviour is completely false. The earliest Christian writings we have are about a divine, resurrected saviour who is coming back Real Soon Now. The narratives are written decades later.
Granted, those narratives must have had antecedents and sources - St Luke says explicitly that he's editing previous accounts - and all scholars agree that our best link to the really really original totally historical utterly authentic Jesus of history is a lost fifth Gospel that collected a lot of parables and teaching. [*]
Spufford cleverly makes the point that, even if this is correct, that still doesn't get us back to a sweetly human Jesus of simple morality as preached by Douglas Adams, Charles Dickens, Queen Elizabeth II, Woody Guthrie, Geraldine Granger, Miss Govey who taught R.E at my infant school, John Lennon and David Icke.
He (Spufford) writes:
"Moreover, even if you try to discard everything in the biographies which is explicitly devoted to storytelling Jesus's divinity, and just concentrate on the bits which must have come most uncontentiously from the lost sayings-collection, you still don't get back to a layer in which he's just a wise person dispensing wisdom....'If someone asks for your coat, give them your shirt too' is not 'great moral teaching' in this sense. It is either foolishness, or something else."
Not great moral teaching. Either foolishness, or something else.
Now, what does that remind me of?
[*] Except the ones who don't.
My previous seventeen essays on the Trilemma, can be found in "Do Balrogs Have Wings?" along with that essay on Planet Narnia everyone wanted so badly. The unsigned copies are the valuable ones.
Labels: God, politics, POLITICS., RELIGION
I may at some stage try and write a review of the Hobbit
But on the other hand, I may just sit in the corner and weep softly to myself.
Man of Steel looks appalling, and after dubbing the last one The Abomination, I would be a bit of a humbug to go and see Into Darkness.
I am greatly looking forward to The Miserables.
Even Looser Ends
(Responding to comments on previous thread. I will get back to writing about funnybooks soon, I promise.)
Before writing anything about religion, I really ought to write, "I AM NOT NEARLY AS PIOUS AS I AM PROBABLY SOUNDING" in large letters at the top of the page.
The religious don't think of God as only, or even mostly, as Universe Createy Guy. (This is why most of them found that Hevolution required only relatively minor adjustments.) So I don't think that saying "God is like a father" can be mostly a way of conceptualizing the concept of Creation. In any case, Christians almost never talk in terms of God bringing the universe into being like a father bringing a child into being. If anything, it's more like a craftsman constructing something. (Hence "begotten, not created" in the Creed.) The reluctance to call God "Mother" is possibly connected to this: "God the Mother" is always in danger of giving birth to the universe, which changes the way you think the universe is related to God. Joseph Campbell goes on and on about this.
Note that I didn't say "If Christians are right to conceptualizes God as sky-father..."; I said "If Christians are right to call God 'Father'" (or, as I then said "Daddy").
"What we call God" = "How we address God" = "What kind of relationship we think we have with God".
Is there an imaginative difference between thinking that you can approach the divine as "Daddy" and thinking you can approach it as "Mummy"?
I think there possibly is, maybe.
At any rate, masculine imagery is used right through the Bible, and once you've said "God is neuter", "God is hermaphrodite" or "God is an energy field created by all living thing, he surrounds us, penetrates us and binds the galaxy together" you'd have to rethink all the other images and metaphors in the Bible. What would you do with the mystical wedding feast of the Lamb in the book of Revelation; the allegorical level of the Song of Songs; the parable of the Prodigal Son; the story of the Seven Foolish Virgins waiting for the Bridegroom; etc etc etc?
This is the problem with ultra free translations of the Bible. All very cute for Miss Muir to tell us that the Missionaries sometimes taught Natives that Jesus said "I am the coconut of life", but how did they then deal with the passage about the Jews leaving Egypt in such a hurry that they had to eat unleavened coconuts, which is clearly relevant to the story of Jesus' giving coconuts and wine to his disciples.
An evangelical pastor once posted a "wayside pulpit" poster outside his church, reading:
"WOULD YOU RATHER WATCH WITH WISE VIRGINS OR SLEEP WITH THE FOOLISH VIRGINS?"
Back in prehistory, when the Church of England first debated the whole question of Lady Vicars, I think the position of most of us liberal evangelicals was along the lines of "Well, we are far from sure that a vicar does act as the ikon of God, because we are far from sure that we believe in that clergy are "priests" in that sense. But we are quite sure that a female priest can be an ikon of God the father just as much as a male one can."
I mean, that was what we thought when we weren't thinking "This is a rather obscure and technical point to be making quite such a lot of fuss about."
The only time we became jumpy about the whole thing was when a minority of women's ordination exponents said "A female priest can be an ikon of God because the Bible and tradition is completely mistaken to think of God as father". "Oor, er" we said "It now sounds as if you are making a change to the whole grammar of faith rather than, as we thought, correcting an obvious and silly historical injustice."
