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Rogue One: A Star Wars Story - Featurettes Trailer
'Rogue One: A Star Wars Story' is arriving imminently, following the stand-alone story of Jyn Erso as she joins Rebel forces in a bid to help them destroy the plans for the Death Star. In a series of new featureets, Felicity Jones, along with director Gareth Edwards, opened up about how they created Jyn; a vulnerable, strong, stubborn and trouble-making hero; and Diego Luna explored his significance in the film as Captain Cassian Andor. It's an experience that posed many challenges for the actors, given the neverending amount of themes and emotions with the difference scenes.
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Director Gareth Edwards at the World premiere of 'Rogue One: A Star Wars Story' held at Pantages Theatre, Los Angeles, California, United States - Saturday 10th December 2016
Gareth Edwards Reveals 'Rogue One' Scenes Were Shot In One Of London's Busiest Districts
By Holly Williams in Movies / TV / Theatre on 09 December 2016
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The crew took some of the movie to Canary Wharf.
It's normally fairly easy to spot a movie set going on away from a studio if it's not in the wilderness, but we'll bet you didn't know that scenes from the upcoming 'Rogue One: A Star Wars Story' was actually shot in Canary Wharf in London.
Felicity Jones stars in 'Rogue One: A Star Wars Story'
It seems that Hollywood are increasingly incorporating elements of Britain into their movies, and it's not just about the actors and the directors. More and more film crews are being taken under America's enormous wing for major blockbusters, and Britain is also quite iconic for its movie settings - the latest being business district Canary Wharf.
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Rogue One: A Star Wars Story - Final Trailer & Clips
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is a standalone Star Wars film which acts as an important subplot to the original 1977 movie 'A New Hope'. In the man film, Luke and his uncle take ownership of a droid sold to them and as Luke cleans the droid up he hears a section of a message left for someone called Obi-Wan Kenobi pleading for his help. Luke decides to find the only man he knows by the name of Kenobi and his mission turns into the story we all know.
The data on R2-D2 memory is the story of Rouge One. The Rebel Alliance are aware that the Galactic Empire are building a humongous super machine capable of destroy vast areas of space and one of their rebel fighters might just hold the key to more information than she knows.
Jin Erso is a loyal member of the Alliance though she often acts as a lone rebel and takes risks greater than her superiors would like. When a fraction of the Alliance learns that Erso's father played a crucial role in building the device she knows that she must track him down.
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Gareth Edwards Offers First Look At Star Wars Movie 'Rogue One'
By Michael West in Movies / TV / Theatre on 20 April 2015
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Felicity Jones is the only confirmed cast member for 'Rogue One'.
Director Gareth Edwards used the Star Wars celebration on Sunday to premiere a concept reel to preview the mysterious new movie Rogue One. The film is one of a series of new films exploring other stories outside the core saga.
Felicity Jones is the only confirmed cast member for Rogue One
"For more than 1,000 generations, the Jedi Knights were the guardians of peace and justice in the Old Republic. Before the dark times. Before the Empire," a voiceover read in the concept reel.
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'Star Wars' Spin Off 'Rogue One' Will Feature Death Star Heist
By Stephanie Chase in Movies / TV / Theatre on 20 April 2015
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Plot details about the anthology film were revealed at the Star Wars Celebration in Anaheim over the weekend.
More details have been revealed about the upcoming Star Wars spin-off movie Rogue One, which will star Felicity Jones and is being directed by Godzilla's Gareth Edwards. The director revealed more details about the film's plot during a special panel, held on the final day of the Star Wars Celebration event in Anaheim, California.
Felicity Jones will star in the spin-off
Edwards revealed that the film will focus on a Death Star heist, a piece of info which was later confirmed by the official Star Wars Twitter page who wrote, 'A band of resistance fighters unite for a daring mission to steal the Death Star plans in Star Wars anthology film, Rogue One.'
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Should Legendary And Warner Bros. Make A Godzilla Sequel? [Poll]
By Jack de Aguilar in Movies / TV / Theatre on 19 May 2014
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Godzilla has barley finished trampling America's box offices and the gargantuan daikaiju is still to wreak havoc over in China and Japan – a huge market, especially given the origins of the franchise. But Warner Bros. and Legendary are already thinking about what a sequel could do, and they obviously think it could do plenty as one is in the works.
Gareth Edwards' effort, which sees Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Ken Watanbe, Juliette Binoche and Bryan Cranston head a stellar cast, has already made $200m worldwide making it 2014's biggest opener so far. Sure, 'X-Men Days of Future Past' and 'Transformers: Extinction' will likely ensure 'Godzilla' doesn't finish the year with that mantle, but it's an encouraging start for a film that was, for a while mentioned with apprehension.
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'Godzilla' Early Reviews - Initial Critical Response Is Positive
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Not a disaster of a disaster movie
Gareth Edwards' 'Godzilla' was facing an uphill struggle from the day it was announced. The iconic Japanese tale has been tinkered with so many times, many fail to excavate the original themes Ishirō Honda's 1954 film did in making the daikaiju a piece of pop culture iconography.
Bryan Cranston and Aaron Taylor-Johnson in 'Godzilla'
But with Cranston on board and some shiny new technology adding a modern sheen to the franchise, the critics have found something to love with the latest reboot. Edwards hasn't created a classic, or even sculpted his own with borrowed tools, but he has manufactured a solid springtime blockbuster while navigating the tricky landscape that comes with a pre-established and firmly embedded lore.
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Gareth Edwards - European premiere of 'Godzilla' held at the Odeon Leicester Square - Arrivals - London, United Kingdom - Sunday 11th May 2014
Wait, Is Bryan Cranston's 'Godzilla' The Best Movie Of 2014?
By Michael West in Movies / TV / Theatre on 11 May 2014
Turns out 'Godzilla' could be really, really good.
Remember the 1998 remake of Godzilla? Yep, it was horrific. And so it's with a sigh of relief that we can report Gareth Edwards new remake of the classic monster story has been received very, very well by critics. A powerful new story with stunning visual effects, Godzilla stars Bryan Cranston and Aaron Taylor-Johnson.
Bryan Cranston [L] and Aaron Taylor Johnson [R] in 'Godzilla'
"A summer blockbuster that's not just thrilling, but that orchestrates its thrills with such rare diligence, you want to yelp with glee," said Robbie Collin of the Telegraph.
