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The Environment America Research & Policy Center has compiled a new booklet, Shalefield Stories, the collected testimonies of people who have been harmed in the mad rush to frack in the places we call home. Samples include:
Marilyn Hunt of Wetzel County, WV, who found toxic chemicals in her water that migrated from a drilling site one mile from her home;
Judy Armstrong Stiles of Bradford County, PA, who tells of finding barium and arsenic in her drinking water, and then in her own blood, after Chesapeake began drilling on her land.
William Sciscoe, Mayor of Dish, TX, who explains how air quality tests near a compressor station found cancer-causing substances at 400 times the safe exposure level set by U.S. Environmental Protection Agency;
June Chappel of Washington County, PA, who has lived with a 15 million gallon fracking waste pit just 200 feet from her house;
Jaime Frederick of Coitsville, OH, who discovered barium, strontium, toluene and other contaminants in her water after 25 drilling wells began operating within a mile of her home. She experienced several illnesses and says her property value has been reduced to to "nothing."
Meet the Pennsylvania residents who say their lives have been ruined by gas drilling
Rolling Stone, February 14, 2013
By Lauren Petracca
Tammy and Matt Manning were excited to own a house for the first time when they moved to Franklin Forks, Pennsylvania in November 2010. Their two daughters, three grandchildren and Tammy's father also moved in with them. Shortly after the Mannings moved into their home, WPX Energy began drilling for natural gas in their area. One day, their water came out of their faucet grey, not even a year after they became homeowners. Their water was tested positive for high, unsafe levels of arsenic, barium, methane and other dangerous chemicals. Tammy and Matt are convinced this is a result of hydrofracking, a controversial process used to extract natural gas from deep in the ground.
The family could no longer drink or cook with the water and showering in it was a very high risk, although they had no other choice. Once a week Matt would drive across the New York State border to his mother's house to fill gallon jugs with her tap water, which the family depended on for safe water. High levels of methane filled the air in the house – so much so that they had to stop using their gas stove for risk of explosion and shower with the window open, even in the winter, so that they wouldn't pass out. They lived like this for months before WPX Energy began delivering water to them once a day. Although they still can't drink the water, it is safe to cook and shower with. WPX still doesn't admit to contaminating their water, but say they are just being good neighbors. Despite the family's situation, most of the community is in favor of fracking, due to the large amount of jobs and money the industry brings to the small community. The town holds public town meetings, where the Mannings are not welcome. They have been verbally harassed in public and tailgated to work by gas workers. The Mannings are currently fighting to end fracking nationwide and to get WPX Energy to take responsibility for the contamination of their water. Read on for heartbreaking images of their daily life…..
Visiting Pennsylvania's Destructive Fracking Footprint
Ecowatch, January 2013
By Yoko Ono
[Editor's note: On Jan. 17, Artists Against Fracking co-founders Yoko Ono and Sean Lennon were joined by actor Susan Sarandon, peace leader Arun Gandhi, filmmaker Josh Fox and activists to lead members of the press on a bus tour of fracking sites in Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania. Here's a video featuring the visit and Yoko Ono's reflection on the visit.]
After being invited to visit Pennsylvania by residents who have experienced the impacts of fracking, my son Sean and I decided to go see the harms of fracking up close. Our friend Susan Sarandon came with us, and we had the incredible honor of being joined by Mahatma Ghandi's grandson, Arun Ghandi, as well. We also invited members of the media.
Driving into the quaint town of Montrose, PA, I could hardly have anticipated how upsetting the next stops on our tour would be: a gas pad of four drills and a hissing pressure release, a giant compressor station under construction, large trucks full of sand and toxic chemicals rumbling down narrow dirt roads, and a drilling rig reaching to the sky. Full Story
An Oil Boom Takes a Toll on Health Care
New York Times, January 27, 2013
WATFORD CITY, N.D. — The patients come with burns from hot water, with hands and fingers crushed by steel tongs, with injuries from chains that have whipsawed them off their feet. Ambulances carry mangled, bloodied bodies from accidents on roads packed with trucks and heavy-footed drivers.
The furious pace of oil exploration that has made North Dakota one of the healthiest economies in the country has had the opposite effect on the region's health care providers. Swamped by uninsured laborers flocking to dangerous jobs, medical facilities in the area are sinking under skyrocketing debt, a flood of gruesome injuries and bloated business costs from the inflated economy. Full Story
Pennsylvania Fracking Victims Come to New York to Share Their Stories
Ecowatch, January 30, 2013
Since fracking began in states outside of New York, there have been numerous reports of water contamination in those states. Studies link fracking-related activities to contaminated groundwater and air pollution, human health issues, and illness, death and reproductive problems in cows, horses and wildlife.
"These stories from Pennsylvania are very alarming," said Dr. Sheila Bushkin, MD, MPH of the Institute for Health and the Environment at University at Albany. "The perspective of the gas industry fails to show adequate concern for the long-term health and quality of life of people. When you listen to the personal experiences of actual residents of Pennsylvania and other states where fracking has gone forward, you will hear stories of dead cows, pets, sick children, poisoned water and other serious health and environmental problems. These stories confirm our need for much greater research and evidence-based scientific facts."
"My story is not unusual," said Terry Greenwood, a farmer from Southwestern Pennsylvania. "After my cows drank from a pond that was contaminated by frackwater, 10 of the 19 calves were born stillborn."
"The industry says there are no problems," said Matt Manning. "Well when the industry came to Northeastern PA, our water turned black and started bubbling. Our kids would cough and choke in the shower. It got so bad that the state required the companies to provide us with deliveries of clean water. But that's not a long-term solution."
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The Mayor's Story
Shaleshockmedia, January 4, 2013
Calvin Tillman was the mayor of Dish, Texas. The bank in Dish, Texas was one of the first that Bonnie & Clyde robbed. The frackers pretty much finished the job on the town. Here is the Mayor's story……..
Letter to the Editor from Chrystal Beadle, Crowley, TX
Peter Hudiburg, Plymouth Friends of Clean Water published a letter to his local paper, The Evening Sun, where he mentioned some of the victims listed by the Pennsylvania Alliance for Clean Water and Air as having suffered from drilling. Through a coincidence, one of the victims Chrystal Beadle saw the letter and was asked to write a second letter explaining their problems with fracking in detail. Here is her story:
I recently was sent a letter to the editor from your paper in which my husband was mentioned. The letter was regarding fracking.
Well, if you don't mind, I would like to tell you a story. My husband and I bought what we thought would be our retirement home. It was 14 acres, up on a hill. Standing on my back porch you could see forever. On the front you could watch the animals and our grandchildren play.
We loved this home!! Then, Brian noticed a well going up behind us. We were not happy about that at all, but then we found out it was going be very loud. I work from home so this was very distracting. Then it was lit up 24/7. Not just any ole lights it was very bright flood lights. We had to move our cattle trailer in front of the windows just to block out the light so we could sleep. I forgot to mention this well was about a football field from our back door. Full Story…..
Fracking our Food Supply – New Report of Livestock Illnesses
The Nation, December 17, 2012
by Elizabeth Royte
Jacki Schilke and her sixty cattle live in the top left corner of North Dakota, a windswept, golden-hued landscape in the heart of the Bakken Shale. Schilke's neighbors love her black Angus beef, but she's no longer sharing or eating it—not since fracking began on thirty-two oil and gas wells within three miles of her 160-acre ranch and five of her cows dropped dead. Schilke herself is in poor health. A handsome 53-year-old with a faded blond ponytail and direct blue eyes, she often feels lightheaded when she ventures outside. She limps and has chronic pain in her lungs, as well as rashes that have lingered for a year. Once, a visit to the barn ended with respiratory distress and a trip to the emergency room. Schilke also has back pain linked with overworked kidneys, and on some mornings she urinates a stream of blood.
Cuomo and Corbett Ignore Health Concerns from Gas Fracking
DC Brueau, March 9, 2012
By Peter Mantius
After natural gas drilling began near their rural homes about 30 miles southwest of Pittsburgh, Carol Moten and her neighbors noticed that their well water began to smell. Then came the headaches, skin lesions, and diarrhea, in household after household. A two-year-old dog fell over dead.
"We're talking about little children that have nosebleeds, cats that fall off windowsills," she said.
Three years ago, Moten and her neighbor, Donald Allison, visited Dr. Amelia Pare in nearby McMurray for their skin infections. Allison's health continued to deteriorate and earlier this month he died from what the neighborhood understood to be bone cancer. He was 46.
