Lady Gaga is all about performing and a big part of this is her dance style. Don't be fooled, with a bit of video editing, flashy colors, and the way her dancers are synchronized with Gaga, her dance moves can easily look dramatic. While Lady Gaga really is an amazing dancer, her dances are actually quite simple and easy to learn!
So you want to learn how to dance like Lady Gaga? Watching hours of videos trying to mimic her steps can get you started, but many Lady Gaga music videos flash from scene to scene so it's easy to miss parts of the dance routine. This is why you'll want to focus on learning signature Gaga moves to fill in any gaps in her music videos.
An important thing to remember about Lady Gaga's dance moves is that she goes all out. Every move she makes is big and full of attitude. This can require a lot of confidence, but with some practice, you can become more comfortable with Gaga-style dance moves.
Lady Gaga also uses a few small movements that many fans recognize as being her moves. For example, she has a "monster" claw-like movement that she uses in many of her dances. Another move she uses is the heart shape she makes with her hands. You can see an example of the claw move in her "Bad Romance" music video and the heart shape move in the "Judas" video.
A great effect that Lady Gaga adds is having her other dancers do the same moves all in unison. When a performer can pull this off (and Lady Gaga does, time and time again,) it can really captivate an audience. Choreography is definitely Lady Gaga's strong suit!
The perfect way to really nail down Lady Gaga performances is to check out dance tutorials that are specific to Lady Gaga songs. Have a favorite Lady Gaga music video? Chances are that there is a dance tutorial that you like that can show you how to duplicate the moves in your favorite Lady Gaga video.
The dance to Poker Face isn't shown very much in Lady Gaga's video, so the dancer who will be showing you how to do her moves for this song drew the moves from Lady Gaga's live performances of this song.
Many tutorials add made-up dance moves using Lady Gaga's dance style, but you have to appreciate the fact that dancers like this one, looked for dance moves from other Gaga "Poker Face" performances to put together an authentic dance.
The "Paparazzi" dance is barely in Lady Gaga's music video for the song, if at all. All dances for this song were taken from live Lady Gaga performances. Unlike the dancer for the "Poker Face" tutorial, the girl in the Paparazzi tutorial, is not in a professional studio and claims she is not a professional. That said, I think she does a fantastic job at explaining the dance moves and is a great dancer.
The dancer in this tutorial also does this song backward to make it easier for you, her student, to duplicate her moves.
The dancer in this tutorial, Marissa (Danceislife9 on YouTube), got the dance moves from Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance" video, which has a large amount of dancing in it. She also got some of the dance moves from Lady Gaga's live performances of the song to make up for any gaps in the video.
This tutorial, another great lesson from Marissa, shows the chorus and the breakdown section from Lady Gaga's hit song, "Judas." This one is a personal favorite and is one that I have been practicing. It's fun to learn to show off to friends or even just as a workout! The tune to Judas is catchy and the dance is a blast (plus it looks amazing), making this dance a lot of fun!
The tutorial to "Born This Way" is split up into two parts, but it's really worth the effort. The song is incredibly uplifting and the dance is pretty impressive. This is yet another video from Danceislife9, as she has some of the best dance tutorials.
"Alejandro" is a fantastic Gaga song and almost an even better dance. If you're aiming to learn a number of Lady Gaga dance, this high-energy dance is a must in your repertoire. The dancer in this video first shows you all the dance moves and then finishes off the video by putting together all the moves to "Alejandro" to show you how each move flows together.
"Telephone", one of Lady Gaga's chart-topping hits, is known for its amazing dance. This is a quick dance requiring a lot of hopping, arm motions, and footwork, but is a blast to learn! As the choreography to "Telephone" will take a while to learn, it's perfect for a great daily exercise routine that will pay off with some fabulous dance moves!
Lady Gaga has really brought choreographed dance back onto the scene with her confidence and trademark moves. By learning her dance moves and sharing them with others, you are spreading the love of dance.
A great way to make learning Lady Gaga's dance moves fun is to get your friends involved. The more the merrier!
What makes Lady Gaga's dances extra flashy and fun are all her dancers, so even if your friends are at a different dancing level as you, be sure to include them! It's a great way to learn from each other and have a blast!
For some extra flare, dress up in the craziest outfits you can come up with for dance practice -- even if it's not really in Lady Gaga style!
Lady Gaga's dance routines are a great way to get started in learning to dance. If you enjoy dancing, consider learning to dance at a nearby dance studio. You'd be surprised by how little learning in a dance studio really costs and how fun it really can be!
Dance studios welcome beginners of many different age groups, so don't be afraid to try it out simply because you're "not good enough" or you're "too old to dance," I didn't start taking dance lessons until I was twenty-four!
This is a fun hub! I really enjoyed reading it!
This is a great collection of instructional videos - thanks for sharing them.
What fun. I don't know much about the Gaga lady except I find her music annoying. After reading this hub and looking at the videos now I want to see her videos. Thanks for taking the time to share! Smile!
I love Lady G! What a clever, original idea for a hub that should get everyone dancing.
@Doctor Kristy, all you can do is try! If you draw the curtains, stand in front of your computer, try these moves, and it's an epic failure, nobody has to know! On the other hand, if you keep trying, it's a great way to build up your confidence... while toning some muscles! Go for it. :P Let me know how it goes!
What a great subject~! I love her music. Good luck in the contest!