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Godzilla Seizes The Day At WonderCon - Director Gareth Edwards Describes Complicated Re-Imagining Of Legendary Monster
By Elinor Cosgrave in Movies / TV / Theatre on 20 April 2014
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Godzilla was the main draw for fans attending WonderCon in California this weekend. The Warner Bros. panel presented a sneak peak at the upcoming monster movie, including one of the first direct shots of Godzilla.
We've been catching mere glimpses of Godzilla in every version of the trailer going but titillated fans at the WonderCon were finally rewarded with an exclusive sneak peak at the movie ahead of its release.
Fans at WonderCon have finally seen Godzilla's face in a sneak preview of the upcoming movie.
Fans at the Warner Bros. presentation at the WonderCon festival held in Anaheim, CA this weekend were thrilled to finally see a complete Godzilla in an exclusive clip from the upcoming movie. The biggest thrill for hundreds of fans who had crammed together to witness this sneak peak was seeing Godzilla's face for the first time. MTV, whilst not the most descriptive of sources, claimed the famous reptile's face was "everything fans had hoped for: vaguely T-Rex-ish, definitely reptilian, and a whole lot of awesome."
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5 Reasons Why The 'Godzilla' Reboot Will Succeed
By Jack de Aguilar in Movies / TV / Theatre on 26 February 2014
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With Bryan Cranston on board, we think 2014's Godzilla will be a credit to the Japanese legend
It's a risky business, taking a legendary franchise and telling the same story with fancy technology, popular actors and a sky-high budget, and Godzilla's remake is no different. But there are a number of things working for the 2014 reboot, and here are just 5 of them. Cynics, beware, this article is ?? with buoyant, unspoilt optimism.
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Nanoparticles carry chemotherapy drug deeper into solid tumors
A new drug delivery method using nano-sized molecules to carry the chemotherapy drug doxorubicin to tumors improves the effectiveness of the drug in mice and increases their survival time, according to a study published online June 26 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
In the past, similar drug carriers have improved targeted delivery of the drugs and reduced toxicity, but they sometimes decreased the drugs' ability to kill the tumor cells. Using a new drug carrier, Ning Tang of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing and colleagues compared tumor growth and survival in mice that were given doxorubicin in the nanocarriers or on its own.
Doxorubicin delivered by nanocarriers was more effective in preventing tumor growth than free doxorubicin, and the mice receiving this treatment method lived longer and had fewer toxic side effects.
"Encapsulation of doxorubicin...increased its accumulation and penetration in tumors in terms of both the percentage of cells that were reached by the drug and the intracellular levels that were attained," the authors write.
In an accompanying editorial, Matthew Dreher, Ph.D., of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md., and Ashutosh Chilkoti, Ph.D., of Duke University in Durham, N.C., discuss the future of drug delivery, which they think should focus on three important research areas--drug combinations, targeting, and integration.
"The study by Tang [and colleagues] is a simple but effective demonstration of the benefits of integration of a drug with an appropriate carrier to yield a striking gain in efficacy," the authors write. "May the days of pharmacological missiles that miss their target and friendly fire that kills patients soon be over!"
Article: Wei Liang, +6810-64889861 or +6813-911743032, weixx@sun5.ibp.ac.cn
Editorial: Kendall Morgan, Duke University, (919) 660-8414, kendall.morgan@duke.edu
Article: Tang N, Du G, Wang N, Liu C, Hang H, Liang W. Improving Penetration in Tumors With Nanoassemblies of Phospholipids and Doxorubicin. J Natl Cancer Inst 2007; 99: 1004-1015
Editorial: Dreher MR, Chilkoti A. Toward a Systems Engineering Approach to Cancer Drug Delivery. J Natl Cancer Inst 2007; 99: 983-985
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Canadian immigration reaches milestone with 150,000th new citizen of the year
September 7, 2014 by Matthew Watt
Number of new immigrants doubles despite controversy surrounding new reforms
SCARBOROUGH, ONTARIO – At a ceremony on August 19, Citizenship and Immigration Minister Chris Alexander helped welcome Canada's 150,000th new citizen of 2014. Compared to the Canadian immigration record of August 2013, the number of new citizens has doubled this year, a feat which the federal government attributes to its efforts to expedite visa processing times and reduce application backlogs.
Addressing the audience at the citizenship ceremony last week, Minister Alexander reported an eight-percent reduction of backlogs. This statistic follows on the heels of Bill C-24, the controversial "Strengthening Canadian Citizenship Act." The bill enacted a series of citizenship reforms, which have drawn criticism since receiving Royal Assent on June 19. Faced with protests from Amnesty International and the legal community, the government has defended the bill for streamlining the decision-making process and increasing the efficiency of the citizenship program. Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) anticipates further reducing the application process to less than a year, while minimizing the current backlog of applications by over 80 percent.
Alexander affirmed his confidence in the new reforms in his address:
"Our government is proud to welcome more new citizens to the Canadian family," Alexander told the Scarborough audience. "The increased number of new Canadians in 2014 is an indication that our government's changes to the citizenship system are working. With our recent changes to the Citizenship Act, we will see improved processing times and high numbers of new Canadians taking on the rights and responsibilities that come with citizenship."
Highest continuous immigration rates in Canadian history
Canada has reportedly admitted over 1.3 million new citizens since 2006. According to government statements, the country is now experiencing its highest continuous immigration levels ever, averaging an impressive annual rate of a quarter-million new arrivals.
The citizenship ceremony: a rite of passage
As the final step toward becoming a Canadian national, the citizenship ceremony marks the new citizen's formal entry into the country in front of an audience of guests, which can include family members, friends, and other loved ones. The rite of passage occurs after the applicant has successfully completed a written test or oral hearing. Ceremonies are held across the country at various times of the year, with a citizenship judge usually presiding.
Accepting the rights and responsibilities of Canadian citizenship, new citizens take an oath and receive a certificate at the ceremony. Guests in attendance who are already citizens may reaffirm their commitment to the country by repeating the words of the oath along with the new Canadians.
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In an official statement, Minister Alexander has called the citizenship ceremony "a moving and emotional celebration that reaffirms one's commitment to Canadian values and traditions."
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I am not an expert on cervical verts in sauropods. Darren Naish quite rightly points out that some mammals (a handful, but still, they exist and are important outliers) have more or less than 7 cervical verts. My understanding of the Giraffe vert count was that it was still up for grabs, but maybe something has recently changed?
