"Anything you can do, I can do better, biatches." This was the missive written by one of the Fragdolls, Valkyrie, in her November 26th blog when she began training for the Humpday against Bungie. To be fair it was in a post titled "Adios Xbox Live – Almost," where Valkyrie is departing from Live to head off into the world of elves, orcs and Shatner – Blizzard's World of Warcraft, but that's secondary to her parting trash talk.
In order to imagine playing the Fragdolls, you must first imagine playing with Joe Tung. Then imagine if Joe Tung had a whole sea of Lemmings or Pikmin following him around parroting everything he says in matches ad infinitum, then take those voices, ratchet them up a few octaves and insert even more hilarious Language Violations. That's playing the Fragdolls. Talking trash is something the Fragdolls do very well, but how well do they play Halo 3? A tale of personal discovery, triumph and tears begins now.
"The Frag Dolls are a team of gamers recruited by Ubisoft to represent their video games and promote the presence of women in the game industry." On this night they were present. They brought it.
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I don't remember if it was for a Humpday or just a random night of Matchmaking, but Froman talked about how people tended (erroneously) to play Isolation on the top of the map, camping the Forerunner structure and suppressing the concave down shaped green grass with Battle Rifles. So he decided that we'd be able to beat an occasional team by staying underneath, controlling the Rockets and holding court in an area I refer to as Sub Taint.
You know the place, the dark green spot at the bottom of Isolation underneath the Honey I Shrunk the Kids-style chute, except at the bottom of this tunnel there isn't a big bowl of cereal but Froman with a Rocket Launcher and a crotch piece that is destined to leave a smear on your visor.
Our basic strategy, with tons of emphasis on basic, was to work in tandem underneath the caves, cycling regenerators and covering the three long hallways that connect at Sub Taint. It sort of worked, aside from Tung running around alone and somehow the spawning logic dumping Froman right in front of the gals on the top of the map.
As amusing as it was hearing their proximity chat calling us all manners of awful things for "camping" – we prefer "strategizing" – and using Regenerators (again, strategizing) underneath, the ladies would occasionally make insanely coordinated tactical strikes coming down the hallways and even if you're standing directly in a Regenerator, two or even three people firing at you with a Battle Rifle is going to erase a player pretty quickly.
We got out to a huge lead a lead that made me wonder "How did we not steamroll these women?" and before I knew it, it was 30-28 on the film. They were figuring out ways to counter our "hide desperately and hope" strategy. We started to get split from the pack and the 'Dolls picked us off, we were some slow, horned animal on the savanna and they hunted.
When we're not supposed to win (and let's face it, no one expects us to ever win), losing isn't as frustrating. Let's face it, these girls practiced, they were ready and we gave it our best effort in the first game on the only map where there was any sort of pre-baked easy-mode strategy involving hiding. Since we were still in charge of picking gametypes and maps we picked Team Slayer on The Pit, the impetus for this having something to do with pulling off a band-aid quickly and then maybe we could play Tower of Power in Game 3.
Like the game before, we got out to an improbable lead, only to see it whittled away like the girls were carving a boat out of balsa wood to send our dreams down a river. We led into the 30s and then faded, again. At 41-38, Frag Dolls advantage, it looked like we were going to let another one slip through our fingers. We're holding too tight!
But improbably, inexplicably and maybe, just maybe, magically at 43-40 the tide started to turn. At 44-43 the Regenerator came back to haunt the Frag Dolls – great Regenerator? Or Greatest Regenerator? Lars got slapped in the fingercuffs in the Command Center and the score was 46-44, those-who-pee-sitting, with the lead. A magical grenade killed Calyber's spree and the lead was just one. Immediately after New0001 killed Mischief to tie the game, Valkyrie's ill-advised heroics against Froman and I (Pro-Tip: The odds are not in your favor in this situation, kind players) turned into a sickening death march. The tide had turned. 47-46. New0001 put the score to 48-46 us and the Frag Dolls had scored their last points in this round.
Measured risk or tactical mastery? New and Froman wanted to play Snipers on Valhalla, Lars and I wanted to play anything but snipers on Valhalla, and the girls didn't seem to care as they recognized that Game 2 of the three game challenge was a complete and total anomaly and there was no way we would beat them in Game 3.
I was pretty spent after Game 2 and just wanted the Humpday to be over. After Game3, if Lars and I were kids on a message board we'd both have gone and made threads about "What's wrong with the Sniper Rifle?" because we both stunk up the joint. Thankfully, Joe and Froman combined for 40 kills.
All we did was divide into two groups of two, with Joe controlling top-mid and rotating to downed Pelican and Froman and I covering Hot Gates and Big Rock in front of their base. Lars and I would poke our heads out, draw fire, return fire, likely die and then Froman and New mopped them up.
At one point in the match, Froman had 15 kills, New had 10, Lars three and I had two. Pretty evenly balanced! You can watch from both New0001's and Froman's perspective below. Watch Lars and I fling ourselves into harm's way!
Check out the last time we played the Frag Dolls.


