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When Constructa introduced its first washing machine onto the market in the summer of 1951, Konrad Adenauer was the Chancellor of West Germany and Theodor Heuss was the President. In East Germany, Wilhelm Pieck, Otto Grotewohl, and Walter Ulbricht were in power. It was the year that marked Germany's economic boom, which first expressed itself through a consumer push for household appliances.
With its front-facing 'porthole,' Constructa's washing machine was the first front loader available on the market. Back then, the company proudly advertised how a Constructa washing machine rolled off the line every 50 seconds, and it was sold to a new customer at the same pace. The ad included the claim in the typical sonorous sing-song cadence of the time: "Millions of other people won't rest until they own one, too."
Fast-forward 65 years: The Constructa brand now belongs to BSH Hausgeräte GmbH, one of the industry's leading manufacturers. All developments pay careful attention to the specific needs of consumers, which range from economical use of resources and ease of use to intelligent design features. It takes continuous research and development work to constantly adapt to changing customer needs.
Washing, drying, researching: Washing machines and dryers are developed at the BSH Hausgeräte technology center in Berlin for use around the world.
From Berlin into the wide world: R&D site
BSH has operated a special laundry technology center in Berlin for all of the company's brands since 2011. There, developers work on country-specific designs for textile care appliances that implement new features, work efficiently, and save natural resources, in addition to quality management and global IT operations. Martina Wöbkemeier, Head of Materials Technology in Berlin, explains, "Consumers prefer to wash more at lower temperatures in Asia and the U.S. And for India, we sell appliances that include a special laundry program for saris." In addition, people in Asia demand appliances that work silently. "Building space is limited so appliances are located in living spaces. It means the vibrations cannot be transferred outward." The expert calls this high-quality sound design.
Harald Pietsch
works as a materials technician in BSH's technology center in Berlin. As a surface specialist, he was part of the development of pladur® Aesthetic Print.
Martina Wöbkemeier
is Head of Materials Technology in Berlin and has always been interested in ideas for new product and development options.
Interior design – washing with a personal touch
In terms of visual appearance, these products have long been termed 'white goods,' because refrigerators, washing machines, and dryers are predominately white. Robert Winter is in charge of global steel purchasing at BSH and also makes sure that all locations have the specific materials they need. "Of course, there are also high-quality stainless-steel appliances, products with a laminated stainless steel design, and special metallic-look designs," he says.
A tour of the facilities: An employee shows Michael Schulte-Zweckel (thyssenkrupp) and Christian Grebe (BSH) the latest design.
Axel Pohl, who is in charge of all of thyssenkrupp Steel's organic coil-coated pladur® products and sales to the appliances industry, agrees. "For years, our two companies have been closely cooperating on R&D projects. We are no longer just an important partner for white painted products. We are also the point of first contact when it comes to high-quality and premium niche products."
The introduction of the new Constructa special models marks yet another expansion of the BSH Hausgeräte family of products. Last year the 'Classic 65' was launched in an exclusive design. This year there are four limited-edition 'Deluxe 100' models available in an array of colors. The retro look of the washing machines features a front panel in sunny orange, turquoise, or grayish brown. There is also a model with a black and white floral design. The special attraction is the fact that consumers can color in the flowers with permanent markers, making their own unique design.
Turning an idea into a product: long-term project
It will be several years before BSH's location in Nauen, Germany, will be manufacturing the first washing machines with this coating. Knowledge, passion, and dedicated employees are needed before an idea can be transformed into products. This also requires the right material from thyssenkrupp, which is called pladur® Aesthetic Print. One thing is an absolute must in a household appliance: "It needs to have an absolutely perfect surface," states Robert Winter.
Axel Pohl and Robert Winter in the production showroom in Nauen.
The business ties to the Duisburg-based steel company stretch back to the early 1990s. Both companies have been successfully cooperating throughout this time – especially on developments related to the introduction of the coil-coating process.
Requirements: flawless appearance and perfect craftsmanship
The criteria for the material are demanding. It needs to be corrosion-resistant and formable. The paint coating must not crack during forming or lose brilliance or its tactile properties. "It needs to look like it did on the first day, even ten years later," explains Harald Pietsch, who works in the Berlin technology center as a materials technician and keeps close tabs on the surfaces. "The material is subjected to enormous pressures when it is formed," says Michael Schulte-Zweckel, Head of the Sales team for the appliances industry at Steel. "No matter whether it's a refrigerator door or a front loading washing machine."
Furthermore, the sheet needs to be easy to process. Sascha Haas adds, "Minimal machine downtimes and rejects are also important aspects." Mr. Haas is Head of Research and Development in the textile care plant in Nauen, and he is a staunch supporter of implementing and using the pladur® Aesthetic Print product. He explains, "It's a great pleasure for us to be able to manufacture appliances with a unique look. The development of this innovation is in part due to the dedication of our employees."
In addition to the Product and Design department and Materials Technology, Christian Grebe, Manufacturing Planning Designer, and his team from Nauen also work for BSH there. "In the beginning, it was definitely a challenge to apply Colaminat to the machine. But now we are extremely pleased with the product and cannot complain in the least," states Mr. Grebe.
It's great that these appliances are rolling off the line thanks to the motivation of everyone involved.
Sascha Haas, Head of Local R&D/BSH Nauen
Teamwork – understanding is good, trust is better
Alfred Bierhoff closely followed the introduction of the product at thyssenkrupp's steel manufacturer over many years. "The first prototypes were available in 2010," explains the technical customer service associate from Siegen-Kreuztal, Germany. "You must never give up and you need to continually show customers new possibilities. My job is to recognize difficulties and find solutions." Teamwork is decisive here: in interactions with the customer, the supplier, and with one another. Mr. Bierhoff adds, "Mutual trust, which is a product of long years of cooperation, has helped greatly. Of course we have had tricky situations, which makes it all the more important to stay in close touch."
The critical stage was achieved around two years ago, and gave rise to a partnership with another company: a thermal sublimation printing company. The color and design are produced in the material by the thermal sublimation method. It enables a high level of color saturation and definition, and it is an important feature of pladur® Aesthetic Print. There needed to be a massive transfer of know-how from all involved for this project to be successful. Together, it was possible to develop a premium product that can be used for washing machines and other appliances. The 'Classic 65' was the first limited-edition model available, which was a recipient of the 2016 Red Dot Award for product design. And it is already sold out.
Working for success (l. to r.): Axel Pohl (thyssenkrupp), Robert Winter (BSH Purchasing), Sascha Haas, Holger Letz, Christian Grebe (all from BSH Nauen), and Michael Schulte-Zweckel (thyssenkrupp).
A brief history of BSH Hausgeräte GmbH
The company was founded as a joint venture by Siemens AG and Robert Bosch GmbH in 1967, and since 2015, it has belonged to the Bosch Group entirely. BSH is the leading manufacturer in Europe and ranks second in the world, posting sales of €12.6 billion and employing more than 56,000 employees. BSH Hausgeräte has 80 companies in nearly 50 different countries.
The company's portfolio includes the Cooking and Baking, Refrigerating and Freezing, Dishwashing, and Washing and Drying areas and small household appliances (mixers, vacuums, etc.). Its main brands are: Bosch, Siemens, Gaggenau, and Neff. The Local Hero brands are: Thermador, Coldex, Pitsos, Ufesa, Balay, Profilo, Zelmer, and Constructa. And the Label brands are Junker and Viva.
The company headquarters is located in Munich, Germany. Dr. Karsten Ottenberg from Hamburg, Germany, has been CEO of BSH Hausgeräte GmbH since 2013. There are more than 800 employees from 28 different countries researching and developing laundry care products for all BSH brands at the technology center in Berlin.
The washing machine plant in Nauen exports 80 percent of the appliances it manufactures to South Africa, India, Indonesia, and the U.S. The limited-edition Constructa models are manufactured exclusively at this location and sold through the Sales department in Germany to retailers.
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Reynolds Contracting specializes in a variety of construction services, including earthwork, foundation repair, landscaping/hardscaping, and more in the Central Virginia area. With our expertise in Gordonsville concrete and sod installation, we recently helped a family in the final stages of their new home construction.
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Book review: The Reykjavik Confessions
Two unsolved murders which happened in 1970s Iceland are the subject for Simon Cox's diligently researched book, The Reykjavik Confessions. This is the kind of book it is all too easy to become immersed in, and is therefore a must read for any armchair detective.