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Mass.gov Digital Services: ConCon 2018: Lessons learned from the first ever Massachusetts Content Conference
Authors are eager to learn, and a content-focused community is forming. But there's still work to do.
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When you spend most of your time focused on how to serve constituents on digital channels, it can be good to simply get some face time with peers. It's an interesting paradox of the work we do alongside our partners at organizations across the state. Getting in a room and discussing content strategy is always productive.
That was one of the main reasons behind organizing the first ever Massachusetts Content Conference (ConCon). More than 100 attendees from 35 organizations came together for a day of learning and networking at District Hall in Boston. There were 15 sessions on everything from how to use Mayflower — the Commonwealth's design system — to what it takes to create an awesome service.
Graphic showing more than 100 attendees from 50 organizations attended 15 sessions from 14 presenters at ConCon 2018.
ConCon is and will always be about our authors, and we're encouraged by the feedback we've received from them so far. Of the attendees who responded to a survey, 93% said they learned about new tools or techniques to help them create better content. More so, 96% said they would return to the next ConCon. The average grade attendees gave to the first ever ConCon on a scale of 1 to 10 — with 1 being the worst and 10 the best — was 8.3.
Our authors were engaged and ready to share their experiences, which made for an educational environment, for their peers as well as our own team at Digital Services. In fact, it was an eye opening experience, and we took a lot away from the event. Here are some of our team's reflections on what they learned about our authors and our content needs moving forward.
We're starting to embrace data and feedback
"The way we show feedback and scores per page is great but it doesn't help authors prioritize their efforts to get the biggest gain for their constituents. We're working hard to increase visibility of this data in Drupal."
— Joe Galluccio
Katie Rahhal, Content Strategist
"I learned we're moving in the right direction with our analysis and Mass.gov feedback tools. In the breakout sessions, I heard over and over that our content authors really like the ones we have and they want more. More ways to review their feedback, more tools to improve their content quality, and they're open to learning new ways to improve their content."
Christine Bath, Designer
"It was so interesting and helpful to see how our authors use and respond to user feedback on Mass.gov. It gives us a lot of ideas for how we can make it easier to get user feedback to our authors in more actionable ways. We want to make it easy to share constituent feedback within agencies to power changes on Mass.gov."
@SeeBath on good #design: It's all about the balance between style and substance. #UX #CivicTech #MAConCon
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Joe Galluccio, Product Manager
"I learned how important it is for our authors to get performance data integrated into the Drupal authoring experience. The way we show feedback and scores per page is great but it doesn't help authors prioritize their efforts to get the biggest gain for their constituents. We're working hard to increase visibility of this data in Drupal."
Our keynote speaker gave a great use case for improving user journeys
Bryan Hirsch, Deputy Chief Digital Officer
"Having Dana Chisnell, co-founder of the Center for Civic Design, present her work on mapping and improving the journey of American voters was the perfect lesson at the perfect time. The page-level analytics dashboards are a good foundation we want to build on. In the next year, we're going to research, test, and build Mass.gov journey analytics dashboards. We're also spending this year working with partner organizations on mapping end-to-end user journeys for different services. Dana's experience on how to map a journey, identify challenges, and then improve the process was relevant to everyone in the room. It was eye-opening, enlightening, and exciting. There are a lot of opportunities to improve the lives of our constituents."
Want to know how we created our page-level data dashboards? Read Custom dashboards: Surfacing data where Mass.gov authors need it
Hello from #MAConCon! Learning about democracy as a design problem with a keynote by @danachis. The voter user journey is fascinating! 🗳
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The Mayflower Design System is a work in progress
"It's great to see there's a Mayflower community forming among stakeholders in different roles across state government. "
— Minghua Sun
Sienna Svob, Developer and Data Analyst
"We need to work harder to build a Mayflower community that will support the diversity of print, web, and applications across the Commonwealth. Agencies are willing and excited to use Mayflower and we need to harness this and involve them more to make it a better product."
Minghua Sun, Mayflower Product Owner
"I'm super excited to see that so many of the content authors came to the Mayflower breakout session. They were not only interested in using the Mayflower Design System to create a single face of government but also raised constructive questions and were willing to collaborate on making it better! After the conference we followed up with more information and invited them to the Mayflower public Slack channel. It's great to see there's a Mayflower community forming among stakeholders in different roles across state government. "
All digital channels support content strategy
Sam Mathius, Digital Communications Strategist
"It was great to see how many of our authors rely on digital newsletters to connect with constituents, which came up during a breakout session on the topic. Most of them feel like they need some help integrating them into their overall content strategy, and they were particularly excited about using tools and software to help them collect better data. In fact, attendees from some organizations mentioned how they've used newsletter data to uncover seasonal trends that help them inform the rest of their content strategy. I think that use case got the analytics gears turning for a lot of folks, which is exciting."
Authors are eager and excited to learn and share
"I'd like to see us create more opportunities for authors to get together in informal sessions. They're such a diverse group, but they share a desire to get it right."
— Fiona Molloy
Shannon Desmond, Content Strategist
"I learned that the Mass.gov authors are energetic about the new content types that have been implemented over the past 8 months and are even more eager to learn about the new enhancements to the content management system (CMS) that continue to roll out. Furthermore, as a lifelong Massachusetts resident and a dedicated member of the Mass.gov team, it was enlightening to see how passionate the authors are about translating government language and regulations for constituents in a way that can be easily and quickly understood by the constituents of the State."
Fiona Molloy, Content Strategist
"Talking to people who came to ConCon and sitting in on various sessions, it really struck me how eager our content authors are to learn — whether from us here at Digital Services or from each other. I'd like to see us create more opportunities for authors to get together in informal sessions. They're such a diverse group, but they share a desire to get it right and that's really encouraging as we work together to build a better Mass.gov."
Digital Services Policy Advisor @g_bagarella kicks off a session with Michael Orcutt, Michelle Leonard, and Michael Wessler on how they use https://t.co/w4L9Th3X4N authoring tools to improve their content. #MAConCon
Improving content and author support is a continual process
Adam Cogbill, Content Strategist
"I was reminded that one of the biggest challenges that government content authors face is communicating lots of complex information. We need to make sure we understand our audience's relationships to our content, both through data about their online behavior and through user testing."
Greg Derosiers, Content Strategist
"I learned we need to do a better job of offering help and support. There were a number of authors in attendance that didn't know about readily-available resources that we had assumed people just weren't interested in. We need to re-evaluate how we're marketing these services and make sure everyone knows what's available."
We're ready for a full day of learning how to improve https://t.co/w4L9Th3X4N content for our constituents at #MAConCon!
Thinking about hosting your own content conference? Reach out to us! We'd love to share lessons and collaborate with others in the civic tech community.
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Best-selling novelist and non-fiction writer Lee Gruenfeld has been entertaining the triathlon world with hilarious essays, in-depth profiles and insightful observations for more than a decade. Now his best writings have been collected into a single volume, Stumbling Towards the Finish Line. This collections will let long-time fans relive their favorite pieces while introducing new readers to his unique voice. Anyone who likes sports – any sports – and great writing will love this assemblage of amusing, penetrating, and often totally off the wall observations.
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Madison Bumgarner has been competing in rodeos under a fake name
The Athletic's Andrew Baggarly and Zach Buchanan report that Diamondbacks starter Madison Bumgarner has been competing in rodeos under a fake name as recently as December. The fake name is Mason Saunders. Bumgarner explains that "Mason" is shortened from "Madison," while "Saunders" is his wife's maiden name.
Bumgarner — err, Saunders — and one of his rodeo partners, Jaxson Tucker, won $26,560 in a team-roping rodeo competition in December. The Rancho Rio Arena posted a picture of the pair on Facebook, highlighting that they roped four steers in 31.36 seconds.
As Baggarly and Buchanan point out, Bumgarner also pointed out in a rodeo competition last March, just a couple days before pitching in a Cactus League game versus the Athletics, back when he was still with the Giants.
Bumgarner suffered bruised ribs and a left shoulder AC sprain in 2017 when he got into a dirt bike accident. Given that, Bumgarner's latest extracurricular activity does raise a concern for the Diamondbacks, who inked him to a five-year, $85 million contract two months ago. Baggarly and Buchanan asked Bumgarner about such a concern. Bumgarner referred them to the club's managing partner Ken Kendrick. Kendrick directed them to GM Mike Hazen. Hazen declined speaking about "specific contract language." For what it's worth, Bumgarner says he primarily uses his right hand to rope.
The jig is up on Bumgarner's hobby. He jokingly said to The Athletic's pair, "I'm nervous about this interview right now." He added, "I'm upset with both you two."
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What COVID-19 Means for the Future of Aging
Insights from four experts at the Milken Institute Future of Health Summit
By Richard Eisenberg
Are there any silver linings for the future of aging coming out of COVID-19? And what lessons have we learned from the pandemic that could improve the health of older — and younger — Americans?
