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knowledge reach final evaluation of its definite knowledge content, to make all scientific
knowledge reach ultimate foundation and completion. In this sense, all philosophy depends on
epistemology (Berghofer, 2019)." This study, which was phenomenological in the higher
abstract sense, and also therefore epistemological, worked to identify and construct a meaning
making and holistic understanding of participant worldviews as related their critical
consciousness and political efficacy. In order to do this, some narrative inquiry methods were
utilized in participant interviews. Narrative inquiry is epistemological in character, studying and
centering the lives of individuals (Cresswell, 2014).
The formation of the research questions examined and centered the lives of Black and
Latinx youth. In an effort to "the union in a particular person in a particular place and time of all
that the person has been and undergone in the past and in the past of the tradition which helped to
shape the person" (Connelly & Clandinin, 1987, pp. 131). Wertz (2011) distinguishes that it is
not the parts that are significant in human life, but how the parts are integrated to create a whole,
which is meaning. Key elements of this approach include living, telling, retelling, and reliving
(Clandinin, 2013) in which narrative participants tell their stories. Connelly and Clandinin (2000)
suggest that humans are storytelling organisms who, individually and collectively, lead storied
lives. Thus, the study of narrative is the study of the ways humans experience the world.
Allowing space for some narrative inquiry methods within the study enabled participants to
explore their critical consciousness and political development through the inclusion of stories
and reliving organically within the semi-structured interview protocol.
"Narrative inquiry shares with Marxism an explicit grounding in ontological
commitments as well as the goal of generating scholarship that transforms the ontological
conditions of living" (Clandinin & Rosiek, 2007). Wortham (2000) explored how people can
Title Subverting state violence through the art of hood politics: an exploratory study of Black and Latinx students' critical consciousness and political efficacy
Author Rodgers, Kenneth W., Jr.
Author email kwrodger@usc.edu;kenneth.rodgersjr@gmail.com
Degree Doctor of Education
Degree program Educational Leadership
School Rossier School of Education
Date submitted 2020-08-07
Date approved 2020-08-08
Restricted until 2020-08-08
Advisor (committee chair) Davis, Charles H.F., III
Advisor (committee member) Hancock Alfaro, Ange-Marie
Green, Alan
Abstract This qualitative study examines the experiences of Black and Latinx youth, the relationship between their critical consciousness development and political efficacy, and their continual subversion of state violence. The academic literature has predominately focused on critical consciousness solely as theorized by Freire and is often interpreted through neoliberal entities and paradigms, thereby minimizing its socialist, anti-colonial, anti-capitalist theoretical origin. The literature has also gauged political efficacy primarily through traditional metrics of civic engagement and voting that do not traditionally account for varying displays of organizing, activism, intentional non-voting, and other forms of resistance. The study investigated systems of power that converge to shape formal and informal educational experiences of the participants and capture the ways that they developed their critical consciousness and political attitudes, behaviors, and beliefs. As a result of 8 in-depth interviews and analyses of Black and Latinx youth (ages 17-19), snapshots emerged that allowed participants to foreground their experiences and construct meaning making of their worldviews. The findings of the study reveal the complex nature of critical consciousness development for Black and Latinx youth and serve as a model for utilizing critical consciousness and political efficacy as essential frameworks for future study and analyses. The findings add to the limited literature on the experiences of Black and Latinx youth concerning the system of education and its relation to critical consciousness development, political identity formation, and political efficacy. This study aimed to amplify the voices of Black and Latinx youth in a manner that acknowledges their humanity and agency.
Keyword politics; political; political efficacy; efficacy; resistance; protest; hood; subvert; subverting; subversion; resist; state violence; state; Black; Latinx; socialist; anti-capitalist; anti-Blackness; communism; Marxism; decolonial; decolonization; critical consciousness; racism; white supremacy; gender; patriarchy; religion; anti-colonial; anti-capitalist; Freire, Paulo Freire; Frantz Fanon; Fred Moten; Karl Marx; Saidiya Hartman; education; schools; youth; exploratory; intersectionality; Crenshaw; Kimberle Crenshaw; Collins; James Baldwin; Gloria Anzaldua; whiteness; civics; civic engagement; neoliberalism; democracy; social justice; domination; power; gender; curriculum; walk-out; sit-in; paradigm intersectionality; BlackCrit; critical race theory, Henry Giroux; Kendrick Lamar; Wardell Milam
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Full text SUBVERTING STATE VIOLENCE 52 knowledge reach final evaluation of its definite knowledge content, to make all scientific knowledge reach ultimate foundation and completion. In this sense, all philosophy depends on epistemology (Berghofer, 2019)." This study, which was phenomenological in the higher abstract sense, and also therefore epistemological, worked to identify and construct a meaning making and holistic understanding of participant worldviews as related their critical consciousness and political efficacy. In order to do this, some narrative inquiry methods were utilized in participant interviews. Narrative inquiry is epistemological in character, studying and centering the lives of individuals (Cresswell, 2014). The formation of the research questions examined and centered the lives of Black and Latinx youth. In an effort to "the union in a particular person in a particular place and time of all that the person has been and undergone in the past and in the past of the tradition which helped to shape the person" (Connelly & Clandinin, 1987, pp. 131). Wertz (2011) distinguishes that it is not the parts that are significant in human life, but how the parts are integrated to create a whole, which is meaning. Key elements of this approach include living, telling, retelling, and reliving (Clandinin, 2013) in which narrative participants tell their stories. Connelly and Clandinin (2000) suggest that humans are storytelling organisms who, individually and collectively, lead storied lives. Thus, the study of narrative is the study of the ways humans experience the world. Allowing space for some narrative inquiry methods within the study enabled participants to explore their critical consciousness and political development through the inclusion of stories and reliving organically within the semi-structured interview protocol. "Narrative inquiry shares with Marxism an explicit grounding in ontological commitments as well as the goal of generating scholarship that transforms the ontological conditions of living" (Clandinin & Rosiek, 2007). Wortham (2000) explored how people can
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NMA threatens to join doctors strike, gives FG 21-day ultimatum
FILE PHOTO: A photo illustration shows a stethoscope and blood-pressure machine. REUTERS/Regis Duvignau<br />
• Warns that no doctor should be victimised for participating in NARD strike
• Doctors can't be paid for not working – Ngige
• NARD vows to continue the strike, accuses FG of not waiting for Industrial Court's judgment
• Business boom in private hospitals as patients leave public facilities in drove
The health sector may be shut down next month, compounding the woes of Nigerians seeking healthcare as the umbrella body of all medical doctors in the country, Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), with over 44,000 practicings/registered members and other affiliates, including the Medical and Dental Consultants Association of Nigeria (MDCAN), threatens to join the ongoing resident doctors' strike, now in its 29th day.
Resident doctors under the aegis of the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD), with over 16,000 members, had on August 2, 2021, started a nationwide industrial action to demand implementation of agreements reached with the Federal Government on payment of owed salaries and arrears, hazard allowance, residency programme, payment of life insurance benefits to families of members that died of COVID-19 among others.
But President of NMA, Prof. Innocent Ujah, after the association's National Executive Council meeting in Benin City, Edo State, yesterday, told journalists in the event that the FG fails to implement the agreements after the expiration of its 21-day notice, NMA will be forced to declare a nationwide strike and join the resident doctors.
Ujah in a statement jointly signed by the Secretary-General, NMA, Dr. Philips Uche Ekpe, said the various industrial disputes involving the different affiliates of the association were exhaustively reviewed at the meeting and the association would not allow any doctor to be victimised for participating in the strike instituted by NARD.
This is coming as the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Saturday night confirmed additional 53 deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic, raising the nation's total fatality from the disease to 2,361. The new fatality figure, confirmation of the biting consequences of the third wave of the pandemic, ranks the highest daily fatality figure in more than a year.
Ujah said after due consideration, the National Executive Committee (NEC) put the Federal Government on the 21-day notice to fully resolve all the issues contained in the various agreements signed with affiliate members of the NMA including MDCAN, Medical and Dental Specialist Association in Basic Medical Sciences (MEDSABAMS) and NARD.
The statement read: "The NMA fully supports all her affiliates in their efforts to improve healthcare delivery in Nigeria and the welfare of her members. NEC affirms that no doctor shall be victimised for participating, or not participating in the strike by NARD. If the FG fails to implement the agreements after the expiration of the 21-day notice, NMA shall summon an Emergency Delegate Meeting to review the progress made on the implementation of the agreements."
Reacting to the NMA's position, yesterday, President, NARD, Dr. Uyilawa Okhuaihesuyi, said: "We are not surprised that the NMA is on our side now and may join the strike. NMA is our parent body and no father or mother will allow his or her children to be maltreated and dehumanised the way the Federal Government is treating us.
"They have started implementing the 'no work no pay policy even before the judgment of the National Industrial Court scheduled for September 15. The court was supposed to meet. They no longer pay us and that has made us angrier. We will wait. We will continue our strike."