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Is our Earth Inside a Nebula?
Shreyansh Rajput February 01, 2021
Have you ever wondered what it would be like for our solar system to reside in a nebula? Glorious colours, with huge structures stretching across the sky. It must be a pretty cool sight. Well, depending on how you define what a nebula is, it may surprise you to find out that we are actually inside of one, called the Local Interstellar Cloud. How can this be? Well, let's understand first of all what a nebula actually is. The term nebula is a blanket term for a variety of different things. The word is a relic from early astronomy,where everything that looked a bit milky, foggy or cloud like was called a nebula, including what we now know are galaxies and star clusters. However, these days, we do have a bit more of a handle on what we classify as a nebula. The most famous type of nebula is the HII nebula, an Emission Nebula like Orion, which consists of ionised particles, predominately hydrogen. They are Emission Nebulae because they emit their own light, as ionising radiation from the young stars found in the middle of the mexcite the particles to higher energies, much like a neon lamp. On the other hand, there are also Dark Nebula,or Molecular Clouds where there are no nearby stars, so ionisation is not taking place. They often consist of dust and molecular hydrogen. Sometimes you can have a mix of the two nebulae,a Dark Nebula found in the middle of a HII region. In such a situation, you can often see the outer particles becoming ionised, with the cold particles still found towards the center. It is especially in regions like these, where Dark Nebulae become eroded by ionising radiation that stars can start to form. In another situation, you can have light from stars shining on a Dark Nebula, but the energy isn't enough to ionise the particles within it. In this case, you have a Reflection Nebula,a nebula that simply reflects the light shining on it. The next two types of nebulae are also related,Planetary Nebula, where a low to medium mass star has begun to shed its atmosphere and outer layers during its stellar evolution, usually before it becomes a white dwarf. The second type is a Supernova Remnant, usually the remains of a high mass star after it went supernova, leaving behind a black hole or a neutron star in the center. These two types of nebula are so colourfull and pretty because they also consist of ionised particles, charged from the respective events that caused them, so they are a type of Emission Nebula. Eventually, they will dim and disperse. Now, as you can see, all these nebulae can be categorised into two groups, emission nebula, and cold dark nebula. And these two categories have one big similarity,they are all Diffuse Nebulae. They extend for sometimes up to thousands of light years, and the particles within them are extremely spread out. Some of these nebulae only have a few particles per cubic centimetre, although some can have hundreds. But that still means that an Earth sized nebula would only weigh a few kilograms. To give you some real perspective, sea level on Earth has 15 quintillion particles per cubic centimetre, and 450 km up, which is slightly higher than the altitude the ISS orbits, there are still 50 million particles per cubic centimetre. So, when we see a nebula, we have the advantageof squeezing very diffuse objects into quite a narrow field of view, which means for objectslike Orion, we probably have a better view of its structure than what any locals would have from the inside, because for them, it's a lot more spread out. Chances are that if you were on an Earth likebody inside of a typical nebula, you wouldn't be able to tell you are in one with your naked eyes. That's not to say that all nebulae are equal though. The Tarantula Nebula, found in the Large Magellanic Cloud, is said to be such a bright HII emission nebula that if it were to be where the Orion Nebula is, it would cast shadows at night for us and be visible during the day. A nebula this bright probably could be visible if you were inside it. As for our own Local Interstellar Cloud, it too is an emission type nebula, likely a very disperse supernova remnant nebula, mixed in with some cold neutral atoms. The ionised particles within it are exceptionally hot, around 6,730°c, with some particles even approaching millions of degrees Celsius. However, its heat specific capacity is very low because the density of particles is so sparse, at only 0.3 particles per cubic centimetre,meaning being out in the middle of it would barely heat you up at all. Unsurprisingly, this extreme sparsity of particles means our Local Interstellar Cloud is not very bright, in fact it is very hard to see at all, even with the most powerful of scientific instruments. That's because it really is on the boundary of what you might call a nebula, although we are starting to find out that like the spectacular images of nebulae we know already, it too has a structure. The cloud is about 30 light years across,and interestingly, we seem to be moving through it, and will likely leave it altogether in about 20,000 years. That's because the Sun seems to be taking us in this direction, while the Local Interstellar Cloud is heading this way. So, if you've ever seen images of the solar system interacting with interstellar wind, it's not just the particles that are blowing around our solar system, but it's also a combination of us moving through it. The magnetic field of the Sun pushes ionised particles around the entire solar system, leaving behind a magneto tail as it travels,like a wake following a boat. While we don't have a real visual image of that for our own Sun, as again, it's hard to see from the inside, we have seen it elsewhere in the galaxy. However, it's only ionised particles that interact with our Sun's magnetic field. Non-ionised neutral particles pass right through the magnetic field, going right through our solar system. This is how we've been able to tell which way the interstellar wind comes from; we've had spacecraft in orbit detecting the direction of these neutral particles as they pass through. Even though the Local Interstellar Cloud is not dense compared to other nebulae, it is actually one of the densest regions for hundreds of light years in any direction. This is because it is contained in a region known as the Local Bubble, where the average density is even lower than the Local Interstellar Cloud at 0.05 particles per cubic centimetre. Interestingly, this bubble connects to other bubbles, and it's in the regions where these bubbles meet where it's believed that clouds like the Local Interstellar Cloud form. Let me explain. When we talk of nebula of any kind of density,we are actually talking about the Interstellar Medium. The Interstellar Medium, simply put, is all the gas and dust found in the galaxy, in whatever form that may be. It isn't evenly distributed, and the thickest sections of it are the different types of nebula we have already talked about. However, if you look anywhere in the sky,and look through the right wavelengths, you will see a faint glow in space. These are ionised particles emitting electromagnetic radiation, in a variety of frequencies. So, the Local Interstellar Cloud is part of the Interstellar Medium. But as I mentioned, it isn't evenly distributed. Within our Local Bubble, the density of theInterstellar Medium is far below the average of the whole Milky Way. This is because these bubbles are thoughtto be the result of supernovae explosions millions of years ago. The supernovae not only ionised the particles,it also pushed most of them outward, leaving behind the bubbles, or what is also known as a super shells. When supernovae shock waves meet, the particles suddenly have nowhere to go, so they instead clump up. It is believed that our own Local Interstellar Cloud comes from where our own Local Bubble and another bubble met. There are plenty of other bubbles out there,and the resulting local map of our galaxy's Interstellar Medium looks quite messy. You may wonder though, why any of this is important? What's the point of scientists trying to figure this out? Well, it is important to understand our local space environment, because it helps us better define the universe around us. When we are observing something far away,we can remove contamination from any readings caused by the Local Interstellar Cloud surrounding us, because we now know what we can expect from it. Also, better understanding the Interstellar Wind coming into our Solar System means we can better protect astronauts against it. So, there we have it, while we may not be in a nebula as spectacular as something like Orion, we are right in the middle of our own Local Interstellar Cloud, which has a structure and that emits its own light.
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OmniGuide out of Cambridge, MA has released a new laser for gynecologic surgery in its BeamPath product line. The system allows for varying power levels and easy reach thanks to a flexible fiber used to deliver the energy.
The small profile of the BeamPath fiber, coupled with the precision of CO2 laser energy, provides surgeons with an ideal tool for careful dissection and superficial tissue vaporization during minimally invasive gynecology procedures. The BeamPath system includes a portable, small footprint laser system that can easily be maneuvered around the operating room. This system greatly improves ease of use and access of a laser technology that has already been widely accepted in this clinical specialty.
While CO2 laser energy offers a high degree of control over penetration into soft tissue and offers unparalleled precision, CO2 lasers have been limited to "line of sight procedures" due to the absence of a fiber delivery system. OmniGuide met this market need by developing the first flexible fiber delivery system for CO2 laser delivery, enabling improved ease of use, ability to cut at angles and control over energy delivery.