Scott Hartman and others on the list have quite rightly pointed out numerous problems or potential pitfalls, as well as areas that need more work, in DinoMorph. Neck motion in extant verts, independent testing, etc., are all sorely needed before we can more properly apply DinoMorph. I suppose one of the things I have found interesting (because it was also an initial reaction of mine as well) is that so many of us want and like our sauropods to have more vertically-oriented necks. The question that I throw out there, perhaps rhetorically, is if DinoMorph had shown that sauropods had vertically-oriented necks, would as many folks have been as critical of the research, or demanded to see more testing? Most of us accepted vertical sauropod necks before DinoMorph tested neck motion in the two diplodocids. Could we be clinging to an aesthetic idea?
In any case, the fact that a lot of people didn't buy the explanation of horizontal sauropod necks is a good first step. Skepticism is to be valued in science, if for nothing else than it keeps us honest. It's part of the corrective machinery of science I speak of often.
I am probably a bit defensive of the research (some would probably say more than a bit =) )because I know both of the researchers well and I have some ties to it. Plus, I forget sometimes that not everyone on this list has had the opportunity to see the specimens up close and evaluate things for themselves. And when people that have had the opportunity to view and evaluate the specimens disagree, most of us, if not acquainted with the materials, I suspect would tend to settle for what we are most familiar and comfortable with. I am just as guilty of this as anyone, and there are areas of dinosaur paleontology I remain almost wholly ignorant of.
that Diplodocus and Apatosaurus had horizontal necks which sloped downward when in the neutral position. I could be wrong, I could be biased, and I may be counting some evidence and ignoring other evidence. All of this is very possible.


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OKEECHOBEE — Montes De Oca is new city administrator and the city set the tax rate at 7.99 mills.
The Okeechobee City Council approved their proposed budget and approved an employment contract with their new administrator at Monday's meeting.
The contract with Marcos Montes De Oca was negotiated by City Attorney John Cook and all of the items were negotiated in a congenial manner with little serious debate.
Mr. Montes De Oca will receive 15 days per year for vacation pay, more than most other city employees when they start employment. The city will provide $100 per month for his cell phone. He will receive 60 days severance pay if things don't work out. The salary offered was $80,000.
Mr. Montes De Oca said he really looks forward to coming back home and contributing to a community he's a part of.
"I'm looking forward to it. It's not a crazy change. I just want to get here, get my feet wet and use my experience I've gotten in the past and push toward the future," he said.
He will leave his position as Public Works Director at the City of Belle Glade and said experience in that small city, should help him because the two communities have some things in common.
In the first 90 days, Mr. Montes De Oca said he wants to get up to speed on the existing projects the city is working on.
"I want to sit down with all the department heads and look at their budgets and the projects they are working on and then sit down with all the councilmen and learn their visions, and work from there," he said.
Mayor Jim Kirk said he was very excited to have the new administrator on board. He's already met and talked with him and likes his level of enthusiasm.
"He's pleased to be with the city. I feel he'll be a real asset for us and I suspect he'll do a really good job for us," he added.
City of Okeechobee mayor Jim Kirk
The budget for 2015-2016 includes $9.85 million in total revenues. The expenditures planned include a $2,000 per year increase in salary for city council members, their first increase in over 20 years.
The Shared Services Network will receive $8,940 and the Economic Development or Chamber of Commerce would receive $10,000.
The city clerk budget totals $222,937, legal services $88,197, finance $268,723, general services $378,974, city police $2.2 million, fire department $1.46 million, and public works $1.77 million.
Each employee received one step on the salary schedule and a 2.5 percent cost-of-living adjustment in their salary.
The millage rate was set at 7.9932 mills that represent a 4.65 percent property tax increase.
The major expenditures include $200,000 for street paving, $65,000 to purchase a John Deere track skid steer loader, $25,000 to demolish buildings, $294,000 for new police cars, and about $95,000 for improvements to city hall.
An additional $118,211 will be raised in property taxes in the coming year.
Finance Director India Riedel pointed out the general fund revenues continue to outpace general fund expenditures.
Mayor Kirk said the city remains in a good financial position. He said the staff does a good job of putting the budget together and making the information understandable. He said that helps the council when they make decisions.
"We never like to increase taxes, but it was time. We have not had an increase in five years and we've reached a point where we can't do that any longer," he added.
Kirk said the property values have not recovered from state tax changes and from the economic downturn.
He said he was happy the city was able to give employees a raise this year.
"We've given them small raises through these tough times and didn't lay off any people. We also didn't hire a lot of new people when times were good. We have the same number of employees we had 10 years ago," he added.
He said down the road the city will face expenses from the Taylor Creek Park project and also must purchase a new fire truck.
The budget includes some money for medians and landscape work at U.S. 441 and S.R. 70. A storm water grant of $300,000 was received from the state.
The city will also consider a roof replacement for the city police department.
Councilman Mike O'Connor said there are a number of things funded in the budget that should be reviewed by the new administrator. He suggested Mr. Montes De Oca might have different priorities.
The mayor issued a proclamation to recognize Sept. 17-23 as National Constitution Week.
The city honored firefighter Mike Skipper with a five-year service award.
Okeechobee Main Street also recognized the city for their financial support for the median beautification project on South Parrott Avenue. The Florida Secretary of State issued the award for the public and private partnership that made the project possible.
Mayor Jim Kirk received an award on behalf of the city from the state of Florida for the South Parrott Avenue median project Monday. Main Street President Maureen Burroughs presented the award.
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Hickory Street is closed today due to a water main leak that was discovered yesterday. Crews fixed the leak early this morning, however they had to remove a portion of the asphalt in order to properly repair the leak.
Tomorrow, the city street department crews will be repaving the area. Hermann's street department is lending their equipment to be used in the repaving process.
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How critical race theory degrades our national defense
CP Voices | Sunday, August 08, 2021
By Jenna Gulick, Op-ed contributor | Sunday, August 08, 2021
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Critical race theory (CRT) is all over the news today. Whether it's in our schools, universities, workplaces, or government offices, the Left is pushing this woke ideology rooted in Marxism across the nation.
CRT ideology fosters discontent, divisiveness, and disloyalty to America instead of the unity and equality that it claims are its goals. Those on the Left who promote CRT are not content with spreading it to our schools, our workplaces, or our government — they are now targeting our military, the institution sworn to protect and defend our Constitution. The Left's promotion of critical race theory in the military can dangerously affect our nation's security.
