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Why does drama always end up sneering at religion?
Religion is appealing to dramatists: witness Hand to God, a surprise hit on Broadway that has now transferred to the Vaudeville Theatre. But will theatre ever take religion seriously?
Act of faith: Sybil Thorndike as Saint Joan, c.1924, in George Bernard Shaw's 'Saint Joan'
Religion remains a surprisingly popular subject for plays. It's partly because there's already a core of theatricality there, in the rituals, the dressing-up and the little shibboleths of piety. In one way or another, religion involves performing. And religion plays the role of Hogwarts in Harry Potter — an enclosed world, a game with rules. We know how a priest is meant to behave, so we can more quickly engage with a story about his or her struggles. Also, of course, big issues of moral principle and human frailty are close to the surface.
But does theatre treat this subject with respect? Or does it tend to sneer at religion, to reinforce a largely secular audience's prejudices? In our culture, mockery is pretty likely to outweigh respect: witness all the second-rate stand-ups who unite the crowd with some religion-knocking. So maybe religion is a victim of its dramaticism: it's a favoured subject that is likely to receive a bit of a bashing.
My musings were sparked by a play called Hand to God: it was a surprise hit on Broadway and now it's at London's Vaudeville Theatre. It's set in a little Texan church at which there's a 'puppet ministry': in the first scene a woman and some teenagers are making sock puppets, with which to instruct and delight the congregation. Things get out of hand, so to speak, when one of the teens, the woman's son, begins to express his psychological issues through his puppet. He is goaded by his puppet for being a mummy's boy. It's his bad angel, his knitted Nietzsche, telling him to be strong, to defy his mother, to emulate his sexually confident friend. It takes over, possesses him, in scenes that are mainly farcical — and then, with a grating gear-change, suddenly disturbing.
I was probably expecting too much of the play. It does not delve deep into religious psychology. Rather, it milks its setting for some rather cheap laughs, including a clichéd puppet sex scene (sex, even between puppets, is where our culture is most timidly conformist). And it's no big surprise that the play is a bit sneery about religion: laughing at redneck faith is a safe crowd-tickler in New York.
The playwright, Robert Askins, was involved in a puppet ministry himself as a teenager, in a small town near Houston, Texas (they're a common feature of Bible- belt churches, apparently). On a Skype call, I ask what he now thinks of his boyhood church, and church in general. 'Church was a place where we found meaning, and community, and song and theatre. So because it gave so much, even as it took, I'm still very conflicted about it.' He lost his faith while at a Baptist college, and went through an angry atheist phase. Was he still an angry atheist when he wrote this play? 'Um, I think the treatment of the pastor is nice.' (That's putting it a bit strong: he is a wet prat.) 'The play is saying maybe someday we won't need these things any more, we won't need the old symbols, but at the moment it seems we still do.'
These days, this attitude passes for 'balanced': religion is a strange neurotic relic that we can't easily shake off, much as we'd like to. If a vicar is presented as a non-
paedophile, then the playwright feels he has been pretty generous. For a decade or two, religion-mocking musicals have become part of the cultural landscape. First came Jerry Springer: The Opera, which provoked protests from Christians. Then The Book of Mormon turned that sort of sassy irreverence into slick Broadway success. On the other hand, there are also recent plays that might not exactly be pro-religion, but that do engage with religion with real verve, and show faith to be a serious thing.
I ask Patrick Marmion, theatre reviewer, playwright and a Roman Catholic, what he thinks. There is a general climate of sneering, he says, but also some lively exceptions to the rule. He points to The Christians, a play by Lucas Hnath that showed at the Gate last year. 'It was about the sort of people we are normally invited to sneer at — ordinary worshippers at a Bible-belt church, and it asked us to take them seriously, it showed them wrestling with big theological issues.' And yet it's difficult to generalise, he goes on, because some plays are critical of religion, but actually more nuanced than you'd think. 'I think some writers who're technically atheist end up paying homage of a sort to religion when they get stuck in to the material. For example, the comedian Stewart Lee did a one-man show about Jesus and Judas a few years ago: it was poking fun at religion on one level, but on another level it was respectful and thoughtful.'
