S Kleefeld: I know that you've been getting increasingly busy over the past weeks and months, but I was hoping that you might have a few spare moments to answer some questions for my web site. You're certainly in a unique position when it comes to your relationship with the Fantastic Four, and I think you could provide some fascinating insights into the creation of the book.
If I'm not mistaken, you're earliest extended work with the FF was actually as co-writer of Fantastic Force. Since the team's creators, Tom DeFalco and Paul Ryan, were still working on the main FF book, how did the Fantastic Force comic come across your lap?
Tom Brevoort: You're mistaken. The earliest work I did with the FF was the story in Fantastic Four Unlimited #8, which remains a favorite. It saw print after FanForce #1, so I can understand your confusion.
As for how I got involved with FanForce, originally, the series was to have been done by another creative team altogether. You may have seen previews for this version in Marvel Age and elsewhere. But after months of going back and forth, things reached an impasse, and that creative team resigned from the book -- which left the editors with a book to produce in short order and nobody to do it. That Unlimited story had been well-received by most people who read it, and assistant editor Joe Andreani was a very vocal advocate for giving Mike and I the book based on that. And so it came to pass.
SK: You actually worked on the book with your long-time friend and associate, Mike Kanterovich. How did the two of you work together on the book?
SK: At the time, the book struck me as unique for several production reasons, one of which was that the regular artist, Dante Bastianoni, was actually working out of Italy, if I'm not mistaken. It's one of the earliest instances I'm aware of where Marvel hired an overseas artist for a monthly series. Were there any logistical problems that came up as a result of that?
TB: Not at the start. Dante had penciled that Unlimited story and done a bang-up job, so he was all right with us. It became a problem later on, in that Dante could only manage to do about 16 pages a month. We were asked to switch over to a 16 page lead story and a 6 page back-up in terms of plotting after a while -- but whenever we'd write an issue that way, Dante or someone else'd end up drawing it all, thus defeating the purpose, and whenever we'd write a full 22-page issue somebody else would end up penciling the last 6 pages. That's not Dante's fault, of course -- it's more a question of poor editorial planning.
SK: One of the other unique "production" aspects of the book, as I recall, was your and Mike's online presence at the time. I believe the first online chat I attended was actually where you first announced that She-Hulk would be joining the team. Did you, at the time, have the sense what a big part the internet would soon play in promoting comics or were you more interested in the immediate feedback that was difficult to find until then?
TB: Well, I liked the immediate feedback, certainly. I think the Internet gives you a rather skewed picture of the readership as a whole, though, so I always try to keep it in context.
SK: In the years since then, I've come to learn some of your attitudes regarding how comics should be made and, looking back, it seems that Fantastic Force went counter to some of those notions. The concept, for example, seemed -- not to offend you, of course; I think the stories and character interactions were well done -- but the concept itself seemed a little contrived. And the series, being spun out of the main Fantastic Four book, had a lot more crossovers than it seems you'd be comfortable with. I'm curious how much of that came from various editors, and how much were simply things you've been thinking about differently since then.
TB: If there's a way not to launch a series, Fantastic Force was it. As I recall, the original idea came up in response to a column Tony Isabella had written in the aftermath of books like X-Force and Force Works, concerned that the same would be done to Fantastic Four. The plan was never to replace FF, but part of the strategy was to make it seem like FF was going to be replaced -- which was probably not the best idea in the world. So, inspired by this article, Tom DeFalco started brainstorming who would be in this new spin-off group. He came up with a roster, and then Mark Gruenwald and other tweaked it, turning it into something much like what it ended up being (Kismet would have been in the series at one point). But there wasn't any central core concept, nothing that separated FanForce from everything else -- no reason for being. And that was a big problem.
When we were brought in to write the series, Mike and I looked at the pieces that were there on the table, and tried to retrofit a central concept to what already existed. And what we came up with is that Fantastic Four is about four once-ordinary people who go out and get involved in the extraordinary, but Fantastic Force, given the roster of characters we had, would be about a group of extraordinary people, from diverse cultures, nations, times, who get involved in the ordinary world of downtown Manhattan. Everybody agreed that this made sense and was the way to go -- and yet, when we started working ont he book, we were always being pushed away from dealing with anything in this vein. There are a bunch of false starts that you can see in teh early issues, things that were being set up but really didn't get a chance to go anywhere because we were being told, "More fighting!" editorially. Also, the editor had taken Tom DeFalco's request for single issue stories initially a bit to literally -- Tom didn't mean not to have subplots, but that each issue should have a set-up and payoff in one installment (much like his later MC2 books). But this was interpreted so dogmatically that we couldn't get any sort of flow or momentum going.
Beyond that, the biggest drawback with the crossovers was that we hit them one after another, so for about three months right in the middle of the run we were telling anybody's story but our own. And the couple of things we asked other people to set up in other chapters ended up being botched. Fantastic Force was never a high priority editorally, so ti always seemed to get the short end of the stick in terms of people paying attention to it and making sure all of the ducks were in a row.
SK: Speaking of crossovers, the book had a lot of direct and indirect tie-ins with Tom and Paul's book. How much did you work with them to ensure that you weren't stepping on each others' toes?
TB: Tom and Paul were great. Tom particularly bent over backwards on some of our crazier ideas, such as bringing the Human Torch into FanForce as a member. We didn't work terribly closely with Tom and Paul -- most of the coordination was handled editorially -- and every once in a while there'd be some frustrating roadblock (as when the last page of #7 was rewritten poorly because Paul hadn't gotten the correct reference from the office when he came to draw the following FF chapter, and he'd set things up differently), but all in all they were great to deal with.
SK: The series ended more or less in tandem with the coming of Onslaught and Heroes Reborn. Was it cancelled directly because the organizational shuffling to get all of Marvel's characters back to their "status quo" or was it more of a sales concern?
TB: My understanding was that it was a sales issue. The book was simply not selling well by the end.
SK: Since then, of course, you've gone on to edit some of the most well-received titles in Marvel's stable. With your experience, I wouldn't think you would have been overly concerned about adding the Fantastic Four to your list, but you came on just before their 40th anniversary issue with the popular, regular creators choosing to leave shortly afterwards. Was there any sense of intimidation on your part, starting on a book with some of these big obstacles in front of you?
TB: Concern, but not intimidation. Fantastic Four is the book to have. I refer to it as "climbing the mountain." There's no other series I'd more want to edit. So sure, the problems were problems, but they weren't any more or less difficult than if I had similar problems on Thor or Avengers or Iron Man.
SK: It seems that most fans of the book have been fairly happy with the direction Carlos [Pacheco] and Rafael [Marin] have taken the book. Are you hoping to continue focusing on the same types of themes, or are there other angles that you'd care to bring to more prominence? Any long-term plans past the anniversary?
TB: In a nutshell, I think the malaise Fantastic Four has found itself in over the last decade stems from its longetivity. When the book began, and through much of its early years, it was a vibrant, colorful series with characters whose personalities crackled off the page. But four decades of familiarity have made the FF seem lifeless. The characters have often fallen into schtick, into narowly-defined roles (or, occasionally, written so far removed from those roles that they didn't seem like the same characters at all.) People have forgotten what makes these characters cool and interesting. They've ceased to see them with fresh eyes. So that's job one -- to remind people in the most direct way possible how fascinating and engaging the Fantastic Four can be.