HOWEVER, the Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige, has said it is illegal for doctors to expect to be paid when they aren't at their duty posts.
Speaking at the weekend when Sam Jaja, chairman of the Forum of Health Institutions in Nigeria (FCHIN), paid him a visit in Abuja, Ngige said he will not support the demand of the doctors because it is against the law.
"The doctors want Section 43 of the Trade Dispute Act not to apply to them, that we should insert in a government agreement that they should be paid for the period they are not at work. I am being careful about this," the minister said.
"This is the law and I will not lend myself to illegality, to state in the agreement that a group of Nigerians is above the law. But as a matter of fact, a clause in that agreement states clearly that nobody should be punished for participating or not participating in the strike.
"So what else do they want ? They want me to put in writing that they are above the law. That 'no work, no pay' policy should not apply to them, that the 'no work, no pay' is no more part of our law, despite the fact that I swore to uphold the Constitution?"
MEANWHILE, The Guardian investigations revealed that private hospitals are booming as most public hospitals are no longer admitting patients and have discharged those on admission because of the resident doctors' strike. It was also gathered that most surgeries have been postponed and those on the emergency list are fighting for their lives.
It was gathered that the cost of treatment at private hospitals is about five times what is obtained in a public facility and the cost may even go higher because of the pressure due to the strike. It was revealed that most private hospitals demand a deposit of at least N250,000 for any surgery on admission compared to less than N50,000 in public facilities.
Since the commencement of the strike, healthcare delivery in states and federal public health facilities remain epileptic with only consultants and corps doctors available in most facilities to cater to the health needs of the public.
NARD had commenced its nationwide strike after the three months it gave the Federal Government to implement the terms of the MoU it signed with the association in April had elapsed. Since the commencement of the strike, the National Assembly has made several attempts to intervene in the matter by holding meetings with the NARD leadership, but these meetings had produced no concrete result.
According to NARD Publicity Secretary, Dr Dotun Oshikoya, he accused the FG of being indifferent towards its demands, saying this had also frustrated the National Assembly, forcing it to "take off its hands" from the matter.
"The executive arm of the government is not doing anything to implement our demands, and the NASS can only be a mediator and make recommendations; they cannot do their work for them," Oshikoya said.
The FG had issued a circular directing all Chief Medical Directors (CMDs) and Medical Directors (MDs) of state and federal hospitals, to open a work register for doctors. This directive implies that doctors yet to return to work will not be paid August salary, even as NARD claimed that the government was owing to its members in some state and federal hospitals salaries spanning between three months and one year.
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Fondly known as the "Chitra Brahma", meaning the Brahma of movies, Puttanna Kanagal was born on 1st December 1933. Since he was from a poor family, he had to do odd jobs to earn money. The "publicity boy" job what he did got him closer to the film industry. He worked as an assistant director under B.R.Pantulu before becoming a director. He has been a role model to all the filmmakers and even today his words surround the industry. He insisted the movies be visually appealing than oral. This gave a new dimension to the films at that time. It is till date being followed and will be followed in the decades to come. He has given over thirty movies to Sandalwood in which a huge majority of the movies were blockbuster hits. We have here a list of top ten movies of his great contributions.
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CluesJ.I.M. Stewart
J.I.M. Stewart
A Talent to Deceive: An Appreciation of Agatha Christie
by Robert Barnard.
Collins, 203 pp., £7.95, April 1980, 0 00 216190 7Show More
The Agatha Christie Hour
by Agatha Christie.
Collins, 190 pp., £6.50, September 1982, 0 00 231331 6Show More
The Penguin Complete Sherlock Holmes
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Allen Lane, 1122 pp., £7.95, August 1981, 0 7139 1444 0Show More
The Quest for Sherlock Holmes
by Owen Dudley Edwards.
Mainstream, 380 pp., £12.50, November 1982, 0 906391 15 6Show More
The Unknown Conan Doyle: Essays on Photography
by John Michael Gibson and Richard Lancelyn Green.
Secker, 128 pp., £8.50, November 1982, 0 436 13302 4Show More
The Unknown Conan Doyle: Uncollected Stories
The Life and Crimes of Agatha Christie
by Charles Osborne.
In the opening chapter of A Study in Scarlet Dr Watson is introduced to Sherlock Holmes. Holmes says, 'How are you?' and adds: 'You have been in Afghanistan, I perceive.' Watson asks in astonishment: 'How on earth did you know that?' and Holmes, 'chuckling to himself', answers: 'Never mind.' In the following chapter the two men observe through a window 'a stalwart, plainly dressed individual' walking down the street with a letter in his hand. Watson says, 'I wonder what that fellow is looking for?' and Holmes says: 'You mean the retired sergeant of Marines.' In each instance Holmes details the observations and deductions leading to his conclusion, but he does so only after a more or less teasing delay. Watson, if a close observer, could have marked what was chiefly revealing in the Marine – notably, 'a great blue anchor tattooed on the back of the fellow's hand'. ('That smacked of the sea,' Holmes explains.) But we ourselves have not been allowed to note either this, or the military carriage, or the regulation side-whiskers, or 'some amount of self-importance and a certain air of command', or the manner in which the Marine held his head and swung his cane. As the Holmes saga developed, Conan Doyle came to see that it would be to the advantage of the stories that his readers should be afforded a clear glimpse of the clues as they turn up. But he sets no great emphasis on his. In the main, we simply follow Holmes around and admire in due season. There is no premium, such as there is in the developed detective story, on driving us to exclaim: 'I ought to have spotted that!'
Perhaps the most famous clue in the Holmes corpus is that afforded by the dog that did nothing in the night-time. But on the whole Holmes's clues are objects, particularly those that may be detected through a magnifying-glass: Holmes's glass is almost as famous as his deerstalker cap. Some of the clues, although solid, must be described as transparent too. There is often a largeness, as well as innocence, about these minutiae which corresponds to something in the personality of their creator and must be among the factors contributing to enduring popularity of Holmes's investigations.
In all such stories the clues, if they are to be acceptable, must not be recondite: the last reaction to be desired in the reader is an indignant 'But I didn't know that!' Thus a polymathic detective may prove a liability, and here Conan Doyle's initial conception of his hero was insufficiently considered. Holmes, it is true, is declared (absurdly) to be ignorant of Copernican astronomy, but he has a 'profound' knowledge of chemistry and has written a monograph discriminating the ashes of 140 varieties of tobacco. In A Study in Scarlet he knows that somebody has been smoking a Trichinopoly cigar, but since we have not read his monograph there is no possibility of our making the same identification and reasoning from it. Frequently Holmes has to explain to Watson the significance of matters which Watson, like ourselves, is not specialist enough to know anything about. Thus, in the same story, Holmes detects that a cab and not a private carriage has at one point been involved because of 'the narrow gauge of the wheels'. We are regularly and justly impressed by Holmes's powers of observation and inference. But there is no contest between ourselves and the detective, just as there seems to be none recorded between Holmes's prototype, Dr Joseph Bell, and his pupils in Edinburgh – or, indeed, between that Ur-Holmes, Voltaire's Zadig, and the authorities of Babylon in the mystery of the sacred horse of the king and the queen's respectable dog.
Clues, then, if they are to be fair, must fall within that area of common knowledge the validity of which a judge in court feels free to take into judicial notice: things so generally known to be true that evidence need not be led to validate them. So the writer becomes involved in questions of social tact, endeavouring to estimate the likely extent of his readers' acquirements. A great many people know that dentists commonly wear white jackets; a smaller but still substantial section of society has had the opportunity of observing that stewards on passenger aircraft are (or at one time were) similarly attired. Almost anybody of sufficient education to find the word 'haemophilia' even vaguely informative is aware that the blood of sufferers from the disease does not readily clot, and may even be able to recall, and grasp as relevant to the plot he is following, the fact that individuals descended from a particular European dynasty are, at least marginally, more likely to suffer from haemophilia than are the common run of us.
In the 95 years since the publication of A Study in Scarlet the detective story has developed a great deal, and notably in the ingeniously unobtrusive presentation of clues. The height of virtuosity here is achieved, I suppose, by the writer who gets such a clue into the title of a book, as does Agatha Christie in Why didn't they ask Evans? And it is Agatha Christie, too, who regularly contrives that just as the clue is dropped a distracting incident occurs. Here we are close to the art of the stage conjurer: a point well made by Robert Barnard in his concise and extremely acute book. Again, over this long period of time the clue tends steadily to refine and even attenuate itself in consonance with the enhanced acuity of readers. It is no longer at all likely to be the imprint of a boot in the clayey soil. It may be no more than a nuance of speech. And here again – rather surprisingly – Christie is supreme. Thus in what I take to be the most famous of detective novels, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Ackroyd's secretary hears his employer's voice coming from his study: 'the calls on my purse have been so frequent of late that I fear it is impossible for me to accede to your request.'
