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'What I tried to do was use cancer to evolve into love'
Nova Scotia·Q&A
David Maginley is a chaplain for patients with cancer and he's survived cancer four times. His new book, Beyond Surviving: Cancer and Your Spiritual Journey, tells how cancer has led him deeper into the 'divine love.'
A chaplain at a Halifax cancer centre — who's had cancer 4 times — shares his spiritual journey with disease
Jon Tattrie · CBC News · Posted: Jun 10, 2017 8:00 AM AT | Last Updated: June 10, 2017
David Maginley first got cancer at 17 and it has shaped much of his life. (Davidmaginley.com)
David Maginley is an interfaith spiritual counsellor for the cancer centre at the QEII Health Sciences Centre in Halifax. He's also survived pheochromocytoma cancer four times. He first got the cancer at 17 and now, at 53, he's helped thousands of people through their cancer journeys, supporting the person and their family.
On Friday he launched his first book, Beyond Surviving: Cancer and Your Spiritual Journey. The following interview has been lightly edited for brevity and clarity.
CBC: When did you start thinking this was a book? You've dealt with cancer yourself four times and many, many times professionally.
MAGINLEY: For 17 years I've been supporting cancer patients at the hospital. That tends to erode you — you're immersed in suffering day after day. While it's a profound privilege, it wears you down. I realized I was beginning to burn out and decided I needed to take care of myself. Writing the book was a form of purging the emotional cholesterol, processing this suffering. It started one night with a very difficult case involving a very young patient. I got up at four in the morning and started writing that story and kept on going for almost three years.
CBC: How did you feel when you finished?
MAGINLEY: I felt astonished. I felt surprised about what the process had done to me. It really helped not only unclog that emotional cholesterol, but it integrated and transformed and focused my theology and my philosophy of practice.
Maginley also uses his camera as an artistic outlet and shared these images with CBC. In Marrow, the boundary of sand and water represent stem cells, which can become anything our body needs, replacing damaged tissues and organs. (Davidmaginley.com)
CBC: Can you talk about your four experiences of cancer? We hear a lot about the physical toll it takes. What was the spiritual journey for you?
MAGINLEY: The spiritual journey happened on two levels. There was the unconscious level, where I wasn't sure what it was doing to my soul. It's all tied up in love because love, I've come to understand, isn't an emotion — it is an entire state of being. And it's the ultimate state of being, because God is love. I wasn't aware of how my spiritual journey through cancer was evolving me, and shaping me, in love. Because from the inside, it just felt hard.
Then there's another level. I've had a road with several mystical experiences. Moments that seem like interventions. They were gentle and surprising and sneaky and absolutely perfect. They got me through some life and death moments.
There would be a peace, or a strength, that would fill me. One time I was code blue. My heart was arresting, my blood pressure was collapsing, but I felt perfectly calm. The medical staff were naturally stressed — they were trying to save my life — but I was calm as a cucumber and enjoying their company. It didn't feel like a mystical experience. It just felt like I was OK.
The big one was the second round of cancer in 1988. I had a near-death experience and that really changed me. That's a very big spiritual event. It took me years to figure that one out, because your consciousness shifts from this reality to a completely different one, and then back again.
Maginley calls this Darkness, for 'the process of self-reflection requires compassion for our darkness.' (Davidmaginley.com)
CBC: You spoke about love. You're a Christian and Jesus ultimately expressed that love by facing his death and sticking to love. Was that something of what your realization was?
MAGINLEY: My image of Jesus really changed, my awareness of how he embodied divine love and how that's a state of consciousness, not just a choice or an action or a feeling. To me that gives a new understanding of him as the full incarnation of God, for God is love. It's widened my appreciation for how that is expressed in all religions.
When you connect with it, you're coming home. You're connecting with the truth of your real identity because the soul, or consciousness, continues after death in a realm of unfiltered love.
You get a diagnosis of cancer and it cranks up the volume on that homework. How do you love? How are you loved? When a person gets a diagnosis, their No. 1 concern is the people they love. That's where the homework is. That's the biggest burden on their heart.
From the inside, it doesn't feel like you're doing spiritual work, but when you engage with that task of loving deeply, of feeling the gift of your fragile, beautiful life — because cancer's cranked it up — when you're doing that, you are doing the most noble, spiritual thing you could ever do.
Maginley calls this image Ache, capturing something of the human ache for immortality. (Davidmaginley.com)
CBC: When you look to someone like Job and the tests he faced, did you ever feel that God has it in for you?
MAGINLEY: No. There were people who said, 'Well there must be a reason for it.' They see my ministry and say, 'This was the reason.' I don't know what to do with that. I don't think God inflicts these things to say that's your path, this is what you have to do. But I do think there is nothing that can happen to us that will derail the agenda of divine love.
Why did I get cancer? We don't know. What am I going to do with cancer? That's a better question. What I chose and tried to do was use cancer to evolve into love. I'm very fortunate that I happen to have a job where I'm paid to do that.
My cancer is not treated by chemotherapy and radiation. The only way to get it is surgery. If that works, over 90 per cent never come back. Mine kept coming back. It turns out 90 per cent of my kind are benign. Mine were malignant. Mine are dangerous because they are a time bomb. You've got this tumour that's a bomb inside you.
I'm really lucky to be here. If I was supposed to learn something from this, I figure I must be pretty thick-headed because I had to get it four times. When we're trying to look for those ultimate reasons, we'll all find out one day. But for now, what are you going to do with the crisis?
In Remains, he meditates on how the 'perishable body puts on imperishability,' as Saint Paul put it. (Davidmaginley.com)
CBC: Can you talk about your professional side of it? Every day you're dealing with people who hadn't planned to go on any spiritual quest and were just living their lives and suddenly they may be facing death. How do you frame this quest that you've been on to someone who maybe isn't even religious and has just run into this and they've come to you?
MAGINLEY: It is the hero's journey. This is the archetype, the monomyth, that Joseph Campbell talked about. This is the inevitable course through life. You have your ordinary life and your ordinary world and then there's a call to adventure. It's usually a dangerous call.
A diagnosis does not feel like a call to adventure, so you refuse it. You reject it and say this can't be so. But it's inevitable and you move into treatment, you meet your mentors, cross the threshold, treatment starts. You are tested. You meet allies and enemies — those [allies] are other patients, and enemies like nausea, or vomiting, or hair falling out, or mortality and pain.
Then you approach the ultimate challenge and that could be death.
You survive, and you come back to your ordinary life, but it's not ordinary anymore. It never feels the same. You have been tuned through the experience.
There's a saying: adversity introduces a person to themselves. It is inevitable and it must involve danger. I was talking this morning with a fellow who has been going through cancer for months. Two years ago he never would have imagined he could do this and he wouldn't want it in his world. And yet here he is, doing it with such a noble character. He doesn't see that. He's just doing what he has to do.
This is going to change you. I think if you face a crisis well, your whole consciousness, your character, evolves into something that's even more beautiful and vulnerable and strong — and ultimately immortal.
Maginley's book tells of his personal and professional transformation through cancer.
Jon Tattrie
Jon Tattrie is a journalist and the author of two novels and five non-fiction books. He won the RTDNA's 2015 Adrienne Clarkson Award. Find him at www.jontattrie.ca
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Balaur bondoc (podle rumunského myt. draka) byl druh menšího teropodního dinosaura z čeledi Dromaeosauridae. Žil v období svrchní křídy (asi před 70 miliony let) na území dnešního Rumunska (ostrov Haţeg).

