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Prinsepia jednokwiatowa, prinsepia chińska (Prinsepia uniflora Bat.) – gatunek rośliny z rodziny różowatych. Pochodzi z Chin. Jest w niektórych krajach uprawiana jako roślina ozdobna. W Polsce znajduje się w kolekcji niektórych ogrodów botanicznych, jako roślina ozdobna uprawiana jest niemal nieznana.

Morfologia
Krzew o szerokim pokroju i wysokości do 1,5 m. Ma długie i cienkie pędy z pojedynczymi, szerokojajowatymi liśćmi o ostrozakończonych wierzchołkach, skrętolegle wyrastające na pędach na krótkich ogonkach. Na pędach występują ciernie. Kwiaty białe, drobne (o średnicy 5 mm), liczne, wyrastające na krótkich szypułkach. Owocem jest czerwony, kulisty pestkowiec o średnicy ok. 12 mm, poodobny do owocu wiśni i o smaku wiśni. Krzew owocuje tak obficie, że pod ciężarem owoców zginają się i przewieszają jego pędy.

Uprawa
Roślina całkowicie mrozoodporna. Według badań Akademii Rolniczej w Poznaniu rozwój tego gatunku jest zsynchronizowany z porami fenologicznymi w Polsce, wiosenne przymrozki nie uszkodziły jego pąków kwiatowych i gatunek ten może z powodzeniem być u nas uprawiany. Dzięki efektownym przebarwieniom liści jest ozdobny i nadaje się do miejskich terenów zieleni i parków jako soliter, może też być uprawiany w niewielkich grupach. Wymaga stanowiska słonecznego, nie ma natomiast specjalnych wymagań co do gleby. Jest też odporna na choroby i szkodniki.

Przypisy

Różowate
Drzewa i krzewy ozdobne


Given a surprising £200-300 estimate, a George IV brass and glass carriage clock was one of the stars of McTear's (23% buyer's premium) Glasgow sale on February 1.
A Glasgow bidder in the room secured a Scottish Cup medal won in 1923 by a player from the green and white half of the Old Firm.
Not every Victorian silver tea and coffee service was sold for scrap in the great meltdown of 2011– when at one point the price reached almost £30 per oz.
Like many artists, hands held a strong fascination for British sculptor Henry Moore (1898-1986), and he came back to the subject numerous times in his career.
From the same source which provided Sotheby's success with a fine collection of Scottish Colourist works (ATG No 2347), a large late 19th version of the Medici Vase led the two-day Glasgow sale at Great Western Auctions (23% buyer's premium).
Mirror, mirror (and 14 more mirrors) on the wall - which is the best-seller of them all?
If you are into interior design and are looking for a theatrical flourish then a sale coming up at a Glasgow auction house this Friday (November 17) could be worth a moment of reflection.
In fine art, the 'Glasgow Boys' group of artists are famed. In the contemporary jewellery scene, the 'Glasgow Gals' are now in the spotlight.
Will this Chinese vase become the first million-pound lot in Scotland?
Glasgow saleroom Mulberry Bank will offer a late 18th century Qing famille rose bottle vase with an estimate of £1.5m-2m in its October 20-21 auction.
Dealer Bendor Grosvenor's returning series 'Britain's Lost Masterpieces' has discovered a work by Flemish artist Sir Peter Paul Rubens in a National Trust property in Glasgow.
Three gallery shows will focus on Scottish art of the later 20th century.
Glasgow saleroom McTear's holds a dedicated military watch auction on September 19. Most entries are from a private collection and include watches from the so-called 'Dirty Dozen' – the 12 Swiss manufacturers commissioned to supply the British Ministry of Defence during the Second World War.
It is well-known that the market for Royal Doulton HN series figures is at something of a low ebb. However, the exception to the general rule of bargain-basement prices comes for the small number of very rare figures that appeal to a core collecting base. Many end up in North America.
Like many modern artists, John Bellany's (1942-2013) canvases reflect his personal story – and his was a turbulent one.
A camera belonging to ill-fated US aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart is among the lots going under the hammer at McTear's in Glasgow this month.
Fighting valiantly through the Champions League qualifying rounds after overcoming the mighty Lincoln Red Imps last night, Celtic are well on the way to emulating their 1967 Lisbon Lions European Cup glory.
On March 29, 1833, John Constable gave his daughter Emily a copy of Isaac Watts's book 'Songs, Divine and Moral'.
Staff and officials are still assessing the extent of the damage and loss at The 'Mack', Glasgow School of Art's iconic Mackintosh Building, which was devastated by fire.


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February 4, 2020 February 4, 2020 by Jon F. Merz
"That was shit. Do it again."
I wrote my first novel around 1996.
It sucked.
Of course, I didn't know how badly it sucked. But I was fortunate enough to find a literary agent who was opening her own shop and agreed to take a look at my manuscript. I sent it off, convinced that it was utterly amazing, and anxiously awaited her response.
When it came, I was surprised to find that she had sent the manuscript back instead of just sending me a letter proclaiming my thriller was the best thing she'd read in ages and was anxious to sell it for millions.
I took my manuscript out of its box and looked at it. Each and every single page bled red ink. She had gone through the entire manuscript – the entire fucking thing – and torn it apart. Comments were scrawled over every page. And they were harsh. "Who says something this stupid?" in reference to a line of dialogue. "I don't believe his motivations." "This is laughably absurd." "Are you kidding me with this comment?" "The pacing sucks here." And on it went. Each and every page of my thriller was ripped apart, torn asunder, and scorched with critique. I was momentarily devastated. I'd worked hard on that thriller. For the last several years I'd carefully pecked away at it, crafting what I thought was a contemporary storyline with compelling characters, taut pacing, and devilish dialogue.
But it wasn't. It was an amateurish outing by a new wanna-be author and it was full of shortcomings and faults and every sort of cliche that springs forth when someone talks about wanting to be a writer. Tons of passive voice, tons of speech tags, tons of adverbs, tons of…well, garbage.
I could have sat and cried about it; I could have wallowed in the assault to my ego; I could have very easily given up and decided that being a writer wasn't for me. I could have done all of those things because that's exactly what many people do when they're faced with criticism. They take it personally.
But there was nothing about the agent's critique of my manuscript that was personal. She'd simply read it with the eye of a seasoned professional who had seen all of the problems many times before and because she was actually a pretty awesome person, she'd done me the great service of pointing out exactly how bad my work was.
I was fortunate that I'd been subjecting myself to harsh criticism for years at that point. My mentor back in the late 80s, a grizzled old Korean War veteran of special operations, had taught me any number of things and his usual response whenever I tried to do them was along the lines of "That was shit. Do it again." And I would. Over and over again until I showed proficiency that was up to his standard. In the military, it was never enough to do the bare minimum; they expected more. Always more. What was good enough yesterday wasn't good enough today. "Do better." And in martial arts, I was repeatedly critiqued because my teacher was testing my ego and seeing where I had openings in my armor – not just physically, but mentally and spiritually – that an opponent could use against me. One of my key faults back then was not keeping my guard up enough, so after every class I attended (usually 4-5 times each week) I was put into a corner, given a motorcycle helmet to wear and then forced to stay there in a defensive posture while my seniors took turns wailing punches at my head until I learned how to keep my guard up and stay cool under pressure. It was not a quick process and I went through it for the better part of a year (may have been a little less than that, I can't actually remember lol).