These experts at the Milken Institute Future of Health Summit saw challenges and opportunities for older adults resulting from COVID-19 | Credit: Milken Institute Future of Health Summit
A panel of experts and I, as the moderator, looked for answers at the recent virtual Milken Institute 2021 Future of Health Summit panel: COVID-19 and the Future of Aging. (The Milken Institute is a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank.) Our panel helped kick off the two-day event, featuring more than 200 speakers and 1,000 participants. You can watch our session on the summit's site and read highlights here.
"I'm hoping this pandemic redefines what we mean by 'We're all in this together.'"
"I'd like to think that the pandemic is pushing us, forcing us to reframe, redefine and reconfigure what kind of society we want," said panelist Fernando Torres-Gil, director of UCLA's Center for Policy Research on Aging. "Certainly the pandemic brought out that many populations were at great risk — whether from COVID, the lack of access to medical care, social isolation — and certainly impacted older adults at a disproportionate level."
But, Torres-Gil added, he also thought the pandemic "gives us some potential silver linings or opportunities which will hopefully cause us to rethink what do we mean by 'essential?' Who are the essential members of society that have been invisible for so long?...So many segments of society have been invisible, but during the pandemic were critical to the functioning of society."
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And, he added, "my hope, and one of the great silver linings, is that we began to realize that everyone matters and we need and want to reconstruct both the social safety net and its social contract…I'm hoping this pandemic redefines what we mean by 'We're all in this together.'"
Joining Torres-Gil on the panel: Richard Ashworth, CEO of Tivity Health (whose company includes the SilverSneakers fitness programs for older adults); Trent Stamp, CEO of The Eisner Foundation (focused on programs uniting the generations) and Lauren Dunning, director of the Milken Institute Center for the Future of Aging.
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Torres-Gil, Ashworth and Stamp were among the Milken Institute Center for the Future of Aging's Advisory Board members who wrote Next Avenue articles about COVID-19 and the Future of Aging from October 2020 through March 2021; the Milken Institute just released the series as an online report.
The Future of Summit panel focused on four themes that came up in our series of articles: COVID-19 and older adults; ageism; technology and intergenerational connections. "They suggested critical areas of opportunities for additional focus," Dunning said.
When we began, I asked our audience to tell us in one word what they thought would be the biggest societal change that will persist post-pandemic.
The answers were revealed in the Word Cloud below and you'll see the most popular ones were: "work," "telehealth," "digital" and "flexible." Of course, "Zoom" came up, too.
COVID-19 and Older Adults
I noted that, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, eight in 10 deaths from COVID-19 were among people over 65.
"The medical community is continuing to try and figure out what are other factors that were driving the morbidity and mortality rates coming out of COVID-19," said Ashworth. "And one factor is chronic disease. Preventable conditions — things like obesity — don't happen overnight. They're the result of a lack of routine health care, of not having health foods and other socioeconomic factors that cause some of the inequity in access to care or behaviors."
Ashworth said that increasing the proportion of people who have medical insurance and a primary care doctor "would solve a lot of our problems."
African Americans, Hispanics, Asian Americans, Pacific Islanders, Native Americans in immigrants "are facing tremendous economic and social disparities and despair in the pandemic," Torres-Gil said.
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"We saw that especially older minorities — in particular, Black and brown — were really facing vulnerable situations. If they were in the poorly funded publicly financed Medicaid skilled nursing facilities, which were poorly staffed with low-wage workers and therefore poor quality care, they were more vulnerable to the ravages of COVID," Torres-Gil added.
Dunning noted: "So many of our experts [in the Next Avenue articles] highlighted the urgency of the need for investment in geroscience research, given the disproportionate harm inflicted by the pandemic on older adults and communities of color."
Torres-Gil said two concepts in the new California Master Plan on Aging he helped create might be helpful over the long term: Looking at aging through an equity lens and taking an intergenerational approach.
"Ageist messages were front and center during the pandemic," said Dunning.
He said younger members of Asian, Latino and African American communities are "at great risk in their future longevity precisely because of the lack of good, healthy aging options, healthy eating options, healthy exercise options. And we're going to find that the growing incidences of obesity and diabetes among young Black and brown and ethnic individuals means that as they get older, they will be at greater risk for a variety of chronic conditions."
Torres-Gil raised this question: "What can we do now to work with the youth to give them a better opportunity for healthy aging and a longer longevity?"
"Ageist messages were front and center during the pandemic," said Dunning. "And it became clearer than ever that older adults experienced bias in their daily interactions, health care, workplaces, across the board."
The Milken Institute Center for the Future of Aging has noted that a Twitter analysis of more than 18,000 tweets in March 2020 showed that about a quarter of all tweets could be considered ageist.
"We certainly saw during the pandemic tremendous ageist attitudes and approaches to how we address health and long-term care, as well as vaccinations," said Torres-Gil. "But let us also add there was ableism, where we saw discrimination against those who had some level of disability, whether it was cognitive, visual, hearing or physical."
One of the great challenges for society, he added, "is how do we inform, educate and convince younger cohorts in society that they too will be old someday…so we can avoid what we saw in the pandemic — that older persons and persons with disability were seen as expendable."
Torres-Gil, who's 73, then spoke personally, telling the audience that he is a polio survivor. "We discovered like thirty years after those of us got the polio infection that the virus had long-term effects that never went away. And now my generation of polio survivors are facing what we call 'post-polio syndrome — many of the symptoms are coming back. "
So, he said, "how do we educate younger persons to realize that maybe you were young and invincible, maybe you survived a COVID-19 infection, but in twenty, thirty, forty years, we don't know if it's going to have long-term repercussions as we are seeing with polio survivors."
Dunning noted that "we've all felt the impact of the increased reliance on technology during COVID-19 — from ordering groceries online to making telehealth appointments." Indeed, the percentage of older adults who participated in a telehealth visit went from 4% in 2019 to 30% in June 2020.
So, the pandemic accelerated those shifts toward a more digital future. And while there's great promise in that, we need to focus on narrowing that digital divide, so we don't leave anybody behind," Dunning noted. Today, 34% of people on Medicare who are living below the federal poverty level have no internet usage.
Also, Dunning said, "we need to focus on solutions that accommodate things like hearing, visual and cognitive impairments."
Ashworth said his company saw COVID-19 breaking the myth that older adults are technology-averse. "We're seeing a significant amount of folks engaging with us digitally and virtually," he noted. But, he added, we need to expand broadband to many rural communities lacking access to the internet.
Social Isolation and Intergenerational Connections
Nearly a quarter of adults 65 and older were considered socially isolated before the pandemic and during COVID-19, social isolation among older adults increased. More than half of adults 50 and older reported social isolation in the pandemic, I said.
"Social isolation has really serious impacts on physical health and well-being, including the risk of premature death," said Dunning.
"The pandemic made social connection really hard," said Ashworth, who noted the fitness centers with SilverSneakers programs had to close their doors early on. "So, we pivoted to virtual fitness," he noted.
While many older adults have taken to virtual exercise programs and are now returning to fitness centers, a recent Tivity Health survey found that only 12% of its members said that over the next three months they plan to return to the same level of exercise they had before the pandemic.
"That means a significant amount are saying, 'Hmmm, I'm not really sure what I'm going to do," Ashworth said.
One potential antidote to ageism, Dunning said, is intergenerational connection. In fact, when we polled our audience to see which strategy they thought would be most critical for reducing social isolation post-pandemic, a striking 66% said "in-person, intergenerational programming."
Stamp responded: "When we get older and younger people in the room together to see each other's shared visions and challenges, good things can happen."
Dunning said that in her Center's articles for Next Avenue, "our experts advocated for the creation of fostering of intergenerational workforce initiatives, community spaces and living arrangements and all the ways we can connect to enhance collaboration among the generations."
Stamp agreed, saying it's important to invest in intergenerational programs that foster empathy. "We've known for a long time that the two groups in our society that are the loneliest are the young and the old," he said.
But, Stamp added, "It's important to acknowledge upfront that we very intentionally segregated the generations in this country over the past century. There's not biological, nothing natural about separating our generations. We did it on purpose."
The United States, he added "created mandatory retirement ages and Social Security to get older workers out of the workforce; we created schools where we wanted single-age groups; we created housing communities where we didn't want any kids in them."
It's going to take "an intentional effort on our society to bring folks back together," said Stamp.
That means, he added, "We need to embrace and normalize the idea of older volunteers in classrooms. We need to embrace and celebrate children in retirement communities…We need to find that the contributions of every generation in our workplace have value and we need to build multi-generational teams that can learn from each other. There's a thirst for this generativity."
Richard Eisenberg is the former Senior Web Editor of the Money & Security and Work & Purpose channels of Next Avenue and former Managing Editor for the site. He is the author of How to Avoid a Mid-Life Financial Crisis and has been a personal finance editor at Money, Yahoo, Good Housekeeping, and CBS MoneyWatch. Read More