Poirot sees that nobody would talk like this – except into a dictaphone. This is perhaps a surprising feat on Poirot's part, since he is a Belgian refugee who consistently speaks a foreigner's stage English, and moreover is so linguistically uncertain that he has occasional difficulty with phrases imported from his own native French. But of course what Poirot spots is true, and, if we have not remarked the fact as we read, it is for a reason taking us straight to the heart of Christie's mystery. Her writing is so flat and cliché-ridden and undistinguished that we pay very little regard to it as we forge through the story; if those phrases of Ackroyd's are oddly stiff it is just a matter of his creator's regrettable insufficiency in this important department of literature. Than this, however, nothing could be further from the truth. Christie commands, whenever she has need of it, a linguistic medium of quite astonishing finesse and subtlety. Indeed, in her mature novels the entire business of clues, narrowly regarded, becomes of secondary importance. The craft of the writer is directed predominantly to leading us into false assumptions by means of this virtuosity.
There are readers who dislike the technique, and speak of red herrings. Conan Doyle, in the last years of his life, may have been among those saddened that anybody should have written so outrageously immoral a book as The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. Take its mere opening paragraph:
Mrs Ferrers died on the night of the 16th-17th September – a Thursday. I was sent for at eight o'clock on the morning of Friday the 17th. There was nothing to be done. She had been dead some hours.
Or, a little later:
The letter had been brought in at twenty minutes to nine. It was just on ten minutes to nine when I left him, the letter still unread. I hesitated with my hand on the door handle, looking back and wondering if there was anything I had left undone. I could think of nothing. With a shake of the head I passed out and closed the door behind me.
Was stuff equally wicked, equally audacious, ever penned? Is it surprising that, in the very year of the publication of Ackroyd, its author should have perpetrated an atrocious deceit involving the disappearance of her own person in an ostensibly amnesiac condition, so that hundreds of policemen and thousands of private individuals wasted a great deal of time going in search of her? The facts of that mysterious affair remain doubtful, and Mrs Christie may indeed have been very unwell. What is certain is that the chief delight of this in the main conventional upper-middle-class Englishwoman lay in foxing as many people as possible – and this eventually to the great content of millions. She is hard at work on the job in most of the 12 stories now brought together in The Agatha Christie Hour, all of which have lately been dramatised for television. Consider one of them, 'The Red Signal'. A 'famous alienist' called Sir Alington West ('the supreme authority on mental disease', our apparently heavy-handed writer adds), together with his nephew, Dermot West, and one other guest, attend a dinner-party given by Jack Trent and his wife, Claire. Jack has 'a good-humoured smile and a pleasant lazy laugh'. Claire is tense and uneasy, so that Dermot (who is in love with her) concludes that she is going mad, and that his uncle has been invited to the dinner by Jack in order covertly to diagnose her condition. Dermot goes home with his uncle, and they discuss the situation at considerable length. They then have a sudden, violent and not very plausible quarrel which is conveniently witnessed by a vastly stereotypic butler. Dermot goes on to a dance; returns at a late hour to his own flat; finds that a revolver has been planted among his handkerchiefs and hard upon this learns that his uncle has been murdered. And so on: it is all simple and absurd – but meanwhile we have been monstrously deceived. That long conversation between uncle and nephew has been so contrived as to conceal the fact that the interlocutors speak at cross-purposes throughout. A single 'he' or 'she' would give the game away, but no single 'he' or 'she' is uttered. It is the husband and not the wife who is going mad and has been under Sir Alington West's scrutiny at the dinner-party. And there has been a further authorial cunning. Between the party and the uncle-and-nephew dialogue we attend (somewhat inconsequently) a spiritualist seance at which everything said is suitably imbued with fogginess and ambiguity. After it, the dialogue comes to us as crystal-clear, which is exactly what it is not. Stratagems of this reach and subtlety, boldly projected upon preposterous plots, are the staple of Agatha Christie's writing. They take us a long way from Conan Doyle. Rereading The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, and marking the several places in which the truth of the matter is boldly – perhaps in a single word or phrase – all but revealed, we are afforded an entertainment largely absent from a rereading of the adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
Dorothy L. Sayers maintained that the essential rules for writing detective stories are laid down by Aristotle in the Poetics. Similarly, Ronald Knox held that, from prooimion to epilogos, such stories ought to be constructed on the model of Greek tragedy. There is something to be said for these learned thoughts. Aristotle declares that we, as children do, delight in imitation. If we reflect that every imitation is in some degree a deception, we must conclude that in deception, too, it is natural to delight: we enjoy being gulled. But curiosity, also, is native to us, and its gratification in the face of difficulty a triumph: there is thus satisfaction in an astounding anagnorisis. Agatha Christie's distinction lies in offering these allures in perfect balance. But they operate in a void. There is nothing else in the books. This was in the mind of Edmund Wilson when he wrote the formidable essay called 'Who cares who killed Roger Ackroyd?' We can say only that, within the limitations of her craft, Agatha Christie can, at need, write with a verbal adroitness far exceeding anything that has gone before her.
Undeniably, Holmes and his world are alive as Poirot and his world are not. Holmes has even entered the mythology of the folk, so that if in a pub a man is called 'a ruddy Sherlock Holmes' the expression is as generally understood as would be 'a bloody Shylock' or 'a regular Romeo'. But nobody has ever been called 'a peeping Poirot'. Why is this? Why is Baker Street as universally associated with Conan Doyle's hero as is Sherwood Forest with Robin Hood, or Greyfriars School with Billy Bunter? These are hard questions, and must be put aside in favour of the simple observation that in the bookshops, as the present batch of titles illustrates, Holmes and Poirot are neck and neck.
The Quest for Sherlock Holmes has an ingenious jacket in which the figure of Conan Doyle casts as its shadow his prime creation in silhouette. But the subtitle is 'A Biographical Study of Arthur Conan Doyle', and the book in fact represents massive research (or 'detection') covering its subject's life up to the publication of Micah Clarke, no more than a year after Holmes's first bow in A Study in Scarlet. We learn that Alfred Aloysius Watson was five years senior to Conan Doyle at Stonyhurst; that the eminent Sir Patrick Heron Watson was almost his contemporary in the Edinburgh Medical School; and that Sir Thomas Watson was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society some ten years before William Budd, Conan Doyle's partner in general practice as a young man. A Sherlock became Dean of St Paul's near the close of the 17th century; there was a Portsmouth cricketer named Sherlock; of a certain Patrick Sherlock, another contemporary of Conan Doyle's at Stonyhurst, it was declared by authority that he could 'hardly read'. As for Moriartys ... But to continue this catalogue would be unjust to Owen Dudley Edwards's book. Convinced (as he several times asserts) that Conan Doyle is a great writer, Mr Edwards has gone to work on an appropriate scale. The result is a full and in the main convincing portrait of the man, set against a broad background of the institutions and personalities significant for his early development.
Essays on Photography reprints contributions to the British Journal of Photography made by Conan Doyle between 1881 and 1885, and the editors express the hope that it will appeal to those 'with an interest ... in his famous creation, Sherlock Holmes'. There is not the slightest reason why it should do anything of the kind. Holmes himself, indeed, might have been interested in the piece called 'A Few Technical Hints', since we can well imagine such activities as emulsifying, boiling, washing, coating the plates, drying, and frilling going on in Baker Street. But that there are real 'nuggets' here for the dedicated Sherlockian (as the jacket assures us) appears to me to be a wholly perplexing claim. A few nuggets of a sort, however, are scattered among the 33 Uncollected Stories now brought together from the Boy's Own Paper and other magazine sources by the same editors. Thus at the opening of 'The Recollections of Captain Wilkie', an early story of uncertain date, the narrator describes himself as having 'had the advantage of studying under a Professor in Edinburgh' who was able 'to spot a man's trade or profession by a good look at his exterior'. The critical question raised by the collection, however, is whether the celebrity of Holmes has resulted in an unjust neglect of Conan Doyle's other fiction – which bulks larger in his total output and was more highly regarded by himself. I rather think not. The romantic stories about Brigadier Gerard still make lively reading, but elsewhere there is little that wears particularly well.
Charles Osborne's labours on behalf of Agatha Christie are almost as exhaustive as Mr Edwards's on behalf of Conan Doyle. Again there is a striking title. There is an even more striking dust-cover: this one a splendidly mysterious multi-coloured creation in a surrealist/romantic mode. There are 69 illustrations, in 29 of which Dame Agatha makes an appearance. Nearly eighty novels are discussed, and there is much about some 150 short stories, numerous plays and films, and even a volume of stories and poems on religious themes. This is essentially the kind of book that in scholarly circles is described as performing a service. No serious student of the life and works of Agatha Christie can afford to be without it, but perhaps for consultation rather than perusal. Mr Osborne makes a gallant attempt to give away no secrets, and thus, it seems to me, mistakenly confounds himself with mere reviewers. Systematically to conceal the core of a story is surely to hamstring effective critical discussion. About absurdities encountered in the course of his researches he is decorously poker-faced. Thus he reports unsmilingly that in an American journal with the impressive title of Discourse Agatha Christie's Endless Night is compared with Henry James's The Wings of the Dove. Who – we may murmur – cares who killed Milly Theale?
J.I.M. Stewart novelist and former reader in English Literature at Oxford, is the author of Eight Modern Writers and of books on Kipling, Conrad and Hardy.
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Q: 'Specified "type" attribute of "video/mp4" is not supported' with Video.js in Firefox I am receiving the following error (viewed via Firebug) within Firefox while trying to load a video with video.js
Specified "type" attribute of "video/mp4" is not supported
All candidate resources failed to load. Media load paused.
The issue is odd due to three reasons:

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*It's only popped up recently (and we haven't changed any server files)

*It appears inconsistently (around 1 in 4 page loads)

*If I click "continue" in Firebug to skip the breakpoint, the player loads as expected

What could be causing this issue? The fallback does occur (after clicking "continue") and the mp4 is loaded with the flash player fallback.

A: I too see that. It only occurs in Firefox, not in Chrome/IE. When load/play are called video.js renders the .mp4 into Flash and it proceeds without problems. My assumption is that those failures are informational - though I'd be happy to get rid of them.
There are many differences in operation of video.js in FF vs Chrome/IE (which are .mp4 capable based on different licensing history).  You can detect the differences with a
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reliably detects the FF user vs the others.
You might play with pre-defining what's coming for FF with:
myPlayer.src({ type: "video/mp4", src: pathToMySource })

I haven't explored that usage much yet, but one would hope it would help.

A: I'm 99% sure that this is a Firebug issue. All the testing I have done around it would suggest that it only occurs when Firebug is running - for example, I don't receive the error when running Firefox's built in inspector.

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Q: Still pin capture on Linux. Is this possible? A. I have a general understanding question about the "still pin" or "snapshot" functionality on some web cameras: how does this work ? It must be one of the following possibilities:

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*The camera is on and video is streaming to the host. When the snap button is pressed, a signal is sent to the host's camera driver (/dev/input/event0 on linux), the driver extracts a frame from the stream, and sends it up in the stack.

*The camera is on and video is streaming (or not) to the host. When the snap button is pressed, the on board firmware puts aside the current frame, and tells the host a new "still" is available.
B. I have 4 usb cameras attached on a R-Pi (single usb host). All cameras have a still pin. I don't care about the video, no need for streaming, I want to take 4 simultaneous photos. My idea is to trigger all 4 cams to capture a frame using the still pin. How can I capture those 4 images without streaming video (bandwidth issues) ?
Note: I have already experimented a lot and I am capable of capturing a frame from a video stream. My cameras are unknown brands but exposes "video capture" as device caps. When using AMCap on windows, the snap button triggers a snapshot.
Thanks for any help.