Because harsh criticism was nothing new to me, I was able to process what the literary agent had done for me. And instead of viewing it as an attack, I saw it for what it was: an opportunity to grow and get better at this thing I wanted to do for the rest of my life. Exactly the same as the other things I'd been learning: whether it was shaving seconds off a forced march time, or learning how to surveil someone, or execute ganseki nage (A technique: "throwing a big rock" – Ninjutsu), there was always room for improvement, always room to learn new things, and as a result: grow and get better at whatever activity it was.
And so, I set about rewriting that novel that had been so blown apart with detailed critiques. And in the process of doing so, I came across a very faint line that that same agent had written on the very back page in a weird place. I wouldn't have ever seen it if I'd given up and stopped writing, or dismissed her advice as garbage because I was too full of myself. The note was simple: "If you made it this far, send it back to me."
I remember chuckling to myself when I found that note. She'd seen enough wanna-be writers in her time to know that the chances that I would toss the manuscript and her advice in the trash were higher than the chances that I'd take her advice to heart, rewrite and improve the manuscript and finally see her note. But I was stubborn enough to take her advice and apply it because I really wanted to be a writer; just like I really wanted every other activity that was tough to achieve.
I won't sit here and tell you that critique doesn't hurt. Of course it does. Your ego is in place to protect you in a lot of ways; but it's also a double-edged sword. That same ego that seeks to protect, can inhibit your growth and cause you to miss out on opportunities because you're so busy being defensive and insisting there's nothing wrong or that mistakes weren't made or that you know better than everyone else. You've decided to take it personally when it's not.
Not everyone responds to harsh criticism well; but over the years I've found that I enjoy working with people who have been through some variation of harsh criticism and know how to deal with it without getting their ego bent out of shape. They take pride in their work and see critiques and criticism as a way to improve and get better so they can enjoy that sense of pride that comes from putting forth your very best. And more often than not these days, I find myself gravitating to people who understand the notion that good enough never is. It's not good enough; and if you say that then it's probably not good at all: it's shit.
This runs counter to a lot of what society tells us; that no one cares, that you don't have to bleed for your craft, that no one else is working this hard so you should just say "fine" and be done with it.
That's exactly why we have so many unchecked egos running around these days; that's why there's so much garbage out there; that's why our personal relationships with people suffer as much as they do – because the majority of people will veer toward mediocrity instead of excellence. Mediocrity is easier. Excellence is hard. Effort is hard after a long day at work when all you want to do is crash on the couch and drink yourself silly.
Excellence and the sense of pride that comes with it is its own best reward; when you know that you've given every full measure of yourself and spent every last bit in pursuit of achievement there is a true sense of contentment.
Critiques are a challenge to be sure. But without challenge, there is no growth.
And without growth, there is no life.
Who Dares Lives.
PS: This story doesn't necessarily have a happy ending, depending which way you choose to look at it. I did indeed send that manuscript back to that agent; but at that point she'd made the decision to only focus on nonfiction projects. She wrote me a very nice letter back telling me how happy she was that I'd taken her advice to heart and that the manuscript was much better. "It still needs work," she concluded. "But the fact that you were willing to put in this much effort tells me that you will eventually succeed – even without me representing you." And fifty novels later, she was right.
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May 20, 2019 May 20, 2019 by Jon F. Merz
The Game of Thrones Series Finale
So, it's done.
After 8 seasons, Game of Thrones is finished and over and done and well, yeah…
Since departing from the actual books because George R. R. Martin hadn't finished them, the series has definitely gone down in terms of quality, in my opinion. But at the same time, it's important to remember that for writers of television and films, it's nearly impossible to render an adequate translation, as it were, of a book property onto the screen. Certainly, there are exceptions. But for the most part, the book is always better because it gives the reader more in terms of nuance, background, point-of-view, character development and more. When adapting for the screen, writers must show everything in such a way that the audience knows what is going on. Tidbits of internal monologue, for instance, are stricken because you can't really show a character having a discussion with themselves.
From that perspective, the seasons that departed from the books have been adequate in terms of delivering storylines and plot that moved the series ahead. But they have, unfortunately, failed to deliver the same level of satisfaction that many fans craved from the series as a whole.
And when the series finale unfolds the way it did last night (and in preceding episodes), there are bound to be fans enraged by the conclusions reached by the writers to bring the series to an end.
For me, as a writer, there are obvious reasons why I was disappointed. Perhaps the most crucial being individual character arcs.
When we create characters, we set them on a journey of discovery. Along the way, they are beset by challenge after challenge forcing them to dig deep into the very core of who they are in order to overcome those challenges, or at least strive valiantly toward overcoming them. Sometimes they fail, and fail spectacularly. But if we've done our job properly, the reader is emotionally invested in the character or characters to a point that the journey they take leads the reader on a parallel journey of entertainment. At the end of that journey, the character is somehow transformed and the reader feels a level of satisfaction with the conclusions of that journey – even if they are not necessarily happy. Tragic endings can be just as satisfying provided the character has somehow been transformed over the course of the story.
Therein lies the problem with Game of Thrones.
Viewers have been emotionally invested in the series from the start. Everyone has their favorites and everyone has their villains. Along the way, we've seen characters rise to tremendous heights and truly evil villains enjoy their spectacular comeuppance. We've gasped, cheered, moaned, cried, and laughed as the series has unfolded. But in the end, that pattern of character story arc fulfillment deviated from the norm and as a result, we've been left…meh.
The real tragedy of Game of Thrones isn't that it's over; the real tragedy is that – at the end – the show wasn't that much fantasy at all. In fact, it was more reality than most viewers wanted.
We read books, watch TV, listen to music, sit in theaters, and every engage in art to help us deal with reality. In some ways, to escape it. In other ways to try to make sense of it – to gain perspective through the struggles of characters or self (if we create it) that enables us to bring that insight to our own individual worlds. For those who consume it, they are engaged in much the same process, albeit as passengers rather than the conductor.
And when reality is – as it is currently – with hatred and racism and bigotry and misogyny and ethical absence and complete disregard for the rule of law all on the rise, people expect an escape that leaves them feeling as though there is some sense in the universe.
Rather than more of the same.
The reality is that most people don't have much of a story arc to their character. Most people go through life wishing things were somehow different; wishing they'd made different decisions; wishing they'd said "fuck yeah" instead of "I'd better not;" wishing for a second chance at the one thing they know fires their soul; wishing they'd apologized instead of defending a bad decision; wishing they'd taken that chance instead of playing it safe. And at the end of their lives, most people don't go out with an incredible fireworks display, but rather with a quiet whimper of resignation and sad acceptance.
When the characters that we love or hate go out in a similar fashion, it does little to entertain. In fact, it only underscores our own place in the world – and reminds of us whether we're on a spectacular journey or a mediocre merry-go-round.
Granted, it's not necessarily the job of the writer to abide by any "rules." And for all we know, Martin may well have planned the entire series to be as the writers of GoT finished things up. That after taking us on such an exhilarating ride, Martin may have intended the series go out with much the same whimper as it did last night. With some characters enjoying a better story arc than others, because in reality, some people have better lives than others.
And often, the people who do have a satisfying conclusion to their arcs, aren't the people you would expect. Whereas the shooting stars who seem filled with such promise and potential end up sputtering out to some sort of blah ending. We all know people who peaked in high school and have ever since relived those glory days over and over in some vain attempt to buoy themselves. We also know the people who blossomed after enduring the crucible of high school and rose to extraordinary heights.