Since there was no autopsy, Pare said, the exact cause of Allison's death is unclear. "Does anybody really know?" she said. "There's no funding for this."….
Fracking Poses Risk of Cancer Epidemic
Ithaca Journal, January 20, 2012
By Andi Gladstone
When I was diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 44, I was shocked. I had no family history and was a non-smoking, non-drinking, jogging vegetarian. I was, however, exposed to environmental toxins during puberty, a period of life that is now designated as a "period of vulnerability" for breast cancer. The introduction of hydrofracking in New York threatens to create more stories like mine…To permit hydrofracking, which opens countless portals of toxic contamination… puts all New Yorkers at greater risk of sitting in a doctor's office, like I did, and hearing the devastating news that changes one's life forever.
Gladstone lives in Danby. She was the founding executive director of the Ithaca Breast Cancer Alliance and is the current executive director of the New York State Breast Cancer Network….
Fracking fury reaches fever pitch in Erie
Residents band together to challenge planned drilling, fracking operation near schools
Daily Camera, January 7, 2012
ERIE, CO — "We're just sick." Tears accompanied the words that came out of the mouth of April Beach, a mother of three boys who lives in Erie's Grandview neighborhood. Her family's symptoms — asthma, dizziness, allergies and migraine headaches — have all appeared in the wake of a natural gas-drilling operation that occurred a couple hundred feet from her home, she said. Even though it's difficult to prove, Beach is convinced that the emissions from the drill site and the chemical mix used in hydraulic fracturing — the practice of pumping fluid underground at high pressure to crack rock and release oil and natural gas — are at the root of her family's illness. "Every single thing we have can be caused by something else, but the reality is we were never sick until we moved to Erie and we were never this sick until after the drilling," she said. "I know that the air is a problem." Beach, who has lived in Erie for a decade, has discovered she isn't alone. Wendy Leonard, a relatively new arrival to Erie who lives across town from Beach, said her family hasn't felt well for months…..
Fracking: The Dirty Truth in North Dakota
Bakken Watch hired an independent lab to test the air quality on a remote farm in western North Dakota. The air sample canister was placed outside in the yard. The family says that they are sick, as well as livestock and other animals on the farm. The test reveals chemicals that should not be in the open air in such a remote location. There are many fracking operations in the immediate area of this farm. Viewer discretion is advised….
Cancer Rates in Barnett Shale Climb, Residents Want Answers Why
KDAF.TV – October 18, 2011
FLOWER MOUND, TX— Lorrie Squibb remembers many days when she didn't feel well, but she didn't know why.
"I was just sick, month after month," said the mother of two.
Squibb says two months after she moved from Flower Mound to Michigan in 2010, she was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a blood cancer that is often associated with factory exposure to toxins in men.
"I am a stay at home Mom so there is no explanation about where I could have contracted this," Squibb said from her Michigan home.
People still living in the area surrounding Squibb's old neighborhood in Wellington Estates in Flower Mound are concerned about possible cancer clusters, after a string of leukemia cases in children and breast cancer in women.
Residents wonder if the danger isn't just down the street, where there is natural gas drilling in the Barnett Shale. State air testing near some natural gas facilities revealed high levels of benzene, a cancer-causing toxin.
"People are getting sick and it doesn't matter what color they are or their economic situation," Sharon Wilson, organizer with the Texas Oil & Gas Accountability Project, said…..
The Trouble With Health Problems Near Gas Fracking
NPR – September 29, 2011
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Susan Wallace-Babb lived on a ranch in western Colorado. One summer night in 2005, she drove her truck down the road into a field out past her neighbors. She stepped out of her truck, felt woozy and immediately passed out.
"When she came to, she raced out of the area, called fire department officials and sought help. But it began a period of very intense, negative health effects for her," says ProPublica reporter Abrahm Lustgarten. "By the next morning, she felt intense nerve pain in her legs, intense nausea, and eventually within a couple of days had skin rashes over her body. And her health got progressively worse from that point on."
Wallace-Babb was told by local deputies that there was a spillover between a pair of fuel storage tanks that sat next to a natural gas well, located less than half a mile away from her car. Initially she wasn't sure it was related to gas drilling.
"It wasn't until she began talking with other residents of this part of Colorado and learning that others had similar experiences and talking with doctors who had expertise in gas field exposure [that] she did come to believe that, though it is difficult to prove, that her health problems have been caused by exposure to some sort of chemical in the drilling field," he says….
Pa. should serve as warning on drilling
Ithaca Journal – September 23, 2011
By Libby Foust
Our family farm is in Bradford County, Pa. Our farm was one of the first well sites chosen and is now one of hundreds, soon to be thousands.
When the folks in Pennsylvania first heard of the wells coming, they were excited. No one had ever experienced the drilling business, so there was nothing to fear. They had toiled their whole lives just to make ends meet, and maybe this was the road to a better life.
Then they came. Trucks by the hundreds, tankers, dump trucks, drilling rigs, fracking rigs. Five-acre drilling pads were bulldozed in the middle of farmers' best fields, million-gallon ponds were installed, roads were built, woods and fields were trenched and bulldozed for tie lines. Drilling rigs went up at an unbelievable rate. From one spot on our farm, I counted eight rigs….
Health Issues Follow Natural Gas Drilling In Texas
NPR – November 3, 2009
Vast new natural gas fields have opened up thanks to an advanced drilling technique. While natural gas is a cleaner burning fuel than coal or petroleum, extracting it is still hard, dirty work. Some people who live near the massive Barnett Shale gas deposit in north Texas, have complaints. Health and environmental concerns are prompting state regulators to take a closer look.
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A boom in natural gas is underway. New gas fields have opened up thanks to an advanced drilling technique. It allows gas to be extracted from underground shale rock formations. Natural gas is a cleaner burning fuel than coal or petroleum, though extracting it is still hard, dirty work. And some people who live near some major gas projects are complaining. NPR's John Burnett has this story from the massive Barnett Shale gas deposit in North Texas.
JOHN BURNETT: To date there are more than 12,000 gas wells in the Barnett Shale. It's a vast rock formation that underlies 5,000 square miles surrounding Fort Worth. To get the gas to market requires an underground highway of pipelines and compression stations. These big internal combustion engines make noise and spew pollutants into the air day and night. State records show that in the past decade the number of gas compressors in the Barnett has jumped from a few hundred to 1,300, and they're getting closer and closer to populated areas.
Mayor CALVIN TILMEN (Dish, Texas): My name is Calvin Tillman. I'm the mayor of a small town of Dish, Texas, the home of free Dish Network satellite TV, and it is also known for 11 natural gas compression stations….
Water Worries Threaten U.S. Push for Natural Gas
Reuters – October 1, 2009
By Jon Hurdle
PAVILLION, Wyoming (Reuters) – Louis Meeks, a burly 59-year-old alfalfa farmer, fills a metal trough with water from his well and watches an oily sheen form on the surface which gives off a faint odor of paint.
He points to small bubbles that appear in the water, and a thin ring of foam around the edge.
Meeks is convinced that energy companies drilling for natural gas in this central Wyoming farming community have poisoned his water and ruined his health.
A recent report by the Environmental Protection Agency suggests he just might have a case — and that the multi-billion dollar industry may have a problem on its hands. EPA tests found his well contained what it termed 14 "contaminants of concern."
It tested 39 wells in the Pavillion area this year, and said in August that 11 were contaminated. The agency did not identify the cause but said gas drilling was a possibility….
US Energy Future Hits Snag in Rural Pennsylvania
Reuters – March 13, 2009
by: Jon Hurdle
A glass of milky brown drinking water from a residential well in Dimock, Pennsylvania, after natural gas drilling operations began nearby.
Dimock, Pennsylvania – When her children started missing school because of persistent diarrhea and vomiting, Pat Farnelli began to wonder if she and her family were suffering from more than just a classroom bug.
After trying several remedies, she stopped using the water drawn from her well in this rural corner of northeastern Pennsylvania, the forefront of a drilling boom in what may be the biggest U.S. reserve of natural gas.
"I was getting excruciating stomach cramps after drinking the water," Farnelli said in an interview at her farmhouse, cluttered as a home with eight children would be, while her husband, a night cook at a truck stop, slept on the couch….
Based on extensive study and scientific evidence, Catskill Mountainkeeper has called for a ban on fracking. We are also working within the existing regulatory process in New York to raise critical issues, widen the discussion of the impacts of drilling, and expand the options available to protect the public.