Historie
Jediný známý exemplář představuje neúplná kostra, jejímž nápadným znakem jsou mohutné kratší končetiny, robustnější než u ostatních dromeosauridů (odtud druhový název B. bondoc, znamenající v rumunštině "tlustý, podsaditý"). Druh B. bondoc byl popsán rumunskými a americkými paleontology v roce 2010. Výzkum nově objevených fosilií z roku 2019 ukazuje, že tento teropod mohl být ve skutečnosti blízce příbuzný praptákovi rodu Gargantuavis, do té doby známým jen z území současné Francie.

Popis
Nejnápadnějším znakem tohoto asi 2 až 2,5 metru dlouhého a kolem 15 kg vážícího predátora je přítomnost dvou "srpovitých" drápů na každé jeho dolní končetině; ostatní dromeosauridi měli na každé pouze jeden. Může však jít také o jakousi patologii nebo posmrtné ohnutí druhého prstu. Přední končetiny byly poměrně redukované, i když ne přímo zakrnělé. Zadní nohy byly silné a sloužily spíše ke skoku než běhu. Je pravděpodobné, že Balaur byl dominantním predátorem svého ekosystému a lovil i větší živočichy, než byl sám. Není však jisté, zda žil podobně jako jeho mongolský příbuzný Velociraptor v malých smečkách.

Odkazy

Reference

Literatura
 Z., Csiki; Vremir, M.; Brusatte, S. L.; and Norell, M. A. (2010). "An aberrant island-dwelling theropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Romania". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America preprint. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1006970107.
 Brusatte, S. (2018). The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs. Harper Collins Publishers, New York (); str. 263-266.

Externí odkazy

 Článek o dinosaurovi rodu Balaur

Plazopánví dinosauři
Teropodní dinosauři
Dinosauři z Evropy

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State Briefs | $1 million bond for Arizona woman accused of trying to poison spouse
Connie Eskelson (MCSO)
Originally Published: March 12, 2018 5:49 a.m.
$1 million bond for Arizona woman accused of trying to poison spouse
PHOENIX (AP) – A $1 million cash bond has been set for a Cave Creek woman accused of attempted murder for allegedly using anti-freeze to poison her husband last year.
Maricopa County Sheriff's officials say 66-year-old Connie Eskelson claimed she found her husband unconscious at their home on Aug. 21.
He was transported to the hospital and tests revealed a potential lethal dose of ethylene glycol, an active ingredient in anti-freeze, in his system.
Authorities say the man has fully recovered.
Sheriff's detectives say they tracked down several purchases made by Eskelson for lab grade ethylene glycol.
They believe she tainted her husband's drinks daily until he became ill.
Eskelson was arrested after being indicted by a county grand jury on Wednesday.
She didn't have a lawyer at her initial court appearance Friday.
Phoenix police ID man who was fatally shot after argument
PHOENIX (AP) – Police in Phoenix have identified a man who was fatally shot after an argument.
They say 23-year-old Joseph Long King was pronounced dead at the scene of the shooting shortly before midnight Friday.
Police say King had been loudly arguing with a woman in a car and a 29-year-old man and his wife felt compelled to help her.
The man grabbed his handgun before confronting Long, demanding that he stop yelling at the woman.
After Long got out of his car, the man told police he was briefly able to calm him down before Long punched him in the face.
The man then fired at Long, hitting him at least once.
Police haven't identified the shooter as of Sunday and say the incident remains under investigation.
An Arizona Department of Public Safety trooper reported discovering five AK-47 assault rifles March 11, 2018 after stopping a sedan for a traffic violation on Interstate 10 near Marana. (CBP photo)
Nevada man arrested in Arizona with 5 assault rifles in car
TUCSON (AP) – Arizona authorities have arrested a Nevada man who was found with five AK-47 assault rifles in his rented vehicle.
The Arizona Department of Public Safety trooper reported discovering the weapons after stopping a sedan for a traffic violation on Interstate 10 near Marana.
The trooper was participating in a Department of Homeland Security program that grants funds to other law enforcement agencies to enhance and strengthen border security.
DPS officials say the 24-year-old Nevada man also had a small amount of cocaine in his wallet.
The man's name wasn't immediately available Sunday.
He was arrested for trafficking of weapons and authorities say the rifles were seized and the case turned over to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
Phoenix police: Car crash into a tree leaves 1 dead, 1 hurt
PHOENIX (AP) – Authorities say one person is dead and another injured after a car crashed into a tree in Phoenix.
Phoenix police say officers responded to reports of a single car accident in the area of 35th Street and University Drive around 2:30 a.m. Sunday.
Police say the driver of the vehicle apparently hit a curb, lost control and crashed into a tree.
A 27-year-old man sitting in a backseat was thrown from the car and died at the scene while a 23-year-old man riding in the front seat is hospitalized.
Police didn't immediately release the names of the dead and injured.
Mesa police: Man wounded after shooting at pursuing officers
MESA (AP) – The Mesa Police Department says officers shot and wounded a man who fired at officers after refusing to pull over while driving a vehicle with an expired registration.
Police say no officers were injured in the incident Saturday and that the suspect was expected to survive his injuries.
The wounded suspect's identity wasn't released.
Detective Steve Berry said a police helicopter followed the man's vehicle to an apartment complex where the man jumped out and ran as officers chased him.
Berry said the man pulled out a gun and fired multiple shots at the officers, who fired back, hitting him at least once.
Border Patrol in Arizona seizes marijuana, 2 teens arrested
TUCSON (AP) – The Border Patrol says it has seized 135 pounds of marijuana worth an estimated $111,000 and arrested two Tucson teenagers who tried to flee from agents in downtown Nogales.
The patrol's Nogales station reported Friday that its agents on Thursday saw the two male teens loading several large packages into a minivan near the international boundary fence before traveling to a local grocery store parking lot.
When agents tried to stop them, the driver sped away and set off a chase through downtown before abruptly braking in front of the border crossing and bolting out of the van.
The two boys ages 16 and 17 tried to run away as U.S. border officials worked to catch them. They found the marijuana in the van.
Mom of dead Arizona toddler charged with 1st degree murder
TUCSON (AP) – Authorities say they've arrested the mother of a six-month old Arizona toddler because she allegedly knew the boy's father put blankets on the baby to muffle his cries.
Tucson Police Department says 31-year-old Tamara Fowler was arrested Friday for first-degree murder and three counts of child abuse.
Zechariah MacDonald, MacDonald's 22-year-old father, was arrested March 8 in the death after police and paramedics responded to reports of an unconscious child who wasn't breathing.
The Pima County Attorney' Office later upgraded the charge against the father from manslaughter to first-degree murder and three counts of child abuse.
When the child died, police said they determined MacDonald was watching his two children while their mother was working and placed blankets over Killian to muffle the noise so he could take a nap.
HS student arrested in for school shooting threat
TUCSON (AP) – Pima County Sheriff's deputies say a high school student has been arrested following reports of a threat that a shooting would be carried out at Mountain View High School.
The department said Friday that they responded Thursday evening to the reports about texts and posts on social media claiming there would be a shooting at the school the next day.
Sheriff's detectives working with school officials determined the threat came from a student who wanted to create an excuse for not going to classes Friday.
The department says the student has been charged with issuing threats and intimidation.
State Briefs | 3 teen girls among 8 arrested in Phoenix robberies
State Briefs | Phoenix police ID knife-wielding man who was fatally shot
State Briefs | Phoenix police ID firefighter arrested in station thefts
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Arizona Briefs: Tucson woman arrested in stabbing death of brother