A woman's ordinands wrote to the Guardian and said "The only difference between me and Robert Runcie is that he has a penis and I don't." The great Auberon Waugh responded in his column "Even at the purely psyiological level, this argument is bollocks." It is entirely possible that I have quoted that before.
A 2007 post by me, entitled "A Completely Unfunny Posting" gets more hits, by a fact of about five to one, than anything else I have ever written. I initially thought that, since it contains a lot of bad religious jokes, it must be linked to from some religious or theophobic website that I can't find. It has been pointed out to me, however, that in the course of the piece I frivolously refer to Mr Dawkin's imaginary "memes" as "midichlorians", so the hits are probably coming from very disgruntled Star Wars fans, none of whom have bought my book.
I think that "Jacob" makes a very valid point
I think his very valid point is this: The whole idea that the relationship between two men might be lawful and blessed, but not sacramental; and the whole idea that it's perfectly fine for a female to to be Queen or head of MI5 but impossible for her to consecrate the Eucharistic clearly implies that differences (and therefore, in certain respects at least, inferiority and superiority) are built into the whole system. That makes the whole system rotten at a very deep level.
I am very sympathetic to this argument, and actually used it myself the first time I wrote about this subject, back in the Jurassic era.
I would, however, ask "Jacob" to charitably consider my analogy with the pagans -- the ones who hypothetically believe that the male and the female principle are hard wired into the universe, and a man can't be an earth mother any more than you can make rabbit stew without a rabbit. It's not a rule that someone made up; it's a description of how things are.
This would make things actually a lot more sticky because if
a: Sexism and homophobia are actually implicit in the whole idea of calling God "Father"
b: Calling God "Father" is a significant Christian belief
then it follows that
c: telling Christians that they have to have female priests and marry same sex couples really does amount to saying that their whole concept of God is not permissible; which really does amount to saying that they can't practice their religion; which is either a very good thing or a very bad thing depending on how Christophobic you are.
But I am now making a hypothetical argument on behalf of a hypothetical person whose hypothetical views I don't myself agree with and may not even have properly understood. Some people may question the usefulness of such an exercise.
Using analogies sometimes helps me to think straight. I think they may sometimes help other people think straight as well.
Jesus once said "You don't know when you are going to be burgled, so you lock up every night. Similarly, you don't know when I'm coming back to earth, so be prepared for me all the time." I don't think it follows from this that Jesus is like a house breaker; or spirituality is like a mortice lock; or pastoral care is like being a a crime prevention officer; or that the second coming is going to result in damage to your DVD collection. I think that the burglar has one specific element in common with Jesus, i.e the element of surprise. (Jesus also said that human beings were to God as litigants were to magistrates; I don't think he intended us to think that the prayer involves filling out endless forms, knowing the correct forms of address, wearing funny wigs etc etc etc.)
I get very bored with people wilfully misunderstanding analogy. Only the other day, a friend of mine said to another friend "Oh, if your bike is a mighty stallion, my bike is only a little shetland pony." I naturally responded "That's outrageous and Shetlophobic! Have you ever seen a pony with wheels?"
When an organisation -- let's call it "The Church of England", for the sake of argument -- confuses two elements of its own anatomy, let's say for example its arse and its elbow - over some particular issue -- let's hypothetically say "the ordination of women Bishops" -- everyone naturally feels very cross / ashamed / defensive / bored. Christophobic writers are naturally inclined to jump up and down with joy and say "You see! That proves what I've been saying all this time". Bloggers are inclined to reply "Well, I think it's actually more complicated than that" even though in this case it probably isn't.
So I think it can sometimes be helpful to take a step back and say "Let us imagine a different organisation, called X, that has made a different arbitrary rule, prohibiting a particular group (Y) from holding a particular office (Z)" What would follow? Does the breadth and significance of Z within the organisation, the position of Y in the power structure, or the influence of X in the community make a difference; or is prejudice against Y over Z just as serious as prejudice against A, B or C over D, E or F. Because I am a terribly funny and witty writer (terms and conditions may apply) I like to think of silly values for X, Y and Z in order to make the analogy more memorable, and the essay less boring. If I ask us to think about a custard factory which won't allow blue eyed people to sweep the floor, it doesn't, mean that I think that the historical oppression of women is no more serious than the historical oppression of blue eyed people, or that carrying out the Great Commission and administering the Eucharist is like manufacturing egg thickened confectionery cream. I'm just trying to sort out in my own head what exactly it is we are disagreeing about.