On a freezing cold January night in 1974 a young man disappears. Suspicions fall upon a certain Saevar, his girlfriend Erla and a circle of ne'er-do-well petty criminals whom gravitate around the couple. A couple of years later another man disappears into the endless Icelandic gloom. Reading this book will certainly make you shiver - in more ways than one.
Long since a target for the local police, braggart Saevar soon finds himself in solitary confinement under intense police pressure to confess. But it's the fragile Erla who the police correctly identify as the weak link, and the young mother duly confesses to both crimes implicating her lover and several other individuals in the disappearances.
It is astonishing to learn of the psychological duress the suspects underwent in mid 1970s Iceland. Kept in solitary confinement for months - in some instances years - and subjected to intense pressure, is it any wonder the suspects cracked?
Aided by prison diaries and interviews with Erla and others, Cox's book meticulously charts a nightmare series of events. The Icelandic justice system does not come out of this exactly smelling of roses. Due process seems to have been an alien concept back then. It reminds one of some sort of Dirty Harry film in which hunches and gut instinct overrides procedure. Thing is, Dirty Harry was always proved right . . .
To be fair to Cox, for the most part of the book he remains a detached observer, faithfully chronicling the many twists and turns in this extraordinary narrative - not the easiest of tasks one assumes.
After a tortuous enquiry lasting several years, the 'Reykjavik six' were found guilty of both murders and sentenced to various prison terms. Very usefully, the final part of the book deals with the fate of the alleged offenders upon their releases. For example, Cox meets up with Erla and also has interactions with various actors from the drama such as a prison guard and one of the accused, long since released and having become a man of the church.
At this late stage of the book, Cox throws a rather large bombshell into the mix. For perhaps the first time it becomes apparent that the author steadfastly believes in the innocence of Saevar and his co-accused - a testament to objectivity if nothing else.
For it transpires that the real killers of the first murder victim have since been located. Saevar, Erla and friends had succumbed to what is known as false testimony - a psychological phenomenon in which people can, under, certain circumstances, construct false realities e.g. confessing to murder when they are innocent. And yet . . .
Cox introduces this bombshell in just a single sentence - a throwaway line almost, tucked away right at the end of the book. The first murder victim had been hit by a car while walking home one icy night. And herein lies the major weakness of this book. As far as the case is concerned here is a sensational development, one that is delivered in a matter of fact way, not much more than a single sentence.
Questions arise: what did the hit-and-run drivers do with the body? If it was an accident, why would they hide the body of what may have been a drunk teenager staggering into the dark road? While the last thing the reader wants at this stage is another book, we certainly require some explanation . . .
Were the hit and run drivers charged? How did they plead? Presumably they knew all about the injustices borne my Saevar and Erla? Frustration. But by this point of the book Mr Cox seems only concerned with the innocence of the original six.
What then of the second murder the six were charged with? Nothing more is said about the complex Keflavik case. It's left hanging in the air. Are the suspects innocent of one crime, but guilty of another? Alas, the book does not consider this very real possibility. The author has made up his mind: The Reykjavik six suffered a gross miscarriage of justice.
As for me, I'm not that convinced. Having read the various confessions with an open mind and considered the police methods, I don't share Mr Cox's conclusions. The main characters - Saevar and Erla - come across as highly unsympathetic characters. With their history of petty crime and testimonies that change by the day, honesty and integrity seem sorely lacking.
The Reykjavik Confessions is a competent account of an intriguing murder mystery, but one in which the final jigsaw pieces still feel as if they are missing.
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As Summer continues to bloom across the country we look forward to August where many of our gardens will be a riot of colour, with late summer perennials, herbaceous borders, grasses and dahlias. Find the ideal late summer garden to visit with our suggestions below.
To view over 180 hanging baskets and floral displays. 45 varieties of apple, pear and other fruit visit Meynell Langley Trials Garden in Derbyshire. The perennial borders hold over 250 varieties in this garden, which trials new and existing varieties of bedding plants, herbaceous perennials and vegetable plants.
In Dorset, The Old Rectory, Pulham boasts yew pyramid allées and hedges, circular herbaceous borders with late summer colour, whilst in Kent, Denne Manor Farm has well stocked herbaceous borders to enjoy.
Appreciate a flourishing exotic garden in Abbeywood Gardens, Cheshire situated in the heart of Delamere Forest, while at Bourton House, Gloucestershire you'll find imaginative topiary and wide herbaceous borders with many rare, unusual and exotic plants.
Clay soil gardeners can find inspiration at Bridge Nursery, Warwickshire, a garden full of an exciting range of plants which thrive in hostile conditions. At Dove Cottage Nursery, near Halifax, wind your way through Yorkshire gravel and yorkstone paths to enjoy beautiful plantings of ornamental grasses and hardy perennials, many selected for their wild looking beauty and late summer flowering.
Visit Welsh beauty, Croesllanfro Farm, Gwent with two acres of informal, mass planted perennial borders. Late Summer sees the garden reach a finale with an explosion of colour.
If dahlias are your thing then Ulting Wick, Essex is a must-visit! Combined with dramatic late summer beds with zingy, tender, exotic plant combinations and drought tolerant perennials it is a feast for the senses. In Hampshire dahlias can also be enjoyed at Gilberts Dahlia Field, nr Romsey. there are over 300 varieties of dahlias in their dedicated 1½ acre field.
Finally, Pear Tree Cottage in Worcestershire offers an evening opening where you can not only enjoy the far reaching views across orchards to Abberley Clock Tower, but listen out for the sounds of bats and owls with a glass of wine as the sun sets.
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Our plans to build 279 new homes on land at Greenfields Road, Dereham in Norfolk have been approved by Breckland Council.
Of these 209 are for open market sale and 70 are for affordable rent and shared ownership. There will be a mix of one, two, three, four and five bedroom apartments and homes.
The application was recommended for approval on the basis that the development would make a 'significant contribution towards the supply of housing, including affordable housing'.
Ian Fieldhouse, Orbit's Regional Director (East) said: "We continue to grow and invest in our property portfolio in the East and are delighted our application for 279 new homes has been granted approval.''
Orbit will be providing a number of areas of play across the site and a multi-use games area. There will be 1.66 hectares of open space and enhancements to existing rights of way around the site which have now been formalised on an order recently granted.
We will also be making a number of section 106 contributions for offsite highway improvements, education and a further contribution for play in the district.
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ALK Gene Rearrangements As A Therapeutic Target in Non-small Cell Lung Cancer - Episode 7
Brain Metastasis in ALK+ NSCLC
Karen Reckamp, MD, Jyoti Patel, MD
Jyoti Patel, MD, and Karen Reckamp, MD, evaluate the treatment of patients with ALK+ advanced NSCLC with brain metastases.
EP. 1: Overview of ALK+ NSCLC
EP. 2: Testing for the ALK Rearrangements
EP. 3: Mechanism of Action of ALK-targeting Therapies in NSCLC
EP. 4: Efficacy and Safety of Frontline Treatment Options for ALK+ NSCLC
EP. 5: Selecting the Appropriate Treatment in ALK+ NSCLC
EP. 6: Treatment Options for Patients with ALK+ NSCLC who Progress on First-line TKIs
EP. 7: Brain Metastasis in ALK+ NSCLC
EP. 8: Unmet Needs and Future Directions
Karen Reckamp, MD: Moving forward with CNS [central nervous system] activity, we've talked a lot about how we want to avoid radiation in these patients, and we want to talk about the data of why we can avoid radiation. As far as CNS metastases, you had mentioned that somewhere around one-third to a quarter of patients will have frontline metastases. Can you speak about the efficacy of the TKIs [tyrosine kinase inhibitors], listing them somewhat specifically, but more general categories? I know you did mention earlier that we can't compare the efficacy, no cross-trial comparisons can be done, but talk about the efficacy of the TKIs in the brain.
Jyoti Patel, MD: Sure. We generally avoid crizotinib in patients who have CNS metastases, but if you look at the earliest trials, even crizotinib can have efficacy in the brain of about 40%. When we look at particular TKIs, brigatinib has had the most robust story with about a 79% CNS response rate, and alectinib is just under that in the mid-70% range. Again, these are drugs that are effective.