SK: One of the first things fans saw you do as the new FF editor was to ask about what stories they'd like to see if you did a "monster" issue. I presume you're allowing some time after the over-sized 50th issue before asking fans to buy another giant issue. Any idea when a monster FF might show up? And have you made any decisions about what stories to include?
TB: Fantastic Four #54. It'll include the birth of Franklin story from FF Annual #6 (Stan and Jack's longest single FF story) as well as the Impossible Man's New York Adventure from FF #176 by Roy Thomas and George Pérez.
SK: One last, obligatory question: who have you got lined up as the new, regular creative team for the FF?
TB: Wait and see. Once we're ready to announce who'll be working on the book, you'll certainly hear about it. But not until we're ready.


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B.C. expands safer alternatives to toxic drugs
Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 15 Jul, 2021 02:02 PM
British Columbia says it's bringing in a new policy that will expand access to safer prescription drugs for people at risk of overdose and death from toxic substances, without expecting them to enter treatment.
The Ministry of Mental Health and Addictions says people who have been clinically assessed will get alternatives including oral opioids to replace drugs that could be laced with potentially deadly fentanyl.
It says substitutes include fentanyl patches already being used, and for the first time fentanyl tablets, as well as expanded use of injectable and tablet hydromorphone in clinical settings — and a referral won't be required.
The ministry says the program will be available through clinics that currently prescribe alternatives to illicit drugs, which may be expanded as it waits for implementation plans that are due back from health authorities at the end of the month.
Doctors reluctant to prescribe medications to substance users are expected to be provided with training, and the prescribed drugs will be covered by PharmaCare.
The provincial coroners service says 851 people died of suspected drug toxicity between January and May, surpassing the previous high of 704 deaths reported for those months in 2017 by almost 21 per cent.
Cruise ships back in Canadian waters on Nov. 1
The federal government says cruise ships will be allowed back in Canadian waters in November, but they must follow public health requirements. Transport Minister Omar Alghabra says the prohibition on cruise ships because of COVID-19 will be lifted Nov. 1.
Investigation into alleged racist comments hurled at a Sikh security guard in Kelowna taking place
Since then, a video has emerged of a protestor yelling what appear to be racially motivated comments and accusations at a staff member who asked him to leave the property.
Former defence chief Jonathan Vance charged
Retired general Jonathan Vance, former chief of the defence staff, has been charged with obstruction of justice related to an investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct.
Coyotes euthanized after Stanley Park attack
The statement says one of the animals was found close to the site where the child was bitten on the head and neck at around dusk on Monday.
More ground to search in Kamloops, expert says
Prof. Sarah Beaulieu of the University of the Fraser Valley says the search has covered less than a hectare and there is another 65 hectares to search. Beaulieu says the investigation also has evidence from those who were as young as six at the time being woken in the night to dig graves.
WHO chief says it was 'premature' to rule out COVID lab leak
In a rare departure from his usual deference to powerful member countries, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said getting access to raw data had been a challenge for the international team that traveled to China earlier this year to investigate the source of COVID-19. The first human cases were identified in the Chinese city of Wuhan.

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Educational magazines
Soteriou, Alexandra
PERSONAL: Female. Hobbies and other interests: Papermaking.
ADDRESSES: Home—NJ. Agent—Mapin Publishing, c/o Grantha Corporation, 31 Somnath Rd., Usmanpura, Ahmedabad 380 013, India.
CAREER: Anthropologist, researcher, exhibit curator, lecturer, and writer. World Paper, Inc., Bergenfield, NJ, founder. Former consultant to U.S. Aid for International Development and United Nations Industrial Development Organization.
AWARDS, HONORS: Indo-American Fellowship Award.
WRITINGS:
Gift of the Conquerors: Hand Paper-making in India, Grantha Corporation (Middletown, NJ), 1997.
SIDELIGHTS: Anthropologist Alexandra Soteriou has had a continuing interest in the art of papermaking in India since 1985. Researching this subject intensely by traveling throughout India and meeting with the artisans who still practiced hand papermaking, she decided she would do what she could to keep the craft from fading into obscurity. Practicing the art of paper-making herself, she also founded World Paper, Inc., which works to promote the craft, and she published an illustrated book on the subject, Gift of the Conquerors: Hand Paper-making in India, in 1997.
Gift of the Conquerors is used to help others learn papermaking, while offering an extensive history of the process and discussing its cultural links with the political and religious tides of India. The book also includes passages on the lives of papermakers, a map that illustrates where the country's important papermaking regions are, recipes and methods of papermaking, a variety of paintings and drawings, and a thorough bibliography. Papermaking in India, where it was introduced by Muslims centuries ago, had fallen out of practice at the time the author was visiting that country. But with the help of Soteriou's and other's efforts, it experienced a revival. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, India was one of the leading countries continuing the art.
BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:
India in New York, July 30, 1999, p. 14.
Library Journal, June 15, 1999, p. 76.*
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Sermon Recap: The Harvest: Grow — Not By Chance
by bethgsanders | Oct 29, 2012 | Sunday Recap
Ruth 2:8 – 14
The story of Ruth and Naomi picks up as the women are in Jerusalem. Naomi's relative, Boaz, was a generous man and the woman had no food. They go to Boaz' field, hoping to get some leftover grain after the harvest. Boaz sees Ruth and sends her to the front of the line, because he knew of the sacrifices she had made for Naomi.
As Boaz freely gives her food and water, she wonders why he would be so kind to her, a stranger, an immigrant (a word that translates roughly to adopted.
Shane outlined three reasons a person is adopted:
For their survival, as a young child with no home. Moses was adopted for his survival.
So that they may grow beyond the level to which their family can grow them. Samuel's story in the Bible demonstrates this.
Some are adopted as a launching pad to change their world. In the greatest example, Joseph adopted Jesus, protected Him, and gave him a place and an identity — Jesus of Nazareth — from which he could accomplish His ministry.
Why is this identity important?
It gives us confidence to be who God has called us to be. Ruth had no confidence, but Boaz lifted her up. Because we are adopted in Christ, we are made new family. All that has gone before is null and void.
It gives us the ability to grow to the stature that God has intended for us. Ruth grew into an identity and a place she came to call her own.
Boaz tells Ruth that her witness preceded her. Our witness precedes us as well, whether positive or negative. We must study and grow to become more deeply rooted in the Word so that we can clearly articulate to others our place in God's family.


Ben: "Thanks for giving me a couple of minutes of your time David. Is it ok if I ask you a couple of questions that we can share with our clients to help them get to know you better?"
David: "We are trapped in the car for two hours and I didn't bring duct tape to keep you quiet. Can I say no to this?"
Ben: "So David you have a pretty interesting background with a Bachelor of Applied Sciences, you're a qualified teacher and a Rotarian but for the last 10 years you have been leading sales and marketing for another Tasmanian-based technology company?"
David: "Yeah, that's right. Along the way I have realised that I really like solving complex problems and developing people. The combined sciences and teaching background means that I have been able to do that really well in the tech industry."
Ben: "What kind of clients do you normally work with?"