"What use is the flame, whilst the candle lies dead..."
I often marvel at the fact that there are people who still claim that people now are selfish, that people care mainly for themselves and don't care about the society or anyone outside their circles, themselves and their family being the centre of the care... I was just talking to my friends, and then some other people - I asked them one simple question: "Assume two people are marooned on an island, your friend being one of them, and the other being a stranger. Given that you can save only one between the two, whom would you choose to save?"
The question is quite straight forward, but the answers are quite mixed. Most of them, I don't know if it was because of their feelings that they were being judged or otherwise, told me that they would rather save the stranger, instead of their friend - And why? That's because they are selfless, that they put their own selfish desires behind them, and would choose to select the stranger... Some said they would save the stranger and come back to save this friend, or die with him/her. Well, I surely would not like to be this marooned friend. I don't know if these people are truly so selfless. So, I made it a little more interesting, and asked them - "What if one was your mother/father/sibling and other stranger?" This time the answers were pretty much different. Most of them chose to pick their family.
Always try to obtain win-win situations. Only in the worst case scenario should you choose to do the unthinkable.
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July in South Florida means a couple of different things, heat, humidity and Mangoes. Lots of Mangoes. This year is a bumper crop. I am philosophizing the rainy winter produced many flowers followed by many fruits.
Followed by many baskets of Mangoes, which I find irresistible.
These are Haden Mangoes, from my neighbor the chef, who I suspect just eats his mangoes. I ate some of them, but my husband is not a big fan of plain and won't eat them straight. So, I made a Mango Amaretto Cake. Not very pretty, but delicious. Last year my Mango effort included a Mango Rum Cake which I believe lasted longer due to its higher alcohol content. Something to consider if your household is not highly populated.
After a few servings of the Mango Amaretto cake, I decided to take a more savory adventure with Mango Salsa for grilled fish (Pacific Swordfish in this case). The salsa is made with mango, red bell peppers, sliced green onions, cilantro, lime juice and honey.
Great stuff, and I still had some leftover to have with my Blueberry Bread from my lasr fruit overload and vanilla yogurt.
Just when my Mango supply dwindled to this another basket was left on my front porch.
What to do? Bake some Mango Pecan Bread, of course.
I used the same recipe as my Blueberry Pecan Bread and it turned out fine. This is not particularly sweet for a quick fruit bread but the resinous quality of the mango shines through.
On to my next culinary adventure in mangoland. Another neighbor gave me some Speckled Perch, a local freshwater fish. So, here it is – pan sauteed Perch in lemon butter sauce with Mango Tomato Sauce served with Parmesan Herb Rice and Sauteed Mixed Veg.
Still have Mangoes. The only thing left to do is make granita. It can be eaten straight up, with vanilla ice cream, yogurt or vodka if you are feeling frisky.
The remains of the day and this is all I have left!
If Tabebuia is the harbinger of spring in South Florida, then The Royal Ponciana (or Flamboyant Tree) is the harbinger of summer and the rainy season. I prefer not to use the H word in regards to seasons.
I have heard people refer to these trees as Flamboyants, and I always have to stop and think about what that is for a minute. They are pretty flamboyant. I think the trees look as if they are covered in sprays of red orchids. Ponciana starts blooming in May and then continue into Summer the leaves seem to follow the flowers and are ferny, deep green and eventually cover the tree with a fine textured foliage providing shade for the sun weary Floridian. The floral display is followed by large pods like beans (this is a member of the bean family) In some Caribbean countries, Poncianas are called "Woman's Tongue" because the pods rattle in the wind.
A native of Madagascar and India these trees are planted the world over in the tropics for their fine floral display. Named for M. DePoinci, a governor of the French West Indies in the 1700's, the Ponciana is celebrated with a Fiesta and a Festival in Miami around the first week of June.
These trees lend a tropical flair to any landscape and eventually take on an umbrella form reminiscent of trees in the African savanna. There are numerous Poncianas in my area. Of course, most of the horticultural literature I have seen says they shouldn't grow here. Generally, I see 10B as the hardiness zone limit, I am pretty sure this is 10A – the coastal area of Martin County. Gardening friends in Vero Beach report Ponciana do not do as well there and I have heard that Ft. Pierce is their northern limit. The lady down the street who is a great gardener advised throwing all the books away and just giving things a try. A reasonable suggestion.
These trees should be placed in the sun and are not for the faint of heart. Fast growing and with the potential of attaining a size of 40 by 40 feet, they need some room to spread and also produce a deep shade that it is difficult to grow anything under. They are semi-deciduous; so if you are a Snowbird tired of raking leaves this tree is not for you. The pods also are pretty messy. I got in touch with my inner Southern Belle at Christmas by spray painting some Ponciana pods silver and using them as a front door decoration along with preserved Cabbage Palm fronds..
I had a Pygmy Date Palm installed last year in front of my house. This is a dwarf palm rarely exceeding 10 feet in height and it looks great in front of my bathroom window. I selected a triple trunk palm to accent the house and landscape because as the largest element in the foundation planting it needed some mass.
These palms are native to Southeast Asia and are common in South Florida. They actually do bear dates, but a male and female plant is required. I am perfectly happy without dates. Dates have always reminded me of roaches and I just don't like to eat them.
I let the palm grow for about a year before attempting to prune it. Pruning done right reveals a trunk that resembles neatly stacked rows of whole wheat crackers- I have heard these called Triscuit Trees. What is not mentioned is the enormous spines at the base of the palm fronds. The spines are up to two inches long. Somewhere in a jungle I think Pygmies used these for poison darts. Later in the week I was talking to a physician, these palms are well known to the medical community due to the thorns. Wounds from the thorns tend to fester and cause infection.
While getting into the holiday spirit I decided to wrap the trunks with miniature white lights. It would have been wise to drink some spirits and don opera length leather gloves before attempting this. As I was decorating I was skewered through the hand and the thorn hit a vein; I now have a 3 inch bruise on my hand that looks terrible. Then I got stabbed in the head and decided to stop for a moment and go in the house. It took a while to get the thorn out of my hand and the bleeding from my head wound staunched. Duly anointed with antibiotic ointment, I persevered and completed my light display, then waited for darkness.
The thing I can't come to terms with is the lack of Japanese Maples. When I first married, we lived in urban townhouse, there was a seedling Japanese Maple in a weasley back garden. Weasley is the operative word. This Maple had a spectacular fall color and when we moved to a bigger house I took a seedling with me. This Maple grew to 10 or 12 feet tall over a period of 17 years and is one of my all time favorite trees. The above Japanese Maples are from my former garden, a 'Best Red' and the Green is 'Ryusen'. When we moved to South Florida I decided to chance it and dug up a seedling and carted it down here only to find out it was a Red Maple!
Bah! Undeterred by my lack of Japanese Maple I decided to buy and prune into tree form a 'Raggedy Ann' Copperleaf. This is a burgundy and red tropical shrub with raggedy edged foliage kind of like a Dissectum Maple.
Raggedy Ann turns out to be uncooperative and less than graceful. The tree form pruning attempt produced an ungainly shrub 5 feet tall with 5 stems, with perhaps a width of 10 inches. However, the color is pretty good.
This is my husband's favorite tree; possibly the only tree he ever really focused on. The ornamental, exfoliating bark is the main feature of this tree. Native to the Phillipines and surrounding islands, it is sometimes called the Mindanao Gum tree. The tree provides most of the pulpwood for paper and is grown on plantations in the Phillipines.
We first ran across this tree and its spectacular bark on the road to Hana in Maui, Hawaii. Intrigued by the tree, I researched it and was interested to find that it can be grown in South Florida. The tree is not tolerant of frost and our average low is 40 degrees. It is sited in a protected area, but is getting pretty tall.
And grow it does. I bought this tree in November 2012 at a plant sale in West Palm Beach at Mounts Botanical Garden. It was run over with a Riding lawn mower shortly after being planted and smashed flat. This resulted in two scrapes down the entire length of the trunk. Eschewing arboricultural reason, I decided to try and save the tree rather than buy another one. I went to Home Depot and bought a tree staking kit, cleaned its wounds, took out the damaged bark and wrapped the trunk with tree wrap and staked the tree until it healed. A few months later the bark had calloused and the tree was off to the races.
Currently, nearly two years later and overwhelmingly robust I would estimate the tree is 30 feet tall. It doubled in size in one year (it was 5-6 feet tall when I bought it!) and has grown 18 feet in the past year. Now I am a little afraid.
The bark is currently not showing any purple or blue, but I believe it will. The new growth is red and it flowers in summer, not terribly exciting flowers, little white panicles – fortunately, no fruit thus far. The bark is the star of the show.
Happy Fourth from my garden in South Florida!
The red is a Miniata Bromeliad-Aechmea miniata, this bromeliad is reported to bloom at any time of the year, in my garden it blooms in summer. A reliable perennial south of Orlando, the backs of the leaves are grey mottled and shiny green on top. Foliage is not too sharp for a bromeliad and they seem to double in quantity every year.
The white is Bridal Bouquet Plumeria-Plumeria pudica. An evergreen Plumeria that is not fragrant but flowers on and off through the rainy season. The name is apt, it would make a nice bridal bouquet.
The blue is Plumbago – Plumbago auriculata. I think of this as the Mophead Hydrangea of the tropics. Reliable blue flowers primarily in the rainy season this is sort of a creeping shrub. And sort of indestructible, a good thing.
I hadn't considered a patriotic planting for the Fourth, but I got one.