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      Spatial and Temporal Considerations in the Primary Mountaintop Removal and Valley Fill Mining Region of West Virginia

    EPA Grant Number: F13E30934

    Title: Spatial and Temporal Considerations in the Primary Mountaintop Removal and Valley Fill Mining Region of West Virginia

    Investigators:
     Merriam, Eric Richard

    Institution:

      West Virginia University

    	EPA Project Officer:

           Jones, Brandon

      Project Period:
      August 18, 2014 through
        August 18, 2016

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          $84,000

      RFA:
      STAR Graduate Fellowships (2013)

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          Fellowship - Aquatic Ecology

Objective:

        Successful management of aquatic resources within the mountaintop
removal–valley fill (MTR-VF) mining region of central Appalachia will
require the ability to predict ecosystem responses to current and future
land use development across large spatial and temporal scales. The overall
goal of this research is to develop a process to facilitate management
and regulatory decisions in the face of current and future land use change
within this dynamic region. Through a regional analysis of the primary
MTR-VF province of West Virginia, the specific objectives of this
research are to (1) compare the predictive success of spatial models constructed
at different scales and (2) field test the ability of spatially derived
models to predict changes in stream conditions over time.

Approach:

        In-stream data will consist of invertebrate, water chemistry and physical
habitat samples collected from 160 sites during the summers of 2010
and 2011. Land cover and use data will consist of cumulative natural
(e.g., coal geology) and anthropogenic (e.g., mining-related land cover,
residential structures, NPDES permits) landscape characteristics for all
1:24,000 segment-level watersheds. A combination of multiple regression
and boosted regression tree analyses will be used to construct models
predicting aquatic condition from landscape attributes across multiple
spatial scales (i.e., watershed and regional). Temporal uncertainty of
the spatially derived models will be assessed through forecasting. A
future landscape characterization will be constructed using 2013 NAIP
aerial orthoimagery, and the spatially-derived models will predict future
conditions. In-stream data collected from a network of sites during the
summer of 2013 will be used to compare predicted to observed in-stream
conditions.

Expected Results:

	The hypothesis for objective 1 (i.e., comparing predictive success of spatial models constructed at different scales) is that the proper scale for model construction is the watershed scale. More specifically, the inferred cause-effect relationships will vary with spatial scale and more accurately reflect true relationships at smaller spatial scales. Consequently, predictive performance will increase with decreasing spatial scale. The working hypothesis for objective 2 (i.e., testing the ability of spatial models to predict changes over time) is that spatial patterns relating landscape attributes to in-stream conditions will allow accurate predictions associated with temporal landscape change. Strong relationships should exist between observed and predicted in-stream conditions. However, watershed-scale models will offer the best temporal predictions owing to more accurate underlying cause-effect relationships.

	Potential to Further Environmental/Human Health Protection

	This project will result in an integrated process that can be used to inform management (e.g., restoration) and regulatory (e.g., mine permitting and mitigation) decisions within the MTR-VF region based on current and expected future conditions. Because the MTR-VF region represents the headwaters of the Mississippi River basin, which supports one of the highest levels of biodiversity within North America, it will be critical to protect and manage these resources now and in the future. Moreover, decreased human health within the study region has been associated with degraded aquatic condition, suggesting that preserving and managing ecosystem integrity will simultaneously benefit the health of individuals living in mining-affected areas.

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      land use, mountaintop mining, watershed models

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I drew a serious blank on this topic no matter which way I tried to go. I gave up and sat down to watch the musical Grease for a while and then it hit me – what about great books that would be even more awesome if they were made into musicals? I decided to focus on YA novels since that's what I've been mostly reading lately, so here's my list of 10 YA reads that I think would make excellent musicals. I can practically envision the costumes and hear the music just thinking about these titles!
Question: What YA reads do you think would make excellent musicals?
What a cool idea! I haven't read ACOTAR or Red Queen tethered but I can totally picture the costume styles.
Love ANNA and ALL RAINBOW ROWELL books, so those could be fun.
What a fun list! Definitely agree with Eleanor & Park, anything that would have 80s music as the soundtrack would be amazing!
Thanks! Yes, at first I wasn't going to put Eleanor & Park on there since I already had one of Rainbow Rowell's books mentioned, but the more I thought about that 80s music, the more I knew it just had to be on my list.
Don't they? Especially Schwab. I can totally picture the costumes Kell and Lila would be wearing and having someone brings the 4 Londons to life on stage would be incredible!
Me too! The more I thought about it, the more excited I got at the possibilities, haha.
I would so pay to see A Darker Shade of Magic musical!
Right? I bet it would be so cool!
Ever the hunted and Fangirl both seem like they would make excellent musicals! ACoTaR seems like it would be a good one too even though I haven't read it.
Don't they? I'd even settle for film versions of all three of these.
I love musicals! This is awesome. I'd totally see Anna and the French Kiss, Cinder, and Simon Vs.
This is awesome!! I'd love to see The Lunar Chronicles as a musical!
Right? Wouldn't it just be incredible?
Haha, I can totally picture an Oreos number as well!