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Starbucks is changing its employee dress code for the first time in years
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December 3, 2019, 12:22 p.m. ·1 min read
Known for its specifically detailed yet not necessarily strict dress code, Starbucks seems to be loosening the reins when it comes to what employees can or cannot wear.
Or in the company's latest update, what they can and cannot pierce.
Starbucks shared in a statement to Business Insider:
"We believe the Starbucks Experience is best delivered when partners can bring their whole selves to work. Based on partner feedback, we have simplified our resources and approach to dress code to provide more clarity and make it easier for partners to select their wardrobe for work."
Starbucks will now allow employees to wear one facial piercing "no larger than the size of a dime."
Septum piercings allowed at Starbucks on the new dress code 🤪 no longer have to wear it up!
— mrs tu 🕸 (@bitxhwitch) November 26, 2019
Starbucks changed dress code and I get to wear my septum piercing 😭 happy Monday to me
— ashlin (@ash_pirk) December 2, 2019
The previous piercing policy is stated as:
"Keep earrings small or moderately sized. No more than two earrings per ear. Small ear gauges are allowed. A small nose stud is allowed (no septum piercings or rings). No other pierced jewelry or body adornments are allowed, including tongue studs."
The current dress code also forbids face and neck tattoos, nail polish and colored hats.
Business Insider also reported that the new dress code will be limited to one-page as opposed to current 15-page handbook.
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Cell Sorting Market Size to Reach USD 805.1 Million By 2027 | Expanding Biotechnology And Pharmaceutical Industries will be the Major Factor Driving the Industry Growth, says Reports and Data
Advancements in technology and increased funding for research and development of cell sorting are key factors driving growth of the cell sorting market.New York, Jan. 20, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The global cell sorting market is projected to reach a market size of USD 805.1 Million by 2027 and register a high revenue CAGR during the forecast period, according to a latest report by Reports and Data. Global cell sorting market revenue growth is expected to be driven by expansions and developments in biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries, and rising investment in research & development initiatives and projects. Increase in healthcare budgets in developing economies and rise in need for development of targeted therapies are other key factors driving growth of the cell sorting market. Advancements in biotechnology and increase in adoption of cell sorters for research and development activities are also expected to fuel growth of the market over the forecast period. The global cell sorting market is consolidated and complex in nature, with major international players accounting for a significant market revenue share. This also limits entry of new players into the market. In addition, emergence of microfluidics technology for cell sorting is expected to open up new and more lucrative opportunities for companies operating in this market. However, lack of awareness regarding cell sorting is expected to limit adoption in developing economies to a certain extent in the near future. Get FREE Sample Copy with TOC of the Report to understand the structure of the complete report@ https://www.reportsanddata.com/sample-enquiry-form/3748 The COVID-19 Impact: During the COVID-19 pandemic, demand for cell sorting surged at a rapid rate. The need to develop an efficient and cost-effective vaccine and therapy for COVID-19 has driven demand for cell sorting in clinical research to a new high. 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I have long welcomed the introduction of mandatory mental health assessment by many groups and health services prior to bariatric surgery since I believe it gives the patient a chance to address these problems in advance of surgery, because they don't go away afterwards without change. Many however do feel that it deters their chances of being considered for surgery and so hide or play down the issues they experience for fear of being refused WLS. Hopefully this new research, outlined below, will offer a crumb of comfort to those who feel that way, and also arm them with some facts and opinions on the subject that they can take along to meetings and appointments to demonstrate links and better outcomes. What has been your experience?
A new study examines the link between bariatric surgery and mental health.
For some severely obese patients, a new study hints that bariatric surgery might potentially do good for both body and mind. Patients seeking and undergoing such weight-loss procedures were more likely to suffer from depression and binge-eating than the general population — but those with depression often saw their mental health improve after surgery, a new UCLA-led paper shows.
The findings, published this week in JAMA, don't establish a causal link between bariatric surgery and improved mental health. But they do reveal a surprising relationship that will have to be further probed by more research, scientists said.
"Although our results should not be interpreted as indicating that surgery is a treatment for depression, severely obese patients with depression may gain psychological benefits in addition to the physical benefits already associated with surgery," the study authors wrote.
Bariatric surgery comprises a variety of different procedures, including the gastric bypass or a gastric band, that are used to help often severely obese people lose weight. Mental health is often linked in some form to these procedures — insurance companies typically require patients to get a mental health evaluation before they can get approval to undergo the surgery.
But although the link between mental health and bariatric surgery has been studied before, it's usually been done by individual institutions rather than on a larger scale, said Dr. Aaron Dawes, a surgical resident at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.
To get at that relationship, the researchers performed a meta-analysis, culling data from 68 papers. Fifty-nine of them, involving some 65,363 patients, looked at the prevalence of mental health conditions before the operation; 27 of them, involving 50,182 patients, looked at the link between mental health conditions before the study and the outcomes afterward.
The researchers found that patients who were about to undergo bariatric surgery had rates of depression (19%) and binge-eating disorder (17%) that were both more than twice as high as they were in the general population (about 8% and 1% to 5%, respectively). Overall, 23% of patients had symptoms of at least one mood disorder.
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Der Löwe im Winter (Originaltitel: The Lion in Winter) ist ein britischer Film des Regisseurs Anthony Harvey aus dem Jahr 1968 nach dem gleichnamigen Theaterstück von James Goldman. Die Uraufführung fand am 30. Oktober 1968 in Hollywood in den Vereinigten Staaten statt.