Three days after Airbus warned it could leave the UK if it exits the EU without a transition deal, Baker McKenzie has released the sombre results of its survey of 800 business leaders in six key EU27 markets.
Almost half of the respondents said their company has already reduced investment in the UK since the Brexit vote. Meanwhile, 54% of EU27 business leaders believe they have not been substantively consulted on Brexit negotiations; 53% think their views are not well represented.
Additionally, more than three quarters see no upside to Brexit, rising to 97% in Ireland. Assuming Brexit happens, EU27 businesses support a free trade agreement with the UK over a customs union.
More than a third of respondents would like to see the UK punished under the terms of any future trade deal, but three quarters say the EU should also make concessions to the UK to secure a functioning trading relationship.
As part of the survey, Baker McKenzie interviewed 250 skilled workers from the EU currently working in the UK for companies that are either FTSE250 or have a revenue that exceeds £50m per annum.
The implications for the UK's pool of foreign talent are ominous: 70% of respondents said they feel more vulnerable to discrimination since the Brexit referendum, while 56% said they were likely or highly likely to leave the UK before the outcome of the Brexit negotiations is known. This is unsurprising since 69% of respondents believe Brexit uncertainty would affect their ability to secure a mortgage or other bank loan.
Baker McKenzie surveyed 800 respondents across six major EU27 markets: France, Germany, Spain, the Netherlands, Sweden and Ireland. The firm spoke to senior in-house counsel, heads of strategy and finance directors in four sectors: consumer goods and retail; financial services; industrial, manufacturing and transportation; and technology, media and telecommunications.
All respondents surveyed work at businesses with at least £250m or equivalent annual turnover, while 32% of respondents are from businesses with more than £1bn annual turnover.


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Grampa has been in the hospital for two weeks now, and the weeks before that were not pretty, nor very pleasant.
And we've weathered crushing waves and winds that might have laid us flat.
And then, one afternoon, the sun came out.
And a ritual that has always been a ritual – albeit a fun one, filled with excited hoping and planning and choosing – became an unexpected safe harbor.
This year, Gabe went to the prom for the first time.
It was complete with a proposal (known as a 'prom-posal') that saw him standing in front of his girlfriend's garage when she drove in from tennis practice. He stood in front of a huge sign, with the word 'Prom' (surrounded with question marks) drawn in three-foot high letters. He cradled a box of a dozen roses in his arms, with a big red ribbon tied around it.
Her Mom, a new friend and a pretty dang awesome human, was hiding behind a car to capture the moment in a series of photos.
Then came the choosing of the dress (hers), fitting of the tux (his), decisions on how to get to and from the event, and then – amazingly – the day was upon us.
I was at the hospital with Grampa in the morning, it was grey, outside and in.
But soon the fog burned off, the mist gone.
The sun had won the day, and warmed the wind and earth.
Proud parents gathered around beautiful young adults.
And smiles happened, along with hugs and laughter and excited chatter.
Bursts of color and light on swaying gowns, proud boys in black and white (and one powder-blue, and one traffic cone orange).
A custom-istical rite of passage that provided me with the perspective that, when it's storming in one place, the sun is shining brightly somewhere else. Sometimes all we have to do to see it is turn our heads, cast our gaze toward the light.
Then we get to marvel at the good stuff, even in the midst of the worst squalls.
It's never one or the other – all good or all bad.
Unless we choose to see life that way.
For flicking me on the head when I needed it, reminding me to pay attention, and stay present, once again.
And it turns out I got to keep that smile, all the way home.


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Q: Blank page for wp-admin after i uploaded the website from my localhost to the live server I recently moved the site from localhost to the live server. And when I try to access the wp-admin page I keep getting the blank page and no errors are shown although WP_DEBUG is true. And when I open the wp-login.php, I do get the log-in screen but not able to log in and get the following error:

ERROR: Cookies are blocked or not supported by your browser. You must enable cookies to use WordPress

I checked for the  white space after every <?php and before every ?>. I deleted all white spaces but got no success. Please help me out

A: Try this in your functions.php file:
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Reduced price! Nature abounds! This titled lot is located only a 10-minute drive on the paved beach road to Bocas Town on Isla Colon. This beautiful lot is perfect for building your tropical style house. It overlooks a small lake that also attracts wildlife that converge to drink. Heron, other birds and small caiman are there for your viewing. A creek runs behind the property. The neighborhood has several houses already built. The beach is a 5-minute walk from this lot. This is the best of lifestyles; beach, lake and creek! Come see and feel nature at her best, all while being close to town. Two lots are available: 1.4 acre for $140,000 and 3.25 acres for $250,000.


Will creeping fig adhere to vinyl fence?
Probably not very well. This is a very slick surface. Maybe you can tack in some chicken wire, or any other metal wire fencing. Wood would be best, but this might not be an option in this case.


Special District Risk Management Authority (SDRMA) held their 2019 Spring Education Day. GM Tim Shaw, Director Mary Harris, and Director John Ridilla was among the attendees. The Districts SDRMA members who attend the Education Day are eligible to earn credit incentive point which helps the District reduce their annual contribution amounts for both Property/Liability and Workers' Compensation Programs.


