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I watched Christophsis.
Thanks as always for really detailed feedback. This is so useful. I'll roll in as much as I can on my next pass - probably waiting until McFibb and I hone in on the final music options.
"What are you?" sounds strange because of how you've had to work around the music replacement. I don't think it adds anything, necessarily, anyway - if you've seen The Phantom Menace, you know that's Maul, and if you've seen Mando you'd recognise Bo-Katan and the Darksaber. I think the scene is more effective with just the music.
I'm suprised by this; I thought it just hammered it home a little more. I feel like it punctuates the scene - without it, I feel like the scene would kind of just fade out. Interested to gather thoughts on this one.
I'd be tempted to adjust the ellipsis on "Months earlier …" to a Star Wars-style four periods, even though it's not technically correct. This applies to the intro text as well, on the last line about Ventress being cunning. I don't know why Star Wars has used incorrect ellipses forever, but it has - except for the ROTJ crawl. It might be a Flash Gordon thing.
Hm. Totally see what you're saying here, but I think I'd rather keep the three ellipsis almost deliberately to break the relationship with the traditional opening crawl. That links into broader thoughts I've been having about when to follow convention and when to break it. I have to find a balance between saying "This is the Star Wars franchise" and "This is The Clone Wars: Refocused, a TV show you should treat as something as unique and standalone as any other of the slate of Star Wars TV shows." I'm always interested in feedback here.
When Bail says "Separatist forces have overrun our position!" at 6:38, it doesn't have the radio filter that the rest of what he says does, even though he's not any more on screen than he is the rest of the time.
Have you considered using Topaz Gigapixel AI, ESRGAN, or Waifu2x to make the background art for the credits higher res?
There's definitely a future state where I look into additional software like this, but I don't think I'll touch anything new until I'm well into the series, if not after.
Bail really does just appear from absolutely nowhere at the end and Anakin and Ahsoka's non-verbal responses (and the framerate interpolation of the shot of Anakin) are quite odd and remind me of the awkwardly silent extras in Star Trek: TNG. I'd cut that entirely if possible. I think Bail adds a little bit of weight to the rest of the episode, but if keeping that side plot necessitates keeping this scene at the end I'd vote to cut him entirely.
I'm not sure what's best here. We have:
As it currently is - Bail gets bombed, Bail calls Obi-Wan, Bail thanks Anakin (and he and Ahsoka share a look)
As it was - Bail gets bombed, Bail calls Obi-Wan, Bail thanks Anakin (single shot, then straight into a different scene)
Implied conclusion only - Bail gets bombed, Bail calls Obi-Wan, the battle wraps up without revisiting Bail
None of those scenes
My temptation is that (1) is best, as even though it has that slightly janky ending, I think the rest makes up for it. But I'm not a great judge of this. I think I'd prefer to have people think "oh, that was slightly wobbly editing" as the cost of getting to use the Bail scenes earlier. That's also an important decision - do I need to hit perfection? I think I need to get this polished as much as possible, but I think a little imperfection is acceptable sometimes - mainly permitted since the show itself has production errors and a little jankiness. I won't aim for it, or intend to tolerate it obviously, but I think sometimes I might have to make a judgment call like this. This'll always be subjective though, and open to community discussion.
Christophsis the planet as seen from space looks hilariously bad in the movie, compared to how it is in Cat and Mouse. The cities are drawn on so vaguely it looks like a placeholder.
There's some really low-res environmental textures. Surely it wouldn't have cost that much more to not use videogame-tier textures for the world; it's not like the series had to be rendered in real-time.
I'm really not a fan of Christophsis at all. It looks ugly all over, and I wish our first episode were set somewhere else. So wait, these are supposed to be natural crystals that the people have built their infrastructure around and into? That's an OK idea - though very different to the typical Star Wars aesthetic at the time - but it was executed like ass. It's just not a good introduction to the series. This whole episode is pretty weak, even without the Huttlet stuff. Obviously I wanted my edit to give it the most love possible and still try to bring out its best, but I was always going to be satisfied with "anything is better than the movie".
"I'm the one with enthusiasm!" feels like an ATLA line to me.
It's a line I thought about trimming because it is a little goofy, but I opted to keep it (for flow and) because it can kind of be read as her being self-effacing or criticising others' opinions of her. She knows she's peppy but I think it shows self-awareness, and that she understands that she's seen that way - she's kind of begrudgingly saying "people see me as a kid even though I'm a fully trained and competent Jedi".
Those droids are just soda cans.
These look like ass too, and I don't like them bursting out of the ground, but again, it was important for Ahsoka's plot for her to make a mistake here.
"…but you might make it as mine." and the first use of Ahsoka's theme is a really great moment that just gets better and better as Ahsoka's story continues in other media. I give it < 3 years before she meets Luke in canon, and that'll make it hit even harder next rewatch.
Yes, this hits a lot better now.
KumoNin
So I'm watching the first episode, and I kinda feel like the part at the beginning where they meet Ventress and the subsequent transition to the movie material is not really… necessary? I'm noting this down while I haven't watched the entire episode yet (update, I finished it), but I guess it's there to introduce Ventress, right? But I think the way Ani and Obi are introduced in the movie is very particular and the material from the prior episode kind of makes the geography and their situation… confusing. The setup for what situation they are in and what is happening gets a reset anyway once we go to the star destroyer, so my personal feedback is that the material between the cold open+blue text and the first star destroyer scene where they talk about their communications issue… is sort of just cluttery? And the Bail moments, for that matter, fall along the same lines. I think it just makes things confusing for someone who has never watched the show.
But I also don't think that straight up omitting that stuff is necessarily the best idea. If I recall correctly, you plan on having a plot element resurface in a later episode. I wonder if I'm the only one with this particular problem with it then.
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CaptainRex97
Hey, could I get a link to these? Really like the sound of this!
Kumonin, you're right that the Ventress stuff doesn't really drive the plot forward. Right now I'm favouring its inclusion for two reasons:
(1) Because we do lean on Ventress quite a lot this season and it's a better introduction for her than the later ones. Especially with the implication that she's behind the trickery here and might be a strategic threat. She essentially becomes the main villain of the first "season" of the restructured show.
(2) Because it's a decent bit of bro time for Obi-Wan and Anakin, and coming out of Attack of the Clones it re-establishes them as quite a brotherly duo.
The Bail stuff is included not because of the value of him saving lives we don't care about, but because the scenes put him (who we do care about) in more jeopardy and so we get to see our existing characters act on his behalf, thus building their relationships.
Or I suppose, both are included because I think they'll both pay off well later, and I'm trying to refocus the series as a whole, rather than just treat this as a series of episode edits.
I virtually agree with all of sade's feedback, so I won't say much because it would be kind of redundant lol. The frame difference is a bit noticeable but I don't really think most viewers are gonna catch that, or be taken out of the story because of it. And yeah the last scene with Bail is a bit clunky but forgivable, and honestly reworking the Bail subplot from Cat and Mouse was done pretty great.
Don't worry - I'll include it in a much fuller form as part of the complete cut. Since you're our resident Grievous fan, what changes would you like to see made to Lair, if any?
There's quite a few things I'd like to change about Lair but I'd rather wait til you start working on the complete cut 😄
s01e04 - MALEVOLENCE - Review cut available
My review cut (v1.0) of the Malevolence arc is available. Check the tracker spreadsheet or PM me for access.
Note that the credits music is not quite finalised so excuse the slightly rougher transitions into and out of the episode.
This is quite a radical restructure of the Malevolence arc. Fundamentally it's the Plo Koon escape pod content and Ahsoka's rescue from Rising, then the bomber segment from Shadow. The only parts I use from Destroy are scenes of the fleet destroying the Malevolence - there's no Padmé in this story, and nobody boards the ship. I also cut out the space whales in the nebula - bombers go into shortcut, bombers come out of shortcut. To enhance the emotional stakes and the threat, I've pulled the medical station scenes throughout the whole episode, as well as the parts where Grievous is travelling through hyperspace, so the entire episode is much more of a race.