David: I have spent a lot of time working with government, schools and enterprise-level companies with 50+ employees. I like to work closely with thm to bring in the high-level strategic advice to help lead their use of technology. Normally this is focused heavily on managing and implementing change that enables my clients to deliver better value for their customers".
Ben: "Why does technology interest you?"
David: "It's along the lines of the Digital Ready work that you are doing, but how do extend that across the rest of the population? How can we use technology to improve learning outcomes in schools? How can we use technology to improve business outcomes? For me technology is a key part of the puzzle. It is only one piece of the puzzle, but the importance of doing that piece properly is getting bigger and bigger."
Ben: "What do you think is key to driving performance and results?"
David: "Stopping you from asking so many questions?"
Ben: "Wrong answer, try again."
David: "People really need clarity and understanding on the simple things they have do to achieve their goals, otherwise it's just not possible."
Ben: "Where do you see the future of Eaglecrest Technologies?"
David: "I can see Eaglecrest becoming the vehicle that people turn to when they want to solve problems, achieve something out of the ordinary or simply improve their business.I was really excited to see that you were successful in getting on to the Professional Services Panel for the government too. Your case studies that clearly demonstrate what you are capable of and what you have been able to achieve would have made a big difference."
Ben: "Word on the street is that you were being headhunted by Microsoft, Apple, Tesla and Liam Neeson all at once. What appealed to you about Eaglecrest and why did you choose us?"
David: "Ha! Liam Neeson? What did I do to him..?"
David: Eaglecrest have pulled together a great team of techs that are very open-minded. They have a very well established brand that reminds me of much larger players, but with a small business agility that means that it can shift and change as our clients need us to. I love the strategy, systems and marketing that really reflects the way that you interact with your clients. You can tell that for Eaglecrest, it really is about the clients first and the technology second."
Ben: "Tasmania seems to have found an attitude or hunger recently that has been lacking for the last decade. Where do you think this has come from?"
David: "Tassie people are generally very common sense driven with a lot of ingenuity. Lately it seems like we have just tipped over the catalyst point of having enough people with the confidence that we can compete on the global stage. This means that people are lifting their sights and are getting stuff done. Launceston seems like it has woken up and we are really batting out of our league - just look at what Launtel is doing with their Gigabit connections."
Ben: "What do you love about Tasmania?"
David: "Tasmania is the place that I always wanted to have a family and kids. It has a community spirit that the bigger places just don't have. It's really easy to live in this place surrounded by amazing food and wine, but whenever you want to go and see something else, you can."
Ben: "What is something most people don't know about you?"
David: "I did my degree in quantum mechanics and general relativity. I started out life as a software developer and love taking pictures of planets and auroras."
Ben: "Do you like goat's cheese?"
David: "I tried it once. It was ok."
Ben: "Ok thanks - I think that is enough to work with. I might need to take some creative licence to make it worth reading though."
David: "Is that question about goat's cheese going to be in there? Is that relevant?"
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Aimed at deepening our understanding of the Poetics, this collection places Aristotle's analysis of tragedy in its larger philosophical context. In these twenty-one essays, philosophers and classicists explore the corpus of Aristotle's work in order to link the Poetics to the rest of his views on psychology and on history, ethics, and politics. The essays address such topics as catharsis, pity and fear, pleasure, character and the unity of action, and the modality of dramatic action. In addition to the editor, the contributors are Elizabeth Belfiore, Rdiger Bittner, Mary Whitlock Blundell, Wayne Booth, Dorothea Frede, Cynthia Freeland, Leon Golden, Stephen Halliwell, Richard Janko, Aryeh Kosman, Jonathan Lear, Alexander Nehamas, Martha C. Nussbaum, Deborah Roberts, G.E.M. de Ste. Croix, Nancy Sherman, Jean-Pierre Vernant, Stephen A. White, and Paul Woodruff.
In this book, experts from the fields of law and philosophy explore the works of Aristotle to illuminate the much-debated and fascinating relationship between emotions and justice. Emotions matter in connection with democracy and equity – they are relevant to the judicial enforcement of rights, legal argumentation, and decision-making processes in legislative bodies and courts. The decisive role that emotions, feelings and passions play in these processes cannot be ignored – not even by those who believe that emotions have no legitimate place in the public sphere. A growing body of literature on these topics recognizes the seminal insights contributed by Aristotle. This book offers a comprehensive analysis of his thinking in this context, as well as proposals for inspiring dialogues between his works and those written by a selection of modern and contemporary thinkers. As such, the book offers a valuable resource for students of law, philosophy, rhetoric, politics, ethics and history, but also for readers interested in the ongoing debate about legal positivism and the relevance of emotions for legal and political life in today's world.
The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Literature contains twenty-three newly commissioned essays by major philosophers and literary scholars that investigate literature as a form of attention to human life. Various forms of attention are considered under the headings of Genres (from Ancient Epic to the Novel and Contemporary Experimental Writing), Periods (from Realism and Romanticism to Postcolonialism), Devices and Powers (Imagination, Plot, Character, Style, and Emotion), and Contexts and Uses (in relation to inquiry, morality, and politics). In each case, the effort is to track and evaluate how specific modes and works of imaginative literature answer to important needs of human subjects for orientation, the articulation of interest in life, and the working through of emotion, within situations that are both sociohistorical and human. Hence these essays show how and why literature matters in manifold ways in and for human cultural life, and they show how philosophers and imaginative literary writers have continually both engaged with and criticized each other.
In the field of philosophy, Plato's view of rhetoric as a potentially treacherous craft has long overshadowed Aristotle's view, which focuses on rhetoric as an independent discipline that relates in complex ways to dialectic and logic and to ethics and moral psychology. This volume, composed of essays by internationally renowned philosophers and classicists, provides the first extensive examination of Aristotle's Rhetoric and its subject matter in many years. One aim is to locate both Aristotle's treatise and its subject within the more general context of his philosophical treatment of other disciplines, including moral and political theory as well as poetics. The contributors also seek to illuminate the structure of Aristotle's own conception of rhetoric as presented in his treatise. The first section of the book, which deals with the arguments of rhetoric, contains essays by M. F. Burnyeat and Jacques Brunschwig. A section treating the status of the art of rhetoric features pieces by Eckart Schütrumpf, Jürgen Sprute, M. M. McCabe, and Glenn W. Most. Essays by John M. Cooper, Stephen Halliwell, and Jean-Louis Labarrière address topics related to rhetoric, ethics, and politics. The final section, on rhetoric and literary art, comprises essays by Alexander Nehamas and André Laks. Originally published in 1994. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Rev. ed. of: The Princeton encyclopedia of poetry and poetics / Alex Preminger and T.V.F. Brogan, co-editors; Frank J. Warnke, O.B. Hardison, Jr., and Earl Miner, associate editors. 1993.
This is a study of the development of the middle and later poetry of Wallace Stevens that uses comparisons with the phenomenological methods of Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger to clarify many of the difficulties in the poet's mature work.