Handlung
Weihnachten 1183 auf der französischen Burg Chinon: Der alternde englische König Henry II. ist besorgt um sein Königreich und beschließt, seinen Nachfolger aus dem Kreise seiner drei Söhne Richard, Geoffrey und John auszuwählen, da der vorgesehene Thronfolger Heinrich der Jüngere vor kurzem verstorben ist. Henry hat sich die junge französische Prinzessin Alix zur Geliebten genommen, die jedoch seinem Sohn Richard als Gemahlin zugedacht ist. Ihr Bruder, der junge französische König Philipp II. von Frankreich, ist ebenfalls zu Besuch bei Henry und fordert die baldige Hochzeit der Prinzessin, ansonsten will er ihre aus Land bestehende Mitgift zurück.

Mit seiner Ehefrau Eleanor verbindet Henry eine Hassliebe. Weil Eleanor mehrfach gegen ihn konspiriert hat, lebt sie seit zehn Jahren auf der englischen Burg Old Sarum in der Verbannung. Sie ist verbittert darüber, dass ihr Mann sie für jüngere Geliebte wie die bereits verstorbene Rosamund oder nun Alix verließ. Zum weihnachtlichen Hof ruft Henry sie nach Chinon. Eleanor sieht an diesem Weihnachtstag ihre Chance gekommen, über ihren Sohn Richard Einfluss und Macht zurückzugewinnen. Zwischen Henry und Eleanor entspinnt sich ein intrigantes Ränkespiel um die Nachfolge des Königs, denn während der König den noch jugendlichen John favorisiert, will Eleanor Richard auf den Thron bringen. Richard wird zwar von seinem Vater als fähig angesehen, doch hat er sich in der Vergangenheit bereits gegen ihn gestellt und ist dadurch unbeliebt bei ihm geworden.

Henry stimmt zu, Alix mit Richard zu verheiraten und ihn zum Thronfolger zu machen. Richard erfährt allerdings bei der Hochzeit, dass nicht nur Eleanor die Freiheit bekommen, sondern John auch die wichtige Provinz Aquitanien zugesprochen werden soll. Daraufhin lehnt Richard die Hochzeit ab. John hat unterdessen geglaubt, dass er nicht mehr der Favorit seines Vaters sei, und mit seinem mittleren Bruder Geoffrey und König Philipp einen Plan zum Krieg gegen England geschmiedet. Henry findet durch ein Gespräch mit Philipp heraus, dass John und Geoffrey sich gegen ihn gestellt haben, und dass Richard vor einigen Jahren eine homosexuelle Affäre mit dem jüngeren Philipp hatte.

Nun hält Henry alle drei Söhne für des Thrones unwürdig und lässt sie von seinen Wachen in einen Weinkeller einsperren. Er gibt dem Hof Anweisungen, dass er und Alix nach Rom zum Papst reisen, wo der Papst seine Ehe mit Eleanor annullieren soll, sodass er Alix heiraten und mit ihr neue Kinder haben kann. Alix gibt aber zu bedenken, dass er keine so lange Lebensspanne mehr habe und die drei Söhne nach seinem Tod eine Gefahr für sie und den potenziellen Thronfolger darstellten. Henry verurteilt daraufhin seine drei Söhne zum Tod, bringt es aber nicht fertig, sie hinzurichten, und lässt sie entkommen. Henry bleibt allein mit trüben Gedanken zurück, wobei die in ihr Gefängnis zurückkehrende Eleanor ihm den Ratschlag gibt, den Schmerz mit Lachen zu überspielen.

Hintergrund

James Goldmans Bühnenstück The Lion in Winter hatte am 2. März 1966 mit Robert Preston als Henry, Rosemary Harris als Eleanor und Christopher Walken als Philipp seine Premiere am Broadway. Ihre Darstellung der Königin brachte Rosemary Harris zwar einen Tony Award, aber das Stück selbst wurde wegen fehlenden Zuschauerinteresses schon nach zweieinhalb Monaten eingestellt und bedeutete einen finanziellen Flop. Trotzdem wurde Goldmans Stück verfilmt, da nach dem Erfolg der Thomas-Morus-Biografie Ein Mann zu jeder Jahreszeit (1966) Stoffe über die englische Geschichte in Hollywood gesucht wurden.

Für Regisseur Anthony Harvey war es die erste Regiearbeit bei einem größeren Film, zuvor hatte er nur den Independentfilm Dutchman (1966) gedreht. Peter O'Toole war zum Zeitpunkt der Dreharbeiten rund 15 Jahre jünger als der echte Henry im Jahr 1183, galt aber für diese Rolle als prädestiniert, da er den König bereits vier Jahre zuvor im Film Becket gespielt und dafür eine Oscar-Nominierung erhalten hatte. Für Timothy Dalton bedeutete Der Löwe im Winter das Filmdebüt, für Anthony Hopkins war es erst der zweite Kinofilm nach The White Bus (1967). Katharine Hepburn soll eine Nachfahrin ihrer eigenen Filmfigur Eleanor gewesen sein, in ihrem Familienstammbaum findet sich angeblich ein illegitimes Kind von Eleanors Sohn John.