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Q: SQL FK constraint fails I have 2 tables, Office and User. I want to make relation OneToMany (1 office has many users).
But when i run this sql
ALTER TABLE izo_user ADD CONSTRAINT FK_DA8075CFFA0C224 FOREIGN KEY (office_id) REFERENCES izo_office (id)
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Chickasaw Ambulance Service Crisis: Supervisors agree to foot half the bill, other options undecided
Kellan Heavican Send an email June 3, 2019
New Hampton, Iowa – During discussions with the Chickasaw County Board of Supervisors Monday morning, members came to a consensus to fund only half of the request to fund an EMS service.
Last Thursday, the Chickasaw County Ambulance Council approved a two-year contract worth $165,000 the first year and $195,000 the second.
Chairman Jacob Hackman says the county doesn't have the money to fund the contract entirely themselves.
https://kchanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Crisis-1.mp3
They agreed to fund $82,500 and $97,500 in years one and two.
Discussions stalled several times over the funding mechanism with one option being donations.
Hackman and the supervisors discussed Mercy One New Hampton donating to the service but they aren't allowed to give money to a private service.
https://kchanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Crisis-.mp3
Hackman added they could potentially donate to the county.
Hospital CEO Aaron Flugum told North Iowa News he couldn't confirm if that's an option.
He says it's not economically feasible for the hospital to pick up the tab as a not-for-profit hospital who've received donations for other projects.
https://kchanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Crisis2.mp3
He added insurance reimbursements complicate the feasibility of starting a service he doesn't want to compete with.
The next step is for the CCAC to come up with the other half of the money whether that's by donations or by funds through city budgets, that answer is still unknown.
Aaron Flugum Jacob Hackman
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Ben Ketchum doesn't seem to be a very nice guy » « What is it with senior academics at prestigious universities?
What she couldn't say
Maybe if we all rise up and say it, it will get better.
Feminism, Gender, and Equality
Rawnaeris, Lulu Cthulhu says
*standing ovation*l
shadow says
^o^
She is showing more grace under fire than the MRA "people".
Vatican Black Ops, Latrina Lautus says
DAMN SKIPPY.
I have such a crush on Anita Sarkeesian. Intelligent, courageous, articulate. Just wow.
Seconding the standing ovation.
Everything about the Gamergate reaction is steeped in double standard and irony. There are memes and jokes going around gamers that mock the notion of privilege. They jokingly tell each other to check their privilege and even have a "privilege rating" like a credit score. They do this all the while not even realizing that it is precisely their privilege that allows them to light-heartedly mock a topic like that and move on with their daily lives at any moment they please.
Sort of related: NelC had posted a longer version of this event in the Lounge with a few other speakers presenting their topics (not all about gaming), but the other speakers were good too. Seems like a great gathering.
zmidponk says
What really gets me about the whole thing is that all that Anita Sarkeesian is saying is something that, as a gamer, is blindingly obvious to me – it's still the case that the majority of games, and virtually all of the mainstream, AAA titles, are aimed at what was the typical gamer around 15-20 years ago – a straight, white male in their late teens or early twenties. Gamers have diversified, games have largely failed to (there's the odd title here and there that dares to break the mold, plus some more in the indie scene, but most mainstream games are either clones, sequels or both of games that very much conform to the mold, and therefore follow suit). All that Anita is trying to suggest is that this is a problem that needs to be addressed, and highlight exactly what kind of things that need to be addressed to make games more diverse and inclusive – which is sorely needed, in an industry where it isn't terribly long ago that the developers of 'Remember Me' were told by several major publishers that they were never going to get their game published because they made the main character a woman without making her either a damsel in distress or a sex bomb.
CaitieCat, Harridan of Social Justice says
Sarkeesian is awesome, hands down. She's Germaine Greer for the Millennial generation, without the transphobia. And since I've complained about it before on these threads, I should report that Rockstar fixed several of my complaints about sexism in GTA in the latest update: unsexy clothes are now available for women characters, including proper combat boots (not porn combat boots), and basically men's suits, all rumpled and shit.
Now, about those sex workers…
You could really see how it taxes her, how it takes its toll on her. But she keeps going. She has shown more bravery, courage, strength and dedication that the whiny MRA crybabies will ever know.
Eamon Knight says
zmidponk@5: ….they were never going to get their game published because they made the main character a woman without making her either a damsel in distress or a sex bomb.
Since I play a game about once per decade, I have no idea who you're referring to. But I think the first "video" game (as in: had actual graphics instead of just text-and-command-line) my spouse and I played was King's Quest IV: The Perils of Rosella. The title character was neither a damsel in distress nor a sex-bomb (for which the graphics weren't good enough back then, anyway). As far I know, the game did alright commercially. Which means those publishers have been wrong since 1988.
Seven of Mine: Shrieking Feminist Harpy says
Eamon Knight @ 8
Which means those publishers have been wrong since 1988.
That's one of the most hilariously absurd things about gamergate. Games that break the mold often do really well. The Last of Us features a strong female lead: hugely popular game. The Dark Souls/Demon Souls games are very gender neutral and pretty devoid of overtly sexualized characters and are still hugely popular. More of these kinds of games is really all anyone is asking for. GG douchebros are literally pitching a fit about people advocating for something they already support.
Xaivius says
Wow. This is some powerful stuff! I really hope that Anita can continue her work with this subject. As far as I can tell, she's having a HUGELY positive impact on how developers (ESPECIALLY indie developers) view and work with women as characters in games. Here's hoping we finally see that sequel to Mirror's edge and possibly a new (non-team ninja, because fuck those idiots) Metroid game!
Eamon Knight @8
Most AAA (high budget, supposedly 'high quality') studios consider strong or prominent women as main characters anathema, mostly due to a recurring cycle of "Men won't play female characters, so we won't advertise it." resulting in lower/poor sales, then following up with "See? No sales, no female characters that aren't eye candy" which is complete and total equine feces. This is VERY SLOWLY changing, with a few notable examples being Lara Croft being a much more positively portrayed character in the new 2013 reboot, and notably Lightning from the Final Fantasy 13 trilogy (although this is somewhat spoiled by a specific producer being a creepy shithead about her) who is the only female lead in a mainstream FF game (Terra and Celes from FF6 were excellent characters with development and wonderful stories, but were also part of a large, 16 character ensemble cast, so there was less focus. Still, VERY good game!)
FF6 sidenote: I am still amused that Celes, a soldier, is rescued by a male character (Locke), only for him find out almost immediately thereafter that the only reason she needed 'rescuing' was that she had mostly accepted her fate to be executed as a traitor. Once she's spurred to action, she is, both story and gameplay-wise, one of the strongest and most well developed characters in the game!
There are a few exceptions, such as Mass Effect, which did quite well. The studios take note. Also, the studio execs are taking note of Gamergaters – Blizzard's CEO, in his opening keynote at Blizzcon 2014, specifically called out abusers, stalkers, and misogynists as unwelcome and on one of the development panels there was some backpatting over the fact that a lot of WoW, which is an insanely popular game, has a large female player-base (including all my raid team except me!) and has always tried to have options where your avatars are extremely customizable in clothing and weapons and significance in the game. The big studios are catching on.
It has to be painful for Sarkeesian but she's hitting exactly the right note at exactly a critical time, and it's being heard.
idahogie says
I totally understand why comments are disabled on that YouTube video. But dammit — right now I want to cheer Anita and battle the idiots who harass her.