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Naipaul and the life and work problem
This post has been changed a few times. It is expanding in places and contracting in others. I am claiming no new insights, rather working through for myself what I think.
An author doesn't have to be a nice person or to have lived an exemplary life for the novels to be brilliant. The new biography of Naipaul will have turned people back to the articles such as those below.
1) His former publisher Diana Athill in Granta:
I was right to admire that self-respect, at that time, but it was going to develop into a quality difficult to like. In all moral qualities the line between the desirable and the deplorable is imprecise—between tolerance and lack of discrimination, prudence and cowardice, generosity and extravagance—so it is not easy to see where a man's proper sense of his own worth turns into a more or less pompous self-importance.
2) Paul Bowman reviews Sir Vidia's Shadow: A Friendship across Five Continents, by Paul Theroux
3) Zoe Heller in Salon under title, Killing the Father on Theroux's memoir
4) Sarah Kerr in NY Times reviews Theroux
5) Review of Part II of Patrick French's biography of Naipaul:
Part I can be got from there.
6) Nigel Reynolds in Telegraph under title: Sir Vidia Naipaul admits his cruelty may have killed wife.
There are photos of her and his mistress.
7) Robert McCrum Guardian two-parter on visit made to Naipaul in Wiltshire
In part II:
(1) His undergraduate years at University College, Oxford, were a perplexing time for the young man. 'No magic happened in my three years there,' he says, 'I continued to fret over the idea of fiction as something made up.' Fiction as something artificial would not be good enough. For Naipaul, fiction has a serious job to do, it must 'elucidate a situation'. He says, 'If there's no situation to elucidate, I wouldn't write. I wouldn't do the work. I hate the idea of narrative just for the sake of narrative.' But then he takes that back, in apparent contradiction, repeating three times 'Everything is narrative'. Here, momentarily, you glimpse the way in which, for Naipaul, the novel has been the balm to the confusions of his inheritance.
(2)……After he won the Nobel prize in 2001, and possibly in acknowledgment of this painful personal story, he found a passage in Proust's essay Against Sainte-Beuve to elucidate his deepest self, using his Nobel speech to headline it.
It's an interesting passage, and worth quoting, because it goes to the heart of what Naipaul is about: 'Proust has written with great penetration of the difference between the writer as writer and the writer as social being… a book is the product of a different self from the self we manifest in our habits, in our social life, in our vices… I will go further now. I will say I am the sum of my books … it's been like this because of my background. My background is at once exceedingly simple and exceedingly confused.'
V.S. Naipaul On Being a Writer, New York Review of Books 1987, deals briefly with Contra Saint-Beauve.
Spark Notes on Swann's Way
also gives a bit on Contra Saint-Beuve
Wiki: Saint-Beuve
Pierre-Louis Rey:
Towards the summer of 1909, the essay By Way of Saint-Beuve (Contre Sainte-Beuve) metamorphosed into a novel. By imagining that his hero, invited to a matinée at the home of the Princesse de Guermantes, had a revelation of time in its two modes of being (inner time through a series of reminiscences, and outer time through the ageing faces of the Princess's guests), Proust changed the conclusion of his essay into a fictional ending; but it was already full of imaginary scenes and characters, to the point that the thread of his critical discourse had been lost. In short, the project had developed rather than lost its way.
Naipaul, though originally sanctioning the French biography has said he hasn't read it.
There is no obligation to read about the life of a novelist to enjoy the books. Many may deliberately keep away from what the author has done and said. It would give more time to get through more novels. But I doubt few serious readers can resist the temptation to match lives to works. That doesn't mean to say that once we are experts on the life, we are experts on the books.
People are fascinated with Picasso's life and milieu which ought to help understanding why he turned to cubism. But if you don't like his later work – as an aesthetic experience – theoretical understanding of why he and others developed the art form will be unlikely change your mind.
Back-tagging in WordPress on 'Naipaul' I see there is a bit of a debate going on. Nigel Beale in Sunday Salon: Why questions about art and creativity can be tiresome , refers back to his first post,
Author vs. Work; Sainte-Beuve vs. Proust; Dorothy vs. Dan. Stephen Mitchelmore takes up Nigel's contra Proust, in a post primarily on remarks on John Carey's review of John French's biography of Naipaul.
Something else struck me. Another blogger mentioned recently tackling a Naipaul novel. He or she was not enamoured. The pidgin Englishes (plural) got on his/her nerves, and there was puzzlement, for example, over why the local Trinidadian newspaper in the novel covered Hindi films. What were Hindi films all about? How much time do you need to take off from reading the book to find something like this abstract from Finding a Place: Indo-Trinidadian Literature, to give some pointers. It is at this point dear friend, you put the novel down and start reading about the West Indies. Why rush? Take your time: savour the whole process of book and background. Naipaul's life will help to explain the Hindi films too.
Whether you consider the life and the work are intertwined or not, it helps to be able to understand some of the key references. It might be the merest flicker of a mention. If you are not in tune with the subtle nuances, then a book will not mean as much to you: you will not be getting all of that the author hoped you would. These words have been worked on to create this magic, these illusions and psychologies and emotions. It is impossible for me not to think in film terms : some small background feature of a scene that is in some way building an understanding of the action in the scene and the film as a whole. It can be a game too. Where things or actions are placed in front of us which are not meant to be significant but are just entertaining. However, for a moment we wonder if they are important. Jack Nicholson, in Chinatown, putting wristwatches under the back and front of a car tyre, is a very satisfying image. If we do not grasp immediately what this is about we soon do and are impressed. But if we learnt that scriptwriter was in the habit of doing this with watches , or had learnt about it as a real-life activity amongst private detectives, rather than having invented it, would this help or hinder our pleasure in the story?
Can you inhabit the world of the novel without some of this? To create little loops of sub-stories – often involuntarily, often like daydreams, which you may have to force yourself to leave to get back to the reading – is part of the magic of great writing (and film and art, music, and architecture).
The brilliance of the writing alone will not take you into the world the writer is creating. You take something you know about the world with you on this journey. The more the better. The author uses what he knows you know. This is what makes his story possible for you are the reader.
I find I have no difficulty with references to Hindi films in Naipaul (I admit here, by the way, I haven't read the book…) because I already know quite a lot about Indian Trinidadians and the West Indies in general. I didn't need to look up Hindi and Trinidad in Google, but it certainly added more to my understanding, event the 30 seconds I spent scanning a few pages to find the way the presbyterian Church used Hindi to encourage Indian West Indians to join it.
I have only recently learnt more of Naipaul's life, which helps me with the novels: in particular to help chose which I might tackle. But then it is not so much his life as his attitude to where he lived and why he chose to leave, and so on. There have been umpteen reviews of his books over the decades which will have tackled the life in relation to the work which will have been good pointers , for example, to whether Naipaul's early novels were your thing.
You may pick out a well-known author because he is meant to be good – one to tick off the list – only to be disappointed because the theme or characters do not engage. Forget the brilliance of the writing. Maybe, no matter how much you read outside the novel about the world around you, it will still not make a particular novel a worthwhile experience.
The more films you have watched the more you will appreciate references and homages to other films, both of content and technique.
This seem to be working towards a conclusion that the range, depth and breadth of fiction you have read or attempted to read might bear a relation to your general knowledge. Perhaps not dissimilar to some people's attitude to food. Those used to a certain type, when offered something different and exotic, turn their noses up at it.