Ab Oktober 1967 probten die Schauspieler gemeinsam im Londoner Theatre Royal Haymarket, ehe sie in die Dreharbeiten von November 1967 bis März 1968 einstiegen. Das Budget des Löwen im Winter lag bei rund vier Millionen US-Dollar. Die meisten Innenszenen wurden in den Ardmore Studios bei Dublin gedreht, Außenszenen entstanden unter anderem in Wales und Frankreich. So diente das walisische Pembroke Castle als Kulisse für das Turnier mit Richard am Filmanfang. Obwohl der Hauptschauplatz des Films, die Burg Chinon, noch heute existiert, ist sie nicht im Film zu sehen. Da sie sich seit dem Mittelalter stark verändert hatte und in den 1960er-Jahren in einem weitgehend verfallenen Zustand war, diente stattdessen die Abtei Montmajour als Schauplatz für den Film.

Synchronisation
Die deutsche Synchronfassung entstand zur Kinopremiere nach Dialogbuch und Dialogregie von Michael Günther.

Kritiken
Der Löwe im Winter erhält bis heute weitgehend positive Kritiken. Bei dem Kritikerportal Rotten Tomatoes besitzt er, basierend auf 41 Kritiken, eine positive Bewertung von 90 %. Der Film sei "schärfer und geistreicher" als ein typischer Historienfilm und biete fantastische Schauspielleistungen, so der Kritikerkonsens ("sharper and wittier than your average period piece, The Lion in Winter is a tale of palace intrigue bolstered by fantastic performances").

Auszeichnungen (Auswahl)
 Academy Award – Katharine Hepburn erhielt 1969 für diese Rolle den dritten ihrer insgesamt vier Oscars als Beste Hauptdarstellerin. John Barry erhielt für die Beste Filmmusik seinen dritten Oscar und James Goldman den Oscar für das beste adaptierte Drehbuch. Peter O'Toole wurde als Bester Hauptdarsteller nominiert, verlor jedoch; es war seine zweite Nominierung für die Rolle des Henry, den er zuvor bereits in Becket dargestellt hatte. Der Film erhielt zudem Nominierungen in den Kategorien Bester Film, Beste Regie und Bestes Kostümdesign (Margaret Furse).
 Society of Film and Television Arts Awards – für Katharine Hepburn und John Barry.
 Golden Globe – der Film erhielt den Golden Globe als bester Film der Kategorie Drama; Peter O'Toole erhielt den Golden Globe als bester Hauptdarsteller.

Neuverfilmung
2004 entstand mit Patrick Stewart und Glenn Close ein Fernsehfilm. Der Film erhielt verschiedene Auszeichnungen, darunter für Close den Golden Globe Award.

Literatur
 James Goldman: Der Löwe im Winter (Originaltitel: The Lion in Winter). Deutsch von Gina Kaus. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main, circa 1965.

Weblinks

 Lion in Winter im Archiv des Documentatie- en Onderzoekscentrum voor Religie, Cultuur en Samenleving (KADOC), Leuven

Einzelnachweise

Filmtitel 1968
Britischer Film
Filmdrama
Historienfilm
Theaterverfilmung
Mittelalter im Film
Weihnachtsfilm