I realise that many of us would rather not sort out in our heads exactly what it is we are disagreeing about. I think that many of us would rather just form battle lines and shout at each other. Which is great fun and excellent aerobic exercise, I admit.
I think that many of us really do think that the Church of England is really a social movement like the Campaign for Real Ale or the National Society for the Prevention of Children, that all the ceremonies and rituals are more or less dispensable decoration (like one of those Laurel and Hardy men's clubs with jokey initiation rituals). Whereas I think that some of the people getting their knickers in a twist about ordination probably think that the ceremonies and rituals are the main thing, possibly even the only thing, which the organisation is there for. I think that most people "get" that there are groups of people like wiccans and druids and Alan Moore who honestly believe in rituals and ceremonies and spells which have some kind of actual effect. (Most of us also think that they are as fruity a batcakes, but that's not the point right now.)So I think it is sometimes helpful to say "Pretend that we were not talking about Christians saying that a lady can do anything except perform Holy Communion; pretend that we were talking about a group of wizards saying that a blond haired man could do anything except cast a Fireball spell - what would you say in that case?"
Which isn't the same as saying that I think that the Church of England is similar to a covenant of fire wizards, or that transubstantiation does 1D6 damage per level, or that I am going to carry on labouring this particular point for the next twelve months, necessarily.
I believe it to be the case that in a modern wiccan ceremony, only a man can embody the horned god and only a woman can embody the earth mother, because the male and female principles are believed to be real part of the cosmos. Peter Owen-Jones certainly had to get into the nuddy. But I don't actually know anything about modern neo-paganism, which is why I prefer to make up hypothetical examples.
To digress back to the last point but one: someone might say that a belief that there really are male and female cosmic principles is Sexist; some might say that such a belief is Sexist, but not in a bad way; and others might say that it is not Sexist, because it is true. And someone else might say that if it were true, it wouldn't be sexist, but since it isn't, it is. You can define the word how you like, but it is not much help to deliberately think up a definition which will apply to people you think are wrong and then say that they must be wrong because they conform to you definition.
Someone will say that imagining wizards who, while not otherwise prejudiced against bald people, say that the best spells can only be cast by people with hair, doesn't change the argument at all, because discrimination is discrimination and discrimination is always wrong. Telling a white man that he can't play in your Very Authentic Traditional Blues Band, or a black man that you don't want him in your Very Authentic Traditional Morris Dancing Side is no different from saying that he can't stay in your hotel, sit in the best seat on the bus, or vote in election.[*] Once you have conceded one kind of prejudice, however minor, you have conceded that prejudice is okay really. There are no grey areas. Never compromise: even in the face of antidistestablishmentarianism, never compromise.
As a matter of fact, I would probably agree with you, although I draw the line at mixed gender changing rooms. But I think that extended hypotheticals about the Red Headed League may have helped to clarify the point. No disrespect intended. No intention to trivialize important issues. I don't for one minute mean to imply that you really have been chucking feathers and lumps of lead around in a vacuum.
[*] It obviously makes a difference if you say that the only people who can stay in your hotel, sit in the best seats in the bus, or vote at elections are Morris Dancers, Bluesmen, or High Level Wizards.
I don't think that "having false beliefs about" and "hating" are necessarily the same thing.
Er. that's it, basically.
I mean, I could say some other things if I felt like it. I could arbitrarily decide that I was going to spend 2013 referring to Richard Dawkins as "Christophobic". I could speculate about whether the use of the same word to describe "having false beliefs about" and "hating" is inadvertent, or tactical or sometimes one or sometimes the other and sometimes both. I could play around a bit with with words like "antisemitic" and "islamophobic" and wonder if everyone who is bothered by (say) ladies wearing face masks is "islamophobic", and whether that means they are wrong, necessary But I don't think I will.
Having false beliefs and hatred are not necessarily the same thing. But sometimes they are. Really, that's it.
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Q: ListView Refresh is not working properly Edit: I've figured out why the texts are drawn as bold. Because OnDrawSubItem is called twice for the first column. Anyone knows why?