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On China, the US speaks loudly but carries no stick
Nick Bisley
A flurry of bombastic rhetoric targeting Beijing puts pressure on allies and also fits Trump's re-election strategy.
A protester holds a US flag outside of the Chinese consulate in Houston after the Trump administration ordered it be closed (Mark Felix/AFP via Getty Images)
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In recent weeks, the Trump administration has busily tried to smooth out what has been a fairly ragged Asia policy. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's speech at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library last week was the culmination of a number of set-piece acts intended to emphasise a yet harder line on China and a greater degree of coherence about US strategic policy towards its geopolitical competitor.
Secretary of Defense Mark Esper's virtual speech two days earlier to the International Institute for Strategic Studies, the demand that Beijing close its consulate in Houston, and the 13 July statement on the South China Sea each played their part in a new rhetorical front Washington has opened on the People's Republic of China. The US has also imposed sanctions on senior party officials, having earlier restricted Chinese diplomats and removed Hong Kong's special status.
There can be no doubt that Washington sees Beijing as an assertive and indeed insidious power that needs not only to be contained but to be actively pushed back. Indeed, Pompeo's "I come not to praise engagement but to bury it" speech explicitly sought to portray China and in particular the Chinese Communist Party as an ideological foe that must be vanquished as its inherent malevolence presents an eternal threat. At many points over the past 18 months – starting with Vice President Mike Pence's October 2018 speech to the Hudson Institute – senior figures of the Trump administration have all, in different ways, articulated a hardline posture towards the PRC. But as Pompeo put it, he sought "to put it all together for the American people".
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo delivers a speech at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library in Yorba Linda, California (US Department of State/Flickr)
So why pull the threads, such as they are, together at this point in time? In part it's because of the impending general election. The administration has clearly decided that attacking China will be a central part of its re-election strategy. Pompeo's ideologically soaked rhetoric was intended to frame US policy towards the PRC in world historical terms as part of an election gambit that presents Trump as a tough leader who had the strength to break with the established approach. Biden will be portrayed as a sell-out lacking the moral fortitude to defend American values. In an election year, the domestic politics of foreign policy is always higher than normal – in 2020, it may well be at an all-time high.
It is also about signalling that the US will to do more across the board to push back against the PRC. The message sent by sailing aircraft carrier battlegroups, declaring the PRC's South China Sea claims illegal and a series of high-octane speeches is clear: Washington intends to act in ways that it has not previously to pressure the PRC. Partners in Tokyo, Seoul, Canberra and elsewhere should also get the message – Washington expects you to do more as well. Esper's speech almost literally walked its way through every partner in the region, showing not just that the US has more friends than Beijing does, but also that it has increased expectations.
This flurry of activity is illustrative of the shortcomings of US Asia policy, dialling up the rhetorical temperature to no great advantage.
The Trump administration's first-term regional policy has been an incoherent mess. While these latest moves are an attempt to achieve more consistency than in the past, it is more than likely that the gambit to toughen up on China will fail to achieve its desired ends. There are several reasons for this beyond the basic fact that the government under Trump has been unable to develop and advance a consistent approach to US interests in Asia.
The contrast in tone and means between the White House's China strategy published in May and the content of Pompeo's speech is illustrative of an administration that speaks in multiple and non-harmonic voices about its Asia policy. Equally, the tough messaging sits uncomfortably with the reality of presidential action in relation to China, most obviously the limp January trade deal and the soft treatment of Xi Jinping by Donald Trump over many years.
As the Brookings Institute's Tom Wright has pointed out, one of the major problems with the framing of US policy in values-based terms is that it is at odds with key aspects of US foreign policy under Trump. Washington has signalled highly inconsistent attitudes toward human rights, democracy promotion and values more generally. He has been cavalier in the treatment of democratic allies, while according to former national security advisor John Bolton, he encouraged the PRC's horrific treatment of Uyghurs, to say nothing of Trump's heedless approach to democratic norms domestically.
Trump and his government have demonstrated a love of bombastic rhetoric unmatched by substantive action. The approach to North Korea is typical of this. Trump dialled up the tensions to a very dangerous level and then settled for two photo-op summits that benefitted Kim Jong-un and led nowhere except to the tacit acceptance of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea as a nuclear power. Beijing has noticed this tendency to talk loudly and carry virtually no stick. So it is unlikely this latest attempt to push a harder line will change PRC behaviour.
A further way in which this flurry of activity is illustrative of the shortcomings of US Asia policy is that it dials up the rhetorical temperature to no great advantage. Indeed, for many allies this needless escalation is counterproductive, as this kind of unsubtle statecraft narrows their strategic room for manoeuvre, to no benefit for anyone.
It is important that the US is clear about its strategic intent – in the past, there was a little too much Voldemort-style ambiguity about Washington's approach to China, as in never to directly name the enemy. But the failure to think through the ends and means of US policy, with clumsy public messages too focused on domestic matters and no consideration of allies has been all too typical of how this administration has approached Asia.
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Коробище — деревня в Лидском сельском поселении Бокситогорского района Ленинградской области.