Ever since the Biden administration came to power, the promotion of critical race theory has accelerated in the ranks. In February, following the Capitol riots, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austinordered a "stand down" in the military searching for "extremism" in the ranks, creating the Countering Extremism Working Group to implement his orders. According to Lt. Gen Jerry Boykin (ret.), Austin based this initiative on the assumption that the military is riddled with "white supremacists," an assumption rooted in CRT.
Space Force Lt. Col. Matthew Lohmeier saw the result of this stand down firsthand. He spoke out against CRT, saying he had received a training booklet — the fruits of Austin's order. The booklet gave multiple, one-sided examples of extremism, including the January Capitol riots, but failed to mention the violent civil uprisings during the summer of 2020.
He also said that his base's inclusion initiative asked them to read the book, So You Want to Talk about Race? The book suggested social justice groups and political figures for readers to support, and it called the U.S. a "white supremacist" nation throughout its pages.
"The diversity, inclusion and equity industry and the trainings we are receiving in the military ... is rooted in critical race theory, which is rooted in Marxism," Lohmeier said. Because of Lohmeier's comments, General Stephen Whiting, head of the U.S. Space Operations Command, removed Lohmeier from his position as commander of the 11th Space Warning Squadron.
After Lohmeier's removal, Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., and Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas, called for whistleblowers to speak out about CRT.
They set up a link where service members can anonymously write about their experiences with woke ideology in the military. Cotton told Washington Watch that they have received over 300 "serious, credible complaints."
For example, a young cadet "did not realize the Air Force was such a racist institution when she enlisted, and she never would have enlisted if she knew that was the case." Another service member said that "he was [so] tired of these indoctrination sessions … as opposed to tactical and operational excellence that he planned to leave when his enlistment contract is up." Cotton said that the CRT indoctrination "silently corrode[s] morale and cohesion."
As Cotton pointed out, the danger of CRT is that it fosters divisiveness and distrust among our troops. The precious time that our soldiers could be spending on training for war readiness, lethality, and mutual trust is instead being wasted on ideology sessions espousing that the nation for which they fight and the Constitution they have sworn to defend is inherently racist. Why would soldiers risk their lives to protect a cruel, oppressive country?
"Our military's strength depends on the unity of our troops and the knowledge that America is a noble nation worth fighting for," Cotton pointed out. "Critical race theory teaches that race is a person's most important characteristic, and that America is an evil, oppressive place."
Instead of fostering unity among troops who need to fight together against the enemy, CRT is teaching our soldiers that their white comrades oppress their fellow soldiers of color. As FRC's own General Boykin said,"All this is doing is driving a wedge between members of the military. And there's nothing more important on the battlefield — not weapons, not the technology — [than] the cohesion and the morale of those men and women who are out there fighting. They make the difference. That's how you win on the battlefield."
If the Left continues to push CRT in the military, morale and patriotism in the ranks will likely continue to plummet, and our military's effectiveness will suffer because of it. We need our troops to love their country, believe in the Constitution, and implicitly trust their fellow soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines, and coastguardsmen.
As Cotton said,"The military's strength is not its 'diversity' but its ability to weather adversity through unity. We need to teach our young troops ... to befriend, fight alongside, and, if necessary, die for their comrades on the battlefield — not to obsess about skin color."
Originally published at the Family Research Council.
Jenna Gulick is a Development intern at Family Research Council.
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Wewak, coastal town, island of New Guinea, northern Papua New Guinea, southwestern Pacific Ocean. Wewak is situated near the mouth of the Sepik River. Economic activities are limited due to primitive hinterland conditions, but there are some coffee and coconut plantations in the area. Wewak originated as an outlet for the Sepik goldfield (discovered in the early 1930s but now abandoned). It is a port of call for coastal and Australian shipping (cargo is ferried ashore), with an international airport. It is linked by road to Maprik, 40 miles (64 km) west, to several settlements on the Sepik River to the south, and by a coastal road to Aitape, some 100 miles (160 km) to the northwest. Pop. (2000) 19,724.
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When Johann Vaaler patented his paper clip in 1901, there already were similar designs on the books. William Middlebrook of Waterbury, Connecticut patented his design in 1899. Cornelius Brosnan of Springfield, Massachusetts patented his Konaclip in 1900.
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Johann Vaaler was born on 15 March 1866 in Aurskog, Norway. Known as an innovator in his youth, he graduated in electronics, science and mathematics. He was employed by the owner of an invention office when he invented the paper clip in 1899.
Several designs followed the original. Only a few remain, such as the Ideal, Non-Skid, Owl and Gem. The first double-oval clip, the Gem, was launched in early-1900 by Gem Manufacturing Ltd of England. The paper clip remains as one of the most-used items of all time.
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Galactic Edition
09/07/08 Electronic Arts
Spore (PC)
Evolution is a canvas for you to create.
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Darwinianevolution
Presentation - 9.0
Gameplay - 6.0
Value - 6.0
Spore is a god game/simulator made by Maxis in 2008. One of the most ambitious games of its time, its lack of depth in some areas doesn't stop it from being an enjoyable ride all the way through.
Game: Spore.
Platform: PC.
Developer: Maxis
Genre: Simulation.
Exploration in videogames has been a concept that has evolved a lot throughout the years. Like many other ideas, technological development has been a key factor for its evolution, but it has never been wholly dependent of it. You can find great examples of exploration in older games, from small secrets hidden in the levels to alternative routes that would allow you to find completely new stages. Even the earliest RPGs would aspire to create vibrant and interesting worlds through adventuring, filling the world with enough to make you explore outside the main storylines as much as possible. However, putting exploration as the main focus of the game is another thing entirely, since the requirement for a constant supply of new things to see and do is extremely taxing for developers. Exploration demands encountering enough to keep the player engaged and curious the whole way through, and to do it at a decent pace. And that means a lot of content. You could just keep making level after level, quest after quest, secret after secret… but at some point you have to release the game, not to mention the expenses needed for that kind of project are considerable. That's when the concept of procedural generation appears. Suddenly you can theoretically create a near infinite amount of content, all practically unique from player to player. No single playthrough would be the same, each game a completely singular journey. While in reality it can still create wondrous worlds if done correctly, this can only work well when applied in moderation, and when it has a well-developed structure underneath to keep the fundaments from crumbling. Some of the most famous cases of great procedural generation usually tend to fail on the latter, and one of the best examples of that is Spore.