On Start the Week (BBC Radio 4) this morning, they were decrying the English Departments of late for preferring theory over the books themselves { side remarks about structuralism and post-structuralism… and did I hear someone say post-post-structuralism?}. I distinctly heard Andrew Marr say, What could an 18 year old {himself at Oxford or Cambridge no doubt} get from reading all these books, without experience of life. Someone else, novelist Maggie Gee, I think, said this did not matter so much, that it was possible to get something out of these books (shall we say Shakespeare?) with little knowledge. In any case, one the gets some of the background and goes back for another try, surely?
While writing this I have been thinking of Dostoevsky's The Brother's Kamerazov and Thomas Mann's novels. Before tackling Kamerazov, I had read, years before, Solzynitsyn's Cancer Ward. The fact that I had read a lot about religion in the preceding 10 years made Kamarazov much easier.
I read The Magic Mountain at 25. Though I did not understand it all, I was worldly-wise enough to see in its basics what is said here. I had not got the arts education to catch many of the literary references, but I knew some modern European history, had heard of Lubeck, Mann's home city, and even recognised the way Hansa fitted into the story, even if only from some vague knowledge of the distinctness of Northern Germany. I could place myself in this world quite well. Hans Castorp sets off from Hamburg in the first sentence in The Magic Mountain . It would be helpful to know that it had been a Haseatic port.
The TV series Magnetic North, recently aired on British TV, mentioned that Hitler hated these Baltic cities because they were bourgeois. If you knew that and realised the journey Hans took from Hamburg to Davos cut right through the rest of Germany, you would realise you are already being told something.
I looked up a bit more about Hansa after the TV programme, realising by looking at the maps, how far this economic community spread, east and west (King's Lynn, in Norfolk was a Hansa port) and thought how culture was bound to have spread as well. So, knowing this before starting The Magic Mountain, one would be seeing something more than in the words describing Hans' train journey across Germany to Switzerland. Knowing it after reading it is not without its satisfactions.
This thinking seems to lead inexorably to the elitism of reading, with a well-educated core having proper access the best of the best in novels, with reasonably intelligent, curious others sometimes straying into this hallowed space, like out Naipaul reader who is irritated by the notion of Hindi films popping up in a novel about Trinidad. To the rest the world of the superior novel – if it could called that for the sake of simplicity – a foreign country they have no desire to visit.
In the course of writing this I found a GoogleBook extract from Patriotism, Cosmopolitanism and National Cuture: Public Culture in Hamburg 1700 – 1933. From page 193 {Title: The discrete charm of the Hanseatic Bourgeoisie. Geography, History and Psychology in Thomas Mann's Hamburg. } which is a wonderful illumination. Whether we have to take these facts and ideas on board, such as the Hanseatentum, and accept the life and work are inextricably linked, or whether we can say that these are facts and ideas largely outside the author which would help us to grasp the author's intent better, I'm not sure. In this essay Hans Rudolf Vaget explains why Mann Chose Hamburg as Castorp's starting point rather than Lubeck, and also that the allusion he was trying to create by so doing was an east verses west tension rather than a north south one. I can't remember if there is a telegraphed discussion about this in the novel. Chapter 2 does deal with Hans' background ( Hans….Hasa…Ha!). I'll get the latest translation of TMM and start all over again with my new knowledge.
March 31, 2008 Posted by adferoafferro | Mann, Naipaul, Proust, Saint-Beauve	| Mann, Naipaul, Proust, Saint-Beauve | Leave a comment
Leo Szilard:
Americans "were free to say what they think, because they did not think what they were not free to say." { 1 }
Other Leo Szilard refs:
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Plato:
"You know Phaedrus, that is the strange thing about writing, which makes it truly correspond to painting.
The painter's products stand before us as though they were alive,
but if you question them, they maintain a most majestic silence.
It is the same with written words; they seem to talk
to you as if they were intelligent, but if you ask them anything
about what they say, from a desire to be instructed,
they go on telling you just the same thing forever".
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Some of these posts have an incredible lag-phase, in often being on topics that have been done and dusted years previously. For some reason it reminds me of The Two Ronnies Answering the Question before Last Sketch of fond memory.
But this one is a hardly perennial for readers and writers.
BBC Radio 4's Open Book (Sunday 9 March) covered four interesting topics, including a discussion of bogus memoirs. Blake Eskin, who wrote A Life in Pieces: The Making and Unmaking of Binjamin Wilkomirski discusses the ins and outs. He takes up the story in Slate, explaining how he cames across the other classic fake, Misha: A Mémoire of the Holocaust Years, by Misha Defonseca, while doing research on Wilkomirski :Eskin is a real Wilkomirski on his mother's side.
Jonathan Lear The Man Who Never Was (NYT, February 24, 2002)
Julia Pascal's review of Eskin in The Independent (also 2002)
Jamais deux sans trois, there was James Frey's, A Million Little Pieces. Note the comment about Fey's writing style. There is no way I would read the other two, so no way of checking whether anything comparable in the style department.
A 9 March 2008 NYT Op-Ed by Daniele Mandelsohn, Stolen Suffering, covers all three fakes and mentions yet another, Love and Consequences by Margaret Seltzer, also recently exposed. He says:
In an era obsessed with "identity," it's useful to remember that identity is precisely that quality in a person, or group, that cannot be appropriated by others; in a world in which theme-park-like simulacra of other places and experiences are increasingly available to anyone with the price of a ticket, the line dividing the authentic from the ersatz needs to be stressed, rather than blurred. As, indeed, Ms. De Wael has so clearly blurred it, for reasons that she has suggested were pitiably psychological. "The story is mine," she announced. "It is not actually reality, but my reality, my way of surviving."
The Eskin might be a good read.
March 10, 2008 Posted by adferoafferro | fake memoirs	| fake memoirs, memoirs | Leave a comment
A Return to Things Proust
He tells us that the very limitations of the art—its very departures from strict truth—have an intrinsic moral, that is, compassionate, value. He says, "A real person, profoundly as we may sympathize with him, is in great measure perceptible only through our senses, that is to say, remains opaque, presents a dead weight which our sensibilities have not the strength to lift. If some misfortune comes to him it is only in one small section of the complete idea we have of him that we are capable of feeling any emotion. Indeed it is only in one small section of the complete idea that he has of himself, that he is capable of feeling any emotion either." The novelist's happy discovery was to think of substituting for those opaque sections impenetrable to the human soul their equivalent in immaterial sections. Things, that is, which one's soul can assimilate.
A book : Madame Proust
Excerpt from pages 69-77 of Madame Proust: A Biography by Evelyne Bloch-Dano, translated by Alice Kaplan, published by the University of Chicago Press. ©2007 by The University of Chicago
From an Italian Proust website, marcelproust.it by Gabriella Alù: Photographs of Madame Proust /fascimile of her handwriting (Una pagina del manoscritto de "La Bible d'Amiens" di John Ruskin tradotta da Jeanne Weil con le correzioni di Marcel)
Images of Dr. Proust
Including one in Venice and of father and son Robert
Photos of Nathan Weil, Adèle Berncastel, Marcel's maternal grandparents
Marie de Bénardaky
model for Gilberte, written about in French in a post on Terres de femmes. (2)
Madame Straus
One possible model for the Duchess de Guermantes
This page links to all four women suggested he used for the character.Facsimile of letter by Proust to Madame Emile Straus (unreadable but includes drawing of some character presumably is in A La Researche!)
Link to a set of sketches which will enlarge when clicked on.
This page does all the possible for the Guermantes.
Celeste Alberet:
She who probably answered that bell Proust kept on pulling by his bedside, just like Marcel. At the bottom a YouTube in which she talks about Proust.
A poem (facsimile) dedicated to Céleste.
Photo of Marcel Proust in bed, ill or dead?
Caption in Spanish:
Marcel Proust vivió torturado por su mala salud, que lo obligó a escribir gran parte de su obra en la cama.
{roughly: tortured by ill health, he was obliged to do much of his writing in bed)
Post from literary review, Terres de Femmes, quotes with Le petit pan de mur jaune section from La Prisonnière
I.e. Bergot and Vermer's View of Delft. I have posted on the the patch of yellow in Moleskine Modality in relation to Harold Pinter's The Proust Screenplay.
Set of links to English translations of Proust from website Ephemera.
March 1, 2008 Posted by adferoafferro | Proust	| Celeste Alberet, Proust | Leave a comment