I've rearranged absolutely masses of scenes here, to achieve a lot of things. The Malevolence feels more ominous and dangerous, Anakin and Ahsoka act more against the council's orders (without fully jeopardising the wider mission, but definitely a bit too far along the path of fear of losing someone), the pod killing is more tense as their salvation keeps getting subverted.
The opening crawl establishes that this is not so much a secret weapon, as an extremely deadly one, and that Grievous has been targeting multiple medical stations. Knight of Kalee (and anyone who wishes Grievous were more badass) will be pleased to hear that Grievous is acting far more autonomously and brutally here, and has Dooku's support rather than being constantly in doubt.
There are a couple of things that I could do with feedback on, but I won't spoil them - I'd rather see what you guys think without being directed to those elements.
I already watched episode 1 and it was pretty good. The problem is, as you say, the framerate issues, and also I think the last Bail moment feels a little sudden, he comes from nowhere and the illumination is not the same than the rest of the scene. The rest was perfect for me. I was going to watch episode 2, but it's not available.
10-Jan-2021 12:54 PM (Edited)
Ah, weird, must be a bad link. It should be fixed now.
Is that last Bail scene passable, or do you think it takes away from the experience? In my mind he's in the shadow of the wing. But as I say, I'm open to community input on this one. If a majority feel like it just doesn't work, I'd take it out.
It works now. Thanks!
You could try a little colour correction on the Bail shot or something. For me the issue was more that Anakin and Ahsoka just silently respond with weird head gestures though.
I could remove their reactions, that's definitely an option. Those are pulled from very disparate sources, and don't particularly act as a response to Bail so much as a slight buffer for the moment.
That would leave it as:
"Skywalker!"
[they turn]
"Thanks for saving lives!"
They walk immediately to Yoda and Obi-Wan, not acknowledging Bail
Would that be preferable?
Hmm, I could add voiceover of Anakin saying "we make a good team" over the shot of Ashoka's face, though I think it's a bit soon for him to be saying that about her, and it's yet another disparate source. I'm getting the feeling that less is more.
I would love a link to this! Really interested in this idea, I never knew I wanted to consider.
Despite your note "credits need polish" (i assume you mean audio with it?) i only have two things:
i think the intercutting of the malevolence destruction tour as plo koon describes it to ahsoka and anakin is unecessary narrative wise and it kills the flow of the episode.
the visual fade out at the end feels unnatural. perhaps a hard cut would be better.
The Malevolence Destruction Tour (lovely description!) is the main element that I'm uncertain about. I'd certainly be happy to drop it entirely - it mainly came together as a way to use a few nice shots and lines that I had put aside to use if I could find a place for them, rather than out of need.
What it achieved was having Plo convey the information to the fleet that the Malevolence has an ion cannon, which they depend on as they plan their attack. Though there are simpler ways to do that. It also showed a bit more of Grievous' singlemindedness and a bit more brutality.
CMMAP, what did you think of the ending? I wasn't certain about going from the medical station back to the hangar so quickly, but I think the hangar scene is the right emotional conclusion for the episode, of the options available. Did everything else work for you? This was massively restructured. I'm also interested to know if it's considered an improvement on the original three episodes, of course!
This episode helped cement in my mind the concept of a 'Review cut'. As I plan and edit, I'm naturally going to tend towards making the most radical changes that I think might improve the quality, because they really need to be seen to be tested, and you can always dial back from them. Going as hard towards the potential value add as possible, but then dialling back as necessary, lets us 'settle' on a point that's closest to the goal of maximising quality. But that requires community feedback, which necessitates a review cut as opposed to a release cut.
maybe it won't destroy the flow of the episode if you show the malevolence destruction as a whole sequence with the audio overlay of plo koon explaining it?
i liked the ending. to end the episode with walking to the council meeting is great. cutting to fast from the medical station to the hangar didn't concern me, personally. the whole sequences at the medical station are disposable, i think.
CMMAP said:
There's not quite enough footage to show the destruction completely. One thing I wanted to do in my edit was not show the weapon firing, because its effect just looks very unnatural to me. And breaking it around another scene was the only option. I think I'd rather just cut the destruction of the medical transport entirely, and just have Plo mention the ion weapon as he's recovered from the escape pod. I'm not precious about this scene if it breaks the episode.
Cloak of Darkness nitpicks:
Padawan usually gets a capital letter.
I feel like the intro music lasts for too long over the footage of the ship before any actual episode audio comes in.
Ahsoka going apeshit on Gunray in the interrogation feels like a very Anakin thing for her to do, but you don't get the impression she's spent very much time with him yet, so you can't really read it as his influence.
"Skywalker's not here to save you now!" isn't a reference to anything, right, because this is their first meeting? Again, seems a little premature, unless you can justify it as her referring to the events of Christophsis.
Ditto for "Master Skywalker should be proud".
The end credits transition is really smooth here, but the long black screen is a little offputting. I can't think of how'd you fix that though. Fade out slower? I assume the footage doesn't allow it.
Any edits you've made to the actual contents of the episode are seamless!
While your idea to have Anakin immediately palm Ahsoka off is an amusing one, I think there's just too many little references in this episode to Ahsoka being Anakin's Padawan for it to work perfectly. If anything, perhaps this episode would be better placed a bit later so we can interpret it as Anakin's unorthodox style rubbing off on her a little.
There's some odd dialogue in these early episodes, haha. Ahsoka's not that bad in your cut of Christophsis but she's pretty chronic in this one: "hairless harpy", "bog witch", etc. Harsh words for a woman she's never even met! I think someone else observed earlier that Ahsoka also doesn't have any hair. I'm not at all advocating for cutting it though, because watching her become less snippy is sort of the point.
Definitely an essential episode for establishing Ventress, so it's unfortunate that very little else interesting occurs besides Argyus' betrayal (and death lol). Luminara Unduli is a really wooden character here, effortlessly slotting right into that humourless, overly-arrogant Jedi master archetype, to the point where Ahsoka doesn't even learn anything this episode. Gree getting clunked while monologuing is hilarious though.
Thanks for the detail as always Sade.
No, but that's OK. I think that's part of her initial rashness. One of the character traits she has early on, that she learns to manage, is her boldness. She's quick to act, taking the direct path, often without thinking. It's only after noticing this that I got more of an appreciation for Lightsaber Lost, whose entire lesson is 'slow down'. Remember, in Christophsis, Anakin says "You're bold, little one. You might not have made it as Obi-Wan's padawan, but you might just make it as mine." He's acknowledging that she already has that character trait, and it's part of what bonds them early. It's also good as the characters grow, to see Ahsoka's boldness be more moderated, whereas Anakin continues down the path of more directness.
It's their first meeting, so it was like this in the original too. I think you just assume that Anakin's told Ahsoka about Ventress, and Ventress has become aware of Anakin's padawan (via her informant maybe? It doesn't really matter.)
While your idea to have Anakin immediately palm Ahsoka off is an amusing one, I think there's just too many little references in this episode to Ahsoka being Anakin's Padawan for it to work perfectly.
Is this problematic? I intended it to come off as that he's accepted her as padawan, he's just booked himself a bit of 'time off', since he's still getting used to it and not entirely comfortable training her. He's not rejected her, he's just seen an opportunity to get her trained/looked after by someone else for a bit.
If anything, perhaps this episode would be better placed a bit later so we can interpret it as Anakin's unorthodox style rubbing off on her a little.