The eminent philosopher and classical scholar Alexander Nehamas presents here a collection of his most important essays on Plato and Socrates. The papers are unified in theme by the idea that Plato's central philosophical concern in metaphysics, ethics, and aesthetics was to distinguish the authentic from the fake, the original from its imitations. In approach, the collection displays Nehamas's characteristic combination of analytical rigor and sensitivity to the literary form and dramatic effect of Plato's work. Together, the papers represent Nehamas's distinct and original contributions to scholarship on Plato and Socrates and serve as a comprehensive introduction to the thought of these two philosophers. In the book's opening section, Nehamas discusses Plato's representation of Socrates as a model of authentic human goodness, showing that Plato's Socrates is a more skeptical, troubling, and individualistic thinker than is usually supposed. The papers in the second section form a sustained defense of a new and important understanding of Plato's theory of the forms and the evolution of that theory in Plato's later writings. The third section examines Plato's contention that popular entertainment--by which he meant Greek epic and tragic poetry--misleads its audience into a debased life, an argument Nehamas relates to modern anxieties about television and other forms of popular culture. The collection also includes a discussion of Plato's use of the dialogue form in his representation of Socrates and carefully examines the combination of literary and philosophical elements in his work. Nehamas argues in the book that Plato's specific judgments of what is authentic are often flawed, but that his idea of authenticity as the mark of truth, beauty, and goodness is stronger than many modern scholars have assumed. In drawing together Nehamas's many influential ideas about Plato and Socrates, Virtues of Authenticity is a major contribution to the study of ancient Greek philosophy.
This comprehensive reference work deals with all aspects of its subject: history, prosody, types, movements, and critical terminology. Prepared by recognized authorities, its articles treat their topics in sufficient depth to be of value to the scholar as well as to the general reader. Originally published in 1975. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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"Comparative literature," Earl Miner writes, "clearly involves something more than comparing two great German poets, and something different from a Chinese studying French literature or a Russian studying Italian literature." But what would a true intercultural poetics be? This work proposes various ways to "study something other than what are, all things considered, the short and simple annals of one cultural parish at one historic moment." The first developed account of theories of literature from an intercultural standpoint, the book shows that an "originative" or "foundational" poetics develops in cultures with explicit poetics when critics define the nature and conditions of literature in terms of the then most esteemed genredrama, lyric, or narrative. Earl Miner demonstrates that these definitions and inferences from them constitute useful bases for comparative poetics.
Common wisdom has it that when Auden left England for New York in January 1939, he had already written his best poems. He left behind (most critics believe) all the idealisms of the 1930s and all serious concerns to become an unserious poet, a writer of ingenious, agreeable, minor lyrics. Lucy McDiarmid argues that such readers, spoiled by the simple intensities of apocalypse, distort and misjudge Auden's greatest work. She shows that once Auden was freed from the obligation to criticize and reform the society of his native country, he devoted his imaginative energies to commentary on art. And about art he was never complaisant: with greater passion than he had ever used to undermine "bourgeois" society, Auden undermined literature. Every major poem and every essay became a retractio, a statement of art's frivolity, vanity, and guilt. Auden's Apologies for Poetry, then, sets forth the unorthodox notion that the chief subject of later, "New Yorker" Auden is the insignificance of poetry. Commenting on all the major poems and essays from the 1930s through the 1960s, and analyzing manuscript revisions and unpublished works, it charts the changes in Auden's poetics in the light of his shift from an oral to a written model of poetry. In his earliest work Auden voices the tentative hope that poems can be like loving spoken words, transforming and redeeming, themselves carriers of value. After 1939 he takes for granted a written model. His later essays and poems deny art spiritual value, claiming that "love, or truth in any serious sense" is a "reticence," the unarticulated worth that exists--if at all--outside the words on the page. Later Auden creates a poetics of apology and self-deprecation, a radical undermining of poetry itself. Originally published in 1990. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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Fo. ) And, he argues, it is no worse for a scholar to learn a ' p i e c e ' or clause t h a n it is for him to learn a many-syllabled Latin word. Webbe's a t t e m p t t o teach his pupils by means of collocations of words rather t h a n b y paradigms led, however, to a further linguistic problem analogous to t h a t of immediate constituents. Brookes questioned, quite legitimately, how Webbe was to decide w h a t were the constituents of a sentence which were to be learnt as (21) PROBLEMS OF LANGUAGE-TEACHING 11 wholes, and indeed, w h a t Webbe m e a n t by a clause.
Webbe was very strongly influenced by a scholar writing a hundred years previously who held theories on the teaching of Latin which were very similar to those of Comenius, b u t of whose work modern scholars seem ignorant. This was Georgius Haloinus Cominius, whose writings on Latin grammar are summarized in An Appeale b u t are not otherwise extant. Of the life of this perhaps unique disciple of Cominius the DNB gives only a brief a c c o u n t ; he was writing between 1612 and 1626, published his first work, on astrology and medicine, in Rome in 1612, was living and teaching in the Old Bailey in 1623, and is said to have published his last work in 1626, though in fact it was in 1629.
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Winter Walk with Audubon in Upper Manhattan
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February 2018. After a hearty breakfast at the Skylight Diner, I went underground into Penn Station in midtown Manhattan and caught the C-line subway train heading uptown. New York City's mind-boggling ethnic and cultural diversity and the New York Times
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February 2018. "It would seem unnecessary to those who can see and feel, for me to expatiate on the loveliness of verdant fields, the sublimity of lofty mountains, or the varied magnificence of the sky; but that the number of
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Explorations in Oregon's Andrews Experimental Forest The H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest, located in the Willamette National Forest on the western slope of the Cascade Range, is one of 84 experimental forests in a network established by the U.S. Forest Service. It is one of the most well-studied forests in the world, famous for the long-term...
Deep Ecology in the Mammoth Cave Area Biosphere Reserve, Kentucky The Ecological Society of America (ESA) held its annual meeting in Louisville, Kentucky, from August 11-16 this year. I depend on these annual events to catch up with the cutting edge of ecological research and thinking that is relevant to my ecological consulting, and with ecologist friends and colleagues from across the country. Field trips …...
Report from a Season at Cascade Head February 2019. My last posting, "Monarch Field of Dreams: Reprise," came at the end of September. Now I should explain why it's been so long since I've written anything here. I've just returned to my home base in a Washington DC suburb after nearly four months at Cascade Head on the Oregon Coast. At the …...
Monarch Field of Dreams: Reprise In the spring of 2010, I dug up a few milkweed plants along a bike path I often ran along and transplanted them to my garden. As I wrote then in a blog titled "Field of Dreams of Monarchs," I had a very optimistic "if you plant them, they will come" vision. And, sure enough, …...
Canoeing Louisiana's Manchac Swamp with Ecological Aliens and the Voodoo Queen My flight from Washington, DC, to New Orleans on the first Friday of August was delayed for seven hours by mechanical problems, so instead of getting to my hotel in time for happy hour in the French Quarter, I arrived at 1:30 AM, exhausted. The next morning, I headed for Café Beignet on Royal Street, …...
Walking on the Trembling Prairie As we stepped out into the open marsh after crossing over the tree-covered spoil bank along the canal by which we had reached this place on a large pontoon boat, the feel of the ground was immediately, noticeably different. We pushed our way through chest-high grasses and other marsh plants, watching carefully where we placed …...