Karen Reckamp, MD: The response rate for lorlatinib was 82% versus 23% for crizotinib.
Jyoti Patel, MD: Right, and 79% for brigatinib. Again, the volume and number of lesions would matter as you're making these decisions.
Certainly, there are a number of early trials or investigator-initiated trials that have tried to couple these TKIs with VEGF inhibitors—ramucirumab and bevacizumab—to try to increase CNS efficacy, though when it's that high, it's hard to do. So it is more looking at CNS relapse rather than true response rate up front, and lorlatinib, with that deep hazard ratio, sort of wins there.
Karen Reckamp, MD: With these drugs and the high response rates in the brain, what do we do for patients who do develop progression in the brain?
Jyoti Patel, MD: For new brain metastasis on lorlatinib, I would likely try, if I didn't have an available trial, to add bevacizumab, if SRS [stereotactic radiosurgery] or limited resection were not feasible. Importantly, pemetrexed also has CNS penetration and chemotherapy does. If that's the main site of progression and I didn't have other local therapies available, then I'd switch to carboplatin and pemetrexed with or without bevacizumab.
Karen Reckamp, MD: It certainly is a challenge.
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What we have here isn't so much an anime, but an experiment. At least I hope it's an experiment, because as an anime it's quite an atrocity. It deserves a place in the bottom of the barrel, not because it's awful in a unique way. There's no content, nothing particularly offensive that stick out. It's just a series of mistakes piling up on one another.
If this is an experiment, it's an interesting and important one. In fact, as an experiment it deserves the attention of all literary scholars. Finally, a piece of fiction tries to answer the age-old question of what is more important – execution or the idea. Since the end result is closer to vomit caused by excessive drinking (which itself was a means of coping with an awful party), the answer is execution.
"Execution" is an ironic word to use in the context of this crappy anime, both because a lot of characters die and the anime ends up killing its brilliant premise. Most creators don't have any idea what 'horror' actually means. They think we experience horror when someone holds a knife against us and we need to fight them, but that's not it. A dangerous situation where there are a few predictable outcomes, some of them bad is thrilling and causes adrenaline but it's not scary.
People are afraid of walking alone in the streets and of being on the stage, yet no one is going to kill you if you deliver a speech (Unless you're a politician). The common ground between two is the unknown, and more importantly a fairly hostile unknown. Horror is effective when we know or speculate there is something hostile there and don't know its nature. The best of horror is striking a balance – having a good enough idea what kind of danger there is, but not enough.
Horror fiction often features weak protagonists. In order to effective, the protagonists need to know little so they won't really have a way to defeat the Big Bad. Stories are the scariest not at the climax – it means very little in this genre. Experiencing the unknown is what's important. A shot of Michael Myers standing outside the house is scary, because we don't really know what Myers is except the fact he kills people for some reason. More than any other genre, Horror isn't about a tight structure but strong, atmospheric moments emphasizing how the characters view the world.
The creators commit the horrible mistake of thinking that what works in video games also works in fiction. So the main character isn't actually a human, but a distinct organism only found in shitty stories called Plotus Moverus. Exploring a mystery on my own is one thing. Merely watching someone else do it is something else. Shows on TV that show you how to cook things have more narrative thrust, more personality. People actually remember all those dudes in TV who talk about food, yet I'll only remember Kouchi because he starred in this horrible anime.
Kouchi gives a point of view with less personality than a Wikipedia article, so already we lack any kind of framing for this town. Look at this as a self-insert character, and you get zilch. If Kouchi had a psychology or a personality that would react to the horror, then I could insert myself into him and feel like I'm experiencing the same thing. I could use this story not only to explore the nature of horror but how we can react to horrifying things. Kouchi only gathers data.
The scenary is now responsible to frame this story as scary, and at the beginning it's actually quite good. People criticized it because 'nothing happened', but they just misunderstand the genre. Things don't have to happen and it may be for the best if they won't. What should go on is atmosphere. The art and especially the background is fantastic. The colors are varied, yet there's a slight dark tone to everything – not enough to make it monochrome, but enough to hint there's something bad going on underneath. This balance is difficult to attain but the series does it. Every scene in the beginning is imbued with uneasiness, empty streets of a small, isolated town and a dark shade over thing because disaster can strike at any moment.
An episode which takes place at the beach is a perfect example of how well the atmosphere works. There is silence and uneasiness all over it. Every interaction is a bit more hushed. A game of fishing ends with people capturing nothing interesting but kelp and a blowfish. Romance is right around the corner, but everyone is too preocupied with the horror to go with it
Here you get why the premise is so brilliant. By its very nature it's horror, it's a premise where people know disaster strikes but not really its nature or how to stop it or how exactly it will affect. Reduce the genre to its bare bones and you get that. Now all you need to do is let the characters do their thing. Let them react to the situation with their personalities. Let it affect their relationship, the structure of the town. Show us the effect of death and the unknown on us, tickle our sense of empathy.
Mentioning the Saw film at this point, because they're an example of how this anime failed. The first Saw film featured two dudes locked in a rusty bathroom which is quite frightening, but that's also because of the mystery – what the hell is that bathroom? The anime does contain a mystery, but instead of letting it be one they solve it in – get this! – one episode. No, really, there is no build-up or any psychological thrust to the discovery. One day a character info-dumps the whole equation. Now the characters only need to find the X, literally.
Remove the mystery and the psychology and all you have left is a dull process of elimination. The side-characters are slightly better than Kouchi but even they don't do much. The last episodes consist of fire and brimstone and that hardly makes for an effective climax. As an action scene it might serve, but its main role is to revel and swim in the blood of the characters.
What it reveals is what I tried to suppress all along – that the mystery isn't actually a symbol for our fear of death, but a plot tool to kill characters. Instead of experiencing this anguish and angt, understand the meaning of fear and trembling and reflect upon the nature of death you enter a guessing game. Every episode is a game of 'who dies next?' until it ends with a massacre that might've been effective with a different build-up. Too bad it's just has everyone smiling psychotically while chanting the same sentence.
In the beginning of the anime Stephen King is dropped, a popular writer with great ideas and horrible execution. Even he wasn't that bad, but the series is loyal to his style. It took an idea so good you can use it to explain the nature of the genre and turned it into a who's-gonna-die game. The final twist isn't that surprising either and doesn't add any meaning, although it could've lead to a powerful character moment if Kouchi had something resembling a personality. Write off the popularity of this anime as pure shock value.
1.5 spooky stuff out of 5
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Orson Scott Card – Children of the Mind
'Children' is an appropriate word in the title. As for the 'Mind', not so much. Card's finishes his quadrilogy – which started with two classics – on a ridiculous low. It's not that the novel is bad, but that the flaws are brand new. Card succumbs to all the flaws he avoided when he first started.
Why did the two books split up? Considering how much Card had to say in Speaker for the Dead, it makes sense. His intelligence and complex philosophy still shines through. Instead of shining through storytelling, it's one essay after another. Sometimes it's inside the characters' heads. Sometimes they ruminate and we get the whole thing, uncensored and unabridged. If this was part of a style, fine. It's not. Rather, it's a collection of notes – events, ruminations, extended dialogues that all should've been trimmed down.
The quadrilogy has philosophical weight, but in the end these novels aren't pure philosophy. There is an engaging story beneath them about saving the world and what it means to be human. The constant ruminations are like a decent guitar solo extended for 10 minutes. One or two profound phrase is okay since it helps us focus on the themes. When there are whole paragraphs where nothing happens, that's when you know the editors were dead.
If Card is so against destroying other species, why are the editors extinct? This is a flaw I encounter a lot when reading works by unpublished writers. They're confused, not sure entirely what their story is about and afraid the audience won't get them. The fear is justified considering how everyone loved Fight Club for the wrong reasons. So they fill their stories with character thoughts and speculations.
When I get these stories fresh from the oven, I don't mind. Nobody has gone over them to trim the unnecessary stuff and what should remain as notes. A story doesn't come fully formed from our minds. We must write it down, see how it looks like on paper and then play around with the pieces. You don't really know how your story works until you actually write it down. If I read a story where half of it is notes the author should've kept to himself, that's fine. They needed to write this to get the information out of their heads, to acknowledge it exists.
When I read a story filled with notes by a published author, I get angry. Card doesn't show ideas. He doesn't even let characters' personalities filter them. Philosophies are the main characters now. The novel is filled with philosophical conversations and ruminations, and it's all so disconnected from the story.