Spore is a life simulator/god game/space exploration made by Maxis Interactive and published by Electronic Arts in 2008 for the PC. The game attempts to cover a simulation of the evolution of life, from unicellular beings to the exploration of space. The game tries to expand its scope as much as possible, having all sorts of elements for each of its phases, plus a small online element. It can be difficult to describe what exactly Spore is, since it tries so many things at once. It certainly got a big push from its publisher, since it got quite a lot of spinoffs after its launch, though it quickly ended up out of the limelight.
Before I start this review, a bit of warning. This game has a couple of expansions: Spore Galactic Adventures, Spore Creepy & Cute Parts Pack and Spore Bot Parts Pack. I will only include in this review the Galactic Adventures expansion, since I don't have played the other two, and from what I've searched, they are just content packs that include more bits for the creation modes (and apparently the Spore Bot Parts is seemingly region locked to the US due to a tie in promotion with Dr. Pepper. Huh).
It is difficult not to be impressed by the scope of this game, especially considering this was done in 2008. The game's objective is being a simulation of life itself, and it divides its gameplay in five stages: the cellular stage, the creature stage, the tribal stage, the city stage and the space stage. All of them have a very important emphasis on both imagination and exploration. You will have access to different editors and character/building creators throughout the whole game, each one focusing on the previously mentioned stages. They are quite extensive, though the point limitations in some of them can stifle the creative process a bit. Each of the stages works on a different scale and with different mechanics and objectives, all while being connected with each other. The benefits you get in one stage can carry over to the next, making you strategize and think of what exactly do you want to do in the next stage, and what do you have to do in order to get as many bonuses for that as possible. However, one of the problems that is apparent with the first playthrough is the difference in depth between the stages. Simply put, not all stages are created equal, and it's very obvious from the very beginning that some received much more attention and development time than others.
The cell stage starts with a beautiful cinematic of a meteorite carrying life in form of unicellular organism crashes into the seas of a planet, starting in the primordial soup at the depths of the ocean. After that, you create your organism with the limited tools and bits you have at that point, and you start the game. You take control of that organism, choose what kind of diet it will have, which shape and a couple of other features. The objective? Survive, feed yourself and keep growing until you advance to the next stage. The stage is extremely simplistic, though I have to assume this was intentional, as it is the most basic of them all. As long as you feed yourself and keep potential predators away, you will gather experience fast. That experience can be used to add more features to your creature, which is something you want to do, as a featureless creature will be easy prey. In my experience the most interesting form of play is as a carnivore, since herbivore basically boils down to staying around algae and eating them until there's no more. As a carnivore you have to hunt other creatures, chasing them down, attacking other predators, countering their defenses… it's much more dynamic than just laying down eating green, though an omnivore option is always recommended, as you will be able to recover health from algae as well. You can discover many extra bits by defeating other creatures, usable on the creature editor to improve your organism. As you grow bigger and bigger, the gigantic organisms you saw in the background won't be as big, and you'll be able to interact with them, which is a nice touch. And that's pretty much it. It feels like a small FTP mobile or browser game. If you've ever played Agar.Io, it's something similar. It's not bad, but it can become boring fast. However, this mode is quite short, so it at least allows you to move on before you start to feel grated.
Once you beat that mode, you go to the creature mode. This is when your creation exits the oceans and tries to conquer dry land. The objectives are seemingly the same: keep your creation fed, protect it from predators, gain enough experience to add body parts to it… However, this time you have a wider array of tools and mechanics to work with. Your offensive arsenal increases tenfold, and you will have to think about strategy to take down certain species. You can also develop diplomacy towards other creatures in the form of primitive dances and songs, filling a charisma gauge that, once successful, allows you to create a small party of animals to work for you. There are many options for feeding, though once again the carnivore side is the more interesting one, having the most options available (raiding unguarded nests, attacking the young of other species, strategizing to take down huge packs at once…). The playing field is also much more complex, since instead of the 2D space you had in the previous stage, you have now a 3D world to travel around, and the movement options increase to reflect that: you can jump, fly, run, charge… The ability to form packs is also a very nice addition, since large groups will offer you a better protection for attack and defense. The scope of the mode has expanded quite a lot, however there is still the lingering feeling that they could have done a lot more with this mode. For starters, the game mechanics are quite repetitive, and unlike the previous mode, it's not over in a moment. This needs more exploration and interaction with other species around you, and while that seems fun at first, you are pretty much doing the exact same thing over and over, even if you try the more diplomatic routes. Hell, the game wants you to try and befriend other species, but why would you do that when your own species is befriendable, and benefits from all the upgrades you have. The exploration becomes even more tedious if you try to discover all of the evolution bits around the map, something you really want since the benefits of certain parts can be quite considerable, even in other stages. However, trying to complete it is quite a hustle, since they are scattered at random in the form of fossils and as war trophies. And unlike the cell stage, there are dozens, if not hundreds of bits to find, and the hunt for them is not engaging enough.
The tribal stage is quite short and not particularly interesting. Your objective is more complex this time around: grow your tribe until it controls the entirety of the continent you're on. Once again, simple and straightforward. However, this time around it changes the gameplay to be more RTS-like: top down perspective, control of multiple units, resource management… You will have to deal with other tribes, either by befriending them or by conquering them. Your resources are pretty much the same, you can hunt, gather and fish. I would have loved some sort of agricultural mode, but what can you do. You have the option to create tools to improve your strength in different areas, but outside a couple of them, they feel pretty pointless. Why bother fishing when you can hunt or gather easier and without spending points on tools? Why bother making anti-structure weapons when once you've killed all the enemy tribesmen you can take all the time in the world burning everything down? Hell, at many occasions you will use the abilities you gained in the creature stage more than the tools or the shaman powers. And that's pretty much it. Compared to the previous stage, this one is quite shallow, and it is only there as a stop in the road to something better.
The city stage is slightly more complex than the tribal stage, but not by much. After you've conquered all of the tribes, your next step is to conquer all of the planet. Now the game focuses more on city management and resource controls, trying to absorb the other cities through either conquest, business or religious conversion. At this point, the game basically boils down to getting a city that can produce as much spice as possible while keeping its happiness, controlling spice geysers and slowly but surely taking over the other cities by land, air or sea. Out of all of the modes, this is in my opinion the one that feels it needed more time in the oven. You can do so much with this kind of gameplay, from complex politics to trade routes to city managing in detail, arms races, scientific development… It is pretty bare bones as is. The one thing I have to remark is that, if you play the more warmonger mode, you will eventually have the option of nuking your enemies. If you've played the game at least once, you know that's a terrible idea, since you need as many cities as possible in the space stage, and planets can't have more than 3 cities in them, so keeping your capital planet above that limit is a huge advantage in the early game. I'd be foolish to waste it.