Lindsay Meader is a chaplain to the West End theatres. She strongly feels that the glass is half full, that even plays that criticise religion tend to be nuanced. 'I've hardly ever seen a play that was simply having a go at religion, saying it's all rubbish. Instead, most are debunking some aspect of religion that deserves to be debunked. In fact, I didn't even find The Book of Mormon too sneery, I thought it contained a valid warning against over-literal interpretations of scripture.' Many plays, she says, bring out the human side of religion. She cites Doubt, John Patrick Shanley's play in which a priest and nun (Meryl Streep in the film version) clash over a child-abuse allegation, and The Testament of Mary (Fiona Shaw's recent dramatisation of Colm Tóibín's novella), and Temple, last year's exploration, by Steve Waters, of the Occupy protest at St Paul's cathedral, which she found 'deeply moving' (Simon Russell Beale was an uncannily convincing Bishop of London, she adds). These plays show religion from a human perspective, she says, and it comes off pretty well. And some plays are about religious hypocrisy —she cites A Wolf in Snakeskin Shoes, Marcus Gardley's rewrite of Molière's Tartuffe, at the Tricycle last year. But it's pretty clear that it's a venal abuse of religion that's being attacked here, she says, not religion itself.
I take her point: beneath the surface chatter of mocking and sneering, dramatists often honour religion as a site of earnest human striving. But to my mind it's a very rare play that actually tries to convey what religious faith is like. That's a different matter from showing how religious believers tackle moral issues, or how they balance principle and pragmatism. Maybe Shaw's Saint Joan is a model, for it's her faith that drives things, that makes her larger than life. And John Osborne's Luther was an attempt in the same direction. And there are plenty of examples of this in Shakespeare: faithy types like Cordelia, Hamlet, Edgar, Isabella. Part of the reason that Shakespeare feels close to the texture of faith is the soliloquies. For internal dialogue is very basic to Christian faith, in my understanding of it. There is a tension between the part of one that gladly believes it all, and one's inner Dawkins, which finds it incredible. That's why I found Hand to God a disappointment: it has the perfect opportunity to explore this idea of faith as an internal argument, but prefers to farce around. Which means that we are still waiting for a serious religious play about a sock puppet.
Hand to God is at the Vaudeville Theatre until 11 June.
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Stupid Atheist
Why aren't the cults of human sacrifice afforded the level of respect they deserve?
I'd argue that they ARE…
Craig Payne
In fact, Planned Parenthood is governmentally funded.
Anybody dragging their kids to the altar of an aborted fetus to eat its flesh, drink its blood, and worship it?
I'll go on the record as being disrespectful of that as well…
In Catholic theology, the outward appearances of bread and wine retain their characteristics, so eating of the bread and wine does not constitute any sort of cannibalism. You probably already knew that, but I wanted to be sure to help your condescension to be well founded and not, you know, "Stupid."
By the way, if people do start eating aborted fetuses, will you be anti that "choice"?
One of us is unaware of two things: The first being transubstantiation, and the second being that not ever apostate is a proponent of abortion on demand…
As for abortion, I merely asked a question. I asked if you would be against the choice of eating fetuses. From your response, I assume that the answer is yes. With that I would agree.
As for transubstantiation, if you think that transubstantiation is equivalent to cannibalism, you need to double-check your theology. As I said, the outward appearances retain their characteristics, so no cannibalism is involved.
I also think you should change your posting name. Why call yourself stupid? (A serious question, not a sneer of any sort.)
No offense taken. I get it all the time. Here's the answer:
http://www.stupidatheist.com/about/
The Catholics insist that the Eucharist literally transforms into the body and blood of Yahweh Jr., ergo cannibalism…
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No, religion is not sneered at, Christianity is sneered at. None of the plays mentioned would ever apply the same disrespect against the 'religion of peace'.
Hybird
Indeed. Nobody dares to upset the followers of the 7th Century's very own Charles Manson for fear of ending up like Theo Van Gogh. Nobody dares to even politely ask any of our IsIamic politicians, celebrities or athletes anything whatsoever about their frankly appalling beliefs. Contrast that with the grilling a Christian politician like Tim Farron got about his opposition to gay marriage. I mean, he obviously doesn't believe gays and apostates from Christianity should be killed or that women can be beaten – but what about Sadiq Khan, Mo Farah and Nadija Hussain? Do they agree with Allah's or Mohammad's instructions? I for one would like to know – especially in the case of Khan as he looks set to become mayor of our capital city.