I have created a custom control inheriting from ListView class. I have overriden OnDrawSubItem and OnDrawItem methods as follows:
    protected override void OnDrawSubItem(DrawListViewSubItemEventArgs e)
    {
        Rectangle rowBounds = e.SubItem.Bounds;
        Rectangle labelBounds = e.Item.GetBounds(ItemBoundsPortion.Label);
        Rectangle bounds = new Rectangle(rowBounds.Left + 5, rowBounds.Top + 2, labelBounds.Width - 5, rowBounds.Height + 2);
        if (e.Item.Selected)
            e.Graphics.DrawString(e.SubItem.Text, Font, Brushes.White, bounds);
        else
            e.Graphics.DrawString(e.SubItem.Text, Font, Brushes.Black, bounds);

    }

    protected override void OnDrawItem(DrawListViewItemEventArgs e)
    {
        e.DrawBackground();
        if (e.Item.Selected)
        {
            Rectangle rowBounds = e.Bounds;
            Rectangle bounds = new Rectangle(0, rowBounds.Top, rowBounds.Width, rowBounds.Height);
            e.Graphics.FillRectangle(Brushes.Gray, bounds);
        }
    }

But something's not working properly. When I add some items to the ListView, the texts are a bit thick. The listview is placed into a tab. When I switch to another tab and go back to the tab with listview, texts seems well. So I tried to make this and tried to add listView.Refresh() at the end of item adding operation, but it didn't work:
//code 1
foreach(string s in new string[] { "item1", "item2", "item3", "item4", "item5" })
{
    listView.Items.Add(s);
}
listView.Refresh();

Output is:

I also tried to refresh at each iteration, and it was a bit better, but the last element was not refreshed:
//code 2
foreach(string s in new string[] { "item1", "item2", "item3", "item4", "item5" })
{
    listView.Items.Add(s);
    listView.Refresh();
}

Output:

When the tab is switched, all texts are how they should be.
My two questions here:

*

*Why are the texts rendered bad when they are added?

*What is the difference between code 1 and code 2? I thought they should've worked the same way.

Also, maybe it is worth mentioning that if I add a second column, the second column is rendered well.

A: Have you tried calling e.DrawBackground() before DrawString? That may get rid of the thick text.