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The Internalization of a Land Ethic: A Visit to Coon Valley, Wisconsin US Highway 14 drops into the town of Coon Valley after passing through Viroqua and Westby in the scenic landscape of the Driftless Area, a unique pocket of American geology, 85% of which is in western Wisconsin. The repeated pulses of the ice ages that pushed continental ice sheets across most of nearby North America …...
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Norman M. Wereley, the Techno-Sciences Professor of Aerospace Engineering and Associate Chair of the Dept. of Aerospace Engineering, was honored on November 4, 2010, with the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Sustained Service Award. The Sustained Service Award is presented to members of AIAA who show continuing dedication and who contribute sustained, significant service to the institute. Dr. Wereley was honored for his ?sustained service to, and leadership in, the AIAA Adaptive Structures Technical Committee, as a member, as Technical Chair and General Chair of its Adaptive Structures Conference, and for technical publications.?
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"Irreparable Harm" ... to Whom?
Let's put it this way: What else is power for? The State Board of Elections (SBOE) can save the sorry hide of a ruling politician or two by winning a court challenge to college student voting. And why shouldn't they win? They represent the current rulers of North Carolina.
So this happened: On Monday Chief Resident Superior Court Judge Donald Stephens ordered the Early Voting site restored to the campus of Appalachian State University, on constitutional grounds. On Thursday, "the state" (SBOE, represented at taxpayer expense by the Attorney General's office) appealed to both the NC Court of Appeals and to the NC Supreme Court to overturn Judge Stephens.
...the state asked ... for an emergency stay and appeal. The state's argument is that [Judge] Stephens overstepped his authority by striking down the previously approved early voting plan and that changing the plan 10 days before the start of early voting will cause confusion and chaos for voters and elections officials. This, according to the motion, will cause "irreparable harm" unless the high court steps in to stop it.
Read more at http://www.wral.com/state-sues-to-block-app-state-early-voting-site/14089809/#AYktEKBremGMKK1h.99
Yesterday afternoon (Friday), the North Carolina Court of Appeals issued a temporary stay against the ASU site until at least Tuesday, ordering both sides to submit arguments.
"Irreparable harm"? Harm to whom? And how? You mean, if college students are allowed to vote unhindered by unnecessary barriers to their voting, that the Republic will suffer "irreparable harm"?
Yes, irreparable harm. Some politicians' asses are lodged in cracks, and the door might slam.
The argument that Judge Stephens "overstepped his authority" was the main line of reasoning trotted out by the lawyer representing SBOE at Monday's hearing. I was there. I was listening. (Also been waiting for the official transcript, so I could discuss the arguments verbatim, but now my hand's been forced:) The state's attorney said Judge Stephens didn't have jurisdiction to rule because plaintiffs didn't have standing to sue. Because and therefore, the SBOE's decisions are really immune from legal challenge. Got that? No one can, or ever has, challenged an SBOE administrative decision in court.
So what are people to do? Judge Stephens asked state counsel. Where are people to go when a state agency charged with providing equal ballot access to all clearly violates the rights of a class of voters, any voters? Where are they to go? "Under the unique circumstances in this case," Judge Stephens said in his subsequent order, "respondent's early voting plan for Watauga County is subject to judicial review by the Wake County Superior Court under N.C. Gen. Stat. 163-22(a)."
You can count on the question of the judge's jurisdiction being the hinge in the Court of Appeals on which swings the fate of Early Voting in Watauga County.
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Do YOU feel the hysteria rising on the left?
Anon 3:42PM
If the potential for a fascist's state suits your needs, by all means necessary — right? The SBOE is acting in an obviously partisan manner and is not protecting the collective voting rights of NC citizens, regardless of their party affiliations. There is a big problem here that threatens all of our rights within a democratic society. Just because it favors your rather limited view at this point in time is irrelevant to the larger picture. This is a serious attack on the democratic process of voting and there is a lot at stake here. You need to quit drinking the Fox News Kool-aid and think about the larger picture of where our democracy is heading.
One thing I've wondered about all of this. Since the 26th amendment was passed in the early 1970s, has there been any blatant case of suppressing college voters in any state?
I'm an Independent that lived in Boone for six years when I went to school there. I've voted for a range of candidates, but the Republican's blatant disregard of student voting rights - forcing college students to vote in local elections where they don't even live - is beyond the pale. It may be several years before I vote for a Republican in NC again.
Wait....they are forcing people to vote and you are blaming the Republicans? I think you need to retake your history. Boone is dominated by Dems and claim with a loud voice that student vote is suppressed. You should vote Republican.
I do remember my history and recall a time when the Republican-leaning county would grudgingly get along and work with the more Dem leaning town of Boone.
The university and its many residents aren't going away any time soon. Republicans need to respect that fact and respect the Constitutional rights of the students to vote unimpeded or face the consequences.
A significant part of the economy of northwest NC is from tourists and retirees. The last few times I've visited the area, seeing all the signs touting religious and conservative claptrap and locals yammering on about the evil gays and liberals has me looking for somewhere else to spend a relaxing weekend.
Why should I spend my money to be around that kind of hostility?
Anonymous @ 6:26AM wins Best Comment of the Month.
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You May Kiss the Bridey
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My former editor at the National Catholic Register, Tom Hoopes, has done me a courtesy rarely afforded tradition-minded Catholics: He has stooped to address my arguments, instead of airily dismissing them as the sad obsessions of half-wits, bag ladies, and yellow-eyed anti-Semites with dirty fingernails. Sure, he did so in a blog post which referred to the traditional Mass — the one said by almost every priest who has ever been canonized — as a "freak flag." But as a true-blue Traddy, I will take what I can get. Give me a Mass at 6 a.m. at a chapel in a lunatic asylum . . . a muttered liturgy with a mandatory sign-in sheet at an abandoned Armenian parish . . . and I'll show up, clutching a missal — despite the alarming (if not surprising) percentage of eccentrics. Come to think of it, those of us who accept Humanae Vitae are already a vanishingly tiny segment of practicing Catholics, so it seems a bit rich for one sliver of this infinitesimal subculture to throw donut holes across the bingo hall at the other. (Okay, I'll toss a few: At least we Trads aren't scarfing down lame Catholic knock-offs of already-pitiful Christian "rock," or training our daughters to be altar servers for the next World Urban Youth Day . . . bless their hearts!)
What makes responding to Hoopes such fun — I'm almost moved to give up writing this article for Lent — is his resemblance to one of my favorite characters in the works of Evelyn Waugh, Sebastian Flyte's brother Bridey. Like him, Hoopes is a fervent believer, who has worked hard and sacrificed much in the service of the Church, and he earnestly strives to explain and defend the Faith. Like Bridey's, his arguments have a curious effect. As Charles Ryder says:
D'you know, Bridey. If ever I thought about becoming a Catholic, I'd only have to talk to you for five minutes to be cured. You manage to reduce what seem quite sensible propositions to stark nonsense.
To which Bridey responds, with admirable humility:
It's odd you should say that. I've heard it before from other people. It's one of the reasons why I don't think I'd have made a good priest. It's something in the way my mind works, I suppose.
The "Bridey Effect" is so evident in Hoopes's response to my piece on the liturgy that I face an embarrassment of riches. And to avoid the rich embarrassment I fear might otherwise result, I will henceforth refer to the article's author simply as "Bridey."