Could you imagine what would happen if he was asked what he thinks should happen to gays or apostates ! if he agreed with the islamic view, then he should be arrested ( or at least questioned by the police) if he went against the islamic view he would get death threats and how many muslims would vote for him ? it would change the whole way islam is treated by the MSM, thats why it will never happen.
greencoat
You are correct. It is part of the massive edifice of dishonesty and hypocrisy that out body politic has come to rest upon.
One longs for it to teeter and fall with a crash that will be heard in the Heavens.
Dominic Stockford
Surely, given what we know of him, were he to be asked he would accuse the questioner of racism?
Germainecousin
Spread the word about a fine novelist from West Cork in Ireland who has managed to write a book about a priest that is neither sycophantic nor sneering. The Rural Gentleman by Delia Maguire, balm for the soul in these cynical and quite bitter times.
I read the Rural Gentleman and loved the book and thought it was a wonderful story and beautifully written but I don't know if I agree that with you. I thought the nature of the priest in the book, and the multiple levels that he's operating from displayed a bit of rancour against the Church. I'm not saying it doesn't deserve it but he's not a totally spotless character by any means.
In fairness and with all due respect i think you may be a little narrow minded on how you regard Father Barnabas Salmon. for example most people regarded Don Camillo as a lovable priest but that does not mean they thought it perfectly acceptable for a priest to box the mayors ears( even if he was a communist), I think Maguire in 'The Rural Gentleman' presents if not a realistic priest a truly human one. i wish i could meet him
Yes, but a role model shouldn't exhibit traits like dishonesty. I understand that the character doesn't have to be spotless but *spoiler alert?* I would state that what he does is not above board.
I repeat, I think you are being narrow minded. No doubt as the poster states, some people may have objected to the physical force used by Don Camillo but the majority took it as part and parcel of a rollicking good read. The same goes for Salmon in the Rural Gentleman, yes, he does a dubious thing but the intentions and outcome are positive.
A show of physical force in a time when such things were common is different to a religious man practicing deceit.
I don't know that I could have just let that go, knowing that this caring, loving shepherd had been lying to me.
The priest in this book does not present himself as 'totally spotless' He is a man with a specific human mission and I think he operates a means to an end agenda for one particular occasion. I think literature lacks 'holy' people who are realistic, they are either too saintly or total bad eggs, this character breaks the mould.
Or Judaism.
First, I agree with the commentators that the usual gutless double standard applies here with the "religion of peace".
That aside, what respect does religion deserve? None: http://www.butterfliesandwheels.org/2008/religion-is-owed-no-respect/
avi15
In my experience, religion is easily sneered at by people who haven't been shot at, tortured in some way or seen animals or people die in abject misery. There are some exceptions, however: these seem to be individuals who are either very obtuse and/or extremely crass, who may – I have sometimes wondered – be somewhere on the psychopathy continuum.
carl jacobs
Religion is perfectly acceptable to the (post) modern world as long as it can be kept within a safe anthropocentric box. It's not threatening as long as it's about human "striving" and "wrestling" with big moral issues. In this formulation, religion becomes one of many different abstract vehicles that carry what are otherwise fundamentally human activities. But once let it escape the box, and make claims of authority …
"Who is this 'god' who presumes to rule over me? I am the god of my own life!"
Man is a very jealous god indeed. At least as long as he is fed, and clothed and comfortable. To paraphrase the Apostle: Not many rich. Not many wise. Not many famous.
pobjoy
Sub-editing corrected.
False religion remains a surprisingly popular subject for plays. It's partly because there's already a core of theatricality there, in the rituals, the dressing-up and the little shibboleths of piety. In one way or another, false religion involves performing. And false religion plays the role of Hogwarts in Harry Potter — an enclosed world, a game with rules.
Like a monastery.
Yes, it is surprising.
Ritual superstition should be mocked regularly.
Bonkim
All religions are superstitions.
Especially scientism: a faith that claims that only scientific empiricism counts as truth, but provides no empirical evidence for this claim.