Philosophical essays contain ideas, but fiction is how we imagine them taking from. We need literature because that's how we imagine the effect philosophies have on our live. I can write an essay about how everyone should have assisted suicide easily available for them, but through fiction I can imagine how such an idea might impact society.
The danger of piling philosophical conversations and ruminations in your novel is this. If they overpower the story, they lose connection. We no longer see the ideas in action, so we no longer see the importance. A good story doesn't just give me insight into an idea, but makes me care about it. By having an emotionally engaging or thrilling story, I get emotionally invested and see the importance of the idea.
The philosophical conversations have no element of humanity in them. They rarely inform us about the characters or their big worldviews. Watching them is like watching a discussion on CMV-Reddit. You see the ideas isolated from a person dissected, analyzed and evolved. That's fascinating, but that's not a story. Moreover, CMV has an abundance of people. This novel written by one person. It's really one long monologue in disguise, which is a shame. A monologue by a person – especially a talented writer like Card – could've been fascinating.
Children of the Mind isn't an unrestrained novel. It's a novel without purpose that jumps from topic to topic but in the end goes anywhere. We shouldn't kill other people. We should try to understand people. Haven't we heard this all before? Wasn't it more convincing when characters were either morally grey, or when we saw the weight of heroism? The absence of Ender makes his character duller. Without him to show us the weight of his virtues, everyone just opens up a fanclub.
Everyone also acts like douchebags towards each other. Suddenly 21st-century internet lingo caught on and characters swear. Dirty words don't offend me, but their sudden appearance is odd. Even more similar to stereotypical internet talk is how many dialogues go. So much belittling, being sarcastic and condescending you have to wonder why these people are doing with each other. Nothing actually happened between this novel and Xenocide, so when did everyone started swaggering like Tarantino?
The basic idea behind the ending couldn't have been better. It ties the novel directly to the first one, but it's still anticlimatic. Besides that tie to the first novel, nothing actually happened in that ending. The conflict was solved, events happened but no conclusions reached. The people of Lusitania may feel better and may be able to expand their colony, but I'm in the same place.
Children of the Mind gets by only because it's a part of the Ender Saga. There are interesting ideas, but Card is trying hard to push himself when he ran out of things to say. It even lacks the occasional outrageous moment of Xenocide. That novel was empty, but you could trim it to a decent novella. A kind editor should've told Card that he's writing a story, not a hodge-podge collection of conversations with self, ruminations and the occasional encounter with aliens. At least the first two books are constructed well enough they stand on their own.
2 children out of 5 minds
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Orson Scott Card – Xenocide
Don't we all want to believe in the myth of the free artist? If only we break the chains of record labels and publishing companies! A truly great author doesn't need a pest of an editor. Their glorious minds just spill diamonds on the page. Really, this is an attractive fantasy. It means we can just write whatever the hell comes to our heads and it might be brilliant. We don't have to actively seek criticism and feedback, since that will soil our purity.
For every brilliant album like The Fragile, you get a book like Xenocide. Actually, Dr. Dre was invovled in "Even Deeper" so maybe even that album isn't a product of a single, untamed genius. Human beings are flawd and social animals. Without feedback or criticism, our ideas don't improve. Becoming intelligent is no different than working out. You have to practice. You have to up the ante and you have to try new things and hear the words people different than you.
Card is clearly intelligent or else he wouldn't be able to write the two previous novels. They were vastly different in style and were self-contained. There was an overarching story but the books weren't separated just so it would be easier to sell them. They had a beginning and an end, different prose styles and different structures. That's all before you get into how Card explores his ideas, how he focuses on characters and refuses to demonize everyone. These things are here too, only Card has no one to restrain him.
Lack of an editor doesn't mean Card's good habits can flow freely. It means he sinks to the sin of overwriting, joining the ranks of authors like King and R. R. Martin. He rambles on for most of the books, talking to himself and writing down notes. There so many passages that fit more a stream-of-consciousness narrative but this clearly isn't one. The narrator is omniscient and the stream of thoughts don'tm provide any psychological insight. It's a reptition of things we already know.
He's similar to R. R. Martin not just in the rambling style, but in how the rambling holds the book back. When ramblings aren't poetic or insightful, all they do is fill up the page and cause build-up. Build-up isn't a good thing. There's no reason to tease the readers with 'something will happen!' when it's possible to write interesting things that are happening right now.
Only in the last 100 pages things are actually happening. Until then, people mostly speculate. Although there are many characters, the speculations aren't patricularly varied. People mostly think about what happened, what may happen and what are the odds of something happening. It's an author not sure how to move his story, so he writes neutral, meaningless things.
It's tempting to write these paragraphs. Looking at how many words you wrote brings a feelings of satisfaction, of having done a work. Lying bricks in an order doesn't automatically lead to a house. Writing a lot of sentences doesn't automatically lead to a story or an essay or insightful philosophical musings. Card's prose is more nimble and easy to read than other ramblers, but making it more pleasant doesn't make it any less of a ramble.
The worst sin Card commits is lacking any purpose to his story. What's Xenocide about, in the end? What does it add to the world of Ender? We shouldn't judge other people too hastily. People may seem immoral to us but perhaps their value system is vastly different and we need to find a bridge. There's no progression of ideas here from the previous novels. For all of its philosophical musings, the novel is empty. The only thing that happens is that the characters confront a virus, discover faster-than-light travel and start to rise against Starways Congress. Does that sound like a story that needs 600 pages?
The novel was apparently meant to go hand-in-hand with Children of the Mind but they were split in two. Whenever a book needs to split up because it's too long a red flag rises. That's a sign the story doesn't actually end in the book itself (Here, it hardly concludes) and that the author found themselves writing a little too much.
The usual strengths are here. Although Starways Congress are the first actual antagonist in the series, Card generally refuses to paint people as wholly evil or wholly good. Characters are conflicted. People do horrible stuff and later Card makes us understand them without justifying it. The idea of 'varlese' is pretty brilliant – accepting that sometimes we have to kill a different species because we fail to communicate but not because they're evil. The novel never develops these. We don't get anything like the piggies' radical view of death.
There's also more techno-babble this time around. Expect a lot of ramblings in the last 100 pages about Outspace and Inspace. It's good he doesn't pretend this is hard science and the philotes are more of a philosophical concept than a scientific one. But Card spends more time telling us how it works and none of it is barely cool enough for Stoner Rock lyrics. Again, it's an author whose pen are getting away from them. No editor was here to cut off the fat and leave the substance.
Normally these are the worst flaws a book can commit. Offend the reader, but at least be interesting. Boredom cannot be forgiven. Boredom merely kills the reader's time and no one lives forever. Yet Xenocide is, overall, a bearable book. It's not very enjoyable, but it's never offensively boring. The rambling prose fattens the novel, but it never becomes a struggle to read. When things do happen, they're interesting.
That's thanks to Card's great foundation. He always comes off as a compassionate, wise person in his novels instead of a homophobic conservative. The world is still dominated by concepts and ideas, rather than trying to predict hard science. There is still no main character, but a wide cast. Some get more focus than others, but each is given a rational basis for their actions (Although Quara is a bit dramatic). Card never demonizes anyone.
Such tiny merits manage to make the book fairly pleasant, if not great. It's a huge step-down from Speaker for the Dead and makes me wonder if this is where the series ran out of steam. Still, Card manages to ramble and focus too much about build-up and avoid writing a horrible book. That takes some skill. There's nothing here unless you really loved the first books, but if youd did the ride may be pleasant. Hopefully the sequel is worth it.
2.5 xenocides out of 5
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Parasyte: The Maxim (Kiseiju: Sei no Kakuritsu)
Humans are bad. They ruin the beautiful planet earth. No, wait, humans are actually good and all bad people aren't humans. Eating meat is evil, or it's a part of nature. Killers kill because they're unrestrained and society is the only thing that keeps us from killing all that surrounds us. Planet earth is beautiful, and the fate of the world is in the hands of a teenage sex bomb and his, well, talking hand. Also, bass occasionally drops.
The concept isn't bad. A talking hand gains automatic Cool Points and it doesn't prevent the story from exploring deeper things. Having a sex bomb for a main character isn't a death sentence. It's when the anime juggles 90's Sci-Fi weirdness with no insight or boldness. The parasites are cool at first, but not for 24 episodes. Shinichi is a good-natured sex bomb and people are evil because they're evil, so where's the shock value?