The simple truth is that despite all manner of external events, many people simply do not change or evolve over time. They stay locked in their own prison of prejudices and assumptions, convinced of their own certitude, unwilling to consider other perspectives or facts. As a result, their arcs fail to deliver a satisfying conclusion and that's all there is to it.
The same thing happened with certain characters on GoT. Rather than fulfill the arc we hoped would happen (even if we did not even have a firm idea of what we wanted to happen for them) they simply…faded away. Worse, some of the villains we'd been hoping would experience true satisfactory justice ended up "escaping" in a rather muted fashion. Again, much the same as reality.
Perhaps the message of Game of Thrones is simply this: not every hero receives grand rewards; not every villain receives satisfactory justice.
Which is, frankly, kind of depressing. And a bit too close to everyday life for many people.
Myself included.
Your mileage may vary, of course.
In the end, GoT was a great show.
It just sort of went out with a whimper.
When I really wanted a bang.
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April 14, 2015 April 14, 2015 by Jon F. Merz
THE CRUCIBLE is here!
But the newest Lawson Vampire novel, THE CRUCIBLE, is finally here and EXCLUSIVELY at my new secure website. This is the ONLY place to get the book and you can pay using either a credit card or PayPal.
PLEASE NOTE: The lines where you enter your credit card information (number, expiration date, CC code, etc.) are too small to see what you're typing, but they DO WORK (I've tested them). I'm trying to get that issue sorted right now. Also, once you pay, the CONFIRMATION PAGE will show three file types IN RED that you can download: .mobi for the Kindle, .epub for the Nook and other e-readers, and .pdf for printing or desktop reading.
I hope you all enjoy the latest Lawson adventure! Click on this link to go buy it! https://jonfmerz.net/product/the-crucible-a-lawson-vampire-novel/
Talya's gone.
Kidnapped by the infamous Xuan Xiang, a former Fixer who has sold out to the Communist Chinese, in a bid to lure Lawson to a final climactic battle where only one Fixer walks away.
But Lawson doesn't play by the rules. And rather than walk into an ambush, Lawson sets his own plan into motion to rescue the woman he loves. Aided by Jack, the recently-graduated Invoker, they launch their rescue operation, unsanctioned by the Council and thousands of miles from any sort of ally or help.
Deep in western China, Lawson and Jack uncover far more than they expected. And it's going to take all of their skills combined to ensure their own survival and that of Talya.
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March 12, 2015 March 12, 2015 by Jon F. Merz
How to Be a BadAss
This isn't a "feel good" post where I tell you how wonderful you are for just being you. It's a kick in the ass to get your shit straight and do something more than you ever have before. It's your wake-up call to become a badass. But it's going to take work and dedication. Here's how you start:
1. Get Over Yourself: Realize your problems are only as big as you make them. This is not to belittle anyone's issues, because certainly some problems, are in fact, bigger than others. But there's one thing you can always control about problems: how you react to them. Some people think their world is going to explode over the littlest things and some other people can have a debilitating accident and come back stronger than ever. The one constant? They chose how to react.
2. Learn Some Shit: Seriously. Pick up a book and read. Put down the TV remote. Play Quiz Up on your phone and play in categories you know nothing about. Ask someone about their job and what they do even if you have no desire to do it. Learn about how other people live. The world is much, much bigger than the little box most of us live in. In order to have a greater perspective you need to know more about a whole lot of stuff.
3. Challenge Yourself Everyday: Don't shy away from a chance to be better or to take a chance. You only grow by challenging yourself and what you did yesterday. Get out of your comfort zone and get comfortable being uncomfortable. And I'm not just talking about challenging yourself in, say, the gym. That's great. But you've got to challenge yourself every single day in all aspects of your life. Why did you react that way to that idiotic driver? Why did you get mad? Sure, sometimes it's justifiable, but for the most part, it's probably not. (This is something I happen to struggle with, so I figured I'd use it as an illustration of how I try to deal with it…) Also, note that I am not talking about having an inner monologue where you constantly destroy yourself with thoughts like, "I'm stupid, I suck, I'm an idiot." But I *am* talking about constantly checking yourself. Challenge your thought process and you'll start to understand a whole lot more about who you are as a person. And knowing yourself is pretty damned important.
4. Exercise: You've got one body, don't let it fall apart on you. I've lost count of how many Facebook updates I see where people who should know better just let themselves go to shit. Writers especially. I can count on one hand the number of writers I know who are active about their fitness. The rest sit around all day and eventually find their bodies are a mess. Clean your diet up as well. You don't have to become a vega-nazi, but if you're eating fast food every day then you're pretty much poisoning yourself. Try to eat better five days each week and give yourself two days to cheat and eat bad stuff and drink if you wish. It'll keep you somewhat sane and at the same time, clean up your system.
5. Give Back: Other people aren't as fortunate as you – no matter where you are in life – so make a point to help someone. Even if it's just a smile or a few minutes listening to them. You'd be amazed how few people actually know how to listen. Give someone a hand and help them reach the next rung on the ladder. Generate some good karma. Don't be a selfish jerk. And fer cryin' out loud, don't be a cheap prick. There are few things worse than a cheap tightwad who has convinced himself he's somehow wise about money because he scored a coupon and saved a few bucks. Cheap people aren't just cheap financially, they're cheap emotionally. Don't be like that. I'm pretty sure no one on their death bed ever said, "thank god I got the two-for-one special instead of splurging that night." Life is about experiences; not about waiting until the day after Halloween to buy all your candy for next year at 90% off.
6. Dream Big. Aspire to something. Get crazy and realize a dream that you've been chasing for years or have backburnered because you're a certain age and think you shouldn't want that anymore. What? Fuck that. Get after it.
7. Create a Legacy: Make something that will endure after you're gone. Write a book. Paint a picture. Sing a song and record it. None of these have to be published or hang in a gallery on play on a radio station, but make them anyway so that future generations will have the chance to know you and what you were passionate about. You are not defined by your children; you are defined by who you are and how you live.
8. Stop Complaining: seriously. Just stop. Too hard? Then try going 24 hours without bitching about anything. Build up from there. You'd be utterly and completely amazed how much your perspective changes when you stop wasting energy on complaining. After all, complaining does absolutely nothing except make you feel momentarily better by giving it voice. Imagine how much better you'd feel if you actually changed something instead of simply complaining about it.
9. Dare: Dare to live. Dare to go against the flow. Dare to be an individual and not a sheep. Dare to laugh in the face of adversity. Dare to ignore what others will say about you. Dare to go off on some wild adventure. Dare to flirt. Dare to feel passion within your chest again. Dare to imagine a different life than the one you have and see if you want to make some changes for real. Dare to be outrageous. Dare to laugh more. Dare to open yourself up and let others into your world. Dare to be vulnerable. Dare to change your hairstyle. Dare to dance in the rain. Dare to be the full embodiment of a true human being. Dare to be YOU.
Look, your life comes down to this: you can either stay where you are, complain endlessly about useless shit, spew negative energy out into the universe every time you complain about something in your life you don't like OR you can change your life into what you used to dream it would be. You can't sit there and read this and think, "yeah but…" and give yourself an out by creating an excuse. Fuck that shit. Fuck your excuses. Fuck settling for what you don't truly want.
Change is hard, but so is anything worthwhile. So what? You'd rather live a life full of misery and negative energy? Guess what? That shit catches up with you and manifests itself in your physical, mental, and spiritual health. You can literally create your own death by being awash in negativity.