Tickertapeguy
From Karl Marx to Secularists it is Christianity that is mocked. Not Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Sikhism, Jainism, Shintoism, Buddhism, but Christianity. None actually say the word "Christianity' and use the general term "religion" but the birth of modern Atheism took place in Europe. The target was Christianity and not all faiths.
Eventually this concept now applies to any faith… except that of Communism and Atheism.
"From Karl Marx to Secularists it is Christianity that is mocked" – if you had a more open mind, Bernie, you would know that every religion has been mocked. By its own followers too. As a Sri Lankan immigrant in the US (admittedly Catholic), you should know that Buddhism had its doubters in South Asia too. Which is why Hinduism had a resurgence in the Indian sub continent in the Gupta era.
Again, atheism was a practice followed in South Asia even before the advent of Buddhism (in the third century BC) – only it was more akin to rationalism, where the king's courts would have debates between 'rationalists' and the priests on the existence of God and the prevalence of nature.
Not too sure about Islam, but presumably it would have its doubters too.
There's a big wide world out there, Bernie. As En Vogue says, Free your mind….
Mohamed Hussein aka "Headstrong" you are pathetic man. Now that I found out that you are a radical nut case Muslim Jihadi you are going viral all over the place.
you made 5 comments on Asia Times just about the fact that I found out your name. So deal with it Mohamed Hussein. Everyone now knows who you are.
your open hatred of Christians and the Western world is pathetic. Is that what you learn in ISIS to kill Christian men women and children? sicko Mohamed. Go hump a camel.
But Bernie, you've called me a Hindu thug, then a Sinhalese refugee, now 'Mohamed Hussein'. What next – a Jew? Sikh? Atheist?
Should I post the snapshots Bernie?
Told you on Asia Times when you asked me the same question. Then I did not know that your real name was Mohamed Hussein. What is your problem Mohamed?
I already gave you an explanation. Then I did not know. Now I do. You are Muslim radical named Mohamed.
Now do not come back with the same BS you gave me on Asia Times that I also called you by other faiths.
Well you did, Bernie – and since you insist that I expose you, here goes –
1. spectator.co.uk/2016/02/go-back-and-get-more-from-the-eu-prime-minister/
2. atimes.com/2016/02/dalt-students-suicide-exposes-caste-prejudices-in-indian-universities/
Poor Bernie – caught lying so many times and humiliated – still haven't learnt the lesson!
Desperation Mohamed?. 3 comments trying to get away from your name?
how about changing your user name to "Frustrated Muslim"? lol
One more thing Mohamed
You have badmouthed Trump consistently calling him that stale name "Chump" (lack of any originality on your part)
You have called commenters on Breitbart s c um bags (had to separate the letters due to the vile name you used). I have never seen you on Breitbart yet you have a strong ugly opinion of mainly American commenters and mainly Trump followers.
That is a sicko like you Mohamed. is it due to the endless sun with ISIS? did IS do naughty things to you? you can tell me.
Have to say this. Your tirade against Trump on Asia Times was so childish and ugly that other American commenters were disgusted by your glee of venom against a American Candidate for the Presidency. Is it because Trump wants to ban Muslims like you from coming to the US and planning to kill us all?
since we are "clearing the air" on this forum, your equal tirade against Americans owning guns does do well. Try telling that on Breitbart if you have the guts Mohamed. Commenters in this mag have told me to fight for our right to own guns Mohamed.
Unlike your Muslim nations where only terrorists have that right, citizens in the US have a right that you Mohamed find repulsive. So chuck it Mohamed, you lose.
Oh Mohamedi Jihadi
I do not know any commenter so obsessed like you,.. well except demented IS members perhaps.
You have snapshots
you have links
you have everything except the facts.
Go smoke a camel then hump it.
every religion has been mocked
That's true; but the fact does not help much. It is surely necessary to understand why a religion is mocked. One religion may be mocked because it is truly nonsensical; another may be mocked because it gets too close to home truths about human failings. That is exactly what should be expected of proscriptive views about human moral behaviour. The view most likely to be deemed true is at least as likely to be mocked as the one most lacking credibility.
If it is the authentic belief of a religion that is mocked, or criticised, or found inappposite to general experience, there is reason to discount it as a likely answer to 'the meaning of life'.