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21 November, 1999 —
Production Season 2 was the second season of Futurama during the original run, following the first season. It consisted of 19 episodes.
Broadcast wise, most of its episodes, except the last three, were considered part of broadcast season 2. The last three was part of broadcast season 3, along with episodes from season 3.
Season 2 was also the first season to see irregularity in broadcast compared to the production order However, the only two times the broadcast order differed from the production order were simply two episodes switched..
Plot development
Unlike other seasons, season 2 has very little plot development. It uses facts established in season 1, but never gets beyond that.
The season does get a lot of facts across though, and introduces Farnsworth's "son", Cubert Farnsworth. Richard Nixon's head is also elected as the President of Earth; a plot point that is addressed in many future episodes.
Writing for season 2 began shortly after season 1 had begun airing,[1] David X. Cohen recall conceptuating parts of the plot of "The Problem with Popplers" on an aeroplane in August 1999.[1]
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I Second that Emotion 21 November, 1999 2ACV01 S02E05 14
Brannigan, Begin Again 28 November, 1999 2ACV02 S02E06 15
A Head in the Polls 12 December, 1999 2ACV03 S02E07 16
Xmas Story 19 December, 1999 2ACV04 S02E08 17
Why Must I Be a Crustacean in Love? 6 February, 2000 2ACV05 S02E09 18
The Lesser of Two Evils 20 February, 2000 2ACV06 S02E11 19
Put Your Head on My Shoulders 13 February, 2000 2ACV07 S02E10 20
Raging Bender 27 February, 2000 2ACV08 S02E12 21
A Bicyclops Built for Two 6 March, 2000 2ACV09 S02E13 22
A Clone of My Own 9 April, 2000 2ACV10 S02E15 23
How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back 2 April, 2000 2ACV11 S02E14 24
The Deep South 16 April, 2000 2ACV12 S02E16 25
Bender Gets Made 30 April, 2000 2ACV13 S02E17 26
Mother's Day 14 May, 2000 2ACV14 S02E19 27
The Problem with Popplers 7 May, 2000 2ACV15 S02E18 28
Anthology of Interest I 21 May, 2000 2ACV16 S02E20 29
War Is the H-Word 26 November, 2000 2ACV17 S03E02 30
The Honking 5 November, 2000 2ACV18 S03E01 31
The Cryonic Woman 3 December, 2000 2ACV19 S03E03 32
^ a b Cohen, David. Commentary for "The Problem with Popplers" on Volume Two, disc 4.
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MARGARET CANNON
Published October 14, 2018 Updated October 22, 2018
Title: Wild Fire
Author: Anne Cleeves
Macmillan, 398 pages, $25.99 (Paper)
Yes, it's true. This is the last Shetland novel by Anne Cleeves and fans are already hoping for a revival, reprieve or, at the very least, a continuation of Vera Stanhope. But Cleeves is smart to write fini to her wonderful series while the plots are still as good as crime fiction gets. No dwindling down of people or place for this mistress, Wild Fire is one of the best books in her long series. It's the perfect end for this complex character wedded to this past and this place.
The story begins with a wallop. There's the murder of a young girl, a local nanny, and it's particularly nasty. She was strangled and then hung in the barn owned by a family who are new to the area and unloved. They are outlanders, English, with talents that aren't appreciated by the residents of the small village they've settled in. It would be handy for the rumour-mongering villagers if the nanny had died at the family's hands. DI Perez isn't convinced but, as his boss, Willow, arrives from Inverness, there's more conflict. A once-promising relationship is blown apart.
There's far more to this story than any precis can support. If you haven't already discovered the Shetland series, don't start here. And for the fans, whatever your temptation (and it's great) don't skip to the end. Let it come as it should.
Title: Lethal White
Author: Robert Galbraith
Mulholland Books, 650 pages, $38
The first thing to be said about this doorstop of a book is that it is at least 250 pages too long. The second is that it's not the best of the Cormoran Strike series. That said, there is a good mystery buried in this bloated tome. If you can skim-read it, you'll enjoy it.
Galbraith (a.k.a. J.K. Rowling) builds her usual solid characters and we've grown to like Strike and his partner Robin Ellacott. The new story, which picks right up after last season's Career of Evil, has a young man asking Strike to investigate a crime he may have witnessed as a young child. The plot is described as "labyrinthine," which is a nice way of saying "all over the place." There is a mysterious cult hiding out in Parliament and hugger-mugger in a grand country house and endless red herrings and false leads.
Along with the muddy crime story, we have a backstory about Strike himself and there's the rather dull and equally muddy relationship between Robin and Strike. All this simply tells us that the J.K. Rowling factory which long ago went from cottage industry to megacorp has turned out another bestseller/film/television series with additional toys, games and trinkets. She's a solid writer and a helluva businesswoman, but this series needs a good editor with a sharp pencil and scissors.
Title: All The Hidden Truths
Author: Claire Askew
Hodder & Stoughton, 377 pages, $24.99
Few debut novels arrive already prize winners. All The Hidden Truths by Edinburgh poet Clare Askew is the exception. Her book won an award as a work in progress and it deserves every accolade. This psychological suspense story is one of the best books of the year.
It begins with a horrific act; the murder of 14 young people in college. After the senseless slaughter, there is a 15th body, the shooter himself. Who was he? Why did he do it? All the questions that instantly arise after one of these awful events. Three women are instantly captured by this event. One is the mother of a dead girl. The second is the mother of the shooter. The third is the policewoman whose job is to ultimately make some sense of the events. All three have intimate connections to the crime and all have secrets to protect.