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Dishonored 2 Harvey Smith interview – 'People are tired of being hand-held'
David JenkinsTuesday 23 Jun 2015 4:00 pm
Dishonored 2 – a tale of two protagonists
GameCentral speaks to the co-director of Dishonored about the new sequel, as well as The Thing and the inferiority of American chocolate…
It was a big E3 for Bethesda last week, with public reveals for Fallout 4, the Doom reboot, and several other new games. But although Dishonored 2 was amongst them very little information was offered, or at least not beyond what could be gleaned from the pre-rendered trailer you see below.
There was certainly nothing playable, even though the game's due out early next year, but we did manage to talk to Harvey Smith – who as well as directing the first game also famously worked as lead designer on the original Deus Ex and its sequel.
We were able to squeeze a few more details about Dishonored 2 out of him, but we also discussed everything from the current renaissance in genre movie making to the near impossibility of making timeless video games. We thoroughly enjoyed the chat and were very glad to find that developer Arkane Studios seems to have almost carte blanche to make whatever kind of game they want.
Formats: Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC
Publisher: Bethesda
Developer: Arkane Studios
Release Date: spring 2016
GC: Umfghahm!
PR Guy: Helping yourself, eh?
GC: Sorry, I didn't realise you were going to be that quick. These Milk Ways are horrible though, they must be the American version.
HS: You know, when I'm back home in Austin the candy bars that I buy are, like, the right company and ingredients, but they're just not the same…
GC: I don't understand American chocolate. You have something like Ben & Jerry's ice cream, which is amazing, but your sweets are all just cheaply made rubbish. There's no comparison to ours, let alone somewhere like Belgium.
HS: I think the key to understanding America, because I live in France right now and I have to explain this all the time, is two-fold. One, it's getting the French that I work with to see it not as a country but as a giant union of countries. That blows their mind. It's really like saying, 'The Scottish and the Italians, why aren't they more similar…? Number two, America, because of its bulls*** economics, is a land of fast lane/slow lane. So there's the worst food in the world and some of the best.
GC: It does only ever seem to be one or the other.
HS: That's it, and it's about 80 per cent the other!
Dishonored 2 – daughter of the mask
GC: Anyway, we better discuss the game! At what point did you realise the original Dishonored was a success and you were going to get a sequel? Because it was by no means a guaranteed hit, and yet I think it was the best-selling new IP in the UK that year. [Actually it was second, after Sleeping Dogs – GC]
HS: It was a big risk. The sales people track all that, we don't so much. We get reports every now and then, but it's indirectly filtered. But it was a big risk and lots of people, even internal to the company, didn't quite understand it. The sort of Victorian setting, but it wasn't even that – it was an alternate reality, adding supernatural to it and the steampunk kind of story… it was hard to explain.
And then toward the end, right before we shipped it, it was not in great shape. We had to stop at two or three months and really pound on it hard to get it to where we wanted it. But then as soon as we shipped it was averaging 90 per cent, people who liked it were liking it a lot. It's one of those games where maybe not everyone in the world likes it, but the people that do like it like it a lot.
And people were spending much more time on it than expected, many different people were playing it different ways, and pretty quickly it was obvious it was gonna greatly exceed its sales forecast. And so we knew pretty quick that we were gonna do what the company hoped we would do, which is be excited about the sequel.
Almost immediately we were like, 'You know, the most exciting thing here is Emily'. For us this goes back to the fact that you have this young girl in the game who reflects your actions. So if you go out and you're very non-violent – a game about an assassin where you don't have to kill anyone – and you come back and she has drawings of Daddy on the wall.
On the other hand, if you chop a bunch of heads off and you murder 80 per cent of the people in the world you come back and she's got a black crayon and she's like… disturbed. And the player sees this and realises someone is paying attention to their actions, and they often change the way they play at that point.
So naturally this feels like this is the second half of the story. The first half was this political assassination happened, so this privileged girl, whose life is more and more about tragedy, is taken away and used like a pawn, but then Corvo gets her back and raises her. So the second half of the story is about what she's like as an adult. What's she like as an Empress? What's she like as an outlaw? Because she's on the run again.
Harvey Smith excited about a sequel, or possibly Mad Max
GC: I think it's that level of interaction, that feedback from the world, that appeals to people. I was always shocked Skyrim was the second biggest seller of its year, behind only Call Of Duty, but I hear so much from people who talk about just exploring the world, places they've found, characters they've met, or secrets they've discovered…
HS: What you're describing is some sort of sea change that caught me by surprise. Someone told me the other day that they really liked my panel and it was their favourite of the day. And I was like, 'Really? Why?' I want to know why you think that. And they said because I did this deep dive into all this nerdy background stuff.
And I realised that what used to isolate me and make me less popular than the reductionist, sexy, quick kind of game… now is an asset. Because people are tired of being hand-held in games. They want to make decisions, they want consequences, they want this game to not be generic… what it is about this world that is interesting?
GC: But what has been the catalyst for that? Is it just good marketing? Was Skyrim really the first and if so how did it get so big so quickly?
HS: I mean, the Tolkien movies were the biggest movies in the world at the time. And Avengers is the biggest movie at the moment. It's mind-blowing…
GC: The geek have inherited the Earth.
HS: [laughs] We can do a deep dive into this subject and talk about it all day, but I remember when I was a child the cartoons aimed at fantasy, escapism, or superhero fiction were rubbish. They were universally terrible. Superfriends and c*** like that. And then in my young adulthood we had things like Watchmen, I remember thinking at the time… this is brilliant literature. This stands shoulder to shoulder with established classics. And what happened? The people that liked that stuff grew up and started making it, whereas maybe the people before that were making it, they grew up on Bugs Bunny or something. Something changed.
GC: I always like to think that as long as you can get a good game in front of people there's a reasonable chance they'll enjoy it, no matter what it is.
HS: Don't assume the audience is stupid. Give them something deep and immediate and they will respond.
Dishonored 2 – the sequel that might not have been
GC: So who is it that wants to assume they're stupid? Is that marketing? Is it publishers?
HS: I think in every capitalist business there is a component of it that has masturbatory dreams about people just mindlessly consuming. The product that is the easiest and cheapest to make. We're weirdly incentivised to think like that, if we're not careful in the system. And the creator, of course, is thinking, 'Someday I'll make my Watchmen'.
GC: Indie developers are often like that, I find. They'll have been sitting there making ports or boring sequels and dreaming of something completely different.
HS: Dishonored kind of is that for us, because early in my career I got to work on Deus Ex and we largely got to do that because nobody was paying attention to us. The publisher was so busy focused on Ion Storm in Dallas that we were an afterthought. So we just laboured for three years on this game that we wanted to make. And we didn't insult the intelligence of the player.
And so we are in a weird spot where we have the power of a triple-A publisher, in Zenimax/Bethesda, but we're all making these games that are exactly what we wanted to do anyway. The new Doom is actually like the Doom you want to play, it's not the monster closet Doom that frankly I didn't like very much. It's…
GC: Proper Doom.
HS: Proper Doom, yes! [laughs] That's very British. But you have Dark Souls out there, right? You have No Man's Sky, you have XCOM back… Or the new Road Warrior movie [Mad Max: Fury Road, The Road Warrior was the US name for Mad Max 2 – GC], that was just so layered…
GC: It's great, but it's a shame it didn't do that well.
HS: Oh really? That's too bad. I didn't know that.
GC: It's done okay, but nowhere near what it deserves. So actually you might say that more experimental games seem to have a better chance now than equivalent movies.
HS: One of my favourite films is The Thing by John Carpenter, and I read this deep dive from the producer.
GC: I think I read that.
HS: You did?! He's got a Tumblr where he describes when the film wasn't working, what Carpenter did…
GC: Yeah, yeah. They saved the whole thing through editing and last minute changes. [We think this is what he's talking about, or at least it's what we were referring to – GC]
HS: Oh my god, yeah. And they focused on MacReady, but anyway… when someone does something like that it doesn't matter if it looks dated later, it just works forever. And I feel like Fury Road is gonna be one of those films.
GC: Definitely.
Dishonored 2 – the streets of Karnaca are no safer than Dunwall
HS: If games had regenerative graphics, so that when the hardware goes up the graphics go up with it, we would end up with classics like that too. Like, 20 years from now we'd be playing Fallout, or whatever. But they don't, they get dated very quickly.
GC: It is a shame, and I don't see anyway round it. I don't think I want to encourage three years of remakes at the start of every new generation.
HS: I don't see a way round it either. Warren Spector asked me one time why I thought films got dated and books didn't, and I said, 'It's the visuals!' You look at the costumes and the way actors talk, whereas you pick up a book and you're providing all the visuals and update them automatically without even thinking about it. And games suffer from that, really badly.
GC: Film does date, but if you're invested in them it doesn't matter. I was watching the original Star Wars trilogy again recently, for the first time in a while, and the effects are obviously old but they don't break the immersion. But what really keeps you watching is just the basic storytelling, the characters. The fundamental problem with the prequels, and many modern films, is you just don't care about the characters or what they're doing.
HS: That analysis by the critic who said, 'Who is the protagonist in Episode I?' was great.
GC: Oh, RedLetterMedia, I love their stuff.
HS: Yeah! I wouldn't have realised that on my own, but he was exactly right. There's no clear protagonist.
GC: Tsk. You're being too interesting, we need to get back on track.
HS: Right, sorry.
GC: So where you implying you had plans for the sequel while making Dishonored 1?
HS: No, no. You always hope, but it was really only when the game started to be well reviewed that we knew we were going to get a shot at making the second one. And then it was, 'Well, what would we do?'
GC: What was the shopping list of things you wanted to do? Especially given it would be on a new generation of consoles?
HS: We wanted to get away from the rat plague, that was one period in our history, and we wanted to move to a new city. So Karnaca is called the Jewel of the South, it's the southern capital down in the land of Serkonos. It's more like Italy or Spain or Greece. We wanted to tell Emily's story. We wanted to provide the player with the option of playing Emily or Corvo.
If you play Emily you have all-new supernatural powers, if you play Corvo you have the classics – rats, swarm, Blink, possession, etc. But we also wanted to deepen those systems, so before it was power and upgrade, and now it's power and an upgrade tree. So all of Corvo's powers can be extended in all of these interesting ways now.
Before we had this bone charm system where you found bone charms and they gave you a little perk. Now Emily has the power to craft them, so she can break them apart and recombine them, make combinations we never even dreamed about. There's something like 400,000 combinations of bone charms that we can't even predict. So there was a list of things that immediately came to mind that we were excited about.
Dishonored 2 – no rat plagues, but public health is still an issue
GC: And what about the open world and character interaction? It's sometimes hard to see how that changes much with a new generation but I always imagine in years to come that these games will be inhabited by very complex AI, and it worries me that single-player only games won't last long enough for that to be possible. Is that something you're actually working towards?
HS: We feel the same, we feel the same. The experience that we are going for is I can crawl through this world at my own pace; I can study the books and the world, listen to the people having conversations, I can go up on the roof and see what's up there, I can go at my own pace. And if that's very slow that's fine.
But what I don't want is some 15-year-old kid jumping up and down, yelling curse words at me. I want to be immersed. And so I don't think those single-player experiences will ever go away. I see this as nature, right?
Every animal is competing for resources, and if everybody begins to do one thing – which is like fighting for resources – then somebody is going to do the sneaky thing. There's always going to be a niche opening up because of that. So if everybody starts making competitive online games or MMOs or free-to-play games it's going to open up a niche for people like us who want to play this type of game. There'll always be a BioShock, or a Deus Ex, or a Arx Fatalis, or a Dishonored.
GC: I hope so. Although, the only problem I have with all this is I can never do the evil stuff, so I'm always missing out on half the game.
HS: [laughs] People say that all the time. They say it not just about Dishonored but the BioWare games.
GC: Definitely, I'm always nice in those.
HS: I set out to be the Dark Jedi, then she told me the story about how her sister died and I felt so bad that I couldn't do it…
Both: [laughs]
HS: I look back and I think, 'Well, I guess my inner self wants to do the right thing'.
GC: Maybe it's not a good comparison but playing as two characters in the same game I can't help but think of Resident Evil 2. Is that how it's set-up?
HS: In our case we have two characters and you either choose one or the other and you play through it all like that.
GC: So you would play the game twice, as each different one, and it would be completely different?
HS: Well, it's the same series of missions but they have a different commentary. They're fully voiced this time, so they'll do the same sequence of missions but the missions are so sandbox-y that you'll probably take a different path each time. But they have their own perspective on the story.
GC: Sadly, I have to go. But that was fascinating, thank you.
HS: That was good, thank you.
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Q: different versions of the shared library I have a -lelf option in my makefile, I want to know: how does it choose the version of libelf.so to link (e.g. libelf.so.0 or libelf.so.1)? I do have a libelf.so.1 in my system, as well as a libelf.so which links to libelf.so.1. When I compile the code, everything is fine, however, when I try to run the binary, it reports: "can not find libelf.so.0". Any guide on solving this problem? Thanks in advance.