Bridey begins by objecting to the suggestion that it was an imprudent act for Pope Paul VI to forbid the liturgy in its solemn, invariant, historic form and replace it with one open to dozens of options, subject to a decade of tinkering, at a time of deep theological uncertainty and radical social change. Did this radical, unsettling alteration in the form of the Church's central mystery prepare the laity to accept the lies of dissenting Catholics who claimed that everything else — from faith to morals — was also up for grabs? Was it indeed like a new president coming into office and changing our country's flag?
Bridey doesn't answer, but instead takes refuge in a theological evasion: "The Church doesn't have or need a flag, because it isn't a nation. Its members are tied to each other by bonds far deeper than political ones." Very nice, and very high-minded. The Church is indeed, in one sense, the Mystical Body of Christ. And in that sense, a Renaissance cardinal could have whispered to his mistress across the pillow that the Church of his day was not in any sense "corrupt." Indeed, the Bride of Christ is indefectible. So why even talk about it? Why have a newspaper devoted to reporting on the changeless, eternal union of Christ and His Church? My old colleagues at the Register can pack up their laptops and go home.
What if, however, by "Church" we are referring to the changeable, human side of the Church Militant on earth — you know, the aspect of the Church that indeed has human leaders and members, news, controversies, flaws, reforms, and renewals? It is that Church that had an abuse crisis culminating in the 1990s, and a liturgy crisis beginning in the 1970s. If we're permitted to talk about the former, we must also address the latter. In that sense, the Church has an earthly governance, a legal code, an administrative structure, and more than one billion imperfect adherents. Thanks to the fall of the Chinese empire in 1912, it is the oldest continuous human institution on earth. Such an organization, which commands human loyalties and can lose them, might indeed need something like a flag. It's not for nothing that Catholics during the Counter-Reformation marched (heavily armed, to prevent sacrilegious attacks) in Corpus Christi processions through hostile Calvinist towns. The Eucharist itself was those brave Catholics' banner, and I for one am not ashamed of them. Is Bridey?
My original article implied — no, it stated outright, and let me here reaffirm it — that the chaos in Catholic bedrooms began on Catholic altars. The noodling, tinkering, profanation and vulgarization that afflicted the Catholic sanctuaries gave busy, weary, worldly Catholics (i.e., most of us) apparent permission to follow the lead of pastors and theologians who were tinkering and noodling with Catholic sexual morality. Humanae Vitae was treated as a dead letter when it was issued, as was Sacrosanctum Concilium, and then the norms that (once upon a time) forbade Communion in the hand and altar girls. Documents trickled in from Rome from time to time on sexual morality and liturgical abuses, and they were duly ignored by the very bishops Rome had appointed. What exactly were ordinary Catholics, the kind who don't read curial admonitions over breakfast, meant to think? If that's good governance, I'd hate to witness anarchy.
Of course, much of this confusion — which has dragged on for a generation — could be resolved by a "reform of the reform," such as many suggest Pope Benedict XVI has in mind. Were the Novus Ordo pared back to something resembling the intentions of the Second Vatican Council — facing the altar, minus all the ambiguous Eucharistic Prayers (that is, all but the First), with congregants kneeling for Communion on the tongue received from a priest — most Traditionalists would shut up. No, we'd sing for joy. Most of us appreciate hearing the readings in the vernacular, and few would travel for miles and hours to find a Mass for the sake of the old Confiteor.
The next point Bridey makes is one intended to make the delicate reader squirm. He compares the reception of Holy Communion to the intimate marital act, and suggests there is something prurient in paying undue attention to the externals attending either sexuality or Mass. Here again, it is hard to know where to begin. I might start by noting that the sexual act is private and properly confined to the participation of two. The Mass is inherently public and communal, even when said by a solitary priest in a prison camp. It is the summit and locus of unity in the Church. To lump these mysteries together and ask that marital dignity and privacy be accorded, say, the public masses said by an archbishop . . . for once in my life, I am almost speechless. I'll leave my response to one of Bridey's more acerbic commenters, who rightly replied:
[I]f that's the analogy you REALLY want to use, current celebration of the Liturgy has become less like one of the parties insist[ing] on the same candles and Journey tape all the time, and more like one of the parties . . . insisting on constant novelty, obsessing on what she can do to make it "different" this time; as if it were . . . oh, I don't know, the French maid's outfit that made it all "meaningful."
Bridey says that the Eucharist, like sexual intercourse, is an "expression of a relationship of which it is a very small (but very important) part." Concerning the Eucharist, this statement is so wide of the mark I'm tempted to say, "It is not even wrong." Does the author really regard sexuality and all the ripples it spreads across the surface of life as a drop in the bucket? Is he saying, with so many randy bachelors over the centuries, "It's just sex, sweetie"? Surely not. That's just the "Bridey effect."
The sexual act and the commitments (such as children) that follow from it are the only decisive difference between a marriage and a friendship. The first thing we singles wonder when we see two members of the opposite sex together is: Are they "together"? Are these people married, engaged, exclusively dating, or are they just "pals"? In answer to this honorable question, married people wear rings, women change their names, and healthy laws still distinguish marriage from "domestic partnerships." We do all sorts of very public things that declare which person we're married to, and mark that relationship off from every other.
Indeed, in almost every culture, the two sexes engage in a wide variety of activities designed to reinforce and celebrate the distinctions between male and female — almost as if the most primitive men and women knew that the difference between them was profound and meaningful. In Jewish and Christian theology, as theologian Manfred Hauke demonstrated, the male represents transcendence and the female immanence; God is the Father or the Bridegroom, and humanity is the Bride. Desacralizing the liturgy, confusing the roles of priest and laity, is as confusing and misleading as pretending there is no difference between the sexes. But then we're doing that too, nowadays.
An article I penned eight years ago on Paul VI's collaborator in crafting the Novus Ordo, Archbishop Rembert Weakland, explains the implications here:
The priest acts in the person of Christ. Christ acts as high priest, and offers himself as victim to God the Father, in expiation for the sins of man. In the person of the priest, Christ weds himself to the congregation, which stands for the Church, Christ's mystical Bride. Just as the priest's sacrificial role in the New Testament theology is a direct outgrowth — down to many of the rituals and prayers used — of the High Priest's Temple ritual in Judaism, so this matrimonial theology grows directly out of the Old Testament understanding of the Jewish people as wedded to Yahweh. (See the Song of Songs and Hosea for lovely, poetic meditations on this theme in the Hebrew Bible.) . . .
This marriage between the priest and the congregation, between Christ and the Church, is at the very heart of Catholic theology. It connects to the sacredness of the sexual act, and expresses the very reason why (as we believe) God became a man — in order to unite the mass of fallen, weak humanity to himself, in a mystical sacrament of love. In pagan religions and ancient Judaism, the role of a priest — one who offers sacrifice — was distinctly and utterly masculine. This is true in all the traditional liturgies of the Church, East and West, along with the papal mass in Rome, which dramatically depict Christ's manhood along with his transcendent Godhood, in the imperfect but sanctified masculine person of the priest. A woman playing at priest is just as absurd as Nathan Lane playing a nun. It's a drag act, proper to Saturday Night, but not to Sunday morning.