Definitely an essential episode for establishing Ventress, so it's unfortunate that very little else interesting occurs besides Argyus' betrayal (and death lol). Luminara Unduli is a really wooden character here, effortlessly slotting right into that humourless, overly-arrogant Jedi master archetype, to the point where Ahsoka doesn't even learn anything this episode.
I don't think Ahsoka learns any lessons in this episode, but I think in this episode we see that her boldness isn't always entirely without sense. She's brash and a little childish, but I think this episode shows that she's got a good intuition and is competent - she's just not well refined. (As an aside, I think this works well for showing why she was allowed to become a Jedi padawan. She's totally competent and has the right attitude and skillset - it just needs the refinement of tutelage under a master.)
I agree that it's a slow episode, though, and a necessary one that's sadly not fantastic. That's also one of the reasons I'd put it after my Death Watch episode, which is far more interesting.
Thinking about the ordering then. It's mainly here because yes, it's fun to have Anakin dump her at first. I could drop that idea and put the episode later. Though I feel like Malevolence is when he really accepts her emotionally/personally (after only really accepting her formally in Christophsis), and I feel like putting Cloak after Malevolence means there's even less point in Cloak. Which means that Cloak, which remains necessary, is even less interesting.
Artan42
I think it's clear in the pilot film (and in the Refocused cut as well) that Ahsoka's aggression and cockiness is her own rather than taught by Anakin. The (presumably cut episodes) droid spy early episodes show he's mostly annoyed by her recklessness so it's not too surprising he'd want her to spend some more time with more boring Jedi.
It looks like Yoda's plan all along, she'll teach Anakin patience due to her boundless enthusiasm and he'll teach her to focus that aggression properly because Anakin is a creative thinker in ways most of the other Jedi aren't.
11-Jan-2021 11:09 AM (Edited)
Malevolence nitpicks:
Again, Padawan gets a capital letter, for some reason.
Interestingly, this time around you've done the opposite with the intro transition, having the episode audio come in before the picture does. I think it could be slightly more gradual, but I understand that the music is tough and the usable footage is limited because of originally having the newsreel audio.
At 2:15 you have a stray frame from a different shot.
Ditto at 3:22, we see a single frame of Plo Koon in his cockpit.
The audio cut on the word 'worse' and the fade at 7:44 is odd, like the show is cutting to commercials and back or something.
Similar for the fade after the cut at 8:10. Is this a footage limitation or something you added?
Again, a fade at 16:46; are these necessary to make up for missing footage?
The audio cuts out too early at 17:20.
I hadn't even realised you'd replaced Plo's dialogue until Ahsoka abruptly cuts him off mid-sentence for a hug. I quite like intercutting Plo's dialogue with the clones getting ioned, but Ahsoka just butting in out of nowhere doesn't really work for me. The footage reversal for the wipe is also not subtle.
At 18:28 when Yularen says "Skywalker", the audio editing seems a little odd, like the music suddenly lowers (presumably to mute whatever Ahsoka is mouthing) and then it comes back in.
I hear voice echoes at 29:11.
At 29:23, Anakin looks like he's about to say something else and it's a little odd that he doesn't.
I think Plo starts speaking too soon/abruptly at 29:40.
I'm enjoying this excuse to rewatch TCW and engage with it a little more than I did the first time. I don't really remember the original episodes, but this edit makes a pretty fun short movie. You've merged the episodes well. The start is really engaging, as it quickly makes Grievous seem brutal and coherently sets up the threat. The medical station scenes work cleanly where you've put them. All the Plo Koon rescuing stuff is enjoyable enough - Anakin and Ahsoka's interactions are exactly the sort of set-up I did feel was needed for the nitpicks I mentioned in my last post; and even though we haven't seen lots of Anakin/Ahsoka missions, this episode does a good job implying there's been a few offscreen.
The Shadow Squadron space battle section is watchable but not my favourite aspect of Star Wars. Whatever editing you did in this bit worked for me, though I can't say I recall how it was originally. I was freaking out wondering how you'd managed to drag another thirty minutes of episode out after the Malevolence blew up but thankfully it's just an accidentally left in black screen, haha.
Re: Cloak of Darkness - Though I see what you're saying about it being more interesting for Anakin to palm Ahsoka off to Unduli and then later actually accept her in Malevolence, I'm not sure it really does that much for Cloak of Darkness. To some extent I think that scene you mentioned from the end of the movie, "…you might just make it as mine", already shows he's warming up to her emotionally anyway. I get that Ahsoka is already quite Anakiny even without his influence, but the interrogation scene in Cloak still feels like something of an callback to Anakin interrogating Zam in AOTC to me. Delaying Cloak would also allow some more time between Ventress' appearances for her to have heard about who Ahsoka is. Definitely just a matter of personal opinion, though, and luckily there's not really anything preventing someone from watching these edits in a different order.
(Responding to Artan)
Yeah. I think they work as a sensible pairing because they're both a little unlike the Jedi default at the time- both quite emotional, intuitive, and bold. And they do moderate each other to a degree, so the council are kind of proven right for a time. But ultimately they both go beyond the council's expectations, with Anakin not learning to let go and ultimately becoming Sith because of it, and Ahsoka learning not to let go, but to channel her caring nature into the kinds of action that the Jedi council forgot about by the time of the prequels, ultimately becoming one of the best kinds of Jedi even though that wasn't the archetype at the time.
EddieDean, your creation of this project couldn't have come at a better time. Just 2 days ago I made the decision to start chronologically rewatching the entirety of TCW after not having watched it all properly for a few years. After hearing the tragic news regarding Tom Kane my appreciation for the show was re-sparked and I desperately wanted to relive the talent he brought to the show.
After getting several episodes in I took a quick break to skim through OT.com in search of discussion about fan-editing the show since I had never really dug too deeply into any TCW fan-edits in the past.
I had noticed this thread being updated regularly for a couple months so I finally got around to reading the OP.
I was hooked by your ideas straight away and have spent roughly the last 3-4 hours reading every single post across all 25 pages to make sure I was caught up! 😄
I am now very deeply invested in the project and hope to contribute as much as I can to it! 😃
I have so much input I want to share but it's currently 3am for me so I'll have to jump back on here soon!
Until then, I ask you, please PM me any finished episodes, test clips, mixes or WIP things you have, I have no preference, whether it be you have to share for input, I'll do my best to help! Even if it's the littlest or silliest thing.
Other than work, I have nothing exciting going on at the moment for me, so I can be fully committed to help out if you need me to! I'd love to stay in the loop as well, I already have several little ideas based on the few test clips in this thread.
Keep up the amazing work mate! 👍 ❤
Amazing, Chase! I'm very glad to have you with us! I'll share the link to the tracker so you can get stuck in with the existing episodes.
Please feel free to nitpick, criticise, tear them apart as necessary. I'd rather have something heavily criticised then fix it, than have my ego kept intact. Looking over my own history in this thread, I do tend to hold on to my own thoughts longer than I should in the face of alternate opinions, so you (and everyone else in this thread) should feel encouraged to disagree with me loudly and firmly!
It feels like this thread has settled into a pattern where I produce review cuts first, for dissemination, and a few dedicated champions give feedback on the episodes in their slightly unfinished state, which helps me with the finishing touches. I know it's not an ideal way to consume them, but it's very motivating for me so it helps keep the momentum up. Nobody's under any obligation to help in that way though, of course!
Please also feel free to suggest any ideas, changes, alternate takes, radical restructures, whatever comes up. And bear in mind this is both about editing each episode but also presenting and restructuring the whole. Already the community in this thread have made material improvements over what I could have produced if I did this in isolation. And since you've just read over the whole thread (kudos!), also do feel free to challenge any assumption or decision- however early it was made. I'd rather rethink and refocus now than later!
I don't know if anyone's thought about this yet, but it'd be extra useful to me if anyone who'd just watched one of my new episodes might then go and watch the source material, just in case that generates fresh thoughts. It's something I don't do myself because by the time I've finished editing an episode I've already watched it through about ten times so I'm fairly burnt out on the story!