A: Ok, finally I understand something. I can specify which version of the .so at compile-time (I can force it to link to libelf.so.1, while it will cause some problem at run-time). It seems the best way is to find the required libelf.so.0 anyhow.


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Wontumi writes to Prempeh College, asks them to put his bad results in museum to motivate weak students
Lessons from Peru's revolt against all political parties
While Peruvians were certain they didn't like the parties in their last Congress, the country did not coalesce around an alternative. The result is that as many as 10 parties will have seats in Congress even though no party received more than 10 percent of the total vote once blank and null ballots are included. More than a quarter of voters split their votes across a dozen parties so small that they received fewer than the 5 percent of votes necessary to get a seat in the next Congress. According to Monday morning vote tallies, 22.5 percent had cast spoiled or blank ballots.
Long story short, "none of the above" won by a landslide.
The upshot is a Congress divided among numerous small parties that is likely to see significant infighting as the country moves toward the 2021 presidential election. It is good news that several corrupt parties, including Fuerza Popular, saw their vote totals collapse. But in their place are new parties with little of a track record, and some that used to be seen as fringe, including a party based on a messianic cult. Voter confidence in Congress and the political system is unlikely to improve.
The election outcome in Peru sounds like the reductio ad absurdum of anti-politics, and in some ways it is. As commentators never tire of pointing out, this is all happening in one of Latin America's best-performing and most stable economies, amid fast-falling poverty levels and a quickly expanding middle class. The chasm between Peru's relative economic success and the incandescent anger of its voters looks like one of the hemisphere's lasting paradoxes.
In fact, that view has it backward. For decades, political scientists have realized economic development can be hugely politically destabilizing. Edge-of-subsistence peasants are, as a rule, too engrossed with simple survival to worry very much about what politicians get up to. As they take their first tentative steps into the middle class, though, practices that used to be "just the way things are" come to be seen as galling instances of corruption.
This seems to be the thrust of the Peruvian story. It's not that the politicians suddenly got more corrupt than they had been. It's that the people suddenly got more aware of how the sausage is made, and less willing to tolerate it.
At the center of this story is the sprawling Odebrecht Scandal. The Brazilian engineering company ran a staggeringly large system of kickback schemes, corrupting politicians all over Latin America and beyond. Perversely, the amount of political damage Odebrecht has done is directly proportional to a country's level of democratic institutionality. In countries such as Brazil and Peru that have relatively strong and independent institutions and where Odebrecht's misdeeds have actually been investigated and punished, the damage to people's faith in their institutions has been catastrophic. In countries such as Mexico, where corruption is rarely punished, and Venezuela, where prosecutors are fully under the thumb of the regime, nobody's really gotten in trouble for taking Odebrecht's bribes.
Fujimori's party moved shamelessly to block the new president's anti-corruption measures. Facing an impasse, in September, President Vizcarra dissolved Congress and called for new elections, something he has the authority to do under Peru's constitution. Over 80 percent of the public supported the president's move to toss out Congress and hold new elections. However, when it came time to vote for a new Congress, Peruvians had no clear alternatives that they supported.
This leaves Vizcarra in a bizarre position: He is the only politician with any real popular support in Peru, but he doesn't have a party of his own and he has been adamant that he will step down next year, threatening a political vacuum in the country. Peru has the type of public anger and leadership void that has often allowed an anti-system populist or authoritarian leader to step up and promise something better. But it just isn't happening this time.
Peru's disillusionment with its own political system is a frightening lesson in what can happen when politicians fail to work to improve their countries and the public loses faith in the entire democratic process. For those watching in the United States, it's a lesson that impeaching a president for corruption and obstruction of justice, even when merited, doesn't solve a country's political problems without leadership to build a better path forward. Anger is not a strategy.
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Orkkatteri is a small town in Kozhikode district in the North Malabar region of state of Kerala, India. This is the center town for Eramala grama panchayath.

Economy
There is a strong agrarian sector, and the crops are mainly coconuts and arecanuts. Paddy cultivation has a major setback now, as is the case with most of Kerala, with paddy fields being claimed for houses and for more profitable crops. Migration to the Middle East (Gulf) and to the major cities in India is prevalent. There is a Saliya-theruvu where weaving is an important occupation.

Temples/Masjids
There are two temples at Orkkatteri. The idol of the first temple is that of Shiva and the other is that of Devi. There is also one Ayyappa Temple located opposite of Shiva Temple. Recently renovate a Temple at Chattukulam (called Chattukulathamma, Devi) located at Manapuram area and myths behind this temple is in connection with Orkkatteri Devi Temple.

Orkkatteri Juma Masjids (old and new) are the main mosques in Orkkatteri town.
Maljaul masakeen Yatheem Khana (M M Orphanage) is situated in Orkkatteri town.

Cattle Market
Orkkatteri Kannukali Chanda (Cattle market) is a very famous festival in Malabar. It also known as Orkkatteri Thalappoli. It is part of festival of the two temples. It starts from 12 of Makaram (January) and lasts for four days. People belonging to all castes and communities participate in the festival.

Temples
Edathil Temple, Thacholi Temple, Paroli illam Temple and Koomully Temple are  other temples near orkkatteri town.

Theyyam dance
Both of these two temples are famous for Theyyam, Theyyam is one of the most outstanding ancient dance form of North Kerala. [The word 'Theyyam' originated from 'Daivam' means nothing but God. The Theyyam or Kolam (a form or shape), represents a mythological, divine or heroic character. There are around 400 Theyyams in northern Kerala. The bizarre head dresses, costumes and body painting and trance like performances are very extraordinary. Each one has a distinguishing headgear and costume made out of natural materials like coconut leaves and bark. Musical accompaniments are chenda, elathalam and kuzhal (horn). The Theyyams are exclusively performed by the male members of the traditional caste groups like Malayan, Vannan, Navilan, Pulayan, Koppalan and Velan]

Transportation
Orkkatteri village connects to other parts of India through Vatakara city on the west and Kuttiady town on the east.  National highway No.66 passes through Vatakara and the northern stretch connects to Mangalore, Goa and Mumbai.  The southern stretch connects to Cochin and Trivandrum.  The eastern Highway  going through Kuttiady connects to Mananthavady, Mysore and Bangalore. The nearest airports are at Kannur and Kozhikode.  The nearest railway station is at Vatakara.