Askew's forte is her slow-building suspense. How well do we know our children? How much do we really want to know about a dead child's life? Some secrets may be better left hidden. These and other questions emerge in this terrific novel with beautifully drawn characters and excellent plotting. Askew is a writer on the rise.
Title: The Other Wife
Author: Michael Robotham
Sphere, 385 pages, $24.99
As plots go, this one is hard to beat. Clinical psychologist Joe O'Loughlin, the investigator of Robotham's nine previous novels, has solved a lot of complex cases but none is more personal or more complex than the one he now faces. Joe's parents are one of those storied couples. He's a brilliant surgeon with a life full of plaudits. She was his backup, keeping the home going. They've been together 60 years and counting. Then the police summon Joe to the hospital where his father is in a coma. He has been viciously attacked; his wife is at his side. Joe arrives to a nightmare scene. His father is barely alive and the "wife" at his bedside, hysterical and bloodstained, is a woman Joe has never seen before. She certainly isn't his mother, Mary.
The police warn Joe to stay out of the investigation. He is, after all, not well himself (he has Parkinson's) and the case has obvious personal conflicts, but Joe can't rest until he uncovers the truth about his parents' lives and the investigation takes him into secrets and lies going back decades and involves the people he thinks he knows best. Robotham says this is the final O'Louglin book, if so, he's going out on a very very high note. If you haven't already discovered Robotham, don't read this one first. Start with The Suspect and work forward.
Title: Don't Eat Me
Author: Colin Cotterill
Soho, 304 pages, $33.95
I love this light but compelling series featuring Dr. Siri Paiboun, the elderly ex-coroner of Laos (once the only coroner in Laos). Cotterill (who lives in Thailand) has managed to keep wit and plot alive for 12 books and it seems that Dr. Siri still has some life to come.
This time out, Siri's mind is on art, not death. He has managed to acquire an expensive and slightly illegal camera. Who doesn't dream of making a movie? Siri, as we might expect, has no intentions of sticking with what he knows. His film will be an instant classic; a Laotian take on Tolstoy's War And Peace. The problem is script approval from the Ministry of Culture and, of course, Siri and his pal Civilai have to learn which crank turns the camera but that's a trifle.
Meanwhile, a body has turned up and the police come to Siri for help. The corpse is skeletal but not old and there are signs of something or someone gnawing. War And Peace will have to take a backseat to possible cannibalism. This is one of the best Dr. Siri's yet.
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I refer to the Divine Mother as what many may call, God. I feel this reference comes from my previous lifetimes in India. The yogis and rishis (sages) often call the supreme intelligent energy (Maha Shakti) as the Divine Mother as I explained in this book. Though there is also an aspect where the Divine feminine energy can be manifesting in a specific form in the tantric yogic tradition—in a certain Divine entity or deity.
You say at one point "The less resistance we have toward the events in our lives, the more we can accept the situations and process them—and the better we can detach and surrender to what is." Many people have a hard time surrendering the control they think they have. How were you able to accomplish this and what advice would you offer others?
Since you asked, I may make a few suggestions. Control is just an illusion. Any moment we may exhale our last breath. Can you control that? For a perfect self-realized siddha yogi… that could be possible. Though for most of the population is impossible. However it is easier for a humble, open, receptive and sensitive person to be in a state of surrendering and to detach. This kind of openness takes vulnerability, but most people put themselves in cages in order to attempt to protect themselves. Transcending the logic and mindset patterns is crucial. Don't believe everything your mind is trying to make you swallow. It is society garage's bin. The way of the heart is the magic for surrender. Also looking at the situation with a different perspective can be extremely beneficial. See…I looked at my cancer journey as a spiritual ascension. And it turned to be one! It is easier to surrender when one is devotional and madly in love with the Divine. To expand your horizons, let love overwhelm you and overflow from you by embracing all living beings, and also make sure you meditate regularly. It is important to remain humble and flexible in your approach, and to say a big yes to new opportunities even if they may appear minuscule. The fastest way to self-realize is to embrace all living beings as yourself and see God in you and in them. With time, deep meditation and sadhana you will realize we all are interconnected by the same Source.
In a state of "I don't know" you are keeping yourself open and receptive to experience, to grow by seeing things as they are with clarity. Jumping to conclusions, assumptions and judgments are detrimental for your being and for others. Being in a state of wonderment is to allow yourself to blossom. Be willing to set yourself free from your patterns, self-imposed limitations, and start looking at life with different perspectives. Though most importantly seeing things as they are. But, that takes awareness and mindfulness. That is much harder, but if you render yourself sensitive, open, receptive, humble and at ease, you will ride the wave.
So beautifully written Vivianne. Even for me, the Divine Feminine entered my life over the last 3 years. One in the form of Linga Bhairavi and another in the form of Amman, a form of Shakti worshipped in Tamil Nadu. It's so magical! I remained open to this dimension of life. I must have had many lives in India as well, including being born into an Indian body in the US in this life! I don't know! So eagerly awaiting your book! I hope you discuss ascension in your book!
Beautiful my sweet Devi….such pure words…..thank you for bringing them to our laps.
So humbled by your words….Namaste my dear Kiah. Much love, grace and blessings.