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Q: Getting java.lang.NullPointerException while establishing connection with mysql in java While establishing connection with mysql server getting a java.lang.NullPointerException.
I have written a method getConn() to establish connection in EmployeeModel.java
import java.sql.DriverManager;
import java.sql.PreparedStatement;
import java.sql.SQLException;

import java.sql.Connection;

import dto.Employee;

public class EmployeeModel {
public Connection getConn() throws SQLException, ClassNotFoundException, InstantiationException, IllegalAccessException
{
    Class.forName("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"); //Exception occuring at this line
    Connection con=DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/todo","root","root");
    return con;
}
public String saveEmployee(Employee emp) throws Exception {
    String result="fail";
    Connection con = null;
    try {

        con=getConn(); //method call
        PreparedStatement pstmt=con.prepareStatement("insert into employee_registration values(0,?,?,?,?,?,?)");
        pstmt.setString(1, emp.getName());
        pstmt.setString(2, emp.getDepartment());
        pstmt.setString(3, emp.getUsername());
        pstmt.setString(4, emp.getPassword());
        pstmt.setString(5, emp.getContact());
        pstmt.setString(6, emp.getDob());

        int count=pstmt.executeUpdate();
        if(count>0) {
             result="success";
        }

    }finally {
        con.close();
    }
    return  result;
}
}

when I am calling getConn() from saveEmployee(Employee emp) method of same class getting a following exception.
java.lang.NullPointerException
at model.EmployeeModel.saveEmployee(EmployeeModel.java:42)
at controller.EmpRegistrationController.service(EmpRegistrationController.java:45)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:741)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:231)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:166)
at org.apache.tomcat.websocket.server.WsFilter.doFilter(WsFilter.java:52)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:193)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:166)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:199)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:96)
at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:543)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:139)
at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:81)
at org.apache.catalina.valves.AbstractAccessLogValve.invoke(AbstractAccessLogValve.java:678)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:87)
at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:343)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.service(Http11Processor.java:609)
at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProcessorLight.process(AbstractProcessorLight.java:65)
at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$ConnectionHandler.process(AbstractProtocol.java:810)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.NioEndpoint$SocketProcessor.doRun(NioEndpoint.java:1623)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.SocketProcessorBase.run(SocketProcessorBase.java:49)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.TaskThread$WrappingRunnable.run(TaskThread.java:61)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

While I am calling the getConn() method from test cases(JUnit) in EmployeeTest.java, connection is getting established successfully.
public class EmployeeTest {

@Test
public void testForGetConnectionPositive() throws ClassNotFoundException, SQLException, InstantiationException, IllegalAccessException {
    EmployeeModel eModel=new EmployeeModel();
    Connection con=eModel.getConn();// connection is getting established successfully
    assertNotNull(con);
}
@Test
public void testForEmployeetWithValidValue() throws Exception {
    EmployeeModel eModel=new EmployeeModel();
    Employee emp=new Employee();

    emp.setName("opq");
    emp.setDepartment("computer");
    emp.setUsername("dummyName");
    emp.setPassword("pass2924");
    emp.setContact("7878787878");
    emp.setDob("2/5/2019");

    String actualValue=eModel.saveEmployee(emp);
    assertEquals("success", actualValue);
}

}

My question why it is giving error while calling getConn() method from application.