What you have to stop doing is the same old shit, over and over again and expecting things to somehow change miraculously. If you're some place in your life where you find yourself complaining on a daily basis, being jealous of others who don't struggle like you do, or are resentful of something, then you need to change and you need to do it now. The old way ain't working. Change it up. Change your perspective. Change how you react to stuff.
No shit. I never said it would be easy anyway. In some ways, this will be the absolute toughest stuff you've ever attempted before.
"It's just that…"
No, it fucking isn't.
Those are excuses you're generating to save yourself from doing the hard work of change. And if you keep making excuses, you will never, ever change. You'll just continue to wallow in the cesspool of your unhappy existence, complaining to anyone who has the patience to listen to your whining. Being a badass isn't something you "sorta" do; you either do it all the way, or you don't. You either make the changes needed or you stay the same. And if you want it bad enough, you'll find a way to do it. Or you'll just find another excuse to remain the same.
Climb out of the cesspool and start taking charge of your life. People are pissing you off? Deep-six them. You hate your job? Put some money away and then quit it and find a new one. Your relationship sucks? Bin it and find someone new. There are six billion people on this planet – chances are good there's someone better out there for you. Is your progress stalled at the gym? Change up your training and start making gains again.
You can be a badass – an honest-to-god badass – but you've got to be honest with yourself, do the hard work, and not settle for anything less than your dreams. The vast majority of people on this planet do not possess the perseverance to do this. The vast majority of people on this planet are either miserable or have conned themselves into thinking that mediocrity is acceptable and safe and as close to happiness as they will ever come.
If you've read this far, then there is a part of you (and it doesn't matter how tiny) that wants to do something more, to aspire to greater heights, to not settle for mediocrity, to live with passion and hope and happiness, and to see your dreams come true.
You can do it. I know you can. Others have already done it. Others with far less than you have.
Believe in yourself. Don't make excuses. Get your head down and do the work.
You want it? Go get it.
Never Quit.
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October 9, 2013 by Jon F. Merz
Why Reviews Matter
Valuable intelligence is often disguised as a throwaway bone at the tail end of a conversation. If you're not attuned to being able to objectively assess scraps of information, the human mind has a tendency to disregard much of what it hears and sees. This is a byproduct of the media overload we experience on a daily basis – we're immersed in so much noise, that sifting through for the good stuff often demands more energy and effort than we want to commit.
One of the things I learned recently was this past weekend during a conversation about publishing. The two people involved are industry veterans who know this stuff inside and out, so because it was so matter-of-fact, they didn't attach too much importance to it. In other words, they didn't turn to me and say, "Hey Jon, do you know this? Because you should definitely know it." Instead, it was a throwaway line that I would have probably missed but for years of training and great teachers along the way (Tom…Mark….etc.) who taught me how to absorb and later examine what I've witnessed in order to determine the value of such things.
Reviews, in the publishing industry, are fairly standard fare. New books come out and the ARCs (advance reader/review copies) circulate among trades to garner reviews which are then used on covers to entice readers into buying copies. Sometimes, those reviews are great, sometimes they're mediocre, and sometimes (like in my case with Publisher's Weekly savaging my latest novel THE UNDEAD HORDES OF KAN-GUL) they are terrible. Reviews can also be used to drum up interest in subrights, foreign translations, etc. Typical practice when a review comes in is judicious editing to extract cool lines that make the book sound better.
For example, if the review says something like this: "Derek Twinklemeister's latest missive shows that while he understands the mechanics of writing a sentence, the natural gift of storytelling still eludes him. While the prose is tight, the characters are wooden. There are brief glimpses of skill with regards to the pacing, but otherwise, the novel careens ahead and ends in a boring fashion."
You can bet that it will look more like this on the cover or back of a book: "Derek Twinklemeister's latest is natural, tight, and careens ahead with incredible pacing."
But reviews DO matter. And they matter quite a bit on Amazon.com. Apparently, the good folks who determine which titles get featured for the Kindle routinely examine book reviews written on the site and make judgments based on those reviews as to whether they should promote them or not. And promotion in this case – unlike what many of the reviews in the trades can do – actually translates into sales. LOTS of sales.
Amazon, after all, has the email addresses of millions upon millions of people. They can reach out and turn a flagging book into a bestseller. Almost instantly. Nowhere else in the book business is this actually possible, unless you happen to buy your way on to the New York Times bestseller list.
Which brings me to my point of this post: reviews on Amazon. Currently, THE UNDEAD HORDES OF KAN-GUL has 5 reviews for the paperback and 6 for the Kindle version. That's not much. Not much at all, given that the book has been out for over a month now. So I'm asking you to take a moment and head over, write a review (it doesn't have to be long) and post it for both the paperback and the Kindle version, if possible. If you're visiting this site from another country, please leave the review on your country's Amazon site instead. My goal is to get a lot more reviews of THE UNDEAD HORDES so more people find out about it, so the good folks at Amazon take notice, and maybe throw some promotion behind it.
So many things are out of a writer's hands when a book comes out, but this – asking you to write a review – is something I can somewhat control. I hope you'll do so – especially if you enjoyed the book. And you haven't bought the book yet – GASP! – feel free to pick it up!
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While renovating the derelict twelfth-century chapel attached to their new house in rural Worcestershire in 1972, Grace and Benjamin Hothersall uncover three skeletons, which have clearly been the victims of murder. When news of this reaches the newspapers, a series of anonymous letters and telephone-calls begins at the Hothersall residence. Clearly the murders are of not just historical interest, since someone very much alive seems determined to prevent further disclosures. Inspector Wickfield finds himself involved in a complex and baffling investigation, which embraces local witchcraft, a student of the cabala, abduction, a boy's curse, a hidden will, a stranger in Cornwall, death in a railway carriage – and a Latin textbook of 1563! It nearly proves too much for him, but light dawns eventually and leads to a tense trial which brings the case to a close.
Julius Falconer's sure touch ensures another page-turner for the discerning reader, in which intelligent stimulation vies with sheer entertainment for pride of place.
Having now had the pleasure of reading several of the 'Wickfield' chronicles, I find the stories just keep getting better and better. What I want to know is, how does the author do it? The writing makes for effortless reading and seems to cover all aspects of human nature.


Tais formas se distinguem a partir da frequência, intencionalidade e engajamento com que o entrevistado se inseriu nas linhas de atuação dos programas. This break is itself the basis for overcoming the discontinuity between indigenous and non-indigenous groups, and for an increased integration into the nation-state. I start from the principle that we cannot fully understand agribusiness, let alone take away its power, if the roots that sustain productivism are not first comprehended, i. He argues that what we're used to calling cultural edition is composed, within the first position, of adaptations in ability. Ingold tells of the Cree people, native hunters of north-eastern Canada who say that the animal is easy to kill, offering itself up to the hunter in a gesture of love. His bibliography includes The Perception of the Environment: Essays in Livelihood, Dwelling and Skill, Routledge, 2000, which is a collection of essays, some of which had been published earlier. Se per Ingold «Places do not just have locations, but histories» 2016, p.
Thus in the long run, the more successful technical designs will undergo a kind of adaptive radiation, splitting into diverse forms suited to specific contexts of use, while others may become effectively extinct. We can understand caves as material culture where dwelling occurs. Neither innate nor acquired, skills are grown, incorporated into the human organism through practice and training in an environment. Each of these identified themes is summarized, with illustrations from the data given. In particular, it will be investigated the different perspectives on the reconstruction of urban centers, conceived and implemented, on the one hand by institutions local and national ; on the other hand by the population involved in the disaster.