If, otoh, one finds that a religion is hard to mock, criticise, or find inappposite to general experience, without misrepresenting it, it is worth investigation as a possible answer to 'the meaning of life'.
pabjay
I have tried to convince this radical Muslim but he is a hard head. his name is Mohamed Hussein.
In my understanding, a religion is 'mocked' (just a word I picked up from Bernie's post above – it should correctly read 'questioned') when its believers get disillusioned – usually due to the fact that those charged with protecting and propagating the faith, end up exploiting and abusing it. Historically, this has been the reason why most religions split, or saw the beginning of offshoots. In India, Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism all sprang from Hinduism at different times exactly because the priests had corrupted the religion to introduce and perpetuate caste. Hence, people from the 'lower castes' would embrace a new religion that was more accepting. Inevitably, this would lead to reform in the parent religion, in this case Hinduism – indeed, the parent would seek to claim the offshoots as its own. Thus, both Buddha and Mahavira are counted as among the 10 Avatars of Vishnu within Hinduism.
If I remember my history lessons correctly, Christianity also begat Protestantism due to the abuse by the Vatican. That too led to reform.
My point is that all religions have had dark phases, and Bernie's point above that Christianity for some reason appeared singled out wasn't exactly true.
You provide perfect demon-stration of why the torments of h*ll are justified.
Mohamed is now pretending.
By doing that he gets issues muddled
5 thousand attacks on Christians in India. Countless across the Muslim world especially in the Mid East. Mohamed aka Headstrong evades that
as for his lopsided version of Hinduism the horrible caste system is alive and well. 320 million Pariahs (India calls them Dalits) where millions literally remove the human feces of other Indians is one of the main reasons India has the world's largest number of people who defecate in the open. they do not need toilets since other "humans" clean up after them. The ones the government builds most are not used or are too filthy to use.
try browsing through the book "India Shattering the Illusion. the Birth of New Nations. Kashmir to Elam" by Columbus Falco".
Do not see the first few pictures unless you have already eaten. they are too disgusting. Hindu Sadhus eating rotten human meat. The worst example of cannibalism anywhere. It gets worse from there.
Although, in Hinduism, there's no concept of h*ll
That's why nobody believes it.
cken
Always remember it is human nature to in some way make fun of or otherwise denigrate those things which call to attention the personal inadequacies we don't want to admit about ourselves.
Ray Ingles
Which explains why Christians always get so defensive and dismissive around atheists. 🙂
(C.S. Lewis was right, Bulverism can always be turned around.)
"Christians always get so defensive and dismissive around atheists."
Ray, we've clashed before, and I just find it hard to believe you really mean this sentence. Where I have seen you post regularly, it seems to me that those debating you go out of their way to do so in a respectful manner. So do you mean this sentence? Have you had that many bad experiences that I just haven't noticed?
I rather hoped that the sarcasm was troweled on thick enough to shine through. I even added the universal "just kidding" sign, the smiley emoticon! I have to admit, I'm open to suggestion as to what more I could do in the future, because I can't think of anything else I could have done.
I was trying to be as dismissive of theists as the original comment was of atheists, to show the issue in practice. It was rather too sweeping and general to be useful.
Obviously, you have to write at the bottom, "Dear Craig Payne, The above is sarcasm."
You are right because you can't out logic an atheist. Fortunately all the science, logic, and theology in the world regarding the existence of a God still leaves us with a conundrum. In the end it comes down to what ever you choose to believe.
You are right because you can't out logic an atheist.
Of course you can. They do it here all the time. Not to mention Feser's books The Last Superstition and Scholastic Metaphysics. You might also try David Oderberg's Real Essentialism, and for some really tasty logical treats RE religion, try here</a
Ultimately you can't prove there is a God, and you can't prove God
doesn't exist. The problem arguing with atheists is they want to
limit the argument to what can be perceived with the five senses. And
they do this despite the fact they believe in things science tells them
to believe in which science can't perceive with the five senses.