In a reverent liturgy, we engage in all sorts of symbolic behavior to distinguish the sacred elements from the profane, the unconsecrated bread from the Body of Christ, and the priest from the laity. Liturgies that cloud such distinctions are inherently confusing, as in some sense they were meant to be. As Michael Davies noted long-ago, the Anglican and Lutheran-inspired changes in the Novus Ordo Missae in the original Latin were intended by the committee that crafted them to fudge the differences among the churches — in the hope that an ecumenical liturgy would promote Christian unity. Later, secularizing abuses such as Communion in the hand were promoted precisely in order to cloud the exact Catholic theology about the Mass as a sacrifice performed by a priest in the Person of Christ, in favor of a nebulous, liberal Protestant spirituality of communal commemoration — one that could lead to the ordination of women. The Holy Spirit has prevented any changes that invalidated the Mass. That is all we were promised.
It is one thing to call for the proper celebration of the Novus Ordo, minus destructive options (ambiguous Eucharistic prayers, handing out Communion like a movie ticket, Mass said facing the people — something Benedict has regretted). Do that, and you settle the question. In that idealized vision of the Ordinary Form of the Roman Rite — such as I've seen good priests celebrate maybe five times in my life — there are no theological or catechetical problems. Impose that liturgy throughout the Church, and every objection raised by Traditionalists fades into pedantry — though some of us will really miss those extra Kyries . . .
It is quite another thing to defend the Ordinary Form as ordinarily celebrated, in some 99.9 percent of parishes outside Vatican City, then scoff at those who object to its banality, vulgarity, and casual sacrilege as aesthetes or Pharisees. Bridey's position reminds me of a wedding I heard about among some distant acquaintances. For reasons that remain opaque to me, the groom decided to take his bride's last name, and have her female friend serve as his "best man." My charitable response was: "Which one of them wore the white dress?"
Imagine for a moment that the groom was indeed the one in the puffy gown, the bride in a tuxedo. Picture that whole wedding party done up in drag, with the bridesmaids wearing taped-on Freddie Mercury moustaches, the ushers in high heels and stockings. With his consistent disregard of "externals," I'd expect Bridey to answer that this marriage was sacramentally valid. As indeed it was. So is the Ordinary Form as ordinarily celebrated. That's pretty much all we can say for it.
Tagged as Humanae Vitae, National Catholic Register, Novus Ordo, sex
By John Zmirak
John Zmirak is the author, most recently, of The Bad Catholic's Guide to the Seven Deadly Sins (Crossroad). He served from October 2011 to February 2012 as editor of Crisis.


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March 12, 2017 by ibmacin
The Nintendo Switch
Reviews, Tech, Uncategorized, Videogames
Nintendo, Nintendo Switch, Switch, Zelda Breath of the Wild
I got a Nintendo Switch on launch day and now that I have had it for a little over a week, I wanted to give my impressions on the hardware as well as the software that I have played so far. Please note that these impressions are from a lifelong Nintendo fan who has owned every system since the NES.
I have been excited for the Switch ever since Nintendo released their first video for it last year. I read and watched everything that I could building up to the release. I preordered it the day that preorders opened up as well. I also went with a buddy of mine to PAX South in San Antonio early this year, where Nintendo was showing off the Switch to the public for one of the first times. We loved it so much that we waited in the line twice so we could play everything that we wanted! I even lined up with the same friend at Best Buy for the midnight launch to get our games and accessories. So you can imagine my excitement on Friday, March 3rd when I picked up my shiny new Switch from UPS! Below are my likes and dislikes with the Switch itself as well as the games that I have played over the last week.
I really like the neon version of the Switch that I picked up, it just has more character than the gray version in my opinion. The colors of the neon red and neon blue Joy Con controllers just really pop.
I love the speed of the Switch software! Compared to the slowness of both the Wii U and 3DS' operating systems, the Switch OS is super fast. Switching between the home menu and the game you are playing is super quick, as is putting the Switch to sleep and waking it back up. Also, the day one patch for the Switch downloaded and installed in less than a minute for me! I don't believe I ever had an update for the Wii U that didn't take at least 10-15 minutes to download and install.
I was also pleasantly surprised with how quick you can go from TV mode when the Switch is docked to handheld mode when you un-dock it. It happens within a second I would say!
I absolutely love the Pro Controller that I picked up along with the Switch. I fell in love with it the first time I used it at PAX South. In my opinion, it is the best controller Nintendo has made so far. It has the perfect weight, great battery life, perfect stick placement, and all of the Amiibo functionality, HD rumble, and motion controls of the other controllers built in. Yes, it is expensive, but to me it is worth the price.
Lastly, I just really like the premise of this system. It is great to be able to have a home console that you can also take with you wherever, whether that is on a trip, to the park, or just to the recliner in your living room. I love that with the two Joy Con controllers that it comes with, you are set up for co-op games right out of the box too. Battery life has been fine for me as well. I know people complain about it getting just around 3 hours playing Zelda but have these people ever played with a 3DS? I have had multiple 3DS' for years and that's about what I get with them as well. Would I like it to be more, absolutely. But with a full time job and a baby at home, I'm not really ever at the point where I am playing this thing un-docked for 3 hours straight. If you do, the Switch conveniently charges via USB-C, so you can always just get an external battery pack to prolong your play sessions.
The kickstand on the back of the Switch is just terrible. The sound it makes when you open it is terrible, the angle it puts the Switch at is terrible, the flimsiness of it is terrible, and the fact that it will only work on a hard, flat surface is terrible. What was Nintendo thinking with this thing? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The Joy Con straps that Nintendo give you to slide onto the left and right Joy Cons are pretty badly designed. First off, you can easily put them on the wrong way if you are not really paying attention. When you do put them on wrong, the pressure you have to apply to them to remove them makes it feel like you are going to break the controller. Secondly, even when you get them on right, they still are not smooth or easy to remove at all. I really don't like these things.
The dock itself is super flimsy and hollow feeling. Once you mess with one you wonder why Nintendo charges so much if you want another one. There is hardly anything to it.
The Switch operating system, while speedy, is not fully baked. You can add friends but not message with them & the online service Nintendo is building is not going to be ready until much later in the year either. Nintendo has never been known for having an awesome online service but this is extremely bare bones. Here's hoping that they add more functionality sooner rather than later.
I very much disliked the taste of the Nintendo Switch cartridges when I tried one! They taste super gross! See this story for context haha.
Let's get this out of the way at the very first. The Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild is an absolutely amazing game. It is unlike any Zelda game that has come before and allows a since of freedom and exploration that I have rarely seen before. The sheer size of the world and things to do and various ways that you can approach different problems is insane. The fact that after a very brief tutorial at the beginning of the game, that you can then just go anywhere and start exploring is such a cool concept. The only 3 games I can think of that have hooked me in this way in my entire life are Animal Crossing on the GameCube, Pokemon Blue on the Game Boy, and Super Mario 64 on the Nintendo 64. That's really it for me, this game is that good. Sure, I have played the majority of the mainline Zelda games but I'm telling you this game is different. This game is special in a way that few are. I find myself thinking about it when I am not playing it and when I am playing it, I am playing it for far longer that I intend to. Throw in the fact that I can play this game at home on my big screen and then need to leave and can just un-dock it and take it with me wherever I go and it just feels magical to me! I know that the Nintendo Switch launch lineup of games is pretty limited but trust me, this game alone is worth buying a Switch for in my opinion.