История
Деревня Коробищи упоминается на карте Новгородского наместничества 1792 года А. М. Вильбрехта.

Согласно X-ой ревизии 1857 года:

КОРОБИЩИ — село, принадлежит Сумарокову (Корсакову): хозяйств — 4, жителей: 6 м. п., 14 ж. п., всего 20 чел.

Сборник Центрального статистического комитета описывал её так:

КОРОБИЩЕ (АНИСИМОВО) — село бывшее владельческое, дворов — 7, жителей — 35; церковь православная, два постоялых двора. (1885 год)

По земской переписи 1895 года:

КОРОБИЩИ — село, крестьяне бывшие Сумарокова (Корсакова): хозяйств — 4, жителей: 13 м. п., 12 ж. п., всего 25 чел.;
крестьяне собственники земли: хозяйств — 5, жителей: 12 м. п., 12 ж. п., всего 24 чел.

В конце XIX — начале XX века деревня административно относилась к Верховско-Вольской волости 1-го земского участка 3-го стана Устюженского уезда Новгородской губернии.

В начале XX века в полуверсте от села, на берегу реки Колпь находился жальник.

КОРОБИЩИ (АНИСИМОВО) — село Коробищенского сельского общества, число дворов — 12, число домов — 21, число жителей: 42 м. п., 36 ж. п.; Занятие жителей: земледелие, лесные заработки. Соминско-Белозерский тракт. Река Колпь. Церковь, земская школа, земская станция, фельдшерский пункт, 3 мелочные лавки, смежно с погостом Коробищи.
КОРОБИЩИ (АНИСИМОВО) — погост на церковной земле, число дворов — 6, число домов — 4, число жителей: 7 м. п., 5 ж. п.; Занятие жителей: церковная служба, земледелие. Белозерский тракт. Река Колпь. Смежен с селом Коробищи. (1910 год)

Согласно карте Новгородской губернии 1917 года, деревня насчитывала 7 крестьянских дворов.

С 1917 по 1927 год деревня входила в состав Советской волости Устюженского уезда Череповецкой губернии.

С 1927 года, в составе Коробищенского сельсовета Ефимовского района.

По данным 1933 года деревня Коробище являлась административным центром Коробищенского сельсовета Ефимовского района, в который входили 7 населённых пунктов: деревни Врачево, Ивановское, Ивахново, Коробище, Нечаевское, Ольешь, Перегорода, общей численностью населения 920 человек.

По данным 1936 года в состав сельсовета входили 7 населённых пунктов, 168 хозяйств и 7 колхозов.

С 1965 года, в составе Бокситогорского района. В 1965 году население деревни составляло 104 человека.

По данным 1966 и 1973 годов деревня Коробище также входила в состав Коробищенского сельсовета Бокситогорского района, административным центром сельсовета являлась деревня Ольеши.

По данным 1990 года деревня Коробище являлась административным центром Ольешского сельсовета, в который входили 12 населённых пунктов, общей численностью населения 502 человека. В самой деревне Коробище проживал 231 человек.

В 1997 году в деревне Коробище Ольешской волости проживали 29 человек, в 2002 году — 30 человек (все русские).

В 2007 году в деревне Коробище Заборьевского сельского поселения проживали 20 человек, в 2010 году — 12.

Со 2 июня 2014 года — в составе вновь созданного Лидского сельского поселения Бокситогорского района.

В 2015 году в деревне Коробище Лидского СП проживали 11 человек.

География
Деревня расположена в восточной части района на автодороге  (Ольеши — Нечаевская).

Расстояние до посёлка Заборье — 34 км.

Расстояние до ближайшей железнодорожной станции Заборье — 35 км.

Деревня находится на левом берегу реки Колпь.

Демография

Инфраструктура
На 1 января 2016 года в деревне было зарегистрировано 9 домохозяйств.

Достопримечательности
Деревянная церковь во имя Успения Пресвятой Богородицы была построена до 1791 года. В 1845 году была выстроена каменная церковь с приделом святого Николая. Храм был закрыт в 1934 году, в 1990-е годы его здание использовалось под клуб. Руинировано.