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Category: Spider-Man
Top 10 Sci Fi/Fantasy Movie Composers
The composer is the unsung hero of genre films. An excellent symphonic score can make a bad film tolerable (see, e.g. Conan the Barbarian), and a bad one can make a good movie downright painful to sit through (go watch Black Hole again and tell me your ears aren't bleeding by the end. Thanks, John Barry!). Most people can hum the melodies, step to the marches, and tap out the rhythms these giants of cinema created without fanfare (that's a music joke right there), but not many folks could name them. So I'm here to do it for you, and also to force my ranking of their relative greatness down your throat in the process!
Here's my methodology: First, I only considered composers who have scored at least five symphonic (no "musical numbers" or "original songs") soundtracks for sci-fi or fantasy films. Second, horror films by themselves didn't count since some composers specialize in only that sub-genre and also … I just don't like most horror movie scores; my list, my rules. Third, the quality of the movie was not considered, just the music. Finally, I judged quality by originality and emotional arousal, not necessarily technical skill (although that counted a bit towards the middle).
One side note (this one's for you, @supergeekerella, so don't troll me later). It might occur to you when you see this list that all of these composers are men. You would be correct, though a couple of them might be on the bubble, honestly. The world of original movie scoring is almost as exclusively male as big-ticket directors, and unfortunately for all of us there just aren't that many women out there composing for genre films… yet. I'd love to include Lesley Barber or Kathryn Bostic on this list – their work is unique and stirring, but there's just not enough of it yet. Maybe I'll revisit in a few years to put some gender equity in here when the catalog is bigger.
And now … The List …
#10 – Basil Poledouris
Classical Influences: Frederic Chopin, Miklos Rozsa
Notable Films: Conan the Barbarian (1982), Robocop (1987), Starship Troopers (1997), Flesh and Blood (1985), Cherry 2000 (1987)
Favorite Track: Theology/Civilization from Conan the Barbarian, Soundtrack
Basil beat out James Newton Howard for the #10 spot, mostly on the strength of two of his film scores: Conan the Barbarian (1982) and Robocop (1987). And also because JNH gives me the meh's. There's something tragic about Basil's music, and his style leans toward the chaotic, mixing movements to the point where you're almost confused about the emotion he wants to draw out. But when Akiro the Wizard says "Let me tell you of the days of high adventure!" I'll bet you can hear the punchy music that follows in your head.
#9 – David Arnold
Classical Influences: Gioachino Rossini, Ludwig van Beethoven
Notable Films: Stargate (1994), Independence Day (1996), Godzilla (1998), Wing Commander (1999), The Chronicles of Narnia (2010),
Favorite Track: Stargate Overture from Stargate, Soundtrack
I almost had to break my own rule on this one because of Godzilla. @wittywats and I walked out of this film within the first 30 minutes back in 1998, but we stayed to watch all of In & Out. That should tell you something. Not even Arnold's workhorse score could save that shitbag movie. The rest of his work, however, is solid and serviceable. The Irish composer is better known for his work on James Bond films, but his genre catalog is well known, if thin. Just enough to squeak into the number 9 spot.
#8 – Michael Giacchino
Classical Influences: John Philip Sousa, Johann Strauss (the II, you rube)
Notable Films: Star Trek (2009), John Carter (2012), Star Trek Into Darkness (2013), Jupiter Ascending (2015), Spider Man Homecoming (2017)
Favorite Track: The Temple of Issus from John Carter, Soundtrack
Look, when you're tapped to make music for Star Trek and the Marvel Cinematic Universe there must be something appealing about your art. Giacchino has the mass appeal thing down to a science, and he can tug your nostalgia strings like … well, like a conductor. His style is thematic and largely depends on the context on-screen to really grab you, but he does that better than almost anyone else. I wouldn't call any of his music especially memorable however, and he has a tendency to name his tracks with puns, which is why he's only at #8.
#7 – Howard Shore
Classical Influences: Richard Wagner, Jean Sibelius
Notable Films: All of the Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit films
Favorite Track: Riders of Rohan from Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Soundtrack
Yes, yes. I realize that although there are six fantasy films in Shore's catalog they're all set in the same series. It's a limitation, which is why he's this low on the list. But good gravy, the heroic themes in The Lord of the Rings series are second to none. Shore has said that he composed the music for the series such that if you discovered it in an archaeological dig from the 16th century, it wouldn't seem out of place. I don't know about all of that, but if you can listen to the score for The Two Towers and not want to raise your sword in defiance, then you're a dead shell of a person.
#6 – Danny Elfman
Classical Influences: Igor Stravinsky, Bela Bartok
Notable Films: Beetlejuice (1988), Batman (1989), Darkman (1990), Spiderman (2002), Justice League (2017)
Favorite Track: The Batman Theme from Batman, Soundtrack
Many of the composers on this list have "side projects" that include a totally unknown rock band, but Danny Elfman did it in reverse. He was the front man for the odd rock band Oingo Boingo before he started composing for theater and then films. Apparently, he didn't even know how to read music when he started composing his theatrical scores (or at least not well), and was just banging out the music on a piano. Now he's one of the most recognizable and successful film composers of all time, known mostly for his Tim Burton partnership. It's entirely possible that he's your favorite on this list, but frankly his style doesn't appeal to me that much. There just a little too much Pee Wee's Big Adventure in most of his music for me. Having said that, I loved the Batman score. This is a movie that had two soundtracks – one of them by Prince (Prince!) – and Elfman's Batman Theme still is one of the most recognizable superhero themes ever.
#5 – Jerry Goldsmith
Classical Influences: Arnold Schoenberg, Claude Debussy
Notable Films: Planet of the Apes (1968), Star Trek the Motion Picture (1979), Alien (1979), Gremlins (1984), Total Recall (1990)
Favorite Track: Overture from Twilight Zone the Movie, Soundtrack
At this point in the list, things get tricky. The rest of the composers are all prolific, recognizable (in style, anyway), and inarguably excellent at their craft. Not much separates the rest of the pack until you get to #1 (who, let's be honest, is in a class all his own). It would be difficult to argue, therefore, that Goldsmith shouldn't be higher on this list – now it's just down to "I like this one better." Goldsmith has written some of the most memorable pieces of movie music ever, most notably the Star Trek theme that was eventually adapted into the TV theme for The Next Generation, and he has a gift for incorporating different cultural elements into his music to set the tone. Listen to Klingon Battle in Star Trek the Motion Picture, or The Hunt from Planet of the Apes side-by-side with Too Many Gremlins and tell me this guy isn't diverse. Goldsmith died in 2004 and movies have suffered for the loss.
#4 – Alan Silvestri
Classical Influences: Johannes Brahms, Richard Wagner
Notable Films: Back to the Future (1985), Predator (1987), The Abyss (1989), Contact (1987), The Avengers (2012)
Favorite Track: End Credits from Predator, Soundtrack
Alan Silvestri is known primarily for his collaboration with Robert Zemeckis, which gifted us with the unforgettable Back to the Future soundtrack. Silvestri is a drummer (one of the few professional composers who started as a percussionist), and his scores reflect that. There's a sort of "forced march" feeling to most of his music, as the pounding drums and brass take you to a climax that never quite happens. His score can turn a silly movie, or a silly scene, into something you immediately take seriously.