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This hotel is 100m from Furnas Lake and 14km from Fogo Beach.
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Kwanele is the 100th patient to enroll in Stage 2 of the STREAM clinical trial – the first large-scale, multi-country clinical trial to evaluate shorter treatment regimens for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB).
He enrolled in the trial after recognizing the night sweats and persistent cough he was having to be symptoms of TB, which he had been previously treated for in 2011. He is receiving treatment at the King Dinuzulu Hospital in Durban, South Africa. Durban is located in KwaZulu Natal, the South African province with the highest incidence of TB and HIV prevalence in the country, with over one-fourth the total burden.
STREAM Stage 2 is testing shortened regimens for MDR-TB, including a nine-month, all-oral treatment that eliminates the painful injections that can cause severe side effects. STREAM Stage 2 is the result of a unique collaboration between The Union, Vital Strategies, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and Janssen Research & Development, LLC., part of the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson.
Kwanele said: "I am very happy with the care I am getting.
Kwanele's family members have all screened negative for TB but he said he would encourage them to join the trial if it had been necessary.
Dr. Nosipho Ngubane, one of the doctors overseeing the trial at King Dinuzulu Hospital, said: "A shorter, more tolerable regimen for MDR-TB makes sense. If we want to eradicate MDR-TB we must decrease side effects of the treatment so patients can adhere. Most important is to find a way to safely give patients fewer – if any – injections, as the associated hearing loss and kidney failure often make treatment adherence impossible.
STREAM study team at King Dinuzulu Hospital in Durban, South Africa.
The shortened treatment regimens in Stage 2 incorporate the novel anti-TB medicine bedaquiline. STREAM Stage 2 is expected to be one of the largest MDR-TB trials ever conducted, with trial sites currently operating in South Africa, Ethiopia, and Mongolia, and additional sites in Asia, Eastern Europe and Africa expected. The outcome of the trial will provide important evidence to guide global treatment guidelines for MDR-TB.
The Union, Vital Strategies and key global partners including the Medical Research Counsel Clinical Trials Unit at University College London, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp and Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine are implementing the STREAM clinical trial in collaboration with trial sites around the world.


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The Pirate update with its two iterations to date, first rolled-out on 11th August 2012, with the second update being pushed live on 21st October 2014.
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