So after all of that, you get to the final stage of the game: the space stage. And boy, this is the part where the game truly shines. Once you design your spaceship and leave the atmosphere, you are free to explore the entire galaxy. And I mean the entire galaxy. The procedural generation here basically means there are thousands of planets, and each of them will have its own geography, its own ecosystem (with unique plants and animals to boot), its own civilization if they're inhabited… There are all kinds of planets and stellar formations, and while exploring you will find different treasures, explaining the surprisingly interesting backstory of the galaxy. The objectives in this stage are quite varied, mostly because the galaxy at this point is a massive open sandbox for you to do whatever you want. The one objective that ends up appearing after a while is reaching the center of the galaxy, guarded by the hyper-aggressive species the Grox, which have a massive empire in the galactic core. To reach the center in one piece, you'll need to improve your ship by buying new technologies, which are available after completing certain criteria. And once you've unlocked them, you'll need the spice needed to pay for the upgrades and tools. The way the economy is set up is pretty good too: every planet produces certain types of spice, and you can sell them, either to your own planets or to neighbor empires, which is usually the most profitable way to obtain money (they can buy spice for higher prices, selling them stuff improves your relationships with them, and their products are cheaper than buying stuff on your planets). So you'll end up setting up as many colonies as possible, upgrading them as much as you can to increase the spice output, and then travel around to sell it. It's a fun merchant mechanic, although it would have profited for having different kinds of sellable resources other than spice (treasures can be sold, but they are not nearly enough to keep the economy going), plus all the back and forth can be repetitive. Interacting with other species is also entertaining, and the game gives you enough incentive to leave them unconquered, unlike the tribal and city stage. You can't just make more ships of your own (for some reason you only have the one), so you need to ally to get extra ships for your fleet. And of course, there's the ability to terraform planets to your liking. While this is an extraordinarily expense at first (especially when far from your home planet), it ends up being worth it. First you have to adjust the atmosphere, then add layer upon layer of ecosystem to the world, and it's incredibly satisfying to turn a frozen rock bereft of anything into a planet teeming of life. The downside of that is that most of your carrying space will be occupied by the different organisms needed to complete an ecosystem. There's also the chance of seeing different species in the middle of their evolution while exploring the cosmos, and you can interact and enlighten them to advance to their space stage. Useful for making quick allies, and even more useful if you want to conquer an easy planet with high spice production (generally capital planets have more than the usual 3 cities). Overall, this is the stage that has the most content by a long shot, more than the other stages combined. When you hear someone's playing Spore, this is the part they're usually talking about. While this stage is the most complete of all, it sadly shares the feeling of needing more stuff to be more worthwhile, it could have been even better if a couple more things had been added, like more complex missions or more incentives to explore around beyond reaching the galactic core. The different emergencies on your planets are also distracting, since you'll need to be constantly watching over them in case of pirates, Grox incursions or ecological disasters happen, thus keeping you around your empire so you can respond to them fast enough. The one thing that really annoys me is the reward you get for getting to the center of the galaxy. Without spoiling the game, while the prize itself is actually phenomenally valuable and fun to use, it has a limited amount of uses. Why? Why bother putting such a limitation after what amounts to beating the game? Why can't I just run rampant with it? It's not game breaking per se, but it's a big miss opportunity.
The Spore Galactic Adventures expansion pack includes a special mode for the space stage. Essentially you send your captain to missions in person to different planets, giving you something that this game really needed, more story. And while it's all fun and good, the problem with them is they are too linear. They tell you to go from point A to point B, talk to someone, give this to someone, defeat this monster… You have no way of going around the missions, you are railroaded from beginning to end. And that can make you play a couple of missions and ignore it altogether after that, since the original game was much more immersive. Also, flying tends to sequence break a lot of missions, since it ignores obstacle courses and potential ground dangers. It's fine, but pretty forgettable.
And that's the game. It really feels like four different games barely joined together (the tribal and city stage are too similar to each other). All of them suffer a lack of depth the game tries to compensate by the addition of the different modes. If they had dedicated more time developing each of the modes individually, and then make them so they can connect with each other, they would have had something wonderful in their hands. Maybe it would've been complicated to do at the time, especially considering it was 2008, but it would have been nice to see. The online part is also rather underwhelming, since it basically boils down to seeing other player's creations. However, I can't really complain too much, since for what they're worth, all are generally decent enough. The space stage in particular is the crown jewel of this game, and it definitively would've been interesting to see this mode expanded upon more. It's still really fun, though, and it has aged surprisingly well since the last time I've played it.
1 n/a n/a 104,110 104,110
2 n/a n/a 82,787 82,787
7 n/a n/a 9,621 9,621
10 n/a n/a 16,265 16,265
dark_gh0st_b0y posted 06/08/2011, 09:27
EA said sold 2m in 3 weeks, and i find it no hard to believe EA considering how popular and awesome Spore is
goncalves62 posted 08/05/2011, 02:46
darthdevidem01 posted 11/05/2010, 11:08
Really boring, well The Sims 3 rules, you win some you lose some.
FaRmLaNd posted 09/02/2010, 03:33
Hasn't this sold like 5 million copies or something? I remember hearing that number thrown about ages ago.
Finnbar posted 17/07/2009, 10:15
Great game. just bought it yesterday.
Trent posted 17/07/2009, 12:02
Why Is There no sales


Google will lay off 100 internal recruiters and shift to fewer sites.
Google Inc. plans to lay off 100 internal recruiters and is closing engineering offices in Texas, Norway and Sweden as it tries to cope with the global economic downturn. The company is still hiring but at a reduced rate, it said in October during its most recent quarterly earnings call. Given the state of the economy, Google recognized that it needs fewer peopleto do the hiring, Vice President of People Operations Laszlo Block wrote in a post on the company's official blog on Wednesday." It is a big mistake to think that staff are only approached by unscrupulous headhunters", commented David Smith of Recruiterblog. " All the big corporates in North America and increasingly in Europe have big teams of internal recruiters who are much more likely to be making that call".