I understood his concepts but I felt that I had to dig for them. In the third chapter, I turn to the theoretical aspects addressed in the first two chapters to suggest an interpretation of the power strategies of agriculture in the contemporary world. As their argument unfolds, the authors reveal that memories do not solely reside in a linear passage of time, linking past, present and future, nor do they solely rest within the indidvidual's conciousness, but that memory sits at the very heart of 'lived experience'; whether collective or individual, the vehicle for how we remember or forget is linked to social interaction, object interaction and the different durations of living that we all have. We find urban nomads engaged in the clearing, freedom and escape of the outdoors the lightness , but anchored by the materialities of doing everyday life work, weighted with responsibilities towards nature, things and people. The second example draws upon the marked changes observed in stable isotope results across the Mesolithic—Neolithic transition in northwest Europe, focusing on Denmark and Britain.
The book's power lies in its ability to push readers to places previously unimagined … it is imperative that this book be read by as many people from as broad an audience as possible. The only reason I finished it is because it was required re When I first got this book for class I had multiple people tell me they loved the book. In doing so, it analyzes the reevaluations of the status of magic and magical thinking from the second part of the nineteenth century to the present moment. He is a fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Chapter two introduces film fieldwork conducted in a primary school in Paris in which migrant children, newly arrived in France, and who do not speak French are compelled to learn the language, since it is a compulsory requirement for integration into the French school system. Our review of work in feminist studies, human geography, social psychology, social movement theory, and social and cultural anthropology suggests the need for a theoretical framework that captures the psychological, more-than-human, collective, geographical, and personal-political dimensions that intersect subjectivities in environmental conflicts. Does sensory anthropology purvey into different historical worldviews Classen 1997: 402 or does it only make sense to study the senses as skilled practice Ingold 2000 Ingold , 2011? His bibliography includes The Perception of the Environment: Essays in Livelihood, Dwelling and Skill, Routledge, 2000, which is Tim Ingold born 1948 is a British social anthropologist, currently Chair of Social Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen.
That the west coast of Scotland appears, on present evidence, to have been largely depopulated at this time presents an interesting contrast, one that requires explanation. The paper takes a political ontology perspective and traces the encounter of Christian and naturalistic ontology with Nyaura ontology. A person who can 'tell' is one who is perceptually attuned to picking up information in the environment that others, less skilled in the tasks of perception, might miss, and the teller, in rendering his knowledge explicit, conducts the attention of his audience along the same paths as his own. Este artículo aporta elementos de reflexión a partir del análisis de la relación con el maíz en una comunidad nahua de Guerrero, México. The book is set to revolutionise the way we think about what is 'biological' and 'cultural' in humans, about evolution and history, and indeed about what it means for human beings - at once organisms and persons - to inhabit an environment. Interviews and participant observation were undertaken for four months, during a span of five years.
Based on the theory of natural drift and autopoiesis by Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela, as well as on the second law of thermodynamics, I discuss agroecology and agroextractivism from a biophysical perspective and the systemic paradigm of the biological sciences. From this perspective, the world continually comes into being around the inhabitant, and its manifold constituents take on significance through their incorporation into a regular pattern of life activity. As pessoas que participavam do programa localizavam-se próximos do local e habitat da ave. It explores the field of Human Robot Interactions and discusses a specific part of robot ethics controversies that seek to rethink our thinking about humans and robots. Human capacity for intervention and technical innovation is limitless, as long as we follow the rule of not impeding the reproduction of the cycles that make life possible.
This contrasts with the discourse refuting transitology in regards to postsocialist1 societies argued by many scholars Burawoy and Verdery 1999; Hann 2002; Humphrey 2002; Pelkmans 2003, 2006; Verdery 1991, 1999. The border represents the transitional zone of demarcation where places and nations begin and end. Inspired by Arjun Appadurai's 1986 notion of a 'regime of value' and Alfred Gell's 1996; 1998 theory of the 'social agency of things', the focus is placed upon the appropriation of a sense of temporality in material cultures inside postsocialist homes in Gjirokastër. We may indeed describe the forms in our environment as instances of architecture, but for the most part we are not architects. To be seen, a thing need do nothing itself, for the optic array that specifies its form to a viewer consists of light reflected off its outer surfaces.
Neither innate nor acquired, skills are grown, incorporated into the human organism through practice and training in an environment. Furthermore, I argue that these cultural values, which originally fulfilled particular social functions and to some extent still do today in a nomadic hunter-gatherer societal structure and its contemporary remnants for instance by regulating the distribution of food, encouraging commensality and defining social hierarchies , have been adapted in political contexts by tribal agents; They are either emphasized, silenced or reinterpreted to foster conditions of social, economic and political well-being on reservations or reserves and thus aiding nation-building processes embedded within larger institutional contexts of inter- national politics in a global market economy. En un intento de establecer puentes entre el feminismo de Butler y la sociología de Bourdieu y Dubar entre otros, el artículo pone de manifiesto la aparición de nuevas identidades de género entre subjetividad y colectividad, entendiéndolas como algo constantemente mutable que surgen a partir de la acción colectiva y dentro de esta. In this work Tim Ingold offers a persuasive approach to understanding how human beings perceive their surroundings. Los individuos, siendo seres de razón y agentes empíricos, logran modificar la estructura social dominante, lo que conlleva un continuo reposicionamiento del sujeto sexuado entre los modelos identitarios. The specificity of the primary school classroom as an ethnographic site facilitates a sustained audio-visual examination of immigrant children as they work to re-build their identities in a new and unfamiliar environment. In this regard the effects of change are manifested in the way the local hunting teams respond to the activities of hunting tourism.
One who plays a 'cello in Ingold's mind, is a 'cellist. In no sense, however, do they substitute for these skills. And I am suggesting that those of us who are 'with' animals in their day-to-day lives, most notably hunters and herdsmen, can offer us some of the best possible indications of how we might proceed. It is in the field of agro-extractivism, where daily experience occurs, affections are regulated, and desires and knowledge are administered, that the true regimes of agro-capitalism take on meaning. En un intento de establecer puentes entre el feminismo de Butler y la sociología de Bourdieu y Dubar entre otros, el artículo pone de manifiesto la aparición de nuevas identidades de género entre subjetividad y colectividad, entendiéndolas como algo constantemente mutable que surgen a partir de la acción colectiva y dentro de esta. He argues that what we are used to calling cultural variation consists, in the first place, of variations in skill.
It is argued that the production of rock art resembles a way of dancing in which the engraver, the emerging line, and the previous lines made by others enter into the process of correspondences in which rhythms play a substantial role. The pictorial construction of the otherness of exotic animals reaffirmed the beneficial exceptionalism of Europe and, consequently, reinforced the legitimacy of Western colonization of a wild and alien nature, waiting to be reduced and converted into merchandise. Furthermore, introduced fish species feed on the roots of water-plants and drastically changed the ecology of Lake Chambri. Sentient animals are aware of their surroundings and of what happens to them. But to construct a narrative, one must already dwell in the world and, in the dwelling, enter into relationships with its constituents, both human and non-human. It affords interactions between researchers and instruments that are richer than could be obtained with vision alone. We provide examples of the ways in which children recruited us into their play, the ways in which play taught us about what matters to children, and finally, how we took play into our own analytical practices.


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The Rising of the Shield Hero' Season 3: Is It Renewed or Cancelled?