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Category Archives: Robert E. Howard
Conan the philosopher
June 5, 2022 Mike 5 Comments
Stoicism has inspired many writers, including Matthew Arnold, Walker Percy, and Ambrose Bierce. I strongly suspect it also influenced Robert E. Howard, whose character Conan of Cimmeria exemplified Stoicism.
In fact, I'd say Conan was the very model of a Stoic. He could shrug off bad luck, pain, and looming disaster like no other fictional character, whatever the genre. Conan fumed at cowardice, punished betrayal, and battled opponents savagely, but he never complained, never felt sorry for himself. He accepted fate with a shrug.
What is Stoicism? Here's a short, useful definition from WhatIsStoicism.com:
"Stoicism, or Stoic philosophy, is a philosophy of personal ethics and a methodology for seeking practical wisdom in life. A key principle of the ancient Stoics was the belief that we don't react to events; we react to our judgments about them, and the judgments are up to us. They also advised that we should not worry about things beyond our control as everything in life can be divided into two categories – things that are up to us and things that are not."
Sounds like Conan to me.
I believe Robert E. Howard's most famous character reflected his author's courageous and clear-headed embrace of the human condition, from its brief, tenuous life span to its deep-seated connections to a rich, sprawling past. I like the way David Smith puts it in his magnificent Robert E. Howard: A Literary Biography:
"His work is shot through with a relentless awareness of time, hurtfully so. This tragic appreciation is exhibited as powerfully in his writing as his acute awareness of the body — the weight of time, its passage and its cost to us. He grew up, of course, listening to recollections of the immediate past, frontier tales in which "the past is never past," in Faulkner's famous phrase." p. 191.
The Stoic philosopher Seneca observed that an extensive and intimate relationship to the past broadens and deepens a person:
"Of all people only those are at leisure who make time for philosophy, only they truly live. Not satisfied to merely keep good watch over their own days, they annex every age to their own. All the harvest of the past is added to their store. "
Howard, a life-long and passionate student of history, appreciated the wealth of wisdom and adventure the past holds. That passion –and his unique worldview — supercharged his fiction.
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Writers On Good Manners
July 7, 2021 Mike 8 Comments
I've been pondering the deterioration of public discourse. The occasion of Robert Heinlein's birthday brings to mind this quote:
"An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life."
― Robert A. Heinlein
Which reminds me of this:
"Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing."
― Robert E. Howard
Book review, Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard
Weird Tales of Modernity: A Review
August 15, 2020 Mike 2 Comments
A secret that fans of Robert E. Howard and H. P. Lovecraft have known for years is that the works of these authors were much more than mere ghost and adventure stories. In the past couple of decades, a number of serious studies have confirmed that insightful and profound world views animated these tales, making them not only entertaining, but thought-provoking.
Jason Ray Carney is the latest scholar to analyze their enduring appeal. Carney, who teaches Literary Theory and Creative Writing at Christopher Newport University in Newport News, Virginia, also writes speculative fiction, and is the chair of the Pulp Studies section of the Popular Culture Association.
Weird Tales of Modernity examines Howard and Lovecraft, as well as the lesser-known Clark Ashton Smith, and considers their stories as critical reactions to modern art and the transience of life. While this study rewards the reader with a number of well-argued insights into the mindset and artistry of the three authors, it is not aimed at the general reading public. It is instead a highly technical analysis aimed at academics. While it lacks the conversational tone of Mark Finn's Blood and Thunder, or the rollicking wit of Michel Houellebecq's H. P. Lovecraft, it marches along with forceful logic and a careful mobilization of facts, backed by citations of numerous works from sixty-four notable authors and critics, including Jose Ortega y Gasset, W. B. Yeats, and T. S. Eliot.
Carney argues that Howard, Lovecraft, and Smith were united not only by their frequent appearance in the speculative fiction magazine Weird Tales, but also shared a common vision of art and life. A common theme in their stories was their rejection of modernism, and specifically, modern art, with its abandonment of traditional forms and the classical view of man. All three authors contemplated with disgust the creeping conformity that erased both individual and regional personalities. Robert E. Howard, for example, feared that "in a few generations all the United States will present one uniform pattern, modeled on the mechanized fabric of New York." Such conformity, they warned, would not lead to global democracy, but to a dehumanized, soulless world.
Pulp fiction offered the "Weird Tales Three" a vehicle for expressing, and perhaps reclaiming, basic human experiences that modern life had taken from them. Howard, Lovecraft, and Smith crafted fiction that was, in Carney's words, "sensational, often ineloquent or excessively ornate in style, and concerned with inciting raw emotions in readers – such as wonder, joy, excitement, and cosmic dread."
Differing somewhat in style and theme, all three sought to rediscover those fundamental, ancient, and human emotions. Howard evoked them in his energetic tales of action and danger; Lovecraft showed us protagonists whose pursuit of esoteric knowledge forced them to confront inescapable cosmic horror; and Clark Aston Smith described characters desperately seeking lost joy, innocence, or love. All three conjured the frightening and the fantastic to focus the reader's imagination on the ephemeral beauty and wonder that live in the ordinary.
Carney's evaluation of Howard, Lovecraft, and Smith as a distinct subgroup provides an eye-opening and challenging appraisal that will help their readers to further appreciate their unique vision and artistry.
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Ambrose Bierce, Robert E. Howard
Happy birthday, Ambrose Bierce!
June 24, 2020 Mike 11 Comments
Today is the birthday of Ambrose Gwinett Bierce, one of the great short story writers and satirists of the late nineteenth century. Bierce, a former Union officer in the War Between the States, gave the world the most vivid and brutally honest picture of war ever captured in prose. The war than nearly killed him taught him many grim lessons, chief of which was that noble ideals are the cheapest of lies, used to convince the naive to prop up insane projects that lead only to suffering and death for the many — and profit for the few.
My Master's Thesis explored Bierce's war stories, tales exposing the animal senselessness of war.
Fans of both Ambrose Bierce and Robert E. Howard will want to read John Bullard's excellent post on the significant influence Bierce exerted over a young Robert E. Howard. It includes additional resources on each author, with a link to Bierce's works.
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Book review, Fantasy Fiction, Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard
Blood & Thunder: A Review
March 9, 2020 Mike 5 Comments
I've just finished Blood and Thunder, Mark Finn's literary biography of Robert E. Howard. It's one of those books I hated to see end. Blood & Thunder is an entertaining and inspired introduction to one of the greatest fantasy writers who ever lived.
Finn stresses throughout this biography that Texas was a life-long influence on Howard. Finn, also a native Texan, knows what he's talking about.
Howard's unique voice has been described as robust, vivid, and dark. The sizable Anglo-Celtic population throughout the South, including Texas, accounts for much of this. As Howard wrote in a letter to H. P. Lovecraft:
"But no Negro ghost-story ever gave me the horror as did the tales told by my grandmother. All the gloominess and dark mysticism of the Gaelic nature was hers, and there was no light and mirth in her. Her tales showed what a strange legion of folk-lore grew up in the Scotch-Irish settlements of the Southwest, where transplanted Celtic myths and fairy-tales met and mingled with a substratum of slave legends."