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A liberal legacy
The legacy of an American politician has two main components. One of them relates to policy, the way in which the country's affairs, its position in the world and world order itself changed as a result of the politician's guiding hand. On this score, Ronald Reagan looms larger with each passing year. The second component is only slightly less consequential: It is a politician's political legacy. If politics is the art of the possible, then a great politician has an effect on what is possible not only during his own term in office but also in the years that follow. By now, the imprint that Mr. Reagan left has been visible for fully a generation and shows few signs of fading anytime soon.
To see the way in which the policy and political components of a legacy intertwine, consider the case of Franklin Roosevelt. FDR was more than just the New Deal and, for that matter, World War II: He also bequeathed a vision of American political liberalism that would dominate U.S. politics for almost two generations and ensure the dominance of the Democratic Party in Congress. The New Deal was, in its own right, vast in terms of its policy changes. But its premise – a self-confident government willing to intervene in areas of people's lives that had long been left alone for the intended purpose of the betterment of their lives – would continue as the animating force of American politics until, well, Ronald Reagan's appearance on the scene [but we are getting ahead of ourselves].
A generation after FDR began the New Deal, Lyndon Johnson was proposing and winning passage of still more sweeping policy changes, the Great Society, pointing in the same direction FDR had set. Indeed, when the Clinton administration came into office in 1993, its top policy priority was a health care reform program providing universal coverage, which many of its officials saw quite explicitly as the completion of the New Deal legacy.
In terms of political legacy, Ronald Reagan is the only comparable figure of 20th century American politics. He was a conservative – but in the context of a political liberalism enamored of activist government. In fact, Mr. Reagan was a classical liberal in the sense of his faith in freedom, the free market and the defense of the free world against its great adversary, Soviet Communism.
Mr. Reagan's unsuccessful attempt to deprive Gerald Ford of the Republican presidential nomination in 1976 was surely one of the reasons for the incumbent's defeat at the hands of Jimmy Carter. What Mr. Reagan knew was that his party and the country were close to being ready for the policy prescriptions he was offering – lower taxes and an end to "stagflation" at home and a military buildup to challenge the Soviet Union abroad. These themes swept him to two landslide victories in 1980 and 1984.
But more than that: I think most observers would agree that the 1988 election of George H.W. Bush owed a debt to Mr. Reagan far beyond Mr. Bush's good fortune to have been picked as the running mate of the man whose domestic program he had dismissed as "voodoo economics." The first President Bush had Mr. Reagan's economy and a tottering Soviet Union, but more than that, as a backdrop to his candidacy he had the mantle of Mr. Reagan's classically liberal spirit – an optimism about the prospects for the American people and the American nation. When Mr. Bush stumbled in office, it was not as a result of trying to be more Reaganesque than Reagan, but something like the reverse.
Democrats, meanwhile, had learned something by 1992 about the domestic and international progress of the classical liberalism associated with Ronald Reagan. Bill Clinton would run as a "New Democrat," which is to say, a candidate explicitly repudiating his party's old-style New Deal/Great Society legacy. Upon reaching the White House, however, the Clinton administration lurched in the old direction, which in turn paved the way for the GOP takeover of Congress in 1994. Just before that congressional election, Mr. Reagan announced in a handwritten note that he had Alzheimer's, effectively retiring from public life. The GOP got a genuine sentimental boost as a result, but more to the point, it was the political legacy Mr. Reagan left Republicans that finally enabled them to win Congress. Mr. Clinton acknowledged as much when he declared, "The era of big government is over."
There have been many comparisons between George W. Bush and Ronald Reagan. But it seems that the weight of the latter may have a direct bearing on still one more election, 2004. Mr. Bush has been having his difficulties, not least because he rightly has insisted on pursuing a classically liberal Reaganite vision abroad. Now, he has an opportunity to associate himself with its great originator. For Mr. Bush, to praise Mr. Reagan properly is to inherit Mr. Reagan's legacy. In the coming days, he will either establish what he has in common with Ronald Reagan or how he fails to measure up. That's probably the election, because that's how big Mr. Reagan is.


A new brand of media firms dubbed "content farms" aim to produce content at a price so low that even meagre advertising revenue can support it. Clever software works out what internet users are interested in and how much advertising revenue a given topic can pull in. The results are sent to an army of 7,000 freelancers. They artfully pen articles or produce video clips to fit headlines such as "How do I paint ceramic mugs?" and "Why am I so tired in winter?". Although an article may pay as little as $5, writers make on average $20-25 an hour, says Mr Kydd. The articles are copy-edited and checked for plagiarism. For the most part, they are published on the firm's 72 websites, including eHow, answerbag and travels.com. But videos are also uploaded onto YouTube, where the firm is by far the biggest contributor. In March, Demand Media churned out 150,000 pieces of content in this way. The company is expected to go public later this year, if it is not acquired by a big web portal, such as Yahoo!, first.


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'Our cause is just,' says tribal leader in pipeline protest
High on a hill overlooking the confluence of the Missouri and Cannonball rivers, Dave Archambault II knelt and touched a stone that bears a handprint worn into it by thousands of his ancestors who have done the same for centuries.
There, the leader of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe said a prayer for peace.
Below, Archambault can see Native Americans from across North America gathered at an encampment a half-mile away, joining his tribe's growing protest against a $3.8 billion four-state oil pipeline that will cross the Missouri River nearby. It's a project they fear will disturb sacred sites and impact drinking water for thousands of tribal members on the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation and millions further downstream.
"Our cause is just," the laconic, soft-spoken 45-year-old said. "What we do today will make a difference for future generations."
His contemporaries say he's the right person at the right time to lead the fight, which has led to the arrests of about 30 people, Archambault included, for interfering with construction of the Dakota Access pipeline.
Since becoming the leader of about 9,000 people in 2013, Archambault has sought to improve housing, health care, employment, education and other grim realities that his 2.3 million-acre reservation that straddles the North and South Dakota border and reservations nationwide face.
Now, he's dealing with added pressure of the pipeline, which he has called yet another "historic wrong" involving tribal sovereignty and land rights.
The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe sued federal regulators for approving the pipeline, challenging the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' decision to grant permits. The company has temporarily halted construction, and a federal judge will rule before Sept. 9 on whether that break will last.
Archambault and others also have been sued by Dallas-based Energy Transfer Partners for interfering with the pipeline, which will pass through Iowa, Illinois, North Dakota and South Dakota.