Примечания

Населённые пункты Бокситогорского района

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Wreybies Arroz Con Admin Operations Manager Staff Supporter Contributor
M. John Harrison on worldbuilding
Discussion in 'Setting Development' started by Wreybies, Jan 8, 2015.
I came across this article while internet stalking China Miéville, in truth. I found a blog where China had made a guest post that mentioned M. John Harrison's critique of worldbuilding. I dig both authors and they both take rather diametrically opposed attitudes on worldbuilding. China creates lush, decadent worlds that are ripe and pregnant. M. John Harrison creates worlds where the setting is often disjointed and sketchy, but also poetic and transcendental.
Here is a portion of the statement by M. John Harrison:
Every moment of a science fiction story must represent the triumph of writing over worldbuilding.
Worldbuilding is dull. Worldbuilding literalises the urge to invent. Worldbuilding gives an unneccessary permission for acts of writing (indeed, for acts of reading). Worldbuilding numbs the reader's ability to fulfil their part of the bargain, because it believes that it has to do everything around here if anything is going to get done.
Above all, worldbuilding is not technically neccessary. It is the great clomping foot of nerdism. It is the attempt to exhaustively survey a place that isn't there. A good writer would never try to do that, even with a place that is there. It isn't possible, & if it was the results wouldn't be readable: they would constitute not a book but the biggest library ever built, a hallowed place of dedication & lifelong study. This gives us a clue to the psychological type of the worldbuilder & the worldbuilder's victim, & makes us very afraid.
When I use the term "worldbuilding fiction" I refer to immersive fiction, in any medium, in which an attempt is made to rationalise the fiction by exhaustive grounding, or by making it "logical in its own terms", so that it becomes less an act of imagination than the literalisation of one. Representational techniques are used to validate the invention, with the idea of providing a secondary creation for the reader to "inhabit"; but also, in a sense, as an excuse or alibi for the act of making things up, as if to legitimise an otherwise questionable activity. This kind of worldbuilding actually undercuts the best and most exciting aspects of fantastic fiction, subordinating the uncontrolled, the intuitive & the authentically imaginative to the explicable; and replacing psychological, poetic & emotional logic with the rationality of the fake.
~ M. John Harrison
http://makingplaces.tumblr.com/post/6294792267/m-john-harrison-on-worldbuilding
M. John Harrison's awards include:
2007 • Nova Swing
James Tiptree, Jr. Award
2002 • Light
Tähtivaeltaja Award
Wreybies, Jan 8, 2015
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A Place with no History
Wish you quoted this part too:
~ M. John Harrison
It just explains those first paragraphs a bit better.
He has a point to a certain extent but it seems to miss the mark a little.
I'll admit, I am a huge world builder, but as a writer I also know the difference between what information should go into the piece and what needs to be omitted.
Kind of like, for lack of a better example, A song of Ice and Fire has much more world building than is presented in the books, which is already expansive all on its own, it does a wonderful job of presenting it naturally through narrative, locales, and dialogue on how that "world building" affects the current situation.
I mean, why do you think there is entire books dedicated to ASoIaF that are nothing but lore and family trees and maps?
World building is crucial when making entirely new worlds and wanting to make sure everything fits together.
Such as is the case of stories where magic exists in a vaccuum.
Sure, society has had magic since dawn of time, yet peasants seem beyond frightened of it.
No real technology or commercialism came from it.
And of course the rules are right and left when it comes to how normal it is to have magic and how thin/widely spread it is.
What this shows is a lack of forethought on "how does X mechanic in my universe affect it?" leaving much to be desired a la Harry Potter magic system where anything goes from book to book and scene to scene.
Tell me, Rowling, do they need wands or words? Half the time magic just wills itself into existence! And the Wizard Trials? Why is there no mention of them in the first book when they should have happened when Harry Potter was in Year 1? And why the hell do parents and adults do shit-all when the school is under friggin' attack and their children are literally dying?!
See? World building has it's place.
The trick is learning how to write well as well as critically think your ideas though.
A.M.P., Jan 8, 2015
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A.M.P. said: ↑
You preach to the choir, mon frere.
Remembering that I found that article originally cyber stalking Miéville, I think Harrison is more innovative than Miéville in a lot if his writing. His novel Light was trance-inducingly good, but it's a very different experience to Miéville's work where the place is such an important character in the story. Harrison's work is more experiential, but at the same time, while it can be amazing, it makes some of his works one-shot deals. I read Light and was amazed. I read it again, and since I was no longer virgin to the work, the original effect was not there. Kinda' like the film Dancer in the Dark. It has the power to emotionally molest you only the once. Miéville's work on the other hand, where setting is so thick and rich, I can read again and again and find new alleys to walk down and buy drugs from Khepri dealers.
ChickenFreak Contributor Contributor
I really want to have an opinion or at least a thought, since this sounds like the sort of thing that I'm interested in, but...I'm not confident that I understand. I feel the desire for a list of the fictional worlds that I'm familiar with, and a checkmark on the ones that aren't...er..."overbuilt"?
ChickenFreak, Jan 8, 2015
There's another point that the article doesn't consider; style.
Some writers are known for world building, strong characters, excellent fight scenes, or this or that.
My personal style is all about characters vs. environment where my stories move forward through character growth and desire for change to better their own lives, whether for good or ill.
To some, my stories will be a snooze-fest. They'll say "Where's the action? Why are the fight scenes so short? Where's the bad guy?" because they want something different than what I offer.
So, in a sense, from their perspective, I am over-characterizing and it seems the "goal" of the book isn't clear because there is no "evil thing" to focus on.
So, basically, Harrison is condemning a style that isn't overly popular and many have gone overboard with and ended up with a shoddy manuscript.
However, there is nothing wrong with it just because it falls short of pleasing everyone or being written for a general audience.
It would be the same as me condemning Rosalind Laker for her To Dance with Kings because the politics seemed slightly ambiguous, the characters were overly romantic, and the female characters (All 4(?) main characters) seemed to singularly obsessed with riches, sex, and love rather than having epic scenes and a clear tale that I can quickly recognize and categorize. However, her work was well written, interesting, and simply riveting despite it lacking in other aspects.
Style, peeps, style.
ChickenFreak said: ↑
Go ahead and find that list :3
I wouldn't be surprised if some works had more world building than actual story just like some are too much story and not enough information.
Take for example Steve Erikson who wrote a very very long series of books all pertaining the same world where you have so much world building at once you forget who's who and what's what and even then you end up flabbergasted on some of the finer details. Moon's spawn is a city? or is an actual rock with a city inside it... or.. what?
Honestly, I bet if I was a huge DnD nerd (Which the writing seems to suggest to with all the glowy swords and stuff) I bet I'd understand his work way more. However, excellent read and interesting story and characters.
Leviathan Active Member
By Harrison's logic, Tolkien, who spent 12 years worldbuilding, is not a good writer. Kinda have to disagree on that. I do admit that good worldbuilding is pointless if it has no real influence on the plot.
Leviathan, Jan 20, 2015
I think world-building is important, as long as I don't have to read about it.
Chinspinner, Jan 20, 2015
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Leviathan said: ↑
...I do admit that good worldbuilding is pointless if it has no real influence on the plot.
This author would agree:
5 Ways to Build a Detailed World Without Boring Your Readers
1. Your protagonist's job
…and the jobs of the people he knows say a lot about your world. If they're all farmers, your readers see an agrarian community. Make him a moisture farmer in a desert, shopping for robots, and he's Luke Skywalker. Or make him a starship repairman or a dragon breeder. Whatever the occupation, in one conversation with buddies at the pub about how hard work has been this week and what the government is up to, you can cover:
The major industries of your world
Who controls them / has the power
The biggest problems with society
More useful tools along these lines:
Living quarters (cave, tent, cryotube, barracks, fortress?)
School/studies (from a blacksmith's apprenticeship to a mind control science project)
News reports (from the town crier announcing the war to a psychic message about falling nanobot stock prices)
2. Your protagonist's relationships
How was he raised? Does he live with the wife and kids? The wives and kid? Seven generations of his family? Coworkers, classmates, cellmates, refugees? No one at all? This all reveals:
The society in your world
The structure of the family
Barriers between the classes
3. Your protagonist's traditions
Does he pray before he eats? Does he have to slay a beast to be acknowledged a man? When he attends a funeral, is he watching a body buried, burned, scattered, eaten, or recycled? Do they even have funerals? This reveals:
Religion – who they worship, where they came from, where they go when they die
History – holidays can be used to reenact important points in history
Traditions can include:
Daily rituals: getting up, going to sleep, eating
Life events: birth, coming-of-age, marriage, parenthood, funerals
Holidays: festivals and fasts
*Pro tip: A liturgy, specifically words sung or recited at any of these events, can be an especially handy way to sneak in detail.
4. Your protagonist's speech
Language, slang, shop talk, and industry buzzwords are all great tools to both plant clues and add personality to your world. For instance, your can make up your own:
Terms of endearment or insult (honey, jerk)
Titles (husband, wife, king, priest)
Curse words (…)
Greetings (hello, hi, good day, hey y'all, yo)
5. Use the appendices, Luke!
Your readers will usually be able to interpret casual references to foreign concepts by the context. But to include more detail, you can always add appendices at the back of the book. Tolkien and Herbert, renowned for their world-building in Lord of the Rings and Dune, both did it. Use footnotes to lead readers to things like:
Translations of foreign words
Summary of religion and history
BayView Huh. Interesting. Contributor
I like the philosophy that world building, insofar as it's presented to readers, should be done only when they absolutely need the information in order to understand and enjoy the story.
Sounds like a pretty straightforward concept, but I see it violate a LOT. Too often, the world is explained when it's convenient to do so - I just finished listening to The Black Prism (appalling narrator for a meh book) and the author used the device of bringing a neophyte into the magic world and having another character explain it all to the rookie. It was convenient for the author to have the info all dumped there at once, because he didn't have to worry about working it into the narrative, but, damn, was it dull. (And it's hard to skim with an audiobook).
In terms of how much work an author should put into building their worlds, off-page? As much as they want to, I guess, but I've got to say I don't think my enjoyment of Tolkien was enhanced in the slightest by all the time he spent inventing the Elven language or whatever.
BayView, Jan 20, 2015
@BayView
Brent Weeks' Black Prism is amazing!
His first trilogy about the assassin/ninja was terrible after the first half of book 2.
A.M.P., Jan 20, 2015
I'm sorry, you're wrong.
BayView said: ↑
It was very good for a debut novel!
I may be biased b/c the audiobook narration was SO awful, but... I don't know. I think if it had been a print book I would have been doing a LOT of skimming. And I just couldn't buy the situation behind the big plot twist. And I didn't really like any of the characters (although, again, the narration may have been PART of the problem, there...)
All this M. John Harrison chat has made me realize that I missed the third in his Kefahuchi Tract trilogy, Empty Space. Just zipped it down now from Amazon to my Kindle.
Wreybies, Jan 20, 2015
The initial article that drew my attention to the one by Harrison is one by China Miéville, wherein it seems he agrees with you, at least to a point.
The Author of the Century, of course, needs no help from anyone (least of all a speck like me). No force on earth could undermine either the juggernaut implacability of his sales, nor the world-historic scale of his influence, nor the truly enormous weight of his achievement. The man puts the 'epic' in 'epic win'. However--or, more accurately, because of that--every few years, certain as tides, someone will write a splenetic screed against the Professor, explaining why he's the devil/ worst things to happen to fantasy/voice of reaction/zomg most boring writer EVER /etc. The Oedipal Resentment motivating many of these attacks may be trivially obvious, especially in those from within fantastic fiction, but it doesn't follow that the substance of all the criticism is baseless. There are perfectly reasonable arguments to be had about the impact, nature, scale and success of Tolkien's work. The sheer religious zealotry with which some Tolkienistas defend the master, when it ignores those grounds for debate and refuses to countenance a flaw anywhere in the MiddleEarthian edifice, doesn't, then, help matters. Even more nuanced pro-Hobbit partisans sometimes--and acknowledging that there are always debates on this--choose what look to some of us to be questionable grounds for defence. Because there are arguments not only about what is regrettable in Tolkien, but about what is indispensible. Accordingly, what follows is a list of some Perhaps In Some Cases Somewhat Insufficiently Stressed Reasons We Should All Be Terribly Grateful To Tolkien. It may be redundant strictly qua defence, this defence of a corpus that is thriving, but perhaps it's not pointless anyway.
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http://www.omnivoracious.com/2009/06/there-and-back-again-five-reasons-tolkien-rocks.html
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@Wreybies
Leave it to a real writer to express my own sentiments exactly! I'm particularly fond of his use of the word "nerdism," which I say, respectfully, is a word Ive felt describes at least half the forum users here, based on their posts in regard to writing, in particular to this sort of debate.
Obviously there are exceptions. Some people were born to world build, but it's a rare ability, and fake worlds will always lose out to reality, as no amount of world building can compare to the mysteries of mathematics or astronomy, and no fake history is as rich as the real one. My heart will always go out to the writers who can just spill out their soul, unhibited by any sort of"nerdism."
I see nerdism as this:
"Well, my world has dwarves and orcs."
"Oh, yeah? In my world, there's this cult that praises this old statue-"
"Crazy evil cult, how original!"
NEEEEERRRD!!!
But I don't think that's what Harrison means at all. To me he's talking about the writer geeking out in the realms of his/her own world creation, be that creation a stereotypical D&D - WoW backdrop or not. There has to always be some world building, else your story takes place floating in an isolation tank, a void. The magic of Harrison's own work is that he does not bother with a tightly woven warp and woof. There is no pandering to telling you, in detail, about the rebellion of the Mendakin Slaves that explains - yet again, in painful detail - why Thathara is such a broken little paladin/princess/Robotech driver.
He's talking to the writers who spend painstaking hours to create languages that work within the mind of the writer, even if they do always fall short of the linguist's meter stick. Why do this? "To make it more real!" cries the writer. More real for whom? Certainly not for the reader whose eyes are going to glaze over until English is again found on the page.
He's talking to the writer who insists that a prologue is absolutely necessary because you have to know these things before you start reading my story. Please. Read. My. Prologue. Pleeee-heeee-heeee-heeez. *disassembles into snot-bubble-making sobs*
And in a very strong way I feel that he's talking to the writer who is a control freak and demands that the reader read his story the "right way", so yes, all this detail is utterly necessary because loosie goosie means the reader might read something into my work that was unintended.