Another game I bought and have really enjoyed is Snipperclips – Cut it out, together!. This is a equally parts cute and clever co-op puzzle game where you are trying to solve puzzles together with your partner. My wife and I have had a ton of fun playing this together, and it is easily worth the $20 price tag in my opinion.
I also have bought the Shovel Knight Treasure Trove bundle. I never did play Shovel Knight on any of the platforms it was on previously so this bundle that came with everything was perfect. This is a really fun game that is made in the style of an 8-bit platformer like the ones I grew up playing. It also has co-op play which is something that I can't wait to try out!
I bought Super Bomberman R and so far, I'm not really enjoying it. Now, I have only been playing the single player campaign so far and I know multiplayer is where Bomberman shines, but I have not been super impressed as of now. Maybe playing the campaign in co-op and playing some 4 player multiplayer will redeem it, but I am skeptical. Right now, it would be hard for me to recommend it, at least at its current price. It has a terrible camera angle, mediocre music, and some pretty bad slowdown as well.
I purchased Nintendo's other launch game: 1-2-Switch, but have not got the chance to play it yet. I mostly bought it to play with my wife and friends but just have not had the chance to play it so far.
Some of the games I am very much looking forward to are: Mario Kart 8 Deluxe in April, Splatoon 2 this summer, and of course, Super Mario Odyssey this winter.
Sales numbers so far for the Switch have been promising and anecdotally, it seems like there is much more talk and interest in the Nintendo Switch than the poor Wii U ever had. I sure hope it is a success for Nintendo. They could really use another hit after the disappointing sales of the Wii U. I personally don't want to ever live in a world where Nintendo stops making their own hardware. Nobody makes quality, fun filled, family friendly games as well as interesting hardware quite like Nintendo does.
These are my initial impressions of the Switch so far. I am looking forward to playing it much more over the coming weeks and meeting up with some buddies of mine that also bought Switches and playing some multiplayer games.
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The Oxford Dodo is the most iconic specimen held by the Museum. It is the only surviving dodo soft tissue remains in the world.
The dodo was a flightless bird, first encountered by Europeans in the late 16th century on the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean. These birds were about a metre tall and weighed about 20kg. They lived on fruit and nested on the ground.
The tale of the dodo's decline begins in 1598, when Dutch sailors first encountered them. From early accounts, many of the Mauritian birds were tame and easily approached, and so easily caught by humans. But the species' rapid decline was probably caused by the dogs, cats, rats and pigs that the sailors had brought with them. These animals spread across the island, destroying dodo habitats and eating their eggs. The last confirmed sighting of a dodo was in 1662; by the 1700s, it was considered extinct.
Only three dodo specimens from this period exist, despite records of living dodos being brought from Mauritius. One of the three, the so-called 'Oxford Dodo', is a specimen that was part of the Tradescant collection, one of the founding collections of the Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford. This specimen is first listed in 1656 in a catalogue of the Tradescant collection as 'Dodar, from the Island Mauritius; it is not able to flie, being so big'. It is currently not known how the Tradecants acquired their dodo specimen or the extent of the original specimen.
Today, what remains of the original specimen is the skull with left side of skin, the sclerotic ring from the eye, the skeleton of the foot, the sectioned femur, a feather (removed from the head in 1986) and various tissue samples taken over the years.
The Museum also holds two of the most famous paintings of dodos: a copy of George Edwards' colourful 1758 depiction and Jan Savery's 1651 image of a plumper dodo. It is now thought that dodos would have been slimmer than they have typically been depicted.
Dodos lived in the forests of the island of Mauritius, but how they arrived there is still unclear. In 2002, a group of scientists from Oxford shed more light on the dodo's origins.
From the blog: Who shot the Oxford Dodo?
If ever the Oxford Dodo were to have squawked, its final squawk may have been the saddest and loudest. For the first time, the manner of death of the museum's iconic specimen has been revealed: a shot to the back of the head.


The veil was made the same way as the veil of the Tabernacle (Exodus 26:31-35), which was of blue, purple, scarlet and fine linen, and with cherubim design. Whether it was placed in front of the doors or behind the doors is hard to say.
Here, before the veil, the ordinary priests had to stop and proceed no further. Because within the veil, in the Most Holy Place, lay the Ark of the Covenant. The Ark represents God's presence and no one, no one except the High Priest, would be allowed to see the Ark. And he only saw it once a year on the Day of Atonement. The veil separated God and man. But when Christ died on the cross, the veil (of Herod's Temple) was torn apart from top to bottom by God, declaring that man can now access into His presence freely through Christ Jesus (Hebrews 10:19-25).


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Man is an emotional being. Whether it is love or hate, there is just a way that mankind turns into an emotional wreck depending on the situation or circumstances. Perhaps one of the strongest emotions is love. It has been sung, written, performed and even studied throughout the ages. It has been praised and condemned in equal measure. For those who have experienced it, very few words can perfectly describe it. For those who have been scarred by it, words won't even be enough to explain or describe how bad it is.
Falling in love or being in love is attractive and beautiful and everybody likes it. It is certainly an experience that can turn anyone into a poet, or a musician. Everything looks beautiful and perfect, while all the problems and weaknesses are pampered. The butterflies feeling tend to make it even more exciting. The challenge in a marriage is maintaining the initial feeling and making them develop to something richer and greater. All the difficulties and issues in a relationship present opportunities to develop each other, grow and discover more love reserves. The movie titled 'When a man loves a woman' tries bringing out the entire process of love and its challenges altogether.
The movie begins with a vertiginous and exciting sexual encounter between Michael who was an airline pilot and Alice who worked as a high school guidance counselor. This soon developed into a relationship that resulted in marriage. After their marriage, they settled comfortably to raise their daughters in San Francisco. Alice is determined, and she works hard to ensure that the marriage works. She does so by looking good and being sexually wild. Michael has concerns over her drinking habit, and he raises the concerns during a Mexican holiday. Alice promises to stop but start drinking again after returning home. Alice goes for a detox program after she had slapped her daughter and after falling. During this time to take care of the kids even with the help of the nanny.
A different Alice re-emerges free from alcoholism. She feels uncomfortable with Michael's controlling character and the mistrust he has over her parenting skills. Michael is dazed with the accusation which leads to their separation. Both Ronald Bass and Al Franken delivers a rich screenplay which reveals the manner in which the bumpy spots in our partners and ourselves should be dealt with for the relationship to succeed.
It is inspiring the way in which Alice deals with her alcohol addiction; she does it in a courageous manner. Notably, Michael also realizes that he must denounce the control of their relationship with Alice to save it. The failure of their marriage leads to a breakthrough which creates possibilities of their reunion. All the hardships and rough experiences between the two partners has slowly set a foundation upon which a stronger relationship can be built. This movie focus on the inner work that ought to be done to keep love alive.
In conclusion, the ending of the movie is not negative. It creates hope and chances of good things between Michael and Alice who have all learned about each other and their marriage through difficult experiences. The movie has succeeded in communicating the amount of effort a couple needs to put in their marriage to save it.


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