Former North Dakota U.S. Attorney Tim Purdon, who is representing Archambault and other tribal leaders in that suit, told The Associated Press that it's nothing more than an attempt to silence the tribal leader.
"I think they think he is a voice for the people that no one can control," Purdon said. "From the first day I met him, I could tell he is a very serious person who really has the best interests of his people -- and the people of North Dakota -- at heart. What I see now is the same thing: He is focused on what he believes is best."
Archambault has for years spoke of concerns among the leaders of North Dakota's five American Indian reservations about "the increasing number of environmental incidents" in western North Dakota's oil patch -- far from his own territory. He appealed to lawmakers to do more to protect public safety and the environment.
That was before his tribe was aware of the Dakota Access pipeline, for which developers have promised safeguards, noting that workers monitoring the pipeline remotely in Texas could stop any leak within three minutes.
It's not enough for Archambault, who worries a breach would destroy sacred sites and ancestral burial grounds well beyond the reservation's boundaries.
"Anything that is man-made is going to come apart," he said, pointing to a 2013 spill in northwestern North Dakota that was among the largest inland spills in North America. It was discovered only after a farmer got his tractor stuck in the muck while harvesting wheat; it's only half cleaned up, despite crews working around the clock since it happened, state health officials say.
Archambault has the full backing of the leader of North Dakota's oil-rich Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation.
"Standing Rock is standing for something and we're there standing with them," Three Affiliated Tribes Chairman Mark Fox said. His reservation produces about 20 percent of the state's daily oil output.
"We want oil production but we want it done responsibly and respectfully," Fox said. "Our basic position ... is to figure another way around the river and the reservation. There are other ways."
Fox called Archambault a lifelong friend who he says has become "weary but remains strong" and is "under a heavy burden."
Still, Archambault is clearly buoyed by the scores of protesters who have come to help his tribe's fight. On a recent afternoon, Monte Lovejoy, a member of the Oglala Sioux tribe on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, embraced Archambault and thanked him.
"I really couldn't afford to come up here," he told Archambault, whom he'd never met before. "But I really couldn't afford not to, for my kids and for my people."


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Is an architect an artist?
Written by Silvia Scopa
The striking exterior of Holmwood
'Polished as a sonnet', Holmwood is one of the few surviving buildings designed by an iconic exponent of the Greek Revival style.
Holmwood is a Victorian villa in the Southside of Glasgow. It was built at a cost of £3,600 in 1857 for James Couper, a paper manufacturer who owned the Millholm paper mill in the valley immediately below the villa. After the death of Couper's second wife in 1908, the house passed through several owners until 1958, when it was sold to the Sisters of our Lady of the Missions. They established a convent and primary school, which ran until 1992. In 1994 the National Trust for Scotland saved Holmwood from demolition and redevelopment plans.
The architect of this building was Alexander 'Greek' Thomson, who had studied the principle of Classical architecture during his formal training. His belief that the style of Ancient Greece could be the basis of modern architecture earned him the nickname 'Greek' despite the fact that he never travelled abroad! Neoclassicism and a renewed enthusiasm for the Neo-Greek style in architecture were widespread in Victorian society, particularly in Glasgow as it became an industrial giant and the self-proclaimed 'second city of the Empire'. What separates Holmwood from other villas of the period is that Thomson took the principles of Greek architecture and created a modern and asymmetrical version. Thomas Gildard, a fellow architect and fervent admirer of Thomson's work, wrote about Holmwood in 1888:
'Is an architect an artist? If architecture be poetry in stone and lime […] this exquisite little gem, at once classic and picturesque, is as complete, self-contained and polished as a sonnet.'
An early print of Holmwood
Thomson also designed much of Holmwood's interior. Unfortunately, as the house has had so many owners and been used for different purposes, the furniture, carpets and original furnishings are no longer in the property. However, most of the brightly coloured stencil decoration on the walls has survived under layers of paint and wallpaper and is gradually being uncovered by our conservators and curators. In many places it is being conserved, protected and re-created by modern-day master craftsmen for the enjoyment of our visitors. The use of primary colours like blue and red as well as buff shows Thomson's ability to take inspiration from the big archaeological discoveries of the time in Greece, Italy and Egypt. The furniture currently in Holmwood was chosen to be authentic to the period and style of the villa, and blends in perfectly with the surroundings.
Although all the rooms are richly decorated, the dining room is without doubt the most striking. The spectacular frieze that covers the four walls of this big room consists of 21 panels based on John Flaxman's illustrations to Homer's Iliad, published in 1805. When walking into this room, the frieze, beautifully carved doors and the majestic mirrors give the impression of entering a temple.
Detail of the dining room, door and frieze
One of the few original items in Holmwood is the amazing omega-shaped Italian marble chimneypiece in the hall. It's topped with a barometer that features an engraving of the zodiac and a three-dimensional pensive cherub. We think this interesting work of art was made by the Glasgow sculptor George Mossman.
Chimneypiece in the hall
One of my favourite pieces is the painting On the Terrace by John William Godward (1861–1922). It's in the bedroom and depicts a girl daydreaming on a marble bench surrounded by pink flowers – a very relaxing scene. Can you imagine anything better? Godward was known as a 'High Victorian Dreamer' and produced beautiful images of female figures in a romanticised world.
'On the Terrace' by John William Godward
Another intriguing object is the French alabaster mantel clock with a female figure on a swing as a pendulum. Now in the parlour, it would have kept time during long summer afternoons like the ones we spent cataloguing this fantastic plac
The alabaster mantel clock with the swing pendulum
Project Reveal is a Trust-wide collections digitisation project. It will result in an updated database with high-quality images and unique object numbers for every item in the National Trust for Scotland material culture collections. Six regionally based project teams, supported by experienced project managers, will work across all our properties with collections to complete the inventory in 18 months from July 2017 until December 2018.
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Bye-bye Reveal!
Read about an Inventory Officer's enjoyable experience of Project Reveal.
Everyday photographs reveal history
A box of photographs tells many stories.
A day in the life of Project Reveal
From boxes of bricks to drawing rooms full of Old Masters, here is a day in the life of the two North inventory teams
Looking back on Project Reveal at the Hill House
Sarah Heaton, manager for Project Reveal West, remembers the team's first project – the iconic Charles Rennie Mackintosh Hill House.
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Wow. Amazing. Perfect Nebbiolo spice. Great cherry fruit. Some cherry pit. Amazing balance. A hint of licorice on the finish. Bought from Fass selections.