The problem with Parasyte isn't that it's stupid. The problem is that it wants to be smart. Too many times it points to a bigger idea, something about human nature and eating meat. Then it undoes every insight it has by having sex bomb characters, pornographic violence and cheap emotional manipulation. The techniques don't match the aim of the anime.
Parasyte ends up joining the ranks of pretentious grimdark anime who think violence equals depth. The violence is fun for a while. Limbs are torn off without a second thought. The Parasytes distort the human body in Cronenberg's favorite ways. You can't carry an entire show based on that though. The creators quickly run out of visual ideas. Besides the blades, muscle tissue and eyeballs everywhere the Parasytes don't have much to offer. Blood stops being shocking after a few gallons. The action scenes are hardly action scenes. A lot of fighting is simply blades clanging in the speed of light.
Clearly, the series wants to be more than a silly Sci-Fi story about bodysnatchers. It's hard to take it seriously when the lead character is a sex bomb and nobody points out how weird it is. Every female character with a speaking role expresses interest in him. The teenage ones' affection are clearly towards romantic. Does that sound like a harem premise to you?
The difference between this anime and other harems is that it's serious. It never addresses the fact all the females somehow love Shinichi. Yes, it should considering it happens so much. There's even beating up of another girl's asshole boyfriend. From a distance, the abundance of female characters is nice since stories like these are often criticized for the lack of female presence. Then again, if the main thing they do is to stroke the main character's ego what's the point?
Having sex bombs for characters in such serious shows is always funny. While the anime preaches to us about how horrible the world is, how horrible humans are and how dare we eat meat it forgets losers and winners are everywhere. Sexuality isn't some antidote to our violent nature. Sexuality and violence go hand-in-hand. Both have winners and losers, defeaters and defeated. The difference is, violence is more fair. Unless you disabled, you can use your fist. I guess the creators are all sex bombs too.
Is calling Shinichi 'privileged' making me look insensitive? He loses people left and right, and yet he still comes off as a boring, privileged dude. External and internal troubles are not the same thing. Although a lot of terrible things happen to Shinichi, he has no internal struggle. He has no lens through which to view the horror.
Attack on Titan is an obvious comparison. Both deal with an epic battle of humanity against another being, and in the center is a teenage superhero. Eren also loses loved ones and is knee deep in the abyss. Unlike Shinichi, he has a clear personality through which the suffering is filtered. Eren doesn't just feel bad over his troubles. He views them in his idealistic, hero-delusional lens. In contrast, Yukki (Future Diary) and Shinji (Neon Genesis Evangelion) react to the danger with fear and avoidance. Shinichi has no such lens. He gets sad and screams in sorrow for a while.
Nothing actually drives him. Survival doesn't count, since all organism are driven by survival (or well-being). He's barely active in the story. Things happen to him and that's it. The only decision he makes are whether to fight or flee. It almost sounds clever, since the anime wants to say something about how humans are still animals. Only it's not true, of course. Humans are the only organism who are aware of their own death, of their consciousness. You need such cognitive abilities to start thinking about existence. The Parasytes start going existential, too.
Characters die all the time. The light/dark contrast is clever and will never lose its shine. Here it ends up being a cheap trick. Nearly every character that's introduced will die. Some die in the same episode they're introduced. Others are lucky to survive a few more episodes. The game of 'who will die next?' may entertain some, but that's just gruesome RealiTV. It's easy to recognize who will die and how. Many characters die so Shinichi can grieve over them, feel bad and then not change. He doesn't have a personality that can change. The result is cheap manipulation of the viewer. Introduce a character, makes us relate to them and then rip their heads off.
There is a little spark, a little energy here. The anime is based on an old manga, and you can see it. The tropes and storytelling style all belongs in an older time, of moral heroes and sci-fi paranoia. It's another thing that's almost clever. They could've mixed the moral heroism/optimism of Shinichi with the 90's techno-paranoia that gave us "Spaceman". There's no attempt to bridge these two, though. Shinichi is moral for convenience and the darkness is here to shock. He would've probably been one of Reznor's 'pigs' with how bland he is, or one of Manson's Beautiful People.
It's nice the soundtrack keeps up with the times and gives us Bass Music of all kinds. I love Skrillex and Zomboy and Knife Party and all these. The soundtrack is so good, in fact, that I hope it will make its way to Excision's Shambhala mixes. Sadly, the few bass drops don't make up for a shitty story. They make it slightly more bearable.
Parasyte is crap. There's no way around it. What starts off as fairly bizarre loses its shine quickly. It's another grimdark anime where people die violently and this is somehow reflective of how terrible life is. Parasyte plays a little more with light and dark, but in the end it all leads back to the abyss. Don't expect the depths you can get by going to suicide communities though. It's so much of an abyss as it is a black wall.
1.5 bad Cronenberg movies out of 5
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Many bad shows are a case of good ideas poorly executed. It's rare for a show to miss its target in the premise, but One Punch Man does. For a while, the series assumes that powerful characters are a problem in fiction.
They're not. Anyone who's concerned with how intelligent or strong or agile a character is should stop talking about fiction. These aren't role-playing characters. They don't have charcter stats and skill trees. If a character has a trait, it's supposed to be meaningful to his personality.
A character isn't defined by how strong he is but by simply being strong. It's not hard to write intelligent characters. Just have someone solve mathematical problems and put the answer in the character's brain. It doesn't matter that Max Cohen is a walking calculator. What's interesting is how his genius affects his worldview and isolate him.
In the first episodes, the series piledrives into the ground the idea that overpowered characters are silly. I don't think anyone thought otherwise, so we get something like Kill La Kill only with less charisma. Everyone looks like Arnold Schwarznegger. Everyone screams and every conflict is solved with one punch. Mr. Krabs also makes a cameo appearance in the first episode, but he's transformed into another bodybuilding loudmouth.
There's only so much you can do with a character who solves everything with one punch. Thankfully, Saitama is not as bland as his skill. He's a great protagonist with a personality that's connected to his super-strength. It's almost psychological how bored he is of all the macho bullshit, but he's also vain and wants the attention. The anime remains satirical and exaggerated but the protagonist has a realistic psychology.
It's Saitama's desire for stardom and everyone's megalomania that shapes the main arc. At this point the anime abandons making fun of obvious targets and starts creating actual absurd situations. The villains are rarely interesting. Their purpose is to always get knocked out by one punch. Rather, it's stardom that's being satirized.
How ironic it is to discuss the Bandwagon Fallacy in a review of a popular anime? Popularity doesn't prove quality. Just because you don't have a diploma from an Intelligence Institution doesn't mean you're stupid. Yet we take these things very seriously. People are often more curious about whether my writing is popular instead of how good it is.
Diplomas or popularity don't prove you're talented. They only prove someone thinks are you are. Popularity is even worse than diplomas, though. Diplomas are given by people of authority who take their topics seriously. People can be easily swayed.
The most popular people on earth aren't the hard workers or the life savers. The most popular people are those with the highest social value. They are the charismatic, the beautiful, the entertaining. Taylor Swift is more well-known than a person who saves a baby from a fire. That's because Taylor is charismatic, beautiful and writes catchy songs. Just because you save a person from a fire doesn't mean you're a desirable social presence. It gets even worse with peolpe who Famous Because They're Famous.
The series is wise enough not to pull that strawmen. There are these silly celebrities, but here the popularity of most heroes are justified. They're both charismatic and talented, but they're never as talented as Saitama.
That's because, unlike them, he never worked on being popular. He became the strongest hero because he only put effort into being strong rather than being popular. That's the cost of talent. Sometimes you focus so much on it that you forget to make people notice you.
There's a major rise in quality once the series finds its satirical target. While it presents it well, pointing absurdities without resorting to strawmen it can never attain a sense of madness it aims for.
In the first episodes, it thinks it will get by having everyone scream and some stupid ideas like a muscular crab and a kabuto macho dude. I used different words but this is the same idea. It tones down later but the series never gives up on this.
There are some interesting visual ideas, but almost everything is given the macho look. It fits with themes, but after the 10th dude who looks like sirloin steak it becomes boring. When Tornado appears and we get a cute girl it's a shock.