Another major but often overlooked influence on the future writer was the Western tall tale. The young man listened intently to his father, a small town doctor, who spun entertaining yarns for patients, family members, and friends. The chapter dedicated to the fine Texan tradition of the tall tale is titled "Authentic Liars," a perceptive acknowledgement of the writer's most crucial talent, the ability to tell a believable lie the audience will happily swallow.
The Texas young Robert E. Howard grew up in was barely a generation removed from the Wild West, and the boy was spellbound by first-hand accounts of Comanche raids and attacks by the Mexican rebel Pancho Villa, undoubtedly the inspiration for the bandits, kozaki, and Picts who brawled and stormed throughout the Hyborian kingdoms. Even Texas-sized rattlesnakes found their way into Howard's stories ("The Scarlet Citadel," for example.) As Finn puts it, "Conan, then, is much closer to the American frontier tradition than epic fantasy."
The Texas oil boom not only overturned the state's once-agrarian economy, but jolted the culture, and not in a good way. In a letter to H. P. Lovecraft, Howard wrote:
"I've seen old farmers, bent with toil, and ignorant of the feel of ten dollars at a time, become millionaires in a week, by the way of oil gushers. And I've seen them blow in every cent of it and die paupers. I've seen whole towns debauched by an oil boom and boys and girls go to the devil whole-sale. I've seen promising youths turn from respectable citizens to dope-fiends, drunkards, gamblers, and gangsters in a matter of months."
Howard's recurring theme of civilizational rot and downfall were not abstract notions; he experienced these things first hand. Like his friend and fellow writer H. P. Lovecraft, Howard viewed industrialization as a destructive, de-humanizing force.
It's impossible to discuss Robert E. Howard without considering H. P. Lovecraft. The two masters corresponded extensively, and clearly influenced each other's work. Howard set Conan in a Lovecraftian universe, complete with a number of Cthulhu mythos deities. But it was a reciprocal – and beneficial – relationship. Finn points out how Howard's action-oriented style inspired Lovecraft, whose fiction tended toward the psychological, to include the well-done nighttime chase scene in "The Shadow Over Innsmouth," one of Lovecraft's greatest tales.
I cannot agree with all of Finn's conclusions. For example, I winced at his assertion that Yasmina from Howard's novella "The People of the Black Circle" is a "more fully realized" character than Belit from "Queen of the Black Coast." C'mon! I applaud Finn's rejection of L. Sprague de Camp's unfair and uninformed opinion that Howard was a suicidal paranoid with Oedipal tendencies. However, to rebut de Camp by asserting Howard had no choice but to commit suicide is simply ridiculous.
All in all, though, this is a well-researched, intelligent, and sympathetic evaluation of Robert E. Howard's life and legacy, one I highly recommend for both newcomers and seasoned fans.
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A Riddle Of Steel: The Definitive History of Conan the Barbarian
July 11, 2019 Mike 2 Comments
I'm really excited about FauxPop's documentary on Robert E. Howard's Conan the Barbarian. The people interviewed in this preview, including writer Roy Thomas and fantasy artists Boris Vallejo and Julie Bell, share fascinating insights about the continuing appeal of Howard's legacy.
It's unfortunate that so many still believe the Conan stories are nothing but escapist fantasy, but I believe A Riddle Of Steel will help change that.
The Conan plotline tells the story of a man determined to survive in a corrupt and dying society while holding true to his personal code of honor. (A theme even more timely in our present age.) Howard was not only a craftsman and entertainer whose dynamic style continues to inspire writers, but also a shrewd and perceptive commentator on the human condition. Here's my take on the worldview underlying Howard's most intriguing character.
A Riddle Of Steel is a hopeful sign the time is ripe for a more serious understanding of one of the greatest series in fantasy fiction.
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Robert E. Howard: A Literary Biography
February 12, 2019 Mike 4 Comments
Whether you're a fan of fantasy fiction in general, or of Robert E. Howard in particular, or if you're an aspiring writer who wants to learn what makes successful writers tick, you will enjoy David C. Smith's Robert E. Howard: A Literary Biography.
David C. Smith is a prolific writer himself. In his latest work, he focuses on the complex and rich relationship between Howard's life and thought and the spell-binding tales he gave the world. One of the strengths of this literary biography is the fact-filled account of Howard's inspirational, yet tragic, development as a young man and author. Note: This is not a pseudo-psychological analysis, but an insightful and sympathetic exploration of an important literary figure backed by thorough research and genuine understanding.
Smith draws upon his own experience as a writer to flesh out the intellectual and emotional forces that shaped Howard and his works. Of Howard, the man, Smith observes:
His work is shot through with a relentless awareness of time, hurtfully so. This tragic appreciation is exhibited as powerfully in his writing as his acute awareness of the body — the weight of time, its passage and its cost to us. He grew up, of course, listening to recollections of the immediate past, frontier tales in which "the past is never past," in Faulkner's famous phrase. … Thus, what we get from Howard is not merely a story. Howard reports the facts. Right down to every bloody detail, each emotional pitch, all of the colors and moods — he reports the facts. Howard reminds us who we are. pp. 191-2
The portrait Smith creates sheds light on the enduring appeal of Howard's most famous character, Conan:
Let enemies come, even demons and sorcerers; he will confront them and defeat them or go down trying. He is the natural man, ourselves begun again, reborn in a world as we secretly know our own world to be beneath its layers of hypocrisy and pretense. Conan is nothing if not honest in this regard and has no patience with the nonsense most of us accept as a matter of course. p. 134
The chapter examining the correspondence and resulting relationship between Howard and H.P. Lovecraft is itself worth the price of the book. Not only does it add to our understanding of Howard, it's also a useful introduction to Lovecraft.
This is no hagiography. Smith does not close his eyes to Howard's literary and personal stumbles. While Smith clearly admires Howard's accomplishments, he constructs his case for a new appreciation of Howard out of a solid and broad body of research, with observations and critiques from friends, editors, and other writers who knew the man and the artist. The only fault I can detect in this otherwise remarkable and entertaining book is in the final chapter, "Legacy," in which Smith slips into an over-the-top tone of wounded offense toward critics who dismiss Howard as a hack.
Having read Smith's previous chapters, the reader will already be convinced how wrong those critics are.
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Hither Came Conan: The Best Conan Story Written by REH Was….?
Whether you're a long-time fan of Robert E. Howard or a newcomer, you'll enjoy this series on Howard's stories at Black Gate. I love the premise of this project:
Welcome to a brand new, Monday morning series here at Black Gate. Join us as a star-studded cast of contributors examine every original Conan story written by Robert E. Howard: and tell you why THAT is the best of the bunch. Read on!
Think Conan stories are for kids, or are little more than escapist fiction? Think again. Here's a piece I wrote for the Abbeville Institute on the depth of meaning lurking in the shadows of Howard's Conan tales. And the thought-provoking worldview Howard infused into these highly entertaining pieces are supercharged with forceful, visual writing reminiscent of Jack London, Ambrose Bierce, and Ernest Hemingway. As Stephen King put it, "Howard's writing seems so highly charged with energy that it nearly gives off sparks." Author James Scott Bell once said of Howard, "His writing was big and wild and full of action." Enjoy!
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Q: Adding additional properties to a Chart JS dataset I'm trying to add extra properties to a Chart JS dataset (for a Pie / Doughnut chart). I've got a piece of Ruby on the back-end that prints the following JSON to the view:
[
{"segment": "undetermined",
"label": "Undetermined",
"value": 420193,"
color": "#DECF3F",
"highlight": "#e2d455"
},
{"segment":"peer_review",
"label":"Peer Review",
"value":415212,
"color":"#60BD68",
"highlight":"#72c479"
}
]