Right, time to properly eat into these.
You know what, I think I'm going to opt to ignore this convention. I can accept 'Jedi' as effectively a title, but I think I'd rather treat 'padawan' as just a regular noun, like 'apprentice'. (No offence meant to you of course, Sade.)
This is probably more just chance of the scenes I was given than anything else. Once I have the final music from McFibb, I'll review the intros and outros of all of the episodes produced to date, and make them smoother. With Christophsis, someone mentioned that it was cool to have the motorbike sound before the shot opened, so I kept it (even though I only did it by chance). In Malevolence, the music before the image was quite immediate, so I went for a quick music fade to image fade, mainly to distract a little (passed off as urgency). But as I say, I'll clean these all up.
[Many technical points]
Thanks very much! I do watch and rewatch episodes as I create them, but this one had around a hundred scene and shot changes that I'd shifted around so I was bound to miss a few.
Yeah, I think I will just drop this scene. I actually had to have Ahsoka interrupt him because his full sentence has beeps, and I wondered if I could get away with it. Looks like not! But that's fine, there're other ways to work this scene. And yeah, there was a chance the reversal would be obvious. Annoyingly, a reversal with a wipe is too much for my PC to process for a preview in real time, so it's arduous to check the quality on layered changes like this.
I think I'll change this whole sequence, so that basically they bring Plo on board, he mainly talks about the clones surviving (as in the original), but then have him just mention "it was an ion cannon". No actual scene of the Malevolence destroying the medical transport. We don't need a description of an ion cannon because it's irrelevant to the plot. If you didn't know what one was, you'd know that whatever was happening, it was absolutely knackering ships, so it'd make sense to target them later. Plo can either mention it being an ion cannon as he's rescued or later, as Yularen says "he's heading to the Rendellia medical station".
I thought this'd get pointed out. It's a weird glitch in the original, and by coincidence it's the first issue I noticed that the series itself has, because I happened to pick Malevolence and randomly that scene back when I did my first pipeline tests. "Skywalker" is actually on the front channel rather than center, so I guess they were trying to do a 'far away voice' thing. But it sounds odd to my ears too. I might just do without it, and cut straight into Yularen getting down to business.
I think that's on me. The medical station voice hits all channels, I guess to simulate reverb in that room. So editing that scene is a pain.
It's good, isn't it! I'm enjoying it a lot more on rewatch and detailed dissemination too. When it first came out I barely paid attention to the episodes because season one was so agressively bad. And I didn't give most episodes after that a good chance too. Especially since the show kept throwing Shadow Warriors and Droids in the Voids at us even in the good seasons. I really hope I preserve everything good about this show; I really don't want to be a butcher.
Agree. This cut absolutely whips through it, and puts it in what I think is a far more compelling order. It also now gets straight to the point. But the space battle itself isn't great, and there're way more exciting ones later. This does suffer a bit from originally being episode two then three of the original arc, since the story loses a bit of momentum after Anakin destroys the Malevolence's main weapon, giving us about three minutes of it slowly limping away while Obi-Wan's fleet just batters it until it dies. But again, I just cut through the main points of that as quickly as I could to get us to swift victory, because by then all the emotional beats had been hit.


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Reddit vows to combat online abuse as CEO apologizes for editing Trump supporters' comments
By Queenie Wong	/ November 30, 2016 at 1:55 PM
Reddit CEO and co-founder Steve Huffman said Wednesday that the tech firm will be taking action against the social media site's "most toxic users" and apologized for how he handled abusive comments hurled at him.
In a post on Reddit, Huffman wrote that the San Francisco tech firm will issue warnings, timeouts and permanent bans for users that continually violate the site's rules. Posts from a popular pro-Donald Trump community called "r/the_donald" will also not appear on one of its main hubs called "r/all."
"I am sorry: I am sorry for compromising the trust you all have in Reddit, and I am sorry to those that I created work and stress for, particularly over the holidays," wrote Huffman, who goes by the user name spez on the site. "It is heartbreaking to think that my actions distracted people from their family over the holiday; instigated harassment of our moderators; and may have harmed Reddit itself, which I love more than just about anything."
Huffman came under fire late last week for modifying comments made by users in a pro-Donald Trump discussion thread after they insulted and criticized him for allowing the tech firm to pull down a "Pizzagate" conspiracy board from the site.
Reddit banned a community thread called "r/pizzagate" aimed at proving a false conspiracy theory that Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and campaign chairman John Podesta were running a child-trafficking ring out of pizza restaurant Comet Ping Pong.
Users who are part of a pro-Donald Trump discussion thread thought the company's decision to pull down "r/pizzagate" amounted to censorship and started posting critical and profane comments about Huffman.
The 33-year-old CEO changed some of the profane comments directed at him with the user names of moderators from the Trump thread for about an hour.
Social media companies such as Facebook and Twitter have also been trying to do more to crack down on online abuse, but Huffman made an unusual and controversial move by trying to "troll the trolls" himself.
"I honestly thought I might find some common ground with that community by meeting them on their level. It did not go as planned. I restored the original comments after less than an hour, and explained what I did," he wrote.
An online petition asking that Huffman step down as CEO racked up more than 5,300 signatures.
"While many users across the site found what I did funny, or appreciated that I was standing up to the bullies (I received plenty of support from users of r/the_donald), many others did not," he wrote. "I understand what I did has greater implications than my relationship with one community, and it is fair to raise the question of whether this erodes trust in Reddit."
The company is "updating our internal controls," Huffman wrote, to prevent the CEO from modifying user comments in the future.
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Adolfo J. Rumbos is an American mathematician whose research interests include nonlinear analysis and boundary value problems. He is the Joseph N. Fiske Professor of Mathematics at Pomona College in Claremont, California.

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News about Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper's new film A Star Is Born has been in headlines this past week for a few reasons, so we decided to break down everything we know about the A Star Is Born remake right here for you.
It's a rags-to-riches love story.
In A Star Is Born, a new remake of the original 1937 film, Lady Gaga plays a small-town girl hoping to make it big. Cooper, who is making his directorial debut with the film, plays an alcoholic has-been rock star who helps to advance her career.
This is the film's fourth incarnation.
This will be the third A Star is Born remake. The original film was released in 1937 staring Janet Gaynor and Frederick March. Seventeen years later, in 1954, George Cukor directed Judy Garland and James Mason, who portrayed the leads. Garland and Mason each managed to snag a Golden Globe for Best Actress and Actor in a Comedy or Musical.
In the 1976 version, the character's names were slightly altered. "Esther" was played by Barbra Streisand, while "John Norman" was portrayed by Kris Kristofferson. The movie was the second highest grossing film at the time, and Streisand won two Golden Globes.
Barbra Streisand approves of this A Star Is Born remake.
Barbra Streisand was recently asked her opinion on the film while being honored for her icon status at PaleyFest in Los Angeles last week, and so far she's seems to be giving it two thumbs up.
Shangela is going to have a small role in the A Star Is Born remake.
But Shangela isn't the only drag queen in the film.
Willam Belli is also billed on the film's IMDB and Wikipedia pages as having a small role in the A Star Is Born remake. Her character is listed as Emerald, we're assuming another drag queen.
More evidence that Willam is part of the project: she was photographed with Gaga at the film's wrap party, which was held at The Village (part of the L.A. LGBT Center) in Los Angeles.
Dave Chappelle is also in the A Star Is Born remake.
The release date keeps getting changed, but that could be a good thing.
A Star Is Born remake was first scheduled to be released on Sept. 28, 2018, but it was pushed to May 18 in November 2017. Then, a few weeks later, producers announced it was pushed back to Oct. 5, 2018. Warner Bros. moving the film back nearly five months is a hint that producers like what they see, as that brings the drama into awards season consideration.