Just as they are all macho dudes, their personalities are all macho. Besides Saitama's everyman personality and Genos, who acts like he walked into the wrong anime, characters blur into each other. It makes for a consistent world. At least the anime tried to find variety in macho bullshit rather than pretend their kaleidoscopic. Still, it makes for a world that's always less exciting than how the characters perceive it.
One Punch Man isn't amazing and quickly stops acting like the Most Hyped Show of the Season. That's a good thing. It's when it realizes its limitations (the world is monochrome and tame, overpowered characters aren't worth satirizing) and its strengths (satirizing celebrity culture, finding variety in macho bullshit) it becomes a worthwhile show that has enough personality to appeal to those outside the genre.
3.5 one punches out of 5
Author The Brain in the JarPosted on December 22, 2015 Categories anime, reviewTags action, alien, animation, anime, anime review, antagonist, argumentation, avengers, bad guy, bandwagon fallacy, batman, black widow, bleach, bodybuilding, cartoon, celebrity, comedy, evil, fame, famous, fiction, fight, fighting, genos, hero, heroes, hulk, humor, iron man, japan, japanese, logic, logical fallacy, marvel, marvel cinematic universe, muscles, naruto, one piece, one punch man, philosophy, protagonist, punch, review, saitama, satire, save the world, saving the world, seasonal anime, spiderman, strength, superhero, superhro, superman, tornado, violence, working out2 Comments on One Punch Man
Divergence EVE
Whoever was reponsible for the marketing of this series was on drugs. It's as if two teams were given the same characters and told to run with it. The marketing team decided to give them swimsuits that only cover the nipples. The storytelling team decided to take the route of every good Sci-Fi story.
That's a smart move. Divergence Eve wouldn't work as ecchi. The breasts look oversized and pointy. They don't look natural. Looking at them is interesting because you can have fun trying to figure out how they connect. It has none of the elegance of Freezing.
Someone has described the series as "a good sci-fi story with breasts drawn on it" and it's dead-on. The breasts don't even affect the story. They're just there, being too big but never attracting any attention. The camera rarely lingers on them. While the designs aren't as good as Freezing, it also doesn't sink into that fanservice. No panty shots or the like during serious scenes.
The story itself comes from the same scene that gave us Nine Inch Nails, the Matrix and Neon Genesis Evangelion. It's technological paranoia all over again. Human experiments and space exploration are here to remind us the world is a frightening thing, and technology causes problems and not just solve it.
Space remains a weird territory that we can't make sense of yet, so there's room to explore this in fiction. What's important is making sure your story is about how the characters go on about the whole exploration thing. It's hard to invent new territories, even if they're a meaningful symbol. Character interaction with the symbols is more important.
The story is, thankfully, driven by the characters. Anyone who's looking for explosions and machines banging against each other will be disappointed. The reason the show doesn't stop to show you the breasts is because it cares more about who these characters are.
It's a good approach, but the creators don't know what to do it. There are moments of psychology that try to reveal something, but characters rarely become more than their basic shape. The girls never become more than their archetypes. Sure, Kiri is a tough girl but what else?
At least these archetypes feel like they have purpose. The actions make are consistent with it, and they're dynamic enough. Suzanna's arc is a highlight, taking her character to its logical conclusion. The series never pretends that these archetypes don't exist, which is great. But It never shows an understanding of them.
EVE's main problem is that it has a sense of purpose, but no concrete purpose. No scene feels out of place. Nothing exists to kill time or to flaunt the big tits. Every character modifies the the scene its in. Even the techno-babble has purpose. It makes no sense, but the words are cool enough to create a sense of techno-paranoic-tension.
If the series had a theme to revolve around, it'd be able to lead its ship somewhere. The ending hints at grief and death, but they only appeared sporadically before. Human experimentation and moving civilization to new frontiers are also addressed, but they don't do anything with them at the end.
The series didn't just borrow Evangelion's strengths, but its main flaw. The difference between the two is Evangelion's characters are outlandish enough to make their psychology apparent. They're all exaggerated portraits, but they have more life in them. I appreciate the attempt to tone it down. Divergence Eve does come off as more realistic, but also with less life.
Two things that give the show some uniqueness is the fact it managed to make zombies actually scary. They're not an important part of the plot. It's another idea that's addressed and abandoned but the brief moments are scary. The focus on characters helps makes the danger feel real. The focus is on the reaction, rather than gore.
Divergence Eve also boasts a killer soundtrack. The OP is called "Nine Inch Nails" for a reason. Someone finally realized that orchestras have no room in outer space. The soundtrack's buzzing riffs, hard drums and industrial sounds capture the feeling of being in unknown space, where the only natural things are hostile. Maybe if they took more than just Nine Inch Nails' basic sound they could've written a story to match it.
It's not a great show. It lacks a theme to connect everything and the story always feels like it lacks direction. It tries its best to get over it. There's no bullshit and the focus on characters make the story engrossing enough. There are some powerful moments. The series' heart is in its right place. It just didn't have the right minds who could take it to the next level. Still, it's a lot of fun, doesn't insult your brains and doesn't pretend to be anything else. If you're into stories in space it's worth a look.
3 necromancers out of 5
Author The Brain in the JarPosted on December 15, 2015 Categories anime, reviewTags alien, aliens, animation, anime, anime review, boobs, breasts, cartoon, civilization, death, depression, divergence eve, experiments, freezing, grief, hard sci-fi, horror, human experiments, japan, japanese, living dead, mental illness, mortality, necromancer, necromancy, neon genesis evangelion, outer space, paranoia, psychological, psychology, psychosis, schizophrenia, sci fi, science, science fiction, space, space station, technology, television, territory, tits, tv show, undead, unit 731, zombie, zombiesLeave a comment on Divergence EVE
Poul Anderson – For Love and Glory
Some think fun adventures and depth don't go together. That's a silly thing to think. Nothing in the adventure structure prevents it from showing us new ideas and make us look at the world in a different way. Adventures are, after all, tend to be an intense series of events that highly influence the character. This novel is a good enough example of such an adventure, but it's the only good thing about it.
Anderson has some interesting ideas. His Created World feels like something that needs more novels written about. Inventions don't exist just for convenience, but their effects are apparent. Life can be extended for almost eternity, yet a human can't contain all these memories. It also doesn't stop the gap in perspectives. Those who were born when the invention first kicked in got a different outlook and a different culture to draw on.
Anderson also takes the Multiple Alien Civilization to an interesting direction. He can't come up with interesting organisms (They are basically Argonians and Khajits, from Elder Scrolls) but the behavior is. There's a stab at racism here. Authors often use races to represent ideas. There is a race of strong, a race of stealthy, a race of intelligent and so on.
Anderson acknowledges that, unless a race has a hive mind the effect of intelligence will result in individuality. His approach is like the Elder Scrolls. A rule may apply generally, but there will be plenty who will deviate from the stereotype. He also creates a barrier between the races. Two species are too different in mindset to ever form a close relationship.
Such ideas and others rear their head, but they tend to go back down. For Love and Glory is a Foundation novel without Asimov's spare prose and with a hefty dose of The Power of Love.
I wonder if Anderson also avoided sexuality in his early books, like Asimov. We get here the excitement of the discovery. Sex is fantastic, and it's always around. Nothing can stop it. No adventure is too intense to be put on-hold for a romance.
Unlike Asimov, Anderson's view of sexuality is closer to reality. The people who will fall in love and have crazy sex with be the beautiful and skilled. They will not be social outcasts and iconoclasts who are stuck on their hobbies. They will be low-fat adventurers and women of royal birth.
It never occurs to Anderson that the Beautiful People are just another elite. Money is great when you have it but it sucks when you don't. The same goes for sex. It's harder to imagine an alternative to sex, though. Currency is something human came up with, but sexuality was imposed on us. You can't get away from sexuality.
That's why I see no one questioning the promise that we will all get a hot women (or men) in the end. No one dares to acknowledge the existance of the unattractive. The only time we talk about them is as People We Will Never Have Sex With. In sex talks with guys, they talked about these girls like they're low-quality products in a shop. They never thought that they are just like them, and that being in such a position isn't fun.
Anderson halfway acknowledges the reality of the ugly people, but the result is insulting. Esker is what you'd expect from a social outcast. He fits nowhere. He's ugly. He's also very good at his field and that's all he has. He's pretty unpleasant, which is the result of being constantly spat out by society.