The "segment" property is an additional one (not provided for by the library) that I want to make available to my JS on the front-end. However when I wrap this JSON in a canvas tag I can't access it through JS.
The second line below outputs the above JSON:
<canvas id="review-type" height="235" data-facet="review_status_s">
  <%= @by_review_type %>
</canvas>

And I'm trying to access the "segment" property by using the getSegmentsAtEvent() API call (name collision accidental):
   $("#review-type").click(
    function(evt) {
      var activePoints = reviewChart.getSegmentsAtEvent(evt);

      /* extract other properties, then build an URL from them: */

      var url = "/" +locale+ "/catalog?f[" +facet_frag+ "][]=" +segment+ "&q=*:*";
      window.location = url;
    }
  );

However when I inspect activePoints in the JS console, "segment" isn't on the list of properties.
What should I do?

A: getSegmentsAtEvent (and its equivalents for other chart types) return chart elements (sectors, points, bars, etc.). You have to use any of the chart element properties and the data object to figure out the index and then use that to get the additional property that you want.
For instance, if pieData is your data object
$("#review-type").click(
    function (evt) {
        var activePoints = reviewChart.getSegmentsAtEvent(evt);

        if (activePoints.length)
        alert(pieData.filter(function (e) { return e.label === activePoints[0].label; })[0].segment);
            ...

You could also set additional properties on the properties that get transferred from the object to the element (e.g. label), but that's a bit hacky.

Fiddle - http://jsfiddle.net/nm9ay728/

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From rose-gold locks to glow-in-the-dark hair, we thought we'd seen all the crazy hair trends on Instagram. But crazy colours, step aside – it's time to make way for a new style that's totally inspired by… erm, plants.
No, you didn't read that wrong. The new layered dye trend that incorporates all of the colours of succulent plants has taken social media by storm, with over 250 of us taking to Instagram over the past few months to show off our freshly dyed barnets … and we're actually really feeling it!
Before you decide to give it a go yourself, in the hope of achieving perfectly crafted plant-hued hair, it's best to remember that when applying so many different colours to your hair at once, there's massive room for error – so it may be best to make an appointment with a professional for this one.


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You get home after a harrowing day at work, drop your keys and bag on the table just inside the door and let out an exhausted sigh of relief. You flop down on the couch, flip on the TV and zone out as you sort through the mail (mostly junk) that was waiting for you in the mailbox.
It feels so good to be home – back in your comfy space, where there are no fluorescent lights, or copy machine noises to bother you – especially after the day you've had. Ugh!
Can you believe what Steve said in the meeting this morning?! The meeting that, by the way, was totally unnecessary and a complete waste of everyone's time. OMG! And then when Karen had the audacity to question the way you had organized the report you've been working on for months. For months! And now she wants to stick her nose in? What the hell does she know anyway?! And don't get me started on….
*Record scratch* Hold up! Wait a minute! Do you see what's happening here?
This happens to all of us, right? We get caught up in the work drama and end up dragging it home with us. Because, after a uniquely frustrating day at work, its hard to shake off the day and leave it behind you.
But at the same time, by hanging on to it and reliving everything, you end up extending and stewing that frustrated feeling. And before you know it, when you're at home and wanting nothing more than to relax, your stomach is in knots, your shoulders are tight and you're clenching your teeth.
You are in fact at home, but most of you is actually still at work, still living the part of your day that is over. And you begin to realize you're cheating yourself out of what you've been looking forward to all day. A chance to disconnect from work and focus on other things.
So what do you do? How do you turn off your work brain? It seems relentless doesn't it? Almost like you don't have control. But you do!
It's hard for most of us to switch gears that quickly. Some people are good at it – they can walk out the door and let it all go. But for everyone else, it's not as easy as flipping a switch.
The thing that helps? A transition!
Transitions are something we teach to kids. Especially when we want them to get into the habit of going to bed each night.
And we work with them to create a bedtime routine, which serves as a transition from the daytime where they've been active – playing, learning and having fun – to night time when they need to get a goodnight's sleep.
We even do this as adults – have an evening winddown ritual – whether it's intentional or not. You wash your face, brush your teeth, change into your jammies and crawl under the covers to snuggle up with a good book before drifting off to sleep.
OK, maybe replace the jammies with shorts and a t-shirt and the book with a magazine or (more likely) scrolling through Instagram on your phone. But you get my point.
Why do you expect to be able to do it so easily when you come home from work? You end up feeling bad about not having the magical ability to just shut it off. Which is not only not fair to yourself but it doesn't help in the least.
Instead, think abot how you can create your own post-work-day transition. To give yourself a softer landing when you come home from work. Doesn't that sound so much nicer?