True, you can't prove God's existence to the satisfaction of every rational being, but about what can you say that? You can't prove that objects exist outside our sensory perception of them (You can't prove it empirically because using the senses to prove what is outside them exists is simply begging the question, and you can't prove it logically. What form would the argument take? That anything that affects the senses exists; object x affects my senses; ergo, object x exists? The first premise is precisely what is at issue, again begging the question.) But I was responding to your contention that you can't out logic an atheist. You most certainly can. You can use logic to refute the atheist's arguments against theism, and you can use logic to demonstrate the necessity of an Aristotelian/Thomist First Cause that it is, at the very least, rational to interpret as God. Read Edward Feser's review of Jerry Coyne in the first link of my previous comment (and if you are in the mood for a little light reading, try Feser's The Last Superstition, David Bentley Hart's Atheist Delusions and The Experience of God: Being, Consciousness, Bliss and/or St. John Paul II's Fide et Ratio. For a logical refutation of common objections to the cosmological argument, see here. For a logical distinction of Aquinas's teleological argument from Paley's design argument and why the former survives the logical objections to the latter, see here. The theist does not have to resort to fideism or a blind Kierkegaardian "leap of faith." In fact, that kind of irrational faith is heresy in the Roman Catholic and Orthodox traditions.
I agree with you, there are many great treatises using logical constructs to prove there is a God. They are very useful for those of us who believe. However, things like the first cause or the unmovable mover use known or accepted concepts to prove the unknowable. Most people can't even wrap their head around the fact upon which both the bible and science agree that there is no such thing as time. So unless both parties agree upon the existence of the metaphysical which can't be empirically demonstrated it is still a difficult argument. It always interests me that the scientific community which contains many atheists will believe in dark energy or dark matter, but not God.
I have read recently that some of the scientific community is accepting the theory there must have been some kind of energy which existed before the big bang. Thanks for the reading list. I haven't read all of those.
Nathan Markiewicz
Maybe because drama has always been a search for truth, and religion has always been about institutions deciding which version of the truth should be fed to everyone?
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De North Light- en Pole Stargebouwen zijn twee kantoorgebouwen in de Belgische hoofdstad Brussel. Het complex gelegen op de hoek van de Simon Bolivarlaan en de Antwerpsesteenweg in de Noordruimte, het zakelijke district van de stad, en bevindt op een vijfhondertal meter van het station Brussel-Noord. Het ligt tegenover het Maximiliaanpark en het WTC III-gebouw. De gebouwen, die 15 bovengrondse en 2 ondergrondse verdiepingen tellen, zijn in een H-vorm opgetrokken.

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In 2013 verkocht AG Real Estate, de opvolger van Fortis Real Estate, een belang van 60% in North Light en Pole Star aan Belfius Insurance. AG Real Estate en Belfius verkochten beide gebouwen in 2017 voor 380 miljoen euro aan een groep Zuid-Koreaanse investeerders rond Samsung. In 2022 verkocht het Zuid-Koreaanse fonds op zijn beurt het Engie-hoofdkantoor voor 400 miljoen euro aan een vastgoedfonds rond de Federale Participatie- en Investeringsmaatschappij (FPIM) en verzekeraar Ethias. Datzelfde jaar besloot Engie om North Light, de linkerhelft van het kantoorcomplex, onder te verhuren. Eind 2022 werd bekend dat de Europese Commissie vanaf 2023 de helft van de Engie-hoofdzetel zal huren.

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This was the first of about a half-dozen Alternate Reality puzzle Games (ARGs), that I made for my friends to play. It was made for my friend Nat as a birthday present, because she was quite fond of escape rooms.
These are the files I used to make and play the game. As the game was a living and breathing exercise, not everything survived but I feel these files give a good sense of the overall game play. The main thing missing from this is the dozen or so manga books that I hard coded the puzzles into (because they were part of the gift, obviously).
THE PREMISE: Nat's friend Michelle had come into a sum of money and was promptly arrested. Michelle had to rely on Nat, via a fake Law Office of Kind, Hart & Company, to figure out the clues that would reveal who the real villain was.
THE MECHANISM: The clues were hard coded into manga books (because Nat loves manga) that were delivered to her by the Kind Hart & Co, played by other friends of hers. When she decoded clues, she unlocked other ARG world players and scenarios that would ultimately solve the mystery and save Michelle. There was a real-world deadline for the game to finish so Nat would feel compelled to pay attention. This meant that I also had to allow her to start the game at her own timing, so that she could be sure nothing would interfere with game play. Win or lose though, I had an end-game present for Nat.