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The rising of the shield hero anime series is just a good anime for you if you want action fantasy with love, betrayal, and other emotions. This psychological and fiction drama is just suitable for weebs. It is based on Aneko Yusagi's book of dark fantasy.
Fans are now waiting for Season 3 of The Rising of the Shield Hero. The first season aired in 2019, and the second season picked up where the first left off. The last show happened on April 30, 2022. In the anime, four teenagers are from a different parallel universe. When they get a summons, they become the heroes of the cardinals.
The rising of the shield hero's false portrayal of molestation was a big problem for the anime reviewers. So far, the show has had two seasons. No official announcement has been made about whether or not there will be a Season 3 of The Rising of the Shield Hero.
Fans already know that in a parallel universe, the Legendary Shield was given to an otaku named Naofumi Iwatami, also one of the Cardinal Heroes. Waves, a group of monsters, are putting him and the other Cardinal Heroes in danger.
When his wife falsely accuses him of sexual assault and steals his things, Naofumi's life is turned upside down. In the book, Naofumi tries to get rid of the Waves and make himself look better to the public.
"The Rising of the Shield Hero" got a lot of bad reviews because it used sexual assault as a plot device without any reason. But the ratings for the first season show that it was well-liked by most people; because of how popular Crunchyroll's anime series is, sales of books and comics have gone through the roof.
Because of how popular the show is, it seems inevitable that it will get a second season. The anime's second season just came out, and now we're trying to find out when the third season will come out.
Release Date of Season 3 of The Rising of the Shield Hero
Renewal Status of Rising of the Shield Hero Season 3
Plot Line of The Rising of the Shield hero Season 3
The Rising of the Shield Hero Episodes Details
Season 3 Cast of The Rising of the Shield Hero
The Trailer for the Season 3 of Rising of the Shield Hero
Where can I Stream Season 3 of The Rising of the Shield Hero?
There has been no official word on when Season 3 of The Rising of the Shield Hero will be out. Fans hope it will come out in the fall of 2022 or the winter of 2023.
At the 2019 Crunchyroll Expo, both Season 2 and Season 3 of Shield Hero were announced simultaneously. This led some people to think that the two seasons would somehow connect.
Fans were surprised that Season 2 of The Rising of the Shield Hero only had 13 episodes since Season 1 had 24. Because of this change, more people began to think that the second and third seasons would work together, almost like a single split-course season.
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If that turns out to be accurate, the third season of Shield Hero could start after a one- or two-hour break. That would mean that Season 3 of The Rising of the Shield Hero would come out in October 2022 or January 2023.
Of course, all of this is just a guess right now. After Season 2 of Shield Hero, we expect to hear some news.
Well, folks, we have some excellent news for you. Rising of the Shield Hero season 3 has been confirmed, and it's coming soon. Fans of anime series know that a light novel or manga series has to sell a lot for it to be made into an anime series.
Even in the past, we've seen that if DVD and Blu-ray sales in Japan were good, a production company would be happy to make a second movie. In the last few years, the anime industry has changed in a good way.
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The first episode of the Shield Hero anime was so popular that Kadokawa, which publishes manga and light novels under the name Media Factory, said that the Shield Hero anime series was the main reason their income for the quarter went up. The money made from streaming the first season goes a long way toward making the next two.
There is no official synopsis for season 2 of "The Rising of the Shield Hero." The official teaser clarifies that Season 2 will pick up right where Season 1 left off.
In the last episode of Season 1, Naofumi competed against the Fan Hero, Glass, a hero from another world. She killed all of the Cardinal Heroes to protect her people. The Waves think they are connected. There is a chance that Glass will come back in Season 2.
So far, there are no plot details available to viewers, but we think the story will continue from the second season. In the most recent episode of Rising of the Shield Hero season 2, Naofumi Iwatani and his team don't have time to waste because another wave is coming in a week.
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Mirella Q Melromarc, their queen, and the four cardinal heroes talk about what's going on. The queen says that these recent events are related to the spirit turtle. But when the bat familiars catch Lurolona, that will be enough of the wave.
The Spirit Turtle is a dangerous creature that just woke up and wants to cause trouble and destruction. Then they start making plans to bury the spirit tortoise for good. As far as the story goes, it looks like the anime follows the storyline of the manga and light novel series.
Only one cursed shield hero stepped up to carry out the plan. So, we think The Rising of the Shield Hero Season 3 will pick up where Season 2 left off with the Shield Hero's journey.
An anime is usually a three-month TV show about sports and other physical activities. But the creators haven't said how many episodes there will be yet. Most likely, the second season will be split into two parts. A season usually has somewhere between 10 and 13 episodes. So, we can expect the anime sequel to have the same number of attacks.
The voices for season 3 will be done by the same people who did the voices for season 2. Most likely to show up in season 3 are the following:
Kaito Ishikawa as Naofumi Iwatani
Filo, played by Brianna Knickerbocker
Asami Seto as Raphtalia
Rina Hidaka as Filo Yoshitsugu Matsuoko as Ren Amaki
Erica Mendez as Raphtalia
Makoto Takahashi as Motoyasu Kitamura
Maaya Uchida plays Melty Q. Melromarc.
Hiroki Yasumoto as Elhart
Jun Fukuyama as L'Arc Berg
Kana Hanazawa as Ost Horai Kikuko Inoue as Mirella Q. Melromarc
Megumi Han as Glass
Rishia Ivyred, played by Natsuko Hara
There hasn't been a trailer for the third season of the rising of the shield hero, which is a shame. The trailer won't be available to viewers and anime fans for longer. This is mainly because the release date for the second season was moved from fall 2021 to spring 2022. This caused the release date for the third season also to be pushed back.
But you can watch the official trailer for the second season below if you haven't seen it.
Because it has not yet been made public, the third season of The Rising of the Shield Hero is not presently viewable online. However, once it is made available to the public, you can view it on some channels in Japan, such as AT-X, KBS Kyoto, Tokyo MX, TV Aichi, Sun TV, and BS11.
Fans are anxious to follow the forthcoming season but are forced to wait since information on streaming services has not yet been disclosed.
At this point, this is all the information we have about the impending third season of The Rising of the Shield Hero. However, continue to check in on our site since we will most certainly update this blog as soon as we obtain any new information.
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Can you identify what this is? I could not. All I'll say is that it is not a digitally manipulated image.
And if you're thinking what I thought at first, you're wrong.
If I get a genuine comment on this post, I'll publish the answer — or maybe someone will answer it first.


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Crossing the Bridge to the Soul with Keith Anthony Blanchard
This episode with Keith Anthony Blanchard explores our understanding of the soul.
Keith is the Founder and Host for Center of Light Radio whose listening audience now reaches 5 million. Keith is the author of several books, including his original book which is now a best seller, "The Divine Principle: Anchoring Heaven on Earth" and his most recent book Homecoming: Crossing the Bridge to the Soul. As a spiritual teacher, Keith is remarkable in his naturally sincere love and acceptance of all people which is palpable to those who connect with him. When speaking to a live audience, Keith brings his gift of deep intuition to attune the conversation to the most immediate needs and desires of his audience. As a live presenter and spiritual leader, his broad and vast spiritual wisdom and background enlightens and resonates with a wide range of spiritual seekers and Light Workers.
Born in Houma, Louisiana, and currently residing in Memphis, Tennessee, Mr. Blanchard is a devoted father and enjoys a life-long career as a professional musician in both contemporary music and with his spiritual band, LavenderSoul.