See also
 Vatakara
 Nadapuram
 Thottilpalam
 Perambra
 Madappally
 Villiappally
 Memunda
 Iringal
 Mahe, Pondicherry
 Payyoli
 Thikkodi

References

External links
M M Orphanage

Vatakara areaorkkatteri_kannukali_chantha

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Easy to make. PDF download includes easy to follow instructions, doll pattern, clothing pattern and complete suggested materials list with finished doll photo.
I love the details and pretty clothes from this doll artist and I have made several over the years. Good detailed instructions.
Purchased this for the dress pattern which is adorable but the doll is great, as well.


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from __future__ import unicode_literals, division, absolute_import
from builtins import *  # pylint: disable=unused-import, redefined-builtin

import logging
from collections import MutableSet

from flexget import plugin
from flexget.entry import Entry
from flexget.event import event
from flexget.plugin import PluginError
from flexget.plugins.internal.api_tvdb import TVDBRequest, lookup_series
from flexget.utils.requests import RequestException
from flexget.utils.tools import split_title_year

log = logging.getLogger('thetvdb_list')

class TheTVDBSet(MutableSet):
    schema = {
        'type': 'object',
        'properties': {
            'username': {'type': 'string'},
            'account_id': {'type': 'string'},
            'strip_dates': {'type': 'boolean'}
        },
        'required': ['username', 'account_id'],
        'additionalProperties': False
    }

    @property
    def immutable(self):
        return False

    def _from_iterable(self, it):
        return set(it)

    def __init__(self, config):
        self.config = config
        self._items = None

    def __iter__(self):
        return iter([item for item in self.items])

    def __len__(self):
        return len(self.items)

    def __contains__(self, entry):
        return self._find_entry(entry) is not None

    def get(self, entry):
        return self._find_entry(entry)

    @property
    def items(self):
        if self._items is None:
            try:
                req = TVDBRequest(username=self.config['username'], account_id=self.config['account_id']).get(
                    'user/favorites')
                series_ids = [int(f_id) for f_id in req['favorites'] if f_id != '']
            except RequestException as e:
                raise PluginError('Error retrieving favorites from thetvdb: %s' % str(e))
            self._items = []
            for series_id in series_ids:
                # Lookup the series name from the id
                try:
                    series = lookup_series(tvdb_id=series_id)
                except LookupError as e:
                    log.error('Error looking up %s from thetvdb: %s' % (series_id, e.args[0]))
                else:
                    series_name = series.name
                    if self.config.get('strip_dates'):
                        # Remove year from end of series name if present
                        series_name, _ = split_title_year(series_name)
                    entry = Entry()
                    entry['title'] = entry['series_name'] = series_name
                    entry['url'] = 'http://thetvdb.com/index.php?tab=series&id={}'.format(str(series.id))
                    entry['tvdb_id'] = str(series.id)
                    self._items.append(entry)
        return self._items

    def invalidate_cache(self):
        self._items = None

    def add(self, entry):
        if not entry.get('tvdb_id'):
            log.verbose('entry does not have `tvdb_id`, cannot add to list. Consider using a lookup plugin`')
            return
        try:
            TVDBRequest(username=self.config['username'], account_id=self.config['account_id']).put(
                'user/favorites/{}'.format(entry['tvdb_id']))
        except RequestException as e:
            log.error('Could not add tvdb_id {} to favourites list: {}'.format(entry['tvdb_id'], e))
        self.invalidate_cache()

    def discard(self, entry):
        if not entry.get('tvdb_id'):
            log.verbose('entry does not have `tvdb_id`, cannot remove from list. Consider using a lookup plugin`')
            return
        try:
            TVDBRequest(username=self.config['username'], account_id=self.config['account_id']).delete(
                'user/favorites/{}'.format(entry['tvdb_id']))
        except RequestException as e:
            log.error('Could not add tvdb_id {} to favourites list: {}'.format(entry['tvdb_id'], e))
        self.invalidate_cache()

    def _find_entry(self, entry):
        if not entry.get('tvdb_id'):
            log.debug('entry does not have `tvdb_id`, skipping: {}'.format(entry))
            return
        for item in self.items:
            if item['tvdb_id'] == entry['tvdb_id']:
                return item

    @property
    def online(self):
        """ Set the online status of the plugin, online plugin should be treated differently in certain situations,
        like test mode"""
        return True