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There is nothing more immersion breaking than having your imagination fill in all the blanks just to be told in minute detail that everything your imagination created is wrong.
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yeah, I wasnt talking about dwarves.
Nerdism refers to that guy whose got rose petals lined up the stairs for his date, knows the exact words he wants to say to her before they get to the deed, and has every second of the encounter pre planned in his head.
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This, a million times this.
I get so sick and tired of the heavy-handed, drawn out, overly detailed exposition that so many authors bother with. Tell me as much as I need to know in order to understand what is happening, and leave the rest in your tabbed, intricately designed, pain-stakingly crafted notebook. If the fans want to know more, they'll go searching for it, and then you can provide it to them. But please, don't assume that everyone wants to know every minute detail of your world, because they don't. Your story could be absolutely amazing, but if it gets dragged down by needless nerdgasming or exposition, you'll lose a lot of your readers.
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TheOneKnownAsMe said: ↑
Likewise. When I think of world-building I actually think more in terms of The Name of the Rose, where the world (a monastery) is intricately designed and that design is central to the plot. I never really think of someone writing "here be dragons" on a map; that is, as TheOne noted, just a nerdgasm that often detracts from a piece of writing.
I was more making a joke than being serious, lol ;p
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Just something about it that makes me feel I'm in another world.
This is one of the most interesting threads I've read in a while. Thanks for starting it, @Wreybies .
When I think of fantasy world-building, I think of Tolkien ...whom I reckon pops into nearly everybody's mind when this topic of world-building comes up. Tolkien's books have been around a long time, most people who are interested in fantasy have either read them or tried to read them. It's interesting to me that most people also broadly agree on the bits he should have left out of the LOTR trilogy.
The Elven language. (Saints preserve us, I got fed up with all the elven poems.)
Tom Bombadil. (Fun, but a long and ultimately pointless inclusion. The hobbits could have got hold of their weapons another way entirely.)
Of course when you read about Tolkien's life, you realise he was a scholar above all else. He was interested in linguistics, and built the language for fun. And of course, once he did that, he wanted to use it in his story. He also built his world long before he built his story about Frodo and the Ring.
In fact, when you look at his appendixes to LOTR and the Silmarillion (which is not a story, but a collection of notes) you realise that his world was huge. The tale of Frodo was a pivotal point in Tolkien's built history, but it was far from being the only tale he could have told. It was interesting to read that he had no idea where his story was going, when he started out to write it. WW2 interfered, and he felt that the lessons learned from it certainly informed his finished story.
The Lord of the Rings was rich because Tolkien's created world was rich. He could reach into any portion of it to draw out the details he needed to have, knowing he wouldn't be unpicking the threads of his history and leaving huge plot holes.
However, he could have used a good editor. He should have had somebody marking the margins of his manuscript, saying ..."you don't need all the elven poems. Just a stanza or two will do, to give flavour. Nobody else speaks this language but you, so you're just giving the reader a lot of gobbledegook to wade through. And Tom Bombadil is a distraction who will ultimately annoy your readers when they realise he didn't actually add anything to the story."
So ...The Lord of the Rings is a masterclass, both in how to present a fantasy world, and how NOT to present a fantasy world! Not too many other fantasy writers can claim this duality. (Well, maybe George RR Martin ...but that's another story.)
Writers can certainly create very detailed worlds if they want to. However, the size and intricacy of that world doesn't have any impact on whether or not they are good storytellers.
Think of writers who write about 'the real world.' Our real world is huge. If I was writing a story about Aunt Edna's affair with the milkman back in 1953, but decided to include all the details of the American Civil War and Ghenghis Khan's conquest of Asia and Eastern Europe, my readers who wanted to learn about Aunt Edna's bittersweet romance might get mightily sidetracked and annoyed by all the other faff. The trick is ...create the world as completely as you like ...but then regurgitate ONLY the parts of it that are necessary to the story.
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Rajasthan govt revokes ban on mawa; decides on drive against adulteration
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After invoking a ban on mawa for a day, the Rajasthan Government has revoked it. The ban was imposed as a measure to arrest sale of fake or adulterated mawa during the festive season. Mawa is a key ingredient for most traditional sweets or mithais.
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The minister stated that the state government had been ensuring that all necessary equipment and infrastructure for food safety was put in place. And the state machinery has been directed to collect samples of mawa across the state and test them for safety.
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Toxic Food is Violation of Rights: National Human Rights Commission
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Food checks in festival time
NASHIK: Ten food safety officers of the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) Nashik division have been deployed in various parts of the district, mainly on the roads leading to the Saptashringi Garh to keep a check on the food quality served at the joints during Navaratra.
They would collect samples from food vendors to ensure that there was no health problems among people having food at hotels, restaurants and eateries festival between October 13 and 22.
Joint commissioner of FDA (Nashik division) Y K Bendkule said, "We have started the drive to check eateries across all the routes leading to Saptashringi Garh. Our 10 officials will be collecting food samples from different hotels and restaurants and places of bhandaras where food is donated as Prashad. Strict action will be taken against those not adhering to the norms laid under the Prevention of the Food Adulteration Act."
Saptashringi Garh, being one of the most important temples in Maharashtra, is visited by lakhs of people from across the state and the neighbouring ones.
Bendkule said, "Thousands of food stalls will be put up on all the roads leading to the Saptashringi Garh. The devotees will also halt at places such as Malegaon, Chandwad, and Dindori en route to the Saptashringi Garh to have breakfast and meals."
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The food inspectors would also attempt to spread messages among people that consuming unhygienic food kept in the open or at road-side eateries could be dangerous and that people should purchase food products only from licenced shops.
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The campaign, planned by CII and its partners, including consumer organisation VOICE, and National Association of Street Vendors of India, was rolled out in July.
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The campaign, planned by CII and its partners, including consumer organisation VOICE, and National Association of Street Vendors of India ( NASVI), was rolled out in July this year.
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Under the campaign, nation-wide sensitisation sessions on cleaning, hygiene and sanitation for safe food, walkathons and media dissemination programmes for consumers and street food industries will be organised across the country.
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More workshops on good agricultural, manufacturing and hygiene practices in the North-East, in partnership with the Ministry of Food Processing Industries, are also on the anvil, starting mid-October.
The broader objective is to enhance consumer awareness on food safety aspects like labels, storage conditions and related hygienic practices. Street food vendors, schools and colleges are also part of the programme.
Food service providers, including the Railways, street vendors and mass caterings, will be sensitised on how to produce and serve safe food.
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