THE SPOILER: Michelle had in fact been betrayed by one of the lawyers.
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AsyncEx is a library designed to assist with programming when using the `async` and `await` keywords.

## Asynchronous Coordination Primitives

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## Asynchronous and Concurrent Collections

[AsyncProducerConsumerQueue](AsyncProducerConsumerQueue.md) is an `async`-ready producer/consumer queue that works on all platforms.

[AsyncCollection](AsyncCollection.md) is an `async`-compatible wrapper around `IProducerConsumerCollection`, in the same way that [BlockingCollection](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.collections.concurrent.blockingcollection-1) is a blocking wrapper around `IProducerConsumerCollection`.

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The [AsyncLazy](AsyncLazy.md) class provides support for [asynchronous lazy initialization](https://blog.stephencleary.com/2012/08/asynchronous-lazy-initialization.html).

## AsyncContext

The [AsyncContext](AsyncContext.md) class and the related `AsyncContextThread` class provide contexts for asynchronous operations for situations where such a context is lacking (i.e., Console applications and Win32 services).

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Just when you thought he wouldn't put the black cape back on…he will. Yes, Ben Affleck is set to return as Batman in the upcoming Flash movie.
The Pearl Harbor star will return as the dark knight in a cameo role. But, he will not be the only Batman in that movie. Michael Keaton will also be the caped crusader. Many of us remember him as Batman in the 1989 Tim Burton film and now the Flash (Ezra Miller) will have two Batmen in his journey.
Affleck made his first debut as Batman in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. After that he made an appearance in a mid-credit scene of Suicide Squad. He then made his 'final' appearance as Batman in Justice League.
After Justice League came into theaters, Affleck decided to step away from the role of Gotham's vigilante. Now Robert Pattinson took the mantle and is set to be the lead in The Batman coming out next year.
In an interview with Vanity Fair, director Andy Muschietti stated that Affleck's Batman will play an important part of Barry Allen's story. He said:
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Scientists Develop Liquid Fuel That Can Store The Sun's Energy For Up to 18 Years
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A Discovery in a Borneo Cave Just Crushed The Record For The Oldest Known Figurative Art
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Ancient DNA Has Revealed Surprising Connections Between The First People of The Americas
The question of who were the first Americans has always been up for debate, so it's no wonder the latest DNA analysis of two sets of ancient American remains has brought up some fascinating results. Scientists have glimpsed an intricate web of movement and cross-pollination, revealing connections that stretch not just deep into South America, but perhaps around the world.
Satellite Data Has Revealed Relics of Lost Continents Hiding Under Antarctica
By using the Gravity Field and Steady-State Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE) satellite, researchers have glimpsed into the hidden tectonics of Earth in ways we don't normally get to see. As part of their work, they found hidden structures beneath Antarctica, revealing the icy continent's geological history.
Move Over Ravens, Cockatoos Can Make New Tools of Their Own
We hear a lot about the smarts of ravens and other corvids, but now Goffin's cockatoos are giving their dark-feathered brethren a run for their money – a team of these smart parrots has been found to rip pieces of cardboard into suitable tools to reach a goal. (Yes, the goal was food.)
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Survey of social enterprise activity in South Asia and Ghana
Written by Samuel Sharp
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Social enterprises are businesses which trade for a social purpose, re-invest surpluses into their social objective, and make themselves accountable for their actions, rather than simply maximising profits for owners and shareholders.
The British Council anouncement can be found here.
The state of social enterprise in Bangladesh, Ghana, India and Pakistan: Study overview and methodology
The state of social enterprise in Bangladesh, Ghana, India and Pakistan: Cross-country comparisons and conclusions
The state of social enterprise in Bangladesh, Ghana, India and Pakistan: The state of social enterprise in Bangladesh
The state of social enterprise in Bangladesh, Ghana, India and Pakistan: The state of social enterprise in Ghana
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Notary Public and Notary Stamp in Raffles Place Singapore are quite familiar words while we are thinking about attesting any legal documents (applying for passports, reissuing passport, while women are changing name after marriage, paper of adoption of a child, making will, diplomas, employment letters, police clearances, powers of attorney, transcripts etc.) in any legal way, taking help from those people or officials who are authorized by the Government to certify these legal papers.