Despite all his rage he's a rat in a cage, and Anderson is fine with that. He never stops to show some empathy for the poor thing. He appears once in a while and we're invited to be disgusted by him, just like Lissa and Torben are. I couldn't be disgusted. I saw in him what I am and what many people are. It's the disgust that Anderson shows for Esker that makes him act that way in the first place. You can extract a meta novel out of this. Esker is mad at the God who created him and then scoffs at him. The result is a 'metaphysical rebellion' and, if we get a film adaptation a soundtrack full of Nine Inch Nails and Marilyn Manson.
There's also descriptive prose that tries to be unique but just ends up as gibberish. Exact descriptions of machinary are boring. Novels are not a visual medium and the writing shouldn't try to do what film does better. Anderson understands that, but his descriptions are too abstract.
Authors should describe outer space with such wonder. There is no other way to talk about a ball of gas with beautiful rings surrounding it, just hanging there. The description often slip from expressing wonder to abstract word salad. It often hits scenes whose descriptions are supposed to be precise. There is a collision of ships in this novel, only the word 'collision' doesn't appear. The purpose of langauge is not to obscure the event. If you're not going to use the exact word, use words that imply and make us feel it. Anderson just skips the collision.
These problems are not a result of the novel's background. It's composed of fragments, some which were supposed to be a part of a Shared Universe project. The story is fragmented, but plenty of authors write fine fragmented stories. Good writing will take a fragmented structure and let the story come out of it. Anderson's ambition for a literary adventure are appreciated, but the result is either incoherent or insulting. The few interesting ideas make me want to see what else he has, and hope this is just the product of an old man who's past his prime.
2 alien civilizations out of 5
Author The Brain in the JarPosted on September 20, 2015 Categories Literature, reviewTags alien, alien civilization, book review, books, digimon adventure, earth, fantasy, fiction, for love and glory, foundation, geek, hugo award, isaac asimov, literature, nebula award, nerd, outer space, poul anderson, research, sci fi, science, science fiction, space opera, the broken swordLeave a comment on Poul Anderson – For Love and Glory
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La Central Nuclear Pilgrim, está situada cerca de Plymouth Rock y es, actualmente, la única central nuclear en funcionamiento en Massachusetts. Como muchas plantas similares, fue construida por Bechtel, y está dotada de un reactor de agua en ebullicion.

Encargada su construcción con un coste de 231 millones de dólares  en 1972 por Boston Edison, fue vendida en 1999 a la compañía con base en Luisiana Entergy Corporation, como parte de un complejo trato motivado por la desregulación de las instalaciones de la industria eléctrica. (Boston Edison vendió el resto de sus 12 plantas de energía no nucleares a Sithe Energies Inc., una compañía controlada por los franceses en 1997.)

Como la mayoría de las 100 plantas de energía nuclear de Estados Unidos, Pilgrim conserva su combustible nuclear gastado en un estanque de almacenamiento en el propio emplazamiento, en espera de la decisión federal para determinar dónde internar los residuos para los miles de años en los que permanecen radioactivos. El emplazamiento en la Yucca Mountain en Nevada es el único lugar que está siendo tomada en consideración a estos efectos.

El permiso de Pilgrim para funcionar caduca el 2012.

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Funny this comes from the guy who complains about no tourneys up north. Might have had something to do with getting a tourney going up that way, then had only 2 wrestlers show up. Does that sound right?
Why would you stir the pot? Seems like you would worry about your situation and not everyone else's.
The fact that you have to make 2 of a 4-5 week freestyle season is ridiculous to me as well. I certainly would not cry about kids getting in if the ISWA let's them thou. I had 1 kid register for 3 tourneys. Wrestled a total of 2 matches at 1 tourney against the same kid. I'm sure he is fit and ready for state after paying, I'm mean winning his medals.
This has nothing to do with "my area" as you like to put it, it has to do with setting rules and FOLLOWING them.
I don't like it when someone makes a rule, then lets a bunch of exceptions in. There were 800+ kids that fulfilled the requirements and now we have people who can just send a letter and not have to go through the same hoops the others had to go through. I had a parent ask the ISWA a couple weeks ago about the requirement since their son could only get one event in due to work obligations. They said NO, so he had to take off of work to go wrestle two matches to qualify. Now, if they would have just waited they would have just had to make up some flimsy excuse and get it.
Fill out the waiver for little Billy that u want in, and let everyone else make there argument themselves. What good are you doing for wrestlers or wrestling by putting kids on blast for wanting to compete.
Maybe the ISWA dropped the ball or should have waited till next season to start this new qualification? I'm not sure what's right, but help in the matter instead of throwing all under the bus.
My kids that saw they weren't getting two tournaments in quit training freestyle. The ones that did now see they wasted time and money as they could have spent 5 minutes writing a flimsy excuse.
The ISWA is dropping the ball by now allowing kids to skirt their rules.
would this be the far southeast or the far far southeast.
I need to know who to take off the list!
I agree, my kid wrestled hurt to get his 2 in. ISWA is teaching us that RULES don't matter. We wish there was AAU and USA in this State now. Tired of ISWA.
I agree with Y2! We had a few kids from our school stressing and realizing with spring sports that they couldn't fulfill the requirements to qualify for FS State. We also had a few of our club kids from area schools who were panicking as well. This email was received today...2 DAYS BEFORE REGISTRATION DEADLINE. Our kids that said well I'll just focus on track or baseball now since I can't qualify for FS State haven't been training. IF they would have known we could have kept them up at club.
AAU Wrestling hasn't been around in over 25 years. The AAU organization had documented corruption spanning many, many years. At least the ISWA (which is part of USAW) tries to be as open as it can, short of personally calling over 9000 wrestlers. Sure it has made some questionable decisions, but they have always been what the Board of Directors (~30 volunteers) have felt was best for Indiana wrestling at the time. Making changes and trying different things usually gets complaints and causes unforeseen problems. I trust that the ISWA will continue to learn from mistakes and make improvements like it normally does.
The ISWA is club-based organization. They send out information every month to each club's representative. That representative is responsible for passing along the information to the club's coaches and members. If your rep isn't doing that, then find out who it is and request that he/she share it each month. Or better yet, become more involved in your local wrestling club's organization.
I understand what you are saying, but this topic was disputed left and right before freestyle season even started. ISWA (which I thought was great) went back and found additional locations to add to try to help people get qualified. ISWA does however have a terrible way of communicating. I understand that it is a club based program, but Unattached placed 20th last year in the Freestyle Team Event, placed 4th in Folkstyle little kids state this year and placed 1st in Folkstyle Team Big kids state this year. I'm not the best person with stats, but it seems to be that you are missing a lot of the Folkstyle unattached kids in Freestyle. There might be a few kids that are not associated with a club (think the earlier evidence shows quite a few), but ISWA doesn't seem to have a problem taking their money. If they are willing to cash in on these kids they have a responsibility to try all means to get the information out to them (I don't mean they need to put it on billboards or post it on the nightly news). It is not hard to have an email collection of past participants or post on ISWA, Indianamat and/or email all AD's. If you need additional help on how to contact people please get a hold of HYWAY, they have seemed to figure it out. Never been a club member there (have been a past ISWA club member), but get all of HYWAY emails and none of ISWAs.
Lots of people mad about lack of communication, have you tried to approach one of their board members at a tourney? Or call the ISWA office?
I've done both and I know we've had other coaches in our club do both and with great success.
Really? Good example: Every camp (son wrestling, daughter golf), every course (daughter), where I get my groceries, where I get my gas, my credit card, my bank and anywhere else that makes money off of me has no problem contacting me to see or offer opportunities (which make them money and might benefit me). ISWA whether for profit or not is a business. If they want to survive they need to start acting like it. They are acting like a government (which most are bankrupt).
That seems to be your go-to response! You act like we haven't..
I have a PM (personal message for those southern folk without the interwebs) in my inbox on this acct from a board member from March, so "check". I sent an email this morning to the ISWA "contact" address asking for clarification of some things, so check. It appears a highly decorated wrestler from a respected program did not get a response either.
No, we didn't send a snail mail letter via the United States Postal System..so shame on us!