class TheTVDBList(object):
    schema = TheTVDBSet.schema

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'Foreverland' explores the mundane, infuriating and hilarious moments of marriage
By Juana Summers
Published February 6, 2022 at 7:22 AM MST
Marriage, in the words of Heather Havrilesky, is the world's most impossible endurance challenge, and her new book "Foreverland" is an attempt to understand why she signed up for it. That may sound a bit dark, but Havrilesky does not see it that way. She says what she's here to do is to defend flinty personalities and bad days and marriages that aren't music videos and ultimately promote acceptance of your own flaws and those of the people you love. Heather Havrilesky, who is also the longtime Ask Polly advice columnist, joins us now from Chapel Hill, N.C., to talk about her book. Hey. Thanks for being here.
HEATHER HAVRILESKY: Hi, Juana. Thanks for having me.
SUMMERS: You have essentially written a book that gives people the opportunity to take a flashlight and shine it into every nook and cranny of your marriage, or at least your perspective on your marriage. What made you decide to write this book?
HAVRILESKY: Well, you know, in our culture, we love to tell stories about falling in love. There are a lot less stories and books and movies about actually making a relationship work over the long haul. So when I looked at books about marriage that existed, I sort of kept coming up against the same thing where I would just find this sort of tone that felt sugarcoated to me, where everyone was happy with their spouses and madly in love. And very few authors seemed to be comfortable with expressing frustration or anger or, you know, some of the emotions that I felt were kind of part of the texture and feeling of being married.
SUMMERS: You know, in this book, you examine your marriage very closely, but you also really examine yourself. You share with us your internal monologues about what you were thinking or feeling or motivated by at any given point in your life with your husband, including at one point, when you develop an extramarital attraction. Were you at all worried about being so open, especially in these moments where, on their face, it didn't necessarily always make you look good?
HAVRILESKY: Yeah. When I was writing the book, I really wanted - I was committed to offering up a few scenes where it's very clear that a kind of breakthrough has happened. But for something to be a turning point in your marriage, typically, it's a really vulnerable, low moment between the two of you, or it's a confusing moment when you just don't know how to integrate your new self into your existing relationship.
This thing happened where someone hit on me, and it was confusing. And I went home and told Bill about it, and we laughed it off. And then it kind of didn't move out of my brain. You know, I struggled with whether or not to write about that experience because it's an embarrassing, humiliating experience. I was raised Catholic. I have all kinds of guilt about longing within a marriage.
And what was interesting about that experience, though, was when I talked to Bill about it, he was sort of like, you've never fantasized about anyone? Like, this is just normal stuff, actually. It's not the end of the world. It ended up being this good thing for our marriage. It was so important to include it, a lot of the things that I was really - it was hard to keep them in the book. I didn't feel right taking them out because I really did want to give a full, rich picture of how it feels to navigate years and different eras together with another human being that you're committed to.
SUMMERS: Now, an excerpt of this book sort of broke the internet back in December when it was published in The New York Times. It was the section about how your husband's flaws have become clearer and clearer to you over the years and how even though he is still your favorite person, with all of these wonderful things about him, marriage also requires amnesia, a sort of intentional forgetting of all of those flaws. And I wonder if I could ask you to read a little bit from the section of your book that the piece in The Times was excerpted from. It starts with a question. Do I hate my husband?
HAVRILESKY: (Reading) Do I hate my husband? For sure. Yes, definitely. I don't know anyone who's been married more than seven years who flinches at this concept. Before you're married, it's easy to imagine that hating your spouse must mean that you're headed for divorce. Hating your spouse is as natural as disliking an unexpected bout of the flu. A spouse is a blessing and a curse wrapped into one. How could it be otherwise?
SUMMERS: Heather, some people had incredibly strong reactions to that piece, some of them incredibly strong negative reactions.
HAVRILESKY: Yes. I mean, I heard from a lot of men who were angry at me for mocking my husband. My opinion is that a woman who is angry or disappointed or a little bit arrogant or superior is treated like a malfunctioning appliance in our culture. And, you know, part of the reason I wrote this book was to make some space for ambivalence within the structure of marriage. I think it's natural for us to have obviously the full range of emotions within a marriage. And emotions are part of what makes life worth living. So when you start to try to block yourself from experiencing emotions because you feel guilty or embarrassed by them or the world shames you the second that you express that emotion, what you're doing is you're muting your ability to feel good. You're blocking your path toward joy, in my opinion.
SUMMERS: Heather, in addition to writing books, you also write the advice column Ask Polly. And at times as I was reading this book, and particularly in the early chapters, I kept wondering what advice you, Heather, would give yourself. The Heather before she got married and before she became a mom, do you ever think about what you might say to her?
HAVRILESKY: Oh, God (laughter). When we bought our house in 2010 in the suburbs, there was this sign on the street right before you got to our house that said, bumps ahead (laughter). I remember thinking, what kind of bumps are ahead, I wonder? You know, like, is this a warning? The things that rattle a marriage the most, at least in my experience, are these ineffable moments in a life where you grow or you retreat or you withdraw or you come closer or you need something that you didn't need before. And the ability to navigate that with someone you trust is just such a beautiful thing.
But you just don't know who you're going to become, you know? You don't know what the bumps will do to you. And when you go through experiences like that a bunch of times in a row, that feeling of trust that you have a good partner and a good parent and a good - someone to help you through, there's really nothing like that. For all of the roughness that I capture in this book, that, I feel like, is the guiding emotion of the book, is just gratitude.
So what would I tell, you know, the young me who's about to get married? You know, it's sort of like welcome the unknown, you know? Welcome uncertainty, and embrace it because you'll never escape it. You can't plot out a clean path forward. You have to kind of lean into the chaos and enjoy it.
SUMMERS: Heather Havrilesky is the author of "Foreverland." Heather, thank you so much for sharing your story with us all.
HAVRILESKY: Thank you so much, Juana. It was really nice talking to you. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.
Juana Summers
Juana Summers is a political correspondent for NPR covering race, justice and politics. She has covered politics since 2010 for publications including Politico, CNN and The Associated Press. She got her start in public radio at KBIA in Columbia, Mo., and also previously covered Congress for NPR.
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Updated: 9:07 AM CST Mar 10, 2016
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After it was announced at E3 2014 with a fun, snazzy trailer, "Dead Island 2's" development struck a wall. Not only did the game see numerous delays, it was put on indefinite hold when developer Yager was taken off the project in mid-2015.Now there's some renewed life in this reanimated corpse.Speaking to MCV, Koch Media CEO Dr. Klemens Kundratitz confirmed that Sumo Digital, the studio behind LittleBigPlanet 3, has taken the development reins."Sumo showed so much understanding of the brand, had creative ideas and an excellent vision that was aligned with our own," Kundratitz said."It just made perfect sense for us to move the project to them. We will reveal more details at a later stage, but for now I'd like to say that we are obviously super excited about the progress that we are making with them."Sumo Digital is no stranger to high-profile game development. The studio has previously worked on "Forza Horizon 2," "Disney Infinity 3.0," and "Sonic All-Stars Racing Transformed," and is currently developing "Crackdown" for the Xbox One.Sumo Digital COO Paul Porter confirmed that the studio is now in charge of "Dead Island 2.""It's an honor to be charged with the evolution of such an important franchise in Deep Silver's catalog," he said. "We're looking forward to exceeding fan expectation with an ambitious design that we're confident will take bone-crunching, visceral, zombie action to a whole new level."
After it was announced at E3 2014 with a fun, snazzy trailer, "Dead Island 2's" development struck a wall. Not only did the game see numerous delays, it was put on indefinite hold when developer Yager was taken off the project in mid-2015.
Now there's some renewed life in this reanimated corpse.
Speaking to MCV, Koch Media CEO Dr. Klemens Kundratitz confirmed that Sumo Digital, the studio behind LittleBigPlanet 3, has taken the development reins.
"Sumo showed so much understanding of the brand, had creative ideas and an excellent vision that was aligned with our own," Kundratitz said.
"It just made perfect sense for us to move the project to them. We will reveal more details at a later stage, but for now I'd like to say that we are obviously super excited about the progress that we are making with them."
Sumo Digital is no stranger to high-profile game development. The studio has previously worked on "Forza Horizon 2," "Disney Infinity 3.0," and "Sonic All-Stars Racing Transformed," and is currently developing "Crackdown" for the Xbox One.
Sumo Digital COO Paul Porter confirmed that the studio is now in charge of "Dead Island 2."
"It's an honor to be charged with the evolution of such an important franchise in Deep Silver's catalog," he said. "We're looking forward to exceeding fan expectation with an ambitious design that we're confident will take bone-crunching, visceral, zombie action to a whole new level."