In the A Star Is Born remake, art imitates life.
Some of the scenes were filmed at the Coachella Festival in 2017, of which Lady Gaga was the first female headliner in 10 years. Festival-goers paid $10 to see the scenes being filmed, although recording devices were locked away to prevent any footage being leaked. Also, some scenes were shot during Lady Gaga's Joanne Tour on Aug. 9, 2017, at the tour's stop in Los Angeles, California.
A snippet of one of the songs leaked.
While the studio attempted to prevent this from happening, video of a performance from the film did leak, featuring a song titled "Heal Me" that has been rumored to be on the film's soundtrack. Fans say the track was left over from Gaga's fifth studio album, Joanne. The producer of the track is not confirmed, but it's rumored to be Red One.
What do you think of the upcoming A Star Is Born remake starring Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper? Sound off in the comments below and on Facebook!


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On Sunday, Mom and I had a crazy packed Tokyo day. First, we went to Asakusa, which was packed! The day was gorgeous and people were everywhere. We went to a Fodor's recommended tempura place, which was not that good. The tempura was super-heavy, rather than the way I prefer which is light and delicate to the point where I can fool myself that it might actually be a healthy dish. Not that I need to think food is healthy to enjoy it, I just don't like heavy fried foods and it is amazing how tasty and light really good tempura can be.
As Mom and I were approaching the main gate of the Imperial Palace grounds, a group of 5 Japanese university students ran up to us, asked if we spoke English, and then offered to give us a tour so they could practice their English. Although Mom and I had a initial suspicious moment of hesitation, we decided to go for it and it was great. The students were so nice and so funny. At one point, Mom was explaining that she didn't like sushi that "jiggled." They thought that word was so funny, mostly because when they looked it up in the electronic translator a lot of "other meanings" popped up, probably along the lines of "milkshakes bringing boys to the yard" type of jiggle.
We also learned what "Sagoy!" meant. It's a slang word, mostly used by young people, with a lot of different meanings. In our case, it meant "Amazing!" When we were in Hakone, "Sagoy!" was said a LOT by a group of 5 young Japanese women when we were in the cable car and the sulfur spring valley came into view, which was over a hillcrest with a dramatic drop-away.
After the Imperial Palace, we went to Harajuku where there were more cute outfits than goth, which was a first for me. We saw the dancers and walked around for a second in Yoyogi Park. We walked up Takashimita-dori, then crossed over to Omote-sando dori. We went to the Oriental Bazarr, Bitsy's, and the Omotesando station food court. Then we headed home and ate some udon noodles.
Author cschlocker7Posted on March 11, 2008 Categories Family, Japan, TravelsLeave a comment on Tokyo Tourists!
The last few days have been awesome! My Mom arrived intact and international-incident free. Not that she seems particularly prone to such things. In fact her luck has been pretty amazing in one respect. She has this unbelievable streak going right now involving all buses and trains that we are trying to catch. Every single time, we just make the train or it comes within 1 minute. It's great! Way better than the terrible streak I was on with the foursome's visit where we would miss a train or bus by a minute or less. Every.Single.Time. Not that it was the worst thing in the world, but it did get a little old.
*SNOOZE* OMG, when is she going to stop talking about trains and buses?! Now, friend! Never fear!
So after meeting up at the Yokosuka train station on Friday, Mom and I headed up to Yokohama for a lovely sushi go-round experience. It was great, although more for me than her. I had a serious sushi craving after 5 days on the ship. She had already been to a sushi go-round earlier that day and even though she wanted sushi for dinner as well, the lunchtime one was a little more to her taste (one word: shrimp. Ok, five more: without attached heads and tails).
The next day, we headed out to Hakone. The Open Air museum was awesome. That place is just so neat! All those works of art, out in the elements. While the interaction between art and nature interests me with the idea of borrowed scenery (shakkei), I am fascinated by the idea exposing expensive pieces of art to corrosive and erosive elements. I mean, I guess it's been done for ages with fountain statues and the like, but there's something about that much metal exposed to mountain weather that seems different.
After the Open Air Museum, we went on the mountain cable car where we learned a new Japanese word, "SAGOY!!" We hiked around on top (Owaku-dani station) and I bought eggs hardboiled in the sulfur springs, which turns the shell black. No real difference on the inside although they were a little over-hard-boiled. But now I'm going to live 7 years longer. Oh yeah baby.
We reboarded the cable car and went to the last stop, Togendai. There we took a sightseeing boat ride on Lake Ashi (Ashi-no-ko). The ship was modeled on a 17th century pirate ship. More importantly, Mom and I each had a chu-hi. Delicious. Welcome to Japan! The classy side of it, I mean.
After our Hakone adventures, we went out for Indian food that was tasty, but nothing spectacular. If we have time, I really want to bring her to Nirvana in Yokosuka. That place is AMAZING!!
Author cschlocker7Posted on March 11, 2008 Categories Family, Japan, TravelsLeave a comment on Sagoy!!
Kitty Hawk to Hello Kitty!
I'm back after a 5 day "Sea Trials" cruise, which did not affect the medical department all that much except that we lived at work. Oh YEAH! Waiting for the next meal, working out, seeing sick call, realizing I haven't seen sunlight in three days…all in day's work. Except what I was NOT expecting was 2 inpatients, a MEDEVAC, and an urgent hospital consultation the day we pulled in. For 5 days, it was completely unexpected to have that much work. And they were all my patients- black cloud, black cloud!
When we arrived in Yokosuka on Friday, who was on her way to see me? Mumsie! And not only that, but she's super cool. Was she in my apartment, moping around and napping until I got back? No! As if! She was touring Kita-Kamakura where there are a lot of neat Shinto shrines. I've never actually been in that part of Kamakura, so now I have new TTDs, courtesy of my Mom!
Yesterday, we went to Hakone. I've written about it before, but new things I got to do included taking a boat ride in a pirate ship knock-off across a humungous volcanic crater lake and a short hike at the top of the sulfurous fields where I bought eggs cooked in the local water. It was a black hard-boiled egg. That's all. But now I'll live an extra 7 years- yay!
Today, Mom and I had a whirlwind Tokyo day. We went to Asakusa, the Sumida River cruise from Asakusa to Hanode, the Imperial Palace, Harajuku and Omotesando. All very cool and very satisfying to see so much in one day. At the imperial palace, we had a tour by members of the "English Speakers Club," consisting of students from several local universities. It was AWESOME! They were so funny and Mom and I learned what "Sagoy" meant (amazing…no, I mean, that's the definition. amazing).
Tomorrow, Mom and I are heading to Nikko. UNESCO World Heritage Sites- 3 of them! Then we're doing a whirlwind tour of Southern Japan, which will be new for both of us and totally cool. Kowabunga!
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Have you ever owned something that is super meaningless, objectively speaking, but you find so awesome that it brings insta-happiness and cheer? I have that feeling now! About my coffee cup. Yes, ridiculous I know but ~1 week after I bought my Yokohama Starbucks tumbler (get it, b/c I live in Yokohama?), a new one came out! And it's pretty and blue and has the Red Brick Warehouses on it, among other sites. I love my coffee breaks and sipping my coffee throughout my clinic morning.
So, I'm back at work on a duty weekend. I had to stay on the ship Friday since I was also the departmental duty officer, but the last two days I've been able to come and go since I'm "just" the on-call provider. I'm busy stocking up and organizing stuff as the Kitty Hawk is set to sail fairly soon. It's nice to make the ship a little more comfortable- and healthier, in the sense of bringing on whole grain snack bars, cereal, etc.