#3 – Hans Zimmer
Classical Influences: Ludwig von Beethoven, Gustav Mahler
Notable Films: Batman Begins (2005), The Dark Knight (2008), Sherlock Holmes (2009), Inception (2010), Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
Favorite Track: Mesa from Bladerunner 2049, Soundtrack
In general, I like German composer Hans Zimmer's emotional pull. His music is evocative and dark, and well-suited to expansive sci-fi films like Interstellar and The Dark Knight. But the real reason he's on my list is because he had a cameo appearance in the first music video ever played on MTV in 1981: Video Killed the Radio Star by The Buggles. If that doesn't give you instant music cred, then nothing will. Everyone who has seen a Christopher Nolan film is already familiar with Zimmer, and his scores are a big part of the success of Nolan's films. To my ears, however, his crowning achievement is the Bladrunner 2049 score. I would never have imagined someone could so effectively capture the wounded, plaintive sense of the original Vangelis score from the 1982 film, and then transform it into something with a dash of hope and wonder. But he did it. And we should all be grateful.
#2 – James Horner
Classical Influences: Sergei Prokofiev, Antonin Dvorak
Notable Films: Star Trek II The Wrath of Khan (1982), Krull (1983), Cocoon (1985), Aliens (1986), Avatar (2009)
Favorite Track: Battle In the Mutara Nebula from Star Trek II The Wrath of Khan, Soundtrack
When James Horner died in 2015, I listened to the Wrath of Khan and Search for Spock soundtracks nonstop for weeks. Horner was a piano and violin virtuoso whose preferred score style is frenetic and uplifting, and he was a master at weaving the different sections of an orchestra together into a tapestry of emotional resonance. Take my favorite piece (Battle in the Mutara Nebula) as an example. The very first measures layer the strings together … Cello, then Viola, then Violin (with an assist from the French Horns) … before everyone drops out, leaving the violins alone to let you and the crew of the Enterprise know "oh shit, we need to make a run for it!". You'll also notice that every time the Enterprise is on screen, there's a clean rhythm from the brass. It's fucking brilliant. Horner was accused of being repetitive in his early career, and there's some truth to that, but that faded after The Name of the Rose in 1986. Everything after that movie was significant for it's maturity, but still retained that mind-bending layering style that was unique to Horner. But nothing competes with Khaaaaaaaannnn!!!!!
#1 (with a bullet) – John Williams
Classical Influences: John Philip Sousa, Gustav Holst
Notable Films: Waaaay too many to list effectively, but: Star Wars (1977), Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), Superman (1978), Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), E.T. The Extraterrestrial (1982), Jurassic Park (1993), Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001).
Favorite Track: Superman March (Alternate Version) from Superman, Soundtrack
Unlike the other composers on this list, everyone knows John Williams. We can all hum along to the main themes from Star Wars, Indiana Jones, E.T., and Harry Potter. The man is a damn meme unto himself. If you haven't "duh-duh-duh duh-da-duh duh-da-duh"ed the Imperial March when a hated boss/colleague walks by, then I don't need to know you. John Williams is the architect of the post-1980's American psychology of greatness (maybe that's a bit heavy-handed, but hear me out). Apart from defining the musical persona of the Nazi-battling archaeologist Indiana Jones, did you know he wrote the main theme to the Olympics? Or the intro to NBC Nightly News? John Williams can be thanked (blamed) for introducing Nerds and non-Nerds alike to classical music. That's certainly true for me. Luckily I had a composer in the family who would say, "Oh you like the Star Wars music? Try listening to Holst's Jupiter Symphony. You like that too? Now try Rossini, or Dvorak. Now go out and buy the Hooked on Classics 8-track." I digress. Without this man, there would likely be very few symphonic scores for movies these days. All of the other composers on this list owe him a debt of gratitude for keeping them employed over the past 40 years. John Williams FTW!
Posted on February 26, 2019 Author HalbrookCategories Alien, Avengers, Avengers, Back To The Future, Batman, General Geekery, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Movies, Movies & TV, Music, Planet of the Apes, Spider-Man, Spider-ManTags Alan Silvestri, Basil Poledouris, Danny Elfman, David Arnold, Hans Zimmer, Harry Potter, Howard Shore, James Horner, Jerry Goldsmith, John Williams, Michael Giacchino, Movie, movies, Music, Star WarsLeave a comment on Top 10 Sci Fi/Fantasy Movie Composers
Spider-Man Complete Chronology Update 10 (Spider-Man v Superman Edition)
In an era where Marvel and DC are spending most of their time and resources duking it out for supremacy at the box office, it may be hard to believe that it wasn't that long ago the Big Two had quite a run of crossovers between their respective super hero universes.
The 90's gave rise to crossovers such as Batman/Daredevil, Batman/Punisher, Batman/Captain America, Batman/Spider-Man…hmm…I guess they should more accurately be called Marvel and Batman crossovers.
Prior to that 90's boom however, the crossing over of characters between the two companies was few and far between. After the break we'll look at two of those starring the two companies biggest hitters (apologies to Batman): Superman and Spider-Man.
As usual, spoilers follow from here on out if you've missed out on the last 50 years of Spider-Man and are just getting started.
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Posted on April 19, 2016 Author jimmyimpossibleCategories DC, Hulk, Marvel, Spider-Man, Superheroes & Comics, Superman, Wonder WomanTags Amalgam Comics, Clark Kent, Daily Bugle, Daily Planet, Dark Claw, DC, DC vs. Marvel, Doctor Octopus, Doom, Dr. Doom, Lex Luthor, Lois Lane, Marvel, Marvel Vs. DC, Mary Jane Watson, Metropolis, New York, Parasite, Peter Parker, Spider-Man, super ventriloquism, Superman, Superman And Spider-Man, Superman vs. The Amazing Spider-Man3 Comments on Spider-Man Complete Chronology Update 10 (Spider-Man v Superman Edition)
Spoilers After The Break: Unbelievable Gwenpool #1 Review
For a character that's been dead since 1973 and outside of some clone shenanigans has never been resurrected, Gwen Stacy sure is popular these days. Probably much to known hater Tom Kelly's chagrin, Gwen just launched a second title that she is headlining. After the break, a brief history of Gwen and a look (with possible spoilers) at Unbelievable Gwenpool #1.
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Posted on April 15, 2016 April 15, 2016 Author jimmyimpossibleCategories Marvel, Movies, Movies & TV, Spider-Man, Spider-Man, Spider-Woman, Superheroes & ComicsTags Amazing Spider-man, Amazing Spider-Man 2, Dead no more, Deadpool, Deadpool's Secret Secret Wars #2, Edge of Spider-Verse, Gerry Conway, Gwen Stacy, Gwen Stacy clone, Gwen Stacy variant covers, Gwenpool, Gwenpool Holiday Special, Howard The Duck, Peter Parker, Robbi Rodriguez, Spider-Gwen, Spider-Man, The Night Gwen Stacy Died, Ultimate Gwen Stacy, Unbelievable Gwenpool #1, Unbelievable Gwenpool #1 reviewLeave a comment on Spoilers After The Break: Unbelievable Gwenpool #1 Review
Spoilers After The Break: Amazing Spider-Man #10 Review
The latest issue of the Amazing Iron Man Spider-Man hit store shelves (for Jenny) and digitally for everyone else today. (How many of you guys still read the majority of your books that are made from dead trees?) Let's take a look at it, and the post-Secret Wars Spider-Man in general after the break. Careful, this way be spoilers.
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Posted on April 13, 2016 Author jimmyimpossibleCategories Marvel, Spider-Man, Superheroes & ComicsTags Amazing Spider-man, Amazing Spider-Man #10, Amazing Spider-Man #10 review, Curt Conners, Dan Slott, Dead no more, Doctor Octopus, Electro, Iron Man, Lizard, One More Day, Parker Industries, Peter Parker, Rhino, Spider-Man, Superior Spider-man, ZodiasLeave a comment on Spoilers After The Break: Amazing Spider-Man #10 Review