I agree that WoW is more diverse than you might think, and that when I was playing actively my guild was men and women, and our best tank was a woman. But at the same time there was a lot of abuse outside my circle of friends. One of the reasons (besides the fact it was getting repetitive) I gave it up is that casual groups were kind of intolerable — I was on the Proudmoore server, which had a reputation for hosting several large and active gay groups, and I had a personal policy of instantly dropping any group that used terms like "fag" or indulged in locker room sexism. No explanation, just boom, I was gone.
And that happened a lot. They'd see "Proudmoore" in your server name, and they'd assume you were gay.
It got exasperating fast that I couldn't count on finishing anything that required a group, unless it was guildies, and the guild I was in was small and casual.
I'll also mention that WoW armors looked completely different if they were on a male vs. female character, and women had to put up with a lot of chainmail bikini crap. But there was also that whole transmog business, where you could change the appearance of any item to resemble any other similar item, that helped a lot.
King's Quest IV: The Perils of Rosella. The title character was neither a damsel in distress nor a sex-bomb
King's quest was written by Roberta Williams, one of the co-founders of Sierra Entertainment – one of the great game studios of the 80s and early 90s. They brought us Leisure Suit Larry, Gabriel Knight, King's Quest, The Incredible Machine, and Homeworld. Sierra was very proactive in hiring women throughout the company, in positions of responsibility at all levels, and a lot of the great games were authored by women (Homeworld, for example, which is an enduring classic)
One of the sad things the gamergaters don't understand is that there has always been a revolving door between game criticism and authorship. Many producers have been reviewers and many reviewers have been producers. The woman who wrote Homeworld, I believe, was a game critic for years before she took the helm of that masterpiece.
Sierra and the many women who worked there have an enduring legacy of influence through the industry, and consistently produced well-regarded games. There are other studios that did a good job of producing excellent games that were not chock full of lame gender stereotypes, e.g.: Lucas Arts (Grim Fandango, Curse of Monkey Island, X-wing. The Tentacle, etc)
Meanwhile, there's the whole Nintendo stack of games which are great family fun and lack … crap.
As a life-long gamer my impression is that when games started to be a big deal when the Playstation, Dreamcast, Xbox N64 started to be big "things" and before then there were always a few crap games (Tomb Raider and Duke Nukem I am looking at you!) which tried to make up with sex and misogyny what they lacked in marketability because of quality) That trickle became a flood because as there were more and more game titles and publishers, there was more opportunity to appeal to a specific stereotyped market, and some bottom-feeder studios went that way. Some of those games evolved to be great successes but most of them were pretty .. meh.
Anyhow, I just want to point out that there have been great games for a long time and the ones that are widely recognized as masterpieces seldom have the kind of outright misogyny (GTA is an exception) the bottom-feeders gravitate toward.
I'm not saying there's no problem!! There's a problem and doing something about it is exactly what should be happening, and Sarkeesian (I am am backer!) is great.
Alverant says
Once again Sarkeesian says what needs to be said. I hate what's happened to her. I hate how she feels she can't use humor because she'll get quote mined by those eager to tear her down. I've been interested in video games and the process behind them for years even though I don't play many games (used to play City of Heroes, the end of that MMO pretty much killed my interest in playing games .. it was a very slow death).
I had a personal policy of instantly dropping any group that used terms like "fag" or indulged in locker room sexism. No explanation, just boom, I was gone.
I saw that occasionally. I got "misogyny, racism, and homophobia" added to my raid guild's list of bootable offenses.
Since I was a tank, I usually said something before I left if I was in LFR. This usually had a tremendous effect: we'd be part way through some boss raid and if someone made an inappropriate remark I'd say "It's against my rules to raid with people who say things like that, so … enjoy the wipe and good luck finding another tank." Then I'd leave instance.
I was DPS. I had no such clout.
Rowan vet-tech says
"Fortunately" most of the LFR groups I've been in have either been entirely silent, mocking the hunters (of which I am one), or most lately lamenting about the sheer number of those stupid runes we have to collect for the legendary quest line. I wish my work schedule allowed me to join an actual raiding guild again, but alas.
As a hunter, if someone not-a-tank says something offensive, I do have the option of revenge usage of the Misdirect ability. "Ooops, just sent all my agro onto that mage. Oh dear." I haven't done it yet, but I've been sorely tempted in the past.
John Pieret says
I have never having been a gamer or attracted to it (OK, I'm an old fart), but having watched a couple of Anita Sarkeesian's videos, it seemed to me what she was saying was obvious: "Hey, pimply faced kid (whether you've gotten older or not), here's a reality check … you are not actually shtupping those deformed, top-heavy, scantily dressed creatures some cynical game designer is parading in front of you to keep you playing the game. There are real women out there, who, if you treated them like human beings, might actually be willing to shtup you and show you a lot more pleasure than you can get from a computer screen and a tissue."
That Sarkeesian can stand up to such abuse with courage and grace under pressure makes her much more attractive to any "real man" than any bundle of pixels.
Another nod to Blizzard: At Pax East this past weekend, they announced a couple new characters for their upcoming FPS Overwatch. One was called Zarya and her backstory is that she's a body builder who abandoned her dream to fight for her country. So, she's not only female but also broad and muscular and not sexualized. The dev giving the presentation specifically mentioned Blizzard trying to listen to people advocating for more diversity in games, including body type. Also, roughly half the roster of characters is already female, not all of whom are white and most of whom are more reasonably costumed than usual.
M'thew says
GG douchebros are literally pitching a fit about people advocating for something they already support.
That reminds me of some other people who very loudly complain about something.
Gregory Greenwood says
It is utterly disgusting that our society still accepts and even encourages the kind of misogyny Anita Sarkeesian describes here. In this instance and in many others, she has spoken with great intelligence, courage and eloquence – the comparison between her and her MRA gamergate critics is stark indeed.
RickR says
The Last of Us features a strong female lead: hugely popular game.
And what a dazzling game it is!
I'm not a gamer myself. I work in movie visual effects, but I became aware of the game through seeing the amazing concept art and design work that was generated by the development team. I was always curious how the art was implemented in the game itself. So I decided to check out a few of the walkthroughs on youtube.
Check out? I wound up watching an entire 15 hour session of someone else playing a video game. It was riveting, beautiful to look at, and full of emotional and moral complexity.
*Spoiler*
The first time you first switch from playing Joel to playing Ellie is one of the most "emotional gut punch" moments I've encountered in any recent entertainment.
ScarletRevenant says
@Seven of Mine #9
I loved Dark Souls far more than I expected to, and I quite liked that the armor was essentially the same when playing as female character vs male. Sieglinde of Catarina stands out as a cool NPC trying to look after her adventurous father (with their distinctive curvy armor). I thought there were a few WTF moments in there too, like some of the dialogue around the (princess?) who gets stuck in the Tomb of the Giants. The biggest one for me was the Quelaag reveal. Cinematic plays, revealing a giant spider monster, camera slowly pans up the length of a conventionally attractive naked female torso coming out of the spider monster, nipples covered by a few strands of hair, and stops and goes back to gameplay before showing her eyes or even her nose. The face was there on the gameplay model, but they couldn't show it in the cinematic?? And the Goddess in Anor Londo with the beach balls on her chest lounging simply lounging was another shining example. Overall I just find it irritating that even in a game that did so much right there is still obvious wrongs.
Zimmerle says
I hate how she's become the boogeywoman of the MRA bastards. Everytime I see a discussion on feminism + gaming some jackass trots out "Anita Sarkeesian" like it's a curse.
I hope she shines and keeps on shining bright.