Of note, in looking at the ISWA website for contact info today (before your prompting), is the fact that they do not have a posting that there is a waiver process now in place to get entered for their FS/GK state series. Wouldn't you think that might be tremendous, if not logical, way to communicate with your constituents along with (instead of), sending a memo to local clubs who in turn have to get the info out? BTW, since most clubs are now finished with local tourneys/seasons, do you think some of these clubs might not be checking emails on a regular basis and might not have gotten yesterdays urgent memo?
I said call them or approach them at meet.
But that would require using a voice or having face to face time, heaven forbid the keyboard warriors do that.
Again, similar to other events going on in the country, why does it have to be one or the other? Can't we find a happy medium.
So you want me to take the 3 hour drive down to Indy (northerner!), for an event my kid might not be able to participate in this weekend, so that I can ask Mr. Rosbottom et al if he can and to voice my displeasure? You don't think sending an email for clarification might be a tad quicker and save some time/$? You and others keep telling us to drive to the meetings. We keep telling you and others to embrace the technology. I have an idea, maybe if we rec'd responses to emails and were heard or replied to via 21st century technology, we might devote a day of our life on a Sunday to come partake in a face to face. But the fact our non face to face communiques/issues/attempts to contacts are haphazardly dismissed sure doesn't make us want to pile in the General Lee and tour on down to Naptown to hear stories about how great things are going. Sorry.
Honest question, you should have a section director w/ a phone number.
I understand it's frustrating, I'm not a board member or anything w/ ISWA, just trying to get solutions. Sometimes a phone call or a face to face can get better results than electronic communications.
The subtle south shots are nice though I like them. I got a bag full of region and even worse region rejects quips but I sit them b/c I have like 2 friends in the region and don't want to offend.
Worse case scenario down here we pick up our fancy mouth speaker that's wired to that wooden box and the local operator patches us through to whomever we are needing to talk to.
I actually have a can and rope that goes to Jeff, when I need Danny or Louis I send smoke signals (hopefully wind is blowing east to west) and then we chat it up on the cans.
Point of clarification: Penn is only considered part of the region when bragging about semi-state superiority.


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Home » Beyond Metros » SC refuses to stay Tamil Nadu's Act allowing Jallikattu, slams state over law&order issue
SC refuses to stay Tamil Nadu's Act allowing Jallikattu, slams state over law&order issue
Updated on : Wed 01st February 2017, 06:49 PM
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The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to stay the Tamil Nadu government's Act permitting jallikattu, but agreed to hear a plea against the law.
The top court slammed the Tamil Nadu government for allowing people to defy its order on jallikattu and government's failure to maintain law and order in the state.
The state was issued notice and asked to respond in six weeks.
"Tell your government that law and order is primacy in civilized society and we can't tolerate such incidents," the court told the lawyer representing Tamil Nadu government.
In 2014, the apex court has banned the bull taming sport citing animal cruelty. The court had upheld the order in 2016 when it dismissed the state government's petition.
In January 2017, Tamil Nadu government had promulgated an ordinance amending the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (PCA) Act to hold the sport after the week-long protests by youth and students.
The peaceful pro-jallikattu protest had turned violent after the police forcefully removed thousands of protestors from Chennai's Marina beach.
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Municipality of Lugano will officially support St. Petersburg international architectural awards
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The International Council of the Third International Golden Trezzini Awards for Architecture and Design was joined by Marco Borradori, Mayor of the City of Lugano, Switzerland. Starting with July 15, 2020, the Awards are officially supported by the Municipality of Lugano.
"The first St. Petersburg's architect Domenico Trezzini was born in 1670 near the village of Astano, in the neighborhood of Lugano in the Swiss Ticino," says Vladimir Zapevalov, Chairman of the International Council of the Golden Trezzini Awards, Representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation in St. Petersburg. "We believe it's quite symbolical that on the 350th Anniversary of Domenico Trezzini's birthday the Municipality of Lugano and its head Mr. Borradori are going to support the international architectural awards named after their great countryman."
"We, citizens of Ticino, feel proud every time we hear enthusiastic comments about the Late Baroque architectural landmarks of St. Petersburg designed by Domenico Trezzini," Marco Borradori declared.
Born in 1959 in Lugano, in 1983 Marco Borradori completed his studies in law at the Zurich University and then worked as a lawyer for several years. In 1991, he was elected to the National Council. A year after that he became an assessor in the Municipality of Lugano. In 1995, he became the state councilor of the Canton of Ticino. In 2013 he was elected as the Mayor of Lugano.
The Golden Trezzini Awards for Architecture and Design are named after Domenico Trezzini (1670—1734), Russian architect of Swiss origin, the first architect of St. Petersburg, author of the Peter and Paul Cathedral, Twelve Collegia Building and other masterpieces of Petrine Baroque. The motto of the Awards is "Architecture as Art." The Awards have been taking place since 2018, supported by the Embassy of Russia in Switzerland, the Embassy of Switzerland in Russia, the Consulate General of Switzerland in St. Petersburg, Department of Culture and Tourism of Abu Dhabi, the School of Architecture and Planning of the University of New Mexico, and a number of other organisations and institutions.
The International Council of the Awards was established in 2020. The mission of the International Council is to promote architectural diplomacy, as well as to connect countries across the globe through participation of their architects, designers, renovators, and students in St. Petersburg-based competitions, exhibitions, and conferences, consolidated under the name of Domenico Trezzini.
The Honorary Chairman of the International Council of the Awards is Mikhail Piotrovsky, Director of the State Hermitage. Among the Council's members, there are Chairman of the Department of Culture and Tourism — Abu Dhabi HE Mohamed Khalifa Al Mubarak, Ambassador of Switzerland to Russia Yves Rossier, Ambassador of Russia to Switzerland Sergei Garmonin, Consul General of Switzerland in St. Petersburg Roger M. Kull, directors of a number of leading art museums from Russia, Europe and the USA, academic leaders, public officials, and diplomatic representatives.
The Golden Trezzini winners will be awarded with Golden Trezzini figurines and diplomas during the ceremony which will take place at Belmond Grand Hotel Europe, St Petersburg, on December 1, 2020. The best projects by competitors will be added to the collection of the Architectural Graphics Fund at the Museum of St. Petersburg History and take part in an annual exhibition at the Peter and Paul Fortress.
Entries for the Third International Golden Trezzini Awards for Architecture and Design can be submitted at www.goldtrezzini.ru/en/ till October 15, 2020. 90+ projects from Argentina, Belarus, Egypt, France, Japan, Italy, Latvia, Mexico, Norway, Portugal, Qatar, Russia, Serbia, Spain, and the USA are approved for participation at the moment. Participation is free of charge.
The General Partner of the Golden Trezzini Awards is the State Museum of St. Petersburg History. The System Partner is RBI Group. Partner of a Special nomination is YIT. Official partner of the Awarding ceremony is LenRusStroy Building Corporation. Partner of the Awarding ceremony is Ganga Group. To see a full list of the Awards partners please check https://goldtrezzini.ru/en/partners-of-the-golden-trezzini-awards-2020/.
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Last year I teamed up with some other local wedding suppliers and headed out to the Custard factory for an 80s inspired shoot. We'd spent quite a while planning it, especially on pinterest creating mood boards, and we had two concepts 80s preppy and 80's punk. It was the end of a long day of shooting and Jennny hadn't yet used her cape and Lisa still had a mask that she'd made, so this look was cobbled together in about 5 minutes. Turns out they were my favourite photographs of the day!


Wander over to Millennium Park's Pritzker Pavilion between 12:15 and 1:30 pm to hear the latest in the musical event collaboration between Pitchfork and the Department of Cultural Affairs. This afternoon The Hideout helps present local instrumental post-rock band Tortoise. Free.
Garfield Park's Julius Caesar is hosting this exhibition in collaboration with the Morrison-Shearer Foundation of Northbrook. Five films show dancer Sybil Shearer in rare and never-before-seen sequences, demonstrating her significance as both a contained and unbounded modern dancer. Regular viewing hours are Saturdays from noon to 4pm, and by appointment. For more information call 312-823-9355 or visit the Julius Caesar web site.
Time Out Chicago travels to Hot Doug's today at 1:00 to sample The New Chicago, the winning recipe in their recent hot dog contest. Free copies of TOC's Eating and Drinking Guide to any readers who show up! Hot Doug's: 3324 N. California. (773) 279-9550.