So, the rest of the trip with Laddie, Karen, Brady and Ed was pretty awesome. They had a great time in Kyoto and Nara. Brady and Ed even made it to Osaka and Kanazawa. Laddie and Karen came back Friday and we went to California Wine Bar, which is a very cool place in Motomachi. We drank a lot of different wines from Napa. It was pretty awesome, although Laddie observed that while stumbling out of, say, Irish pubs is ok, something seems slightly-less-than-classy about stumbling from a wine bar.
The next day, we headed out to Tokyo, where we stayed in a really nice hotel in Asakasa, near Roppongi. This was after Karen and I went to Kamakura for shopping and Laddie went to Asakusa for the same. Brady and Ed met up with us and we all went out to Shibuya and Roppongi. Shibuya is definitely the Tokyo I imagined in terms of lights, noise, and number of people. It was awesome!
The next day, everyone left after a slight debacle with the Narita Express, since the original train was cancelled due to winds. It seems like everyone made it home, although I was told the airport wasn't all smoothness either.
It was such an awesome time to have everyone here. I can't wait for more visitors. Like my Mom! In less than a week!
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If my apartment had a sound system like every other building in Japan, it would have "Auld Lang Syne" on repeat since today is the day that my place completely empties out of visitors- temporarily! Since I had to go back to work today (boo!), everyone took off with his/her lovely JR railpass off to Kyoto and other far-off places like Nara and Hiroshima. Laddie and Karen will be back Friday, then Brady and Ed will return Saturday for a night out in Tokyo before everyone leaves on Sunday.
On Sunday, we went into Tokyo and had an awesome time in Asakusa ("Old Edo") and Harajuku/Ometesando. Asakusa has a more historic feel to it with a very cool temple at the end of a long pedestrian shopping strip. My favorite shrine is the one protecting against the raccoon dog. It's the one with the large statue surrounded by tiny figures wearing little red hats.
Harajuku was awesome! I had never been on the main shopping street that parallels Ometesando-dori. I loved it. It was a very energetic scene. Before we went to the shopping street, we saw the Goth kids on the bridge and the greasers dancing in the park. We got snickety-snacks there that were uniformly delicious with the exception of Brady's yucky half-raw fishcake meatballs.
After Harajuku, we had the train ride from hell back since we were all tired. I was tired to the point of having us head the wrong way for 20 minutes, which led to a 40 minute delay. As a result, we got to the sushi go-round super late, about 10 minutes before the last order. So rather than have a nice, leisurely "Oh, that looks lovely, please grab that from the conveyer belt for me" type of dinner, we had a hurriedly ordered (but delicious!) dinner straight from the menu.
Monday, we went to the ship for a tour, which was awesome b/c a friend of mine on duty took us down to the engine rooms. Total bonus! Everyone got to climb down the scary ladders to DC central and 2 Main Machinery Room (MMR). We also toured the medical spaces, Foc'sle, and Flight Deck.
Afterwards, we went to Kamakura and saw the Kannon-Hase, the Great Buddha, and went shopping.
Tuesday, we went to Hakone and the Open Air Museum. Even cooler for me was that we continued up the mountain by cable car and then across huge steaming rock fields by a gondola-type ride. It was great! Then we went back to the sushi go-round where we had the real experience since we had about an hour before closing this time.
So, until Friday, I will be a boring worker bee in the most Catch-22 like workplace I've ever been in.
BTW, the "Auld Lang Syne" thing is not a joke. When things are closing, the song will play REPEATEDLY for 10 minutes. It gets old, really quickly.
Author cschlocker7Posted on February 20, 2008 Categories Family, Japan, TravelsLeave a comment on Bye-byeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!


The Twitter profile photo includes a photo of Jamie Foxx's character Django from the 2012 Quentin Tarantino movie "Django Unchained."
As he departs as Nashville's schools chief, Shawn Joseph told parents this week he is proud of the advances in literacy, reduced suspension rates and created more opportunities for students during his time leading the district.
But Joseph also directed parents to an enigmatic new Twitter handle he launched and promised he'll have more to say after his exit on Friday.
In a text message, Joseph declined to elaborate on the meaning of the Twitter account @UnchainedJoseph. He said the name does have meaning and he will discuss it at 1 p.m., April 28 on 92Q Radio's the Ernie Allen Show.
The profile photo of the Twitter account is of Jamie Foxx's character Django from the 2012 Quentin Tarantino movie "Django Unchained." The movie is set mostly in the Antebellum South and is about a freed slave trying to rescue his wife from a Mississippi plantation owner. It touches on themes that include racism.
In the email, he also told parents they can follow him on LinkedIn.
"It has been my pleasure to work for you and on behalf of the thousands of children in Metro Nashville Public Schools as director of schools," Joseph said in the email.
The superintendent and school board came to an agreement on Tuesday night that mutually secures his early departure. He won't have any further job duties after Friday. It includes 10 terms, including a $261,250 payout and a non-disparagement clause.
Before his tumultuous exit, board members and community leaders alleged racism in the call by several board members for his ouster. Board members Jill Speering, Amy Frogge and Fran Bush, who is African American, have denied racism and pointed to the director's performance.
In the email, Joseph said Nashville has become a special place for him and he met many wonderful people and new friends.
"It is also a place, in which I have recognized, much work still needs to be done to improve outcomes for our students," he said. "While the challenges are not easy, I remain faithful that this community can rise up together and make change for the better."
Joseph also said in the less than three years he has been in Nashville, there has been progress. He said that is a feat for a district plagued with many longstanding and pervasive issues around academics, organizational structure and culture.
The superintendent officially began his job in July 2016.
"I am proud that we have made advances in literacy outpacing other districts across the state in growth, changed practices around arrests of elementary school students, offered all students in elementary and middle schools access to gifted and talented services, and significantly reduced suspension rates, particularly among African-American males, who were being suspended at disproportionate rates," Joseph wrote.
"I am happy about our efforts which helped to improve the quality of Pre-K programs, created five new elementary magnet schools, established STEAM education programs in 18 middle schools. We also established an Early College High School program for grades 9-12 allowing students an opportunity to earn a high school diploma and college associate degree at no cost to families."
Joseph has been adamant that he will continue to support public education and be a vocal, action-oriented advocate for children, families and school system employees.
The board appointed Interim Superintendent Adrienne Battle as caretaker in the absence of a permanent schools director.
Questions from Frogge and Speering about Joseph's tenure began to grow in the last year.
The two pointed to violations in the way the district handled its contracting process, sexual harassment allegations and a human resources audit that found numerous problems.
Joseph also is facing a possible one-year suspension of his state teaching license after a State Board of Education staff found the superintendent failed to report 12 teacher misconduct cases to the state within 30 days, as required by state rules. Joseph said the issue stemmed from an employee, who the district later fired, not sending signed misconduct reports to state officials.
Joseph's attorney said he will fight the suspension.
Supporters of Joseph said many of the issues, especially in human resources, were longstanding problems Joseph was trying to fix. And supporters such as Vice Chair Christiane Buggs said the board didn't help manage the superintendent so he could fix issues that came under scrutiny.
In his last meeting before the board agreed on his exit, Joseph said he worked on fixes and tried to address concerns — including making changes to processes and procedures that led to errors.


Merida, Yucatan — A huge sinkhole formed Tuesday morning on Calle 28 between 29 and 31 in Col. Garcia Gineres.
Police responded after the ground gave way around 6:30 a.m., when the public works and municipal police responded, closing the road to traffic.
Public Works personnel quickly brought in heavy machinery to fill the 8-by-10-meter-wide hole that measured 3 meters / 10 feet deep.
On the site, Alfonso Arjona Santana, deputy director of roads, said the street is being restored. No injuries were reported and no cars were damaged.
This part of the city is apparently over a network of caves that are known to neighbors. A similar road collapse was filled 15 years ago, and a nearby house lost a wall when the ground gave way, neighbors said.
The road may be re-opened to traffic today.