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'Blank Tape' by Yorkshire based electronic duo worriedaboutsatan – made up of composer and electronic musician Thomas Ragsdale and multi instrumentalist Gavin Miller – is presented as a ltd custom-made, split-colour blue and white cassette shell, mirroring the duo's cover art. Layout is again by Spun Out Of Control's in-house designer Eric Adrian Lee. This tape is not blank!
Describing their sound as 'spectral electronica', worriedaboutsatan deliver a heady mix of swirling ambient melancholia, skyscraping post-rock guitar atmospherics and pounding slo-mo techno. They've shared stages with a diverse array of musicians including Underworld, Ólafur Arnalds, Clark, Dälek, 65daysofstatic, Tim Hecker, Pantha du Prince, Braids, HEALTH and Kiasmos. The band also worked closely as music supervisors and composers with BBC filmmaker Adam Curtis on his acclaimed 'HyperNormalisation' documentary.
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Minister Dr Yaacob tried hard to defend MM Lee's comments on Muslims
Minister-in-Charge of Muslim Affairs, Dr Yaacob Ibrahim, tried hard to defend Minister Mentor Lee Kwan Yee's recent negative comments on the Muslim community in Singapore. Yaacob urges Singaporeans to put MM Lee's comments about the Muslim community into perspective.
The Association of Muslim Professionals (AMP), which comprises mainly elite Muslims, had raised its concerns over MM Lee's latest comments and demanded clarification over what does it mean when MM Lee said Muslims in Singapore are distinct and not easy to integrate. Another high profile Muslim community, Majlis Ugama Islam Singapura (MUIS), had raised similar concerns.
AMP's Official Response to Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew's Comments in Hard Truths to Keep Singapore Going [via]
1. The Association of Muslim Professionals (AMP) deeply regrets certain comments made by Minister Mentor (MM) Mr Lee Kuan Yew in his book Hard Truths to Keep Singapore Going. These comments are in relation to the practice of Islam by the Malay-Muslim community (MMC) where MM Lee had urged the MMC to be less strict in their practice of Islam in order to facilitate integration, and in relation to the issue of gaps between the MMC and other communities in Singapore, where MM Lee opined that the MMC will never catch up with the other communities. We note that these views of MM Lee are not new. It is not clear why MM Lee has chosen to repeat them at this point.
2. However, because these views come from MM, and are repeated in print, it is important for the community to set its rejoinders. We do not agree with MM's views. In our view, MM's comments have hurt the community and are potentially divisive.
3. Fundamentally, there is nothing wrong for any community in Singapore in being distinct, for it to carry out its religious practices, or in asserting its identity. Islam enjoins Muslims to integrate within the broader Singapore community. It is not mutually exclusive for a good Muslim to be a good Singaporean. In fact, a good Muslim is duty bound, in Islam, to be a good Singaporean.
4. Many other religious communities practise their rituals. There is nothing wrong with this. Further, many ethnic communities assert their identities. Again, there is nothing wrong in this. For example, the state-promoted policy of SAP schools (where it could be argued that students do not have the same opportunity to mingle with other communities) manifests the assertion of the Chinese identity. The Speak Mandarin campaign is yet another example of the assertion of Chinese identity. The MMC has accepted these assertions of identities as part and parcel of living in a multi-ethnic and multi-religious community. Just like other Singaporeans, we celebrate diversity of beliefs and practices. It is therefore perplexing to see the Malay/Muslim community as being unfairly singled out for reasons which we cannot fathom.
5. ]It is unusual for MM to conclude that Muslims have not integrated based on his sporadic observations of eating practices of Muslims. Many Muslims have no qualms sharing tables with their non-Muslim friends and colleagues. Muslims are obliged to observe certain dietary restrictions, inasmuch as people subscribing to other religions (e.g. Buddhists or Hindus who do not consume certain types of foods) or others having dietary restrictions (vegetarians, vegans). It is a stretch and disingenuous to suggest that Muslims are against or less likely to integrate primarily on account of our dietary restrictions or eating habits.
6. Ironically, MM's comments, which had purported to touch on integration, could be potentially divisive. MM's comments create the misperception that the MMC is against or disinterested in integration, which is untrue and unfounded. It tends to perpetuate this misperception for younger Singaporeans in particular, who may take his views, as the first Prime Minister of Singapore, as the truth. These misperceptions could hinder integration going forward.
7. Apart from the issue of the practice of Islam, MM had also commented that the Malay/Muslim community will never catch up with other communities in Singapore. Again, this is regrettable. To state this in print is effectively condemning the MMC as a lagging and marginalised community, even in the longer term.
8. MM's comments also raise questions as to whether they reflect the thinking of other political leaders. Does this thinking (relating to the misperception of Muslims being disinterested in integration, or that the MMC will never catch up with other communities) affect, directly or indirectly, other government policies? If this is not the case, then the State should clarify this. Otherwise, the perception will be that the comments expressed by MM Lee, as a core member of the Cabinet, reflects the official position of the Government.
Issued by: Board of Directors, AMP
MUIS's Response to Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew's Comments in Hard Truths to Keep Singapore Going [via]
Islam no barrier to integration: Muis
THE highest authority on Muslim affairs said yesterday that the teachings of Islam do not hinder Muslims from integrating fully into Singapore society.
In fact, the true teachings of Islam obligate believers to live harmoniously in a multi-religious and multi-racial society, the Islamic Religious Council of Singapore (Muis) said.
The statement on its website was in response to questions from the public about whether Islamic practices were a barrier to the integration of Muslims in Singapore's plural society.
These questions were prompted by Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew's comments in the book, Lee Kuan Yew: Hard Truths To Keep Singapore Going, that Muslims in Singapore tend to be 'distinct and separate'.
Muis said the Muslim community here is deeply aware that Islam's teachings exhort believers to live together harmoniously in a plural society like Singapore's.
'An ethos in the Singapore Muslim identity elucidates clearly that a good Muslim who is true to his religion, is also one who is a good citizen,' it said.
Mr Lee's comments have drawn reactions from Muslims here and overseas.
In the book, Mr Lee, when asked to assess the progress of multi-racialism in Singapore, said: 'I have to speak candidly to be of value, but I do not want to offend the Muslim community.
'I think we were progressing very nicely until the surge of Islam came, and if you asked me for my observations, the other communities have easier integration - friends, intermarriages and so on, Indians with Chinese, Chinese with Indians - than Muslims. That's the result of the surge from the Arab states.'
He added: 'I would say, today, we can integrate all religions and races except Islam.' He also said: 'I think the Muslims socially do not cause any trouble, but they are distinct and separate.'
His remarks have been criticised by some leaders, officials and readers in Malaysia and Indonesia after they were reported in local newspapers.
Muslims and other Singaporeans have also written to The Straits Times Forum page on the issue.
Muis said yesterday the Muslim community has always played a role in national development:
'The integration process is readily accepted by the Muslim community as an integral part of the nation's development and progress, which is a shared aspiration of every Singaporean.
'This can be seen through the active participation of Muslims in mainstream society and also through the various multi-racial and multi-religious activities, be they at the individual or at the institution levels.'
Muis said that Muslim Singaporeans' commitment to integration is motivated by two factors:
First, by the aspiration to live up to the country's tenets, as laid out in the pledge to live 'as one united people, regardless of language, race and religion'.
Second, by the teachings of Islam, which obligate Muslims to live harmoniously with those of other races and religions.
'This is reaffirmed by the teachings of Prophet Muhammad through the hadith (the sayings of the Prophet) and his life journey,' the statement said.
It recalled that in 2005, Muis launched the Singapore Muslim Identity project to bring home the point that Muslims can stay true to their religion comfortably while being active citizens in a secular, multi-racial state.
'The fact is, this set of ethos has been an integral part and practice of the Singapore Muslim community for many years. It has been well-received by the Singapore Muslim community because it is not a new construct in the Islamic faith. It is in fact derived from the tenets of the religion.'
Muis added that it was confident that this better understanding of the true teachings of Islam has led Singaporean Muslims to take a progressive outlook and become very much part of the mainstream.
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Adrian Halen 02/03/2021	Music
Dark Metal Masters MOONSPELL Share Brand New Music Video from Upcoming Album, Hermitage
Due out February 26, 2021 via Napalm Records
With their forthcoming 13th studio album, Portuguese dark metal giants MOONSPELL are approaching their 30th anniversary as a band more ambitiously and stronger than ever. Hermitage will see the light of day on February 26, 2021 via Napalm Records, and invites us on an entertaining and revolutionary journey through the darkest days of human existence.
"Hermitage is an open-hearted invitation to simplicity. To be humble. To be thankful. To serve you solace. Provide you comfort, entertainment," vocalist Fernando Ribeiro recently said. "We sincerely hope this call reaches you. That you kindly accept what we offer. That you take our music with you to the place you must feel as yours. To your secret place, to your hermitage."
Both beautifully crafted songs, previously released singles such as "The Greater Good" show us the modernity of the wolves in 2021, while "Common Prayers" embraces the MOONSPELL tradition of writing a dark, gothic metal track like no other band can. Now, the band is presenting us a third single ahead of the album release. "All Or Nothing" brings back the ethereal and melodic sounds of MOONSPELL served by a beautiful musical landscape, and makes it most likely one of the deepest and most sincerely heart-breaking tunes the Portuguese dark metal titans have ever written.
"The video for 'All Or Nothing' was recorded in an empty theatre in Portugal and it's symbolic of our days," Ribeiro tells us. "Solitude dominates our lives and we divide our attentions and heartbeats at the groove of darkness and hope. At the mercy of all that can be and the nothing that we have to deal with right now. It's a song that relies on a more intimate melodic frame, emotional, autobiographic almost, about the joy and the sorrow that is being in a band."
He continues: "Life is a game you cannot win. You just have to play. Our job is done, we brought you joy. Every now and then."
Watch the incredible new clip for "All Or Nothing", directed by Guilherme Henriques and shot at the historical 1908- theatre Chaby Pinheiro in Nazaré, HERE:
MOONSPELL's upcoming album Hermitage was recorded, mixed and mastered by Jaime Gomez Arellano (Paradise Lost, Primordial, Ghost, Sólstafir & many more) at the Orgone Studios in the UK. Building upon the album's dark, revolutionary and sensitive facets, it's a wonderfully intuitive and epic ride by one of the most distinctive dark metal bands of all time, and a testament to what they've always loved the most: Honest, emotional metal that binds us even in the darkest times.
Pre-Order Hermitage HERE!
Hermitage will be available in several highly limited and collectible Deluxe and Die-Hard Editions, Mediabook and Cassette formats – all including the Candlemass cover "Darkness in Paradise" – and also in Jewelcase and Digital formats. The Deluxe Box will also include an etched 7'' Vinyl with another special bonus track, "The Great Leap Forward", as well as additional exciting collectible items!
Hermitage tracklisting:
01. The Greater Good
02. Common Prayers
03. All or Nothing
04. Hermitage
05. Entitlement
06. Solitarian
07. The Hermit Saints
08. Apophthegmata
09. Without Rule
10. City Quitter (Outro)
11. Darkness in Paradise (Candlemass Cover – LP, Box, MC + Mediabook)
12. The Great Leap Forward (7″ Vinyl – Deluxe Box)
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Limited Die-Hard Edition 2LP Gold/Black Ink-Spot w/ Patch + Sticker (Napalm Mailorder, limited to 300)
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Fernando Ribeiro – Vocals
Ricardo Amorim – Guitar, Backing Vocals
Pedro Paixão – Keys, Guitar
Aires Pereira – Bass
Hugo Ribeiro – Drums
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