A Notary Public means any state official who is appointed by that state government to sign important documents, to administer oaths and affirmations, certify legal documents, and in some states to write affidavits, depositions, and protests as a witness. The origin of notary public is traced so many years before in ancient Rome. During that time a small number of people knew about how to serve people in legal way. But now-a- days in modern times, a small fee is charged for these services.
Notary Stamp is a public official that is used to minimize fraud in legal documents while administering oaths and attesting to signatures are taking place by officials to serve people. In Raffles Place Singapore a notary stamp is a distinctive mark or impression that made upon an object, a device used to make stamp, or a distinctive sticker applied to an object. Generally, notary stamp and notary seal is same thing and people used to notary seal as a reference to an embossing or raised seal.
The notary service process in Raffles Place Singapore is pretty simple. The person who wants his or her signature notarized must have to present sufficient evidence to prove his or her identity, and then have to sign the necessary document with the notary as a witness. The notary completes its process by stamping or sealing, dating, and signing the document. This face-to-face procedure is more authentic because it helps to ensure the authenticity of the signature.
What Is Legalization And Why It Is Important
In the United Kingdom and many other Common Law jurisdictions certain documents need to be sworn before a qualified legal person known as a Commissioner for Oaths. This is an ancient office which is appointed by the lord Chancellor for the jurisdiction in England and Wales.
The office of Commissioner for Oaths is granted to the following professional lawyers subject to certain conditions:
Barristers in practice
Solicitors in practice
Legal Executive (conditional)
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Ross King: It's No Time To Die laughing as Phoebe Waller-Bridge goes from Killing Eve to killing it in Hollywood
by Ross King
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I don't expect you to talk, Ms. Bridge, I expect you to…Hold on – talking would be great! Last week I bumped into the hottest comedy actor and writer on the planet, Phoebe Waller-Bridge.
Of course she's been sprucing up the latest Bond movie starring Daniel Craig, No Time To Die, by revising the script – and I was desperate to quiz her about it like Goldfinger interrogating 007.
The brilliant Phoebe, though, has to remain tight-lipped about the project.
I asked her how No Time To Die was going, but said she'd probably give me the bullet for even asking.
"Nada! Nothing!" she laughed. "I can't tell you anything.
"Don't worry though, I won't shoot you!"
Very kind of you, Phoebe. Having written and starred in the iconic Killing Eve thriller series with Jodie Comer, I imagine she knows a thing or two about wiping people out.
Phoebe also starred in Star Wars: Solo, and wrote and starred in the fabulously dark BBC comedy series Fleabag.Not bad for someone who was an unknown writer three years ago.
Phoebe was in Los Angeles to celebrate the BAFTA Britannia Awards, where she picked up the British Artist Of The Year gong.
Phoebe was wearing a lovely Giorgio Armani jumpsuit with satin trousers and a sequin embroidered top – and she looked smashing.
Her life has changed somewhat since Fleabag became a hit and her witty scripts have made her a celebrity in her own right.
A lot of people struggle after gaining that amount of fame so quickly but Phoebe is coping with it – just!
"It's completely mad and wonderful" she said. "How am I dealing with it? I'm not, I'm going mad.
"No I'm not, I'm having a great time.
"It's kind of everything you dreamed can happen so you just have to sort of steel yourself.
"Also it's kind of fun because you get to go to parties and meet loads of cool people, mingle and have a lovely time."
I had a lovely time chatting to a young kid called Roman Griffin Davis last week.
He's the star of my favourite movie of the year, JoJo Rabbit, which is set to arrive in UK cinemas next year and is tipped to do well in awards season.
It's directed by one of Hollywood's best upcoming directors, Taika Waititi, and is about a young member of the Hitler Youth movement, whose imaginary friend is Adolf Hitler.
It is very funny and moving, and Roman is excellent in it.
I wonder if Roman was looking forward to the award parties.
"I can't wait to go and harass lots of famous people!" he told me.
"I've grown up and I get to miss school, so that's amazing.
"I've got a lot of jumpers and gadgets! The best bit of the movie? Getting to kick Hitler in b*lls! I kept messing up so I had to do it again and again. It wasn't on purpose!"
Heard it, Roman!
Pheobe Waller-Bridge
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