"My grandmother said that García Ginerés was full of caves," said resident Mariana Zapata. The street never collapsed before, however, she added.
A neighbor who lives a few meters from the site of the incident heard what turned out to be the collapse at about 5 in the morning, more than an hour before sunrise.


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A fantastic first stop for those looking to experience what Kuala Lumpur has to offer is the iconic twin Petronas Towers. The tallest buildings in the world until 2004, they remain as impressive as ever, beacons of the commerce and development which drive modern Malaysia. The right ticket will allow you to skip the queue and, after a brief tour, proceed to the indescribable view from the Observation Deck. Looking over the country from 170 meters up, you can really get a new idea of its character.
Experience some of Malaysia's rich panoply of cultures with a guided tour of the Hindu temple at Batu Caves and the surrounding area. A short drive from Kuala Lumpur brings visitors past the colourful Little India neighbourhood to the breathtaking limestone caves, and the historic shrines standing within. Walking the steps up to the magnificent golden statue of Lord Murugan, god of warfare, gives a great reminder of Hinduism's significance in historical and present Malaysia. The tour also includes opportunities to witness local craftsmanship, in the traditional forms of batik cloth and pewter smithing.
Experts estimate that there are only some 1,200 Asian Elephants left in the wild across Malaysia. This sobering fact has led to the creation of the Kuala Gandah Elephant Orphanage Sanctuary, a natural conservation centre set up to offer displaced or orphaned pachyderms a home in their preferred environment. Managed by the National Elephant Conservation Centre, a carefully monitored visitor's program allows you the once-in-a-lifetime chance to touch, ride, bathe and speak to elephants of all ages.
Mt Kinabalu, long a key destination for adventurers and climbers, is a Malaysian natural treasure. Now, the experience of climbing this incredible edifice is open to all able-bodied travellers, with the opening of the world's highest "via ferrate" climbing trail. Italian for "iron road", these tracks assist less experienced or conditioned mountaineers with a stable path of cables, rungs, and rails. Feel the granite face of the mountain and enjoy the thrill of the climb without the need for training or expensive equipment.


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Conf/CfP - Mobilising and Using Energy, from Antiquity to the Present Time, 15 October 2015, France
Energy, Environmental Studies
Mobilising and Using Energy, from Antiquity to the Present Time
International conference organised by the RUCHE
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Bordeaux-Montaigne University
8-10 September 2016
In a context where the consequences of the global warming are painfully weighing on the most exposed parts of the planet and their populations, where the catastrophe of Fukushima shatters the last hopes for a clean and cheap nuclear energy, where biofuels and shale gases hardly appear as a sustainable solution for the future, and where an umpteenth international climate conference will soon be held in Paris, nobody doubts anymore that energy issues are critical for our societies. On the other hand, the idea that humanities and social sciences might be relevant for such issues is far less consensual. However, the global warming and the necessity of a transition towards renewable, reliable and un-carbonated energy sources raise many problems, and the so called environmental or climatological sciences will not be able to face them without the help of human and social sciences, and not least, of history.
The evolution of humans' relationship with energy cannot be reduced to the linear account of the technical innovations that enabled to make use of some resource or other or to implement new converters more efficient than those available before. An energy system is always underpinned by structures and political, economic, social choices that must be brought to light. Only then can we understand how, beyond the mobilisation of the energy existing in nature, its conversion and implementation have very complex reasons and effects. Social, environmental, economic, cultural, political and geopolitical aspects are as important, maybe more important, than strictly technical and physical aspects. The mobilisation of energy implies choices, it brings into play financial or diplomatic interests, favours such or such social group, such or such country. It has consequences on the work of those who provide it and those who use it, on the distribution networks, on occupational and environmental health, on landscapes, ways of life, etc.: all these are issues that fall within the competence of social sciences, not of environmental sciences.
Until recently, history sadly showed little interest in energy issues. In France, only a small number of historians of technology or economy have shown some interest in a question seen by many as secondary or uninteresting whereas it is at the heart of any life, of any economy, and a factor of major inequalities too. If historians like Mathieu Arnoux, Alain Beltran, Paul Benoit, Christophe Bouneau, François Caron, Gabrielle Hecht, Serge Paquier, Jean-Pierre Williot or Denis Woronoff paid some attention to wood, electricity or gas, that is to specific sources of energy, a French-speaking literature dealing not with a specific form of energy but to energy in itself is very rare. The question of a possible shortage of wood at the end of the 18th century was taken up, some time ago, mainly from the point of view of the providing of fuel for industry. But most existing works deal with the 20th century and electricity. Les Servitudes de la puissance. Une histoire de l'énergie [Servitudes of power, a history of energy] (1992 and 2013), by the historian of sciences Jean-Paul Deléage (JeanClaude Debeir et Daniel Hémery, co-authors) is an exception. It endeavours to provide a global perspective, but two thirds of the book deal with the period after 1750.
The non-francophone historiography is richer and older — we can mention the reflections by Lewis Mumford in Technics and Civilization (1934)1 or the pioneering book by Alfred Crosby, Children of the Sun, A history of humanity's unappeasable appetite for energy (1986), but also Vaclav Smil's work2 . As in the French case, nonetheless, the researches are usually focused on one specific energy source rather than on an analysis of a national energy mix: see for instance John Nef's classic study The Rise of the British Coal Industry (1932)3 recently discussed by Robert Allen4 , or the History of British coal industry5 for Great Britain; Keren Leenders's Verdwenen veenen6 for the Netherlands; or Joachim Radkau's Holz. Wie ein Naturstoff Geschichte schreibt7 for Germany. There's no need in this call for papers for a thorough bibliography, but there are two works on energy as a whole whose steps we would like this conference to follow: the conference proceedings (in four different languages) Economia e Energia, Secc. XIII-XVIII, edited by Simonetta Cavaciocchi in 2003 and the remarkable synthesis written by Astrid Kander, Paolo Malanima and Paul Warde, Power to the People, Energy in Europe over the last five centuries (2014).
Historical research on the mobilisation and the use of energy must go on and question energy systems, their making, their rigidities, their changes, their environmental, economic, social, cultural as well as political consequences. This is the reason why the RUCHE is organising, in 2015 and 2016, a series of five workshops dealing with the history of energy:
- University of Valenciennes, 12 May 2015: "The animal as a source of energy, a survey in early modern and medieval Europe"
- Sorbonne University, 4 June 2015: "Renewable energies, carbon energies: double-way energy transitions"
- University Bordeaux-Montaigne, 25 September 2015: "Foreseeing energy shortages"
- University Blaise-Pascal Clermont-Ferrand (Spring 2016): "Hydraulic energy"
- University Pierre Mendès-France Grenoble (Spring 2016): "Business and Energy"
The present conference must therefore be understood as the high point of this series of workshops. Beyond, or as a complement to, the themes that will already have been approached, several issues seem to us particularly relevant, and we would like to encourage proposals that deal with them.
1) Considering long-term evolutions
The organisers wish that, according to the RUCHE principles, the conference does not focus only on modern times but fully integrates research dealing with older periods. Elements taken for granted for a long time, as the nature of antic or medieval energy mixes have currently been called into question by archaeology: the use of hydraulic mills, for instance, that was believed to be a medieval innovation, has now gone backward to Antiquity9 , and underground charcoal ovens to proto-historical times10. Proposals coming from historians and archaeologists of all periods will therefore be most welcome.
2) Economic system, social system, energy system
The European case certainly shows it: the weight of socio-economic structures is decisive in the mobilisation of energy. One should then question the links between the uses of energy, economic growth (at the time of the industrial revolution, but not only) and social structures. One might, for instance, analyse the organisation of energy 'production', the respective role of supply and demand, the place of markets and the nature of the social relationships they imply, the role played by the modes of transport11. Issues of ownership seem also particularly relevant as regards energy, whether we talk about wood, water12, or coal, with the problem of ground and underground ownership. Can we show that different ways were used to answer the same challenge using different resources - or even when similar resources existed (see for instance the case of Sweden and Norway who, with similar hydraulic resources, have a very different mix)?