Keith shares his story
He explains his theory on the 4 selves
Keith explains tests given to the soul which leads to the soul generating experience and soul reflections
How he defined G/D?
What defines fear
The universal laws that govern us
What Keith means when he talks about this quote "Birth's intention is to not be born again and death's intention is to never die again. The intentions of both are the same–to give you every change to consciously unify with ALL that is."
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James Cameron and the Russo Brothers trade niceties after Endgame breaks box office record
Photo: James Cameron (Michael Buckner/Getty Images); Russo Brothers (Tommaso Boddi/Getty Images
Avengers: Endgame is officially the highest grossing film of all time, having finally surpassed the $2.789 billion record set by James Cameron's Avatar back in 2009. Marvel was a bit sneaky—or clever, depending on your patience for Hollywood big dick contests—releasing an "extended" cut a few weeks back to trick ticket buyers into watching a not-fully-rendered Hulk. If Cameron was annoyed by the stunt, he isn't showing it. The Terminator and Titanic director offered congratulations via Twitter today, with the official Avatar account sharing a custom graphic situating Iron Man in the film's mythical Pandora.
"I see you Marvel," reads a message from Cameron, who translates the phrase from the Na-vi tongue of his (apparent?) franchise. "Congratulations to Avengers: Endgame on becoming the new box-office king."
Instead of forcing Cameron to wash their feet with his hair like most Hollywood directors would do, the Civil War and Infinity War directors responded with a tweet fawning over the legendary director. "To @JimCameron- you're a monumental reason why we fell in love with film in the first place. Thank you for always inspiring us and opening the world's eyes to what's possible. We can't wait to see where you take us next..."
Next up for Cameron, of course, is Terminator: Dark Fate, which he's producing. His passion project, though, is his upcoming Avatar films, which, despite getting some goofy titles and a whole host of casting announcements, remain more or less cloaked in secrecy.
The Russos, meanwhile, have plenty on their plate, including an animated Magic: The Gathering series for Netflix, an adaptation of '80s indie comic GrimJack, and a live-action reboot of Battle Of The Planets.
Whoa, Edward Furlong's returning as John Connor in Terminator: Dark Fate
The Russo brothers talk Marvel, Magic: The Gathering, and 21 Bridges at Comic-Con
James Cameron slams Aquaman, a movie where sharks shoot frickin' lasers, for its lack of realism


Bill White seems to be pumping out his writings at the moment. I didn't think this prolific writer could be even more productive, but I was wrong. Here's a blog that links to a variety of Bill's recent writings.
We would not be here today if those at the center of this emerging movement in the late 1990s and early 2000s had not made some very good decisions. I want to record some of the decisions that in retrospect I think were most important.
Historical Continuity. The first thing we got right was maintaining historical continuity with, and paying tribute to, earlier recovery advocacy efforts. We honored the past and continuing achievements of the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence (NCADD), the Johnson Institute as well as the earlier work of such organizations as the Society of Americans for Recovery (SOAR).
By entering the alcohol and drug problems arena from a position of gratitude, humility, and respect and by grounding our movement in core recovery values, we minimized competition and conflict with kindred individuals and organizations. The embrace of such a partnership model continues to serve us very well.
Decentralized Leadership. Social movements are often fueled by charismatic leaders who are then prone to wrap themselves in closed organizations that become progressively disconnected from their grassroots constituencies.
Perhaps because of our collective character (organizing people in recovery has been compared to trying to herd cats), we have avoided the pitfalls of aligning ourselves under the umbrella of a charismatic leader, and we have maintained our local, grassroots focus.
I can recall early on the confusion of the media when we were asked who the leaders were of this new movement and we declared either that we had no leaders or that we were all leaders. We got this right.
Cultural and Recovery Pathway Diversity. What we have achieved was born within a profound respect for the diversity of recovery experience and the legitimacy and wonder of such diversity.
We spoke of a rainbow and a coat of many colors to capture our vision of a most culturally diverse movement, and we shared an ecumenical vision of a day when AA and NA members would walk beside people in secular recovery, faith-based recovery, medication-assisted recovery, and natural recovery with each of us not wearing our pathway identities but a larger identity: people in long-term recovery.
"The Little Engine that Could". We decided early on to act as if we were a movement of import until we became one.
Sorry, but i am just blown away by this piece of writing. Bill certainly captures things well – and captivates. Tomorrow, I'll continue with Kinetic Ideas and Core Strategies.


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The Caretaker - "Frankly, you should all be in a constant state of panic."
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Jotted a lot of quick notes while watching the second time through, but for the most part they were things I'd normally tack on to one of these posts in the Stray Thoughts section at the end. At first, I took this as an indication that while funny, mostly charming, and giving the characters some depth, this story was slight and primarily functional -- the characters need to stand in certain relation to each other for drama that will happen later, so this is the episode that introduces Danny to the Doctor and the Doctor to Danny and gets the whole issue of soldiers out in the open to be dealt with. The Schoolbox Spritzer was just enough of a threat to serve its purpose and was dealt with cursorily. The Doctor needed to be at Coal Hill, so a threat was put nearby. Missy and the Nethersphere have been drifting out of our attention, so the Kotex Grifter dispatches a patrolman to bring them back into focus.
There were comedic scenes that worked quite well, for me at least, and enough nods to the classic series to keep the obsessives satisfied with threads to pull and similarities to analyze. While every episode is guaranteed to be at least one fan's least favorite ever, my sense of the general response to this one is positive; most, myself included, finding it continues the season's run of generally strong outings without an obvious faceplant. While the monster of the week is handily discharged, and the focus is on character, I don't think it's exactly fair to label this one as slight.
A post about the craft of criticism at Siris this week has been lingering at front-of-mind, tapping at me to answer the questions it raises:
If we strip away all irrelevancies, all purely arbitrary and irrational criteria, there is nothing about a work itself that can be assessed except these three things:
(1) Are the ends sought genuinely good?
(2) Are the means appropriate to the end?
(3) Are the means used in a way to achieve the end well?
The difficulty is identifying with confidence the ends of a particular episode of a TV series before the larger story of which it is a part has concluded. We don't generally consider it wise to review novels chapter by chapter before we've got to the end of the book; likewise, until we can locate an episode within the complete story of the series (by which I mean season, not the 50+ year series) we can't really be sure we know the the storyteller/showrunner's ends, in part because we haven't seen justice, or injustice, meted out to all the characters yet.
Brandon goes on to write in his post:
If you cannot identify what the author is trying to do, your opinion about the work is of no importance at all. It does not matter whether you were bored. It does not matter whether you have ideas about how you think it should have been written. It does not matter whether you hated it. It does not matter whether you liked it. If you don't know what the author is doing, or if you've misunderstood what the author is doing, your judgment is about you, and says nothing about the work itself.
So, yes, I can tell you I laughed out loud a few times and we can argue about whether the scene where the Doctor's deep cover operation is revealed to Clara is genuinely funny or not. When the Doctor tells Clara "Deep cover. Deep cover," and shuts the door on her, I laughed. I could go so far as to say, "if you didn't think Capaldi played that perfectly and weren't at least chuckling a little on the inside, then you have no sense of humor." But should you take that as just being about me and my sense of humor? (And for a comedic work, can we ever get from this conception of criticism to a determination whether the means are used well towards achieving an end if we can't agree on what's funny?)