Spoilers After The Break: Spider-Man #3 Review
I think I've read every appearance of Miles Morales. I'm working on reading every appearance of Peter Parker. But now that the Ultimate and 616 universes have been blended together, it brings up some questions. More on this and Spider-Man #3 (with spoilers) after the break.
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Posted on April 11, 2016 April 11, 2016 Author jimmyimpossibleCategories Marvel, Ms Marvel, Spider-Man, Superheroes & ComicsTags 1610, 616, Black Cat, Brian Michael Bendis, Continuity, Felicia Hardy, hammerhead, Incursions, Miles Morales, Ms. Marvel, Norman Osborn, Peter Parker, Prime Earth, Sara Pichelli, Secret Wars, Spider-ManLeave a comment on Spoilers After The Break: Spider-Man #3 Review
CONFIRMED: Spider-Man Cast As Young Han Solo
Gabbing Geek sources have just confirmed that Spider-Man will be cast as young Han Solo in the upcoming standalone Star Wars film.
When reached for comment, Spider-Man had this to say: "Hey, can you leave me out of this? You guys did this same schtick last year with my casting. I'm trying to re-establish my rep here. And so far, so good. Look at me up there with that shield. I look Marvelous. Absolutely Marvelous! So go on about your business."
Stay tuned to GabbingGeek.com as additional details are revealed.
Posted on April 1, 2016 April 1, 2016 Author jimmyimpossibleCategories Marvel, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Movies, Movies & TV, Spider-Man, Star Wars, Superheroes & ComicsTags afd, casting, Han Solo, Spier-Man, standalone, Star Wars, young han soloLeave a comment on CONFIRMED: Spider-Man Cast As Young Han Solo
Spider-Man Complete Chronology Update 9
And we're back! This update took longer than I suspected for many reasons. Some of them personal, some of them ironing out a few continuity issues, but luckily none of them trying to figure out if it was winter and where Peter Parker was working!
It's a big update consisting of over 90 issues as we make our way through most of 1981-1982.
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Posted on March 30, 2016 March 29, 2016 Author jimmyimpossibleCategories Captain America, Daredevil, Doctor Strange, Fantastic Four, Hulk, Marvel, Spider-Man, Superheroes & Comics, Thor, Wolverine, X-MenTags Amazing Spider-man, Captain America, Death of Captain Marvel, Defenders, fantastic four, Marvel Fanfare, Marvel Super Hero Contest Of Champions, Marvel Team-Up, Spectacular Spider-Man, Spider-Man, Spider-Man Complete ChronologyLeave a comment on Spider-Man Complete Chronology Update 9
Spiders, Spiders Everywhere Part 10 (Death Of Captain Marvel Edition)
The Death of Captain Marvel is one of those stories that routinely show up on critics "best of" lists, but that you never get around to reading. Well, it has been that way for me anyway. But I recently remedied that as I had to read it to see if it fit in with the Spider-Man Complete Chronology. Given I'm writing about it in this column series and not in a Chronology update, I think reveals the answer to that.
More about The Death of Captain Marvel and it's place in Spider-Man lore after the break.
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Posted on March 23, 2016 March 23, 2016 Author jimmyimpossibleCategories Avengers, Captain America, Doctor Strange, Fantastic Four, Hulk, Iron Man, Marvel, Spider-Man, Superheroes & Comics, Wolverine, X-MenTags 9/11, Amazing Spider-Man #36, barbara gordon, Batgirl, Captain Mar-vell, Death of Captain Marvel, Doctor Doom, Jim Starlin, Joker, Marvel Super Hero Contest Of Champions, Professor X, Reed Richards, Spider-Man, Spider-Man Complete Chronology, The Killing Joke, tony stark2 Comments on Spiders, Spiders Everywhere Part 10 (Death Of Captain Marvel Edition)
Bento Review: Edge Of Spider-Verse
Comic Bento apparently wanted me to horn on the storied work of one James "Jimmy" Impossible, who wrote extensively on all things Spider-Verse. I mean, he wrote seven long posts chronicling every inch of Spider-Verse. That was before he went insane trying to do the same with Convergence and the entirety of Secret Wars. See the efforts of his madness with parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7.
Heck, Jimmy covered all the issues in this trade in the third part of his work there. But I'm writing a review, while Jimmy was giving a plot summary/commentary. That's my excuse and I am sticking to it.
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Posted on March 21, 2016 March 20, 2016 Author tomk74Categories Marvel, Spider-Man, Superheroes & ComicsTags Aaron Aikman, batman, Comic Bento, comic book subscription box, Convergence, Daredevil, Edge of Spider-Verse, Gerard Way, Gwen Stacy, Jimmy Impossible, My Chemical Romance, Patton Parnell, Punisher, Secret Wars, Sp//dr, Spider-Gwen, Spider-Man, Spider-Man Noir, Spider-VerseLeave a comment on Bento Review: Edge Of Spider-Verse
Spiders, Spiders Everywhere Part 9 (Contest Of Champions Edition)
If you are old like me you probably remember Marvel Super Hero Contest Of Champions. It's a series with a backstory perhaps more interesting than the series itself. It also paved the way for all those mega crossovers you love/loathe today.
Contest was Marvel's first limited series. It was also the first time that one of the big two had all of their heroes come together to battle a single threat. And while it had no endless amount of tie-in books, it clearly set the stage for the original Secret Wars and DC's Crisis On Infinite Earth's, which would appear not long after.
More on Contest and what any of this has to do with our pal Spider-Man and it's exclusion from the Spider-Man Complete Chronology after the break.
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In the early 1960s, Glass spent two years of intensive study in Paris with Nadia Boulanger and while there, earned money by transcribing Ravi Shankar's Indian music into Western notation. Akhnaten, by Philip Glass, continues through Dec. 7 at the Metropolitan Opera. He emerged in the 1960s at a time when contemporary classical music, spearheaded by those infamous "bad boys" Karlheinz Stockhausen and Pierre Boulez, had reached unparalleled levels of intellectual inscrutability. List of Philip Glass compositions. But Glass and his American compadres like Steve Reich and Terry Riley have been like cowboys at a polo match, rarely displaying much reverence for what's proper or the dictums of the past. Classic editor History Comments Share. In order to pay rent, composers frequently take up secondary jobs. The following is a list of compositions by Philip Glass. Price: US $6.95. Add to cart . 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What Philip Glass compositions / albums would you recommend? Eleanor Wachtel speaks with the American composer Philip Glass. Asked 6 days ago|1/15/2021 9:53:44 PM. Glass's work has been associated with minimalism, being built up from repetitive phrases and shifting layers. Philip Glass (1937-present) an American composer, who became familiar with Beethoven quartets, Schubert sonatas, Shostakovich symphonies and other music through his father's radio repair and record shop. Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Philip Glass is a graduate of the University of Chicago and the Juilliard School. Glass's work has been described as minimal music, having similar qualities to other "minimalist" composers such … https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/22527-the-complete-sony-recordings It will be broadcast live in HD to movie theaters around the world on Nov. 23. Add to Watchlist Unwatch. From the Archives—January/February 1991 Interview / Thomas Rain Crowe. 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Did you get an extension on filing your taxes in April? Thursday is the final deadline — and that does mean final — for filing your 2008 return.
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NEW YORK (AP) — It may have seemed like you had all the time in the world to file your tax return after you got that six-month extension last April. But if you still haven't sent it in, there's no more stalling.
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