3) Energy shortages and transitions
Particularly important to us is the issue of energy shortages, whether real or expected, partial or complete, and the transitions they sometimes induced. What were the energy crises experienced by past societies? How did they deal with them? Did energy transitions originate from shortages, or from other reasons? Can we trace the chronology of a transition? How does a society shift from one energy system to another, if such a "shift" does indeed exist? How is an energy mix reorganised with the use of new sources of energy or previously marginal or local ones? How do the means of energy conversions evolve, and under which constraints, and what is their role in the transitions? Who would push towards a change in energy sources, and why? Were past energy transitions the outcome of deliberate policies, and by whom? Who profited from these transitions?
4) The issue of the transition to fossil fuels
The explosion of energy consumption is one of the main features of the 20th century, and we deem it worthwhile to dwell on the period of the massive use of fossil fuels, sometimes called "anthropocene" 13. Nonetheless, we would like this concept of "anthropocene" to be discussed and not taken for granted. Some light must be shed on the ways that led to the generalised use of coal and oil, and we will favour proposals based on empirical research. We encourage proposals dealing not only with the disruptions but also with the continuities of energy systems. For instance, coal was used in numerous regions far earlier than we thought14, and is still used in the 20th and even the 21st century as an alternative to nuclear energy. Beyond the types of energy sources, one must also pay attention to the variety of the converters, the conditions for their efficiency, and the economic and social issues they carry (coal is not used today as it was in the 19th century and comparisons must take into account the nature, the energy efficiency and the drawbacks of the converters in use).
5) The European area
Proposals dealing with all areas will be considered, but it seems interesting to question the possibility of specific European features as regard energy mobilisation and use. What about the exchange of resources, but also of knowledge and technology throughout Europe, over centuries? What about the recurrent debate about the European origins of the use of fossil energy15? What are the links between possession of fossil fuels and economic growth, between energy and colonisation16? What about the integration of European energy networks in the 20th century, and particularly after 1945? It seems to us that we need more economic, social and environmental works on the consequences of the energy choices made by nationstates and European agencies. For example, it is worthy to explore the great energy equipment, whether hydraulic, thermic, or nuclear, their efficiency (announced and real), the protests against them, that some books have already begun to explore17. History will probably meet here current political issues.
6) A cultural history of energy
The cultural dimension of energy seems to us insufficiently studied. How was energy, its use and its waste, perceived? How does it influence the way we relate to the world? Research in England and Scotland has shown that changes of attitudes not only stem from rational decisions or price evaluation, but also from appearances (some energies are more fashionable than others18) or traditions (the open coal fire in England19). Political cultures can also be analysed through energy choices: in dictatorships, such as Spain under Franco or the USSR, the gigantism of hydroelectric plants and the feats of the nuclear sector are part of the usual promises for a better future needed to gain the support of the masses.
There are naturally more interesting issues to consider than the few we have just presented. It will be clear nonetheless that this conference aims at questioning all the dimensions of energy, whether economic, social, environmental, technical, cultural or political, and we will welcome any proposal as long as it adopts a historical approach.
Proposals of no more than one page, completed with a short presentation of the author, must be sent to Geneviève Massard-Guilbaud and Charles-François Mathis
cfmathis@hotmail.com
massard@ehess.fr
Deadline for the submission of proposals: 15 October 2015
Proposals will be examined by the scientific committee before the end of the year.
The organisers are at the moment gathering funds for the conference. They hope to be able to pay for the transport and the accommodation of the participants.
ARNOUX Mathieu, histoire médiévale, professeur à l'Université de Paris-Diderot et directeur d'études à l'EHESS, LIED.
BELTRAN Alain, histoire contemporaine, directeur de recherche au CNRS, IRICE.
BOUNEAU Christophe, histoire contemporaine, professeur à l'Université BordeauxMontaigne.
BOUVIER Yves, histoire contemporaine, maître de conférences à l'Université ParisSorbonne.
BECK Corinne, histoire et archéologie médiévales, professeur à l'Université du HainautCambrésis (Valenciennes), directrice du Laboratoire CALHISTE.
DALMASSO Anne, histoire contemporaine, professeur à l'Université Pierre Mendès-France (Grenoble), LAHRHA.
DURAND Aline, histoire et archéologie médiévales, professeure à l'Université du Maine (Le Mans), CREAAH.
FRIOUX Stéphane, histoire contemporaine, maître de conférences à l'Université Lyon 2, LAHRHA.
KNOLL Martin, histoire régionale de l'Europe, professeur à l'Université de Salzbourg.
MASSARD-GUILBAUD Geneviève, histoire contemporaine, directrice d'études à l'EHESS, ancienne présidente de la Société européenne d'histoire de l'environnement (ESEH), CIRED.
MATHIS Charles-François, histoire contemporaine, maître de conférences à l'Université Bordeaux-Montaigne, CEMMC.
MORERA Raphaël, histoire moderne, chargé de recherches au CNRS, CERHIO.
RAINHORN Judith, histoire contemporaine, maître de conférences à l'Université du Hainaut-Cambrésis (Valenciennes), CALHISTE.
ORAM Richard, histoire médiévale, professeur à l'Université de Stirling (UK).
WARDE Paul, histoire moderne et contemporaine, maître de conférences, Université de Cambridge.
Research centres and institutions contacted for a scientific and/or financial support
Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations
CALHISTE (Cultures, Arts, Littératures, Histoire, Imaginaires, Sociétés, Territoires, Environnement) – EA 4343 (Université du Hainaut-Cambrésis)
CEMMC (Centre d'Etudes des Mondes Moderne et Contemporain) – EA 2958 (Université Bordeaux-Montaigne)
CERCEC (Centre d'Etude des mondes russe, caucasien et centre européen) – UMR 8083 (EHESS / CNRS)
CIRED (Centre International de Recherche sur l'Environnement et le Développement) UMR 8568
Comité d'histoire de la Fondation EDF
IRICE (Identités, relations internationales et civilisations de l'Europe) – UMR 8138 (Universités Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne / Paris-Sorbonne / CNRS)
Labex Ecrire une Histoire Nouvelle de l'Europe
LARHRA (Laboratoire de Recherche Historique Rhône-Alpes) – UMR 5190 (ENS Lyon / Université Lyon 2 / Université Lyon 3 / Université Pierre Mendès France / CNRS)
LIED (Laboratoire interdisciplinaire des énergies de demain) UMR 8236
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Alexander Shakarov (born 8 March 1948 in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, USSR) is a Soviet chess player, coach and author of Armenian descent.
He is best known for being Garry Kasparov's coach from 1976 to 2005. Together they wrote Caro-Kann: Classical 4…Bf5 book (1984). Kasparov said: "The name of Alexander Shakarov might not be world famous, but hardly anyone has lived a life more dedicated to chess. He is one of the most dedicated workers I've ever met."
Shakarov was also the trainer of Ashot Nadanian.
The fourth chapter of Tibor Karolyi's 2009 book Genius in the Background is devoted to him.
Shakarov, Aleksander; Belov, Igor; Tsaturian, Valeri; Vilensky, L. (1996). Anthology of Chess Beauty. Saturn-S. ISBN 5-8468-0045-9.
^ a b c Karolyi, Tibor; Aplin, Nick (2009). "4". Genius in the Background. Quality Chess. pp. 113–147. ISBN 978-1-906552-37-4.
Karolyi, Tibor; Aplin, Nick (2009). Genius in the Background. Quality Chess. ISBN 978-1906552-37-4.
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