The end of this season (Series 8) as far as I can tell, is to challenge us to think about what it means to be a good person, a hero, and whether the two are necessarily entangled. So anything I have to say about this story, and the others in the season, should be judged, I suppose, in light of whether I'm getting that right. Now, that's not the only end I think Moffat & co. have in mind, but I think it's the primary one.
If that is one of the ends, is it a worthy end?
Yes. I don't think you can go wrong creating entertainment that asks people to interrogate their notions of what it means to be virtuous.
Are the means appropriate to the end? The means: our hero, the Doctor, a grumpy, conflicted alien trying to protect innocent people, but also putting people in harm's way to accomplish his ends; Clara, a teacher, a hero in her own right, who loves the Doctor, but love loves Mr. Pink and has been withholding information, and outright lying when need be, to accomplish her ends; Mr. Pink, who love loves Clara and, now that he's found out about the Doctor, finds he's got to deal with whatever internal conflicts he's got about having been a soldier while reconciling Clara and the Doctor's companionship in light of their adventuring; the presence of agents in the universe that will harm others to accomplish their ends; a mysterious group of agents with extraordinary powers, resources, and unknown ends, but who are presenting themselves to some of those who die around the Doctor's adventuring as a supernatural force that rewards people with a heavenly after-life in the Promised Land; the Doctor Who continuity is a means; the TARDIS itself; the plot of each episode is a means; and, since we're talking about television, each directorial decision, each actor's choice in how to play a scene, each special effect, each editing decision, the use of music, all the myriad decisions that go into making a story for TV on top of what's written in the script, are a means of telling the story.
Yes, generally, to all of the above. It remains to be seen what Missy and the Nethersphere are all about; we may yet throw our hands up at the end and curse Moffat. But, for now, that means feels thematically appropriate.
Do the means achieve the end?
We have to re-frame this, I think, to consider this episode in the context we know it now. The story isn't complete and additional chapters will address the larger ends. The question for this episode is: did it entertain on its own, while maintaining or increasing interest in the larger story (we think) we're being told?
Hmm. I was entertained but, like a joke, do we have any criteria by which we can ever truly say it was entertaining such that we could prove to a person who wasn't that their not being entertained was a failure on their part, not of the story? Well, I suspect that anyone who wasn't entertained wanted this story to be something other than it was -- perhaps a greater emphasis on the Clorox Twister, it's motivations/programming and the conflict it was engaged in, more people killed, greater peril to the Doctor and the kids at Coal Hill, more pew-pewing and Danny doing acrobatic combat -- and it's hard to see how that would've been a more effective way to set up grudging respect and unresolved conflict between Danny and the Doctor, for instance.
Let's get to the Stray Thoughts and I'll come back and do a massive re-write on this one after the season ends and/or I realize I need to re-think my assumptions about what we're watching:P
Love seeing snippets of other adventures and being reminded that the characters are up to more than what we see each week. It makes the DW universe feel bigger and more vibrant.
Two teachers, one male one female, a disruptive young lady, and a crankly old man with a TARDIS, sound familiar? The unacknowledged ghost of "An Unearthly Child" haunts this story in strange ways. Young Courtney the disruptive influence is not another Susan, but it sure looks like Twelve may see her that way. If Clara maps to Barbara, she's got a head start on Danny mapping to Ian.
How can the Doctor go to Coal Hill School and show no sign he's given a thought to Susan, Ian, or Barbara? Well, he's Twelve, so we can imagine he's really that focused on what he's doing and is indifferent to his own history here. For us though, isn't it disturbing how it's like "An Unearthly Child" and "Remembrance of the Daleks" never happened for him? (Although, if he meets Ian, and has to explain regeneration, and that he's a Time Lord, and answer awkward questions like, "How did Susan get on after we left her? What do you mean you only saw her again briefly?!")
I'm guessing many of us subtitled this one "Groundskeeper Willie Dresses Like a Ghostbuster"
So this bit: the white cop strolls up to two black kids and asks them why they aren't at school. I don't know if it only plays this way in America, but it felt like Ferguson, MO was about to break out in East London. Without checking the filming schedules, I'm sure this must have been in the can before Ferguson, but it was a tense moment. Can't help but wonder if viewers in the U.K. got a similar vibe? (Twelve later asking Courtney if she didn't need to be off shoplifting somewhere was an uncomfortable moment as well. Again, as an American, I wonder if that just says more about our culture than about about whether that scene wasn't an unfortunate bit of writing.)
Twelve's evident delight when he thinks Clara's beau is a guy in a bow-tie with a bit too much jaw and unfortunate hair is borderline twee, but he needed a dash of that, didn't he?
"Artron emissions"? Nerd alert!
Samuel Anderson is doing a brilliant job in his portrayal of Danny. "He's your space dad?!" Again, I was laughing. This is, far and away, the best Gareth Roberts has done writing.
Danny calling Twelve out as an officer (an aristocrat) and their class conflict worked really well for me. A powerful scene. We don't know Danny's trauma, but here are two former soldiers, as it were, trying to rile each other up and, perhaps, playing with fire by pushing the other to a dark place they might not want to have dredged up. That may have been my favorite scene of the season so far.
Twelve whistling "Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 2" while Clara makes some schoolkids clean up a mess they've made. Hah!
Couldn't make out what Courtney was saying under her breath to Clara, and didn't pick up "Ozzie loves the Squaddie" meaning anything until second watch. Ozzie = Ms. Oswald ... Squaddie = Mr. Pink ... yeah, I was slow on the uptake there.
The scene where Danny tells Clara the Doctor needs to know he's good enough for her carried some paternalist baggage, the old suitor asking the maid's father for her hand, as if she were property. Or, maybe it didn't and Clara is going to do what she wants, with whom, regardless.
So, Courtney is going to get another ride in the TARDIS? Are we sure this is a good idea? I thought Eleven taking Clara's charges on a trip was unwise and didn't sit right. Here I am again thinking this is a child, with a family and a life who is too young to make a decision like whether or not she should go off adventuring through time and space ... but am I applying too much real world thinking to a family show where having a younger character for younger viewers to identify with overrides normal reasoning?
I know, I know ... Skovox Blitzer. But I'll forget again in a week and be struggling to remember what it was called.
What did I miss or get wrong?
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Something that should be remembered by the Tories, supposedly wannabe Labour voters and froth spitting racist lunatics that inhabit this board the next time they slab of Corbyn for talking to terrorists about peace.
The British government through MI5 colluded with known terrorists to ensure that an innocent man, Pat Finucane was murdered in his home in front of his young children on 12 February in 1989. The British government set the murder up, ensured that no proper investigation ensued and protected the terrorists from justice to this very day.
A human rights lawyer, assassinated for no crime greater than being a nuisance to the government. Remember this next time you want to talk about the trustworthy British state compared to the EU.
I'd also add this was not the only time that Thatcher and her Conservatives were accomplices to murder.
You're fanatical ramblings on here are getting worse and I genuinely fear you may be a threat to someone.
Do you have no life outside of you're hatred of all things outside of the current Labour Party.
I think your head will eventually explode in front of your pupils cat.
....and you know this for a fact do you Cat ?
Don't fret Clot, once your terrorist loving Labore leader Corbin is in power, you'll notice a lot of Jews being knocked off one at a time.
No doubt they also were in the same way responsible for the Brighton Bomb.
Just for a split second I thought it was going to be a post about football should have known better!!
I think all human rights lawyers should be shot.
Would have saved lives and a fortune.


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